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Kenny Chesney was born on the March 26, 1968, in Knoxville, TN. But he was raised in Luttrell. Kenny completed his graduation from a college at East Tennessee State in Johnson City. It is during his college life that he became well known by performing at numerous venues such as Chuckie's Trading Post and Quarterback's Barbecue. During that time, the need of the season was blues, rock and folk. Kenny was the only one doing George Jones and Hank Jr. he was not too sure of his talent though until the time he actually built a band and created an album full of songs that he had himself written. He prepared, roughly a thousand copies and managed to sell all of them. In the year 1991, he actually traveled to Nashville to fulfill his ambitions.
Initially it was an uphill ride, as most of the publishing companies did not show much of an interest. At last, in the year 1992, someone from BMI got him an audition with the Opryland Music Group. As a result of that, he came out with the contract of a songwriter. Within a year or so, he signed a contract with Capricorn Records. The song called 'The Tin Man', made him quite popular. RCA's Joe Galante offered to pay him for his debut album and signed to BNA Records. In the year 1995, his first album from BNA achieved a whopping sales figure of over 300,000 copies. In 1996, the album Me and You sold over a 100,000 copies. But his album I Will Stand achieved, released in 1997, achieved platinum status. In the early months of 1999, Kenny's Everywhere We Go sold a massive 2 million copies.
This was not the end though. In 2001, Kenny Chesney released his album called Greatest Hits. This album achieved the status of triple platinum. Within a year, Kenny released No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems. By that time, he was considered to be one of the cream artistes in country music. He gave hits like 'Young' and 'The Good Stuff'. In the year 2003, Kenny embarked into a hugely successful tour.


