Last week all year 5 children took part in a music workshop run by teachers and students from Christchurch Academy. The children enjoyed learning new instruments such as guitar, electric piano and the drums. The children would like to thank the students from Christchurch who made the day so enjoyable.


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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Push to make supply chains more sustainable continues to gain momentum
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Sustainability as a business imperative in supply chain management increased despite the pandemic, says MIT-led report.
Much of the effort to make businesses sustainable centers on their supply chains, which were severely disrupted during the Covid-19 pandemic. Yet, according to new research from the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL), supply chain sustainability (SCS) investments hardly slowed, even as the pandemic raged.
The finding, contained in the 2021 State of Supply Chain Sustainability report , puts companies on notice that they ignore the sustainability of their supply chains at their peril. This is particularly the case for enterprises with a low or moderate commitment to SCS, such as organizations classed as "Low Effort" and "Dreamer" in the new SCS Firm Typology that appears in the report for the first time.
The research also highlights the increasing pressure companies are under to devote resources to SCS. This pressure came from various stakeholders last year and suggests that sustainability in supply chains is a business trend, and not a fad.
CTL publishes the 2021 State of Supply Chain Sustainability report in collaboration with the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), a leading professional membership association. This year's report is sponsored by BlueYonder, C.H. Robinson, KPMG, Intel, and Sam's Club.
Sustainability efforts undaunted by Covid-19
"We believe cooperation between sectors is vital to thoroughly understand the complexity and evolution of sustainability efforts more broadly," says David Correll, CTL research scientist. "Our work with CSCMP and our sponsors helps us to embed this essential research and its findings within the context of the real-life practice of supply chain management."
The research included a large-scale international survey of supply chain professionals with over 2,400 respondents — more than double the number received for the previous report. The survey was conducted in late 2020. In addition, 21 in-depth executive interviews were completed, and relevant news items, social media content, and reports were analyzed for the report.
More than 80 percent of survey respondents claimed the pandemic had no impact or increased their firms' commitments to SCS: Eighty-three percent of the executives interviewed said that Covid-19 had either accelerated SCS activity or, at the very least, increased awareness and brought urgency to this growing field.
The pressure to support sustainability in supply chains came from multiple sources, both internal and external, but increased the most among investors and industry associations. Internally, company executives were standout champions of SCS.
Although there are many approaches to investing in SCS, interest in human rights protection and worker welfare, along with energy savings and renewable energy, increased significantly last year. Supplier development was the most common mechanism used by firms to deliver on their SCS promises.
Increasing investment, some speed bumps
Given the momentum behind SCS, the future will likely bring more investment in this increasingly important area of supply chain management. And practitioners — who bring deep domain expertise and well-rounded views of enterprises to the table — will become more influential as sustainability advocates.
But there are some formidable obstacles to overcome, too. For example, it is notable that most of the momentum behind SCS appeared to come from large (1,000-plus employees) and very large (10,000-plus employees) companies covered by the research. Small- to medium-sized enterprises were far less committed, and more work is needed to bring them into the fold through a better understanding of the barriers they face.
A broader concern is that more attention from stakeholders — notably consumers, investors, and regulators — will bring more scrutiny of firms' SCS track records, and less tolerance of token efforts to make supply chains sustainable. Improved supply chain transparency and disclosure are critical to firms' responses, the report suggests.
Some high-profile issues, such as combating social injustices and climate change mitigation, will continue to stoke the pressure on companies to invest in meaningful SCS initiatives. It follows that the connection between companies' SCS performance and their profitability is likely to strengthen over the next few years.
Will companies follow through?
As companies grapple with these issues, they will face some difficult decisions. For example, the chief operating officer of a consumer goods company interviewed for the report described operating through pandemic constraints as a "moral calculus" where some sustainability commitments had to be temporarily sacrificed to achieve others. Such a calculus will likely challenge many companies as they juggle their responses to SCS demands. A key question is to ascertain the degree to which companies' recent net-zero commitments will translate into effective SCS actions over the next few years.
The CTL and CSCMP research teams are laying the groundwork for the 2022 State of Supply Chain Sustainability report. This annual status report aims to help practitioners and the industry to make more effective and informed sustainability decisions. The questionnaire for next year's report will open in September.
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Finding community in high-energy-density physics
MITx MicroMasters Program in Supply Chain Management reaches 1 million enrollments
School of Engineering third quarter 2022 awards
On campus, a warm welcome for MIT's next president, Sally Kornbluth
Deep learning with light
MIT engineers develop sensors for face masks that help gauge fit
Sally Kornbluth is named as MIT's 18th president

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Honda Motor Co. has set the starting price of the new Clarity PHEV, or plug-in hybrid vehicle, at $34,290 in standard trim, $37,490 in the upscale Touring trim.
Because of its relatively large battery, the midsize, 5-seat Clarity PHEV sedan will be eligible for the full $7,500 federal income tax credit – for a month at least as continuation of the credit after Dec. 31 is under threat in the proposed federal tax code redo being pushed by Congressional Republicans.
The Clarity plug-in recently was rated by the EPA at up to 47 miles of all-electric range before its gas engine kicks in.
Gasoline-only fuel efficiency is rated at 44 mpg in the city, 40 mpg highway and 42 mpg combined. Honda says the Clarity PHEV will travel up to 340 miles on a charged battery and a tank of gas.
The plug-in hybrid joins the all-electric Clarity EV and the hydrogen fuel-cell electric Clarity FCEV in Honda's first family of alternative-fuel vehicles. It is the only one that will be sold in all 50 states.
The Clarity PHEV features a 17 kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery pack and a 181-horsepower, four-cylinder gas engine. With both the gas engine and Honda's dual-motor electric drive system working together, system output is rated at 212 horsepower.


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The digitization of 100,000 pages of historic Alaska newspapers published between 1866 and 1922 as part of the state's participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
The Alaska Division of State Libraries, Archives, and Museums requests $323,748 to select, digitize, and make available to the Library of Congress 100,000 pages of Alaskan newsprint published between 1866 and 1922. The Division holds the largest and most complete collection of Alaska newspapers on microfilm in the state, with virtually all known newspaper issues in microform. Approximately three hundred and twenty unique titles with pre-1923 content are available for digitization. An Alaska Digital Newspaper Program Advisory Committee consisting of scholars, newspaper publishers, and educators will select titles. For each title selected, the Division will create an essay of approximately 500 words describing the historical significance of the newspaper; an updated CONSER-level MARC record; and title, issue, and page-level metadata. Digital Divide Data will assist in creating metadata.


