All links active as of December 10, 2005.
Built St. Louis Web Log - an informal architectural and urbanist journal kept by myself. Rambling about and photographs of St. Louis, Milwaukee, and other cities.
Urban Review St. Louis - Steve Patterson tackles issues of urban design all across the city. Frequent updates, in-depth commentary, photographs, and reports from the front lines of issues that matter.
Ecology of Absence - Michael Allen and Claire Novak-Boyd, along with a host of co-conspirators (including myself on occasion) explore the hidden depths of urban growth and architectural decay across St. Louis and the Midwest.
B.E.L.T. - Local photographer, historian, architectural marketer, and celebrity junkie Toby Weiss (another co-conspirator of mine) offers highly literate commentary on the city's built environment, with particular focus on the more obscure aspects of Modernism. The Commonspace Blog - The Commonspace tracks St. Louis's grassroots cutural scene on many fronts.
Pretty War StL -- a local resident's photo-heavy delvings through the city's depths.
StL Rising -- a discussion-oriented blog centered on the city's urban life.
Urban St. Louis -- home to thriving discussion forums about development in the city.
St. Louis Evolution -- an ongoing project to create then-and-now comparative scenes throughout the city. The images are filed (rather confusingly) under the "Urban News" link.
This is a great page, one of the best I've seen anywhere, really. Has wonderful pages on the Arch and the Old Courthouse; just follow the links on the left side of the page.
A site about the Arch sponsored by Bi-State. Includes a thingamabob to plan your itenerary for a trip to the Arch. Forget that! Just go!
An image firm's sampler of St. Louis pictures. Includes beautiful pictures of the Arch, and one shot of Busch Stadium.
Image firm site with samples, including an architecture section.
This photography company's founder was the official photographer for the construction of the Gateway Arch; they still publish a book about the construction, available at their site.
A long-time local photographer's beautiful and artistic images of St. Louis and other Midwest cities.
Images of the Arch from a page by Mary Ann Sullivan. I wish she'd find more buildings in St. Louis to do pages about!
This photography studio's sample pages have a few great pictures of the Wainright and others.
Want to see lots of images of St. Louis at its best? Try here. This page by Charles Clemens has beautiful images of the Arch, the Old Cathedral, the Old Courthouse, the Civil Courts building, the Missouri Pacific building (the only I've ever found on the web!), and others.
Cool! These guys do fountains, geysers, and other such water-related stuff. On their front page is an image of the insane gyser installed across the river from the Arch.
This page by Jon Bell has a link to a nice image of the bridge's beautiful steel arches. Also note the Keil Center in the background of the "Union Station" image.
Rails-to-trails program in St. Louis, including the Chain of Rocks Bridge.
There are several pages which feature images of the Wainwright, arguably St. Louis's most architecturally significant structure.
A beautiful page by Mary Ann Sullivan, with numerous images of the trim. Simply fabulous!
A short article from the Common Space with images of Bellefontaine Cemetary.
Mary Ann Sullivan strikes again, with a nice page and images of this impressive Phillip Johnson building, which is located across the Gateway Mall from the Wainwright.
Owners of the massive grey Federal building downtown.
Six lovely old houses that have been converted to museums. Page is loaded with links.
A Lafayette Square home converted to a B&B.
A Victorian mansion on St. Louis University's campus that has amazing woodwork and a wonderful stone exterior.
No, not the whole city... just their ornate hundred-year-old brewery complex in Soulard. Here's a related page of info on one of the buildings.
Images and a complete history of the old theater, now home of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.
History of the Homer G. Phillips Hospital, from the American Academy of Otolaryngology.
One of the most stunning theaters you'll find anywhere, the Fox - located in Midtown, right next to the Continental Building - now has its own web page.
The Midtown landmark now has its own web site.
This is the history page of the web site for the Sheldon, a performing arts venue in Midtown. Also check out the Rentals page for views of the interior.
Article from St. Louis Commerce Magazine.
From the Metropolis web site. This elementary school has a group of dedicated backers. Page has a picture of the building itself, one of St. Louis's many wonderful old school buildings.
An outdated page about this wonderful Modernist church building in south St. Louis.
Clad in grey stone with beautiful green tile roofing, this Central West End building is a city landmark, and sports the largest collection of tile mosaics in the world.
Has info and images of some of the Cathedral's mosaics.
Info on touring the building, plus a link on the left to a virtual tour.
St. Louis's art museum is housed in a grand building designed by Cass Gilbert for the 1904 World's Fair. The Art Musuem also has a page at Erik Olsen's Forest Park site.
Properly known as the Municipal Theater.
The St. Louis Science Center includes the city's planetarium, housed in a distinctive thin-shell concrete structure that is one of the city's most prominent Modernist landmarks..
Also known as Shaw's Gardens to native St. Louisians, the Botanical Gardens have some nice buildings, in addition to the magnificent flora. Also check out the historical guidebooks from the early part of the century.
One of my favorite places in the city. A wonderfully preserved Victorian walking park in south St. Louis. Follow the "Victorian Park" link on their page for more historical architecture info.
An old Clayton home, which formerly housed the St. Louis Science Center, is now home to the St. Louis Artists' Guild.
A quaint 1926 commercial building now in use as a hotel. Located in Clayton. Click "History" at the bottom for more info.
Further out in the county you'll find the St. Louis international airport, with its striking main terminal. Images of architectural interest are on the "history" links. More images can be seen in the gallery.
A graphic and text tour of the Wash U. campus, which is one of the most beautiful areas in the city.
Wash U. School of Law's new home is a fastidious reproduction of the old Collegiate Tudor Gothic style of the campus's early buildings. The page also includes construction pictures.
Images of the new education center going up where Mudd used to be.
It was as stock as a 1950s building could be, from steel window frames and orange brick to the huge suspended globe lights in the double-height atrium. I lived in it for a year, and can't help being a little sad at its demise.
Fontbonne is located near Wash U, and its campus is done in a similar (though more bland) Gothic style.
Concordia has a small but beautiful cluster of older buildings, very similar to Duke University's old buildings. This page has a few nice images.
Stark images from a Metropolis cleanup effort in the Hyde Park neighborhood, adjacent to the twin spires of Holy Trinity.
Old images, maps, postcards, and more. You'll have to scroll way down the front page to get to the site's content.
Short page with an old elevation drawing of the Bridge. Part of a page about historic Illinois.
A history lover's treat! This wonderful page is about St. Louis's 1904 World Exposition, held in Forest Park. Relatively little remains of it architecturally, but it was a high watermark in St. Louis history.
An amusement park that existed for many years where Forest Park Community College stands today.
Tales From the Coral Court is a wonderful little book on the motel by Shelly Grahamn. This is a link to Amazon.com.
A fascinating page of images of decaying Route 66 structures, including the Coral Court.
A nice black and white, from the home page of Josh Malks.
A Route 66 traveler's log, including blurbs on the Coral Court and Ted Drewes.
This page of St. Louis Route 66 images contains one blurry shot of the motel.
St. Louis's biggest advocacy group for historic preservation.
A grassroots organization by those working to revive the city, dedicated to its built environment.
Not a whole lot about St. Louis specifically, but you can find lots of images of nifty old houses in the city under the Real Estate section.
A group dedicated to turning St. Louis into a better and more interesting place to live. Info on neighborhoods and urban sprawl, among other things.
A site/zine dedicated to grassroots activism and culture in St. Louis.
A research organization dedicated to preserving and documenting the state's past. Their library contains nearly infinate resources, and is housed in a beautiful former synagogue on Skinker.
This national archive has many old photographs of St. Louis.
A set of government databases, including the HABS.
Searchable index of the National Register of Historic Places.
You must visit this page. Ventura is a fine artist who creates a great deal of his images from details of St. Louis's buildings -- and they're simply beautiful. His image of the Art Museum is one of my favorite post cards.
A program being run at the University of Illinois, to revitalize and rebuild our neighbor across the river.
The on-line version of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the city's big daily newspaper.
St. Louis's free weekly newspaper, often with informative articles on what's going on -- and coming down -- in the city.
A site with lots of building and development news.
Though not about buildings per se, these sites form a good basis for locating the city's more interesting vernacular architecture.
Tucked away on the official St. Louis web site is this treasure trove of information, covering every section within the city limits.
The official home page of St. Louis is brimming with information, so stay and poke around a while. The "Heritage" link looks particularly interesting. CIN is also the source of the above-listed link, which is not to be confused with the Neighborhoods link on the left of the page -- it leads to even more information, including several nice neighborhood pages. Note, I will not link to individual neighborhood pages that are hosted by stlouis.missouri.org, since they are listed under CIN's page. Some of the pages are just stock defaults; others have extensive information and images. You'll just have to dig around and see for yourself.
Planning and coordinating council of governments in the region.
City government task force charged with revitalizing downtown.
I guess it's supposed to be an official web site for downtown St. Louis... it's more of a "what's happening" bulletin board than anything designed to convey a sense of place. By the same group that did the Soulard page, and also does similar pages for South Grand (click on "Reservoir Party Pictures" under "News" for images of the old Water Tower) and the Hill.
The City Museum is awesome! Its eclectic displays -- including a large collection of salvaged fragments from demolished buildings in St. Louis and beyond - has created quite a stir, even generating a front-page article in the Wall Street Journal a year or so back. The museum contains (among many other things) fragments of buildings demolished in the last 10 or 20 years in the city. Haven't found anything quite as cool on the web page, but it's still interesting to browse through.
Another nicely-done web page about a neighborhood that deserves it. Lafayette Square shows how beautiful and inviting a lot of St. Louis could be like, if more people lived in and took care of the city. Thanks to a resident for pointing the page out to me!
Home page of another neighborhood in what is probably my favorite region of the city.
In fact, it's such a nice neighborhood, it gets its own real estate company. Has lots of house pictures.
Web site of St. Louis's oldest (and coolest) neighborhood.
Neighborhood just south of Forest Park. Site has histories, interviews, and photos.
List of attractions with a keyed map of the city.
Home page for this department at St. Louis Community College - Meremac. Lists a number of architecture firms' web sites.
St. Louis engineering and architecture firm. They hosted this site for several years. May they live long and prosper.
These guys, along with their associated firm Pyramid Construction, have been attempting almost single-handedly to buy up and rehab all the old buildings around the Old Post Office. While they may have taken on more than they can handle, the effort is still noble. Kudos!
Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum, Inc. (HOK),an internationally recognized firm which is headquartered in St. Louis. Co-founded by Gyo Obata, who has his own entry on the St. Louis Walk of Fame.


