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Cases of COVID-19 in Ontario surge despite 'cautious optimism'
TORONTO — The number of reported new cases of COVID-19 and related deaths surged in Ontario on Friday, a day after officials expressed cautious optimism the spread of the dangerous virus was moderating.
Figures released show a record 1,855 new infections, a whopping increase of 25 per cent from the previous day. Public health authorities also reported 20 new deaths.
There were slight decreases in the number of COVID-19 patients in hospital and on ventilators.
The surge in new cases comes as the province grapples with how best to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus in an effort to keep the health-care system functioning.
Health Minister Christine Elliott said the sharp spike was not unexpected, given that stringent measures in the hard-hit Toronto area only kicked in on Monday. It would likely take two full weeks before the numbers start dropping, she said.
"We're still seeing the results from some of the events that have happened and some of the celebrations that have happened in the last few weeks," Elliott said.
Premier Doug Ford spent much of Friday's briefing looking forward to the day when an anti-COVID vaccine might be available. Former chief of national defence staff Gen. Rick Hillier will oversee a distribution task force, Ford said, as he called on the federal government to provide details as soon as possible about the doses the province can expect.
"We need a clear line of sight into the timelines of the shipments," Ford said.
Several hospitals have now experienced outbreaks, including a major facility in London, Ont. Grand River Hospital in Kitchener, Ont., became the latest hit after three patients and two staff tested positive.
The facility said it had closed its clinical teaching unit to new patient admissions and was pondering whether to close one of its eight operating rooms. It also said it was suspending in-person visits in favour of virtual connections.
Staff at high risk of exposure had been tested and asked to self-isolate, Cheryl Evans, a Grand River spokeswoman, said.
In recent weeks, the provincial government and local health authorities have reimposed increasingly stringent anti-pandemic measures, forcing businesses to close and strongly advising people in hot spots to all but isolate.
On Thursday, police ticketed a provincial politician, Randy Hillier, for his role in an anti-lockdown protest at the legislature. Supporters carrying placards that suggested the pandemic was fake did not wear masks.
Ford called the politician totally "irresponsible."
"Folks that believe this is just a big hoax, which I've never figured that out, this is a very serious virus, we're seeing it around the world, around our country," Ford said.
Four of the hardest hit regions all saw significant case increases, with Elliott reporting 517 new infections in Peel, 494 in Toronto, 189 in York Region, and 130 in Halton.
The most recent provincial projections indicate the province was on track to see more than 9,000 new daily COVID-19 cases by mid-December without the more stringent measures.
Ford has warned against planning Christmas or other celebrations, while Elliott has said it would be "very optimistic" to expect much of an improvement in time for the holidays.
While schools have remained open, the education minister has warned that an extended winter break or move to remote-only learning may be needed.
"We are thinking ahead to be able to mitigate any increase of transmission in our schools because we've fundamentally, in this province, been able to keep that rate down,'' Education Minister Stephen Lecce said on Thursday.
Latest figures show 122 new cases in schools, bringing the total infections to 4,470, with at least 2,769 involving students, and at least 614 involving teachers and staff.
Public health authorities on Friday closed the private Northside Christian School in Listowel, Ont., until at least Dec. 1 after an outbreak. Huron Perth Public Health said the school reported one case but others might be connected.
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Critical rationalism is an epistemological philosophy advanced by Karl Popper on the basis that, if a statement cannot be logically deduced (from what is known), it might nevertheless be possible to logically falsify it. Following Hume, Popper rejected any inductive logic that is ampliative, i.e., any logic that can provide more knowledge than deductive logic.  In other words if we cannot assert it logically, we should at the least try to logically falsify it, which led Popper to his falsifiability criterion.

Popper wrote about critical rationalism in many works, including: The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934/1959), The Open Society and its Enemies (1945), Conjectures and Refutations (1963), Unended Quest (1976), and The Myth of the Framework (1994).

Criticism, not support
Critical rationalists hold that scientific theories and any other claims to knowledge can and should be rationally criticized, and (if they have empirical content) can and should be subjected to tests which may falsify them. Thus claims to knowledge may be contrastingly and normatively evaluated. They are either falsifiable and thus empirical (in a very broad sense), or not falsifiable and thus non-empirical. Those claims to knowledge that are potentially falsifiable can then be admitted to the body of empirical science, and then further differentiated according to whether they are retained or are later actually falsified. If retained, further differentiation may be made on the basis of how much subjection to criticism they have received, how severe such criticism has been, and how probable the theory is, with the least probable theory that still withstands attempts to falsify it being the one to be preferred. That it is the least probable theory that is to be preferred is one of the contrasting differences between critical rationalism and classical views on science, such as positivism, which holds that one should instead accept the most probable theory. The least probable theory is preferred because it is the one with the highest information content and most open to future falsification.

Critical rationalism as a discourse positioned itself against what its proponents took to be epistemologically relativist philosophies, particularly post-modernist or sociological approaches to knowledge. Critical rationalism holds that knowledge is objective (in the sense of being embodied in various substrates and in the sense of not being reducible to what humans individually "know"), and also that truth is objective (exists independently of social mediation or individual perception, but is "really real").

However, this contrastive, critical approach to objective knowledge is quite different from more traditional views that also hold knowledge to be objective. (These include the classical rationalism of the Enlightenment, the verificationism of the logical positivists, or approaches to science based on induction, a supposed form of logical inference which critical rationalists reject, in line with David Hume.) For criticism is all that can be done when attempting to differentiate claims to knowledge, according to the critical rationalist. Reason is the organon of criticism, not of support; of tentative refutation, not of proof.

Supposed positive evidence (such as the provision of "good reasons" for a claim, or its having been "corroborated" by making successful predictions) does nothing to bolster, support, or prove a claim, belief, or theory.

In this sense, critical rationalism turns the normal understanding of a traditional rationalist, and a realist, on its head. Especially the view that a theory is better if it is less likely to be true is in direct opposition to the traditional positivistic view, which holds that one should seek theories that have a high probability. Popper notes that this "may illustrate Schopenhauer's remark that the solution of a problem often first looks like a paradox and later like a truism". Even a highly unlikely theory that conflicts with a current observation (and is thus false, like "all swans are white") must be considered to be better than one which fits observations perfectly, but is highly probable (like "all swans have a color"). This insight is the crucial difference between naive falsificationism and critical rationalism. The lower probability theory is favoured by critical rationalism because the greater the informative content of a theory the lower will be its probability, for the more information a statement contains, the greater will be the number of ways in which it may turn out to be false. The rationale behind this is simply to make it as easy as possible to find out whether the theory is false so that it can be replaced by one that is closer to the truth. It is not meant as a concession to justificatory epistemology, like assuming a theory to be "justifiable" by asserting that it is highly unlikely and yet fits observation.

