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The Best Time to Visit Puchberg Am Schneeberg, Austria for Weather, Safety, & Tourism
The best times to visit Puchberg Am Schneeberg for ideal weather are
May 14th to September 23rd
Puchberg Am Schneeberg Travel Guide
Other Puchberg Am Schneeberg Travel Info
Weather in Puchberg Am Schneeberg
Average temperatures in Puchberg Am Schneeberg vary greatly. Considering humidity, temperatures feel cold for about half of the year and otherwise nice with a chance of rain or snow throughout most of the year. The area is less temperate than some — in the 25th percentile for pleasant weather — compared to tourist destinations worldwide. Weeks with ideal weather are listed above. If you're looking for the very warmest time to visit Puchberg Am Schneeberg, the hottest months are July, August, and then June. See average monthly temperatures below. The warmest time of year is generally mid July where highs are regularly around 79.1°F (26.2°C) with temperatures rarely dropping below 55.6°F (13.1°C) at night.
Puchberg Am Schneeberg Temperatures (Fahrenheit)
Puchberg Am Schneeberg Temperatures (Celsius)
Puchberg Am Schneeberg Perceived Temperature (F)
Puchberg Am Schneeberg Perceived Temperature (C)
Average Puchberg Am Schneeberg Temperatures by Month
Jan 39.5 32 25
Apr 60.2 48 36.5
Sep 65.8 55.2 46.3
Oct 57 46.5 38
Jan 4.2 0 -3.9
Feb 4.9 0.2 -4.1
Mar 9.6 4.2 -0.7
Apr 15.7 8.9 2.5
Sep 18.8 12.9 7.9
Oct 13.9 8.1 3.3
Nov 9.6 4.7 0.4
Dec 4.9 0.4 -3.5
If dry weather is what you're after, the months with the lowest chance of significant precipitation in Puchberg Am Schneeberg are February, April, and then December. Note that we define "significant precipitation" as .1 inches or more in this section. The lowest chance of rain or snow occurs around late December. For example, on the week of December 24th there is 1 day of precipitation on average. By contrast, it's most likely to rain or snow in early May with an average of 3 days of significant precipitation the week of April 30th.
When can you find snow in Puchberg Am Schneeberg? Weather stations report large amounts of snow likely to be deepest around November, especially close to mid November. The best time to ski (if at all) in Puchberg Am Schneeberg is often around around November 19th when fresh powder is deepest. Please note that a value of 0 for snow in the graph below may either mean there was no snow, or that snow is unreported.
The graph below shows the % chance of rainy and snowy days in Puchberg Am Schneeberg.
The graph below shows the average snow on the ground in Puchberg Am Schneeberg (in).
Feb 18% 4.9 1.8
Mar 22% 2.1 2.6
Apr 20% 1.6 2.1
Aug 28% 0 4
Oct 21% 0 2.9
Nov 21% 7.3 2.6
Dec 20% 6.7 2.1
Jan 25 12.7 7.9
Feb 18 12.4 4.6
Apr 20 4.1 5.3
May 36 0 13.5
Jun 32 0 13.5
Sep 32 0 12.2
Nov 21 18.5 6.6
Dec 20 17 5.3
Puchberg Am Schneeberg has some very humid months, and above average humidity throughout the year. The least humid month is April (60.1% relative humidity), and the most humid month is October (73.5%).
Wind in Puchberg Am Schneeberg is usually extremely calm. The windiest month is February, followed by January and March. February's average wind speed of around 4.2 knots (4.8 MPH or 7.8 KPH) is considered "a light breeze." Maximum sustained winds (the highest speed for the day lasting more than a few moments) are at their highest in early to mid March where average top sustained speeds reach 8 knots, which is considered a gentle breeze.
The graph below shows the average % humidity by month in Puchberg Am Schneeberg.
Jan 4.2 Light breeze 7.3 Gentle breeze
Feb 4.2 Light breeze 7.3 Gentle breeze
Mar 4.1 Light breeze 7.1 Gentle breeze
Apr 3.3 Barely noticeable 6 Light breeze
May 3.3 Barely noticeable 5.7 Gentle breeze
Jun 3.1 Barely noticeable 5.6 Light breeze
Jul 3.3 Barely noticeable 5.7 Gentle breeze
Aug 2.8 Barely noticeable 5 Light breeze
Sep 3 Barely noticeable 5.2 Gentle breeze
Nov 3.4 Barely noticeable 6.4 Gentle breeze
Dec 3.8 Barely noticeable 7 Gentle breeze
Is it Safe to Travel to Puchberg Am Schneeberg?
Our best data indicates this area is generally safe. As of Oct 07, 2019 there are no travel advisories or warnings for Austria; exercise normal security precautions. Check this page for any recent changes or regions to avoid: Travel Advice and Advisories. This advisory was last updated on Aug 22, 2019.
The busiest month for tourism in Puchberg Am Schneeberg, Austria is June, followed by August and September. Prices for hotels and flights will be most expensive during these months, though you can save if you purchase well in advance. Tourists are unlikely to visit Puchberg Am Schneeberg in November. Those willing to visit at these times will likely find it the least expensive month.
Tourism graph is based on Google searches for services used by tourists relative to the rest of the year. Tourism data for this area is somewhat extrapolated based on nearby areas. Displayed data is calculated relative to the peak, so a score of 78.7 in November means 78.7% of the tourists vs. June.
Overall Puchberg Am Schneeberg Travel Experience by Season
Humidity and temperatures combine to make this season feel moderately cold. Highs range from 69.1°F (20.6°C) and 46.1°F (7.8°C) with warmer temperatures in the later months. Rain is somewhat common with 6 to 11 days of significant precipitation per month. Spring is the slowest for tourism, which makes it a good time for those looking for deals.
The middle-year months have comfortably cool weather with high temperatures that are comfortable. These months see the most precipitation with 9 to 10 days of precipitation per month. June – August is the busiest season for tourism in Puchberg Am Schneeberg, so lodging and other accommodations may cost more than usual.
Fall daily highs range from 68.5°F (20.3°C) and 42.1°F (5.6°C), which will feel chilly given the humidity and wind. It rains or snows a significant amount: 6 to 10 days per month. Tourism is the second busiest during these months due to the weather, so hotels may be slightly higher priced.
Weather is far too cold this time of year in Puchberg Am Schneeberg to be enjoyable for warm weather travelers. The average high during this season is between 46.6°F (8.1°C) and 34.5°F (1.4°C). On average, it rains or snows a fair amount: 5 to 8 times per month. These times of year are fairly slow with tourists.
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Dale Brenke – Runner Up
January 2, 2009 December 30, 2008 Daniel Vance	0 Comments bpoy, mankato
Business Person of the Year Runner-Up Dale Brenke helped transform Mankato home improvement company into national industry leader.
Photo by Kris Kathmann
In 1971, 22-year-old Dale Brenke had wrapped up his accounting training at Mankato Commercial College and was wiping windshields and pumping petrol part-time for Bernie's One Stop service station on Front Street across from Hubbard Milling. The $1.10 an hour pay helped—somewhat. He was actively searching for a better job, but his search had been impeded by a pesky U.S. recession affecting Mankato.
Schmidt Awning and Siding Company, and its affiliated Fireplace Shop, had company offices and a retail showroom right next door to the service station. It had begun in 1949. Robert Schmidt and his son Gary drove their company vehicles in nearly every day to purchase gasoline from the industrious Brenke. They all became fast friends. In time, Schmidt offered Brenke an entry level, part-time, bookkeeping position that would unexpectedly lead to Brenke managing the Fireplace Shop, and, in 1981, a half stake in what would later become Schmidt Siding and Window Company.
The rest, they say, is Greater Mankato business history. In 2009, Schmidt Siding and Window claims to be the nation's No. 1 home improvement company in terms of having a greater share of its eight-county market than all other American home improvement companies have in their markets.
"I grew up in Le Sueur and lived there through seventh grade," says 60-year-old Brenke in a Connect Business Magazine interview from his Madison Avenue headquarters building. "When I was 12, we moved from Le Sueur to a small farm and I began going to Henderson High, where I eventually graduated in 1966. For whatever reason, Henderson High changed my life completely. I became a much better student. I don't know what it was. I played a lot of sports and enjoyed growing up there."
Besides being employed as a full-time Le Sueur carpenter, Brenke's father farmed 40 acres between Le Sueur and Belle Plaine. He had to work hard: Brenke's mother had a serious illness that completely ruled out her ever working hard physically or driving a car. Brenke's parents raised him along with his only sibling, a sister, who was eight years younger.
"For the most part, my dad was simply an hourly worker," says Brenke. "He never really could support me financially as far as eventually helping me through college. But they were wonderful, hardworking people. In seventh grade I went out for junior high football. I also had a paper route. My dad actually did my paper route for a while so I could go out for junior high football. I was the third string quarterback and played about two plays the entire season. That is my favorite memory of my dad. He would do just about anything for me."
After graduating, he began attending Mankato Commercial College. A few quarters in, he abruptly learned his cousin had died fighting in Vietnam. "I will never forget my cousin dying," he says. "The wake was in St. Peter and I went by myself. It affected my life. I walked in and ended up turning around and running out."
He volunteered for the draft, and would leave the U.S. in 1968 for a stint in Germany—rather than Vietnam. Being in the military was an interesting experience, both good and bad, he says. Elvis Presley had been in his same unit years earlier. He enjoyed touring Europe and drinking "good beer," but throughout that time had nagging doubts about the U.S. government's role in the Vietnam war. Due to his commercial college experience learning to type, the Army made him a logbook clerk.
When returning in December 1969, he worked for a while in the Twin Cities before migrating back down to Mankato Commercial College in order to finish his education as an accountant. Then in 1971, as the story goes, he was working part-time at Bernie's One Stop, a Front Street service station, when Schmidt Awning and Siding Company owner Robert J. Schmidt hired him as a part-time bookkeeper. The new pay beat $1.10 an hour. Soon, he was promoted to managing the Fireplace Shop. A year later, he married, and he and his wife Patti spent their honeymoon hitchhiking around Europe. (His wife now co-owns Collective Memories antique shop in St. Peter.)
Within his first year, Brenke was asked to help out Robert Schmidt, who was legally blind and therefore couldn't operate an automobile, on cold-call canvassing trips to generate siding sales leads. Fairmont, Hutchinson, New Ulm—they covered huge swaths of outstate Minnesota. They were a team: Brenke hoofed the streets to conjure up leads while Schmidt followed right behind selling the siding.
Says Brenke, "I learned a lot being in those homes listening to Robert sell. Canvassing was difficult for me at first, but I grew into it. It was a lot easier then than today—as a company, we don't do it anymore. People are just so much more reluctant to answer their doors. Back then, someone was usually home during the day. Now, both partners work and they don't want to be interrupted at the dinner table. I would canvas in the afternoons from 1:00 to 5:00. We did that only a few years."
