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El Koninklijke Sporting Club Lokeren Oost-Vlaanderen fue un club de fútbol belga, de la ciudad de Lokeren en Flandes Oriental. Fue fundado en 1923 y jugó por última vez en la Segunda División de Bélgica hasta que desapareció en 2020 tras declararse en bancarrota.

Historia
Su primera ascenso a la Primera División de Bélgica fue en la temporada 1974/1975 y desde entonces ha permanecido en ella, excepto en las temporadas 1993/1994 y 1995/1996 hasta la temporada 2018/2019.

En 2002 se fusionaron con el K Sint-Niklase SKE, pero se mantuvieron con su nombre actual. Anteriormente se habían fusionado con el Koninklijke Standaard F.C. Lokeren en 1970 debido a problemas financieros.

El 20 de abril de 2020 se declaró en bancarrota. El 22 de abril del mismo año, se anunció que se había concluido una fusión no oficial entre KSV Temse y el club profesional en quiebra, creándose el nuevo KSC Lokeren-Temse, que jugaría en la División 2 de Bélgica en la temporada 2020-2021.

Nombres Históricos
 1945 - Racing Athletiek- en Football Club Lokeren
 1951 - Koninklijke Racing Club Lokeren
 1970 - Koninklijke Sporting Club Lokeren
 2000 - Sporting Lokeren Sint-Niklaas Waasland
 2003 - Koninklijke Sporting Club Lokeren Oost-Vlaanderen

Palmarés
 Copa de Bélgica: 2
 2011/12, 2013/14

 Segunda División de Bélgica: 1
 1995/96

Participación en competiciones de la UEFA

Récord europeo

Plantel actual

Plantilla 2019-20 (Final)

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  = Lesionado de larga duración
  = Capitán

Jugadores destacados

  José Francisco Cevallos Jr.
  Guy Dardenne
  Davy De Beule
  Maurits De Schrijver
  Filip De Wilde
  Raymond Mommens
  Jurgen Sierens
  René Verheyen
  Bruno Versavel
  Derick Katuku Tshimanga
  Suvad Katana
  João Carlos
  Aristide Bancé
  Patrice Zéré
  Ivan Leko
  Tomislav Sokota
  Jan Koller
  Roman Vonášek
  Daniel Zítka

  Elos Elonga-Ekakia
  Hervé Nzelo-Lembi
  Preben Elkjær Larsen
  Dale Tempest
  Marko Myyry
  Kari Ukkonen
  Sambégou Bangoura
  Souleymane Youla
  Marel Baldvinsson
  Arnar Grétarsson
  Arnór Guðjohnsen
  Rúnar Kristinsson
  Arnar Viðarsson
  Omer Golan
  Avi Strool
  Yoav Ziv

  Edward Linskens
  René van der Gijp
  Moussa Maazou
  Stephen Keshi
  Peter Rufai
  Samson Siasia
  Dawid Janczyk
  Grzegorz Lato
  Włodzimierz Lubański
  Jim Bett
  Jim Tolmie
  Zvonko Milojević
  Karol Dobiaš
  Mladen Dabanovič
  Adékambi Olufadé
  Đorđe Vujkov

Entrenadores desde 1970

  Frans De Bruyne (1970–71)
  Armand Jurion (1971–74)
  Ladislav Novák (1974–77)
  Han Grijzenhout (1977–78)
  Leon Nollet (1978)
  Urbain Braems (1978–79)
  Urbain Haesaert &  Jozef Vacenovsky (1979–81)
  Robert Waseige (1981–83)
  Dimitri Davidovic (1983–Febrero 85)
  Aimé Anthuenis (1985–87)
  Wim Jansen &  Włodzimierz Lubański (1987–88)
  Aimé Anthuenis (1988–92)
  Aimé Antheunis &  Jozef Vacenovsky (1992–enero 93)
  Chris Van Puyvelde (1993–94)
  Fi Van Hoof (1995–agosto de 1997)
  Willy Reynders (1997–agosto de 1999)
  Rudy Cossey &  Ronny Van Geneugden (interino) (agosto de 1999)
  Georges Leekens (septiembre de 1999–junio de 2001)
  Paul Put (julio de 2001–octubre de 2003)
  Franky Van der Elst (octubre de 2003–diciembre de 2004)
  Slavoljub Muslin (mayo de 2005–diciembre de 2005)
  Aimé Anthuenis (enero de 2006–febrero de 2006)
  Rudi Cossey (febrero de 2006–junio de 2006)

  Ariël Jacobs (julio de 2006–octubre de 2006)
  Rudi Cossey (interino) (noviembre de 2006)
  Slavoljub Muslin (noviembre de 2006–junio de 2007)
  Georges Leekens (julio de 2007–abril de 2009)
  Freddy Heirman (interino) (abril de 2009)
  Aleksandar Janković (abril de 2009–octubre de 2009)
  Jacky Mathijssen (octubre de 2009–enero de 2010)
  Emilio Ferrera (enero de 2010–junio de 2010)
  Peter Maes (julio de 2010–)
  Bob Peeters (2014–octubre de 2015)
  Georges Leekens (octubre de 2015–)
  Rúnar Kristinsson (octubre de 2016-iciembre de 2017)
  Bob Peeters (diciembre de 2017 – presente)

Enlaces externos

 Sitio web oficial
 soccerway.com
 Perfil en UEFA.COM
 Perfil en EUFO.DE
 Perfil en Weltfussball.de
 Perfil en Playerhistory.com
 Perfil en Transfermarkt.de
 Perfil en Football Squads.co.uk
 Perfil en National Football Teams.com
 Perfil en Football-Lineups.com

