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Gervasi Vineyard and the Pro Football Hall of Fame Debut Second Limited Edition Wine
The Pro Football Hall of Fame and Gervasi Vineyard have again partnered to produce a co-branded wine featuring the Hall's iconic logo. The specially labeled wine, a Limited-Edition label, will make its debut today, Tuesday, Aug. 1, at Gervasi Vineyard.
The 2017 Limited Edition Chardonnay is made with barrel fermentation and sur lie aging, displaying elegant oak and fruit. Each wine at Gervasi Vineyard is given a special name. For this second edition, the Hall of Fame selected the name "Integrity" that ties into the Hall of Fame's Mission to "Honor the Heroes of the Game, Preserve its History, Promote its Values & Celebrate Excellence EVERYWHERE!" and the core values learned from the Game – commitment, integrity, courage, respect and excellence. Integrity is the dedication to doing the right thing even if it is not easy.
In addition to the Chardonnay, Gervasi Vineyard has elected to re-release the original Hall of Fame Wine, "Excellence", a Cabernet Sauvignon, which is full bodied with bold layers of black currant, black cherries and notes of plum.
"Partnering with the Pro Football Hall of Fame for the second year is exciting! We are truly proud of Canton and are thrilled to be a part of the iconic Pro Football Hall of Fame and the Enshrinement Festival," said Gervasi's General Manager Scott Swaldo. "In addition to the 'Integrity' Chardonnay, we chose to re-introduce 'Excellence,' Cabernet Sauvignon as a special 2017 Hall of Fame Limited Edition because it is an award-winning wine."
The two 2017 Limited Edition Pro Football Hall of Fame wines, "Integrity" and "Excellence", will be available for purchase beginning Tuesday, August 1 and will be sold at Gervasi Vineyard, at The Marketplace and The Crush House for $44.00 per bottle (take home only). Gervasi Vineyard features 27 wine varietals with a focus on classical European varieties and includes three premier estate-grown North American hybrids. The wine varietals range from a dry Cabernet Sauvignon, such as "Excellence", to a sweet Vidal Blanc Ice Wine.
Winemaker, Andrew Codispoti said, "This year's wine co-branding encore with the Pro Football Hall of Fame is truly elevating and moving. We are pleased to again share tin this spectacular occasion."
In celebrating integrity and excellence as a premier winery in Ohio, Gervasi Vineyard offers wine education classes, wine tours, and exclusive pairings tours for wine enthusiasts. Complimentary tours of the winery are offered every Saturday at 12:00 noon, 1:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. at The Crush House Wine Bar & Eatery. Tours last approximately 30 minutes with no advance registration needed. Guests are invited to taste Gervasi wines either before or after the winery tour at the tasting bar. All domestic GV wines are available for purchase to take home, including the 2017 Limited Edition "Integrity" and "Excellence".
The Pro Football Hall of Fame will also offer the Limited Edition "Integrity" Chardonnay to groups utilizing the Hall for special events. The Hall offers world-class hospitality opportunities with a variety of event options available including its spectacular main 300-seat Event Center featuring two large theater size screens for presentations. The Hall of Fame's Hospitality provides full catering and beverage needs plus something nowhere else can offer, a private tour of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
To find out more about how to host an excellent event at "The Most Inspiring Place on Earth," please contact Brian Proud, Director of Hospitality, at 330-588-3642 or Brian.Proud@ProFootballHOF.com.
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Chris Eubank Jr has locked himself away in his Brighton gym with coach Nate Vasquez as he prepares for his impending war with 168 pound rival James DeGale to finally settle their years of feuding once and for all at The O2 on Saturday 23rd February, exclusively live on ITV Box Office.
Eubank Jr. has brought in the Mexican, Las Vegas based, trainer Vasquez to his south coast headquarters and is working alongside the experienced wise hand of Ronnie Davies, the integral camp member who formerly trained his father Eubank Snr., and who will oversee the whole camp.
The single-minded and determined Eubank Jr. has always insisted that he has trained himself for his fights, but with losses to Billy Joe Saunders and more recently George Groves, Eubank Jr. realises that his career is on the line in the crucial clash against DeGale and needed to make a change.
'Next Gen' met Vasquez at Floyd Mayweather's Las Vegas gym last year where he is a resident coach and the pair gelled after initial talks and training sessions together. Vasquez was a former standout amateur and professional boxer and has worked with a number of prospects at Mayweather's TMT outfit, including super-middleweight Kevin Newman II and Former WBC World Flyweight title challenger Muhammad Waseem.
Eubank Jr. has flown Vasquez over to England and put him into accommodation in his house along with a specially selected sparring partner as they work towards defeating the Two-Time IBF World Champion DeGale.
"Training is going great with Nate and I feel that I'm learning and improving all the time, he's brought a new dimension into my camp that I've probably needed," said Eubank Jr.


I discovered this wonderful pasta from Sardinia on a superb local restaurant recently. I had this delicate spherical pasta with fresh local asparagus, pecorino cheese, and the chef topped it with an organic egg.
After a long flight, the soft hills of Pisa beckon, a glass of wine, a villa terrace.
Found this great article in USA Today – as you know travel these days can get awfully long – especially if you ended up in a seat where the inflight entertainment may not be working (happens more often than you think). Be prepared – read the following and get ready before you leave. Carina of Classicvacationrental.com found that the TED talks provided hours of interesting entertainment.
I don't think there can possibly be any better advice in travel than 'hang up, call back'. Any time you don't get the answer you're looking for, try another agent. Most airlines are big companies, agents have varying levels of competence, and also varying levels of helpfulness.
Just because an agent tells you that an award ticket isn't available doesn't mean that it isn't available. I've frequently had agents tell me that nothing was available when they clearly hadn't had time to even search yet. I would ask about multiple dates and they'd just reply that nothing was available the whole month when I know they couldn't possibly have searched for that.
If you have the stamina to visit all the main museums and sights – and in three days, that's a tall order – then a cumulative ticket may be worth it.
What a wonderful time we all had in Florence. We could not have asked for a more perfectly situated apartment, literally a minute from the Duomo and the views from the rooftop terrace were fantastic. The apartment itself far exceeded our expectations and the booking and checking in/out processes were so easily done.
We managed to fit in visits to all the major city center sights in Florence and spend time in the Uffizi too. The conference was also a resounding success and between the culture and the science we all benefited from our time in Florence. We will certainly return to explore more of the Italian countryside and probably Rome too!


IRCPL is excited to be hosting two of this year's Luce/ACLS Fellows in Religion, Journalism, and International Affairs – Dr. Attiya Ahmad and Dr. Anya Bernstein.
More information on both Dr. Ahmad's and Dr. Bernstein's current work can be found in their abstracts submitted to Luce/ACLS, which are available here.
Dr. Attiya Ahmad is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at Georgetown. Broadly conceived, her research focuses on the gendered interrelation of Islamic reform movements and political economic processes spanning the Middle East and South Asia, in particular the greater Arabian Peninsula/Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean regions. Her book, Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait (Duke, 2017), analyses why domestic workers in the Arabian Gulf region are converting to Islam, and what their conversions tell us about emergent forms of subjectivity, affinity and belonging in our contemporary transnational world. Dr. Ahmad is currently examining the development of global halal tourism networks.
Dr. Anya Bernstein is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University and a documentary filmmaker. Bernstein's main work has been on the changing geopolitical imaginaries of mobile religious communities across Eurasia. Her book, Religious Bodies Politic: Rituals of Sovereignty in Buryat Buddhism (Chicago, 2013), explores the transformation of Buddhist practice among a Siberian indigenous people known as Buryats. She is currently at work on two projects. The first one deals with religion, secularism, and censorship in Russia, while the second project explores the interplay between questions of immortality and life extension industries across the Soviet Union and postsocialist Russia.


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Cassidini — триба жуков подсемейства щитоносок из семейства листоедов.

Систематика
Крупнейшая триба своего подсемейства, которая объединяет около 80 родов и подродов.

Список родов
76 родов и около 1000 видов (или 87 родов по другим данным).

