Jennifer Garner and ABC team up again!
Jennifer Garner and ABC will be teaming up again but not in the way "Alias" fans would hope, but still good news nonetheless! Former "Alias" star Jennifer Garner has signed a deal with ABC to develop shows for the network under her production company Vandalia Films.
Very exciting news! I'm interested in what sort of shows Garner's production company will develop for ABC. Perhaps an Alias-esque show or a possible reunion of the Alias cast? One can only hope!
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Vietnam's pharmaceutical industry has a high growth rate of about 19% per annum. This figure far exceeded even the country's GDP growth rate (est. 7% per annum). We are bullish about its tremendous continual growth.
Hyphens Pharma has been an early entrant in the Vietnamese pharmaceutical market since 1989. Led by our Regional Director, Mr Tan Chwee Choon, our operations and sales in Vietnam have grown from strength to strength.
Besides in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, we have also established our presence in various provinces to better serve our customers.


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Q: GPG agent doesn't remove my SSH key from the keyring I have a really troubling problem. I can't get gpg-agent to remove my SSH key from its keyring and it even persists there after many reboots.
$ ssh-add -D
SSH_AGENT_FAILURE
Failed to remove all identities.

Even when I tell it to remove the identity:
$ ssh-add -d /path/to/private/key
Identity removed: /path/to/private/key

I then look
$ ssh-add -l
4096 1b:cb:52:a6:e5:13:e6:78:14:12:92:8f:34:8f:92:88 /path/to/private/key

and it's still there.
Where is this being cached? It seems to be writing to disk for some reason, which is a scary thing for a SSH agent to do. I'm running the following to start gpg-agent:
gpg-agent --enable-ssh-support --daemon

Everything else works fine, but it's caching this file somewhere and I need to delete it.

A: Yes, it seems that ssh -d is broken with gpg's agent.  Here is a workaround using a different command.
Run the gpg-connect-agent command from the commandline to connect to the agent.
Then, from the prompts there, enter this command to list the ssh keys
KEYINFO --ssh-list --ssh-fpr

You should see something like:
S KEYINFO 3365433C34421CC53B52C9A82169FD2328CF610B D - - - P df:a2:36:8d:ad:88:b3:cc:00:96:10:d4:c9:2c:e0:df - S
OK

Now, to remove the from the agent:
DELETE_KEY 3365433C34421CC53B52C9A82169FD2328CF610B

It will say:
OK

Now, quit with the BYE command:

BYE
  OK closing connection

Now, verify with ssh-add -l and you will see that it is gone for real.

A: If you want a script for this:
keys=$(gpg-connect-agent 'keyinfo --list' /bye | awk '{print $3}' | head -n -1)
for key in $keys; do gpg-connect-agent "delete_key $key --force" /bye; done

I'm not the expert here, so I'm just giving a simple script that I use. Nothing fancy. Nothing deep.

A: As with most things GPG, ssh credentials are cached inside the .gnupg directory, specifically in ~/.gnupg/sshcontrol, which will look something like this:
# List of allowed ssh keys.  Only keys present in this file are used
# in the SSH protocol.  The ssh-add tool may add new entries to this
# file to enable them; you may also add them manually.  Comment
# lines, like this one, as well as empty lines are ignored.  Lines do
# have a certain length limit but this is not serious limitation as
# the format of the entries is fixed and checked by gpg-agent. A
# non-comment line starts with optional white spaces, followed by the
# keygrip of the key given as 40 hex digits, optionally followed by a
# the caching TTL in seconds and another optional field for arbitrary
# flags.   Prepend the keygrip with an '!' mark to disable it.

# Key added on: 2013-09-19 22:15:50
# Fingerprint:  8b:56:b0:3f:c8...
681BF1EFF... 0
# Key added on: 2013-09-20 17:14:36
# Fingerprint:  4b:cb:7e:b0:d7...
F7BCEBD1C... 0

As the comment says, you can remove keys by deleting them, or disable
them with a !.  I haven't tested, but I imagine that "disabling" a
key means you can't explicitly enable it or add it without editing the
file.

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TOD PAPAGEORGE | Dr. Blankman's New York
8 Sep – 21 Nov 2018
Sat 8 September 4pm Opening with an introduction by Thomas Zander and Tod Papageorge, followed by a book signing
Sat 29 September 2pm Artist's talk with Dieter Meier and Max Regenberg, followed by book signing
Sun 30 September 2pm Tour of the exhibition
Special opening hours during DC Open and Photoszene Festival Cologne
Galerie Thomas Zander is delighted to present new dye transfer prints of Tod Papageorge's early colour photographs of New York. In vivid images of window displays, political posters and encounters in the city the series Dr. Blankman's New York (1966-67) captures the zeitgeist and social climate of a time between Pop Art and the Vietnam War. Fifty years after Papageorge took the photographs, they are now exhibited for the first time. The striking intensity of the colour works is highlighted by the dye transfer prints. This high quality printing process is known from the 1960s and '70, but has become very rare today due to its elaborate production. Papageorge's New York photographs are not affected by the nervous energy of the metropolis, they are observational, perceptive. The artist is sensitive to the lyrical quality inherent in the pictures, alert to the signs of his times and conscious in the use of his medium. Above all, the series celebrates the visual experience itself, which seems to have electrified the then 25-year-old photographer: "eyes examined" announces the sign outside the optometrist Dr. Blankman's office in the eponymous image. We see a photographer with a tripod taking a young woman's picture in Central Park, another woman playfully holding a leporello of photographs in front of her face. A leather jacket bearing the words Chu Lai Viet-Nam, worn by a young man, is a reminder of the reality of war in everyday life, which the series also takes note of. The book Dr. Blankman's New York is published by Steidl. In the ensuing decades, Tod Papageorge has made several remarkable bodies of work that have chronicled American life, like his photographs of Central Park, sports stadiums and the legendary Studio 54. He was awarded Guggenheim Fellowships and National Endowment for the Arts fellowship grants and taught at Yale University, where well-known photographers such as Philip-Lorca diCorcia and Katy Grannan were among his students. Papageorge's works are in the collections of major international museums and institutions.

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Q: How to access response of one SImpleHttpOperator and use that response data value to pass as params for the next SimpleHttpOperator task? So assume I have 2 SimpleHttpOperator tasks in my DAG. I need to get a response from the 1st task and use that response data to create params for the second task. Both are GET APIs.
How to get response data from simpleHttpOperator, I tried XCOM as true, but how to get data from XCOM into the second operator?

A: If you take a look at the code for the SimpleHttpOperator on Github, you can see that the fields 'endpoint', 'data' and 'headers' are template_fields, so you can use Jinja templating.
There is an example of how to use xcoms in templating here and a description of Jinja templating here
I think this question has already been answered in
Airflow - How to pass xcom variable into Python function


Jackie Robinson (1919-1972) is best known as the baseball player who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. As an extremely talented and versatile player, Robinson won the National League Rookie of the Year award his first season and went on to help the Dodgers reach the World Series six times. In 1949, Robinson won the league MVP award and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962.
Despite his exceptional skill on the field, Jackie faced considerable public backlash due to his race. However, he always handled the insults and harassment with unparalleled courage and grace and inspired a generation of African Americans who would question the American doctrine of "separate but equal." For this reason, Jackie is recognized as one of the forefathers of the Civil Rights Movement. Jackie's success in Major League Baseball encouraged the integration of professional football, basketball, and tennis in the years to come.
In 1947, Jackie emerged as an outspoken opponent of racial discrimination. He publicly criticized the slow pace of integration in professional baseball and spoke out against the Jim Crow laws of the American South. Jackie and other leading ballplayers urged baseball to use its economic and cultural influence to desegregate Southern towns, hotels, and ballparks.
Upon his retirement in 1957, Jackie focused his efforts on increasing employment opportunities for African Americans throughout the country.
We at The Maria Sanchez Show hope you will join us as we remember baseball legend and civil rights activist Jackie Robinson on his birthday. Don't forget to check out our latest program, Shadow Politics with Senator Michael D. Brown. Tune in on Sundays at 4:00 p.m. PST/7:00 p.m. EST.


