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August Burns Red - Rescue & Restore (2013)
Metalcore: a genre that has been rapidly gaining popularity in the past decade, but in recent years, it hasn't really been going anywhere. Bands have tried bringing at least something new to the table – most notably djent riffage – but only a select few have succeeded in breathing new life into the genre. One of those bands is Pennsylvania's August Burns Red. The band experimented a lot on Leveler (and a bit on Constellations, I guess) – whether it be throwing in a salsa part or a few post-rock/post-metal parts – so it's safe to assume the band was going to continue to experiment with its sound on its newest album, Rescue & Restore, right?
While I was expecting another solid release from August Burns Red, I was a little nervous the band would try too hard to break the mold (again). After Leveler – which, don't get me wrong, was an above average release – I was hoping ABR would try to recapture its old sound because Messengers has always held a special place in my heart, for it will always be one of my favourite albums of this genre. Did ABR recapture its old sound to a T on Rescue & Restore? Definitely not. Is that a bad thing? Definitely not.
This time around, the experimentation works extremely well for the band, and some examples of this well-done experimentation can be heard on "Treatment" and "Creative Captivity." "Treatment" can be likened to "Internal Cannon" because of its salsa-inspired interlude, while "Creative Captivity" is something entirely new: it greets the listener with an Eastern Asian instrument (perhaps a lute) that can be heard for a large portion of the track's playtime. While, for the most part, "Creative Captivity" is instrumental, Jake Luhrs and his vocals can be heard in the background at times and they come in at full volume and force near the end of the track, belting out, "Rescue the beauty that's left / Restore the character that's lost since God." Shortly after, "Creative Captivity" comes to a close with a surprising trumpet solo. Also, I'd like to make note that several other instruments can be heard throughout the nearly five-minute "Creative Captivity," making it that more interesting.
It's not all just experimentation, though. The August Burns Red that everybody loves is still present: JB Brubaker and Brent Rambler are masters of the fretboard, furiously riffing and soloing away; Matt Greiner proves, once again, that he is one of the best drummers in the world right now; Dustin Davidson makes himself more than noticeable with not only his nifty basslines but also his spectacular backing vocals; Luhrs' drastically improved vocals have given him much more range to work with; and, collectively, the band has put together some colossal breakdowns. Also, tracks like "Fault Line" and "Provision" are fairly typical-sounding August Burns Red songs (and I mean that in the best way possible because they are excellent) that fans of the old material will particularly enjoy.
While the aforementioned tracks really impressed me, the tracks that really took my breath away were "Sincerity," "Animals" and "The First Step." "Sincerity" is loaded with melodic riffs, catchy chugging and beautiful clean vocal gang chants reminiscent of the ones heard on Leveler's "Empire." The main guitar lead in "Animals," which immediately reminded me of After the Burial's "Cursing Akhenaten," is a factor in why the track is another one of my personal favourites. Another reason why I enjoy "Animals" so much is because it has a much darker vibe than the majority of the songs on the album. The same can be said for the album closer, "The First Step"; it's one of the heaviest tracks on Rescue & Restore and the riffs and mini solos sound spectacular.
Similar to what August Burns Red did on Leveler and what Parkway Drive did on Atlas, the band is truly pushing the boundaries of metalcore (it's not even fair to label them that now) on Rescue & Restore. Nearly half of the album consists of fresh material for the band – but more so for the genre – and it's put together ever so brilliantly. The only thing that I wasn't too fond of is that there seemed to be an interlude in nearly every song; some were only 10-second breaks from the heaviness, but others were much longer. For the most part, the interludes worked exceptionally well and didn't take anything away from a particular song, but there were a few instances when it felt like the interludes were only there just to be there so the theme could carry on throughout the album.
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EU project empowers victims of domestic violence
Lilia Sheina works as the coordinator of Female Entrepreneurship School program in Kharkiv. The goal of this program is quite unusual: helping vulnerable women and women victimized by domestic violence start an own business. We asked Lilia about how this project came into being and how it actually helped the women who participated in it.
Female Entrepreneurship School is implemented by Professional Development of Kharkiv Foundation as part of Center for Gender Culture as a Platform of Enhancing the Rights and Opportunities for Women and the Youth, a project funded by the European Union.
The foundation I work with implements specifically educational projects and programs in cooperation with many international partners, like UNICEF, GIZ and others.
I graduated from Kharkiv National University, majoring in sociology, but never worked in this field.
I joined the foundation after passing competitive selection. This foundation is a civil society organization boasting a wonderful team of professionals whom I have great pleasure to work with, an excellent group and the team leader who gives room for implementation of your fantasies, concerning social projects, that is.
I dealt with gender aspects before: there was a coordination council for implementation of gender and family policy in Kharkiv, and I was a member of it. After that, there were some job "somersaults", and I was "led" back to gender projects. Perhaps it has to do with my personal story, because my first place of employment was Kharkiv Correctional Colony No 43, at Kharkiv Tractor Factory, as I was receiving education as a Criminal Enforcement Department representative. I studied tuition-free on an assignment from the penitentiary service, so after graduating from university, I had to work a certain number of years in civil service. Since I hail from the Donetsk Oblast and continued to stay in Kharkiv after graduation from university, it was quite problematic to get a job specifically in my field of specialization. The Penitentiary Service Department offered me a job not in the field I majored in but as a specialist in the security department, until there will be a vacancy that could suit my education. A year later, such a vacancy has appeared, but I was denied the job: "You're a young woman and you have recently married; you might take maternity leave soon, and nobody wants to hold the job for you but we'll have to. Sorry!"
Back then, I was very upset about that, so I quit. I never regretted this decision ever since, even though my mother lamented: "Oh, dear! That's the job in your field of specialization, what are you doing?" Analyzing this situation today, I realize that it became the starting point of my further progress. Seriously, does it matter whether it's a man or a woman, if the person is a true professional or has the necessary knowledge and skills, and has the desire to learn something new?
Why the topic of domestic violence? There was no personal trigger here. After learning about the project's target audience, many friends and acquaintances of mine were joking: "You husband's battering you? Drinking? C'mon, tell us!"
There was even a situation once, when during a webinar for the School's participants I came on the air after a sleepless night, with a very tired look (I get insomnia from time to time), and one of the participants wrote me a personal message: "Are you all right? If you all of a sudden have a problem like we do, you just wink to us to let us know, and we'll think about how to help you."
Fortunately, my husband is a wonderful man who supports me in everything, in all my deeds. He jokes when asked whether he batters his wife.
My "driver" with regard to domestic violence hails, to a certain degree, from my childhood.
We had unquiet neighbors. And almost every week, the neighbor girl, a friend of mine, would come to my parents, crying, because her father was beating her mother.
My parents would come over there and break them up – I saw it. And even then, I already knew that it's not right. I asked myself a question why in my family everything is civilized and in theirs is different, the way it is.
Unfortunately, many women believe that domestic violence is normal, because they see that in their families in the first place. Our society is still dominated by prejudices: "God suffered a lot and willed that suffering should be out lot", "Grandma suffered, mother suffered, and you should, too", "How could the son grow without the father?" I also heard this phrase from a friend of mine: "I grew up without the father, and I won't let my child grow without the father". It is important to understand that until a woman realizes herself that she needs help, nobody will ever be able to help her, no matter how hard they try.
Naturally, you will carry over all problems from your childhood, if you saw something like that in your family, into your own family. If battering, or the fact that the mom is not working because the dad forbids her to work, was considered normal in the girl's family, it will also be considered normal in the newly-established own family of that girl. But at the same time, there are girls who grew up in a normal family but got on the abuser's hook.
It often happens that a woman marries a quiet, caring, wonderful man who is actually an excellent manipulator gradually depriving his victim of social ties (forbidding her to communicate with "bad" friends under pretext of care), of money (forbidding her to work under the same pretext), of self-confidence (suggesting to lose/gain some weight; hinting that there is something wrong with her appearance/mind/wits). And while we continue to believe that it can't be, for many women it's the reality of their lives.
Well, let's not talk about the bad anymore. Let me now tell you more about the project itself.
In the beginning, this project was intended for women vulnerable due to their ethnicity and for internally displaced women from the Donbas and Crimea.
Why women and business? A while ago, I spoke to a friend of mine who wanted to create a business, and she had a prejudice that nothing will come out of it.
Just imagine! The woman herself – smart, educated – had a prejudice that she might fail because she's a woman, surrounded by men, by sharks – they're smarter and stronger, they know better, better catch things, and people have more trust in them.
That was how the idea was born to create a course specifically for women, to help them write that very business plan and do financial planning, to teach them how to bring investments in their business, give them self-confidence, confidence in their power and ideas, work out their fears and prejudices with a psychologist.
Why was this project designed for vulnerable women (IDPs and based on ethnicity)?
As I said earlier, I hail from the Donetsk Oblast. The War in Donbas continues for six years already, and the first years created a bad image of people who had to flee the war to Kharkiv, Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities. This image is still trailing them, and female IDPs find it difficult to not only build an own business but even find a job in principle. It's even harder for them in moral sense, when you lost everything and have to start anew from scratch. There is a fear that it might not work out, that you might invest your last money in your business and, after going bust, you'll lose everything again.
Initially, women like that were the project's target audience, but then came the quarantine and media began to report the increasing level of domestic violence. People were deprived of communication at work and with friends; tension was growing, and many relieved it by using force.
We did not expect the number of applications to be large. After all, it was going to be an online course. It started in May, when the quarantine was in place for two months already, and people were fed up with online courses. I recorded a promo video of our course and posted it on my Facebook page, telling that this project is for those whose house became an iron cage during the quarantine.
According to the project's terms, we had to select only 10 participants. I thought that it will be some 20-30 applications, but in the end, we received about a hundred of them. It was very hard to select 10 participants only from among such a large number of applicants, and at the same time, we could not accept a half or even a third of them, because all experts of our project work with every participant on an individual basis, so we chose 15 participants. We reviewed and selected applications together with a psychologist. Not only our target audience had to meet the vulnerability criteria – the participants should have had business ideas to work out during the course.
There were a lot of applications from young women who were ready to do everything just to get distracted from what was going on at home. We provided consultations from a psychologist to these women. The first personal, inner difficulties appeared at the selection stage: I wanted to take them all and at once, so it was very hard to turn down those who did not pass the selection.
There was one unexpected thing that happened during the project: when I was phoning the applicants to talk to them, a man answered the phone…
The applicant was a female. I checked the number again, but it was a man who picked up the phone. So, I was carefully trying to find out whether I dialed a wrong number. And I heard: "No, that's the right number, but it's very important for me to know whom my wife socializes with. I see the unfamiliar number, so I want to know what she signed up for and what you are going to do over there."
Personally, I was perplexed by such a twist (although I know by now that with the target audience our project has, this situation was rather an ordinary occurrence), and began to tell him that we are a women's course, that it's about beauty, personal care, and something else… And he goes: "Oh, I also use personal care, so perhaps you'll sign me up as well?" So, all my attempts to somehow get in touch with the woman who sent an application were thwarted by the phrase: "You tell me, and I will tell her."
But eventually, she phoned me back herself. We talked about what happened, and she explained that things like that do happen in her reality: social media are checked, and her phone calls and social ties are also checked.
And after the end of the project's first stream, there was a situation which cannot be considered difficult, but which caused anxiety in me and the huge feeling of responsibility for the participant. Several weeks after defending her business plan, a participant phoned me and said that she's immensely grateful to our project for the changes that took place in her life. The woman finally decided to divorce. She nursed this idea for some five years, thinking about termination of her matrimony, and finally, she made up her mind, realizing that her man will never change. Today, she lives and works in Kyiv, and want to develop her business idea there as well. The woman is happy about the metamorphoses that happened to her thanks to our project.
What other difficulties were there? The participants could not do everything at the first attempt. The School's program includes a financial planning block, where everything must be clearly written down. Some participants had difficulty with that, and wanted to give up. But individual work with speakers helped them.
Some of these women, two or three participants, realized that running a business is not for them. They developed their business plan, made good financial planning, but did not defend their project, having decided that their time has not come yet. I consider it a good indicator, too.
Why do I do it? I love people.
I want peace in the whole world. Of course, it's a utopian fantasy. I think that the more love you give, the more of it you generate. I believe that everyone deserves something better, especially the one who strives for changes. And if I can help someone, if I have resources and the person really wants to get that help, why not?
Even one token of gratitude, one positive change in the person's life is worth working and spending my time, resources and love.
As of today, nine out of the 15 women have defended their projects, and three of these projects are up and running well. One woman, an IDP, found a business partner who invested in her business, and that participant was able to open a footwear store. She has been living in Kharkiv for three years, and has been nursing the idea of that store for quite a while, but she had no money and no knowledge how to get the money. In our course, we do not provide financing to start a business, but we have several modules on grant writing and on working with partners and investors. We develop in the participants the skills of bringing investments in their business by writing grants and working with investments. We give them the understanding of how to work with an investor, how to work with a partner, and what an investor wants to see in your business plan in order to finance it.
Our project ends in September, but we have a plan for providing full mentorship support to our participants during a year. If they have some problems in their business, with reporting, with taxes or with writing grant applications, they can contact us. The speakers who participated in our project will help them with everything, and absolutely free of charge.
We do not leave our participants behind.
What should those who want to change something in their life start with? The first step is to leave the abuser…
I believe that the first thing you should do right away is to leave behind the one who makes you distrust yourself and feel unsure of yourself. Every person, every man and every woman is a treasure. Nobody has the right to make you feel that you can't do something or that you aren't worth something.
Source: 057.ua
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Employee welfare is a term which includes various services, benefits and facilities offered to employees by the employers. Welfare includes anything that is done for the comfort and improvement of employees and is provided over and above the wages.Employee Welfare is an important factor of industrial relations, the extra dimension, giving satisfaction to the worker in a way which even a good wage cannot. With the growth of industrialization and mechanization, it has acquired added importance.
Employee welfare includes monitoring of working conditions, creation of industrial harmony through infrastructure for health, industrial relations and insurance against disease, accident and unemployment for the workers and their families.
To increase the standard of living of the. Working class.
To make the management feel the employees are satisfied.
To reduce the labour problems in the organization.
I conclude to create cordial atmosphere and smooth relationship between employer and employees it is essential to satisfy the need of the former. It will definitely improve the efficiency of the employees.


