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Una anivelladora és, en la seva versió més habitual, un vehicle d'enginyeria civil format per un llarg bastidor articulat de sis rodes i una fulla molt ampla en posició ventral que permet d'ajustar capes de materials, en el terraplè en rasant (grading) per exemple.

No s'ha de confondre amb el tragella o scraper, que també s'utilitza per a ajustar els sòls però que permet de moure els materials al seu lloc a distàncies importants.

L'anivelladora, sovint s'anomena pel seu nom en anglès: grader. S'utilitza freqüentment als països de neu com a vehicle de retirada de neu.

Història
La primera anivelladora autopropulsada va ser fabricada l'any 1920 per la Russell Grader Manufacturing Company, que la va anomenar Russell Motor Hi-Way Patrol. Aquestes primeres anivelladores es van crear afegint la fulla de l'anivelladora com a accessori a un tractor d'ús general. Després de fer-se càrrec de l'empresa l'any 1928, Caterpillar va integrar realment el tractor i l'anivelladora en un sol dispositiu, alhora que va substituir les pistes per rodes per a produir la primera nivelladora autopropulsada de rodes, la Caterpillar Auto Patrol, comercialitzada el 1931.

Descripció

Eines
La fulla predominant de la nivelladora és la gran fulla ventral d'alçada limitada (també anomenada grader o fulla anivelladora) situada sota la fletxa. És suspesa per una corona ajustable que es pot ajustar estant en la cabina amb angles significatius i al llarg de diferents eixos: utilitza bulldozer (fulla perpendicular a la direcció de la marxa, angledozer (angle d'atac, permet de llançar la terra cap a un costat), tiltdozer (peralt, inclinació a l'esquerra o dreta de la fulla en el pla vertical perpendicular a l'avanç), tipdozer (ajust de l'angle d'entrada o amuntegament ). La fulla també es pot desplaçar cap a l'esquerra o cap a la dreta fent lliscar sobre la corona (desplaçament lateral). L'articulació central de la màquina també pot contribuir al desplaçament de la fulla.

L'anivelladora també pot incloure un ripper (dents de l'arada de subsol que permeten d'afluixar les capes de material al seu lloc) a la part posterior, una fulla de bulldozer a la part davantera o fins i tot una pinta (escarificador).

Tren motriu
El tren de propulsió muntat a la part posterior sol comptar quatre rodes motrius iguals (rarament dues) muntades en un tàndem oscil·lant. Estan units a cada costat per transmissions de cadena i són accionats per un motor potent (per exemple 250 cavalls de potència per a una màquina de 25 tones amb una fulla de 4,5 m). Les rodes davanteres es poden accionar per transmissió hidràulica.

Maniobrabilitat
La direcció s'obté per les rodes davanteres però també per l'articulació del bastidor. Aquesta articulació també permet de compensar la fletxa durant el treball, la qual cosa permet per exemple inclinar-se mantenint la unitat de potència a la part inferior del talús en una posició segura i l'eix davanter, que té un angle d'oscil·lació considerable, al flanc d'un talús.

Usos

Obres públiques

La fulla serveix per ajustar les diferents capes de terra o paviment (fonamentació i base) constituïts per grava hidràulica, natural o bituminosa (grava bituminosa). També s'utilitza per fer pendent, excavar grans séquies o canals i omplir ràpidament rases.

L'anivellament en si és sovint precedit de la superfície amb una excavadora o ragella i l'addició de materials. El segueix la compactació: l'anivelladora s'associa llavors a un cilindre (piconadora ) o a un compactadora (tan sols amb rodes).

Anivellament agrícola
Pel que fa a les grans superfícies, es realitza més aviat amb tragelles lleugeres remolcades, de vegades amb grans fulles d'anivellament semimuntades o remolcades.

També hi ha fulles d'anivellament que es poden adaptar directament als enllaçaments del tractor o arrossegades per a treballs lleugers: manteniment de camins i terraplens, desmuntatge de caps o zones de descàrrega, etc.

Hi ha minipales disponibles per al manteniment d'instal·lacions esportives o jardins.

Notes i referències

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Home — The Allergies – Love's Supposed to Be 7" Jalapeno Records – JAL 220
The Allergies – Love's Supposed to Be 7" Jalapeno Records – JAL 220
The Allergies – Love's Supposed to Be
Label: Jalapeno Records – JAL 220
Format: Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single, Stereo
Country: UK & Europe
Released: 15 Jul 2016
Genre: Hip Hop, Funk / Soul
Style: Funk, Jazzy Hip-Hop
A Love's Supposed to Be 3:15
B As We Do Our Thing 4:06
The Allergies are back with another slice of 45 action. 'Love's Supposed To Be' takes you back to the glory days of Northern Soul, with an upbeat rhythm section driving the track, and a sing-along vocal that cuts through perfectly.
On the flip is the crowd pleasing title track taken from their album 'As We Do Our Thing'. Brandishing punchy horns, Motown-esque drums and unapologetic samples, this track is the embodiment of what they're all about.This is without a doubt a must have piece of wax that would be at home in anyone's 45 collection.

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Helen Mirren Recounts Being Sexualized As A Young Actress: 'Uncomfortable, Paralyzing & Absolutely Enraging'
While Helen Mirren is one of the most respected movie stars in showbiz, she revealed that during the early days of her career, she was often sexualized like so many of her female peers.
"I used to think of it as a sort of, a rather uncomfortable backpack that I was having to carry with me," she admitted to The Hollywood Reporter. "But it was something I realized quite early on that I just had to deal with, had to accept and sort of carry on regardless. To not allow it to affect me."
"It wasn't altogether detrimental — it was valuable in some ways. But, at the same time, it wasn't really me. It was me in the sense that I looked the way I looked, and some people saw that in me," the British star shared. "I always said to myself: It's the work that counts. I think that's partly why, early in my career, I really concentrated on becoming, for lack of a better word, a classical actress. It's the work that counts, so keep doing that sort of difficult, challenging work, and this other thing will hopefully drop away."
As she got older, Mirren actually started to "enjoy" the idea of playing with her image.
"I love to dress up — it's fine. Now it's absolutely fine. Because, you know, I'm much, much, much older," the L'Oreal Paris ambassador explained. "When you're a young woman, especially in that era, being sexualized was the opposite of what I wanted. That or the opposite: 'Oh, you're not sexy at all.' The whole attitude was just paralyzing. And absolutely enraging."
Mirren in 1984
The Prime Suspect alum noted that things are "absolutely different now" for young women in the industry, though it's not without its issues.
"There are elements of it still, but I think — and I might be wrong about this — but I think young women have claimed that territory, their sexuality, for themselves. They've got the chins up about it, they don't have to substitute for it or feel embarrassed about it," she noted. "Sexuality used to be disempowering. Now I think maybe it's empowering."


