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Royal success for teen entrepreneur
By Darren Lum
There has been a buzz on social media for the Highlands' newest young entrepreneur Morgan Burke since she exhibited at at the 95th annual Royal Agricultural Winter Fair held from Nov. 3 to 12 at Exhibition Place in Toronto.
The Grade 10 student is the owner and founder of The Birds and the Bees, a business that specializes in bees and wax products.
Late last week, there were more than 300 supportive and complimentary comments posted to the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair's Facebook page for Morgan, who they said was one of the youngest exhibitors ever. Burke only saw them – at the behest of her mother – a week ago was taken aback.
"I was amazed. I didn't think that it would grow so quickly," she said.
The growth of her business was set into hyperdrive when it was included among the more than 300 commercial exhibitors at the Royal.
Days later she was still blown away when she recounted her city experience.
With more than 300,000 visitors, the Royal offered a great business opportunity, but also provided the teen a chance to meet with people and to educate others about her passion for honey production and to learn from others.
"You get to talk to all these different people from different places. I met a couple of beekeepers. They gave me some tips," she said, referring to improving harvesting and caring for bees, and ensuring hives are healthy.
The Royal almost didn't happen for Morgan, who said the cost to exhibit was prohibitive.
When The Royal's commercial exhibit manager Heather Sommer learned of Morgan's storyshe worked with the Burkes to diminish the challenge.
With more than a thousand applications to review to exhibit commercially at The Royal, there is an important process required to have one of the spots for prospective agricultural and agri-education exhibit space.
Sommer said said she learned about Morgan from the Burkes, Highlands and area farmers' markets, and the Echo article published in August.
"What we learned about this young entrepreneur was impressive. It became quite clear that Morgan herself was very different than our standard applicants," Sommer wrote in a prepared statement. "Part of the intrigue was her age. At 15, Morgan's dedication towards learning about bees, educating people about bees and pollination, the how-to aspects of setting up a registered business, attending seminars, learning how to make all of the products is something quite remarkable! This was definitely something that needed to be included in our event."
The Royal also wanted Morgan to be included in the event because of her goal to educate is as important as her commercial goals.
"Her story, her purpose and her drive was a key factor in our consideration for re-evaluating costs. As this was a blended artisanal craft, food and most importantly an education booth, the standard fixed commercial rate did not fit entirely. Instead we were able to work within Morgan's budget for this special booth space," Sommer wrote in a prepared statement.
She continue, saying Morgan was well-received by everyone that purchased from her and, in particular, to other young people.
"She absolutely inspired with her own journey story, and spoke to countless students who were here on educational school trips. We hope that the experience here at The Royal, education gained, and funds earned will help her excel in this business adventure. We feel very fortunate to be a small part in what we hope is a successful, growing agricultural based business," she wrote.
This accommodation and how she was treated will never be forgotten by the still stunned Morgan.
"I was so surprised by how much support I was getting from everyone. It is such a big community. I never thought I'd see myself in the shoes of a vendor at the Royal Winter Fair. It was really amazing to go. I've never been a vendor at a such a large show. It was a big show for us to go down," she said.
The Royal's CEO Charlie Johnstone personally presented Burke with a large ribbon for earning the Staff's Pick for best in customer service and Best Display. Burke received the honour a few days before the end of the event.
Johnstone, who responded in an email, said he learned about the Haliburton teen from staff, as they "found her knowledgeable, enthusiastic and engaging."
"The Royal is the forefront opportunity to showcase innovative artisanal agricultural based products. The Royal proudly supports entrepreneurs in reaching their business goals. As an entrepreneur myself I understand the time and sacrifice required to develop a business and build it to its full potential. Entrepreneurs and small businesses are the future of our great country," he said. "As a father of four I have a personal vested interest in helping young adults. If sharing my journey and experiences can assist a young entrepreneurs like Morgan than I'm more than happy to do so. I look forward to watching Morgan's journey."
Johnstone gave her contact information and encouraged her to ask questions when possible.
Morgan is thankful to Sommer and Johnstone.
She said up to this point in her business career, the largest show has ever exhibited at were the various farmers markets she has sold her products at this past summer in the Highlands and in the area.
She is in disbelief about coming from the rural markets to end up in Toronto recently.
"It's hard to adjust from coming from a small town. I had only done local markets to this big demographic of people in Toronto. It took a while to sink in. It's hard to believe," she said.
Sales were brisk. She easily doubled her total profits for the year at close to a week show in Toronto.
Halfway through the week, they ran out of products.
Her parents helped. Her mother stayed with the booth during the week while her father drove the teen back to Haliburton to go to school and to prepare products to take back when she returned Friday.
While at home for school, Morgan worked from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m. each evening to replenish stock. Her best-seller at the fair was her Monkey Farts lip balm. She sold out of lotion bars, and she almost completely sold out of honey. With just 12 500 gram jars left and a Christmas rush expected, she has already been in discussion with local beekeepers to help her bridge the gap until the spring when she will harvest honey again.
It wasn't all work and no play for Burke, who watched the rodeo on the last day of the fair.
"That was kind of my gift to myself," she said.
Burke is very aware of the support and help she has received this year.
She credits her parents, Darcy and Donna for their help from the beginning and, most recently, at the fair.
"I couldn't have done it without them," she said.
The exposure at the event is already paying off for the teen.
In addition to a Toronto store called York wanting to sell her honey, she has lined up to sell her products at 2017 ONA Biennial Convention in Toronto from Dec. 5 to 7.
Burke said she is doing her best fitting in attending and completing school work to find time to develop her new website (thebirdsandthebeesonline.ca) using an online resource with a scheduled launch for Nov. 25.
In addition to the aforementioned and her parents, Burke is appreciative for the people that have supported her such as Terry Blair, who custom designed and constructed the product display cases for the fair for free and for the Haliburton County Development Corporation and its general manager Andy Campbell, who secured Morgan's first business loan.
The teen doesn't have a specific end or ultimate goal when it comes to her business except to grow.
"I'm hoping this business will fund my future ... just whatever I'd like to do in the future, whether it be travel or education," she said.
One possibility is to travel to Australia and be able to learn more about Manuka honey, which is highly regarded for its health benefits and quality.
Her advice to other young entrepreneurs interested in running their own business: you must remember success won't happen very quickly and requires work, whether it's marketing or taking chance like going to the fair in Toronto.
"When you get into business it is a lot of work and you have to be prepared for the amount of work. There's always going to be negative people. That's what I found. I just have to take what they're telling you and kind of show them that they're wrong," she said.
Note: her Facebook business page is called The Birds and The Bees. Find her on Instagram at thebirdsandthebeesonline.