Critical rationalism rejects the classical position that knowledge is justified true belief; it instead holds the exact opposite: that, in general, knowledge is unjustified untrue unbelief. It is unjustified because of the non-existence of good reasons. It is untrue, because it usually contains errors that sometimes remain unnoticed for hundreds of years. And it is not belief either, because scientific knowledge, or the knowledge needed to, for example, build an airplane, is contained in no single person's mind. It is only what is recorded in artifacts such as books.

Non-justificationism
William Warren Bartley compared critical rationalism to the very general philosophical approach to knowledge which he called justificationism, the view that scientific theories can be justified. Most justificationists do not know that they are justificationists. Justificationism is what Popper called a "subjectivist" view of truth, in which the question of whether some statement is true is confused with the question of whether it can be justified (established, proven, verified, warranted, made well-founded, made reliable, grounded, supported, legitimated, based on evidence) in some way.

According to Bartley, some justificationists are positive about this mistake. They are naïve rationalists, and thinking that their knowledge can indeed be founded, in principle, it may be deemed certain to some degree, and rational.

Other justificationists are negative about these mistakes. They are epistemological relativists, and think (rightly, according to the critical rationalist) that you cannot find knowledge, that there is no source of epistemological absolutism. But they conclude (wrongly, according to the critical rationalist) that there is therefore no rationality, and no objective distinction to be made between the true and the false.

By dissolving justificationism itself, the critical rationalist (a proponent of non-justificationism) regards knowledge and rationality, reason and science, as neither foundational nor infallible, but nevertheless does not think we must therefore all be relativists. Knowledge and truth still exist, just not in the way we thought.

Non-justificationism is also accepted by David Miller and Karl Popper. However, not all proponents of critical rationalism oppose justificationism; it is supported most prominently by John W. N. Watkins. In justificationism, criticism consists of trying to show that a claim cannot be reduced to the authority or criteria that it appeals to. That is, it regards the justification of a claim as primary, while the claim itself is secondary. By contrast, non-justificational criticism works towards attacking claims themselves.

The pitfalls of justificationism and positivism

The rejection of "positivist" approaches to knowledge occurs due to various pitfalls that positivism falls into.
The naïve empiricism of induction was shown to be illogical by Hume. A thousand observations of some event A coinciding with some event B does not allow one to logically infer that all A events coincide with B events. According to the critical rationalist, if there is a sense in which humans accrue knowledge positively by experience, it is only by pivoting observations off existing conjectural theories pertinent to the observations, or off underlying cognitive schemas which unconsciously handle perceptions and use them to generate new theories. But these new theories advanced in response to perceived particulars are not logically "induced" from them. These new theories may be wrong. The myth that we induce theories from particulars is persistent because when we do this we are often successful, but this is due to the advanced state of our evolved tendencies. If we were really "inducting" theories from particulars, it would be inductively logical to claim that the sun sets because I get up in the morning, or that all buses must have drivers in them (if you've never seen an empty bus).
Popper and David Miller showed in 1983 that evidence supposed to partly support a hypothesis can, in fact, only be neutral to, or even be counter-supportive of the hypothesis.
Related to the point above, David Miller, attacks the use of "good reasons" in general (including evidence supposed to support the excess content of a hypothesis). He argues that good reasons are neither attainable, nor even desirable. Basically, Miller asserts that all arguments purporting to give valid support for a claim are either circular or question-begging. That is, if one provides a valid deductive argument (an inference from premises to a conclusion) for a given claim, then the content of the claim must already be contained within the premises of the argument (if it is not, then the argument is ampliative and so is invalid). Therefore, the claim is already presupposed by the premises, and is no more "supported" than are the assumptions upon which the claim rests, i.e. begging the question.

Variations
William Warren Bartley developed a variation of critical rationalism that he called pancritical rationalism.

Argentine-Canadian philosopher of science Mario Bunge, who edited a book dedicated to Popper in 1964 that included a paper by Bartley, appreciated critical rationalism but found it insufficient as a comprehensive philosophy of science, so he built upon it (and many other ideas) to formulate his own account of scientific realism in his many publications.

See also
Münchhausen trilemma
Positivism dispute

People
Hans Albert
David Deutsch
John Eccles
Ernest Gellner
Hans Adolf Krebs
Reinhold Zippelius

References

Further reading
Maxwell, Nicholas (2017) Karl Popper, Science and Enlightenment, UCL Press, London. Free online.
 Niemann, Hans-Joachim. Lexikon des Kritischen Rationalismus, (Encyclopaedia of Critical Rationalism), Tübingen (Mohr Siebeck) 2004, . More than a thousand headwords about critical rationalism, the most important arguments of K.R. Popper and H. Albert, quotations of the original wording. Edition for students in 2006, .
  Parusniková, Zuzana  &  Robert S. Cohen (2009). Rethinking Popper, Description and contents. Springer.
 Reinhold Zippelius. Die experimentierende Methode im Recht (trial and error in jurisprudence), (Academy of Science, Mainz) 1991,

External links
 Critical Rationalism: a personal account
 Critical Rationalism Blog: Discusses critical rationalism from a libertarianist political point of view
 Justified True Belief and Critical Rationalism

Rationalism
Epistemological theories
Epistemology of science
Karl Popper
Metatheory of science

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Усманское 2-е сельское поселение (2-я Усмань) — упразднённые административно-территориальная единица и муниципальное образование в составе Новоусманского района Воронежской области.

Административный центр — село Новая Усмань (южная часть). Администрация сельского поселения располагалась на ул. Ленина, д. 60в. Северная часть села учитывалась в составе Усманского 1-го сельского поселения.

C января 2021 года главой Новоусманского района Воронежской области Дмитрием Масловым предложено объединение двух сельских поселений, так как в соответствии с законодательством, населённый пункт может существовать в пределах только лишь одного муниципального образования.

Законами Воронежской области от 25 февраля 2022 года № 3-ОЗ и № 4-ОЗ с 11 марта 2022 года объединено с Усманским 1-м сельским поселением.

Население

Населённые пункты
В сельское поселение входили 4 населённых пункта (2 посёлка и 2 деревни) и южная часть села Новая Усмань (2-я Усмань):

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That show, "Yo Soy Betty La Fea" ("I Am Betty the Ugly"), could have been another one of the telenovelas — the nightly soap operas featuring a breathless blend of camp, melodrama and cliffhanger — that dominate primetime programming in Colombia. But its creator, Fernando Gaitán, had greater ambitions. He wanted to critique the legendarily superficial culture of his country, which has so many beauty pageants it has run out of cities to name them after. So Mr. Gaitán created Beatriz Pinzón Solano, a woman with brains ,Betty holds a master's degree in economics, a heart and a face so unfortunately contoured that it comes as a relief to find her forehead hidden under a fringe of oily black bangs.
During all show , we thought betty was fea(ugly) but in the ending betty reveals herself as a beautiful woman.
Rick, did you write this?