Eventually, in 1981, Brenke became a 50-50 owner with Gary Schmidt, when they bought out Robert Schmidt on comfortable terms that provided Robert with a nice retirement income. The elder Schmidt set up a separate agreement with Dale and Gary in selling the company's Madison Avenue headquarters building.
"I owe a lot to the Schmidt family," says Brenke. "They are great people and have been great to work for and with."
Three notable changes happened his first five years in ownership—the first personal. In 1985, his mother passed away after having spent four months in intensive care at Mayo Clinic. Having his mother sick his whole life may have subconsciously enhanced his work ethic, he says. (Even today, he gets to work at 6:30 a.m. and leaves at 5:00 p.m. He still feels guilty when away from work.) The second change involved the company quitting the fireplace and wood stove business, in part due to extensive Environmental Protection Agency pollution standards, becoming solely a windows and siding company. The third change occurred in 1986, when Schmidt Siding and Window acquired an ABC Seamless Steel Siding franchise. "We were the only seamless steel siding company in this area of southern Minnesota for the next 10 years, until other people were finally able to begin buying the seamless machines," says Brenke. "In that period, we were selling lots of windows, too. We were putting sales people on staff and were growing."
In the mid-'90s, the company that manufactured seamless siding machines for ABC Seamless Steel Siding had fulfilled its exclusivity agreement. Other companies could begin purchasing the $30,000 machines. Suddenly, with competition, the company had to place more emphasis on marketing. It became a Renewal by Anderson windows franchisee in 1997, now America's only Green Seal-certified window in America, meaning they are made from recycled material and are completely recyclable.
Then the company began making whirlwind progress when a wild wind lifted company sales exponentially. "The 1998 St. Peter tornado changed our operation greatly," he says. "We had so many customers over there with damaged homes. What was really unique about the damaged homes in St. Peter—and we've never run an ad saying it—but of all the destroyed homes, only one home had seamless steel siding. The steel siding homes in the tornado's path had dents all over them and the windows were knocked out and the roofs destroyed, but only one of the dozens of our steel siding homes over there was actually destroyed. Some of our homes stood while the ones around them with vinyl siding or masonite were gone. For whatever reason, the steel did a much better job. Regardless, we did so much repair work there replacing thousands of windows. We had hundreds of homes with Gutter Helmet and siding."
Today, Schmidt Siding and Window employs 50 year around and about another five every summer. The company can install siding and windows—and even some steel roofs—all winter. The service territory covers a "very defined" eight-county area consisting of about 220,000 people. "In addition, we're in Sibley County just for windows and Gutter Helmet," he says. "We're the 174th largest home improvement company in the U.S. according to Qualified Remodeler, a magazine that lists the Top 500. We've been in the Top 200 the last 14 years. The top 200 remodelers, except for us, are all in larger cities. Our claim to fame is that we're the No. 1 home improvement company in the nation in terms of market share." Washington D.C.-based Remodeling Magazine honored Schmidt Siding and Window in 2004 as a national Big 50 remodeler in terms of remodeling quality. This was special to Brenke because of it being a qualitative, rather than quantitative award.
Four years ago, the company added residential steel roofing to its product mix. Steel and metal, unlike asphalt shingles often dumped in county landfills, are 100 percent recyclable. The company also has opened a Third Avenue facility where employees stain and varnish windows to match existing customer woodwork. Nearly all company window sales are from replacement windows, rather than new construction windows.
"It's all about service," says Brenke. "We have a slogan: Exceed expectations, create customers for life. We live by that creed. That's what it's all about. It is the culture here. There is no one here who works for me. We all work together. It's always been that way."
Brenke owns 50 percent of the business, while Jim Hockert and Steve Beetch each own 25 percent—they bought out Gary Schmidt in 2003. Hockert is a salesperson and Beetch manages four production managers having more than 100 years combined company experience. Brenke, Hockert and Beetch have considered purchasing dealerships in other counties but the idea of expanding outside their established area where the Schmidt brand name has marketing punch, Brenke says, "is a little scary."
Says Brenke, "Besides the production managers, we have quite a few employees with more than 20 years experience here. That is an anomaly in our industry. When we say experience is the difference—that's exactly what you get. Our top people came through the ranks. Our four production managers were installers and seven of our eight salespeople came up as installers, including former owner Gary Schmidt, who still works as a salesperson." He attributes the career longevity of his employees to a company culture that promotes fairness, emphasizes the team approach, often pays higher wages than market rate, and has good benefits along with incentive programs for production people. The incentive programs are based on company installations—not individual crews.
"It's all about having good people," he says. "We are very selective in who we hire. People want to work for us. They see we have all these people who have been here years and years. They know we're a good company. We have a good atmosphere."
WHAT KEEPS YOU GOING?
"I enjoy it. One book I enjoy reading is Thank God It's Monday. I love coming to work on Monday morning. There is so much satisfaction being around people and running a successful company. The book talks about the importance of your attitude. It says you have to be happy to go to work. I don't have an exit strategy at this time. I'm happy and content being right here. But I now have a cabin up north and try to get a three-day weekend in every once in a while."
THE $40,000 GRAND PRIZE
Co-owner Brenke handles bookkeeping and marketing. With the latter, he tries being innovative and always a step ahead of the local home improvement pack. This last summer, the company ran a gargantuan "$40,000 Extreme Exterior Makeover" promotion involving six southern Minnesota radio stations.
"It was the talk of the town," he says. "We gave away a $40,000 prize. We had two thousand people coming in and had 5,000-plus registrations for the event. A person could register daily. The day we gave the $40,000 prize away we had a band, hotdogs, vendors, and we were shuttling people to and from parking at Buster's. We had more than 150 qualifiers that had to be there in order to win. We had qualified 15 people per week all the way through the length of the contest. We had so much going on. It was fun. I emailed the publisher of a top home improvement trade magazine and asked him to come because I felt it was probably the biggest home improvement industry event in the nation's history."
The winner: Bridget Spencer of Mankato. She had yearned for a sunroom large enough to hold a Christmas tree. The difficult part in 2009, says Brenke, will be coming up with an event to equal or top it.
RESISTANT CUSTOMERS
Most customers calling Schmidt Siding and Window are ready to buy. "Typically, the husband and wife have been discussing the project for three to five years," says Brenke, who joined Schmidt Siding and Window in 1971. "Most customers already have their financing in place. We do not do any hard selling. We are more than happy to go to your place, bid siding, for instance, and then have you call us in a year or two to update the bid. We don't hard sell. When doing it that way, we gain your trust. Right now 38 percent of our business is repeat business. We have done third-generation homes and been in Mankato 60 years. Recently, one of our salespeople was at a customer's home bidding siding. The customer's grandfather walked in the door, and said, 'Oh, you're from Schmidt. You guys sided my house in 1950 for $800. And it's great.' You can't buy a testimonial like that."
Schmidt Siding and Window receives complaints about work—as any business will—but compliments outweigh complaints about 20:1, claims Brenke. "Often with a payment, I'll get a letter thanking us for a great job. As for the complaints, I listen to the problem, and then take it to the production staff. They will make it right somehow. We bend over backwards to satisfy a customer. Again, our slogan: 'Exceed expectations, and create a customer for life.' You aren't going to satisfy everyone, but you do the best job you can."
Schmidt Siding and Window has been involved—inside and outside the company—in providing timely charitable needs. For example, Justin Mack, a U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopter pilot and Schmidt's window installer, was deployed to Iraq near Christmas in 2007. Brenke, and employees, collected and shipped Mack 70 pounds worth of personal essentials, games and other items. They also raised money to purchase Christmas gifts for Justin's family.
Each of the last 19 years, the company has given away a $5,000 playhouse, either to a lucky customer through a drawing or raffled for a nonprofit such as Make a Wish. The company also financially donates, in part, to the March of Dimes, Diabetes Foundation, Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Heart Association, National Cancer Society, United Way, and many others.
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Ryan International responds to CBSE notice, denies security lapses
Gurugram: Ryan International School on Saturday replied to the Central Board of Secondary Education's (CBSE) show-cause notice in connection with Gurugram student murder case and asserted that it has always abided by its guidelines.
Ryan International School today replied to CBSE show-cause notice in connection with Gurugram student murder case and asserted that it has always abided by its guidelines.
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As a Polymer Clay artist, I am a member and a previous committee member, of both the British Polymer Clay Guild, and the International Polymer Clay Association.
As an oil painter, I am a member of the Society for All Artists.
Since 2013 Ange Smith and I have been running the South Midlands Polymer Clay Group. We meet once a month (except February and December) on either a Saturday or Sunday, and have Polymer Clay Play Days, where like minded people can get together for a day of polymer fun. We meet in the North Bucks village of Hanslope, MK19 7ER.
Starting with only 3 of us, we are now a thriving group with over 50 in the mailing list, and often getting 30 or more turn up to the clay days.
If you would like to join us, or find out more information, look at the Group's page on the BPCG website.