 Acrocassis Spaeth, 1922
 Aethiopocassis Spaeth, 1922
 Agroiconota Spaeth, 1913
 Aidoia Spaeth, 1952
 Andevocassis Spaeth, 1924
 Aporocassida Spaeth, 1952
 Austropsecadia Hincks, 1950
 Austropsecadia chlorina (Weise, 1899)
 Basipta Chevrolat, 1849
 Bradycassis Spaeth, 1952
 Capelocassis Spaeth, 1952
 Cassida Linnaeus, 1758
 Chacocassis Spaeth, 1952
 Charidotella Weise, 1896
 Charidotis Boheman, 1854
 Chelysida Fairmaire, 1882
 Chersinellina Hincks, 1950
 Chiridopsis Spaeth, 1922
 Chiridula Weise, 1889
 Coptocycla Chevrolat in Dejean, 1836
 Crambelea Spaeth, 1913
 Crambelea illudens (BoBoheman, 1854)
 Crambelea minuta Borowiec, 2009
 Cteisella Weise, 1896
 Ctenocassida Spaeth, 1926
 Ctenocharidotis Spaeth, 1926
 Ctenophilaspis Spaeth, 1926
 Cyclocassis Spaeth, 1913
 Deloyala Chevrolat in Dejean, 1836
 Drepanocassis Spaeth, 1936
 Emdenia Spaeth, 1915
 ''Emdenia maxima (Blackburn, 1896)
 Erbolaspis Spaeth, 1924
 Eremionycha Spaeth, 1911
 Erepsocassis Spaeth, 1936
 Exestastica Spaeth, 1909
 Floridocassis Spaeth in Hincks, 1952
 Fornicocassis Spaeth, 1917
 Glyphocassis Spaeth, 1914
 Gratiana Spaeth, 1913
 Helocassis Spaeth, 1952
 Hovacassis Spaeth, 1952
 Hybosa Duponchel, 1842
 Hypocassida Weise, 1893
 Ischiocassis Spaeth, 1917
 Ischnocodia Spaeth, 1942
 Ischyronota Weise, 1891
 Jonthonota Spaeth, 1913
 Leptocodia Spaeth, 1952
 Limnocassis Spaeth, 1952
 Lorentzocassis Spaeth, 1913
 Macromonycha Spaeth, 1911
 Malayocassis Spaeth, 1952
 Meroscalsis Spaeth, 1903
 Metriona Weise, 1896
 Metrionella Spaeth, 1932
 Mexicaspis Spaeth, 1936
 Microctenochira Spaeth, 1926
 Nabathaea Spaeth, 1911
 Nuzonia Spaeth, 1912
 Oocassida Weise, 1897
 Opacinota E. Riley, 1986
 Orexita Spaeth, 1911
 Orobiocassis Spaeth, 1934
 Oxylepus Desbrochers, 1884
 Parachirida Hincks, 1952
 Parorectis Spaeth, 1901
 Pilemostoma Desbrochers, 1891
 Pilemostoma fastuosa (Schaller, 1783)
 Plagiometriona Spaeth, 1899
 Psalidoma Spaeth, 1899
 Pseudoctenochira Spaeth, 1926
 Rhacocassis Spaeth, 1904
 Rhoia Spaeth, 1913
 Rhytidocassis Spaeth, 1941
 Saulaspis Spaeth, 1913
 Scaeocassis Spaeth, 1913
 Seminabathea Borowiec, 1994
 Silana Spaeth, 1914
 Smeringaspis Spaeth, 1924
 Sphenocassis Spaeth, 1911
 Strongylocassis Hincks, 1950
 Syngambria Spaeth, 1911
 Tapinaspis Spaeth, 1936
 Tegocassis Spaeth, 1924
 Tetracassis Spaeth, 1952
 Thlaspida Weise, 1899
 Thlaspidosoma Spaeth, 1901
 Thlaspidula Spaeth, 1901
 Trichaspis Spaeth, 1911
 Trigonocassis Hincks, 1950
 Vietocassis'' Medvedev & Eroshkina, 1988

Примечания

Ссылки
 BioLib Taxon profile — tribus Cassidini Gyllenhal, 1813. biolib.cz

Щитоноски

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Watch Wrong Turn (2003) Online
Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.
Director: Rob Schmidt
Actors: Desmond Harrington, Eliza Dushku, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Jeremy Sisto, Julian Richings, Kevin Zegers, Lindy Booth
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Purgatory Road (2017)
Helpless to stop a thief from stealing his father's modest nest egg, Travis grows up blaming himself for his parents' suicide. Becoming a priest who operates a highway confessional with…
Genre: Crime, Horror
A photographer on an archaeological expedition digging up Etruscan ruins in Italy begins to suspect that not all the Etruscans buried there are actually dead.
Country: Italy, West Germany, Yugoslavia
Invaders from Mars (1986)
In this attempted remake of the classic 50s SF tale, a boy tries to stop an invasion of his town by aliens who take over the the minds of his…
Nomads (1986)
French anthropologist Jean-Charles Pommier and his wife have come to LA so he can take up a position as lecturer. To his surprise he encounters a group of urban nomads….
A seasoned police detective and his partner have just uncovered a string of unusual murders that lead them to a serial killer, who believes that he is the descendant of…
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Elaine, a beautiful young witch, is determined to find a man to love her. In her gothic Victorian apartment she makes spells and potions, and then picks up men and…
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Romance, Thriller
AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2014)
When scientists discover something in the Arctic that appears to be a buried Pyramid, they send a research team out to investigate. Little do they know that they are about…
Country: Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, UK, USA
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
Hold the Dark (2018)
In the grim Alaskan winter, a naturalist hunts for wolves blamed for killing a local boy, but he soon finds himself swept into a chilling mystery.
The Stakelander (2016)
When his home of New Eden is destroyed by a revitalized Brotherhood and its new Vamp leader, Martin finds himself alone in the badlands of America with only the distant…
Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens (2016)
The new installment of the Sharknado franchise takes place 5 years after Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! There have been no Sharknados in the intervening years, but now they're appearing…
From Beyond (1986)
A group of scientists have developed the Resonator, a machine which allows whoever is within range to see beyond normal perceptible reality. But when the experiment succeeds, they are immediately…
Anonymous Killers (2020)
Four seasoned killers and one hapless professor are rounded up in one violent swoop and awake in chains to discover they are part of a demented experiment orchestrated by their…
Trailer: Wrong Turn (2003)

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Maximum error against the setting value: ±10% max.
*1 If more than one unit is used together, the ambient temperature varies with the conditions below. Mount the units on the DIN rail with mounting brackets and check that the output current is 20 mA or less for a unit.
One or two more units connected: -20 °C to +55 °C ; 3 to 10 more units connected: -20 °C to +50 °C; 11 to 16 more units connected: -20 °C to +45 °C. When using 2-outputs, one unit is counted as two units.
*3 Input time is 25 ms (ON)/25 ms (OFF) when external calibration time is selected.
*4 These numbers double when "DOUBLE" is selected.
*5 Increases 30 mW (1 mA) for High Speed mode.
*6 It increases by 15% when connected to the LV-NH100/NH110/NH300. It does not include the power consumption of the load.
Power consumption when expansion units are connected is the total power consumption of each amplifier unit. Example: When one main unit (LV-N11N) is connected to 2 expansion units (LV-N12N) and they are used with LV-NH100 heads in HIGH SPEED mode.
(1.15 × 860 mW × 1) + (1.15 × 860 mW × 2) = 2967 mW max.
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On Friday the 20th, I traveled to Wolcott, Connecticut, where I spoke to 650 students, grades 6-8, at Tyrrell Middle School. They had all read Bystander as part of their summer reading program and, I'm sure, as part of their school-wide anti-bullying initiative. The feeling in that school was very impressive. Thank you for all your hard work to make this happen, Sara Tedesco. I've been wearing the shirt!
That's the design on the back of the long sleeve shirt created and sold (I think) at the school. I was presented with one as a gift. The design, created by the librarian, Sara Tedesco, was a variation of the Bystander book cover, with a more positive, local spin. Brilliant.
Come to think of it, those students said they read Bystander. But I'll admit it, some of those kids looked pretty tan. When I see young people under these circumstances, I often apologize, explaining that in all my hopes and wild dreams, I never intended to become somebody's homework.
On Sunday, I flew from Albany, NY, to Chicago, and then on to Oklahoma City for four full days of visits in the Yukon school district.
Maybe you've heard of it.
Garth Brooks was born and raised there.
The main school I visited — it had a big auditorium, so several neighboring schools bused their students to us — was located on Garth Brooks Drive, because of course it was.
Across four days in the Sooner state, I gave thirteen presentations to 5,600 students, grades 2-8. And I can honestly say that they all loved me, every single one of them.
Actually, well, there was one kid . . .
The truth is, everyone treated me wonderfully throughout the visit. Respectfully, kindly. I felt blessed and fortunate. I can't thank everyone enough, and won't really try to here (I tried to there, in person).
Wednesday night I made it over to the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum.
The museum was incredibly moving, artistic and powerfully effective. I was, at times, a blubbering mess, but in a good way.
If you ever get the chance, by all means, yes, get yourself over to the museum — and prepare to feel the power of that experience right down to the soles of your shoes.
Then I walked over to Bricktown and treated myself to a "cowboy steak" at Mantle's restaurant, just across from the ballpark. It was a peaceful, reflective, delicious meal, and I was happy to be exactly where I was.
Thank you, Yukon, OK. It was really terrific for me to gain a first-hand experience of Sooner Pride. To meet all those kids. And try, in my own limited way, to leave each school a slightly better place where together we value reading, thinking, and basic human kindness.
Most especially, thank you Jenah Hamilton, middle school librarian, the force of nature who made my visit possible.


