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Addressing higher construction costs during COVID-19
By Gerry Argento, LL.M, and Tania L. Pinheiro
This article is intended as an update of a previous discussion about COVID-19 and the possible consequences for parties to a standard Canadian Construction Documents Committee (CCDC) Stipulated Price Contract and corresponding Canadian Construction Association (CCA) Stipulated Price Subcontract.
It is worthwhile recalling from that article how the COVID-19 pandemic would likely be characterized as a force majeure event pursuant to GC 6.5.3(4) of the CCDC-2 contract. Under this clause, a contractor is entitled to an extension of time to perform or complete works, as recommended by the consultant (engineer or architect). However, the contractor is not entitled to claim payment for any additional or increased costs incurred as a result of such delay.
This arrangement, as provided for under GC 6.5.3, corresponds to what are generally referred to as "excusable but not compensable" delays. That said, in certain provinces—such as Quebec and, to a lesser extent, Ontario, where construction projects were halted for a prolonged period, pursuant to a stop work order—delays resulting from a suspension of activity might fall under the purview of GC 6.5.2, thus rendering them both excusable and compensable.
In June, governments across Canada lifted restrictions and allowed businesses to resume activities. While construction projects continued across the country, contractors had to implement and adapt to new health and safety policies and practices on their work sites.
Some of these changes have included scattered shifts, breaks and lunch periods, a question period for workers upon arrival at a construction site, greater on-site sanitation (i.e. hand-washing stations with access to soap and running water), expanded common areas, general physical distancing practices, limited capacity for elevators and hoists, restrictions on sharing of tools and site meetings to be held outdoors or, if possible, via videoconference.
Industry stakeholders would agree such measures are welcome as a means of allowing them to maintain activity while preventing or limiting the spread of COVID-19, but at the same time, the implementation of the aforementioned health and safety measures will likely result in significant, adverse impacts on contractors' productivity. While such data is still preliminary, some contractors in Quebec have reported a loss of productivity in the range of 10 to 20%, while one instance was as high as 40%.
In the current context, it appears works simply cannot be performed as before—not with the same productivity and not at the same price. Stakeholders who were party to a contract before the pandemic find themselves facing possible litigation regarding which of them ought to bear the financial burden for additional costs and delays resulting from the application of new health and safety measures on-site.
Certain clauses in standard contracts, including the CCDC-2 Stipulated Price Contract, provide a mechanism pursuant to which a party can effect a change to the contractual documents, so as to better reflect the current context.
The clauses in CCDC-2 are as follow:
The contractor shall not be responsible for verifying the contract documents are in compliance with the applicable laws, ordinances, rules, regulations or codes relating to the work. If the contract documents are at a variance therewith or if, subsequent to the time of bid closing, changes are made to the applicable laws, ordinances, rules, regulations or codes that require modification to the contract documents, then the contractor shall advise the consultant in writing, requesting direction immediately upon such variance or change becoming known. The consultant will make the changes required to the contract documents, as provided in GC 6.1 (Owner's Right to Make Changes), CG 6.2 (Change Order) and GC 6.3 (Change Directive).
If, subsequent to the time of bid closing, changes are made to applicable laws, ordinances, rules, regulations or codes of authorities having jurisdiction (AHJs) that affect the cost of the work, either party may submit a claim in accordance with the requirements of GC 6.6 (Claims for a Change in Contract Price).
Thus, under CG 10.2.7, a contractor who is now required to comply with newly developed health and safety measures, which in turn slow productivity and increase overall costs, may present a claim in accordance with GC 6.6 and seek a change in contract price, so as to be fairly compensated for the increase in cost of the work.
Contractors wishing to avail themselves of such a claim should act diligently and be sure to comply with notice requirements provided in the contract. In addition, they should provide a detailed account of their claim, as provided in GC 6.6.3. In instances such as the present context, where the pandemic will likely have a continuing effect and there is uncertainty around the full consequences resulting from the new health and safety measures being implemented on construction sites, GC 6.5.4 allows contractors to provide interim accounts, at intervals reasonably required by the consultant, until such time when the additional costs can be definitively ascertained.
That said, under the standard CCDC-2, contractors remain obliged to take all reasonable measures to mitigate losses and to keep such record as may be necessary to support their claim (see GC 6.6.2). In presenting such a claim, they will have to demonstrate the additional costs and delays result from implementing new health and safety measures and the loss of productivity stemming therefrom, thus falling under the purview of GC 10.2.7.
It is important to note these clauses may have been subject of amendments, notably by way of supplemental conditions agreed upon by the parties prior to the execution of the contract. Industry stakeholders should seek out legal advice and careful review of their contracts, so as to determine whether such clauses are provided and to what extent they may be applicable, in light of the specific circumstances of each case.
In all instances, where possible, parties should seek to enter a mutually agreeable settlement with respect to project schedule and cost overruns that result from the introduction of new health and safety measures.
As for new projects currently out for tender or in relation to future projects, contractors will have to be mindful of these circumstances when preparing their bids—namely, the costs and loss of productivity associated with the application of new health and safety measures. They will likely not be able to invoke force majeure or GC 10.2.7 for additional costs or delays that result from conditions that were known at the time of the contract.
Gerry Argento, LL.M, is a partner and Tania L. Pinheiro is an associate at Miller Thomson LLP. For more information, visit www.millerthomson.com.
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Adrienne Bailon Houghton Reveals Her Main Motivation to Lose Weight Was to Start a Family
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Adrienne Bailon Houghton is opening up about what motivated her to get in shape.
The Real talk show host, 36, revealed that one of the reasons she focused on weight loss and fitness this year was to be prepared for pregnancy (she and husband Israel Houghton began trying to start a family last year).
"Honestly, family planning," Bailon Houghton said when asked by Hola! US what motivated her to lose weight this year — the actress shared on the first episode of her new Facebook series Wear It Well that she recently dropped 20 pounds.
"I knew that wanting to have a baby I want to be in the best shape of my life," she explained to Hola! US. "I really buckled down this summer and just made it happen. I got into a routine of working out, so that the day I'm pregnant, I can continue to be consistent with working out."
Another motivator for Bailon Houghton was building her confidence by wearing clothes that cover areas she's self-conscious about.
"I went seasons without showing my arms because that was something I was really self-conscious about," she revealed to Hola! US. "It's something that I am working on. I would always wear long sleeves. Now, we're finding really cute things that just cover that one little area of arm-cleavage, and it's been groundbreaking for my wardrobe."
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Bailon Houghton is already planning out her maternity style, and told the outlet that she's inspired by looks worn by Kourtney Kardashian, Chrissy Teigen, Jennifer Lopez and Shay Mitchell when they were expecting.
"For my body type I definitely know that I'll have to wear more bodycon or form fitting things that like will show that I'm pregnant so that you don't just think I'm just out here, you know, eating burritos and stuff," she told Hola! US.
The singer has been open in the past about her desire — and her struggles — to start a family.
Last year, she said on The Real that trying to get pregnant "isn't what I thought it would be."
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"I think so many people are very insensitive to that, in the sense [that] I know you guys are like, 'Is she pregnant?' 'Her face is fuller'— FYI I've always had a really chubby face so that's not what it is," she said, adding that it's important to "be sensitive to the fact that everybody doesn't get pregnant right away."
"I think for myself I thought it would happen so easily for me and it just hasn't happened that way," she continued. "I've had to come to peace with that it'll happen when it's God's timing and I believe in that and I have faith in all of that. But it can be really discouraging and it can be really frustrating."
Back in January 2018, she said on the show that starting a family would be her "biggest dream come true."
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Hack of Luscious anime porn site exposed identities and info of 1.2m users
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Researchers at VPN Mentor discovered a data breach that revealed the identities of more than a million users of an anime porn 'hentai' website.
When users hand over their personal data, there is an expectation that this data will remain private and secure. This expectation takes on a new level of urgency when it comes to sex and dating apps, as often people will be disclosing deeper desires they may not want to reveal publicly. Hence, the recent security vulnerabilities discovered in threesome and swingers dating app 3fun caused quite a stir.
Members of the porn website Luscious, therefore, may be disappointed to know that a research team from VPN service VPN Mentor discovered a data breach that exposed information on the site's almost 1.2m 'anonymous' users.
