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Texas is looking for more money for roads, and the question of how the state spends its motor fuels tax funds is likely to gain traction in the legislative session. In 2014 motor fuels tax revenue was $3.3 billion, or 6.5 percent of all state tax collections. This substantial pot of money results from the state's 20 cents per gallon motor fuels tax on gasoline and diesel, a rate that hasn't changed since 1991. Everyone agrees that the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) needs more funding, but with little political will to raise taxes and a demonstrated need to find money for Texas highways, the "diversions" from the State Highway Fund are raising some eyebrows.
What is the Gas Tax?
Texas' tax on gasoline and diesel primarily funds TxDOT and education, as defined in the state Constitution. But millions of gas tax dollars fund other needs, and ending diversions from the gas tax revenue could place a number of other activities into competition for General Revenue with investments in education and health and human services.
The Constitution says one-quarter of motor fuel taxes must go directly to the Available School Fund (ASF), which funds instructional materials, and then is distributed to school districts on a per-student basis. In 2014 the ASF received $810 million in motor fuel taxes. The remaining three-quarters is sent to the State Highway Fund, which received $2.42 billion in motor fuel taxes in 2014.
But the Highway Fund is used for a variety of purposes other than funding TxDOT, known as "diversions," but which are related to the constitutionally designated responsibilities of policing public roadways and administering laws regarding traffic and road safety. As a result, the Legislature allows appropriations from the Highway Fund to the Department of Public Safety ($475 million in 2014) and the Department of Motor Vehicles ($49 million). Notably, the Legislature reduced the appropriation to DMV from $156 million in 2013. Other diversions for related needs accounted for only $22.6 million:
Appropriation Amount (millions)
State Office of Administrative Hearings* $3.2
Department of Insurance** $5.0
Attorney General (TxDOT legal services) $5.9
Texas A&M Transportation Institute (research) $8.4
*DPS administrative license revocation program **Database for instant auto insurance verification by law enforcement
The Legislature also used the Highway Fund to support salary increases for state employees in the agencies listed above ($13.5 million), with a separate increase for DPS troopers ($28.1 million). As done throughout the budget, the Legislature also made separate line-item appropriations from the Highway Fund for associated employee benefits ($376 million).
If the Legislature decides to end the diversion of the motor fuels tax but still wishes to fund DPS, DMV, and the related smaller programs, then the Finance and Appropriations Committees will have to identify another source of support for these programs. With public schools still not funded at their pre-recession per-student level and numerous unmet health and human service needs, the Legislature should go slow on redirecting gasoline tax revenue exclusively to TxDOT.
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I beg to differ sir. Gasoline Tax should be used for what it is intended for. ROADS. Property Taxes pay for schools and education, emergency services etc. Stop sugar coating the reality of our legislative ineptitude. They are so blatantly lost, so hopelessly lacking in financial acumen and so careless that they have created a system that the citizens must now interfere and tell them what to do.
Gas Tax for roads
Property taxes for schools & education & Emegency services
Sales tax for General funds
The Texas Toll Road Class Action Lawsuit seeks to abolish toll roads in Texas…like the failed SH130 project that is now in Bankruptcy! Citizens funded it and now they are on the hook to pay for it anyway out of foreclosure.
Your facts are inadequate and frankly read like you're on the payroll for the lobbyists that want tolls.
Chris Norman 16.03.2016
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Open Government State Records Committee
State Records Committee Appeal Decision 2019-23
BEFORE THE STATE RECORDS COMMITTEE OF THE STATE OF UTAH
ROLF KAESTEL, Petitioner, v.
UTAH DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Respondent.
DECISION AND ORDER
Case No. 19-23
By this appeal, Petitioner, Rolf Kaestel, seeks access to records held by Respondent, Utah Department of Corrections ("Corrections").
On or about March 27, 2019, Corrections received Mr. Kaestel's request for a record pursuant to the Government Records Access and Management Act ("GRAMA"). Mr. Kaestel requested, "[a]ll diabetes-related diagnostics in [his] file between 1999 and December 31, 2007." Mr. Kaestel noted that he was indigent and on the GRAMA request form, requested that any copies of the records requested be provided without charge.