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I'm in a world of pain and I don't think I can continue. This climb from Gostivar to Mavrovo Lake in western Macedonia is an absolute calf-burner: 727 metres of climbing in under 20 kilometres. But I'm determined to surmount the monstrous pass, flaunting lengthy seven per cent gradient sections, without getting off the saddle or evaporating into the thin mountain air. With each painstaking turn of the pedals, I remind myself it's just one more day of steep ascents until I descend to the flat plains – and respite – of central Albania.
It's early August and the second day of a 716-kilometre unsupported bikepacking trip from Skopje, Macedonia to Dubrovnik, Croatia through Albania and Montenegro, and today's stage is undoubtedly the hardest section of the 15-day ride. It's also the most challenging experience I've ever had on two wheels. I knew this was going to be hard – but that's precisely why I chose to do it.
This is my first bikepacking trip. I'd cycled 540 kilometres from Paris to Freiburg over five days with a group and a support van a month earlier, but I was keen to up the ante and challenge myself by riding solo and carrying all my own gear (roughly 12kg) through the Balkans. I'm riding a Giant Defy 5 bike fitted with Continental Gatorskin tyres that I've rented from a bloke named Ned up in Zagreb, who shipped it to me along with a pair of Ortlieb panniers and a handlebar bag to Skopje bus station a few days prior.
I'd set off from the Macedonian capital for Mavrovo Lake in the pre-dawn glow yesterday to avoid as much of the forecasted 39-degree heat as possible and rode 75 kilometres via Tetovo before wild camping in the secluded corner of a roadside farm. I loaded my bike and left at a similar time today along potholed roads to ensure I'd be able to reach my camping spot on the shores of the lake by 11 am. It was an ambitious goal, but ultimately an exercise in wishful thinking. Three hours overdue, I roll down the main road into Mavrovo Lake, fatigued and nearly deflated but ultimately ecstatic for getting myself over the first major obstacle of the trip.
Early morning birdsong filters through the polyester of my tent camped along the grassy banks of the lake under a Macedonian pine tree. My alarm is telling me to get up, but my body is demanding a renegotiation of terms after yesterday's epic efforts. I give in and spend a couple of rest days swimming in the translucent water and replenishing my depleted protein reserves with the lake's famous trout over bottles of Skopsko, the local beer.
It's day five and time to cycle 100 kilometres down to Lake Ohrid through Mavrovo National Park – home to hundreds of animal species, including brown bears, golden eagles and the endangered European lynx. The air is damp and cold as I cycle downhill for 20 kilometres under a thick canopy of pine, oak and poplar. I stop to chuck on a couple of extra layers while filling my water bottles at roadside spring fountains; the water is freezing cold and slightly sweet. The R1202 I'm cycling down runs alongside the green Radika River, which gets its colour from the water's high calcium carbonate content.
Before reaching Debar city at the top of a steep, traffic-laden road and riding out of town along a bridge that looks out across to Albania – its mountainside smoking with isolated fires – I visit Saint Jovan Bigorski Monastery just as a church service is wrapping up. Although 65 per cent of Macedonians identify as Eastern Orthodox, 33 percent subscribe to Islam, and the country is home to the fifth highest number of Muslims in Europe – a fact evident in the stately mosques nestled throughout the small villages and towns I pass on the way to Lake Ohrid.
I'm battling a fierce headwind today, and the heatwave passing through land-locked Macedonia is seriously impeding my progress. There are no shoulders on any of these roads, forcing me to laser-focus my bike as close as possible to the edge of the road as traffic zooms beside me. This undulating section of the route is mostly exposed to the sun too, necessitating frequent stops to rehydrate. The remaining 60 kilometres to my campsite at Struga on the northern shore of Lake Ohrid – one of Europe's oldest and deepest lakes and a UNESCO World Heritage Site jointly shared by Macedonia and Albania – takes me up and over a melange of category four climbs not as spaced out as I would've liked.
I spend the next two days cycling around Lake Ohrid at a leisurely pace and camping on its shores – a suitable reward for the 240 kilometres already in the bag. I treat myself to a night at a hostel in Ohrid, ambling around the ancient, church-laden city during the day and relishing the comfort of a proper bed in the evening.
In a stark – and welcomed – contrast to the last eight days riding through Macedonia, my route through Albania to Durrës on the Adriatic Sea and up to Shkoder near the border with Montenegro is taking me through a relatively flat section, known as the Land of Eagles — rare in a country almost completely dominated by mountains and high terrain.
After crossing into Albania at the southern end of Lake Ohrid and incurring my first flat tyre, I cycle roughly 100 kilometres to Elbasan. I spend the night there and jump back on the saddle before dawn riding along rough and uneven roads out of Albania's third largest city onto the SH7 and SH4 to Durrës via Rrogozhinë. I'll need to cycle 85 kilometres today. But riding along these major highways through the central plains is a daunting task when you're forced to share the road with cars and trucks doing at least 90 clicks, not to mention looking out for broken glass on the dusty bitumen threatening another flat tyre.
However, it's not all doom and gloom. In between busy sections of highway I get to ride past scattered farms and through friendly small villages where smiling children rush to the road and high-five me as I cycle past. In one village, I cycle past an Albanian wedding procession. Occasionally I share the road with donkey carts, and at one point I spot another cyclist on the opposite side of the road – he never notices me.
By the time I pull into Durrës, it's already past 1 pm and the sun is brutal. I spend the remainder of the day resting and reloading my supplies. At my hostel I meet John, a cyclist from the UK, who'd just wrapped up an epic 1,200-kilometres ride here from Bologna – the long way around, considering a mere 72 kilometres separates Italy from Albania across the Strait of Otranto. The next day I take a bus to Tirana and spend the afternoon walking around the colourful capita, hunting down a bike shop to replace the tube I punctured entering Albania.
I pedal out of salty-aired Durrës just before sunrise and begin cycling the flat 106 kilometres to Shkoder near the Albanian and Montenegro border. But I'm having bike issues: my chain has fallen off four times in the last hour, slowing me down just as the temperature ratchets up into the high-20s. I don't have the tools to adjust the derailleurs myself so I need to seek out someone who does. Crossing my fingers the chain doesn't fall off again, I ride 5km to the town of Fushë-Krujë and ask around for help. Immediately I'm escorted to a bike garage just off the main drag and given an espresso while waiting for the mechanic to fix my bike.
Bike loaded and lunch digesting in my belly, it's time to press on. Roughly halfway I take a break from the exposed riding and 35-degree heat and pull into a shady embankment on the side of the Mat River. After a much-needed power nap, I continue along the SH1, pulling into my campsite in Shkoder a little after 5 pm. It isn't hard to convince myself that I deserve the next day off.
It's dark and chilly and I can hear thunder in the distance. At 4 am it's time to pack up and hit the road if I want to reach Budva on the Montenegrin coast before the 40-degree weather dries me like a prune. It will be an 85 kilometres day today, involving one international border crossing and constant undulations. I enter Montenegro just as the sun creeps up behind craggy mountains and throws a dawn glow across the dramatic landscape, revealing small hamlets and orchids woven into verdant farmland.
The route to Budvar splinters off the main E851 onto quiet, potholed country backroads. I tackle a ten km climb starting at Krute which takes me a little over 35 minutes to clear; at the top I'm rewarded with commanding views over the seaside town of Bar. Back on the main coastal road the traffic is incessant and a little alarming, sometimes coming within a foot of me. But the drivers are patient and respectful of my space. I pull into Budvar just after midday and spend the night in a charming hostel inside the city's defensive stone walls.
I wake up, load my bike and emerge from the labyrinthine Old Town back onto the main coastal road to Kotor just after sunrise. It can get dangerously busy along this 25-kilometre section of the coast – especially during summer – so I'm relieved when my GPS directs me off the main highway onto an alternative route.
However, that relief is short-lived. I'm brought to the bottom of a demanding eight per cent gradient climb just five minutes after leaving my hostel. I'm cursing under my breath within ten seconds and sweating in under a minute, and the two-kilometre steep ascent wakes me up like a punch in the face. The elevated road twists and turns along quiet bitumen until it descends once more to the busy main coastal road. Occasionally I need to cycle through vast tunnels – dark and scary encounters absorbing you into a dark void where passing cars sound like Boeing 777s.
I roll into Kotor just after 9 am. After breakfast and a quick look around I jump back on the saddle and cycle 45 kilometres along the Bay of Kotor to Herceg Novi just before the Croatian border. It's mostly flat and exceptionally easy on the eye, but the presence of cars and occasional close shaves are distracting. I sit out the hottest hours of the day swimming and eating at a roadside restaurant, getting back on the bike after 4 pm and pulling into Herceg Novi an hour later.
I'd originally planned on spending the night in Herceg Novi, but feeling strong I decide to carry on, curious to see how much further I can push my limits. At the first whiff of the Croatian border I dig deep into my reserves, powered by adrenaline at the prospect of cycling all the way to Dubrovnik – now just 40km away – one day earlier than scheduled. I walk my bike through passport control and enter Croatia determined to reach the finish line by nightfall. I ride the last 30 minutes to Dubrovnik in inky darkness. Encroaching headlights from behind light most of the way along the winding coastal road – a godsend, as my headlamp can barely light two feet beyond my front tyre. Two weeks, three border crossings and one flat tyre later I'm pulling into my campsite in Mlini, just outside Dubrovnik proper.
It's bittersweet riding the last ten kilometres to the Dubrovnik bus station the next day to ship my bike and gear back to Ned in Zagreb. There's no crowd waiting for me and no one knows what I've just accomplished. But then you don't do these things for the attention. You do them to answer the ever-present call of adventure. And now it's time to hang up the phone – at least for now.
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The Criticality of our Individual Degrees and Catechisms
Two of the most common suggestions I hear from very well-intentioned brothers who want to update or modernize masonry is to provide one-day classes for the degrees and to either de-emphasize or eliminate the catechisms. Most all who suggest these ideas also say that it's important to keep the obligations, so every candidate should have to learn and recite their obligations, but the catechisms, they tell us, are out of date and have little or no value in today's society which is being crushed by demands on our collective time. The theory is that a candidate's time is better spent quickly finishing his degrees (perhaps through a one-day class) so he can start studying masonry at his own pace, according to his own lifestyle and available time.
I beg to differ. I not only believe that the full-form, individual degrees, and catechisms are critical to unlocking the mysteries of masonry and that every candidate must, in all cases receive each degree, individually, in due and ancient form, but must also learn and recite the associated catechisms. While I hold this as a personal belief, I believe these two aspects of our ritual are critical to the continuation of our craft.
QUESTION: Is there a need or a role in our fraternity going forward for full-form, individual degrees and their related catechisms in today's masonry? Or have they become obsolete in their current form and in need of either shortening, combining, or dropping them completely? Can we make the degree process much shorter and much more efficient by designing new or modified methods to teach new masons?
ANSWER: The degrees are the allegory used to portray and share masonry and symbolism is the language of the craft. The full-form, individual degrees and the related catechisms are the primary tools to train the new mason's mind to think in terms of allegory and symbols and break the mason's dependence on writing and reading the written word. Through the individual degrees and associated catechisms, the new mason learns to interpret masonic allegory and to identify and understand masonic symbols – both being necessary for a mason to learn and internalize masonry and its fundamental principles, and then participate in masonic communications with other brothers of the craft.
DISCUSSION: Masonry likely emerged and evolved in a time before the written word, and then undoubtedly continued expanding through a period where only the rich and well-connected were allowed to go to school and were taught to read. Many believe we emerged from the ancient mystery schools in Egypt which were generally structured in a form similar to the very initiatic process we practice today.
The initiatic process employed among many ancient crafts generally consisted of ceremonies where a candidate was imbued with necessary knowledge according to defined increments (degrees) that built on pre-existing knowledge or preceding lessons. The goal of the ceremonies was to bring each new member of the particular craft to a common level of knowledge to understand their craft and interact as an equal among craft members.
The floor work of the degrees teaches us the allegorical lessons and symbols of masonry while the catechisms teach us how to see, recognize, and understand those allegories and symbols, and then how to communicate that knowledge. In short, we learn masonry and its tenets through the degrees and catechisms in the same form our long-passed brothers shared masonry and their knowledge – using only their instructive tongues to communicate the lessons to receptive ears.
Masonry has never been intended to be taught through written language or textbooks – tools that in all likelihood did not exist at the birth of the craft. It has in all ages been passed from one generation to the next through its allegory and symbols. It is critical for masons to individually experience the floor work to see, live, and experience the allegory, and then to learn the catechisms which are tools that train the mind to translate our allegories into masonic symbols, making it possible for us to understand, communicate, and teach fundamental Masonic principles in their true and original form.
Once properly instructed in the degrees and catechisms, the candidate's mind has been opened to think, conceive, and portray lessons allegorically, and to see, read, and understand the symbols of masonry as taught through the experiences of the degrees. But this education or training of the mind cannot happen if either the degrees or the catechisms are skipped or eliminated from the candidate's initiatic experience. If a candidate does not walk the floor during a degree, personally matching steps and actions to words and symbols, how is he then to understand the allegory such walking represents? If he does not learn the symbols attached to his own actions and movements through the instruction and recitation of catechisms, how then is he to know the heart and soul of masonry in its original, symbolic form? If candidates do not see or feel this cognitive value from the investment of their time and work, then perhaps my brother that is actually what is broken and perhaps it is that which we need to fix!
Can masonry be modernized? Perhaps. But in a time where our brothers are increasingly demanding to learn more of our masonic history and principles, we must continue to provide the essence and core of masonry itself through its original form, as intended by our ancestors and subsequently presented to all masons who have traveled masonic paths before us! Our bothers seek out the writings of the great masonic authors such as Pike, Mackey, and others, but can they truly grasp the ideas and interpretations by those writers if they have not both experienced and learned the essential lessons conveyed through degrees and catechisms? We must teach new masons how to think allegorically and to identify, relate, and apply masonic symbols as they study our masonic tenets and build their own masonic edifice.
Do we seek to become and be masons, continuing our craft and our ancestors' impressive traditions? Or do we seek to become a group of men who simply read and talk about how masons historically shared their craft? Masonry and all of its beauty and its secrets are contained in its full form within our allegories and symbols and it is up to us to seek them and to teach new masons how to learn and share them in historically due form if we are to propagate the craft and its beautiful principles into the future.
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Bro. William H. Boyd
Bro. William H. Boyd was raised at Somerset Lodge #1205 in Somerset, Texas in January 1999. He has presided over several appendant bodies and served as Worshipful Master of Valley-Hi Lodge #1407 in San Antonio, Texas in 2015 – 2016 and was then selected and appointed District Deputy Grand Master for Masonic District #39A of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Texas in 2017. Following his service as DDGM, he served as District Education Officer, also for District #39A. Bro. Boyd continues his service to the craft through administration of his "BroBill's Masonic Education" Facebook group for Master Masons, where he shares educational material and papers on lodge administration policies and procedures. You can contact Bro.Boyd at whboyd@gmail.com.
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If you've read the book The Prisoner of Azkaban, you already know the big reveal (one of many big reveals, as it happens): that kindly Professor Lupin is a werewolf.
He's an excellent teacher. He knows his subject. He knows how to teach the subject in an engaging and appropriate way. And he's a good person who cares about his students. But he has this secret – one which the other professors all know and are enjoined to keep. Hints of this keep slipping out, and Snape does his best to direct students towards unearthing the information on their own. Towards the end of the book, this secret is revealed as Lupin is transformed and becomes a danger to the very students he cares about. If he had only taken his potion, things might have been different. But the truth (of the story) is that he didn't. And this raises a few questions for us to look at.
What is the difference between respecting someone's privacy and asking people to keep a secret? I think there's a difference between saying, "This is not relevant and doesn't need to be discussed" and "Don't tell anyone." One is healthy and the other is not. It is my belief that when we start becoming secretive, we are in a dangerous and unhealthy place. Even when the information being kept secret will not, in fact, be detrimental to a person's position of leadership, the very fact that it is a secret will be damaging.
What is the difference between a limitation that can be overcome and a disqualification? Does being a werewolf disqualify Lupin from teaching children in a school? The hard thing about answering this question is "It depends." How well under control are his transformations? What is his history? What treatment is he getting? What support systems does he have in place? What protections does Hogwarts have in place? And the "it depends" can so easily slip, on the one side, to prejudice or, on the other hand, to pity masquerading as "we shouldn't judge." And no matter what gets decided, someone is going to say the other choice was right. But discernment is a vital skill.
What level of risk is tolerable? Again, the answer comes down to "it depends." But the important thing is to lay out clearly what the risks really are, neither exaggerating nor minimizing. In this case, the risks are "Lupin might kill a student or students." Or "He might turn other students into werewolves." That's a pretty darn high level of risk for Dumbledore to tolerate!
When Lupin matter-of-factly points out that parents would withdraw their students from Hogwarts, knowing he was a werewolf, I had to think, "Darn right they would." The school has just shown his transformations are not under control. It's the only right decision to make after your professor narrowly avoids killing a student. You cannot keep a teacher in place at the cost of your students' safety. Being a kind man and a good person -- and a good teacher -- isn't enough.
Often our search for volunteers, youth ministers, and Sunday School teachers is a bit like filling the Defense Against the Dark Arts position. It can be tempting to see someone volunteer and just be relieved the position is filled. But it is vital for us to do our due diligence: to do background checks and safe church training; to communicate with parents about who is going to be teaching their kids and how they have been prepared to do so; and to train, support, and supervise our volunteers.
And if something terrible happens, if someone comes to us with a credible report of any kind of abuse, it is our legal responsibility to report. Not to figure it out ourselves. Not to say, "But he's such a good man, he would never…" Not to keep it quiet for the sake of the family or the church's reputation. We do not keep secrets, and we do not put the lives of children at risk for our convenience.


