ELKIE: SB/XA 6.3 was released on Thursday 19th February. Laura could you tell me something about this release?
LAURA PETTETT: A new release of Rocket SystemBuilder with Rocket® SB/XA 6.3.0, SB+ and SB Client 6.3.0 is nowavailable.
ELKIE: What are the benefits of upgrading for those already running SB+ and SBClient?
LAURA PETTETT: This release of SB+ and SB Client 6.3 is the next step in your evolution to SB/XA. It allows you to stay current with all of the latest fixes and enhancements that have been made to the product over the years but not previously released to the market in these versions.
ELKIE: So, which fixes and enhancements would those be?
LAURA PETTETT: Specifically, we added the availability of SSH to SBClient and an integration to Aldon Lifecycle Management to SB+. Over the years there have been several updates made to the code stream at the request of our customers that we are now making broadly available. You can keep the same number of licenses with this upgrade, even though you are taking the next step to SB/XA. There is no need to change the number of SB+ and SB Client licenses or "true-up" licences when you upgrade to SB+ 6.3.0 from SB+ 5.x.
ELKIE: And is it easy to upgrade?
JONATHAN SMITH: Yes, this 6.3 version provides an easier path to migration with a straight forward upgrade than from previous versions. It is a piece of cake – no conversions are needed.
LAURA PETTETT: Using the new migration wizard helps you move to the SB+ 6.3.0 platform and makes the transition easier for all involved. The wizard, along with documentation, guides you through each of the steps to make sure your migration goes smoothly.
A considerable amount of time and consideration was taken to make it easier for the customers.
ELKIE: What about SSH (Secure Shell)?
LAURA PETTETT: This was in response to direct requests from users. SSH is considered to be more secure and to perform better than SSL. It's included in SB Client 6.3.0 and works in conjunction with SB+ 6.3.0 and you can now use this common interface to connect to a server.
VINNIE SMITH: SSH runs on most modern servers and it's more secure than SSL on UNIX. This opens up the use for SB/XA for finance sectors, healthcare and those who are security conscious. Also, in financial banking, SSH is more standard.
ELKIE: Does SB+ or SB/XA integrate into any other Rocket products?
LAURA PETTETT: Yes, it actually integrates very nicely with the Rocket Aldon Lifecycle Manager. This is a great way to manage a development lifecycle spanning multiple releases.
ELKIE: Can you tell me a bit more about the Aldon Lifecycle Manager?
VINNIE SMITH: Sure, I would love to. Rocket Aldon Lifecycle Manager is one of the leading LM software and one of the few which is MultiValue aware! It's a complete lifecycle system – a central hub for looking after version and software roll out. Aldon LM is a complete change and release management solution for software development for Rocket U2 and/or multi-platform environments. Aldon LM simplifies audit compliance, facilitates task and backlog management, enforces quality standards, and secures and manages access to software assets. Aldon has built in Rocket U2 support for Rocket UniData and UniVerse, including Programs, Data Dictionary items, Schema Changes, TCL, Rocket wIntegrate, AE, and ED and NOW also supports SB/XA (and SB+) with U2 Objects. With SB, declare the project and attach to it. The UNIQUE thing is to be able to do a compare!!! You can ask for list of changes and differences and roll up into deployment while employing MultiValue objects.
ELKIE: What does the release of SB/XA 6.3 mean to those already running a previous version of SB/XA ?
LAURA PETTETT: If you are already running SB/XA, consider upgrading to SB/XA 6.3.0. By doing so, you will also be able to take advantage of the integration to Rocket Aldon Lifecycle Manager as well as enhancements to the grid functionality (like sorting, filtering and grouping in your grids!).
VINNIE SMITH: For Administrators they'll appreciate the new comprehensive logging capabilities, making it easier to administer and support your applications. Session logs can be captured, collected and sent to a server for you to see details.
ELKIE: Can you tell me anything about Services ?
LAURA PETTETT: You can now leverage all of your SB/XA processes, files and fields for the business logic behind mobile and web applications. Using a RESTful Server and exposing through JSON, all the heavy lifting is done by SB/XA for you to create mobile applications based on your SB/XA application. Rocket Mobile Application Builder or another tool to create your mobile UI is all that is needed.
So in conclusion SB+, SBClient and SB/XA are all working together. Using GUI or XUI, you can be confident that you are using the right technology to deliver the best-in-class solution to your customers.
ELKIE: So what's next ?
LAURA PETTETT: We are continuing to bring the voice of the customer to our development process. There will be a series of focus groups and customer advisory boards to help drive our next release, which is planned to provide improved performance and reliability to our users.
ELKIE: What if I am not on a maintenance contract with SB/XA, SB+ or SB Client and I want to upgrade?
LAURA PETTETT: Well, you'll want to get back on maintenance so that you can receive the upgrade or product updates and take advantage of all the fixes and new features – including the Aldon integration. Contact your standard channel Rocket Software provider, today.
ELKIE: Thank you for your time and it's hear about this – I especially like the part that SB+, SBClient and SB/XA are now all working together.


I'm not sure if this would be better suited for here or the woodworking stack, so please migrate if needed.
In order to sharpen my woodworking tools (chisels and hand planes), I currently use a DMT diamond plate (the fine and extra-fine, what they call 900 and 1200 mesh). I plan at some point to get a ceramic water stone (e.g., Shapton), probably a 5000 grit to start.
My process involves flattening (or polishing) the back of the chisel / plane iron and then flattening / sharpening the bevel on the front. The process is seen here in a video by Rob Cosman, although he uses a much finer stone.
Is this procedure (that is, diamond plate potentially followed by water stone) appropriate for kitchen knives? Obviously kitchen knives don't have a flat back like chisels do, so both sides of the knife would get a bevel.
My knives are mostly Wusthof classic, and use the chef's knife and santoku most often.
Yes. ~1000 then 5000 is a common progression to get kitchen knives to a good working sharpness. Diamond plates can leave undesirable deep scratches, so I would not recommend someone inexperienced in their use (note that the OP is by his own statement NOT inexperienced) to take them to an expensive knife. 5000 might be slightly too fine for a Wusthoff (depending on the vintage and exact steel/temper used) - if the edge turns out unstable, try to omit the 5000.
By the way, some traditional japanese cooking knives (eg sashimi knives) ARE sharpened in a way very similar to you chisels.
First time sharpening, do I sharpen on the coarse or fine side?


In 2002, mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) was listed on Appendix II of CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species). This requires that all producing countries define and implement sustainable production systems for mahogany, the most commercially important neotropical timber, which is still harvested from natural forests. The only serious efforts to produce mahogany sustainably from managed natural forests are those of communities in Quintana Roo, Mexico, which control 800,000 of natural production forests. Thirty-six of them currently produce a total of 7,000 m3/yr of mahogany timber. For the past 20 years, foresters and researchers have been testing and developing management systems to ensure sustainable harvests of mahogany. This has been challenging, because mahogany is typically selectively logged from a matrix of more abundant, noncommercial species, leaving a closed forest canopy and too much shade for the survival of mahogany seedlings. Researchers collaborating with communities and their foresters have carried out a range of experiments to determine how to ensure the regeneration of mahogany on community production forests. This article synthesizes twenty years of progress towards sustainable forest management on the part of the forest communities of Quintana Roo, and recent insights from 7 years of research on mahogany seed production and the establishment, survival and growth of mahogany seedlings from natural regeneration, sown seed, and planted seedlings, in response to different kinds of silvicultural treatment in natural forests.
Authors: Snook, L.K.; Santos Jimenez, M.; Carreon Mundo, M.; Chan Rivas, C.; May Ek, F.J.; Mas Kantun, P.; Nolasco Morales, A.; Hernandez Hernandez, C.; Escobar Ruiz, C.


