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Deze pagina is een lijst van onderzoeksstations op Antarctica.

In totaal worden door 30 landen (oktober 2006) onderzoeksstations op het continent en in het omringende water onderhouden. Sommige worden permanent bemand, anderen zijn alleen seizoensgebonden - in de zomer - open. De bevolking van het continent varieert van ongeveer 4.000 in de zomer, tot 1.000 in de winter.

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In these chapters, "the golden age" of Israel comes to an end as United Kingdom of David splits into the Divided Kingdom, and things generally start going downhill. No one remembers the names of all the kings that follow Solomon, and there are two parallel kingdoms to keep track of.
The way the lesson's stated purpose frames these chapters, you might expect that Solomon is the ideal leader but then his son goes bad. And indeed, in many ways, Solomon is portrayed as quite good. But in other ways, the things he accomplished (following in David's footsteps) certainly had a heavy price that was not popular with his people at the time. Let's look at this.
Solomon, like David, was a builder. They both built cities. David built the royal palace, and Solomon built the temple. While building is often a good thing, it always comes at a cost of labor and money. Think of another major builder in our scriptures…
King Noah, who
built many elegant and spacious buildings; and he ornamented them with fine work of wood, and of all manner of precious things, of gold, and of silver, and of iron, and of brass, and of ziff, and of copper; And he also built him a spacious palace, and a throne in the midst thereof, all of which was of fine wood and was ornamented with gold and silver and with precious things. And he also caused that his workmen should work all manner of fine work within the walls of the temple, of fine wood, and of copper, and of brass. (Mos 11:8-10)
How do you pull off all this construction? Heavy taxes, relatively speaking (see v. 3-6 in Mosiah 11).
David and Solomon built up cities, storage cities, city walls and fortifications, etc. (See 1Kings 9:15-19) One could argue that these were wise and necessary building outlays, perfectly justifiable. But again, at what cost?
In order to do all their building (which was more city-oriented and less luxury-oriented than that of Noah, from what the records tell us), David and Solomon instituted relatively heavy taxes of time in what is known as corvée labor.
"All the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the people of Israel— their descendants who were still left in the land, whom the Israelites were unable to destroy completely—these Solomon conscripted for [corvée] labor, and so they are to this day." NRSV (modified) 1 Kings 9:20ff.
Not just those of foreign descent though.
King Solomon conscripted forced labor out of all Israel; the levy numbered thirty thousand men. He sent them to the Lebanon, ten thousand a month in shifts; they would be a month in the Lebanon and two months at home; Adoniram was in charge of the forced labor. Solomon also had seventy thousand laborers and eighty thousand stonecutters in the hill country, besides Solomon's three thousand three hundred supervisors who were over the work, having charge of the people who did the work. At the king's command, they quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the [temple] with dressed stones.
NRSV, 1 Kings 5:13–17.
Moreover, once all the building was done, how was it paid for? Well, you hire the best, and you pay for it.
The materials for the temple were obtained in Lebanon, and at least some of the work was done by Phoenician craftsmen (1 Kgs 7:13–47 describes the work of one Hiram of Tyre, which was also the name of the king of Tyre). The price of Phoenician help was substantial. According to 1 Kgs 9:11 Solomon ceded twenty cities in Galilee to Tyre, in a land-for-gold swap. The fact that Solomon needed to do this raises some question about his fabulous wealth.- Collins, Introduction to the Hebrew Bible, 251.
Solomon sells 20 Israelite cities to Tyre for gold, and uses the gold to pay for all the building (or at least the Temple.) "All you Galilean Israelites? You're, um, Tyrians now. K, thanks, bye." Anyone willing to finance US debt by selling Maine to Canada? California to China?
So when Solomon dies, and the people ask his son and heir Rehoboam, "Your father made our yoke heavy, please lighten it" (paraphrasing 1Ki 12:4), they are not exaggerating. The wise thing to say would have been, "I think we've built enough." Alas, Rehoboam does not listen to the voice of experience and age, but his friends from youth who say, in essence, "Dude, you're the king! Live it up!"
So Rehoboam returns an answer to the people that is politically unwise, selfish, and youthful in its coarse and boastful euphemism- "My little [one] is thicker than my father's loins."
The saying may be a euphemism for the penis which also serves as a metaphor for strength. This finds support by the comparison with Solomon's thighs and the absence of the shameful saying in v. 14, which recounts Rehoboam's decision. The contrast of Rehoboam's little finger with his father's genitalia is meant to exaggerate his strength above his father's.- Faithlife Study Bible
The euphemism is not repeated in public; He simply says, "My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions."
Thus does Rehoboam lose 10 tribes in a political split. What remains in the south is the tribe of Judah and the disputed tribe of Benjamin. The northern Kingdom, known as Israel or Ephraim, is ruled over by Jeroboam.
The name "Jeroboam" is more than likely a defiant variation of the throne name of his rival Rehoboam, and it denotes the meaning "may the people become great," in which he is considered a contender for the people against Rehoboam's oppressions.- Dictionary of the Old Testament: Historical Books, "Jeroboam"
Jeroboam was very "capable" and had been assigned as a manager over all the corvée labor of the tribe of Joseph, 1 Ki 11:28ff. Not only is he given prophetic warning of what will happen, but he also would have seen first hand the grumbling of those laborers and perhaps that made him politically savvy. In any case, this is how the kingdom splits, which will lead to religious competition, civil war, and other unhappy things. This split is the background for the major prophetic books (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel) and most of the minor ones as well, such as Amos.
Remnants of Herod's temple, much later.
The Israelite Temple(s)
Now, once David had achieved some stability, he wanted to build a temple. In an example of a prophetic reversal, Nathan says (assumingly?) that God approves, but after actual revelation the next day says no.
"Now when the king was settled in his house, and the LORD had given him rest from all his enemies around him, the king said to the prophet Nathan, "See now, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God stays in a tent." Nathan said to the king, "Go, do all that you have in mind; for the LORD is with you." But that same night the word of the LORD came to Nathan: Go and tell my servant David: Thus says the LORD: Are you the one to build me a house to live in?" (2Sa 7:1-5 NRSV)
Chronicles later adds that Solomon and not David was permitted to build the temple because of how much war and blood David had shed. (1Chr 22:8-9), but Solomon would be a man of peace (Heb. shalom, compare with shelomo, Solomon's name in Hebrew.)
So Solomon builds and dedicates the temple in Jerusalem.
Now, the temple in many ways follows and expands on the plan and symbolism of the Tabernacle. Regarding the tabernacle, Exodus says that God showed Moses a model or blueprints of it and all its furnishings/utensils (Exodus 25:9) and Chronicles says of the temple that David received all the details by revelation, "the entirety in writing by the hand of the Yahweh upon me, he made clear all the details of the blueprints" (my translation, 1 Chr. 28:19.) (Note the similar language in D&C 124:42- "I will show unto my servant Joseph all things pertaining to this house [the Nauvoo temple], and the priesthood thereof, and the place whereon it shall be built.")
Given the extent of those statements, you might expect that the Temple (and by extension, the tabernacle and what was done therein) were entirely unique, with no earthly parallels.
And yet, we find that the Tabernacle borrows in some ways from Egyptian precursors. Some of the utensils had Egyptian names, suggesting that they were of Egyptian origin. The Ark of the Covenant resembles the Egyptian solar boat. Moreover, "the closest parallel [to the Tabernacle is] the tent and military camp used by Ramesses II when facing the Hittites at the Battle of Kadesh, which took place on Egypt's Syrian front in about 1275 B.C.E.," an even stronger parallel than the later temple. (Michael Homan, "The Divine Warrior in His Tent" Bible Review 16:6 December (2000). Cf. Homan's published dissertation To Your Tents, O Israel)
When it comes to the Jerusalem temple, it turns out to share a lot with preceding Canaanite and Phoenician temples. Just how much?
". . . we can be sure that these Phoenician temples . . . were the inspiration for Solomon's Temple."[1]
"It is generally concluded that Solomon's temple was designed by Phoenician craftsmen in accord with Syro-Palestinian models, presumably adapted to fit the Israelite milieu."[2]
John Bright, a theologically conservative historian, noted that "The Temple [of Solomon] was built by a Tyrian architect (I Kings 7:13f.) after a pattern then current in Palestine and Syria."[3]
"Since its construction followed Phoenician models, much of its symbolism inevitably reflected a pagan background."[4]
What's the takeaway here? A summary, and then my point. I suspect that the scriptural account of a vision of the entire plan down to fine details and furnishings is idealized somewhat. And while the Israelite temple/tabernacle shares significant elements with the surrounding cultures, it is not a wholesale "ripoff" of them (and no one claims that.)
What I am getting at is the idea that revelation does not necessarily require absolute uniqueness. God often takes preexisting cultural elements that we are familiar with, and adapts, recontextualizes, reuses, and gives them new meaning. That we can find parallels doesn't undermine revelation. This applies to the LDS temple as much as ancient ones, and just revelation in general. For two other quick examples, circumcision was common in the ancient Near East before God commanded Abraham to circumcise as the sign of the covenant. Water certainly refracted light before, but God chose the rainbow as the sign of the covenant with Noah, instead of changing the laws of physics. Prophets and revelation frequently reinterpret and adapt various elements in their environment, and this poses no obstacle to believing that the result is inspired.
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[1]Volkmar Fritz, "Temple Architecture: What Can Archaeology Tell Us About Solomon's Temple," Biblical Archaeology Review 13 (1987): 45.
[2]Keith W. Whitelam, "Hiram," in The Anchor Bible Dictionary, ed. David Noel Freedman (New York: Doubleday, 1992), 3:204.
[3]John Bright, A History of Israel, 4th ed. (Louisville, Ky: Westminster John Knox Press, 2000), 218. [4]Ibid., emphasis added.
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Q: How to position Owl Carousel so that item in center always fits the framed image? How can I position frame so that center item always fits inside of it? No matter how many items are in a row.
I am not sure why the snippet isn't working, here is Codepen as well https://codepen.io/ivan-topi/pen/LYRKvpJ

