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Adjudication An adjudication is a court action for the determination of existing water rights which results in a decree that confirms and defines each water right.
Appropriated Water Idaho water law is based on the appropriation doctrine because water rights in Idaho are based upon diversion and beneficial use of water. The appropriation doctrine has also been called "first in time is first in right" because the priority date determines who gets water when there is a shortage. A water right under Idaho law can be established only by appropriation, and once established, it can be lost if it is not used. See Idaho Code § 42-1502.
Artesian Well See Idaho Code § 42-1604.
Basis of Claim The method that was used to establish your claim. Examples include prior decree, posted notice, beneficial use (historical) method, license, and permit.
Beneficial Use Beneficial uses include domestic use, irrigation, stock-watering, manufacturing, mining, hydropower, municipal, aquaculture, recreation, as well as fish and wildlife. The amount of the water right is the amount of water put to beneficial use. Because of the beneficial use requirement, a water right (or a portion of a water right) might be lost if it is not used for a continuous five-year period.
Change in Ownership or Address Change in Address Idaho law requires new property owners to notify IDWR within 120 days of any change in mailing address or change of ownership that applies to all water rights on file with IDWR. Idaho law provides for a $100 late filing penalty. The process is especially important for claims filed as part of the Snake River Basin Adjudication (SRBA) or Coeur d'Alene-Spokane River Basin Adjudication (CSRBA). If your SRBA or CSRBA claim does not reflect your current address, you could miss out on important procedural notices that may directly affect your water right. If you buy property that has with it a water right, SRBA claim, or CSRBA claim, make certain that you are listed as the current owner and that your address is correct. If your water right is still pending before the SRBA or CSRBA court (for example, a partial decree has not yet been issued), there is no fee for filing the change of ownership form.
Consumptive Use See Idaho Code § 42-202B.
Curtailment Reducing or restricting the use of surface or groundwater based on priority date.
de minimis The water use is for a domestic use and/or stockwater use where the total volume of water diverted does not exceed 13,000 gallons per day. See Idaho Code &sec; 42-111.
Delivery Call A request from a water right holder for the administration of water rights under the prior appropriation doctrine. See IDAPA 37.03.11 for more detail.
Digital Boundary See Idaho Code § 42-202B.
Diversion A diversion is a structure used to divert the water from its natural source. Typical diversion structures include pumps, headgates, ditches, pipelines, and dams—or some combination. A diversion is generally required to establish a water right. The Idaho Water Resource Board is authorized to acquire water rights without diversions. These water rights are called "instream flow" water rights and are typically authorized for purposes of protecting some public interest in a natural stream or lake such as recreation, wildlife, or natural beauty. A water right may also be acquired to water livestock directly from the stream which is called an "instream livestock" water right.
Domestic Right A domestic right is a right to the use of water for homes, organization camps, public campgrounds, livestock, and for any other purpose in connection with these uses including irrigation of up to one-half acre of land. See Idaho Code § 42-111.
Dual-Based Claims In some cases, the federal government has claimed one right under two theories—a state law basis and a federal law basis. Both theories are reported on one form for that single water right. In most cases, the priority dates are different and are listed separately. The federal law basis is separately indicated in a box. IDWR does not investigate or make recommendations regarding federal law based claims.
Exceedence
Exceedence is a method describing the percentage of time for which an observed stream flow is greater than or equal to a defined stream flow. Exceedence is used when stream flow data are not normally distributed (such as on a bell-shaped curve). Most streams flows are not normally distributed because high flow events can skew the data making the mean flow greater than the median flow. Low-flow events have high exceedence percentages because, generally, observed flows exceed the low flow. High-flow events have low exceedence percentages because most observed flows are lower than the high-flow levels.
Example Stream Flow Chart for March
Data Points in the Example Stream Flow Chart for March
Mean Monthly Flow: 45 cfs
Median Monthly Flow: 38 cfs
50% Exceedence Flow: 38 cfs (the median March flow for five out of every 10 years will be greater than or equal to 38 cfs)
80% Exceedence Flow: 25 cfs (the median March flow will be equal to or greater than 25 cfs for eight out of every 10 years)
10% Exceedence Flow: 75 cfs (the median March flow will be equal to or greater than 75 cfs for one out of every 10 years)
Evapotranspiration Evapotranspiration is the process of transferring moisture from the earth to the atmosphere by evaporation of water and transpiration from plants. Data quantification of water consumption from irrigated crops is derived from satellite imagery used in the IDWR mapping evapotranspiration process.
Floodplain A floodplain is land that could be submerged by floodwaters. The 100-year floodplain identifies the land in the floodplain subject to a one percent or greater chance of flooding in any given year.
Geothermal Resource Wells Wells in Idaho with a bottom hole temperature of 212 degrees Fahrenheit or more are considered geothermal resource wells. See Idaho Code § 42-4002.
Groundwater Groundwater is water that is located beneath the ground surface in soil pore spaces and in the fractures of lithologic formations. A unit of rock or an unconsolidated deposit is called an aquifer when it can yield a usable quantity of water. Groundwater is recharged from, and eventually flows to, the surface naturally; natural discharge often occurs at springs and seeps, and can form oases or wetlands. Groundwater is also often withdrawn for agricultural, municipal, and industrial use by constructing and operating extraction wells. The study of the distribution and movement of groundwater is hydrogeology (or groundwater hydrology). See Idaho Code § 42-230.
Hydrology Hydrology is the study of the movement, distribution, and quality of water throughout the earth including the hydrologic cycle and water resources. A practitioner of hydrology is a hydrologist who works in the fields of earth science, environmental science, physical geography, geology, civil engineering, or environmental engineering.
Injection Well See Idaho Code § 42-3902.
Instream Flow Water Right An instream flow water right is a water right typically authorized for the purposes of protecting some public interest in a natural stream or lake such as recreation, wildlife, or natural beauty.
Instream Livestock Water Right An instream livestock water right is a water right acquired to water livestock directly from the stream.
Lateral A lateral is a ditch used to convey or deliver water—especially for irrigation purposes.
Low-Temperature Geothermal Resource Wells (LTG) Wells in Idaho with a bottom hole temperature of more than 85 degrees Fahrenheit and less than 212 degrees Fahrenheit are considered low-temperature geothermal resource wells. See Idaho Code § 42-230.
Mean High Watermark See Idaho Code § 42-3802.
Minimum Stream Flow See Idaho Code § 42-1502.
Mitigation Plan A document submitted by a junior-priority groundwater right holder and approved by the Director (as provided in Rule 043) that identifies actions and measures to prevent, or compensate holders of senior-priority water rights for, material injury caused by the diversion and use of water by the junior-priority groundwater rights holders within an area having a common groundwater supply. See IDAPA 37.03.11 for more detail.
Municipal Provider Municipal Purposes See Idaho Code § 42-202B.
Name and Address On water right documentation, these fields display the most recent name and address on file with IDWR for the water right.
Nature of Use The nature of use is the reason for diverting and using water. Examples are irrigation, domestic, stockwater, mining, municipal, and so forth.
Notice of Claim A notice of claim to a water right is filed with IDWR in water rights adjudications. When an adjudication of a particular source is commenced, IDWR is required to notify the water users of the commencement of the adjudication, and notify the water users that they are required to file notices of claims for their water rights with IDWR. IDWR then investigates the notices of claims and prepares a report that is filed with the court. Claimants of water rights are notified of the filing of the report, and objections to the report may be filed with the court by anyone who disagrees with the findings in the report. If no objection is filed to a water right described in the report, then the court decrees the water right as described in the report. If an objection is filed to a water right described in the report, then the court determines the water right after a hearing and decrees the water right.
Public Land Survey System (PLSS)
The PLSS is used to describe and divide land in many states in the US. In Idaho, the initial point of the PLSS is near Kuna. From this point, the land is divided into 6×6-mile townships—which are further subdivided into 36 1×1-mile sections containing 640 acres each. One section can be subdivided into quarters which are 160 acres each, and which can be further subdivided into quarter quarters of 40 acres each. Each township is tied to the initial point and is identified by how many townships north or south as well as by how many ranges east or west they are from the initial point.
How to abbreviate PLSS locations
The Idaho State Capitol Building is located in Township 4 North, Range 2 East, Section 10—and in this section, it is located in the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter. This location can be abbreviated to T4N R2E Sec 10, NWNE.
Period of Use The period of use is the time during the year when you can use the water for your right.
Place of Use (POU) The POU is the legal location where you use your water right and is generally described as quarter-quarter sections down to a 40-acre tract. Other legal descriptions that might be used are government lots, block, subdivision, parcel numbers, townsite names, mining claim information, homestead entry surveys, and other survey information.
Point of Diversion (POD) A POD is the legal location where you divert water from its source and is generally described as quarter-quarter sections down to a 40-acre tract or smaller. Other legal descriptions that might be used are government lots, block, subdivision, parcel numbers, townsite names, mining claim information, homestead entry surveys, and other survey information. Legal locations for instream flow claims are marked with a beginning point and an ending point.
Priority Date The priority date is the date when the water right was established and it determines who gets water when there is a shortage. If there is not enough water available to satisfy all of the water rights, then the oldest (or senior) water rights are satisfied first and so on (in order) until there is no water left. When there is not enough water to satisfy all the water rights, new (or junior) water rights holders do not get water.
Purpose of Use The general category for how a water right holder can make use of the water. Typical purpose of use categories include irrigation, domestic, or stock watering.
Public Waters Idaho's constitution and statutes declare all waters of the state when flowing in their natural channels, including the waters of all natural springs and lakes within the boundaries of the state and groundwaters of the state, to be public waters. Idaho's constitution and statutes also guarantee the right to appropriate those public waters. When a private right for the use of public waters is established by appropriation, a water right is established that is a real property right (much like property rights in land), and Idaho law protects real property rights. See Idaho Constitution Article XV and Idaho Code § 42 et al.
Quantity Quantity refers to the amount of water recommended in either cubic feet per second (cfs) and/or the volume of water in acre feet per year (AFY). Small domestic and/or stockwater claims is not to exceed 13,000 gallons per day.
Quarter Section A division of a Section, a quarter section has an area of one-quarter-square mile (160 acres). Four quarter sections are within every land parcel delineated by a Section as part of the Public Land Survey System.
Quarter-Quarter Section A division of a Quarter Section, a quarter-quarter section has an area of one-sixteenth square mile (40 acres). Four quarter-quarter sections are within every land parcel delineated by a Quarter Section as part of the Public Land Survey System.
Quarter-Quarter-Quarter Section A division of a Quarter-Quarter section, a quarter-quarter-quarter section has an area of one-sixty-fourth square mile (10 acres). Four quarter-quarter-quarter sections are within every land parcel delineated by a Quarter-Quarter Section as part of the Public Land Survey System.
Range Range lines are part of the Public Land Survey System. Range lines are drawn 6 miles apart in a north-south direction to help identify how far east or west a township is from the Boise meridian (the principal meridian used in Idaho that runs north-south through the city of Kuna). For example, T5N R20E is bounded on the east by the 20th range line counted toward the east from the Boise meridian.
Reasonably Anticipated Future Needs Planning Horizon See Idaho Code § 42-202B.
Riparian Rights In some states, a land owner has the right to make "reasonable use" of groundwater beneath his or her land, or water naturally flowing on, through, or along the borders of his or her land. A riparian right to make use of that water is not limited by priority date and it cannot be lost by non-use. Idaho law does not recognize a "riparian right" to divert and use water. A water right under Idaho law can be established only by appropriation, and once established, it can be lost if it is not used.
Section A division of a land parcel delineated by a Township and Range, a section has an area of one-square mile (640 acres). Thirty-six sections are within every land parcel delineated by a Township and Range as part of the Public Land Survey System.
Service Area See Idaho Code § 42-202B.
Source Source is the name and/or type of the source where you divert your water (for example, groundwater, unnamed spring, or Common Creek).
Statutory Claim A statutory claim is filed with IDWR to make a record of an existing beneficial use right. In 1978, a statute was enacted requiring persons with beneficial use rights (other than water rights used solely for domestic purposes) to record their water rights with IDWR. The purpose of the statute was to provide some means to make records of water rights for which there were previously no records. However, these records are merely affidavits of the water users, and do not result in a license, decree, or other confirmation of the water right.
Stockwater Right A stock water right means a right to the use of water solely for livestock or wildlife.
Stream See Idaho Code § 42-1502.
Surface Water Water collecting on the ground or in a stream, river, lake, wetland, or ocean is surface water, and is related to water collecting as groundwater or atmospheric water. Surface water is naturally replenished by precipitation and naturally lost through discharge to evaporation and subsurface seepage into the groundwater.
Township Township is land parcels six miles wide (east-west) and measure north and south from a reference line. Township is used in conjunction with Range as part of the Public Land Survey System which is used to delineate land based on a grid system.
Unappropriated Water See Idaho Code § 42-1502.
Water Right A water right is the right to divert public waters and put them to a beneficial use in accordance with one's priority date. See Idaho Code § 42-230.
Water Right Number Water rights are identified by a number assigned by IDWR. The first two digits of a water right number represent the administrative basin number where the water right is located.
Well, Well Driller, or Well Drilling See Idaho Code § 42-230.
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Sebastian Kurz announces 4-week partial lockdown starting Tuesday
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Austria on Saturday announced a partial shutdown that will see restaurants and bars closed for four weeks, cultural, sports and leisure activities canceled, and residents asked to stay home after 8 p.m. as the government tries to stem a sharp rise in coronavirus infections.
Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said the restrictions will apply from Tuesday until the end of November. Restaurants and bars will be closed except for deliveries and takeout, and hotels closed to tourists. Companies affected by the shutdown will be compensated with 80% of their revenue from last November, but will have to keep on their employees.
The new restrictions include a curfew telling Austrians to stay at home between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m., although they can go out for reasons that include exercising and going to work.
Kurz said the curfew is intended as a "ban on visits" and to prevent private parties that have driven infections. He called for people to work from home where possible. People from a maximum of two households will be allowed to meet.
The chancellor characterized the new restrictions as a "second lockdown," but they are more lenient than the ones Austria applied during the first phase of the pandemic.
This time, non-essential shops and hairdressers are to stay open. The government also aims to keep schools and kindergartens open, though Kurz said older high school students and universities will be switched to distance learning.
Austria has reported 301.1 cases per 100,000 residents over the past seven days. That compares with 110.9 in neighboring Germany, which is imposing a somewhat lighter four-week partial shutdown starting Monday.
The nation of 8.9 million people has reported more than 106,000 confirmed cases, including 1,097 deaths, since the pandemic began.
Kurz said there has been a "massive acceleration…almost an explosive rise" in infections over the last week and Austria's health system would be overburdened if the government doesn't act now.
"I am well aware that many people…are thinking, 'I don't want to do this any more, I can't any more, I've had enough of all these restrictions,'" Kurz said at a news conference.
"I can only say that we completely understand them," he said. "But if we don't take this step together now,…then we risk seeing the kind of conditions that other countries are currently seeing again."
Kurz was cautious about when and how exactly the restrictions will be lifted, saying that much depends on how strongly the population supports them and how effective they are. He held out the prospect of a step-by-step reopening in December.