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Welcome to Neptune House. Like Neptune the Greek god of the sea, our house represents might, bravery and intellect. Our colour is blue, we play fair and you can find our crest on the banner in the school hall. Neptune is heavily involved in all of these competitions and always strives to achieve. It also ties in with the reward system (namely house points) - which, as well as building up to a certificate like before, will contribute to the house points for your form. The teachers in Neptune are always encouraging students to achieve for themselves as individuals and as a house. Neptune students find this makes lessons that little bit more interesting.
Welcome to Saturn. At Elm Tree Primary School and in Saturn House we strongly believe in high standards and the pursuit of excellence. The key to this is reflected in our motto "participation to reach potential". The House System is proving to be a popular part of school life at Elm Tree Primary School. There are a wide range of events contested by the four Houses and wherever possible all events are contested by all year groups.
Welcome to Venus. Determined, hard working and loyal, Venus students strive to succeed. Venus produces strong leaders, showing others the way forward and never giving up. We are committed to ensuring that every student gets the most out of their time here, achieves success and feels proud to be part of Venus and of Elm Tree Primary School. This year Venus is working hard to collect as many house points as possible through good work, behaviour and participation in class, house events and whole school events.
Welcome to Earth. Earth has proven to be a house with a very high level of ability, talent, and commitment to a whole range of activities offered to pupils at Elm Tree Primary School. The team of staff that represent Earth are both dedicated and hard working, ensuring that all the pupils in their house succeed in every way possible.
The House cup is presented every half term to the winning house.
Come back on the last day of term to find out who has won the Elm Tree House Cup for the whole year!


Dearest President & Congress: The shutdown has gone on long enough, but let's get the government going again — two days without Columbia fish counts is killing me!
As of 8 this morning, salmon passage numbers for Bonneville, The Dalles and John Day Dams haven't been updated since Monday, the day before federal agencies crawled into a fetal ball and put out notices to stay off our wildlife refuges, campgrounds, etc.
Especially during this mother-of-all fall king runs up the crick!!
Even worse — it looks like we're going to have to actually do some work today — the Bonneville fish cams are off, meaning we can't watch all the fat fishies swim past the viewing window!!!
Michele DeHart at the Fish Passage Center in Portland reposts daily fish counts from the Corps' data for those three dams. She says her outfit has been in constant contact with the few federal staffers on duty at the dams, but don't have counts yet for Oct. 1 and 2.
"We are trying and will post counts as soon as we get them," she vows.
On the flip side, at least the budget impasse didn't start back on Sept. 7, the start of a five-day, 250,000-Chinook surge through Bonneville that drove the Northwest batty.
In the meanwhile, fresh figures for the lower Snake dams and McNary are available.
And, oh, look at that, as of 8:20ish Thursday morning, Michele and crew were finally able to post Tuesday's tallies for the dams.
But our point remains: Obama, Reid, Boehner, et al, get to work!
Not only are the fish counts affected but with the deer opener just around the corner where are people to hunt and camp?………..


Tie up your Christmas shopping for family, friends and yourself with great discounts on Christmas stamp sets and accessories from Stampin' Up! From 1 - 31 December, spend $20 on any Stampin' Up! merchandise and qualify for 20% off selected stamp sets and accessories.
Contact me if you would like to order any of these items. If you want anything by Christmas, please order before December 12.
Here are the Christmas cards we made in the Christmas card workshop last week. They all use the "Season of Joy" stamp set, which is in the Spring Mini Catalogue, which finishes on November 30. It's a very versatile set as you can see, so I'm sorry to see it go. If you would like to order this set, please contact me asap.
These card designs are "cased" (copy and share everything) from the lovely Marelle Taylor, whose blog is a constant source of inspiration to me.


Alber Elbaz has literally gone from "French-fried" to "French toast" in just about five years. The Israeli born designer who once worked for Geoffrey Beene, was "fried" after being unceremoniously dumped from YSL about 5 years ago, after the Gucci Group bought the label and replaced him with Tom Ford. But he is now the "Toast of the Town" as head of design for Lanvin, the legendary French house that he has literally helped breathe new life into, forcing the fashion world to sit up and take notice.
While Paris collections of Nicolas Guesquiere for Balenciaga, Alexander McQueen, Helmut Lang, Stella McCartney, Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel, Phoebe Philo for Chloe, and Dries Van Noten, are amongst those who received rave reviews and were heralded as setting the tone for the season, perhaps the most universally glowing accolades from the press were heaped upon Alber Elbaz, who is truly enjoying his moment in the sun.
In her review in The New York Times on October 19, 2004, Cathy Horyn noted, "No show of the spring 2005 ready-to-wear season received such a response"(in reference to the thunderous applause Elbaz received when he took his bow at the show's finale). And in today's review ,"From Runway to Wardrobe: The Looks for Spring", she singled him out- along with Jean Paul Gaultier at Hermes, as "the leading proponents of the new French chic". WWD also observed, "anyone who is searching out that elusive Parisian je ne sais quoi need look no further than the house of Lanvin. Alber Elbaz knows what and if he could bottle the esprit of his exquisite spring collection, he'd be a gazillionaire." Wow!
And it seems as if Alber is not only enjoying his moment in the sun, but perhaps, the last laugh. His beautiful, modern, elegant, yet youthful and uncontrived spring collection, was alas, more 'St. Laurent' in its mood and spirit, than the ill received stiff, overly retro and referential collection Stefano Pilati put forth in his inaugural collection for YSL just about one week ago.


Palette I Heart Makeup Golden Bar is an amazing palette of 16 eye shadows in a powder texture. The shade are neutral and some are warm toned while others are cool toned, each have a shimmer finish. Very good pigmentation and very long coverage. Adapted for a day or evening makeup.
Our beautiful Blushing Hearts range is extended with 6 NEW additions for 2015. 3 NEW Blusher Trio's, 2 NEW Highlighters and a stunning Bronzer. Encased in beautiful packaging.


Evolution of age and length at maturation of Alaskan salmon under size-selective harvest.
Spatial and temporal trends and variation in life-history traits, including age and length at maturation, can be influenced by environmental and anthropogenic processes, including size-selective exploitation. Spawning adults in many wild Alaskan sockeye salmon populations have become shorter at a given age over the past half-century, but their age composition has not changed. These fish have been exploited by a gillnet fishery since the late 1800s that has tended to remove the larger fish. Using a rare, long-term dataset, we estimated probabilistic maturation reaction norms (PMRNs) for males and females in nine populations in two basins and correlated these changes with fishery size selection and intensity to determine whether such selection contributed to microevolutionary changes in maturation length. PMRN midpoints decreased in six of nine populations for both sexes, consistent with the harvest. These results support the hypothesis that environmental changes in the ocean (likely from competition) combined with adaptive microevolution (decreased PMRNs) have produced the observed life-history patterns. PMRNs did not decrease in all populations, and we documented differences in magnitude and consistency of size selection and exploitation rates among populations. Incorporating evolutionary considerations and tracking further changes in life-history traits can support continued sustainable exploitation and productivity in these and other exploited natural resources.


Jim Nawn, the owner of Agricola in Princeton, said today that he and executive chef Josh Thomsen have decided to mutually part ways.
Thomsen has accepted the position of executive chef at Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa in Florida.
Crawford Koeniger, formerly the executive chef at the Washington House in Basking Ridge, will replace Thomsen at Agricola. Koeniger joined the Agricola team in January. He has worked in Princeton before with Chris Albrecht, later moving to open Washington House.


Today Patty did something very surprising. I was a passenger in her car, and I offered her some raisins. She playfully screamed, "I hate raisins!" Then she grabbed the little raisin box, rolled down her window, and threw the raisins into the middle of Tates Creek Road. She continued driving, and we laughed for five minutes.


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Astaé Avocats/Expertise/Expatriés – Détachés – Mobilité internationale/Status for a mission abroad
Status for a mission abroad
When the original contract was concluded in France, French law allows the stay abroad to take place within the framework of a secondment or in that of an expatriation.
In both cases, the employee leaves France but, in case of a secondment, the employment contract with the company of origin remains and only the place of work changes. Unless there is a special agreement between France and the host country, a secondment can only last two years with the possibility of a single renewal.
In the event of an expatriation, the employment contract with the company of origin is suspended and a new employment contract is concluded with the subsidiary of the country in which the expatriation takes place.
However, it has become clear that many companies do not comply with these rules and apply the secondment scheme to employees who, legally, should be expatriated and vice versa.
Over the years, Astaé's lawyers, true specialists in all types of expatriation, have acquired a great deal of experience in all these situations and are therefore perfectly competent to usefully accompany candidates on their departure and to help them anticipate the difficulties inherent in working abroad as well as in the event of early termination of the secondment or expatriation.
For expatriates employed under local contracts, or by hubs located in "social havens" (Mauritius, Isle of Man...) Astaé's lawyers have acquired the necessary knowledge to identify whether their situation is fraudulent and whether it is possible for them to benefit from the advantages of French law (obligation of repatriation and reintegration) despite the arrangements put in place by some groups to escape it.