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Expansive mechanization and automation of any system pursues progressive acceleration as a teleonomic goal, increasing efficiency of predictably effective patterns of behavior through reproducibility. Acceleration of proven virtuosity through mechanization and automation also increases the rate at which opportunities for new experiments will occur. Technological progress thereby necessarily implies that some of those workers most proud of their struggle to attain virtuosity will find offense in their mechanical replacement. It also implies that some changes will only become imaginable once new generations arise with an utterly revolutionary system of values, allowing a paradigmatic shift to occur. We cannot, however, claim that there is no standard by which we may judge the perpetual flux of information across subjective, pluralistic systems of values. As Thomas Sowell elucidates in his several works, the emergent migration of peoples, practices, and beliefs reveal a macroeconomic standard of value that is quite consistent; humanity pursues freedom, mobility, security, and wealth through cooperative self-interest and self-interested cooperation. Only the philosopher that isolates their theories from the reality of human existence can ignore that peoples do everything in their power to adopt any tool, apparatus, machine, or practice that improves the efficiency and effectiveness of securing the necessities of human survival. This method of expanding reduction of anxiety defies any bureaucratic measures put in place to stop it, even when people must undermine the national ideology of must break the law to do so, as in Lenin's soviet Russia.
Acceleration has exponentially increased human populations and improved the average standard of living. It is irrational sentimentalism when a philosopher like Berardi opposes technology, acceleration, or wealth "for its own sake" because these are never the purpose of progressive economic mechanization. Certainly, there are unintended consequences when aggregated historically, tempting the spectator to judge the merits of rhizomatic narratives ad post hoc. However, the "quest for cosmic justice" inspired by any deontological approach exacerbates irrational sentiment into an accumulation of insanity.
From Kant to Rawls, a forced sense of altruism and envy replace aggregate self-interested cultivation, to the detriment of freedom, value, and significance. Placing equal laws in response to third-party effects, pollution, safety, transportation or communication infrastructure, and military is very different from inventing a plethora of bureaucratic institutions that enforce speculative despotism.
The enclosure of the socialist autocracy as an internal deterrence machine is at the heart of French postmodern decoherence. In its entire approach, it requires a metaphysic of pessimistic virtualization. Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault, and Baudrillard each employ the tools of suspicion originating with Nietzsche, Marx, and Freud, to reveal the machination of automated State mechanization. Unfortunately, due to the lack of constitutional sovereignty and equality before the law in their own nations, each of these quasi-communist authors found the libertarian acceleration of capitalist technology utterly inseparable from the bureaucratic machine of their own bloated government in France. In the process, a loss of objectivity leaves the post-structuralist outlook entirely nihilistic. To import and misapply these ideas in America shows how little some of our intellectuals understand of our libertarian constitution.


