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An outline may differ depending on a way of organization. If you decided on a subject by subject one, you should first outline the paragraphs of one subject and then of another. You should not write a long-read on each subject to show how good or bad, or just different they really are. If your decision is point by point, each paragraph should represent only the same point regarding both subjects.
That is you explain a point for one subject, then for another. The compare then contrast way would be great to use if you wan to show how different the subjects are.
Your first paragraph can shortly explain the similarities between them. The following paragraphs will tell the reader how the subjects differ from each other point by point and you remember that each idea is a new paragraph, right?
Writing an Essay Now when everything is prepared, you only have to put all these pieces together to make the whole picture. Check your notes, stick to your outline, and the essay will be great. After you put the final full stop, you need to take a break, for a day at least, and then return to the essay to edit and proofread it.
Every comma has to be in its right place. Every word has to be written correctly. Every sentence has to follow the rules of the English grammar. As well as eaten from the tree, apples are also both pressed into apple juice or pureed and processed into applesauce.
Oranges are also a tree fruit, often grown commercially in large orchards. Like apples, they can be eaten from the tree, squeezed into juices or processed into orange sauce. Compare and contrast points discussed in paragraphs one and two.
One big difference between apples and oranges is the way they are processed. Notice that while apples are pressed for juice, orange juice is squeezed from the orange. Another difference is that while apple juice contains only the liquid pressed from the apple, orange juice may also contain the pulp from the orange.
To avoid confusing your reader, it's best to follow the same order of representation in each paragraph. Take it to the next level! Outline your body paragraphs based on subject-to-subject comparison. Let's say you're working with the following statement: This method of organization can be unwieldy, so if you choose it, be sure not to let your paragraphs become page-long lists of points about each subject. A subject-to-subject body paragraph outline could look like this: Body Paragraph 1 Woods: Types of Activities and Facilities Conclusion.
Outline your body paragraphs based on point-by-point comparison. This is the more common method used in the comparison and contrast essay. For example, in this case, you could write one paragraph describing the weather in both the woods and the beach, one paragraph describing the activities in each location, and a third describing the facilities in both.
Here's how the essay could look: Discuss first difference between woods and beaches: Woods Beach Body Paragraph 2: Discuss second difference between woods and beaches: Woods Beach Body Paragraph 3: Discuss third difference between woods and beaches: Outline your body paragraphs based on compare then contrast.
These sentences provide concrete evidence that support the topic sentence and main idea. Use your brainstorming ideas to fill in your outline.
Look at the lists and diagrams you generated to help you find the evidence for your comparisons and contrasts. If you are having trouble finding evidence to support your argument, go back to your original texts and try the brainstorming process again. It could be that your argument is evolving past where it started, which is good! You just need to go back and look for further evidence.
For example, in a body paragraph about the quality of ingredients in frozen vs. It can also let you express your imagination. Pineapple and peanut butter pizza? Using your own ingredients lets you have fun with your food. Come up with a title. Depending on your audience and the situation, you may make a joke or a pun, ask a question, or provide a summary of your main point.
One of the most common mistakes student writers make is to not give themselves enough time to take a step back from their essays for a day or two. Start early so that you can let your finished draft sit for a day, or at least a few hours. Then, come back to it with fresh eyes. Reading your essay aloud can also help you find problem spots. Look out for any grammatical errors, confusing phrasing, and repetitive ideas. Look for a balance in your paper: Here are some things to consider before you turn in your paper: Don't use overly negative or defamatory language to show why a subject is unfavorable; use solid evidence to prove your points instead.
The compare and contrast essay, also called the comparison and contrast essay, requires the writer to compare the differences and similarities between two or more items. The context will vary depending on the nature of the essay. How to Write a Compare and Contrast Essay Outline: A Point-By-Point Organization. By point-by-point, we merely mean a comparison that concentrates on comparing and contrasting one factor in both subjects, and all at the same time! As a reader, you'll quickly follow its simple structure.
How to Write Compare and Contrast Essay: Defining This Type of Paper This type of assignment is an academic paper, which depicts 2 or more similar yet different things by focusing on what they have in common and what makes them different. Comparison and contrast essay Comparison and contrast essay is one of the most common assignments in American high schools and universities. In this type of essay students have to compare two (in some essays several) things, problems, events .


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The Kazz Music Orchestra is the Best Hudson Valley Wedding Band and Best Westchester Wedding Band.
Our goal is to provide premium live music for weddings and special events throughout the entire Tri-State Area. On the way to reaching that goal, we strive to have fun, and work in a professional manner that makes the planning of these events as simple, enjoyable, and stress-free as possible for our partners. If that sounds good, then we want to work with you!
Our performances feature energetic renditions of the most popular dance songs from all eras, which are guaranteed to get everyone up and dancing. We are interactive with your guests and our music is reactive to the celebration around us – a combination that creates an unforgettable musical experience for everyone! We are all really close friends in this band – having worked together in various combinations for years before this group as well. Our friendship and love for performing together really comes across in our performances. We love what we do together!
We are not an agency, and we are not represented by any agencies. You'll be working with Joe Kaczorowski, our saxophonist and band leader, who genuinely loves planning the music for couples' weddings.
Everyone has different tastes in music, but the people that we play for most often fit a profile similar to this: You're probably looking for a broad mix of wedding music – a little bit of everything including Sinatra-style swing, Top 40, Motown / Classic Soul, 70s R&B, and 80s Pop and Rock, with an occasional classic rock, country, or ethnic request thrown in as well. Or, maybe you're looking for a mix of music that's focused heavily on Motown and Classic Soul. You're likely not looking for a band that will play mostly Top 40, Classic Rock, or Country for your event. Most couples we work with usually have more of a Pop / R&B / Soul focus. You're looking for a band that will make your guests dance all night, and that is extremely fun, organized and easy to work with. That's what we do best!
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The Kazz Music Orchestra features two of the best singers you will find anywhere and a band filled with top-notch talent. The musicians of the band have impressive credentials, including performing in Broadway and Off-Broadway shows, Presidential Inaugural Balls, headlining major NYC nightclubs such as B.B. King's Blues Club in Times Square, The Blue Note, Lincoln Center, performing at area casinos including Mount Airy Casino and Resort and Empire Casino. Members of the band have also performed and/or recorded with such legendary artists as Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, 'N Sync, Trace Adkins, Roberta Flack, Celine Dion, Diana Ross, Macy Gray, Bruce Springsteen, Kelly Clarkson, Harry Belafonte and others. But most importantly, the band has extensive experience in performing at and planning weddings and special events!
In 2014, we were hired by Nona Hendryx (of the R&B super group "The Labelles" that recorded the #1 hit "Lady Marmalade") to be her backing band for a gala event. We were also asked to back up legendary singer / songwriter Valerie Simpson, who was part of the songwriting duo Ashford and Simpson that wrote tons of Motown / Soul hits including "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", "Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing", and many others.
We have performed at weddings and events in the NYC area, the Philadelphia area, Boston, Providence, Long Island, NJ, the Hudson Valley, and Central NY (Ithaca and Colgate University), so we definitely travel! We have performed at many premier venues including The Rainbow Room, The Waldorf Astoria Hotel, Mohonk Mountain House, Larchmont Yacht Club, the Rosecliff Mansion, the Crane Estate, Cipriani's Midtown, Glen Island Harbour Club, Mamaroneck Beach and Yacht Club, The Garrison, Crabtree's Kittle House, Emerson Resort and Spa, and many other of the best Tri-State event spaces.

