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Blog Giveaway: VOTE for your favorite "Found Wanting" essay
October 30, 2014 jenmichel@me.com
If you've been reading here over the past several months, you are familiar with the "Found Wanting" guest series that I began at the end of May and ended this week. If you haven't read any of the essays, this is your chance! I'm inviting you to reread essays and pick your favorite! You can either vote by emailing me (jenmichel@mac.com) or by commenting on today's post.
I'd love to give away some books today, both for commenters and those writers whose guest posts "win"!
I'll chose the top three essays and send them a copy of, Teach Us to Want, as well as one of the three books pictured here: Mark Labberton's, Called; Marlena Graves's, A Beautiful Disaster; and Bonnie Gray's, Finding Spiritual Whitespace.
I'll also (randomly) choose 3 commenters to win a copy of Teach Us to Want. Just comment below, naming the essay you've chosen and say your reason for choosing it.
*Giveaway ends Monday, November 3rd at midnight (EST). Books will be mailed the following week.
To get you thinking, here are some memorable lines from each of the essays that were submitted:
Amy Chaney, "I didn't want to be a coach's wife.", I didn't want to sit on the sidelines watching someone else's dream come to fruition.
Beth Bruno, "I've wanted beauty." Our desire soared. We named the ache and set about filling it.
Wendy Stringer, "I didn't want to move to suburbia." On a hot summer's day, we packed boxes, and we sold house; we said goodbye to the best neighbors, and I kindly left my perennials behind.
Steve Burks, "I've wanted to produce entertainment." Deep down, in spite of my rational mind, I see God as hating everything I love, loving everything I hate.
"Faydra Stratton, "I didn't want a child with Fragile X." Heads: our child would be all we'd imagined. Tails: he could still be in diapers at ten."
Brook Seekins, "I never wanted to be a missionary in Africa." His desires became my desires. And they were fulfilled in his perfect timing.
Sarah Van Beveren, "I have always wanted to be strong." God has been working on me, not letting me ignore the gnawing feeling that surfaces, most often when things are quiet. The feeling that I am wanting.
Holly Pennington, "I didn't want to find out what I wanted." Living a desire-free life frees us from the responsibility of choosing. Once we find out what we want, we must make decisions about our desires instead of depending on God or others to make choices for us.
Larry Shallenberger, "I wanted to know what I wanted." Yes, Want is an impulsive friend who does better when he's chaperoned by Wisdom and Duty. But Want is a friend now.
Hannah Anderson, "I didn't want - because I couldn't afford to." When you're poor, there are a lot of things you can't afford; getting your hopes up is one of them.
Megan Hill, "I want your blessing." Something nice, Lord. Please? I think I might want something nice?
Bronwyn Lea, "I wanted a boyfriend, college scholarships, permission to sleep over at the popular kid's house." The timeline in which those desires would be met still needed some negotiation. But the desires themselves were good and God-given, even in the valley of the shadows.
Jennifer Tatum, "I've wanted to be a woman of faith, but . . ." My heart whispered, 'Can I live on something other than faith for a while . . . please?'
Sarah Torna Roberts, "I didn't want to be broken." I didn't want to be broken. None of us do. But of course, 'that's how the light gets in.'
Suanne Camfield, "I want a bigger house." And so I've had to lay this desire—like all of my desires—at the feet of my Father. I've had to open my heart and confess both my needs and my wants. I've had to listen to what his spirit teaches me about contentment and comparison and inadequacy.
Courtney Reissig, "I wanted a baby." By not giving me the desires of my heart he was changing my heart to treasure him more than anything this world (or my body) had to offer me.
Cara Meredith, "I've wanted it all." The shouts of entitlement found their way in to my life of faith – because why wouldn't My Big Genie Above grant me the desires of my heart?
Anonymous, "I want to not want marriage anymore." The bruised desire for marriage has led me to question the goodness of God. All I know is that the bruises need to heal.
Deborah Kurtz, "I wanted a husband." It became my idol when I grew angry with God for not bringing my husband into my life. But God.
Ben Jolliffe, "I wanted nothing." What happens when all the bad things are eliminated? Purely a hypothetical question of course, but when the house is swept clean, what happens next?
Charity Singleton Craig, "I wanted to get married." Sometimes I longed from a pure heart. Other times, I didn't care what it cost me. I wanted to get married.
Hannah Vanderpool, "I didn't want to stay in America." But God is here. Right where he promised he'd be. And that makes it good enough for me.
Dorothy Greco, "I didn't want to doubt." If I could wrap my hermeneutic around the reality that God loves me and is for me even when doubt threatens to swallow me whole, it would change everything.
Natasha Sistrunk Robinson, "I wanted security." God has always sheltered me and filled my thirsting soul, even when my flesh was striving, and selfish, and weak.
Kris Camealy, "I've wanted to be known." I wanted to be known for what I accomplished, craving both recognition for me as the accomplisher, and admiration for the mighty works of my own hands.
Alisa Luciano, "I wanted to believe God was a good Father." The desire to understand Him as a gracious Father was fulfilled on a stretcher, in a brightly lit operating room, in a NICU nursery room, in the parenting realities of each day.
categories Desire, Faith and Doubt, Guests Posts/Interviews, Series Posts
Winning essay, Sarah Torna Roberts: "I didn't want to be broken."
Found Wanting: Alisa Luciano, "I wanted to believe God was a good Father."


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Nearly every big name in comedy has played The Improv, including Eddie Griffith, Faison Love, John Witherspoon, Earthquake, Tommy Davidson and many more have appeared at The Improv.
The "Celebrity Snitch" is back! Huggy Lowdown is known for his hilarious appearances on the HBO Def Comedy Jam, The Jamie Foxx Special, P. Diddy's Bad Boys of Comedy, The Bernie Mac Special, The Whoopi Goldburg Special and for his rounds with the Kings of Comedy Tour. You can hear him every morning on the Tom Joyner Morning Show, sharing his special brand of comedy, celebrity gossip and entertainment news.
Sheryl is beautiful, she's smart, and she is Funny! Comedienne. Political Satirist. Sheryl Underwood is one of the most brilliant comics on the scene today, Underwood"s comedy career began in 1989 when she became the first female finalist in the popular Miller Lite Comedy Search. Since then her career has continued to skyrocket. Sheryl has won a number of high profile comedy competitions including Johnny Walker Red, Funniest Woman at the Improv, and the Old English Comedy Crunch.
You know Donnell Rawlings from "The Chappelle Show" as ASHY LARRY and his famous line from the show "I'm Rich, Biaaaach!".
Next, he taped his first television special. By the next season he was hosting COMIC VIEW.
Being the brother of an established entertainer, Tony was able to successfully elude the shadows of his older sibling and step into his own limelight. Tony has proven himself as one of the most talented, well -respected entertainers in the business. After more than a decade of experience, Tony has proven himself as a skillful comedian and actor.


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Q: Kubernetes ingress reverse proxy I am trying to run an application in Kubernetes that will be accessed via ingress control from the outside world. The ingress will add a path '/applicationName' and for which I need to configure the reverse proxy setting on the application. What is the best way to handle this requirement in kubernetes ?
I have tried few workarounds like putting the cluster or almsmart-nginx-ingress-controller.my-app.svc.cluster.local to resolve IP etc but I am not convinced with the approach.
Any suggestions ? Thanks in Advance.

A: The path in your ingress should point to the service and its port and your DNS need to point to ingress IP. If you are running on the cloud infrastructure, then  Ingress(one of the ingress implementations) will be behind Service of Type=LoadBalancer(so point your DNS to that), and then requests received by the Ingress will be forwarded to services, depending on the Host and Path in the request.
Here is a sample of a spec part  of an ingress object:
spec: rules:
  - host: first.example.com
    http:
      paths:
      - path: /
        backend:
          serviceName: firstservice
          servicePort: 80
  - host: second.example.com
    http:
      paths:
      - path: /
        backend:
          serviceName: secondservice
          servicePort: 80