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It's always interesting going to a conference which runs each year on a specific industry topic – in this case RBM. It enables you to see the progression of the industry at a macro level, usually just enough to see some progression – we're not known for our agility in life sciences!
Having attended this conference fairly consistently since 2014 when RBM was really starting to hit the headlines, I thought it would be interesting to share some of the observations I made from both speaking and listening at the event.
Now that central monitoring and RBM have become business-as-usual for many businesses, and those businesses are seeing the value first hand, a strong community of evangelists is forming and those people seem determined to communicate their successes, their approach, their challenges and their future plans. This is helping create a bow wave of pressure and support for the next wave of adopters. The speakers and attendees at the event were all genuinely interested in helping each other progress. It is always frustrating at these events that the community tends to dissipate after the event as everyone goes back to their day jobs. At TRI are putting quite a bit of thought into how we can help maintain that community and continue the momentum after the events – watch this space.
Back in 2013/14 when RBM was first making the headlines, there was a rather cynical, but popular view that the core value in RBM was saving money on on-site monitoring costs. This was then followed by the realisation that doing less on site monitoring needs to be backed up with more central monitoring, more thought, more planning and more ongoing quality management, and suddenly is wasn't as appealing was first thought. I got the feeling that there was a bit of a period of depression with RBM around 2015/16 as companies realised that gross margins on trials weren't about to increase 25% overnight. What is evident now though is that those companies that could see beyond the primary goal of cost savings, and were more focused on safety, quality and compliance (with ICH E6 R2 helping build momentum again) are now actually saving money! Why? Because they have thought about the journey to quality – the processes, the data, the systems and the people – they have got their houses in order and they are making day-to-day decisions based on what they see in the data, and not following a routine plan of monitoring visits and SDV. As in life, it is often the journey to achieving something that is the reward, and that is becoming more and more evident. With large pharma companies citing 18-20% genuine cost savings as a result of RBM, the business case looks stronger than ever – what's changed is the realisation that it takes a bit of work to get there.
There are far more probing questions, and they are going to lead to much more insightful management of quality and safety.
There was a lot of debate about the relationship between sponsors and CROs under the umbrella of RBM. Again, the discussion has progressed since the early days when the main school of thought was that RBM was the job of the CRO, and guess what – we don't have to pay as much for monitoring as we used to! Fortunately this conversation has matured significantly. One of the things that E6 R2 has made very clear is that Sponsors remain accountable for outsourced services and that evidence of vendor oversight during trial conduct is paramount. So Sponsors and CROs are clearly bound together under R2, both with skin in the game when it comes to quality and safety management. When talking to sponsors at the event, many of whom were in multiple CRO partnerships, their views were very common – at the sales cycle the CROs all have a good story to tell – their PowerPoint skills are incredible…..It's at the point of delivery that things start to wobble. With any partnership, expectations need to be set clearly from the outset. For many companies, both on the sponsor and CRO side, who are just starting to execute to the RBM model, it is not surprising that with no real framework to work to the likelihood of meeting mutual expectation is highly unlikely. The Sponsors don't really know the right questions to ask in the first place, and so the CROs keep the conversation light. One of the consulting tools we have built at TRI is a framework for managing such expectations, and those sponsor / CRO partnerships who have used it have enjoyed a much better outcome than people feeding back at the conference. We'd be happy to talk it through with any interested parties.
Four years ago, the conversation about RBM was 'what is it and why should we do it?' Today it is very much 'how do we do it well and how do we grow from here?' That simple shift is what makes me the most excited. There is no silver bullet for RBM, there is no one algorithm, no one study design, no one process. It takes a team to think, to work together, to utilize tools to get the most from the data we have been sitting on for years and draw intelligent conclusions from that data. The benefits of getting it right are huge, for industry, for patients and for us as part of the community of people who genuinely care about progress. This is a turning point in our industry and we at TRI couldn't be more excited about being in the thick of it. Thank you all to everyone who contributed and the dozens of fascinating conversations we had at the event.


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will be interrogated with a prominent Quran scholar.
* How do we unpack notions of happiness and serenity?
* How do we define who we are?
* How to be happy while watching the happiness-inducing "sources" coming to their ends?
* How to understand anxiety, fear and grief?
* How to maintain a grounded soul in the face of crises?
* How to start the process of making peace with death?
 time to Receiving Nur. In addition to extensive training in Islamic Studies, both in traditional and academic settings, she also holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics from Durham University, England. She has published extensively in several languages on Islam, especially on Quranic Studies, Islamic Spirituality and the relationship between religion and science. She is a native Arabic speaker, and also fluent in Turkish and French.


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Q: Iphone JSON-Framework is posible using JSON-Framework for Iphone to know if a tag exists inside the JSON like in JAVA with the function hasTag(String)?

A: If by tag you mean name/key and you're using SBJSON, use -objectForKey: and test if the return value is nil. For instance, if person is an NSDictionary instance returned by the JSON parser and it can optionally contain a nickname,
if ([person objectForKey:@"nickname"] != nil)
{
    // `nickname' is available; do something with it
}

A: The way I think to do it is to convert your JSON Object to an NSDictionary and after that use the method -(NSArray *)allKeys, or -(NSArray *)allValues depending what you want.
It returns an array with all the keys (or values) inside the object. You can then compare the keys with the one you want to find.
Hope it helps you.

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Friedrich von Tschudi, född 1820, död 1886, var en schweizisk skriftställare.

Han var bror till Johann Jakob von Tschudi och make till Jenny Rossander. von Tschudi  lämnade 1847 sin befattning som kyrkoherde i Lichtensteig och ägnade sig därefter åt naturvetenskapliga studier. Han var i flera år medlem av kantonen Sankt Gallens regering och det schweiziska ständerrådet. von Tschudis mest bekanta arbete är Das Thierleben der Alpenwelt (1854; 11:e upplagan 1890; översatt till flera språk).

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Dr Felix Steffek
fs256@cam.ac.uk
LLM (Cambridge), PhD (Heidelberg), Habilitation (Hamburg)
University Lecturer; Co-Director of the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law (3CL); Deputy Director of the LLM
Areas: Commercial law. Company law. Insolvency law. Dispute Resolution. Technology and Law.
Methods: Doctrinal analysis. Comparison of laws. Economic analysis. Justice theory. Empirical Research.
Positions: University Lecturer, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Law, and Senior Member, Newnham College (since 2015). Senior Research Fellow (2007–2015) and Research Fellow (2006–2007), Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law. Research Fellow, Centre for European Economic Law, University of Bonn (2005–2006). Research Assistant, then Research Fellow, Institute for German and European Corporate and Commercial Law, University of Heidelberg (1998–2004).
Visiting positions: Visiting Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law (since 2015). Visiting Professor, Mykolas Romeris University (2017–2018). Research Associate and Max Planck Fellow, University of Oxford and St Catherine's College (2014–2015). Faculty Visitor, University of Cambridge (2013). Academic Visitor, University of Oxford (2012). Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College (2012). Visiting Researcher, Harvard Law School (2008).
Education: University of Hamburg: Habilitation (2009–2015). High Court Hamburg: Legal Clerkship, Second State Examination in Law (2006–2008). University of Heidelberg: PhD in Law (2004–2007). University of Cambridge: LLM (2002–2003). University of Ferrara: Erasmus (1999–2000). University of Heidelberg: studies in law and economics, First State Examination in Law, French Law Certificate (1997–2002). Educational scholarships and prizes: Corporate Governance Publication of the Year (2013). Gravenbrucher Kreis (3rd prize, 2012). Otto Hahn Medal (2009). Hachenburg Prize (2008). Cusanuswerk (1998–2006). Whytehead Scholar, St John's College (2003).
Grants (selection): DAAD Cambridge Research Hub (2018). Thyssen Foundation (2008, 2011–2013). German-British Jurists' Association (2009). Study Group Law and Economy (2007).
Visiting Professor and Guest Lecturer: Judge Business School (since 2016), Bucerius-Cambridge Exchange Coordinator (since 2015), University of Warsaw (since 2006), University of Vienna (2018), Mykolas Romeris University (2017–2018), University of Hamburg (2009–2014), Australian National University (2012), China-EU School of Law (2009–2010).
Expert positions: Innovate UK (2018), OECD: Senior Consultant (since 2017), Ministry of Justice, Germany (since 2017, 2010–2012, 2007–2008), European Parliament (2016), EU-Georgia Association Agreement (2016–2017), World Bank (2015–2016 ), EU Commission (2012), German Parliament (2009), Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany (2009).
Journals: Editorial Committee, Journal of Corporate Law Studies (since 2015). Editorial Board, Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies (since 2016). Editorial Board, Journal of Conflict Management (Zeitschrift für Konfliktmanagement, since 2017). Heidelberg Law Journal (StudRZ, since 2016). Editorial Board, International Comparative Jurisprudence (since 2015).
Memberships (selection): Review Panel, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (since 2017). Advisory Board, Rules for Growth (since 2017). Management Committee, Centre for European Legal Studies (since 2016). Council, British Association of Comparative Law (since 2016). Member, Society of Legal Scholars (since 2016). Academic Member, Insolvency Lawyers' Association (since 2015). Advisory Project Committee, European Law Institute (2016 – 2018). Expert Advisory Group, Security Rights and the European Insolvency Regulation (2014–2016). Member, European Law Institute (since 2014).
Complete list of publications
Complete list of presentations and papers
Presentations and papers list