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Grand Prix Final Preview and Predictions
By LauraS Dec 9, 2010, 8:22am EST
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The Senior Grand Prix Final starts tomorrow and will finally be a chance for this year's top-performing skaters to challenge each other. Here is a look at what's to come this weekend in Beijing, China.
Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy (Germany): Without a doubt, these two have been the top-performing pair of the season. They won both of their Grand Prix events handily and I think it would take a few errors or a much more inspired performance (and less error-ridden one) by Qing Pang and Jian Tong in order for this pair to be challenged. They have the difficulty as well as the visuals. My only concern is that they haven't truly had a great performance where they looked perfectly comfortable with that free skate yet. So maybe this weekend, The Pink Panther gets his due.
Qing Pang and Jian Tong (China): These two are absolutely lovely, but they showed up to their second Grand Prix at Cup of China looking lost in a fog. I like both of their programs but they're not up to par with last year's efforts. Still, I think they should be confident of a medal, likely at least the silver if they can stay clean enough. Their technical and artistic strengths are ahead of all of the other pairs other than Savchenko and Szolkowy. If they channel their last-season selves, they will be a gold medal threat.
Vera Bazarova and Yuri Larionov (Russia): This pair is starting to come into their own. I really look forward to watching their beautiful pairs basics and quiet elegance. If they are clean, I think they'll get the bronze medal here. But they have been plagued by mistakes here and there, so I think it's really up to how they skate. I'm not sure they'll be able to err in the Final and still garner a medal the way they did in the other Grand Prix events.
Kirsten Moore-Towers and Dylan Moscovitch (Canada): I like watching this pair and the judges definitely seem to like them. I think that they have some really fun lifts and some nice skating qualities. If they can stay clean here while others make mistakes, it could be a medal opportunity. On the whole, I don't necessarily put them in the same group as Bazarova and Larionov, but perhaps they can prove me wrong here.
Lubov Iliushechkina and Nodari Maisuradze (Russia): These two had a bit of a roller coaster Grand Prix, winning their debut at Skate Canada and then faltering the next week to only come in fourth at Cup of China. They are an exciting pair to watch and if they are as good and clean as they were at Skate Canada, this should be an interesting bid for a medal.
Wenjing Sui and Cong Han (China): This pair is absolutely adorable. They have gigantic tricks and a whole lot of energy, and should keep the home crowd entertained. If the crowd has any pull, I think they will get some pretty huge marks. Personally, I don't see them challenging for gold here and I don't think they skate together or with much connection. I think they have some maturing to do before getting a Grand Prix Final medal, but their technical marks alone will be so high that I can't count them out for a medal.
Prediction:
1) Savchenko and Szolkowy (Germany)
2) Pang and Tong (China)
3) Bazarova and Larionov (Russia)
Daisuke Takahashi (Japan): Takahashi has had some pretty impressive program components this season, although Patrick Chan can definitely challenge them with his own love from the judges. Takahashi also has a quad. However, his jumping has been up and down through the first two Grand Prix events he has won this season. I think in an event like this, that opens the door for a more consistent competitor. If Takahashi holds it together and lands most of those jumps, though, he should at least medal.
Takahiko Kozuka (Japan): Kozuka's season's best is far higher than Takahashi's, and he's been more impressive on jumping this season. Still, while Kozuka has nice components, he might not look quite as good held up right next to Takahashi, based on Takahashi's showmanship. Kozuka has a great chance to win this based on his strong skills and consistency.
Patrick Chan (Canada): Chan is a great skater with components through the roof. He is prone to falling several times in a competition. He has a quadruple toe/triple toe that is to die for and two strong programs. It will be harder for Chan to medal here the way he has been skating than it was to medal in the other events. But if we see a marginally cleaner Chan (or a sloppy field) then he has a good shot at gold.
Nobunari Oda (Japan): Oda is another Japanese skater with amazing skills who never quite holds up against a direct comparison to Takahashi. However, he has performed better technically than Takahashi and gave away the victory at Skate America. I think Oda is a medal threat but he may find it difficult to outshine the other gold medal contenders. He has the technical goods, though, to make a run.
Tomas Verner (Czech Republic): Verner used to be big on the quads but he's taken a conservative approach to his skating this season, which is serving him just fine. Verner's program components will not be high as some of the others but he can use some clean programs and nice jumps to his advantage. And another chance to showcase his Michael Jackson free skate.
Florent Amodio (France): Speaking of Michael Jackson free skates, while I don't think Amodio will necessarily be competing for the gold here, it's another chance for him to gain experience. He is one of the smoothest skaters out there right now and he can really work the crowd in both of his programs. I'm not a fan of his Michael Jackson free, and Amodio does not have a quad this season, but I think he is really asserting himself as the top French contender.
1) Kozuka (Japan)
This is a very tough one. I'm not confident at all about these predictions. I think Chan and Takahashi could easily wind up off the podium and Oda could easily take the whole thing. However, I will say that I'll be surprised if Kozuka does not medal.
Meryl Davis and Charlie White (USA): This does feel like a bit of an off-year for Davis and White, despite their utter dominance of their two Grand Prix events. Their short dance is lovely but short dances in general kind of stink, and their free dance doesn't do it for me. They've also been reworking their programs so perhaps they are not quite settled into them yet. Additionally, they have had some mistakes in the past. However, I don't think anyone challenges them here.
Nathalie Pechalat and Fabian Bourzat (France): I think this team has grown this season and is beyond prepared. I don't think they should challenge for gold unless Davis and White make some mistakes...but this IS ice dancing, so I won't be surprised to see their scores up there with Davis and White's. This season is a great opportunity for Pechalat and Bourzat and they aren't going to let it slip away. I like both of their dances.
Vanessa Crone and Paul Poirier (Canada): These two are quite strong as well and have a very popular free dance to Eleanor Rigby. I think that if everyone performs their best that this team would be my pick for bronze.
Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitri Soloviev (Russia): I'm not really a fan of this team and I think they've risen a little more quickly than I think maybe they should have. Like I said, this is ice dancing, and they are Russian, so there's no surprise if they make the podium. I just don't think they've been quite as cohesive or impressive as some of the other top dancers. That being said, their season's best is pretty much tied with that of Crone and Poirier, so keep that in mind.
Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje (Canada): They've been fun to watch this season but they've been mistake-prone and I don't expect them to medal unless the others err.
Nora Hoffmann and Maxim Zavozin (Hungary): Another pair I truly enjoy watching but do not expect to necessarily be contenders here unless there is a disaster for the top-ranked dancers.
1) Davis and White (USA)
2) Pechalat and Bourzat (France)
3) Crone and Poirier (Canada)
Miki Ando (Japan): Unfortunately, I don't really see much competition here for Miki Ando if she skates the way she has been this season. She is just landing those jumps with such confidence that whatever she lacks in artistry she has been making up for. And she is not exactly scoring low in components anyway. However, I think Ando's big advantage is that she's been clean this season, but she's not some dominating skater. If others can get it together, the gold is definitely up for grabs.
Akiko Suzuki (Japan): Suzuki will always tend to have little mistakes here and there, but her programs are beautiful and she has such a wonderful presence on the ice. She's a medal threat here and I won't be surprised if she sneaks in for gold.
Carolina Kostner (Italy): Kostner is going to get wonderful component scores and she's going to not do any of the more difficult jumps. If she is clean and others err (and this is ladies skating, so we know everyone is going to be making mistakes all over the place) she has a definite podium case.
Rachael Flatt (USA): Flatt is dealing with tendinitis which hampered her in the short program at Skate America. Still, she won the free skate there, and I have a feeling she'll skate very well here. Still, Flatt's only chance to win competitions is to have others falter, because she won't get the same GOE scores and program components marks as others. So she will always be waiting for that perfect storm. Will it come in Beijing?
Alissa Czisny (USA): If Czisny can skate clean, she takes the whole thing. Now that the pigs flying portion of the Czisny preview is over, I'll realistically say that her competition (aside from her brain) will be with Kostner. Czisny has more difficult jumps and pretty good components and could edge out Kostner if both err about the same amount of times.
Kanako Murakami (Japan): Murakami is cute and has a nice triple/triple and some fantastic skating. She doesn't have the maturity of some of the other skaters but her technical elements may be able to vault her into a podium position. And if it's a case like Skate America, she can ride others' mistakes all the way to the top.
1) Ando (Japan)
2) Suzuki (Japan)
3) Flatt (USA)


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Shannon-based Get the Shifts Ltd. has won the Best Start Up Business Award at the 2018 National Enterprise Awards in a competition organised by the Local Enterprise Offices at the Mansion House, Dublin.
Backed by Local Enterprise Office Clare, Get the Shifts is an online staffing solutions business which matches temporary hospitality workers with relevant employers across Ireland using an on demand web and mobile platform. The announcement was made yesterday evening in the Mansion House by the Minister for Trade, Employment, Business, EU Digital Single Market and Data Protection, Pat Breen T.D.
"This year's winners, like all those in previous years, represent the backbone of Ireland's enterprise success and contribute hugely to the economic vibrancy of their respective regions. All this year's finalists and winners have been supported by my Department through the Local Enterprise Office network. I would like to pay tribute to the hard work and vision of the network, and would encourage those with business ideas to get in touch with their local office for expert guidance and advice," added Minister Breen.
Congratulating Hannah Wrixon and Gillian Wrixon Rijke of Get the Shifts Ltd., Mayor of Clare Tom McNamara said, "Start-up companies like Get the Shifts Ltd. are at the leading edge of the economic growth and development of Clare. This award success is further evidence of the strong spirit of entrepreneurial activity underway in the county and that local business people are capable of generating a range of new business ideas and consequently, new employment opportunities for the wider community."


