Growing perfect-looking fruit is no easy feat. For years, Frank and Dianne Sciacca tried to chase blemish-free banana yields by pumping their soil full of fertilisers and chemicals.
They sterilised their soil to kill pests and diseases, only to build it back up again for the next cropping season. It was a cycle that at times had a detrimental impact on the surrounding ecosystem.
In 1998 the Sciaccas reached breaking point and despite enormous pressure to meet market specifications, they sought out a new, more sustainable agricultural system.
They discovered a creature-friendly method of farming where organisms great and small were valued while still maintaining their flavoursome and quality produce. They called it the Ecoganic Protocol.
The new system would mimic the way nature intended bananas to grow.
The Sciaccas spent long hours learning how soil biology could work in perfect harmony with the sun, the weather and native wildlife to grow creamier, sweeter tasting fruit with a longer shelf life.
They stopped using products that killed organisms and opted to use a mix of organic and synthetic products that had minimal impact on the soil, encouraging native insects and animals back to their farm.
Their property in Innisfail in far north Queensland is now home to six thriving species of wasps, including a relatively unknown and rare species called the 'paper' wasp, which feeds on pests such as moths. Blue Shield Beetles are welcomed in record numbers during springtime when they help control the farm's spider mite problem.
They have also strategically placed ponds and spoon drains around the farm to catch runoff and attract local wildlife including wallabies, reptiles and hundreds of native birds.
The Ecoganic Protocol has been described as ahead of its time, receiving a formal endorsement from the Great Barrier Reef Research foundation.
The environmentally friendly system has revolutionised the way Frank and Dianne approach farming, enabling fungicide reduction of up to 60 per cent.
Their Eco Bananas have found a loyal customer base with demand remaining strong ever since their market debut at the turn of the millennium.
This is where the ingenious of the wax-tip comes in, which is non-toxic, safe and recyclable, and dipped by hand – similar to what is used on soft cheeses.
The iconic trademark is a beacon for both the loyal and prospective customer who can be assured the Eco Bananas have been grown through the love and care of sustainable agricultural methods with the least intervention of any farming system in the world.
Dianne said the wax tip was Frank's idea, the culmination of a long lasting obsession to find a way to differentiate their product from their competition.
"He would drive me insane, every time he'd walk in from the shed he'd go 'I've gotta find a way to identify my bananas, this is all for nothing if I can't identify them,' and we'd come up with weird and wonderful ideas," she said.
After their first taste of market success, the Sciaccas brought other growers on board to form a certified grower group in 2001.
Currently the group consists of six farming families from north Queensland who collectively produce over 400 hectares of bananas.
Dianne said she and Frank alone grow across 48 hectares and employ 17 workers in the field.
"We're the baby of the group as far as production goes but that's intentional. It was never Frank's goal to get bigger. It was about getting other farmers on board and growing farming systems across industry," Dianne said.
Because they're operating in a niche market, the Sciaccas harvest 52 weeks of the year, and have done so for over a decade. In order to reduce waste, they are very diligent in ensuring they only send to markets what is ordered.
Their Eco Bananas are available in nearly all Australian States and Territories at major retail stores such as Woolworths and Coles, and in various smaller markets. They have been exporting their produce to Hong Kong since 2009, and Singapore in the last two years.
However, with the Australian banana market at saturation point, the Sciaccas are looking to diversify their crop. They believe that if their farming system can work for bananas, why not for other fruit and vegetables too? The way they see it, the only way to grow as a business is to value-add; and as their past experience demonstrates, they are not afraid to 'give it a go'.
So far, they have trialled an acre of paw-paws, and in the last 18 months another of their certified growers has planted avocado trees.
It's a game of continuous improvement, often achieved through trial and error, for the Sciaccas who have suffered their fair share of heavy crop losses twice from cyclones in 2006 and 2011 – on which occasion it took 10 to 12 months for bananas to regrow.
But the hard work has all been worth it for Dianne who said she was floored by the high praise they received last year at the Queensland Farmers' Federation's Reef Alliance Awards when they took out the Prince of Wales Environmental Leadership – Reef Sustainability Award.
"Sometimes you feel like you get stones thrown at you all the time, and to have that recognition by the Queensland Farmers' Federation was hugely gratifying," Dianne said.
For their innovative approach to reducing harmful runoff and protecting the Great Barrier Reef, they were honoured with a one-on-one meeting with the Prince of Wales himself.
Dianne was ultimately moved by the experience despite admitting she was never the kind of person who would stand in line to see a royal.
"I wasn't jumping out of my skin or anything. But after meeting him I was quite in awe," Dianne said.
To add to their growing collection, the Sciaccas recently received the Environmental Award at the Hort Connections 2018 National Awards for Excellence for their outstanding contribution to nature in horticultural production.
With all God's greenery at their feet, one wonders what is next on the agenda for Frank and Dianne to accomplish.
Eco tourism is something that the pair see evolving in the future. They already host educational farm tours for school students from grade nine all the way through to university from New South Wales and Queensland.
"Teachers love it because they can follow our product right through the supply chain from the farming, the group dynamics, the sales and marketing, right through to exports. It really comes full circle," Dianne said.
But it doesn't stop there. Frank and Dianne are looking at building an agri-tourism centre and laboratory close by the farm that the general public can visit when they're travelling through town.
Dianne is looking forward to having a little more room to move since their current centre of operations cannot contain the demand.
Eco Bananas is featured in the October 2018 edition of Fruit and Vegetable News.


