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The Walnut Tree
jennifer / October 3, 2016
"I'm sorry. I said what I said because of what you said."
"Maybe you shouldn't have said what you said."
"I apologized. I said I was wrong to say that. Your apology…"
"I apologized for what I said. Take it or leave it."
"The apologies are not the same."
"They aren't because of what you said," Leah countered.
Elliot stuck the key in the front door lock and asked, "Can we put this behind us?"
"If you do."
Elliot unlocked the door and let Leah and the kids into the house that was once the home of a chicken farmer in 1898. The house had been built in West Linden Oaks, a town founded along the railroad expansion west of Chicago. Over the years the patchwork two-story house had gained additions that sellers would call "charming" and that contractors would call "nightmarish". The last owners had neglected the backyard. A hodge-podge of prairie grass, crabgrass and bare soil framed by overgrown shrubs was the view from the kitchen sink window. The back third of the yard was dark as it was overshadowed by a 50-foot-tall walnut tree.
Surveying the yard the day after Elliot and Leah took possession of the house, Elliot imagined a garden and wondered about the walnut tree. The soil beneath its canopy was ink black and nothing was growing.
"Hi Neighbor." The almost whispered greeting had come from the other side of the garage. Elliot looked around the corner of the garage. There at the fence he saw an old man with grey hair and a frame that was tilted forward.
"That tree has been here as long as I have. Hi neighbor, I'm Bud."
"Hi, I'm Elliot."
"I was born and raised and married and now retired in that house, "Bud pointed over his shoulder to his two-story white house. "I saw lightning hit your tree in '63. Lightening must like those deep-rooted types.
"I wouldn't plant cabbage, peppers, tomatoes or blueberries over there," he said pointing to the shaded area under the walnut tree. "I'd move the garden to the middle of the yard past the tree's root system. That tree's fruit falls to the ground every year and the hulls poison the soil with juglone which is toxic to certain plants. Juglone protects the tree to assure its survival. So, you'll want to plant away from the dripline which is from the trunk to the end of the branches. The soil will be toxic under the dripline. And if you want the nutmeat from the walnut for a walnut pie, then you had better wear gloves and protection to get it out its husk. The stain doesn't come off. Time is the only thing that will wear the black pigment off of your hands. My stains are fading." Bud showed Elliot his hands blotted hands. "My wife Gracie made some delicious walnut pies from those nutmeats."
Looking over at Bud's well-kept yard Elliot asked, "How do you know so much about all this?"
"I worked for the Department of Streets and Sanitation here in the village for forty-one years. My eyes began giving me a problem and my back, too. And then Gracie became ill. I planted a lot of trees over the years."
When the first Sunday in their new home came around Elliot gave his son Ronny a shower and then got him dressed. He then helped his daughter Ribbon find some clean clothes at the bottom of her closet. "It's almost time for church. You two finish up. I have to get dressed." Elliot went to the master bedroom and found Leah dressing.
"I want to go to my grandmother's next weekend," Leah said.
"I…I have to play in the worship band next Sunday."
"I knew you'd weasel out of it. I'll take the kids. Grandma hasn't seen them in months. She's not happy that our kids aren't raised Catholic."
"My personal evangelism teacher Mr. Winslett back at the Midwest Institute of the Bible told me that Catholicism is a cult. They worship Mary he said. I believed it at the time. I was proud of being such a no-nonsense Protestant like Mr. W. But later, I thought it was better to have more Mary than less Mary in the church."
"You haven't heard anything yet. A priest came to my parent's house one time to play cards. He left the game after gulping down his scotch to perform nine-o'clock Mass."
"Do you think Mary would approve?"
"Well, she could count on him to show up."
"Grandma Dot says that God doesn't have a sense of humor."
"That may explain the hard-drinking priests. Your grandmother must have had a hard life. "
"Her husband had an affair with her sister after thirty-six years of marriage. Grandma would not forgive her sister. And then later my grandfather died from lung cancer."
"Ouch. Hey. Look at the time. I have to set up the chairs before everyone gets there."
"I have to get there early, too. I have to get things ready in the sacristy. What about the kids? They have to get ready, too."
"I got them ready. They are downstairs chasing the dog around the dining room table."
"Did you walk the dog?"
"Did you feed the fish? Did you take the meat out of the freezer?"
"Did you get them to brush their teeth?
Five minutes later Leah and the kids were in the car. Leah blew the horn. Elliot was scrambling to find his blue tie. It had been moved. The car's horn blew again. "We're gonna be late," Leah yelled from the front seat. "Leave it to your father to make us late."
Dorothy Blacklock – Dot – lived in a house with bats on Hickory Boulevard. in Des Moines, Iowa. The rodents inhabited an upstairs bedroom behind a closed door. When Dot could no longer walk up the stairs she implored her family to remove the bats. The family felt she had enough money and time to deal with the matter. "Just call an exterminator," they told her. "They'll just take advantage of me and charge too much" Dot told them.
The first time Elliot met Dot he could see that was severely crippled with arthritis. Her spine had curled and become rigid over time. Her hands were gnarled, boney and stiff. The thumb and index finger of each hand acted like pincers. Elliot was struck by Dot's yellow tinged leather-like face beneath a shock of white hair. A smoker for fifty years, deep furrowed lines, like gorges, flared from Dot's tight pursed lips and from the corner of her watery eyes. She put away the oxygen tank when Elliot and Leah and the kids came over.
Day in and day out Dot occupied the coach in front of the TV set in the living room. She would eat breakfast – peanut butter on toast – watching the local news. She griped to her daughter on the phone when her neighbor down the street brought her the local paper after ten o'clock. She griped to her granddaughter on the phone about the erratic mail delivery times and "those Republicans." After the evening news she slept on the couch.
On Saturdays Dot went to Mass with her neighbor Joyce. Joyce was an avid reader of Readers' Digest. And that is where she found a quote from Hubert Humphrey that she shared with Dot one day on the way to Mass.
"It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left."
Dot snarled, "I can do nothing with a house full of bats."
Later that Sunday afternoon there was a knock on the front door.
"Hi neighbor. Can you put these eye drops in for me? Gracie is not able to do it." Bud stood at the door in bib overalls."
"Sure. Sit on the bench."
Bud ambled over to the porch bench and plopped down. Elliot walked over and stood in front of Bud. He carefully placed his hand on Bud's forehead. As he did Bud leaned his head back. Elliot squeezed the dropper and a drop of glycerin fell onto Bud's dilated pupil. Bud blinked several times. Elliot applied the drops to Bud's left eye. Bud blinked and wiped the corners of his eyes. Bud looked around and said, "Thanks, neighbor. I need to do this once a week."
"I'll be here. Just knock."
Leah's mother and Dot's daughter Scarlett Rand nee Scarlett Blacklock had married a Jesuit seminarian. This happened after Scarlett and Francis Rand had been seen together holding hands in their small town. Scarlett quickly divorced Leah's father, considering him too plebeian for her purposes. Child support and the Church's annulment of her marriage to Cliff would serve her higher calling.
Leah's father never forgave Scarlett and Scarlett never seemed to give a damn about what anyone thought of her decision to defrock a seminarian and divorce her husband. When asked about the matter, Scarlett told seventeen-year-old Leah that she wasn't committing adultery. "We're just good friends. Francis is a spiritual man and your father doesn't affirm me like Francis does.
Over the years the house would need many repairs. A new sewer drain pipe had to be laid out to the street. Tree roots had so choked the original line that sewage would backup and flood the basement with putrid black septic goo. A backhoe had to retrench and lay a new pipe. The marriage, too, needed a lot of work. At one point Leah demanded marriage counseling.
Psychologist Kasparov was a rotund man in his late fifties with large bags under his bloodshot eyes. He sat in a round chair in the middle of the room facing Elliot and Leah who sat on a love seat. "So, how can I help you two?'
"He doesn't love me," Leah shifted her legs and started the conversation.
"Elliot?"
"There is something going on that I don't understand."
"I can't depend on him. I send him to the store to pick up eggs and milk and he comes back with eggs and cheese. And the other day he does the laundry without telling me. Now the kid's clothes are gray. He shrunk them, too. I don't feel listened to or valued when he screws up like this."
"What do you want from Elliot?
"I want to depend on him. I should feel cherished and I don't."
"I see. Elliot, what do you want?"
"I want the confusion to end."
Over the next several months when Elliot and Leah saw Kasparov Elliot had hoped that Leah would bring up her past. In the third year of their marriage Elliot learned from a drinking Leah that boyfriends and abortions were in her past and so were drugs and working for an escort service to pay for the drugs. Leah had never said a word about these things before their marriage. Leah never said a word about these things during the sessions with Kasparov. Elliot left those things for her to say. It was her responsibility. And, he didn't want to divulge those things and make it look like he was blaming her for whatever the problem was.
"Do you love Leah, Elliot?
"I bring her chocolates and coffee to her bed in the morning before I go to work."
"That is not enough. I don't feel loved," Leah interjected.
"I brought you to my church. You said you came to believe in Jesus one Sunday."
"It was my decision. You had nothing to do with it."
In a later session Elliot found out that Leah had called and talked at length to Kasparov. She had asked that he have a one on one session with Elliot to get the root of the problem.
Elliot met with Kasparov. Slumping down in the chair Elliot said that he was puzzled. "Leah isn't happy and she is saying that I am the reason. I am just trying to maintain life as I know it for her and the kids. I don't handle confusion well." Kasparov suggested that Elliot see the clinic's psychiatrist for an anti-depressant. Elliot made the appointment that day.
A week later Dr. Nutter greeted Elliot in the clinic's waiting room. "C'mon in." After twenty minutes of background talk Dr. Nutter wrote Elliot a script for Zollift. "Come back in a month let's talk again."
A month later and Elliot was sitting before Dr. Nutter with a look of resignation. "Leah is angry all the time. I don't know why. Now she is telling our church friends that I am the problem in the marriage. I am at a loss. I don't have the emotional resources to care anymore. Besides I am the only one working and paying for the counseling sessions. I have to go to work and think about work or else."
Several months later Elliot sat down at his desk and tried to focus. The marriage counseling had ended when Leah demanded a separation. Elliot then found a two-bedroom apartment. Having to pay rent and the mortgage on the house was a weight on Elliot that crushed him. At his desk tears filled his eyes. Elliot went out to his car. He made a decision.
Elliot drove to the apartment and then called his boss. "I need some time off. I am dealing with some personal things." His boss said "OK, how much time?" "A week, maybe two. I don't know. I'll call." Elliot hung up the phone, his face wet with tears.
Six weeks ago Elliot had stopped taking the Zollift. It had made him feel lethargic and indifferent. Those feelings scared him. He wanted to care about his marriage and what was happening to his family. But he also knew that if he cared like he wanted to then he couldn't do his work and if he didn't do his work he couldn't afford to take care of his family and pay for the mounting debt. He called Dr. Nutter's emergency number.
"I want to go somewhere quiet. I am so depressed I can't do anything. I feel paralyzed. I sit at my desk everyday crying. I want to care but I don't want to care. I want to go somewhere where I'm not."
"Do you think you will hurt yourself?"
"I don't know. I have never been depressed before. It is getting worse every minute."
"Go to Mercy Hospital emergency room. I will tell them you are coming. Is someone there who can drive you? "
"I am separated. I can drive."
"When you get to the hospital you will be on suicide watch. I'll sign the papers so you can be admitted to Three Oaks Mental Health Facility. The hospital will transport over you to Three Oaks."
At Three Oaks Elliot received a physical. Then Dr. Val Camani interviewed Elliot. Elliot mentioned that he had stopped taking Zollift. "I didn't like what it did to me. Now I've crashed." Dr. Camani gave Elliot two Wellbuthen tablets and then sent Elliot off to bed.
The beds were like foamed slabs of concrete and Elliot couldn't sleep. The patient in the next bed, Ivan Denisovich, snored and wheezed. A buzzing fluorescent light in the hallway emitted cold light into the door less room. Elliot talked to the night nurse and asked for a sleeping pill. Soon Elliot found his quiet place.
The patients in the mental health ward on the fifth floor were locked in. No one had a cell phone. On Tuesday night patients were allowed to use the hallway phone from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm. After waiting his turn Elliot called home. He wanted to make sure he kids were Ok and not worried about him.
"Where the hell are you?" Leah pounced.
"I'm at Three Oaks clinic. I needed to get away."
"How are you going to pay for my cell phone bill in there? It is due Thursday."
"I don't know. Let me talk to Ribbon."
"Dad?"
"Hi kiddo. I am OK. I just needed to get away to a quiet place. How are you doing?"
"Good is you brother there? I don't have much time. I love you.
"Hi buddy. I am OK. I just needed to get away to a quiet place. How are you doing?"
"Great. I'll see you and Ribbon soon. Let me talk to mom. I love you."
"I am trying to get out of here as soon as I can. They gave me a different anti-depressant. The Zollift made me not care about anything. I hated it. I stopped taking it and I think that caused me to crash. I'm better now but I can't leave until they say so."
"You have some bills to pay. Why can't I depend on you? I am going out with some friends on Friday night. You better get out and take the kids this weekend or I will be really pissed."
"My time is up. I'll see when I can get out of here. I'll call Thursday night."
Three Oaks released Elliot on Good Friday morning. He drove over to the house. Ronny and Ribbon were anxiously waiting for him. That night Elliot read Swiss Family Robinson to them before bed.
One day a year later Leah told Elliot, "I'll give you one more chance." So Elliot moved back into the house, not sure if anything had changed other than the amount of debt he owned.
On Elliot's fiftieth birthday, Leah decided to give him sex. As they got themselves undressed Elliot asked, "Could you just wear that perfume I like." Leah jumped out of bed, put on her robe and stormed out of the room. "What was that about?" Elliot wondered, naked on the bed. From experience he knew that he would never get an answer, at least not the answer related to what just happened.
A few minutes later Ronny and Ribbon called for Elliot to come down for his birthday cake. He blew out the "50"candle while Ronny and Ribbon sang "Happy Birthday". Leah just stood there holding a glass of wine in front of a stoic grimace. Under her arched eyebrows the pupil of each eye had constricted down to form a black bee bee. Elliot decided to clean up and put the kids to bed.
After Ronny and Ribbon were in bed and Leah had downed her fourth glass of wine, Elliot and Leah went to the garage to play darts. Going into the garage they noticed the wind. On the driveway fallen leaves were now churning in whirlwinds. There was a cold electric charge in the air. Elliot looked out around the garage door. "Look's like we're gonna have a doozy tonight. We better get started."
Off to the west behind the Walnut tree lightening etched the night sky. Moments later a bombastic thunder boom shook the air. "Mom! Dad!" Ribbon called out from her upstairs bedroom. Leah ran to comfort her.
Leah sat down on the edge of Ribbon's bed and looked out the window. It was then that she heard a loud "POP!" and saw what looked like sparks of a Roman candle in the corner of the backyard. The pole transformer had been hit by a lightning strike. Immediately the lights went out in the house and garage. Then she heard a long cracking sound and then a massive crunch. Lightening flashed again and Leah could see that a stout limb of the walnut tree had fallen through the roof of the garage. Leah got up and raced downstairs. She stopped in the kitchen to grab a flash light.
"Elliot? Elliot! Are you OK?" There was no answer. Shining the light inside Leah entered the garage. "Elliot? Elliot!" No answer. A motionless foot appeared under a branch. From the bottom of the shoe Leah lifted the light along to where Elliot's head would be. Moving a branch and then a pile of walnut husks Leah saw Elliot's face under a laurel of leaves. She gasped. On his temple was a large bleeding gash. Beneath, his eyes were closed and there was a look of silken repose on his face – almost like the weight of the world had been lifted off of him. Leah drew back in disgust, her hands blackened by the broken walnut husks. "How could you do this to me, Elliot, leaving me and the kids like this? I could never count on you."
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DAY SIXTY THREE August Sander
