Think of this as part run, walk, parade and party. The goal is to participate, celebrate life and raise money for BC Children's Hospital.
On Saturday June 20th 2009, West 10th Avenue will be completely closed to traffic and the event starts. All participants will amass at either Discovery Street. for the Pooch, Family, or High Heel waves or Alma and West 10th Avenue for the Timed, Rockstar, Uniform, Bridal, Underwear, High School, or Elite waves where you will summit the hill. Along the way, thousands of excited viewers will cheer you on. Drummers and cheerleaders will also help motivate you, and as you come to the finish, the party starts! As an added bonus, the Live Street Party site at West 10th Avenue between Sasamat and Tolmie will feature live entertainment for kids and adults alike!
There were some great discussions last night, and I think this year's event is going to be rather extraordinary. One of the ideas I threw on the table was for the BC Children's Hospital to have a blogger/social-media open house one day so everyone can come and meet all the kids. If I were to run in the event, I would love to know just who it was I was helping, and use that as motivation to put myself across the finish line. So I hope that idea and some of the others will get implemented this year.
I'll keep everyone up to date about the event over the next few months. I'm hoping I'll even be able to run in the event.


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Q: Biztalk Developer pre-screening test and interview questions Similar to other interview question threads, we're preparing to interview candidates for a Biztalk/.NET Webservices/XML/general mid-tier developer position, and I'm looking for some good input from the community. We'd like to pre-screen the applicants (since they'll come from a tech agency) with a written test that covers basic knowledge (I'm more interested in concepts than specific technical application - I don't want a test with specific technical questions that could be easily answered by using Google). Also, I'd be interested in any good interview questions related to those topics.

A: 1) In XML Schema what is the preferred and why: elements or attributes?
2) What is the benefit of a targetnamespace declaration and what does it cost your document?
3) What is your favorite automated QA application/process and why is that one your favorite?
4) How could you use XPath expressions to increase automation processes associated with finding information in multiple documents?
5) What are common potential security vulnerabilities associated with xmlHttpRequest object and how would you write solutions to compensate for those vulnerabilities?

A: What can you do to increase performance of a BizTalk Application (i.e. how do you make it scale)?
-Krip

A: "Why would you use Biztalk instead of any other middleware solution" - the point here is to show that they know a bit more about the domain in general, other systems and how they work rather than just be someone who's read a book on Biztalk.

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When I create an image and the image name of my file e.g. "anaconda.jpg" and then export the template, then Themler exported in the code for the image "2ac48f1d02f01803c01b9330cc9979_anaconda.jpg".
This is very bad for search engines.
How can you fix the error?
Do not have a solution to the problem?
Hello support team, do you have an answer and a solution for that?
Unfortunately, you can't affect how image file names are changed during export in Themler.
But as Allan mentioned above, SEO is looking up for image alt text, make sure you specify that for every image in Themler.


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UN urges Australia to solve Manus Island crisis
07:05, November 23, 2017
A United Nations representative on Manus Island says Australia has created and then abandoned a humanitarian crisis on the doorstep of the international community.
About 400 refugees are still refusing to leave the former detention centre on the Papua New Guinea island after it was closed at the end of October when essential services were cut.
The deputy regional representative of the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), Nai Jit Lam, said Australia remained responsible for the refugees and should engage them in constructive dialogue.
"This is a man-made and entirely preventable humanitarian crisis. It is a damning indictment of a policy meant to avoid Australia's international obligations," the UNHCR added.
Yesterday, PNG police said they planned to convince the men to leave the centre voluntarily, but today they said they were waiting for the outcome of court action by the refugees' lawyer in the PNG Supreme Court.
The police said there was a risk of diseases such as typhoid, dysentery and cholera in the centre, where the health of the men was now in peril, according to a team of advocates, who secretly entered the facility last week.
Mr Lam agreed the health of the men was a concern, but he said the refugees saw the standoff as an opportunity to show and tell the world about how they had been treated since being forcibly transferred to PNG in 2013.
The UNHCR said it was grateful to other states in the region "for offering assistance and real solutions for this group of traumatized and vulnerable human beings.
"Establishing interim care for these refugees and asylum-seekers, and finding lasting solutions for them outside of Papua New Guinea, are now the most critical priorities," it said.
"UNHCR urges States to continue their engagement with Australia and the PNG government and to advocate to bring an end to the human suffering."
It said Australia had exiled approximately 3000 refugees and asylum-seekers to Pacific islands, with about 1200 still in Nauru and 900 in PNG.
Despite government announces to the contrary, Mr Lam said alternative facilities being built on Manus Island were still not ready to hold the men.
"The accommodation outside of the former centre is still under construction," he said.
"We were there and saw for ourselves that they are trying to complete the site as quickly as possible. But the fact remains that major work is still in progress and might take a couple of weeks before completion."
Outside the centre, basic services needed by the refugees, such as healthcare, were also not adequately provided, according to Mr Lam.
"We observed that initially four caseworkers were planned to look after over 700 individuals' well-being. From what we have observed firsthand, none are operating as of today," he said.
"This is due to local contractual disputes among people here as well. The other concerning issues that we have observed are regarding security and the lack of interpreters on the Island, that brings about the issue of how they would communicate with local people or even the police as well."
Mr Lam said tensions with the local community remained.
"In the last three to four days, there were two incidents reported... Someone from the local village came and switched off the (Hillside Haus) generator because it was too noisy," he said.
"And there was a blockade of a road by local people at the main site of what we call West Lorengau Haus."
Mr Lam said the locals' anxiety and fear of what was happening had not been resolved.
Australian foreign minister Julie Bishop rejected the UN criticism.
"There is accomodation that is perfectly acceptable, indeed many people have moved there already, and those that have stayed on Manus Island are chosing to do so to try and force Australia to take them, " she said.
But from inside the centre, the Kurdish refugee Benham Satah said the refugees did not want to go to Australia.
"If Australian government don't want us in Australia, okay, we don't want to go there as well. Just let us go to safe country. Let us go to New Zealand, because we are not going to leave this centre unless you give us freedom," he said.
Photo: supplied. The 113th daily protest in the detention centre, 22-11-17.
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est un paléographe et archiviste français né en 1850 à Beaucourt (alors dans le Haut-Rhin) et mort à Paris en 1925.

Biographie
Archiviste paléographe (promotion 1876), il est d'abord membre de l'École française de Rome de 1876 à 1880, puis conservateur aux Archives nationales de 1880 à 1897, date à laquelle il est élu à la chaire de paléographie de l'École des chartes. Docteur ès lettres en 1895, il est élu membre de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres en 1905.

Selon Henri Courteault, qui travailla à ses côtés aux Archives nationales et devint ensuite directeur des Archives de France entre 1929 et 1937, Élie Berger se distinguait par ses propos salaces.

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Naissance en août 1850
Décès en avril 1925
Paléographe français
Archiviste français
Archiviste paléographe
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Membre de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres
Décès à 74 ans

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IEC 60317-29:1990 specifies the requirements of enamelled rectangular copper winding wire of class 200 with a dual coating. The underlying coating is based on polyester or polyesterimide resin, which may be modified providing it retains the chemical identity of the original resin and meets all specified wire requirements. The superimposed coating is based on polyamide-imide resin. Class 200 is a thermal class that requires a minimum temperature index of 200 and a heat shock temperature of at least 220 °C. The temperature in degrees Celsius corresponding to the temperature index is not necessarily that at which it is recommended that the wire be operated and this will depend on many factors, including the type of equipment involved. The range of nominal conductor dimensions covered by this standard is: - width: min. 2,0 mm max. 16,0 mm; - thickness: min. 0,80 mm max. 5,60 mm. Wires of grade 1 and grade 2 are included in this specification and apply to the complete range of conductors. The specified combinations of width and thickness as well as the specified width/thickness ratio are given in IEC 60317-0-2.