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For the last four weeks, I've been posting chapters from Terms of Derangement both here and adultfanfiction.net. Last year, I posted the entire book Pegasus King two chapters a week to adultfanfiction.net as well. I think readership in my genre area may be going down, partly due to more quality stories being self-published and never appearing on the free sites anymore. But that's for another post. I've been quite happy with the reception for the free chapters, the feedback from my developmental editor Lorelei Logsdon and my alpha reader Lady R.
So, I'm going ahead with my plans to publish on Amazon. There's been a lot more feedback and preparation for this release than I did for Skere. Actually, I've learned so much about marketing since June 2014 when I had Skere on Amazon, that I've not only pulled it from the shelves, but also decided to entirely rebrand it, retitle it for future marketability and keyboarding and go in new direction with the marketing.
While I have a lot more to learn, I know I have to go ahead, make some more mistakes and publish again. And for those of you who have been asking about Pegasus King and the sequel, yes, that story is near and dear to me and will be published, just not this month and probably not till after the first of the year. I hear you! And thank you for asking.
So, I'm currently trying to pen a perfect product description for Terms of Derangement. I've done my research, read a lot of descriptions, read Gotta Read It! by Libbie Hawker and asked some friends who's word crafting skills I respect.
Lord Jarvis lives his life by a strict code of loyalty; however, his years of service to the Crown have left him with more blood on his hands than peace. Entrusted with executing all Night Children found within the empire, Lord Jarvis is required to kill any shifter, vampire, unchurched witch or fay that he finds.
Telos, a young feline shapeshifter, knows that his life forfeit after he is tortured and tossed on a Saxony beach. Discovered by Lord Jarvis, Telos must choose between death or seeking pity from a man who is said to have none.
Faced with Telos's innocent spirit and the Queen's command, Lord Jarvis must fight with more than his sword to maintain a remnant of his soul.
The Royal Enforcers protect the land of Saxony from pirates, vampires and the like. Their strict code of loyalty to the Crown also includes executing any Night Children found within the empire.
Lord Jarvis, a Royal Enforcer driven by justice, is grateful to the Crown and the Church for saving his life as a child. Still, his years of service to both have left him with more blood on his hands than a peaceful state of mind.
Telos, a young shapeshifter, is tossed on a Saxony beach. As he hides in the cobblestone streets of the capital, he fear for his life, being what he is – a Night Child.
Once discovered by Lord Jarvis, Telos has a choice – a death to end his miserable existence or to beg for mercy from the man known as a mass executioner.
Faced with Telos' innocence of spirit and the Queen's command, Lord Jarvis must fight with more than his sword to maintain a remnant of his soul.
Lord Jarvis lives his life by a strict code of loyalty to the Crown of Saxony, as a Royal Enforcer, entrusted with executing any Night Children found within the empire and protecting Saxony borders from pirates, vampires or unchurched sorceresses. Driven by justice and a yearning need to render back gratitude to the Crown and the Church for saving his life as a child, Lord Jarvis's years of service have left him with more blood on his hands than peaceful dreams.
After he is tossed on a Saxony beach, Telos, a young injured shapeshifter tries to hide in the cobblestone streets of the capital city, well aware that his shapeshifter status will mark him as a Night Child. When he is discovered by Lord Jarvis, he must choose between a death that would end his miserable existence at last or seek pity from a man who is known throughout the world as a mass executioner.
Faced with Telos's innocent and helpless question and the queen's command, Lord Jarvis must fight with more than his sword to maintain a remnant of his soul.
If you have a thought, please leave it in the comments. Or you can just laugh and enjoy. Words never seem to come out right the first time, especially copy writing!
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I am no expert at this and have struggled (and continue to) write summaries of my own WIP for over a year. However, if I were to choose, I like version 2 the best: the sentences are the cleanest, it sets up the story world up front, and it gives a bit of background on Jarvis's internal conflict in addition to the external.


