Hello! There is a new challenge at AAA Cards.
My card uses the image of a little girl from MFT.
I stamped and colored the little girl with copics. For the background matting, I colored the edges with a pink copic and used a white gel pen to add a pattern.
This challenge is being sponsored by Craftyscrappers. Hope you can play along :) Thanks for stopping by.
Hi everyone. It is a new challenge at AAA Cards and this challenge is sponsored by Uniko.
For my card, I used cute little chicks playing instruments.
To start my card, I stamped and colored the chicks with copics. Then I used the matching dies to cut them out. After stamping the sentiment in the corner, I place the chicks around them using some foam tape to prop up the one in the middle. I stamped little music notes in light gray around the chicks.
Hello! Today is the beginning of another challenge at AAA Cards. This is a one layer card challenge with an option of using the theme of love.
Here is my take for the challenge.
The challenge this week is sponsored by STAMPlorations. Hope to see what you create!
It is time for a new challenge at AAA Cards and starting with this challenge the themes will have an optional twist. This challenge is a sketch with an optional twist of pastel colors.
Here is my card using the below sketch and pastel colors.
This is a great CAS sketch! I started by taking a top folding A2 white card and using my misti I stamped the paint swipe in the three colors. On the middle stripe I switched the direction of the paint swipe. Then I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment in the middle.
I hope you get inspired by the design team's cards and join us for this challenge. Thanks for stopping by!
Hi everyone! A new challenge at AAA Cards is looking for 'Three of Something'. This challenge's timeline is a little longer for the holidays and will be going through 5 January.
I have another holiday card for this challenge and used a really beautiful layering stamp to make three ornaments.
I stamped the bell in the middle first and then added the colored ornaments on either side for a one layer card. The sentiment was added underneath and then a couple of sequins to finish it off.


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Darwin's Black Box - Michael J. Behe and Intelligent Design
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I have been a member of the Discovery Institute for several years, and enjoy their articles and videos that arrive in the Newsletters.
This video was recently done, it is a lecture by one of my favorite speakers, biologist Michael Denton.
I am reading his latest book publication, "The Miracle of the Cell" on Kindle, and as always, it is a delight, because he writes the way he talks.
In this video, he describes all the pre conditions that had to be "created' on this planet, to support life,"compelling evidence that long before life emerged on our planet, the design of the carbon-based cell was foreshadowed in the order of nature, in the exquisite fitness of the laws of nature for this foundational unit of all life on Earth."
He is an amazing speaker, and his humor and wit, as well as his commitment to "Intelligent Design" is so encouraging and enlightening, in my opinion. In this lecture, he ties together the fascinating link between elemental metals and fire making by beings of "Our Design".
The video is a short 46 minutes, and well worth the watch, or listen, if you just leave it going as you surf...
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luc said:
Or is the denial of free will, with all its profitable shock value, while at the same time invoking Darwin to avoid being eaten by the offended mob, itself a stable evolutionary strategy?
Actually, if there is such a thing as evolutionary strategy, that would in my opinion clearly imply intelligent design. Those Darwinists really are chasing their own tales.
Anyway, very nice piece, Luc. Thanks for sharing.
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From Operators and Things by Barbara O'Brien
I lived in a community where to be different was to be suspect, where the lines of thought and behavior were rigid. In my freshman year in high school, there was a short story contest open to all students. It was not expected that a freshman would win it and my story brought me instantly to the attention of the school administrative staff. The judges of the contest were individuals from outside the community and they had awarded my story the prize as much for the theme as for the writing. "An unusual theme for a child," said the judges. The school staff thought so, too. A battalion of teachers, a vice principal and a principal interviewed me. Where had I gotten such a strange theme?
