AUSTIN – The state's top land conservation award typically goes to a private ranch, but this year the honoree is a North Texas-based nonprofit which manages not one, but six different ranches, all of them devoted to demonstrating how good land management using cattle grazing can lead to more and better water for people and wildlife.
Founded in 1994 by the late Roger Dixon, the Dixon Water Foundation promotes healthy watersheds and sequestration of carbon through regenerative land management to ensure that present and future generations of Texans have the water resources they need. In 2005, the foundation acquired the Bear Creek Ranch in Parker County west of Fort Worth. In 2008, they went west to try their approach in drier soils, acquiring the Mimms Ranch near Marfa. Today the foundation operates six ranches totaling 21,960 acres. Each one utilizes a high intensity/low duration holistic grazing system which mimics the natural effect of large herds of bison which used to migrate through Texas.
On May 18, the foundation received $10,000 along with a Leopold Conservation Award crystal at the 22ndLone Star Land Steward Awards dinner in Austin. This award is given in honor of renowned conservationist Aldo Leopold, and conferred each year by Sand County Foundation, a nonprofit organization devoted to private land conservation, in partnership with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. In Texas, the Leopold Conservation Award program is sponsored by the Lee and Ramona Bass Foundation.
Since 1996, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has hosted the Lone Star Land Steward Awards to recognize private landowners for habitat management and wildlife conservation. In addition to the statewide Leopold award, multiple eco-region recipients are acknowledged in various parts of the state.
A primary purpose of the award is to elevate outstanding landowners who can serve as a positive example to other ranchers and landowners, and to demonstrate how good land management practices can be both profitable and ecologically sustainable.
And the foundation has demonstrated decades of results, using only one tool: cattle.
Alongside its cattle enterprise, the foundation is committed to education, outreach and community service, and its list of these credits goes on and on for pages in the award nomination form. For example, Mimms Ranch serves as an outdoor classroom for K-8 students at Marfa International School. Students study sustainable land management, water quality, soil health, desert plants and animals, and other topics through hands-on activities at the ranch. Similarly, more than 1,200 students from Aledo I.S.D. west of Fort Worth complete field labs at Bear Creek Ranch. From studying how wildlife rebound after drought to pronghorn restoration, the foundation also hosts research projects on its properties in partnership with multiple colleges and universities.
Ultimately, it all comes back to water, which the foundation views as the single most important resource for Texas' future.
High resolution PHOTOS of the Dixon Water Foundation and all other award recipients receiving award plaques at the May 18 awards ceremony can be viewed and downloaded on TPWD's Flickr photostream. This page also includes a folder with field photography of Dixon Water Foundation ranches.
High definition VIDEOS of Dixon Water Foundation ranches and all other award recipient ranches is on the department's official YouTube Channel.


(January 16, 2019) – Government representatives from China and Finland met this week in Beijing for the official launch of the China-Finland Year of Winter Sports 2019 which had originally been committed to by the Presidents of China and Finland , Mr. Xi Jinping and Mr. Sauli Niinistö in April 2017. The two presidents met again on Monday, January 14th in Beijing for an official signing ceremony launching the year of special cooperation. The joint partnership theme year marks the first of this kind of bilateral cooperation in sports between China and another country.
In 2022, Beijing will become the first city to have ever hosted both the Summer and Winter Olympics. While China has not been traditionally known as a strong winter sports nation, Finland's winter sports culture is deep-rooted into the everyday lives of its people. As China prepares to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, the country has also set the goal of developing 300 million winter sports enthusiasts.
The People's Republic of China and Finland have a long history in sport cooperation. Soon after forming diplomatic relations in 1950, China sent a team to the Helsinki 1952 Olympic Games. In order to build a strong winter sports culture, China has allocated resources to develop the infrastructure around winter sports. Major investments are being made in the development of physical education in schools, Sport for All-movement, and mass sports all the way to high-performance sports.
Ms. Anne-Mari Virolainen, Finland's Minister for Foreign Trade and Development, has led a Business Delegation to the high-level opening week of the China Finland Year of Winter Sports 2019 in Beijing.
The China-Finland Year of Winter Sports is a collaboration on many levels between the cities, areas, and businesses of Finland and China. Both sides will collaborate with government representatives, cities and companies as well as sport organizations and sport institutes. The theme year will not only be about sports but also extend to culture, education, research and training. Besides governmental cooperation, the businesses and everyday people are expected to benefit from the collaboration.
"For China´s goal to reach 300 million new winter sport enthusiasts and to build the infrastructure to support this, Finland has a lot to offer. We may be a small nation, but our expertise and opportunities in winter sports covers a vast array of products and services, especially in training and coaching, sport infrastructure including sustainable, ecological and smart building solutions, sports technology development and production of sports equipment, organizing sustainable major sport events, physical education in schools, recreational winter sports, and increasing winter sport tourism. The cooperation between our countries has already begun to thrive, especially when it comes to coaching and training centers."– Sampo Terho, Minister for European Affairs, Culture and Sports of Finland.
In the run-up to the Beijing Olympics and Paralympics 2022 and beyond as well as supporting the China-Finland Year of Winter Sports 2019, Business Finland has established a Finland Winter Sports Cluster in order to further develop potential business cooperation and platforms, and to provide comprehensive solutions for supporting the growth of a winter sports culture in China. The Finnish Winter Sports Cluster evaluates business leads in winter sports related projects, finds right partners and organizes events and match makings for Finnish and Chinese companies.
Tourism to Finland also stands to benefit from the China-Finland year of sports. Finland is already known as a winter destination, famous for the northern lights and Santa Claus, ice and snow. Finland is also a destination of great ski resorts, excellent sporting academies and number of high quality coaching and sport educational institutes and facilities. Finland has the cleanest air in the world and it offers safety, purity and space for those families, groups and individuals learning to ski.
In recent years, the number of Chinese visitors to Finland has grown strongly. In 2018, we expect to have reached 400,000 overnights spent by Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong passport holders up significantly from only 150,000 in 2014. Finland is well connected to China thanks its geographical location and direct flights between Helsinki and seven cities across China. In 2019, the first Chinese airlines will also begin flights to Finland, with Tibet Airlines opening a new tri-weekly direct flight between Helsinki and Jinan, Shangdong on April 8th and JuneYao Airlines launching daily direct flights between Helsinki and Shanghai on June 28th. In addition, Finnair will launch double-daily flights between Hong Kong and Helsinki in the summer.
In order to further inspire China's people to try Winter Sports in Finland during 2019, Visit Finland has appointed Chinese Actor, Mr. Wang Kai as Official Envoy of Finland Winter Travel. Visit Finland will launch a new campaign entitled "Feel the World", with Sina Weibo and Beijing Better Life Media & Communication and featuring Wang Kai's experiences in Finland over China's upcoming Spring Festival.
The Visit Finland Travel Trade website provides tour operators with easily accessible information and tools when marketing Finland.
The Team Finland network promotes Finland's external economic relations, the internationalzation of Finnish businesses, Finland's brand abroad and investments to Finland. The network aims to bring all key authorities and organizations under one umbrella, improve the efficiency of their cooperation, and provide customers with an easy access to a wide range of services.
The Team Finland network consists of more than 70 local teams around the world and brings together all Finnish authorities, publicly funded organizations and other key parties with ties to Finland. At home, the core members of the Team Finland network are the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Education and Culture - together with agencies operating under their guidance.


