"My people are my whole world."
All that dedication does come with some sacrifices. Recently when his boy, Andrew, suffered from a sick bug Riley refused to go on a car ride (a big time favorite for Riley) to stay by his side. That's just what you do when you're an important member of an active people pack.
"Rules and roles are meant to be broken."
Willfulness. Yep, willful describes everything about Peanuts. This is a cow-coated, domestic cat with his, oops, her own mind.
Actually, Peanuts was considered to be a boy, right up to the moment the vet called with x-rays in hand. "Peanuts is a girl!"
Born in a barn and abandoned, Peanuts adopted a new mother who bottle fed her until she got stronger. You'd think that well-seasoned farmer would have known about the boy's and the girl's stuff, but Peanuts never does things like you'd expect.
The "no fur where there is food" rule doesn't seem to stick with this frequent kitchen counter surfer.
And when you try to pet Peanuts, she prefers a boxing match -- up on her hind legs, front paws in the sky, and ready to go ten rounds.
A finicky eater from the start, Peanuts prefers to separate her chef's medley kibble by scooping it out of the bowl, eating her favorite flavors, and leaving the rest to scatter across the hard wood. The dog is the only one who approves of this activity.


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Q: decimal rounding off and '%'symbol is disappearing while exporting pandas dataframe to excel When exporting my pandas dataframe with decimal values rounded-off and '%' symbol appended to values is getting disappeared. My pandas version is 1.1.5 with python 3.6.8.
I have also used xlsxwriter to format output export to excel, but that is also not working-
writer = ExcelWriter('abc.xlsx',engine='xlsxwriter')
df.to_excel(writer, 'sheet1')
workbook = writer.book
worksheet = writer.sheets['sheet1']

fmt1 = workbook.add_format({'num_format':'0.0%'})
worksheet,set_column('G:G',None,fmt1)
worksheet.set_column('B:B',20)

writer.save()

other formatting like expanding width is working fine.
Why number format is not working here?
Updated -
Suppose this is my dataframe
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
header = [np.array([' ','X','X','Y','Y','Z','Z']),
         np.array(['A','B','C','D','E','F','G'])]
df = pd.DataFrame(columns=header)
df[' ','A'] = ['n','n','m','m','m','p']
df['X','B'] = ['q','r','s','t','u','v']
df['X','C'] = [5,6,7,8,9,4]
df['Y','D'] = [1.5,2.9,3.6,2.5,7.1,0.4]
df['Y','E'] = [0.7,3.9,3.2,1.5,4.1,2.4]
df['Z','F'] = ['ab','bc','cd','de','ef','gh']
df['Z','G'] = ['5.5','2.6','8.6','4.5','0.1','3.4']
df.set_index(([(' ','A')]),drop=True,inplace=True)

I have applied styles on this df for dashboard, in dashboard it is coming properly but when exporting to excel the decimal round off and '%' symbol is going away -

df = (df.style.format('{:.1f}%', na_rep='-',subset=[col for col in df.columns if col[0] in ('X','Y') and col[1] in ('C','D','E')])).apply(highlight_cells, axis = None)\ .set_table_styles([{'selector':'th','props':[('border','1px solid black'),('font-size','8pt')]}])

