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The Disintegration Of City Autonomy During The Late Middle Ages In Europe
Posted on:2016-08-16 Degree:Master Type:Thesis
Country:China Candidate:R Li Full Text:PDF
GTID:2296330461985257 Subject:Political Theory
With the development of commercial trade, in the middle ages of Europe, the city began to appear, merchants gathered and lived in the city because of the geographical advantages. Initially, the identity of the many urban residents also restricted because of the feudal hierarchy. Its citizenship often obtained by the way of redemption. Due to the fragmented urban pattern and factors such as economic development, city continuously enhances their strength, the citizens for their own demands and common interests, to unite against the Lord oppression, strive for autonomy. Many cities gained autonomy charter, internal affairs gradually handled by the city, the autonomous system formed in the city later also continues to be improved and complete in the later governance practice, adapted to urban expansion and development needs.City autonomy tradition that formed in the middle ages activated the participation spirit, enthusiasm and vigor of urban residents as a governance body, promote their mutual solidarity, to strengthen the urban citizens spirit of collectivism. The fortitude character of citizens, social capital and the virtues of politicians got a continuous value and inheritance in the autonomous environment. Affected by the traditional feudal system, many nobles and elites of religion and secular still existed in the city. Despite the differences between them and citizens in privilege, when they enjoy privileges, they also took the responsibility of help citizens and the provision of public goods, to form a small community core of identity and cohesion in the city. To secular aristocratic elites, it is lifelong pursuit of good fame and reputation. Religious clergy of the church and the parish priest also continuous care and help others to win the spontaneous respect and support of citizens.Interestingly, the city autonomy and citizens'spirit got a quite good development in the Middle Ages, but encountered trouble in terms of identity and cohesion during the late Middle Ages or early modern. No matter the autonomous city chose what kind of regimes, they all got Tocqueville's "mysterious disease" one after another:public spirit began to disappear in the society, mutual calculation began to appear in citizens. Each religious and secular aristocratic elite also seems to cannot avoid it, they began to seek personal gain, manipulate, sell ranks and titles, fraud also and so on. All of them began to emerge in political endlessly. And the catalysis of the deteriorating social order, prompted people to generally complain, they blamed autonomous city government incompetence, officials and social elite lost integrity, spit trough marks. In this case, the city and a lot of small communities under it had no ability to offer a society with necessary and indispensable "public products". From early enthusiasm for public affairs, citizens began to escape and scorn almost all affairs of traditional transaction, autonomous tradition is unconsciously in the process of such a collapse.City autonomy society appeared this kind of mess, it is no wonder that people put the hope of provide social "public products" outside of the city autonomous community. In some countries, the royal power well seize the opportunity, they provided the necessary order for chaos of the autonomous city, at the same time, meddling in the city, to expand their sovereignty in the form of constant erosion and deprived of rights of their city autonomy. On the basis of the disintegration of urban community in society, they shaped out new power structure of centralized type which was strange for feudal society. Since then, the centralization of central power and the weaken and collapse of urban community in society began to form a vicious cycle of mutual entanglement and stimulation process, for countries like France, this vicious circle has been dragged it into the burned revolution.In Tocqueville's The Old Regime and The Revolution, although he had seen the decline and collapse of autonomous city during the late Middle Ages, he even faintly speculated the reasons behind decline and collapse. But overall, he seemed to be only back to the centralized constantly strengthened and the disintegration of social autonomous community through his writings on the French Revolution source tracing. Without leading the subject further to social community, how to start up the decline of the problem by itself.This thesis attempts to seek primary reason of the decline of autonomous city during the late Middle Ages and revealing the source of that the French Revolution in deeper, so as to deepen our understanding about this revolution which deeply influenced to the development of modern world history. Through the study of historical materials in a specific period, this thesis show to people about the understanding of the primary reason of French Revolution in such a picture:people's self-consciousness expanding, secular tide surging, the influence of religious beliefs shrink, the mutual relationship among people was poisoned by rational calculating, the consciousness spirit of dedicated to the autonomous community was gradually disappeared.From this picture, it seem that the initial reason of the decline and disintegration of the autonomous city during the Middle Ages. Thus, when it comes to the analysis of the decline and collapse phenomenon, the expansion of royal power is not the only factor. On the contrary, we can use the decline of urban and rural autonomous community to illustrate that why the royal power was able to successfully expand and annihilate the entire civic society. Therefore, the expansion of self-consciousness and secular trend of surge is "independent variable" which led to the social structural instability. It formed in the daily life, had the spontaneity and primordial, constituted the cause of the French Revolution.Tocqueville through the book of The Old Regime and The Revolution points out a famous and profound paradox that the French Revolution originated from "centralized unceasingly strengthens" and completed in the "strengthening centralization". Because of this deep understanding, more or less, it also hindered Tocqueville to get further mining the source of French Revolution and failed to dig out the underlying reasons about radical idealism revolution and "rationalist politics" which brought disaster to human.The expansion of the "human self-consciousness-secular trend of surge-the influence of religious beliefs shrink-the mutual relationship among people was poisoned by rational calculating-the consciousness spirit of dedicated to the autonomous community was gradually disappeared-community autonomy cannot be inherent to provide necessary public goods-outside of the kingship get an opportunity to enter the autonomy social full penetration".This red line can not only to answer why the strengthening of the centralized can resist the surface attack of revolution and got an indomitable development run through the whole revolution, but also tells us the rational self-conceit of human will give themselves to catastrophe during their unconsciously destroyed traditional society, why people who under this self-conceit always inadvertently opened a "the road to the slavery" when trying to create a "beautiful new world", it also tells us that in a rational era of rapid development with the wings of a scientific and comprehensive, it is necessary for us to make a comprehensive review and reflection about the rational self- conceit of human, to keep necessary prudence and fear about "great wisdom" which left by the tradition and history.
Keywords/Search Tags: City Autonomy, Dismegration of Autonomous Community, The Late Middle Ages of Europe, France, Rationalism
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The majority of babies born prematurely survive and develop normally. However, babies born before 34 weeks have a higher chance of dying soon after birth or becoming disabled than babies born at term. In singleton pregnancies the chance that a woman will go into labour and deliver before 34 weeks is about 1%. In twin pregnancies, the chance of such premature birth is 10-15%.
Vaginal progesterone
Fonseca EB, Celik E, Parra M, Singh M, Nicolaides KH; Fetal Medicine Foundation Second Trimester Screening Group. Progesterone and the risk of preterm birth among women with a short cervix. N Engl J Med 2007;357:462-9.
Previous randomized trials have shown that progesterone administration in women who previously delivered prematurely reduces the risk of recurrent premature delivery. Asymptomatic women found at midgestation to have a short cervix are at greatly increased risk for spontaneous early preterm delivery, and it is unknown whether progesterone reduces this risk in such women.
Cervical length was measured by transvaginal ultrasonography at a median of 22 weeks of gestation (range, 20 to 25) in 24,620 pregnant women seen for routine prenatal care. Cervical length was 15 mm or less in 413 of the women (1.7%), and 250 (60.5%) of these 413 women were randomly assigned to receive vaginal progesterone (200 mg each night) or placebo from 24 to 34 weeks of gestation. The primary outcome was spontaneous delivery before 34 weeks. Spontaneous delivery before 34 weeks of gestation was less frequent in the progesterone group than in the placebo group (19.2% vs. 34.4%; relative risk, 0.56; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.36 to 0.86). Progesterone was associated with a nonsignificant reduction in neonatal morbidity (8.1% vs. 13.8%; relative risk, 0.59; 95% CI, 0.26 to 1.25; P=0.17). There were no serious adverse events associated with the use of progesterone.
It was concluded that in women with a short cervix, treatment with progesterone reduces the rate of spontaneous early preterm delivery.
A meta-analysis, which included the above and four other similar trials in singleton pregnancies, was published recently: Romero R, Nicolaides KH, Conde-Agudelo A, O'Brien JM, Cetingoz E, Da Fonseca E, Creasy GW, Hassan SS. Vaginal progesterone decreases preterm birth ≤ 34 weeks of gestation in women with a singleton pregnancy and a short cervix: an updated meta-analysis including data from the OPPTIMUM study. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 2016;48:308-17. The study assessed the efficacy of vaginal progesterone for the prevention of preterm birth and neonatal morbidity and mortality in asymptomatic women with a singleton gestation and a sonographic short cervix (cervical length ≤ 25 mm) in the mid-trimester. Data were available for 974 women. Vaginal progesterone, compared with placebo/no treatment, was associated with a statistically significant reduction in the risk of preterm birth occurring at < 28 to < 36 gestational weeks (RRs from 0.51 to 0.79), composite neonatal morbidity and mortality (RR, 0.59, 95% CI, 0.38-0.91) and some measures of neonatal morbidity, without any demonstrable deleterious effects on childhood neurodevelopment.
A meta-analysis of individual participant data, which included the above and five other similar trials in twin pregnancies, was published recently: Romero R, Conde-Agudelo A, El-Refaie W, Rode L, Brizot ML, Cetingoz E, Serra V, Da Fonseca E, Abdelhafez MS, Tabor A, Perales A, Hassan SS, Nicolaides KH. Vaginal progesterone decreases preterm birth and neonatal morbidity and mortality in women with a twin gestation and a short cervix: an updated meta-analysis of individual patient data. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 2017;49:303-314. The study assessed the efficacy of vaginal progesterone for the prevention of preterm birth and neonatal morbidity and mortality in asymptomatic women with a twin gestation and a sonographic short cervix (cervical length ≤ 25 mm) in the mid-trimester. Data were available for 303 women (159 assigned to vaginal progesterone and 144 assigned to placebo/no treatment) and their 606 fetuses/infants. Vaginal progesterone, compared with placebo/no treatment, was associated with a statistically significant reduction in the risk of preterm birth occurring at < 30 to < 35 gestational weeks, neonatal mortality and some measures of neonatal morbidity, without any demonstrable deleterious effects on childhood neurodevelopment.
Cervical cerclage in singletons
To MS, Alfirevic Z, Heath VC, Cicero S, Cacho AM, Williamson PR, Nicolaides KH; Fetal Medicine Foundation Second Trimester Screening Group. Cervical cerclage for prevention of preterm delivery in women with short cervix: randomised controlled trial. Lancet 2004;363:1849-53.
Cervical cerclage has been widely used in the past 50 years to prevent early preterm birth and its associated neonatal mortality and morbidity. Results of randomised trials have not generally lent support to this practice, but this absence of benefit may be due to suboptimum patient selection, which was essentially based on obstetric history. A more effective way of identifying the high-risk group for early preterm delivery might be by transvaginal sonographic measurement of cervical length. We undertook a multicentre randomised controlled trial to investigate whether, in women with a short cervix identified by routine transvaginal scanning at 22-24 weeks' gestation, the insertion of a Shirodkar suture reduces early preterm delivery.
Cervical length was measured in 47,123 women. The cervix was 15 mm or less in 470, and 253 (54%) of these women participated in the study and were randomised to cervical cerclage (127) or to expectant management (126). Primary outcome was the frequency of delivery before 33 completed weeks (231 days) of pregnancy. The proportion of preterm delivery before 33 weeks was similar in both groups, 22% (28 of 127) in the cerclage group versus 26% (33 of 126) in the control group (relative risk=0.84, 95% CI 0.54-1.31, p=0.44), with no significant differences in perinatal or maternal morbidity or mortality.
It was concluded that the insertion of a Shirodkar suture in women with a short cervix does not substantially reduce the risk of early preterm delivery. Routine sonographic measurement of cervical length at 22-24 weeks identifies a group at high risk of early preterm birth.
A meta-analysis, which included the above and four other similar trials, was published recently: Berghella V, Ciardulli A, Rust OA, To M, Otsuki K, Althuisius S, Nicolaides K, Roman A, Saccone G. Cerclage for Short Cervix on Ultrasound in Singleton Gestations without Prior Spontaneous Preterm Birth: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Trials using individual patient-level data. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 2017 Mar 10. doi: 10.1002/uog.17457. A total of 419 asymptomatic singleton gestations with transvaginal ultrasound cervical length (TVU CL) <25 mm and without prior spontaneous preterm birth (PTB) were analyzed. No statistically significant differences were found in PTB <35, <34, <32, <28, and <24 weeks, mean gestational age at delivery, preterm premature rupture of membranes, and neonatal outcomes, comparing women who were randomized in the cerclage group with those who were randomized in the control group, respectively.
Cervical pessary in singletons
Nicolaides KH, Syngelaki A, Poon LC, Picciarelli G, Tul N, Zamprakou A, Skyfta E, Parra-Cordero M, Palma-Dias R, Rodriguez Calvo J. A Randomized Trial of a Cervical Pessary to Prevent Preterm Singleton Birth. N Engl J Med 2016;374:1044-52.
This was a multicenter randomized controlled trial comparing pessary with expectant management, in singleton pregnancies with cervical length ≤25 mm at 20 - 24 weeks' gestation. Women in both arms of the trial with cervical length <15 mm, at randomization or subsequent visits, were treated with vaginal progesterone. The primary outcome was spontaneous birth at <34 weeks.
A total of 932 women took part in the trial; 465 received cervical pessary and 467 had expectant management. There were no significant differences between the pessary and the control groups in the rate of spontaneous delivery before 34 weeks (12.0% and 10.8%, respectively; odds ratio in the pessarygroup, 1.12; 95% confidence interval, 0.75 to 1.69; P=0.57), in the rates of perinatal death (3.2% in the pessary group and 2.4% in the control group, P=0.42), adverse neonatal outcome (6.7% and 5.7%, respectively; P=0.55), or neonatal special care (11.6% and 12.9%, respectively; P=0.59). The incidence of new or increased vaginal discharge was significantly higher in the pessary group than in the control group.
It was concluded that among women with singleton pregnancies who had a short cervix, a cervical pessary does not result in a lower rate of spontaneous early preterm delivery than the rate with expectant management.
Cervical pessary in twins
Nicolaides KH, Syngelaki A, Poon LC, de Paco Matallana C, Plasencia W, Molina FS, Picciarelli G, Tul N, Celik E, Lau TK, Conturso R. Cervical pessary placement for prevention of preterm birth in unselected twin pregnancies: a randomized controlled trial. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2016;214:3.e1-9.
Twins are found in 1.5% of pregnancies, but they account for about 25% of preterm births. The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that the insertion of a cervical pessary in twin pregnancies would reduce the rate of spontaneous early preterm birth. This was a multicenter, randomized controlled trial in unselected twin pregnancies of cervical pessary placement from 20+0-24+6 weeks' gestation until elective removal or delivery vs. expectant management. Primary outcome was spontaneous birth <34 weeks.
A total of 1,180 women took part in the trial; 590 received cervical pessary and 590 had expectant management. There were no significant differences between the pessary and control groups in rates of spontaneous birth <34 weeks (13.6% vs. 12.9%; relative risk 1.054, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.787-1.413; p=0.722), perinatal death (2.5% vs. 2.7%; relative risk 0.908, 95% CI 0.553-1.491; p=0.702), adverse neonatal outcome (10.0 vs. 9.2%; relative risk 1.094, 95% CI 0.851-1.407; p=0.524) or neonatal therapy (17.9% vs. 17.2%; relative risk 1.040, 95% CI 0.871-1.242; p=0.701). A post hoc subgroup analysis of 214 women with short cervix (≤25 mm) showed no benefit from the insertion of a cervical pessary.
It was concluded that in women with twin pregnancy, routine treatment with cervical pessary does not reduce the rate of spontaneous early preterm birth.
Cervical assessment in threatened preterm labor
Alfirevic Z, Allen-Coward H, Molina F, Vinuesa CP, Nicolaides K. Targeted therapy for threatened preterm labor based on sonographic measurement of the cervical length: a randomized controlled trial. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 2007;29:47-50.
False positive diagnosis of preterm labor is common. As a consequence, medications including corticosteroids to promote fetal lung maturity and tocolysis are prescribed unnecessarily. We tested the hypothesis that management of threatened preterm labor (PTL) based on measurement of cervical length (CL) by ultrasonography can reduce the number of women who receive inappropriate treatment.
Forty-one women with PTL for whom a clinical decision was made to prescribe antenatal corticosteroids and tocolysis were randomized to have their CL measured by transvaginal ultrasound (n=21) or to receive therapy as planned (n=20). Fourteen women in the ultrasound group had a CL >15 mm and the therapy was withheld, while the other seven with CL ≤15 mm were managed in the same way as the control group. Three women (14%) in the ultrasound group were treated inappropriately with antenatal corticosteroids because they remained undelivered for more than a week. This compared favorably with the control group where 18 out of 20 (90%) received corticosteroids unnecessarily (relative risk (RR) 0.16; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.05-0.39). Tocolysis was given to only seven women (33.3%) in the ultrasound group compared with 20 (100%) in the control group (RR 0.3; 95% CI, 0.15-0.54). There were no babies in either group who were born prematurely without being given a full course of antenatal corticosteroid therapy.
It was concluded that women with TPL and CL >15 mm should not receive tocolysis. The issue of the safety of withholding corticosteroid therapy in this clinical scenario warrants further study.
A meta-analysis of individual participant data, which included the above and two other similar trials, was published recently: Berghella V, Palacio M, Ness A, Alfirevic Z, Nicolaides KH, Saccone G. Cervical length screening for prevention of preterm birth in singleton pregnancy with threatened preterm labor: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials using individual patient-level data. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 2017;49:322-329. A total of 287 singleton pregnancies with threatened PTL between 240 and 356 weeks were included, of which 145 were randomized to CL screening with knowledge of results and 142 to no knowledge of CL. Compared with the control group, women who were randomized to the known CL group had a significantly lower rate of PTB < 37 weeks (22.1% vs 34.5%; RR, 0.64, 95% CI 0.44-0.94) and a later gestational age at delivery. It was concluded that in singleton pregnancies with threatened PTL there is a significant association between knowledge of CL and lower incidence of PTB and later gestational age at delivery.
Preterm birth screening
FMF calculators for estimation of risk of preterm birth:
Risk based on maternal characteristics and history: click here.
Risk based on cervical length: click here.
For the FMF online course on cervical assessment click here.