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Discovering Heirlooms
Discovering Heirloom Tomatoes
– A guest post by Elizabeth Bernard Higgs
Meet the Paul Robeson Tomato.
I first saw this purple beauty (named after the great American singer and actor) while browsing through a specialty food store. I had never seen anything like it in my life. You see, I am the product of a supermarket upbringing. My mother was and is a wonderful cook and fed my sisters and me tasty nutritious meals made from scratch all my childhood, but everything we ate came from the grocery store. So my experiences with tomatoes were limited to the hybrids that had been developed to ripen at the same time, to have thick skin, and to turn uniformly red, the latter mutation being the primary culprit in the crime of rotten-tasting tomatoes. Tomatoes were one of my least favorite foods.
I didn't know what to think of this purple tomato I found. I mean, it was purple! But it just looked and felt so perfectly ripe that I decided to give it a chance, and I took it home. As soon as I sliced it open, I could smell the delicious aroma, and when I took a bite, I discovered a rich, smoky sweetness that I had no idea was even remotely possible in a tomato. I was hooked. And so began my adventures with heirloom tomatoes.
I was stunned to discover that tomatoes come in all shapes and sizes, and in addition to red and purple, there are pink, yellow, green, orange, and even white varieties! It wasn't long before I was scouting out seeds to buy, and that's when I discovered that there are literally millions of varieties of species of fruits and vegetables being grown on a small scale around the world.
How did all these varieties develop? They all started as wild plants. But from these wild plants, farmers and gardeners, who, for millennia, fed their families from their own backyards, began to select their plants (by saving seeds from the best plants) for hardiness, yields, and resistance to pests and disease. In doing so, a gardener in Argentina creates an heirloom particularly suited to its location and climate, while a gardener growing the same species in Minnesota ends up with an heirloom that looks nothing like its Argentinian cousin. One species of plant can produce an amazing variety of fruit! This photo is an outstanding representation of the Art and Beauty and Vibrancy of God's Creation. These are ALL eggplants!
How fortunate we are to be the recipients of such an incredible living legacy! People all around the world, through love and nurture and necessity, have given to us a variety of foods that is almost unbelievable. Let us not abandon this legacy, but instead pass it on to our own children, adding our own little bit of flavor to the mix.
The World's Seed Supply
While flavor and curiosity might be the primary reason people begin their adventures in heirloom gardening and seed saving, another, more ominous reason has prompted widespread renewed interest in heirlooms.
Beginning in 1980, when the Supreme Court ruled that living beings may be patented, giant agri-chemical companies such as Monsanto, Dupont and Syngenta have been buying up hundreds of seed companies in the United States with the sole purpose of limiting varieties of seeds available to the public.
Even if Monsanto alters only a single gene in a plant, out of tens of thousands, the company may be granted a patent, and that seed becomes unavailable to farmers and gardeners. The only version of that variety available for purchase will be the genetically modified version of the plant. In most cases, the varieties simply disappear. "The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that about three-quarters of the original varieties of agricultural crops have been lost from farm fields since 1900." A century ago there were 15,000 varieties of apples growing in the United States. But in 2013, only eleven varieties are regularly available in grocery stores, and the bland Red Delicious variety accounts for 60% of apples grown in the United States.
This trend is accelerating at a rapid pace as giant firms gain greater and greater control over our seed stocks, accompanied by the inevitable rise in prices. There is a high premium to be paid for GM seeds. Farmers growing Monsanto's SmartStax variety are paying four times more for their corn seed than those using conventional seed a decade ago, and from 1995 to 2011 the price of cotton seed increased 516%.
Monsanto, Dupont, and Syngenta control 53% of the entire global seed market. The top ten seed companies worldwide control 74% of the seed market, and they are using patent protection to limit the availability of seeds, virtually ensuring the loss of thousands of varieties.
Agri-chemical firms place restrictions on how their seeds may be used, for instance, banning the saving of seeds. Perhaps the most egregious restriction: purchasers are explicitly forbidden from doing any research on the crops grown from these seeds, without the permission of the seed maker. This permission is granted only with many strings attached, and certain types of research are suppressed entirely.
Plants that have been modified to withstand Monsanto's Round-Up Weed Killer are sprayed with huge amounts of glyphosate, and growing resistance to the chemical by the very weeds it is meant to kill resulted in 2008 in a 26% greater use of pesticides on GM crops than on conventional crops. When you consider that in 2010, 86% of corn and 93% of soybeans were genetically modified varieties, this situation entails that hundreds of millions of pounds of additional pesticides were dumped onto food crops in this country, pesticides that find their way into our lakes, streams, rivers, water supplies and, yes, our food. These companies sell seeds in order to sell the poison that goes along with them.
There is no scientific consensus on whether these plants are safe for us to eat, because not enough published research exists to paint a clear picture of the effects of such high rates of pesticide use or of the introduction of glyphosate and other poisons into the seeds themselves.
The Importance of Plant Diversity
What has developed from this concentration of seed ownership in the hands of so few companies is an agricultural monoculture in which very few varieties of plant species are grown, making these species much more vulnerable to destruction by pests and diseases. The very thing that has allowed the eggplant to be grown around the world and to produce fruit with such a wide variety of shapes and sizes and colors IS its genetic diversity. It is not fear mongering to state that a narrowing gene pool puts living organisms at greater risk for extinction; it is simply a statement of fact. One variety of a fruit might be vulnerable to a certain fungus, whereas other varieties in the same species are not threatened by it, and so the species survives. The smaller and smaller the number of varieties of agricultural crops shrinks, the closer we come to the possibility of complete crop failure.
We can do our part to keep our food abundant. Grow tried and true heirloom varieties. When your plants thrive, SAVE YOUR SEEDS! These heirloom varieties represent the storehouse of thousands of years of human sweat and labor and love. They are a living legacy from our ancestors, and they are the future of the real food movement. We should treasure this legacy.
It is true that small-scale farming and backyard gardening can never feed the seven billion people who live on this planet, and we should be grateful to agri-businesses that have made large-scale agriculture available to regions of the world that have previously experienced frequent periods of famine, but until these same businesses come to see that limiting our seed supplies and poisoning our food is unnecessary and detrimental to our planet, our only recourse is to limit our exposure to these frankenfoods whenever possible. Heirloom plants are the very best option available to us.
One of the best outlets for heirloom seeds is the Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Co. This family-run enterprise offers 1,400 varieties, all pure and natural, with no GM seeds. Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds are available locally at Marsolan Feed and Seed. Owner Harvey Marsolan has decades of experience helping new gardeners master the art of growing. Please visit his store at 316 E. Gibson St. in downtown Covington. He will be more than happy to help you get your garden growing!
Elizabeth Bernard Higgs – February 23, 2013 – Covington, LA