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Hermes Airports has been accredited with the Platinum Investors in People standard
Hermes Airports has been accredited with the Platinum Investors in People standard, demonstrating its commitment to its people. Investors in People is an internationally recognised standard for people management, and it defines what it takes to lead, support and manage people for achieving sustainable results. It is noted that only 1% of international organisations currently accredited with the IIP standard hold the Platinum level, which applies for a period of three years.
Underpinning the Standard is the Investors in People framework (originating from the United Kingdom), reflecting the latest workplace trends, essential skills and effective structures required to outperform in any industry. For the employees of an organisation, the IIP accreditation proves that they are working in an environment that respects the employees, diversity, individuality and human values. It offers recognition and development, quality training, develops skills and provides career opportunities and a fairer assessment system. For the organisation itself, it offers the best possible services and satisfaction to customers through a customer-centric culture, global recognition, the ability to attract and retain the market's talents and high performing professionals and be compared with other leading businesses accredited with the IIP standard, and much more.
Paul Devoy, Head of Investors in People, congratulated Hermes Airports, noting: "the Investors in People accreditation is the sign of a great employer, and an organisation committed to achieving success by realising the potential of their people. Hermes Airports should be extremely proud of its achievement."
Natasa Iacovides, Hermes Airports' Senior Manager Human Resources, said that this is a very important accreditation for Hermes, as it confirms the faith and trust the company has in its employees, and follows the accolades received last year from the ACI (Airport Council International) Europe and the MEECO Silver Designation in the field of leadership, corporate culture and coaching.
Hermes Airports Ltd currently employs 165 people, who work in the management and operation of Larnaka and Pafos International Airports.


When adding -ed and -ing, the spelling of the base word sometimes changes: dancing, dried, stopped. Some base words are not changed: drying, watched.
A homophone is a word that sounds exactly like another word but has a different spelling and meaning: piece, peace.
The vowel sound in shout can be spelled ou or ow: couch, towel.
A compound word is made of two or more words. Keep all the letters when spelling compounds: shoelace.
To form possessives of singular nouns, add an apostrophe and s: family's. To form possessives of plural nouns that end in s, add only an apostrophe: families'. Possessive pronouns are not formed with apostrophes: its.


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Remove afk timer in private games
By jako3578, May 24, 2015 in Suggestions
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I don't really see a reason for having an afk timer, especially if you're playing solo, and it's really annoying that you can't go afk in a solo game, so my suggestion is that there's no afk timer in private games, or at least that there's no afk timer in private games only with one player in it.
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Games are hosted in their server so kicking AFKer in private it's a way for them to lower the pressure.


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Q: MyBatis committing a statement even when autocommit is false I've been using myBatis 3.2.8 with C3p0 as the data source. Recently I ran into some odd problem.
Basically, myBatis is committing my INSERT statement even when auto commit is explicitly passed as FALSE and session.commit() isn't even called.
Here's what my code block looks like:
SqlSession session = factory.openSession(false);
try {
  mapper.insert(myObject);
  doStuff();
  session.commit();
}
catch (Throwable t)
{
  session.rollback();
  // log exception
}
finally {
  session.close();
}

Basically what I observed was, when mapper.insert(myObject) was called, the data was immediately stored to my database, as I was stepping throught this statement in my debugger, and I saw those logs:
DEBUG [2014-10-27 05:30:34,730] com.mchange.v2.resourcepool.BasicResourcePool: decremented pending_acquires: 0
DEBUG [2014-10-27 05:30:34,730] org.apache.ibatis.transaction.jdbc.JdbcTransaction: Setting autocommit to false on JDBC Connection [com.mchange.v2.c3p0.impl.NewProxyConnection@33dbc40]
DEBUG [2014-10-27 05:30:34,773] com.liangzhi.core.api.database.mapper.ProjectMapper.insertProject: ==>  Preparing: INSERT INTO projects (ProjectName, ProjectAbstractText, ProjectFairID) VALUES (?, ?, ?);
DEBUG [2014-10-27 05:30:34,975] com.liangzhi.core.api.database.mapper.ProjectMapper.insertProject: ==> Parameters: 3568bca0-2bc2-4610-b6f1-a6858752817c(String), 3568bca0-2bc2-4610-b6f1-a6858752817c(String), 1(Integer)
DEBUG [2014-10-27 05:30:35,018] com.liangzhi.core.api.database.mapper.ProjectMapper.insertProject: <==    Updates: 1
DEBUG [2014-10-27 05:30:35,018] org.apache.ibatis.transaction.jdbc.JdbcTransaction: Committing JDBC Connection [com.mchange.v2.c3p0.impl.NewProxyConnection@33dbc40]
DEBUG [2014-10-27 05:30:35,168] org.apache.ibatis.transaction.jdbc.JdbcTransaction: Resetting autocommit to true on JDBC Connection [com.mchange.v2.c3p0.impl.NewProxyConnection@33dbc40]
DEBUG [2014-10-27 05:30:35,170] org.apache.ibatis.transaction.jdbc.JdbcTransaction: Closing JDBC Connection [com.mchange.v2.c3p0.impl.NewProxyConnection@33dbc40]

