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Q: iAd content always displayed in portrait using landscape only app My current app is landscape only.
I display an iAd banner in bottom area of screen. It's showing correctly in landscape mode.
However tapping it, the ad content screen is sliding in from the right when holding landscape right and from the left when holding landscape left. The ad content screen is always displayed in portrait mode. Is there no way to display ad content screen in landscape mode?
Using iOS 6+.
This is similar but seems to deal with acceleration etc. My app does not rotate except between the two landscape modes. (and actually it seems that that topic is about the banner itself, not the opening ad content screen)
Landscape iAd is showing the portrait graphic in iOS6?
Edit: Apple's iAdSuite seems to do the same. The apps support portrait modes too, but in landscape mode, tapping on an landscape ad the opening ad content is in landscape mode.
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/samplecode/iAdSuite/Introduction/Intro.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/DTS40010198
It looks like this is by design(?) hmmm... not pretty

A: I can't confirm it but it just seems that there is no landscape ad content.

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DALSA to Supply Custom Image Sensor Chips to Imagi…
DALSA to Supply Custom Image Sensor Chips to Imaging Dynamics
DALSA Corporation (TSX:DSA), an international high performance semiconductor and electronics company, today announced it has received a major contract from Imaging Dynamics Company Limited ("IDC") (TSXV: IDL), a leading provider of digital radiography systems. Under the terms of the contract DALSA will develop a custom CCD image sensor chip and provide volume production over a period of 30 months. Deliveries to IDC are expected to begin in the fourth quarter of 2005. The contract is valued at CDN $5.1 million.
The DALSA image sensor chips will be "the eyes" of IDC's new XaminerTM line of digital x-ray detectors, which uses digital imaging technology to replace traditional film in general radiography imaging applications. The Xaminer line is specifically designed for large, cost sensitive markets such as China, India, and Brazil that require the high patient throughput of digital radiography, with competitive levels of image quality and dose efficiency.
"I am very pleased that DALSA will be supplying image sensor chips to IDC. This contract is yet another excellent example of how leadership in technology enables Canadian companies to successfully expand into new world markets," commented Savvas Chamberlain, CEO of DALSA Corporation.
"We are pleased to be partnering with another Canadian company on this truly global initiative," said Darryl Stein, IDC's President and CEO. "DALSA's technology has some phenomenal features and we are excited to employ this chip into our Xaminer series."
DALSA is an international high performance semiconductor and electronics company that designs, develops, manufactures, and markets digital imaging products and solutions, in addition to providing semiconductor products and services. DALSA's core competencies are in specialized integrated circuit and electronics technology, software, and highly engineered semiconductor wafer processing. Products and services include image sensor components; electronic digital cameras; vision processors; image processing software; and semiconductor wafer foundry services for use in MEMS, high-voltage semiconductors, image sensors and mixed-signal CMOS chips. DALSA is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "DSA". The Company has its corporate offices in Waterloo, ON and over 1000 employees world-wide.
Patrick Myles
Director, Corporate Communications
DALSA Corporation
E-mail: Investor@dalsa.com
IDC is the world's leading provider of affordable Digital Radiography (DR) systems. IDC Xplorer Direct Capture technology replaces conventional film based X-Ray and provides a cost effective alternative to inefficient cassette based Computed Radiography (CR) systems. The IDC Xplorer provides the industry's highest resolution radiographic images in the digital format needed for modern Electronic Medical Records networks, without the use of film, chemistry, cassettes or expensive imaging plates. IDC is based in Calgary, Alberta.
Mr. Darryl Stein, President & CEO
Mr. Karim Teja, Chief Financial Officer
Imaging Dynamics Company Ltd.
E-mail: info@imagingdynamics.com
http://www.imagingdynamics.com
This press release contains forward looking statements based on assumptions, uncertainties and management's best estimates of future events. Actual results may differ materially from those currently anticipated. Investors are cautioned that such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward looking statements are detailed from time to time in DALSA's periodic reports filed with the Ontario Securities Commission and other regulatory authorities. DALSA has no intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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This glassy home was built in 1955 by architect Harold Zook, who designed numerous residences in the area, along with the city's distinctive Saga Motor Hotel on Colorado Boulevard.
The roomy house holds five bedrooms, three full-size bathrooms, and two half-baths, spread across nearly 4,000 square feet of living space. The open living spaces are punctuated by walls of glass, built-in shelving and wall nooks, and lofty 9-foot ceilings. The step-down living room is equipped with a fireplace and looks out on a garden.
The post and beam residence sits on more than an acre of land at the easternmost edge of the city. It opens to a large wraparound deck with multiple seating spaces and an outdoor kitchen. The property is complete with a pool, spa, a motor court and attached three-car garage, and a grassy lawn that offers views of the neighborhood and the nearby mountains.
Asking price is $2.698 million.


NICEVILLE — Alas, all good things must come to an end.
The Northwest Florida State women's basketball team had not lost since getting bounced from the NJCAA tournament this past March. The Raiders were undefeated, winners of 19 straight and ranked No. 1 in the country for most of the year.
Then Gulf Coast State came to The Arena on Saturday night and all that washed away in a 63-58 loss to the Commodores.
"I thought both teams played extremely hard," Raiders coach Bart Walker said. "(Gulf Coast) made some big shots coming down the stretch, some really clutch shots. My hat's off to 'em. They made big plays."
The seventh-ranked Commodores (16-3 overall, 4-2 Panhandle Conference) were a changed team after the half, outscoring NWF State 20-13 in the third quarter and 18-11 in the fourth on 54.2 percent shooting compared to just 25.7 percent in the first half.
Brittany Davis, a 5-foot-9 freshman led the charge with a game-high 19 points, seven of them coming at the charity stripe, while Astou Gaye, a 6-2 sophomore, chipped in 11 points and eight rebounds. Fort Walton Beach alum P-Nut Payton had nine points and four rebounds.
NWF State's loss comes after the Raiders (19-1, 5-1) opened Panhandle play with a five-game win streak where they outscored their conference foes 340-301 and included a 75-67 victory against the Commodores on the road in Panama City.
Walker said Gulf Coast's strategy didn't change any Saturday night.
"They didn't do anything different," Walker said. They just made shots. We gave up 16 offensive rebounds and that leads to fouls and free-throws. They're a good team; they didn't do anything different. I thought we were prepared. We just missed some shots and they made some."
Cece Mayo finished as the Raiders leading scorer, posting 13 points, and Awa Trasi chipped in 11 points with eight rebounds, two blocks and three steals.
NWF State actually finished with a better shooting percentage (43.9 percent) than the Commodores (37.3 percent), but the difference on the offensive glass and at the free-throw line was significant.
Gulf Coast State had 16 offensive rebounds to the Raiders' seven, and the Commodores converted on 12-of-20 free-throws to NWF State's 5-of-9 mark.
"It shows us that we need to do a little bit better job of doing the little things," Walker said. "They don't give out any trophies tonight, so we just gotta go back and get ready to play."
The Raiders are back in action against Chipola at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday on the road in Marianna.


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Q: issue about embed window to external process using setparent(win32 api) I'm just trying to embed a window from my process into the window of an external process using the SetParent function, but I find out the application can't switch back after minimizing.
The embedded window is WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW style, changing it to WS_CHILD can handle this issue. But we need WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW for other reasons.
Is anyone can give me a hand of this?


This is an Android P flagship, that ditches the notch (thank God) and goes with a 6.2 inch diagonal this time. The resolution is 1440 x 3120 pixels and the general format and dimensions of the LG G7 are kept. A Snapdragon 855 CPU is also inside, based on a 7 nm technology. 8 GB of RAM is here as well, plus a very nice looking metal frame. This is the kind of frame color, thickness and robustness that highlights the screen, like we've seen on the Pixel 2 XL.
Somehow this feels more like a Vivo or Oppo phone, sans the novelty of a pop up camera or a sliding portion. There's a Gorilla Glass 5 panel placed at the back and one at the front. An aluminum frame is here, in colors like burgundy, blue, black and more. I see that the fingerprint scanner is integrated in the screen and the audio jack is still here, somehow.
Wireless charging has been included and the main dual camera is placed towards the corner, not the center, which happens more often than not lately. Science and Knowledge came up with hues like Platinum Gray, New Aurora Black, New Morrocan Blue and Raspberry Rose for the device. LG G8 is expected to cost in the range of $800, according to leaks and rumors. With LG's current situation, poor sales and all some may think there won't even be an LG G8… We'll see!
I find it weird that the back side does NOT feel like glass even one bit.


Hit the video links when prompted to see footage from this Saturdays Doctor Who - Dark Water, and other shows including Call the Midwife, The Fall, Poldark, Wolf Hall, The Interceptor, Jonathan Strangeand Mr Norrell, Last Tango in Halifax and more.
In this special trail celebrating a lifetime of Original British Drama, Benedict Cumberbatch reads William Shakespeare's famous monologue from As You Like It.
The trail offers a unique glimpse of some of the BBC's biggest upcoming dramas, including The Casual Vacancy, an adaptation of JK Rowling's novel, Roald Dahl's Esio Trot, The Missing, One Child and The Interceptor.
We also get an advance look at Wolf Hall, written by Oscar-nominated Peter Straughan, Jimmy McGovern's Banished, Jonathan Strange And Mr Norrell based on the bestselling novel by Susanna Clarke, and the major new seven part series Poldark, written by Debbie Horsfield and starring Aidan Turner and Eleanor Tomlinson.
Some of the BBC's best-loved drama series of our time also feature, from Doctor Who, Luther, Call The Midwife and The Line of Duty to Peaky Blinders, Eastenders, The Fall and Sherlock, which will return in 2015.


agenda was discussed and is attached below.
2. As a result of Angela's withdrawal as our candidate for US Senate, we will need to endorse a different candidate. We discussed options for addressing the issue and decided to retrieve the ballots cast on May 12 and recount them at the SCC meeting, redistributing Angela's votes. Chris will work with one other volunteer to tally the votes.
3. We anticipate scheduling a nominating convention immediately preceding our June SCC meeting, for the purpose of endorsing candidates in regions that lack GP chapters or town committees.
4. We decided that the new EC team should have one sit-down meeting to talk about our goals for the year and plan to schedule one in Middletown sometime in June. End time 7:19pm.