Strange? It seemed perfectly ordinary to me. In the story, a child of thirteen— my own age at the time— comes to the conclusion that there is no God as the picture of God is shaped by religious training. Having come to her conclusion, the child decides to close the door upon any concept of God and to shape her thinking and her living as if there were no God. In a biology class, she comes up against the laws and rules of nature, with sharp shock. There is design and pattern in nature. It is apparent in a grape, a bird that plucks it and sprinkles the seeds about, in the earth that receives and nourishes the seeds, in the rain that nourishes the soil. The design is large and impressive and the pattern too big to be composed by anything smaller than a God. The concept of God is restored, in a different form, but restored.
I went through a succession of interviews with adults who looked at me curiously. Where had I gotten such a theme? Why, I told them, it had happened to me and so I wrote it. If the teachers of the school had been awarding the prize, I doubt that I would have received it. Children of thirteen, in that community, were not supposed to think that way. The teachers poked their anxious, inquisitive faces at me and I could feel their uneasiness oozing from them.
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hlat said:
Thank you for finding that. The full title is Operators and Things: The Inner Life of a Schizophrenic and was published in 1958.
The causes of schizophrenia are discussed in Session 20 August 2011 which has:
Q: (L) Okay. What's the next question? (Psyche) We were checking some statistics and we realized that full siblings of schizophrenics are nine times more likely than the general population to have schizophrenia, and four times more likely to have bipolar disorder. Is {name redacted} affected by this genetic tendency?
A: Oh indeed! However this requires explanation. First of all, the genetics that are associated with schizophrenia can be either a doorway or a barrier. Second, the manifestation of schizophrenia can take non-ordinary pathways. That is to say that diet can activate the pathway without the concomitant benefits.
Q: (Burma) I think that they're saying that schizophrenia could essentially be a way to be open to seeing other aspects of reality but diet can make it so it basically just makes you crazy without actually seeing anything.
A: Primitive societies that eat according to the normal diet for human beings do not have "schizophrenics", but they do have shamans who can "see".
Q: (Perceval) So a schizophrenic on animal fat is a shaman. (L) Well, wait a minute. There's something real subtle here. What I think you're saying is that when these genetic pathways are activated through wrong diet, it screws up the shamanic capacity?
Q: (L) So, schizophrenia as we understand it or have witnessed it is a screw-up of something that could or might manifest in a completely different way on a different diet? Is that it?
A: Yes
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Q: (L) Are they perpetuating schizophrenia through genetics?
A: Can. Or mental and emotional. Environmental life experiences.
If the content of the quote you mentioned was conceived when she was 13, there probably was information coming through. Maybe she had talent as a medium, and to be in this world and the other at the same time.
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A new book by Michael Behe is out where he answers his critics. Here is a great (and funny) article about it:
Darwin Is on the Roof — New Book from Michael Behe, Available Now
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There is a joke about a cat on a roof:
A man left his cat with his brother while he went on vacation for a week. When he came back, he called his brother to see when he could pick the cat up. The brother hesitated, then said, "I'm so sorry, but while you were away, the cat died."
The man was very upset and yelled, "You know, you could have broken the news to me better than that. When I called today, you could have said he was on the roof and wouldn't come down. Then when I called the next day, you could have said that he had fallen off and the vet was working on patching him up. Then when I called the third day, you could have said he had passed away."
The brother thought about it and apologized.
"So how's Mom?" asked the man.
"She's on the roof and won't come down."
Jokes when analyzed lose their humor. At the risking of my bludgeoning this particular joke, the premise here is that people more readily accept shocking news when it's given to them in partial steps. Not, "The cat is dead," but first, "The cat is on the roof." Something like that is going on in the debate about evolution. As biochemist Michael Behe explains in the Introduction to his new book, out today — A Mousetrap for Darwin: Michael J. Behe Answers His Critics — the public is being prepared very slowly for the demise of Darwinian evolutionary theory. It wasn't planned that way, but it is how things are playing out.
All Is Still Well?
As popular media and biology textbooks present the matter, all is still well with Darwin. He is on the roof, but safe. ID scientists, such as that scoundrel Michael Behe, may pose their "anti-science" challenges. However, it is merely a gentle breeze on a cat's fur.