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The Impact of the Global Business Cycle on Small Open Economies: A FAVAR Approach for Canada
Staff Working Paper 2011-2 Garima Vasishtha, Philipp Maier
Building on the growing evidence on the importance of large data sets for empirical macroeconomic modeling, we use a factor-augmented VAR (FAVAR) model with more than 260 series for 20 OECD countries to analyze how global developments affect the Canadian economy.
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Business fluctuations and cycles, Econometric and statistical methods, International topics JEL Code(s): C, C3, C32, F, F4, F41
Financial Spillovers Across Countries: The Case of Canada and the United States
Staff Discussion Paper 2011-1 Kimberly Beaton, Brigitte Desroches
The authors investigate financial spillovers across countries with an emphasis on the effect of shocks to financial conditions in the United States on financial conditions and economic activity in Canada. These questions are addressed within a global vector autoregression model.
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Discussion Papers Topic(s): Business fluctuations and cycles, Economic models, Financial stability, International topics JEL Code(s): E, E2, E27, E3, E32, F, F3, F36, F4, F40
Building New Plants or Entering by Acquisition? Estimation of an Entry Model for the U.S. Cement Industry
Staff Working Paper 2011-1 Héctor Pérez Saiz
In many industries, firms usually have two choices when expanding into new markets: They can either build a new plant (greenfield entry) or they can acquire an existing incumbent. In the U.S. cement industry, the comparative advantage (e.g., TFP or size) of entrants versus incumbents and regulatory entry barriers are important factors that determine the means of expansion.
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Econometric and statistical methods, Market structure and pricing, Productivity JEL Code(s): L, L1, L13, L4, L40, L6, L61
Release of the Monetary Policy Report
Opening Statement Mark Carney Ottawa, Ontario
The global economic recovery is proceeding at a somewhat faster pace than the Bank had anticipated, although risks remain elevated. Private domestic demand in the United States has picked up and will be reinforced by recently announced monetary and fiscal stimulus.
Content Type(s): Press, Speeches
Monetary Policy Report - January 2011
This is a report of the Governing Council of the Bank of Canada: Mark Carney, Tiff Macklem, John Murray, Timothy Lane, Jean Boivin and Agathe Côté. It presents the Bank's outlook based on data received up to 14 January 2011.
Content Type(s): Publications, Monetary Policy Report
Bank of Canada maintains overnight rate target at 1 per cent
Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario
The Bank of Canada today announced that it is maintaining its target for the overnight rate at 1 per cent. The Bank Rate is correspondingly 1 1/4 per cent and the deposit rate is 3/4 per cent.
Household Finances and Economic Growth
Remarks Agathe Côté Canadian Club of Kingston Kingston, Ontario
Why does household financial health matter to the Bank of Canada? It matters because how Canadians spend and how much they spend affect both the conduct of monetary policy and the stability of the financial system.
Business Outlook Survey - Winter 2010-11
Overall, businesses continue to be positive about the outlook for the next 12 months. While survey responses generally still indicate modest growth, with many firms citing headwinds from strong competition and moderate demand, the strength in commodity prices has led to increased optimism among those firms tied to commodity-related activity.
Content Type(s): Publications, Business Outlook Survey
Senior Loan Officer Survey - Fourth-Quarter 2010
The survey results point to an overall easing in business-lending conditions. Both the price and non-price aspects of business lending eased during the quarter. Note that the balance of opinion indicates only the direction of the change in lending conditions; it does not provide information on the magnitude of the change.
Content Type(s): Publications, Senior Loan Officer Survey