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Today we're going to continue the sermon series that we started last Sunday, a series that will take us all the way through the month of January. We've entitled this series "Foundations," and we're focusing on what it takes to build a strong foundation to have the best year you can possibly have in 2017.
Last week we learned a valuable principle that we're going to come back to each week of this series--it's sort of our guiding principle and it's pretty simple. I have to give credit where credit is due on this, however. I didn't come up with it on my own--I learned this from pastor/author Andy Stanley's book The Principle of the Path.
Here's what we learned that I want to re-share: It's your direction, not your intentions that determines your destination. In other words, you might have the best intentions in the world, but if the direction you are heading is not leading you where you claim that you want to go--you won't get there.
For our purposes, we determined that the best way to have that strong foundation for 2017 in order to take that first good step in the right direction is to discover some important building blocks, so to speak.
Last week we talked about the building block of faith, and this week we're talking about trust.
I learned a valuable lesson about trust when I visited Niagra Falls several years ago. There is a museum at Niagra Falls that relates all of the history of the many daredevils who attempted to do crazy things like go over the falls in a barrel or various kinds of crafts. There was even a story of a guy who got swept over and managed to survive without anything to help him float.
But the stories that intrigued me the most were the ones about the tightrope walkers who walked tightropes across the falls, particularly Charles Blondin, who was one of the first to do so in the 19th century.
Blondin was famous, and he could draw a crowd. People knew about his exploits and would come from far and wide when he was about to perform a stunt. He loved to ask the crowd "Do you believe that I can walk across this tightrope with a person on my back?" Most of the crowd would exclaim that they did, in fact, believe he could do it.
"Are there any volunteers?" Blondin would ask. Silence.
The only person who would ever take Blondin up on his offer was his manager, Harry Colcord. Colcord would climb on to Blondin's back and would let him walk out on the tightrope above the raging falls.
There's a difference between belief and trust, isn't there?
The people in the crowd had belief that Blondin could carry someone. But none of them trusted Blondin to carry them out on to the wire. I think that so many of us struggle with this when it comes to trusting God. We say that we believe God has our future in his hands. We say that we trust God not to let us fall. But when it comes time to step out on to the wire, we decide it's safer on the shoe.
Belief is mostly just an idea--a feeling, a set of propositions, perhaps. Trust is when your belief is put to the test when you step out on to the wire and know that God is in control and won't let you fall.
Trusting God is not a spectator sport.
You can't stay on the shore and exercise trust. Trust requires that you do something to demonstrate it's not just an idea.
The passage of Scripture that we are going to be studying today is one of the most foundational texts in my life--especially as it relates to trust. The passage we're studying is Psalm 40, and I've had a very long, and interesting relationship with this text.
30 years ago, I heard Psalm 40 proclaimed like I'd never heard it before and I never forgot it, despite all of the struggles I had with my faith, belief in God, the Bible... I was at a U2 concert in Tampa in the middle of stadium. U2 always closed their concerts out with a song entitled, "40." The lyrics came directly from Psalm 40.
There are some scholars who have asserted that Psalm 40 is actually two different psalms mashed into one because of the way it changes. It goes from the singer reflecting on the way God rescued him in the past, to the singer calling for God to rescue him and restore him in the present before moving on to a call for God to keep rescuing him in the future.
The psalmist looks backward at this point. "I was in the mud of the mire..." it translates literally, using the same kind of language that you find elsewhere in the Hebrew scriptures in the stories of Joseph, who is throne into a pit... and Jeremiah who is left to starve in a pit. In other words, things look pretty bleak.
The psalmist starts looking upward at this point, so to speak. He declares in a play on words that many will "fear" or ra'a the Lord and will "trust" or yara the Lord. Fear and trust are synonymous in the Scripture. And when I say "fear," I mean the sure and certain knowledge that there is a God and you are not God--not by a long shot. Lots of people confuse the fear of the Lord with dread, guilt, shame and the like. But in the Hebrew mindset, it's something the fluctuates between sheer terror and sheer exhilaration. Let me explain. In the first book of C.S. Lewis' beloved Narnia series the lion Aslan--a not-so-subtle metaphor for Jesus himself--asks sisters Lucy and Susan to jump up on his back and hold on tight because he needs to run. As the great lion runs across Narnia at breakneck speed, the sisters hold on to him as tight as they can, terrified at the pace he is going, but feeling the warmth of his fur and his comforting strength. That's what the fear of the Lord is like--and the singer here indicates just how much it changes him, and helps him to trust.
Continuing his upward gaze, the psalmist starts talking about the transformation that he's undergone by his own trust of God. He declares that because of the "ears you have dug for me" (literally translated) he is now able to hear and internalize what is most important in terms of God's desires. He doesn't have to worry about making sacrifices in the temple so much as he needs to give himself to the Lord.
The scroll or the revealed written word of God, the torah or teachings of the Lord moves from something written on paper to ideals and values and truth that is now in his heart. And as a result of his trust in God's promises, and the transformation he's undergone, and the rescue he's experienced... the psalmist can't help but share it with the whole world.
Finally, the psalmist looks forward in spite of all the conflict and obstacles in his way, he declares that his trust is in God and that he has confidence in the future based on God's character, God's hesed, or loving kindness, God's everlasting, motherly love.
What I take away from this psalm more than anything else is that it doesn't matter what is happening--whether I am in times of crisis or peace--I am perpetually needy. I may be simultaneously being made new because of God's great love, but I am still perpetually in need of it.
That is, in fact, what Psalm 40 declares to us: You never stop needing God. Ever. And even further, it teaches us that we need to be a faithful witness to God's great love and mercy with as much gusto and excitement as when we are going through times of adversity.
It's so easy when things are great to say that we believe God can carry us across the raging water of uncertainty. But when we actually need to cross that river, and brave those falls... do we do the same, and with as much energy?
Are you living by the Gospel you claim? Are you on the wire, letting Jesus carry you across? Trusting God that it's all good? Trusting God like this requires something of you.
Trusting God isn't a spectator sport. In Psalm 40 we are exhorted to Trust God... to Offer ourselves... to Share the Good News of what happens when we trust God... These are not passive things, are they? You can't do these kinds of things from the shore--they all happen out on the wire over the water.
Sometimes we need to have our minds blown to get this.
Nearly 20 years ago, I had my mind blown and my course changed because I decided to step out on to the wire with God and simply trust him.
My life was going awesome back then. I was a rising star in the history department at Florida State University. I had received the highest fellowship you could get as a grad student, and was on track to complete my PhD in Early Modern British History at either University of Chicago, University of Maryland or George Washington in Washington DC.
My professor was a world-renowned expert on 17th century British History and he told me I was one of two students he'd had in his 40 year career who he felt like could step into his shoes and carry the work forward.
My wife had just landed a great job at a large, nation-wide law firm and was finally making real money. Things were going great.
Merideth and I had joined a small Presbyterian church in Tallahassee Florida. We were easily the youngest people in the church at the time. And we were marginal members at that point--we came to church on Sunday morning, but that was about it. It's just where we were at the time--we had a lot going on.
For some reason, someone thought it was a good idea to nominate me to serve on the Christian Education committee. I had never been raised Presbyterian, so I didn't know about the whole committee thing.
So I showed up at this meeting and there were only like four other people there, including the pastor. The entire focus of the meeting was on what they were going to do to hire a youth director. They had $8,000 total to pay the youth director, and have money for the program. And they only had that money for one year. After that, it was gone.
I thought to myself, "These poor people--how the heck are they going to find someone stupid enough to work for that kind of money?"
And all of a sudden, I felt as though someone was standing behind me with their hands on my shoulders. It was if I was the only person in the room. And the overwhelming feeling I had in that moment was: "This is what you are supposed to do... You are the person stupid enough to do this."
I fought with God on this. I was comfortable in my spot on the shore. I didn't want to step out on to the wire, into the unknown. But the feeling wouldn't go away, and I couldn't shake what it felt like to have those hands on my shoulder.
So I decided to trust God and step forward. I started working as a youth director at this tiny church with only six kids in my youth group. It didn't take long for me to realize that what God wanted for my life was going to take even more trust. I let go of the dreams I had dreamed for myself--in order to take hold of the dreams God had been dreaming for me all along.
That one act of trust, to step forward when it didn't make sense, changed everything.
It's moments like that--and there have been a lot of them in my life--that cause me to look backward and see where God has been working in my life. And that causes me to look upward in thanksgiving and praise for what God is doing. Which then leads me to look forward and trust God, no matter what is ahead of me.
You may not feel the hands of God on your shoulders. But maybe you're here today and you are starting to understand what it means to experience the fear of the Lord, like I did. Maybe you are struggling with God's will for your life, you know you are being called to do something but you are afraid, you want to stay on the shore where it's comfortable.
I have had my share of moments when I was tempted to stay on the shore and never step out on the wire---but man the view from the wire is so much better... Come on!
If you want to step in the right direction this year (and we know that it's your direction not your intentions that determine your destination) you're going to have to trust God. And trusting God is not a spectator sport. Step out. Trust him. He's got you.