But wait… Actually, the cat's fate has advanced a step beyond that. Behe writes:
Since the turn of the millennium a raft of distinguished biologists have written books critically evaluating evolutionary theory. None of them think that Darwin's mechanism is the main driver of life. It may surprise people who get their information about the state of science from gee-whiz puff pieces in the mainstream media, but, although strong partisans still hold out, the eclipse of Darwinism in the scientific community is well-advanced. A few years ago the journal Nature published an exchange between two groups of scientists, one defending Darwin and the other saying it's time to move on. It's nice to have defenders, but when an idea has been around for 150 years — wished well by all right-thinking people, investigated to death by the scientific community — and a piece appears in the world's leading science journal saying it's time to move on, then it's time to move on.
The question of course is, move on to what? Those books by scientists dissing Darwin offer their own clever ideas, but so far the scientific community isn't buying any of them. All the new ideas — self-organization, facilitated variation, symbiosis, complexity theory, and more — are quickly concluded to be nonstarters, to have the same problems as Darwin's theory, or both. In the absence of an acceptable replacement — and because of its usefulness as a defensive talking point in fending off skepticism from the public — intellectual inertia maintains Darwinism as textbook orthodoxy.
An Independent Audit
Actually, for Darwinism, the situation is even worse than that. Books by Behe, and other ID theorists doing an independent of audit of evolutionary thinking, find devastating faults in the theory.
But hold on, the critics have their responses to the ID proponents. They say Behe never answers their rebuttals! As a trio of prominent scientist authors, Nathan Lents, Joshua Swamidass, and Richard Lenski, wrote in the journal Science last year in reply Dr. Behe's book Darwin Devolves (emphasis added):
"Behe…ignores the fact that some of his prior arguments have been dismantled."
"Behe doubles down on his claim that the evolution of chloroquine resistance in malaria by random mutations is exceedingly unlikely because at least two mutations are required, neither of which is beneficial without the other. His calculations have already been refuted."
"Ultimately, Darwin Devolves fails to challenge modern evolutionary science because, once again, Behe does not fully engage with it."
That sounds pretty bad. He "ignores" critics. He "double down on his claims" that "have already been refuted." He fails to "engage." Behe's purported unresponsiveness was one of the main themes of the attack by Lents et al. Surely the cat is safe after all. It is on the operating table. It may be under veterinary anesthesia but is expected to recover just fine. Right?
Unfortunately for Darwin's partisans, no. Dear Sir or Madam, we regret to inform you of the passing of your pet theory. Claims that Mike Behe doesn't answer critics are massively refuted now with the publication of his new book. It is 556 pages of answers to critics, all written with Behe's customary wit and rigor. The chapters cover the range of criticisms that have been aimed at his books. Some, including devastating answers to Lents, Swamidass, and Lenski, were published first by us here at Evolution News.
This giant book is among the strongest indicators yet that the cat is dead. The public hasn't been informed yet and evolution theory's loyal defenders are in denial. It's just a matter of time, though. Michael Behe demonstrates as much in A Mousetrap for Darwin. Order your copy now!
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I already ordered my copy!!!
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This topic is so fascinating. Some seven years ago I had read "The 5th Option", which was interesting, but as others in this thread have already mentioned, is a little hard to read (especially if english is not your first language). But afterwards I never really pursued this topic any further. But over the last couple of months I have read all of Behe´s books, plus Stephen C. Meyer, "Heretic", Ken Pedersen´s "Modern Science proves Intelligent Design" and Marcus Eberlein´s "Foresight" and it´s just mind blowing and it is all explained in ways understandable to me as a layman. Especially if you come to the point of wondering if all the fine tuning of the universe isn´t itself already a sign of ID. It´s certainly no coincidence that the only times the media touch on this topic they always show some creationists who take the bible literally, what better way to poison this whole thing in the minds of those who consider themselves rational and scientific minded. It certainly prevented me from looking into this matter for many years.
So thank you Luc for the info and the link, I didn´t know there´s a new book out by Behe, I will definetly get that one asap.