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April 15th 2010 Issue
Good weed control is most important early in the season, but fall may be a better time to get the job done.
Good weed control is essential in modern orchards, where trees are planted at high densities on weak, shallow-rooted rootstocks and can't handle much competition for water and nutrients.
Given their choice, growers would like to have a simple, one-shot chemical program that would kill all the weeds in late spring and keep them down, at least for the summer during the vegetative and fruit growth stages. Some use such a program, but many don't find time to address weeds in the spring.
"The key problem in weed control is growers don't get their herbicides on at the right time," said Penn State University horticulturist Dr. Robert Crassweller. "Weed control is the last thing they think of as they finish up pruning and get ready for spraying and thinning. So they miss the early spring window of opportunity.
"They should be putting herbicides on in early April in Pennsylvania," he added.
Crassweller's been stressing fall applications, thinking growers might be able to find a window after harvest but before the first hard freeze. That's a good time to attack winter annual weeds, he said, and it's also a good time to go after perennials like brambles, Canada thistles, wild grapes, Virginia creeper, and poison ivy.
Across most of the Northeast and Midwest, the orchard floor management system of choice is a vegetation-free strip where trees grow, between grass-covered, mowed alleys. Tillage is rarely used.
"Cultivation with a disk harrow damages a lot of roots near the surface," said Dr. Douglas Doohan, an orchard weed management specialist at Ohio State University who keeps abreast of the newest developments in weed control in Midwest orchards. "It's not the wisest practice."
Chemical companies continue to develop new and improved herbicides, so there's no shortage of materials to choose from. About 35 are listed for use on tree fruits, although some are names given to mixtures of ingredients. That doesn't include all the names for glyphosate, which is now a generic product that comes with 35 brand names. There are many fewer active ingredients than products.
An emerging problem has been the heavy reliance on glyphosate and the idea that one material can do everything. One key problem, according to Dr. Robin Bellinder at Cornell University, is a growing number of weeds are resistant, and relying on this one herbicide will cause a shift in the weed spectrum toward resistant species.
Second, a growing number of weed specialists are concerned that glyphosate may be doing more damage than once thought, especially to young trees. Orchardists have used tree wraps, paint, and shields to keep the chemical away from sensitive tree trunks, but the newest concern is the effect it may be having on shallow roots or perhaps through suckers.
"A number of growers who have used it over the years feel it leads to gradual tree decline," Doohan said. "The research has not yet been done, but the theory is that somehow active ingredient is getting into the trees, reducing their health even at very low doses."
Many of the newer products being registered are contact materials, claiming to do what glyphosate does but doing it to resistant weeds, or claiming to do what paraquat does while being safer for the applicator, or claiming to be low in volatility so they can be used around sensitive crops like grapes, unlike glyphosate or 2,4-D amine. Some are mixtures of products trying to be the perfect combination for some special situation. Not all of them are registered for use in all fruit-growing areas.
Bayer CropScience has launched a new formulation of Rely (glufosinate-ammonium) called Rely 280, which is also less expensive than the original version. Rely 280 is a nonselective contact herbicide registered for postemergent weed control of broadleaf weeds and grasses.
DuPont's Matrix (rimsulfuron) was registered for use on fruit two years ago and is also touted as providing broad-spectrum pre- and postemergence control of many broad-leaved weeds and grasses and improving the burndown of contact herbicides. It is not for use on new plantings.
Treevix (Kixor) is new this year from BASF. It has both contact and residual activity on broadleaf weeds, but no grass activity.
FMC has two relatively new products, Aim (carfentrazonle-ethyl) and Spartan (sulfentrazone), both of which are contact materials touted as safer to use than paraquat. Aim doesn't suppress grass. Spartan has broader activity. It is a preemergence material that is very effective against morning glories and nutsedge, according to the company. Spartan has been used in other crops for many years.
Venue (pyraflufen ethyl), from Nichino America, provides season-long control for nonbearing fruit crops and should be applied either prebloom or postharvest. It has contact activity on young weeds.
Rage, from FMC, controls weeds through two modes of action, providing both contact and systemic herbicide effects. It is a mixture of two ingredients, glyphosate and carfentrazonle-ethyl.
Recoil, from Nufarm, is a combination of glyphosate and 2,4-D.
Reglone (diquat dibromide), from Syngenta Crop Protection, is a contact herbicide like paraquat and without residual action.
Alion (indaziflam), from Bayer CropScience, is broad spectrum and controls both broadleaves and grasses, and provides residual control for about three months.
The 2010 Midwest Tree Fruit Spray Guide, combining the recommendations of eight Midwest land-grant universities, outlines 11 programs for preemergence weed control in apple and pear orchards and another 12 for postemergence control.
States in the Northeast have similar guides—like the Pennsylvania Tree Fruit Production Guide.
Lack of materials isn't the problem, Crassweller said, although the search is always on for the silver bullet. Growers need to know their weed problems and then choose the combination of timing and materials to address them.
New challenges for the future might include finding materials that will allow growers to keep more ground covers, like flowers or other plants that harbor beneficials while suppressing undesirable weed species.
Bellinder says that stewardship requires multiple approaches, and advises growers to find several programs that work for them and then rotate them.
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The Libra Full Moon calls upon us to integrate our desires with those of the people with whom we are in relationship. It can help us gain insight into whether our approach to accommodating our needs and those of others is a balanced one or whether the scale is tipped to one side. (For example, do we over accommodate others to the detriment of own needs, or vice versa?) Additionally, it's an opportunity to inventory whether we are being our true selves when relating to others rather than being the person we think they want us to be.
Different people draw out distinct parts of who we are. With some people, we may find ourselves more connected to our humorous side, others our serious nature, and with others our adventurous disposition, et al. Use the Full Moon energies to get a sense of which aspects of yourself are brought to light when interacting with different friends, family members, and colleagues, as well as your romantic partner(s).
This Full Moon ties into the Mars/Saturn conjunction that will be exact on April 2. This union of the planet of willpower and the planet of structure has us focusing upon the importance of being really thoughtful with how we utilize our energy. Consider what it is that you feel is really worth fighting for and what is just a passing fancy, as a means to harness your power and not fritter away your vital resources that you need to sustainably fuel your ambitions.
There's a possibility that we could feel frustration if things seem to be going slower than we desire or we find ourselves not getting that which we desired. Having patience is challenging during Aries season yet do what you can to try to channel it. You may find connecting to the virtue of the slow and steady, and doing what you can to quell restlessness and impetuousness, quite well worth it—in fact, it could be a helpful strategy to avoid the latent incendiary energy that is possible to be lit up during these days. If we're able to side-step minor accidents, clashes, and butting our heads against a wall, while still keeping our eye on what we're committed to in the long term, why not try?
Additionally, the following day features an exact Sun/Mercury conjunction. While our minds may be bright and possibly racing with ideas and input, watch for a tendency to intellectualize things at the expense of other approaches to understanding. Be in your bright mind but also give honor to your senses, emotions, and intuition.
This month's Full Moon falls at 11 degrees of Aries (Sun) and Libra (Moon). While everyone experiences the energies of a Full Moon, if you have planets or pivotal points (i.e., Ascendant/Descendant or Nadir/Midheaven) around this degree in Aries, Libra, or the other cardinal signs—Cancer and Capricorn—it may impact you more intensely.
Aries is associated with the head, muscles, and circulatory system while Libra is associated with the skin, lower back, kidneys, and blood sugar balance. Pay extra attention to these parts of the body and areas of health around the time of this Full Moon.
Exercise with a friend: Looking for an additional spark of motivation to help your spring get-in-shape resolution get underway? Instead of going solo to that yoga class or taking a walk alone in the park, invite a friend. Not only will the exercise pump your blood, work your muscles, and regulate your blood sugar, and relax you, but you'll get to enjoy it while having a social experience, which is always nice to do when Libran energy is around.