There is four 7 segment display inside of this module, with a PCB control back board.
See the pictures about how it looks like.
Standard 5135 enclosure, nice look, easy to install on devices. The mounting hole dimension should 72*39 mm, and you need leave two extra cutout place for the "ear" on the side of the panel.
All these four seven segment display controls by 4 pieces 74HC595 ICs where are on the back PCB board. All the segment display are current limited.
Static driven, when the number is not changing, MCU don't need to refresh it, save MCU resources.
Simple interface: +5V, -5V, data, data shift CLK, latch LCK, only need 3 wires to MCU, save resources.
Can connect in series, e.g. four displays, can connect one by one, and only connect the three wires of the first display to MCU is enough.
If you don't need enclosure, there are four screw holes, easy to install too.
Can display the dot symbol.
Needs 300mA to display 8888, because the high brightness.
For Arduino Demo Code, schematic please see here.
A very comprehensive tutorial is avaialble here.
Note, inside display plastic cover on segment display can be further removed, it is not when we shipped out, if so the display can give the most best quality, but no issue if kept.


The Signature RTL features sturdy 7" wide resin top ledges and unique interlocking resin caps to enhance its strength and beauty. The Signature RTL also offers interlocking aluminum stabilizers at the top of the pool and hardware-free resin bottom cuffs, giving you a stronger pool with superior stability. The Signature RTL is proudly made in the USA and offers a 60 year manufacturer's limited warranty. Includes Free Shipping, thru-wall skimmer and blue liner. Liner upgrades & accessories available when customizing.
The Signature RTL features sturdy 7" wide resin top ledges and unique interlocking resin caps to enhance its strength and beauty. The durable 6" uprights and heavy grade steel bottom tracks give the Signature RTL strength, support and style.
The engineering details of the Signature RTL pool make it one of our best sellers. The Signature RTL offers interlocking aluminum stabilizers at the top of the pool and hardware-free resin bottom cuffs, giving you a stronger pool with superior stability. The Signature RTL features a 60 year manufacturer's warranty and is proudly made in the USA.
Choosing a pool and all the accessories was very easy! Any questions or concerns I had were addressed quickly when calling in and talking to someone. Very friendly also!
Very knowledgeable personal and we had a little blip in our order only to be discovered months from delivery, (had issues with site set up); however, we had taken pictures as recommended on their site and sent them back to them as proof of missing item & they promptly sent out a replacement. Highly recommended & our set up guys that we hired were impressed with the product & packaging as well.
When I purchased a pool online from pool factory, I was somewhat apprehensive about it. Well I shure changed my mind one it arrived and was put up. So much nicer than I thought it would be, top rails and caps are resin, and they are super solid. The person that installed the pool (30 yrs exp ) said I made a really good purchase, thought this pool is as good as any he has seen on the market and better than most. To the pool factory team I give you a big thumbs up.
Bought a pool and the price was right and we received it quickly. We were missing a part and customer service was friendly and very helpful. The part was shipped immediately from the manufacturer and we received it the next day. Company is very easy to deal with and we will do business with them again.


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TV / Playwright
Honored by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, for her contributions to writing and creativity....Crystal L. Bass is a serial entrepreneur, international traveler, and true definition of GOAL DIGGER.
In 2013, The Rainbow Push Coalition recognized Bass as one of the Top Inspirational Coaches in Engagement and Leadership. Crystal's heart beats to the drum of entrepreneurship establishing herself not only as a producer, director and playwright but as a noted actress, author, coach, and motivational speaker.
In 2010, Bass founded Crystal Clear Publications and published her first critically acclaimed novel. "Dark Clouds: A Charm City Family's Struggle," is a fiction book dressed in the essence of Bass' childhood. The novel follows the storyline of four siblings, and the relationships they have with their mother.
Shortly after the release of her first book, Crystal fulfilled her dreams of being playwright and director by turning her novel into the stage play "Ain't No Love, Like A Mother's Love". Alchemy in its truest form, Bass turned her pain into gain by making her life's experiences a full production. However, she didn't stop there; not only did she produce & direct the tour but she transformed it into a national tour.
Ain't No Love, Like A Mother's Love is a theatrical stage production of a bible-toting, gun wielding mother of four who feels that, like Stella, it's time to get her groove back! She later finds that worshiping a man with a dark side is a recipe for disaster. In this emotional roller coaster, the audience watches this family as they all pull through life's hardest truths. Family secrets, drama and heartache are revealed time and time again. But all hope is not lost. No one will leave the theater thinking the same way about the meaning of family or what a mother's love is really all about. This star-studded, hilarious and inspirational stage production is life changing.
Click here to download Crystal's One Sheet


Our products are in use on nearly every continent, by many diverse individuals including Service Members, Fire and Rescue Personnel, Backpackers, and Adventurers. We strive to build the absolute best product, and the feedback we receive from our customers has helped us to continually refine and perfect our work. Our vision is to become a renowned outdoor equipment company, and our customers have helped us move closer to that goal. Without our faithful following, we would not be where we are today.
We are located in Duluth Minnesota, a city known for its hand crafted goods such as Frost River, Duluth Pack, and Empire Canvas works, just to name a few. Minnesota has a lot to offer for areas to explore in the great outdoors, and we take full advantage to get out as often as we can to devise and test new products. A great product is not perfected within the shop walls, it is perfected through many hours of real world use.
"Thank you for discovering Sagewood Gear. It is my primary goal to design and build products that will inspire you to get outdoors, and live an adventurous life. What we do here is not just about building a great product, but for us to skillfully craft that trusted piece of gear that you will carry with you on all of your expeditions. I wish you all the best, and I hope that you undertake in many extraordinary adventures."


