Lian Pin Koh (born 1976 in Singapore) is a conservation biologist based in the United States. He works for Conservation International as Principal (Vice President), Science Partnerships and Innovation.
Koh is also an Adjunct Professor and Chair of Applied Ecology and Conservation at the University of Adelaide, and Founding Director of ConservationDrones.org.
Throughout his career, Koh has received multiple awards including the Australian Research Council Future Fellowship, the Swiss National Science Foundation Professorship, and was also named a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader in 2013.
Koh was awarded a Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology by Princeton University in 2008. Following that, he received Post-Doctoral training at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Switzerland (ETH Zurich). In 2011, Koh was appointed an Assistant Professor by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
In 2014, he was recruited by the University of Adelaide in Australia to take on the position of Associate Professor of Applied Ecology & Conservation. He was subsequently awarded the prestigious Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (Level II)., and was promoted to full Professor in 2017. Koh helped set up and served as Director of two University research centers: the Centre for Applied Conservation Science, and the Unmanned Research Aircraft Facility.
In 2018, Koh left academia and joined Conservation International.
Koh is an applied ecologist whose notable scientific contributions include the study of species co-extinctions and modeling the environmental impacts of industrial agriculture across the tropics.
His research focuses on developing the Science and Science-based decision support tools to help reconcile society's growing consumptive needs with environmental protection. He addresses this challenge through field studies and experiments, computer simulations and modelling, as well as by co-opting emerging technologies for use in environmental research and applications.
Geographically his research is focused on the developing tropics where population growth is most rapid, the people are poorest, and biodiversity is richest and yet most threatened globally.
Koh has partnered with nongovernmental organisations, policymakers, industry players, social scientists, environmental economists, computer engineers and software developers. He has co-authored scientific publications with more than 100 colleagues from over 20 nations, and from top research institutions, including Harvard University, Princeton University, Yale University, Stanford University, Cambridge University, ETH Zurich, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Koh has published over 115 articles in journals, including Nature, Science, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.
His research has received over 12,000 citations by his peers (with an h-index of >50). Koh's work has real and significant impacts in both academia and civil society. He was bestowed the honor of a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2013, for "... his record of professional accomplishments, commitment to society and potential to contribute to shaping the future of the world through his inspiring leadership". Koh joins other leaders across the realms of politics, business, and the arts, including actor Leonardo DiCaprio, Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergei Brin, and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Koh is a pioneer in the use of low-cost drone technology for environmental applications. He is Founding Director of ConservationDrones.org, a non-profit organisation that seeks to introduce drone technology to scientists and conservationists worldwide. ConservationDrones.org has received numerous awards and media coverage (>650,000 visits to its website).
Koh was a speaker at the 2013 TED-Global conference in Edinburgh, where he spoke on the positive use of drones. His TED talk has been viewed over 600,000 times by a global audience.
Koh is a regular plenary speaker at numerous international meetings, including the WWF Fuller Symposium in Washington D.C. in 2012, the Clinton Global Initiative University in Florida in 2013, and the Intergovernmental Eye on Earth Summit in Abu Dhabi in 2015.
He is passionate about the communication of Science to the public, as evidenced by numerous and regular features on his work by international media, including the New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, Scientific American, NewScientist, the Telegraph, among others.
Since leaving Singapore in 2004, Koh has lived in Princeton (New Jersey), Zurich (Switzerland), Adelaide (Australia), and Seattle (Washington).
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^ Koh, Lian Pin; Wilcove, David S. (30 August 2007). "Cashing in palm oil for conservation". Nature. 448 (7157): 993–994. doi:10.1038/448993a.
^ Koh, L. P.; Ghazoul, J. (28 May 2010). "Spatially explicit scenario analysis for reconciling agricultural expansion, forest protection, and carbon conservation in Indonesia". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107 (24): 11140–11144. doi:10.1073/pnas.1000530107. PMC 2890708.
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^ Koh, Lian Pin (June 2008). "BIRDS DEFEND OIL PALMS FROM HERBIVOROUS INSECTS". Ecological Applications. 18 (4): 821–825. doi:10.1890/07-1650.1.
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^ Gibson, Luke; Lee, Tien Ming; Koh, Lian Pin; Brook, Barry W.; Gardner, Toby A.; Barlow, Jos; Peres, Carlos A.; Bradshaw, Corey J. A.; Laurance, William F.; Lovejoy, Thomas E.; Sodhi, Navjot S. (18 December 2013). "Corrigendum: Primary forests are irreplaceable for sustaining tropical biodiversity". Nature. 505 (7485): 710–710. doi:10.1038/nature12933.
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^ Phelps, J.; Carrasco, L. R.; Webb, E. L.; Koh, L. P.; Pascual, U. (15 April 2013). "Agricultural intensification escalates future conservation costs". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110 (19): 7601–7606. doi:10.1073/pnas.1220070110. PMC 3651457.
^ Koh, Lian Pin. "A drone's-eye view of conservation".
^ "Speakers | Pages | WWF". World Wildlife Fund.
^ "CGI University 2015 - Agenda Day 2". Clinton Foundation.
^ "Eye on Earth Summit 2015 to be held under royal patronage of The President HH Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan | Eye On Earth". www.eoesummit.org.
^ Gorman, James (21 July 2014). "Drones on a Different Mission". The New York Times.
^ Siber, Kate. "The One Use of Drones Everyone Can Agree on, Except for Poachers". Smithsonian.
^ Platt, John R. "Eye in the Sky: Drones Help Conserve Sumatran Orangutans and Other Wildlife". Scientific American Blog Network.
^ "Tropical forests axed in favour of palm oil". New Scientist.
^ Wood, By Ian. "Palm oil boycott will not protect rainforests". Telegraph.co.uk.
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Andrew is an experienced executive in Telstra, promoting, driving and delivering innovative solutions for users of telecommunications services. He holds a number of appointed positions across social, commercial and educational bodies which provide him a unique, wide-ranging perspective.
He is the General Manager of the Software Engineering team within Telstra's Global Enterprise Product Engineering team who are responsible for delivering innovative solutions to the market to help businesses thrive in a rapidly changing, highly competitive market. With 20 years of experience across Telstra, Andrew's career has traversed many areas in the business, resulting in a deep and well-rounded understanding of not only the technical side of the Telecommunications industry, but also the commercial and human challenges involved in delivering world class products to market.
His formal training in Computer Science and Engineering have allowed him to reach out across business boundaries to work as a Research Specialist, a Research Manager, Innovation Leader, Product Manager, Product Strategy specialist, Customer Experience Manager, Product Infrastructure Manager, Technology Manager and now General Manager delivering solutions used by over a million users in enterprises across Australia.
As a direct result of this broad exposure, Andrew is deeply passionate about the ability for small, cross-functional teams to deliver value to market rapidly, seeking wherever possible to focus on incremental delivery of capability over the more traditional, "big bang" approach to Go-To-Market activities.
Outside of technology, Andrew has invested time to the growth of Disabled Sport (specifically Volleyball), having worked as an International Referee for the World Para-Volley organisation (formally WOVD), and representing the Asia-Oceanic Zone as Secretary General to the AOCVD from 2002-2006. This period saw incredible growth in the sport in our region, particularly in disadvantaged countries such as Cambodia and Myanmar, helping bring a sense of pride to individuals who have suffered terribly due to war and poor medial access.
He has worked as the CEO and Chairman of the Australian National Homebrewing Conference, and President of the Melbourne Brewers, seeking to strengthen the social bonds between homebrewers, raise the profile of home brewing as a hobby, and help develop a ground swell of enthusiastic brewers transitioning into commercial breweries, building a strong local industry providing growth in employment opportunities in the process.
Andrew has been a senior lecturer at RMIT, where he taught a masters level course in Software Engineering, leading the transition towards Agile Delivery in Australia by delivering real-world industry perspectives on what was failing in the software industry, steering students on a path to alter that through application of Agile methods. He continues his contribution to education as a member of the Advisory Council for the Master of Business Information Management and Systems at La Trobe University.
Andrew joined the RSV Council in 2016 and was elected as the Society's Honorary Treasurer in 2017.