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Teen murder suspect will continue to be held…
Teen murder suspect will continue to be held without bond
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Santos Macias
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Destiny McMinn
By Paul Albani-Burgio | palbani-burgio@prairiemountainmedia.com | Loveland Reporter-Herald
PUBLISHED: December 20, 2017 at 8:07 pm | UPDATED: April 24, 2019 at 10:22 am
Anthony Cisneros, one of the two Fort Morgan teenagers who have been charged with the murders of Destiny McMinn and Santos Macias, will continue to be held without bond.
District Court Judge Charles M. Hobbs made that determination on Wednesday at the conclusion of Cisneros' three day preliminary hearing.
Hobbs said his decision was based on "the vast amount of circumstantial evidence" that was presented during the hearing.
That evidence is wide ranging in nature but includes GPS records that suggest Cisneros and Freddy Torres, the other teen charged in the murders, had been driving Macias' Camaro after meeting Macias and McMinn the night Macias and McMinn disappeared as well as records of sent and received text messages that seem to correspond with that GPS data.
"Even if they did not swing the knife, the court finds the presumption is great that [Cisneros and Torres] have sufficient culpability to deny bond," Hobbs said.
Hobbs also said he found probable cause for Cisneros to stand trial based on the evidence presented. Cisneros is charged with two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of tampering with a body and one count of attempt to influence a public servant.
Hobbs said that there must be sufficient evidence to infer Cisneros had either committed the murders or been involved as a conspirator for Hobbs to find probable cause for Cisneros to stand trial.
However, it was not necessary for Hobbs to find that there is proof beyond a reasonable doubt, the standard of proof in a criminal trial, that Cisneros and Torres had committed the murders.
Hobbs said he had found sufficient evidence that Cisneros and Torres were involved "directly or as aiders or abettors" in the murders.
"There may not be a smoking gun in this case but there is a lot of compelling evidence," Hobbs said.
A hearing that will determine whether Cisneros is charged as an adult or juvenile will now be held on Jan. 25. That hearing had been previously scheduled to be held Wednesday following the conclusion of the preliminary hearing.
However, Hobbs said he was setting a new date for the hearing because there was not enough time left in the day Wednesday for the hearing to be held.
Family members of McMinn and Macias had read statements asking that the hearing be held Wednesday. In those statements, they argued a delay would present an undue burden on the victim's families and interfere with the service of justice.
Hobbs offered an apology for the families saying "this is my courtroom and the buck stops with me and I should've set four days for these hearings."
However, he said it was important that the court did not rush Cisnero's reverse transfer hearing, which he Cisneros is entitled to under the state constitution. He said doing so could lead an appeals court to overturn any eventual convictions in the case.
Contrasting closing statements
During their closing statements, the DA and Cisneros' lawyer offered starkly different interpretations of the evidence in the case.
Defense attorney Geoff Deweese argued that the evidence did not seem to indicate any motive Cisneros and Torres would have for committing such murders. He pointed to the fact that Cisneros had been purchasing cheap meth and other drugs from Macias and seemed to have "a good thing going with him."
He also cited the fact that no blood or burning evidence had been located in the Ruiz Auto Body shop building where Cisneros and Torres met with McMinn and Macias, among other evidence, in arguing that there was not sufficient evidence to proceed to trial.
During cross examination, Morgan County Sheriff's Investigator Jon Holt had told Deweese that the sheriff's office was considering the possibility that someone had paid the boys to commit the murders.
However, Deweese questioned why anyone would trust two 17-year-old boys to commit a double murder and pay them to do so.
Deweese also questioned whether it was plausible that the boys would place a knife that had been used in the murders just 45 feet from the door of Cisneros' home in a location where it would likely be found.
A knife with a 12-inch blade was discovered in the Fort Morgan canal at that distant from Cisneros' home on April 6. Macias' DNA was found on the knife and a forensic anthropologist determined that the knife was "consistent" with blunt and sharp force injuries present on McMinn and Macias.
DNA from a female and another male was also found on the knife. However, Holt said Wednesday that the female DNA could not be tested. Tests comparing the unidentified male DNA to that of Cisneros and Torres had been inconclusive but had not ruled either of them out as being the contributors of the DNA. Deweese also said that the prosecution had provided no evidence that either Cisneros or Torres had ever owned such a knife.
Deweese also brought up a tip authorities had received prior to the location of McMinn and Macias' bodies that they had been burned at a tree dump site located close to the garage where Macias' body was found. Holt said that a police dog tracing scents related to the case had later led law enforcement to a fire pit at the tree lot. The fire pit contained carpet padding that was similar to carpet padding that was burned onto the victims. The dump site is also located near a Quonset hut that authorities had previously searched in relation to the case. A machete was found in the hut.
Deweese questioned why authorities had not continued to investigate the possibility that the hut and fire pit are connected to the murders and asserted that they "had blinders on" in that they were only compiling evidence that implicates Torres and Cisneros.
In her closing statement, Assistant DA Holly Wilkinson said the case was "about records" and that text messages indicate that Cisneros had colluded to lure Cisneros to the body shop for the purpose of murdering him. She said that text messages sent between Cisneros and Torres' phones and Google searches conducted on those phones match up with GPS data and other location information to suggest Cisneros or Torres had been driving Macias' Camaro on the night of Macias and McMinn's disappearance. That Camaro contains an Intoxalock interlock device that must be blown into for it to be started and driven. That device also creates records that suggest someone other than Macias had been driving the Camaro on the night Macias and McMinn disappeared.
She also pointed to text messages sent after Torres and Cisneros met Macias and McMinn in which they discussed concerns about a smell at the auto shop, burning material and "getting paid" as circumstantially proving the teens' culpability.
Wilkinson argued that Cisneros and Torres had ultimately disposed of Macias' body in a location where it was likely to be found in order to prove that he had been killed so they could get paid. She argued the boys had not anticipated that McMinn would come to the shop with Macias and had ultimately decided to place her body in a more remote location where they thought it would not be found.
Holt also said during his testimony that the sheriff's office had learned that McMinn had been seeking to hire a hit man before her death because she was "worried about her safety." He also said that spray painted images bearing a striking resemblance to McMinn and Macias were found on the wall of Cisneros' garage at Ruiz Auto Body by investigators.
Torres' preliminary and reverse transfer hearings will begin on Feb. 20. A total of four days are scheduled for those hearings.
Paul Albani-Burgio: 970-441-5103, paul@fortmorgantimes.com
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Q: composition of function backwards If $f\circ g=h, h(x)=2x^2+2x+2, f(x)=2x+4$ what is $g(x)?$
I do not even know where to begin. I think you have to use inverse of one of the functions but im not sure. please help