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Over the past six years, Midnight Soul Orchestra has played prestigious shows all over Europe, the Middle East and the UK. We regularly feature at some of London's most prestigious venues, including the world-renowned Annabel's club in Mayfair, the Jazz Cafe and various Soho House venues, including opening parties at both UK and European Soho House locations. It has been our pleasure to have been partnered with or have represented a broad spectrum of corporate brands, including The James Bond Franchise, Disney, Debenhams, Marks and Spencer, Gillette, Morgan Motors, L'Occitane, HSBC, the PGATour and WACL. Privately, we've played events for some of the worlds most prominent A-list celebrities, including actors, directors, fashion designers, sportspersons, musicians and many of society's highest-profile couples.
Our mission is simple: to provide a high-octane, dance floorfilling show, showcasing some of the classiest music of the 20th century. By sticking unwaveringly to this formula, we're able to deliver a level of authenticity that competing acts simply can't come close to.
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BELPRE, Ohio — The young Lady Raiders held strong for a while, but Belpre — eventually — broke through.
That's because Belpre, in Saturday's season-opening softball doubleheader, swept River Valley 10-0 and 9-3 at Civitan Park in Belpre.
In the opening tilt, the host Golden Eagles erupted for nine runs in the fifth inning — putting the 10-run mercy rule into effect following scoring their initial run in the fourth.
In the nightcap, Belpre scored four runs in the second, then tacked on three points in the sixth and finally two more in the seventh.
The Raiders did score a run apiece in the fourth, sixth and seventh stanzas.
Katie Osburn, in the first game, allowed just two hits and one walk while pitching all five innings for the complete-game shutout.
She struck out 10, including for all three outs in the second inning —part of five consecutive at one point and seven out of eight.
She retired 10 Raiders in a row —facing only three batters apiece in the second thru fourth frames.
Baylee Hollanbaugh drew a one-out walk for the Raiders in the first, while Chloe Gee with a single in the first and Isabella Mershon with a single in the fifth were their only basehits.
Arika Barr was the starting and losing pitcher for River Valley, allowing nine earned runs on six hits and six walks with five strikeouts.
Hollanbaugh pitched also, and allowed one run on one hit.
Osburn helped her cause in the fourth by scoring the only run the Golden Eagles needed.
She doubled, stole third, and scored on a passed ball.
Lauryn Simmons paced the Golden Eagles with two hits, including a fifth-inning three-run triple.
Hannah McDaniel drove in Simmons with a triple on the next at-bat, ending the game.
In the second outing, Madison Harman hurled a complete game for the win, allowing only one earned run on six hits with one walk and six strikeouts.
Hollanbaugh had a complete game for River Valley, giving up eight earned runs on 11 hits with one walk and two Ks.
Five Golden Eagles had two hits apiece —Simmons, Osburn, Harman, Bri Elkins and Kaitlin Richards.
The other was an RBI-single by McDaniel to make 8-2.
Simmons smacked a pair of doubles, while Osburn, Harman and Richards registered one apiece.
Belpre bagged all the runs it needed in the second inning — when Elkins and Harman had singles, followed by Hollanbaugh's only walk of the game to Alexandria Williams.
Makaylee Deaton drove in Elkins and Harman on a Raider error, then Richards roped her double to cross Williams and Deaton.
Harman helped her cause with an RBI-double in the fifth for the 7-1 lead, as McDaniel and Osburn both singled in the sixth to make it 9-2.
Gee, Mershon, Hollanbaugh, Kaylee Tucker, Kasey Birchfield and Destiny Williams all had hits for River Valley, as Mershon doubled and scored its opening two runs.
Birchfield scored the seventh-inning run, after singling to lead off and scoring on a pair of passed balls.


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Natasha Mitchell
Natasha Mitchell is presenter of ABC RN's science, technology and culture program and podcast, Science Friction.
She is a multi-award winning ABC journalist, presenter, podcaster and documentary maker. She has hosted some of ABC RN's most popular programs, including our long-running daily morning show Life Matters for four years (2012-2016) and was the founding presenter & producer of the popular science, psychology & culture radio program, All in the Mind, from 2002-12.
Natasha is a member of the current Executive Advisory board of Women in Science Australia (2016-). She served as a board member and then as vice president of the World Federation of Science Journalists between 2009-13, and on the National Health and Medical Research Council's Human Genetics Advisory Committee from 2009-11. She was co-editor of the anthology, The Best Australian Science Writing 2013 (New South).
Natasha was the recipient of a prestigious Knight Journalism Fellowship at MIT/Harvard, and a Marine Biological Laboratory Journalism Fellowship at Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
Her broadcast work has received accolades internationally, including the overall Grand Prize and four Gold World Medals at the New York Radio Festivals, four Australian and New Zealand Mental Health Broadcast Media Awards, the Yooralla Broadcast Media Award, the Public Health Association of Australia Media Award, the Australasian Association of Philosophy Media Professionals' Award, amongst other awards. She was finalist for two Human Rights Awards.
In 2005, she hosted and coproduced the series, Parched Lands, with the BBC World Service. She was also an on-camera reporter with ABC TV's science show Quantum for a season.
Natasha has an engineering degree with first class honours from Monash University, and a postgraduate diploma in science communication from the ANU which also involved touring nationally with the Questacon Science Circus. Her first foray into radio was hosting a punk music show at her university radio station, but she's been a passionate listener since she was knee high to a grasshopper.
She regularly chairs public events, debates and forums around Australia, including three science dialogues with the Dalai Lama and guests, and writes occasional science book reviews for national newspapers.
Natasha Mitchell on Twitter @natashamitchell and Instagram @natashamitchell_ABC.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/sciencefriction/


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EPC Forum: Contractors Meet Challenges with Integrated Systems
Delivering Massive Projects Is More Practical with a Unified Architecture and a Little Help from Your Friends.
By Paul Studebaker
About Paul Studebaker
Paul Studebaker is chief editor of Control. He earned a master's degree in metallurgical engineering and gathered 12 years experience in manufacturing before becoming an award-winning writer and editor for publications including Control and Plant Services.
As much of the globe comes out of recession, capital is being expended, and project sizes are rising. It's a good time for engineering, procurement and construction firms (EPCs), but it's not the good old days. "We see a lot of changes and trends in EPC," said Scott Hamilton, director, industry business, Rockwell Automation, to attendees of today's Engineering and Consultants Forum at Automation Fair in Anaheim, California. "Owners are sticking to their core expertise due to a lack of top talent and the need to get work done in remote locations. They're contracting with EPCs to outsource more turnkey facilities, including the entire scope of supply."
For instance, 10 years ago Kraft had a team of 100 people whose job was developing facilities. "Now they prefer to focus on their core competence—making really good cookies," Hamilton said. "We're seeing this more in oil and gas, and in brownfield applications. They're outsourcing the full scope of supply to maximize savings in capex, to reduce risk, speed installation and startup, and ultimately, to improve cash flow."
Inside the plants, similar skills shortages are driving more automation. "There's a real shift going on with the challenges of the skilled workforce, a convergence at the project level," said Donald Fraser, North American industry equipment manager, Rockwell Automation. Operations people have more input into what to automate, and "IT people are in from the beginning, including both operational IT and traditional IT."
Fraser said he used to know for a given plant how many drawings it would take, a list of equipment, and what it would take to put it together. "Now, with convergence, it's not the same," he said. "What you need to know and to make decisions on is much greater. You need to know networks, data and communications. It's not just I/O. It's networks and IT, not islands of automation."
An example of the kind of project Fraser and Hamilton described was detailed by David Musto, managing partner, Thermo Systems LLC, a Rockwell Automation Solution Partner. Thermo Systems specializes in PLC-based process control solutions for chemical and process industries, critical HVAC/BAS for life sciences and data centers, as well as life sciences manufacturing, utilities, boilers, cogeneration and chilled water plants.
"The challenge was to develop a plan to engineer, procure and construct a homogenous, site-wide process control system across 14 disparate process buildings that were being designed by eight separate process engineering firms." David Musto of Thermo Systems described one example of the increasingly complex projects undertaken in today's EPC climate
"The challenge was to develop a plan, or in this case, an automation master plan (AMP), to engineer, procure and construct a homogenous, site-wide process control system across 14 disparate process buildings that were being designed by eight separate process engineering firms," Musto said.
Molycorp Inc., a leading global manufacturer of rare earth and rare metal products with 26 locations in 11 countries, was reconstructing its facility in Mountain Pass, California, to restart mining operations and build a new, state-of-the-art processing facility. The project included crushing, milling and leaching/cracking plants, three separations facilities, and precipitation, chlor-alkali, electrical and steam generation, water treatment, chemical storage, truck unloading, tailings and utility water distribution facilities.
The schedule was 18 months from design to commissioning.
The project required concurrent design and commissioning phases, integrating process and electrical designs from eight different process engineering firms. The processes and process automation were to migrate from islands to a plant-wide integrated architecture.
Molycorp partnered with Thermo Systems to develop the AMP and to be the automation engineer of record. "The AMP defined all things automation site-wide," Musto said, including naming conventions, instrument standards, cabling standards, PAC and remote I/O panel standards, IT infrastructure standards, software specifications, PAC programming standards, inter-PAC communication standards, SCADA and OIT standards, a security plan and risk analysis.
Both proprietary and non–proprietary solutions were evaluated. "A traditional DCS approach did not meet the owner's requirements for a non-proprietary solution, so three non-proprietary vendors were considered," Musto said. "A scalable, homogenous platform was given priority because we needed to integrate multiple levels of control under one manufacturer: high-performance redundant systems, non-redundant systems and vendor skid-level systems."
The project has hundreds of motors, and there was a desire for a unified architecture, integrating the motors and drives. "We identified significant cost savings (installation, programming, commissioning) by integrating PAC and motor control centers (MCCs)," Musto said. "We also needed to integrate smart instrumentation, and the choice was made to use HART where possible."
Thermo Systems was also the site-wide automation team (SWAT). It selected and integrated a Rockwell Automation Logix and IntelliCENTER solution with redundant ControlLogix PACs for core process applications, ControlLogix and CompactLogix for skid vendor applications, PanelView Plus graphic terminals for local OIT and integrated Allen-Bradley IntelliCENTER motor control centers for all motors and drives. "We used independent, redundant ControlNet networks for remote I/O, OIT and MCC with redundant Cisco core-level switches in strategic locations on a redundant fiber ring," Musto said. "We separated the PAC-level ring from the SCADA-level ring."
The engineered project comprised:
16 redundant ControlLogix pairs
33 non-redundant PAC systems
129 Logix remote I/O cabinets
74 PanelView Plus graphic terminals
69 Allen-Bradley IntelliCENTER motor control centers
550 PowerFlex VFDs
506 constant-speed motors
22,500 hardwired I/O
182,000 database tags
24 stacked layer-three switches
5 pairs of redundant data servers
35 control room workstations
23 plant floor workstations.
"We could build out and commission a cell, then join the cells together and commission an area," Musto said. "Then we added the areas onto the plant-wide architecture." Skids were integrated directly onto the plant-wide system. "Every skid had to be supplied with a Rockwell PLC, which enabled us to do the commissioning much faster," he said.
Thermo Systems needed a scalable team to work multiple projects in parallel. "We ramped up to a 25–person engineering team on-site for final development, testing and commissioning," Musto said. "Five teams of five engineers each were capable of commissioning five individual process areas in parallel on a 24/7 schedule."
Thermo Electric leveraged its partnership with Rockwell Automation to engage several of the company's field services team members, as well as its relationships with two additional SI partners that also provided supplemental staff.
"Molycorp supplied a local testing and training facility, which was instrumental in ramping up new team members," Musto said. The facility was later used to train operations.
"We learned that selecting the Rockwell Automation integrated Logix solution yielded multiple benefits, and leveraging the Rockwell Automation PartnerNetwork program let us achieve our aggressive schedule milestones," Musto said.
The end-to-end integration, from vendor packages, to balance-of-plant (BOP), to electrical systems, provides the plant operations team with the information needed to optimize the complex process, and the single homogenous platform reduced training time and expense. The homogenous Rockwell Automation platform is fully maintainable by Molycorp's limited staff, thus reducing maintenance costs. The non-proprietary solution puts the owner in control when selecting service providers for future expansion.
Food & Beverage Forum: How to Stay Safe and Secure
Cisco and Microsoft Describe Food Optimization; Grantek Covers FSMA; Covectra Shows…
Simpler Safety = Successful Safety
Safety That's Easier to Understand Is More Likely to Be Successfully Applied.
PartnerNetwork Delivering for Rockwell Automation Customers
Users Credit Program with Simpler, More Innovative and Collaborative Solutions
Safety Forum for OEMs: A Frank Assessment of Machine Safety
Bevcorp Shares Its Views on the Business Value of Integrated Safety for OEMs
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Any Industry That Effectively Manages Energy Can Reduce Its Costs Significantly