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Trio Honored via Feodor Lynen Fellowship
Jonas Warneke received the Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship and will soon be travelling to the United States to work with researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Image copyright: University of Bremen
Sotiris Xantheas will serve as Warneke's host and mentor at Pacific Nortwest National Laboratory.
Julia Laskin will serve as Warneke's mentor at Pacific Nortwest National Laboratory.
Congratulations to Dr. Jonas Warneke from the University of Bremen, Germany, on receiving the Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship for his scientific contributions. The fellowship, supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, will provide for Warneke to spend 2 years at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. At the national lab, he will investigate how to control the positive and negative charges on catalytically active clusters after they are softly landed onto a surface. His work will offer new insights on the properties of the clusters, which could greatly benefit fundamental studies in energy storage and catalysis.
In his project, Warneke will combine theory with ion soft landing and other experimental techniques at PNNL and EMSL, a DOE user facility. He will work closely with his hosts and mentors: Dr. Sotiris Xantheas, a former Humboldt Fellow, and Dr. Julia Laskin.
Recipient of several honors from the Humboldt Foundation and elsewhere, Xantheas conducts theory-based work on the structure and energetics of aqueous clusters and the development of interaction potentials to study the macroscopic properties of water and ice. His early calculations on water clusters are still used as benchmarks for new theoretical methods and approaches.
Laskin is a leader in the field of ion soft landing and an internationally recognized expert for her work in chemical characterization. Her studies on ion collisions built a path for precise experimental control of ion deposition onto surfaces. She is known for her work on soft landing of mass-selected ions for preparing and studying novel materials, including catalytically active complexes, metal clusters, and biomolecules.
Warneke will arrive at the national lab in February 2016.


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namespace Drupal\views_ui\Tests;

use Drupal\Core\Url;
use Drupal\user\Entity\Role;
use Drupal\user\RoleInterface;

/**
 * Tests enabling, disabling, and reverting default views via the listing page.
 *
 * @group views_ui
 */
class DefaultViewsTest extends UITestBase {

  /**
   * Views used by this test.
   *
   * @var array
   */
  public static $testViews = ['test_view_status', 'test_page_display_menu', 'test_page_display_arguments'];

  protected function setUp() {
    parent::setUp();

    $this->drupalPlaceBlock('page_title_block');
  }

  /**
   * Tests default views.
   */
  public function testDefaultViews() {
    // Make sure the view starts off as disabled (does not appear on the listing
    // page).
    $edit_href = 'admin/structure/views/view/glossary';
    $this->drupalGet('admin/structure/views');
    // @todo Disabled default views do now appear on the front page. Test this
    // behavior with templates instead.
    // $this->assertNoLinkByHref($edit_href);

    // Enable the view, and make sure it is now visible on the main listing
    // page.
    $this->drupalGet('admin/structure/views');
    $this->clickViewsOperationLink(t('Enable'), '/glossary/');
    $this->assertUrl('admin/structure/views');
    $this->assertLinkByHref($edit_href);

    // It should not be possible to revert the view yet.
    // @todo Figure out how to handle this with the new configuration system.
    // $this->assertNoLink(t('Revert'));
    // $revert_href = 'admin/structure/views/view/glossary/revert';
    // $this->assertNoLinkByHref($revert_href);

    // Edit the view and change the title. Make sure that the new title is
    // displayed.
    $new_title = $this->randomMachineName(16);
    $edit = ['title' => $new_title];
    $this->drupalPostForm('admin/structure/views/nojs/display/glossary/page_1/title', $edit, t('Apply'));
    $this->drupalPostForm('admin/structure/views/view/glossary/edit/page_1', [], t('Save'));
    $this->drupalGet('glossary');
    $this->assertResponse(200);
    $this->assertText($new_title);

    // Save another view in the UI.
    $this->drupalPostForm('admin/structure/views/nojs/display/archive/page_1/title', [], t('Apply'));
    $this->drupalPostForm('admin/structure/views/view/archive/edit/page_1', [], t('Save'));

    // Check there is an enable link. i.e. The view has not been enabled after
    // editing.
    $this->drupalGet('admin/structure/views');
    $this->assertLinkByHref('admin/structure/views/view/archive/enable');
    // Enable it again so it can be tested for access permissions.
    $this->clickViewsOperationLink(t('Enable'), '/archive/');

    // It should now be possible to revert the view. Do that, and make sure the
    // view title we added above no longer is displayed.
    // $this->drupalGet('admin/structure/views');
    // $this->assertLink(t('Revert'));
    // $this->assertLinkByHref($revert_href);
    // $this->drupalPostForm($revert_href, array(), t('Revert'));
    // $this->drupalGet('glossary');
    // $this->assertNoText($new_title);

    // Duplicate the view and check that the normal schema of duplicated views is used.
    $this->drupalGet('admin/structure/views');
    $this->clickViewsOperationLink(t('Duplicate'), '/glossary');
    $edit = [
      'id' => 'duplicate_of_glossary',
    ];
    $this->assertTitle(t('Duplicate of @label | @site-name', ['@label' => 'Glossary', '@site-name' => $this->config('system.site')->get('name')]));
    $this->drupalPostForm(NULL, $edit, t('Duplicate'));
    $this->assertUrl('admin/structure/views/view/duplicate_of_glossary', [], 'The normal duplicating name schema is applied.');

    // Duplicate a view and set a custom name.
    $this->drupalGet('admin/structure/views');
    $this->clickViewsOperationLink(t('Duplicate'), '/glossary');
    $random_name = strtolower($this->randomMachineName());
    $this->drupalPostForm(NULL, ['id' => $random_name], t('Duplicate'));
    $this->assertUrl("admin/structure/views/view/$random_name", [], 'The custom view name got saved.');

    // Now disable the view, and make sure it stops appearing on the main view
    // listing page but instead goes back to displaying on the disabled views
    // listing page.
    // @todo Test this behavior with templates instead.
    $this->drupalGet('admin/structure/views');
    $this->clickViewsOperationLink(t('Disable'), '/glossary/');
    // $this->assertUrl('admin/structure/views');
    // $this->assertNoLinkByHref($edit_href);
    // The easiest way to verify it appears on the disabled views listing page
    // is to try to click the "enable" link from there again.
    $this->drupalGet('admin/structure/views');
    $this->clickViewsOperationLink(t('Enable'), '/glossary/');
    $this->assertUrl('admin/structure/views');
    $this->assertLinkByHref($edit_href);

    // Clear permissions for anonymous users to check access for default views.
    Role::load(RoleInterface::ANONYMOUS_ID)->revokePermission('access content')->save();

    // Test the default views disclose no data by default.
    $this->drupalLogout();
    $this->drupalGet('glossary');
    $this->assertResponse(403);
    $this->drupalGet('archive');
    $this->assertResponse(403);

    // Test deleting a view.
    $this->drupalLogin($this->fullAdminUser);
    $this->drupalGet('admin/structure/views');
    $this->clickViewsOperationLink(t('Delete'), '/glossary/');
    // Submit the confirmation form.
    $this->drupalPostForm(NULL, [], t('Delete'));
    // Ensure the view is no longer listed.
    $this->assertUrl('admin/structure/views');
    $this->assertNoLinkByHref($edit_href);
    // Ensure the view is no longer available.
    $this->drupalGet($edit_href);
    $this->assertResponse(404);
    $this->assertText('Page not found');

    // Delete all duplicated Glossary views.
    $this->drupalGet('admin/structure/views');
    $this->clickViewsOperationLink(t('Delete'), 'duplicate_of_glossary');
    // Submit the confirmation form.
    $this->drupalPostForm(NULL, [], t('Delete'));

    $this->drupalGet('glossary');
    $this->assertResponse(200);

    $this->drupalGet('admin/structure/views');
    $this->clickViewsOperationLink(t('Delete'), $random_name);
    // Submit the confirmation form.
    $this->drupalPostForm(NULL, [], t('Delete'));
    $this->drupalGet('glossary');
    $this->assertResponse(404);
    $this->assertText('Page not found');
  }