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Francis G. Kulig
On November 4, 1986, a concerned father wrote a letter to the Diocese of Scranton wherein he alleged that his son was sexually molested by Father Francis G. Kulig beginning in 1979 when the boy was 12 years old. The abuse continued until Kulig was transferred on October 2, 1985. It was alleged that there was mutual masturbation, oral sex and anal sex.
When he was interviewed, Kulig admitted to having a relationship with the victim. He stated that mutual masturbation was the only activity that occurred.
On December 30, 1986, Bishop Timlin acknowledged that Kulig would receive treatment. He underwent treatment from February 17, 1987 through August 14, 1987.
At the request of Timlin, Kulig submitted his resignation from St. Mary of the Lake. Following his treatment, Kulig was assigned to the Mercy Center Convent. Upon learning of this assignment, the victim's father began writing Timlin, expressing his concerns that Kulig was still a priest.
A sum of $10,000 was ultimately paid to the family.
Effective July 3, 2002, Kulig had his faculties removed. He was prohibited from wearing clerical garb and presenting himself as a priest. He was further prohibited from celebrating mass or the sacraments as a priest.
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Time is running out to sign up for Community Care of St. Catharines and Thorold's Chili Cook Off.
Teams have until this Friday to sign up for the big event in Market Square on March 1st. Everything should get started at 11 a.m. and the winner will be crowned before 2 p.m.
It costs $50 to register and you have to supply your own chili.
You can e-mail specialevents@communitycarestca.ca to fill out an application.