Performance Focused Organisations know that the best way to achieve their goals is to engage their staff in their journey of growth and success. That engaging the hearts and minds of their staff means that they are half way towards those goals. That working with the personal "drivers" of staff can build loyalty, passion and strong engagement.
Consider the balance between control (telling) and leading (asking) when setting direction and allocating work.
Telling means retaining total control of the journey towards the outcome required. It means that you are responsible for determining how the work with be scheduled, allocated and performed.You are responsible for every decision along the way.
Relinquishing total control means that you retain accountability for the outcome but you allow your staff to determine, or at least have input into, the way in with the outcome is achieved. You can do this through asking the right questions, through asking very powerful questions.
Of course there are times that Telling approaches are appropriate – new staff, inexperienced staff, new types of projects. However at other times Telling builds dependence and low engagement. It fosters a culture where independent decision making is low and where staff knock on your door continually to ask for advice on trivial decisions. Dependence is high. You cannot have it both ways – a Telling approach negates high levels of individual dependence in your staff as they execute according to your directions.
An approach that maintains a focus on the outcome and allows staff to participate in the "how" is empowering and allow staff to demonstrate their strengths. Your role is to guide their thinking through Powerful Questions that prompt reflection and higher levels of thinking.
At times you will need to Tell, but keep in mind that there are few powerful answers that build engagement, strength, ability and excellence, but there are many Powerful Questions that do just that.
What is your style – Telling or Asking?
Is that style appropriate for the skill and experience level of your Team?
What is it that you need to put in place to build engagement and passion for the outcomes that you need to achieve?
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Q: Ruby: mocking file writes with Flexmock Apologies if this was asked before.
A simple class:
class AskSO

  def initialize( filehandle )
    @filehandle   = filehandle
  end

  def library_start
    @filehandle << '<plist version="1.0">'
  end
end

A simple unit test using Flex mock
require 'rubygems'
require 'flexmock/test_unit'
require 'AskSO'
require 'test/unit'

class AskSOTest < Test::Unit::TestCase

  def setup
    @filehandle = flexmock( "filehandle", "<<" => "" )
  end

  def test_library_start
    @filehandle.should_receive( "<<" ).with( '<plist version="1.0">' ).once
    @AskSOInstance = AskSO.new( @filehandle )
    @AskSOInstance.library_start
  end
end

