Christopher Lennertz (born January 2, 1972) is a composer, arranger, producer and conducter of video games, films, television shows, and records. He was born in Boston, and moved to Easton, Pennsylvania at age 9, where he then began professional music training, learning to play the trumpet and the guitar.
He studied composition, jazz arranging and theory in high school. He attended The University of Southern California's Thorton School of Music where he met Eric Kripke, the creator of the TV show Supernatural.
He collaborated with Kripke on two short films, one of which won the Audience Award at the Slamdance film festival. He would later work with Kripke again on the score for Supernatural. He worked for composers Basil Poledouris and Michael Kamen after college.
In 2002, Cinemusic named him Best New Composer for his work on Clive Barker's 'Saint Sinner', and this score was named one of the top ten scores of the year by the Film Music Review. He collaborated with Ozomatli on their record 'Street Signs', which won a Grammy award for Best Latin Rock Album.
In 2004, EA awarded him an Interactive Academy Award for his work on 'Medal of Honor: Rising Sun', the first of three 'Medal of Honor' games composed by him. He scored the music from 'Supernatural' in conjunction with composer Jay Gruska, and was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2006 for his score for the pilot episode.
Among his more recent works are the scores from 'The Comebacks' from FOX, 'The Simpsons Game', 'The Perfect Holiday' with Terrence Howard and Queen Latifah, the film version of 'Alvin and the Chipmunks', 'Warhawks' the video game, and the comedy 'Meet the Spartans'.
At 36 years of age, Christopher Lennertz has scored 31 feature films and 4 television series, and many other works. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.His website is www.christopherlennertz.
Christopher Lennertz performs classical, composer music and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, or other music performances. The estimated booking fee range to book Christopher Lennertz for your event, Please Contact. Christopher Lennertz has more than 55.4K listeners worldwide and really knows how to entertain your audience. Similar artists are Sam Hulick, Jack Wall, Cris Velasco, Inon Zur, Borislav Slavov, Lorne Balfe, Steve Jablonsky, Michael McCann, Jason Graves, Brian Tyler, Jesper Kyd . Contact AAE Music agency for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Christopher Lennertz for an upcoming event.


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Valencian Community: Establishments could be fined thirty-thousand euros for breaking COVID passport rules
Matthew Roscoe
2 December 2021 @ 17:21
Valencian Community: Establishments could be fined thirty-thousand euros for breaking COVID passport rules. Credit: Photo by Christian Dubovan on Unsplash
Valencian Community: Establishments could be fined thirty-thousand euros for breaking COVID passport rules.
Individuals could also be fined as part of new COVID passport rules.
ESTABLISHMENTS in the Valencian Community could be fined up to thirty-thousand euros for breaking COVID passport rules, sources from the Consell have leaked.
According to Levante-EMV, sanctions for individuals and hotel, restaurant, leisure and entertainment establishments that fail to comply with the new COVID passport rules – which comes into effect from midnight on Friday, December 3 – could range from 60 to 30,000 euros.
Fines for two types of infringements – minor and serious – could be issued when the new measures start, with penalties ranging from 60 to 600 euros in the first case, and up to 30,000 euros in the second, according to sources from the Generalitat.
Here are the guidelines for the two types of infringements, Levante-EMV allege will be rolled out:
The premises that fail to display correct signage about the vaccination certificate will commit a minor offence, while customers who refuse to show their COVID passports may be sanctioned in the same way.
Establishments may be fined for a serious infringement when they do not ask for the certificate or allow access inside.
The COVID passport will be mandatory from midnight on Friday, December 3 for bars and restaurants with a capacity of more than 50 people. It will also be used in leisure and entertainment venues as well as spaces for recreational and gambling activities, with catering services, again with a capacity of more than 50 people.
Music festivals and concerts are also affected by the announcement.
Where will the covid passport be mandatory:
Hotel and restaurants with a capacity of more than 50 people
Local leisure and entertainment venues
Spaces for recreational and gambling activities (such as bingo halls or casinos) that have a restaurant service
Visits to residences – both public and private
Entertainment events, celebrations and music festivals (both indoors and outdoors) and when masks can not be used
The measure is set to be in place for 30 days and the order will be published in the Official Gazette of the Valencian Community (DOGV) on Friday, December 3.
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I am challenging myself to try and daily document 'something' with a mobile photo/video each day. Preferably it will be produced and published only using the phone. I reserve the rare possibility of editing the video on the computer too. As I am preparing the production of a web doc recorded on mobile, I will also use this opportunity to experiment until I have the aesthetic that I want in that project.


I just decided to re-edit it this 2013 photo based on the techniques I've learned since then, and I am very happy with the results. It was taken in Baltimore, and was one of my first true minimalist photos.
Stormy conditions aren't always the best for a photography outing, but on this occasion I used them to my advantage. The great thing is that I managed to get home just before the downpour!
All the elements came together here, I hope!
I am coming to the end of a 5 day visit to Joao Pessoa in Brazil. Although it is a working visit, I have been able to find some time to get out and about with my camera. During my stay, my inspiration for photography has come from the long stretches of golden sandy beaches, and true to my minimalist self, I found just the shot I was looking for!
I can't believe it is October already, and that the last time I posted was in July! For one reason or another, things have been very busy hence the lack of posting, despite the fact I have many images waiting in the wing. Anyway, things should get easier in a few weeks and I can get back to posting regularly.
One very common sight in most cities and towns are car parks, and many provide great abstract photography opportunities due to their mostly rigid geomentric structures. Here is one in Fort Worth, Texas, the lines helped by strong midday sunshine.
I normally try to avoid reflections in shots such as this, but on this occasion I thought the wisp of distorted clouds seems to give a slightly ethereal feel.
Recently while travelling for work I had the weekend free, and on saturday night was undecided where to go the next day. So what better to do than have a pint or two of beer and do some online research. While doing a reconnaisance using street view mapping, I noticed this building, and decided to drive 90 minutes the next day to find it!
I saw this building whilst driving north towards Boston on the interstate and decided it would make a good photograph to compliment my 'City Facades' series. However, trying to find this building once parked was another issue as, once in the downtown area, the high rise building make it very difficult much other than straight up!
During the cab ride to my hotel in Fort Worth recently we passed a building that to me looked very interesting as a photographic subject. A few day later I walked four miles to find the building, but when I got there it wasn't what I had expected, but found this instead just around the corner.
I arrived at my hotel in Fort Worth at 6pm after travelling for over 12 hours from London. The sun was still shining, so rather than take an early night, I decided to take a walk in the city, camera in hand. Later, when I was walking back to my hotel, I looked up and noticed how this otherwise boring concrete building appeared to glow golden in the late evening sun.
I have desaturated this image to remove a slight cyan cast, otherwise this is as seen. The wood was painted grey, the window frame was white, and there was no reflection from the window, because I deliberately postioned myself to avoid such reflections.
I never set out to build a series of photographs from scratch. Rather, I usually try to build a series from one or two photos in my collection, deliberately targeting particular areas, such as I did with my 'Industrial Minimalism' series. 'Colorado Windows', on the other hand, happened quite by chance during a visit there last summer when, after a few days, I realised I had a full series without trying!
I am regularly asked this question when sharing my images. Each time I have to say yes, it is real. I walk the streets to find these unusual building and objects; that is the pleasure for me. I couldn't think of anything worse than sitting at home on my computer making these things up. I know others do, and that is fine, but I don't.
I have been honoured by Aesthetica Magazine with a 12 page feature. Here are the 11 images which they selected. The magazine http://www.aestheticamagazine.com is is available in hard copy and digital versions, and they have stockists worldwide listed on their page. Can't wait to get hold of a hard copy myself!
Need I say more? Could I say more?
The simplest of façade designs.
The building I was photographing here was a fairly boring, almost brutalist style concrete structure. Here I have focussed my composition on a section of the structure, just as the concrete protrusions were casting shadows, all perfectly in line with the windows.
The beauty of abstract work is that the viewer can see what they like. Someone commented that this image looked like a piano keyboard. I never saw this until they commented, now I can't get it out of my head!