A: Notice, we have $h(x)=2x^2+2x+2$
$$f(x)=2x+4$$ $$\implies (fog)(x)=f(g(x))=2g(x)+4\tag 1$$
Also given $$(fog)(x)=h(x)$$$$\implies (fog)(x)=2x^2+2x+2\tag 2$$
Now, equating (1) & (2), we get
$$2g(x)+4=2x^2+2x+2$$ $$2g(x)=2x^2+2x-2$$
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A: $$2x^2+2x+2=h(x)=(f\circ g)(x)=f(g(x))=2g(x)+4$$
Can you solve for $g(x)$ now?

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Obama Department Of Justice Personnel Ought To Be Impeached For Crimes Against Humanity. Starting With Eric Holder.
Barack Obama and Eric Holder have murdered more than 200 people – including a U.S. Border Patrol agent – by literally giving the Mexican drug cartels thousands of guns.
This occurred in violation of both U.S. and international law. It is illegal to traffic guns. And our own federal authorities under the auspices of the Department of Justice trafficked guns.
It is the legal and moral duty of Attorney General Eric Holder to thoroughly investigate every detail surrounding Operation Fast and Furious, find out who authorized this illegal and immoral operation – and not only fire that individual, but criminally prosecute that individual.
And yet Holder is refusing to do that. He has demonstrated a contempt for Congress, a contempt for the law and for the Constitution, and contempt for murdered agent Brian Terry.
Eric Holder is a national disgrace as well as a disgrace to justice. And so is Barack Obama for not firing him.
Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee Democrat John Conyers called for the enforcement of new gun control measures pushed through the Justice Department in July without the approval of Congress, requiring gun shops in southern border states to report multiple sales of long gun rifles. Conyers made it a point to adorn Attorney General Eric Holder with praise.
"I have never encountered an attorney general more dedicated and more effective than the current occupant of that chair, Eric Holder," Conyers said.
Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee continually asked Holder what Congress can do to stop the trafficking of firearms into Mexico, implying Congress should be implementing more gun control as a result of this program. During Operation Fast and Furious, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, under the jurisdiction of the Justice Department, knowingly allowed the trafficking of 2000 high powered weapons into the hands of Mexican drug cartels, yet Democrats are calling for more gun control laws that would punish law-abiding gun shop owners.
Holder called for support from Congress for long gun reporting measures, saying guns are easily accessible in Mexico because of the open flow of guns from America into Mexico. Holder failed to mention the U.S. government's increased role in weapons trafficking between the two countries that has resulted from Fast and Furious.
"We have sought additional legislative abilities to deal with the gun trafficking problem," Holder said.
In July, Townhall reported Fast and Furious was designed to promote gun control after obtaining an emailasking for a push on new long gun reporting measures. Holder was asked about the email and whether Fast and Furious was being used to push an anti-Second Amendment political agenda. Holder responded by saying the email was "taken out of context," but also claimed he had never even read the email.
Congressman Darrell Issa (R.-Calif.), Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, was visibly frustrated the calls for gun control, saying this administration is more interested in building databases and more interested in talking about gun control than stopping gun and drug trafficking. Issa also made it clear that Operation Fast and Furious was not botched, as many media outlets continue to report, but that the program was carried out exactly as planned from the beginning.
Holder's misdirection of investigators about Fast and Furious was also at the center of questioning and testimony.
"My committee was systematically lied to by your representatives," Issa said.
Holder was asked whether his department had lied to Senator Grassley's office after a document dump last Friday showed Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer submitted false information in a letter to his office denying knowledge of gunwalking prior to the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in February 2011. In November 2011, Breuer testified that he actually knew about gun walking tactics as early as April 2010.
"Lying to congress is a federal felony. I don't want to say that you have committed a felony, Mr. Attorney General but obviously there have been statements so misleading that a letter had to be withdrawn and I think some heads should roll," Sensenbrenner said.
The letter submitted to Senator Charles Grassley was so false it had to be withdrawn, which Rep. Issa said is unheard of.
Holder also gave himself numerous pats on the back for his response to Fast and Furious.
Nobody in the Justice Department has been fired for their involvement in Fast and Furious, which has left more than 300 innocent Mexican citizens dead and led to the murders of two U.S. federal agents. Fast and Furious guns have also been used to kill Mexican government officials. Agents within DOJ and ATF have been promoted after Fast and Furious, not held accountable, while the lives of whistleblowers are being ruined through DOJ retaliation. Holder was asked about how many murders have occurred in Mexico as a result of Fast and Furious and couldn't give a direct response. He didn't know the figures.
Holder once again tried to pin responsibility for Fast and Furious on ATF field agents, saying this "wasn't a top to bottom," operation.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz asked Holder if he had spoken to Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Mexican President Felipe Calderon, Mexican Attorney General or President Obama about Fast and Furious and Holder responded no.
"The answers that you have given so far are basically saying well 'gee somebody else did it.' There really is no responsibility in the Justice Department," Sensenbrenner told Holder. Holder claimed he has been in contact with the Terry family to bring him justice. He has not. It took Holder nearly a year to apologize to the Terry family for the murder of their son, but leaked the apology email to the press before it even reached the family, proving Holder was more concerned with his public image than really apologizing. In testimony today, Holder said he was outraged about Terry's death, yet hasn't shown outrage. Despite Eric Holder and President Obama wishing that this year long scandal would just go away, the investigation into Fast and Furious isn't going away any time soon. The House Oversight Committee just launched a brand new website, FastandFuriousinvestigation.com, solely dedicated providing information about the investigation of Fast and Furious.
The questions we have about Brian Terry's death remain unanswered; people remain unaccountable for their lethal decisions.
"No house has been cleaned," Issa said.
Obama is as arrogant and narcissistic as he is evil. He'll dump his lawdog – a lawdog who is loyal to the Obama agenda rather than to the actual law – if and when he senses that Holder is a liability to his chance of getting re-elected. But until then, it doesn't matter how incompetent or how corrupt Eric Holder or the Obama Department of Injustice is.
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Microsoft and others reportedly complain to EU regulators over Google+
Update at foot of post.
Microsoft and "several other firms" have reportedly lodged a formal complaint to EU antitrust regulators about Google+, the Internet giant's social networking tool.
Reuters cites "two people familiar with the matter" as its source, in a move that could see European regulatory bodies extend its investigations into the company.
Whilst the European Commission hasn't confirmed this, and Microsoft has declined to comment saying that it wouldn't issue a statement on "rumors or speculation", this is a significant move if it proves true and will serve to heighten tensions between the two companies which have been escalating over recent months.
Earlier this month, Google wrote a comprehensive response to EU regulators after it asked the Internet giant to "pause" the rolling out of its privacy policy updates, which are due to go live on March 1.
Ten days after Google first announced that it was updating its privacy policies and bringing them together under one roof, France's data-protection agency asked the company to delay the roll-out pending EU 'analysis' into the changes. And Microsoft, too, capitalized on the negative publicity surrounding Google's plans by launching a public offensive through a newspaper ad campaign that slammed the company's new privacy policy.
Whilst this led to a series of public retaliations between the two companies, if the Redmond-based company has lodged a formal complaint against Google overs its social network, this would certainly takes things to the next level.
Update: Speaking to ZDnet, Microsoft has denied being part of any antitrust complaint related to Google+. However, that does not discount the possibility of Reuters being partially right, and others being involved in a complaint.
Stanford AI experts call BS on claims that Google's LaMDA chatbot is sentient
Google will delete abortion clinic location history — but don't relax just yet


