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Original: Arabic
Fifty-eighth session
Agenda item 37
The situation in the Middle East Security Council
Fifty-eighth year
Letter dated 16 October 2003 from the Permanent Representative of Lebanon to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General
On instructions from my Government, I transmit to you hereinafter a list of persistent Israeli violations and acts of aggression against Lebanon committed from 5 to 11 October 2003.
Violations of airspace
At 0420 hours on 5 October 2003 eight Israeli military aircraft entered Lebanese airspace from the sea, six of them from off Shikka and two from off Batrun. They all flew east as far as the Baalbek region and from there towards the south, thus violating Lebanese airspace.
Between 1085 and 1150 hours on 8 October 2003 two Israeli military aircraft flew north over the Kafr Killa region, breaking the sound barrier over the city of Beirut and flying as far as Al-Arz (the Cedars). They were then followed by two military aircraft flying east over the sea off Byblos. The four aircraft circled over Shikka and the Cedars, then flew south. They thus violated Lebanese airspace.
Between 1945 hours and 0240 hours on the night of 8 to 9 October 2003 an Israeli reconnaissance aircraft flew from 12 miles out at sea off the mouth of the Zahrani River to the town of Jazzin and from there to Baruk Mountain, over which it circled, then north to the Dahr al-Baydar area, over which it also circled. At 0209 hours the said aircraft disappeared from the radar screen, then reappeared over the Damur area and flew back towards the south. It thus violated Lebanese airspace.
Between 0155 and 0800 hours on 9 October 2003 an Israeli reconnaissance aircraft flew east over the sea opposite the Zahrani River area, proceeded to the Dahr al-Baydar area and then headed towards the sea in the vicinity of Damur, thus violating Lebanese airspace.
Between 0700 and 1404 hours on the same day, an Israeli reconnaissance aircraft flew over the Zahrani River area in an easterly direction and circled over the regions of Baruk Mountain, Dahr al-Baydar, Chtaura and Jubb Jannin, thus violating Lebanese airspace.
Between 1630 and 2320 hours on the same day an Israeli reconnaissance aircraft flew in an easterly direction over the Damur area, proceeded to Baruk and circled over the area between Baruk and Dahr al-Baydar, then proceeded to the Majdal Anjar area and circled over Barr Elias, thus violating Lebanese airspace.
Between 2140 and 0415 hours on the night of 9 to 10 October 2003 an Israeli reconnaissance aircraft flew over the Bint Jubayl area in a northerly direction to the Iqlim al-Kharrub region, circled over it and proceeded north 5 miles east of Damur and disappeared from the radar screen. It then reappeared heading east over the sea off Damur at a distance of four miles from the coast, flew to the Dahr al-Baydar area, headed west and once again disappeared from the radar screen. It next appeared five miles west of Sidon heading in an easterly direction and proceeded to Dahr al-Baydar, then flew towards the Baabda and Beirut areas, where it circled at an altitude of 300 feet, then circled over the Na`imah and Damur areas. It thus violated Lebanese airspace.
Between 0335 and 0720 hours on 10 October 2003 an Israeli reconnaissance aircraft flew north over the sea off Sidon at a distance of 11 miles from the coast, reaching the coast at Damur, whereupon it circled over the coast between Beirut and Na`imah, disappearing from the radar screen at a distance of four miles from the coast off Na`imah and Damur and reappearing over the sea off Damur at a distance of 10 miles from the coast, heading south. It thus violated Lebanese airspace.
Between 0638 and 1120 hours on the same day an Israeli reconnaissance aircraft flew north over the sea opposite the Naqurah area at an altitude of 35,000 feet, circling over the Na`imah and Damur areas. It then headed north to Ra's Beirut, circled over Ra's Beirut and the United States Embassy in Awkar and proceeded to an area east of Sidon. It also circled over the Hazimiyah, Awkar and Ra's Beirut areas. It thus violated Lebanese airspace.
Between 1035 and 1815 hours on the same day, an Israeli reconnaissance aircraft flew north over the sea 10 miles off Tyre and made a circle between Jounieh and Khaldah, thus violating Lebanese airspace.
Between 1815 and 2215 hours on the same day a reconnaissance aircraft flew over the sea in a northerly direction off Naqurah at a distance of 10 miles from the coast and made a circle between Khaldah and Jounieh at a distance of five miles over the mainland, thus violating Lebanese airspace.
Violations of territorial waters
At 2210 hours on 5 October 2003, in the open sea off Ra's Naqurah, an Israeli military boat fired a flare bomb over the water.
At 1050 hours on 6 October 2003, in the open sea off Ra's Naqurah, an Israeli military boat fired a number of rounds from medium-sized guns over the water.
At 2244 hours on 8 October 2003, an Israeli military boat fired a flare bomb over the water in the open sea off Ra's Naqurah.
At 1230 hours on 9 October 2003 an Israeli military boat fired a number of rounds from medium-sized guns in the open sea off Ra's Naqurah.
Between 1715 and 2105 hours on 10 October 2003 an Israeli military boat fired a flare bomb and a number of machine-gun rounds in the open sea off Ra's Naqurah.
At 0730 hours on 11 October 2003 an Israeli military boat fired a number of rounds from medium-sized weapons in the direction of occupied Palestinian territorial waters off Ra's Naqurah.
Acts of aggression in the field
At 1729 hours on 6 October 2003, Israeli enemy forces fired a number of rounds from various machine guns from an orchard in the occupied territory opposite the Kafr Killa-Udaysah road in the direction of the said road, causing material damage to passing vehicles, including a vehicle belonging to the international interim force, though no human losses resulted.
These acts of aggression reaffirm Israel's hostile attitude, and the nature and number of these unjustified and inexcusable violations and acts of aggression confirm Israel's premeditated intent to threaten and provoke and to disrupt security and stability in order to serve its aggressive, expansionist objectives throughout the region.
The Mission of Lebanon, in drawing the attention of the Secretary-General of the United Nations to the gravity and possible consequences of such acts of aggression, requests to have this letter of complaint circulated as a document of the General Assembly, under agenda item 37, and of the Security Council.
(Signed) Sami Kronfol