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With low-cost flights and long distance holidays at discounted prices, tourism has become an activity responsible for a high level of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), a trend which will continue to increase in the coming years if the demand for tourism continues to grow.
This is not the first time the carbon footprint of tourism is evaluated. In 2007, the World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) estimated the volume of carbon dioxide emissions caused by tourism to be 5% of the global carbon footprint, the equivalent of 1.3 billion tonnes of CO2 per year.
Manfred Lenzen, a physicist from the University of Sydney and one of the authors of the study, believes the evaluation of the previous study to be undervalued as it only took into account the carbon emissions from land and air transport, leaving aside the release of methane (linked to the consumption of meat) and refrigerants (CFCs and HFCs).
In the report, published in Nature Climate Change on 7 May, the Australian researcher and his colleagues calculated the emission caused by the billions of tourist who took the plane, train or boat, but also the GHG emissions due to where they stayed (air conditioning or heating), what they ate (livestock keepers who contribute to deforestation) and the purchases made during their holiday.
The Bonn Climate Change Conference is meeting from 30 April to 10 May in preparation for COP24 in Katowice (Poland). During the Bonn Conference, the two key subjects will be: increasing countries' climate ambitions and actions and drafting the operating manual for the Paris Agreement. EURACTIV's partner le Journal de l'Environnement reports.
Therefore, the authors worked on a more comprehensive data set then the UNWTO by focusing on methane emissions (from the meat industry), nitrous oxide emissions from agriculture, and synthetic gas from air conditioning systems, all gases with a high global warming potential (GWP).
One tonne of hydrofluorocarbon – 23 (HFC-23, a refrigerant) has the same effect on climate as 14,800 tonnes of carbon dioxide.
As a result, 4.5 billion tonnes of CO2 per year (GtCO2e/year) was released because of tourism in 2013 (compared to 3.9 GtCO2e/year in 2009), 8% of anthropogenic emissions.
According to the study, Americans contribute the most to emissions caused by tourism with 23%, ahead of the Chinese (11%), the Germans (6%) and the Indians (5.9%).
"Most of the carbon footprints come from domestic flights," the authors stated.
Tourists from Canada, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway pollute more on holidays abroad rather than at home. The study also found that emissions produced by tourists significantly increase the carbon footprint of some faraway countries.
In Mauritius or the Seychelles, tourism accounts for 30% to 80% of national GHG emissions, a worrying fact for these islands which heavily rely on tourism for development but which are also likely to be the first affected by rising sea levels.
Another concern is the dynamism of tourism, in recent years the global turnover of the sector increased by 4% every year, a pace that will not slow down before 2025, according to experts.
Without regulation (such as the carbon tax), activities linked to tourism and the sector's carbon footprint could increase by 30% in seven years.