For my birthday the Race Marshal gave me a book to treasure - Beyond Bratwurst by Ursula Heinzelmann. This comprehensive catalogue of German food led to a broader discussion about what appears to be a German penchant for cataloguing in general. In the seventeenth century, Gottfried Leibniz, the German mathematician and philosopher, proposed an alphabet of human thought. Franz Walther Kuhn, a lawyer who translated Chinese novels into German, was credited (fictitiously) by Jorge Luis Borges as having discovered the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge, a taxonomy of animals supposedly taken from an ancient Chinese encyclopeadia.
In a comic presentation, Borges compared this ancient method with the chaotic system of classification in use by the Institute of Bibliography in Brussels which divided the universe into a mere 1000 sections - number 179, for example, packing together animal cruelty, suicide, mourning, and an assorted group of vices and virtues. Borges' point was that: "there is no description of the universe that isn't arbitrary and conjectural for a simple reason: we don't know what the universe is".
While one might agree wholeheartedly with Borges, a list can come in handy. The Race Marshal wrote a prize-winning biography of Nikolaus Pevsner whose main claim to fame, though perhaps not necessarily his greatest achievement, is the 46-volume Buildings of England series in which he describes our architectual gems. Pevsner, of Jewish extraction, fled Germany in 1933 and brought with him the idea for his catalogue of buildings, modelled on Georg Dehio's similar art history project - the Handbuch der deutschen Kunstgeschichte, a project (like the Buildings of England) that is still ongoing.
So when I mentioned that today we have a guest post about August Sander, who set off with his camera on a on a similarly impossible-seeming quest, it seemed to fit right in to this tradition. Many thanks to the photographer Fred Sansom for this post about one of Germany's greatest artists:
"Three young men pose on a country road, their heads turned as if interrupted on their walk. Formally attired in double-breasted suits and polished shoes, they sport identical hats and each carries a walking stick; they are on their way to a dance. The photograph was taken in 1914 and, with the knowledge of hindsight, it's hard not to wonder whether they survived the mass slaughter of the First World War.
The image, captioned Young Farmers, appears to have been the result of a chance encounter. August Sander was working in rural communities as a commercial photographer, but he had already conceived the idea for the ambitious project that would earn him his reputation as one of the greatest of portrait photographers — or, as one reviewer dubbed him, the Balzac of the lens.
Extending over half a century, but ultimately uncompleted, People of the 20th Century was intended to be a topographical survey of German society through portraiture. Influenced to some extent by the pseudo-science of physiognomy popular in Germany at the time, Sander planned a seven-volume work of largely anonymous portraits, systematically arranged according to "archetypes". They would add up to a composite picture of the socio-economic and ethnic character of the nation.
The resulting series of photographs is wonderfully inclusive, extending from farm workers and members of the industrial working class to the middle classes and aristocracy. Sander was closely associated with Germany's New Objectivity movement, which favoured the reality of daily life over Romanticism or Expressionism. He took a rigorously documentary approach to portrait making. All who came before his large-format camera were formally posed and treated with equal impartiality, be they beggar, baker or banker.
Sander defined his mission as to "speak the truth in all honesty about our age and the people of our age". He said: "Photography has presented us with new possibilities and new tasks. It can depict things in magnificent beauty but also in terrible truth, and can also deceive enormously. We must be able to bear seeing the truth, but above all we should hand down the truth to our fellow human beings and to posterity, be it favourable to us or unfavourable."
Inevitably, he fell foul of the Nazis. The diverse nation he portrayed was the antithesis of Hitler's vision of a single German Volk based on mythical racial purity. He photographed Jews, gypsies, dwarfs and the physically and mentally handicapped.
The majority of his portraits were made during the years of the Weimar Republic, a period of political and economic turmoil, of cultural and artistic innovation. Sander also took pioneering portraits of gays and lesbians during the years of the Weimar Republic. But the gays and lesbians, anarchists, revolutionaries and communists he photographed, the progressive artists, bohemians and androgynous new women, were anathema to the Nazi regime.
Sander had every reason to hate the Nazis - in 1933 they imprisoned his Socialist son Erich for ten years. But he remained true to his artistic credo, photographing with equal neutrality members of the Hitler Youth, the SS and even one of Hitler's bodyguards .
It made no difference. In 1936 the Nazi authorities confiscated unsold copies of his critically acclaimed 1929 book Face of our Time, a kind of preview of his grand project, and destroyed the printing plates. Further disasters followed. Erich died in 1944 after being refused medical treatment shortly before he was due to be released.
Erich Sander in prison
Sander's studio in Cologne was destroyed in a bombing raid the same year, and two years later tens of thousands of his negatives went up in flames. The photographs that remain offer fascinating glimpses of ordinary Germans at a key period in the nation's history. As with the earlier image of the three farmers, we wonder what fate had in store for these individuals. Who believed in Hitler's vision of a thousand-year Reich? Who was killed fighting for the Fatherland? Who died in a concentration camp?
Victim of Persecution c.1938
Numerous unnamed Jewish men and women entered Sander's studio, both in the lead-up to the Nazis taking power, when many of them were seeking to leave Germany, and around 1938, when they were suffering persecution. One of the few who has been identified is Benjamin Katz, a butcher and meat wholesaler, whose family firm had operated in Cologne for forty years. The Nazis forced him and his son Arnold to parade through the city bearing anti-Semitic signs. Eventually, he and his wife Adele were sent to the Lodz ghetto; they died in the Chelmno death camp in 1942.
In order to reflect Germany under the Nazis, Sander planned additional portfolios for his project to be entitled The Persecuted and Political Prisoners; the latter to include photographs taken by Erich and smuggled out of prison. With the Jewish portraits in particular, Sander's policy of presenting his sitters anonymously somehow serves to emphasise their humanity; the individuality of each is respected, but they represent all who suffered persecution under the Nazi regime.
Sander continued to work intermittently on People of the 20th Century until the 1950s. He died in 1964, leaving his lifetime project unfinished. However, a definitive seven-volume version, comprising more than 620 photographs, was published under that title in 2006 by the August Sander Archive in Cologne.
History has added a new layer of meaning to Sander's portraits, but their artistry and psychological depth extend well beyond documentary record and have influenced generations of photographers to the present day."
Thank you very much, Fred.
This Jurgen Teller, a German fine art and fashion photographer, talking about his reaction to August Sander - https://youtu.be/zjb6nrtwCJc
Here is a film made by Gerd Sander, August's grandson, who owns the historic archive of 11,000 negatives and other materials, who shows the portraits and the lesser known landscapes - https://youtu.be/T7tMdHt4HkM
This is Fred Sansom's wonderful Flickr stream - https://www.flickr.com/photos/46029463@N02/
And a trailer for tomorrow - https://youtu.be/Ei88J4lERbk
DAY ONE HUNDRED AND ONE The Steps of St Martin's
DAY ONE HUNDRED Hamburg and the Train Home
DAY NINETY NINE Bremen and Worpswede
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Hydrogen Power For Heavy Trucks In China And All The Ships At Sea
Hydrogen fuel cell systems may find a place in the transportation industry as a way to decarbonize heavy trucks and ocean going ships.
Steve Hanley
Hydrogen — it's the alternative energy source that just won't go away. We all agree it makes no sense as a power source for cars and light trucks but it may work just fine for freight haulers like heavy trucks and ocean going vessels. It also has potential for cleaning up emissions from big polluters such as steel and cement making.
China's 15 Year Transportation Plan
In a 15 year plan for new energy vehicles released on November 2, China's State Council said the country will focus on building the fuel-cell supply chain and developing hydrogen-powered trucks and buses. China is planning to have 1 million fuel cell vehicles in operation by 2030 according to a report by Business Standard. At the moment, most commercial hydrogen in China is derived from fossil fuel sources and is more expensive than electricity. That could be changing, however. A new wind and solar installation in Inner Mongolia is expected to produce up to 500,000 tons of hydrogen a year beginning in 2021. State-owned oil refiner Sinopec said on October 29 it is investing in hydrogen production, transportation, and fuel cells and is building a network of hydrogen vehicle refueling stations.
Courtesy of Hyundai
The new infrastructure will benefit hydrogen powered trucks and buses, allowing them to travel further on a single tank of hydrogen than a similar battery powered vehicle. Wang Chaoyun, chairman of Anhui Mingtian Hydrogen Energy Technology, a startup that develops fuel cell stacks and other components for hydrogen vehicles, China will become the world's largest market for hydrogen powered vehicles within 3 years and will have half a million of them on the road by 2035.
Chisato Yoshifuji, a project manager at Toyota, tells Business Standard she sees the Chinese market for heavy trucks and buses being dominated by hydrogen in the near future. "China is concentrating on commercial vehicles and that aligns with Toyota's thinking," she says. "It's a huge trend supported by the government." Hyundai announced on November 5 it has concluded agreements with five Chinese partners to promote the development of hydrogen fuel cells. "Hyundai believes China has a massive potential for hydrogen powered commercial vehicles," said In Cheol Lee, Hyundai's executive vice president and head of its commercial vehicle division. Hyundai and its regional partners expect to supply 4,000 fuel cell powered commercial vehicles in China by 2025.
"Pure electric vehicles and fuel cell powered automobiles are equally important in our new energy vehicle development strategy and will coexist in the long run," says Wan Gang, vice chairman of China's national advisory body for policy making. He is often referred to as the father of the country's electric car movement
Not everyone is convinced and China may be hedging its hydrogen bets. IDTechEx, a research firm located in Cambridge, England, said in a report earlier this month that fuel-cell vehicles will "continue to be a commercial failure for the next two decades." That has led BloombergNEF analysts Siyi Mi and Jinghong Lyu to suggest the lack of details in China's new 15 year energy and transportation plan indicates Chinese policy makers are still deliberating over the role of hydrogen in China's energy economy as it seeks to move toward a net zero economy by 2060.
Havyard Readies Hydrogen Propulsion Systems For Ships
Norwegian ship designer Havyard has created a new division dedicated to creating hydrogen propulsion systems for the marine shipping industry. According to a press release, the new company will be known as Havyard Hydrogen and it expects to have complete hydrogen propulsion systems for ships available in 2021. The parent company has been heavily involved in the development of those systems for several years. Both Norwegian authorities and the International Maritime Organization have been striving to reduce emissions from shipping by at least 50 per cent. Gunnar Larsen, CEO of the Havyard Group, says meeting that goal will require many ships to operate with zero emissions.
"We are seeing increasing interest in the market for hydrogen. This form of energy produces zero emissions at the same time as it is the most technologically mature for large vessels sailing over relatively long distances. With our know how and expertise in hydrogen, we are in an excellent position to be among the leading players in the development and delivery of hydrogen systems. In cooperation with other companies in the Group, we can also deliver ship designs and complete control and energy systems from bridge to propeller," says Larsen.
Kristian Osnes from Havyard's R&D department will be executive vice president of Havyard Hydrogen. He says, "We can now offer a system with 3.2 MW fuel cells. This will make it possible for large vessels to sail with zero emissions over longer distances. At the same time, the system is scalable and can be used by both large and small vessels." Part of that scalability includes flexible placement of the hydrogen storage tank within the hull of a vessel, which makes it easier to retrofit a hydrogen propulsion system to an existing ship.
"If Norway and the rest of the world are to achieve the emission reduction goals, we need solutions that can reduce emissions towards zero. We believe that the timing is right, given that both the market and the regulatory requirements create demand for concrete solutions that can result in substantial reductions in emissions from shipping," Osnes says. "It will be very interesting for Havyard to be part of taking these solutions a step further, and thereby contribute to the ongoing green shift."
Carbon emissions from maritime transport are about 940 million tons annually or 2.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions according to the European Commission. Some industry observers expect shipping emissions to more than double in coming years. The need to reduce those emissions is urgent.
Volkswagen has begun using two ships powered by liquid natural gas to transport vehicles built in Europe to markets in North and South America. The company ships more than 2.8 million vehicles by sea every year, a process that involves more than 7,700 ocean voyages. Emissions from LNG are higher than using hydrogen but significantly less than those created by conventional cargo ships that operate on heavy bunker oil.
As we reported recently, the transition to low and zero emissions transportation is expected to have a devastating effect on the demand for oil in the near term. Ships consume a lot of oil but clean energy technology will deal yet another death blow to oil. Nothing could make us happier that seeing the world transition to low and zero emissions transportation.
In this article:China, hydrogen electric trucks, hydrogen trucks, Hyundai, IDTechEx, Inner Mongolia, SINOPEC, Toyota, transportation emissions, Wan Gang
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FIU Business management professor contributes to analysis of COVID-19's impact on disability benefits.
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Professor Juan Ignacio Sanchez, Knight-Ridder Eminent Chair in Management, is working alongside the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) on an in-depth analysis of COVID-19's impact on U.S. employment disability rates.
The NAS' Standing Committee for the U.S. Social Security Administration Disability Programs, of which Sanchez is a member, was tasked by the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee with identifying long-term, disabling conditions stemming from COVID-19.
"There's concern that both the number of applications and the number of people on disability will increase as a result of limited abilities after having had the illness," said Sanchez. "This will make economic situations worse."
The NAS committee is examining conditions such as cardiac or pulmonary complications as well as fatigue and mental health issues that will affect people's ability to hold full-time jobs. Sanchez pointed to front-line jobs that, as a result of the pandemic, are getting more complicated and becoming increasingly stressful for employees.
The group will also conduct a functional analysis of occupations that might diminish the impact of COVID-19 on costly employment disability rates. Over 2.5 million people apply for disability benefits in the U.S. every year, and this number is expected to grow steeply as a result of COVID-19.
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Q: Windows Phone 7.8 and wma audio streaming problems Our application streams  wma audio content using AudioPlayerAgent (background player). Everything worked perfectly on WP 7.5 until the update to WP 7.8  has been released. Than it stopped streaming.
To exclude errors in our code we downloaded the Microsoft's example application sdkBackgroundAudioPlayerCS and used our streams. It worked correctly on phones that haven't got the 7.8 update yet, but not on already updated devices.
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The 10/22® 50th Anniversary Design Contest Winning Rifle is the result of Ruger's most extensive Voice of the Customer Program ever: In late 2013, Ruger invited fans to submit ideas for their ideal 50th Anniversary 10/22®. Ten contest finalists were put to a vote on the Ruger website and, after almost 40,000 votes were tallied, the winner emerged! "For 50 years, the Ruger 10/22® has been America's favorite .22 rifle and this Contest Winning rifle is a great representation of what Ruger is trying to do today - listen to its customers," said Chris Killoy, Ruger President and Chief Operating Officer. "The idea for this gun was submitted by one of our customers, and voted on by many more." Based on the original 10/22® rifle, this model features the ergonomic, lightweight black composite stock and the Ruger® Modular Stock System from the Ruger American Rimfire™ rifle. It also includes a protected, non-glare post front sight, ghost ring adjustable rear aperture sight, and Picatinny rail from the popular Gunsite Scout Rifle. The special edition rifle is rounded out with a precision-rifled, cold hammer-forged, stainless steel barrel, which is capped with a blued alloy steel SR-556®/Mini-14®-style, 1/2''-28 thread flash suppressor. To further recognize the 50th Anniversary, this rifle and all 2014 production Ruger® 10/22® rifles will feature a special, limited-time "50th Anniversary Logo" bolt marking, "The Ruger 10/22 • 22 LR - Fifty • 1964-2014" receiver markings and a commemorative "50th Anniversary Logo" box.


