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Deportivo de La Coruña B, ook bekend als Fabril is een voetbalclub uit Spanje. Het is het tweede elftal van de Spaanse club Deportivo de La Coruña. Thuisstadion is het El Mundo del Fútbol in A Coruña dat een capaciteit heeft van 3.000 plaatsen.

Geschiedenis
In 1914 werd Fabril Sociedad Deportiva opgericht in A Coruña. In 1954 promoveerde de club, met Luis Suárez destijds in het team, vanuit de lagere divisies naar de Tercera División. Aan het eind van de jaren vijftig kwam Fabril in een zware economische crisis en er werd een overeenkomst gesloten met stadsgenoot Deportivo de La Coruña. Fabril werd voortaan het tweede elftal van deze club onder de naam Fabril Deportivo. In 1964 behaalde het team de play-offs voor promotie naar de Segunda División, maar zonder succes. In 1991 promoveerde Fabril van de Tercera División naar de Segunda División B. In 1993 veranderde de naam van het team officieel naar Real Club Deportivo de La Coruña B. de play-offs voor promotie naar de Segunda División A werden gehaald in 1997 en 1998,
wederom zonder succes. In 1999 volgde de degradatie naar de Tercera División. Pas in 2007 keerde het team terug op het derde Spaanse niveau, de Segunda División B. In 2009 degradeerde het team naar de Tercera División, waar het echter direct de promotie naar de Segunda División B kon afdwingen.