Luscious is described by the research team, led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, as a niche adult website that focuses primarily on animated and user-uploaded content, primarily of the anime or manga porn variety, which is collectively known as 'hentai'.
Zack Whittaker of TechCrunch, who first broke the story, has described the site as "one of the most popular websites in the US" and is, per Alexa data, ranked in the top 5,000 sites in traffic.
By the researcher's estimates, the site has in excess of 1m registered users, each of which has a profile that the team were able to access during their research.
The data breach the team discovered compromises the anonymity that many of the users operate under and exposes their personal email addresses, records of their activity on the side, locations and more. Though the researchers estimated that 20pc of the email addresses used were fake, most of them were real and some exposed users' full names, increasing their vulnerability to exploitation and cybercrime.
Possible impact
"The highly sensitive and private nature of Luscious' content makes users incredibly vulnerable to a range of attacks and exploitation by malicious hackers," the researchers explained.
They also noted that many of the accounts were linked to blog posts and content published on the site, which included extremely personal writing, including "depressive and otherwise vulnerable content".
The site owner, after attempts by both TechCrunch and the VPN Mentor research team to alert them to the breach, eventually responded and confirmed that the information had been compromised.
"We will be reaching out to any compromised users to warn them about the potential exposure of their private email addresses," the site owner said.
The research team warned that the impact of this breach could be devastating both personally and financially for users and could leave them vulnerable to doxing, phishing, extortion and more.
The team also pointed out that from a commercial perspective, the exposure of this data could hurt Luscious, as it will allow the site's competitors to analyse user behaviour and target them with alternatives.
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Flour, made from coffee! Yes, flour you can bake with (though it's best mixed with other flours) that is highly nutritious, only mildly caffeinated, and made from the coffee cherry pulp left over from green coffee processing. A crazy sounding idea to be sure, and something that got a number of news outlets quite excited when it was first launched last week. This is more than just the latest health-food craze though–Coffee Flour founder Dan Belliveau has big plans to reshape the environmental and economic impacts of the coffee supply chain.
Big plans with big backers, including Intellectual Ventures, the massive intellectual property and R&D firm founded by Nathan Myhrvold (co-creator of the landmark Modernist Cuisine), and industrial coffee supply chain heavyweight ECOM Agroindustrial Corp. Ltd and Mercon Coffee Group. We sat down with Belliveau to hear more about the Coffee Flour story.
Coffee Flour image courtesy of Maureen Jansen.
The high antioxidant, fiber, and protein flour is still being tweaked as it comes to market, but the fundamental supply, manufacturing and technology questions are settled. The technology itself is proprietary, and going through the patenting process currently, but Belliveau says that they are keeping the chemical composition of the end product as natural as it can be, with no other processing than the collection/drying/flour milling. However he said they'd be willing to consider doing additional processing, like perhaps decaffeination or changing the color, if customers ask for it.
Who is Coffee Flour?
Dan Belliveau is a talkative guy–we covered a lot of ground in our interview, starting with his training as an electrical engineer, and what he learned the hard way about affecting change while working at Starbucks Corporation. That's where he met Ken Poppe, who now is the U.S. country head for the Invention Development Fund (IDF) at Intellectual Ventures. It is also where Belliveau first encountered what can be a quite entrenched resistance to change in the larger coffee industry.
Dan Belliveau and Ken Poppe. Courtesy of Intellectual Ventures.
Belliveau spent his early engineering career working on robotics and automation for big manufacturers like General Motors and Frito-Lay. Coffee didn't enter his consciousness until he followed a former manager to Starbucks in the mid-1990s. His first real exposure to coffee was during employee orientation when he rotated through the roles of barista and roaster. His job was to automate the Starbucks roasting facilities, but he kept being met with resistant people telling him: "you don't know coffee." During Belliveau's first year there, Starbucks opened its first stores outside North America and by his second year of employment had more than doubled the number of stores it had worldwide.
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Belliveau says he learned valuable lessons about getting buy-in from bigger groups and more involvement when approaching change. Belliveau was, in fact, fired from Starbucks after failing to persuade senior management to invest in streamlining and automating existing facilities instead of rushing into building new facilities. He says "I'm not shy about saying it, when I was handed my hat and coat from Starbucks, I started NohBell a couple months after that departure."
NohBell Corporation, a supply chain consulting company, started out doing just for-hire research and implementation work, before expanding into investing in its own incubation projects to try out ideas that might appeal to a broader market. The early research and development for Coffee Flour was one such project.
Why waste the waste?
It all started with Belliveau sitting in the office of a friend who'd recently purchased a coffee farm. This friend asked him and his colleague, another NohBell consultant with deep Starbucks experience, what to do with the "six acres of pulp" left over from processing their cherry.
Discarded coffee-cherry pulp, image courtesy of Dan Belliveau
That's a really good question when you consider that according to the USDA Coffee Report for Arabica green coffee, over 11 billion pounds of coffee were produced worldwide in 2013. A few reports suggest that waste from washed coffee processes weigh about 2.5 times that of the dried green bean. Based on the best research they could find, Belliveau's team estimates that there is approximately a one-to-one ratio of dried cherry mucilage to dried bean.
From Belliveau's trips to origin, he understood the impact this waste had on water in areas where coffee is milled. Some mills have tried to handle the stinking mounds and "honey water" left over from wet processing through catchment or composting. So far, these methods have made little lasting impact to reducing surface water contamination.
Thinking about these billions of pounds of polluting waste, Belliveau had an epiphany: "there was a wash of all of these years of different things and different processes and different manufacturing involved and I just thought, 'What if we dried it and ground it up and made a food out of it?'"
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It seemed like such a simple idea. Belliveau floated it first to a NohBell colleague, someone with 18 years' experience as a green coffee buyer. "His response was, and I'm paraphrasing, 'You're nuts. I've never heard of this. I've never seen anything like this. It can't be done. There's gotta be a reason why no one's doing it. Because that's just too simple of a solution.'"
Belliveau put a team together at NohBell to investigate further. That work culminated in presenting the idea to Teddy Esteve, head of coffee trading for ECOM and Antonio Baltodano, chairman of the board for Mercon. According to Belliveau, "A two-hour meeting with Antonio Baltodano turned into a five-hour meeting. I was expecting him to say 'You're crazy because it's already been done.' I wasn't expecting 'You're crazy.' And 'It's never been done before.'"
Ken Poppe with Antonio Baltodano and Dan Belliveau. Image courtesy of Intellectual Ventures.
Esteve and Baltodano agreed to help Belliveau, starting with experimenting with the collection and drying of pulp at mills in Nicaragua, Guatemala, Mexico, and Vietnam. Much like when processing and drying coffee, Belliveau says that learing "how you collect the pulp once it's separated from the bean and handle it from that moment to the moment in time that the drying process starts" was crucial in their development. "If that's not done right, no matter what you do in drying, you've already lost it."
As they got further in their experiments, the processing and equipment modifications they came up with, combined with the vision for making real systemic change, convinced them that this project was unique enough to need protection and more serious backing. Belliveau's search for the expertise his team was missing started and ended with his former colleague, Ken Poppe at Intellectual Ventures: "I needed someone who knew patents. I needed someone who had scientific background. I wasn't thinking I'd find it all in one company. I needed laboratories. I needed a chef, someone to bring it beyond what we could do in our home kitchen."
Belliveau's vision for what this product could mean for coffee farmers and millers evolved as new partners entered the arrangement. To him, getting patents was a key part of protecting that long-term vision. So was articulating the business values of the Coffee Flour vision to safeguard it beyond his involvement as CEO. He explained the importance of building transparency into arrangements with his supply partners: "In our contracts with ECOM and Mercon, it's stated that there are revenues going back to the farmer and they have to open their books to us so that we see that that happens."
"I've had a lot of eyebrows raise when I say that Mercon and ECOM are at the same table," remarked Belliveau. At well over 100 years old, these giant industrial companies have a long history of involvement in the many steps involved in processing and transporting coffee. They signed decades-long contracts with CF Global Holdings, Belliveau's new company, to supply source material and grant access to much of the equipment needed to mill Coffee Flour. Already Intellectual Ventures has filed seven patents surrounding Coffee Flour, and may file more. Belliveau gave Intellectual Ventures, ECOM, and Mercon an undisclosed amount of ownership in CF Holdings in order to guarantee a 20-year commitment to the venture from them.
So, you can bake with it?