The essence of church leadership, to the early church fathers, was best summed up in the image of the shepherd, a role that combines authority and guidance.
Beeley is the Walter H. Gray Associate Professor of Anglican Studies and Patristics at Yale Divinity School and Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. His other books include "The Unity of Christ: Continuity and Conflict in Patristic Tradition" and "Gregory of Nazianzus on the Trinity and the Knowledge of God," winner of a John Templeton Award for Theological Promise.
He spoke with Faith & Leadership about his new book and leadership lessons for the church today. The following is an edited transcript.
The book is about the most basic principles of church leadership, drawing from the early church -- the classic and most beloved sources where these principles were best articulated and which many church leaders have turned to over the centuries.
It's about the basic model of church leadership that leaders from countless different communities and Christian traditions have drawn on. They are also principles that most of us would recognize and share today.
Q: What was the essence of leadership to these early church fathers?
They saw the leader primarily as a shepherd. "Shepherd" is our most basic idea that captures all the aspects of church leadership, of what it means to be a leader. The role of shepherd is one of authority and guidance. Church leaders are those who are chiefly responsible for the overall spiritual guidance of the flock.
Our relationship with authority and power, however, is one of our oldest problems. Human beings are naturally uncomfortable with either extreme of power relationships. We're uncomfortable having our own power, and we can also be uncomfortable being under the power or influence of others.
That's why the image of "shepherd" is still rich and helpful. It speaks to us today about this basic need to have authoritative, humble and well-functioning leadership. That's very easy to say, but it's very hard to carry out.
Q: What wisdom does the early church offer for how pastors are supposed to exercise that authority?
They tell us a lot about how to carry it out. Probably the single most important asset in the leader's portfolio is the leader's own spirituality, his or her own relationship with God. The bedrock always has to be the leader's own active life in Christ. Everything else flows from that. Leaders can't lead others in the Christian life without practicing it themselves.
The early church fathers constantly admonished leaders to be properly formed. The foundation for the leader's ministry is his or her own faith development. The fathers advise church leaders to be rooted in a life of prayer and transformative study of Scripture.
Q: You say that the essential task of the shepherd, the pastor, is the cure of souls. What do you mean?
"The cure of souls" is a medical metaphor that draws both on biblical ideas, including Jesus' teaching about being a physician who came to help the sick, and also on broader cultural images of the doctor. The cure of souls literally refers to the healing of human souls.
The cure of souls points to the heart of life -- our convictions, values, actions, behavior, virtues, vices and so on. It is a shorthand way of talking about that most basic guidance of God's people, helping people to grow in Christ.
Q: And like a physician, a pastor does not apply the same cure to every patient but has a range of treatments to use. You point to Paul as the model for the adaptive cure of souls.
In the early church, Paul is the premier example of the church leader. We have all these letters that document his treatment of his different congregations. He practices a manifold kind of treatment. We can look at all the different ways Paul addresses his readers and get a picture of the different things that church leaders are called to do for their flocks.
In 1 Corinthians 9:20-23, Paul writes about being "all things to all people" to share the gospel, using the appropriate approach for a particular context. What he's doing is a kind of adaptive ministry.
Q: What does that mean for the pastor today?
This is both the heart of the work and its greatest challenge. The first thing it means for church leaders of any age is that we have to be familiar with the different treatments or modes of ministry, whether it's admonition, encouragement, chastisement, comfort, weeping with those who weep or rejoicing with those who rejoice. The minister has to be capable of a wide range of treatments.
None of us is initially skilled at those things. Leaders have to grow into being able to deal with people in all these different ways, which come to us from Scripture and human experience. The pastor who is only good at one or two will leave his or her people deeply impoverished.
The second thing it means is that as leaders we have to know our people. Otherwise, we're not going to be able to provide what they need. We have to learn how to apply the right treatment to the right condition. Although that's a skill that is inspired and enabled by the work of the Holy Spirit, it takes time to learn.
Timing is also part of it. It's not enough to know that my neighbor needs encouragement. I also have to have a sense of when they need encouragement or admonition or sympathy or whatever.
As I write in the book, leading "this many-headed monster that we call a Christian congregation" is a daunting task. It's been a challenge since the very first generation of church leadership.
Q: At its core, the early church figures insisted, this task is deeply theological, rooted in Scripture. Indeed, you write that Scripture is central to the life of faithful church leaders.
Everything that we've been talking about comes together in theology -- the knowledge and love of God and of everything in creation in relation to God.
Scripture is the most basic authority and medium for the knowledge of God that we have. For church leaders, theology is what the science of medicine is to a doctor or the law is to a lawyer. It's the very definition of the art or the science that we're practicing. To imagine a ministry that's not theologically informed is like trying to imagine practicing as a doctor with no knowledge of medicine.
Q: So pastors need to spend time studying Scripture.
Absolutely, and this seems to be one of the most constant challenges for church leaders. There are so many other things that demand our time. Americans especially feel like we're not being practical if we take several hours a week for study and prayer.
But actually, studying Scripture is one of the most practical things that we can do as leaders. In the long run, the amount of time that we put into study and prayer is what's going to sustain our ministries and make them vital.
Q: I was repeatedly struck that much of this wisdom from the early church is very practical advice with practical benefits.
It is. It's all practical. It's not an instruction manual in the sense that every church leader's life will look the same. In fact, it's going to look different in every situation.
But everything that we do has a practical aim. There's hardly anything that would help the leadership of the church today more than if we got rid of this division in our minds between theoretical and practical things.
It's all theoretical, and it's all practical. For example, you can tell a lot by looking at a pastor's calendar. At the end of the day, it comes down to the amount of hours that we put into the things that we believe matter for our ministries.
Q: And the place where all this gets carried out -- the shepherding, the spirituality, the study -- is the ministry of the word, which you call the bread and butter of church leadership.
Most everything we do as church leaders is an act of the ministry of the word. Without exception, all the great leaders of the early church -- especially those who wrote about ministry -- focus on the ministry of the word in all its different forms as the bread and butter of what we do.
Q: And you're speaking about more than the sermon. You're talking about preaching, teaching, pastoral counseling, everything.
Exactly -- and certainly, beyond the Western dichotomy of "word versus sacrament." That "versus" is a big mistake. The sacraments, or the mysteries of the church, are also part of the ministry of the word, and vice versa, in the same way that the preached word in the sermon is itself part of a liturgical and sacramental enterprise; so it's important not to divorce those two.
Q: Regarding preaching, Augustine contended that the function of good preaching was to teach, to delight and to sway. Explain those.
Augustine's teaching about Christian preaching in "De doctrina Christiana" is probably the most timelessly helpful summary of what good preaching involves.
There are three elements. To teach means to communicate a message, which every sermon needs to do. Good Christian teaching must be true, and it must be clear; so we ought to remove any obstacles that get in the way of those two things. If we don't have something to teach or to say, then we can't even get started. Everything else depends on that.
The second element, delight, is the aesthetic aspect of the sermon -- how it's delivered. The point of delighting is to keep people's attention and to help them hear what's being taught. Augustine warns against letting the entertainment value of the sermon take over. If a parishioner walks away remembering the clever story that was told in the sermon more than they remember the scriptural text or the preacher's main message, that's a problem.
Finally, the capstone of good preaching is to sway people, to move them, to persuade them. This is the real goal of preaching. It requires a message, a true and clear teaching. It requires the aesthetic aspects to keep people's attention. But the real point is to change lives.
By God's grace, we are in the business of changing lives. There's a wonderful quote from Augustine where he gives a list of extremely active verbs that the preacher is aiming to promote through his preaching: to love, hate, embrace, shun, and do all kinds of active works of love. In that respect, good preaching is results-oriented.
We don't control the results, but we participate in them with God's help. We're aiming to change lives.
Q: This is all of a piece, isn't it? What you said about sermons ties back to what you said at the beginning, that church leadership is about being a shepherd, about leading people and moving them toward God.
Exactly. It's all one enterprise. In a sense, church leadership is very simple. It holds together. It's really one main thing: guiding people in Christ. But like most simple things, it's extremely challenging to carry out.
Q: Is the book aimed at leadership at every level of the church or just local church pastors?
This goes back to the both-and. I am speaking directly to those entrusted with the chief supervisory leadership of the church, to be sure -- bishops, superintendents, senior pastors, those training for such ministries and those charged with the instruction of those that are training.
But I am also speaking to all Christians, because this is the kind of ministry that we all share in. It's both-and. It's not either-or.
Q: It's amazing that in this very different age, this very old wisdom still works.
It is. It's encouraging. But if we step back and think about it, if that weren't the case, we should be really worried.
The need to articulate and defend Christian truth, or orthodoxy, is a new challenge in every generation, and in the same way, the need to learn and practice effective and faithful ministry is a new challenge in every generation.
Yet the more one reads of church history, the more one finds just how constant is the call for effective and vital leaders. It's been a great need in every age of the church.


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The case is explained in the opinion of the court.
It was argued by Mr. Gibson and Mr. Gamble for the plaintiff in error, and by Mr. Leonard for the defendant; but the point upon which the decision of this court turned did not attract the attention of the counsel.