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The Little Khural (, Baga Khural) or State Little Khural (, Ulsyn Baga Khural) was the presidium of the Mongolian People's Republic from 1924 until 1951 and then the standing legislature from 1990 to 1992.

The original Little Khural of 1924 comprised five members elected by the State Great Khural (Улсын Их Хурал, Ulsyn Ikh Khural). The chairman of the Little Khural was in effect head of state and the Little Khural elected the prime minister. The first session of the Little Khural began on 29 November 1924. It originally met two to three times a year, but in the 1930s this rate dwindled to once every two or three years. After 1927 it had only three members. Towards the end of World War II, in solidarity with the Soviet Union, the Little Khural declared war against the Empire of Japan on 10 August 1945. The Little Khural held its 32nd and last session in February 1950. In 1951 Mongolia amended its constitution and abolished the Little Khural.

In 1960 a new constitution was adopted, and during the Revolution of 1990 it was amended to create a standing legislative body out of the existing People's Great Khural (Ардын Их Хурал, Ardyn Ikh Khural). This new Little Khural was to consist of 50 representatives selected by the Great Khural. Three-quarters of these members had to be chosen from among the members of the Great Khural. The seats in the Little Khural were apportioned amongst those parties participating in the elections by proportional representation. The new khural met twice annually in 75-day sessions. It had a chairman, Radnaasümbereliyn Gonchigdorj, who was also ex officio vice president; a vice chairman, Kinayatyn Zardyhan; and a secretary, Byaraagiyn Chimid. It held its first session in September 1990 and was abolished in July 1992 by the adoption of a new Constitution of Mongolia, which created a unicameral legislature.

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1924 establishments in Mongolia
1990 establishments in Mongolia
Defunct unicameral legislatures
Defunct national legislatures

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3/11/2018�� A Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree (D.O.) or Doctor of Medicine degree (M.D.) is required before you can move on to dermatology residency training. This program will take you about four years to finish.


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Army Thought OPM Attempt to Help Breach Victims Was a Phishing Attack
Jana Winter
July 21 2015, 11:59 a.m.
Last month, in the wake of a series of massive breaches at the federal Office of Personnel Management, the Army issued a bulletin warning that some victims were being hit by hackers a second time, this time with an email phishing campaign asking them to input personal information into a third-party website to receive credit monitoring.
Except it turns out the email in question was completely legitimate. It was sent en masse by the OPM contractor providing notification and credit-monitoring services to the agency's hacking victims. Army and Air Force investigations of the "phishing scam" delayed by several days both victim notification and credit monitoring benefits to Defense Department personnel whose private information had fallen prey to OPM hackers. The emails notifying victims and linking to information about the monitoring only went through after spam filters were reset.
The confusion over the credit-monitoring emails appears to reflect a larger lack of coordination among government agencies following the announcement of the breaches, the first of which compromised the data of 4.2 million people and the second of which the OPM has said effected some 22 million people.
The Army warned people away from opening the email providing notification and free credit monitoring in unequivocal terms. "In recent days, we've learned of a new phishing attack that attempts to draw the attention of recipients with the subject line, 'Important Message from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management CIO,'" said a June 9 threat intelligence alert. The alert was quoted in the Army Weekly Protection Information Bulletin 5-11 June 2015, obtained by The Intercept.
The alert added that while the "phishing" emails purport to be from the Office of Personnel Management's chief information officer, "users are actually directed to a fake website and asked to enter private information."
"Close the message immediately and report it as spam to the Cyber Security Network Defense Team," the alert ordered.
The Army attempted to correct its alert in a separate bulletin issued days later, in which it said that probes by the Army Criminal Investigative Division and the Air Force's Office of Special Investigations had determined that OPM, not hackers, had actually sent the emails asking Defense Department employees to provide personal information via a third-party site.
From the Army Weekly Protection Information Bulletin, June 5-11, 2015.
On the Frequently Asked Questions section of OPM's website, the agency now explains they hired a company to send out the notifications to people whose personal information was compromised in the breach. Clicking on an "Enroll Now" link would direct to a site where the person was asked to enter his or her personal information in order to receive credit-monitoring services.
The Army's second, corrective bulletin reminded recipients that Defense Department personnel are routinely told, "Never respond to an e-mail with your personal information attached."
Even after determining the OPM emails were legitimate, the Army appeared to suggest that enrolling in the credit-monitoring service via email links to the third-party website might not be safe.
"Legitimate sources usually will not require you to provide your personal information in an e-mail and you should normally report the matter to your security manager if they do," the updated alert stated.
"Even though USACIDC & OSI offices have determined the email to be legitimate, it may be a good idea to contact the sender and transmit the information requested personally with an individual from the OPM office directly."
In an emailed statement, OPM agency spokesperson Sam Schumach said: "OPM understands things could have gone better, but ultimately I think we're satisfied with the end result and our partnership with [credit-monitoring firm] CSID, because we do have a 98 percent contact rate and 21 percent take-up rate, which is unprecedented in terms of a breach like this."
The Defense Department referred questions to the division of the Army that published the weekly report containing the updated phishing alert. On Tuesday, an employee of the division told The Intercept to wait for a return call.
Caption: Katherine Archuleta, director of the Office of Personnel Management, speaks during a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill June 25, 2015 in Washington, DC.
Jana Winter[email protected]theintercept.com@janawinter


The Health Initiative today announced a rescheduling of the organization's annual Garden Party fundraiser to allow it to focus on helping LGBT Georgians navigate the new health insurance marketplace created by the Affordable Care Act. Open enrollment begins Oct. 1.
Linda Ellis, executive director of The Health Initiative, told GA Voice today that planning the Fall Garden Party would take away some of the organization's ability to properly address the changes.


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does the rear bumper include bumber mounts?
how much would boost gauge cost to post to SA. 5049.
Plus! Do you have any pics?
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are the r31 wheels the 15" ones, or 14?


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A GTAC workshop was held on Tuesday 16 October at Gas Industry Company, Wellington.
The purpose of the workshop was to discuss the key points from stakeholder submissions. The minutes, action points from previous GTAC meetings and other supporting material can be found below in the Related Documents section.


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Machine Gun Kelly Is Co-Writing His Own Graphic Novel
Graham Hartmann
Graham Hartmann Published: February 5, 2021
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Machine Gun Kelly is getting his own graphic novel from Z2 Comics. The comic will be based on the rapper-turned-pop-punk giant's 2019 record, Hotel Diablo.
We have an exclusive first look at some of the artwork from the new Hotel Diablo graphic novel, which you can see below.
Z2 has collaborated with artists such as Anthrax, Dio, Sublime, Skillet, Poppy and the estate of Elvis Presley to create otherworldly rock and metal adventures. Machine Gun Kelly's addition to Z2's roster is one of their biggest collabs yet, and co-written by MGK himself, Hotel Diablo is set to hit shelves in July 2021.
"Colson (Machine Gun Kelly) is a true comic book fan and brings his lyrical gifts to the printed page with a true sensibility and genuine love of the medium to back it up" says Z2 publisher Josh Frankel. "Not only that, we were able to marry him with a creative team that will help translate the vision of the album into a collection of stories that will universally satisfy his fans and comics readers alike."
Co-writer Eliot Rahal adds, "This project has me feeling incredibly lucky. Colson is an incredibly intense and passionate artist. It's the kind of energy I respond to. He's someone who wants to do something special, and as a result we have. Z2's editorial department has assembled together with an incredible array of artists to work with. Creators whose works I've respected for a long time. And last... I get to work with Ryan Cady. Not only is he an incredible writer, but also one of my greatest friends. And really... that's one of the biggest blessings of this entire process (don't tell him I said that though)."
"Horror anthologies are like catnip for me, so when Colson presented the Hotel Diablo concept to us, I couldn't help but latch on" says co-writer Ryan Cady. "And a chance to work with Eliot Rahal and a team of all-star artists? The raw intensity of the album, this idea of a vacation to visit the darkest corner of your soul--hell yeah, y'all, sign me up."
To order MGK's Hotel Diablo in softcover, deluxe or super deluxe editions, head over to Z2's website.
Source: Machine Gun Kelly Is Co-Writing His Own Graphic Novel
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The people in the Apple Kingdom live on apples: apple soup, apple salad and, of course, apple pies. Jonathan and Blossom are two fun-loving but not so innocent twins and on their birthday they play a trick on the townspeople that backfires. They say that an "Applephoon" is coming that will destroy all of the apples in the kingdom's orchards. The villagers, all being selfish, immediately run to the orchards and begin picking all the apples and carrying them home by the buckets full. After all the apples are picked, the villagers find that they are stricken with a strange case of "appleplexy" and their arms won't bend at the elbows. They soon realize they will never eat apples again. The solution to the problem is very simple, if they would only stop being so selfish! Some songs include: "Not Enough Love," "Every Man for Himself," "Scientific Science," "There's Nothing a Machine Can't Do!" and "Feed Someone." About 75 minutes.


