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County in Illinois
U.S. county in Illinois
Morgan County Courthouse, Jacksonville
Location within the U.S. state of Illinois
Illinois's location within the U.S.
Coordinates: 39°43′N 90°12′W / 39.71°N 90.2°W / 39.71; -90.2
3.5 sq mi (9 km2) 0.6%
Morgan County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2010 census, it had a population of 35,547.[1] Its county seat is Jacksonville.[2]
Morgan County is part of the Jacksonville, IL Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Springfield-Jacksonville-Lincoln, IL Combined Statistical Area.
2.1 Climate and weather
2.4 National protected area
Morgan County was formed in 1823 out of Greene and Sangamon Counties. It was named in honor of General Daniel Morgan, who defeated the British at the Battle of Cowpens in the American Revolutionary War. General Morgan was serving under General Nathanael Greene at Cowpens. Jacksonville was established by European Americans on a 160-acre tract of land in the center of Morgan County in 1825, two years after the county was founded. The founders of Jacksonville, Illinois consisted entirely of settlers from New England. These people were "Yankee" settlers, that is to say they were descended from the English Puritans who settled New England in the 1600s. They were part of a wave of New England farmers who headed west into what was then the wilds of the Northwest Territory during the early 1800s. Most of them arrived as a result of the completion of the Erie Canal and the end of the Black Hawk War. The Yankee migration to Illinois was a result of several factors, one of which was the overpopulation of New England. The old stock Yankee population had large families, often bearing up to ten children in one household. Most people were expected to have their own piece of land to farm, and due to the massive and nonstop population boom, land in New England became scarce as every son claimed his own farmstead. As a result, there was not enough land for every family to have a self-sustaining farm, and Yankee settlers began leaving New England for the Midwestern United States. When they arrived in what is now Jacksonville there was nothing but dense virgin forest and wild prairie, the "Yankee" New Englanders laid out farms, constructed roads, erected government buildings and established post routes. They brought with them many of their Yankee New England values, such as a passion for education, establishing many schools as well as staunch support for abolitionism. They were mostly members of the Congregationalist Church though some were Episcopalian. Due to the second Great Awakening some of them had converted to Methodism and Presbyterianism while some others became Baptist, before moving to what is now Jacksonville. Jacksonville, like some other parts of Illinois, would be culturally very continuous with early New England culture for most of its early history.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]
Morgan County from the time of its creation to 1837
Morgan County between 1837 and 1839, when Scott County was split off
Morgan County between 1839 and 1845
Morgan County in 1845, when its border with Cass County was moved southward, bringing both to their present borders
According to the US Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 572 square miles (1,480 km2), of which 569 square miles (1,470 km2) is land and 3.5 square miles (9.1 km2) (0.6%) is water.[10]
Climate and weather[edit]
Jacksonville, Illinois
Source: The Weather Channel[11]
Average temperatures in the county seat of Jacksonville range from a low of 15 °F (−9 °C) in January to a high of 87 °F (31 °C) in July; a record low of −28 °F (−33 °C) was recorded in February 1934 and a record high of 114 °F (46 °C) was recorded in July 1954. Average monthly precipitation ranged from 1.35 inches (34 mm) in January to 4.86 inches (123 mm) in May.[11]
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Cass County - north
Sangamon County - east
Macoupin County - southeast
Greene County - south
Pike County - west
Scott County - west
Brown County - northwest
National protected area[edit]
Meredosia National Wildlife Refuge (part)
Est. 2018 33,976 [12] −4.4%
US Decennial Census[13]
As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 35,547 people, 14,104 households, and 8,851 families residing in the county.[17] The population density was 62.5 inhabitants per square mile (24.1/km2). There were 15,515 housing units at an average density of 27.3 per square mile (10.5/km2).[10] The racial makeup of the county was 90.9% white, 6.0% black or African American, 0.5% Asian, 0.2% American Indian, 0.8% from other races, and 1.6% from two or more races. Those of Hispanic or Latino origin made up 2.0% of the population.[17] In terms of ancestry, 25.9% were German, 21.6% were American, 15.4% were Irish, and 14.5% were English.[18] Those citing "American" ancestry in Morgan County, Illinois are of overwhelmingly English extraction, in many cases going back to colonial New England, however most English Americans identify simply as having "American" ancestry because their roots have been in North America for so long, in many cases since the early sixteen hundreds.[19][20][21][22]
Of the 14,104 households, 28.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 47.4% were married couples living together, 11.2% had a female householder with no husband present, 37.2% were non-families, and 31.5% of all households were made up of individuals. The average household size was 2.30 and the average family size was 2.86. The median age was 40.8 years.[17]
The median income for a household in the county was $44,645 and the median income for a family was $59,185. Males had a median income of $43,609 versus $29,893 for females. The per capita income for the county was $23,244. About 11.2% of families and 16.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 25.8% of those under age 18 and 7.5% of those age 65 or over.[23]
South Jacksonville
Unincorporated communities[edit]
Morgan County has been reliably Republican from its beginning; the Democratic nominee has gained a plurality only 19% of the time (6 of 32 elections).
1980 61.2% 10,406 32.3% 5,483 6.5% 1,108
1952 61.0% 10,405 38.9% 6,637 0.0% 4
National Register of Historic Places listings in Morgan County, Illinois
^ a b "State & County QuickFacts". US Census Bureau. Archived from the original on June 7, 2011. Retrieved July 7, 2014.
^ The Yankee Exodus: An Account of Migration from New England by Stewart Hall Holbrook University of Washington Press, 1968
^ American Zion: The Old Testament as a Political Text from the Revolution to ... By Eran Shalev, Yale University Press, Mar 26, 2013 ISBN 9780300186925page 70-71
^ Recollections of a Nonagenarian of Life in New England, the Middle West, and ... By John Calvin Holbrook pg. 96
^ Jacksonville, Illinois: The Traditions Continue By Betty Carlson Kay, Gary Jack Barwick pg. 21
^ Yankee Colonies across America: Cities upon the Hills By Chaim M. Rosenberg pg. 81
^ New England in the Life of the World: A Record of Adventure and Achievement By Howard Allen Bridgman pg. 93
^ Bridgman, Howard Allen (1920). New England in the Life of the World: A Record of Adventure and Achievement. Pilgrim Press.
^ a b "Population, Housing Units, Area, and Density: 2010 - County". US Census Bureau. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
^ a b "Monthly Averages for Jacksonville, Illinois". The Weather Channel. Retrieved January 27, 2011.
^ "Population and Housing Unit Estimates". Retrieved November 3, 2019.
^ "US Decennial Census". US Census Bureau. Retrieved July 7, 2014.
^ "Historical Census Browser". University of Virginia Library. Retrieved July 7, 2014.
^ "Population of Counties by Decennial Census: 1900 to 1990". US Census Bureau. Retrieved July 7, 2014.
^ "Census 2000 PHC-T-4. Ranking Tables for Counties: 1990 and 2000" (PDF). US Census Bureau. Retrieved July 7, 2014.
^ a b c "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data". US Census Bureau. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
^ "Selected Social Characteristics in the United States – 2006-2010 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates". US Census Bureau. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
^ Pulera, Dominic (October 20, 2004). Sharing the Dream: White Males in Multicultural America. A&C Black. p. 57. ISBN 978-0-8264-1643-8.
^ Reynolds Farley, 'The New Census Question about Ancestry: What Did It Tell Us?', Demography, Vol. 28, No. 3 (August 1991), pp. 414, 421.
^ Stanley Lieberson and Lawrence Santi, 'The Use of Nativity Data to Estimate Ethnic Characteristics and Patterns', Social Science Research, Vol. 14, No. 1 (1985), pp. 44–46.
^ Stanley Lieberson and Mary C. Waters, 'Ethnic Groups in Flux: The Changing Ethnic Responses of American Whites', Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 487, No. 79 (September 1986), pp. 82–86.
^ "Selected Economic Characteristics – 2006-2010 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates". US Census Bureau. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
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Taxing levee: Federal funds eschewed for local tax dollars to complete costly projects
By Nathan Grimm
Published 10:59 pm CDT, Saturday, April 23, 2016
A large crane-lifted device is pulled from a hole where it chomped out more slurry adjacent to Wood River Creek, left, along Illinois Route 143 in East Alton Friday. The work is part of erecting a wall, underground, to line the edges of the levee system at the mouth of the creek where it meets the Mississippi River. The work will prevent seepage of floodwater through the levee. less
A large crane-lifted device is pulled from a hole where it chomped out more slurry adjacent to Wood River Creek, left, along Illinois Route 143 in East Alton Friday. The work is part of erecting a wall, ... more
ALTON — Hundreds of millions of dollars have been — and will be — spent on improving the levee system in the Metro East, but insistence on using local labor and an aggressive timeline on the project has ended up putting much of the cost on area taxpayers.
Two projects — one aimed at getting the area's 75.8-mile levee system up to a 100-year flood standard and another focusing on correcting deficiencies at some of the sites — have been in the works since shortly after the federal government declared the area protected by the levees, known as the American Bottom, would be deaccredited if work was not done. And, as those projects draw to a close — the levee system is expected to be federally accredited by the end of the year — local leaders have hailed it as an unprecedented success.
But documents show more than $18 million in federal funds were foregone as the Southwestern Illinois Flood Prevention District Council (SIFPDC) pushed forward with the projects, despite warnings from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Instead, the council has used money generated from a one-quarter cent sales tax in Madison, St. Clair and Monroe counties — which generates between $11 and $12 million annually — and the issuance of bonds to pay for the approximately $115 million worth of work done thus far and the roughly $185 million worth of work still yet to do.
Why federal money went unused depends on who you ask. Corps officials say that while they worked to find a solution to the council's unwavering stance on project labor agreements (PLAs), the federal money appropriated to the local construction disappeared. PLAs are pre-hire collective bargaining agreements with one or more labor organization that establish the terms and conditions of employment for a specific construction project, the legality of which has been debated in recent years.
Council leaders and local government officials, though, say a race against time, complicated by a system bogged down by bureaucracy, necessitated that the project move forward with or without federal assistance.
The PLA issue
In 2012, the SIFPDC passed a resolution requiring any contractors bidding on council projects to enter into a PLA. The resolution said the levee project was an "urgent priority" and required the council to act quickly. Project labor agreements, the resolution stated, would help minimize any delay in construction of the project by avoiding labor conflicts.
And they have. Both the SIFPDC and the corps have acknowledged the benefit of PLAs. Though behind the original timeline dictated by the federal government, if the project is finished and accredited this year, it will have no effect on flood insurance for residents and businesses in the floodplain.
"Because we've required a PLA hasn't really, in our minds, increased the project costs or anything," said Charles Etwert, SIFPDC chief supervisor of construction and work.
The issue arose with the corps' involvement in the project. With a district office in St. Louis, the corps agreed to provide 65 percent of the funding for the 100-year flood project, with the council responsible for coming up with the other 35 percent.
In FY 2015, that contribution would have equaled more than $18 million for work to be done on the levees in Wood River and East St. Louis. A work plan on the corps' website shows that President Barack Obama had earmarked $9,810,000 for work in East St. Louis and $8,650,000 for Wood River.
As an agency using federal money, though, the corps cannot legally mandate PLAs for construction contracts, according to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Programs and Project Manager Tracey Kelsey. With the council unwilling to amend its stance on PLAs and the corps searching for alternative ways to fund the project, only $100,000 of that $18,460,000 went to use on the local projects.
"The Flood Prevention District has always indicated that they wanted a guarantee of a PLA on any construction projects that they provided cost-share funds for," Kelsey said. "Because of their mandate that PLAs have to be part of the contract, the time that we took trying to work toward a solution to this issue, there was federal dollars given to the project that we weren't able to utilize because we were kind of at a standstill of moving forward without this PLA issue resolved. There were federal dollars that we weren't able to use on the projects that, because of that, went back to the pool and went to other projects."
A Glen Carbon attorney, Ron Motil, who is president of the SIFPDC Board of Directors, said it has been a "cooperative effort" between the bodies and said he doesn't believe PLAs were the reason the federal money went unused.
"I don't agree with the idea that we lost federal funding because of (PLAs)," Motil said. "There's still federal funds being spent and contemplated being spent.
"But yeah, that is a very important issue. We wanted a PLA to be used as much as we can, because it works very well with skilled labor and local labor. You get a better workforce in our opinion."
As to what did cause the federal funding to vanish, Motil said, "I don't know the full reasons why there wasn't the funding given, but I don't think it's that specific issue."
Race against the clock
Local leaders knew from the beginning that time wasn't on their side.
When the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) issued its decree in 2007, the agency gave the Metro East until 2015 to fix the problem or face deaccreditation. Appeals of the new maps were denied in September 2010, increasing the urgency to get something done quickly. At the same time, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers told local officials the project could cost hundreds of millions of dollars and that, by its estimates, the corps may not have available matching funding for the project until 2044.
So the council decided to fund the project primarily with local money.
"While the federal government could pay as much as 65 percent of the cost, it could take decades for those funds to be authorized and appropriated, so there would be significant uncertainty about the cost and schedule of the project," the council wrote in its annual report. "That continued uncertainty would impose very high costs on residents and businesses in the area, and, more importantly, would subject the area to increased flood risk.
"Because of the uncertainty of federal funding and the complexity and time consuming nature of the (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) project-development process, levee improvements will be primarily locally funded."
In November 2010, the council issued bonds in the amount of $94,195,000. Those bonds, and a one-quarter cent sales tax that has been collected since January 2009 — which was anticipated to bring in $11.5 million in FY 2016 per the council's FY 2016 budget — have helped the council complete the work within the specified time frame.
As for the federal money that was available for the projects, officials say they believed the money appropriated for work in Wood River and East St. Louis would have been better spent at the Melvin Price Locks and Dam 26, where the corps is responsible for needed repairs.
"Have they lost some money? Yeah. But the council back in 2012 said, this (PLA) is our requirement," said Etwert, who took over as the council's chief supervisor after Les Sterman retired in early 2014. "And the corps still allocated their money to a couple of areas, where they probably should have allocated it to the Mel Price."
Madison County Chairman Alan Dunstan, an outspoken proponent of PLAs who called the project a "hundred percent success story," echoed Etwert's concerns.
"Our citizens are going to be protected, Madison County residents and St. Clair County residents are going to be protected, because our levees are going to be at the 100-year level except for one area — and that's the Melvin Price Locks and Dam," Dunstan said.
"There has got to be a way … to take that money and reassign it to the area that they have a problem with. That way, my residents in Madison County are protected throughout the whole levee."
Sue Casseau, public affairs specialist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, said that wouldn't have been possible.
"Money can't commingle," Casseau said. "When it's directed from Congress, it has to be used for just that and only that. So, money not used at Wood River could not have gone over to the Mel Price project. That's the way that dispersion works."
'Pressing ahead'
With the 100-year flood standard nearly reached, the council has its eyes set on achieving a 500-year flood level in the coming years. Any help from the federal government moving forward is less certain.
After the president's appropriations went unused in FY 2015, only $50,000 was allocated to each of the Wood River and East St. Louis projects in FY 2016. In the corps' work plans for FY 2017, no money has been appropriated to East St. Louis, Wood River or the locks and dam.
Even so, the council recently sold $77.5 million in bonds to fund its portion of the estimated $185 million undertaking, and Motil said the belief is that the corps will fund its share.
"That is a goal, that we'll be proceeding with receiving federal funding in the future," Motil said.
Receiving that funding in a timely manner is another issue, and Kelsey said it's unclear how the projects' history with appropriations will affect future funding.
"The difficulty comes in getting that in the president's budget in the future, getting those federal dollars given to us again so that we can go forward," Kelsey said.
If that money does come through, Etwert estimated the 500-year level could be reached by early next decade.
As it did with previous projects, though, the council is "pressing ahead," according to Motil — with or without federal assistance.
"We're seeing this project through," Motil said. "There has been a tremendous amount of progress already done. From 2009 to now, it's been a long process. There has been a tremendous amount of work done, and the levees are safe."
Reach reporter Nathan Grimm at 618-208-6451 or on Twitter @GrimmTelegraph.