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Pennsylvania School District Arms Students With Rocks To Stop School Shootings, Yes Seriously
By Mindy Fischer on March 24, 2018	alert, ALICE, barricade doors with desks and chairs, Blue Mountain School District in Schuylkill County, children, classrooms, counter, David Helsel, empower our students, evacuate, found a solution to combat gun violence, gun control, gun violence, Helsel, inform, kids, lockdown, mass shootings, passive targets, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania school district, Pennsylvania school district arms students with rocks to stop school shootings, protect the students, protocol, rocks, rocks in the classrooms, school schootings, schools, staff, stones, students, students lie down, superintendent, teachers, the rocks are a last resort, this is just insane, throw things at the shooter, yes seriously Activism, education, Firearms, gun control, kids, NRA, Partisan Politics and Policy, Politics, Uncategorized, Weird News
Come on Pennsylvania. This is just insane. A Pennsylvania school district thinks they have found the solution to combat gun violence in their schools. They're giving the students rocks. Yes, rocks. According to the superintendent of the Blue Mountain School District in Schuylkill County Pennsylvania, David Helsel, buckets of river stones have been placed in […]
Students Who Walked Out Of Their Schools To Protest Gun Violence Are Being Punished, Some With Corporal Punishment
By Mindy Fischer on March 16, 2018	being treated unfairly, Brandywine Heights High School, children, corporal punishment, demand common sense gun control, detension, discipline, for expressing their political beliefs, Greenbiar Public School, gun control, gun violence, kids, mass shooting, massacre, Park Hill High School, Pennridge High School, protest, protesting, punishment, school shooting, schools, some schools are not punishing students, some with corporal punishment, students, students who walked out of their schools to protest gun violence are being punished, suspended, the walk-out for gun control, ThinkProgress, walked out of their classes Activism, education, gun control, NRA, Partisan Politics and Policy, Politics, Resist, Uncategorized, Women's issues
Some schools are now punishing students who participated in the walk-out for gun control on Wednesday. One school is even using corporal punishment. On Wednesday, students at thousands of schools across the country walked out of their classes to protest gun violence and demand common sense gun control. The protest marked the one month point […]
Barron Trump's School Calls On Trump To Do Something On Gun Control
By Mindy Fischer on March 15, 2018	arming teachers, Baltimore Sun, Barron, Barron Trump's school calls on Trump to do something on gun control, big idea to arm teachers, children, congress, dangerous, education, gun control, gun violence, kids, legislation, mass shootings, measures to reduce gun violence in our society, open letter, president's son, private school, resist, robuts system of registration and background checks, school administrators, schools, schools shootings, son, St. Andrews Episcopal, stronger mental health services, students, support gun control measures, teachers, weapons capable of firing a vast number of deadly shots, what we do not need is to arm our teachers with guns Activism, Donald Trump, education, gun control, Partisan Politics and Policy, Politics, Resist, Trump administration, Trump family, Trump lies, Uncategorized, Washington, Women's issues
I've been wondering why reporters haven't been asking Trump and Sarah Huckabee Sanders whether or not Barron's school agreed with arming teachers. Now we know. They definitely do NOT support Trump's plan. On Wednesday, the private school that Donald Trump's son attends joined with other area schools to push the Trump administration to do something […]
Betsy DeVos Visits Stoneman Douglas High School, Refuses To Talk To Students -VIDEO
By Mindy Fischer on March 7, 2018	arming teachers, Betsy DeVos, Betsy DeVos visits Stoneman Douglas High School, Carly Novell, cheap photo-op, completely tone-deaf, DeVos, don't understand the point of her being here, Education Secretary, ended abruptly, florida, gun control, gun violence, high school kids, kids, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, mass shootings, mass slaughter, MSD, press conference, refuses to talk to students, school shootings, schools, Secretary of Education, student reporters, students, teachers, this whole event was an epic fail, thoughts and prayers, Trump administration, visit to the school, young adults education, Firearms, gun control, kids, NRA, Partisan Politics and Policy, Politics, Resist, Trump administration, Trump supporters, Uncategorized, Videos
"I thought that she would at least give us her 'thoughts and prayers,' but she refused to even meet/speak with students. I don't understand the point of her being here." This entire administration is completely tone-deaf. On Wednesday, the Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, visited Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the site of a mass […]
Dem Governor Confronts Trump To His Face About His Asinine Idea To Arm Teachers -VIDEO
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It's nice to see someone finally tell him to his face that his idea is bullshit. Especially with an idea as stupid as arming teachers. Trump may not have liked it. But it definitely needed to be said. In the wake of the horrific mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida this […]
Combat Veteran Makes A Perfect Case For NOT Arming Teachers
By Mindy Fischer on February 22, 2018	adrenaline, allowing teachers to be armed is an asinine idea, arming teachers, Army combat veteran, chaos, CharlotteFive.com, Combat veteran makes a perfect case for NOT arming teachers, dangerous, education, fear, giving teachers guns would result in more innocent lives lost, good guy with a gun stopping a bad guy with a gun, gun control, gun violence, gunfire, guns, guns in schools, I've been shot in combat, Martin, Martin was shot, mass shooting, Matt Martin, school shootings, schools, students, teachers, what if the teacher is shot, you don't know how people will respond in life and death situations education, Firearms, gun control, kids, NRA, Partisan Politics and Policy, Politics, Resist, Right wing lies, Trump lies, Uncategorized, Women's issues
"I've been shot in combat. And as a veteran, I'm telling you: allowing teachers to be armed is an asinine idea." On Tuesday, CharlotteFive.com published a great piece written by an Army combat veteran, who says that arming teachers is a very bad idea. Matt Martin was shot in combat. And he believes that giving […]
The NRA Spent $10,000 To Train Florida High School Shooter
By Mindy Fischer on February 21, 2018	CBS, children, Cruz trained to shoot air rifles made for target shooting, fighting against gun control, florida, Friends of the NRA, grant, JROTC, kids, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, marksmanship team, mass shootings, money that came directly from the NRA, MSD, Nikolas Cruz, NRA, school shootings, schools, shooter, shooting, slaughtered, the NRA spent $10, ThinkProgress, trained the shooter how to use his weapon, youth shooting sports education, Firearms, gun control, kids, NRA, Partisan Politics and Policy, Politics, Resist, Uncategorized, Women's issues
The NRA gave a $10,000 donation to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School marksmanship team which trained the shooter how to use his weapon. Before Nikolas Cruz killed 17 children and teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School; he was trained to shoot his weapon by money that came directly from the NRA. In 2016, […]
Fox & Friends: Beware Of Schools With Liberal Bias Who Want To Feed Kids -VIDEO
By Mindy Fischer on September 1, 2017	after-school care, back-to-school, beliefs, beware of schools with liberal bias who want to feed kids, children, climate change, Conservatives, curriculum, disturbing, families, feeding kids, feeding kids meals, Fox & Friends, fox news, Gunlock, health care services, irrational, kids, liberal bias, mother, parental rights, parenting, parents, schools, schools teaching kids, students, take her kids to the doctor, teachers, transgender issues, without food at home Conservative Logic, Conservatives, education, Fox News, kids, Partisan Politics and Policy, Politics, Right Wing Hatred, Videos
This is disturbing. These are actually the beliefs of people who watch Fox & Friends, Trump included. On Friday morning, Trump's favorite morning show aired a disturbing back-to-school segment. Julie Gunlock, who is a senior fellow at the Independent Women's Forum, appeared on Fox & Friends to warn parents about the evil liberal bias in […]
Walmart Forced To Apologize For Using 'Own The School Year' Sign To Sell Guns
By Mindy Fischer on August 9, 2017	advertisement, advertising, back to school shopping, Charles Crowson, children, education, glorify guns in schools, gun control, gun safety, gun violence, guns, kids, large gun display, major backlash, own the school year like a hero, retailers, school shootings, schools, selling guns, shoot the school up, sign, students, summer break, they had the wrong store, Walmart, Walmart forced to apologize for using own the school year sign to sell guns education, Firearms, gun control, kids, NRA
This is almost too disgusting to believe it's true. But tragically, it is. According to Everytown For Gun Safety, there have been 233 school shootings in the United States since 2013. And that doesn't include plots that didn't come to fruition. School shootings are a major problem in this country. So you would think that […]


Marriage is a God ordained act in which a male and female come together and become one. The Word of God has many Bible verses about Marriage, not only talking about it, but giving us a look at how marriage is suppose to be, and how we as husband and wife are to treat each other.
Unfortunately in today's society marriage is no longer what God had originally intended, and the very definition of marriage as set out by God himself has been completely changed and desecrated. We as a nation and as individuals, need to take a look at these Bible verses about marriage, and begin to let them shape our marriages, and shape how we view marriage overall.
Today I would like to give you 10 Bible verses that will teach you or remind you what marriage is suppose to be, as set forth by God.
1 Corinthians 7:1-5 "Now regarding the questions you asked in your letter. Yes, it is good to abstain from sexual relations. But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.
The husband should fulfill his wife's sexual needs, and the wife should fulfill her husband's needs. 4 The wife gives authority over her body to her husband, and the husband gives authority over his body to his wife.
These Bible verses about marriage speak volumes as to how marriage today should be, and was meant to be. Marriage the way God intended it is supposed to be a life long journey; a close bond shared between 1 woman and 1 man. This journey is to have God in the center of it, and both partners are to uplift and encourage each other, and bring edification to each others lives.
The marriage that is talked about in the Bible is suppose to be 2 people dying to their own desires and instead working to please and fulfill the desires of their spouses. Marriage will not be easy because that which was created by God, must be destroyed by satan, and so problems and issues will come your way but, those who lean on and depend on the strength of the Lord will endure and will develop a great and satisfying marriage.


Foreign Minister Maas travelled to the United Nations headquarters in New York on Monday to promote Germany's candidacy for a non permanent seat on the UN Security Council. The non permanent members are to be elected on 8 June. This is Maas' second visit to the UN headquarters on the East River since taking up office. The German Foreign Minister took a clear message with him for his talks with Foreign Ministers and UN Ambassadors from around the world: Germany is ready and willing to shoulder greater international responsibility.
Whether it be humanitarian assistance, disarmament or climate protection: Germany has a strong position in the UN thanks to its great commitment. Not only is Germany the world's second-largest donor of humanitarian assistance, it is also one of the largest contributors to the UN budget. Furthermore, Germany plays a crucial role as a troop contributing nation to a large number of peacekeeping missions.
As a member of the Security Council, Germany wants to work to ensure that the organ remains strong and effective in times of multiple international crises. Germany believes it is especially important that binding international rules that apply equally to all states are strengthened and further developed. The leitmotifs of Germany's candidacy are peace, justice, innovation and partnership.


