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The Softwood Lumber Board has created 2.6 billion board feet of lumber demand
The Softwood Lumber Board (SLB) was established in 2012 to promote the benefits and uses of softwood lumber products and their investments to date have resulted in 2.6 billion board feet of new demand, enough to build about 160,000 new homes.
In other Wood Product news: Stewart Muir in the Vancouver Sun says 'old' sectors like forestry are driving technological innovations, The Globe and Mail says timber-frame construction may gain momentum with new federal funding; the Architecture Newspaper says the US Congress is gearing up for a fight over mass timber legislation; and down-under expert Andrew Dunn says the use of timber in multi-storey buildings is not new, "we're just re-finding old ways of building with modern products".
In Business news: the US/Canada trade war on newsprint is heating up; Jerry Dias (Unifor) says only cynics would see Resolute's lumber gift to hurricane victims as a threat; and former Sino-Forest CEO says he is sorry the shareholders lost billions of dollars but that it wasn't because of his actions.
Finally, new analysis estimates that stopping deforestation and improving forestry practices could cut carbon emissions as much as getting rid of every car on earth.
— Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor
The Softwood Lumber Board helps sell more lumber
Softwood Lumber Board
Category: Special Feature
Region: Canada, United States
Lumber is an integral part of your business and how America builds its housing. The Softwood Lumber Board's (SLB's) mission is to make it much more than that. Our unique programs are showing what is possible when building with wood across residential, commercial, mid-rise, appearance, and even tall building segments. …So far since 2012, our investments have resulted in 2.59 billion board feet of new demand—reflecting a fivefold increase through 2016.
A recent report by Forest Economic Advisors shows that softwood lumber is not only vital to the industry itself, but also a key economic driver for households across rural America. The average wage for someone working in the softwood lumber industry in America is $54,500 per year, which is $11,000 more than the average rural salary. These earnings mean greater financial freedom and purchasing power, expanding the industry's overall economic impact.
Trade war heats up over Canadian newsprint sold to U.S.
By Brent Jang
Stop the presses – U.S. paper mills are upset over what they see as subsidized Canadian newsprint being used by American newspaper publishers. While the softwood-lumber dispute has strained Canada-U.S. trade relations, a separate fight is brewing over other products that Canadian forestry mills sell south of the border, notably uncoated groundwood paper, such as newsprint. …Norpac complains that U.S. paper makers are being hurt by Canadian groundwood… The U.S. Department of Commerce is expected to issue its preliminary ruling on imposing countervailing duties by Jan. 8 and anti-dumping duties by Jan. 16. …Canadian paper makers and U.S. newspaper publishers argue that the dispute isn't about trade. They point out that demand for newsprint has fallen sharply over the past decade, especially as readers shift to digital alternatives such as laptops, tablets and cellphones.
Tackling the myth of resource versus tech economies
By Stewart Muir, executive director, Resource Works Society.
Stewart Muir
It's common mythology that B.C.'s traditional natural resource economy has reached its end-game and is being replaced by a "new economy" based on technology and innovation. The iconic logger has been replaced in our imagination by a computer programmer, miners supplanted by lab techs. As is usually the case with such convenient scenarios, the truth is not that simple. In fact, B.C.'s 'old' sectors like forestry and mining are driving technological innovations that are being put to work here and exported around the globe. Resource-based expertise from this province is pouring into the global knowledge economy, creating employment and opportunities for people from Vancouver's Howe Street to downtown Fort St. John. This is being driven by smaller companies at the cutting edge of value-added fields like filtration, satellites, GPS, and digital analysis and simulation.
Babine Forest Products working to diversify markets
BC Local News
Babine Forest Products is continuing with its efforts to expand and diversify markets for its products. Steve Zika, Chief Executive Officer of Hampton Affiliates – company that owns Babine Forest Products and Decker Lake Forest Products – has recently travelled to Asia with a B.C. delegation of over 30 senior executives from B.C. forest companies and associations. Led by forests minister Doug Donaldson, the delegation visited China and Japan earlier this month. "The China economy continues to be very strong with additional potential for selling higher value products for furniture and non-residential applications," said Zika. "The Japan economy is also showing some growth and they purchase our highest quality products from Babine and Decker Lake."
Former Sino-Forest CEO denies role Ontario Securities Commission alleges he played in company's collapse
By Alexandra Posadzki
Sino-Forest Corp. co-founder Allen Chan said he is sorry that the company's shareholders lost billions of dollars, but he "respectfully disagrees" with the Ontario Securities Commission's ruling that his actions led to the forestry company's demise. The OSC ruled in July that Mr. Chan and three other senior executives – Albert Ip, Alfred Hung and George Ho – engaged in "deceitful or dishonest conduct" relating to the company's standing timber assets and revenue that they knew constituted fraud. …Mr. Chan said he believes the company's implosion resulted from a series of actions that were not taken during a two-month period when he was discouraged from exercising his CEO duties. On June 2, 2011, short-seller Muddy Waters released a research report alleging that Sino-Forest was a Ponzi scheme and had massively exaggerated its assets.