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10 things I predict and/or hope we'll see on Selection Sunday
Submitted by Josh Cook on Sat, 03/10/2012 - 11:24pm
Here are 10 things I predict and/or hope we'll see tomorrow on Selection Sunday, when the 68-team field is announced for the NCAA Tournament:
1. Kentucky and Western Kentucky will be set up to meet in the second round in Louisville as long as the Hilltoppers win their First Four game Tuesday in Dayton.
2. The bracket will almost certainly be set up so Kentucky will have a third-round game against Memphis. John Calipari's former team, which is coached by his former assistant Josh Pastner, will probably either be an 8 or 9 seed.
3. I could also see Indiana being a 4 or 5 seed in the same half of the region as Kentucky. The Selection Committee would love to see a Round of 16 rematch between the teams that produced one of the best endings in college basketball this season and Big Blue fans would love a chance for the Wildcats to avenge their lone loss of the season (as long as Vandy doesn't beat them Sunday in the SEC Tournament final).
4. Duke will be the No. 2 seed in Kentucky's region with the hopes that the two teams will meet in the Elite Eight on the 20th anniversary of the Greatest College Basketball Game Ever Played.
5. Either Murray State or Indiana, or possibly both, will also be playing at the KFC Yum! Center next week.
6. Speaking of the Hoosiers, Indiana should be set up to play Lamar, the Southland Conference champ coached by Pat Knight, in a second-round game. The NCAA Selection Committee never had the guts to put Bob Knight up against IU in the Big Dance after he went to Texas Tech, but putting his son up against the Hoosiers would be a great early-tourney storyline.
7. Louisville could be a 4 seed with a potential third-round game against 5-seed IU.
8. There's also a chance that the Cardinals will be a 3 seed and have a opportunity for a third-round game against Murray State.
9. I also think there's a chance that UofL could be a 4 seed with Florida a 5 seed in the same bracket. The NCAA Selection Committee would love a Ricky P. vs. Billy D. matchup.
10. And finally, I also wouldn't be surprised to see Louisville as a 4 seed in the same half of the bracket as Kentucky. That would create quite a buzz around here with the possibility of a Round of 16 matchup between the two.
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We are focusing our efforts on the government's long-term outcomes for transport and our Ministers' priorities for transport. The policy programmes outlined in the operating intentions section will contribute to the Ministers' priorities as well as government's long-term transport outcomes. This includes periodic reviews of policy settings, for example the Land Transport Management Act, Civil Aviation and Maritime Transport Acts to ensure that legislative and regulatory frameworks provide value for money.
The Ministry will be measuring its progress towards the government's long-term outcomes against the Transport Monitoring Indicator Framework. However, improvements in outcomes can take many years to eventuate. Other organisations, including the transport Crown entities, also contribute to these outcomes.
In 2009 we reorganised ourselves as a professional services ministry to ensure we have the flexibility and capability to address the priorities of the day, while also investing in sector knowledge and expertise to shape advice for tomorrow. The reorganisation was the start of a 2 year process.
Professional services firms use their knowledge and expertise to advise their clients on particular issues to achieve certain outcomes. These firms are successful when they build a reputation for being expert and effective, achieve strong, lasting relationships, and use their resources flexibly to meet the needs of their clients. This is similar to our role as a trusted, impartial and expert adviser.
To this end, we have an organisational development programme – Shaping our Future – for which we have six goals.
The Ministry is enhancing its level of strategic advice to the Minister through developing a greater understanding of the transport operating environment, and being very clear about the Ministry's role and the role of others in the transport sector.
The Ministry has to be able to respond to the rapidly changing environment, and we are achieving this by ensuring we prioritise and allocate resources to what is most important. But more than that we are introducing internal charge out rates to understand the true cost of time and encourage the wise and efficient use of it.
The Ministry is a small organisation with a broad mandate, and as such cannot deliver on the government's transport programme on its own. Therefore it is vital that the Ministry continues to identify key stakeholders and build strong working relationships with them.
To be the government's expert adviser on transport the Ministry needs to develop a highly knowledgeable and professional workforce. To achieve this we are implementing a professional development programme while clarifying our expectations of staff.
Smart people need smart systems if they are to maximise their productivity. The Ministry is continuing to enhance its business systems, functions and processes to increase productivity and enable our staff in the delivery of value for money products and services.
Leadership is a key area of focus for the Ministry. Through its management development programme the Ministry will be more proactive in its leadership and management style and this will increase both performance and productivity.
The achievement of these development goals are critical to our success as an organisation. We are committed to working with a fixed budget which requires a reduction in staff numbers over time. In the last 2 years we have reduced staffing by 20 full time employees (11 percent). We can do this while maintaining performance by lifting our flexibility and productivity.
The Ministry uses a range of internal measures to assess its capability and health, and to measure progress towards the goals identified above.
The total number of person-years applied (including permanent and contract staff) in our three broad activity areas of policy advice, specialist support, and business support.
A comparison of our actual profile with a desired profile of staff experience and attributes for the changing role of the Ministry.
Trends in Gallup staff engagement survey results.
Other measures of health, including turnover for example, will be reported on if trends demand it.
There is an improving trend in NZIER audits (when undertaken) of the quality of our policy papers.
A baseline is set, and there is an improving trend in feedback from the Minister, central agencies, and key Crown entities on the quality of our policy advice, the clarity of roles of each player, and our contribution to Crown entity performance.
A project prioritisation and resource allocation system which meets our needs is in place and operating effectively.
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Some of you may have noticed a few changes on the website — nothing huge to report, but hopefully it will be easier to find exactly what you're looking for without too much messing about.
Readers using Nook, Apple Books and Kobo e-readers (plus paperbacks) should be able to find their books more easily, and book links will generally go straight to the stores where you can buy them, rather than dwelling on additional explanative pages on my site.
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And with the easier access to Nook, Apple Books, Kobo and paperback titles, I've been working on getting a fuller range of my stories available on those platforms. In future, I'll aim to be a little better at providing stories for non-Amazon and Amazon readers alike!
I'm also putting my stories back on the Smashwords market, for those who use Smashwords. I'm not sure how many readers that will help, but I think broader access is better than limiting access.
Most of my stories that are long enough are now available as paperbacks — including The Game, which was never available before, and my new story Obsessive. In future I'm hoping I'll be able to put new stories straight out as paperbacks on or around the first date of publication for the ebooks.
For those of you with a Nook, Apple Books or Kobo account, you'll now be able to get the book "Madeleine Wakes" for free. If you haven't read it already, it's the first in the Madeleine Trilogy.
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This time last week, Jean Liggett (Managing Director), Tom Chamberlain and Scott Bernstein (Sales Consultants) took a trip to Doncaster for an exclusive viewing with the developer of a brand new development we were very recently instructed to sell.
Doncaster is an upbeat, growing market city that boasts great transport links, a range of activities for the family to partake in and a growing restaurant, bar and shopping scene. Alongside this, its historic market – located in the town centre – has been around for more than 750 years, and stands as one of the oldest traditional markets in the whole of Yorkshire. Doncaster currently has a population of over 300,000.
Built in the 1930s, this development is a landmark building set in the heart of Doncaster. Located opposite the bustling Frenchgate Shopping Centre it occupies a prime position at the junction between Duke Street and St Sepulchre Gate.
Now the subject of a major redevelopment by an experienced and well-known developer, this historic Grade II listed building is undergoing a sensitive transformation, maintaining the original character of the building and utilising its unique features to create a development like no other within the area.
For investors, this new development offers a rare opportunity to acquire outstanding, highly marketable rental properties at very attractive pre-market rates. Apartments can be purchased with a choice of payment terms and have the benefit of a 7% Assured Return for 5 Years.