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Q: Why PyCryptodome RSA public key generation is so slow? I am using PyCryptodome libray for my cryptography tasks. I want to generate RSA key as shown in example.
I have typed this code:
from Cryptodome.PublicKey import RSA
key = RSA.generate(2048)

and it takes forever to execute. (While typing this question it has passed 10 minutes already and it is still not completed).
I am running it in Jupyter Notebook on Windows 10. Do you maybe have any idea why is it so slow or how to make it work? I have read documentation and tried to find similar questions but without any success.

A: I have reinstalled Anaconda to the latest version and this time I have installed pycryptodomex through pip(as shown on github), previously I installed it through Anaconda cloud (I think this doesn't matter, but let it stay here, just to be sure)

A: It seems there is a bug in pycryptodome.
The primality test miller_rabin_test calls is_even on the candidate integer which incorrectly always returns true, leading to a never ending loop.
I replaced line 579 in site-packages/Cryptodome/Math/_Numbers_gmp.py with
def is_even(self):
    return (int(self) & 1)==0
    #return _gmp.mpz_tstbit(self._mpz_p, 0) == 0 #Old non-functional line of code.

Tested and working here.

A: That takes me less than a second (on average) on an average laptop with Windows 7 64 bits.
Are you sure you are using the most recent version of the pycryptodomex package (3.6.1)?
In earlier versions, you had to install a separate optimized numerical library (MPIR) to get decent performance: the alternative was pure Python based, and it was indeed very slow.


Beijing has made no secret about its frustrations with the ruling of the Hague-based Court of Arbitration's decision that China has no legal basis for territorial claims within the South China Sea's nine-dash line. In the wake of the ruling, Chinese admiral Sun Jianguo warned of "disaster" for continued US military patrols through the region.
Annika Borg, who is a priest in the Swedish Church, an Evangelical Lutheran national church that boasts 6.2 million members, wrote an op-ed for Sydsvenskan in which she decried Sweden's reaction to last week's murder of a Catholic priest in France by Islamists, asking why churches were silent on the issue.
The first female president of the United States faces her first major international conflict: Seeking to consolidate the Slavic nations of Eastern Europe, Russia has seized the three Baltic states—Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia—all members of NATO. That requires a response beyond just a caustic tweet or sharply worded press release. For the first time since the Cuban missile crisis, there is serious talk of nuclear war.


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Khorramabad (, also Romanized as Khorramābād; also known as Chīlābād) is a village in Arzuiyeh Rural District, in the Central District of Arzuiyeh County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 74, in 16 families.

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The Nomination Committee is proposing former Atlas Copco CEO Ronnie Leten as the new Ericsson Chairman, replacing Leif Johansson.
Leten headed up Swedish industrial equipment maker Atlas Copco for eight years, during which its share price seemed to have out-performed the market. Ericsson's share price, by contrast, has halved in the last couple of years. The 60-year-old Leten stapped down as CEO earlier this year and will also relinquish his chairmanship of Electrolux to take this gig.
This would appear to complete the executive overhaul of Ericsson by its largest shareholder – Investor AB – which owns almost a quarter of its voting rights. Current CEO Börje Ekholm used to be CEO of Investor AB and, by bizarre coincidence, Investor AB has a similar proportion of the voting rights of Atlas Copco. It seems to have taken a few pages from the Vivendi playbook.
The Chairman of the Nomination Committee is, of course, Johan Forssell, who just happens to be CEO of Investor AB. "The Nomination Committee believes that in Ronnie Leten, we have found the right person to assume the position as Chairman in Ericsson, providing experience and competence that will benefit the company," said Forssell.
"Ronnie Leten has a very strong track record when it comes to value creation. Mr Leten is a very skilled businessman, technically savvy and strategically versatile. Furthermore, he has significant experience from digitalization of major operations, which will be beneficial for Ericsson's focused work together with its customers.
Jofs is currently Chairman of Finnish IT services company Tieto and incongruously seems to have no direct link to Investor AB. He was, however, Networks EVP at Ericsson from 2003-2008 and is Swedish, so seems qualified on paper. One thing that is worth noting is that Cevian Capital is both the largest single shareholder in Tieto and also represented on the Ericsson Nomination Committee.
So both the CEO and the Chairman (presuming the formality of his shareholder approval is completed) of Ericsson seem to have been put in place by Investor AB, presumably with the blessing of other significant shareholders. This is probably as it should be, but they surely now have no grounds for complaint if the company fails to turn things around.


Kilson is probably the ONLY high school senior I know...that doesn't do "social media". I honestly think it's awesome...but that means he won't see the sneak peek I share on Facebook! He's such a quiet, funny guy and those blue eyes!!.. such a cute kid! I enjoyed making him laugh for his senior photos.


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KILLER BEE Release New Single 'Victorious'
First Single from the upcoming Album "Remember The Times" due to release February 2019 on Freedom Records Sweden.
Bands Biography:
Their bull headed approach and never say die attitude landed them shows all over the world between 1994-1998. Well, now they're back, hungry and stead fast. 2011 - The release of "Almost There" was a self proclaimed salute to days gone by. A chance for the listener to hear a compilation of songs that best represented them from their earlier releases. This Cd opened the eyes of past fans and sparked a new driving force which led the two towards this new era of KILLER BEE.
2012 - "From Hell and Back" a suitably titled comeback album was released throughout Europe and across the web. Well received with a positive response, the album was followed by no less than 5 videos to the songs All Night Long, Step Into My World, I Believe, Footprints In The Sand and finally From Hell and Back . The videos distributed online received an enormous near 1,000,000 combined hits
2013 - One year later hot on the heals of From Hell and Back, KILLER BEE once again delivered a new kick-ass Album - "Evolutionary Children" followed by the videos "Children Of The Evolution" and "Scream It". Once again the band received great response around the world.
2015 - The official launch of the KILLER BEE in North America with the release of "Rock another Day" and the addition of guitar legend Paul "Tonka" Chapman (Formerly of UFO, Skid Row, Lone Star etc.) KILLER BEE embarked on a 9 week tour of North America taking them across the continent playing a total of 40 cities in 35 states and parts of Canada. As 2015 winds down KILLER BEE are currently in Sweden putting the finishing touches on their newest record with expectations of a release in early
2016. 2016- It's an open calendar. Tours are being planned now for North America, Europe and Asia. The latest album "EYE IN THE SKY" was released in October through MIGTHY MUSIC/TARGET GROUP preceeded by singles "Joystick Warrior".... "Get On Board".... "Shout It Out" This is the bands 6th studio album, and it recieved great reviews around the world with lots of radio play-
2017 - in March the band went on a two week UK Tour with the Swedish band BONAFIDE and the Aussie chicks TEQUILA MOCKINGBYRD - it was a great success throughout England, Wales and Scotland. In the beginning of November the band played in their hometown Örnsköldsvik and started to record their 7th stusio album.
2018 - Holds the 25 Year Anniversary of KILLER BEE. A CD called "Tapes From The Attic" will be released - it will include previously never released songs. In May the band entered BMP Studios in Stockholm and mixed the new upcoming Album - first single planned to be Released November 30. The full length album is planned to be released January 2019! The road that lies ahead is wide open and that's where you will find Killer Bee. Wide open full throttled pedal to the metal rocking in a city near you.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialKillerBee/
#KILLERBEE #HEAVYMETAL


Print the full path of the freshly created folder in the output string.
Could you please write integration test for this change ? Thanks.
Can we use get_vm_path ?
I would suggestion to keep result=dict() as it is for backward compatibility. Add new keys path and msg as new keys in dict.
Add a sample example in RETURN documentation for this change.


Why Buy WHEELBARROWS From MFC?
1. Talk About "Standing the Test of Time"
1904 marked the start of Sterling wheelbarrows in Milwaukee, WI. Over 100 years later, Sterling not only remains in Milwaukee, but has earned the reputation as the most durable wheelbarrow on the market today.
In other words, Sterling wheelbarrows are not cheap. Since Sterling "Tough Guy" wheelbarrows last 2 to 3 times longer, it stands to reason that the initial cost is not cut-rate.
The key to Sterling's superior strength is the tray support system. If the system ever fails due to manufacturer defect, will be replaced at no cost. Period.
Sterling became part of Metal Forms Corporation in 2008. The winning combination of Sterling and Metal Forms represents over 200 years of excellence in the construction equipment marketplace.