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Behavioural risk factors of men associated with transmission of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in Sri Lanka
Kuruppu AS Jayawardena1, Kalinga T Silva2, Chantha K Jayawardena3, Sujatha Samarakoon1
1 National STD/AIDS Control Programme, No. 29, De Saram Place, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2 Department of Sociology, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
3 Department of Basic Sciences, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
Date of Web Publication 24-May-2017
Kuruppu AS Jayawardena
National STD/AIDS Control Programme, No. 29, De Saram Place, Colombo
Background: Unprotected sex is a major risk factor for transmission of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). We explored the behavioural risk factors for STIs among men who presented with STI-related symptoms.
Methods: A systematic sample of 112 males presenting with STI symptoms at district sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinic located in Kandy, Sri Lanka were enrolled during 2009. They were interviewed using a semi-structured questionnaire. Selected sexual behaviours were discussed with them in greater detail. The chi-square and difference-in-two-proportion tests were used for testing the statistical significance for quantitative data, and qualitative methods were used for the analysis of responses to open-ended questions and in-depth discussion.
Results: The median age of the respondents was 28 years. The majority of them (56%) had never been married. The median age at the first sexual intercourse was 22 years. The majority (87%) of respondents had their first intercourse before marriage; mostly with older females. Most (103, 92%) men reported having sexual intercourse during the past six months; of them, 40.8% had sex with multiple partners. Only 18.5% used condoms at the first premarital intercourse. The consistent use of condoms with non-marital partners during the past six months was only 13.7%. Common reasons for non-use of condoms were: belief that partner was faithful; poor knowledge about risk of unprotected sex; view that condoms reduce pleasure and negatively affect intimacy; and inhibition in accessing condoms in public.
Conclusions: Sexual behaviours were found to be risky among men attending STD clinics in Sri Lanka. Strategies of sexual health promotion among vulnarable groups should be evaluated for planning proper interventions.
Keywords: Sexual behaviours, male, pre-marital sex, condom use, sexually transmitted infections, Sri Lanka
Jayawardena KA, Silva KT, Jayawardena CK, Samarakoon S. Behavioural risk factors of men associated with transmission of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in Sri Lanka. WHO South-East Asia J Public Health 2012;1:69-75
Jayawardena KA, Silva KT, Jayawardena CK, Samarakoon S. Behavioural risk factors of men associated with transmission of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in Sri Lanka. WHO South-East Asia J Public Health [serial online] 2012 [cited 2022 Jan 21];1:69-75. Available from: http://www.who-seajph.org/text.asp?2012/1/1/69/206916
In developing countries sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and their complications rank among the top five disease categories for which adults seek health care.[1] Control of STIs has received renewed attention during the last few decades, following the emergence of HIV as a major public health problem around the world. There is a strong link between common STIs and sexual transmission of HIV.[1] The spread of STIs including HIV is directly influenced by a number of biological and behavioural determinants, which in turn are influenced by a number of other factors such as demographic, socioeconomic and cultural characteristics of the individual person and the populations in which they live.[2] In Sri Lanka, sexual behaviour has been studied in many population groups that are often considered as vulnerable for HIV. According to these studies, men reported a significantly higher involvement in risky sexual behaviour compared with their female counterparts.[3],[4],[5] Rawstorne and Worth reported in 2007 that sexual behaviour varied considerably among different vulnerable groups with some groups showing high levels of risk for HIV due to unprotected sex with casual and regular partners in Sri Lanka.[6]
The National STD/AIDS Control Programme in Sri Lanka routinely collects only the baseline characteristics of persons seeking STI and HIV care in government STD clinics. However, available data do not adequately describe the factors associated with transmission of these infections in local communities. Lack of such information is a challenge while developing a comprehensive strategy to control STIs and HIV. Reliable data on human sexual behaviour are not easy to collect. The quality of such data could vary depending on the study type, study population, study setting, and data collection method. In a clinic set up at the time of medical consultation, respondents may disclose complete information related to their sexual behaviour than in a large community survey. Thus, this study aimed to explore sexual behaviours of men seeking care in a government STD clinic in order to understand behavioural risk factors of men associated with transmission of STIs in Sri Lanka.
This descriptive study was conducted in the district STD clinic of Kandy in Sri Lanka. The study was approved by the Ethical Review Committee of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. One hundred and twelve new male clinic attendees with STI-related complaints were interviewed from 1 January to 30 June 2009. The main register of male clinic attendees was used as the sampling frame. The study sample was selected using a systematic random sampling method after excluding the cases of sexual abuse.
The Principal Investigator of the study - a medical officer having patient counselling skills in the same clinic, interviewed all the selected study subjects at the time of the first medical consultation. The respondents were explained individually that the information collected from them would be treated with confidentiality before obtaining voluntary consent for their participation in the study. At the interview, privacy was ensured and respondents were given adequate time to share their information and feelings with the investigator. A detailed account of presenting complaint, socio-demographic profile, substance abuse, present and past sexual practices including use of condoms, and knowledge about STIs/ AIDS and safe sexual practices was obtained by using a semi-structured questionnaire with a number of open-ended questions. Each interview was also accompanied by a discussion so as to gather more information on selected behaviours. Responses were cross-checked where necessary to improve the reliability of data. Subsequently, individuals underwent the routine examination and collection of necessary specimens to diagnose STIs including HIV.
This study collected both quantitative and qualitative data from the respondents. The qualitative data were mainly derived from open-ended questions and discussions held with respondents on selected variables. The quantitative data were entered into an "Excel" worksheet and analysed using descriptive statistics. The Minitab-14 statistical software was used for comparisons. The qualitative data were appropriately used where necessary to complement the quantitative data.
The median age of the sample was 28 years. The majority (76%) of respondents were in the age group of 16-35 years. Most (93.7%) respondents had completed education up to the tenth grade or above. Fifty five per cent respondents were never married. Most (87%) respondents were currently employed [Table 1]. Sixty per cent respondents were current smokers and 91% had taken alcohol at a social event. Thirteen per cent were currently taking narcotic substances while another 24% had tried these at least once in the past. However, no one reported to having injected these drugs.
Table 1: Socio-demographic characteristics of respondents
The median age for the first penetrative sexual intercourse was 22 years. Forty two (37.5%) men had initiated sexual intercourse between the age of 15–20 years. One respondent denied ever having penetrative sex. The first sexual partners were -girl friends (32, 28.8%); casual female partners (27, 24.3%); sex workers (27, 24.3%); marital partners (14, 12.6%); female relatives (2, 1.8%); and casual homosexual partners (9, 8.1%). Ninety-seven (87%) respondents had the first sexual intercourse before marriage. The majority (53.6%) of them had sex with an older female partner. The interview also revealed that many respondents hardly had any information about their casual sex partners while a substantial number of them stated that they had sex with those women who returned from foreign employment. When the respondents were asked to provide information about the type of sex they had in their first penetrative sexual intercourse, a majority 64(57.6%) of them reported vaginal sex only while 35(31.5%) reported vaginal and oral intercourse. Very few had anal sex with female partners while 6(5.4%) had anal sex with male partners. Only 18.5% used condoms at the first sexual intercourse with non-marital partners and it was mainly confined to vaginal sex.
The interviews further revealed that some men who initiated penetrative sex with commercial sex workers and casual partners already had their own girl friends. However, these men never had penetrative sex with their girl friends. According to them, their girl friends had frequently resisted penetrative sex with them mainly to protect virginity and to avoid premarital conception. It was also revealed that some respondents had selected a casual partner or sex worker to initiate penetrative sex in order to test their sexual virility before entering into sexual relationship with their regular partner. Some men practised a range of non-penetrative sex methods with their girl friends before having full penetrative sex with other women.
Sexual practices of respondents during the past six months were also enquired into. One hundred and three (92%) respondents reported penetrative sexual intercourse during this period [Table 2]. Among them, a significantly higher proportion of never-married men (77.4%) than married men (50%) had sexual intercourse with non-regular partners (p 0.002). With regard to the use of condoms during the past six months, only 13.8% had consistently used condoms. And 58.8% had never used condoms with their partners outside the marital relationship [Table 2]. A statistically significant difference was not observed between married and unmarried men with respect to non-use of condoms with non-marital partners (p 0.4). The reasons for non-use of condoms were the belief that the partner was faithful; lack of knowledge about the risk of unprotected sex; view that condoms harmed pleasure and intimacy; and inhibition to accessing condoms in public. We further analysed condom use with different partner categories using data for the last sexual intercourse outside marital relationship [Table 3]. Condoms were used more frequently with the commercial sex workers (53.6%) than with casual (12.2%) and regular (14.4%) partners (p <0.01).
Table 2: Reported sexual behaviour of respondents during the past six months
Table 3: Condom use in different partner categories at the last intercourse outside the marital relationship
The study also explored whether men consumed alcohol or narcotics before or during sex. Only 5% admitted to having consumed these substances during or before sex. On further enquiry, 14% stated that they used tablets to prolong the duration of sexual intercourse. However, none of these men had evidence of erectile dysfunction. Further, it was revealed that a proportion of the aphrodisiac tablet users believed that their ejaculating time was too short; therefore, they took these tablets to hide their perceived sexual dysfunction. Married men hardly reported having a strained family life. The common reasons given by these men for having extramarital sex were lack of responsiveness of the regular partner and to enjoy a different type of sexual experience in addition to the regular one.
Over 90% respondents had heard about AIDS and STIs. However, their knowledge about transmission of these infections was poor. They often thought that having sex with a casual partner is safer than sex with a commercial sex worker. When the respondents were asked about the best method to have safe sexual intercourse, majority of them (72%) stated the use of condoms followed by sex with a faithful partner (4%) and avoiding vaginal sex (4%). Many of those who talked about condoms were not aware that oral and anal sex without condoms is also risky. Twenty per cent men never stated any method of practising safe sex. The majority (94%) of respondents and their sex partners never enquired from each other about their HIV and STI status before or after having sex. They thought that asking about such information would harm their relationship. In the study sample, 67(60%) were found to have STIs according to the clinical manifestations and laboratory investigations.
Premarital sex including early initiation of sexual intercourse is a public health problem worldwide.[7],[8],[9] Literature reveals that risky sexual practices are consistently higher among men than their female counterparts in Sri Lanka.[3],[4],[5] Promoting safe sex among men could therefore make a large contribution to the control of STIs including HIV.
Our study sample comprised fairly educated people [Table 1]. In Sri Lanka, the human reproductive system is taught in grades 9 and 10 in schools. However, risky sexual behaviours reported by the respondents were mainly related to lack of knowledge or ignorance about the correct safe sex practices. Use of condoms was extremely low with all types of sexual partners except with commercial sex workers. This probably indicates that people tend to use condoms with partners perceived to be at high risk but not with those perceived to be safe. Sex with commercial sex workers is frequently considered as unsafe. Some sex workers also carry condoms and insist that clients use them. Rawstorne and Worth in 2007 also reported a similar pattern of condom use in other population groups studied, namely three-wheel drivers, drug users and male factory workers of Sri Lanka.[6]
A substantial proportion of men felt inhibited to access condoms in public. In Sri Lankan culture people frequently link the use of condoms with promiscuity or illicit sex. As a result, some of those who wish to have safe sex would go for unprotected sex unless a condom is secretly accessed. Non-use of condoms may also have a symbolic function reflecting the intimacy of the relationship. Thus some people who try to show their intimacy to their non-regular partners become vulnerable to STIs and HIV. This study also revealed that a proportion of never-married men, who had their own girl friends, had penetrative sex with commercial sex workers and casual partners for various reasons. This should be a serious concern because men who acquire infections through such practices may subsequently transmit infections to their spouses after their marriage. It was also observed that a majority of married men who had extramarital sex hardly had a strained family life. This perhaps indicates a decreasing significance of marriage and family in regulating sexual behaviour in a section of the present society. However, this type of behaviour cannot be considered "sexual liberation" as such but rather a factor that enhances vulnerability for STIs and HIV.
The social stigma attached to HIV (including other STIs) and discriminative practices in health-care settings seriously challenge the control of these infections in Asian countries.[10] Stigmatization of these infections was also manifested among the respondents of this study as majority (94%) of them avoided asking their sexual partners about the STI and HIV status before or after sexual contact. A substantial proportion of men were taking self-medication to prolong their sexual act or to hide their perceived sexual dysfunction. The lack of knowledge about sex organs and the natural process of sexual intercourse probably encourages such practices leading to a higher risk of sexually-transmitted infections.
The coexistence of alcohol use and sex has the potential to increase risks associated with sexual intercourse. WHO has reported a strong coexistence of alcohol use and sexual behaviour in a cross-cultural study conducted in eight countries.[11] Our study showed that only 5% of the sample had alcohol before or during sexual intercourse. However, data generated from this study are not adequate to comment on relationship between sex and use of alcohol. The sample of this study by and large represented the low and middle socioeconomic level. Thus data on high-risk sexual practices of the higher socioeconomic class were probably underrepresented. The reasons for extremely low representation of the higher socioeconomic class in the study population could be the low incidence of STI-related symptoms in them or that they go to the private sector for treatment.
The Sri Lankan culture does not approve premarital and extramarital sex as a norm. A national survey in 1996 reported that more than 90% youths in the 16 – 29 year age group did not approve premarital sex under any circumstances.[12] Although the sample of this study is not fully representative of the population at large, the results indicate that there is a considerable gap between the publicly accepted sexual norm and the actual behaviour. Most men were either unaware or ignorant of the correct information about safe sexual practices. To achieve better control of STIs and AIDS in Sri Lanka, the deficits in sexual health promotion among vulnerable populations should be carefully identified and addressed.
We sincerely thank the respondents for their voluntary participation. We are grateful to the clinic staff of the STD clinic in Kandy, Sri Lanka for their support.
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Jayawardena KA
Silva KT
Jayawardena CK
Samarakoon S
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VivoPower Subsidiary, Caret, Announces LOI to Launch Renewable Powered Digital Asset Mining Business
Wednesday, 08. December 2021 15:13
Caret Decimal Inc. is created in partnership with an experienced New York based crypto-mining team and founding shareholder Caret
Caret Decimal's mission is to be the most efficient vertically integrated net zero powered digital asset mining company in the United States
Caret will contribute an initial 206 MW DC of solar sites in Texas in exchange for $20m of equity
Once fully operational, the mining sites are expected to have 4,398 petahash capacity
Caret reviewing potential power-to-x use cases for its remaining 1.6GW of solar sites
LONDON, Dec. 08, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VivoPower International PLC (Nasdaq: VVPR) ("VivoPower," the "Company) is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary, Caret LLC ("Caret"), which owns solar power project sites across the United States, has signed a letter of intent to launch Caret Decimal, a renewable powered digital asset mining business, consistent with its previously announced power-to-x strategy.
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January 5, 2022 University of Illinois
Scott Althaus - director, Cline Center for Democracy; professor of political science
The Cline Center for Advanced Social Research's Coup D'état Project categorized the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as an attempted coup – specifically, an "attempted dissident coup." Scott Althaus is the director of the Cline Center, a nonpartisan research center at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with more than a decade of experience in systematically categorizing acts of protest and political violence. Althaus, also a professor of both political science and communication at Illinois, spoke with News Bureau business and law editor Phil Ciciora about defining the events of that date.
The Cline Center's current classification of Jan. 6, 2021, is an "attempted dissident coup." How did the center arrive at that classification?
In our initial assessment issued Jan. 8, we clearly saw that three of the five criteria for a coup-type event were met as defined in our Coup D'état Project codebook. But the remaining two we weren't sure of, mainly because we were trying to keep up with the flood of ongoing reporting from the news media to assess whether any additional classifications might be warranted. It wasn't until Jan. 27 that further clarification of these remaining questions led the Cline Center to issue a second assessment that labeled it an "attempted dissident coup" according to our project definitions.
What was unusual was that we were trying to perform this assessment very soon after the event itself, which is not how we normally operate. Typically, we look much further in the rearview mirror, historically speaking, which usually crystallizes certain actions because a lot of the uncertainties get shaken out over time. We were also challenged by the extremely complex nature of the specific actions that constituted the event. It was not just one group that stormed the Capitol. It was lots of different groups of people who were involved. It is very clearly the most complex event that we have yet evaluated for the Coup D'état Project, which has a strict set of definitions and procedures to follow for our researchers to help classify these kinds of occurrences.
And I can assure you that, in my role as director of the Cline Center, I never expected that our Coup D'état Project was going to have a credible case showing up in the U.S. It's an unfortunate reality of the political division and mistrust that we have today.
With all that we've learned about Jan. 6, does that classification still hold one year later?
Event classifications in our Coup D'état Project can change over time as new information emerges about particular cases. It's unclear whether our ongoing analysis of the Jan. 6 event will eventually add more subtypes beyond the current "attempted dissident coup" classification, but adding more categories isn't off the table. The attempted dissident coup baseline categorization won't change. There's clearly a lot of evidence for that. The question is whether other categories might become relevant.
If ongoing investigations by legal authorities, Congress or news organizations reveal credible evidence that other types of actors were involved, then the Jan. 6 event might also fall into one or more additional categories of attempted coup d'état. For example, if further investigation were to reveal clear evidence of executive branch involvement, then the actions of Jan. 6 would also be considered an "attempted auto-coup." Under Cline Center definitions, an auto-coup occurs when "the incumbent chief executive uses illegal or extralegal means to assume extraordinary powers, seize the power of other branches of government, or render powerless other components of the government such as the legislature or judiciary."
Auto-coups have happened with some frequency in South America, and they typically involve an executive who is in power but is trying to use irregular means to sustain that power beyond what is legally mandated. It's unclear at this point whether that definition is going to come into play for Jan. 6. But certainly the Cline Center analysis team is keeping a close eye on the congressional investigation going forward, as well as on continuing news reporting.
Speaking from the perspective of a political communication scholar, how has news coverage shaped public perceptions about Jan. 6?
As additional information emerges in news media coverage of an incident like this, people who are paying attention to that information may well be updating their understanding of what occurred. But there's a very clear consensus in the social scientific literature that when people have very strong starting opinions, the typical evolution of that information-processing effort is mainly to confirm the belief that they started with and to become even more entrenched in that belief, regardless of what the new information is actually saying.
Basically, ongoing news coverage tends to reinforce the opinions that people already hold, regardless of what is being reported. We see this across the spectrum of politically contested things – election results, policy issues, evaluations of politicians and so on. When people have strong opinions on political matters, the likelihood that any new piece of information by itself would change their mind tends to be very low. It becomes lower still when trusted opinion leaders are also making strong claims about how to interpret events, which is happening in this case. And of course, we have this polarized media ecosystem today where different parties are anchored in their own echo chambers.
It's pretty clear that our highly polarized society is having a highly polarized response to new information coming out about Jan. 6. That means the outcome of this congressional investigation is unlikely to dramatically change anyone's perceptions about what happened that day. Just as we saw with the impeachment hearings of President Trump, the Jan. 6 committee hearings are unlikely to move the needle of public opinion all that much.
But I also think that the history of political polarization in the U.S. can give us some hope because these tendencies tend to ebb and flow over time. We can look forward to a time when we're less polarized than we are today, when we'll be able to look back on these occurrences with a different perspective. And I sincerely hope that time comes soon.
Editor's note: To contact Scott Althaus, email salthaus@illinois.edu; Twitter handle @scott_althaus.
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When I first came to America 11 years ago, I was 114 pounds at age 33 and 5 feet tall. My new American diet and lifestyle slowly added more and more weight on me. Back in early 2017 before my late husband passed away, I had been stress eating and my weight was almost at 130 pounds. My clothes size went from 0 up to 6, sometimes I had to go up to 8. You all know how stressful it is when you put on some clothes in the morning and find out how tight they are, so you have to change at the last second before heading out to work.
Several months after my late husband passed away, I finally slowly got my life together and decided it was time to get my body back in shape. I have never liked the gym because it is just so boring to work on all the machines. I know I work better with humans so I was looking for a private trainer who understood my concerns and would help me reach my goal. I didn't just want to lose weight, I also wanted to tone up my body and be more healthy.
Then late June last year, I stepped out of my go-to nail salon and noticed a new gym called Area 45 Fitness right next to it. Since it is so close to where I live, I decided to stop by and get some info about the private trainer. When I walked in, I already felt something different. The decorations are very chic and upscale compared with most gyms, it has more of a spa or lounge feeling. I must say, I was also very impressed by the co-owner, Revan, I had talked to. He is so knowledgeable and passionate about what he does. Then I toured the facility and I noticed there are no exercise machines. It is the most interesting gym I have ever been to. I was told that I can burn up to 1,000 calories per 45-minute session — and have fun doing it. "It's for people trying to get lean and shredded, not someone trying to get Arnold Schwarzenegger big." Perfect! It was just what I was looking for. So I agreed to try a free session before I signed up.
Before I tell you how the try-out session went, I want to paint an image of this gym. It is not the traditional gym, as I mentioned earlier, it is the only gym with high technology to give you a very unique express-like work out while looking like a video game scene. Not the type of games with blood and killing of course, it's filled with exciting music, lights and touch sensors on the floor and walls. The software is linked to the sensors with a big touch screen computer to create 100,000 different combinations of exercises. If you are still not sure what Area 45 Fitness looks like, let me put it this way, it is insanity workout meets Dance, Dance Revolution at a black light party. Take a look of this short video to see what it exactly looks like.
For my first try-out session, Revan gave me a private lesson and it went very fast. It was totally high intensity but I was very surprised and proud that I was able to do it. I haven't worked out for years and I was not in my best shape at that time. The most important thing though? I had so much fun doing it. It was just like playing for me. When a workout becomes a pleasure, not a torture, oh yeah, I am totally in! My journey with Area 45 officially started last July. I managed to attend classes at least 3 times a week the first two months then 2 times a week after school started. You can see the before photos below when I just started back last year.
The first 3 photos on top of this post were taken in December, 2017 when I already stopped working out for two months because I just couldn't find any time for it between my full time job and full time blogging. But, you still can see my figure and shape are more defined and toned. If I never stopped, I could look so much better. Now I finally made the decision to pursue full time blogging. You can read more about this big change LIFE AFTER LOSS—FULL TIME BLOGGING and LIFE AFTER LOSS—EMBRACING CHANGES AND RECREATING MY NEW LIFE. For 2018, one of my goals is to continue toning up my body and get more healthy. Anyway, you can see more detailed data from the chart below to see how much my body had changed in just 3 months.
You can see me here in action at the gym.
You may have already noticed that my weight is down from 123 to 117, my body fat from 33 to 27, BMI from 25 to 22, and my waist from 32 to 28. Overall, I am down from size 6 to size 2 or 0, depending on the brand. I am very pleased with the result. I know there is no short cut to lose weight and tone up my body, and I want to make sure I do everything in a healthy way. I don't mind working hard, but having fun and seeing results this quickly, was something I was so surprised about. If you live near Troy, Michigan, you definitely need to check it out and you will be as happy as I am a few months later!
Thanks for sharing your exercise and diet routine, Grace! You do look fabulous!
I am totally loving your leggings! I am doing the same as you and working on getting more fit. It's so important to me and always has been. You look fabulous! Great post!
It is so good for us to stay active and have fun with it!!
I'm so glad you've found something close and that works!!!
Looks intense but fun. I hope to find something similar in Los Angeles. I don't enjoy going to the typical gyms with all the machines, they intimidate me!
Love the leggings!!! So cute you look amazing!
The classes look like fun despite being hard work. They obviously work because you look in fabulous shape Grace! I love the leopard print leggings.
This post is great and very motivational for everyone. One sees the results you have achieved. People often don't stay with it because they don't loose weight for a while. That's the phase hen one looses fat and creates muscles which are heavier than fat. Your table nicely documents it. Thanks for linking up to Top of the World Style.