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by nonnie9999 | February 13, 2008 · 12:36 am
Maver-icky
From The Raw Story:
Senator Joseph Lieberman, the former Democrat of Connecticut who endorsed the Republican presidential candidacy of Senator John McCain, is moving closer to attending the Republican National Convention in September.
Since Lieberman lost the Democratic primary to challenger Ned Lamont in Connecticut's 2006 Congressional election, the former Al Gore running mate's support for Democratic Party causes has drifted. While Lieberman at one time declared his intention to help elect a Democratic president in 2008, he endorsed John McCain's candidacy in December and has campaigned heavily by his side.
Last week, Lieberman was stripped of his "superdelegate" status, which granted him a guaranteed vote for a Democratic candidate in Denver. Under the so-called "Zell Miller" rule, named for the Georgia senator who spoke out against John Kerry and his fellow Democrats at the 2004 RNC, Lieberman's endorsement of a Republican candidate makes him ineligible to vote at the DNC.
Ummmmm, shouldn't it be because he is not a Democrat? He ran under the Connecticut for Lieberman Party ticket.
Filed under 2008 election, Al Gore, Democrats, humor, Joe Lieberman, John Kerry, John McCain, movies, parody, politics, Republicans, snark, Wordpress Political Blogs
Tagged as 3 Stooges, Connecticut for Lieberman, delegates, Denver, Ned Lamont, primary, Republican National Convention, superdelegates, Zell Miller
12 responses to "Maver-icky"
Got a Grip
He should be stripped alright, then tarred and feathered and set loose to lay eggs all over the Republican Convention. He makes my blood boil….
gotta,
i cannot stand that the senate, which should be a deliberative body that worries about we the people, is instead a country club, where everyone is chummy with everyone else (except larry craig). that little shithead lieberman should have been shunned the moment he decided that the rules were for everyone else but him. the party should have thrown him out then and there. he is not a democrat. he belongs to his party of one.
I'm not fit company for man or beast tonight (just ask the cat, the dog and my sister). I'm so upset about the FISA vote today, I feel like going postal. Fortunately, the weather is too bad for me to get out into the public sphere where I might do damage to passersby with hunks of ice from my frozen lawn…. 😈
OK, that DOES it! This is one of the funniest posts EVER! I started laughing as soon as I saw the title and I hasn't stopped yet… Maybe I'll come back later when I can breathe again!
speaking of the weather, gotta, it has been miserable here all day. gray and rainy. it didn't stop raining for even a minute. that's really nothing new. what is new is that, for the first time i can remember (which might not be saying much), we are under a tornado watch! the thunder and lightning are starting in earnest now (i hope it's thunder, i don't know what a tornado sounds like! 😯 ), and there might be hail.
but did you like it, nightowl? 😀
if you see fotc around, please tell her to get over to the street. there is something over there for her to see.
nonnie,
Don't worry about what a tornado sounds like. If you ever actually hear one, it will be too late to do anything about it. Like the sound of a Diebold slot machine. . . .
and I love this poster! It's the only time I've ever actually laughed at The Three Stooges!
thanks, jlynne, that's comfortiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
😆 did i scare ya? did you think the big bad tornado got me?
that wasn't funny. chalk it up to being influenced by the 3 stooges. it's really a gender thing. men think the stooges are funny; women think they are idiots (the stooges…..well, maybe the men, too! 😛 ).
Alright, I've returned to the seen of the temper tantrum in a slightly better mood (and I do mean slightly).
You always hear people say that tornadoes sound like a freight train. They do, but the reference is only pertinent if you've lay down beside the tracks as the train passes. What usually happens, at least in my experience, is the sky turns a lovely shade of green and everything becomes absolutely still. Birds stop singing, there's not a breath of wind and there's a drop in pressure that makes your ears pop. Then all hell breaks loose, there's hail and torrential rain and then things start to fly apart. It's very unpleasant, to say the least. If they tell you to take cover or your alarm sirens go off, get in the bathtub and cover yourself with blankets and pillows or better yet, a mattress. ASAP. I'm saying this because I doubt that you have a basement or a storm cellar handy, and laying in a ditch will mean risking alligator attack.
As to the stooges, my mom wouldn't let me watch them because she said they were "sadistic." There's real irony there, but we won't go into that. I didn't really want to watch them, anyway. I wanted to watch the old, original Superman. Now we have mighty mikko mouse to save us. I actually like that best of all…. 😉
That should be scene, not seen, in the first line of the last comment. Apparently being livid has produced a stroke that renders me incapable of coherent thought and proper spelling…..
Three guys is very very funny jokes his comedy is very stagger love me for this three guys.
hello sanjay 😀
welcome to the raisin. i am glad that you found the poster funny. hope you will visit again.


Stephen Barstow, famous Norwegian plant expert, visited Switzerland during the first week of April 2018 to share on several occasions his vast knowledge about the many benefits of perennial vegetables. For ProSpecieRara he made a stopp at the head office of the foundation in Merian Gärten Basel at the 4th of April, to welcome an audience of 30 enthusiasts. In the evening at Markthalle Basel a speech was given that attracted more than 40 visitors.
Perennial vegetables have many benefits, as they are more robust against climate change, they are easier to grow organically, they require less water, fertilizer and other energy input, they sequester more carbon. And they are not only healthy for us, but also for our planet. Perennials prosper as well in marginal areas, e.g. in the mountains or in arctic areas, at both of which plants have to face short seasons. But many perennials would also grow far better on shady spaces in our gardens, where many other plants wouldn't grow easily. In our areas of central Europe, perennials offer a very potential opportunity to fill the «hunger gap» during spring, when storage vegetables are thinning, and fresh vegetables are not yet ripe. Perennials have deeper roots than annuals and thus are better able to use the water of the ground, so they are more robust to drought.
Stephen Barstow held some very inspiring speeches, in which he introduced the audience to a selection of his top 80 perenniel vegetables. But he also inspired some thoughts on alternative ways for the use of plants, by recounting local foraging traditions and experiences from small scale agriculture.