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Free Summer Concert Series Continues at the Dublin Farmers' Market
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It was sheer joy listening to you both at Ramakrishna Centre, Melbourne on 10 April 2011. This was by far the best North Indian Classical presentation we had ever heard in Melbourne and we wish that you shall one day be the best sitar and vocal duo in the world.
We still feel the pleasant vibrations your music had generated since. We wish we could have listened to our favorite Puriya Dhanashree raga from you but we also acknowledge our gratitude that all the wonderful melodies we heard from both of you was more than what we could have asked for. Our gratitude also goes us to the various gurus you learnt under, to your parents and to you both for working so hard in endeavoring to uphold and carry forward the legacy of our sacred Indian Art.
We wish to listen to you once again if you ever happen to tour Melbourne.
Your home concert last saturday was divine music, rendered from the heart and complimented by exceedingly high level of technical accomplishment. Pretty much all aspects of your performance were superlative. At times, I thought, these young boys are actually doing better than some of the well known gurus in Hindustani music. This style was new to me. Aalaap, jod, zala, with sitar and vocal for the first 1.5 hours without tabla. Then straight into chota khayal with the tabla, followed by tarana... In the chota khayal, it was amazing to see that you increased the laya in increments at least 4 times! Debapriya, your taans were of lightning speed, yet, every note was crystal clear! And Samanway was playing the sitar in the "gayaki" anga, doing amazing things both in the alaap and taan. I had never seen vocal and sitar together in this fashion. It was a feast for music lovers! I would like to congratulate both of you for such extraordinary level of achievement at such a young age. I wish you all the best, and success in your musical career. I will try and attend your perormance tonight and tomorrow in the Ramakrishna mission.
Gandharvas(Celestial Beings) in human form. Your music transported all of us to the greatest bliss. Both of you have special powers of the divine.
I can hardly add anything to Shalaka's, Nitin's and Sharad's thoughts about your performance. The audience was spellbound. You both have amazing talent to lift your audience's spirits to another world!
I personally leant quite a bit just listening to your Parameshwari Alaap - the way you developed the raga. Your ability to create those wonderful permutation and combinations of phrases is superb. I was particularly impressed with how you use change in volume and modulation to great effect.
I will see you tonight at the Vedanta Centre. I wish you both all the best in future, knowing that you will achieve great heights.
We would certainly like to have you visit Sydney again.
Nitin has already said what I wanted to say. I do not understand the mathematics of tala and the science behind the construction or scientific "exploration" of a "Raaga". All I can say that I enjoy listening to music in spite of the handicap.
It was a fantastic performance from both of you. Now a days music has become very commercial in India it is very rarely you see artists performing with their heart and soul in concert.
I had to leave early after parmeshwari due to other commitments and I am sorry for it.
I know you both are performing in Brisbane. I will talk to one of the oragnisers in Brisbane - Anant Bellari (runs an organisation called Swara Mohini)about you both. He may be able to help you during your next tour.
I wish you both a great future.
The concert hasn't stopped in my head yet.... the parameshwari and Bhimapalaas, both are still there!
And I assure you, every one of us, who was there with their "tan" and "man", are in the same situation. Every aspect of your performance was one of the best I have seen so far.
It is amazing to see how you two have adopted and developed within yourself, each others' "dhang" (style). Debapriya, it was astounding to see how you can use your vocal cords (instrument) to do "gamak" and "Thaharaav" style of sitaar and at the same time how Samanvay and his sitar, seem not two things..... but just one "whole" instrument producing the "gaalyak" patterns, different every time with perfect "aamad".
The most enjoying part was to see how you two complement and support each other, how you two encourage and challenge each others. Though the program is called "Jugalabandi" (Duet), it was not a 'laDhat' it was an excellant "baDhat". We could feel that you two have worked on this "jugalabandi" part of your performance, a great deal.
I consider myself a keen listener and over the years, have made some opinions. 'Sitar and Vocal do not go together', was one of them. I am so happy that, you have proved me wrong.
From my heart and soul, I wish you two, the very best in your musical journey..... with only one selfish motive of getting more chances to listen to you two, perform.
Debapriya-Samanwaya are easily the best touring act I've ever accompanied. They will also be giving concerts in Byron Bay, Gold Coast and Brisbane on Oct 23-25. Details will be posted on ethnosuperlounge.com soon.
Wow! What a wonderful? rendition of Hemant Jod 2 by Debapriya Adhikary & Samanwaya Sarkar. Beautiful to watch them performing jugalbandi.
Thanks for posting it for the connoisseurs.
I wish them hugh success for their Australia tour in Sydney on 4th & Canberra on the 3rd October. I am so proud of these two young musicians of our city, Kolkata; which is called the Cultural Capital of India. Their music is quite divine, soothing and beautifully synchronised.
Their performance here at the London Sevashram Sangha a couple of years ago left an indelible impression on the minds of the devotees. They had never heard anything like before. It was soul stirring. It is a blessing to see them perform.
his is an excellent jugalbandi I have heard of Hindustani classical vocal and sitar. I liked the raag Hemant and Darbari Kanada, the King of ragas. Darbari is very majestic in style and the musicians? renditions were simply superb. Debapriya's voice is very melodious and attractive and Samanwaya's sitar is extremely soothing and pleasing to watch. So, the combination was perfect for a great jugalbandi.
I also loved the raag Adana; which is very romantic in character but moves very fast. This is a special composition in praise of the master called Ustad Fateh Ali Khan, who was master in very fast taans and that is why Adana has very fast taans. A beautiful rendition of this raag Adana by both the musicians of Kolkata. I am so proud of these two young musicians of our country. I would love to listen to their renditions of other ragas especially, Bageshree, Desh and Durga.
We have broadcasted their rendition of raag Hansadhwani last month from www.wcrfm.com via our ?Surtarang? show; which is accessible worldwide.
I was delighted to learn that they had been invited to perform as part of the International Music Festival D' Uzerche in France entitled ?India Evening?. I would like to thank the French Festival Organisers for inviting the internationally renowned vocalist Debapriya Adhikary and sitarist, Samanwaya Sarkar to perform in such a prestigious music festival this month which has been televised for a wider audience. The quality of this video production is excellent. I enjoyed every minutes of the whole production.
Dev and Sam always have my blessings. I pray to God for their success in their musical career together.
Congratulate for their exquisite performance.I commend the audience for their silent reception and encouragement though they may not be familiar to Indian Classical music- its ragas, presentation and wording etc. I admire the Correze Television for their support and production and maintaining it at their website for general viewing.In the world of excitement one finds a meditative balm in such pieces.Therefore, I wish them all the best for staging such a program and hope they will uphold this trend in future also."