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Music@Southampton December 5, 2016
Tatton Park's rich collection of printed and manuscript music
Recent months have been especially busy for the Sound Heritage project, not only with our November study day at Tatton Park, but also with a new venture – Sound Heritage Ireland.
Sound Heritage Ireland
Sound Heritage Ireland is a new initiative convened by Dr Karol Mullaney-Dignam, whose research delves into social, economic and political aspects of music and dance in Irish country houses. The inaugural symposium was funded by the Irish Research Council and the University of Limerick, and held at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance in early October.
Performance of 'Kathleen Mavourneen', a piece made famous by the Irish soprano Catherine Hayes, which appears in the music collections of women all over Ireland but also abroad. Hannah Fahey (voice) Aden Boland (piano); photo Lucy Dawson.
Karol's opening presentation evoked some of the characteristic aspects of the Irish heritage sector. Working in historic houses of the former landowning and governing classes poses particular challenges, as for some time after political independence these properties were not generally understood as part of the national heritage. Researching and bringing to life their musical past can unlock hidden histories that provide a more rounded perspective. For example, much remains to be learned about the roles of Irish manufacturers and suppliers (of printed music, instruments, performance teaching and other musical services), in country house life. Another potentially rich area involves intersections of traditional music and performance with imported and indigenous elite musical practices. And as for historic houses in the UK, musical research often reveals much about the lives and activities of women, children, servants, and broader networks of tenants and employees who are otherwise neglected in narratives of country house history centred on aristocratic male patrons and their architects.
The day continued with presentations by international Sound Heritage group members. Katrina Faulds showed how dance music offers a way into country house life that cuts across divides of gender, class, and amateur/ professional activity, while I presented the work of the international Sound Heritage project. In the afternoon, Jonathan Wainwright led a lively discussion of future paths and projects for the new Irish group. Limerick PhD student Kara O'Brien has written an excellent report with more details, available from SHI's website. Thanks to Karol's enthusiasm and organisation, the day was a tremendous success both in spreading the work of Sound Heritage and in launching a valuable dialogue for Irish academics and heritage sector professionals. For me, it is always helpful to be reminded of the complex webs of similarity and difference that arise when studying and interpreting the musical history of historic houses across geographical and political borders: while some things can seem familiar after years of research on English houses, their meaning in other contexts is often very different, and interpretational strategies need to take this into account.
Study Day at Tatton Park
At Tatton Park – Candace Bailey presents collections from the Aiken-Rhett House
In November Sound Heritage moved North. Our final study day of the year was held at Tatton Park in Cheshire, which has a large music collection from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. There were two further activities in Manchester the day before. The first was an afternoon workshop at the Royal Northern College of Music, led by historical performance specialist Harvey Davies – blogged by Catherine Garry over here. We then piled into cabs for a somewhat spooky ride into a completely dark and deserted Heaton Park, for a marvellous theatre production in the historic house at its centre. We were very lucky that our trip to Tatton Park coincided with the reprise of Whispers of Heaton, a site-specific production premiered in May 2016, which uses theatre and dance to explore the history of Heaton Hall. Director Caroline Clegg generously invited Sound Heritage members to attend the dress rehearsal on the evening before our study day, and this one was of the highlights of the trip for me.
Photos Eddie Garvey for Feelgood Productions/ Caroline Clegg -'Whispers of Heaton' at Heaton Park, Nov 11th 2016.
Heaton Hall was built in the late 18th century by James Wyatt, and features a wonderful music room and organ by Samuel Green (1790). It has been owned by Manchester City Council since 1904. The house and park served as headquarters for the Manchester Pals regiments in WWI and hosted the RAF during WWII, as well as acting as a hospital for wounded soldiers. In recent years the house has been largely derelict, but it is now the object of major restoration efforts, and the park with its lake and bandstands remains a vibrant part of Manchester's public culture. Whispers of Heaton, performed by Caroline's company Feelgood Productions, included two short specially-commissioned plays (The Fight by Cathy Crabb and Lindsay Williams and The Unknown Bugler by Peter Kerry) woven together with a new dance piece (Spilled Ink by Tangled Dance Company), further dance interludes, new music by Ailis Ni Riain and early 20th-century works by Butterworth and Vaughan Williams. It began outside the hall, then moved into the house and through different rooms as the wartime histories of Heaton Park unfolded through imagined and recreated human stories. It was incredibly engaging on many levels – with my Sound Heritage hat on, I was busy noting the inventive way that music and space were being used, while at the same time I was emotionally caught up in the dramatic action. And for my own research, I was really excited to visit Heaton Hall – the music room and organ case, probably painted by Biaggio Rebecca, figure in a chapter I am working on for my next book, and I had been hoping to go there for ages. The house is rarely open to the public, so having the chance to see inside AND experience a wonderful piece of theatre as well was the icing on the cake.
RNCM singers perform repertoire from Tatton – Duets by Cherubini and Mozart
The following day we headed out to Tatton Park for a day of presentations, discussions and performance. We were joined by the vocal students from the RNCM, who had spent the previous day workshopping repertoire from Tatton's magnificant library. We heard glees, duets, Italian arias and English songs, all using the ornamentation and other performance markings in the scores created by Elizabeth Sykes in the late 18th century. We had a useful discussion afterwards with the singers about the unfamiliar music and performance surroundings and what they had found challenging and interesting about the exercise. The RNCM group was able to join us for a tour of the house, which allowed us to show them the original sources for the music they had been working on – Carolyn Latham and the fantastic Tatton house team set up a table in the Library so that the students and Sound Heritage members could examine some of the most interesting sources.
Matthew Tyler-Jones on cultural heritage, music and gaming
Before the informal concert, we had a morning of contrasting presentations. Dr Candace Bailey provided a fascinating glimpse at musical sources associated with the antebellum Aiken-Rhett House in Charleston, South Carolina. Descended from Huguenots, the Aiken family were very conscious of their French roots and cultivated a distinct Francophile profile within the wealthy East Coast social scene. They made frequent, and often very long, visits to Europe where they purchased the most up-to-date English and French repertoire, preserved in the binder's volumes of their library. Matthew Tyler-Jones followed with a talk about his research on gaming, narrative and cultural heritage and how music fits in. Like film (from which many of the techniques originate), games use music in a range of sophisticated ways, to provide continuity, direct attention, and provide mood and affective colour; but these uses are largely ignored in heritage applications. Outside the musical museum sector, music sometimes figures as an aesthetic component but is rarely displayed historically, even if the music has a historical connection with the site or collection. Matthew's blog gives a fuller explanation, and outlines plans for an experiment at Chawton House Library in the spring where he will pilot using music in a new kind of visitor experience based on interactive gaming principles.
Our afternoon was spent on Sound Heritage business: updates on a range of projects – including a music census for the York Country House Partnership, the Dowling Songbook Project, new Sound Heritage social media activity on Facebook and Twitter – and future planning. A full report will shortly be posted on the Sound Heritage website.
Tatton Park was the focus of some of the earliest research that I and Southampton postgraduates did on country house music, and with the support of the National Trust and Cheshire East Council, it hosted some of our first attempts at bringing this work to the wider public. For me it was particularly interesting and useful to come back with members of the network to revisit the house and collection after lots of further thought and experience. It seems as if we have only started to scratch the surface of what can be done to bring music more fully into historical narratives and visitor experience in historic houses, and progress often feels frustratingly slow. But looking back to the very beginning of the sound heritage project makes me realise that in many ways we have come much further than I could have imagined then.
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What's In The Bokksu? Carefully Curated Japanese Treats
Food August 17, 2019 September 5, 2019 by Cu Fleshman
This monthly subscription service sends out carefully curated boxes of delicious, small-batch Japanese treats, from shrimp senbei crackers to handmade kyo-yuzen candies. (All images courtesy of Bokksu)
Open up the cheerful orange packaging of a Bokksu box, and a variety of treats spills out: pillowy mochi, rum raisin Kit Kats and peppery senbei rice crackers. Sampling these munchies might take a lucky snacker to the fields of Hokkaido with a sip of warm Hojicha green tea, or to a Japanese fireworks festival with the taste of Daimonji's fizzy ramune candy.
Although the Japanese snack subscription service offers a wide variety of treats, the ramune candies, as well as Hiroshima matcha milk beans, white chocolate-infused strawberries and many more are Bokksu exclusives. Bokksu was created through the many partnerships that CEO and founder Danny Taing formed during extensive trips to Japan. While it's not the only Japanese snack subscription on the market, the company's focus on artisanally crafted snacks and treats sets Bokksu apart from its competitors. Taing and his crew make a point to work with local family-owned businesses to help curate monthly, themed offerings (which are also available for individual purchase in the online market).
"We keep it authentic, because Japanese people eat very seasonally," Taing says. For them, fall is for persimmon, winter is for mochi, and so on—as opposed to Americans, because for us, we want our blackberries and strawberries all year round."
Back when Taing founded the company in 2016, Bokksu offerings were brought to the States via his suitcase. Times have since changed. "We now curate boxes at least six months in advance, and the themes have been planned all the way into next year," Taing says from Bokksu's headquarters in New York. "We keep it authentic, because Japanese people eat very seasonally. For them, fall is for persimmon, winter is for mochi, and so on—as opposed to Americans, because for us, we want our blackberries and strawberries all year round."
Each box comes with a guide that tells the story of the maker behind each snack, and explains how to eat it. That part is crucial, because some of Bokksu's more obscure snacks are an acquired taste. "People want to learn more about Japan and about the products that they're eating, because for the most part they've never seen any of these products, and they can't read the Japanese packaging," says Taing. "We have this really good understanding of Western taste practices now. There's always a fine balance between what's really traditional, and what sells and doesn't sell."
"People want to learn more about Japan and about the products that they're eating, because for the most part they've never seen any of these products, and they can't read the Japanese packaging," says Taing.
Red bean, for instance, is a tough sell "unless it's coated in chocolate or matcha" (another popular treat). But though the snacks might be unfamiliar to Western tastebuds, you won't find any product descriptions that capitalize on the so-called "exotic" nature of Bokksu's offerings. It's all a part of the cultural sustainability movement that drives the company. "We always keep that in mind, the way we portray not only our makers, but also our products, and ourselves," says Taing. "We never use the words exotic, or whacky, or weird in any of our advertising or marketing materials describing our products, and that's something that we try to stay true to, so it's not sensationalized."
As Bokksu continues to grow, Taing is planning to create a web-series documentary chronicling one of the company's trips to Japan. With Asian American fashion director Bon Duke at the helm, the series will show the process of creating and selecting the snacks that make up each Bokksu.
And, of course, there's the upcoming September box. Themed around Japan's moon festival, the package includes usagi chocolate balls and a variety of fresh teas and cheese cakes, wrapped in a specially decorated box inspired by Otsukimi paintings. You can pre-order yours here.
Makeup Artist Mimi Choi Brings Her Nightmares To Life On Her Face
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As the clock strikes 3 a.m., a four-eyed woman with a spliced face, flawless brows and faux lashes is painting away in the mirror while the city sleeps. Mimi […]