We will be working with Ms. Heidi's class for six weeks as they produce At My Table, a collection of recipes that they would like to share with the world. Tutors will help students write their recipes and the stories behind them, including students' personal connections to the foods and the historical significance of them either to their families or cultures. Join us for this deliciously creative project if you can commit to all of the sessions on Tuesdays and Thursday through March. If you speak any Spanish, that is a plus, although students will write in English.


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I Just Drilled One!!!!!!!
Five Month Pregnant Wife, Freezing Cold Day, Stud Buck, Perfect Shot, Beyond Proud Husband
Nov 18 2016 - Nov 19 2016
Trace Goodwin
First posted Aug 18 2017 | Last updated Aug 23 2017
Trace Goodwin Erie, Kansas
Lil' Toledo Lodge Chanute, Kansas
The following is the actual text conversation from the morning of November 19th, 2016 between myself and my wife:
Me 6:14 a.m: You in the tree yet?!
Deidre 6:15 a.m: Nope
Deidre 6:21 a.m: I don't think I have a stocking cap :/ my heads gonna freeze!
Me 6:21 a.m: You can't find one anywhere?
Deidre 6:22 a.m: Idk... maybe not in my tub and no idea where the rest of the crap is
Me 6:24 a.m: I'd just grab one from the closet and go
Deidre 6:45 a.m: It also really annoys me that I can't grunt I need you!
Deidre 8:05 a.m: I just drilled one!!!!!!!
Me 8:06 a.m: What !!!!
Deidre 8:06 a.m: He's down 52 yards in front of me
Me 8:06 a.m: Awesome!!!
Deidre 8:07 a.m: And I am shakin so bad I can't text and I don't know what to do now
Me 8:07 a.m: Go look at him if he's dead!!
Deidre 8:08 a.m: Well I am guessing he's dead hasn't moved and he did the rear back death crash!
I have yet to delete this conversation from my phone. I still look back at it and it puts a giant smile on my face every time I read it. My wife is relatively new to bowhunting. She grew up in the outdoors hunting turkeys and waterfowl with her dad, but decided to take on the challenge of bowhunting whitetails after we had dated several months. From the moment I bought her first bow until she had harvested her first buck two years later I have cherished every moment sitting in the stand with her.
In January of 2016 I accepted the position as the Deer and Turkey Program Director for Lil' Toledo Lodge. It was a milestone in my life as I had worked and studied hard for several years to be in a position such as this.
But everything isn't rainbows and butterflies. Like with most decisions there were some downfalls that came with accepting the position. Although I would get to spend more time in the outdoors facing off with whitetail ghosts that I loved, I wouldn't get to spend as much of that time sitting in the tree stand with my wife. Up until November 19th, 2016 I had sat every tree stand with her, experiencing the first time bowhunting jitters, watching her shoot over a great buck at 19 yards because she panicked and used her second pin instead of her top pin, watching her barely miss a buck only a few days later and her saying "I'm done!" only to have the same buck return an hour later and a well placed arrow changed the bowhunter blues to the "best feeling ever!"
So it was mixed emotions when I told my five month pregnant and sleepy wife that she should really try to be in the stand that morning as I got dressed and headed out to meet my client at the lodge. We had just come off of two days of warm temperatures and super windy conditions. The hunters in camp sat the miserable conditions with little to no movement. The weather for November 19th called for a 5 - 8 mph winds with a high of 43 degrees. A cold front was moving in and the wind wasn't going to be blowing a hundred miles per hour and the rut was picking back up! It felt like the perfect storm of seeing deer on their feet!
As you can tell from the text conversation that we had. My wife wasn't overly enthused about going out that morning. It was freezing cold, she likes her sleep, I wouldn't be there with her, and she also doesn't like walking alone into the tree stand when its dark. Therefore when I texted my wife at 6:14a.m. to see if she was in the stand as shooting light was approaching at 6:35a.m., I wasn't surprised that she hadn't made it there yet. She waited until daylight before tracking across the open field to the creek bottom and climbing up into her ladder stand.
When I think about that day, the song sang by country music singer John Anderson "I wish I could have been there" comes to mind. There's a part of the chorus that says "It was a happy day, but kinda sad, I wish I could have been there for that." Although it is a little sad I wasn't sitting there with my wife, I have to say that it was probably the happiest day I've ever had in regards to the whitetail world. Receiving that text saying "I just drilled one" with seven exclamation points to follow made my heart overflow! The woman I love, carrying my baby girl, who I had watched grow in the tradition of bowhunting had done it all on her own! I'm also excited that one day I will get to tell my daughter about her very first hunt with her mom!
For all you guys wondering! The deer she shot was a beautiful clean ten that scored 160 3/8". Not bad, huh!
Shayne N Shannon Crays
Trace think you for the look into your thoughts of that day. And I hope the memories keep coming for you and your wife. What a wonderful story to have for years to come buddy. Being a guide around those seasons is tough and I can relate being a guide myself. But your dedication to what you believe in is honorable and pays off in the end brother. Right on! Keep doing what your doing because living the outdoor life style is where it's at. Awesome picks!
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Hillary Clinton Not Surrendering on Bernie Sanders' Home Turf of Vermont
"...You still have to encourage the Clinton supporters who are here, and hopefully, earn some delegates to the Democratic Convention," said former Vermont Gov. Madeleine Kunin.
By Jack Thurston	• Published at 7:17 pm on February 24, 2016
Bernie Sanders is expected to win his home turf, Vermont, by a landslide margin over Hillary Clinton in Tuesday's Democratic primary, but Clinton is not throwing in the towel.
"Clearly, Bernie Sanders is going to take Vermont," acknowledged former Vermont Gov. Madeleine Kunin, a vocal Clinton backer.
Kunin, however, has been doing what she can to rally support for the former secretary of state, despite the uphill climb reflected in the findings of a recent poll conducted for Vermont Public Radio by the Castleton Polling Institute.
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The poll, which surveyed voters who said they were likely to participate in the Democratic primary, showed Sanders leading Clinton, 78 to 13 percent. That VPR poll was conducted between Feb. 3-17, with a total of 895 responses and a margin of error of 3.3 percent.
"But it doesn't mean you lie down and give up," Kunin told necn. "It means you still have to encourage the Clinton supporters who are here, and hopefully, earn some delegates to the Democratic Convention."
Kunin described Clinton as the most qualified candidate in the field from either party, with impressive foreign policy chops who is ready to assume the responsibilities of the Oval Office on day one. Describing some of her chosen candidate's priorities, Kunin said she is looking to Clinton to build bridges in Washington to raise incomes and fight for affordable child care, equal pay for equal work and paid medical leave.
"She is the person who is the most capable to be president," Kunin said.
The Democrats are competing for 26 Vermont delegates to the Democratic National Convention. Ten of the Vermont delegates are so-called "super delegates," top party leaders like Vermont Democrats Sen. Patrick Leahy, who has voiced support for Clinton, and Rep. Peter Welch, who recently said he is behind Sanders.
The other 16 delegates will be awarded proportionally based on vote totals from citizens participating in the Vermont primary, explained Christina Amestoy of the Vermont Democratic Party. To qualify for any of those delegates, Clinton must win at least 15 percent of the Vermont vote Tuesday, Amestoy added.
"The magic number you'll be looking for as you watch the results come in is to see if Hillary Clinton reaches that 15 percent," Amestoy told necn.
The Vermont Democratic Party said it will not get behind a specific candidate until after the Democratic National Convention. Amestoy said Vermont Democrats have two excellent candidates to choose from between Clinton and Sanders.
Amestoy noted that it has been clear for some time that Sanders will win Vermont, but she said Clinton supporters have been calling the party offices looking for ways to help them support their candidate.
"They may not be as loud as the Bernie supporters here in Vermont, but there definitely are Clinton supporters out there," Amestoy noted.
To try to reach or exceed that 15 percent threshold, Clinton's campaign is relying primarily on direct mailings and grassroots organizers willing to knock on doors in Sanders territory, said Clinton campaign spokeswoman Julie McClain.
"We're having canvasses this coming weekend and phone banks across the state, as we did last weekend in our 'weekend of action,'" McClain said, adding that efforts are underway statewide, fanning out from major communities such as Rutland, Burlington, Montpelier and Brattleboro.
A Clinton organizing meeting Wednesday featured a visit from Stephanie Schriock, the president of EMILY's List, a national group that works to get pro-choice Democratic women elected to office.
In response to an necn question about Clinton's efforts in Sanders' backyard, Schriock said, "Hillary Clinton said from the very first that she was going to fight for every single vote in this country, and that's precisely what she's doing."
Another indication of the size of the challenge in Clinton's way in Vermont is the result of a survey released in November 2015 from Morning Consult, which showed Sanders has the highest approval rating of any United States Senator in the country, among the Senators' own constituents, at 83 percent.
Still, Kunin said she strongly believes there are Clinton supporters in Vermont that grassroots volunteers can reach and energize to vote in the primary.
"It's not as lonely as you might think," Kunin said of being a Clinton voter in Vermont.


