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In the second part of George Mason's conversation with D Magazine publisher Wick Allison, they talk about how political language like conservative, progressive and liberal have broken down political ideologies and have divided us as a country. How can we use our shared experiences to come together for our common good and what role does religion play in this? Also learn why Wick describes himself as a Hindu Catholic. All this and more on this week's episode of Good God.
George Mason:	In a time when conservative liberal, progressive language about political ideology seems to be breaking down, what's the future? How do we begin to reconceive of our common life together, our lived experiences that lead us forward, we'll be talking with Wick Allison, publisher of D Magazine about just that. Stay tuned to Good God.
George Mason:	Welcome to Good God, conversations that matter about faith and public life. I'm George Mason, your host and I'm pleased to welcome back to the program Wick Allison, the publisher of D Magazine. Wick, good to have you with us.
Wick Allison:	Nice to be here.
George Mason:	Thank you very much. So, we were talking a great deal in the first episode about the city of Dallas and this is very much your charge as being the publisher of a magazine that focuses on the good of the city.
George Mason:	You know, just taking a step back before we get into more details about that, there is an enormous shift that's happened, I think, in the history of humankind towards cities. That is to say, I think I'm not sure that all of our theology has caught up with that shift.
Wick Allison:	That's interesting point.
George Mason:	I think we still carry an agrarian theology in many ways. Probably the most influential early thinker about this, in the last century was a Jesuit priest that was also a paleontologist which is Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who talked about how everything is moving in an evolutionary manner toward a greater complexity and that cities are reflection of that I think. That we are moving toward a life together in which we're getting closer, more complex. I think he views that in a theological sense, a Christ oriented sense as moving toward a greater complex unity in God, of course.
George Mason:	But when we think about our theology, I still think our political ideologies are often stuck in these polarities, but we haven't developed a good theology of the city, I would say. And so I'm wondering when you think about the role of the faith community in Dallas and how you see it functioning as a faithful Catholic layman who cares about the church and its life, what do you see that the church's role and how it's playing that role?
Wick Allison:	Well, I want to say first of all, that that's such an interesting point about theology of cities that you already got me kind of wondering things. But as for the church's role, I think the churches in Dallas have actually ... well, in general played a really ameliorating and ... I don't know the word for bridging, but bridging role trying to connect its mostly affluent parishioners with the real needs reminder of real needs. Let's call it social gospel which is ... I am a weird kind of traditionalist Hindu Catholic, traditionalist comma, I'm traditionalist Hindu.
George Mason:	Traditionalist-
Wick Allison:	comma, Hindu, Catholic. So, I'm all-
George Mason:	That's confusing.
Wick Allison:	It's very confusing to me but anyway. The Catholic Church has always had a theology of the poor, and I've been lucky enough to be very deeply involved in an expression or manifestation of that theology called the St. Vincent de Paul society. Its mission is to actually visit the poor in their homes as a neighbor and take care of their needs.
Wick Allison:	This is the kind of thing the Catholic Church strongly encourages, the bridging, and the idea of being acting in the place of Christ as is it's not only the pope who is a representative of Christ on earth, all of us are.
Wick Allison:	I've been impressed to see churches ... What's the most affluent church in Dallas? I'm going to guess it's Highland Park Methodist Church. I'm very impressed with the method and a sense of outreach. You take a wealthy church like that and the many programs it has established for different unserved constituencies and the role it's played in connecting other Methodist who are a different color in a depressed area trying to connect and overcome this natural suspicion. The Do-Gooders course and communities they try and serve, but to bridge the gap by the commonality of the Methodist, and just sometimes in all of all they do.
Wick Allison:	So the church is definitely what you've done with ... churches have a very important role as honest brokers and mediators, but also in continuing to remove their parishioners, from the cocoon of supposed stability.
George Mason:	So I think-
Wick Allison:	Nobody is really stable.
George Mason:	Nobody is stable, and that's part of the nature of the world God made and the way God made it. Is that faith is about trust in the midst of change, not trying to secure a world without change and where we don't need to trust in anyone.
Wick Allison:	I do hear that the AA saying is that because there's so much fear that just comes with being a human being, and the AA saying is that the opposite of fear is love.
George Mason:	Yeah, and perfect love casts out fear according to 1st John. But I think it's an interesting point that I would agree with that in the history of Dallas the religious community has done an exceptionally good job of reminding Dallas and our parishioners, our congregants about the importance of the poor and making charitable work a very important part of us, our city's life. The challenge for the religious community today, is moving from a charity consciousness to a public policy consciousness and seeing that those two things are not opposed to one another.
George Mason:	That when we're talking about charity, we're saying we care about the poor and about seeing that they have the life that they need. But when we're talking about public policy, what we're doing is simply extending that into giving them the opportunity to flourish, not just being sensitive to their most immediate needs. And so-
Wick Allison:	What a good point, and well, that's very contentious within the churches and on a national, and between different groups on a national basis. It's less contentious if we just all get that the churches help us all get pointed in the same direction on a civic city basis. I do think that that's a ... and the churches can help in this way. I'm a media guy. So when I look at a problem like we have in the city, that we previously discussed overall strategic problem. The first thing to me, is to change the climate of opinion. Obviously number one, if I was ignorant about it and I'm the publisher of D Magazine, if the incoming mayor is ignorant about it and he's the incoming mayor, and then there's a little consciousness raising that needs to take place.
Wick Allison:	To change the climate of opinion as to say we can address this problem, the solutions may seem surprising to you because we never thought about them before but those are actual solution so that other people have done and done it successfully in these 14 different places, and so if we could think that way too, it's allowed. The churches also ... so that's kind of the role D Magazine plays in changing the city. I play the activists political role, but that's not D Magazine.
Wick Allison:	But the churches could come in with a critique of the problem just as well as D Magazine.
George Mason:	Yes, exactly.
Wick Allison:	The history of how developed and an understanding of what the result has been. And say that the goal of a ... there's just one change we just need to make as a city, and the churches could help lead this. The goal for 100 years or more in Dallas, has always been growth. We are the most Chamber of Commerce of all the Chamber of Commerce cities in America. Growth, growth, growth, growth, let's just change that. Part of our goal is not growth. Our growth is prosperity, shared prosperity, shared prosperity. And if our goal and looking at problems in South Dallas or elsewhere or immigration or anything else is, how does it add to our prosperity? How is the common prosperity? We are a Common Wealth.
Wick Allison:	How does it create prosperous neighborhoods? So if we just looked at things in that framework, we'd be moving a lot faster than we are.
George Mason:	Well, that actually raises a question about ... and media plays a part in this, I think, is that the time in which we live makes me sometimes question whether it's still true that all politics is local. In an age of social media, in an age where information is so readily accessible, and it feels like there's been a shift in the last 20 or 30 years where we have a sense that our opinions and our work is being much more influenced by a larger, wider world than it is by our lived experience on the ground in our local communities, rather than going the other direction.
George Mason:	I don't know if that bears itself out, but I do think that when we come down to the question of where we can have the most impact and influence it certainly is in the flesh and blood relationships we have in the communities we are located in, rather than spending all of our time thinking in abstract notions of globalism and the like.
Wick Allison:	Well, you're speaking like a true conservative.
George Mason:	Well.
Wick Allison:	In fact, I'm on the board of a magazine called the American Conservative and that's one of its tenets. Is localism is the driver of psychological satisfaction, the sense of community and networks. With the phenomenon you were talking about, with the new social media being dominant, that's certainly true, but where do people get what we need as human beings, which is the idea of A, accomplishing something or doing something worthwhile and B, the sense of doing it with other people.
George Mason:	Right. Exactly. Where does the joy of life come? It comes from the actual lived experience that we have with one another, not with just ideas.
Wick Allison:	Ideas are worthless I might even say theologies are worthless. It's the lived experience. Do I live with ... we can just say the same thing do I live with God, or actually even saying that is the wrong formulation because it puts God here.
Wick Allison:	One of the things wrong with the church, all church is God's here. Do we worship? The reason I say I'm somewhat of a Hindu Catholic is that God is ... the Hindu tenet is God is to be experienced. Now in this lifetime, it's a unifying, we are one, it's not a dualist concept.
Wick Allison:	It's very hard because we are physically dualist. You're a different person than I am, but to be non-dualist is where satisfaction comes in. The same thing to be unified in your community. I'm stretching an analogy here that I just made, but I'm going to go with what's out there and those ideas are out there and we get locked on to them, because it helps us form an identity.
Wick Allison:	Father Richard Rohr is a wonderful Franciscan, he says, during the first stage of life we have to do that, we have to create this compass around us so that we all can develop. I think, but in the second stage of life, we got to break it apart, and if we don't we get frozen in place. Politics and religion and other isms have become the thing we used to build around us to protect us.
Wick Allison:	Community, you have to break it apart to serve in the community because the person that you're supposedly against is sitting right there with you, and your kids go to the same school. You're standing next to him with a soccer and so you are forced to listen to that black preacher who may also be sitting at the table and telling you, you're completely left about what you're thinking that's not the reality on the ground at all. You are forced to do that. That by itself broadens you and opens you up to new experiences that keeps you young and beautiful. You're exactly right though about national politic.
George Mason:	When we get back after the break I want to pursue this a little more in terms of the conservative progressive question and where all of that stands now. So much what we're talking about is what the organization that promotes Good God as its project, Faith Commons, this nonprofit, is trying to do just that. Is to talk about this lived experience where we embrace the diversity of our communities, and bring people together to find understanding. So we're going to take a break and we'll be right back.
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George Mason:	We're back with Wick Allison. Wick, we were just talking about conservatism and some of the concepts that are endemic to conservatism that have to do with embracing the lived experience of people and how life brings about greater joy by actually operating from the bottom up, so to speak, instead of abstract ideals that we live into, which tends to be a more progressive notion. So, Edmund Burke I think probably-
Wick Allison:	Historically, but, please go back to Edmund Burke.
George Mason:	Okay. let's go back to Edmund Burke. So yes. So, this is part of his critique, of course, I think of the French Revolution, and the liberty, equality, fraternity sort of thing. And the ideals that we're going to live into that we're going to actually off their heads in everything traditional and start the world over again. So, this is part of the critique of progressive liberalism, I suppose, and counting myself more in that world. Because coming out of a Baptist kind of setting that is always been so much more conservative and traditional, I see the need for us to envision the world that God had intended and live into it, and that's not always just trying to keep the world we have.
George Mason:	But I think the failure of progressives to understand true conservatism is that conservatives are not against change, per se. What they're against is willy nilly change you might say that Edmund Burke wanted to say test these things before you go wholesale into them, and that change should come out of ... again out of the lived experience of people and whatnot. So where are you about that today?
Wick Allison:	Well, I think you're confusing a lot of your audience or a lot of people who watch television and these conservatives are on air, and that's what conservatism is. Actually, they're not conservative at all, they are right wing ideologues who are totally opposed to left wing ideologues who are totally opposed to right wing ideologues.
George Mason:	So we back and forth.
Wick Allison:	So, let's let the ideologues have their fun time. The conservatism, Burkean conservativism are the kind of conservatism the magazine I support, the American Conservative right as deeply involved with intellectually, is very much what you say. It gives all abstractions of the organic experience, what you call the lived experience is to be respected. And the organic experience is not the present moment, necessarily. Chesterton said, democracy is the ... Well, tradition is the democracy of the dead.
George Mason:	Right, gives a vote to the dead.
Wick Allison:	Right and so over the ages certain prescriptive norms have been the more successful norms. It doesn't matter whether they came down on tablets. In fact, forget they ever did is just this is the way of society operates this way, we've learned over a million years then we should