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John W. Byrnes
For other people named John Byrne, see John Byrne (disambiguation).
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Wisconsin's 8th district
January 3, 1945 – January 3, 1973
LaVern Dilweg
Harold Vernon Froehlich
Member of the Wisconsin Senate
from the 2nd district
Michael F. Kresky, Jr.
Harold A. Lytie
John William Byrnes
January 12, 1985(1985-01-12) (aged 71)
Barbara Preston Byrnes
6 (3 sons, 3 daughters)
John William Byrnes (June 12, 1913 – January 12, 1985) was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin.
Byrnes was the U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 8th congressional district from 1945 to 1973. During this time he was the chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee from 1959 to 1965 and was later the ranking minority member of the Committee on Ways and Means from 1963 to 1972. [1]
Byrnes was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, the son of Harriet (Schumacher) and Charles W. Byrnes. [2] Byrnes contracted polio as a small child. [3] He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1936, and then attended its law school. After graduation, Byrnes practiced law in Green Bay, and served as deputy commissioner of the state's department of banking from 1938 to 1941. He served in the state senate from 1941-1945, representing the 2nd District. [4]
Byrnes was elected in 1944 as a Republican to the 79th Congress from Wisconsin's 8th district. He defeated one-term incumbent LaVern Dilweg, a notable former professional football player with the Green Bay Packers. Byrnes was reelected to the thirteen succeeding Congresses, and served 28 years from January 1945 to January 1973, making him the 8th district's longest serving representative. In 1964, the Wisconsin delegates to the 1964 Republican National Convention were pledged to support Byrnes, but he released the delegates to support the candidates they individually chose. [5] He did not seek a fifteenth term in 1972 to the 93rd Congress.
After Congress, stayed in Washington to practice law and continued to reside in Arlington, Virginia. While traveling to Wisconsin for a medical check-up at the Marshfield Clinic, he suffered a stroke at the Central Wisconsin Airport in Mosinee [6] and died several days later in Marshfield on January 12, 1985. [3] [7] He was buried in Green Bay at Allouez Catholic Cemetery.
^ "John W. Byrnes papers, 1938-1972".
^ a b "Byrnes, ex-member of Congress, dies". Milwaukee Journal. Associated Press. January 14, 1985. p. 2, part 2.
^ John Byrnes, Wisconsin Historical Society
^ Foran, Christopher. "Our Back Pages: At 1964 political conventions, Wisconsin 'candidates' played a role". jsonline.com. Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
^ "Ex-congressman on critical list after stroke". Milwaukee Sentinel. January 9, 1985. p. 13, part 1.
^ "Former Rep. Byrnes, 71, dies after stroke". Milwaukee Sentinel. January 14, 1985. p. 9, part 1.
United States Congress. "John W. Byrnes (id: B001216)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
Byrnes at Politicalgraveyard.com
John W. Byrnes at Find a Grave
LaVern Dilweg Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Wisconsin's 8th congressional district
January 3, 1945 - January 3, 1973 Succeeded by
Wisconsin's delegation(s) to the 79th–92nd United States Congresses (ordered by seniority)
79th Senate: R. La Follette Jr. • A. Wiley House: M. Hull • F. Keefe • R. Murray • W. Stevenson • T. Wasielewski • L. Smith • A. O'Konski • R. Henry • A. Biemiller • J. Byrnes
80th Senate: A. Wiley • J. McCarthy House: M. Hull • F. Keefe • R. Murray • W. Stevenson • L. Smith • A. O'Konski • J. Byrnes • G. Davis • J. Brophy • C. Kersten
81st Senate: A. Wiley • J. McCarthy House: M. Hull • F. Keefe • R. Murray • L. Smith • A. O'Konski • J. Byrnes • G. Davis • G. Withrow • C. Zablocki • A. Biemiller
82nd Senate: A. Wiley • J. McCarthy House: M. Hull • R. Murray • L. Smith • A. O'Konski • J. Byrnes • G. Davis • G. Withrow • C. Zablocki • C. Kersten • W. Van Pelt
83rd Senate: A. Wiley • J. McCarthy House: L. Smith • A. O'Konski • J. Byrnes • G. Davis • G. Withrow • C. Zablocki • C. Kersten • W. Van Pelt • M. Laird • L. Johnson
84th Senate: A. Wiley • J. McCarthy House: L. Smith • A. O'Konski • J. Byrnes • G. Davis • G. Withrow • C. Zablocki • W. Van Pelt • M. Laird • L. Johnson • H. Reuss
85th Senate: A. Wiley • J. McCarthy • W. Proxmire House: L. Smith • A. O'Konski • J. Byrnes • G. Withrow • C. Zablocki • W. Van Pelt • M. Laird • L. Johnson • H. Reuss • D. Tewes
86th Senate: A. Wiley • W. Proxmire House: A. O'Konski • J. Byrnes • G. Withrow • C. Zablocki • W. Van Pelt • M. Laird • L. Johnson • H. Reuss • G. Flynn • R. Kastenmeier
87th Senate: A. Wiley • W. Proxmire House: A. O'Konski • J. Byrnes • C. Zablocki • W. Van Pelt • M. Laird • L. Johnson • H. Reuss • R. Kastenmeier • H. Schadeberg • V. Thomson
88th Senate: W. Proxmire • G. Nelson House: A. O'Konski • J. Byrnes • C. Zablocki • W. Van Pelt • M. Laird • L. Johnson • H. Reuss • R. Kastenmeier • H. Schadeberg • V. Thomson
89th Senate: W. Proxmire • G. Nelson House: A. O'Konski • J. Byrnes • C. Zablocki • M. Laird • H. Reuss • R. Kastenmeier • V. Thomson • G. Davis • J. Race • L. Stalbaum
90th Senate: W. Proxmire • G. Nelson House: A. O'Konski • J. Byrnes • C. Zablocki • M. Laird • H. Reuss • R. Kastenmeier • V. Thomson • G. Davis • H. Schadeberg • W. Steiger
91st Senate: W. Proxmire • G. Nelson House: A. O'Konski • J. Byrnes • C. Zablocki • M. Laird • H. Reuss • R. Kastenmeier • V. Thomson • G. Davis • H. Schadeberg • W. Steiger • D. Obey
92nd Senate: W. Proxmire • G. Nelson House: A. O'Konski • J. Byrnes • C. Zablocki • H. Reuss • R. Kastenmeier • V. Thomson • G. Davis • W. Steiger • D. Obey • L. Aspin
US Congress: B001216
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Q: Trying to reduce memory impact in a for loop Swift (4) I have a pdf document (approx 200 pages). I run a for loop to iterate all the pages in turn and scrape it for some strings and stores in an Array.
This however results in a crash

Message from debugger: Terminated due to memory issue.

Im trying to reduce the size of the memory by removing elements from the array but despite the array being shortened the data size remains the same how is this?
let document = PDFDocument(url: documentURL)
document?.delegate = self

let numberOfPages = CGFloat((document?.pageCount)!)

var pageText : String?

for page in 0...Int(numberOfPages) {

    if document?.page(at: page)?.string != nil {
        pageText = document?.page(at: page)?.string

        var parameters: [String]?
        parameters = pageText?.components(separatedBy: "Train From")

        pageText = nil //pageText now stored in parameters variable so set to nil

        if parameters!.count > 1 && parameters!.count < 3 {
            print(MemoryLayout.size(ofValue: parameters!), ">", parameters!.count)
            parameters!.removeLast() // we only need first item
            print(MemoryLayout.size(ofValue: parameters!), ">>", parameters!.count)
        }
    }
}

the print out is

8 > 2
8 >> 1

so the array is removing an element yet its size remains 8?
How, why?
I need to free up memory in my for loop.

A: When you use MemoryLayout.size you get the size of memory of that type. But a struct with a fixed size, so you see the size of that cell.
You should duplicate in the count of the cells:
print(MemoryLayout.size(ofValue: parameters!) * parameters!.count, ">", parameters!.count)
parameters!.removeLast() // we only need first item
print(MemoryLayout.size(ofValue: parameters!) * parameters!.count, ">>", parameters!.count)


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Aah, you're wondering what happened to April and May adventures. Well, we're not here. Here, as in BC here, and missing out on all the great weather the spring of 2015 has brought to the Pacific Northwest. Instead, we are exploring the notoriously windy land of volcanos and waterfalls that is called Iceland.


When a new school opens, it usually involves a group of idealistic parents and educators. No matter what their hashkafa (religious/philosophical outlook), they are certain that this school will give each student individual attention and allow him or her to reach his/her full potential. And for a while it's great. The staff knows the students, each one of whom feels part of the whole. The parents pitch in to make up for whatever physical resources are lacking. Every student is welcomed and valued.
The following year, the enthusiasm only grows. Parents who might have been hesitant about letting their children be "guinea pigs" are willing to take a chance. A few of them transfer their children to the older class too.
No one will talk about any problems in the new school. They don't want to scare anybody off while the situation is still delicate. Also, the parents in the new school face resentment from the parents in the original school(s), and they don't want to admit that they may have made a mistake. Parents from all schools suffer from this to some extent. If you really want to investigate a school you need to find the parents who pulled their kids out to send them somewhere else. It's not enough to talk to the satisfied parents.
By the third year or so, parents are breaking down doors to get in. The school now offers admission tests and interviews. Here the new school must expose itself: What is its admission criteria? Does it give preference to the strongest academically, religiously, or to the ones with "protekzia" (connections)?
In the end, the school may become a victim of its own success. Usually it began with a promise not to have more than one or two classes per grade and to keep the class size small. However, the appeal of extra tuition proves too tempting. Also, administering twelve to eighteen elementary school classes requires considerably more skill than administering two small classes. Kids get lost in the shuffle. Problems with staff and children, as you have in every school, grow and multiply and can't get the level of attention they did at first. The older, competing schools wake up and begin to offer whatever it was that attracted parents to the new school in the first place. The children of the idealistic families grow up and graduate, leaving younger families who see the school as one choice among many.
Related post: Kicking ourselves in the foot: How to choose a school in Israel.
Ok…so here we are entering into the school in year 4 (the boys school has existed for much longer) where do we stand?
I'm hoping this school is one the up and up.
Thanks for your comment–I'm glad to hear my theories confirmed. I would think that in the fourth year the school would have growing pains, and you could begin to see how the administration deals with a multitude of new challenges. Particularly difficult children who may or may not be from the original families supporting the school.
JJ–in a nutshell, that's why I never studied social sciences. If it's true, you know it already because it's common sense. If it's wacky, it's probably not true (like Freudian theory).
If I remember my lessons correctly, it's organizational theory, the way institutions develop as they grow.
In any case, you have great common sense.