FC Halifax Town play their second game in three days as Gateshead travel down to the MBi Shay Stadium on Monday.
The Shaymen have had a very good start to the season as they sit 4th in the table. The Tynesiders sit two places lower in 6th.
Not many people expected Steve Watson's side to be towards the top of the table, so credit to the most Northern side in the league who have started the season very well.
A large reason for their great start in the 2018/19 season is down to one man in particular.
Luke Armstrong has already scored 5 goals. He's joint top scorer in the league alongside a few significant others. Mike Fondop-Talom, Danny Rowe, Adam Rooney and Blair Turgott join the Gateshead striker at the top.
The young striker is only on loan at the National League side with his parent club being Middlesbrough of the Championship.
The 22-year-old has impressed so far as he looks to help his side continue their fine run of form and keep bagging as many goals as he can.
Born in County Durham, the striker will be looking to replicate some of his father's success as a professional footballer. Alun Armstrong, Luke's dad, had a long career in football, playing for Middlesbrough, Huddersfield and Ipswich Town. While at Ipswich Alun scored the only goal in a UEFA Cup game to see the Suffolk club win 1-0.
If Luke can continue to bang in the goals for Gateshead, I'm sure parent club Middlesbrough will notice their young striker and consider him for first-team action soon.
Armstrong is a hard-working striker, who is a wonderful finisher, as his goals have proven this season. He was the goal scorer in the 1-1 draw with Leyton Orient on Saturday.
He grabbed his first on the first day of the season in a comfortable 3-1 win. He then made Salford pay by scoring both goals in a 2-1 win. In the next game, he then scored an 87th-minute winner in a 2-1 win against Dover.
This means that Gateshead's talisman has already won his side a total of 6 points with his goals, over half of their total points.