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Prepare for a Wake-Up Call with Galexi Jones' New Single, "Crazy"
After studying Audio Engineering in Northern California, Alternative artist Galexi Jones moved to Los Angeles to pursue her dreams of becoming a musician. She grew up writing songs and learning guitar and percussion, proving to her fans that music has always been in her blood.
Galexi Jones is excited to announce her recent single "Crazy," which is a lyrical wake-up call for anyone who listens.
"Crazy" opens up with a political statement, immediately letting fans know what they're in for with the rest of Galexi Jones' lyrical narrative.
The track kicks off with a recorded compilation of current newsreels regarding issues that have stemmed from the global pandemic and systemic racism within society today. Soon after the eye-opening introduction, Galexi Jones showcases her dramatic vocals alongside a low-key backtrack. The instrumentals include a sultry drumming beat and a unique guitar plucking sequence that ties in flavors of Indie and Alternative genres.
With her explicit songwriting, Galexi Jones illustrates her vulnerability by expressing her perspective on the issues of today's society. While bringing attention to the mountains of negativity surrounding the media today, Galexi Jones still shares a positive message with her fans.
Through her introspective songwriting, she reminds us that the fate of the world is in our hands. Although some days it may look like we cannot escape how truly 'crazy' the world is, Galexi Jones, states "the change starts with you, and it starts with me."
As if "Crazy" was but a daydream within the unpredictable chaos that is 2020, the song concludes with another reel of overwhelming newscasting.
When writing your songs, which genres inspire your music style? What genres did you draw from when coming up with "Crazy?"
I was raised mostly on Reggae and Soul music. The likes of Bob Marley and the Wailers, Steel Pulse, Aretha Franklin, Norah Jones, Amy Winehouse, Zap Mama, and Erykah Badu seemed to always be on repeat during my mom's Sunday morning cleaning sessions.
As I grew up, my step-father, who is a huge fan of Biggie, introduced me to the 90's and early 2000's hip hop. I was obviously exposed to modern hip hop, but groups like Jurassic 5, The Fugees, Floetry, and female artists like Queen Latifa, Lady of Rage, Mc Lyte, etc. just resonated differently.
All these artists and styles have fused together in my writing and performance styles, for sure. In college, I studied Jazz and fell in love with Stevie Ray Vaughn, who is sampled in "Crazy", so all these genres played a factor in influencing this single.
Can you tell us about the message behind the lyrics of your single "Crazy?"
To simply take responsibility for the society we all come together to create. Especially this summer, we had a national and global conversation about how to bring about change in our communities, but unfortunately, what I saw is so many people looking to outside sources to harbor that change. For instance, we focus on National politics but ignore our local elections where we have a direct say in electing officials that are in alignment with our ideals of equality and justice.
I am from a small community in Northern California where, because of our sense of community we were able to come together to pass laws stating that no major corporations can reside within our city ordinance, letting local businesses thrive and keeping our money in our pockets.
We all come together individually to create the society most of us hate in the first place. Our voice has power, but it's hard to see that when you've been propagandized into believing your voice is swallowed in the millions of voices of the American people. Focus on your local politics, know the names of your District Attorneys, and be involved and informed about local elections. And, if you don't see anyone stepping up, YOU step up. The change we are seeking is our responsibility to bring about, every single one of us.
The use of news clip compilations at the beginning and end of "Crazy" really made the hair on our arms stand straight. Why did you choose to incorporate audio from the media in your song?
I wrote this song over a year ago and recorded it on July 4th of this year. Honestly, I don't know where the idea to include the newscasts came from, it just felt right. What was interesting to me was that this song was supposed to be released months ago but I was moving back to Los Angeles and the timing just wasn't right.
This allowed more time to pass and more developments of the newscasts were then accessible. So as the months went by I was able to build on the newscasts to create a more full story and more globalized view, including events like the fires in the Amazon Rainforest, the Genocide in Armenia (actually using a clip from almost 15 years ago) as well as issues more in the forefront of everyone's minds like Breonna Taylor. The song is powerful, but that element made it heart-wrenching and I believe that's where the strength lies. There is no way you can listen to that first 30 seconds and not feel impacted by it, regardless.
You learned guitar and percussion growing up, then moved on to study audio engineering in college. How have these skills helped improve and inspire you as an artist?
It's made me be able to see music as more of a full production rather than just finding a beat on youtube, buying the rights, recording something to it, and sending it off to get mixed. I have a MASSIVE amount of respect for every artist involved from the origin or the sample, the producers, the tracking engineer, mixing engineer, etc. It's even come through in my recording techniques because I've been in the engineer's chair with some artists that don't take their time, money, or career seriously. I'm not here to mess around and having a better understanding of the time and effort these people are putting into my craft makes me want to work for them ten times harder. What can fans anticipate next from you?
I'll be dropping a music video for "Crazy" before the election and a couple more singles throughout this year. In February of 2021, I'll be releasing my debut EP entitled 'POLARIS' which is the first in a seven-part series related to the chakra system.
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Money & Medicine
The Daily Need
Can more care mean lower costs?
Shoshana Guy
Dr. Atul Gawande
Dr. Atul Gawande has written a number of fascinating books and articles on low-tech, money-saving solutions to our health care woes, including importance of simple check lists in the emergency room and the costly problem of unnecessary tests and procedures that don't actually improve heath outcomes. His latest article, published in the January 24 issue of The New Yorker, examines the benefits of providing personalized care — some might call it lifestyle coaching — for the neediest patients. Producer Shoshana Guy caught up with Gawande to learn more.
SHOSHANA GUY: Your recent article "The Hot Spotters" profiles Dr. Jeffrey Brenner, a family physician in Camden, N.J., who's doing some innovative work to bring down health care costs. Explain to me — what is he doing?
ATUL GAWANDE: He took an approach that people had done in police work, which is look at the hot spots — the places in police work with the highest crime — and put your resources there. Only what he did was he made maps of Camden asking, "Where are the highest costs for health care?" And he found two city blocks that had about 1,000 people who lived in them who had $200 million in health costs over five years. He found that just one percent of the people in Camden accounted for 30 percent of the total costs. And that's the story in every community around the United States.
The next thing he did was he then said one by one, I'm gonna try to help take care of those people, because he believed that the highest cost people were often getting the worst care. And that is exactly what he found.
He was taking care of people who had heart disease or lung disease or diabetes or obesity and smoking and alcohol problems. And would take them under his wing to say, "We're gonna do everything we can do to make it so you don't have to use the emergency room and you end up in the hospital less." He reduced their cost on average by over 50 percent.
GUY: How could one person account for so much of the cost?
GAWANDE: His first patient was a man who had congestive heart failure, with his heart pumping only at a third of its capacity; 560 pounds, diabetes, a gall bladder infection, alcohol and drug abuse. When he caught up with him he was in an intensive care unit with a tracheostomy and a feeding tube. This was a man who spent seven out of 12 months in the hospital for the previous three years. He would be discharged to a homeless shelter or to a welfare motel and bounce back into the hospital within days.
Taking him under wing with a social worker who could make sure that he had housing and insurance; with a nurse practitioner who would see him every other day if necessary in order to make sure that he was on the right track with his medications; and then Jeff Brenner, working with this guy to get him into AA, working to, step by step, get into a program on weight loss, which allowed him to go, in two years, to becoming a guy who lost 220 pounds, quit smoking, no longer had his congestive heart failure, and barely spent anything more than a few days here and there with any kind of hospital visit.
GUY: All right, but we're living in a climate right now where there's all this talk about government not intervening. Your critics have called you tone deaf to those who might bristle at the idea of medicalizing society. So given the current political climate do you think it's realistic to effectively have agents of government serving as, you know, almost lifestyle coaches?
GAWANDE: If medicine ends up being run out of Washington that is exactly what could happen. And that would be a disaster. We no more want Washington trying to help a patient through obesity than we want them doing their surgery for their cancer. The way that American health care works right now — and will continue to work in the future — is that private physicians are paid by insurers, whether it's public or private insurers.
We as physicians should be rewarded for being better at keeping people out of the hospital. If we are switching from a system that just rewards us for the quantity of care to rewarding us for keeping people as healthy as possible and improving the quality of our care, then we're on the right track. If we don't even begin to try to do that then we're consigning ourselves to an economy that ends up having health care suck the life out if it. It's just what we have to do.
GUY: Do you think Brenner's model is replicable? I mean, it relies on hundreds of people who are as dedicated as he is.
GAWANDE: That's the test now. You almost could call these the charter schools for health care. So what he's built, and I give other examples in Atlantic City, in Boston. And there are ones all over, including Lacrosse, Wisconsin and other places where they've tackled the patients who are in the top one percent of health care costs. What they are now starting to do is say, "Can we spread it more widely?" An approach that's being tried in Atlantic City now they're gonna try it in all of Las Vegas.
So this is the opportunity to find out if it can scale. No question it's incredibly hard. We're learning a lot. But we've got examples where we've scaled before. We took these ideas in police work where they started in New York City and now have spread to every police precinct almost in the country.
There's no guarantee it'll work. If this reduces costs, there will be a huge backlash from the people whose incomes get affected. Hospitals that don't have so many patients anymore might be upset about these kinds of systems, for example. We have to be ready to defend and support these kinds of initiatives that actually are successful in making care better and less costly.
This week on Need to Know, Dr. Atul Gawande talks about the debate over end-of-life care. Tune in, or check back here on Friday afternoon.
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New Maynooth Gaelscoil to open in September on Interim Basis at Gaelscoil Ui Fhiaich
Labour Representative Emmet Stagg says this announcement 'will come as a relief to the parents of the pupils enrolled'
The new Maynooth Gaelscoil will open in September on Interim Basis at Gaelscoil Ui Fhiaich. according to Kildare Labour Rep Emmet Stagg.
Following the refusal of Planning Permission on June 21st last for the New Gaelscoil in Maynooth to be located in Temporary Buildings at the Maynooth Education Campus on the Moyglare Road, Maynooth, Labour's Emmet Stagg was in contact with the Minister for Education and Skills to ensure that the Department assisted An Foras Patrunachta in securing alternative accommodation to ensure that the School would open this September.
The Minister has now advised Mr. Stagg that his Department has been in constant contact with the Patron Body, An Foras Patrunachta concerning a number of interim arrangements to ensure the New School opens for September 2019.
The Minister further advised Mr. Stagg that An Foras Patrunachta have made interim arrangements for the school to open in accommodation in Gaelscoil Ui Fhiaich on the Celbridge Road, Maynooth and that parents of enrolled children have been notified of the position.
Welcoming the news that the new Gaelscoil opening will proceed Labour's Emmet Stagg stated that this 'will come as a relief to the parents of the pupils enrolled' and he congratulated the Patron on successfully remedying the position in a short time frame.