I'm confused because I haven't called close connection yet and it's already closing JDBC connection.
Note that "false" is passed for factory.openSession() to disable autoCommit.
This is my myBatis config:
<environments default="dev">
        <environment id="dev">
            <transactionManager type="JDBC">
                <property name="JDBC.autoCommit" value="false" />
            </transactionManager>
            <dataSource type="com.liangzhi.core.api.database.C3P0DataSourceFactory">
                <property name="driverClass" value="${dev.driver}" />
                <property name="jdbcUrl" value="${dev.url}" />
                <property name="user" value="${dev.username}" />
                <property name="password" value="${dev.password}" />
                <property name="idleConnectionTestPeriod" value="60"/>
                <property name="maxPoolSize" value="20"/>
                <property name="maxIdleTime" value="600"/>
                <property name="preferredTestQuery" value="SELECT 1"/>
                <property name="autoCommitOnClose" value="false"/>
            </dataSource>
        </environment>
    </environments>

and this is my datasource class
public class C3P0DataSourceFactory extends UnpooledDataSourceFactory {

  public C3P0DataSourceFactory() {
    this.dataSource = new ComboPooledDataSource();
  }
}

Please help me! Thanks so much!

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The Greater Building Society's record profit is good news for customers and community according to chairman Wayne Russell. Mr Russell made the announcement with new CEO Scott Morgan today.
The Greater's after tax profit for the financial year 2013/14 is $31.36 million up by 2.95 million or 10.4 per cent on last year. Lending grew by 0.8 per cent and deposits by 5.7 per cent. Total assets grew by 2.6 per cent to $5.08 billion and its capital adequacy had also increased.
He said the Greater's profit result is very positive compared with the recent results of some other financial institutions. It follows on from the strong profit result in the previous year. After tax profit in 2012/13 was $28.4 million, up 36 per cent or $7.6 million on the year prior.
Mr Russell said the profits show The Greater is a strong, well managed financial institution which is good news for customers. He said because The Greater is customer owned, its profits are largely being reinvested in to its core banking, IT and digital banking systems to benefit customers rather than into the pockets of shareholders.
The Greater increased its allocation to the Greater Charitable Foundation for the year by more than 40 per cent, to $1.7 million. The Foundation supports charities to improve the lives of families and communities in which The Greater operates. This takes the total amount of profits invested into the Foundation to almost $6 million since it was established in 2011.
"The profit result is due to a sustained focus by the Board and staff on efficiency and managing costs," Mr Russell said.
"We have achieved these results whilst still maintaining very competitive rates and low fees for our customers," he said.
The profits are not at the expense of customer satisfaction which is also at record levels. In the reporting period The Greater achieved customer satisfaction ratings in Roy Morgan surveys as high as 97 per cent. It took out the Roy Morgan Customer Satisfaction Monitor for Best Building Society every month in 2013/14 and was named Best Building Society for Customer Satisfaction at the Roy Morgan awards in February 2014.
Mr Russell and Mr Morgan paid tribute to The Greater's 800 staff for their hard work and dedication and for always putting customers first. He said the strong profits and hard work is vital to ensure The Greater can remain nimble and continue to compete with the big banks to benefit local people.
"The banking industry and customer demands are changing rapidly and, with these results, we'll be able to continue to adapt and change to offer a greater way of banking to even more people in regional NSW and South East Queensland," Mr Morgan said.
The 61 branch strong Greater is Australia's fifth largest mutual financial institution and serves approximately 250,000 customers in Sydney, regional NSW and the Gold Coast. The Greater's full results and Annual Report will be presented at its AGM on November 25.
40% increase in funds for Charitable Foundation to $1.7M.
- 40% increase in funds for Charitable Foundation to $1.7M.


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At Grace Community Church, Discipleship ministries are designed to help you grow in your relationship with God alongside others in your stage of life.
Check out the various ways we have to serve you and your family. We also have many ministries throughout the week that you can get plugged into.
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A major objection to alternative medicine is that it is executed in place of standard medical remedies. The fact is that I can solely really be confident about my determination as a result of I've been capable of try my hand at both engineering and medicine. I have heard that there is a lot of memorization in medical school, that was one of the issues that discouraged me from learning medicine.
Annual tuition for the MD program at IU School of Medicine varies by stage of the medical training journey. It will be significant that you understand precisely what you're taking, the dose that it is advisable to take, how often you should take the medicine and for how lengthy.
The medicine is in liquid type of about one hundred fifty to 250 ml. The taste of it is extremely bitter but the affected person has to bear it. Ingesting the medicine is better fairly than suffering from that lethal illness. With 9 campuses positioned all through the state of Indiana, IU College of Medicine supplies college students and faculty with entry to a big and numerous patient population.
Conservation medicine studies the relationship between human and animal health, and environmental circumstances. They believe the move reflects the change in precision medicine becoming mainstream and built-in inside trendy drug discovery, and can drive efficiencies and serve as a neighborhood one-stop shop for all drug-primarily based approaches.
Anesthesiology ( AE ) or anaesthesia ( BE ) is the medical discipline involved with offering anesthesia Pain medicine is usually practiced by specialised anesthesiologists. Forensic medicine deals with medical questions in authorized context, similar to determination of the time and cause of dying.


Sometimes people confuse Talent and Skill.
If it's something you've worked hard to attain and sharpen, it's a Skill.
When it's something you see in others, something you knee-jerk believe you can't possibly attain, it's a Talent.
And being jealous of others' perceived Talents (yes, which are almost always Skills) is an easy way to excuse yourself from pursuing it within yourself . . . bringing about disempowerment, frustration, and woe.
It is a Talent to intuitively recognize aspects of humanity encompassing genius . . . accordingly, I believe the Tibetan Buddhist ways and means are imminently elemental expressions of human genius.
As this recognition (likely) includes you, who have identified and are pursuing something beneficial In the messaging of these Dharma writings, rejoice in this Talent . . . a blossoming attribute of your mind, it is precious.
Talent without enthusiasm, without applied hard work, without unfolding into Skill, is like an endlessly powerful super-computer without electricity.
Dharma Skills include clear realization, virtuous experiences, wisdom and compassion . . . bringing about strength, peace and happiness.
Embrace and refine the continued presence of your Talent.
Do the work . . . become your Skillful best.
~If this resonates with you, neither grief or a broken heart, or fear, precludes you participating.