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require 'test_helper'

class AdminControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase
  test '#index redirects to login page if user is not logged in' do
    logout
    use_https
    get :index
    assert_redirected_to admin_login_path
  end

  test '#index requires https' do
    use_https(false)
    get :index
    assert_redirected_to admin_root_url(protocol: 'https')
  end

  test "#index redirects to login page if old user session exists but user doesn't exist anymore" do
    user = users(:regular_user_with_no_competitions)
    login_as(user)
    user.destroy!
    get :index
    assert_redirected_to admin_login_path
  end

  test '#index redirects to dashboard from session' do
    user = users(:regular_user_with_two_competitions)
    login_as(user)

    competition = user.competitions.first
    session[:competition_id] = competition.id

    get :index
    assert_redirected_to admin_competition_dashboard_index_path(competition.id)
  end

  test "#index redirects to users' last competition if it exists and no competition is set in the session" do
    user = users(:regular_user_with_two_competitions)
    login_as(user)

    get :index
    competition = user.policy.competitions.last
    assert_redirected_to admin_competition_dashboard_index_path(competition.id)
  end

  test '#index redirects to user page if user has no competitions' do
    user = users(:regular_user_with_no_competitions)
    login_as(user)
    get :index
    assert_redirected_to edit_admin_user_path(user.id)
  end

  test '#index redirects to user page if user is not allowed to login to any competitions' do
    user = users(:regular_user_with_two_competitions)
    login_as(user)
    UserPolicy.any_instance.expects(:login?).with(anything).at_least_once.returns(false)
    get :index
    assert_redirected_to edit_admin_user_path(user.id)
  end

  test '#index allowed if user can #login? to competition' do
    user = users(:regular_user_with_no_competitions)
    login_as(user)
    competition = Competition.first
    UserPolicy.any_instance.expects(:login?).with(competition).at_least_once.returns(true)
    get :index, params: { competition_id: competition.id }
    assert_redirected_to admin_competition_dashboard_index_path(competition.id)
  end

  test '#index renders 403 if user cannot #login? to competition' do
    user = users(:regular_user_with_no_competitions)
    login_as(user)
    competition = Competition.first
    UserPolicy.any_instance.expects(:login?).with(competition).at_least_once.returns(false)
    get :index, params: { competition_id: competition.id }
    assert_response :forbidden
  end

  test '#index redirects back to login if user is inactive' do
    user = users(:admin)
    user.update(active: false)
    login_as(user)
    get :index, params: { competition_id: Competition.first }
    assert_redirected_to admin_login_path
  end

  test "#index redirects to last competition if user session has old competition that doesn't exist anymore" do
    user = users(:regular_user_with_two_competitions)
    login_as(user)

    competition = user.competitions.first
    session[:competition_id] = competition.id
    competition.destroy!

    get :index
    competition = user.competitions.last
    assert_redirected_to admin_competition_dashboard_index_path(competition.id)
  end

  test "#index redirects to last competition if user doesn't have permission to competition from session" do
    user = users(:regular_user_with_two_competitions)
    login_as(user)

    competition = user.competitions.first
    session[:competition_id] = competition.id
    user.permissions.where(competition: competition).each(&:destroy!)

    get :index
    competition = user.competitions.last
    assert_redirected_to admin_competition_dashboard_index_path(competition.id)
  end

  test "#index redirects to last competition if user is admin and doesn't have any explicit permissions" do
    user = users(:admin)
    login_as(user)
    user.permissions.each(&:destroy!)
    get :index
    assert_redirected_to admin_competition_dashboard_index_path(user.policy.competitions.last.id)
  end

  test 'forms contain CSRF tokens' do
    @controller = Admin::UsersController.new
    login_as(users(:regular_user_with_no_competitions))

    with_csrf_protection do
      get :edit, params: { id: users(:regular_user_with_no_competitions).id }
      assert_match(/<meta name="csrf-param" content="authenticity_token" \/>/, @response.body)
      assert_match(/<meta name="csrf-token" content="[^"]+" \/>/, @response.body)
    end
  end

  test 'POST fails if CSRF token is missing' do
    @controller = Admin::UsersController.new
    login_as(users(:regular_user_with_no_competitions))

    with_csrf_protection do
      assert_raises ActionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken do
        post :edit, params: {
          id: users(:regular_user_with_no_competitions),
          user: {
            permission_level: User::PERMISSION_LEVELS.values.max
          }
        }
      end
    end
  end
end