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To implement a connector, you publish three different kinds of resource.
Every record type automatically includes an id field with type text, so you don't have to define it explicitly.
When you use a connector form field to select a record, you can use the record's data in the workflow. Workflow Accelerator only stores the record's ID as a reference, and fetches the entire record when needed, when accessing the nested data.
Selecting this customer record from the customer options list would give the workflow access to all of this customer's fields.
An email address type represents an email address.
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No. 128 Chris Lowder aka Jack Adrian
First Prog: 34
Final Prog: 374
-including strips in StarLord, but not his prolific output for Eagle or any other IPC comics.
NB He's mostly credited as Jack Adrian, but he used his own name a few times, not to mention a handful of bizarre, typically one-off pseudonyms.
TimeQuake
Lowder in a nutshell - time travel antics meet a gruff response.
Art by Ian Kennedy
Other writing credits:
Ro-Busters
Future Shocks and Time Twisters
See, I want to write down the main guy from TimeQuake here, but I can't quite remember his name... Jack Blocker, perhaps?
More notable, for sure, was his idea to fill up a Judge Dredd story with copyright-bearing characters used in advertising, most famously the Jolly Green Giant.
Lowder himself says this story was derived from 'the Island of Dr Moreau' -
crazy creatures brought to life that then run amuck. It's a great hook for a 2000AD story!
Art by Brian Bolland
Plot twists, especially involving time travel, people being selfish, stupid, mean or even all three.
Here's two counts of stupid plus one count of mean (not to say evil!).
Art by Jesus Redondo
On Chris:
In the early days, Lowder (rhymes with soda, not with powder) was something of a go-to man for Tharg. A dependable scripter for most of the series than ran in the early years, plugging schedule gaps on Invasion, MACH 1 and even Dreddwith relative ease, although not necessarily making a big splash. By 1978, he was near the top of Tharg's 'on-call' list - he's one of the few droids credited with three strips in a single Prog!*
I'm old enough to remember when the idea of a Channel Tunnel was the peak of sci-fi nonsense
Perhaps Lowder's true ticket were his early contributions to Future Shocks. It's not the easiest format to master, and frankly some of the earliest efforts a a bit shonky. But Lowder's were decent, especially under the pens of Carlos Ezquerra and Brian Bolland. In fact, there's something to be said for Lowder as exemplifying the comics truism that great art cannot save a poor script, but great art can make a decent script come to life. Lowder's work is reliably decent.
This Future Shock hews rather closely to the first ever episode of the Twilight Zone,
but it's pulled off with enough visual aplomb to give it a pass.
Lowder turns straight to the military option (the more to show its limitations, natch)
Art by Frisano
Lowder's first 2000AD foray into time travel fun times!
Lowder seems to suit a certain kind of protagonist, typically someone who's looking to gain something for themselves, and generally is not heroically single-minded as your Savages, Probes or Dredds.
In theory, that would make him a poor fit for Dan Dare, a heroic hero if ever there was one. Except, this era of Dan Dare is quite the strange beast. Deep into the 'Lost Worlds' section when Lowder took over the scripting reins, Dare and his crew are exploring strange, new worlds, and invariably falling foul of evil monsters (not to mention evil crew members), often ending in genocide and murder. (If you want a flavour of these strips without actually reading them, I point readers to early episodes of Space Spinner 2000, who expressed great glee for this run of Dan Dare!).
Attack of the giant tentacle monster!
Art by Dave Gibbons
Attack of the secret worm monster!
The point is, Lowder is not so interested in exploring Dan Dare's character or general mission (inasmuch as there was a mission). Instead, he wants to give young readers the good stuff: shapeshifting worm creatures, death planets aplenty, and people going space-crazy. It's good, unclean fun, and probably exactly the sort of thing that really soured any readers who had grown up with original Eagle-era Dan Dare. I hadn't, and this era is my favourite Dan Dare for sure.
Uncomplicated shooting action... in space!
I'm a sucker for villains who turn into giant killer worms.
Meanwhile, Lowder finally got to deliver his own series, beginning in the pages of StarLord. It's time-travelling coppers in TimeQuake! Again, it's not so much about the characters as it is about the plots. We meet a somewhat generic 2000ADish 'hero' from 1970s Britain who is trigger happy, a bit selfish, and generally grumpy, who finds himself kidnapped by the Time Police to help them capture a time-travelling crimelord from the same era.
Blocker is pretty much the archetypal 2000AD protagonist:
quick with his fists, hot tempered, and will not take orders!
Cue lots of 'what the hell's going on' type dialogue, and something of a romp across the more fun bits of world history, especially Aztecs and Nazis, because that's what you do in time travel stories.
What?! A traitor - what an unexpected twist.
Art by Magellanes Salinas
Lowder ladles on this sort of stuff, with an added measure of 'ooh, which one of the 'goodies' is going to betray them / turn out to be a baddie'. More fun than that were the sequences dealing with 'all this mucking about in time is wrecking the entire space-time continuum' stuff, complete with 'am I in danger of erasing my own existence' shenanigans. To some extent it's cliché territory, but to a greater extent this was all quite new at the time (well, I imagine it was to most readers?), and it's handled clearly.
Gotta love those paradoxes
Art by John Cooper
For my money, that first StarLord series of TimeQuake went on a few episodes too long, while the second series, this time in 2000AD proper, was somehow too short. Tharg could have brought it back for more, but I guess never quite found the room for it.
By the time of the second TimeQuake outing, Blocker had evolved into the other archetypal 2000AD protagonist:
completely blasé about all the craziness going on around him.
Lowder was kept busy instead on Ro-Busters, writing a couple of longish stories that ran in the second half of StarLord. He very much wrote 'sarcastic robots doing rescue mission work' stories, which are fine, but they haven't stood the test of time given that Pat Mills took the story back for 2000AD, and essentially ditched any and all 'rescue mission' antics in favour of telling stories leading up to / about class war / robot rebellion against human masters. It maybe doesn't help that these are examples of decent scripts let down by mediocre art.
Lowder's Ro-Jaws gets in the action much more than he usually does.
Art by Jose Ferrer
Art by Carlos Pino
Lowder poking fun at editor Kelvin Gosnell
To be honest, all of this is a mere prologue for Lowder's lasting impact on 2000AD, namely his many Time Twisters. A self-confessed fan of time travel fiction, he apparently pestered Steve MacManus enough until he was given free reign to write Future Shocks with a time travel theme that got their own series moniker.
More Lowder aliens having a lark. This one's neither a Future Shock, nor a Time Twister,
but very much falls into both camps.
Art by John Higgins
Yes, Alan Moore is the celebrated author of micro-epics including The Reversible Man, and Chronocops, but Lowder put in the hard graft writing nearly twice as many as anyone else. In the process, he left no classic time travel paradox unexplored! Frankly, if you want a primer in the fundamentals of what unintended consequences time travel could wreak, you may as well read a collection of Chris Lowder's Time Twisters**. The perils / impossibilities of inventing time travel. Accidentally littering history with its own greatest monsters. Discovering that no one actually wrote Shakespeare's plays. The reality that even time-crime doesn't pay.
Sometimes, people just blunder into trouble
This one's a time travel cracker: how do you escape your destiny?
Art by Mike Dorey
The Shakespeare conundrum even made the front cover!
Art by Eric Bradbury
With Lowder, there's nearly always the added bonus of horrible people being horrible to each other, the scheme that goes wrong because of human nature, and human ineptitude winning the day. And, of course, a general undercurrent of comedy. Lowder's basic writing style is exactly in keeping with 2000AD – big, simple ideas, told with mean-spirited people, spiced with violence and humour. Not his fault he was being printed alongside peak Wagner, Grant and Mills, who took the same ingredients to new heights!
Who killed who? It's time travel 101
Art by Carlos Ezquerra
For now, that's where Lowder's 2000AD story ends, set quietly to one side along with other esteemed 'first wave' writers such as Tom Tully, Alan Hebden and Gerry Finley-Day. I believe he continued writing Eagle strips, but unless he has a time travel scheme that'll see a new script emerge one day from the past, those Time Twisters will remain his great legacy.
More on Chris Lowder:
He's on the Thrillcast!
Otherwise there's his profile on GoodReads I guess
Dan Dare: Doppelganger; Garden of Eden
Future Shocks: Fangs, What hit Tunguska?
Time Twisters: This is Your Death; the Perfect Crime; the Impossible Murders; Running out of Time; the Contract
OK, it took two episodes and a hell of a lot of 'we caused disaster x' jokes along the way,
but this pun is SO forced it's kinda delightful.
*Prog 78, fact fans. Off the top of my head, there are four others who've achieved this feat. Share your answers on a forum post for the chance to win a... something?
**No such collection exists. Although I remain hopeful that Rebellion's current annual project of collecting ALL the Future Shocks, in order, will include sweeping up the Time Twisters, Terror Tales and other assorted one-off tales. Even if it has to be in a 'Restricted Files' kind of way.
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When it comes to Biryani, the explorer streak in me continues to wander. So when I got my hands on this new outlet in South Delhi, I could not help myself but gorge on!
Hyderabadi Mutton Dum Biryani: The mutton pieces were well chosen, slightly tangy, succulent and drenched in spices. The rice was moist but could have been more flavourful though when combined with saalan, the ensemble tasted pretty complete. And talking about saalan, it was thick, flavoured with coconut, curry leaves and mustard seeds and scored 10 on 10.
Moong Dal Halwa: Wow is the word. Optimum sweetness, smooth texture and decadence define this one. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
Strawberry shake: What I feel after drinking this – made from real strawberries with no extra sugar or flavours.
Masala Chaas: Light, cool and lightly salted – a perfect accompaniment after a heavy dose of Biryani.


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Hungary competed in the  2017 Summer Deaflympics for 20th time in the Summer Deaflympics since making its debut in the inaugural edition of the Deaflympics in 1924.

