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By The Citizen on January 8, 2020
STROUDSBURG, Pa. — "She was my talking buddy. We'd get done with the show and call each other, six times. She wasn't a, she was family, she. I'm sorry," said Gary Smith, 'Gary in the Morning.'
For years, Pocono 96.7's morning radio show had two very familiar voices on "Gary in the Morning."
Gary Smith and his co-host, Elisa Chase.
Elisa passed away unexpectedly due to health complications. The well-known radio personality was only 38-years-old.
"We are really, really going to miss her. I miss her already and I am just lost. Numb," said Kerri Manning, Pocono 96.7 Promotions Manager.
Elisa took to her Facebook page earlier this week, letting her followers know about her health.
No one expected her life would be cut so short.
"The thing about Elisa was. She was spiritual, but not pushy. She was warm and never fake. She was always upbeat, happy. Any of the pictures you see out in the hallway, she's smiling," said Smith.
Elisa or "Elisa-Fabulous" as she was known by her many followers, was heavily involved in the Pocono community.
She hosted special events and won many awards.
One acceptance speech, in particular, that really showed Elisa's personality, will always stand out to her friend and former station manager, Kerri Manning.
"She had dedicated her speech to her bra because that is the only thing that supported her the best," said Manning.
People close to Elisa tell Newswatch 16, her bright smile and bubbly personality would light up any room she walked into.
"The community loved her and she loved it. You know, she was something special," said Shannon Burke, Pocono 96.7 Sports.
"She's looking down right now at me crying and making fun of me. Ya know, buck up," said Smith.
"I am so lucky to be in local media and have this great reputation with Gary in the Morning Show and Pocono 96.7. I just wanted to do something good. Thank you very much for allowing me to do this," said Elisa Chase, on a Facebook video post from November 30, 2019.
Elisa is survived by her husband. Funeral arrangements are still being made.
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U.S. Congress Continues to Address Climate Change in Defense and Intelligence Legislation
By John Conger
In the final version of the FY2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), Congress included multiple important climate security provisions that will significantly increase Department of Defense (DoD) installations' resilience to climate change. This continues a tradition of bipartisan cooperation on including climate change provisions in the NDAA, including during the last and current Congress (including the FY2018 NDAA, which identified climate change as a "direct threat" to national security. This year's bill includes a number of significant steps forward, such as funding for climate resilience projects, and the creation of a Climate and Security Council within the Intelligence Community (a long-standing priority for the Center for Climate and Security). Below is a summary of the climate security provisions in the final version of the NDAA.
Incorporation of Military Installation Resilience into Installation Master Plans, specifically to assess vulnerabilities both to installations and surrounding communities, identify missions that would be affected by those vulnerabilities, and propose projects to address those vulnerabilities. (Sec 2801a)
Direction to Create of a Permanent General Authority to Execute Military Construction Projects, which is unusual in that MILCON projects generally require individual authorizations before they can be pursued. (Sec 2801b)
Creation of a Dedicated Budget Line Item for Adaptation to Extreme Weather. (Sec 328)
Requirement for Improved Building Codes, called Unified Facilities Criteria in DoD, to promote resilience in new construction. (Sec 2804)
Requirement for use of the Navy's Climate Change Installation Adaptation and Resilience planning handbook by the entire DoD, ensuring that guidance is available for all installation officials that want to pursue resilience measures. (Sec 2804)
Extension of Restrictions on Construction in Floodplains to cover projected sea level rise over the projected life of a building. (Sec 2806)
Direction to Create a Climate Vulnerability and Risk Assessment Tool by DoD, to inform mitigation planning and infrastructure development. (Sec 326)
Direction to DoD to Consider Sites for a Strategic Port in the Arctic, with a report due in 180 days. (Sec 1752)
These provisions set the DoD up to make important progress in the years ahead to make its installations resilient to climate change. They establish the planning and guidance processes that are necessary prerequisites for building the large numbers of resilience projects that will be needed in the future.
Funding for Climate Resilience Projects: The bill also provides some funding to address climate change concerns. Specifically, it includes a $49 million project at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard to increase the height of floodwalls around its drydocks, driven by sea-level rise concerns, and authorizes $150 million for the Energy Resilience and Conservation Investment Program, which addresses projects at multiple locations. Much greater investments in climate resilience will be needed in the future, but this is an encouraging start.
Creation of a Climate and Security Council in the Intelligence Community: Finally, the bill incorporated the Intelligence Authorization Act, which included a provision that Creates a Climate and Security Council within the Intelligence Community to ensure that intelligence analysis is informed by the best possible science and projections (Sec 5321). This is highly consistent with the Center for Climate and Security's recommendation, in its CSAG Climate Security Plan for America, for a Climate Security Crisis Watch Center, led by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, to facilitate an annual interagency assessment, drawing from analysis across the intelligence community and beyond, of the risks that climate change poses to U.S. national security.
In conclusion, the FY2020 NDAA includes some of the most robust provisions on climate security that we have seen to date. This bodes well for the future of enhanced climate resilience in the United States.
To read the full NDAA, click here.
See also blog articles on the past two NDAA's that included climate change provisions: FY2019 and FY2018.
Tags: Congress, defense, military, NDAA, US Congress
By Caitlin Werrell and Francesco Femia in climate and security on December 12, 2019 .
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Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Nira Park
StudioCanal, Working Title Films, Big Talk Productions, Ingenious Film Partners
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A skilled London police officer is transferred to a small town that's harbouring a dark secret.
In total Double Negative worked on 180+ shots.
Hot Fuzz tackles a new movie genre - actually, and crucially, two movie genres - and mixes in plenty of gags.THE GUARDIAN
When Double Negative, was asked to execute the visual effects on the new action comedy Hot Fuzz the VFX facility jumped at the chance. Having worked with the team on the smash-hit, Shaun of the Dead, Double Negative knew that it would be the experience of a lifetime.
Hot Fuzz tells the story of supercop Nick Angel, a London policeman who is so good at his job he makes the rest of the force look incompetent; to save embarrassment his bosses decide to relocate him to a sleepy country village. The overachiever has trouble reconciling himself to his new surroundings, but is soon investigating a string of gruesome deaths.
Visual Effects Supervisor, Richard Briscoe and Visual Effects Producer, Steve Garrad led Double Negative's team on the project. The work itself was an eclectic selection of VFX shots, from explosions with CG elements, matte paintings, compositing and lots of blood and gore enhancement. Indeed, blood and gore added a lot to the shot count, which was in keeping with director, Edgar Wright's mantra – "There's no such thing in my vocabulary as over the top!"