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Did EFI Make NASCAR Engines More Reliable?
2016-12-16 Diandra Electronic Fuel Injection, Engines, Graphs and Charts, Manufacturers, math 0
In 2012, NASCAR moved from carburetors to Electronic Fuel Injection (EFI). This made people like me happy because my friends who denigrated NASCAR as hopelessly outdated and behind the times have one less argument to use against me. There were many purposes for the switch to EFI: one was precisely as I note above: to be more like current on-the-road cars.
But another goal was to increase the efficiency and durability of the engines. Although switching technologies always costs money, the idea is that it will pay off in the long run in fewer blown engines and thus lower ongoing engine costs.
Did it?
Wait… 2012? And You're Just Now Getting Around to It?
And there's a very good reason. People tend to think change happens overnight.
It doesn't.
Not with government, not with business, not with education and certainly not with sports. Bear with me: I will show you that I was right to wait.
CAVEATS: Scientific for "The Big BUTs"
I got my info from two places: the wonderful, always reliable racing-reference.info and the equally wonderful and reliable team/driver pages at jayski.com. Many thanks to the folks who maintain these pages for a great source of information.
I defined an engine failure as being when a car left the race early and the official reason was 'engine'. I realize that this might miss some things like overheating, but I figure the numbers are small there.
I looked at data from 2008-2016. I went back to 2008 because Toyota entered in 2007. Going back further would've complicated everything and I gave Toyota that first year to make a few mistakes. I couldn't get around Dodge leaving, but you'll see how that plays out.
There are a couple cases where it wasn't clear whose engine a car was running because of shenanigans. (It took me four tries to spell that word correctly!) For example, one year, they ran 10 races for Danica Patrick in the 10 car, which used a Hendrick motor and the rest of the time, they ran ECR. I tried to delineate these cases, but there were a few I couldn't tease out.
IMPORTANT: Don't use this post to suggest that some engine manufacturers are less reliable than others. I haven't factored in here the number of cars each manufacturer supplied engines for.
Let's say one company had 20 engine failures and one had 4. You'd think the first company had really crappy engines.
But if I tell you that the first company supplied engines for 10 teams and second only supplied two teams… They have the same percentage failure. All I'm looking at here is the effect of EFI on the sport as a whole.
Although I spent so dang-nabbed much time putting in the data that you can bet you're gonna see more on this.
Let's Go to the Data
Up, Down or No Change?
Let's start with the obvious: Did the number of engine failures go up, down or remain the same after EFI was introduced in 2012?
Aha! Hopefully you now see why I waited to do this analysis. Interestingly, there was a pretty substantial increase in engine failures in 2012 and 2013, the first two years of EFI. If I'd run this analysis then, I would tell you that the effort has failed and engines have actually become less reliable and are costing teams more money.
But by 2014, it looked like teams were figuring this EFI thing out. The numbers of engine failures not only decreased but is now well below where they were in 2008-2011.
So the answer is: Yes, but!
EFI did make engines more reliable, but it took a few years to do it. Teams blew more motors in those two years, but these guys are pretty darn smart, so they've got it under control.
So We're Done, Right?
When you get something that obviously pretty and pleasing, a scientist's first inclination is to wonder what she did wrong.
We're professional pessimists. It's part of the essential nature of science: question everything until you've questioned it so much you can't help but believe it's true.
Remember: It is impossible to prove anything is true. It is only possible to prove the alternatives false.
So I dove a little deeper.
What if Failures were Mostly Due to Specific Suppliers?
I have a lot of conversation with myself. What if, I asked myself, some engine suppliers didn't experience any increase in failures, and others had a lot?
So I re-ran the data and looked at the major engine suppliers. We're talking: Penske/Penske-Jasper; Gibbs Racing, Earnhardt Childress Racing Engines (ECR), Hendrick, Roush-Yates (and Yates/Roush). Here's the comparison:
You'll notice that the overall trend is about the same: Increases in 2012-13 and then decreases. I looked at the percentages and the major suppliers make up anywhere from 40-60% of failures. The minor suppliers make up 40%-60% of failures. (Since there are more engines running that are from major suppliers, this does say that that major suppliers tend to be more reliable. That's a qualitative assessment, not a numerical one at the moment.)
What About Teams?
Major Teams tend to use major suppliers — but what if some of the lower-level teams were skewing the results because they were having a lot of failures, even with good engines?
Full-Time vs. All Teams
I did the analysis again and excluded any team that didn't run full-time for two reasons
Perhaps part-time teams had a disproportionate share of engine failures.
Part-time teams tend to use the second-tier engine suppliers. Perhaps the second-tier engine suppliers have a higher failure rate.
This was interesting. There were far fewer blown engines in the part-time teams than I expected. There are a couple possible reasons for this:
There are fewer part-time teams and each one runs fewer races, so there will be fewer overall failures just by percentage.
Budgets for these teams tend to be low. Even though they may use second-tier suppliers, they are also WAY more careful than full-time teams competing for wins and championships. They get more races out of each engine and they just can't afford to push it to the edge the way the Hendricks and Gibbs teams can.
Major vs. Minor Teams
Let's look at only full-time teams, but let's now exclude those teams that aren't realistically in the running for a championship. I'm taking a few liberties here in including Gibbs, Roush, Childress, Hendrick, Petty, Penske, Woods Bros, Stewart Haas, Penske, MWR. You can argue that MWR, since it doesn't even exist anymore, shouldn't be included. But they were competitive at one point, so I included them. I didn't include Red Bull, which we can argue about, but that only changes numbers by 2-3.
The overall trend continues to hold here, but it's not as pronounced. Clearly, the major teams (who are or get their engines from major suppliers) didn't suffer as much when the changeover to EFI happened.
Look at the shift from 2011-2012:
Major Teams: 22 to 30 (136% increase)
All Full-Time Teams: 36 to 53 (147% increase)
Minor Full-Time Teams: 14 to 28 (200% increase)
A Corollary: How NASCAR Has Changed
A corollary is a sort of side road that is related to the main road. In science, the corollaries are often more interesting.
The results I showed you above sent me down a side road. I wondered: If the smaller engine suppliers were hit harder by EFI, did it make an impact on them in terms of their business?
Here's the table of engine failures by manufacturer per year. Again, do NOT use this to say that Chevy engines are less reliable. There are more overall Chevies in the field.
Obvious things
It's a messy chart. Tell me. I had to try making sense of it.
The red is Chevy, the blue is Ford, the green is Dodge and the Yellow Toyota.
There are a number of smaller suppliers that have provided different brands of engines in small quantities to teams throughout the years.
Note specifically Ernie Elliott (Chase's uncle!) who was Dodge supplier and had to switch when Dodge withdrew.
It's a messy chart. So let's try looking at the data a different way. Let's break it out by major teams and remove some of the noise. See if things get any clearer.
What we see from this is a little more illuminating.
Dodge's withdrawal is evident here – to the benefit of Roush-Yates
They went from two suppliers (GEM/RPM and Penske) to one when GEM (aka Evernham Motorsports) folded
Penske switched to Ford when Dodge pulled out and now they use Roush-Yates engines like all Ford teams.
Chevy has their own internal rivalry – the only manufacturer to have two major engine suppliers.
Toyota has gone from three suppliers to one.
Gibbs used to make their own engines, then merged their efforts with TRD in 2012.
Triad started getting into Cup engines shortly after Toyota got into NASCAR, but they no longer supply engines at the Cup level, focusing now primarily on Truck engines
To put it bluntly, engine development has become too expensive for the little guys. I was listening to Kenny Wallace yesterday talk about how innovation was killing some areas of smaller levels of racing because you're asking a guy who makes $40k a year to spend $20k making his own engine. People think crate motors are somehow low level, but Wallace argued they are the possible salvation because then the guy with the most money doesn't always win.
He ended by saying that innovation belonged in NASCAR, not the short-track.
So what I found was doubly ironic: engine development in NASCAR has gotten so expensive that we're down to a handful (well, four) engine suppliers, plus a few people who provide an engine here or there to a team that can't afford to go with one of the big timers.
If you look at the smaller companies, like Triad, Ernie Elliott, Joey Arrington (which is now Race Engines Plus), Pro Motor Engines (which may or may not be the same thing as Pro Engine Motors?), they are doing well in lower-level series from ARCA and Trucks to other types of racing like NHRA.
But they aren't supplying in Cup anymore.
The Economics of Engine Supply and Demand Have Changed
If you're going to plow all the money into research and development, testing, and developing crew members to work with teams using your engines, you have to have enough volume to justify the money. No longer can a team build its own engines and be competitive. (Heck, even Gibbs gave up and the other teams spun off entire companies just for engines.)
The other side of this is that if you can't afford one of the major suppliers, you probably haven't much of a chance to win. This isn't just due to EFI (or technology in general). It's an overall economic issue that NASCAR has recognized by introducing the Charter system.
It's just the way things are these days. (But a reminder as you're doing your holiday shopping: Support the people who support NASCAR!)
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NASCAR and Women in Motorsport
2019-01-04 Diandra Diversity, Drivers, Money, Racing 1
It's no secret that there aren't a lot of women in motorsports, especially at the top levels. Why? And is that a problem? The Numbers Let's take a look at how many women there are […]
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Knowing Pit Road Speed in the Rain
2014-06-24 Diandra Pit Stops, Rain Tires, Road America, Rotational Motion, Tires 0
This weekend, we learned that the real weather challenge for the NASCAR Nationwide Series isn't rain. It's not enough rain. It wasn't raining hard enough to put on rain tires, but it wasn't quite dry enough to safely race on slicks. (I've written before about why racing in the rain is hard.) But they managed to pull it off, put on a great show and @Brendan62 finally got that long-sought-after win. […]
Camber Angle and Tire Wear
2014-05-01 Diandra Goodyear, Load Transfer, Richmond, Suspension, Tires 0
We've heard a lot, especially this week at Richmond, about tire wear. A lot of right front tires were wearing excessively. As seems to be usual at this point, teams would like Goodyear to use a stronger tire and Goodyear would like teams to dial back their setups, especially their camber. […]


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I've shared an animation from this artist before, and am posting another favorite. The video below is laden with meaning and imagery. I appreciate the point reiterated from the verse above, that all the stories collected in the book of John, and truly throughout Scripture, are given to His people so we can believe in Jesus and have life in Him.
The animator brings out the very specific case of believing and trusting the Lord through physical suffering, and I've found this video to be helpful, and certainly quite emotional, for friends experiencing just that. Having my own physical struggles for a number of years now, I am always struck by the wave of death which the Lord took for us on the cross, and the ultimate healing and restoration to come. I'm even more struck by the fact that we are safe in His arms through it all. Please watch.