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IT in India has come a long way since it first appeared in the 1980s, when US technology companies started leveraging the cost arbitrage between US and Indian programmers. The liberalization of certain economic policies that started in 1991 led to the birth of innovative companies, such as Infosys and Wipro. These companies used the "quality route" to grow their business—Indian IT companies followed the five levels of the Software Engineering Institute's certification more than any other country, including US.
The arrival of the Internet and imaginative government policies, such as fast and easy access to international data circuits and tax benefits through Software Technology Parks of India (STPI), led to further growth. Then, by the turn of the century, the IT industry started focusing on what I refer to as EQQ—English language skills for engineers and higher quantities of quality engineers. EQQ gave India an advantage over Ireland (which had fewer programmers), China (which lacked engineers proficient in English), and the Philippines (which lacked qualified programmers). The Y2K phenomenon that led to a global shortage of programmers propelled Indian IT companies into a position of global leadership. By the middle of the last decade, Indian IT had arrived.
India's IT industry is growing steadily. Indian IT companies have reached the global stage and are undertaking interesting IT projects.
The IT sector has created jobs for 2.8 million IT professionals and has indirectly employed an additional 8.9 million. The rapid growth of engineering education, with more than 500,000 undergraduate IT engineers graduating per year, feeds into this steadily growing IT industry.
For the 2012 financial year (which ended March 2012), annual business crossed US$100 billion in sales revenue, with IT contributing to 7.5 percent of India's GDP. Furthermore, India had 58 percent of the "global IT services" outsourcing revenue. Indian IT services account for 25 percent of its exports.
Most Fortune 500 companies outsource some of their work to Indian IT companies, and many (almost all in the top 100) operate either directly or indirectly in India.
The IT company Tata Consultancy Services reached $10 billion in annual revenue by March 2012, with a healthy bottom line (22 percent). Another company, Infosys (with $7 billion in annual revenue), created the "ACM Infosys Foundation Award for Computing Science" in 2007 to celebrate 25 years of service (awards.acm.org). Fortune magazine recently named Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy, who is known for his unique way of combining capitalism and socialism, as one of the 12 greatest entrepreneurs of our time.
Over the past five years, India has spent billions of dollars on its e-governance project—one of the largest e-governance projects in the world (http://negp.gov.in).
Al though India has had significant success in IT services (including business-process outsourcing), it has yet to strike gold with IT products (hardware and software) and intellectual property (IP). There are just a handful of success stories, one of which is the Finacle software suite from Infosys.
-Creating IP in areas where Indian IT companies have strength or for local markets.
The consumption of IT within India must improve too. In addition to surging exports, IT should improve efficiencies within the Indian industry. Although a lot has yet to be achieved, India successfully transformed its banking through widespread IT adoption. Thanks to the Reserve Bank's constant push for technology upgrades in the banks, the banking sector saw core banking, ATM, and multichannel banking implemented across all the banks. Efforts are ongoing to get those citizens who aren't covered by banking (a significant portion of India's population) covered through "no frill," inclusive, or mobile banking.
Areas such as industrial automation and medical electronics are embracing open standards and starting to use commodity hardware. Leading companies in those domains—such as ABB and Siemens—could soon become "IT companies." Indian IT is thus likely to enjoy steady and sustained growth for at least another decade.
However, the Indian IT industry must overcome some roadblocks to maintain its current rate of growth.
Increasingly, global markets (including in the US) are trying to prevent outsourcing—particularly to "low cost" destinations like India.
India has seen higher internal costs (mostly wages), reduced productivity, and unionism among its IT employees. The Indian IT industry has had double-digit wage increases for many years, whereas wage increases have been considerably lower elsewhere. For example, the 2012 projected salary increase for India is 12 percent, whereas it's 9.5 percent for China and 7 percent for the Philippines.
Universities haven't been able to graduate large numbers of high quality professionals to take up jobs in the IT industry. There's an acute shortage of faculty in higher education due to much smaller enrolment in graduate studies compared to undergraduate degrees. In addition, faculty compensation is insufficient. However, things are improving with the start of new Institutes of Information Technology (IITs), Central Universities (including "Innovation Universities," which focus on new technology and inter/cross-disciplinary research in emerging areas), and capacity increases in existing institutions- along with the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission in 2010.
India must address disruptions in business models. For example, new applications are fundamentally changing how software is produced (in very small groups or by just a single person), delivered (over the "cloud"), and consumed (using appliances like smart phones).
Project Aadhar, which started in 2009 and is one of the most ambitious IT projects in the world, aims to provide a unique ID to every citizen (http://uidai.gov.in ). By 2014, using a combination of biometric measures, Aadhar aims to identify every Indian and accept or reject identity claims within a few seconds- for the 1.2 billion Indians spread out across the country.
-variety (books, stationery, electronics, laptops, Mobiles & tablets, cloths and recently digital rights.
Flipkart also address the unusual Indian needs of "cash on delivery" (most of the adult Indian population doesn't use credit cards) and "credit-card swipe on delivery" (for the younger generation, which uses credit cards but doesn't trust online Internet commerce).
RedBus provides Internet-based ticketing solutions for small and often unorganized bus operators across the country (www.redbus.in ). Founded by Phanindra Sama, Charan Padmaraju, and Sudhakar Parapuneni—IT professionals from three different parts of India—RedBus currently helps more than 350 operators driving more than 4,500 routes. Millions of RedBus customers can go to any of the 4,500 outlets to buy a ticket, from anywhere to anywhere.
TutorVista, a leading online education company (www.tutorvista.com ), was incubated at the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore. Its founder, serial entrepreneur Krishnan Ganesh, bet on the Internet in 2005 to help high school students in the US with online tutoring. His unique selling proposition was to offer quality teachers at an affordable price.
Pearson acquired TutorVista in 2011, and today it has 2,000 teachers across India, the US, the UK, the United Arab Emirates, Australia, China, and South East Asia. The tutors help students in math, physics, chemistry, biology, and English and with test preparation and homework. IT in India has seen amazing growth, thanks to the liberalization of economic policies, conducive government policies, growth in higher education, and the uptake in entrepreneurship. Several countries are attempting to leverage IT for their economic development, and focusing on the key issues of education, policy support, and entrepreneurship is likely to pay rich dividends. Unless Indian education and research (on the supply side), IT companies (on the demand side) , and the government and media (enablers) continue to innovate, India might not be able to sustain its current leadership position in this area.
By : Sowmyanarayanan Sadagopan The author is Director, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore.
Equitable development is dependent on sustained growth of an economy which is critically reliant on the sustainable development of infrastructure. Infrastructure is, therefore, a driver for inclusive growth. However, investments in infrastructure are not easily available due to requirements of lumpy capital investment with very low returns. Such investments are justified normally on grounds of social benefits rather than on financial viability.
India is poised to become the third largest economy in terms of GDP in the next two decades. At present, along with China, it is one of the fastest growing economies in the world. The growth momentum needs to be sustained to ensure that the fast pace of growth does not peter down. Absence of world class infrastructure facilities in India is often considered as one of the major impediments to growth. With the sprawling urbanization, demand for infrastructure continues to rise faster than the capacity in the economy to satisfy such demands.
Glancing across the major infrastructure sectors, it is found that apart from telecom where teledensity is extremely high (79.28 in May 2012 as compared to 0.31 in 1981) and tariffs one of the lowest in the world, other sectors are yet to achieve levels of stable growth coupled with quality services.
India has a road network of 33 lakh kilometres which is the second largest in the world. These roads carry 65 percent of the freight traffic and 80 percent of the passenger traffic of the country. National Highways carry 40 percent of the traffic, yet constitute only 1.7 percent (71,772 kms) of the total road network in the country and rural roads cover a length of about 26.5 lakh kms. Only 20 percent of this National Highways network is four-lane, 50 percent two-lane and 30 percent single-lane. The State Highways have also suffered from prolonged neglect.
the share of goods and passengers carried has come down drastically since independence.
India has a total installed capacity of 2.03 lakh MW of power as against 1,362 MW in 1947. Thermal power forms 66.32 percent of this capacity and about hydel power 19.2 percent. The per capita consumption has increased 49 times since independence and stood at 813.3 kwh for the year 2010-11. This was, however, less than one-third of the world average per capita consumption of power. The power sector suffers from a peaking deficit of 9.8 percent and an energy shortage of 8.5 percent due to underinvestment and poor maintenance. The distribution segment of the sector suffers from average Aggregate Technical &Commercial losses of 27 percent and as per the 13th Finance Commission's projections, in absolute terms, these losses are projected to increase to Rs. 1.16 lakh crore by the year 2014-15.
At the end of the 11th Five Year Plan, India was the 9th largest civil aviation market in the world with a passenger handling capacity of over 220 million and cargo handling capacity of 3.3 MT. However, air travel penetration continues to be low at 0.04 air trips per capita per annum. The Indian civil aviation sector was able to attract private investment of about Rs. 30,000 crore in four airports at Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bengaluru. Airports Authority of India had a plan to develop 35 non-metro airports in the country. Of these, 26 have been developed and the balance would be completed in the current financial year.
The Indian maritime sector handles 95 percent of India's foreign trade by volume. There are 13 major ports and 187 minor/ intermediate ports in the country. In the year 2011-12, the major ports handled 560.1 million tonnes of traffic and the total cargo handled by all the ports together was 915 million tonnes. The average turnaround time at major ports has increased from 3.93 days to 4.67 days between 2006-07 and 2010-11. There has also been a deterioration of 3 percent in the pre-berthing detention time.
In the initial Five Year Plans, it was widely believed that agriculture needed the necessary push to sustain the economy and the basic needs of food for the masses needed to be met. There was also considerable importance attached to setting up heavy industries. Infrastructure requirements were proposed to the extent of meeting the aforesaid objectives and were never the stated objective of the Plan exercise as such. However, there was heavy allocation of resources towards irrigation and power since the two were necessary for the development of the agrarian economy and industries. At a later stage in the 60s and the 70s, development of roads also picked up momentum.
In the mid-80s onwards, the thrust of the development process was towards obtaining state of the art technology for the country. This resulted in impressive development of communications technology. It was only from the Ninth Plan onwards that there was a definite thrust towards infrastructure development in the Five Year Plans. In each of the previous two Plan periods, the investment in infrastructure has almost doubled. This is evident from Figure 1.
Fast economic growth in the last two decades has increased demand for land from many sources, such as infrastructure, industry, resource extraction (such as mining), and urbanization, including real estate. Even when many of these activities are funded privately and driven by profit motive, they serve a social purpose, as employment generation per unit of land is higher in non-agricultural uses than in agriculture. For instance, a 4000 MW thermal plant may displace about 250 households but would create tens of thousands of new jobs by providing power to small industry and tubewells that would increase both gross cropped area and productivity. At present the share of urban dwellers in total population of India is 32 percent, but they occupy only 6 percent of the total area of the country. Thus growth through industrialization and urbanisation would not only increase labour productivity but will reduce pressure on farm land by pulling people away from land to non-farming occupations. However, land acquisition has emerged as the most important structural constraint in India to the process of fast industrialization and improvement in infrastructure. Delays in procuring land leads to uncertainty and cost escalation, and thus affects development.
Acquisition of land by government has lately drawn resistance in many cases due to inadequate compensation for the land and loss of livelihoods of the affected people, as well as for involuntary displacement without proper rehabilitation. Moreover, people are not willing to give up their present dwelling and occupation of farming for a dark future totally dependent on the vagaries of market. The present land acquisition law has been quite hostile to the interests of the landowner, as it attempts to make land available to industry through government at a minimal price. So far the practice in most state governments has been to coerce people to give up their lands by using the legal powers of eminent domain, and in some cases even through the use of force. Thus the model followed has been, 'let some people lose out so that others (this includes some enterprising poor too) may gain'. Unfortunately the losers tend to be the poorest with little skills, often tribals, who are unable to negotiate with the market forces and cope with the consequences of their forced expulsion from land, and end up much worse off than before acquisition.
The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) first ever stock exchange in Asia (established in 1875) and the first in the country to be granted permanent recognition under the Securities Contract Regulation Act, 1956, BSE Limited has had an interesting rise to prominence over the past 137 years. BSE has facilitated the growth of the Indian corporate sector by providing it with an efficient capital raising platform.
Today, BSE is the world's number 1 exchange in terms of the number of listed companies (over 4900). It is the world's 5th most active exchange in terms of number of transactions handled through its electronic trading system.


