This week our theme is SEWING. I have created some (digital) patchwork and stitching and dressed a dressmaker's dummy but you can take "sewing" anywhere you want it to go. Have fun!!
Great sample, Marie! It looks like real stitching- can't imagine how you did that. Here's mine, on my blog.
Wowzaaaa Marie !! SUPER !!!
I adore to do these challenges with you all!
Thank you for the challenge - and the fantastic example, Marie.
I don't sew and admire those who do!!!!!!!!
Hello, My stitching and sewing work is here. Thanks for looking.
didn't think i could do this challenge (can't sew on a button... and don't want to)... so here is the closest thing i could come up with!
ended up having a blast w/ this one... thanks guys!
Here is my entry! Wish I knew how to make it a link like some of the others above.
My entry is a little different this week, but it does come from the heart. Hope you enjoy it. Blessings!
What a fabulous inspiration piece! You can find my entry HERE.


This looks like a really fun event — Tavern Night at Pottsgrove Manor this Saturday night, March 12. It will be an evening of 18th century diversions at Mr. Potts' "tavern" for the opening of the new exhibit "Spirituous Liquours & Healthful Distillations: Alcohol in Colonial America." Come out to enjoy colonial musicians, tavern songs, games of chance, and a tour of the new exhibit.
Pottsgrove Manor – one of Pottstown's unique heritage resources – is at 100 W. King Street, Pottstown, PA 19464. Tavern Night will run from 7-9 pm. There is a $2 per person suggested donation. For more info: call 610-326-4014 or on check out their website.


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On 21 July 2020 the Parliament of Ukraine approved draft law No. 3658 "On Amendments to Certain Laws of Ukraine on Improving the Conditions for Supporting the Production of Electricity from Alternative Energy Sources" (the "Draft Law"). The Draft Law is pending signing by the President.
The Draft Law is aiming to implement the "Memorandum of Understanding on the settlement of problematic issues in the field of renewable energy" (the "Memorandum"), which was signed by the Government on 10 June 2020 with investors, and improve regulation for renewable energy auctions.
The Draft Law provides for the following changes to the "green" tariff:
for wind power plants (WPP) commissioned from 1 July 2015 to 31 December 2019 - reduction of the "green" tariff by 7.5%;
for WPP commissioned from 1 January 2020 - reduction of the "green" tariff by 2.5%;
for solar power plants (SPP) commissioned from 1 July 2015 to 31 December 2019 (capacity 1 MW and more) - reduction of the "green" tariff by 15%;
for SPP commissioned from 1 July 2015 to 31 December 2019 (capacity up to 1 MW) - reduction of the "green" tariff by 7,5%;
for SPP commissioned from 1 January 2020 to 31 October 2020 (capacity 1 MW and more) - reduction of the "green" tariff by 2.5%;
for SPP commissioned from 1 January 2020 (capacity up to 1 MW) - reduction of the "green" tariff by 2.5%;
for SPP commissioned from 1 November 2020 until 30 March 2021 (capacity 1 MW– 75 MW) - reduction of "green" tariff by 60%;
tariff cap for projects commissioned before 1 July 2015 – 22 EUR cent.
According to this Draft Law the companies are provided with the stabilization provisions, i.e. state guarantees that "green" tariffs will not be changed or canceled from 1 July 2020 - till 31 December 2029. However, the stabilization clause will not apply to legislative changes in the taxes. Based on this there is a risk that in addition to the cut of the "green" tariff under the Draft Law the Government may change tax policy and impose additional tax burden on RES investors.
Moreover, the Draft Law provides for the gradual introduction of liability for imbalances of electricity producers paid to the SE "Guaranteed Buyer". Thus, for facilities with an installed capacity of less than 1 MW, from 1 January 2021 there will be an annual increase of 10% to reach 100% compensation for imbalances in 2030. For facilities with a capacity exceeding 1 MW, the introduction of liability for imbalances in the amount of 0% until 31 December 2020, 50% from 2021, and 100% from 2022 is expected.
Cut-off date:
31 October 2020 for PV projects (starting 1 November 2020 the "green" tariff will be reduced for 60%);
wind projects will not be subject to the cut-off day and they can be finished based on existing pre-PPA.
The Draft Law envisages that upto 20% of the "green" tariff can be compensated from the State budget.
Additionally, the Draft Law introduces separate incentives for enterprises of "green" electrometallurgy. In particular, steelmaking enterprises emitting up to 250 kg of carbon dioxide per 1 ton of steel products are entitled to pay TSO transmission tariff, which will not take into account the costs of NEC Ukrenergo for payments under the "green" tariff.
The above regulatory changes may be considered as retroactive changes to the legislation and may result in invesment claims by RES investors.
Сhanges to the auctions regime
In addition to the Memorandum related changes, the Draft Law introduces some changes to the auction regime.
The Draft Law sets the maximum caps for tariffs that producers from renewable sources can receive during green auctions. Until 31 December 2024, the owners of SPP and WPP will be able to receive at auctions no more than 9 eurocents per 1 kWh. From 1 January 2025 the maximum cap at auctions will be 8 eurocents per 1 kWh. For other producers of electricity from RES other than SPP and WPP the maximum cap at auctions will be 12 eurocents per 1 kWh.
The government plans to identify oblasts (regions) for the installation of new generating capacity within the annual auction quotas. The Government may offer land plots for the construction of facilities that produce electricity from RES, as well as roofs or facades of buildings on which it will be possible to install alternative generation.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine is determined to be responsible for setting a schedule for the auctions for the next year.
The Draft Law cancels the earlier introduced exclusion for power plants with three wind turbines, regardless of installed capacity, regarding non-participation at auctions. Thus, after the adoption of the Draft Law, all WPP with a capacity of more than 5 MW will have to participate in auctions. Although the projects holding prePPAs may implement the projects under the "green" tariff.
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The merger of Jumpsquare and Jump XL Trampoline Parks creates the largest network of indoor trampoline parks in Europe. New combination under the banner "Jumpsquare Group" operates 40 trampoline parks in 5 European countries. The Jumpsquare and Jump XL formulas will remain separate entities.
Amsterdam, Den Bosch, 5 December 2018 - Jump XL Holding BV has signed a conditional sales agreement with a view to the intended sale of all Jump XL activities to industry peer Jumpsquare with Nordian Capital Partners as the majority shareholder. Jumpsquare Holding will buy all Jump XL operations, consisting of 29 trampoline parks in five countries partly operated by the company and partly through franchisees.
The proposed transaction makes Jumpsquare Group the largest operator of indoor trampoline parks in Europe after completion of this acquisition. Currently Jumpsquare and Jump XL combined are operating 37 parks, either through the company or through franchisees.
At the end of 2018, this will have increased to 40 trampoline parks, as three more parks will be opened this year. The 40 parks are located in 5 countries: The Netherlands (27), Belgium (2), France (9), Germany (1) and Poland (1). The new group will have over 850 employees at home and abroad.
In recent years, the European market for indoor trampoline parks has become a rapidly growing segment of the leisure market. On the one hand, there is plenty of room for organic growth; on the other hand, the parties involved do not exclude further consolidation of the market through more acquisitions. In 2019, Jumpsquare Group expects to open at least 10 new parks in addition to the previously mentioned 40 trampoline parks. Most locations have already been leased.
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Yes sir. SO far so good. It works just as well as the last version.
After downloading KB4019472 update from Windows Update and opening my IE, the about:tabs screen has changed to feeds and popular sites more like MS Edge browser, also the IE has been upgraded to 11.1198.14393.0 from 11.1198.10240.0.
Is it only me or it is a part of this update?
but then I am on creators update and you aren't. If you go here and click 1st button it will download the upgrade assistant, run it and it will upgrade win 10 to latest version.
May not fix browser though, it might be intentional.
OK I'm back with some more to say about Windows 10 Hmmm, I'm so done Crashing, blue screen of Death, after updating to Windows 10 Creators Update version unknown an I'm not going to try it again on my VAIO Hybrid, even my ASUS Rog is having a night mare with this OS an its 64 bit Windows 10 came installed with the preview, an ever sense the first update to full version its ben a NIGHTMARE FROM HELL ! As always good luck to all !
Basically, i hadn't applied the updates to my computer and it got affected by ransomware and now all my files have been deleted. So for me, windows 10 is the worst thing i could've opted for in my lifetime.
And this is the fault of Windows 10?
This is a case of operator error and not the fault of the OS. You chose to be vulnerable.
Threats change, all of the time. Protections need to change to keep pace.
Lesson learned: Apply updates. Period.
That's the same argument as my brand x vehicle's engine seized because I didn't change the oil/routine maintenance so I'm never going to by a brand x vehicle again. This is purely operator error.
So you are blaming the OS for you not doing proper maintenance to your system? That is like blaming McDonalds for being fat.
Actually it's not entirely windows and MS fault.
It's more to your fault, because you didn't update your OS and patch it with new MS17-010 Patch that fixes SMB protocol vulnerability.
Windows 10 is not worst, except for that non user friendly Windows Update service.
It maybe not the best OS in the world, but its good.
That "non user friendly Windows Update service" is specifically for times like this.
Either it is mandatory, or it is optional.
If it is 'optional' (like previous versions), we get results like this guy. A completely hosed up system, that was easily preventable.
Not sure how he caused Win 10 to not update, but this is what happens.
In this statement, I'm talking about optional and driver updates.
But MS did a good job here for mandatory updates, Windows Update patched my system rapidly with MS 17-010 Patch when wanna decryptor start spreading around the world.
"Not sure how he caused Win 10 to not update"
For legit windows OS, MS send the patch on March 14, 2017.
For pirated windows OS, most likely it will not get updated.
Yeah, I feel it's more of a step-down from 8.1 and works more with what worked for them in Windows 7, all the while borrowing things from 8.1 and tweaking them to make them more "stomachable" for users, both newbies and the veterans.
It does ask if you want to do it now or later. you must have chosen the former option. also, about the ubuntu multi-function drivers, you can either google them or look it up their forums.
The drivers and installation process for Windows 10 are cutting edge.
My experience with windows 10 was good and bad both. With my high end system..Windows 10 works smoothly with some extra added features and apps.
But on my notebook, even the 32bit lags a lot.
Cutting edge is right, the cutting edge of pathetic (spyware) for this software Giant.
As opposed to all the other communication venues you use?
I installed windows 10 64bit on my dad's 10 years old PC.
It has Pentium E2100, 7600GT with 256MB of VRAM and 3 gigs of RAM.
Not a smooth experience, but at least it worked perfectly for basic office use and some heavy web browsing.
Sounds like mums PC, about same vintage, same amount of ram.. 500gb hdd that seems to always be at 100% usage just by starting PC up. It is good enough for FB and emails but we finally convinced her to upgrade this year.
It originally have 512MB of RAM and no dedicated graphics card when my dad bought it on 2007.
Running XP PRO SP3 on stock config. (it even have a "designed for XP" sticker in front of the case!).
I upgraded his PC last night, I get all the old parts from my old (now died) gaming PC build.
Dual core CPU, not sure what without starting PC up and running speccy on it.
I bought it for dad to play games on but it failed completely at that task. It at least had Win 7 64bit on it when we got it, should have kept it it as well but my brother decided to upgrade it to win 10 - he doesn't have to act as support though.
My dad's PC is an Acer Veriton m460.
Acer also sold this model with vista compatible specs, which has a Core2Quad CPU, 4GB of RAM, 1TB HDD, 8600GT 512MB GPU and same motherboard as the XP model.
I downloaded the vista driver for this PC.
Vista driver works like a magic.
It seems like every time I install an update, something goes fantastically wrong. Finally got around to installing the creators update on my W10 test PC, and now Windows fails to boot. It just gets to the black screen with the blue Windows logo and spinning dots and freezes. It does this for normal boot, recovery mode and any W10 installation media that has the creators update applied. The only thing to do is hold down the power button.
Sigh... Back to version 1511 I guess (the anniversary update is also unusable - none of the USB ports work, I just get "the device has malfunctioned and windows doesn't recognise it". Including keyboard, I had to go find an old PS/2 keyboard just to log in).