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This week I have been looking at new titles on NetGalley and no-as much as I want too- I haven't added any to review because I am already backlogged as it is…nonetheless, I like to see what is out there to keep up with the latest. I don't normally read Christian Fiction but came across these three that look really interesting. I will be keeping my eye on them and I do like the book covers! Check them out!


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Telemedicine startups Roman, Hims, and Keeps show enormous growth
Kate Gessner — 13 Dec 2018
Thanks to advances in telemedicine, prescription grade medications are making their way into the subscription box fad. For three startups, prescribing and delivering monthly medications for men has spurred rapid growth, expanded product ranges, and—at one company—prompted the rollout of a women's line last month, too. Just how fast are these boxes growing? Leading competitors Hims, Roman, and Keeps have all seen spending grow by 10 times or more since their first full month of sales, but are each fueling their success differently.
All three companies are capitalizing on the freedom of telemedicine, which removes the hurdle of a visit to the doctor's office and offers a new avenue for patients to address tough-to-talk-about concerns, like sexual health, hair loss, smoking cessation, and more. Hims and Roman were both founded in the last few months of 2017, right before expiring patents opened up the market for erectile dysfunction drug Viagra to be sold as a discounted generic.
Hims attracts customers best, but they spend most at Roman
Of the three telemedicine startups, Hims is the largest, bringing in 20 percent more year-to-date sales than its closest competitor, Roman. But that gap has been closing. In October, spending at Roman was just 8 percent lower than spending at Hims. Though sales may be comparable, key customer metrics reveal different strategic focuses across competitors.
Hims has attracted new customers the fastest. More than twice as many men have tried Hims as its nearest competitor, Roman. Both Roman and Hims will sometimes offer the first box on the house, hoping to entice new patients to sign up rather than take their telemedicine prescription elsewhere. The promotions leave new subscribers on the hook for only the medical consultation fee—at Hims, $5 and $15 at Roman.
Though Roman has acquired fewer subscribers, its customers spent an average of $246 in their first six months—the highest of the three telemedicine startups. Keeps customers spent $181 during the same period, while that number at Hims was $101. All three companies offer a mix of prescription and OTC treatments. None of them currently accept insurance.
How likely customers are to stick to their new routine also varies by company. Keeps, which treats only hair loss, retains subscribers best. Its quarterly boxes and concentration on a narrow audience have resulted in 72 percent of signups returning two quarters after their first purchase. (The company is too new for a full-year analysis.)
For all three brands, there's plenty of room for more growth, as combined market penetration is less than half a percent of all U.S. consumers.
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Scholars who recently returned from carrying out field research in the Philippines will share their experiences, challenges, and insights in an intimate workshop setting to stimulate dialogue, develop new lenses, and foster a multidisciplinary approach to Philippine related studies.
Amber Heckelman, a PhD Candidate in Integrated Studies in Land and Food Systems, will present her use of participatory methods in carrying out climate resilience research among small-holder rice farmers.
Dada Docot, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, will reflect on the intertwined metaphors of decay of the home and of the absence of a house's residents in the age of global migration.
James "Gym" Pangilinan, a PhD Student in Geography, will discuss history and politics of Palawan as it relates to Philippine nationalism and its significance as the "last frontier" in the Philippines.
Karla Comanda, a MFA student in Creative Writing, will share her experiences conducting research on her own family and the life narratives of surviving comfort women.
Teilhard Paradela, a PhD Candidate in History, will recount his experiences in visiting neglected and unwanted archives in Metro Manila.
Join us for a dynamic discussion. Food and refreshments will be provided. Due to limited space, please RSVP to amber.heckelman@gmail.com.


With the dawning of another new year, I wondered what might be a suitable theme for my first pastoral letter of 2010. There is always so much to write about, so many themes and subjects to reflect on as they relate to the life of faith. But it struck me as I was reading Paul's Letter to the Galatians this morning that we can never hear too often that there is but one gospel.
We live in what is often called the age of post-modernism. Truth is relative, we are told. Cultures change, people change, and the old ways of thinking need to keep pace with the changes. If churches want to survive in this post-modern age, then they must adapt or die (that is "religious speak" for, "Re-interpret the Bible to fit with the thinking and practices of the day - whatever they are"). Sadly, tragically, many churches have bought into this satanic strategy and manipulated the gospel to sit easily with the spiritual and moral aberrations that cover the face of our nation - and the whole world.
The churches in Galatia had become influenced and infected by false teaching. They were apparently buying into teaching that denied that we are justified before God by faith alone, in Christ alone. This, probably Judaistic, teaching was saying that faith in Christ was not enough to bring us into salvation. These false teachers were saying that in addition to faith in Christ you must also submit to the Jewish "boundary markers" of circumcision and kosher food laws. Yes, faith in Christ, but not faith in Christ alone. How does Paul respond? Dramatically and decisively: "I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel - not that there is another one. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed." Wow! And in case anyone thought he was being un-necessarily extreme, Paul repeats himself: "As we have said before, so now I say again (it is my considered judgment): If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed." There is only one gospel; anything else is a satanic perversion and needs to be exposed as such.
Here, surely, is the crux of the issue: Has our Lord Jesus done something by his sinless life, sin-bearing death, and resurrection that has secured God's salvation for judgment-deserving sinners? If he has, then is it any wonder Paul writes as he does? Is it really any wonder that he calls down God's curse, his eternal anathema, on those who seek to turn men and women away to a "different gospel", that is no gospel at all? Paul is not being narrow-minded or unthinkingly intemperate in his choice of language. He is writing as a man who is passionate about the glory of his Saviour and about the eternal good of sinners.
Paul's language is a reminder to us that we must ever be guarding the gospel. If someone had told me 20 years ago that some "evangelicals" would soon be teaching that God does not know everything (Open Theism), that Scripture is not infallible (we must not deny Scripture's humanness!), and that our justification before God rests, in some measure on our good works (the so-called New Perspective on Paul), I would hardly have believed it. But we live in spiritually and theologically confused times. It would only be too easy, for the sake of a peaceful life, just to go with the flow, to keep our heads down and re-configure the gospel to suit the tastes of the world around us. To do this, however, would be to deny our Saviour, and to call down on our heads God's holy anathema. This is not an appeal for us to be belligerent or offensive, or cantankerous. We are always "to speak the truth in love". But love can, and needs at times to be, willing to risk the wrath of man to proclaim the truth of God.
There is only one gospel. It has been "once for all delivered to the saints." It is not susceptible to change. It must, of course, be preached and witnessed to relevantly and engagingly, not parroting the ways of past generations. But it must be proclaimed as God has revealed it in his infallible word. The Bible has a word for this - it is called being "faithful". May the Lord enable us in CPC to be faithful "in good times and in bad times". The glory and honour of our Lord Jesus demands it; the eternal good of men and women requires it.