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Randy S. Vaillancourt, 56, was found in his apartment at 50 Nichols St., Apartment 1D, on Saturday afternoon as Gardner police were conducting a well-being check. The medical examiner determined the cause of death to be blunt-force trauma.
The death of Mr. Vaillancourt is being investigated by Gardner Police, the State Police Detectives assigned to the District Attorney's Office, State Police Crime Scene Services and forensic scientists assigned to the State Police Crime Lab.


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Marvin Porter (* 3. April 1924; † 4. November 2002) war ein US-amerikanischer Automobilrennfahrer aus Lakewood (Kalifornien). Er bestritt zwischen 1957 und 1967 34 Rennen in der NASCAR Grand National Series. Er gewann in dieser Zeit zwei davon, beide auf Ford. Seine Durchschnittsplatzierung beträgt 18,5.

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NASCAR-Rennfahrer
US-Amerikaner
Gestorben 2002
Geboren 1924
Mann
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using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;
using System.Xml;
using System.Linq;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml.Serialization;
using Microsoft.Win32;
using System.Diagnostics;

namespace Psistats
{
    public class Config
    {
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            get;
            set;
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        public string ExchangeName { get; set; }
        public string ExchangeType { get; set; }
        public bool ExchangeDurable { get; set; }
        public bool ExchangeAutodelete { get; set; }

        public string QueuePrefix { get; set; }
        public bool QueueExclusive { get; set; }
        public bool QueueDurable { get; set; }
        public bool QueueAutodelete { get; set; }
        public int QueueTTL { get; set; }

        public int PrimaryTimer { get; set; }
        public int SecondaryTimer { get; set; }
        public int RetryTimer { get; set; }
        public bool DebugEnabled { get; set; }

        public bool EnableCpu { get; set; }
        public bool EnableMem { get; set; }
        public bool EnableCpuTemp { get; set; }
        public bool EnableUptime { get; set; }
        public bool EnableHostname { get; set; }

        public Config() {

            this.ServerUrl = "amqp://guest:guest@localhost:5672";

            this.ExchangeName = "psistats";
            this.ExchangeType = "Topic";
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            this.QueuePrefix = "psistats";
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            this.QueueAutodelete = true;
            this.QueueTTL = 10000;

            this.PrimaryTimer = 1;
            this.SecondaryTimer = 5;
            this.RetryTimer = 5;
            this.DebugEnabled = false;

            this.EnableCpu = true;
            this.EnableMem = true;
            this.EnableCpuTemp = true;
            this.EnableUptime = true;
            this.EnableHostname = true;

        }

        public static string GetConfigFilePath()
        {
            string root = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE";
            string path = "SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Psikon\\Psistats";
            string key = "config";

            string keyname = root + "\\" + path;

            Uri fileUri = new Uri(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().CodeBase);
            string default_conf = System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(fileUri.AbsolutePath) + "\\psistats.conf";

            string conf_file = (string)Registry.GetValue(keyname, key, default_conf);

            if (conf_file == null)
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        public static bool Exists()
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        private static void CreateConfigFolder() {

            string conf_folder = Path.GetDirectoryName(Config.GetConfigFilePath());

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                System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(conf_folder);
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            string conf_file = Config.GetConfigFilePath();
            Debug.WriteLine("Config file: ");
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            CreateConfigFolder();
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            ser.Serialize(writer, conf);
            writer.Close();
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            XmlSerializer ser = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Config));

            FileStream fs = new FileStream(Config.GetConfigFilePath(), FileMode.Open);

            Config conf;

            conf = (Config)ser.Deserialize(fs);

            fs.Close();

            return conf;
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Tons of Sobs () — дебютный студийный альбом британской рок-группы Free, выпущенный записывающей компанией Island Records 14 марта 1969 года.

Об альбоме

На момент записи альбома все участники группы Free были очень молоды: ни одному из них ещё не исполнилось и двадцати, а бас-гитарист Энди Фрэйзер и вовсе был шестнадцатилетним.

Группа добились некоторого успеха благодаря постоянным гастролям, и их дебютный альбом был составлен в основном из композиций, исполнявшихся на концертах.

Бюджет, выделенный на запись альбома, составлял всего 800 фунтов.

Большая часть альбома была записана в течение нескольких дней в октябре 1968 года. Первоначально выпуск пластинки был намечен на ноябрь 1968, но затем перенесен на начало 1969 года из-за позднего добавления кавер-версии блюзовой композиции "The Hunter" Альберта Кинга.