  /**
   * Tests that enabling views moves them to the correct table.
   */
  public function testSplitListing() {
    // Build a re-usable xpath query.
    $xpath = '//div[@id="views-entity-list"]/div[@class = :status]/table//td/text()[contains(., :title)]';

    $arguments = [
      ':status' => 'views-list-section enabled',
      ':title' => 'test_view_status',
    ];

    $this->drupalGet('admin/structure/views');

    $elements = $this->xpath($xpath, $arguments);
    $this->assertIdentical(count($elements), 0, 'A disabled view is not found in the enabled views table.');

    $arguments[':status'] = 'views-list-section disabled';
    $elements = $this->xpath($xpath, $arguments);
    $this->assertIdentical(count($elements), 1, 'A disabled view is found in the disabled views table.');

    // Enable the view.
    $this->clickViewsOperationLink(t('Enable'), '/test_view_status/');

    $elements = $this->xpath($xpath, $arguments);
    $this->assertIdentical(count($elements), 0, 'After enabling a view, it is not found in the disabled views table.');

    $arguments[':status'] = 'views-list-section enabled';
    $elements = $this->xpath($xpath, $arguments);
    $this->assertIdentical(count($elements), 1, 'After enabling a view, it is found in the enabled views table.');

    // Attempt to disable the view by path directly, with no token.
    $this->drupalGet('admin/structure/views/view/test_view_status/disable');
    $this->assertResponse(403);
  }

  /**
   * Tests that page displays show the correct path.
   */
  public function testPathDestination() {
    $this->drupalGet('admin/structure/views');

    // Check that links to views on default tabs are rendered correctly.
    $this->assertLinkByHref('test_page_display_menu');
    $this->assertNoLinkByHref('test_page_display_menu/default');
    $this->assertLinkByHref('test_page_display_menu/local');

    // Check that a dynamic path is shown as text.
    $this->assertRaw('test_route_with_suffix/%/suffix');
    $this->assertNoLinkByHref(Url::fromUri('base:test_route_with_suffix/%/suffix')->toString());
  }

  /**
   * Click a link to perform an operation on a view.
   *
   * In general, we expect lots of links titled "enable" or "disable" on the
   * various views listing pages, and they might have tokens in them. So we
   * need special code to find the correct one to click.
   *
   * @param $label
   *   Text between the anchor tags of the desired link.
   * @param $unique_href_part
   *   A unique string that is expected to occur within the href of the desired
   *   link. For example, if the link URL is expected to look like
   *   "admin/structure/views/view/glossary/*", then "/glossary/" could be
   *   passed as the expected unique string.
   *
   * @return
   *   The page content that results from clicking on the link, or FALSE on
   *   failure. Failure also results in a failed assertion.
   */
  public function clickViewsOperationLink($label, $unique_href_part) {
    $links = $this->xpath('//a[normalize-space(text())=:label]', [':label' => $label]);
    foreach ($links as $link_index => $link) {
      $position = strpos($link['href'], $unique_href_part);
      if ($position !== FALSE) {
        $index = $link_index;
        break;
      }
    }
    $this->assertTrue(isset($index), format_string('Link to "@label" containing @part found.', ['@label' => $label, '@part' => $unique_href_part]));
    if (isset($index)) {
      return $this->clickLink($label, $index);
    }
    else {
      return FALSE;
    }
  }

}

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BARNSTABLE, Mass. /Massachusetts Newswire/ — As part of the Wildlife on Tap lecture series, Dr. Michael Moore, director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's Marine Mammal Center and a recognized international expert on whales, will discuss "How We All Kill Whales," Wednesday, January 21, 2015 from 6-8 p.m.
The event will take place at Cape Cod Beer, 1336 Phinney's Lane, Hyannis. A donation of $10 per person in advance or $12.50 at the door will include admission and snacks. All proceeds will help Cape Wildlife Center care for about 2,000 patients in 2015. The brewery's award-winning beer will be available for purchase.
Moore's presentation is the first in a series of four lectures presented as part of Cape Wildlife Center's 2015 Wildlife on Tap lecture series. The monthly lectures, each of which will present an expert discussing an intriguing ocean animal.
Moore, a veterinarian who also holds a Ph.D. from WHOI and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, contends that although Western media tend to dwell on commercial whaling by Japan, Norway and Iceland, there is relative silence regarding how the shipping and fishing industries of many, if not all, maritime countries are also catching and sometimes killing whales, albeit unintentionally. Moore will discuss the development and increase in fishing and shipping in continental shelf waters and its impact on whale populations.
Based at WHOI since 1986, Moore's research encompasses the forensic analysis of marine mammal mortalities, especially in regard to the accurate diagnosis of perceived human impacts and the prevalence of zoonotic agents, the interaction of natural and man-made impacts on fish and marine mammal stocks, development of systems to enhance medical intervention with large whales, and the pathophysiology of marine mammal diving. Moore works closely with the Right Whale Consortium, provides veterinary support to the Marine Mammal Rescue and Research Division of the International Fund for Animal Welfare and is also involved with wildlife conservation in the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia.
April 15 – Simon Thorrold, Senior Scientist, Biology – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, discussing sharks.
The Cape Wildlife Center promotes and protects the health and well-being of native wildlife and their habitats, which are integral parts of the Cape Cod community.
Since 2000, the center has been open 365 days a year, providing emergency care and wildlife rehabilitation. A full-time veterinarian, licensed wildlife rehabilitators, and volunteers and student externs work around the clock to heal and restore wildlife for eventual release back into the wild. Rescuers can bring injured, ill, or orphaned wildlife to our Barnstable, Mass., facility.


All organizations set benchmarks to track their progress in reaching their business goals. Measuring the performance of your safety program should be no different.
So, how can EHS managers gauge your company's safety performance? Start by carefully considering your safety objectives. What problems are you looking to solve? What areas of your safety program need improvement?
Answering these questions will help you to identify the right leading and lagging indicators to track. These indicators reveal important insights into the overall health of your safety management system.
So, what's a lagging indicator?
Lagging indicators are key performance indicators (KPIs) that look at past statistics. By definition, they're reactive, not proactive. They can be used to get an understanding of how many incidents took place at your organization, and how severe the injuries or illnesses were.
What are some examples of lagging indicators?
The number or location of OSHA recordable incidents; incident rates, including Total Case Incident Rate (TCIR), Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred (DART) Rate, and Lost Time Incident Rates (LTIR); are all examples of lagging indicators.
While it's necessary to track lagging indicators, unfortunately, they provide little direction or insight into the behaviors and conditions that precede incidents. That's why they should not be the only metrics that you examine. Lagging indicators are most useful when they are reviewed together with leading indicators.
Unlike lagging indicators, leading indicators are predictive metrics that focus on continuous improvement.
According to Jonathan Thomas, director of safety management solutions for the National Safety Council (NSC), leading indicators measure safety events or behaviors that occur before an incident.
These metrics can give safety professionals advanced warning of potential problems so that preventive steps can be taken.
Measure the positive: what people are doing versus failing to do.
Improve or influence constructive problem-solving.
What are some examples of leading indicators?
The root causes of near misses, the percent of inspections or behavior based safety observations completed at a location, and training attendance and pass rates are all examples of leading indicators.


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Miami is a vacationer's paradise with its beautiful beaches, myriad of outdoor activities and sizzling nightlife. Yet, the city is situated in the center of a giant swamp making it a Garden of Eden for snakes and other overgrown reptiles - many not native to the area. Snakes are everywhere, and the potential for a snake to strike is at an all-time high. One hundred percent of backyards in Miami and throughout South Florida have snakes; you just can't always see them. Not to mention, dangerous alligators, aggressive iguanas and Africanized bees.