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Ukraine / East - West
Boris Johnson: He hates Putin but he likes Russian Mafia!
Boris backs off his Russia-bashing rhetoric when it comes to discussing Tory Party donors
British PM Boris Johnson has voiced some harsh views on Russia and its leadership in recent years but during a radio phone-in, he tried to mend fences when questions arose about Russian donations to the Tory Party.
Boris Johnson has some history upsetting the Russian people. In the last year alone, he has likened Putin to Hitler, decried "the anvil of communism," and accused the Kremlin of deploying a lethal nerve agent in the UK.
But when it comes to wealthy Russians making donations to his beloved Conservative Party, that's a different story. Then it's a case of 'Let's not rush to judge people just because they come from a country with which we have had our differences.'
And so to this morning's BBC radio phone-in with the prime minister.
When quizzed about donations from Russian oligarchs, his knowledge of their identities, their number or even the amounts they donated was non-existent, simply claiming that all donations were properly vetted and properly publicized. He said that any donations offered to his and other parties from people who were not considered "fit and proper" would be rejected.
When pushed about whether donations from Russia were evidence of that country meddling in UK politics, he countered: "There is no evidence for that."
The PM went further to defend his position, saying: "You have to be very careful before you simply cast aspersions on everybody who comes from a certain country just because of their nationality.
"It is very important that we show balance and fairness."
Wise words, you might say. Balance and fairness.
Macron traite le premier ministre malien "d'enfant de deux coups d'État" (sic) !
So maybe it is worth looking at his own remarks through that lens of balance and fairness.
In September, while paying tribute to Poland, he commented: "As Poles defended their country against the Nazi onslaught, Soviet forces attacked them from the east, trapping Poland between the hammer of fascism and the anvil of communism."
Meanwhile, last year when he was foreign secretary, Boris accused President Vladimir Putin of directing the use of a nerve agent "on the streets of the UK, on the streets of Europe, for the first time since the Second World War."
This came after he agreed with remarks from a fellow MP that the World Cup would be used the same way that Hitler used the Nazi Olympics, saying: "I think that your characterization of what is going to happen in Moscow, the World Cup, in all the venues – yes, I think the comparison with 1936 is certainly right."
These remarks drew fire, understandably, from the Russian ambassador and Moscow officials.
But when foreign nationals who happen to come from such an apparently malign power wish to donate money to the Conservative Party that he leads, well then, it is a completely different matter. There are no insults, no references to history viewed from a single perspective, and no name-calling.
As he tends to do when facing an interrogator asking awkward questions, Boris ummed and aahed, deflected, flattered and basically rode out questions on Russian donations to his party because he doesn't want to upset those people who contribute to party finances, whether they be Russian, American, Saudi or otherwise.
Bernard-Henri Lévy propose de ne pas tenir compte des votes qui ne lui plaisent pas
Wealthy donors from Russia are friends of his party and he'll defend them, their homeland and their right to give him money to the very end.
When it suits him.
By Damian Wilson, UK journalist & political communications specialist
Published at https://www.rt.com/op-ed/473573-boris-johnson-russian-donations-party/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Email
They wanted Assange dead, now they are killing him. With the help of Boris Johnson and the British state
Bluster Boris: bad for Britain
Israel seems already mad. What about the West?
Trump & Putin must work together to fix Syria…
Farage obeys Trump to help Johnson be elected
The unraveling of the Scripal case. Did anybody…
British Assassination Campaign Targeting Russian Exiles?
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It's no secret or mind-bending revelation that divorces can be painfully emotional experiences. While the end result may be what is best for you and your family, the process to get there is rarely a pleasant one. However, there is a way to help lessen the emotional strain on you, your spouse, and your children. The only requirement is that you and your spouse agree to agree to compromise.
Collaborative Law takes your divorce out of the courtroom entirely. Everything that happens is between you and your spouse, and not a Judge. Therefore, you won't have to wait on the crowded Court docket for trial to start. You won't have to sit on the witness stand. Your spouse will never be provoked during cross-examination. In other words, most of the confrontation found in divorce is taken out of the equation. This alone helps remove most of the stress from a divorce proceeding.
However, you can only have a Collaborative Law divorce if both you and your spouse agree to do so. Not only that, but both of you have to be willing to sign an agreement that confirms your commitment to try to settle out of court. Even your attorneys will be bound by the agreement, and they will also have to agree to disqualify themselves from future court proceedings if the Collaborative Law process fails. These agreements solidify to both the spouses and the attorneys that all of you are deeply committed to working with Collaborative Law.
Collaborative Law procedures also drastically reduce the amount of paperwork for both sides. Most negotiations are discussed face-to-face in "four-way meetings" with the parties and their attorneys, which results in very few letters mailed and faxed. Not to mention, think of all the extra paper and copying expenses that are saved since the attorneys do not have to file countless pleadings with the Court.
At these meetings, everyone remains on a first-name basis and the tone is kept as cordial as possible. All four involved work together to find the best solutions for the spouses and their children that everyone–including the attorneys–can agree to. This process of the four-way meetings helps maximize the possibility of a successful and amicable settlement to be reached.
Collaborative divorce has a high rate of success. On average, more than 85% of all Collaborative Law proceedings are successful. While all litigated divorces are successful — you ultimately end up divorced — the odds that both parties are happy with the result, would have agreed with the result, or have avoided the relationship-damaging effects of litigation are certainly less than 85%.
Once an agreement on all matters has been reached, the parties draft and sign a document detailing the settlement, and then the document will be filed in Court for the Judge to approve. Once the Judge approves, the agreement becomes a legally binding order, not unlike a contract.
Since this method for divorce is so unique and specialized, only attorneys who have received specialized training in Collaborative Law generally represent parties in a Collaborative Law divorce. Collaborative lawyers are trained specifically to help their clients negotiate, learn what is realistic and what is not, and to ensure that the agreements made are indeed best for the children. The process is further improved under the model most commonly used in Texas, which usually incorporates other, neutral professionals to assist with the financial and emotional, including child-related, portions of the case.
If you believe that a Collaborative divorce is right for you, be sure to contact a Denton divorce lawyer at Coker, Robb & Cannon, Family Lawyers to learn more about the options that will best suit your particular case. We can be reached at (940) 293-2313.


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Artist Fellowship Spotlight – Rob Cooper, Jackson, Miss.
By Larry Morrisey, MAC Deputy Director
This past July, MAC awarded grants to 14 Mississippi artists through the Artist Fellowship Program. The grant program provides up to a $5,000 award to individual artists who demonstrate a high level of excellence in their work. This year's recipients are from nine different communities and represent several different artistic genres, including photographers, writers, painters and musicians.
Rob Cooper has spent his artistic life surrounded by glass. The Jackson-based artist has spent most of his years as an active artist working at Pearl River Glass Studio, a commercial studio that creates stained glass windows, architectural art glass and restores historic stained glass. He currently works as one of the glass artists for the studio, painting imagery on the stained glass windows and other glass artwork they create for churches, private residences and commercial clients.
Rob Cooper drawing at his home studio
Cooper got his start at Pearl River Glass while in high school, doing an internship at the studio through the APAC arts program at Jackson Public Schools. He spent some time studying outside of Mississippi, earning a BFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. Afterwards, he returned to Jackson and continued his work at Pearl River. "I've worked all the way through every level (at the studio)," he explains. He learned each of the jobs in the process, from leading the windows to cutting glass.
When he gets home from the studio, Cooper creates his own work. Over the past decade, he has developed distinctive fused glass pieces. He has taken his experience painting Biblical figures for stained glass window commissions into his own work. Many of his pieces have focused on iconic figures from arts and culture, including musician Alice Coltrane, author Edgar Allan Poe, and actor Peter Cushing.
Coopers piece depicting actor Peter Cushing
While Cooper masterfully captures the essence of many legendary artists, he tries to not plan his pieces too much. He avoids making sketches on paper, always starting the "problem solving" phase of a work on the glass.
"Glass is a really interesting medium, in that it's not predictable," he explains. "You can learn from the times you've done it in the past what the outcome should be, but it's always a little bit different and that keeps it interesting. I use glass as a sketchbook a lot of times. . I'll spread some paint out on the glass and just work it and see what happens."
Glass art depicting actor Robert Shaw
This is the second Artist Fellowship Cooper has been awarded by MAC. He received his first in 2011, which he used to complete new work that he shared through a number of gallery shows in central Mississippi. He acknowledges the first Fellowship played an important role in the development of his work at the time.
"I was in the middle of building a body of work to have a show," he recalls. "(The Artist Fellowship) was a tremendous help. I did some of my most ambitious work then and I was able to put a lot of attention on it and even take some time off work to really push the pieces I was doing."
Rob Coopers depiction of singer Ian Curtis of Joy Division on glass
At home, Cooper is not unique in his artistic pursuits. His wife Wendy Eddleman and their children Lucy and Theo are all active visual artists. Creating new work is a part of their everyday lives together. "We'll sit down like everyone else does to watch a movie, but sometimes we'll be like, 'Let's just hang out and draw,'" he explains. He gave his children art lessons when they were younger, but now that they are in high school and middle school, Cooper tries to stay out of their way creatively. "Now that they're older, they have their own vision and they don't want too much instruction from me because they're very creative themselves," he says.
Cooper with a piece depicting his wife, artist Wendy Eddleman
While he has spent the last several years making work for commissions and gallery shows, Cooper plans to spend at least part of his Fellowship year deepening his knowledge of the history of the art form and trying to find ways to incorporate classic design elements into his own work.
"I'm trying to re-educate myself and learn more about the history of stained glass and bringing that to what I do," he says. "I don't want to get too wrapped up in one style where that's what I'm known for. That works great for getting recognition, but at the same time I don't receive as much satisfaction from it."