Boy Scout Troop 313, chartered by the Church of Scientology in Clearwater, came back from their week-long summer camp at Camp Sand Hill, earning a series of awards and nearly 40 merit badges between the scouts.
Boy Scout Troop 313, chartered by the Church of Scientology FSO, after their week-long summer camp, where they earned nearly 40 merit badges between them.
Among the various awards the troop earned, Andrew Lumsden, Senior Patrol Leader and Life Scout, received 2nd place in the campwide archery competition with 24 bullseyes as well as the "Golden Falcon Award," for troop leadership. Three adult leaders, Kevin Sorrells, Delphine Nasr and William Harris, received the "Scoutmaster Meritorious Achievement" recognition by the Camp Commissioner.
Boy Scout summer camp is a yearly activity for most troops, including Troop 313. Nine Scouts and three adult leaders from the troop continued this tradition. For three of the nine scouts, it was their first time attending a summer camp.
L. Ron Hubbard, Founder of Scientology and Eagle Scout himself, felt that Scouting was very important. He mentioned that the training he received saw him safely through the Second World War, of which he was a US Naval Officer.


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La bataille de Pea Ridge (aussi connue, plutôt chez les sudistes, sous le nom de bataille d'Elkhorn Tavern) est une bataille de la guerre de Sécession qui se déroula du  au , à Pea Ridge dans le nord-ouest de l'Arkansas, près de Bentonville. Au cours de cette bataille, les forces de l'armée de l'Union conduites par le général Samuel Curtis remportèrent la victoire sur celles de l'armée des États confédérés sous le commandement du général Earl Van Dorn.

De par les effectifs engagés, c'est le plus important combat de la guerre livré à l'ouest du Mississippi. La conséquence majeure de cette bataille fut d'affermir le contrôle de l'Union sur l'État du Missouri. Cette bataille fut aussi l'une des rares où les troupes confédérées furent supérieures en nombre à celles de l'Union. Cette bataille marqua également la première participation majeure des Amérindiens au conflit puisque deux régiments de Cherokees prirent part aux combats du côté de la Confédération.

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Situation militaire
La guerre entamée en 1861, se déroule sur trois théâtres d'opérations. Le premier est à l'est des Appalaches ; le deuxième, entre celles-ci et le Mississippi. Le troisième s'étend au-delà du Mississippi, de l'État du Missouri aux Territoires indiens et c'est ici que se tiendra la bataille de Pea Ridge.

Sur le théâtre de l'Ouest, entre Appalaches et Mississippi, les forces fédérales se sont emparées des Forts Henry et Donelson, s'ouvrant la vallée du Tennessee et occupent Nashville le . Elles se préparent à continuer leur progression vers le sud. Leur flanc droit doit être sécurisé et, à l'ouest du Mississippi, les forces nordistes doivent donc aussi refouler leurs adversaires vers le sud.

C'est ce que fait le général Curtis. Mais sa ligne d'opération, dans une région aux ressources limitées, lui interdit d'aller trop loin.

Les forces de la Confédération, elles, se doivent de reprendre le contrôle de l'État du Missouri, tant pour ses richesses économiques que pour une population en bonne partie acquise à sa cause. Pour cela, elles doivent battre la seule force organisée nordiste, l'armée de Sud-Ouest de Samuel Ryan Curtis.

Objectifs nordistes
Après avoir repoussé les forces sudistes du Missouri, les forces fédérales se préparent à faire de même sur le territoire de l'Arkansas. L'hiver et les difficultés de ravitaillement incitent le général Curtis, après avoir envoyé un message triomphant à son supérieur, Halleck  à stopper sa progression vers le sud.

Il va attendre la contre-attaque probable de ses adversaires en ayant choisi une position propice au nord de cet État, sur la rive nord de la rivière Sugar Creek, position qui va être fortifiée.

Objectifs sudistes
Le général Van Dorn, nommée à la tête des forces sudistes, prévoit de remonter vers le nord et de reprendre le Missouri. Avisé de la présence des fédéraux, il imagine d'éviter un assaut frontal et de tourner par l'ouest les forces nordistes, de les prendre à revers afin de leur interdire de faire retraite vers le nord, ce qui équivaudra à leur destruction. Cette manœuvre ressemble à celles qu'il a vu mettre en œuvre durant la guerre du Mexique, à la bataille de Monterrey ou à celle de Cerro Gordo.

La force principale, par une marche de nuit, contournera le plateau de Pea Ridge par le nord et redescendra vers le sud, par la route dite « du télégraphe » pour prendre à revers les positions fortifiées nordistes.

Une seconde force doit attaquer l'aile ouest nordiste en passant par la route et le village de Leetown, sur le côté sud du plateau de Pea Ridge. Elle doit fixer les forces nordistes et les empêcher de renforcer celles qui seront menacées par l'attaque principale.

L'inconvénient de cette manœuvre est qu'elle laisse aux fédéraux le bénéfice de la manœuvre sur lignes intérieures, les forces sudistes ne pouvant se soutenir mutuellement.

Situation géographique
La région de Pea Ridge offre des cours d'eau orientés est-ouest, comme Sugar Creek, passant au pied de plateaux gréseux qui les surplombent de plusieurs dizaines de mètres. Ces plateaux sont couverts de végétation, arbres et taillis. Leurs flancs offrent de nombreux ravins abrupts.

La route qui vient de Springfield, au nord, et descend vers le sud, passe à l'est de Pea Ridge par une croupe au sommet de laquelle se trouve une auberge, relai de diligence et poste télégraphique, Elkhorn Tavern. Cette route, semblable à une allée forestière actuelle d'une forêt française, n'offre que rarement la possibilité pour des unités militaires de se déployer.

On est en plein hiver. La neige couvre le pays. Il gèle et le vent du nord aggrave la sensation de froid. Une tempête a, dans les jours qui précèdent, ravagé le pays et, en particulier, a fait tomber de nombreux arbres, rendant difficile la progression d'unités organisées dans les bois.

Il y a peu de villages ou de fermes dans cette région. Leetown, par exemple, ne comprend qu'une douzaine de cabanes en rondins.

Forces en présence

Nordistes

Commandée par le brigadier general Samuel Ryan Curtis, l'Armée du Sud-Ouest est forte de  et aligne  d'artillerie.

Elle est organisée en . Elle aligne  d'infanterie,  de cavalerie et  d'artillerie Une bonne part des unités provient du Missouri.

Sudistes

L'armée sudiste, nommée Armée de l'Ouest, environ , commandée par le général Earl Van Dorn est organisée en deux masses, aile droite et aile gauche.

L'aile droite est composée d'une division d'infanterie (), d'une brigade de cavalerie ( et deux bataillons de cavalerie), ainsi que de  d'artillerie. Elle comprend aussi une brigade d'Amérindiens cherokees, chactas, chicachas et creeks. Finalement, seuls les premiers, au nombre de 900, prendront part au combat, le champ de bataille se trouvant seulement à une cinquantaine de kilomètres de  dans le territoire indien (actuel État de l'Oklahoma).

