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Q: Django combine 2 QuerySets I have 2 QuerySets that target different tables in the same database.
What i'm trying to achieve is to filter results by created_at and then by hit_count.
I'm using django-hitcount for the hit_count
Here's the Model
class Post(models.Model):
    STATUS_CHOICES = (
        (1, 'Technology'),
        (2, 'Security'),
        (3, 'Android|iOS'),
    )
    id = models.UUIDField(primary_key=True, default=uuid.uuid4, unique=True, editable=False)
    title = models.CharField(max_length=250)
    body = models.TextField()
    main_image = models.ImageField(null=False, upload_to=save_image)
    second_image = models.ImageField(blank=True, default="")
    third_image = models.ImageField(blank=True, default="")
    fourth_image = models.ImageField(blank=True, default="")
    fifth_image = models.ImageField(blank=True, default="")
    slug = models.SlugField(blank=True, default="", editable=True)
    created_at = models.DateField(default=date.today)
    category = models.PositiveSmallIntegerField(choices=STATUS_CHOICES, default=1)
    custom = managers.PostManager()

Here's the Manager
class PostManager(models.Manager):

    def get_queryset(self):
        return super(PostManager, self).get_queryset()

    def get_tech(self):
        return self.get_queryset().filter(category=1)

    def get_security(self):
        return self.get_queryset().filter(category=2)

    def get_mobile(self):
        return self.get_queryset().filter(category=3)

    def get_category_count(self):
        return self.get_tech().count(), self.get_security().count(), self.get_mobile().count()

    def get_top_stories_of_month(self):
        s_date = datetime.strftime(datetime.now() - timedelta(days=25), '%Y-%m-%d')
        e_date = datetime.strftime(datetime.now() - timedelta(days=32), '%Y-%m-%d')
        qs1 = self.get_queryset().filter(Q(created_at__lte=s_date) | Q(created_at__gte=e_date))
        qs2 = HitCount.objects.order_by('hits')

As you see, i have stored the results to qs1 and qs2, but have no idea how to combine them.
I also have played around in the shell to try to filter out the objects in the query_set by object_pk's which they have in common. The result is very strange tho, when comparing pk's it returns False for some reason.
Code from Shell
>>> p = Post.custom.get_top_stories_of_month()
>>> h = HitCount.objects.order_by('hits')
>>> p
<QuerySet [<Post: dddddddddddddddddd>, <Post: kljlkjlkj>, <Post: asdasdad>, <Post: aasdfasdf>, <Post: zvzxv>]>
>>> h
<QuerySet [<HitCount: asdasdad>, <HitCount: zvzxv>, <HitCount: aasdfasdf>, <HitCount: kljlkjlkj>, <HitCount: dddddddddddddddddd>]>
>>> for i in h:
...     print(i.object_pk)
...     for j in p:
...             print(j.pk)
...             print(i.object_pk == j.pk)
...
868ca0d9-f324-4845-b34b-38a1203eacb3
72b2104f-2cb6-49b3-80fd-fd0e80fab5b1
False
889d895b-f73c-48ca-9a96-064cbe6292c1
False
868ca0d9-f324-4845-b34b-38a1203eacb3
False
762f1c29-6ba5-4aaf-99a3-833c8c60d126
False
4b6427b1-4dab-4705-b5de-d39ccccec119
False
4b6427b1-4dab-4705-b5de-d39ccccec119
72b2104f-2cb6-49b3-80fd-fd0e80fab5b1
False
889d895b-f73c-48ca-9a96-064cbe6292c1
False
868ca0d9-f324-4845-b34b-38a1203eacb3
False
762f1c29-6ba5-4aaf-99a3-833c8c60d126
False
4b6427b1-4dab-4705-b5de-d39ccccec119
False
762f1c29-6ba5-4aaf-99a3-833c8c60d126
72b2104f-2cb6-49b3-80fd-fd0e80fab5b1
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False
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False
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A: The docs for django-hitcount describe here how to add a field to one of your models (Post) that will relate back to the HitCount model.
After you add a hit_count attribute to your Post model that relates by following the example in the docs, you can order and/or filter by hits as well as post dates in your query. You query would look something like this:
top_posts = Post.objects.order_by("hit_count__hits").filter(Q(created_at__lte=s_date) | Q(created_at__gte=e_date))

A: Sadly i wasn't able to make the query as elegant as it should be got some relation error when order_by('hit_count.hits')
Decided to do it this way:
s_date = datetime.strftime(datetime.now() - timedelta(days=25), '%Y-%m-%d')
        e_date = datetime.strftime(datetime.now() - timedelta(days=32), '%Y-%m-%d')
        qs1 = self.get_queryset().filter(Q(created_at__lte=s_date) |
                                         Q(created_at__gte=e_date))
        mlist = sorted(list(qs1), key=lambda obj: obj.hit_count.hits, reverse=True)
        return mlist[:2]

This returns 2 most viewed posts.

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Q: how to communicate mobile app though Visual Studio with NODEMCU(ESP8266) wifi module? I have built a mobile application in visual studio. the purpose of this app to connect with wifi module (nodemcu esp8266) to control the home appliances. there are differents buttons options in this app to turn on and turn off the appliances and also to control the speed of fans.
now the problem is that, I don't know how to read the data in nodemcu (WIFI module)  when I send the command through the mobile app.
consider a case : when i send comend through a app for fan speed 50%, and this command successfully deliver to nodemcu. now i dont know how i will read this command and how to control .

A: When the users clicks the [Set fan 50%] on the mobile device, have the mobile device send HTTP POST to your server.
When the server receives that HTTP POST, have it store the fan speed as 50% (or what ever value the button dictated).
Now, on the ESP8266, have it send an HTTP GET to the server every few seconds asking it what the fan speed should be. Have the server reply based on the value that it stored. When the ESP8266 receives the response, have it set the fan speed based on the value in that response.
--
A few things to note:

*

*Both the mobile device and the ESP8266 need to be able to reach the server. If that server is on your home network, then both the mobile device and the ESP8266 must also be on your home network (unless you're doing some fancy routing).

*There's no easy way (that I know of) to encrypt your WiFi password on the ESP8266. That means that if someone picks up the device and walks off with it, they can get your WiFi password. It's still a great device, just be aware of this.
A more secure approach would be to put the ESP8266 in access point mode. Then have another, more secure device on the network connect to the ESP8266 and send it the fan speed. (That way the ESP8266 doesn't have to store your WiFi password and the only data can be intercepted is the data that you send directly to the device.)


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Q: Почему цикл так работает? Почему программка печатает "Значение счетчика: 5", а не печатает 5 строк:
Значение счетчика: 0
Значение счетчика: 1
Значение счетчика: 2
Значение счетчика: 3
Значение счетчика: 4
public class HelloWorld {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        int count;

        for (count = 0; count < 5; count = count + 1);
           System.out.println("Значение счетчика: " + count);

        System.out.println("Готово! ");
    }
}

A: Точка с запятой завершает выражение. for (count = 0; count < 5; count = count + 1); - это цикл без тела, который 5 раз ничего не делает, кроме инкремента переменной count. Следующая строка System.out.println("Значение счетчика: " + count); получается сама по себе, к циклу она не относится.


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Thomas Franklin Deitz (January 17, 1952 – April 27, 2009) was an American fantasy novelist, professor, and artist from Georgia. He was best known for authoring the David Sullivan contemporary fantasy series, though he also authored three other fantasy series and a standalone novel set in the same universe as the David Sullivan series.