the application directory (referred to $app hereafter) : this is the place where a running instance of icCube server is storing its data (e.g., users, roles, cubes, etc...). Upon the very first startup of icCube this directory is created and initialized with the content of the $install directory.
The two versions of icCube can be installed side-by-side on the same machine and no file will be removed during the installation of icCube v2.0.
The configuration file is: $install/bin/icCube.xml. The version 2.0 is different from the previous one. But unless you've edited the 1.3 file, there's no need to migrate this file. For more information, have a look to this file that is self-commented. The most notable changes are the default name of the $app directory (i.e., no more a hidden file) and the new entry for the report server configuration.
You can skip this section if you've not defined any users nor roles in the 1.3 installation as starting (for the very first time) icCube 2.0 will initialize properly default users and roles.
The definitions of users are backward compatible and can be reused; copy the $app/users/icCubeUsers.icc-users from your 1.3 server (~username/.icCube-1.3/users) into the 2.0 server (~username/icCube-2.0/users).
The definitions of roles are not backward compatible and cannot be reused as such; copy the $app/roles/icCubeRoles.icc-roles from your 1.3 server (~username/.icCube-1.3/roles) into the 2.0 server (~username/icCube-2.0/roles) and add the 'reportDocManagement' entry (an example is available in $install/bin/icCubeRoles.icc-roles) into each defined role.
The schema/cube definition files are backward compatible and can be reused. You'll have to manually import those files using the UI or for a faster setup you can copy them directly both into the $app/builder and the $app/cubes directory. The /builder directory contains the schemas being edited into the builder application whereas the /cubes directory contains the deployed (i.e., potentially loaded) schemas. You can safely ignore the *.rev directories during this copy (they're used internally to keep an history of changes).
Next chapter : 2.0 to 2.0.1.


Once a mecca of guba (a traditional woven sheep wool coat) making in Klenovec, it is today remembered only as a desolated former wool laundry by a local dam. Ján Fotta is one of the last active guba maker in Slovakia who grew up in this area. Across the street from his family house used to live another guba maker Jozef Pap. Ján watched him when he was a child when he hung up his new gubas to dry out on the yard. When he grew up he asked him if he could learn the craft from him. When in 1979 the ÚĽUV folk art comittee approved of his products there was nothing to stop him from dedicating himself fully to the production of guba. He has been making them to this day. Last year he was awarded the title of a Master of Folk Art Production.