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Powell River River in British Columbia, Canada
Lake Powell Reservoir in the United States of America
Rio 2011 film
Colorado River River in North America
The Gumboot Geese Book by Anne Cameron
Columbus Zoo and Aquarium Zoo in the Delaware County, Ohio
Michael Powell Film director
John Wesley Powell Soldier
San Juan River Tributary in the United States of America
The Endless River Studio album by Pink Floyd
PD Ports Company
The Battle of the River Plate 1956 film
Journey to the River Sea Novel by Eva Ibbotson
Hudson River Maritime Museum Museum in Kingston, New York
Lochsa River Tributary in Idaho
Shoshone River River in Wyoming
Powell County County in Kentucky
Grand Canyon Canyon
City in British Columbia, Canada
Desc: Powell River is a city on the northern Sunshine Coast of southwestern British Columbia, Canada. Most of its population lives near the eastern shores of Salish Sea, which is part of the larger Georgia Strait between Vancouver Island and the Mainland.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powell_River,_British_Columbia
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River in British Columbia, Canada
Desc: The Powell River is a river in the northern Sunshine Coast region of British Columbia, Canada that flows a short distance through the eponymous city of Powell River, British Columbia to enter the Salish Sea.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powell_River_(British_Columbia)
Type: TouristAttraction, Thing, BodyOfWater, Place
Reservoir in the United States of America
Desc: Lake Powell is a reservoir on the Colorado River, straddling the border between Utah and Arizona, United States. Most of Lake Powell, along with Rainbow Bridge National Monument, is located in Utah.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Powell
Type: TouristAttraction, Thing, LakeBodyOfWater, BodyOfWater, Place
Desc: Rio is a 2011 American 3D computer-animated musical adventure-comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and directed by Carlos Saldanha. The title refers to the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, where the film is set.
URL: http://www.rio-themovie.com/#/video
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_(2011_film)
Type: Movie, Thing
River in North America
Desc: The Colorado River is one of the principal rivers in the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico. The 1,450-mile-long river drains an expansive, arid watershed that encompasses parts of seven U.S. states and two Mexican states.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River
Type: RiverBodyOfWater, Thing, BodyOfWater, Place
The Gumboot Geese
Book by Anne Cameron
Type: Book, Thing
Columbus Zoo and Aquarium
Zoo in the Delaware County, Ohio
Desc: The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is a non-profit zoo located near Powell in Liberty Township, Delaware County, Ohio, United States, north of the city of Columbus.
URL: http://www.columbuszoo.org/
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_Zoo_and_Aquarium
Type: Place, TouristAttraction, Thing, Organization, Corporation, Zoo
Desc: Michael Latham Powell was an English film director, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger. Through their production company "The Archers", they together wrote, produced and directed a series of classic British films, notably 49th Parallel, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, A Matter of Life and Death, Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes, and The Tales of Hoffmann.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Powell
John Wesley Powell
Desc: John Wesley Powell was a U.S. soldier, geologist, explorer of the American West, professor at Illinois Wesleyan University, and director of major scientific and cultural institutions.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wesley_Powell
San Juan River
Desc: The San Juan River is a major tributary of the Colorado River in the Southwestern United States, providing the chief drainage for the Four Corners region of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Arizona.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Juan_River_(Colorado_River_tributary)
Studio album by Pink Floyd
Desc: The Endless River is the fifteenth and final studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released in November 2014 by Parlophone Records in the UK and Columbia Records in the US.
URL: http://www.pinkfloyd.com/theendlessriver
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Endless_River
Type: Thing, MusicAlbum
PD Ports
Desc: PD Ports is a Middlesbrough, UK headquartered port, shipping and logistics company; owner of Teesport, and ports at Hartlepool, Howden and Keadby; with additional operations at the Port of Felixstowe, Port of Immingham, and Port of Hull.
URL: http://www.pdports.co.uk
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PD_Ports
Type: Thing, Organization, Corporation
Desc: The Battle of the River Plate is a 1956 British war film in Technicolor and VistaVision by the writer-director-producer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. The film stars John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, and Peter Finch. It was distributed worldwide by Rank Film Distributors Ltd.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_the_River_Plate_(film)
Journey to the River Sea
Novel by Eva Ibbotson
Desc: journey to the river sea is an adventure novel written by Eva Ibbotson and published by MacMillan in 2001. It is set mainly in Manaus, Brazil early in the 20th century and conveys the author's vision of the Amazon River.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_River_Sea
Type: Thing, Book
Hudson River Maritime Museum
Museum in Kingston, New York
Desc: The Hudson River Maritime Museum is a maritime museum dedicated to the Hudson River.
It is located at 50 Rondout Landing at the foot of Broadway in Kingston, New York, United States, along Rondout Creek in the city's old waterfront, just east of the John T.
URL: http://www.hrmm.org/
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_River_Maritime_Museum
Type: TouristAttraction, Thing, Museum, Organization, Corporation, Place
Lochsa River
Tributary in Idaho
Desc: The Lochsa River is in the northwestern United States, in the mountains of north central Idaho. It is one of two primary tributaries of the Middle Fork of the Clearwater River in the Clearwater National Forest.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lochsa_River
Shoshone River
River in Wyoming
Desc: The Shoshone River is a 100-mile long river in northern Wyoming in the United States. Its headwaters are in the Absaroka Range in Shoshone National Forest. It ends when it runs into the Big Horn River near Lovell, Wyoming. Cities it runs near or through are Cody, Powell, Byron, and Lovell. Near Cody, it runs through a volcanically active region of fumaroles known as Colter's Hell. This contributed to the river being named on old maps of Wyoming as the Stinking Water River.
The current name was established in 1901 due to popular demand.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshone_River
Type: RiverBodyOfWater, TouristAttraction, Thing, BodyOfWater, Place
Powell County
County in Kentucky
Desc: Powell County is a county located in the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky. As of the 2010 census, the population was 12,613. Its county seat is Stanton. The county was formed January 7, 1852, by Kentucky Governor Lazarus W. Powell from parts of Clark, Estill, and Montgomery counties. It is no longer a dry county as of 2018.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powell_County,_Kentucky
Desc: The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in Arizona, United States. The Grand Canyon is 277 miles long, up to 18 miles wide and attains a depth of over a mile.
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canyon

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Bright idea: Solar power
Lee Bidgood Jr., Special to the SentinelORLANDO SENTINEL
Many Floridians have been agonizing over high property-insurance rates. Gov. Charlie Crist and the Legislature got the message and have proposed remedies, but solving the problem and paying for them seem difficult.
In justified complaints and discourse about high and rising property-insurance costs, the causes were generally ignored. Florida has more property exposed to hurricane storm surges than any other state. In addition to 1,350 miles of seashore, there are more than 5,000 miles of tidal estuaries, lagoons and canals attracting low-elevation development.
Scientists overwhelmingly agree that human greenhouse-gas emissions are cooking the planet. Average arctic temperatures are rising and melting ancient ice. Most mountain glaciers are shrinking. Many scientists warn that warmer Atlantic and Gulf waters are probably fueling stronger hurricanes, and even the few global warming skeptics agree that we can expect more frequent hurricanes, probably for decades.
If Greenland's ice cap melts completely, seas would rise about 23 feet -- not counting probable Antarctic ice melting. Thirty years ago, scientists reckoned that complete melting of Greenland's ice cap would take thousands of years. Now they have shortened that projection to a few centuries or even less, as Greenland's ice sheet is cracking and melting much faster than expected. Even a 15 percent or 20 percent melt would mean calamity for Florida. Fierce winds and storm surges arriving on top of a 3- to 5-foot-higher sea level could wipe out low-elevation coastal and tidewater development wherever hurricanes hit. The economy and ecology of coastal counties could be devastated. The Everglades could be ruined despite billions of dollars spent on restoration.
Strangely, many Floridians seem unconcerned about a hotter, stormy climate with rising sea levels. Perhaps they figure climate disaster won't happen in their lifetimes, or they could retreat to cool, higher northern places, near where they once lived. Are they unconcerned about future generations?
Voters' indifference to global warming has been reflected in Tallahassee, where politicians almost never mention it. Many other states and nations rank climate change as one of the most serious, if not the most serious, threat facing mankind. Some scientists say we have about a decade in which to cut greenhouse-gas emissions drastically before processes such as Greenland ice-cap melting become irreversible.
Our state cannot solve the climate-change problem alone, but, because of our extreme vulnerability, we ought to be a leader in tackling this issue, instead of a laggard. That change could happen.
Last year, efforts by state Rep. Dorothy L. Hukill of District 28 caused the Florida Energy Act to include solar-power subsidies. Hukill stated that those solar measures were only a modest first step, and she is working on legislation this year.
Solar photovoltaic equipment to produce electricity is costly and needs subsidies until increasing volume and competition drive down prices. Once installed, solar PV systems require minimum maintenance and provide lowest-cost electricity. Sunshine is free. By replacing fossil fuels, solar power helps to bring healthier air, less greenhouse-gas emissions, less sea-level rise, increased energy independence and more high-paying jobs.
Crist has shown himself to be personable, a good listener and a team worker who wants to make this century Florida's best. His leadership will be tested. A great leader tackles a highly critical issue even when many of his constituents have not recognized the necessity.
I hope our new governor quickly confronts the climate challenge. His response to that challenge should include aggressive support of solar power.