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This website includes all the necessary information needed to reproduce the experiments presented in the paper "Type Inference in Flexible Model-Driven Engineering". You can find step-by-step instructions on how to run the experiments in the Instructions section. All the source code needed can be downloaded from the Downlaods section. In section Data all the raw data can be downloaded while the section Charts includes all the charts generated by these data.
Abstract: In the emerging community of flexible Model-Driven Engineering (MDE), language engineers compose example models of the envisioned Domain-Specific Language (DSL). This can be an error-prone process, as there is no metamodel which can guarantee that the example models share common syntax and semantics. Nodes that should represent the same concept could instantiate different types, due to user error while other nodes can be left totally untyped either intentionally or unintentionally. In this paper, we propose an approach that feeds characteristics of each element, like the number of assigned attributes, references and containments, to Classification and Regression Trees (CART) in order to predict the types of nodes that left untyped facilitating the work of language engineers. The approach is tested in a number of randomly generated models. Results suggest that on average 80% of types were correctly identified in all the models that were tested. In addition, results reveal strong dependency between the success score and the ratio of known to unknown types in a model.
For steps 1 & 2 the full Epsilon suite is required. An Eclipse version that contains the Epsilon package can be downloaded from here.
For steps 1, 2 & 3 a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) should be installed. JRE can be downloaded from here.
For steps 4-6 the rpart R library should be installed and loaded (run the command "library(rpart)" before executing our functions). Rpart can be downloaded from here.
Dowloand the "Crepe" source code from here.
Import the folders into Eclipse.
Navigate to "crepe.examples --> random-model-generation"
Open the build-[metaodel name].xml file for the metamodel for which you want to generate models.
Change the value of the parameter to the number of instance models you like to generate.
Run as Ant Build... Make sure to select the "Run in the same JRE as the Workspace" option under the "JRE" tab.
In build-[name].xml file change the value of line 6 to point to your metamodel. Change the values in line 11 and 28 to point to your metamodel's uri. Change the values in lines 22 and 37 to point the files you just created. Change the value in line 44 to point the directory where the generated will be placed.
In random-gen-[name].eol file change the value of lines 37 and 45 to point to the root class of your metamodel. Make sure that your metamodel has a root class. If not, create one - you can check one of the provided metamodels to find out how it should look like.
The random generated models for all the 10 metamodels of the experiment presented in the paper can be downloaded from the Downloads section here.
Download the "Type Inference" source code from here.
Move the generated models you created before in a folder inside the "typeInferenceSemantical" project (Prefereble create a folder name "Out[name]" and place them there (where [name] is the name of the metamodel).
Move the metamodel in the folder "metamodels".
Change the value of line 12 to the path of the folder where the models are stored (Out[name]). Change the value of line 20 to point to the metamodel. Change the values of lines 21 and 25 to point to the uri of your metamodel.
Right click on the build.xml file and then Run as Ant Build... Make sure to select the "Run in the same JRE as the Workspace" option under the "JRE" tab.
The generated .graphml files will be generated in the same folder where the models are (Out[name]).
The random generated .graphml muddles for all the 10 metamodels of the experiment presented in the paper can be downloaded from here.
Navigate to /src/metrics/ package of the Type Inference project downloaded in Step 2.
Change the value of line 31 (File dir = new File("...");) to point to the folder where the .graphml files are placed. In case you're working with the example Muddle we discuss in the paper then point to the folder that contains that .graphml file.
Change the value of the filename classifier of line 48 to a prefered one. This filename will be used when the features signatures files are generated.
Run the script as Java Application.
The features signatures files for all the 10 metamodels of the experiment presented in the paper can be downloaded from the Downloads section here.
Download the R scripts from here.
Source the R script (an IDE like R-Studio is suggested to be used).
Run the function "cartOneFileWithCustomSampling (filename, sampling)". The filename points to one of the feature signatures list generated from the previous step (e.g. "Users/....../typeInferenceSmantical/OutWordpress/outputForClassWordpress0.txt". The sampling parameter represents the desired sampling percentage in decimal values (e.g. 0.30 for 30%).
The script will generate and print the classification tree along with the prediction table for the values that were used as tests in this run.
To calculate the precision for each type (we also calcute the recall) run the function "cartOneFileWithCustomSamplingPrecision (filename, sampling)" as above.
The 'filename' parameter hosts the classifier of all the features signatures lists filename (e.g. "outputForClassWordpress". Note that the number at the end of the file is missing. The script iterates 10 times and adds the number at the end of the filename classifier).
The 'minSampling' parameter declares the minimum sampling from which the script will start the iterative sampling (e.g. 7 -> will run for sampling rates of 70%, 80% and 90% - Note that in this function the sampling rate parameter value is not decimal as above.).
The 'saveTo' parameter declares the .txt file that the results will be saved (e.g. "Users/....../typeInferenceSmantical/OutWordpress/results.txt").
The raw results for all the runs of the experiment presented in the paper can be downloaded from the Downloads section here.
The metamodels (.ecore & .emf), the random generated models (.model), the corresponding muddles (.graphml), the feature signatures (.txt) and all the raw results (.xlsx) can be downloaded from this section.
Download the metamodels referred in the paper.
Download the random generated models referred in the paper.
Download the generated muddles that correspond to the above models.
Download the feature signatures that correspond to the above muddles.
Download the example Muddle referred in the paper.
Boxplots based on the raw results are presented here, for each of the seven different sampling rates that were used in the experiment. Scatter charts for the CART performance for each of the ten different metamodels follow.
Boxplot for average prediction score for all 10 models of each metamodel at 30% sampling rate.
Boxplot for average prediction score for all 10 models of each metamodel at 40% sampling rate.
Boxplot for average prediction score for all 10 models of each metamodel at 50% sampling rate.
Boxplot for average prediction score for all 10 models of each metamodel at 60% sampling rate.
Boxplot for average prediction score for all 10 models of each metamodel at 70% sampling rate.
Boxplot for average prediction score for all 10 models of each metamodel at 80% sampling rate.
Boxplot for average prediction score for all 10 models of each metamodel at 90% sampling rate.
Scatter chart for the average prediction score of the Ant metamodel for all the 7 sampling rates.
Scatter chart for the average prediction score of the BibTeX metamodel for all the 7 sampling rates.
Scatter chart for the average prediction score of the Bugzilla metamodel for all the 7 sampling rates.
Scatter chart for the average prediction score of the Chess metamodel for all the 7 sampling rates.
Scatter chart for the average prediction score of the Cobol metamodel for all the 7 sampling rates.
Scatter chart for the average prediction score of the Conference metamodel for all the 7 sampling rates.
Scatter chart for the average prediction score of the Professor metamodel for all the 7 sampling rates.
Scatter chart for the average prediction score of the Use Case metamodel for all the 7 sampling rates.
Scatter chart for the average prediction score of the Wordpress metamodel for all the 7 sampling rates.
Scatter chart for the average prediction score of the Zoo metamodel for all the 7 sampling rates.