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Can parents/carers please practise with their children their lines for the Christmas concert.
School will begin as normal at 9:30am. Can all children, please go straight to class.
We kindly request that children do not wear tracksuit bottoms or trainers for the concert.
Parents, family and friends may arrive from 11am to the school hall. Teas and coffees will be served.
The concert will start at 11:15am and finish by 1pm.
We will look forward to seeing at the concert this Saturday.


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Started by markiemo , 29 Jul 2014 Anybody done it ?
Bike the McKenzie Pass with no cars !
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After five splendid racing days with stable conditions featuring north to northeasterly winds, sunshine, blue skies and choppy seas, the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup 2009 has drawn to a close.
Organized by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda in conjunction with the International Maxi Association, the event which is now in its 20th edition, saw 42 maxis competing and between five to seven races held for each of the various divisions over the course of the series.
Niklas Zennstrom's Judel Vrolijk designed 72' Bermudian sloop Ran (GBR), launched this year and already winner of the Rolex Fastnet Race 2009, took victory in the Mini Maxi Racing 00 group. Four of the Mini Maxi Racing yachts qualified as owner-driven and among these Neville Crichton's Alfa Romeo (NZL) took victory and a Rolex Yachtmaster timepiece. In the Mini Maxi Racing Cruising division Michael Cotter's Reichel and Pugh designed 78 foot sloop Whisper (IRL) took first place in all but one of the five races to win her division by a 10-point margin. Claus Peter Offen's Y3K (GER) dominated the Wally division with three bullets in six races, while in the Racing and Cruising division Roma - Aniene (ITA) led from day one and brought home an impressive four bullets over five races. It was in the Cruising and Spirit of Tradition division, however, that the J Class Velsheda (GBR) displayed the most impressive score sheet with a home run of five victories out of five races.
"This victory has come after a challenging week but I am really pleased because our team is not made up of professional sailors," said Vasco Vascotto, tactician onboard Roma - Aniene. "We have put together a winning group all the same and we have achieved a great result." He went on to explain that the team was put together by the C.C. Aniene - a sporting association based in Rome which has just created a new section to promote sailing. "This is the first step for C.C. Aniene in the world of sailing. My team's enthusiasm is more than reward for what we went through this summer to get the boat in the water."
Neville Crichton was pleased with his result and already thinking about his next race. "The boat is really fast and has fully lived up to our expectations. It is agile and speedy as a mini maxi racing boat must be. I am going to savour this victory for a while and then I will be concentrating on the Rolex Sydney Hobart."
Winner's of today's races, held in 10 to 12 knots of breeze from 25 degrees, were Ran for the Mini Maxi racing 00 group, Whisper in the Mini Maxi Racing Cruising division, Y3K in the Wally division, Roma - Aniene in e Racing and Cruising division and Velsheda in the Cruising and Spirit of Tradition Division.
The final prize giving was held on the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda's Piazza Azzurra and the winners were awarded prizes by His Highness the Aga Khan, President of the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, and Bruno Meyer, President of Rolex.
The YCCS racing season continues next week with the Audi Melges 20 Series and the Audi Melges 30 World Championship starting on 18 and 21 September respectively.
For results, news from the regatta course and live tracking please visit www.yccsmaxi.com.


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http://www.webpagetest.org/result/131010_3K_ZE6/1/performance_optimization/#first_byte_time
but here i see my setting is not work, but some online tool accept my setting,
50% online speed checket tools show that my site keep alive is on,
but 50% online speed tools show that keep alive is not set,
as show in image, 2nd column, on all css and js, keep alive is on, but on some images keep alive is on, and on some images keep alive is off, please tell me why keep alive is not set on some images?
here is my .htaccess file code
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RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1

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    ExpiresDefault "access 1 month"
    ExpiresByType text/css "access 1 month"
    ExpiresByType text/javascript "access 1 month"
    ExpiresByType text/plain "access 1 month"

    ExpiresByType image/gif "access 1 month"
    ExpiresByType image/png "access 1 month"
    ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access 1 month"
    ExpiresByType image/jpg "access 1 month"
    ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access 1 month"
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As you see in snap shoot column 4, some images is compress and some not, ,, what can i do to compress all images?
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In last column, you see all CDN is fail,
but i use subdomin to load css,js,swf files,
i create new subdomin with name cdn.domain.com, and set it to my include folder path.
all css/js and swf files are there,
and i update src code
eg.1 cdn.domin.com/css/style.css
eg.2 cdn.domin.com/js/script.js

What i do rong? in column 1 you see css/js is load with subdomin name, but CDN column says CDN is not set.

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*In HTTP/1.1, keep-alive is default to open, the error in the test result maybe by the images which are too big to cause the alive connection timeout.

2.CDN is not a file in the domain including "cdn", it's a network server technology, take a look on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network

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Washington Examiner: President Trump, pushing legislation to crack down on illegal immigration, said Wednesday his administration has been "liberating towns" from MS-13 gangs.
WOW! Trump CRUSHES Morning Joe & "Bleeding" Mika!


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Morse Code Facts & Worksheets
Morse code is used to send telegraphic information through two signal durations as dots and dashes that correspond to the alphabet, numbers, and punctuation.
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Morse code is used to send telegraphic information through two signal durations as dots and dashes that correspond to the alphabet, numbers, and punctuation. It transformed how people communicated with each other across long distances.
See the fact file below for more information on the Morse code or alternatively, you can download our 26-page Morse Code worksheet pack to utilise within the classroom or home environment.
HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT
Samuel F. B. Morse, along with Leonard Gale and Alfred Vail, was able to develop a telegraph with a single circuit. Using this telegraph, the operator key is pushed down, sending a electrical signal to the receiver through a wire.
Around 1837, Morse and Vail developed a code that assigned a set of dots and dashes to the alphabet and numbers based on how often they are used in the English language.
Simple codes were assigned to letters that are frequently used and those that are not used as often had more complex and extended codes.
On May 24, 1844, Samuel Morse sent the first Morse telegraph from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, Maryland.
In Samuel Morse's telegraph system, a paper tape is indented with a stylus whenever an electric current is received. Due to its mechanical components, the receiver makes a clicking sound whenever the stylus moves to mark the paper tape.
The operators initially translated the message based on the indentations on the tape but soon they realized they could translate these clicks directly into dots (dits) and dashes (dahs) without the need to look at the paper tape.
The earliest version of the code only included numerals that represent words compiled in a codebook. Alfred Vail expanded this code in 1840 to include letters and special characters. This code became known as the Morse landline code or the American Morse code and was used since 1844.
In 1848, Friedrich Clemens Gerke proposed a more refined version of the code, which became known as the "Hamburg alphabet." This alphabet was later on adopted by the German-Austrian Telegraph Society in 1851. In 1865, the International Morse code was standardized in Paris at the International Telegraphy Congress in 1865.
MODES OF TRANSMISSION
Morse code was initially transmitted as electrical pulses on a telegraph wire, but it can also be sent in many ways. It can be carried as an audio tone, as short and long radio signals, or as visual code like flashing light. Some mine rescuers pulled on a rope to send a Morse code: quick pull for dots and long pulls for dashes.
Historians have called the Morse code the first digital code.
Experienced operators are faster in sending and receiving Morse code messages. Slight variations in the duration of dashes or gaps are introduced by the skill of the operators. This is called their "fist," and the more experienced ones can recognize the individuals who sent the particular message by the fist alone.
RISE AND DECLINE OF THE CODE
Journalists and newspaper businesses greatly benefited in electric telegraphy. Pieces of news can be transmitted in Morse code between stations almost instantly.
During World War II, radiotelegraphy or electric telegraphy was used for long-range ship-to-ship communication. Encrypted messages using Morse code was favored against the unsecured voice radio systems on ships.
Morse code was also used by long-range patrol planes that were tasked to scout enemy cargo ships, troopships, and warships.
The famous S.O.S., though it may seem to be an abbreviation, is actually just a distinctive Morse code used as a distress signal. This Morse code is transmitted with no spaces between the sequence of dots and dashes. Because it is highly used in emergencies, S.O.S. has been used informally to indicate a crisis.
On January 31, 1997, the French Navy stopped using Morse code and transmitted the final message "Calling all. This is our last cry before our eternal silence."
On July 12, 1999, the final commercial Morse code transmitted in the United States signed off with Samuel Morse's 1844 message.
The Morse code S.O.S. was an international standard for maritime distress until 1999 when the Global Maritime Distress Safety System (GMDSS) replaced it.
The development of new technology for communication made the regular widespread use of the telegraph fall down. It was soon replaced with more convenient ways of communication.
Though no longer used as much, the United States Air Force still teaches Morse code to ten people every year, as of 2015.
MODERN DAY USES FOR THE PUBLIC
Morse code has been used for over 160 years, longer than any electrical coding system.
The old Nokia tone alert for incoming messages is actually a Morse tone for SMS.
People of different disabilities also use Morse code as assistive technology. Android 5.0 and higher have a feature that enables users to input messages using Morse code. Persons with severe motion disabilities can send Morse code with minimal motor control.
Computers can also translate Morse code into speaking communication aids.
Q.S.T., a radio amateur magazine, reported the case of an old shipboard radio operator who lost his ability to speak or write due to stroke and uses Morse code to communicate with his physician by blinking his eyes.
Morse Code Worksheets
This is a fantastic bundle which includes everything you need to know about the Morse code across 26 in-depth pages. These are ready-to-use Morse Code worksheets that are perfect for teaching students about the Morse code which is used to send telegraphic information through two signal durations as dots and dashes that correspond to the alphabet, numbers, and punctuation. It transformed how people communicated with each other across long distances.
Morse Code Facts
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Historical Code
Dated Codes
Developing Code
A Quote of Code
The Key to the Code
Modes and Codes
Morse Helped Me
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"We're killing babies in their mother's womb now," the A&E star tells THR. "You were in your mother's womb, dude. If someone went in there and threw this future reporter away, you wouldn't be talking to me, so give me a break."
Phil Robertson, the 70-year-old patriarch of A&E's Duck Dynasty, stars in a Citizens United documentary called Torchbearer, which screens at the Cannes Film Festival this week. He (briefly) spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about the film, as well as transgender bathrooms, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and, of course, the infamous GQ interview that got him briefly suspended from his own TV show a few years ago.
Q: Besides making a movie for Citizens United, you're helping raise money for them via an email sent to conservatives that speaks of transgender bathrooms?
They just wanted me to speak my mind. Common sense tells you—you have a man in a bathroom, and the women have theirs, and they have their little daughters in there. Things have gone real well operating under that arrangement.
Q: So you don't like President Obama's recent declaration that schoolchildren should use whatever bathroom they identify with?
There's been a lot of decrees in the past five years that I don't agree with, and that's just one of them. I don't know what percent of Americans are confused about whether they are male or female, but I'm a Bible man with common sense, and logic tells me you're either a boy or a girl, absent a few medical aberrations.