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Government Structures
Viatorian Community
Charter of the VC
L. Querbes
Rediscovering "an idea dear to Fr. Louis Querbes," the General chapter of 1978 gave new life to the "lay catechists" that our founder had imagined, but that historical circumstances had prevented him from realizing. From now on, the Congregation could include associates who, without having made vows, would commit themselves to participate in its mission, its spirituality and its community life.
The General Chapter of 1994, going a little further, articulates the experience of the Viatorian Community. In the spirit of the promotion of the laity wanted by the Second Vatican Council, this General Chapter declares that "the religious and the associates become from now on heirs of right of the charism of the founder and co-responsible for its development" (DC 5, 1994).
Professed Viatorians from the Province of Chicago attending the General Chapter meeting in 2006.
The Viatorian Community took shape and became an entity that includes both religious and associates, and gradually built its own organization according to the recommendations of the General Chapter of 2000. Representatives of the entire Viatorian Community met in July 2006 for a 1st International General Assembly. This one developed a Charter of the Viatorian Community. The 28th General Chapter of the Congregation that ensued approved, ad experimentum, this Charter, allowed a deepening of the experience already begun.
The 2nd General Assembly of the Viatorian Community took place in Bogotá (Colombia) from Feb. 2-9, 2011. It corrected the text of the Charter so that this document would reflect as much as possible the reality of the Viatorian Community and help Viatorians to remain faithful to their charism. The 29th General Chapter, held in 2012, approved this revised Charter and authorized its publication for the entire Community.
The 3rd General Assembly, held in Guadarrama (Spain) in November, 2016, recommended to the Congregation of the Clerics of Saint Viator to officially recognize the Viatorian Community in its Constitution and to leave to the religious the choice to belong to the Viatorian Community. They also recognized the richness of the diversity of Viatorian communities and invited them to continue their experience. They finally reminded them that common perspectives should guide them to keep the unity of the community.
Professed Viatorians at one of the plenary sessions at the General Chapter Meeting in 2018.
The 30th General Chapter of the Congregation of the Clerics of Saint Viator, held in 2018, modified the fundamental document of the institute, the Constitution, to officially recognize the existence of the Viatorian Community. At the time of this writing, the amendment to Article 5 of the Constitution is submitted to the Holy See for approval.
The experience of the Viatorian Community, launched more than 20 years ago, is therefore on the verge of being recognized. All members of the Viatorian Community express to God their gratitude for the gift of the Viatorian charism that He grants not only to religious but also to secular laity.
© GENERAL DIRECTION OF THE CLERICS OF ST VIATOR · 2019 – All rights reserved