Альбом является одним из первых альбомов в стиле блюз-рок. Не попал в британские чарты, но достиг #197 в Billboard Hot 200 в США.

Позднее, в 2001 году, был переиздан с добавлением бонус-треков.

Список композиций
Сторона А
"Over the Green Hills (Pt. 1)" (Paul Rodgers) – 0:49
"Worry" (Rodgers) – 3:26
"Walk in My Shadow" (Andy Fraser, Simon Kirke, Paul Kossoff, Rodgers) – 3:29
"Wild Indian Woman" (Fraser, Rodgers) – 3:39
"Goin' Down Slow" (James Burke Oden) – 8:20

Сторона Б
"I'm a Mover" (Rodgers, Fraser) – 2:56
"The Hunter" (Booker T. Jones, Carl Wells, Donald Dunn, Al Jackson, Jr., Steve Cropper) – 4:13
"Moonshine" (Fraser, Kirke, Kossoff, Rodgers) – 5:04
"Sweet Tooth" (Rodgers) – 4:54
"Over the Green Hills (Pt. 2)" (Rodgers) – 1:58

Бонус-треки при переиздании
"I'm a Mover" (BBC session) (Rodgers, Fraser) – 3:04
"Waitin' on You" (BBC session) (B.B. King, Ferdinand Washington) – 2:15
"Guy Stevens Blues" (Rodgers, Fraser, Kirke, Kossoff) – 4:39
"Moonshine" (Alternative vocal) (Fraser, Kirke, Kossoff, Rodgers) – 5:09
"Sweet Tooth" (Early take and alternative vocal) (Rodgers) – 4:53
"Visions of Hell" (Fraser, Rodgers) – 3:46
"Woman by the Sea" (Fraser, Rodgers) – 3:30
"Over the Green Hills" (BBC session) (Rodgers) – 3:51

Участники записи
Free
 Paul Rodgers — вокал
 Paul Kossoff — гитара
 Andy Fraser — бас-гитара
 Simon Kirke — ударные

Приглашённый музыкант
 Jimmy Miller — фортепиано

Технический персонал
 Гай Стивенс — продюсер
 Энди Джонс — инженер
 Майк Сида — фотография на передней обложке
 Ричард Беннетт Зефф — фотография внутренней обложки

Примечания

Ссылки
 Free - Tons of Sobs (1969) album review by Dave Thompson, credits & releases  at AllMusic
 Tons of Sobs на Discogs
 Free - Tons of Sobs (1969, Remastered 2001 + Bonus Tracks) album to be listened  as stream on Spotify

Дебютные альбомы 1969 года
Альбомы Island Records


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Shilts has more than 20 years of experience leading service organizations in the field of advanced security products and services, across a range of markets. A noted expert in information, network and data security, Shilts previously led the Optiv/FishNet Security services organization, and he independently advises management teams and private equity firms on organizational and cybersecurity strategy. He holds a B.S. in Management Information Systems from St. Cloud State University, and proudly served in the Minnesota National Guard.
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How cool is it that we may finally get to see Grimlock wreck havoc on the big screen? My inner 5-year-old self is squeeing with joy at this very moment. And going back to the poster and title, I'm so glad they didn't go with Trans4mers as the title. I'm sure the idea was toyed with.
Transformers: Age of Extinction is set to hit theaters on June 27, 2014.
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Q: What is a quasi-axisymmetric stellarator? I know that a tokamak is a donut shape fusion confinement device with an axisymmetric magnetic field configuration. The stellarator is similar but its field configuration is non-axisymmetric.
I've heard about quasi-axisymmetric stellarators (QAS). I was told that the magnetic field strength of these devices is such that it's magnitude is axisymmetric.
Question: $B\neq B(\varphi)$ is the only condition needed to define a QAS? Shouldn't the magnetic surfaces of a QAS look axisymmetric as in the tokamak case?