Len Dozier is the founder, owner, and CEO of Premier Mounts. He began his career at Telaudio Centre as a video products salesman, after which he held various positions with Anaheim-based Videodetics Corporation, as well as a position as a manufacturer's representative for Anvil cases for the broadcast industry. In 1977, he founded Progressive Marketing Products, Inc. (now Premier Mounts).
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Len continued to sell a wide variety of products for a number of manufacturers and the projector mounts portion of his business had grown to include products for all the major OEMs. In 2006, Premier Mounts expanded with Premier Dedicated Solutions, a custom design, fabrication and finishing division specializing in mounting solutions for both residential and commercial applications. Designed to be a one-stop shop for innovative design, product prototyping and manufacturing, the new division is singularly focused on making its client's design dreams come true through innovative custom mounting systems at competitive prices and on-time delivery.
In the past 39 years, Premier Mounts has grown into an international industry-leading company with a catalog of more than 1,000 different products that are sold through 2,000 resellers worldwide and online.


Delhi Police Constable Salary, Pay Scale, Pay Grade details: There are many people are showing their interest to join the constable exam which is conducted by Delhi Police department. This exam will be conducted at every year without fail. The exam date and the application will be provided by the Delhi Police department.
But they will make the communication only through the official website. The official website of the Delhi Police department is www.delhipolice.nic.in link. The candidates, who are seeking for the Delhi Police constable Salary, should look after the official website at all the time.
The updating news for the recruitment may occur at any time. If not so, they cannot get the details of the application commencement.
Once, they get the application commencement date, they have to make sure about the Delhi Police Constable pay scale. This is because that, there are two ways to apply for this post. The first thing is to get the form from the department and apply it.
The next method is to log in to the official website and gets the link of application. Mostly, people prefer the Delhi Police Constable Pay Grade Details. Since to avoid the traveling charges to hire the police department. The online application is easy to be filled by the applicant while compared to any other method. So, they can choose this method.
The candidate should avail with knowledge of constable post before they apply. This is because that, they want to know the complete information of it. No people will work without getting salary. Similarly, the candidate should refer the Delhi Police Constable Salary details.
It should be afforded to their budget. If not so, the scope of hiring the constable post is less. If you want the Delhi Police Constable Salary details, you can refer to the official website such as www.delhipolice.nic.in link. In this link, you can get the complete salary details for the constable post.
A constable will generally earn an average salary per year of Rs.2, 36, 275. This may increase according to the increment of the salary. The Delhi Police Constable pay scale will be approximate of Rs. 5200 to Rs. 20,200.
This will be set according to the experience of the constable post earned by the candidate. And the grade pay of the constable post will be Rs. 2000. These are the basic salary details for the constable post. The candidate can calculate the net salary from this information.
How to get the salary Details?
The Delhi Police Constable Salary details will be available on the official website such as www.delhipolice.nic.in the link. This link will specify the complete information of the salary. The candidate who requires knowing about the salary details can follow the below methods.
Log on to the official website of the police department.
Search the salary details of the constable post.
The link will specify the details of the salary for constable post.
Download the file into the device and save it.
Print out the copy of the salary details from the file.
I want to apply as an inspector, how can i apply pls guide.
u can't apply directly as an inspector.First of all you have to pursue graduation and then u have to apply for ssc cpo. After clearing this exam u be ome a sub-inspector. Then u further become a inspector after promotion.
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Constable ke vacancy kb h sir….
Koi bhi gov job problem..
sir please koi vacancy ho to aap mujhe message kare my mobile no. 7503980936.
when delhi police held physical test of current vacancies …2016 -2017 ?