The competitors competed in 10 sporting events such as shooting, Tennis, Table tennis, Swimming, Athletics, Orienteering, Judo, Water polo and Beach Volleyball.

Hungary sent a delegation of 27 participants in the Games. The Hungarian team also consisted of veteran tennis player, Gabor Máthé who was also the flagbearer for Hungary at the Summer Deaflympics. Hungary managed to receive only 1 bronze medal in the competition.

Mira Zsuzanna Biatovszki was the only medalist for Hungary during the event bagging the solitary medal for the nation.

Medalists

Medal table

References

External links
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Hungary at the Deaflympics
2017 in Hungarian sport
Nations at the 2017 Summer Deaflympics

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Q: How to pass data from a View to a Controller In my View, I have a table pulling various data in.  Initially it only shows the rows actionable by that user.  However, there is also an option to show all rows.  To achieve that so far, I have two hyperlinks above the table, with hrefs of "?isRequiredAction=true" and "?isRequiredAction=false".  In the Controller, I have the following:
public ActionResult Index(bool? isRequiredAction){
string userId = User.Identity.Name;
bool ira = true;
if (isRequiredAction != null)
{
    ira = Convert.ToBoolean(isRequiredAction);
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return View(model);

So, right now the Controller is getting its parameter from the querystring created by clicking those links.  I'm not satisfied with this approach since I don't want to dirty up the URL with this query.  Is there a simpler way of achieving what I'm asking?  We would like to avoid turning the links into form objects if possible.  Thanks.

A: This MSDN article should help.
From view to controller, you can do a HttpPost or you can pass the data as parameters.

A: You can create two distinct custom routes, for example:

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*www.yourapp.com/home

*www.yourapp.com/home/showall

After that, you can make both routes target the same action or create a distinct action for each of these routes. Your choice!

A: Technically, I don't believe there is very appropiriate solution that fits your need because you don't want to make the link form object, nor "dirtying up" the URL. I suggest you to stick with your first approach because there is nothing wrong with dirtying the URL. By "dirtying" your URL, you can make link bookmarkable. If you are really concerned with it, then you can have two choices:
(1) Use Ajax. This way your URL will be unaffected; however, you lose bookmarkability.
(2) Use URL rewriting to make your URL "pretty". This approach, under the hood, equals to "dirtying up" the URL, but in a "pretty" way.