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Partners Village Store and Kitchen welcomes author Anna Whitcomb
WESTPORT — On Tuesday, Nov. 13, Partners Village Store and Kitchen will welcome local author Anna Whitcomb to celebrate the release of "Riverrock: A New England Family Saga," written by her mother, Anna Danzer.
Join Partners for an engaging evening discussion about this vibrant novel, the writing process, and how this uniquely New England story came to be.
When Dane, a bright, young reporter from Maryland, jumps into a marriage with Andrew "Beck" Beckford, an aspiring doctor with old New England money, right before he joins the army during World War II, doubts set in. After giving up her career to move to Riverrock, his family's estate in Massachusetts, and becoming entwined in their knotty private affairs, her concerns multiply. What kind of family did she marry into?
There's Beck's father, Andrew, a domineering patriarch and president of a Maine paper company who has a strange grip over his docile daughter, Eleanor, and Maud, the matriarch, who's a master manipulator forever plotting against her husband. Randall, Beck's older brother, is an enigma. And Beck? He's like a lost child, crumbling after returning from war.
The more skeletons Dane uncovers — those involving deceit, forbidden love, even murder — the more determined she is to untangle herself from the Beckfords' hold and leave the prison of Riverrock. But with all their wealth, power and vindictiveness toward anyone who crosses them, how will she become free?
This intriguing historical and psychological saga, which spans several decades, explores the complex relationships and interplay between the Beckfords and the outsider they let in.
Danzer, the author, was raised in Hagerstown, Maryland, and graduated from Smith College with a bachelor's degree in English and Wellesley College with a master's degree in English. While at Smith, she was a copy editor of the literary magazine. She started her career as a local reporter for her hometown newspaper and later became a research analyst for the House Special Committee on Un-American Activities. She continued writing and editing manuscripts and technical manuals for defense contractors, literary magazines, and consulting agencies. She resided in both Cambridge and Carlisle, Massachusetts. She died in 2003.
Whitcomb, the editor and author's daughter, was raised in Cambridge, attended Green Mountain College and received a bachelor's degree from the University of Vermont. She additionally earned an MPA and CAGS in counseling from Suffolk University. She's helping to fulfill her mother's legacy by having Riverrock, a book more than 40 years in the making, finally published.
Meet Whitcomb on Tuesday, Nov. 13, at 6 p.m. Partners Village Store and Kitchen to celebrate the release of "Riverrock: A New England Family Saga," written by her mother, Anna Danzer. Partners Village Store and Kitchen is located at 865 Main Road, Westport. MA, Phone: 508-636-2572