A sobering toast to the dubious achievements of the worst president in American history.
Millions of people are expected to descend on the nation's capital for the inauguration of Barack Obama. It is unprecedented: churches, temples, mosques and tribal councils have hired buses to attend. Schools are closing for the day. Universities are setting up JumboTrons to watch the festivities. Global media will join the dancing in the streets.
A friend recently asked me if I thought all these constituencies were celebrating the same things. Did I think this coronation-scaled civic bliss was mostly about Obama's being our first African-American president? Or was it because his win convinces us that some "post-race" American Dream has been ultimately affirmed? That he's going to improve the economy? Repair global relations?
The question made me reflect for a moment. Yes, the symbolism of his race is significant, although it certainly cannot be equated with the end of racism. And surely we're uplifted by Obama's being so genuinely likable and smart. No doubt the euphoria is also unusually great because his campaign drew constituents into political engagement–the phone banks, the door-to-door canvassing, the social networks, mass e-mails and text messages. As a result, people feel personal, even possessive, satisfaction about his victory.
Pax Americana and the aspiration to consolidate a global American empire. The Bush Doctrine of pre-emptive warfare. Hurricane Katrina and "heckuva job, Brownie." The explicit rejection of the Geneva Conventions. John Yoo's and Alberto Gonzales's redefinition of torture. Paul Wolfowitz as head of the World Bank subsidizing his girlfriend. Ahmad Chalabi. The FCC allowing greater consolidation of media. The outing of Valerie Plame. The manipulations asserting that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The addled handling of Harriet Miers's nomination to the Supreme Court. Opposition to stem cell research. The looting of the National Museum of Iraq, and the burning of Baghdad's National Library. Donald Rumsfeld's remarks that rioting in Iraq was the sign of a liberated people and that Iraq was no more violent than some American cities. Stacking the Civil Rights Commission with conservatives, like Abigail Thernstrom, who want to overturn sections of the Voting Rights Act. The shooting death of Italian intelligence officer Nicola Calipari and injury of journalist Giuliana Sgrena at the hands of American soldiers. The appointment of ultraconservatives John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. Cheney filling his friend with birdshot. The USA Patriot Act. Doing away with habeas corpus. The National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping of citizens' phone calls and e-mails. The notion of an unchecked, unaccountable "unitary executive." The failure to keep official numbers of dead Iraqi civilians. The forbidding of photographs, or even visibility, of American military dead. The multilayered, high-level lying about how football hero Pat Tillman was killed in Afghanistan. Halliburton taking kickbacks from Kuwaiti oil suppliers. Paul Bremer dispensing billions of dollars for contracts in Iraq, which disappeared, never to be accounted for or recovered. Blackwater mercenaries accused of murdering Iraqi civilians. "Military tribunals" established outside the military justice system, with no due process or right to an attorney or to cross-examination or even to know the charges. The silly disparagement of the national anthem sung in Spanish. Bush talking directly to God. Abu Ghraib. Profiling Arab, Muslim and Latino immigrants. Guantánamo. Extraordinary rendition. Lousy veterans' benefits. Lousy veterans' hospitals. The failure to provide soldiers with reinforced armored vehicles ("You go to war with the army you have," explained Rumsfeld). The refusal to recognize post-traumatic stress disorder as a legitimate condition. Monica Goodling's political litmus tests in hiring for nonpolitical posts in the Justice Department. Expelling Helen Thomas from the White House press room and putting in fake reporter "Jeff Gannon" to throw adoring softball questions. John Ashcroft's draping of bare-breasted sculptures in the Justice Department. His subpoenas of more than 2,500 records of abortions performed at public hospitals. Gonzales firing US Attorneys around the country for political reasons. Oh, and did I forget the economy?
This is only a short list–it doesn't even touch on the things we were spared but that might have happened: Bush's (failed) nomination of Bernard Kerik to head Homeland Security; the privatization of Social Security; the elevation of Alberto Gonzales and Robert Bork to the Supreme Court; a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
"Honestly," says my friend, "who needs booze? Just reading the list, you could get drunk and have a killer hangover." I do suppose we'll all sober up after inauguration day. But I'm going to sneak a look at the list every now and then, just to make sure I don't take anything for granted. However challenging the future we face, an Obama administration represents real change.


From my understanding of the issue and your post, field Order Reason has to be made mandatory for a particular sales document type (i.e. for process - goods free of charge).
By some way (may be coding or noncoding) the system has to be setup in such a way that the user cannot leave the initial screen of the sales order, of a particular Sales document type (i.e. for process - goods free of charge), if the field Order Reason is not filled.
For rest of the Sales document types, user would not be obliged to fill in field Order Reason.
If I am misunderstanding your point, kindly explain it.


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Do Chelsea Have the Title Wrapped Up Already?
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Playing catch-up to Chelsea in the title race has become something of a recurring theme as of late, as Antonio Conte spearheads a blue revolution over the country. Arsenal were already doing that going into their Stamford Bridge visit - and after the dust had settled it may all be over.
Eden Hazard's slice of individual magnificence was the pick of the bunch as the Blues hit three past their city rivals, steering 12 points clear of the Gunners and 9 points clear from second place Tottenham. It's comfortable at the top.
Bolstered by a breathtaking record-tying win streak to close out the year, Chelsea continue to soften their landing - showing few signs of tripping up even if their contenders have continuously come across bumps in the road.
A midweek defeat to Watford prior to Arsenal's trip certainly changed the complexion of the fixture. Rather than potentially defining the near-future of the title race, it was a case of the North Londoners trying to keep themselves in contention. The harsh reality was revealed: they aren't resembling contenders at this point.
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It's only sensible in this world to take all these indications with a pinch of salt and apply the most realism possible, avoiding any complacency and anticipating all shocks. We've heard all this mandatory discussion before, for all we know Chelsea could fall apart by the next gameweek and undergo a run that will see their title chances fall apart. But the odds are so slim - there's little point. Even if that somehow happened, the other teams have not shown they can maintain a consistency, slipping up at games where 3 points were virtually a prior guarantee.
What a kick in the teeth it must be for Wenger. Arsenal showed real promise at points, prompting another "is this their year?" question. Right now, they've blown it - again. Their manager is under pressure - again. It's becoming a nagging theme for Arsenal now, the contenders may change above them but either way they slip up and just make top four.
The results for the red-and-whites at face value isn't so bad. A shock defeat and then losing to the league leaders wouldn't have been as calamitous had the Blues not been on a tear. There's little point looking at how you've done results wise if you aren't reaching the goals. Following 24 weeks of football, they sat at fourth place. Familiar and irritating for the support.
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Sandwiched between Chelsea and Arsenal are Tottenham and Manchester City. It would spark chaos in that side of the capital if Tottenham were to pull of the unthinkable and deny Chelsea of the title, but as of now they are the more likely. "St. Totteringham's Day" no more?
With a chunk of the season remaining it is to say the least anticlimatic, but Chelsea have one hand (if not both) on the Premier League championship. The other sides have not shown enough hunger to pull out all the stops and thwart them so far. Chelsea vs. the rest: that's the story.
Expect some change in the remaining few months of the campaign, but not at the number one spot. For Arsenal its another tough scenario. Truly salvaging their season can only be done by winning the title: a long shot - anything else, and really it's just "top four" once again.
Chelsea have comfort. Tottenham may occasionally prop up in the rear-view mirror but this side has just got into such a rhythm that it may all be over.
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Groupon and other deal sites have become increasingly popular. From concert tickets, dinner vouchers, vacations, or massages, there's something for everyone. The discounted prices have people flocking to these sites for the best deals and quite honestly, buying things they probably wouldn't have thought to buy prior to seeing the large discount. At first glance, Groupon sounds like a fantastic idea: it offers the ability to market your services to hundreds of thousands of eager shoppers and attract new clients. But that is not the case when it comes to the aesthetic industry. There are many disadvantages that come from using Groupon.
You may initially think that by using Groupon, you can attract these new clients that you can turn into loyal, returning patients. But that is rarely the case. Most people that are using deal sites are continually searching for the best and greatest deal. Once they use your service, they will most likely go back to Groupon to search for the next best deal. They have nothing to lose, they have no brand loyalty, they shop for the price, not quality. These typically tend to be the same of patients that may expect more from a treatment, so you'll have to manage expectations with them to ensure they know what to expect from a certain treatment.
Deal sites are rarely a means of making a profit. So if you think it's a great way to bring in more revenue, you should probably find an alternative. Deal sites typically take up to 50% commission on the final sale price. Many practices report losing money every time someone purchases and claims the deal.
Furthermore, once you promote yourself as a "discount" practice, it may be very difficult to raise prices in the future. Once you position yourself as a discounted practice, it may be difficult to repair your reputation and move into the "luxury" type of practice. So, your reputation is at stake.
These deal sites are not only detrimental to the injectors and their practice, but there are many disadvantages to the consumer as well. Consumers are putting themselves at risk when they choose price over quality. There are risks involved in aesthetic procedures, and you could be putting your self, or quite literally your face, in the hands of an untrained or unqualified professional. The consumer could have poor treatment results, which of course is the worst case scenario, but more and more possible in these scenarios. This further damages the reputation of the aesthetic industry as it could deter people from ever trying an aesthetic procedure again.
Overall, the use of deal sites is detrimental to both practitioners, their patients, and the overall industry. We would recommend staying far away from them in order to protect yourself, your practice, and your patients. You are better off using other marketing tactics, staying true to your brand, and attracting a loyal customer base.