While the Fourth of July is a time for fireworks and celebration, for many pets and their owners it can be a nightmare.
The loud noises, flashing lights, and smell of sulfur can cause excessive fear in pets. Nervous behaviors such as trembling, whimpering, and panting may be distressful to the pet, but the animal's natural response to flee from what he interprets as a threatening situation may result in serious injury.
Some dogs are so frightened by fireworks that they may run through glass windows, or escape from the yard and run the risk of being hit by a car.
If your pet has noise phobias, speak to your veterinarian about a natural homeopathic, non-sedating remedy to keep your pet calm during storm and fireworks seasons.
Be aware that fireworks are often set off for several days during the holiday season. Please lock your pets up. They depend on you for everything.


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Milan council agrees to sell Macao property for €22 million
Thu, Sep 27, 2018, 15:00
Carlos Hawthorn
The sale can only go through once the building is empty—which it currently isn't.
The City Council Of Milan has agreed to sell the complex of buildings that houses beloved arts and music hub Macao. The deal, reportedly worth €22 million, will see the council transfer ownership of the entire Viale Molise complex, which spans seven buildings, to a real estate fund run by the international banking group BNP Paribas. News of the sale came as a shock to the team behind Macao, given how closely they've been working with the council to secure the venue's legal legitimacy and elevate its cultural standing. "What we cannot process is the fact that this administration (one of the few remaining 'left wing' governments in Italy) decided to disqualify a year-long political conversation concerning the use of public resources for the common good and for the self-determination of individuals," reads a statement from Macao. Crucially, however, the sale of the complex can only go through if the properties are empty, and Macao currently occupies one of the buildings. Though the assessor working on the deal, Roberto Tasca, has come out against using force to vacate the premises, there are plans to introduce new legislation that would facilitate that approach. The proposed law states, among other things, that police can enter an occupied building without a warrant if there are ten or more people inside. They can then arrest anyone involved and impose fines of up to €2064. The penalty of imprisonment is four years. Another clause states that the authorities may legally tap the phones of anyone involved. This section of the proposed law is named after Matteo Salvini, the far-right politician who's currently Italy's deputy prime minister. In response to news of the sale, Macao is organising a peaceful protest on Friday, October 5th at Piazza della Scala, one of the main squares in Milan. This isn't the first time Macao has faced the threat of closure. Early in 2017, the council seized control of the complex from its former owner, Sogemi, after Macao's organisers learned that Sogemi was planning to sell it. Since opening in 2012, Macao has grown into one of Europe's most vital spaces for experimental music and art. Among other things, it's home to the annual music festival Saturnalia. Update: Macao is urging supporters to sign a petition by emailing them at [email protected] Find more information about the push here. Additional reporting and translation by Carolaina Losa.
Venue: Macao


Below you will find our selection of faucets that are currently on sale. This is our biggest sale of the year. We are also offering sinks, vanities, and much more. Prices listed here are for individual units. If you are interested in buying larger quantities, we will give you greater discounts. We recommend that you come into our office and showroom at 1901 Dabney Road for yourself to see everything we have to offer.