I sampled test runs of bread, granola, and shortbread cookies designed to showcase how the gluten-free Coffee Flour changes the flavor and texture of food. In bread, the texture was denser and the flavor earthier. The flour amplified the cinnamon and chocolate in the granola. My own at-home experiment with chocolate chip cookies netted similar flavor results. The dried cherry, sweet tobacco and baking spice notes of the single origin Coffee Flour from Oaxaca in Mexico shifted this simple sugary pleasure to something intriguingly savory and sweet, despite only using two tablespoons of the flour (which means that the caffeine content was negligible as well).
Brownies made with coffee flour. Image courtesy of Nathon Sims.
Already, CF Holdings is working with a boutique flour mill in Vancouver, BC to make product samples. Food scientists at Intellectual Ventures analyzed nutritional value and suggested how to work with the ingredient. Chef Jason Wilson, 2010 James Beard Best New Chef Northwest, and his team at Seattle restaurant Crush have refined pasta, bread, and dessert recipes using Coffee Flour as an ingredient.
Belliveau says that they "are trying to find chefs who are known for certain things. It would be easy to pick five Seattle chefs and stay close to home. But we need to have a global fare on this: different products, different taste buds, experimenting and moving it forward."
Belliveau's intent is that half the Coffee Flour produced be sold to businesses in countries of origin. As a result, his team is talking with a variety of food and beverage companies. He imagines one day you could see Coffee Flour in tortillas in Nicaragua, noodles in Japan, naan in India, and bread or cereal in North America. For now, the only place to try it is on the menu at Crush.
There's no doubt that Coffee Flour is a big dream with the potential to turn what had been an environmentally polluting by-product into a source of revenue and nutrition, in both coffee producing and consuming nations. It's fascinating to see Intellectual Ventures, a giant of the tech world, investing heavily in this new coffee product. Coffee Flour is not the first coffee venture to get a recent infusion of big-name backing, and we doubt they'll be the last.
Jenny Neill (@jennyneill) is a regular contributor to STiR Tea & Coffee Industry International, and blogs about beverage and travel at jennyneill.com. You can read more Jenny Neill on Sprudge here.
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Lisë Stewart: Hello, I'm Lisë Stewart from EisnerAmper and we're so excited about our recent summit series. I hope you could join us. We learned a lot and one of the things that we learned is that many of our privately held businesses are just facing a wide range of challenges, the never ending changes in technology, the cybersecurity threats, the impacts with tariffs, the changing weather and divided nation, political upheaval, relentless passing of time. In fact, it's sometimes forcing our baby boomers to say, I've had enough. I need to get out of this business. We want you to know you're really not alone. To help you with these challenges, we're very pleased to offer our summit series every year. It's a chance for you to learn new information, meet new people, and perhaps find some of the answers to the challenges that you're facing today. This year we really emphasize the steps that many of our family owned and closely held businesses need to take in order to be able to protect their business, protect their families, and protect their wealth.
I want to share some of the things that we learned step-by-step, so perhaps you can take some of these ideas away. First, we learned that it's really important to start early. In fact, it's never too early to start. Whether you're at the very beginning of your business development or perhaps you're at a stage where you're thinking about your own transition out of the business at some point. It's so important to sit down and think about your strategy and your future and to put those ideas in writing. You need to be able to share the strategy, our ideas, our thoughts about our future transition, what we want to have happen with our business, with other people. Those people may be our family members. They may be our fellow employees and they may be outside professionals. Start thinking about that future. Take the time to write it down and then take the time to share it with other people.
We also know that it's important to understand that culture matters. Many of our speakers this year talked about the importance of organizational culture, making sure that you have people around you who share your philosophy, who understand what you want to have happen with the business and who are able to support you with your idea. One of the things that so many of our speakers this year emphasized was the management of risk. They didn't say that you need to be risk averse, but rather be risk aware. Try to make sure that you're surrounding yourself with people who can help you to identify what some of the challenges might be. Some of us need a little bit of practice about gazing out into the future and trying to predict the sorts of things that might impact our business, our ability to make really good decisions.
Some of our speakers talked about the importance of perhaps having a board of some sort, whether it's a fiduciary or advisory board. Others talked about using mentors or coaches in a way that would help them to test their assumptions and ask bigger, broader questions. Trying to understand this very fast pace of change and being able to incorporate these changes into our strategic planning was such an important part of making sure that our businesses were sustainable. Next, think about your professional advisors. Are you surrounding yourself with the sorts of people that you need to make sure that you can make good decisions? Ensuring that your service providers understand what's important to you, what's important to your business and what you want to do in the future is key to ensuring that they can really be helpful. Also, we want to make sure that all of your service providers are working together. Do they know each other? Making sure that they're not working at cross purposes is also important.
Be careful about navel gazing. One of the things that we know often about family owned or closely held businesses is that it's really easy after we've grown the business for many years to become too insular, to really rely on our gut knowledge and our gut instincts. When truly we need to have a bigger, broader, more global perspective. How can you expand the way in which you think about your business? Remember we talked earlier about making sure that you're surrounding yourself with people who can give you good advice. Well, part of that getting good advice is also listening to that good advice and then taking action. Try to make sure that you've got access to professionals who are able to help.
Next, think about those values. We know that in many businesses, one of the things that makes it difficult to pass the business on to the next generation, or even think about the future is the fear that the next generation of leadership, whether there's family or not, is not going to be able to run the business in a way that's in alignment with the values that you've always had. Sometimes that happens because, well, we've never those values into words, so it's important to think about what are the values that are important to you? How do you want those values reflected in your organizational culture and how are you going to see those values come to life as you plan for the transition of your business and then finally realize that you're making an impact in everything you do. People watch you. Your decisions impact your family, they impact your employees, often they impact your community. So thinking about the impact of those decisions and how you want your legacy to carry on once you're gone and have left the business behind will also be an important component to your strategy development.
However, there are some things that are certainly more important than others: family, friends, and sometimes just having a good sense of humor. We all make mistakes. It's a challenge for everyone. And again, we're here to help. We're looking forward to 2020 and we hope you join us. Thank you.
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Café Ipé: old-school espresso for North County
Leucadia coffee house's espresso boldly challenges the artsy java of the cutting edge coffee shops
By Ian Pike, Sept. 9, 2013
Café Ipé
970 North Coast Highway 101, Leucadia
Despite the fact that Lofty gets all the credit for fancy North County java, Café Ipé (970 North Coast Highway, 760-436-2233, rhymes with eBay) is equally serious about coffee production. The coffee shop has partnered with Encinitas-based Revolution Roasters, who man the in-house coffee roasting operations, providing Ipé with exclusive beans that carry cool names, like Surfing Madonna and Smooth Operator.
So many of what we might call the "avant-garde" coffee roasters are creating espresso blends that emphasize acidity and bright notes in the coffee, or so it seems. Whether by virtue of bean selection or the roasting process, fruity, almost effervescent shots of espresso show up in demitasse cups all over town. Ipé's espresso provided a stark counterexample. The dark, syrupy shot there had a layer of crema scarcely lighter than the underlying espresso. Nutty, rich flavors dominated the coffee, which had more in common with old-school Italian espresso than, say, a single origin ristretto from a trendy, nouvelle vague coffee bar.
Similarly, when mixed into a latte, Ipé's espresso injected an unfamiliar, though not unwelcome, bitterness into the drink. That rich bitterness gave the coffee a degree of strength that's absent in more delicate brews. It's the idea of coffee "black as night, hot as hell, and strong as love," a quotation that exists in various forms and evokes a sentimentality for coffee as an elixir of late-night fortitude instead of a delicate expression of some beans' origin or the cleverness of a roaster.
So, how to choose between the two? Lofty Bean, with its elegant Turkish lattes and dusky, complicated Kyoto drips? Or Ipé, with strong coffee that could find a home in a Roman corner market?
Depends on what you're looking for. The drinks at Lofty (or other such places) are objectively more interesting, but they're also more expensive. Also, one thing that new wave coffee shops have yet to learn is how to stock a good pastry case. Ipé fills the glass display with fresh croissants, strudels, and donuts from VG Bakery!
The fact of the matter is, our culture is probably better with both café's operating within spitting distance of each other. More delicious things is always good, and there's no shortage of support for both spots. Smart coffee drinkers will develop a taste for both and expand their horizons. And that's never a bad thing.