George Mason:	Respect it.
Wick Allison:	... healthy.
George Mason:	Yeah.
Wick Allison:	In other words, simply don't tear down that wall until you know why it was built. Both kinds of ideologues in the United States are tearing down and building walls without really understanding the anything about the facts or the organic experience that led or didn't lead to those. So, I think it's ... George Will by the way who is the leading as you know conservative intellectual in America today advised to vote the straight Democratic ticket, now that's true conservatism, bring balance back.
Wick Allison:	That bewildered the talking head conservatives who have no understanding of what they're talking about comes from and what of it is made up.
George Mason:	Well, this is actually interesting to track with you personally because having been worked for Bill Buckley and been a Buckley conservative, and National Review and American Conservative now and all these sorts of things you famously came out to support Barack Obama's election because-
Wick Allison:	He was the more conservative candidate.
George Mason:	This is actually the thing I wanted to pursue. I think most people do not understand that that's true. They assumed that Barack Obama was simply trying to remake the world and it in disavow all social norms and these sorts of things. We have a populist reaction against that today, but is it really against that, or is it against the perceptions of what it felt like to have experienced those last eight years. So, you made that decision and nobody's perfect, and you became disillusioned for a time with that I think as well.
Wick Allison:	Oh, with Barack Obama?
George Mason:	With Barack Obama.
Wick Allison:	Well, it's because of Libya-
George Mason:	Libya?
Wick Allison:	... and the continuation he was basically restrained but then he sent troops into Afghanistan and then he did Libya. In other words, he fell into the trap that people with no military experience believe in the military. People with military experience don't pay any attention to what generals say.
George Mason:	Yeah. So, where we are today obviously in the age of Trump is now seemingly a non-ideological political age.
Wick Allison:	Well, that's actually is refreshing that way. I hadn't thought about it that way, but it's actually refreshing.
George Mason:	All right, it is.
Wick Allison:	The conventions of ideology are being blown up. The safety of just having a set of ideas you don't have to think about it anymore. Trump has blown it up, give him credit for that.
George Mason:	Okay, let's give him credit-
Wick Allison:	As long as ... I just hope the tea house is still standing when the bull finally gets out the door.
George Mason:	So, let's talk about what happens and anticipate a kind of post Trump America where we have been in this upheaval of political ideologies, and this sense that we don't really know where we are any longer is it about rethinking all of that now going forward you think?
Wick Allison:	I'm old enough to recall, and no reform could take place because the FDR Democrats were in their 60s and 70s and 80s. Scholaric system, a system that its arteries were completely frozen under being in the norm for 50 years and become completely bureaucratized and become ineffective, that no new approaches could happen on poverty, no new approaches could happen on recreating or bettering the society, because those people were going to vote for the Democrat no matter what. Democrat chairman of Congress knew that. That upheaval ended with ... of all people Newt Gingrich, and I was all for it.
Wick Allison:	Well, we're in a slightly different facility or situation, we have these Republican voters who are in our under 60s and 70s and 80s. The true believers of Fox News, you can't have a discussion about anything because the law is the laws, it's certainty. I don't know what happens at old age, but it's happened on both sides, so it's fairly evenly divided, and certain topics can't even be discussed.
Wick Allison:	Darwin said that progress comes one funeral at a time. I think, and I know from personal experience having to battle bureaucracies, that's just true. So, right now we're in a fourth turning from the post war period generationally. People derive the millennials, the old always derive the young.
Wick Allison:	I found the millennials ... I have a lot of millennials who work for me. Dealing with ... when you talk to activists, you'd want to gather activist which we have from a half of the city they're almost all millennials. I found millennials to be a absolute wonderful, well educated, thoughtful, committed generation. I am so impressed with millennials. I'm happily just saying just turn it all over to these people.
Wick Allison:	Now, their approach is completely different, and they're not locked into any ... Of course, we're always talking generally what we're talking about in generation. Problem is, they're not locked in any belief systems, but they do have a forward sense as a massive generation, which are the largest generation in history would naturally have, of how are we going to remake the world? How am I going to make my place in the world? But it's nothing like but anybody who's seen before.
Wick Allison:	Let me just give you one example. A Goldman Sachs study set of their relationship with cars. Goldman Sachs study of are you definitely going to ... do you own a car or if you don't, you definitely going to buy a car or lease or whatever car. Are you not going to have a car. Largest generation human history, 15% said they were definitely going to buy a car.
George Mason:	Wow. 15%.
Wick Allison:	15
George Mason:	And the car manufacturers have taken note.
Wick Allison:	Oh, yeah, absolutely.
George Mason:	Absolutely. So this is why they're investing in all sorts of Rideshare programs and-
Wick Allison:	But let's see when you're talking about turning, you're talking about a complete turning. My generation, our generation at 15 and a half you were standing in the line.
George Mason:	Couldn't wait to drive.
Wick Allison:	Absolutely. So think about that in terms of churches like about in terms of civic affairs national political affairs. Trump happened at the ... if I were practicing firmly committed Republican which I once was, Trump has happened at the exact wrong time. As an entire generation enters into political consciousness and the hits ratings and the ratings of the Republican Party are so dismal is to be infinitesimal.
George Mason:	It feels like the death rattle, doesn't it?
Wick Allison:	So, they'll get changes a little bit as I get older, and for particular candidates, and particular courses they're involved in, and that's all going to happen naturally, but this is no place to start. And so when you talk about this turning, you can see the effect of these people going into their 40s, to the top of their professions, and the top of the political structure. Harris County elected 27-year-old Columbian as their new County Judge. This is hitting now.
George Mason:	Right, right, exactly. Well, I'm reminded of I think it was Oscar Romero, the martyr Salvadoran Archbishop who said something to the effect of nothing that's worth doing can be completed in our lifetime.
Wick Allison:	Oh, that's so interesting.
George Mason:	That really we are in this world for the period of time that God gives us, we make our contribution, and we offer it to the world and to God as an act of hope and an offering a sacrifice to God. Thank you for the sacrifices and offerings you've made Wick and I know that the city is better because of you, and pray that we live out of that inspiration ourselves. Thanks for being with us.
Wick Allison:	My pleasure, entirely.
George Mason:	Terrific.
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Do you know which muscles in our body are estimated to be the most active? According to Guinness World Records our eyes move more than 100,000 times per day. That's a lot, don't you think? But all this activity doesn't help our eyes to stay healthy and it seems that bad vision could be attributed to careless behavior.
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Is the Lowest Bid the Best Choice When Hiring a Commercial Roofing Contractor?
Trying to find the best contractor for your commercial roofing project?
Are you considering several different commercial roofing bids?
You might not be aware but going with the lowest bid may not be the most cost effective decision.
Roof life can vary from as little as five years to 25 years or more, depending on the integrity of the system chosen and the quality of the workmanship during installation.
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The first step in hiring a contractor is to determine who you'll be dealing with.
Can the roofing company give you a point of contact who is polite, on time, and quick to return your phone calls? Do they have a person with sufficient experience to diagnose your roofing problems and provide an appropriate, workable solution?
You want someone with your best interests in mind, not just hoping to sign a contract. Will they try to sell you and expensive roof replacement when all that is needed is an inexpensive repair?
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Always ask for references and make a few calls to them to verify the quality and integrity of the contractor you're considering.
You want to get a sense of their reputation in the community before you award them the job. If you find any reviews that are less than stellar, see how the company responded to their customer.
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Residential and commercial roofing are two very different disciplines.
You need to verify your contractor has experience in commercial roofing specifically.
Hiring a contractor should never be an experiment: pick a company that has decades of experience working on facilities like yours.
If you're a general contractor and seeking an experienced roofing company, check out some of the jobs they've done in the past.
Were the clients satisfied? Did they arrive when needed, how did they work with other trades, was the installation trouble free and properly warranted?
Will They Provide the Correct System?
Talk to your contractor about your building, including the interior winter and summer temperatures, type of work done in the facility, and concerns regarding the protection of your business, assets, staff and patrons.
Various climates and building uses require different insulation systems, roof membranes and flashing details.
If you live in a warmer climate, consider installing a cool roof. You've got to live with your heating and cooling bills over the long term, so find out if your contractor can help you reduce them.
There are a wide variety of roofing materials available – you will benefit for the long term with an honest, experienced contractor who can help guide you through the decision making process.
Learn about the pro's and con's of several different roofing types and materials used for commercial rooftops.
What is the Real Cost to Own a Roof?
As noted above, the annual cost to own a roof is the most important consideration.
A roof system that costs $50,000 may seem like a huge savings over a roof costing $75,000.
But if the more expensive roof will last twenty five years and the less expensive only ten, the annual cost for the cheaper system is $5,000 and the more expensive $3,750.
Also consider manufacturer requirements for documentation, inspections and annual maintenance costs.
Some roof systems are virtually maintenance free, while others are not. Other roof system differences must be considered as well.
What type of insulation is included and what is the R value? What type of edge details will be used and will they enhance or detract building appearance? Does the roofing system meet local code requirements? Is it energy efficient?
And of critical importance – does the contractor employ professional, skilled labor that will provide a quality installation and will the contractor stand behind his work?
You might be tempted to accept an ultra-low bid, but keep in mind that they'll probably be using substandard materials and/or substandard labor. Saving money is important, but you have to realize you're making a long term investment in your business facility.
Take a look at some great suggestions for hiring a roofing professional for your rooftop projects, courtesy of Sentry Roofing, Inc.
What Kind of Warranties are Available?
Warranties vary widely in what is covered.
Any honest contractor will provide a sample manufacturer's warranty for your review.
Read through it, ask questions, and recognize that all warranties are not the same.
Just because a warranty says "20 years" doesn't mean the coverage is of any value.
Avoid warranties written by the contractor as a contractor typically will not have the resources to provide satisfaction in the event of a significant warranty claim.
If you have a colleague who has recently replaced their commercial roof, ask them who they used.
If they're satisfied, put in a quick call to get more information.
You have every right as a consumer to be treated fairly and with common courtesy.
Never work with a commercial roofing contractor who doesn't return your calls or who can't give you a firm price.
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Five Kovsies competing at National Championship for Physically Disabled
Students from the University of the Free State (UFS) will compete at the Nedbank National Championship for the Physically Disabled in Bloemfontein from 21–23 March 2016. From back left is Johann van Heerden, Prof Jonathan Jansen, Vice-Chancellor and Rector of the UFS, and Danie Breitenbach. Front from left is Louzanne Coetzee and Dineo Mokhosoa.
Photo: Jóhann Thormählen
Five students from the University of the Free State (UFS) will be taking part in the Nedbank National Championship for the Physically Disabled from 21–23 March 2016 in Bloemfontein. Dineo Mokhosoa, Juanré Jenkinson, Louzanne Coetzee, Danie Breitenbach and Johann van Heerden will represent the Free State at this event – one of the last opportunities to qualify for the Paralympic Games.
According to Martie Miranda, Head of the Center for Universal Access and Disability Support (CUADS) at the UFS, these students have shown they can achieve anything. "The Center for Universal Access and Disability Support is extremely proud of our students with disabilities who excel in sport and wish our students the best of luck with the national championships," she said."They confirm that 'impossible' is just a word."
Most of the students already have excellent national and international rankings in their respective categories.
Mokhosoa (Cerebral Palsy), is ranked first in South Africa in discus, shot-put and long jump. This Social Work student also has two South African records in shot-put and long jump respectively behind her name. Jenkinson (Cerebral Palsy) is ranked eighth in the world in shot-put.
Coetzee (blind), who competes in the 800 m, 1 500 m and 5 000 m, is fifth in the world in the 800 m and ninth in the 1500 m. Breitenbach (blind) runs 400 m, 800 m and 1 500 m. Breitenbach, a Law student, is ranked fifth in the world in the 800 m.
Van Heerden (Cerebral Palsy) competes in swimming in the 50 m, 100 m and 200 m breaststroke. The Education student is ranked third in the 50 m, seventh in the 100 m and third in the 200 m in the world.
The Paralympic Games is taking place in September 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.