A child may require extra support as a result of emotional or behavioural problems, a physical disability, medical or health problems, difficulties with speech and language, a sensory impairment, general difficulties with school work or low self esteem. Some children have a combination of these.
We aim to identify children with special educational needs as early as possible so they can be actively involved in their work and experience success.
We support and encourage independent learning and positive self-esteem and involve children, parents and teachers in a productive working partnership. Children follow an Individual Education Plan (IEP) devised by the class teacher and SENCO. Children are supported individually or in small groups by a teacher or teaching assistant.
We make full use of services available from the Special Needs Support Service, Educational Psychologist and Health & Social Services.
From September 2014 every Local Authority will be required to publish information about available services both in and outside West Sussex for children and young people from birth to 25 who have special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). This will be know as the 'Local Offer'. For more information on this, please follow the link below.


Career and Net Worth: How much is Rosie Mercado salary per year?
Personal Bio: Who is Rosie Mercado married to?
Rosie Mercado is an American plus-size model, fashion designer, celebrity makeup artist and a TV personality. She is well known for starring in a reality TV show called Curvy Girls on Nuvo TV and featuring on National Geographic Channel's documentary titled Taboo. Mercado is one of the role models for plus-size woman worldwide.
Rosie Mercado was born on 28th of March in the year of 1980, currently at the age of 37. She was born in Los Angeles, California and was raised in Riverside, California. Her parents are believed to have migrated from Mexico and she belongs to entrepreneurs' family background; her parents run a business in Las Vegas. Mercado attended Bishop Gorman High School. During her childhood, she was bullied by her friends because of her obesity. She joined the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and gained her degree in Business management. Mercado belongs to an American nationality and holds the Latino ethnicity.
Rosie Mercado began her profession as a photographer but it was not fruitful as she wanted. She was one of the participants of Miss Plus America Pageant. She competed in Miss Nevada plus America and won the title. Along with that, Mercado has won much other recognition such as Runway Model, People's Choice Award, Cover Girl Awards and much other. She was featured in the National Geographic documentary, Taboo in 2011.
Apart from her work, Mercado has participated in many fashion shows including Full-Figured Fashion Week and the Mitzy Fashion Show. In 2011, Rosy Mercado was named Las Vegas' Extraordinary Women. Along with that, Mercado has also appeared in many television shows and was part of beauty and fashion magazines.
With her prolific career, Rosie Mercado earns a handsome salary. At the age of 37, Rosie Mercado has been able to amass a fortune with a high net worth. The net worth of Rosie Mercado is estimated to be around $4 million. The main source of her salary is modeling and other contracts which adds up to her net worth.
Talking about her personal bio, Rosie Mercado is a married woman. Rosie Mercado is married to her boyfriend Kirby Braden, who is an Australian trainer. The couple is married for almost 8 years and is living happily with their kids. There were rumors about them getting divorced in 2009, but Rosie Mercado and her husband denied. Rosie Mercado is a mother of three kids.
Rosie Mercado also worked as a motivational speaker, who motivates women to be comfortable with their body. Initially, Rosie Mercado weighed 400 pounds some years back but she reduced weight drastically after planning weightless. The 37 years old Beauty has an attractive body measurement of 34-23-33. She is also active on social networking sites such as Twitter and Instagram. She has a great number of fan followers. To learn more info about Rosie Mercado, you can follow on her social networking sites such as Twitter and Instagram or you can grab bio from wiki sites such as Wikipedia, IMDb, and other sources too.


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When Moon placed in second house, the person is landlord, wealthy and sweetish speaker. He/she may win the hearts of people while speaking sweetish. He may live in abroad or far of family. But if Moon in second house of horoscope is in the effects of bad planets, he/she may lose money in business. If male gets the help of female person can get the benefits in business. Doing business in abroad is highly profitable. If Moon in conjunction with bad planets the person may be involved in illegal activities and may have imprisonment.
Note: Given results of Moon in different house are written on basis of Indian Vedic Astrology. Results may change in different ascendant.


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Q: S.M.A.R.T Status of ServeRAID M5015 on Lenny? any experience with checking smart status of a ServeRAID M5015 under debian 5 lenny?
thanks!

A: From the man page (change the detials to suite your setup):
smartctl -a -d megaraid,0 /dev/sdb


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The farm is actually called Santa Ines, but it's been in the Pereira family since 1979. After many years of hard work, they won the Cup of Excellence in the Pulped Natural category with a score of 95.85! It's situated in the southern part of Minas Gerais, Serra Da Mantiquiera which was the first region in the country to obtain the Geographical Indication seal for coffee in 2011. It's also an area of the country well known for its mineral water springs, a perfect combination. Sitting within a mountainous region it's blessed with the triple threat of unique terroir, high (for Brazil) altitudes, and weather conditions.
Everyone remembers their first Brazilian (!) and we're no different! Brazilian coffees have frankly struggled to stand out on any of our cupping tables until now. A subjective game, coffee is indeed, however there has never been such a unanimous decision to include a Brazilian during our sampling. And of course, imagine our shock at the country of origin reveal, since we do all our cuppings blind to avoid any potential bias.
This is a real easy drinker like any great Brazilian coffee, with heaps of sweetness and a nice subtle cocoa edge. The fruits are there too: there's some raspberry and perhaps even strawberry, but like any low-grown coffee, these are just hints and not as potent as in other fruitier styles of coffee. They simply add to make a rather tasty, rounded and interesting cup. It's quite the crowd pleaser. No — really, it's actually very good.
This might be the most versatile coffee in the pack, to match the Don Chico at the very least. It will espresso or filter, or latter – however you take your coffee, the Pereira will match your method.