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package org.scalaide.core.internal.compiler

import scala.tools.nsc.interactive.Global
import scala.tools.nsc.interactive
import scala.tools.nsc.doc.{ScaladocGlobalTrait => _, _}
import scala.tools.nsc.symtab.BrowsingLoaders

trait InteractiveScaladocAnalyzer extends interactive.InteractiveAnalyzer with ScaladocAnalyzer {
    val global : Global
    override def newTyper(context: Context) = new Typer(context) with InteractiveTyper with ScaladocTyper {
      override def canAdaptConstantTypeToLiteral = false
    }
  }

trait ScaladocGlobalCompatibilityTrait extends Global
   with scala.tools.nsc.doc.ScaladocGlobalTrait { outer =>

    // @see analogous member in scala.tools.nsc.interactive.Global
    override lazy val loaders = new {
    val global: outer.type = outer
    val platform: outer.platform.type = outer.platform } with BrowsingLoaders {

    // SI-5593 Scaladoc's current strategy is to visit all packages in search of user code that can be documented
    // therefore, it will rummage through the classpath triggering errors whenever it encounters package objects
    // that are not in their correct place (see bug for details)
    // (see also the symmetric comment in s.t.nsc.doc.ScaladocGlobalTrait)
    override protected def signalError(root: Symbol, ex: Throwable): Unit = {
      log(s"Suppressing error involving $root: $ex")
    }
  }
}

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Spider veins develop when the capillary walls dilate. This could be caused by poor circulation, obesity, pregnancy, and even an inactive lifestyle. Broken capillaries are those tiny blood vessels that appear on the surface of the skin. These can be caused by several factors – skin irritation, body inflammation, and sometimes over-exposure to the sun. While there is a medical link between spider veins and broken capillaries, skin care specialists will typically address the issues in a similar way. For many, laser treatments for spider veins may be the best approach.
How does the Lumenis M22 make spider veins disappear?
Lumenis® M22™ is truly an innovative approach, using light energy to make veins "disappear".
Lumenis® M22™ is FDA and Health Canada approved, and effective for most skin types, including dark skin. For many clients, improvements are almost immediate, with optimum results after a few weeks.
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Our cloud-based workforce management solutions enable enterprise and mid-size organizations to digitize time and attendance processes, optimize employee scheduling, simplify absence management, and gain strategic business insights.
Capture detailed labor data and automate complex pay rules.
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Employee time tracking solutions for WorkForce Suite.
Innovation laser focused on making work easy for hard working HR, Finance, Operations, and IT professionals all over the world and meeting the needs of our customers.
ATB Financial eliminated paper driven time sheets and processes and automated time and attendance processes with WorkForce Software.
Oregon State University streamlined protected leave management resulting in less work for employees and administrators.
Maple Leaf Sports + Entertainment reduced time capture errors and overtime, and improved workforce management practices and compliance risk.
Ritchies replaced their manual, paper-based workforce management processes with WFS Forecasting and Scheduling.
See the industry leaders in Workforce Management with the 2018 Nucleus Value Matrix.
See why real users rated WorkForce Software as the leader in workforce Management.
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Football Stat Manager is a full and complete tool that allows any Football coach/manager to have total control of any given team/league. The application has powerful, yet simple features that aid any novice/expert coach/manager. Among these tools there is the Player List: This feature allows the coach to enter player's related information (name, address, phone number, contacts, etc.) and then build the team's roster. Team List: Build the Team's list for the league. Players can be added to teams after they have been entered by the Player List feature. Game Schedule: The whole game calendar can be planed when all teams are saved. Complete Team Stats: Statistics is the strong feature of the program, it allows the coach/manager to have complete statistics for every player in every position played (offense, defense, special teams), providing helpful information when deciding the starter and second team. Other important statistics include pass attempts, completions, interceptions, fumbles, kick returns, etc.


Tascas should be stored in a freezer at –18°C, until required.
For best results take the bag of Tascas out of the box and place in a refrigerator for 12 hours.
They can then be used as required. Unused Tascas will keep for up to 3 days if kept wrapped.
To use straight away, take the number of Tascas required, place in a bag and thaw at room temperature for up to 1 hour.
Because Tascas are already fully cooked, they can be eaten once defrosted.
If heating, Tascas simply need toasting on a Panini Grill at 160°C for just 90 seconds, or can be heated through an oven for 5 minutes, depending on the filling.
Tascas - folded soft bread pockets in four great flavours - just thaw, fill and serve!
Tascas are fully baked, folded, soft bread pockets that are perfect for operators wanting a quick and easy sandwich with a difference.
Convenient to use and great for portion control, it couldn't be simpler; thaw, fill and serve, either cold, warmed in an oven or toasted on a Panini grill.
Tascas contain less than 1% salt, are hand-finished and made using the finest, natural ingredients, containing no preservatives or GM products and, with four in the range, there's plenty of variety.
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Insulin pump safety has become an urgent and significant concern for the hospitalized patient and staff. Hospitals have policy and procedures on patient's storage and self-administration of home medications. However, these policies do not address insulin delivered by an insulin pump ("Insulin Pump Safety," September 18, 2012). An insulin pump delivers rapid action insulin hourly by a set basal rate and the patient delivers their boluses according to their blood sugar and carbohydrate intake. Boluses are calculated with settings such as insulin to carbohydrate ratio, insulin sensitivity ratio, a blood glucose target, and active insulin time for covering their meals and/or correcting hyperglycemia. These pump settings are determined by their doctor, usually an Endocrinologist.
Policy development related to insulin pumps is focused on the lack of knowledge by the nursing staff. The lack of adequate policies for patients admitted to the hospital with insulin pumps has resulted in detrimental cases of hypoglycemia and even death. Recently, a local hospital reported a patient whom was admitted through the emergency room needing and emergency surgery. This gentleman was wearing an insulin pump that somehow went unnoticed or was assumed to be turned off. The patient went through three departments: emergency room, surgery, and recovery. He became hypoglycemic with glucose of 20mg/dl because his insulin pump was delivering insulin and the nursing staff was also administering insulin intravenously. It wasn't until his hypoglycemic attack and family communication to staff about his insulin pump that they realized how this had happened. It would be more comforting to assume that this was a rarity, but research shows what was expected. This local episode was not a rarity and insulin pump patients admitted into the hospital are in real danger.
Inadvertent hypoglycemia is can be related to the lack of policy and procedure for the management of the hospitalized patient wearing an insulin pump. Unless facilities establish a plan with policies and procedures to guide the safe management of patients on pumps, errors will occur with some being fatal (Cook, 2009). Investigations with other local nurse educators in the hospital setting, it was alarming to know there are no policies for the patients admitted wearing an insulin pump. There are protocols to follow when the diabetes department is consulted, but nothing for the general nursing staff to initiate and/or follow.
The objective of the policy is for the patient and their family to be offered safe quality care, monitoring, and accurate insulin administration. The policy focuses on promoting patient independence in managing their diabetes by wearing their insulin pump. The needs of the patient are safe monitored administration of insulin without hypoglycemic events leading to adverse effects. Diabetic education and use of medical devices for delivery are critical education issues provided by nurses. Polices and protocols are essential tools in the education process. This can be achieved by having the patient review and sign an agreement to follow hospital protocol on insulin pumps. This agreement should include specific actions for all parties involved, nurse, patient, and care-giver. The patient should understand the importance of reporting site changes, boluses, or any pump problems. Both parties agree to communicate daily and at any time, if the patient is unable or unwilling to comply, the insulin pump will be removed.
Research to identify evidence-based practices is critical in providing excellence in patient care. Open discussions with the nursing staff and nurse educators provide the essential background data in establishing current practices and understanding. Soliciting input from interdisciplinary teams promotes a team effort in addressing the issues and providing safe care. Assess patient/family's willingness, cognitive status, and orientation to self-manage insulin pump. Nursing managers and administrators have the final authority for approval along with the Medical Review Board of the organization.
Policies with protocols are needed to protect the safety and quality of care of these unique patients. The first step to achieve this goal is to submit a policy to the hospital's policy and procedure committee for review and approval. Once approved it should be implemented throughout the hospital where all staff can be guided to give safe quality care and administration of insulin via insulin pump. Not only does this allow these patients independence in self-management, but most importantly will reduce and/or prevent adverse events. Based on the organizational policy, new policies and procedures should be evaluated upon implementation and periodically, usually annually, for possible revisions.
Organizational response to patient safety needs is the responsibility of all members of the health care team. This responsibility flows from upper administration, through all levels of the organization. Policies and procedures are the guiding tools to provide safety, effective, and efficient patient care. The nursing process provides well-established means to address policy needs within the organization. Assessing the need, identifying the focus, planning the implementation, implementing the plan, and evaluating the results yields greater patient safety. Implementing a policy to meet the needs of Diabetic patients on insulin pumps is an example of patient-centered care and safety.