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Materials: All you need is a large glass jar, a plastic strainer (make sure it's plastic–strainers made from aluminum, iron, brass or copper are likely to release toxic metals into your kefir or on the grains), kefir grains, and milk. Raw milk is preferable, or milk from grass-fed cows, or goat's milk. Do not use ultra-pasteurized milk, it can't really be cultured and won't give you the best results. I usually go to Whole Foods and use Lazy Meadows or Kalona SuperNatural milk, which is made from grass-fed cows, organic, non-homogenized, and batch pasteurized. They are cream-top so you need to shake them up a bit.
Where to find Kefir Grains: If you happen to have a friend that makes kefir, they might have some extra grains they can part with. My mother had some extra kefir grains that she brought to me, but you might find some at the local farmer's market. You can purchase them online as well. Yemoos and Cultures for Health are great places to buy them. Once you start making kefir, your grains will start to multiply and you will have extras that you can lend to others!
Place a tablespoon of kefir grains into a large glass jar. I use a quart-sized mason jar.
Add 2 cups of milk to the jar.
Cover the jar with breathable fabric, such as cheesecloth, or a coffee filter, and secure with a rubber-band.
Allow the kefir to ferment for 24 hours at room temperature out of direct sunlight. You will know it has fermented when the milk has thickened and it tastes a bit sour. There might be some separation.
Once it has fermented for 24 hours, stir the milk with a wooden spoon and use a plastic strainer to catch the kefir grains as you pour the kefir into your container. This is the plastic strainer I use.
Place it in a sealed jar in the fridge to enjoy immediately, or you can cover and leave the strained kefir at room temperature for an additional 24 hours. This will increase the nutritional value slightly and further reduce the lactose content. This is what I prefer to do.
Place the kefir grains back into the jar and start the process over again!
If you want to take a break from making more kefir, cover the grains in milk in a sealed jar and keep in the fridge. Replace the milk every 7 days.
You can drink it as is, or eat it with granola, or add it to smoothies. Drinking some every day has improved my digestive system. The fermentation makes it easier to digest, and it is filled with complete proteins and valuable enzymes. Drinking kefir is a great way to help balance out your gut flora.