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The BP Oil Plume
Cosmic VarianceBy John ConwayAug 20, 2010 8:55 PM
This past week has seen a lot of news stories about a "Manhattan-sized" plume of oil found in the Gulf of Mexico by researchers near the site of the BP Deepwater Horizon well. This sent my BS detector into the yellow zone, so I have been trying to get a better idea of just how much oil remains in the Gulf from this disaster. It's definitely not gone.
So I went to Wikipedia. There, you can find a reference to a New York Times article from the beginning of August, where the total volume of the leak was estimated to be 780,000 cubic meters of oil. Now, that's clearly in the category of "reasonable guess" - no one knows for sure. But it is very unlikely to be a factor of two larger or smaller than that, so let's just use that for now. There are a lot of other uncertainties, for example the amount of natural gas (methane) that came out with the oil, how the flow rate changed with time, and so on. But again, let's just ignore those.
How big is 780,000 cubic meters? Simply taking the cube root of this number, this is the volume of a cube 92 meters on a side. It would look something like this next to the Pentagon:
I can imagine two reactions to this comparison: 1) Damn, that's a lot of oil! 2) That's tiny compared to the volume of the Gulf of Mexico! (I bet one's political views might play a role in which reaction comes first...)
If we were to take this volume and spread it out in a layer 1 millimeter thick, it would cover an area of 780 million square meters, which is a square about 28 kilometers on a side. The satellite images of the oil slick showed affected regions much larger than that, from which I conclude that the thickness of the surface layer must have been much less than 1 millimeter at those times. (But check my math, somebody!)
If all the oil were dissolved uniformly into the Gulf, which has a total volume three billion times the size of the leak, the concentration would be about one third of one part per billion. That's an interesting number all by itself, and not at all as small as it seems. But not all the oil leaked is in the Gulf - much of it evaporated and a good deal has been consumed by bacteria. But the rest of it went somewhere, right?
Now to the underwater plume. In the abstract of the Science Magazine paper that led to all the news stories, the authors said "Our findings indicate the presence of a continuous plume over 35 km in length, at approximately 1100 m depth that persisted for months without substantial biodegradation." I cannot find the word "Manhattan" anywhere in their article, and so I have to conclude this was some mainstream media (WSJ?) person's rather inept attempt at putting the size of the plume into perspective. It was parroted endlessly in the media as if it had meaning. In fact it's quite misleading - clearly the term "Manhattan-sized" conjures up images of the whole island of Manhattan along with all the tall buildings...but as we have seen the total volume of oil leaked into the Gulf is about the size of one of those buildings.
So what is this plume? The authors define it as "a discrete spatial interval with hydrocarbon signals or signal surrogates (i.e., colored dissolved organic matter or aromatic hydrocarbon fluorescence) more than two standard deviations above the root-mean-square baseline variability." That is, a place in the water where there is clearly oil present at detectable levels. It can be at quite low concentrations and still be detectable. One of the article's main findings was that "Gas chromatographic analyses for only monoaromatic hydrocarbons of several water samples gathered using survey guidance confirm benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and total xylenes (BTEX) concentrations in excess of 50 μg L-1 within the plume at 16 km downrange from the well site." This is all bad stuff we don't want in the water or getting into the food we eat.
I assume a lot more scientific research will need to be done to know the actual damage that the presence of these oil components will do to marine life, the fisheries, and the food chain. The authors took a stab at making an estimate of how much oxygen depletion was occurring due to biodegradation of the oil, concluding that "it may require many months before microbes significantly attenuate the hydrocarbon plume to the point that oxygen minimum zones develop that are intense enough...to threaten Gulf fisheries." That's good news for marine life, I assume, but means that the subsurface oil will take quite some time to be bioegraded, which is bad in the longer term. So why hasn't the media talked about that aspect of the article?
There is no question that this was a huge amount of oil leaked into the Gulf and that the impacts will be felt for many years to come. It is an epic disaster by any measure and may have consequences no one has considered yet. But we have to be rational about the real impacts of the disaster, and rational about the real risks involved in deep water drilling. The only way is to continue vigorously the kind of research we saw in the Science Magazine article, and debate the findings openly. BP needs to release publicly everything it knows about the spill.