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import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Properties;
import org.apache.hadoop.metrics.spi.AbstractMetricsContext;

/**
 * Factory class for creating MetricsContext objects.  To obtain an instance
 * of this class, use the static getFactory() method.
 */
public class ContextFactory {

    private static final String PROPERTIES_FILE =
            "/hadoop-metrics.properties";
    private static final String CONTEXT_CLASS_SUFFIX =
            ".class";
    private static final String DEFAULT_CONTEXT_CLASSNAME =
            "org.apache.hadoop.metrics.spi.NullContext";

    private static ContextFactory theFactory = null;

    // private Map<String,Object> attributeMap = new HashMap<String,Object>();
    private Map attributeMap = new HashMap();
    private Map<String,MetricsContext> contextMap = new HashMap<String,MetricsContext>();

    /** Creates a new instance of ContextFactory */
    protected ContextFactory() {
    }

    /**
     * Returns the value of the named attribute, or null if there is no
     * attribute of that name.
     *
     * @param attributeName the attribute name
     * @return the attribute value
     */
    public Object getAttribute(String attributeName) {
        return attributeMap.get(attributeName);
    }

    /**
     * Returns the names of all the factory's attributes.
     *
     * @return the attribute names
     */
    public String[] getAttributeNames() {
        String[] result = new String[attributeMap.size()];
        int i = 0;
        // for (String attributeName : attributeMap.keySet()) {
        Iterator it = attributeMap.keySet().iterator();
        while (it.hasNext()) {
            result[i++] = (String) it.next();
        }
        return result;
    }

    /**
     * Sets the named factory attribute to the specified value, creating it
     * if it did not already exist.  If the value is null, this is the same as
     * calling removeAttribute.
     *
     * @param attributeName the attribute name
     * @param value the new attribute value
     */
    public void setAttribute(String attributeName, Object value) {
        attributeMap.put(attributeName, value);
    }

    /**
     * Removes the named attribute if it exists.
     *
     * @param attributeName the attribute name
     */
    public void removeAttribute(String attributeName) {
        attributeMap.remove(attributeName);
    }

    /**
     * Returns the named MetricsContext instance, constructing it if necessary
     * using the factory's current configuration attributes.

     *
     * When constructing the instance, if the factory property
     * contextName.class exists,
     * its value is taken to be the name of the class to instantiate.  Otherwise,
     * the default is to create an instance of
     * org.apache.hadoop.metrics.spi.NullContext, which is a
     * dummy "no-op" context which will cause all metric data to be discarded.
     *
     * @param contextName the name of the context
     * @return the named MetricsContext
     */
    public synchronized MetricsContext getContext(String contextName)
        throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException, InstantiationException, IllegalAccessException
    {
        if (contextMap.containsKey(contextName)) return contextMap.get(contextName);
        String classNameAttribute = contextName + CONTEXT_CLASS_SUFFIX;
        String className = (String) getAttribute(classNameAttribute);
        if (className == null) {
            className = DEFAULT_CONTEXT_CLASSNAME;
        }
        Class contextClass = Class.forName(className);
        AbstractMetricsContext metricsContext =
                (AbstractMetricsContext) contextClass.newInstance();
        metricsContext.init(contextName, this);
        contextMap.put(contextName, metricsContext);
        return metricsContext;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the singleton ContextFactory instance, constructing it if
     * necessary.

     *
     * When the instance is constructed, this method checks if the file
     * hadoop-metrics.properties exists on the class path.  If it
     * exists, it must be in the format defined by java.util.Properties, and all
     * the properties in the file are set as attributes on the newly created
     * ContextFactory instance.
     *
     * @return the singleton ContextFactory instance
     */
    public static synchronized ContextFactory getFactory() throws IOException {
        if (theFactory == null) {
            theFactory = new ContextFactory();
            theFactory.setAttributes();
        }
        return theFactory;
    }

    private void setAttributes() throws IOException {
        InputStream is = getClass().getResourceAsStream(PROPERTIES_FILE);
        if (is != null) {
            Properties properties = new Properties();
            properties.load(is);
            //for (Object propertyNameObj : properties.keySet()) {
            Iterator it = properties.keySet().iterator();
            while (it.hasNext()) {
                String propertyName = (String) it.next();
                String propertyValue = properties.getProperty(propertyName);
                setAttribute(propertyName, propertyValue);
            }
        }
    }