He was an assistant professor at Gainesville State College, where he was named faculty member of the year in 2008, and an adjunct professor at two other colleges. Deitz was awarded the Phoenix Award in 2007 for contributions toward Southern science fiction and fantasy fandom.

Deitz died on April 27, 2009 of heart failure after having a heart attack in January of the same year.

Biography
Thomas Franklin Deitz was born January 17, 1952, in Georgia. He earned both a Bachelor and a Master of Arts in medieval English from the University of Georgia.

Deitz won the Phoenix Award in 2007 for lifetime achievement in promoting Southern fandom. This award was given at the annual DeepSouthCon, a traveling convention in the southeastern United States. In 2007, it was held in Dickson, Tennessee as OutsideCon 20.

Deitz was an adjunct English faculty member at Gainesville State College, Lanier Tech, and Tri-County Community College, and received a tenure-track appointment as assistant professor in Fall 2008 at Gainesville State College. He was recognized as GSC's adjunct faculty member of the year in 2008.

In addition to writing, Deitz's creative outlets included creating murals and fantasy art, participating in drama productions (with minor roles in a number of community and college productions), model automobile collecting, costuming, and other pursuits via the Society for Creative Anachronism. He was a founding member of the SCA's Barony of Bryn Madoc.

Deitz died on Monday, April 27, 2009 of heart failure.  He had a heart attack in January of that year and was a candidate to receive a ventricular assist device (VAD), but had suffered too much damage to his heart for the device to be implanted.

Works

David Sullivan series
Windmaster's Bane (1986, Avon, )
Fireshaper's Doom (1987, Avon, )
Darkthunder's Way (1989, Avon, )
Sunshaker's War (1990, Avon, )
Stoneskin's Revenge (1991, Avon, )
Ghostcountry's Wrath (1995, Avon, )
Dreamseeker's Road (1995, Avon, )
Landslayer's Law (1997, Avon, )
Warstalker's Track (1999, Eos, )

Though not part of this series, Deitz' The Gryphon King (1989, Avon, ) is set in the same universe.

Soulsmith Trilogy
Soulsmith (1991, Avon, )
Dreambuilder (1992, Avon, )
Wordwright (1993, Avon, )

A Tale of Eron series
Bloodwinter (1999, Bantam Spectra, )
Springwar (2000, Bantam Spectra, )
Summerblood (2001, Bantam Spectra, )
Warautumn (2002, Bantam Spectra, )

Thunderbird O'Conner series
Above the Lower Sky (1994, William Morrow & Co., )
The Demons in the Green (1996, Avon, )

References

External links
Unofficial bibliography
Illustrated bibliography (unofficial)

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21st-century American novelists
American fantasy writers
American male novelists
American science fiction writers
University of Georgia alumni
Novelists from Georgia (U.S. state)
1952 births
2009 deaths
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21st-century American male writers

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Q: STM32F4 SPI idle time between each data frame, why is it too long? I am trying to read 256 bits in less than 32 ms from SPI, the data frame is 16 bits. My problem here is SPI driver has a long idle time between each 16 bits. See this picture, as you can see I am reading 64 bits (highlighted by the red rectangle), and there are long pauses between each frame. I don't find anything in the SPI specification about it.
I am testing on an STM32F407 board from Keil and SPI is initialized by the Keil CMSIS default driver.
Is there any way to reduce this idle time?

A: You can show the code snippet for rest of people to be able to help, but anyways ı remember coming across the same problem.Here is how i reduce that extra time gap;
Use Direct Register Access instead of Functions, both for sending and flag checking.
If that also wont work, instead of flag checking you can use simple for loop for some amount of delay to keep to clock signal low enough but not much, check from ossilloscope to find the accurate iteration number.
Also make sure that no interrupt is being served while you send your message,there might be an ISR interrupting between the end of transmission and the code that pulls the CLK signal high. If you have ISRs that occur asynchronusly and big in size this is probably the case.
SPI1->DR = (uint16_t)Data;
 while(!(SPI1->SR & SPI_SR_TXE));
PS: I ve done this on Cortex-M3,no RTOS,STD Peripheral Library.
Edit: Also try with busy Flag only,thus checking EOC only while(SPI1->SR & SPI_SR_BSY);


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IPCC and the City: The Need to Transition from Ideology to Climate Justice
Raul P. Lejano*, Wing Shan Kan
The Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been released. In it, several sections address climate change, mitigation, and adaptation in cities, with discussions of the crucial role of planning and governance in the same. This article offers a reflection on the urban elements of AR6, pointing to the prevalence of ideological elements in it, typologizing form over critical assessments of real conditions in developing cities. As much as AR6 emphasizes the carbon footprint of society, it ignores the social footprint of carbon and the potentially massive adjustments mitigation and adaptation will require of developing nations and their urban populations.
Journal of Planning Education and Research
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E-pub ahead of print - 4 Jul 2022
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climate Social Sciences 51%
Lejano, R. P., & Kan, W. S. (2022). IPCC and the City: The Need to Transition from Ideology to Climate Justice. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456x221105798
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One of the main focuses of the Health 2.0 conference in Santa Clara, CA this year was on data.
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For years, we have been collecting increasing amounts of healthcare data and storing it in vast silos. Because of technological limits and patient privacy concerns, we have yet to organize this data in a format that will make it available and useful to healthcare providers and patients. One of the goals of the conference was to discuss both emerging and improved technologies that can be used to arrange this data to inform healthcare decisions for individual patients as well as provide insights into how to treat and prevent different disease states. This discussion can serve as a basis from which to inform policy as we adjust to new norms within the healthcare industry.
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How do we leverage data at the population level to help at the individual patient level?
Technology alone is not the answer. How do we integrate technology, data and care providers to co-create tomorrow's solutions?
An example of these insights being put into practice was discussed in a talk by Mark A. Tripodi, Chief Development Officer of Venebio Group. He explained the Venebio's focus on using data and analytics to help prevent opioid overdoses. The American opioid crisis is well documented, but so far few have come up with viable solutions to the problem. Restricting quantities or access to the medication has made it more difficult for those who truly need the drugs and has created the unintended side effect of pushing addicts toward illegal drugs like fentanyl and heroin, essentially making the problem worse.
The Venebio Group is working toward a solution by creating data analysis algorithms intended to assess risk factors of individual patients or entire patient populations. Pulling data from individual health records, insurance databases and state-run prescription-drug monitoring databases for controlled substances, Venebio can start to provide individualized risk factor profiles that can be used to support a physician's clinical decision making at the moment they are crafting a treatment plan.
Leveraging new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and the ubiquitous smartphone, people can get better information about their own health.
Another example of using data and analytics to improve patient outcomes was discussed in an interview with Iya Khalil, Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer at GNS Healthcare. She spoke about leveraging the power of causal machine learning to identify the right interventions for patient treatment.
With the advent of new technology and tools, we can measure what's happening in individual patients at a very detailed level. From specific blood indicators to a patient's entire genome, we can gather multiple discreet data points from disparate sources within the body. While machine learning can help us crunch the numbers and look for patterns where layers of data cross over, causal machine learning goes one step further by interpreting big data in a statistically meaningful way. This means that by overlaying statistics on detected patterns, we can determine the cause (or causes) of a patient's infirmity with increasing confidence. Once the cause is discovered, the same set of algorithms can be used not only to generate hypotheses for treatment, but also to test those hypotheses against the available data.
In many respects, this is exactly what an experienced physician does when they are assessing a patient, but with the added benefit of being able to instantly recall and synthesize millions of points of data. These are just two of the many examples of how the best minds in the industry are attempting to put theory into practice when using data to help improve the overall state of healthcare.
The conference also supported a whole host of companies and institutions that are looking at healthcare from another perspective, prevention. Fitbit gave us a sense of the potential appetite for data collection and personal analysis. It was an unmitigated success for a few years, then tapered off as individuals determined that they had little use for the data other than to satisfy curiosity. At the conference, there were several new companies offering both hardware and software platforms to collect data and use it in ways to actively enhance the well-being of the user, whether through the attainment of better sleep, deeper meditation, faster relaxation or even vital sign capture and analysis driven by AI.
Ovia is a new company that presented their offering at the conference. The goal of the company is to provide a suite of apps for women in different stages of parenting. For those who are considering having a child, Ovia offers an app that will help track fertility. Once pregnant, Ovia offers an app to not only help track your physical health data, but to also provide insight on what to expect as one's body changes over the course of the pregnancy. Once the baby is delivered? You guessed it, there's an app for that too. Not only do the apps help the user to track physical changes, they also provide valuable insights and advice based on where the user is in the process.
A new blood pressure monitor watch by Omron was also presented at the conference. It combines the utility of a smartwatch with an FDA- approved blood pressure measuring device (sphygmomanometer, being the technical term). One can actively track their blood pressure throughout the day, which can provide deeper insight into how the user's blood pressure changes under different circumstances. A spike right after a cup of coffee might inform the wearer to hold back on caffeine. A lower blood pressure because of working out might help keep the user motivated to get those numbers down.