On 19 December Cabinet approved the first draft budget proposals for 2019/20. The spending proposals are now open for a five week public consultation.
The proposed settlement for 2019/20 indicates a further government revenue support grant reduction in cash terms of £0.285 million or 9.9%.
The draft budget for 2019/20, identifies various funding initiatives and efficiency savings in the coming year to help the council become self-financing and less dependent on government support.
There will be a small increase in the District Council's share of council tax. The increase of 2.99% per cent will take the District element of council tax up to £179.03 for the average Band D taxpayer, an increase of £5.20 a year (10p per week).
The Cabinet proposes to freeze car park charges but green waste charges will rise by £2 per annum in recognition of the increasing costs associated with the service.
There will be no cuts in frontline services in 2019/20.
The full budget report for 2019/20 is available to view on the District Council's website www.fdean.gov.uk in the 'Council meetings' section under item 8 of the 19 December 2018 Cabinet meeting agenda.
All comments should be received by 5pm on Friday 25 January 2019.
All public comments will be taken into account by the Cabinet when putting forward their final budget proposals, which will be presented to full council for approval on Thursday 21 February 2019.


If you are not sure whether PostgreSQL is already available or whether you can use it for your experimentation then you can install it yourself. Doing so is not hard and it can be a good exercise. PostgreSQL can be installed by any unprivileged user, no superuser (root) access is required.