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Every Girl I've Ever Kissed
By Zach Schwartz, October 23rd 2014
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Zach Schwartz
Amy was my first girlfriend. I met her in marching band. She was a dancer for the band, in the group known as the "Starlettes." She had just broken up with her boyfriend of the last ~3 years, and she came on to me, strongly insinuating that I should ask her to prom, which I did. A week later, we started dating.
At prom, her ex-boyfriend raunchily danced with his new girlfriend near us, and Amy responded by twerking on me harder. I got the vague, absurd sense that I was participating in a dance-off. After her ex-boyfriend dropped his girlfriend to the floor—a move which I couldn't compete with—Amy ran off the dance floor. She was cold to me the rest of the night, and for the next 3 days. She finally broke up with me via text message.
The last I heard about Amy, she was married and had a kid at 19.
Madison was an extremely popular, attractive girl who displayed an unseemly interest in me during the beginning of my junior year. She introduced herself to me by saying that I looked like Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and that Joseph-Gordon Levitt was her favorite actor. She began to hold my hand, call me "cutie," and say things like, "Isn't he adorable?" when we hung out with her girlfriends.
One day, she invited herself over my house. We smoked weed. She failed to get high, but I got higher than I'd ever been: a foaming-at-the-mouth type trance that left me babbling and incompetent. After ~30 minutes of me pacing around the room and apologizing, I sat down next to her, aggressively mumbled "I feel like I should kiss you," and kissed her. We made out for ~5 minutes, during which I visualized myself as an octopus, and my arms, lips, and legs as tentacles. We heard the garage door opening—my mom coming home—and she pulled away from me. She darted out the front door. We never hooked up again.
Yvonne was my second girlfriend. She liked me more than I liked her. Our relationship ended when her dad read an email I sent her about giving me a blowjob. He told her he would kill me if he ever saw me again.
Veena was my third girlfriend and the first girl I ever said "I love you" to. She came from an ultra-traditional Indian background, so relationships were a big taboo in her family—when her parents found out about her previous relationship, they called up her then-boyfriend's parents and screamed at them.
To get around that, we convinced Veena's parents that I was gay. I spoke in a lisp when I was around them, wore women's shoes, and paraded my guy friends as "my boyfriends." Her parents bought it and left us alone.
Veena was the first girl I ever had sex with, for about ~30 seconds the week before both of us left for college.
I hooked up with Charlotte during my second week of college. She came over and gave me my first blowjob. The next day, she wanted to fuck, but I didn't have condoms, so she gave me another blowjob. After that night, we texted once or twice, but I wasn't interested in having sex with her, so we didn't see each other again.
Olivia was my fourth girlfriend and the second girl I ever said "I love you" to. I was in an on-and-off relationship with her for the last ~2 years. We're currently not talking so we can "get over each other." To this day, when I'm feeling alone at night, I'll pretend my body pillow is her and scream into it, "I love you! And I'll love you forever and no one can ever replace you."
This summer, I wrote and recorded a mixtape, "Heartbreak Mane," about my relationship with Olivia.
This February, I lived in a mansion in Bel-Air for an internship I was doing, and Miley came to one of our parties. She introduced herself as a 17-year-old singer and actress and, after we made out in my room, she showed me a video of her on Youtube that had over 100,000 views. She said she had the same agent as Rihanna. She said she attended the Grammy's the year before. When I typed her name into Google, things like "Super Bowl Commercial" auto-filled after it.
After our initial hook-up, we went on a date in West Hollywood. We both bought the same book, "In Cold Blood," and promised we would read it together. We snuck up to a roof, held hands, and made out. She told me that she never had a childhood—she'd been acting since a kid—and that she wanted to be a stripper when she grew up.
I had to leave LA a week afterwards and we haven't talked since.
"La'quisha"
La'quisha was a girl I met off OkCupid. She lived in the "hood" in Cleveland (her words, not mine). Her father was a drug dealer and her mom was a drug addict. After taking her to frozen yogurt, we went to my office in Cleveland and made out.
When I dropped her off that night, her neighbor was half-naked and pinned to the ground, being arrested on his lawn. La'quisha ignored it and kissed me goodnight.
"Teyana"
Teyana was a girl I met off OkCupid. During our first date, she didn't seem to have much interest in me, until I showed her my card tricks. She seemed delighted, pulled my hand, and said, "You have to show these to my grandma." I went over to her grandma's house, where Teyana lived, and performed magic tricks for them for ~1 hour.
Teyana was cool, we hung out for a couple weeks. I met her brother, a 6'3", 250-pound half-Hispanic and half-black dude with a teardrop tattoo on his face and $1300 Prada shoes, who was also a drug dealer. He seemed to like me.
On her 18th birthday, I had sex with Teyana in her basement while her grandma was upstairs.
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I don't remember this girl's name. We met off OkCupid. I went over to her house and was in her bed within ~5 minutes. I couldn't get hard and I told her it was because I didn't feel an "emotional connection" with her, when really it was because she wasn't as attractive as her pictures made her seem. She seemed sad, then asked me if she could at least give me a blowjob. I said that'd be fine.
Afterwards, I sat with my shirt off and showed her my card tricks, which she seemed to really like. As I was leaving, she said "Don't be a stranger." I said, "What?" Her cheeks flushed and she said "Never mind, I'm…stupid." We never talked again.
I deleted my OkCupid account after that.
Wendy was a girl I met off Tinder. We went to a frozen yogurt place named "Harlem Yo." Afterwards, we went back to my apartment and had a conversation. After she said something about being the best female basketball player in her high school, I was overcome with emotion (I love basketball) and kissed her. We started making out and I was confused by the way she was kissing: she kept her mouth open, like a fish, and I couldn't tell whether or not she wanted me to put my tongue in it. Five minutes later, she pulled back and said, "I have to go."
I texted her afterwards, asking her a) if she got home safe ("Yeah") and b) that I hope she had a good time, to which she never texted me back, leaving me repeatedly checking my phone, alone in bed, embarrassed and a little insecure.
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Are you a teenager? Then join us on Friday, April 26th, from 6-8 PM for a basketball tournament! Here's how it works: when you arrive, put your name in to be drawn for a team. Then, there will be a series of half-court games, and the finalists from those games will play on the full-court. The winners of the full court games will receive prizes! This is a great event to invite friends to! Any questions? Contact our youth minister, Christian Stringer, at or 817-626-3783, ext. 27.


A change from the normal picnic food these aubergine slices can be as hot and spicy as you like.
Slice the aubergine lengthways and sprinkle with salt and leave for 10 minutes.
Pre heat oven to 210c and grease a large baking tray.
Slice the aubergine into thick slices and place on baking tray, brush with olive oil.
Mix the black pepper, chilli powder, salt, mixed herbs, paprika and cumin together in a small bowl and spread half over the aubergines.
Cook in the oven for 10 minutes, turn the slices over and brush with oil, cover with remaining spices and herbs and cook for a further 5 minutes.
Make up egg replacer according to packet instructions.
Mix in the garlic paste, lemon juice, sugar and tomato purée.
Coat the slices in the egg batter and fry on both sides until brown.


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 Luano (Sambia), Stadt in Sambia
 Luano (Distrikt), Distrikt in Sambia
 Luano, alte Bezeichnung der Stadt Lugano

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Meet Hazzan Dr. Evlyn Gould (Cantor Evlyn)
Hazzan Dr. Evlyn Gould, who has served as High Holidays cantor for the congregation the past six years, is joining Temple Har Zion as our spiritual leader.
Cantor Gould received her smicha (ordination) from ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal. She serves as an occasional cantor at Temple Beth Israel in Eugene, OR, and at the Aquarian Minyan in Berkeley, CA. The cantor leads Shabbat services, offers monthly Shabbat Alive! Renewal services, monthly Rosh chodesh women's gatherings, and teaches workshops in Embodied Spirituality and Continuum-infused Movement Meditation.
Cantor Gould is a College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and Professor Emerita of French at the University of Oregon in Eugene. Her work there has included issues in Jewish and European Studies. She is partner to Henry Ponedel and mom to Benjamin and Jesse.


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Тууомба () е град в Източна Австралия, щат Куинсланд. Административен център на район Тууомба. Според Австралийската статистическа служба към 31 декември 2012 г. има 110 472 жители.

Култура
Тууомба е известена с карнавал на цветята, който се провежда всяка година през септември. Много от големите паркове и градини на града са специално подготвени за карнавала.

Климат

Побратимени градове
Побратимени градове са:
  Паджу, Южна Корея
  Такацуки, Япония
  Уонгануи, Нова Зеландия

Личности

Родени
 Джейсън Гън – актьор
 Питер Камерон – математик
 Джуди Морис – актриса
 Шейн Уифингтън – актьор, общественик
 Френк Форд – политик

Източници

Външни препратки
  Официален сайт
 Времето на града // sinoptik.bg

Градове в Куинсланд


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Haggeher o Hajhir son montañas que se elevan a 1.500 metros sobre el nivel del mar, en la isla más grande del archipiélago del mismo nombre, Socotra que se encuentra aproximadamente a 320 kilómetros  de la costa de Asia continental de Yemen.

Las nubes y nieblas proporcionan la principal fuente de humedad para el punto de mayor diversidad biológica de Socotra. La lluvia es mínima en la isla, y las tierras bajas alrededor del perímetro son calurosas y secas.