Special thanks to CityKin and Somewhere Over-the-Rhine for drawing my attention to this great video from Streetfilms (see below). The video is great but it really depresses me for a couple of reasons.
1) Articulated buses, light rail, monorail, streetcars, and real-time arrival – boy are we faaaaaaaar behind Seattle and other like cities on the transit front. We have a bus system and nothing else, and our bus system lacks real-time arrival and articulated buses for increased capacity on highly used routes.
2) Whole Foods Market – we have some convenience stores, a farmer's market with limited hours, and a deli on steroids. At the same time Seattle is rolling out a brand new Whole Foods Market in what was previously considered an iffy area (Over-the-Rhine anyone?).
3) Amazon.com – the new economy is going to be shaped by companies of innovation. The United States doesn't produce material goods anymore, we produce innovation and creativity. This innovation and creativity is best facilitated in cities, and the cities that are winning out are the ones who can attract the talent and jobs for these industries. Seattle has technology, information, and the internet…Cincinnati has bananas, clothes, and household items. You tell me who wins out in this new economy?
I'm more optimistic about Cincinnati than just about anyone, but I do see the need for us to make bold and dramatic changes in the way we operate. We are waaaaaaay behind these other cities when it comes to positioning our city/region for the new economy. We not only need to catch up, but we have to get ahead.
I wish I were smart enough to know how to address some of these issues, because I would weigh in with my solutions if I had them. I do know they need to be answered. Part of that solution is transit. Seattle gets it, so does Portland, San Francisco, Charlotte, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Phoenix, Houston, Atlanta, D.C. New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, Denver, San Diego, Philadelphia, and Boston.
So how and when are we going to step it up and take action? It needs to be soon, and it needs to be swift. I fear that if Cincinnati misses out on this economic shift, as we have in the past, then we may be writing our future for the worse.
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Custom Dog Collars When Pain Relief for Dogs Is Necessary, There can be without a doubt that destructive chewing is one of the a lot of things any dog owner must take care of upon bringing a dog to their home. Actually, your dogs chewing behavior is typical irrespective of his breed and size (from largest Great Dane to smallest Chihuahua). In most cases, puppies tend to be more at risk of chewing and have the high tendency to grab whatever they find appealing. Shoes, socks, slippers, and children's dolls are simply some few things that dogs accustomed to chew and then damaged. So when a puppy actually starts to chew these products, the chewing behavior becomes destructive and it have to be corrected. The first step to determining the best way to handle your dogs destructive chewing is always to figure the reasons behind his behavior. The top three reasons why your dog starts destructive chewing are boredom, dental problems and curiosity. Each reason features its own corresponding solution, thus it is essential to be aware what causes your pets destructive chewing.
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Finally, a great rounded diet not simply ensures a dogs continued a healthy body but also can impact a dogs levels of energy and as a consequence affect its behavior. Feeding time is a dog bonding opportunity. When you give food you're the provider, the alpha dog within the 'pack'. This is also a great opportunity to teach your dog in most basic obedience techniques. A dog should be told (and expected) to sit down before given its food. This simple command reinforces the authority of the owner whilst further developing the dogs bond within it's 'pack'.
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NSAIDs and Ice Machines may negatively affect the body's natural recovery and healing. Physicians have even begun to question whether the traditional "RICE" protocol (Rest, Ice, Compression and Elevation) should be recommended13.
With the popularity of ice machines, Dr. Gabe Mirkin who coined the concept of RICE, has begun to caution against too much of a good thing. Still, he continues to recommend a shorter application of ice as supported by the design of ThermoActive ThermoTherapy.
Ice machines can provide intense cold therapy for an extended period. Continuous treatment can cause peripheral blood perfusion, where vessels constrict and slow the flow of healing blood. This hemodynamic fluctuation can lead to nerve damage.
ThermoActive bracing provides therapeutic deep cold for a safe and limited duration. As Dr. Mirkin recommends, ThermoActive braces provide short duration, therapeutic cold. They can be used safely without worry of ice burns that have resulted in a number of class action suits against the manufacturers of ice machines.
By contrast, ThermoActive ThermoTherapy is a natural anti-inflammatory1-3. It carries no side effects and no risk of gastrointestinal distress or perforations.
Opioid pain medications are a risk to patients and a huge expense to the healthcare system. The Accident Fund Holding found that workplace injuries cost 9X more when narcotics are prescribed. An association between opioids, delayed recovery and the return to work has been identified by the Worker's Compensation Research Institute.
The analgesic properties of cold are well recognized. In clinical studies, hospital-based continuous cold has reduced the use of opiates following Toal Knee Replacement. ThermoActive bracing can go home with the patient to easily provide mobile cold compression during rehabilitation. ThermoTherapy has also been shown to provide and alternative to patients wanting to reduce their consumption of pain medication.
Deep infection has been categorized as a 'Hospital Acquired Condition' that will not be reimbursed by Medicare. Excessive wound drainage is one cause of post-surgical deep infection in total joint replacement patients.
Cold therapy may help physicians reduce adverse post-surgical events like deep infection. Cold has been shown to reduce bleeding6, promote healing7 and keeping wounds cleaner.6,10 ThermoTherapy bracing will not be the primary solution for these issues. But the built-in ThermoTherapy provides a mobile method to maintain the benefits of cold for an outpatient.
The use of cold compression in the postoperative period of TKA results in a decrease in blood loss. Simply, cold reduces bleeding.6 ThermoActive bracing is a way to put cold therapy to work as a first response to trauma while on the sidelines at a game. Cold is effective treatment. ThermoActive makes it portable, mobile and fast.
Cold Machines that provide extended low temperatures have been shown to cause ice burn and frost bite. The Gel Pack has been designed to deliver therapeutic cold that dissipates with use. The brace delivers 20 minutes of therapeutic cold. The temperature slowly rises with use to reduce risk to patients who continue to wear the brace after the recommended therapeutic time.
ThermoActive gentler and slower cooling has the capacity to chill deeper tissue. Raw ice and cold machines are too cold to leave on long enough to affect deep tissue.
ThermoActive braces provide cold without cord…or any other restrictions to mobility.
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If space permits, children can attend single classes for a drop-in price of 10 000 Rwf / class.
Please refer to our Terms & Conditions for registering to our classes.
Please fill, sign and hand in the registration form for each class your child wants to attend together with a signed copy of the Terms & Conditions. Updated registration forms will be available online soon.
For adult classes no registration form is required. The teacher will only ask you to sign a participants list and to leave your email/phone number to be able to contact you.
Adult classes are paid in cash directly with the teacher.