Widower Don Brittain from Tacoma, Washington bought a trumpet 60 years ago at the tender age of 18. Now, the 78-years-old has picked up the horn and has renewed his love for it.
He was inspired watching the news on television two years ago when he saw trumpeters playing taps. He learned the memorial tune: "It was the same 24 notes it had always been," he told The News Tribune.
Brittan feels it's his way to support the troops so he plays it every day with the exception of winter when his horn becomes too cold. He is touched when neighbours stop, stand at attention, and salute.
Last fall, CBS sent a camera crew from New York to create a two-minute feature about Brittain and the retiree's fame soared throughout the state of Washington. Brittain received letters from the troops in Afghanistan, and from across the USA. "It was flattering, and humbling," he said.
After 34 years of marriage, the return to playing has helped him cope with his wife Jan's death to cancer. "It was one of the hardest things I've ever been through, but I was with her when she died," Brittain told The News Tribune. The trumpet and close friends kept him busy.
That was 2011. Alone in their home, Brittain kept playing his trumpet. Friends encouraged him. He loves playing the blues, Dixieland, jazz, ballads, big band stuff, and is looking forward to to playing in a community band. There's a senior's band in Tacoma looking for a third horn, and Brittain plans to test his mettle and join.
Brittain practices up to an hour a day in anticipation of his audition. He can still hit high C. He warms up with "My Funny Valentine," and "Satin Doll." Then, he plays the familiar haunting notes of Taps.


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Florida resident Samantha Lynn Frazier, 35, was visiting Atlantic City with family and walked into a bar for a drink. And then she got shot.
According to reports, Frazier was headed into local bar Herman's House with her cousin Kimberly Moore around 1:30 a.m. on Saturday after partying at Tropicana Casino Resort when she was popped in the side of her body.
Detective Lt. Charles Love says Frazier, a daycare center worker, was not the intended target. The gunman, he says, was aiming for a man, who ultimately escaped with a bullet hole in his down jacket.
Frazier told the press that she is now reconsidering dropping the pounds she had been hoping to lose. "I'd been hollering how I want to lose weight," she said. "I don't want to lose weight anymore. I want to be as big as I can if it's going to stop a bullet." Yep, that'll do it.


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New Mexico State Aggies (español: Agrónomos de la Estatal de Nuevo México) es el nombre de los equipos deportivos de la Universidad Estatal de Nuevo México, situada en Las Cruces, Nuevo México. Los equipos de los Aggies participan en las competiciones universitarias organizadas por la NCAA, y forman parte de la Western Athletic Conference, salvo en el fútbol americano, que lo hace en la Sun Belt Conference.

Apodo y mascota
El término Aggie que utiliza la Universidad Estatal de Nuevo México para denominar a sus deportistas es una abreviatura proveniente de la palabra Agriculture, y es común verlo utilizado en las universidades técnicas con estudios en especialidades agrónomas, como fue ésta en sus orígenes.

La mascota es Pistol Pete, un pistolero, aunque en 2005 una parte del alumnado consiguió que se cambiara la pistola por un lazo y el nombre por simplemente Pete. En 2006 Pete recuperó el arma.

Programa deportivo
Los Aggies participan en las siguientes modalidades deportivas:

Baloncesto
El mayor éxito del equipo de baloncesto masculino fue su participación en la Final Four de 1970. En total han participado en 18 fases finales de la NCAA y en 5 del NIT, además de conseguir 14 títulos de conferencia. Su actual entrenador es el exjugador de la NBA Reggie Theus.

Un total de 11 jugadores de los Aggies han llegado a la liga profesional norteamericana.

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Web oficial de los Aggies

Equipos de la National Collegiate Athletic Association
Universidad Estatal de Nuevo México
Western Athletic Conference

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Today, MGX Minerals Inc. published a maiden NI43-101-compliant resource estimate, demonstrating a world-class magnesium deposit by the name of Driftwood Creek in British Columbia, Canada. The extremely high-grade measured and indicated resources contain 8 million t, whereas almost half (43%) of the rock is made of magnesium oxide (MgO). As the market price for 95% pure MgO stands at >$400 USD/t, today's announced resources have an in-situ value of >$1.3 billion USD. On top of that, it was announced that MGX is in the process of transporting and assempling a pilot plant mill on-site to first produce magnesite (MgCO3) and thereafter to process it to MgO.
It's highly interesting that MGX not only intends to produce MgO but is also testing for the production of pure magnesium metal (Mg), which currently sells for $4,000 USD/t in the US (global market price approximately $2,000 USD/t). Of the 8 million t, MGX could potentially produce 1.7 million t of Mg; an in-situ value of about $6.8 billion USD if sold to the US market. In light of only one single magnesium metal producer in the US, and China being responsible for 80% of world's supply, North America should be the primary target market for MGX, especially when considering that magnesium metal tariffs between Canada and USA have been dropped recently).
Magnesium (Mg) is a multi-purpose light-metal in high demand for today's modern lifestyle, such as smartphones, automobiles, aircrafts, and other everyday essentials that require magnesium.
Magnesium's unique characteristics make it 75% lighter than steel and 33% lighter than aluminum while still offering comparable strength-to-weight ratios. Magnesium is the third most used structural metal (behind iron and aluminum) and considered a critical strategic metal by the United States and European Union. China is responsible for approximately 80% of annual worldwide production. There is currently only one magnesium metal producer in the US.
As the US market price for magnesium metal is about 10 times as much as for magnesium oxide, MGX intends to produce the pure metal.
Today's disclosed maiden resource estimate demonstrates that MGX owns a very high-grade, world-class magnesium deposit, which is rare these days on a global scale. Moreover, today's news demonstrates that MGX is on a fast track to develop the project to a mine. As the material occurs at surface, mining will rather be a low-cost quarry-style operation.
According to today's news, the projected mining costs are only $6.25 USD/t, whereas processing costs are calculated at $129 USD/t. Hence, MGX may produce MgO at costs as low as $135 USD/t and subsequently sell it into the market for $400 USD/t; a remarkable (theoretical) profit margin of $265 USD/t. With 8 million t of material grading 43% MgO, a profit of $911 million USD could be made (potentially/theoretically).
However, MGX intends to soon test the production of pure magnesium metal, so that a total profit of about $4.5 billion USD could be aimed for (if selling to the US; 1 t of material contains approximately 22% magnesium metal). Rockstone now expects an increased newsflow informing about the progress of its pilot plant.
The Company is in the process of transporting and assembling a pilot plant mill (the "Mill") at the current stock-pile location of the recently completed 100-tonne bulk sample (see press release dated June 9, 2016).
The Mill equipment includes a jaw crusher, ball mill, flotation cells, cyclone dewatering equipment and a tailings filtration and thickener system. Previously the Mill was utilized to process polymetallic concentrate. MGX intends to process mineralized bulk sample material through the Mill using reverse flotation to produce two products - a high purity magnesite tailing and silica sand float byproduct.
The magnesite (MgCO3) material will then be shipped off site to undergo calcination optimization testing to produce magnesium oxide (MgO) as well as thermal and electrolytic analysis to produce magnesium metal (Mg).
MGX Minerals Inc. is a diversified Canadian mining company engaged in the acquisition and development of industrial mineral deposits in western Canada that offer near-term production potential, minimal barriers to entry and low initial capital expenditures. The company operates lithium, magnesium and silicon projects throughout British Columbia and Alberta, including the Driftwood Magnesium Project, which is being rapidly advanced towards production. MGX has also consolidated key mining claims throughout the Driftwood Mining District and now controls the majority of known magnesite occurrences in British Columbia. MGX has recently received approval of a 20-year mining lease for Driftwood and bulk sampling is currently underway.