A: It is true that the tokamak exhibits an axisymmetric magnetic field and is basically 2D in nature, while the stellarator has a fully 3D shape (and is thus not axisymmetric). This difference is due to the fact how the confining magnetic field is created.
In both cases, you need twisted magnetic field lines to achieve confinement. The tokamak achieves this via a combination of a strong toroidal magnetic field, generated by field coils, and a poloidal magnetic field, generated by a strong current flowing in the plasma (plus a vertical magnetic field, generated also by coils). The resulting magnetic field is axisymmetric, as you have said, and thus basically 2D in nature. The drawback of this configuration is the required strong plasma current which generates the poloidal magnetic field.
The stellarator on the other hand generates the magnetic field only via magnetic field coils, such that there is no necessity for a strong plasma current. This requires, however, field coils which wind around the torus helically (to achieve the twist in the field lines). On modular stellarators this becomes more complicated as you use modular coils to mimic the helical winding. The increased number of coils (which can also be quite close to the plasma) generate a fully 3D magnetic field which has a strong modulation of $|B|$ in basically every direction.
The strong modulation of $|B|$ in a classical stellarator has a few consequences, mainly that transport losses are strongly increased (thus the confinement is decreased). This is what we call neoclassical transport (in contrast to classical transport which is due to collisions only).
Now we come back to your question (sorry for that lengthy introduction, but I have no idea about your background). Boozer [1] has developed the idea that those neoclassical transport losses depend on the variation of |B| within a flux surface, not on the vector components of B. These coordinates are nowadays referred to as Boozer coordinates. Nührenberg made use of this idea throughout the following years and proposed stellarator configurations that have a direction of quasi symmetry of $|B|$ in Boozer coordinates. Note that those configurations are still 3D in Cartesian coordinates (or more general in Euclidean space).
To answer your question: axisymmetry refers often to Boozer coordinates (or other, similar, magnetic coordinates); in Cartesian coordinates the shape of the flux surfaces might still appear three dimensional (and thus not axisymmetric).
[1] https://doi.org/10.1063/1.864166

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This does not replace email building programs but enhances them. Similarily text-back campaigns for sports scores should include a link to a mobile app for coverage- rather than competing with the apps. .
While smart phones are the majority of devices , they are still not universal. For emergencies and other community wide notification - such as school closings - the extra reach provided by text alerts is important.
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Another opportunity is to sell the opt-in opportunity on the registration page. Community partners (like chambers of commerce, electric companies, sports organizations, etc.) pay a monthly fee to the media company to "share" space on the registration page, in order to send non-commercial, informational content to subscribers who opt-in. These organizations are responsible for creating the content and are given limited access logins.
With a large enough opt-in list, text alerts can help drive more live event traffic – and serve as an extra reminder. Remember, people who have opted-in to recieve this information on their phone, really want it and are more likely to attend. The immediacy of text to taking and action is great for last minute audience reminders, or post-event activities as sponsoring restaurants.
Some media are simply using short codes to power measuarable response for other kinds of advertising campaigns, or for high-touch merchants, building their own programs. Some broadcast and directory sites have dozens of businesses using text opt-ins to market to their best customers.
Texting is more highly adopted than email by a younger demographic, which may be important to some brand sponsors, especially when building out alerts for live events that reach this group, such as VIP lists. If you have a media that caters to a younger demo, an opt-in VIP list can be part of promotions sold to clubs that are offering specials to bring in more people.
10. Combines with email for radio and weeklies to compete in the daily news space, or for daily newspapers to enhance traffic.
Text pairs well with e-newsletters. For example, an AMBER Alert text message include the license plate and description of the car police is looking for as well as the primary law enforcement phone number. If a subscriber sees the vehicle, they can automatically call the phone number that was included in the text message. The email content for Amber alerts also includes pictures of the type of vehicle, person of interest or the child and either the full story – or a link to the story on the media company's website.
Similarily automated weather alerts provide the time the warning is active, the type of warning, and name of the county impacted while the email (sent simultaneously) also gives safety instructions or other counties included in the warning.
