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Canadian Nuclear Laboratories' (CNL's) draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for the proposed in-situ decommissioning of the Whiteshell Reactor 1 (WR-1) has now passed the regulator's completeness check and entered the final technical review stage.
The Whiteshell Reactor 1 (Image: CNL)
"This significant milestone was reached this week, after an estimated 35,000 hours of work by the team," CNL said. "The 4500-page package of 23 documents, along with over 650 references, has been in the works since 2017, when it was first submitted.
"Since it was first submitted, the project team has been working on responding to information requests from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC), engaging with First Nations and the Manitoba Métis Federation, and updating the revised draft EIS to ensure a complete resubmission."
The federal environmental assessment of the proposed decommissioning project, which is required under Canadian environmental law, began in May 2016. The draft EIS was open to public comments from 6 October until 20 December 2017. A revised version was submitted in July 2022.
"Over the course of the Environmental Assessment, CNL has learned the key areas of interest and concern from the public, Indigenous Peoples, and federal and provincial agencies," CNL said. "CNL has addressed comments from stakeholders and Indigenous communities and incorporated this feedback into the revised draft EIS."
The document will now undergo its second technical review by the Federal, Provincial, and Indigenous Review Team (FPIRT). CNL noted that there may be a number of further information requests and comments from the FPIRT that come out of this review as well. This technical review process is expected to take about a year to complete, after which the Final EIS will be submitted. The final decision on the project will be determined by the CNSC following a public hearing process.
The WR-1 research reactor, which reached a maximum of 60 MWt, attained first criticality in 1962 at the Whiteshell Laboratories site in Pinawa, Manitoba. The unique reactor had vertical fuel channels, and was moderated by heavy water but cooled by an organic liquid. It was used until 1972 as a test reactor for a proposed organic-cooled Candu power reactor, and subsequently for irradiation, experimentation and heating the Whiteshell site until its closure in 1985.
CNL is proposing to decommission WR-1 using an in-situ technique, an approach which it says will provide a safe, secure and effective disposal solution for the existing contaminated building, much of which is below ground level, while minimising risks to the health, safety and security of the public, workers and the environment. It is proposing a technique which will involve pouring a specially engineered grout into the reactor to lock contaminants in place. A protective cover at the surface will channel water away from the site and protect it from the elements.
Decommissioning of the Whiteshell Laboratories has been under way for more than a decade. In 2003, the site received approval of an overall decommissioning framework, through the completion of an environmental assessment and the subsequent issuing of a site decommissioning licence by the CNSC. Since that time, redundant buildings have been demolished, and new enabling facilities for waste handling have been planned and constructed.
CNL plans to complete the decommissioning of the Whiteshell site by 2027.
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← The Belgian Sector Part One – The Nieuport Memorial
The Belgian Sector Part Three – Nieuwpoort: The Yser Memorial →
The Belgian Sector Part Two – Nieuwpoort: The Goose Foot
Posted on January 27, 2015 by Magicfingers
Beneath the shadow of the Albert Memorial, the complex of locks and sluice gates known as the Ganzenpoot (Goose Foot) was to prove crucial to the Belgian Army's chances of holding the advancing Germans at bay during the late autumn of 1914.
The rearguard action by the Belgians and the Royal Naval Division at Antwerp (see previous post) had bought valuable time for the French Army and the British Expeditionary Force, as well as occupying large numbers of German troops who would otherwise have been free to add their weight to the battles on the Marne and the Aisne. Although Antwerp finally surrendered on 10th October 1914, the bulk of the Belgian Army, some 50,000 men, had by then been withdrawn from the city, retreating west towards the River Yser. There they were busy preparing positions for a last stand, if that was what it turned out to be, between Nieuwpoort on the coast and Diksmuide, some ten miles inland*. King Albert, commander of the Belgian Army, knew that it would be political suicide to abandon Belgian soil entirely, and resolved to defend this small strip of land to the last man.
*French troops were similarly engaged between Diksmuide and, further south, Ypres.
Above: The massive gates of lock 2.
The Battle of the Yser took place between 16th October and 31st October 1914, and at its conclusion, the Race to the Sea, as the series of engagements in the autumn of 1914 are often referred to, would come to an end. On 16th October the Germans, moving their heavy artillery up from Antwerp, opened a bombardment on the Belgian Army between Nieuwpoort and Diksmuide. Over the next week the Belgians, supported off-shore by a British naval force of three monitors and various other vessels, slowly retreated towards the Nieuwpoort – Diksmuide railway embankment as repeated attacks by the Germans gained a foothold on the western side of the Yser. Many of the German troops who were flung at the defending Belgians (by now reinforced by the French 42nd Division) were young, relatively untrained novices who attacked in wave after wave, only to be massacred in their thousands by the defenders. The Slaughter of the Innocents, as the Germans would call it, did, however, increase the pressure on the Belgians to the extent that, by 25th October, the decision was taken to flood the polders to prevent the Germans from breaking through the Belgian lines, a situation that, if allowed to happen, would have potentially catastrophic consequences for the Allies.
This north west corner of Belgium is land that has been reclaimed from the sea (these are the polders), and as such is utterly flat, save for the banks of the much-canalised Yser, and the embankment which once carried the railway in a dead straight line from Nieuwpoort down to Diksmuide and beyond. The water table here is only just below the surface, and the whole landscape is criss-crossed by numerous drainage channels, as you can see in the contemporary map above. These channels are controlled to this day by sluices and locks which are themselves regulated by the major lock and sluice system at the Goose Foot (also visible on the map – marked as 'Locks' to the right of 'Nieuport'). By damming the 22 culverts beneath the railway embankment between Nieuwpoort and Diksmuide, and subsequently opening the main sluice gates at the Goose Foot, the Belgians would be able to flood the whole area between the railway and the Yser, and, providing the water was maintained at a depth too deep for infantry to advance, yet too shallow for boats, the Germans would find offensive operations in this area impossible. The full story of the flooding of the polders, and the extraordinary bravery shown by both civilian and military Belgian engineers, is well worth researching for yourselves.
Work began on blocking the railway culverts on 25th October. Between 29th & 31st October, engineers took terrible risks at the Goose Foot, by now under German observation but as yet unoccupied by them, as they opened crucial lock gates to allow the high tide through and then closed the gates again some hours later, on three consecutive nights, before the land to the south was inundated to a satisfactory depth. Although the Germans finally took Ramscappelle, just south of Nieuwpoort, on 30th October, a combined Belgian and French force recaptured the village a few hours later, and despite the later capturing of Diksmuide, which would remain in their hands for the rest of the war, on 10th November, the rising waters finally persuaded the Germans that their offensive could continue no longer. The Belgians had succeeded, despite heavy losses, in preventing the Germans from turning the left flank of the whole Western Front. The Germans, retreating back across the Yser, would lick their wounds and turn their attentions south, where the First Battle of Ypres had begun ten days earlier, leaving thousands of their dead, and huge quantities of equipment, in the mire of the inundations. The stage was now set for the static trench warfare that would define much of the next four years of war along the Western Front.
So now you know the bare bones of what happened here, and its importance in preventing a German victory in the early months of the war. For the rest of this post we shall stroll around the Goose Foot, taking in the sights as we go. The photo above shows one of the six channels that radiate east and south from the locks here. Starting at the Albert Memorial and working our way clockwise round the Goose Foot, the first three channels (this photo shows the second one) flow in a north easterly direction, serving the areas to the north and east of the River Yser. The remaining three flow south and it is these three channels that were most critical in achieving the successful inundation of the polders.
There's a Google map of the Goose Foot, on which I have marked the positions of the main memorials, that you will find if you click the Tour Maps link at the top of the page. I shall update the map as we continue our travels south.
Above & following photographs: This French memorial remembers the men of the 81st Infantry Division who fought and died in this area.
Above & below: The third sluice gate.
The fourth sluice gate.
A contemporary postcard showing some of the destruction at the fourth sluice gate.
The fourth sluice gate (above) and, below, the start of the River Yser as it begins its meandering journey, first east, and then south, towards Diksmuide and then Ieper (Yper).
The 4th lock gate.
The Yser Memorial stands on the strip of land between sluices 4 & 5.
The figure of La Belgique turns away as she shields the crown of Belgium from the eyes of the invader.
We'll have a closer look at her in the next post.
A number of Belgian engineers lost their lives at the Goose Foot, not only at the time of the inundations, but also later in the war, as in the case of Lieutenant Leopold Calberg. Fighting continued in the Nieuwpoort area throughout the war, and German shells and bullets continued to take their toll on the unwary, unwise, or the plain unlucky. By the end of the war the town itself had been razed to the ground, although the Germans never succeeded in capturing it.
Beneath the town and the surrounding sand dunes, and despite the difficulties of digging in sand, a fierce tunnelling war went on with French, British and Australian tunnellers involved here at different times. Today, one hundred years later, the effects on the rebuilt town are being felt and seen as cracks appear on buildings built on filled-in trenches and now-collapsing tunnels.
View across the Goose Foot towards the Albert Memorial from near the Yser Memorial.
The 5th set of sluice gates.
The 5th sluice gates are to the left, and the 6th are out of sight beyond the wooden posts to the right. These lead to the two most important southerly channels, which are the crucial ones required to flood the land between the river and the railway embankment. Look at the drainage channel map again and you will see exactly what I mean.
Final panoramic view of the Goose Foot. Our next stop is not far south of here, but before we go there's another memorial in Nieuwpoort itself where we ought to pay our respects before we leave the town:
This is the Nieuwpoort Memorial to the Fallen Soldiers and Victims of War.
Another memorial designed by the sculptor Pieter-Jan Braecke, the designer of the Yser Memorial, I suspect this too is La Belgique.
The names on the little white crosses are all men of Nieuwpoort who died during the Great War.
Braecke himself died in 1938, so he never knew about the Second World War names added around the memorial's base.
Next: A proper look around the Yser Memorial, followed by a visit to Nieuwpoort Communal Cemetery, a final resting place for British dead from both World Wars.
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Louth pipe bomb: Gardai suspect feud between families could be behind explosion at family home
A number of nearby houses had to be evacuated after a bomb exploded in a garden in Dundalk
Elaine Keogh
Army Bomb Disposal Team (Image: @defenceforces)
Gardai suspect an ongoing feud between two families could be behind a pipe-bomb explosion which detonated in the garden of a family home in the early hours of this morning.
A number of nearby houses were evacuated in the estate, Rockfield Manor in Dundalk, Co Louth, and gardai requested the army bomb disposal team's assistance.
A Garda spokesman said it appears that an improvised explosive device did detonate in the garden of the house.
There were six adults in the house at the time but no injuries are reported and no damage was caused to property.
Gardai would like to hear from anyone who saw anything suspicious at the time, about 2.15am, or who saw a car leaving the area at the time to contact them.
An Garda Siochana