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Some NFL players who had big performances in Week 1 could be breakout fantasy football figures this year. But for others, it may not have been an accurate indication of what's to come the rest of the season.
Now that the football season is underway, fantasy football players have stats and matchups to use to set their lineup each week.
Week 2 can be tricky, though, because there's only one week of games to evaluate, and teams and/or players may have either had an off week or an unusually productive one.
Here's a look at the rankings for every position for Week 2 of the fantasy football season.
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Support STEAM content in the classroom or home with a book that features famous artists and historic events during one of the most influential time periods of artistic history.
A Look at Urban Art introduces students to the artistic style that relates to cities and city life. Students will have the opportunity to further explore how urban art is characterized and how the international art form has an unlimited number of uses today.
The Art and Music series introduces young learners to some of the most popular artistic movements in history. Featuring beautiful images of famous works of art a word glossary comprehension and extension activities and much more each 24-page title in this series allows students to explain events procedures or concepts in a historical text including what happened and why based on specific information in the text.


For musicians, Rowling said that concerns about affordability were the most pressing. The census notes that the rising cost of living in Austin and the development of expensive condos and apartments in the central city are forcing out musicians and others in the industry.
"It really does appear that we are at a tipping point, particularly in terms of musicians. We have lost a number of them already," said Rowling.
The map on page 189 is especially troubling, with a very low response from musicians in the outer ring, showing again the City's ongoing refusal to engage and hold meetings for those living in outer core.
We can get $37 Million dollars for North Lamar and Burnet, but we need to send letters by June 3rd!
The City needs letters of support from citizens to show that the community wants a Tiger Grant for our streets.
Here is the link for the template.
Click ''read more' for the emails to send the letters to, as well as the entire notice from the City's Capitol Program office.
Come join us tomorrow for the Restore Rundberg Community meeting at Jamie Padron Elementary School. Remember to bring a friend!
"Council Member Leslie Pool is hosting a Town Hall event to discuss important issues in the North Austin community. This event will be the first of a series of town halls for District 7. In attendance will be representatives from the City's Budget Department, CapMetro and First Responder Teams, among others. We hope you can participate!"
The City Council Housing and Community Development Committee took a small step forward Wednesday toward funding affordable housing within the Homestead Preservation District in Central East Austin and possibly elsewhere. However, committee members did not pick a financing mechanism and still have questions about how much such a district would cost.
Note: the article did not mention that Council Member Casar in District 4 is pushing to have this in District 4 as another tool to preserve affordability in North Austin.
Georgian Acres Makes the News!
"I love the people, that's probably the best thing," explained neighbor Rigel Thurston.
Thurston is co-president of the recently created neighborhood association, Georgian Acres. He started the walking group last November in an effort to take back the streets that were once known for prostitution and drugs.
Go Rigel and Georgian Acres!!


Gyuto Wheel of Dharma Monastery was created with the guidance and blessing of His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet to share the wisdom teachings of Tibetan Buddhism. His Holiness bestowed the Monastery's mission and its name "Cho-Kor-Gon", Wheel of Dharma. We are located in Northeast Minneapolis, and all are welcome at our public events and weekly teachings.
Please view the calendar for specific event details or see our Google+ page.
Gyuto Wheel of Dharma Monastery is the first Western branch of the famous Gyuto Tantric University, one of only two historical seats of high tantric learning in the Tibetan Buddhist monastic system. Gyuto Tantric University is based in exile in Dharamsala (Sidbhari), India.
Gyuto Wheel of Dharma Monastery in Minneapolis continues the tradition of discipline, scholarship, teaching, and service as part of this venerable Tibetan heritage institution. Gyuto monks are practitioners of the Tibetan Buddhist Gelug lineage of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.
The public is welcome at Gyuto's teachings and events, and the Monastery has public hours regularly on Wednesdays 7pm-9pm for prayer, meditation and recitation practices, and on Saturdays 7pm-9pm for Lam Rim teachings by resident teacher Venerable Geshe Ajan. Gyuto also offers regular lectures by well-known Buddhist scholar and translator Professor Roger Jackson on classical Buddhist topics. The Monastery serves the nation's second-largest Tibetan exile community located in Minnesota, as well as its diverse non-Tibetan members, friends, and guests. The Monastery frequently organizes Interfaith events to promote universal harmony and peace. Welcome to our website, and please visit our calendar and Google+ page, and like us on Facebook to see current happenings.


Android has long had a history of device fragmentation and a mix of UI implementations. It hasn't been all that different from the Internet Explorer 6 issues web developers dealt with in the early 2000s until recently.
Android device fragmentation will come to an end with the release of the newly announced version 4.0,. A common UI will be available for phones and tablets alike. This commonality will help ease much of the past issues from manufacturer to manufacturer. This was a hinderance to many developers who wished to develop for multiple devices running the Android platform.
Now, with the unified UI, manufacturers will be required to use the Holo theme as a base to their own themes. The use of Holo promises to save development time by minimizing much of the UI work and allowing the customization of Holo. Current device distribution indicates Android 2.3.3 (Gingerbread) is above 50%.
Device makers will be compelled to conform to these new UI standards if they wish to connect to the Android Market. Market access will be denied to any manufacturer who does not utilize the newly standardized Holo theme.
The new UI doesn't leave out older devices. Android's resources allow older devices to gracefully run newer apps developed for version 4.0 of the platform. Users will welcome a unified interface. I'm looking forward to it myself.
I hope this good news has you thinking of your own future in Android development. Before you begin, I suggest reading up a bit on development fundamentals and best practices first. If your background isn't in mobile development, but you're still curious about the basics, read this post on Android development, and its relation to the website development process.
A unified UI will eventually eliminate much of the mismatched menu operations and device display issues common today. What you see will finally be what you get across devices. This updated efficiency will speed development time from inception to release. Device fragmentation is ending soon.
does this mean we'll be able to see android how google meant for it to be seen, or are we going to have to put up with what the phone makers want us to see?


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Jennifer Griggs, M.D., M.P.H. is a medical oncologist specializing in the treatment of breast cancer. She is a professor in the department of medicine in the Division of Hematology/Oncology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Dr. Griggs has received research funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Susan G. Komen Foundation, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Defense, and has authored over 100 articles and book chapters, including the oncology section of Cecil's Essentials of Medicine. She is one of the associate editors of the Journal of Clinical Oncology and is a passionate mentor and teacher.
Dr. Griggs has a special interest in patient-provider communication, cancer survivorship, and quality of care for women with breast cancer. She is particularly interested in the role of information support in quality of life. "Learning as much as possible about breast cancer helps a woman gain understanding and some control over a disease that too often has her feeling blown about like a leaf in the wind," she says. "And connecting to a community of breast cancer specialists and to other women with breast cancer immeasurably enhances a woman's circle of support.
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How Does Earth Conductivity Affect the "Takeoff Angle" of a Vertical Monopole?
A common belief is that Earth conductivity mostly affects the "takeoff angle" of a vertical monopole.
However the NEC4.2 study below shows that the shape of the radiation patterns is quite similar when the same monopole system is installed at sites where Earth conductivity differs through the range from poor to excellent.
The biggest effect when going from poor to excellent Earth conductivity (other things equal) is due to the reduced loss of the antenna system path to r-f ground (Earth), when the radial wires are buried in Earth having greater conductivities.
It is mostly this reduced loss that is responsible for those greater low-angle fields — not to a lower takeoff angle.
In this study there is approximately 1.8dB more power radiated in the elevation angle of maximum directivity for 30 mS/m Earth than for 0.5 mS/m Earth.
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The primary operational unit of an air force is a squadron. These traditionally comprise a number of aircraft, aircrew, ground crew and often support personnel necessary to meet the tasks of the particular squadron at base and when deployed. Within the RNZAF there are five flying squadrons. There is also one specialist flying school. The flying squadrons are further divided into Operational Squadrons (combat capable squadrons) and two Training Squadrons.
Pilot Training Squadron, Central Flying School and the Helicopter Conversion Flight are also covered in the Flying Training Elements section.


From her California Building workshop, Amy Rice creates one-of-a-kind mixed media art. She has combined childhood memories, both real and imagined, and dreams of becoming a veggie farmer into a whimsical and sometimes deeply nostalgic body of work.
From her California Building workshop, Amy Rice creates one-of-a-kind mixed media art.


