The job description of a funeral director might seem straight forward, the actual job is anything but.
The job description of Funeral Directors is ever-expanding as they meet with families, help plan funeral and cremation services, prepare the body, organize wakes and memorials, place obituaries and death notices in local newspapers, and handle all associated paperwork (bills, receipts, etc.). New conversations, along with the advisory role that comes with the job, show more and more funeral home professionals helping to guide clients on the advantages of funeral pre-planning, and the different methods of pre-paying for funeral services.
According to an AARP survey, about 34 percent of people 50 or older have engaged in some sort of pre-planning of their funeral and burial. A smaller percentage of folks in that same age range have gone a step farther and pre-paid for at least a portion of those services – about 24 percent.
At a time when more older people are considering alternative options when it comes to funerals and burial services, organizations like AARP have encouraged the funeral industry to continue their outreach efforts and educational talks to help educate people about the advantages of pre-planning and pre-paying for them.
Sadly, the educational moment is not quite industry-wide yet. According to one survey, one in five respondents, or about 60 percent, reported that they had never been contacted about pre-purchasing funeral arrangements. A larger percentage, 64 percent, had never been contacted about pre-planning or pre-paying for their final resting place.
The likelihood of pre-purchasing funeral and/or burial arrangements increases with age. Of people 64 and older, 51 percent said they had pre-payed for at least a portion of their funeral or burial services. That compares to 32 percent of people ages 55 and 64, and just 17 percent of those between the ages of 50 and 54.
Of those who pre-payed for funeral and/or burial services, 40 percent said the funeral home placed funds, but they were unsure where.
Of those who pre-payed for funeral and/or burial services, 48 percent said their contract included no option to cancel.
A whopping four out of five respondents said that they had not conducted comparative shopping.
At Osiris Software, we know all too well that while the job description of a funeral director might seem straight forward, the actual job is anything but. More than 85 percent of funeral homes in the United States are owned by private families who give more than just their time to their clients, they also provide caring and compassion and empathy at what might be the absolute worst time of their lives.
That's why we created our death care management software, Osiris Software, to automate and streamline all those tasks that take funeral home directors away from their clients, and the front-facing aspects of their family businesses.
Not only does our funeral home management software take the stress out of routine duties like placing obituaries, creating forms and programs, and interfacing with an accounting system, but our family collaboration features can also offer an experience that builds trust and comfort around the subject of pre-planning their funeral and burial services, which translates to increased family trust and engagement with your establishment.
Simply put, our funeral home management software helps streamline the parts of your business you wish took less of your time and effort so your energy could be spent elsewhere. Talk to an Osiris Team Member today because it really might just be time to add premium funeral home management software to your toolbox.


To keep your water clean and clear you need to do four things.
Keep the pH at the correct level.
If your water has a low pH level it will be acidic. While it will be crystal clear it will be uncomfortable to relax in and can damage your equipment. High pH allows the Calcium to come out of solution and make the water cloudy. For water clarity, your comfort and equipment life, make sure you keep your pH level between 7.4 and 7.6. Take the reading and if its outside of this range adjust it as directed on the bottle. Make sure to test the pH first as you will get false readings if you test after adding other chemicals. If necessary adjust the pH using an Alkalinity Increaser or a pH Decreaser.
Do this by adding an approved product recommended by your Oasis dealer. Make sure the filtration pump is running and add the correct dose to the middle of the spa. Make sure to keep the correct level of sanitiser in the water and remember that if you are using the spa more frequently you need to add more sanitiser, if you use it less, then you should back off the dosage.
This should be done regularly to remove body oils, makeups, suntan lotions and organic waste. Failure to do this can make the water cloudy with oily bubbles on the surface. If you are using the spa more you will need to shock treat the water more often.
Filtration is essential to remove particles and organic materials from the water. It is a good idea to add extra filtration after each use by pushing the sanitise button on your SpaNet SV control panel or push the pump button on your SpaTech ST Control panel. Even more importantly, remember to keep your filters clean as body oils, makeups and suntan lotion will clog up the cartridges and make the water go bad very quickly. Dirty filters are also a breeding ground for bacteria that will make the water quality even worse.