This version used by the CIA maybe new, but the type of hack has been out there for a long time, and virtually all big time hackers use it. Plus of course the boys in the band, China, Russia, North Korea among others. What is neat is once they get into the router, like the one a Starbucks, or that free Hotel system you used last night, a hacked router can monitor all the data going through it. Like your passwords, who you are emailing as well as who is emailing you. In my Cyber Security class, I show one of the data inquires that can be sitting on the router, it is one very short burst, that then sits and waits for the systems attached to the router to cough up a whole range of sensitive data, that allows the attacker virtual access not only to your computer, but every computer you then access. So the next time you log on to a free router hot spot, just remember that your computer will take that bad software with it, and then attack your home router, or business router. There are patches for routers that help keep them free from some of these attacks, but have you ever installed a patch for your router? Would you even know how? Now look at the list of systems this Cherry Blossom or other attack like it can hit. Cameras, WIFI adapters, WIFI extenders, it is a 24 page list and includes most of the routers sold in America or around the world.


We are pleased to announce that the new #clubhectare will launch at the Midlands Machinery Show on 22nd November 2017 at 1530.
We will have a presentation by members on the new set up, live streamed via Facebook for those who cannot make it.
#clubhectare has come a long way over the last 6 years, and its current members are solid base for the club's future. But we hope the new club with new features will appeal to a wider member-base, meaning more value for all.


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Keith Hughes lead guitar
Bob Mansfield bass guitar (left in 1965)
Ken Price vocal
Paul Stevens rhythm guitar
Pete Trickett drums
Mel Stanton bass guitar (joined in 1965)
"The great things about those days was supporting many big names at the time, sharing the stage and dressing room with such stars as The Beatles, Tom Jones, Roy Orbison, Gene Pitney, Dusty Springfield, The Everly's and so on...!" recalls Formula 1 drummer Pete Trickett.
"It had a revolving stage with us occupying one half and The Beatles on the other!"
It was 1962 in Smethwick, Birmingham when five local teenagers (the oldest being 18) formed their own rock 'n' roll group - known as "Formula 1" (sometimes incorrectly written 'Formula One'). This line-up consisted of vocalist Ken Price, guitarists Keith Hughes and Paul Stevens, bass guitarist Bob Mansfield, and drummer Pete Trickett.
The young group soon became adept at copying the hits of the day to a point where they found themselves in considerable demand. Pete Trickett takes up the story: "We became part of the bigger Birmingham music scene, playing all the usual venues such as The Ritz (King's Heath), The Plaza (Old Hill), The Plaza (Handsworth), The Carlton Ballroom (Perry Barr) and The Mackadown Pub (Kitts Green)."
Formula 1's engagement opening up for 'The Beatles' was of course a memory that Pete Trickett will never forget; "The Beatles gig was at the Old Hill Plaza. It had a revolving stage with us occupying one half and The Beatles on the other! They performed their latest hit at the time, this being From Me To You."
As well as opening for other acts, Formula 1 were frequently called upon to back visiting artists who sometimes toured without a regular backing group other than perhaps a keyboard player. Some big names included Roy Orbison, Dusty Springfield, Gene Pitney, and The Everly Brothers with whom they often shared the same dressing room recalled Pete.
These exciting brushes with fame would only inspire the members of Formula 1 to try a shot of their own at making the hit parade. "We recorded a demo disc at Hollick & Taylor recording studio in Handsworth" said Pete. "Two titles 'Green Back Dollar' and 'Talkin' About You' were recorded and with these, we pestered numerous record companies and agents etc. to no avail."
The group's persistence led them down to London and the famous "Tin Pan Alley" on Denmark Street. Pete Trickett remembers; "While having a coffee in a local cafe, the obliging owner suggested we give the pop impresario Larry Page - manager of The Kinks and The Troggs at the time - a visit!"
"Within ten minutes, we were in the reception of Larry's office asking if he would like to indulge in a quick listen to our disc. Much to our surprise, we were invited upstairs to his office and our demo record popped onto his turntable. After sitting in silence whilst listening to our efforts, more silence followed. Larry then asked if we could possibly play here now... Live!"
"We did have our gear with us in the van so moments later, Fender Stratocasters, Gibsons, Vox amps, drums etc. were all duly assembled. We belted out two or three rock numbers - all very bewildering to us at least. As the last chords faded away, more seconds of silence followed... Larry Page then saying "Your record was CRAP! ...however, YOU sound a thousand times better!" A record contract was set up within 30 minutes!"
"Jimmy Page actually played with us. He was top session player at the time"
Larry Page soon arranged a recording session and had Formula 1 record a version of The Kinks catchy song 'I Just Can't Go To Sleep' as composed by Ray Davies. The record was issued on the Warner Brothers label in April of 1965 along with a track entitled 'Sure Know A Lot About Love' for the B-side.
Pete Trickett; "The sessions for our first record release were done at Regent Sound Studios, London in late September 1964. Jimmy Page actually played with us on 'Just Can't Go To Sleep'. He was top session player at the time. He used the same small (ultra rare) Burns transistorized amp on our tracks. Jimmy played the middle eight solo using a then new 'wah Wah' foot pedal. He was brought in to beef up our sound a bit. The rest of us all played on the record too."
"Incidentally, a young guy was standing near me while we were recording that day. Turns out he was Mitch Mitchell who later became drummer for The Jimi Hendrix Experience. He had been brought in to replace me for the session if I hadn't been up to scratch. Happily he wasn't required. Mitch was even generous enough to pay me a few complements on my drumming so cheers Mitch!"
The group got to promote their single on the ATV pop television show "Thank Your Lucky Stars" but despite hopes for success, the record didn't sell much outside of the Midlands area. Pete Trickett said; "However, the record was also released in the U.S.A. where it rose to the dizzy heights of number 92 in the Billboard/Cashbox hot 100... wow!"
Hopes for record success were high when Formula 1's second single came out just three months later. The A-side was titled 'I Have Love' while the B-side was a track called 'Want To Meet A Girl Like You'. Wether due to a lack of promotion or otherwise, the record's failure to chart made it seem all the more that Formula 1 was not destined for the hit parade. Pete Trickett; "Although we felt this was a better record than the first one, sales proved worse!"
In late 1965, Formula 1's bass guitarist Bob Mansfield left the group and was replaced by Mel Stanton from a local band called The Chucks who had just returned from Germany. "Mel was one of the best players in the U.K. at the time" said Pete. Despite this, there were no more records from Formula 1 with the group disbanding by the end of the following year.
The members went off in different directions with the majority continuing to perform in local bands. Vocalist Ken Price joined the Brum group Young Blood with whom he toured Germany and later went into the business side of music after joining Brian Yeates (formerly of The John Bull Breed) to form the entertainment agency "Yeates and Price".
As for drummer Pete Trickett; "Through the later 1960s, I played professionally in many other bands including 'The Stacks' and 'The Stax Movement' - The Stacks being managed by Bev Bevan (of The Move)."
Pete still plays drums occasionally to this day with his present passion for music being jazz standards. Aviation enthusiast Pete also volunteers as a guide at the Battle of Britain Visitors Centre at RAF Coningsby where he's known to fly in a real Spitfire on occasion.
Pete Trickett has many great memories of the 1960s West Midlands music scene but surely the experience of sharing the stage and dressing room with The Beatles, Roy Orbison, and Dusty Springfield would be hard to beat!
Thanks to Pete Trickett and Alan Bolt for assistance in writing this story of Formula 1.
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Formula 1 1960s Record Releases
I Just Can't Go To Sleep/Sure Know A Lot About Love (Warner Bros WB 155) 1965
I Have Love/Want To Meet A Girl Like You (Warner Bros WB) 1965