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Drama. Eastwood stars as Earl Stone, a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. He does well—so well, in fact, that his cargo increases exponentially, and Earl is assigned a handler. But he isn't the only one keeping tabs on Earl; the mysterious new drug mule has also hit the radar of hard-charging DEA agent Colin Bates (Cooper). And even as his money problems become a thing of the past, Earl's past mistakes start to weigh heavily on him, and it's uncertain if he'll have time to right those wrongs before law enforcement, or the cartel's enforcers, catch up to him.


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Q: Tweepy API: add tags / mentions to attached photo I have created a twitter bot using the Tweepy API. It works great, it tweets a tweet with a photo attached to it. However, I would like to add "mentions" or "In this photo"  @accounts (tags) to the attached image. This is possible on twitter. I have red the Tweepy documentation and searched online, looking for a parameter but I could not find anything. Any suggestion would appriciated!
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api = tweepy.API(oauth)

api.update_with_media(filename='screenshot.png', status=masterStatus)

A: First of all, please do not use update_with_media, as this is a deprecated API. It works for now, but will get no support. The current correct route is the two-step use of media_upload, followed by update_status (you can also add image alt text using create_media_metadata in between those two steps, if you like). The Tweepy 3.9.0 documentation mentions this.
For the main part of the question - the Twitter API itself does not currently support adding people tags to images, so this is also unavailable in Tweepy. If you would like to request this feature in a future version of the Twitter API, you can do so here.

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<title>JavaScript benchmark programs</title>

JavaScript benchmark programs

This is a collection of simple benchmark programs.  When they are
run inside Opera, they test (a) the performance of the ECMAScript
engine and (b) the performance of the JavaScript scheduler.  From
these benchmarks it is generally impossible for you to tell where the
time goes -- you need access to the Opera source code for that.  (For
example, in Opera 5 and Opera 6 a great deal of time was lost in the
scheduler.)  But these will give you at least some idea where Opera
is, relative to the competition.

Control structures and basic computation

Empty for-loop (1,000,000 iterations)

Empty for-loop, over global variables (1,000,000 iterations)

Doubly recursive Fibonacci(25)

Matrix multiplication

Matrix multiplication using FOR..IN

Math

Various math operations: simulating the left shift operator

Strings and RegExps

Text manipulation test

Text search-and-replace #1

Text search-and-replace #2

RegExp.test (new regexp every time)

RegExp.test (same regexp every time)

Arrays

Array initialization (four different ways)

join() benchmark

sort() benchmark (sorted array of numbers)

sort() benchmark (sorted array of strings)

sort() benchmark (random array of numbers)

sort() benchmark (random array of strings)

sort() benchmark (random array of strings with user predicate)

Allocation and garbage collection

GCBench (garbage collection benchmark)

Compiler benchmarks

A huge script.

Should compile and run in a couple of seconds in a release build on
    a 3GHz desktop system, and in a fresh Opera instance the memory use
    (eg as measured by "Peak memory size" in the Windows XP task manager)
    should stay below 100MB.

Uncategorized and/or obsolete

Mandelbrot set, pixel-wise output

Mandelbrot set, row-wise output

Mandelbrot set, matrix output

Script generating a lot of HTML

Script generating script, recursively

iBench full test

iBench "records" test

iBench "search" test

iBench "sort" test

iBench "generate" test

iBench "download" test

Misc

Auto-run most benchmarks (requires DOM)

External benchmark suites

Separate page for these

Notes

For accurate measurement, try to reduce noice by disabling all
    other programs on your system

Some care has been taken to reduce environmental effects (like
    startup overhead and timer granularity)

Tests may take up to a few minutes in some cases but most complete
    in less than 30 seconds

Bear in mind when you view results that these are micro-benchmarks,
    usually testing only a few features

The iBench tests have been extracted from a possibly older version of
    the Ziff-Davis iBench test suite

Results

Some old results for Opera 5 and Opera 6

To do

The results of most of the benchmarks are cryptic and could be presented
    more comprehensibly