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This short trail to the west shore of Crane Prairie Reservoir provides access to Osprey Point for wildlife viewing. This trail is sometimes under water during the Spring. A short side trail to the north from the parking lot leads to spring-fed Quinn River and the historic Billy Quinn gravesite & Cy Bingham tree.
Osprey Point Trailhead is about 49 miles SW of Bend along Century Drive. Alternate access is via Hwy 97 south 15 miles to Sunriver Jct.; then 21 miles west on Forest Rd. 40, and finally 4 miles north on Century Drive.


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Eat, Pray, Love: A memoir not to be missed . . .
August 1st, 2006 by jules
Dorothy Allison once wrote, "Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I would rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me." These sage words are ones that I think Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love (2006), would appreciate.
The sub-title of this engaging memoir is "One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia." Gilbert finds herself prostrate on her bathroom floor one evening, whispering in prayer to a God she's not ever really prayed to before about her misery over her seemingly-perfect life — big house in suburbia, successful husband, the American Dream, the expectation that she and her hubbie will soon be starting a family. The little 'ol glitch here is that she no longer wants any of this and isn't truly fulfilled.
After a messy divorce and subsequent emotionally-tumultuous relationship with another man, her soul is left bedraggled, to say the least. She embarks on a year-long journey to three "I" countries (though this geographical alliteration is not on purpose — at least not consciously on her part) in an attempt to heal her spirit. Her goal in Italy is to immerse herself in pleasure — via mostly lots of the delectable pasta and wine and cappuccinos and gelato that Italy does so well — as well as total submersion in Italian, a language with which she is fascinated. Her goal in India, where she studies and meditates at a sacred ashram, is to immerse herself in prayer and the spartan life of holiness. Her goal in Indonesia, where she had earlier befriended a medicine man whom she seeks out again, is to learn how to balance these two — pleasure and asceticism.
My oh my did I love reading about her stay in Italy (I blame the astrological sign I was born under; we Taureans love a good, rich red wine and/or sumptuous meal). One moment I was crying tears of laughter over her love affair with a pizzeria in Naples and, the next moment, tears of sympathy for a woman who writes with such candor about the end of a relationship that she doesn't quite want to let go of. Gilbert is a brave writer, not afraid to speak the truth about her botched attempts at love. She is also a fun tour guide, and, I'm tellin' you, you just want her to be your friend. She's smart, a keen observer, funny, not afraid to get out there and face the world. She left for Italy as a little slip of a thing, ravaged physically and emotionally from almost-unyielding divorce proceedings, but when she leaves Rome (approximately thirty pounds heavier), she writes: " . . . {W}hen you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let go until it drags you face-first out of the dirt — this is not selfishness, but obligation. You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight." Amen and damn skippy! That makes me wanna do a little jump for joy.
In India, Gilbert studies with her Guru and meets a diverse cast of characters also seeking the ascetic life, including Richard from Texas, who has enough down-home, breezy, cheeky one-liners to make you think he's fiction, but, nope, these people all really exist (I trust she's not pullin' a James Frey on us here). And my very favorite piece of her writing comes in this section. As someone who thinks way too much — as in, to a fault — about religion and who is not so good at the leaps involved in leaps of faith, this one almost took my breath away:
"If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be . . . a prudent insurance policy. I'm not interested in the insurance industry. I'm tired of being a skeptic. I'm irritated by spiritual prudence and I feel bored and parched by empirical debate. I don't want to hear it anymore. I couldn't care less about evidence and proof and assurances. I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water."
Whew, jump back. The girl can write.
But then I got a bit bored with her Indonesian stay. I think Gilbert's great strength is that she never takes herself too seriously. Her self-deprecating wit is what keeps us from rolling our eyes at what could be seen as a flaky, new-consciousness, New-Age, tree-huggin' adventure (though there is some tree-hugging in India. Fret not; it's actually quite moving). However, in Indonesia there was a bit of self-absorption that did have me rolling my eyes. And that may not be the best way to put it — and I do so with great apology, 'cause I think Gilbert is a great writer, I loved this memoir, and I would love her to be my neighbor and have coffee with me every morning so that I could pick her brain (Eisha and I also want Haven Kimmel to be our neighbor, but I digress). But towards the end we read about her lying on a remote Indonesian island with her Brazilian lover and talking about the great inner peace she feels. On that morning, in particular, as my emerging-toddler and my toddler were screaming at me simultaneously, I would have found it more impressive to read about someone who could accomplish that by overcoming much more dire circumstances.
Overall, though, Gilbert did pay a huge emotional price for what she earns, and she is someone who aims to deliberately "cultivate gratitude" . . . so, it was only during this tiny portion of the memoir that I felt this slight exasperation. All in all, I would recommend this memoir with much enthusiasm to just about everyone I know. Gilbert is a writer I will follow with, dare I say it, faithfulness.
3 comments to "Eat, Pray, Love: A memoir not to be missed . . ."
Does this post lack comments?! No, not any more! 🙂 Happy anniversary, e&j!
by Little Willow July 8th, 2007 at 10:15 am
Ha ha — it just FIGURES, doesn't it, that if anyone would have left a comment here it would be LW???
by JES July 19th, 2009 at 9:36 am
Aw, thanks. It would take us one year to get a comment, huh?
by jules July 19th, 2009 at 9:41 am