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Asian-American Pacific Islander Heritage Month Observance 2016
by Sergeant First Class Jamaal Black 19th ESC, Equal Opportunity Advisor
Camp Carroll, Korea - Service Members, friends and families of Area IV paid tribute to the Asian-American community during the annual Asian-American Pacific Islander Heritage Month observance at the Camp Carroll Community Activity Center.
Hosted by the 6th Ordnance Battalion, this year's theme "Walk Together, Embrace Differences, Build Legacies," commemorates Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders for their contributions to the United States and military service.
The Asian/Pacific-American designation encompasses all of the Asian continent and the Pacific islands of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia with more than 50 ethnic groups and 100 spoken languages.
"It is important to celebrate AAPI heritage month, because in order to be a successful Army and Nation we need to understand everyone's background," said Second Lieutenant Katherine A. Sheaffer, 84th Ordnance Company Executive Officer. "We all have a different way of living, so to take the time and really appreciate the differences will help shape our military and civilization in the long run."
The arriving attendees were given Hawaiian leis to wear as a customary welcoming gift and were immersed in Polynesian culture as the event showcased traditional Korean, Samoan, and Hawaiian dances.
Guest speaker Colonel Michael B. Siegl, 403rd Army Field Support Brigade Commander, emphasized the importance of learning about different cultures and shared stories of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders who made history in the military.
"There are an infinite number of personal stories that talks to what it means to be an Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders," said Col Siegl.
Attendees were also treated to authentic Asian and Pacific Islander food samplings that were prepared by Soldiers of Asian American and Pacific Islander descent.
In 1992, Congress passed Public Law 102-450 which annually designated May as Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month.
The month of May was chosen to commemorate the immigration of the first Japanese to the United States on May 7, 1843, and to mark the anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869.
"The different cultures provide us with an opportunity to go beyond our comfort zone," said 2lt Sheaffer, "I truly believe by taking time to submerge oneself in a different culture will grow an individual in a positive manner."
President Barrack Obama's 2016 presidential proclamation highlights the diversity Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders bring to our nation.
"Today, AAPIs lend their rich heritage to enhancing our communities and our culture. As artists and activists, educators and elected officials, service men and women and business owners, AAPIs help drive our country forward."
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Today I wore one of my favourite dresses; a cute taupe wool piece that I bought myself at Portabello Arts Market for my 28th birthday. It's by a Vancouver designer, Cici, and is great for work in the winter.
Well, you may remember from my first post regarding Dressember that I store my dresses hanging from a pipe in the basement. As it turns out (and I had never really noticed this before), the duct that runs adjacent to the pipe is a heat duct, and it gets quite hot. Apparently, my lovely little wool dress was up against this duct for a period of time. The result?
Yep, major heat damage. I'm going to attempt to dye the whole thing, but that's not happening this month, so I wore it today anyway and recycled yesterday's emerald shrug. I was cooking at work! Oops, I mean, I don't work in a kitchen – I was really warm. And, consequently, dopey.


SMMOL (Spherical Multi-level MOLecular line radiative transfer) is a molecular line radiative transfer code that uses Accelerated Lambda Iteration to solve the coupled level population and line transfer problem in spherical geometry. The code uses a discretized grid and a ray tracing methodology. SMMOL is designed for high optical depth regimes and can cope with maser emission as long as the spatial-velocity sampling is fine enough.


Andy Myers Lodge is a well known Canadian fishing lodge and hunting outfitter. Open since 1939, we take pride for in our rustic, meticulously maintained lodge, cabins, and excellent Canadian fishing. The camp is located on Myer's Bay named after us on beautiful Eagle Lake, just outside Vermilion Bay, Ontario, Canada.
Eagle Lake is famous for its fishing and scenic beauty. The lake features 63,428 acres, more than 490 islands, many bays, channels, weed beds, and drop-offs to explore. You have access to many remote lakes such as; Corner, Clearwater, Buzzard, McGregor, Bottle Bay, Violet, Stewart, Canyon, and the entire Indian Chain.
You are never far from a fishing hot spot! Eagle Lake in Ontario, Canada is unique in that it produces trophy fishing for all five major species throughout the season. It is one of the most exciting lakes for fishing in Canada. It has held world records for muskie, walleye, feisty smallmouth bass, tackle-busting northern pike, lake trout, and whitefish. Be sure to check us out in the winter for some amazing ice fishing.
Our industry-leading American Plan includes a fly-in or 4WD Guided Fishing Safari to one of over 28 remote lakes. This is an adventure you will never forget!
Besides owners Julian Kalka and Nicole Pollard being committed to making your stay as comfortable and relaxing as possible. There is also a strong emphasis on providing you with fishing information. Some of the best fishing professionals in the country and the finest local guides in the industry are on staff as guest fishing instructors.
All the guests and staff are introduced so everyone feels welcome and at home. Your week will begin with an optional orientation seminar by an on-staff pro guide complete with marked maps, demonstrations on productive fishing patterns and techniques to help get you started catching fish. This is followed up with a Wednesday night gathering to discuss any new or changing patterns and techniques that have developed during your stay.
There is always good, old-fashioned fishing talk going on every evening in the lodge and if you need more help, just ask and you'll get it. Andy Myers Lodge is a stopping place for many of North America's top fishing professionals and guest fishing instructors. They are always willing to share some of their tips.
Besides the great Canadian fishing and hunting, there are lots of activities to do at Andy Myers Lodge. Take a swim, sunbathe, canoe, take a hike, explore and enjoy the scenery and wildlife, go berry picking or just plain relax. There is nothing quite like sitting down near the lake listening to the loons call or the wind whispering to you as it flows through the treetops.
Throughout this season we will be giving up-to-date Eagle Lake fishing and hunting reports. Be sure catch up on the latest fishing news, pro tips, reports, and some amazing stories on our blog.


Heh heh, yep...they look awful happy and I can only guess how you feel! We had TONS of fireworks last night at my parents' house, as we do every year. We make the kids stay inside and watch from the window though! All 13 of the grandkids love them!!
Looks like they all had fun! I can't believe the fireworks still worked that well after being stored away for 10 years!
Fabulous photos! My kids would go bananas to do that! What a fun way to ring in the New Year!
Wishing you a very happy and healthy 2010!!!!
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I love your light, funny whimsical flair. We are interested in coming to Alaska so that's just another draw to your blog. Keep up the good work with your family, your Harvest Party was so well thought out. We are full time RVers and blog at threeamigos.blogspot.com. We travel all over the US and WILL one day make it to Alaska too!


When water condenses in your air conditioner, it drips right into a pan and drains out. This drain needs to be inspected regularly. If algae types within the drain line or if the drain line freezes, you could be in for some costly repairs. The drip pan could overflow causing extensive damage to your ceilings. Air conditioners typically ice up. Drain strains may undergo an occasional freeze, and these are sometimes mistaken for plumbing leak points. Change your thermostat in situations like this. The fan setting may also help melt among the ice, however it's best to nonetheless name an expert to examine your unit out.
As said in the above article, it is extremely essential to you and your house to have a properly running HVAC system. With out it functioning right, it can lead to a very expensive repair and a big headache for you. Do not let this occur to you! Use the guidelines right here to make sure your HVAC system lasts as long as you personal your private home. Have your HVAC inspected yearly to ensure that it's working properly. The technician will verify your filters, drain strains, air circulate and Freon levels. This may have your HVAC working at peak performance saving you cash all season lengthy. It would additionally warn you to any repairs that have to be address earlier than they turn out to be huge issues.
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Be sure to examine your evaporator coil drains regularly when your air conditioner is running. If this tube backs up, you will discover water injury to your partitions, ceilings and floors. If you find yourself with mold just use an answer of bleach and water to scrub out the tube. A very good HVAC system is a should if you want to stay comfortable within the warmth of summer or the depths of winter. However, with so many alternative options on the market, it can be laborious to choose the best system. This text will provide you with the advice you'll want to make the suitable resolution.
A radiant barrier is something that you may wish to think about. It ensures that your unit stays hot or cold accurately. It it is installed properly, you may even be able to use your attic as an extra room. To dam out the solar on scorching summer time days, permitting your air conditioner to run much less steadily, spend money on heat blocking drapes. These textiles come in beautiful patterns and colors as we speak, wanting just like their designer counterparts. They'll keep the warmth out in order that your house stays cooler without costing you an arm and a leg on utility payments.
Fly by night operations pop up wherever folks have not heard of them earlier than, and they're simply the corporations you want to keep away from. Use your HVAC system to heat your water free of charge!