KSC Lokeren
Equipos de fútbol desaparecidos de Bélgica

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Aztec supports Nordic Capital
Leading independent fund and corporate services provider, the Aztec Group, has supported Nordic Capital on the final close of its latest fund, Nordic Capital Fund IX ("the Fund"), at just over €4.3billion.
Domiciled and administered in Jersey, the Fund was heavily oversubscribed, exceeding its target of €3.5billion in just seven months. Focused on European investments, the Fund will invest in five core sectors: healthcare, financial services, technology and payments, consumer retail and industrial goods and services.
Aztec Group supported Nordic Capital with the Fund's formation and fundraising activities and will provide ongoing administration services to the Fund and its investment structures from its Jersey office.
Aztec Group is one of the world's largest independent providers of fund, corporate and depositary services, with over 720 employees operating across six leading jurisdictions. Administering over €290bn, the Group provides outsourcing services to more than 170 alternative investment managers, including over 20 leading private equity and venture capital managers in the Nordic region.
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Born 1978 - Lewisburg, PA 1978
Benj Gerdes is an artist, writer, and organizer working in film, video, and a number of other public formats. He frequently works in collaboration with other artists, activists, and theorists, including as a member of 16 Beaver Group. He is interested in intersections of political discourse, knowledge production, and popular imagination. His individual and collaborative work focuses on the affective and social consequences of economic and state regimes through historical research, dialogue, and participatory or aleatory formalizations. Gerdes' work has been exhibited widely in both traditional venues and emerging platforms, with the former including Kiasma Museum of Modern Art (Helsinki), Kunsthalle Exnergasse (Vienna), Guangzhou Triennial (China), Lulea Biennial (Sweden), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), REDCAT Gallery (Los Angeles), Images Festival (Toronto), Art in General (New York), the New Museum (New York), and Migrating Forms (New York); and the latter more often including public performances and programs, web platforms, broadcast television, and books and publications such as October, The Journal of Aesthetics + Protest, Ninth Letter, and Rethinking Marxism. He is the recipient of numerous residencies, including the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) Woolworth Building Workspace Residency and Visual Arts Network (VAN) Exhibition Residency, and grants from the Jerome Foundation, NYSCA, and the Experimental Television Center. He has taught and lectured in numerous institutions and public contexts, including recently three years as Visiting Artist in the Cinema Department at Binghamton (State University of New York). He currently serves on the video faculty at the Cooper Union School of Art.
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Why is ousia translated as substance? Should it be?
From Aristotle's Metaphysics, translation Reeve 2016, Z1:
What is being?---is just the question, What is substance?
This statement is a lot more obvious in Greek:
Ousia is a noun formed from the present participle ousa of the verb einai ("to be"). "Substance" is the traditional translation. (note 58, pg 272)
(Of course Aristotle has a lot more to say about why the two questions are the same. But surely etymology has something to do with his word choice.)
If I understand Aristotle correctly (not likely), a substance is a combination of form and matter (aka a hylomorphism). Now anything with both form and matter seems to me to be just a thing, an object, a being. And it also seems like any thing, object, or being just is matter in a certain form, and therefore a substance. Then it seems like all these words mean the same thing. If these alternatives exist, "substance" seems to me to be a bizarre choice to translate ousia.
Who first translated ousia as "substance", and why did they choose that word?
And can I rephrase Aristotle's equation as
What is being?---is just the question, What is a being?
(which has the virtue of maintaining the etymological tie between einai and ousia) or
What is being?---is just the question, What is a thing?
and still keep his meaning intact?
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Latin substantia is formed from substō, to stand under, to exist, in the same way that ousia is formed from einai. It does mean being or essence. Why is it a bizarre choice for translation (regardless of Aristotle)?
– Conifold
@Conifold It sacrifices the etymological connection between einai and ousia making the connection between being and substance obscure, and it replaces a common word, about which I have lots of intuitions, with a technical one, about which I have very few.
– Canyon
In medieval Latin it was an obvious connection and a common word. And it is highly unlikely that your intuitions match Aristotle's from a different culture of over two millenia ago, let alone the technical sense he gave to "ousia" in his philosophy. So "substance" might be a blessing in disguise.
That makes sense; translating eudaimonia as "happiness" used to cause me trouble, because I couldn't separate Aristotle's technical usage from my intuitions. But Aristotle wasn't above coining terms ("the what-it-is"). So I guess my real question is, What intuition was Aristotle drawing on when he chose ousia as the technical term for the subject of predication? But I should open a new question for that. @Conifold: thanks
I'm with Heidegger, who comments that most of our philosophical problems come from confusing Being with beings. In the language here this would be confusing substance (form and matter) with Being. I share your confusion over the translation of 'ousia' but am not sure whether the issue is the translation or Aristotle himself. . .
There are several senses in which a thing may be said to be, as we pointed out. [Met, Book Z, 1028a9]
there are many senses in which a thing is said to be, but all refer to one starting-point; some things are said to be because they are substances, others because they are affections of substance, others because they are a process towards substance, or destructions or privations or qualities of substance, or productive or generative of substance, or of things which are relative to substance, or negations of some of these things or of substance itself [Met, Book Gamma, 1003b].
Thus, following Franz Brentano's dissertation : On the Several Senses of Being in Aristotle (1862), page 3 :
The various sorts of being which are here enumerated can be reduced to four kinds:
(1) Being which has no existence whatever outside the understanding (privation, negation);
(2) The being of movement and of generation and corruption (process toward substance, destruction);
(3) Being which has complete but dependent existence (affections of substance, qualities, things productive and generative);
(4) The being of the substances (ousia).
And see Cat, 5, 2a13 :
A substance —that which is called a substance most strictly, primarily, and most of all [protai ousiai (πρῶται οὐσίαι), "primary substances"] — is that which is neither said of a subject nor in a subject, e.g. the individual man or the individual horse.
Substance is from Latin : substantia :
From substāns, present active participle of substō ("stand under; exist"), from sub + stō ("stand").
See also hypostasis :
From ecclesiastical Latin hypostasis, from Ancient Greek ὑπόστασις (hupóstasis, "sediment, foundation; substance, existence, essence"), from ὑπό (hupó) + στάσις (stásis, "standing").
And see : John Marenbon, Boethius, Oxford UP (2003), page 71 :
Boethius, however, goes out of his way to link his definition of persona to an Aristotelian understanding of hupostasis. He is helped by a linguistic accident. In order to explain this, it is useful to introduce a new term — one obviously different from any word Boethius himself uses — for things that belong to Aristotle's first category (ousia): I shall accordingly speak of 'first-category things/individuals/universals'.
The linguistic accident consists in the fact that the usual, Latin translation of hupostasis was substantia. But substantia was also the Latin word used by some, including Boethius himself, as the word for first-category things.
For a linguistic analysis regarding Ancient Greek use of the terms regarding being (εἶναι, οὐσία) see :
Charles Kahn, Essays on Being, Oxford University Press (2009).
For a philosophical analysis, from the point of view of modern formal logic, see :
Jaakko Hintikka, The Varieties of Being in Aristotle, into : Simo Knuuttila & Jaakko Hintikka (editor), The Logic of Being : Historical Studies, Reidel (1986).
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For this, you have to inquire the Medieval Latin translations and the Latin commentary of the Roman Boethius (477–524 AD) : In Categorias Aristotelis.
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Augusta to acquire run-down apartment buildings on State, Bridge streets
City Manager William Bridgeo recommended acquiring both of them to try to improve the properties themselves, as well as the neighborhoods that surround them.
By Keith EdwardsKennebec Journal
AUGUSTA — City councilors voted Thursday to accept the donation of a dilapidated State Street apartment building and spend up to $30,000 to purchase another on Bridge Street in an effort to improve the neighborhoods.
The city already owns properties next to both the 11 State St. and 115 Bridge St. properties councilors on Thursday agreed to acquire. City Manager William Bridgeo recommended acquiring both of them to try to improve the properties themselves, as well as the neighborhoods that surround them.
The city of Augusta plans to demolish 11 State Street, left, and 15 Morton Place in Augusta, shown May 18, to create a marketable building lot. Staff file photo by Joe Phelan
Augusta police Lt. Chris Massey, left, and Augusta Code Enforcement Officer Robert Overton inspect the apartment building at 117 Bridge St. in Augusta in 2016 after police executed a search warrant at the building and arrested two people on drug trafficking charges. The city now owns the property, which is next door to one that the council voted Thursday to purchase. Staff file photo by Andy Molloy
The city will tear down the 11 State St. property, and the run-down building next to it at 15 Morton Place, which the city acquired after the previous owner failed to pay property taxes. The plan is to combine the adjacent lots into one property and look to resell what will be a larger lot.
The plan for 115 Bridge St. isn't so clear.
Bridgeo said the city staff doesn't have a specific recommendation for what the city should do with 115 Bridge St. or the property it already owns next to it at 117 Bridge St. He said the Augusta Housing Authority has expressed some interest in acquiring them but has not committed itself to do so. He said the city could tear down one or both of the buildings and seek private developers to build something new on one or both of the adjacent properties, and return them to the tax rolls.
He said the urgency to act now comes from the possibility that 115 Bridge St., which is listed for sale for $35,000, could be bought by someone else. He and city councilors said there has been drug dealing at those locations, the properties are blighted, and improving them could improve the whole neighborhood.
"Even knowing we don't have an absolute plan, the reason I like (the proposal to purchase 115 Bridge St.) is it helps rehabilitate an area that could use some help, potentially," said At-large Councilor Corey Wilson. "I think if we are to go the route of tearing them down, we combine those lots and we build a nice duplex home in that area that has a nice facade, that looks nice. It helps bring that area up as a whole. And I think that's a benefit to the city. Because as you do these types of projects in those neighborhoods, it does increase the value of those neighborhoods. It makes the rents in that area go up so you then potentially push out some of the bad types of things that happen in those neighborhoods."
Councilors voted 6-1 to authorize Bridgeo to spend up to $30,000 to buy the property. Bridgeo said the city has an agreement, which was contingent on councilors' approval, to buy it for $28,000.
At-large Councilor Mark O'Brien, who voted against the proposal, said he did so because of the lack of details on what the city might do with the properties.
Councilors voted 5-2 to accept the donation of the State Street property, from its owners Anthony Thomas and Le Nhu Truong, with Ward 1 Councilor Linda Conti and Ward 3 Councilor Harold Elliott, the two dissenting votes, expressing concerns that accepting the property could set a precedent and become a way for building owners who fail to maintain their buildings to get rid of them.
"I don't believe I can vote for this because of the fact I don't want to put the taxpayers of the city of Augusta on the hook for taking down buildings that somebody cannot be responsible for," Elliott said. "I also believe we may be setting precedent by doing this. What does a person have to lose by neglecting their building if they owe nothing on it and they walk away and we're stuck with taking it down?"
The four-unit apartment building at 11 State St. was ordered vacated by the city code department in 2012 because of building code violations including an unsafe, dilapidated front deck structure that is the only way to get to three upper-level apartments. It has been vacant since then.
Other councilors agreed that the city staff's recommendation to accept the "gift" of the property and demolish it and the adjacent Morton Place building and combine the lots into one would be in the best interest of city taxpayers. They also said it is a unique situation that shouldn't set a precedent.
