Two IRBV researchers among photography contest finalists!
Anja Geitmann and Yuki Hamamura are among the 20 finalists in the fifth edition of the photography contest "La prevue par l'image", organized by ACFAS. The event highlights images inspired by research projects underway in the Quebec scientific community.
Our researchers need your support in order to win! We invite you to vote to support them, as well as the impressive research underway at the IRBV.
Click here to vote until August 24.
An exhibit of the photos opens on May 12, in the hall of Concordia University's EV Building (1515 Ste. Catherine St. West), where it will be on display until June 10.


This is the third year Substantial has built the web presence for Internet Week New York, the festival celebrating New York's Internet and technology community. For this year's season, the IWNY staff decided that they wanted to focus on two specific efforts, modernizing the overall site aesthetic and improving usability on the events schedule.
In earlier years of Internet Week New York, the theme was very digital, executed through a pixelated visual approach and a very bright, neon color palette. The event has matured, warranting some rethinking on their overall presentation. Under the hood, administrators have always clamored for more content flexibility, allowing them to adjust their messaging throughout the IWNY season. The "8-bit" aesthetic has been removed for 2012, replaced with a cleaner, more muted set of typefaces and colors. By pulling back the amount of "pop" on the page itself, the admin-uploaded content from IWNY is given prominence, lending visual importance to IWNY's various calls to action.
One of the most utilized portions of the site is the schedule. Internet Week NY has an open model, allowing the public to sign up as partners and throw affiliated events. This leads to hundreds of events throughout NYC, posing a challenge to attendees looking to organize their own itinerary. As part of the older aesthetic, there was a set of colors and category iconography, which wasn't always the clearest for users to discern. While the colors remain, the iconography has been removed, easing comprehension for new and returning users. Additionally, the updated typography and layout lend themselves to better skimming without having the wealth of content become overwhelming.
For those of you looking for the technical details, the Internet Week New York site is written on a Rails stack with a custom CMS.
But enough talking about the site. Check it out for yourself: Internet Week New York.


John Soltes of The Leader did a bang-up job on an article about the growing problem of people releasing/abandoning pets in the Meadowlands. Story is in the latest edition. Link is here.
Most visitors to the N.J. Meadowlands Commission's DeKorte Park these days are here to go bird-watching, to enjoy the many walking trails, or just take in the park's beautiful flowers and landscape on a crisp fall day.
What most of those visitors don't realize is that on Monday and Wednesday nights, DeKorte offers a free attraction of an entirely different sort: the William D. McDowell Observatory's research-grade telescope, capable of viewing objects millions of light years away.
What's more, the solar system's biggest planet has a different look this fall.


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SustainCo agrees to sell Clean Energy Development
Elise Kelly Markets Reporter [email protected] 15 April 2020 09:46 (EST)
SustainCo Inc (TSXV:SMS) has entered into an agreement to sell its wholly owned subsidiary, Clean Energy Development Corp (CED)
According to the agreement, Groundheat Solar Wind Corp will buy all issued and outstanding shares of CED
Groundheat will pay SustainCo an aggregate purchase price of C$50,000 in cash
If the transaction goes through, SustainCo's business will continue to operate through another subsidiary, VCI Controls Inc
Before the market opens, SustainCo Inc (SMS) is trading at 8.5 cents per share
SustainCo (TSXV:SMS) has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its wholly owned subsidiary, Clean Energy Development Corp (CED).
The agreement is with a geothermal construction company, Groundheat Solar Wind Corp.
According to the agreement, Groundheat will buy all the issued and outstanding shares of CED. In consideration for the acquisition, Groundheat will pay SustainCo an aggregate purchase price of $50,000 in cash.
The transaction provides SustainCo with a way to monetise its assets in CED. As such, SustainCo's board of directors unanimously decided that the agreement was in the company's best interests.
Completion of the transaction is still subject to the customary conditions. These include applicable regulatory and stock exchange approvals.
If the transaction is completed according to the agreement terms, SustainCo's will conduct its operations through another subsidiary. The other subsidiary, VCI Controls, focuses on digital controls and mechanical services, performance monitoring, and energy efficient solutions.
SustainCo's Chief Financial Officer, Chris Hazelton, commented on the company's movements during the COVID-19 pandemic. He also credited SustainCo's workers as the source of the company's fortune thus far.
"We will be focusing our success and expansion of VCI Controls' core business, by providing additional services during this difficult time. For three decades, VCI Controls' clients have come to expect and rely on our prompt, professional, and knowledgeable team. Our team goes well beyond the basics, providing complete satisfaction and peace of mind.
"We would like to thank employees for their commitment and hard work in the past and particularly during these challenging times. They are our strength and the reason for our success," he said.
" Titanium Corporation (TSXV:TIC) closes private placement
Titanium Corporation (TIC) closed its previously announced non-brokered private placement for gross proceeds of $5,000,000.
" First Hydrogen (TSXV:FHYD) establishes subsidiary to deploy hydrogen refuelling stations
First Hydrogen (FHYD) has established a new wholly-owned subsidiary NetzeroH2 Inc. for the design, production and roll-out of hydrogen refuelling stations.
" SHARC Energy (CSE:SHRC) projects 5x increase in PIRANHA sales
SHARC (SHRC) has received a purchase order for two PIRANHA systems from a housing project in Colorado.
" Titanium Corporation (TSXV:TIC) announces private placement offering
Titanium Corporation (TIC) has announced a private placement offering between C$3M to $5M.

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My palms were beginning to sweat. The walls seemed to be closing in around me. I tightened my grip around my husband's hand as the cold wand slid across my abdomen in search of life. Instead of the rapid thump of our baby's heartbeat, a deafening silence filled the room.
My heart sank in my chest, and my eyes swelled with tears. I was 12 weeks pregnant, but my baby's little heart was no longer beating. And mine was aching so sharply I thought it might stop, too.
Soon after our doctor visit, I experienced the far-too-early labor pains and traumatic passing of our first child. The week that followed was a blur filled with visits from family and friends. Life was on hold as we mourned the loss of our little one. The days soon turned to weeks. Life had to resume, but I felt everything but normal inside.
Three years have passed since those foggy days of grief, but the memories of the heartache are still vivid. I thank God for the two little ones he has blessed us with since then, but I still long to hold the baby we lost. Though healing has overridden the grief in my heart, miscarriage has changed me and taught me things I would not have learned otherwise—even though, if I am honest, I would gladly trade these things for my baby.
I am grateful that God has heard these honest cries, and that he is patient and compassionate with my hurting heart. Though painful, I praise him for the lessons he teaches in the valley and that he walks alongside the aching heart long after the meals and sympathy cards stop. Whether you find yourself in the midst of the fog of your own miscarriage, or are trying to encourage friends in their grief, these are four things God has taught me through mine.
Outwardly, nothing had changed. We were a family of two before the miscarriage, and remained as two afterward. But we couldn't pick up where we left off before the positive pregnancy test. The following months were no longer marked by growing belly pictures, baby showers or nursery preparations.
The pregnant bellies around me seemed to taunt me, reminding me of how far along I would have been each passing month. Fear filled my heart as I anticipated facing our baby's due date with empty arms. Our home felt painfully quiet and clean, void of newborn cries and dirty burp cloths.
Though barely the size of a grape, the loss of our baby changed us and left us with a new normal that came with painful adjustments. After our miscarriage, pregnancy and parenthood were no longer rights we felt entitled to, or in control of. We saw clearly that God alone is the one who creates and sustains life, and children are an undeserved, miraculous and fragile gift.
Ryan Griffith (@ryangriffith) is assistant professor of Christian worldview at Bethlehem College & Seminary. He teaches biblical studies, church history, missions, and biblical languages.


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Estill County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 14,163. Its county seat is Irvine The county was formed in 1808 and named for Captain James Estill, a Kentucky militia officer who was killed in the Battle of Little Mountain during the American Revolutionary War. Estill County is a moist county meaning that the county seat, the city of Irvine, allows the sale of alcohol after the October 9, 2013 vote, but not the rest of Estill County outside the Irvine city limits. Estill County has two adjacent towns, known as the twin cities, Irvine and Ravenna. Both cities sit along the Kentucky River in the central part of the county. Ravenna is home to a former CSX Transportation facility, now owned by Kentucky Steam Heritage Corporation for the restoration of Chesapeake and Ohio 2716. It conducts the Ravenna Railroad Festival annually in late summer, and the historic Fitchburg & Cottage Furnaces are located here. Irvine hosts the annual Mountain Mushroom Festival over the last weekend of April, which celebrates the abundant Morel Mushrooms found in the region.

History
Estill County was formed in 1808 from land given by Clark and Madison counties, it was Kentucky's 50th county. Originally settled by European settlers entering Kentucky via old buffalo and Indian trails and traveling through Boonesborough in what is today Madison County.

Estill County was one of the first areas in the United States to experience early industrialization, with iron mining and smelting beginning in 1810. The iron industry would go on to thrive in Estill County for decades, with the ruins of the Estill furnace, the Cottage furnace, and the Fitchburg Furnace still being visible today. The Fitchburg furnace was a particularly impressive engineering feat. Standing 81 feet tall, the furnace is the largest charcoal furnace in the world, and one of the largest 25 dry-stone masonry structures in the world. The iron industry declined after the Civil War when iron deposits and timber to fire the furnaces were depleted, and innovation made charcoal furnaces obsolete. During the Civil War Estill County was strongly pro-union, similar to surrounding counties, especially to the southeast.