When I run it with ruby AskSO-test.rb I get
  1) Failure:
test_library_start(AskSOTest)
    [/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/flexmock-0.9.0/lib/flexmock/validators.rb:40:in `validate'
     /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/flexmock-0.9.0/lib/flexmock/expectation.rb:123:in `flexmock_verify'
     /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/flexmock-0.9.0/lib/flexmock/expectation.rb:122:in `each'
     /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/flexmock-0.9.0/lib/flexmock/expectation.rb:122:in `flexmock_verify'
     /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/flexmock-0.9.0/lib/flexmock/expectation_director.rb:64:in `flexmock_verify'
     /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/flexmock-0.9.0/lib/flexmock/expectation_director.rb:63:in `each'
     /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/flexmock-0.9.0/lib/flexmock/expectation_director.rb:63:in `flexmock_verify'
     /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/flexmock-0.9.0/lib/flexmock/core.rb:76:in `flexmock_verify'
     /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/flexmock-0.9.0/lib/flexmock/core.rb:75:in `each'
     /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/flexmock-0.9.0/lib/flexmock/core.rb:75:in `flexmock_verify'
     /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/flexmock-0.9.0/lib/flexmock/core.rb:191:in `flexmock_wrap'
     /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/flexmock-0.9.0/lib/flexmock/core.rb:74:in `flexmock_verify'
     /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/flexmock-0.9.0/lib/flexmock/mock_container.rb:40:in `flexmock_verify'
     /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/flexmock-0.9.0/lib/flexmock/mock_container.rb:39:in `each'
     /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/flexmock-0.9.0/lib/flexmock/mock_container.rb:39:in `flexmock_verify'
     /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/flexmock-0.9.0/lib/flexmock/mock_container.rb:32:in `flexmock_teardown'
     /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/flexmock-0.9.0/lib/flexmock/test_unit.rb:26:in `teardown']:
in mock 'filehandle': method '<<("<plist version=\"1.0\">")' called incorrect number of times.
<1> expected but was
<0>.

What am I doing wrong? thanks in advance

A: Answering my own question in case someone else stumbles on the same problem - changed the mock definition to
def setup
  @filehandle = flexmock( "filehandle" )
end

i.e., without the method. For same reason this solves the problem

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An 11-year-old Ken Wolter is shown with Art Perrault. Wolter said he was abused dozens of times by Perrault beginning in 1991 while an altar boy at St. Bernadette Parish in Albuquerque. Courtesy photo.
U.S. Attorney John Anderson, center at podium, speaks about the investigation into a fugitive Catholic priest who is accused of sex abuse at a news conference Friday, Sept. 21, 2018, in Albuquerque, N.M. Federal authorities said FBI agents returned 80-year-old Arthur Perrault to New Mexico on Friday to face child sexual abuse charges after a year in the custody of Moroccan authorities. (AP Photo/Mary Hudetz)
Ex-priest back in New Mexico to face abuse charges
By Andy Stiny | astiny@sfnewmexican.com
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ALBUQUERQUE — A former Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe who was arrested in Morocco a year ago on a U.S. warrant has been returned to New Mexico to face seven counts accusing him of sexually abusing a child at Santa Fe National Cemetery and Kirtland Air Force Base in the early 1990s.
Arthur Perrault, 80, pleaded not guilty during a hearing Friday in U.S. Magistrate Karen Molzen's courtroom in Albuquerque, an FBI official confirmed. A second hearing in the case is scheduled at 10 a.m. Tuesday to determine if Perrault should be detained until his trial on the charges.
A federal grand jury indictment — dated Sept. 21, 2017, and unsealed Friday morning — says Perrault, a former pastor in Albuquerque parishes and a former Air Force chaplain at Kirtland, is charged with six counts of aggravated sexual abuse and one count of abusive sexual contact with a minor under 12.
The indictment alleges Perrault repeatedly sexually abused the child in 1991 and 1992 while on "federally protected land."
Five of the counts allege offenses at Kirtland and two reference incidents at the national cemetery. The child's name does not appear in the indictment. Federal officials have not publicly named the victim or released the victim's gender or age at the time of the alleged abuse.
Perrault faces a maximum sentence of life in prison if he is convicted on the aggravated sexual abuse charges and a 10-year maximum sentence on the count of abusive sexual contact, according to a news release from U.S. Attorney John Anderson.
Perrault was ordered by a state District Court judge in 2017 to pay $16 million in damages to Kenneth Wolter in a civil case alleging he had sexually abused Wolter dozens of times beginning in 1991, when Wolter was a 10-year-old boy.
Wolter, now in his mid-30s, said in his 2014 lawsuit that Perrault had abused him at Kirtland and at the St. Bernadette parish in Albuquerque, about five miles from the Air Force base, when he served as an altar boy.
Perrault failed to appear at a Jan. 11, 2017, hearing to defend himself in the civil case.
He had vanished from the St. Bernadette parish in September 1992 and was believed to be living in Morocco at the time of the state court hearing last year.
According to federal officials, Perrault was arrested by Moroccan authorities Oct. 12.
When he initially fled St. Bernadette, Perrault went to Canada, officials said. He then went to Morocco, where he worked at an English-language school for children.
The U.S. and Morocco do not have an extradition treaty, FBI Special Agent in Charge James C. Langenberg said at a news conference Friday in Albuquerque, but the country has domestic laws allowing it to work with other authorities.
Langenberg said he had no information on whether Perrault is suspected of committing any crimes in Morocco.
"This case is not over," he said, adding the FBI is seeking information on other people who might have been victims of abuse by Perrault when they were children.
The FBI was involved in the case, Langenberg said, because Perrault is accused of committing crimes on federal property. If information on other possible crimes by Perrault emerges while the federal case proceeds through the court system, local authorities will be notified, he said.
The agency is asking anyone with information on possible abuse by Perrault to email the U.S Attorney's Office at usanm-priest@usdoj.gov or call the FBI's Albuquerque office at 800-CALL-FBI.
"The FBI will run a case to the ground," Langenberg said, adding it took a lot of perseverance to bring Perrault back to the U.S.
Anderson said he could not comment on whether there are other suspects in the Perrault case.
Wolter's complaint said that by the early 1990s, the Archdiocese of Santa Fe was aware that Perrault had abused several boys.
His attorney, Brad Hall, filed a suit against the archdiocese in 2016 alleging another man was abused by Perrault at a different Albuquerque parish when he was a child in the late 1970s. That complaint, alleging abuse from 1975-77 at Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Church, also says church officials were aware of Perrault's abuse.
According to the Associated Press, a New Mexico judge released church records last year showing Perrault is accused in state lawsuits of sexually abusing at least 38 boys.
In 1965, when Perrault was a priest in Connecticut, church officials there accused him of sexual misconduct and sent him to the now-shuttered Servants of the Paraclete, a former treatment facility in Jemez Springs for Catholic priests, the 2016 complaint says.
Church officials later recommended he receive a permanent assignment in New Mexico, preferably at a school, according to the suit.
The former priest, who served parishes in New Mexico from 1973 to 1992, taught ethics classes at St. Pius X High School in Albuquerque for a time.
Hall, who has represented more than 100 victims alleging Catholic clergy abuse in New Mexico, praised the federal indictment and Perrault's extradition.
"This is a great day for survivors of clergy abuse everywhere," the attorney said in a statement.
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Go On: Ryan and Anne Make a Play for the Same Woman...
I had forgotten that Courteney Cox was guest-starring in this episode, which led me to say "is that Monica?" as Chandler Ryan spotted her for the first time in the cemetery. Oh, and by the way, I found that to be very odd... I mean, I know that you meet people everywhere you go, but making a play for someone you met at a graveyard is a bit more extraordinary than normal, no? Even more head-tilting, however, is Yolanda walking around on a cruise with a laptop, trying to get Lauren's help to meet men. And, although I half-expected to see Steven hanging around the ship, just trying to get laid, the whole Yolanda storyline felt "wrong" to me. Did you like it? Did you find it funny? Were you disturbed by it? Oh, and on an unrelated note, do you think Sonia's parents being deaf is at all a result from the attention Switched at Birth has been getting? You know, they're making deaf culture cool...
Go On "Matchup Problems" (S01E20): Anne sets up Ryan to meet a grieving widow, Talia, but when he asks her out, he winds up inviting Anne on the date. [haha!] Talia milks the waiter for cheap drinks and free buffalo wings for the three mourners, but what's worse is that she's hitting on both of them, as she isn't sure in whom she's most interested. [...what??] She asks them both out for the following night, and the both go for it, though the waiters are pulling for Ryan. [ha!] He goes home with the woman and soon learns that Anne turned down Talia because she got the crazy vibe from her. [uh oh...] Well, Talia steals a car and runs red lights, ending things as quickly as they began. [oh well!]
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Yolanda's parents want to marry her off, so they're making her wear a fitted dress and fake breasts, AND they sent her on an Asian Christian Singles cruise. [apparently "marry me off" is still a term... who knew?] While cruising, she skypes the group's meeting, and Lauren tries to help her, though a guy soon starts hitting on her over the computer. She doesn't realize her flirting is harmful, however, until one guy offers up his genitals on the screen. [and Yolanda was where during this??]
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Q: Cournot Duopoly Game - Nash equilibrium I have this problem about Cournot Duopoly game. Actually I don't know if I have understood the "real sense" of the problem.
I consider CD game described by the following payoff fucntions:
$$
u_{1}(x_1,x_2)=x_1\Big{(}1-\frac{x_1+x_2}{2}\Big{)}
$$
$$
u_{2}(x_1,x_2)=x_2\Big{(}1-\frac{x_1+x_2}{2}\Big{)}
$$
At this point computing the partial derivatives and set them equal to zero I obtain as NE $x_{1}=x_{2}=\frac{2}{3}$ and so the payoffs at NE are both equal to $\frac{2}{9}$.
Now it has been considered the total payoff function $u(x_1,x_2)=u_1(x_1,x_2)+u_2(x_1,x_2)$ and I would like to have
$$\frac{\partial{u}}{\partial{x_1}}=\frac{\partial{u}}{\partial{x_2}}=0$$
 (and they called this "cooperative solution").
Solving with this new framework I obtain $x_1=x_2=\frac{1}{2}$ and the payoffs are both $\frac{1}{4}$.
So in this case with respect the NE that I have found at the beginning I can say that the production in smaller but the profit is bigger.
Now, my question is: How to prove that $ \left(\frac{1}{2},\frac{1}{2} \right)$ is not a Nash equilibrium? And what is the best response to $\frac{1}{2}$?
I hope that someone could give me a hint because I'm new to game theory.
Thank you very much!