El clima de Socotra está influenciado por el monzón del Océano Índico. Un estudio de 2010 examinó la relación entre los vientos del monzón, la formación de nubes y la humedad disponible en Socotra. El uso de cerca de 150 imágenes de satélite que cubren un periodo de 40 años-así como los registros meteorológicos, climáticos de conocimiento local, y la colección de niebla en las redes de los investigadores identificaron configuraciones de nubes mensuales. Las imágenes de satélite muestran nubes predominantes sobre el tercio oriental de la isla en enero. La cubierta de nubes en febrero es menos consistente, pero en general tiene nubes dispersas concentrados a lo largo de la costa sur. De octubre a febrero, un viento fresco desde el norte trae las lluvias, a veces cubriendo la parte norte de las Montañas Hajhir. Durante esta época del año, las nubes pueden cubrir la región, la producción de niebla, llovizna, y precipitaciones.  Como consecuencia, las montañas son el hogar de más de 100 de las especies autóctonas de Socotra, y más de 50 especies están confinadas solo a esta región montañosa.

Una especie que aparentemente crece en las montañas de Hajhir es el árbol de sangre de dragón (Dracaena cinnabari). Considerado el símbolo de la isla, se ve un poco como un paraguas arruinado por el viento, pero el árbol utiliza sus ramas hacia arriba para recoger la humedad de la niebla.