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Though the latest MindMatters show got into a few different topics, one of its focuses was the political forces and motivations for getting Darwinism into public consciousness, which is based on this fascinating article by Matthew Ehret:
How Thomas Huxley's X-Club created 'Nature Magazine' and sabotaged science for 150 years
But if you're a regular reader of Sott, you may have noticed that Sott has published or republished many of Matthew's terrific articles on a variety of subjects, and so we thought it would be great to speak with him:
MindMatters: Picking Matthew Ehret's Brain: How Darwinism Took Over the World, and Why Ertugrul Is Awesome
When looking at the news, the best analysis quite often comes with a fair bit of 'dot connecting'. Ideally, we seek to understand our world and the major events unfolding as deeply as possible, but we're too often served a dish of two-dimensional news that furthers our knowledge just so much and not much more. So when a writer in the alternative news world manages to draw upon history, philosophy, science, and any number of other areas and disciplines - broadening our perspective in the process - we notice.
This week on MindMatters we are joined by just such a voice: author and lecturer Matthew Ehret. Matthew is like the college prof you wish you had, enlivening his knowledge base with an infectious enthusiasm and command of the relevant facts. A veritable plethora of subject matter is on the table: Darwin and Malthus, Planck and Einstein, Kepler's genius, the retrograde motion of Mars, the nature of conspiracies, and why you need to watch Resurrection: Ertugrul. Join us this week as the owner and contributor of the Canadian Patriot and the Rising Tide Foundation reminds us that academic-level research need not be a dry and listless affair, but can expand our world views in ways not previously anticipated.
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...and so we thought it would be great to speak with him:
Yes, and hope the opportunity presents again.
Mr. Ehret's ability to recall and link information together is formidable indeed. At one point Matthew mentioned Cicero in terms of "defending the republican/Promethean heritage of Athens and Rome" from his other writings, and wonder if it may be related to an unknown aspect of the man in history - a general distortion (discussed in threads and books), as much of what is known comes down through the filter of Cicero. Would be interested on his expanded view.
As for the Resurrection: Ertugrul series, have to acknowledge that I've yet to view, so that will be on the list as it was an interesting topic.
Great show!
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I really enjoyed this interview. I have to admit that I never heard of Matthew Ehret before, but he's like a true Renaissance Thinker! I couldn't find anything about his education (not that it matters since he's obviously very smart/wise), but I'm just curious – is he like a 'self learned' genius or something?
I'd love to hear more interviews with him.
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This has to be the most interesting and informative video ever!
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I've had Ken Pedersen's book for a month but I just haven't found the time to read it. Well, I've got to make time. This topic is off-the-wall fascinating!
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At one point Matthew mentioned Cicero in terms of "defending the republican/Promethean heritage of Athens and Rome" from his other writings, and wonder if it may be related to an unknown aspect of the man in history - a general distortion (discussed in threads and books), as much of what is known comes down through the filter of Cicero. Would be interested on his expanded view.
Yes, I caught that as well. And it would have been an interesting line to follow too given who we understand Cicero to have really been, but quite often it seems better to be 'polite' and have faith that savvy listeners will weed through the discussion as you have
Probably a bit of both. At one point during the interview I noticed Matthew looking down and it seemed like he was writing notes to himself. I wondered if, however engaged he was in the discussion, he may have also been thinking on other articles and lectures he was working on as well. Reminds me of a story about Bill Clinton. As the story goes, when he was President he was once holding a Cabinet Meeting and during the time of it completed a New York Times crossword puzzle! But at some point towards the end of the meeting (or something like that) he demonstrated that he was also following the discussion of his staff completely. Bill Clinton may be as corrupt and evil as they come but he was also a Rhodes Scholar and very smart in some ways. All this by way of saying that there are individuals out there who are geniuses of a sort. If only more of them were like Matthew, and less like Bill!
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Thank you guys for this awesome show. Such a joy listening to Ehret. What a mind!