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Earth day: Drought, floods and how WFP climate action in Haiti and the Caribbean protects people and planet – Haiti – ReliefWeb
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Spotting disasters before they hit enables communities to be less dependent on World Food Programme emergency assistance – and self-sufficient over the long term
Nadine Grimm-Pampe and Jenny Wilson
The climate crisis is changing the entire world. But its impacts are particularly severe in the Caribbean – the second most hazard prone region in the world. Rising sea levels, failed rainy seasons and increasing temperatures are threatening Caribbean nations whose economies rely on sectors particularly vulnerable to climate change such as agriculture, fishing and tourism.
In 2021, the World Food Programme (WFP) worked with over 1.1 million people in the Caribbean to support their protection against climate impacts. This includes providing crop insurance to farmers, using early warning systems to deliver assistance before disasters strike and rehabilitating community resources to increase resilience.
It is still possible to solve the climate crisis. But time is short. We must invest in our planet now to protect people, livelihoods and our futures.
To mark Earth Day, let's take a look at how WFP is investing in the Caribbean to address the climate crisis and protect both people and planet.
In Haiti, 45 percent of people don't have enough food to eat – the highest levels of food insecurity in the region. The most populous country in the Caribbean is not only prone to climate shocks, but also still recovering from the severe earthquake in 2010 that affected three million people. WFP works with communities in Haiti to build resilience to climate shocks by creating, rehabilitating and modernising community resources. In 2021, WFP assisted 80,000 people in six departments to plant 73,000 trees and rehabilitate 2,500 metres of flood protection dikes and 6,264 meters of drainage canals.
Marie was one of 3,000 people who participated in such activities in the Sud department. She received US$344 over a period of four months to help improve the road connecting her village to the main road which leads to the market in the city of Les Cayes. "With this road we now only need two hours to go to the market at Les Cayes instead of four hours before," Marie says. She used the money to purchase food and for her children's school fees. She was also able to repair parts of her house which had been damaged by a recent hurricane. And it's not only the money that helped Marie "The road is a relief as me and my family can now access medical services more quickly" she says.
Marc is a farmer in the Central Department. He was supported by WFP to build drainage and irrigation canals that now enable him to grow new crops including eggplant, cabbage, spinach, spring onions and beetroot. "Before the canals, during a drought we would eat only one meal a day, but now we can eat three times a day as well as sell food to pay for the needs of our families," says Marc. "I am proud to be a farmer, this is my life; it is a good life."
Droughts are becoming more frequent in Cuba, affecting the amount and quality of food that is produced. WFP works with local farmers to strengthen their resilience by improving climate services – information about upcoming weather events and conditions such as rainfall.
Alfredo, a corn, bean and vegetable farmer in the Guantanamo province receives climate and weather information bulletins issued by WFP and partners.
This enables Alfredo to make informed decisions about when to plant or harvest, or which type of crops to plant based on weather conditions. "If you lack data on climate and weather, you are risking more than 30 percent of the success of that harvest," he says.
Climate information services also strengthen the country's early warning system, enabling the Government to better manage risks and predict when food shortages might occur. Farmers also receive training from climate experts. "Today we have a meteorologist in the cooperative, something I never thought I would have," says Alfredo. "And now I see that my future economy is more guaranteed."
Acting before disaster strikes is the best way to save lives and livelihoods. One way to do this is through forecast-based financing which involves using weather forecasts to trigger assistance before a climate event hits. In the Dominican Republic, WFP and the Government have set up a mechanism to support 10,000 people if floods are predicted in the Yaque del Norte River Basin.
If a forecast predicts significant flooding, people will receive US$ 100, equivalent to around 80 percent of their average monthly spending, two to three days before floods arrive. This will mean people can take precautions – buy supplies, reinforce their homes or move vulnerable people to safety. WFP and the Government are currently working on expanding this initiative to cover more people and other types of hazards. The Dominican Republic experiences some of the worst climate impacts which contributes to it having the second highest level of food insecurity in the region.
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Caroline Elementary School removed from state 'dangerous' list
ICSD successfully files petition with New York State Education Department
Caroline Elementary School removed from state 'dangerous' list ICSD successfully files petition with New York State Education Department Check out this story on ithacajournal.com: http://ithacajr.nl/1nlPyuW
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Caroline Elementary School has been removed from NYSED's 'persistently dangerous' schools list.
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The Ithaca City School District has successfully petitioned the New York State Education Department to remove Caroline Elementary School from its list of persistently dangerous schools.
Caroline Elementary landed on the list in December 2012 after a state formula determined that the school had a high number of violent and disruptive incident reports when measured against student enrollment and the severity of each type of incident. ICSD administrators at the time argued that mistakes had been made in how incidents were categorized and submitted to the state.
As part of the state's procedure, schools must remain on the list for at least two years and then file a petition to be removed.
On April 30, NYSED officials spent a day at Caroline Elementary, meeting with students, faculty and staff, according to District Chief Elementary Officer Matthew Landahl. The district was then notified by the state in July that it had the ability to petition, and ICSD resubmitted its Violent and Disruptive Incident Report data for the last two years, said Landahl, who noted that the number of reported incidents had dropped significantly since the school was labeled persistently dangerous in 2012.
A week and a half after the petition was filed, the state removed Caroline from the persistently dangerous list.
"They turned this around very quickly, so we're appreciative of that because we really were hoping to get the news before the school year started," Landahl said. "We knew we needed to have significant improvement at Caroline. We never really agreed with the designation, just from a policy standpoint, but we also knew we needed to improve."
Among improvement efforts, Landahl cited PBIS — short for Positive Behavior Interventions and Support — a district-wide initiative that brings together teachers, paraprofessionals, administrators and parents to develop consistency in how adults work with students and identify trouble spots in each building. The district has also taken a more consistent approach in how it analyzes and codes its VADIR data for the state.
"We've seen some really nice things start to happen at Caroline this year," Landahl said. "Not even from a VADIR/state perspective, but from, more importantly, an instructional perspective and a learning perspective and a community perspective."
Since the initial designation was made, Caroline also gained a new principal, Mary Grover, who joined the school in July 2013 following the departure of principal Timothy McDonald.
"Going through this process, we really focused on building relational trust among adults because of the impacts that has on student learning and achievement," Grover said.
In a statement released Monday, Superintendent Luvelle Brown said: "We are striving to continuously improve all of our schools. I've always disagreed with the state designation for Caroline, and I am pleased that our state Education Department moved so quickly to remove the label."
Now that the label has been lifted, Landahl said the district hopes to move beyond that issue and shift the focus back to the work that is being done by Caroline's teachers and students in the classroom, although he acknowledges that it may take time.
"I'm very very proud of the Caroline community," Landahl said. "I think they've really gone through some tough times with this. They've really come through it in a positive way. It's just upward and onward from here. We're really excited about the future."
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Last Gasp: Toxic gas could explain great extinction
By Naila Moreira
Poisonous gas bubbling up from the deep ocean could have caused the largest extinction of species in Earth's history. A new model describes how hydrogen sulfide gas produced by marine microbes might suddenly have built up in the atmosphere 250 million years ago, poisoning land animals. The same event would have destroyed the planet's protective ozone shield and thus killed many land and marine plants.
Researchers have debated the cause of that ecological disaster, which extinguished 95 percent of marine and 70 percent of land species at the end of the Permian period. Scientists have proposed as possible culprits meteor impacts (SN: 11/22/03, p. 323: Pieces of a Pulverizer? Sediment fragments may be from killer space rock), global warming from major volcanic eruptions, and changes in ocean chemistry (SN: 2/1/97, p. 74). In the May Geology, Lee Kump of Pennsylvania State University in State College and his colleagues argue that ocean venting of hydrogen sulfide gas could have transformed the Permian event from a moderate extinction into a massive one.
Using estimates of atmospheric and ocean conditions, the researchers mathematically modeled the behavior of hydrogen sulfide during low-oxygen periods of Earth's past, such as the Permian. As the atmosphere's makeup varies over time, swaths of the deep sea periodically lose all their dissolved oxygen, says study coauthor Alexander Pavlov of the University of Colorado in Boulder. This condition permits bacteria that live without oxygen to flourish and produce hydrogen sulfide gas.
This sulfide usually changes into a benign sulfate salt when the dissolved gas encounters oxygen to flourish at an underwater boundary called a chemocline. However, if enough hydrogen sulfide accumulates in an oxygenfree, or anoxic, zone, the gas can abruptly rise and belch into the atmosphere, Kump says.
Although oxidizing gases in the atmosphere would at first destroy the toxic gas, Pavlov notes, the hydrogen sulfide would consume all the atmospheric gas available to convert it. Then, hydrogen sulfide concentrations would skyrocket within just a few hundred years, he adds.
Moreover, the model suggests that the gas would destroy ozone molecules in the upper atmosphere. Ozone blocks the sun's ultraviolet rays from reaching Earth. Loss of that protection would have killed off vulnerable species, particularly plants, that survived the toxic blast.
Most previous theories assigning the Permian extinction to changes in ocean or atmospheric chemistry have readily explained only widespread marine extinctions, says Paul Wignall of the University of Leeds in England. While widespread ocean anoxia could account for marine die-offs, the new theory provides "a nice kill mechanism for life on land," he says.
Global warming during the Permian—probably from volcanism—played a role in producing ocean anoxia, Kump says. In warm water, oxygen-consuming microbes thrive and less oxygen dissolves.
Despite today's global warming, water-circulation patterns and abundant atmospheric oxygen keep the ocean well supplied with that gas, so harmful releases of hydrogen sulfide are unlikely, Pavlov says.
Kump suspects that even during the Permian extinction, hydrogen sulfide belches were limited. The new extinction mechanism of hydrogen sulfide releases might also have prevented life from making the evolutionary jump onto land during the Proterozoic period 0.8 billion to 1.8 billion years ago.
A version of this article appears in the May 28, 2005 issue of Science News.
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Mr Lockett presents his [Compliments] to Mr Beckett and has the pleasure to inform him that Mr Hobhouse has received a second communication from Col. Mainwaring which leaves no doubt as to the identity of Little Sam and the deserter at Porchester Castle. Mr L. would have waited upon Mr Beckett to have taken his directions as to the removal of the prisoner to Leicester, but is just leaving town. Time will not admit of his being marched back again—If a less expensive method cannot be suggested Mr L. will send an officer from Derby with a warrant from Mr Mundy, which maybe backed by Hampshire magistrate, but he will wait to hear from Mr B. on the [illegible]
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The widespread popularity of cloud computing has given rise to a new generation of security platforms and providers known as Security-as-a-service, or SECaaS.
Security-as-a-service providers usually function the same way as a SaaS providers: they charge a monthly subscription fee to reduce cost burden for outsourced services. But instead of providing access to a tool or platform, they provide protection for your apps, data, and operations that run in the cloud.
Many organizations plunged headfirst into cloud computing without adequate knowledge and resources for provisioning their own security. They trusted vendors to take care of everything behind the scenes, but failed to consider the implications of an entire cloud infrastructure with a dozen or more applications sharing data and credentials.
What does it mean to protect corporate data and systems when all of your applications, storage, and infrastructure are running on remote servers, hosted via the web? How relevant are firewalls and traditional endpoint protection?
The right SECaaS provider can help you overcome these and other vulnerabilities without exhausting your own IT resources, and without paying an exorbitant sum for a server-based solution. Most will integrate their services with your existing infrastructure, and some can even work in hybrid environments if you use a mix of cloud and on-premise resources.
If you're shopping for SECaaS for the first time, it can be difficult to decide which provider is best suited to your needs. There are many different types of SECaaS providers with different specialties, features, and price points. In this article, we'll divide the market into five major categories and highlight a top vendor for each.
Although a younger company (founded in 2013), Palerra has already established their reputation attracted tens of millions of dollars in funding from several A-list investors. Their product was the first on the market to automate the entire security lifecycle, from preventative measures to detection and remediation.
Their cloud security automation platform, LORIC, covers threat detection, predictive analytics, configuration management, and incident response. LORIC already integrates with a wide variety of cloud services, including Amazon Web Services, Salesforce, Google Apps, Office 365/Sharepoint, Box, GitHub, ServiceNow, Rackspace, and Discovery. Click here to learn more about pricing and features or get a free demo.
Single sign-on (SSO) services give users the ability to access all of their enterprise cloud apps with a single set of login credentials. SSO also gives IT and network administrators a better ability to monitor access and accounts. Some of the larger SaaS vendors already provide SSO capabilities for products within their suite, but chances are, you don't just use applications from one vendor . . . which is where a third-party SSO provider would come in handy.
Okta's single sign-on solution uses Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) to validate log-in credentials and let users securely access any application with a single username and password. For apps that don't use SAML, users will just need to enter their credentials through the Okta homepage for secure, encrypted web access. Okta provides strong central administrative features, so IT managers can set custom policies and report on usage, as needed. They also offer one of the broadest integration networks in the industry, so you can add SSO capabilities to about every application imaginable — whether cloud or desktop.
It may not be the first application that comes to mind when you think about outsourcing security, but a massive amount of data travels in and out of your business through cloud-based email servers. SECaaS providers that focus on email security can protect you from the menagerie of threats and risks that are an intrinsic part of email: malvertising, targeted attacks, phishing, data breaches, etc. Some email security tools are part of a larger platform, while other vendors offer it as a standalone solution.
Proofpoint is one of the top cloud security providers that focuses on email. Their solution is designed to secure and control outbound and inbound email threats in any kind of environment, from small businesses running on Gmail, to complex, hybrid Sharepoint environments at large enterprises. As part of their service level agreement, Proofpoint guarantees 99.999 percent blocked spam and 100 percent virus protection. They use signature-based detection to protect your company against known and emerging threats from any kind of IP address.
Like other solutions in this article, Proofpoint provides some pretty useful tools for administrators, like their 60+ out-of-box reports and custom policy creation at the group, user, and global level. Other features include: graymail management, mobile defense, data loss prevention (DLP), encryption, and social media security.
Beyond protecting your data and infrastructure when using cloud-based applications, you also need to protect the apps and digital properties that you own and manage — i.e. your website. This is another area where traditional endpoint and firewall protection will still leave you vulnerable to attacks, hacks, and breaches. Tools and services in this category are usually designed to expose and seal vulnerabilities in your external-facing websites and web applications, or even internal portals/intranets.
White Hat Security has been around a lot longer than many of its competitors, so they have a considerable amount of experience identifying and remediating web and application threats. Their current products use dynamic and static application security testing to make sure your websites and source code stay secure. White Hat also offers a solution for mobile application security, which applies the same analytics and testing capabilities to any mobile apps your organization deploys.
Regardless of which White Hat solutions you implement, you'll gain access to a dedicated team of engineers at the "Threat Research Center" who can provide guidance on any issues that are beyond the expertise of your own team. White Hat has an impressive list of current and past clients, including the likes of Dell, NetApp, and Akamai.
Cloud-based network security applications are designed to help your business monitor traffic moving in and out of your servers and stop threats before they materialize. You may already use a hardware-based firewall, but with a limitless variety of threats spread across the internet today, it's a good idea to have multiple layers of security. Network security as a service, of course, means the vendor would deliver threat detection and intrusion prevention through the cloud.
With over 8,800 customers in 100 countries, Qualys is one of the most popular providers in this category. Their platform is an integrated suit of security and compliance solutions that was built in the cloud and delivers all of its service through either multi-tenant or private cloud. Functional areas include continuous network monitoring (through sensor appliances and lightweight agents), vulnerability management, compliance management, web scanning, web application firewall, malware detection, and secure website testing.
Qualys network security tools monitor your assets (servers, computers, devices) and continuously discover them, identifying new vulnerabilities and helping you patch them immediately. You can also track devices in your local office or remote cloud environments and receive alerts about suspicious activity. The visual reports and dashboards let network admins keep a close eye on all of their assets, hosts, scans, and patches applied. Current and past Qualys clients include Cisco, GE, Microsoft, and Deloitte.
The scale of your IT environment and the applications you currently use will likely have the biggest impact on what solution you choose. Although these five are certainly some of the most popular security-as-a-service providers, they are by no means your only options. To browse other security solutions and get a custom recommendation for your business, head over to our Product Selection Tool.