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Jason Kenney makes Justin Trudeau look good outside Alberta
The prime minister was comfortable outside Edmonton last week answering questions about the Trans Mountain pipeline, speaking not to Albertans, but to the Rest of Canada.
By Gillian StewardContributing Columnist
Mon., July 15, 2019timer3 min. read
Justin Trudeau came to Alberta last week and amidst stoneface employees at the Trans Mountain pipeline terminal just outside Edmonton held what can only be described as an election campaign photo-op.
He spoke forcefully about tackling environmental issues while at the same time ensuring jobs in the energy sector by green lighting controversial projects, such as the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, which will ship diluted bitumen from Alberta to the B.C. coast.
But who was this message directed to? Most Albertans are firmly entrenched in the conservative camp and will likely stay there no matter what Trudeau does.
So why come to Alberta at all?
Because it makes a great stage setting from which to send messages to the rest of Canada, especially Ontario and Quebec where all the votes are.
And Trudeau can thank none other than Alberta Premier Jason Kenney for providing such a splendid platform.
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Kenney didn't show up at Trudeau's event to promote the pipeline, a pipeline the federal government now owns. That's not surprising since Kenney doesn't want to be seen anywhere near Trudeau, who he has accused of trying to shut down Alberta's oil and gas industry.
Never mind that buying a pipeline seems to indicate the exact opposite.
During the recent provincial election campaign Kenney smeared NDP leader Rachel Notley by constantly referring to the "Notley/Trudeau Alliance" as traitorous to Alberta's interests.
Kenney has also killed Alberta's carbon tax, which was part of Trudeau's national strategy to reduce carbon emissions. He has set up a war room to combat what he calls environmentalists' lies and defamation of the oil industry. He has established a quasi-public inquiry to root out foreign funding of environmental groups that conspiracy mongers say is actually money from U.S. oil interests who want to thwart Canada's oil sector.
And Kenney is keen to flaunt threats of separation from Canada.
During the annual premiers' meeting in Saskatoon last week he warned Trudeau that a majority of Albertans are tired of contributing money to equalization payments and are seriously considering secession.
This is a radical agenda that goes over well in Alberta but to the rest of Canada may sound somewhat alarming.
So why wouldn't Trudeau and the Liberals set themselves up as the "reasonable" ones who have the interests of all Canadians at heart? The party of national unity? The party that can bridge the differences between the interests of workers supporting their families and those who want action on environmental issues and climate change?
Why wouldn't Trudeau prove his bravado by pitching his message to Canadians from the very province where so many people detest him?
Just as Doug Ford's oafish brand of conservatism is hurting Andrew Scheer's federal election ambitions in Ontario, so might Kenney's agenda, which has been enthusiastically embraced by the federal Conservatives, hurt them outside Alberta.
Maybe they should rein him in too.
If they don't, Trudeau can easily point to the Liberals as "not them" but a more unifying party.
Of course, in some parts of the country the Liberals are not green enough for voters. Spurred on by the radical agenda promoted by Kenney and Scheer they will likely turn to the Greens or the NDP. Or they might reconsider the Liberals.
That Trudeau was speaking in Alberta but really to the Rest of Canada, especially Ontario and Quebec, when he came to the Trans Mountain pipeline terminal last week was highlighted by his answer to a question lobbed at him from a Radio-Canada reporter.
The reporter asked about the nomination of Steven Guilbeault as a Liberal candidate in Quebec. Guilbeault is a high profile environmentalist, who has campaigned vociferously against the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in a province where oil pipelines are seen as an abomination.
Trudeau looked only too pleased to answer that question in French and English.
"Canadians have a broad range of views on a lot of different issues and one of the important things for us is to make sure that we're listening to the voices of Canadians, to the preoccupations of Canadians," Trudeau replied.
So much for Kenney's paranoid and aggressive stance toward anyone who is anti-oil.
No question, Kenney will make it much easier for Canadians outside Alberta to decide to vote Liberal, NDP or Green.
Gillian Steward is a Calgary-based writer and freelance contributing columnist for the Star. Follow her on Twitter: @GillianSteward
Andrew Scheer, Calgary, Alberta, Rachel Notley, Edmonton, Jason Kenney, Vancouver


As a resident of Sydney Ave, I have to agree with Umina Beach Public School principal Lyn Davis (Peninsula News edition 466), regarding the traffic outside the school, during the drop-off and collection times.
There is definitely a problem with double parking.
When two cars are parked side-by-side, vehicles behind these cars cannot pull away from the kerb safely, as their visibility is completely blocked.
There is an equally dangerous situation created when drivers make U-turns across double lines.
Dozens of drivers make these illegal turns every day.
Children learn by example and they watch their parents make these dangerous turns.
There is a roundabout at the end of the street to facilitate a safe turn to the opposite side of the road.
Some parents would rather act irresponsibly than take an extra 10 seconds to make a safe turn.
As I reverse from my driveway, I have been almost run into by people making U-turns and not even looking for other cars on the road.
This is seriously reckless behaviour.


Beijing's 7th Ring Road, a new highway linking the capital city, Tianjin and Hebei, will be completed and opened to traffic in 2015.
The 940-kilometer C-shaped highway is expected to ease the traffic and environment stress caused by massive traffic, especially cargo ones, from other provinces.
With about 90 kilometers winding through the Beijing's suburban districts, the highway is designed to encircle Beijing, as its predecessors do, and therefore will be called the city's 7th Ring Road.
It will be connected to twelve outbound expressways and ten national roads, including the Beijing-Shenyang Line and Daqing-Guangzhou Line.
Beijing is a busy traffic hub as the transit center for China's northwestern cargos going to the coast and northeastern cargos going to the South. Passing cars from outside provinces worsen the city's already terrible traffic and air pollution.
The highway, devised to shift part of southwest Beijing's inter-city traffic, allowing transit vehicles to bypass Beijing and head to their destinations by taking the peripheral route.
The new road, with about 850 kilometers extending into its neighboring Hebei Province, links a series of important cities and towns from the southwest to the northeast, in clockwise order, including Zhuozhou, Daxing, Langfang, Tongzhou, Sanhe and Pinggu.
Beijing is joining hands with Tianjin and Hebei in developing quick traffic networks. As a part of "half hour traffic circle", the new ring road is also expected to benefit people who have been squeezed out of the city center due to the high cost of living and are forced to commute long distances to work in Beijing.


Top 10 Best Warhammer Games!
The scariest thing about these games is the fact that people actually bought them. Welcome to WatchMojo.com and today we'll be counting down our picks for the top 10 worst horror games based on horror movies.
For this list, we're looking at games created by developers who tried to tie their games to existing horror franchises for an easy buck - but, as history has shown, these often end with horrific results.
While the film series was a great choice for a video game spin-off thanks to its gritty atmosphere and focus on action, the game that graced consoles was nowhere near worthy of carrying on the same name. A beat-em-up where you'll spend more time in loading screens than actual combat, players have to fight both their foes and the camera. Seemingly hell-bent on getting us to rage quit, all of the difficulty of this game came from just trying to angle Ashe Corven to actually hit anything.
With his trusty chainsaw in tow, Leatherface is an icon of the horror genre for good reason. After all, he's big, menacing, and wears people's faces as masks. How cool is it then, that all the way back on the Atari 2600 you actually got to play as the killer himself? As it turns out, not very. Your goal is to collect as many points as possible by hunting down your victims for as long as your chainsaw's fuel lasts, but even by Atari standards the game doesn't hold up. It's hideous to look at, and every time a girl appears on screen and screams, you'll swear you wish you were deaf instead.
Another game where you play as the baddie from the movie, this one moves away from the isolated jungles of Central America to pit the Predator "Scarface", against Italian and Mexican-American mob bosses. No we're not making that up, and yes, we know it has nothing at all to do with the movie. We could live with a lazy, nonsensical story, but Scarface is so awkward to control that actually killing your intended target is much harder than it needs to be and completely ruins any chance at redemption.
This monstrosity features crappy full motion video clips that are so compressed they're almost unwatchable, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. The game manages to have a decent gothic atmosphere, but the first time you try to move Jonathan Harker through the levels you'll experience some of the worst platforming ever. While the SNES version was also pretty terrible, it's the Sega CD version that embarrasses the source material most. The movements are so choppy you'll constantly mistime jumps, and by the time you've killed your 800th bat you'll just want to turn the game off and play Castlevania instead.
Failing to deliver on our high hopes, this sequel to "Hail to the King" managed to get Bruce Campbell to reprise his role as Ash, but that's about the only interesting thing going on here. Swarms of enemies constantly harass you at every opportunity but are so weak that they never provide a challenge, so mowing them down one after another with our boomstick gets repetitive real fast. You'll experience everything the game has to offer in about twenty minutes, and once you put it down you won't want to pick it back up.
Escaping a wise-cracking nightmare demon in the dream world sounds like a can't miss concept for a survival horror game, but unfortunately LJN decided to take this adaption in a direction that drops the ball in a major way. Ignoring everything that makes the films so great, gamers control a local teenager trying to dispose of Freddy's remains while battling some of the least inspired enemies of all time – yup, you guessed it: bats and spiders. We were excited to finally come face to face with Freddy himself in the boss fights, but even those are so laughably easy! There's no challenge, no depth, and no reason to play this game.
The first adaptation of the Saw films as a video game was nothing to write home about, but Konami's follow-up managed to be worse in every possible way. Requiring players to navigate their way around the notorious traps by solving progressively more challenging puzzles is a good enough concept, but there are so many quick-time events we were constantly ripped right out of the atmosphere the game tried so hard to create. There's some combat thrown in for good measure, but waiting for enemies to wander in just the right spots to trigger our traps isn't scary - it's boring. It doesn't matter how much you like the franchise, give this game a pass.
Probably one of the most disappointing releases of all time, this title had so many problems at launch that it was practically unplayable – especially when you consider what the early gameplay footage looked like. While the single player story was hyped as being canon to the film franchise, it makes no sense and in many cases contradicts the source material directly. Other issues show up on the multiplayer side like unbalanced weapons, but the worst offender is the amount of glitches that just sucked us out of the experience each and every time we were about to get invested. Improvements have been made, but it's still not worth your time.
Ignoring a gold mine of content just waiting to be exploited, this title didn't even try to provide an authentic Crystal Lake experience to home consoles. Right from the start you're dropped in the camp with very little idea of what to do or where to go, and to make matters worse you have to figure it out as quickly as possible while fighting the in-game timer. Jason will kill more and more counselors the longer you take, but it doesn't really matter because you'll never be strong enough to save them from his vengeful fists. You'll spend the game wandering aimlessly until you die, and then never turn it on again.
Surpassing them all, this game is plagued with every issue in the book. It's ugly to look at, confusing as hell, and has entire sections of the game with almost no music which helps make it one of the most boring horror games imaginable. Spray bullets towards a skeleton, then turn and kill a werewolf. After every few kills, use your special. Do this for the laughably short three hour story and you'll have beaten the game, but we can't imagine you'll have lasted that long.