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Raccoon vs 8 yankee stadium employees
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Sorry, raccoon population of Tampa. If you want to see the Yankees in spring training, you're
to have to buy tickets like everyone else.
On Sunday, while Yankees players were in the clubhouse for an MLBPA meeting, members of the grounds crew battled a feisty raccoon that climbed to the top of a net behind home plate.
Don't worry. Despite that reaction from the media watching the standoff, the furry mammal was just fine.
The Daily News reported "the pesky little critter took off through the stands toward right field, prompting eight stadium workers to follow it in that direction. The raccoon moved back toward home plate and up into the upper level of seats, eventually escaping the ballpark without being caught."
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/02/raccoon-yankees-spring-training-field
Raccoons are terrible, evil creatures that have no business being anywhere near humans. Seriously, look at that demon in the picture above. Horrific. Having said that, sending animals plummeting to what should be their death is not cool. Luckily, the raccoon that climbed to the top of the netting behind home plate at Steinbrenner Field in Tampa on Sunday survived after being knocked to the ground by a groundskeeper.
Jared Diamond, who covers the Yankees for The Wall Street Journal, managed to capture the ordeal on video. As you can see, the groundskeeper up in that cherry picker doesn't seem to have any idea what he's doing and at some point, if they really wanted the raccoon gone, somebody should have maybe called animal control.
After being violently jabbed with a pole and falling a considerable distance, everyone watching assumed the raccoon was dead.
Turns out those bastards are kind of hard to kill.
http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/282543/daring-raccoon-survives-attempted-murder-at-yankees-spring-training/
Posted by Liberal_in_LA | Sun Feb 28, 2016, 02:22 PM (8 replies)
Scalia Took 258 Subsidized Trips While He was a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 23 in 2014 alone
http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/scalia-took-258-subsidized-trips-while-he-was-a-u-s-supreme-court-justice/
fascinating New York Times report documented the 258 subsidized trips that late Justice Antonin Scalia took while he was on the Supreme Court from 2004 to 2015. The newspaper reports that Scalia went on at least 23 privately funded trips in 2014 alone to places like Hawaii, Ireland, and Switzerland. Many of the trips were part of sponsored events like moot courts or speeches. Interestingly, many justices partake in all expense paid trips with the purpose of helping inform the public about the function of the U.S. Supreme Court. However, the revelation certainly raises interesting questions about the propriety of these free trips.
"I am worried about the public perception of gratitude, even if there is no effect on your behavior," Stephen Gillers, a professor at the New York University School of Law told the Times. "And the greater the luxury, the greater the risk of public suspicion." Ethic rules prevent judges from accepting from anyone that has matters before the court.
In fact, when Justice Scalia died earlier this month, he was a guest at a hunting lodge near Marfa, Texas. Most legal experts say they don't see anything wrong with Scalia accepting a free room.
One group, Fix the Court, however, believes the Justice should have been required to disclose more of these outside events. "Supreme Court justices should advise the public of their appearances outside of the court and allow media cover for most of them," the group says.
As for disclosure, the group says "Supreme Court justices should submit consistent, detailed finance disclosure reports each year and publish them online like other top government officials."
Posted by Liberal_in_LA | Sun Feb 28, 2016, 01:43 PM (14 replies)
Jailed for being homeless. Cities across the country are adopting legislation to prevent tent cities
Ray Lyall, 57, homeless for two years, has worked with Denver Homeless Out Loud (DHOL) for the past 22 months. He was arrested on October 24, along with others working on DHOL's Tiny Homes project. Since he was released from jail, he has been camping with a group at a site in Denver at 26th and Lawrence Streets, which was raided on December 3. Lyall says the camping ban is used to target people sleeping outside and give tickets for other offenses. "Can't have anything under or over you," he says, explaining the camping ban. "I can lay in the freezing snow but I can't have anything on my back."
Fort Collins, a college town at the base of the Rocky Mountain foothills, prohibits practices such as loitering, "misuse of public waters," and "camping or pitching a tent without permission." Being homeless here necessitates invisibility, and consequently, isolation. Things that offer safety and even comfort at night—tents or multi-person encampments—make hiding difficult, and often land homeless people in jail.
"I've been to jail twice for camping," Fiala says between swigs of coffee and bites of a doughnut, pulling his jacket tight around his small frame.
"I've been in for camping and for trespassing," chimes in Steve, who doesn't give his last name. A dad with a perfect goatee and cheeks rosy from the incoming chill, Steve hesitates to offer more. But others in the group nod in agreement.
"Yeah, I got ticketed twice for sleeping under the Linden Street Bridge," Fiala says, jumping back in. "I was sick, sleeping on a mattress under the bridge, and they woke me up and gave me a ticket. I balled it up and threw it in their face. 'F— you! I'm not gonna pay that. I can't pay that.' So I ended up in jail for failure to appear."
http://www.salon.com/2016/02/28/jailed_for_being_homeless_partner/
Posted by Liberal_in_LA | Sun Feb 28, 2016, 01:53 AM (4 replies)
"Trump likes to sue people," Rubio said. "He should sue whoever did that to his face"
http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-marco-rubio-makeup-ears-spray-tan-2016-2
Rubio gets in the gutter
Posted by Liberal_in_LA | Sat Feb 27, 2016, 06:57 PM (2 replies)
Republicans have an All-Star bench of presidential candidates, "what an all star team!", july 2015
At least 15 major candidates are currently seeking the Republican nomination for the presidency. They're an All-Star squad of predominantly conservative talent, with a deep bench of both veterans and rookies. And as with the National League selections, the people are driving the front-runners rather than the establishment or the media. Hopefully we'll see the same outcome.
Many Democrats are gleefully predicting doom for the Grand Old Party, though. "It's a circular firing squad," one friend recently told me.
Nonsense. Any veteran campaign operative will tell you it's always a short-term gain for a candidate to sail through a primary, but a long-term loss if the other party emerges with a battle-tested and confident candidate, whose campaign survived the many primaries and whose network was strengthened.
"It's a headache that -- with a few bumps -- could become a nightmare," wrote Jamelle Bouie in Slate.com. "In the last primary, right-wing rhetoric from marginal candidates was enough of a force to push Romney to the right ... There's a great chance this could repeat itself."
A conservative candidate in the general election? One can only dream.
Sure, there are a few moderates, but for the most part the rest round out a field of the best presidential contenders in decades. I'd be very happy to vote for at least a half dozen of them, which is far more than the one or two who usually grab my attention.
Let me offer a quick look at how this Southern conservative – on social, fiscal, and defense issues – would vote for the current contenders:
Jeb Bush: He was a good governor, but I won't vote for him on principle. If another country rotated its presidency amongst a single family, our State Department would probably say it was an oligarchy masquerading as a democracy.
Ben Carson: Regretfully, no. He's a great man and a great voice of conservatism, but he's too unfamiliar with all of the issues. Stay in the movement longer than a minute and come back then.
Chris Christie: Nope. He has a horrible record of appointing judges – something that's essential in today's post-constitutional environment.
Ted Cruz: Yes. Brilliant and committed: a true believer, he is.
Carly Fiorina: Talented, but no. Same problem as Carson; lead the debate for a while and come back when you've earned your stripes.
Lindsey Graham: Someone recently said he is the answer to a question that's not being asked. No way.
Mike Huckabee: I worry that his bleeding heart will spring a leak in our treasury, as it did in Arkansas, but I'd consider voting for the man.
Bobby Jindal: Absolutely. It's ironic that Christianity in America is being most strongly defended by the son of Hindu immigrants. I love this guy.
George Pataki: Who? See "Graham," above.
Rand Paul: Yes! Wait ... what did he just say? No! Oh, I just can't make up my mind.
Rick Perry: Best record of any politician in America. Yes.
Marco Rubio: Best vision of any politician in America. Yes. His attacks against Cuban communism get me fired up, too. "Wolverines!"
Rick Santorum: Probably the candidate I most relate too, so of course.
Donald Trump: No. I agree with some of his thoughts, but he's supported too many Democrats to hold our party's banner.
Scott Walker: Second best record of any politician in America. He can win on conservatism, and he can govern with conservatism. Yes.
What an All-Star team! There's youth. There's diversity. There's energy. Compare that squad with the Hillary-or-Nothing campaign being waged for the Democrat nomination and it's easy to see that all of the momentum rests with the Republicans. And that, as in baseball, could mean the ballgame. I expect it'll be a home run derby that'd make the Babe proud.
http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2015/07/republicans_have_an_all-star_b.html
Wonder woman endorsed Hillary
We caught up with the 1970s TV superheroine and longtime Democrat — who endorsed Hillary Clinton even before the Democratic presidential candidate had entered the race — last month.
"I have very liberal views, and I have very strong views, but I also appreciate the office of the presidency, and there's no one in that office that isn't trying the very best they know how to do the right thing for America," Carter said.
"We have enough people working against us. I think we need to start bringing people together," the entertainer added.
When asked her thoughts on the field of 2016 White House hopefuls, Carter said that her pick might already have all the support she needs.
"What is interesting to me is that I think the people that are not behind Hillary will never be behind Hillary. And I'm not so worried about that," she said.
Saying she endorses Clinton "all the way, all the time," Carter, 64, heaped praise on
http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/267122-wonder-woman-on-2016-we-need-to-start-bringing-people-together
California museum's bald eagle flies off. Found safe a few days later
A Northern California museum's missing bald eagle has landed safely after flying off and spending several days on the lam.
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Sequoia, a 25-year-old eagle was back at the Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo after she left her handler during a public flight demonstration at Byxbee Park in Palo Alto on Monday afternoon, director John Aiken told KTVU Fox 2.
Sequoia became agitated by a hawk and wandered away, according to Aiken.
The eagle was found without a feather out of place by two women hiking in Rancho San Antonio Preserve in Los Altos, the San Jose Mercury reported.
The hikers snapped a photograph of the eagle and sent it to the museum in a text. The museum confirmed it was indeed Sequoia and Aikin rushed to meet the hikers on the Chamise Trail, the paper reported.
"By the time I got up there, she had flown off," Aikin told the paper. "I went over to the edge of the canyon and there she was."
Aikin blew a whistle and held out a dead white mouse. Sequoia flew right to him, the paper reported.
Following some rest and a bath, Sequoia was back to greeting kids visiting the museum and zoo Friday afternoon.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/02/27/california-museum-finds-bald-eagle-safe-after-missing-several-days.html
The eagle was rescued years ago from the wild after suffering a gunshot wound that paralyzed her tail. Her handlers were worried about her because she's been in captivity most of her life and cannot hunt on her own.
Sequoia was taking part in a flight training exercise Monday when she got distracted and flew away from her handlers.
http://abc7news.com/society/palo-alto-museums-missing-bald-eagle-has-been-found/1220476/
Posted by Liberal_in_LA | Sat Feb 27, 2016, 01:20 PM (15 replies)
Reuters on three man race: Trump 49, Cruz 26, Rubio 21 with 3 days to go
Source: Hotair
The dust is still settling from Thursday night's rowdy debate, but if it's having any effect on the frontrunner thus far, Reuters' five day rolling sample isn't finding it. And as the numbers continue to stack up with only three days to go until the big event on Tuesday, the sense of panic among the establishment is spreading.
U.S. Republicans in Washington are coming to grips with what many of them not long ago considered an unimaginable reality: Donald Trump is likely to be their presidential nominee and standard-bearer.
The prospect of Trump winning the Republican primary had been the stuff of Washington jokes, whispered hallway conversations and eye-rolls, even as he led in public opinion polls for months and dominated debate after debate.
But with the brash billionaire now winning three straight contests in New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada, denial is giving way to a mostly gloomy acceptance that he may have too much momentum to be stopped, especially if wins big in key Southern primaries next week that look favorable to him.
Read more: http://hotair.com/archives/2016/02/27/reuters-on-three-man-race-trump-49-cruz-26-rubio-21-with-3-days-to-go/
Man faces deportation after prank on girlfriend backfires
Kentucky man may have succeeded in pranking his girlfriend, but he's likely to be deported because of it.
His girlfriend of three years returned home from work to find the door to her apartment kicked in.
She describes finding the apartment in disarray, "I came through-- he had tables flipped over, my chair flipped over. There was blood on the walls."
Finally she found her boyfriend face down on their bed, covered in what she thought was blood, an 8-inch knife stuck in his neck. "I screamed and took off running and went across the street and called the police that my boyfriend was murdered."
She says, "the only time he was hollering it was a joke was when the police came through the door and he had the knife in his hand, he dropped the knife and said it was a prank for my girlfriend because she was a few minutes late from work."
Police weren't laughing and soon discovered the prankster, David Herrera-Giminez had an active warrant for a failure to appear.
Now he sits in jail, facing deportation to Mexico.
http://m.wpxi.com/news/news/man-faces-deportation-after-prank-girlfriend-backf/nqXsZ/
'I'm an abortion travel agent' and other tales from Texas' new desert
Source: cnn
Austin, Texas (CNN)Daytime turns to dusk as Natalie St. Clair's phone lights up with text messages. They come from clients across the vast Lone Star State.
One needs a bus from Texarkana to Shreveport, Louisiana. Another traveling from Corpus Christi to San Antonio has to find a hotel room. A third must get to Fort Worth from a small town in the western part of the state. A fourth reaches out from Lubbock to say she missed her appointment in Dallas.
To the stranger at a party who asks what she does, St. Clair keeps her answer vague: "Just feminist stuff." But the truth is blunt, bold and a sign of the times: "I'm an abortion travel agent."
It's a job that emerged after Texas enacted House Bill 2 in 2013, imposing a new round of restrictions on abortion care and abortion providers. Two key parts of the law have been challenged all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, which hears arguments in Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt on Wednesday.
Enter Fund Texas Choice, where St. Clair, 23, works as the operations manager and is the organization's only full-time employee. While other funds have helped pay for abortions for decades, this one answers a different call necessitated by HB2. It's for anyone who doesn't have a vehicle or must drive two hours or more on their own to reach a clinic.
Working out of an office in Austin, St. Clair often wires women gas money. (PayPal would be easier, but it requires a bank account, something many clients don't have.) In rural parts of Texas, just getting that wired money can require travel across multiple towns to reach a MoneyGram at Walmart. She books flights, taxis, bus tickets and hotel rooms. She regularly studies Greyhound routes and bookmarks airline schedules. Once she drove 3½ hours one-way to hand deliver last-minute financial help.
She tells stories of women who offer to sleep in their cars. Hell will freeze over, she says, before she'll let that happen.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/26/health/texas-abortion-access-desert/index.html
College students, addicts who don't believe they are fit to be mothers and women who already had children would pull into the parking lot. Martinez remembers them arriving in cabs, old jalopies and fancy SUVs — some even with McCain/Palin bumper stickers. Women who might rail against abortion in their social circles, she says, were happy to accept Planned Parenthood's services once they got pregnant.[/
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Q: If heat causes the magnet to lose its properties, how it is possible that the Sun has a magnetic field If heat causes the magnet to lose its properties, how it is possible that the Sun
has a magnetic field.