Additionally, the county was historically known for the Estill Springs summer resort, situated near mineral springs in Irvine. This resort was a popular vacation site for many prominent Kentuckians in the 19th century, with men including Henry Clay, John Crittenden, and John C. Breckinridge vacationing there. The current courthouse, built in 1941, replaced a structure dating from the 1860s.

Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which  is land and  (1.0%) is water. Estill County is located at the contact of two Kentucky regions: the Bluegrass and the Cumberland plateau, because of this the county is known as the location where the "Bluegrass kisses the Mountains."

Estill County contains two important rivers. With the Red River, famous for its gorge in neighboring Powell County, forming the northern border. And the Kentucky River bisecting the county. Much of Estill County's development, including the towns of Irvine and Ravenna, is located in the fertile bottomlands of the Kentucky River. Additionally, due to the Kentucky River's deep valley and Estill County's location at the edge of the Cumberland plateau the county's topography is striking. The Pottsville Escarpment is prominent in the county, marking the divide between the Bluegrass and the mountains. Because of this topography total relief is nearly 1000 feet in the county, with the highest point being Zion Mountain, located about  miles southwest of Irvine at 1,511 feet, and the lowest point being the confluence of the Kentucky River and the Red River at 566 feet. Other high points include Happy Top Mountain, 1,500 feet; Preacher Estes Mountain, 1,475 feet; Peter Mountain, 1,454 feet; Low Knob, 1,450 feet; and Big Round Mountain, Buzzard Roost, and McKinney Mountain, each at 1,420 feet.

Adjacent counties
 Clark County  (north)
 Powell County  (northeast)
 Lee County  (southeast)
 Jackson County  (south)
 Madison County  (west)

Protected areas
 Daniel Boone National Forest (part)
 Lilly Mountain Nature Preserve

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there were 15,307 people, 6,108 households, and 4,434 families residing in the county.  The population density was .  There were 6,824 housing units at an average density of .  The racial makeup of the county was 99.07% White, 0.11% Black or African American, 0.24% Native American, 0.03% Asian, 0.06% from other races, and 0.49% from two or more races.  0.53% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There were 6,108 households, out of which 32.30% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.40% were married couples living together, 12.90% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.40% were non-families. 24.60% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.70% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.  The average household size was 2.48 and the average family size was 2.94.

In the county, the population was spread out, with 24.20% under the age of 18, 9.10% from 18 to 24, 29.20% from 25 to 44, 24.20% from 45 to 64, and 13.50% who were 65 years of age or older.  The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females there were 93.80 males.  For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.20 males.

The median income for a household in the county was $23,318, and the median income for a family was $27,284. Males had a median income of $29,254 versus $18,849 for females. The per capita income for the county was $12,285.  About 22.50% of families and 26.40% of the population were below the poverty line, including 32.30% of those under age 18 and 21.50% of those age 65 or over.

Politics
Although it lies in the Bluegrass and Knobs regions, Estill County was more akin to the eastern Pennyroyal Plateau to its southwest in being strongly pro-Union during the Civil War. Indeed, a larger proportion of Estill County's population volunteered for the Union Army than the population of any free state, or of any Kentucky county except the famous Republican bastion of Owsley County. Consequently, Estill County has been strongly Republican ever since the end of Reconstruction – since 1888 the county has voted Democratic only for Woodrow Wilson in 1912, Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 and Lyndon Johnson in 1964, with the biggest of these three victories in 1932 being FDR's by a mere one hundred and eighty-seven votes out of over six thousand one hundred.

Communities

City
 Irvine (county seat)
 Ravenna

Other Communities
 Barnes Mountain
 Cobhill
 Cressy
 Crystal
 Drip Rock
 Fox
 Furnace
 Hargett
 Leighton
 Palmer
 Patsey
 Pryse
 Red Lick
 South Irvine
 Spout Springs
 Tipton Ridge
 Wisemantown
 Winston

See also

 National Register of Historic Places listings in Estill County, Kentucky

References

External links
 The Kentucky Highlands Project
 Estill County development authority's website
 Estill County Water District 1
 Estill County History & Ancestry

Kentucky counties
Counties of Appalachia
1808 establishments in Kentucky
Populated places established in 1808

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WARNING: Strong Tax Geek Content here. I've been a longtime TurboTax user and this year I opted for the Home & Business Version thanks to FiscalGeek actually making some money last year. My normal return is usually not too hairy since I haven't had any real investments outside my 401k so I was always opted for the Deluxe version. This year I had all sorts of stuff I wasn't quite sure how to deal with so I upped the ante hoping that TurboTax would answer all of my questions for me. I have to say it went sooooo easy and I learned quite a bit about small business taxes along the way so I can be smarter for 2010. I'm not going to walk you through the full rundown of the program since you can do that for free yourself but rather I'll show off some of the highlights as I went through my tax preparation. That's a good tip you can run through your whole tax scenario without paying so much as a dime until you want to file and print out. You haven't got much to lose. Last year over 20 million people used TurboTax to file their taxes so you'll be in good company.
You start off with TurboTax asking you a variety of information about any major events that it should consider as you work through your taxes. It's a very friendly way to get you thinking about job changes, home purchases, having kids, investing and the like. A simple checkbox and you are on your way.
It will continue to prompt you through all the important events broken down into Personal and Business spanning: Income, Deductions & Credits and Other Tax Situations.
What I liked was how much information I got as a new small business owner regarding purchases, depreciation, amortization and recommendations on startup costs. Here you'll see a flyout window giving you some more info on what constitutes startup costs and how to account for them.
As you move through the various screens there is frequently links to "Explain This" which give you some concise information on that particular topic.
You can also get more specific help from the Live the Community that changes context depending on the current page you are working on. So when you're working away on your business information you'll see topics such as: didn't receive a 1099 misc or How do I close a sole proprietor business? All very useful information and right there with you. It really takes the fear of doing your own taxes down to a minimum.
All of the various forms of credits and deductions from the various stimulus packages are included with the 2009 edition of TurboTax. From TurboTax I learned that about 95% of the taxpaying community is eligible for some part of $13,000 per person. It's not likely you'll qualify for all $13,000 unless you bought a house for the first time, improved it with a corn husk stove and so forth. But at least TurboTax will make sure you cover all of the options.
So based on all manner of feedback from the previous versions of TurboTax Intuit has made some additions to this version.
On every screen as you move through TurboTax is the capability to put a flag on that page effectively bookmarking that screen so that you can return at any time. This feature is particularly helpful if you've started to enter in say Income for something but realize you don't have all of the data right there in front of you. So you can very easily go back there later to update the data by clicking through on your flag.
TurboTax has always done a full Error Check of your data at the completion of your return but now they've added error checks whenever you enter data hopefully catching any mistakes before you move on to another section and forget what you might have been working on. It's much easier to deal with the problem when you it's fresh rather than have to flip back at the end.
Honestly there isn't much to quibble with but I HATE that little running tally in the upper right corner that shows you the amount of your tax refund or how much you owe. I'd rather have it give me the damage at the end otherwise you are sweating stuff back and forth. At one point it showed me owing over $5000 and I had beads of sweat forming on my brow thinking I had miscalculated my tax withholding but I forgot I had not added my mortgage interest and all of my charitable donations so all was right with the world at completion. I could have done without the blood pressure spike though. So perhaps an option to turn off the ticker if you desire?
I love first and foremost that I can keep rolling my data over year to year helping me avoid duplicate entry plus it's smart enough to ask me about events that occured last year that might still be applicable. It took me no more than about 90 minutes to work through everything because I had all my data gathered. And I read everything in detail, if you've got a simple return it may be even quicker. Filing is super easy online and you'll get your refund quickly if you've got one coming. It's one piece of software that I wholeheartedly recommend without so much as a caveat. Get cracking April 15th isn't that far off.
1. I couldn't figure out how to carry over the $500 refund to next year. Not that big a deal as "free" eFile was included with the package and the money will end up in my checking account where I can move it to my money market for next year.
2. It didn't cover how to deal with a Simple IRA. I finally remembered how I learned to deal with it from last year, (subtract it from your business income before entering it into the program), but it's still annoying that it's not covered in the TT software. As I recall, the packaged product doesn't cover it either.
1. You don't have to deal with installing software on your system.
2. With the American Express discount, the price for the Home & Business Online was only $56.20 plus tax.
3. As I mentioned, eFile is included. Of course, if you owe money, it's not as attractive since you have to send in a check, it might as well include a few sheets of paper.
4. They keep your data on file. Of course, you have to trust them that it is encrypted and secure. You can save all the forms and supporting tables as a large pdf file just like the packaged software.
5. You can always revisit the site and do what-if calcs without having to reinstall the software on your system and restoring the backup.
Signing up and filling out a return is completely free, (you just need to pay to print out the claim or file it), so if you have time, you should run your return through it and compare it to the results you achieved from the packaged product.
Great tips Robert, and I definitely can date these in the future, if you look at the URL of the post you can see when I posted it there but I can expose the date as well.