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On the bookshelf: The New Spymasters
6 Jul 2016|Andrew Davies
The New Spymasters: inside espionage from the Cold War to global terror, by Stephen Grey
Despite the continuing value of intelligence methods like telecommunication interception and satellite imagery, when operating against a shadowy terrorist group—especially one hiding within a civilian population—one of the best sources an intelligence organisation can have is a trusted insider who's prepared to reveal the inside workings of the target. The decades long Cold War allowed both sides to be patient in their efforts to recruit such sources. One of the most notorious spies of that era, Kim Philby was first recruited by the Soviets in the mid 1930s. Fifteen years later he was the leading British intelligence figure in the United States, responsible for liaison with the CIA.
But there's an intrinsic uncertainty with human sources of intelligence. The Soviets were never sure about the bona fides of their agents in the west, and were deeply suspicious of the information they passed. The risk that an agent is actually a double—still loyal to their own nation or group while posing as an agent for an adversary—always hangs heavily. In 2009 the CIA and Jordan thought they'd found a well-placed al-Qaeda insider in Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, only to have seven CIA staff killed when he detonated a suicide bomb at a CIA base in Afghanistan.
Stephen Grey's well-researched book is a good primer in the tradecraft of human intelligence, or 'humint'. It's not an edifying business—ultimately a successful humint operation relies on someone being persuaded to betray their country, cause or friends. As a result, it's a difficult ethical landscape, and both the agents themselves and their handlers face dilemmas in deciding where lines are drawn. As Grey describes, the relationship between the source and the handler works best when there's a real bond between them—but that has to coexist with the intrinsically problematic reason for the pairing.
It's not just the interpersonal aspects that are difficult. If the agent is inside a criminal and/or violent organisation, the agency running the operation has to decide how much criminality can be tolerated from their 'asset'. British intelligence had to weigh the benefit of having a well-placed IRA informer (codenamed SteakKnife) against the acts that he had to be complicit in to maintain his cover. There are allegations that even murder was tolerated to keep SteakKnife's cover intact.
The 'classic' spy like Philby or SteakKnife is allowed to work their way up in an organisation to be able to provide intelligence on the innermost workings and thinking of the leadership. In state-on-state intelligence that takes time, but climbing the hierarchy generally doesn't involve involve the agent openly committing violent criminal acts. In the case of a violent organisation like the IRA, it gets harder, and the argument may have come down to the prevention of a 'greater harm'.
Those issues perhaps become more problematic when the agent concerned is inside a terrorist group bent on inflicting mass casualties. Grey's chapter on Jihad hints at a disturbing possibility that French intelligence was prepared to allow an inside source they were running within an extremist group to deliver a car bomb to a group in Algeria which ended up taking the life of 42 people. Given that western authorities have tended to take an approach of acting quickly to prevent terrorist attacks in their own countries whenever possible, even at the expense of blowing the cover of their intelligence sources, it'd be profoundly cynical to tolerate an act of mass murder elsewhere.
Grey's main thesis is that humint successes like those in the Cold War or against the IRA can be replicated against even the most dangerous jihadist groups. He starts with a fair point: proselytising groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS welcome converts, so it should be possible to offer them some. Westerners have been able to get into those organisations, so it should be possible to place an agent. Of course it's likely that's already happening, but it'd be very dangerous work as ISIS gets increasingly paranoid about any traitors in the ranks.
Grey also takes issue with the west's policy of pursuing a process of 'decapitation' of terrorist groups. Forcing them into a more cellular and less central structure reduces the strategic value of intelligence and the chance of getting an agent into a place to gather real insight. Grey also observes that the IRA wasn't 'decapitated'. Instead, its leadership aged and mellowed, and was eventually brought into a political process that helped end the problems. That won't be possible if we keep rejuvenating the leadership with younger hotheads.
Grey concludes that intelligence against jihadists has ceased to be strategic. Rather than trying to understand the root causes of extremist movements, political leaders and their intelligence agencies have 'become infected with a control-room mentality'. He quotes an intelligence agent as saying that the mission in Afghanistan was 'not to understand the enemy but to defeat it'. By taking such a tactical view, we'll probably end up doing neither. Practiced correctly, intelligence provides understanding at the strategic level and targeting data at the tactical level.
Andrew Davies is senior analyst for defence capability and director of research at ASPI.
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The explosion in the popularity of electric vehicles (EV) in recent years has been tempered by the nagging challenges of the batteries that power them. Current models are heavy, adding significant weight to the vehicles, and don't allow for driving very far on a single charge.
A faculty member at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University is tackling those challenges, however, with work that is drawing interest and earning support from the auto manufacturing industry. Sung-Jin Cho, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the North Carolina A&T Department of Nanoengineering, is developing a new generation of solid-state lithium batteries that will enable EVs to basically do more with less.
Cho's work focuses on two specific areas: high-performance, hetero-structured cathode material and the fundamental study of rotating molecules for polymer electrolytes.
Cho and his team pursue their work in a state-of-the-art battery laboratory at the Joint School of Nanoscience, an academic collaboration between North Carolina A&T and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Cho's testing environment rivals what automakers have at their own facilities, which potentially shortens the path from laboratory to marketplace.
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The economics of Universal Credit
As Assistant Mayor of Liverpool leading on Fairness and Tackling Poverty I'm pleased to respond to the call for evidence from the Committee. Along with Manchester, Liverpool was the among the first cities to see a large scale roll out of Universal Credit, starting in 2014. The Universal Credit 'full service' has been live in the city since December 2018. Our response briefly responds to two of the main questions highlighted in the call for evidence; these relate to the objectives of UC.
How well has Universal Credit met its original objectives?
The original objectives of Universal Credit (UC) include simplifying the benefits system, making work pay and moving to a digital on-line model. It is also important to recognise that Universal Credit does not exist in isolation from the objectives of a wider welfare reform programme by Government, indeed it is at the centre of it. The protracted roll out of UC has seen multiple changes to the 'legacy benefits' which UC is designed to replace. These changes to legacy benefits have simultaneously become an integral part of Universal Credit; the most important examples include the under-occupation penalty (the 'removal of the spare room subsidy'), the Benefit Cap and the two-child policy. Each of these changes has had a very specific policy intention which is now integral to Universal Credit. It is perhaps a sterile debate as to when these changes became part of the policy intention for Universal Credit: suffice to say that they were fully incorporated in UC long before 'full service' commenced. For this reason our response to the question assumes that these wider reforms, which are now part and parcel of UC, formed part of a wider set objectives at a relatively early stage of the roll out of UC and our response is written accordingly.
Returning to the original objectives of Universal Credit it is evident that due to changes to work allowances under George Osborne that the original intention of UC to be more generous to those in work has been diluted, notwithstanding that these reductions were partially reversed in 2019.
A well-known feature of Universal Credit is the 5-week wait for benefit, which may be partially mitigated by the provision of 'Advances' or loans. During the roll out of UC Advances have become easier to obtain (from 2018). The provision of a loan whilst potentially mitigating the risk of immediate hardship and destitution creates a debt and a significant reduction in on-going entitlement. As the Trussell Trust has stated, 'Advance Payments have left claimants deciding between hardship now or hardship later.'
The delay also has been shown in numerous studies to contribute to increased rent arrears amongst UC claimants (e.g. https://www.riverside.org.uk/riverside-calls-end-five-week-wait-universal-credit/).
A dogmatic approach to the payment of housing costs can exacerbate the position on debt by removing the choice for the claimant to have this element paid to their landlord. Commencing work with a debt burden consequential from core features of the UC design does not ease the path into work.
Hardship during the wait for benefit has directly resulted in an increase in demand for urgent assistance with basic living costs (typically food and fuel) from Liverpool's local welfare provision scheme of around 9%. The growth in demand upon food banks during the roll out of Universal Credit, including that specifically related to the five-week waiting period is also well documented, by the Trussell Trust in particular (https://www.trusselltrust.org/what-we-do/research-advocacy/universal-credit-and-foodbank-use/). A well-designed system should not create and exacerbate hardship.
Universal Credit has a complex relationship with other 'passported' benefits. In the early stages of Universal Credit (UC) it acted as a passport to Free School Meals (FSM). This entitlement was withdrawn from April 2018 such that FSM entitlement for UC claimants now is only where earnings are below a given threshold; the impact of this is to exclude most working families in receipt of UC from entitlement. Despite a system of transitional protection for pre-April 2018 claims and a complex retained entitlement rule during the roll out of UC, the impact has been to create the type of 'cliff-edge' to entitlement which the original policy intention was expected to remove. Merging benefits was supposed to remove cliff-edges.
At the time of the change to FSM the Children's Society estimated that the restrictions on entitlement would result in around 1M children in poverty missing out on free school meals and indicated that the new rules create a cliff-edge where, for example, a family with one child passed the £7,400 threshold, they would need to earn £1,124 a year more to make up for the loss of free school meals.
There is a parallel position, i.e. a cliff-edge, for Free Prescriptions.
The impact of the inflexible 'assessment period' on Universal Credit earners has also been complex and has resulted in instability for people in work where they are paid twice within an assessment period, which is particularly likely to occur at Christmas. This is a significant design flaw within UC given the financial shock it can create to the budget of a person in work. This fails to provide the quality of support to people in work which was a stated policy intention.
A stated intention of Universal Credit was to both modernise and ease the process of claiming. The Government has attempted to assist with a growth in support to those with limited digital access and / or skills through provision of relatively small amounts of funding, initially to local authorities and latterly (from 2019) to Citizens Advice. The Government's approach in this area whilst acknowledging the need for support to claimants, particularly during the introduction of new ways of claiming, has been characterised by late decisions on funding and a restrictive approach to who may be helped. Typically, the funding was only confirmed at or around the commencement of the relevant financial year making it difficult for local authorities, and now Citizens Advice, to plan provision on a stable basis. Such a fundamental element of the transitional support to claimants deserves a clear and stable funding platform supporting continuity of provision.
Turning to the wider welfare reforms which UC incorporates it is unclear how the stated policy intention of the 'benefit cap', 'the two child policy' and 'the under-occupation penalty' (also referred to as 'the bedroom tax') are intended to dovetail with the wider objectives of UC. In our 2018 report, 'Universal Credit Unintended Consequences', the disconnect between the stated aims of UC and the outcomes for many families was highlighted. This includes the imposition of the 'benefit cap' on families with very young children (under age 3) who are not expected to seek work (around half of those affected at the time) and the effects of 'the under-occupation penalty' on sick or disabled people with little or no prospect of finding alternative cheaper accommodation (around two thirds of those affected). The report also set out a series of asks to Government to reform and review the design of Universal Credit and suggested that the roll out was paused until these changes had been considered. The City Council has also written to the Government on several occasions requesting that the overall impact of welfare reform is evaluated, that Universal Credit is fundamentally reviewed, and that the Government reconsider its approach to funding additional discretionary support. In addition, we have had the opportunity provide written submissions to, and oral evidence at, the Work and Pensions Select Committee in regard to its work on the impact of Universal Credit.
The Government undertakes an impact analysis for each individual benefit reform but has never undertaken an analysis which attempts to understand how the 20+ major reforms implemented since 2010 have combined and converged to affect citizens, communities and the wider economy. Despite this, it is clear that many of our citizens are affected by several reforms: in addition, reductions in income have an attritional impact overtime as housing and living costs increase while benefits reduce or remain static.
In 2017 Liverpool City Council undertook a Welfare Reform Cumulative Impact Analysis (WRCIA) at a local level, drawing upon both Government impact assessments and local data. The analysis identified significant disproportionate impacts of the Government's welfare reform on disabled people, women, people with children, young people and social sector tenants aged 40-59. It also highlighted the particular effects upon people in work and in-work poverty. By understanding the cumulative impact of the Government's welfare reform, it is possible to better formulate evidence-based policies and, working with partners, to plan, target and evaluate how to best provide advice and support to those most in need.
The need for the Government to undertake a cumulative impact analysis of welfare reform has not diminished as a consequence of the roll out of UC; it is now arguably more urgent than ever as those people on legacy benefits await the migration to UC.
Were the original objectives and assumptions the right ones? How should they change?
The objectives of making work pay and modernising and simplifying the benefits system were widely supported. However, the stated objectives of UC must be situated within the wider strategy of welfare reform since 2010. A comprehensive statement of strategy and objectives would include approaches to child poverty, debt, housing costs and avoidance of hardship. The perceived economic impact of UC in relation to employment outcomes are only one financial measure; there is need to evaluate UC against a broader view, accounting for the wider social and economic costs and benefits of the social security design.
Fundamentally the language of Universal Credit currently focusses upon employment and unemployment and this is to disregard the fact that the majority of recipients will either be in work, carers, sick or disabled. As Universal Credit reaches new cohorts including increasing numbers of in work claimants (currently in receipt of Tax Credits) and sick and disabled people (currently in receipt of Employment Support Allowance) there is a need to revisit the stated objectives of Universal Credit. This includes a specific evaluation of how UC meets the needs of disabled people and reviewing the approach to the Severe Disability Premium.
Liverpool City Council believes that a robust and fair social security system is essential to the well-being of individuals and society. The absence of a comprehensive accessible safety net is damaging to the fabric of society and has long term consequences for health, child development and economic development.
Our view is that the social security system should:
Deliver wider societal and economic benefits by avoiding poverty, hardship and the risk of homelessness and acting to support good and fair employment, healthy child development, quality housing and positive sustainable outcomes.
Be rooted in the understanding that a good social security system delivers a better society for all.
Include specific longitudinal measures of success based on economic, social and health outcomes.
Make sure that entitlements are easy to understand and to claim.
Make payment quickly.
Deliver on the basis of entitlement (and not rely on discretionary help).
Show a realistic assessment of what is needed for basic living and housing costs (with no arbitrary ceilings or caps)
Help people to avoid debt and not routinely incorporate the use of loans.
Understand the cost of housing including local conditions and promote good quality, value for money accommodation.
Recognise and reward good and fair employment.
Respect particular costs associated with disability and be capable of flexing to meet specific needs.
Uses data proactively to promote take up.
Liverpool City Council believes that the principle of allowing people to retain a greater share of their earnings is fundamentally correct but this aspect of UC needs to be reset to match original policy intentions.
We would also suggest that aspects of the system which embed poverty by creating hardship and debt need to be fundamentally reviewed. The five week wait for benefit does not reflect the needs of most people making a claim, being based on a view of most claimants moving from regular salaried employment, which does not reflect the reality of most claimant's experience. The cliff edges associated with passported entitlements also need to be addressed. Fundamental design issues associated with assumptions of housing costs, including the under-occupation penalty, also need to be challenged.
Liverpool City Council would welcome the opportunity to make specific proposals to Government to pilot new approaches to social security including addressing specific issues such as better supporting people in work, or moving into work, better understanding of the support of disabled citizens, and a sustainable approach to housing costs support.
The functioning of the assessment period needs to be reviewed such that UC reflects the average income of claimants over a reasonable period (e.g. 6 to 12 months) and does not create needless crises for claimants.
Liverpool City Council believes that a social security system will function more effectively if it is associated with good and fair employment. There is always a risk that benefit payments become a subsidy to poor and unstable employment and economic modelling should account for the interaction of UC with employers and employment practice.
Liverpool City Region (LCR) Combined Authority has recently commissioned a review of the impact of Universal Credit from the Resolution Foundation. The review concluded (amongst other things) that '…more families lose from the switch to UC – and fewer gain – in the LCR than the UK as a whole. 52 per cent of benefit-recipient families in the LCR lose out from the switch to UC, while only 32 per cent gain. The respective figures for the UK, as a whole, are 46 per cent and 39 per cent.'
A detailed review of the impact of Universal Credit (including incorporated welfare reform) is needed to properly evaluate the current and future impact and inform the design of the social security system through systematic analysis and evidence.
Cllr Jane Corbett, Assistant Mayor of Liverpool and Lead on Fairness and Tackling Poverty