Electricity service has been restored to your area. If the electricity in your home is off, please check your main electric panel and breaker. Simply moving any tripped switches to the 'on' position may restore electricity.
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Yes they should because they need to come home and take care of their families.
Yes a pesron's clothes would tell you about the persons style and it also describes the person, like you can tell a nerd by the way they dress....so yeah a person's clothes would tell you about the person.
No, the government should not control the church, the church is a house of God and the government is ruled by People; the church is for the people in the society and government should have no control over it.
It doesnt matter whether they ban it or not, it doesnt make no difference; Its a students choice to do whatever they wanna do with their body, so i dnt think facial piercing has anything to do with learning; its not like it will make the student fail or anything its just a stupid piercing so i think it should not be banned.
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Fukushima: why greens turned on each other
by Ben Pile | Apr 4, 2011 | Articles
Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/10368/
The coverage of the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant is dominated by the discussion of 'levels of radiation'. Run-of-the-mill catastrophes – earthquakes, tsunamis, that kind of thing – provide rolling news networks with dramatic images to underpin hours of glib commentary and speculation about what will happen next. But radiation, being invisible without the right equipment, makes for its own order of media phenomenon.
Instead of depictions of awesome power destroying civilisation, radiation generates discussion around images of contaminated food and workers in protective clothing pointing Geiger counters at children's thyroid glands. This is the backdrop to an endless recital of a litany about cancer, radiation sickness, corrupt energy companies and their political servants, and which scientists we should trust.
You might think, then, that when 'levels of radiation' turn out to be infinitesimally small, morbid speculation and radiophobia might cease. Last week, a press release from the UK's Health Protection Agency (HPA) announced that 'the minutest traces of iodine-131 associated with events at the Fukushima nuclear facility' had been detected in Glasgow and Oxfordshire, but that there was no risk to health. Rather than offering a sober perspective on risk, however, the finding provoked yet more speculation from the media, activists and politicians.
'"Fukushima nuclear plant" radiation found at UK sites', saidthe BBC. Beneath the attention-grabbing headline, however, the claim is given statistical perspective: 'a child's exposure in one day would be less than one ten-thousandth of what they would receive from naturally occurring background radiation in a day'. In other words, during a normal day, an individual is exposed to background radiation equivalent to nearly 30 years of exposure to the additional radiation from Fukushima now 'found at UK sites'. The HPA press release indicated that there was no risk to human health, and the article correctly quoted the HPA, yet its author found it necessary to talk about the accumulation of radioactive substances in the thyroid gland, leading to cancer. The attempt to put risk into numerical context is defeated by such emphasis on the danger of vastly greater concentrations of the substance. It's less rational than talking about the risks of drowning in an article about the accidental spillage of a glass of water.
'Fukushima radiation from Japan's stricken plant detected across UK', reported the Guardian, followed by a half-hearted attempt to emphasise the HPA's advice that there was no risk present to human health. This included repeating the HPA's 'warning' that 'radiation levels in the UK could rise'. However, it's hard to construe as a 'warning' the advice that even raised levels 'will be significantly below any level that could cause harm to public health'. This was followed by a story that Alex Salmond, the Scottish first minister, had claimed that the HPA had delayed publishing their advice in order to prevent causing embarrassment to the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment – headed by erstwhile chief scientific adviser to the UK government, Sir David King – which was due to make a public call for investment in nuclear energy.
King once remarked that 'climate change poses a bigger threat than terrorism', that it is the 'biggest challenge our civilisation has ever had', and that foreign spies and US energy interests were behind attempts to undermine public confidence in climate science and the attempt to build an international agreement at Copenhagen. There is something almost comic and farcical to the way in which King and the Smith School now seem to be hoist by their own nuclear petard. The alarm they have helped to unleash in the climate debate has breached its containment, and now threatens to contaminate their own project. Because, once you speculate about energy companies' clandestine lobbying effort and their influence over the political agenda in the face of a looming catastrophe – as King has – it's difficult to claim that another mode of producing energy offers a panacea. The price of the politics of fear is the trust in public institutions of all kinds and their advice, be they corporations, scientific bodies and advisers, independent regulatory authorities, government departments, and politicians.
Salmond is wrong, of course. Delaying the publication of the HPA's advice that the putative 'fallout' from Fukushima presented no risk could serve no purpose. Unless, that is, Salmond calculated that radiophobia would not be mediated by the HPA's assurances, and would thus create an opportunity to put distance between his own party, with its renewable energy and emphatically anti-nuclear policies, and the apparently 'pro-nuclear' Labour Party at the upcoming elections.
If that's the calculation that Salmond made, then he was absolutely correct. Writing in the Guardian, John Vidal quotes a former scientific adviser to Gorbachev during the Chernobyl accident: 'When you hear "no immediate danger" [from nuclear radiation] then you should run away as far and as fast as you can.' The accident at Fukushima is 'potentially worse' than the accident at Chernobyl, claims Vidal, while complaining that his erstwhile green comrades have compared those who question nuclear safety to 'climate change deniers'. Ultimately, however, the question for Vidal is 'who can we trust?'
The 'levels of radiation', are, after all, not the issue. It doesn't matter that public health agencies have attempted to reassure the public that these levels are insignificant. In such a febrile atmosphere, the very fact that such a statement was made at all seems to let the safety cat out of the nuclear bag; in the minds of anti-nuclear campaigners and politicians, declaring that Fukushima has had no negative impact on the UK identifies the HPA as partial, rather than independent. Any attempt to put perspective on the magnitude of the accident is to be seen to take sides.
From any rational perspective, the quantities of radioactive material found in the UK from Japan are not worthy of comment, except perhaps to those who take an interest in the design of incredibly sensitive radiological monitoring hardware. A spokesperson from the HPA confirmed that the quantities involved were 'at the limits of detection'. But that being the case, why would an agency concerned with public health make a statement about something that is of no concern to public health? There was a 'lot of [public] interest about whether the radiation had reached the UK yet', he told me, 'we had found a result, and felt that we should publish it'.
There really was no story. So why the headlines? Why the discussion about cancer, and the danger of nuclear power? And indeed, why the coverage at all? It was not the discovery of a risk to health that led to the HPA issuing its statement, but the perception that there was an appetite for information. The information, rather than offering reassurance, seemed instead to offer an opportunity to escalate the level of alarm. It was as if policy statements and articles about 'levels of radiation' were written before they were measured and their significance established, with such trifling details merely tagged-on as an afterthought – a caveat, to excuse their authors from overt scaremongering.
It perhaps makes no sense to even try to quantify the risks of nuclear power while the debate is so dominated by such a disproportionate sensitivity. Thanks to the precautionary approach, the mere theoretical possibility of an accident haunts any calculation of risks. Indeed, it is anxiety itself which provides the substance of, for example, the argumentfor nuclear power from David King, the Smith School, and George Monbiot: nuclear will save us from climate change. What this anxiety speaks about is much less the merits and demerits of one form of energy production over another, and much more the inability of public figures to make arguments without recourse to fearmongering. In this environment, any argument that puts risk into statistical perspective – or criticises the alarm generated by sensational copy, anti-nuclear activists and interventions from public-health bureaucracies – looks like advocacy. And advocacy is, as Vidal and Salmond seem to have it, partial, interested, and probably gambling with public safety for profit. The only people we can trust are those who speak about the looming danger. Only crises can legitimise seemingly objective policymaking.
The expression 'going nuclear' used to depict the escalation of an individual's rage, subsuming all those who stood near him or her. A more timely use of the expression might describe the absurd sensitivity to infinitesimal risks, leading to a drama that its cause did not warrant. The issue is not really what provokes the reaction, then – in this case, the non-story about almost no radioactive substance – but why that reaction is so explosive. It tears apart the relationship between radical and establishment environmentalists forged in the heat of panic about climate change. It threatens to undermine the government's energy programme. And it turns naked fearmongering back on the fearmongerer. Suddenly, Vidal is comparing his erstwhile green comrades with 'climate change deniers', and Monbiot calls the UK's first Green Party MP, Caroline Lucas, 'wildly illogical'.
What the reaction here in the UK to events at Fukushima reveals, then, is the instability of those perspectives and the crisis-prone nature of risk-averse politics.


Organising, buying ski gear and packing might be stressful enough without young children in tow, but you shouldn't miss out on your annual ski trip just because you have a toddler. Here's how to make the most of your family ski trip and have a fantastic time. There are so many resorts out there that cater specially for families with young children, there's no excuse!
Hitting the slopes at the very start or very end of the season has its benefits. The resorts will be quieter, you'll queue less to access the slopes and the ski schools will have fewer people. If you have older children who are in school, this will not be possible, but we highly recommend low season when you have toddlers.
The Christmas holidays and half-term breaks are always the busiest points for families. If possible, aim for the first week of January after the holiday period of, if you're only going for a few days, the final days of the half-term break will be quietest.
This is imperative. While kid-friendly options will give you plenty of children's activities on and off the slopes, you need to have fun too. Choosing somewhere that accommodates the whole family, complete with chill-out places for you and your partner, as well as babysitting options, to guarantee a relaxing holiday. These resorts will provide all the essentials in baby changing, food-prep, and children's entertainment but really facilitate family fun, rather than leaving the children to their own activities.
Things to look for: snow buggies, high chairs, cots or bed guards, baby monitors, food prep equipment, indoor crèche.
REMEMBER to check the ski-school ages of the resort before you book. Arriving and being told your child is too young wouldn't be ideal. Be aware that many schools accept children aged 3 and above; private one-to-one sessions may be negotiable with younger children too.
If you want the best of everything: good location, family-friendly, childcare options, and flights at reasonable times, book as soon as you can. It's often much cheaper to book in advance too. Opt for a flexible booking where you can add or change the people you're going along with.
Skiing holidays are a great time for socialising with extended family, as well as hanging out with friends. Invite friends and family who have children of their own or love spending time with yours. You'll be able to take turns childminding and take turns relaxing too. If you can tempt the grand-parents along, they'll be delighted to spend time looking after the grand-kids!
If possible, check out your nearest indoor ski school. They're a great way to teach your child what to expect when they experience the real thing and they'll also feel more confident about getting out on the slopes.
If they're too young for ski school, prepare them by talking to them about the snow and the holiday. Show them videos of children skiing. It's also key to get them accustomed to the heavy clothes, so always have a dress rehearsal with them wearing all their snow gear.
Be conscious that, while the weather is chilly, ski resorts are often very warm and toasty. Take along their usual bed clothes and any sleeping aids to make them feel comfortable. We recommend taking a thermometer, to ensure that the temperature stays between 16-20 degrees.
Sun protection is a must. While it may not be hot, the slopes often get a lot of sunshine. Buy some UVA protection sunglasses for your little ones, as well as packing some SPF 50 to keep them protected.
Pack your usual baby food, nappies and other things you use on a daily basis. If this is a lot to carry, consider ordering it to your resort or collecting the essentials at the airport.
Resorts are so well-equipped these days it's tempting to soak up the warmth and have the children amuse themselves in the crèche or with the other indoor activities all day. Wrap them up warm and show them how much fun they can have outside in the snow. You'll be able to hire snow buggies and sledges, if they're too young for the ski classes.
The cool fresh air can work wonders for everyone's health so make sure the whole family spends time in the great outdoors.
With all of the excitement of being on holiday and playing out in the snow every day, it's easy for yours and your children's eating and sleeping routines to be throw off balance. Try to keep nap times and bed times as close to the usual routine, but don't stress too much if they're sleeping for longer or the routine shifts slightly. With eating, it can be tough to plan mealtimes, but pack snacks and aim to eat at regular intervals.