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Send Flowers for Carmelita
Carmelita Hogan Munsch
May 29, 1935 ~ December 1, 2020 (age 85)
Carmelita Hogan Munsch, known as Carmie, passed away December 1, 2020 at the age of 85. Carmie, grew up in Erie's First Ward and played a large role in her neighborhood for many years. She attended St. Patrick's School and church as a child and went to St. Benedict's Academy for high school, where she was an outstanding basketball player. Soon after high school, she met and married, Richard Munsch and began raising a family. Carmie was a devoted homemaker and mother to her 4 children despite the untimely death of her husband, at 33 years of age, when she began her career outside the home. Working in the office of her father, Alderman James T. Hogan as a part of the secretarial staff, she began her 30 year career as a servant of Erie County. Carmie continued to work not only for her father, but her mother, Sophie C. Hogan, who later served as District Magistrate after her husband's death. At the time of her mother's retirement, Carmie had years of knowledge and experience and was elected to succeed her mother as the 1st Ward District Magistrate for 18 years.
But her greatest joy was being a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She was affectionately known as Mom, Gram and Grama Kitty, all in that order to her adoring family. She always welcomed people into her home for advice, a cup of coffee, fresh baked cookies, a slice of pizza and a pop, or a game of cards. She enjoyed her long time girlfriends, the Club Girls and the St. Ben's Girls, with years of get-togethers and reunions. She gave counsel to so many over the years as well as genuine commitment to the families and children of the First Ward. Carmie's passion was always for the betterment of her neighborhood and giving the young a second chance. Along with Carmie's years of public service came her commitment to her churches, St .Patrick and St. Hedwig Catholic Churches, where she served on the Liturgical and Rosary Societies. Over her lifetime she served the Gertrude Barber Center in various capacities as well as the St. Mary's Ladies Auxiliary and numerous other social organizations.
Her family was so proud of her and will forever miss our wise old owl and the great and powerful "Oz"
Carmie is preceded in death by her grandson, Gregory J. Munsch, her mother, Sophie Czartoryski Hogan, her father, James T. Hogan and her husband, Richard G. Munsch.
She is survived by her daughter, Debbie Munsch Stilley, of Dallas, Texas, Karen Munsch Petrianni (Peter II) of Erie, Darleen Munsch Robertson (husband Daryl) of Dallas, Texas and her son, Gerald Munsch (wife Carolyn) of Erie. She was "Gram" for her 17 grandchildren: Jaimée Farrell Slovak (husband Rob), Shaylah Stilley, Kellan Stilley, Katie Stilley, Shannon Stilley Peters (husband Drew), Lindsay Petrianni McShane (husband Michael), Danielle Petrianni (fiancee Scott Pastore), Peter Petrianni III (wife Amy), Brennan Robertson Walls (husband Ryan), Deuce Robertson (wife Joanna), Cameron Robertson, Melissa Wagner (husband Steven), Gerad Munsch (partner Jocleyn Miller), Meghan Munsch (fiancee Josh Schleicher), Mathew Munsch and Ryan Munsch, along with being a wonderful "Grama Kitty" to 27 great- grandchildren. She also leaves behind two brothers: Richard Hogan (wife Judy) and Patrick Hogan (Wanda Howard) and many nieces, nephews and cousins. Carmie also shared special friendship(s) with Edward Karpinski and Ben Ambrogio, who preceded her in death.
A funeral service and celebration of her life will be held in May of 2021. In lieu of flowers the family ask that donations be made to the Gertrude Barber Center, The Sister Mary Pascal Gray Food Pantry at St. Patrick Catholic Church, or The ANNA Shelter.
Arrangements by the Quinn Funeral Home, West 9th & Liberty St.
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Welcome to the church blog! This space is intended to be a place of reflection and sharing, generally somehow related to the sermon but perhaps about something else altogether. As Disciples, we invite all voices to be heard. We welcome diversity of experiences, theology, and writing styles on this page. If you would like to contribute, please let Kevin (revkeving@bellefontainefcc.org) or Christine (christine.lighttheway@gmail.com) know and we will help make it happen!
Pastor Kevin preached yesterday on Luke 5:1-11. Jesus tells his disciples to go out into deeper water, which Pastor Kevin shared often represents chaos, which we perceive as danger. In so doing, the fishing nets became so full of fish that they began to tear. The disciples had to ask for neighboring boats to come help them bring in the haul.
In the same way, Jesus calls us to go out into the chaos of the world, which will at times seem dangerous, to bring in the harvest of souls that He has already prepared. But none of us can do it by ourselves. No single church can do it by themselves. We need to work together to share the Gospel in this increasingly chaotic and dark world. We need to face our fears and go out... with the courage that only the Holy Spirit can provide. When we step out in this kind of faith, God will bless the harvest as abundantly as He did the Disciples.
With today being Epiphany Sunday, Pastor Keven appropriately preached on Matthew 2:1-12 about the Magi from the East coming to pay homage to Jesus some time following his birth. Not a new scripture to me nor a new concept; however, I received a new insight about the wisdom of the wise men.
These men were not wise from birth...that would more appropriately be called intelligence. No, they were wise, they possessed wisdom: the Google dictionary defines wisdom as "the quality of having experience, knowledge, and good judgment" Synonyms are "common sense, shrewdness, astuteness, judiciousness, and prudence". Something that comes from time and effort.
Pastor Kevin shared that these men were likely astronomers who had studied the stars probably for all of their adult lives. I began to think about what all of that meant. They were seekers of truth and light (literally and figuratively). They worked at it! They didn't expect the information to come easily or without effort. How often do we excuse away our lack of knowledge of the Bible because we choose not to put the effort into studying it?
But they didn't only study the stars for information...once they saw this special star that they could not explain, they believed. They believed in something bigger than themselves, something amazing and super natural! Scientists can believe in the super natural...they are not mutually exclusive!
Then, they allowed it to change their lives. They left families and their work to see where this amazing star would lead them! And they were not disappointed! They were some of the first people to meet Jesus and realize that he was the long-awaited Messiah.
But along the way, they were deceived! For a time, their wisdom was not sufficient. Herod, the Roman-appointed Governor of Judea presented himself as a good guy. He presented himself as someone who also wanted to find the Messiah so that he could go and worship him. This was a pure and total lie, according to Matthew. Herod was known as a tyrant and a liar, probably what we today would call a narcissist. We learn later in Matthew that his only concern was to eliminate this infant Messiah so he could not threaten Herod's power or his throne.
These wise men could not discern that treachery on their own. In a dream, God revealed to them that Herod was not to be trusted. They listened and obeyed and returned to their homes a different way.
It seems to me that narcissism is becoming more prominent in our society. Do you agree? I know people who have family members, co-workers and employers with narcissistic tendencies. I see world leaders who have narcissistic tendencies and, yes, even some pastors that exhibit these same characteristics. These individuals often portray themselves as caring, empathic and altruistic, but their only real concern is power, popularity and position. What is even more difficult for me to see is the number of otherwise bright individuals who seem to be blinded to the self-centered motives of these individuals. This message today helped me to see that it is not something we can always discern on our own. It took the power of God to reveal the truth to these wise men!
This gives me hope for our community, our country and our world! God will reveal the truth to those who seek truth and light; those who study, believe and follow. And God will always win! He is never deceived!
It's officially almost December, and to me, it feels the weeks will go sliding haphazardly into one another like kids on a sledding hill until they reach the bottom in a jumbled pile at the end of this month. Perhaps it's because my introverted nature perceives the rush and chaos of preparing for Christmas to be overstimulating and I would prefer to hide in retreat until it's all over. Perhaps for you, there are so many events on your calendar you're wondering when you'll get some time to just breathe, even though there are so many exciting things happening on that calendar. Perhaps you're a parent or grandparent who longs for this season because it's one of the few times when you know you will get to see your precious kids. Perhaps for you, the weeks will tick by too slowly as you're repeatedly reminded this season of a loved one who is no longer here to celebrate it with you.
There can be a lot of feelings in this season.
Pastor Kevin's sermon this week helped to remind us to take a moment to have gratitude and slow down for a moment. To recall that no matter what messages we have thrown at us from society, God is calling us back to himself: remember where you came from. Remember to Whom everything belongs.
The Scripture passage was from Deuteronomy, where the Israelites remind themselves about their history as wanderers, trying to follow the path of the True God. God calls them to give the first fruits of their labor to God and also to the needy of their society: the Levite (traveling priests), the widow, the orphan, the foreigner living in their land.
The passage helps the Israelites (and we can imaginatively place ourselves in their position) recall that once, they had nothing. They were slaves, they had no homeland, they were the ones struggling in society. As Americans, almost all of us can resonate with at least part of that story: many came as immigrants in search of better life; many were brought forcibly as slaves; all of us are connected to our ancestors.
The Israelites remind themselves that they could just as easily be in that position were it not for God's care and guidance. But does that mean that now they can feel proud and entitled to the goodness and fruits they are reaping from their labor? No!
In contrast, they continually tell themselves the story of where they came from. Modern-day Jews continue to do this in their traditions. The Israelites also offer to God the first portion of what they have earned from working the land. And what Kevin was keen to point out, was that they are commanded to care for the people in need residing among them. The people who are close enough to see the pain of. Why is this important? Because when we open our eyes and hearts enough to see the pain of those nearby, and recall that in our own history, there is pain, we see ourselves in our neighbor. We see God in our neighbor.
Then we can love that neighbor, and by loving that neighbor, we are also loving God.
How might we practice this giving of the first fruits of our labor during this holiday season? Perhaps we will donate to churches and charities close to our heart. That's a great start. What else? Perhaps you, like me, will practice seeing God in everyone and loving them: even the loud, chaotic, consumer-driven culture we live in. Perhaps you will slow down and take moments of grace to see God in the joyful social calendar and the love you share with family and friends. Perhaps you will invite someone to the dinner table who longs for love and acceptance. Perhaps you will let someone else love you in your pain, and by doing so, create a genuine human connection that I call the presence of God in our midst.
God is all around, waiting to be witnessed. How might we encounter God and encounter our neighbor this Christmas season? I cannot wait to hear from you: the stories we tell become part of the presence of God.
Happy almost Thanksgiving! There's much to be grateful for, but we'd also have to be willfully ignorant to remember there's still a lot to pray and work for in our world. The sermon text for this Sunday is not exactly a cheerful one. It is that text in Mark where Jesus talks about what many presume to be a reference to end times. In Mark 13:1-8, we hear about wars and rumors of wars, nations fighting against nation, earthquakes, and famines. Today, we might add in wildfires consuming states, hurricanes that flood counties, and a growing undercurrent of the potential for nuclear warfare: and that's a short list of frightening problems we witness in our world today. I wonder if every generation has read this passage and seen it as emblematic of their time. Was there ever a time in history when wars and rumors of wars were not happening or had not recently happened? Was there ever a time when there was peace and people were truly good to each other?
Pastor Kevin brought some scholarship into today's sermon to help us recognize that what many take to be an apocalyptic text may be more of a wake-up call to see what is around us and stay steadfast, following the way of Jesus. It may not have been intended as a prediction about specific end times, but to make the community aware that they must watch and act by following Jesus' commandments.
I felt the simple wake-up call when I realized the now-obvious detail that Mark speaks of "birth pangs." The way I had heard this taught growing up, this always meant the end was nigh. But what are birth pangs but the beginning of new life?
What happens when we begin to think of the hardships in our world as birth pangs? If we didn't just take an escapist theology mentality about going to heaven, but wondered what new possibilities might be birthed in our world?
Sometimes we need a wake-up call to get us motivated to change things. Sometimes things have to get really bad for us to recognize that if we keep sitting back, we are tacitly approving of someone else taking control, and we may not like the results of that. Sometimes calamity must strike for our hearts to be moved enough to take action. Sometimes it is the hardest things, either in our personal or collective life, that bring about the deep change we need. I don't wish those things upon us (who actively wishes for trial and sorrow?), but I recognize it is often true. Jesus's words take on new life as I see how they reflect the reality of life.
Perhaps the new kind of era Jesus references being ushered in is an era in which even the most destructive forces – war, famine, or even execution by crucifixion—were not the end of the story. Perhaps it is the beginning of something new. Peace. Abundance. Resurrection.
How are we to help usher in the life of a new world? How may we see calamities and destruction as a call to decisive action instead of cause for hopeless hand-wringing? What is our calling as we work together with God, the midwife, to birth something new?
God's timing is so interesting! He fashioned advent to come immediately after Thanksgiving. Why not Thanksgiving to come after advent? Perhaps we need to humility of Thanksgiving (the awareness that all good things have come from God, our Father) in order to fully embrace the great and glorious gift of Jesus! Even more than that, perhaps we need the humility of Thanksgiving in order to realize we need Jesus!! We need Jesus' grace. We need Jesus' redemption and we need Jesus for our life...both in this world and the next. Thanks, Christine for your reflections that inspired new thinking in me!
Beautifully written and many questions to ponder. I am so glad John Turner told me you had started a blog.