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How to keep data as a valuable resource, not a potential landmine
Data is at the core of all organizations. But acquiring and managing an ever-increasing amount of data can be challenging for many resource-strapped IT teams. Adding to the pressure are increasingly complex data compliance regulations and the looming risk of financial and reputation damage if sensitive data is misused.
Automated governance technology solutions that combine data analytics to detect digital risk with workflows to map, assign, assess, and remediate actions are the key to easing data compliance challenges.
Download this white paper to see how technology can help data managers work to overcome the top five data compliance challenges including:
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Chris is the Data Analytics Manager with Performance Audit Services of the Louisiana Legislative Auditor's office. Chris has been with the office since June of 2012 and has worked on various audits that evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of programs by using data, including SNAP (food stamps), Medicaid programs, and deceased individuals receiving entitlement benefits.
Chris' professional certifications include Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) and Certified Government Auditing Professional (CGAP). Chris has a Bachelor of Science degree in Management/ Marketing from Louisiana College. He also received his Masters of Business Administration from Louisiana State University.
Kristen is a Senior 2 auditor with the Performance Audit Services section of the Louisiana Legislative Auditor. Kristen has been with the office for eight years and has worked on various performance audits that evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of programs, including probation and parole, child welfare, Medicaid long-term care, adult protective services, incarceration rates, juvenile justice, and tax collection. She is currently working on an audit examining state-wide IT consolidation.
Kristen has incorporated data analytics into many of her performance audits using a variety of methodologies. In 2018, Kristen's audit report, Evaluation of Strategies to Reduce Louisiana's Incarceration Rate and Costs for Nonviolent Offenders, won a National Legislative Program Evaluation Society Certificate of Impact. Kristen has also developed and presented data analytics training to performance auditors.
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Вулиця Родини Глаголєвих — вулиця в Шевченківському районі міста Києва, місцевість Сирець. Пролягає від Ризької вулиці до вулиці Ольжича.