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Climate Change Drives Marine Species to Rapidly Shift Their Ranges- A New Review Looks at Potential Ecological Consequences and Unknowns
January 11, 2020 | Climate ChangeEcologyOceanography
Principal investigator Malin Pinsky (Rutgers University), and research fellows Becca Selden (Wellesley College) and Zoë Kitchel (Rutgers University) are co-authors on a new publication in Annual Reviews, "Climate-Driven Shifts in Marine Species Ranges: Scaling from Organisms to Communities".
The authors' review is centered around the current understanding of marine species' rapidly shifting range distributions, while also discussing and comparing them to terrestrial species range shifts. They are concerned with geographic shifts attributed to climate change and write that, in the ocean, species range shifts are occurring at rates of 72 km/decade on average, or about "an order of magnitude faster than observed rates on land." These range shifts are leading to ecological and evolutionary consequences, changing species interactions (e.g. competition, facilitation, predation, etc.) that can influence their evolution and surrounding ecosystem, create novel ecosystems at the leading and trailing edges of their ranges, as well as impact overall ecosystem functioning. Summarized highlights from the authors include the following:
Changing marine environments are causing many marine species to colonize new territory and become locally extinct in historical locations.
While marine species are more sensitive to a changing climate than terrestrial ones, they have a greater ability to colonize new areas and do so at a faster rate than land species.
Shifting marine distributions results in restructured communities and food webs, but food web properties appear to be more stable than species identities.
At the leading and trailing edges of species' ranges, there are distinct ecological and evolutionary processes occurring that shape transient dynamics and the rate at which species vary at each edge.
Future species geographic shifts are expected to be dramatic, with many species' ranges projected to change at rates of 50-100 km/decade.
The authors also call attention to following unknowns and important future issues:
Understanding the importance of demographic mechanisms and factors that cause, or contribute, to these range shifts is a challenge.
A need for a better understanding of the mechanisms that drive distribution shifts, including direct environmental effects (e.g. oxygen and temperature) on organismal functioning and indirect effects that are mediated through species interactions.
Greater efforts are needed to link species traits to colonization and local extinctions, and to look at how currently unstudied species will respond to range shifts.
That using species traits may be a better way to project future interactions in new ecosystems created by range shifts.
Using genomic and experimental approaches can help to better understand the role evolution plays in colonization and local extinction.
The ocean is warming at an accelerated rate, but much more still needs to be known about what climate change will mean for global marine species extinction rates.
It's importance to use new programs and technologies to continue existing biogeographic monitoring programs while also expanding their use into new areas, such as the tropics, to better inform conservation and management decisions.
The above description and highlights are summarized from the reference below.
Pinsky, M. L., Selden, R. L., & Kitchel, Z. J. (2019). Climate-Driven Shifts in Marine Species Ranges: Scaling from Organisms to Communities. Annual review of marine science, 12.
Nereus Researchers Appear in New York Times Article Concerning Iceland's Shifting Fisheries
Malin Pinsky, Daniel Pauly and Rashid Sumaila (UBC) all appear in a recent New York Times article about Iceland's fisheries adapting to shifting fish distributions, entitled "Warming Waters, Moving Fish; How Climate Change is Reshaping Iceland".
December 2, 2019 | Climate ChangeFisheries
Shifting Species Distributions and Changes in Biomass Impact the Availability of Commercial Species Along the U.S. West Coast
Becca Selden (Wellesley College) and Malin Pinsky (Rutgers University) are co-authors on a new study in ICES Journal of Marine Science – "Coupled changes in biomass and distribution drive trends in availability of fish stocks to US West Coast ports."
November 14, 2019 | Climate ChangeFisheriesEcology
New Nereus Program Fellow: Zoë Kitchel
Meet Nereus's new research fellow Zoë Kitchel, who is working towards her Ph.D. in the Ecology and Evolution Department at Rutgers University under Principal Investigator Dr. Malin Pinsky. You can learn about her background, and what inspired her to pursue research exploring the dynamics at species range boundaries.
May 6, 2019 | Ecology
Policy Implications of Climate-Driven Species Distribution Shifts
In a Q & A session with Nereus researcher Dr. Richard Caddell, we delve deeper into the policy implications of the projected mass migration of fish towards the poles.
August 7, 2018 | Climate ChangeFisheriesLaw and Governance
Address: Aquatic Ecosystem Research Laboratory
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"This is the best place to get a pointe shoe fitting! They are helpful, caring, and know their stuff! I have been buying my pointe shoes from them for about 6 years and have zero complaints!!! :D LOVE IT!"
"Susan and the rest of the staff at The Dance Shoppe are an absolute delight to work with. They are professional and very well experienced and I can tell, through interacting with them on a professional business-to-business basis, that their customer's and their experience with the shop mean the world to them. If you are looking for a service oriented dance shop, with years of expertise and a great reputation, look no futher! Keep up the good work!"
"I've been going to the Dance Shoppe since I was a kid, and now my daughter gets ALL of her dance supplies there. They are always extremely knowledgeable and helpful!"
"There's a reason this store is crowded...this is the ONLY place anyone in KS or MO should be fitted for pointe shoes!!!! I'm so jealous that this store is up north because I drive 45 min. now because whether my kid needs pointe shoes or not, this is the only place I spend my dance dollars in! They have a beautiful selection of leotards and practice wear and the best dance shoe selection in MO or KS! Susan and her husband are lovely and knowledgeable and they have great sales!!! One time my daughters pointe shoes died right before an audition and Susan spent an HOUR rebuilding her shoes...literally ripping out the lining, replacing all the nails, and jet gluing so she could get through her audition, AND she didn't charge us a dime!. You can't put a price tag on people that truly care about their customers. My daughter now attends Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan (Susan's magic on her pointe shoes worked!) and when she needs something, I send Susan an e-mail and she ships directly to her, and always includes little "extras" like a care package, they make her feel so special!!! Gladstone is lucky to have you Dance Shoppe!!!"
"We have been going to the Dance Shoppe for a number of years now. Every single visit no matter who is helping is has been stellar. The place is small & cramped but clean. They have everything you need for any type of dance. Pointe shoes are hard to fit as well as hard to find places that will sew your strings on but Dance Shoppe will, right in the back. So, I always tell them please sew those puppies on. There are a wide variety of leotards for everyone's budget which is so awesome because I always don't have hundreds of dollars to spend on dance gear. There is a long laundry list of items that my daughter wants from this store so please continue to have sales & items priced at various price point, my wallet thanks you. One time my daughter needed a new dance bag. I looked around and as I always do look for sale & clearance items. Well, I found one! It was perfect for her. great color, enough pockets, she loved it. I took it to the register to ask why was it on clearance & he showed me the area that need attention & I thought ok I still want it. I can just take it some where to have that part sewn back shut or something. He just walked away. moments later he returned with the bag & had sewn it up for me for NO extra charge! WOW...So, now it's not a clearance item correct? of course it is, he said. We stand by our pricing & the products we sell. Well thank you! This is just one of the reasons I continue to go back. Customer service is EVERYTHING to me."


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Q: Why does Object debugger say my URL is a facebook URL and isn't "scrapable" In trying to create an "object" page for my first facebook app, I've run into some difficulty.  I followed Facebook's Open Graph Tutorial nearly exactly.
After creating an "object" html page with the appropriate <meta property="og:... tags I tried running the URL through the Debugger Tool as suggested in the tutorial but I'm given the following error:
"Facebook URLs aren't scrapable by this Debugger. Try your own."
This page is in the same directory on my company's linux box as the canvas page, and is certainly not a "Facebook URL".  If it matters, I'm using an IP instead of a domain name: xx.x.x.xxx/app/obj.html
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I continued the tutorial anyway, but ultimately it does not seem to want to post a new action/object (is this even right?).  I did however manage to get something to work, as in the app timeline view I apparently actioned one of those objects a couple hours ago.  I assume this happened when I was pasting curl POST commands into the terminal.
I'm pretty new to the whole open graph, and facebook APIs, etc., so I'm probably operating under false assumptions of some sort, and I've been all over trying different things, but this error seems pretty bizarre to me and I can't seem to resolve it.
UPDATE
I just took the object page and put it on my own personal shared hosting acct.  The debugger worked (inexplicably) fine on it, but I couldn't go too far since it's a different domain than the one authorized by my app.

A: Make sure og:url inside your html page does not point to facebook.
Also, make sure to look at the open graph protocol page (to see you formatted the og tags correctly.
Also, make sure the page is accessible to everyone, not just yourself.

A: Without knowing the URL it's hard to be sure, but it's most likely that your URL is either including a og:url tag pointing to a facebook.com address, or a HTTP 301/302 redirect to Facebook instead


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use yii\helpers\Html;

/* @var $this yii\web\View */
/* @var $model app\models\MesyuaratSenaraiNamaHadir */