"This property would have an adverse impact on the property the city already owns," newly sworn-in At-large Councilor Jennifer Day said. "So unilaterally, I wouldn't always say this is a good idea, but in this specific circumstance I think it is."
Bridgeo said the State Street building's rear multilevel deck has come off that building and is leaning against 15 Morton Place. He said both buildings are firetraps that could be attractive to squatters, and they are safety hazards. He said the city would save money by demolishing them both at once. Also, he said if the city doesn't take the State Street property, it probably could end up acquiring it anyway because the current owner can't afford to fix it up.
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CHC52015 Community Services
Course Code: CHC52015
University: Swinburne University Of Technology
For assessement location include united states-illinois-chicago- community services, parks, worship places such as church & temple.
Defining the Community
Your community should be within a specifically designated geographic location.
One must clearly delineate the following dimensions before starting the process of community assessment:
1)Describe the population that is being assessed? mention about elderly population
2)What is/are the race(s) of this population within the community? asian, indian(hindu)
3)Are there boundaries of this group? If so, what are they?
4)Does this community exist within a certain city or county? maximum population located in cook and dupage county
5)Are there general characteristics that separate this group from others?
6)Education levels, birth/death rates, age of deaths, insured/uninsured?
7)Where is this group located geographically…? Urban/rural? suburban area in the city of chicago
8)Why is a community assessment being performed? What purpose will it serve?
9)How will information for the community assessment be collected?
Culture and heritage is a significant part of the society, these include the traditions, believes, language, art, literature etc. A community is a group of people with a set of similar these cultural aspects. For this assignment the community that is going to be discussed is about the Indian population in United Sates of America. There are several reasons for international migration, and the trend of migration is usually from the under developed countries to developed country. India has seen a growth in the economy, however there is significant difference in between the economic status of the US. Hence, there is a large population of Indian community in the US. People move to America looking for job as well as better education opportunities there are also American multinationals in India that move their employees from one country to another (Ortega & Peri, 2013). These are some of the reason why Indians have over the years settled away from their country of origin. There are communities that live under the protection of the visa and immigration laws in America on the other hand there is a community that has American citizenship (Ortega & Peri, 2013).
1)Describe the population that is being assessed?
There is a large section of Indian population in the United States of America many of whose ancestors travelled in this land and many of whom themselves travelled into this country. This section of the people are mainly known as the Indian American community. This group is the 3rd largest group from the Asian region in the region. There is often a confusion between the indigenous Indians of America and the Indians who came from Republic of India, to remove this confusion the term Asian Indian has been used by the authorities of America (Usa.gov, 2018).
In this particular case the age of the citizens which is chosen is the elderly population beyond the age of 65, who are retired from their responsibilities and are mostly spending their leisure time or in some part time jobs. This constitutes 10 percent of the total Indian population in the United States Illinois Chicago. The statistics are similar in the case of the whole of the United States of America (Usa.gov, 2018).
2)What is/are the race(s) of this population within the community?
India is a country that has a wide range of culture, religion, language and tradition. Judicially the country is secular and accepts all the citizen of the country as Indians. The population which is chosen in this case is the Asian Indian (Hindu) community. One of the largest ethnic Asian groups is the Asian Indian Hindu community. This community is maintaining their own unique identity amidst the problem of various developments that are mostly aiming at homogenizing the population in the various countries around the country. There are various identification of the particular race including the religious principles, rituals, dressing, eating and language. There are about 1% Hindu Asian Community in the region. About 8% of this population is elderly. The Asian Hindu community in America is often stated to be among the very educated section of the society. The community is having their own area of living and the area is mainly Cook and DupageCounty in Chicago of Illinois (Usa.gov, 2018).
There are geographical and cultural boundaries in the ethnic group mentioned in this particular case. There are particular regions in the country where this particular community is concentrated in the United States of America. The highest number of Asian Hindus stay in the Denver state in the United States of America. This community is mostly found in the suburban areas of the United States of America. In the State of Illinois in Chicago region they are located in the Cook and Dupage County. This areas has been mainly dominated by the Asian Indian ethnicity most of whom are Hindu in their religion. The cultural boundary mainly exists in the social circle of the community of the Asian Indians and often there are social decriminalization which leads to further growth of the boundary.
4)Does this community exist within a certain city or county?
It is seen that there is a trend that a particular community is situated in some certain areas because the people of a particular community usually connects with each other from the same background or the same interests. Most people from this population is found in the Cook and Dupage County in Chicago of Illinois. This particular population is mainly found in the suburban regions of the state where the cost of living is lower and affordable than the urban areas of the country. The population in this region was about 5,238,216 in the year of 2015 among which about 1 percent was the Hindu community (Usa.gov, 2018).
As a part of the Hindu-Indian community there are facts that set the community apart from the others. This particular group has its own distinctive characteristic features compared to various other ethnic groups that are present in this region. The Asian Indian Hindu community is having their own religious, cultural, linguistic and physical identity. The community has their own temples which is kind of a gathering which brings the community together in the pursuit of achieving unity among the community members. The dress they wear is quite different from the rest of the community. They wear saree, dhoti, kurta and other ethnic dresses. One of the spiritual faction of the community known as the Hare Krishnas often wear saffron dresses. There are a number of festivals that are observed and celebrated among this community.
6) Education levels, birth/death rates, age of deaths, insured/uninsured?
In the United States, according to the reports of 2016, 9 people out of 10 at least had a diploma degree of high school or GED but only 1 person out of 3 people had a graduate degree or more than that. The rates of educated women are higher than that of men (Worldpopulationreview.com, 2018). The percentage of educated women is 33% and the percentage of educated men is 32%. Race and Hispanic origin varies the rates of educational attainment. It has been found that Asian people aged 25 hold the bachelors' degree and they have more number of people holing at least a bachelors' degree than that of the non-Hispanic Whites. The blacks and the Hispanic people have lesser number of education rates. Adult people with some kind of physical disability are unlike to hold a bachelors' degree. The National Vital Statistics System one of the oldest data sharing process which provides data on the Public Health, based on the Nation's crucial statistics.
It provides data on the vital events such as the rates of death and birth, marriages and many others. According to survey of 2017, the Chicago birth rates report say that there were 3,853,472 babies nationally born in the year 2016 (Dudek., 2018).As compared to the data of 2007, the number which was 4,316,233, there is a downfall in the later years (Worldpopulationreview.com, 2018). The birth rates of teens between the age group of 15-19, there was a 7% declination which came down to 194,284 total births (Worldpopulationreview.com, 2018). The death rates of babies are high because of the fertility problem within the mothers. The analysis of the data found from Third National and Nutrition Examination Survey reveals that the mortality ratio of the insured against the uninsured was 1:80. It has also been found that still the more than 46 million people in Chicago lacks health insurance and life insurance.
7) Where is this group located geographically…? Urban/rural ?
The community that is the Asian Hindu people is geographically located in the suburban city of Chicago. There are six major Asian immigrant groups in the Chicago Illinois area.The six different groups are the Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, Asian Indians, Filipinos and the Vietnamese. It has been found that the Asian Indian groups are the fastest growing groups which settled down in the DuPage and the northern Cook country. The Chinese people settled down at Chinatown, the Japanese and the Koreans settled at northern suburbs and the Vietnamese settled in the western suburbs. The areas like. Lincolnwood and Skokie are highly preferred by all the six groups. Though the past years, it has been found that the Asian people have continued to keep strong social cohesion, link to the economic factors and connection with their own groups.
8) Why is a community assessment being performed? What purpose will it serve?
The community assessment is being performed in order to develop an understanding of the needs and gaps of a particular community. The examination will help to find out the lacking within the community and will support to add some improvements in future. The goal of the community assessment is to gain knowledge about the impacts of the gap or lacking on the members of the community. For example, less number of high school or graduation degree indicates that the kids of the community are required to be sent to school. The long lives of the senior citizens indicate that they need more assistance and financial support to pay their own medical bills and treatment. The necessity to balance the society comes to the fore, when a clash occurs regarding the park spade and the play fields among the community members. Av community is formed families, community members, individuals, seniors, business organizations, seniors and many others. The exploration and analysis of each of the components will help to address the specific needs of each category. The community assessment will serve the purpose of know the community assets, response and needs. The strengths and weaknesses of the community are known and understood well. The asset gaps are also identified by the assessment. The assessment will also help the community members to decide in what way they can contribute for the betterment of the community.
9) How will information for the community assessment be collected?
Collection of information has two processes secondary and primary, secondary data are the information that is already available and primary are the new information that has to be gathered from the community. In order to get the information for the assessment will be collected via credible sources to proper data collection tools. It is essential in any data collection methods that the limits are set on what will be accepted and what will not be accepted. The data must be collected on priority basis. The time and resources must be considered before selecting the methods of data collection. A Data collection plan worksheet must be used for the documentation. The key questions have to be identified and listed. The entire assessment will be based on primary and secondary data. The members of the community will be surveyed via rounds of questionnaires. The source will be local at first, and then it will be expanded. The quality will be focused on more than quantity s that the other aspects of the community can also be highlighted. Focus group method will also be used as a primary data collection method. Cases will be studied to get better insight into the issues.
It can be concluded from the above discussion it can be concluded that community assessment is necessary for understanding the gaps of the community so that proper action can be taken to eliminate the issues. There is a large section of Indian population in the United States of America many of whose ancestors travelled in this land and many of whom themselves travelled into this country. This section of the people is mainly known as the Indian American community. The community assessment served the purpose of knowing the community assets, response and needs. The strengths and weaknesses of the community are known and understood well. The asset gaps are also identified by the assessment. The assessment is also helpful for the community members to decide in what way they can contribute for the betterment of the community.
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The larva is pale-green and locates itself in the tunnel it bores. It comes out to feed on soft and tender tissues of new growths. The larval period is 8 - 10 days.
Pupa is brown and found among the plant debris and on the upper portion of the soil.
The adult is grayish-black and about 8-10 mm in size. Both sexes have the same body characteristics except that the male has a black ventral portion on its abdominal segments.