It might be possible to autorun these


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Events, Instream Flows, Legislation, Litigation and Court Decisions, Newsletters, State Legislature, WA Department of Ecology, Washington Water Watch, Water news, Wenatchee River, Winter Waters
Tags:Icicle Creek, Legislative Session, Olympia, Washington Dept of Ecology, Washington Water Watch
January 2017 Edition of Washington Water Watch
Check out the latest edition of our monthly newsletter, Washington Water Watch. In this month's issue you'll find an article on the current water bills in the Washington State legislature, an update on CELP's recent motion for summary judgment in the Leavenworth National fish hatchery case, an article on the Lyre-Hoko watershed, and a notice about our upcoming Spokane event, Winter Waters.
Read the January 2017 issue of Washington Water Watch here.
Events, Uncategorized, Winter Waters
Winter Waters 2017: Honoring the Coeur d'Alene Tribe
Protecting Lake Coeur d'Alene – Water is Life
Winter Waters Celebration, March 10 – Honoring the Coeur d'Alene Tribe
When: March 10 (Friday) 6:30 p.m. – 9:30
Where: Spokane – historic Patsy Clark Mansion, 2208 W. 2nd Ave
What: Honoring our heroes – also music, desserts and other small foods, wines
Tickets: $35 per person (purchase on-line or at the door)
To help sponsor the event or for more information, contact: John Osborn MD john@waterplanet.ws 509.939-1290
Protecting Lake Coeur d'Alene (must see – short film)
Sponsors: Honoring the Coeur d'Alene Tribe
Upper Columbia United Tribes * Bishop William Sklystad * Eastern Washington-Idaho Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America * Eymann Allison Hunter Jones P.S. * Linda Finney & W. Thomas Soeldner * John & Joyce Roskelley * EnviroScience * Kathy Dixon * Columbia Institute for Water Policy * Rachael & John Osborn
Honoring the Tribe
In the homeland of the Coeur d'Alene Tribe, nearly a century of hard-rock mining in the Coeur d'Alene Mining District led to release of massive mining and smelting wastes into streams and rivers. The extent of the pollution is truly staggering. There would be no cleanup — no hope for protecting Lake Coeur d'Alene and the Spokane River from mining pollution — without the Coeur d'Alene Tribe. The Tribe's work to protect and restore their homeland is historic with enduring benefits for the Tribe and indeed for all life. We wish to thank the Tribe for their assistance in providing background information for the following summary.
Tribal World View
The Coeur d'Alene Tribe were the original land managers in the Basin. For the Tribe, all things living are interconnected. Relationship with other life is based on kinship rather than human supremacy. Resources are always to be used in a respectful and sustainable manner. Decisions include how Tribal descendants will be affected seven generations into the future.
Homeland and natural resource overview
Historically 4 million acres: located in what is now the Idaho Panhandle from Montana to Washington, Lake Pend Oreille to the Clearwater breaks.
Lands and waters were pristine until the advent of white settlement in the mid-1800s.
Since then ecological conditions changed drastically: logging practices have eliminated old growth forests, clear-cut hillsides, changed species diversity, created a highly concentrated network of roads, and displaced wildlife species; agriculture has greatly increased agricultural runoff of pesticides, herbicides and nutrients; mining has poured hundreds of millions of tons of tailings, liquid chemicals and airborne contaminants into the Basin.
All of these practices derived wealth for the few, jobs for some, and left a legacy of negative natural resource impacts for all.
As a result of such impacts, the Tribe decided to take action and championed some major efforts to address the many problems facing their natural resource base (the center of their culture).
Efforts Undertaken:
EPA-related work: In the mid to late 1980's, EPA began Superfund work in the Silver Valley. The Tribe immediately became involved in the cleanup – at first informally but later through cooperative agreements with EPA. Local, regional and State politics hoped the cleanup would be contained to a $200 million cleanup within a small portion of the Basin (the 21-square-mile "box"). Through the Tribe's oversight and incessant urging of the EPA process, the original cleanup plan has been greatly increased and has led to three Records of Decisions (ROD's 1, 2, and 3). To date EPA has spent over $600 million and still has yet to determine agency clean up actions for the lower 20 miles of the Coeur d'Alene River and associated lakes and wetlands, or what to do with Coeur d'Alene Lake. The Tribe believes that several billion dollars of EPA cleanup is yet to come.
NRDA lawsuit and the Lake Case: In 1991, the Tribe filed two major lawsuits: Tribe v. Idaho (the Lake Case) and the Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) lawsuit (Tribe v. Gulf Resources et al.) These lawsuits set the stage for what became many years of protracted litigation. The NRD lawsuit sought $3 billion dollars for the injury to natural resources brought upon by the release of hazardous substances. The Lake ownership case sought to reaffirm the Tribes ownership of the Lake so the Tribe could then proceed to address the myriad of environmental problems left unchecked by the State of Idaho. Ultimately the Tribe prevailed in both lawsuits. The Tribe has been and continues to be on the Trustee Council responsible for the development and implementation of Restoration Plan to spend the $140 million brought about through the lawsuits.
Lake Management Plan Development and Implementation: The Lake is the center of the Tribe's creation story. Their name translates to, "Those that are found here." Although the Tribe would have wanted EPA to undertake the protection of the Lake, politics has not yet allowed this. So rather than have a Superfund cleanup for the Lake, the Tribe was left with little option but to agree to coordinate with the State of Idaho to develop and implement a Lake Management Plan (LMP) that would, in essence, be the "non-CERCLA" approach to manage lake-bed metals contamination. After seven years of lackluster implementation (due to lack of funding and no political will to enact regulations) Tribal water quality data are indicating declining water quality. This indicates the LMP is proving to be ineffective. The Tribe has asked EPA to once again revisit their "deferred" decision of what they will do to protect the environment from future heavy-metals contamination.
Water Rights Litigation: 10 years ago the Tribe was forced by the State of Idaho to be a part of the north Idaho water rights adjudication process. This has been a battle to develop Tribal water claims. The Tribe now faces a trial to prove entitlement to federally reserved water rights.
Avista Mitigation: After the most recent FERC relicensing process that ended in 2011, the Tribe received $100 million to conduct natural resource restoration efforts to mitigate for losses to Tribal resources as a result of Avista Corporation project operations. Tribal investments include; aquatic weed (milfoil) management, wetlands enhancement, cultural resources protection, and water quality monitoring.
Capacity Building: All during the last 25 years the Tribe continued to build internal technical capacity to tackle the complex and daunting environmental challenges in the Basin. The Coeur d'Alene Tribe has a Natural Resources Department and a Lake Management Department numbering about 75 people. Programs and major focus include but are not limited to:
Fisheries (stream restoration, native species protection, scientific data collection)
Wildlife (wildlife monitoring, habitat enhancement, big game management)
Water Resources (water quality standards development and enforcement, invasive species management and predictive lake modelling)
Hazardous Waste Management (restoration of injured resources, LMP implementation)
Shoreline Protection (shoreline debris management)
Forestry and Fire Management (forest health, fire prevention and suppression)
Pesticides Enforcement (education and enforcement)
Lands and Realty
Environmental Planning (coordination of environmental work on and off the Coeur d'Alene Reservation)
Recreation Management (including operation and management for the Trail of the Coeur d'Alene and Camp Larsen).
In closing, the Coeur d'Alene Tribe has taken on the leadership role as steward of their homeland's natural elements. In order to protect and restore the waters and lands, the Tribe has engage in a spectrum of efforts from litigation to cooperative agreements. The Tribe's unwavering dedication to it stewardship responsibilities stems from the creators' gift of their Land and surrounding homeland.
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Washington Water Watch: December Edition
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November/December Washington Water Watch Issue Is Out
Check out our newest issue of Washington Water Watch!
In this issue, you'll find articles about Ecology's Rural Water Supply Workgroup, the success of CELP's December 3rd CLE event, and our most recent job opening. You will also be introduced to our new Board Chair and Vice Chair, Daryl Williams and John Roskelley, enjoy the poetry of Tina Wynecoop, and more.
Published on October 7, 2015
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September Edition of Washington Water Watch Is Out!
Dry Orchards in Benton County – Photo from WA Dept of Ecology
Check out the September edition of our newsletter, Washington Water Watch. You will find an article on our recent legal action to stop pollution from the Leavenworth Hatchery, Ecology's new Reclaimed Water Rule, an update on our H2KNOW campaign, and information about a conference we are sponsoring about modernizing the Columbia River Treaty, "One River. Ethics Matter". You will also find information about CELP's upcoming events.
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Your RSVP requested: Portland Conference Oct. 24
Save the Date: Saturday October 24 at the University of Portland
One River.
Ethics Matter.
One month after Pope Francis speaks to Congress, we invite you to join us at the University of Portland's Buckley Center Auditorium on Saturday, October 24 from 8 am – 4 pm, for a discussion about ethics and the future of the Columbia River. This event is free and open to the public, and lunch will be provided.
Modeled on South Africa's "Truth and Reconciliation" public meetings, "One River, Ethics Matter" is a conference series exploring the moral dimensions of the impacts of the dam-building era with a focus on tribes, First Nations and the river itself. Gonzaga University hosted the first conference from which issued the Declaration on Ethics & Modernizing the Columbia River Treaty signed by religious and indigenous leaders and many others. Please join us for the second of these conferences with a focus on flood-risk management, climate change, justice, and stewardship. We'll explore measures to correct historic injustice — including less environmentally damaging options to protect Portland from floods and restoring salmon to ancestral spawning grounds. Support is growing to expand the treaty's original purposes (flood risk management and hydropower) by adding a third purpose: "ecosystem function" to restore health to the Columbia River, including the return of salmon to ancestral spawning waters.
The Portland conference will open with Bishop William Skylstad, the force behind the Columbia River Pastoral Letter, and Leotis McCormack (Nez Perce Tribe and Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission) speaking on indigenous people, salmon, and the river. Other speakers will include Virgil Seymour who will describe the fate of the Sinixt Nation located in the Upper Columbia and declared "extinct" by Canada in 1956 during Treaty negotiations with the United States. Crystal Spicer will describe the valiant effort by her father to save their family home and farm while 2,300 people were forced by the B.C. government to relocated. The conference will conclude with a discussion of the current opportunities to modernize the Columbia River Treaty that governs management of the River, while underscoring the need to revisit flood risk management.
International water conflicts are a growing global risk in the face of climate change. "One River, Ethics Matter" intends to use the Columbia River Pastoral Letter and the tools used by hospital ethics committees to help establish a water ethic as foundational for international decisions on water.
RSVP contact: Belgin Inan inanb@up.edu 503.943.8342
RSVP deadline: October 16
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History of the Creation of the Columbia River Treaty
Vanport, Oregon – Photo from Blackpast.org
The 1948 flooding of the city of Vanport, outside of Portland, helped launch the creation of the Columbia River Treaty. To provide housing for Kaiser shipyard workers and their families, the Columbia River was diked and public housing built on the floodplain in 1942. Adjacent to Portland near the confluence of the Columbia and Willamette Rivers, Vanport was at one point Oregon's second largest city. In 1948 during a flood event, the dikes gave way. The flooding of Vanport was the Hurricane Katrina story of its day. Fifteen people died, and the city was destroyed.
Celilo Falls – Indians fishing at the falls in the 1950s. From Northwest Power and Conservation Council website, photo from Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission.
But the story did not end there. Vanport was used to justify the need for more flood protection – resulting in the damming and permanent flooding of river valleys in interior British Columbia and Montana – the "Treaty dams." These dams came at the end of the dam-building era in the Columbia that transformed the River into a machine with devastating consequences for salmon, tribes and First Nations, and the river itself. Today the great salmon gathering places of Celilo Falls and Kettle Falls are underwater, flooded by reservoirs.
Kettle Falls was legendary for salmon gathering place for tribes since time immemorial — now flooded by Lake Roosevelt, the reservoir behind Grand Coulee dam. (Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture photo)
Dam-building, interior British Columbia: burning homes in Renata B.C.. Dams permanently flooded river valleys of the Upper Columbia to provide flood protection for Portland.
Kettle Falls, Ceremony of Tears. Colville Tribal women in ceremonial dress, gathered for the Ceremony of Tears. In June 1940, an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 people mourned the drowning of Kettle Falls at a "Ceremony of Tears" organized by the Colville Confederated Tribes and attended by representatives of the Yakama, Spokane, Nez Perce, Salish, Kootenai, Blackfeet, Coeur d'Alene, Tulalip, Pend Oreille, and other tribes. Kettle Falls slipped beneath the rising waters of Lake Roosevelt on July 5, 1941. (Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture photo)
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McNerney-Hanson Chair in Ethics * Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission * Columbia Basin Revitalization Coalition * Environmental Studies Department, University of Portland * Okanagan Nation Alliance * Upper Columbia United Tribes * Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon * Upper Snake River Tribes Foundation * Pacific Rivers Council * WaterWatch of Oregon * Citizens for a Clean Columbia * Columbia Riverkeeper * Salmo Watershed Streamkeepers Society * Sweo Chair in Engineering * Center for Environmental Law & Policy * The Roskelley Family * Molter Chair in Science * Save Our wild Salmon * Garaventa Center for Catholic Intellectual Life and American Culture * Columbia Institute for Water Policy * Loo Wit Group, Sierra Club * Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, Washington State Chapter * ATRIA * Francis Maltby * Oregon Chapter, Sierra Club * Oregon Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
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Published on September 1, 2015
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Teanaway River, tributary of the Yakima River, running very low – Photo from WA Dept of Ecology
In this month's newsletter, you'll find an update on Washington's drought, an article about the H2KNOW campaign currently going on in Spokane, a profile of Frank James, one of CELP's board members, and more water news.
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Thanks to everyone who attended, sponsored and volunteered for Celebrate Water on May 21! – Photo by Jon Anscher Photography
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Celebrate Water was a Huge Success!
Photo by Jon Anscher Photography
Thanks to our sponsors and all who attended, Celebrate Water was a huge success! Thanks to our CLE presenters, Jean Melious and Patrick Williams, for educating us on current Supreme Court cases concerning Water Rights, Land Use, and Instream Flows. We also heard presentations from Rachael Paschal Osborn about the Columbia River Treaty, and from Adam Wicks-Arshack about his organization, Voyages of Rediscovery, and their work facilitating educational expeditions on the Columbia River. They have published a video, Treaty Talks, about their expedition up the Columbia River from the sea to the source in Canada.
D.R. Michel and Matt Wynne , representing UCUT
We had the pleasure of honoring the Upper Columbia United Tribes with the Ralph W. Johnson Water Hero Award in recognition of their efforts towards restoring salmon and the Columbia River. By honoring UCUT, this award also recognizes and honors all 15 Tribes and 17 First Nations of the Columbia Basin for their leadership towards these goals in the United States and Canada respectively.
Thank you to our many sponsors for their support, including: Bob Anderson & Marilyn Heiman, Columbia Institute for Water Policy, UW School of Law – Native American Law Center, Carnegie Group of Thurston County, South Sound Group Sierra Club, Voyages of Rediscovery, Family of Ralph Johnson, Adidas Outdoor, Northwest Swan Conservation Cooperative, Ted Knight, Attorney at Law, Law Offices of Shannon Work, Howard Funke, Kootenai Tribe of Idaho, Fran & Bunny Wood, and the League of Women Voters of Washington.
Here are more photos from the event – all photos are by Jon Anscher Photography.
Adam Wicks-Arshack from Voyages of Rediscovery, talking about their video, Treaty Talks
CELP Board member, Anne Johnson (right)
CELP Honorary Board members, Fran Wood (center) and Estella Leopold (right)
CLE participants asking questions of presenter
Jean Melious presenting for CLE
CELP Board Chair John Osborn