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The extensive Metsähallitus equality and nondiscrimination plan has been published
The new Metsähallitus equality and nondiscrimination plan is more comprehensive than the statutory plan, and will assist the organisation in promoting equality and eliminating discrimination. Metsähallitus employs a staff of around 1,200 experts from a variety of fields. It also has an extensive number of customers, stakeholders and partners. The changes now being introduced will improve the working lives of thousands of people and the free time of even more.
The Metsähallitus equality and nondiscrimination plan is divided into three sections: promotion of nondiscrimination in Metsähallitus's employer activities, promotion of nondiscrimination in its services, and measures to ensure nondiscrimination of Sámi people. The plan will be used to assess the current situation regarding how equality and non-discrimination are realised at Metsähallitus among its staff and in its operations in general. The plan specifies how Metsähallitus will from this point forward identify, intervene in and prevent discrimination and promote equal treatment and gender equality.
The equality and nondiscrimination plan implements Metsähallitus's responsibility programme and provides further clarification for the Code of Conduct in the relevant areas. The plan helps to ensure the implementation, within the operations of Metsähallitus, of responsibility policies outlined in international responsibility instructions and guidelines, such as the UN's Agenda 2030, as well as the UN principles relating to companies and human rights. The plan was drafted by a working group made up of employees selected for the task. It will be in effect from 2019 to 2022, and the responsibilities have been assigned for its implementation and monitoring.
Promotion of nondiscrimination in Metsähallitus's employer activities
A wage survey has been initiated at Metsähallitus. It is being carried out using a new approach in order to highlight any unjustified wage differences.
Improvements are being made in the access of fixed-term employees to workplace benefits. For example, the ePass workplace benefit is being extended so as to be available to fixed-term employees as well.
Increases in workplace diversity are being supported through methods such as anonymous recruitment. The challenges of integrating work with the rest of life are being tackled through measures such as developing distance working practices and flexible work time – areas where the new Working Hours Act will provide better options than are currently available.
Metsähallitus has a zero tolerance policy towards harassment. Instructions and procedures for intervening in cases of harassment continue to be developed. Tolerant and respectful ways of speaking are promoted both within Metsähallitus and in interactions with stakeholder groups.
Supervisor trainings are one central method for moving management and supervisory work towards greater equality and consistency and for strengthening ethical operating practices within the organisation.
The equality and nondiscrimination survey that has been carried out is utilised in the planning of developmental measures. Around half of all staff members participated in the survey.
Promotion of nondiscrimination in Metsähallitus's services
A lot of work has been carried out at Metsähallitus's visitor sites in order to improve disabled access. Accessibility will continue to be improved both at visitor sites and in offices.
The Metsähallitus webpages will be updated to comply with the accessibility requirements by 23 September 2020, while the mobile applications will be updated accordingly by 23 June 2021. On the webpages, attention will be given to accessibility features such as reading with a screen reader, subtitles with videos, and browsing without amounts using the tab key.
Development work is being carried out on the openness of participatory processes and communications relating to them, and the dialogue skills of those participating in these processes are being strengthened.
Metsähallitus is able to increase the diversity of planning work groups primarily among its own staff, as stakeholder organisations appoint their own specialists for planning processes. The objective is to avoid even unintended support for unequal practices in planning processes.
The current situation regarding nondiscrimination in Metsähallitus's participatory planning has been investigated through both research carried out by partner and stakeholder groups and also student thesis research.
Measures to ensure nondiscrimination of Sámi people
Metsähallitus is increasing its staff members' understanding of Sámi people's culture and rights. Those staff members working in Sámi areas or among Sámi people are particularly encouraged to learn the Sámi language, and support is provided for this where possible. In order to ensure effective nondiscrimination, positive special treatment may be applied in recruitment situations.
Monitoring is being carried out on the effectiveness of the Akwé: Kon operating model, developed together by Metsähallitus and the Sámi Parliament, and the model will be further developed where needed.
Communication and interactions are being improved between the reindeer herding cooperatives in the Sámi areas and Metsähallitus Forestry Ltd.
In cooperation with the Sámi Parliament, Metsähallitus is developing monitoring methods for the measures which have been decided on in the central processes and plans of the Sámi Homeland and which are aimed at securing the conditions for the maintenance of Sámi cultural practices.
For the contents of the plan that relate to the Sámi people, statutory section 9 negotiations have been carried out with the Sámi Parliament
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So I obviously want the Hasselblad h6d but didnt have £35k to spend so I ended up getting the h4d 40 with an 80m lens and 2 batteries within the budget I had.
There are many reasons why I wanted a Hasselblad but the main one was the fact that you get a medium format look from a medium format camera and its impossible to replicate that with a dslr and I had a lot of misses with my film hassy so was keen to look at the digital options.
And it hasn't disappointed - its had its issues of which I will tell you about now!
1- Battery life when not tethered is horrific - especially on location and in the cold.
2- Random failures - so i've come from the canon dslr world where you just shoot - and keep on shooting with the hassleblad, stuff fails regularly, lens errors, back errors, battery errors, pretty much every kind of error you could think of happens.
3- Cost its a high end camera so EVERYTHING is expensive, lenses,extra batteries and most worryingly - servicing and repairs - if anything goes wrong it is not going to be cheap or fast to repair.
4- tethering - it was initially a nightmare - Im on a macbook pro and it took alot of troubleshooting to get everything talking to each other.
5- speed - using a medium format digital camera is not fast - its slow everything is much much slower than i was used to and it takes alot to get used too.
1- so people always say that the equipment doesn't make you a better photographer - and I 100% agree with this BUT the type of images I can now create, the depth, the sharpness the file size and the dynamic range that can be achieved with this camera kicks the crap out of everything else ive ever shot on. which in turn allows me to create images more closely to what i imagined than ever before.
4- It's slower (i know i said this was a negative but) - you are forced to LOOK to observe the light to think more about what you are doing which is a great thing!
6- I does take the best image out of any camera i have ever used.


We discover that God created man with a desire for autonomy, as evidenced by the Garden of Eden. You remember the only prohibition God gave Adam and Eve was that they could not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Satan deceived Eve into thinking that if she ate of the fruit she would be able to determine what is good and evil. This, of course, God never promised. Nor were Adam and Eve able to make that determination; that is a decision reserved exclusively for God.
The only kind of slave that God accepts is the one who wants to be His slave. This is the only other option you have: live for yourself and die having lived an empty frustrated life, or ask God for the privilege of being His slave. A man once said, "To be His slave is to be a king." Those whom God accepts as His slaves would not accept freedom if it were offered them.