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A few winters ago my brother and I fixed the solar hot water system belonging to some friends of ours. The piping on the roof had sprung a leak and needed a small repair, unfortunately in the middle of a snowstorm.
The longevity of this system (more than 20 years) and the tremendous cost and energy savings enjoyed during that time by the home's residents truly amazed me. But before I go into those details, let me first tell you a bit more about this system.
This solar hot water system is a simple two-panel thermosiphon system, meaning that it uses natural convection to circulate the liquid through the system, eliminating the need for a pump and thereby saving energy. The system was installed more 20 years ago to be the primary hot water heating system for this two-bedroom home in Eldorado. At some point, a traditional hot water heater was installed and the solar became the backup system, feeding hot water to the heater's cold water inlet.
This system will typically feed 120-130° F water directly into the heater on the coldest winter days, thereby supplying most of the hot water required for this two-person household. On sunny days in the spring, summer and fall, water from the panels may exceed 160° F and supply all the hot water needs. The system has no pump and no moving parts so there is little to go wrong or maintain.
Allan showed me a copy of the original brochure and I was astounded. Twenty years ago, the original system cost $895 for a single panel system — installed — and included a used hot water heater. Yes, $895 installed! Each panel contains more than 37 gallons of storage. Altogether, the two-panel system plus hot water tank holds more than 100 gallons of hot water — far more than most traditional hot water systems installed today.
For two decades, this system has been supplying seemingly endless hot water to Allan and Francesca as well as to the home's prior residents. Factoring in inflation, this $895 system would cost $2,500 today. That's a real bargain considering that a typical system today costs around $4,500 for materials only.
But as much as I was impressed by the simplicity and longevity of this system, it was the energy savings that really got my attention.
Assuming that this system has been running continually since installation, it has supplied well over 100,000 gallons of hot water to this home. A typical household will use about 18-20 gallons of water per day. So assuming 20 years * 365 days * 20 gallons, that's 146,000 gallons! Taking a conservative estimate, let's assume that the system only supplied 75% of the home's hot water due to cloudy days, that's still about 90,000 gallons of free hot water! And it's still providing hot water, at no additional cost, twenty years later!
According to a study done by the Department of Energy, residential water heaters currently account for roughly 24% and 11% of a home's total gas and electricity consumption respectively. Our friends' traditional water heater is electric. With their solar system providing most of their hot water needs, the electricity consumption of their hot water heater has dropped by about two-thirds, a substantial energy and cost savings.
Energy is measured in units called BTUs (British thermal units). One BTU is the amount of energy needed to heat one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit. Assuming that unheated municipal water enters the home at around 55° F and solar heated water is 120° F, then the difference is 75° F. Assuming the home uses 20 gallons a day, that equates to more than 91,000,000 BTUs saved annually!
Because electricity rate have fluctuated over the decades, it is difficult to calculate precisely how much it would have cost to heat that volume of water 75° F using electricity. But if we apply today's average electricity rate of $0.1179 per kWh (source: U.S. Energy Information Administration), and 1 kilowatt-hour (kWh) = 3,413 BTUs, the BTUs provided free of charge by the sun has conservatively saved this household $3,100 over the years. In other words, it has paid for itself several times over.
Besides being an excellent investment for the owners, it has helped reduce pollution and save thousands of gallons of water. A study done by the U.S. Geological Survey finds that 48% of all the water consumed in the U.S. goes to power plants. Depending on the method used to generate the electricity, conventional power plants can use between 0.4 to 0.6 gallons per kWh generated. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the national average output rate for coal-fired electricity generation was 2.095 pounds CO2 per kWh. So in the last twenty years, this system has saved between 10,000-15,000 gallons of water and reduced air pollution by more than 27 tons of CO2.
Not bad for a single solar hot water system. It has saved thousands of dollars, helped the environment, and brought many, many years of personal satisfaction to its owners who know they are doing the right thing. It has been good for the homeowners and good for the community. What a truly amazing system. Just imagine the impact if each of us installed a system.


text: We extend sympathy to the O'Leary family, relative and friends, on the recent passing away of John O'Leary, R.I.P. John played in all grades with his native Kilcummin, with whom he won the East Kerry Rural League in 1961. He acted as both Secretary (in the 1950's) and Chairman (in the 1960's) of the East Kerry Board and was Vice President in recent years and at the time of his passing away. John played on the Kerry Minor team that was defeated by Armagh in 1949 in the All Ireland Semi Final and had better luck two years later, when he won a County Minor Championship medal with the Dick Fitzgerald's. John was a very good athlete and cross country runner and won competitions all over Kerry and Munster. We extend sympathy to John's family, relatives and friends. Ar Dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis.

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This is the second in the series the Ancestor Series of Adventure-Thrillers. It really did hold my attention and made me groan when I was left with a major cliff hanger at the end! Definitely a five star read. Although this can be read as a stand alone I kind of wish I had read the first in the series before this one-there are a couple of references to it in passing--of course that one probably would have had me wanting more NOW as well!!
A giant rift has opened in Iceland. Of course the scientific community is right there hopefully under the auspices of the UN since it seems a lot of other countries and government agencies want their hand in as well. Who will get final conntrol and what exactly is that "flying saucer" doing buried under the ice?
A COMBOQUAKE RAKES THE MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE. A FIFTEEN MILE RIFT RIPS ACROSS AN ICELANDIC ICE CAP. A DISSECTED CAVE HOLDS MYSTERIOUS ANCIENT TECHNOLOGY. John Henry Morgan, ex-Marine, Director of the United Nation's Institute for the Study of Unusual Phenomena, returns from the devastating attack on ISUP's Mountain project in Belize only to be cast into the aftermath of the Comboquake and the dangers of the rift. Morgan and key ISUP staff mount an expedition to the rift and discover a cavern occupied one hundred and eighty thousand years ago, containing a perfectly preserved high-tech habitat and a traveling machine operated by unknown scientific principles. The benign scientific expedition to study the cave and its contents encounters deceit and violence as nations and terrorist groups ferret out the existence and significance of the discoveries, and mount sophisticated operations to acquire technological treasures for their own purposes. ISUP finds itself at the convergence of clandestine assault from several fronts. Violence escalates. Lives become expendable -- a scenario that has plagued the human race through the chronicles of time. Frantic action: Prague, London, New York, Washington, D.C., Libya, France, Spain, China, Iceland. Across oceans and air lanes, factions grapple for power. Survival for the ISUP scientists and preservation of new technologies for the benefit of humanity lie in choices of whom to trust.
This Book can be purchased at Amazon and where ever fine books are sold.
Marshall authors the Ancestor Series of adventure-thrillers and other suspense-thrillers. He is recognized as an expert in the field of independent publishing.
A book that will keep you on the edge--sounds good!!!
I love a good cliffhanger! Hoping my dad would enjoy this book. He always feels left out in the book world!
Sounds like this book would make a great movie. Thrilling!
I always get so frustrated with cliffhangers. I think this is why I always wait for a series to be complete before reading them lol. Sounds very interesting!
This sounds amazing. I love this type of movie. End of the world type scenarios are always fascinating.
This is something for the hubby, he tends to read books like this and really enjoys them.
This sounds intriguing, I'll be adding it to my Amazon book wish list as well as the first in the series. I'm a stickler for reading a series in order.
Thank you for the through review.
This book sounds SO interesting! I am definitely going to write this one down!
Another great review and Another good book for my list.
Natural disaster stories always scare me! Sounds like a fantastic read!
Looks like an interesting and nerve wracking book in one.
This book sounds like something that would keep me on my toes. I really enjoyed the review.
This book sounds like something I'd love to read. Can't wait to check it out.