Works: Works in all countries with Wifi or 3G data roaming.
Platform: iPhone, Android and most other smartphones.
The Bottom Line: The best free app available, complicated invitation-process, especially if you have an Android!
Google Latitude is the most accurate and advanced free location app that exists at the moment. Google has spent a lot of time and money on building Wi-Fi access point's map that helps them to more accurately track phones.
Google Latitude is available in 27 counties according to their blog post from 2009.
Since Google Latitude uses all the available technologies for location tracking, the accuracy is really good.
When we tested it we got the accuracy to about 10-15 meters with full 3G coverage and good Wi-Fi coverage. Google has not given an official statement on how accurate their service is, but all in all it is about 5-100 meters from other user experiences. Keep in mind that it varies a lot from the coverage you have and location you are at.
Latitude is one of the few popular phone tracker that exists on the most popular smartphones as an app.
The person you are adding has to have a Google account or application. If you want to add a person to track their phone that does not have a Google account it is a little more complicated since you first have to have an account to add your friends to Latitude.
It will be pretty difficult to add an elderly person with no computer skill what so ever. For that purpose, we recommend trying something more user friendly, like Lociloci or a personal GPS device.
Google Latitude is overall pretty easy to use when you have added all friends you want. One disadvantage is that when you have "Background Updating" setting turned "ON" your battery runs out twice as quickly. If you want to have a continuous tracking you have to buy your friend an extra emergency-battery as well. When we "turned off" that setting, only then did we see the Google Latitude battery usage go back to normal.
Google Latitude therefore has to be "turned on" when needed or your friends have to regularly "Check-In" on a location in order for you to follow them. A bummer for an otherwise interesting app!
However, if you are all have Android phones (Google's own mobile OS) luckily you can install apps that will better regulate battery drain from GPS usage and thus minimise the risk of your phone being depleted. Once again, this is a cumbersome process that requires some tech know-how. This is the only reason we are not giving this phone tracker app 5 stars.
Functional design but not really the sexiest design ever, pretty typical for Google's design in general – "minimalistic boring".
Google Latitude phone tracker app has a cool feature that you can add pictures to your Google account that comes up on the marking of the location.