When you make a huge leap into marriage, most people recognize that there will be ups and downs.
But how many? I think many of us are surprised at what hits us as a couple.
In the beginning, you and this man have talked, fallen in love and are now mapping out the rest of your life together. You dream of children, grandchildren, purchasing a house together and a whole life of joy and laughter. If you are blessed with ease, this is exactly what you get. There will always be times of boredom or general exhaustion that causes arguments, but you can't put two people together and expect that it will always be sunshine and roses. There will be times when things are hard, but the whole point of a marriage is to work through it together no matter what.
Sometimes, you may catch yourself looking at your husband and want to pinch yourself with how lucky you feel. Perhaps he's holding your newborn child, and the look on his face of pure awe make you feel like you couldn't love him any more than you do right then. Perhaps he's taken over the house without being asked while you're suffering with the flu. Either way, you have moments where you want to show your appreciation to him, to let him know that you are seeing what he's doing for you and the family.
Expressing your admiration and gratitude for all the things that he does is nothing short of a lovely thing to do. This doesn't necessarily come in the form of physically cool gifts for guys – although I'm sure he wouldn't say no to a day rock climbing. Giving a gift is a great way to show how much you love someone, and it can make you feel good when you see how much they love it. Then again, that's what special occasions are generally reserved for, and we all know how hard it is to buy for men! You can show your husband how much you love and appreciate him in about a thousand different ways, so I'm not going to list them all. However, I will list for you three ways you can really show how much you appreciate everything he does for you.
When you're drowned with work and the kids and doing the housework, the idea of having to give your full attention to one more thing in your life feels too hard. To be honest, it probably IS too difficult to give your undivided attention to yet one more person, but you should try anyway. We live in a world that is fast moving and taking the time to slow down to a stop and have a conversation is something to be treasured. Your husband will love the moments you take to pay some attention to just him, without the distraction of children and technology. Among all the chaos of family life, making time to be just with each other can make a huge difference to your relationship and make you both feel secure. So, take the time to pay attention to just them – you'll see a marked difference in the close bond you have.
Sometimes, it's nice to take charge and be the person who plans the date. With kids, you may not get a chance to get out together all that often. You can break the stereotypes and be the one plan a date together. It doesn't have to be much, especially if the budget is tight. But even a walk with nice scenery and a hot drink can be a great time to just spend together in adult company. You can really make him feel appreciated by taking the initiative to plan something for you both.
Communication is one of the biggest factors that gets lost in a marriage, but if you make the time to talk to each other about how you are feeling, whether those feelings are bad or good, you can keep the marriage alive. Talking about anything and everything together can keep you both feeling connected and happy. Communication is a big factor to solving problems and soothing issues in a relationship. Keeping your communication alive is important for the life of your marriage and your happiness as well as his. Sending cute texts and writing love letters is yet another communicative tool that you can use to show your affection for him.
What are ways that you show your husband you appreciate him?
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Hikimi Wasabi () is a variety of wasabi cultivated in Hikimi Town (now part of Masuda City), Shimane Prefecture, Japan.

Wasabi cultivation in Hikimi began in 1818 and by the early Shōwa era (1926–1989) reached an annual production of 300 metric tons (330.7 US tons). Of the wasabi from Shimane, 90% came from the town of Hikimi
At the time, Shimane Prefecture was one of the top producers of wasabi in Japan. The two top areas of wasabi production were Shizuoka Prefecture in the East and Shimane Prefecture in the West.  Hikimi's wasabi production declined due to numerous factors, including two large floods since the 1970s, recent generations of farming families choosing different careers, and global warming. In recent years, new residents of Hikimi have been attempting to revive the production of Hikimi wasabi. In 2013, Shimane Prefecture produced 74.5 metric tons of wasabi (70.2 metric tons were soil-grown wasabi, 4.3 metric tons were water-grown wasabi). That is fifth most in Japan, but far behind the top 3 prefectures: Shizuoka (867.6 metric tons), Nagano (604.7 metric tons), and Iwate (432.7 metric tons). Shimane Prefecture is known for its Hikimi wasabi. Due to this small amount, Hikimi wasabi is now considered to be fairly rare.

Climate
Japan, except for the Hokkaido region, is in the subtropical high-pressure belt, a unique area in the world rich in water despite being located at a latitude which often is desert. When winter comes, rainfall often turns into snowfall, and the Japan Sea side of the main island Honshū has one of the highest amounts of snow at that latitude or lower in the world. Hikimi is located in the southwestern tip of this heavy snow fall area in Japan. Snow acts as insulation to help protect wasabi from frost during the winter. Snow also functions as a natural dam, keeping water plentiful, which is good for growing wasabi. Hikimi is also humid and, being in the mountains, has fewer daylight hours throughout the year. A species native to Japan, wasabi was originally distributed mainly around the Japan Sea side of Honshū. It grows much better in areas with high humidity and short daylight hours than in areas with strong sunlight and high temperatures. With all these favorable factors existing in Hikimi, wasabi grows naturally and has been used by the local people since before it was farmed In terms of climate, Hikimi is the best place for wasabi cultivation, but there are concerns about the future of wasabi production in Hikimi.  It is said that the average global rise in temperature is 0.68 °C per 100 years (1.22 °F), but the temperature of Hikimi rose 1.1 °C (1.98 °F) in the past 100 years. This means that ideal conditions for wasabi cultivation rose 200 meters in that time, since temperatures decrease at a rate of 0.55 °C per 100 meters. In the past, top-quality wasabi could be harvested even in the lower areas. However, the water temperature gradually has been rising since World War II, and the warmer temperatures have resulted in more damage to the crops from insects. Some farmers are trying to avoid disease and pests by farming fields at higher elevations, but soon they will run out of land to move up to. Moreover, on the Japan Sea side, in recent years there have been torrential rainstorms at a scale never seen before. These large storms wash away wasabi plants and sometimes devastate entire farms.

Cultivation

Water-grown cultivation
In Hikimi, water-grown wasabi is commonly grown on farms in the Keiryū style (, , "mountain–stream style"). The water comes from the Takatsu River system, which is one of the cleanest rivers in Japan. The Tatami-ishi style ( , "paving-stone style") is the main style used in Shizuoka, and the Heichi style ( , "flatland style") in Nagano. These use spring water as a source and are usually constructed on a large scale using heavy machinery in easily accessible locations. On the other hand, Keiryū-style fields use water mainly from mountain streams. The fields are built on a small-scale by hand along mountain streams, making full use of the natural features of the landscape. To access the Keiryu Style fields, people need to be excellent mountain hikers, because the fields are located in difficult to access places

Water-grown wasabi traits

Slow growth
Slow growth owes to Keiryū-style cultivation being exceedingly connected to the natural environment. The temperature of spring water (ground water) has little variation year-round. On the other hand, mountain stream water is always exposed to the elements, so the temperature is easily affected by the outside temperature. For that reason, the water temperature in Keiryū-style farming changes significantly according to the season. The water temperature range to grow wasabi is as narrow as 8 to 18.6 °C (the ideal temperature is 12 to 13 °C), and growth stops if it is higher or lower than that. Therefore, water-grown wasabi in Keiryū-style fields goes through periods of growth and rest similar to annual growth rings on trees.

Flavor and appearance
The flavor and appearance of Hikimi wasabi are described as:
 Mild sweetness spreading after a sharp pungent flavor
 Rich in aroma and with a viscous texture
 Grated color is light green. (Native species are mostly yellow or white.)

Regarding this sweetness, Hoshi Norimitsu, a former executive chef of the Hotel Okura, stated: "Hikimi Wasabi is not only posses a strong pungency, but also contains sweetness in the sharpness. I think it is because Hikimi wasabi spends time in snow. Well ... people have said for years that Japanese radish (daikon) which is preserved in the snow is sweeter. Wasabi is the same."

The viscosity of wasabi is believed to help retain pungency and flavor compounds after being grated, and keeps its quality longer.  At the same time, wasabi goes well as a sushi topping or in a sushi rice ball. For example, watery sushi toppings such as herring roe or abalone easily slide from a sushi rice ball, but wasabi makes sushi toppings hard to slide down.  Viscous Hikimi wasabi works especially well.

Regarding the color of grated wasabi, residents of Tokyo prefer the deep green wasabi produced in Shizuoka Prefecture, whereas residents of the Keihanshin region (the Kyoto–Osaka–Kobe area) prefer the light green wasabi produced in Shimane Prefecture.  The largest company of processed wasabi manufactures and sells two different colors of powdered wasabi for business use. One is the western Japan style, and the other is eastern Japan style. The western Japan style of wasabi is lighter colored than wasabi from eastern Japan.