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Das WBSC Premier12 ist ein internationales Baseballturnier, das vom Baseball-Weltverband WBSC organisiert wird. Es trat als Weltmeisterschaft des WBSC an die Stelle des 2011 eingestellten WM-Turnieres. Das Turnier wird alle vier Jahre ausgetragen. Die Eröffnungssaison fand im Jahr 2015 statt.

Hintergrund
Während Baseball von 1992 bis 2008 durchgehend zu den olympischen Sportarten zählte, gehörte die Sportart bei den Olympischen Sommerspielen 2012 und 2016 nicht zum olympischen Programm. Der Premier 12 wurde deshalb als neues Flaggschiff der WBSC gegründet, einerseits um ein alternatives internationales Event zu den Olympischen Spielen aufzubauen und andererseits mit dem Hintergedanken, das Premier 12 2019 als Qualifikation für die Olympischen Sommerspiele 2020 zu nutzen. Mit der erfolgreichen Qualifikation für Tokyo 2020 wurde dies entsprechend umgesetzt: Die jeweils bestplatzierte Nation aus dem amerikanischen Kontinent sowie aus Ozeanien/Asien (ausgenommen Japan) sichert sich die Teilnahme bei den olympischen Spielen 2020.

Qualifikation
Die Qualifikation erfolgt über die WBSC World Rankings. Die 12 Nationalmannschaften mit den meisten Punkten in dem Ranking qualifizieren sich automatisch für die Teilnahme am Premier 12.