Roof: transparent cover of a green house.
Cladding material: transparent material mounted on the walls and roof of a green house.
Gutter: collects and drains rain water and snow which is place at an elevated level between two spans.
Polythene proves to be an economical cladding material. Now long lasting, unbreakable and light roofing panels-UV stabilized clear fiber glass and polycarbonate panels are available. Plastics are used in tropical and sub-tropical areas compared to glass/fiberglass owing to their economical feasibility. Plastics create enclosed ecosystems for plant growth. LDPE (low density polyethylene) / LLDPE (linear low density polyethylene) will last for 3-4 years compared to polythene without UV stabilizers.


how many of each weapon type, each weaponsmith produces, per month.
how much food is consumed by your people each month.
You can also change your unused "forest" land to "plains" (and visa versa) for a cost of 100 gold per 1 unit of land.
Note: When exchanging forest to plains, it takes 2 plains to get 1 forest.


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Vincent cruises past Central-Hayneville
By Michael Rodgers
Published 12:56 am Saturday, September 3, 2011
By BRAD GASKINS
The Shelby County Reporter
VINCENT – Vincent High School made its new coach feel right at home.
The Yellow Jackets cruised to a 40-7 win against Central-Hayneville on Friday night, giving Zeb Ellison his first win as a head coach in their home-opener.
"It's a big, big load lifted off me," said Ellison, who spent the last four years as a defensive coordinator at three different schools. "We took a big step from where we were at last week (in a 35-14 loss at Maplesville)."
After that loss, Ellison made a switch at quarterback and tweaked Vincent's defensive scheme to better suite its depth.
Michael Gilham, a sophomore, made his first start at quarterback. Demauntey Johnson, a junior who started at quarterback last season, moved to the backfield.
It worked well for Vincent (1-1 overall, 1-0 Class 2A, Region 4) against Central-Hayneville (0-2, 0-1), but only after a shaky start on the first offensive drive.
Gilham made the wrong read and threw an interception.
"I came back and responded well," said Gilham, who led Vincent to touchdowns on its next five drives to lead 33-0 at halftime.
Gilham threw a 15-yard touchdown pass to Terio Rodgers in the first quarter and scored on a 3-yard run in the second quarter.
"I love being the quarterback," Gilham said, "and I love being the leader of the team."
ShaCorry Lilly scored on runs of 5 and 20 yards, and Johnson scored on a 9-yard run to cap Vincent's first-half scoring.
"Demauntey is such a strong runner and good blocker," Ellison said. "We felt we weren't using all of our tools and weapons (with him at quarterback). We needed an extra blocker, and he's the best guy for that fit."
Along with playing halfback and fullback, Johnson also handled Vincent's kicking duties. He made 4 of 6 point-after kicks.
"Last Friday in the game we saw some things out of Michael that we're very excited about," Ellison said. "This week we saw some things out of Demauntey that we're extremely excited about."
Central-Hayneville took the first drive of the third quarter and marched to face fourth-and-3 at the Vincent 6. Lilly tackled a scrambling quarterback, Tracey Tillman, in the backfield.
Vincent fumbled on its next drive, but an interception by Lilly returned possession to Vincent and led to a 32-yard run by Rodney Groce for a 40-0 lead.
Vincent's defense stopped Central-Hayneville again on fourth down, this time on fourth-and-2 from the Vincent 22.
Tanner Sands had interception for Vincent late in the third quarter.
Central-Hayneville scored its lone touchdown – a short pass from Tillman to Alex Bryant – in the final minute of the fourth quarter against Vincent's reserves.
It was slightly different defense than Vincent used the previous week. Vincent switched from a 3-3-5 to a 3-4 defense.
"The only that things that really changed was the reads out of our linebackers," Ellison said. "We feel that's where we need to be for later down the road."
Vincent's next home game – Homecoming against Francis Marlon – is Sept. 30. Its next three games are on the road, starting Sept. 9 at Billingsly.
"We've got keep focused, don't overlook anyone and know the odds are going to be stacked against us going on the road," Ellison said. "We have to prepare twice as hard and go in there willing to come from behind."
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I finally did the big chop (transitioning from relaxed hair to natural hair). Two of my favorite Bloggers (Rush Our Fashion & Fly Won) inspired me, plus several of my readers and close friends that are #teamnatural.
So this is a sneek peak until my big reveal on Tuesday! I can't wait to show you my new look, from head to toe! Hope you love it as much as I do!
You're looking MARVELOUS!!!! I have chopped many times. It feels sooooo good.
Karen I can already tell from this sneak peek that I love it! You are teasing us with these head shots. We want to see the entire look. I see some arm candy I want:) You are creating a monster here. My summer is fast approaching so you will be seeing much more of me!
wow you go girl you look amazing love the look and I cannot wait to see the entire look!
Thanks for the compliments!! I can't wait to show off my new look!
It looks nice on you. I look forward to watching your growth!
@mrgwhunting Yes I did the big chop...thanks for the compliments!
@bernettastyle thanks for the compliment!
@iwannabefierce thank you so much!
You look amazing!!! I wasnt expecting you do to the chop this soon! Congratulations on your natural hair journey!
@rushourfashion yes it was a long time coming! Thanks for the inspiration.
YOU DID IT! Its beautiful.
@kandistyln thanks for the compliments! Happy to be part of such a supportive team.
Already, it looks good on you!
Awesome! Congratulations...welcome to the team, lol. You look great.