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Q: Visual studio 2015 Cordova Project to include staging and production configuration files I'm using Visual Studio 2015 Cordova to connect to Azure Mobile Services.
I setup "staging" and "production" of Mobile Service,
ex:
https://mystaging.azuremobileservices.net

https://myproduction.azuremobileservices.net

and I use following code in staging deployment
var client = new WindowsAzure.MobileServiceClient('https://mystaging.azuremobileservices.net', 'mykey');

// var client = new WindowsAzure.MobileServiceClient('https://myproduction.azuremobileservices.net', 'mykey');

and the following for production deployment
// var client = new WindowsAzure.MobileServiceClient('https://mystaging.azuremobileservices.net', 'mykey');

var client = new WindowsAzure.MobileServiceClient('https://myproduction.azuremobileservices.net', 'mykey');

Do I have to manually comment and uncomment the code in order to have different deployment configuration?
I can't find no where to setup the testing/staging/production config in Visual Studio 2015 RC Cordova Project.
Could someone have some suggestion for this configuration management in VS2015 Cordova?
thanks a lot.

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Le tournoi de tennis de Varsovie est un tournoi de tennis professionnel féminin. L'édition 2000, classée en catégorie Tier IVb, se dispute du 8 au .

Henrieta Nagyová remporte le simple dames. En finale, elle bat Amanda Hopmans, décrochant à cette occasion le  de sa carrière sur le circuit WTA.

L'épreuve de double voit quant à elle s'imposer Tathiana Garbin et Janette Husárová.