Road trip season has arrived again! Adventure awaits, but eating on the road isn't exactly known for its healthy options. It can often be hard to find anything beyond fast food, gas station snacks or restaurants where the only vegetables offered are deep-fried and garnished with bacon.
After a few days of that, even junk food fans often crave something fresh and healthy!
The first thing to do is to pack healthy snacks for the trip so you're not stuck washing down a giant beef jerky with some stale coffee. Pack a cooler with bottled water, fruit, baby carrots, grape tomatoes, cheese sticks, woven wheat crackers (or gluten-free crackers), hard-boiled eggs and other healthy snacks.
Not only will you feel better, but you'll also save money over convenience store prices, and you will make better time if you don't have to make as many stops to eat.
Once you arrive at your destination, it's great if you will be staying at a house, condo, cabin or extended stay hotel that has its own kitchen or kitchenette. You can shop at local markets for fresh produce and lean meats to prepare delicious meals yourself.
If you don't have access to a kitchen, you can still pick up healthy items at the local market or grocery salad bar to enjoy a picnic in the park or on the beach. Eating out can be an enjoyable part of traveling too, of course. A tip for finding restaurants that are more likely to have a variety of healthy options is to look in local guides for vegetarian-friendly restaurants even if you eat meat. They are often more health-conscious than typical restaurants, and can provide a nice change from the norm.


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Snooze under the stars at this DJed solstice sleepover atop Rockefeller Center
September 12, 2022 by Nigel
The British may gather at Stonehenge to mark the solstice, but New Yorkers have their own very Manhattan way to mark the changing of the seasons this fall.
In celebration of the fall equinox, an overnight Star Party at Top of the Rock's The Weather Room will feature an eight-hour exploration of ambient and environmental sound by Shigeto to complement the visual splendor of the nighttime skyline transforming into day.
The party begins at 11:30pm on Saturday, September 24 and runs until 7am on Sunday, September 25 (the first day of fall is officially on Thursday, September 22, so the party will welcome those brisk early fall days). Guests can admire the skyline and the stars (if it's a clear night) 67 stories up both inside The Weather Room and outside on the viewing deck.
Photograph: Courtesy of Tishman Speyer | A performer at a past Star Party event.
Shigeto, a producer, drummer and DJ signed with Ghostly International, will offer the soundtrack for the night. His set will draw inspiration from the musical genres of jazz, instrumental hip hop, early intelligent dance music and dubstep sub-bass. He'll share an ambient set with a deep dive into his back catalog of records, environmental sounds and field recordings. Solstice celebrators are welcome to relax, sleep, meditate and fully immerse themselves in a musical exploration that will last until sunrise.
Attendees are welcome to bring blankets and sleeping bags; loungers by Yogibo will be provided to lounge, sleep and relax. Be sure to wear comfortable clothes.
Photograph: Courtesy of Tishman Speyer | When skies are clear, Star Partiers will be able to admire the skyline and the stars.
Tickets cost $75 per person and include a tote bag full of goodies including Star Party merchandise, refreshments and snacks from The Goods Mart, as well as morning coffee and bagels upon exit from Black Seed Bagels.
Tickets are super limited, so if you're into it, buy 'em now.
This will be the third star party at Top of the Rock; the first was for this year's spring equinox and the second for the summer solstice.
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Though power is still out in parts of Orlando, electricity on his block came back from the grid 21 hours later. While it was off, Green�s Powerwall, connected to the solar panels on his roof... While it is technically feasible to go off the grid with solar batteries, it�s rarely cost effective. In some places, particularly in remote areas, off-grid solar battery systems are the best (or even the only) option. More often, solar shoppers maintain their connection with their utility company, even when they choose solar-plus-storage solutions.
An off-grid solar kit usually incorporates a power-generation system as well as an energy storage capability. A solar array is configured in �strings� to produce �... Blizzards, solar storms and even EMPs are all events that will affect the power grid and leave you in the dark. When the power grid goes down you will be cut off completely from the conveniences you�ve lived with your entire life.
Off Grid Solar Systems. Stand-alone solar power systems are incredibly useful in areas with limited (or completely unavailable) utilities. Using a completely off grid solar systems requires some extra equipment in the way of batteries and/or other energy storage devices, but the result is complete independence from any outside utility provider.
Going "off-grid" is becoming an increasingly popular choice for people looking to reduce their carbon footprint, assert their independence and avoid reliance on fossil fuels. �"The grid" is a common name for the power grid -- the linked system that delivers electricity to the masses.
The power grid system may fail due to a disruption of equilibrium in power supplied and power drawn, triggering the line to trip and cutting off the supply of power. System failure was the culprit in Indonesia�s outage as well as in the frequent outages suffered by India.


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Citywide residential parking ban lifted
The citywide parking ban implemented to help snow removal crews clear industrial and residential streets was lifted Wednesday.
The city announced it was ending the Phase 2 parking ban at 3 p.m., after putting it in place on Nov. 30.
As part of Phase 2 residents cannot park on residential roads, alleyways or industrial roads until they've been sufficiently cleared.
The focus of this parking ban was educating the public, but the city says future parking bans will include more enforcement.
"We want to remind Edmontonians of the importance of moving their vehicles when the parking ban is in their neighbourhoods," said Philip Herritt, Director of Infrastructure Operations.
The city says crews will continue to apply material to arterial and collector roads to address the icy conditions from the freezing rain early Wednesday morning.
More information about citywide parking bans can be found online.
The New Brunswick government issued an urgent call for volunteers Tuesday and, in less than 24 hours, more than 1,600 residents responded to the plea for help with the province's pandemic response.
Man who allegedly stole $8,000 guitar by hiding it in his pants sought by police in York Region
York Regional police are searching for a man who they say stole an $8,000 guitar from a Richmond Hill music store last month by hiding it down his pants.
The Telecommunications Alliance announced the new 753 area code will be introduced in the regions currently served by area codes 343 and 613 starting March 26.