We all know that experts are constantly calling for us to eat less salt don't we? It's all over the media…how we need to cut back on salt, avoid salt and stop adding it to our food; but why? Does salt make you fat? Is salt a contributing factor in the obesity crisis?
The simple answer is that no, salt alone does not make people gain weight…salt has no calorific content at all. However, salt…also known as sodium is usually to be found in large quantities in the most heavily processed foods…the very foods which do make us gain weight in addition to causing other health problems.
Have a think for a moment and consider the saltiest snacks and meals which you eat; crisps, fast foods like burgers, hot dogs and kebabs, tinned soups and processed meats such as bacon or sausage. Those are the foods which contain heaps of salt as well as sugar and fats…and it's these which are responsible for weight gain in many cases.
One of the things which salt does do to make you feel as though you've put on weight is to increase "water weight"….it makes us feel bloated because it makes us retain water.
Cutting back on salt in processed foods will help you to immediately feel slimmer. If you're someone who consumes a lot of processed foods and you want to lose weight, start by ditching those processed meats and packaged meals. You will begin to see results within days as the bloating decreases.
Of course salt is no inherently bad; we all need some salt in our diets as it keeps our electrolytes balanced but the trick is to avoid it when it's been added to pre-packaged foods. Keep your diet natural with fresh foods and check packets for the exact amounts of salt within the contents. You will be surprised at how much salt is contained within sweet foods like biscuits and cakes.
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Suspect arrested in fatal shooting of woman at Overtown apartment
Wilmer Salmeron faces 2nd-degree murder charge
MIAMI – A man who fatally shot a woman in her Overtown apartment while her children were home has been arrested, police said.
Wilmer Salmeron, 28, was arrested on a charge of second-degree murder.
Miami police said Salmeron shot and killed Socorro Treminio Delgado, 33, inside her home on Northwest Fourth Avenue early Tuesday morning.
Police said Delgado's 5-month-old daughter and 4-year-old son were inside the apartment at the time of the shooting.
According to the arrest report, Salmeron was arrested by Broward Sheriff's Office deputies who found him on Atlantic Boulevard. The report said Salmeron had a gun in his right front pocket.
A man who lived at the apartment told police that Salmeron woke him up about 4 a.m. and asked him to watch the children, who had been inside their mother's bedroom. He said Salmeron told him that Delgado's sister was on the way to pick them up, but he became concerned when she didn't show up, so he went into the bedroom and found Delgado bleeding from her head.
In court Wednesday, Salmeron was appointed a public defender, who argued that the evidence against him was circumstantial.
"When he's arrested he's got a magazine in his front right pocket," Miami-Dade County Judge Mindy Glazer countered before ordering that Salmeron be held without bond.
Delgado's brother-in-law told Local 10 News that the boy witnessed the shooting.
During a shelter hearing Wednesday afternoon, a judge ruled that both children remain in the custody of the Department of Children and Families until a visitation schedule can be arranged.
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Let's talk about atmosphere, shall we? When we are limited to three educational instruments, it seems worth our while to think them through pretty thoroughly. This topic is of especial interest to me as I am a really visual person. I love to decorate, to make a house feel like a home, to set a table just so, or to find just the right piece of art for each spot in my home. When I first heard this was a full one-third of the formula for education, I probably thought something along the lines of, "Well, one out of three is a start…" A deeper study of what Charlotte meant led me to find that what she meant by "atmosphere of environment" is about so much more than what your surroundings look like. It is about the attitude I bring to our home, the amount of time we spend in nature, the sounds and smells that surround us, and how much I allow my children to spread their wings and do things on their own while giving them a strong sense of place in which to feel rooted. The topic grew before me and I realized, I wasn't anywhere near understanding this one-third of the equation!
How much did I long that we should embody this goal set before us! That even a "chance visitor" would be able to see "the glow of intellectual life and moral health on the faces of teacher and children alike" when they enter my home! Because what is the good of a home perfectly arranged and full of beautiful things, when it gives the air of a gallery that children cannot touch and do not enjoy? On the other side of the coin, when the children make the entire house into a play room, respecting no sense of order nor propriety, are we truly helping them to appreciate the true, and good, and beautiful? Where does this happy balance land for each family in our quest for a glow on the faces of both teacher (mother) and student (child) alike?
To love young and old, be gentle and loving with man and beast, learn from tumbles, give and take a teasing with ease, and to delight in his surroundings. This is what atmosphere teaches us. This is why we must think through the atmosphere we present through the person we are, the parents we are, the tone we use and allow in our homes, the art and music we enjoy, the places we go, the meals we make… The list goes on and on!
This post is the beginning of a series wherein we will discuss Charlotte's writings on the topic of Atmosphere. I look forward to sharing my findings with you and reading your comments and emails. First we will give some thought to the atmosphere of our attitude, then on to how we keep the inside of our home, ending with our outdoor life. Links to each post will be below for easy reference.