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He notes that these real-world experiences prepares students for career success after graduation. "It's these intangibles that you almost can't describe, that they take away from this experience and out into the workforce," he says.
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Posted on May 31, 2013 in Africa, Niger, Nigeria
Ghana's President John Mahama has warned that Islamist militants pose a threat that could destabilise the whole of West Africa. This announcement comes just days after Niger's President indicated that Islamist militants, who attacked two sights in Niger, had come from southern Libya. It also comes at a time when Nigeria's army announces that armory belonging to the Lebanese group Hezbollah is discovered in northern Nigeria.
Ghana's President Mahama has indicated that while his country has not directly been affected by the threats, no country in the region was safe if an insurgency were to take place in the region. He further stated that while the French-led military operation had helped secure stability in Mali, the conflict was far from being over, stating that "there is the danger of asymmetric attacks like we saw in Niger the last few days, and so it is a matter that worries all of us in the sub-region." In turn, the operation to drive out al-Qaeda, and other allied Islamist groups, from northern Mali had showed how the whole Sahel region had "become an attractive foothold for insurgents."
Meanwhile in Nigeria, an army spokesman, Brigadier Gen. Ilyasu Isa Abba has confirmed that a cache, including 11 anti-tank weapons, four anti-tank mines, a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) and 21 RPG missiles, 17 AK-47's, two sub-machine guns and 76 grenades, have been found in a warehouse in the northern city of Kano. He further indicated that three Lebanese nationals have been arrested while a fourth is still at large. According to a military statement, one suspect, Mustafa Fawaz, was arrested on May 16 and his "confession unveiled other members of the foreign terrorists network." A second suspect, Abdullah Tahini, was arrested several day later while attempting to board a flight to Beirut from the airport in Kano. The third detained Lebanese national, Talal Roda, was arrested at the Kano home on May 26 while the fourth suspect, who has been identified as Fauzi Fawad, remains to be at large. Nigeria's State Security Service has stated that the weapons were intended to be used against "Israeli and Western interests," with Bassey Ettang, director of the State Security Service in Kano, noting that "this is the handwork of Hezbollah." He further indicated that "investigations are still ongoing to determine" if the Lebanese nationals "are really connected to Boko Haram."
This is the first time that Nigerian authorities have alleged that Hezbollah has had an operational interest in the country. Kano, and the north-eastern region of Nigeria, have suffered multiple attacks in the last three years, ever since the home-grown Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, launched an insurgency. According to Mr. Ettang, "you can be sure that if a group like this is existing then it may even lend support to some of the local terrorista we have on the ground." Hezbollah is a Shiite military and political movement that is based in Lebanon. It is considered to be a terrorist organization by the United States.
Reacting to the latest claims, a security official in Israel has indicated that Nigeria was a "destination state for Shiite terror and global Jihad groups, which are boosting their efforts in Africa as part of international efforts." The source further indicated that "the cell exposed and arrested is part of a Shiite terror campaign against Western and Israeli targets around the world which has been taking place for a number of years…the possibility that members of the cell acted under Hezbollah's orders in other African states, such as Benin, the Ivory Coast, Ghana and Sierra Leone, is also being examined."
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Two good news stories to round out the year. As predicted, the Bank of Canada kept the benchmark interest rate flat. It would not have been a complete shock if there had been a nudge up, as Stats Canada recently reported that our economy is expanding at a 3.5 per cent annual pace.
But as economies around the world continue to show signs of struggle, the BoC decision to hold the rate at one per cent was no surprise.