Only Cynics Would See Donated Canadian Softwood As A Threat
By Jerry Dias, Unifor
When people are hurting, such as after a natural disaster, the normal human reaction is to find a way to help. …In La Doré, Quebec, where the major employer is a Resolute Forest Products sawmill, the obvious way for them to help victims of a devastating hurricane last August in Florida was to send down some of the softwood lumber they produce at the local mill. …Before that could happen, however, there would be a little matter of anti-dumping taxes to be paid. This is silly, and not what anti-dumping measures are meant to be about. …A gift, however, is not dumping. It is a gift, an act of generosity offered in a natural human response to seeing others in need. Resolute made similar donations to those in need in Texas and Puerto Rico.
Freres reopens plant destroyed by summer fire
By Justin Much
Statesman Journal
"It's in time for Thanksgiving, and that's a good deal." Kyle Freres imparted sentiments around Lyons based Freres Lumber Company as it announced that Plant 4 is back up and running, roughly four months since a fire destroyed the building amid the hot days of last summer. "Getting this plant up and going in 3 to 4 months is somewhat of a miracle, especially since we are dedicating a lot of resources to getting our other (mass-plywood panel) plant going," he said. Freres, the company's vice president of operations, said getting back to full operation wasn't without obstacles. The company started Plant 4 operations more than a month ago, but a major electrical failure scuttled the process, leaving them limping through the past month until they could get all aspects into full working order.
Pulp mill should invest in itself, not legal fees
By Mark Yeager, board member, Altamaha Riverkeeper organization
Savannah Morning News
What if every Georgia corporation asked for the same freebies the Jesup pulp mill operator, Rayonier Advanced Materials, gets from the state of Georgia? …It just simply wouldn't be sustainable. Historically, pulp mills are needy polluters. Continuous largesse from the state flows to the Jesup mill. Pollution in the 1950s and '60s resulted in fish kills. Today, fish are alive in the downstream chemical soup, but inedible. …Mill wastewater could be less damaging. Modern pulp mills around the world exhibit clear wastewater due to utilization of commonly-used technology — Activated Sludge Treatment (AST). Why isn't AST being applied at the Jesup mill? In a few words: corporate management laziness. …Instead, Rayonier AM squanders substantial sums on legal fees fighting to maintain a faulty wastewater permit issued by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division, in violation of the Clean Water Act.
Multiple fire departments respond to fire at lumber mill on Indian Hut Road in Georgetown
By Mikayla Mercer
WPDE.com
Georgetown, S.C. — Late Monday night, fire crews from multiple area departments responded to a fire at a lumber mill in Georgetown. According to Doug Eggiman with Midway Fire Rescue, crews responded to a fire at 2701 Indian Hut Road. According to the website for Interfor Corporation, the lumber company operates a sawmill at that address. Tony Hucks with Georgetown County Fire EMS said they have multiple crews on site of the lumber mill. Eggiman said Midway sent a ladder truck and a tanker to the scene to assist Georgetown County crews. Georgetown City Fire and Andrews Fire Department also responded to provide manpower to battle the blaze. Hucks said, as of 12:45 a.m. Tuesday, the fire had been marked under control.
Wood construction makes for warm, renewable and speedily built homes
By Bryan Tuckey, Building Industry and Land Development Assoc.
Providing homebuyers with options, including the material used in the construction of their new homes, is something the homebuilding and land development industry always strives to do. Some homebuyers choose a wood construction home, for various reasons. Wood has a natural beauty that makes it warm and inviting. It is a renewable and recyclable resource, so some buyers choose it to reduce their environmental footprint. Wood also makes for fast, efficient home construction, particularly on smaller sites. Plus, advances in wood science and building technology have resulted in stronger products that have expanded the options for wood construction. Wood's many advantages were the reason BILD and partners like the Ontario Home Builders' Association advocated for amendments to the Ontario Building Code to increase the height standard for wood buildings from four to six storeys.
Wood reaches new heights as a building material
By Adam Stanley
George Brown College has steadily grown since its establishment in 1967 and now operates out of more than a dozen buildings spread throughout Toronto's core….The public college of 26,000 students plans to erect a 12-storey tower framed of wood at its waterfront campus on Lake Ontario to house its computer technology program and a centre for researching climate-friendly building practices. …Once ready in 2024, the tower dubbed The Arbour will be the highest wood-framed building for institutional use in Ontario and a significant milestone in the revival of timber as a construction material for tall structures. "The future is certainly wood," says Shane Williamson, a principal at the architecture firm Williamson Williamson Inc. in Toronto. …The revival may gain even more momentum under a new federal government program announced this fall.