}

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Dominionism and The Religious Right: The Merger Is Complete
By Kyle Mantyla | July 6, 2010 11:34 am
For weeks now I have been writing regular posts on the increasing intersection between the "mainstream" Religious Right and Dominionist prophetic intercessors like Lou Engle, Cindy Jacobs, Rick Joyner and others.
But I have always been careful to note that just because the more "mainstream" leaders have been joining forces with these self-proclaims prophets and apostles, it didn't mean that they necessarily shared their Dominionist agenda.
But I think it is fair to say that I no longer need to be so careful, as the leaders of the Religious Right have now openly embraced Seven Mountains Dominionist theology, which is described thusly:
First, human beings are blessed by God. Secondly, these blessed human beings are given a mandate to take dominion of the earth for the purpose of blessing it. … The first advent of Christ was for the purpose of creating a blessed seed upon the earth – the church. The second coming of Jesus will take place after this blessed seed has completed the Dominion Process upon the earth by making disciples of all nations.
In short, Dominionist theology believes that Christians are called to take "dominion" over every aspect of our culture and use them to create God's kingdom on Earth in order to bring about the return of Jesus Christ. And their method for gaining "dominion" is through something called the "Seven Mountains Mandate," which seeks to place Christians at the top of seven distinct spheres that shape our culture: (1) Business; (2) Government; (3) Media; (4) Arts and Entertainment; (5) Education; (6) Family; and (7) Religion.
One of the leading authorities on the Seven Mountains Mandate among the new apostles and prophets is a man named Lance Wallnau, and here is a video of him explicitly explaining how it is to work:
Most believers on the Earth are more frightened at the prospect of taking on the insurmountable giants represented by the mountains near them in their nations. They're more intimidated by trying to take possession of what is an opposition that has strength and fortification in the natural, from the IRS, to Hollywood, to whatever. Most believers are afraid, so they create a theology that eliminates the responsibility for having to take territory and rather focuses on just getting people saved so that when Jesus comes back he can repopulate the Earth with people that are followers and let him take over the planet.
There is just a little problem with that: the little problem is Heaven is his throne and the Earth is the footstool of his feet and he was told that he was to sit at the Father's right hand until God made his enemies a footstool for his feet, which means He doesn't come back until He's accomplished the dominion of nations.
The point is this: God wants to have the tabernacle at the top of every one of these spheres. You want to know what the spheres are that shape a nation? This is how you take a nation: you have to get into the family – that is why same-sex marriage such a demonic agenda … because who ever shapes the family mountain shapes the idea of what culture is for a man and wife. You got to get into the education mountain, you know why? Because whoever's ideology is shaping that little kid when he's a child, by the time he's 19, hey for all you know he could become part of the Hitler Youth movement and die for the Fuhrer. Hitler basically knew that if he educated them as kids, he'd have them as sons to go fight for him. Government mountain where your laws get legislated. Media mountain where the truth is debated. And the arts mountain which is where sports and creativity come along, and we've got business and finance. Is it possible that there are seven sovereign spheres of authority?
By the way, that's how you take nations. It's the only way you take nations. There has never been a nation taken as the result of an evangelism harvest. Shocking but true. Believers don't know these things, which is why we get in trouble.
You realize that when you have 8% of a population, that's the key. 8%, that's all it takes. 8%, according to the Center for Religious and Diplomacy, practice Jihad. 8%, according to the research of James Davidson Hunter, are doing the same sex marriage initiative, You've got 80% Jews, Catholics, Protestants, 35% of Evangelicals, even Mormons – you have a very broad constituency of 85-90% of the American population is not for same-sex marriage. How is it that 7% can impose their agenda on the other 90%? It's not because we don't have enough converts to an idea – it's because when Satan is shrewder in his own generation than the Sons of Light, he makes sure that he has his prophets of Baal at the high places. So what you have is a well-positioned 8% whose agenda is working with the will of Principalities and Powers while Christians are in pursuit of the supernatural or glory or prosperity, but they're missing the apostolic assignment. They're to take over spheres and administer them for the glory of God.
It is exceedingly clear that the Seven Mountains is a Dominionist theology that carries with it the ultimate goal of creating God's kingdom on Earth so as to create the conditions needed to bring about Christ's return.
And amazing, it is something that just about every Religious Right leader has now officially embraced.
Last week, Lou Engle was featured on Focus on the Family's "Friday Five" where he announced his latest political endeavor: a groups called Pray and A.C.T. The acronym A.C.T stands for "Affirming the Basics, Conforming our Lives, and Transforming the Culture," and the "basics" which they are affirming are those values set out in The Manhattan Declaration, the document produced by the Religious Right earlier this year vowing to give their lives to withstand President Obama's attempts to set himself up as a Nazi-like dictator.
"Transforming the Culture" is a idea rooted in the "spiritual warfare" practiced by the self-styled apostles and prophets, but that pales in comparison to Pray and A.C.T's explicit reliance upon Seven Mountains theology:
For these reasons, we call on all faithful Christians to join us in the fight to defend life, protect and revitalize marriage, and preserve religious liberty and the rights of conscience. We must work tirelessly in all the "seven spheres of cultural influence:" (1) the home, (2) the church, (3) civil government / law / military, (4) business / technology, (5) education, (6) media, and finally (7) arts / entertainment / professional sports.
We noted a while ago that Jim Garlow, who serves as Chairman of Newt Gingrich's Renewing American Leadership is a Seven Mountains advocate and close friend of Lou Engle, so it is no surprise to see him featured on the front page of Pray and A.C.T's website … but it is surprising to see Gingrich's organization openly aligning itself with Engle's new organization – and it is even more surprising to see all of the other Religious Right leaders who have also climbed on board:
Jim Garlow, Skyline Church & Renewing American Leadership
Chuck Colson, Founder Prison Fellowship & BreakPoint
Che Ahn, Harvest International Ministry
Vonette Bright, Co-Founder, Campus Crusade for Christ, International
Bishop Keith Butler, Founding Pastor, Word of Faith International Christian Center
Kristina Arriaga, Executive Director, Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
Jim Daly, President & CEO, Focus on the Family
Lou Engle, TheCall to Conscience, TheCall
Father Joseph Fessio, Editor in Chief, Ignatius Press, San Francisco
Maggie Gallagher, National Organization for Marriage
Professor Robert George, Princeton University
Professor Timothy George, Dean, Beeson Divinity School
Jack Hayford, Founder and Chancellor, The King's College and Seminary
Mike Huckabee, Former Governor of Arkansas & Host, The Mike Huckabee Show
Bishop Harry Jackson, Jr., High Impact Church Coalition
Alveda King, Silent No More Awareness Campaign
Richard Land, The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission
Ron Luce, Founder, Teen Mania & Battle Cry
Bishop Richard Malone, Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland (Maine)
Eva Muntean & Dolores Meehan, Co-Founders, West Coast Walk for Life, San Francisco
Penny Nance, Concerned Women for America
Tony Perkins, Family Research Council
James Robison, Life Outreach, International
Samuel Rodriguez, National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference
Alan Sears, Alliance Defense Fund
Chuck Stetson, Let's Strengthen Marriage Campaign
Pray and A.C.T is planning a series of Call-like events leading up to the 2010 election; events that are explicitly rooted in a theology which seeks to place Christians in complete "dominion" over every aspect of this nation … and this effort is now being supported by the heads of highly influential "mainstream" Religious Right groups like Focus on the Family, Family Research Council, National Organization for Marriage Concerned Women for America, the Southern Baptist Convention, and even a potential Republican presidential candidate in Mike Huckabee.
A few months ago, Janet Porter of Faith 2 Action lost her radio program because of her growing support for this sort of Seven Mountains Dominionism, and today this very same theology is being embraced by the Religious Right as a whole … and I don't think it is possible to overstate just what a radical transformation the movement appears to be undergoing.
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Air France-KLM has picked up a 25 per cent stake in Alitalia, giving Italy's bankrupted national carrier a fresh lease of life. The deal, worth 323 million euros ($443 million), was made official on Monday, and the first flight of the 'new' Alitalia will take off on Tuesday.
The move was hailed as a breakthrough by Compagnia Aerea Italiana (CAI), the consortium of 21 investors that owns Alitalia after it was privatised earlier this year, as well as by experts. ''It reaches objectives beyond our expectations,'' said Roberto Colaninno, chairman of the scooter maker Piaggio, who also chairs CAI.
Industry watchers say an international partner was vital to supplement Alitalia's 13 long-haul routes. The agreement will join France, Italy and the Netherlands, and help bring in passengers from Britain, Scandinavia and Germany. The recent merger with Air One, another Italian carrier, should also help funnel more business to these routes.
The agreement gives Air France-KLM three seats on Alitalia's 19-member
board of directors, and 2 of 9 seats on its executive committee. A four-year lock-up period prevents anyone from selling their shares outside the investor group, and shares offered for sale in the fifth year must first be offered internally. The deal allows Alitalia to seek a stock market listing after the third year.
This means that while Air France-KLM will be the majority shareholder, it will not be able to buy any more of the airline for the next four years. However, it can increase its stake in the event of a rights issue to recapitalize the airline. The lock-up will become invalid should Alitalia be listed on the stock market.