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Q: Check if a file Exists async? I wish there was a File.ExistsAsync()
I have:
bool exists = await Task.Run(() => File.Exists(fileName));

Using a thread for this feels like an antipattern.
Is there a cleaner way?

A: There is no cleaner way than your solution.
The problems of race conditions aside I believe your solution can be used in some situations.
e.g.
I have static file content in many different folders. (in my case cshtml views,script files, css files,  for mvc)
These files (which do not change much, during application execution) are always checked for in every request to the webserver, due to my application architecture, there are alot more places that files are checked for than in the default mvc application. So much so that file.exists takes up quite a portion of time each request.
so race conditions will generally not happen.   The only interesting question for me is performance
starting a task with Task.Factory.StartNew() takes 0.002 ms (source Why so much difference in performance between Thread and Task?)
calling file.exists takes "0.006255ms when the file exists and 0.010925ms when the file does not exist." [Richard Harrison]
so by simple math calling the async File.Exists takes 0.008 ms up to 0.012 ms
in the best case async File.Exists takes 1.2 times as long as File.Exists and in the worst case it takes 1.3 times as long.  (in my case most paths that are searched do not exist) so most of the time a File.Exists is mostly close to 0.01 ms
so it is not that much overhead, and you can utilize multiple cores/ harddisk controllers etc. more efficiently.  With these calculations you can see that asynchroniously checking for existence of 2 files you will already have a performance increase of 1.6 in the worst case (0.02/ 0.012 )
well i'm just asyning async File.Exists is worth it in specific situations.
caveats of my post:
i might have not calculated everything correctly
i rounded alot
i did not measure performance on a single pc
i took performance from other posts
i just added the time of File.Exists and Task.Factory.StartNew()  (this may be wrong)
i disregard alot of sideffects of multithreading

A: Long time since this thread, but I found it today...
ExistsAsync should definitely be a thing. In fact, in UWP, you have to use Async methods to find out if a file exists, as it could take longer than 50ms (anything that 'could' take longer than 50ms should be async in UWP language).
However, this is not UWP. The reason I need it is to check for folder.exists which if on a network share, remote disk, or idle disk would block the UI. So I can put all the messages like "checking..." but the UI wouldn't update without aysnc (or ViewModel, or timers, etc.)
bool exists = await Task.Run(() => File.Exists(fileName)); works perfectly. In my code, I have both (Exists and ExistsAsync) so that I can run Exists() when running on a non UI thread and don't have to worry about the overhead.

A: There isn't a File.ExistsAsync probably for good reason; because it makes absolutely no sense to have one; File.Exists is not going to take very long; I tested it as 0.006255ms when the file exists and 0.010925ms when the file does not exist.
There are a few times when it is sensible to call File.Exists; however usually I think the correct solution would be to open the file (thus preventing deletion), catching any exceptions - as there is no guarantee that the file will continue to exist after the call to File.Exists.
When you want to create a new file and not overwrite the old one :
File.Open("fn", FileMode.CreateNew)

For most of the use cases I can think of File.Open() (whether for existing or create new) is going to be better because once the call succeeds you will have a handle to the file and be able to do something with it. Even when using the file's existence as a flag I think I'd still open and close it. The only time I've really used File.Exists is when checking to see if a local HTML file is there before calling the browser so I can show a nice error message when it isn't.
The is no guarantee that something else won't delete the file after File.Exists; so if you did open it after checking with File.Exists the open call could still fail.
In my tests using a FileExists on network drive takes longer than File.Open, File.Exists takes 1.5967ms whereas File.OpenRead takes 0.3927ms)
Maybe if you could expand upon why you're doing this we'd be better able to answer; until then I'd say that you shouldn't do this


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Next up on the list of remasters that nobody really asked for, Sony Interactive Entertainment might be working on a remastered version of Horizon Zero Dawn for the PlayStation 5. An unnamed source within Sony cited by MP1ST and VideoGamesChronicle pointed to a remastered version of the open-world PlayStation 4 title.
Details on the remaster are scarce at the moment but reportedly include new character models, lighting, and animations. It's also likely that it will incorporate new accessibility features, quality of life improvements, and compatibility with the DualSense controller, mirroring some of the improvements we saw with the remastered version of The Last of Us, which came out in early September.
Here are some graphical comparisons between Zero Dawn and Forbidden West, so you can get a sense of what to expect from a potential remaster.
Sony and Guerilla Games are also reportedly working on a multiplayer title set in the Horizon universe. In 2018, Guerilla Games rehired game director Simon Larouche to work on an unnamed project. Some of Larouche's credits include working on Rainbow Six Siege and the online modes for Splinter Cell: Blacklist and Killzone 2.
A now-deleted tweet from voice actor Lance Reddick also suggests that Horizon Forbidden West DLC may be coming soon as well.
If the rumors are true, The Horizon Zero Dawn remaster will join a number of other Sony exclusives redone for the PlayStation 5, including Spider-Man, Ghost of Tsushima, and Uncharted 4. However, much like The Last of Us remaster, it's expected that the Horizon Zero Dawn remaster will be priced at $69.99.
I like Horizon Zero Dawn a lot. I even bought it a second time when it was re-released for the PC, but paying $70 for a five-year-old game that I've already played is a tall order. Ping me when Sony brings Horizon Forbidden West to the PC, then you'll have my attention as well as my curiosity.


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Minister upbeat after trip to raise awareness, funds for Red Sea project Jordan Times
Posted by Editor on Tuesday, June 29th 2010
By Hana Namrouqa
http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=27885
AMMAN – Minister of Water and Irrigation Mohammad Najjar on Monday expressed optimism over the results of a recent trip to build international support for the Jordan Red Sea Project (JRSP).
During his visit to the US last week, Najjar met with representatives from funding agencies, including the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the World Bank, the American government and the US Export-Import Bank, as part of the government's efforts to secure funding for the $10 billion venture.
Najjar said the visit aimed at informing US officials of Jordan's critical water situation and the importance of the JRSP as a long-term solution.
The minister said that although it is too early to gauge commitments of financial support for the mega-project, US officials expressed "understanding" for Jordan's pressing water needs.
The JRSP, to be implemented in five phases, aims to address the country's severe water shortage by providing 120 million cubic metres (mcm) of water per year in its first phase and expanding to 700mcm annually in later phases.
The first phase entails conveying water from the Red Sea through pipelines to a desalination facility that will be built in Aqaba. Water generated from the plant will be distributed to Aqaba and development projects in the area.
"Many institutions believe that the JRSP contradicts or replaces the World Bank project [Red Sea-Dead Sea Water Conveyance Study Programme], but in fact it complements it," Najjar underscored.
The Red Sea-Dead Sea Water Conveyance Study Programme (Red-Dead project) is led by the World Bank and involves three beneficiaries: Jordan, the Palestinian Authority and Israel.
The project, designed to alleviate pressure on renewable and non-renewable water resources in the region by providing about 850 million cubic metres of potable water annually, entails the construction of a 200-kilometre water conveyor from Aqaba on the Red Sea to the Dead Sea.
A study on the project's feasibility study and an environmental impact assessment were launched in May 2008, followed by three sub-studies. Initial results are expected later this year, while final reports showing the project's economic, environmental and social feasibility will be announced in 2011.
Najjar stressed that Jordan is moving quickly in designing the JRSP and seeking funds due to its critical water situation.
"The government took the initiative because of its water shortage and the fact that the Dead Sea is in constant decline, which negatively affects investments in its area and threatens an international heritage location," Najjar said, underlining that the JRSP aims to serve as a starting point for the Red-Dead project once feasibility studies have been completed.
Jordan, which is considered the world's fourth water poorest country, suffers an annual water deficit of 500mcm and per capita share of water does not exceed 150 cubic metres per year, well below the water poverty line of 500 cubic metres per year.
According to official figures, 91 per cent of Jordan's total area of 97,000 square kilometres is arid land with an annual rainfall average of 50-200 millimetres (mm), while 2.9 per cent is categorised as semi-arid with an annual rainfall average of 400-580mm.
Available water resources are falling short of the growing demand fuelled by population growth and development needs, according to water officials.
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Q: How do I check which model Graphics Card my computer is using ?
Answer: Open the Windows Device Manager and go to Display Adaptors.
There are a couple of different ways you can access the control panels inside of any Windows Operating System. If you already know exactly which control panel you are looking for, type the name of it into the Windows Search Box and select it from the results to open.
For our example here, type Device Manager into the search box and select top result. If you don't know the exact name of the control panel you are looking for, open the master Control Panel instead.
Open Windows Control Panel - set View by to Large Icons - select Device Manager.
Here you will find one or two different display adapters (graphics cards) listed. The three most common cards you may see listed is either an Nvidia model ***, AMD Radeon model *** or Intel HD Graphics model ***.
There are two three main types of Graphics Cards you are likely to find in a home computer.
1. Intel HD Graphics is the most basic. This is an integrated graphics card that is actually part of the CPU. If you are using a laptop computer and it is only a basic model, this is probably the type of graphics processor that is in your machine.
2. Desktop or Laptop grade Nvidia or AMD Radeon graphics card suitable for general processing and gaming. This is the most common type of graphics card you are likely to find in a desktop computer and more powerful laptops. This is a very important item for Gamers, as it processes most of the graphics. These types of cards also help with applications like Video Editors and Special Effects programs.
3. The third type of graphics card is a Workstation grade GPU. These are very expensive cards and normally used only by professionals using specialized software programs.
Why is this information important ?
Certain types of programs require a dedicated Graphics Card to work properly. More and more programs today use the CPU (central processing unit) and GPU (graphics card) to do all the calculations. Most Video Editing programs now use the Graphics Card to assist playback in the Preview Window, process Video Effects and for Rendering/Exporting your final video.
A very popular plugin that comes with Movie Studio Studio Suite and Sony Vegas Pro, is the New Blue Fx Titler program which creates stunning 3D text graphics. This is an example of a program that needs a dedicated Graphics Card to work properly. It will not work with just Intel HD Graphics. So if you would like to use a program like this, you must make sure that your computer has a dedicated Nvidia or AMD Radeon Graphics Card installed.
If you have a laptop and it only has Intel HD Graphics, unfortunately you are stuck with this. There is no way to add a graphics card to a laptop, due to a lack of free space inside.
If you have a desktop computer and it only has Intel HD Graphics, you may be able to upgrade it and install an Nvidia or AMD Radeon GPU. Most desktops have spare slots on the Motherboard for installing extra components like this.
My Device Manager on my Sony Vaio laptop has both display adapters: Intel HD Graphics and NVIDIA GeForce GT 735M. How do I get New Blue Titler 2.0 to use my NVIDIA grapics card?