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Q: Installing Ubuntu 12.04 without installing Grub Using the Ubuntu 12.04 Live CD, is possible not to install Grub? In previous versions, there was a checkbox called something like "skip grub installation", now in 12.04 this checkbox isn't there any more.

A: You can also open a terminal after booting the LiveCD and launch ubiquity with a proper switch, that disables GRUB installation. I forgot what it was called but ubiquity --help will tell you :) That worked for me, when I was trying to setup Ubuntu on my fakeraid PC and GRUB kept going belly-up.

A: Run the regular LiveCD and open a terminal. Run either ubiquity -b or ubiquity --no-bootloader.

A: Update
It has been many years since the bulk of this answer was the correct answer.
The solution now is to start Ubuntu from a live disc and use the terminal to invoke Ubiquity as follows:
ubiquity --no-bootloader

You can alternatively use the short form like this:
ubiquity -b

Old answer
The following is no longer valid, but I will preserve it as it was originally when the question was asked and it is possible somebody may want to do this with Ubuntu <= 12.04
Installing GRUB is the usually the best way to go, whether or not you're dual-booting, but to install Ubuntu 12.04 without GRUB, download the alternate CD for x86 or AMD64.
Run the install as normal, after the Select and install software step, the installer will run Install the GRUB boot loader on a hard disk. It will tell you what other operating systems, if any that it's found, and ask if it should install, at this point, choose Go Back, then in the installer menu that appears next, choose Continue without boot loader.
Please be aware that after installation you will have to configure your existing boot loader before you can boot your new installation of Ubuntu.

A: Open terminal and type ubiquity -b all lower letters
This will open the installer and will install ubuntu with out the ubuntu bootloader known as grub,

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*Note : If you don't install Ubuntu's boot loader "Grub" you wont be able to boot Ubuntu, I've tried installing Ubuntu side by side windows, using the above step, then installing EasyBCD, then selecting "Grub 2" as the boot loader for the Ubuntu Part, I rebooted, to find I still could not boot in to Ubuntu with out Ubuntu having "Grub" within it's part, so I do NOT recommend following the above step, unless you know how to get around this, in which case, please post the magic bellow

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A few weeks back, I was at the Durham Social Entrepreneur's Happy Hour hosted at our local start-up campus, American Underground. This local treasure is a networking event like no other - a monthly hive of crazed social entrepreneurs - action oriented dreamers, obsessed with their missions and the idea that a corner of the world can be made better with a little elbow grease and a lot of help. There are dozens, sometimes over a hundred people who are bursting with an intense energy for their endeavor. There I was, chewing everyone's ear off about apparel, labor and green business models when Crystal came flying towards me, with all the energy that typifies this group.
So I went to her Don't Waste Durham monthly community meeting to continue the party. And I was absolutely blown away. If Crystal were a superhero, she would throw beams or energy and ideas at you. And around the table sat an army waging a war on waste in all different aspects of Durham's community: Green to-go's, sustainable food truck certification program, aggressive internship program, eliminating styrofoam in schools, municipal water filling stations in Durham. And they are actually doing these things. Over coffee, she ran down the list and then said when they were done with all that they were going to tackle the Durham Bulls (baseball) Stadium and the Raleigh-Durham Airport and get everyone to use compostable containers. A picture flashed in my mind of Crystal coming after a hot dog vender at the Bull Stadium and I thought – man I wouldn't want to get in this woman's way.
So I was curious how this glorious energy and ferocity to get stuff done comes to be in a person. She shared a bit of her history with me. She is the daughter of a Vietnamese immigrant and a 1-man band. Her father was so dedicated to being a career musician that when his band mates moved on to "real jobs" he decided to just learn how to play all their parts and moved Crystal and the family from city to city to make this happen. So Crystal grew up in an environment where there was no obstacle too large to make your dreams happen.
Fast-forward a few decades and Crystal has established a track record of making awesome things happen. A few highlights: 1) While in Gabon, Central Africa as a Peace Corps Volunteer she pioneered a health curriculum that could be attached to biology class so that the students could learned about science and personal health side-by-side. 2) After years of trying to have a baby and pursuing the adoption process, her and her husband took a much-needed break: they quit their jobs, rented out their house, sold their cars and belongings, and traveled for 6 months. When they returned to Durham, they moved into a place with no furniture and no dishes, and they were notified that a baby boy was going to be in their life in 4 days. True to form, Crystal put together a spreadsheet of the most basic things they would need (2 forks, 2 spoons, baby crib, table, chairs…) and sent it out to everyone she knew in the area with a request to leave whatever they could on Crystal's porch within 48 hours. And in 48 hours it was all there. Her new neighbors even came over to help Crystal and her husband move it all in.
So when Crystal was asked to put together a policy brief for Durham's City/County Environmental Affairs Board (EAB) to ban styrofoam and plastic bags she went to work combining the best elements of similar policies around the country. Then she learned of Dillon's Rule in North Carolina– the abbreviated version of which is that local governments can take action only if it is specifically sanctioned by the state government (this article has a good explanation of the rule and what states it applies to). I.e. – if the state government doesn't say you can ban harmful waste, you can't ban it. So did Crystal just pack up her things and go home? I bet you can answer this one by now! No sir-y-bob. She decided to back burner the policy work until sufficient momentum was there and wage her war at the grassroots level. And so, Don't Waste Durham was born. And they are winning.
So for all you local Durhamites, and those of you who are out-of-towners but just want to help your fellow American cities go green, please check out her Kickstarter, become a member or donate. Drew and I have a 2-box membership and are going to be "grassroots" prosthelytizers at our favorite Thai place, Twisted Noodle, that is not yet participating. Her campaign ends by December 6th. Please donate at www.DurhamGreenToGo.com if you are so moved and spread the word.
Thank you Crystal and Don't Waste Durham for your inspirational work ceaselessly fighting the good fight to make the world better for us all.