Прилучаються вулиці Щусєва, Юрія Глушка і Володимира Сальського.

Історія
Вулиця виникла у 50-ті роки XX століття під назвою Нова. Прокладена на місці знесеного Сирецького концтабору. 1957 року отримала назву вулиця Академіка Грекова, на честь російського історика Бориса Грекова.

Сучасна назва на честь Олександра та Олексія Глаголєвих, священиків Російської православної церкви, Праведників народів світу — з 2022 року.

Сучасна забудова вулиці почалася у 1950-х роках; переважно складається з п'ятиповерхових «хрущовок» та будинків так званої перехідної серії (від «сталінки» до «хрущовки»).

Установи та заклади
 Інклюзивно-ресурсний центр — колишня Загальноосвітня школа-інтернат № 20 санаторного типу (буд. № 2)
 Дошкільний навчальний заклад для дітей с тяжкими вадами мовлення № 323 (буд. № 16)
 Дошкільний навчальний заклад санаторного типу для тубінфікованих дітей № 343 (буд. № 24)

Пам'ятники та меморіальні дошки
На початку (буд. № 1/6) та в кінці (буд. № 15) вулиці встановлено анотаційні дошки, на честь академіка Бориса Грекова (1882—1953), на чию честь було названо вулицю.

У подвір'ї будинку № 20 міститься меморіал на місці розстрілу футболістів київського «Динамо», учасників так званого «матчу смерті».

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 На низці будинкових покажчиків (адресних табличок) назву вулиці зазначено у формі вулиця Грекова.
 Після найменування в 2018 році вулиці Генерала Грекова (Подільський район) у Києві стало дві вулиці Грекова.

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Aitana Bonmatí: "Our goal was to make history, we can go much further"
I think it was my nervousness, but before the clash I remembered Javier Clemente and that Euro 1996, also on British soil, which beautifully portrayed the collective schizophrenia that testicle football was causing in this Spain of mine, this Spain of ours. That's how it works, I suppose, the collective memory of a sport from which the female credentials were almost stolen by decree, only recently freed from a bisoja conception of the show that has cornered women in amateurism and anecdotes.
At the gates of the Amex stadium, a simple but noisy delegation waited for the Spanish footballers. The first to get off the bus was José Luis Rubiales, or someone who looked a lot like him, because if we've learned anything from the top-grossing spy movies, it's not a given to take. The coaching staff followed between somewhat faint patriotic chants, like restrained anticipation that turned to pure passion as the protagonists began to tread the floor on their way to the dressing rooms.
"We will support them no matter what," Rubiales told public television as our team worked up a sweat on the pitch, concentrating on a warm-up session that ended in a collective riot, understood in the concept of riot as a show of enthusiasm and Ambition. : the necessary counterbalance to the condescension that distills the words of the President of the RFEF. The federal tokens of support when translated into pesetas – to continue with the old references – will always be welcome. The rest, especially this kind of paternalistic declarations, only spoils the idea that there is still a long way to go.
The level of requirement increased by itself as soon as the fight started: neither fear of the rival nor respect for the most well-known English traditions such as extreme punctuality. Esther González kicked off center and ahead of time while all of her teammates knelt on the floor and the crowd started the countdown: first warning of their evil intentions, fang so sharp it could have nibbled the ball and no one would have her accused. Minutes earlier, while "God save the Queen" was thundering in the stands, Aitana Bonmatí raised her hand to attract the attention of her teammates or to thank the honorable man, both options seemed plausible to me.
"Some things once done can't be undone," said David Carradine in Kill Bill. And with that mentality, Spain was planted in Brighton, ready to make history and avoid the 'it will be another time, you are champions in our hearts' those things coming. He gave no wrinkles, he showed play and personality until he got the English in a bind into questioning their own favouritism, but he lost. "TVE is the home of competitions and this week starts Cazadores," the announcer announced suddenly. Lo and behold, to me, this modern obsession with mistimed advertising seemed like a firm commitment to equality.
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Multicriteria fuzzy assignment method: a useful tool to assist medical diagnosis
N. Belacel*, M. R. Boulassel
Allied Health Sciences
The aim of this paper is to provide a concise portrayal of medical applications of a new fuzzy classification method called PROAFTN, which uses a multicriteria decision aid approach. The review summarises and discusses medical applications of the proposed method in acute leukemia, astrocytic and bladder tumours. Although still an investigative method, the preliminary results are very encouraging and demonstrate the potential performances of this procedure for solving medical classification problems.
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Zoology > Around the World with DNA
Scientists travel around the world to observe many different animal species and to collect their DNA . By analyzing DNA, scientists can figure out the kinds of animals that live on our planet, where they live, and the ways in which they're related. This information helps protect endangered animals and the habitats they live in.
Check out these scientists' journals from around the world!
Preserving Humpbacks is No Fluke
For centuries, humans have hunted humpback whales. There are only about 35,000 humpbacks left in the world. I'm Howard Rosenbaum , and I hope that my research will help preserve this endangered species.
In my research, I travel to Madagascar to observe humpbacks . I can tell the whales apart by their different flukes. Flukes are the broad, flat ends of a whale's tail.
Through careful observation, I can recognize more than 500 different whales.
By comparing DNA analyses with my field observations, I can see how the whales are related and how they interact with each other. Then, I will be able to recommend how we might protect these amazing animals.
The Big Cats of Sumatra
Hi, I'm Joel Cracraft . I study birds at the American Museum of Natural History, but I'm also crazy about tigers. I've used genetics to study a type of tiger that lives on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. Several thousand years ago, the islands of Indonesia were connected to mainland Asia, and all the tigers roamed freely. Gradually, the islands separated and Sumatran tigers became isolated.
My team compared the DNA of Sumatran tigers to that of other kinds of tigers, such as Bengals and Siberians. We discovered that Sumatran tigers are genetically unique. Scientists can use this information to make decisions about how to breed tigers in zoos. This discovery will also support Indonesia's efforts to protect tigers in the wild.
Whooooo's Life is it Anyway?
I'm George Barrowclough and I investigate spotted owls. These magnificent birds live in the western United States, where they nest in the largest, oldest trees. I am worried that northern spotted owls may become extinct because the forest that is their home is being cut down.
I analyzed DNA taken from blood samples of northern spotted owls and California spotted owls to see if these bird species are different. I concluded that they are. The government is considering my DNA evidence as they figure out how to preserve the northern spotted owl.
What's Black and White and Fluffy All Over?
The answer to this riddle is one of my favorite animals. My name is Yael Wyner , and I study black-and-white ruffed lemurs . These small, furry mammals live in Madagascar, an island off the southeast coast of Africa.
Many forests in Madagascar have been destroyed because people need land for grazing and farming. So now lemurs are endangered. Scientists want to prevent these marvelous creatures from becoming extinct . So they are sending lemurs that have been bred in U.S. zoos back home to their native Madagascar.
Scientists hope that the imported lemurs will mate with the native ones, and that the population will gradually increase. In the lab, I analyzed the DNA sequences from several lemurs from both Madagascar and U.S. zoos. Scientists are using my results to help track how the "zoo lemurs" are adjusting to their new habitat over time.
We Want Future Generations to Inherit the Parrot
I'm Mike Russello and I'm a graduate student. I also work at the American Museum of Natural History. I study a bird named the St. Vincent parrot . It's named the St. Vincent parrot because it makes its home on the island of St. Vincent in the West Indies.
Many people want to keep these rare, colorful birds as pets. One bird can sell for $10,000! So, sometimes people try to smuggle them to countries around the world. The forest where they live is also being destroyed. This illegal trade and habitat destruction have made the St. Vincent parrot an endangered species. Scientists now think that there are only about 500 individuals on the island.
We want to conserve this precious animal. To do this, we need to protect the forest. We also need to help the St. Vincent parrot population increase. So, we breed them. But it's not that easy. Male and female parrots look exactly the same. In the past, the most common way scientists discovered whether a parrot was male or female was through surgery. But now we can study DNA from a bird's feathers to see whether it is male or female. DNA analysis can also tell us which birds are the best matches. We want to breed the birds so that there's variation in the gene pool. The greater the genetic differences within a species, the greater the chances that it will survive - today and in the future.
How to Avoid a Pacu Snafu
Do you ever wonder if there's something we could do to make sure an animal doesn't become endangered? I'm Daniela Calcagnotto, and that's exactly what I'm trying to figure out.
I study a species of fish called the pacu . These fish are close vegetarian relatives of the meat-eating piranha. They are found in several rivers in South America. They can grow to be as heavy as a human kid - that's about 50 pounds! The pacu is very important to the economy of many communities. Recently the wild populations have been overfished and their numbers are decreasing.
The Brazilian government approved a project to study the pacu populations to see how the fish vary from river to river. As a first step, I took little pieces of fin from various fish and removed DNA. Now, I am comparing the DNA to see how genetically different, or diverse, the populations are. Scientists need this information to breed fish in fish farms. They want the farm populations to have the same genetic diversity as the wild populations. If the fish become endangered, we can then help the populations grow again. We can gradually move the fish from the breeding place to the rivers.
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Grabacr07.KanColleViewer.Models;
using Grabacr07.KanColleViewer.Models.Settings;
using Grabacr07.KanColleViewer.Views;
using Grabacr07.KanColleWrapper;
using Livet;
using Livet.Messaging;
using MetroTrilithon.Mvvm;