A young entrepreneur from Scarsdale, New York says he hopes his product can help put an end to the number of car accidents -- and deaths -- caused by distracted drivers using their smartphones.
Texting while driving is now six times more likely to cause an accident than drunk driving, according to the National Safety Council. Also, one out of every four vehicle accidents in the United States is caused by a distracted driver. Teens in particular are the hardest hit, with distracted-driver caused accidents claiming 11 young lives each day.
And according to an AAA poll while 94% of teen drivers acknowledge the dangers of texting and driving, 35% of them admit to doing it anyway.
Stats like these drove 22-year-old entrepreneur Tyler Nathan—a former Emory University business student—to develop an in-car distraction prevention tool that holds all text messages and smartphone alerts while the vehicle is in motion, without completely disconnecting, so drivers can still listen to music and use the phone's GPS. It sends out customized auto-replies alerting that the driver will return messages once the car is parked.
The device, which is part hardware and software, is still in its beta prototype stage and undergoing product testing, but Nathan says that will soon change after securing a Kickstarter goal of $25,000 in less than two weeks earlier this month. Nathan raised a $500,000 venture capital round last year, which he said helped get the idea off the ground. He hopes to launch the product to the public "later this year."
"That [money] basically got us to this point and now were are using Kickstarter to get us to the next point which is production, building inventory, and selling to the public," Nathan says. Additionally, he said he hopes the new funding will help bring the price point down, which is currently a $100.
"That is critical because we want to get this product in the hands of consumers because of how dangerous the issue is. So, the more money we raise on Kickstarter, the quicker we can do that," he says.
According to the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), there are a handful of apps currently on the market, such as LifeSaver, AT&T DriveMode, TrueMotion and Drive Beehive, that are designed to curb dangerous driving habits.


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Q: SQL primary key, INT or GUID or..? Is there any reason why I should not use an Integer as primary key for my tables?
Database is SQL-CE, two main tables of approx 50,000 entries per year, and a few minor tables. Only two connections will exist constantly open to the database. But updates will be triggered through multiple TCP socket connections, so it will be many cross threads that access and use the same database-connection. Although activity is very low, so simultanous updates are quite unlikely, but may occur maybe a couple of times per day max.
Will probably use LINQ2SQL for DAL, or typed datasets.
Not sure if this info is relevant, but that's why I'm asking, since I don't know :)

A: The advantage of using GUID primkey is that it should be unique in the world, such as whether to move data from one database to another. So you know that the row is unique.
But if we are talking about a small db, so I prefer integer.
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If you using SQL Server 2005++, can you also use NEWSEQUENTIALID(),
this generates a GUID based on the row above.Allows the index problem with newid() is not there anymore.

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Is there any reason why I should not
  use an Integer as primary key for my
  tables?

Nope, as long as each one is unique, integers are fine.  Guids sounds like a good idea at first, but in reality they are much too large.  Most of the time, it's using a sledgehammer to kill a fly, and the size of the Guid makes it much slower than using an integer.

A: I see no reason not to use an auto-increment integer in this scenario.  If you ever get to the point where an integer can't handle the volume of data then you're talking about an application scaled up to the point that a lot more work is involved anyway.
Keep in mind a few things:

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*An integer is the native word size for the hardware.  It's about as fast and simple and easy on the computer as a data type gets.

*When considering possibly using a GUID, know that they make for terrible primary keys.  Relational databases in general (I can't speak for all, but MS SQL is a good example) don't index GUIDs well.  There are hacks out there to try to make more index-friendly GUIDs, take them or leave them.  But in general a GUID should be avoided as a PK for performance reasons.

A: Definitely use an integer, you do not want to use a GUID in a clustered index (PK) as it will cause the table to unnecessarily fragment.

A: You should use an integer - it is smaller, meaning less memory, less IO (disk and network), less work to join on.
The database should handle the concurrency issues, regardless of the type of PK.