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Penn State Removes JoePa Statue; Faces Fines
[Content Note: Rape culture.]
The empty place where the statues of Penn State football coach and rape abettor Joe Paterno and four football players used to stand. Penn State decided to remove the statue. Photo via CNN.
Naturally, Paterno's family, who just can't seem to STFU, are moaning about Penn State's terrible decision, declaring in a statement: "Tearing down the statue of Joe Paterno does not serve the victims of Jerry Sandusky's horrible crimes or help heal the Penn State community. We believe the only way to help the victims is to uncover the full truth."
You know what? I think the Paterno family needs to get out of the "helping Sandusky's victims" business. By which, of course, I mean the "totally ignoring the safety and needs of Sandusky's victims in order to protect Joe Paterno's legacy" business.
Their insistent statements purporting to care about and know what's best for Sandusky's victims is an increasingly gross and shameful display. Apparently the exploitative rape apologist apple doesn't far fall from the exploitative rape apologist tree.
In other news, the NCAA is expected to levy "significant, unprecedented penalties" against Penn State today, which may include fines as much as $30 million. [See update at end of post.]
Some will argue that amount is excessive. Some will argue it's inadequate. The arguments will help everyone ignore that the only question that matters isn't being asked: Has Penn State learned to shine light on evidence of sexual abuse, or merely learned to bury it even more deeply?
UPDATE: The numbers are in, and: "The NCAA took unprecedented actions against Penn State on Monday in response to the Jerry Sandusky child sexual molestation scandal, fining the school $60 million, cutting scholarships for four years, imposing a four-year postseason ban and vacating all wins from 1998-2011. Vacating the wins means the late Joe Paterno no longer is the winningest major college football coach in history."
The fine, which is reportedly the equivalent of a single year of gross revenue from the football program, "will be used to establish an endowment to help child sexual abuse victims."
Labels: Penn State, Today in Rape Culture


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This script will play music, when your dogs starts barking loudly. For further comfort, you can easily stop or start music with your mobile device. This is extra handy at night when the computer is too far and your phone is close.

To control music with you smartphone, just launch the barkstopper, open up browser with your phone and navigate to the address displayed in the script output (usually your local IP with port 9000).

## Why do I need it?
We have a dog. When he hears a slightest noise at night, he has no second thoughts and starts barking. Only thing that calms him down is music, really.

So I thought. Why not make a script, that monitors the volume in the room and when it reaches a predefined point (e.g dog bark), random mp3 starts playing.

## I want it, what do I need?
You need a *nix based machine with [SOX](http://sox.sourceforge.net/) with mp3 handler (libsox-fmt-mp3) installed on it.

Currenty, the script is tested on Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) and Debian GNU/Linux 7 (Wheezy)

## Installation tutorial for Ubuntu and Debian

```bash
sudo apt-get install sox
sudo apt-get install libsox-fmt-mp3

git clone git@github.com:mlensment/barkstopper.git
cd barkstopper

nano barkstopper.config
```

Further instructions can be found in the configuration file itself.

## Known issues
Sometimes the GUI does not open at once. Calmly refresh the webpage and do not spam the refresh button.
Webserver is embedded into barkstopper script and is not meant for heavy refreshing action.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


This is a follow on from the post that began discussing the call, character and competence of a leader. There is one more part to come in this triad.
That there should be a discussion of the character of a Christian leader should hardly be surprising, given the significance of the theme of character in Scripture and the Christian tradition.
James Lawrence offers a simple definition of character ('who you are when no one's looking') and suggests that it is most clearly seen in small, day-to-day things, when the leader is under pressure, and when the leader is in private. Among the reasons why character matters is that 'without credibility … a leader will have no one to lead' and that it is character issues that most often lead to derailment.
As traditionally understood, from the Hebrews and Greeks onward, character is the inner form that makes anyone or anything what it is – whether a person, a wine, or a historical period. Thus character is clearly distinct from such concepts as personality, image, reputation or celebrity. It is the essential "stuff" a person is made of, the inner reality and quality in which thoughts, speech, decision, behavior, and relations are rooted. As such, character determines behavior just as behavior demonstrates character.
It has been suggested that much of the Old Testament account of the ancient Hebrews could be viewed as 'a story of character and character formation'. Both Old and New Testaments exhort the people of God to be obedient and holy. Special application was made to the OT kings who were to be on their guard against the temptations of wealth, horses and the accumulation of wives. In the New Testament, alongside Jesus' general teaching in places such as the Sermon on the Mount, specific qualities are highlighted in relation to spiritual leaders.
Yet both biblical and empirical evidence remind us that while we might be disappointed at contradictions in leaders' character, we should not be surprised. While many of the OT kings are condemned for their character failure, there is also a recognition that essentially good leaders can also be flawed.
The biblical record has a lot to tell us about the tests of character: whether it's Joseph and David, two leaders who meet sexual temptation with contrasting responses, or Jesus himself, whose faithfulness in the face of desert temptation contrasts with the failure of his ancestors at the time of Moses.
Both adversity and prosperity reveal a leader's character and draw attention either to strengths or to weaknesses that will have to be addressed.
Bill George noted that some of the leaders who get derailed during the course of their leadership journey are not necessarily bad leaders: they get caught up in their own success. I spoke to a leader who shared (with searing honesty) about a phase in the early days of his ministry when his public stock was soaring, but his home life was threatening to derail him.
It seems that success can be more dangerous than failure!
There are several ways in which character has a shadow side. For one thing, as Parker Palmer puts it, a leader can project either light or shadow and leaders need to pay attention to their shadow side, something that calls for a degree introspection that is not always present in leaders. Failing to understand our own failings, according to Palmer, leads us to find ways in which we can make someone 'out there' the enemy and so we become leaders who oppress rather than liberate.
Another, perhaps more subtle problem is that our strengths sometimes have shadow sides. For example, resilience can easily become stubbornness; discernment can become judgmentalism. Yesterday's reflection on calling noted that a strong sense of call can have a shadow side when it means that a leader is so committed to the task of leadership that spouse and family are neglected.
The personal characteristics that drive individuals to succeed and lead often have a shadow side that can cripple them once they become leaders and very often causes significant failure.
In talking with several leaders in the course of my research I noticed some specific examples.
The self-reliance that can lead to the vital quality of resilience can also make it challenging for a leader to relinquish control. The leader may become stubborn or controlling.
The ability to confront (not always a comfortable task) allows a leader to deal decisively with issues, but its shadow side can become harshness.
Similarly, passion gets things done. It is those leaders with passion and drive who are likely to break new ground or thrive in challenging situations, but the shadow side is the risk of burnout or the risk of collateral damage caused to others on the team.
I think the best leadership is that which flows from who the leader is: in that sense it is authentic leadership. I use the term with a degree of caution. There is no doubt that people (perhaps especially younger people) are drawn to authenticity. But its shortcoming is that its reference point appears to be internal while the reference point to character is external.
So perhaps I should say that the best Christian leadership is that which flows from the authentically God-shaped character of a leader.
Which means that all of us ought to be on a constant growth trajectory.
A young church leader asked me once if I thought a lot of Christian leaders have a gap between their public persona and their private life. It was a great question and while I can't quantify the answer, it has to be some kind of a yes!
Those of us who have some kind of public persona, whether as leaders or preachers, often come across as those who have it all together. According to our persona, we never worry (because we roll our burdens onto Jesus), we are patient and kind, our wives worship the ground we walk on and are so grateful to be married to such wonderful people, we never get angry, all the prayers we pray in our rich prayer lives are answered, we never have any doubts, questions or fears. The calm conviction that we express so eloquently from the pulpits we grace characterises every waking moment.
Whereas if only people knew that our wives sometimes despair of us (I'm reminded of the incident which Paul Tripp recounts – against himself – where he told his wife that 95% of the women in his church would love to be married to a man like him: she declared herself in the 5%!); or that some of us struggle to pray, that we don't always find our souls nourished by our Bible readings, that our private spiritual lives may not have the vitality everyone assumes, that we get anxious, that we feel guilty, that we may lie awake at night fretting over one thing or another, that we get more angry over some things than we should, that the fruit of the Spirit is not always evident in our lives, that we have questions about unanswered prayer, that we have regrets, that we sometimes get more wrong in our leadership than we get right, we experience moments of self-doubt and self-loathing, that when we cut we bleed, that we sometimes struggle to forgive, or that we have times when we even wonder if we should really be doing this stuff.
In short – we are not perfect, nor will we be until we see Jesus and we are made like him.
None of this should be an excuse for hypocrisy, or for inattention to the cultivation of spiritual character. It should be an incentive for growth.
Ministry and leadership are a gift and a privilege but should not be understood as a 'get off the hook' pass in terms of the need to grow in character.
We'll get to the third 'c' (competence) in next week's post.
But don't rush to get there just yet – not least if you are a younger leader. Character matters. Failure to pay attention can result in leader derailment with all that entails.