Meet Rob Jennings! "The Crowd is Here" is the lead-single from his debut album "The World Was on My Side", arriving in July.
Rob has been busy. Having released an impressive 25 EPs/singles at 27 years old, he has the depth of a seasoned songwriter, an an outlook of a young man finding his way. Years in the making, Jennings is excited to share a taste of his first full-length album. He takes influences from Brian Wilson and The Beatles, and infuses the life of modern arrangement and rich production into "The Crowd is Here". The mix is like that aged Smile record on your shelf, but suddenly it sounds like the record of tomorrow. Add the mellotron, three-part harmonies, and of course Jennings' "unique tenor voice" and what you get is a stamp of a songwriter who is here to stay.
No problem! I'm actually at my apartment right now listening to a podcast. I'm addicted to them.
How is 2017 treating you so far? Did you approach the start of this year any differently than you did last year?
So far so good. I feel a little more motivated this year since the album is coming out. I hope to get it into as many ears as possible and I hope people like it.
I actually wanted to be a director when I was little. My parents bought me this huge camera and I'd make little movies with it. Then my uncle gave me a toy guitar and that was probably the first time I really thought about learning how to play. I can't really see myself doing anything else other than writing music and performing. It would have to be something creative. I'd probably try to be a filmmaker or a writer.
In July, you will be releasing your debut album, "The World Was On My Side", so can you talk about putting this collection together? Did anything surprise you at all about the process?
Half of the album is made up of songs that I had written 7 years ago and never properly recorded. Whenever I had writers block, I would come up with these really short songs to take the pressure off of writing a full tune with a bridge, chorus, etc. It started off just as an exercise but then I began to really like the idea of connecting them to the full songs on the album.
There are a couple 40 second / 1 minute micro songs that go directly into the larger songs. I like the cohesiveness of that. That's something that I admire a lot about the SMILE album by Brian Wilson. The pocket symphonies and the motifs on that album are great. The melody in one song is a violin part in another song and so on. I took a lot of inspiration from that.
What was the inspiration for your album's lead single, "The Crowd is Here"? Typically, how do you go about putting a song together from beginning to end?
I was messing around with my sampler one night and I came across this song called "Mister Funk" by Miguel De Deus. I sampled the first ten seconds of it and in the background there are all of these people shouting and partying. I started playing guitar to it and the first words I sang were "the crowd is here." I took that simple concept and centered the lyrics around a specific memory I have of being in an extremely crowded night club in Asbury Park. I always write the music and the melody first. It takes me a bit longer to come up with the lyrics.
How is this debut album different or similar to your 2015 EP "The Boulevard Gone"?
The Boulevard Gone was a little more folky than this album. There are way more acoustic guitars on that one. This album has a lot of 12 string electric guitars on it and it's more psychedelic. I didn't want to make a singer songwriter type album with just me and an acoustic guitar. I wanted it to be colorful and experimental. I also wanted it to sound like it was made by a rock band.
How do you think you have grown as an artist since your previous releases?
I definitely want to get on the road when the album is done. I'm trying to figure out the best way to go about doing that. I would love to play at any of the big festivals some day. All of the best venues in NYC like Rockwood Music hall, The Bitter End are great but I love playing at Pianos. I always have a great time there and people show up to listen to new music, so you get a bit of a built- in crowd. It's really refreshing.
Like I mentioned before, I was really inspired by SMiLE. I was also heavily influenced by The Zombies, The Beatles, Love and Big Star for this album. Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" also crept in there as well because there are a lot of bells and saxophone on my album. I listened to it the other day and was surprised by how much that album influenced the arrangements on mine. It was an unconscious thing I guess. I would like to make an album with another songwriter some day, but I don't know who yet. Any of my musician friends would be fun to work with.
I hope that my music inspires people to be creative just like my favorite artists have inspired me. A lot of my songs don't have the happiest subject matter, but hopefully they help people who can relate to some of the things I sing about.
Just that I'm excited for people to hear the album and I hope they have as much fun listening to it as I had making it!