On April 3, 2019, Corrections denied the request noting that Mr. Kaestel was not indigent pursuant to the Corrections' policy. Mr. Kaestel appealed the denial stating that he was challenging the constitutionality of Corrections' policy and claiming a lack of due process. Corrections' Deputy Director James Hudspeth upheld the denial of the fee waiver.
Thereafter, Mr. Kaestel filed an appeal with the State Records Committee ("Committee"). After hearing oral argument and testimony on August 8, 2019, carefully considering the requested relief of the parties, the Committee issues the following Decision and Order.
STATEMENT OF REASONS FOR DECISION
1.	A governmental entity may charge a reasonable fee to cover the governmental entity's actual cost of providing a record. Utah Code § 63G-2-203(1). Actual costs may include the cost of staff time searching, retrieving, and other direct administrative costs complying with the request. Utah Code § 63G-2-203(2)(a)(ii). An hourly charge may not exceed the salary of the lowest paid employee who has the necessary skill and training to perform the request. Utah Code § 63G-2-203(2)(b). Additionally, no charge may be made for the first quarter hour of staff time. Utah Code § 63G-2-203(2)(c).
2.	GRAMA specifies that a governmental entity "may fulfill a record request without charge" and is encouraged to do so when it determines that: (1) Releasing the record primarily benefits the public rather than a person; (2) The individual requesting the record is the subject of the record, or an individual specified in Subsection 63G-2-202(1) or (2); or (3) The requester's legal rights are directly implicated by the information in the record, and the requester is impecunious. Utah Code § 63G-2-203(4)(a-c).
3.	A person who believes that there has been an unreasonable denial of a fee waiver under Utah Code § 63G-2-203(4) may appeal the denial in the same manner as a person appeals when inspection of a public record is denied under Utah Code § 63G-2-205. Utah Code § 63G-2-203(6)(a). The adjudicative body hearing the appeal shall review the fee waiver de novo, but shall review and consider the governmental entity's denial of the fee and any determination under Utah Code § 63G-2-203(4)(a-c). Utah Code § 63G-2-203(6)(b)(i). Additionally, the adjudicative body has the same authority when a fee waiver or reduction is denied as it has when the inspection of a public record is denied. Utah Code § 63G-2-203(6)(b)(ii).
4.	After having reviewed the written and oral arguments of the parties, the Committee finds that there was not an unreasonable denial of Mr. Kaestel's request for a fee waiver. Mr. Kaestel's request does not primarily benefit the public. Corrections has made a determination that Mr. Kaestel is not impecunious pursuant to Utah Code § 64-13-23. While Mr. Kaestel is the subject of the records, fulfilling the request could be burdensome because it involves records being researched up to 20 years prior to the present. Further, it is unclear how the records implicate Mr. Kaestel's legal rights because the records could be produced through discovery.
THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED THAT the appeal of Petitioner, Rolf Kaestel, is hereby DENIED.
A party to a proceeding before the Committee may seek judicial review in District Court of a Committee's Order by filing a petition for review of the Committee Order as provided in Utah Code § 63G-2-404. Utah Code § 63G-2-403(14). A petition for judicial review of a Committee Order "shall be filed no later than 30 days" after the date of the Committee Order. Utah Code § 63G-2-404(1)(a). The petition for judicial review must be a complaint which is governed by the Utah Rules of Civil Procedure and include the Committee as a necessary party and contain the required information listed in Subsection -404(2). Utah Code § 63G-2-404(1) & (2). The court shall make its decision de novo but shall allow introduction of evidence presented to the Committee, determine all questions of fact and law without a jury, and decide the issue at the earliest practical opportunity. Utah Code § 63G-2-404(6). In order to protect a parties' rights on appeal, a party may wish to seek advice from an attorney.
PENALTY NOTICE
Pursuant to Utah Code § 63G-2-403(15)(c), if the Committee orders the governmental entity to produce a record and no appeal is filed, the government entity herein shall comply with the order of the Committee and shall: (1) Produce the record; and (2) File a notice of compliance with the Committee. If the governmental entity ordered to produce a record fails to file a notice of compliance or a notice of intent to appeal, the Committee may do either or both of the following: (1) Impose a civil penalty of up to $500 for each day of continuing noncompliance; or (2) Send written notice of the entity's noncompliance to the Governor. Utah Code § 63G-2-403(15)(d)(i)(B). In imposing a civil penalty, the Committee shall consider the gravity and circumstances of the violation, including whether the failure to comply was due to neglect or was willful or intentional. Utah Code § 63G-2-403(15)(d)(ii).
Entered this 19th day of August 2019
BY THE STATE RECORDS COMMITTEE
TOM HARALDSEN, Chairperson
State Records Committee
Page Last Updated August 20, 2019 .