I have to admit, the only blue plates I have in my own home are some I use on the 4Th of July.
However, I do think these beautiful pieces are so gorgeous!
I love all the different patterns and how great they look together even when they don't match exactly!
OMG, no blue plates? I use vintage and antique blue willow dishes everyday, no use "saving" them. Everything tastes better too!
I adore old plates and the ones you chose are very pretty!
I am a "plate addict" so I love all kinds of plates and I love blue willow! Very Pretty!
My great grandmother used these every Sunday for our big family dinners!
I have one blue plate that we use everyday... it's our funiest plate cause the rest is a correl white set (that I hate!) but it's not ours, so when we move I'll get the pleasure to buy -some- sets *cough* at least not white.
So pretty. I have my grandmothers old every day dished and they are blue.
I have some old "finds" amd some fun finds at Home Goods and Marshall's! They often have the Johnson Bros. Old English Castles and others. I pick them up one at a time, because they don't have to match-my little $3.99 treat! Blue plates with white...ahhhh!
I love the flow blue plates of the first image. The style has a watery effect that lends a sense of romance to them. You can find some lovelies on ebay at great prices too!!!
Love the mother of pearl over the plate, simple yet magnificent.
I LOVE blue plates! And if they don't match?....even better!!
Seems lots of *old* plates are blue. Reminds me of my grandmother...fondly!
I bought sooo many of those blue spode plates from the spode factory when i lived in england - sadly, they sit in my cupboard all stacked up along with the other thousands of dishes i bought there. although, i don't use them that often - I am glad I have them. One day I will blog about my trips to the potteries in England.
Blue and White plates are such simple classic beauty to me. Awesome photos.
I *heart* blue and white! My whole kitchen is in blue and white and I love blue and white dishes!!


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Mohawk Environmentalist Speaks Out For Greenbelt
Unusual for the participants in the Ontario government's 2015 Co-Ordinated Review of the Growth Plan, the Greenbelt Plan, the Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Plan and the Niagara Escarpment Plan is the perspective of the Mohawk environmentalist, Danny Beaton. (Turtle Clan, Six Nations).
At the Caledon session on March 26th, Beaton took part in a panel with the Sierra Club representative Dan McDermott, Robin Garret, of the Greenbelt Foundation and myself. Here he stressed that all the prime agricultural land in Ontario should be protected from development. This would require a dramatic expansion of the Greenbelt.
Beaton put forth an important question at the Caledon meeting. Here among an estimated five hundred participants, Beaton was the only native person present, and who presented a perspective based on his culture's ancient sustainable and respecting connection with the land.
At the beginning of the consultation, Beaton asked what special vehicles were there for natives to be engaged in the review. He also stressed that these efforts should not be limited to band councils, but also engage natives in cities who are not affiliated with these structures.
In response to Beaton the chair of the panel in charge of developing recommendations for the Co-ordinated review David Crombie responded that such consultations although not yet launched will happen. However, so far there is nothing printed about this, or on government websites. No public meetings have been announced, even in the Indian Act bands with reservation lands within the Greenbelt and Growth Plan's existing limits. Nor in the voluminous material presented at the tables on the Greenbelt Review is there anything written from the perspective of Iroquoian and Objiway communities.
Beaton is in an excellent position to serve as a native voice for respect for the land, water and the wildlife that depends upon it going into the Co-Ordinated Review. He has been an environmental activist for over thirty years, leading successful campaigns against the Dufferin County mega-quarry and the proposed "Dump Site 41" landfill on top of the world's purest drinking water.
It is not in his great victories however, that Beaton's views need to be appreciated at this critical hour. What illustrates the importance of his outlook and the perspective of traditional native respect for the land and its creatures that he gives voice to, is one of his most catastrophic defeats.
For the past two years Beaton has been engaged in the struggle to save all of the 125 acres of the David Dunlap Forest. It had been until the recent Richmond Hill chipper massacre of fifty acres of the forest for luxury homes, the largest remaining intact forested area between the Oak Ridges Moraine and the City of Toronto. This onslaught reminded Beaton of the wise words heard in the Longhouse from the environmental delegate of the Iroquois Confederacy, the late Cayuga environmentalist, Norman Jacobs.
(Aerial Dunlap Forest, Photo by Richmond Hill Naturalists)
In the Longhouse Jacobs, frequently aided by the words of the Confederacy's legal counsel, Paul Williams, spoke about how if native rights detailed in treaties are not enforced they are simply ground into the dust. They explained that the rights to hunt and fish detailed in such sacred covenants as the Nanfan Treaty of 1701, mean nothing if the environment is so despoiled that no deer or other wildlife used for subsistence can live.
In the struggle to save the David Dunlap Forest, which although legally recognized as Provincially Significant under the Planning Act's Provincial Policy Statement, (because of its large size in a heavily deforested area) Beaton saw the ugly reality of land use planning in Ontario. Since it is not protected by the Greenbelt the David Dunlap Forest can and ultimately was cut up for development on the basis of misleading "expert" studies by consultants. These claim an absurdity-that almost half of a large forest tract in a city can be cut up and destroyed without any reduction of its benefit to wildlife, watershed protection and air quality.
The destruction of the Dunlap Forest also ground into the dust sacred artifacts from native cultures that had inhabited the land for thousands of years. This was the conclusion of the archaeologist, Dana Poulton in her prepared Witness Statement on the issue for the Ontario Municipal Board. (OMB) Tragically, Poulton was barred from presenting her Witness Statement to the OMB, based on a decision by a lawyer now facing a law suit, Virginia MacLaren.
(Forest Destruction at Dunlap, Photo by Mary Lou Bacher)
In her barred testimony, Poulton pointed out that since the forest towered over the area between the Oak Ridges Moraine and what is now the City of Toronto, it would have likely "been regarded as a sacred place by First Nations People." Poulton also deplored how in 2009 some 366 mature trees were removed by a large backhoe on tracks under the guise of a "pedestrian survey of the field." She found that this was contrary to Ministry of Culture guidelines which consider "tree removal to be a disturbance a potential impact to archaeological sites."
To honour Beaton and the elders he gives voice to, it is important that all areas which are designated as Significant Forests in the high development pressure areas regulated through the Growth Plan be protected by their inclusion in the Greenbelt. To do otherwise would be to hold the sacred values of native people for the earth in contempt.
Blog header photo: Danny Beaton (second from right) beating a drum in front of David Dunlap Forest shortly before half of it was destroyed, By Tom Smarda.


Welcome to the Iron Fist Velvet Glove Secular Index for Federal Politicians.
You can search for a particular politician using the search function or you can filter the index based on criteria we have set up. Click on the filter buttons and you will get the idea.
We take the view that many religious doctrines are harmful to our society and a person who has strong religious beliefs is more likely to oppose progressive reform of our laws. For that reason, it is important to know the nature of religious belief held by our political leaders. This index is an attempt to summarise that information.
Do you think it is unfair to question the religious belief of our political leaders? Check out this article by former NSW Premier Kristina Keneally.
We have listed our understanding of the particular faith followed by our Federal politicians and a rating of their commitment to secular values. We have no problem with politicians who are extremely pious provided they do not seek to impose their religion on other people or seek special privileges or advantages for their religion.
The index rates commitment to secular values.
0 – A person who actively argues against secular values and has demonstrated a shameless desire to use government resources to promote their particular religion and who would cross the floor and vote against party policy if such policy contravened their religious conviction.
3- A person who believes religions are valuable, that they should be supported and encouraged by government and would strongly oppose removing privileges but is not necessarily a loud advocate or organiser for religions.
5 – Neutral. We have been unable to find evidence of secular values.
8 – A person who would probably vote for secular reforms but does not publicly argue in favour of such reforms.
10 – A person who may or may not be extremely religious but who recognises that religion is a private matter which should receive no assistance from government and who actively advocates for the removal of special religious privileges.
If you think it is unfair or unusual to examine the religious beliefs of politicians you might be interested in Pew Research data regarding the US Congress of 2019.