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IF CLIMATE CHANGE DOESN'T SINK ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT'S OFFICIAL INCOMPETENCE WILL...
Posted by David Pike 27sc on February 27, 2016
Concrete blocks intended to break waves are all that's left to protect the 15th-century Qaitbey Citadel from rising seas. (Photo: Sima Diab)
It's not alone among World Heritage Sites facing encroaching seas....
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt—In late October last year, a vicious storm rolled in off the Mediterranean and buried Egypt's second city in a weeklong flurry of high winds and driving rain.
Entire neighborhoods found themselves mired in sludge and pitched into darkness after the authorities shut down substations to protect fallen electricity lines. So furious were the incoming waves that shoddily built apartment towers three blocks inland collapsed amid the relentless barraging by rain and waves from the encroaching sea.
Rising seas and harsher storms associated with global warming have been cited as causes of the recent advance of the Mediterranean on this historic city's shores, but for many of Alexandria's roughly 5 million residents, it was as much a glaring illustration of the crumbling infrastructure. Few were surprised that the street drains turned out to have been closed, preventing the waters from flowing back out to sea. Nor were they taken aback when security chiefs, intent on deflecting blame, insisted the banned Muslim Brotherhood Islamist group had sealed manholes with cement.
But to Alexandrians with a good grasp of history, the sight of the sea lapping the streets struck a particularly unnerving chord.
They understand well the power their port town wielded from its promontory on the North African coast before a series of earthquakes and tsunamis dashed its fortunes in 365 A.D. They keenly recount how this city of Alexander the Great once broadcast its civilization to the world through its great library and lighthouse—until both buildings disappeared into the briny shallows.
With the cobbled thoroughfares that once echoed to the footsteps of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar now hundreds of meters out to sea, Alexandrians are gloomily aware of the fate that might befall their homes and the remnants of the classical city if the waves continue their advance. Global seas are estimated to have risen by four to eight inches over the 20th century as average temperatures soared by at least 1.5 degrees Celsius, melting polar ice caps and contributing to more severe storms. When cyclone-like conditions strike, as they did in northern Egypt last year, higher water levels lead to more furious storm surges and destructive breakers. The continued emission of greenhouse gases and a carbon dioxide buildup that will likely persist for centuries has many fearing for the long-term prospects of this coastal metropolis.
All of this will be an underwater museum one day. Is it any wonder then that we all live in this nostalgia?
Omar Koreich, antiques dealer
"All of this will be an underwater museum one day," said Omar Koreich, an antiques dealer and a longtime witness to the city's troubles, as he swept his arm in an arc from the 15th-century citadel to the rebuilt library, which bookend the harbor. "Is it any wonder then that we all live in this nostalgia?"
Alexandria is not alone in grappling with the coastal damage under climate change. Scientists announced Monday that the current rate of sea-level rise is the fastest it's been since 500 years before this city was founded in the 4th century BCE. Roughly 70 percent of the world's population lives within a day's walk of the sea. Two-thirds of our big cities are on the coast, and many may the same fate as Alexandria's library, abandoned to the climbing ocean. Seaside settlements from Vietnam's Mekong Delta to Bangladesh's low-lying interior have been forced to adapt to a fast-evolving environment. In most Pacific island nations and the Maldives, where the highest natural point is two meters above sea level, ministers are pushing the panic button. From Venice, Italy, to South Africa's Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years, to Jamestown, Virginia, the site of the first English settlement in the United States, heritage authorities are struggling to safeguard historic sites. Even affluent New Yorkers and residents of Miami and New Orleans have watched in horror as elevated ocean levels amplified the ferocity of hurricanes and tacked billions onto their cleanup bills. Around the world, flooding could cost $1 trillion per year by 2050, according to the World Bank. Guangzhou, China; Miami; New York; Mumbai, India; and Nagoya, Japan, are among those most at risk of elevated oceans.
In the Abu Qir neighborhood, on Alexandria's eastern edge, beachfront property is becoming somewhat less desirable. (Photo: Sima Diab)
Along the Egyptian coast, rising sea levels have combined with a sinking landmass. Meager sea defenses have proved unable to keep the waters at bay. As in other developing countries, in Egypt inept and corrupt officials have been found wanting in their response to what many experts see as an existential crisis.
"There's a very serious threat from the sea, yet nobody's actually carrying out work," said Mohamed El Raey, a professor of environmental studies at Alexandria University, when we met in a busy downtown café. Citing research from the World Bank and the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, he added, "How can it be that Egypt is among the 10 most vulnerable countries and yet is number 104 in terms of adaptation measures?"
Saltwater intrusion routinely causes flooding among low-lying structures throughout Alexandria. (Photo: Sima Diab)
It isn't difficult to see why Alexandria's founders thought it an appropriate site to showcase their architectural and cultural riches. Surrounded by the sea on three sides and mostly cut off from the mainland by the brackish Lake Mariout on the other, it was highly defensible. The natural harbor, ready access to the Nile Delta's lush farmland, and a commanding position overlooking the Eastern Mediterranean, around which so much international trade once revolved, must have made it irresistible to the Ptolemies, the Hellenized pharaohs who governed the Egyptian empire in its final few centuries.
But the same attributes that made the city's location so enticing have also left it brutally exposed to the whims of the sea.
Until 1993, the Mediterranean was rising by 1.8 millimeters per year on average, according to the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation, before accelerating to around 2.1 millimeters over the following two decades. Since 2012, it's risen by 3.2 millimeters every year and looks set to climb farther. All told, scientific and U.N. forecasts predict an increase of a meter to 1.8 meters by the time many of today's first-graders meet their life expectancy.
On their own, such numbers should be enough to inspire deep unease in the corridors of government coastal research centers. But when combined with swift soil subsidence and rainfall that appears to be getting more intense, it's no wonder some reckon modern Alexandria is living on borrowed time.
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"The consolidation of the soft clay on which the delta is built has been a big problem," said Yasser Raslan, vice-chairman of the Egyptian General Authority for Shore Protection. "Until the early 20th century [when the first Aswan Dam was built], the Nile deposited 10 centimeters' worth of silt every 100 years in the delta, but now much less gets through." While the Mediterranean rises 3.2 millimeters a year, without regular replenishments, the ground level in the Alexandria area is dropping by around 2 millimeters annually.
"Is this safe?" I asked a doorman as he sized up a series of gaping cracks that looked to have recently opened up in the foundations of his tower block, steps from the sea in the Sporting neighborhood. "Only God knows," he said, shrugging, before wandering back to his stoop. He's probably right: There is no official body tasked with investigating the condition of buildings, as far as anyone can tell, nor has any money been earmarked to ameliorate the problem since subsidence became severe.
Architect Mohamed Awad in his office in Alexandria. (Photo: Sima Diab)
For much of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Alexandria enjoyed a reputation for bustling cosmopolitanism. Italianate architecture sprang up along the seaside corniche as the city's Greek, Italian, Jewish, and Armenian communities vied to outdo one another. Cotton barons, fortified by bumper crops, built elaborate villas and endowed downtown cultural institutions.
But with the military's 1952 overthrow of the monarchy, which had treated Alexandria as its summer capital, followed by the introduction of extreme nationalist policies that drove off the foreign business classes, the port's fortunes began to plummet. Former agricultural laborers migrating from the delta boosted the population beyond the infrastructure's capacity. When the new government of President Gamal Abdel Nasser centralized power in Cairo, three hours' train ride to the south, it relegated "Alex" to second-city status once and for all.
"We've been deliberately neglected," said Mohamed Awad, a renowned local architect and director of the Alexandria and Mediterranean Research Center at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. "There's a state of imbalance in this city. It's all become a disaster zone."
Many hardy Alexandrians have had no choice but to take the dysfunction in stride, surfing—literally—their flooded streets behind donkey carts and offering inflatable-raft taxi services when the roughest weather hit last year. But for most, the environmental difficulties have addled their lives with a measure of difficulty they can ill afford.
Notorious for their poor construction, local tower blocks are disintegrating amid rampant saltwater intrusion into groundwater. At least 20 are reported to have crumbled during one six-day period last year—there is now a website called Egyptbuildingcollapses.org—as the sitting floodwaters ate away at the inadequate foundations. The death of a boy, killed by a falling balcony in January, was the latest in a rash of casualties with similar causes.
Dams upriver on the Nile have diminished the amount of sediment replenishing the land in and around Alexandria. Resulting ground subsidence and the lack of any inspections by an official building authority have led to dozens of collapsed buildings, such as this one in the Abu Qir neighborhood. (Photo: Sima Diab)
"Living in these buildings is like playing Russian roulette," said Amro Ali, a researcher and an Alexandria-based political commentator. "It's not unusual for people buying houses to ask if the building is pre-revolution or post-revolution." In the years following the toppling of President Hosni Mubarak in 2011, law enforcement tailed off and contractors took even greater liberties with building codes.
For inhabitants of Abu Qir, at the eastern edge of Alexandria's long linear development and perched on the edge of the bay where the British torched Napoleon's fleet in 1798, more frequent rainstorms are almost the least of their problems. It's here, more than anywhere else, that one feels Alexandria's proximity to the abyss. Fierce waves routinely batter windows even several floors up, inundating the neighborhood's main shopping street and washing away its prized beaches.
"If there's a big flood, all of Abu Qir will be underwater. That's why we consider ourselves an island," said Wael El-Shams, a neighborhood resident, outside a celebrated seafood restaurant on an unseasonably warm January day.
Some residents blame the authorities for abandoning unfashionable outer districts to the elements. "Any repair work begins in Anfushi and ends in Montazah," added Ayoub Mohammed, a friend of El-Shams', naming two quarters closer to the governorate offices. "It was like Venice here two or three days ago, and the government didn't pay attention."
But with wave levels cresting at new heights—recently reaching 7.5 meters for the first time in 100 years—and builders ignoring an ordinance prohibiting construction within 100 meters of the sea, experts are uncertain what else can be done.
"Buildings in Abu Qir are 20 meters from the water. Recent events suggest waves are getting bigger. It's not a good situation," said El Raey.
From the Roman amphitheater, which stands only partially excavated and almost wholly ignored by visitors, to the ancient catacombs, discovered in 1900 when a donkey cart fell through the ground, Alexandria is a rabbit warren of archaeological gems. As with much of the city's more modern construction, these sites are struggling to keep above the water line.
"All monuments in Alexandria are suffering. There are no exceptions," said Awad.
Some of the Greco-Roman tombs at Anfushi are soaked, having spent much of the winter a foot deep in water from the Mediterranean. The frescoes and patches of Latin graffiti are fading fast, eaten away by the humidity. It's all characteristic of a threat that hadn't previously existed, said Jean-Yves Empereur, who has directed the French National Center for Scientific Research for 25 years. "Until 20 years ago, these tombs were above the water table, but now they're not only flooded when there's a lot of rain but all year round," he said.
The situation is even worse a mile away at the Roman catacombs of Kom el-Shoqafa, where not even six diesel-powered pumps, working around the clock, have been enough to keep the almost 2,000-year-old burial chambers dry. Most of the tunnel system is no longer accessible, swamped by at least 10 inches of water. Padding across boards through greenhouse-like humidity, it's hard to imagine the sarcophagi, painted walls, and fragile relief sculptures being around for future generations of tourists and scholars to gawp at.
Empereur and Awad reserve much of their ire over the city's disappearing heritage for unscrupulous local building firms, whose cutthroat business practices have claimed colonial-era villas and Roman temples alike.
"The fight of the archaeologist and the ministry of antiquities versus the developers is very unequal," Empereur said.
But as seen at Abu Mena, half an hour out of the Alexandria city center and well away from sky-high land prices, surging water levels are perfectly capable of destroying these splendors without human help. The former cathedral complex once housed the body of Saint Mena, a fourth-century Coptic Christian martyr, but with the crypt flooded to the brim, water bubbling up at regular intervals, and nearby villages rendered uninhabitable, not even UNESCO World Heritage status has afforded a measure of protection.
"Dig down anywhere, and you get water after less than a meter," said the young caretaker from southern Egypt who guards the site from looters with the help of a dozen street dogs. "It's bad for the stone, bad for the soil."
Saltwater intrusion has flooded the ruins at Saint Mena's monastery, an ancient Christian pilgrimage site outside Alexandria. (Photo: Sima Diab)
Faced with such a multitude of challenges and the weight of the past, it's hard to be optimistic about Alexandria's future.
A proud history of combating threats to the coastline, which culminated in the construction of the Muhammad Ali seawall in 1830, one of the first of its kind in the world, has fallen by the wayside. Cement and petroleum companies are alleged to have punched holes in the 20-mile-long barrier to facilitate access to the sea. Not even when the wall's much-delayed renewal is complete do authorities expect it to match its earlier effectiveness.
"The work in the past was much better than now," said Raslan of the shore protection agency. "It lasted almost 200 years."
Despite the analogies of some Abu Qir residents, Alexandria hasn't resigned itself to prolonged periods underwater as its Venetian counterparts in Italy seemingly have. Unlike Micronesia, Tuvalu, and other Pacific islets, whose leaders lobbied for urgent action at last December's climate change conference in Paris, only a small geographic portion of Egypt is at imminent risk of sinking beneath the waves. However tragic the situation among the city's Greek and Roman treasures might be, they can surely still be salvaged, given sufficient willpower.
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But the country's size and the potential consequences of its failure so far to get a grip on the problem place it in its own category. An estimated 40 million people—nearly half Egypt's population—live in Alexandria and the rest of the low-lying Nile Delta, much of which is up to five meters below sea level. With a 2011 study suggesting that climate change could cost the Egyptian economy up to $20 billion, or 7 percent of GDP, the stakes are high.
"We've had no interest in science and technology for 70 years, and we're paying the price," El Raey said.
Even after Alexandria's worst brush with nature in recent memory, experts say that funds for preventive measures are too low. The solutions require the nation's disparate ministries to come together, but the body formed for that purpose, the Committee for Integrated Coastal Zone Management, has never met since its formation several years ago. "The decision makers are not in harmony," El Raey said, sighing.
But he remains somewhat hopeful that the pace of change will shake ministers from their reverie: "Sea levels are rising, and we will have no choice but to adapt." After record heat in 2015 and unusual cold over the past few winters, he feels his concerns "are being taken seriously for the first time."
Residents of Alexandria aren't holding their breath, though. They've seen official mismanagement up close for too long and heard too many promises to believe this time will be any different. Their ancient town, some believe, is almost bound to plumb the depths before it gets another lease on life.
"This is a city that is cursed by its past. It's cursed by its giants," said political commentator Ali. "It cycles between rebirth and death. Hopefully we'll get to see the rebirth in our lifetime."
Based in Cairo, Peter Schwartzstein covers regional geopolitics of the Middle East for National Geographic, Foreign Policy, Politico, Quartz, and others.
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Ferri Abolhassan (* 29. Juli 1964 in Saarbrücken) ist ein deutscher Manager und Herausgeber von Fachliteratur zu IT- und Managementthemen. Abolhassan ist Mitglied der Geschäftsführung der Telekom Deutschland GmbH.