Laura Lombard, EVP of Media Partners at TextCaster, which partners with hundreds of radio, television and newspaper markets, says media who were early adopters may have taken a week or ten days to gain 100 subscribers. Today, she said it is not unusual for more than 1000 subscribers to opt-in in a day if there is the threat of severe weather or eminent school closings. One client gain over 8,000 subscribers in one day.
Community Alerts/Partnerships - These often include power company alerts for power outages, and Chamber of Commerce messages.
About 80% of Textcaster's clients sell alerts to one sponsor, typically institutions such as banks, hospitals insurance agencies or large advertisers such as auto dealers.
KSOKradio.com, a radio station in Arkansas City, Kansas and Winfield, Kansas; broadcasts hot country on its FM station and classic country on the AM dial. To expand its footprint, the station originally used text-alert opt-ins for weather, but has expanded the program to include news, power outages, schools closings and Chamber alerts, calling the program, KSOK On The Way. The ten different alerts have a combined 6000 of 12,000 county residents signed up – and the number is still growing especially during a weather emergency.
Note here that tie-ins include the Chamber and the Wellington Wheat Festival. If you scroll down, there are checklists to sign up for text and /or email for each of these programs. Then a text is sent to the phone with a promo code. Entering the promo code completes the opt-in.
Promotions include a banner ads on the front of the site (see image to the right).
Live, on-air promotions – especially during weather emergencies - also result in big gains. A four day storm in April, 2012 gave an opportunity to talk about the text service – and the text drove people to turn on the station for live reports.
Live events are supported by text - and provide sign-up opportunities. During women's fairs, the street team takes a computer and signs people up "right then and there," since the text is sent to the cell phone for confirmation, they walk people through it. A live remote for Good Guys used texts to drive traffic.
The two sponsorships for KSOK On The Go are sold out and there is a wait list. One sponsor, a local cell phone service and web developer - KanOkla, has renewed for several years. A new sponsor is Rusty Eck Ford acquired the second sponsorship as part of a larger ad campaign.
*A television site used the text-back opportunity to support seasonal 30 minute advertorial shows. The station creates half hour shows around seasonal themes, such as fathers day and mothers day or women's week, with business profiles that are mini -commercials. Part of the segment is a key word, so viewers can text in to win something while the show is on-air.
*The Taos News, which puts its text alert in the web site nav bar, has an arrangement with the police department to deliver crime alerts. By giving the savvy police chief a log –in, the department can send messages directly out of the app to alert the community if a criminal is on the loose, or other information (the system allows a variety of admin accesses, and can limit what an outside partner can access and send).
A combination of daily email newsletters and text alerts is a great competitive strategy for weeklies as well as broadcast sites to build audiences that compete with daily newspaper sites (locally-owned Palo Alto Weekly which competes with the Digital First Media-owned Palo Alto Daily puts out a daily e-newsletter instead of a paper).
In areas where weather is unpredictable, text alert systems have become invaluable to their communities. The low-tech nature of text makes it equally valuable in low tech agricultural communities and highly populated areas that have other dangers. Most universities are using this technology now to be able to inform the campus "right away" in the event of a shooting. We recommend using text alerts in combination with news to build closer relationships with subscribers in the community. For an example of a full registation, go to KSOKradio.com.
There are a variety of text partners available. TextCaster, which supplied contacts for this report, has been in business for about ten years, starting out by supplying text services to police departments (some of whom still use the service). They include integration with a national weather service provider and supply a templated registration page that also collects emails. Contact is Laura Lombardi, Laura@texcaster.com.
Brian Cunningham, operations manager of KSOK, gives Texcaster five stars for technology and support. "We test anything new they are doing, and call them to bounce off new ideas. They've been a great partner and that is one of the reasons for our success."
*Contacts with all the carriers. TextCaster has 140 phone partners. Make sure you ask this question.
*What sponsor ads look like and if they are "clickable"
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Q: Можно ли понять из какого браузера было осуществлено копирование? Например, если копировать из IE буфер выглядит по одному, а если копировать что-то со страницы через Chrome, то HTML в буфере будет выглядеть по другому=> может потребоваться его обрабатывать иначе из-за особенностей браузера.
Просто, программа должна залезть в буфер и вытянуть оттуда Html, а потом его обработать.