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2ndQuadrant, an EDB Company
https://www.2ndquadrant.com/
2ndQuadrant provides solutions for mission critical PostgreSQL databases. Our solutions ensure high availability, disaster recovery, backup & failover management & more. We provide tools to make your deployment process simple and reliable. 2ndQuadrant is a member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and the first Kubernetes Certified Service Provider (KCSP) for PostgreSQL. With over 19 years of hands-on experience through client engagements, our engineers ensure your PostgreSQL solutions are fully supported in their production environment.
Provides both support and hosting.
Our main offices are located in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Australia, South America and India.
24/7/365 worldwide
English, Spanish, Italian, French, German
Customer example
Consultancy and Support from 2ndQuadrant for online trading platform, tastyworks, boosted PostgreSQL performance by 400%. tastyworks CTO, Jordan von Kluck, has this to say about 2ndQuadrant: "Working with 2ndQuadrant has been an excellent experience. Their support team has a wealth of knowledge and always provides an in-depth answer to our questions in a very timely fashion. Between support, consulting on specific issues and guidance on overall best practices, 2ndQuadrant has been an invaluable resource to us at tastyworks."
2ndQuadrant is the single largest collective of PostgreSQL experts of any company globally. Comprised of some of the best known developers from around the globe, all members still actively contribute to the development of PostgreSQL. This allows 2ndQuadrant to offer a wide range of enterprise-class services and products that fully supports the Database Lifecycle of PostgreSQL implementations; from initial evaluation and consultancy, migration, and training to continuous 24/7 support services and RDBA monitoring. Our focus on service quality is reflected in the consistent best-in-class NPS of over 70 for more than 2 years.
Email: info@2ndQuadrant.com; Phone (US): +1 650 378 1218; Phone (UK): +44 870 766 7756; Web: www.2ndquadrant.com/en/
Aiven
https://aiven.io/
Aiven Postgres is a next-generation managed cloud database service. Aiven Postgres is available in multiple clouds across multiple regions, including all Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud regions as well as various regional clouds. Our focus is ease of adoption, high fault resilience, customer's peace of mind and advanced features. The service is fully automated allowing databases to be created with a few clicks and later seamlessly upgraded from small single-node setups to larger highly-available clusters with no downtime. We also support no-downtime migrations between different cloud providers. Aiven can be used through our web console, command-line client and open REST API.
Helsinki, Finland - the service is available globally
postgres@aiven.io
https://aws.amazon.com/rds/postgresql/
Amazon RDS makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale PostgreSQL deployments in the cloud. With Amazon RDS, you can deploy scalable PostgreSQL deployments in minutes with cost-efficient and resizable hardware capacity. Amazon RDS manages complex and time-consuming administrative tasks such as PostgreSQL software installation and upgrades; storage management; replication for high availability and read throughput; and backups for disaster recovery.
24 X 7 X 365
Biologists around the world use DNA sequencers created by California-based Illumina for a broad range of genomics applications including whole-genome sequencing. The company built its BaseSpace tool on AWS to allow researchers to upload massive data sets directly to the cloud for analysis and storage of the results. They leveraged Amazon RDS PostgreSQL for their BaseSpace application. Greg Roberts, Development Lead for the BaseSpaces product, "Using BaseSpace, biologists and informaticians can easily and securely analyze, archive and share sequencing data. We were able to leverage RDS for PostgreSQL since first day of launch for our BaseSpace project. We scaled our instances seamlessly as our project grew. Automated backups and automated failovers with Multi-AZ provided us the high availability and protection against data loss that our customers expect."
With just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, you can deploy a PostgreSQL database with automatically configured database parameters for optimal performance. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL database instances can be provisioned with either standard storage or Provisioned IOPS storage. Once provisioned, you can scale from 5GB to 6TB of storage and from 1,000 IOPS to 30,000 IOPS. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL also enables you to scale out beyond the capacity of a single database deployment for read-heavy database workloads. Over the past few years, PostgreSQL has become the preferred open source relational database for many enterprise developers and start-ups, powering leading geospatial and mobile applications. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL gives you access to the capabilities of a familiar PostgreSQL database engine. This means that the code, applications, and tools you already use today with your existing databases can be used with Amazon RDS.
Crunchy Data
https://www.crunchydata.com/
Crunchy Data brings the power of open source PostgreSQL to security-conscious organizations and eliminates expensive proprietary software costs. Our suite of open source offerings include Crunchy Certified PostgreSQL, which is Common Criteria EAL 2+ certified, Crunchy PostgreSQL for Kubernetes, Crunchy HA PostgreSQL, Crunchy PostgreSQL Automation, Crunchy Spatial, Crunchy MLS PostgreSQL, and more. Crunchy Data also offers Crunchy Bridge, a fully managed database-as-a-service across multiple cloud platforms with built-in high availability, automatic backups, point-in-time recovery, encryption in transit and at rest and more. The instances are production-ready and include developer favorites such as PL/Python, PL/R, PostGIS, pg_cron, pg_partman, and many more extensions. Our expertise in managing large-scale, mission-critical systems let's us help you to build secure & mission-critical PostgreSQL deployments, architect on-demand, safe database provisioning solutions on any cloud infrastructure, eliminate support inefficiencies to provide customers with guaranteed access to highly-trained engineers, and help enterprises to adopt open-source solutions safely and at scale. Crunchy Data works with enterprises of all sizes to provide remote 24x7x365 PostgreSQL production and non-production support by Senior PostgreSQL Engineers. For support subscription customers, Crunchy Data also offers PostgreSQL Professional Services and DBA/Developer Training. Crunchy Data's PostgreSQL solutions are infrastructure agnostic and can run in public and private clouds and on-premise hardware.
Baltimore, MD; Charleston, SC; San Diego, CA; Washington, DC; New York, NY; Montreal, CA; Toronto, CA; Victoria, CA, Sydney, AU
Crunchy Data has a diverse group of customers, including many in the Fortune 100, and can be found in verticals such as Government, Financial Services, Automotive, Healthcare, Transportation, and Technology.
The Crunchy Data team includes several PostgreSQL Committers, Major Contributors, and DBAs with extensive experience using PostgreSQL in large production systems. In addition to PostgreSQL, the Crunchy Data team is involved in many open source projects around the PostgreSQL ecosystem, including PostGIS, pgJDBC, pgBackRest, pg_partman, pgAudit, pgMonitor, and the Crunchy PostgreSQL Operator.
Email: info@crunchydata.com Telephone: (843) 737-6045
Crystalnix Limited
http://crystalnix.com/
Crystalnix develops integrated and standalone applications for web, mobile and cloud platforms, with a consistent user experience between each platform leveraging agile approach, open-source technologies and well-established QA processes. Headquartered in New Zealand with a development office in Russia.
New Zealand, Russia
GMT+12, GMT+7 business hours
ViaSat (U.S.), Comendo (Denmark), Cinedeck (U.S.), Expander Limited (New Zealand)
We've been delivering cloud and mobile solutions for more than 6 years leveraging open-source technologies and choosing Postgresql as a primary database often. Our experience lies in the business applications for the IT, Multimedia, Point-of-Sale, Financial and other areas. The company has several commits to the open-source projects, generally, supporting its own Google Omaha server implementation based on python / Postgresql technologies (available at GitHub under Apache 2.0).
contacts@crystalnix.com or +64 2102263306
Data Egret
http://www.dataegret.com/
Data Egret offers PostgreSQL consulting, 24/7 remote-DBA support and runs tailored PostgreSQL training sessions.
USA, Russia, Germany, Worldwide
English, German, Russian
https://dataegret.com/#clients
Each one of our DBAs have at least 10 years of work experience with PostgreSQL and we never outsource our support, so that we can provide you the best service possible. We work with different PostgreSQL versions and handle non-standard emergencies on daily basis — it allows us to foresee and prevent issues you might be having tomorrow.
contact@dataegret.com
https://www.enterprisedb.com/
EDB is the world's leading provider of PostgreSQL support, professional services and training. Support is provided 24x7x365 on a global basis. We are also specialists in design, architecture, implementation and management of PostgreSQL infrastructure with database optimization and performance tuning a specialty. We also deliver Remote DBA services to provide day to day management of PostgreSQL and EnterpriseDB databases. Training classes for DBAs and Developers is available On-site, On Demand and Online. Enterprise grade tools include Postgres Enterprise Manager, xDB Replication Server (single and multi-master), EDB Failover Manager, Backup and Recovery Tool, and Data Adapters for MySQL, Oracle, Hadoop and MongoDB.
Bedford Massachusetts USA; Oxford, England; Islamabad, Pakistan; Pune, India; The Hague, Netherlands; Tokyo, Japan; Seoul, Korea
24x7 worldwide
English, French, Dutch, Spanish and Swedish
"We chose EnterpriseDB to work with us on PostgreSQL support, because we've been continually impressed by their PostgreSQL expertise, customer focus and support capabilities." -- Vice President for System Software, Sun Microsystems Telco - Entertainment/Gaming - Retail - Finance - Government - Internet - Manufacturing
EnterpriseDB employs a large cast of PostgreSQL team members and developers including Bruce Momjian, Dave Page, Devrim Gunduz, Robert M Haas, Thom Brown, Tomas Munro, Amit Kapila and Andres Freund. Many of PostgreSQL's key feature enhancements including Heap Only Tuples, pg_upgrade, Full Text Search, Index-Only scans, linear read scalability to 64 cores, MySQL FDW, Parallel Query and Materialized Views are contributions of these staff members with EDB's support.
Technical Support: support@enterprisedb.com +1-732-331-1320 1-800-235-5891 (US Only) Sales Inquiries: sales-us@enterprisedb.com (US) sales-intl@enterprisedb.com (Intl) +1-781-357-3390 +1-732-331-1315 +1-877-377-4352 General Inquiries (North America): sales@enterprisedb.com +1-732-331-1300 General Inquiries (APAC): +81-50-5532-7038 info.asiapacific@enterprisedb.com General Inquiries (EMEA):	+31 70 361 1774 info.emea@enterprisedb.com Media Inquiries: press@enterprisedb.com +1 781-357-3390
Engine Yard, Inc.
http://www.engineyard.com/
Engine Yard is the leading Platform as a Service (PaaS), empowering cloud application development more rapidly, easily and cost effectively. With deep technical expertise, powerful infrastructure orchestration, strong support of the open source community, and world-class service, Engine Yard provides a complete commercial grade solution that enables developers to focus on creating great applications, instead of managing their platform. Thousands of customers in 58 countries, from explosive-growth Web startups to Fortune 500 enterprises, rely on Engine Yard to leverage the cloud for competitive advantage. Headquartered in San Francisco, Calif., Engine Yard is backed by Benchmark Capital, New Enterprise Associates and Amazon.com.
San Francisco, CA; Portland, OR; Dublin, Ireland; Tokyo, Japan; Buffalo, NY
24x7 via Live Chat; visit engineyard.com and click on Live Chat
English, Japanese
With each monthly edition of Facebook Stories, we can handle huge traffic bursts of 10s of millions of pageviews - and to get more resources, we just click a button." – Phil Jeffs, Creative Director, Area17 For more examples visit: http://www.engineyard.com/company/customers
Engine Yard has over 6 years of experience offering Ruby on Rails, PHP, and Node.js hosting and support. Engine Yard is the leading Platform as a Service provider with thousands of customers in over 58 countries worldwide. The Engine Yard support team offers · Expertise gained supporting thousands of development teams · Guaranteed response - as little as 30 minutes for urgent issues · Real-time, 24x7 access to support · Deep experience in Ruby on Rails, PHP, Node.js and Database Administration · Global coverage in your time zone · Proactive response and "on behalf" system administration
sales@engineyard.com 866-518-9273 Live Chat – visit engineyard.com and click on Live Chat
http://www.fastware.com/web/guest/postgresql-support
Fujitsu provides a full range of value-added services to PostgreSQL business-users including support, training, migration services, consulting, hosting, performance optimisation and system integration. Everything that has traditionally been available from proprietary database vendors is now available for PostgreSQL from Fujitsu.
150,000 world wide
8am to 8pm and 24/7
Squiz.net - a leading CMS vendor Kirin - One of Japan's largest food and beverage companies.
Fujitsu has, since 2003, assembled a first-class PostgreSQL technical team comprising some of Australia's leading PostgreSQL 'names' and a number of Fujitsu's senior database specialists. We have provided PostgreSQL services to all key industries including the financial sector, government, construction and telecommunications.
postgresql@fast.fujitsu.com.au (61-2) 9452 9068
Instaclustr
https://www.instaclustr.com
Instaclustr helps organizations deliver applications at scale by managing their open source data infrastructure. We offer managed services, support, and consulting for 100% open source technologies including PostgreSQL and other databases.
Worldwide presence and operations
24*7*365
English, German, Portuguese
Instaclustr is the leading provider of managed services and support for open source data layer technologies. Our team has over 100 million node hours of operational experience managing open source technologies and keeping mission-critical applications running to their full potential. Whether you're running on-premise, in the cloud, or anything in between, we have experience operating PostgreSQL in an environment like yours. We are here to provide managed services and a depth of knowledge that isn't always achievable with onsite database administrators. We have multiple experts with over 20 years of experience in PostgreSQL.
Please contact us at: Sales@instaclustr.com or visit our website www.instaclustr.com for more information
Jirotech Pty Ltd
http://jirotech.com/
Jirotech has a long history of installing, configuring and maintaining database technologies with PostgresSQL at the forefront. Our expertise includes creating and supporting mission critical, high availability databases, migrating and integrating data from legacy systems, and working with a wide range of hardware platforms. In addition, Jirotech frequently designs and supplies the infrastructure underlying the database such as networking, storage and servers. Jirotech can also assist aggregation of data from multiple legacy systems into a high performance modern database such as PostgresSQL.
Sydney and Melbourne, Australia
8.30am - 5.30 pm AEST, 24 X 7 is also available
With nearly 20 years in the industry Jirotech has a wealth of experience that we can bring to any business. We are very strong supporters of technical innovation and creativity, virtues embraced by the PostgreSQL community and open source developers in general. We also like to keep abreast of technological advancements and believe that PostgreSQL is the frontrunner in the open source database marketplace. Jirotech provides PostgreSQL consulting, support and training. We can assist aggregate data from multiple legacy systems into a high performance modern database such as PostgreSQL. In addition, we can help an enterprise develop the data mining tools and processes to perform the ongoing analysis required to ensure continual growth.
New South Wales Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf, 26 - 32 Pirrama Rd Pyrmont NSW 2009 +61 2 8099 9000 Victoria Level 2, 50 Queen Street Melbourne, VIC, 3000 +61 3 8370 8000
https://www.percona.com/services/support/postgresql-support
Founded in 2006, Percona rapidly became a market leader, providing support, consulting, managed services, training, and software for on-premises and cloud-based open-source databases. With a strong focus on PostgreSQL, they recently launched Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL, which delivers a single source, enterprise-grade, open-source installation of PostgreSQL Core Distribution.
Located in over 35 countries
English is the primary language, but our diverse team speaks many other languages.
Percona offers PostgreSQL users 24x7x365 comprehensive, responsive, and cost-effective database support, regardless of the version or platform you are running. This helps optimize performance and keep critical database applications online, allowing you to focus on generating revenue, without distractions.
Percona has improved data performance for over 3,000 customers worldwide since 2006. Our database software experts have extensive experience maximizing application performance and streamlining database efficiencies across multiple environments.
Please contact us at +1-888-401-3401 in North America, +44 (203) 608-6727 in Europe, or sales@percona.com
ScaleGrid
https://scalegrid.io/postgresql.html
The ScaleGrid Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) platform provides fully managed PostgreSQL hosting in the cloud. Easily create, monitor, and scale your PostgreSQL clusters on AWS or Azure with high availability, dedicated servers, and multi-cloud support through one easy-to-use management console. ScaleGrid is the only managed PostgreSQL service that allows you to keep full Postgres super user access, SSH access to the underlying machines, and install custom plugins to accommodate your PostgreSQL needs with no restrictions. We also offer a unique "Bring Your Own Cloud" (BYOC) model that allows you to host in your own cloud account and leverage Virtual Private Clouds, Security Groups, and Reserved Instances to save up to 75% on long-term hosting costs. Simplify your complex operational tasks with fully managed PostgreSQL hosting so you can get back to what matters most, building your applications.
Supporting early-stage startups up to enterprise-level applications. Designed for every business type, the platform enables DBA's, developers, and DevOps engineers to optimize their database operations across Telecommunications, Security, Retail, Renewable Energies, Publishing, Public Safety, Online Media, Nonprofits, Marketing and Advertising, Consulting, Logistics and Supply Chain, Travel and Tourism, Legal Services, IT, Healthcare, Gaming, Education, Casinos, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Automotive, and Aviation industries, along with many more.
Founded in 2012, ScaleGrid was built by database management experts and has been deployed across 6 different continents and over 70 countries. The platform supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and Redis on AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean, Google Cloud Platform, Linode, Oracle Cloud, VMware, and OpenStack.
support@scalegrid.io sales@scalegrid.io
treshna Enterprises Ltd
http://www.treshna.com/
treshna Enteprises is a open source company providing database and software solutions for the linux envoriment. We develop database solutions for the web, gtk and win32 as well as provide support for mission critical postgresql database servers.
We have been developing databases for 11 years, both gui and web based. We support a large number of postgresql servers for many of our clients. We have developed a number of tools for postgresql that speed up development time.