With 32,956 units sold, the Honda Accord last month managed to outsell the Toyota Camry,for the second time running which went home to 28,507 customers. That said, Toyota points out the Camry was in the middle of phasing out the 2014 model for the refreshed 2015 Camry.
Meanwhile, the Ford Fusion managed to knock the Nissan Altima off the podium with 21,693 units sold. The fourth-place Altima (21,675 sold) was well ahead of the Chevrolet Malibu, which went home to 15,186 customers. Coming in at sixth place was the Hyundai Sonata with 14,918 units. Hyundai admits it scaled back incentives last month compared to August.
In seventh and eighth place were the Chrysler 200 and Kia Optima with 10,995 and 10,908 units sold, respectively. The Volkswagen Passat moved 7280 units during the month of September, with 23.6 percent of those cars being the TDI clean diesel. Sales of the Subaru Legacy continue to increase with 6198 units moving off the lot last month, a 118-percent jump compared to the same period last year. Rounding off the bottom two spots are the Mazda6 and Dodge Avenger with 4263 and 1677 sold, respectively.
Altima leads December sales but can't beat Toyota overall.


UFC returns this weekend with an interesting couple of interim title fights. Outside of the title fights, it might not be the greatest card but let's try find some value.
I'm a fan of Soukhamthath here at big dog odds.
I think this is the toughest test of Jackson's career and I'm not sure he's as good as hype would have you believe. I know he made light work of Brain Kelleher but Kelleher was his own worst enemy that night.
Good to see Curtis back so soon after getting dominated by Dos Santos a few weeks back.
Muhammad seems to have problems with heavy handed fighters. Losses to Neal and Luque were fights that stayed off the ground and I think this one can play out same. I think Millender is slight value at $2.10 and can win the kickboxing battle here. Both have good hands but Curtis kicking game is the better and I think he can inflict some damage here.
Initially I was keen on Grant here but after watching some tapes I think this line on Jouban is a little big. Grant has some heavy hands but looks to still be growing in other aspects of the sport. His cardio is another issue. He died off in that Ottow fight and I think Jouban would take advantage of that more than a tired Zak Ottow. Jouban is no stranger to fighting people with heavy hands, he has wins over Mike Perry and Ben Saunders to confirm this. Experience could be the factor here, I'm going to take the veteran in Jouban to get this done, probably by decision.
Short and sweet with this one. Turner has the hands to trouble Frevola here for me.
I think at $1.80, he's a good bet and I'll also be looking at him via KO.
I'm a big fan of Adesanya but cannot back him at odds available. I think this title shot might have been rushed a little. We have seen this in the past, hype guys, getting a title push too early. Oezdemir, Ortega and Ngannou all got pushed to top too early and I'm afraid that Adesanya could be the next. It's not that long ago he was struggling to beat Vettori and all though impressive against Brunson and Tavares, Gastelum will represent a big step up in competition.
Kelvin has proven himself with that big Bisping KO and beating Jacare. I think if he can get in close to Adesanya and hurt him with his boxing. This fight will probably be won in the clinch and wrestling exchanges, I believe Gastelum can shrug Adesanya off and catch him with some good shots. At current odds I'll take a shot on Gastelum, reluctantly though as I seen so much potential in Adesanya.
Wow, what a main event. I've been swaying from side to side here. For me it comes down to weather Poirier's jab can hold Holloway back, I believe it can and he has shown an iron clad chin. These two things give me hope that Poirier can win here. The Jab will be key, if he cannot push Holloway back with it, then Holloway will pick him off as we have seen so many times before. I think Poirier's BJJ is better too if it hits the floor . Poirier is also the dog here and for me, Max is a little short. I'll take that $2.80 on Poirier all day.
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Peace between the BMA and the Commonwealth was restored when the Chifley Government lost the 1949 election and was succeeded by a government led by Mr Menzies and including as Health Ministers over the next decade BMA members Drs Earle Page and Don Cameron.
The relationship between government and the association quickly became less bellicose. Consultations took over from salvos. These consultations could be fairly lively, according to BMA officials who were present. They found that Dr Page could be "explosive" – described by colleagues as a "controlled tornado" – compared to Senator Nick McKenna, his much calmer predecessor in the Chifley Government. He had inherited Senator McKenna's advisers who, one BMA official has said, "were all very nice fellows, but unchangeable as the Bourbons". Nevertheless, the contacts led, especially in the first few years, to private practice being retained on a fee-for-service basis and government subsidies for the health funds to help defray patients' health and hospital costs, as the BMA had proposed in its "general principles" of 1941 and as Dr Page had promised in the 1949 election campaign. The BMA was invited to have representatives on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee and an enquiry into the Pensioner Medical Service.
With the BMA closely involved, the Government drew up the National Health Act, whose component parts were the PBS, the Pensioner Medical Scheme, the Medical Benefits Scheme and the Hospital Benefits Scheme, and whose structure and operation had (in the opinion of the BMA) been rendered simple, unobjectionable and compatible with private practice. Later, in the early 1960s, Health Minister Senator Wade set up a consultative committee, composed of BMA and government officials, to "simplify and speed up the settlement of matters of mutual concern" in the health system. Sir Cecil Colville, President of Federal Council (and later first President of the AMA), said that the committee "in no small measure contributes to the smooth running" of the health service.
Problems did arise from time to time, even in the era described by Sir Earle as one of cooperative partnership between the BMA, the Government and the health funds. There was still the odd disagreement: over the formulary lists and charges for prescriptions in the PBS, for example. The Government's response to the BMA pointing out anomalies in medical benefit schedules was not considered to be very helpful. The Government rejected a BMA request for representation on the Commonwealth Insurance Council and the need for an adequately representative Medical Benefits Advisory Committee. Changes to the means test under the Pensioner Medical Scheme in 1953 had its effect on the incomes of private practitioners, which had caused some disquiet among members. But, essentially, the era of cooperation – with health no longer such an acute area of contention between doctors and government or a vexed campaign issue in five federal elections – had resulted in a relationship that was deemed to be working reasonably.
The AMA Annual Report for 1966 recorded "its appreciation of the willingness of successive Ministers of Health to discuss with Federal Council important matters associated with the National Health Service and with medical planning in general. It is hopeful that such a happy relationship with the Commonwealth Government may continue." In the 1967 Annual Report, the AMA complimented the Government for the spirit of cooperation epitomised in "informal meetings, at which many problems are resolved before they grow into areas of conflict". But this cooperation was becoming less friendly. By the end of the 1960s, and especially by the time John Gorton had succeeded Harold Holt, the relationship was coming under pressure, and it would lead to much dissension between the profession and the government and within the profession and its organisations.
Among the reasons for this was almost certainly the fact that, except for one brief year in 1963, none of the four Health Ministers had had Cabinet rank since Sir Earle Page had retired in 1956. So it can be argued that it was not all that high among the priorities of the later Menzies and successor governments. Harold Holt succeeded Sir Robert Menzies in 1966, John Gorton succeeded Harold Holt in 1968, William McMahon succeeded Gorton in 1971 and – in all that time, until the McMahon Government lost to the Whitlam Government in 1972 – Health remained a junior Ministry, though the health service itself was clearly showing wear and tear around the edges.