the expression "officer of customs and excise" includes a member of the Garda Síochána and any person in the public service who is for the time being employed in the prevention of smuggling.
(2) This Act so far as it relates to the Customs shall be construed as one with the Customs Acts.
2.—(1) The Minister, with the concurrence of the Minister for Finance, may by order declare that, on and after a specified date, the land enclosed within the limits defined by the order shall be the Customs-free airport for the purposes of this Act.
(2) The Minister, with the concurrence of the Minister for Finance, may from time to time by order amend the order under subsection (1) of this section by varying the limits of the airport.
(3) The airport shall comprise only land which for the time being belongs to the State.
3.—The airport shall be under the control and management of the Minister.
4.—The laws for the time being in force relating to the importation and exportation of goods shall not apply to the bringing of goods directly into and out of the airport from and to countries outside the State, except in so far as these laws are applied by regulations made under this Act.
6.—(1) Goods shall not be brought into the airport for personal use or consumption within the airport or for sale by retail therein except from another part of the State.
(2) If goods to which subsection (1) of this section relates are liable to a duty of customs or excise the duty shall be paid before they are brought into the airport from another part of the State and the goods shall not be entitled to drawback or allowance.
(3) Any person who brings or is concerned in bringing or who assists any person concerned in bringing goods into the airport in contravention of this section shall be guilty of an offence against the Customs Acts and shall for each such offence forfeit either treble the value of the goods, including the duty payable thereon, or one hundred pounds, at the election of the Revenue Commissioners, and he may either be detained or proceeded against by summons.
(4) Any goods in respect of which an offence under this section may have been committed, together with all aircraft, ships, boats, vehicles, animals and other things used in their conveyance, shall be forfeited.
7.—(1) Officers of customs and excise, inspectors and collectors of taxes, members of the Garda Síochána and officers and servants of a Minister of State, the Irish Land Commission, the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland or a local authority may, in the discharge of their official duties, at all times enter the airport and buildings, aircraft, ships, boats and vehicles therein.
(2) If any person prevents or obstructs any entry authorised by subsection (1) of this section, or attempts to do so, he shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.
8.—(1) The Minister may appoint persons to be authorised officers for the purposes of this Act.
(2) For the enforcement of laws extended to the airport by regulations made by the Minister under this Act, an authorised officer shall have the powers of an officer of customs and excise under the Customs Acts.
(3) Goods seized by an authorised officer in the execution of his duty under this Act shall be destroyed or otherwise disposed of as the Minister may direct.
9.—(1) This section applies to all uncustomed goods, goods brought into the airport in contravention of section 6 of this Act and goods the importation or exportation of which is for the time being prohibited or restricted by law.
(2) In this section references to the searching of a person include the opening (if necessary by force) and searching of any box, bag, package or other article carried by or for him.
(3) An authorised officer, officer of customs and excise, or a person acting on the instructions of any such officer, may search (subject to the provisions of this section) a person whom the officer reasonably suspects of carrying or having in his possession any goods to which this section applies.
(c) every direction given under paragraph (b) of this subsection by a superior officer shall be complied with by all persons concerned.
(5) No female shall be searched under this section otherwise than by a female.
(6) If any person obstructs, resists, or interferes with an authorised officer or officer of customs and excise in the exercise of the powers conferred on him by this section or, in particular, refuses to be or resists being searched under this section, he shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.
10.—(1) This section applies to all uncustomed goods, goods brought into the airport in contravention of section 6 of this Act and goods the importation or exportation of which is for the time being prohibited or restricted by law.
(2) An authorised officer, officer of customs and excise, or a person acting on the instructions of any such officer, may, within the limits of the airport, go on board any aircraft, ship or boat and enter any vehicle, house, shop, cellar, warehouse, room or other place and search for goods to which this section applies and, in case of resistance, he may break open doors, chests, trunks and packages.
(3) If any person obstructs, resists or interferes with an authorised officer or officer of customs and excise in the exercise of the powers conferred on him by this section, he shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.
11.—(1) The person driving, or in control of, a vehicle in motion within twenty miles of the airport shall stop the vehicle on being required to do so by an officer of customs and excise.
(2) An officer of customs and excise may search any vehicle within twenty miles of the airport and examine and take an account of any goods therein.
(3) The person driving, or in control of, a vehicle within twenty miles of the airport and every person therein shall truly answer all questions put to him by an officer of customs and excise in relation to his journey or to goods in the vehicle.
(4) If any person contravenes, whether by act or omission, any provision of this section or obstructs, resists or interferes with an officer of customs and excise in the exercise of the powers conferred on him by this section, he shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.
(d) prescribing the places where and the form and manner in which entry of goods under the Customs Acts shall be delivered and duties of customs shall be paid.
(2) If any person contravenes, whether by act or omission, any regulation under this section he shall, in addition to any other penalty to which he may be liable, be guilty of an offence against the Customs Acts and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a Customs penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds, and he may either be detained or proceeded against by summons.
(3) Any goods in respect of which an offence under this section may have been committed, together with all aircraft, ships, boats, vehicles, animals and other things used in their conveyance, shall be forfeited.
(b) permitting, on such conditions as the Minister thinks fit to impose, the carrying on of trades, businesses and manufactures within the airport.
(2) Regulations under this section shall, in so far as they concern matters comprised in the administration or business of the Department of Justice, the Department of Health or the Department of Agriculture, be made only with the consent of the Minister who is the head of the Department of State concerned.
(3) If any person contravenes, whether by act or omission, any regulation under this section, he shall, in addition to any other penalty to which he may be liable, be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.
14.—Every order and regulation under this Act shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution is passed by either House within the next twenty-one days on which that House has sat after the order or regulation is laid before it annulling the order or regulation, the order or regulation shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.
15.—The expenses incurred by the Minister or the Minister for Finance in the administration of this Act shall, to such extent as may be sanctioned by the Minister for Finance, be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas.
16.—This Act may be cited as the Customs-free Airport Act, 1947.