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One of the greatest competitive pipers of his generation, Willie McCallum has decided to commit himself full-time to playing, teaching and furthering the art. On Friday he will leave his career as an accountant at the University of Strathclyde so that he can fulfill more requests for his time as a teacher, recitalist, adjudicator and bagpipe designer.
McCallum decided to pursue an option to work full-time as a piper when the university presented a proposal that made it possible.
He stresses that he's not about to hang up the brogues as a competitor just yet, even though he's won just about everything there is to win in competitive solo piping – many events several times over.
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"I have every faith from my current involvement with McCallum Bagpipes that as a team we can make minor adjustments in order to make even more outstanding instruments in the future," McCallum said.
He'll also work to expand his current business, Willie McCallum Piping, increasing, among other things, the retail side of the business.
The change will mean that McCallum will have more time for workshops and private tuition, taking on more students either in-person or via Skype lessons. He currently teaches several high-profile solo pipers, including Glenn Brown, Peter Hunt, Andrea Boyd and Alasdair Henderson.
McCallum joins a growing list of top-level solo pipers who have decided to turn their piping talent into a full-time career, something that only 20 years ago was a rarity for civilians.
Glad to hear it Willie and all the very best in your endeavours!
Congratulations Willie! Everyone that knows you is happy for you.
Absolutely terrific news for Willie and the piping world.
Best of luck with the new venture, Willie, we're sure you will be as successful as you have been with everything else that you do. Pauline and Owen.