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Externe link
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Gas companies want to profit off Iowans
Tuesday, Mar 23 2021
AngelisaIEC
Michael Schmidt, staff attorney for the Iowa Environmental Council, wrote this post, which first appeared on that organization's blog. -promoted by Laura Belin
This legislative session has kept the Iowa Environmental Council busy, in part because of a bill that would protect gas company profits at the expense of Iowa customers. House File 555 and its companion, Senate File 455, would hurt Iowans by stopping cities and counties from protecting their local residents from dangerous gas infrastructure, high energy bills, and polluting fossil fuels.
The bill would prevent cities and counties from passing anything to "restrict, impede, regulate, or prohibit" provision of methane ("natural") gas or propane service. The bill language is so broad that it would prohibit local governments from protecting schools, hospitals, and residents from safety issues related to siting of dangerous methane and propane gas infrastructure. Meanwhile, no city or county in Iowa has even proposed banning gas or propane. Instead of fixing problems, the bill creates them.
In addition to the safety concerns, the recent polar vortex showed the problems reliance on gas can present. Demand for gas spikes during cold-weather emergencies because it is used for both electricity and home heating. Cedar Falls Utilities reported a price spike for gas of over 100 times their normal price during the Texas outages. Now Cedar Falls Utilities customers will have to pay at least $450 over the rest of the year for the higher costs. MidAmerican will raise customer bills, too. And having a gas furnace doesn't mean you have heat in a power outage – the fan to circulate the air requires electricity.
The clear alternative is to build a resilient grid, boost local energy supplies and smart grid infrastructure, and allow buildings not to rely on gas. It is not only feasible thanks to electric heat pumps, but also cheaper. Many Iowans already heat their homes using only electricity. Long-term, as our electric grid is powered by more clean electricity sources, we will benefit from electrification: switching from gas (which has unavoidable greenhouse gas emissions) to electricity.
Perhaps not surprisingly, the bill is part of a pattern of bills in states around the country driven by out-of-state interests. Gas utility lobbyists have been pushing bills in a dozen state legislatures around the country to prevent local governments from deciding to move to clean electricity in buildings. The efforts are designed to ensure gas utilities maintain their monopolies despite the rapidly-falling price of renewable energy.
The Iowa Utility Association claimed local bans on gas would cost Iowans billions of dollars to implement, assuming replacement of every gas appliance in the state. But nobody is proposing to do that – local ordinances in other states focus on new construction.
Unfortunately, some of these lobbying efforts are paid for by gas customers, including in Iowa. In Alliant Energy's last rate case, one of IEC's witnesses testified that dues for the Iowa Utility Association – which is actively lobbying for the bills here and spoke in favor of the bill at a subcommittee – were not excluded from customer bills in the final settlement (to which IEC was a party). Whether such dues are included in rates should not be an issue that is up for debate in the first place and IEC is requesting more transparency about these types of lobbying efforts in customer rates.
Meanwhile, the American Gas Association has been creating new campaigns to promote using gas, even as science shows gas cooking produces poor air quality. It's clear they are working to maximize their profits, and not to help Iowans breathe cleaner air, save money, and address climate change.
Contact your legislator using our action alert page and tell them to oppose these harmful bills.
Editor's note from Laura Belin: The Iowa House approved this bill on March 15 by 57 votes to 36, mostly along party lines. Democrats Brian Meyer, Wes Breckenridge, and Steve Hansen voted with most of the Republicans in favor. GOP Representatives Brian Best, Dustin Hite, and Brian Lohse voted with most of the Democrats against.
The Senate passed the bill by 29 votes to 16 on March 29. As in the lower chamber, a few lawmakers crossed party lines. Democratic Senators Jim Lykam and Kevin Kinney supported the bill, while Republican Mark Lofgren opposed it.
Tags: 2021 session, Advocacy, Alliant Energy, analysis, Brian Best, Brian Lohse, Brian Meyer, Commentary, Dustin Hite, Energy, Environment, Iowa Environmental Council, Iowa House, Iowa Senate, Jim Lykam, Kevin Kinney, Land Use, Lobbying, Local Government, Mark Lofgren, MidAmerican Energy, news, State Legislature, Steve Hansen, Wes Breckenridge
Thank you for sharing this good essay
I continue to be very grateful to the good determined Iowa NGOs that are fighting a continuing onslaught of awful bills introduced for awful reasons. The IEC is one of those good organizations.
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Is iPhone The New Gaming Platform?
Om Malik Jul 21, 2008 - 9:30 AM CDT
Last July, at the time of the launch of the new iPhone, we asked the question, where are the iPhone games? Looks like we have an answer: they are coming, and in a big way. Of course, you can already buy Tetris and grab Tap Tap Revenge, the No. 1 free app, for, well, free, but the big commercial games are going to be hitting the iTunes App store soon, according to news coming out of the E3 game conference down in LA.
As BusinessWeek points out, Apple made a big splashdown at E3 without even clocking in a presence. That reminds me of its looming presence at the CES trade show every year without setting a foot in Las Vegas. Electronic Arts executives said they're going to be making Spore, Tiger Woods & Need For Speed for the iPhone platform. SEGA America president Simon Jeffery pointed out that iPhone was as powerful as the Dreamcast player. SEGA has released Sega Super Monkey Ball and plans on releasing more games.
We aren't surprised, and we have consistently said that iPhone could cause a major tremor in the mobile gaming market. According to data collected by Cellufun, AOL's designated mobile game portal, "iPhone gamers are generating four times the number of page views" or about "an average of 21 minutes of game play and 65 page views per iPhone player session, compared to 11 minutes and 15 page views for sessions on other phones." Wagner had predicted that the Nintendo DS and iPhone are most certainly on a collision course, and looks like he is right on track. I think iPhone is going to eat into handheld console revenues, at the same time reignite interest in mobile games.
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26 Responses to "Is iPhone The New Gaming Platform?"
John July 22, 2008
Maybe it has a chance of meeting the hype within the phone realm for game sales but I can't see it reaching anything near the 20 million sales of the DS (US since launch). Why? I'm not sure 12 year olds and iPhones are exactly in competition nor will they want to pay up for another rush back the 8 bit console age to play the "latest" thing that's their parents grew up with. Every two months the subscription to the iPhone would pay for a new DS or several games to keep one going. Then there's the power issues which alone should kill off the Iphone as a serious flight/ road trip candidate. ( sans a mess of adapters)
Really seems like a case of comparing Apples to … :)
kevin July 22, 2008
I'm not impressed by the games I have seen now.
paul July 22, 2008
Where Apple have been smart is in how people can buy games. Mobile games to date have been most successful on platforms like BREW where it's easy to buy and install a game. On Java, it's a pain, and on Symbian it usually involves downloading to a PC first. Both put off buyers and lead to unfinished transactions. Because it's so easy to get games for the iPhone and because development is a breeze compared to other platforms, I can see a lot of games appearing. Whether it's good business or not is another matter.
Even though the iPhone ships in millions, it's still small beer compared to the billion other handsets that ship each year, so will it provide a big enough ecosystem for many players? It's pretty tough making money from mobile games, so although the hit rate is good at the moment on the iPhone, is this just new device euphoria where people buy a new game to go with their phone, or will it maintain momentum and provide a fertile enough ground for the bug guys to get a decent return?
Also, the price you can charge for a game depends on the public perception of the platform. The iPhone is a phone, so people don't expect to pay more than a few dollars for a game, or probably expect it to be free. The DS and PSP are dedicated game devices, so gamers expect to pay a lot more. So, whilst we might see a ton of games arriving and being installed, whether that equates to a longer term good platform for monetizing game IP is another matter.
The big impact as far as I can see is that other manufacturers will start to include 3D in higher end phones more often. As a longer terms speculation, we might even see ARM, who supply the processor design, will emulate what Intel did on the PC and just bundle in graphics, making it a commodity, not a special feature.
Simon Newstead July 21, 2008
iPhone is a great platform for a certain type of casual game, but to say that it will kill the DS seems a bit of a stretch.
Without a stylus, control buttons, voice activation there are a lot of games that would be much harder to do well.. eg- Nintendogs, Brain Training, Ninja Gaiden.
@Dan, I tried a couple of FPS on the first gen jail-broken iPhone and found them near impossible to control. As a proof of concept great, but as a workable game..not really. Any new ones that have managed to solve this problem?
Dan Templin July 21, 2008
@ben; The iPhone is hardly limited to accelerometer only games, that's just what most of the games made so far are utlitizing, much like Wii games tend to utilize the motion sensors over the normal buttons-only approach. It can be very much the same with the DS… and as far as precision goes, the accelerometer is actually quite responsive in the games i've played. Another thing going for Apple is the fact the iPhone has a rumble pak basically, which could make for soem awesome FPS games.
@michaelportent; It's possible that the game development might not be relegated to casual gamers. I'm curious to see how Bioshock works out, that might end up being what helps to decide how feasible the iPhone is for serious gaming. What people are failing to factor in is that the SDK is free, making it quite a bit easier to obtain than the dev kits for the other two handhelds.
michaelportent July 21, 2008
The iPhone/iPod Touch is certainly gonna have a hell of an install base for developers to sell to, but I just don't see it being anything more than a casual gaming platform (puzzle games, etc.).
Joseph July 21, 2008
Ben, the iPhone is the best browsing experience. And I disagree, the i{hone may be top Mobile Internet Browser, Digital Media Player, gaming… for MOBILE. Don't forget, we're talking in the mobile domain.
Ben Beltran July 21, 2008
As a gamer, I don't see the iphone as a gaming platform. It's very limited, the controls for most games depend on tilting the thing, which is really ineffective and imprecise.
At most, it will become the best cellphone for casual gamers, but the "hardcore" still would prefer a PSP, or a DS (depending on genre preferences) for their needs.
The whole iPhone fad and such is making people talk about it as if it was the one gadget to rule them all: PDA, Phone, Mobile Internet Browser, Digital Media Player, etc… But it's not the best at all (or any) of them… It's just has all of them in one package.
It's not the best PDA, not the best phone and not the best audio player because of lack of essential features… As well, it will not be a gaming platform to be taken seriously imo.
But then again, it wasn't meant to be the best at any of those things. And its versatility/style is what sells.
Jack C July 21, 2008
Agree. Every since I upgraded by kid's iTouch and bought them some games from App Stores, they have not touched their DS.
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Brian Hilton Motor Group is honoured to announce it has acquired a new segment to the Brian Hilton Motor Group family, RCA (Recreational Car Accessories will now be include under the umbrella of Brian Hilton.
RCA has been providing exceptional service and quality accessories to the growing automotive industry on the Central Coast. With a continuing local ownership and the employment of local people, RCA is firmly embedded in the dynamic culture of our large region and has a common interest with the customer base that supports the business. That is, to keep things local while conducting business ethically and with consideration of the Coasts families, business's and services.
Over the past nine years RCA has worked passionately to forge strong relationships with the largest and most desirable brands of aftermarket accessories for 4WD's, SUV's and indeed all types of vehicles. With the support of such synonymous brands as, ARB, Rhino Rack, Hayman Reese, Thule, Redarc and Drivetech 4x4 it is safe to say that RCA has you covered for whatever lifestyle or adventure that you may desire.
1967 – Brian Hilton Pty Ltd began trading, selling vehicles at North Gosford.
1968 – Appointed Renault and Peugeot Dealer for the Central Coast.
1970 – Became one of the leading Peugeot Dealers in New South Wales.
1972 – Brian Hilton was granted the Toyota franchise. A new Dealership was built at 470 Pacific Highway and Brian Hilton Toyota became a landmark to locals as a leading Central Coast Dealer.
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2000 – A Service Centre was opened in Woy Woy for our customers located in the Peninsula area.
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2008 – Franchise Group expanded once more, including Ssangyong.
2010 – Alfa Romeo franchise became a part of Brian Hilton Motor Group shortly after.
2012 – Renault franchise became part of the Brian Hilton Family.
2014 - Brian Hilton expands into the Sydney market! Acquiring Sydney Motor Group.
2015 – Expanding the product line of Brian Hilton once again, acquiring Central Coast RCA (Recreational Car Accessories).
2015 – Today Brian Hilton is the largest new and Used dealer on the Central Coast.