Green Day Return To Their Roots On Fun-Filled ¡Uno!
Is the trio's latest album a step forward or backward in their still evolving career?
Few bands have progressed at such an impressively creative rate as Green Day. When their first major label album, Dookie, dropped in 1994, they became a "love them or hate them" band. Some fans enjoyed their brand of post punk; others wrote them off as bratty wannabes. But with each subsequent album, the trio—Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and Tre Cool—showed their gift for writing pop hooks fused with a healthy dose of middle-finger attitude, each single displaying growing sophistication. Then came their most ambitious move: recording a rock opera. American Idiot has become a modern rock classic featuring anthems such as the title track and "Wake Me Up When September Ends." Their streak continued with 2009's 21st Century Breakdown, another tale of disaffected youth. After the Broadway musical version of American Idiot began its successful run, it seemed like Green Day had outgrown their initial immature image, and would most likely start experimenting with symphonic music. No one took into account that Green Day still likes to confound their critics.
Earlier this year, Armstrong announced that Green Day would release a trio of albums, appropriately titled ¡Uno! ¡Dos! and ¡Tré! Judging by the just-released first disc, Green Day elected to travel backwards instead of forwards, revisiting their power-punk roots. As the cliché asks, can you go home again? As ¡Uno! demonstrates, yes and no. Fans expecting complicated themes and innovative music may want to pass on this release, although the sweeping "Oh Love" sounds as if it could have been an American Idiot outtake. Listeners who long for their earlier, brattier work like "Longview," however, will enjoy ¡Uno! for its old school snotty attitude. "Kill the DJ" flips off tired tracks celebrating partying in the club; instead of heralding the DJ, Armstrong sings of slaying this modern icon of cool. Here a drugged-up club outcast decries "the century of thrills/ The blood left on the dance floor" and calls for the DJ to be taken down. The pseudo-disco beat seemingly mocks the genre, similar to how the Talking Heads and Blondie recorded their own twisted takes on dance music.
Other tracks exemplify how tightly the trio works together, as well as Tre Cool's underrated drumming style. "Carpe Diem," slightly reminiscent of "21 Guns" in its power pop influences, lets Tre Cool show off his ability to drive a song through his forceful drumming technique. "Let Yourself Go" harkens back to the Dookie days with its aggression as well as its pounding guitars and drums. Armstrong reduces his voice to a shriek while chanting the title phrase. While tunes like "Fell for You" suggest a tender love song, Green Day infuses them with their warped sense of humor. "I woke up in pool of sweat/ First thought that I pissed the bed," Armstrong snarls. "Loss of Control" echoes "Basket Case" in subject matter and tempo, sending the listener right back to 1994.
In true Ramones fashion, most of ¡Uno! consists of tracks under four minutes, with the exception of "Rusty James" and the aforementioned "Oh Love." The album stands as a piece of solid punk rock fused with power pop, and serves as a fun listening experience, perfect for cranking at top volume in the car or at a party. Unlike American Idiot or 21st Century Breakdown, however, it fails to build on their previous artistic work. Perhaps Green Day felt they needed to rediscover their roots in order to embark on their next phase; as they have already proven, they can constantly surprise with their unexpected twists and turns. The question remains: is this upcoming trilogy a brief detour, or an indicator of yet another new direction in their fascinating career? While it may not address major issues, ¡Uno! is a fun diversion by a group who has developed in a fascinating way since their late 1980s beginnings.


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In this episode Dana talks with Melissa Sim the founder and CEO of AdEasy. Their conversation takes a deep dive on the role that traditional ad buys play for small and medium businesses and how they are commonly misunderstood. Melissa's drew on her vast experience in media sales to develop that AdEasy platform that is disrupting the traditional media buy space and helping businesses get their message in front of the right customers.