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What Rick James Taught Me About Drugs
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The basement rec room of the mini-mansion was dim and narrow. Colored light filtered through a stained glass window, illuminating the dust motes in the air, which smelled of sandalwood and something medicinal, like ether.
Descending the stairs as directed, I called out tentatively. I knew from experience he didn't like to be surprised:
Rick? You here?
"Who askin'?"
His voice was so familiar. Gravelly, phlegm-tinged, stuffy-nosed—like a country preacher with allergies. We'd talked a lot on the phone.
"What'd you bring?" asked Rick James, a.k.a. Super Freak.
We'd met first at Folsom State Prison, when I was writing about him for Rolling Stone. He'd served two years, convicted of assaulting two women while under the influence of crack. He'd been released in 1996. This was a couple of years after that. Somehow I'd become his phone pal. He'd call me late at night. Once from his hospital bed after his hip replacement. Another time after his stroke. I even know the two women he was partying with the night he died in his sleep from heart failure at the age of 56 in August 2004. One of them is an accomplished designer. (She points out that Rick never uttered the catchphrase "I'm Rick James, bitch!" until after it was made popular on Chappelle's Show. After that, he said it all the time. He was tickled by the coinage.)
Stepping further into the room, I produced from my sock a plastic sandwich baggie, knotted at the top. Rick was sitting at one end of the sofa, wearing short dreads strung with decorative beads that framed his face, which seemed bloated. His infamous come-fuck-me eyes were bloodshot, the lids half-mast. He tore open the baggie with his teeth and emptied into his large leathery palm a chunk of freebase cocaine, white and crystalline like an aquarium stone. He nicked it with the edge of his long, manicured thumbnail. The rock was hard and crisp and shimmery white, clearly not purchased on the corner. Street crack is piss yellow and full of holes like a moldered piece of Swiss cheese; it crumbles like sandstone. This was more like tumbled marble—an antique from the early 1980s, before the advent of "blowup," which dealers started adding to the mix to increase the weight. The high has never been the same.
Rick raised his eyebrows. He was, of course, a connoisseur. During his heyday, he had a guy on staff who cooked his coke for him. Later, Rick cooked it himself, usually in his bedroom in a soup ladle or a serving spoon.
"Where you get this shit at?" he asked, smiling appreciatively.
I'd come to visit Rick in person because I was working on a novel called Deviant Behavior about a young father suffering his own Dante-esque run of post-partum depression. I told Rick about my themes: Prohibition. Control. Denial of the human urge.
Deviant Behavior: A Novel of Sex, Drugs, Fatherhood, and Crystal…
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"Idle hands are the devil's playground and whatnot," he said, catching the drift. "I got my PhD in that shit. What you wanna know?"
"It seems like everything pleasurable anymore is considered evil or life-threatening," I said, offering my thesis. "Fat, sugar, carbs, cigarettes, sex, marijuana. If everything is bad, if we have no hedonistic outlets, where does that leave us?"
"You mean like priests?" he laughed, musical and gravelly at once. "Look here. It's unhealthy to hold that shit in."
Rick retrieved a glass ashtray from the arm of the sofa and transferred it to the coffee table. He placed my rock in the tray and sawed into it with his thumbnail, extracting a wedge-like chunk.
"Sounds like you got plenty of theories," he said. "What do you need me for?"
He picked up the chunk, dropped it into the bowl of his water pipe. Parting his lips to accept the stem, he raised a butane lighter—a metallic click, the whoosh of pressurized gas, an ice blue cone of flame. Then he abruptly stopped. He lowered the lighter thoughtfully.
"It ain't only humans who get high, you know. Coke was discovered when the people in the Andes Mountains noticed they llamas were eating it—man just followed they lead." Like an eccentric professor, he waved his pipe for emphasis. "Elephants in the wild have been observed eating fermented fruit until they fall over drunk. Same with birds and other species—been observed flying into trees, stumbling off cliffs, all kinds of crazy shit. There's this scientist at UCLA who wrote a book about it. He says that getting high is a natural urge.
Intoxication: The Universal Drive for Mind-Altering Substances
"People would rather blame the devil than look in the mirror," he chuckled, raising the bowl again.
I've been thinking about Rick because I just read A New Leaf by Alyson Martin and Nushin Rashidian. From what I can tell it's the most up-to-date assessment of the confusing and rapidly changing landscape of marijuana policy in this country—a place where 49.5 percent of all drug arrests made last year were for pot and 87 percent of those were for possession only.
Today, medical cannabis is legal in 20 states, with more than one million registered patients. It's well documented that marijuana has medical uses. As a person with chronic spinal problems, I can personally attest to its efficacy. But I didn't have any medical issues at age 12 when I bought my first manila envelope of shake in a bathroom stall on the second floor of my Sunday school.
When Should A Man Stop Smoking Weed? Never
I am nosing my car into a parking space in a mini–strip mall, as directed by the text message I'd…
Now, at 57, I have a medical prescription that was signed by a doctor who must have been 90. He had a hard time separating the several pages of my medical questionnaire in order to find the place to sign; his signature was an endless tortured exercise of shaky strokes. I mean, really. What a charade. But at least I'm supposedly legal. I've written too many stories about the drug war not to know that crazy shit can happen to somebody who gets caught with a little weed. Right now, theoretically, that piece of paper stands between me and a possession charge. Not that I'm giving anybody any probable cause if I can help it. (Unless you count writing this column.)
In January, laws took effect in Colorado legalizing the production and sale of cannabis for social use. There's been a lot of attention to the story; most of it sniggering personal-interest stuff, one long Cheech-and-Chong joke. But what's significant about Colorado is they dropped the whole pot-as-medicine discussion and just went ahead and made it available, without moral judgment, to those of age. Yes, marijuana contains ingredients that have healing and palliative properties for some. Yes, hemp is a God plant from which you can make almost anything. But the reason most people smoke pot is to get high, to take the edge off and chill.
By taking the medical bit out of the pot debate, we are left with the notion of marijuana as a product used for recreational consumption, a.k.a. purposeful self-intoxication—exactly like alcohol. Doctors recommend a glass of red wine every day for good health, sure, but that's not why most people drink. We drink to catch a buzz. We drink to unwind. We drink to follow our natural urge toward pleasure. And yes, a lot of people keep drinking until they are sloppy alcoholics and ruin everything around them. But hey, the shit's legally available on every corner.
Maybe if Rick had chosen pot instead of crack I'd still be talking to him on the phone. I'm pretty sure he'd have drunk himself to death by now if he'd chosen otherwise. That's kind of where he was headed when he stopped crack for a while.
I have this huge young friend who went away to college on an athletic scholarship. He used to smoke pot, but before he left for school he gave it up; there were pee tests in his immediate future, zero tolerance, the whole nine. He likes to have fun, but he's also risen before dawn every morning for the past decade or so to work out. No way was he going to screw it up.
With gusto he joined the team and did what kids do on campuses these days—he drank heavily. It's only natural. It's even expected. People need an outlet, right? Like Rick James said, "It's unhealthy to hold that shit in."
James is right. From movie stars to humming birds, everyone needs to get high, to take the edge off our difficult and busy lives. (And, of course, the college pee tests includes other drugs as well.)So why not hunker down with the fellas and drink a couple of cases. A couple of fifths. It's legal. What's the harm?
One night my young friend drank so much he blacked out on his feet. He fell dead forward like a mighty tree and hit his face on a rock.
Thankfully, there was no important damage, just this big scar on his nose. Yet every time I see him, I can't help but think: Somewhere between prohibition and Rick James, there's got to be a thoughtful middle path.
To read more by Mike Sager and The Sager Group, please see www.MikeSager.com or www.TheSagerGroup.net.
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The Saint Vincent College Chemistry Department seeks to provide students with a solid foundation in chemistry set in the broad context of the liberal arts. Our chemistry degree provides graduates with knowledge of chemical principles, laboratory skills, communication skills and research experiences so that they can pursue a variety of career possibilities in chemistry, biochemistry and environmental chemistry.
Majoring in chemistry is an ideal start to your career in the sciences. The many opportunities available at Saint Vincent College during your college years will ensure success after graduation.
Chemistry program students get hands-on instruction with instrumentation and equipment that is widely used in the chemical industry, government labs and graduate schools. In addition, the department features an inert atmosphere glovebox, a scanning electron microscope (SEM) and an ion chromatograph.
The Saint Vincent College chemistry club is a Student Affiliate chapter of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and has received awards of commendation from ACS for its service to the community, educational outreach and social events for the past 11 years.
*General Chemistry I & II with Laboratory fulfill the Natural Science core requirement. Calculus I fulfills the Mathematics core requirement.
American Chemical Society approved chemistry program.
Employment - PPG Industries, Dow Chemical, Westinghouse, Alcoa, Johnson Mathey, Valspar Coatings, and U.S. Steel.
Graduate studies - University of Minnesota, Penn State, University of Pittsburgh, University of Notre Dame, Case Western Reserve University, University of Georgia, University of South Carolina, and University of Kentucky.
Students graduating with a degree in chemistry will have an understanding of chemical principles in organic, inorganic, physical and analytical chemistry that allows them to apply those principles to advanced topics.
◦Students will be able to perform a variety of modern chemical laboratory techniques and run modern instrumentation.
◦Students will be able to communicate in both oral and written forms that are appropriate to the modern practice of chemistry. Students should be able to apply the Six Principles of Good Writing to their chemistry writing.
◦Chemistry students in their junior and senior years will be able to design, develop, conduct and report on an independent research project.
◦Students will develop higher order thinking skills of synthesis, analysis and applications.