Being the wife of a "My-bags-are-packed-'n-l'm-ready-to-go!" engineer has had its plusses and minuses--heavy on the latter! On the plus side, Ken's occasional absences give me a break from cooking and ironing, which allows me to get caught up on the neglected correspondence and photo albums. (Oh thrill!) Better, though, are the times when he goes his way and I go mine--like to visit our kids or my siblings. No complaints there, for sure!
As far as I'm concerned, being left at home footloose and fancy free ranks right up there with ingrown toe nails, poison oak, migraines, earthquakes, and floods. Spare me the thought that my poor world traveler is having to deal with airline schedules, missed connections, time-zone changes, jet lag, and potential high-jackings. Sure I'm proud of him for helping solve the world's water and wastewater problems; and, yes, I do appreciate the bacon on my table, Liz Claiborne on my back, and roof over my head. I just have a tough time working up any sympathy for my Traveler's back-home-again-weariness when I hear he's stopped over in such places as Zurich, Paris, Zagreb, Vienna, Bangkok, or Singapore. Knowing he just happened to catch Fasching (Mardi Gras) in Frankfurt doesn't make my day any more than learning he found the red-light district in Amsterdam fascinating.
But, hey! There's another issue here about my avowed housemate's travels that far overshadows my loneliness and admitted jealousies of the things he gets to see and do--and I only get to live through vicariously. You see, almost every time he goes on a trip, you can betcher sweet bippy something strange or calamitous is going to happen to me, the state, or even the country he leaves me behind in.
Take, for instance, that morning in Atlanta when Ken left for Corvallis on business. Seeing his taillights disappear around the corner triggered a mechanism in my brain that seems, between his trips, to lay comfortably dormant. It's tied to a philosophy my mother taught about HARD WORK. It would, she promised, deaden loneliness, diminish frustration, and leave the body too tired to worry. That morning, I cleaned the upstairs and main floor rooms and was half-way through vacuuming the 4 x 5-1/2-foot Oriental rug in the entry when the vacuum died. Aggravated, I rolled it up, carried it out onto the second-floor terrace, and leaned over the wrought-iron railing to give it some mighty pops. On the second shake, I could've sworn my back had been hit by lightning! With Herculean effort, I made it back into the house where I collapsed in excruciating pain on the family room couch.
An hour or so later, I was startled by the CRASH of breaking glass coming from the basement. Two things flashed through my mind. The first had happened 2 weeks before. Arriving home from a meeting that I attended every Thursday morning, I was surprised to find our neighbor from across the street standing at the edge of our yard peering down through the thick jumble of bushes at our house. When I tapped my horn to get her attention, she jumped a mile, then came running to the car. "Julie!" she said breathlessly. "I'm so glad to see you! Your burglar alarm just stopped blaring." (The alarm sounded just like a police siren and would shut off automatically after 7 minutes.) "I can't see anything down there; but when I opened my front door to come down here, there was a van in front of your next-door neighbor's house--maybe their yard workers--but whoever it was, they drove away real fast! Anyway, Ken called to see if I could see anything going on down here. Oh dear! I forgot! I'd better go tell Ken you're home!" "Tell him I'll ring him back as soon as I check this out," I called after her as she ran back across the street. Figuring the perpetrators were long gone, I drove on down our curved drive and parked the car in the carport. Letting myself in the back door, I hurried to the kitchen and had just started dialing Ken when the shadow of someone on the terrace played on the sunny wall in front of me. Whirling around, I found myself face-to-face with a policeman peering through the window. Taking no chances that I might be the burglar, his gun was leveled at my pounding heart--an experience I'd rather not repeat! Sure enough, burglars had tried to jimmy our basement door!
The second thing that streaked through my mind when I heard the glass breaking in the basement was the fact that in Atlanta that year, 15 young boys had been murdered! That I was old and of the wrong gender didn't, at that precise moment, bring me consolation. Laying there in misery, whether it was a murderer or a burglar, my adrenaline kicked in even before I heard the second CRASH of glass. Rolling off the couch, I managed to crawl to the phone and dialed Ken's office; and I asked to have someone sent out immediately. Forty heart-pounding but uneventful minutes later, the culprits, two misguided chimney swifts, were disposed of. They'd flown down the fireplace chimney and gained entrance to the basement through the ash clean-out, the door of which had been left ajar. Probably thinking the reflected light off a shelf of glass jars was a window of escape, the desperate swifts had flown at them, knocking several jars onto the concrete floor-- CRASH! Of course, by the time Ken got home from the West Coast around a week later, I was walking almost upright again. I still haven't forgiven him for laughing at my killer birds, though.
While we were living overseas, things happened to me when Ken was gone that weren't necessarily scary but, because of cultural differences, were embarrassing and worrisome.
In the spring of 1982, we transferred from Atlanta to Alexandria, Egypt, where we rented an apartment on the second level of a six-story building. Our boab (pronounced beau-obb)--building caretaker--was Abu Wafa, a swarthy, pushy fellow who dressed in flowing gallabiyas and carried himself proudly. That he was always engulfed in his own garlic-tainted cloud probably kept him medicinally healthy during the three or four winter months when he, his wife Nadiera, and their four children slept on bedrolls in their dungeon-like rooms that opened directly into the garage. During the spring and summer, they slept on the roof along with their fattening array of chickens; perhaps a goose or rabbit; or, in anticipation of Ramadan, a lamb.
Then came the morning Ken had to leave on a 3-day business trip to Cairo. It was 5:30 a.m. when he kissed me good-bye--sending chills up and down my spine. No, it wasn't the old black magic--though I'll grant him his due. It was more a feeling of expectancy mixed with dread--a sneaking premonition that washed over me as I stood on our balcony waving as Ken's car disappeared down the sandy, garbage-strewn street.
I had just set up our portable typewriter on the dining room table and was beginning to type our regular letter home when a knock came at the door. Expecting Nadia, our maid, I instead found Abu Wafa, a smile bright enough to do the Osmond family proud, splitting his face from ear to ear as he, as usual, swept past me. Gesturing grandly, the faint smell of Purex (no Clorox in the Mid-East) wafted from the flapping sleeves of his fresh, white galabiyya--or maybe it was from the intricately wrapped tea-towel thing he wore on his head. Though I couldn't understand his spate of words, I'm sure he was telling me that he'd seen Ken leave. That made me furious! Fortunately, Nadia came trudging up the stairs at that precise moment. "Nadia," I pleaded in desperation while I pointed at the brand new hives I could feel developing on my neck, "Please explain to Abu Wafa that his frequent visits are making me nervous, and I don't want him coming up here anymore unless he is asked."
Nadia was none too fond of Abu Wafa anyway; and she obviously enjoyed great pleasure in relaying my message to the poor, shocked perpetrator. I thought that would be the end of the matter, but the saga continued a little while later. Nadia and I were both out cleaning the front balcony when Abu Wafa appeared in the street below us. "But I love her," he explained, crestfallen, a statement Nadia interpreted for me as I cowered out of his sight popping more hives. And their conversation went on and on! Here I must explain that the more important a discussion or message is, the louder an Arab feels it must be delivered. And this conversation was being carried out in voices just below the decibel level of a jet engine. Soon, Abu Wafa's sweet wife, Nadiera, plus a few other neighborhood kibitzers, were attracted to the debate. Nadiera, bless her, couldn't imagine why I didn't want her husband to visit me. "But he loves Miz Juleee! He loves her!" she pleaded in his defense. Never was I so aware of our cultural differences!
By the time Ken got home from Cairo, of course, I had managed, with the help of Ahmed, the company's administrator for Egyptian matters, to get the fiasco squared away. Ahmed had attended school in America--I think at the University of North Carolina--so he was able to explain the difference in our customs and soothe Abu Wafa's feelings. Though Abu Wafa wore a pathetic, hang-dog look for a month or so, he got over it and started acting his smiling, friendly self again--minus all the impromptu visits. When we left Alexandria, Nadiera cried copious tears while we hugged and did several sets of the customary two-cheek-kissing good-byes. A garlic enshrouded Abu Wafa did the same with Ken. Ken says I got the better deal!
From Egypt, we transferred to Amman, Jordan, where my transient Housemate's 13-day trip home to the United States caused the country to suffer a battering, 100-year storm. No kidding! It blew in the day after he left; and within hours, the temperature dropped to record lows. By the second day, the winds were gusting to 90 mph; and the phone and power went off leaving us with no lights, heat, or running water. Daughter Cheryl, who worked for Arabtech Engineering but functioned as Ken's secretary, was living with us then. The villa we lived in crowned the very peak of Jebel (mountain) el Weibdeh, one of seven on which ancient Amman is built. Our third-floor penthouse apartment wasn't anything to write home about, but it did have a broad verandah surrounding it that offered us a spectacular 270-degree view of the city marching up the mountains all around us and down into the valleys below. Cheryl, an artist, described the scene as a city of rectangles--squarish buildings with squarish windows topped by flat roofs adorned by square water tanks, derrick-like antennas, and thousands of clothes lines.
Standing at one of our picture windows listening to the wind, Cheryl and I debated whether or not it would be safe for her to walk to the office that was located on the back side of a different jebel from where we lived, a trek of 2 plus, very up-and-down miles. As we talked, two roof-top antennas not far from us were ripped from their moorings and tipped over. "I don't think you should go, Cheryl," I said worriedly, just as a tremendous blast of wind startled us. "Oh! Look at that one," Cheryl said in awe, as we watched, mesmerized, as the tall, steel, derrick-like communications antenna on top of the Italian Embassy next door to our villa began to topple toward us. With the agonized sound of twisting steel, its top came to a final rest in the tree tops about 15 feet from the edge of our veranda! The wind let up a little after that; so Cheryl left for work, reporting when she got home that the jebel where the office was located still had electricity so she'd been warm all day. I envied her. Dressed in layers of my warmest clothes and wrapped in a blanket, I had spent my day hand-writing correspondence and reading, things I was destined to do for several days to come.
Even without being sure of his airline schedule, I knew "His Nibs" was heading back to Jordan when the winds returned to normal, the sun came out, and just 6 hours before He landed in Amman the power was restored. By the time He arrived home, I'd made several trips to the souk (open market) to replenish our groceries, our apartment had warmed up to almost comfort-level, and we'd taken our first showers in a week. And then He walked in the door and before He had even hugged me properly, had the nerve to say, "Oh honey! I wish you'd been with me. I had some scheduling problems and wound up laying over in Paris and guess what? It was 86°, and the food was superb!"
It took restraint not to bop him!
Back in the United States, after we moved into our new home in Philomath, we had months of almost constant out-of-town visitors. Then came a sunny Monday morning when, simultaneously, our guests drove away to continue their vacation and Ken left on a sojourn to Bangladesh! I was going to be alone in the house for the very first time! Not to worry, though. I knew how to dispel the lonesome blues: HARD WORK interspersed with fun projects like wallpapering! So I'd be guilt-free to play at the latter. Fifteen minutes after waving their taillights down the driveway, I had the beds stripped and was carrying an enormous load of sheets, blankets, towels, etc., downstairs to the laundry room. Unfortunately, I didn't notice that a sheet had come loose from the bundle and was dragging in front of me. Three or four steps up from the landing, my foot got tangled in it and, realizing I was going to fall and not wanting to pitch forward, I took a giant flying leap to the floor.
Not even at my most agile could I do the splits, but I must have done it then--or come mighty close-- because one foot landed on the rug at the bottom of the steps, which scooted out from under me, leaving the tangled-up foot behind me. The pains in both my groin and back were so intense it hurt to cry. And the jar to my body felt like it had disarranged all my innards. When the shock of my situation lessened and I could finally think again, I managed to--very slowly--pull my legs around together. Well, my hips can't be broken, I figured, relieved. I wasn't so sure about my back, though. I couldn't sit up--or even get up on my knees. What am I going to do? I wondered, remembering Ken wouldn't be coming home from work to find me.