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NC State Teams Up with SAS and Microsoft to Predict Plant Disease and Tackle Food Recalls
October 27, 2020 | Mollie Rappe
NC State, led by the North Carolina Plant Sciences Initiative (N.C. PSI), has teamed up with technology leaders SAS and Microsoft to tackle the complex challenges facing agriculture.
Several NC State research teams will use cloud and internet of things (IoT) services from SAS and Microsoft on several interdisciplinary projects. These projects include using big data and in-field sensors to improve the sustainability of agricultural systems, using big data to improve the profitability of sweetpotatoes, and using big data and small sensors to detect plant diseases before they cause big problems.
The sensor can immediately detect the VOCs emitted by corn plants when wounded or attacked by an insect. They are furthering their research by refining the sensor array.
This collaboration will allow N.C. PSI researchers and students to use Microsoft FarmBeats' IoT technology to stream real-time agricultural data to Microsoft Azure cloud, and SAS® Analytics will analyze the data to increase crop yields, combat plant pests and develop more resilient agricultural systems.
The collaboration is especially meaningful to SAS, which started as a result of an agricultural data analysis project at NC State.
"By giving NC State students the opportunity to work with SAS and Microsoft, we will help the next generation of technical talent grow their skills and expand their career opportunities, all while accelerating precision agriculture and improving efforts to safely feed a growing population," said Oliver Schabenberger, SAS Chief Technology Officer and Chief Operating Officer.
Richard Linton, the dean of NC State's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, agreed that the collaboration between NC State, SAS and Microsoft would greatly accelerate NC State's innovation in the area of data-driven plant science.
"To double food production by the year 2050, farmers need real-time information to make better decisions on what to plant, and when to apply nutrients, water, pest- and weed-control measures," Linton said. "This is a key focus for researchers at N.C. PSI — to not only collect large amounts of crop and environmental data but to translate it into immediately accessible intelligence to improve harvest outcomes and agricultural sustainability."
This collaboration builds on SAS and Microsoft's recently announced partnership, which explores new ways to jointly bring to market AI and analytics solutions that combine both companies' offerings to help their mutual customers accelerate innovation and transformation.
"Microsoft is committed to help accelerate agricultural research at NC State by combining our Azure high-performance and AI capabilities with SAS' analytics," said Jamie Harper, the vice president for education at Microsoft.
The collaboration is also an extension of SAS' partnership with N.C. PSI, which aims to harness the power of big data to enhance agricultural research and train the next generation of plant science leaders.
Eavesdropping on plants to detect disease
NC State researchers are making quick progress in developing affordable, reliable and small sensors that enable farmers to know in real-time when there is a problem with plants.
One principle project in the area of data-driven plant science is led by Ralph Dean, a William Neal Reynolds professor of plant pathology.
His interdisciplinary team is working on developing and integrating an array of small sensors to detect plant diseases. Each sensor can detect different volatile organic compounds, sometimes called VOCs. Plants emit these compounds to communicate with each other, when injured or attacked by insects such as tiny thrips, so that their neighbors can mount a defense, Dean said.
Plants emit different combinations of VOCs depending on the pest or stressor, and by eavesdropping on this communication, scientists can detect diseases early, before significant damage has been done.
"By integrating sensors with different capabilities, we will be able to pinpoint specific diseases," Dean said. "By detecting a disease before it becomes an epidemic, we can reduce crop loss and increase profitability. And this early detection will allow farmers to apply pesticides and fungicides in a more targeted manner, reducing those costs and environmental impacts."
The sensors can be used to detect a host of diseases, from diseases that grow and spread on stored produce to diseases that attack crops in the field. The team's first target is fungal diseases in corn. Corn is North Carolina's third leading crop, after tobacco and soybeans, in terms of farm receipts. The first disease the team is looking at is Southern corn leaf blight. This disease is caused by a fungus that thrives in warm, damp regions, including North Carolina. The team will also look at other fungal diseases that impact corn yields, such as Southern Rust and gray leaf spot disease.
Using SAS's data-analytics pipeline, Viya, and Microsoft Azure, the team will be able to collect, process, integrate and analyze the information from their VOC sensors, as well as information from other sensors and possibly even satellite imaging systems, Dean said.
"What we would like to eventually do is have multiple sensors distributed around a field or an orchard collecting data in real time," Dean added. "But processing and integrating different types of data from the sensor system will require a more sophisticated platform than we currently have. That's where SAS and Microsoft come in. Their platforms will allow us to manage and analyze extremely large data sets."
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Are you bored of the starve/binge/starve routine?
Do you want to eat fries yet still make progress in fitness and feeling comfy in your skin?
I thought that too, but I promise you. If I can, you can!
Fight the fear and do it anyway. You deserve it!
I have been online coaching for a couple of years and I love it so so much. Getting to work with women who want to enhance their lifestyle and not "quick fix" their bodies excites me whole heartily. Working on lifestyle changes rather than quick fixes does not mean giving up on aesthetic goals, but to the contrary, it will help you reach them.
Me handing over a programme I have worked on, you taking a look, trying and finding it too (easy/hard/boring) for us never to speak again.
Me just giving you a meal plan Monday to Sunday.
A plan where we stay strangers, not knowing much about you, what you really want and never really being able to help you.
3) Have you working towards your goals in a way that will be sustainable long term.
A check in every week where, you put in the effort to do the things asked of you for you, to see results and me to gain knowledge.
We discuss how its going, and you share what works for you and what doesn't.
A long term strategy to keep you in this consistently, progressively, transitioning into a lifestyle.
A plan where you have to make better choices, and learn what works for you and your body. Where you eat intuitively, not relying on a plan that isn't fitting to your lifestyle and a plan that fits into yours.
We get to know each other, I learn what you hate doing, what you will do, what effort you,re willing to give and you learn about me and who I am so you trust that I will support you along the way.
Coaching that adds to your life and doesn't take away from it.
We have a 30 minute consult where I find out what you are looking for and we see if we are the right fit for one another.
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Child support debt needed tackling before now
By: New Zealand National Party
Published: Thu 26 Apr 2007 09:05 AM
National Party Welfare spokeswoman Judith Collins says figures showing an appalling rate of collection for outstanding child support debt should have been ringing alarm bells long before now.
"Failing to pay child support is tantamount to child neglect in my opinion."
Kiwi parents owe more than $1.1 billion in unpaid child support, and figures compiled using answers to written questions (below) show this is a problem that Labour has not come to grips with.
In 2001/2002 when child support debt was about $560 million, $31.7 million was recouped on behalf of the taxpayer.
In 2005/2006 when total child support passed the $1.1 billion mark, only $67 million was collected.
"Any business that worked on that basis would be bankrupt in no time flat."
"I must say, I was totally gobsmacked by the appallingly low collection rate. It's as if Labour is not even trying to do better."
Ms Collins is calling on Labour to start getting serious about collecting overdue and unpaid child support.
"The current Government's answer to this crisis was to implement a policy that excused penalties for those who agree to make regular payments.
"But as the attached figures show, efforts could and should have been made long ago."
2001/02 2002/03 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06
Assessment Debt for year ending 30 June
Penalty Debt $301,981,345 $388,213,737 $463,247,330 $557,696,999 $651,519,334
Total child support debt $562,265,144 $700,230,954 $818,509,443 $973,753,520 $1,103,532,294
Child support collected ($m) $31.7 $38.7 $41.1 $57.0 $67.6
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Sweden's economy returned to growth in the second quarter, ending a year of contraction and indicating that the worst of the country's recession may be over.
The economy grew by 0.2 percent in the second quarter from output in the first quarter, revised figures showed.
But on a 12-month basis, the economy shrank by 6.0 percent, Statistics Sweden, the country's official data agency, said in a statement.
Sweden's export-driven economy has been hit by weakening demand as consumers and companies cut back on spending amid the global financial turmoil and a lack of available credit.
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I have been on a silent retreat for 10 days. It was hard the first few days, but then the noise in your head settles and it becomes easier. I remember being so appreciative of this single lily that was there. And had become very observant of physical feelings, like how the ground felt under my feet and the wind on my face. It is different for everyone. And maybe it is not for everyone. But it is worth a shot, you will come away changed.


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Is it the Sun wot will win it?
Brown doomed. Official. The Sun has decided to support the Conservatives for the next election. For overseas readers, the Sun is a British end-of-the-pier newpaper that can be good fun and surprisingly cleverly written, the front page of which occasionally captures a national mood crudely but effectively. It has a capacity to annoy all sorts of people, but can be immensely entertaining, if rather right wing, sexist, and celebrity-obsessed.
Much wry comment could be made about the Sun. Some say it's only what most other UK newspapers except the Financial Times really are, but they are far too snobbish to take responsibility for being as crude and vulgar. The Sun is generally good natured. It also seems to believe its readers are people who don't think for themselves and will therefore follow its advice, sheeplike, about how to vote. As much as I'd like this not to be the case, it may be right.
Like the rest of Fleet Street, it probably overclaims its readership in order to prop up its dwindling advertising income, but they all do, and business is business. So come in, Gordon Brown, your time is up. A brave face was put on this yesterday by Labour politicians, of course, but according to conventional wisdom the writing is now on the wall.
I'm not sure, myself, that the Sun does win or lose elections. The Sun, historically speaking, trims its views pragmatically to match whoever it thinks will win. I suspect it follows as much as leads public opinion. And, of course, in these days of collapsing newsprint, it will be interesting to see exactly which part of fractured public opinion it follows. My hunch, for the little it's worth, is that the age profile of people who actually vote could be weighted towards elderly. I rather doubt the Labour party has the will or the wherewithal to connect with voters under 30, so the election may well be decided by the kind of people who still read the Sun. I wouldn't be so sure about the 2015 election. On the day the value of UK advertising on the internet overtook the value of TV advertising, it may be the writing is also on the wall for the Sun. Could Gordon Brown thus get the last laugh after all, but too late to save his government?
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Pam Smith said...
The Sun read the public mood, it didn't change it - and the media landscape is very different now. I suspect Labour will have studied Obama's Internet driven campaign with close attention. Public opinion is no longer determined by the commentators.
Recent statements from James Murdoch about the BBC have exploded any pretence by the Murdoch empire to have a disinterested view of the election.
Floating voters interviewed at the end of the Labour conference on Newsnight almost all said they could not vote for Cameron, and both my sons have recently warmed to Brown. And the economy is allegedly going to start recovering before the election.
None of this means that Labour will win, but they can't be written off just because the Sun is suffering from premature declaration!
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I have no idea why Mr. Brown stated in his reaction that 'newspapers' do not win elections.
The Sun, is not a newspaper (it's a tabloid rag). So why insinuate as much Mr. Brown?
Pam, I really hope you're right. I agree strongly about James Murdoch's laughable comments about the BBC — all it proves is that Murdoch loves his own dominant position well enough, and resents bitterly the fact his empire just can't match a public entity like the BBC on quality.
On a values level I'm sure the appeal of Fleet Street right wing politics is very limited, but under 40's will have to get out there and vote.
So, with some anxiety, I hope you're right, and would be very pleased if we could prove to the press barons that we can think for ourselves.
Pstyle, I wonder if tearing up a copy at the party conference was rather validating the Sun's line in a backhand kind of way. Hope not.
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MAME freezing, won't close.
October 10, 2016 in Emulation
Back in March I switched versions of MAME trying to get the vector games to play after switching from xp to WIndows 7. MAMEIU64 0172 is the version. The vector games still don't work, but a whole bunch of games must come along with this version as I didn't download them and have no recollection of them being on the list on the previous computer which had xp and all the games working. When I try out these new to me titles the odds are 50/50 that while playing the game will freeze, the sound will repeat a half second loop, the x to close doesn't work, neither does closing it at the bottom of the screen. I either have to turn the computer off with the power bar, which can cause hard drive issues, I know, or sometimes the task manager will open and I can close it from there.
So my question is wtf is going on? A couple of times it froze and turned the screen orientation 90 degrees making it just about impossible to even try to close anything as holding the computer monitor sideways so I can try to move the mouse around is rather difficult.
This shit doesn't happen with any of the games that I had before, just the ones that must have come with this version as. like I said, I didn't download them. Markham, Sun Electronics, 1983, just caused it to happen. What crappy graphics, game play, dying for no apparent reason. I was just about to hit the escape key on this poopfest when it froze.
Any thoughts? Thanks!
Mame has gotten pretty buggy with these last releases..
I have MameUI64_175 on Win7x64 and have no problems. There is one minor bug with vector games not being able to control the width of the lines, and that could be a MameUI bug not a Mame bug. The previous version I have, MameUI64_166 doesn't have that problem. I didn't think any of them came with games.