namespace Grabacr07.KanColleViewer.ViewModels
{
	/// <summary>
	/// アプリケーションのメイン ウィンドウのためのデータを提供します。このクラスは抽象クラスです。
	/// </summary>
	public abstract class MainWindowViewModelBase : WindowViewModel
	{
		/// <summary>
		/// アタッチされたウィンドウがアプリケーションのメイン ウィンドウかどうかを示す値を取得します。
		/// </summary>
		public bool IsMainWindow { get; }

		#region Content 変更通知プロパティ

		private ViewModel _Content;

		/// <summary>
		/// アタッチされたウィンドウに表示するコンテンツを特定するための <see cref="ViewModel"/> オブジェクトを取得または設定します。
		/// </summary>
		public virtual ViewModel Content
		{
			get { return this._Content; }
			set
			{
				if (this._Content != value)
				{
					this._Content = value;
					this.RaisePropertyChanged();
				}
			}
		}

		#endregion

		#region StatusBar 変更通知プロパティ

		private ViewModel _StatusBar;

		public ViewModel StatusBar
		{
			get { return this._StatusBar; }
			set
			{
				if (this._StatusBar != value)
				{
					this._StatusBar = value;
					this.RaisePropertyChanged();
				}
			}
		}

		#endregion

		/// <summary>
		/// ウィンドウを閉じることができるかどうかを示す値を取得または設定します。
		/// このプロパティは、以下のいずれかの条件を満たすとき、true を返します。
		/// <para>・このプロパティ値に true が設定されているとき。</para>
		/// <para>・メイン ウィンドウであるとマークされていないとき。</para>
		/// <para>・アプリケーションの終了確認動作が「なし」に設定されているとき。</para>
		/// <para>・アプリケーションの終了確認動作が「出撃中のみ」に設定されており、出撃中でないとき。</para>
		/// <para>・アプリケーションの起動または終了動作中のとき。</para>
		/// </summary>
		public override sealed bool CanClose => base.CanClose
												|| !this.IsMainWindow
												|| (GeneralSettings.ExitConfirmationType == ExitConfirmationType.None)
												|| (GeneralSettings.ExitConfirmationType == ExitConfirmationType.InSortieOnly && !KanColleClient.Current.IsInSortie)
												|| Application.Instance.State != ApplicationState.Running;

		protected MainWindowViewModelBase(bool isMainWindow)
		{
			this.Title = ProductInfo.Title;
			this.IsMainWindow = isMainWindow;
			this.CanClose = false;

			Application.Instance.Subscribe(nameof(Application.State), this.RaiseCanCloseChanged).AddTo(this);
			KanColleClient.Current.Subscribe(nameof(KanColleClient.IsInSortie), this.RaiseCanCloseChanged).AddTo(this);
			GeneralSettings.ExitConfirmationType.Subscribe(_ => this.RaiseCanCloseChanged());
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// 現在のウィンドウから、指定したウィンドウに <see cref="TransitionMode.NewOrActive"/> で遷移します。
		/// </summary>
		public void Transition(ViewModel viewModel, Type windowType)
		{
			this.Transition(viewModel, windowType, TransitionMode.NewOrActive, false);
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// 現在のウィンドウでダイアログを表示します。
		/// </summary>
		public void Dialog(ViewModel viewModel, Type windowType)
		{
			this.Transition(viewModel, windowType, TransitionMode.Modal, true);
		}

		protected override void CloseCanceledCallbackCore()
		{
			var dialog = new DialogViewModel { Title = "終了確認", };

			this.Dialog(dialog, typeof(ExitDialog));

			if (dialog.DialogResult)
			{
				this.CanClose = true;
				this.InvokeOnUIDispatcher(this.Close);
			}
		}

		protected void RaiseCanCloseChanged()
		{
			this.RaisePropertyChanged(nameof(this.CanClose));
		}
	}
}

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Farrell Distributing is the preferred beer and wine vendor of Maplefields. They have the knowledge and expertise that many other beer vendors do not possess. I consider them to be my Category Captain when it comes to dealing with my Beer, Craft and Cider business. Farrell Distributing seems to have the pulse of the beer business at hand when many other beer vendors are just winging it. When planning and executing new beer sets in my stores, Farrell Distributing has my complete trust that they will do what is in the best interest of my business and my customers. This is rare in Vermont, most vendors only care about their numbers or the pressure they are receiving to carry so many packages from a particular brewer. My Key Account Manager is very proactive with their products, always rotating in new "hot" items and keeping the sets full of fresh great selling beer for my customers. He does a great job of managing the many different key brands that they have in their portfolio.I would recommend Farrell Distributing over any other Beer vendor, not only in Vermont, but in Upstate New York and New Hampshire. If I could deal with only Farrell Distributing in all 3 states for all my Anheuser Busch needs, I would be very happy not to mention have a little less stress in my work day.


There are 11 HiDIamond Signal Cables ranging from the entry level Diamond 1 to the advanced Diamond 9 and two phono cables. All cables feature 4VRC technology with the copper conductors being baked 4 times to realise high levels of purity resulting in low levels of inductance, capacitance and resistance.
Signal cables 3 to 8 and the Phono 0 cable feature XPLE insulation which is 100 times better than normal Teflon. This lowers the threshold of spike's escape and therefore the width of the musical signal barrier guaranteeing greater linearity and low amplitude of the sine wave of the basis for the benefit of the naturalness of musical signal emission.
Signal cables 5 to 9 and the Phono 0 cable include a blending of graphite to block the noise generated inside the cable by the passage of an electrical signal resulting in the almost total elimination of cable noise.
Finally the cables are terminated with quality connectors soldered with multiple galvanic tinning passes finished with chrome plating or rhodium plating to minimise conductive 'bottlenecks'.
Phono turntable cable based on RCA Diamond 5 terminated with plated connectors and earth wire terminated with spades.
Phono cable for analogue recorders terminated with large plated connectors and earth wire terminated with spades.
All cables come in pairs.
Longer cables can be sourced on request. The table includes the cost for each additional 0.5m.