A: The magnetic field of the Sun has a different origin from the magnetic field of the magnets we all played with as children.
Magnets owe their magnetic field to a phenomenon called ferromagnetism. Electrons have an intrinsic magnetic field i.e. every electron behaves like a tiny bar magnet. In ferromagnets the unpaired electrons line up so their intrinsic magnetic fields reinforce each other and produce the large magnetic field of the magnet.
However the thermal vibrations in the magnet jostle these electrons, and if you heat the magnet to above a transition temperature called the Curie temperature the jostling becomes so great that it knocks the electrons out of alignment and the overall magnetic field disappears. The magnetism hasn't disappeared - it has just become randomised.
In contrast the magnetic field of the Sun is due to the currents inside. Any moving charge generates a magnetic field, and since the Sun is made of plasma there are lots of moving charges in it. The Sun's magnetic field is generated by the large scale flows of the plasma within it. These flows are driven by temperature differences, so in fact the Sun owes its magnetic field to its high temperature.
You don't have to go as far as the Sun to see this, because the same happens in the Earth's core. The temperature gradient from the centre to the outside of the core causes convection currents and this motion generates the Earth's magnetic field. This happens even though the temperature of the core is well above the Curie temperature.

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He is said to be an Agent of 72nd level. Hailing from Bedua Border Guard in the Steel Empire, he is said to have short spikey hair, brown eyes and fair skin. His heroic figure, proudly displaying his body tattoos has been sighted rushing into battle with a serious warcry of "For The Emperor".
When girded for battle, he is known to wield his Concealable Eternium Blades (Great) and Two-Step Venom (Extraordinary), and is arrayed in his Featherweight Xorrweave Armor (Great) and Cloak of Blending and Oversight (Extraordinary). Foes are said to wither before the might of his Inner Circle Agents (Excellent) and Divine Book of Facts (Superior).
Jinen was born under the sign of The Sickened Tower. This star sign is part of the Misfortune Phase and the Prosperity Aspect.
Jinen is ranked 5th among those born under The Sickened Tower.
Jinen is ranked 7th among Agents.


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John K. Commits to Sobriety
John K. graduated the Turnbridge program on Thursday, February 19. In his last few years before coming to New Haven, John's life was a tangled web of jails, institutions, and near death experiences, but he has since made a decision to embrace recovery and commit himself to a life in sobriety.
John began drinking alcohol in 7th grade. A devoted and talented athlete, John did not initially allow drugs or alcohol to get in the way of sports. In 10th grade, a sports injury gave him a significant amount of free time and his drug use quickly escalated. He started experimenting with different substances and surrounding himself with people who were doing the same. Athletics soon became less important. He continued to excel on the field, but off the field his addiction was festering and his drug use was becoming more and more frequent. In 12th grade, John was introduced to opiates. "It started with a couple of the guys on the team doing it," explains John. "Before I knew, by the end of the season I was addicted. I was doing it in the bathrooms and I was going through withdrawals."
John began lying and stealing from his parents to pay for drugs. He was developing a severe addiction to opiates, but was able to keep up appearances. "As long as I had good grades, my parents were oblivious to everything else," John says. "On the outside everything was good, but inside I was really crying for help." Despite his substance abuse, John was still able to perform athletically and after high school he committed to play baseball at Towson University. By the time he arrived at Towson, drugs and alcohol had become much more important than sports, and John decided to quit the baseball team after only a few weeks. The opiate use continued to progress and he began selling drugs to support his habit.
In March of 2010, after withdrawal symptoms became unbearable, John confronted his parents about his addiction. He was sent to treatment in Albany, New York, but left after only nine days. John relapsed the day after he got home, and picked up right where he left off. He went back to Towson and manipulated his way through an outpatient program that his parents insisted he attend. Toward the end of 2011, John began using heroin.
In 2012, John's legal troubles began. He was assigned to drug court because of selling prescription painkillers and the next few years John repeatedly violated the conditions of the drug court program. He was given multiple chances, but he continued to use. "They would send me to jail, then they would send me to rehab, jail, then rehab, jail, then rehab" admits John. "I just kept violating."
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John went to straight from the hospital to jail the next day. After spending two months in jail, John was given the opportunity to go to drug treatment and on March 1, 2014 he enrolled at Turnbridge. He spent his first few weeks in the program "faking it to make it", but eventually things began to sink in. He developed close relationships with a few other residents and began finding comfort in his own skin. "I started feeling like a normal human being," says John. "Going out to community service and helping others made me feel better about myself. It slowly built my confidence and made me realize that I can be sober and have fun."
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One the greatest current obstacles for public employees is the misinformation and monstrous public image created by the ongoing misstatement of the level of our benefits combined with the repeatedly exaggerated dollar amounts of our defined benefit pensions.
As I read reports about how much "we" are costing city, state, and county governments, I see that these reports are being propagated by those groups who wish to defer attention from the need for banking regulations and reforms which could redirect some of the contents of the many deep pockets of undistributed private wealth back into the economy, creating expansion, jobs, and shoring up infrastructure within our cities, counties, and states.
Economists seem to agree that a secure, healthy, and working middle class indicates a strong economy. However, the middle class has been shrinking in even the most robust and wealthy regions, including here in Silicon Valley. This indicates that the Bush and Regan-era's infamous "trickle-down" theory of wealth is not working, as private wealth is being held, not reinvested in local industry, infrastructure, or jobs.
– Research the facts presented in news articles and check them out using reliable experts. Avoid experts who have all served under conservative administrations, or who are funded by conservative interest groups. Ask your neighborhood librarian (who is also a public employee) for help on this, if needed.
– If you discover that the facts are slanted or misstated in a news or opinion piece online, comment or reply online, and add a link to the reliable facts and statistics which you have found online.
– Tell the truth about what employed and retired public employees are receiving, in terms of monthly compensation and benefits, using reliable statistics which don't lump professional, managerial, and clerical salaries all together in one figure, which skews the data. Ask a public worker if they would mind being profiled, so the story becomes a personal story and puts a public face on a "real" public employee, or a group of retired public employees, some of whom are living below the poverty level in their regions.
– Ask politicians, economists and others to report back on the health of 401(k)'s held by private workers, and what happened to these folks and their nest eggs after the mortgage meltdown. Why didn't trickle down wealth protect these workers, who in many cases, have to defer retirement because they lost their homes and retirement funds due to banking and investment house misstatements of liquid assets? Conservative economists keep telling us that open market competition is the best thing for the American public and our economy. If so, what happened? Why did private workers sustain the $2.0 to $4.0 trillion in losses from their 401(k)s and IRAs, when the competitive market was at its peak in 2008?
– Ask conservative politicians and economists how we can grow a healthy economy after they allowed the US to become indebted to China, moving our production and manufacturing offshore, and allowed us to become dependent on foreign oil by deferring alternate energy vehicles and industries?
There are many ways which we can respond to the increasing threats to public employees without leaving our homes. If we all took a moment to reply or comment factually to one story online per day, we could start a groundswell which might deflect the avalanche of misinformation blaming current and projected budget shortfalls on public employees, when it truly belongs with the lack of Bush-era banking regulations on Wall Street. The bankruptcy and demise of Lehman Brothers and the dominoes-like effect created by the resulting banking and mortgage meltdown on Wall Street removed billions of federal dollars from state and local governments, not public employees or their defined benefit pension obligations.