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( A ) prior to the new technologyof Diamond Cutting Discs is the highest hardness , sharpness better abrasive currently found . Plating method using diamond abrasives "plating out " on the metal substrate , instead of the traditional casting sintering method, only low investment costs , but also avoids oxidation of diamond at high temperatures to ensure the hardness and sharpness of the diamond .
Throughout the diamond plating process, more than 90 % of the plating layer with poor treatment due to adverse due before plating . Therefore, to improve the quality of the plating , the most important is to do the plating pretreatment .
Content plating pretreatment generally include: degreasing , rust , erosion , pickling, cleaning and activation plus auxiliary electrode and mounted pegs . In order to improve the coating quality , through the electroplating industry at home and abroad are analyzed and compared with the actual , developed a new treatment before plating process is as follows : deburring cleaning coated thermal insulation plastic scrub chemical degreasing , pickling cold water rinse in cold water power chemical degreasing wash anodized flushed into the slot. 1 with sandpaper and hand deburring file to remove the burrs on the workpiece to prevent the workpiece surface showing the bad state of the dielectric .
2 . Cleaned with alcohol to scrub the workpiece again, initially remove oil workpiece surface.
3 plastic insulation coating of the workpiece after the scrubbing in the non- coated portion coated with adhesive fast , non-plating portions so insulated . 4 To prevent the need to scrub plated parts are coated with plastic insulation, hand file or sandpaper to polish the parts and then again, and then rinse.
5 degreasing chemical degreaser formula. Sodium hydroxide has a strong saponification , animal and vegetable oil reacts with soluble flying soap and glycerin. THF is a surface active agent call , in which synergistic dodecyl sulfate group and a hydrophobic group to be hydrophilic , the lower the surface tension between the liquid and the work . It is used as a caustic additive to accelerate the degreasing speed. Sodium carbonate and sodium silicate are two kinds of buffers from the buffer at an acid to make the PH value of the liquid melt is substantially maintained edges. And the workpiece is set in the above solution , in the case of 40 ℃ ~ 60 ℃ cleaned for 30 minutes. 6 hot , cold rinse first with hot water , rinse with cold in the book , except to avoid oil into the acid solution. 7 pickling acid liquid formulation for the purpose of removing the oxide surface of the substrate .
8 After the cold water pickling , the workpiece clip out , rinse with cold water , then hang electrochemical degreasing tank installed .
9 spark school electrochemical degreasing formulations Degreaser racking their work in this solution , then with point source , the first cathode for 1 minute, then anodized 3 minutes . The current density used 10A/dm2, stainless steel electrodes . Electrochemical reaction follows the sun grade degreasing degreasing : 4OH - 2e = O2 + H2O cathodic degreasing : 2H + +2 e = H2 using extremely tired after the first female joint oil law , the oil has to go fast, no hydrogen brittle advantages. 10. Rinse the workpiece after electrochemical degreasing book into sexual activity with thin red wash , prepare hast Yang processing. 11 anodized anodized liquid formulations shown in Table 4 , the installed base hung , to be inserted in the liquid -plated parts . A negative electrode lead plate , the positive electrode substrate. A current density of 25A/dm2, energization time of 3 minutes. Anodized to avoid the phenomenon of hydrogen embrittlement , especially for the final steps into the groove before . 12 After rinsing tank into the anode substrate processed quickly flushed into the plating bath preparation and plating. This completes the entire plating pretreatment diamond plating .