One of the next, and most crucial, parts of the renovation process is designing the new structure that will go on top. I have been mulling this over for a while but was clearer on what I didn't, rather than did, want. Ultimately not that much help when talking to an architect.
I was pointed by Toby the welder in the direction of Tom Kundig, an American industrial style architect who does a lot of work with steel and glass. Turns out I LOVE LOVE LOVE his stuff and think that elements of this style will be perfect for the boat.
The designs look almost a bit boat light and incorporate the glass and steel and light that, I think, will make the design work.
One of the recurring elements in his designs are whole walls the lift or swing to open up and to give access to the outdoors. When combined with the overhanging roof, I think this will be perfect for the boat.
While a lot of what makes these designs are the overall structure and materials, both of which play out on a grand scale, there is still a great attention to detail. Exposed trunking and industrial light fittings, a stainless steel kitchen, a wood burner and even a window for the dog to keep watch from.
I am pretty confident that this style will be both appropriate for the existing structure of the boat and also stand the text of time. Just look at the computer monitor in the following picture – the only element that dates it.
While some what of a departure from my normal maximalist style, I love how the design translates to the interiors with the exposed metalwork and stairs.
Let's get going on the design!
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Q: Using radio buttons to set item's state with Vue.js I currently have a table of categories that I iterate and display as a table, where every row has a group of radio buttons that can set the state of a category:

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However when displayed neither a correct radio button gets set, neither the item.state updates on change. How to fix this?

A: Make sure that you use this.$set to update array, otherwise Vue will not keep track of changes.
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L.A. Dept. of Planning's Zoning Information and Map Access System (ZIMAS).
The City of Los Angeles – Department of City Planning has a two page summary of the Ordinance: BASELINE HILLSIDE ORDINANCE SUMMARY.
A copy of the adopted Ordinance can be found here.
The American Institute of Architects, Los Angeles Chapter's website also information on the BHO web page.
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North American esports organisation CLG has named Jonathon McDaniel as the General Manager for its League of Legends team.
Prior to joining CLG, McDaniel served as the Assistant General Manager of Golden Guardians.
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Greg Kim, Head of CLG, spoke on the announcement: "Jonathon has had a great career in the League of Legends space, from scouting to coaching, and ultimately leading to jobs in the front office.
"I've always admired his work and I'm excited to have him take this next step of leading CLG's League of Legends program back to the ultimate goal of competing for championships."
In his previous role at the Golden Guardians, McDaniel was responsible for scouting and developing League of Legends talent.
Prior to that, he worked in a variety of roles for Cloud 9 and also collaborated with Riot Games on several league issues. This includes the LCS playoff format changes, the creation of the LCS Lock-In tournament and the amateur League of Legends talent pipeline in North America.
McDaniel received his Bachelor of Science degree in Animal Biology from the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
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The new General Manager of CLG's League of Legends team, commented: "When I started as a fan of League of Legends in 2011, there were many legacy organisations that I was able to watch grow from humble beginnings, with CLG being one of those marquee franchises.
"All these years later, I'm honoured to join CLG and my goal is to build a League of Legends programme that our fans can look forward to growing year over year and make them proud".
Esports Insider says: With plenty of experience in scouting, developing and managing League of Legends talent, Jonathon McDaniel is a solid choice for CLG's League squad. The team hasn't been doing particularly well in recent years, so it'll be interesting to see if McDaniel can help the team climb up the leaderboards again.
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H.T. SMITH is the founding Director of the Trial Advocacy Program at Florida International University College of Law. He is a nationally-renown trial lawyer and a highly sought after trial advocacy lecturer – with a reputation for demanding a" full cup of justice" for the least, the last, the lost, the looked over and the left out. He was voted the Top Trial Lawyer for 2017 by the 4,500 members of the Dade County Bar Association, listed in The Best Lawyers in America for over 20 years, listed in Florida Super Lawyers,selected as one of the Top 10 Trial lawyers of the Year by the National Law Journal, and is rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell.
He blazed pioneering trails as Miami's first African-American assistant public defender and first African-American assistant county attorney. His entry into private practice was Miami's first Black-owned law firm practicing in downtown Miami.
His leadership includes serving as President of the National Bar Association, President of the Florida Chapter of the National Bar Association, founding President of the Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. Bar Association, and Chairman of the Declaration of Rights Committee of the 1997-98 Florida Constitution Revision Commission, which voted him Best Advocate. He is founder and Chairman of the Board of the Gwen Cherry Park Foundation in Liberty City, and founder of the NFL Youth Education Town (YET) at Gwen Cherry Park. He was a founding Board member of OUR KIDS of Miami-Dade and Monroe Counties, Chairman of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Judicial Nominating Commission, member of the Florida Sentencing Guidelines Commission, member of the Board of Directors of Legal Services of Greater Miami, member of the Third District Court of Appeal Judicial Nominating Commission, and he currently serves as Vice-Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of Miami.
The Eleventh Judicial Circuit Historical Society named him a Legal Legend, the Dade County Bar Association awarded him its prestigious David W. Dyer Professionalism Award and its Icon Award, and the National Bar Association inducted him into the National Bar Association's Hall of Fame and awarded him the Gertrude Rush Award.
The BLSA Chapter at FIU College of Law named its chapter in his honor. Legal Services of Greater Miami named an advocacy fellowship in his honor, and the Miami-Dade Chamber of Commerce named its highest award in his honor. From FIU he has received the Top Scholar Award and the FIU Medallion, and the Pioneer Award from the College of Law.
H.T. led the hugely successful BOYCOTT MIAMI Campaign — the Quiet Riot – for 1,000 days in response to local politicians snubbing the iconic Nelson Mandela when he visited Miami in 1990. This effort led to the development of the first African American owned convention quality hotel in America – built on the ocean on Miami Beach; 25 full-tuition hospitality management scholarships at FIU in perpetuity; and many other economic and political benefits for people of color. President Nelson Mandela wrote that "H.T. Smith became well-known for his consistent and courageous contribution and support for the struggle against apartheid. We are confident that wherever injustice and racism raises their ugly heads, H. T. will be there to raise his powerful voice of protest and resistance."
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Johnny Depp Alleges Amber Heard Had Affair With Elon Musk in Defamation Suit
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Johnny Depp, through his legal team, has accused Amber Heard of having a romantic relationship with Elon Musk during their marriage.
The relationship is alleged to have started "no later than one month after" Depp and Heard were married in 2015, according to court documents cited by People. One of Musk's alleged "late night" visits to the couple's then-shared property is said to have occurred, in the words of Depp's legal team, on the same night Heard "presented her battered face to the public."
Depp is currently suing Heard, who has accused him of abuse, for defamation in connection with a December 2018 Washington Post piece. The suit is for a reported $50 million.
"Friends and advisers told me I would never again work as an actress—that I would be blacklisted," Heard wrote in the Post op-ed, which doesn't mention Depp by name. "A movie I was attached to recast my role. I had just shot a two-year campaign as the face of a global fashion brand, and the company dropped me. Questions arose as to whether I would be able to keep my role of Mera in the movies Justice League and Aquaman."
In 2016, Depp was accused by Heard of domestic violence. As the Blast noted in a separate report Monday, Depp's latest legal move includes interviews with witnesses who saw both Heard and Depp on the night in question. In a statement in response to news of the defamation suit details, Heard's legal team pushed back against Depp. "She will not be silenced," attorney Eric M. George said. "Mr. Depp's actions prove he is unable to accept the truth of his ongoing abusive behavior."
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The Mount Wireless line of M-Frame modular wireless platforms adds comprehensive mounting solution options to Oberon's extensive line of enclosures and mounts for wireless components.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Jan. 22, 2019 - PRLog -- Today, Oberon announced it has acquired the entire Mount Wireless product line, enabling both Oberon and Mount Wireless customers to benefit from the combined product offering.
The acquisition of the Mount Wireless line, effective January 1 , 2019, expands Oberon's line of wireless access point and antenna mounting solutions to now include wireless infrastructure products for industrial, warehouse, logistics, and transportation facilities. The Mount Wireless products are also installation time savers for public venue Wi-Fi networks. This acquisition results in a comprehensive offering of Wi-Fi access point and antenna mounting solutions in all verticals including healthcare, education, government, retail and hospitality, industrial, transportation, public venue, municipal, and smart city. This can help to simplify solution-finding and decision-making on the part of all customers. Oberon's channel partners will benefit from more comprehensive Wi-Fi infrastructure products for more verticals, from a single leading supplier.
"Secure, convenient, aesthetic Wi-Fi installation for our customers has always been paramount," according to Scott Thompson, President and CEO of Oberon. "With the addition of the Mount Wireless line of products, Oberon customers will have more choices and options, especially in the industrial and warehouse Wi-Fi space. With the acquisition of Mount Wireless, Oberon also retains the expertise of founder Jeff O'Bryan, whose 30 years of experience in structured cabling and wireless is invaluable."
Jeff O'Bryan, founder and president of Mount Wireless, will continue with Oberon as Eastern Sales Director, based in North Carolina. "The addition of the Mount Wireless brand to the Oberon line will greatly increase the number of end users who will benefit from the Mount Wireless product feature set. I look forward to continuing to serve existing Mount Wireless customers and now Oberon customers with the full Oberon product offering."
Oberon SKUs for Mount Wireless products are available immediately, and the Mount Wireless product offering is available now through Oberon's existing distribution channels. More information is available at https://oberoninc.com/products/m-frame.