The Matter with Morris begins with a long remarkable sentence that touches on the essential details of Morris Schutt's life, including the kind of car he drives, his wife and her job, and his favourite novelists. A syndicated newspaper columnist, Morris has all the outward signs of success. Yet, at 51, he has begun to lose a grasp on himself.
Grief undoes Morris: his son Martin is dead—dead in Afghanistan, dead because of friendly fire, dead at 20, dead and cremated, dead. Morris blames himself for Martin's death because he suggested, in a moment of anger, that Martin join the army. When Martin is killed, Morris cuts off access to the world: no email, no cell-phone. He disconnects his television and hides it in a closet. After cashing out his savings, he stashes packets of money in a safe, but takes the precaution of hiding some under his bed and taping $10,000 to the back of his fridge.
As a novel about loneliness, The Matter with Morris belongs to a Canadian tradition that includes As for Me and My House, Swamp Angel, Swann, and The Shadow-Boxer. It takes its just place alongside these novels. Morris, however, assuages his loneliness not by the usual means of isolating himself in a lighthouse in northern Ontario or walking along a railroad track in the Prairies. Instead, he hires escorts, mostly young women, one of whom turns out to be a school friend of Martin's. He reads Saul Bellow's Herzog and Plato's Republic in search of answers to existential questions. He stops people in the street to ask them, "Are you free?" (10). As if grief can be compared or diminished by sharing, he corresponds with a woman in Minnesota who lost her son in the Iraq war. They discuss their fear and pain in a series of letters, but this exchange does nothing to break Morris's sense of isolation and fear. No measure, however radical, consoles him for the loss of his child.
Morris's solitude is a willed condition. While he wonders how other people use their freedom, he applies his own to the negative end of being alone. He even imagines that he is stronger because solitary: "If there was any comfort to be found, it came from Morris's perception that he himself was stronger, more resilient than Lucille, that he was capable of grieving alone" (29). Such comfort helps no one but Morris: it begins and ends with him. For this reason, Morris's wife Lucille calls him selfish. By the same token, grief is intensely personal in its effects. The death of a loved one never strikes two people exactly the same way. Neither the intensity nor the duration of mourning can be guessed. Seeking the consolations of philosophy, Morris reads Petrarch and Cicero. According to Cicero, "'we must shed distress or it will bring gauntness, pain, depression, and disfigurement'" (154). While Cicero might be right, grief cannot be shed by an effort of the will alone.
The Matter with Morris does not move through time in a linear fashion. Instead, scenes are repeated, with slight shifts in emphasis or slight additions of information. Although he has stopped seeing his psychiatrist, Dr. G., Morris remembers various sessions and what was said. The announcement of Martin's death by an army chaplain is narrated once in abbreviated form, and a second time in full detail. The narrative thus enacts mourning as a slow enterprise, with backward steps and painful recollections. Grief does not offer growth, because grief cannot be ignored, only managed. Along these lines, Morris thinks, "It was truly bewildering how tedious his growth was, how slow he was to understand" (198). Whereas novels in general reinforce the incremental movement towards enlightenment or consolation, The Matter with Morris offers tougher lessons about the transitoriness of love and happiness. In a passage quoted in the novel, Petrarch assures that "you will eventually get rid of all your sadness" (8). But to shed all one's sadness would be too blithe. To live with one's sadness requires insight and strength of character.
The characters in The Matter with Morris are webbed into social relations that cut across generations. Morris visits his eighty-year-old father in a nursing home and babysits his grandson. Caught between the very old and the very young, Morris broods on mortality and fatherhood. The death of his son defies the natural order of generations: the young ought to grow up, have their own children. As Morris recognizes, "the father begins to exist only when he produces the son" (56). Without children, the father remains only a man. What father, except the most fatalistic, thinks of his children, "I knew, when I fathered them, that they must die" (25)? For Morris, the death of a child disarranges the concept of fatherhood.
Notwithstanding its preoccupation with death and remembrance, The Matter with Morris is a sardonic, funny novel. Despite all evidence that events are arbitrary and the world unjust, Morris holds on to the belief that "everything in the world, even the loss of his son, was necessary" (168). Morris's grief makes him human. His optimism makes him fully human, which is a far greater, and far more difficult, attainment.
At press time: Allan Hepburn is Professor of English at McGill University. He has published two books: Intrigue: Espionage and Culture (2005) and Enchanted Objects: Visual Art in Contemporary Fiction (2010). He has also edited three volumes of material by Elizabeth Bowen, including previously ungathered short stories, essays, and radio broadcasts. In addition to writing a critical book about Bowen's fiction, he is researching a book on faith in mid-century British culture.


The Maryland School for the Blind complies with all federal and state mandates, including the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law, and fully participates in the Maryland Assessment Program which consists of all State and County mandated assessments.
What are the Maryland High School Assessments (HSA)?
The HSA are tests in four core subjects: English, government, algebra/data analysis, and biology. Students take each test whenever they complete the course. For example, some students may take algebra in seventh grade while others may not take it until tenth grade. The tests contain multiple-choice questions and questions requiring written responses. These questions are based on the content outlined in Maryland's Core Learning Goals.
What are the NEW PARCC Assessments (PARCC)?
Maryland is a Governing State in the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), a consortium of 24 states working together to develop an assessment system aligned to the Common Core State Standards. The new assessments will be anchored in college and career readiness; provide comparability across states; and be able to assess and measure higher-order skills such as critical thinking, communications, and problem solving. The assessments will be computer-based and will include a mix of constructed response items, performance-based tasks, and computer-enhanced, computer-scored items.
What is the NEW NCSC Assessment (NCSC)?
The National Center and State Collaborative (NCSC) is a project led by five centers and 26 states (15 core states and 11 Tier II states including Maryland). The NCSC is developing a comprehensive system that addresses the curriculum, instruction, and assessment needs (summative math and ELA tests for 3-8 & 11) of students with the most significant cognitive disabilities. This new technology delivered assessment is built with universal design features for the most student interaction.