A: If player 2 chooses $x_2=1/2$, then, plugging this into player 1's payoff, we get for player 1's payoff: $$x_1\left(1-\frac{x_1+0.5}{2}\right)=x_1\left(\frac{3}{4}-\frac{x_1}{2}\right).$$ Maximizing this using calculus, we find that the best choice of player 1 is: $$x_1=\frac{3}{4}.$$ So, the best reply of player 1, if the other player chooses 1/2, is to choose 3/4. The strategy pair (1/2,1/2) is not a Nash equilibrium because player 1 is not playing his best reply. Of course, by the same argument, player 2 is not playing his best reply either.


Included in this list is the open star cluster Messier 36, also known as the Pinwheel Cluster. This cluster is so-named because of its association with the Auriga constellation (aka. "the Charioteer"). Though similar in size and make-up to the Pleiades Cluster (Messier 45), the Pinwheel Cluster is actually ten times farther away from Earth – and one of the most distant of any clusters catalogued by Messier.
Located a little more than 4000 light years from our solar system, this group of about 60 stars spans across about 14 light years of space. As you are studying it, you'll notice one star which seems brighter than the rest… With good reason! Its a spectral type B2 and about 360 more luminous than our Sun. Many of the cluster members here are also B-type stars and rapid rotators.
This means that 25 million year old Messier 36 shares a lot in common with another nearby star cluster, the Pleiades. By taking a deep look at young clusters with stars of varying ages, astronomers are able to how long circumstellar disks may last – giving us a clue as to whether or not planet-forming stars may lay within them.
It would be observed again by Caroline, William and John Herschel who would be the first to note the double star in M36's center. Although none of their notes are particularly glowing on this awesome star cluster, Admiral Symth does come to the historic rescue!
Locating Messier 36 is relatively easy once you understand the constellation of Auriga. Looking roughly like a pentagon in shape, start by identifying the brightest of these stars – Capella. Due south of it is the second brightest star which shares its border with Beta Tauri, El Nath. By aiming binoculars at El Nath, go north about 1/3 the distance between the two and enjoy all the stars!
While all three open star clusters make fine choices for moonlit or light polluted skies, remember that high sky light means less faint stars which can be resolved – robbing each cluster of some of its beauty. Messier 36 is intermediate brightness of the trio and you'll quite enjoy its "X" shape and many pairings of stars!
Has the central double changed with time? Why not observe for yourself and see!


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The decision to come to America for my master's degree was a defining moment in my life. Here in America, I have met so many friends from different countries, including Chile, Turkey, Brazil, and Thailand. The different attitudes they have in terms of how they see the world or deal with difficulties gives me inspiration, and helps me broaden my own horizon. Thanks to this experience, I can see more potential in myself. I have learned to dream big and believe anything is possible.
Agriculture is very important to all cultures. It has changed history and the way humans interact with the Earth. However, agricultural development is facing great challenges. Issues like global warming, water scarcity, and environment pollution all threaten our way of life. I want to contribute to the sustainable development of agriculture, which is why I chose crop science as my current major. My master's program involves comparing the responses of different annual forage species under deficit irrigation, in order to select the species with the best ability to handle drought and still produce forage with high production and high quality while using less water. Hopefully, in the end, we can solve the problem of forage shortage during dry periods and conserve water at the same time.
The biggest challenge so far has definitely the language problem. I seldom speak English in China. Plus, the second day I arrived in America, I came straight to the experiment station and I was the only student there speaking Chinese. It was a totally new environment. I needed to ask for help for almost everything because there were so many things I didn't understand. You can imagine how helpless I was then. But in order to get the help, I had to open my mouth and speak. So I spoke. Even if my oral English was not good, I still kept speaking and communicating. And the local people I met were all super nice and super patient. Gradually, communicating is not a problem for me any more.
My ultimate goal is to teach in a university. AgSci is like the bridge helping me get there. I will need to master professional knowledge and also professional research skills, which is exactly what I am learning in my master's program. AgSci has helped me to lay a good foundation, and also helped me to broaden my horizon and encouraged me to dream big. I thank AgSci for giving me that confidence!
In 2013, I helped investigate the impacts of the Subsidy and Incentive System for Grassland Conservation on rangeland restoration and herder's livelihood in Gansu city of China. We visited the herders to conduct questionnaires, and then organized and analyzed the data. Then we submitted our report to the Agriculture Ministry of China and gave a presentation to local government officials and university teachers. There were twelve students from different majors, and we lived together for almost two weeks. I made so many friends and learned so much about the local culture.
Learn to use the resources that OSU provides. And whenever it feels too hard to deal with something, both in study or in life, try to ask for help from a related department.