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The Nonsense Singers of the Red Forest by Rick Moody
Story by Rick Moody
Illustrations by Morgan Elliot
Times were tough for Nonsense Singers.
It used to be, in the old days, that The Nonsense Singers of the Red Forest sang at every birth, every wedding, every time a house went up, every time a child was declared fully grown.
They sang happy songs like:
Bim Bim McGree, Bim Bim McGree
Soaked his plash grath in Fong Tong Sea
Upsala upsala gla gla glee
Don't plock your flocked sock
Or you'll land in a tree
They sang sad songs like:
O na na dimmer dammer
Why so blue?
Stepped on a gash bagger
Tra La La Lu Lu . . .
But times had changed.
What were people doing instead of listening to nonsense songs? You know how people are! They get busy. In the Blue Village, there was a sport having to do with pine cones. You hit the pine cones with a big flat bat. In Greenville, it was the year of feasting, and every night you had to decide: chicken or fish? Good friends found themselves on opposite sides. There were arguments.
Mostly what people did was work, and then they went to bed. Sometimes between work and bed they paused to gaze at the fire in the fireplace. If people were feeling merry, they might tell a story or sing a song. But since the drought, which was now seven years old, not so much merriment.
The Nonsense Singers were like any other people. Claude Otis, for example, the leader of the Nonsense Singers, worked at rope-making in Orange Grove. And there he sang to himself. That was all the singing he did these days, now that almost no one was interested in nonsense singing. He made up songs now and again, like he'd always done. For example, he made up this song:
Batta batta batta batta
Kiff ding and a
Mongo-matta-tatta
Not a ming sing or a fish thing
But mongo-matta-tatta
And bang bang everything, bang bing, bang bing.
People at the job said that Claude's singing distracted them. They said he needed to concentrate more.
What camaraderie they had all once felt, the Nonsense Singers of the Red Forest! How they all loved one another! Claude loved Rip Nostrum, who had a big loud voice. Rip liked to do the special yelps that the Nonsense Singers used in the big choruses.
Rip Nostrum was present at Claude's wedding, and was godfather to Claude's twins Barry and Larry, and Claude had once caught Rip's own daughter Qicksilver, when she was falling out of a tree. Right into Claude's arms! The Nonsense Singers made up one of their rare relatively straightforward songs on this subject, "Don't Step Off of the Branch." You probably remember that one:
Don't step off of the branch
Don't step off the branch,
Don't step off of the branch,
You'll hurt your head.
You'll hurt your head, that's all we've said.
They had a lot of songs about trees, the Nonsense Singers, because they lived in a forest. They sang of trees without using too many of the proper tree words, because that is how Nonsense Singers do things: the long way around.
It probably would have gone along this way, with the Nonsense Singers getting day jobs in Blue Village or Orange Grove, singing together less and less often, were it not for the Battle of the Blanched Plains.
What to say now about all of this? Most of the people who caused the battle would deny they had anything to do with it. That's the way battles are. There's a dispute about some land—for example, a big rolling field that wouldn't grow a thing because of the drought—and everyone gets riled up, and no one will admit to being the one who shouted first. It's always the other people who started it.
So the Battle of the Blanched Plains started between the town of Vermillion and the town of Greenville, and the odd thing about these two towns, Vermillion and Greenville, is that they had nothing between them at all except the Red Forest. They were so close together that lots of folks moved back and forth between the two. Lots of folks had family both here and there.
Still, the towns fought and yelled and stamped their feet and threatened one another, over that field of gorse and bittersweet and milkweed. The Red Forest had to listen to all of it, because the people in the Red Forest were right between Greenville and Vermillion. Every time someone came walking through the forest, walking to the edge of the other town to hurl a bunch of insults, the citizens of the Red Forest had to hear it. Nobody wants to listen to that kind of thing. Not really.
Years went by in this way, bad behavior all around. All of this is preserved in song. For example, here's an old-fashioned nonsense ballad about the two Greenvillians walking through the Red Forest, toward Vermillion, planning to steal peaches, and it goes:
Guy number one:
Nog nog nog nog bim bam bee
Figgin Figgin Figgin oxinfree
Guy number two:
Gaddump gaddump gaddump gaddee
Fiddle faddle fiddle by the willow tree
You might ask who was it who overheard this alleged conversation, the conversation in the song, and who made that decision to pass the news of the peach theft on to the Vermillionaires, whose orchard it was. Why, that would be Elsie Quail! You know Elsie, probably, because of the statue. Elsie was short, with pink hair, large glasses, and a beautiful, warbly singing voice like a four-hundred pound soprano. Elsie was sitting in the highest branches of a sugar maple, getting ready to tap it for its sweet juice, when she overheard those two boys talking about stealing.
Oh beautiful vistas of our country! As she sat in the tree, Elsie would gaze upon the great blanched fields. In the distance, the mountains, the mesas, the buttes of the desert. Not a tree interrupted her view, and to Elsie it looked like a sweet and blessed land. What she did, of course, was pass the word of this peach theft she'd heard to one of the citizens of Vermillion, out harvesting in the field. With his friends, this Vermillionaire harvested all the peaches the very next day. No peaches left for the Greenvillains to take.
And from this a song was composed.
This kind of good citizenship, the kind in which a person with a big heart and a fine singing voice puts a stop to chest-thumping and peach theft, always causes trouble. So it was. Dennis Thunk, mayor of Greenville, threatened to take axes to each and every tree in the Red Forest, unless the tree-huggers, as he called those Nonsense Singers, would lay off playing sides. Elsie Quail got a righteous tongue-lashing by the elders of the forest, for all the trouble she caused, and one of elders happened to be her uncle.