"This is one good Griff. She has learned the property lines and stays within them. But I keep her under control so she won't get distracted. LOVES the river. Has no fear or much notice of gun fire other than something fun is happening."
"Grandview Gunner IV scored a perfect score of 112 points for a Prize 1 with the Lone Star NAVHDA Chapter today! Very proud of Gunner and his handler/owner Charlie Camarotte!"
"Lulu went for her first gunshot test today! She did great. Wasn't scared at all. We ADORE her! She has the sweetest temperament and is already a good listener and fast learner. She is finally staying in her kennel at night next to my bed. We just love her to pieces! "
"He is just the best! Couldn't ask for a better member for our family. He is a wonderful pup so smart and full of life. He is a quick learner and amazing in the field. Also a great lap dog (so he thinks) We couldn't be happier."
Purchased from a Colorado based owner.
He earned a Prize II at his NAVHDA Natural Ability Test earning 108 points out of possible 112.
"Skyler is a wonderful, well rounded dog. He is the perfect balance between laid back and easy going, yet energetic and driven when appropriate. He is maturing into an awesome versatile hunting dog, for both upland birds and waterfowl. He is easy to train, smart and willing to please. He has already earned his first leg towards his AKC Rally title. His strong work ethic, long legs, and athletic nature make him the perfect skijor dog. We are looking forward to racing this winter. I couldn't be happy with my multi-talented pup.
Purchase from Seattle based owners.
Avery. "She is about 60lbs. Short haired like her dad. We had some trouble in the beginning with potty training, but she was fully potty trained by 4 months. She picks up tricks really fast! She can sit, shake, down, roll over, stay and play dead. Walking on a leash is still tricky because she is such a hunter. She is either nose on the ground sniffing or is in search of birds. She has a pretty high energy level. We walk about 3 miles a day to try and help. She plays SO well with other dogs. Very social and laid back. We get TONS OF COMPLIMENTS on her. She is a rare breed here in Seattle, but people stop us daily."
Purchase from New Mexico based owners.
Just wanted to let you know how Orvis is doing out here from Las Cruces, New Mexico. He is from the litter born on December 12th. He is doing great. Very high energy. He was potty trained in a matter of weeks. He knows lots of different commands and is usually obedient unless he is distracted (which is often!). He loves to chew on anything and everything. We've taken him hiking and fishing and camping and he loves it all. He actually loves people above all else. There is no such thing as someone that he doesn't like. He does great off leash and never allows himself to get farther than about 20 yards from us. At 4 months, he weighed 40 pounds, so we are expecting him to become a big boy like his Dad was. He sheds very little and has remained very healthy. We are so thankful for him! Thanks again. I have attached some recent pics. Enjoy!
Purchase from a Nebraska based owner.
Ruby is such a fun loving family dog and has a huge heart. She was pointing at 10 weeks, loves the water and is a great travelling partner. I couldn't be happier. I think she is doing great!
Purchase from Colorado based owners.
Her name is Buckley Rue. She is perfect besides her wanting to eat every sock and plant I have. She is extremely smart learned a couple tricks in one day. She is big cuddling buddy. She gets jealous easily. She loves sitting on the couch to watch tv. Which is what she is doing right now. Watching scooby doo.
Molly. "Smarty pants for sure"


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Q: Python convert a string to a logic operator For example, if I have an expression like
x=True or True
if I evaluate in the shell the result is True
print(x)
x=True

So now I want to convert a string or an input to direct to that logic expression like
x=raw_input('Please give an expression:')
I know that the expression is a string so how to convert that string to a logic expression?
print(x)
x="True or True"

A: You can use eval() function:
print eval(x)

Note that you must be cautious while using it.
Edit:
As @PriyankPatel mentioned, another way would be using exec:
exec("print " + x)

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The aim of the Supervisory Body is to monitor the functioning and effectiveness of the Organisation, Management and Control Model and of the Code of Ethics adopted by the Company, as well as to update them.
Openjobmetis has decided to adopt an Organisation, Management and Control Model in order to develop and implement a governance system that adheres to high ethical standards and is able to constantly spread a control culture and greater awareness towards responsible and informed behaviour. The model was approved by the Board of Directors on 28 May 2012 and was subsequently updated. Its aim is to prevent the risk of committing the offences set forth in Italian Legislative Decree no. 231/2001 and is addressed – in addition to the Supervisory Body – to individuals holding relationships with Openjobmetis S.p.A.
Openjobmetis S.p.A. confirmed the Supervisory Body pursuant to Article 6 of Italian Legislative Decree no. 231/01 by Board resolution of 24/04/2018.


The NXT Conversion Kit converts an existing DM / MP / E / DD weight controller style to a fully electronically weight controlled filler. Uses the existing load cell assembly and filling components. The NXT Conversion Kit is easily adjusted for bag weight changes, calibration, and printer capabilities. Bulk/Dribble and weight feed back provides means for added accuracy, and the fully electronic valves typically improve weight accuracy from the existing pneumatic valves.
Basic Packer designs that have existing weight controller styles: ''DM'', ''MP'', ''E'', or ''DD''.
The NXT weight controller includes an upgrade to fully electronic solenoid operated air valves. The troubleshooting method is similar to that of PLC based systems and familiar to maintenance personnel. The weight controller also provides a user friendly interface that has many features. Bulk and dribble product flow greatly enhances the accuracy of the filled bags.


..... my little son, Elliott! I just have to share this with you -- a little find from a handmade market I attended last weekend. Hand crocheted and just $5. I mean. Photographed today while sonny-boy sat on the bench out the back of our place, soaking up the lukewarm rays and inhaling a milk arrowroot like it was his last meal. Like he eats EVERY meal, come to think of it! Bless.
Have a lovely weekend, my poppits!
thats one cute (starving) spunkrat!
xo hope its sunny this weekend!
He definitely gets my vote! So very sweet!
I need a hat like that...for meeeeee!
Seriously gorgeous ... what a delicious boy he is!!


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Bowl me over
By Kristofer Marsh
Sorry Los Osos, if you want to flush excrement down the new sewer system, you're going to have to get new toilets.
At the Oct. 23 San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors meeting, the board unanimously approved the Water Conservation Implementation Plan, which requires residents who live in the Los Osos wastewater service area to buy low-flow, high-efficiency toilets, showerheads, and faucet aerators if existing fixtures don't meet a minimum water usage requirement.
"The installation of water-conserving fixtures is a condition of connection to the sewer project. Properties cannot connect to the sewer until the retrofits are verified," John Waddell, project manager for the Los Osos Wastewater Project, said in an e-mail to New Times.
The California Coastal Commission mandated that a water conservation program be set up as a condition of the Coastal Development Permit they approved for the Los Osos Wastewater Project.
According to the plan, water conservation will aid in resolving water shortage issues in Los Osos by reducing demand on the groundwater basin, easing seawater intrusion, and meeting permit conditions to lower residential indoor water usage to 50 gallons per capita per day.
Several Los Osos residents at the meeting expressed concern about the costs and inconvenience of retrofitting their homes under the project.
"The rebates for residential retrofits are inadequate," resident Gwen Taylor said. "The sum of $250 for a toilet alone will only cover the cost of a basic toilet and not cover any addition costs for installation."
Rebates have been offered to help lower the costs of the purchase and installation of low-flow fixtures, but only toilets with a Water Sense label are eligible. For a full list, visit epa.gov/watersense/products/toilets.html.
"The rebates include an incentive to cover the cost of both the fixtures and installation for those who retrofit before 2014. After the first year, the rebates are for the cost of the fixtures only," Waddell wrote.
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Biography: Born in Hungary and currently located in Greece. Art has always been an integral part of my life. I am really passionate about photography especially Fine Art in multiple categories such as Landscape, Architecture, Nightscape, Abstract, Digital Art and whichever helps me capture the Light and express my emotions. My work has been awarded several times in some of the most important photography contests and it has also been published in various international magazines.


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Belogradchik Glacier (, ) is a 14 km long and 5.6 km wide glacier in the southern Aristotle Mountains on Oscar II Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica, situated south of Jeroboam Glacier and west of Ambergris Glacier.  It drains from the southeast slopes of Madrid Dome and flows southeastwards to join Flask Glacier east of Mount Fedallah.

The feature is named after the town of Belogradchik in northwestern Bulgaria.

Location

Belogradchik Glacier is located at . It was mapped by the British in 1976.