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In the "1KFG: Deep Sequencing of Ecologically-relevant Dikarya" project (CSP1974), we aim to sequence additional sampling of genomic diversity within keystone lineages of plant-interacting fungi and saprophytic fungi that are of special ecological importance for understanding terrestrial ecosystems. In addition, comparative genome analysis with saprotrophic, mycorrhizal and pathogenic fungi will provide new insights into the specific and conserved adaptations associated with each fungal lifestyle.
Fungi in the Diaporthaceae are commonly associated with plants as pathogens or endophytes. This dual lifestyle is not well understood but it is known that species in this genus can have latent infection/colonization potential in plants until conditions change in the host. These fungi are also saprobes, but most reports describe these species as plant pathogens in a wide range of hosts. Their pathogenicity is also dependent on the host, which means that species could colonize different plant hosts as endophytes, but only cause disease in a certain host. For instance, the most closely related species to PMI_573 is Phomopsis columnaris which has been described as causing twig dieback on Vaccinum vitis-idaea (lingonberry), but it has been also described as an endophyte in plants such as Myrtus communis and Odontoglossum sp. (Orchidaceae). Increasing plant colonization of other fungi and production of volatiles could inhibit other microorganisms. This work is supported by the Genomic Science Program (U.S. Department of Energy) Plant Microbe Interfaces (PMI) Scientific Focus Area (http://pmi.ornl.gov) and by the Joint Genome Institute (U.S. Department of Energy) through their Community Sequencing Program (CSP 1974, 1KFG: Deep Sequencing of Ecologically-relevant Dikarya, F. Martin PI).
Bonito, G.M., Benucci, G.M.N., Hameed, K., Weighill, D., Jones, P., Chen, K.H., Jacobson, D., Schadt, C.W. and Vilgalys, R., 2019. Fungal-bacterial networks in the Populus rhizobiome are impacted by soil properties and host genotype. Frontiers in microbiology, 10, p.481.
Bonito, G., Hameed, K., Ventura, R., Krishnan, J., Schadt, C.W. and Vilgalys, R., 2016. Isolating a functionally relevant guild of fungi from the root microbiome of Populus. Fungal ecology, 22, pp.35-42.
Gomes, R. R., Glienke, C., Videira, S. I. R., Lombard, L., Groenewald, J. Z., & Crous, P. W. (2013). Diaporthe: a genus of endophytic, saprobic and plant pathogenic fungi. Persoonia: Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi, 31, 1.
Singh, S. K., Strobel, G. A., Knighton, B., Geary, B., Sears, J., & Ezra, D. (2011). An endophytic Phomopsis sp. possessing bioactivity and fuel potential with its volatile organic compounds. Microbial ecology, 61(4), 729-739.
Udayanga, D., Liu, X., McKenzie, E. H., Chukeatirote, E., Bahkali, A. H., & Hyde, K. D. (2011). The genus Phomopsis: biology, applications, species concepts and names of common phytopathogens. Fungal diversity, 50(1), 189.
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First Lady kicks off college signing day.
NEW YORK — She's got rhythm. First Lady Michelle Obama reeled in a flock of east coast celebs, including actress Julianna Margulies and rap artist Common, to celebrate the 3rd Annual College Signing Day on Tuesday in New York. Donning a black Princeton T-shirt, Mrs. Obama saluted nearly 5,000 Big Apple high-school students who are headed to college. She even danced on stage to the tune of a hyped hip hop beat after offering some sound advice.
"But I know that if I can do it, you can do it, too," she added.
Like her presidential hubby, the First Lady certainly understands what it takes to succeed at the collegiate level and beyond. A graduate of both Princeton University and Harvard Law School, Mrs. Obama spent the early part of her legal career working at the law firm Sidley Austin, where she met her soulmate — President Barack Obama.
SNL's Jay Pharoah and MTV joined Mrs. Obama to host the event.
Does this heshe Transvestite big foot know their are poor whites out in rural areas in todays america, she never visits them, waitin for ur man ahass to leave.
I love my First Lady. It is truly a blessing to finally have a beautiful black couple in the White House.
Please….optics are horrible, she doesnt really care as her daughters are in a high dollar private school, she doesnt care as represented by her ONE Tweet on the girls kidnapped by Boko Haram…if she really cared she would have persisted in the quest to "Bring Back Our Girls"….phony, phony, phony.
Thank goodness she will be out of the White House in a few months.
Our First Lady is gyrating on stage in front of the whole world…. she's setting such a perfect example for her two daughters.
If black kids CARED about their education they would have better grades in high school, they would take advantage of student loans and go to Community College or a four year. They don't WANT to learn and they have said so many times before. They find it easier to hustle the streets without student loans. If they go to jail, they accept it and in most cases they consider it a badge of honor.
Did you know that the black kids who do decide to leave the ghetto are looked upon as broken by their peers? That they are sell-outs or called half-whites? So yeah, go ahead and spend the money trying to get more black kids into school. That racist law called Affirmative Action has been proven to of failed but just like the school drug program DARE, it's still used even though its been proven to not work!
Misguided attempt at motivating black America….She apparently needs new advisors because this is embarrassing to say the least and thats being kind!
Why won't s/he focus on her poisonous school meals?


Ogden High School is doing amazing things! I am very proud to work with our diverse students and our community. Our school culture is positive and moving in a great direction. Our graduation rates and student achievement is on the rise. One of the most important things we can do to improve our school is have great attendance. For the 2017-2018 school year our goal is to have above 90% attendance. In order to achieve this goal it needs to be a community effort. We will do our part as a school, please encourage your students to be in school and to get to school on time. When students are present, we can do amazing things with them.
I am also excited to see our course offerings grow. Our IB and AP programs are growing and we have many Concurrent Enrollment opportunities for our students. Encourage your students to enroll in rigorous classes and to challenge themselves academically.
It is a pleasure to work with this community, and I am excited for what the new school year will bring. I look forward to seeing our community at our many activities. Great things at Ogden High School are on the horizon. Please let me know what support you need from me as we work together to make something great, even better.
Ogden High School, Home of the Tigers, celebrates a rich 100-year tradition of high achievement in academics, activities and the community. Students, staff and teachers are supported by an involved and caring community that seeks excellence to honor this legacy.
Ogden High School is the home of the International Baccalaureate program in Ogden, which is a magnet for students throughout the area who seek a rigorous high school academic experience. The school also provides extensive opportunities for all students to be involved in extra-curricular activities including theater, arts, clubs and guilds and athletics.
In 1935, the construction of Ogden High School began under the umbrella of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) at an unheard of price of $1.2 million. The school was designed by Hodson and MeClenahan who utilized the new design "art deco" specifically "classical moderne," a Greco-Roman style with Deco elements popular in government and civic buildings at the time, such as the Ogden Municipal building.
In the summer of 2007, OHS began an extensive remodel costing nine million dollars. The project was completed in three phases, taking six years, and moved the gym to a separate building, created a science wing and renovated/updated the school's infrastructure. The auditorium was also renovated as a separate project and serves as one of the premier examples of Art Deco in the United States.
OHS today is a daily reminder of the creative vision and dedication of the educational leaders in 1937.
Ogden High School will provide a safe, supportive learning environment where students regardless of their background will graduate. Through earning their diploma, students will have opportunities to fulfill their potential and to develop the skills and knowledge to become responsible and successful adults after high school.