A: Можно попробовать следующим образом:
static bool CopiedFromIE()
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Dan Cribb & The Isolated release As We Drift Apart
As a musician in Australia, there are few more isolating places to carve out your craft than West Australia. For former frontman of The Decline Dan Cribb, this sometimes seemingly insurmountable geographical isolation was overcome in the most unexpected circumstances.
After reaching out to Nick Diener from cult US punk band The Swellers to lend his tracking skills to Cribb's EP, the connection to the material was so strong that Diener ended up contributing bass and vocals on every song. After finally meeting at The Fest in 2012, the casual collaboration morphed into a friendship and then a partnership as Diener eventually became an unofficial band member for the recording of a debut album.
Thus Dan Cribb & The Isolated was conceived. Despite the mammoth distance between collaborators (approximately 17,689 kilometres) The Isolated became a celebration of the connecting of communities. Music is after all, a universal language. In this instance it's also the language of hooky-as-hell punk rock.
As We Drift Apart lends heavily from the mid 90's punk rock heroes who defined the Fat Wreck generation with melody-drenched, riff-heavy, rowdy rock. Bad Religion harmonies preside over Lagwagon hooks, and jubilant Me First and the Gimme Gimmes refrains but with a slightly Frenzal-esque fury. Mixed and mastered by Mark Michalik (The Wonder Years, The Swellers) at Chicago's Drasik Studios, the full length is a welcome and notable progression from Cribb's 2012 acoustic EP.
Following the sudden release of first taste The Last Time in February, the album's lead single Let's Move To New York (featuring Kisschasy vocalist Darren Cordeux) premiered nationally on triple j's Short Fast Loud last night.
Fresh from supporting slots with The Bennies, Rise Against and Frank Turner, Dan Cribb & The Isolated will launch As We Drift Apart this winter. Don't be a stranger.
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Dangerous combination: Virus, poverty, immigration
By the Rev. David Maldonado
Aug. 4, 2020 | ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (UM News)
Other Manual Translations: português español
The Rev. David Maldonado.Video image courtesy of IMU Latina (Iglesia Metodista Unida Latina) via YouTube by UM News.
In a recent conversation with our son, a pulmonologist and critical care physician in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area, he spoke about the disproportionate number of Latino immigrants he is treating for COVID-19.
On one particular day, 95% of his COVID-19 patients were Latino immigrants, primarily from Mexico. Unfortunately, it is not surprising that such a shocking, disproportionate percentage of Latinos suffer from the disease. In fact, across the nation, Latinos are four times more likely than non-Hispanics get COVID-19.
Although there are historically large concentrations of Latinos in various parts of the nation, today they reside all across the United States. And Latinos are challenging emergency rooms and hospitals throughout the country. Many are reluctant patients, especially the men.
UM News publishes various commentaries about issues in the denomination. The opinion pieces reflect a variety of viewpoints and are the opinions of the writers, not the UM News staff.
The attack of the coronavirus on Latinos is unquestionable. Their disproportionate suffering is a sad reflection of their status, economic resources, access to health care, education and employment settings. This is an injustice and challenges our moral foundations as a church and as a nation.
This is a matter of life and death, and the church must play a role in fighting the injustice that leads to these disparities.
Why is this happening in our communities? Why is this happening to what we can rightly define as essential workers and contributors to our communities and economy?
Some might say that as immigrants, they are probably undocumented and living illegally in this nation. However, the COVID-19 pandemic is a human condition, not a political issue. Their status continues to marginalize them and force them to live in the shadows, while they perform essential labor in agriculture, hotels, restaurants, meat industries and our homes.
They work in unprotected environments because of need. They serve us, yet we do not protect them. Thus, it is not surprising that they are disproportionally exposed to the coronavirus.
In addition to living in the shadows on limited income, many immigrants find it necessary to share housing. A common living situation for them is multi-generational households, where children, adults and the elderly share crowded housing conditions. Adults go out to work in the morning and come back not knowing if they are infected. These crowded housing conditions are what many immigrants can afford due to their employment opportunities.
The industries in which many immigrants work are not known for extensive environmental protection and testing. Crowded working conditions are ripe for spreading the virus.
It must also be noted that Latino immigrants continue to engage in cultural practices such as activities with extended families and family social gatherings such as weddings, birthdays and baptisms. It is difficult for many to fully understand the seriousness of this situation.
My son reports that at least two married Latino couples died at his hospital. In another case, the virus has spread to other members of the family. In other words, employers, media, communications, churches and other sources of information may not be educating immigrants effectively on the threat of the coronavirus. Language and communication are critical for communicating life and death matters.
The church is in an opportune position to address many of these issues. Some of the employers of this vulnerable population sit in our pews and may even be leaders in the church. In addition, community leaders in the political and governmental structures of our communities are members of our churches.
It is imperative that the church inform and educate its membership with regard to the vulnerability of the immigrants within our communities. The church needs to educate and inform its members and leaders in the broader community on the health consequences for immigrants who work in essential industries but are not provided protection, health care or proper housing.
Where congregations support or are related to immigrant ministries, special initiatives are needed to combat the virus through education, provision of health care, adequate housing and support of Latino immigrants. Partner churches, annual conferences, church agencies and other church- related entities must be more proactive in addressing the vulnerability of immigrants.
Does The United Methodist Church have an integrated plan to address this issue? What United Methodist agency or body is responding to this human issue?