Farm-grown cultivation
Farm-grown wasabi is mainly grown on the slopes of forests where broad-leaved trees grow. The broad-leaf trees naturally adjust the sunlight suitable for growth of wasabi by blocking strong sunlight in the summer, and allowing weak sunlight through after the leaves fall in the winter. The fields are made at various altitudes from 250 meters to 1100 meters above sea level. By farming at different altitudes at the same time, farmers can harvest over a wider period of time.

Revival efforts
To revive wasabi cultivation in Hikimi, the following institutions and measures are being conducted.
 Wasabi Bio-center
 This institution produces seedlings of elite breeds. It is located at the former site of the branch in Hikimi. This institution is equipped with an air-controlled laboratory, a breeder room with various equipment, and equipment to keep bacteria out.
 Wasabi College Hikimi
 This approach is planned and sponsored by the local administration with the aim of getting people interested in agriculture and rural life, finding new farmers, and promoting settlement. Some participants of the college moved to Hikimi to farm.

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Breed varieties
Shimane  is one of the main breed varieties and is cultivated in both water fields and soil fields. Shimane  was developed by Dr. Yokogi Kuniomi of Shimane Prefecture's Agricultural Experiment Station with the cooperation of Kenjirō Tanaka, a farmer in Nichihara Town (now part of Tsuwano Town) in 1942. It is the only superior variety found to be resistant to the putrefaction disease which destroys wasabi cultivation, and it saved the wasabi industry in Shimane Prefecture.
For water-grown wasabi only, in addition to local species native to Hikimi, there is Daijin, which is bred from native varieties from elsewhere in Japan.
Misawa, which was developed in 2002, is used for soil-grown wasabi only.

Processed products

Processed products of water-grown wasabi include additive‐free wasabi paste, Japanese yam paste mixed with wasabi, sausages containing wasabi, and other things.  Soil-grown wasabi is used mainly to make wasabi paste. Soil-grown wasabi's leaves, stems, and flower parts are also used as ingredients of pickled products such as shōyu-zuke (soy sauce pickles), sakekasu-zuke (pickles in sake lees), miso-zuke (miso pickles), and sweets such as ice cream and pudding. Wasabi shoots (known locally as ganime) with good texture are used especially for shōyu-zuke.

Culture

Yamaoi-Tengu-Sha shrine
Yamaaoi-Tengu-Sha shrine is the only shrine dedicated to wasabi in which wasabi farmers pray for a good harvest in Japan. The shrine is located halfway up Mount Daijingataki, 1170 meters (3838 feet) above sea level, in the town of Hikimi, Mikazura District. This town is regarded as the birthplace of Hikimi Wasabi. The shrine's goshintai (object of worship) is a carved tengu with a round fan dedicated to the shrine.

Wasabi Kagura

Iwami Kagura is a traditional performance art of western Shimane Prefecture. In modern times, a Kagura play has been created by locals to pray for a good wasabi harvest. Nishida Tamotsu created the wooden masks. Watanabe Tomochiyo, who is a researcher of Iwami Kagura and ethnology, created the words, and the Mikazura Kagura Preservation Society, all members of which are wasabi farmers, created the choreography. The title "Yamaaoi Tengu" was named after the official name of the Wasabi Shrine. The performance was first performed at the Shrine on June 5, 1983. The Wasabi Kagura has continued to be performed since then. The story goes that a tengu, an object of worship of the shrine, slays disease and insects (in anthropomorphized forms) to save suffering wasabi farmers.

The story is performed by members of the Mikazura Kagura Preservation Society. The group has been designated as a Shimane prefectural intangible folk cultural property. The story is performed at a unique Rokuchōshi tempo.

Uzume-meshi

Cuisine using wasabi has existed in the town of Hikimi since the Middle Ages. Most notably, uzume-meshi was selected as one of the "Five Great Japanese Rice Meals" in a nationwide survey of local cuisine, conducted by the Imperial Household Agency.  Uzume-meshi looks like a simple bowl of rice, but when the rice is removed with chopsticks, chicken, taro, burdock, carrots, nameko mushrooms, and other ingredients appear in a broth under the rice.  Uzume means "to fill up", and meshi means "rice". It is said that uzume-meshi was named after how the dish is arranged. In Hikimi, it is said that Uzume-meshi was eaten as part of a feast when guests visited a house for ceremonial occasions, such as visits from bureaucrats, festivals, or the New Year's holiday. Its origins are unknown, but there are three origin stories:

 Wasabi long ago was so expensive that if farmers sold some, they could earn enough money to live for a month. Therefore, wasabi was hidden under the rice to prevent their guests from feeling apprehensive by seeing they were being served such expensive food.
 Hosts were embarrassed by putting such cheap vegetables on rice, so they hid the ingredients under the rice.
 In ancient times, copper pheasant was a source of protein for the local people. In the Edo period, an edict forbidding the harming of living things came into effect, so people began to hide the ingredients under the rice so as not to get in trouble.

The ingredients vary in homes and restaurants, but the common elements are shirukakegohan (rice mixed with broth) and wasabi. Uzume-meshi is served at local restaurants, and is also provided at the rest stop of a local bicycle race, Masuda I・NA・KA Ride.  Riders can ride through the 100 kilometer course, starting from the Iwami Airport runway and passing through various local roads without traffic lights. Uzume-meshi appeared in the Japanese comic series Oishinbo.

Mascot
In 2011, the mascot Wasamaru, inspired by the shape of wasabi, was designed as a promotional tool for settlement in Masuda city.