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Trial set for woman accused of fatal Sioux City stabbing
SIOUX CITY -- A Dakota City woman charged with fatally stabbing another woman is now scheduled to stand trial for murder in April.
District Judge Jeffrey Poulson on Thursday set Melissa Camargo-Flores' trial for April 2 in Woodbury County District Court.
Camargo-Flores' trial was previously scheduled to begin Tuesday, but it was continued earlier this month after attorneys notified the court that more time was needed to prepare for trial. It was the third time the trial was continued.
Camargo-Flores, 21, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder for the April 8 stabbing of Kenia Alvarez-Flores outside her home in the 1200 block of West 14th Street in Sioux City.
Police have said that Camargo-Flores waited for Alvarez-Flores, 24, outside her home before stabbing her multiple times. Witnesses provided police a description of Camargo-Flores' vehicle, and police spotted and arrested her soon after the incident. Officers found bloody gloves and a bloody knife inside the car.
According to court documents, Camargo-Flores admitted to stabbing Alvarez-Flores and told authorities she had been involved in a relationship with the victim's boyfriend.
If found guilty as charged, she would face a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole.
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Murder trial for Dakota City woman moved to March
SIOUX CITY -- The trial for a Dakota City woman charged with fatally stabbing another woman will not take place this month as scheduled.
Suspect in Sioux City stabbing pleads not guilty to murder
SIOUX CITY -- A Dakota City woman charged with fatally stabbing another woman in Sioux City pleaded not guilty Monday to first-degree murder.
Victim identified in Sunday stabbing in Sioux City's west side
SIOUX CITY -- Police have released the name of the woman who was fatally stabbed Sunday morning on Sioux City's west side.
Teen sentenced to 10 years prison for Sioux City stabbing
SIOUX CITY -- A Sioux City man who stabbed another man several times has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Sioux City murder trial continued to October
SIOUX CITY -- A Dakota City woman charged with fatally stabbing another woman is now scheduled to stand trial for murder this fall.
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Will the $120 billion in infrastructure spending help our construction industry?
Canada's construction industry: Towards a brighter future?
Canada's construction industry has noted a weak performance in the past few years. However, with the $120 billion investment in public infrastructure announced by the new Liberal federal government in its first budget (Chapter 2 – Growth for the Middle Class)1 and the improvements in investor confidence, the sector's future might appear a little brighter.
A few weeks ago, the most recent Canadian Construction Market Survey from the RICS2 informed us that more than 60% of Canadian construction professionals expect growth in the industry. In fact, they seem encouraged by the Liberal government's first budget. Moreover, the Canadian Construction Association (CCA) also welcomed the budget, saying that it would accelerate the modernization of our infrastructure and increase the number of commercial projects.
Improvements in consumer and investor confidence (Trimetric's Construction in Canada – Key trends and Opportunities to 2020 report).
With the Affordable Housing Initiative (AHI) program contributing to increase the supply of off-reserve affordable housing3and the New Building Canada Plan (NBCP) supporting projects that enhance economic growth and job creation in the construction industry4, the federal government wants to ensure that the sector will be growing increasingly in the next coming years.
The growing population and urbanization could also significantly boost the construction industry. According to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)5, Canada's population is expected to reach 37.6 million in 2020 and 40.4 million in 2030. Therefore, with the government investments and efforts to provide affordable housing to lower classes through the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), residential construction is expected to become more significant in the industry.
Still fragile economic conditions (even though the conditions are improving).
Overall, the construction industry's output value in Canada is expected to rise from US$289 billion in 2015 to US$321 billion in 20206, according to the Construction Intelligence Center (CIC). The construction market growth could possibly be tempered by the factors mentioned above, however the government investment in public infrastructure will certainly assist the industry. The infrastructure will continue to be modernized and developed even with the current insecure economic environment. Construction projects such as university campuses, schools and courthouses are not directly impacted by the energy downturn. The major public investment will therefore contribute to counter the negative impacts of the fragile economic conditions.
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European Journal of Mineralogy (2011) 23 (5): 817-828.
Detailed examination of hand samples and backscatter electron images of Nb-,Ta-,Sn-oxide minerals from the Black Mountain pegmatite has revealed the presence of discrete crystals, as well as cassiterite-hosted micrograins of columbite-group minerals (CGM). Micrograins and discrete grains of CGM show a wide range of Mn/(Mn + Fe) values, but only the micrograins have limited Ta/(Ta + Nb) values. Trace amounts of Ti, Sc, Fe3+ and Sn are common in both generations of CGM, but their total rarely exceeds 1.0 oxide wt%. The chemistry of the host cassiterite is relatively homogeneous and pure; the total concentration of FeO, MnO, Nb2O5, Ta2O5 and TiO2 rarely exceeds 2.0 wt%.
While discrete CGM grains show weak progressive zonation and minor replacement, micrograins display complex oscillatory zonation, resorption and/or replacement textures. Textural evidence suggests that the micrograins crystallized after the formation of discrete grains of columbite and cassiterite. On the whole, both discrete crystals and micrograins of CGM show increasing Mn/(Mn + Fe) with fractionation as commonly observed in F-enriched granitic pegmatites. Micrograins of CGM typically show higher Ta/(Ta + Nb) values compared to their discrete crystal counterparts. Textural characteristics of CGM micrograins are inconsistent with an origin by exsolution, and instead, indicate primary precipitation.
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The Marijuana Czar of Colorado
Outside of work, Andrew Freedman tries not to tell anyone about his job. Not because it's a top-secret government position; yes, it's a government job, but probably one you never knew existed.
His official, jargon-y title is director of marijuana coordination for Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado—a title that didn't exist before he got the job in February 2014. But he may be better known as his unofficial, colloquial title: marijuana czar.
"[Telling people what I do] has ruined almost every dinner conversation I've had," Freedman says. "Sometimes I get caught up in a pro- or anti-legalization debate, so I've witnessed everything from admiration to anger."
Colorado made history when it became the first U.S. state to legalize the recreational use and sale of marijuana in 2014, but Freedman steers clear of advocating for or against legalization. Here's how he got the job, the challenges he faces, and why half-baked ideas (sorry, had to) for getting rich quick off Colorado's pot market don't usually pan out.
The otherwise nondescript office where Freedman (left) works has some old prohibition posters hanging, to remind them of where they are historically.
Based in: Denver, Colorado
Graduated from: Majored in political science and philosophy at Tufts; Harvard Law School
Got the job: In February 2014
Previous jobs: After law school, while waiting for my law firm job to start in D.C., I interned for then-mayor Hickenlooper's gubernatorial campaign. A few days before the election, the lieutenant governor asked me to stay on as his chief of staff. A few years later, I left to run an education tax increase initiative. When that campaign lost, I was looking to become a lawyer, but I was tapped by the governor and his chief of staff for this job.
What was the interview for the job like? They needed to know very little about my stance on the legalization of marijuana. It was more about how I thought of big government and whether I would be able to handle complex regulatory and legal challenges. It's a massive communications job and a massive budgetary job.
That's a lot less exciting than I wanted your answer to be. The title is a little hard to wrap your mind around; it sounds very government-y. The first time I did a TV interview, it was very important to people [in government] that I was called the director of marijuana coordination, not "marijuana czar." I was trying to be very serious about it. Before the interview started, a local news anchor came up and said, "you're the pot czar, huh?" They included that B-roll of me in their clip, and from that point on, I've been the marijuana czar.
Why is your job necessary? Like 10 different departments all had major issues [related to marijuana] and no one knew who was answering those issues. No one knew what to elevate, and marijuana is a big issue for us—so if we don't solve it, we won't hit our mission. I help wrangle all that.
What kinds of issues? We work very hard to apply the lessons from alcohol and prescription drugs. Edibles is a good example; they have to be in childhood resealable packaging, and the gummies can't look like cartoon characters or bears. Soon, each one will have to be stamped with a universal symbol, so even outside of the package, they can be identified as marijuana edibles. We're really focused on keeping marijuana out of kids' hands.
There's an ongoing national debate about legalization. Does that make your job harder? Marijuana typically is not handled with unbiased gloves when it comes to data. We're looking forward to going out into the midst of people for and against [legalization], the people who are screaming at each other, and telling them how to read the data from an unbiased point of view. Outside of this administration, it's something you have to be aware of constantly; my mission isn't to spread or stop legalization. My focus is public safety and public health.
Best part of your job: Being one of the first people to try to tackle a totally new problem is a very rare thing to find yourself in within state government.
Does that let you avoid some of the red tape and frustration that are typically tied to government jobs? It's freeing in a lot of ways. In so many areas of government, when you have an idea, it's not the first time someone has had that idea—and there's probably already a lobbying group that loves or hates that idea and has figured out how to put several millions of dollars behind it. With my job, that hasn't happened yet. It's too dynamic; there are no institutions in place yet.
Most challenging part of your job: In a lot of ways, we're treated as a chess piece for the rest of the world, or at least the rest of the nation. Everyone has their biases and wants to get to conclusions now. Rather than going ahead with what's in Colorado's best interest, people are trying to pull you in one direction or another to influence the national dialogue about marijuana.
What can other states learn from Colorado? These debates are much more complicated than "should we or shouldn't we?" We need to think about the "how."
Photo: Flickr, Oksana Happy
What would people be surprised to learn about your job? I work in what's been described as a bunker-like office on the basement floor of a building that I think the WPA [Works Progress Administration] helped build in the Depression era. People expect to walk into much nicer digs, but it's a humble life here in marijuana-ville. It's kind of an old-timey Peter Parker newsroom setup. We do have windows, though mine looks out on an A/C unit. There is fluorescent lighting with government-colored walls.
That seems like a missed decorating opportunity. We bought our own posters, on private dollar, to remind us where we are historically. There are some old prohibition posters that show liquor being poured down the drain; a "closed for prohibition" sign; a political cartoon about medical alcohol; a "grow hemp for the war" sign.
Lots of entrepreneurs are hoping to make big money off Colorado's weed market. What have you noticed about the successful ones? Those who viewed the market like they'd view a widget market, not making assumptions about how easy it would be, have done a lot better. I'm talking about the people who say, "I have a product that works here and here, and it'll work in Colorado, too." Those who were just excited because it's marijuana and thought there was a gold rush here ultimately didn't do nearly as well.
Inside the regulated market, every plant is tagged with a RFID tag—a little radio tag—from seed to sale. You have to videotape every square inch of what you grow and where you sell it, which we can view anytime. If you say that you lost 20 plants to a fire, we need to see video of that fire.
A sample tag that can be scanned by radio-frequency identification devices, which lets officials track cannabis plants and products. Photo: Flickr, aceserve2001
When you meet someone new, outside government walls, how do you describe your job? I try not to tell anybody because it's ruined almost every dinner conversation I've had since February 2014. It's surprising how many people understand exactly where Colorado is with legalization; they're interested in everything from banking to edibles. Sometimes I get caught up in a pro- or anti-legalization debate, so I've witnessed everything from admiration to anger.
What about people within government, who might be surprised your job title exists? I let the shock value wear off. During one cabinet meeting with a new member, we went around the table and said what we did. When I gave my job title, the whole cabinet laughed. Later, that new member asked me what I really did. Everyone has to go through their own giggling—then we get onto business from there.
Dream job growing up: I've always been a big West Wing fan, so I'll have to say chief of staff to the president.
Salary range: $100,000 to $120,000.
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All images courtesy of Andrew Freedman, unless noted otherwise.
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Germany host the NFL for the first time on Sunday, with Tom Brady's Tampa Bay Buccaneers taking on the Seattle Seahawks – live on Sky Sports!
The NFL took another step in its global adventures this week by landing in Germany ahead of Sunday's historic game in Munich between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Seattle Seahawks.
Having successfully established itself as a permanent fixture in the UK sporting landscape, the league is now turning its attention to the NFL's largest fanbase in Europe by hosting a regular season opener in Germany.
Such was the vast interest the league claimed to have received three million ticket requests after a snap sale earlier this year.
The love for the sport stems strongly from Germany hosting five pre-season games between 1990 and 1994, as well as being represented by the Hamburg Sea Devils, Fire, Berlin Thunder, Cologne Centurions and Galaxy in the former World Football League/NFL Europe/NFL. Europa at different stages between 1991 and 2007.
Former New England Patriots Super Bowl-winning offensive tackle Sebastian Vollmer, born in the German town of Kaarst, said Sunday's game had been in the works for more than a decade.
Highlights of the Los Angeles Rams vs Tampa Bay Buccaneers from Week 9 of the NFL season
"In my wildest dreams maybe (I believed it would be possible) I remember being drafted by the Patriots in 2009 and I was talking to Mr. Kraft, he came up to me and said 'L Germany is really interesting, I think we are going to play there soon," Vollmer said. sky sports.
"Obviously it took another 13 years or so but it just showed the vision he and other owners had for the continent and obviously this country, we played in London and saw how successful it was, but it looks like Germany is and was the natural next step into what will truly become a global sport.Every day it gets more and more exciting here.
"We have seen in the last six or seven years a growth of 20%, it is thanks to television and the Internet, most fans have not seen a match live in their country. Sporting events in live in a stadium are a different feeling.
"The NFL has made it clear, it's not unique to us, we want to be part of the community and fit into that way of life."
It is the first game in a deal that will see Munich and Frankfurt host two each over the next four seasons after the pair secured the rights before Düsseldorf after the league narrowed its search for a host partner to three finalist cities.
Tom Brady became the first player in NFL history to reach 100,000 career yards in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers game against the Los Angeles Rams.
The Bucs were one of four teams granted marketing rights in Germany under the International Home Marketing Area initiative alongside the Carolina Panthers, New England Patriots and Kansas City Chiefs .
"It means a lot, I wish I could have played in my home country. It feels like a final, it's just a next step, but it's been a long road for a lot of people," added Vollmer.
"It's the part of giving back, a lot of Germans have supported the league from abroad, now they can actually see their stars.
"It's exciting, emotional, yesterday I met a fan and I walk up to her and she started crying, absolutely emotional about football and it's like 'wow'.
"Without them (the fans) it wouldn't be possible, would it? It's a huge step forward for the league, a huge business, a huge business, the biggest sports league in the world saying 'We're going to pack our bags and come over here'.
"It's a big thank you to the fans who 'without you this wouldn't be possible'."
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NFL commissioner Roger Goodell admits establishing a base in Germany is one of his long-term ambitions, with more to come when it comes to the league's international operations.
"We have a long history here, we played in 1990 after the wall came down in Berlin with an American Bowl Series, then we had the World League and NFL Europe," Goodell told Sky Sports. "It's the first regular season game in Germany, I think it's spectacular, this market deserves it.
"The league is in a perfect place for that, we have long-term media deals, we have stability, we really believe going international is a very important opportunity for us.
"I think there's going to be a renewed effort, a renewed focus on this to make our game a truly global game.
"I'll probably think about this story, how far we've come since 1990, it was kind of one of my favorite projects.
"I wasn't sure that ball was going to get thrown, but now to see it kick off in a regular season game, I just think it just shows how far we've come and the potential where we want to go."
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The teams come in with contrasting narratives from those projected when the Seahawks and Bucs were first announced as the opener against Germany.
Backup quarterback-turned-MVP Geno Smith leads a surging Seattle team in the post-Russell Wilson era, while Tom Brady, his lame offense, and the Bucs come in looking to keep their season alive.
For Smith, Germany awaits as another welcome addition to a career year for the veteran.
"I'm extremely excited, I can't wait to be there," he said. "It's my first time playing in an international game, so it's going to be fun. Our guys are here to have fun. We're trying to see what Munich is like.
"I think everyone in our squad was excited, coach included. It's definitely not a nuisance. Anytime you get to represent your country internationally, that's a great thing. I compare that to be on US Olympic basketball or something.
"You go abroad and you practice your sport, but you also represent your country and also bring new fans to this sport. I know there are a large number of fans here, and we are looking forward to organizing a show for those guys.
"The more fans we can bring, the more we can go out there and be advocates for the United States and our sport of American football so maybe more kids in Germany or people in Germany will watch and want to play. , Its very important ."
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers (4-5) take on the Seattle Seahawks (6-3) in the first NFL International Series game to be played in Germany – watch live on Sky Sports NFL from 1:30 p.m. Sunday with kick off at 2:30 p.m.
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Lawsuit: Baby dies because of a ransomware attack on a hospital
By: Admin|Published on: Oct 1, 2021|Categories: Uncategorized|
The suit claims that a cyberattack resulted in a baby's death due to medical staff being cut off from the equipment that monitors fetal heartbeats
The lawsuit states the plaintiff, Teiranni Kidd, is suing Springhill Memorial Hospital for the death of her baby nine months after delivering her during a cyberattack that disabled computers on every floor and cut off medical staff from the equipment that monitors fetal heartbeats in the 12 delivery rooms. The Wall Street Journal report claims that the hospital did not inform Kidd that the computers had been shut down by hackers, ultimately giving her baby diminished care.
Kidd's daughter, Nicko Silar, was born with complications due to the umbilical cord being wrapped around her neck. She was diagnosed with severe brain damage and ultimately died nine months later. During the attack, Kidd argues fewer eyes were on the heart monitors. The Wall Street Journal reports that attending obstetrician Katelyn Parnell texted the nurse manager that she would have delivered the baby by cesarean section had she seen the monitor readout. "I need u to help me understand why I was not notified." In another text, Dr. Parnell wrote: "This was preventable."
This news comes in the wake of high cybercrime rates that have only accelerated since the pandemic. Healthcare facilities are at high risk for cyberattacks due to the life-or-death nature in which they exist. Springhill declined to name the hackers, but Allan Liska, a senior intelligence analyst at Recorded Future, said it was likely a Ryuk attack. The Wall Street Journal reported in June that Ryuk had hit 235 facilities, raking in more than $100 million since 2018. "The threat of a ransomware attack on healthcare organizations has never been more real, and the sophistication of bad actors and their attacks have grown tremendously over the last year," said Thomas Lewis, Co-Founder of CyberMaxx.
"This is very sad news," said CyberMaxx CEO Jason Riddle. "In our response to ransomware attacks, it's not uncommon to see medical devices, like fetal heart monitors, disabled by the attacks. We've also been told by the victims that they had to turn away chemotherapy patients for treatment because those systems were disabled as a result."
While the hospital denies any wrongdoing, the case will mark the first confirmed U.S. death related to a ransomware attack if proven in court.
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Q: Virtual box on 64 bit windows operating system I installed virtual box on my 64 bit windows 7 operating system. Now i am planning to install redhat 64 bit on my virtual box , however my virtual box is not listing any 64 bit operating systems during the setup.