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Trusts need to do more to curb the salaries of MAT CEOs
On 15 December 2016, the government launched the second-stage consultation on a National Funding Formula – the same day on which the National Audit Office warned that schools in England were facing a cut of 8% per pupil in real terms by 2019/20 which translates into £3 billion.
The proposed formula – for which consultations have now closed – will result in over 9,000 schools/academies losing out. Money will disappear from London and other urban areas and moving to schools/academies – mainly in the shire counties – which currently receive less. However, 11,000 (circa) schools/academies will gain, albeit they will see much lower increases than they had been made to believe because at the 9,000+ schools/academies the reductions will be phased in.
Education has enjoyed more than seven years of plenty with those in the profession drinking deeply from the financial well of generous governments. Schools/academies that have been spendthrifts will suffer. Those who have been over-careful had been severely berated by their local authorities and the government for not giving their (current) pupils their just financial desserts. Those that had been judicious and saved enough for a rainy day, will postpone suffering for a few years.
In the long-term, most schools/academies will have to provide more with less simply to survive, if not flourish.
It is, therefore, not with a little surprise and angst that I read the piece written by The Secret CEO (in The Times Educational Supplement of 31 March 2017). The poor guy (his silhouette at the end of the article suggests that it is a "he"), who leads a multi-academy trust "somewhere in England" is "fed up" (the unfortunate devil) with reading "article after article about the 'shocking' salaries CEOs of MATs receive". He spends the entire article criticising critics for criticising the Chief Education Officers of Multi-Academy Trusts over the salaries they receive.
What surprises me is his "alarm". What else does he expect at a time when education is heading for some very, very lean years. Posts will be left vacant to enable schools/academies make ends meet, spending on the curriculum and continuing professional development will be cut to the bone and, in some institutions, staff members (like Cressida Dick, the new Chief of the Metropolitan Police in London, who has taken a pay cut of £40,000 annually) will volunteer to lower their salaries?
The annual salaries of 11 Chief Education Officers (CEOs) – ranging from that of Sir Daniel Moynihan of the Harris Federation (£400,000) to Mr Mike Ramsay (£190,000) – were listed else in that issue of the TES. Each of them is earning substantially more than Prime Minister Theresa May, who draws a very modest £143,462.
Our unfortunate, secret CEO describes all his onerous duties, i.e. dealing with people working in different tiers of government, having to be accountable to a multitude of bodies and leading his academies.
He goes on to recognise that CEOs – like him – are well paid "but not outrageously". I would like to add – "just excessive". However, most teachers, teaching assistants, nurses and a host of others who also, like him, "don't swan around breathing rarefied air", work long, arduous hours and earn a fraction of the salaries that he and his colleagues draw.
Many, many years ago, I chose teaching as a vocation (in India). My parents were appalled because there was so little money in education. When I arrived on these shores, I earned a lot more as a teacher (after studying further) than I would ever have done on the sub-continent. However, those at the top of the educational ladder today are drawing in 'Monopoly' money. Such hikes in salaries can no longer be sustained. It is at the expense of providing fairly for our children.
The nation cannot afford to continue spending as it did in the past and haemorrhage money that it does not have. We are (already) leaving our children, our children's children and the generations that will follow a huge national debt – £1.65 trillion (and this is rising).
Enough said. Before closing, however, I have two questions to ask our Secret CEO.
(1) Why is it that so many in and out of the education world have been calling for the "secrecy" surrounding decisions to award academy chains chief executives percentage pay rises to 10 times higher than the average teacher's to be lifted? Even the Chair of the Public Accounts Committee, Meg Hillier, is gobsmacked.
(2) Why is it that the Secret CEO is so reluctant to disclose who he is? Is there something to hide and if so, what? The Education Funding Agency (EFA) is concerned about a rocketing increase in the financial mismanagement of academies. It issued 25 financial notices to improve (FNTIs) in 2016. (Only seven notices were issued in 2015.) If one were to add the exorbitant salaries of MATs' CEOs to the FNTIs it would have been a lot more.
Writing in the March/April 2017 issue of the National Governors' Association organ, Governing Matters, Sam Henson, the Head of Information at the NGA, said: "Combining the basic underlying principles of effective yet ethical governance with a transparent culture and a well-informed board will go a long way to identifying issues." This will not only highlight but also tackle the issues plaguing some schools and academies, one of which are the salaries of their leaders.
So, Secret CEO, reveal yourself and do let us know who you are.
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Pseudogilquina karachiensis is een lintworm (Platyhelminthes; Cestoda). De worm is tweeslachtig. De soort leeft als parasiet in andere dieren.

Het geslacht Pseudogilquina, waarin de lintworm wordt geplaatst, wordt tot de familie Lacistorhynchidae gerekend. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1980 door Bilqees & Khatoon.

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