$this->title = GeneralLabel::updateTitle.' '.GeneralLabel::mesyuarat_senarai_nama_hadir.': ' . ' ' . $model->senarai_nama_hadir_id;
$this->params['breadcrumbs'][] = ['label' => GeneralLabel::mesyuarat_senarai_nama_hadirs, 'url' => ['index']];
$this->params['breadcrumbs'][] = ['label' => $model->senarai_nama_hadir_id, 'url' => ['view', 'id' => $model->senarai_nama_hadir_id]];
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Police investigating armed robbery at Hanover Mall
Hanover Police are searching for a woman who they said robbed a mall store employee at knife point inside the Hanover Mall.
Police investigating armed robbery at Hanover Mall Hanover Police are searching for a woman who they said robbed a mall store employee at knife point inside the Hanover Mall. Check out this story on yorkdispatch.com: https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/crime/2019/05/30/hanover-police-investigating-armed-robbery/1287113001/
Christopher Dornblaser, York Dispatch Published 3:16 p.m. ET May 30, 2019 | Updated 5:29 p.m. ET June 3, 2019
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Hanover Police are searching for a woman who they said robbed an employee at knifepoint inside the Hanover Mall.
The department said in a news release that the robbery occurred about 3 p.m. Monday, May 27.
Police said the woman approached an 18-year-old employee at the register, then took a knife out and demanded she open the cash register.
The employee gave the woman an undetermined amount of money from the register. The women then fled on foot, according to the release. She ran through another business and exited on the Eichelberger Street side of the mall, where police said she may have fled in a vehicle.
The employee was working alone at the time.
The suspect was described as white, in her 20s or 30s, wearing a grayish-white hoodie and black pants. She also had light-colored, possibly blonde hair and bruising around one of her eyes, the release states.
The department also released a photo of a person of interest in the investigation.
Anyone with information on that person or the incident is asked to call police at 717-637-5575 or through York County 911.
Hanover Police are searching for this woman who they say is a person of interest in a robbery at the Hanover Mall on May 27. Photo courtesy of Hanover Police. (Photo: Submitted)
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John Liddle (Sullivan County Deputy County Manager)
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For our latest Sullivan 180 Presents…Take Five! we spoke with John Liddle, Deputy County Manager for Sullivan County, NY Government and now also the Commission for Social Services, to discuss how his role changed during the pandemic, what the re-opening of the County looks like and his thoughts on his new role.
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Samantha Mango:
Hi, I'm Samantha Mango and welcome to "Sullivan 180 Presents… Take Five!". My guest today is John Liddle, Deputy County Manager at Sullivan County Government. Welcome John. Thanks for being here.
John Liddle:
Thanks for having me on!
I'm good. And I'm enjoying the summer days more or less. Yeah, it's good. A lot of things going on with County government, not all of them are good.
You want to take a moment and introduce yourself, your job title and a little bit about how your role has changed throughout the pandemic?
Yes, definitely. So I am the Deputy County Manager. Starting next week, I'm also going to be the Commissioner of Social Services. So it's kind of a big change in focus and mindset, but by the same token, it's actually a really good fit for me. And I think a win win for the County right now. But through the pandemic, I was the Incident Commander for the COVID-19 Response and I'm really proud of what our team has accomplished over the course of that. And although there's certainly warning signs around the country right now, we're certainly good shape here in New York and in Sullivan County. So really proud of all the work that especially our public health folks have done.
What are some new initiatives that the county is working on in response to the pandemic?
There's so many things. I mean, it's, it's really has changed the way we do business. And I think the thing that I'm most proud for our team is the Emergency Community Assistance Center, which has actually wound down as of last week. They are still taking the phone call, so if folks have the number, they can still call it the 845-807-0925 , we're still helping folks out. We're helping folks out mostly by continuing to coordinate getting food from Hudson Valley food bank, from the Salvation Army and other, bigger distributors out to the smaller food pantries around the County to make sure that they stay stocked, because we know that, even though our numbers are looking a lot better, there's still a lot of folks that are struggling and with the economy being the way it is right now, just starting to wake up. So we're still going to take care of folks, but, the Emergency Community Assistance Center worked really hard through all this. I helped a lot of people: got them food, got the medicine, got them PPE when they needed it. So that was really great. And then I think the other big thing is the interactive dashboard that we were able to build. We did that all in house, and that's no small feat for a County of this size to be able to put together a GIS dashboard with detailed information down to the zip code of where the cases are, where we're at, as far as quarantine and active cases. Those numbers are being tracked and updated on a daily basis. I dare say even better than they're doing in Albany with it! So I'm really proud of our IT team, and our public health team, public safety…that was really a whole team effort to get all that data together, and get it out to people so that they can make good decisions on how to keep themselves safe.
As we reopen. What should County residents expect Sullivan County to look like in the next couple of weeks throughout the course of the summer into fall?
The big thing we're emphasizing with everybody is that the "wearing of masks, hand hygiene, and social distancing". The numbers are where they are right now, not because the threat of COVID is over, it's because all those things that we've been doing for the last several months are working, and we need to keep at them. We'll be watching closelywhat the state government's decisions are with regard to phase four. They have backed away from reopening the malls and gyms and movie theaters, which is tough, but it's probably also the right call given what we're seeing, what else is going on around the country. So playing it safe there is a good thing by in large. I do think there's opportunities for folks that want to work out: they can, like me, work out in yoga studios, things like that, that take their business outside, and there's ways to run it safely outside. It's tough to do a gym in a confined space right now: everybody's sharing the equipment, but hopefully with a little bit of creativity and support from the state, we can get there from here.
How can people stay in touch and get up to date news coming from the County?
So our social media is very active. Dan, who is the County's Director of Communications. Dan does a wonderful job keeping everything up to date. He was essential to the interactive dashboard in getting that going. The Town Halls that we run on Facebook: we've been running those on Monday and Thursdays. I think they do a pretty good job. Aside from that, you know, we have a great partnership with Radio Bold and JFF. So just keeping in tune on the airwaves is also a good way to get good solid information.
Is there anything else you'd like to share?
Well, looking forward, I'm going to be the Commissioner for Social Services, so I'm really looking forward to getting those folks better connected with the community, and working on our County wide health objectives. We upticked one point with Robert Wood Johnson this year. I'm hoping that we can really do a lot more with that. I'm especially excited about working with Bob Defour and the school districts on getting a better connection between the services that we provide in County government and the services that the school districts are providing, and really kind of get those things jelling together and work in better. Becasue that to me is so important: taking care of kids and hopefully in a lot of cases, kids setting good examples for their parents. Hopefully, it will help get us going, and really, jump us from, 60 to 50 to 40 and beyond. So, I'm excited about the future! We definitely have a tough road ahead, till we get through COVID-19, but we're in a great place here before this epidemic started and, there's a lot of opportunity Sullivan County now.
Thanks so much for being here. I appreciate your time.
Yeah. Glad you're doing this, and it's good to hear from everybody else that's been on!
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Open end spinning or open-end spinning is a technology for creating yarn without using a spindle. It was invented and developed in Czechoslovakia. In 1965 Czech KS200 rotor spinning machine was introduced at 30000 rotor rpm. In 1982 there were nearly 4 mil of places using open-end spinnig, which make at least 10% of production capaciy of all spinning mills.
260 000 rotors of spinning machines were runnig in Czechoslovakia covering cca 1/3 of total consumption of darn. 2 milions of "classical" spindles were manufacturing the remaining 2/3 of darn of cotton or wool type.
Under pressure of cheap Asian countries, especially on clothing textiles, situation in Czech spinning mills has developed the same way as in West Europe. In 2006 the sale of darn and fibres of cotton, wool and mixes have reached hardly 1/3 quantity of 1984 year.


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Q: Superfluid across a temperature gradient As I understand it, superfluids cannot sustain temperature gradients; specifically, if a gradient is introduced somewhere on the boundary of the superfluid, a "second sound" thermal wave propagates across through the bulk of the superfluid to bring it to a uniform temperature.
What happens, however, if you force a constant gradient on a superfluid? Say, by immersing a couple of metal contacts in it, one of which is externally heated and the other of which is refrigerated so as to maintain a constant temperature differential between them? Would the superfluid equilibrate to the average temperature of the temperature-forcing contacts?


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Surplus DND building in Esquimalt floats away to new home
Local heritage advocate glad to see oldtime politician's former home saved, moved to new site
Mar. 4, 2013 7:00 p.m.
A Nickel Brothers driver starts up his truck in preparation to move a house from 316 Anson St. on Department of National Defence land to a barge at the shoreline near Macaulay Point. The building was towed up Island to Buckley Bay on Monday.
An Island couple have come to the rescue of a DND heritage home previously slated for the scrapyard.
The property, located at 316 Anson St. near Macaulay Point, is the former home of John Jardine, Esquimalt's representative in the Provincial Assembly from 1907 to 1912.
The heritage committee for the Township of Esquimalt cried foul in September when Parks Canada said the building didn't qualify for heritage protection and it was placed on DND's surplus inventory list.
But early Monday morning, the three-storey wood-framed structure was loaded onto a barge and towed to a half-acre lot between Buckley Bay and Union Bay.
The operation is nothing new for buyers Ben and Jen Ford.
The couple have replanted six heritage houses along the east coast of Vancouver Island since 2006, including their current home in Union Bay, which originated in Vancouver's Dunbar neighbourhood.
"We're pretty unique in what we do," Ben said. "Years later, you look back and realize it's very different than what most other people call a profession."
A key factor in moving the home was in purchasing a lot close to the water, he added.
Because of the building's height, B.C. Hydro crews were on hand Friday to remove electrical obstacles as house movers Nickel Brothers wheeled the structure toward the shoreline at Macaulay Point.
"The DND was wanting to remove the house one way or another, so we did about two months of work in about a week and a half," Ford said.
Biological and geotechnical surveys had to be completed on a creek bed running through the Buckley Bay property, and the couple were responsible for readying the interior of the house for the move.
Jack Bates, a military heritage advocate who fought to save the building, said he's glad the Fords came forward with a compromise.
"If it can't stay on site with some form of enterprise to make it pay for itself … at least it's being relocated," he said.
The home features first-cut pine and fir flooring, a split staircase and four original fireplaces.
It was most recently used as a child-care facility for DND staff, according to federal documents.
"It's a win-win for everybody," Ford said.
"The DND gets the house out of there in a politically correct manner, the Hallmark Society is happy it wasn't destroyed and we've got an amazing project to work on."
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PT Graha Loka Pangestu Overview
PT Graha Loka Pangestu (GLP) is one of the newest property developers in Indonesia. GLP has just launched a new apartment targeted for girls called Adhigrya Pangesty (AGP) apartment in Depok, West Java.
The apartment is targeted for the students of the universities along Margonda road. Before, GLP built a house for girls called Griya Pangestu and changed it into an apartment. The reason the company built an apartment for girls is because there's a weird phenomenon in Depok, especially in Universitas Indonesia where there are more girls than boys.
Daftar Proyek Oleh PT Graha Loka Pangestu
Adhigrya ??Pangestu is a vertical housing for women built near the UI campus, precisely on Jalan Margonda Raya, Depok. In addition, this apartment is also located close to Gunadarma University. In addition, various shopping centers and office buildings that will support the dynamic active lifestyle of modern women today also surround this apartment. Adhigrya ??Pangestu is equipped with many facilities such as salon, laundry, fitness center, exclusive swimming pool, Internet, cable TV, mini market, access cards, and 24-hour security. This residence offers several types of studios with different sizes. The types of units offered are type 39 (64 units), type 33 (16 units), type 30 (272 units), type 28 (42 units), type 27 (86 units), and type 26 (16 units). Adhigrya ??Pangestu comes at a low-end price, making it suitable for female students and female workers who want affordable and comfortable housing with complete facilities in the City of Depok. PT Graha Loka Pangestu developed this residence on a total land area of 2,112 square meters. The developer developed Adhigrya ??Pangestu for women - making it the first in Indonesia. The considerable number of the female population in Depok can be seen from the specifics that the developer took statistically, where there is a correlation of the population in Depok where 50 percent are women. In addition, the high crime rate in Depok that can provide a sense of insecurity for women is also the purpose of this residential building. Adhigrya ??Pangestu built one tower with a height of 24 floors, including three rubanah floors with a total of 551 units. This residential market target is 80 percent of investors and 20 percent of end-users. Students from the University of Indonesia (UI), Pancasila University, and Gunadarma University were recognized by the developers to be a quite large market. On average each year, there are 20,000 new students and assuming 50 percent of them are female students, so the captive market is for 10,000 people. The apartment with a project value of Rp 209 billion will be built by the main contractor PT Adhicon Perkasa and is projected to be completed in 2018.