Referencias

Montañas de Yemen


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Pandemic threatening ministry with migrants
By Kathy L. Gilbert
April 27, 2020 | UM News
Other Manual Translations: português español
United Methodist deaconess Cindy Johnson regularly visits with migrants living in a tent camp in Matamoros, Mexico, while they seek asylum in the United States. Fear of the coronavirus has stopped people like Johnson from being able to minister to them face-to-face. Photo courtesy of Cindy Johnson.
Cindy Johnson, a United Methodist deaconess who lives in Brownsville, Texas, has a heart for the thousands of migrants who stream into this area of the country seeking better, safer lives.
Until COVID-19, she was personally visiting migrants almost daily as they camped under the Matamoros Bridge — which connects the United States and Mexico — as they waited for a chance to ask for asylum.
From United Methodist Women's Immigration Resources page: "Pray for compassion by our elected leaders. Pray for families that are separated, for those appearing before judges to seek asylum, to those on the journey, to the lawyers and volunteers who are supporting them. Pray that we might have compassion."
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The coronavirus hasn't stopped people from seeking asylum but it has stopped Johnson and others from doing face-to-face ministry.
Small groups of people who once camped under the bridge waiting their turn to seek asylum have been moved to a camp by the river. Their numbers have swelled to more than 2,500 in a tent city.
Johnson is only allowed to go the tent city on Tuesdays for two hours and she has to stay away from the migrants. She reports that a team of doctors from Global Response Management is providing full-time primary care services and operating a pharmacy. On her days at the camp, she takes requests from the doctors and buys needed supplies with donations sent to El Valle District, Rio Grande Conference.
She recently bought $1,000 worth of bug spray for those living in the tents. "It's Texas and it's getting hot and there are a lot of mosquitos," she said in an interview with UM News.
Johnson said the camp does have wash stations and has cordoned off a section for people who get sick. She is no longer able to bring food, but others are doing that, she said.
The Brownsville Herald recently reported on the camp.
Johnson said the conditions are "horrible" but she has hope. "Please keep our migrant brothers and sisters in your prayers."
Cindy Johnson discusses needs of migrants living in a tent camp in Matamoros, Mexico, during the coronavirus pandemic, including masks, vitamins for children and medical facilities. Video courtesy of Cindy Johnson's Facebook page.
The Rev. George Miller, El Calvario United Methodist Church, reports COVID-19 has made it challenging to do ministry while maintaining health directives.
Miller said most asylum seekers have been returned to Mexico since the Trump administration closed the border.
In November 2019, The United Methodist Task Force on Immigration visited El Calvario United Methodist Church as well as migrant camps near the Paso del Norte International Bridge, which connects Juárez with El Paso. United Methodists volunteered at that camp.
"With the rush to stock up on supplies, both in Mexico and U.S., the shelters have somewhat been forgotten. Most in-kind donations have dried up with health and cleaning items being in short supply, no diapers, sanitizing stuff, etc. So we have to take over the border 'emergency' items as we can," Miller said.
El Calvario has started a "check challenge" encouraging people to earmark some or all of the COVID-19 stimulus checks to help others.
Miller said immigrants cannot benefit from various government stimulus packages and they are the first people to be laid off.
"I will mention two families, one where the father was laid off from a restaurant and the other a mother who cleaned houses and now is not welcomed in the houses because of virus fears. They are desperate and don't know where to turn to," he said.
The church still provides supplemental food and clothing, and is trying to provide some financial assistance, Miller said.
"We are committed to be a presence in southern New Mexico for all immigrants. We are hiring a program director for immigration services," Miller said.
A young boy arranges a tarp to protect his family's tent from rain at a makeshift encampment in Juárez, Mexico, for people waiting to make asylum claims in the U.S. in November 2019. File photo by Mike DuBose, UM News.
Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego
The Rev. Joel Hortiales, director of Hispanic/Latino Ministries and Border Concerns for the California-Pacific Conference, and Bishop Felipe Ruiz Aguilar of The Methodist Church of Mexico, Tijuana, have been working together to serve migrants trying to cross from Tijuana to San Diego.
Large waves of people are no longer coming in, Hortiales said. A large migrant camp run by the Mexican National Guard is keeping residents in quarantine and not allowing church volunteers to visit inside, he added.
"There are no cases of COVID-19 yet in the shelters, but the city of Tijuana last week reported 400 cases and the city of Mexicali had 20," he said. As in most of the U.S., citizens are asked to stay at home until May.
The feeding program of the Iglesia Metodista de Mexico in Tijuana, closed their doors on April 3, he said.
"Bishop Ruiz said that the government is allowing the feeding program to prepare food to give away on the street outside of the premises with masks and the appropriate distance. And the Methodists are doing their best to help," Hortiales said.
Like most churches in the U.S., El Faro: The Border Church/ La Iglesia Fronteriza is holding services online. For many years, The Methodist Church of Mexico and The United Methodist Church in the U.S. have shared communion every Sunday across the border from each other, but can't do that now. That was the only connection many families have with loved ones.
Lydia Patterson Institute, a United Methodist college-preparatory school in El Paso, Texas, shifted to online classes because of COVID-19. Seventy percent of the students attending the school are from Juárez, said school president Socorro de Anda.
Volunteers from the Methodist Church of Mexico feed people outside a makeshift camp for migrants at the Benito Juarez sports complex in Tijuana, Mexico, in December 2018. The program was forced to close April 3 due to the coronavirus. File photo by Mike DuBose, UM News.
Advocating in the US
More than 200 faith-based organizations, including The United Methodist Board of Church and Society, sent a letter to the Trump administration, Congress and governors asking them to include asylum seekers in emergency response to COVID-19.
The letter followed an earlier statement from the Interfaith Immigration Coalition calling for an end to medical prejudice against immigrants.
"Immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers are part of our communities. They serve on the front lines of the pandemic, keep our supply chains working, and pay taxes. To face the fear of deportation, being separated from their families or not being able to access healthcare while they do so is not only tragic, but unnecessary," said the Rev. John L. McCullough, a United Methodists who is president and CEO of Church World Service, an ecumenical advocacy group.
"Many of those who will be vulnerable without the protections we call for are married to, parents of, or children of American citizens. These are concrete steps our elected officials can take to protect them, ensuring that the fear of COVID-19 is not compounded with cruelty."
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Justice for Our Neighbors
The National Justice for Our Neighbors is a United Methodist network of attorneys who offer full legal representation at 18 sites across the U.S. Rob Rutland-Brown, director of the network, said their work continues during the pandemic.
Rutland-Brown issued a call to action to stop an executive order that took effect April 23 and will last for 60 days to suspend immigration into the U.S.
The order states it protects the nation's workforce, but Rutland-Brown said it was clear to JFON that the aim is to curb family-based immigration. He said the order will harm U.S. citizens and green card holders — immigrants allowed to live and work in the U.S. — seeking to reunite with their families.
"Many of them (clients) lack access to food, are unable to work and have anxiety about seeking health care, all while worrying about their immigration status. Some clients are still being required to attend crowded courtrooms, forced to face the risk of contracting the coronavirus or being deported," he said.
Rutland-Brown said the attorneys are interacting remotely with clients as they figure out the best ways to carry out the mission of Justice for Our Neighbors in "uncharted waters."
"This proclamation is antithetical to the shared values of our nation, our faith and of our Justice for Our Neighbors Network," he said. "We welcome immigrants. We know they strengthen our communities and our economy. We believe all families belong together."
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Although we have drawn attention over the years to the remarkable efforts of our friends at the National Coalition for Independent Action [NCIA] we have not done justice to their latest major undertaking, a sweeping and detailed Inquiry into the Future of Voluntary Services. At the launch of the Inquiry back in May 2013 the NCIA set out its stall.
That part of the voluntary sector that has the interest, experience and capacity to offer services to their local communities is now chiefly seen as a delivery vehicle for statutory services and policies and as a means, in other ways, to allow the state to withdraw from responsibility for impoverished and vulnerable people and communities. Begun under New Labour and continued with gusto by the present government, a new narrative has been built, in which the role of this part of the voluntary sector is shaped around the needs of the public services market (including the privatisation of public services) and subject to shifting fads for service and contract design. The capitulation by many in the voluntary sector, notably its national leadership bodies, to these government agendas has done much damage to the ability of voluntary organisations to work with and represent the interests of vulnerable, oppressed and marginalised communities and stand beside them in solidarity.
Meanwhile, the pressures on local voluntary groups providing services are immense and getting worse. Cuts in their funding, increasing need from desperate communities, competition from predatory corporate agencies, whether private or voluntary, commissioning and procurement systems which undermine independence, purpose and sustainability – the situation is bad and getting worse.
Local voluntary services groups are a valuable and an important part of the ecology of a healthy voluntary sector and, beyond that, a healthy civil society. We need to find ways of re-claiming the proper role – and the vitality – of this form of voluntary action. NCIA has therefore launched an Inquiry into the Future of Voluntary Services to bring together information and evidence about the issues involved and stimulate a debate about positive ways forward.
At this point in the process fifteen penetrating reports have been published. Whilst we hear much from our 'youth sector' leaders about 'evidence-based, robust and rigorous' research, which is evidently what they do and what we in our ignorance don't do, we doubt whether they've read anything that contradicts their assumptions. Thus we are creating a Page, the Voluntary Sector, where will make available all the reports. Obviously no one is going to read them all at once! Hence over the coming weeks we will do separate posts drawing your attention to specific pieces. The first post will appear next week, featuring a report with the title, "The Devil that has come amongst us"! To whom or what might this refer?
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In this chapter from Microsoft PowerPivot for Excel 2010: Give Your Data Meaning, learn how to create a Dates table for a PowerPivot model and how to use that table to support several types of calculations: number of working days, aggregation and comparison over time, and closing balance over time.
Many analyses of data have to deal with dates. Microsoft SQL Server PowerPivot for Excel offers a number of functions that simplify many calculations on dates that are typical in a business scenario, but using the right function in the right way requires some explanation. As you see in this chapter, the first step in date calculations is to create a separate Dates table that supports most of the requirements.
In some examples in the previous chapters, we defined calculated columns that extracted parts of the date that we used to group dates, such as the year and the month. This technique might be applied to each table containing a date, but it would quickly become hard to manage. It is better to create a separate table containing a row for each date, using the date as a key to link that Dates table with other tables that contain data related to a date. In this way, you obtain a model wherein all attributes about dates are included in a separate table and are easy to access when you browse data with a PivotTable, as you can see in Figure 7-1.
Figure 7-1 PivotTable browsing Order data by using a Dates table named OrderDate.
A Dates table is also useful for making calculations using special DAX functions that operate on Dates. These functions, of which DATEADD is an example, often require that all the days in a given range exist in the data table—otherwise, a missing day might result in a wrong calculation. You might have no sales for a day (in fact, it is pretty common to have no sales on nonworking days), so the separate Dates table allows you to make the right calculations without requiring any modification of the original table that contains measures to analyze.
The only side effect of this technique is that you need to create a Dates table in PowerPivot for each date attribute you want to analyze in a single table because there can be only one relationship between two tables in PowerPivot.
Creating multiple relationships with the same lookup table is not supported in PowerPivot. For this reason, you must duplicate the Dates table whenever you have more date columns that you want to analyze in the same table, such as Order Date and Ship Date attributes in a Sales table.
To create a Dates table in PowerPivot, you need a data source that contains at least a column with all days included in the period of time you want to analyze. For example, if the minimum and maximum date contained in Sales data is July 3, 2001 and July 27, 2004, respectively, the range of dates you should consider is between January 1, 2001 and December 31, 2004. In this way, you have all the days for all the years containing sales data.
In Chapter 3, "Introduction to DAX," you saw how to create Day, Month, and Year calculated columns for a Calendar table that has just the Date column as existing data. However, if you do not have an external source providing you with a valid Dates table (such as a corresponding table in SQL Server), we suggest that you create all the calculated columns for a Dates table in Excel. In this way, it will be easier to copy and paste the entire contents of that table into a new one when you have to handle more dates—for example, Order Date and Ship Date—in your PowerPivot model.
To create your Dates table, you can start by typing Date in a cell and 1/1/2001 in the cell below it, as you can see in Figure 7-2.
Figure 7-2 Creating a Dates table in Excel.
Then in the bottom-right corner of the cell containing the 1/1/2001 date (which is highlighted in Figure 7-2), you can drag down until you reach the date of 12/31/2004, as you can see in Figure 7-3.
Figure 7-3 Selecting end range for creating a Dates table in Excel.
At this point, you can release the mouse. You just created a list of all the days included from the beginning of 2001 to the end of 2004. Now you can click the Date cell, click the Format As Table button on the Home tab of the ribbon, and then confirm that your table has headers, as you can see in Figure 7-4.
Figure 7-4 Confirming the range of the Table and confirming that your table has headers.
In Figure 7-5, you can see how to give the Calendar name to the table by using the text box available on the Design tab of the Table Tools contextual tab of the Excel ribbon and how to start adding new columns by right-clicking a cell in the table and selecting the InsertTable Column To The Right item from the Insert context menu.
In Figure 7-6, you can see how to define a formula in an empty cell of the new column to calculate the Year. After you type =YEAR(, you can click the Date column to get the right syntax to read that column, as shown in Figure 7-6.
Figure 7-5 Inserting a new column in the Dates table.
Figure 7-6 Defining the formula for the Year column in Excel.
At this point, you can type the closing parenthesis and then press Enter. The formula is automatically copied for all the rows of the table in the same column, with the result that you can see in Figure 7-7 (after you adjust the format of the Year column to General in case it was a different format that you copied from the Date column).
Figure 7-7 The Year column calculated for all the rows.
With this technique, you can define all the columns that are useful for navigating the data that aggregate date in several ways.
Figure 7-8 shows the final result of a complete Dates table with fiscal year starting on July 1. You can find this table in the CH07-01-Calendar.xlsx workbook included on the companion DVD. Table 7-1 contains the formula definitions for all of the columns.
Figure 7-8 A complete Dates table with fiscal year starting on July 1.
Table 7-1 Formula definitions for the Dates table in Excel.