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Alberta Environment and Parks (Pesticide Container Program)
9820 - 106th Avenue, Edmonton, AB, CA
This listing was last updated on: June 23, 2020
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Description: There are about 100 empty pesticide container collection sites in Alberta. Cleanfarms, a non-profit environmental organization, provides a collection service from the pesticide container collection sites. It partners with ag-retailers and municipalities to collect empty commercial pesticide containers across Canada. In Alberta, containers are collected at least once every year. Visit https://cleanfarms.ca/ for more details.
City Of Calgary - Fire Station #17 (Varsity)
3740 32 Avenue N.W., Calgary, AB T2N 1N8, CA
This listing was last updated on: July 23, 2019
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Hours Vary. Call City of Calgary at 3-1-1 for details.
Description: Household Hazardous Waste Drop-off facility. Call 311 (if calling from within Calgary) or (403) 268-CITY (if calling from outside Calgary) before bringing materials. CFL bulbs and fluorescent tubes (up to 4 ft. lengths) accepted (up to 6 of each per person per day). Accepts Paint and Paint Containers for recycling - visit https://www.albertarecycling.ca/recycling-programs/paint-recycling-program for details on which products are eligible.
Ponoka Waste Transfer Station (Town of Ponoka)
Waste Transfer Station, 252028 TWP RD 431A, Ponoka, AB T4J 0B6, CA
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CLOSED on Sundays plus all Holidays
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Description: Location: SE10-43-25-W4 (just outside the northeast corporate limits on 46 Street). See website for details. Accepts Paint and Paint Containers for recycling - visit https://www.albertarecycling.ca/recycling-programs/paint-recycling-program/ for details on which products are eligible. Accepts Tires for recycling - visit https://www.albertarecycling.ca/recycling-programs/tire-recycling-program/ for details on which products are eligible. Accepts Electronics for recycling - visit https://www.albertarecycling.ca/recycling-programs/electronics-recycling-program/ for details on which products are eligible. Accepts Used Oil materials for recycling - visit https://www.albertarecycling.ca/recycling-programs/used-oil-recycling-program/ for details on which products are eligible.
West Grande Prairie Regional Landfill (County of Grande Prairie)
Range Road 93, Beaverlodge, AB T0H 0C0, CA
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Description: Located: S 1/2 22-73-9 W6M (733003 RGE RD 93) - Head west on Hwy on Emerson Trail and then north on Range Road 93. Visit website for details, and locations of additional recycling bins throughout the County. Accepts Electronics for recycling - visit https://www.albertarecycling.ca/recycling-programs/electronics-recycling-program/ for details on which products are eligible. Accepts Paint and Paint Containers for recycling - visit https://www.albertarecycling.ca/recycling-programs/paint-recycling-program/ for details on which products are eligible. Will allow paint exchange. Accepts Tires for recycling - visit https://www.albertarecycling.ca/recycling-programs/tire-recycling-program/ for details on which products are eligible.
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Description: See website for details or call 311 (if calling from within Calgary) or (403) 268-CITY (if calling from outside Calgary) Accepts Electronics for recycling - visit https://www.albertarecycling.ca/recycling-programs/electronics-recycling-program/ for details on which products are eligible. Accepts Tires for recycling - visit https://www.albertarecycling.ca/recycling-programs/tire-recycling-program/ for details on which products are eligible. Accepts Paint and Paint Containers for recycling - visit https://www.albertarecycling.ca/recycling-programs/paint-recycling-program for details on which products are eligible. Commercial Volumes: Please call 311 to schedule a drop off. The Throw-n-Go location no longer accepts commercial paint drop offs. For details of materials accepted at Throw 'n' Go Facilities follow this link: https://www.calgary.ca/UEP/WRS/Pages/Landfill-information/Landfill-Throw-n-Go-Facilities.aspx.
Leduc Regional Landfill (LDRWMA)
Leduc Regional Land Fill, NE29-49-24-W4, Leduc, AB T0C 2K0, CA
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During Summer (May 1 to September 15), the landfill is open until 9:00pm on Wednesdays.
Description: The site is located 8 km east of Leduc on Secondary Road 623 and 1 km north on Range Road 244 with an address of 49444-RR244. See website for details. Accepts Electronics for recycling - visit https://www.albertarecycling.ca/recycling-programs/electronics-recycling-program/ for details on which products are eligible. Accepts Paint and Paint Containers (incl. commercial volumes of paint) for recycling - visit https://www.albertarecycling.ca/recycling-programs/paint-recycling-program/ for details on which products are eligible. Accepts Tires for recycling - visit https://www.albertarecycling.ca/recycling-programs/tire-recycling-program/ for details on which products are eligible.
Medicine Hat Waste Management Facility and Landfill (City of Medicine Hat)
Medicine Hat City Landfill, 5226 Township Road 130, Medicine Hat, AB T0J 2P0, CA
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Extended Summer Hours (April 1 to October 31): Monday to Friday 8:00am-6:00pm, Saturday & Sunday 8:00am-5:00pm.
Description: Location: SW3-13-5-W4 / #5226 Township Road 130 (approximately three kilometers off Highway 41A east just past the city limits). See website for details. Accepts Electronics for recycling - visit https://www.albertarecycling.ca/recycling-programs/electronics-recycling-program/ for details on which products are eligible. Accepts Paint and Paint Containers for recycling - visit https://www.albertarecycling.ca/recycling-programs/paint-recycling-program/ for details on which products are eligible. Accepts Tires for recycling - visit https://www.albertarecycling.ca/recycling-programs/tire-recycling-program/ for details on which products are eligible.
City of Calgary - Fire Station #20 (Lincoln Park/Garrison Green)
2800 Peacekeepers Way Southwest, Calgary, AB T3E 7B2, CA
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Description: Free drop-off of household hazardous waste including paint. For details, visit website or call 311 (if calling from within Calgary) or (403) 268-CITY (if calling from outside Calgary). Accepts Paint and Paint Containers for recycling - visit https://www.albertarecycling.ca/recycling-programs/paint-recycling-program for details on which products are eligible.
City Of Calgary - Fire Station #24 (Cedarbrae)
2607 106 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB T2W 4H7, CA
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Description: Free drop-off of household hazardous waste including paint. For more information, visit website or call 311 (if calling from within Calgary) or (403) 268-CITY (if calling from outside Calgary)
City of Calgary - Fire Station #37 (Evergreen)
2511 Eversyde Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB T2Y 5G8, CA
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Description: Free drop-off of household hazardous waste including paint. Visit website for further details or call 311 (if calling from within Calgary) or (403) 268-CITY (if calling from outside Calgary) Accepts Paint and Paint Containers for recycling - visit https://www.albertarecycling.ca/recycling-programs/paint-recycling-program for details on which products are eligible.


Prescribed for Gas, Functional Gastric Disorder, Postoperative Gas Pains, Endoscopy or Radiology Premedication. simethicone may also be used for purposes not listed in this medication guide.
For Functional Gastric Disorder: I have had mild IBS for seven-eight months, and sometimes suffer mild to medium lower gut pain, kind of a gas bloating. Someone recommended trying this out. I take a Gas-X extra strength whenever I feel gut pain, and it helps a fair bit.
See the full simethicone side effects document.