Ausbildung und Beruf
Aufgewachsen in Saarbrücken, absolvierte der Sohn deutsch-persischer Eltern nach dem Abitur von 1985 bis 1988 ein Studium der Informatik an der Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken. Seinem beruflichen Einstieg 1987 in der Forschung und Entwicklung bei Siemens in München folgte von 1989 bis 1991 eine Station bei IBM in San Jose, USA. Im Jahr 1992 promovierte Abolhassan bei Wolfgang Paul.

1992 wechselte Abolhassan zur Softwarefirma Dacos im saarländischen St. Ingbert. Bis Ende 2000 war er in unterschiedlichen Führungsfunktionen bei SAP Retail Solutions tätig, zunächst als Sales Director Retail. Anfang 2000 wurde er einer der beiden Geschäftsführer von SAP Retail Solutions.

Vor seinem Wechsel zu IDS Scheer war er mit beginnender Verschmelzung von SAP Retail Solutions mit dem SAP Konzern noch kurzzeitig Vice President der globalen Geschäftseinheit Retail Solutions (SAP Retail Solutions plus Entwicklungseinheit Retail der SAP AG). Nach einer 4-jährigen Tätigkeit in der Unternehmensführung von IDS Scheer kehrte Abolhassan 2005 zu SAP zurück. Dort bekleidete er im Anschluss an die Position als Chief Operating Officer EMEA die des Regional Managing Director South-West Europe und zuletzt die des  Executive Vice President Large Enterprise EMEA.

2008 wechselte Abolhassan als Mitglied der Geschäftsführung zu T-Systems und übernahm dort den Unternehmensbereich Systems Integration. Ab 2010 führte Abolhassan den Bereich Produktion, bis er 2013 für die gesamte Lieferung verantwortlich zeichnete. Ab 2015 leitete er die IT-Abteilung mit rund 30.000 Mitarbeitern und 4.000 Kunden. Von Dezember 2015 bis November 2016 leitete er zusätzlich den Aufbau des Geschäftsbereiches Telekom Security.

Im Oktober 2016 wechselte Abolhassan als Mitglied der Geschäftsführung zur Telekom Deutschland GmbH. Dort führte er den neu geschaffenen Geschäftsbereich Service Transformation. Im April 2017 wurde er Geschäftsführer Deutsche Telekom Kundenservice GmbH (DTKS), die zum 1. Juli 2017 in die Deutsche Telekom Service GmbH (DTS) umfirmierte. Gleichzeitig wurde er Geschäftsführer Deutsche Telekom Technischer Service GmbH (DTTS), seit 1. Juli 2017 Deutsche Telekom Außendienst GmbH (DTA). Mit der Zusammenführung aller Servicebereiche zum 1. Juli 2017 unter einem Dach übernahm Abolhassan als Geschäftsführer Service in der Telekom Deutschland die Gesamtverantwortung für den Kundenservice mit insgesamt rund 33.000 Mitarbeitern. Zum 1. Mai 2021 wurde Ferri Abolhassan neben der Verantwortung für den Service zusätzlich die Verantwortung für die Privatkunden Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH (PVG) der Telekom Deutschland übertragen. Im April 2022 wechselte er aus der Geschäftsführung der Deutsche Telekom Außendienst GmbH (DTA) als Vorsitzender in deren Aufsichtsrat. Abolhassan ist außerdem Mitglied im Aufsichtsrat der Deutsche Telekom IT GmbH und der DFKI GmbH. Am 3. November 2022 wurde Abolhassan zum Aufsichtsratsvorsitzenden des DFKI gewählt.

Publikationen

 als Hrsg.: Re-Invent – Warum sich Unternehmen für ihre Kunden immer wieder neu erfinden müssen. Frankfurter Allgemeine Buch (Verlag), 2022, ISBN 978-3-96251-131-9
 als Hrsg.: WISSEN. MACHT. SPASS. – Die neue Fachlichkeit im Service. Frankfurter Allgemeine Buch (Verlag), 2021, ISBN 978-3-96251-104-3
 als Hrsg.: Superkraft Mensch. Warum der Mensch im Service den Unterschied macht. Frankfurter Allgemeine Buch (Verlag), 2020, ISBN 978-3-96251-088-6
 als Hrsg.: Cyber Security. Simply. Make it Happen.: Leveraging Digitization Through IT Security. Springer Gabler, 2017, ISBN 978-3-319-46528-9.
 als Hrsg.: Security Einfach Machen. IT-Sicherheit als Sprungbrett für die Digitalisierung. Springer Gabler, 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-14944-4.
 mit Jörn Kellermann (Hrsg.): Effizienz durch Automatisierung. Das Zero-Touch-Prinzip im IT-Betrieb. Springer Gabler, 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-10643-0.
 als Hrsg.: The Drivers of Digital Transformation. Why Theres No Way Around the Cloud. Springer Gabler, 2017, ISBN 978-3-319-31824-0.
 als Hrsg.: Was treibt die Digitalisierung? – Warum an der Cloud kein Weg vorbeiführt. Springer Gabler, 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-10639-3.
 als Hrsg.: Kundenzufriedenheit im IT-Outsourcing – Das Optimum realisieren.  Springer Gabler, 2014, ISBN 978-3-658-04748-1.
 als Hrsg.: The Road to a Modern IT Factory: Industrialization – Automation – Optimization. Springer Gabler, 2014, ISBN 978-3-642-40218-0.
 als Hrsg.: Der Weg zur modernen IT-Fabrik: Industrialisierung – Automatisierung – Optimierung. Springer Gabler, 2013, ISBN 978-3-658-01482-7.
 mit August-Wilhelm Scheer, Wolfram Jost und Helmut Kruppke (Hrsg.): Innovation durch Geschäftsprozessmanagement. (= Jahrbuch Business Process Excellence. 2004/2005). Springer, 2004, ISBN 3-540-22037-2.
 mit August-Wilhelm Scheer, Wolfram Jost und Mathias Kirchmer (Hrsg.): Change Management im Unternehmen: Prozessveränderungen erfolgreich managen. Springer, 2003, ISBN 3-540-03437-4.
 mit August-Wilhelm Scheer und Wolfgang Bosch (Hrsg.): Real-Time Enterprise – Mit beschleunigten Managementprozessen Zeit und Kosten sparen. Springer, 2003, ISBN 3-540-02356-9.
 mit August-Wilhelm Scheer, Wolfram Jost und Mathias Kirchmer (Hrsg.): Business Process Change Management: ARIS in Practice. Springer, 2003, ISBN 3-540-00243-X. (englisch)
 mit Christine Arend-Fuchs, Hans-Peter Georgi, Peter Müller und Joachim Zentes: Der Handel im Internet-Zeitalter – Perspektiven für Handel und Konsumgüterindustrie mit mySAP.com. Galileo Press, 2001, ISBN 3-89842-114-7.