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City: New Edmonton arena would revitalize downtown
By Kevin Reichard on December 4, 2010 in Features, NHL
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A new downtown arena would revitalize downtown Edmonton, say city officials, who say most city residents approve of a new Edmonton Oilers (NHL) arena — the issue is to what extent the city will pay for it and by what means.
Yesterday the mayor released answers to 140 questions about the arena, submitted by residents and city councillors. Most of the questions were of the garden variety: How much a new arena would cost, how much the Oilers would be willing to pay, and what the impact would be on downtown Edmonton. ($450 million, $100 million, and positive were the basic responses.) You can view the full report below.
Some of the issues raised were on the edgier side. For starters, there's not a lot of appeal for using general funds to pay for a new arena; it sounds like the city is looking at the establishment of a Community Revitalization Levy, or CRL, as well as a ticket surcharge, to generate revenue. A CRL would use increased taxes from the area around the arena to actually help pay for the arena. (For our American friends, it's the Canadian equivalent of tax-increment financing.) The combination of both could yield as much as C$14 million a year, through the CRL portion of that equation (some $4 million annually) is a more speculative and loaded on the back end of a 20-year forecast. The Oilers will probably need to step up and guarantee to cover shortfalls to some extent.
The other edgy issue: What happens to Rexall Place? Though there's some sentiment for renovating it, the Oilers say that's not an option. The Oilers would like to see it go; Northlands, the group running it, wants to see it continue with a C$2 million annual subsidy or else give Northlands management powers at the new arena. There's not a city that can support two arenas, and with some serious money needed to address the aging facility (the mayor's office outlined C$31 million in needed maintenance over the next several years), the handwriting is on the wall. And with the Oilers wanting to manage the new arena on their own, a play for downtown may come up short.
Edmonton City Council report on downtown arena
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"Hamilton" was definitely the "Story of Tonight" at Monday evening's announcement of the 2018-19 PNC Broadway in Pittsburgh series.
We've known since March 2017 that the Broadway megahit would be coming to town during the upcoming season, and now we know when — Jan. 1-27, 2019 at downtown's Benedum Center.
No, creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda won't be in the production that comes to Pittsburgh, but the show remains the same, with all the hit songs — "The Story of Tonight," "Alexander Hamilton," "My Shot," "Stay Alive" and "I Know Him" — that blend hip-hop, jazz, blues, rap, R&B, and Broadway music to tell the story of American founding father Alexander Hamilton.
"Hamilton," inspired by the book by Ron Chernow, debuted in 2015 and won 11 Tonys at the 2016 awards show, including best musical, best score, best book, best choreography and best lead actor for Carnegie Mellon University grad Leslie Odom Jr., who played Aaron Burr.
Even though the original cast is no longer with the show, "Hamilton" continues to draw crowds and high ticket prices on Broadway. On Broadway.com, most shows for the next few months are sold out or only premium tickets, upward of $750 each, are available.
Monday night's announcement wasn't all about "Hamilton." It also included the six other subscription shows — including 2017 best musical Tony and Grammy winner "Dear Evan Hanson" — and four season specials.
"The Play That Goes Wrong," Sept. 17-23: It's the opening night of "The Murder at Haversham Manor" and everything is going, well, wrong, including an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can't play dead, and actors who trip over everything.
"Anastasia," Oct. 16-21: Based on the animated film and other sources, this show follows an orphan — who may or may not be Princess Anastasia of Russia — as she is pursued by a Soviet officer determined to silence her, and helped by a dashing conman and a lovable ex-aristocrat.
"Fiddler on the Roof," Nov. 20-25: This is a new production of the beloved musical, which debuted in 1964 and won 10 Tony Awards, including a special Tony for becoming the longest-running Broadway musical ever.
"Come From Away," April 9-14, 2019: This musical about how the small Newfoundland town of Gander welcomed 7,000 stranded airplane passengers who were grounded after 9/11 was nominated for seven Tony Awards and won for best direction.
"Dear Evan Hansen," May 21-26, 2019 at Heinz Hall: The winner of last year's best musical and six other Tony Awards follows high school senior Evan Hansen, who suffers from social anxiety disorder. After the death of one of his classmates, he fabricates a lie that inadvertently brings him closer to the classmate's family, while also allowing him to gain his own sense of purpose.
Cirque Éloize "Hotel," Sept 25-30: Cirque Éloize is celebrating its 25th anniversary of this story of a place and the travelers who pass through it. This show is part of the fourth Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts, which will include 30 companies and artists from 18 countries performing debut shows for the first time in the U.S. and in some cases, the world over a seven-week period.
"Elf The Musical," Dec. 26-30, Heinz Hall: Buddy the Elf is back in this holiday favorite.
"The Phantom of the Opera," Feb. 20-March 3, 2019: This new production by Cameron Mackintosh of Andrew Lloyd Webber's classic has a cast of 52.
"The Book of Mormon," April 16-26, 2019 at Heinz Hall: Returning again is the story of a mismatched pair of missionaries, who are sent halfway across the world to spread the Good Word.
How do you get tickets to Hamilton?
Your best bet is to already be a subscriber. Current 2017-18 subscribers who renew their season tickets between March 27 and May 1 will receive the same number of seats to "Hamilton" and the season's other six subscriber shows as they have this season. Requests for additional season tickets will be accepted but not guaranteed, and additional single tickets for "Hamilton" will not be available to subscribers.
Getting a new season ticket package will help. New subscribers can add their names to a waiting list starting at 10 a.m. April 2, but availability is limited. After the season ticket renewal period, new subscriptions will be assigned (four to a household) on a first-come, first-served basis. Season subscriptions range from $250 to $787.
How about single show tickets? The single ticket onsale date and prices for "Hamilton" are still to be determined.
Join the lottery. There will be a lottery for tickets before every "Hamilton" performance in Pittsburgh. More details will be provided in the fall.
Beware secondary markets: The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has invested in technology to thwart ticketing bots, and cancels orders placed by scalpers and brokers. Tickets for "Hamilton" or any other Cultural Trust event purchased on a secondary site cannot be guaranteed.


Energy is the capacity to do work. It is the flow of energy that makes the work of life (metabolism) possible. From the smallest unit of life—the cell—to the largest organism, all living things obtain, modify, expend, and release energy and in doing so adhere to very explicit energy laws of the universe.
Of the tremendous amount of energy received from the sun, less than 1 percent is captured by green plants and converted through photosynthesis to usable energy. Some solar energy drives the geological processes that make the earth habitable for organisms then is lost back into space. Fully a third never makes it through the Earth's atmosphere to reach the surface. The small percentage that is captured in photosynthesis runs the entire Earth ecosystem.


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Given an ultimatum by her boss, she chooses family, leaving her career behind. She drives across the country to find that the only man to make her heart ache with desire will be her new neighbour. Now, living in a city with a past that haunts her, she finds herself falling for Evan Donovan, a hot-as-hell contractor and her big brother's best friend.
When Evan Donovan isn't on a construction site, he is usually hanging from a cliff somewhere. He's been dealt a rough hand when it comes to love and now believes in keeping things simple. His wife left him just as the recession forced him to shut down his home building company. Now after three years of strict perseverance, he is finally back on top again and he intends to stay there. But when Harper Young drops into his life, things are going to suddenly get complicated. He finds himself wondering why he never noticed her when they were teenagers. He resolves to stay away from his best friend's little sister but the pull he feels to her is just too strong. Harper and Evan quickly find themselves in each other's arms, trying to fool themselves into believing that they won't fall in love.
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Q: The await expression can only be used in an async function I am trying to load some data from Firestore when the user logs in and need to wait until the data is loaded before continuing. However, my efforts to await the results are not working.
Future<bool> userListener() async {
  _auth.onAuthStateChanged.listen((firebaseUser) {
    bool isDone = false;

    if (firebaseUser != null) {
      isDone = await loadUserData(firebaseUser);   // This line is killing me!!
      return isDone;
    } else {
      return false;
    }
  }, onError: (error) {
    print('error in UserListener: $error');
  });
}

Future<bool> loadUserData(FirebaseUser user) async {
  Firestore database = Firestore();
  DocumentReference data = database.collection('userData').document(user.uid);

  try {
    DocumentSnapshot myQuery = await data.get();
    theNumber = myQuery.data['theNumber'];
    return true;
  } on PlatformException catch (e) {
    print(e);
    return false;
  }
}

I get a lovely error from the line:
 isDone = await loadUserData(firebaseUser);

that "the await expression can only be used in an async function".
I'm not sure how these functions could get any more async. Further, if I don't add await then I am told that a Future can't be assigned to a bool, which makes perfect sense, and suggest to me that my function is, in fact, async.
Why can't I await the results of my loadUserData function?

A: your main function for that line is that passed to listen of onAuthStateChanged.this function should be async too like below
  _auth.onAuthStateChanged.listen((firebaseUser) async{

A: If you are calling an async function, your calling function should be async too.
Add the async keyword to your function. Change:
void main (List<String> arguments)

to:
void main (List<String> arguments) async

Examples:
Future<void> main (List<String> arguments) async {
  var done = await readFileByteByByte(); // perform long operation
}

Future<void> main(List<String> arguments) {
  readFileByteByByte().then((done) {
    print('done');
  });
  print('waiting...');
  print('do something else while waiting...');
}


Kids, parents and Old Mission Peninsula residents gathered at the infamous "sledding hill" at Old Mission Peninsula School on Friday, Feb. 1, for the school's annual cardboard sled race.
Kids of all ages crafted their creative sleds out of cardboard, duct tape, and whatever else was handy, as folks looked on to see who made it down the hill in record time (or maybe just made it down the hill at all!).
Even the Peninsula Fire Department took a turn on the sledding hill, with Chief Fred Gilstorff giving them a good sendoff. After the race, everyone enjoyed a tasty potluck at the school.
Take a look at a few photos below, and head over to Old Mission Photos to see more sled race photos and purchase/download them.
Up next, the school will host their 2nd Annual Winter Carnival on Friday, Feb. 22, 5:30 p.m. – 8 p.m. The carnival will feature games, a cake walk, balloon animals, cotton candy, snow cones, food and lots of FUN!
If you'd like to help out or know of a community group who needs volunteer hours, sign up here. If questions, call the school at (231) 252-0225.