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Inne organizacje społeczne są wspomniane w kodeksowej definicji organizacji społecznych uregulowanej w Kodeksie postępowania administracyjnego. Zalicza się do nich przede wszystkim stowarzyszenia działające na mocy Prawa o stowarzyszeniach. Zgodnie z orzecznictwem Naczelnego Sądu Administracyjnego w pojęciu innych organizacji społecznych nie mieszczą się fundacje.

Bibliografia
 Kędziora R., Ogólne postępowanie administracyjne, Warszawa 2008, s. 30.
 Wyrok NSA w Warszawie z dnia 6 maja 1998 r. IV SA 898/96

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Leading German COVID Policy Critic, Professor, Gets Detained By Police For Walking Without Mask
By P Gosselin on 4. January 2022
Dark times return to Germany as authorities attempt to stomp out freedoms.
Police randomly target, pick off peaceful demonstrators. Symbol photo. Source: Freie Niedersachsen
As Germany scrambles to stifle the growing grassroots movement against COVID restrictions and vaccine mandates, authorities are resorting to ever more extreme tactics to shut down the fundamental right to dissent.
One retired German professor recounts his own experience:
Detained, charged and barred – for going for a walk …out of control authorities
By Prof. Dr. Stefan Homburg
Originally published at Reitschuster.de
[Hanover] Yesterday, the Monday after New Year's Day, 2022, I wanted to watch for the first time one of the "walks" now taking place by the thousands all over Germany since authorities have banned demonstrations.
I know from the newspaper that the police have issued a general order on FFP2 masks to make it easier to take tougher action against walkers. The medical bogus arguments are no longer used, so I put a mask in my pocket.
At the Town Hall, the designated meeting place, I can only see a huge police contingent. I stroll alone to the state parliament, where a large group of people are being detained and requested to designate a leader of the gathering. I stay away from that and continue to Hanover's Kröpcke central square, where on this mild January evening several hundred people can be found, most of them on their way to or from the shops.
Keeping an eye out for possible walkers, I stop for a moment and a lady standing next to me abruptly says she hasn't been downtown for ages because of lockdowns and masks. As I feel the same way, we admire the Christmas decorations together for half a minute. As I want to move on, there are suddenly five police officers in front of us and, as I turn around, about ten to fifteen behind us, forming a ring around the lady, myself and maybe eight other, mostly elderly people. Asked what this means, a blonde policewoman answers me that she hereby declares us an [illegal] assembly. I immediately put on my FFP2 mask, am honestly shocked and reply that this is probably a civic prank. As a result of the police presence and the crowd that has formed, there are now many spectators in the square, and basically any lot of persons could be surrounded from behind and declared an "assembly".
An acquaintance who happens to be passing by wants to join me, but she is not allowed into police surrounded group, and I am not allowed out. More and more police officers arrive, also spectators, and the whole scene is getting filmed many times over. I also receive shouts from people who recognize me and express their surprise at this strange measure. The term "fascism" gets used and the police officers are verbally attacked harshly by the bystanders.
After about a quarter of an hour, things get serious: I am taken away by three men, and when I ask what I am accused of, I get the answer: violation of the obligation to wear a mask. I reply that I am wearing one, even FFP2, and have been since the group formed. But it is of no use: I should have been wearing the mask before the group formed, and that they have photos to prove that this was not the case.
Now that I am away from the others, I only notice out of the corner of my eye that others who are not wearing masks are worse off. Maybe because they just wanted to walk through the city and for that reason didn't have one with them. In any case, I hear commotion and screams, but as a detained person I cannot investigate. After taking my personal details, the police tell me that proceedings will be taken against me and that I am banished from the entire city center. Yet, the police officer in charge is unable to define the boundaries of the area. Instead, he threatens me with imprisonment in case of a violation.
Two conclusions
Firstly, the police can, through underhanded singling out, pin a case on anyone who is outside their home, and that is probably the point of the action. Secondly, if this cannot be called fascism, where does it actually begin? Or to put it another way, what more do we actually want to put up with?
Dr Stefan Homburg is a retired university professor of public finance at Leibniz University in Hanover, Germany, and has advised numerous governments, politicians and parliaments and provides information on the Corona crisis at twitter.com/SHomburg.
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New Study: Pacific And Indian Ocean Sea Levels Rising 'Much Slower Than Climate Model Predictions'
Over 700 low-lying islands in the Pacific and Indian Oceans have coasts that have been stable to expanding in size since the 1980s. The relative sea level rise has only been +0.46 mm/year in these regions with "almost trivial acceleration of +0.0091 mm/year²".
The claim that sea levels are rising so fast that low-lying islands have been uniformly sinking into the sea worldwide is wholesale myth.
Actually, the opposite has been observed via satellite. A 2019 global-scale analysis of 709 islands in the Pacific and Indian Oceans revealed 89% were either stable or growing in size, and that no island larger than 10 ha (and only 4 of 334 islands larger than 5 ha) had decreased in size since the 1980s (Duvat, 2019).
Image Source: Duvat, 2019
As Dr. Alberto Boretti asserts in a new paper, one of the main reasons why Pacific and Indian Ocean islands have not been mercilessly submerged beneath the sea as a consequence of today's "catastrophic" climate change is that sea level rise has only been rising "very slowly" in these regions: 0.46 mm/year in recent decades. The acceleration is "an almost trivial" 0.0091 mm/year².
Succinctly, "absolute sea levels are rising much slower than in climate model predictions."
Image Source: Boretti, 2021
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British Medical Journal: "The End Of The Pandemic Won't Be Televised". It'll End When Media Lose Interest
The British Medical Journal has an article by David Robertson and Peter Doshi, who write: " The end of the pandemic won't be televised.
Image: BMJ, Figure 1.
Historically, pandemics run their course over two to three years before they fizzle out into some regular bug.. If the early information surrounding Omicron is an indication, COVID 19 will end up the same way – and would do so with or without all the costly measures and "vaccines".
German Professor Stefan Homburg summarized the main points at Twitter:
The Corona virus distinguishes itself from previous pandemic on one central point: Through dashboards, it is dominated by figures and charts that appear constantly on television and Mobile devices."
There's no general definition for the end of a pandemic, as a respiratory virus — once it becomes endemic — will return again and again in waves. The cases will never fall to zero over an extended period of time."
Strong influenza pandemics, such as the Spanish flu (1918), Asian flu (1957) and Hong Kong flu (1968) did not lead to any measures that are comparable to those of Corona."
Pandemic ends when policymakers and the media deem them to be no longer worth mentioning."
For Corona, the best was out is likely to turn off the dashboards that fire up your attention."
Unlike the start, the end of the pandemic won't appear on television."
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New Annual Temperature Data Show No Warming In Tokyo In 45 Years…Hachijō-jima Island No Warming In 71 Years!
There's been no warming in Tokyo in decades!
By Kirye
and Pierre
The December-2021 mean temperature data from the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) for Tokyo and its Hachijō-jima island in the Pacific are in and so first we look the December trends side-by side:
Data source: JMA
Since 1985, the mean monthly temperature for December in Tokyo has been flat since 1975.
The island of Hachijō-jima, located some 287 kilometers south of Tokyo, thus far away from all the urban sprawl and heat island affects, has also seen a flat mean temperature trend – since 1923!
Nothing unusual is happening at these two very different stations in December.
Annual mean temperatures show no warming!
But that's only a trend for a month. Now that December data are available, it is possible to update the annual temperature trend for these two stations.
First we plot the JMA mean annual temperature for Tokyo going back to 1994:
Data source: JMA.
Here we see that the megalopolis has been cooling moderately, thus defying the predictions of warming. Despite the sprawling megalopolis of steel, asphalt and concrete, Tokyo has been cooling off.
Obviously there's something other than trace gas CO2 driving the trends there.
Hachijō-jima
Moving offshore to the Tokyo island of Hachijō-jima, away from all the urban heat island affects, we look at the newest mean annual temperature going back to 1950.
Has it been warming or cooling?
If we look closely at the chart, we see there's something natural and cyclic behind the temperature at the island in the Philippine Sea, but overall no warming in over 70 years!
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Germany Drought Ends. 2021 Was "An Average Weather Year," Reports German DWD Weather Service…0.2°C Cooler
By P Gosselin on 31. December 2021
Germany 2021 – "an average weather year"
Despite drought-ending wet periods, Germany saw "an average weather year" in 2021, says the German DWD National Weather Service. Photo: P. Gosselin
"Quite average"
Offenbach, Germany, 30 December 2021 – The weather year 2021 was quite average in Germany overall, says. Tobias Fuchs, Climate Director of the German Meteorological Service (DWD): "Our assessment of the year 2021 is mixed. There were no new temperature records in Germany and sufficient precipitation for almost all of Germany. This meant that our forests in particular were able to recover somewhat from the drought of the previous three years.
But Fuchs also claimed that "the worst flood disaster in decades" occurring in July was the consequence of climate change. "Weather extremes can affect each and every one of us. If you protect the climate, you protect yourself," says Fuchs in the DWD press release.
Coldest April in 40 years