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On-the-run David Cameron leaves This Morning hosts in a stew
Press Association Mon, July 6 5:29pm
A perspiring prime minister added an unusual touch to a health food segment on This Morning by jogging past the camera.
Hosts Amanda Holden and Gok Wan, who was filling in for Phillip Schofield, were surprised to see David Cameron out for his morning run while they created an "exciting superfood salad" outside the ITV studio on London's South Bank.
Interrupting the live broadcast, the cameras followed the PM's sweaty back as he jogged into the distance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LOY6elQdMY&feature=oembed
New This Morning title sequence as Phillip and Holly return to the sofa
Amanda Holden favourite to replace Holly Willoughby as This Morning host
Rylan Clarke-Neal announces extended break from This Morning
Amanda halted the food-preparation session to announce: "David Cameron is jogging on the South Bank. Where is he? He's just gone past. He's there in a blue T-shirt."
Gok yelled: "David, we've got smoothie. Want a smoothie, David?"
According to The Mirror, Amanda later admitted she thought Cameron was in great shape, commenting: "He's in quite good nick, can I say?"
Amanda Holden is a fan of David Cameron's physique (Anthony Devlin/PA)


Section 30-24-1: Bribery of public officer or public employee.
Section 30-24-2: Demanding or receiving bribe by public officer or public employee.
Section 30-24-3: Bribery or intimidation of a witness; retaliation against a witness.
Section 30-24-3.1: Acceptance of a bribe by a witness.