A: From VirtualBox manual:

VirtualBox supports 64-bit guest operating systems, even on 32-bit host operating systems, provided that the following conditions are met:

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*You need a 64-bit processor with hardware virtualization support (see Section 10.3, "Hardware vs. software virtualization").

*You must enable hardware virtualization for the particular VM for which you want 64-bit support; software virtualization is not supported for 64-bit VMs.

*If you want to use 64-bit guest support on a 32-bit host operating system, you must also select a 64-bit operating system for the particular VM. Since supporting 64 bits on 32-bit hosts incurs additional overhead, VirtualBox only enables this support upon explicit request.

Check if you have hardware virtualization enabled in BIOS/UEFI.


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Late Night With Jan Harayda — America's Most Famous French Bookstore, the Librairie de France, Will Close in 2009
Filed under: Late Night With Jan Harayda,News — 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom @ 11:11 pm
Tags: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Books, Bookstores, France, Francophone, French Culture, Librairies, Livres, New York, The Little Prince
America's most famous French bookstore will close in 2009. The Librairie de France in Rockefeller Center apparently has fallen victim to rising rents, online book sales and a declining interest in foreign languages.
The New York Times reported last year that the bookstore would shut its doors, but I missed the article and learned of the closing during a recent visit to the shop. A staff member was handing out flyers that said that its lease expires in September 2009:
"Because of overwhelming New York City retail rents, especially on Fifth Avenue – almost $1,800 a square foot, and projected even higher in 2009 – we will have to close our store at that time. Our mail order services, however, will continue from a yet-to-be-determined location."
Alex Mindlin's article in the Times noted that, in its prime, the Librairie was an institution. The bookstore was one of the first retail tenants of Rockefeller Center in 1935:
"During World War II, its publishing arm printed the works of many writers who had emigrated from Vichy France, including Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The shop thrived throughout the 1960s, importing two tons of books a week and holding autograph sessions for French celebrities like the singer Charles Aznavour." www.nytimes.com/2007/07/15/nyregion/thecity/15fren.html
The Librairie de France operates today on two floors on the Promenade at Rockefeller Center: a ground-level space that sells souvenirs and other items popular with tourists, such as Tricolor keychains, "Little Prince" dolls and French translations of Goodnight Moon and the Harry Potter novels. An underground room below it sells antique and rare books and prints. A mail-order catalog appears on its Web site www.frencheuropean.com.