February saw heavy snowfalls and extreme frosts in the center of the country. A brief early summer spell in March was followed by the coldest April in 40 years. June went down in the annals as the third warmest, and the rest of the summer brought historically heavy rainfall in places. In September, however, there was a late summer feeling. The rest of the autumn was dull. All in all, 2021 was on average wet and slightly too sunny. This is according to the preliminary DWD weather results from data from some 2000 stations across Germany.
2021 a bit cooler than the 1991-2020 reference period
The mean temperature in 2021 was 9.1 degrees Celsius (°C), 0.2 degrees cooler than the mean of the 1991 to 2020 reference period. Great temperature contrasts characterized the first months of the year. Polar air masses frequently competed with partly spring-like temperatures. In the middle of the country, severe frost brought new temperature records locally in February.
Mühlhausen, 40 km northwest of Erfurt, not only set a new station record of -26.7 °C on the morning of 10 February, but also reported the lowest annual value in Germany. This was followed by the coldest April for 40 years. However, June turned up the temperature and became the third warmest after 2019 and 2003.
Drought ended
In 2021, around 805 liters per square meter (l/m², 31.7 inches) of precipitation fell. This corresponds roughly to the average of the reference period 1961 to 1990 (789 l/m²) and the period 1991 to 2020 (791 l/m²). In February, an air mass boundary brought heavy snowfall to the center of the country. Between the Erzgebirge and Emsland, 20 to 40 cm of snow fell widely around 12 February.
Local torrential rain in July
In terms of the number of heavy precipitation events from May to September, the year 2021 ranks second since 2001, according to the National Weather Service. Some localities saw torrential downpours and devastating floods in July.
The DWD blames the localized July weather extreme on "climate change".
In the Alps and in the southern Black Forest, precipitation accumulated over the course of the year to over 2000 l/m² in some places. The driest areas were east of the Harz Mountains with less than 500 l/m².
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Scientists Now Confirm mRNA Vaccines Produce NEGATIVE Effectiveness Against Omicron
By Kenneth Richard on 30. December 2021
Multiple scientific studies and testing data compiled by national health centers expose the harrowing truth: injection with COVID-19 vaccines actually increase the likelihood of infection with the Omicron variant.
There were 1.61 million new COVID cases confirmed on 29 December. This is hundreds of thousands more than any other single day since the pandemic began.
Over 1 million of these new cases occurred in 5 highly vaccinated countries: USA, France, UK, Spain, and Canada.
Image Source: worldometers.info
Data compiled by the Ontario government show that fully vaccinated individuals have 28% higher COVID-19 infection rates (64 per 100,000) than the unvaccinated (50 per 100,000). On 29 December there were 8,221 new cases in fully vaccinated Ontarians versus 1,514 in the unvaccinated.
Image Source: ontario.ca
An Omicron study from Denmark tells us that within 91 to 150 days after receiving the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA shots the vaccine effectiveness against symptomatic infection with the Omicron variant is decisively negative: -76.5% and -39.3%, respectively.
In other words, fully vaccinated individuals are about 40 to 75% more likely to be symptomatically infected with COVID-19 – the Omicron variant – than individuals who have not been vaccinated.
The effectiveness of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines plummets from about 40-50% during the first month to just above 0% 61 to 90 days after the last dose. After 90 days, the vaccines enhance the likelihood of infection.
Image Source: Hansen et al., 2021
The UK government COVID data compiled between 27 November and 17 December show a similarly disappointing pattern in an analysis of 68,489 Omicron cases.
Vaccine (Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca) effectiveness against Omicron hovers around 40-60% during 5-9 weeks after the second dose, but then effectiveness rapidly declines to 0% and below (-5% to -15%) by weeks 20-24.
Image Source: UK Health Security Agency
Seventeen scientists published a pre-print analysis online on 15 December reporting the Omicron variant is "remarkably resistant to neutralization by serum" from the widely-used COVID-19 vaccines.
The scientists warn:
"Even serum from persons vaccinated and boosted with mRNA-based vaccines exhibited substantially diminished neutralizing activity against [Omicron]."
"The Omicron variant presents a serious threat to many existing COVID-19 vaccines and therapies" as it "seemingly flattens the antibody therapy landscape for COVID-19."
"[A] substantial decrease in neutralization of [Omicron] was observed, with mean drops of >6.0-foldand >4.1-fold for the fully vaccinated group and boosted group, respectively."
Image Source: Liu et al., 2021
Earlier this month scientists publishing in The New England Journal of Medicine (including the USA's notorious Dr. Anthony Fauci) seemed to concede that Omicron changes the pandemic-response landscape.
They insisted there is already an "urgent need" for new vaccines because mRNA vaccines "elicit transient and incomplete protective immunity" and they are "unable to prevent 'breakthrough' infections." And, due to these "sobering facts," COVID-19 will "continue to circulate indefinitely".
Image Source: Morens et al., 2021
The question is why would that be so? A weakened immune system? Let's hope not because that is the last thing a generally poorly nourished population would need if there's an influenza outbreak this winter. -PG
Arctic Ocean Warming Began Already In Early 20th Century, Meaning Natural Factors Strongly At Play, Not CO2
In a recent paper, scientists expressed their surprise that the Arctic had started warming already back in the early 20th century, 100 years ago. This, along with the obligatory CO2 climate warming lip service, is described in a Cambridge University press release.
Hat-tip: Die kalte Sonne
Arctic Ocean started getting warmer decades earlier than we thought, study finds
by University of Cambridge
An international group of researchers reconstructed the recent history of ocean warming at the gateway to the Arctic Ocean in a region called the Fram Strait, between Greenland and Svalbard, and found that the Arctic Ocean has been warming for much longer than earlier records have suggested. Credit: Sara Giansiracusa
Natural oceanic currents
The Arctic Ocean has been getting warmer since the beginning of the 20th century—decades earlier than records suggest—due to warmer water flowing into the delicate polar ecosystem from the Atlantic Ocean.
An international group of researchers reconstructed the recent history of ocean warming at the gateway to the Arctic Ocean in a region called the Fram Strait, between Greenland and Svalbard.
Atlantic waters flow into the Arctic
Using the chemical signatures found in marine microorganisms, the researchers found that the Arctic Ocean began warming rapidly at the beginning of the last century as warmer and saltier waters flowed in from the Atlantic—a phenomenon called Atlantification—and that this change likely preceeded the warming documented by modern instrumental measurements. Since 1900, the ocean temperature has risen by approximately 2 degrees Celsius, while sea ice has retreated and salinity has increased.
The results, reported in the journal Science Advances, provide the first historical perspective on Atlantification of the Arctic Ocean and reveal a connection with the North Atlantic that is much stronger than previously thought. The connection is capable of shaping Arctic climate variability, which could have important implications for sea-ice retreat and global sea level rise as the polar ice sheets continue to melt.
Atlantification is one of the causes of warming in the Arctic, however instrumental records capable of monitoring this process, such as satellites, only go back about 40 years.
Using the chemical signatures found in marine microorganisms, researchers have found that the Arctic Ocean began warming rapidly at the beginning of the last century as warmer and saltier waters flowed in from the Atlantic – a phenomenon called Atlantification. Credit: Sara Giansiracusa
The researchers used geochemical and ecological data from ocean sediments to reconstruct the change in water column properties over the past 800 years. They precisely dated sediments using a combination of methods and looked for diagnostic signs of Atlantification, like change in temperature and salinity.
"When we looked at the whole 800-year timescale, our temperature and salinity records look pretty constant," said co-lead author Dr. Tesi Tommaso from the Institute of Polar Sciences of the National Research Council in Bologna. "But all of a sudden at the start of the 20th century, you get this marked change in temperature and salinity—it really sticks out."
"The reason for this rapid Atlantification of at the gate of the Arctic Ocean is intriguing," said Muschitiello. "We compared our results with the ocean circulation at lower latitudes and found there is a strong correlation with the slowdown of dense water formation in the Labrador Sea. In a future warming scenario, the deep circulation in this subpolar region is expected to further decrease because of the thawing of the Greenland ice sheet. Our results imply that we might expect further Arctic Atlantification in the future because of climate change."
The researchers say that their results also expose a possible flaw in climate models, because they do not reproduce this early Atlantification at the beginning of the last century.
"Climate simulations generally do not reproduce this kind of warming in the Arctic Ocean, meaning there's an incomplete understanding of the mechanisms driving Atlantification," said Tommaso. "We rely on these simulations to project future climate change, but the lack of any signs of an early warming in the Arctic Ocean is a missing piece of the puzzle."
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No 'Day After Tomorrow'… German Oceanographer Sees No Reliable Trend Suggesting Slowdown In Atlantic Gulf Stream
Scientists say there's just too little data available to suggest the Gulf Stream is slowing down, and there won't be in the next five years.
Die kalte Sonne looked at the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the system of surface and deep currents in the Atlantic Ocean that – among other things – transports warmer tropical water to the north Atlantic and to Europe, thus keeping the old continent a few degrees milder in the wintertime.
Some alarmist scientists, like at the Potsdam Institute, have been suggesting that climate change would cause this massive heat conveyor to stall and to cast the North Atlantic into a deep freeze, like in the film "The Day After Tomorrow".
But Die kalte Sonne here reports that there's no consensus or scientific data to support this media popular scenario.
"Low confidence"