Table 7-1 does not include a column for week number. The table omits it because there are several techniques for calculating the week number in a year, and different businesses have different ways to make this calculation. More important, sometimes a week belongs to a year that is different from the calendar year—the fiscal year, for example—even if only for a few days of a year. In that case, you also need to define a WeekYear column that must be used for browsing the weeks in a meaningful way. We preferred not to include a specific week calculation to keep the Dates table simple and to avoid possible confusion introducing an algorithm that might be different than that used in your company.
Now you can import this table in PowerPivot as a linked table. The result is shown in Figure 7-9.
Figure 7-9 The Dates table imported in PowerPivot as a linked table.
You can see that the month name contains the month number in front of it, so December is described as 12 – December. It is useful to have the month names automatically sorted. However, if you want to sort month names but also want to avoid the initial number, please take a look at the section "Custom Sorting in PivotTables" in Chapter 8, "Mastering PivotTables," where we describe how to sort columns of a Dates table in a PivotTable.
You might want to change the data types of some columns in the Dates table. Whenever you import the Excel table into PowerPivot, columns like Year, MonthNumber, and Day are usually defined as Whole Number data types. For this reason, when you select one of these columns in the PivotTable, the selected attribute is placed by default in the Values area of the PivotTable and is aggregated when you use the Sum function. You might prefer to change the data types of these columns to Text so that by default they are used to group data in rows.
If you want to test your new Calendar table, you should now import the SalesOrderHeader, SalesOrderDetail, Customer, and Product tables from the AdventureWorks database into the same PowerPivot model. Relationships between these tables are automatically detected during the import. At this point, you need to create a relationship between the OrderDate field of the SalesOrderHeader table and the Date field of the Calendar table you just imported. Before starting, in PowerPivot you have to rename the Calendar table to OrderDate so that it expresses the dates it represents. Then you click the Create Relationship button on the Design tab of the ribbon and fill in the dialog box, as shown in Figure 7-10.
Figure 7-10 Create a relationship between the SalesOrderHeader and OrderDate tables.
At this point, the model is ready to browse data, as you saw at the beginning of this chapter, in Figure 7-1.
In the model you saw in the previous section, each Order has several dates. In case you want to analyze not only the Order Date but also the Ship Date, you need to define a second table in PowerPivot because the same table (that is, the Dates table) cannot have more than one relationship with a given table (SalesOrderHeader).
At this point, you have two options. You can either create a new linked table starting from the same table you used before (shown in Figure 7-8) or copy that table into Excel and create the linked table starting from this copy. The first option is not the best one because in PowerPivot you can have only one linked table for a given Excel table. If you try to create a linked table starting from the same Calendar table you defined before, the warning message shown in Figure 7-11 appears.
Figure 7-11 A warning against trying to create a linked table for an Excel table already used as a linked table.
If you continue creating a linked table this way, you cannot update the OrderDate table anymore. If you create a model that must be refreshed over time and that is likely to have a life cycle longer than the current year, you are better off using another way, which allows future updates.
The second option requires you to copy and paste the existing Calendar table in Excel. Before you do that, you should rename the Calendar table in Excel, using the same name we used for the corresponding linked table in PowerPivot, which is OrderDate. To do that, you can type the OrderDate name into the Table Name text box available on the Design tab of the Table Tools contextual tab of the Excel ribbon, as you can see in Figure 7-12.
Figure 7-12 Renaming the table OrderDate, in Excel.
At this point, if you try to Update the OrderDate linked table in PowerPivot, you get the error message shown in Figure 7-13.
Figure 7-13 The error message you get when you try to update OrderDate after changing the name of the underlying Excel table.
When you click the Options button, you can select the Change Excel Table Name option. Then you choose the OrderDate table in the combo box that shows the available tables in Excel, as you can see in Figure 7-14.
Figure 7-14 Fixing the error in LinkedTable by selecting the correct underlying Excel table.
Now you can copy the OrderDate table in Excel into a new one that we call ShipDate. You might do this by selecting the whole table, copying it, and then pasting it into an empty space of your Excel workbook. However, another option is to use a single dedicated Excel worksheet for each table like these so that you can simply duplicate the worksheet into a new one. In this way, whenever you need to add columns or rows to the table, you never have to move other existing tables. Moreover, tables are easily accessible when you click the corresponding worksheet name in Excel.
To create a copy of the worksheet containing the OrderDate table, you have to right-click the OrderDate label and select Move Or Copy from the context menu that you can see in Figure 7-15.
Figure 7-15 Choosing Move Or Copy from the context menu.
The selection displays the dialog box shown in Figure 7-16, in which you have to select the Create A Copy check box and choose the position of the new sheet.
Figure 7-16 Selecting the option to create a copy of the worksheet to place at the end of the list.
At this point, you rename both the table (using the same procedure you saw already in Figure 7-12) and the worksheet (by right-clicking on the OrderDate (2) label and then selecting Rename from the context menu that you can see in Figure 7-17); you use the new ShipDate name.
Figure 7-17 The Rename option in the context menu.
Finally, you can create a linked table for the ShipDate table by clicking the Create Linked Table button on the PowerPivot ribbon. Again, you have to create a relationship in PowerPivot between the SalesOrderHeader and ShipDate tables, by using the ShipDate column of the SalesOrderHeader table this time, as you can see in Figure 7-18.
Figure 7-18 Creating a relationship between the SalesOrderHeader and OrderDate tables.
You can find the resulting model in the CH07-02-OrderAndShippingDate.xlsx workbook included on the companion DVD. However, as you can see in the next section, duplicating tables might not be enough. Because Excel does not show the table name to which a column belongs when you use it for Slicers and Filters, you might want to add a prefix to your columns. It is better to do that directly in the source Excel table rather than renaming the columns in PowerPivot only so that the overall model is simpler to understand.
You must define a separate Dates table to distinguish the semantics of different dates in your data. This is certainly true whenever different date columns belong to the same table, as in the case of the OrderDate and ShipDate columns in the SalesOrderHeader table. However, when you have dates columns in different tables, you have to evaluate whether the semantics of these dates is the same or not.
Every time you have a different role for a date, you have to create separate Dates tables to browse data, just as you saw in this section. On the other hand, you have to use the same Dates table whenever these dates have the same meaning, at least for your analysis.
For example, if you have an OrderDate in the Sales table and a CallDate in a CallCenterCalls table, you might decide to create two separate data tables named OrderDate and CallDate. But you might also want to create a single Dates table that connects both events, which would ease the browsing over time of data from both tables in the same report. If you have no other dates in your model, no ambiguities arise from that arrangement, but if there are other dates involved in the same model, you should consider a separate model for doing correlation analysis, avoiding misleading names in your model.
Duplicating the same table, such as a Dates table, multiple times in a PowerPivot model makes the resulting PivotTable difficult to read whenever the same attributes are used from different tables. For example, in Figure 7-19, you can see a PivotTable in which the Year from OrderDate has been put in rows and in the first slicer, and the Year from ShipDate has been put in columns and in the second slicer. The problem is that there is no evidence of the table that a column belongs to whenever it is moved into slicers, filters, rows, or columns of the PivotTable. The final model for the example of this section is available in the CH07-03-PrefixedDateColumns.xlsx workbook included on the companion DVD.
Figure 7-19 Columns with the same name from different tables are not recognizable in a PivotTable.
So in case you create a model with multiple copies of the same tables, you should differentiate the names of the columns so that they are immediately recognizable in a report. You can edit the table names in Excel by adding a prefix to each column. In Figure 7-20, you can see the heading of the OrderDate table, wherein each column has been prefixed with the word Order. You can do the same for the ShipDate column by using the Ship prefix.
Figure 7-20 The columns of OrderDate prefixed with Order.
Renaming a column that is part of a relationship breaks that relationship. For example, if you try to update the linked tables after renaming the Date columns, you receive the error message shown in Figure 7-21. The existing relationships were based on a column (Date) that does not exist anymore.
Figure 7-21 Relationships lost when a column is renamed.
In this example, you need to re-create the relationships between SalesOrderHeader and the OrderDate and ShipDate tables (through the columns OrderDate and ShipDate, respectively). In Figure 7-22, you can see the definition of the relationship for OrderDate; the one for ShipDate simply uses the corresponding names for the lookup table name and columns used to define the relationships.
Figure 7-22 Recreating relationships by using the new lookup column name.
After you rename your column, you can create a report similar to the one you saw in Figure 7-19, but this time, use more meaningful names for columns that were ambiguous before. You can see the result of such a process in Figure 7-23.
Figure 7-23 Column prefixes are more recognizable both in the slicers and in the PowerPivot Field List.
We suggest that you use column prefixes every time you have the same column name in different tables—not just for Dates tables.
You might want to use a separate NonWorkingDays table to configure the working days in the week. In that case, you use the VLOOKUP Excel function in the preceding expression. You see a similar example later in this section, when we discuss how to create a table that defines public holidays that must be differentiated from working days.
This formula is automatically copied into all the rows of the OrderDate table, as you can see in Figure 7-24.
Figure 7-24 The WorkingDays column added to the OrderDate table in Excel.
You can modify single values for other nonworking days, such as public holidays, overriding the formula with a forced fixed value (usually 0) just for these days. For example, in Figure 7-25, you can see the value for January 1, 2001 overridden by a 0 value, whereas the following dates are still evaluated by the formula we defined before.
Figure 7-25 The value 0 overriding the formula for January 1, 2001.
The warning shown in Figure 7-25 to the left of cell J2 indicates a possible inconsistency in a column that contains a formula. You can click the Ignore Error item in the context menu to turn off the warning.
You can update the OrderDate linked table in PowerPivot, and the WorkingDays column shows up in the PivotTable too. At this point, you can define a measure belonging to the SalesOrderDetail table named DailySales, which divides the sum of LineTotal by the sum of working days, as you can see in Figure 7-26.
Figure 7-26 The definition of DailySales measure.
The final result is shown in Figure 7-27, where both WorkingDays and DailySales measures are exposed in the PivotTable. However, in a real report, you usually do not show the working days number but just the average measures, such as Daily Sales.
Figure 7-27 PivotTable showing results for WorkingDays and DailySales.
Define a separate table to calculate working days, based on country and date.
Make a calculation of the required DailySales average by country.
Aggregate that number for all countries by using a weighted average based on the sales amount for that country in a given period.
Although this calculation is still possible, it is very complex and it is seldom used because this measure is probably not the same for different countries in the same report.
Our technique up to now is really error prone because we write directly into a cell a value of 0 to indicate a holiday, without any further explanation. If we make an error, it is really hard to identify; furthermore, we make no distinction between weekend days (which are automatically calculated) and holidays. A better solution is to define a separate Holidays table, which is easier to check and to maintain because it moves into a single calculated column the logic to merge weekend evaluation and holiday definition using a single formula. In Figure 7-28, you can see such a Holidays table, defined in Excel.
Figure 7-28 Holidays table in Excel.
You can import this Holidays table as a linked table in PowerPivot and define a relationship between the OrderDate and Holidays tables, as shown in Figure 7-29.
Figure 7-29 The relationship between the OrderDate and Holidays tables.
You can remove the WorkingDays column because you are moving the whole logic into PowerPivot. Because you need to use the RELATE function to get holiday information in PowerPivot, you should move all the business logic into one simple place: avoid splitting it half and half between Excel and and PowerPivot. After you update the OrderDate table in PowerPivot by removing the WorkingDays data column, you can define a new WorkingDays calculated column by using the DAX formula that you can see in Figure 7-30.
Figure 7-30 The WorkingDays calculated column in the OrderDate table.
Remember that the || operator corresponds to the OR Boolean operator, which also can be written using the OR function, both in PowerPivot and Excel.
Finally, you can browse data with the right calculation of WorkingDays, according to the Holidays table we included in the model. In Figure 7-31, you can see the resulting PivotTable, which you can find along with the complete model in the CH07-05-WorkingDays-HolidaysTable.xlsx workbook included on the companion DVD.
Figure 7-31 The PivotTable showing final results using the Holidays table support.
Figure 7-32 The Dates column in the SalesOrderHeader table.
Calculating whether an order has been shipped on time seems pretty easy: you should just compare the DueDate and ShipDate columns. However, if you consider a standard delivery time of four working days, you should calculate how many orders have been shipped after DueDate minus four working days. This calculation requires the support of the Dates table. The complete model of the following example is available in the CH07-06-DeliveryDays.xlsx workbook included on the companion DVD.
This number calculates for each day the number of working days elapsed since the first date in the Dates table. In Figure 7-33, you can see how this number is calculated for a few rows.
Figure 7-33 The WorkingDayNumber calculation.
The FILTER call filters only the ShipDate row in the OrderDate table. Using this filter, the CALCULATE function returns the value of WorkingDayNumber for that row. The use of VALUES grants that an error message is raised if the FILTER returns more than one row (in which case, the filter condition contains an error).
The DueDeltaDays column shows a positive number in the case of a delay, representing the number of delay days. Negative numbers indicate an early delivery (measured always in days). In Figure 7-34, you can see values for this column and for another calculated column named DeliveryDelayDays, which displays a value only for delayed orders.
Figure 7-34 The DueDeltaDays and DeliveryDelayDays calculated columns in the SalesOrderHeader.
You can also calculate the average delay (in days) for delayed orders, by simply selecting the Summarize By Average item on the DeliveryDelayDays column. In Figure 7-35, you can see a PivotTable displaying both these measures.
Figure 7-35 The DeliveryDelayRatio and average of DeliveryDelayDays columns in PivotTable.
You might wonder why we have not used table relationships to relate SalesDate and DueDate tables with corresponding SalesDates and DueDates tables; why have we used a more complicated DAX expression instead? We have two reasons for that. First, we would have needed to duplicate these two tables both in Excel and in PowerPivot. Second, the need to duplicate would have been propagated to the Holidays table too, requiring three Holidays tables in Excel that would have been imported in three different linked tables in PowerPivot. You can look at an example of such a model in the CH07-07-DeliveryDays-UsingRelationships.xlsx workbook included on the companion DVD.
Because PowerPivot does not support more than one relationship between two tables, it follows in an indirect way that you cannot relate the same Holiday table from two or more different tables (such as SalesDates and DueDates) if these tables are both related to the same table (such as SalesOrderHeader), even if the relationship is through different columns.