Student perspectives and experiences have been mainly overlooked in the current research literature regarding technological tool use, managed learning environment design and their application in bilingual educational settings in Australian high schools. The overall information found is pedagogy driven, focused on best practice and relating to efficient language acquisition. This qualitative study is attempting to fill this gap by contributing valuable insight into student perceptions negotiating a content and language integrated learning (CLIL) environment, the mastery of different speech genres, and learning in a new learning management system (LMS). Data were collected from 22 Year 9 students (aged 13 and 14 year) covering 18 biology lessons during 6 weeks, over two consecutive years. The students' interactions were audio and video recorded to gain a deeper understanding on students' opinions and experiences working in a CLIL LMS. Additionally a focus group interview was conducted to clarify student understanding on self-regulation and scientific open inquiry strategies, learning in a bilingual context, as well as using digital tools in a LMS. The discourse analysis based on theories of student voice, dialogism and heterology, CLIL communication, self-efficacy, self-theory, and self-regulation revealed firstly that Year 9 student self-efficacy beliefs and self-regulatory practices developed primarily through the exposure to a bilingual classroom setting. Secondly it is highly plausible that students benefit from the exposure to a bilingual setting, as it is affording students more possibilities to explore self-efficacy beliefs leading to the uptake of self-regulation strategies and therefore improved learning opportunities. Consequently, the results of this study might have interesting implications for the future customization of managed learning spaces for high school students not only applicable to a CLIL environment but also to a wider range of subject areas.
The author wishes to thank Dr. Simone Smala (The University of Queensland), Dr. Chris Campbell (Griffiths University, Brisbane), and Dr. Tony Wright (The University of Queensland) for their ongoing support.


January Jam Jar (#JanJamJar) is a readathon created by booksandmunches in which you put all the books you wanted to read in the previous year into a jar and select them throughout the month. Every year I tell myself I'm going to finish all the books and series I'm in the middle of so I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to finally do that.
I'm hoping to finish a couple more books this year with #finishathon, but with only a couple more days left I'm sure that most of these will still be on my list in January. What will you be reading in January?
It looks like a great readathon, I can't wait. Good luck!
I'm a huge mood reader too, but it's actually going well! I think it's because I put myself into a reading slump with how many books I was reading so it feels good to start finishing them all. Beat the Backlist looks like a good one too.