See also
 List of glaciers in the Antarctic
 Glaciology

Maps
 Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

Notes

References
 Belogradchik Glacier SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
 Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer Antarctic Place-names Commission (Bulgarian)
 Basic data (English)

External links
 Belogradchik Glacier. Copernix satellite image

Glaciers of Oscar II Coast
Bulgaria and the Antarctic


Yesterday, Wendy and Katherine totally rearranged the shop and added more inventory! Enjoy the pictures below, and stop by the shop to see it all in person! We have great items for your home as well as beautiful things to give to others!
One of our sweet clients recently asked us to update her Mountain home. We were, of course, thrilled to help update and brighten her lovely home! By changing a few things in a couple of rooms, the house took on a new energy. We are so pleased with how it all worked turned out. It is a truly wonderful home in an enchanting location!
Most of the time, a room does not need a total redo. We love working with what you already own. Its amazing how the littlest tweaks can make a room come alive again!
One obstacle that we all face is the TV. How to hide those pesky wires? How to place the TV in such a way that it does not dominate the room? We want a lovely room with a TV not just a TV room. Below are some before and after pictures of how we handled this situation. Take a look!
Check out these fun fabrics. We are brainstorming for a FUN new client!
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The city wants to make the iPad the new clipboard for inspectors and other members of the city's "fieldforce"—workers who spend much of their time out of the office enforcing building and restaurant codes, managing infrastructure projects and conducting other "fieldwork," says Carole Post, commissioner of the Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications.
The city plans to negotiate a purchase plan with Apple.
"We want to be an early adopter," says Ms. Post.
Both Mayor Michael Bloomberg and new Deputy Mayor for Operations Stephen Goldsmith carried their iPads to a press conference last week on making government more efficient. ?


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Q: Windows Service - ODBC - Integrated Windows Authentication I have a legacy Windows Service that basically prints Crystal Reports.
The service runs under a specific administrator account, if i run it under a different administrator level account it actually prints nothing! (that is an administrator account that is not logged into the machine), but doesn't error as it can still connect to the database.
Crystal Reports uses an ODBC System DSN (SQL Native Client 10.0 with no SPN specified) with Integrated Windows Authentication to log into SQL Server.
The question is if the machine restarts and the Windows Service is set to start on system start will the ODBC login still work?
P.S. The service is hosted on a Windows 7 machine that is part of the all encompassing domain.
Google in this case is not my friend, and documentation on Integrated Windows Authentication is very scarce and very unhelpful.


Everyone says your recipe is the best ever and you should market it. But you have no idea how to start a food business. I will tell you what it really takes to start an artisan food business.
Artisan brewed bottled tea. MaryAnna's Tea is freshly brewed in small batches using only real food ingredients.
Amid the budget cuts of the great recession in 2008, I was suddenly laid off. Just like that. During the void, I came upon the idea of making bottled tea. Not like commercial bottled tea but real tea.
What do I mean by "real tea"?
Discovering Specialty Tea expanded my love of tea. I had no idea what I was missing until I tried tea in the form of high-grade loose leaf tea. It's a whole new world of tea!
Related: What Is Specialty Tea?
With this discovery, I started my tea business – a personal venture of sorts where I challenged myself to make the best bottled tea on the market.
The tea championships are judged by professional tea masters and chefs. Upon entering, I was up against many well known national bottled tea brands (you know who they are) and my bottled tea placed ahead of them!
I grabbed a bottled tea while in a convenience store one day and thought it was going to be delicious. The minute I tasted it, I was disappointed. The chemical aftertaste was horrible and it tasted nothing like real brewed tea.
Obviously, my niche was tea. Beyond that, I focused on bottled tea, also known as ready-to-drink tea (RTD). Although 80 percent of Americans drink tea, the majority of that is iced tea and even more is in the form of bottled tea. I also knew the majority of bottled teas on the market were not real brewed tea.
Most commercially produced bottled teas are made by taking shortcuts to match the flavor of real tea. This usually includes artificial ingredients that have scientific names no one can pronounce. There is nothing healthy about this process.
I knew I could make better tea. I also knew people wanted a better product, a real brewed tea without artificial ingredients. Why wasn't anyone doing this?
I soon found out why. It costs more to make a product with real food than fake food. But I decided to start a food business because I know our bodies thrive with real food and real beverage products.
I'm a registered nurse by profession. I had plenty of nutritional knowledge but no idea how to start a food business. In hindsight, maybe that was a good thing. Knowing now how competitive the beverage world is, I may have never started.
The first thing I did was find out if my exact recipe could be bottled and shelf-stable without the use of artificial flavorings or preservatives. Cornell University has a Food Entrepreneurship program. I sent them samples of my recipe in glass jars along with the exact gram measurements of all my ingredients.
Cornell tested my bottled tea and returned a formulation or scheduled process of how my recipe needed to be produced in a commercial setting. This included everything required to make it a safe and shelf stable product, including the type of packaging, temperature controls, and pH parameters.
I took courses on Food Entrepreneurship at the Rutgers Food Innovation Center in Bridgeton. They are very knowledgable and I recommend them to anyone who wants to start a food business.
After that, I needed a place to test run my product. At the time, the facility in Bridgeton was still in the building phase, so they referred me to the Center for Advanced Food Technology in Piscataway for production.
It was important to preserve the natural tea flavor, nutrients, and antioxidants inherent in freshly brewed tea. The more food or beverages are processed the more nutrients are lost. My goal was to create a 100 percent natural, non-GMO bottled tea.
I spent the next six months working on research and development, making a shelf-stable product, and sourcing premium commercial ingredients. Producing in glass bottles preserves food better and longer without the unwanted side effects of chemicals leaching into the product. Glass is 100 percent inert and endlessly recyclable.
In June 2008, the Center for Advanced Food Technology produced my first run of 1,000 bottles of tea. I quickly sold out to several local specialty stores at the Jersey Shore.
I had officially started a food business. Now I needed a co-packer.
Most food products in this country are produced by co-packers or contract packagers. Finding a small scale beverage co-packer is not easy, especially in the beverage business. You can also produce on a smaller scale in a commercial kitchen.
The Center for Advanced Food Technology helped me find a reputable co-packer to produce my bottled tea. They had already audited the facility so I knew it was compliant with good manufacturing processes.
Before you start a food business, you need to know that each food product requires different FDA regulations. It's very important to create a product with the proper labeling and packaging as well as safe production guidelines.
The FDA is very specific about labeling. Most stores want your labels to be FDA compliant and will not carry your product if it is not. Nutrition labels are not a must when starting out but consumers look for them.
The Center for Advanced Food Technology made sure all my packaging and labels were 100 percent compliant with FDA labeling and nutrition regulations.
It's also important to have a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) in place as a way to protect your recipe since you cannot copyright or patent a recipe. Only manufacturing processes or literary expressions of a recipe like a cookbook can be protected.
Many people are exposed to your recipe during the manufacturing process so to make sure no one else replicates your recipe, a simple NDA reduces the risk of anyone sharing your information.
This is probably the most difficult part of the entire process when it comes to starting a food business. How are you going to sell your product?
In my case, I went to the owners or buyers of each store that I thought were a good fit and sampled my products. If they liked my bottled tea and didn't have a competing beverage contract (I'm looking at you Coke and Pepsi) they ordered.
The big food and beverage companies will always out price you and over distribute. You can't compete against them so don't even try. Instead, focus on providing a better product for the consumer and better service for the retailer.
Distribution is huge. I began small in my local home town. I did a lot of tastings in stores, farmers markets, and local fairs. This helped spread the word. Now I have a very loyal local following throughout my home state. I self distribute so my products remain local.
Of course, you also want to get as much media exposure as possible. Social media is an excellent way to do this. So are local media outlets, bloggers and magazines. Once the word gets out about your product, media outlets may start coming to you for stories.
I've received a lot of press this way. New Jersey Monthly did a nice write up a few years ago called Shelf Life about food entrepreneurs in the state, which included MaryAnna's Tea.
I continue to produce my artisan teas in small batches by microbrewing from specialty tea leaves with a co-packer.
Just as I am passionate about tea many food artisans are passionate about their products too. Our western world can be too complicated at times. Especially in our beverage world, as it continues to become saturated with overly complex and artificially created beverages.
I know consumers crave simple and delicious real food products. I hear this all the time. Simplicity does not mean the loss of quality, just the opposite.
Here is a list of some of the many websites, books, and facilities available to help you on your way to start a food business. Of course, there's a lot more to it than what I've talked about here but this will help get your artisan food dreams started.
There's no sleeping on trying to build a brand. You wonder if people are going to like it as much as you and your friends and family do.
I found out how completely saturated the beverage market is. But I also found out people will always be drawn to real food and high-quality products.
Keep in mind, the margins are very small with processed food, as opposed to, say, perfume. Food production and distribution are very expensive.
You really have to make sure you have your cost-of-goods under control and your final cost to consumers reasonable enough for them to buy but high enough for you to make a profit.
With the making of my tea business, I've learned a great deal about commercial food, the beverage business, and specialty tea. I started this blog, Life Is Better With Tea to share what I've learned about tea. Throughout this journey, I've continued to explore the related issues of nutrition and health.
Thank you to all who have supported me on this tea journey and helped make my bottled tea successful.


Slayer's last-ever tour will run until the end of 2019, the band have confirmed.
The thrash metal titans previously confirmed they would be quitting live shows after one last run of dates, but have only announced one additional concert so far. They will headline France's Hellfest Open Air on June 23, 2019.
In a new press release, the group have said the response in North America has persuaded them to extend the tour. "We always knew this tour would take us into 2019," guitarist Kerry King said. "We've been blown away by the response we've been getting here in North America.
Slayer's last-ever tour will arrive in the UK and Ireland in November when they play Dublin's 3Arena, before hitting six other cities. Remaining tickets for the dates are available here.
Meanwhile, a Slayer fan attempted to swim back into the band's recent show in Toronto after he was kicked out.
Chris LaRocque was removed by security at the Budweiser stage during the opening act and was caught on camera by Anthrax's Scott Ian trying to make his way back into the venue via water.