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THIS is unbelievable! Only Democrat-hired tech experts will testify before the House committee on Russian hacking
president trump, russian hacking
Congressional Republicans are either stupid or complicit. Neither of those is a good thing!
They have allowed the Democrats to stack the deck by putting ONLY their own hired tech experts on the hot seat to speak before the House committee investigating the Russian hacking fable.
So, the Democrat cyberlackies are going to preach the party line in cyberspeak that their audience will not understand. They will reinforce the narrative that President Trump is a Russian puppet and the Russians put him in office.
Wonderful! And the leftist media will parrot the narrative and fire up the liberal morons from sea to shining sea, and together they will do all they can to prevent President Trump from fulfilling his campaign promises, and if they can lie well enough, have him removed from office.
As reported by Breitbart, a list of witnesses scheduled to appear at a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Open Hearing on "Russian Active Measures" contains a glaring problem: the only technical experts scheduled to testify are from CrowdStrike. CrowdStrike is a firm hired by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and has become the primary source of the narrative about "Russian hacking" of the 2016 election and has acted as a mouthpiece for the Democrats since last June.
The initial witness list released by House Intelligence includes a number of intelligence officials, all appointed during the Obama administration, such as former CIA Director John Brennan, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, but the sole technical people on the invitation list are two representatives of CrowdStrike, President Shawn Henry, and the co-founder Dmitri Alperovitch.
Breitbart News has interviewed tech experts who do not agree with the CrowdStrike assessment or Obama administration's claims that the DNC/DCCC hacks clearly committed by Russian state actors, with much criticism aimed at the FBI/DHS Joint Analysis Report (JAR) "Grizzly Steppe" that was released at the end of December. As ZDNet reported after the JAR report was released by the Obama administration on the same day that they announced sanctions against Russia:
The JAR included "specific indicators of compromise, including IP addresses and a PHP malware sample." But what does this really prove? Wordfence, a WordPress security company specializing in analyzing PHP malware, examined these indicators and didn't find any hard evidence of Russian involvement. Instead, Wordfence found the attack software was P.AS. 3.1.0, an out-of-date, web-shell hacking tool. The newest version, 4.1.1b, is more sophisticated. Its website claims it was written in the Ukraine.
Mark Maunder, Wordfence's CEO, concluded that since the attacks were made "several versions behind the most current version of P.A.S sic which is 4.1.1b. One might reasonably expect Russian intelligence operatives to develop their own tools or at least use current malicious tools from outside sources."
True, as Errata Security CEO Rob Graham pointed out in a blog post, P.A.S is popular among Russia/Ukraine hackers. But it's "used by hundreds if not thousands of hackers, mostly associated with Russia, but also throughout the rest of the world." In short, just because the attackers used P.A.S., that's not enough evidence to blame it on the Russian government.
Independent cybersecurity experts, such as Jeffrey Carr, have cited numerous errors that the media and CrowdStrike have made in discussing the hacking in what Carr refers to as a "runaway train" of misinformation.
For example, CrowdStrike has named a threat group that they have given the name "Fancy Bear" for the hacks and then said this threat group is Russian intelligence. In December 2016, Carr wrote in a post on Medium:
A common misconception of "threat group" is that [it] refers to a group of people. It doesn't. Here's how ESET describes SEDNIT, one of the names for the threat group known as APT28, Fancy Bear, etc. This definition is found on p.12 of part two "En Route with Sednit: Observing the Comings and Goings":
As security researchers, what we call "the Sednit group" is merely a set of software and the related network infrastructure, which we can hardly correlate with any specific organization.
Unlike CrowdStrike, ESET doesn't assign APT28/Fancy Bear/Sednit to a Russian Intelligence Service or anyone else for a very simple reason. Once malware is deployed, it is no longer under the control of the hacker who deployed it or the developer who created it. It can be reverse-engineered, copied, modified, shared and redeployed again and again by anyone.
Despite these and other criticisms from technical experts with no political axe to grind, the House Intelligence committee has called no independent cybersecurity professionals to challenge the Democrats' claims of "Russian hacking" that have been repeated ad naseum by the media.
Instead of presenting counter-arguments to allow the general public to make up their own minds, the House committee has invited Shawn Henry and Dmitri Alperovitch from CrowdStrike,
The danger is especially high since the subject involves technical details that the public—and, frankly, most politicians—don't understand and can be easily fooled about. A presentation with no rebuttal at all from other technical experts will lead to even more disinformation being given to the American people.
There are a number of reasons to be skeptical of the objectivity of CrowdStrike's assessments.
As Esquire reported in a long profile piece, the DNC specifically used Alperovitch and Henry as part of an anti-Trump publicity plan related to the hacking in early June 2016:
The DNC wanted to go public. At the committee's request, Alperovitch and Henry briefed a reporter from The Washington Post about the attack.
Alperovitch told me he was thrilled that the DNC decided to publicize Russia's involvement. "Having a client give us the ability to tell the full story" was a "milestone in the industry," he says. "Not just highlighting a rogue nation-state's actions but explaining what was taken and how and when. These stories are almost never told."
The Esquire piece also indicates that as the election wore on, the Obama administration was also using Alperovitch and CrowdStrike's claims to push the Democrat narrative that the Russians were behind the attack:
On October 7, two days before the second presidential debate, Alperovitch got a phone call from a senior government official alerting him that a statement identifying Russia as the sponsor of the DNC attack would soon be released. (The statement, from the office of the director of national intelligence and the Department of Homeland Security, appeared later that day.)
It is worth noting that CrowdStrike and Alperovitch's story has evolved over time to match a Democrat narrative. In an article in Inc. on June 14, 2016, titled "Why the DNC Hired This Cybersecurity Firm to Fight Russian Spies," Alperovitch claimed that the purpose of the DNC hack was to expose Donald Trump:
On Tuesday, it was revealed that the Russian government is implicated in a security breach of the Democratic National Committee's computer network, through which opposition research on the bombastic presidential candidate was lifted.
"Every world leader is trying to figure out who Mr. Trump is, especially if he's elected president, and they want to know what his foreign policies would be. Russia is no exception," says Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founder and CTO of CrowdStrike. His firm was hired to manage the breach. "The actors are also interested in any other information the DNC might have in their opposition research to use it against Trump if he becomes president," says Alperovitch, who leads the Intelligence, Technology and CrowdStrike Labs teams.
There is no justification for a technical expert like Alperovitch ascribing motives to the hackers or making statements about what "world leaders" think. It is simply outside his area of expertise, but the point of the Democrats using Alperovitch and Henry to promote their "Russian hacking" narrative is to provide a technical veneer to their story to score political points.


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Q: run command on multiple threads I am running a command (pngquant to be precise: https://github.com/pornel/pngquant) in a terminal window. I noticed, that if I open 4 terminal windows, and run pngquant command in each of them, I get 4x speed increase, effectively compressing 4 times as many images in the same time as before.
So I used this approach and assigned each pngqunat process a portion of images I want to compress, effectively creating multiple processes on multiple threads
Can you run command on multiple threads without doing this tricks that I did? I would like to just say "run pngquant compression on all this images and use all threads available."

A: Both moreutils parallel and GNU parallel will do this for you. With moreutils' parallel, it looks like:
parallel -j "$(nproc)" pngquant [pngquant-options] -- *.png

nproc outputs the number of available processors (threads), so that will run available-processors (-j "$(nproc)") pngquants at once, passing each a single PNG file. If the startup overhead is too high, you can pass more PNG files at once to each run with the -n option; -n 2 would pass two PNGs to each pngquant.

A: With GNU xargs:
find . -type f -name '*.png' -print0 | xargs -r0 -n10 -P "$(nproc)" pngquant

(each pngquant invocation given up to 10 files to compress,  up to "$(nproc)"  (the number of processors on your system) running at the same time)

A: Using GNU Parallel it looks like this:
parallel pngquant --my-options ::: *.png

or:
ls | grep \\.png | parallel pngquant --my-options

It defaults to one job per CPU core. In your case you might want to run one more job than you have cores:
ls | grep \\.png | parallel -j+1 pngquant --my-options

This is because pngquant uses time to both read and write data. During this time it waits for the disk and hardly uses any CPU, and thus you might be having some idle CPU time. The only way to know for sure is to measure and see which is faster.
GNU Parallel is a general parallelizer and makes is easy to run jobs in parallel on the same machine or on multiple machines you have ssh access to.
If you have 32 different jobs you want to run on 4 CPUs, a straight forward way to parallelize is to run 8 jobs on each CPU:

GNU Parallel instead spawns a new process when one finishes - keeping the CPUs active and thus saving time:

Installation
For security reasons you should install GNU Parallel with your package manager, but if GNU Parallel is not packaged for your distribution, you can do a personal installation, which does not require root access. It can be done in 10 seconds by doing this:
(wget -O - pi.dk/3 || curl pi.dk/3/ || fetch -o - http://pi.dk/3) | bash

For other installation options see http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parallel.git/tree/README
Learn more
See more examples: http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/man.html
Watch the intro videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL284C9FF2488BC6D1
Walk through the tutorial: http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel_tutorial.html
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Wilhelm von Wedel ist der Name folgender Personen:

* Wilhelm von Wedel (Landrat) (1837–1912), deutscher Offizier und Landrat
 Wilhelm von Wedel (Polizeipräsident) (1891–1939), deutscher Polizeipräsident und SS-Brigadeführer
 Wilhelm von Wedel-Piesdorf (1837–1915), deutscher Verwaltungsjurist und Politiker, MdR