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Should COVID-19 usher in the age of personal responsibility in healthcare?
Danielle J. Durant, PhD, MBA, MS, Austin Klein
True population health change will not occur until people are incentivized to take responsibility for their own health.
"Will I have to tell someone we can't treat a loved one because we're out of ventilators, oxygen, tubes, masks, hospitals, staff? Will we then impose an age limit, as some hospitals…are considering, or will some notion of 'deservingness' come into play?"
"For years, health care workers have been raising the alarm that the [system] is in crisis — calling on the government for better funding for our hospitals and better working conditions for ourselves."
While this may sound like the voice of a stressed, frontline healthcare worker in the US, as they deal with a broken healthcare system in the fight against COVID-19, in actuality, these are quotes directly from the New York Times Op-Ed, I'm a Doctor in Britain. We're Heading Into the Abyss. Despite the very public struggles of government-sponsored healthcare systems, like the National Health Service in the UK, to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, the situation has revived emphatic calls for a move to a national healthcare system here in the United States. According to an article in The Guardian, America's extreme neoliberal healthcare system is putting the country at risk; they claim "single-payer healthcare can't prevent a novel virus like COVID-19 but it could help us plan, coordinate and save lives."
If countries similar to the US also proved ill-prepared for the COVID-19 pandemic, experiencing serious shortages in staff and supplies as a result of a surge in demand, why is the current pandemic a good argument for moving to a national healthcare system? The ability of a healthcare system to respond adequately during any pandemic will always be directly related to the severity of the illness, which determines demand for healthcare services. On October 6th, 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revised their guidance on people who are at increased risk of a severe illness from COVID-19 to include adults who are obese, overweight, and those who smoke or have a history of smoking. Also included on the list of risk factors are chronic diseases, such as heart disease and type II diabetes.
Obesity makes it more difficult to breathe, requires scarce specialized equipment and manpower, and uses higher quantities of drugs and other transient medical goods. Diabetes makes it much more difficult and labor intensive to manage a patient on a ventilator. Their lack of control over their blood concentrations and sensitivity to medication can lead to difficult to treat medical conditions like acidosis. For heart disease patients, COVID-19 can attack and further weaken the heart muscle, lead to blood clots, and causes the heart to work faster and harder as the respiratory system is damaged.
An argument in favor of a national healthcare system in response to COVID-19 might make sense if countries with such systems performed better for obesity and these chronic conditions, and they do, but only marginally so. Obesity rates for adults 18-years and older in the US is a whopping 37% but Australia, Canada, and the UK closely follow at 30%, 31%, and 30%, respectively. For a point of comparison, Japan, which has fared remarkably well during the pandemic, despite criticism over the Japanese government's handling of the outbreak, has an obesity rate of just 4%. There is a similar story for type II diabetes: 9.1% for the US, and 7.3%, 7.2%, and 7.7% for the aforementioned anglosphere countries, and cardiovascular diseases: 30% for the US, and 28%, 25%, and 25% for the others.
Obesity, overweight, and chronic conditions, such as cardiovascular disease and type II diabetes, are largely the result of individual health behaviors, like food choices and level of physical activity, and not genetics. But what incentive does someone have to adopt healthy behaviors if the cost of any resulting healthcare they might need is covered by a third-party payer, government or private? Perhaps this is why, according to the Milken Institute, treatment for chronic health conditions totaled $1.1 trillion in the US in 2016, equivalent to nearly 6% of GDP. Similarly, 70% of healthcare spending in the UK is spent on treating long-term conditions. In all four countries discussed, the US, Australia, Canada, and the UK, and globally, rates of chronic disease are increasing at an alarming rate. Across the world, health systems focused on "sick care" are unprepared and unequipped to promote healthy lifestyles, which has resulted in high levels of the discussed COVID-19 cofactors throughout the world.
Despite the obvious role of the individual in determining their health status, healthcare reform efforts in the US have primarily focused on changing physician and provider reimbursements to improve their incentives for providing the "right" care. While this is a step in the right direction, true population health change, and we can now add to this pandemic resilience, will not occur until people are incentivized to take responsibility for their own health and adopt healthy behaviors. Moving to a national healthcare system would only serve to weaken these incentives, as everyone becomes eligible for care paid for by the collective.
However, healthcare is not immune to the issue of scarcity. As populations get sicker, national healthcare systems will have to develop new and creative ways to ration healthcare services and control demand; the scope of healthcare will have to broaden into health behaviors, and a government monopoly on healthcare will thus necessitate its involvement in the everyday lifestyle choices of its citizens. What form will that take? It might start out small, such as a tax on sugary beverages, which have been enacted in some US cities, and may advance to banning the sale of junk food, which we have seen occur recently in other countries. These restrictions could feasibly infiltrate healthcare services more directly, for example, BMI ceilings for those needing bypass surgery. While this may seem like a dark, dystopian future, these mechanisms are already put in place for really scarce resources. Consider organ transplants where the "deservingness" of the patient is always a factor in deciding which life to save.
The very real fears of the doctor expressed at the start of this piece, being put in a position of deciding "who gets care" as a result of COVID-19, could become the "new normal" under national healthcare systems that create collective accountability for the outcomes of individual actions. When health status today is so dependent upon individual choices in lifestyle, such a system promises nothing more than moral and financial bankruptcy. The US healthcare system is definitely flawed, but national healthcare systems are not the "silver bullet" they have been made out to be for curing what truly ails us. Perhaps, as we consider further healthcare reform in this election year, the legacy of COVID-19 should be to usher in the age of personal responsibility in healthcare.
Danielle J. Durant, PhD, MBA, MS, is Assistant Professor of Healthcare Management at Widener University and Austin Klein is a MD/MBA-HCM student at Sidney Kimmel Medical College & Widener University.
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Q: how to fetch all customers in spring and hibernate using session This is my CustomerDao class,
there are two methods one is save()(its working well) and allCustomer()(this is not working).
I want to fetch all the customers
@Repository
public class CustomerDao {