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Q: MySQL Triggers - 5.7.23-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 - strange behavior not every time works I have been developed an application on python 3 using tornado framework that connects to a huge MySQL database, millions of rows inside.
This database is synchronized in real-time, so data are inserted and deleted and updated, so was created 3 triggers insert, update and delete.
But the triggers behave very strange, sometime they work and sometime they do not work, like when they decide they pickup the data and do what they have to do, other time they just ignore it.
MySQL version is this one 5.7.23-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
As well i inserted the 3 triggers that are in my database, maybe is a logic error in my triggers:
INSERT
BEGIN
  IF (SELECT count(*) FROM USERS_STATS WHERE LOGIN = NEW.LOGIN) = 0 THEN
    INSERT INTO USERS_STATS (LOGIN) values (NEW.LOGIN);
  END IF;
  UPDATE USERS_STATS SET
    TOTAL_DEPOSIT = TOTAL_DEPOSIT + IF(NEW.CMD = 6 AND NEW.COMMENT NOT LIKE '%internal%' AND NEW.COMMENT NOT LIKE '%Tr %' AND NEW.COMMENT NOT LIKE '%agent%' AND NEW.COMMENT NOT LIKE '%rebate%' AND NEW.COMMENT NOT LIKE '%MAM:CASH%' AND NEW.PROFIT > 0, NEW.PROFIT, 0),
    TOTAL_WITHDRAW = TOTAL_WITHDRAW + IF(NEW.CMD = 6 AND NEW.COMMENT NOT LIKE '%internal%' AND NEW.COMMENT NOT LIKE '%Tr %' AND NEW.COMMENT NOT LIKE '%agent%' AND NEW.COMMENT NOT LIKE '%rebate%' AND NEW.COMMENT NOT LIKE '%MAM:CASH%' AND NEW.PROFIT < 0, NEW.PROFIT, 0),
    TOTAL_VOLUME = TOTAL_VOLUME + IF(NEW.CMD IN(0, 1) AND NEW.CLOSE_TIME > '1970-01-01', NEW.VOLUME, 0),
    TOTAL_REBATE = TOTAL_REBATE + IF((NEW.COMMENT LIKE '%agent%' OR NEW.COMMENT LIKE '%rebate%' OR NEW.COMMENT LIKE '%MAM:CASH%'), ROUND(NEW.PROFIT, 2), 0)
  WHERE LOGIN = NEW.LOGIN;
END

UPDATE
BEGIN
  DECLARE old_is_deposit integer;
  DECLARE new_is_deposit integer;
  DECLARE old_is_withdraw integer;
  DECLARE new_is_withdraw integer;
  DECLARE old_is_rebate integer;
  DECLARE new_is_rebate integer;
  SET old_is_deposit := OLD.CMD = 6 AND OLD.COMMENT NOT LIKE '%internal%' AND OLD.COMMENT NOT LIKE '%Tr %' AND OLD.COMMENT NOT LIKE '%agent%' AND OLD.COMMENT NOT LIKE '%rebate%' AND OLD.COMMENT NOT LIKE '%MAM:CASH%' AND OLD.PROFIT > 0;
  SET new_is_deposit := NEW.CMD = 6 AND NEW.COMMENT NOT LIKE '%internal%' AND NEW.COMMENT NOT LIKE '%Tr %' AND NEW.COMMENT NOT LIKE '%agent%' AND NEW.COMMENT NOT LIKE '%rebate%' AND NEW.COMMENT NOT LIKE '%MAM:CASH%' AND NEW.PROFIT > 0;
  SET old_is_withdraw := OLD.CMD = 6 AND OLD.COMMENT NOT LIKE '%internal%' AND OLD.COMMENT NOT LIKE '%Tr %' AND OLD.COMMENT NOT LIKE '%agent%' AND OLD.COMMENT NOT LIKE '%rebate%' AND OLD.COMMENT NOT LIKE '%MAM:CASH%' AND OLD.PROFIT < 0;
  SET new_is_withdraw := NEW.CMD = 6 AND NEW.COMMENT NOT LIKE '%internal%' AND NEW.COMMENT NOT LIKE '%Tr %' AND NEW.COMMENT NOT LIKE '%agent%' AND NEW.COMMENT NOT LIKE '%rebate%' AND NEW.COMMENT NOT LIKE '%MAM:CASH%' AND NEW.PROFIT < 0;
  SET old_is_rebate := OLD.COMMENT LIKE '%agent%' OR OLD.COMMENT LIKE '%rebate%' OR OLD.COMMENT LIKE '%MAM:CASH%';
  SET new_is_rebate := NEW.COMMENT LIKE '%agent%' OR NEW.COMMENT LIKE '%rebate%' OR NEW.COMMENT LIKE '%MAM:CASH%';
  IF (SELECT count(*) FROM USERS_STATS WHERE LOGIN = NEW.LOGIN) = 0 THEN
    INSERT INTO USERS_STATS (LOGIN) values (NEW.LOGIN);
  END IF;
  IF (old_is_deposit = 1 AND new_is_deposit = 1 AND OLD.PROFIT != NEW.PROFIT) THEN
    UPDATE USERS_STATS SET
      TOTAL_DEPOSIT = TOTAL_DEPOSIT + (NEW.PROFIT - OLD.PROFIT)
    WHERE LOGIN = OLD.LOGIN;
  ELSEIF (old_is_withdraw = 1 AND new_is_withdraw = 1 AND OLD.PROFIT != NEW.PROFIT) THEN
    UPDATE USERS_STATS SET
      TOTAL_WITHDRAW = TOTAL_WITHDRAW + (NEW.PROFIT - OLD.PROFIT)
    WHERE LOGIN = OLD.LOGIN;
  ELSEIF (old_is_deposit = 1 AND new_is_withdraw = 1) THEN
    UPDATE USERS_STATS SET
      TOTAL_DEPOSIT = TOTAL_DEPOSIT - OLD.PROFIT,
      TOTAL_WITHDRAW = TOTAL_WITHDRAW + NEW.PROFIT
    WHERE LOGIN = OLD.LOGIN;
  ELSEIF (old_is_withdraw = 1 AND new_is_deposit = 1) THEN
    UPDATE USERS_STATS SET
      TOTAL_DEPOSIT = TOTAL_DEPOSIT + NEW.PROFIT,
      TOTAL_WITHDRAW = TOTAL_WITHDRAW - OLD.PROFIT
    WHERE LOGIN = OLD.LOGIN;
  ELSEIF (old_is_deposit = 0 AND new_is_deposit = 1) THEN
    UPDATE USERS_STATS SET
      TOTAL_DEPOSIT = TOTAL_DEPOSIT + NEW.PROFIT
    WHERE LOGIN = OLD.LOGIN;
  ELSEIF (old_is_deposit = 1 AND new_is_deposit = 0) THEN
    UPDATE USERS_STATS SET
      TOTAL_DEPOSIT = TOTAL_DEPOSIT - OLD.PROFIT
    WHERE LOGIN = OLD.LOGIN;
  ELSEIF (old_is_withdraw = 0 AND new_is_withdraw = 1) THEN
    UPDATE USERS_STATS SET
      TOTAL_WITHDRAW = TOTAL_WITHDRAW + NEW.PROFIT
    WHERE LOGIN = OLD.LOGIN;
  ELSEIF (old_is_withdraw = 1 AND new_is_withdraw = 0) THEN
    UPDATE USERS_STATS SET
      TOTAL_WITHDRAW = TOTAL_WITHDRAW - OLD.PROFIT
    WHERE LOGIN = OLD.LOGIN;
  END IF;
  IF (OLD.VOLUME != NEW.VOLUME) THEN
    UPDATE USERS_STATS SET
      TOTAL_VOLUME = TOTAL_VOLUME + (NEW.VOLUME - OLD.VOLUME)
    WHERE LOGIN = OLD.LOGIN;
  END IF;
  IF (old_is_rebate = 1 AND new_is_rebate = 1 AND OLD.PROFIT != NEW.PROFIT) THEN
    UPDATE USERS_STATS SET
      TOTAL_REBATE = TOTAL_REBATE + (ROUND(NEW.PROFIT, 2) - ROUND(OLD.PROFIT, 2))
    WHERE LOGIN = OLD.LOGIN;
  ELSEIF (old_is_rebate = 0 AND new_is_rebate = 1) THEN
    UPDATE USERS_STATS SET
      TOTAL_REBATE = TOTAL_REBATE + ROUND(NEW.PROFIT, 2)
    WHERE LOGIN = OLD.LOGIN;
  ELSEIF (old_is_rebate = 1 AND new_is_rebate = 0) THEN
    UPDATE USERS_STATS SET
      TOTAL_REBATE = TOTAL_REBATE - ROUND(OLD.PROFIT, 2)
    WHERE LOGIN = OLD.LOGIN;
  END IF;
END