Today was my last every-2-weeks exam and first every-week-prenatal exam. I weighed in at 179 lbs. It's a little challenging knowing how much weight I've packed in this 2nd pregnancy. And when you factor in the fact that I never quite lost the baby weight from the 1st pregnancy the idea of weight loss becomes both daunting and motivating.
This 2nd time around I want to do it differently. I want to take weight loss more seriously because I have to. We're going to have 2 under 2 and I can't afford to be sidelined because I'm not fit enough to play with my girls, or not be fit enough to tend to both their needs. Jellybean is still a baby and I certainly don't want to feel like I have an expiration date when it comes to caring for my kids. I do plan to breastfeed for 2 months while I'm home on maternity leave but I don't know if I can or want to keep it up for a year. We'll have to see how our nursing relationship turns out.
So based off the birthing, recovery, and first few weeks experience the 1st time, I've come up with starter workout plan for the first 8 weeks.
Absolutely no working out. It's important to give yourself a break to adjust to the baby and the healing process after birth.
Eating decently. My parents ordered me the 月子餐 (yue zi tsan) same as last time. This is a special diet for post pregnancy recovery. It's very healthy and packed with Chinese medicines.
Wearing a postpartum belt. This helps shrink your uterus since it'll be harder for that organ/muscle to bounce back to original size after 2 nearly back-to-back pregnancies.
Walking outside (good for baby's circadian clock, good start for Mommy's new fitness routine) or walking on a treadmill (if we bring back that relic of my husband's bachelor days from my MIL).
Continue eating the 月子餐. I'm going to try to document the foods they deliver because I'm sure I can make some of it myself.
Continue wearing my postpartum belt. I may even consider getting a postpartum girdle.
Add arm and shoulder exercises. There is a 6 week ob/gyn visit where they check up on your recovery. This is the best time to get the doctor's approval to work out and see if she has any recommendations on workout intensity.
Add light abdominal workouts. I'm pretty sure my abdominal muscles have split by my belly button (diastasis recti) so crunches, sit-ups, and workouts of that nature are out. There is a gentler version of ab workouts that can be done to slowly strengthen the abs and bring the 2 sides back together.
Enjoy the last week of the 月子餐 (my parents bought 2 months of this yummy food) and get ready to make the foods on my own.
Keep wearing the postpartum girdle. I actually plan to wear it 4-6 months if not more.
Pinterest has so many workout ideas that it's hard to choose just one. Everything is motivating! The biggest challenge here is making time for myself a priority! I didn't really do that the last time and felt so "mommied out" a number of times. So I want to focus some energy on myself so that I can be a better mom and wife.
If anyone has any tips on post pregnancy fitness I'd love to read about them. Leave your tip in the comments below and how that worked for you. Thanks for reading!


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Q: Switch RAC nodes using dbconsole in Oracle 11g Is it possible to use dbconsole (Enterprise Manager) to switch the active node of a Oracle 11gR2 cluster? The idea is to tell the active instance to go down and have another node take over.
I want to perform some failover testing and would like to see if the application under test follows but I am not sure what other ways to a brute-force shutdown of the active node's OS I have. Any help is appreciated :-)

A: For things where I don't want to be in the server room pulling power or network cables or disk controller cards and cables, I just stop the RAC node apps using software:
 srvctl stop nodeapps -n <nodename>
 srvctl stop listener -n <nodename>
 etc…

You could also stop the actual cluster services as well:
 crsctl stop resources
 crsctl stop crs

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Australian wildfire survivors suing power firm
Wine grapes hang on the vines damaged by the bushfires in Victoria's wine growing area of Yarra Valley. Some 80 wineries were hard-hit, losing vines, sheds, warehouses, machinery and accommodation. (AFP)
Published Sunday, February 15, 2009
While the Australian government is pushing for a bushfire early warning system, Australian wildfire survivors have launched a lawsuit against a Singapore-owned electricity firm alleging a downed power line sparked one of the blazes, it was reported Sunday.
Kinglake residents are launching a class action against SP Ausnet and the Victoria state government claiming the power line set off a fire near the town that killed at least 100 people, The Age newspaper said.
The newspaper said police investigating the causes of the fires had removed a length of fallen cable and a power pole as evidence.
The firm reportedly handling the class action, Melbourne-based Slidders Lawyers, on its website urges residents affected by the bushfires to contact it and seek compensation.
SP Ausnet, part of the Singapore Power Group, refused to comment directly on the lawsuit, saying its priority was restoring power to fire-affected areas as quickly as possible.
"We stand ready to assist the relevant authorities with their inquiries if it is necessary for us to do so," it said in a statement.
The fire at Kinglake, about 50 kilometres north of Melbourne, was one of the most ferocious to sweep through Victoria state last week, killing at least 100 people and destroying about 1,000 homes.
Victoria Police chief commissioner Christine Nixon said authorities were still determining how the Kinglake fire started.
"At this stage we are not able to confirm how it started. I understand there is some legal action that people are taking, but at this stage we're still investigating its cause," she told Channel Nine television.
More than 180 people have been killed in multiple blazes in Australia's worst ever bushfire disaster.


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This is a sample ASP.NET Webform sample providing functions to embed 3D models viewer into web page.

##Dependencies

This sample uses the [RestSharp](http://restsharp.org/) library. You can add it to your project using NuGet in Visual Studio.

##Setup/Usage Instructions

Please refer to the [handsout.pdf](handsout.pdf)

## License

This sample is licensed under the terms of the [MIT License](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT). Please see the [LICENSE](LICENSE) file for full details.

##Written by

Daniel Du

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This device cannot find any free Memory Range recources to use (code 12).
anyone have any pointers on how to fix this??
ok, i'm running windows ME.
when i go into 'resources' under system > device manager, there is a button to 'set configuration manually'.. however, when i try to change it, it says 'this resource setting cannot be modified'..
so.. am i calling CS tomorrow or what?
if it wont let you change it there.. you can try checking to see what its conflicting with, then go change the resources on that instead.
won't let me change that either unfortunately..
Well you could always go into the BIOS and set IRQs to be set manually as opposed to plug and play. Just do this with the IRQs you need to have open or is causing conflicts. This is a common way to fix modem and lan card conflicts with other devices. Plug and Play BIOS' usually do a good job though, but you seem to be unlucky with this scenario. It's hard to figure out whats wrong. Need more info such as MB, CPU, and all that good stuff. If you can't fix it by setting IRQs manually you may have other hardware conflict issues. Lots of luck.
Boy..., you know I gotta weight problem, I can't wait to eat!
I do not have win me but i understand that it does not allow you to change certain system files. I guess resources are one of them. another possibility is to read the manual on your motherboard. sometimes the pci slots are preassigned irq's with some sharing them. if you can see which slot shares irq's with which slot, you can often just move the cards around to get things to work. also see if the card allows you to set irq's and resouces by jumpers and bypass win me assigning them.
by the way what is conflicting with it?
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I read this article and found it very interesting, thought it might be something for you. The article is called Product of the Day: Reverie Server and is located at https://www.californiahomedesign.com/product-finds/product-day-reverie-server/.
Inspired by Bay Area industrial architecture, the Reverie Server by Ted Boerner, offers a cool combination of steel and style. Available at Hewn.