Hollywood legend Helen Mirren took aim at Netflix during an appearance at CinemaCon, where she was promoting her upcoming movie The Good Liar.
Mirren is no stranger to criticizing streaming services. Last April, she spoke to Total Film magazine detailing how streaming is "devastating" to her husband, Taylor Hackford, and other film directors.
Mirren isn't the only person concerned about the effects of Netflix and streaming services and their effect on the movie theater and film business. Prolific director Steven Spielberg made his opinions on the matter quite clear when he declared that Netflix movies do not deserve to be nominated for Oscars.
A representative from Amblin Entertainment, founded by Spielberg, also pitched Spielberg's idea to Indiewire.com.
While Spielberg's idea seems to be gaining popularity among Hollywood, Variety reports the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division might actually get involved if the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences decides to prevent Netflix and other streaming services from receiving Oscar recognition.
A letter from the chief of the DOJ's Antitrust Divison, Makan Delrahim, to AMPAS CEO Dawn Hudson expressed concerns over barring streaming services from receiving Oscar recognition.
What do you make of Helen Mirren's comments regarding Netflix and streaming services? Do you think both Helen Mirren and Steven Spielberg have a point? Should movies created by streaming services be treated differently? Or are they stuck and unwilling to change with technology? What do you think about the possibility of the Department of Justice getting involved? Let me know what you think!


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The hands go up, the hands are fists. Cheers fists. Marco or Matt cheering and waving to the people. He is chased across the finish line. He has all the left be
The hands go up, the hands are fists. Cheers fists. Marco or Matt cheering and waving to the people. He is chased across the finish line. He has all the left behind, the pressure kept, drive the best time. He knows that he will once again stand on the podium. Only two riders are at the top. Because Olsson breaking and Pinturault, not, celebrates, or Matt, his best career result. He is the Second, after he was a week ago in Kranjska Gora, the third.
The maturity of the 21-Year-old is remarkable. "Fully down," he wanted in the second race. A down he has left. "I'm glad it worked," he says. "It was very cool here to go skiing. It is a perfect day for me." As he stands in the start house, he notices that he is nervous, but not as strong as in previous races. Where: Specifically, the starting position was, nevertheless, adds, or Matt.
Marcel Hirscher is running to the end of the race in the finish area from television station to television station. Also the Swiss television, he makes a stop and says: "congratulations to Switzerland." And added, before he ran away: "I was at that time located in Adelboden." Hirscher said in January that, or Matt "the overall world Cup winner, Olympic champion, and what he wants", could be.
The heat comes, or Matt, contrary to
Warm it in the Pyrenees at the season final, the Tenü of spring, dominated in viewers and carers. "Läck is the hot", blurts out or Matt after the first run, he finished as the third. "Always in the river". The river he finds in the second run. Or Matt praises about the runway, which was prepared in spite of high temperatures soft, but also optimally.
The five-time Junior world champion by 2018 will also benefit from the favorites can't convince Hirscher and Kristoffersen. Puzzling is the performance of the world champion Kristoffersen, he is ninth. Not enough the journey of overall world Cup winner Hirscher, he is the Seventh, his worst giant slalom-a result of the winter.
Two other Swiss race in the points. Loic Meillards is more disappointed than elated. The first run failed, "the second run was much better, it is a step in the right direction". He is a 10. His colleague Cedric Noger is happy: "The result I'll take." In his twelfth place it is to be a second-best world Cup result.
Soldeu (AND). World Cup giant slalom of men:
1. Alexis Pinturault (FRA) 2:13,06. 2. Marco Odermatt (SUI) of 0.44. 3. Zan Kranjec (SLO) to 1.03. 4. Manuel Feller (AUT) 1.30 in. 5. Mathieu Faivre (FRA) 1,39. 6. Marcel Hirscher (AUT) by a factor of 1.74. 7. Luca De Aliprandini (ITA) and 1.97. 8. Ted Ligety (USA) 2,08. 9. Victor Muffat-Jeandet (FRA) 2,09. 10. Loïc Meillards (SUI) 2,11.
11. Henrik Kristoffersen (NOR) 2,17. 12. Cédric Noger (SUI) 2,24. 13. Matts Olsson (SWE) 2,26. Furthermore, (without world Cup points): 19. Gino Caviezel (SUI) 3,26. - 20 of the 20 finalists ranked.
The best running times.
1. Run: 1. Pinturault 1:06,28. 2. Olsson 0,63. 3. Or Matt 0,88. 4. Kranjec 0,98. Also: 7. Hirscher of 1.35. 8. Feller 1,39. 9. Kristoffersen 1,49. 10. Faivre 1,58. 13. Noger of 2.08. 14. Meillards 2,19. 29. Caviezel 2,66. - 25 drivers started 20 classified. - Eliminated: Thomas Fanara (FRA).
2. Run: 1. Or Matt 1:06,34. 2. Faivre 0,25. 3. Feller of 0.35. 4. Meillards of 0.36. 5. Pinturault to 0.44. 6. Kranjec is 0.49. 7. Noger 0,60. Also: 11. Hirscher of 0.83. 14. Caviezel 1,04. 15. Kristoffersen 1,12. 19. Olsson was 2.07. (czu)
Created: 16.03.2019, 13:26 PM