@Autowired
private SessionFactory sessionFactory;

    public Serializable save(Customer customer) {
        return sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().save(customer);
    }

    public ArrayList allCustomer() {
        System.out.println("dnbf8uds");

        Session session = sessionFactory.openSession();
        System.out.println("dnbf8uds");
        org.hibernate.Query query = session.createQuery("from Customer");

        List<Customer> customers = query.list();

        ArrayList list = new ArrayList();

        for (Customer c : customers) {
            System.out.println(c);
            list.add(c);
        }
        return list;
    }
}

this is the error
I created a main java class to check the methods:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
    at app.dao.CustomerDao.allCustomer(CustomerDao.java:37)
    at test.test.main(test.java:24)
Java Result: 1

A: I suspect that your test.java class is not Spring maintained, so the injection of CustomerDao does not work. Even if you initialize the dao in it with
CustomerDao dao = new CustomerDao();

you are out of Spring context too, you can't instantiate it with the new keyword, it must be injected by Spring, that's why your sessionFactory is null.

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I wrote this on my way to The Nation's Journalism Conference in NYC.
There are ultimately two trails journalism can take that will begin presently — only begin — under the Trump era. One is that journalism will delve deeper into false equivalency and rely on constituents and access to officials to sustain itself. The other is that it will double-down, joining in solidarity across publications and become strict watch-dogging truth-tellers.
It won't be easy. Polls show the general public wants a more dogged media and is skeptical of the government. But the profession's definition of journalism needs to change, in fact already somewhat has, and become known.
The public needs to understand that journalists are overworked, underpaid, and traditionally blue-collar, unlike their governmental rich, golfing counterparts. Journalism isn't elitist — though it currently can act that way, undermining its own legitimacy, which needs to change.
Journalism is founded in the constitutional protections of The People. As such, journalism has copious case law behind it such that the dissemination of falsities, or "alternative facts," that cause reputation-based, occupational, educational harm to a person and/or their livelihood will result in a successful lawsuit. Real journalists and their organizations face direct risks, like their publication shutting down completely due to a lawsuit(___ Bollea v Gawker). A journalist, their boss, their coworkers, and their friends are all put at risk the moment a law is broken or a fact is wrong.
This, however, does bring into question how on earth outlets like Breitbart continue to exist. Because real news, facts (unlike Breitbart), have to be so accurate and undeniable that they must equate to literal court-issued evidence for publication.
But this Trump era now demands journalism to be what it should've been all along: un-bargainable, accurate watchogs without false equivalency and without concern about access to officials.
This, however, requires the public to step up and monetarily back the press such that it no longer has to be a part of the machine, satisfying political and elite (corporate) constituents. Again, it must also become clear for the public what a journalist is. Journalism is a professional thorough practice. Journalists know how to make public records requests (PDRs, PDAs, FOIAs) and how to comb through them once they're received. Journalists know how to data mine, compile, and use various platforms (twitter, video, audio, print, broadcast) effectively. Journalists hold to ethical guidelines, produced by the Society of Professional Journalists. Journalists know how to tell when information is missing from data, press releases, recounts, records, stories.
The public needs to know what a journalist's job entails, and be able to recognize if that's being done and remove support when it is not. In other words, journalism needs the public to be media literate. And, in turn, journalism needs to cut the crap and pull back the veil, create solidarity, and stop being a governmental, machine-centered mouth piece.