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Q: how to show the typedef type in UML class diagram model (visual paradigm) I am creating a class diagram in visual paradigm.
I have a typedef :
typedef std::vector<A> Va;

and I want to represent this on visual paradigm by showing the type std::vector<A> in the representation but I don't see how

A: Is one stereotype enough?
Visual Paradigm offers a <<Typedef>> stereotype out of the box that can be used as shown in your diagram.  It looks like a <<primitive>>  type.  Unfortunately, it fails to acknowledge that a typedef is only an alias.  So how could the model tell anything about attributes or operations of a typedef?
How to show the alias in UML?
The closest way is to use specialization (inheritance).  If vA would be an UML specialization of vector<A>, it would have the same (public) attributes and operations.
But the specialization does not fully reflect the true nature of a typedef: a typedef does not define a new distinct type; it only defines a new alternative name for an existing type. You can use any of the aliases interchangeably:
typedef int distance;
typedef int weight;
distance d=10; weight w=20;
auto s=d+w;    // valid, d and w are just int

A very pragmatic and effective way to document this kind of relationship in UML, is to define a stereotype «typedef» stereotype for the specialization, being understood that the C++ semantic would apply:

(The templated vector is not required,  you could start at vector<A> if you'd wished)
How to define the specialization stereotype in Visual Paradigm?
First, draw the generalization shape (inheritance).
Right click on the new generalization that you've created from vector<A> to vA,  and chose Stereotypes > Edit Stereotypes... in the contextual menu.
Then in the popup window, click on the button Edit Stereotypes....  In the new popup window,  click on Add... button, and in the new popup type in typedef as stereotype. Click on ok, and the new stereotype is created,  click on ok and it's added to the list of available stereotypes:

Up from now,  you can easily select the home-made stereotype to generalizations. You could even decide to selectively show and hide the stereotyped specializations in the diagram, while having all the information in the model (see comments for details).
Shorter way?
If you don't need in your model the operations and attributes of vA, but just want a compact hint about the real type, you could make use of tagged values.  These can be associated to stereotypes.
You can for example enrich the built-in <<Typedef>> stereotype for classes,  by adding a tagged value named Alias for that takes as value a Model element:

From then onward,  for every class that has the <<Typedef>> stereotype you can open its specification and enrich the tab "Tagged values", selecting other elements in your model (not necessarily in the same diagram).
To visualize tagged values, you first need to activate them in the diagram, via the contextual menu (Presentation options > Show tagged values > Show non-empty).  You'd then have something like:

Not related:
You may want to consider using:
using vA = std::vector<A>;   // alias instead of typedef

If you think that it's just a matter of stylistic preference,  I'd warmheartedly recommend you Scott Meyer's book "Effective Modern C++" and in particular the dedicated section "Item 9: prefer alias declaration to typedefs".

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Q: Осваиваю язык программирования С. Не получается сделать качественный указатель на матрицу В функции out не получается сделать нормальный указатель, всегда вылезает ошибка
main.c:57:21: error: subscripted value is neither array nor pointer nor vector
 printf("%4d", mas[i][j]);
Нужна универсальная функция (способ передачи массива функции), чтобы можно было использовать ее как для первой матрицы 4 на 5, так и для второй 5 на 4.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#define N 5
#define M 4

int randm (int a, int b)
{
return (rand()%(b-a+1)+a);
}

void inp(int A[][M])
{
    int i,j;
    for(i=0;i<N;i++)
        for(j=0;j<M;j++)
            A[i][j]=randm(1,10);
}

void change(int A[][M], int B[][N])
{
    int i,j;
    for (j=0; j<M; j++)
        for (i=0; i<N; i++)
            B[M-1-j][i]=A[i][j];
}

void out(int n, int m, int * mas)
{
    int i, j;
    for (i=0;i<n;i++)
        {
            for (j=0;j<m;j++)
                printf("%4d", mas[i][j]);
            printf("\n");
        }
}

int main(void)
{
int i, j, A[N][M], B[M][N];

srand(time(NULL));
inp(A);
change(A,B);
out(M,N,(int *)B);
}

A: Вот универсальный способ вывода, остальные функции по аналогии
#include <stdio.h>

void out(int *a, size_t m, size_t n)
{
    for (size_t i = 0; i < m; i++, putchar('\n'))
        for (size_t j = 0; j < n; j++)
            printf("%4d", a[j + i * n]);
}

int main()
{
    int a[] = {0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0};
    int b[4][2] = {{0, 1}, {2, 3}, {4, 5}, {6, 7}};
    int c[] = {9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0};

    out(a, 3, 3);
    putchar('\n');

    out(*b, 4, 2);
    putchar('\n');

    out(c, 1, 10);
    return 0;
}

A: Ваш вопрос помечен одновременно С и С++. Решения, доступные в этих языках, отличаются.

*

*Для С у вас есть простое решение: воспользоваться VLA
void out(int n, int m, int mas[n][m])
{
  ...
}

...
out(N, M, A);
out(M, N, B);

*В С++ же в вашем конкретном примере вам можно просто воспользоваться шаблонами
template <int n, int m> void out(const int (&mas)[n][m])
{
  ...
}

...
out(A);
out(B);

*Универсальный способ, применимый как в С, так и в С++ (если вам недоступны VLA, вы не хотите использовать шаблоны, или вам нужен код, который будет компилироваться и в С и в С++) основан на создании промежуточного массива указателей
void out(int n, int m, const int *const mas[])
{
  ...
}

...
const int *const A_rows[] = { A[0], A[1], A[2], A[3], A[4] };
out(N, M,  A_rows);

const int *const B_rows[] = { B[0], B[1], B[2], B[3] };
out(M, N, B_rows);

A: Для  int * mas, не может быть  индексация неодномерного массива, хоть вы можете присвоить указателью начало двумерного массива.
В таких случаях:
void out(int n, int m, int * mas)
{
    for (int i=0;i<n;i++)
        {
            for (int j=0;j<m;j++)
                printf("%4d", mas[i * m + j]);
            printf("\n");
        }
}

и вызвать
 out(M,N,B[0]);