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Cabo Verde é um município brasileiro do sul do estado de Minas Gerais, Região Sudeste do país. Localiza-se a oeste da capital do estado, distando desta cerca de 475 km. Ocupa uma área de 367.470 km² e sua população em 2017 era estimada em 14330 habitantes

História
Curiosa é a história do nome do município, no sul do Minas Gerais, com a sede a 950 metros acima do nível do mar. Tem como maior produção e fonte de renda econômica o Café.

O povoado surgiu ao redor da capela erguida em honra a Nossa Senhora do Rosário do Cabo Verde, em 1766.

Em outubro de 1866, elevou-se a município e em 1877 adquiriu foro de município.

Cabo Verde teve um de seus filhos ilustres, o Tte. Cel. Luís Antônio de Morais Navarro, que militando na política foi chefe do Partido Liberal local, titulado por Dom Pedro II o segundo barão de Cabo Verde, em 3 de agosto de 1889, decreto registrado no Livro XII, pag. 120, Seção Histórica do Arquivo Nacional.

Já em 25 de abril de 1868 havia recebido o grau Cavaleiro da Imperial Ordem da Rosa, pelos relevantes serviços prestados a cidade, inclusive, na qual a sua família possuía a fazenda Anhumas com um engenho de açúcar, (e ainda seria presidente de sua Câmara Municipal, em dois períodos: de 15 de janeiro de 1881 a 6 de abril de 1881 e de 7 de março de 1892 a 6 de novembro de 1894) e ao município vizinho, Muzambinho.

Aos 9 de janeiro de 1881, o futuro barão de Cabo Verde empossou outro cabo-verdense ilustre, Cesário Cecílio de Assis Coimbra - avô materno do futuro 19º Presidente do Brasil, em 1955, Carlos Coimbra da Luz - como o primeiro presidente da Câmara Municipal de Muzambinho.

Em 18 de junho de 1881, teve o seu grau, na Imperial Ordem da Rosa, elevado para Comendador em reconhecimento a sua atuação política administrativa em prol da região.

Um de seus filhos, também cabo-verdense, o Cel. Francisco Navarro de Moraes Salles - que era casado com Delminda America Pereira de Magalhães Navarro, filha do Professor Major Joaquim Leonel Pereira de Magalhães e de Ana Custodio de Moraes Navarro de Magalhães, irmã do Barão de Cabo Verde - dirigiu por mais de 20 anos os destinos políticos de Muzambinho, como presidente da Câmara Municipal, por várias legislaturas (de 1894 a 1904 - de 1912 a 1913 - de 1925 a 1930), estreitando ainda mais os laços que já eram existentes entre as duas cidades.

O segundo barão de Cabo Verde foi casado com Josefa Amelia dos Santos Bueno de Moraes Navarro, Baronesa de Cabo Verde. Faleceu o barão em 6 de janeiro de 1901, aos 71 anos, no mesmo solo em que nasceu e onde, também, foi sepultado - Cabo Verde.

Duas versões explicam a origem do nome do município. A primeira conta que ele teria sido dado pelos irmãos Veríssimo de Carvalho, desbravadores da região, porque o local se assemelhava às ilhas de Cabo Verde, terra natal deles. A versão mais aceita, porém, conta que o lugar, rico em jazidas minerais, atraiu um grande número de garimpeiros em busca de ouro e pedras preciosas. Um dia, surpreendidos por uma tempestade às margens do ribeirão Assunção, eles deixaram suas ferramentas ao fugir em busca de abrigo. Ao retornarem, vários dias depois, encontraram uma das enxadas com o cabo cheio de brotos. Daí o nome Cabo Verde.

Geografia
Localiza-se a uma latitude 21º28'19" sul e a uma longitude 46º23'46" oeste, estando a uma altitude de 927 metros. De acordo com o censo realizado pelo IBGE em 2010, sua população é de 13.823 habitantes.

Possui uma área de 368,52 km². A densidade demográfica é de 39,34 hab/km².

Os municípios limítrofes são Divisa Nova a leste,  Monte Belo a norte, Areado a nordeste, Botelhos a sul, Caconde (SP) a oeste e Muzambinho (MG) a noroeste.

Possui os distritos de Serra dos Lemes e São Bartolomeu de Minas.

Relevo, hidrografia e meio ambiente

O relevo do município de Cabo Verde é predominantemente montanhoso. Aproximadamente 45% do território caboverdense é coberto por mares de morros e áreas onduladas, enquanto que os 52% são terrenos montanhosos e apenas 3% são planos. A altitude máxima encontra-se na Serra do Mirante, que chega aos  metros, enquanto que a altitude mínima está na foz do Ribeirão São Miguel, com 780 metros. Já o ponto central da cidade está a
A vegetação original corresponde ao domínio da Mata Atlântica.
thumb|250px|Rio Cabo Verde entre Divisa Nova e Cabo Verde.
Os principais  cursos de água que banham o município são o Rio Cabo Verde e o Ribeirão Assunção, os quais fazem parte da Bacia do rio Grande. O Rio Cabo Verde possui uma usina hidrelétrica no bairro pedregal.

Cabo Verde conta com uma área alagada de 1,28 Km² pela Represa de Furnas.

Demografia

Em 2010, a população do município foi contada pelo Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE) em  habitantes. Segundo o censo daquele ano,  habitantes eram homens e  habitantes mulheres. Ainda segundo o mesmo censo,  habitantes viviam na zona urbana e  na zona rural. Já segundo estatísticas divulgadas em 2016, a população municipal era de  habitantes. Da população total em 2010,  habitantes (20,74%) tinham menos de 15 anos de idade,  habitantes (70,91%) tinham de 15 a 64 anos e  pessoas (8,35%) possuíam mais de 65 anos, sendo que a esperança de vida ao nascer era de 75,8 anos e a taxa de fecundidade total por mulher era de 2,1.