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Q: Get Instance Lifecycle via AWS CLI When navigating to the Auto Scaling Groups section of the EC2 Management Console, we can see information about the EC2 instances for each Auto Scaling Groups.
If you take a look at the image below:

How can I get the value of the field highlighted in green (Lifecycle) using the Instance ID via the AWS CLI?
I already tried the following command:
aws ec2 describe-instance-status --instance-ids <some instance ID>

But that does not provide me with the value in that field.

A: Try to use aws autoscaling describe-auto-scaling-instances
Usage:
aws autoscaling describe-auto-scaling-instances --instance-ids i-4ba0837f

Output:
{
    "AutoScalingInstances": [
        {
            "ProtectedFromScaleIn": false,
            "AvailabilityZone": "us-west-2c",
            "InstanceId": "i-4ba0837f",
            "AutoScalingGroupName": "my-auto-scaling-group",
            "HealthStatus": "HEALTHY",
            "LifecycleState": "InService",
            "LaunchConfigurationName": "my-launch-config"
        }
    ]
}

Bonus:
If you wanna get the LifecycleState value as a string, use the following command :
aws autoscaling  describe-auto-scaling-instances --instance-ids INSTANCE_ID --query "AutoScalingInstances[].LifecycleState"  --output text


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Cartyzen coming to The Tire Cologne ahead of European launch
Date: 18th April 2018 Author: Stephen Goodchild Comments: 0
Jorge Crespo (l), general manager of Zenises, and Javier Iglesias, general manager of Cartyzen
Introduced at Tire Technology Expo in February, the Zenises Group's Cartyzen tyre subscription service will gain further exposure at The Tire Cologne next month through its presentation by Harjeev Kandhari, chief executive officer of Zenises.
Spain recently became the first market where the Cartyzen tyre replacement and maintenance service has been rolled out, and Zenises reports that so far it has been "highly successful" there. Cartyzen will now be showcased at the Cologne trade fair as part of Zenises' intention to expand the service at a European level.
As a subscription service, Cartyzen provides protection against any tyre-related incidents, such as gradual wear, tear of the tread, punctures or accidental damage through tyre replacement and substitution that can be contracted via a monthly subscription service. Zenises says this flat-rate model is specially aimed for millennials, middle-aged men and women, and even retirees that seek "comfort, safety, profitability and simplicity."
More than 800 workshops and centres have signed up as Cartyzen partners in Spain, and subscribers have access to this network as well as telephone assistance through local partner RACE (the Royal Automobile Club of Spain) 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in order to manage any incident related to the contracted tyres. The cost to Spanish motorists for tyres and insurance through Cartyzen starts at 4.95 euros a month per tyre.
To promote the new subscription model, Cartyzen has already announced its sponsorship of four Spanish athletes, and it intends to accompany them on the path to Tokyo 2020. The quartet will feature prominently on the Cartyzen stand at The Tire Cologne.
"Athletes are the best example of discipline and motivation, and we really appreciate those values," comments Harjeev Kandhari. "Like them, we are determined to get to the top with effort and commitment. We are currently receiving good feedback, which is why I am so proud to present this new flat-rate concept to the general public. Some investors are already showing great interest, and we just got started. I can imagine how this can become an even bigger success in the not too distant future."
Visitors to The Tire Cologne can find Cartyzen in Hall 7C, Stand 065.
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Horncastle Group welcomes ERYC announcement on Brough relief road
The Horncastle Group PLC has welcomed news that work on phase three of the Brough relief road could get underway this year.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council announced that they are seeking planning permission for the £6.5m development, and that subject to approval, work could start in the new financial year, which gets underway on April 1st.
The road will ease town-centre congestion by linking the southern point of Skillings Lane with Moor Road, meaning that once completed, traffic will no longer be confined to the current town centre route.
It will also provide better access to the Enterprise Zone and facilitate the ongoing development of Brough South.
Richard Lewis, civil engineering services manager at East Riding Council, said: "Phase three of the Brough Relief Road is an important infrastructure development as it would improve access to the Humber Enterprise Park Enterprise Zone and would also open up an area of land for mixed use development as part of the Brough South project led by the Horncastle Group.
"The scheme is anticipated to cost around £6.5m, with funding being obtained from a number of sources – including from a bid to the Local Growth Fund, which is administered by the Humber Local Enterprise Partnership.
"Subject to planning approval and successful funding bids, the council would seek to start work on site during the next financial year with a programme of works that would likely complete in 2020."
Ian Hodges, managing director of the Horncastle Group PLC, welcomed the news.
He said: "Phase Three is an integral part of Brough South and will provide a much-improved access to the Humber Enterprise Park. We are delighted the Council are working with us to facilitate its early delivery."
Angela Leeman2019-06-26T05:31:51+00:00March 6th, 2019|News|
Water voles return to Brough South
Big thank you to Brough residents for helping to protect ground nesting birds