The two companies said that Rome Fiumicino and Milan Malpensa airports would join ''on an equal basis'' the Paris and Amsterdam hubs operated by Air France-KLM. Alitalia will be run independently from Air France-KLM. The alliance would generate 720 million euros in cost savings for Alitalia over three years, the companies added.
While the majority of analysts agree that the deal is good for all the parties concerned, much would depend on Alitalia's ability to gain the cooperation from its unions, while the French-Dutch carrier would have to fly in its much-needed management skills to Alitalia.
The agreement comes as a bit of a blow to Germany's Lufthansa, which had also sought a slice of the pie. However, it had proposed a relationship between Alitalia and its Star Alliance grouping, rather than submitting a bid. British Airways was also in the running, but never made a serious bid.
Alitalia chief executive officer Rocco Sabelli said on Monday that Air France-KLM was the "best solution" compared to the alternatives offered by Lufthansa and British Airways. Lufthansa "showed interest in the Italian market but never in a concrete project for a new Alitalia," while British Airways never wanted to make a real investment, he said. Air France-KLM has always been considered to be Alitalia's natural partner, and the two airlines are already allied in the international SkyTeam group.
Alitalia was put into bankruptcy on August 29 after political and labour opposition thwarted two years of attempts to sell the airline, which was 49.9 per cent state-owned. Around March this year, Air France-KLM had made an offer to buy all of Alitalia for 139 million euros, plus assuming the carrier's debts of some 1.3 billion euros, but the plan was torpedoed by the airline's unions and opposition from centre-right parties, which went on to win the general elections in April.
In August the new government changed Italy's bankruptcy laws to allow Alitalia's flight operations to be spun off and sold, and encouraged the creation of CAI, which was specifically set up to keep the airline "Italian". Alitalia's remaining assets will now be sold or liquidated, including its debts of over two billion euros.
Lufthansa shows brave face: Lufthansa, Europe's No 2 airline and leader of the Star alliance, told a news agency that it wasn't surprised by the Italian decision and that it hadn't had access to the commercial data needed to make a firm bid.
Lufthansa had sought to become CAI's partner after abstaining from earlier bids because of Alitalia's debt. Chief executive officer Wolfgang Mayrhuber had said in November that he was optimistic about being chosen because of Lufthansa's multihub strategy.
Italy's Northern League party, coalition partner with prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, had backed Lufthansa as more likely to boost traffic at Milan. However, Air France-KLM's assurance to the union that the new alliance would not become Rome-centric tilted the balance in its favour.
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Morning Ethics Warm-Up, 12/31/2022: Good-Bye 2022 And Good Riddance Edition
I want to take this opportunity to thank the Ethics Alarms stalwarts who have kept the comments lively and substantive over the holidays. December usually is a wasteland here, indeed the cyber-tumbleweeds start rolling through the abandoned streets the week before Thanksgiving. This year the traffic fall-off was hardly noticeable due to the quality and quantity of the participation. Thanks.
1. What can be said about this depressing video? An unshakeable progressive is confronted with damning facts about the current child gender-swapping fad on the Left, and he insists that it is a conservative conspiracy theory lie, until he is shown convincing proof. Then his objection to the conduct evaporates, and he announces his approval.
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— Gays Posting their L's Online (@GBT_Posting) December 28, 2022
Here's what I can say…
The mask is a tell. Outside, and he's still virtue-signaling to the mask-fascists, "I'm one of you!"
This could be staged. If so, the actors are excellent.
Partisans like this guy roam on both sides of the political spectrum, They are blights on democracy, and why we can't have nice things.
Two likely trolls commenting on this post give every indication of being like that Masked Man. I've got a bet with myself that the get themselves banned by Monday. We shall see.
2. Exploiting gambling addicts and the poor...There was no jackpot winner in last night's Mega Millions lottery drawing,so the top prize will rise to an estimated $785 million dollars. In the excellent 2017 ethics movie "Molly's Game," currently streaming on Netflix, a brilliant woman who runs high stakes poker games for rich men and celebrities comes to feel that she is exploiting their weaknesses and helping to ruin their lives. (She stands trial for "raking the pot" in some games, which is exactly what the government does with lotteries.) The news media, like CNN in the link above, aids and abets this unforgivable regressive taxing scheme (that mostly exploits the poor and the stupid) by constantly publicizing the growing lottery pot. Yesterday I was stuck in line behind eight 7-1l customers, all black or brown, one almost literally in rags, purchasing Mega Millions tickets. One bought $150 worth. Some day I'm going to snap and give the speech I've carried in my head all this time mid-store.
3. I hoped this was a right-wing fantasy, but it apparently isn't. The CDC has issued an "assessment tool" to schools that asks teachers questions about school employees and their attitudes towards "queer theory," pressuring teachers to use gender-neutral language, and discouraging terms like "boy" and "girl." The CDC's guidelines also urge teachers to encourage membership in their school's "Gay Straight Alliance" groups, to embrace "pride" flags and other pro-gay symbolism, and to support "transitioning"students. This is, of course, government political indoctrination masquerading as "disease control."
And this corrupt and incompetent agency was allowed to cripple the nation's economy, education, social structure and election integrity….
4. Science! Monkeypox has almost exclusively been spread by sexual activity among gay men, but the health and science communities have gone to great lengths to obscure that fact, placing the threat of "stignma" as a higher priority than informing the public. (This is similar to those communities avoiding calling a deadly virus that came out of China and infected the world "The Wuhan virus.") Almost no women have contracted Monkeypox–How strange!—so The Lancet, a respected medical journal, published a resrach paper that purported to study monkeypox in women. The study concluded that the "clinical features of monkeypox in women and non-binary individuals were similar to those described in men," and that anatomically, "anogenital lesions were reflective of sexual practices: vulvovaginal lesions predominated in cis women and non-binary individuals and anorectal features predominated in trans women." But as non-woke critics have pointed out, it was hardly surprising that the findings showed women having similar clinical features as males when almost half the "women" studied were biological males. "Same people doing these studies are the folks angry that people are not trusting medical authorities and consuming 'misinformation'," tweeted Jeremy Carl, a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute.
Why of course!
5. Finally, in a crummy year, at least in my little world, some innocent creatures could be counted on the brighten our days…
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#3. This scares the crap out of me; and I say this as the mother of a gay son who "came out" at 13 (at no surprise to our family.). He came home one day and announced that he had joined the LGBT club at his middle school (we live in the middle of the country.) I asked him, with a chuckle, "are you the only member?" He said "no," and that the club was completely student driven. A group of students appealed to the school for support and the school assigned both a guidance counselor, and a teacher, an hour of time, and a classroom after school where they could gather. No big deal was made of it. No announcement. There was no push from the CDC, the school board, or any virtue signaling by the school itself. Nothing.
You see, this isn't about the kids – at all. This is about adults using self-adulation to appear woke, and driving an agenda that feeds some need in their fragile self-esteem, and to what ends I can't even imagine.
We have lost our minds.
#5. Made me smile. A very pleasant distraction.
Ditto. Always fun to watch dog videos.
Re :3
Why is it necessary to make special efforts to include LGBTQABCXYZ students in various scholastic activities. Conceptually, teachers have a professional duty to treat all students equally. There is no activity in primary, secondary and post secondary institutions that are designed to accommodate specific sexual preferences. If a kid wants to take another of the same sex to a social event such as a dance you need to do nothing more than treat the couple the same as a boy and girl couple.
By going out of your way to include one group you spend less time with the others so this over compensation to assuage the feelings of the minority you wind up excluding members of other groups.
Chris on Re:3 … As I say to myself after filling up five spaces in a row of a 25-space square: BINGO.
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Q: Efficiently display large list of images in multiple rows and columns in Blazor I am trying to display a list of 1000+ images in Blazor, while keeping it as performant as possible.
The items are displayed in rows, and depending on the size of the browser, the images will become larger/smaller, and the amount of items/row will change.
As of now, the images are loaded in a container with some CSS that sets a width the width of the image and gives it float left, meaning all the images automatically pop up next to each other.
I have the full list of images in my frontend, so I'm not taking from my backend as needed for now.
I would like to display all images in for example 2x my viewport, but not load all the elements that come after.
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I have tried to use the  component, but that does not seem to work well with having multiple items per row, since this assumes 1 element per row.
Since at the very least I did not want to load all the images at once, I am currently lazyload.js to prevent the images from loading, displaying an empty image if it is not near the viewport. This is not exactly the solution I want however, since I am still adding 1000+ elements to my DOM, causing a delay of a couple of seconds.
Optimally, I would like to have something like the  Component, where I can just give my items, say how many extra rows of images or viewport heights should be loaded, without having to give the height of the items or the amount of columns per row.