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Violet Marie: 13 Stories of Trisomy 13
By Devany | Labels:
And finally, on Trisomy 13 Awareness Day 2014, I share details about our time with our Violet Marie once again. Thank you so much for your love, support, and comments during this series. It has been so healing to all of us to share our babies with you!
Who do you share your life with?
Our immediate family includes Mr. SPS, myself, E (age 4), D (age 1) and Violet.
Can you introduce us to your baby? What would you most want us to know about her?
What can I tell you about Violet Marie that I haven't shared yet already? The most important thing is that she was and still is so very loved. Every single second of every day she is loved and missed with a physical fierceness that drives me to do more in her honor.
Can you tell a bit about how you learned she had Trisomy 13?
At our 20 week ultrasound several markers for a chromosome abnormality were detected. The following week we had our amniocentesis and soon after a fatal prenatal diagnosis of Trisomy 13.
What was her birth like?
Violet was born via c-section just like E and later D. I am so thankful now that E was an emergency c-section because I was able to convince the doctors to deliver Violet the same way as many Trisomy 13 babies die during labor.
Her delivery was calm. I'll never forget her first cry. Like many other mothers in the 13 Babies with Trisomy 13 series said of their babies, she sounded like a tiny kitten mewing. It was the best sound I've ever heard.
How long did your baby live?
She lived exactly 2.5 days which is the average life span of a baby with Trisomy 13. She was born at 9:04 am on Wednesday and died at 7:30 pm on Friday.
How was your time with her?
It was amazing and exhausting and silly and peaceful and healing and inspiring and mostly calm.
What choices did you make for your baby while she was alive regarding medical intervention?
We chose comfort care only. We had oxygen and pain medication available if needed but didn't have to use it.
What did you choose after her death for memorials?
We had already been grieving and making decisions for Violet for several months by the time she was born. The thought of then planning a service for her overwhelmed me. Our family and friends found other ways to honor and remember her and the most thoughtful ones still do!
Violet was cremated and I felt even more healing and peace once her remains were returned to us and our home. We scattered some of her ashes into the ocean but plan to keep most of them here with us forever.
What supports did you have in helping you make these choices?
My husband and I were fortunately always on the same page in making decisions for Violet. If I ever doubted anything, he would talk me through it and I would hear through his words what was true in my heart.
We had the support and advice of our family and friends, our hospital's palliative care team, and other bereaved parents who had lost a child before us.
How long has it been since you held your sweet baby?
Two years, four months, and nine days. My arms ache for her every day.
Where are you in your grief journey today?
I am inspired.
That doesn't mean I don't still have bad days that knock me flat again, but I'm mostly in a place where the pain drives me to do more, write more, share more, love on E & D more.
So much has changed since my baby died. I'm a different person but I like the new me. Violet and the love and pain that came from having and losing her has changed me for the better.
The song "For Good" from Wicked comes to mind:
"It well may be
That we will never meet again
In this lifetime
So let me say before we part
So much of me
Is made of what I learned from you
You'll be with me
Like a handprint on my heart
And now whatever way our stories end
I know you have re-written mine"
What advice would you give to other bereaved parents?
I think the overwhelming consensus in this series from our Trisomy 13 grieving mommas has been a resounding and collective shout of, "Do what you need to do in the time you need to do it and don't question it!"
I also urge you to seek out others like you. Those who came before, those who lose their children after, all will heal you as you heal them at the same time.
Lastly, say your child's name, keep their memory alive, and don't apologize for it. Others will take their cues from you.
Is there anything else you'd like to add?
From the bottom of my broken heart thank you for reading our story and the twelve others. To the other Trisomy 13 families who shared their babies, their love, their grief, and their photos, thank you. All of your babies have a special place in my heart!
I loved reading about all 13 babies and their families <3 All loved, all beautiful and all not forgotten <3
Dyan Robson March 13, 2014 at 4:59 PM
Love you, Devany! So proud of you for carrying on Violet's legacy.
Em March 14, 2014 at 5:20 PM
Thanks for this series and thank you for being so open with violet. Love that kid.


Using cloth diapers on your child can be a heck of a lot of work. So is learning elimination communication, but by using infant potty training while they're young, babies can go diaper-free much earlier than you think.
Babies will go through as many clean diapers each day as you have (it seems like it, anyway), so the washing machine gets a good workout, and there's always a load to be hung on the line to dry. But using disposable diapers costs quite a bit, and the waste involved is tremendous.
To our way of thinking, getting kids out of diapers as soon as possible is the best answer, and the fastest way to do that is to begin potty training them at a very early age – as in when they're still infants.
Elimination Communication, or infant potty training, is something so intuitive and natural in our house that it's hard to remember that many parents don't know about it. It's the method that most cultures use that don't have access to disposables or washing machines.
It takes an investment of time in the beginning to start the process of elimination communication, but for those of us who are practicing attachment parenting, our children are almost always with us anyway, so it's not a stretch for us to also begin using this method to make toilet training much more natural and easy than waiting until the child is "old enough".
An infant goes to the bathroom on a pretty regular schedule (about every 15 minutes is the norm for ours), and there are times when they don't go to the bathroom, such as when sleeping or when actively nursing. When a baby first wakes up, there's a window of time when they'll need to pee, so that's a great time to start with them. Another is when they pull off of the boobie while nursing. When that happens, you can pretty much count on a pee from them.
We use a quart sized yogurt container to hold under the baby, and hold their legs up in a squat – the potty position – while making a noise that they will associate with going to the bathroom. Our noise was "psss psss psss", which we made every time we held them over the container. That's our verbal half of the elimination communication, but the infant also learns to communicate to us when they gotta go.
We started elimination communication with our second daughter when she was an infant, and she was pretty much done with diapers by age 1 and a half. When she was old enough to want to go by herself, I built her a potty chair out of scrap wood, which I scrounged from a cabinet shop. There is a removable container (a large yogurt tub) underneath, and it fits nicely in the truck and tent for traveling.
When we went on a 5 week camping trip a couple of years ago, not having to wash diapers in a bucket every day was such a blessing. As she got older, she would go into the bathroom and say "me need space", and sit down and do her business "all by myself".
It's so completely awesome to be free of diaper duty, and kids who can control their bladder and bowels can learn to go in the great outdoors pretty easily. I know from experience that having kids who can and will use the bathroom outside (as opposed to only while sitting on a toilet) are much easier to take hiking, camping, and on road trips. Having to find a modern bathroom with a flush toilet and a door before your kid can go to the toilet is a major drag.
I personally prefer peeing outside. I don't think I could put it into words, and it seems silly to even say it, but it's true. Because we used a composting toilet for 5 1/2 years, I feel like I have a greater appreciation for bodily waste, and it doesn't gross me out.
There are some who will tell you that people shouldn't just go the bathroom any old place, but those same people will also let their dog poop just about anywhere and spray urine all over the neighborhood. I don't see the big deal about humans voiding their bladders outside (and I'm not saying you should just leave a log lying on the lawn, so don't even go there).
Very sensible thoughts. We used infant potty training with our third boy and enjoyed it very much, were delighted to start and finish sooner than we had with traditional delayed toilet learning. And now I'm using it with my first grandchild.
You are the second person I've known of to do this with their kids. It seems rather Pavlovian, and that's not a bad thing. It's just a matter of training your kid. It certainly would save money on diapers (we spent a small fortune), but I'd be scared to try it for fear of getting it wrong and having messes all over the place. But, like you say, cultures that do practice it have interwoven it into their lives so it would just be an adjustment for us, nothing more. Educational, thanks.
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So where were you, with this great advice, when it took 2 and a half years to potty train my little one? Thanks so much I will twitter this too!
Cool concept. I was unaware of this method of training when my kids were infants. So, for those whose children are already walking, the thing that worked best for me was to just let them be naked… they feel the urge, see the result, make the connection & voila… no more diapers. There were a few clean-ups on aisle 3, but I always did it in the summer when we spent a lot of time outdoors & it worked like a charm for each of my 4!!
Charndra from Part Time Diaper Free!
I'm a big fan of potty training before 2. I find when children hit the age of 2 and higher they are much more likely to face serious regression and can make things much, much more difficult.
good advice however Learning to do the right thing by means of motivation and reward is the most effective way to potty train boys. When children associate a certain behaviour with a reward they tend to want to repeat the act more often. A good way to practice the reward system is by giving your child a reward like a favorite toy or a treat when he actually uses the potty. If your child resists or has an accident, it is best to give positive reinforcement to them rather than getting angry. Positive reinforcement is a great way to motivate children.
We've never needed any rewards to potty train our son, who has been out of diapers since before he was two years old. We're also very careful to never set our kids up with expectations of specific rewards for behavior, as that can backfire on you.
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ever since I first heard of it I have been very exited to try it. It just seams natural to us. My little one is not born yet and I have discussed this with the father and we both think that we will have nothing to loose if we try it. I have the thought of having my child get used to sitting in their own waste, I would hate doing it my self and see no reason why my baby should. I'm glad to see it worked well for you. Are there any specific books or techniques you would suggest we try?
I love how you broke this down! Really simple laydown with some great tips. While I sign with my kids, I hadn't considered signing with infants to help encourage the toilet connection. What a great idea! It's actually quite amazing that more people don't know about EC. In countries like Japan, clothes are made with slits so kids can squat and go as needed. It's the norm! Which really makes sense because there's NOTHING sanitary in having your own piss and feces against your body. It's gross! And letting kids do this until they're two or three seems so backwards. We want to get them using a toilet, not used to wetting and crapping themselves. But we just don't think about it this way because it's the norm.
I read about EC with my first, but it seemed like it would be SUCH an investment. I never thought of bothering with it until my Russian friend came along. She practiced this with all her children, and raved about it all while I remained a skeptic. We ended up giving birth on the same day, and weeks later when we were at a park outing I watched her take off her 5wk old daughter's diaper and hold her baby between her legs as she hunched down over the grass. Before I even had the chance to open my mouth to say something, that baby was squirting poop onto the grass below. I couldn't believe it!
So I finally decided to give EC a try with my own 5 wk old. I kept it simple by bringing him to the toilet whenever I checked his diaper (about every two hours). I'd hold him over the toilet and make a "Psssss" sound. I also got the idea of blowing air between his legs to help bring attention to peeing. In no time, he was peeing into the toilet. Soon he was pooping too. I didn't get stuck on "catching" every pee or poo. It was my first time, and I wanted to keep things simple so that I would actually do it. I kinda fell off the bandwagon around 6mo when he started squirming being held over the toilet. Then I had to have surgery and I dropped it all together. He's over a year now, and I'm finally getting back into things. I bring his attention to my own toilet usage, and I'm teaching him the words and signs for poop and pee. Now and then I let him go without a diaper on the hardwood floors, and whenever he pees I make sure to bring his attention to it. Connections are definitely being made, now I just need to make time to put more effort into it (new job and moving has me putting this off, but I'm almost there).