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Grilling has been a part of Pacific Islander tradition since the beginning of time. We crafted this Peach, Pineapple, & Mango fruit in that spirit and it contains a gentle blend of heat and tropical fruit flavors.
We tested this sauce on ribs and a roasted pork loin and were plesently surprised. This sauce also goes well with poultry like Buffalo Wings or as a standalone dip. If you're pulling pork, this is the sauce you need !!!!
Recommendations are to marinate the meat and continue to baste while cooking. We also wrapped the meat in foil, poured over this sauce, and cooked the meat to completion.
This sauce is delicious and contains fresh fruit and fresh vegetables. We make this sauce when ordered to ensure freshness and without additives OR preservatives.
Because we make Aloha Baby using real fruit, you'll need to refrigerate this sauce until you plan to use it and after opening to stop the natural ripening. Handle this like fresh fruit because that's exactly what we use.
If you like Mangos like I do, then you'll LOVE this Peach, Pineapple, and Mango BBQ sauce. This isn't a traditional barbecue sauce since it does not have tomatoes or the other typical base BBQ sauce items. What you will find is this sauce is delicious especially because of the real fruit we used.
Excellent On Pulled Pork !!!


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Combine all ingredients in a large bowl, toss to combine, and serve. Easy Peasy!
Lime: This fruit contains citrus bioflavonoids, which have antioxidant properties and are active in improving the function of the immune system. Limes also have anti-microbial properties and are a good source of a number of nutrients including, vitamin C, potassium, and folate. The lime's bioflavonoids may also function as anti- inflammatories and lower blood pressure and cholesterol.
Red Pepper: Bell peppers are an excellent source of carotenoids and vitamin C and are members of the nightshade family. They also provide plenty of fiber, water and Vitamin A.
Tofu: Tofu, made from soybean curds, is naturally gluten-free and low calorie, contains no cholesterol and is an excellent source of protein, iron, and calcium. Soy is the prime component of tofu and is a complete source of dietary protein, providing all of the essential amino acids needed in the diet.
Quinoa: This grain alternative is high in protein and is a source of all essential amino acids, including lysine and isoleucine, which makes it a complete protein. It provides a variety of antioxidant phytonutrients, flavonoids and polysaccharides. Quinoa is rich in vitamin E and a very good source of antioxidant-promoting manganese. It is also a good source of heart-healthy magnesium folate, and fiber, as well as bone-building phosphorus and copper.


You sound like someone I would get along with quite well. My favorite time of year is fall and it is also one of my favorite seasons to visit Walt Disney World Resort. The theme parks usually begin putting up autumn decorations around late August. The first evening of Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party is September 15 this year, so the Magic Kingdom will definitely be decked out in jack-o-lanterns and SPOOK-tacular décor from mid-September through November 1. The Disney Parks Blog is my "go to" source for information like this, so be sure to check it for updates.
Please let me know if I can help answer any other questions as you continue to plan your visit to Disney World.


"Mir kam keine Rede in den Sinn, die nur im mindesten etwas von dem Farbenglanz des innern Bildes abzuspiegeln schien."
"I could not think of any words that could reflect even a small part of the brightness and color of the image I encountered inside."
"No se me ocurría ningún dicho que pudiera reflejar ni siquiera una mínima parte del brillo y del color del imagen que veía en mi."
"No se m'acudia cap expressió capaç de reflectir ni tan sols de la brillantor i el color de la imatge que veia dins meu."
The piece especially created for the l'Antic Molí d'Oli d'Ulldecona, an old olive oil mill in Ulldecona, Spain/Catalonia). It is a musical composition for 10 loudspeakers and a text by the German romantic writer ETA Hoffmann (1776-1822), written in chalk on the floor of the exhibition space.
The musical piece is based on the two sounds that can define the village of Ulldecona: Trains passing by and birds singing. Field recordings of those sounds are combined with electronic sounds, a drum kit and a Violin. The composition follows a pattern of a-symmetric symmetry interweaving seemingly real spaces with imaginary ones: Every "real" sound used for this composition has its electronic counterpart; every motion direction is crossed. The only exceptions are the sounds of the drums – they remain un-mirrored and interrupt the flow of movements and jump in space.
The composition tries to adapt the piece to the space where it is to be heard. It plays with the distribution of sound in space, a dialogue between the sounds of the piece and the reality. The fact that the piece sounds next to the train tracks and there are birds chirping in the streets, blurs the lines between the "made composition" and the music that self-composed itself outside. As an installed musical piece its format differs from both, a concert and an album.
The text phrase of ETA Hoffmann is taken from the narration "Der Sandmann" (translated into Spanish as "El hombre de arena", English "The Sandman"). In the narration, the protagonist - overtaken by recurring memories – enters into a state where his perceived reality and the "outside world" reach the same level of realty.
Mir kam keine Rede in den Sinn, die nur im mindesten etwas von dem Farbenglanz des innern Bildes abzuspiegeln schien.


Here is a yoga wall system that lets you try a variety of moves to work on your flexibility and build strength in your body. The wall bar works like a ballet bar, allowing you to do standing poses, twists, and other similar moves. You can also use wall pelvic swing, double hook wall belt,swing hangers, and other components to do more with this system.
The above video shows what you can do with the Great Yoga Wall.


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LACS is growing, despite difficulty in demonstrating refractive superiority.
There is too much noise in IOL calculations.
Contralateral comparison studies are best suited and have shown the refractive benefit of LACS as they minimize effects of uncertain ELP.
There are many benefits to LACS beyond the refractive outcome that make it better than traditional cataract surgery.
There is no additional cost to Medicare or private insurance; the cost is supported by patient-self pay.
This presentation was co-sponsored by the Cataract Preferred Practice Patterns Committee.


Administrative history: The church was located at 470 Ellesmere Rd., Scarborough, Ontario.
The congregation began services in 1945. The first building was occupied in 1954. Leonard Brown is considered the founding leader of the group. The congregation originated through outreach by the Leonard Brown family who began a Sunday school.
Leonard Brown served in 1958 as a congregational leader. The congregation dissolved in 1958. It had been affiliated with the Mennonite Conference of Ontario since 1945. The language of worship was English.


How many times has someone asked you a question, seeking your advice, yet you were uncomfortable stating your true opinion? Perhaps in the past, you were ridiculed or had a relationship tattered because you had the courage to speak your truth. To protect yourself, you created a belief such as, "Telling the truth is not safe." As a result, telling white lies became a habit. Other truths were built on these white lies until you become unsure of what your truth is. Many are living their life based on a foundation that is unstable, unconsciously creating walls that are destined to crumble.
You have the choice to tear down the unstable walls and to restructure your foundation. It will take courage, but you have the ability within to rediscover your true Self, to make decisions and take the necessary actions to create the life of your dreams. The best time to start is now. Will you choose to build a life around falsehoods or make the effort to create a life based on your Truth? Do you know what your Truth is? Do your thoughts, words, actions and emotions reflect what you hold to be true?
Speak your truth regardless of how others may view you. There may be ripples in your relationships, but those that accept you for who you are will remain close. All others will fall away, for it is the "false you" they were attracted to. You will then pull in those who are attracted to the "real you." Be true to yourself and you will have much more ability to reach out to others, coming from a deeper understanding of love and compassion.
Role-play the things you wish to say to others and how you will maintain your integrity when someone resists you. As you empower yourself in one area, you will find it easier to be true to yourself in other areas of your life.
The key is to know what your truth is. Many times the truth is buried so deep, it is hard to know what you truly believe. It is good to have open-minded conversations with others, listening to their beliefs and integrating those that resonate with you. Life is about learning, exploring and changing. Allow yourself to be a free-thinker and to live outside the norm. This is what makes life worth living.


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Q: PM2 cron running every second I'm using the --cron flag to run a job every hour. The issue is as soon as I deploy using pm2 deploy. I see in the logs it's running the job every second.
apps: [
    {
        name: "api",
        script: "./index.js",
        autorestart: true
    },
    {
        name: "cron",
        script: "./cron.js --cron '0 * * * *'"
    }
],

The cron syntax seems to be correct, am I missing something else?