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Wellington  Politics
"Vile" sewage smells continue from Moa Point, after ten years of promises
June 30, 2010Politics, PressRelease3 comments
Media release – Moa Point Waste Water Community Liaison Group – (CLG)
After more than 10 years of operation, there are still major odour problems in the vicinity of the Moa Point Inlet Pump Station (IPS). This is after the wider community and the CLG had been promised and guaranteed from the outset that there would be no odour beyond the plant boundaries.
Moa Point as a site
Prior to its construction the Council disregarded a 14,000 signature petition stating that the site of a sewage plant at Moa Point was ill conceived, as it was less than 100 metres from commercial properties and residential homes. If the Valley West option had been accepted, discussions of this nature would not now be taking place. The closest bach was 800 metres away. Internationally, sewage plants maintain an odour buffer zone of 300 metres.
There are site constraints of the treatment plant, and as a result sewage has to be pumped to it. This meant that the Inlet Pump Station (IPS) had to be constructed on its current site where the major odour problems continue to occur. It is during times of routine maintenance and the removal of fats, oils and greases (FOG) where the wet well covers must be opened. When the covers are closed, accumulated odour-causing gases are extracted and treated in a separate odour chemical scrubber. When the covers are opened, vile odours are released uncontrolled, into the atmosphere.
The design of the plant did not consider the problems associated with outdoor maintenance. On occasions, odours are so strong that they can be detected in nearby homes and causing considerable distress.
Cause of the Problem
Wellington sewage pipes suffer from seawater intrusion that can result in the production of high levels of Hydrogen sulphide, much higher than would normally be produced under normal operating conditions. It is this hydrogen sulphide along with the normal odour-causing compounds derived from the initial breakdown of sewage waste during transit in the sewer system that gives rise to the uncontrolled emission of serious vile odour problems anytime the IPS wet well covers are opened.
Why covers need to be opened
There are two issues. Routine pump and associated pump control maintenance; and the removal of the build-up of FOG. The length of time for FOG removal can vary from minutes to all day.
Simple solution to problem
The placing of a building over the IPS wet well could contain all of the odorous gases from this source and would be dealt with by the existing odour treatment system or by an additional system. The 'Report' commissioned by UWI (the contractor) recommended this approach.
CLG submission to WCC Draft Annual Plan
The CLG requested that WCC allocate such funds in its 2010/2011 annual plan. This was declined.
"By declining funds for the construction of a building over the wet well, council demonstrates that it has once again delayed the inevitable. The decision clearly illustrates how WCC has scant regard for the continued discharge of vile odours into the sensitive local surrounding environment at Moa Point," said Stan Andis, speaking on behalf of the CLG.
"Over the past 12 years the council have depended on the lack of funds, the goodwill of the community and a useless complaints system, to convince us that a solution is at hand." he said. "Added to this, the CLG understands that both parties have become embroiled into a "stalemate" situation where the contractor will not pay for the construction and neither will the Council.
"The build-up of FOG in the wet well is on the increase as evidenced by the removal of an unbelievable 126 tonnes over the past 2 years. This has been due to the apparent failure of the various Grease Converter treatment systems installed at hotels, restaurants, cafes and fast food outlets. Council may have inadvertently approved systems that do not appear to work, and leaves Council responsible to remedy the problem. Now that it is in place, there is no telling how long it will take, at what cost and who pays to replace it.
"If the WCC is not prepared to take action over FOG treatment systems, then it should seriously consider making funds immediately available for the construction of a building over the IPS as we have requested, and would only take a matter of months," Mr Andis believes.
"Furthermore the District Plan does not permit odour to be discernible at or beyond the boundary, and yet WCC has rejected any funding to remedy odour emissions from the IPS, thereby condoning illegal actions contrary to its own rules.
"The guarantees and promises mean a zero tolerance toward odour emissions regardless of any interpretation that Council may place on it and no one can deny that odour is emitted."
"Council has dedicated funds into constructing a Super Stadium, a Superloo and a Super Sculpture as show pieces for the Rugby World Cup, and yet the rules for the sewage treatment plant governing compliance are waived all in the case of show.
"The role and function of the CLG together with its technical advisor (who is funded by WCC) was set up as a result of appeals in 1994 to liaise with the Council, the Treatment Plant Contractor, and the Community. The process has been in place since that time. Discussions have been frank and in accord with signed Terms of Reference and transparency. After the CLG made its submission, it learned of an 'Inlet Pump Station Investigation Upgrade Report' dated December 2008 that had recommended construction of such a building costing $1.1million. The 'guestimate' in the CLG's submission was within 10% of this.
"There is no doubt that it had been deliberately withheld from the CLG and only released after application through the Official Information Act. Earlier, the CLG was informed in September 2008 by the contractor that, a structure would proceed over the IPS within 12 months, costing between $300,000 and $400,000. Three months later there was a complete reversal of the commitment, for no apparent reason. By withholding the recommendations of this report, contrary to our Terms of Reference, and then use it against our submission as a reason to refuse funding is arrogant, underhand and an insult to the integrity of the voluntary members of the CLG by all concerned.
"We agreed to a building block approach during the Renewal of Consents process in 2007 and this has yet to be formally implemented, what is more our submission did not lay claim to a 100% remedy to all the odorous emissions. The enclosure would only be the beginning of it.
"The question remains as to why WCC has devoted $6.2 million into installing an Ultra Violet disinfection plant that would operate on a part time basis 5 or 6 times a year during "excess stormwater flows" through the long outfall, when the real problem at Moa Point is the regular discharge of odour into the receiving environment over the past 12 years."
Mr Andis concludes by saying "that if this matter is not resolved promptly prior to the Rugby World Cup, the CLG will be forced to seek further advice to resolve these issues that are of the Council's making."
Dianne Buchan, 1. July 2010, 13:58
For those of you who don't know, Stan Andis has been battling on this issue for at least 16 years, seemingly never giving up that what the engineers promised at the consent hearing – ie. an odourless treatment plant – will be delivered. I take my hat off to you Stan and hope one day the council will honour its undertaking. it is cases like this that undermine public trust in the Resource Management Act process. When the undertakings of experts are not realised, it is the public who pay the price.
Tom Mulholland, 2. July 2010, 13:02
The silence from Ward councillors has been deafening during construction of the sewage plant, and the smells have continued for the 11yrs we have lived at Moa Point; the extension of the airport with noise, dust, extra travel and expense; the consent given to build a facillity to manufacture radioactive material at the end of our street, without at least consultation as to safety etc. Our elected Councillors have been absent .
ViV, 2. July 2010, 17:17
I'm a great believer in practical examples. I would suggest a strong and smelly point needs to be made to those decision makers who don't have the same opportunity to experience, and savour, the same odours as those effected residents.
A ten litre bucket of pong should be taken into council during public participation and shared with the decision makers.