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Our Tenement Flat
13th October 2017 | trudy
My boyfriend and I are very lucky live in a pretty huge old tenement flat, just off Byres Road in Dalcross Street (formally Buchanan Street. It's in Glasgow's West End if you're an estate agent, or Partick if you're not. At the end of our road is the pub Sparkle Horse which used to be the Dowanhill Bar (Billy Connolly's favourite apparently and some of my more seasoned neighbours have told me you could sometimes you could see him collapsed in the close after a few too many juices).
Our flat is an ex housing association flat, in a half private, half Partick Housing Association block, which is the only way we could afford such a property, sadly all the original features have been ripped out years ago. The kitchen, carpets and fittings are the cheapest possible and it's covered in wood chip (it's everywhere, even on the ceilings). Everything needs addressing, there are no sockets in some rooms due to the weird way it has been made up from 2 flats, literally everything has to be rethought! Despite all this I love this place, it's beautifully light, has huge cupboards and rooms and the location is amazing. It's so exciting to think about restoring it to it's former glory by putting the things back in that were probably ripped out in the 1960's when it's purpose was changed.
We've done some of the boring things like new fuse boxes, a new boiler and had some lovely new windows put in a few weeks ago that are sympathetic to the style and look like old sash windows. So we're on our way but I thought I'd write a series of posts to share our journey as we slowly restore the "tenementness" back to our flat. You could say this is the before post – one of many, because to be honest, due to time and finances it's going to be quite a lengthy project.
The first thing to do is very simple, it's a new front door. Our door as it stands is a council fire door, painted bright blue, as is the close, (I'm guessing a job lot was acquired by the housing association), and it's not very attractive. After a crappy and scary interaction with our eternally drunk neighbour last week (most of our neighbours are amazing, a real mixture of people from all backgrounds, this man however, although thankfully hardly there, is an absolute liability!), we decided a new solid door would be a good start to the restoration. We went to Glasgow Salvage Yard and picked out a new (but old) wooden door. The Glasgow Salvage Yard is stacked full of old fixtures and fittings and also some very weird stuff. It's amazing and they will definitely have what you're looking for hiding away somewhere.
Anyway back to the door, it's just an old door, nothing fancy about it but I like it, with some new fittings it's going to be perfect. Our flat wouldn't have been grand back in the day, just a normal workers house, Partick was boomtown for mills, shipyards and engineering works, so there is no need for some of the grand fittings you would maybe see in some tenements further west. We're thinking of maybe some stained glass at some point for the window above the door, but that is years down the list in priority. For now it's going to feel like a major milestone to have this new door and start making this sad, unloved old flat our happy home.
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2012: The First Colorado Main Street SBA Loan
Colorado Lending Source | Nov. 25, 2015
In conjunction with the Small Business Jobs Act, the Small Business Administration introduced an Intermediary Lending Program (ILP) to help meet the needs of small businesses suffering from a lack of credit due to poor economic conditions and changes in the financial market. Through a competitive application process, the SBA selected 20 ILP Intermediaries to initiate the program. Colorado Lending Source was one of the lucky few loaned $1,000,000, and in 2012 the first Colorado Main Street SBA ILP loan was funded.
The Colorado Main Street SBA ILP loan program differentiated from its micro-loan counterpart (USDA IRP) as funds could be distributed statewide. The loan sizes were bigger, as well, ranging from $50,000 to $200,000. To ensure the small businesses being helped were destitute, Colorado Lending Source required a minimum of two rejection letters from traditional financiers. By mid 2012, all but $50,000 of the original borrowed principal was committed to eleven small businesses, including Special Times Limousine.
Air Force veteran Kevin Labonte started Special Times Limousine after noticing a gap in limo and executive sedan service to Hudson, Brighton, and the Carbon Valley area. People from these regions had to use services located over 30 miles away, and as a result were paying huge cost increases. In 2012, through a SBA ILP Colorado Main Street loan, Kevin acquired a stretch limo, a SUV, and a luxury sedan to get his business running.
Today, Special Times Limousine is the premier limo service for the Northeastern Front Range. Kevin's fleet has doubled in size, and along with standard services like rides to the airport, ski resorts, proms and weddings, he has expanded to include winery and brewery tours, haunted house tours and holiday light tours. Being a veteran-owned business, Special Times Limousine is proud to supply limos and transportation to families of the United States Armed Forces, and provides free homecoming rides for Active Duty personnel returning from overseas.
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All I Want for Christmas Is Added Sugar Information Over Disinformation
Genna Reed
The struggle is real right now for all of us trying to watch our added sugar intake this holiday season as we await the implementation of the revised nutrition facts label. Now, thanks to the administration's delay of implementation dates, we'll have longer to wait for clear labels. Want to know how much sugar was added to that egg nog? Tough. How about that fruit cake? None of your business. Trying to figure out whether you'll max out on your daily sugar intake from that cup of hot cocoa? Better luck in 2020!
The Sugar Association had the gall to claim that the added sugar label was "not grounded in science" when it was finalized in May 2016. Now, multiple revelations over the past year have shown the way in which the organization has sidelined science using the disinformation playbook since at least the 1950s. It is clear as crystal that the Sugar Association cares only about science that downplays the risks of sugar consumption. All other data is subject to being contested or buried altogether.
Speaking of burying data, here's how the Sugar Association used "The Fake" to end a research study with inconvenient initial findings.
In a November PLoS article, UCSF researchers found that the Sugar Research Foundation had suppressed its own research when its results indicated that rats fed a high-sugar diet had a statistically significant increase in likelihood that they would have higher levels of beta-glucoronidase which is associated with bladder cancer. SRF funded the 15-month study in 1968 to be led by W.F.R. Pover at the University of Birmingham. When Pover reported his results and asked for more time to complete the study, SRF Vice President, Hickson, described the study's value as "nil" to industry executives, leading to a denial of the funding request and a termination of the incomplete study. This meant that the study's conclusions were never published and that the link between a high sugar diet and associated cancer risk were kept secret from the public, until now. As recently as 2016, the Sugar Association has denied the link between sugar consumption and cancer, stating that "no credible link between ingested sugars and cancer has been established."
The Sugar Association has also spent years trying to shift attention off of the harmful impacts of added sugar, using "The Diversion."
The same UCSF research team published a study last year which revealed that as a part of its campaign to increase sugar consumption in the 1960s, the Sugar Research Foundation funded its own literature review on sugars, fats, and chronic heart disease in an obvious attempt to dispel the rumors that calories from sugar were at least part of the problem. The SRF paid Dr. Mark Hegsted and Dr. Robert McGandy, under the supervision of Harvard University's Fredrick Stare, a total of nearly $50,000 (in 2015 dollars) for their work. And the SRF was heavily involved throughout the review process, urging the scientists to focus on the perils of fat consumption. The SRF vice president and director of research, John Hickson, emphasized in 1965, "Our particular interest had to do with that part of nutrition in which there are claims that carbohydrates in the form of sucrose make an inordinate contribution to the metabolic condition, hitherto ascribed to aberrations called fat metabolism. I will be disappointed if this aspect is drowned out in a cascade of review and general interpretation."
Another trick up the sleeve of the Sugar Association was their use of "The Screen," taking advantage of the funding relationship it had with Harvard University's nutrition department.
Just as the Sugar Association and Corn Refiners Association today work with academic scientists to advance their talking points, when the trade association's aforementioned literature review was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1967, the authors did not disclose the funding or close involvement of the SRF in the review. Dr. Fredrick Stare, the founder and chairman of the nutrition department at the Harvard School of Public Health, had an extended history of funding from the sugar and food industry: over 30 papers authored by members of his department were funded by the SRF just between 1952 and 1956. Stare's department at Harvard is a key example of how industry funding can influence academic science, with dangerous consequences for public discourse and public policy.
Despite all we know about the disinformation campaign of the sugar industry, government officials are still failing to see through their same old distraction tactics and talking points about "sound science" to act to protect our health rather than the trade association's profit margin. The result? Delayed access to information on the nutrition facts label even though we know that sugar is one of the risk factors implicated in the obesity crisis that continues to worsen every year.
Early last month, UCS submitted a comment to the FDA urging them to choose information over disinformation and not to go through with the further delay of enforcement of the revised label. To formally delay compliance of this already long-awaited and scientifically supported rule would be an arbitrary step backward for public health.
Bah-humbug.
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Buchanan Port To See Revenue Jump
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MONROVIA-The Port of Buchanan is expected to shortly see a major boost in income generation, ahead of the official start of ArcelorMittal Liberia's Phase Two expansion project.
As of this month, ArcelorMittal Liberia will kick off a huge shipment of logistics for the project, through the Buchanan Port.
As part of preparations, ArcelorMittal Liberia, last week received a delegation of the technical and administrative staff of the National Port Authority (NPA), headed by the Manager of the Port of Buchanan, Civicus Barsi-Giah, at its Phase Two operation sites in Buchanan.
The visit was meant to give the port authority an understanding of the company's Phase Two operations and the role of the port and to see some of the cargo that would be shipped shortly, through the Port of Buchanan.
ArcelorMittal Liberia's Head of Logistics and Material Management for the project, Leslie Dodds said the visit of the port's delegation was cardinal for the partnership between both institutions.
"We have many vessels that we will use to bring cargos to Liberia, for the development of the Phase Two project, and also, carry cargos that need to go to different parts of the world to be repaired and returned. So, the relationship with the Buchanan Port is strategically important to us," Dodds said.
"So, we wanted them to understand what we are doing and it's the first time they have come to visit us. We emphasized our culture of safety, and that we want to work as a team…not them and us. So, it's a partnership."
He said several vessels would be expected to dock at the Buchanan port, to deliver materials for the project, following the first voyage, mid this month.
The vessel Breadbox, according to AML Phase Two project Logistics Manager, Amos Reeves, will ship more than 4,000 rails to Buchanan, from Spain, and load for shipment to South Africa a consignment of logistics equipment, meant for the project, to South Africa, for repair and reshipment to Liberia.
Buchanan Port Manager, Barsi-Giah welcomed the partnership with AML amidst the expansion project, noting that it will boost operations and income generation, for the port and the Government of Liberia and create more jobs for Liberians.
"Such partnership, especially when earnestly done brings a lot of boosts and enthusiasm and helps the workers to have a great experience. The Port of Buchanan through its commercial pier is going to be a direct beneficiary of AML Phase Two expansion project, and we're very, very happy to see that happening," he said.
Bolloré Logistics, the company contracted to facilitate AML's logistics services were also part of the tour.
The company's shipping Manager; Ernest Hallowanger said the tour provided insight on how they would be required to handle the different cargos.
In September 2021, the Government of Liberia and ArcelorMittal, the world's leading steel company, signed an amendment to the Mineral Development Agreement ('MDA') which paved the way for the expansion of the Company's mining and logistics operations in Liberia.
The expansion project-which encompasses processing, rail, and port facilities is one of the largest mining projects in West Africa. The capital required to finalize the project is expected to be over US$1 billion.
The expansion project includes the construction of a new concentration plant and the substantial expansion of mining operations, with the first concentrate expected in late 2023, ramping up to 15 million tonnes per annum ('mtpa').
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Kids & Youth Sunday School classes: Meet upstairs in the educational building. Classes are divided as 3-4 year olds, K5-2nd, 3rd-5th, middle school, and high school.
Nursery classes and Nursing Moms room: Downstairs in the educational building.
Worship is our response to the greatness of God. We seek to magnify and respond to the greatness of God with our voices and various instruments. We include a mixture of hymns and modern day worship music. We also have scripture readings and a time of preaching each Sunday morning, to teach the people of God to be doers of the Word, not merely hearers.
Kids ages 3-4 are invited to attend Kids Corner upstairs in the educational building after singing with their parents in our corporate worship service. A snack is included in this fun time for our young children.
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Constable Tubbs was shot and killed when he went to a man's home to serve a lunacy warrant. He was shot in the head as he exited his patrol car. The suspect was charged with murder and committed to Rusk State Hospital.
Constable Tubbs had been in law enforcement for four years.
At approximately 2:00 a.m., Night Watchman Charles W. Newsom was called to the kitchen of the Owl Cafe. Upon arrival in the kitchen, Newsom was stabbed in the neck and shot four times. Newsom died at the scene of the shooting.
Newsom was killed because he had arrested Roger Kesterson a few days earlier on some minor charge and this was the reason he was killed. Carl Norvell was charged and sentenced to 25 years in prison for stabbing Newsom in the neck and almost severing Newsom's head. He was pardoned December 14, 1933. Kern Norvell, a brother of Carl Norvell, shot Newsom four times. Kern Norvell committed suicide before he could be arrested. Roger Kesterson was tried in Mt. Vernon, in Franklin County on a change of venue and was found not guilty.