Siehe auch:
 Wilhelm von Wedell (1801–1866), deutscher Verwaltungsbeamter

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Cancel Michelle Malkin's column! I presume that since it is syndicated, you pay for it. My advice: save your money.
The question brought up by Pat Buchanan in his September 24th column Infantile Nation, "does this generation possess the gravitas to lead the world?" was answered with a resounding "No!" in Malkin's hysterical column.
Malkin is a leading neocon mouthpiece among a monotonous group that includes Rich Lowry, David Frum et al—all arrogantly supporting President Bush and Israel while hating its enemies.
The Columbia student that frustrated Malkin with her astute observation "I'm frightened by the polarity" is exactly right.
I too am frightened by the lack of discourse, respect and thoughtful, reasoned opinion. None are as guilty as neocons.
Malkin called Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a "bloodthirsty thug" but I'll bet she has no problems with Ariel Sharon who should have been tried for war crimes during his tenure.
"They attack us because we've been over there. We've been bombing Iraq for 10 years. We've been in the Middle East [for years]. I think (Ronald) Reagan was right. We don't understand the irrationality of Middle Eastern politics. Right now, we're building an embassy in Iraq that is bigger than the Vatican. We're building 14 permanent bases. What would we say here if China were doing this in our country or in the Gulf of Mexico? We would be objecting."
Paul continued his argument that Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda are "delighted that we're over there" in Iraq, pointing out that, "They have already... killed 3,400 of our men and I don't think it was necessary."
"That's really an extraordinary statement. That's really an extraordinary statement, as someone who lived through the attack of Sept. 11, that we invited the attack because we were attacking Iraq. I don't think I have ever heard that before and I have heard some pretty absurd explanations for Sept. 11. I would ask the congressman withdraw that comment and tell us that he didn't really mean that."
About twenty or so years ago, I was a student of the late Michael Harrington's at Queens College, who warned of the rise and influence of neocons in foreign policy.
Even Harrington would be shocked at how low our nation has sunk, the diminished value of our Bill of Rights, and the vulgar ad hominem attacks courtesy of neocons like Malkin that seek to discredit dissenters.
Smith's previous column about Bush's amnesty betrayal is here.
Peter Brimelow replies: It's sort of a relief to get letters attacking Michelle Malkin, after so many attacking Paul Craig Roberts from the opposite direction. As I've said before, we carry syndicated columnists who are with us on immigration and the National Question; we run all of their columns because we have to pay for then all. We hope to add to our columnists soon, probably pleasing and displeasing more readers but certainly expanding the patriotic immigration reform coalition.


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Stephen Harper ruined Gary Goodyear's vacation plans.
Canada's Minister of State for Science and Technology was at his Cambridge, Ont. home one Thursday evening in mid-2009 planning a trip with his wife Valerie to celebrate 31 years of marriage, when the Prime Minister called. Mr. Goodyear knew Ottawa had been preparing to launch an agency to support Ontario's then floundering economy, but the former chiropractor never expected to be put in charge.
"I kept getting indications the Prime Minister wanted me at an event in Kitchener, but I was a bit resistant because I had made these arrangements with my wife," he recalled in an interview.
Now, halfway through its five-year, $1-billion mandate, Mr. Goodyear's Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario) appears to have enjoyed unbridled success in helping Canada's most populous province save itself from economic oblivion.
Of course, as with any government initiative that creates bureaucracy where none had existed before, not everyone is pleased with the program. FedDev has left Ontario in a "fairly absurd situation where we now have a special federal support program for virtually every region of Canada, including its heartland," charged Finn Poschmann, vice-president of research at the C.D. Howe Institute.
He argues tax incentives such as the Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) program are much better suited to support economic growth and avoid the need for direct government involvement.
"We run into questions [over] why there should be a federal program for so many different activities and regions. I really just have this existential question about why we so these things," Mr. Poschmann said.
Mr. Goodyear agrees with the conservative think-tank's summation, although he contends the situation as it was at the time, with Canada's once most prosperous province sliding into have-not status, warranted direct intervention.
Results often speak for themselves and that is especially true in the case of FedDev. After initially focusing on broader problems related to infrastructure and industrial support, the program is now focused on laying foundations for longer-term prosperity.
"Today, almost all of our programs are looking at the jobs of the future," Mr. Goodyear said.
The economic effects of those programs were on display in Hamilton last week, when the iDeaWORKS initiative at Mohawk College held its annual Motech Expo Thursday afternoon to showcase some of the cutting-edge research projects being developed and commercialized in the region; many of them thanks to FedDev funding.
One of those students was 21-year-old Garrett Tyler, now in his final year at the school's software development program. After his third semester, Mr. Tyler landed a FedDev-financed co-op position with ecGroup Inc., a local startup offering technology that lets mobile phones take the place of computers for health care practitioners in the developing world.
Even children still in elementary school are gaining the technical problem solving skills Canada's future workforce will need to be globally competitive as a result of FedDev.
Mohan Nadarajah adapted an instruction process originally developed at Stanford University as the basis for PlayLab Inc., after the engineer found his five and 11-year-old children were not getting the training he felt they needed.
The company originally offered its game-based science, engineering and presentation-teaching programs from specially trained facilitators who would travel to schools and run sessions. But if the idea was going to achieve some scale, Mr. Nadarajah knew he needed some outside funding to build a Web portal that would allow parents and teachers from across Canada to access PlayLab's programs.
"If you go to a traditional [venture capitalist] or angel investor it is very difficult to get funding for these kinds of activities [because] for us to prove we have something here that is worth investing in, somebody has to put the money in first for proof of concept," Mr. Nadarajah said.
FedDev is by no means perfect but it has shown a willingness to evolve. The program faced criticism last year for announcing funding commitments independently, as any competitive VC firm might have done. Ottawa should be working with members of Canada's private funding ecosystem, went the common diatribe, not creating a perception of competing with them.
That changed last month, when Mr. Goodyear announced $4.85-million in FedDev funding was being awarded to eight Toronto-area startups. A substantial sum, yet the public money would be riding a wave of more than $15-million in funding from 10 private VC firms and angel investor groups.
"FedDev started off in a way that was absolutely necessary for the economic situation, but as improvements came about or other situations came to light we were able to respond quickly to them," Mr. Goodyear said.
The future of FedDev is unclear as the original mandate of five years expires in mid-2014, though Mr. Goodyear says an extension remains a possibility. If that occurs, opponents of Big Government are sure to decry the notion of maintaining FedDev's bureaucratic might, especially as the Ontario economy improves.
If the program is not extended, at least then Valerie Goodyear will get the vacation her husband promised her in 2009.


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Das Marianneninstitut war eine Entbindungsstation für arme Wöchnerinnen in Aachen und die erste ihrer Art in Preußen. Das Institut wurde 1830 von dem Aachener Gynäkologen und Geburtshelfer Vitus Jakob Metz (1792–1866) gegründet und verzeichnete bis zu seiner Schließung im Jahr 1959 mehr als 40.000 Geburten. Es erhielt seinen Namen nach der Prinzessin Marianne von Preußen, der Gemahlin des Prinzen Wilhelm von Preußen.

Geschichte
Nachdem bereits während der französischen Verwaltungszeit von Aachen eine Société de maternité existiert hatte, die sich um verarmte Wöchnerinnen vor allem aus den Arbeitervierteln kümmerte, gab es nach dem Abzug der Franzosen zunächst keine vergleichbare Einrichtung. Dies veranlasste den Aachener Gynäkologen und Geburtshelfer Vitus Jakob Metz am 1. Mai 1830 zu einem Aufruf an Aachens Politiker und finanzstarke Unternehmer und im Besonderen an deren Frauen, sich durch finanzielle Zuweisungen und Sachspenden an der Gründung einer Wöchnerinnenanstalt zu beteiligen. Die Geburtsanstalt sollte ausschließlich für arme und verlassene Mütter vorgesehen sein, und zudem mit einer Schule für "Wärterinnen" (Pflegerinnen) ergänzt werden.

Bereits wenige Tage nach dem Aufruf gründete sich zu diesem Zweck ein Frauenverein, der sogleich seinen ersten Vorstand wählte. Diesem gehörten die Gattinnen des Regierungspräsidenten August von Reiman und des Regierungsvizepräsidenten von Mallinckroth, die Unternehmergattin Barbara Startz und die Medizinergattin Therese von Sartorius sowie als einzige männliche Mitglieder der Gründungsinitiator Vitus Jakob Metz und der Apotheker Johann Peter Joseph Monheim an. Als Sekretär wurde der Paläontologe Joseph Müller verpflichtet. Nachdem in den folgenden Monaten genügend Gelder und Sachspenden akquiriert und geeignete Räumlichkeiten gefunden werden konnten sowie die Patenschaft der Prinzessin von Preußen zugesagt worden war, konnte am 3. August 1830 in der Aachener Bendelsstraße Nr. 20 das Marianneninstitut mit anfangs sechs bis acht Betten eröffnet und Vitus Metz zum ersten Direktor ernannt werden. Es war damit die erste Geburtsanstalt Deutschlands, der erst im Jahr 1882 in Düsseldorf ein zweites Wöchnerinnenhaus folgte.