L'aile gauche, commandée par Sterling Price, est composée de  d'infanterie. La première est la plus importante, regroupant  qui mêlent infanterie, cavalerie et artillerie. Ces unités proviennent de la Garde nationale du Missouri. Les autres divisions sont composées d'un mélange d'unités des  pas toujours bien identifiables. Elle a  d'artillerie.

Pour favoriser le mouvement de ses troupes, les bagages et le ravitaillement restent plus au sud. Les hommes n'ont emporté que trois jours de vivres au début de leur marche vers le nord, ce qui fait qu'ils n'ont plus rien quand commencent les combats et qu'ils ne pourront refaire le plein de munitions.

Bataille
La bataille s'étend sur trois jours. Le premier est une série d'escarmouches qui voient la retraite des unités du général Sigel vers le gros des forces nordistes. Le deuxième jour voit les nordistes subirent les assauts sudistes. Le troisième jour voit la réaction nordiste et la désintégration des forces sudistes.

, Bentonville
Les deux premières divisions, commandées par le général Sigel, sont éloignées du gros et stationnées plus au sud, autour de Bentonville.

Quand le mouvement sudiste est détecté, en direction de Bentonville mais aussi en vue d'encercler le village, Sigel entame une retraite vers les positions de Suger Creek. Il devra combattre pour réussir à gagner sa nouvelle position, échappant de justesse à l'armée sudiste.

, Leetown
Les forces mises sous le commandement du général McCulloch, suivent la piste nommée « Ford Road », passant au sud de « Big Mountain ». Leur objectif est de rejoindre la force principale qui vient du nord.

Les divisions Osterhaus et Asboth, envoyées par Curtis sécuriser son flanc droit, arrivent sur l'arrière du flanc droit confédéré. McCulloch décide de se tourner vers cet adversaire qui menace son flanc. Une attaque de cavalerie nordiste est repoussée par la cavalerie sudiste. S'ensuit un combat par le feu, de part et d'autre de champs cultivés dont les clôtures offrent protection aux combattants, avec l'appui de plusieurs batteries qui font principalement du tir indirect.

Trop avancé, McCulloch est abattu par des tirailleurs nordistes. Le commandement passe à son second qui est abattu quelques dizaines de minutes plus tard alors qu'il dirige un régiment. À partir de ce moment, il n'y a plus de direction des opérations chez les sudistes. Le général qui devrait prendre alors le commandement, Hébert, est à la tête de sa division, dans les bois au sud de Little Mountain, à l'aile droite du dispositif sudiste.

Non dirigée, l'offensive sudiste s'éteint. L'arrivée de renforts nordistes déclenche le retrait des unités sudistes, les unes après les autres. Le général Pike, commandant les troupes amérindiennes, prend alors le commandement et confirme le retrait. Le général Hebert a été, pour sa part, capturé dans les bois.

Les troupes sudistes retraitent vers le sud-ouest, c'est-à-dire qu'elles ne vont pas renforcer l'autre aile qui combat à Elkhorn Tavern.

, Elkhorn Tavern
La force principale sudiste, emmenée par le général Van Dorn atteint la route de Springfield, « Telegraph Road », et l'emprunte vers le sud, montant vers Elkhorn Tavern. Les bois font que les sudistes peuvent difficilement se déployer et laissent inemployée une bonne partie de l'artillerie.

Les fédéraux ont rapidement détecté l'approche sudiste et la division du général Carr s'oppose à leur progression. Par simple effet du nombre, les confédérés repoussent les troupes nordistes petit à petit jusqu'au sud de Elkhorn Tavern. Mais la fin de la journée, l'épuisement des hommes et des munitions les empêchent de bousculer leurs adversaires.

, la contre-attaque nordiste
Au matin, Curtis lance une contre attaque générale contre les forces sudistes. Solidement appuyées par l'artillerie, les troupes nordistes délogent leurs adversaires que le manque de munitions et de ravitaillement va conduire à reculer, sans ordre. L'armée sudiste se dissout littéralement.

La confiance des nordistes dans leur victoire est telle que le général Sigel, après avoir traversé les lignes ennemies, devra être arrêté par Curtis alors qu'il cherche à prendre en hâte la route du nord pour regagner Springfield.

Conséquences

Les forces fédérales rapportent ,  et  pour un total de . Parmi celles-ci, la quatrième division de Carr perd , quasiment tous lors des combats de la première journée, et la troisième division de Davis en perd 344. Asboth et Carr sont tous les deux blessés mais restent au commandement de leur division. Van Dorn comptabilise ses pertes à  et blessés, avec entre 200 et , mais ces chiffres sont probablement trop bas. Une estimation plus récente établit les pertes confédérées à environ  lors de la bataille de Pea Ridge. Ces pertes comprennent un grand nombre d'officiers supérieurs. Les généraux McCulloch, McIntosh et Willian Y. Slack sont tués ou mortellement blessés, et Price est blessé. Parmi les colonels, Hébert est capturé et Benjamin Rives est mortellement blessé, avec deux autres colonels capturés ou blessés.

Tactiquement, la bataille n'offre pas de vainqueur ni de vaincu. L'armée sudiste a quitté le champ de bataille et se reconstitue rapidement, prête à un nouvel assaut. L'armée nordiste ne pousse pas son avantage et regagne le Missouri.

Stratégiquement, la bataille est un succès nordiste. Elle a interdit au Sud de reprendre le Missouri et, de fait, cet État ne sera plus menacé jusqu'à la fin de la guerre par autre chose que des guérillas ou des raids de cavalerie. L'armée sudiste reconstituée sera appelée à gagner la rive gauche du Mississippi, pour renforcer les troupes combattant au Tennessee. Mais elles arriveront quand même trop tard pour participer à la bataille de Shiloh.

Polémique
Pendant les combats aux alentours de Leetown, les nordistes ont dû affronter des Amérindiens alliés des sudistes.

Les premiers déclareront par la suite avoir retrouvé plusieurs des leurs scalpés et mutilés. Les Amérindiens seront incriminés et un échange de courriers peu amènes aura lieu entre les généraux, les sudistes alléguant d'autres actes de cruauté perpétrés par « des Allemands », c'est-à-dire des soldats des  et  de Sigel dont le recrutement était principalement composé d'immigrants allemands. La propagande du nord montera en épingle ces « actes de barbarie ». Cependant aucune source sérieuse ne précise vraiment les faits.

Notes et références

Notes

Références

Annexes

Bibliographie

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 The Battle of Pea Ridge, 1862 ; Pea Ridge National Military Park (Ark.); Rogers, Ark. : Pea Ridge National Military Park, 1963.

 Battle of Pea Ridge, or Elkhorn Tavern ; Claire Norris Moody; Little Rock, Ark. : Arkansas Valley Print. Co., 1956.
 Johnson, Robert Underwood, & Buel, Clarence C. (dir.), Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Century Co., 1884-1888, volume I, pages 314 et suivantes.