The story might have ended there, with a nasty bit of comeuppance, if it were not for the fact that the Nonsense Singers had a skill that no one credited them with anymore. They made songs! And the Nonsense Singers could communicate in their songs. It came easily to them. So the singers, Rip and Claude and Tabitha Sprite, and all those other young, squeaky clean singers who had missed out on the early years of the Nonsense, but who heard about Elsie Quail, started perching up in the sugar maples of the Red Forest, singing what to all uninformed parties sounded like nonsense, blobbity, blob, blob, blobbity, blah, blah.
But that is not what the Nonsense Singers were singing in those days. They were sending messages to the women and children of Vermillion and Greenville and all the other towns surrounding, any town that was to be drawn into the Battle of the Blanched Plains. For example when they sang, Mickadun, mackadun, mickatee, manatee, mickadun, mackadun, mickatee, manatee, what they were really doing was describing who was sending armies, where, and who was plotting raids in the twilight, and who was going to burn the farmland. This is why, after a time, nobody's forces could manage to conquer anyone else's. The Battle of the Blanched Plains came to a sudden and undeniable halt. All because a bunch of no account singers were sitting in the trees singing their hearts out.
Of such things are stories of heroism made! Soon Claude was writing songs again, and so were all the rest of the Nonsense Singers. In fact, after the Battle of the Blanched Plains, Claude just wrote his best song ever, "The Blim Blam Suite," which had a lot of very tricky passages:
Simmin heather moo
Dimmin together foo loo loo
Marry your fidget to your gadget gather
And we'll all dance too loo loo
Till day is folderol dee folderoo
Nonsense Singing was in again. And Claude went from Sunday campfires to the launchings of new boats to the garlanding of teenagers to marriages and celebrations of anniversaries, and he sang because singing was what he loved to do. At his side were all of the other Nonsense Singers, Elsie and Rip and Nadine, all wearing cinnabar sashes, because that was what sowers of peace got in those days. Sashes.
Now, I know you're only reading these pages because you want to audition for the Nonsense Singers yourself, so I now will give you a few pointers for when you find yourself in front of the Nonsense Singers Audition Panel, which will be convening soon in early autumn. 1) Bring the panel something good to eat, because they like a snack, 2) Smile brightly, 3) Mention a house pet, especially if you have a house pet with a silly name, 4) Sing the strangest, weirdest, most nonsensical song you can think of, and don't worry if you botch it up or sing the wrong notes or wrong words, because the whole point here is that you should love the feeling of singing above all, and that means 5) Let every bit of joy in you out!
I wish you the best of luck with your audition.
Rick Moody is the author of nine books. He has received the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, The Paris Review's Aga Khan Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Harper's, and The New York Times. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Morgan Eljot is a novelist, comic book illustrator and totem pole carver. His work has appeared most recently in ZYZZYVA, The Literati, and England's Arts Pneumonia. He graduated from the MFA program at San Francisco State University and divides his time between San Francisco and his ancestral homeland of Helsinki, Finland.
Rick Moody is the author of nine books. He has received the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, The Paris Review's Aga Khan Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Harper's, and The New York Times. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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A pink UFO image sent to Paul Sinclair in 2009 during the height of the sightings.
A local newspaper report written more than a week later on September 24 said up to 50 people had seen the military arrival.
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He also video recorded high levels of military aircraft flying low and circling near his home in Bridlington, East Yorkshire, on September 18 that year.
It was not until 2014 when he interviewed the couple, aged in their 80s, about their experience in 2009, that he realised it was one of the UK's most important UFO incidents.
The couple lived in one of 30 flats that overlook the sea at Wilsthorpe.
Mr Sinclair told the conference that the woman described seeing on September 14 2009 15-feet long and eight-feet wide "spaceships over the sea".
The remote flat from where the elderly couple claimed to see up to 40 UFOs.
The woman said that after about half an hour, the "craft" flew off.
The next day the couple said they saw the military swarming all over the beach.
Mr Sinclair, who continues to investigate the case, has collated a record of other UFO sightings in the area from at least May 2009 that were either reported in local newspapers or directly to his website.
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Sketch of 'crucifix-shaped UFO' seen by retired police man David Holroyd, who saw three UFOs.
He revealed sightings that continued throughout June and July, including spheres of light over the sea, plus triangle, circular, and egg shaped craft.
Witnesses included trawler men and a retired police officer.
He also had reports of cars stopping working after a UFO sighting, including a black triangular object.
The vehicles worked fine again after the UFO flew out to sea.
These included an off-duty police man driving back from Barmston, East Yorkshire, whose car lights dimmed after a large tube-shaped UFO appeared.
Mr Sinclair said witnesses, including himself, also saw unusually high levels of military aircraft in the area at the peak of the sightings spate.
He said RAF helicopters had flown exceptionally low over his home at times, including when he recorded them three days after the military presence on September 18.
He said: "Why were these planes there? What was so important at the time?
"Does that mean there was a UFO presence, no, but it means there was a military presence.
Picturesque Wilsthorpe beach was mobbed by military after alleged UFO sightings.
He continues to investigate the case and is trying to obtain historic coastguard reports from the period.
In a post on his Truth Proof Facebook page about the case, he wrote: "When I filmed the helicopters I had no idea there would be any connection to a UFO incident.
"So far it has taken seven years to connect these events, mine and the people who have been bold enough to submit their accounts.
"As a collective they tell an amazing story that if true stands with the great UFO incidents of our time.
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(4339) Almamater ist ein Hauptgürtelasteroid, der am 20. Oktober 1985 von Antonín Mrkos vom Kleť-Observatorium aus entdeckt wurde.