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We are located at 2nd floor @ 7990 Kennedy Rd. S, Brampton, Ontario. The suite is 201. Payless2India office is located in the heart of Brampton, Ontario. We are located at the intersection of Steeles and Kennedy Rd S. in the Akal insuarnce plaza.
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Structural vibrations caused by wind or earthquake can lead to damage of the structure. As a result, the structure will have to be repaired or possibility demolished. Recently there have been a number of new devices developed that enables structural systems to withstand wind or earthquake induced vibrations with minimal damage. Examples of these devices include passive dampers and semi-active dampers.
The study will investigate the use of elastomeric dampers for reducing the vibrations from wind and earthquakes on structures. Real-time hybrid testing techniques will be utilzed to perform a series of experiments involving simlated wind and seismic loading on a building structure. The dampers will be modeled in the laboratory, using an existing large-scale damper test setup. The remaining part of the structure will be modeled analytically in order to include the effects of interaction of the dampers and the structure under various arrangements of the dampers in the structure. The data collected from the experiments are to be utilized to assess performance, develop analytical models of the damper, and to assist in the establishment of a performance-based design methodology.
The project builds upon results from prior studies on elastomeric dampers, where a first-generation damper was constructed and mechanical properties for the damper were obtained. These studies helped to establish real-time hybrid simulation methods for structural systems with passive dampers, which led to preliminary assessment of these dampers for vibration control under seismic loading.
Based on the results from these prior studies, a first generation elastomeric damper developed by Corry Rubber Corporation was evaluted for use in reducing structural damage to buldings during the design earthquake. Tests were performed on the damper to establish their mechanical properties. Preliminary designs of a prototype structure using the passive dampers revealed that a large number of dampers were required in order to meet performance-based design objectives under the design earthquake. Tests on structures under earthquake loading conditions performed using real-time hybrid simulation methods confirmed the need for improvement in the damper design. In addition, the tests performed to establish the mechanical properties of the damper and in the hybrid simulations revealed that the damper exhibits slip and dissipate energy due to friction at moderate amplitudes of deformation. It was concluded that new analytical models have to be developed in order to accurately protray the hysteretic behavior of the damper, which is both rate-dependent due to its elastomeric composition and deformation amplitude due to slip.
The study will involve developing with Corry Rubber Corporation the next generation of elastomeric dampers. These dampers will result in a more efficient design, where fewer dampers are required to achieve design objectives for a structure. The tasks for the proposed project include: (1) providing input to Corry Rubber Corporation for constructing the next-generation of large-scale elastomeric dampers; (2) performing tests on the damper to establish the mechanical properties for a range of frequencies and deformation amplitudes; (3) revise the performance-based design procedure developed in prior research to incorporate any necessary changes based on the properties and characteristics of the new damper; (4) designing a low-rise prototype building with the dampers that enables selected performance objectives to be economically achieved in the structure during the design earthquake; (5) performing real-time hybrid simulation of the prototype building under a range of seismic hazards to validate the performance of the damper and the performance-based design procedure; (6) use the results from the mechanical property tests and hybrid simulations to calibrate and refine a newly developed analytical model for elastomeric dampers that can be utilized in time history analysis; (7) performing nonlinear time history analyses of the prototype building with dampers to investigate effects of parameters varied in the design (e.g, performance level, design criteria) and to further validate the performance-based design procedure.
The Real-time Multi-directional (RTMD) Earthquake Simulation Testing Facility has recently been commissioned at the ATLSS Center. This facility has state-of-the-art servo-hydraulic equipment (servo-valves, accumulation and piping systems). Advanced testing methods have been implemented, enabling the real-time testing of structural components and systems. In the proposed project the dampers can be tested in real-time under realistic loading conditions using the real-time hybrid test method. This test method enables the interaction of the dampers with the structural system to be included in the test, by creating analytical substructures of the remaining parts of the structural system that are coupled to the dampers.
An experimental program based on the use of real-time hybrid simulation to verify the performance-based seismic design of a steel perimeter MRF equipped with compressed elastomer dampers was presented. The experimental substructures for the simulation consisted of two individual compressed elastomer dampers, with the remainder of the MRF and associated tributary gravity columns and gravity loading of the building modeled as an analytical substructure. Real-time hybrid simulation allowed an ensemble of ground motions to be applied to the structure resulting in various levels of damage, without the need to repair the test specimens, since the damage was within the analytical substructure.
Statistical experimental response results incorporating the ground motion variability showed that a steel MRF with compressed elastomer dampers can be designed to perform better than conventional steel SMRFs under the DBE and MCE, even when the MRF with dampers is significantly lighter in weight than the conventional SMRF. In particular, the steel MRF with dampers was designed with a practical number of dampers (eight dampers in the first story and five dampers in the second story) and with a 30% lower steel weight than that of the conventional steel MRF. Real-time hybrid simulations showed that the MRF with dampers experiences significantly lower peak story drifts, peak plastic hinge rotations, lower peak absolute floor velocities and floor accelerations in addition to floor spectra accelerations than those of the conventional steel SMRF.