Like all of us, I've been trying to digest the tragedy in Newtown this week.
I've been grieving from afar, been holding my daughter more tightly. Checking on her more often at night.
Perhaps the experience is too raw for us to make meaning of it, but as much as I try to keep them at bay, the questions arise. Why did he do it? How did Adam Lanza lose touch with his humanity? How are we creating young men like Lanza, like James Holmes from the Aurora shooting?
For me this is not a gun control issue. Neither is it an issue that can only be addressed by psychiatrists.
For me, this is an education issue, and it implicates us all.
As a society, we had our opportunity to reach Adam Lanza and James Holmes during the years and years they spent in school and in classrooms. We failed. We focused on academic skill-building when we needed to focus on who they were as people. We gave them worksheets and exams when they needed interaction and exploration and mentors. We gave them false success and an empty diploma when they need self-esteem and a place in the world.
You're bristling, maybe, as you read this: Schools cannot be held accountable for everything.
I agree. Schools cannot fix broken families. They cannot solve poverty, cannot create social equity. Repairing social fabric and creating a more equitable economy are massive undertakings, and will only begin when the adults of our nation find ways to recreate values and check our love of capitalism.
But schools–if we imagine them differently–can reach young people. Even "seriously disturbed" young people. Schools can create communities that embrace children for who they are, and guide them toward a discovery of their own paths, toward the confidence, critical thinking, and wisdom they need to stay human in a dehumanized world.
People talk a lot about schools that cover a child from "cradle to career": from the confining structure of the crib to the confining structure of the job.
They're on the wrong track.
We need "womb-to-wisdom" schooling. We need to take a hard look at ourselves, at our schools, and at what we should offer the young people whom we have the honor and privilege and responsibility of teaching. We need to begin reimagining–and now.
The reflection below was crafted just before reading this post. It was an email response to the preparedness of our students for final examinations. Many learners didn't come equipped with pencils, even for these "important" demonstrations of knowledge. What I express below links my passion as a teacher to a strong belief that connecting to our place, our food and water are essential to feeling our humanity. This I feel schools can do a better job at, now.
It absolutely amazes me the lack of awareness many of youth have of the natural world. They want to work, to shovel snow and ice. Reflecting on my semester with mostly middle school students, I clearly recognize the potential we have in this young, intelligent and diverse group. As a P.E. teacher, I am partially charged to help integrate physical activity into the curriculum. I envision care and connection to this campus and the surrounding landscape. I hope to collectively figure out ways to learn with our students, how to sharpen more than pencils.
Odd that all the experts kept saying schools were safer etc. In the video I completed one young woman, Jesse, talks about how her friend sat with her with a stop watch and timed how many fights broke out when she was at school, and it was every ten minutes, and she decided at that point in time to homeschool. She was tired of the bullying. Another teacher interviewed said bullying came from kids that were not happy and the kids she worked with in alternative approaches like homeschoolers were happy and not isolated. Also families were close, kids not taken away from mothers at an early age and how important this fact is in our society. When I taught in public school I dealt with racial issues, the overcrowded classrooms, labeling of kids with learning issues and I found very little merit. The gifted kids suffered too in other ways and Wes Beach mentions this in his history as an educator. As Seth articulates in this article:IT IS A LARGER question in front of us. I get frustrated by more testing, more standards and more 'outside in' approaches that do not develop or focus on spirit or autonomy in children. If parents need a school to drop off their kids in order to work at a job they are stuck in economic issues, and so it is an economic issue too around how we support single parents or people who are not prepared to deal with parenting. We we need help in these areas, in teen pregnancy, early childhood education, many areas. Buddhist Thich Nhat Hanh said .."this is like this because that is like that" so there is no one to blame but a whole legacy. Thich Nhat Hanh's poem "Call Me by My True Name," speaks to this in our society since it is not about pointing fingers but a way we have to take it ALL on not just political jockeying.
Seth, I agree about your assessment of education, but don't necessarily think that it explains the mass killer phenomenon. Killing, severe mental illness and access to guns are not easily solved by better schools alone. While you talk about the need for cultural and systemic change, which i agree with, we have an immediate challenge of being responsible for those with mental illness and limiting access to powerful guns. We have to work on all fronts simultaneously to make change and to care for our children in safe and loving ways.
Thanks for the comments, Mom, Nanda and Zoe. The connection that Zoe writes about is what concerns me. Our schools are not fostering connection to place, to food, to water—or to self. The ¨legacy¨of modern Western schooling, as Nanda calls it, is a process of disconnection. It is a process of taking in skills and knowledge bases that often have little to do with what matters in the moment in a child's life.
It is dangerous, I think, to treat Adam Lanza as an isolated phenomen. For me, his actions represent are not the crazed actions of a very ill person but the extreme end of a spectrum of behaviors and values that are being learned by millions of young people, especially young men, in America. Much of this learning comes from outside of school, but schools are complicit in not offering an intervention.
I taught nine years. In that time, two of my male students had ¨psychotic breaks.¨ One tried to kill himself, the other did. Another male student died after passing out drunk in a snow bank. All of these students, like Adam Lanza and James Holmes, were high school graduates. They were given a diploma that is supposed to mean that they were ready to integrate into society.
I get that high school was invented to be a primarily economic institution, preparing kids for jobs. But times have changed. Yes, we have to get guns under control, but while the politicians hash out that same old battle in Washington, millions of young men and women are going to return to school in January, be told to sit in their desks, and for yet another semester of their young lives, have their inner lives and their desire for connection ignored.
Embracing the young people in America is, to my mind, far more important and far more urgent than is regulating guns.
my response to newtown is throw out all forms of academic learning that is not acquired through play. gun control is not the answer. school reform could be. today's world consists of 2 parents or 1 needing to work. schools need to provide a more nurturing environment and focus on relationships not academics. are we raising children who are skilled in tech knowledge but not human contact?
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There is a very powerful storage subsystem within Kubernetes itself, covering a fairly broad spectrum of use cases. Whereas, when planning to build a product-grade relational database platform with Kubernetes, we face a big challenge: coming up with storage. This article describes how to extend latest Container Storage Interface 0.2.0 and integrate with Kubernetes, and demonstrates the essential facet of dynamically expanding volume capacity.
As we focalize our customers, especially in financial space, there is a huge upswell in the adoption of container orchestration technology.
They are looking forward to open source solutions to redesign already existing monolithic applications, which have been running for several years on virtualization infrastructure or bare metal.
Considering extensibility and the extent of technical maturity, Kubernetes and Docker are at the very top of the list. But migrating monolithic applications to a distributed orchestration like Kubernetes is challenging, the relational database is critical for the migration.
With respect to the relational database, we should pay attention to storage. There is a very powerful storage subsystem within Kubernetes itself. It is very useful and covers a fairly broad spectrum of use cases. When planning to run a relational database with Kubernetes in production, we face a big challenge: coming up with storage. There are still some fundamental functionalities which are left unimplemented. Specifically, dynamically expanding volume. It sounds boring but is highly required, except for actions like create and delete and mount and unmount.
In order to enable this feature, we should set feature gate ExpandPersistentVolumes true and turn on the PersistentVolumeClaimResize admission plugin. Once PersistentVolumeClaimResize has been enabled, resizing will be allowed by a Storage Class whose allowVolumeExpansion field is set to true.
Unfortunately, dynamically expanding volume through the Container Storage Interface (CSI) and Kubernetes is unavailable, even though the underlying storage providers have this feature.
This article will give a simplified view of CSI, followed by a walkthrough of how to introduce a new expanding volume feature on the existing CSI and Kubernetes. Finally, the article will demonstrate how to dynamically expand volume capacity.
To have a better understanding of what we're going to do, the first thing we need to know is what the Container Storage Interface is. Currently, there are still some problems for already existing storage subsystem within Kubernetes. Storage driver code is maintained in the Kubernetes core repository which is difficult to test. But beyond that, Kubernetes needs to give permissions to storage vendors to check code into the Kubernetes core repository. Ideally, that should be implemented externally.
CSI is designed to define an industry standard that will enable storage providers who enable CSI to be available across container orchestration systems that support CSI.
In order to enable the feature of expanding volume atop Kubernetes, we should extend several components including CSI specification, "in-tree" volume plugin, external-provisioner and external-attacher.
The feature of expanding volume is still undefined in latest CSI 0.2.0. The new 3 RPCs, including RequiresFSResize and ControllerResizeVolume and NodeResizeVolume, should be introduced.
In addition to the extend CSI specification, the csiPlugin interface within Kubernetes should also implement expandablePlugin. The csiPlugin interface will expand PersistentVolumeClaim representing for ExpanderController.
Let's demonstrate this feature with a concrete user case.
The Prometheus and Grafana integration allows us to visualize corresponding critical metrics.
We notice that the middle reading shows MySQL datafile size increasing slowly during bulk inserting. At the same time, the bottom reading shows file system expanding twice in about 20 minutes, from 300 GiB to 400 GiB and then 500 GiB. Meanwhile, the upper reading shows the whole process of expanding volume immediately completes and hardly impacts MySQL QPS.
Regardless of whatever infrastructure applications have been running on, the database is always a critical resource. It is essential to have a more advanced storage subsystem out there to fully support database requirements. This will help drive the more broad adoption of cloud native technology.


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Antonio Mejía Haro (born 10 June 1957) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the PRD. As of 2013 he served as Senator of the LX and LXI Legislatures of the Mexican Congress representing Zacatecas. He also served as federal deputy during the LIX Legislature as well as a local deputy in the XVI Legislature of the Congress of Zacatecas.