One thing I found odd though is his idea that there was a war between Planck/Einstein and Bohr/Heisenberg that decided the fate of modern physics. That seems way overblown to me. I looked at his article Symphony in Space where he lays out his thinking, but frankly I couldn't find much substance concerning quantum physics and the alleged antagonism between Planck/Einstein and Bohr/Heisenberg, although it is true of course that there were heated discussions about it back then. But it is also true that Heisenberg was influenced a lot by Einstein, and he was on good terms with Planck, who convinced Heisenberg to stay in Germany when the Nazis took over. And btw, Heisenberg was an accomplished classical pianist too :) As for Bohr, he certainly was an odd guy with some strange ideas, but he was also very insightful in many ways. It is true that he had an extraordinary influence on the interpretation of quantum physics, but to my mind at least, there are positive aspects about this as well. (Materialists and free will-deniers hate it by the way.) And it's not that the Copenhagen school wasn't challenged. There are dozens of interpretations of quantum mechanics around. So on this point, Ehret quite lost me. It would be interesting to hear his opinion on Heisenberg's book "physics and beyond", which is kind of an inside scoop on what went on in Bohr's circle and quantum mechanics in general when it was first conceived.
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"Bold and Bright: New Work by Mark Gansor & Gale Smith" Exhibit
"Sunday Afternoon" by Mark Gansor
"Bold and Bright" is our newest exhibit with fresh new works by long-time gallery artists, Mark Gansor and Gale Smith. Mark is a landscape painter using impasto surfaces to capture fleeting moments caught in the light. His works are playful and full of color! Complimenting Mark's paintings are the sculptural metal works by, mixed media artist, Gale Smith. Gale's work in this exhibit is about the transformation of sheets of copper into complex assemblages that create a distinctive visual impact while allowing the intrinsic beauty of the metal to shine through. Vibrant colours dance across the copper pieces and create abstract geometrical shapes. These intricate works contain rich textures and reveal extraordinary manifestations of colour and formations.
On view along with this exhibit is Monochrome Moments: A Photographic Glimpse into Nature by Tim Smith. These new shows will be on view from January 12 – February 26, 2023, with an opening reception on Thursday, January 12th from 5-8pm.
Click here for a preview of the work that will appear in this exhibit!
Mark Gansor is a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Out of several decades of work as a decorative finisher and classical musician, Mark Gansor's career as a painter was born. Entirely self- taught he is now secure enough to tell people that he is an artist. He works in acrylics thickly applied to the
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canvas with knives, fingers, and occasionally brushes. Since moving to Wilmington five years ago he has been caught up in the artistic vibe of the city, and the historical structures, nature, and the downtown all figure in his work. He has painted or restored original work in several structures on the National Registry which have added to his love of all things old or unusual. The beautiful old churches speak to him, bringing his love of sacred music and the pipe organ back time and time again. For several years he has been painting works on canvas and hopes that this can be his career in retirement. His work is available at Art in Bloom Gallery. He has also recently become Director of Music Ministries at St Andrews Covenant Presbyterian Church in downtown Wilmington. Mark Gansor is a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Having studied at UNC Chapel Hill, Gale Smith considers painting as an ongoing study. She has found a new interest in working with copper. As a plein air painter, she began using copper panels as her canvas and loved how the copper made her colors warm and vibrant. She experimented with different gauges of copper and mediums and discovered that inks and oils on copper made colors radiate vibrantly. Never quite sure where the colors and copper will take her, Gale paints, cuts and weaves two abstract paintings together to create a dimensional piece of art. The soft gentle curves that she cuts into the copper, allows her to form the piece into soothing and thought provoking structural designs. It is her desire that the viewer will experience a personal interaction with her art. Often, she writes small quotes, prayers or poems that relate to the piece of work on the back of the copper strips and weaves them into the design. Gale donates a portion of the proceeds from her sales to various organizations and charities. Gale is an award winning artist with her works exhibited in galleries, private collections and corporate installations.