This entry was posted in Metaphysics, Prayer, Prosperity, Psychology, Religion, Science, Spirituality, Success and tagged belief, coincidence, consciousness, David J. Hand, Faith, God, improbability, Love, manifesting, mathematics, metaphysics, miracle, opportunity, probability, prosperity, Spirituality, success, The Fool, understanding.
Hi Rand, I saw a movie a while back dealing with this exact idea. Mathematics being able to tell was was going to happen in a particular minute. Interesting, but not ultimately that interesting. LOL But mathematics are pretty amazing and maybe everything. I recently read Oliver Sack's book, Uncle Tungsten. It is heavy on the Science, elements, math, electricity, radiation, photography and the miracles of science and the history of science, in detail. A LOT of math!! Including Quantum theory and all sort of things that seem inexplicable, but actually are not when you go deeply enough into something. I suddenly have an image of myself and everything as a paint by numbers painting. LOL. That is an interesting thought relevant to the subject matter, maybe a bit ridiculous, but entertaining to me at the moment.
Anyway sorry if that is all irrelevant and not too deeply thought out.
I have been wanting to write to you lately to thank you again for the system you have channeled and taught to me in a certain amount of depth. I have had occasion to resurrect it again (although I never abandoned it) and it is so helpful in taking a step further out and looking at my life and the systems I have learned and how the Tarot system from you contains the others and gives me deep understanding of my purpose and how I have been succeeding at learning the lessons that are there for me in my life as the World Card. Not finished, of course, but I can see that has been my purpose and the meaning of my life and that is why I had done the things I have done and am interested in what I am interested. The system is so vast that it contains the other systems…Did I say that already? And it has come to me that I, the World of Support whose lesson it is to find the appropriate support for myself have been doing that all along and that the Tarot System and, in fact all of the other systems I am interested in are the main sources of support for me in the realms that are the most interesting to me. They are all helping me understand how to be a human being and what human beings might be and how to be one myself, which involves being fluid enough to change according to whom I am with while my underlying identity is with myself as all that is, while I am choosing to play with the identity of the moment. And to relax in all of that.
And that it really does not matter what I do in my life, I am following my purpose and there is always meaning in that. It does not matter what I accomplish in the actual physical world, I am a success in my own world, having my identity in the world of "all that is" while I play with identities here in the physical.
Does that make sense? I had this breakthrough after my problematic friend, John and I came to an impasse and "broke up". At which time he took the opportunity to tell me all the ways that I was a horrible person. (as if he had not already told me that many times. LOL) Things had been going pretty well with us for a while as he was listening to and enjoying and allowing me to talk about the human design system and the way we were depicted in that system and the ways in which we were different. And it is true that I was a horrible person with him. I could not be very authentic because he had ideas of who I (and everyone else) should be (which was like he was). Whereas I felt that it was my pathway to open more and more to enjoying others as they are and letting them be perfect. I remembered that he was perhaps a "Lover Card" and wanted to check that out. And it explained things in a different way, an "Uber" Way sort of. I read about his card and it was compared with my card specifically showing that it made perfect sense that we should have difficulty with one another even though we were both playing around in those realms of all that is. I won't go into all that.
But my point is, it helped me to make a huge shift in bringing together all the support I have in identifying myself. The fact that I am a Spirit essence (or whatever you are calling it nowadays..Mental?) and more interested in the spiritual truth than the magnetic realm or physical. That remembrance helped me accept myself so much because I could see how true that is. (Once again, of course, that was obvious to me immediately) And that my greatest support in establishing my identity is in that "all that is". Which does not mean that I cannot enjoy the physical or the emotional. But they are definitely not as important to me well, maybe I could say, How they reflect the spiritual truths. Or in passing as a wonderful example of manifestation and the various ways in which we manifest as human being. So amazing.
This is all a part of getting used to living without Toby and his wonderful way of supporting and identifying me. A part of getting to the core of what is necessary to identify myself. Duh, recognize a world card in that? LOL But it feels like a biggie to me, Rand. And I am feeling great gratitude and love for you.
Maybe that is enough. I don't know if I have captured it adequately. But I think I will quit trying and just say thank you, thank you, thank you.
Would you like to have the mp3's of Jose and Lena's Power Path Trends for 2016? They are pretty interesting I think.
Thank you for continuing to write and to share with us. I am sorry that our lives have not connected much, but I feel always connected to you in love and appreciation.
Thank you so much for your comments, Kathleen. It sounds to me as though you are right on target, and I honor your your commitment to your growth in love.
As one of the seven Knower essences (my new name for what I used to call the Spiritual Aspect Essences), the World Essence mirrors that aspect of Divine Love that surrounds and fills, but is not limited to, physical reality; that aspect of Divine Love (the "Big Self") that participates in, but does not identify exclusively with, any one incarnation, balancing Its choice of which important experiences a given life should contain with the needs of all the selves along the string of worlds. So your going-with-the-flow strategy feels exactly right. You are your purpose, not what you do.


A single red rose can be purchased for under $5.
Valentine's Day, celebrated worldwide on February 14, is a holiday when people express their love for one another by giving each other gifts, cards, flowers or candy. What should you do if you've fallen on hard times? There are great ways you can show that special someone how much you care, without spending very much money--if any at all.
Many greeting cards can be purchased for less than $5. If you don't have any money, make your own greeting card on your computer. Open any paint program and set the image to 8 inches by 10 inches. Design your card and print it. There are some greeting card programs that are installed on many new computers. You can also send a free greeting card online. There are various websites out there that offer online greeting cards. If you can't buy your loved one anything, a greeting card will at least let them know that you thought of him.
Sometimes it can be hard to think of a poem. Poetry.com offers various services, free of charge, to help you write a poem. They also have a "rhymer," a program that lets you enter a word and find words that rhyme. Give the person the poem, slide it into a card, send it to his email, leave it in his car or on his pillow on Valentine's Day morning just after he's gotten up.
Some candy can be purchased for less than $5. Give heart-shaped candies or a small box of chocolates. Or, cook something. Make them breakfast in the morning or dinner that night. A single rose, which can be purchased for less than $5, along with a meal cooked by you, will satisfy your valentine.
Find nightgowns, perfume, a bouquet of flowers, a bath and beauty set or a stuffed animal for under $20 at many department stores. Most women are happier about the gift, rather than what it cost. By adding a single rose, a letter from the heart, or a card, you can make it a special Valentine's Day for under $25. If you do not have any money to spare, a letter or a poem will suffice.
Some cheap gift ideas for men include wallets, hats, pajama sets, cologne, hobby magazines, fishing gear, sporting goods or a new basketball or helmet. Include a nice card and you can spend less than $25. Try cooking breakfast and giving him a sweet letter if funds are in short supply.


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Де́від Ві́льям До́нальд Камерон (;  9 жовтня 1966) — 75-й прем'єр-міністр Великої Британії (з 11 травня 2010 до 13 липня 2016), лідер Консервативної партії Великої Британії у 2005—2016 роках, член Парламенту по виборчому округу Вітні. 2010 року очолив коаліційний уряд з ліберальними демократами, ставши наймолодшим прем'єр-міністром країни за останні 198 років.

Біографія
Девід Камерон народився в родині біржового маклера Іана Дональда Камерона і Мері Флер Маунт, дочки сера Вільяма Маунта, 2-го баронета. Камерон має шотландські корені, один з його предків був спорідненим з королем Вільгельмом IV Ганноверським. Навчався в Ітонському коледжі. У цей час на рік перервав своє навчання і прожив певний час у Гонконзі, перебував у Радянському Союзі, де за його зізнанням КДБ намагався завербувати його.

Навчання продовжив у Брейсноуз коледжі Оксфордського університету, який закінчив зі ступенем бакалавра в галузі політології, філософії та економіки. У студентські роки вживав алкоголь і легкі наркотики, такі як марихуана. Освіту закінчив з відзнакою у 1988 році, потім працював протягом чотирьох років у науково-дослідному відділі Консервативної партії. Після виборів 1992 року став спеціальним радником уряду, спочатку у відділі Казначейства, а потім у Міністерстві внутрішніх справ. У 1994–2001 роках був директором корпоративних зв'язків медійної Carlton Communications.

Політичне життя
Перша спроба потрапити в Палату громад парламенту Камерон зробив ще у 1997 році, але не набрав необхідної кількості голосів. У 2001 році, нарешті переміг і потрапив до парламенту, вигравши вибори у виборчому окрузі Вітні. Відразу ж після виборів став членом парламентського комітету з внутрішніх справ. У 2003 році був призначений заступником голови Консервативної партії. Рік потому, став основним доповідачем консерваторів з питань місцевого самоврядування. Пізніше був призначений міністром освіти тіньового кабінету опозиції.

Після поразки консерваторів на наступних виборах у травні 2005 року Камерон заявив про намір балотуватися на посаду голови Консервативної партії. У першому турі виборів голови партії, який відбувся 18 жовтня, Камерон, несподівано для багатьох отримав друге місце і 56 голосів проти Девіда Дейвіса, який мав 62 голоси. Однак вже у другому турі 20 жовтня Камерон отримав 78 % голосів і став головою Консервативної партії. Офіційним лідером парламентської опозиції був призначений 6 грудня 2005 року.