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Nomad Odes: "Ostrich eggs nearly split in the blaze"
an introduction to "the suspended ones"
by Edmund Hardy
Atlal, the abandoned campsite out in the desert: traces in the sand, tent-peg holes in the rock. This is the well-spring of the pre-Islamic Arabic ode (qasida meaning ode; the related verb qasada, to journey towards, to aim). Returning to the site where his beloved's tribe once lived, the poet is cast, by loss, into re-membering. Stop, says the poet, and hear this ode. The oldest recorded qasida, the Mu'allaqa of Imru' al-Qays, begins:
Halt, friends both! Let us weep, recalling a love and a lodging
by the rim of the twisted sands between Ed-Dakhool and Haumal,
Toodih and el-ikrat, whose trace is not yet effaced
for all the spinning of the south winds and the northern blasts
(trans. A. J. Arberry)
This style of opening-up into a poem world is transmitted into Tennyson:
Comrades, leave me here a little, while as yet 'tis early morn:
Leave me here, and when you want me, sound upon the bugle-horn
(from 'Locksley Hall')
The poems were orally transmitted within and between the tribes of the Arabian peninsular (and the area which is now southern Iraq) in the fifth and sixth centuries A.D. before being recorded by Islamic scholars in the seventh century.
The qasida is a poem of roughly 120 lines, usually with a single end-rhyme throughout (in Persian, the form developed to be unrhymed). The pre-Islamic qasida is often feverish in its mnemonic desire to preserve, celebrate, mourn and get drunk: until the ode overflows the world.
What life for the beloved, whose love is always lost, whose body is hallucinated through displaced and abundant simile which outshines and - with the gazelles, antelopes and horses - outruns any human one. The mood and intensity of the qasida is established by the opening attitude to the beloved. There are satirical moods, as here from Al-A'sha (my translation):
She braces herself to get up
for otherwise voluptous languor
would throw her back to bed
& she'd never visit the neighbours
We must brace ourselves too. Dissembling simile, eyes white as the whitest oryx, mouth compared to wine as fresh as a cold stream, chains of similes, brief meadows, desert animal birthing, there is no transferable descriptive point: Look again, and there are only the blackened hearthstones, torrent-beds worn deeper every year, the black wing of the crow, the stations (maqamát) of the beloved's departure, the women of her tribe in their embroidered camel litters.
The ninth century writer Ibn Qutayba outlines the formal model of the qasida in Kitab al-Shi'r wa-l-Shu'ara (Book of Poetry and Poets), "I have heard from a man of learning that the composer of Odes began by mentioning the deserted dwelling-places and the relics and traces of habitation. Then he wept and complained and addressed the desolate encampment, and begged his companion to make a halt, in order that he might have occasion to speak of those who once lived there." Then follows the amatory prelude, the nasib; then the desert journey of the rihla, which may include the náqa sacrifice, the slaughter of the poet's mount and the distribution of the meat by a ritual lottery of arrow-shafts (sometimes the nasib and náqa combine, and it is the poet's heart which is shot through and divided communally, eaten up by the nomadic life, see the Mu'allaqa of Labid); then, the final part, the madih, sometimes a thunder-storm, most often a boast or panegyric to the excellence of the tribe which may include a selection of proverbs, a wine-song, an account of a battle, a satire or the taunting of other tribes.
There is a famous collection of pre-Islamic odes, and that is the Mu'allaqát, meaning "suspended ones". These were the seven odes to win in the annual compettion at 'Ukaz, near Mecca. These odes were embroidered in gold on Egyptian cloth and hung from the Ka'ba, the ancient shrine. Michael A. Sells suggests: "The image of the seven odes suspended from Arabia's most sacred shrine, a shrine that has since become the ritual center of Arabic culture and of the multiculutral world of Islam, mirrors the generative role within the Arabic-speaking world of the Mu'allaqát and a large number of equally great poems."
Written in a language soon to be fixed in place, the sensibility and structures of the qasida were partly integrated into a Qur'anic literary culture but were also held at a tension to the new supremacy of Scripture. Muslim scholars collected and preserved the oral tradition, memorized and transmitted by ráwis, the authorship of each qasida a model. Sells continues: "The Qur'an apprpriated many of the central values of pre-Islamic poetry. The role of the karim (the generous one) in the qasida, for example, is reflected by its similarly central role in the Qur'an" though the creative tension with the pre-Islamic culture, named the "Jahiliyya", time of moral ignorance, is everywhere expressed. "Upon arrival at the Ka'ba, the pilgrim finds the walls hung with tapestries of rare Egyptian cloth inscribed in gold", pasages from the Qur'an. Subsequent Arabic poets of court and market would write or sing of the abandoned campsite, the owl-calls of the desert, the stream-runnels and gazelles, when they were living increasingly urban lives. Jaroslav Stetkevych considers a spiritual nostalgia to be present in such figures of Arabo-Islamic poetry which is not dissimilar to the Arcadia of haymaking and nymphs in groves somewhat disconnected from the mountain district of the Peloponnese.
One poet who continued to write qasa'id in the bedouin style, though he fused the tripartite structure with a more modern feeling for love, desire and the stories of famous lovers such as Ghaylan and Mayya, was Dhu al-Rumma, a poet of the Umayyad Caliphate. His name means "he-wih-a-cord-of-rope", perhaps in reference to his ability to tie the elements of life together using the rope of meter, and produce from these exquisite verbal knots.
The sand grouse drink what I leave behind.
They approach the water hole
after a night journey,
their sides rumbling.
I resolved. They did.
We raced. Their wings fell limp
while I stood in front at ease
with my robe tucked up.
I turned away.
They tumbled to the rim,
crops and gullets
squeezing and pulsing.
As if their clatter
on both sides of the water hole
were groups of men from caravans,
letting themselves down,
Congregating from all sides
and taken in
like droves of camels
at a wayside pool.
They gulped swiftly and passed on
at dawn
like panic-stricken riders
from Uháza.
(from Shánfara's "Arabian Ode in L" trans. by Michael A. Sells)
Shánfara's poem (also called the Lamiyyat) is one qasida which breaks all the rules, and Shánfara is known as the "brigand-poet". The scene of the sand-grouse is an interlude between a fight with wolves, and a flight from the law.
Of the various English translators of this poetry, Sir Charles Lyall (1845-1920) stands out for his attempts to imitate the various pre-Islamic Arabic meters (the most common of these is the tawíl, variations on the feet ˘ ˉˉ ˘ ). Lyall's Translations of Ancient Arabian Poetry is excellent; as are Michael A. Sells' Desert Tracings (the best contemporary translation, in print from Wesleyan), Desmond O'Grady's The Seven Arab Odes, and Alan Jones' Early Arabic Poetry in two volumes.
The qasida teems with specific metaphors that require a little research. One may burst with the desire to sing of one's beloved "like a colocynth", a kind of gourd which is known to suddenly explode.
"Barbarian" is a Greek-derived word, barbarikos, the "foreign babbling ones." In the qasida, this is mirrored, as foreigners appear as "Greek-speaking babblers in their forts".
If you wander from the straight path you may, in the desert, see the tayf, the beloved's night apparition, or you may, less happily, meet a Ghul, a female species of jinn, shifting and reconfiguring like the desert itself. The Taj al-Arus, a medieval dictionary, defines the Ghul as "terrible in appearance, having tusks or fangs, seen by the Arabs, and known by them; and killed by Ta'ahbbata Sharran", a reference to a pre-Islamic poet who wrote a ghost poem, 'How I Met the Ghul' (trans. S. P. Stetkevych):
Behold! Two eyes set in a hideous head,
like the head of a cat, split-tongued,
Legs like a deformed fetus, the back of a dog,
clothes of haircloth or worn-out skins!
The gazelle, always "fleet of foot", seen here in the drinking-song section of a qasida by 'Alqama, "Flagon like a gazelle / high on the cliff face," the linen sieve (to seal neck and spout) of the flagon evidently reminding the poet of a gazelle caught in the sun which "flashes white". The camel is often "journey-worn" or "the night-courser" while humans can be "camel-bellied" or else weary as "a stumbling camel". The ostrich, "red-legged clump-wing", the oryx, "sheen-of-udder", "wide of eyes", "wild one", "flat-nosed one", oryx-bull, "tuck-bellied brindle-leg", epithets without nouns (in English, a horse may be "a bay" or a "chestnut").
As Arabic literary culture was re-invigorated by the arrival of printing presses, the development of new political and social forms, and the introduction of mass educational methods in post-1801 Egypt, poets looked to the vigour and style of classical literature where qasa'id seemed to provide the forceful public template of speaking necessary for a new generation. Later, the Egyptian Ahmad Shawqi would begin a poem about food shortages after the First World War by weeping over the abandoned campsite of a beloved; and Hafiz Ibrahim commemorated the opening of an orphanage by first recalling a long night journey (by train not camel-mare).
The picture above is of 'Antara, whose Mu'allaqa (trans. Michael A. Sells) includes this drinking song:
I am known
when the hot hours calm
to be drinking wine,
laying down a minted coin,
A tawny luster
from a goblet of banded glass
near a gleaming pitcher
stoppered on the windward side.
When drinking, all I own
I spend away,
though what I am
is undiminished.
And this account of first meeting the beloved:
I fell for her by chance,
killing her kinsmen,
coveting, by your father's life,
what is not to be.
Robert Irwin, 'Night & Horses & The Desert', Penguin, 1999
Alan Jones, 'Early Arabic Poetry' (two volumes), Ithaca Press, 1996
Pierre Joris, 'A Nomad Poetics', Wesleyan, 2003
Charles James Lyall, 'Translations of Ancient Arabian Poetry, Chiefly Pre-Islamic, With an Introduction and Notes', Hyperion, 1980
Desmond O'Grady, 'The Seven Arab Odes', Agenda, 1990
Wen-chin Ouyang, 'Literary Criticism in Medieval Arabic-Islamic Culture: The Making of a Tradition', Edinburgh, 1997
Michael A. Sells, 'Desert Tracings: Six Classic Arabian Odes', Wesleyan, 1989
Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, 'The Mute Immortals Speak: Pre-Islamic Poetry and the Poetics of Ritual', Cornell, 1993
---- 'The Poetics of Islamic Legitimacy: Myth, Gender and Ceremony in the Classical Arabic Ode', Indiana, 2003
Jaroslav Stetkevych, 'The Zephyrs of Najd', Chicago, 1993
Charles Greville Tuetey, 'Classical Arabic Poetry: 162 Poems from Imrulkais to Ma'arri', Kegan Paul, 1985
i'm looking for a complete translation of 'arabian ode in L' online. is there anywhere i can find an online compilation of works?
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by Isabella Black on Mon Jan 18, 2010 3:20 pm
Bella sighed. "Ya know, I wouldn't put up with you guys if you didn't follow me around."
Saphira snorted. "Stick to the current topic Mina."
by Javier Cross on Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:58 pm
Cross goes to recall the last time he stared into the depths of Bella's eyes, as he said to Bella,"I feel alone, inside, with nothing but a broken head and a mutilated heart, as if the pieces were already infected with the virus known as despair," as he goes to look at the door, only to hear a tiny whistle that would make most Vampires cover their ears, as Mina quickly went ahead to find the source of the noise, feeling the familiar noises, as if she was hearing a familiar curse upon Aeneas' people, as she began to recall the phase in which Dido, Aeneas' second lover, once cursed his people to fight the Cathernaganian armies and fleets, in the Punic Wars, as Mina was quickly left exposed to an image of a woman jumping at a burning pyre, for reasons that didn't make sense to Mina, as she was now frozen from shock.
Johnathan goes to quickly get Mina back to the area, as he quickly uncapped the sword, and quickly felt newfound powers reemerging from him, as he grabbed the shocked Mina, and swam to the entrance, before finding a Black Sea Dragon in the room, as the Dragon's thoughts were pouring out, as it sensed people coming into the room, as it asked, in a metallic voice from a section of its thoughts,'Are you here to bring me the sacrifice? as the Black Sea Dragon inside the room said, in a language only a member of either the Alvizu or Black family trees, or even children of Poseidon or the descendants of the 4 founders of Hogwarts would understand!
by Isabella Black on Thu Jan 28, 2010 4:25 pm
"And the sacrifice would be?" Bella asked.
Please forgive me if you're alienated from the changes about Queen Dido of Cartthanage!
by Javier Cross on Sun Jan 31, 2010 11:17 pm
'The life of a child of either Black family or Alvizu blood, of course,' as the sea dragon was covered in so much darkness, it would be hard to find even a part of the dragon, itself, other than its voice, which speaks in various ancient languages.
'I was advised by..other creatures that a party mainly consisting of my most favored of sacrifices would seek out the treasures of the bloodlines, in which only Poseidon's children were able to seize with their lives, denying me the sacrifices of the ritual, in the process," as the metal thought voice continued on, adding,'The rider, one of Triton's royal guard, entered to my domain, unaware of my powers or my existence, as he and his leviathan were mind-altered by it, bringing me the survivors among my sacrifices he didn't slay, himself," as the dragon's powers were slowly being felt by the party, as it continued,'With each of the main sacrifices, my powers grew stronger, as it grows stronger, my powers will continue to wage war upon the universe, itself," as it sent tremors to the party's overall nerve system.
'When i landed on your world, as what your leaders would know as a star dragon's egg, i was offered promises of power, by the blood-star, as with the oaths kept, my powers expanded on, as i existed mainly because of the negative emotions that one of the lovers of the best-known half-mortal son of the love goddess, the Cyprian, was entering,"
As the party was hearing the dark tale, Mina was trying to turn her head and cry on Jasna's shoulders, as Mina knew which of her siblings the dragon spoke of, as it said,'You know the lover of the Cyprian's son i speak of, as the deceased Queen Dido of Carthanage, his final lover before Lavinia of the Latin tribes, and a seeress and sorceress Queen for her people!'
by Isabella Black on Mon Feb 08, 2010 12:52 pm
Bella rolled her eyes.
"So either the blood of a Black must be spilled or the blood of the only family ever linked to us, the Alvizus? Whatever. Kill me, if you must," She raised one eyebrow, daring anyone to contradict her.
by Javier Cross on Mon Feb 08, 2010 7:33 pm
The metal voice sounded like it was on fire, yet it didn't sound angry, as it said,'The fact that you wish to be a sacrifice to me, so quickly, descendant of Phineas Nigellus Black...i can tell you are not ordinary, even for someone hailing from the Black family tree, as the voice then said, as if he were easily amazed, he might have found his next words to be astounding,'Your very blood-stream was...altered from what was meant to occur to it, at a time when you were little more than someone who had hatched from an egg, or in the case of the Homo Sapiens, hatched from a womb, Isabella,' as the voice added the next few things.
'What is more, is that despite the fact you have now been affected by the elixer of one of the four founders of Hogwarts[i do not speak of the only known survivor, Godric Gryffindor, who along with his companions, had met the gods, themselves, as well as to engage my allies in battle, once!] it is clear to me that you have planned on sacrificing yourself, one way or another...may i ask why, before i may begin to grant your very wish?
As the voice had spoken to the party, Tiresias and Cross began to recall, all too well, which founder the Dragon's voice had spoken of, as equally quickly, Cross began to grieve, on the inside out, as he felt it was his fault it happened to Bella, in the first place.
Cross already somehow realized, as well, that the Dragon knew that Isabella is a translation from a language, meaning beautiful, which Bella is, but it only made Cross want to cry, harder, except Cross couldn't cry, so he went to hold his grief on the inside out, until....
Tiresias went so far, as to slap Cross, on the face, hard, as Tiresias sent the following thoughts to Cross,'What in the name of all known hells is wrong with you, officer Cross?I thought Officer Alvizu knew you, better than that!!!!' as Cross began to frown, further, when Tiresias said Cross's late uncle's name, but Tiresias would have none of it, as he continued on, adding,'Your uncle wasn't hard enough on you, if you could no longer pull yourself together, despite the fact that all our comrades at arms are dead, now, and still dying.If you were to crack, now, in times like these, you'd be dishonoring their very memories, officer!' as with that, Tiresias goes to pay attention to the Dragon's voice, while Cross goes to think about Tiresias' words, as Cross then thought,'...Tiresias is right...i should stop blaming myself, for giving Bella the elixer of Slytherin...what was done, is done...the best thing to do, is to focus on de-full-vampify her, and hope she becomes a half-vamp, once more!' as Cross hopes that Regulus' spirit, or for that matter, Cross's deceased uncle Pedro luis, would have shown him the right thing, even though they're both dead, as Cross recalled that Bella was Regulus' daughter, and all that's left of the Black family tree[aside from Tiresias!] now!
by Isabella Black on Tue Feb 09, 2010 4:19 pm
Bella cocked an eyebrow. "Because whatever this is it's obviously important enough to endanger the Black line, by killing one of the two which carry it's blood. Tiresias will know what to do with it better anyway."
The Dark Revelation!
by Javier Cross on Tue Feb 09, 2010 10:39 pm
'The boy who had killed his parents, for reasons forgotten from his memories, because he does not wish to trust his own childhood, save for the fact that he was a child soldier, once...its astounding that since you once had a cousin, who was suffering from a cancer one of my allies had given her, had either had most, if not all her memories erased, while the people who were trying to save her had to surrender her memories, in exchange for her survival, as she lived a new life, as an assassin, unaware of the sacrifice, or she had died from it, outrightly, as another member of the Black family tree's main surviving branches[rather than their fringe branches, as the namesake and descendant of the first Tiresias, the blind prophet, was sired from!] continued to join the dead, which is quite the opposite of what the few branches of the Alvizu tree who are trying to save the Black family tree were trying to do, to help the family survive!' as Tiresias sensed that the dragon was talking about the cancer-infected relative of Bella's and Tiresias', as the Dragon then mentioned the following:
'The unique thing, is that one of the more tamer of your relatives, the weasley daughter whom, along with her siblings, is a grandchild of Cedrella Black, is tamer about her distrust of you than the cancer-infected relative of yours i mentioned happened to be, but try as she may, she still thinks you would one day threaten her family, no matter how much she tries to tell herself, otherwise, and i could tell that she's still somewhat affected by Tom Riddle's diary, in terms of how much she managed to save whatever damages the experience had done to her mind, for progress in either Quidditch or battle...i wonder what could happen, if she realized that she was a void of either of her family trees, just as you are, descendant of Phineas, as it is already known to me that neither of you are black holes, but you're still living voids in existence, as the Dragon then said,'Yes, it would be fitting as to find out whether or not she could continue to maintain her sanity, as she was making a valiant effort to not crack, altogether, or if she will stab or curse herself at her feet, altogether, in ways that would be far worse than anything you would ever imagine.
When Cross found out about the fact that Slytherin's Elixer had damaged Bella, more than he realized, was about to make him depressed, but quickly enough, Kyle Perry and Johnathan Snyder managed to help Cross snap out of it, as they go next to him.
As for Mina Alvizu, she goes to look at Reena and Jasna, as she silently said,'When the time comes, i'll find the voice's source, and we'll take him out, alright, girls? as she refused to let the Dragon gain Bella, one way or another, in this, she was determined, as she was about to draw from her hair-pin the Celestial Bronze Sword she had, with her.
by Isabella Black on Thu Feb 11, 2010 8:05 pm
Bella tensed up immediately. "I'm sorry but the Weasleys carry no Black blood. Therefor I do not recognize her as family. And to sacrifice myself means I just have to die at my own hand. Whether you are here or not, so Mina drop that plan." Bella drew her sword.
Revelations!
by Javier Cross on Thu Feb 11, 2010 9:46 pm
'You have Blood-biter, i see, descendant of Phineas,' as the Dragon then made a noise as if he was pleased,'Excellent!!!Only a Black family sorcerer with the powers of a Vampire could hope to wield the weapon, without a true fear of being weakened from it, while using the sword, itself, because if other warriors or sorcerers tried to wield the sword, itself, the blade would have eaten their very being, alive, eventually, such as a hidden curse within the blade,
The Dragon added,'It could be wielded at the hands of someone who possessed enough Black family blood, but they may risk losing their very sanity, if their will isn't strong enough to subdue the creature of the blade, as it may be used by a child of Hades, but not without the risk of losing control of their powers, unless they had possessed a sacred amulet! as the Dragon was about to gain his sacrifice, and be released from his prison, itself.
As if Tiresias was unable to take the idea of the horrors the Dragon would unleash, in the outside area, once he is released, he was beginning to slowly scream out his horrors, as he began to slowly, but surely, revisit one of the scenes that he was trying desperately to avoid, at all costs.
It was the scene of a young boy, no older than 8 years old, and blind, as he was given an order to kill a group of medics and healers who are healing the enemy cause, as quite quickly, Tiresias watched the boy, as the boy ran with a scimitar, straight to the area that his parents were in, then he said in Arabic, a language Tiresias understood, all too well, I give this life to the creator, and to the prophets, peace be with them, as quite quickly, Tiresias goes to slap the boy, hard, in the face, as the boy said,'Get out of the way, i have a mission to follow!' as Tiresias then quickly said,'And then what?You're going to return to your comrades-at-arms, as the sihr[Black Magic] waves continue to affect everyone you'd consider your friends?Have you ever considered that the man you're following is descended from evil Jinn[Demons and evil spirits] hence why you wouldn't be able to see your friends, ever again, every time you get back from a part of a mission?'
As Tiresias was scolding the boy, who bore an astounding resemblance to Tiresias, as apparently the boy was always blind, on both eyes, hence why he doesn't yet know how to see Tiresias, well, the boy's parents came in, as Tiresias had taken a glance at them, quickly realizing that those were his parents, before he ended up...assassinating them, as an assignment from the group lead by a descendant of an evil Jinn, as Tiresias then said, specifically,'Take the boy inside the house, and don't let him out of there, Alright?' as he took the boy's sword away.
He recalled that his mum actually bore some resemblance to an angel, of which Tiresias planned to look back, later on, completed with the Sapphire Blue Eyes, and all, as well that his father actually resembled a valiant soldier who fights with duty and honor, by his side, as if he was a true disciple of the creator, instead of an outright terrorist, like the kind Tiresias ended up joining, without realizing it.
But a few minutes after Tiresias had taken the sword away...the evil act Tiresias was trying to prevent, happened anyway, as he ended up seeing blood at the window, as he felt a course of dismay, grief, and revulsion at his heart, as quite quickly, if he could cry without fear of blood infecting his eyes, he'd do it, in that moment, but instead, he goes to crack, as in that point, all he was seeing, was a lot of red.
As if there was no rational understanding going on, in the area, quickly enough, Blood-Biter was disintegrating into red particles, as it began to fade from Bella's hand, as with that, whether or not someone realized it, in time, someone was making a massive charge, as if it was faster than even a bullet, itself, as Cross quickly didn't realize it, but someone had grabbed the sword, through means Cross couldn't even understand, as they began to charge at the source of the voice, itself, as with that, the head of the source was exposed, as the head, itself, turned out to be 20 feet high!
As for Mina's visions, which were apparently unaffected by whatever was happening to Cross that Mina could sense, as well, she then sensed the dragon's thought voice, as the creature said,'The powers of the exiled branch has awoken, once more...i speak of the relatives of the ancestors of Phineas, who had stayed in the Holy Lands, themselves, centuries ago!'
'The branches had married into each other, insofar as the individual cousins ended up marrying each other, and with that, they had inherited whatever hidden gifts each of the branches who stayed had, within their branches of the Black family tree...their own abilities are quite similar to those in which your own ancestors, along with your main branch, have, Isabella, however, despite the basic rooting in magic, they are also quite different, as you are seeing, now!
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by Isabella Black on Mon Feb 15, 2010 7:39 pm
Bella hissed. "The power of the Black line summons Blood Biter to it's mistress, whom it must serve till she dies," She spoke a powerful summons spell that spoke the Blood Biters law.
by Fox on Sat Feb 27, 2010 7:06 pm
((Hey can I rejoin? I kno it's been forever but. . . Yeah))
by Isabella Black on Mon Mar 22, 2010 2:18 pm
(Heya. Sure)
by Fox on Fri Jun 04, 2010 9:14 pm
Vana stumbled onto the sene with a questioning and dizzy look on her face. What was everyone daoing here? She silently wondered.
by Javier Cross on Fri Jun 04, 2010 9:41 pm
'We are out to prevent a genocide demon from being unleashed! Mina said with her thoughts, as she didn't have time to explain with her thoughts that one of her ancient half-brothers had something to do with that thing.
Mina draws out her sword, Amata, briefly kisses Jasna's lips, and goes to charge against the dragon-demon!
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Slightly confused and/or drunk Vana fell back from the line of attack. 'Where's Bella?' Vana asked Mina.
by Javier Cross on Fri Jun 04, 2010 10:05 pm
'In front of the dragon, trying to commit ritualistic suicide, in more ways than one, and i wished she were seducing Cross, instead,' Mina sent her thought with a sigh, as she looks at Vana and Jasna, hoping the two could tell Bella not to kill herself, while Mina goes to charge against that thing!
She goes to enchant Amata, as the blade showed a silvery color.
by Fox on Fri Jun 04, 2010 10:11 pm
Being Vana, there was only one thing that she could really do. "Isabella Zara Black, you committ suicide in those shoes and so help me god I'll smack you so hard your great great grand doughter will feel it! We don't ruin other people's property young lady-vampire-witch-type-thinG!" Vana screamed looking to Bella's feet and seeing her own flipflops.
Cross was shocked, as he began to realize the following, One, he didn't realize that Bella had a Middle name, either because he didn't ask, or that Bella didn't tell him, two, Vana has better odds of talking to Bella than Cross ever could hope to have, and three, he must fight a dragon, and with that, he pulls out a gun he has, that went to transform into a spear gun.
Mina goes to get ready to make the charge, although she then thought,'Bella's lucky to even know her own middle name, i don't even know my own middle name, even though my father already gave one to me!' as Mina goes to continue to charge up her sword, Amata.
by Isabella Black on Fri Jun 04, 2010 10:18 pm
Bella turned and screamed back.
"ya know what, when you wore my favorite tank top and jumped into that mud pit, I didn't say shit so shut up! And if I wanna be suicidal, I'll be suicidal. If you remember correctly, you were the one who wouldn't jump off the damn ledge and we were all screaming jump!"
'I changed my mind, this story can't even make up its own mind!' the Dragon said, as he feels that the world has gone mad, as he breaks the 4th wall, and slowly begins to overheat due to in-fighting!
Cross was shocked, as he begins to realize that not only did Bella had a middle name, but the dragon looked like it was about to blow up!
Seeing the problem, Vana jumped on Bella and made sure they wer covered from the blow, or at least that Bella's feet where. "I paid five bucks for these shoes dammit! like heck if i'm gonna losse them now!"
The Dragon turned out to begin unleashing steam, as the Altina came back, as it unleashed a powerful spell that begins to shield everyone from the explosion!
Mina then brings Jasna to the force-field the Altina made, as Kyle goes to watch the fireworks.
Bella rolled her eyes. "You couldn't have gone with the plan? Let him think I blew up with the dragon and then we run away to choclate land! Hullo, I coulda given you a hundred bucks for new shoes!"
"But. . . I'm just a simple minded chocolate drunk! Don't blame me!" Vana sobbed.