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1957 births
Living people
Politicians from Zacatecas
Members of the Senate of the Republic (Mexico)
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
Members of the Congress of Zacatecas
Party of the Democratic Revolution politicians
20th-century Mexican politicians
21st-century Mexican politicians
Autonomous University of Zacatecas alumni
Universidad Autónoma Agraria Antonio Narro alumni
Academic staff of the Autonomous University of Zacatecas

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Home > News > Taco Bell to open 200 new locations in partnership with Redberry Restaurants
Taco Bell to open 200 new locations in partnership with Redberry Restaurants
Redberry Restaurants has announced plans to open 200 new Taco Bell locations over the next eight years.
Redberry Restaurants has announced an ambitious expansion plan for 200 Taco Bell restaurants in Canada.
This will more than double the franchises' existing Canadian location count and will establish Redberry's position as the largest franchisee in the country. This is what restless creativity looks and feels like in
The restaurant company currently owns and operates 14 locations across Ontario. The plan to build 200 new locations will take place over an eight-year period.
Ken Otto, CEO, of Redberry Restaurants, says, "Our team is committed to achieving what we say we're going to do. This has led brands to invest in us and trust us to deliver." Redberry has gained a reputation as a powerful brand amplifier and has helped coveted QSR brands achieve significant growth and brand awareness."
"The opportunity to lead the expansion of the beloved Taco Bell brand north of the border is truly an honour," says Otto.
The additional 200 Taco Bell restaurant locations across Canada will be built throughout British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario.
"Over the past few years, we have seen what Redberry can do with our brand," says Matthew Shaw, chief development officer, Taco Bell North America. "We recognize how different the Canadian market is and Redberry has proven itself as an undisputed leader in operational excellence in the Canadian QSR industry. We couldn't be happier to partner with Redberry as Taco Bell's Canadian brand ambassador."
The company's newest location is part of a new-build plaza (anchored by the largest LCBO in London, Ont., along with ancillary retail). Centered in a high-growth area of north London, it is surrounded by significant new residential development.
"We are thrilled to open our first new-build Taco Bell restaurant in the city of London, which is our third Redberry-owned Taco Bell location in the city," says Chris Racine, chief operating officer of Redberry. "This new restaurant location is the perfect start of our expansion plan to significantly increase the availability of Taco Bells across Canada."
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At KnuKonceptz, we do not use "watts" to rate our amp kits. This is a very inaccurate method to determine what the proper gauge wire required for your amp installation. There are many amp manufactures and not all of them represent the output of their product accurately. Please refer to your amplifier's fuse rating, this is a number a manufacture can not fake, well they could but it would put their product in harms way! Add up the fuses on the end of your amp (two 20A fuses = 40A total draw) If this number is under 40A, this kit will fit your application. If over 40A, a larger gauge wire would be required or use our Kolossus Flex 8 gauge amp installation kit.


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Luitgard of Wittichen (, 1291–1348) was a German nun, mystic and founder of a convent.

Life and works
Luitgard (also Lutgard) of Wittichen was born in 1291 in Schenkenzell in the Black Forest and came from a simple, peasant background. At the age of twelve she was admitted to a beguine house in Oberwolfach in the valley of the river Wolf, where she lived for 20 years in voluntary poverty. As the result of a vision of Christ she was called to found a convent. She went on trips to the Tyrol and Switzerland to raise funds for the founding of the convent. She was treated unjustly by the dukes of Teck at the nearby castle of Schiltach, while the lords of Geroldseck at the Schenkenburg were devoted to her. In 1324 Luitgard moved to the Wittichen valley and founded a hermitage (Klause) for herself and 33 other women, which later became the   tertiary convent of Wittichen. The number of women was based on the 33-line Canticle of the Sun, a canticle by Saint Francis of Assisi, although the number of women doubled even in Luitgard's lifetime. She was the abbess of the convent until her death.

Luitgard cared for victims of the plague, before she herself succumbed to the epidemic. She is worshipped in central Baden as a "people's saint" (Volksheilige) even though she was never ordained or raised to the sainthood. She is remembered on 16 October, the date she died. On the second Sunday in October, the Luitgard Festival takes place in Wittichen. Luitgard is believed to have been familiar with the writings of Meister Eckhart and Heinrich Seuse and is regarded as a mystic in her own right. Luitgard died on 16 October 1348 at Wittichen Abbey near Schenkenzell.

This founder of a convent, who has been described as charismatic, may be seen from today's perspective as an emancipated woman.

Her spiritual father, the priest, Berchtold of Bombach, published a biography of Luitgard in around 1350. In 1629, according to tradition, when her coffin was opened, her brain was found to be in completely sound condition, a phenomenon that could not be explained by doctors or chemists at that time and, being seen as a miracle, was the reason for subsequent veneration and pilgrimages.

The St. Luitgard Care Home in Oberwolfach is named after her.

References

Literature
 Berthold von Bombach, Arnold Guillet: Das Leben der heiligen Luitgard von Wittichen (1291-1348), die Heilige des Mutterschosses. Neudruck: Christiana, 1976, .
 Gertrud Jaron Lewis, Frank Willaert, Marie-José Govers: Bibliographie zur deutschen Frauenmystik des Mittelalters. Verlag Schmidt, 1989, p. 248, .
 Irmtraud Just: Die Vita Luitgarts von Wittichen: Text des Donaueschinger Codex 118. Peter Lang, 2000, .
 Peter Dinzelbacher, Deutsche und niederländische Mystik des Mittelalters, Berlin, 2010, Register s.v.

External links
 .
 Internet site of Schenkenzell.
 Luitgard at heiligenlexikon.de

German Roman Catholic abbesses
1291 births
1348 deaths
14th-century German women


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Low key weekends are the best!!
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Your pup is so stinkin' adorable!! I want to squeeze him. (or her?) I love your purple nail polish too! Have a fabulous Monday, my dear!
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That burger looks amazing! I've got to plan an awesome weekend so I can link up! Haha!
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and that pup is so cute. oh my gosh. i've been following your blog for a while and totally just realized i wasn't actually following you on gfc. sorry for failing at being a good blog friend!!!
thanks for hosting the link up lady!
Thanks for hosting the linkup!! I love the food pics. Yum. I take pics of my food all the time on Instagram!
Oh my goodness your pup is so cute!!
Found your fun link up thru Shanna Says So. Love the purple nails. New follower to your fabulous blog...I'm a SoCal gal too!
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Monster Energy has requested more time from NASCAR to decide whether it wants to renew its title sponsorship of the sanctioning body's premier series, according to industry executives briefed on the matter.
Sources have said that Monster was contractually obligated to let NASCAR know by this December whether it would pick up the option. However, high-level NASCAR executives met at Monster headquarters in late summer, sources said, and the company asked for an extension. It was unclear at press time whether the extension was granted and how much more time was given if so.
Monster signed with NASCAR in December to be title sponsor of the series in 2017 and 2018 in a deal worth around $20 million annually. The term was for two years with a two-year option to renew for the 2019 and 2020 seasons.
Both NASCAR and Monster Energy's vice president of sports marketing, Mitch Covington, declined to comment.
Monster has its name on the series for 2017 and 2018, with an option for '19 and '20.
The title sponsorship renewal talks come as Monster also faces decisions on team renewals, with contracts with NASCAR's Stewart-Haas Racing and the NHRA's John Force Racing expiring after this year. Between Monster's NASCAR series naming-rights fee, activation and the two team deals, the company likely will spend in the mid-eight figures this year.
Some industry observers have expressed skepticism that the teams will land renewals. But Stewart-Haas Racing executives have expressed confidence that they will earn a renewal from Monster, while Steven Cole, vice president of sales for John Force Racing, said in late August that he was working on a one-year renewal for 2018.
Steve Phelps, NASCAR's executive vice president and chief global sales and marketing officer, has expressed confidence in Monster remaining as title sponsor of the series at different times this season. He said in July that data and anecdotal evidence showed that NASCAR fans had quickly developed an affinity with the brand, with spiking brand awareness and TV visibility metrics as evidence. Monster has also struck business-to-business deals with the likes of Kroger by leveraging series naming-rights assets.