Im Marianneninstitut fanden "anerkannt bedürftige, tugendhafte, verheiratete Frauen ohne Unterschied der Religion" für neun Tage eine Aufnahme. In dieser Zeit wurden sie und ihr jeweiliges Kind mit allem kostenlos versorgt, was benötigt wurde, von der "Anstaltskleidung", der Ernährung und den regelmäßigen medizinischen Untersuchungen bis hin zur Schulung im Umgang mit Säuglingen. Recht schnell sprach sich diese neue Institution in Aachen herum und der unterstützende Frauenverein konnte seine Mitgliederzahl ebenso deutlich erhöhen wie auch verstärkt Spenden einsammeln. Das Honorar der Hebammen sowie die Kosten der benötigten Arzneien und Instrumente oder eventueller Begräbnisse wurden von der "Armen-Verwaltungs-Kommission" bestritten. Bereits im ersten Jahr wurden hier 82 Kinder geboren und bis 1838 stieg die Zahl auf 976 Geburten. Recht bald mussten weitere Räumlichkeiten für mittlerweile 57 Betten bereitgestellt sowie deren Ausstattung ergänzt werden. Auf die dafür notwendigen ständigen Spendenaufrufe des Frauenvereins reagierten neben zahlreichen Privatpersonen viele Vereine, Verbände und Institutionen, darunter die Spielbank, die Aachener Feuer-Versicherungs-Gesellschaft und die Aachener Liedertafel.

Nachdem die Räumlichkeiten in der Bendelstraße für das Geburtsaufkommen nicht mehr ausreichten, zog das Marianneninstitut 1897 in das Haus Jakobstraße 18 um. In diesem Haus, das von alters her den Namen "Zum güldenen Verken" ("Zum goldenen Schwein") trug, beherbergte zunächst das Zunfthaus der Nadler und war Teil der Nadelfabrik Chorus, die sich bis zum Haus zum Horn erstreckte, sowie von 1879 bis 1881 ein Brauereigebäude und anschließend bis zum Einzug des Marianneninstituts eine Selterswasserfabrik. Im Jahr 1901 wurde für die Geburtsanstalt im hinteren Bereich zum Annuntiatenbach hin mit Geldern aus dem Stiftungsfonds von Philipp Heinrich Cockerill ein Extratrakt errichtet, der den Namen "Zuflucht" erhielt und in dem unverheiratete Wöchnerinnen unterkommen konnten. Die Väter dieser unehelichen Kinder hatten keinen Zutritt zu dem Gebäude und konnten ihre Kinder nur von außen durch die Fenster sehen.

Nachdem 1957 das Marienhospital Aachen eine gynäkologische und geburtshilfliche Abteilung erhalten hatte und zudem an den städtischen Krankenanstalten in der Aachener Goethestraße ein großzügiger Neubau für eine Kinderklinik entstanden war, wurde das Marianneninstitut überflüssig und musste 1959 geschlossen werden. Nur noch eine Tafel am Haus 18 in der Jakobstraße erinnert heute an die dort untergebrachte ehemalige Entbindungsstation.

Neben Vitus Metz haben sich als leitende Ärzte im Besonderen sein Nachfolger, der Kreisphysikus Gerhard Schervier (1821–1891) mit mehr als 5.000 Geburten in 26 Dienstjahren um das Haus verdient gemacht sowie dessen Nachfolger, der Geheime Sanitätsrat Eugène Beaucamp (1859–1936), der in fast 32 Jahren 17.026 Kinder zur Welt brachte. In den letzten Jahren vor seiner Schließung hatte die spätere Allgemeinmedizinerin und Phsychotherapeutin Waltraut Kruse als Medizinalassistentin im Geburtshaus gearbeitet.

Im Marianneninstitut erblickten unter anderem der Botschafter Walter von den Driesch, der Dombaumeister Helmut Maintz, der Heimatkundler Bruno Lerho und der Politiker Karl Schultheis das Licht der Welt.

Literatur
 Vitus Jakob Metz: Das Marianneninstitut zu Aachen, Mayer, Aachen 1838 digitalisat
 Eugène Beaucamp: Festschrift zum 3. August 1930 dem Gedächtnistage des hundertjährigen Bestehens des Mariannen-Instituts – Wöchnerinnenasyl – zu Aachen. La Ruelle, Aachen 1930
 Egon Schmitz-Cliever: Die Gründung des ersten Wöchnerinnenasyls in Deutschland (1830), in: Sudhoffs Archiv, Band 50, H. 2, Franz Steiner-Verlag, 1966, S. 136–156  Abstract
 Bruno Lerho: Damals in Aachen, Burtscheid & Forst; Helios Verlag, 2016

Weblinks

 Hannelore Follmer: Das Marianneninstitut und die Schweine, Geschichte und Ameröllchen auf unser-aachen.de vom 24. April 2016

Gesundheitswesen (Aachen)
Gynäkologie und Geburtshilfe
Geschichte der Stadt Aachen
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Recently, a group of pastors asked me this question: "Should we rethink the 30-minute sermon lecture in light of the many different ways classroom teaching is currently conducted?" They are part of a year-long initiative by the Center for Excellence in Preaching at Calvin Seminary to strengthen the quality of preaching. In an effort to answer this question, the group of pastors asked me to lead a preaching workshop centered on what we know about adult learning.
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Home Michigan Wine News Getting Into Grapes ⎯ Q&A With George Walker III
Getting Into Grapes ⎯ Q&A With George Walker III
Wine director, Grand Haven D&W Fresh Market Founder, Graped Out, hosting food, wine and art pop-ups
Photos courtesy of George Walker III
George Walker III, 25, didn't pay much attention to wine until he attended the Culinary Institute of Michigan in Muskegon to get a degree in food and beverage management. A volunteer gig pouring wines at the International Wine, Beer & Food Festival in Grand Rapids led to a conversation with someone about the intriguing history behind a Châteauneuf-du-Pape wine from France and it prompted his entrée into the world of wine.
"It was right there that I found my passion for wine," he says.
An outing to Leelanau County during culinary school sealed the deal.
"We hit nine or 10 different wineries," he says. "I wasn't 21 at the time and couldn't try anything. But just to see the progress of what Michigan was doing at the time, it kind of ignited my fire — just to see all the different producers and the passion they have and the capabilities of what we can do and are doing right now, especially nationally."
Q: So what came next?
I was working at a restaurant in Grand Rapids, and my GM persuaded me to go get a sommelier exam. At 21, I went to Traverse City and took the first-level sommelier course and passed it. Then I worked for a smaller wine distributor that focused on small producers from throughout the world. From there, I went to work for Spartan Nash, where I am currently.
Q: What's Graped Out?
Graped Out is really intentional about bridging the gap between people of color both on the consumer side as well as the professional. I want to be an example for young people of color that there are other career options other than your traditional career paths.
Essentially what I'm doing is taking the "bougie" out of wine. It's wine for the people by the people. Especially when I was just starting out, I had no idea what wine was; it was so off-putting because wine has this connotation as being only for elites. I wanted to get away from that.
So I'm doing Graped Out in two phases. The first is pop-up tastings at different restaurants that intersect live music, live art, food and, of course, wine — hitting all the senses. They're really experience-based events that can educate through all these different channels and wrap it into one. The second phase will be actual production using Michigan grapes. That's the phase I'm working on right now. The plan is to buy grapes initially and make it for myself. I'm going to be picking my grapes in the southwest region of Michigan — mostly Riesling. I think we do some great stuff down there. The end goal, for sure, is to become a winemaker.
Q. What wines do you offer in Graped Out events?
I definitely rotate it based off the season. I'm always trying to include a Michigan wine — I'm really a big fan of Michigan wines and believe Michigan is up and coming nationally. We produce absolutely amazing juice, and there are awesome producers — James Lester at Wyncroft/Marland; Shady Lane is also one of my favorite producers; M. Lawrence and Larry Mawby are also favorites. I could go on and on.
Q. Do you have advice for people who are novices, as you were in the beginning?
Open up a bottle with friends. Make sure you have a lot of food. And just try it. Don't be afraid to get a bottle you don't necessarily recognize because you don't know what it is. Just have fun with it. Wine should be for the people and by the people. It shouldn't be pretentious.
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