But I didn't have a choice! I spent the rest of the day sprawled across the dirty laundry, probably the best thing I could have done for my back. Toward evening, I managed to scoot across the wood floors of the entry to the carpeted family room, dragging most of the laundry with me. I don't recall being hungry or thirsty; and I slept only sporadically that night, alternating positions between the floor and draped over the cushions. Don't ask about bathroom etiquette, ya don't wanna know!
The next day, I squirmed and scooted like an inchworm on its side into the kitchen phone intending to call my Good Doctor for pain medicine. It wasn't until I looked up at it that I realized the dialing mechanism was too high on the wall for me to reach. I tried to pull myself up, but bolts like lightning struck my spine driving me to the floor in tears. After awhile, still not hungry but knowing I had to eat something, I made my way to the refrigerator. Laying on the floor in front of it, I devoured several sticks of unwashed celery and an apple from the crisper drawer and some bread and jam from a lower shelf, all of which I washed down with Diet Pepsi. By the time I worked my way back into the family room, I was so exhausted I went to sleep.
The next day or maybe it was the one following (time ran together for me), I crawled into our library where I could reach the phone on Ken's desk. "Good Doctor is on vacation this week," I was told by the sweet, young voice. "Dr. So-and-So is taking his calls. I can have him call you." "But I need to talk to him now. Please!" I begged, barely holding back tears. "I fell and am in a lot of pain and need something for it." "I'm sorry, he's with a patient now," came the insistent voice who obviously didn't recognize excruciating pain when she heard it. "He'll have to call you back." And I laid right there on the floor until he did! Unfortunately, I had been to my Good Doctor only twice since moving to Corvallis; and there had been no need for him to prescribe pain medicine. "I'm sorry, Mrs. Bielman," Dr. So-and-So told me in a very flat voice, "but it's illegal to prescribe pain medicine over the phone. You can try putting cold or heat on your back depending on which feels good to you. Or you can call an ambulance." I had been dismissed. He probably thought I was a desperate druggie. After getting hold of myself again, I thought: Well, our heating pad is upstairs and I hate hospitals. Then I remembered the bottle of Advil I kept in the kitchen cupboard. I crawled to the pantry and got the yardstick and a broom off their hooks. After many failed tries, I got the cupboard door open and knocked the bottle down! I probably took more than I should have, but the relief was heavenly. After that, I improved daily.
Though still bent over at an awkward angle, at least I was mobile again when Ken returned home. He brought with him a newspaper from Bangladesh reporting nine people had been killed by Bengal tigers the week before he got there. The week after he got home a cyclone hit some of the outlying islands killing or leaving homeless better than 10,000 people.
It is my guess that had Ken been there, nothing would have happened.
Ken's next major trip took him to Copenhagen, Zagreb, Belgrade, Athens, Lamaca, Frankfurt, and Amsterdam. The day after he left, I barreled out the front door to water the petunias and came face-to-face with two masked men in space-suits. Well, they looked like space-suits. Actually, they were coveralls. One of them had just reached for the doorbell when I'd jerked the door open and it's anybody's guess which one of us was the most surprised. While my heart was trying to resume a normal beat, they quickly explained that they were our 2-week-tardy tree sprayers!
Three days later, through our library windows, I glanced out to see, just 10 feet away, two of the biggest, blond cows I've ever seen. I like cows--I'd grown up on a farm--but these humongous critters were standing on our brand new lawn, munching away on our new green grass! I ran outside windmilling my arms while yelling a few choice words in barnyard-ese. Splat! I stepped right in the middle of one of their grass-green environmental Frisbees. While I tried to scrape it off my white Reeboks, the beasts kept right on grazing docilely, now and then glancing up at me dolefully with their long eye-lashed eyes.
Finally, with a broom applied liberally to their back-sides, something I hated to do because they were obviously so gentle, I got them off the new, soft lawn. But instead of them going toward the road where I was trying to herd them, they plodded down around the house and eased themselves into Ken's partially-finished woodshed. Granted, it kinda looked like a manger but the cows were so broad-in-the-beam I was afraid they'd knock the 4 x 4 supporting posts down. I tried coaxing them out; but they just mooed softly, chewed their cuds, and ignored my persistent and eloquent pleas to take their bovine charms elsewhere. I finally called a neighbor to see if he knew who owned them, but he didn't and suggested I call the sheriff's office. I did. And when a young deputy arrived and saw the size of the cows he drawled, Well, I guess if we weighed 1,000 pounds we could pretty much do as we pleased, too!"
Between the two of us, we finally got the contented bovines out of their manger and over to our driveway. Then the deputy jumped in his patrol car and, sticking his head out of the window, zigzagged behind them until he had them herded about a quarter-mile down the road. The next morning as Cheryl and I were having breakfast in the nook I told her, "Ya know, I sorta miss those cows .... " "Well, they must have missed you, too. Look down there!" During the night, they had returned to their manger! I didn't want them to further mow-down and fertilize our new front lawn, so I spent hours that day shooing them over to the side lawns up and down the creeks. We'd left that area, which was nicely shaded by big oaks, in natural grasses that Ken kept mowed--when he stayed home long enough to do it--so it would look park-like. Before I went to bed that night, I went down to the manger and tucked my new friends in with a good lecture. On the third day, I took back the threat I'd made on the first day when I told the deputy I was going to fill our freezer with big, juicy steaks if the owners weren't found right away. He just laughed at me!
Alas! On the fourth day, the deputy found the owners who hauled their fatted cows away. "I sure hope you don't get any more four-legged visitors before / get back from my vacation in Tacoma," the deputy joked as he climbed into his car. "I used to live there," I remarked, "My sister still does!" Four or 5 days later, I got a call from her. "Jewell," she chided me, sounding very serious, "I hear you've been in some trouble with the sheriff's office down there." Turns out the deputy was visiting his cousin who owns the condo directly below Lilly's, and he was telling her about his rather bizarre experience with this crazy Philomath lady and her wayward cows. Knowing Lilly had a sister in Philomath, the cousin called her and they compared notes. Can you beat that? Small world, isn't it?
When Ken came home again, he wondered why there were spots around our yard where the grass was so much taller and greener than everywhere else. "And have you seen how tall it is in my woodshed?"
After 40-plus years at CH2M HILL, amid much ado and roasting, on January 1, 1990, Ken retired. At least I think that's what they called it. Three days later, he left on yet another assignment to the Mid East--to Istanbul, Turkey, and Amman, Jordan. Not surprisingly--at least not to me--several days later, the Corvallis area was hit by torrential rains and gusting winds of ±70 mph. No one was worried about me being alone up there at the end of the road in our big house. The storm was only cutting swaths through the area, so no one was really aware of which areas were being hit.
Concerned about our big oak trees and their proximity to the house, and wanting someone to know I was alone in case the storm worsened, I called several neighbors. No answer. They were still on holiday. I'll call Bev (Ken's brother), I thought, starting to dial. The phone was dead! A few minutes later, a gust brought down a huge limb the size of a small tree. Much too big for me to move, our driveway was blocked! For several hours, until it got quite dark, I watched through the water-streaked windows, cringing in dismay as limb after limb thudded to the ground. The wind was whipping the rain so hard against the kitchen nook windows that it sounded like hail, but still I decided that room would be as safe a place as any to wait out the storm. Needing to keep my mind busy, I set up my typewriter on the dinette table to do some writing. But it was hard to concentrate, so I decided to fix something to eat. I'd been sitting with my feet resting on the rungs of my chair. When I put them on the floor, they splashed! Looking down I saw that a big puddle of water covered the floor under and all around the table! What on earth? I wondered, before seeing that water was cascading over the sill of the middle bay window, and running down the wall and over the outlet where my typewriter was plugged in! Not thinking, I reached over and pulled the plug! Then I remembered that, standing in water like I was, I might have been electrocuted. (Do you believe in guardian angels?) After mopping the floor and diapering the window sills with big towels, I moved the typewriter and all my papers to the eating island. I had just finished having a bite to eat and had begun to type again when the power went off. No lights, no heat, no typewriter--and because we had a well activated by an electric pump--no water, either. I shouldn't have been surprised by the wretched turn of events, of course. After all, Ken was traveling again!
I'm not sure why I didn't have some candles ready, but I didn't. And it took a while before I located and lit one--also getting out several fat, long-burning ones, just in case. Because the candles didn't do much for the ambiance of the kitchen, and I couldn't see to write by hand, I went to bed. Besides, the house was getting cold! I didn't sleep much, though, because I had to keep mopping up the water in the nook and re-diapering the window sill. I just prayed I'd have enough dry towels to last until power was restored. Outside, it was pitch dark. In fact, there wasn't a familiar landmark light to be seen anywhere in the valley--not from the saw mills, the airport beacon, or from traffic. Nothing! Talk about a lonely feeling! Had I been able to open the electric garage door and gotten the big limb off our driveway, I'd have gone to a cozy motel in town. The next morning, I was shocked to see that branches and limbs covered nearly every square foot of our yard and driveway. It was cause for celebration when the wind and rain shifted directions, and I didn't have to attend to the bay window any more.
For 3-1/2 days, I was a captive of my own frigid environment. But it wasn't a particularly unhappy time, at least not during the days when I expected the power to come back on at anytime. And having been brought up resourceful, it was kind of fun seeing just how adept I could be in dealing with the survival problems. My baths were accomplished with astringents and lotions--albeit applied with icy hands. For warmth, I dressed in layers, even wearing gloves to bed. My diet consisted of cold cereal, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, crackers and cheese, and a whole bunch of apples. After running out of bottled water (purchased for the iron), I drank the grandkids' soda pop and seriously considered dipping into Grandpa's supply of fire-water! While it was light enough to see, I filed away 5 years' worth of loose recipes and caught up on the photo albums.
The long, dark nights were the worst, of course; and I was already in bed and asleep when, at 10:00 on the third night, the batteries of the burglar alarm system started dying which, in turn, set off the loud indoor alarm system. I must have jumped a mile! I really didn't think there were burglars, but still my hands shook as I lit my bedside candle and groped my way down the stairs. Good! I thought when, after a few failed tries, I finally punched in the proper code and got the alarm shut off. I had just reached the top of the stairs when CLANGITY-BLARE ... it went off again. And it went off repeatedly over the next 4 or 5 hours--until the batteries were all the way dead! The sound was so unnerving I finally drug a kitchen bar stool into the entry and sat right by the key pad so I could punch it off as quickly as possible.
It must have been an eerie scene--me wrapped in a big blanket pulled up to my ears, the house creaking and groaning under the onslaught of the battering winds, and the flickering candle flame dancing weird shadows around the octagonal walls and ceiling. I couldn't help wishing for my trusty, old manual typewriter. It would have been the perfect setting to write a mystery story with that overworked but apt beginning, "It was a dark and stormy night...!"
Of course, the weather was back to normal again by the time Ken got home. It always is. I keep telling him the world and I would be much better off if he'd just stay home. I'm a little worried at the moment. My Travelin' Man will soon be heading to the oil-rich United Arab Emirates of Dubai.
Batten down the hatches, stock the larder, and get out the candles, folks. This could be the BIG one!