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Rocky Mountain Towns are Reopening for Adventurers
Let's get going!
With summer here and fewer restrictions now in place for camping, rafting, mountain biking, guided trips and more, there are plenty of places ready to welcome outdoors lovers, albeit with some restrictions.
As long as you are willing to wear masks and social distance, you will find mountain towns have fine-tuned their lodging, restaurants, and guided adventures so that you can get outdoors and enjoy yourselves this summer—safely.
"Bear Jam" in Yellowstone National Park pre-pandemic
While Maine and Vermont at this writing still require out of state visitors to self-quarantine for two weeks, other states including Colorado , Utah, Wyoming and Montana have relaxed some restrictions which means visitors can enjoy the mountains, mountain towns and the National Parks, though the experience will be different this year with visitor centers, some lodging and restaurants shut
However, because there are no big tour groups or international visitors this summer, you may be able to score last minute lodging—at up to 30 per cent off–according to Xanterra, which runs concessions, lodging and more in national parks including the Grand Canyon, Zion National Park, Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks.
Glacier National Parks. Even the iconic Grand Canyon Railway is 30 per cent off.
Mountain towns known for snow sports have always proved a good summer value –this year better than most, though much-loved activities like outdoor concerts and rodeos have been cancelled. You'll see more dining spilling out on sidewalks and fewer tables inside. Guided activities may be limited to just your family and lodging will be at 50 per cent capacity.
The good news: mountain towns should be less crowded because no one wants to fly, and cancellation fees have been relaxed. You can also opt to rent an RV –even have it delivered to a campground in many cases from Outdoorsy or RVSHARE. You'll find your pick of deals, including free nights from Benchmark's Rocky Mountain Road Trips .
Here is what to expect this summer:
ASPEN: Lodging and restaurants are open at 50 per cent capacity; Aspen Meadows – Colorado residents receive 40% off with rates starting at $107/night. The Gant– Colorado residents receive 30% savings in deluxe and premier accommodations for stays June 4 – Oct. 31. Limelight Aspen– Colorado residents receive 40% off deluxe rooms and higher through Sept. 3. Reservations for Shuttle and Parking at Maroon Bells: Reservation requests for both the shuttle service and parking will be available to the public beginning June 2 at www.aspenchamber.org. Reservations will initially be available in rolling two-week increments. Aspen Mountain has opened; Snowmass is likely to open June 21; The Aspen Center for Environmental Studies has also resumed some of its popular summer activities.
The awesome troll Isak Heartstone – seen in Breck last summer
BRECKENRIDGE: Historic Main Street will be transformed into a pedestrian-friendly walking mall with more outdoor dining options. . Beaver Run is among the lodging companies with special offers; Breckenridge Grand Vacations, which manages more than 800 units across four resort properties in Breckenridge has partnered with PURO™ Lighting to deploy groundbreaking UV disinfection technology. . Breckenridge Ski Resort hopes to have lifts spinning by late June/early July. Breckenridge Golf Course is open, you can fly fish and hike including Crystal Peak, Wheeler Mountain.. And of course you can pay respects to Isak Heartstone, the large-scale, wooden troll sculpture created by Danish artist Thomas Dambo, along the specially constructed one-way Trollstigen Trail.
VAIL VALLEY: The Westin Riverfront Resort & Spain Avon is touting 20 per cent off accommodations, food, massages and $20 off bike rentals; The Antlers at Vail has 10-pack of room nights bookable for stays between June 1- Nov. 14, starting at $189 . Lodging properties will operate at a maximum of 50 percent of occupancy and follow heightened health and safety guidelines. Pool and hot tub facilities also are open with occupancy limits, and fitness centers and gyms will operate at limited capacity. Saunas, spas and steam rooms remain closed for the time being. The Town on Avon has relaxed its regulations allowing for guests to consumer their own beer, wine and cocktails in the open air of Nottingham Park and on the Main Street Pedestrian Mall between 11:30 a.m. and 30 minutes after dusk. The Town of Eagle has allowed for the consumption of alcohol in their town parks and public spaces and has initiated a town-wide program entitled "Be our Guest," allowing restaurants and bars the ability to apply for expanded use and service on the Town sidewalks, streets, and parking lots. There are more than a dozen golf courses, 80 miles of river and 300 miles of hiking. Museums and public facilities such as Walking Mountains in Avon and Betty Ford Alpine Gardens and the Colorado Snowsports Museum in Vail also are open with limited capacity. The mountain has not yet announced when it will open.
Playing GaGa Ball at YMCA of the Rockies in Estes Park CO
ESTES PARK: The YMCA of the Rockies Estes Park Center and Snow Mountain Ranch have begun to reopen with two-bedroom cabins starting at $169 and lots of complimentary activities including mini golf, guided hikes, outdoor climbing walls, arts and crafts, kids activities (including a new day camp at an extra charge) Devil's Thumb Ranch also has reopened Receive a free night and Ranch Bucks to spend on dining, activities, and retail items during your stay. Offer valid through July 31. You currently need a timed entry permit or camping reservation to enter Rocky Mountain National Park
WINTER PARK Resort will re-open for gondola rides, putting courses, Trestle Bike Park and more on June 27. Nearby Devil's Thumb Ranch is touting a third night free (on Sunday-Thursday stays plus $150 credit through the end of July.
A couple on the Nordic trails at Devil's Thumb Ranch with their 7-month-old in tow early last winter
PARK CITY, UTAH has plenty to do with close to 400 trails for mountain biking and hiking. Utah Olympic Park include two hour sessions with a one-hour break between sessions ; Deer Valley Resort has announced reopening on June 26th for biking hiking and scenic rides.. You will find plenty of lodging deals too.
JACKSON HOLE Wyoming is the gateway to Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks with plenty of places to hike, bike, river raft and fly fish. Some resorts, like Spring Creek Ranch offer private wild-life viewing tours of the parks, horseback rides and star gazing. You can support Jackson Hole businesses—lodging, restaurants, shopping and more—by purchasing discounted gift certificates that you can redeem when you visit. Snow King Resort, just a few blocks from Jackson Hole Town Square, not only has newly renovated accommodations but an "On the Road Again" package beginning at $140 a night with a $40 gas credit, waived pet fee, to-go breakfast and more. Take a private Fishing lesson!