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Pushing the Art Jewelry Movement Forward with Donna Schneier, Owner of Donna Schneier Fine Arts
Common wisdom says that jewelry collectors should buy pieces they like, but private dealer and philanthropist Donna Schneier, who has donated several large collections to museums, thinks otherwise. She joined the Jewelry Journey podcast to talk with host Sharon Berman about her collecting philosophy, as well as her predictions for the future of art jewelry. Read the transcript below.
Sharon: Hello everyone, welcome to the Jewelry Journey podcast. Today, I'm pleased to be talking with a longtime mover and shaker in the world of art jewelry, collector and philanthropist Donna Schneier, who now heads Donna Schneier Fine Arts. Donna has donated several large collections to well-known museums, such as The Met, which have crafted shows around these collections. We'll hear about this as well as her take on the world of art jewelry. Donna, thanks so much for being here.
Donna: It's my great pleasure, thank you for having me.
Sharon: We're so glad you're here, thanks. You've covered a lot of ground in the world of jewelry and art jewelry. Can you tell us about your jewelry journey? Did you always like jewelry, and when did you become attracted to art jewelry?
Donna: I think women will always buy jewelry and lipstick, but I became attracted to art jewelry when I was a dealer in ceramics and glass in the secondary market. I was a private dealer and I couldn't fight with my collectors over the best piece, because of course if you're collecting in that field, you would keep it. So, I looked around for something to collect, because my collecting philosophy is to be able to build a collection that encompasses the work from the very beginning of the movement to the present, and to only collect masterpieces by the masters in the movement. That's what I hoped to be able to do, because in the '80s when I began, it was a nascent movement. The contemporary art jewelry movement, as you know, began in the '60s in Europe—in Holland, England and Germany. So, I looked around and began to collect what I could find in the galleries and art fairs, and I was off on my journey. It was almost purely by accident that I somehow collected the history of the contemporary jewelry movement, because I only bought what I thought pushed the movement forward. I never bought what I liked and almost never bought what I could afford. I am very grateful to all the dealers that I bought from who allowed me to buy the very best thing they had and pay it out. To this day, that's how I continue to collect.
Sharon: That's great to hear you say that, as there are a lot of people who build their collections that way.
Donna: There should be more, because when people say to me, "Oh, if I can't pay for it now, I can't buy it," and to me, that just sounds ridiculous, with my history anyway.
Sharon: Did you ever wear any of this art jewelry?
Donna: I wear it all. I wore it all, even the collections that I gave to The Met, to MAD or to the Mint Museum. I wore everything.
Sharon: That's great to hear.
Donna: It wasn't all so wearable, but I wore it anyway.
Sharon: Having seen some of the pieces in your collection, you certainly did collect masterpieces. They're jaw-dropping. How did you become a virtual gallerist? I didn't realize that you dealt in ceramics before. When did you decide to do art jewelry?
Donna: I have a degree in art history, and I used to sell 20th century painting and sculpture in the very beginning, but I went into the real world of jewelry, into the gold importing business for a while. When I was done with that, I looked around for a new entry into the art world, and a tenth of the Jasper Johns would have taken my entire inventory budget. So, I looked around, and again, this was the late '80s. You could collect masterpieces like ceramics and glass and build a comprehensive collection. Today it's much more difficult to do that because, as I said earlier, I couldn't compete with my clients; I didn't want to compete with my clients; I didn't think it was appropriate to compete with my clients. So, I looked around for something to collect, and there was art jewelry. It was always intriguing for me to collect in that area.
Sharon: What was it that intrigued you about it? What gave you the foresight to say, "This is going to be something. Let me get in now"?
Donna: The art jewelers I collected, or continue to collect, are university-trained artists with MFAs or Ph.D.s in fine art, who have chosen to make art to wear as opposed to painting and sculpture. They are professors or award-winning artists who work in their studios. It wasn't so difficult to determine that this was a movement that now has its own galleries, its own societies, its own publications, and its own art fairs. It wasn't so terribly hard to see that at that time.
Sharon: Well, I give you a lot of credit for identifying that.
Donna: Well, thank you, you may be the only one.
Sharon: I know you've created several significant art jewelry collections and you've donated several collections to major museums. Once you decided to donate one, did you continue to collect with the idea that you would donate the next one?
Donna: Absolutely, I always collected with the idea that ultimately if it qualified, I would give my collection or collections to museums, because it is my feeling—very strongly—that the artist did not make this work for you or me or Ms. X, Y or Z. The artist makes his work for posterity and art is meant to be shared, and the best way to share art is through a museum or if you're a collector, to open your house to charitable organizations and invite people in to see whatever it is you have collected. The first collection was the one that I gave to MAD, 89 pieces. They had an exhibition called "Zero Carat" and did a book that documented the collection. It was the very early part of the art jewelry movement, which was extremely explosive, besides it being the '80s when everything was explosive. This work, which I framed and put in my fine jewelry offices at the time was—how shall I say—was unwearable. I wore a lot of it, but a lot of it was, as in any movement at the beginning, so big and explosive. In the '90s, it quieted down quite a bit. That early part was given to MAD. When I gave the work to The Met, which was the second half of the collection from the '90s forward, I sort of regretted that I had broken up the collection and was moaning about it to Bruce Metcalf, the eminent critic, and he said, "No, you didn't make a mistake, because it would have been too difficult to understand the history if both collections remained together." Whether that's true or not, it made me feel a lot better about it.
Sharon: So, he was saying that it was more digestible in terms of being broken into the two collections?
Donna: Exactly what he was saying. That's very well said.
Sharon: When you were thinking about putting the collection together—it's very interesting to me that you didn't buy what you liked, because you hear so many people say to buy what you love and that's the way to put your collection together.
Donna: Do not buy what you like. Most people come up to a painting or a sculpture or any work of art without the experience to understand what the artist is saying or doing. They don't have a degree in art history. They don't know how it fits into the total picture. They don't know what the beginning was and what the present-day point of view is. They have no idea. So, if they buy what they like, they're actually often buying from ignorance. That's not a good idea. If you want to find out about the movement, you should look. The best way to find out about anything is looking, and then you look some more and look again and look again and go to museums, and ultimately you will understand if what you're thinking about fits into the total picture.
Sharon: Can one do that with art jewelry? Is there enough around to look at?
Donna: If you like to travel there is, and certainly there are fabulous books. In fact, that's how I acquired a Mary Hughes piece that is now in The Met, which they take out frequently for their Masterpiece exhibitions in the summer, and which they used in "The Body Transformed," which closed at the end of February. I saw it in the first book on art jewelry by American authors—the name escapes me for the moment—and it was owned by the mayor of San Diego, who I later found out was a woman, so I said, "Well, that piece is out of the question. I'll never have that piece." Years later, I think in the '90s, the mayor donated it. She was active in the American crafts movement and the Metal and Crafts Museum at the time. She donated that piece to Jack Lenor Larsen, who offered it to me. He said, "I have this piece. We are unable to keep it, and would you like to place this in your collection?" Then I gulped before I asked him how much it was going to be. Even at that time, I wasn't going to be able to hand him the check for the total amount. I said, "Well, I can buy it. I'd love to have it. I've hankered after this for years, but I'm going to have to pay less." He said, "Don't bother. Just give me X amount of dollars a month and it's yours, and you can even have it now." That's how I acquired that piece, which is truly, truly a masterpiece of American art jewelry.
Sharon: Wow! I just wanted to stop a minute because I want to make sure everybody knows. You mentioned MAD, the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, and Mary Hughes is an incredible goldsmith, just fantastic jewelry.
Donna: This collar on her bench, it's huge. In fact, my granddaughter, when I took her to "The Body Transformed," in which they distributed this work, looked at it and said, "Grandma, you wore that to my Bat Mitzvah."
Sharon: Wow! That's quite a story, in terms of having your eye on it and being able to get it at some point.
Donna: Yeah, it was fortunate that I was able to acquire it.
Sharon: You've also raised significant amounts of money for museums and their art jewelry programs, through what I'll call jewelry galas, such as LOOT for MAD and BIJOUX! in West Palm Beach. Can you tell us about these and how they came to be?
Donna: I always wanted to push the movement forward and give the artists a chance to exhibit their work, particularly in places where there were no jewelry galleries or museums with exhibitions of contemporary art jewelry. I co-created a fundraiser which at that time was called, "Gold and Silver." David McFadden, one of the curators, later changed it to LOOT, and it's now in its 26th year. We invited close to 50 artists from all over the world, the United States, Japan, Germany, Holland, France, and Korea, to exhibit for four to five days. The museum got 50% of the revenue and the artist got the other 50%. There are sponsors and committees that donate as well. I know at BIJOUX! in West Palm Beach, the committee donates a little over $1,000 to help offset the costs of the event. We didn't have BIJOUX! last year at the Norton because it was under construction—but two years ago, we made close to half a million dollars in four days with BIJOUX!.
Sharon: Wow!
Donna: We have changed the face of jewelry in West Palm Beach. Everywhere I go, "When is BIJOUX!? When is BIJOUX!?" As I said, women will always buy jewelry and lipstick.
Sharon: So, you just had BIJOUX! this year, right?
Donna: Not this year because of the construction.
Sharon: So, not this year, O.K. I knew about LOOT, but I had never heard of BIJOUX!, so that's something to keep an eye on. It sounds like a lot of fun and a reason to go down there.
Donna: It's a great deal of fun, and it's wonderful for the artists because they can interact with one another for close to a week. They have to arrive a little bit early to set up and check in and they have a wonderful time. Great friendships are made. I'm very, very pleased, because it's really all about the artist. That's really what everything is about.
Sharon: It sounds fabulous. I'll have to find the dates for next year. So, how do you decide what artists to bring into your gallery? You have a lot of Israeli artists and very, very creative people. How do you decide?
Donna: For art fairs, which are kind of an impulsive buy, it's very difficult to bring in the tough stuff. Really, it doesn't sell. I don't want the artist disappointed. So, it's more about wearability and artists who have also pushed the envelope. It's a tough thing to gauge. For instance, Nirit Dekel, a glass artist from Israel who was inspired by Chihuly, is a really unique artist because she's now teaching at Corning, which is very exciting. Her first showing was at SOFA, which is the Sculpture Objects Functional Art and Design Fair in Chicago. She was a "craft" artist there at the time, and she continues to grow and change. That's the mark of a good artist. They don't just make the same thing over and over again because it sells, so that's one thing I look at, how they're growing as artists. Another one of my artists, Ashley Buchanan, won the American Craft Council's Emerging Artists Award and the first prize at Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show this past year.
Sharon: Congratulations.
Donna: She's a wonderful artist. You would imagine that she uses a laser in her work, but she doesn't. She cuts out every tiny little piece with a jeweler's saw. That's sort of how I make a decision about the artist, their technique, their craft and, of course, the finished product. Is it aesthetically pleasing? And for the art fairs, is it wearable?
Sharon: Do you bring on other pieces that you don't show at art fairs because they're too forward-thinking?
Donna: I did that for the first time in West Palm Springs, this past show, and it was very interesting because a very, very astute collector bought one of those pieces.
Sharon: Interesting. It seems like you're doing exactly what other dealers did with you, in terms of guiding them and bringing things to their attention. As somebody who purchases art jewelry and other kinds of jewelry, that's something I always appreciate. I think people are afraid that they come across as trying to push or sell something, but I always appreciate somebody pointing something out.
Donna: A lot of people object to you suggesting. One great collector said to me, "I have eyes. I can see it." Well, O.K., fine.
Sharon: What do you see as the future of art jewelry?
Donna: I think it has a long way to go. The artists and schools and societies are pushing hard to move this movement forward, and I'm hoping it'll continue. It's one of the few movements I see on the horizon as continuing to grow and change.
Sharon: When you say it has a long way to go, do you mean there's more opportunity for saturation in the market?
Donna: Yes, a lot more opportunity.
Sharon: In terms of becoming more widespread and recognized?
Donna: There aren't enough galleries, particularly in the United States. I don't believe there's a gallery in New York City. There's one in Jersey, which is a very good gallery, and I like Velvet da Vinci.
Sharon: They're only online now. They were in San Francisco.
Donna: Oh, they're online. In Seattle, there was another very good one for a while, but there aren't a lot of art jewelry galleries, and I don't understand why. I don't understand why more museums don't collect, because it's not expensive; it doesn't take up a lot of room. It's not hard to store. The Louvre, for instance, has six miles of storage underneath it, and you don't need that for jewelry. The next door is my collection and a study room. I'm kind of befuddled about why there aren't more museums collecting art jewelry, but they seem to get a lot of donations though, so that's good, too.
Sharon: Yes, and hopefully that will grow. Donna, thank you so much for being here and for giving us your take on the market and the world of art jewelry. Everybody listening, we'll have Donna's contact information in our show notes at TheJewelryJourney.com. If you like what you heard, please rate us. We'll be back next time with another thought-provoking guest giving us their professional take on the world of jewelry. Thank you so much for listening.