My Saab Turbo-X is back home after some time at the shop for routine maintenance, some work on the eLSD, and a new pair of shoes to replace my worn out Continental DW UHP tires. I kinda wore them into the ground to the point where I failed my annual safety inspection – yeah I do kinda drive a bit nuts and er well…probably pushed the tires hard enough to slip a belt or two out of position in the tire.
Well the DW tires were slick, looked great, and performed well but I only got about 17K on them and at 1200 smackers I think that's not so great. This time around I'm going for a tire with an actual mileage guarantee (the DW's have no mileage guarantee like most UHP tires).
I selected the Conti Extreme Contact DWS tire, a sister to the DW, that is a "HP" all season tire. I guess I will see some reduced performance during dry conditions, but I'll get snow coverage and I get a 50K mileage warranty. Done deal for me at this point.
I got to drive around a brand new 9-3 convertible while my car was getting pampered – that's a heck of a nice car! Black vert – beige interior – amazing headroom in there…cavernous.
Here's some pics of Saabie and her sis' in the background. A couple of the treads…its too darn cold outside to treat the tires. I have a can of "tirenuba" wax that I will try out this weekend.
I don't see any social sharing button…back to the post…I'll post of new pics of the tires before and after treating them with Tiromania.
There ya go – the like button is working now.
yeah – something is not working right. I'm going to install a different social tool and see if it works. The one in Jetpack looks like the way to go.
Ok I'll wait a bit – how long is that going to take?
Ok – give it a shot.


Called the New Collecting Awards, the scheme will make £300,000 available in its first year to support curators and develop museum collections across the UK. The Art Fund will be offering special acquisition grants to help a new generation of curators to hone their skills, broaden or deepen their collections in imaginative ways, and foster curatorial expertise for individuals and institutions.
Recipients of the awards will also receive funding to further their own professional development, covering the costs of research, travel and training to support their proposed collecting plans. They will also receive the ongoing support of a mentor, as well as the backing of Art Fund staff and trustees.
Stephen Deuchar, director of the Art Fund, said: 'You might say this programme is a little like an X Factor for curators. We're looking for curators on the up – for whom receiving a New Collecting Award would be a big break and a unique contribution to their professional development.
New Collecting Awards is made possible through the generous support of a consortium of funders, including the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Sir Siegmund Warburg's Voluntary Settlement, The Wolfson Foundation and The Ruddock Foundation for the Arts, as well as contributions from private individuals.
Applications are open now, and applicants have until 7 November 2014 to submit an Expression of Interest. Find out how to apply.


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With a change inner self NASA space telescope detects a duplex star system
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An unstable twofold star framework seems to change its conduct quickly and erratically like an inestimable story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. This outstanding team, known as Terzan 5 CX1, lies around 19,000 light-years from Earth in a thick assortment of stars, or globular bunch, called Terzan 5. The pair comprises of a neutron star — a very thick leftover of a supernova blast — and a littler, sunlike star. Utilizing NASA's Chandra X-beam Observatory and the National Science Foundation's Karl F. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), space experts…
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Golden Earl
We named Golden Earl after our next-door-to-the-orchard neighbor, Earl Ruehling, who helped us in such a gracious, solid-gold way as we city boys tried to plant and grow an apple orchard. What a true friend, guiding light, and helper! He died in 1985. This very hard, yellow apple is one of the very best to come from our breeding program at Minnesota Harvest. In fact, if this were the only one, we'd consider all of our work worthwhile and the entire effort a success.
When I first saw Golden Earl, I was astounded that we had come into two such firm, dense yellow varieties as this and Sponselli in our lifetime. In general, golden varieties tend to be tender and susceptible to bruising, but these two belong in the hardware department. I knew right away that I wanted to be dealing with large crops of both of these varieties. Sponselli was found first. We have three plantings of Sponselli that have been giving us saleable quantities for some years now. We have two plantings of Golden Earl, and they've caught up to the production of Sponselli. We're delighted with both of them!
The flesh of Golden Earl is very coarse (the kind that makes a lot of noise in your eardrums when you chew) and dryish, very similar to Northwestern Greening in both regards. The flavor has components of both Honeygold and Haralson, and I've always thought that was the cross: Honeygold x Haralson. Lately I've felt that Northwestern Greening was involved, but there's no way in my mind that either Honeygold or Haralson could be ruled out. But you only get two parents. So I thought, well, it must be Northwestern Greening x Honeygold, but what happened to Haralson? Then it dawned on me that the known parentage of Honeygold is Golden Delicious x Haralson by the University of Minnesota. There it is! That's how you get all three! Northwestern Greening and Honeygold could be parents, making Haralson one of the grandparents through Honeygold! There are at least 150 varieties that are possible parents under our circumstances, so it's all conjecture. But I think the geneology will become clear soon when DNA testing becomes applicable. One side note is that you can get red apples sometimes by crossing two yellow apples, and you can get yellow apples by crossing red apples. It's just what's hiding in the genes.
My favorite characteristics of Golden Earl are the ripeness bumps and deep calyx. Some varieties, like Red Baron, must show ripeness bumps to be at their best. Others seldom show them, and still others never do. Some growing seasons produce the bumps more readily than others. We like to pick Golden Earl with ripeness bumps. In that condition, they're spectacular.
The deep calyx basin is always an attractive feature. We're showing many angles in the photographs here so you can see the bumps, the deep basin, and the rich, nearly fluorescent yellow color. Bumps of this magnitude are not seen in any other commercial variety, but bumps aren't the only distinguishing, unusual markings. Scratches and protrusions are the norm. When I saw the first crop from first generation trees, I was thrilled with the appearance. The apples looked like they had been on the trees since the Civil War! I suspected then, and it has proven to be true: the gnarlier they look, the better they taste. I dreamed of days ahead when I would be looking at bins full of gnarly-looking Golden Earls, and now I'm seeing them for real.
One day in the early '70's, Earl asked my brother Ritchay and me to help with the corn harvest. We were to be at the corn cribs, which are on the orchard property, and, when the tractors would pull in with wagons full of the hard field corn on the cob, we were to open the tail gate and run the elevator to carry the corn to the top of the cribs, about twenty-five feet up there. Cool. Piece of cake. So we brought Ritchay's harmonicas and my mandolin to play between loads. What else would there be to do?
Well, I suppose we played about ten notes. We were so busy, I mean, those wagons never stopped coming! You know, we've always been hard workers, so that doesn't scare us. But we had to get the management of that system down and then just crank it. For instance, the tractor and wagon drive right over where the elevator collector has to be dropped as soon as the load gets there, and it better be out of the way when the next one comes. Then you better keep gas in the tank and the engine oil full. Clean up the dropped corn before the next wagon runs over it. Hurry! Get this stuck corn out of the wagon! Hey, there's corn stuck 'way up there on the elevator! Oh, oh, the elevator shifted and the corn isn't dropping into the crib! Hey, here come two more wagons!
So Earl ran over the mandolin, and we just kept working. The crew stopped for lunch, and, as usual when neighbors help neighbors with harvest, we ate over at Ruehling's. Verna made GREAT lunches. After we said grace, it came up that Earl was sorry he ran over the mandolin. (Ritchay had purchased this mandolin and a classic guitar in Spain and carried them when he walked across the country, playing his harmonica to thrilled crowds in little towns. He is certainly one of the best harmonica players ever. When he got home, he gave the mandolin and the guitar to me.) So Ritchay and I both said it wasn't Earl's fault. Earl said, "I know it wasn't my fault." It was the most emphatic thing I ever heard him say.
We have a variety we call Doc, named after our father. You can read the description about Doc. It's absolutely, entirely red. A beautiful apple. When our niece, Kristi, and Charlie DeRueil got married in Minneapolis in October a few years ago, we brought Doc and Golden Earl apples for everyone. We had also made mini-baskets of them, and Susan had them delivered to the hotel rooms of the out-of-town guests. They were a great big hit, those gorgeous red and yellow apples.
Doc and Golden Earl. What a complementary pair.
Pick Your Own Tips
Buy your 11# peck bag in the Apple Lodge and hop on the wagon for a ride through the orchard. ($20 per peck)
People of any age may pick. Help children choose fruit that will satisfy your family.
Use two hands when picking. Apples in pairs or clusters will fall to the ground if you try to pick just one. If you happen to drop an apple, please pick it up. It won't have fallen far.
To pick like the professionals, curl the apple a half turn and upward. This works much better than pulling or twisting. The apples "pop" right off.