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Ransom Riggs Books In Order
Publication Order of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children Books
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Hollow City (2014) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Library of Souls (2015) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
A Map of Days (2018) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
The Conference of the Birds (2020) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Publication Order of Miss Peregrine Collections
Tales of the Peculiar (2016) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Arcanum (2015) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Publication Order of Graphic Novels
Hollow City: The Graphic Novel (2016) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
The Sherlock Holmes Handbook: The Methods and Mysteries of the World's Greatest Detective (2009) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Talking Pictures: Images and Messages Rescued from the Past (2012) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Ransom Riggs was born in Maryland on a 200 year old farm. He was brought up in Florida and he is currently living in Los Angeles. When he was about five years old, his ambition was to be a farmer because he was living in a farm with tractors and farming was the main activity in the area. He was excited by driving them. His mom wanted something different for his son and so she relocated to Florida. Farms here were small and kids were not involved in farming as compared to their former residence. By then they were not internet connected and their television was only twelve channels as and so he had to make his own fun, which he is doing up to date.
He is an author of children's literature and married to he is married to Tahereh Mafi, whom they met during a panel they were put together. His wife is also an author of best-selling Shatter Me series. Ransom Riggs has spent his formal years making silly movies with his friends complaining about heat. And he also has a pet cat.
Education background
He went to Pine view school of the Gifted where he graduated in 1997. He later joined Kenyon College and studied literature in English where he gained writing skills. After Kenyon College, he went to University of south California in Los Angeles to study films and film making where he earned MFA in film production. During his high school life, he attended a workshop on young writers in the University of Virginia which he considers as an experience that shaped his career and life. He met many prominent people there that encouraged and convinced him, and after the workshop, he was sure he could make it in life by writing though he knew he wanted to make movies.
He grew up writing stories and making videos in the backyard along with his friends. From this, he developed interest in what they were doing and at his capacity, he wanted to do one of them, to be a writer or a film maker.
Ransom Riggs work
Ransom Riggs is a young adult author and has an unusual hobby of collecting old and orphaned photographs which have been separated for the owners for years and keeps them along with taking his own photographs. These photographs are his key areas of narrating a story and creating a plot of a novel he is dreaming of writing.
He worked on short films before mental floss and blogging gave him a job in writing a handbook for Sherlock Holmes. This book was released in 2009 to Sherlock Holmes as his first book. Since then, he is frequently contributing to Mental Floss magazine
Riggs had been collecting vernacular photographs for three years and later he approached Quirk Books publishers requesting for use some of the pictures in a picture book. When he suggested this to the editor, it was approved and made a narrative story with guide of the photographs he had collected. This resulted to his second book called "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children". This book eventually made into the best seller list of The New York times. This book was highly rated, actually referred to as an unforgettable. It mixed a lot of fiction and photographical work. It was reviewed by indie book sellers and they praised it. The story was well brought across with a lot of suspense. It was scary and smart, with a lot of compassion when children are searching for a path or way to move forward in a twisted and uncaring world.
Later, he was inspired by his old photographs and to write another book entitled "Taking pictures" which was published by Harper Collins.
He has also writer of Strange Geographies. The second book of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children called "hollow city" is also his work from literature. This book took him two and half years to complete, unlike the first one which he spend less than a year to finish writing and publishing.
Ransom Riggs is a co-writer of scatterbrained which was published by Harper Collins. He also participated in writing beautiful creatures with Karmi Garcia. Ransom Riggs is one of the consulting writers of top 10 independent heroines in literature, contributing in the script, he says, "I have a lot of opinions" and his voice is nice as he says in an interview about his career as a writer.
Ransom Riggs makes movies and videos. Since he went to film school, he is spending some of his time making short films and videos and playing guitar for leisure. He likes travelling as much as he can in funny places like deserts where he takes and collects photographs. He is a regular reader of historical books and memoirs.
Ha made a film entitled "Scar beneath my sleeve" after a certain tragedy which happened to his neighborhood on Thursday of 13th February this year at around 0800 hours. He also writes screenplays which he occasionally make to his video blog for his followers to see.
Ransom Riggs has a website; www.ransomriggs.com where he is advertising his shows and concerts. The advert contains the venue and tickets for the shows.
As a writer, he has written one hundred and twenty two (124) quotes in his life. His first quote was about how he used to dream on how to escape his life, however, he realized that his life was new every day and not ordinary. It continues to show how he had failed to realize how his life was extra ordinary. Among his other quotes, he says when you knock without someone opening for you, you finally stop knocking. He also expresses how he feels he was born in wrong century and how he feels cheated.
Ransom Riggs writing work is young and he has promised readers of his books many more are on the way coming. He is inspired by little things that happen in life, especially to children and creates a story, which makes up his novels captivating and realistic.
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GERMANY – Berlin: risk of protests 18 November against the new restrictions linked to Covid-19, in the fringes of a parliamentary vote and despite the ban on demonstrations of the authorities- Security reinforcement to expect and clashes not excluded especially near the Bundesrat and Bundestag
Local media sources reported that protests were called for 18 November in Berlin to protest against the new restrictions linked to Covid-19 and that will be voted on the same day by the 2 German Parliamentary chambers (Bundesrat and Bundestag).
The Federal Interior ministry announced 17 November it had banned a series of protests, especially near the 2 chambers of Parliament. Local authorities also think these protests are a threat to security and public order and fear it could 'disturb the activities of the parliament and the access to the buildings'. The ministry also reported it had identified on social Media 'calls to block the access to the Bundestag and Bundesrat'. We remind you that a similar protest was marred with violence and by an attempt of intrusion in one of the parliamentary chambers.
Besides, the police also reported a risk of attack targeting the Parliament and its employees. An important security reinforcement is to be expected near the Bundesrat and Bundestag in the capital. Despite these measures, some protesters are still maintaining their calls to protest and have called to gather near the parliamentary chambers, especially from 14:00 (local time) on the PLatz del Republik (where the Bundestag is located).
Similar protests are not excluded in other cities.
Heightened security and disruptions are to be anticipated. According to the local press, the police fear that radical and violent protests join the protests and that they could cause violence. In this sense, clashes are not excluded, especially in case of intervention of the security sources. It is recommended to be vigilant in the city center in the next hours and to avoid any demonstrations and mob movement.


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Explore Horizons Opens New Location in McKinney
DFW News Articles
by goodlifefamilyadmin 08/08/2018 0935
Just in time for the start of a new school year, enrichment and tutoring provider Explore Horizons is opening its sixth Dallas-Fort Worth location in McKinney on August 14th at 3530 West University Drive, Suite 302.
On August 15th, all Explore Horizons centers including McKinney will host a free community day inviting parents and kids in for a variety of interactive educational workshops (a full schedule of events can be viewed here: https://www.explore-horizons.com/back-to-school/).
"We are very excited to become a part of the McKinney community," said Sean Walker, Center Director for McKinney. "With the city's recent growth, there is a demand for tutoring programs that not only reinforce what students learn in school but also challenge them to go beyond the lessons they learn in the classroom."
Explore Horizons is designed to be the best possible complement to a school education; whether a child is striving for success in elementary or preparing to excel in middle or high school. Children become members and attend up to twice a week on a drop-in basis. Courses map to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills framework, and the curriculum includes math, reading, writing, STAAR prep, and study skills; all of which are adapted to the individual needs of each child.
"Whether students are finding a school challenging or are ready to take what they have learned to the next level, our unique learning environment and inspiring tutors will help all students develop a passion for learning, gain confidence, and become fearless learners," said Walker.
For more information or to schedule a center visit, please visit:
https://www.explore-horizons.com/tutoring-center/mckinney/.
About Explore Horizons
Explore Horizons provides enrichment and tutoring in math, reading and writing for children of all abilities in Pre-K through 8th grade. Children become members and attend an Explore Horizons center up to twice a week on a drop-in basis. At Explore Horizons, our tutors get to know each child as an individual. Whether students are finding school challenging or at the top of the class, Explore Horizons tutoring centers are here to help children shine tomorrow by becoming fearless learners today.
Curriculum tailored to each child's individual needs.
Inspiring, Explore-certified tutors.
A vibrant environment that children enjoy.
Aligned to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills.
Enrichment to stretch beyond the school curriculum.
School testing & benchmarking preparation.
Regular, detailed feedback for parents.
Flexible membership. Open 5-7 days a week, depending upon location.
Explore Horizons was founded in 2001 in the UK by Cambridge University mathematics graduate Bill Mills. It currently operates more than 100 centers in the U.K. The first center in the U.S. opened in March 2014 in Colleyville, Texas, and there are now also locations in Plano, Garland, Fort Worth, Frisco and McKinney. Plans to open centers throughout the United States and the globe are under way.
More information about Explore Horizons is available at www.explore-horizons.com.
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My QFFs and I had a wonderful time on the shop hop! Barb was a gracious hostess, letting us all stay at her place on Friday night. And it's always fun to spend time with Bev!
We didn't get to all the shops on the list 😦 But we made the most of the one's we did visit!
Each shop had a sample quilt to show. We three QFFs agreed that this was our favorite version of the quilt.
Didn't she do a wonderful job!?! This is going to be a center medallion in a lap quilt. I can't wait to see the finished quilt.
Gotta go work for the other boss today.
Had a great time with you and Bev this weekend! Can't wait until we set another date and place for our next get-together for November. I love this once-a-month special times.