A: The way to properly create a cronjob with pm2 is:
pm2 start index.js --no-autorestart --cron "*/15 * * * *" --name "My 15m cron job"

If passing arguments is needed then:
pm2 start index.js --no-autorestart --cron "*/15 * * * *" --name "My 15m cron job" -- --cron-15m

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What a surprise: world health 'experts' have let China off the hook on Covid
Published by The Daily Mail (31st March, 2021)
More than 420 days have passed since the World Health Organisation declared that a strange new disease killing people in a central Chinese city was sufficiently alarming to be declared a global health emergency.
The UN body, when making that historic statement last January, praised China for its leadership, its commitment to transparency, its sharing of data and its efforts to contain the deadly new virus.
Yet the truth could not have been more different. We know now Covid-19 may have been rampaging in Wuhan for at least ten weeks by that point. Transmission was covered up, doctors silenced when they attempted to warn citizens, and Chinese New Year festivities went ahead.
It was actually Taiwanese scientists who were the first to sound an international alert. And the Chinese government closed down the lab of the scientist who identified the genetic sequence of Sars- Cov-2 — the strain that causes Covid-19 — after the information was revealed to the world only by an Australian expert who shared it on behalf of his frustrated colleague.
So much for Chinese leadership and transparency.
Studies suggest that had the Chinese authorities acted just three weeks earlier, the virus might have been contained with 95 per cent fewer cases. Instead it hurtled around the planet leaving death, devastation and misery in its wake.
The WHO, despite its lofty mission to protect global health, appears to have learned nothing. Once again we see this craven body prostrating itself before China in a bid to appease the repulsive Communist regime, while failing yet again in its duty to the world.
What was meant to be the WHO's authoritative inquiry into the origins of the virus — its dismal 120-page report is now branded a 'joint study with China' — tailors its findings to suit Beijing.
So it insists the disease was most likely to have passed from bats through an 'intermediate animal host' before its eruption in Wuhan — despite zero evidence from the testing of thousands of animals.
The inquiry accepts China's dates for the first case, which conflict with reports of earlier ones, and insists there was a 'possible pathway' for the virus to be imported into Wuhan via frozen food, perhaps from outside its borders — an idea dismissed by the majority of independent experts.
Most controversially, it declared the suggestion it originated in a leak from a laboratory 'extremely unlikely' and the 'least likely hypothesis', despite admitting that such accidents can happen, with researchers becoming infected by pathogens in the process.
The conclusions are unsurprising. China furiously resisted any outside inquiry for months — then demanded the right to vet the experts sent, controlled all the data and ruthlessly managed the team's brief study time in Wuhan.
We still have no idea how this virus emerged and natural transmission remains highly plausible — but there is considerable circumstantial evidence pointing to a lab leak.
Wuhan is hundreds of miles from the horseshoe bat caves, a source of the closest-known relative of Sars-Cov-2. But it is Asia's leading centre of research on bat coronaviruses.
Poor bio-safety was a known concern in these labs, while scientists carried out risky 'gain of function' research to fast-track evolution of viruses (which critics feared could spark a pandemic) and used cloning techniques that leave no sign of human interference.
And this new disease appeared well adapted to infecting humans, possessing an unusual mutation that allows its spike protein to bind to many cells.
Indeed, a lab leak was the first explanation that came to mind of the top expert at Wuhan lab, which removed its key databases from public view. Two Chinese scientists who had the temerity to blame a lab leak hastily deleted the paper making this allegation.
Meanwhile, the regime sought to blame others — even pushing claims this week that Covid-19's emergence might be linked to a U.S. military base 7,500 miles from Wuhan — and threatened citizens with execution if they spoke out of turn about the virus.
None of this is proof there was a lab leak. But it certainly makes the suggestion more worthy of investigation than the daft idea that this deadly disease was imported into China in a packet of frozen pangolin or slab of chilled pork.
Not least when the U.S. State Department has publicly voiced suspicions over sickness among Wuhan researchers in autumn 2019.
Altogether, this is yet another critical failure by the WHO under its director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus — a former foreign minister of a thuggish one-party state, Ethiopia — closely allied to China.
The WHO has had a poor pandemic — just as it performed badly during the 2014 Ebola crisis, when it slapped down pleas from the charity Médecins Sans Frontières to help and refused to arrange visas for experts.
I saw the horrifying consequences of global inaction amid the dead and dying victims of that cruel disease in Liberia. So I hoped fervently the WHO would have learned its lesson under its new leadership. How wrong I was.
Yet Dr Tedros has joined 24 world leaders, including Boris Johnson, France's Emmanuel Macron and Germany's Angela Merkel, to demand a new global treaty to improve future pandemic preparation.
He talks of how 'the world has come together as never before ' — despite all the bitter arguments between Washington and Beijing, and the recent outbreak of vaccine nationalism in Europe as countries feud over supplies.
Given all the wrangling over vaccines, it seems ironic this appeal for unity was reportedly the idea of Charles Michel, president of the European Council (though they acknowledge the divisions exposed).
Their communique is right to argue for more robust global health architecture to protect future generations from pandemics. Covid is, as they say, a painful reminder that 'nobody is safe until everyone is safe'.
But this pandemic has proven the WHO is not up to the job without major reform. It is too supine, too conflicted, to stand up to powerful countries trying to hide the truth.
Because above all, this new disease has exposed the brutal face of China under its hardline president Xi Jinping. It has shown itself to be a sinister and self-serving dictatorial regime that will stop at nothing to protect its ruling party and pursue their long march to global supremacy.
Instead of displaying leadership, it has used the cover of pandemic to crush freedom in Hong Kong with a draconian security law and overhaul of the electoral system to ensure the legislature is dominated by pro-Beijing stooges.
It is jailing Hong Kong's dissidents, crushing democracy in defiance of the handover deal with Britain and, reportedly, even sent one activist into a psychiatric unit to silence him.
These disturbing events, just like the frustrating search to find the pandemic's origins, prove China cannot be trusted under President Xi. The WHO has behaved badly, but the real villains of this crisis are to be found in Beijing.
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An Alabama Circuit Court jury signed a verdict in favor of the family of Larry Albritton who was killed in a rollover crash on Oct. 7, 2013. Albritton was driving a log truck when it overturned. An eyewitness to this incident said the rollover occurred not at a high speed but as though it were happening in slow motion.
The load of logs apparently shifted when the truck rolled over and crashed through the truck's cabin, killing the driver. The jury determined that the cab guard on this particular truck was defective in design, manufacture and in warnings. This was a truck product liability lawsuit.
The jury also determined that the manufacturer of the cab, Merritt Equipment Co., acted with reckless disregard for the safety of others and in the way it designed the guard, manufactured and provided warnings related to its cab guards and that the cab guard itself did not protect Albritton as it was designed to do. The defendants included Merritt Equipment Co. as well as Pitts Enterprises and Volvo Trucks North America Inc. Pitts and Volvo trucks settled prior to the entry of the verdict. The verdict was entered against Merritt Equipment Co. as the only defendant.
This verdict should alert the cab guard businesses that they should be making safety changes to prevent shifting cargo from contacting the cab of trucks. The cab guard in this case failed and thus resulted in the death of its driver, Albritton. It was reported that after this verdict was entered, at least two cab guard manufacturers now say they do not use cab guards on log trucks.
Jacqueline Wright, et al. v. Volvo Trucks North America Inc., et al. (45-CV-2013-9000091.00).
Kreisman Law Offices has been handling product liability cases, automobile defect cases, truck product defect cases, pharmaceutical defect injury cases and truck collision lawsuits for individuals and families who have been harmed, injured or died as a result of the carelessness or negligence of another for more than 40 years in and around Chicago, Cook County and its surrounding areas, including Streamwood, South Barrington, Bellwood, Maywood, Rosemont, River Grove, Elk Grove Village, Country Club Hills, Countryside, Calumet City, Deerfield, Dolton, Worth, Blue Island, Chicago Heights, Lincolnshire, Vernon Hills, Gurnee, Chicago (South Shore, North Lawndale, Lake Calumet, Hegewisch, East Side, Hyde Park, Kenwood, Jefferson Park), Bensenville and Arlington Heights, Ill.