Malaysia's central bank, Bank Negara Malaysia, says it detected and successfully blocked an attack that attempted to steal funds via fraudulent SWIFT interbank money-moving messages. The attack against BNM led the central bank of the Philippines to issue an alert to banks in that country.
Department store chains Saks Fifth Avenue, Saks Off Fifth and Lord & Taylor have suffered a data breach that apparently exposed details on 5 million payment cards. Cybersecurity firm Gemini Advisory says the JokerStash syndicate - aka Carbanak gang - is selling the stolen card data.
Under Armour says an unauthorized intruder gained access to information for the accounts of 150 million users of its MyFitnessPal mobile app and website. Learn why some fear the breach could lead to a massive phishing campaign.
Ecuador's embassy in London has again revoked internet access for seven-year houseguest Julian Assange, saying the WikiLeaks chief violated an agreement to not interfere in other countries' matters. WikiLeaks' star has continued to fall since it's been revealed to be an apparent Russian stooge.
Five days after a ransomware outbreak crypto-locked city systems, Atlanta has advised its 8,000 employees that they can once again boot their PCs and printers. But information security experts warn that the city's infrastructure still appears to have easily exploitable misconfigurations.
Federal regulators are considering potential changes to HIPAA privacy rule and enforcement regulations, but aim to first engage the healthcare sector and public for input, says the nation's top HIPAA enforcer. So, what changes are being considered?
A medical practice's misconfigured database server that allegedly exposed information about thousands of patients plus staff serves as another reminder about the importance of safeguarding sensitive data from exposure on the internet.
Evidence continues to mount that Russian intelligence created the "Guccifer 2.0" hacker online persona as a "plausible deniability" cover for dumping information stolen from the U.S. Democratic National Committee, among other targets, says cybersecurity expert Alan Woodward.
The U.K. government concurs with allegations contained in a U.S. Department of Justice indictment, which charges nine Iranians, plus the Mabna Institute, with perpetrating a five-year hacking campaign designed to steal scientific secrets for Iran's military and private industry.
The notorious "lone hacker" known as "Guccifer 2.0," who claimed credit for breaching the Democratic National Committee and dumping stolen emails, failed to activate a VPN client at least once, revealing an IP address at the headquarters of Russia's GRU military intelligence agency, the Daily Beast reports.
The U.S. Department of Justice has announced the indictment of nine Iranians alleged to have penetrated systems belonging to hundreds of U.S. and foreign universities, government entities and private companies to steal more than 31 terabytes of documents and data.
As the Cambridge Analytica scandal continues to unfold, Congress seeks answers from Facebook, calling on CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify. Also in the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report: Is it possible to build a secure digital wallet for storing cryptocurrency?