Northmen: A Viking Saga is the Viking version of Braveheart. While there are some historical inaccuracies, and a couple of all-too-convenient plot issues, this is a super fun movie filled with gory battles, beautiful scenery and a couple of epic performances.
Instead of Mel Gibson, we have Tom Hopper who plays Asbjorn, the son of the deceased outcast Viking leader. He's young, he's muscled and he's pretty fantastic. His character proves himself over and over again to be a leader worthy of his father's name, against some pretty stacked odds.
Next, we have Ryan Kwanten (of True Blood fame). He plays an outcast monk Named Conall, with some seriously badass fighting skills. When the stranded Vikings find themselves lost and under siege by a band of filthy Scottish brigands, with the daughter of Scottish King Dunchaid, Inghean, as their hostage (played by the lovely Charlie Murphy) Conall comes to the Viking band's aid and whips some serious tail. Not only is Kwanten in pretty sick shape from his days on True Blood, his acting chops are pretty well versed. If I hadn't recognized his face, I would never have guessed this was the same guy who played the goofy, but gorgeous brother of Sookie Stackhouse.
The other Vikings are truly lovable in their gruff attitudes and their loyalty to both Asbjorn and Valhalla. One of my favorite Vikings was wonderful — Darrell D'Silva, who played Gunnar was pretty epic. Grey-haired and always ready for a fight, he was just fun to watch. He was also seriously hard to kill, which made him double epic.
The bad guys, who were Slavic mercenaries, lead by Ed Skrein as Hjorr and his older brother Bovarr, played by Anatole Taubman, were vicious, and extremely lucky. The convenient plot issues revolved around the good guys never catching a break and the bad guys running into good fortune around every turn.
The Slavic mercenaries, nicknamed the wolf pack, were on horseback. When they lost their horses, they conveniently run into a farm with enough horses for all the men, as well as saddles and saddle blankets enough for everyone. That was just a tad too convenient for me, especially when the poor Vikings were constantly on foot and running to save their lives.
It also seemed that no matter how many men the wolf pack lost, their numbers didn't decrease much until the very last battle.
Speaking of the last battle, when Hjorr was finally defeated, as we knew he would be, he sinks into a bog on a Scottish moor. He's got a piece of broken sword lodged in his neck as he sinks. Our hero, Asbjorn is saved from drowning in the very same bog by the damsel not so in distress, Inghean, Hjorr jumps up from the bog for one last roar before Conall's spear runs him through. Sorry, but have you ever been stuck in a bog? It's like cold, smelly, wet quicksand. You can't just jump up out of that once you've sunk.
So, other than little things like that that were just a tad too convenient or inaccurate, this was a very fun, action packed movie. I was highly entertained.