Guest services matters. Mucho. In fact, it's one of the most important components of seeing people have a great experience at your church.
Great guest services doesn't just happen by chance. It takes intentionality.
Here are 10 Golden Rules for guest services. Train your guest services' team to live by these and you'll get rave reviews from guests.
Smile. When you smile, it communicates to people that you are glad they're here and that you're happy to help them.
I often ask guests for feedback from their experience at our church. I remember one time, a guest responded that we did a great job helping them register and taking them to their child's classroom. But they said the lady at the classroom door never smiled at them. It was a great opportunity to remind our team how important it is to smile.
Use their name. The sweetest sound to every person is their own name. As soon as you find out the person's name, use it in your conversation with them. When you use a person's name, it helps them feel known and valued.
Walk don't point. Always walk your guests to their room or destination. First, this takes away their stress of not knowing where to go (even if you gave them directions, they are dealing with the stress of trying to remember and follow the directions). Secondly, it gives you a few more minutes to spend with them as you take them to the location.
Make good eye contact. Look at people, not past people. When you are with a guest, really be with them. Focus your time and attention solely on them.
Never say "I don't know." When you are asked a question that you don't have the answer for, say "That's a great question. Let me find out the answer and I'll let you know."
Better yet, equip your team ahead of time with the knowledge they need, so they do have the answer. Practically, this means giving them a cheat sheet that has information about ministries other than yours, a list of upcoming events, etc.
Don't make people wait. Everyone hates to wait. Monitor the wait times for check-in, pick-up, coffee lines, traffic flow out of the property after the service, etc. Make wait times as short as possible.
I have often gotten in a pick-up line in the preschool or elementary areas and timed how long it took me to get from the back of the line to the pick-up door. If it is more than 3 minutes, we look for ways to shorten the wait time.
Acknowledge the person as quickly as possible. When you do have someone waiting in line, acknowledge their presence. This can be as simple as saying, "Hi, glad you're here. I'll be right with you." This simple step will drop their stress level of having to wait in line.
Courtesy and respect. Treat people right. More than anything else, they will remember how you made them feel. And the truth is, they will return based on how you made them feel emotionally.
Be positive. Here's an example. The check-in computers go down right in the middle of check-in. You have switch over and write out security tags manually. The attitude you display during this challenge speaks volumes.
"I hate when this happens. What a pain! Okay. We're going to have to write out everyone's tags by hand. It's going to take more time, so everyone hang!"
"The check-in system is offline for a few minutes. So let's write out your security tags. Let's have some fun. Pick out your favorite color of pen and we'll use that to write down your name. And look, I even added a smiley face for you on your tag because you've got a great smile."
See the difference? A positive attitude can turn a stressful situation into a fun situation.
Take time to really listen to what they share. This helps you learn about them and be able to mention specific details about them as you follow up. Here's an example. If you listen and remember that a new family has just moved from...say...Seattle...you can mention that the next time you talk with them. This will show you are taking a personal interest in them.
I've made an infograph with these 10 Golden Rules that you can share with your guest services' team. Download it now for free at this link.


The cassette we're hearing played back –labeled "Gwen's tape, age 4"– marks the start of G.T. Thomas' long-standing practice of self-assuredly laying down all her biggest ideas on recorded format.
But ever since she first developed her own recording studio during her Bachelor's study in composition (early 2000s), it's from within that space that her own artistic vision gets to take the wheel.
G.T. Thomas knows how to do it.
In November, 2018, G.T. Thomas crossed everything off her agenda and challenged herself instead to spend every waking hour writing and recording a new song from scratch every few days for the entire month. She posted the results in real-time on Instagram.
It's been 7 years since the release of her debut album, and 4 years since her most recent single. In that time, she has played many shows and collaborated with dozens of artists. But the lack of new recordings started to feel like a bit of a black hole, and this didn't reflect the vivid fluorescence she feels inside.
To shine with a sudden increase in brightness, all month long.
Setting out to have 9 new songs by the end, she achieved her goal.
TheSE NEW RECORDINGS solidifY G.T. Thomas' identity as a LOUNGE POP artist.
"I hope the 3 previews I shared here get you excited about the album I'll be releasing in 2019, consisting of all the songs that sprang forth out of Novavember! Sign up for emails from me to get updates about this, including some free downloads I'll make available soon to subscribers."
G.T. Thomas has presented her songs as a singing bassist for audiences from Amsterdam, to Seattle, to NYC as a solo artist for years.
A new incarnation of her live act takes shape with the addition of Julien Moussiegt on vibraphone and Jeroen de Rijk on Latin percussion. As a trio, they translate the heart of her "weird little songs" with something of a cocktail-hour kick in the brains.
Stay tuned – in 2019, a full band setting may start bringing songs from the forthcoming album to life in their full spectrum of lounge pop fluorescence and grace.
The G.T. Thomas Trio is located in The Netherlands, and happy to travel.
Upon special request, Thomas is available to play her "weird little songs" SOLO, for especially intimate settings. Please don't hesitate to reach out if this is something you are specifically looking for. The full band is not yet available for bookings.
With Julien Moussiegt (vibraphone) and Jeroen de Rijk (Latin percussion).
With Julien Moussiegt (vibraphone) and featuring guest soloist Hermine Deurloo (harmonica).
6 songs recorded during on-air performance on "Songwriters Guild Live" in Amsterdam, May 2018.
In 2014, G.T. Thomas released the single "Theater of Mirrors," which was produced by Grammy-winner Michael Leonhart (Steely Dan), in 3 magical, whirlwind days in New York City.
From 2004 - 2010, Thomas performed under the name "The Luckless Pedestrian."
The (mostly orchestral pop/ indie pop) materials from that period, were released on Smoking Ant Records in 2011, under her freshly adopted "G.T. Thomas" artist name.
4 of the 12 tracks of the album "The Luckless Pedestrian Years 2004 - 2010" can be heard (and purchased) here, as well as the physical CD containing all 12 songs.
The album received airplay by DJ Danny Baker on London's BBC Radio 1, as well as in the US and the Netherlands and warm reviews (see below).
Please use this form to get in touch about booking, interview requests, or other inquiries.