Gallery events are always free and open to the public. On view along with these exhibits, Art in Bloom Gallery showcases a plethora of fine art of over local 30 artists. The gallery is open Monday – Saturday 10am – 6pm and Sunday 12-6pm and is now located in Mayfaire Town Center at 6866 Main Street in Wilmington, NC.
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Lambda calculus is the foundation of functional programming, which is why functional programming languages love to include a λ in their logos.
But what is lambda calculus, exactly? You could read the Wikipedia article on lambda calculus, but it's pretty rugged and arcane — and I've linked to some pretty rugged and arcane Wikipedia articles on this blog.
Instead, I'm going to bounce you to the Palmström blog, which posted back in 2012 a great introduction to lambda calculus for non-math people.
This article was the one that made lambda calculus click for me, and helped me get a grip on why stuff like first-class functions and referential transparency are so important in functional programming from a math perspective.


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Unidentified boy found in suitcase in Indiana laid to rest
Posted: Jun 2, 2022 / 05:17 AM EST / Updated: Jun 2, 2022 / 08:22 AM EST
SALEM, Ind. (AP) — A young boy found dead inside a suitcase in a heavily wooded area of southern Indiana has been laid to rest.
Todd Murphy, the chaplain for the Washington County Sheriff's Office, called the unidentified boy an "unknown angel" during a memorial service Wednesday at the Weathers Funeral Home in Salem, Indiana.
The child's gray casket was topped by a floral arrangement and stuffed animals. He was later buried at a Salem cemetery.
His gravestone marker bears the image of an angel and an inscription that reads, "In loving memory of a beloved little boy known but to God."
A mushroom hunter found the child's body on April 16 in Washington County.
Investigators believe the boy, who was Black, was about 5 years old and had died within the previous week. His death was attributed to an electrolyte imbalance.


Does not work! Sold as is just as a statue or display piece. Might be a simple repair but we do not know.
This is one fun Godzilla Mascot solar toy. Mouth and arms move up and down the minute you put it under the light. Beautifully detailed and painted to perfection. This makes a perfect addition to any collection. Great conversation piece the minute your friend see this in action.


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Research into how to capture, organize, and share the voluminous content put forth by users of social media sites continues at Rutgers' School of Communication and Information (SC&I) with a $25,000 grant from Nokia to Assistant Professor Mor Naaman, who will study the behaviors of music lovers and concertgoers.
"The research will address the practices, goals, and motivations of capture of content during events, as well as sharing of the content through YouTube and on other social media services like Twitter and Facebook," Naaman wrote in his proposal to Nokia's US University Collaboration. The work is part of a research agenda that examines how social media enhance and extend the human experience. Naaman has already received funding from Google to understand how to rate and rank the influence of Twitter users.
Under the Nokia grant, Naaman, together with Assistant Professor Joe Sanchez, and their research team – Jessica Lingel and Aaron Trammell, doctoral students at the School of Communication and Information – will study the behaviors of some of the most native users of social media: music lovers and, specifically, concertgoers.
Naaman not only plans to publish academic papers based on the new research, but also to prototype and launch a number of web-based event services. He has experience with developing web products from his years at Yahoo! as a research scientist. Both Naaman and Sanchez are faculty members in the school's Department of Library and Information Science.
"These services will transform the way events are viewed and experienced either live or in retrospect, building on content already shared in other social media sites," Naaman said. "At the same time, they will allow users to create new content to share via their existing social media channels."
The nomination process for Nokia's US University Collaboration program is highly competitive. The multinational communications corporation based in Finland was looking to fund projects with "business relevance and with an eye for social responsibility, a value highly regarded by Nokia," according to the company's website.
Nokia also awarded money to researchers at the University of Maryland, Stanford University, University of Minnesota, Drexel University and Carnegie Mellon University.
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Director of Public Communications
School of Communication and Information


Get the benefits of methanation for your farm. After the methanation process, two materials are produced: A liquid fraction rich in fertilizing elements and a solid fraction used for organic soil conditioners. The use of these two materials enables you to achieve significant savings on your fertilizer bill, while retaining the soil's properties.