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Delany, Annie Elizabeth ("Bessie")
(b. 3 September 1891 in Raleigh, North Carolina; d. 25 September 1995 in Mount Vernon, New York), dentist, civil rights activist, and coauthor of the best-selling memoir Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years (1993).
Bessie was the third of ten children born to Henry Beard Delany, Sr., a former slave who became the first elected African American bishop of the Episcopal Church, U.S.A., and vice principal of Saint Augustine's College in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Nanny James Logan, a matron at Saint Augustine's. Henry Delany's family were house slaves of a family named Mock, who taught them to read and write. Nanny Logan was born free. Brought up on the Saint Augustine campus, Bessie and her siblings were reared in a household that emphasized education, religion, and service. The Delany children were raised with the motto, "your job is to help someone." Growing up on a college campus provided them a somewhat sheltered experience, but no black children in the Jim Crow South were completely immune from the harsh racial realities of the time. Feisty throughout her life, Bessie lashed into anyone who slighted her on the basis of her race or sex. She considered herself dark-skinned and said, "the darker you are, honey, the harder it is." She knew that dark-skinned blacks often bore the brunt of racial prejudice and developed an aggressive attitude in response. As a five-year-old on the way to Pullen Park in Raleigh, Bessie was introduced to racism by a trolley driver who forced her family to the back of the car. She and her siblings protested loudly, but to no avail. When they arrived at the park and found segregated water fountains, Bessie drank from the one reserved for whites.
Delany received her primary and secondary education at Saint Augustine's in nontraditional classrooms, where her classmates were both children and adults. She graduated from Saint Augustine's in 1911 with the equivalent of a two-year degree and then worked as a teacher in Board-man, North Carolina, earning forty dollars a month. In 1913 she moved to Brunswick, Georgia, and taught at the Saint Athanasius School, with the goal of saving money to continue her education. Once while traveling to her job, Bessie was almost lynched for telling a drunken white man at the Waycross train station to "shut up" and go away. She escaped, and the incident did not deter her from speaking her mind whenever she felt slighted.
In 1915, traveling with their mother, Delany and her older sister Sarah (Sadie) visited New York City. The sisters decided to move to New York to continue their education. Sadie arrived in 1916 and Bessie joined her in 1917. At a time when many blacks headed North for greater opportunity, nine of the ten Delany children moved to New York City and all ten finished college. Delany had aspirations of becoming a doctor but entered Columbia University's School of Dental and Oral Surgery in 1919, one of eleven women and the only black woman in a class of about 200. She graduated in June 1923. Known as "Dr. Bessie," Delany, only the second licensed black woman dentist in New York State, was renowned for providing free care to the poor at her office on Seventh Avenue and 135th Street. In twenty-seven years of practice she never raised her rates of two dollars for a cleaning and five dollars for a silver filling. When business suffered during the Great Depression, Delany supplemented her income by running a dental clinic near City Hall in Lower Manhattan.
Harlem was a lively place in the 1920s, and Delany rubbed shoulders with such luminaries as the poet James Weldon Johnson, who was a patient of hers, the bandleader Cab Calloway, and the singer Paul Robeson. By the middle of the 1920s Dr. Delany's office was a meeting place for activists in Harlem, including E. Franklin Frazier. She enthusiastically participated in civil rights marches in Manhattan. Around 1925 she had a run-in with the Ku Klux Klan on Long Island, New York, which only furthered her resolve to fight for civil rights. Reflecting upon that incident, she recalled, "All you had to do was say the word 'protest' and I was there!" While her sister Sadie preferred Booker T. Washington's theory of gradual advancement through practical education, Delany was more confrontational and embraced the philosophy of her friend W. E. B. Du Bois. Bessie and Sadie rented their first apartment together in Harlem around 1919 before moving to a Bronx cottage and finally settling into a home they bought in Mount Vernon in 1957. Nanny Logan Delany joined the two sisters in New York in April 1928, following the death of her husband. In 1950 Dr. Delany retired prematurely from her dental practice to care for her ailing mother, who died on 2 June 1956.
In 1991 Amy Hill Hearth, a reporter for the New York Times, interviewed Sadie and Bessie, as the two had just celebrated their 102nd and 100th birthdays. Readers immediately fell in love with the Delany sisters, who teamed with the reporter to write Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years (1993), which sold millions of copies and maintained a spot on the New York Times paperback best-seller list for seventy-seven weeks. In 1995 their story was turned into a Broadway play that earned three Tony Award nominations. At the ages of 103 and 105, Bessie and Sadie again collaborated with Hearth to produce The Delany Sisters' Book of Everyday Wisdom (1995). Bessie died in her sleep in her Mount Vernon home and is buried between her parents in Raleigh's Mount Hope Cemetery. On 18 April 1999 Having Our Say aired as a CBS made-for-television movie.
Spurning traditional societal norms, Bessie Delany blazed a fiercely independent trail. Neither Bessie nor her sister Sadie ever married, and over the years the two became inseparable, referring to themselves as "maiden ladies." Prideful and stubborn, Delany was well ahead of her time. She soared to professional heights that few women, let alone African American women, were able to reach. Her continuous battles against racism and sexism might have broken the spirits of someone with less determination. However, this adversity only made Delany work harder and set her sights higher. Fighting through tremendous obstacles, she never lost her "urge to change the world."
Henry Beard Delany's personal papers are in the Delany Collection at St. Augustine's College. Bessie Delany's memoir, with Sarah Delany and Amy Hill Hearth, is Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years (1993). Their second book with Hearth is The Delany Sisters' Book of Everyday Wisdom (1995). Following Bessie's death, Sadie wrote On My Own: Life Without Bessie (1997). "Two 'Maiden Ladies' With Century-Old Stories to Tell," the article that generated public interest in the Delany sisters, is in the New York Times (22 Sept. 1991). An obituary is in the New York Times (22 Sept. 1995).
Daniel Massey
The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives
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The name comes from Sanskrit which means flower bouquet, Malioboro is the centerpiece with its charm that will attract tourists. Not only full of stories and memories, Malioboro is the haven for souvenirs located right in the heart of Yogyakarta.
During the night, Malioboro is a great place to taste the local culinary variety.