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CHIPRC Fosters Community and Creativity for Self-Publishers
In Interviews, Zines
Alenka Figa
Zinesters and guests pose at "Witches, Bellies and Writers Traveling Road Show," a 2014 book tour that stopped at the center. One of the most inspiring aspects of the self-publishing community is the support creators provide for each other. Whether it's zines, comics, poetry, or essays, self-publishers are always willing to offer advice, resources, and
Zinesters and guests pose at "Witches, Bellies and Writers Traveling Road Show," a 2014 book tour that stopped at the center.
One of the most inspiring aspects of the self-publishing community is the support creators provide for each other. Whether it's zines, comics, poetry, or essays, self-publishers are always willing to offer advice, resources, and anything they can to help. However, building connections can be difficult, even in the era of twitter, which is where organizations like the Chicago Publisher's Resource Center (CHIPRC) come in.
John Wawrzaszek, CHIPRC's Executive Director, founded the organization in 2013 as a space for self-publishers to build community, offer educational opportunities, and access resources that lend themselves to self-publishing. Wawrzaszek had long been an active participant in Chicago's zine community as a zinester, Zine Fest organizer, and host of the reading series "Two Cookie Minimum." An inspirational visit to Portland's Independent Publishing Resource Center made Wawrzaszek realize that Chicago lacked a space that gathered the city's wealth of resources, and helped zinesters grow. I spoke with Wawrzaszek over email about the membership drive he is currently running bring in new members, update resources and expand their programming.
Wawrzaszek described self-publishing as an act that "teeters between sharing publicly and creating personally…with many writers coming from academic backgrounds or holding jobs in a writing field, it's a bit different than the world zinesters live in. I wanted to show that writers are writers, that at the core of it, it doesn't matter if you self-publish or get published." CHIPRC's events reflect the diversity of Chicago's larger publishing community. For example, the Wasted Pages Writing Workshop encourages writers to come together to teach and challenge each other, while readings and exhibitions offer creators opportunities to put new skills to work. "We like to show the trajectory of a project from process, creation and exhibition," explained Wawrzaszek. "Public events not only showcase our community, but give the public, people who aren't creators themselves, a way to share and witness the work that CHIPRC fosters."
Most illustrative of this concept is the collaboration between Transit Residency and CHIPRC. Transit brings artists from outside the city to CHIPRC for a two-week stay, during which the artists use the center however they see fit. In 2015 CHIPRC welcomed Roman Muradov, whose reflection on the residency is available on Transit's website. This year, illustrators Sarah McNeil and Chris Gooch traveled from Melbourne, Australia to the center. These artists "…turned the center into a pop-up studio, hanging prints and drawings on the wall, hosting a few workshops and open hours, and in the end they used our Risograph to print a short run comic that debuted at CAKE. The artists have been grateful for the opportunity to visit Chicago and use the space to focus on projects, and Chicago benefits from getting to meet and learn from new voices and artists."
Sarah McNeil and Chris Gooch leading a workshop during the Transit Residency with CHIPRC.
Sarah McNeil and Chris Gooch outside CHIPRC during their residency.
Of course, creators from Chicago also use CHIPRC's space and resources with great success. Wawrzaszek introduced me to Cathy Hannah and Mia Van Beek, organizers of the Chicago Women's Comics Collective (CWCC). Hannah founded CWCC in the spring of 2015, in hopes that she could create a space for cis and trans women artists to collaborate and inspire each each other. She was especially cognizant of the need for self-publishers to be present in the community to make their work visible, and saw CHIPRC as an obvious space for such a group.
CWCC meets monthly, and starts each gathering off with a drawing warm-up such as Pictionary or Exquisite Corpse. Then, depending on the artists in attendance, they offer advice and critiques of each other's work, or start working on a new project. Prior to Token–a zine event in Chicago that takes place at Emporium, a local bar and arcade–CWCC put together a jam comic. "We put prompts in a hat," explained Hannah, "and we had four different comics going, and they were so hilarious, so good. One was little mermaid in her room and she's reading The Little Mermaid by Hans Christen Anderson and she's like, this is bullshit. Then the comic turns into, I'll show 'em what a real little mermaid is!" The three three additional stories for the zine and sold the mini-collection at Token. Inspired by the excitement and spontaneity of the meeting, CWCC decided to create more jam comics, and future meetings will allow members to participate in their creation.
Hannah described CWCC as an evolving community whose work is enabled by CHIPRC's existence. Calling Wawrzaszek a "precious zine community gem," she encouraged other local artists to bring new ideas to CHIPRC, whether they are groups, workshops, or exhibitions. "If you have an idea for anything and you need help," said Hannah, "that space is perfect. Give them all your money and approach them with all your ideas."
Visual artists and writers can become members of CHIPRC through the Indiegogo. Tiers include memberships of various lengths, which give users access to CHIPRC's space and resources during open hours, as well as help the center expand their resources, workshops and programs. For readers who are equally invested in Chicago's self-publishing community, the Indiegogo offers tiers such as Zine Pack! which includes not just comics, but Mad Libs!
Support the membership drive at Indiegogo, but hurry! It ends on December 1st! Get involved with CWCC by joining the Facebook group or signing up for CHIPRC's mailing list to hear about meetings.


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In keeping with the rest of Endsleigh the furniture is a mix of old and new, with some unusual pieces. Individually designed by Olga Polizzi with uncluttered elegance, suites come with flat screen televisions, DVD players, in-room safe, free WiFi and Mitchell and Peach toiletries. All of our rooms are dog friendly.
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Here are printable materials and some suggestions to present letter R. The presentation ideally should be part of rainbow themed activities and/or crafts.
Science > Climate | Weather > What is a rainbow?
A rainbow is a curved arc of light of many colors across the sky. Rainbows are caused by the sun's shining through drops of water [raindrops] during or after a rain.
Rainbow as a symbol > The rainbow is a symbol of peace and diversity. In Irish mythology, leprechauns (a type of fairy) have a hidden pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.
Visit this lesson plan which includes a printable craft and numerous activities, and review the Bible Alphabet A to Z.
Online Jigsaw Puzzle > Here is a R is for Rainbow puzzle to practice letter recognition and problem solving skills. The default puzzle is 6 pieces. Click on the change cut button to change shape and number of pieces.
Present and display your option of t printable activities listed in the materials column.
Finger and Pencil Tracing: Trace letters in upper and lower case with your finger as you also sound out the letter. Invite the children to do the same on their coloring page (first presentation) or handwriting practice worksheet.
Encourage the children to trace the dotted letter and demonstrate the direction of the arrows and numbers that help them trace the letter correctly. During the demonstration, you may want to count out loud as you trace so children become aware of how the number order aids them in the writing process.
Find the letter R's: Have the children find all the letter R's in upper and lower case on the page and encourage them to circle or trace/shade them first.
Coloring Activity: Encourage the children to color the rainbow image incorporating the primary and secondary colors in the order featured in the poster. Review color words.
Letter R words (initial consonant sound) > Letter R Worksheet and Mini Book > These materials can be used to reinforce letter practice and to identify related R words. Read suggested instructions for using the worksheet and mini-book.
You can also display other R posters and coloring pages or even make a letter R classroom book using coloring images or color posters. Visit letter R printable activities to make your choice.
Letter R Word Search & Handwriting Practice: The four and six word search game features a rainbow and letter R words with pictures and handwriting practice.
1. Print your choice of printable lined-paper and a rainbow coloring page behind the page. Encourage children to color or draw a rainbow after writing practice.


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The new prop is designed with a blade twist distribution that maximizes low speed thrust while maintaining or increasing cruise performance. The system is part of Hartzell's growing family of proven, constant speed designs that feature a compact aluminum hub and aluminum blades.
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* Petty Officer 2nd Class Greg W. Jones, son-in-law of Betty Graham of Ivory, received the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement medal for three years of faithful service at Naval Hospital, Camp Pendleton, Calif.
School/youth
* Kimberly Brown was named to the honorable mention dean's list at Lynchburg College in central Virginia. Brown, a senior environmental science major, is the daughter of James and Darlene Brown of Smithfield, and a 1998 graduate of Smithfield High School.
* The Virginia Commission for the Arts selected these elementary teachers to receive 2001-02 Teacher Incentive Grant Program funding. For more information on the grants, call the commission at 804-225-3132, write Virginia Commission for the Arts, 223 Governor St., Richmond 23219-2010 or visit arts.state.va.us.
Rebecca Conklin, Dudley Elementary School, $300; Ann Love and Ann Woody, Dudley Elementary School, $300, all of Franklin.
* These area students were named to the dean's list for the fall 2001 semester at Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg: Catherine B. Butler and Maria E. Cedeno, both of Suffolk, and Joanna L. Adams and Kristy N. Carr, both of Windsor.
* Harriet N. Storm of Hampton was elected president of the Cypher Society of the College of William and Mary at the society's annual meeting held during Charter Day weekend. The Cypher Society includes all former members of the college's board of visitors. Storm is also a past national president of the William and Mary Society of the Alumni.


That the Training Center has encountered strong resistance on the politically conservative Eastern Shore of Maryland comes as no surprise. Even though so-called conservatives are more likely than their liberal counterparts to endorse the need to improve the security training of diplomats and their security officers, they are no more likely to want to inconvenience themselves in any way to make that possible. The proposition that national security and defense is in any way a common duty and shared responsibility is fading from the American consciousness.
America now fights its wars with little sense of sacrifice among the general populace. Taxes are not increased; war bonds are not sold. The fighting and dying is done by volunteers drawn primarily from the lower economic strata of our society, men and women who, when they leave military service, will struggle to find jobs and are unlikely to be able to enjoy the bucolic life in Ruthsburg to which the opponents of the Training Center aspire.
The idea that the benefits of a free and secure society can be enjoyed without sharing its burdens is corroding what little is left of our civic mindedness. We do not bother to understand and have lost interest in decisions by elected leaders that may have cataclysmic effects elsewhere in the world, but which have consequences to only a handful of American citizens willing to risk their own personal safety, and their families. Support for our troops is loud and profuse, but often is little more than lip service.
Tourists from Queen Anne's County will travel around the world, demanding service from and, on occasion, protection by American embassy and consular employees. International terrorism has made duty in embassies and consulates more dangerous than ever. We expect the employees that staff the embassies and consulates to be well-trained, as long as their training does not inconvenience us in the least. We want to be protected and defended, so long as we are not bothered by the effort.