Der Asteroid erhielt den Namen Almamater zu Ehren des 650-Jahre-Jubiläums der Karls-Universität Prag.

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As the Faculty's Deputy Executive Dean, Professor Bodman has a broad-ranging role that includes assisting the Executive Dean in the provision of leadership within the Faculty and Schools with regard to planning, performance and University strategic and operational alignment. Part of the Faculty leadership team, he supports the academic and operational objectives of the Faculty, including oversight of governance and major projects and initiatives.
Professor Bodman is a representative of the Executive Dean and Faculty to the external community and is responsible for developing and supporting continuous improvement initiatives for local, national and international collaborations and engagement activities. He also provides assistance to the Executive Dean in managing the finances of the Faculty.
Professor Bodman works with the Associate Dean Academic and Associate Dean Research to ensure that academic staff at all levels are able to undertake research and/or scholarship of teaching at the highest possible level of innovation and impact, including collaborative, industry-focused, and commercialisable research.
Professor Bodman has a background in economics teaching and research, specialising in macroeconomics, applied econometrics and labour economics. He won a national AAUT Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (COCSL) Award in 2011 as well as multiple awards for teaching within UQ. His international standing is reflected further through his role as an international discipline expert with the Hong Kong Council for the Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications (HKCAAVQ), leading accreditation panels in Hong Kong in the areas of economics, business, finance, accounting, management and tourism. In recognition of his work with the HKCAAVQ, he was appointed in 2017 as a non‐local auditor with the Hong Kong Quality Assurance Council (QAC).
Professor Bodman was the Faculty's Associate Dean (Academic) from September 2011 to December 2017, where he led the Faculty's student-focused operations and was instrumental in the restructuring of the BEL Student Experience Team. In 2017, he won the University's Award for Excellence in Leadership in recognition of his contributions to the Faculty as an energetic, innovative, and reliable leader with a vision for change.