Frog art prints and photographs are very popular and are enjoyed by both children and adults. Books, songs and poems have been written in honor of these unique amphibians. They can be found from tropic to subarctic regions, and they lay their eggs in puddles, lakes or ponds. Some frogs and tadpoles are known to be very toxic to humans, and some frogs lay poisonous eggs to help prevent predation. The Australian rocket frog can jump over 50 times its body length. There are over 5,000 species but some populations are in significant decline. The only family of true toads is the Bufonidae.
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"Green & Black Poison Dart Frog"
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"Yellow Banded Poison Dart Frog"
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"Red Eyed Tree Frog - Tropical Baroque Series"
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"Bette Davis Quoted by Madame Frog"
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Well, maybe it does, and maybe it doesn't.
Either way, we seem to spend a disproportionate amount of time wondering about whether it does, or it doesn't, and why it matters, especially when we are twelve.
What I do remember is that, size or not. Ratios mattered. And I mean gear ratios.
My first "real" bicycle only had three.
It was a beautiful blue bicycle, and it had three gears.
But, they were Sturmey Archer, and so not Derailleur.
And, at the age of 12, all I wanted was Derailleur.
So, when, after much pleading and yearning and moaning and whining, my trusty blue Raleigh was upgraded by a slick and shiny Puch.
It was Austrian, not from Birmingham.
Imagine, my excitement, yellow and green frame, white taped curving handlebars, not blue not boring, a racing machine.
My heart beating fast, I ran my fingers over those white taped bars.
The familiar feel of a three geared machine.
So, to compensate for my lack of size, or in this case, ratios, I learned how to use my flying machine and how to swerve and stop in a flurry of dust and flying stones.
All to show the one with the blue eyes and blonde hair that, really, it's not the size or the ratios that matter.
It's what you can do with it.
Today's prompt was "where did you live when you were 12 years old?". Each prompt comes with a twist. Today's twist was 'pay attention to your sentence lengths and use short, medium and long sentences as you compose your response about the home you lived in when you were twelve.
I know you didn't follow the assignment, but I loved this post. All that matters is that the assignment inspired you. And was well written. Made the mind think. Full of double-entendre. Nicely done.
Thank you for that, and tolerating the voice of the twelve year old boy!
Spoken like a true Aussie!
Thank you, and yes, the open road beckons!


Let's say you got a marketing budget of £1000 to generate more revenue for your bus company.
Ignoring the whole 'brand messaging' thing, how much would you allocate to enticing new customers on to the bus, and how much would you spend up-selling existing ones?
Many marketers in the industry would see new customers as the ROI holy grail and will go the ends of the earth to secure their spend.
But is the investment really worth it? Is spending a large amount of your budget convincing people firstly to use THE bus, then having to sell them YOUR bus (assuming a competitive route) a good idea? If the reality doesn't match up to the promise, they might make just the one journey and you've wasted the spend.
Existing customers, however, have already bought in to the concept that bus travel fits in to their lifestyle. They've already been convinced THE bus is the way forward, and that YOUR bus is the best They now need informing - about new tickets. new routes, new product benefits - in order to generate a larger spend. Simply you have to spend a lot less and have more chance of getting a return.
Whilst I'm not doubting bus travel needs a healthy intake of new customers to help the wheels on the bus go round, I worry about the about of money that is used to target them at the detriment of existing users.


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.. _launch-instance:

==================
Launch an instance
==================

This section creates the necessary virtual networks to support launching
one more instances. Networking option 1 includes one public virtual
network and one instance that uses it. Networking option 1 includes one
public virtual network, one private virtual network, and one instance
that uses each network. The instructions in this section use command-line
interface (CLI) tools on the controller node. For more information on the
CLI tools, see the `OpenStack User Guide
<http://docs.openstack.org/user-guide/cli_launch_instances.html>`__.
To use the dashboard, see the
`OpenStack User Guide
<http://docs.openstack.org/user-guide/dashboard.html>`__.

.. _launch-instance-networks:

Create virtual networks
-----------------------

Create virtual networks for the networking option that you chose
in :ref:`networking`. If you chose option 1, create only the public
virtual network. If you chose option 2, create the public and private
virtual networks.

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   launch-instance-networks-public.rst
   launch-instance-networks-private.rst

After creating the appropriate networks for your environment, you can
continue preparing the environment to launch an instance.

Generate a key pair
-------------------

Most cloud images support :term:`public key authentication` rather than
conventional password authentication. Before launching an instance, you
must add a public key to the Compute service.

#. Source the ``demo`` tenant credentials:

   .. code-block:: console

      $ source demo-openrc.sh

#. Generate and add a key pair:

   .. code-block:: console

      $ ssh-keygen -q -N ""
      $ nova keypair-add --pub-key .ssh/id_rsa.pub mykey

   .. note::

      Alternatively, you can skip the ``ssh-keygen`` command and use an
      existing public key.

#. Verify addition of the key pair:

   .. code-block:: console

      $ nova keypair-list
      +-------+-------------------------------------------------+
      | Name  | Fingerprint                                     |
      +-------+-------------------------------------------------+
      | mykey | 6c:74:ec:3a:08:05:4e:9e:21:22:a6:dd:b2:62:b8:28 |
      +-------+-------------------------------------------------+

Add security group rules
------------------------

By default, the ``default`` security group applies to all instances and
includes firewall rules that deny remote access to instances. For Linux
images such as CirrOS, we recommend allowing at least ICMP (ping) and
secure shell (SSH).

#. Add rules to the ``default`` security group:

   #. Permit :term:`ICMP` (ping):

      .. code-block:: console

         $ nova secgroup-add-rule default icmp -1 -1 0.0.0.0/0
         +-------------+-----------+---------+-----------+--------------+
         | IP Protocol | From Port | To Port | IP Range  | Source Group |
         +-------------+-----------+---------+-----------+--------------+
         | icmp        | -1        | -1      | 0.0.0.0/0 |              |
         +-------------+-----------+---------+-----------+--------------+

   #. Permit secure shell (SSH) access:

      .. code-block:: console

         $ nova secgroup-add-rule default tcp 22 22 0.0.0.0/0
         +-------------+-----------+---------+-----------+--------------+
         | IP Protocol | From Port | To Port | IP Range  | Source Group |
         +-------------+-----------+---------+-----------+--------------+
         | tcp         | 22        | 22      | 0.0.0.0/0 |              |
         +-------------+-----------+---------+-----------+--------------+

Launch an instance
------------------

If you chose networking option 1, you can only launch an instance on the
public network. If you chose networking option 2, you can launch an instance
on the public network and the private network.

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   launch-instance-public.rst
   launch-instance-private.rst

.. _launch-instance-complete:

Block Storage
-------------

If your environment includes the Block Storage service, you can create a
volume and attach it to an instance.

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   launch-instance-cinder.rst

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Gender bias in child care and child health: global patterns
Rohan Khera1,
Snigdha Jain1,
Rakesh Lodha2,
Sivasubramanian Ramakrishnan3
1Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, USA
2Department of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
3Department of Cardiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Correspondence to Dr S Ramakrishnan, Department of Cardiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029, India; ramaaiims{at}gmail.com; ramakgmc{at}rediffmail.com
Gender-based discrimination is reported across the spectrum of paediatric healthcare including emergency, inpatient, outpatient and preventive care and is mostly reported from South Asia and China with sporadic reports from Africa and South America. Biases against young girls have been documented even in immunisation percentage, home food allocation, seeking medical care for childhood ailments and percentage of household healthcare expenditures allocated to them. Such gender discrimination in access to medical care is likely to have an influence on the overall health of female children. Over the last five decades, the under-5 sex ratios are worsening in India with declining number of girls. Deliberate parental neglect of girls' essential and life-saving medical care is also an important contributing factor apart from sex-selective abortions to the declining gender ratios. Corrective measures and focused action are needed.
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Newest LotR game releases on October 7, 2014.
Most Lord of the Rings games have been noted for sticking to the original trilogy, or at least the film versions of the trilogy. The upcoming game, Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor, however, aims to change that trend. The game will be set between the original Hobbit and the main Lord of the Rings trilogy.
The game trailer, which you can see above, shows off the protagonist, a ranger-turned-partly-wraith by the name of Talion. He's had his wife and child murdered before being turned (partially) into an undead being and is out to resolve these horrible issues.
Lord of the Rings: Shadows of Mordor is currently slated for an October 7, 2014 release for Sony's PlayStation 3 and 4 as well as PC and Microsoft's Xbox 360 and One.
What do you think of the game so far? Will it be interesting, or does it just seem like more of the same generic fare?