Join us for an evening screening of the hilarious comedy, Easy A. The Teen Room will be open from 5:00 on and popcorn will be served!
Get your engines started for the third installment of our 2011 Mario Kart tournament! Prizes will be awarded to the top two winners!
Support the Mahatma Project team by attending our Sadie Hawkins Dance! Food, drinks and dancing will be happening after hours in the library. Use the side door to enter!
Join us for a fun afternoon making Shrinky Dinks! Design your own and make keychains or earrings.
Calling all future actors! Stop by the Teen Reading Room to act out a short skit or play with your fellow teens. We will also make and use props and costumes.
Join us for sweet snacks, a movie and to make a gift for that special someone in the Teen Reading Room. Happy Valentine's Day!
Join us for a Valentine's Day Culinary Creations. We will experiment with chocolate and no-bake cookies!
Take a break from homework and the cold weather with a movie in the Teen Reading Room. You pick the movie, we'll provide the popcorn!
Need an afternoon to pamper yourself? Want to make a gift for someone special? Then join us to make your own perfumes, soaps and more!
Start your engines and join us in the Teen Reading Room to show off your racing skills to all your friends. Each participant will have the chance to race once, and the top two winners will move onto the final three qualification rounds.


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All students are entitled to a safe, positive learning environment.
All school stakeholders belong to a collaborative, educational community.
The educational community believes in high standards of personal achievement, including matters of academics and self-esteem.
Assessments of student learning should provide students with a variety of opportunities to demonstrate their achievement.
An education gives students options that they can use to succeed in a rapidly changing global society.
The commitment to continuous improvement is imperative if our school is going to enable students to become confident, self-directed, lifelong learners.
Our mission is to establish a positive learning environment within a collaborative educational community that engages students in developing high standards of achievement in a global society.
Our vision is to be a school where all students learn at high levels.
We will model lifelong education by embracing our own adult learning.
We will engage in reflective behavior and collaborative practices designed to help improve us individually and collectively.
We will celebrate that which is worthy of celebration and embrace the challenge of changing that which must be improved.
We will treat students and colleagues with dignity and respect.
We will cultivate sincere and invested relationships with students.
We will seek first to understand, then to be understood.
We will provide a safe, supportive, and respectful environment for learning.
We will embrace the changing nature of technology, the impacts it has on 21st Century learners, and the instruction necessary to reach them.
We will use at least two diverse instructional techniques in each class period.
We will strive to utilize brain research and student discourse each class period.
We will employ multiple assessment strategies to assess students' skills, thinking, knowledge, and progress.
We will utilize the Rigor and Relevance Framework as it applies to curriculum and assessment.
Increase the percentage of students meeting all four college readiness standards as defined by the ACT to 28%
Increase the number of students earning dual college credit per year to 65.
Increase the number of students earning an advanced diploma to 35.
Increase the number of students earning a 3 or better on AP exams to 15.
Increase the percentage of students graduating with a CTE endorsement.
Increase the graduation rate to 95%
Status and Growth Measures of Achievement
Establish baseline data and subsequently increase the percentage of students performing at Meets or Exceeds Standard using the new End of Course exams.
Increase the percentage of students earning 8 or better on team-wide common assessments to 80%.
Increase the percentage of students earning final grades of As and Bs in all core and elective classes.
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Students and parents will demonstrate school pride and engagement as measured by survey.
Parents will report strong communication with teachers and staff regarding academic and behavior issues.
Parents, community members, and students will report a welcoming and inviting environment.
The White Pine County School District does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, age, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other category protected by applicable state or federal law in its program and activity, including employment.
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Q: App Store - Identify users who purchased a subscription When using subscriptions in iOS via in-app purchases is there anyway for me to identify users who have purchased the app?
For instance, if I have an Android app as well how can I ensure an iOS user moving to the Android app doesn't have to re-purchase a subscription?
Is it possible?


Let me predict that if Wi-Fi calls were permitted on airplanes, the air rage incidents would increase 10,000 percent.
For reasons unclear to me, airlines keep revisiting the idea of allowing passengers to make Wi-Fi calls on their cell phones during flight.
Meanwhile, according to the International Air Transport Association, cases of air rage increased 16.4 percent from 2014 to 10,854 (from 9,316). In 1994, only 1,132 such cases were noted. And you want to add phone calls? Has someone been breathing too many jet fuel fumes?
Let me predict that if Wi-Fi calls were permitted on airplanes, the air rage incidents would increase 10,000 percent. Possible violence? No, guaranteed. Especially by me. Olof should start saving for my bail right now. I'm not even particularly tolerant about cell phone abuse even on the ground.
Anyone who has ever lunched with me or been a dinner guest at my home knows if they answer their phone at my table, it had better be because the donor for their liver transplant finally came through. Don't get me wrong. Cell phones are wonderful inventions when used appropriately. But I have friends who insist that people "expect to be able to reach them at any time."
"Oh, no!" I reply in horror. "Are you one of those people who answer their phone at the symphony?"
They insist they would never be so rude as to do that.
"So your dentist is willing to stop while he's in the middle of a filling to let you chat?"
Oh, no, of course not. Not during a medical or dental appointment.
OK, I say, so consider me the symphony and the medical/dental establishment all rolled into one.
And they'll reply, "But it's different. You're a friend."
I always tell them I'm going to get them one of those newfangled phones that has voicemail. It's amazing! It answers the call and takes a message for you! You can even call back later when you're not at lunch!
But the same people who abuse cell phones on the ground will be guaranteed to abuse them in the air. For some people, the ring of a cell phone has the curious effect of transporting them to another dimension where they become the Anointed One in a private universe of dispensable deaf mutes. Everyone around them ceases to exist.
It's bad enough at airports to be squashed into waiting areas listening to people conducting business. Or worse, not conducting business. Just droning on to everyone they know. They have nothing to say, which does not prevent them from saying it. The only saving grace is that you know that once the plane takes off, they'll have to turn it off for the next three thousand miles.
Carriers would apparently be required to inform passengers when they make their reservations that cell phone calls are permitted on that flight so they "can make other plans." Seriously? Like most business travelers have any choice on what flights they're on? Or you're supposed to pay double and fly a route with two stopovers to avoid a non-stop that allows cell phone calls? If that happens, technology will have officially trumped humanity.
United (no surprise) is apparently one airline considering in-air calls. That's OK with us since we've long since cut up their credit card. And that was BEFORE they started "reaccommodating" (their word) paying passengers by physically dragging them off their planes. Hard to imagine they used to be our preferred airline.
But there could be some definite entertainment value in all this. I predict there will be a YouTube channel solely devoted to in-air cell phone brawls videotaped by gleeful fellow passengers.
Personally, the only way I can see this in-air phone thing working is that people who want to use a cell phone on the flight have to indicate it in advance and be assigned to a special cell phone row just as there used to be smoking rows.
As we all know, people who talk on cell phones tend to talk much louder than their regular "inside" voices so they can be heard over the din around them. Cell phone users expect a quiet, compliant audience on either side of them — because, of course, it's all about them — but I love imagining the scenario where a whole row of cell phone users are speaking louder and louder to be able to be overheard over the conversations of the people right next to them.
I foresee lots of glaring, lots of demands to the other folks to talk more softly. Escalating hostility. Complaints to the flight attendants. Hopefully, he or she would then have the capability to push a button that would eject the whole row out at 35,000 feet. This fantasy keeps me going.
So airlines: Please do not consider this. It is a really really bad idea. But if you do, get ready to install a first-aid kit in every row.