Після виборів, Камерон запровадив деякі зміни у політику Консервативної партії — почав робити більший акцент на «соціальну відповідальність», активну співпрацю приватних осіб, компаній та місцевої влади. Також виступав за обмеження фінансування політичних партій із приватних джерел.

На посаді Прем'єр-міністра

Під час парламентських виборів 2010 року консерватори під головуванням Камерона отримали велику кількість місць у парламенті — 306, однак для формування більшості не вистачило 20 голосів і вони були вимушені увійти у коаліцію з Ліберальними демократами і сформувати уряд, в якому Девід Камерон став прем'єр міністром.

Велика Британія та Євросоюз

25 жовтня 2014 року Камерон відмовився збільшувати британський внесок у бюджет Євросоюзу, який просив додатково виділити 2,1 мільярда євро. На думку Камерона, ЄС повинен дати владі Англії більше прав в галузі контролю над власним кордоном, в тому числі обмежити міграційний потік з інших країн, що належать до складу ЄС. На 2017 рік у Великій Британії планується референдум, на який буде внесено питання членства країни у Євросоюзі. Він називає це одним з головних пунктів програми своєї партії консерваторів. Водночас Камерон заявив, що Велика Британія готова залишитись в ЄС при умові реформування даного союзу .

У лютому 2016 року Девід Камерон під час 40 годинних переговорів із ЄС домовився про особливий статус Великої Британії в Євросоюзі і про те, що його країна зможе не виплачувати повністю виплати мігрантам з інших країн ЄС протягом наступних семи років.

Але вже у червні 2016 року пройшов референдум про вихід Британії із ЄС, 51,9 % учасників якого проголосували за вихід.

Українська криза
5 червня 2014 року Д. Камерон під час зустрічі відмовився потиснути руку В.Путіну. Водночас, за словами прес-секретаря останнього, після завершення зустрічі політики таки потиснули один одному руки.

На думку Камерона, найкращим варіантом підтримки України з боку Євросоюзу буде запровадження нових санкцій проти Росії. Він не вважає, що озброїти українські урядові війська було б правильним підходом.

«Найкраще, що ми можемо зробити для допомоги України — це вибудувати коаліцію у Європі та Америці для жорстких санкцій, щоб продемонструвати Росії, що відносини з рештою світу докорінно міняються».

17 жовтня після міланського саміту Д.Камерон заявив, що, якщо Росія не виведе з України свої війська, Євросоюз буде готовий зберегти санкції та продовжувати тиск на Росію.

24 лютого 2015 року Камерон анонсував відправку в Україну англійських військових інструкторів.

Напад
28 жовтня 2014 року у британському місті Лідс біля міської ратуші на Камерона напав місцевий житель, коли прем'єр виступав зі звітом про запуск нового залізничного сполучення між Лідсом і Манчестером. Порушник пробився до прем'єра з протилежного боку дороги, проскочивши одного з охоронців. Винуватець був схоплений охороною, але через деякий час був відпущений.

Наслідки референдуму
24 червня 2016 року Прем'єр-міністр Великої Британії Девід Кемерон повідомив, що піде у відставку після референдуму про вихід Великої Британії з ЄС.
13 липня королева Єлизавета II прийняла відставку Девіда Камерона.

Цікаві факти
На початку січня 2015 року Девід Камерон розповів, що президент США Барак Обама іноді називає його «братан».

Примітки

Джерела

 Офіційний Сайт Девіда Камерона
 У Великій Британії при владі новий уряд // BBC

Посилання
 Carloc Fresneda. David Cameron, el hombre que partió Europa // El Mundo, 25/06/2016 — укр. переклад: Карлос Фреснеда. Девід Кемерон: людина, яка розколола Європу .

Випускники Оксфордського університету
Члени парламенту Великої Британії
Члени Консервативної партії Великої Британії
Випускники Ітона
Члени Таємної ради Великої Британії
Шотландці Англії


424 Pages | 15 halftones, 96 line illus.
Language, education, science, and song come together in surprising ways in Katherine Bergeron's new history of music in the Belle Epoque. Voice Lessons examines the modern musical art known as la mélodie française and its rise to prominence in the years around 1900-a period when France was pouring resources into national literacy and French scholars were beginning to grasp the nuances of the spoken tongue. Bergeron explores the relationship between the free, secular, and compulsory school system of the Third Republic, and the experimental sciences of language that grew alongside it, to observe the ways in which both science and school redefined the verbal arts in France at century's end.
The music of Fauré, Debussy, and Ravel; the writings of Mallarmé, Rimbaud, and Verlaine; the performances of Maggie Teyte, Reynaldo Hahn, and Sarah Bernhardt; the linguistic studies of Paul Passy and Abbé Rousselot: all these sources offer evidence of the new ideas of expression that proliferated during one of the most idealistic moments in French musical history, when poets, composers, actors, singers, and scientists all learned to imagine-and to speak-their language in new ways. Through close readings of songs, poems, sound recordings, and other historical records, Voice Lessons narrates the development of a rare musical art, seeking to explain why this art emerged, why it mattered, and why it eventually disappeared.


Here are my notes on the different options where I can get my money to work harder for me.
These have become the most heavily traded issue on exchanges.
The S&P500 is the market benchmark for mutual fund performance.
The fair value of the S&P futures is the toal price of all stocks in the index, plus the interest saved, less dividends forgone.
The Lehman Brothers Aggregate Bond Market Index, is a mix of U.S. Treasury, corporate, and mortgage-backed issues.
The past 10 bear markets have occurred every 2.4 years in the short corrections of 1987 and 1990.
RYVNX - Rydex Funds (listed above) was the first short fund, requiring a $25,000 minimum. Trades among funds are free, but they can occur only once a day (vs. instantly with ETF funds).
ProFunds requires a lower $10,000 minimum.
The stock of the exchanges themselves, such as the CME (Chicago Merchantile Exchange) have done very well in 2005-6.
TradingMarkets.com has a course on "Making a Living in a Bear Market"
The Arbitrage Fund - ARBFX - makes a living from arbitrage of mergers and acquisitions. This was good during a sideways market 2004 when being in an ETF performed worst than the indexes they tracked.
ATT, Kodak & International Paper were removed in April 2004.
NASDAQ (an acronym for National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation) was created in 1971 as the world's first electronic stock market offering computerized trading on the most active over-the-counter (OTC) stocks.
About 5,000 stocks listed on the Nasdaq National Market (NNM) are handled differently than the roughly 5,000 OTC securities. Level II screens show all posted bids and offers in real-time. Level I quotes as seen on Yahoo!Finance are delayed 15 minutes. NYSE quotes are delayed 20 minutes. Mutual funds are priced once at the end of each day. Stocks as a whole is generally bullish when the NASDAQ Composite outperforms the S&P500 (its ratio is above its 50 day simple moving average).
ARCA - Archipelago Holdings (IPO by E*Trade among 14 wall street firms) Has the lowest fees, but also the lowest liquidity.
MarketXT - direct-access firm Tradescape was the first ECN to participate in Nasdaq's SuperSOES trading system.
See their activity on Tradingday.com.
Pink Sheets provides a Electronic Quotation Service for OTC (Over The Counter) "penny" stocks.
The "CyBereXchange" system by CyberCorp in Austin electronically routes orders to whichever trading venue offers the best price.
International Exchanges also trade some NYSE-listed stocks.
The "See-bo" — CBOE (Chicago Board Options Exchange) trades individual equity, index, and interest rate options.
The CBOT (Chicago Board of Trade) trades in both agricultural commodities and financial contracts. Established in 1848, is the world's oldest derivatives exchange.
The CME (Chicago Merchantile Exchange) trades in livestock, currencies, and stock index futures using their GLOBEX� electronic trading platform.
The NYMEX (New York Merchantile Exchange) trades in energy, metals, and financial contracts.
The COMEX (Commodities Exchange) in New York trades futures in precious metals, copper, and aluminum.
In 2007, Europe eclipsed the US in stock market value for the first time since the first World War.
US stocks make up about a third of the Global 500 list of largest corporations in the world.
The GICS (Global Industry Classification System) from MSCI further divides these 10 sectors into 23 industry groups, 59 industries, and 123 subindustries. Select Sector SPDR. Funds correspond to specific Select Sector Indices.
Market Heat color codes sectors gaining/losing.
Specialty Healthcare funds had the best returns (13%) over the last 10 years.
BIPIX - Biotechnology UltraSector from Profunds 150% of the Dow Jones U.S. Biotechnology Index using equity caps, collars and floors, swaps, and options.
The Rydex Sector Rotation Fund RYVNX changes its investments in the hottest sectors of the previous month. This may not be profitable in a volatile market. For example, in early April 2004, REITs were hot, then tanked mid-month on fears of interest rate increases.
^SOX (Philadelphia Stock Exchange Semiconductor Sector index.
^BKX -- the Philadelphia Stock Exchange/Keefe, Bruyette & Woods) index.
REW.X The The Wilshire Real Estate Securities Index measure of the performance of publicly traded real estate securities, such as Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and Real Estate Operating Companies (REOCs). ???
The Creative Investor's Forum claims to be the largest Real Estate Investing website on the internet.
The price of existing bonds fall in value when interest rates rise for new issues.
FVX 5 Year Treasury Notes yield-to-maturity Index.
TNX 10 Year Treasury Notes yield-to-maturity Index.
IRX - the CBOE's Short Term Interest Rate Index based on the annualized discount rate on the most recently auctioned 13-week Treasury bill (the recognized benchmark of short-term interest rates).
To take advantage of US dollars falling in the future, buy bonds denominated in	other currencies.
Everbank World Markets charges 3/4% each way per currency translation. Their Currency CDs in Euro and Yen pay zero percent. But Rand pays 7%, Australian dollars 4.5% and British pound stering pays 3.25%.
The Commodity Research Bureau CRB index has 17 commodities.
10% Gold - Gold was fixed price at $20.67 an ounce until the 1934 Bretton Woods meeting when Roosevelt devalued the dollar by officially increasing the gold price to $35 an ounce. It peaked at $875 an ounce in February, 1980 when U.S. inflation reached 12%. Its price reached its nadir at $252 an ounce during the summer of 1999.
Silver - XSLV = World Silver Index?
Stock in junior exploration companies and major extraction companies. But beware that companies may hedge their positions and will miss out on sudden price moves.
NEM - Newmont Mining According to Ed Bugos, editor of the Goldenbar Report, Newmont Mining (NEM) tracks the real price of gold more closely than any of the other companies he follows. It has a very minimal hedge book of .3 years. Newmont has a total cash production cost of $205/oz and Bugos expects the company to continue to grow earnings about 10% a year for the next several years.
RandGold (RANGY) trades at .4x the price of gold given its cash flow. The company has a minimal hedge book of .1 years and a 5-year earnings growth rate of 37.8%. It produces gold for a very reasonable $97/oz. -- the deepest discount based upon a comparison of actual and implied prices of gold.
Barrick Gold Corp. has been the world's largest gold producer. In 2003 they mined 5.5 million ounces of gold at a total production cost of approximately $285 per ounce. They were the first major gold miner to hedge (and profit billions) in the late 1980's. But the reversal in price has resulted in unrealized loss of $1.2 billion.
XAU Philadelphia exchange Gold and Silver Index of 7 stocks include Phelps Dodge, which mines copper.
XGLD = World Gold Index?
Beware of auction scams using bogus "escrow" sites using non-repudiatable gold account sites.
Gold Money Digital Gold Currency is gold in a digital form that can be spent electronically like a currency. Kitco enable one to send and receive Gold Money orders with others by email in USD, Euros, British Pounds ("Sterling"), Canadian dollars (the "loonie"), or Gold Grams ("gg"). Each "gg" is USD $13.78 (at a spot rate of $428.56 divided by 31.1035 grams per full troy ounce) Their 1% transaction fee maximum of 100 mil (0.10gg, about $1.38 USD) is less than what PayPal charges.
However, each account is charged 100mils ($1.40 USD) per month for storage of holdings in a London vault. Purchases of gold from Exchange stations ("Cambios") into their vault are not charged shipping costs but just the 2.9% above the spot rate.
e-gold has more currencies and larger user base of merchants and market makers such as affliated OmniPay (Gold & Silver Reserve, Inc.) It charges 1% per annum account maintenance fee.
The table at right compares the costs of trading various uncirculated one oz. gold coins. Smaller coins have more expensive costs. Note that one ounce 24 caret Krugerrands (nickname "kruger" which began being minted and issued in 1967) incur the lowest transaction costs, the lowest premium (difference between spot price and coin buy price), and the lowest spreads (difference between buy and sell price). This is why some predict that the South African currency (the Rand) will rise against the US dollar.
Kitco is the largest, but they charge higher premiums plus a flat $30 for shipping that costs them $18.50.
Goldmasters.net charges ($17.50 + $1 per $1,000) for USPS Shipping. Their Premium (see "Prem." column) is lower than Kitco's "Fab" charges (to fabricate coins from gold in account).
Burton Blumert's Camino Coin, 47 years in Burlingame, Calif.
The biggest consumer of gold is India. China is expected to be a large market when citizens are allowed to own (speculate on) more gold. On January 1, 1975, Americans were again allowed to own gold.