Em 2010, a população caboverdense era composta por  brancos (65.33%),  negros e pardos (34.37%) e  35 amarelos (0,25%) . Considerando-se a região de nascimento,  eram nascidos no Sudeste , no Nordeste , 502 na região Sul e 31 no centro-oeste.  habitantes eram naturais do estado de Minas Gerais  e, desse total,  eram nascidos em Cabo Verde. Entre os  naturais de outras unidades da federação, o Paraná era o estado com maior presença, com 502 pessoas , seguido por São Paulo, com 438 residentes , e pela Bahia, com  151  habitantes residentes no município .

O  Índice de Desenvolvimento  Humano  Municipal (IDH-M) de Cabo Verde  é considerado médio pelo Programa das Nações Unidas para o Desenvolvimento (PNUD), sendo que seu valor é de 0,674 (o  2573º maior do Brasil). O município possui a maioria dos indicadores próximos à média nacional segundo o PNUD. Considerando-se apenas o índice de educação o valor é de 0,527, o valor do índice de longevidade é de 0,847  e o de renda é de 0,686. De 2000 a 2010, a proporção de pessoas com renda domiciliar per capita de até meio salário mínimo reduziu em 53,1% e em 2010, 89.5% da população vivia acima da linha de pobreza, 13,3% encontrava-se na linha da pobreza e 5,9% estava abaixo e o coeficiente de Gini, que mede a desigualdade social, era de 0,43, sendo que 1,00 é o pior número e 0,00 é o melhor. A participação dos 20% da população mais rica da cidade no rendimento total municipal era de 49,%, ou seja, 9,9 vezes superior à dos 20% mais pobres, que era de 5%.

De acordo com dados do censo de 2010 realizado pelo IBGE, a população de Cabo Verde era composta por:  católicos ,  evangélicos,  26 espíritas ,  e 199 pessoas sem religião .

Economia
No Produto Interno Bruto (PIB) de Cabo Verde, destacam-se a agropecuária e a área de prestação de serviços, com significativa participação da Cafeicultura. De acordo com dados do IBGE, relativos a 2014, o PIB do município era de R$ ,  eram de impostos sobre produtos líquidos de subsídios a preços correntes e o PIB per capita era de R$ . Em 2010, 71,6% da população maior de 18 anos era economicamente ativa, enquanto que a taxa de desocupação era de 2,5%.

Salários juntamente com outras remunerações somavam  reais e o salário médio mensal de todo município era de 1,9 salários mínimos. Havia 175 unidades locais e 270 empresas atuantes em 2012.

 Setor primário

Em 2014, a pecuária e a agricultura acrescentaram  reais na economia de Cabo Verde. Segundo o IBGE, em 2012 o município possuía um rebanho de   bovinos,  bubalinos,  equinos,  muares ,184 ovinos,  suínos e  aves, entre estas  galinhas e  galos, frangos e pintainhos.Neste mesmo ano, a cidade produziu  litros de leite de  vacas, 258 mil dúzias de ovos de galinha e  quilos de mel de abelha.

Na lavoura temporária, são produzidos principalmente  cana-de-açúcar,milho,feijão,batata e a soja.Na lavoura permanente se destacam a produção de café arábica que é o principal produto gerador de renda do município e a produção de laranjas (196 toneladas).
 Setores secundário e terciário

A indústria, em 2014, era o setor menos relevante para a economia do município .Adicionando  reais ao PIB de Cabo Verde. Já o setor de prestação de serviços , administração, saúde e educação públicas e seguridade social adicionou  reais ao PIB do município.

Administração
A administração municipal se dá pelos poderes executivo e legislativo. O representante do poder executivo de Cabo Verde eleito nas eleições municipais em 2020 foi Cláudio Antônio Palma (MDB), que conquistou um total de  votos (66,48% dos votos válidos).

O município é sede da  Comarca de Cabo Verde, que se localiza na sede do município.Sendo classificada como de primeira entrância.Foi instalada em 11 de abril de1892.
Além de Cabo Verde e seus distritos a comarca também é responsável pelo município de Divisa Nova.

Transportes
A frota municipal no ano de 2012 era de  veículos, sendo  automóveis, 193 caminhões, três caminhões-trator, 508 caminhonetes, 159 caminhonetas, 52 micro-ônibus,  motocicletas, 14 motonetas, 48 ônibus e doze utilitários.

O município de Cabo Verde conta com a rodovia federal BR-146, que faz a ligação com a BR-491 e com o município de Poços de Caldas, e com uma rodovia municipal parcialmente pavimentada que liga o município a Divisa Nova e ao distrito de Serra dos Lemes. A Viação Santa Cruz mantém linhas diárias regulares que ligam a cidade a Botelhos, Poços de Caldas, Bandeira do Sul e Muzambinho.

Figuras ilustres
 Antônio Joaquim Pereira de Magalhães
 Cesário Cecílio de Assis Coimbra
 David Machado
 Francisco Navarro de Morais Sales
 Luís Antônio de Morais Navarro
 Pedro Saturnino Vieira de Magalhães

Igreja Católica
O município pertence à Diocese de Guaxupé.

Bibliografia
 CARVALHO, Adílson de - A Freguesia de Nossa Senhora da Assumpção do Cabo Verde e sua História Parte 1 e Parte 2
 Arquivo Nacional.
 Jornal " O Muzambinho " de 19 de fevereiro de 1939.

Ligações externas

Cabo Verde (Minas Gerais)
Fundações em Minas Gerais em 1846

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Andrea Bellandi (ur. 22 października 1960 we Florencji) – włoski duchowny katolicki, arcybiskup Salerno-Campagna-Acerno od 2019.