A methanation unit makes it possible to recycle the fermentible organic matter contained in waste, effluents, and byproducts produced by agricultural, industrial, or more generally speaking, human activities.
This process enables the injection of biomethane into gas systems, and also to produce a treated material, digestate, that has very attractive properties for plant growth and soil structure.
CVE offers the conditioners and fertilizers it produces to the agricultural sector in the close vicinity of the methanation sites.
If you want to use these materials for your crops and pastures, CVE can arrange for their spreading in the fields.
If you want to set up an organic material recycling unit while producing a renewable energy source, CVE can assist you in the development of a methanation project.
A department that oversees the operation of our power plants.
As each methanation unit is adapted to its own land and organic inputs, the features of the fertilizers produced will vary by production site.
The treatment-free organic conditioners are subject to spreading plans.
Via a composting step, the organic conditioners produces are standardized.


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Run For Pompey
EXUMA, Bahamas (November 9, 2019) - The year was 1830. Like many places in the world, slavery was a way of life in the Bahamas.
So when John Rolle, a British Lord and plantation owner on Exuma, declared that 77 slaves must be transferred to work on Cat Island, it was understood that families would be separated. Lives splintered. All accepted this fate, except Pompey.
The 32-year-old slave began an uprising that led to a cancellation of the transfer order.
But more importantly, it marks a key moment of resistance against the establishment, not long before emancipation was achieved in the Bahamas in August 1938.
To commemorate Pompey and the principles of freedom and equality, the first annual Run for Pompey was held on Exuma from October 9th through October 12th, 2015 with the actual race happening on National Heroes Day in the Bahamas (Oct 12). This year 2019 will make it the fifth annual race held with races such as 2k, 5k, 10k, 21.5k, 42k, and 50k races it promises to be even more grand than the last one.
If you are interested you can also partake in the pasta party which will be held at Grand Isle 23 North Beach Club on November 9th, 2019 for a fee of $45 which is inclusive of all taxes and fees and includes complimentary non-alcoholic beverage. All registration Proceeds from this Charity Run will go towards an annual Scholarship Fund called the Pompey Fund which will be awarded to a deserving student at graduation each year..
For more information visit runforpompey.com.
Organization / Contact:
Mr. Jeff Todd
Jeffrey.Todd@wcpd.com
Regatta Park
Event Location Coordinates:
George Town Great Exuma
runforpompey.com
Island:
Ministry of Tourism, Investments & Aviation Tribute to Sir Sidney L. Poitier KBE (1927 – 2022)
Bahamas Ministry of Tourism, Investments & Aviation Statement on Updated Testing Protocols
What's New in The Bahamas in January


High Quality Stock Photos of "mosques"
1314-29 - Pigeon towers in the blue sky near Mosque in Katara, a cultural village also named valley of cultures, Doha, West Bay, Qatar.
1297-776 - A local rickshaw tuk tuk outside Kapitan Keling Mosque, in George Town, Penang Island, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, Asia.
1297-773 - Kapitan Keling Mosque, in George Town, Penang Island, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, Asia.
1297-774 - A local rickshaw tuk tuk outside Kapitan Keling Mosque, in George Town, Penang Island, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, Asia.
1297-775 - A local rickshaw tuk tuk outside Kapitan Keling Mosque, in George Town, Penang Island, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, Asia.
809-7687 - Jamiul Azhar mosque. Chau Doc. Vietnam.
809-7686 - Jamiul Azhar mosque. The minaret. Chau Doc. Vietnam.


29.03.2019 - The city administration failed to follow up on administrative offences and to impose fines as stipulated by law.
22.02.2019 - The ACA published its report on the Reform of the military service.
15.02.2019 -In 2017, bollards were established, among others, in front of the Federal Chancellery and the Office of the Austrian Federal President.
01.02.2019 - "What does Austria's school system offer?" This question was raised by the ACA's auditors in the report on inclusive education published today.