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Main » 2016 » January » 3 » Saif bin Zayed Supervises Efforts to Extinguish the Address Hotel Fire
Saif bin Zayed Supervises Efforts to Extinguish the Address Hotel Fire
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Friday, January 1st 2016 [ME NewsWire]
Lt. General HH Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior followed-up on the details of the firefighting operations to extinguish the huge blaze that broke out at The Address Downtown Dubai on Thursday night, through the Command and Control Center at Dubai Police and the Central Operations Room at the Directorate General of Civil Defense in Dubai.
His Highness was accompanied by Major General Jassem Muhammad Al Marzouqui, Civil Defense General Commander-in-chief at the Ministry of Interior; Major General Abdulrahman Mohammad Rafi, Assistant to the Dubai Police Chief for Community Service and Equipment; and Major General Engineer Mohammed Saif Al Zafeen, Dubai Police's Assistant Commander- in-chief for Operations.
His Highness Sheikh Saif was briefed on the fire and ambulance operations and speed of response of all supporting entities. He praised the successful management of the accident site, which allowed the evacuation of hotel guests and visitors in record time, and the diligent efforts to secure the area surrounding Burj Khalifa to prevent any casualties.
Lt. General HH Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan confirmed that ensuring the success of the rescue operation and maintaining people's lives is the strategic goal envisioned by the Ministry of Interior, which operates according to global standards to ensure speed of response to all emergency cases. These standards were evident in the successful handling of the Address Downtown Dubai fire incident.
In conclusion, His Highness Sheikh Saif praised the heroic and diligent efforts of Civil Defense, Ambulance teams and Dubai Police staff members, which contributed to achieving the Ministry of Interior's strategic objectives.
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Q: Amazon AWS EC2 instance Exported to local machine I have several Amazon AWS EC2 virtual machines that I created on AWS EC2.  They were not imported, they were created there.  I would like to export these machines in order to achieve local backups, and a local testing environment.
I have looked a lot of places, and found tons of information that says you can only export a VM from EC2 if you imported into EC2 originally.  I have also found information that says you can only import into EC2 if the machine was originally exported from EC2.
My question is, is it possible to export a VM that was built on EC2, and somehow get it locally.  I have read that you have to back it up to an S3 Bucket, and then download it, but Amazon's documentation says that you can only export it from there if it was originally imported.
Here are the links on serverfault that I found this question asked, but not answered.
Copy an Amazon EC2 Instance to use locally
Archiving Amazon AWS instances

A: Yes, I was looking too for the answer, and recently I found that Amazon ec2 cannot tolerate importing instances created first time with ec2 hyper-visor.
What you can do is migrate the content of the VM to another placement, a reserved instance more cheaper for example, by creating a snapshot of an ebs boot partition in order to recreate the same vm.  Preferably you would migrate within the same availability zone, so it's more cost effective. But migration outside the Amazon regions is impossible.

A: if you could export an aws instance / image to openstack, for instance, bezos would be losing money..... the whole concept of the cloud is that instances are ephemeral and conf mgmt (puppet, salt, etc) is what makes them do what they do.  data volumes are a different however, and that is obviously possible.
to actually boot an aws instance on your local hardware would be difficult.  try snapshoting instance root drive, then mounting snapshot'd volume onto a newly lauched image, and then dd it to file and rsync to your local machine.   then the fun begins.... you might be able to have it boot locally but probably impossible... never tried that as its not really fruitful

A: If you are migrating Windows Server and could log in the VM, using Disk2VHD command would be much easier way.
I migrate several EC2 VMs to Azure, and believe you can migrate to a local Hyper-V server as well.
https://tombwu.wordpress.com/2015/07/10/migrate-windows-server-from-aws-ec2-to-azure/