The vulnerability and disproportionate suffering of immigrants in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic is real and painful. Death and painful suffering have become a family and Latino community reality.
Immigrants are paying the price for our neglect and social injustice of not protecting workers, not providing incomes to provide for adequate housing and especially in not providing information critical for the survival of this hidden community.
Maldonado is a retired elder from the former Rio Grande Conference and Perkins School of Theology. He and his spouse, Charlotte, live in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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It's the strangest thing, but it turns out that authors like to play with language. And more often than not this playfulness translates directly into translator migraines. Today I'm working on a fun little food-themed essay-story by Yoko Tawada entitled "Okonomiyaki," and she leads off with an exchange about protein – which in German is most commonly referred to as Eiweiß or "egg white." There's a historical explanation for this: albumin from egg whites (which themselves are also called albumen – both from "albus," the Latin word for "white") was among the first proteins discovered back in the 18th century. In the Tawada piece, she describes an exchange in which her narrator informs a German interlocutor that, gram for gram, tofu contains more protein than chicken. That's impossible, he responds: Soybeans don't lay eggs. Where's the Eiweiß supposed to come from?
So the question for me is: Where's the humor supposed to come from? Explaining a joke is a surefire way to kill it, but without explanation this joke would be stillborn anyhow. The easiest way around the problem would be to add an explanatory footnote, but no one likes footnotes in translations, particularly when the thing being footnoted is the punch-line of a joke. My strategy in cases like this is generally to smuggle into the translation just as much additional information as is needed to allow the reader to follow; ideally, the interpolation will be seamless, elegant and unobtrusive. In this particular case, I am considering two different lines of approach, one that is more historical, and one that is more linguistic. The latter is more obviously justified here, since other forms of linguistic playfulness show up elsewhere in the essay. For example, there's a bit where Tawada describes a "Kammmuschel" (queen scallop) in such a way that it soon becomes clear she's describing the word itself: it "has two pillars and three ms in its shell." In my version, that bit now reads: "The scallop has two pillars in the middle of its shell." It doesn't really matter that my scallop loses the "queen" in its name – it's not a queen in German anyhow, it's a comb – since the only reason Tawada chose that particular form of scallop was the unpronounceable three ms in the middle of its name. It's only fairly recently that one finds triple consonants in German words: only since the national spelling reform of 1996 (which served primarily to make the written language uglier, if you ask me). Before this, whenever the creation of compound nouns produced triplets, one would always be pleasantly elided, so that e.g. the word "bedsheet" (Bett + Tuch) would be written Bettuch and not – as it is now – Betttuch, which to me looks like something that belongs in a cemetery. Because these triple consonants are relatively new in German, you really notice them when they turn up, which is why I think Tawada was inspired to riff on the structure of this word. But I digress. Here are my two just-now-brainstormed options for handling the Eiweiß passage:
Human life is a coming and going of proteins. Once I remarked to an acquaintance in Frankfurt that 100 grams of tofu contain more protein than 100 grams of chicken.
He shook his head in denial and said: That's impossible. Soybeans don't lay eggs. The most important proteins are albumins. Albumins come from albumen, the white of the egg. Where is this albumin supposed to come from?
Since Germans use the word Eiweiß (egg white) to mean "protein," he shook his head in denial and said: That's impossible. Soybeans don't lay eggs. Where is the egg white supposed to come from?
I'm leaning toward the second option. What do you think?
Posted By Susan Bernofsky 9 Comments »
Kingsley Le Corbusier says:
No, the first. It makes him seem a bit pompous, and thus the joke better.
Son of Food says:
I like the second, because it signals it as a language joke, rather than a joke about protien.
Polish has the same problem–"białko" or "white" for "protein." I learned this from a Mexican friend in Poland who was discussing diet with a physical trainer, who emphasized that "białko" was the most important element of a good diet for building muscle. At first he thought the trainer was some sort of fanatic about eating egg whites.
Ask Rabassa. He's good at these kinds of problems.
David Goldfarb
dorian stuber says:
I like B. Don't know the context, so can't say for sure, but if the narrator is not German, as you seem to suggest, then the second rendering has the benefit of reminding readers again of her foreignness.
love the blog, btw!
schultzie says:
I think the first works better – it brings out his pedantry, which is the source of the joke in the original. The second reads like you are trying to explain the punchline without actually giving it.
Having said all that, the bit that stuck out for me was "coming and going" in "Human life is a coming and going of proteins." The register doesn't seem right – I think it more likely that someone would say "Human life is a constant flux of proteins" or such like. That's my two cents worth, anyway. 😉
No, I take that back. The register could be ok, but "coming and going" klingt nicht (or is it just that NZ English is different?). Perhaps "to'ing and fro'ing", but that misses the in-out 'flow' sense which I suspect is underlying the "coming and going" … perhaps to satisfy my own sense of language, and resistance to sticking to the original question, I'd suggest "Human life is [just] a flow of proteins in and out." But that sux too. Damn, that's why literacy translation belongs in a Fine Arts degree, oder?
The Catalan Center says:
I like B because it's simpler and retains the humor. I think A would be hard to follow for someone who hadn't read your previous explanation. And I agree with Stuber about underlining the foreignness of the narrator. Nice work on the scallops, btw.
Susan Bernofsky says:
Thanks for the feedback, folks. Yoko Tawada has herself now weighed in, and she votes for option B, which was also my preference. It's not that authors are always right about translation choices, or that you necessarily need their permission to do things, but sometimes I like to check in with an author when I'm playing rough and loose with her text. I'm still fiddling with the first line as well – one current option on the table is "Human life is a give and take of proteins." But she really did write "coming and going," so I might wind up returning to that.
I like "give and take".