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Deals and IPOs
Bank of America CEO should keep chairman title
Richard X. Bove
Published 2:51 PM ET Thu, 10 Sept 2015 CNBC.com
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan was granted the additional title of chairman by the company and the board last year even though shareholders had voted five years earlier to separate the positions.
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan.
The decision to elevate Mr. Moynihan in the face of the historic shareholder vote created a firestorm for the company. It has become front-page news virtually every day in the past week, as shareholders are now to vote again as to whether they want to undo that board decision and strip Mr. Moynihan of the chairman title.
Powerful shareholder organizations like ISS and Glass Lewis, who advise institutional shareholders how to vote on situations like this, are clear: The board has violated a shareholder demand and the two positions of chairman and CEO must be kept separate. Moreover, large pension funds like Calpers are outraged by what the Bank of America board has done.
Bove: Time to 'aggressively' buy big banks
Others argue against the joint title on the basis of conflict of interest. Moreover, some believe that boards will not act independently to protect shareholder rights if they are led by the company's CEO. The 1932 book by Berle and Means, "The Modern Corporation and Private Property," was among the first -- if not the first -- to make this proclamation.
It's a pretty compelling case. And yet, Warren Buffett, a Bank of America shareholder, has publicly stated (including in a CNBC interview with Becky Quick) that Mr. Moynihan should keep both positions.
I have to agree with Mr. Buffett.
Bove: Moynihan is right guy for Bank of America
Citigroup is the only big bank that has separated these roles and no one is complaining about any of the vast majority of other banks that have combined the two roles.
One reason is that company owners have no complaints is because, despite the reams of words spoken and written on the subject; no one has released a study that demonstrates that companies with split CEO and chairman roles operate any better or worse than companies where the roles are combined. This includes both from a profit or governance status.
It is simply a non-issue for the vast majority of American shareholders. In my close to 50 years in the business, I cannot recall even one person in the tens of thousands I have worked with who ever considered this issue to be a factor in buying or selling a stock.
There may be two reasons why this is an issue at Bank of America:
The Board of Directors total disregard for shareholder wishes; and,
It is Bank of America, one of the most continually attacked companies in the United States in the past 8 years.
Dick Bove: BofA board 'should be eliminated'
It certainly does appear that the board has taken a step in total disregard of shareholders wishes. The board has made a decision that should have been made with the concurrence of the company's owners. Not only has the board acted with total disregard for the stated wishes of these owners but they voted themselves a hefty raise, averaging $36,000 in stock awards, without asking for shareholder approvals.
As a consequence of their ill-thought out actions, they have brought a new series of attacks against the company in the media at a time when the bank was finally recovering from these occurrences. Either through arrogance or a complete lack of understanding of the public position of this institution, this board has put the company in a bad position when it was completely unnecessary.
I think this means that there needs to be adjustments made to this board. Its leadership is flawed and its governance committee should be restructured. Bank of America shareholders, employees, and customers deserve to be led by people who have a greater understanding of their public responsibilities. This board is not the right one for this task.
Mr. Moynihan, on the other hand, has taken on the legendary Sisyphean task of cleaning up this institution when year after year, new issues keep rolling that stone downhill once again. The time for this has stopped. He should be recognized for what he has achieved. The bank is cleaner, better run, with a fortress balance sheet, and opportunities to drive its earnings much higher. He deserves to be both chairman and CEO. This issue and others like it need to go away. Concentration needs to be placed on what the company can achieve not how its leadership structure is positioned.
Commentary by Richard X. Bove, an equity research analyst at Rafferty Capital Markets and the author of "Guardians of Prosperity: Why America Needs Big Banks" (2013).
Richard X. BoveFinancial Strategist at Odeon Capital Group
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Bonavera f. Latin bona 'good, kind, right, pleasant; valid, useful, healthy' + Latin vera 'true, real, genuine'.
Cite as: S.L. Uckelman. "Bonavera". In S.L. Uckelman, ed. The Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources, Edition 2018, no. 1. http://dmnes.org/2018/1/name/Bonavera.


Sunday December 26th 1897 I was busy all morning with the work. Will & Mary Woolf with Frank Woolf and little boy from Delavan were here for dinner later in the afternoon. Ed Mc-- come up. Spent the evening reading. weather still pleasant. Monday December 27th 1897 I have had a pain in my neck for a couple of days so did not wash this morning. Will took me up to see Carrie in the afternoon. I knit all the evening. Tuesday December 28th 1897 I got my morning work done and had dinner at eleven oclock. Will and I went to town and were over home a little while. Had a very pleasant sleigh ride. I read in evening. Wednesday December 29th 1897 It was a bright day and thawed considerable. I was busy with the wash all forenoon and went over to see Emma a little while in the afternoon. The boys are helping John to grind feed. I knit in the evening. Thursday December 30th 1897 I had only got the dishes washed this morning when Ott come bringing Fanny and the boy to stay while he went to Lone Tree. I prepared dinner for the men grinding but they did not get here till after dinner and finished our work at four oclock. I had such a good visit with Fanny. It turned colder just before night. Friday December 31st 1897 The last day of the a busy year. It was very cold. I was busy about the house a great part of the day. The boys were at work in the timber. I was busy sewing what time I had to spare.


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Hilding Gerhard Rolf Bexell, född 8 december 1901, död 25 december 1976, var en svensk geolog och paleontolog. Han var sonsons son till professor Sven Peter Bexell.

Bexell blev student 1921, deltog i Sven Hedins centralasienexpedition 1929-1934, då han bland annat arbetade inom Inre Mongoliet, Nanchan och norra delarna av Tsaidambäckenet. Hans forskningar ledde till resultat av stor betydelse för förståelsen av den senpaleolitiska växtvärldens geografi. Från 1946 arbetade Bexell som geolog i Etiopien i den etiopiska regeringens tjänst. Bland hans utgivna skrifter märks Geological and paleontological investigations in Mongolia and Kansu 1929-34.

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 Svensk uppslagsbok, andra upplagan 1947

Svenska geologer under 1900-talet
Svenska paleontologer
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Exit Interview: 1999 Q45t. The car left this morining and I wanted to jot down my final thoughts.
In September it became obvious that the Q wouldn't be passing inspection again without an inordinate amount of exhaust work. Furthermore, the rear struts were blown, the A/C was broken, it leaked an insane amount of oil, and had some nasty rust issues. So I bought something new and the Q left on a flatbed this morning.
My goal as a car enthusiast is to experience the widest variety of vehicles I possibly can. This old boat definitely helped me accomplish that. My first car, a 1989 635csi, was dramatically different in every single way. Daily driving a classic is fun, but it is also a little sketchy (especially during New England winters). I decided that I wanted something much newer for the safety features. The E24 didn't even have a passenger airbag and of course, was designed with seventies so it wasn't very safe in a crash. Old cars are fun and relatively safe on a nice clear day, but in the middle of a nighttime snowstorm? Not so much.
Over 2 years of ownership I probably spent around $1000 on repairs. Nothing needed to be replaced beyond wear items like tie rods and brake rotors. Those items were usually Nissan Pathfinder parts so they even stocked them at my local NAPA. Thus, it can be said that this car was actually pretty great to maintain all things considered. The V8 soundtrack and ultra comfy ride were nice too. I learned that I'm all about quick sedans, and hope to daily drive another V8 boat at some point. It was perfect for driving my friends all around New England for day trips and other shenanigans: the back seat was so nice that nobody ever called shotgun. The driving experience was fun too. At 4100LBS the car was no Miata, but still exciting enough to stick in 2nd gear, press the "sport" button to firm up the suspension, and go for it on some twisty roads. I'll miss this car a lot.
So, if you're thinking about buying an old Japanese boat for a daily driver, I highly recommend it. They offer 90% of the German experience without all of the headaches.


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Tomáš Krejčí
He graduated from the Secondary School of Glassmaking in Valašské Meziříčí, processing glass and lighting objects. Then he continued at Tomas Bata University in Zlín in the Glass Design Studio under the guidance of prof. Petr Stanický. He is currently a PhD student at the same university. During his studies, he had the opportunity to take part in an educational programme at the Haute École des Arts du Rhin in Strasbourg in the local Glass Studio. He has already successfully presented his work at several Czech and international forums, specifically in Prague, London, Milan, Frankfurt am Main, Strasbourg, Venice and Osaka. In recent years, he has also been organising exhibitions at the Komnata Gallery, built from a former newsagent's trolleybus stop in the centre of Zlín. In his work, he prefers projects in which he has the opportunity to challenge the very essence of glass with other materials. He focuses on product design and free art, and his creative expression also includes site-specific installations. He uses several glass techniques, mostly glass blowing, glass melting and flat glass. His approach to glass is always very experimental.
About three years ago, Krejčí was fascinated by the confrontation of two very different materials - hand-blown glass and hand-made inflatable foils. By connecting them, objects were created based on attractive visual combinations on the one hand and on their different constructional properties on the other. It is a form of confrontation and at the same time a coexistence of two materials. In some cases, a natural, almost inseparable symbiosis has formed between these disparate elements and acts as one complete object. In other cases, the inflatable parts have become a kind of support for glass objects and serve more like a cover that protects the fragile hand-blown glass. However, seemingly disparate materials also have a lot in common. Both are air-shaped, require careful handling and are fragile. The Floating Futures collection also uses material limits, which are indirectly embodied in the idea of transience, instability and destruction. Inflated parts can deform, there is a risk of gradual air leakage, and thus complete destruction of the object - shattering of glass and puncture of the foil. However, this is also a natural part of the materials used.
For the exhibition in Venice, the collection has expanded to include other objects inspired by naval buoys and signalling devices. Krejčí thus followed up on a topic that has recently intensively encouraged him to think and transform his ideas into concrete meaningful forms. These are his reflections on the light-industrial landscape, the urban environment, signal signs and the effect of the light object in a certain situation. In general, it could be said that it is inspired by the night city and the industrial landscape.


Should You Get Engaged In Front of Your Family?
Whether you anticipate being on the receiving end of a proposal this holiday season or are planning on popping the question yourself, you may be weighing whether this auspicious occasion should occur in front of others, namely family.
But before you plan to answer yes to the sounds of your family's cheers or get down on bended knee as your loved ones look on, you have a lot to consider. You must first think of your partner and his or her needs, advises Bela Gandhi, relationship expert and founder of Smart Dating Academy.
You may love the idea of stealing attention away from your coolest cousins at this year's holiday party, but your partner may picture a less public proposal. Weigh what your partner will love with your own needs to see what will work best for both your personalities. Of course, you have to consider each family's dynamics, too.
Ask yourself how your families feel about your relationship before you take it to the next step in front of their approving or disapproving eyes. "Make sure the family is happy with your union," advises Gandhi, "because you don't want a rotten apple spoiling your engagement joy with a sourpuss face or nasty comments."
But an unsupportive relative or two isn't the only thing to consider when it comes to your family. "If your family isn't the kind to be enthusiastic or if they tend to be cold, proposing in front of them won't be fun," says Gandhi. "If no matter what you say or do for the proposal, you think your family will judge or find fault with it, don't put yourself through that stress."
While you may think you want to share this moment with the people you love most, remember: By proposing in front of family, "you get no alone time to enjoy the moment," says Gandhi, "and believe me, it's a moment you'll remember forever." If you need even the smallest amount of alone time to process the moment, consider a private proposal followed by an organized after-party, where your family can join in on the joyous occasion.