DELETE
BEGIN
  IF (SELECT count(*) FROM USERS_STATS WHERE LOGIN = OLD.LOGIN) = 0 THEN
    INSERT INTO USERS_STATS (LOGIN) values (OLD.LOGIN);
  END IF;
  UPDATE USERS_STATS SET
    TOTAL_DEPOSIT = TOTAL_DEPOSIT - IF(OLD.CMD = 6 AND OLD.COMMENT NOT LIKE '%internal%' AND OLD.COMMENT NOT LIKE '%Tr %' AND OLD.COMMENT NOT LIKE '%agent%' AND OLD.COMMENT NOT LIKE '%rebate%' AND OLD.COMMENT NOT LIKE '%MAM:CASH%' AND OLD.PROFIT > 0, OLD.PROFIT, 0),
    TOTAL_WITHDRAW = TOTAL_WITHDRAW - IF(OLD.CMD = 6 AND OLD.COMMENT NOT LIKE '%internal%' AND OLD.COMMENT NOT LIKE '%Tr %' AND OLD.COMMENT NOT LIKE '%agent%' AND OLD.COMMENT NOT LIKE '%rebate%' AND OLD.COMMENT NOT LIKE '%MAM:CASH%' AND OLD.PROFIT < 0, OLD.PROFIT, 0),
    TOTAL_VOLUME = TOTAL_VOLUME - IF(OLD.CMD IN(0, 1) AND OLD.CLOSE_TIME > '1970-01-01', OLD.VOLUME, 0),
    TOTAL_REBATE = TOTAL_REBATE - IF((OLD.COMMENT LIKE '%agent%' OR OLD.COMMENT LIKE '%rebate%' OR OLD.COMMENT LIKE '%MAM:CASH%'), ROUND(OLD.PROFIT, 2), 0)
  WHERE LOGIN = OLD.LOGIN;
END

As well i attached the screenshot how the triggers sit:

Need help why my triggers are not working properly.
Thanking you in advance.

A: So finally i found a different logic, could not escape out of Deadlock in my case, so instead of above triggers with a cronjob script i was able to update all necessary data on one interval of time that triggers was doing.

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The word entrepreneur was first used in the early 18th century by an Irish man named Cantillon who was then living in France. The word therefore originated from the French word, entrepreneur, which means to start a business. It was used broadly in connection with the innovative modern individual business leaders. The entrepreneur has been described as the person who perceives business opportunities and takes advantage of the scarce resources to use them. He bears the non-insurable risk in his enterprise and directs human business.
According to Ndechukwu (2001), an entrepreneur is an individual who takes upon him-self the risk of going into business with the expectation of earning all the profits or losses. He is, in economics, regarded as a special type of labour that assembles all the other factors of production namely, capital, land and labour and endeavor to ensure optimal combination of these resources to maximize profit. The world as we know is becoming a global village; great forces are pursuing the nations to have a dynamic and sound economy. Economic competition and intimidation has become the era of the day, so one is justified if one becomes interested in one of the important factors of a strong and virile economy, the entrepreneur and the entrepreneurship.
Many societies placed great values on the entrepreneur. To encourage their activity, they may be offered access to in-expensive capital, tax exception and management advice. An entrepreneur has the greatest chance of success by focusing on a market niche either too small or too new to have been noticed by established business. The practice of entrepreneurship promotes self-reliance. Entrepreneurial skills are translated into practical business activities in the form of both small and medium scale enterprises in private and public enterprises. With this close relationship, entrepreneurial development relates to and also embraces the activities and role of small and medium scale entreprises particularly in the area of reducing the level of unemployment, provision of goods and services and their combination of national economic welfare.
The dynamic role of private and public enterprises in Nigerian economy as a mechanism for growth has recognized its effect in achieving macro economic objective such as full employment, income distribution, development of local technology as well as diffusion of management skills and stimulation of indigenous entrepreneurship cannot be over emphasized. At the emerging of a modern day Nigeria in the early 60's and 70's, white collar jobs were at the disposal of every fresh graduate, with this idea in mind, the issue of self resourcefulness tending towards entrepreneurial development was at the ebb.
The introduction of Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) in 1986 has a lot of effects in the private and public enterprises of the Nigerian economy which lay off a large number of their work force. This consequently led to economic hardship coupled with unemployment. For this reason, the need for self reliance and resourcefulness and development of new initiative for economic survival has led individuals to set up enterprises of various sizes and structure to meet up with the trend in the economy and to earn a living. This has indeed led to entrepreneurship development in Nigeria.
To qualify as an entrepreneur, it is not sufficient to be just managing an enterprise; one has to be an originator of profitable business ideas. According to Schumpeter (1911), the single function, which constitute entrepreneurship is innovation and indeed it creates a resource (the business entrepreneur). It should be noted that, nothing should be considered as resource until man finds a use for it. These resources must be combined, recognized and efficiently utilized by entrepreneurship to achieve a desirable satisfaction for human needs which entrepreneurship readily provides. Entrepreneurial development hold a lot for economic growth and development. A typical example of what it has to offer is seen in the case of Dangote Group of Companies, which grew from a small enterprise into a large conglomerate. Today, it is with several lines of business and diverse product, it is making a tremendous contribution to the development and growth of the Nigerian economy.
For a nation to say it is independent, it must be economically independent and these is based upon the development of entrepreneurship spirit. The establishment of a new business involves a thorough understanding of entrepreneurial process. This process does not just involve problem solving but also an entrepreneur must find, evaluate and develop opportunity by overcoming the strong forces that every new ventures faces.
Entrepreneurial process has four distinct phases which include ability to identify business opportunities, ability to be able to harness the necessary resources to utilize opportunities identified, ability and the willingness to initiate and sustain appropriate actions towards the actualization of business objectives and managing the resulting enterprise. Some useful sources of business opportunity are consumers existing companies, distribution channels, research and development, as well as the Federal government involvement in promoting entrepreneurship.
The developments of entrepreneurial skills in Nigeria have been affected by various factors. One of this is the issue of entrepreneurial education. The graduates of our educational system are ill prepared to meet challenges of the global economy. Our educational system prides it-self as producers of businessmen and women rather than entrepreneurs.
Lack of adequate financing is another factor especially for small business enterprises operating in developing economies, such as Nigeria. Every small business is concerned about financing policies and strategies for efficient and effective business management decision. It takes the resource of money to make money in small business enterprises in Nigeria are many, and many include payroll, taxes, insurance, rent, office supplies, inventory and telephone bills among others.
The commercial banks and financial houses, which are expected to be a source of finance for the growth and development of business enterprises, have been too rigid in providing adequate collateral in order to make funds available for entrepreneurs. It is against this background that the study evaluates the contribution of entrepreneurial development to the Nigerian economy.
The main objective of the study is to assess the contribution of entrepreneurial activities to the Nigerian economy.
1. To examine the extent to which the existing financial institutions have been able to meet the needs of entrepreneurs.
2. To examine the role of government in providing supportive facilities to entrepreneurs an the short-coming in the working of these institutions.
3. To examine those self made problems of the entrepreneurs themselves in stifling entrepreneurial development in Nigeria.
4. Finally, to make recommendations based on the problem identified in the course of this study.
1. What are the contributions of entrepreneurial development to the Nigerian economy?
2. How can the contribution of entrepreneurial development be enhanced in Nigeria?
3. What problem affects entrepreneurial development in Nigeria?
HO1 Entrepreneurial development has made no significant contribution in GDP and provision of employment in the country.
HA1 Entrepreneurial development has made a significant to GDP and provision of employment in the country.
Government has declared that there is an urgent need to tap into the potentials of entrepreneurs; hence, it became absolutely to work into the approaches and their involvement. It is in line with this guest that the study of entrepreneurship became necessary in order to undertake proper analysis. Understanding in this case will help in bringing under control, personal, social and economic variables such as employment, income distribution, and price and wealth creation in the most desired manner.
1. Banks: The existence of many entrepreneurs creates a wider market in any economy thereby expanding the market/banking activities and creating avenue for more banking transactions.
2. Businessmen: This study however directs businessmen in acquiring the necessary capitals, the requisite knowledge and the essential managerial know-how.
3. Government: The quest to provide employment to all Nigerians as the government stands a greater chance to benefit from this research work if they carefully study the content of this work. The problem with Nigeria is not initiatives but the inability of the government to provide enabling environment for entrepreneurship.
4. Producers: Entrepreneurial development aims at making more creative innovation; this however, brought ideas to the producers in proving the quality of their product for consumer satisfaction.
5. Individuals: Nigeria on yearly basis is producing lots and lots of graduates each looking forward for a white-collar job but the government's inability to provide enough employment to this set of individuals lead to unemployment. Graduates of all levels of education will benefit much from this study if they lay their hands on this project, because it will broaden their knowledge on entrepreneurship.
6. Researcher: It will serve as a guide to more competent researcher to carry out investigation on the field.
The study is based on evaluating the contributory role of entrepreneurship to the development of the Nigerian economy.
However, evaluating entrepreneurship as a tool in the growth and development of Nigerian economy seems too broad for the time frame of this research work. Hence, the scope of this work is framed towards the contribution of small and medium scale enterprise to the development of Nigerian economy.
Capital: This is that part of wealth used for further production of wealth.
Economy Development: This is when the real per capital income of a country increases over time.
Employment: This involves taking an occupation or trade or business.
Enterprises: This is accepting as an established system of political administration by which a nation is governed.
Gross Domestic Product (GDP): This is the monetary values of all the goods and services produced by an economy over a specified period.
Innovation: This is the ability of the entrepreneur to develop new ideas.
Investment: This is placing of money, capital or other resources to make profit.
Production: This is the creation of utility for the satisfaction of human wants.
Small Scale Industry: This is an enterprise with capital base not exceeding N 75,000 to N 3.0 million.
Profit: The financial gain made in a transaction.
Economy: Any specified collection of interrelated marketed and non-marketed productive activities.
Labour: All productive human resources, mental and physical, both inherited and acquired.
Market: An area over which buyers and sellers negotiate the exchange of a well-defined commodity.
Equilibrium Price: The price at which quantity demanded equals quantity supplied.