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Q: In Binomial distribution, the number of trials follows the Binomial distribution We consider the following two random variables:
$X \sim Binomial(1+N,\alpha)$ and $N \sim Binomial (W,\delta)$
Then does the following hold?
$P(X=x,N=y)=$${1+y}\choose{x}$ $\alpha^x(1-\alpha)^{1+y-x}$


This necklace is an attractive way to show your support for ovarian cancer awareness and hope for a cure.
A satin cord holds a ring with the word "Hope" printed on it. A Swarovski crystal ovarian cancer awareness ribbon hangs in the center of the ring. This necklace makes an excellent gift for anyone affected by ovarian cancer.
The satin cord features a lobster clasp and measures 18" long and includes a 3" extender. Ring measures 1" in diameter. This necklace is lead and nickel free.


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Q: get $index of item within ngrepeat

{{item.name}}

js
$scope.item = [
{
    "itemId": 1,
    "name":"laptop"
}
];

I want to the $index of item to be my itemId so in the future I can store in db or use it in somewhere else. I can do
{{$index}}
 but how to bind it with my object of item in js?

A: You can bind with

Or store in id or other tags by

A: One trick for selection of individual items of ng-repeat, is the inclusion of an controller in the same element as the ng-repeat.
The ng-repeat dedicated controller will contain all the new items generated by the iteration, ng-click calling a function in that controller will do the item selection.
Check Demo here.

        {{i.name}}
        {{i.company}}

        {{i.invoice}}
        {{i.units}}


Trinity Lutheran Church is an ELCA Lutheran Church that was incorporated in 1947.It moved into its current location at the corner of Midland and Lone Star in 1969 with the present sanctuary being completed in 1982. Serving the community has always been a focus at Trinity. During the 1990s, Trinity dedicated part of its land to Mercy Housing to build affordable housing. In 2015 Trinity acquired the 16 single family homes from Mercy and established Trinity New Hope. Currently, the church has a community garden to provide food for food banks, shelters, and help others in need. The congregation has about 250 members.


The Mighty Oaks dominated Vaughn College, 103-73, to pick up their first HVIAC conference win of the season. ESF was led by sophmore Zack Dormer's career-high 35 points and nine rebounds. Dormer had 22 points by half time while ESF led 48-20. Freshman Logan Ameele added 16 points along with 10 rebounds in the winning effort. The previous day, ESF fell to a talented College of New Rochelle squad, 93-76. Dormer led ESF again with 20 points. Junior Hunter Schenkel scored 26 for the Blue Angels.
ESF's record stands at 3-9 overall, 1-1 in conference play. The Mighty Oaks face Williamson College of Trades at home Jan. 19.


As a parent it is often hard to know when to push and when to let it go.
As motivated people and engaged parents, we are naturally driven to want to empower our kids and give them every opportunity (especially the ones that we never had the opportunity to pursue during our own childhoods, or alternatively the ones we loved).
But we are also hyper-sensitive to the downsides of having an over-committed child and so want to be open and flexible and follow their lead about what and how much to do.
How can we expect our kids to ask about things that they have no way of knowing exist or what they really are?
How can we get them to push outside their comfort zone a little to build those incredibly important life-skills such as teamwork and grit and self-confidence and picking yourself up when you get knocked down and not always being the best?
How do we fill the long afternoon hours of an antiquated school day that (for my daughter) ends at 11:40 AM?
What I have basically come to over the last year as the extra-curricular activities have stacked up for my daughter, some additive, some replacement, is that my role is to expose my child to things (ballet, swimming, hip-hop, soccer, piano, rock climbing, art, legos) and give her the opportunity to pursue them, if she so chooses. Because of the nature of her personality (slow to warm, incredibly enthusiastic thereafter), I have also found myself in the uncomfortable role of having to push her a little to give things a solid try (I wrote about our experience with soccer and biking last fall). I have been firm that she doesn't have do something forever if she doesn't like it - stopping is OK, but quitting is not (i.e., you finish out a session if you started it, but you don't have to sign up for the next one). The tears have been few, but memorable, and I have no regrets that we pushed through them. For starters, I now have a great running/biking and climbing partner. As I have watched her learn and grow in her self-confidence and begin to "own" things over the course of this year, I am pretty certain that she also has no regrets.
Day four: "I love rock climbing"
Day Twelve: "Mommy you signed me up for the next session right?"
IMG 2938 from MommyTasker on Vimeo.
Being a parent is a balancing act - that is for sure. It hardly ever feels like you get it right for more than a couple of days or tries in a row. You just gotta live for those moments big and (mostly) small that keep you feeling like you are at least heading (mostly) in the right direction, even if it has meant a gentle nudge here and there or a firm stance on "doing your best".


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package me.joshuamarquez.sails.io;

import io.socket.client.Socket;
import io.socket.emitter.Emitter;
import me.joshuamarquez.sails.io.singleton.AnotherSailsSocketSingleton;
import me.joshuamarquez.sails.io.singleton.TestSailsSocketSingleton;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.junit.runners.JUnit4;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.concurrent.BlockingQueue;
import java.util.concurrent.LinkedBlockingQueue;

import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.is;
import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.not;
import static org.junit.Assert.*;

@RunWith(JUnit4.class)
public class SingletonTest extends SailsServer {

    private TestSailsSocketSingleton testSailsSocketSingleton;
    private AnotherSailsSocketSingleton anotherSailsSocketSingleton;

    private String testURL = "http://test.com";
    private String anotherURL = "http://another.com";

    private final String url = "http://localhost:" + PORT;

    @Before
    public void setUp() throws Exception {
        testSailsSocketSingleton = TestSailsSocketSingleton.getInstance();
        anotherSailsSocketSingleton = AnotherSailsSocketSingleton.getInstance();
    }

    @Test
    public void differentURL() throws Exception {
        testSailsSocketSingleton.setUrl(testURL);
        anotherSailsSocketSingleton.setUrl(anotherURL);

        assertThat(testSailsSocketSingleton.getUrl(), not(anotherSailsSocketSingleton.getUrl()));
    }

    @Test
    public void differentHeader() throws Exception {
        testSailsSocketSingleton.setUrl(url);
        anotherSailsSocketSingleton.setUrl(url);

        testSailsSocketSingleton.socket();
        anotherSailsSocketSingleton.socket();

        testSailsSocketSingleton.setHeaders(new HashMap<String, String>(){
            {
                put("Header-1", "value-1");
            }
        });

        anotherSailsSocketSingleton.setHeaders(new HashMap<String, String>(){
            {
                put("Header-2", "value-2");
            }
        });

        assertThat(testSailsSocketSingleton.getHeaders().get("Header-1"), is("value-1"));
        assertThat(anotherSailsSocketSingleton.getHeaders().get("Header-2"), is("value-2"));
    }

    @Test
    public void socketConnection () throws Exception {
        final BlockingQueue<Object> values = new LinkedBlockingQueue<Object>();

        testSailsSocketSingleton.socket().on(Socket.EVENT_CONNECT, new Emitter.Listener() {
            @Override
            public void call(Object... args) {
                assertThat(testSailsSocketSingleton.socket().isConnected(), is(true));
                anotherSailsSocketSingleton.setUrl("http://localhost");
                assertThat(anotherSailsSocketSingleton.socket().isConnected(), is(false));
                values.offer("done");
            }
        });

        testSailsSocketSingleton.socket().connect();
        values.take();
        testSailsSocketSingleton.socket().disconnect();
    }