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The main target is RetroArch so it runs on everything, an additional Qt port is available for desktop and Android with debug tools, but Qt itself is horribly broken on Android right now for multiple reasons.
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Progress reports, important findings and other events related to Mu development.
Mu is maintained by meepingsnesroms.


For over 25 years, Jennings Haug Cunningham has been a principal sponsor of this annual surety conference event. This year's seminar will be held on April 26, 2019 at the Edgewater Hotel in Seattle, Washington. A pre-seminar dinner will be held on April 25, 2019 at the Triple Door.
Jennings Haug Cunningham is pleased to announce that Mark Barker and Karen Gaylord were named to Arizona Business Magazine's Top 100 Lawyers in Arizona list for 2019.
Jennings Haug Cunningham earned top honors from the Best Lawyers in America®, a preeminent legal peer ranking, which recognized the firm as a 2019 Best Law Firm in its local and national rankings. Jennings Haug Cunningham earned ranking as Tier one in Metropolitan Phoenix and Tier three nationally for construction law and litigation. The firm was also ranked among the top firms in Metropolitan Phoenix for arbitration, mediation, energy regulatory law, personal injury litigation defense, personal injury litigation plaintiffs as well as environmental law and litigation.
Many employers use consumer reporting agencies to obtain background checks or consumer reports on employees or job applicants. When doing so, they are required by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) to provide a "Summary of Consumer Rights" form to the employee or applicant. That form was recently amended in connection with recent legislation to include language providing notice to consumers of new security/credit freeze rights.
Jennings Haug Cunningham partner and long-time Tempe Sports Authority Foundation Board Member, Julianne Wheeler, is pleased to support the Tempe Sports Authority Foundation's 25th Annual Courage Awards Dinner, being held on September 10, 2018. This year's event will honor Coach Bobby Hurley, Dr. Leah Brown and outfielder Tarik El-Abour. Honorees are recognized for their courageous spirit.
Jennings Haug Cunningham is pleased to announce that twelve of the firm's partners were named to The Best Lawyers in America® 2019 edition, a peer-review ranking publication for the legal profession, in the areas of construction law and litigation, energy law, energy regulatory law, environmental law and litigation, insurance law and litigation, natural resources law, personal injury litigation, real estate litigation, arbitration and mediation. Best Lawyers compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers.
Jennings Haug Cunningham is pleased to announce that Joseph Brophy has been elected to the State Bar of Arizona's Construction Section's Executive Council as a member-at-large for a one year term.
Jennings Haug Cunningham is pleased to announce that Karen Gaylord is recognized in the 2018 edition of Chambers USA. Karen was listed in Environmental Law Band 1 for 2018 and has been listed in Chambers USA since 2007.
Jennings Haug Cunningham congratulates Karen Gaylord, who was named the recipient of the Michael J. Brophy Distinguished Service Award by the State Bar of Arizona Environmental & Natural Resources Law Section (ENRLS).
Jennings Haug Cunningham is pleased to announce that ten attorneys with the firm were named 2018 Southwest Super Lawyers and Rising Stars by Law & Politics Magazine. The attorneys recognized as top in their areas of practice include Mark Barker, Jack Cunningham, Karen Gaylord, Kim Lough, Chad Schexnayder, John Sinodis and Matt Sloan. In addition, Joseph Brophy, Travis Pacheco and R.J. Lamb were named Southwest Super Lawyers Rising Stars.
For 25 years, Jennings Haug Cunningham has been a principal sponsor of this annual surety conference event. This year's seminar will be held on April 20, 2018 at the Edgewater Hotel in Seattle, Washington. A pre-seminar dinner will be held on April 19, 2017 at Cutters Crab House.
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Jennings Haug Cunningham (JHC) is pleased to announce that Robert "R. J." Lamb was elected to the firm's partnership, effective on January 1, 2018.
Jennings Haug Cunningham (JHC) is pleased to announce that Paul Kular has joined the firm's growing insurance defense and coverage practice.
Jack Cunningham, a partner with JHC and volunteer judge with Paradise Valley Municipal Courts, is highlighted for his role on the bench, where his commitment to fairness presides; and as an accomplished attorney who was recently recognized as a Best Lawyer in America® in the Paradise Valley Independent.
In the December 2016 issue of Raising Arizona's Kids, Hillary Gagnon, a partner with the estate planning practice at JHC explains why it's important for people, particularly parents with children, to have an estate plan in place. When the unthinkable happens, guardianship, conservatorship, special needs trusts and living wills best protect those you love.
Jennings Haug Cunningham Earns "Best Law Firm" Ranking from 2017 Best Lawyers In America® (November 14, 2016) Jennings Haug Cunningham was honored by the Best Lawyers in America®, a preeminent legal peer ranking, which recognized the firm as a top tier Best Law Firm in its 2017 national rankings.


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Mirosław Karwat (ur. 1953) – polski politolog, dr hab., profesor zwyczajny Katedry Teorii Polityki i Myśli Politycznej Wydziału Nauk Politycznych i Studiów Międzynarodowych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego i Instytutu Studiów Politycznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk.

Życiorys
Był pracownikiem naukowym Instytutu Podstawowych Problemów Marksizmu-Leninizmu przy KC PZPR oraz Wyższej Szkoły Nauk Społecznych przy KC PZPR. Należał do Polskiej Zjednoczonej Partii Robotniczej i wchodził w skład organów doradczych kierownictwa tej partii.

Obronił pracę doktorską, następnie uzyskał stopień doktora habilitowanego. 25 września 2009 nadano mu tytuł profesora w zakresie  nauk humanistycznych. Został zatrudniony na stanowisku profesora w Collegium Varsoviense, w ALMAMER Szkole Wyższej w Warszawie, w Instytucie Politologii na Wydziale Humanistycznym Uniwersytetu Zielonogórskiego, a także profesora zwyczajnego w  Katedrze Teorii Polityki i Myśli Politycznej na Wydziale Nauk Politycznych i Studiów Międzynarodowych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego i Instytucie Studiów Politycznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk.

Jest kierownikiem Katedry Teorii Polityki i Myśli Politycznej Wydziału Nauk Politycznych i Studiów Międzynarodowych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego i członkiem w Komitecie Nauk Politycznych na I Wydziale Nauk Humanistycznych i Społecznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk.

Przypisy

Działacze PZPR
Polscy politolodzy
Pracownicy Instytutu Podstawowych Problemów Marksizmu-Leninizmu
Wykładowcy Wydziału Nauk Politycznych i Studiów Międzynarodowych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Wykładowcy Uniwersytetu Zielonogórskiego
Wykładowcy Wyższej Szkoły Nauk Społecznych przy KC PZPR
Pracownicy instytutów naukowych PAN
Członkowie komitetów naukowych PAN
Urodzeni w 1953


The Women of Quail Creek Spice Things Up!
If you've ever come to YOTO for a visit you've probably had a chance to see the mini-mall where our students can shop for food for free.
We recently hosted some members from The Women of Quail Creek, a service group from Green Valley who were interested in getting a behind the scenes look at the mini-mall. They had a lot of questions about the type of food we keep on our shelves, most of which we've learned students will actually use. Typically this food is easy and fast to prepare.
A few weeks after their tour they called with an idea. They wanted to know if it would be ok if they put together a cook book that contained several recipes all of which could be prepared solely with food from our mini-mall. They would write the recipes, print the books and deliver them. Of course, we said yes!
As they were gathering recipes from their members they realized that it was challenging because we don't carry spices in the mini-mall. Spice containers are bulky and difficult for students to carry around. This didn't stop them. Two members of the group recently stopped by and delivered an array of 18 different spices, individually wrapped in small plastic packages labeled and ready for students to toss in their backpacks! "It seemed that spices would give the students a great chance to change up recipes and maybe experience something new," says Diane Quinn of The Women of Quail Creek. The care they put into preparing these packages was incredible.
This is what we mean when we say YOTO is truly a community supported organization. This ownership of YOTO's mission and innovation is why our program keeps getting better. We simply could not do this work without the help of the community.