It was these people who had framed her in the past.
Their bitter words exposed their ugly faces!
She gently spit out these words, indifferently picking up the scalpel, and looking at the man on the bed.
The man had great looks, unfortunately due to too much blood loss, his face was too pale.
She covered up the man, then pushed open the door.
She did not notice that on the bed, the pale man's fingers moved on the side she treated.
Suddenly, the man braced himself upwards his charming eyes staring fiercly!
Deep in thought, he watched Gu Qi Qi's petite and exquisite back, as she disappeared through the door.
Gu Qi Qi did not know what they were thinking about.
The bodyguard frowned, thinking that this nurse simply had excess courage, she dared to order them around?
However, she without waiting for them to say anything, Gu Qi Qi quickly left.
Gu Qi Qi trotted away, because she was familiar with the hospital layout, she escaped Gu Qiushan and the others, quickly leaving their line of site.
The Second Floor Obstetrics and gynecology examination room.
She opened the door, and quickly searched for the things that Xiao Feng needed – pregnancy test sticks.
Thinking about it for a moment, she grabbed two.
That night, on the operating table with that mysterious man who took advantage of her, there had been some troubling liquid left behind in her body.
She had been locked away for three days, without the chance to take medecine, she did not know if any symptoms would show up.
Additionally thumping sounds could be heard.
Gu Qi Qi was suddenly uncertain.
She was about to ask, when suddenly, a strong force caused her to stop.
Her arm was pulled and sudenly in pain.
The gray-haired adjutant was full of apologies.
The adjutant embarrassedly coughed twice.
Somehow, this girl Qi Qi is obviously a recently graduated high school girl, yet he felt that when she was angry, her anger and atmosphere did not lose out to the Chief.
"How did you know that I was here? Weren't you supposed to return in seven days?" she asked frowning.
Even if her escape was found out by that impotent overbearing tyrant, it was impossible for him to come back from the battlefield just to find her.
The adjutants face looked even more embarrassed.
He did not know how to answer Gu Qi Qi.
Was he supposed to say the truth, that during combat Chief Gong had heard that she had knocked out the soldiers and escaped, immediately furious like thunder, he quickly decisively settled everything, boarded a fighter jet and came back?
As soon as he came back, his first order was to catch her and bring her home!
He did not dare say this ah, would it not seem that Chief Gong cared about her?
Wouldn't it allow the little girl to get more arrogant?
Speaking as if she was clever, after Zhu Fen was beaten at school, the adjutant had arrived at the school to find someone, when she saw the soldier, she guess that Gu Qi Qi had definitely committed a crime.
Gu Qi Qi's expression immediately grew cold.
By this, Gu Xue Xue was likening her to being a 'prostitute'!
With family and friends who needs enemies. It would be better to have been an orphan and raised as a hermit.What is Xiao Feng doing? Is she being held down again by that big man?
Sorry for being off topic but do you know what is going on with the novel 'sonata fleeing to avoid an arranged marriage' ?
Hi sorry I just wanted to ask how old is she? Since she has had 10yrs of experience in the hospital? And they keep calling her little girl…?


Scene of the fatal crash in Providence, Rhode Island on Oct. 8, 2018.
Police say an early morning crash involving a landscaping company's dump truck and two cars has left one person dead.
The crash in Providence occurred at about 12:30 a.m. Monday.
Police say the dump truck struck a sedan, killing one occupant of the other vehicle and severely injuring another. No one was injured when a third vehicle got involved.
A witness says the driver of the dump truck ran into a nearby gas station convenience store crying and was detained by bystanders until police arrived and arrested him.
No names were immediately released and the crash remains under investigation.


The City of Brampton, Ontario, Canada is redeveloping its Public Works Yards to meet the future of Brampton's growth, service expectations and commitment to a greener, cleaner environment.
The City of Brampton's Sandalwood Works Yard is a base used for road maintenance and snow clearing operations. In addition to servicing and maintaining roads, sidewalks and other City owned infrastructure, they plow and remove snow from the City's roadways, downtown core Brampton Transit bus stops, bridge deck sidewalks, school crossings, and walkways.
In the winter thousands of tonnes of snow, is loaded onto dump trucks and transported to the yard where it is stored and melted.
As a very active, high traffic yard all year round, the City saw the need to update existing stormwater infrastructure with retrofittable technology to manage the solid wastes, debris and stormwater contaminants associated with these essential services that is being transported to the Yard every day.
Enviropod Canada in conjunction with their partners Imbrium Systems approached the Brampton Public Works team to trial the Enviropod technologies: the Enviropod™ Filter – a high performing catch basin insert and the LittaTrap™ – a low cost, hand maintainable catch basin insert. Both technologies are highly engineered for high performance and high flows.
Two trial units were installed and monitored for 18 months to understand suitability across all weather conditions. The trial involved retrofitting the technology into existing catch basins at Sandalwood Works Yard and required no construction or disturbance to the existing infrastructure.
After 18 months of testing these new technologies, the City has retrofitted the remaining thirteen (13) of the fifteen (15) catch basins in the Yard with six (6) additional Enviropod Filters and seven (7) LittaTraps.
Different technologies were installed in different parts of the yard. The LittaTrap is a simple tool for managing plastics, gross solids and sediment in stormwater runoff. These were installed in lower contaminant generating areas.