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The Act to Save America's Forests is a bill in the United States Congress.
The Act to Save America's Forests is the largest, most comprehensive forest protection and restoration legislation ever considered by the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.
The main section of the bill primarily affects how the U.S. Forest Service manages the 190 million acres of our national forest system. It will stop the U.S. Forest Service from using destructive forms of logging, such as clearcutting, and will prevent the Forest Service from logging ecologically important forest areas such as Ancient forests and roadless forests.


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The Redemption of Don Calogero
by R. D. Croft
How do men with power and influence rise to the top? Is it through naked ambition, altruism, self-interest or luck?
A new young pope is elected. Five years later he mysteriously disappears. It is immediately apparent to the church elite that he has, as Arthur Daley would have said, 'done a runner.' What on earth is going on? Why has he done it? Where is he? Will he return?
The search for the absconder is led by the Vatican's Machiavellian secretary of state and soon involves: an openly gay bishop and his policeman partner; the Sicilian mafia; a peculiar band of militaristic religious hermits, and even a BBC natural history presenter.
The story can be read at different levels. First, it is a 'ripping yarn' with larger than life characters and is set in exotic locations ranging from an impoverished Caribbean island to the Dolomites. It deals with concepts such as temptation, betrayal, ambition, disillusion and fear of death. Ultimately, it is a thought-provoking story of sacrifice and redemption posing the question: what does it mean to be a 'good man'.
The Redemption of Don Calogero has generated sales on four continents and has sold particularly well in Norway, Australia and the USA as well as the United Kingdom.
W H Smith in Alnwick are promoting the book in-store and there will be a book signing on Saturday 26 May. If you live in the area do come along and 'Meet the Author'!
The book signing was a huge success and a number of public speaking engagements to promote the book have now been agreed. The presentation: 'Everything you ever needed to know about how not to write a novel' (I don't take myself seriously!) is superficially flippant but, at a deeper level, more considered. It is based on the notion that Christopher Columbus, on his voyage of discovery, had only a vague idea where he was going when he set off, was not at all sure where where he was when he reached the New World and, as it turns out, had absolutely no idea where he had been when he returned.
The Redemption of Don Calogero is similar. Read it as a silly story (although Arkady Babchenko and his team appear to have read the book already) but there are deeper levels of meaning - if you think about it!
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Robert Croft
Robert was raised in Kenya and Australia. He spent a lifetime in education working in places as diverse as Papua New Guinea and China. The Redemption of Don Calogero is his debut novel although he has also had three ESL books published by NKS Forlaget in Oslo. He lives in Nothumberland in peaceful retirement!
Book signing at W H Smith Alnwick.
Also by R. D. Croft / Related Books
The Woman Who Stopped Running
by John Cary
The Onus of Ancestry
by Arpita Mogford
Jump and Dance
by J. L. Walker
The Pink House at Appleton
by Jonathan Braham
A Matter of Life and Death
by Paul Carroll
Dear Clementina
by Colin Burke and W.H. Mather (Illustrator)
We Are Not The Bad Guys
by David Goff
by Nick Thripp
Death of a Noble
by S. J. Ashworth
The Man in the Street
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Central Health Operations Update - August 9, 2022
Central Health would like to advise the public that it continues in a holding pattern in the suspension of patient and resident transfers to healthcare facilities within the Eastern Health and Western Health region. The Regional Health Authority suspended the transfer of patients and residents on Monday August 8, 2022, after weather and air quality conditions became more favorable in the Central Newfoundland region.
Please note that this is a suspension of transfers only, repatriation (return trips) will not be taking place at this time. The Regional Health Authority is prepared to resume transfers should conditions again be deemed unfavorable.
For anyone with questions about loved ones who have been transferred to another health care facility, Central Health has set up a dedicated phone line at 1-833-960-4571. This number will provide access to a number of services including a 24/7 family inquiries line which will provide information about patients or residents who are transferred outside of central region due to the evacuation. This number will also direct callers to Central Health's Client Navigator and Client Relations staff who will be available from 8:00am to 8:00pm.
Should conditions remain stable, Central Health will begin a transition to a resumption of services at CNRHC on Wednesday August 10, 2022.
CNRHC Service Status for Wednesday, August 10, 2022:
Emergency Services remain open at the Central Newfoundland Regional Health Centre (CNRHC) in Grand Falls-Windsor, however, anyone requiring admission will be transferred to another facility based on the care need.
Central Health would also ask that only those requiring emergency services present at this time.
Elective and non-urgent services
Ambulatory clinics will reopen and will proceed as previously booked.
Endoscopy procedures will resume. Patients with appointments will be notified
Day surgery procedures will resume. Patients with booked procedures will be contacted.
Anyone who had cancelled appointments or procedures on August 8 or August 9 will be contacted and rescheduled.
Appointments booked for Wednesday, August 10, will proceed, however, walk in services will be unavailable.
Urgent and chemotherapy related requests are being accommodated as per provider direction.
Appointments that were cancelled on August 8 and August 9 are being rebooked.
Medical Imaging Services
Medical Imaging outpatient services will return to normal capacity.
Appointments scheduled going forward will remain.
Patients who had cancelled appointments are being contacted with a new appointment time.
Cardiopulmonary and Rehabilitative Services
Cardiopulmonary outpatient appointments will return to normal capacity. Scheduled appointments will proceed as usual. Patients who had appointments cancelled are being contacted for rescheduling.
All outpatient appointments for Rehabilitative Services will resume on Wednesday, August 10. Appointments that were cancelled for August 8 and August 9 will be rebooked.
All cancer services and in-centre dialysis will go ahead.
Obstetric Services
All OBS services have been diverted to James Paton Memorial Regional Health Centre (JPMRHC) in Gander.
If you are in labour or labour is imminent, please proceed to JPMRHC.
Doorways services are available either through in-person (walk-in) at Community Health building – Queensway or via telephone (call 489-8941).
Mobile Crisis Response Teams, FACT (Flexible Assertive Community Treatment) and ODT (Opioid Dependency Treatment) teams
All continue to operate
Community Mental Health and Addictions Services – Queensway Community Health Building
Booked appointments will go ahead as scheduled. If you are unable to attend your appointment, please call 489-8841 to cancel.
For up to date programs and services for Mental Health and Addictions, please use this website: https://nl.bridgethegapp.ca.
Residents requiring emergency services during this time are advised to call 911 or proceed to the nearest emergency room.
Central Health apologizes for this interruption of service and thanks the public for their understanding and patience as we continue to focus on providing safe and quality care for the residents of the central region. If you have any questions or concerns please contact Central Health's Client Navigator for assistance at 1-844-651-6214 or clientnavigation@centralhealth.nl.ca.
The latest Central Health updates can be found at http://www.centralhealth.nl.ca and on Twitter or Facebook @CentralHealthNL.
Central Health's Health Hub is available to ALL residents of Central Newfoundland who have non-emergent medical issues, who do not have a family physician or whose family physician is not available. Health Hub clinics are open Monday to Friday from 8:00am to 8:00pm and Saturday and Sunday from 12:00pm to 6:00pm. To reach the Health Hub, please call the Gander Medical Clinic at 709-381-0112 or 709-381-0338 or the Killick Clinic in Grand Falls-Windsor at 709-292-8404. Patients should expect an increase in wait times for both in person and virtual appointments at Health Hub Sites. For more on Health Hubs click here.
811 HealthLine
Residents are also reminded of the 811 HealthLine which they can avail of anytime. 811 Healthline is a confidential and free telephone line staffed by experienced Registered Nurses. 811 is available to all residents of Newfoundland and Labrador, of any age. Call 811 at any time, day or night, to speak to a Registered Nurse. They are always there for you.
The HealthLine has a nurse practitioner (NP) virtual care service. A nurse practitioner is a registered nurse with additional education and experience who can diagnose and treat illnesses, prescribe medications, if required, to treat a variety of common health care conditions at every stage of life. This service can prevent unnecessary emergency room visits for non-emergent issues. Appointments with NPs over the phone or by video are available everyday 8:00 am to 8:00 pm, including weekends. PLEASE NOTE THAT, DEPENDING ON APPOINTMENT AVAILABILITY, IT COULD TAKE UP TO 3 DAYS TO SEE THE 811 NP.
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Concow és una concentració de població designada pel cens dels Estats Units a l'estat de Califòrnia. Segons el cens del 2009 tenia una població de 1.186 habitants.