For example, Chapter 9 of Working Group I of the 6th IPCC report there's "low confidence" in AMOC changes over the 20th century and only medium confidence of an abrupt collapse over the 21st century (model-based).
Image: Die kalte Soone, Klimaschau
This means scientists have nowhere near enough information about how the AMOC has changed over the past century, or will change up to the year 2100. They have no clue.
Thus a climate-tipping AMOC stall remains adventurous speculation.
"Nobody knows"…"too little data"
German oceanographer Martin Visbeck also warned in a September 2, 2021, interview with Die Zeit that there's too little data available to allow any reliable conclusions to be drawn.
When Visbeck was asked by Die Zeit what he thought about the 20 years of data gathered so far by a huge network of ocean buoys, he told Die Zeit:
Not much. One could possibly detect a slight downward trend using the mean of the data. But nobody knows whether this has to do with the usual data fluctuations, or if there's a real long-term reduction in the current behind it. Personally I wouldn't trust any trend that is based on so little data. It all could change in five years. And in my view, even then there will be no reliable evidence that would allow a statement on whether the AMOC has weakened or strengthened over the past 100 years."
Posted in Natural Oceanic Oscillations, Oceans | 3 Responses
More Evidence: Glaciers Existing Today Were Absent For Nearly All Of The Last 10,000 Years
The cryosphere is failing to cooperate with the anthropogenic global warming narrative that says rising greenhouse gas emissions should be catastrophically melting Arctic ice.
Scientists (O'Regan et al., 2021) report Ryder Glacier in north Greenland has advanced 2,881 m from 1948-2015 given its advancing rate of 43 m/yr-1. Its modern ice extent is about 50 km greater than 6,300 years ago.
Nearby, the ~60 km-tongued Petermann Glacier didn't even exist during the Roman Warm Period. As the chart on the bottom right of the image below shows, there was no ice in this region for all but a few centuries of the Holocene prior to 2,000 years ago. Petermann's Little Ice Age size was similar to its modern condition.
Image Source: O'Regan et al., 2021
Another glaciologist (Winker, 2021) asserts there is "no evidence" that Jostedalsbreen, a southern Norway glacier, even existed during the first several thousand years of the Holocene, or when CO2 hovered near 260 ppm. The glacier reached its maximum advanced phase during the Little Ice Age, which had CO2 concentrations in the 275 to 280 ppm range.
"The 'Holocene Thermal Maximum' or 'Hypsithermal' at Jostedalsbreen provides no evidence for any substantial glacial activity and can be characterised as a prolongated period of near (possibly even complete) glacier disappearance… By contrast, the highest glacial input is dated to 600 and 200 cal. a BP indicating the local 'Little Ice Age'-maximum."
Interestingly, after wasting away rapidly during the 1930s and 1940s, the glacier stabilized. From the 1950s to 1980s, there was a "slight overall advance" in ice extent. This corresponds to a similar melt pattern for the Nigardsbreen glacier.
Image Source: Winker, 2021
Several months ago we highlighted another new study documenting a much warmer-than-today Early and Middle Holocene in East Greenland. Ice caps were "absent" or far less extensive than they are presently during this period.
What may be surprising is that carbon-dated plant remains buried under retreating glaciers in East Greenland affirm these locations were not covered in glaciers as recently as 400 to 500 years ago, or during the Little Ice Age cold period.
Image Source: Medford et al., 2021
The authors even acknowledge there were occasionally brief "cold stages" during the Holocene when Greenland's glacier extent advanced to today's levels.
"…Renland Ice Cap briefly reach[ed] extents during cold phases that may have been similar to today."
Of course, this affirms that modern temperatures and ice volumes fall within the range of a "cold stage" too.
So, once again, there is no evidence to support the alarmist claims that modern glacier extents are unprecedented or even unusual relative to the last 10,000 years – including the last few centuries.
Posted in Arctic, Glaciers, Little Ice Age | 15 Responses
German November Excess Deaths Reach 20%…Week 48 Excess Deaths Reach 28%! Nearly 2000 COVID Vaccine Deaths In 2021
Germany's COVID-vaccine-related number of deaths may be as high as 40,000. Excess mortality
Germany's Paul Ehrlich Institute (PEI) recently published its latest report on COVID-vaccines.
Page 10, Table 2, shows that a total of 1,919 deaths have been reported for the COVID vaccines up to November 30th.
Source: Paul Ehrlich Institute
A 2017 bulletin issued by the PEI, however reports that only 5-10% of the cases are reported (pdf edition 1/2017, page 30). If that applies to the COVID vaccines, then the real number may be well over 20,000 deaths, possibly as high as 40,000 deaths.
Almost 200,000 adverse events were reported over the time period, which means the real number could be in the millions.
Excess deaths on 2021
Meanwhile, a press release from the German Federal Statistics Office (Destatis) from December 14, 2021, reported that 92,295 people died in Germany in November 2021. This figure is 20% higher than the mean value (median) of the years 2017 to 2020. Note that these are preliminary death figures.
In the 48th calendar week (from 29 November to 5 December), the figures were 28% above the average value of the previous years:
Germany weekly excess deaths, up to December 9, 2021. Source: Destatis.
The total number of excess deaths for 2021 since January, has reached 50,362.
German site apolut here comments:
The numbers across Europe are similar to Germany and even there, the only difference between 2021 and previous years is vaccination. Until someone can give me another conclusive explanation for the observed excess mortality, I personally assume that it is mainly fatal vaccination damage. The 'we don't know' is not enough of a counter-argument for me."
German ARD Television Cabaret Artist Says Warmer Planet Better…"167,000 Fewer Cold Deaths"
By Die kalte Sonne
Shortly before Christmas, cabaret artist Dieter Nuhr regularly appears on ARD German public television and looks back on the year. This was also the case for 2021 and, in addition to the topic of Corona, the climate was once again on the agenda:
(Image: Screenshot ARD German public television Mediathek)
We have a transcript of the program here, or parts of it, because it will disappear from the ARD media library in 6 months. This is also to record how Mr. Nuhr saw the year 2021. Nuhr has become a hate figure by certain circles since his criticism of Fridays For Future and also of Greta Thunberg. There are regular calls circulating through social media demanding his broadcaster cancel the show.
We are already very high up on the cancel culture scale. Here are excerpts from Nuhr's view of the climate issue:
But the biggest surprise (in the Bundestag election) was the generation of first-time voters. Among the supposed Friday-For-Future generation, only one in four voted Green, on a par with the FDP Freed Democrats, which even had more votes. This must not be so bad for the climate issue, because all parties have set themselves the task of saving the climate. Unfortunately in vain, but I'm serious, because I think it would be great if we could stop climate change. Unfortunately – that can't be done from Germany, too bad, because what many people don't know is that you can't achieve world domination in the Bundestag elections. That was a surprising realization for many. It would be nice, but…unfortunately, unfortunately, even if we turned our country into a swamp biotope and replaced the population with frogs, what could happen next year, we don't know yet. Even then, I wouldn't see measurable climate cooling."
I would have liked to hear in the election campaign what the parties want to do not to prevent climate change, but to live with it. Because that will be the dominant issue of the next decades. We will not prevent the terrible catastrophes – like the one in Ahrweiler in July – with heat pumps or electric cars, but we will make them manageable with sewage systems and flood plains that can cope with heavy rainfall."
Since the climate summit in Glasgow, it has become absolutely clear that we will miss the 1.5 degree target. Those who were smart knew it beforehand. The heads of state of Russia and China didn't even show up, because, of course, they couldn't meet the deadline. Xi Jinping had to do a color wash. Vladimir Putin still had to return deposit bottles – that couldn't be postponed. My hope was the American president, he had a super idea, he said: "May God save the planet" and then he fell asleep. Well, someone has to do it, I'm afraid that relying on God already went wrong with the plague."
By the way, 5 million people die every year because of the weather. 1/10 of all deaths can be attributed to extreme temperatures. 90%, by the way, because it's too cold. I found that interesting once. There are already an additional 116,000 heat deaths every year, no joke, but also 283,000 fewer deaths due to cold – making a total of 167,000 undead. There are 4.5 times as many people dying from cold as from heat in this world and the Barcelona Institute of Global Health says that the data suggests that the total number of deaths will decrease in the coming years. That is good news.
The original German broadcast can be seen until June 22, 2022, at the ARD media library.
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World Leading Microbiologist Warns mRNA Vaccines May Have Opened Gates Of Immunological Hell
No scientist has been as outspoken and emphatic about the dangers of mRNA vaccines as microbiologist Prof. Sucharit Bhakdi.
Doctors for COVID Ethics here have released his latest video message to the world.
Bhakdi has issued extremely dire warnings, based on recent data from leading pathologists.
Bhakdi has been warning about the new mRNA vaccines for over a year.
In his latest video, he describes what pathologists have been finding in vaccinated patients who have died shortly after being injected with mRNA vaccines. The spike protein producing MRNA nanoparticles are attacking organs in a significant number of patients. Bhakdi even goes to say that what governments and health authorities are doing is tantamount to lining kids up against the wall.
It's a shocking assessment, and even if just half true, it would have to go down as mass scale negligent homicide.
On photos that pathologists have released, Bhakdi comments: "You politicians, you authorities – look at these pictures! Look at the people who have died. These people have been killed because of you. I can't stand it!"
"The proof is there! Laid out for the world"
"Your lymphocytes and the cells that are responsible for immune control of your body are dying. They are dying!"
He also warns of outbreaks of tuberculosis and cancer due to an immune system that has been damaged by the vaccines.