Students from McFatter Technical School gathered at the Broward MPO office on March 6, 2019 for the third day of the Think Like a Planner program. During their visit, students walked the Cypress Creek Mobility Hub to determine how to make the area more accomodating for pedestrians, cyclists, transit users, and motorists. After touring the area, writing down comments, and documenting with pictures, students worked amongst their groups, fueled by a pizza working lunch, to create a five minute presentation to a group of three panel judges, Rebecca Schultz (Broward MPO), Ken Reinhardt (American Association of Retired Persons), and Amie Goddeau (Florida Department of Transportation). During the student's site visit, they had the opportunity to tour the office, get insight on the transportation industry, advice on choosing a college major, as well as feedback on presentation skills that will set them apart. Students had a blast talking to our planners, public involvement team, and transportation decision makers. We look forward to hosting this program next school year!


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Are We Destined for Another Week of Upsets?
Posted by Kyle Kensing on October 17, 2014 October 17, 2014
We're just a fortnight removed from one of the most chaotic weekends of college football in recent memory and many of us are still catching our breath. Best get your second wind soon, because Week 8 has the potential of turning the landscape on its head once again.
The prime target for another round of College Football Playoff impact upsets falls squarely on the Big 12. I already broke down K-State at Oklahoma Star Wars style, but Jedi Bill Snyder's encounter with former Padawan Bob Stoops is just one matchup that could significantly alter its championship dynamic.
Baylor at West Virginia
Art Briles' supercharged offense always seems to take it to another level against West Virginia's porous defense. The Bears have hung 136 points on the Mountaineers in the last two seasons. One-hundred and thirty-six!
With Bryce Petty coming off a six-touchdown performance in Baylor's coming-from-behind win over TCU, what's likely to slow down Baylor on this year's visit to Morgantown?
Well, maybe nothing. But hey, you only after score more points than the opponent, right? West Virginia's certainly capable of putting up points.
Mountaineers quarterback Clint Trickett is thriving in Dana Holgorsen's pass-happy system with a completion rate over 68 percent, 2,203 yards and 12 touchdowns. It certainly doesn't hurt that Trickett is throwing to Kevin White, the nation's most statistically prolific receiver.
And before labeling West Virginia a pass-primarily team in the vein of a Mike Leach-coached squad, note that Rushel Shell and Wendell Smallwood are both coming off 100-plus-yard performances in the Mountaineers' rally to beat Texas Tech.
Both teams are coming in off unlikely rallies, so Baylor isn't at a disadvantage in that regard. However, the Bears are making the most exhausting trip on the Big 12 calendar for an early kickoff time. I suspect plenty of those in attendance at Milan Puskar Stadium will be starting their pregame right around…oh, now.
A raucous and inhospitable crowd welcomes Baylor into a decided trap.
Oklahoma State at TCU
Very quietly, Oklahoma State has gone undefeated since its Week 1 near-miss against defending national champion Florida State. Obviously having to regroup to beat Kansas and its interim head coach isn't going to make much noise.
But the Cowboys' unbeaten run cannot fly under the radar any longer if they steal a road win at TCU. The Horned Frogs are certainly ripe for the picking, coming off the emotional rollercoaster that was beating Oklahoma on Dark Horse Saturday, then losing a gut-punch of a contest at Baylor.
Giving up a 21-point lead, as TCU did last week, is the kind of outcome that can badly derail a team's season. The Frogs' response this week will say a lot about the outlook for the remainder of their season. Get the win, and they're still firmly in the Big 12 title and Playoff hunt.
Lose, and the possibility of things derailing to the point of a disappointing 8-win campaign looms.
Likewise, Oklahoma State sets an important tone this week. The meat of the Cowboys' schedule is coming up with November road trips to K-State, Baylor and Oklahoma.
Switching gears from the Big 12, a program that once shared a conference with several current Big 12 members, Arkansas hosts Georgia.
Arkansas is the best team without a conference win in the last presidential term. Faint praise, I realize, but it's not intended as a slight. Quite the contrary: Bret Bielema is a doing a terrific job in Fayetteville, and the Razorbacks very much have the look of spoilers for someone in the SEC this season.
They led Texas A&M by two touchdowns in the fourth and very nearly derailed Alabama's hope of winning the SEC West.
Coaches early into rebuilding projects often talk of learning to win. Arkansas is still learning to win against quality opponents, as the last two weeks suggest. But the Hogs are oh-so-close, and this could be the week they breakthrough.
Georgia rallied without Todd Gurley last week, playing its best defensive game of the year and leaning heavily on freshman Nick Chubb. Arkansas is frankly a more talented team than Missouri, however, and its defense poses a stiffer challenge to the first-year running back Chubb than Mizzou's.
The Bulldogs' 12th ranked run defense faces a real challenge in containing the Arkansas backfield tandem of Alex Collins and Jonathan Williams, both of whom average better than 6.5 yards per carry.
To borrow a term from legendary broadcaster Jim Ross, this one promises to be a true slobberknocker.
OTHER UPSET ALERTS
Washington at Oregon
Marcus Mariota is back at the forefront of the Heisman race, the Ducks are once again in the mix for the College Football Playoff and order is restored to the Pac-12. Right?
Oregon returns home from trouncing UCLA in a decision much more lopsided than the final score indicates, the effects of a home defeat to Arizona seeming shaken off. The return of Jake Fisher to a badly dinged offensive line completely transformed the Ducks' offense from what it was in the Week 6 loss, but Oregon's front faces a much more formidable task this week against Washington.
The Huskies are been unpredictable and at times erratic while adjusting to new head coach Chris Petersen. But one consistency throughout the first half of the Petersen era is the defense's ability to get to opposing quarterbacks.
Washington averages four sacks per game, with drop-end linebacker Hau'oli Kikaha's 10 leading all of college football. When it isn't Kikaha bearing down on signal callers from one side, end Andrew Hudson is coming from the other. Oh, and opposing lines also must worry about Danny Shelton coming up the middle. Shelton has a ridiculous seven sacks from the tackle position.
All that pressure can force turnovers, and no one in college football is more adept at turning takeaways into points than Shaq Thompson. His four defensive scores are the most for any individual player in the FBS.
Video: Amazing Shaq Thompson returns fumble 99 yds for TD! #GoDawgs @UW_Football http://t.co/ggwRoBPYFg
— Andrew Munro (@ad_munro) October 12, 2014
We'll truly know if Oregon's offensive line, and thus its national title hopes are back after Saturday. If Washington can break the Ducks' front, the Huskies will also break a decade-long losing streak in this cross-state rivalry. Oh–and they'll also break into the Playoff conversation.
Marshall at FIU
A Conference-USA East division visit to FIU is a homecoming for much of the Marshall roster, including Heisman dark horse Rakeem Cato. But the emotions inherent with a return home, combined with a surprisingly solid opponent in FIU, could render the Herd's place in the Top 25 short-lived.
FIU has two of the nation's leading pass rushers in Michael Wakefield and Denzell Perine, who have combined for 11 of the Golden Panthers' nationally ninth-ranked 21 sacks. (I'd be remiss if I didn't point out Wakefield and Perine were Mario Cristobal recruits, so FIU's sudden resurgence isn't any testament to Pete Garcia's dismissal of the program's only winning head coach).
Administrative decisions at FIU aside, the Golden Panthers pose a real threat to Marshall's undefeated season.
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