Demografia
Segons el cens del 2000, Concow tenia 1.095 habitants, 459 habitatges, i 319 famílies. La densitat de població era d'11,2 habitants/km².

Dels 459 habitatges en un 24% hi vivien nens de menys de 18 anys, en un 53,4% hi vivien parelles casades, en un 8,1% dones solteres, i en un 30,5% no eren unitats familiars. En el 23,3% dels habitatges hi vivien persones soles el 8,1% de les quals corresponia a persones de 65 anys o més que vivien soles. El nombre mitjà de persones vivint en cada habitatge era de 2,39 i el nombre mitjà de persones que vivien en cada família era de 2,74.

Per edats la població es repartia de la següent manera: un 22,6% tenia menys de 18 anys, un 4% entre 18 i 24, un 21% entre 25 i 44, un 34,2% de 45 a 60 i un 18,2% 65 anys o més.

L'edat mediana era de 46 anys. Per cada 100 dones de 18 o més anys hi havia 109,9 homes.

La renda mediana per habitatge era de 32.000 $ i la renda mediana per família de 41.250 $. Els homes tenien una renda mediana de 24.408 $ mentre que les dones 39.479 $. La renda per capita de la població era de 15.829 $. Entorn del 8,3% de les famílies i el 14,1% de la població estaven per davall del llindar de pobresa.

Poblacions més properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.

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Entitats de població del comtat de Butte
Concentracions de població designades pel cens de Califòrnia


Last night Akshara and I joined Offering, the kirtan group I have been playing with, in a lovely evening of chant. One of the songs we played was a chant to Ganesha, son of Shiva and Parvati, who is known as the remover of obstacles… and yet can sometimes put obstacles in our way!
As I was immersed into the words and energy of the chant, I started to reflect on the nature of obstacles. In general, obstacles are blockages in the way of what one is wanting to accomplish. They can show up in many forms in life, such as a physical detour, an illness, or not having the tools or resources we need to carry out a goal.
As a began to sit with the concept of obstacles, I noticed more deeply that seeming obstacles may only be appearing as such. Could it be possible that the obstacles in the way may not be this at all, yet may be perfectly aligning us with where life is taking us? This brings up the question whether we are we in control or if something else is. If we think we are in control, than yes, there may appear to be obstacles in the way of us creating the life we want. Yet if we are being lived by life itself, this changes the perspective of what obstacles really are. Obstacles in this sense would be just perfect, asking us to be open to something else occurring that we are not aware of yet. They may be leading us to something bigger than our imagination can perceive. Or they may be keeping us from doing something that will lead us in a different direction than what is supposed to be.
In this context, obstacles would be more like signs for a new direction, telling us to "wait for a new opportunity". They are often seen as negative, but what if we let that idea go? What if life is perfectly aligned and perfectly orchestrated, leading us in each moment to unseen possibilities? If we are able to listen and trust that, we will be lead to what is the most harmonic opportunity. Thinking back on my life, I can see several "obstacles" that brought me to the perfect place at the perfect time. I would not consider them obstacles now as I look back, yet at the time they seemed to be and it felt like the universe was against me. But what if I had been more open to them as a supportive experience, bring me to where I needed to be?
One very big seeming obstacle brought me to meet Akshara, so I truly believe obstacles are as much a gift as when it appears as though things are going perfectly. I had left Maine with my husky, Skye, for California in 1994, looking for a new direction in life and a path of healing. During the road trip and when I finally got to California, I hit one obstacle after another. After about a week of everything going wrong in California, I turned my car around and headed east. I pitched my tent in Nederland, Colorado to relax and to think. It felt peaceful there and I hadn't felt that for several days. The next morning Akshara came over to talk to me; curious what a woman with Maine plates was doing in Colorado. He had arrived from Tennessee several days before, but had been visiting family in Denver and had just returned to the campground that morning. I was considering packing up and finding another campground that day, feeling the movement of travel and anxiety, so we had a very small window of time to meet. His welcoming spirit made me feel at home and I decided to stay for a while. Sixteen years later I am so grateful for the leaky radiator in St. Louis that delayed my trip for a week, the man at the Big Sur campground that was terrifying me by leaving notes on my picnic table and the Boulder Youth Hostile that didn't allow dogs and suggested I try camping in Nederland.
Obstacles are gifts to bring us to where we are destined to be. And for that, I am grateful.