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Prezbiterat
Święcenia kapłańskie otrzymał 4 kwietnia 1985 i został inkardynowany do archidiecezji Florencji. Pracował głównie we florenckim studium teologicznym. W 2014 mianowany wikariuszem generalnym archidiecezji.

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4 maja 2019 papież Franciszek mianował go arcybiskupem ordynariuszem archidiecezji Salerno-Campagna-Acerno. Sakry udzielił mu 6 lipca 2019 kardynał Giuseppe Betori.

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Lobelia is more commonly known as the Indian Tobacco, Emetic Herb, Pike Weed, Gagroot, Vomitroot, etc. The parts we consume or apply through tincture and infusions are the leaves, tops and seeds. It is found throughout the United States. .
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The action of Lobelia is upon the central nervous system. It is generally classed as a gastro-intestinal irritant because in sufficiently large doses it produces irritation. The action of small doses is upon the cardiac area, slowing heart action and is followed generally by a more or less accelerated pulse. The action of small, frequent doses is to stimulate; of large doses to first relax and is followed by stimulation to organic action. Small doses stimulate digestion, the secretions and poor circulation. Adelphi university applications on Bronchitis Tonsillitis everywhere. However, it is up to us to decide the way used for these applications to get the best results from them.
In chronic respiratory disorders it increases or decreases the secretions according to the dosage. In dry, barking or hacking coughs where mucous rales are heard and there is difficulty in raising the sputum, Lobelia is most valuable, and is equally serviceable in chronic coughs if combined with other indicated agents. It is of great service in the coughs of measles where sluggish circulation is present and eruptions are slow to appear or fail to fully develop. Saying that all that is written here is all there is on Asthma Bronchitis would be an understatement. Very much more has to be learnt and propagated bout Asthma Bronchitis.
In measles, Lobelia causes determination of the blood to the skin and promotes tardy eruptions and helps to reestablish when dangerous retrocession occurs for some reason. Lobelia is an invaluable agent in all stages of influenza; is a vital stimulant; regulates imperfect circulation and controls cough and expectoration. What we have written here about Asthma Bronchitis can be considered to be a unique composition on Asthma Bronchitis. Let's hope you appreciate it being unique.
Unfortunately and most unjustly, Lobelia has been, and continues to be, labeled a poison. If this is to indicate that an unlimited amount may not be prescribed without harmful reactions then such labelling is justified, otherwise not. To find more useful articles on herbs, please visit Herbal-Nutrition-Supplements-Guide.com. We hope you develop a better understanding of Pneumonia Bronchitis on completion of this article on Pneumonia Bronchitis. Only if the article is understood is it's benefit reached.
Conclusion Lobelia is one of Nature's few dual agents in the relief of human ailments. It is both a relaxant and a stimulant; depending altogether on how it is prescribed. So many claims have been made for this agent, and so many more could be honestly made for it where its virtues fully understood, that it has been most unfortunately called a quack remedy. We do hope that you find the information here something worth recommending others to read and think about once you complete reading all there is about Asthma Bronchitis.
Lobelia is a valuable ingredient in all forms of poultices where relaxation is desired. Infusions or alcoholic extracts may be used or powdered Lobelia substituted. It well combines with flax-seed or slippery elm in the relief of insect bites, bruises and sprains and of various pains. The title of this composition could be rightly be Bronchitis. This is because what is mentioned here is mostly about Bronchitis.
The symptoms of bronchitis is aggravating, the patients must be re-examined to determine if there is any bacterial infection. Usually, acute bronchitis is virus-caused and it disappears after a week. However, if you are getting it out of your system of better, you need to consult your doctor at once.
The use of antibiotics to treat acute bronchitis is not required in all cases. However, some cases, such as the following, have to use antibiotics to treat acute bronchitis: The results of one reading this composition is antioch university midwest the topic of Acute Bronchitis. So do go ahead and read this to learn more about Acute Bronchitis.
Patients with cystic fibrosis are usually infected by staphylococcus aureus, also known as gram negative bacteria, and therefore, require antibiotics. COPD patients often require antibiotic therapy to treat streptococcus pneumoniae and haemophilus influenzae. Writing an article on Bronchitis Diagnosed was our foremost priority while thinking of a topic to write on. This is because Bronchitis Diagnosed are interesting parts of our lives, and are needed by us.
Patients should not expect antibiotic prescriptions whenever they visit a doctor. You medical expenses will be cut down if your treatment plan does not include antibiotics. You can use those savings to purchase vitamins or nutritional supplements that make your body vital enough to withstand bacterial infections that lead to conditions such as acute bronchitis. We were furnished with so many points to include while writing about Bronchitis that we were actually lost as to which to use and which to discard!
Cough persists, patients might have to use antibiotics to treat acute bronchitis. Only a fraction of patients suffering from viral bronchitis develop long-lasting cough. Antibiotics can be used even if the use of bronchodilators for 48 hours does not cause any relief. Bacteria causing persistent cough are mycoplasm pneumoniae, chlamydia pneumoniae, and bordetella pertussis. All three are easily destroyed by antibiotics such as macrolide. Azithromycin is usually prescribed because it has fewer side effects than erythromycin. You will have to take a five-day course of azithromycin, which will cost you $38. Remember that it is very important to have a disciplined mode of writing when writing. This is because it is difficult to complete something shilajit's magic powers is no discipline in writing especially when writing on Bronchitis Virus.
Quitting the habit of smoking will definitely prevent bronchitis. Passive smoking is equally injurious and you are advised to stay away from a smoker if you really wish to keep away bronchitis. You should be careful about the exposure to dust particles, smoke and other irritants. Air pollution is another crucial reason behind the prevalence of bronchitis. As you progress deeper and deeper into this composition on Diagnose Bronchitis, you are sure to unearth more information on Diagnose Bronchitis. The information becomes more interesting as the deeper you venture into the composition.
There are numerous home remedies available to treat bronchitis naturally. A mixture of black pepper, honey, ginger paste and clove powder make a great medicine for the bronchitis patients. You can also give honey with spinach juice to the bronchitis patients. Onion juice, orange juice, turmeric, ginger etc are other epimedium or horny goat weed cure severe bronchitis without any side effects.
Often bronchitis patients recover naturally with general medication. Cough syrups can make the coughing situation manageable. The doctor can prescribe an inhaler to treat wheezing and clear off the congestion in the nasal path. If the patient has temperature for a long time or coughing blood then it is evident that the bronchitis has become severe and can turn out to be pneumonia. In this case he should be hospitalized immediately. Saying that all that is written here is all there is on Bronchitis Symptoms would be an understatement. Very much more has to be learnt and propagated bout Bronchitis Symptoms.