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Heavy vehicle funding applications now open
Applications for Round 5 of the Morrison Government's National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) are now open to improve the safety and provision of programs for heavy vehicle operators. Federal Member for Bonner Ross Vasta said the NHVR's Heavy Vehicle Safety Initiative (HVSI) was a great opportunity to fund programs and initiatives aimed at improving road…
Christmas appeal attracting generous donations
The Ross Vasta Christmas Appeal for Stanthorpe has attracted generous community support, including from eight-year-old Charlotte Mews who recently donated $123 she raised though a bake sale. Federal Member for Bonner Ross Vasta MP said he was so proud of Charlotte who wanted to donate the money she raised through Moreton Bay Girl Guides to…
Breast cancer MRI added to Medicare
Women with or suspected of having breast cancer will be able to claim Medicare benefits for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, from 1 November 2019. Federal Member for Bonner Ross Vasta MP said approximately 14,000 patients each year, predominantly women, wouldbenefit from these services. "The Morrison Government has added these new MRI services to the…
New benefits for Veteran Card holders
Thousands of offers are now available to Veteran Card holders in Bonner from businesses across Australia, as part of the Australian Defence Veterans' Covenant. Federal Member for Bonner Ross Vasta MP said the Veteran Card provided the opportunity for businesses and organisations, big or small across the country to show their support and recognition of…
Australia-Korea Foundation funding supports swim safety program in Bonner
A water safety program to train teachers and students to swim to survive has been awarded a $30,000 grant. Federal Member for Bonner Ross Vasta MP said the Mackenzie-based Craig Tobin Aquatics Pty Ltd was awarded the grant for its Collaborative Water Safety – Swim to Survive Program. "This grant was awarded through the Australia-Korea…
Round two of NDIS Transition Assistance Funding now open
Disability and aged care organisations in Bonner can now apply for grants of up to $20,000 to support effective operation through round two of the Transition Assistance Funding as part of the NDIS. Federal Member for Bonner Ross Vasta MP said disability and aged care organisations are encouraged to apply for their share of Transition…
Morrison Government delivering a safer Rochedale community
Redeemer Lutheran College has received a $128,000 grant through the Morrison Government's $41.9 million Safer Communities Fund to install CCTV cameras. Federal Member for Bonner Ross Vasta MP said the new CCTV cameras would help ensure a safer community for the Rochedale school. "The Safer Community Fund is a fantastic initiative to help enhance our…
Ross Vasta Christmas appeal for Stanthorpe
The Ross Vasta Christmas Appeal officially launched today and has partnered with national online charity GIVIT to support the drought and bushfire affected community of Stanthorpe and the Granite Belt. Federal Member for Bonner Ross Vasta MP said the Christmas Appeal for Stanthorpe encouraged locals in Bonner to donate and purchase much needed items and…
Safer Baby Bundle to reduce stillbirths
Education and awareness packages designed to reduce rates of stillbirth, will soon be available for health professionals and pregnant women across Australia. The Safer Baby Bundle, developed principally by the Centre for Research Excellence (CRE) in Stillbirth at the University of Queensland, will be provided to hospitals in selected areas. The national rollout of the…
Language program for children in Bonner
Kindy's in Bonner have the opportunity to learn another language thanks to the Morrison Government's play-based Early Learning Languages Australia (ELLA) program that teaches young Australians a foreign language. The $27.5 million ELLA program has already helped educate 110,000 children about foreign languages, across more than 3,500 preschools. ELLA is a digital, play-based program that…
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For decades, InterVarsity's ministry on campus has centered around Manuscript Bible Study, invented by InterVarsity staff Paul Byer in the 1950s. Manuscript study contains the three aspects of inductive Bible study: observation, interpretation, and application.
In Manuscript Bible Study, leaders act as facilitators who pass out printed passages, and members engage in communal discovery – generating questions together, sharing what they see and think, and discovering meaning for themselves.
Watch the video below to find out more about what InterVarsity Bible studies look like.
Click the button below to visit Howto.Bible, an InterVarsity project where you can learn how to study the Bible yourself and lead a Bible study.


One three stars, Nima, Tsering and Jeewan, flew to London for the UK theatrical premiere and embarked upon a 2 week Q&A tour around the country.
See all the photos from the London premiere and Q&A. Photos by Frank Noon.


I began the study of astrology about age three and have never ceased the study of astrology for any attenuated period of time since then. Since I was born in 1923 you will quickly see that I have studied and worked with astrology for nearly 75 years - a fair lifetime.
Eventually I became dissatisfied with certain limitations and certain failures of astrology to measure up to the claims and expectations of astrologers. By this I mean to say that perfectly straightforward astrological events that should have manifested in a clearly discernible manner sometimes simply failed to do so. Lunations, eclipses and progressed or transiting aspects either simply didn't come off or occurred either too early or too late.
With a background in medical work I wanted certainty - exactitude. I could not tolerate anything less in my profession and, clearly, I should, in fact, I HAD to be able, for reasons of purely personal satisfaction, to find the same exactitude in astrology that I found in the medical lab. It was precisely this mind-set that led me to the questions and answers that I needed.
In working with astrology, we are working with a constantly fluid field of energy in which activity occurs in more than one dimension of space. That, of course, is the whole story. I realized that in working with longitude alone we were working on a one-dimensional level with multidimensional propensities. This is rather like saying that every person living in the penthouse of a building at 310 Featherstone Avenue, that has 36 stories with 10 apartments on each level, all have the same address: 310 Featherstone Ave. Technically this is true - all 360 apartments would share the street number and address, but in order to interact with each tenant we must have more specific identification of location: some modifying information of location. That is what declination is and what declination does for us.
So it is with declination. Every degree of the 360 degrees of longitude may (must) be associated with a degree of declination. Any degree of longitude will resonate through 90 degrees of declination (either North or South.) That is to say that O degrees of Aries may extend from 0 to 90 degrees of declination. And this is true with every other degree of longitude for every individual degree of longitude will extend through 0 to 90 degrees of declination. By identifying a planet's degree of declination we are able to establish the degree of longitude that that planet is most strongly influencing. The process may also be reversed so that identifying the degree of declination of the planet's degree of longitude will provide yet another specific longitude that is powerfully (and invisibly) being influenced.
This kind of comprehension opens up a myriad of possibilities: we are able to - no! we are required to identify those influences in both time and space that are being activated by declination as well as longitude. It is this concatenation of events that will tell us the specifics of astrological events - not only where but when and all the flexible combinations of those two factors. We can begin to understand why one event works most powerfully while a similar event hardly works at all, for the identification of the most powerful places AND times of aspects is done through the application of both longitude and declination: either one alone will not suffice, since it takes both to identify the strength and power of a lunation. A planet going retrograde in a longitudinal AND declinational degree will affect those people most strongly who have placements at that particular degree of both longitude and declination, whereas the individual whose planetary placement is not coordinated with the degree of declination may experience little or nothing of the action.
Longitude identifies placement in space in one dimension. Declination defines placement in space in a second dimension and where these two dimensions intersect they interact when activated. It is this combination of influences that establishes the power and exactitude of events in the chart and in the life. And these conditions define not only the power/impact but also the timing of events. The combination of longitude and declination provide us two very powerful tools for prognostication of events: their magnitude and extent and their timing.
It is important to understand and keep in mind at all times that there are 360 degrees of longitude and 360 degrees of declination and together they form a grid of longitude and declination that locates an object exactly in space in relation to the Sun and the planet Earth. The 360 degrees of longitude are measured from East to West around the belt of the Equator but each degree of longitude extends both above and below the Equator for 90 degrees.
There are also 360 degrees of declination (two 90 degree segments North of the Equator and two 90 degree segments south of the Equator) and the intersection of longitude and declination define exactly the space in which an object's influence will be felt most keenly for that point where a planet 's longitude and declination intersect will respond most reliably when aspected by another celestial body or event. It is extremely important to understand that each degree of longitude will run through each degree of declination (either North or South) so that you must keep in mind that an object at 0 Aries 00 might be in any degree from one to 90 of declination - when this is understood we then begin to understand just how vague longitudinal placement alone may be and how important declination really is.
Now realistically we know that the planets 'must' remain within certain limiting arcs of declination although some have more eccentric orbits than others - even so the degree of declination can make a tremendous difference in exactly where, when or whether a planet or event will activate a chart and how markedly and when the event will occur.
Let me suggest an exercise for you: check the lunations to see how powerful they are - do both Sun and Moon occupy the some degree of longitude and the same degree of declination at the same time? If so, that is a very powerful lunation. If the longitudinal aspect happens hours before/after the exact parallel it is not as powerful. In some cases the Moon never achieves the same degree of declination (or its opposite), sometimes missing by several degrees. When that happens it is not a very powerful lunation at all.
This same technique works with planets - a longitudinal aspect will often be exact although the planets are never within one degree of the same declination. In such a case, the aspect is not a very powerful event.
The more particular information we have about the mechanics of the phenomena of longitudinal/declination relationship the better able we are to apply our knowledge practically. In actual fact the area of declination that is most important lies between the Equator (0 declination) and about 7 degrees beyond the Sun's maximum declination which is (at the present time) generally reported as 23N/S28. This solar arc sets the all-important Ecliptic - the Royal Highway of the Sun - and it is along this route that life takes place. Most of the planets, most of the time, circulate within this orbit BUT there are times when some of the planets exceed the 23N/S28 maximum declination of the Sun and go Out-Of-Bounds - beyond the Ecliptic by declination. These planets are very important and have a considerable impact on the character and personality as well as the conditions of the person's life.
There are also times in the life of people born with no natal Out-Of-Bounds planets when planets go OOB either by progression or transit and create considerable activity in the life. This may be either negative or positive - each instance must be judged on its own conditions but it is guaranteed to have an impact on the life.
We also find that natal Out-Of-Bounds planets have a profound effect on psychological character. This subject is far too complex to discuss here but the mention is sufficient to alert the serious astrologer to examine those charts with OOB natal planets very carefully for indications of psychological attitudes that are not in step with the average psychology.
We also find OOB planets very active in accidents, serious illnesses, hair-raising adventures, etc. In fact, introducing declination into your calculations adds so much greater depth to your comprehension of the chart that you will be amazed. Even when NOT OOB, the planet's declination may reveal matters of great importance. For example, those periods when transiting Mars rides the Ecliptic (sits right on the ecliptic by declination) of a specific chart (your own, perhaps) are often a warning of accidents, surgery or infection with fever.
But this is enough for the beginning. In the future we will look more closely at declination and the Out-Of-Bounds planets.