Articles connexes
 Liste des batailles de la guerre de Sécession

Liens externes
  Une animation présentant la Bataille de Pea Ridge
  photos du champ de bataille tel qu'il est actuellement

Bataille du théâtre du Trans-Mississippi de la guerre de Sécession
Bataille de 1862
1862 aux États-Unis
Comté de Benton (Arkansas)
Victoire unioniste de la guerre de Sécession
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A meridionally aligned thermocline front near 60W in the subtropical North Atlantic is revealed by the 1992 Trident data set. The front separates saltier thermocline water to the east from less salty water to the west. The eastern water is subjected to excess evaporation of the subtropics, while the western water is fed by lower salinity Gulf Stream water, which derives water from the wet tropical Atlantic. It is suggested that the front marks the eastern edge of the Gulf Stream recirculation cell, hence refer to it as the recirculation front. ?The surface layer displays a fan-like TIS scatter above the 18 degrees C Subtropical Mode Water, with the fresher surface water located west of the recirculation front, and a subsurface salinity maximum to the east. In the lower thermocline (8 to 12 degrees C) there is a step-like salinity increase of about 0.04 toward the east as measured along isotherms, producing two modes in the TIS scatter. At the intermediate water level (approximately in the 4 to 8 degrees C range) the extent of the low salinity Antarctic Intermediate Water and salty Mediterranean outflow water are also reflected in the position of the recirculation front. That the front marks the easternmost extent of the Gulf Stream recirculation is supported by the potential vorticity, which reveals a region of high homogeneous values within the recirculation cell. East of the front, the potential vorticity field is sloped along isopycnals indicating the meridional flow of the Sverdrup interior. Mapping of the recirculation front using archived data reveals that it extends deep into the subtropical convergence zone (STCZ), a region whose fronts have all been previously attributed to Ekman convergence.
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> sailed.  With that disclaimer, I'll toss in my $0.02 worth.
> the point that the heart sings when you spot it under sail.
> > angles than you would on a more modern design.
> to tweaking sails to keep the rail out of the water.
> with too much sail for conditions.
> > longer static waterline.
> was deplored by the poster in the CCA designs.
> far more.  That's one reason I don't have a Cigarette boat.
> > course parallel to the CCA boat and sight an object on shore.
> > These CCA era keelboats really slide a lot.
> > lot of me.
> keel design can provide lift to hold the boat to windward.
> Certainly the keel of the Alberg 30 is not designed for lift.
> On my boat, it's not even symmetrical.
> the Alberg 30 points well enough for me.
> > that these boats are more tiring to steer.
> and tracks better than a fin keel.  It's a compromise.
> periods while I tend to a line.
> by the keel.  The boat can usually be kedged off easily.
> And picking up a crab-pot is a very rare occurrence.
> > observable watching a mixed fleet of boats going to windward.
> > I have never liked the CCA boats in a chop.
> ease the rig until you get enough power.
> > as a tool for sail shaping.
> Is a smaller jib an advantage?  Is a larger main an advantage?
> other than mast bend for shaping the main.  There are ways.
> > carrying capacity, or stability, or strength.
> been some prominent failures in ocean racing boats in recent years.
> I've never heard of an Alberg 30 hull falling apart while underway.
> And these hulls can be maintained by unsophisticated owners (like me).
> water in the cockpit with a garden hose.
> on the traveler a few years ago.
> > what you do to one it will only be worth so much.
> > wiring and plumbing, and replacing the cushions.
> > can be very expensive to own.
> you buy them one at a time, or all at once with a new boat.
> that'll happen if you buy a new boat today.
> maintenance will be someone else's problem.
> > I owned a CCA era boat, I would not sail.
> > that I think nothing of beating out of.
> tight creeks rather than sail in them.
> sail in 35 knots, with Gail and me double-handing the boat.
> go out in winds over 20 knots.
> the lot of them in that post.  No matter.  I'm happy.


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Alfonso Lamadrid is a Partner at the EU and Competition Law Department of Garrigues, the head of the firm's Brussels office, and a Professor at the College of Europe (Bruges).
He holds LL.M. degrees from Harvard Law School (2010) and the College of Europe (2007), and obtained a Law degree with a specialization in EU Law (Summa cum laude) from San Pablo CEU University (2006).
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The robot uprising has been quieter than expected. In fact, few even heard it coming.
In recent years the unemotional, efficient analyses of so-called "Robo-Advisers" has pushed to the forefront of investing services. Can the investing acumen of an entity comprised of programming code outperform traditional advisers?
In this article we'll seek to answer this question through a review of the services offered by robo-advisers. We'll consider the behavioral finance advantages to this new method and how engaging in this practice illuminates your own risk tolerance. Finally, we'll review the costs involved and how robo-advisers can accomplish retirement goals.
When you interact with a robo-adviser service you're plotting a course then engaging autopilot. This has a distinct advantage that's less evident with traditional investing. When you've committed to a set plan upfront you're far less likely to deviate. Robo-adviser services seem to have the unintended benefit of countering the problems of behavioral finance.
The emerging field of behavioral finance endeavors to explore the notion that you, the investor, are your own worst enemy. In the past traditional economics has been the tool in understanding how and why business, markets and individuals operate as they do. Today this is changing.
Experts have incorporated cognitive and behavioral psychological theory to more clearly understand why rational decision making can so dramatically breakdown. It is these breakdowns that can cause loss of personal wealth and at it's worst decimate entire markets. Irrational thinking leads to economic problems.
Consider the findings of a paper published by The Research Foundation of CFA Institute Literature Review. The author explains, "one aspect of the discussion about rational and irrational investors that is important to consider is the extent to which professional traders and money managers are subject to the same behavioral biases that are more commonly discussed in the context of individual (typically assumed uninformed) investors." By removing humans, including yourself, from the process you're creating a barrier to this problem.
Many mistakenly believe that opting for a robo-adviser takes away their financial control entirely. This is untrue.
While the robo-adviser will generate a specifically curated portfolio of investments it will do so in response to your risk tolerance. You are driving the major parameters. It is from this point that the robo-adviser will begin working.
The irony is that a robo-adviser will put you in the picture more than a traditional money manager will. There are no commissions or motivations to push certain investment products. The conversation is focused on where you are financially and where you want to go. The questions are answered in private without uncomfortable silences or the influence of needlessly complex marketing materials.
Robo-advisers offer among the lowest fees. The process is streamlined and efficient thereby rooting out costs that erode wealth in the long-term.
The reduced expenses also come from a cost efficient selection of funds. Robo-advisers maximize returns by restricting the suggested mutual funds, ETFs and bonds to those with the lowest expense ratios. The benefit of this practice is most visible over a long-term horizon where the magic of compound growth can amplify wealth. In many cases these annual ETF costs will range from 0.05% to 0.75%. Be cognizant of your exposure to costs. Some annual fees will also apply. These differ from among robo-advisers but you can expect to pay .15% to .75% annually as a service fee.
Robo-advisers are up to the task of retirement planning because it is a game of consistency and discipline. The automatic rebalancing option offered by many robo-advisers can help achieve the "slow and steady" mentality that is so crucial for long-term investors. Markets will rise and fall but the machines will not respond emotionally even if you do. This is to your benefit.
The algorithms involved in robo-advising are also optimized for tax loss harvesting. This complex practice is simplified with the aid of automation. Those planning their retirement will find enormous value in this cost-cutting measure.
A robo-adviser is an excellent option for any investor. The simplified, low cost approach is perfect for beginners and high net worth clients alike.