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The Pentagon as Silicon Valley's Incubator
In the ranks of technology incubator programs, there is AngelPad here in San Francisco and Y Combinator about 40 miles south in Mountain View. And then there is the Pentagon.
In the last year, former Department of Defense and intelligence agency operatives have headed to Silicon Valley to create technology start-ups specializing in tools aimed at thwarting online threats. Frequent reports of cyberattacks have expanded the demand for security tools, in both the public and private sectors, and venture capital money has followed. In 2012, more than $1 billion in venture financing poured into security start-ups, more than double the amount in 2010, according to the National Venture Capital Association.
For years, the Pentagon has knocked on Silicon Valley's door in search of programmers to work on its spying technologies. But these days, it's the Pentagon that is being scouted for expertise. Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists are finding it valuable to have an insider's perspective on the national security apparatus when trying to find or prevent computer vulnerabilities or mine large troves of data.
"They have unique insights because they've been on the front line," said Matthew Howard, a former intelligence analyst in the Navy and now a managing partner at Norwest Venture Partners, referring to former military and intelligence operatives who have hatched start-ups. He has invested in several such companies. "Now they've got commercial desires. The lines are blurring."
One of the start-ups is Synack, which promises to vet an army of hackers to hunt for security vulnerabilities in the computer systems of government agencies and private companies. The company's co-founders, Jay Kaplan and Mark Kuhr, met in Fort Meade, Md., in the counterterrorism division of the National Security Agency. They left the agency in February after four years there, and later decamped to Silicon Valley. Within weeks, they had raised $1.5 million in seed money; they are now working with their first customers and pitching their experience in the spy agency.
"Doing things on a classified level really opens your eyes," Mr. Kaplan said. "The government is doing a lot of interesting things they don't disclose. You have a unique perspective on what the adversary is doing and the state of computer security at a whole other level."
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Archives|IDEAS & TRENDS; Where Information Is All, Pleas Arise for Less of It
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IDEAS & TRENDS; Where Information Is All, Pleas Arise for Less of It
By JENNIFER A. KINGSON JULY 9, 1989
July 9, 1989, Page 004009Buy Reprints The New York Times Archives
AS the population of books and journals continues to explode, librarians complain that shelf space is running out and expenses are spinning out of control. At the same time, authors and scholars say that the multiplicity of mediocre publications makes it impossible to sift out the ones that contain fresh ideas. The proliferation of books and journals seems to have narrowed access to information instead of widening it, and some universities are considering ways to encourage their faculty members to publish less, not more.
''There are people who have published 400 manuscripts in their lifetime, and some many more than that,'' said Marcia Angel, editor of the New England Journal of Medicine. ''It's hard to believe that anybody could do really important work at that rate.''
The information glut is most acute in the scientific fields, where the number of journals published in the world now exceeds 40,000. Because journals are aimed at such small audiences, prices can be astronomical. To cite an extreme example, a year's subscription to a nuclear physics journal published in the Netherlands costs $3,885 and includes more than 11,000 pages.
For their part, some younger scholars at Harvard University, the University of California at Berkeley and other universities have revived efforts to get schools to base tenure decisions more on classroom performance and the amount of research grants faculty members have garnered than on the number of books and papers they have published. A report issued by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 1986 also recommended that teachers be evaluated more for their teaching than for their ability to publish. Limits on Publishing
In February 1988, Harvard Medical School issued new guidelines for tenure review, recommending that the faculty consider requiring no more than five published works for a candidate for assistant professor, seven for associate professor and 10 for full professor. Previously candidates seeking to impress the faculty submitted as many as they could.
The escalating number of journals comes at a time when scientists rely on them less and less. The latest ideas in science are typically exchanged well in advance of formal publication, at conferences and through advance copies of papers distributed by fax machines and computer networks.
Richard M. Dougherty, director of the University of Michigan Library and president of the American Library Association, said that librarians have been forced to cancel subscriptions to hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of rarely used scientific journals. But canceling subscriptions only seems to produce a kind of death spiral, in which publishers must charge more to compensate for smaller mailing lists.
Henry H. Barschall, a retired physics professor at the University of Wisconsin, studied the cost effectiveness of 200 physics journals and found that, in general, the more expensive ones are less likely to be cited in other journals and presumably less likely to be read. ''When I first became active in physics research 40 years ago, I used to read everything that came out,'' he said. ''Now, that's impossible. Nobody can read all the stuff that gets published in their field.'' Books in Storage
While journals can be relegated to microfilm, libraries have still had to make room for the continuing flow of books. And although information is increasingly available through computer networks, librarians say that access to these networks is expensive and library patrons often prefer to work with printed material. Most research libraries have recently had to build remote storage facilities where older and lesser-used materials sit until they are summoned for use. The University of California at Berkeley has over three million volumes in storage, the University of Michigan over 900,000 and Columbia University 400,000. At Harvard librarians recently had to make the painful decision to begin moving books from the shelves of Widener Library to a storage site 45 minutes from campus to make room for newer books.
Although material in storage is usually retrievable within hours, scholars complain that removing books from shelves where they can be browsed or stumbled across may seriously impede research. The Association of Research Libraries in Washington has predicted that all 119 of its member libraries will have remote storage sites within the next five years.
Surprisingly, the only library that has yet to suffer from rising journal costs and shelf space shortages is the Library of Congress, which holds more than 88 million items in three buildings. The library receives 31,000 new books and journals a day and keeps 7,000 of them. By storing many texts on optical disks and microfilm, librarians expect to stretch shelf space to last until the turn of the century, according to a spokeswoman, Nancy Bush. ''We have all of the New York Times ever published in a single drawer,'' she said.
The Library of Congress is also the only library that does not pay for most of its serial publications. Many of the foreign journals are provided through international exchanges, and domestic publishers must send free copies to the library when applying for a copyright.
One result of the book and journal glut is that librarians have become more discerning, putting material that is essential on microfilm and canceling material that is not. ''I think that for the first time, we are becoming good consumers,'' said Michael A. Keller, associate university librarian at Yale. ''We're trying to indicate to the creators of all this information that we have a responsibility to pick and choose.''
A version of this article appears in print on July 9, 1989, on Page 4004009 of the National edition with the headline: IDEAS & TRENDS; Where Information Is All, Pleas Arise for Less of It. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe


Families of victims of the Humboldt Broncos bus crash expressed a wide range of opinions on how the semi driver involved should be sentenced.
Some called for forgiveness, while others wanted Jaskirat Singh Sidhu to spend as many years as possible in prison.
"I'm sure the weight of the world is on him," Mark Dahlgren, whose son Kaleb was injured in the crash, told CBC News Thursday.
Sidhu is to be sentenced in Melfort, Sask.,on Friday.
In January, Judge Inez Cardinal heard emotional victim impact statements from dozens of family members and friends. Some parents told Sidhu they forgive him. Others said they could not.
"I take full responsibility for what has happened. It happened because of my lack of experience," Sidhu said in January.
"I can't imagine what you are going through, what you've been through. I have taken the most valuable things of your life. I will be so, so, so, so, so sorry from this day."
Dahlgren planned to make the drive late Thursday to Melfort from his home in Saskatoon. He said there should be consequences, but he doesn't see the point of a lengthy jail term.
"It's not going to change what happened on that day. I'm sure that he feels the weight of what he did every day. That itself is a life sentence."
"I know the judge has a tough job ... but we want to see a sentence that will send a message and make change," Chris Joseph, whose son Jaxon was killed in the crash, told CBC News on Thursday.
"Just because somebody feels bad doesn't mean they should get a lighter sentence. They still did the act. We feel they should serve the time."
Crown prosecutor Thomas Healey recommended a 10-year prison sentence.
One of Sidhu's lawyers, Mark Brayford, cited cases with sentences of 18 months to four years, but didn't make an explicit recommendation. He said Sidhu is ready to accept whatever sentence the court imposes.
Joseph said he and his wife aren't hopeful.
"Honestly, I'm expecting disappointment. Take that for whatever it is, but no, I don't think he's going to get the maximum," he said.
Scott Thomas and his family won't be at the sentencing. They had a trip planned long before they knew about this date, and, after some debate, decided not to cancel it.
"The only reason that we would like to be there would be to support the other families," he said.
Thomas said they'll need some private time to gather strength for the first anniversary of the crash April 6.
"We knew this couple weeks heading up to the accident was going to be tough. And it's proving to be that way for sure."
He won't say what the two talked about, but describes it as the "most exhilarating, confusing and powerful" 15 minutes of his life.
"It was a meeting of two broken men. He's broken. I'm broken. I'll never be the same. He'll never be the same. And it was something I'm so thankful, that I had that opportunity," he said, adding he sees Sidhu as collateral damage.
"He has to go to jail. I understand that. The length of the sentence to me is irrelevant when Judge Cardinal says whatever she's going to say tomorrow. She's a pretty learned woman and well respected, so whatever she comes up with I'm pretty sure is going to be a pretty reasonable conclusion."
There's a hockey stick outside their front door. The garage walls are lined with his jerseys. A portrait of Evan sits in a chair at the head of the table.
His first and last skates are on the window sill, beside his hockey bag and gloves. His ashes rest in an urn in the master bedroom, and Thomas has four tattoos on his arms, including Evan's grad photo and his handprint.
"When my family, my dad, my brothers, whenever we get together, we don't shake hands. They all put their hand right here and shake his hand first," he says, rubbing his forearm gently.
"He's with me wherever I go."
At the time of the crash, training for Canada's 300,000 semi truck drivers had been optional everywhere except Ontario.