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This page shows statistical data on irrigation of agricultural lands worldwide.
Irrigation is the artificial abstraction of water from a source followed by the distribution of it at scheme level aiming at application at field level to enhance crop production when rainfall is scarce.

Irrigated area
The appended table gives an overview of irrigated areas in the world in 2003
Only the countries with more than 10 million ha of irrigated land are mentioned.

(*) Including India, China and Pakistan

There are 4 countries with 5 to 10 million ha irrigated land: Iran (7.7), Mexico (6.3), Turkey (5.1), and Thailand (5.0).

The 16 countries with 2 to 5 million ha irrigated land are: Bangladesh (4.7), Indonesia (4.5), Russia (4.5), Uzbekistan (4.3), Spain (3.8), Brazil (3.5), Iraq (3.5), Egypt (3.4), Romania (3.0), Vietnam (3.0), Italy (2.8), France (2.6), Japan (2.6), Australia (2.6), Ukraine (2.3), and Kazakhstan (2.1)

See also List of countries by irrigated land area

Area per application method at field level

94% of the application methods of irrigation water at field level is of the category surface irrigation, whereby the water is spread over the field by gravity.

Of the remaining 6%, the majority is irrigated by methods requiring energy, expensive hydraulic pressure techniques and pipe systems like sprinkler irrigation and drip irrigation, for the major part in the USA. The source of irrigation water in these cases often is groundwater from aquifers. However, the exploitation of aquifers can also be combined with surface irrigation at field level.

In relatively small areas one applies subirrigation whereby the water infiltrates into the soil below the soil surface from pipes or ditches. This category includes tidal irrigation used in the lower part of rivers where the tidal influence is felt by permitting the river water to enter ditches at high tide and allowing it to infiltrate from there into the soil

In relative rare cases one uses labor-intensive methods like irrigation with watering-cans and by filling dug-in porous pots (pitcher irrigation) from where the water enters the soil by capillary suction.

Surface irrigation can be divided into the following types, based on the method by which water is spread over the field after it has been admitted through the inlet:
spate irrigation (in Pakistan called Rod Koh), which may occur in hilly regions in dry zones where small rivers produce spate floods; ditches and bunds are built to guide the water to the fields to be irrigated; the number of fields irrigated at each flood event depends on the duration and intensity of the flood. The sailaba system in Balochistan is an example
flood-plain irrigation, which may occur in dry zones in larger river plains, where the river has high discharges during a short season only. Bunds are constructed to retain the river floods and the lands are being planted to crops when the floods recede (flood recession cropping). The molapos in the Okavango inland delta are an example
border-strip irrigation, in which the water moves over a graded strip of land with a mild slope and the water infiltrates into the soil while the wetting front advances. Borders are made along the strip to prevent the water of spreading out to neighboring fields.
level-basin irrigation, in which the water is set up on the soil surface quickly on leveled plots and given time to infiltrate. The basins are surrounded by borders to retain the water. Basins can be used for any crop. The combination of basins with furrows without slope is applied for relatively large plants like cotton, maize and sugar cane. For crops sown by broadcast, like some cereals (especially wheat), one uses basins with corrugations drawn in the soil. In orchards one may make relative small (possibly circular) basins around the trees. Basin irrigation can be used both in flat areas and sloping lands. In the latter case, terraces have to be made. The spectacular terraces pictured were made by hand, a tedious job, and they are an amazing world heritage. Rice grown in the flooded basins of terraces (paddies) is often irrigated continuously whereby the water flows from one field to the other, making sure that the rice plants remain submerged. The main reason of the submergence is weed control, but the rice needs to be of a variety that tolerates waterlogging.
furrow irrigation, in which the water moves over the field in furrows between ridges on which the crop is planted. The water infiltrates into the soil from the furrows. The furrows can be made both in sloping and flat land. In steep sloping land they are preferably laid out at a mild slope at an angle with the topographic contour lines to avoid soil erosion.

The first four forms of irrigation come in the category of flood-irrigation, because the entire surface of the cropped area is wetted, whereas with furrow irrigation, the surface of the ridges remain dry.
The irrigation of sloping fields is called flow irrigation as the water on the surface does not come to a stand still and the stream entering the field has to be cut back before the wetting front reaches the end of the field to avoid runoff losses.

Areal growth
From 1955 to 1975 the annual growth of the irrigated area was almost 3%. From 1970 to 1982 the growth rate was some 2% per year, and from 1983 to 1994 about 1.3% per year. The growth rate of irrigated area is decreasing.

The following table shows the irrigation development in the world between 1955 and 1983, distinguishing developed from developing countries:

The developed countries witnessed a relatively greater increase than the developing nations.

Water use
Irrigation schemes  in the world use about 3 500 km3 water per year, of which 74% is evaporated by the crops. This is some 80% of all water used by mankind (4 400 km3 per year).
The water used for irrigation is roughly 25% of the annually available water resources (14 000 km3) and 9% of all annual river discharges in the hydrological cycle.
River discharges occur for the major part in regions with humid climates, far removed from the regions with (semi)arid climates, where irrigation water is most needed. Compared to the 8 600 km3 of annual river discharge in the drier climates only, the yearly water use for irrigation is 40%

Of the total irrigated area worldwide 38% is equipped for irrigation with groundwater, especially in India (39 million ha), China (19 million ha) and the United States of America (17 million ha). Total consumptive groundwater use for irrigation is estimated as 545 km3/year. Groundwater use in irrigation leads in places to exploitation of groundwater at rates above groundwater recharge and depletion of groundwater reservoirs.

Economical significance
The irrigated area occupies worldwide about 16% of the total agricultural area, but the crop yield is roughly 40% of the total yield. Hence, the productivity of irrigated land is 3.6 times that of unirrigated land. The monetary value of the yield of irrigated crops is some 6.6 times that of unirrigated crops. In irrigated land one grows crops with higher market values.

References

External links
Further reading
FAO's global information system on water and agriculture: AQUASTAT
Irrigation maps of the world :
 http://www.tropentag.de/2006/abstracts/full/211.pdf
ftp://ftp.fao.org/agl/aglw/aquastat/GMIAv401lowres.pdf

Land management
Irrigation
Hydraulic engineering


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The journey to becoming a black belt requires tireless perseverance, physical training and mental strength. These characteristics come about after years of dedication to martial arts. A black belt essay represents the culmination of your journey, who helped you achieve those goals, and what the experience means to you. This essay should be genuine, open and reflective about what has brought you to the present achievement. This essay will also be the ideal time to thank your Master and the work you have done together.
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Read sample black belt candidate essays from other students. Get a feel for how others have constructed their essays.
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Write the body of the essay keeping in mind that you need to address how you have accomplished physical and mental goals central to becoming a black belt candidate. Students often bring up challenges they surmounted, times when they felt overwhelmed or inspired to move forward. Students often discuss their Master's teaching techniques and how they helped the student succeed.
Create a conclusion. This section can be devoted to thanking those who have supported you, discussing your future goals in martial arts, or with a comment on the biggest lesson you have learned in your journey. The conclusion should also be very succinct and clear to make a strong impression on the reader.
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Die Freie Wahl von 1697 war die insgesamt achte ihrer Art zur Bestimmung des Königs und Großfürsten der Königlichen Republik der polnischen Krone und des Großfürstentums Litauen durch die Gesamtheit des Adels.