Nairobi, Sept 30, GNA � The tragic events at Kenya's Westgate Mall that occurred from Saturday, September 21, 2013, which lead to the deaths of at least 61 civilians, including Professor Kofi Awoonor, are a harsh reminder of the vulnerabilities of states and societies in responding to peculiar threats from actors that have nothing to lose and that kill or maim as public spectacle.
The events underscore the need for new and prospective thinking about security. Such thinking must be anchored around a dire need to prevent the kind of terror attacks at Westgate through other means.
This focus on prevention, however, requires a fundamental shift in security thinking and practice in a number of areas. First, we need a vision of security that acknowledges but also moves beyond traditional defence of the state.
Twenty-first century threats, particularly those of the Westgate extraction, require deeper knowledge of society and its dividing and connecting lines. They also demand an appreciation of the asymmetrical nature of new security threats, the fluidity of both the operational environment and the tools that magnify and multiply those threats.
Furthermore, they require capacity to counter the threats through a radical shift both in the narratives that mobilise and unify society against impending perils, and in the constituency of actors that must cohere to eliminate those threats.
Second, is coherence in thinking and approach across the security establishment that in turn enables a coherent development and application of security strategy. In this respect, security strategy is derived from a clearly articulated vision by a leadership that demonstrates commitment to transforming security discourse from a closed traditional perspective.
Third, there is a need for shared understanding and coalition-building across regional lines. Ideally, this will be facilitated by leadership that is interested in coherent thinking about security in the region with a shift away from old rigid approaches to security.
Fourth entails mobilisation of citizens and generating security consciousness in ways that build unity around a common vision of security without polarising society and deepening cracks along religious or ethnic lines. It is important to mobilise society against the �us� versus �them� dichotomy in security thinking.
While state actors or decision-makers need to reflect on a process of transformation along the above lines, societal mobilisation � nationally and regionally � around a new relevant approach to security requires its own organic process. Let us highlight three elements of this process.
The first is a new security literacy and consciousness. What we need is security literacy and consciousness that will necessarily characterise societies that effectively seek to insulate themselves against attacks of an irregular and asymmetric nature � the kind that groups like Al Shabaab, AQIM and Boko Haram depend on for survival and reproduction.
Second, this security literacy requires that a critical mass in society is, at a minimum, well informed and educated about basic security, about threats to security and about creative approaches to countering them. The aim here is to moderate the secrecy in which security processes tend to be cast. Much of the secrecy that surrounds security thinking and planning must be jettisoned for the greater good of society. A more open communication of security to citizens will enhance the creation of the critical mass required to upscale security literacy and consciousness across the whole of society.
Third, security consciousness needs a large part of society to understand and take basic measures to protect themselves individually and collectively. Such consciousness kept societies mobilised to survive nuclear attacks in Europe at the height of the Cold War. In other words, society played its part. This consciousness also came to play in British populations� alertness to IRA bombing threats from the 70s until the Good Friday Agreement in the 90s.
Thinking and planning effectively for security across African societies will require an inclusive and organic process that goes beyond pure military measures. Invariably, the secrecy associated with security thinking and planning must become more measured and open to better oversight by Parliament and citizens. Oversight cannot be always a bad thing.
Our societies must develop their own innovative home-grown approaches to their peculiar security challenges while seizing the advantage that technology and lessons of experience from elsewhere have to offer. Effective communication of a clear vision of security to citizens who rally around to make it real constitutes one path toward adaptation to the 21st century security environment; and dealing with chains of terror presented by groups like Al Qaeda, al Shabaab and Boko Haram.
Capturing citizens� commitment to a well-articulated security vision requires increased security literacy and consciousness. But there remains a dearth of knowledge about security across African societies. Kenya is not an exception despite its very active civil society. Altering this scenario must be part of the process of mobilising society for security transformation.
To effectively address these and many questions, there are many knowledge institutions that can lead this thinking and debate. At the African Leadership Centre, for instance, we have created intellectual space to think through and bridge some of these gaps. Our mission is to transform security and development discourses in Africa and to train a new community of leaders generating cutting edge knowledge on peace, security and development on the continent. We do this as a joint partnership between the Institute for Development Studies at the University of Nairobi and King�s College in London.
Our commitment is to think systematically about this security problem. But we also recognise that there are many professional networks in Africa that seriously complement this work. Drawing from such professional network in Africa like the African Security Sector Network, which convenes security sector scholars and policy practitioners along regional lines, will greatly enhance the development of a new vision for security studies in Africa. This is certainly a surmountable challenge if effort is multiplied and targets are set.


I've eased back on the free books as I have so many already. I don't always review but I at least leave a starred rating on Goodreads.
I haven't thought about that. Thank you for sharing your Goodreads solutions with me. If you don't mind, I think I will use it too. You just saved me! Thank you! Yeah, I should stop downloading free e-books. It just makes things worse.
Yeah, that's not my forte either. I do not like writing book reviews. I will usually give a rating, though. Time, there isn't enough of it!
So true. I'm going to follow your example and do the rating thing too. Thank you for sharing it with me.
I'm guilty of hoarding books (free and purchased) I haven't and probably won't read. I still owe people reviews from three or four (or more!) years ago too. I do review everything I finish reading, but there're so many books out there. I'll never get to them all.
I know what you mean. I don't think I will ever get to it all either. Thank you for letting me know I'm not the only one struggling with this.
I won a paperback recently, so I really must get on and read it, and review/star it. I too always try to review what I read, but there's so much I haven't read yet. It's waiting for me.
It is nice to know I'm not the only one struggling with this. But I think you'll make better progress than me. Good-luck with your 'to be read' books.
You're definitely not going to consumer hell! I used to try and write reviews on my blog but tbh, it was so time consuming that I found I was losing interest in the story, because I had to keep stopping to write down notes! So I gave up. I think most authors appreciate that not everyone has time to sit down and review their book immediately - I wouldn't worry about it :).
Thank you Rachel. Your words do make me feel better.
I know! It would be so mean to say 'I didn't like the book'. And I might even lose a friend. Thank you for letting me know I'm not alone on this issue.
I don't read ebooks. It's okay if you don't get around to them. You will not go to any kind of hell. I shall grab your hand and pull you into Heaven.
Don't worry, Murees. Nobody has time for everything, I only review children's books, and whenever I have time for them. Have a great weekend.
Thank you Deanie. Have a great weekend.
Very true. I definitely learnt my lesson when it comes to reviews.
I agree with Alex - I leave my starred rating on Goodreads and hope that's enough.
Thank you for visiting. I'll definitely try the starred rating system from now on.


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Mr. Edelman retired from the United States Foreign Service (diplomatic corps) within the U.S. Department of State in 2015 following 35 years of service largely focused on the Middle East and intelligence analysis.
Born in New York in 1955, Mr. Edelman received his BA in Politics (with a focus on Near Eastern studies) at Brandeis University, a law degree from the University of Connecticut, and pursued graduate studies in Government (National Security Studies) at Georgetown University. He speaks, at varying degrees of fluency, Hebrew, Arabic, French, Romanian, Polish and Turkish. His outside hobbies and interests include travel, history and photography. He is married and has one son.


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Supernatural Heartbreaker: [SPOILER] Posts Response to [SPOILER] Death
With Sam (Jared Padalecki), Dean (Jensen Ackles), Jack (Alexander Calvert), and Castiel's (Misha Collins) final battle against Chuck aka God's (Rob Benedict) plan to wipe out all of existence (without having to sacrifice Jack in the process) down to only three episodes of The CW's Supernatural, the SPN Family knew that the series wouldn't end without a sacrifice being made. On Thursday night's "Despair," there was one- and it was a big one. So we're throwing on the "MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD!" and getting into it after the following image.
Supernatural — "Despair" — Image Number: SN1518A_0121r.jpg — Pictured (L-R): Lisa Berry as Billie, Alexander Calvert as Jack, Jensen Ackles as Dean, Misha Collins as Castiel and Jared Padalecki as Sam — Photo: Colin Bentley/The CW — © 2020 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
First off? The entire world's gone. Yup. Like "gone" gone. But that's not the important part. Finding themselves trapped in the bunker, Billie aka Death (Lisa Berry) wasn't going anywhere until she saw Dean dead. Only one problem- Billie didn't realize just how much Castile loved Dean and how much he meant to him. Playing upon his deal with the Empty, Castiel delivered a feel-crushing speech about how knowing Dean and the sacrifices he's made throughout his life to help others showed him what true love and happiness meant- changing him in the process. And with an, "I love you," Castiel true happiness summoned the Empty- taking Castiel and Billie with it.
Here's a look at Collins's first reactions post-episode airing:
#Supernatural Tonight, watching Cas talk to Dean, I got lost in the story and forgot for a moment that I'm the one who plays that angel and I thought, "He's how I want to be. He's openhearted and he's selfless and he's true."
— Misha Collins — VOTE YOUR ASS OFF! (@mishacollins) November 6, 2020
A post shared by Misha Collins (@misha) on Nov 5, 2020 at 6:53pm PST
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Now here's a look at the long-running series' penultimate episode "Inherit the Earth":
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Supernatural season 15, episode 19 "Inherit the Earth": CARRY ON – Everything is on the line as the battle against God (guest star Rob Benedict) continues. A familiar face returns to join the fight. The episode was directed by John Showalter and written by Eugenie Ross-Leming & Brad Buckner.
Recently, the Supernatural post-production team released another Shaving People, Punting Things video offering the SPN Family a fresh look at the remainder of the season as well as at our favorites behind the scenes. Let's just say there's a whole lot of bleeding, reflecting, crying, hugging, drinking, and maybe… just maybe… one last chance to save the day:
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