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The recent Hollywood film 'Hidden Figures' presents a portrait of how African-American women shaped the U.S. effort in aerospace during the height of Jim Crow. In Storming the Heavens, Gerald Horne presents the necessary back story to this story and goes further to detail the earlier struggle of African-Americans to gain the right to fly. This struggle involved pioneers like Bessie Coleman, who traveled to World War I era Paris in order to gain piloting skills that she was denied in her U.S. homeland; and John Robinson, from Chicago via Mississippi, who traveled to 1930s Ethiopia where he was the leading pilot for this beleaguered African nation as it withstood an invasion from fascist Italy, became the personal pilot of His Imperial Majesty, Haile Selassie and became a founder of Ethiopian Airways, which to this very day is Africa's most important carrier. Additionally, Horne adds nuance to the oft told tale of the Tuskegee Airmen but goes further to discuss the role of U.S. pilots during the Korean war in the early 1950s. He also tells the story of how and why U.S. airlines were fought when they began to fly into South Africa—and how planes from this land of apartheid were protested when they landed at U.S. airports. This riveting story climaxes with the launching of the Soviet satellite, Sputnik, in 1957 which marked a new stage in the battle for aerospace and helps to convince the U.S. that the centuries-long fixation on the "race race" was hampering the new challenge represented by the "space race." This conflict was unfolding as the battle to desegregate public schools in Little Rock, Arkansas was spotlighting, globally, the bleeding wound that was Jim Crow and sheds light on how and why depriving African-Americans of skills and education was causing the nation to fall behind. Thus, in this embattled context, barriers are broken and African-Americans who once endured inferior conditions on planes and in airports and in airport manufacturing facilities alike, gained added impetus in their decades long struggle to win the right to fly.
I learned so much about female aviators Willa Brown, Bessie Coleman and Janet Harmon Waterford Bragg! This book really sheds a bright light on this area of American history.
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Plants perennial; cespitose, with innovations and hardened bases, without rhizomes, not glandular. Culms (30)45-100 cm, erect, glabrous below the nodes. Sheaths rarely glabrous, apices and distal margins usually hairy, sometimes also densely hairy basally, dorsally, and on the collars, hairs to 6 mm, papillose-based; ligules 0.2-0.4 mm; blades 25-60 cm long, 3-8(11) mm wide, flat to loosely involute, usually glabrous, adaxial surfaces sometimes hairy basally. Panicles 25-85 cm long, 15-40 cm wide, broadly ovate, open; primary branches mostly 4-35(45) cm, diverging 20-90° from the rachises, capillary; pulvini glabrous or hairy; pedicels 2-28 mm, divergent. Spikelets 2-4(5) mm long, 1-1.7 mm wide, lanceolate, greenish with purplish tinges, with 2-6 florets; disarticulation acropetal, paleas persistent. Glumes lanceolate, hyaline to membranous; lower glumes 1.1-2 mm; upper glumes 1.5-2.8 mm, apices acuminate to acute; lemmas 1.6-2.4 mm, ovate, membranous, hyaline near the margins, lateral veins inconspicuous, apices acute; paleas 1.2-2.2 mm, hyaline, bases not projecting beyond the lemmas, apices acute to obtuse; anthers 3, 0.3-0.8 mm, purplish. Caryopses 0.8-1 mm, rectangular-prismatic, somewhat laterally compressed, with or without a well-developed adaxial groove, striate, opaque, reddish-brown. 2n = 100.
Eragrostis hirsuta grows in sandy clay loams on the coastal plain and along roadsides, at 0-150 m, usually in association with Pinus palustris and Quercus. Its range extends from the southeastern United States through eastern Mexico to Guatemala and Belize.
Stout, erect, tufted perennial 4-10 dm; sheaths longer than the internodes, ciliate-margined and sometimes villous on the back; blades 4-10 mm wide, elongate and tapering to a fine point, involute when dry; infl diffuse, half the length of the entire shoot, its scabrous branches pilose in the axils; pedicels spreading, 8-18 mm; spikelets 2-4 mm, 2-6-fld; first glume 1.4-2 mm, the second 1.6-2.2 mm; lemmas 1.7-2.4 mm, rounded on the back, the lateral veins inconspicuous or nearly obsolete, at maturity falling individually from the intact rachilla, on which the paleas may persist; grain 0.7-1 mm, barrel-shaped; 2n=100. Dry sandy soil near the coast; Md. and Va. to Fla. and Tex., n. in the interior to Mo., and rarely intr. northward, as in Mass. and Me.