Fish and marine mammals are already moving north as sea temperature rises: 'We were astounded by the scale of ocean warming effects on entire ecosystems,' scientists write.
Climate change is no longer controversial. Nor is ocean warming. The tropical belt has been expanding, and don't be distracted by fluctuations or Republicans. Moreover, you can find out what else is in store now that a group of 80 scientists from 12 nations has described how the warming of our seas has, and will, affect our lives.
The phenomenon of warming oceans has been somewhat obscured by random fluctuations and our yearning to pretend this isn't happening. But it is. The mean global temperature of the ocean is expected to increase by 1 to 4 degrees by the year 2100, according to the mega-study "Explaining ocean warming: Causes, scale, effects and consequences," compiled by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
"We were astounded by the scale and extent of ocean warming effects on entire ecosystems made clear by this report," says the coeditor of the 460-page report, Dan Laffoley.
The effects of ocean warming already here, and likely future ones include more and stronger super-storms, and the decimation of maritime life as we know it. Experts also expect parasite-borne diseases like malaria and Zika to explode, as pathogens from bacteria to toxic algae proliferate in the warmer clime: Actually, that is already happening.
In fact, all these changes are happening fast. Half of the increase in the mean global ocean temperature since 1865 happened in the last 20 years, according to a January 2016 paper in Nature Climate Change. Moreover, the "warming signal" is reaching deeper into the ocean, wrote the head researcher, Peter Gleckler of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
Even the low-emissions scenario (which is considered unlikely) will profoundly affect marine life, from micro-organisms like plankton to marine mammals like whales and polar bears, according to the report. The big mammals, from whales to walruses, are considered to be especially vulnerable to temperature change.
One consequence that does seem clear is that coral, actually a sensitive animal, is all but doomed, which is bad news for coastal populations: "Despite covering less than 0.1 percent of the sea floor area, coral reefs provide habitat for over 25 percent of marine fish species," states the report, adding that the latest models predict ocean warming causing annual coral bleaching at almost all reefs by 2050. Coral doesn't like changes in water temperature, depth or acidity, either, and the water is growing not only warmer, but more acid.
Forecasting is for the birds. But the likelihood of climate change bringing down hailstones the size of eggs is not small, while the likelihood that it will bring a rain of fairy godmothers can be deemed remote. The likely bottom-line scenario is that ocean warming will bring about catastrophes for which mankind is "completely unprepared," as Inger Andersen, director-general of the IUCN, put it, pleading that greenhouse gas emissions be cut "rapidly and substantially." Otherwise?
"The value of our relationship with the ocean sometimes seems difficult to cost, but is the ultimate relationship that enables life to exist on Earth," says the report. It is time to stop sticking our heads into the ever-hotter sand.
The climbing mean temperature of oceanic waters is already driving species from the microscopic plankton to jellyfish, turtles and seabirds northward, by up to 10 degrees of latitude. Breeding by coastal animals and birds is also being impaired.
The island nation of Japan, for instance, has intensely studied the rising water sea surface temperature and its correlation with the rising incidence, severity and density of jellyfish blooms. Part of the jellyfishes' northward move is ascribed to natural fluctuations, and part to anthropomorphic influences.
Japan isn't alone in experiencing changes in its waters. Temperatures in the shallow Mediterranean Sea, the "miniaturized ocean" on which Israel depends, have been rising especially dramatically since the 1980s, says the report by IUCN. The all-but-enclosed Mediterranean is, therefore, a great model for how climate change affects marine life and biodiversity.
Warming is bad for cold-water lovers: For one, Mediterranean sea fans are all but history. However, the warmth is marvelous for certain creatures: Indeed, hundreds of tropical species – including jellyfish arriving via the Suez Canal, for instance – have been gaining a fin-hold in the Mediterranean ecological cul-de-sac, spurring Israeli oceanographer Bella Galil to call it "a sea under siege." Scientists count at least eight alien species of jellies in the Mediterranean, including the harmless but huge Rhopilema nomadica that has become entirely too familiar to Israeli bathers – and power stations.
By changing fish habitats, leading susceptible species to move to cooler waters, warming oceans are affecting fish stocks. Unless you're into jellyfish soup, ultimately catches in the tropics are expected to be reduced, the researchers write.
In some places, such as the East Africa coastal waters and the western Indian Ocean, on top of overfishing and destructive fishing techniques, the warming has decimated the coral reefs on which the local fish depend. In Southeast Asia, marine harvests are expected to fall by 10 to 30 percent by 2050 relative to 1970-2000, because of changing fish demographics (that's under the high "business as usual" greenhouse gas-emission scenario), the IUCN report predicts.
Tropical and polar fish are especially vulnerable to climate change because they're less tolerant of shifts in environmental temperature. The tropics have become hot spots of ocean warming-driven local extinctions, and if the fish survive at all – they tend to be smaller.
As the scientists note, adverse effects are far likelier than new opportunities. The same applies to seabirds: There are those that will migrate north, but only to a certain degree. Climate change is blamed for decimating emperor penguin populations, which fell 50 percent because of reduced sea ice; rockhopper penguins at Campbell Island declined by 96 percent as sea temperature increased; ivory gull numbers fell 70 percent for the same reasons; Arctic skua breeding numbers in Scotland declined by 74 percent from 1986 to 2011. "Some populations may redistribute polewards, but scope for redistribution is limited," the paper states.
Here's another pretty sure forecast: more rain and storms, if not necessarily where we'd like them. Per degree of global warming, the number of severe hurricanes increases by around 25 to 30 percent, according to the report. Some scientists even expect the frequency of El Nino to increase.
Warming oceans are central to this trend, because more water evaporates from them, and must come down in the form of precipitation. One result has been increased rainfall in mid-latitudes and monsoon areas, and less rain in some subtropical regions. The Indian subcontinent in particular has been slammed by changes in ages-old monsoon patterns.
But life isn't fair and food production, including in North America, is under stress from extreme drought.
Then there's the danger of massive amounts of methane escaping from defrosting "prisons" on the seabed and far north. Methane is a greenhouse gas, and a massive release of it would just accelerate global warming, likely making super-storms all the more frequent and intense.
Can't anything be done? The only way to slow this process – it cannot be simply halted in its tracks any more – is to immediately decarbonize modern society. Stop using oil. Period. And meanwhile?
In the Middle East, the rainy season is winter. Last winter was relatively wet in Israel's arid south, and dry as a bone in the usually wetter Golan Heights. This winter is expected to be so rain-less, in the north and the south, that even though Israel obtains much of its water through desalination, some hydrologists warn that the levels in the freshwater Lake Kinneret and coastal aquifers could sink to dangerous new lows. It's also supposed to be hotter than usual, at least the first half of the winter. The second half is predicted to be colder. And dry as a bone.