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Yu, who is based in Beijing, explained the key benefit of sponge cities is the ability to reuse water. "The water captured by the sponge can be used for irrigation, for recharging the aquifer, for cleansing the soil and for productive use," Yu said.
Is a project like this envisioned for the Fraser River, both upstream in the interior, in the Fraser Valley or even in Richmond ?
Several "sponge city" techniques were integrated in the urban design of South East False Creek. There was a walking tour last fall that highlighted how nature and built structures act as a giant sponges to capture, store, and clean rainwater.


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A: Twenty. One to hold the bulb, two to turn the ladder, and seventeen in on the guest list.
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Silhouettes of dead bodies taped to the floor surround the names of the victims of repression. Behind them, students with the yellow, blue and red Venezuelan flag ask other students to support the cause and sign a petition. On a plastic table, a television shows a video of people getting shot at and beaten by the National Guard. And behind them, students advertise for Ultra Music Festival, and others advertise the school's magazine's birthday party.
A curious dichotomy falls over the Venezuelan students at the University of Miami. Their bodies are safe in the U.S., but their minds, friends and family are in harm's way. In the face of an adversity in their native country, their minds drift to their loved ones, but they still have to attend school and deal with everyday life because, technically, nothing's going on here.
For the almost 400 Venezuelan students at the University of Miami, dealing with the conflict in their home country while continuing to take part in events of every day life has proven a challenge. Many students have become activists for Venezuela, engaging in social media campaigns and preparing flyers to give out on campus and raise awareness of the situation. But being students and activists at the same time, a role that they have taken on suddenly, proves challenging.
Since Feb. 12, when student-driven protests against the government began because of the social and economic problems of the country, the regime of President Nicolas Maduro has violently repressed any type of demonstration. More than 18 people have been killed, and hundreds have been injured. The media is also tightly censured; the only news network that was covering the protests was NTN24, a Colombian network that was taken off the air shortly after their reporting.
"Students here are going to be anxious and quite concerned," said Bruce Bagley, a professor of international relations at the University of Miami. According to Bagley, the majority of students at the school are from "well off, upper-middle class families or above who have been personally affected by Chavez and now by Maduro," thus increasing their anguish.
Because of the media censorship, students are using their social media accounts to help spread the word about the situation.
Vera said she is constantly tweeting and posting on her Facebook any news she reads about the situation. Other students have also turned their Facebook profiles and Twitter feeds into news aggregates, posting everything they read about their country.
Aside from a strong social media campaign, students have also engaged in other types of activism. UNIVEN prepared flyers with information to share with students across campus, which they handed out in front of the bookstore on Feb. 27.
They also held a meeting on Feb. 21 for students who wanted to know more about how they could help Venezuela. In the meeting, UNIVEN leaders handed out a list of important journalists and politicians students could follow on social media to get accurate information. They also stressed the importance of accurate news aggregation, cautioning students to double check the information they are posting, as there were reports of pictures from protests of Chile posted as if they were taken in Venezuela.
Bagley said that students here have the duty to get and stay informed, and think about the future of Venezuela because they will be the leaders of the future.
When mentioning the type of student activism that's happening on campus, Bagley praised efforts to spread information while condemned other efforts, such as a petition students wrote to Congress to take economic measures against the regime.
"It's a wasted effort to seek to sponsor this," he said.
Bagley said that because of the political economy of the situation, where Venezuela is one of the principal purchasers of U.S. exports, that resolution would never go through Congress.
But students feel impotent, said Andrea Da Gama, a junior majoring in business whose parents and siblings live in Caracas, and are doing anything they can.
"I have to spread the word, get the rest of the world to know," she said.
But when asked if she believes this is going to make a difference, Da Gama hesitated.


The warm temperatures of the last few months have led to a bumper crop of tomatoes in Belgium. Farms are reporting an increase in production of 15 to 20%.
Normally it takes about eight weeks for the blossom to turn into a ripe red tomato. But with the dry, warm weather, that process is a lot shorter, and farmers have a lot more tomatoes to contend with.
They are concerned about overproduction, which not only means a loss of income but potential waste. Although some of the excess crops are being sent overseas, the local industry is asking Belgians to toss an extra tomato or two in their grocery carts this month.
Belgium is indeed an excellent market for tomatoes, with the average resident eating nearly 100 kilograms of them a year. But the market drops in the summer months as so many families are on holiday.


As a result of this joint venture, Alland & Robert and Sayaji Industries will each take an equal share (50:50). Alland & Robert, a family-owned company and expert in this field since 1884, will primarily focus on manufacturing and suppling premium quality acacia gum powder for the growing Indian market.
Commenting on the joint venture, Mr. Frédéric Alland, CEO at Alland & Robert said : "This Joint Venture will give Alland & Robert the opportunity to offer its high quality products to the Indian market. Our partnership with a successful local enterprise will get us closer to the customers' needs of this particular and dynamic new market. Alland & Robert is a 135-year-old family company that has always aimed at expanding its reach in the world. We are proud to take on new challenges to ensure our success."
Mr. Priyam Mehta, CMD, Sayaji Industries Ltd. said, "We are delighted to join hands with Alland & Robert, a company that has been an expert in this field since 1884. We will leverage the expertise of both companies – Sayaji Industries' strong presence in the Indian Food & Beverage market and Alland & Robert's unique technological know-how. We are looking forward to working closely with Alland & Robert on developing this partnership."
Acacia gum, also known as gum Arabic or E414, is a natural, safe and healthy ingredient used in flavours, beverages, confectionery, dairy, bakery, dietary products, pharma and cosmetics among others. Acacia gum is today found in thousands of day to day products all over the world.
Alland & Robert and Sayaji industries will present their partnership, embodied by their brand new logo, at the Food Ingredients trade show in Mumbai (21-23 October 2019) at the Sayaji Industries booth: A10.
S.D.P.A, the holding company which owns 100% of Alland & Robert's shares, is investing in the Joint-Venture with Sayaji Industries.
Created in 1884, Alland & Robert is a family company based in Normandy, France. The company is an international leader on the natural tree exudates market with a strong focus on acacia gum, an entirely natural additive or ingredient.
Alland & Robert exports over 85% of its turnover in 70 countries through a network 37 distributors, and has tripled its turnover over the last 10 years. The company has continually invested to increase its manufacturing capacities and has built up 3 spray drying towers respectively in 2002, 2007 and 2013. Alland & Robert now employs 70 people on 3 sites in France: 2 manufacturing facilities in Normandy and administrative offices in Paris. In March 2018, Alland & Robert opened brand new offices in Normandy including a state-of-the-art physicochemical laboratory and a technological platform for applications research and customer training.
Founded in 1941, Sayaji Industries Limited, through its flagship unit Maize Products, is a pioneer in the corn wet milling business and is one of the largest exporters in the starch industry. For more than seven decades the Group has been manufacturing and selling starches, its derivates and other by-products to blue chip MNCs and renowned local companies.
Sayaji IngriTech LLP is a manufacturer of spray dried food powders with a state-of-the-art facility producing acacia gum powder and non-gum based products such as tomato powder, fat/oil based powders and cheese powder.
The flagship unit Maize Products caters to several industries including textile, food & beverage, paper, paint, pharmaceutical, and confectionery. Sayaji Industries through its subsidiaries & affiliate companies is also involved in hybrid seeds, real estate, packaging solutions, and manufacturing of specialized functional ingredients.
The Group has its offices at Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata and Dubai (UAE) with a robust network of agents pan India, Africa & the Middle East.