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Apple CEO Tim Cook: Apple's 'Creative Engine' Has Never Been Stronger
Monday October 20, 2014 4:12 pm PDT by Juli Clover
During today's fiscal fourth quarter earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that "obviously" the company is working on new products, but that he was going to keep things in the "cone of silence."
I'm not sure what to say. I'm not going to give any hints. We look at a lot of different things and we're fortunate to have a lot of creative people here that want to change the world and have a lot of great ideas.
Cook went on to say that Apple's "creative engine" had never been stronger and the company had never been more passionate, as evidenced with Apple's recent launches of Apple Pay and Apple Watch. Apple Pay, said Cook, is "classic Apple," with the company taking something old and outdated and focusing on making something "very elegant."
Cook also extolled the virtues of Continuity, which allows Macs and iOS 8 devices to integrate in new and innovative ways. "Use your imagination and think about where Continuity goes," said Cook. He went on to say that it would be "incredibly important" going forward for customers.
Cook said that Apple's investors should look at what Apple's done and what it has delivered, along with the skills of the company. Apple is the "only company on the planet" that has the ability to integrate hardware and software at a "world class level" according to Cook, but the company always has "more ideas than resources" to deal with. He also said as a personal investor, he "feels great" about products that are coming up in 2015.
While Cook declined to mention what products Apple might be working on, rumors have suggested the company has several new devices in the works that could significantly boost future sales, including a 12-inch Retina MacBook Air and a 12.9-inch iPad, dubbed the "iPad Pro" by the media.
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AnalyzeThis
Not when it comes to mac-mini, NOT
farewelwilliams
Classic Apple.
SandboxGeneral
Well, they didn't get very creative with the iPad Mini 3 or the Mac Mini. Here's hoping to a brighter and better future for these products. I hope. :apple:
gramtrax
Apple needs new leadership or they are doomed to be the new Microsoft. I don't see anything very "creative" out of the latest stuff.
Apple TV is a perfect example. WTF -- are they just going to sit there and let everyone else capture the market they started?
I hate to say it, but Google and Amazon have been pushing the boundries a bit more these days.
Aluminum213
I can't imagine the waterfall of creative juices flowing when they made the iPad Mini 3 and Mac mini
Bubba Satori
This is Tim's 'creative engine'.
Every fifth Benny is the money saved by putting old mobile GPUs in the computers.


– in the House of Lords at 3:07 pm on 14th September 2011.
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their latest assessment of the impact of police funding cuts on front-line services.
My Lords, when the Government came to power, we were borrowing £1 for every £4 we spent. We must reduce the budget deficit. The police funding settlement is therefore challenging but manageable. The Government are clear that savings need to be made while protecting front-line services, and the most recent report from Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary shows that forces are working hard to do so. It is largely a matter for individual forces how they achieve this, but the Government are playing their part, including through a new package of policies that will cut bureaucracy, which could save up to 2.5 million police hours per year.
My Lords, I hardly think that the Government are in a position to lecture this House on the state of the economy.
Where is the Government's growth plan, I wonder? Turning to the Question, surely it cannot be the case that a reduction of 16,000 police officers will not have an impact on front-line policing. Will the noble Baroness acknowledge that the cuts already made are already impacting on front-line services, and will she respond to recent research by the London School of Economics showing that the proposed police cuts are likely to undermine forces' ability to stop crime rising?
My Lords, the noble Lord should step back from the brink. From where we sit, we are peering into the abyss because what we inherited has made this necessary. As a member of the former Government, he will know only too well from the last Labour Home Secretary that had Labour been re-elected, it too would have been making changes and looking for reductions in police force numbers. We have that on the record.
I have to say that noble Lords will have to get over this and face the reality, which is what we have had to do. Forces are focused on protecting front-line services. I have read many comments from chief officers who, I acknowledge, have a difficult and challenging task, but they are going to put the front line first and are rising to that challenge. The most recent report from Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary, Adapting to Austerity, sets out a summary of force work plans for the spending review period which states that the number working in front-line roles was expected to fall by, on average, just 2 per cent over the two-year period between March 2010 and March 2012. I have every confidence that chief officers will ensure that the front line is protected.
My Lords, do Her Majesty's Government expect the British police service to lose its global reputation for being the most accountable, well governed and respected service in the world? If so, do they really care?
My Lords, not only do we care, but we have every respect for the work done by police forces every day. However, it is time to look at how the police are deployed in these times of austerity-the very title of Her Majesty's Inspectorate's report. We have to challenge, as senior police officers are doing up and down the country, the way forces are deployed. For example, we see in the recent report that, astonishingly, there are more front-line police officers on duty on a Monday morning than on a Friday night. Surely that has to be challenged. Surely there are ways better to deploy forces to protect the public and the front line, and to ensure that we maintain the important reputation that the noble Lord is so familiar with.
Is the Minister confident that enough funding is available for up-to-date technology? Used well, technology can achieve savings and greater productivity.
My noble friend is absolutely right. Indeed, it is very encouraging to see the way in which forces are using technology, and combining across force borders, by mutual agreement, to share in it to improve the way they serve the public.
My Lords, I would like to ask the Minister about her comments on protecting front-line services. Indeed, the Prime Minister himself said that front-line services would be protected. Will she then explain to me how that equates to the response in the county of Essex, where 24-hour police stations will no longer exist as a result of these cuts, and where half the police stations are going to be closed? Is that protecting front-line services?
My Lords, these individual matters in individual forces are for individual decisions taken by the individual chief officers for good reasons when they are looking at priorities. However, buildings, numbers and statistics mean nothing compared to the way in which the leadership in police forces ensure that the police are deployed. We are very determined that police officers will police on the front line, in the streets, and not in offices.
Was it the result of police cuts that prevented the police from preventing the Muslim group burning the American flag in Grosvenor Square on Sunday?
I sense from my noble friend's question how she felt about seeing that scene on television. I have absolutely no reason to believe that it was anything to do with lack of policing, but I am very happy to write to my noble friend with more details about the background to that incident.
My Lords, will the Minister comment on the view that, given the scale and speed of the Government's reductions in police budgets over the next two years, most members of the public to whom Members of your Lordships' House speak would rather see the money put into what the noble Baroness referred to as "numbers" of staff than into some newfangled American scheme to elect police commissioners? Surely the Government could have been patient with their pet scheme and protected the public from the cuts they are imposing?
My Lords, the noble Baroness and I have had many discussions along these lines during the course of the Bill, the later stages of which are being considered today. I totally dispute the point she is making; the money for this is not coming out of the police budget. I remind her that there were many times when the previous Government spent money on elections, which they thought were extremely worthwhile. Nobody suggested at the time that democracy was something not worth paying for.


A Winchester hospital's getting back to normal after a major fire swept through part of the site - patients having operations were evacuated on Friday December the 9th.
The blaze at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital started in an MRI and CT scanner building at about 4pm.
The building was away from the main wards of the hospital, but several departments including A&E, intensive care and five operating theatres were evacuated.
Ten fire engines and three vehicles with several aerial ladder platforms fought the "serious fire'', Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service said.
Hampshire Police told motorists to avoid the area of the hospital as the fire caused gridlock in the city at rush hour.
The emergency department will reopen for minor injuries e.g. cuts, sprains or bruises reopened at 8pm on Saturday night. People with head injuries are still being taken to Southampton or Basingstoke.
All maternity services are running as normal and children's (paediatric) services are available.
Routine surgery will be back to normal for Monday morning, so no operations are expected to be cancelled.
Although scanners are not functioning, x-ray and ultrasound are now available and mobile MRI and CT units are being arranged from Monday morning onwards.
"We continue to work closely with all our partners to ensure normal services are up and running as soon as possible.
"We are thrilled with the support and skills of staff to date which has allowed us to ensure all patients have remained safely on site and services are coming back as soon as possible.
"We would also like to extend our thanks to the Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service for their support throughout the evening and weekend."