Dug up some horseradish, washed, peeled and grated it, the smell drilled through my sinuses. Made a sauce that keeps in the fridge for almost ever and is pretty addictive in cheese sandwiches, mixing grated horseradish, powdered mustard, a little cider vinegar, crème fraîche (sour cream), with a little salt and pepper. Used some to mix with flecked smoked mackerel and more crème fraîche, to make a pretty delicious pâté.
And then inspired by a lovely recipe by Cheryl Sternman Rule, I concocted a most delicious spread substituting ready cooked beetroot for the original fresh spinach.
I started by reducing the cashews and the garlic into powder in the food processor, and then added the rest of the ingredients, it is necessary to stop and scrape the ingredients back from the sides where they will aim to escape. The resulting colour is pretty lovely and it tastes absolutely delicious (and quite sweet) with or without horseradish. When spinach is in season where you are, you may like to make a green spread and a pink spread the same day for the same meal and rejoice in the joy of natural food colours. Toast your bread ! Play with your food !
These past couple of weeks have been warmed with the nearness and kindness of friends and the smile of strangers, are my planets particularly aligned ? How easy it is sometimes to be alive (and grateful).
Next Is my heart set ?
Maison, if ever I should show at your door, do find time to slip away and return in time with said horseradish and beetroot pretty in pink.
In the meantime do try this at home, you and your people will absolutely love it I'm sure.
YUM! I have to hope some of my horseradish plantings appear this spring!
fingers crossed, and there's fire cider to make then too !
What a beautiful and highly original variation on this spread. I love to think my version inspired this (thank you!), but you really took it in a unique direction. This one's all yours!
Thank you (and for your lovely thoughtful blog) !
I love to think of how in the act of cooking, tweaking and reinventing recipes (and indeed eating) we are all connected through one collective consciousness, a truly nurturing process.