The U.S. had delayed $255 million in aid until Pakistan did more to crack down on terrorism. The suspension includes Coalition Support Funds for Pakistan, which is provided by the Pentagon to help pay the costs of Pakistan's counterterror operations.
WASHINGTON—The United States announced Thursday it was suspending security assistance to Pakistan for failing to take "decisive action" against Taliban militants targeting U.S. personnel in neighbouring Afghanistan.
Spokesperson Heather Nauert said the restrictions covered security assistance above and beyond the $255 million for Pakistani purchases of American military equipment that the administration held up in August.
Trump unveiled in August a South Asia strategy aimed at ending the stalemate in the U.S. war in Afghanistan, now entering its 17th year, demanding action by Pakistan against militant safe havens on its soil.
Nauert said that despite sustained high-level engagement by the Trump administration with Pakistan's government, "the Taliban and Haqqani network continue to find sanctuary inside Pakistan as they plot to destabilize Afghanistan and attack U.S. and allied personnel." She told reporters that until Pakistan takes "decisive action" against those groups, security assistance was suspended.
Also Thursday, the State Department accused Pakistan of severe violations of religious freedom. It announced that it was placing Pakistan on a special watch list, pursuant to 2016 legislation. The step does not carry any serious consequences.
Pakistan's embassy in Washington and mission at the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday.


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SolarGem loves educating its clients as well as its prospective clients. In educating our clients we not only go to great lengths to ensure they understand how solar panels work but we also place an emphasis on the very thing that gave birth to solar panels, the sun. That big bright star in the sky is part of what enables life to exist on the Earth and it produces more energy in a few seconds than any human could utilize in their entire lifetime. Here's a few more solar facts that are simple yet fun and useful.
Some people look up at the sun and don't think of it as a star. The sun is a star and is but one of billions in our Milky Way galaxy. While all stars are comprised of similar elements stars come in a wide variety of sizes, weights, colors, and temperatures.
Our sun may look yellow, orange, or red when viewed from Earth. In reality however the sun is a "yellow" dwarf which emits mostly white light. It is the Earth's atmosphere that gives our eyes the illusion of a differently colored sun.
When we see other stars in the night sky they appear white, small, and twinkle only because of our distance from them and the blurring effect of Earth's atmosphere. In reality the vast majority of stars we see at night time are stars much larger than our own and are often red, blue, or yellow. The vast majority of stars however cannot be seen without the aid of a telescope as they are much smaller and cooler than our sun. The stars are known as red dwarfs.
The solar system is comprised of eight planets, several dwarf planets, and a multitude of comets and asteroids. Although there are likely trillions of objects orbiting our sun all of these objects, the planets included, still only make up 1% of the entire solar system. The sun comprises the other 99%.
Unbeknownst to many individuals the sun actually has a name. The name "Sol" is derived from Latin and is used in many different countries and sometimes by scientists who've grown tired of referring to it as "the sun".
Although our sun is a considered a dwarf star it is still unimaginably large. So large is the sun in fact that if you could fit 1 million earths inside of it you'd still have room left over for more. For a greater perspective try to remember that the sun is nearly 865,000 miles wide.
Though the sun looks to be a large ball of fire from our vantage point here on earth, our host star actually contains no fire whatsoever. In reality the sun is comprised of hot burning gas. So why is this gas so hot? The suns heat is generated by atoms that are fused together into heavier elements. It is the release of energy during this atomic fusion that gives the sun its heat in the earth it's light.


Kunle Folarin, chairman, Nigerian Ports Consultative Council (PCC), says Nigeria controls 70 percent of the economies of West and Central Africa.
He made the statement on Friday at the third annual maritime conference holding in Lagos.
Folarin, who is also a maritime economist, said Nigerian dominance was far from the formal trade alone and would certainly be bigger if "we consider the informal trade aspects of cargo movements".
He said ships' traffic into Nigeria by latest data was over 5,307 units per annum.
"The potential is certainly bigger when we consider the capacity of cargo traffic to Nigeria's landlocked neighbours such as Niger Republic and Chad," he said.
"In the real terms, over 85 per cent by value of all the goods and services that entered Nigeria came through the seaports.
"The current aggregate value exceeds $15 billion a year through normal import order. Nigeria also imports over two million tonnes of non-oil cargo yearly.
He recalled that the available port infrastructure in the 1970s could not handle more than 12 vessels at a time in Apapa Port Complex, which resulted to long queue of ships waiting to berth.
Folarin said in 1970, ship owners incurred huge running cost and this led to demurrage as a result of penalties put in place by the chartered parties.
He said the port cost and charges reform policy of the federal government started in 1993 by the ministry of finance apparently to address the issue of rising costs in the delivery of port services and several others.
The PCC boss said port concession system started in 2006 by transferring operations of public sector activities to the private sector to improve productivity and achieve competitiveness at the ports.
He said that there was a need for the port industry to be truly productive, competitive and earn a hub status in the region, adding that otherwise, Nigerian ports would continue to perform at best a little above average.


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History of steel manufacturing in Australia
Steel has played an important role in Australia's history. As a large continent, Australia's need for steel increased as rail and industry expanded across the states toward the end of the 19th century.
Early attempts
In the 1840s, steel manufacturing was attempted in several states. Poor quality iron ore, coke, and a lack of local expertise ensured that these early attempts were failures. During the Industrial Revolution, Australia imported most of its steel from Britain. By 1880, all steel manufacturing projects in Australia had been completely abandoned. Even by today's standards, importing steel is expensive and required expensive reworking and maintenance at the receiving end of the supply chain. The situation remained unsatisfactory for many years.
Steel manufacturing success
In the early 20th century, steel manufacturing started to take off in Australia thanks to coal (is coal that has been cooked if you like, a lot like corn turned into popcorn) and iron ore mined from South Australia. By 1938, Australia had four modern blast furnaces that were used solely for steel manufacturing. Steel cutting and steel manufacturing in Australia became the norm, and local industry boomed in response to these advancements.
After the Second World War, steel manufacturing increased as sheet steel was in demand for car manufacturing and domestic appliances. The need for steel cutting increased as tubing and piping increased across Australia. As an agricultural economy, Australia depended on steel and steel products as the nation increased its agricultural productivity, residential real estate and industry. As early as the mid 1930's steel production for civil projects was important to Queensland especially as it was at this time that the construction of the Story Bridge started and it was finished in 1940. It was during this boom that steel cutting in Brisbane became important, giving rise to the construction of the Story Bridge.
Steel manufacturing went through dark times, along with the rest of the economy, in the 1980s. An excess in the production of steel caused operations across many steel production sites to cease completely. Changes to the structure of the steel industry including innovative world best practices and technologies saw Australia's steel industry strengthened by the challenges of the period.
Australia in the global market
The steel manufacturing industry in Australia is highly efficient, as evidenced by companies including ShapeCUT. Yet we still send much of our iron ore to be processed offshore to return as steel to be used in Australian industries. This creates issues with further expense and inefficiencies. Australian companies including ShapeCUT adhere to stringent quality and environmental standards. You know that when you deal with ShapeCUT, you are receiving a premium Australian product.
The manufacturing sector depends on the steel industry and on steel cutting leaders such as ShapeCUT. The steel industry works closely with the Australian government to ensure greater opportunities for steel manufacturing and steel cutting in Australia.
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The Hansens, Kip and Arden, will be the entire full-time staff of the Family-to-Family Project. We will be stationed in the northern regions of the Dominican Republic for the duration of the project.
Spreading the word about the Project within your circle of friends and acquaintances to help raise operating funds for the Project and to help us find families willing to lend.
Acting as a "live contact point" for the Project in your community or area. Your name and address might be listed on the Project web site as a Local Volunteer (with your permission) so that interested persons can contact you and get information.
Directing potential lenders to the Project information on the internet, sending out information packets to those requesting them, meeting with families interested in lending, answering questions, helping lenders deal with the details of lending through the Project, and following up with lenders so they can see the good their loan has done.
One Project Volunteer will act as the "Stateside Project Office" to receive and forward mail and possibly to host an answering machine and telephone. [This position is currently being co-manned by our sons, Brett and Ben.


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