Health and Safety is an important part of working life in the United Kingdom. From humble origins, the regulations passed have made it much safer for an individual to work in almost any industry. While it may have started only as a concern for children working in factories, every decade has seen a significant amount of expansion in the concern for health and safety of the average worker in the UK.
When did Health and Safety in the UK begin?
The early days of the Health and Safety Regulations can be traced to the first provisions of the Factory Act of 1833. The Act was initially meant to protect child workers, but time and changing laws would eventually lead to inspectors who were responsible for health and safety in virtually all factories, combining the role of safety inspector with technical advisor.
The remainder of the 19th Century saw more Inspectorates formed, namely the Mines Inspectorate and Quarry Inspectorate. Both were put into place after the law began to offer protection that is more significant to workers, and each was met with significantly less resistance than the earliest provision of the Factory Act.
The 1950s would see the expansion of health and safety concerns to new fields. Agriculture would be the first concern, especially in the matters of those children working in the field. Not only would it be necessary for certain restrictions to be placed on working activities, but further reporting requirements were placed on incidents of accident and disease, 1959 would see the establishment of Nuclear Installations Inspectorate, largely in response to an incident at the Windscale Nuclear Site. Today's Nuclear Installations Inspectorate is the descendant of the organization set up in this act.
Acts that are more significant would be established in the 1970s. The Health and Safety at Work Act would pass in 1974, which established the Health and Safety Commission. The Health and Safety Executive would be formed a year later, in 1975. Two years later, regulations would allow safety representatives to be appointed from among workers in trade unions. While these changes might seem to be relatively small on their own, the 1970s set the tone for the remainder of the twentieth century's safety regulations.
The 1980s would mark the fiftieth anniversary of the inspectorates, and lead to further health and safety acts. First aid regulation would be the first order of the 1980s, followed by the licensing of asbestos and even enforcement of genetic manipulation regulation. By 1985 would see another one of the major regulations passed, this time in regards to reporting.
For the first time, reporting of job-related injuries, disease and dangerous occurences would be mandatory. 1988 would bring about regulations to limit employee exposure to dangerous chemicals, though the year would also be marred by significant accidents. The final year of the 1980s would see the regulation of both noise and electricity at work, acts which would lead to a better overall quality of life for workers in many industries.
The 1990s would lead to even reforms that are more sweeping, 1990 brought about new regulatory measures for the rail and nuclear safety research, while 1991 brought offshore safety regulation under the umbrella of the HSE. 1992 brought about the so-called "six pack", a group of regulations that concerned work equipment for many individuals, including specific regulations about display screen, safety equipment and manual handling operations.
1994 featured a completed review of the regulations, as well as new regulations on Construction design and management for the construction industry. By the end of the decade, gas safety and major hazardous chemicals would also have new health and safety regulations.
The twenty-first century has been shaping up as a time of new regulations, integration of services and higher accessibility. Be it the replacement of tried-and-true posters with updated examples, the new Safety Alert system or even the merging of offices, it seems that Health and Safety will continue to be an important part of the life of those who live and work in the UK for many years to come.


With a majority of MSMEs in the region claiming to have borne the brunt of GST, Tamil Nadu Pumpset Manufacturers Association (TAPMA) Saturday said that their business had grown by 10 to 20 per cent after the implementation of the Goods and Services Tax (GST). As a major MSME hub, almost all the industrial associations in the region had claimed that their business was seriously affected due to GST implemented by BJP-led Government.
However, TAPMA president, Kalyanasundaram told reporters here that compared to pre GST era, taxes were four per cent less after GST implementation, as there was reduction of central sales tax for the materials purchased from outside the region. Besides, the removal of check posts and two per cent reduction in sales tax added to the growth of the business ranging from 10 to 20 per cent he said adding that the GST Council continues to reduce the tax burden as and when represented by the industries. The association has 120 members and the only problem faced by the industries here was acute labour shortage, he said.


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Josip Šebalj, hrvatski bosanskohercegovački bivši nogometaš i nogometni trener. Igrao za Željezničar iz Sarajeva. Igrao je za Željezničar koji je tad igrao u 2. razredu sarajevskog nogometnog podsaveza od 1921/22. Sljedeće sezone vodio je Željezničar i kao trener koji se natjecao u istom ligaškom natjecanju, skupa s Adolfom Šmitom. Sljedećih pet uzastopnih sezona, počevši od 1922./23. bio je trener-igrač. Od sezone 1923./24. bio je jedini trener. Sezone 1925./26. doveo je momčad do prvog mjesta u 2. razredu sarajevskog nogometnog podsaveza i izborio 1. razred. 1926./27. bili su zadnji u 1. razredu sarajevskog podsaveza. Od naredne sezone 1927./28., pa sedam uzastopnih sezona ukupno, više nije igrao, nego je bio samo trener. Klub se natjecao u sarajevskoj podsaveznoj ligi odnosno 1. razredu sarajevske podsavezne lige.