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Changes to pre-charge bail, also known as police bail, came into force across England and Wales on 3 April 2017.
The Policing and Crime Act, which was given Royal Assent in January, introduced a number of changes to policing.
These include changes to the pre-charge bail process and means that the powers to release a suspect on bail have changed under the new legislation.
What do I need to know?
The changes to bail apply to all arrests made after midnight on Monday 3 April.
The biggest change is that there is now a presumption of release without bail unless strict criteria are met around necessity and proportionality.
The decision as to whether a suspect will be released on bail will be made on a case by case basis.
Three main bail periods
There are three main bail periods that can be authorised by police. These are as follows:
An initial bail period for 28 days authorised by an inspector;
An extension to the initial bail period, to three calendar months from the bail start date, authorised by a superintendent;
A further three calendar month extension, authorised by an assistant chief constable or commander. This extension only applies to exceptionally complex cases.
All other extensions to the bail period beyond this point will have to be authorised by a Magistrates' Court.
The changes to pre-charge bail do not affect the role of police in serving and protecting the public. The grounds for arresting an individual remain the same, crime will still be investigated fully and victims will continue to be supported.
Overview of the Policing and Crime Act 2017
The Policing and Crime Act includes provisions which, according to the Home Office, will:
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Third Finding of the Head of St. John the Forerunner
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The Third Finding of the Head of St. John the Forerunner is commemorated on May 25.
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The third discovery of the venerable head of the Holy Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John occurred in about the year 850. The head of St. John the Forerunner was found in the city of Emesia during a time of unrest at Constantinople connected with the exile of St. John Chrysostom.
In about 820 the head was transferred to Komana during the Saracen raids, and it was hidden in the ground during a period of iconoclastic persecution. When the veneration of icons was restored, Patriarch Ignatius (847-857) saw in a vision the place where the head of St. John was hidden. The patriarch informed the emperor, who sent the delegation that found the head.
The head was transferred to Constantinople, and on May 25 it was placed in a church at the court. Part of the head is on Mt. Athos.
The account of the first and second discoveries of the head of St. John the Forerunner are remembered by the Church on February 24.
Troparion (Tone 4) [1]
As a divine treasure hidden in the ground
Was your head revealed to us by Christ, O prophet and forerunner.
We have gathered in commemoration of this finding
With inspired hymns of praise to the Savior,
Who saves us from corruption through your prayers!
Kontakion (Tone 4) [2]
By giving your venerable head to a sinful woman,
Herod broke the law of God.
But we behold it and cry out for joy,
And say to you, O forerunner:
Pray to the Lord that He may grant mercy to us all!
Third Finding of the Honorable Head of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John (OCA)
Third Finding of the Precious Head of St. John the Baptist (GOARCH)
The Third Finding of the Head of John the Baptist (Prologue of Ohrid)
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We are making our way to Mt. Sinai.
Morah Tzivie showed us a Torah, we looked at all the Hebrew words.
The Torahis the special gift Hashem gave to the Jewish people.
It has all the mitzvahs we do and stories we tell.
Hashem gave us the Torah to help us be thoughtful, loving people.
Morah Tzivie shared a story about mountains.
Morah Tzivie: Hashem wanted to give the Jewish people his special gift, the Torah, on a mountain.
A mountain is strong, Hashem wants his people to be strong.
The mountains heard this and began to argue. They became boastful and braggy.
Isaac: You say things in a mean style.
Abigail: Stuff like: I'M SO PRETTY, I'M THE BEST.
Morah Tzivie: Bragging and being boastful is not very nice to hear.
Which mountain did Hashem give the Torah on?
Morah Tzivie: Why did he choose Mt. Sinai?
Morah Tzivie: Mt. Sinai thought to himself, "I am happy with who I am because Hashem made me. I am special because Hashem made me. I don't want to say hurtful things to my friends, I only want to say kind, thoughtful things".
Hashem wants us to be strong like a mountain, to be proud of who we are, BUT also kind and thoughtful.
For a couple of weeks, I have noticed an increase in this exact behavior.
At times during the day my friends have become braggy, and thoughtless of others.
In September, the children came to school eager to learn and create friendships.
As the year progressed, their skills and capabilities, as well as friendships strengthened.
With increased competency comes increased independence, confidence and self assurance.
The children should be proud of what they have accomplished.
As with all new phases, this greater sense of pride may need some polishing.
What may be "super easy" for one child now, may still be a challenge for another.
It is now our job as teachers to acknowledge the accomplishment, and help that child maintain humility.
We can guide the child's attention to their friend's face.
What do we see? Is their friend feeling sad? Is their friend excited that their buddy is an excellent counter?
Another way to say writing is super easy for you could be to say, I have been working on my writing and I am better now.
When I hear my friends being bossy: no you can't play with us, I wonder what caused such a declaration and encourage conversation.
Abigail: Natan why do you and Sroli never play with me anymore?
Natan: Well I don't like it when you boss me.
Abigail: So you are not my friend? You don't like me?
Natan: I like to play with you but you tell what to do. I don't like that.
Abigail: Well I do that because when my friends don't play with me I get sad. I'll not boss you today. will you play with me today?
Natan: Yes, I like playing ghost zombie with you, just don't boss me.
I told my friends that Shavout is one of my favorite holidays to celebrate with them.
I love listening to the story of the bragging mountains and thoughtful Mt Sinai.
Morah Katie: Do we behave like Mt. Sinai just while we get ready for Shavuot?
Morah Katie: Should we try to be like Mt. Sinai everyday?
Morah Katie: Is it easy to be thoughtful and kind all the time?
(silence) Sometimes it can be hard if we are tired, or hungry, maybe our feelings have been hurt. Should we just give up and be unkind? Should we keep trying?
Morah Katie: How can you be like Mt. Sinai today?
Abigail: I can invite a friend to play with me.
Anton: I can use nice words.
We began creating our own Mt. Sinai's.
We transformed a simple, sturdy "mountain"
into beautiful, but humble Mt. Sinai.
Morah Katie: I mistook many of you for Mt. Sinai today. Remind me, why I was mistaking you?
Abigail: I made a door so everyone could come on the pirate ship.
Natan: I helped put the wood blocks away.
Isaac: I wrote ה for Abigail. I made her art.
Judah: I shared my tzedakah with Olivia.
Olivia: I played with Judah.
Sroli: I helped clean up.
Anton: I helped clean up the blocks even though I played hockey at play time.
Morah Katie: YES! Now I remember, so many kind and thoughtful things happened today.