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Opponent breakdown: Buccaneers
Eli Kaberon
Bears Web Writer
The Bears (5-9) take their final road trip of the season, heading down to Florida to take on some familiar faces with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (6-8). Here's a breakdown of Chicago's Week 16 opponent:
What's new: No. 1 overall draft picks don't always have the greatest track record as rookies, especially quarterbacks. Nor do former Heisman Trophy winners. This season with the Buccaneers, Jameis Winston is proving both of those myths wrong. Winston has started all 14 games for Tampa Bay as a rookie, and has done fairly well. His 3,422 yards and 20 touchdown passes both rank in the top 16 of quarterbacks this season. The quarterback also has five rushing touchdowns, showing the versatility that made him such a highly-regarded prospect in the first place.
What's old: Running back Doug Martin burst on the scene as a rookie in 2012, finishing fifth in the NFL with 1,454 rushing yards. But then he fell off. Injuries and poor play resulted in consecutive poor seasons for the Bucs back. In both 2013 and '14, he failed to exceed 500 rushing yards. Tampa Bay added some running back depth in the offseason, because they were unsure what Martin would provide. Turns out, he could provide his old self. In 2015, he's gained 1,305 yards - second-most in the NFL - and has been a valuable piece to the Tampa attack.
Last time out: Facing the Rams last Thursday, the Bucs fell behind early and just ran out of time while coming back, eventually losing 31-23. Tampa scored 17 points in the fourth quarter but only six in the game's first 45 minutes. Winston threw for 363 yards and a pair of touchdowns, but it was not enough. The Buccaneers had trouble stopping big plays, as St. Louis had three plays from scrimmage of 20 yards or longer, as well as a 102-yard kickoff return.
Series history: Chicago and Tampa Bay used to be old NFC Central rivals, competing in the same division from 1977-2001. The Bears hold a 37-18 edge in the all-time series, including a 21-13 victory last season at Soldier Field in the most recent matchup between the teams.
Injury report: The largest absence from the Tampa Bay lineup is not an injured player but rather a suspended one. Linebacker Kwon Alexander - second on the team with 93 tackles - will miss Sunday's matchup while serving a four-game suspension for the use of performance enhancing drugs. Wide receiver Vincent Jackson also could miss the matchup against the Bears as he rehabs from a knee injury. Jackson suffered the injury early in Week 14, forcing him to miss last Thursday's game.
Schemes and tendencies: The defensive schemes of Buccaneers head coach Lovie Smith are quite familiar to Bears fans. Smith coached the Bears from 2004-2012, and one thing he always preached was taking the ball away. During those nine seasons, the Bears finished in the top eight in the NFL in takeaways six times, including twice (2006 and 2012) where they ranked first. This year's Tampa Bay team has not grasped all the ways of Smith's teachings, however. The Bucs currently rank right in the middle of the pack with 21 takeaways on the year (11 interceptions and 10 fumbles recovered). Tampa has forced just one turnover total in its past four games.
Did you know?: With two games to go, Winston is within striking distance of some history. He ranks sixth all-time in NFL history for the most passing touchdowns and passing yards by a rookie quarterback. His 20 TDs is just six behind the all-time leader, Indianapolis' Peyton Manning and Seattle's Russell Wilson, each of whom threw 26 during their debut seasons. He's less likely to catch the yardage leader, Andrew Luck of the Colts, who threw for 4,374 yards in 2013. Winston is currently at 3,422 yards.
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Derivation of an Operator-Based Spatial Noncommutativity Parameter
Derivation of an Operator Based Spatial Noncommutativity Parameter A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Bachelor of Science with Honors in Physics from the College of William and Mary in Virginia by Kevin Carr Sapp Accepted for Honors Advisor Dr Carl E Carlson Dr Jeffrey Nelson Dr Nahum Zobin Williamsburg Virginia April 23 2008 Abstract The idea that the operators defining spacetime could be noncommuting has gained popularity in recent years The formulation in which the commutators themselves are a set of commuting numbers has been applied to a number of quantum phenomena to determine what effects it might have Most of the work overall has focused on this set of commuting numbers but some earlier theories of noncommutative coordinates established the coordinate commutator as having an operator based matrix value involving the angular momentum operator and Do plicher et al obtained a very similar algebra without mention of the angular momentum Beginning from the relativistic geometry used to derive this result we hope to explore an alternative foundation for a noncommutative geometry of space and determine its effects on some well studied quantities in atomic physics i Acknowledgements I would like to thank my advisor Dr Carl Carlson for his help and support in undertaking this project I am also very grateful to Dr Jeffrey Nelson Dr Nahum Zobin and Dr William J Kossler for sitting on my honors committee I extend thanks also to the College of William and Mary for providing me with this opportunity for learning both inside and outside a class setting to those who helped me on short notice and outside their field Ashwin Rastogi Brian DeSalvo and to all my friends and family who have supported me through this process ii 1 Introduction The commutativity of space time has been challenged in at least two different contexts in the history of modern physics and each of these instances resulted in a different interpretation of this
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Duchess of Cambridge confused with Frozen princess
Zoomer Buzz | December 8th, 2014
Children mistook Britain's Duchess of Cambridge for the princess from 'Frozen'.
The 32-year-old royal was greeted by a very enthusiastic audience at the Northside Center for Child Development in Harlem, New York yesterday (08.12.14) after a group of kids believed they would be meeting one of the main stars from the popular Disney film.
After introducing Catherine to the children, Rose Ann Harris, a school director joked: "They thought [the duchess] was the princess from 'Frozen'."
Although one little boy was left a little dissatisfied as he told the New York Daily Post newspaper: "She didn't have a crown."
While six-year-old Mila was the lucky recipient of a hug, after she presented Her Royal Highness with a bouquet of red roses.
She gushed: "I gave her flowers. It was amazing."
Catherine was given a tour around the facilities by New York's First Lady Chirlane McCray.
There the royal – who is currently pregnant with her second child and is already mother to 16-month-old Prince George – wrapped presents for a Santa exchange.
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Q: Android - ViewPager - Update UI on first Tab when second Tab is changed (swipe detecting) Here is code of MainActivity:
import android.app.ActionBar;
import android.content.Context;
import android.support.v4.app.FragmentActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;

import android.annotation.SuppressLint;
import android.app.ActionBar;
import android.app.ActionBar.Tab;
import android.app.ActionBar.TabListener;
import android.app.FragmentTransaction;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v4.app.FragmentActivity;
import android.support.v4.view.ViewPager;
import android.support.v4.view.ViewPager.OnPageChangeListener;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.RadioButton;
import android.widget.RadioGroup;

@SuppressLint("NewApi")
public class MainActivity extends FragmentActivity implements TabListener {
    private ViewPager viewPager;
    private TabPagerAdapter tabPagerAdapter;
    private ActionBar actionBar;
    private String[] tabNames = { "Main", "Settings", "Rules" };

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        viewPager = (ViewPager) findViewById(R.id.viewPager);
        tabPagerAdapter = new TabPagerAdapter(getSupportFragmentManager());
        viewPager.setAdapter(tabPagerAdapter);
        actionBar = getActionBar();
        actionBar.setHomeButtonEnabled(true);
        actionBar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS);
        for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
            actionBar.addTab(actionBar.newTab().setText(tabNames[i])
                    .setTabListener(this));
        }
        viewPager.setOnPageChangeListener(new OnPageChangeListener() {

            @Override
            public void onPageSelected(int postion) {
                actionBar.setSelectedNavigationItem(postion);
                if(postion==1){
                    View view = viewPager.getChildAt(postion);
                    set_lang(view);
                }
                if(postion==0){
                    View view = viewPager.getChildAt(postion);
                    set_flag(view);
                }

            }

            @Override
            public void onPageScrolled(int arg0, float arg1, int arg2) {

            }

            @Override
            public void onPageScrollStateChanged(int arg0) {

            }
        });
    }

    @Override
    public void onTabReselected(Tab tab, FragmentTransaction ft) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub

    }

    @Override
    public void onTabSelected(Tab tab, FragmentTransaction ft) {
        viewPager.setCurrentItem(tab.getPosition());
    }

    @Override
    public void onTabUnselected(Tab tab, FragmentTransaction ft) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub

    }

    public void set_lang(View view){
        MainFrame.preferences = getSharedPreferences("flag", Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
        MainFrame.editor = MainFrame.preferences.edit();

        RadioGroup radio = (RadioGroup)view.findViewById(R.id.radioGroup);
        int radioButtonID = radio.getCheckedRadioButtonId();
        RadioButton radioBut = (RadioButton)view.findViewById(radioButtonID);
        String lang = (String) radioBut.getTag();

        MainFrame.editor.putString("lang", lang);
        MainFrame.editor.apply();
    }

    public View set_flag(View view) {
        Button btn_flag = (Button)view.findViewById(R.id.btn_flag);
        MainFrame.preferences = getSharedPreferences("flag", Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
        String lang = MainFrame.preferences.getString("lang","");
        if(lang.equals("english")){
            btn_flag.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.eng_flag);
        }
        if(lang.equals("russian")){
            btn_flag.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.rus_flag);
        }
        if(lang.equals("german")){
            btn_flag.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.german_flag);
        }

        return view;
    }
}

Here is code of TabPageAdapter:
import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;
import android.support.v4.app.FragmentManager;
import android.support.v4.app.FragmentPagerAdapter;

public class TabPagerAdapter extends FragmentPagerAdapter {

    public TabPagerAdapter(FragmentManager fm) {
        super(fm);
    }

    @Override
    public Fragment getItem(int arg0) {
        switch (arg0) {
            case 0:
                return new MainFrame();
            case 1:
                return new Settings();
            case 2:
                return new Rules();
            default:
                break;
        }
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    public int getCount() {
        return 3;
    }
}

I know, that I must change onPageSelected(int postion) method to catch page changing, but it does not work. Currently it dont change nothing, and when i switch from third tab to second - app is crashing.
For better understanding: I want to change button background on first tab, when user switch language on second tab, using radiobuttons(radiogroup).
See the screenshot.