Will there be any major differences between the game on PC and Xbox in the retail version of the game? Cause it seems like the PC version is far superior at the moment!
PCs ar far more superiour to XBOXs, they always have been. PC are always improving but consoles just stay the same and eventually ppl forget about them and go out and buy the new ones.
Yup, I know that PC is able to support a highter resolution, but if you look at the screenshots the PC models are completely different and don't even have the same color.


Student interns at Little Big Horn College in Crow Agency, Montana conduct field research. The American Indian College Fund's new three-year Scholarly Emergence for Environmental Design and Stewardship (SEEDS) program will support further environmental study at tribal colleges and universities in the Upper Midwest and the grasslands region of Montana.
DENVER — Groundwater contamination, erosion, lack of access to healthy foods, and poor air quality are just some of the environmental concerns facing American Indian communities across the United States. Yet indigenous people have long held specialized knowledge that can lead to unique solutions to these challenges. The American Indian College Fund (the College Fund), whose motto is "Education is the answer," will address environmental issues in Native communities through education with the launch of the three-year, $1.35 million Scholarly Emergence for Environmental Design and Stewardship (SEEDS) program across the diverse bio- and eco-systems in the Upper Midwest and Montana.
The SEEDS program will support tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) located in Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and the grasslands region of Montana that are serving Native communities to build and strengthen curriculum in the environmental sciences and related fields, while integrating place-based and inter-generational community knowledge to preserve and restore Native lifeways. The program will also help TCUs develop faculty; create degree programs; and implement processes to ensure student success.
The College Fund supports TCUs as higher education centers of the American Indian nations they serve and understands their potential to develop tribal environmental leaders in sustainability initiatives by offering the necessary academic preparation, research opportunities, and career work experiences for Native communities. Educated and trained experts in these fields can then address environmental issues facing American Indian communities through initiatives grounded in research and data.
"As indigenous people, we strive to be responsive in our relationship with our grandmother, the earth, and with all of her resources. Providing education, research, and outreach services to our tribal and rural students and their communities means that we are not only responsive, but we are leaders sharing our knowledge so that we can all live healthy, productive lives together. The College Fund is honored to have this partnership with the Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies and our tribal colleges to support sustainability and economic development," Cheryl Crazy Bull, president and CEO of the American Indian College Fund, said.