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26 Years of Improving Lives
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The Harris County Hospital District Foundation (HCHD Foundation), a charitable 50l(c) (3) organization, was founded in 1992 to support the Harris Health System. The HCHD Foundation makes grants to Harris Health that focus on improving the lives of Harris County patients through the incredible work Harris Health does every day through 3 Harris Health Hospitals: Ben Taub Hospital, Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital and Quentin Mease Hospital, 18 community health centers, 5 same day clinics, 5 school-based clinics and other facilities and activities.
Since 1992, the HCHD Foundation has raised and granted in excess of $47 million to Harris Health System programs and services. In collaboration, HCHD Foundation and Harris Health System have shared some impressive successes.
To achieve these successes since inception, the HCHD Foundation created and sponsored over the years a number of annual events in the community: gala dinners (Jubilee of Caring), silver teas, Mallets and Medicine (polo), lecture series, Hank Cole luncheon, golf tournaments, and the TexasMedRun.
Mr. and Mrs. Bollinger along with daughter in-law, HCHD Foundation Operations Manager Carolyn Amos, and Harris Health Nurses. Jocelyn's New Beginnings is an infant care support program that provides baskets full of newborn essentials to new mothers at Harris Health System, ensuring that all mothers who need it receive tangible support to care for their newborn.
These events raised community awareness about the Harris County Hospital District Foundation, the Harris Health System, and the patients served, and raised funds for a specific Harris Health System program and service needs. The HCHD Foundation also solicits funding through grants, capital campaigns, and endowments to support the aforementioned fundraising initiatives.
Other notable successes of Harris County Hospital District Foundation through its fundraising efforts and beneficial to the residents of Harris County and patients of Harris Health System are:
Trouble Shooters Mobile Immunization Program, Mobile Mammography Program, Mobile Dental Program, Professional Advancement for Nurses, LBJ and Ben Taub Hospital Playgrounds, Smith Clinic Capital Campaign, and the successful 2017 Annual Jubilee of Caring Celebration honoring Barbara and Corby Robertson with the Ben Taub Humanitarian award, to name
a few.
The HCHD Foundation was able to expand their philanthropic efforts after receiving a number of generous donations to the HCHD Foundation Harris Health Employee Disaster Relief Fund. Those generous donations allowed the HCHD Foundation to grant funds to Harris Health System employees who experienced devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey.
The HCHD Foundation's efforts and support of Harris Health System has been possible due to the countless volunteer hours and vision of the amazing past and present Board of Trustees.
The Board of Trustees and staff of the HCHD Foundation look forward to continuing to work to honor our mission of supporting Harris Health's program and services.


There are lots of stellar places to catch an awesome view of the Las Vegas Strip, but when the world's highest observation wheel opened in the city in 2014, it added an entirely new perspective of this popular city. The High Roller is 550 feet high and has 28 enclosed pods that take a half hour to travel around the wheel. Because the High Roller is located in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip, the 360-degree pods offer a great lookout of the neon action to the west and the desert to the east.
Check for promotions and events going on at the High Roller and the adjoining pedestrian walkway, The LINQ, to enhance a visit to this Las Vegas attraction.


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The big wet: Prepare for more of the same
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Tauranga students left trapped by fierce storm
Tauranga Otumoetai College students were staying at Whangamata Campground but have been moved to the Whangamata Memorial Hall, where they will sleep tonight. Photo/Lesley Staniland PCW_4142.
By: Kiri Gillespie
kiri.gillespie@nzme.co.nz
A group of Tauranga school students will spend the night in a makeshift emergency centre as floodwaters and slips from the worst storm in decades cut access to and from Whangamata.
The 27 Otumoetai College students were spending their last days in the small coastal town as part of a surf camp.
The Year 11 students and four teachers were flooded out of the campground they had been staying in, and sought shelter in the town hall which was converted into an emergency centre about 10am this morning.
The school is one of many affected by torrential rain which has created numerous slips and flooding throughout the northern part of the North Island. Fifty Year 3 and 4 children from Papamoa's Tahatai Coast School evacuated their camp stay in Mount Maunganui last night and it is understood an Auckland school camping group in the Kaimai Range also cancelled their stay.
Otumoetai College deputy principal Ricky Feutz said the students and teachers were fine, despite spending the night in the hall instead of coming home.
"They got flooded out and some of their gear got wet - some sleeping bags. But Civil Defence pitched in and made sure they all have dry sleeping bags tonight, and made sure they have dry clothes. Civil Defence is also helping make sure they are fed. Members of the community have also pitched in with food."
Mr Feutz said the school had been liaising with the parents and relaying the message that the students were warm, dry and fed.
"Parents have been good," Mr Feutz said.
"It was a little bit undecided whether the students could be coming back [tonight] but it turns out that's not the case."
Mr Feutz said he expected the students and teachers to return to Tauranga tomorrow, once floodwaters had receded and they had the "all-clear" from Civil Defence.
Big deluge: Dire weather warnings
Whangamata firefighter Ralph Pitcher, who has been a local firefighter for 50 years, said the weather event was the worst he had seen in decades.
Tahatai Coast School principal Matt Skilton said he was glad of the decision, as some tents the children had been staying in did not survive the night.
"There was a bit of surface flooding for the kids sleeping in tents and some of those tents weren't really designed for that kind of weather," Mr Skilton said.
The school asked children to pack up their gear and wait on their beds while it contacted parents who picked up the children from 8.30pm to 9.30pm.
It is understood children from Auckland's St Kentigern Boys' School had been camping in the Kaimai Range but also cancelled their stay. The principal did not respond to messages left with the school yesterday.
Man dies while climbing at Mount Maunganui


Explain what differentiates the product from the competition.
Unit VII PowerPoint Presentation Click here to review the portion of Web Chapter A concerning new product innovation. Then, select a new product that you have been introduced to in the past 12 months. You are also welcome and encouraged to research this new product using outside sources. You are to create a PowerPoint presentation about the marketing strategy for this relatively new product. Your PowerPoint presentation should include the following elements:  Slide 1: Title page  Slide 2: Description of the new product  Slide 3: Explain which category of innovation is emphasized.  Slide 4: List what differentiates the product from the competition.  Slide 5: Describe the product's target market and its demographics.  Slide 6: Describe the market size and potential product demand.  Slide 7: Explain which stage of the product life cycle the product is in.  Slide 8: Predict product demand in five years.