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Životopisi, Sarajevo
Hrvatski nogometaši iz Bosne i Hercegovine
Bosanskohercegovački nogometni vratari
Bosanskohercegovački nogometni treneri
Nogometaši FK Željezničara

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CD, DVD, Where to buy and stream his music?
The DVD´s of movies with Alexander and how to get them!
Alexander is the voice of the Moomin-troll!
DVD: Alexander Rybak – " Fairytale the Movie".
Europe is Alexander's new home. This is the movie about this journey. A document of this years Fairytale.
The boy with the violin became a national hero in Norway, a musical phenomenon, a teen-idol. The 23 year old from Belarus, won countless hearts during those 3 minutes on the 16th of May 2009. The next 6 months he went out to meet these hearts. Come with Alexander to Giske, when he's back at the place where he wrote Fairytale; to Finland where he meets thousands of screaming fans, and to the start of his European tour in Ukraine.
The play and songs are in English, but there is some speak in Norwegian in between.


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ACM is proud to announce the release, with the editorial leadership of novelist Rob Cely, of its newest literary magazine, Pathos. P quarterly magazine of culture and faith, Pathos explores all the major ideas that move our world today: in politics, science, art and popular culture, and examine what they mean and how they intersect with the life of faith. Each issue also includes poetry, fiction and art from some of today's finest emerging talents. In this issue Pathos explores the idea of the Grand Myth – the foundational beliefs that form the basis of our worldview and offer the framework through which we interpret our experiences. Plus, new fiction from Anthony Horvath, essays, poetry and more.


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Measurements of Inclusive [Formula presented] Production
S. Anderson, V. V. Frolov, Y. Kubota, S. J. Lee, S. Z. Li, R. Poling, A. Smith, C. J. Stepaniak, J. Urheim, Z. Metreveli, K. K. Seth, A. Tomaradze, P. Zweber, S. Ahmed, M. S. Alam, L. Jian, M. Saleem, F. Wappler, E. Eckhart, K. K. GanC. Gwon, T. Hart, K. Honscheid, D. Hufnagel, H. Kagan, R. Kass, T. K. Pedlar, J. B. Thayer, E. von Toerne, T. Wilksen, M. M. Zoeller, H. Muramatsu, S. J. Richichi, H. Severini, P. Skubic, S. A. Dytman, J. A. Mueller, S. Nam, V. Savinov, S. Chen, J. W. Hinson, J. Lee, D. H. Miller, V. Pavlunin, E. I. Shibata, I. P.J. Shipsey, D. Cronin-Hennessy, A. L. Lyon, C. S. Park, W. Park, E. H. Thorndike, T. E. Coan, Y. S. Gao, F. Liu, Y. Maravin, I. Narsky, R. Stroynowski, M. Artuso, C. Boulahouache, K. Bukin, E. Dambasuren, K. Khroustalev, G. C. Moneti, R. Mountain, R. Nandakumar, T. Skwarnicki, S. Stone, J. C. Wang, A. H. Mahmood, S. E. Csorna, I. Danko, Z. Xu, G. Bonvicini, D. Cinabro, M. Dubrovin, S. McGee, A. Bornheim, E. Lipeles, S. P. Pappas, A. Shapiro, W. M. Sun, A. J. Weinstein, G. Masek, H. P. Paar, R. Mahapatra, H. N. Nelson, R. A. Briere, G. P. Chen, T. Ferguson, G. Tatishvili, H. Vogel, N. E. Adam, J. P. Alexander, K. Berkelman, F. Blanc, V. Boisvert, D. G. Cassel, P. S. Drell, J. E. Duboscq, K. M. Ecklund, R. Ehrlich, L. Gibbons, B. Gittelman, S. W. Gray, D. L. Hartill, B. K. Heltsley, L. Hsu, C. D. Jones, J. Kandaswamy, D. L. Kreinick, A. Magerkurth, H. Mahlke-Krüger, T. O. Meyer, N. B. Mistry, E. Nordberg, J. R. Patterson, D. Peterson, J. Pivarski, D. Riley, A. J. Sadoff, H. Schwarthoff, M. R. Shepherd, J. G. Thayer, D. Urner, B. Valant-Spaight, G. Viehhauser, A. Warburton, M. Weinberger, S. B. Athar, P. Avery, L. Breva-Newell, V. Potlia, H. Stoeck, J. Yelton, G. Brandenburg, A. Ershov, D. Y.J. Kim, R. Wilson, K. Benslama, B. I. Eisenstein, J. Ernst, G. D. Gollin, R. M. Hans, I. Karliner, N. Lowrey, M. A. Marsh, C. Plager, C. Sedlack, M. Selen, J. J. Thaler, J. Williams, K. W. Edwards, R. Ammar, D. Besson, X. Zhao
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The 2020 Red Bull Ring FIA Formula 2 round was a pair of motor races for Formula 2 cars that took place on 4 and 5 July 2020 at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, in Austria as part of the FIA Formula 2 Championship. It was the first round of the 2020 FIA Formula 2 Championship and ran in support of the 2020 Austrian Grand Prix.

Classification

Qualifying

Feature Race

Notes:
 – Luca Ghiotto could not start the race after suffering a mechanical issue on the sighting lap. His grid slot was then left vacant.

Sprint race

Championship standings after the event

Drivers' Championship standings

Teams' Championship standings

 Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

See also
2020 Austrian Grand Prix
2020 Spielberg Formula 3 round

References

External links

NOTE:  As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Spielberg hosted rounds on consecutive weeks in 2020.