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Amareya Theatre Shares Message of Solidarity with Ainu Women's Association
On International Women's Day, Amareya Theatre sent a video message to the Ainu Women's Association. Over the past few years, the artist-activists of Amareya Theatre have collaborated with the Ainu Women's Association in theatre performances, group discussions, and other projects aimed at realizing women's and Indigenous empowerment. In the video message, Amareya Theatre reaffirms their commitment to collaboration in 2021: "our solidarity and empowerment is always floating towards you".
At CEMiPoS, we remain committed to our role as an ally of these organizations, which have given a voice to marginalized women from all over the world. Indigenous empowerment is inextricably linked to women's empowerment, and it is only through intersectional solidarity we can achieve emancipation for all. We look forward to supporting whatever projects the future may hold.
Header image by Tomoko Kosugi. Depicted is the performance of "Nomadic Woman" performed in Sapporo, Japan in December 2017.
Solidarity with the Sami People in Deatnu
We at CEMiPoS stand in solidarity with Ellos Deatnu, the Sami Parliaments of Finland and Norway, and the Sami Council
Cycling to Cop26 – Report
On 31 October, I set off from Amsterdam to cycle to the 26th Conference of the Parties (Cop26) in Glasgow.
Solidarity with Kimun Kamuy
We at Cemipos stand in solidarity with a five-year-old male brown bear killed on 18 June 2021 by the authorities
Solidarity with Wishma's family
We, at Cemipos, stand in solidarity with Wishma's family and all other migrants currently being detained at an immigration
Solidarity with Indigenous People in Canada
We, at the Centre for Environmental and Minority Policy Studies, are standing in solidarity with Indigenous People in Canada in


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Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song - Review
On 9.1.16 by KieronMoore in Alex Kingston, doctor who, Peter Capaldi, River Song, Steven Moffat, The Husbands of River Song No comments
A bit of a late review, this… When I watched the episode on Christmas Day, I'd had a drink or four, and so my opinion based on that viewing probably wouldn't be very valuable. Then I got busy with other Christmas stuff, then my Wi-Fi broke… long story short, I've only just got around to a rewatch.
On my first, drunken viewing, I quite enjoyed The Husbands of River Song. On second, sober viewing… yeah. I quite enjoyed it. It's a fun, jokey adventure romp, suitable Christmas Day viewing – probably more suitable for the festive season than last year's better but darker Last Christmas. Some jokes land, some don't. The enemies are there for comedy rather than serious threat. I liked the camp alien butler and his looks of disdain when the passengers couldn't see him.
The plot, like many a Moffat script, feels like a series of ideas rather than a tightly structured piece of writing – a heist movie becomes a disaster movie becomes a festive romance. Some of the ideas are good, particularly visually – the guy with the money inside his head is nicely creepy, and the cruise full of genocidal murderers could even be a Douglas Adams idea – but none of them, the cruise in particular, feel played out to their full potential. It does feel that the passengers being killers is only there so it doesn't matter when the ship crashes.
Let's be clear on this, then – the purpose of the plot and the villains is purely to facilitate getting the Doctor and River in a room together, riffing off each other. That reunion is what this episode is about. And so repeat enjoyment of the episode depends on your tolerance for Steven Moffat's trope of concentrating on the main characters' relationships at the expense of supporting characters and plot depth.
Back in 2011, I was fed up of River Song by the end of series six – a good idea for a character ruined by messy plotting and by her personality revolving ever more around the Doctor. This was an interesting episode in terms of that last criticism, as the story, at least for the first half, allowed us to see River independent of the Doctor and doing what she does best, thus making her a little more enjoyable to watch (albeit obnoxious at times – her wiping her other husband's memory is off-puttingly selfish). It also allows the great extended gag of her not recognising the Doctor, a clever twist on what we know about the characters which Moffat gleefully plays out to its full potential. Looks like Capaldi loved getting to do his own take on "it's bigger on the inside".
But the final act of the episode, once she realises who's standing next to her, takes a very different turn. Though River's speech about the Doctor not loving people (and its subsequent reversal) is Moffat's fetishisation of the Doctor at its most annoying, even my River-cynical mind will admit that the final sequence, with the two of them having Christmas dinner overlooking the Singing Towers of Darillium, is a rather sweet ending. It's nice, too, how well this fits in with both 2008's Silence in the Library and the 2011 minisode Last Night – especially given how little sense the rest of River's storyline from 2011 made. Check out this neat fan edit of River's two 'endings'.
(And let's ignore the blindingly stupid plot hole of "I know what happened to this ship, I dug it up" followed by, five minutes later, "This ship crashes on Darillium? Oh my god!")
All in all, then, a fun adventure romp that, while nothing exceptional and falling prey to some of Moffat's usual shortcomings, knew exactly what it needed to be, and then became an interesting and fitting addition to River Song's timeline. One best watched after a festive tipple.
Oh, and a big tick for avoiding the Who cliché of mopey callbacks to recently departed companions – not a single Clara reference.
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Немецкая фамилия
Ом () — немецкая фамилия.

Носители
 Ом, Георг Симон, немецкий физик, автор физического закона, названного его именем.
 Ом, Мартин, немецкий математик.

Корейская фамилия
Ом () — корейская фамилия.

Носители
 Ом Гиль Сон, северокорейский актёр театра и кино, режиссёр.
 Ом Минджи, южнокорейская кёрлингистка.
 Ом Юн Чхоль, северокорейский тяжелоатлет, чемпион Олимпийских игр 2012 года в категории до 56 кг.

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It was a beautiful day, wasn't it?
Her voice trembled a bit, the memories suddenly overwhelming. She repressed a sob, and felt his fingers tightening around her free hand, encouraging her to keep flipping through the pages.
She remembered how most of them had disaproved at first. Her friends, her family… Even her mom and dad had had doubts about their relationship. Of course, they weren't an obvious match, but who were they to judge?
From their unexpected first meeting, she had known they were made for each other. And after dating for a while, and walking to the altar despite all the sceptics, they had stood the test of time.
And how happy they had been together! The photo album on his lap was filled with pictures taken during their travels together, and fun times spent in their little house in the countryside. Wether they were just gardening, or walking down the streets of a foreign city at the other end of the world, they were always all smiles.
People had gotten used to the odness of seeing them together. Some even envied them. Many of their friends had gone through painful divorces, but they had stuck together like crazy glue. Twenty six years of beating the odds.
She closed the album and put it on the table, beside the bed. She didn't want to sleep, but she could barely keep her eyes open, and she knew he needed the rest too. Pulling the mask away delicately, she leaned towards him and kissed his wrinkled lips. Running her fingers through what was left of his snow white hair, she put the mask back on.
The hospital bed wasn't large, but they didn't need much space to snuggle up. With a little luck, the nurse wouldn't mind her spending the night, again.
Time had taken its toll on his body, but his eyes still shone as young as her own. Souls didn't grow old, she thought to herself. Laying her head on his chest, to fall asleep to the sound of his heartbeat, she closed her eyes and dozed off.
The fairy tale was over.
Kristian asked me to participate to the Tell me a story blog chain. Thank you, Kristian, for thinking about me for this fun challenge! If you don't know him yet, please pay my kind friend a little visit!
The only rules are to use the photo I chose, and tell us a story about it, in any form. Then choose a picture of any type and nominate three bloggers to do the same with your own picture choice.
I don't really feel like nominating specific bloggers for this one. Does this picture speak to you? If it does, please consider yourself personally challenged to write your own story about it!
That was a weepy one 😢 How sad!
What a beautiful story–you're such a wonderful writer!