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Arsenal v Blackburn: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
We review the good, bad and the ugly (perhaps very ugly) from Arsenal's FA Cup exit to Blackburn.
By Aidan Gibson@aidan_f_gibson Feb 17, 2013, 12:51pm EST
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Welp. I think that's a good, family-friendly word to describe yesterday. Despite that, your writing staff worked tirelessly to find some good, bad and ugly things from yesterday.
Most of Arsenal's build up play was fairly decent, led by Tomas Rosicky. Rosicky was at the heart of most everything that Arsenal did well; it was his brilliant through ball that set up the chance for Gervinho, and he also hit the bar with a cracking shot. Rosicky was the one player who always seemed to make things happen; he played several good one-twos with Olivier Giroud, and he started to look like the player that was part of Arsenal's surging run to claim 3rd place last season. If Rosicky can continue to play like that, it'll be harder for Arsene Wenger to leave him out of the side.
With that being said about Rosicky, it was odd to see him replaced by Jack Wilshere after 71 minutes. Arsenal were starting to up the pressure on Blackburn, with Rosicky the impetus behind every attacking move. With Blackburn sitting very deep, and offering almost nothing going forward, it seemed to make more sense to take off Abou Diaby or Mikel Arteta, and have Wilshere create with Rosicky, and Santi Cazorla, who came on for Gervinho. There's been a lot of unfair criticism hurled at Wenger after yesterday, but something that does seem fair is to critcise is his removal of Rosicky. This is the type of game that Arsenal play a lot of, and they usually make the breakthrough when more creativity is added to the side. When Arsenal were struggling against Huddersfield Town in the Cup two years ago, Cesc Fabregas was brought on, with Tomas Rosicky and Andrei Arshavin also on the pitch.
Of course, the argument about creativity could've been null and void if Gervinho had finished the simple chance presented to him by his, admittedly, good run and Rosicky's excellent pass. Gervinho, though, is Gervinho, and he well and truly Gervinho'd that chance. He wasn't the only one at fault--Theo Walcott should've scored with a header, and Mikel Arteta probably should've leveled the score in the last minute, but his was the easiest chance. Gervinho has now played 58 games for Arsenal, and has a measly return of 9 goals and 9 assists. For comparison, it took Theo Walcott 63 games to reach 9 goals (he had already reached the 9 assist plateau). The difference, though, is that Theo Walcott was 19, and had played a lot fewer minutes than Gervinho, who is in the prime years of his career. Part of the reason why Arsenal seemingly struggle to compete on four fronts is that the depth of the squad isn't that good; Gervinho's equivalent in the Invincible team was probably Sylvain Wiltord or Jose Antonio Reyes, and while Arsenal have been hampered by financial difficulties, Gervinho's equivalent in the last Arsenal team to really compete for the league title, the 2007/08 side, was Eduardo, who was a far better player than Gervinho.
Of course, finishing wasn't the only problem; Arsenal gave up a very soft goal, one that came down the right side. Francis Coquelin may have shown "urgency" by diving into tackles, but his over-aggressive play opened up the right hand side on more than one occasion. With Carl Jenkinson suspended and Bacary Sagna possibly needed at centre back on Tuesday, Coquelin could've shown to be an adept replacement at right back. He didn't, and looked far worse than Aaron Ramsey did at right back when the Welshman played there last weekend.
The reaction to Arsenal losing was predictable, but still depressing. No one can deny that there is something wrong with Arsenal as a football club, and there, perhaps, need to be change, either with the manager, or with the makeup of the board, or both or something else. And, after going out to Bradford in the League Cup one would've hoped that Arsenal would've navigated Blackburn, and there is, naturally, disappointment to come from that. The Blackburn game, though, won't make or break Arsenal's season. Yes, the trophy drought is annoying, and it would be nice to see Arsenal win the trophy, but to almost blindly react with #WENGEROUT seems almost thoughtless; there is a time, and a place to have that discussion, but instead of becoming an angry and polarising discussion it should be done when everyone is a little more calmer, and, preferably, at the end of the season. Such a discussion needs to take into view everything about the football club, which includes scouting, coaching, transfers and many other things. It should not take place after a defeat where Arsenal were perhaps unlucky to lose (not that they deserved to win--a draw seemed a fair enough result). No one denies that there aren't many worrying concerns with Arsenal, but those concerns should exist whether Arsenal had beaten Blackburn or lost to them.
Arsenal vs. Blackburn: FA Cup
Arsenal v Blackburn: the Good, Bad and the Ugly
Arsenal 0 - 1 Blackburn: FA Cup Match Report


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Research ArticleImmunology
Diacylglycerol Kinase ζ Limits the Generation of Natural Regulatory T Cells
Amanda M. Schmidt1,*,
Tao Zou1,*,
Rohan P. Joshi2,
Theresa M. Leichner1,
Matthew A. Pimentel2,
Connie L. Sommers3, and
Taku Kambayashi1,†
1Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 10194, USA.
2Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
3Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
↵†Corresponding author. E-mail: taku.kambayashi{at}uphs.upenn.edu
↵* These authors contributed equally to this work.
Science Signaling 26 Nov 2013:
Vol. 6, Issue 303, pp. ra101
DOI: 10.1126/scisignal.2004411
Amanda M. Schmidt
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 10194, USA.
Tao Zou
Rohan P. Joshi
Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Theresa M. Leichner
Matthew A. Pimentel
Connie L. Sommers
Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Taku Kambayashi
For correspondence: taku.kambayashi@uphs.upenn.edu
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By Amanda M. Schmidt, Tao Zou, Rohan P. Joshi, Theresa M. Leichner, Matthew A. Pimentel, Connie L. Sommers, Taku Kambayashi
Science Signaling 26 Nov 2013 : ra101
Increasing the activation of extracellular signal–regulated kinase promotes the generation of natural regulatory T cells.


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Green groups want Shell oil sands permits rescinded
By Scott Haggett
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Canadian environmental groups asked regulators on Wednesday to rescind approvals for part of a $13.7 billion expansion of Royal Dutch Shell Plc's oil sands project, alleging the company backed off promises to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
The Oil Sands Environmental Coalition -- which includes the Pembina Institute, the Toxics Watch Society of Alberta and the Fort McMurray Environmental Association -- say Shell has broken a negotiated agreement to significantly cut the output of greenhouse gases (GHG) such as carbon dioxide from an expansion of its Muskeg River and Jackpine oil sands mines in northern Alberta.
The coalition is asking the Canadian government and Alberta's Energy Resources Conservation Board, who jointly approved the project, to reconsider their ruling through a new public hearing because Shell's promise was a factor in the decision.
"Shell has broken a binding agreement," said Simon Dyer, oil sands program director at the Pembina Institute. Regulators "can reopen those approvals given that Shell has clearly reneged on its commitment."
The groups claim Shell agreed to come up with specific targets for cuts to greenhouse gas emissions at the mine sites. Instead, they say the company told them it will not quantify its GHG cuts, deciding instead to wait for the federal government to come up with regulations on emissions.
Canada's oil sands have the largest reserves outside the Middle East. However separating the tar-like bitumen from sand and soil and upgrading it into refinery-ready synthetic crude is more energy intensive and emits more carbon dioxide than conventional oil production.
In a release, Shell said it would work with stakeholders to strengthen carbon dioxide emissions policies and was looking to the government to establish its rules.
"The need to reduce emissions is too important to rely on voluntary commitments, and along with the rest of the industry we are now focused on meeting these new regulatory targets," the company said.
Bob Curran, a spokesman for Alberta's Energy Resources Conservation Board, said it is reviewing the coalition's application. He did not say when a decision would be made.
Shell has a 60 percent stake in the Athabasca Oil Sands Project, which includes an oil sands mine near Fort McMurray and an upgrader near Edmonton. Its partners, each controlling 20 percent, are Chevron Corp and Marathon Oil Corp.
The 100,000 barrel per day expansion would boost output from the project to 255,000 barrels a day, and includes a new mining project and additional capacity at the Scotford upgrader. The project is expected to be complete late next year.
Editing by Rob Wilson


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Ambassador Peter W. Bodde delivered an inaugural address at the Fulbright Regional Alumni Water-Energy-Food Nexus Workshop on February 10 in Kathmandu.
Ambassador Peter W. Bodde delivered an inaugural address at the Fulbright Regional Alumni Water-Energy-Food Nexus Workshop on February 10 in Kathmandu. The workshop convened 45 South Asian alumni of the U.S. Fulbright, Humphrey, and International Visitors Leadership Programs, and another 40 regional and international experts, who from February 10 to 12 are participating in interactive sessions, presentations and panel discussions.
These U.S. State Department exchange alumni from the research community, non-governmental organizations, and governments joined other regional experts to share experiences and best practices. The experts will explore how water, energy, and food security are interrelated in the South Asia and global context.