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The jewels in question belonged to the alleged co founder of Black Mafia Family (BMF) Terry Flenory. Also known for drug trafficking, Flenory pleaded guilty last October, and was sentenced to 30 months behind bars along wit a $50,000 fine. According to the Detroit Free Press, for withholding information regarding this case, Jacob faced a maximum of 46 months in prison.
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At 8:47 p.m. an HRP East Division patrol unit attempted to initiate a traffic stop on a suspect vehicle involved in a property damage investigation but it refused to stop. A brief low speed pursuit took place with the suspect vehicle eventually pulling into a driveway on Irving St . The driver was taken into custody and no injuries resulted. A 61 year old Dartmouth man is being held in custody to appear in Dartmouth Provincial Court later today charged with impaired driving, refusing the breathalyser, resisting arrest and property damage.
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Despite the fact that COVID-19 has had a huge impact on the film industry, award shows, and film festivals in 2020, The King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra) is hosting the sixth Saudi Film Festival from September 1 – 6, 2020. For the first time, the screening portion of the event will be completely virtual. Mounted in partnership with the Saudi Arabian Society for Culture & Arts in Dammam and the support of the Ministry of Culture's Film Commission, the annual festival showcases the Saudi film industry through screenings, competitions, discussions, workshops, and award ceremonies.
The good news for cinephiles is that the online aspect of the 2020 festival allows for 24-hour access to this year's 25 films via the Saudi Film Festival's YouTube channel and includes the live broadcast of discussions with filmmakers.
Launched in 2008, the Saudi Film Festival has developed into a major catalyst for the Kingdom's burgeoning film industry.
Since its inception, Ithra has developed into one of the Kingdom's leading venues for film premieres and programming. It is also one of Saudi's leading film production houses. Ithra's support of the growing Saudi film industry has given rise to multiple productions that have received accolades and awards at prestigious local and international film festivals. Several Ithra-produced movies are now being streamed via Netflix to viewers around the world.
To date, Ithra has produced 20 films that have received 15 local and international awards.
"Our first huge step forward was in 2018," noted Ithra Director Hussain Hanbazazah, "when Ithra produced and premiered the feature film 'Joud' to international acclaim and multiple awards. In 2019, Ithra produced more than 150 works of original content, including eight movies. Ithra has always sought to tap into the wealth of talented men and women of the Kingdom and provide them with a dynamic platform and the tools to take their art to the next level of a very competitive industry."
While 2020 remains to be a challenging year, Ithra continues its support of local cinematic content creation by partnering up again with the Saudi Film Festival and screening original films.
"Film has been a bright point for Ithra," concluded Hanbazazah, "and the Center has absolutely been a launching point for the Saudi film industry."
Ithra's cinematic initiatives include regular meetings of the Ithra Film Society and the Saudi Film Days contest, a competitive platform for local cinematic production where works of the winners are made into reality.
One of Ithra's leading features is the 300-seat state-of-the-art cinema and screening venue. The Ithra Cinema regularly presents new and compelling films from Saudi Arabia's blossoming film industry, as well as documentaries, movies for kids, and popular and historical films.
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An agreement on the mutual recognition of driving licenses between mainland China and Macao was signed recently, allowing those who own certain driving licenses of the mainland to drive in Macao and vice versa.
An agreement on the mutual recognition of driving licenses between mainland China and Macao was signed recently, allowing those who own certain driving licenses of the mainland to drive in Macao and vice versa. When the agreement will officially take effect, however, is yet to be announced.
Only three kinds of driving licenses are applicable, according to the agreement. They are B-type licenses of Macao and China's C1 licenses (for manual control compact cars) and C2 licenses (for automatic control compact cars).
Mainland drivers should be aware that they can drive in Macao directly for the first 14 days. After that, they are required to register at the Department of Transportation. Macao drivers, on the other hand, can directly apply for driving licenses of mainland China.
The mutual recognition of driving licenses, however, doesn't equate to direct access of all cars on both sides. A special license plate accepted in both jurisdictions is required. As an alternative, you can rent a car in Macao and then drive wherever you want to go.
This is a good news for people who like to drive when they travel. "Due to inconvenient transportation before, some remote scenery in Macao has been difficult to reach," said Miss Luo, a Guangzhou resident. "Now the policy enables me and my friends to explore more lesser-known places in Macao."
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Belfast Maritime Weekender
This year we welcome a host of visiting vessels and boats to the quayside as part of the Belfast Maritime Weekender. Across the weekend the waters will be awash with lots of displays and demos with some spectacular boats on show. Due to Covid, a number of the vessels will not be opened to the public but come on down to the Maritime mile to catch a glimpse of them.
Visiting Vessels & Ships to Watch Out For
There's a host of vessels and boats attending this year's festival!
ILV Granuaile
Queen's Quay
Last here in 2018, Granuaile is coming back to Belfast and we can't wait. Built in 2000, Granuaile is a versatile Class 1 dynamic positioning vessel and capable of working in difficult sea conditions. The vessel's primary function is to place and service offshore buoys, which warn mariners of the location of sand banks, reefs and other offshore hazards near shipping routes. The vessel also serves as a helicopter platform for servicing offshore lighthouses and is available to assist government agencies with search & rescue, emergency towing, oil pollution control, surveying and offshore data collection. Whilst ILV Granuaile is not open to the public she will be docked along Queens Quay for you to come down and see.
Brocklebank
City Quays
1960's old style tug boat 'Brocklebank' located on City Quays – Tug boat Brocklebank returns to Belfast and is famously known for escorting the Royal Yacht Britannia into the Mersey and towing countless liners, warships freighters and tankers around the docks. Following its retirement in 1989, she is now the only seagoing vessel owned by a UK national museum.
Sandown Class Minehunter
We are very much looking forwarding to welcoming the Royal Navy back to Belfast in support of the Belfast Maritime Weekender. A Sandown Class Minehunter will be visiting the city over the weekend but unfortunately due to ongoing Covid restrictions the ship will not be open to the general public. Come on down and catch a glimpse anyway.
Drascombe Association
Members of the Irish Drascombe Association will sail into Belfast Harbour for the Belfast Maritime weekend and will put on display some of their much loved boats. The Drascombe story started back in the early 1960s with John Watkinson, a former Royal Navy officer, building a boat for himself and his family. Over the weekend the boats will be berthed in Abercorn basin and on display for everyone to see.
East Belfast Sailing Club
Abercorn Basin
We welcome the East Belfast Sailing Club who will have their 23ft long remote control Titanic boat on display in Abercorn Basin. East Belfast Sailing club was founded by workers from the Belfast Shipyards in 1904 and told us their Titanic model boat, built to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of RMS Titanic, took 3 months to build and is of Ply and GRP construction. We can't wait to see it.
Belfast Lough Sailability - Community Group Taster Sessions
Belfast Lough Sailability brings the joy of sailing and boating to disabled and disadvantaged people across Northern Ireland. Docked for the weekend, there will be a wide range of boats for everyone to enjoy including three Hawk 20' sailing day boats and two safety boats. There will also be opportunities for community groups across NI to have their own adventure on the high seas, with pre bookable community group participatory Taster Sessions on board Hawk and water taxi tours of Titanic Quarter aboard Rosy or Sea Rover.
To find out more and book a taster session for your community group, please contact Community Development officer, Stephen Tate via email tatestephen@belfastcity.gov.uk or telephone 07584 112272.
Other 'On The Water' Highlights
Lagan Search and Rescue
Lagan Search and Rescue's 8.5m ribcraft Lifeboat powered by two 150HP outboards. Capable of 42 knots, the custom built Lifeboat is packed full of Search and Rescue technology including; Ullman suspension seats, AIS, Radar, Thermal Imaging, Augmented Reality, Search Lights, Wireless Communications and a Salvage Pump. Lagan Search and Rescue's Lifeboat is one of over 80 independent Lifeboat charities operating in the UK and Ireland. The team train every Tuesday night and Sunday morning. Please give them a wave if you see them out on the water.
Belfast Harbour Police
Belfast Harbour Police will also have their new state of the art Police safety patrol boat on display. Launched in June this year their primary role is to improve water safety along Belfast's popular waterfront.
Citizen Sea
Abercorn Marina
Citizen Sea, Northern Ireland's first boat based environmental charity will dock in Abercorn Marina alongside their vessel 'Seabird'. The Research & Education Vessel is a beautiful wooden hulled traditionally built 'Ringnetter' type vessel, descended from the legendary sailing drifters of the late nineteenth century.
Lagan Dragons
Lagan Dragons, Northern Ireland's first ever Dragon Boat team will showcase some of the spectacular 20 seater dragon boats as part of the weekend's water activities. Made up of over 50 members, and founded back in 2015, the team is primarily those who have been directly or indirectly affected by a breast cancer diagnosis. We look forward to welcoming them.
Vessel opening times including any displays or sails are daily from 11am but will be subject to tide, weather and ship restrictions. Terms and Conditions of entry to vessels will apply. ID may be required.
All featured events have now passed
Why don't you visit our events calendar page to see what else is coming up on Maritme Mile?
Get ready for a weekend of mini moments along the Maritime Mile on Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 September at the Belfast Maritime Weekender.
Quayside Family Fun
Join an array of nautical themed street performers and musicians as they bring the Maritime Mile to life.
Enjoy a host of captivating local music talent along our quaysides and listen out for our roving Ukulele and Brass Bands as you explore the Maritime Mile.
Ticketed Events & Tours
Here's a list of events and tours you can join in during the Belfast Maritime Weekender, Saturday 4 September and Sunday 5 September.
Street Food & Cocktails
Head down to the historic slipways and check out the NI Pop-up Maritime Street Food Market, with food vans, trucks, stalls and plenty of picnic tables.
Lighting & Illuminations
Discover Belfast's Maritime Mile by night as we bring to you an evening of lights & illumination as part of the Belfast Maritime Weekender. 8pm-11pm Sat & Sun.
You can join in on the festival after getting here by walking, cycling, bus, car and train.
Check out some of the amazing exhibitions from National Geographic, Out of Stores, Irish Coastal Rowing Federation and more.
The Belfast Maritime Weekender is brought to you by Belfast City Council and Maritime Belfast Trust in partnership with Belfast Harbour, Titanic Quarter Limited, the Odyssey Trust, Department for Communities and Maritime Mile partners - energising Belfast together.