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Obama's Friday Campaign Speech Reflects the Left's Intellectual Exhaustion (+video)
July 17, 2012 /1 Comment/in Featured, POTUS /by Yuval Levin
Once in a while, a politician will say something that really offers you some insight into his state of mind and his worldview. On Friday, President Obama gave a campaign speech that included a portion that really repays close inspection. He made his usual case for raising taxes on the wealthy, and then he said:
The most interesting part of this may well be when Obama says "that's the reason I'm running for president." Throughout his campaign speeches, it seems he can really only get excited when he forgets that he actually is the president right now and thus manages to reclaim some of that 2008 excitement he clearly badly misses today.
But the larger theme here is fascinating too. It's a huge and increasingly a central part of what the Democrats are saying (Elizabeth Warren got lots of applause on the left for saying basically the same thing a few months ago), and it tells us a great deal about what they think they're up against and what they understand themselves to be championing.
The first thing to say about the president's argument is that most of it is true, and is very, very obvious. No one would disagree with the specific things he says, except perhaps the vague and strange "If you've got a business—you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen." Who? But the president clearly thinks that some people do disagree with his more general point that everyone depends on society. It's very evident from this passage and from a great deal of what he has to say about his opponents that Obama thinks he is running against a band of nihilistic Ayn Rand objectivists who champion complete and utter radical individualism. That weird notion is also behind the various attempts to link Paul Ryan to Rand, which are pretty amusing if you've followed Ryan (for what it's worth, I would say Ryan thinks Ayn Rand is correct in her analysis of the left, which she believes has drawn the wrong lessons from the death of God, but is incorrect in many of her own prescriptions because she shares the left's belief that God is dead, but that's a story for another day…).
The president implies that his opponents don't think government has any purpose at all, or that laws are necessary for free markets, and don't recognize the fruits of any common efforts in American history. That's just ridiculous. I'm sure there are many libertarians who wish Republicans really were radical individualists, but there's just simply nothing in what Republicans have said or done in our time to support the idea that they are. The Ryan budget, which almost every congressional Republican has voted for, is an attempt precisely to focus the government on achieving what people can't achieve on their own and on effectively helping the vulnerable and those who cannot help themselves. It envisions a very significant set of public entitlements and programs, in some cases larger than the ones we have now, but tries to bring them into line with the ethic and way of life of our free economy, to make sure they don't crowd out civil society, and to make them far more efficient and effective than they have been lately. It is a different vision of American life, but not a radically individualist one. It makes for a smaller government on the whole, but it is built on a clear sense that government serves some very crucial purposes. And Republicans are proposing a very gradual path to that vision of America beyond the welfare state. The president would like to imagine that he's running against radical individualism, but he's running against some fairly modest reform proposals to avert fiscal catastrophe.
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Good day to all the fashionable ladies out there! I bet that you are always up-to-date with the newest trends. And there is one that is certainly in the spotlight now-rose brown hair. With having so many trends around, this one is not a significant change. And the best thing is that this is perfect for brunettes that want small changes that are not significant. What are you waiting for? Read on and find out more about the hottest trend right now! If you are looking for examples to sow to your hairdresser, then this gallery is a must-see.
Why has everyone gone crazy for pink brown?
Do you want to make a change in your hair color, but you are not sure how it will come out? If you are a brunette, this is a trend that you must try. Rose brown has conquered the hearts of many ladies. Why? Because it is trendy, surprisingly wearable and easy to achieve. If you are afraid of damaging your hair, then you are free to try this. This hair color does not require much bleaching, so this means that your hair will be healthier. The warm tones achieved by adding red will look flattering to anyone. And this is what makes this hair trend a must try.
This stunning hair color was recently invented by an Australian hairstylist. And he states that this look can be created by a combination of bleach, hair statement and brown and red dye. The rose gold trend took so much attention. Unfortunately, this was a trend for the blondes. Or, too much bleach for the dark colors. And now, this look is created for the brunettes that want something different. This rising trend will become the ultimate spring hit soon.
The pink brown hair color has so many advantages: it does not require too much bleach, it can look flattering , and is easy to achieve. What do you think ladies? Would you give this one a try this spring?


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The famous american Doughnout versus the french Croissant.
Not all doughnuts are good, but krispy kreme ones are amazing.
Because the french croissant is less calorie than the doughnut!
Better for you, tastes better.


Please call in advance for group tours over 12 people. Tours are available Wednesday through Sunday with advanced notice. Group discounts available. On-site bus parking available. Off-hour and off-season tours requests will be handled on an individual basis.
Tickets available online or at the Visitor Center.
*All online tickets will be verified before admission into the Museum Exhibit is permitted.


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Senator Cruz's (R-TX) tax plan would enact a 10 percent flat tax on individual income and replace the corporate income tax and all payroll taxes with a 16 percent "Business Transfer Tax," or subtraction method value-added tax. In addition, his plan would repeal a number of complex features of the current tax code.
Senator Cruz's plan would cut taxes by $3.6 trillion over the next decade on a static basis. However, the plan would end up reducing tax revenues by $768 billion over the next decade when accounting for economic growth from increases in the supply of labor and capital and the much broader tax base due to the new value-added tax.
According to the Tax Foundation's Taxes and Growth Model, the plan would significantly reduce marginal tax rates and the cost of capital, which would lead to a 13.9 percent higher GDP over the long term, provided that the tax cut could be appropriately financed.
The plan would also lead to a 43.9 percent larger capital stock, 12.2 percent higher wages, and 4.8 million more full-time equivalent jobs.
On a static basis, the plan would cut taxes by 9.2 percent, on average, for all taxpayers.
Accounting for economic growth, all taxpayers would see an increase in after-tax income of at least 14 percent at the end of the decade.
This week, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) released details of a tax reform plan. This plan would institute a flat 10 percent tax rate on all varieties of individual income, with a large standard deduction and personal exemption. It would also repeal all itemized deductions except for the charitable deduction and the home mortgage interest deduction. The plan would replace the corporate income tax and all payroll taxes with a broad-based "Business Transfer Tax," or value-added tax (VAT), with few exemptions. The plan would maintain the Child Tax Credit and expand the Earned Income Tax Credit by 20 percent. In addition, the plan would eliminate the Estate Tax, the Alternative Minimum Tax, the Net Investment Income Tax, and miscellaneous credits.
Our analysis finds that the plan would reduce federal revenues by $3.6 trillion over the next decade. However, the plan would improve incentives to work and invest, which would increase gross domestic product (GDP) by 13.9 percent over the long term. This increase in GDP would translate into 12.2 percent higher wages and 4.8 million new full-time equivalent jobs. After accounting for increased incomes due to these factors, the plan would reduce tax revenues by $768 billion.
Consolidates the current seven tax brackets into one bracket at 10 percent on all personal income (wages, salaries, interest, capital gains, dividends, and business income).
Increases the Standard Deduction from $6,300 ($12,600 married filing jointly) to $10,000 ($20,000 married filing jointly) while retaining the personal exemption.
Eliminates all individual tax credits except for the Child Tax Credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit. Expands the Earned Income Tax Credit by 20 percent.
Creates a new "universal savings account" that allows up to $25,000 of tax-deductible saving.
Provides a temporary tax holiday at a 10 percent rate (instead of a full 35 percent rate) on any deferred foreign profits that are repatriated.
Senator Cruz's tax reform would be a significant shift from the current tax code. Under this plan, the income tax would be greatly diminished in its importance compared to current law. Instead, the U.S. federal government would raise 71 percent of all revenue from the new broad-based value-added tax. The tax is a broad consumption tax that would include most of U.S. GDP, including both wages and profits. Due to these changes, the taxation of investment would significantly decline, which would greatly increase incentives to save and invest.
According to our Taxes and Growth Model, the increased incentives to work and invest from this tax plan would increase the size of the economy by 13.9 percent over the long run. The plan would lead to 12.2 percent higher wages and a 43.9 percent larger capital stock. The larger economy would mainly result from a significant reduction in the service price of capital, due to the elimination of the corporate income tax and the significant reduction in the individual income tax. In addition, the reduction of marginal tax rates on individual income would increase incentives to work and result in 4.8 million full-time equivalent jobs.
The Senator's plan would eliminate the corporate income tax, the payroll tax, and the estate tax, which combined would reduce federal revenue by $17.3 trillion over the next decade. The reduction in individual income tax rates would lower revenue by an additional $11.8 trillion. Most of this revenue would be made up for with revenue from the new 16 percent value-added tax. This tax would raise $25.4 trillion over the next decade. On net, the plan would reduce federal revenue on a static basis by $3.6 trillion over the next ten years.If we account for the economic growth that the plan would produce, the plan would end up lowering revenue by $768 billion over the next decade. The larger economy would increase wages, which would narrow the revenue lost through the individual income tax by about $700 billion. In addition, the new value-added tax would end up raising $2.2 trillion more over the next decade, due to growth of the economy.
On a static basis, Senator Cruz's tax plan would increase after-tax incomes by 9.2 percent, on average. Taxpayers in all income groups would see higher after-tax incomes.
Taxpayers in the bottom decile would see a 4.3 percent increase in after-tax income due to the expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit, which more than offsets the impact of the new value-added tax. The next six deciles (the 10th through 70th percentiles) would see increases in after-tax adjusted gross income (AGI) of between 1.2 and 2.4 percent. High income taxpayers that fall in the highest income class (the 90-100 percent decile) would see an increase in after-tax income of 17.4 percent. The top 1 percent of all taxpayers would see a 29.6 percent increase in after-tax income.
On a dynamic basis, the plan would increase after-tax incomes by 21.3 percent on average. All deciles would see an increase in after-tax AGI of at least 14.2 percent over the long term. Taxpayers that fall in the bottom decile would see their after-tax AGIs increase by 15.3 percent. The middle eight deciles would see increases in their after-tax AGI between 14.2 and 18.4 percent. The top decile would see an increase in after-tax AGI of 27.1 percent, and the top 1 percent of all taxpayers would see an increase in after-tax AGI of 34.2 percent.
Senator Cruz's tax plan would significantly alter the federal tax code. It would completely repeal the corporate income tax and all payroll taxes and enact a 10 percent income tax and a 16 percent "business transfer tax" or value-added tax. These changes to the tax code would increase the incentives to work and invest and would greatly increase the U.S. economy's size in the long run, leading to higher incomes for taxpayers at all income levels. The plan would also be a large tax cut, which would increase the federal government's deficit by over $3.6 trillion on a static basis. Accounting for the growth caused by the plan, federal revenues would decline by $768 billion over the next decade.
We modeled most of the major provisions outlined above, except for a few that are beyond the scope of the model, or require data that is not available. We did not model the economic impacts nor the costs of the proposed universal saving accounts. We did not model the repatriation tax holiday. We assumed that the EITC expansion was applicable to all currently eligible taxpayers. As such, their EITC payments increased by 20 percent. In modeling the value-added tax, we held prices constant and passed the tax back to the factors of production.
Under current law, some taxes on labor are explicitly levied on nominal wages, reducing take-home pay, while others are implicitly passed on to workers through lower nominal wages. The business transfer tax would also fall substantially on payrolls, but it would do so entirely through implicit reductions in nominal wages rather than explicit reductions in take-home pay. The change in wage rate reported here is the net of growth in labor productivity as well as the explicit and implicit changes in worker take-home pay due to taxes.
 The Simple Flat Tax Plan, Oct. 28, 2015, https://www.tedcruz.org/tax_plan/.
 This rate is in tax-inclusive terms. This is equivalent to a credit-invoice value-added tax or sales tax of approximately 19 percent on goods and services.
 This makes it similar to the combination of a payroll tax and a corporate income tax with immediate cost recovery. Both the payroll tax and the corporate income tax under current law would be eliminated under the proposal.
 The wage rate change here includes both growth in labor productivity and changes to the tax burden on labor through payroll and business transfer taxes.