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Q: Access class[x] within another class So lets say i have a div setup like this:

I am using hopscotch tour which popups the tour at the element target. To access the 4th div i would do this
$('.score')[3]

But how would i access the compare class within that 4th class assuming their could be other compare classes used so i specifically want to target the compare class within the 4th score element.
i guess im trying to do something like this but i have no idea of the correct format and if i knew the correct search terms to search on google i would probably find it but i dont know the correct term im looking for.
Some bad attempts are:
$('.score')[3].compare;
$('.score[3] > compare');
$('.score > compare')[3];
$('.score').eq(3).compare;

And for bonus points what about the other way around. If i had:

What if i wanted to access the 4th element of compare inside the score class

A: Try the FIDDLE,
For your case 1

test

var $target = $('#case1');
var text = $('#case1').find('div.score:eq(3) > div.compare').text();
alert(text);

For case 2

test1

test2

test3

test4

var $target = $('#case2');
var  text = $('#case2').find('div.score:eq(3) > div.compare:eq(3)').text();
alert(text);

Hope it work for you

A: Try this
$('.score').children().eq(3).hasClass('compare');

This will return true/false if fourth element has 'companre' class
Enjoy!


In Saturday's Times, a vegetable farmer I know, Jack Hedin, wrote an Op-Ed that has been getting a lot of attention. I had written about Jack in Organic Inc. and also blogged on the disastrous floods that struck his farm in Minnesota last summer. Now, trying to expand his land, he has run into a roadblock erected by US farm policy that effectively marginalizes local fruit and vegetable production outside of California and Florida. Here is Jack's piece, reprinted with permission of the author.
Rushford, Minn. - If you've stood in line at a farmers' market recently, you know that the local food movement is thriving, to the point that small farmers are having a tough time keeping up with the demand.
But consumers who would like to be able to buy local fruits and vegetables not just at farmers' markets, but also in the produce aisle of their supermarket, will be dismayed to learn that the federal government works deliberately and forcefully to prevent the local food movement from expanding. And the barriers that the United States Department of Agriculture has put in place will be extended when the farm bill that House and Senate negotiators are working on now goes into effect.
As a small organic vegetable producer in southern Minnesota, I know this because my efforts to expand production to meet regional demand have been severely hampered by the Agriculture Department's commodity farm program. As I've looked into the politics behind those restrictions, I've come to understand that this is precisely the outcome that the program's backers in California and Florida have in mind: they want to snuff out the local competition before it even gets started.
Last year, knowing that my own 100 acres wouldn't be enough to meet demand, I rented 25 acres on two nearby corn farms. I plowed under the alfalfa hay that was established there, and planted watermelons, tomatoes and vegetables for natural-food stores and a community-supported agriculture program.
All went well until early July. That's when the two landowners discovered that there was a problem with the local office of the Farm Service Administration, the Agriculture Department branch that runs the commodity farm program, and it was going to be expensive to fix.
The commodity farm program effectively forbids farmers who usually grow corn or the other four federally subsidized commodity crops (soybeans, rice, wheat and cotton) from trying fruit and vegetables. Because my watermelons and tomatoes had been planted on "corn base" acres, the Farm Service said, my landlords were out of compliance with the commodity program.
In my case, that meant I paid my landlords $8,771 — for one season alone! And this was in a year when the high price of grain meant that only one of the government's three crop-support programs was in effect; the total bill might be much worse in the future.
In addition, the bureaucratic entanglements that these two farmers faced at the Farm Service office were substantial. The federal farm program is making it next to impossible for farmers to rent land to me to grow fresh organic vegetables.
Why? Because national fruit and vegetable growers based in California, Florida and Texas fear competition from regional producers like myself. Through their control of Congressional delegations from those states, they have been able to virtually monopolize the country's fresh produce markets.
That's unfortunate, because small producers will have to expand on a significant scale across the nation if local foods are to continue to enter the mainstream as the public demands. My problems are just the tip of the iceberg.
Last year, Midwestern lawmakers proposed an amendment to the farm bill that would provide some farmers, though only those who supply processors, with some relief from the penalties that I've faced — for example, a soybean farmer who wanted to grow tomatoes would give up his usual subsidy on those acres but suffer none of the other penalties. However, the Congressional delegations from the big produce states made the death of what is known as Farm Flex their highest farm bill priority, and so it appears to be going nowhere, except perhaps as a tiny pilot program.
Who pays the price for this senselessness? Certainly I do, as a Midwestern vegetable farmer. But anyone trying to do what I do on, say, wheat acreage in the Dakotas, or rice acreage in Arkansas would face the same penalties. Local and regional fruit and vegetable production will languish anywhere that the commodity program has influence.
Ultimately of course, it is the consumer who will pay the greatest price for this — whether it is in the form of higher prices I will have to charge to absorb the government's fines, or in the form of less access to the kind of fresh, local produce that the country is crying out for.
Farmers need the choice of what to plant on their farms, and consumers need more farms like mine producing high-quality fresh fruits and vegetables to meet increasing demand from local markets — without the federal government actively discouraging them.


Onondaga County has launched a new edition of its award-winning Save the Rain program. This time, it's saving suburban rain.
The county last week announced projects in a dozen suburban communities to reduce the leakage of rainwater into the county sewer system. They will receive a total of $3 million from the county.
Next Project: The OnCenter Green Roof is GREEN!


The Maine Public Utilities Commission on Tuesday set new prices for the standard offer electricity supply for customers in Emera Maine's Bangor Hydro District.
Some customers in Emera Maine's Bangor Hydro district will pay higher electricity rates next year, according to prices set Tuesday by the Maine Public Utilities Commission.
The prices apply to customers of Emera's Bangor Hydro district who receive the "standard offer," a fixed rate approved by state utility regulators each year as a default electricity option. The rates for 2019 are the result of a months-long regular review process by the utilities commission.
The rate for the standard offer for residential and small business customers will rise 15.8 percent from the current 7.2 cents per kilowatt hour to 8.37 per kilowatt hour.
That means a typical residential bill, including the standard offer electricity and the distribution price, will be 6.5 percent more in 2019.
Prices for medium business customers will rise 11.4 percent from the current 8.1 cents per kilowatt hour to 9 cents per kilowatt hour.
The new prices are effective for 12 months starting Jan. 1, 2019. While the residential and small business prices will be the same each month, the price for medium businesses will vary month to month, commissioners said.
"There is a significant difference throughout the course of the year [for medium businesses]," Commission Chairman Mark Vannoy said. June 2019 is expected to see a low of 6.7 cents per kilowatt hour, while February will see a high of 14.5 cents per kilowatt hour, more than double the June price.
He said the same constraints are hitting residential and all business levels. The commission did not give prices for large businesses. It also did not reveal the names of the winning electricity suppliers.
A Maine law enacted in March 2000 created electricity rate competition. It states that any customer who does not designate a competitive electricity provider to supply their electricity will receive standard offer service.
The commission arranges for standard offer service through a competitive bidding process. The request for proposals for the standard offer prices for both Emera Maine and Central Maine Power was issued Sept. 5.
The commission is scheduled to set the standard offer electricity supply prices for Central Maine Power on Dec. 10.