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At the vernal equinox, the day when the earth's equator passes the center of the sun, signaling the official end of our first long and brutal northern Michigan winter, our kitten, Bonny Kate, gave birth to a litter of six. We had noticed she was getting a little round in the belly. So were we, after many long weeks indoors. But we didn't realize she was actually pregnant—to the glee of my 8-year-old daughter and every other child on our block—until I took her to the vet about a week before she delivered.
I had thought she was too young to get pregnant. Forgive me; I watched a lot of MTV growing up instead of playing outside, and we weren't allowed indoor pets. As a naturalist, I'm very late to the party. But Bonny had never been in heat. It was the dead of winter. We were buried under 196 inches of snow. She rarely went outside for more than a couple of minutes.
My husband and I were briefly ashamed to be those irresponsible pet owners who hadn't spayed their cat, but then we embraced the teachable moment. Our kids, ages 8 and 3, would witness the miracle of new life firsthand. Our daughter would get to raise a litter of kittens at an age when such an experience is equivalent to catching a leprechaun. When she woke up on the first day of spring to find six tiny kittens happily nursing in her closet, and the whole family gathered there to admire the perfect design of God's creation, we felt like pretty awesome parents.
I am not a creationist or a biblical literalist. I accept evolution, but I believe truth shines through stories, including the story of Adam and Eve in the garden. I figured we would have a talk about evolution at some point in the distant future, but honestly, I found it all a little dull and hoped I could just leave it to her science teachers. I had not expected those teachers to be as dismissive of religion as I had been of the scientific facts. I thought we would all just play in our own yards and respectfully ignore each other. I followed my daughter out of the kitchen in a mild panic. Had she dismissed Christianity as just another tall tale, and lumped Jesus in with Balder and Frodo?
I've shared many different creation myths with my children, always stressing that we believe in one God who made us in his image and likeness. But by leaving science out of the story, I'd missed my chance to present its relationship to religion as I think it should be: a healthy, Catholic both/and instead of an antagonistic, legalistic either/or.
"You know Jesus is not just another fairy tale, right? That he's a real person, and the greatest part about the Christian story is that it's true?" I said.
"Mmhmm," she said, crunching her pickle, already skipping on to the next thing.
Just a couple of weeks before this revelation in the kitchen, "Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey," the reboot of the classic Carl Sagan show, debuted on Fox. I had watched the first episode with the skepticism of a religion snob, rolling my eyes at the distorted depiction of Giordano Bruno as a martyr for science at the hands of a stereotypically barbaric and ignorant church, feeling disappointed but at the same time satisfied that everything I thought about science-types was true—they're killjoy atheists out to discredit religion and strip the world of mystery. They want to replace Truth with facts and have the final word on all life's most important questions.
She loved seeing how scientists build on each other's knowledge, and how work begun by one person living hundreds of years ago might be taken up and carried on by someone else today. Like many 8-year-olds, she is a natural inventor, and she loved the idea that sometimes innovation requires not just intelligence but huge leaps of imagination and faith. Most of all, she loved Sir Isaac Newton, depicted in one of the show's animated segments as a distracted student and hot-tempered redhead (like her), who is befriended by a kind, reasonable chap (Sir Edmond Halley) who encourages him, defends his honor against a mean bully (Sir Robert Hooke) and helps him make history by publishing the Principia Mathematica.
The irritating potshots "Cosmos" takes at the religious worldview—and there were several—didn't register with her at all; she still takes the existence of God as a given. In her mind, there is not yet a firm distinction between science and religion. In fact, her religious sense is at least partly what makes "Cosmos" so appealing and accessible to her. Ultimately the show is telling the same kinds of stories we have been telling at home and at church—stories about the hunger for truth, and how the importance of building on established tradition, believing in what we can't see and being in relationship with each other are all essential to progress toward that truth.
The show's host, the astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, has described its mission as "to present science with all of its glory and the majesty and the mystery and the wonder—the things we all take for granted as children." Glory, majesty, mystery, wonder—this is the vocabulary of religion. Replace the word "science" with "God" in that sentence and you have my mission as a Catholic parent. Tyson also said that children are naturally interested in science if they are not discouraged from exploration. In my experience, the same is true about their natural inclination toward religion.
"Cosmos" is too quick to dismiss religion as a miscalculation, as superstition held over from our pre-enlightened days or even as an evolutionary mistake that we should seek to correct. But I am equally guilty of assuming that science has nothing to offer my religious imagination. Do we really have nothing to say to each other? Tyson himself has referred approvingly to a time when "science and religion kind of coexisted under the same roof." In my daughter's mind, that time is now. I'd been worried about what would happen when science and religion met, unaware that they were already happily cohabiting in her imagination. I want that relationship to grow deeper and richer, not to wither.
In an interview about science education, Tyson claimed that a lack of curiosity is the biggest roadblock to progress and argued that we are stifling our children's exploration by imposing too many boundaries.
The encouragement of our children's natural curiosity about the truth of human existence is just as important to the development of their faith, and so is coming together to seek it. No matter which camp you're in, science or religion, ignoring one another is not part of the plan.
The kittens are six weeks old now and pursuing their own natural curiosity all over my house, ignoring any boundaries I try to enforce. My daughter named her two favorites Newton and Halley, and I have heard her pretending they're arguing with each other about the law of gravity, which Newton the kitten discovered after getting stuck in a tree.
I know some would see our failure to spay Bonny as unwise and even reckless, but when I think about the kittens, I think of Tyson saying we should let kids break stuff. Sometimes the biggest and best discoveries are the results of mistakes and happy accidents, of remaining open to possibility and letting an experiment run its course. I have no idea how this event will shape my daughter's imagination, her intellect and her understanding of how God works in the world, but I think it's safe to say it will.
I had worried about the chaos this living experiment would bring. It was only with reluctance that I allowed nature into our house in the first place. One cat was one too many for me. But aside from the strange places Bonny has chosen to nest, including my underwear drawer and the box springs of our beds, I have been surprised by how little they have inconvenienced me, how much I have learned and the pure pleasure I've taken in watching them grow. Little Bonny has proven herself a fine mother, calmly delivering each kit, biting off and eating their amniotic sacs and roughly massaging them to life, moving them to more secluded spaces when she felt threatened by visitors. Over the weeks we have watched her young open their eyes and find their feet. When their hearing developed they began to look for us when we called them. Now they know when we're coming down the basement stairs and bound around the corner to greet us.
Meanwhile our home has become the social center of the boarding school where my husband works, which seems to have woken at last from a long hibernation. We are new here, and we've often felt lonely and unsure. But now our doorbell rings several times a day, and people of all ages—students and their parents, teachers and their children—want to know, "Is this the house with the kittens?" We invite them in and show them to the basement. On sunny days we gather in the yard to cuddle the kittens and watch them play, enjoying the warmer temperatures and a sense of nature unfolding around us, drawing us into communion.
I attended a Franciscan retreat a few years ago. The retreat master told us if we had to chose between religion and faith to chose faith. No one likes to hear their religion dismissed as myth but the Cosmos series to me never let me lose faith. To seek truth is to seek God.
When I heard that Seth MacFarlane was involved in the new production of "Cosmos," I expected that there would be criticism leveled at religion as anti-science. MacFarlane is part of the Richard Dawkins school of atheism, i.e., militantly anti-religion. A much better guide IMO to exploring the boundaries between evolution (and science in general) and religion is Brown University Professor Kenneth R. Miller, whose book "Finding Darwin's God" makes a strong case that belief in evolution and belief in God are entirely compatible. Of course, some will undoubtedly dismiss or diminish Miller's conclusions because he is a Catholic.
Jessica, I have a background in science and like to follow science in all its nooks and corners. Science screams that there is a creator, not the other way around. There is no smoking gun that God was here but there is certainly lots of places where the best explanation is that He was involved. There have been several articles on the America website and in the magazine in the last couple years that presents the supposedly opposite conclusion, that science eliminates the need to consider a God or provides supposedly major obstacles for Catholic dogma. A couple have appeared in the last few weeks. Science has never determined that there isn't a God or a need for a God. It is very different. There is nothing in Catholicism that isn't in sync with science. Unfortunately, there is an elite in the US and the world that control debate in the main arena, not just what can be debated but what is appropriate to debate within the acceptable areas. Here is an article that appeared in the Daily Beast in the last couple days about this phenomenon. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/07/watch-what-you-say-the-new-liberal-power-elite-won-t-tolerate-dissent.html Tyson is one on these elite. He can be a charming man but I don't consider him an honest one. I have one of his courses from the Teaching Company and it is interesting to watch him frame the debate on topics. God will always take a hit when it is likely He is involved. He will also belittle us as humans whenever he can. Tyson's favorite rhetorical trick is to invoke the "God of the Gaps" or the argument from ignorance any time he can. He also invokes the theodicy argument frequently. If only Newton hadn't been so arrogant and invoked God to keep the universe in place because he could not figure out how the planets would remain in orbit. So because Newton could not figure it out, he said God must be involved. Incredible hubris. Atheists have been using this example ever since. It is essentially the only time one can point to a God of the Gaps incident within science. There are no problems from cosmology to Adam and Eve to evolution to the issue of evil or the Virgin Birth. Teach your daughter how God and Science support each other and how others try to distort this relationship. There is only one truth. Most will come from our examination of nature but not all. Some of it has to be revealed.
This article also appeared in print, under the headline "When Worlds Collide," in the June 9-16, 2014 issue.
Jessica Mesman Griffith is the author, with Amy Andrews, of the memoir Love & Salt, A Spiritual Friendship in Letters, and a regular contributor to Good Letters, the Image Blog. She lives in northern Michigan with her husband, writer Dave Griffith, and their children.