Offering at the same time? Our children held a "Turkey Trot." On the Sunday that we presented our church's Thanksgiving Offering goal, the children were given sponsor sheets. They asked for sponsors; and, a couple of weeks later, we held the event.
A track was set up with cones around the church parking lot, and "officials" were asked to stand at the Start/Finish Line to count laps. Parents, grandparents, and friends were encouraged to attend to cheer for the "trotters." Afterward, everyone was treated to hot dogs and the trimmings around a campfire.
You have time to organize your own Turkey Trot. Have fun!
* Photos are from the Turkey Trot at the Manchester, TN Church of the Nazarene.


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Leica Camera To Open Oskar Barnack Award Submissions
Photo by 2016 finalist William Daniels © Leica Camera AG
For the 37th year, Leica Camera presents the competition for the prestigious Oskar Barnack Award, as well as the Leica Oskar Barnack Award Newcomer, which recognizes rising photographers under age 25. The contest calls for image submissions from professional photographers that reflect the interaction between people and their environments in "creative and ground-breaking styles." The entry period is March 1-April 10, 2017.
Named for the inventor of the revolutionary, iconic 35mm camera, the "Ur-Leica," the Oskar Barnack Award will honor the winning photographers with prizes holding a total cash value of €80,000 ($84,285):
The Main Category winner will receive a cash prize of €25,000 ($26,339) and Leica M-System equipment (camera and lens) valued at an additional €10,000 ($10,535)
The Newcomer Award winner will receive a cash prize of €10,000 ($10,535) and a Leica rangefinder camera and lens
10 additional submissions will receive prizes of €2,500 ($2,633) each
The photo competition will publish the finalists' portfolios on the Leica Oskar Barnack Award website and in the magazine published for the competition. The winners and their works will be presented at a gala event held in Berlin.
Review the competition rules and learn how to submit your work at leica-oskar-barnack-award.com.
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Connellys Springs, NC
South Mountains State Park
As local communities continue to update Covid-19 regulations, local state parks, ranges and preserves, as well as many stores may be closed. Please visit official websites for the latest information.
3001 South Mountain Park Avenue
Connelly Springs, NC 28612
In one of the state's most rugged areas, South Mountains State Park features elevations to 3,000 feet, an 80-foot waterfall, mountain streams and more than 40 miles of trails for hikers, equestrians and mountain bikers. A true backcountry experience is offered at 24 backpacking campsites at seven locations. Equestrian camping is available with trailer parking and barn to complement 33 miles of bridle trails. Mountain bikers enjoy a strenuous 17-mile loop. Drive-to campsites sit beside the Jacob Fork River, with the river and its tributaries offering miles of trout fishing. There are two picnic areas and a picnic shelter for groups. A visitor center offers museum-quality exhibits on the cultural and natural history of the South Mountains.
Tent, trailer and RV camping
Drive-to family camping is available a half mile east of the Jacob Fork parking area.
Eighteen campsites include a picnic table and fire circle, and one site is wheelchair accessible. Two of those campsites have electric hookups for RVs. There is no dump station.
A bathhouse with hot showers and drinking water are located nearby.
If you do not have a reservation, please stop by the park office for availability.
Backpack camping
Twenty-four backpack camping sites are offered in seven areas of the park.
These sites are designated on the park map, and hiking distances to each backpack camping site vary. Each camping area has a pit toilet located nearby.
All supplies, including water, must be packed to the sites. To drink water from nearby creeks and streams, use a filtration device or boil the water for at least five minutes.
Below is a listing of the backpack campsites and the distance between the campsites and the Jacob Fork parking area.
Upper Falls Trail - 1.4 miles
Little River - 1.4 miles
Shinny Creek -1.2 miles
Sawtooth Trail - 2.5 miles
Jacob Branch - 3.8 miles
Fox Trail - 4.9 miles
Murray Branch - 5.4 miles
Equestrian camping
The equestrian camping area adjacent to the horse trailer parking area consists of 15 campsites, a 33-stall barn (nine stalls are 5 feet by 10 feet and 24 stalls are 10 feet by 10 feet) and a washhouse with hot showers and flush toilets.
Campers without reservations must confirm site availability with park staff before occupying a site. Only campers with horses can stay at the equestrian campsites. Proof of a negative equine infectious anemia (Coggins) test is required for horses using the barn.
The park is a great place for a hike!
The park has many miles of streams where an angler can cast a line. Most of the streams are classified as wild trout water while approximately two miles are classified as delayed harvest trout water. While general trout regulations apply in this area for part of the year, only single hook artificial lures can be used from October through the first Friday in June, and every fish caught must be released. A special license is needed for trout fishing, and all rules and regulations of the NC Wildlife Resources Commission are enforced.
Mountain-bike trail
South Mountains State Park is one of the few parks in the state parks system offering mountain bicyclists the chance to ride through the park. The 17-mile loop trail is strenuous, so riders should be in good shape before attempting it.
There are 33 miles of equestrian trails at South Mountains State Park. All visitors with horses must be able to provide proof of a negative equine infectious anemia (Coggins) test while visiting North Carolina State Parks.
Dining in the out-of-doors is a special treat at South Mountains State Park. The Jacob's Fork picnic area is adjacent to the Jacob Fork parking area and is accessible for persons with disabilities. Facilities include 12 tables, two grills and a restroom.
The Shinny Creek picnic area is less than a half mile from the Jacob Fork parking area. Four tables and three grills. A 10-table picnic shelter with fireplace and two charcoal grills are available on a first-come, first-serve basis unless reservations are made.
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