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Removing hierarchy to spark innovation within the New Zealand government
The innovation lab is charged with helping government agencies develop products and services that actually benefit citizens.
By Asha Barbaschow | February 19, 2019 -- 23:44 GMT (15:44 PST) | Topic: Digital Transformation
The New Zealand government in early 2017 stood up an innovation lab that aimed to bring citizen service delivery to the forefront of the public service.
The lab work is being led by the Service Innovation Team out of the Department of Internal Affairs -- New Zealand's oldest government department. It's also part of the nation's Chief Digital Office, charged with digital transformation within the government.
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According to Glen Thurston, service design lead, all the existing strategies within government were there, but its delivery needed improvement.
What had started as a 10-week experiment to see what could be done in the space turned into a full-time initiative, Thurston told the Public Sector Digital Transformation & Optimisation conference in Canberra on Wednesday.
The lab sees those involved experimenting with a new model for government services based on the idea of government information, services, and rules being available as APIs -- "government as a platform".
"Government at the moment isn't well set up in New Zealand for sharing, everyone assumes we do it ... but that's far from correct," he explained. "We don't necessarily share information particularly well, sharing skills between the different departments is really tricky as well, access to data, and access to people with the right skills and ways of working has been a challenge as well.
"We also have an environment -- it's been a very lean government, very focused on government being small -- to do more with less inefficiencies and focus on the BAU sort of targets that we have and not a lot of incentive to focus on all-of-government goals."
What that resulted in, Thurston said, was citizens having great difficulty in trying to access government services, often being required to contact multiple agencies to achieve their outcome.
"People shouldn't necessarily need to know the structure of government to get what they're entitled to," he added, noting he was told by a government contact centre to flip through legislation to have his question answered. "That's not acceptable, the rules shouldn't be that hard."
The lab has an all-of-government focus, which Thurston said had proved to be difficult to work in, especially when having to consider the needs of all of the different agencies and partner, as it's their projects that are being worked on.
"We don't control any of the products or services that we work on in the lab ... everything we do has to be collaborative," he explained.
"Our value proposition at this stage has to be flexible, at the moment we're contributing to projects within our customers work programs; building and providing examples to demonstrate technology processes that facilitate change; and support businesses owners to make all-of-government changes for themselves as well."
The space the lab operates out of isn't huge, but Thurston said it feels like an early stage startup. Government agencies can choose to either bring their own small teams into the space, work with the 15 staff the lab has, or attend workshops run out of the lab.
"You can't under estimate the actual physical space and what it does to people as well," he said.
"The neutrality of the space is important because it removes the hierarchy, it removes some of the power games that sometimes agencies unintentionally have, and when they come together they can focus on what's important -- the customer."
However, changing up an environment can create a clash of cultures, which is something Thurston said he has been experiencing.
"We're hosted by a very traditional government agency ... but the lean startup style approach that we brought into the lab has caused some tensions," he said.
"Leaders need to recognise that this okay and bringing an innovation team together will challenge the status quo significantly internally but also with your agency partners as well."
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Name: Dr. Richard Detlev Loewenberg (1940s, 1950s)
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Richard Detlev Loewenberg was born as the son of Jenny and Jakob Loewenberg in Hamburg in 1898. He studied medicine at the Universities of Goettingen, Freiburg and Hamburg, where he received his M.D. degree in 1923. Following an internship and residencies in internal medicine and neurology, he was assistant in neuropsychiatry at the University Hospital in Hamburg from 1929 to 1933. In 1931 he married Sophie Borowicz. Their son Peter was born two years later. After the Nazis came to power, the family immigrated to Shanghai, where Richard D. Loewenberg continued to work as instructor and part-time consultant at the Shanghai Mercy Hospital for Nervous Diseases from 1933 to 1937. Afterwards he immigrated to California and started to work at St Joseph's Hospital where he passed his State Board examination in 1939. After three more years of staff work in the same hospital, he became Assistant Division Surgeon at the Western Pacific Railroad Hospital in Portola, CA. Later he went to Bakersfield, CA where he worked as the Director of Mental Hygiene Division at the Kern County Health Department and as Chief of Neuropsychiatric Service at the Kern General Hospital. In 1946 he was certified as psychiatrist by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. In 1948 he had to give up his position but continued publishing articles about medical and general subjects. Later he started to lecture at the University of Southern California where he died of an apoplexy during one of his lectures on April 29, 1954.
Dr. Peter Loewenberg is the son of Richard Loewenberg, psychoanalyst and historian.
Peter Loewenberg was born during the time that Hitler acceded to power in Germany. His father's concern for the safety of his family during Hitler's reign led him to research various countries to move to, eventually settling in Shanghai, China. It is there that Loewenberg spent the first four years of his life. He was later raised in Bakersfield, California. His father was a university psychiatrist and a humanist who wrote on Kant, Lichtenberg, and Nietzsche. His mother, who had been a socialist activist in the Weimar Republic, was a public health nurse.
Loewenberg traced his parents activism and sacrifice to his pursuance of a diverse and profound education in 20th-century European cultural history, Austro-German history, and political psychology, as he saw it. "My intense conviction of the value of dual training has a personal, subjective source as well as the power of its subsequent value for my own work as a historian." He was educated at the left-wing University of California, Berkeley and the Free University of Berlin.
With collaboration between Nancy Chodorow at the University of California at Berkeley and Bob Nemiroff at the University of California at San Diego, Loewenberg was one of the founders of the University of California Interdisciplinary Psychoanalytic Consortium, and the coordinator for their first meeting which consisted of 30 faculty and graduate students from the 10 different campuses of the University of California, in 1993. His view is that psychoanalysis allows the historian "to more effectively move back and forth across the internal boundaries between conscious, pre-conscious, and unconscious processes."
Sources: Leo Baeck Institute, New York
Note Author: Dr. Vladimir Melamed
Records or Manuscript Collections Created by Dr. Richard Detlev Loewenberg
Richard Loewenberg Papers, 1940s, 1950s, 1940-195
Digital Content Created by Dr. Richard Detlev Loewenberg
RG-25.01, Letter from Richard Loewenberg to Hanna Fenichel, December 22, 1946
RG-25.02, Letter from Hanna Fenichel to Richard Loewenberg, May 10, 1948
RG-25.03, Letter to Richard Loewenberg from Hanna Fenichel, June 14, 1948
RG-25.05, Letter from Richard Loewenberg to Hanna Fenichel, June 8, 1948
RG-25.06, Letter from Richard Loewenberg to Hanna Fenichel, March 17, 1947
RG-25.08, Letter from Richard Loewenberg to Hanna Fenichel, October 2, 1952
RG-25.10, Letter from Richard Loewenberg to Hanna Fenichel, August 15, 1952
RG-25.12, Letter from Richard Loewenberg to Hanna Fenichel, October 17, 1952
RG-25.14, Letter from Richard Loewenberg to Hanna Fenichel, November 1, 1952
RG-25.19, International Society for General Semantic, Richard Loewenberg, undated
RG-25.20, Richard Loewenberg, opening of his office, note to Hanna Fenichel, ca 1948
RG-25.21, Richard Loewenberg, a note to Hanna Fenichel, January 11, 1947
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Black-headed Spider Monkey
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The black-headed spider monkey is a type of monkey found in Panama, Columbia, and Ecuador. There are 2 subspecies of the black-headed spider monkey:
Ateles fusciceps fusciceps – Ecuador
Ateles fusciceps rufiventris – southwest Colombia to eastern Panama
Curious black-headed spider monkey
The Ateles fusciceps fusciceps from Ecuador lives in tropical and subtropical forests that are beteen 100 and 1700 meters above sea level. They live in population densities of about 1.2 monkeys per square kilometer. This is opposed to the Ateles fosciceps rufiventris of Colombia and Panama which live in dry, humid, and cloud forests and can live up to 2000 to 2500 meters above sea level.
The Ecuadorian black-headed spider monkey has either a black or brown body and a brown head. On the other hand, the Colombian-Panama black-headed spider monkey is entirely black in color except for a bit of white on its chin.
It moves about by climbing trees and brachiation. When it mates, females will be with its male partner for up to 3 days, otherwise it will mate with several males. Mating occurs with both genders face to face, and can last up to 5 to 10 minutes. The gestation period for about 7 to 8 months. After this, the infant black-headed spider monkey rides on its mother's back for about 16 weeks, and is weaned when the infant is 20 months old. Females give birth every 3 years.
Black-headed spider monkey at the Cleveland Zoo
According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (ICUN0, the black-headed spider monkey is considered as critically endanged. This is because they have lost about 80% of its population over a 45 year span from hunting and humans encroaching on its habitat. In captivity, they can live for more than 24 years.
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The 2013 USASA Region I National Cup will be a qualifying tournament to determine which clubs from the first region of the United States Adult Soccer Association will qualify for the first round proper of the 2013 U.S. Open Cup.