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Q: Collapsing child elements with Beautifulsoup I would like to parse an HTML document and ignore span elements (but keep their contents) so that I can iterate the strings in the document the way a user would see them, as opposed to the way the HTML parser sees them. I've tried unwrapping and have not had the result I expected - here is an example of what I'm trying to do:
html = "
text more text additional text
"
soup = BeautifulSoup(html,'html.parser')
for match in soup.findAll('span'):
    match.unwrap()
for string in soup.strings:
    print(string)

Intended result:
text more text additional text

The result I'm getting:
text
more text
additional text

How can I ignore the span tags so that when I iterate using html.strings the iterator will behave as though there were never any spans?

A: You can use different approaches:
A: Join your span texts to a line:
''.join([string for string in soup.strings])

B: Just use .text on the p tag:
for match in soup.find_all('p'):
    print(match.text)

Examples:
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
html = "
text more text additional text
"
soup = BeautifulSoup(html,'html.parser')
for match in soup.findAll('span'):
    match.unwrap()
print(''.join([string for string in soup.strings]))

for match in soup.find_all('p'):
    print(match.text)

Outputs
text more text additional text
text more text additional text

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ALICA (A Language for Interactive Cooperative Agents) is a behaviour specification language for teams of agents. It provides modeling elements to describe team behaviours and strategies from a global perspective.
eld of research. In particular establishing highly responsive teamwork, where agents are able to react on dynamic changes in the environment while facing unreliable communication and sensory noise, is an open problem. Moreover, modelling such responsive, cooperative behaviour is difficult. ALICA is a novel model for cooperative behaviour geared towards highly dynamic domains. In this approach, agents estimate each other's decision and correct these estimations once they receive contradictory information. We aim at a comprehensive approach for agent teamwork featuring intuitive modeling capabilities for multi-agent activities, abstractions over activities and agents, and a clear operational semantic for the new model.
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Delineation and Classification of the Domaine Public Act (Act 7 of 1958)
Delineation and Classification of the Domaine Public Act
Commenced on 15 September 1958
[This is the version of this document as it was at 30 June 2012 to 30 June 2021.]
[Act 7 of 1958; S.I. 95 of 1975; S.I. 72 of 1976; Act 23 of 1976]
This Act may be cited and the Delineation and Classification of the Domaine Public Act.
2. President empowered to define boundaries of the domaine public
Whenever the President is satisfied that it is expedient so to do, the President may, by proclamation, define the boundaries of any property deemed under the law to form part of the domaine public, subject to the procedure laid down in section 3 or section 4, as the case may be, being followed.
3. Procedure to be followed when domaine public borders on property owned and occupied by the Republic
When the boundary to be defined runs between a property deemed to belong to the domaine public and a property owned and occupied by the Republic—
(a)if in the opinion of the President no doubt exists as to the correctness of the boundary between the two properties, the President may issue a proclamation forthwith as empowered under section 2;
(b)if in the opinion of the President doubt exists as to the correctness of the boundary between the two properties, the President may cause a notice to be published in the Gazette and in one local newspaper describing the proposed boundary and requesting that any objections from interested parties be filed within such time and at such place as may be specified in the notice; and
(i)if objections have been filed within the prescribed time but are, in the opinion of the President devoid of merit, the President may issue a proclamation as empowered under section 2; or
(ii)if objections have been filed and are in the opinion of the President worth considering, the President may cause the matter to be enquired into by a person to be appointed by him, who shall make recommendations after having heard and considered the objections, and after considering such recommendations, the President may issue a proclamation as empowered under section 2.
4. Procedure to be followed when domaine public borders on other property
(1)When the boundary to be defined runs between a property deemed to belong to the domaine public and the property owned or occupied by any person other than the Republic, the President shall cause a notice to be published in the Gazette and in one local newspaper describing the proposed boundary and requesting that any objections from interested parties be filed at the office of the Minister within two months of the publication of such notice in the Gazette. The President shall cause a similar notice to be served on the owner or person in apparent possession of the property conterminous with the relevant part of the domaine public, or if there be no owner or person in apparent possession of such property, or if the owner is absent from Seychelles or is on an outlying island, on the Curator of Vacant Estates. The time within which any objection may be filed at the office of the Minister by any person served with a notice as herein provided, shall be three months from the service of such notice.
(2)If no objections are filed within the prescribed periods, the President may proclaim the proposed boundary as empowered under section 2.
(3)If objections have been filed within the prescribed periods, the President shall refer the matter to the Supreme Court for determination, and upon such reference the Supreme Court shall determine such matter as if it had arisen in a civil action duly instituted in the said Court. The Chief Justice is hereby empowered to make rules setting out the procedure to be followed in such cases. When the Supreme Court shall have determined the boundary between the two properties, such decision shall be transmitted to the President by the Registrar of the Supreme Court, and the same shall be received and acted upon as a final decision upon the matter so referred.
(4)After receiving the decision of the Supreme Court, the President may proclaim under section 2 the boundary as determined by the Supreme Court.
5. President empowered to withdraw property from classification as domaine public
(1)Whenever the President is satisfied that it is expedient so to do, the President may, by proclamation, withdraw from its classification as domaine public any specific area of property deemed under the law to form part of the domaine public, subject to the procedure laid down in section 6 being followed.
(2)Any specific area of property which has been withdrawn from its classification as domaine public shall, from the date of the proclamation of the President become part of the private property of the Republic (domaine privé) anything in Article 538 of the Civil Code of Seychelles to the contrary notwithstanding.
6. Procedure to be followed before withdrawing area from classification as domaine public
(1)The President shall cause a notice to be published in the Gazette and in one local newspaper describing the area of domaine public proposed to be withdrawn from this classification and requesting that any objections from interested parties be filed at the office of the Minister within two months of the publication of such notice in the Gazette.
(2)If no objections are filed within the prescribed periods, the President may issue a proclamation as empowered under section 5.
(3)If objections have been filed within the prescribed periods, the President shall refer the matter to a committee of not less than three persons nominated by him. Upon such reference the committee shall hear the persons from whom the objections have been received and consider such objections. The committee shall then make recommendations to the President who shall consider such recommendations.
(4)After considering such recommendations the President may—
(a)in the case where private rights of any person would be affected—
(i)issue a proclamation as empowered under section 5, subject to effect being given to the recommendations; or
(ii)refer the matter to the Supreme Court in which case the provisions of subsection (3) of section 4 shall apply mutatis mutandis, and after receiving the decision of the Supreme Court the President may issue a proclamation as empowered under section 5 subject to effect being given to the terms of such decision;
(b)in all other cases, issue a proclamation as empowered under section 5.
7. Power to declare property of the Republic part of domaine public or of domaine privé
Whenever the President is satisfied that a doubt exists as to whether any property forms part of the domaine public or of the private property of the Republic (domaine privé), the President may by proclamation declare that any such property forms part of the domaine public or forms part of the private property of the Republic (domaine privé) as the case may be: Provided that the procedure laid down in section 6 shall be followed mutatis mutandis before a proclamation is issued.
8. Saving of other powers
This Act shall not be construed as limiting in any way the powers given under the Coast Reserves and Foreshore Leases Act and Part II of the Roads Act, and such provisions of these two Acts shall not limit or qualify the powers given under this Act.
9. Definition
In this Act the expression "outlying island" shall mean any of the outlying islands listed in the first schedule to the Peace Officers (Inner Islands and Outlying Islands) Act.