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East Carolina will open the 2018 season at home against North Carolina A&T, on Sept. 1, at 6 p.m., but the Aggies will not be playing their first game when they travel to Greenville.
A&T, coming off a 12-0 season on the Football Championship Subdivision level that included a 21-14 win over Grambling in the Celebration Bowl, will get their follow-up campaign underway in Montgomery, AL, in the FCS Kickoff Game on ESPN against Jacksonville State on Aug. 25.
A&T was the only unbeaten team in its subdivision last year but did not participate in the FCS playoffs. The Aggies finished No. 6 in the FCS Coaches Poll. The Gamecocks (10-2) were No. 10 in the final poll.
The matchup in Montgomery certainly will be an intriguing one for new ECU defensive coordinator David Blackwell. He presented a formidable unit in the same post at Jacksonville State for the last four years. His first game back at his alma mater will be against A&T.
Who gets the upper hand from the staggered schedule is certainly an issue for debate. The Pirates will have a fresh scout while the Aggies will benefit from that generally-acknowledged week one to week two improvement bump, the one that occurs as programs move past opening-game jitters and iron out kinks exposed in the initial outing.
The caliber of A&T's opponent likely will keep the Aggies from being too basic in their opener and ECU will get an idea of the tweaks that have been made as former defensive coordinator Sam Washington has taken over following the retirement of ex-ECU assistant Rod Broadway after the perfect season.
A&T is expected to return quarterback Lamar Raynard, who completed 186 of 285 passes for 2,707 yards with 26 touchdowns and five interceptions in 2017. Running back Marquell Cartwright had 224 carries for 1,112 yards and 13 scores as a junior. Elijah Bell was one of Raynard's top targets as a sophomore with 54 catches for 858 yards with 11 TDs.
Linebacker Jeremy Taylor is gone after recording a team-high 65 tackles (46 solo, 19 assists) with a team-high five interceptions.
Pirates coach Scottie Montgomery said the process of preparations for the Aggies began in the offseason. ECU lost its first game last year, 34-14, to James Madison, the 2016 FCS champion. Montgomery felt that setback established an unwanted tone as the Pirates went on to go 3-9 overall and 2-6 in the American Athletic Conference.
Getting off on the right foot for the Pirates in 2018 is more about ECU than its adversary.
Some glaring deficiencies must be resolved if the Pirates are to keep Montgomery from following former athletic director Jeff Compher to the exit.
Montgomery is a master at generating optimism and bringing Blackwell aboard was a step toward bolstering a defense that allowed 45.0 points and 541.7 yards per game last year.
Montgomery insists that playing with personnel his staff has recruited will have an impact. Kendall Futrell and Alex Turner project as leaders on the defensive front. Youthful linebackers Aaron Ramseur and Bruce Bivens are being groomed as leaders. Senior Corey Seargent will be among those counted on in the secondary. ECU should have more depth across the board.
On offense, the quarterback corps is inexperienced with just one college pass between Reid Herring, heralded true freshman Holton Ahlers and redshirt freshman Kingsley Ifedi. Gardner Minshew, who ended 2017 as the starter, has moved on to Washington State.
Herring's one toss as a redshirt freshman last year went to Trevon Brown for a touchdown. He appears to have sound judgment and a good arm. Brown had 60 catches for 1,069 yards with seven TDs as a junior.
Anthony Scott figures to return to a running back corps that will include Hussein Howe (419 yards in 2017), hard-running Darrius Pinnix and spring game hero Trace Christian. Keyshawn Canady provides an element of speed after converting from corner to running back.
The Pirates have promised to use their tight ends more for power and have confidence in Anthony Watley in that role. New offensive line coach Don Mahoney is working with an experienced group that includes Garrett McGhin, D'Ante Smith and sophomore center John Spellacy, who started as a true freshman.
Jake Verity and Caleb Pratt are contending for the kicker and punter jobs under new special teams coordinator Kirk Doll, an ECU alumnus who served previously under former Pirates coach Ruffin McNeill.
There are five new coaches on staff, including defensive line coach Rodrique Wright and safeties coach Daric Riley. Their effectiveness will play a part in determining if ECU gets back to a bowl after a three-season absence.
Before the Pirates think about the postseason, their focus will be on taking care of business on Labor Day weekend and making an essential first step toward bowl eligibility.
Week two, when ECU hosts North Carolina, already has the attention of Pirate Nation and that makes week one success all the more vital. The Pirates don't need to be dealing with negative momentum as they take on the Tar Heels, three-game winners themselves a year ago.
The schedule has the potential for a nice build if ECU could take a 2-0 record into its first road game at Virginia Tech on Sept. 15. The AAC opener is the following Saturday, Sept. 22, at South Florida.
Some big names and big games await, but, hopefully, the Pirates have learned the value of beating an FCS foe to get things going.


The question of capitalism vs socialism is as old as modern humanity, but when it comes to socialism, what once was enshrined in the Cold War and viewed through the narrow lens of American perspective as distinctly Soviet is now resurfacing in a different light.
Indeed, it's being brought up--subtly--by some of America's high-profile billionaires who seem to think that capitalism has gotten out of hand, even if the extreme of socialism isn't the answer.
The U.S. is, of course, the leader in global capitalism--which has been helped along by the era of globalization that followed the Cold War.
The general sentiment is that the U.S. is an idyllic country in which to live in nearly every aspect--the 'land of dreams', it's always been. But cracks are emerging in that dream, and things aren't always black and white.
In the introduction to "The Myth of Capitalism", authors Johnathon Teper and Denise Hearn, give us a glimpse of the true face of "ideal life" under capitalism.
Overall, the book sets out to address inequality in society in the U.S.
But that question is now also being addressed by key players that one might not expect: American billionaires, who may not be calling for socialism, but do think that capitalism needs a serious upgrade.
Many of them are even calling for higher taxes, even if this is simply clever rebranding with politics at its heart.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates says he has paid more than $10 billion in taxes and "the government should require people in my position to pay significantly higher taxes." According to him, "there is no doubt that as we raise taxes, we can have most of that additional money coming from those who are better off".
"I'm capitalist, I'm a professional capitalist. The system has worked for me...(..) But the important thing is to take those tax dollars and make them productive," Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio told CNBC.
The elephant in the room, of course, is the widening gap of inequality between rich and poor Americans. Recent data shows that inequality is now as high as it was in the late 1930s--the depression era.
Today, the wealth of the top 1 percent of the population is more than that of the bottom 90 percent of the population combined.
Health care is, without a doubt, the biggest sore spot for millions of Americans.
As we see every day, overwhelming medical bills are the fastest way route to bankruptcy and the downfall of the middle class. And that's not even the worst news: Instead of being reduced, health-care costs continue to rise. There is no solution in sight, as partisan politics hijack the debate at every step.
Now, let's teleport across the Atlantic--to the part of the world that is geographically recognized as Scandinavia. These countries have established a model of social democracy. Generally speaking, the system works pretty well. The Scandinavian countries are among the happiest on Earth. They enjoy some of the best healthcare on the planet. As an example, Norway has the highest Human Development Index score of any country in the world. And guess what? Other Scandinavian countries such as Iceland, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland are making their way into the top 15 on the same index.
And, of course, inequality in these countries is practically an unknown term. It's been evicted from society.
To be clear, there is no Utopia, as painfully detailed by Thomas More in the 16th century. But if we try to find some kind of ideal system for life, in this case, it means finding balance in capitalism with social reforms. Scandinavian countries are the best example of this possibility. But while they may be the inspiration for the rest of the world, the same American beast that dictates what toothpaste you use will be a hard one to quell.
Funny how these "noble" multi-billionaires always espouse raising income taxes AFTER they have achieved enormous sums of wealth. Perhaps, instead of increased income taxes, we should have a "wealth" tax for individuals with net worths over $1B. I doubt if any of these billionaire hypocrites, who use armies of lawyers and accountants to minimize every cent of taxes they owe, would be so publicly embracing of a this type of tax.