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Top 10 Richest People in Asia
We bring to you the list of top 10 richest people in Asia.
China has the highest number of billionaires in Asia even though the richest man in Asia is from India.
We've taken the time to create a compilation of the richest billionaires in Asia as of 2020. Below, you can find out who the richest billionaires in Asia are, what they do, and how much they're currently worth.
The Asian countries and territories with the most billionaires are: Mainland China (308), India (113), Hong Kong (71), Taiwan (36) South Korea (28) and Japan (26).
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10. Qin Yinglin -$18.5 billion
Qin Yinglin, chairman of China's Muyuan Foodstuff, made his fortune as the country's largest pig breeder in the world's biggest pork market.
Qin was born in Neixiang County in Henan, China's most populous province.
He studied animal husbandry at Henan Agricultural University then started his own business with wife Qian Ying, who sits on the board of Muyuan.
The couple started their venture with 22 pigs in 1992.
9. Tadashi Yanai- $24.3 billion
Tadashi Yanai is a Japanese billionaire businessman, the founder and president of Fast Retailing, the parent company of Uniqlo. As of May 2020, he was ranked 41st richest in the world by Forbes, and the richest in Japan, with an estimated net worth of US$24.3 billion.
8. Yang Huiyan -$ 27.9 Billion
Yang Huiyan is a Chinese billionaire businesswoman. She is a property developer and the majority shareholder of Country Garden Holdings, a stake largely transferred to her by her father Yang Guoqiang in 2007.
Yang chairs Bright Scholar Education Holdings, a Chinese education company that went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2007.
She is the richest woman in Asia with a net worth of $27.9 billion
7. He Xiangjian – $ 31 Billion
He Xiangjian is the co-founder of Midea, one of China's largest appliance makers.
Midea Group, whose shares trade on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, now has more than 200 subsidiaries, including Germany-based robotics firm Kuka.
He Xiangjian is one of the richest people in Asia with a net worth of $31 billion.
6. Li Ka-shing – $31 Billion
Sir Li Ka-shing GBM KBE JP is a Hong Kong business magnate, investor, and philanthropist.
Li was one of the most influential entrepreneurs in Asia, presiding over a business empire with a diverse portfolio of businesses from a wide array of industries, including transportation, real estate, financial services, retail, and energy and utilities.
His conglomerate company Cheung Kong Holdings was influential in many sectors of the Hong Kong economy and made up 4% of the aggregate market capitalisation of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
In spite of his wealth, Li cultivated a reputation for leading a frugal no-frills lifestyle, and was known to wear simple black dress shoes and an inexpensive Seiko wristwatch.
He lived in the same house for decades, in what has now become one of the most expensive districts in Hong Kong, Deep Water Bay in Hong Kong Island.
Li is also regarded as one of Asia's most generous philanthropists, donating billions of dollars to charity and other various philanthropic causes, and owning the second largest private foundation in the world after Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
5. Lee Shau-kee -$26 Billion $31.5 Billion
Lee Shau-kee GBM is a Hong Kong business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is well known real estate tycoon and majority owner of Henderson Land Development, a property conglomerate with interests in property, hotels, restaurants and internet services.
In 2019, aged 91, Lee stepped down as chairman and managing director of the company, in favour of two of his sons, Peter and Martin Lee. He retains a role as an executive director.
4. Xu Jiayin – $35 Billion
Xu Jiayin is a Chinese billionaire businessman and chairman of Evergrande Group, a Chinese real estate developer.
Hui is the largest shareholder of China Evergrande Group. It has more than 700 projects in more than 240 cities in China including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen
As of 2021, Xu has an estimated net worth of $35 billion, making him the third-richest person in China, and 31st -wealthiest in the world, according to Forbes.
3. Jack Ma – $ 49 Billion
Jack Ma, or Ma Yun is a Chinese business magnate, investor and philanthropist. He is the co-founder and former executive chairman of Alibaba Group, a multinational technology conglomerate.
As of 2021, Ma is the second-wealthiest person in China, with a net worth of $48.8 billion, as well as one of the wealthiest people in the world, ranked 20th by Forbes.
2. Ma Huateng – $ 62 Billion
Ma Huateng is a Chinese business magnate, investor, politician, and member of the Chinese Communist Party.
He is the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Tencent, Asia's most valuable company, one of the largest Internet and technology companies, and the biggest investment, gaming and entertainment conglomerates in the world.
Ma Huateng is number of the top 10 richest people in Asia
1. Mukesh Ambani – 81 Billion
Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani is an Indian billionaire business magnate, and the chairman, managing director, and largest shareholder of Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL), a Fortune Global 500 company and India's most valuable company by market value.
He is currently the richest man in Asia with a net worth of US$81.6 billion and as of 2020 he is listed on Forbes as the 5th richest person in the world.
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Containing global violence costs nearly $10 trillion a year
By Tom Murphy on 4 March 2014 0
A U.S. Army Soldier from Alpha Company, 13th Psychological Operations Battalion pulls security from a humvee at a vehicle control point in the village of Kapisa, Afghanistan.
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The price of insecurity is quite high. The Institute for Economics and Peace estimates that the world spent $9.46 trillion to contain violence, in 2012. That accounted for some 11% of the global economy.
"Were the world to reduce its expenditure on violence by fifteen percent it would be enough to provide the necessary money for the European Stability Fund, repay Greece's debt and cover the increase in funding required to achieve the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals," says the Institute for Economics and Peace.
The estimate is a part of a new report from the group that calls attention to the economic impact of violence. While the human cost is well documented, this is one of the first reports that accounts for the money spent on containing violence and the money lost due to it happening. A marginal decrease in violence could have a major impact.
Military spending eats up half of the cost, followed by the impact of homicides and then internal security (ie. police officers). The countries that spend a large portion of their GDP on violence containment come as little surprise: North Korea, Libya, Syria and the US. One slightly surprising entry is development darling Liberia. The country is still emerging from the damage caused by a pair of nearly successive civil wars spanning from 1989 to 2003.
I spoke with Michelle Breslauer, the Americas Program Manager for the Institute for Economics and Peace, about why Liberia is so high on the list and what can be learned from the study.
I found it surprising that Liberia was so high on the list. Why is violence still such a problem in a country that is lauded for its post-civil war advances, including a Nobel Peace Prize?
Despite Liberia's notable advances, it is a country that still feels the effect of conflict. The methodology of this analysis attempts to measure the full space devoted to violence containment in a country. The majority of Liberia's violence containment spending is a result of the UN Peacekeeping mission presence, which is operating partially to compensate for weak peace-supporting institutions. In the 2013 Global Peace Index, IEP compared levels of peacefulness with a country's peace-supporting institutions. Liberia has a 'peace deficit' which suggests that the level of peace the country experience is not matched by the strength of its institutions.
This report is almost like a $10 trillion bill on the ground. Why are countries and international organizations not doing more?
This is one of the first comprehensive and systematic attempts to aggregate the global costs of violence. While there are established studies that look at the economic impact of one type of conflict, for instance a civil war, IEP is working to communicate a more holistic understanding of the tremendous social and economic impact of violence. We take into account everything from military spending to the fear of crime, addressing violence as an industry, much like health or education, which has never been done before.
We hope to give countries and international organizations the tools they need to better understand the relationship between violence and poverty, and peace and prosperity. Looking at the vast discrepancy between violence containment spending and ODA disbursements [violence containment spending is 75 times the size of ODAs]encourages policy-makers to examine priorities for aid allocations. Many of the countries with the highest expenditure on violence are also some of the poorest, demonstrating the need to invest in peace in international development frameworks.
One could argue that more military spending is necessary to ensure security. Does such a policy prescription make sense? Are non-militarized solutions adequately employed to increase security?
Military spending is a reflection of either actual violence or the fear of violence. What the violence containment spending model provides is greater clarity of the cost and benefits of pre-emptive policy interventions. For instance, there is a powerful economic case for negotiated settlements to disputes such as those that occurred in Indonesia with the 'Free Aceh Movement' or in Northern Ireland with the Irish Republican Army.
In a peaceful world, what is roughly the target GDP expenditure on violence containment?
There is no universal target as expenditure will vary by country. While there is always a need for some level of policing and jails, the key is to find the optimum balance. Expenditure on violence containment is economically efficient when it effectively prevents violence for the least amount of outlay. Understanding the cost and benefits of both violence reduction and violence prevention programs is key.
What are ways that foreign aid can reduce violence itself and expenditures on violence?
It is important to look at the virtuous cycle of peace to understand how investing in peace can result in clear economic dividends. Building peace fosters resilience and human development, through the development of the attitudes, institutions, and structures that reduce violence and sustain peace. If foreign aid was invested in programs that reduce violence, it would lead to increased productivity and social cohesion. This then reduces the need for violence containment expenditure, such as incarceration. Investing those savings back into peacebuilding structures would lead to increased opportunity, productivity and prosperity. Developing the attitudes, institutions, and structures that sustain peace requires investing in education, youth, anti-corruption measures, free media, and access to basic services, among others.
With the US making is draw-down in Afghanistan, is the country prepared?
Afghanistan currently ranks at the very bottom of IEP's Global Peace Index, with high levels of internal conflict and political instability. As the US is making its draw-down in the country, Afghanistan is increasing its levels of military expenditure, and the percentage of GDP spent on violence containment is the fourth highest in the world. However, it is critical to not only look at levels of negative peace but also to understand the institutional and societal capacity for peace. Empirical analysis by IEP identified an eight part framework to describe the attitudes, institutions, and structures associated with peaceful societies. These are areas that help move society away from conflict in a non-violent way and include well-functioning government, sound business environment, equitable distribution of resources, acceptance of the rights of others, good relations with neighbors, free flow of information, high levels of human capital, and low levels of corruption. In order to stabilize Afghanistan, focus must be placed on strengthening and building these structures.
It seems like the data shows that throwing money at violence containment is not necessarily the best solution. What lessons can the US take from the report on regards to its domestic and international policies?
IEP previously looked at the macro-economic effect of wars on the US economy, finding that public debt, levels of taxation, and inflation increased, while consumption decreased. So the common refrain that war is good for the economy is being dispelled. What the US can do is to fully understand the long-term economic effects of military action compared to investing in more preventative measures.
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World got a little more peaceful last year, except for the US and 'conflict areas'


According to foraging theory, female parasitoids should alter their host ch oice in response to cues that indicate a limitation of resources. We tested whether females of the polyembryonic parasitoid Ageniaspis fuscicollis (Hy menoptera: Encyrtidae), which attack egg batches of small ermine moths (Lep idoptera: Yponomeutidae), would alter their host acceptance pattern in resp onse to different pre-patch experience. We kept females of the parasitoid p rior to a patch visit under different conditions, which should indicate dif ferent levels of competition for hosts. With increased competition as pre-p atch experience, females laid more eggs per host egg and self-superparasiti zed more often, and the resultant egg distributions showed a trend from mor e regular distributions to increasingly Poisson and aggregated distribution s. Consequently, females with a pre-patch experience that would indicate lo w competition for hosts had the most even egg distributions. We conclude th at pre-patch experience of competitors may lead to a significant change of mutual interference patterns in egg-laying A. fuscicollis wasps.


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Ramón J. Cárcano es una localidad argentina ubicada en el Departamento Unión de la Provincia de Córdoba.

Se encuentra 1 km al sur de la Ruta Nacional 9, 17 km al este de la ciudad de Villa María, 14 km al oeste de Ballesteros y 2 km al norte del río Tercero. Se desarrolló sobre una estación de ferrocarril hoy destruida y ocupada por pobladores.

Población
Cuenta con , lo que representa un descenso del 6,5% frente a los  del censo anterior.

Toponimia
El nombre es un homenaje al político Ramón José Cárcano, quien fuera poseedor de una estancia en la zona. Su templo católico es de grandes dimensiones, desproporcionado para la escasa población actual de la localidad, y se llega a ella por una calle rodeada por alamedas. En ella descansan los restos de Ramón Cárcano y parte de su familia. La estancia se dedica a la producción agropecuaria y es el sostén del pueblo. No obstante, los Cárcano se rehusaban a vender lotes para la construcción de casas, por lo que la mayoría de las personas que trabajaban en el lugar edificaron sus viviendas en la cercana Villa María, esta localidad ejerce una fuerte influencia, siendo el lugar adonde acuden sus pobladores para la adquisición de bienes y servicios.

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Localidades rurales de Córdoba (Argentina)
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