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According to Charles Prather the land he recently purchased is to be laid out in lots. Mr. Prather admitting that it appears a super ambitious scheme, maintains that the future of this district holds great promise. The arrival this week of the overland section of "Ohio Company of Associated" adds an optimistic opinion that this vicinity may someday become s shipping point, especially if the hill country to the east of us continues fertile.
Mr. Prather has purchased 481 acres from the Cox brothers and William McMahon on the 6th of March this year. This tract comprises all that land lying sough of Cox's fort to the mouth of Buffalo creek. It is understood that the eastern limits will extend to Doddridge's fort. Quite a number of residents from nearby are quite alarmed by this news, stating that if the bottom is laid off in lots, the thousands of wild plum frees now growing will be destroyed. The difficulty in obtaining fruit is bad enough as is.
Major McMahon has acquired the land just east of this place on the overland trail. This land comprising some few thousand acres of fairly rolling terrain was surveyed by Benjamin Johnson Jr. who will remain in this vicinity for some time checking land grants of Decker, Van Metre, Benjamin Wells and the several others near Buffalo Creek.
Flour mill to be constructed soon JOHN MOORE is breaking ground for construction of a flour mill near the saw mill owned by ADAM WILSON. The building will be of frame or wood construction and will be obtained from the mill of the above Wilson.
MARTIN WETZEL stopped in the other day and tells any fears of SIMON GIRTY are unfounded. He says that if Girty comes within 50 miles of our place he'll smell the rat and slice his pate wide open. So you see our friend Martin is as wild as ever.
Wanted by CAPT BROWN one good strong husky man for work on the new wharf. Must weigh at least 200 lbs. Inquire Beacon.
Quite a stir has been caused by the discovery of an Indian floating in the river near. Inasmuch as no Indians have been seen in this vicinity for some time, the origin of the corpse is a mystery to be viewed with much concern.
Settlers out Buffalo Creek look upon the enormous run of mullets and suckers as a divine blessing. Food has been very scarce and some families faced several hungry months.
The district of Buffalo is becoming quite permanently settled. COL JAMES MARSHALL of Catfish Camp will build a dam and woolen mill on Buffalo Creek a couple of mile from this place in the near future. COL MARSHALL, a personal friend of our president, decided to quit the whiskey controversy rather than fight against his old friend.


Oney Lorcan returned to the ring at an NXT house show last night for the first time since suffering a broken orbital bone in June.
Lorcan suffered the injury, which required surgery, at NXT TakeOver on June 16 during a tag team title match with himself and Danny Burch taking on Undisputed Era.
At last night's NXT house show in Lowell, MA, Lorcan teamed with Burch in a loss against War Raiders.


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Send Flowers for Ruth
Plant a Tree for Ruth
Ruth Ann (Holt) Moore
June 23, 1950 ~ January 23, 2023 (age 72) 72 Years Old
Read more about the life story of Ruth and share your memory.
Ruth Ann Moore, age 72, of Keller, Texas and formerly of Palestine, Texas, passed away on Monday, the 23rd day of January 2023, in the care of Heart to Heart Hospice in Fort Worth. Mrs. Moore was born on the 23rd day of June 1950, in San Antonio, Texas, to parents Roy Holt and Ruth Starkey Holt.
Mrs. Moore was a loving Christian lady, who never met a stranger and loved to be surrounded by people. She worked for Wal-Mart for 17 years. She had a deep devotion to her husband and children and was humbly delighted when her grandchildren came into the world.
Mrs. Moore held the Lord close to heart. She was a former member of Walston Springs Baptist Church and Memory Lane Missionary Baptist Church in Palestine. While attending services she formed many lasting friendships. She found pleasure in reading books, cuddling her cats, and doting on her grandchildren. Mrs. Moore had a soft heart and an undeniable love for others that will never be forgotten.
In Heaven, she joins her parents Roy and Ruth Holt, son Michael Wayne Moore, daughter-in-law Cheri Moore, and her brother Roy Melvin Holt.
Mrs. Moore is survived by her loving husband of 55 years, Travis Moore; daughters, Angela Ray and husband Raymond of Lewisville, Texas, Kelli Saltzman and husband Brian of Keller, Texas; sisters, Zona Marlene Benton and husband Bobby of Palestine, Texas, and Margie Thompson of Tyler, Texas. Also left to cherish the sweet memories are Mrs. Moore's grandchildren that she loved dearly, Bailey Ray and wife Sami, Landon Saltzman, Keaton Saltzman, and Jonathan Moore.
Friends are cordially invited to a visitation from five o'clock until seven o'clock in the evening on Friday, the 27th day of January 2023 in the Parlor of Rhone Funeral Home.
A funeral service honoring the life of Mrs. Moore is to be conducted at three o'clock in the afternoon on Saturday, the 28th day of January 2023 in the Rhone Memorial Chapel with Rex Jackson officiating the service. Interment will follow in Guiceland Cemetery.
Those honored to serve as pallbearers are Brian Saltzman, Landon Saltzman, Keaton Saltzman, Raymond Ray, Bailey Ray, Jonathan Moore, Bobby Benton, and Ronnie Moore.
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Wyoming Department of Workforce Services Director Joan Evans says companies doing business in Wyoming will soon be able to apply for grants designed to improve workplace safety. Evans says the program will allow companies to, for example, get grants to purchase equipment designed to reduce back injuries caused by employees lifting heavy items in the workplace. Evans says the program, approved and funded by the state legislature earlier this year, should be up and running within the next few days.