I get this question a lot so I thought I'd put some information out there to help people decide on whether it's a good idea to buy a holiday house.
Firstly, it really depends on your reason for the purchase - are you looking to invest or is it a lifestyle property? First rule, never mix both. If you want to invest there are many options out there where you can achieve investment goals without the added risk of buying a property in what would unlikely be the best area for growth at any given time.
Secondly, consider the cash flow and tax scenario. If you block out the property for person use, not only are you reducing your available income but you are also reducing your tax benefits...which brings us back to point one, why are you doing it in the first place?
It is far better to buy an IP to make money and only buy a holiday home if you are already financially secure and don't really plan on using it to make money. That way you can go to many different holiday destinations while you make money elsewhere!
I've written about this in a lot more detail at the link below, including further considerations, which I'd encourage you to read if you're in this boat and are currently deciding what to do. It's the time of year where people consider this type of thing so please educate yourself before you sign any contracts!
A holiday house/unit will most likely set you back $250k+, how many holidays will it take to cost you $250k? Even if you blow $10k on each holiday, it is still going to take many visits to catch up to that accommodation cost.
Spot on. It's usually an emotional decision justified by the added belief that it's also a good investment. Some may be, but it's better to separate the two.
I moved into my holiday house and take a 'holiday'in the city for work. Much better.
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I think plenty of people like that idea!
I got the idea years ago from some the the older guys that spent most of their retirement/semi retirement out on the water, they had actually bought their holiday homes right down by the beach years previously and used negative gearing and short term renting to pay it off.
Because of the low cost they paid off in 10 years or so , in many cases the yields were greater than conventional rentals .
And as we found out the property still doubled in value in 10 years as it rode the wave that powered Sydney.
Its also probably a really good idea to have a good understanding of the rental/ holiday market in the area that you intend to buy in.
Its helpfull if you grew up or spent time living there in your younger days .
I wonder how competition and vacancies in the holiday rental market has been affected by AirBNB etc? It seems there are a lot more properties available for short term rent in coastal holiday towns these days thanks to how easy these websites make it for owners, I wonder if this has translated into higher vacancy rates or if more people are using the service to make up for it?
In areas with really high occupancy rates during the peak school holiday season it makes very little difference as no one needs to discount.
In areas with a large supply of properties and lower occupancy rates many start to under cut each other to the point that they make very little money.
Air BnB is really just another letting method - Stayz, Homeaway, Air BnB. Probably the primary difference is that Air BnB often have the owners still on site. Which yes, could possibly have increased the supply.
On the other hand, it has possibly simply opened up a different market i.e. young couple who can rent a granny flat on someone's property near a beach who wouldn't necessarily rent a whole property.
The answer here is pretty much "buy property anywhere nice in the 80s/90's/early 2000's & ride the boom"
As a younger guy, I can't help but feel an occasional stab of jealousy at baby boomer colleagues who bought holiday homes at the Gold Coast / Sunshine coast back in the days when you could get a 3 bedder for <$80k.
Decades of Australian wage suppression & a massive rise in the "real cost" of housing has made that sort of trick fairly well unrepeatable.
I'd love to be able to buy a nice holiday place even if it was going to long term under perform vs a comparable investment, but property is so damn expensive now I nor most people can casually tie up a few hundred thousand dollars on a mortgage on a property that isn't going to cover its expenses.
Also in true boomer form, the "negative gear my holiday home" strategy is rapidly being closed to the next generation (https://www.smh.com.au/money/tax/tax-warning-for-holiday-home-owners-20180522-p4zgpt.html), which is fairly typical of Australian macro policy.
The ones I am seeing win with the holiday home model at present are high net worth folk who want to own beachfront or significant ocean view properties... and have 1 of 2 goals.
Option 2: Don't need the money and basically keep it for family use. However will sometimes short term let when unused creates partial tax advantage.
Their long term plan (10+ yrs) is to pay it off and have for personal use or move into it as retirement home mostly. They are very patient though.
The properties need to be premium for their respective locations, ocean views, walk to beach, lakefront or beachfront etc. So many are in the $1-3m price point.
If doing short term letting for income you need to drive it like a business, pick a cracking specialist manager, pay their hideous fees, advertise in multiple locations to get occupancy up and wait 2-3 yrs for repeat business PLUS new business to make it truly profitable. In those cases I am seeing people end up with net cash flows that properly outperform long term rental. You can't just take all the peak times yourself, advertise it with a local sales agency that does some holiday homes on the side when you aren't using it, and expect to achieve decent returns.
I have seen individual beach homes with $100k+ gross incomes still netting down to over 5%.
For average earners with limited incomes, it's probably not ideal 9 times out of 10.
Doesn't everyone do this? I must be mixing with the wrong crowd.
One guy bought 2 houses, bulldozed them, built a $7m home, then bought the neighbour out, bulldozed that house and built a tennis court. All oceanfront. I believe its just him/family/friends who use it.
My family owns a holiday house on the beach in WA.
It's been in the family since before I was born (I'm 36).
It's an old beach shack about 1.5hrs from Perth.
Some facts, despite it being used by 4 families (parents and 3 adult 'kids') it is vacant about 75% of the time. And when it's used it's used by 2or 3 families (peace and quiet - it is not).
Though in saying this the usage has increased significantly in the last 18months since my parents retired. They are probably up there 1week in 4 now.
We have tried short term letting it, however that requires someone to be available, and then clean it afterwards.
To have a manager do it for you, you net about 50% of the gross rent (I think this is pretty universal - a friend of mine has a ski chalet in NZ, and short term letts it, with over 5years data he has an average occupancy of 80+% year round, and nets 45-50%. By his maths he can put it on long term lease, and net more (it just wouldn't be available for the 2weeks/year he wants to use it).
The capital growth has been average at best. My parents paid $18,000 for it when they bought it. Today we would probably get about $350,000 (36+years later).
However, the house is falling down and needs to be replaced. For something suitable we need probably about $200-300k. Doing this will probably take the value to about $600k.
Proir to the GFC it was bank valued at about $650k, however, holiday homes got smashed since then.
A) unless you buy in a very popular tourist area, a holiday house is unlikely to be a great investment. Or at least, there are probably better places to invest. And holidaying with a lot of tourists isn't my idea of a holiday.
B) consider how much you will really use it. Anything more than about 2hours from your home makes it a pretty decent journey to-do for a weekend. How many weekend will you actually do it? Try before you buy. Spend a whole year trying to get to your favorite place every weekend, and see how many times you do. From experience it's far less than you would like.
C) given capital cost, low income and opportunity cost, it is far cheaper to pay for someone else's air bnb.
D) if you short term let it, most likely you'll want it the same weekends which are your peak demand! So you then have another decision to make. Do we use the house (for free) but lose $x,000 income. Or de we generate the income, and rent a house close to our house (for less), or do we just skip this long weekend of perfect weather and go 'another time'.
If you have some cash to splash on a holiday home, my reccomendation would be to drop that into a market based ETF, use the divs to pay for your annual holidays (where ever you want to go).
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Rather pay the $1,000 or whatever a week, hand it back to the owner at the end and let them deal with problems or rates, taxes and maintenance.
I have clients who have holiday homes. Most would never rent them and see it as a lifestyle choice. They wont rent them out as they love the personal sense of enjoyment and privacy it brings. They just drive up and its like coming home.
Like some people buy a boat, others a small plane etc. Its as personal as the choice to buy a huge home when its just two of you. Or buying close to a beach and spending millions. Some eventually tire of them and when that happens they sell. Its like buying a Ferrari. If you can afford to, its a great thing. But it may make a lousy investment. Not all spending needs to be an investment with a financial return.
My in laws bought several timeshares and if you didnt know more you would think they were nuts. But they bought them in the days of the trading post and paid very little on the secondary market for a lifetime of rights. That was approx 20 years ago. I think they have three. They looked at is as a prepayment of holidays and it gave them rights to exchange across the globe. They have used that feature a lot. They wouldnt sell them as they provide a nice return in free holidays when they want one. If they look like losing a week or two and they cant bank them they offer it to family at cost for the minor charges for linen etc. They reckon for the $6K they spent they have got back $30K or more in savings and they could easily sell the rights but wont.
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Yes, that's the problem with renting short term.
You lose a lot of the 'ownership' feeling. It's not just yours.
Like a boat the cost is directly inversly proportional to the usage. If used regularly they are a cheap form of entertainment.
If used rarely they are hugely expensive.
In saying all the above. We have discussed several times liquidating the house. But have all agreed to never do so. It's a priceless experience, and doesn't cost us anything to own.
The rule of the three Fs.
Never buy but rent anything that floats, flys or f*%ks.
BOAT stands for : Bring on another thousand!
I have one over 6m so know all about this, however it was a lifestyle choice and I don't care what it costs me as the enjoyment when on the briny is priceless.
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Jews Saved from Muslim Car Ramming Attack in LA
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Two LA Jews walked home from Synagogue in Los Angeles. They are lucky to be alive. Their lives were saved thanks to their alertness. A Muslim driver by the name of Mohammed Abdi screamed Jew hating sentences at them and then tried to ram his car into them. He had a Koran in his car.
Key Sentence
The key sentence in the news video of the event above has nothing to do with the specific event. It is a sentence uttered by one of the Jewish neighbor's in the community, Michael Schwartz. He was interviewed about the incident soon afterwards.
Schwartz said that "this is a much more violent and scarier world than we all thought it was. We had a few years of civility after the Holocaust and now that window is closing."
Nothing New Under the Sun
This is a sentiment that is critical for people, and especially Jews, to internalize. Jew hatred has existed forever. Just a few weeks ago Jews read the Torah portions dealing with Isaac and the problems he had with the Philistines. Isaac dug up water wells, and the Philistines covered them up. Some Torah commentaries point out that this is the beginning of Jew-hatred, all the way back in the Bible. Even though Isaac dug those wells to benefit everyone, including the Philistines, they destroyed them so that nobody could enjoy them.
No Logic
Jew hatred has no reason. We are blamed for communism at the same time we are blamed for capitalism. It has always existed and our haters just had to choose which reason to use to blame the hate on us. However, all that changed after the Holocaust. Western society felt a deep sense of guilt when they saw how horrible cultured Germans acted towards the Jews. They mass murdered 6 million of us. Jew-hatred then became socially taboo. That taboo lasted for around 70 years. But now it is over. Jew hatred is back. Now, we are witnessing it in LA from a Muslim Jew hater, in Pittsburgh from a far-right Jew hater, and on college campuses all across the USA from left-wing Jew-haters. Even in Congress, there are three openly Jew-hating Democrats that were newly elected.
It Starts Small
Jew hatred is back and this is the old-new reality of the world we must learn to accept. Unfortunately, acts of hatred start against the Jews but then escalate against others as well. Jews are the canary in the coal mine. All freedom loving people should be scared that Jew hatred is on the rise.
We can educate against Jew hatred like all hatred. Isn't it sad that hatred and discrimination is called out against everyone, but allowed against the Jews?
More importantly, people must internalize that Jew hatred doesn't just affect the Jews. It spreads and then affects all of society. All nations that legitimized Jew hatred end up self-destructing.
Most important, people must realize that the waves of hatred against the Jews today are not just about Jews. They are about attacking the Jew as the representative of a strong national identity that progressives are trying to destroy across the Western world.
National Pride is a Good Thing
All nations must strengthen their national identities. While diversity should be celebrated, national identities should be celebrated as well. Each and every nation should strengthen their national identity and defend it. There is nothing wrong with nationalism and patriotism. Progressive culture today destroys nationalism by bringing up the Nazis. However, the Nazis were not truly nationalists. They were an imperialist culture that believed the German race was the purest race in the world, and should rule the world. Nobody should be embarrassed to feel proud in their national identity because of the fear nationalism is like Nazism!
Each and every person that wants to fight the hatred of today must be like the proud Jews of Israel. Be proud of your identity and protect yourselves and your identity. Only in that way will we be able to save the freedom loving world from the growing waves of hatred.
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Isla Aldea är en ö i Chile.   Den ligger i regionen Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena, i den södra delen av landet. Arean är  kvadratkilometer.