}


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Energy in Iran
Title: Energy in Iran
Subject: Economy of Iran, Iranian subsidy reform plan, Energy in the Middle East, Energy in the United Arab Emirates, Energy in Saudi Arabia
Iran holds 10% of the world's proven oil reserves and 15% of its gas. It is OPEC's second largest exporter and the world's fourth oil producer.
Total Energy Consumption in Iran, by Type (2007)
Energy in Iran describes energy and electricity production, consumption, import and export in Iran. Iran has the fourth largest oil reserves and the world's largest natural gas reserves in the world.[1][2]
Iran is an energy superpower.[3] Iran is in a constant battle to use its energy resources more effectively in the face of subsidization and the need for technological advances in energy exploration and production. Energy wastage in Iran amounts to six or seven billion dollars (2008). The energy consumption in the country is extraordinarily higher than international standards. Iran recycles 28 percent of its used oil and gas whereas the figure for certain countries stands at 60 percent.[4] Iran paid $84 billion in subsidies for oil, gas and electricity in 2008.[5] Iran is one of the most energy-intensive countries of the world, with per capita energy consumption 15 times that of Japan and 10 times that of European Union. Also due to huge energy subsidies, Iran is one of the most energy inefficient countries of the world, with the energy intensity three times higher than global average and 2.5 times the middle eastern average.[6] Half of the country's energy is wasted in domestic sector, 3.4 of which is wasted through the vehicles moving with single person and 2/3 parts of power plants' energy are also wasted.[7]
Iran is one of the leading members of [8] Natural gas and oil consumption both account for about half of Iran's domestic energy consumption. With its heavy dependence on oil and gas revenues Iran continues to explore for new sources of natural gas and oil. Recently Iran has focused its energy sector on the exploration of the South Pars offshore natural gas fields in the Persian Gulf.[9]
Iran has become self-sufficient in designing, building and operating dams and power plants and it has won a good number of international bids in competition with foreign firms.[10][11]
Power generation capacity of Iranian thermal power plants reached 173 terawatt hours in 2007. Accounting for 17.9 percent of power production in the Middle East and African region. Natural gas has been the main energy in Iran in 2007, comprising over 55 percent of energy needs, while oil and hydroelectricity accounted for 42 and 2 percent respectively. The region's energy need will increase by 26.8 percent until 2012.[12]
Energy plays an important role in Iranian politics. Robert Baer in his book The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower argues that Iran has attained the status of an energy superpower and is on its way to become a military-political superpower.[13]
2 Oil
3 Natural gas
4.1 Nuclear energy
5 Energy forecast
6.1 Solar
6.2 Wind
6.3 Geothermal
Iran plans to create an energy saving company in conjunction with the Iranian subsidy reform plan (2014).[14]
Energy in Iran[15]
Prim. energy
TWh
2004 67.0 1,696 3,233 1,530 137 369
2010 73.97 2,423 4,060 1,574 196 509
Change 2004-10 10.4 % 42.9 % 25.6 % 2.9 % 43.0 % 37.8 %
Mtoe = 11.63 TWh, Prim. energy includes energy losses
Top oil-producing countries.[16]
Iran has the second largest oil reserves in the world, and the third largest exporter of it. According to 2006 estimates Iran produced about five percent of total global crude oil production. They produced 4.2 million barrels per day (670,000 m3/d) of total liquids and 3.8 million of those barrels were crude oil. Iran plans to invest $100 billion during the next four years in different sections of its oil industry (2009).[17] By the end of 2009, Iranian oil R/P ratio was 89.4 years which is the world's highest.[18] By 2009, Iran had 52 active rigs and 1,853 producing oil wells.[19]
Iran possesses abundant fuels from which to generate energy. Since 1913 Iran has been a major oil-exporting country. Oil industry output averaged 4 million barrels (640,000 m3) per day in 2005, compared with the peak output of 6 million barrels per day (950,000 m3/d) reached in 1974. Following the 1979 revolution, however, the government reduced daily oil production in accordance with an oil conservation policy. Further production declines occurred as result of damage to oil facilities during the war with Iraq. In the early 2000s, industry infrastructure was increasingly inefficient because of technological lags. Few exploratory wells were drilled in 2005. Iranian oil was nationalized in 1953 and thus is owned and operated by the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC).
Iran held 10.3% of the world's total proven oil reserves and that figures out to be about 137.6 billion barrels (2.188×1010 m3) of oil reserves at the end of 2009.[18] Oil also is found in northern Iran and in the offshore waters of the Persian Gulf. Nevertheless, in 2005 Iran spent US$4 billion on gasoline imports, mainly because of contraband and inefficient domestic use that result from subsidies. Iran is one of the largest gasoline consumers in the world ranking second behind United States in consumption per car.[20]
There is a growing recognition that prices must rise faster to curb consumption and ease the burden on the public finances. Cheap energy has encouraged wasteful consumption in Iran, and a brisk business in smuggling petrol into Iraq, Turkey, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Demand has also been supported by rapid increases in car production in recent years. In the absence of imports, the car industry has developed strongly (albeit from a low base) with output reaching over 1m vehicles in fiscal year 2006/07 (March 21-March 20).[21]
Iran oil production, domestic consumption and exports
The growth in consumption of domestically produced oil has been modest, owing to refining constraints. By contrast, fuel imports rose to 180,000 barrels per day (29,000 m3/d) in January 2005 from 30,000 barrels per day (4,800 m3/d) in 2000, and petrol consumption is estimated to have been around 1,800,000 barrels per day (290,000 m3/d) in 2007 (before rationing), of which about one-third is imported. These imports are proving expensive, costing the government about US$4bn in the first nine months of 2007/08, according to parliamentary sources.[21] Nearly 40% of refined oil consumed by Iran is imported from India.[22]
A USGS map of countries where oil is located.
Iran contains 27 onshore and 13 offshore oil-producing fields, largely concentrated in the southwestern Khuzestan region near the Iraqi border.[9] The Iranian government is heavily reliant on oil revenues and they have heavily subsidized the energy industries, which figures out to be about 12% of Iran's GDP. However, domestic oil consumption has decreased due to the alternative use of natural gas. Economic growth from these resources is uncertain and stunted in Iran due to these subsidies and population growth. Iran has been unable to reach it full production levels due to a combination of sanctions and war plaguing the region. Iran's oil fields have a natural decline rate at 8 percent for onshore wells and 10% for offshore fields. The Iranian recovery rate is currently approximately 27 percent, which is well below the world average. Iran needs structural improvements made to coincide with their enhanced oil recovery efforts.[9]
Iran's gas production, domestic consumption and exports
Iran has the world's largest reserves of natural gas (17.9% of the world's total); these are exploited primarily for domestic use.[23] It contains an estimated 1,187.3 trillion cubic feet (33,620 km3) (Tcf) in proven natural gas reserves.[24] In 2005 a large share of Iran's natural gas reserves were believed to remain untapped. About 62% of these reserves are located in non-associated fields. Iranian production of natural gas is expected to increase over the next few years due to continuing discoveries in the North Pars and South Pars regions.[25]
Domestic consumption has matched production at 3.6×10^12 cu ft (100 km3) in the year of 2005. Domestic consumption is expected to go up at about 7% per year for the following decade. The Iranian government has also subsidized natural gas prices along with gasoline prices, and this is expected to sustain this high level of domestic consumption. In lieu of this increasing domestic demand, natural gas exports are expected to decrease in the following years.[26]
Iran has the third largest consumption of natural gas in the world after United States and Russia.[27] Iran also has the world's largest growth rate in natural gas consumption.[18]
Energy consumption in Iran is 6.5 times that of global average.[28] It is estimated that 18.5% of electricity generated in Iran is wasted before it reaches consumers due to technical problems. Electric power wastage hit $1.1 billion in 2006.[29]
Shazand power plant
Iran's domestic consumption and production have steadily grown together since 1984 and it is still heavily reliant on traditional thermal energy sources of electricity, with a small fraction being produced by hydroelectric plants.[30] Consumption has steadily risen and it is expected to rise at about 6 percent per year for the following decade. Accordingly, the Iranian energy sector must focus its efforts on meeting this continuing demand. Today Iran ranks 19th largest producer and 20th largest consumer of electricity in the world.[31] A research by the Ministry of Energy indicated that between 15,000-20,000 megawatts of capacity should be added in Iran in the next 20 years.[32] In recent years Iran has put greater emphasis on participation of domestic and foreign investors in electricity generation sector, with projects underway to add 40,000 MWh more capacity to the national grid.[33]