A: We can achieve this using public void setUserVisibleHint(boolean isVisibleToUser) method of Fragment.
When the user changes anything in Settings Fragment store that in Preference and when the user switches to Main Fragment, read the value of the newly selected Value from  Preference inside setUserVisibleHint method while checking for isVisibleToUser, then read the value from Preference and change the background with updated value.

A: @Nagesh Jatagond, thank you for advice, I finaly find solution!
Settings.java:
@Override
    public void setUserVisibleHint(boolean visible)
    {
        super.setUserVisibleHint(visible);
        View v = getView();
        if (!visible && v!=null){
            set_lang(v);
        }
    }

Main.java:
@Override
    public void setUserVisibleHint(boolean visible)
    {
        super.setUserVisibleHint(visible);
        View v = getView();
        if (!visible && v!=null){
            set_flag(v);
        }
        if (visible && v!=null){
            set_flag(v);
        }
    }


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Лабиринтовый паук () — вид пауков из семейства воронковых пауков.

Описание
Длина тела самки составляет до 14 мм, самцы вырастают длиной до 12 мм. Брюшко (опистосома) бурого цвета. Серый волосяной покров образует рисунок из нескольких косых, направленных назад полос. У более взрослых животных волосы изнашиваются больше, так что они выглядят более коричневыми, чем молодь. Головогрудь (просома) от жёлто-коричневого до красно-коричневого окраса. Серым волосяным покровом в центре и по бокам головогруди образуются две широких длинных полосы. Ноги соответствуют по окраске брюшку и не имеют особого рисунка.

Распространение
Лабиринтовый паук распространён по всей Палеарктике. Он предпочитают сухие ландшафты под открытым небом с низкой растительностью, такие как сухие луга, пустошь, обочины дорог и кустарник.

Образ жизни
Паук растягивает среди травы и мелкого кустарника горизонтальную плотную сеть диаметром до 50 см. Скрытая сеть переходит в трубку, в которой прячется паук.

Размножение
Спаривание происходит в разгар лета. Самец вступает в сеть самки. Если она готова к спариванию, то она остаётся у входа воронки. Самец тогда хватает самку и вводит педипальпы в половое отверстие самки. После спаривания самка выходит из оцепенения и самец убегает из сети. Тем не менее, нередко самки хватают самцов как любую добычу и поедают их.

Самка перестраивает свою сеть поздним летом в кокон. Он укрепляется прочной паутиной в растительности. Яйца и молодые пауки зимуют в этом коконе. Они покидают гнездо следующей весной.

Примечания

Литература
 Heiko Bellmann, Kosmos-Atlas Spinnentiere Europas, Kosmos-Verlag, ISBN 3-440-09071-X

Животные, описанные в 1757 году
Воронковые пауки
Паукообразные Евразии

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Dreaming that your blood pressure is questionable, indicates that there are problems ahead with your close people to dream of atmospheric pressure, means you expect unforeseen difficulties of bureaucratic, administrative or of legal nature.
– feel or tightness in the dream is a premonition of a sad event; disease; – neck: fear; – shake hands with someone: you will make the acquaintance of a good man.
– feel pressure: disease. (Natural symbolism!).