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#include "compressor.h"
#include "util.h"
#include "test/test_bitcoin.h"

#include <stdint.h>

#include <boost/test/unit_test.hpp>

// amounts 0.00000001 .. 0.00100000
#define NUM_MULTIPLES_UNIT 100000

// amounts 0.01 .. 100.00
#define NUM_MULTIPLES_CENT 10000

// amounts 1 .. 10000
#define NUM_MULTIPLES_1BTC 10000

// amounts 50 .. 21000000
#define NUM_MULTIPLES_50BTC 420000

BOOST_FIXTURE_TEST_SUITE(compress_tests, BasicTestingSetup)

bool static TestEncode(uint64_t in) {
    return in == CTxOutCompressor::DecompressAmount(CTxOutCompressor::CompressAmount(in));
}

bool static TestDecode(uint64_t in) {
    return in == CTxOutCompressor::CompressAmount(CTxOutCompressor::DecompressAmount(in));
}

bool static TestPair(uint64_t dec, uint64_t enc) {
    return CTxOutCompressor::CompressAmount(dec) == enc &&
           CTxOutCompressor::DecompressAmount(enc) == dec;
}

BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE(compress_amounts)
{
    BOOST_CHECK(TestPair(            0,       0x0));
    BOOST_CHECK(TestPair(            1,       0x1));
    BOOST_CHECK(TestPair(         CENT,       0x7));
    BOOST_CHECK(TestPair(         COIN,       0x9));
    BOOST_CHECK(TestPair(      50*COIN,      0x32));
    BOOST_CHECK(TestPair(21000000*COIN, 0x1406f40));

    for (uint64_t i = 1; i <= NUM_MULTIPLES_UNIT; i++)
        BOOST_CHECK(TestEncode(i));

    for (uint64_t i = 1; i <= NUM_MULTIPLES_CENT; i++)
        BOOST_CHECK(TestEncode(i * CENT));

    for (uint64_t i = 1; i <= NUM_MULTIPLES_1BTC; i++)
        BOOST_CHECK(TestEncode(i * COIN));

    for (uint64_t i = 1; i <= NUM_MULTIPLES_50BTC; i++)
        BOOST_CHECK(TestEncode(i * 50 * COIN));

    for (uint64_t i = 0; i < 100000; i++)
        BOOST_CHECK(TestDecode(i));
}

BOOST_AUTO_TEST_SUITE_END()

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Q: I'm able to run a code from terminal but the same command giving error when run in a shell script I'm new to Unix and shell scripting, I'm able to run a code from terminal but the same command giving error when run in a shell script.
#!/bin/bash
diff <((sort doc1) <(sort doc2)) | grep -x '.\{6\}' >sample.txt

I'm getting this error when I run the shell:
/App$ sh filediff.sh
filediff.sh: 4: filediff.sh: Syntax error: "(" unexpected

A: When you run your diff command in normal shell, you are using the current shell (mostly bash).
You indent to use a bash shell for your script, but if you call your script with "sh filediff.sh" you call a sh-Shell, which is a bit different from bash.
You can call your script with
bash filediff.sh

or you make it executable with
chmod +x filediff.sh

and call it with
./filediff.sh

A: The diff command works for analyzing two files and prints the lines that are different. You are not providing proper input files to diff command:
Simple modified working script is:
sort doc1 | tee tempdoc1
sort doc2 | tee tempdoc2
diff tempdoc1 tempdoc2 | grep -x '.\{6\}'  > sample.txt
echo "Following is difference:"
cat sample.txt

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I truly believe that Angels can often be disguised as children. My daughter, Reagan became my angel. After she turned a year old, the shock of what I had survived started to wear off and the reality that doctors said my cancer was likely to return started to set in. I needed to fortify my body against the illness. I began to research cancer and health and nutrition. Guided by my brother, Dr. Matthew McAlees, I started to learn about my nervous system and the healing power of real food. Before the cancer, I was the poster child for every "fad" diet on the market. I was putting toxins on my skin and using toxins in my home without even giving it a thought. I had no idea. I thought I was healthy. In reality I was on a path of destruction. I had already made one life or death decision. Now it was time for another.
My heart and eyes opened up to a new world. A world that would create a healthier me. A me that wasn't going to let cancer win.
I created my "Grateful 8" list of things that I know have a positive effect on health. The best part? They are all things you can control. You choose what you eat, what you buy, and what you use. Over the last 10 years, my passion has turned into a mission to help others find real health. This list is a good place for you to start regardless of where you are in your own journey. We have all had that scariest moment that makes us question, cry, and resolve to not let 'it' win. Whether you are Post-Cancer, Pre-Cancer or struggle with MS, Crohn's, Fibromyalgia, even obesity…all of these things can help you live healthy and love life!
1.) Eating an Anti-Inflammatory Diet. If you are looking for tips on what this looks like, check out my Anti-Inflammatory Lifestyle blog on this topic. Eat REAL food as much as possible and foods that are purposeful. There are cancer fighting foods and foods that actually protect your skin and protect against melanoma. Here are two blogs where you can learn more about that: Edible Sunscreen and Cancer Fighting Foods.
2.) Drinking Alkaline water and eating foods that are high in alkalinity = healthier body. Keeping your body balanced on a pH level is crucial. Cancer can thrive in an acidic body. Learn how to keep your body balanced and why to drink alkaline water to keep your body in an alkaline state.
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4.) Use non-toxic cleaners and use paraben-free skincare.
5.) Keep your nervous system and spine as healthy as possible. I follow the 5 essentials from Charlotte Health Center and get a corrective care chiropractic adjustment regularly.
6.) Exercise regularly. I do yoga, cycle and burst training regularly for mind and body.
7.) Find Your Purpose. I believe everyone was created for a purpose no matter how big or small. We can all have a positive impact in this world and the community around us. Figure out what your purpose is because knowing it will drive you not to give up. Sometimes fear stands in the way of fulfilling our purpose. It is important to stand bold and go after whatever your passions are – there is freedom in letting go of that fear. Don't let anyone knock you down in life or shake you. It is ok that your purpose is different than others – life would be pretty boring if we were all doing the same thing!
8.) Have Gratitude. Find things that you are truly grateful for, even when you are having a bad day. It is amazing how this will shift your mental health. Being thankful can be one of the best things to get rid of the stress in your life. Considering the good in your life and truly appreciating your surroundings is something that can help bring out the best in you.
For me, I am very thankful and full of gratitude and joy for so many things in my life. It took me a long time to get to a place of true happiness and gratefulness. The main things I appreciate in my life are my faith in a loving God that has restored my soul and has healed my heart, my family, my dogs that I love, a career that I am passionate about, the amazing beauty of nature, and supporters and friends like you! We can all find things in our life to be thankful for even if things are not going our way. We all have ups and downs in life, but finding happiness is a choice. We can all live healthy and happy and love our life. Truly learn to love every minute of your life because it really is a gift. When you can live in a place of gratitude, everything will shift!
My cancer diagnosis completely shifted my entire life and my future. Since I started living by these Grateful 8 Rules For Wellness, every year my blood work has come back better and better. That is my proof that it's working. It can work for you, too. We can make a huge dent in our health and our bodies by the way we treat it. I hope this will encourage someone today that is struggling with their health, weight or post cancer.
Thank u. Sooooo nourishing to read.
Hi Brooke! Thanks for posting this article. It touched my heart and soul. I Had bladder cancer last year. After finding a 5 inch tumor the doctors removed my bladder, left kidney, and ureter. I had my bowel reconstructed to make a new bladder. I call it my life saver. I was cancer free for a year but I started to have pain. They discovered a tumor in my urethra. It was removed. The next thing effected my bowel…I had to have a colostomy. I have had a positive attitude all along. Very little gets me down, except for pain. Some days my pain is excruciating, but I am learning to manage it. I truly believe in mind, body, spirit. I have a great relationship with God. I know He is watching over me. I need to look at my food intake and tweak it so I am eating and drinking the healthiest I can. I will take your advice. Again thanks for sharing. May God bless you every day of your life.
I always enjoy your articles. I saw Dr. Oz in downtown Mooresville last week. What a wonderful and gracious man he is. I was very impressed with how he treated everyone.
Have a nice vacation and enjoy Paris.. it is such as beautiful city with so much to see and do!!
Great stuff. It's what we teach and live by in our office (I'm a Chiropractor). Thanks for sharing with the world and keep living the wellness lifestyle!
So grateful to hear your story and about your 8 Rules for Wellness..and that you live in beautiful NC. May you always be well and happy. Thanks for sharing!!