Spielberg
Spielberg
Spielberg Formula 2 round
July 2020 sports events in Austria


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Chapter 6 Utilizing Evidence-Based Practice in Teacher Preparation
Larry Maheady, Cynthia Smith and Michael Jabot
Evidence-based practice (EBP) can have a powerful impact on school-aged children. Yet this impact may not be realized if classroom teachers do not use empirically…
Evidence-based practice (EBP) can have a powerful impact on school-aged children. Yet this impact may not be realized if classroom teachers do not use empirically supported interventions and/or fail to include the best research available when they make important educational decisions about children. Whether classroom teachers use EBP may be influenced, in part, by what they learned or failed to learn in their preservice preparation programs. This chapter describes recent efforts to assess preservice teachers' understanding and use of empirically supported interventions and provides four examples of how such practices were taught to preservice general educators in a small, regional teacher preparation program. We discuss four contemporary educational reform movements (i.e., federal policies mandating EBP, state-level policies linking growth in pupil learning to teacher evaluation, clinically rich teacher preparation, and the emergence of a practice-based evidence approach) that should increase interest and use of EBP in teacher education and offer recommendations for how teacher educators might infuse EBP into their traditional teaching, research, and service functions in higher education.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S0735-004X(2013)0000026008
The informal city and the future of our cities: towards a manifesto
Magda Mostafa
The New Urban Agenda has catalyzed discussion across academia and practice on how to responsibly position ourselves as key players in the making of the future of our…
The New Urban Agenda has catalyzed discussion across academia and practice on how to responsibly position ourselves as key players in the making of the future of our cities. With questions such as what is the right to the city? Who has those rights? What is a city? What is formal and who defines informal? These questions may prompt a need for departure from, or at least a reconsideration of the narrative surrounding formal and informal urbanism. This paper presents a pedagogical approach to addressing these and other questions within the framework of the new agenda. It reviews pedagogical approaches to understanding and learning to design within an informal context. It also foregrounds the process with the theoretical framing of Christopher Alexander's Pattern Language and Timeless way of Building as lenses through which to understand and identify common languages and intersections across the global spectrum of representations of informal urbanism. It then outlines the resultant process and products of a one-week intensive master-class and design charette of international scholars and students focusing on the Informal City.
It reviews pedagogical approaches to understanding and learning to design within an informal context. It also foregrounds the process with the theoretical framing of Christopher Alexander's Pattern Language and Timeless way of Building as lenses through which to understand and identify common languages and intersections across the global spectrum of representations of informal urbanism. It then outlines the resultant process and products of a one-week intensive master-class and design charette of international scholars and students focusing on the Informal City.
The paper conclusively presents new nomenclature for informality that strives to shift the semantic lens from its current negative connotations to more productive, proactive and positive ones. It also presents an Informal City Manifesto, a call to arms of theoretical framing of how we think about the formal informal divide.
The paper, in part, outlines the results of a single studio with a small student number. Although diverse in its composition the student body is small.
This new framing could potentially allow us to best leverage lessons and mitigate challenges of the informal city condition, as our human settlements continue to urbanize.
Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research, vol. ahead-of-print no. ahead-of-print
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/ARCH-04-2020-0063
Arthur Andersen (A): The Waste Management Crisis
Daniel Diermeier, Robert J. Crawford and Charlotte Snyder
The cases describe the demise of Arthur Andersen, a firm that had long set the industry standard for professionalism in accounting and auditing. Once an example of strong…
Teaching notes available
The cases describe the demise of Arthur Andersen, a firm that had long set the industry standard for professionalism in accounting and auditing. Once an example of strong corporate culture with a commitment to public service and independent integrity, Andersen saw its culture and standards weaken as it grew explosively and changed its mode of governance. The (A) case describes a crisis precipitated by the admission of Waste Management, a major Andersen client, that it overstated its pretax earnings by $1.43 billion from 1992 to 1996. The resulting Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigation ended with Andersen paying a $7 million fine, the largest ever levied against an accounting firm, and agreeing to an injunction that effectively placed the accounting giant on probation. Students analyze the causes of Andersen's problems and advise Andersen leadership. The (B) case covers Arthur Andersen's relationship with Enron, one of the great success stories of the "new economy" boom. When Enron's aggressive use of off-balance sheet partnerships became impossible to hide in autumn 2001, news reports stated that Andersen auditors had engaged in extensive shredding of draft documents and associated communications with Enron. Students are asked to act as crisis management consultants to Andersen CEO Joe Berardino. The (C) case details Andersen's collapse following its indictment and conviction on criminal charges of obstructing justice in the Enron case. Its conviction was later overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court on narrow technical grounds, but by then Andersen had ceased to exist, eighty-nine years after Arthur E. Andersen had taken over a small accounting firm in Chicago. Students can focus on the impact of media on a reputational crisis.
Students will: Identify the teachable moment in a crisis that leaders can leverage as an opportunity to improve a firm's reputation or core identity, to reinforce values, and to drive change, Understand the impact on crisis management of the media landscape and regulatory decision-making, Realize the fragility of corporate cultures and the need to actively maintain them, especially during difficult times,
Kellogg School of Management Cases, vol. no.
Type: Case Study
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/case.kellogg.2016.000022
Regulatory Management
Arthur Andersen (C): The Collapse of Arthur Andersen
Arthur Andersen (B): From Waste Management to Enron
Pressures on the Manager in the Organization: Obstacles and Aids to Ethical Behavior
Gerald F. Cavanagh S. J.
WorldCom has been in the headlines since 2002 because of the $11 billion fraud that it acknowledged at that time. In order to please Wall Street and investors, WorldCom's…
WorldCom has been in the headlines since 2002 because of the $11 billion fraud that it acknowledged at that time. In order to please Wall Street and investors, WorldCom's top executives inflated the firm's profits by misallocating expenses and making many false accounting entries. The reactions of managers within WorldCom varied dramatically. Vice President of Internal Audit Cynthia Cooper and internal auditors Gene Morse and Glyn Smith became suspicious of accounting entries, which had no supporting documentation. They decided to pursue their suspicions. Working on their own time for several months and often late at night, the team ultimately uncovered $3.8 billion in false entries. During the course of their investigation, the internal auditors presented their suspicious information to both the chief financial officer Scott Sullivan and to WorldCom external auditors at Arthur Andersen.1 Both Sullivan and the auditors at Arthur Andersen defended the entries and refused to provide additional information or to pursue the matter any further. The internal auditors at WorldCom found the fraudulent accounting entries four-quarters after they first began.
Crisis and Opportunity in the Professions
Inside Corporations: How They Think and Behave
Morgan R. Clevenger and Cynthia J. MacGregor
This chapter explores the mindset inside companies and how they plan and interact in society. Corporate strategy and leadership are discussed. Specific models illustrate a…
This chapter explores the mindset inside companies and how they plan and interact in society. Corporate strategy and leadership are discussed. Specific models illustrate a process of engagement including the sustainable livelihoods approach, The Partnership Continuum by Johnson (2011), Stages of Corporate Citizenship by Mirvis and Googins (2006), and Saul's (2012) social value spectrum and social innovation quartile. Finally, to illustrate best practices with highly driven corporate efforts, a case study at Campbell Soup Company in Camden, New Jersey, illuminates a broad range of perspectives and strategies that foster, manage, and report corporate practices in action.
Business and Corporation Engagement with Higher Education
Heroes in sport: assessing celebrity endorser effectiveness
Joshua Shuart
The use of celebrities, and particularly athletes, to influence consumers and sell products is not a new practice, but one that is gaining considerable steam in the sports…
The use of celebrities, and particularly athletes, to influence consumers and sell products is not a new practice, but one that is gaining considerable steam in the sports marketplace. However, many academics and practitioners have long questioned the means by which celebrity endorsement is measured and evaluated. Through the use of validated surveys among US students and the inauguration of the Celebrity-Hero Matrix (CHM), some of their questions are answered. Being labelled a 'heroic' athlete does, it seems, have tremendous power for marketers, and provides endorsement clout for the athlete.
International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship, vol. 8 no. 2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSMS-08-02-2007-B004
Examining the Determinants of State Borrowing Costs: Controlling for Different Terms to Maturity
Cynthia Sneed, John Sneed and Kathleen J. Smith
Prior studies have developed models to identify factors that determine the borrowing costs for state governments. When state governments borrow money, they usually issue…
Prior studies have developed models to identify factors that determine the borrowing costs for state governments. When state governments borrow money, they usually issue serial bonds. With a serial bond issue, a portion of the principal borrowed is repaid each year, along with the interest payments, over the life of the bond issue. Also, a separate yield‐to‐maturity (YTM) is assigned for the yearly maturities under the serial bond issue.
Management Research News, vol. 20 no. 10
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import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.commons.jelly.JellyTagException;
import org.apache.commons.jelly.MissingAttributeException;
import org.apache.commons.jelly.TagSupport;
import org.apache.commons.jelly.XMLOutput;
import org.apache.commons.jelly.util.ClassLoaderUtils;
import org.iso_relax.verifier.Schema;
import org.iso_relax.verifier.Verifier;
import org.iso_relax.verifier.VerifierConfigurationException;
import org.iso_relax.verifier.VerifierFactory;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;

/**
 * This tag creates a new Verifier of a schema as a variable
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 * @author James Strachan
 * @version $Revision: 155420 $
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    public VerifierFactory getFactory() throws JellyTagException {
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Two weeks ago I had some expected pre-menstrual cramping, normal but it felt different. I blamed my imagination as I have gone through too many cycles imagining pregnancy symptoms, just to end up with a broken heart. On day 28 I was prepared, but nothing happened. This is however not too strange, as I get the odd month where my cycle is 32 days, so I waited longer. I would double check each time I go to the loo, but still nothing. A tiny flicker of hope sparked but while browsing "early pregnancy signs" I got to an article which talks about weight gain (especially around the middle) which can mean PCOS, which results in missed periods. The flicker of hope died and I thought: "Great, now this as well". On Saturday (which was day 36) I could not handle it anymore. I drove to our adjacent town to go and buy a pregnancy test as our town is too small and only have a grocer which sells no such things.
I came home, unpacked the groceries and took my parcel to the bathroom. Hubby was in the kitchen busy making potato salad. I got into position and peed on the stick, two pink lines appearing almost immediately. I had a little hysterical fit (a happy one) and did a little boogie dance in the bathroom while trying to finish my pee, hold the stick, wipe my eyes, try not to make very strange noises and pull up my clothes - all at the same time. Hubby was saying something through the door about potatoes, I tried to answer but those very strange noises that I was trying not to make escaped from my mouth. He asked whether I am OK, so I opened the door. He took one look at my face, then at the stick I was holding up and realisation dawned in his eyes. It was priceless, I dreamed for 5 years about how this would play out and this was perfect. We grabbed each other and cried in each other's arms.


I've just added two sets : "Graphics" is nice and quite big, "Phantom" is... big only !
Two new chessboards have just been added !
Enormous is big enough! Sometimes size does matter. Thanks Thibault for another improvement to an improving site.