Spring cleaning is a must for homeowners and renters; everyone knows that, right? The thing is, we don't necessarily know why it's a must. Why isn't deep cleaning of equal importance every season? As someone who is always looking at homes, we think it is. So as your real estate and property manager, here are our fall cleaning tips for people who want a clean house before Christmas. Here we go!
Yes, wash them; deep cleaning means more than spraying some blue-tinted ammonia solution on the glass and smearing it up with a paper towel. Washing your windows should entail using actual soap and water – a teaspoon or so of dishwashing liquid diluted with plenty of water, to be exact. You can still spray it on; just fill your spray bottle with it and coat the entire window several times before rubbing the wash off with a microfiber cloth or other lint-free towel until all streaks have disappeared. The glass will be crystal clear and cloud-free. See the difference between wiping your windows and washing them?
Shades and shutters: No matter which ones you have, they need to be cleaned at least twice per year. If you cleaned them in the spring, then fall is the most logical time to follow up. Those slats have had plenty of time to accumulate dust and dirt, so this just makes good sense. Vinyl or high-quality plastic shades or shutters can be cleaned with a microfiber cloth and the cleaning solution of your choice; wooden shutters can be dusted with a dusting cloth before getting cleaned with your favorite citrus-scented wood polish treatment.
Speaking of dust, ceiling fans are magnets for it. Don't make the mistake of getting on a ladder and swishing a feather duster over your ceiling fan blades; you'll end up with a face full of dust, and nobody wants that. Instead, use a microfiber cloth (do you see a trend happening here?) to wipe each blade from end to end. Now, remember: A microfiber cloth can be substituted with your favorite scented disinfectant wipes. Don't forget to protect your hands with gloves, though!
Well, not literally – but spot clean your furniture, drapes and carpets so they can be stain-free for all the entertaining you'll do during the holidays. Spot cleaning products made from sanitizing foam are available on nearly every cleaning aisle, and they've become considerably more affordable in recent years too. There's no need to pay for a professional cleaning service to spot clean when you can invest a few dollars and an hour of your time to do it yourself during your fall cleaning spree.
Speaking of cleaning products that save your life, oven cleaner should probably top the list. Spray-on oven cleaner is one of the most versatile (yet perhaps underutilized) cleaning supplies in today's households. Now, we're not saying you should spray your countertops with it (definitely not! Don't do that!) but we are saying it can be used not only to clean the inside of your oven – but if done carefully, the top of your stove as well. Yes, even near the burners; just be cautious, and never, ever spray directly on the burner or in the crevices under it. The safest way to clean your stove top with oven cleaner is to spray a light coating around the parameters (just carefully make a square), and then use your cleaning rag to rub the solution around the rest of the stove top. When we say "rag," there's no microfiber this time; you need a thicker towel material to protect your hands while standing up to the stuck-on grease from the stove top. Now, your oven is ready for company on Thanksgiving.
Nobody likes doing this, but it has to be done a few times per year and one of those times may as well be during your fall cleaning. What type of cleaner you use should depend on what your cabinets are made of; a high quality wood deserves a wood polish cleaner, while a laminate will be fine if you wipe it down with a soap/water solution or disinfectant wipe. If you're one of the lucky homeowners who has glass incorporated into your kitchen cupboards, then the glass should get a glass cleaner wipe-down as well. It's amazing what cleaning your kitchen cabinets does for the appearance of the entire kitchen.
We know you're already planning on cleaning the inside of the fridge (aren't you?), but let's be honest: The outside of the refrigerator needs a semi-annual facelift. Step one: Take down all magnets, kids' drawings, report cards and pizza coupons. Step two: Clean the outside of the refrigerator with something (almost anything will do: your favorite cleaner can be paired with a microfiber cloth, terrycloth rags, or a ripped-up cotton t-shirt. Your choice! When that's done, it's time to get six months of greasy dust out of the refrigerator condenser coil under the door. There are plenty of online tutorials for doing this properly, some involving an unplugging of the entire appliance and some not. In any case, it seems a stiff brush is an essential supply – so invest in one before you start your fall cleaning binge.
No, it isn't technically cleaning but it's important nonetheless. In fact, testing your smoke detectors is the only fall cleaning task that may actually save your life. Each smoke detector should be tested according to the instructions by its manufacturer, but often the method involves pressing and holding the test button until the shrieking siren emits from it. If the sound is weak or there is no sound at all, it's most likely time to replace the batteries – and if it's been more than six months since the last time you changed the batteries anyways, replace them no matter what.
We're back to where it all started: the windows. If they are adorned with curtains or drapes, those need a good cleaning every fall. If they are heavy with dust, that can be bad for everyone's breathing – so whether you decide to machine wash on delicate, vacuum or take everything down and haul it all to the dry cleaner, you're making a good choice by incorporating window coverings into your fall cleaning regimen.
Or if you prefer, "autumnize" it. Now is the time to make sure the pool is cleaned (and covered, if you're in a part of the country where that may be necessary). It's the time to clean off patio furniture, drain garden hoses and do the last of your summer harvesting. Empty the lawn irrigation pipes to prevent damage from water freezing. If you live in a rental property, contact your property manager for this service. The backyard won't be used as often for the next several months, so plan accordingly – and then, consider your fall cleaning day finished.


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Q: Cucumber reports getting overwritten when a new feature file is executed I am writing a test suite and have came across an issue. I am using cucumber and have defined multiple feature files. When I run the test pack the progress (html report and json format) of one feature file gets over-written when the next feature file execution begins.
I have multiple test classes defined that runs these feature files. I am trying to find a way I can get a single html report for all feature runs to give a consolidated view.
Sample test files for ref:
@CucumberOptions(plugin = { "pretty", "html:target/report/html",
"json:target/report/json/result.json" })
public class BaseFeature {

}

@RunWith(Cucumber.class)
@CucumberOptions(features = "classpath:test/feature/rest/query.feature"
, monochrome = true
, glue={"a.b.c.rest"})
public class RunTest1 extends BaseFeature {

}

@RunWith(Cucumber.class)
@CucumberOptions(features="classpath:test/feature/soap/book.feature"
, monochrome = true
, glue="a.b.c.soap")
public class RunTest2 extends BaseFeature {

}

Let know what can be done to have a consolidated report.

A: A bit late, but as committed I am posting the solution here. Cucumber has a maven plugin that can be used to generate reports.
<groupId>net.masterthought</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-cucumber-reporting</artifactId>
<version>${maven-cucumber-reporting.version}</version>

plugin version is currently : 3.3.0

This plugin provides some useful configuration parameters, that allows you to bind multiple test reports in json format.
A sample implementation is as follows:
<plugins> ...

  <plugin>
    <groupId>net.masterthought</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-cucumber-reporting</artifactId>
    <version>${maven-cucumber-reporting.version}</version>
    <executions>
      <execution>
        <id>execution</id>
        <phase>verify</phase>
        <goals>
          <goal>generate</goal>
        </goals>
        <configuration>
          <projectName>test-report</projectName>
          <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/bdd/report</outputDirectory>
          <cucumberOutput>${project.build.directory}/report/json</cucumberOutput>
          <parallelTesting>false</parallelTesting>
        </configuration>
      </execution>
    </executions>
  </plugin>

</plugins>

Configuration to be used:
cucumberOutput: Path to where all the json reports are kept after the cucumber run
outputDirectory: Path to where the html report will be generated
That's it and have fun.

A: Like i said in comment above, merge your suite into 1, then you'll get 1 report.
Since each RunWith means one suite, so basically use only 1 suite to get 1 report.