It is estimated that some 18.5 percent of electricity generated in Iran are wasted before it reaches consumers due to technical problems.[34] Iran is among the top ten manufacturers of IDRO) have succeeded in developing the capacity to produce one-megawatt generators.[36] Iran has acquired self-sufficiency of over 80 percent in constructing hydraulic turbines and over 90 percent in producing gas turbines. Within the next few years, Iran can join the list of countries that produce power plant technology (2009).[37] Iran has achieved the technical expertise to set up hydroelectric, gas and combined cycle power plants.[38] Iran is not only self-sufficient in power plant construction but has also concluded a number of contracts on implementing projects in neighboring states.[39][40]
The exploration efforts for sources of power generation are wide and diverse in Iran. Plans are being made to make oil efficient power plants as well as an emphasis on natural gas production in order to meet their growing electricity demand. Nuclear power and hydroelectric power are not focused on for the time being, but they are part of an overall strategy to meet electricity demands. The electricity sector is also heavily subsidized and mostly state owned companies control power distribution, transmission and generation. In order to meet the demands of the electricity sector, however, Iran is beginning to look into private investment.[41] A by-law has been passed allowing the energy ministry to conclude rial or combined rial/foreign-currency contracts for the purchase of electricity from private companies.[21] Private companies in Iran generated 14,440 megawatts of electricity in 2009.[42]
Although some criticize Iran's hydroelectric power plans as potentially dangerous to the environment, most agree that the country's current state of hydroelectric production is much better off than in the past. Iran has displayed a new approach to this sector. After the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the construction of hydroelectric power plants became both a popular private and public venture. Often, construction projects did not meet basic environmental standards, engineering standards, and technical requirements. As a result many of these dams were destroyed or left in dilapidated conditions.[43]
The Karun-3 dam & hydroelectric power plant in Iran was commissioned in 2005. Iran has emerged as one of the world's largest dam builders in recent years.[29]
By 2004, the addition of new hydroelectric stations and the streamlining of conventional coal- and oil-fired stations increased installed capacity to 33,000 megawatts (MW). Of that amount, about 75 percent was based on natural gas, 18 percent on oil, and 7 percent on hydroelectric power. However, in 2004 Iran opened its first wind-powered and geothermal plants, and the first solar thermal plant was to come online in 2009. Iran has recoverable coal reserves of nearly 1.9bn short tonnes. The country produces about 1.3m short tonnes of coal annually and consumes about 1.5m short tonnes, making it a small net importer of coal.[21]
[45] Another area in which there is ongoing research is assessment of Iran's tidal power potential.[46][47] With about 300 clear sunny days a year and an average of 2,200 kilowatt-hour solar radiation per square meter, Iran has a great potential to tap solar energy.[48]
IR-40 facility in Arak
Iran plans to generate 23,000 MWh of electricity through nuclear technology by 2025 to meet its increasing demand for energy.[49] The first of four 915 MW reactors of Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, built with help from Russia, came online in August 2010[50] after numerous delays and Iran's indigenously designed Darkhovin Nuclear Power Plant is scheduled to come online in 2016. Overall, Iran remains a net exporter of electricity and exchanges electrical power with all its land neighbors.[51]
Energy forecast
Source: B.M.I[52]
2015 est.
2010-15 growth
MENA-Power generation 1,222 TWh 1,518 TWh +24.2% N/A N/A where markets were depressed by the economic slowdown in 2009.
MENA-Thermal power generation 1.140 TWh (93.3% of total electricity supplied in the region) 1,378 TWh (90.8% of total electricity supplied in the region) N/A N/A N/A thanks in part to environmental concerns that should be promoting renewables, hydro-electricity and nuclear generation.
MENA-Energy demand N/A 1117 tonnes of oil equivalent (toe) +20.8% N/A N/A N/A
MENA-Nuclear demand N/A ~25 TWh N/A N/A N/A N/A
IRAN-Real GDP growth N/A N/A 2% per year (average) N/A N/A N/A
IRAN-Population 73.9 million 78.6 million N/A N/A N/A N/A
IRAN-GDP per capita growth N/A N/A +31% N/A N/A N/A
IRAN-Electricity consumption per capita N/A N/A +5% N/A N/A N/A
IRAN-Power consumption 161 TWh 179 TWh 2.2% per year (average) N/A N/A a broadly balanced market
IRAN-Electricity generation N/A N/A +12.2% +11.9% +25.5% N/A
IRAN-Thermal generation 192 TWh (16.85% of MENA's market share) (14.45% of MENA's market share) N/A N/A N/A N/A
IRAN-Primary Energy Demand (PED) & Growth 37.8% (gas), 40.4% (oil), 0.8% (hydro) N/A +14.4% +12.6% +28.8% N/A
IRAN-Energy demand 22.38% (Iran's MENA market share) 21.21% (Iran's MENA market share) N/A N/A N/A N/A
IRAN-Nuclear demand 0 10 TWh (38.46% of MENA's market share) N/A N/A N/A Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant set to go online in 2011. Nuclear power is one key element of generation growth.
As a further drive toward diversification of energy sources, Iran has established wind farms in several areas, this one near Manjeel.
In 2010, the Iranian government announced plans to build 2,000MW of renewable energy capacity between 2010-2015. As of 2010, Iran had 8,500MW of hydroelectric capacity and 130MW of wind energy capacity. As at 2010, private companies had signed contracts to build more than 600MW of biomass systems and 500MW of new wind energy projects.[53]
Iran is also working to make renewable energy commercially viable and the Ministry of Energy is required to buy privately produced renewable energy at world market prices. A feed-in-tariff (FiT) for wind and biomass energy around 13 cents/kWh is helpful.[53]
In 2012, Iran allocated €500 million from the [53]
Iran's unique geographical position means 90% of the country has enough sun to generate solar power 300 days a year. According to PressTV Iran has 520 watts per hour per square meter of solar radiation every day.[54] Other sources give an average of 2,200 kilowatt-hour solar radiation per square meter.[55] Energy generated by solar power reached 53 MW in 2005 and 67 MW in 2011.[54]
Iran has the potential to generate 20 to 30 GW of wind energy. That is half of the total energy consumption needs of the country. As at 2012 Iran had 163 wind turbines with an installed capacity of 92470 kWh.[54]
Iran has the potential to become the 9th largest geothermal energy producer.[54]
Source: CIA factbook, unless stated otherwise.
Primal Energy Demand:[56]
gas: 55% (2008)
oil: 42% (2008)
hydro: 2% (2008)
production: 220.3 billion kWh (2011 est.)
consumption: 182.7 billion kWh (2010 est.)
exports: 6.707 billion kWh (2010 est.)
imports: 3.015 billion kWh (2010 est.)
Electricity — production by source:[9]
fossil fuel: 93% (75% comes from gas generation, 18% from oil) (2006); 86.2% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
hydro: 7% (2006); 13.7% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
renewable sources: 0.2% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
nuclear: 0% (2010)
Oil:[57]
production: 3,589,000 bbl/d (570,600 m3/d) (2012 est.)
consumption: 1,755,000 bbl/d (279,000 m3/d) (2008 est.) (expected to increase 10% each year since 2006)
exports: 2,377,000 bbl/d (377,900 m3/d) (2010 est.)
imports: 156,000 bbl/d (24,800 m3/d) (2010 est.)
proved reserves: 154.6 Gbbl (24.58×10^9 m3) based on Iranian claims (1 January 2009 est.)
note: as of 2009, 1/3 of Iran's gasoline needs are imported because of insufficient domestic refining capacity, over-consumption and contraband.[58]
Natural gas:
production: 151.8 billion cu m (2011 est.)
consumption: 144.6 billion cu m (2010 est.)
exports: 9.05 billion cu m (2011 est.)
imports: 10.59 billion cu m (2011 est.)
proved reserves: 33.61 trillion cu m (1 January 2013 est.)
Subsidies:
$84 billion for oil, gas and electricity (2008)[59]
CO2 emissions per capita (mt): 624.9 million Mt (2011 est.)
GDP per unit of energy use: 4.0 (2007)[21]
Energy use per capita (kg of oil equivalent) (2005 PPP $ per kg of oil equivalent): 2,352 (2007)[21]
Iran Oil and Gas Map.
Primary Sources of Energy Consumption in Iran
Topoil producing oil-producing countries
Energy consumption per capita in Iran
Iran's electricity generation vs consumption
Iran's oil production vs domestic consumption
Iran's gasoline and gas-oil production and consumption
Oil product increase projection for gasoline, gas-oil, kerosene and LPG.
Iran's gas production vs domestic consumption
Iran's oil & gas production vs WTI prices
Iran's projected oil and gas revenues chart by the International Monetary Fund. Officials in Iran estimate that Iran's annual oil and gas revenues could reach $250 billion by 2015 once the current projects come on stream.[1]
Iran's oil vs non-oil real GDP growth projections
Economy of Iran
International rankings of Iran
Ministry of Energy (Iran)
Oil megaprojects (2011)
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Gas Exporting Countries Forum
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National Iranian Gas Company
Natural gas reserves
Persian LNG
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Fuel smuggling
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Marun
National Petrochemical Company
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Gas Trunkline
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Korpeje–Kordkuy
Neka–Jask
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Darkhovin
IR-40
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ISOICO
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Saudi Arabia 1,879
Nigeria 1,293
Algeria 431
Kuwait 306
Qatar 281
Libya 212
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Молибдат магния — неорганическое соединение, соль металла магния и молибденовой кислоты с формулой MgMoO,
белые кристаллы,
растворимые в воде,
образует кристаллогидраты.

Получение
 Сплавление оксида молибдена(VI) с карбонатом магния:

Физические свойства
Молибдат магния образует белые кристаллы
моноклинной сингонии,
пространственная группа C 2/m,
параметры ячейки a = 1,0281 нм, b = 0,9291 нм, c = 0,7030 нм, β = 109,90°, Z = 8.

Образует кристаллогидраты состава MgMoO•n HO, где n = 2, 5 и 7.

Применение
 Катализатор окисления олефинов.

Литература

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