Summary: Vision screening tests are necessary for early ophthalmic diseases detection. The basic vision screening test is a visual acuity test. Contrast sensitivity test is not commonly used, however it is a valuable tool to evaluate functional visual ability. Contrast sensitivity deterioration can be an early sign of such disorders as diabetes, glaucoma or neurological pathologies. Nowadays there are many different visual acuity test used for screening. Snellen charts are considered a gold standard method. Contrast sensitivity test can be performed with various charts available for children (e.g. LEA symbols) and for adults (e.g. Pelli-Robson chart). It should become a part of a standard vision test because it shows the patients' quality of vision during everyday life and can detect some discrete ocular pathologies.
Słowa kluczowe: badania przesiewowe, czułość kontrastu, ostrość wzroku, widzenie funkcjonalne.
Keywords: vision screening, contrast sensitivity, visual acuity, functional vision.


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M. Uchida, L.O. Liepold, T. Douglas "Protein Cage Magnetic Nanoparticles: Inspiration, Synthesis, and Biomedical Utility" in Magnetic Nanoparticles: From Fabrication To Clinical Applications, Nguyen TK Thanh (ed), CRC Press/Taylor and Francis, Boca Raton, 2012.
Protein Cages as Multimode Imaging Agents
M. Uchida, L. Liepold, M. Young, T. Douglas "Protein Cages as Multimode Imaging Agents" in Nanoplatform-Based Molecular Imaging edited by Xiaoyuan Chen, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2011.
Isolation of viruses from high temperature environments
J. Fulton, T. Douglas and M. Young, "Isolation of viruses from high temperature environments" in "Bacteriophages: Methods and Protocols" M. Clokie (ed.) Humana Press, Totwa, NJ. 2008.
Constrained Metal Oxide Mineralization: Lessons From Ferritin Applied to Other Protein Cage Architectures
M.A.Allen, M.M. Prisell, M.J. Young, T. Douglas "Constrained Metal Oxide Mineralization: Lessons From Ferritin Applied to Other Protein Cage Architectures" Handbook Of Biomineralization,Vol. 3. E. Bauerlein, P. Behrens (Eds), Wiley, 2007.
Viruses as Host Assemblies
M. Flenniken, M. Allen, M. Young, T. Douglas "Viruses as Host Assemblies" in Encyclopedia of Supramolecular Chemistry, Jerry L. Atwood and Jonathan W. Steed, Editors, Marcel Dekker, 2004.
Biomimetic Synthesis of Nanoscale Particles in Organized Protein Cages
T. Douglas "Biomimetic Synthesis of Nanoscale Particles in Organized Protein Cages" in Biomimetic Approaches in Materials Science, S. Mann (ed.), VCH publishers, New York, 1996.
Biomolecules in the Synthesis of Inorganic Solids
T. Douglas, S. Mann "Biomolecules in the Synthesis of Inorganic Solids" in Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology and Molecular Medicine, VCH publishers, New York, 1996.
Biomolecules in Inorganic Synthesis
T. Douglas and S. Mann, "Biomolecules in Inorganic Synthesis" in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, R.A. Meyers (ed.), VCH publishers, New York, 1995.
Synthesis of III-V Semiconductor Particles from Organometallic Precursors
A.M.A. Bennett, T. Douglas, K.M. Unruh, S.I. Shah, K.H. Theopold, "Synthesis of III-V Semiconductor Particles from Organometallic Precursors", in Nanophase Materials, G.C. Hadjipanayis and R.W. Siegel (eds), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1994.