Terrängen på Isla Aldea är kuperad. Öns högsta punkt är  meter över havet. Den sträcker sig 25,8 kilometer i nord-sydlig riktning, och 17,1 kilometer i öst-västlig riktning.

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In 1998, PRONATURA convened a group of individuals and organizations to form a National Earth Charter Committee that would help raise awareness about the Earth Charter and put together a collective contribution to the Earth Charter consultation process. Their effort to promote the Earth Charter included developing and disseminating programs for television and radio and various workshops.
In 2000, the Earth Charter Committee continued disseminating the Earth Charter through a series of Earth Charter articles, which were published in newspapers and magazines that year. The Poveda Center also joined this effort to support the Initiative through education programs in schools.
In 2014, a network of organizations that work with people with disabilities in Dominican Republic (called La Red Iberoamericana de Entidades de Personas con Discapacidad Física en la República Dominicana) published an environmental education material that is based on the Earth Charter.
In 2008, the University Pedro Enríquez Ureña offered two orientation courses for teachers, in the framework of a Post-Graduate Program for Teachers of the Ministry of Education. Sixty teachers from different regions of the country participated.
In Dominican Republic, an organization that work with people with disabilities created an environmental education material with the Earth Charter.
Assessing progress and developing capacity in the Caribbean Region in the context of the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. 28-29 April 2011, Trinidad and Tobago.
To celebrate World Environment Day, the Dominican Republic's State Ministry of Education organized a national workshop on the Earth Charter for school teachers. The Vice Minister of Education and the General Curriculum Director attended and participated in the workshop.


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Brian Peter Watts (born March 18, 1966) is an American professional golfer.

Early life and amateur career
Watts was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada to European parents, but is now a U.S. citizen who lives in Texas. He played college golf at Oklahoma State and won the NCAA Division I Championship in 1987 and was a member of the team that won the 1987 NCAA Division I Team Championship. He also won the 1986 Big 8 Conference Championship and the 1985 and 1987 Morris Williams Intercollegiate (tied Ben Crenshaw's scoring record in '85) as part of his 7 collegiate wins. Only Lindy Miller, Scott Verplank and Willie Wood have more college wins in OSU's long successful golf history. Watts was a four-time All-American (two-time first team and two-time second team) and a 1987 runner-up for the Fred Haskins award. Only Watts and Tom Jones are credited for never shooting a score in the 80s while at OSU. Watts won the 1984 Texas State 5A High School Championship and added the prestigious A.J.G.A. Player of the Year honors later that year. After being honored as the 1984 AJGA Player of the Year, Watts won the AJGA Polo Golf Junior Classic the same week. Watts partnered with John Daly to win the 1984 AJGA Future Legends of Golf as well. In 1983, Watts added two more AJGA championships to his record by winning the AJGA Oklahoma Junior Classic & AJGA Holiday Junior Classic. As a 15 year old, once shot a 59 (−13) at his home course Brookhaven C.C. Presidents Course.

Professional career
Watts turned professional in 1988. During the 1990s, he played mainly on the Japan Golf Tour, having gained his card via the Asia Golf Circuit, where he topped the Order of Merit in 1993. During his six seasons on the Japan Golf Tour from 1993 to 1998 he had 12 tournament victories and 12 runner-up finishes, amassing 63 top-10s in 124 events. When he left the tour he was the second all-time foreign money leader (593 million yen) to David Ishii. Only foreign players to have won more events were Ishii and Graham Marsh when Watts left for the PGA Tour in late 1998. His biggest victories in Japan were the 1994 Bridgestone Open where he defeated then World Number 1 Nick Price on the final day and the 1998 Casio World Open where then World Number 1 Tiger Woods was making his Japan Golf Tour debut. His first professional win was at the 1993 Hong Kong Open. However, he is best known for his performance at The Open Championship at Royal Birkdale in 1998, where he lost in the playoff to Mark O'Meara. He had a two stroke lead entering the final round and shot 70. On the 72nd hole Watts faced a bunker shot where his right leg was out of the bunker and he nearly holed it from 45 feet. After making the 1 foot par putt on the final hole Watts failed to make two short birdie putts on the first two playoff holes and ended up losing by two shots in the four hole playoff. This performance helped earn Watts a PGA Tour card and by the end of the year he reached the top 20 of the Official World Golf Ranking.

In a successful 1999 season on the PGA Tour he finished 57th on the money list, including 26th in scoring average. He was one of a handful of players to make the cut in all four major championships and the Players Championship but his career was ended soon afterwards due to injuries.

Following a number of poor seasons, Watts has played little competitive golf since 2005 while rehabilitating from hip, knee, foot, and back injuries.

Amateur wins
this list may be incomplete
1986 Trans-Mississippi Amateur, LaJet National Amateur
1987 NCAA Division I Championship

Professional wins (13)

Japan Golf Tour wins (12)

*Note: The 1998 Yomiuri Open was shortened to 36 holes due to rain.

Japan Golf Tour playoff record (3–2)

Asia Golf Circuit wins (1)

Playoff record
PGA Tour playoff record (0–1)

Results in major championships

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied

Summary

Most consecutive cuts made – 6 (1998 Open Championship – 1999 PGA)
Longest streak of top-10s – 1

Results in The Players Championship

CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place

Results in World Golf Championships

QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
"T" = Tied

See also
1990 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates
2002 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates
List of golfers with most Japan Golf Tour wins

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American male golfers
Oklahoma State Cowboys golfers
PGA Tour golfers
Japan Golf Tour golfers
Golfing people from Quebec
Golfers from Oklahoma
Sportspeople from Montreal
Golfers from Dallas
1966 births
Living people


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A true story, Rumpy! Pumpy!, with book, music and lyrics by Barbara Jane Mackie, starring Linda Nolan and Louise Jameson, directed by Simon Grieff.
When Jean Johnson and Shirley Landels, two brave ladies from the Hampshire Women's Institute, decide to campaign for the decriminalisation of prostitution and to improve conditions for Working Girls everywhere, brothel madame, Holly Spencer, gets in touch. She has the perfect brothel these ladies could be looking for! Holly quips: 'You ladies make the tea and we'll bring the crumpets!' As the two conflicting worlds collide, comedy and chaos ensue in this very British comedy musical.
Rumpy! Pumpy! closed on 19 November 2016.