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Glynn: "I want to play until I can't play no more!"
Ahead of Dunmow Town's inaugural season in the Essex & Suffolk Border League, Lee Glynn decided he wanted to join the club. Having grown fond of the great town after living there for a decade, he felt it was right for his next move in the game. "I wanted to get involved with Dunmow Town because I have been living in the area for nearly 10-years and I felt the vision the Chairman had was very exciting" said the Forward.
Being of a wise age meant Lee had spent plenty of time playing football for some big clubs throughout London and Essex. His experience on the field would only bolster the quality of Dunmow as they sought promotion. "I've played for numerous clubs being nearly 40," he said. "Dagenham & Redbridge, Ilford, Barking, Basildon United, Takeley, Horndean, Hornchurch, Barnston, Bishop Stortford Swifts, to name a few."
Ahead of the new season, Lee had his targets in mind. "Our targets as a team is promotion first of all. We are aiming for four promotions in 4-seasons, a bit like the class of 92" he joked. "As a striker, I was to score 15-20 goals. As a forward, you always want to score and have that belief you will."
Since September, Glynn had featured 8-times for the club while scoring 2-goals, but he wasn't as pleasured as he would hope. Dunmow Town had brought plenty of quality and youth to the club so it was always tough as one of the older figureheads in the team. "It's not the start I wanted. Not starting a number of games due to the quality in the team and how young the lads are. Any chance I have had, I have taken and impacted games I've played. Once the season gets going again, I expect to give the young lads a run for their money as I have been keeping fit and sharp."
Had the season not been stop-start, he may have had more chances and a better goal tally to his name but the pandemic had meant no one could get a good run of games. The second National Lockdown in the New Year meant it would be March, at the earliest, they would get another chance to play football but even then, a Null & Void decision was stirring. Glynn's focus, if that was to happen, was to concentrate on the new season [2021/22] but he didn't want to think that far. "The lockdowns have affected everyone but with myself, I have been keeping busy with work and running 5km each day. Keeping focused on how lucky we are to still be here and breathing. It has taught me not to take anything for granted."
"If the season is null & void, then we go again for the new season. Life without playing football is not an option for me as it [playing] keeps my mental health at bay, however, with this pandemic, we have to put our views and feelings aside to help get through this for the better. Null and void the season. Beat COVID and start pre-season friendlies again ready for the new season in August."
Lee had become a mental health mentor and felt it was important that people spoke about their feelings. His idea of keeping busy through everyday activities such as work and running, was very important to a lot of people. "As a mentor of mental health, it's so important to be able to talk about they are feeling without being judged. I learnt this at a young age when I tried to commit suicide at 17 because I was ashamed on how I was feeling. This has taught me people will listen. Being in lockdown plays on your state of mind and mental health, so you have to keep active and your mind stimulated because if you don't, that"s when dark thoughts happen."
Playing non-league football was another way to keep his mind stimulated but that wasn't possible with the restrictions. He loved the lower leagues. "I love how competitive it [non-league] is," he explained. "There is not a lot of difference between Step 5-7 with some teams and I love being in a battle on the pitch. The fans are very passionate even if it's 2 or 100 watching. Twitter has also exploded with support of non-league football."
Like every athlete, he had goals and ambitions within the game. For Glynn, he wanted to play until it wasn't possible anymore. "My ambitions, in the short term, is to help Dunmow Town achieve their visions of reaching Step 4/5 football and to play until I can't play no more. Once I stop playing, I want to manage and I feel I have the football knowledge and management skills to manage at a high non-league level for now. We all have to start somewhere."
For Dunmow as a club, they had huge ambitions. Although they were only in their first season and we playing at Step-7 of the National League System, they wanted to reach higher levels. Lee felt they would be able to achieve this in their targeted time. "Any team with the right attitude, desire, dedication, application, togetherness and ability can achieve success. I really do believe Dunmow Town can be playing in the National League in six to eight years time."
By : Aaron Moore Tags: 2020/21 Dunmow Town
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There's no better way to experience a portion of Scottdale's immense public art collection than through the annual Cycle the Arts, coming up Sunday, April 14, in south Scottsdale.
Scottsdale Public Art and the City of Scottsdale present this free public art tour via bicycle every April during Valley Bike Month. The tour offers participants the chance to see multiple sculptures and other public artworks around south Scottsdale, all while getting in a leisurely, 10-mile bike ride.
"Cycle the Arts is a great way for residents of Scottsdale to learn the stories behind the public art they see every day around town or to discover pieces they might not have known existed," said Kevin Vaughan-Brubaker, public art manager for Scottsdale Public Art. "Each stop on the ride features either the artist who designed the piece, a board member who approved the piece, or a staff member who managed the piece to share in-depth information and answer questions from riders."
Vaughan-Brubaker said Cycle the Arts is also a great way for visitors to enjoy Scottsdale's urban desert setting and to learn more about the various destinations throughout the city.
Check in is at 8:30 a.m. April 14 at Western Spirit: Scottsdale's Museum of the West, 3830 N. Marshall Way. Among highlights on this family-friendly ride are "Diamond Bloom" by artist Curtis Pittman and the towering "One-Eyed Jack," one of the newest additions to the Scottsdale Public Art collection, by artist John Randall Nelson.
A special aspect of this year's ride is a stop at artist Kevin Berry's "Tributary Wall," which is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Additionally, Gerd Wuestemann, president and CEO of Scottsdale Arts, will be joining the ride and speaking about exciting plans for renovations at Scottsdale Civic Center Mall.
Participants will follow an experienced ride leader as they check out the City's system of bike lanes, paths and amenities-all of which have earned Scottsdale a Gold Bicycle Friendly Community rating by the League of American Bicyclists.
Susan Conklu, senior transportation planner for the city, said she enjoys coordinating Cycle the Arts in conjunction with Scottsdale Public Art because it combines two of her passions - art and bicycles - in one event.
"I like meeting bike riders who are just learning about public art for the first time, as well as friends of Scottsdale Public Art who may be newer to bike riding in Scottsdale," Conklu said. "We mix them all together in small groups on an easy-paced ride that includes ride rules at the beginning to teach safe biking operations."
This south Scottsdale route is the only ride offered this year and should be finished by noon. Helmets are required. All children must be accompanied by an adult. And all riders should remember to bring water.
Although Cycle the Arts is a free event, RSVP is required. Visit ScottsdalePublicArt.org/events for more information.
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If you want your children to appreciate the great outdoors, simply lead by example and provide plenty of opportunities to experience nature.
If you want to nurture your children to appreciate the great outdoors, simply lead by example and provide plenty of opportunities to experience nature.
There's something magical about being able to plant seeds in the ground and nurture them until they produce something that can nourish and sustain you. In addition to culturing general wonder in Mother Nature's bounty, the act of growing your own food also helps develop a healthy appreciation of unprocessed foods. Often, even the pickiest eaters will give something new a try after spending weeks tending to the vegetables in their garden. Bring your little ones with you to the garden center to select everything you want to plant and get them a set of gardening tools. After you show the kids a few examples of proper spacing and planting techniques, let them get their hands dirty and plant on their own. Review the basics of weeding as the weeds spring up. This activity teaches patience and responsibility as the kids maintain the garden diligently and wait each week for the harvest to mature.
Like gardening, fishing also requires ample patience and self-control. The waiting is worth it once they feel that tug on the line and the accompanying feeling of adrenaline and accomplishment. Teach your little ones how to bait a hook and the basics about fishing lures and the different types of bait. Start small, with afternoons of fishing at a local creek or lake, and then work up to a boating trip. You can find a local spot that rents boats or make a weekend of it and travel to a well-known fishing destination. Take the extra effort to get a boater licence, so you can operate the boat yourself instead of going on a fishing tour. This way, you can enjoy more one-on-one time with your children.
Get away from the computer, your phone and the iPad and enjoy a weekend unplugged with the family in the great outdoors. Let the kids pick out new sleeping bags and get a tent that fill fit the entire family. If you kids are older, you may even want them to have a tent of their own. Not only will this trip open their eyes to all of nature's beauty, but it will also be a fantastic learning experience for survival skills. Before you go, create a checklist of all of the things you want to teach the kids on your camping trip to make sure you don't forget anything. Include lessons, like how to build a fire without matches, how to protect yourself from wild animals and how to purify water for drinking.
Take the road less traveled and instill a love of hiking in your children. This is an excellent opportunity to get exercise without signing your children up for yet another extracurricular activity. Find local hiking trails and keep the degree of difficulty minimal to start so you kids can walk the entire trail on their own. Allow plenty of time to hike and let them set the pace. Encourage them to point out plants and animals they recognize and ask questions to make each hike a learning experience as well.
As a new mom, it took a lot for me to accept that I cannot do it all. Between taking care of my son, focusing on my relationship with my husband, exercise, cooking, cleaning, work and social commitments, it is impossible to focus on all.
My own resourcefulness and my family who are constantly inspiring me with new ways to use that trait.
Becoming a mother. From the act of growing a tiny human to keeping myself as healthy as possible while doing it, and then having a serene and beautiful home birth, it was the most incredible experience and a real achievement in terms of personal growth as well. My next goal is more fitness focused; I want to run a marathon. I've completed a few half marathons before (and while pregnant), but I would like to get 26.2 miles under my belt.
Impatience. As for my quirk, I strive to know as much as I can about anything that catches my interest, which gets time-consuming and can be unimportant — but it certainly makes for interesting conversation.
Allison is a WAHM, an explorer, an amateur chef and a fitness buff. You can find her Instagramming photos of her (adorable) son or researching everything from the latest parenting theories to healthy hacks for desserts.


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Q: CakePHP - PHPUNIT - Tables getting deleted when we run test.php I'm a newbie to PHPUnit testing. I have successfully installed PHPUnit and I am able to run it. I have a new database with some records. Whenever I run the test cases, the tables are getting deleted and I'm getting Database error. Please help...
Thanks in advance...