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was a railway station on the Sekihoku Main Line in Kitami, Hokkaido, Japan, operated by Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido). Opened in 1914, the station closed in March 2016.

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Kanehana Station was served by the Sekihoku Main Line, and was unstaffed. It was numbered "A54".

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Adjacent stations

History
The station opened on 5 October 1914 as . It was renamed Kanehana on 20 July 1951. The station was destaffed in 1983. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR Hokkaido.

JR Hokkaido announced in July 2015 that it planned to close the station from the start of the revised timetable in March 2016, citing low passenger usage figures. The station closed following the last day of services on 25 March 2016.

Surrounding area
 National Route 242

See also
 List of railway stations in Japan

References

External links

 JR Hokkaido station information

Railway stations in Hokkaido Prefecture
Stations of Hokkaido Railway Company
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1914
Railway stations closed in 2016
2016 disestablishments in Japan


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Friday Sermon: The Prophet and The Community of Trust
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بِسْمِ اللّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ
اِنَّا عَرَضْنَا الْاَمَانَةَ عَلَى السَّمٰوَاتِ وَالْاَرْضِ وَالْجِبَالِ فَاَبَيْنَ اَنْ يَحْمِلْنَهَا وَاَشْفَقْنَ مِنْهَا وَحَمَلَهَا الْاِنْسَانُۜ اِنَّهُ كَانَ ظَلُوماً جَهُولاًۙ
One day, our Prophet (pbuh) called out to people of Macca from Mount Safa near the Ka'ba. "Would you believe me if I tell you that there is an army waiting to attack you behind this valley?" The Meccans responded all together, "Yes, we would, since you are a trustworthy person. We have never heard you tell a lie. You are the model of honesty and righteousness." Upon this, the Messenger of Allah said, "I am warning you of a painful torment." And in the presence of the Meccans, he invited all humanity to have faith in Allah. He invited them to find pardon (aman) in faith (imaan), to be safe from all kinds of fear and worries.
Beloved Brothers and Sisters!
We have started the week of the holy birth, which is the common era anniversary of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) honoring the world. It is a week that The Turkish Directorate of Religious Affairs has initiated and celebrated since 1989 with the motto "to understand the honorable Prophet by remembering him". It is a cultural and scholarly activity that helps the love for the Messenger in the believers' hearts increase and the beauties he offered the humanity be better acknowledged. This week is not an alternative to the Mawlid night that we celebrate according to the Islamic calendar.
Dear Believers!
Our Lord Almighty states in the Quran, "Indeed, we offered the Trust to the heavens and the earth and the mountains, and they declined to bear it and feared it; but man [undertook to] bear it." (33/72)
The greatest blessing Allah bestowed on us after imaan is aman, the security. Our Lord entrusted the universe to humanity and commanded us to establish a secure world. He wants us to construct a world where the neighbor trusts the other neighbor; the employee trusts the employer... How sad it is that today, because the humanity cannot observe this trust properly, we are going through a crisis of trust on a global scale.
The events that devastate individual and social relationships occur successively. Day by day, human-human relationships as well as human-nature relationships are deteriorating. And day by day, our world is becoming more and more insecure.
Brothers and sisters!
Just by looking around ourselves, we see an atmosphere of chaos, distrust and fear. To meet the need of security, extraordinary security measures are taken, making use of all the means of technology. This security crisis has reached such an extent that the safety and the future of the Earth, the home of all humanity, is in great danger. Because of the everlasting greed and cupidity of humans, the equilibrium and harmony of the universe have started to derange. I regret to say that the Muslim community could not save themselves from such problems. Cities of Islam historically known as "the land of peace and security" are now being destroyed by lawless wars that recognize no principles or morality.
It is for this reason that the theme of the Holy Birth Week 2017 has been chosen by the Directorate of Religious Affairs as "The Prophet and the Community of Trust". With the activities organized, we are hoping to evoke consciousness and awareness in the hearts of the believers to regain the title of the community of trust and become the trustworthy (al-amin) ummah of the trustworthy (al-amin) Prophet (pbuh). It is hoped to contribute to construct a safe, peaceful and livable world.
Esteemed brothers and sisters!
The common goal of all prophets is to proclaim the faith of tawheed (oneness of God) to humanity; to place faith in the hearts; through faith, to unite hearts, minds, bodies, cities and countries with safety; to provide people with a peaceful society where the lives, beliefs, families, properties and dignities are secured. The Prophet, who is sent as a mercy to the worlds, spent his life in struggle for this goal. He established a firm line between imaan and aman (faith and security), and the believer and being trustworthy. He defined a Muslim as "the one from whose tongue and hand the people are safe."
Today, as the ummah of the trusted Prophet (pbuh), our share is to become trusted believers. When we become trustworthy, it is then that the aman, the protection of Allah will be with us. It is Him who protects us from all sorts of fear, sorrow, worries and grief. When we become trusted believers, it is then that we can expect trust and safety from our environment. It is then that our houses, offices, neighborhoods, cities, countries and the world will be safe, because the safe world can be constructed by trustworthy people, amin believers. We must remember that the religion is trust. The believer is the one who is trusted. Humanity is entrusted to the human.
I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the week of the holy birth and pray to our Lord Almighty that this week be a means of goodness for our country, nation, brothers and sisters of faith, and for the entire humanity.
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The 2021 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships were held between 11 and 14 February 2021, at Thialf in Heerenveen, Netherlands.

Schedule
All times are local (UTC+1).

Russia doping ban
On 9 December 2019, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) banned Russia from all international sport for a period of four years, after the Russian government was found to have tampered with laboratory data that it provided to WADA in January 2019 as a condition of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency being reinstated. As a result of the ban, WADA plans to allow individually cleared Russian athletes to take part in the 2021-2022 World Championships and 2022 Summer Olympics under a neutral banner, as instigated at the 2018 Winter Olympics, but they will not be permitted to compete in team sports. The title of the neutral banner has yet to be determined; WADA Compliance Review Committee head Jonathan Taylor stated that the IOC would not be able to use "Olympic Athletes from Russia" (OAR) as it did in 2018, emphasizing that neutral athletes cannot be portrayed as representing a specific country. Russia later filed an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against the WADA decision. After reviewing the case on appeal, CAS ruled on 17 December 2020 to reduce the penalty that WADA had placed on Russia. Instead of banning Russia from sporting events, the ruling allowed Russia to participate at the Olympics and other international events, but for a period of two years, the team cannot use the Russian name, flag, or anthem and must present themselves as "Neutral Athlete" or "Neutral Team". The ruling does allow for team uniforms to display "Russia" on the uniform as well as the use of the Russian flag colors within the uniform's design, although the name should be up to equal predominance as the "Neutral Athlete/Team" designation.

Medal summary

Medal table

Men's events

Women's events

References

2021 Single Distances
2021 in speed skating
World Single Distances, 2021
2021 in Dutch sport
February 2021 sports events in the Netherlands
Sports competitions in Heerenveen


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