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TecEco are a small Australian research and development company with technologies that are important for the survival of the planet that was founded in 1999 by John Harrison with a mission to develop and deploy sustainable technologies. The concept, science, economics, social significance and future of TecEco Cements and Kiln technologies have been John's brain child since late 1998. As Thomas A Edison is reputed to have said, the project has been "1% percent inspiration and 99% perspiration."
John is a qualified scientist, economist and accountant and since late 1998 has devoted a great deal of his resources to the development of TecEco Cements. What started off as "bucket chemistry" has turned into arguably the most important materials science in the world with real sustainable economic potential. New uses for TecEco Cements emerge and new realizations come to mind regularly in what is a most exciting field of scientific endeavor.
Mark Twain said "Everybody is talking about the weather but nobody does anything about it." TecEco are doing something by developing materials that abate or sequester carbon in the built environment and converting waste to resource.
More recently TecEco have been involved in developing the Gaia Engineering tececology which embraces a number of new technologies including TecEco's kiln technology for emission free calcination and the production of concrete using our cements, carbon dioxide scrubbing technology, heat capture and transfer technologies, CO2 to organic chemicals and desalination technologies that can profitably deliver massive waste utilisation and sequestration as well as produce fresh water, gypsum, sodium bicarbonate and various other saleable salts. Gaia Engineering is now being promoted internationally and the level of interest is rising rapidly.
TecEco have developed and been granted international patents for TecEco cements in which reactive magnesia[1] is substituted for Portland Cement (PC), hydrates to brucite the hydroxide of magnesium and in Eco-Cement used to make permeable materials, carbonates to magnesite. Various cement formulations have been developed based on this fundamental concept including Tec-Cements, Eco-Cements and Enviro-Cements.
Eco-Cements in permeable or semi permeable materials such as curb and gutter, bricks, blocks and pavers, paths, slabs, mortars renders and permecocrete pervious pavement not only absorb significant quantities of CO2; they utilise a wide range of waste materials that add physical or chemical properties. If made without release of CO2 using Tec-Kiln technology significant sequestration results.
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[1] Reactive magnesia is also variously known as caustic calcined magnesia, caustic magnesia or CCM. The temperature of firing has a greater influence on reactivity than grind size as excess energy goes into lattice energy.


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HARSHAW FUSRAP site public comment period still open
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District, is still accepting public comments on the Proposed Plan for the Harshaw Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) site located in Cleveland, Ohio.
Corps of Engineers awards contract for Katherine Street Habitat Restoration
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded a $1.83 million contract for a Great Lakes Restoration Initiative habitat restoration project along the Buffalo River, near Katherine Street, in the City of Buffalo, New York.
Corps of Engineers awards contract for Fairport Harbor dredging
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District awarded a $1.131 million contract to conduct dredging of the federal navigation channel in Fairport Harbor, located in the City of Fairport, Ohio, during the summer of 2019.
Corps of Engineers awards contract for Oswego West Arrowhead Breakwater
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District has awarded a $4.7 million contract to continue repairs on the west arrowhead breakwater located at the Port of Oswego, Oswego, New York.
City of Parma Continues Wastewater Improvements
Following completion of a significant construction project partnering with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the City of Parma has again entered into an agreement with the Corps of Engineers for continued wastewater improvements to address failing residential septic systems.
USACE Buffalo District awards contract for Presque Isle Beach Nourishment
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District has awarded a $2.486 Million contract for the sand nourishment of Presque Isle, located in Erie, Pennsylvania.
USACE Buffalo District announces Extension of Public Comment Period for the former Harshaw Chemical Company FUSRAP Site
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District, is extending the public comment period for the Feasibility Study Addendum and Proposed Plan for the former Harshaw Chemical Company FUSRAP Site located in Cleveland, Ohio to June 25, 2019.
Athol Springs project moving forward
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District and the New York State Department of Transportation have signed an amended Project Partnership Agreement for the Athol Springs Shoreline Protection project allowing the project to move forward fully-funded by the federal government.
Black Rock Lock repairs completed, open for navigation
Buffalo, NY – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District completed repairs to the gates and lock anchorages of the Black Rock Lock, after it closed in late November for planned gate lock anchorage repairs.
USACE Publishes Hydrilla Risk Assessment for the Great Lakes Basin
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District, in cooperation with the Engineer Research and Development Center, has published a risk assessment that summarizes the potential for hydrilla introduction within the Great Lakes.