By virtue of the authority vested in me by sections 55(a), 508, 603, 729(a), and 1204 of the Internal Revenue Code (53 Stat. 29, 11, 171; 54 Stat. 989, 1008; 55 Stat. 722; 26 U.S.C. 55(a), 508, 603, 729(a), and 1204), it is hereby ordered that any income, excess-profits, declared value excess-profits, capital stock, estate, or gift tax return for any period to and including 1950 shall be open to inspection by the Senate Committee on Armed Services or any duly authorized subcommittee thereof for the purpose of exercising a continuous watchfulness through a continuous study of all policies, programs, activities, operations, facilities, requirements, and practices of the Department of Defense, the Armed Services, and other agencies exercising functions relating to them, and the administration thereof, subject to the conditions stated in the Treasury decision (1) relating to the inspection of such returns by that committee, approved by me this date.
This Executive order shall be effective upon its filing for publication in the FDEDERAL REGISTER.
(1) 26 CFR, Part 458.


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Handgun USPSA
Fees vary per event, please check the event details on the calendar.
What is USPSA (Practical Shooting)?
United States Practical Shooting Association (USPSA) matches combine:
Drawing from a holster
Rapid engagement of multiple targets (paper and steel)
Reloading the handgun under time constraints
Movement between shooting positions
Shooting through, around, over, and under walls and props of all types
Analyzing a given shooting situation to provide one of the most exciting and challenging of the shooting sports!
USPSA is largely "run and gun"! Targets are man-sized silhouettes and reactive (knockdown) steel at ranges from 6 feet to 50 yards.
Scoring is based on:
The accuracy of target hits
Time taken to complete the course
The power (caliber and muzzle velocity) of the handgun used
It's fun to watch, and even more fun to do! USPSA competition allows you to enjoy recreational competition with your handgun while developing your gun handling skills.
You compete against shooters with similar handguns:
Open Division for custom handguns with scopes, compensator ports, extended magazines, etc.
Production Division for box-stock double-action handguns (SIGs, Glocks, XDs, etc.)
Limited Division for high-capacity handguns without compensators or scopes
Limited.10 Division for Limited handguns loaded with a maximum of 10 rounds
Single Stack for the 1911 types
Revolver Division for (wait for it!) revolvers!
The United States Practical Shooting Association (USPSA) is the US regional organization of the International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC), and our matches are sanctioned by these organizations. Matches are held all over the USA and the World, including at the ranges of several clubs in Oregon. A typical match in Oregon consists of Six courses of fire requiring a minimum of 140 rounds to complete. Equal scoring emphasis is place on speed and accuracy, and you do not need to be an athlete to compete and have fun!
Age Requirement
There is no minimum age requirement. Men, women, and juniors can participate as long as they can safely handle their firearm.
Matches are open to members and non-members of ARPC, and you do not have to be a member of USPSA to shoot in these matches.
Matches start at 10am and normally last until 3 or 3:30pm.
ARPC USPSA
Discipline Director
Dave Lund
USPSA Official Site
What is USPSA?


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An increasingly popular method to determine stellar ages of red-giant stars for the purpose of Galactic archaeology is asteroseismic\footnote{Asteroseismology is the study of the internal structures of stars through their global oscillations.} grid-based modelling (GBM). In GBM, observed parameters are compared to those obtained from a grid of stellar evolution models to obtain stellar parameters such as mass, radius and age. In asteroseismic GBM of red-giant stars with solar-like oscillations the large frequency separation ($\Delta\nu$) and the frequency of maximum oscillation power ($\nu_{\rm max}$) are commonly used asteroseismic observables, in addition to the usual spectroscopic parameters effective temperature ($T_{\rm eff}$) and metallicity ([Fe/H]). Different types of observations are required to obtain the observed parameters: $\Delta\nu$ and $\nu_{\rm max}$ require timeseries data, while a single epoch observation is sufficient to determine $T_{\rm eff}$ and [Fe/H].

The precision with which $\Delta\nu$ and $\nu_{\rm max}$ can be determined largely depends on the length of the timeseries data (assuming the stars are bright enough that the oscillations can be detected). An increase in the timespan of the data and hence, the precision of the asteroseismic parameters is often obtained at the cost of number of stars observed. Different space mission have made different choices. The \textit{Kepler} mission provided the longest ($\sim$ 4 years long) timeseries data of red giants with solar-like oscillations currently available. At the other extreme, the TESS mission is providing $\sim$27-day to about 1-year long timeseries for tens of thousands of oscillating red giants. The question that we aim to answer here is: with what precision should [Fe/H] and $T_{\rm eff}$ be obtained to derive stellar ages of red-giant stars through asteroseismic GBM given the precision of $\Delta\nu$ and $\nu_{\rm max}$ that we can expect from the TESS data?

To answer this question, we investigate the impact of uncertainties and biases (i.e., systematic errors) in $T_{\rm eff}$ and [Fe/H] on the determined ages of red-giant stars using asteroseismic GBM, given the precisions to which $\Delta\nu$ and $\nu_{\rm max}$ can be obtained with timeseries data of $\sim 50$ and $\sim 400$ day length. For this investigation we use the APOKASC sample of $\sim6600$ red-giant stars \citep{pinsonneault2018,elsworth2019} and perform asteroseismic GBM on these red-giant stars using the MPS-SAGE code \citep[for details see][and Serenelli et al. in prep.]{hekker2014}.  We estimated the uncertainties to be $\sigma_{\Delta\nu}=0.1$~$\mu$Hz and  $\sigma_{\nu_{\rm max}}=1$~$\mu$Hz for a 50-day dataset and $\sigma_{\Delta\nu}=0.05$~$\mu$Hz and $\sigma_{\nu_{\rm max}}=0.5$~$\mu$Hz for a 400-day dataset as per \citet{hekker2012}.  From now on we refer to these datasets as the 50-day and 400-day dataset.

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=0.9\textwidth]{medianage}
\caption{Uncertainties $\sigma_{\rm age}$ (dots with solid lines) and biases $\Delta_{\rm age}$ (crosses with dotted lines) in age estimates obtained from asteroseismic GBM as a function of uncertainty in [Fe/H] (top 4 panels) or $T_{\rm eff}$ (bottom 4 panels). The biases in [Fe/H] and $T_{\rm eff}$ are colour-coded as per the legends. Panel headers indicate the length of the dataset and the evolutionary state of the stars presented. The gray dashed lines indicate zero.}
\end{center}
\label{figure}
\end{figure}

For both the 50-day and 400-day datasets we compute ages and uncertainties in ages for $T_{\rm eff}$ and [Fe/H] values assuming the following uncertainties:
\begin{eqnarray}
\sigma_{T_{\rm eff}}=[50, 100, 200]\textrm{ K,}\\
\sigma_{\textrm{[Fe/H]}} = [0.05, 0.1, 0.2]\textrm{ dex.}
\end{eqnarray}
We additionally assume the following biases or systematic errors:
\begin{eqnarray}
\Delta_{T_{\rm eff}} = [-200,-100,-50,0,50,100,200]\textrm{ K,}\\
\Delta_{\textrm{[Fe/H]}} = [-0.2,-0.1,-0.05,0.0,0.05,0.1,0.2]\textrm{ dex.}
\end{eqnarray}
We note here that the tests for $T_{\rm eff}$ and [Fe/H] are performed independently, with the value of the second parameter fixed to the value as provided by APOKASC \citep{pinsonneault2018}.

In Fig.~\ref{figure}, we present the resulting uncertainties and biases in ages for red-giant stars given the uncertainties and biases in [Fe/H] (top 4 panels) and $T_{\rm eff}$ (bottom 4 panels). The biases are computed with respect to the 400-day dataset with no bias (dark blue) and smallest uncertainty. In most cases presented here the value of $\sigma_{\rm age}$ shows only weak, or no, dependence on the uncertainties and biases in [Fe/H] and $T_{\rm eff}$ ingested in this study. The largest deviations are present in the 50-day dataset with $T_{\rm eff}$ biases. Furthermore, in most cases  $\Delta_{\rm age} < \sigma_{\rm age}$ and hence a potential bias is incorporated in the uncertainties. Only in case a large ($>100$~K) $T_{\rm eff}$ biases is accompanied by a small (50 K) uncertainties in $T_{\rm eff}$ on the red-giant branch, $\Delta_{\rm age}$ is of the order of or larger than $\sigma_{\rm age}$ and in these cases we expect an impact of this bias on the resulting age estimate. These results are in line with the  robustness of main-sequence and subgiant solar-like oscillators to biases and uncertainties in $T_{\rm eff}$ and [Fe/H] presented by \citet{bellinger2019} .