Geschichte

Am 17. Juni 1696 starb Johann III. Sobieski, König von Polen, im Wilanów-Palast nahe Warschau. Dies hatte zur Folge, dass eine Freie Wahl erforderlich war, da der Staatenbund Polen-Litauen nun ohne Herrscher war.

Kandidat für den polnischen Thron war unter anderem der Herzog von Oława (Niederschlesien) und Sohn des verstorbenen Königs, Jakob Louis Sobieski. Dieser wurde zunächst vom Königreich Frankreich und dem schwedischen Großreich unterstützt. Auch der Adel von Großpolen, Kleinpolen und der Bischof von Kujawien (Stanisław Dąmbski) waren seine Anhänger. Jedoch überwarf sich Jakob Louis Sobieski mit seiner in Frankreich geborenen Mutter Marie Casimire Louise de la Grange d'Arquien: Mutter und Sohn stritten sich über den Nachlass von Johann III. Sobieski, woraufhin Jakob Louis die Unterstützung des polnischen Adels verlor.

Ein weiterer Kandidat war der Kurfürst von Sachsen Friedrich August I., der die Unterstützung durch den einflussreichen und mächtigen Kaiser Leopold I. erfuhr. Um die Befürwortung der römisch-katholischen konservativen polnischen Bevölkerung zu erlangen, konvertierte Friedrich August I. vom Luthertum zum Katholizismus. Dieser Glaubenswechsel fand am 2. Juni 1697 in Wien statt. Durch ihn gewann Friedrich August zudem die Unterstützung des Papstes Innozenz XII.

Der größte Kontrahent des sächsischen Kurfürsten war François Louis de Bourbon, prince de Conti, der von Ludwig XIV. unterstützt wurde. Seine Kandidatur gewann auch die Befürwortung mehrerer polnischer und litauischer Magnaten, von denen viele durch den französischen Gesandten Melchior de Polignac bestochen wurden. Am 24. Oktober 1696 wechselte der Primas Michael Radziejowski, der anfangs Jakob Louis Sobieski favorisierte, die Seiten und erklärte nun seine Unterstützung zu Gunsten von François Louis. Seit dem Zeitpunkt, zu dem Radziejowski Interrex wurde, hatte seine Entscheidung auch erheblichen Einfluss auf den Adel, welcher ihm folgte.

Dennoch fiel die Schlüsselrolle bei der kommenden Wahl dem Zarentum Russland zu, das im andauernden Krieg gegen das Osmanische Reich (siehe Großer Türkenkrieg) der Bündnispartner Polens  war. Russland befürwortete Friedrich August I., der zuvor geäußert hatte, den Krieg weiterführen zu wollen. Zudem hatte dieser in den Jahren 1695 und 1696 die österreichisch-sächsische Armee bei deren ungarischem Feldzug kommandiert. Die Wahl von François Louis hätte hingegen ein schnelles Ende des Osmanisch-Polnischen Krieges bedeutet, was einen Konflikt zwischen Polen und Russland hätte auslösen können. In Anbetracht dieser Gefahr sandte das Zarentum Russland große Geldmengen nach Polen-Litauen und versuchte dadurch, die Akzeptanz des dortigen Adels zu erlangen.

Die Wahl fand am 27. Juni 1697 in Wola nahe Warschau statt. François Louis de Bourbon, prince de Conti konnte sie für sich entscheiden, sodass er neuer König von Polen und Großfürst von Litauen wurde. Dies wurde jedoch umgehend von Friedrich August I. angefochten, der sich selbst zum neuen Herrscher proklamierte. Der dritte Kandidat, Jakob Louis Sobieski, erklärte seinen Beistand für François Louis.

Am 27. Juli 1697 überquerte Friedrich August I., unterstützt vom Zarentum Russland, dem Erzherzogtum Österreich sowie Brandenburg-Preußen, die polnische Grenze nahe Czeladź in Kleinpolen. Er marschierte nach Krakau, doch konnte er nicht in die alte Hauptstadt einziehen, da der Starost von Krakau Franciszek Wielopolski ein Befürworter von Conti war und ihm dementsprechend den Einzug in die Stadt verwehrte. Diese Pattsituation war jedoch rasch gelöst, nachdem Wielopolski Schmiergeld akzeptierte. Allerdings trat ein weiteres Problem auf: Basierend auf dem polnischen Recht musste die Krönung in der Wawel-Kathedrale mit den königlichen Insignien erfolgen, die in der Schatzkammer des Wawel aufbewahrt wurden. Um in die Schatzkammer zu gelangen, musste eine Tür mit acht Schlössern geöffnet werden. Die notwendigen Schlüssel wurden von acht Senatoren verwahrt, von denen jedoch sechs Conti favorisierten. Friedrich August I. und seine Gefolgschaft entschieden sich daher, ein Loch in die Mauer der Schatzkammer zu brechen (wobei die Tür unberührt gelassen wurde).

Am 15. September 1697 unterschrieb August II. die Pacta conventa und wurde durch den Bischof von Kujawien Stanisław Dąmbski zum neuen König von Polen gekrönt. Der Primas Michael Radziejowski verweigerte jedoch der Krönung die Anerkennung und verkündete, dass Conti der rechtmäßige Herrscher sei. Radziejowski begann die sogenannte Łowicz Rokosz, welche die Unterstützer des Franzosen versammelte. Conti selbst traf, mit einem Geschwader von sechs Schiffen unter dem Kommando von Jean Bart, am 26. September 1697 im an der Ostsee gelegenen Hafen von Danzig ein. Da das Zarentum Russland seine Armee nahe der litauischen Grenze konzentriert hatte, drohte ein internationaler Konflikt auszubrechen. Die Situation wurde ohne ausländische Intervention gelöst, als am 9. November des gleichen Jahres die August II. ergebenen Truppen Conti zwangen sowohl seine Unterkunft in Oliwa als auch Polen selbst zu verlassen. Am 12. Dezember 1697 kehrte Conti nach Frankreich zurück.

Primas Michael Radziejowski verweigerte bis zum Frühling des Jahres 1698 August II. die Anerkennung, er gab erst nach der Zusage einer großen Geldsumme und eines Regierungspostens nach.

Quellen
 U. Augustyniak, Historia Polski 1572–1795, Warszawa 2008
 M. Markiewicz, Historia Polski 1494–1795, Kraków 2002
 Jacek Staszewski: Begründung und Fortsetzung der Personalunion Sachsen-Polen 1699 und 1733, in: Quellen und Studien Band 18 2005, Seiten 37 bis 50, online-Dokument veröffentlicht bei perspectivia.net, der Online-Publikationsplattform der Stiftung Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland (DGIA)

1697
Wahl im 17. Jahrhundert


A new study shows that cost of care in nursing homes and assisted-living facilities is on the rise.
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Ellen Elmendorp
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Ellen Elmendorp was born in the Netherlands and is a freelance documentary photographer based in South Africa.She has lived in Poland, Spain, Argentina, Finland, Cuba, Rumania, and England where she studied photography at the London Polytechnic.In 1988 after living and working in Europe and Latin America, she moved to Johannesburg where her first job was picture editor at the independent photo agency Afrapix and after living and working in Europe and Latin America.
She has documented anti-semitism in Poland; the 1969 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia; the latter years of General Franco's rule in Spain; Peron's return to Argentina and the fall of Ceaucescu in Rumania. She has worked in Cuba, produced a photo and text essay for The Guardian (UK) about the aftermath of the communist regime in Romania, and was commissioned by the New York Times and Vrije Nederland magazine to do a photo essay on virginity testing in KwaZulu Natal. In 1992, Elmendorp won the Fuji award for her pictures of Orania, an exclusively white settlement in the Northern Cape.
She worked between 2004 and 2006 documenting virginity testing in KwaZulu-Natal that were published in a book and in newspapers and magazines. Between 2000 and 2013 she worked for Impumelelo where she documented projects in rural areas and townships around South Africa.
Photographs featured in Books
Waiting to Happen: HIV/Aids in South Africa : the Bigger Picture Paperback – March 1, 2004
Women by Women: 50 Years Of Women's Photography In South Africa (2006)
Every Step of the Way: The Journey to Freedom in South Africa (2005)
Nelsonmandela.org, (2015), 'Between States of Emergency', from Nelsonmandela.org, 29 September [online], Available at https://www.nelsonmandela.org [Accessed: 25 September 2019] PDF
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