The fifi hook is an integral part of aid climbing; used to quickly connect oneself to gear and so provide a third hand. It's also invaluable for several tricks, such as tagging (used for roped solo climbing) and for retrievable abseils (a technique I daren't cover on this site, only to say it involes a single rope, a fifi and a length of bungee cord…and balls as big as the Dru!). The fifi is also highly useful for technical climbing, alpinism and mixed climbing, although its use comes at a moral price.
This short article looks at the fifi and how best to use it.
A fifi hook is an question mark shaped tool, usually small and generally stamped out of a sheet of steel, or forged out of alloy. It has a large hole at the bottom for connecting to ones harness and a smaller hole at the top for connecting a retrieval cord. It's basic function is to hook into gear and take ones weight. It offers very little strength, and due to it's open shape, requires a great deal of care when used.
This retrieval cord is used to pull the fifi off a placement easily, but many users don't realise this, meaning they fiddle around with their fingers in order to pull it off. This is either a small loop, or a single strand of cord tied at either end with a sliding double fisherman's knot (3mm perlon). A loop means you can clip the fifi out of the way, but personally I prefer a single strand about 10cm in length. For tagging a larger diameter cord need to be used (4-5mm) so this should be taken into account when buying, although for serous soloists the best option is to use Petzl's Fifi as this is designed for tagging. I will save the subject of tagging for another time!
The fifi is tied or larks footed to the belay loop. The length of extension between the fifi and the harness is important, and most people make this far too short, believing that a shorter loop will get them higher on a piece when aiding. In fact a longer loop (20-30cm) works best as it allows you to easily place and remove the fifi, and with the right technique you can still get high. Also having some distance will often mean you can step higher, with a short loop simply pulling you too close to the gear.
A longer length of connection also means the hook can be easily tucked into your waist belt when not needed, important when using it for emergencies.
Personally I use either 5mm cord, 5mm Dyneema or a 30 cm 8mm sling for this job (the 8mm sling is larks footed to the fifi then the harness, and allows me to remove it when it's no longer needed). For aid climbing the fifi is tied directly to my belay loop with an overhand knot, with a single strand going to the fifi, where it's attached with a sliding double fishermas knot. This creates a clean connection.
Most testing on aid pitches is done with my fifi so I always replace the thin webbing that comes with the Black Diamond fifi, as I've found this to wear and break easily.
One of the best ways to get two differing lengths of fifi connection is to pass the fifi through the gear you want to hang from, and hook the fifi onto your belay loop, thereby halving it's length.
Basically a fifi hook is great for cheating, allowing you to quickly hook a piece of gear for a rest, giving a far more secure hang than hanging on the rope. This makes it ideal for French free (A0) climbing, and can be used to quickly test fixed gear by bounce testing (great on abseil descents).
The fifi comes in very handy for leashless climbing, allowing a quick rest in an emergency (considered A0). For this use a short daisy chain with a fifi larks footed in the end. This is a slightly longer extension than usual, but allows me to hook the axes spike when my arm is locked off on it. Mick Fowler and Paul Ramsden both use a similar system, but with a sky hook (BD Cliffhanger) replacing the fifi, which allows them to hook flakes and edges more easily (a fifi is crap at this).
Although I've taken factor 2 falls onto my fifi and it's stayed in one piece, I've seen plenty that look like bananas! The main danger is that you forget to secure yourself adequately, and instead end up hanging from your fifi. In 2000 I made a stormy ascent of Zenyatta Mandatta April, and one morning I climbed out off the portal edge to sort out the rack, which I did while hanging from my fifi 400 metres off the deck. It was only when I climbed back to the ledge, yarding on assorted slings and aiders, that I realised that I wasn't tied in, and had in fact been trusting my life to a cheap bit of alloy.