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The varsity jacket continues to be the sporty piece of choice for the style set.
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Caroline Issa wears a tailored trench dress with easy slippers.
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Rabbi Lazer Brody on how the power of emuna can change your life
Rabbi Lazer Brody's name may sound familiar as a bestselling writer, speaker, counselor and teacher; but what he teaches is not originally his. Rabbi Brody says "It's not mine, it is time tested advise from Doctor Soul, Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, and I now have the privilege to bring it down to the English speaking world."
This man with eyes that sparkle with happiness, a smile that can warm up a room and knowledge of the ages paid a visit to Hong Kong, thanks to the encouragement of the Lawrence family. Rabbi Brody spent a few days speaking to the community, listening to their issues, sharing valuable advice and overall making people happier by explaining the concept of emuna - a complete belief in Hashem.
First lets meet Rabbi Brody.
He was born in Washington, D.C. in 1949. In 1970, after receiving his Degree in Agriculture from the University of Maryland, he moved to Israel, joined the Israel Defense Forces' regular army and served in one of the elite special-forces units.
After a near-suicidal mission in Beirut during the Israel- Lebanon conflict of 1982, Rabbi Brody said he could no longer ignore the hand of the all mighty in his life. He became a baal-tshuva, left his farm and moved to Jerusalem to study Torah.
Nine years later, in 1992, he was ordained as a rabbi. He spent the next two years of postgraduate studies learning about personal and family counseling. The following two years he was the rabbi and spiritual rehabilitation director of a major Israeli prison.
In 1996 he moved to Ashdod and understudied with the Melitzer Rebbe and two years later Rabbi Shalom Arush opened a branch of the Chut Shel Chessed – Breslov Yeshiva in Ashdod and appointed Rabbi Brody as the Dean of the rabbinical programme.
Today Rabbi Brody spends his time traveling around the world doing Jewish Outreach. He also has written numerous books and is the English voice of his teacher Rabbi Arush.
Among their most successful titles is The Garden of Emuna, which has sold over 1.5 million copies and has become one of the bestselling contemporary books in the Jewish world. They have also published a book for men only titled The Garden of Peace, which has sold more than half a million copies and one for women called Women's Wisdom, The Garden of Peace for Women, which was just published in English. All three titles were originally written in Hebrew. Rabbi Brody has many other titles, including his latest called
The Trail of Tranquility. He has also released a number of CDs that deal with multiple topics from marriage, to parenting, to money and everything in between, which have surpassed the one million copies sold.
So what are these pearls of wisdom that have created this tipping point and such hunger for these books and CDs and the ideas they contain? And why are people filling auditoriums around the world when Rabbi Arush and Rabbi Brody speak?
It is the simple yet powerful message of emuna. From there, Rabbi Brody gives insights into how to be happier, how to have better relationships and how to be a better parent. The simple stuff in life all through the power of emuna.
On emuna and happiness Rabbi Brody explains that "we all have the same spiritual DNA and, according to Rashbi, our soul is a tiny part of Hashem. In our generation, we all have the same soul correction, which is to find emuna. If we find emuna our soul will be happy." He goes on to say that there are three elements of happiness.
The first is to find peace within ourselves. The second is to find peace with our fellow men - love thy neighbours as thyself. And third is to find peace with Hashem. Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, then Rabbi Nachman, then Rabbi Arush and now Rabbi Brody all say that happiness is our link to the higher power. When our bodies get thirsty, we know to give them water.
But how do we know what our souls need? Rabbi Brody says that a need of the soul shows up as "strong emotions." "You feel anxious or depressed and then you know there is a problem."
The solution lies not in the psychologist and the pills we take, because they don't deal with the root of the problem. What our souls need is to connect – they need emuna.
He suggests that as soon as we have a strong emotion, we should take a three second time out; especially if it is a gut reaction.
He calls it the "three second rule." If you can take three seconds before reacting, then the brain can take back its control, away from the evil inclination, and you can react correctly. Developing emuna is a process and it comes with tests.
Rabbi Brody explained that once we have emuna our tests get tougher and tougher. It is a "spiritual ladder that we have to climb, we have to move up on it and that will give us satisfaction."
Life is one big test with one learning after another, but you can't avoid the final exam." He asked us, "If your choice was between Tehilim and missiles, which would you pick?"
But don't think that attaining this is easy. "It is hard to find emuna, but if you look you can get it and then you should ask Hashem to help you maintain it once you have found it." But note they are two very different challenges.
Rabbi Brody himself had doubts. When he was 23 and a yeshiva student, his teacher "was a pimpled face 17 yearold" and he almost threw in the towel while studying Gemora. Luckily he didn't give up and realised from the 17 year-old that there was a lot to learn.
"Hashem is like a parent that just wants to hear your voice." As a parent if you don't hear from your kids, you may freak out because you want to know everything is OK. "He waits for you as well. So call Hashem once in a while.
Speak to Him one hour a day. Use your own words and build a relationship with Him, it will bring you inner peace and satisfaction."
On relationships
In terms of relationships, Rabbi Brody says "if you follow these very simple things, even if you do it on a unilateral basis, you will have a dream relationship."
The fi rst thing is the mirror effect, the second is gratitude and the third are comments and criticism. Together these three points can make "a monumental change in your marriage."
The mirror effect: fi rst, understand that if you and your spouse stood under the chuppah, they are your intended.
Your spouse knows exactly what buttons to push because they are the other part of your soul. They are also what you need to make your soul correction.
When you feel like your partner is pushing you, it is not they, but the almighty trying to give you a message on what it is you must change. "If you have something that you are very good at, you don't need a soul correction." However, if you have an area you need to develop, your partner is there to help you overcome your weakness.
There is a law in Jewish spirituality that says that one accuses another of one's own faults. In psychology it is known as projection. So when your spouse upsets you, take a moment and realise there is a message there, don't get angry with them because you are just seeing yourself. Elevate yourself above the level of confl ict.
"There is nobody that can better help you attain your soul correction on earth than your husband or wife."
"One cannot get close to Hashem without improving one's character. So when you realise that our husbands and wives are our own mirrors and we better ourselves, then we make them better, because we are connected and we get elevated."
This brings us to gratitude.
"I will venture to say that 90% of the lack of marital peace among people is lack of gratitude. Taking things for granted."
Rabbi Brody suggest we get a little pocket notebook and write down every small and big favour our spouse does for us. "Wait and see how many pages you've fi lled up after a week."
At the Brody household, they have a box and everyone in the family writes thank you notes to other members who did favours for them during the week, things that many may take for granted. For example: thank you for taking out the trash without me having to ask, or thanks for doing the fruit shopping, or thanks for the smile.
Then at the Shabbat table they break the box open and share all the messages. "Everybody knows how many notes they've written and this brings so much light to the table… when you recognise the little things."
There is a very important concept, which Rabbi Brody calls the expectation / realisation ratio. He explained it with this analogy. Suppose on a scale of 1 to 100, that water is 10 and champagne is 90. If you think you deserve nothing and someone brings you a glass of water, since you had no expectations and water is worth 10, now you have 10 happiness points. However if you think you deserve everything and you're expecting a Schweppes, which is worth 70 points, but you get the same glass of water, then you have a 60 point defi cit in happiness.
"Learn to appreciate what you have. Lets take our expectations and think in the mindset that we come into life and nobody owes us a living, nobody owes us anything. This world is simply an opportunity for us to correct our souls and be happy to move on." We should be grateful and appreciate every little thing. "Husbands to wives and wives to husbands, look for the little things" they do for you and you will be happier.
"The word Jew in Hebrew is Yehudi. It comes from the word leodot – to thank you." When Leah had her fourth son and realised she was going to have more kids than any of the other women (she had 6 out of the 12 children), "she said to Hashem, this time I'm really going to thank you!"
The third point included comments and criticism.
"Women to husbands, husbands to wives from this moment on, and if you do just this one point, you're going to have a happy marriage, from this moment on decide that comments and criticism are just as un-kosher as pork and have no room in a Jewish household."
Here two pieces of advice for the men. The most important thing for your wives is that they are number one in your life.
"She must be fi rst in her husband's thoughts above everything, because a woman can't stand to be second fi ddle. As soon as she's second fi ddle to anything, then it's a shy taste in her mouth and life is not worth living."
The second most important thing for a woman is "that she is perfect in her husband's eyes."
So any comment or a criticism you make will sound to her like this statement: "sweetheart you're not perfect." "I tell husbands, when your wife burns your toast, get on your computer, do a Google search on how carbon is good for the human body. Eat the toast and shut up. Cause that's what Hashem wants from you with emuna – that's why you need it. Don't ever agree with your wife if she says anything derogatory about herself, don't ever agree with her because you're being tested."
Rabbi Brody also suggests that the men take off a half an hour a day for two months and put it towards the spiritual side of their life. He promises you won't lose anything materially and you will gain so much in other aspects of your life.
To the women, Rabbi Brody had this message, "Your husband is an economic gladiator," so when he comes home after fi ghting with employees, peers, bosses, clients don't attack him.
"Let the guy take his coat off, let the guy put his hat on the hat rack, and sit down and greet him with a nice smile, a coffee or whatever he likes to drink and you will soon be able to tell him anything you want."
If you want these positive attributes to become part of your spouse's actions, the secret is to profusely reinforce and compliment their positive actions. A frontal assault is fruitless, because both sides will lose. Negative comments and criticism fuel the fire, so we must avoid conflict and disengage.
On parenting
When it comes to parenting, Rabbi Brody recommends that parents spend two hours of individual quality time with their children every week. Fathers with sons and mothers with daughters or even fathers with daughters and mothers with sons, "make this time as it will manifest later on in their own shalom bait – peace at home." One note Rabbi Brody adjusted for this part of the world was this, the domestic helper "does not raise your kids, your wife raises your kids. That's the most important thing. So having a helper frees your wife to spend more time with the kids. You have to look at all the positives.
That's gratitude. When we look for good points, all of a sudden we realise that there's a lot more to be thankful for than we ever thought of."
"I'll tell you in one sentence how to raise great kids - standing on one foot. You take a kid and everything it gets they should say thank you mummy, thank you daddy, thank you Hashem.
That's it! When a child learns to appreciate everything and say thank you for everything, then they appreciate everything. The same thing in marriage."
He described a spoiled child as "a child with an infl ated sense of entitlement." Giving too much love to a child will never spoil them. "Love does not make a spoiled child. Give your children of yourselves, not of your money."
Most importantly for parents is don't tell your kids what to do. You will do better by being a good role model for them.
For example, if you tell them not to slander and then they see you speaking on the phone slandering, then it won't work. But if they see you never slandering and always being positive, then they'll want to emulate that positive behaviour. And like with spouses, profusely reinforce and compliment your child's positive actions.
Rabbi Brody spent three days in Hong Kong and these are just a taste of all the beams of light he left for us. Though many of the concepts are simple, they are very challenging, yet life changing. Nevertheless, he strongly believes that if we follow even a few of these concepts we can all live happier lives and attain our soul corrections.
If you are interested in contacting him or finding out more you can visit www.lazerbrody.com and www.breslev.co.il.
Interviewed by Jessica Zwaiman Lerner
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