\acknowledgments

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaArXiv


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Added progress bar while decrypting downloaded Asset Store packages.
iOS: Added support for iPad launch screens.
iOS: Use launch screens as primary source for splash images.
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(671844), (676419), (694332), (702955), (713785), (714013) - Direct3D 11: Fixes an occasional crash on exit related to Direct3D 11 libraries. It usually happened when Nvidia drivers were involved and "d3d11.dll_unloaded" was found in error reports.
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(712553) - IL2CPP: Fixed error when using 64-bit Interlocked operations on 32-bit devices.
(716138) - IL2CPP: Fixed pinning of structures with ExplicitLayout.
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(718696) - IL2CPP: Fixed unsafe pointer to struct assignment.
(708549) - iOS: Fixed WWW crash when not keeping reference to instance.
(677907) - iOS: Fixed interop of OpenGL ES and Siri overlay.
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(713552) - Mecanim: Fixed Transition inspector not showing the proper transition.
(none) - OpenGL ES: Fixed missing 1x1 mip levels in textures.
(704481) - Samsung TV: Fixed "Unknown Platform" error when passing "Samsung TV" to AudioImporter.ContainsSampleSettingsOverride.
(706040) - TreeEditor: Fixed the broken UI regression.
(none) - UI: Fixed API breaking change where GetMousePointerEventData required a parameter.
(711316) - VR: Fixed point light rendering issue with deferred renderer.
(722915), (723184) - VR: Fixed regression with linear lighting and anti aliasing on windows.
(721198) - VR: Fixed renderscale regression. Renderscale now functions correctly on GearVR.
(none) - VR: Overall stability improved.
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(718243) - AssetBundles: Fix to properly compute the hash value associated to an asset bundle based on the target platform.
(717058) - iOS/Il2CPP: Corrected the behavior of Marshal.OffsetOf for structures with explicit packing.
(712929) - iOS/IL2CPP: Fixed the comparison to Epsilon.
(661630) , (690171) - iOS/IL2CPP: Implemented the CustomAttributeData.GetCustomAttributes methods for attributes with a default constructor.
(701951) - iOS: Added support for Xcode 6.4.0.
(708506) - iOS: Added work around mod_pbxproj.py issues with Xcode projects generated by Unity.
(719156) - Networking: Fix for scene objects with NetworkTransform not synching.
(718027) - Networking: Prevent adding network connections that are not ready as observers.
(718886) - OSX: Fixed startup crash with Mono.
(682891), (694906), 707865) - Physics: Fixed crashes caused by wheel collider.
(719328) - WebGL: Fixed "sanity check error" build failure on Windows.
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WebGL: Building for WebGL on Windows will fail with a "sanity check error". As a workaround, Unity.exe can to be launched with Administrator privileges.
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STV: Both 2013 and 2014 TVs will fail to launch due to a bug that will be fixed in the next patch release.
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Xbox One: Unity now builds with the May 2015 QFE1 XDK. Xbox One developers will need to install this XDK on their development PC and the matching or a later recovery on their console.
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GearVR: Unity Personal Edition with 5.1 Unity VR support results in a crash. Please use the Oculus Unity Integration Plugin until this issue is resolved in a future patch.


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Home › Community Care Law › Court Of Protection Litigation
Court Of Protection Litigation
What is the Court of Protection?
The Court of Protection was created by the Mental Capacity Act 2005. The Court has responsibility for making decisions regarding the property, financial affairs and personal welfare of people who cannot make these decisions for themselves because they "lack mental capacity". The individual who lacks capacity may be referred to as "P" (the patient) or "D" (the donor) or the "adult at risk" because their lack of capacity puts them at risk of abuse, whether physical, emotional or financial.
What kinds of decisions are made by the Court of Protection?
The Court has a wide remit to make decisions about health and welfare and financial issues. Common examples include:
Determining whether someone has the mental capacity to make a decision themselves
Appointing Deputies to make decisions for people who lack mental capacity
One-off Best Interest decisions such as where the adult should live and be cared for, their living arrangements, contact with other people, or what treatment they should receive
Whether to register or revoke an enduring power of attorney (EPA) or lasting power of attorney (LPA), for example when there has been financial abuse or mismanagement
Considering objections against the registration of an EPA or LPA
Deciding whether an attorney acting under an existing EPA or LPA should be removed
Deciding whether an individual can be deprived of their liberty under the Mental Capacity Act 2005
How can the Court of Protection help me or someone I love?
An application to the Court of Protection can be made to challenge decisions relating to the mental capacity or Best Interests of a relative or to safeguard your loved one against financial abuse, physical or emotional harm. Court applications often deal with difficult decisions about care packages and living arrangements for people who need care at home or residential care.
Many cases which go to the Court of Protection involve differing opinions about what is in the best interests of the individual concerned. In such cases it has not been possible for family members and Health or Social Services to reach an agreement, so the Court of Protection is asked to weigh up all the information and opinions available about what is best for the adult at risk and make a decision.
The Court could also be asked to decide whether an Attorney is unfit to continue to act or if an EPA or LPA should be revoked and a Deputy appointed in their place.
For help with Court of Protection issues and with making a deputyship application contact our health and social care solicitors today on 01273 609911, or email info@ms-solicitors.co.uk.
Application to the Court of Protection for a Health and Welfare Best Interest Decisions
Applying to the Court of Protection to appoint a Deputy for Property and Finance
Court Of Protection – The Basics
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If you could run your favorite airline for one day, what kind of food would you decide to have for your passengers, especially on long-haul flights? I'm talking about practical, economical choices.
I read part of a Conde Nast article at the doctor's office today which got me thinking about it.
Good salads, fresh fruit, yummy bread as starters! And some decent wine and good hot flavorful coffee.
Anything other than warm mixed nuts. AA must have purchased 100 tons of this stuff in 1990 because they've been serving, invariably, the same %$*#& thing in first class since then.
1> On long-hauls provide every passenger with a 0.5l ( just under a pint I guess ) bottle of water, the type with the 'drink top' that can be opened and closed.
3> Cereal snack bars, they give energy and fill you without costing the airline much or taking up too much weight, good to snack on.
4> Healthy and light foods, smaller portions, more often.
We always take snack items with us even on a full service carrier.
Trans-Atlantic AA gives out bottles of Evian in Biz class anyway.
I agree with with LoveItaly about those foods which I think would be cheaper & better than what is now served. The article mentioned soups but that was vetoed. Personally, I'd like a good club sandwich or a decent chicken salad sandwich maybe with a pasta salad side. Heck, good cold fried chicken would be an improvement over "gourmet" items which usually don't quite come off.
I'm tired of the nuts too even though I eat them & then regret it because I have to go to the loo to floss because the danged things are stuck in my teeth!
LOL Carrybean, your comment is exactly why I do not eat the peanuts or any kind of nuts on a plane..the flossing problem! I thought I was the only one in the world with that problem.
I steer away from the nuts too, same reason ! Also I guess they can't really be digested that easy, though experts might tell us otherwise.
You have more self-control than I do, James. I'll even take seconds if they pass them out.
Me too. I'd suggest good cold sandwiches (how about on rye for a change?) and piping hot pizza.
Ohhhhh, corned beef or pastrami on rye with a good pickle on the side.
Water and soft drinks only. No food for domestic flights, with the possible exception of first class. It's just too difficult to provide quality food for the masses of people traveling everyday. Think about the difficulty of just catering a small party at home. Keeping the food safe, and appealing for hundreds of thousands of people. And, doing this without a kitchen for preparation or any onboard facilities.
Let passengers bring their own food.
Well I rate the food on the likes of Singapore Airlines, Gulf Air and Emirates, plus Malaysian to be great, even in Coach/Economy, never had a problem with the meals on such carriers but we always take small snacks along too so we can snack when so inclined. I would like to see lighter meals though.
It 'was' Gulf that gave out the mineral water, I remember now.