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Re: Nonhuman peoples Elves are a particularly difficult case. Personally, I love them. But lots of people hate them and when they give reasons for that, I entirely agree with them. Those characterizations they describe annoy me to hell and back as well, as they are just awful and should be called out. Elves are great if you don't turn them into melancholic, immortal tree-huggers who are superior and everything, and the writer describes them in a way that makes it very clear the reader should be totally loving them.
I certainly won't turn them into such carricatures, but I am under the impression that lots of people wouldn't even give the story a single glance if they know there are elves that play a big role. It they had green skin and a different name, those same people would probably be perfectly happy with them.
Same thing applies to gnomes, but they so rarely get the treatment of writer gushing that even the passionate gnome haters (who really just hate kenders, and for good reasons) won't be turned away by their presence.
Re: Nonhuman peoples I got another thought on the subject on using nonhumans, particularly elves, dwarves, and orcs.
Even though there is commonly strong opposition to "humans with pointy ears", I think the main reason we see them so often is because they have basically become public domain cultures. You can't just take a human culture someone invented and put them into your own work without being called out for just copying it, but you can do that with the generic nonhuman races. And that's why wood elves, high elves, dark elves, dwarves, and orcs always seem to be so very similar in every setting without major changes in their culture. What people really like about the races is their culture!
And when you look at fantasy settings, there are huge numbers of cultures that really are just straight Vikings, Mongols, Aztecs, and Japanese. Amazons also fall into this category, being both a human culture (though mostly fictional) and fictional race. The choice to have wood elves in your setting is the same choice as having vikings.
If faced with the question of having a human culture that lives in the forest and is good at archery, or making them elves, the real thing to ask yourself is whether you want to explain the entire culture to your audience from scratch, or if want to start with some common archetypes and only explain what your personal take on it changes. Making the nonhuman characters think and act nonhuman isn't really the point. Using a generic fantasy race is simply a shortcut.
And I think this explains to me why I want to have wood elves in my setting: I like this culture and think I could make a better version of it than I've seen from other writers. And understanding that should make it really easier for me to use elves much more effectively in my stories.
Re: Sword & Sorcery - Recommendations and Opinions I pretty much by accident discovered the Kormak series by William King. The story The Guardian of the Dawn and the book Stealer of Flesh are on his website. I've read the first two stories so far, and they are mostly quite good. He directly mentions Howard, Moorcock, Leiber, and Smith, so he is clearly seeing himself as writing specifically in the Sword & Sorcery genre. While based on the stories so far, the elements are clearly there, I am so far missing the passion and exciting action I am expecting to see. The action scenes have been few and very brief, and Kormak tends to be almost a bit whiny about how hard and depressing his lot as a fighter of evil is. This might be n influence from grimdark, though I think Elric wasn't immune to that either.
I'll still clearly be reading the other three stories from Stealer of Flesh, but I'll wait until I've finished those before I decide about getting more of the books or not. I do recommend taking a look at them, though. I think aside from my genre expectations, King is writing quite well.
Experiences with worldbuilding Worldbuilding is always an interesting subject. The most common advice given to writers seems to be "don't overdo it, it's wasted time and will be annoying if you put it all into your story when you have too much". Which of course is very much true and writers should look out not to prepare too much background information that will never get used or put too much of that information into a story that is not necessary for the plot.
However, this does not really help at all with the questions how you actually do prepare a good world for your stories. So let's talk about that.
My own background is primarily from roleplaying games, where I have prepared worlds for my players to play in for years. But since I started getting interested in writing literature, one of the first things I noticed is that worldbuilding for stories is much, much easier and requires way less work. One of the biggest mistakes that people regularly make when creating worlds for games, but probably is much less common among writers, is to make a world first with no real plan how they want to use it later. That's a very bad approach that regularly creates bland and completely interchangeable worlds. I highly recommend tailoring your world specifically to the needs of the specific stories you want to tell. And that means first to make descisions about genre, atmosphere, "visual style", and overarching themes. Do you want to make something more heroic or epic in style? Will it be early modern, medieval, ancient, or even prehistoric? Do you want to evoke a familiarity with Europe or Asia? Maybe Africa or America, or something that doesn't resemble any specific place on Earth at all (more on that later*). Do you want to stay local or visit many different places? Do you want the option to hop around all over the world with episodic stories, or follow a single route in a heroes journey?
All these things determine what parts of the world you will actually have to develop. They also can make a difference for how you will create certain things, which is why you need to make these descisions right at the beginning. If you later change your mind or leave the descision for a later time, some of the things you have created might end up useless and redundant. And one thing that is important to understand is that you can't simply change any element on a whim later one. Once an image of something has taken hold in your mind it persists, and you will try to keep them that way even when you realize their current form isn't really ideal for your needs. You set out to replace them and then still end up creating basically the same thing again. Another factor are interpedencencis. Worldbuildig that seems really solid and satisfying comes from all the elements of the world being connected and building on each other. When you work out these five kingdoms and create their shared history over the past 1000 years and then later decide you actually rather have six, there is a good chance that it will show. The new one just won't have the same connections, you can see the seams. Same thing when you remove certain element. If you decide at a later point you actually don't want to have any desert nomads and make the land they inhabited completely dead, all the fortresses on the desert edge seem rather pointless and why is there a big trade city on a road that is a dead end? Why are the locals influenced heavily by that culture on the other side of the uncrossable desert and where did they get those mercenaries who saved them against their neighboring enemy when the war had seemed already lost?
These examples are all things that can be fixed later. But it will probably never get as good as it would have been if everything had grown together side by side instead of one after the other. And it's additional work that could have been used on other things.
One thing that new worldbuilders for roleplaying games need constantly reminded of is that they only need to create details that will directly affect their audience in some way. Same thing with literature, except that the audience in that case are the point of view characters. If you want to write about politics and life at court, you need to do preparatory work on the structure of the government. This will almost certainly become vital for the story. You also need to create characters to fill many of the jobs at the court. If the story is about explorers of old ruins, all you might need is some clerk who hires them to find something for his boss. Who this boss actually is might be completely irrelevant for your plot, and he might never even get a name. If you want to write about some thieves in the slums who won't get involved with politics, the only parts of government that might be interesting are the magistrate, the judge, and the captain of the guard. Who rules the city or country and how government works could be left blank and doesn't have to come up in the story at all.
If you already know your work will be limited to a single country or city, you don't have to worry about how long distance transportation works. If you want to write something episodic where the protagonists end up in all kinds of different places you will only know about once you start thinking about a new plot for a story, this information might be quite handy. If they are going to Neustadt by ship and you already established that Neustadt is a port town in previous stories, readers will notice and the world seems more real.
And this is the big advantage of writing literature over writing for games: You have a very high degree of certainty knowing which places your characters will go to and what circles of society they will interact with. This allows you to scratch a huge amount of possible items of the worldbuilding to-do list.
*One thought on creating completely original worlds: It can be done, but there is a huge and invaluable advantage of repurposing places from Earths history. It allows you to just give a few key details about a culture or landscape and the readers imagination can fill in all the blanks with details they remember from the source that inspired you. Even though you say very little, the readers still see complex and detailed societies and locations.
Personally I prefer not to rely too heavily on this and not have any Vikings and Mongols in my world that only have a slightly different name. A great little trick to be both original and recognizable is to take a culture and put it into a quite different environment, or two blend two different cultures together. A great example of the later I've seen in the videogame series Warcraft. The Night Elves, apart from being elves, combine Scandinavian with Japanese elements. The result doesn't resemble either. In the world I am working on there is one human culture that is Chinese who used to live like Scythians but now transformed their society into Swedes.
Common fantasy races like elves and dwarves have become so well known with fantasy readers that they work just the same as archetypes than Vikings or Egyptians. While these are fictional, you can use them as well to mine for elements for your cultures. I have a race of little green men with large ears who are druids and alchemists but also build fortresses and mines like dwarves.
I'd be very interested to hear what kinds of worlds you have created for your works and what experiences you have made with them.
Fantasy Memes and silly stuff (about books) from the internet Based on the one with Kermit.
Here is a blank to make your own.
Korgoth of Barbaria: The best Sword & Sorcery movie ever made Korgoth of Barbaria is a 23 minute long cartoon that was made as a pitch for a series. Even though the series was never made, it's still a wonderful short movie. It's either a ridiculously silly parody of Sword & Sorcery, or a honest attempt to take the genre to its fullest extremes. Probably it's both.
Re: Fantasy Memes and silly stuff about books from the internet What? Not everyone instantly recognizes Lovecrafts incredibly photogenic face?
Are you going to tell me not everyone has read all his famous stories?
We are not using the Z-Word A while ago I was reading a post about writers of fantasy worlds having to define how they are using the terms Good and Evil. (It was in the context of roleplaying games, but since their worldbuilding tends to be a lot more extensive than for most novels and they also have the audience/players adding their own characters to the world, so these people tend to spend a lot more thought on things that literature writers often don't think about.) And knowing a bit or two about Asian philosophy, I made the descision that there is no Evil in my stories. There is violence, brutality, exploitation, and crime, which is punished by law and almost universally despised, with the people who engage in them being hated and considered terrible. But there is no concept of Evil as in western thought. It's not a transgression against a unversal law or order, but simply something that people consider bad and unacceptable.
And that got me thinking how a story or series of stories can be given its own distinctive character by deciding what words and concepts don't exist in their worlds. Even longer back, I also remember reading an article about a writer saying he doesn't use the word "damn" in his story because in that world there is no damnation that could await people. And it does not make sense in a Legend of Zelda game when a character says "Gee, it sure is boring around here", because "Gee" is Jesus. Selectively not using word is probably something that readers are very unlikely to actively notice unless they are specifically looking out for it. But I think a great number of readers will at least sense it unconscously. So I've been thinking some more on other words I don't want to use in my writing.
Zombie: The original Z-word. In the world I am using there are the corpses of the dead which get animated by magic and wander around attacking the living. But these are not created by some kind of plague or being altered by a wizard, but are possessed by evil hostile spirits. They can be mostly intact or nothing more than skeletons or anything in between. While not terribly smart or displaying any real motivations, they still think. They are still very much like zombies, but they are also quite different from the common movie-zombie. Also, a zombie is something the readers know and are familiar with, and within the world of the story the walking dead are so rare that almost no character will ever have encountered them. If I call them zombies, the readers will think the protagonist thinks of them as zombies and therefore assume these are not really anything to worry about for an experienced hero. If the protagonist is surprised and does not quite know what he's dealing with, then the reader should feel the same and that just won't happen if they are described as zombies.
Hell, hellish: Something can not look hellish, like Hell, or like from hell if there is no place called Hell and the people in the stories have no concept of such a place.
Ghost: Still not entirely certain about this, but I think I want to avoid using the word ghost. Those are those white glowing souls of the dead with unfinished business they have to complete before they can depart. In a world that is highly animistic, the default world for an incorporeal being would be "spirit". In case the spirit is actually a dead person, I prefer the words Shade or Wraith. Like the zombies, it keeps readers a bit uncertain what exactly it is.
Soul: Like Evil, the word soul comes with a lot of preconcieved bagage. If the life energy of a person is not immortal and going to remain what it is in some form of afterlife, the term soul seems misleading to me.
Sin: Another word that really works only in a christian context. The best analogue in an animistic world would be taboo.
Wizard: I never use the term wizard. It always reminds me too much of scholars with libraries of arcane tomes and magic wands. Since that's not in any way similar to what these people are in my stories, I always call them sorcerers or witches or something like that.
Fire!: This is admitedly pendantery. But arrows and catapults are not fired.
Do you have any words you consciously avoid to use in a story?


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Poderi di Montemerano is a village in Tuscany, central Italy, administratively a frazione of the comune of Manciano, province of Grosseto. At the time of the 2001 census its population amounted to 84.

Poderi di Montemerano is about 50 km from Grosseto and 4 km from Manciano, and it is situated along the Provincial Road which links Scansano to Manciano, at the foot of the hill of Montemerano. The village was born in the late 16th century as Poderi di Sotto, and it significantly developed in the 18th century.

Main sights
 Santa Maria degli Angeli (20th century), main parish church of the village, it was built in 1955. Its architecture is inspired by the Romanesque style.
 Castelletto Santarelli, one of the oldest buildings in the village, it dates back to the 18th century.

References

See also
 Marsiliana
 Montemerano
 Poggio Capanne
 Poggio Murella
 San Martino sul Fiora
 Saturnia

Frazioni of Manciano