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1472, a new feature was introduced: Hatakeyama joined the Eastern Army by order of the shogun, Yoshimasa. This was not merely a great accession of numerical strength, it also opened the road to the north where the Hatakeyama estates lay, and thus the Eastern Army found a solution of the problem which dominated the situation at Kyoto--the problem of provisions. The scale of success now swung in the direction of Hosokawa and his allies. But still no crushing victory was won, and meanwhile the war had continued seven years, with immense loss of life and treasure. There is evidence that alike Katsumoto and Sozen were fain to sheathe the sword in 1472, but during the long struggle conditions had developed which rendered peace difficult. In May, 1473, Sozen died and was followed to the grave in less than a month by Katsumoto. Still the struggle went on in a desultory way until December, 1477, when the Yamana forces burned their cantonments and withdrew, Yoshimi coming to terms with Muromachi and retiring to Mino. Peace at length dawned for Kyoto. But not yet for the provinces. There the sword was not immediately sheathed. In Echizen, Owari, and Totomi the great Shiba family was subjected to weakening onsets by the Asakura, the Oda, and the Imagawa. In Kaga, the Togashi house was divided against itself. In Kyushu there were bitter struggles between the Shimazu and the Ito, the Sagara and the Nawa, and the Otomo, the Shoni, and the Ouchi. Finally, Shinano, Suruga, and Mikawa were all
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In 1474, Yoshimasa retired from office and, at the close of the year, his nine-year-old son, Yoshihisa, succeeded him as shogun, the kwanryo being that Hatakeyama Yoshinari whose appearance in the field practically terminated the Onin War. The shogun Yoshimasa was in his thirty-ninth year at the time of this abdication, and he survived for sixteen years, not the least dissipated of his life, in which he instituted costly art reunions and carried self-indulgence to its extreme. During these years Tomi and her younger brother, Ise Sadachika, acquired such influence as to interfere in the administration, and under the pretext of procuring funds to rebuild the palace destroyed during the Onin War, they restored the toll-gates which had previously stood at the seven chief entrances to Kyoto, appropriating all the proceeds.
The young Yoshihisa could scarcely fail to be tainted by such an environment. Much to his credit, however, he showed sagacity and diligence, eschewing his father's luxurious habits, studying literature and military art, and taking lessons in statecraft from the ex-regent, Ichijo Kaneyoshi. Very early he became familiar with scenes of violence, for, goaded to madness by the taxes exacted at the seven toll-gates, a mob of the metropolitan citizens rose in arms, beat off the troops sent to quell them and threatened to sack the city, when, they were appeased by the issue of a tokusei ordinance, which, as already explained, meant the remission of all debts and the cancellation of all financial obligations. Socialism in such a genial form appealed not only to the masses but also to bushi who had pledged their property as security for loans to meet warlike outlays or the demands of luxurious extravagance.
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Count Packers legend Brett Favre amongst those who weren't shocked to see quarterback Aaron Rodgers return to Green Bay, even if bringing him back didn't come cheap. "It wasn't much from a surprise perspective," Favre said during his weekly appearance on SiriusXM NFL Radio.
As Favre sees it, Rodgers returned to Title Town because they provide him with the best chance to add a second Super Bowl ring to his jewelry box. "I have said this all along and will continue to say this. I assume that Aaron's objective is to try and get to the Super Bowl," he continued.
"His best chance to get there has been in Green Bay the last two years." Favre doesn't have any insider knowledge direct from his former understudy, but it's clear that he believes that Rodgers likes the team Green Bay's assembled around him.
"I haven't talked to Aaron. I don't know what his vision is like, but I gotta assume that he is thinking, 'Hey I got a good thing going on here, so I might as well come back and try my chances,'" added Favre.
Various reports have speculated that Rodgers' decision to re-up with the Packers came with a handsome raise. Most estimates have the 38-year-old QB penciled in at around $200 million over four seasons.
And though Favre understands Rodgers' decision to return for big bucks and a few more shots at a title, he does acknowledge that the Packers have committed a very large portion of their salary cap to Rodgers, who is, after all, just one player.
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Mohabbati Mobarez A, Hosseini Doust S R. Incidence of van A, B, C, D, E in vancomycin resistant Enterococcus isolated from fecal flora in Tehran. mjms. 2009; 12 (1) :17-24
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Incidence of van A, B, C, D, E in vancomycin resistant Enterococcus isolated from fecal flora in Tehran
Ashraf Mohabbati Mobarez 1, Seyed Reza Hosseini Doust2
1- Department of Bacteriology, School of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
2- Department of Microbiology & Research Center of Molecular Biology, Baqyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Objective: Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) have emerged worldwide and have become an increasing problem in clinical settings. Acquired glycopeptide resistance in Enterococcus species is due to the acquisition of van A, van B, van D, van C and van E genes, resulting in the production of peptidoglycan precursors with reduced affinity for glycopeptide antibiotics. The origin of these van genes is still unknown, but recent studies have indicated that van B resistance in enterococci might arise from gene transfer from the human bowel flora. In this study, we investigated the presence of Enterococcus-associated van A, van B, van C, van D, van E genes in the feces of hospitalized patients. Materials and Methods: To determine the prevalence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) fecal colonization of hospitalized patients, 422 Enterococcus spp. isolated from stool of patients in Amiralam hospital. Disk diffusion method was used to detect resistance to vancomycin. The MICs of vancomycin were determined by the agar dilution method. The presence of van A, B, C, D and E genes were assassed by PCR analysis. Results: PCR was positive for van A for 6 out of 10 (60%) and van B for 4 out of 10 (40%) of VRE strains. Among the van positive enterococci, two (20%) specimens contained both van A and van B gene, whereas no van C, D and E positive enterococcal isolates were identified from these specimens. The MIC of VRE isolates were between 512- 1024 μg/ml. Conclusion: Our results showed that most glycopeptide resistant Enterococcus isolated from stool of hospitalized patients carried van A and van B. It is also possible that frequency of infections caused by glycopeptide-resistant enterococci will increase in our geographical area.
Keywords: Vancomycin-resistant Enterococci, van A, B, C, D and E, Fecal normal flora
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A: Im not really Sure about your question but from what I understand, you want to stop people from downloading your html5 video. To do so you can Either use this method or mine:
make 2 cshtml pages: page and ogvpage (you have tagged your question asp.net). insert this code in page:
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