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Critical Narrative Analysis, Organized Social Violence, Criminal State, Poland
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Using occupational medical service to violate civic and human rights in Poland
According to the current Polish Labor Code adopted in 1974, employee returning to work after a medical leave of more than 30 days must submit to a medical examination, which is carried out by an occupational medical service, a separate branch of medical services. The outcome of this examination should be a medical certificate of being either fit or unfit for the particular job. This medical procedure is independent of all the usual medical services normally used by a person on medical leave.
Małgorzata Głuchowska (MG), a certified teacher of piano with a 23-year experience, employed by the State School of Music (Państwowa Szkoła Muzyczna) in Zielona Góra, remained on medical leave between September 11, 2015 and November 3, 2015. On October 28, 2015 she was summoned for the medical control examination and on Oct. 29 showed up at the Regional Center of Occupational Medicine (RCOM; Wojewódzki Ośrodek Medycyny Pracy) in Zielona Góra.
On Nov. 3 a RCOM physician ordered MG to undergo a psychological consultation, while telling her also to obtain another medical leave from her family doctor for the period between Nov. 4 and Nov. 13, although MG did not complain about any medical symptoms and wanted to return to work. The Polish Labor Code does not address relations between occupational medicine and the family doctor. It is clear, however, that an occupational physician cannot requite the person to procure a medical leave from a third party, if the employee does not have health issues and wants to return to work. The occupational physician broke the law.
On Nov. 17 MG received from RCOM a copy of documentation related to the control medical examination. However, RCOM did not issue a medical decision, although it is the stated legal outcome of the examination. This means RCOM staff broke the law again. The medical decision has not been issued to this day, Dec. 14.
The requirement that the employee must submit to an additional medical examination after a medical leave exceeding 30 days implies that work is not a right. It is a privilege, which may be most easily taken away from the citizen. This is typical of prison-like schemes, where inmates are rewarded with a permission to work.
The labor law of many European and non-European countries is available on the Internet. The Polish law stands out as very repressive. Poland is possibly the only country with a compulsive medical examination following the 30-day medical absence. Undoubtedly the purpose of this obligation was to create an opportunity for violating fundamental rights.
The Communist laws, including the still binding Communist Labor Code from 1974, were designed to facilitate surveillance, control and repression. The repressions against MG are carried out for political reasons.
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USDA reaffirms science-based decision making
Committed to science-based decision-making at G20 Agricultural Chief Scientists meeting
"The G20 MACS brings together Agricultural Chief Scientists from around the world to deliberate on global agricultural research priorities," Jacobs-Young said. "The meetings have proven to be essential in advancing the science and technology dialogue on critical issues facing the agricultural sector." (Stephanie Miles/Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research via Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency, Flickr/Creative Commons)
TOKYO — Two of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's top scientists today reaffirmed the United States' commitment to science-based decision-making at the G20 Agricultural Chief Scientists (MACS) meeting held this week in Tokyo.
Dr. Chavonda Jacobs-Young, USDA's Acting Chief Scientist and Administrator of the Agricultural Research Service and Dr. Scott Hutchins, USDA's Deputy Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics (REE), led the U.S. delegation. The United States has participated in MACS meetings since 2012.
"The G20 MACS brings together Agricultural Chief Scientists from around the world to deliberate on global agricultural research priorities," Jacobs-Young said. "The meetings have proven to be essential in advancing the science and technology dialogue on critical issues facing the agricultural sector."
"I was pleased to see an affirmation of the role for science-based decision making for advancing global food production in the MACS communique," Hutchins said. "Globally, we are seeing an increase in the use of scientific information in policymaking and it is important that we remain vigilant in our risk assessment processes to ensure that we continue to accelerate innovation in agriculture."
Hutchins said the USDA was also pleased to see support for the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) implementation of electronic phytosanitary certification (ePhyto) in the MACS communique.
"Embracing technological solutions such as ePhyto is critical to supporting efforts to minimize the global spread of transboundary plant pests," he said.
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This excerpt isn't anything earth shattering in the sense that murder or mayhem is happening; rather it gives an insight into the value of good friends. At the start of this excerpt Jessica is completely tuckered out from the stress of being called up on charges by the agency she works for and battling to clear her name. Compounded with the troubles with the drugged out plant foreman she's near the end of her rope and needs a break. She finds it at her BFF Shana's house. Shana is the town odd ball: single mother taking care of her disabled father while working as a taxidermist AND dating a man of a different race. Imagine the rumor mongering going on in town. Shana is a fierce friend-the very something Jessica needs. As an added bonus I've included the scene at the end. While most of the book is fiction this is one incident that actually occurred that still sends me into a fit of giggles when I remember it!
Soft murmuring woke me up. Early morning light streamed through a broken slat on the blinds and I jolted upright. I was late for work. The afghan covering me fell to the floor as I sat up and shook my head to dissipate my fuzzy-headedness. Then I remembered I had the morning off.
"She's up, Mama!" Tim, in Spider-Man pjs, with brown hair jumbled from bed, leapt up from his spot in front of the TV, and ran from the room. I yawned, my jaw popping with the exertion, and watched Sponge Bob and Patrick frolic in Bikini Bottom for a minute before pushing off from the couch. Fatigue weighed me down, and I yawned again as I shuffled into the kitchen.
Shana stood at the stove, wrapped in a floor-length pink fuzzy robe, flipping pancakes frying in a cast iron skillet. Barry and Clarence, Shana's dad, sat at the kitchen table eating. Tim had crawled up into a chair and kneeled on it, shoveling syrupy bites into his mouth.
Barry flashed me a grin and Mr. Hills nodded his greeting, his speech lost due to the stroke.
"You gals going to be up to no good this morning?" asked Barry. He poured me a glass of orange juice as I sat at the table.
"Thanks," I said. "No, just following up on some loose ends." I took a long swallow of the juice, my throat parched and feeling scratchy. I hoped I wasn't coming down with something; just my luck with my big date tonight.
"Ya'll need any muscle, you make sure to give me a shout out," said Barry.
"Ahhhh…" Mr. Hills gurgled and nodded toward Tim.
"Okay," I said. I was a little reluctant but I knew my wardrobe didn't include anything risqué so her choices would be on the more modest side.
An hour later, Shana put on her finishing touches. The girl can't go anywhere without her layers of eyeliner and mascara. I used the time to snuggle on the couch with Tim and we got caught up on Dora's adventures. Barry finally chased her out of the bathroom so he could give Clarence a shower.
"I want to look my best for you," she said.
"Git," said Barry, shutting the door behind them.
Shana came into the living room, carrying her shoes in her hand. She plunked herself down on the couch beside us and shoved her feet into the sneakers.
Her eyes watered a little as she responded. "He's a keeper, all right." Shana stood and slipped on her coat.
I snorted. "Don't bother asking." I untangled from Tim and stood.
"Tim, you mind Grandpa and Barry now," The little guy ignored her, entranced by a commercial for a toy, which, according to the ad, was composed of plastic strong enough to withstand the weight of an elephant. She gave him a quick hug and a kiss. He didn't take his eyes off the tube.
Harley. He had been fed, watered, and played with by Barry and Tim before I woke up. No wonder he loved coming to the shop. We left the house and climbed into my truck.
Traffic was fairly heavy in downtown Dyersville. I had to slow down once to let an old-timer pull out in front of me. The top of her white head barely cleared the steering wheel of her big old Buick so I doubt she spotted my three-quarter ton, bright red truck when she pulled away from the curb. I made it home without having to dodge any more senior drivers. Lonnie stood in front of the apartment building when I turned into the driveway and he met us in the back.
"Hi, ladies," he said as we exited the truck.
"What's up?" asked Shana. Harley ran to Lonnie and rubbed against the big guy. Lonnie obligingly gave him a vigorous rub-down.
Shana and I looked at each other.
"Well, my booty can't get through that little window," said Shana, giving her tush a little shake. She had received an extra portion of behind when God was doling them out.
"I guess I can give it a try," I shrugged. After all the guy did help when I was attacked in the hallway that night.
"Right on," said Lonnie. We followed him around to the front. The window would be a tight squeeze for me and it was a good four feet off the ground.
"I'll give ya a boost," he said, crouching down and fashioning a stirrup with his hands. I slipped my coat off, handed it to Shana, and placed my foot in his hands. He grunted and hoisted me up as I pulled myself through the window. I got my top half through, then the momentum stopped. I teetered on the window sill and wiggled a bit. Stuck.
"How about a little push?" I asked. "By the way, I'm not enjoying this." My lower abdominal muscles felt cramped against the hard wood.
"Well, I'm enjoying this view," said Lonnie, "you sure fill your jeans well." Shana guffawed and I even giggled.
"Shut up," I said. They pushed on my feet until finally, I ended up inside, crawling forward with my hands until I pulled the rest of my body through. I landed on a pile of magazines and papers haphazardly stacked in the living room. As I pushed off the floor, I noticed a plat book of Creek County among the pile. I picked the book up, walked to the apartment's front door, and unlocked it.
I left it propped open as I went around to let Lonnie, Shana, and Harley inside the building.
"You're welcome," I said. "Can I borrow this?" I showed him the plat book.


Where can you undertake decompression of a pneumothorax?
Be particularly careful when using the 2nd intercostal space mid-clavicular line that you are sufficiently lateral. For example, here are the locations identified as '2nd ICS mid clavicular line' amongst 25 EM physicians in a 2005 EMJ paper.
The Three Kings: George Clooney's recommended approach to decompression of a tension pneumothorax. Note – again please do not use this location!
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