Two teams from Region I will qualify for the U.S. Open Cup in May.  The winner will then qualify for the National Finals.

Qualification

Bracket

≈ NY originally won 1-0 but there was an issue at the league level that caused the decision to replay the game.
° The Screaming Eagles were disqualified due to fielding ineligible players. The Aegean Hawks were advanced in their place.

Matches

See also
 2013 U.S. Open Cup
 2013 U.S. Open Cup qualification
 United States Adult Soccer Association

References

USASA Region I National Cup
2013


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Tag Archives: Borussia Monchengladbach
Bundesliga, Club Soccer, English Premier League
Time is right for Michael Bradley move to Aston Villa
Michael Bradley's loan move from the Bundesliga in Germany to the English Premier League will help the player keep growing and it will be another challenge for the American midfielder.
Michael Bradley made the best of his chances in Germany with Borussia Monchengladbach, but right now, as Gladbach sit in last place in the Bundesliga, and Michael Fink's arrival at the club on loan, Bradley needs to get out. Aston Villa signed the American midfielder on loan for the rest of the season. It's about time he moves on and test his American spirit in the English Premier League, a league tailored to his style. .
Bradley will find himself in a similar situation at Villa to the one he leaves behind in Gladbach. Aston Villa is fighting the relegation battle too, but it has better prospects than its German counterparts. Things look brighter these days at Villa Park.
Gerard Houllier has the team fighting again. He has removed a few of the cancers in the side that were sleep-walking through the season (looking at you Stephen Ireland). The one piece Houllier is missing, a hard-working and young holding midfielder who can break up an opponents attack and spring a counter-attack. He gets that missing piece with the arrival of Bradley.
Tagged Aston Villa, Borussia Monchengladbach, Bundesliga, English Premier League, Gerard Houllier, Michael Bradley, Transfer


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Gold-D brand is founded by 2 cats, Ken Ken and Gold-D who were both were FIV+.
Ken Ken was abused while Gold-D was abandoned. Very lucky for them, they were rescued by a shelter and given a 2nd chance in life.
their lives crossed path when they were both adopted and later co found Gold-D brand.
Ken Ken and Gold-D's story is told in the award winning documentary "We are not a nuisance".
For this reason, we always work and support shelters in the countries we are in.
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Good Saturday morning, New Jersey! It was a windy, wet, and pretty wild night across the state, especially along the coast. Our coastal storm (nor'easter) isn't done quite yet. Here are a few updates as you start your day.
A colorful warnings and advisories map for NJ.
Along the coast, our wind forecast has (unfortunately) verified well. Further inland, gusts have been about 10 mph slower than expected.
We're right in the period of peak winds as of this writing (7-8 a.m.) Power outages, downed tree limbs, driving difficulties, and airborne Halloween decorations will continue to be problems.
Gusts will slowly subside as the morning presses on. I still think we'll transition from windy to breezy this afternoon.
High tide is expected along the ocean Saturday morning between 9 and 10 a.m. Bays are forecast to peak as late as early afternoon. This is still the only high tide cycle that raises a significant flooding concern.
Since the worst-case scenario wind forecast came true, I have every reason to believe the storm surge and coastal flooding forecast is on-track. For the northern Jersey Shore — that's Ocean and Monmouth counties, including the Raritan Bay — 2 to 3 feet of surge will produce widespread moderate to localized major flooding during Saturday morning's high tide cycle. The southern coast — Atlantic and Cape May counties — will be minor to moderate flooding of tidal waterways. The waterways in northeastern New Jersey, along the Delaware Bay, and the Delaware River will experience some swell and minor flooding.
8+ foot ocean waves will also batter the beaches throughout Saturday, leading to some beach erosion and a high risk of dangerous rip currents.
The heaviest, steadiest rain appears to be behind us now. Having said that, it's still going to be a wet and soggy day across New Jersey. Areas of rain should become more scattered and broken apart through this afternoon, largely exiting South Jersey by Saturday mid-afternoon. Showers will likely persist in North Jersey until late Saturday evening.
Hopefully you're staying safe and sound, and will remain so until this nasty nor'easter leaves us alone. Sunday's weather is still looking much drier, calmer, and brighter — I think all the organizations that postponed outdoor events from Saturday to Sunday will be pleased with their decision.
I do not anticipate another weather blog post about this coastal storm, but our news and traffic teams will continue to keep you updated on power outages, flooding, road closures, accidents, etc. The best way to stay informed is with our free mobile app, which will send instant notifications of critical information.
You can also send us photos and videos of the storm, damage, flooding, etc. right through the app! Or via social media — it's extremely helpful to actually see what's happening across the Garden State.