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Fortescue Metals (ASX:FMG) CEO steps down
by Lauren Evans December 10, 2021 02:05 PM
Elizabeth Gaines will step down as chief executive officer (CEO) of Fortescue Metals (ASX:FMG) to move to a non-executive director role and become Fortescue's global green hydrogen brand ambassador.
The mining giant said the major transition to a vertically integrated green energy and resources group is only enabled by the deep commitment of its leadership, and in particular, Elizabeth. Following a global search, Elizabeth will assist in the selection of a new CEO.
"Elizabeth is one of Australia's truly inspiring leaders. We are grateful that she has accepted the critical role of ensuring the world understands that green hydrogen, green ammonia, green energy and all its products, are combined, the only practical implementable solution to global warming that can be delivered on a commercial, highly sustainable basis," said chairman Andrew Forrest.
"Elizabeth's depth of character, leadership, global integrity and respect is appreciated by Fortescue's executives and fellow directors. With the new CEO our team will continue to empower Fortescue's leadership of a commercial solution to global warming."
Shares in Fortescue Metals (ASX:FMG) are trading 0.4 per cent lower at $18.17.
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My Preparation for the Temple: Are you kind to your family?
At times I questioned myself if I can answer those temple recommend interview questions with no issues. I remember the last time I went for a temporary temple recommend interview back in March for Baptisms for the Dead. I caught myself being harsh when asked questions. I attribute it to judging ourselves and we are our own worse judge. My Bishop agreed.
Are you kind to your family members?
Am I? What does that mean? It means, do I treat them as Christ would during the good times and the bad times? Do I display patience with my family at all times? Am I a good Father and Husband?
I feel like I am in a deep hole, looking upwards at the sky and that I can't make it out.I feel that my family deserves better than I have given in the past. I have only been at it for over 18 months and I thought I was changing. I'm not sure sometimes. At times I feel like I really have changed.I am not always patient or soft spoken in stressful situations. I seem to let the worst come out of me only in front of my spouse and children. In my early twenties, I picked up the bad habbit of swearing. My language has cleaned up over the past 18 months but I have those moments of relapse.
I expect so much from my family (from expecting the same strictness that I had to follow when I was younger) at times that it only leads me to anger and fits of yelling when things aren't going well.
I've been taught that true conversion happens over time. Am I converted? Am I converted enough?
Could I stand tall with my fellow brethren who are temple recommend holders?
Every Sunday, I feel energized and I believe that I can climb my way out of this deep hole.I realize to myself that I cannot be perfect and Christ-like at all times. That is why we have the atonement.I am thankful for the atonement and the fact that Jesus Christ took upon himself my sins, my sadness and my pain. I am thankful for the ordinance of Sacrament where I can renew my baptismal covenants and be forgiven for my short comings. During Sacrament, I feel true sorrow and pain. I then feel forgiven and my burdens lifted away.
I love the feeling of being clean and renewed for another week.
I pray for long suffering, patience, being a good example for my children and to be a better Father and Husband.
I love feeling I can start over with myself and my family.
I feel like the moment that I slip, no matter how high I have made it I fall to the bottom of that deep hole and I have to start over. Maybe I've raised my voice to my kids or handle a stressful situation very poorly. When growing up, my parents were very strict and always yelled. I see myself doing that sometimes. I see my oldest son yelling at his brothers sometimes and I see myself in him and I become deeply saddened.With the atonement comes repentance. I truly feel sorry for the mistakes and actions that make me feel like I am not kind enough to my family. But true repentance means taking steps to not do it again and then, not do it!
But when I falter I feel like I have failed at repentance. I take my prior transgressions from the week before and add it on to this week as well. That deep hole is getting even deeper.
What if it has been months that I feel I've been doing a good job and then I mess up by losing my temper and swear up a storm and scream and yell?
When do I become better? How long do I go without slipping before I can answer "Yes" to the question "Are you kind to your family members?" It can't be one week. A Month? Two Months?
How can I live higher laws if I cannot live these lower laws?
Am I ever going to make it to the Temple?
I feel like I have finally broken out of this confusing cycle by realizing that during this journey of life every day we build ourselves up to be much more righteous and when we falter we have the atonement and repentance to lift ourselves up and try again. As long as we are on the upward climb we are doing well.
If you've heard it once, you've heard it a thousand times that by doing in faith the following: Daily prayer, scripture reading, and keeping our minds constantly on the Savior Jesus Christ and the Savior make a very, very large difference.


Over half a dozen major interstates converge on the city of Chicago, home also to a major international port and one of the busiest air cargo gateways in the world. It is therefore not surprising to see truck traffic on the city streets and highways of Chicagoland at all hours of the day and night. While vital to the economy, the number of semi-trucks crisscrossing the city throughout the year increases the likelihood of a Chicago truck accident. Although they occur less frequently than car accidents, a collision with a tractor-trailer is much more likely to result in serious injury or death to the occupants of the passenger vehicle. Although the big rigs were only involved in 3.8% of all crashes in 2015, they accounted for 2.9% of all injury crashes and a staggeringly disproportionate 8.8% of all fatal crashes.
The Chicagoland personal injury attorneys at D&W Law Group have handled numerous car accident and trucking injury cases over the years, including cases involving catastrophic injury or wrongful death. We approach your case with compassion and sensitivity to what you have been through, while working aggressively to obtain a financial settlement that most fully and fairly compensates you for what you have gone through.
Many aspects of semi-trucks make them more likely to cause serious injury or worse in a collision with a passenger car. Tractor-Trailers are many times larger than even the largest SUV, and when fully loaded they can weigh 20 to 30 times more than a passenger vehicle. At highway speeds, the force of an impact with a semi is enormous. The size of commercial trucks also creates extensive blind spots on all sides of the semi, requiring constant attention and caution on the part of the truck driver. Unfortunately, the pressure on truckers to deliver their cargo on schedule often leads them to drive longer than is safe, and critical lapses of attention or mistakes in judgment can occur.
Federal regulations govern many aspects of the trucking industry, including truck safety. The regulations of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) limit the number of hours that truckers may be on duty or behind the wheel without taking days off or significant rest periods. These regulations also cover licensing issues, size and weight limits, and mandate regular inspections and maintenance to ensure a safe trucking fleet. However, it is well-known that truck drivers and trucking companies routinely violate these regulations and even falsify records to hide their noncompliance. During annual roadside safety inspections, thousands of drivers and vehicles are immediately pulled from service for dangerous conditions such as unlicensed drivers, drivers working beyond the hours of service limitations, and trucks with out-of-adjustment brakes, bad tires, non-working signal lights and more.
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I'd like to share an opportunity for you to see or own some incredible photography, while helping local students in the process. By the way, there's a free photo tour in it for you if you do.
Critical Exposure is hosting their 5th annual photography auction, Picture Equality: An Evening of Empowerment through Photography on Thursday, October 18, 2012 in the DLA Piper Building atrium.
The auction features images donated by world-class, professional photographers, including Pulitzer Prize winners and contributors to National Geographic and the New York Times. You can even bid on a selection of student photos. This year's donations span from photojournalism to fine art, from social documentary to personal history, from aesthetics to activism and everything in between.
See the donated photos here.
Critical Exposure provides low-income students the opportunity to tell their stories through photography. But they don't stop there. They then teach the students how to use the power of their images and voices to change policies that directly affect their lives.
Over the last couple years, I've had the opportunity to see first hand the impact Critical Exposure can have. I've seen students empowered to improve their school conditions, primarily using a tool called the camera. I have witnessed the improved self esteem that results. I've even heard new career aspirations that resulted from their experiences.
Critical Exposure is making a real impact. Since their founding in 2004, Critical Exposure has worked with 1,200 students in D.C. and across the country. These students helped to secure more than $500 million to improve public schools, supported campaigns to address youth homelessness and teen pregnancy, and are now working to fix D.C.'s dropout crisis. The students were even featured on Oprah and CNN.
Support the auction, and I'll throw in a free photo tour.
Early Bird tickets for the auction expire today. You can register here at the early bird rate of $75 through midnight tonight. After that, the individual ticket goes for the regular price of $85. If you own a business and would like to purchase a sponsorship, there are several options for that as well.
Whatever level of support you decide, send me your receipt, and I'll credit you for a $100 PhotoTour DC gift certificate. You can use it toward any photo tour, and the unused gift certificate will not expire.
Now you can do good, and reap the benefits of your karma right away.
By the way, you can tell your friends about the opportunity to support the auction and get a free photo tour with the following link.