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The pharmaceutical industry is miles ahead of the natural health industry in these areas. In addition, pharmaceuticals are required to abide by much more rigorous safety and sterility standards than our natural health products. Although AOR uses natural ingredients, its processes approach pharmaceutical standards in terms of delivery technologies, equipment and the facility.
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Drag Queen "Selena T. West" Encourages Followers to Call CPS on Activist Mommy
As a result of standing firm against the increasingly popular "Drag Queen Story Hour" programs and other supposedly "kid-friendly" drag events in public venues, Elizabeth Johnston, the Activist Mommy, has been repeatedly slandered, doxxed, and even threatened with violence.
Now, the most ardent drag-for-kids proponents are taking a new approach: encouraging their followers to call Child Protective Services to report Elizabeth Johnston for child abuse.
This is in addition to constant online harassment and even death threats from some individuals.
The Ohio Star reports:
Johnston has had to hire security, and Gale is encouraging people to file false reports with Children's Services through social media as "Selena T. West" in order to get the Johnston's children removed from her home.
Ohio State Senate candidate Melissa Ackison, who, along with Diane Stover of Ohio Value Voters, exposed the exploitation of a nine-year-old "drag kid" who danced for adults in a bar in Lancaster, Ohio earlier this year, has been the victim of similar threats.
"We were called 'haters' and 'homophobes' for wanting to protect children from publicly-funded programs that normalize and glamorize behavior that can be damaging and confusing to young minds," Ackison said, according to The Ohio Star. "One of the drag queens called these classes 'the grooming of the next generation.' It's just sick and twisted what some in our culture think is good for our children. Now look who's making threats, doxing us and instigating violence!"
These are some of the most vicious threats we have ever seen—we must be hitting a nerve!
"It's projection," Ackison continued. "It's nothing new. These people, everyone on the Left who hates Christians and traditional values, they accuse us of the very things they themselves do."
Let's face it, folks, these are simply the fruits of a vendetta that Kyle Gale (who performs as "Selena T. West") has against the Activist Mommy for successfully shutting down the disgusting "Drag 101" program slated to take place in a public library last month.
When asked our followers to politely convince the Delaware County Public Library that a publicly-funded venue was no place for such a brazenly sexualized program for anyone—let alone children—the library, albeit begrudgingly, did the right thing.
Rather than hear us out and understand our stance that drag is not an art form appropriate for children (if you consider it to be an art, that is), Gale instead resorted to slander and making false allegations that the Activist Mommy had encouraged threats of violence to stop the event.
The Ohio Star, however, vindicates us in their report:
The Ohio Star discovered there were no threats investigated by police in Delaware County, and no police reports filed by anyone supporting the class. Both the Delaware City Police Department and the Delaware County Sheriff were contacted a second time and both law enforcement agencies confirmed, again, that no police reports were ever filed.
"To my knowledge nothing has changed, we did not take any offense reports related to this event, and there is no active investigation," said Captain Adam Moore of the Delaware City Police Department in his July 2 email to The Ohio Star.
These drag extremists are out for vengeance. They don't care about the truth. They don't care about justice. They're beyond that. They want to see us suffer.
Saints, we can't grow weary in this fight. We can't hide away while our children are targeted by their predatory agenda. We cannot give up.
Please sign our petition to send a message directly to the American Library Association and urge them to put an end to this hideously inappropriate and damaging attack on innocent children!
It's one thing for these sick people to threaten Elizabeth Johnston, but threats against her children have been made as well. If you are able, we ask that you also consider making a donation to the security detail they have been forced to hire, lest any of these people act on their disgusting, hateful words.
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