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Q: How to enable multiple users to select different records from same table using MS Access front-end and MariaDB? I have Microsoft Access front-end and MariaDB database. For example lets assume that there is only one table in database. I would like to enable that users can select some records using checkbox column to perform some operation on them. I could just add column 'check' to that table, but if I use connected recordset then particular record is marked for all users as well. If I use disconnected recordset than it is not editable.
What would be best approach to gain that functionality?
I am familiar with both DAO and ADO recordsets so either approach would be useful.

A: The simplest method is to use a multi-select listbox. When ready, build a list of the IDs of the selected rows and open the editing form having a recordsource like this:
Select * From YourTable Where ID In (2,5,7,9,22)

Alternatively, fill a temp table including a checkbox, and let the user check records as needed, then - as above or using an inner join - filter the true table.


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Texas Civil Rights Review
Looking to the Lone Star of Conscience
Court Stays Swearingen Execution, Finds Merit in Allegation of False Testimony
mopress	Uncategorized	 July 21, 2010 1 Minute
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has posted their reasons for granting a stay of execution in the matter of Larry Ray Swearingen.
But the key phrase strikes us as worth quoting: "but for the alleged constitutional error of the State sponsoring the false testimony of Dr. Carter, no reasonable juror could find guilt beyond a reasonable doubt."
In the words of the court:
At trial, [Harris County Medical Examiner] Dr. Carter testified that Trotter's body had been left in the forest for approximately twenty-five days, which was consistent with the State's theory that Swearingen murdered Trotter on
December 8, 1998, and left her body in the forest. In her affidavit, Dr. Carter does not address the correctness of her original testimony based on decomposition and fungal growth, but states that if she had been provided certain additional data, she would have testified that the findings of her autopsy
"are consistent with a date of exposure in the Sam Houston National Forest within fourteen days of discovery, and incompatible with exposure for a longer period of time."
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Every cadet at West Point receives the Character in Sports Index grade each semester.
The Character in Sports Index (CSI) as a grading assessment in athletics. The CSI utilizes criteria based on the competitive sport's mission of developing warrior athletes of character and teams of significance. The criteria include sportsmanship, fair play, mental toughness, perseverance, winning spirit, team player, unselfishness, coachability, positive attitude, teachable spirit and playing ability.
Fair Play Plays within the rules and the spirit of the game.
Never cheats to gain an unfair advantage.
Shows respect for referees and opponents.
Congratulates opponents following either victory or defeat.
Wins or loses with dignity.
Maintains self-control in response to any physical or verbal harassment.
Winning Spirit Stays fully committed to the team's mission.
Starts and finishes all endeavors with positive energy and enthusiasm.
Doesn't allow frustration to undermine confidence or concentration.
Refuses to allow their spirit to be broken.
Unselfishness Places team goals ahead of personal goals and individual statistics.
Willing to play any role in order to make the team better.
Shows respect for teammates on and off the playing field.
Is not jealous of the success of team members.
Takes on additional responsibilities to achieve team goals.
Exemplifies team pride both on and off the playing field.
Teachable Spirit Displays a positive and optimistic attitude every day.
Shows respect for coaches and listens intently to their instructions.
Playing Ability Demonstrates superiority in sports-related skills.
Demonstrates superiority in health-related components of physical fitness.


Carbon CAP is an ambitious project funded under the EU Framework 7 Research Programme. It aims to provide the definitive accounting analysis of the embodied carbon flows across borders that define the difference between domestically produced CO2 emissions and the overall carbon footprint of consumption, and the policies that could act upon consumption choices so as to exert leverage over the entire carbon footprint of European embodied carbon consumption. It achieves the former by bringing together and comparing the three leading global datasets on the topic. 4CMR leads the latter work, leading the work package on consumption-oriented policy instruments.
To stimulate innovative European and international demand side oriented climate policies and services due to the improved shared knowledge base on consumption emissions.
Gap and Response 2 (WP5 and WP6): There is uncertainty about effectiveness, feasibility and added value of consumption based policies, including supply chain and trade related policies. We will provide an in-depth analysis of the feasibilities of consumption based and trade related policies. From this, we will identify the possible policies that are both effective and aligned with e.g. WTO rules. Specific case studies will zoom in on practical improvement options and implications for specific sectors (WP6), which informs WP5 on which implementation problems need to be tackled. WP5 and 6 combined provide input to WP7 about diffusion potentials of improvements.
Gap and Response 3 (WP7): Models handling impact assessments of consumption- and trade based policies are not yet accurate. Related to WP4 the project adjusts and improves some of the most ambitious models capturing the global economy: EXIOMOD, FIDELIO and E3MG/E3ME, so that they can capture side-effects and rebound effects, impacts on trade, investment, etc. Informed by WP5/6 we model impacts of demand side options and measures related to low carbon future scenarios.
Gap and Response 4 (WP8 and WP2): There is no shared view on the added value, implementation challenges and acceptability of demand side tools/policies and related accounts, and no "roadmap" of evolution from production towards consumption-based policies. This project will create an implementation roadmap for consumption based accounts and policies (WP8) endorsed by a critical mass of stakeholders via policy-science brokerage activities (WP2).
The overall aim is summarized in the following figure, and the Work Package structure is shown in the figure after that. The project runs for three years, from October 2013 to September 2016.
Formulate a set of recommended demand-side policy packages that will be used to inform WP6 and scenario development within WP7.
This WP uses the outputs from WP4 to inform a structured and in-depth evaluation of demand-side tools and policies. By tracking emissions from production to consumption, consumption-based accounting methods (reviewed in WP4) offer three promising avenues of policy intervention: (1) targeting the downstream consumer through final consumer oriented policies; (2) targeting groups of primary and intermediary producers and products that meet demand for a particular group of consumers (e.g. producers that meet demand for EU consumption) through border-related and investment policies; and, (3) targeting major, influential companies within supply chains that have the most leverage over emissions through corporate engagement policies. The proposed programme of work, which elaborates on these potential policies, is laid out below. Where relevant we will do cross-checks of our findings with results of the DG CLIMA consumption based accounting service contract, executed by AEA Ricardo.
Corporate engagement policies - e.g. sectoral agreements in embodied emissions intensive sectors, initiatives that encourage the disclosure of supply chain emissions (such as the Carbon Disclosure Project), opportunities to use existing supply chain infrastructure as a conduit for mitigation funding. Here the focus will be on the policy levers that governments can use to support/incentivise/regulate corporate action on driving emissions reductions through supply chains (including indirect policy changes – for example on corporate accounting or reporting, that help other third parties (financial institutions, or NGOs) provide incentives for greater action).
Collaborating with WP4, estimate the potential GHG impact scope of each measure (e.g., EU border taxes on intermediary steel products have the potential to influence X Mt CO2). Use these findings to rank policy interventions according to their potential scope for carbon mitigation. From this, identify a first-screened list of potential policies for further analysis.
This will lead to a 'second-screened' matrix of measures for quantified evaluation.
This task will estimate the consumer and business response to the screened set of demand-side tools. This requires estimating consumers' willingness to adopt lower-carbon like-for-like products or substitutes and/or reduce consumption. Overlaps or complementarities between policies will be outlined. This task inevitably will interact strongly with Task 6.3, where from the perspective of concrete, promising improvement options barriers for diffusion are analysed. Ideally the policies developed in WP5 must overcome such barriers by enhancing the response functions for consumers and businesses.
The assessment will include literature review and a set of interviews with policy makers and consumers conducted by SERI to gauge: (a) factors determining feasibility and perceived impact of past and current policies; and (b) likely responses to new policy measures. DIW Berlin will draw in additional insights from behavioural economics, and knowledge of drivers of demand change, to contribute to the estimation of how to aggregate the influence of policies on demand for goods and services in a selection of value chains. A conceptual framework for this aggregation will be developed, with uncertainties clearly highlighted. Development and discussion will draw on ways in which uncertainty around combined impacts of policies are dealt with in other areas of decision making.
4CMR with IPTS and DIW will make some initial estimates of price impacts of policies on on intermediate goods (focusing on steel, cement, petroleum and chemicals); additional information comes from the first modelling round in WP7. DIW with 4CMR will also assess corporate response to business engagement & supply chain policies and incentives for low-carbon innovation (in product and service design or production processes along the value chain). The impact of this combined (consumer+corporate) demand on low-carbon innovation will be estimated from the available data on drivers of innovation, taking into account sector, and industry specific factors (as innovation in chemicals is very different from innovation in fast-moving consumer electronics).