In parts one and two of this series I looked at the two main IServiceCollection extensions (AddMvcCore and AddMvc) in ASP.NET Core. These are used to add in the required MVC services when you plan to use the MVC middleware in your application.
The next thing you are required to do to enable MVC in your ASP.NET Core application is to include the UseMvc IApplicationBuilder extension from the Configure method of your Startup class. This method registers the MVC middleware into your application pipeline so that the MVC framework can handle requests and return the appropriate response (usually a view result or some JSON). In this post I will take a look at what happens when the UseMvc method is called during the application startup.
As with the earlier parts of this series, I'm currently using the rel/1.1.2 codebase from the MVC repository for my investigations. I'm still using the slightly older project.json based code as at the moment there don't seem to be simple ways to debug into multiple ASP.NET Core source code assemblies in VS2017.
Let's dissect what this method does. First it does a check to see if the IServiceProvider has an MvcMarkerService service registered in it. To do this it uses the ApplicationServices property which exposes the current IServiceProvider. Calling GetService on the service provider will try to locate a registered implementation for the requested Type. The MvcMarkerService is registered when AddMvcCore executes and as a result, if it is not found, it indicates that either AddMvc or AddMvcCore was not called during ConfigureServices. Marker services like this are used in quite a few places to help calling code verify proper registration of fundamental dependencies before they try to execute. The MvcMarkerService is just an empty class with no actual code.
Next, UseMvc requests a MiddlewareFilterBuilder from the ServiceProvider and sets its ApplicationBuilder using the IApplicationBuilder.New() method. The ApplicationBuilder creates and returns a new instance copy of itself when this method is called.
Next, UseMvc initialises a new RouteBuilder, setting the default handler to the registered MvcRouteHandler. At this point, the DI magic really kicks in and a bunch of dependencies start getting instantiated. MvcRouteHandler is requested and because it has some dependencies in its constructor, various other classes get initialised. Each constructor for these classes can also require additional dependencies which then also get created. This is a great example of how the DI system works. While all of the interfaces and concrete implementations are registered in the container during ConfigureServices, the actual objects are only created at the point they are required to be injected into something. By new-ing up the RouteBuilder, this snowball of object creation begins to occur, until all of the required dependencies have been constructed. Some of these are registered as singletons and will then live for the lifetime of the application, being returned whenever they are requested from the ServiceProvider. Others, might be constructed for each request or in some cases, constructed uniquely every time they are required. Understanding the details of how dependency injection works and specifically the ASP.NET Core ServiceProvider is out of scope for this post.
After creating the RouteBuilder, the Action<IRouteBuilder> delegate action is called which takes the RouteBuilder as its only parameter. In the MvcSandbox sample that I'm using to debug and dissect MVC we call the UseMvc method, passing in a delegate function via a lambda. This function maps a single route named "default" as follows.
This requests an instance of an IInlineConstraintResolver which is resolved by the ServiceProvider to a DefaultInlineConstraintResolver. This class takes an IOptions<RouteOptions> in its constructor.
The Microsoft.Extensions.Options assembly, as part of its work, calls into the MvcCoreRouteOptionsSetup.Configure method which takes a RouteOptions parameter. This adds a new constraint map of type KnownRouteValueConstraint to the Dictionary of constraint maps. This Dictionary is initialised with a number of default constraints when the RouteOptions is first constructed. I'll look into the routing code in a little more detail in a future post.
A new Route object is constructed using the name and template provided. In our case this is added the RouteBuilder.Routes List. By this point, running the sample MvcSandbox application, our route builder now has a single route added.
Note that the MvcApplicationBuilderExtensions class also includes an extension method called UseMvcWithDefaultRoute. This method includes a call to UseMvc, passing in a hardcoded default route.
This route is defined with the same name and template as defined in the MvcSandbox application. Therefore it could have been used as a slight code saver within the MvcSandbox Startup class. For the most basic of MVC applications it's possible that using this helper extension method might be enough for your application routing requirements. In most real-world cases I suspect you'll end up passing in a more complete customised set of routes. It's a nice shorthand though if you want to start with the basic routing template. It's also possible to call UseMvc() without a parameter and instead use the attribute routing approach.
In its constructor it takes an IActionDescriptorCollectionProvider, an IServiceProvider and a Func which takes an array of ActionDescriptor's and which returns an IRouter. By default, with the AddMvc registered services, it will get an instance of ActionDescriptorCollectionProvider which is a singleton object registered with the ServiceProvider. ActionDescriptors represent the available MVC actions that have been created and discovered within the application. We'll look at those another time.
The code (inside the CreateAttributeMegaRoute method) which creates the new AttributeRoute uses a lambda to define the code for the Func<ActionDescriptor, IRouter>. In this case the delegate function requests an MvcAttributeRouteHandler from the ServiceProvider. Because this is registered as transient, the ServiceProvider will return a new instance of an MvcAttributeRouteHandler each time one is requested. The delegate code then sets the Actions property (an array of ActionDescriptions) on the MvcAttributeRouteHandler using the incoming ActionDescriptions array and finally the new handler is returned.
Back to UseMvc; it finishes by calling the UseRouter extension on the IApplicationBuilder. The object passed into UseRouter is created by calling Build on the RouteBuilder. This method will add the routes into the RouteCollection. Internally the RouteCollection keeps track of which routes are named and which are unnamed. In our MvcSandbox example we end up with a named "default" route and an unnamed AttributeRoute.
This does a check for a RoutingMarkerService within the ServiceProvider. Assuming this is registered as expected it adds the RouterMiddleware into the middeware pipeline. It is this middleware which will use the IRouter to try and match up requests to the controller and action within MVC which should handle them. The details of this process will feature in a future blog post.
At this point the application pipeline is configured and the application is ready to start receiving requests. That's a good point to stop for this post.
In this post we've looked at UseMvc and seen that it sets up the MiddlewareFilterBuilder which will be used later. It then also gets an IRouter via a RouteBuilder and much of the work at this stage is around registering routes. Once everything is setup, the routing middleware is registered into the pipeline. It's this code that knows how to inspect incoming requests and map the paths to the appropriate controllers and actions that can handle them.


Before we left for the States in May, one of our church members suggested we have a worship music night. We thought this was a great idea and wanted to do it before our interns left as they are all musical.
We held our worship night this past Friday, the same day our Holiday Bible Club ended. The group from Iowa was also able to participate in playing the cajon, sharing verses and a testimony. We didn't get a lot of pictures, but it was fun to switch around instruments and hear different styles of songs as we don't usually get to work altogether with music.


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This bonsai has been styled on an old stump which regrows to form a stunning bonsai with a very powerful stature.
Lovely proportions and throughout. This bonsai signifies well being, good luck and hope, making it a wonderful gift for all occasions.
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At Core JKD, the instructors recognize that each movement/technique has a proper time and place which depends on the context of attack. They teach you WHY you need to move your body in such a way in addition to the HOW in every technique. Teaching the martial arts in such a logical and relatable manner, ensures that in a real life situation you don't pause to think of a technique. Instead, you simply do what is natural and logical.
Even after a month at Core JKD, I noticed that techniques were becoming second nature.
If you are looking for a martial arts studio as a beginner or as an expert, I recommend Core JKD as a place well worth your time and money. I assure you, the returns will be astounding.


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Privacy Commission continues investigation of school survey
Ottawa-Carleton District School Board expects report to be released soon
By Noreen Fagan Jan 20, 2011, 7:00 PM EST
Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (OCDSB) continues to work with the Information and Privacy Commission of Ontario on the student survey originally scheduled for release on Nov 22, 2010.
An investigation was launched and the release date was delayed after the privacy commission received two complaints about the survey.
Jacqueline Lawrence, diversity/equity coordinator for OCDSB, worked closely with the commission before the investigation began to ensure the content of the survey fell within the privacy regulations.
"When the complaints were sent in, it immediately went into the investigative side. So it is a different division that we are now working with. We are still working with them, and we anticipate that the process will be completed very soon," says Lawrence. "The unfortunate thing is that this is one possibility that could have happened and it did."
Lawrence anticipates having a response from the privacy commission in the next two to three weeks.
"Once they have given us their recommendation, we just need to be in alignment with that. We don't anticipate significant broad changes or anything of that sort," says Lawrence.
The survey is voluntary and confidential, with students having the option of answering some questions, none of them or all of them. The data gathered would help the board plan programs and services within schools as well as identify problem areas that need support.
The survey is detailed and covers subjects ranging from family relationships to religion to sexual orientation. It is the latter that caused an outcry from some parents who objected to its intrusiveness.
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