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1900, End and beginning of a century: Poverty, misery, tuberculosis
End and beginning of a century: Poverty, misery, tuberculosis
United Kingdom, Oxford
1928 - Alexander Fleming: discovers Penicillin
Penicillin (sometimes abbreviated PCN or pen) is a group of antibiotics derived from Penicillium fungi. Penicillin antibiotics are historically significant because they are the first drugs that were effective against many previously serious diseases such as syphilis and Staphylococcus infections. Penicillins are still widely used today, though many types of bacteria are now resistant. All penicillins are Beta-lactam antibiotics and are used in the treatment of bacterial infections caused by susceptible, usually Gram-positive, organisms. The term "penicillin" can also refer to the mixture of substances that are naturally, and organically, produced Sir Alexander Fleming (August 6, 1881 – March 11, 1955) discovered the antibiotic substance lysozyme and isolated the antibiotic substance penicillin from the fungus Penicillium notatum. In September 1928, he was sorting through the many idle experiments strewn about his lab. He inspected each specimen before discarding it and noticed an interesting fungal colony had grown as a contaminant on one of the agar plates streaked with the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus. Fleming inspected the Petri dish further and found that the bacterial colonies around the fungus were transparent because their cells were undergoing the process of lysis. Lysis is the breakdown of cells, and in this case, potentially harmful bacteria. The importance was immediately recognized; however, the discovery was still underestimated. Fleming issued a publication about penicillin in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology in 1929. Fleming worked with the mould for some time, but refining and growing it was a difficult process better suited to chemists. Fleming"s impression was that, because of the problem of producing the drug in quantity and because its action seemed slow, it would not be an important resource for treating infection. Furthermore, his initial paper was not well received in the medical community. Fleming, therefore, did not pursue the subject further. It was left to two other scientists, Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain, to develop a method of purifying penicillin to an effective form. Through their work, the drug was available for mass distribution during World War II. For his achievements, Fleming was knighted in 1944. Fleming, Florey, and Chain were the joint recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945. Florey was later given the honor of a peerage for his monumental work in making penicillin available to the public and saving millions of lives in World War II. In 1928, bacteriologist Alexander Fleming made a chance discovery from an already discarded, contaminated Petri dish. The mold that had contaminated the experiment turned out to contain a powerful antibiotic, penicillin. However, though Fleming was credited with the discovery, it was over a decade before someone else turned penicillin into the miracle drug for the 20th century.
1928 - Alexander Fleming discovers Penicillin
1993 - The UN flees Somalia
United Nations Operation in Somalia II (UNOSOM II) was the second phase of the United Nations intervention in Somalia, from March 1993 until March 1995. UNOSOM II carried on from the United States-controlled (but UN-sanctioned) Unified Task Force (UNITAF), which had in turn taken over from the ineffectual United Nations Operation in Somalia I (UNOSOM I) mission. All three of these interventions were aimed at creating a secure enough environment for humanitarian operations to be carried out in the increasingly lawless and famine-stricken country. The UNOSOM II intervention is well-known for the Battle of Mogadishu and the resulting events portrayed in the book Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War, and its associated film Black Hawk Down. On October 3, 1993, Task Force Ranger raided a hotel in Mogadishu in which Aidid was thought to be hiding. What ensued was the longest, bloodiest and deadliest battle for US troops in Somalia. In what later became known as the Battle of Mogadishu, eighteen US soldiers were killed. Images of their dead bodies being dragged through the streets were broadcast on television stations all over the world, horrifying and infuriating the American public.
SD RM German
A man is operated on
Afghan hospital: Neglected hospital in Afghanistan during the war, laboratory, men queuing for prescription, nurse, assistant, counting pills
Afghanistan: Hospital, wounded children, 1998
African hospital: Doctors and nurses in the operation room, medical operation
Agent Orange: story of Hoa
The 1-meter-high Bui Thi Hoa is 27 years old. She is living in the Friendship Children's village not far from Hanoi... The village was established by an American veteran for the victims of the Agent Orange: story of Hoa Agent Orange was the herbicide, what between 1965 and '71 the U.S. Army's sprayed 72 million liters onto Vietnam forests, to obliterate the dense jungles. But it caused not only their downfall ...
AIDS: Rock Hudson becomes the first celebrity victim of AIDS, the search begins for "patient zero" - 4min.
AIDS becomes front page news in 1985 when Rock Hudson announces his homosexuality, and also that he is carrying the disease. The disease starts to spread within the homosexual community, and researchers struggle to contain the disease. They begin to look for "Patient Zero," or the first carrier of the disease within the US. Soon this search leads to a Canadian flight attendant. Rock Hudson died less than 3 months after he announced he was suffering from the disease, on October 2, 1985. AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, sometimes written Aids) is a human disease characterized by progressive destruction of the bodys immune system. AIDS is caused by Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection. To date, there are no cures for either HIV infection nor AIDS, which are chronic medical conditions, but which are treatable by a variety of antiretroviral drugs. This treatment delays the progression of HIV infection to AIDS, and reduces the rates of morbidity and mortality attributable to the disease. Rock Hudson (November 17, 1925 - October 2, 1985) was an American actor, famous for his rugged good looks. The first major American celebrity to admit that he had AIDS, his announcement of and subsequent death from the disease at the age of fifty-nine brought it to wider public attention in the United States .
AIDS: Rock Hudson's death puts AIDS into the spotlight, researchers struggle to find the cause of the disease - 2min.
AIDS: Research Laboratory in USA
AIDS: interviews with experten
Aids: Rock Hudson, photo, actor, hiv, patient, disease, movie, star, film, illness, infection
Aids: Study, hiv, report, Kaposi's sarcoma, homosexuality, gay
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Q: How do you autosize a winform? I have a form.. I want to bring it to 400 by 400 from 1000 by 1000.. when i drag it in the design mode..scroll bars appear and it content of the board doesnt shrink proportionally with my shrinking (by dragging the corner of the winform form inwards)..
How can i autosize the content of the form with my mouse drag?

A: Look into Dock and Anchor properties for your controls.  Winforms does not scale the way WPF does with its vectors-- it's pixel based.
Either that, or make sure your AutoScrollMinSize is equal to 0, 0
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On a button, if I highlight the gray bars for my anchors, the button will stay move with the bottom-right corner of the form.


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