A: This is correct, and expected behaviour.
You should create a second database in order to run your tests. In your app/Config/database.php you will see a $test database configuration.
This is the configuration that will used by your tests. There is a warning in the book about this.


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Newborn southern white rhino, 1.5 hours after birth in Salzburg Zoo. Photo: Robert Hermes
First in-depth insights into parturition in rhinos will foster better birth management and obstetrics in zoological gardens
When exactly is a rhino offspring born? How long does the birth actually take? Does parturition proceed normally? Answers to these and similar questions are difficult for experts in zoological gardens, since baseline knowledge of the reproduction cycle of all rhinoceros species, especially its final stage, the parturition, is scarce. Scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) together with zoo veterinarians closely monitored 19 pregnant white rhinos in six European zoos and recorded timelines for pre-birth development, milk production, hormone levels, gestation length and documented the onset of parturition, different stages of labour and foetal position at birth. These data significantly improves the knowledge base for birth management and obstetrics in rhinos and will help to reduce the number of stillbirths or perinatal problems in zoological gardens. The results are published in the scientific journal "Theriogenology".
Read more … First in-depth insights into parturition in rhinos will foster better birth management and obstetrics in zoological gardens
Nathusius' pipistrelle bat (Pipistrellus nathusii), photo: René Janssen
When calling loudly, echolocation is costly for small bats
Calling in the ultrasonic range enables small bats to orient themselves in the dark and track down tiny insects. Louder calls travel farther, improving a bat's ability to detect their prey. It was long assumed that echolocation does not contribute much to energy expenditure in flight because individuals simply couple their calls with the beat of their wings. Scientists at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) in Berlin have now shown in a paper in the scientific journal "Nature Ecology & Evolution" that high intensity echolocation calls are by no means free and substantially contribute to energy expenditure. Bats must therefore find a balance between energy expenditure and effective echolocation and use the latter economically.
Read more … When calling loudly, echolocation is costly for small bats
Schlagopfer Rauhautfledermaus Foto: CC Voigt, Leibniz-IZW
Trust me if you can: why stakeholders in the "wind energy vs biological conservation" conflict have low mutual trust and how to increase it
Wind energy is considered to be one of the most promising forms of renewable energy. Yet, each year, wind turbines are responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands of airborne animals such as bats which die from collisions with turbine blades. To find a constructive way out of this "green-green" dilemma, companies building and running wind turbines might have to work together with environmental experts and conservationists. Yet a lack of trust between them is likely to hinder effective and creative collaboration. In an article published in Energy Reports, scientists of the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) show that shared values alone are not sufficient to build mutual trust between these groups, as beliefs and emotions hold a stronger sway for the collaboration. The authors argue that an improved awareness of each others' beliefs and emotions in relation to the construction and operation of wind turbines can benefit their work in this field and help find a way out of the dilemma.
Read more … Trust me if you can: why stakeholders in the "wind energy vs biological conservation" conflict have low mutual trust and how to increase it
Owston´s civet, Photo: Leibniz-IZW
Surprising mammal diversity discovered in Bidoup Nui Ba NP
New surveys have revealed surprising mammal biodiversity in Bidoup Nui Ba National Park (Bidoup Nui Ba NP), a large protected area located in the southern part of the Annamites range. The presence of numerous rare and endangered mammals in Bidoup Nui Ba NP provides a ray of hope for the long-term conservation of Vietnam's unique biodiversity.
Read more … Surprising mammal diversity discovered in Bidoup Nui Ba NP
3D reconstruction of a thalattosuchian skull. image: G. Fritsch
High-tech CT reveals ancient evolutionary adaptation of extinct crocodylomorphs transitioning from land to water
The tree of life is rich in examples of species that changed from living in water to a land-based existence. Occasionally, some species took the opposite direction. New insights into the anatomy of the inner ear of prehistoric reptiles, the thalattosuchians, revealed details about one of these evolutionary turning points. During the Mesozoic era, these now extinct crocodile relatives ventured into the ocean after a long semiaquatic phase. During this process, the skeleton of the thalattosuchians gradually adapted to the new pelagic habitat. In particular, the changes to the inner ear vestibular system of these reptiles enhanced their ability to swim. Compared to whales, which adapted quickly to life in water without a prolonged semiaquatic stage, this is a strikingly different evolutionary path for the same transition. These new findings of an international research team were made possible by the use of a Canon high-tech computed tomography (CT) scanner from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW). The results have been published in the "Proceedings of the National Acadamy of Sciences of the USA".
Read more … High-tech CT reveals ancient evolutionary adaptation of extinct crocodylomorphs transitioning from land to water
Carcass of Nathusius' pipistrelle bat in front of a wind turbine. Photo: Christian Voigt
Wind farms in the Black Sea coast region could have a negative impact on bat populations in large parts of Eastern Europe
The Via Pontica, an important migration route for birds in Eastern Europe, runs along the Black Sea coast of Romania and Bulgaria. Bats also use this route. In this region, numerous wind farms have been installed in recent years because of good wind conditions, but there has been little implementation of the legally required measures for the protection of bats. A Romanian research team cooperated with the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) in Berlin to demonstrate that this leads to high death rates of migrating bats and potentially large declines even in populations living far away in other countries. The scientists therefore recommend the widespread introduction of turn-off times during the migration months, which - as the team was able to show in a local wind farm - would massively decrease bat mortality yet produce only a marginal loss in the energy production of the turbines.
Read more … Wind farms in the Black Sea coast region could have a negative impact on bat populations in large parts of Eastern Europe
Ovum pickup with the southern white rhino cow Makena at Serengeti Park Hodenhagen. Photo: Serengeti Park Hodenhagen
BioRescue Consortium performs most successful oocyte collection and embryo creation ever in southern white rhinos in the German Serengeti Park Hodenhagen
In order to prevent the extinction of species such as the northern white rhino, the BioRescue consortium is developing new methods and technologies for conservation. An important part of this work is basic research in cooperation with zoological institutions. This partnership has enabled the BioRescue team to continue working even during the Corona pandemic. On May 26, 2020, the team extracted oocytes from the southern white rhino female "Makena" in Serengeti Park in Hodenhagen, Germany, and then fertilized them in the Avantea laboratory in Italy to create four viable embryos. This was the team's most successful procedure of its kind and nourishes the hope that advanced assisted reproduction technologies (aART) are well established to ensure the survival of the northern white rhino in the near future.
Read more … BioRescue Consortium performs most successful oocyte collection and embryo creation ever in southern white rhinos in the German Serengeti Park Hodenhagen
Photo: Anne Ipsen
Ultrasound examinations provide new insights into the reproduction of the olm
Summary of an article in the "Volksstimme" (in German).
Only recently, Prof Thomas Hildebrandt (Head of the Department of Reproduction Management at the Leibniz-IZW) – together with Australian colleagues – was able to make a genuine new discovery on reproduction in the animal kingdom: They used ultrasound to show that swamp wallabies develop a new embryo before the birth of the previous offspring and thus show parallel pregnancies at different stages of development. Now, together with his colleague Dr Susanne Holtze, Hildebrandt showed previously unknown reproductive mechanisms also in olms: The fertilisation of the eggs of the rare amphibious cave dwellers takes place inside the female olm and the first developmental steps of the embryo occur already in the fallopian tube.
Read more … Ultrasound examinations provide new insights into the reproduction of the olm