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Q: Sum Data Across Individual Rows in a DataFrame I am trying to create a rule where as long as the sum of all data across each individual row in the dataframe is greater than one, the response will equal to one. Please see below.
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
df1 = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randint(0,2,size=(10, 4)), columns=list('ABCD'))
df1['Response'] = 0

df1
Out[14]:
   A  B  C  D  Response
0  0  0  0  0         0
1  0  1  1  0         0
2  1  1  1  1         0
3  0  0  0  0         0
4  0  1  1  1         0
5  1  1  0  0         0
6  1  1  0  0         0
7  0  1  1  1         0
8  0  0  0  0         0
9  0  1  1  1         0

My attempt:
df1['Response'] = 1 if [sum(df1[i,:]) for i in range(10)] > 1 else 0

However I get this error, instead of having three rows equal to zero and the remaining equal to 1 in the response column:
TypeError: unhashable type: 'slice'

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

A: Check with clip_upper : set a upper boundary .
df.sum(1).clip_upper(1)
Out[153]:
0    0
1    1
2    1
3    0
4    1
5    1
6    1
7    1
8    0
9    1
dtype: int64

A: Try this (it assumes all of the numbers are positive):
In [1]: import numpy as np
   ...: import pandas as pd
   ...: df1 = pd.read_clipboard()

In [2]: df1
Out[2]:
   A  B  C  D  Response
0  0  0  0  0         0
1  0  1  1  0         0
2  1  1  1  1         0
3  0  0  0  0         0
4  0  1  1  1         0
5  1  1  0  0         0
6  1  1  0  0         0
7  0  1  1  1         0
8  0  0  0  0         0
9  0  1  1  1         0

In [3]: df1['Response'] = df1.any(1).astype(int)

In [4]: df1
Out[4]:
   A  B  C  D  Response
0  0  0  0  0         0
1  0  1  1  0         1
2  1  1  1  1         1
3  0  0  0  0         0
4  0  1  1  1         1
5  1  1  0  0         1
6  1  1  0  0         1
7  0  1  1  1         1
8  0  0  0  0         0
9  0  1  1  1         1

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A Day in the Life: Nancy & Franklin's Engagement Session!!!
Nerding over books, sipping coffee, downing ice cream, and a friendly game of basketball: this must be what it's like e'eryday for Nancy and Franklin!
I'm super looking forward to doing it all over again…except this time they'll be rocking the dress and tux!


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"Perceived" national origin discrimination may not be illegal, but…
Lost in the maelstrom of the last week's FLSA overtime rule injunction was the news that the EEOC issued updated enforcement guidance on national origin discrimination.
The guidance, which replaces the EEOC's older 2002 guidance and covers topic such as citizenship, language issues and English-only policies, and harassment, is recommended reading for all employers, as are the EEOC's companion Q&A and small business fact sheet.
Let me point out, however, one area of contention—the issue of "perceived" national origin discrimination.
According to the EEOC, "National origin discrimination means discrimination because an individual (or his or her ancestors) is from a certain place or has the physical, cultural, or linguistic characteristics of a particular national origin group," and "Title VII prohibits employer actions that have the purpose or effect of discriminating against persons because of their real or perceived national origin."
The federal courts, however, have a different view.
Consider, for example, Longoria v. Autoneum N. Am. (N.D. Ohio 9/13/16), which concerned whether one of American dissent could pursue a Title VII national origin discrimination claim based on his employer's perception that he was Mexican. The court said no:
Longoria cites no Ohio case law that has validated, or even discussed, this theory of liability. Because Ohio courts generally took to Title VII cases when applying O.R.C. § 4112.02, I conclude that the Ohio courts would not recognize a perceived-national-origin discrimination claim, given its widespread failure in the federal district courts.
Also consider Burrage v. FedEx Freight, Inc. (N.D. Ohio 3/29/12) (about which I've previously blogged), which makes it clear that Title VII does not protect one from discrimination based on perceived characteristics, only actual characteristics.
Thus, if an employee sues you based on claim of perceived national origin discrimination, it is highly likely that I will be able to win that case (EEOC guidance notwithstanding).
Legal or illegal, however, the issue of perceived inclusion in a protected class raises a deeper issue. What kind of employer do you want to be? Do you really want to be the employer who condones calling a Mexican employee a wetback, yet wins in court because she's really American? Or, the employer who win the lawsuit brought by your Indian-American employee who was repeatedly called "ISIS"? Racism and xenophobia are still racism and xenophobia, and legal technicalities do not justify them having place in your workplace, period.


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Q: _GET in PHP for variable with multiple values I am sending a variable with multiple values like this:
JQUERY:
 $(".indexMain").load('indexMain.php?color=' + colors.join("+"), function()

-->
    indexMain.php?colors=blue+red+brown
I want to _GET those values and then use them in a while loop to put them into a SQL query like this one:
$items = $con -> prepare("SELECT * FROM item_descr WHERE color_base1 = :colorbase1");
$items -> bindValue(":colorbase1", $color);

Thanks!
EDIT: here is my current code but it is not working, it just shows the items corresponding to the 1st color.
foreach (explode(' ', $_GET['color']) as $color)
    {
        $items = $con -> prepare("SELECT * FROM item_descr WHERE color_base1 = :colorbase1");
        $items -> bindValue(":colorbase1", $color);

    }

A: indexMain.php?color=blue+red+brown

should be
indexMain.php?colors%5B%5D=blue&colors%5B%5D=red&colors%5B%5D=brown

which is equivalent to
indexMain.php?colors[]=blue&colors[]=red&colors[]=brown

This creates an array accessible with $_GET['colors']. After that use this PHP:
foreach ($_GET['colors'] as $color) {
    $query = $con->prepare("SELECT * FROM item_descr WHERE color_base1 = :colorbase1");
    if ($query->execute(":colorbase1", $color)) {
        // use results from query
    } else {
        // handle failed query
    }
}

If you don't want to change the query string, you can do this alternatively:
foreach (explode(' ', $_GET['colors']) as $color) {
    $query = $con->prepare("SELECT * FROM item_descr WHERE color_base1 = :colorbase1");
    if ($query->execute(":colorbase1", $color)) {
        // use results from query
    } else {
        // handle failed query
    }
}

Note that the only change is in the first line and we are splitting the string by spaces (because "+" gets converted to a space character).
Also note that both examples assume that $_GET['colors'] is defined. You can use isset() to check if it is defined.

A: I think this should work:
$colors = explode(' ', $_GET['color']);
foreach($colors as $color) {
    // your code here...
}

A: Try this
$colors = explode("+", $_GET['color']);
foreach($colors as $color){
$items = $con -> prepare("SELECT * FROM item_descr WHERE color_base1 = :colorbase1");
$items -> bindValue(":colorbase1", $color);
}

How about this
$colors = explode(" ", $_GET['color']);
foreach($colors as $color){
$items = $con -> prepare("SELECT * FROM item_descr WHERE color_base1 = :colorbase1");
$items -> bindValue(":colorbase1", $color);
}


New York-based family band New Kingston continues to be one of the most prolific and relatable bands in the U.S. reggae community and the announcement of their rock2rootsproject continues their upward trajectory. "Fyah Nuh Hot Like You" will be the first single from the rock2roots series, which will showcase the many styles and vibrations New Kingston brings both on the road and in the studio. The single was released on March 1, 2019, via their longtime label Easy Star Records.