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The income tax department said in a notification issued on Saturday that it will start an 11-day e-campaign starting from 20 July to reach out to those taxpayers who have done a high-value transaction in the financial year (FY) 2018-19 but have not filed the income tax return. Also, those who have filed the tax return but the high-value transaction conducted by them is not in line with the tax return filed, they will be given an option to rectify their tax returns. The 11-day campaign will end on 31 July 2020, the last date for filing the income tax return for FY 2018-19. This campaign is started to promote voluntary compliance so that the taxpayers who haven't filed return or have filed incorrect return, don't face any notice or scrutiny, said the tax department.
Using data analytics, the tax department has processed the data received from various sources such as a statement of financial transactions (SFT) filed by various agencies such as banks, mutual funds, etc, tax deduction at source (TDS), tax collection at source (TCS), foreign remittances (Form 15CC) statements, etc, to gather information about taxpayers who are liable to file tax returns but haven't filed. The tax department will reach out to these taxpayers through SMS or email during the 11 days campaign. The taxpayers will be able to access the information about the high-value transaction on the income tax portal using their login ID that is their PAN number and registered password. The taxpayers will also be able to submit a response online to the query of the tax department on the portal.
The taxpayer will also be able to submit an online response by selecting among any of these options:
(i) Information is correct,
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There would be no need to visit any Income Tax office, as the response has to be submitted online, said the CBDT notification. After submitting the response the taxpayer can file or rectify the tax return.
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Home Blog Behind The Scenes With Sho-Air TWENTY20 At The Redlands Time Trial
Behind The Scenes With Sho-Air TWENTY20 At The Redlands Time Trial
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Tick tock. It's 10:53am on a Wednesday. Huddled together in a small parking lot on the campus of a Southern California community college, the best female cyclists in North America are preparing for 15 minutes of pain and suffering. The time trial is looming.
Tick tock. There are several soft conversations being had across the parking lot, but the soundscape is dominated by the whirring of stationary trainers. Voices begin to rise as word spreads quickly throughout the paddock that the scheduled start time of 11:15am has been pushed back nearly 40 minutes.
Tick tock. The sun is shining and there's a stiff breeze in the air, bringing with it a sharp chill. It's a strong enough wind that some riders are questioning their choice of wheel depth for the day. A few riders hop off their trainers to find some shelter from the breeze. Others begin partnering up and pinning numbers on each others' jerseys. For some, this is the biggest day of their racing calendar. For others, it's a chance to shake out the legs and test out the engine ahead of a busy few months of racing ahead.
Tick tock. It's 11:12am, and Jennifer Valente, the first rider of the Sho-Air TWENTY20 pro cycling team due on course, climbs aboard her Felt DA time trial bike and rolls to the start house. A few minutes later, the team's second rider departs the team area. On it goes until there's only one rider left, Jasmin Duehring, still pedaling away aboard her stationary trainer. Eventually, she leaves, and a silence descends upon the area and amidst the remaining staff members, their anticipation palpable in the crisp Southern California air. Mechanic Adrian Hedderman organizes his tools while team soigneur Tavis Cummings arranges bottles of recovery drinks in anticipation of the riders' return. With the women on course, they wait.
Tick tock.
The Redlands Bicycle Classic is one of the longest-running and most prestigious stage races in the United States. Taking place primarily in and around the city of Redlands, California, located approximately 60 miles east of Los Angeles, the Redlands Bicycle Classic is one of the biggest races of the year for the nation's top domestic professional and amateur squads. And for most, it signals the start of their racing season and gives them a chance to size up their competition heading into the later parts of the year. The five-day stage race offers up a little bit of everything for riders and race fans, including two road races, a circuit race, and a criterium. But this year's event kicked off with a time trial, featuring a brand-new course with a tough, uphill finish.
"The Redlands Bicycle Classic is an iconic race," says Sho-Air TWENTY20 Sports Director Mari Holden. "For us, it's really important to have this race serve as a good start to the year, because it basically sets the tone for everything. It's always interesting to come to Redlands because there hasn't been that much racing yet this season. So there are always different levels of fitness from riders coming from different parts of the country, largely depending on their weather during the off-season and therefore what kind of winter training they got. You always get a picture of up-and-coming riders here at Redlands, as well as the riders who have prepared well. So for me, I'm curious and excited, and so it's always a great race."
"Redlands is one of the biggest races on our calendar," says Duehring. "For me personally, Southern California is my home now, so it feels like home turf. This is my sixth time racing this event, so I'm pretty familiar with most of the courses, other than the new time trial course this year. I have a lot of great memories of doing well at some of the stages in Redlands."
The Sho-Air TWENTY20 team is one of the longest-running women's programs in the sport, and it's always taken a unique approach to developing young talent. Rather than simply focus on race results and on-bike performance, the team's general manager, Nicola Cranmer, has always emphasized education and the long-term goals of the riders well beyond their pro cycling careers.
"Sho-Air TWENTY20 has a family environment," says Hedderman. "Everyone treats everyone else with respect, and everyone really looks out for one another. It's the same with the staff, as well."
But on this Wednesday, at least, hunkered down around the campus of a community college in California, the team is focused on the time trial, and kicking off the most important stretch of its race schedule in a positive way. As the team's head mechanic, Hedderman has a busy few days ahead as he he contributes to that cause.
"Over the last couple of weeks I was building up all of the new bikes for the coming season, both the Felt FR road bikes and DA time trial bikes. The riders give me all their measurements, and I build the bikes based on those, and then we get the riders to ride them for a while in order to fine-tune their fits and make sure everything is working properly. At an event like Redlands, I'm in charge of making sure everything is set up mechanically, including bikes, parts, and tools, so the riders can show up and all they have to worry about is their warmup and focusing on the racing ahead. The whole team's goal is to get the riders to relax and keep them in a stress-free environment."
Hedderman checks his watch. It's 11:35am, and the first team rider should be rolling back into the paddock at any moment.
A few minutes later and a few hundred yards away, Sho-Air TWENTY20 rider Simone Boilard sprints across the time trial finish line, posting a time that's fast enough to secure her fourth place on the day, the highest placed rider on her team. The 18-year-old and first-year professional racer from Quebec City, Canada, is one of the sport's fastest rising stars.
"This first year is all about the learning experience for me," says Boilard. "I have lots of new things to learn, such as positioning in a big peloton and sprinting at the end of a long race. I'm also currently a student still. I am currently doing CEGEP online, which is very much a 'Quebec thing.' After high school, you have two or three years of general information study before you get to university. So I'm presently completing that online while pursuing racing. It takes a lot of discipline, but Sho-Air TWENTY20 really encourages its riders to continue their education, so I'm very excited to be able to develop both my cycling and my school careers."
Boilard's strong performance in the time trial will certainly bode well for chances of competing in additional races throughout the season. Sho-Air TWENTY20 has an ambitious lineup of events on the horizon.
"The Tour of California is a really big deal for us," says Holden. "And really, any UCI race is going to be incredibly important, such as Joe Martin Stage Race and Tour of the Gila. We're also going to do more of the pro criteriums this year, so it should be a fun mix. I see us doing well at many races."
This year, the Redlands Bicycle Classic will be live-streaming the event's final two stages, for both the men's and women's races. Be sure to tune in, because you won't want to miss it. Check out the event's website to learn more and to support women's bike racing.


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