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Mr. Boland is a Managing Director and Co-head of Midstream at EIG Global Energy Partners where he leads the firm's investment activities in the midstream sector on a global basis. Prior to joining EIG in 2011, Mr. Boland worked at Credit Suisse in New York where he was a member of the Global Energy and Leveraged Finance groups. Mr. Boland also currently serves as a director of Limetree Bay Ventures, LLC, Elba Liquefaction Company, L.L.C., Midship Holdings, LLC, and is a board observer at Cheniere Corpus Christi Holdings, LLC. Mr. Boland holds a B.S.B.A. in Finance and Accounting from Georgetown University.
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Senior Vice President of Administration and Legal Counsel?
Ms. Hamilton joined NGL in February of 2015 as the Director of Training and Compliance.? Since that time, Ms. Hamilton has held positions of increasing responsibility within the Human Resources, Benefits, and Insurance departments, while acting as counsel on employment law matters.? Ms. Hamilton has represented and counseled companies for more than 20 years as a licensed attorney in the federal and state courts of Oklahoma and Arkansas.? Prior to joining NGL, Ms. Hamilton was Of Counsel at Wilkin/McMurray PLLC; a partner at Doerner, Saunders, Daniel & Anderson, LP; and an Adjunct Professor of Employment Law at OSU-Tulsa.? Ms. Hamilton has been an author and contributing author on several publications and a speaker at national conferences on employment law.? Ms. Hamilton is a graduate of Hendrix College and the University of Arkansas School of Law.
Jared Parker
Mr. Parker joined Oaktree in 2014 from Highstar Capital and has over 14 years of experience in private equity, operational leadership, investment banking and finance. He is a director on the board of ADS Waste Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ADSW) and an observer on the board of NGL Energy Partners, L.P. (NYSE: NGL). Previously he served on the boards of London City Airport and the Ports America Companies and as an observer to the boards of InterGen and Northern Star Generation. Mr. Parker served as president of Ports America Stevedoring, the largest business unit inside Ports America from 2010 through 2013. Prior to joining Highstar in 2005, he worked as an advisor to the Highstar Team on several transactions as an investment banker at Deutsche Bank. While at Deutsche Bank, Mr. Parker advised domestic and power generation companies and financial sponsors on mergers and acquisitions and financings. Mr. Parker holds a B.A. degree in international relations from Stanford University.
John T. Raymond
Mr. Raymond joined the board of directors of our general partner in August 2013. He is the Founder and Majority Owner of The Energy & Minerals Group of which he has been a Managing Partner and the Chief Executive Officer since its September 2006 inception. Mr.Raymond has held executive leadership positions with various energy companies, including President and Chief Executive Officer of Plains Resources Inc. (the predecessor entity of Vulcan Energy Corporation), President and Chief Operating Officer of Plains Exploration and Production Company and was a Director of Plains All American Pipeline, LP.
Mr. Raymond is currently a director of American Energy Ohio Holdings, LLC, Ferus Inc., Ferus Natural Gas Fuels Inc., Iron Ore Holdings, Lighthouse Oil & Gas GP, LLC, MarkWest Utica EMG, LLC, Medallion Midstream, LLC, Plains All American GP LLC and Tallgrass MLP GP LLC.? He manages various private investments through personally held Lynx Holdings, LLC. Mr. Raymond received a B.S.M. from the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University with dual concentrations in finance and accounting and currently sits on the Board of the Business School Council.
L. John Schaufele IV
Mr. Schaufele has worked at The Energy & Minerals Group (EMG) since 2011. EMG is a private investment firm with $16 billion of Regulatory Assets Under Management that focuses on investing across various facets of the global natural resource industry including the upstream and midstream segments of the energy complex. Mr. Schaufele previously worked at a middle-market private equity investment firm and JPMorgan. Mr. Schaufele currently serves as a director of Ascent Resources, LLC, Heritage NonOp Holdings, LLC, Heritage Minerals Holdings, LLC, White Star Petroleum Holdings, LLC, and Utica Minerals Development, LLC. Mr. Schaufele brings extensive financial and industry experience to the board with 14 years of experience in the energy sector. Mr. Schaufele received a B.S. in Business and Accounting from Washington & Lee University.
Mr. Guderian joined the board of directors of our general partner in May 2012. He has served as Senior Vice President of Operations of WPX Energy, Inc. since August 2011. Mr. Guderian previously served as Vice President of the Exploration & Production unit of The Williams Companies, Inc. from 1998 until December 2011. He was responsibile for overseeing Williams' international operations and has served as a director of Apco Oil & Gas International Inc., or Apco, since 2002 and a director of Petrolera Entre Lomas S.A. since 2003.
Mr. Guderian brings considerable upstream experience to the board including executive, operational and financial expertise from 30 years of petroleum industry involvement, the majority of which has been focused in exploration and production.
Jim Collingsworth
J. M. "Jim" Collingsworth serves as a member of the Board of Directors of our general partner. He has served as a board member since February 2015. Mr. Collingsworth spent 41 years in all facets of the midstream and petrochemical industry. In 2013, Mr. Collingsworth retired from Enterprise Products Company as Sr. Vice President of Regulated NGL Pipelines & Natural Gas Storage. Mr. Collingsworth has served on the board of directors of Texaco Canada, Dixie Pipeline Company, Seminole Pipeline Company, White River Natural Gas Hub and the Petrochemical Feedstock Association of America. He currently serves on the board of directors of Martin Midstream Partners. Mr. Collingsworth received a bachelor's degree in Finance and Marketing from Northeastern State University.
Stephen L. Cropper
Mr. Cropper brings substantial energy experience to the Partnership, and has worked in various executive management and governance roles in the energy industry throughout his career. He currently serves as a director of three other energy companies and Quiktrip. He has previously served on the Board of Directors for Sunoco Logistics Partners LP, Berry Petroleum Company and NRG Energy, Inc. In 1998, he retired after 25 years with The Williams Companies, where he most recently served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Williams Energy Services, a Williams' operating unit involved in various energy-related businesses. Mr. Cropper was also a director and member of the audit committee for Energy Transfer Partners LP from 2000 until 2005. In addition, he is a past President of the Association of Oil Pipelines.
Derek Reiners
Derek S. Reiners currently serves as the President of Contango Energy Capital LLC, a privately held investment and consulting firm. Prior to that, Mr. Reiners served in key executive roles at ONEOK, Inc. and ONEOK Partners, L.P. from August 2009 to May 2019, including Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer from August 2009 to December 2012; Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer from January 2013 to May 2017; and Senior Vice President, Finance and Treasurer from June 2017 to May 2019. He also served on the management and audit committees of Northern Border Pipeline Company and the management committee of Roadrunner Gas Transmission. Mr. Reiners spent 15 years in public accounting and was as a partner at Grant Thornton LLP, where he served clients primarily in the energy industry and was the north Texas energy industry practice leader. Mr. Reiners earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with majors in Finance and Economics and a Master of Science degree in Accounting from Oklahoma State University. Mr. Reiners is a certified public accountant.
Jim Burke is President of NGL and also a member of the Board of Directors. He co-founded High Sierra Energy, LP, in 2004, and where he serves as President & Chief Executive Officer and co-Managing Director. Mr. Burke received his B.S from University of Colorado in 1978. Mr. Burke began his career as a Crude Oil Representative at Permian Corporation from 1978-1981. Mr. Burke then joined Asamera Oil (U.S.) Inc. where he served as Manager of Crude Oil Acquisitions from 1981-1984. Mr. Burke, along with three other entrepreneurs, co-founded Petro Source Partners, where he ran six business units throughout the U.S. and Canada for the company over a 17 year span. Mr. Burke was instrumental in helping the company achieve over $1.0 billion in annual revenues when the company was sold during 2001.
Vincent J. Osterman
President – Eastern Retail Operations
Mr. Osterman is the President of Osterman Associated Companies which contributed the assets of its propane operations to the Partnership on October 3, 2011. Mr. Osterman serves as President of Eastern Retail Propane Operations and is a member of our Board of Directors. Mr. Osterman also serves as a director of the National Propane Gas Association, Propane Gas Association of New England, Energi Holdings, Inc., and the Board of Advisors of the Gaudette Insurance Agency.
Dr. Coady has over 20 years' experience in the retail propane industry, as well as acquisition and strategic organic growth experience. Dr. Coady served as Vice President of Hicks Oils & Hicksgas Incorporated and President of Hicksgas Gifford from 1989 until its 2010 merger with NGL Supply to form NGL Energy Holdings. Dr. Coady has also served as a Director and Executive Committee member for the Illinois Propane Gas Association since 2004, and as Illinois State Director of the National Propane Gas Association since 2004. He earned a B.A in Chemistry from Emory University and an O.D. from the University of Houston.
H. Michael Krimbill
Mr. Krimbill is our Chief Executive Officer and also serves as a member of the Board of Directors. He has over 20 years' experience in executive roles in the propane industry. He was the past President and Chief Financial Officer of Energy Transfer Partners LP from 2004 through 2007, and a former Director of Energy Transfer Equity, the General Partner of Energy Transfer Partners. At Heritage Propane Partners, the predecessor of Energy Transfer Partners, Mr. Krimbill filled various roles from 1990 through 2004, including Chief Financial Officer and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Krimbill served as a member of Williams' Partners LP board from 2007 – 2012, where he was a member of the Audit Committee and the Chairman of the Conflicts Committee. He also served on the board of Pacific Commerce Bank from 2011-2015. Mr. Krimbill is a graduate of Michigan State University.
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