Penelope is a newly divorced single mom. That would be pretty much enough for anyone to handle, but throw in that she is now raising two kids on her own and living with her mom and you've got some serious potential for heavy drama. Or comedy as it were.
I grew up watching Bonnie Franklin, Valerie Bertinelli and Mackenzie Phillips. As a latch key kid, these were the people I hung out with every day after school. So when I heard they were going to remake it I wasn't necessarily a happy camper. I mean I get some of the fun things from my childhood coming back (Star Wars anyone?) but there's also some concern for overkill. For each successful throwback that's been rebooted there are just as many that have ended up as littered little pieces of attempted revivals. (Bionic woman, Knight Rider anyone?) So where is this one going to end up?
I've only watched two episodes of One Day at a Time, but at this point, I'm leaning toward impressed. I say this cautiously because we all know that shows tend to out one way and then veer a different one. The two episodes that I watched with my family the other night had a few off-color jokes, but for the most part, they worked for everyone in my family. I appreciated that. There's little that I love more than laughing out loud with my kids. (Yeah, this is where I get mushy…) It warms my heart to join them in laughter. So I was really happy to see that happen with One Day at a Time. I hope the show keeps up that pace!
Now, one thing I should point out is that from the first second it started playing on my screen, I removed it completely from my 70's show. I didn't want to compare the two and stand them up side by side. This allowed me to watch it from a fresh perspective rather than critical. I loved the updated theme and that gave me a nice little punch of nostalgia. I loved that they still have a Schneider. Those are the two biggest similarities. But watching the show as a new entity and not a remake let me really love it.
Rita Moreno is BRILLIANT. The woman is a genius and always has been. I think it's nearly impossibl for her not to steal a scene. If she's on the screen, you're watching her and laughing with her. She's great. My kids had no idea who she was (I'm old enough to remember her from the Electric Company. And Morgan Freeman too!) but shortly after we watched, I pulled up her performances from West Side Story and the kids were clapping along to "America." Her presence on this show elevates it to a new level.
And before I go, a quick word about Justina Machado. Well, maybe more than just one word. She's fabulous. She handles being a single mom with grace and style and I am so thankful that they are using One Day at a Time to address veteran's issues. I'm married to a vet. I volunteer with wounded soldiers regularly. This is close to my heart. It doesn't dominate the show, but it's in there just enough to make sure that it's not a throwaway issue. It also helps anchor the viewer into deeper issues in the characters without turning it into a heavy drama.
So far, One Day at a Time has two thumbs up from me! Here's hoping it stays on that path!


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Mélodie d'amour may refer to:

"Mélodie d'amour" (Kaoma song), a 1990 single by Kaoma
"Melodie d'Amour", English version by the Ames Brothers of "Maladie d'amour" by Henri Salvador
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Miscellany 22.08.2019
On 22/08/2019 24/08/2019 By JacIn Colonialism, Colonisation of Wales, Corruption, Hippies, Plaid Cymru, Welsh Government, Welsh Independence28 Comments
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'COME AND JOIN US, COME AND JOIN US . . . '
A rather strange story surfaced recently suggesting that Helen Mary Jones, who replaced Simon Thomas as Plaid Cymru regional Assembly Member for Mid and West Wales last August – after Thomas was convicted of possessing child pornography – may not have been a paid-up party member when the spotlight picked her out.
The suggestion was made in the satirical magazine Lol, which appears for every National Eisteddfod.
Plaid Cymru's response was, "Helen was and is a member". Which is no doubt true, but it avoids answering the question of whether she was a member when she was called up to replace convicted paedophile Simon Thomas.
(If a regional seat becomes vacant during an Assembly term, then the person who was next on the list at the time of the previous election is offered the seat first.)
There was certainly a delay in Helen Mary Jones accepting the job, which she put down to a reluctance to leave her post as deputy director at the (Rhodri) Morgan Academy at Swansea University. (A 'chair' in the Welsh national game of musical chairs that involves politics, the third sector and academia.)
This was always a lame excuse, and while lapsed membership seems incredible, Jones did admit that it happened.
Though as you can read for yourself, she attributed the membership lapse to moving house, with this resulting in standing orders with her bank being cancelled. But why would moving house affect standing orders?
No, it looks very much as if Helen Mary Jones let her membership lapse and the delay in her taking up the AM role was due to Plaid Cymru covering up this fact. Which then poses the question: If Helen Mary Jones had let her membership lapse was it because she'd lost faith in Plaid Cymru, had there been a bust-up, or was she thinking of joining the Labour Party?
Anyway, the story gets even curiouser because I am informed that the next candidate on the regional list, Vicky Moller, had also neglected to renew her membership.
Had Jones and Moller both let their membership lapse, and therefore been ineligible to replace Simon Thomas, the fourth name on Plaid's 2016 slate for Mid and West Wales was Freddie Greaves, scarcely a household name in his own household.
Which makes me wonder what the hell is going on in Plaid Cymru. A party that can't even hang on to its candidates would appear to be in serious trouble.
ON YER BIKE! . . . OR WHATEVER IT IS
A Pembrokeshire source tells me that the county's roads will soon see three-wheeled taxi-style vehicles. If I'm vague on the exact terminology it's because Pembrokeshire County Council seems a little unclear as to what it's dealing with.
Let's go back to 2005 when the council authorised the use of an "electric motor assisted pedal Rickshaw" for the Tenby area, the relevant document is image 1 below. And it must be referring to something like what we see in image 2.
But now, the Licensing Officer argues that any three-wheel motor vehicle meets the criteria set out in 2005. Alert readers will have noticed that somewhere along the way the pedals have been lost.
Which opens the door to a Tuk Tuk, shown in image 3; or even a three-wheel motor cycle with a massive engine such as we see in image 4.
You know me, I'm always reluctant to criticise officialdom, but I suggest that in this instance, what was approved in 2005, was clearly a pedal cycle-type vehicle with a supplementary electric engine; not a Tuk Tuk, nor a Harley Davidson on three wheels.
Over to you, Licensing Committee. Be guided by the fact that while they may both be Italian, and begin with the letter F, a Fiat is not a Ferrari. And when it comes to three-wheel vehicles the disparity can be even greater.
STOP PRESS: I hear that there may be a re-think going on down Tenby way.
SAINT SULIEN'S CHURCH, SILIAN
Nationalists of a certain vintage will be familiar with this church, just outside Lampeter. For in its graveyard is buried Julian Cayo-Evans of the Free Wales Army.
I was told that the church is up for sale, so I thought I'd better check with the family before putting anything up on this blog. I did, and it's true.
Commandant Julian Cayo-Evans. Click to enlarge
It seems that the church was jerry-built just over a hundred years ago and is now beyond repair. So the Church in Wales is selling.
There was a hope of turning St Sulien's into a community centre, but I hear that plan has fallen through due to the dilapidated state of the building and a lack of interest locally.
Obviously, the church itself is of neither architectural merit nor interest to us, but the graveyard should be significant to all who seek Welsh independence. I would therefore urge that a watching brief be kept to ensure that the churchyard remains accessible to those visiting graves.
I give this warning because I know another church that was sold off by the Church in Wales, along with its graveyard, not far from where I'm sitting now. The new owner (the place is a holiday home) makes it difficult for people to visit graves on 'his' property.
GAVIN LEE WOODHOUSE, THE EMPIRE COLLAPSES
It's not in my nature to gloat, but the dramatic downfall of property tycoon and hotelier Gavin Lee Woodhouse has provided a lot of material for journalists, lawyers, receivers and of course – bloggers. Well, me, anyway.
To jog your memory, Woodhouse is the brains behind the Afan Valley Adventure Resort. But he also owns or owned many hotels and other businesses, both in Wales and England.
My most recent offering on the subject was Gavin Lee Woodhouse, the picture darkens, which went up on Bastille Day.
Since when I've received more information about Woodhouse, much of it directing me to snippets about hotels of his being put into receivership. Such as this report, about Caer Rhun in the Conwy Valley and the Fourcroft in Tenby.
Though some who've got in touch say I've overlooked other characters in this saga. Two in particular.
Despite financial and other backing from the 'Welsh Government' Gavin Woodhouse still went under! Click to enlarge.
Let's start with Robin Scott Forster. One contact would have it that, Forster was, " . . . his business partner that was with him every step of the way and actually gave him the in, into North Wales". (Or as I might have phrased it, 'the in into the inns in North Wales'.)
It may be significant that many of the companies Forster was involved with carry the MBI name. Closer inspection shows that Woodhouse and Forster have operated in tandem for a number of these companies, such as MBI Ferndale Ltd and MBI Tingley Mills Ltd. Or else they joined/left on the same day, as happened with MBI Social Care Smithy Bridge Ltd and MBI Hotel Management Ltd.
All of which suggests two men working together. Yet Forster seems to have avoided involvement in Woodhouse's hotels in Wales, for many of these were solo efforts by Woodhouse.
If Forster belongs to the past then the new boy on the block would appear to be Iain Andrew Shelton. Who has joined many of the Woodhouse companies. Here's a link to all Shelton's companies.
It tells us that on 9 July he joined various companies including Caer Rhun Hall Hotel Ltd, Fourcroft Hotel (Tenby) Ltd and Queens Hotel (Llandudno) Ltd.
Next, on 15 July, it was Caer Rhun Hotel Management Ltd, Queens Hotel (Llandudno) Management Ltd, Llansantffraed Court Hotel Ltd, Fishguard Bay Hotel Ltd and assorted other Woodhouse companies.
Finally, on 1 August, Shelton even became a director of three companies bearing the 'Woodhouse Family' element in their names.
It seems clear that Shelton got involved when the shit was already heading towards the fan. Now why would he do that? Seeing as he's from the same area as Woodhouse is he helping out a friend?
I feel sure I'll be returning to the Woodhouse empire in a little while. For even though the one-time leading man may no longer be treading the boards the play continues.
Anyone with information on Forster or Shelton is welcome to contact me.
LEANNE WOOD, THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING
The deposed leader of Plaid Cymru worries that Stop and Search is racist. Why, she wonders, will more young black males be searched "than wealthy, middle class regular cocaine users".
Shall we tell her, boys and girls? It's cos Stop and Search is about knives not drugs!!
Though maybe she has a point, so let's broaden the demographic to include elderly white women . . . visiting Inuit . . . Peruvian trade delegations . . . rabbis (Orthodox and Reform) . . . or Salvation Army people – for everyone knows that uniforms mean weapons. Come to that, and to prove their impartiality, why don't the police search themselves?
Better still, why not have the police searched by young black males?
Or how about this – if there can be a citizen's arrest, why not a citizen's search? Now that would be fun!
Bottom line: Starting from a different political direction to Leanne Wood, I also wish things were otherwise. But facts is facts.
Santes Leanne has also called on us to support US leftist thugs Antifa who, apparently, need our solidarity "now more than ever". Not because of anything planned by the "far-right", as she alleges, but because the US government is considering declaring Antifa a domestic terrorist organisation.
Here we see another example of any moderate voice opposing the far left automatically becoming 'far right' or 'fascist'.
More worrying is that Leanne Wood's supporters within Plaid Cymru would like to bring Antifa to Wales. The signs are there for all to see, but too many people in Plaid Cymru feign blindness.
In an earlier post I drew attention to a Welsh Antifa sticker in Cardiff, around the same time I picked up on a Plaid Ifanc tweet about Antifa. And someone from Undod was wandering around the Caernarfon rally on July 27 with Antifa stickers, affixing them to the backs of those she decided were 'fascists'.
(Plaid Ifanc is the party's youth wing, and Undod is a group refusing to accept independence unless they can organise the purges and decide who gets the one-way ticket to the gulags.)
The image below shows, working clockwise from the top left: the 'Wxm' (Wrexham) Antifa sticker in Cardiff – with the dragon facing the wrong way!; the disrespectful use of our patron saint on the Cachupostio FB page; the Antifa stickers girl behind the Undod banner at Caernarfon; the Plaid Ifanc Antifa tweet . . .
While, finally, at bottom left (appropriately), we find the inspiration for it all – Antifa stormtroopers in the USA ready to sally forth and beat the living shit out of anybody who disagrees with their mantra of love, peace and inclusivity.
I know who the Antifa sticker girl in Caernarfon is and I know her affiliations. Those behind the infantile Facebook page are to be found in Cwmtawe and Neath. One of them, a chubby youth, made the headlines a while back when he became the youngest town councillor in Wales. Despite being members of Plaid Cymru their loyalty is to Leanne Wood not the party.
Following Wood's humiliation in last year's leadership contest, rather than accept that they represent a minority view within Plaid Cymru (and are rejected by the population at large), these Leannistas carry on as if they are the voice of the people with a monopoly on the truth. If you can convince yourself of that, then it stands to reason that anyone who questions you must be a fascist.
They claim to be part of the independence movement, but they've jumped on this bandwagon for the same reason they were drawn to Plaid Cymru when Leanne Wood was leader – because it offers a platform for them to promote their extreme brand of socialism with its divisive add-ons, all of which should be extraneous to a campaign for Welsh independence.
If Antifa is declared a domestic terrorist organisation in the USA, then these juveniles, and their older mentors, could prove to be a great embarrassment to Plaid Cymru.
This wouldn't bother me in the least, Plaid would deserve all it got due to being so weak; but the independence movement is too important to be damaged by the stunts of puerile extremists.
As I write this news comes in of another Leanne Wood 'special' on Twitter following Donald Trump's suggestion that many Jews have divided loyalties.
The 'divided loyalty' allegation is regularly made by all sorts of people, and is almost inevitable given that many US Jews have dual nationality. But what Trump actually said was that Jews who vote Democrat are disloyal to the USA, and are also disloyal to Israel.
It's a way of saying that true Americans vote Republican. Whether you like it or not, that's US politics. The Democrats in the USA, like the Labour Party here, get most of the immigrant and minorities vote.
For the record: Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is Jewish. Kushner is a senior adviser at the White House. Trump himself has always been a strong supporter of Israel.
But let's return to Leanne Wood.
She's obviously wrong to call the President "anti-Semitic", and I'm not sure that what she's attacking is "Orwellian doublespeak", or "gaslighting".
Though she's entirely predictable in seeking to defend the Labour Party.
'WELSH' LABOUR'S WAR ON FARMING
Throughout the twenty years of devolution the 'Welsh' Labour Government in Cardiff Bay has, time after time, proved its hostility to Welsh farming and to Welsh farmers.
With measures such as the One Wales: One Planet initiative of 2009, designed to attract a new population into rural Wales. Reinforced in 2013 with the decision to take 15% of Wales' EU's Common Agricultural Policy payments away from farmers and transfer it to 'rural development projects'. In other words, the kind of scams dreamed up by the new population taking over our countryside.
More recently we have seen attempts by George Monbiot and others to take over vast areas of Wales and justify the land grab by arguing that Welsh farmers are damaging the environment, whereas they, with their tree-planting, and their 're-wilding', will give succour to Mother Earth.
In the small print it becomes obvious that Welsh farmers will have to like it or lump it. In fact, it's been spelled out by a couple of those involved in the purest meme sahib manner.
Listen to Natalie Buttriss, the Director of Wales for the Woodland Trust, a partner in the Summit to Sea rewilding project, speaking on BBC Radio 4's 'Farming Today' programme last October. (N.B. 'of Wales', not, for Wales.)
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And if you need further convincing of the kind of people we're dealing with, their attitudes and their motivations, then watch this video of Rebecca Wrigley of Rewilding Britain talk about the Summit to Sea project.
Inevitably, the so-called 'Welsh Government' has gone along with this Clearance programme, partly because, bizarrely, too many socialists in Wales identify with middle class English people rather than with hard-working Welsh farmers.
This colonised mindset is regrettably not confined to the Labour Party. You only have to press the magic 'Environment!' button for some in Plaid Cymru to view our farmers as fascists in wellies – Summon Antifa!
The latest Labour Party assault on Welsh farmers comes in the form of new legislation regarding the use of fertilisers, effective from 1 January 2020. The report below is from the Tivy-Side Advertiser and the image of dead fish clearly feeds into the 'farming destroys the environment' narrative.
Clearly, no one wants to see dead fish, but what the 'Welsh Government' is proposing goes way beyond measures needed to avoid spillages. It could be interpreted as part of a wider strategy. Or even a pincer movement.
For on the one hand the 'Welsh Government' is promising to reduce funding for farmers, but with this new legislation it makes farming more expensive. This will result in farmers being forced out of business.
Which in turn frees up more Welsh land for recreation and rewilding; taking us ever closer to the ultimate objective of 'Playground Wales'. England's playground, of course; with us Welsh marginalised, if not removed entirely.
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