Congress gears up for a fight over mass timber legislation
By Alex Ulam
The Architect's Newspaper
The battle over the 2017 Timber Innovation Act is gaining momentum in Washington, D.C., where two new Senate sponsors and four new Congress members have signed on to it since this past May. The pending legislation would provide funding for research into innovative wood materials and mass timber structures above 85 feet. The bill's proponents are hoping that it will be an impetus for transforming cities and towns across the country with a bevy of mid-rise and high-rise mass timber buildings. "I am very impressed with the large cross-aisle support," Chadwick Oliver, director of Yale University's Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry, said. …However, the concrete and steel industries are vigorously lobbying to derail the legislation, and have established a website called Build with Strength that contains a detailed critique of the new generation of wood buildings.
Australia's largest residential timber building is an affordable housing project
By Katie Camero
An affordable housing development made from cross-laminated timber (CLT) has opened in Campbelltown, making it the largest residential engineered timber building in Australia and the first in NSW, according to community housing provider BlueCHP. The development, known as The Gardens, comprises three towers with 101 apartments, 56 of which are available for affordable rental. The remaining 45 dwellings have been sold on the private market. …Built with about 22,000 square metres, or 962 tonnes, of CLT – sourced from sustainably managed spruce forests in Scandinavia – The Gardens saw a 35 per cent reduction in carbon emissions from onsite construction, as well as a 60 per cent reduction in waste. Each apartment was designed in accordance to BASIX requirements, achieving an average five-star NatHERS energy rating, Mr Steimbeisser said.
Timber the Material of the Future on Multi-Storey Construction
By Andrew Heaton
Sourceable
In 2013, Melbourne's Docklands precinct witnessed the opening of Australia's first modern high-rise building to be constructed out of engineered timber… Last May, Sydney's Barangaroo saw completion of the world's largest commercial office building made out of engineered timber… In Brisbane, ground broke in May on another Lend Lease office tower to be built using engineered timber which when complete will rise to 52 metres. All up, Timber Development Association NSW executive director Andrew Dunn says, the number of modern timber buildings which are equal to or greater than seven storeys in height has risen from none in 2008 to 30 now – of which Australia accounts for four. Whilst engineered timber is much talked about, opportunities also exist using traditional timber framing, which he says in Vancouver accounts for around 70 per cent of new multi-storey buildings of up to six storeys in height.
Federal government should manage Alberta's threatened caribou: letter
The Canadian Press in Calgary Herald
Several Indigenous and environmental groups have asked the federal government to step in and protect some endangered caribou herds on provincial land in Alberta. In a letter to federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna, the coalition said Alberta hasn't met Ottawa's deadline for coming up with a plan to save five threatened herds in the northeastern part of the province heavily impacted by forestry and oilsands development. They said if Alberta won't make the move, Ottawa should. …The formal petition delivered to McKenna on Monday, along with the letter, goes through 11 Alberta laws and concludes none offers legal protections, although Robinson [Ecojustice] noted some companies try to minimize damage to caribou herds. Alberta and six other provinces continue to fail to meet a federal deadline to release recovery plans for threatened herds in their jurisdictions. That deadline passed in October.
Winnipeg trying to cut backlog of Dutch elm disease tree removals
By Amber McGuckin
The City of Winnipeg is funneling more money into cutting down on the list of trees with Dutch elm disease that need to be removed. In the 2018 proposed budget, the city wants to spend $4.6 million to remove more trees next year. Between initiatives to identify, prune, remove and replace diseased trees, the city expects to spend $18.7 million. In May the city had about 1,500 trees on the waiting list from the last two years to be removed, according to Martha Barwinsky, the city's forester. "We are losing on average, anywhere from 5,000 to 6,000 trees a year over the past five years," Barwinsky said at the time. "It's a crazy amount of trees." In 2014 there were 5,257 trees removed with Dutch elm disease across the city, in 2015 it dropped to 4,849 and in 2016 it climbed to 6,123 trees cut down with the disease.
Controversial clearcut logging in Kananaskis Country gets approved
By Bryan Labby
The Alberta government has approved a controversial clearcut in Kananaskis Country, southwest of Calgary, despite opposition from nearby communities, environmentalists and outdoor enthusiasts. "When we heard the permits were issued, it was really disappointing," said Katie Morrison of CPAWS (Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society). Opponents are concerned the harvest will scar the picturesque mountainsides, increase the risk of flooding, impact drinking water, displace wildlife and hurt tourism and livelihoods. The government, however, maintains it listened to people's concerns and made changes as a result. …The government believes it has alleviated a lot of the opponents' concerns by approving a plan that allows Balcaen to clear only 255 of the requested 409 hectares (an area about the size of Calgary's Glenmore Reservoir). …While logging has been occurring in the region for years, conservation groups say people will notice this latest harvest plan.
OPINION: Government overhaul key to forestry reform
By Dale Smith, retired Natural Resources
The independent review of "forest practices" in Nova Scotia announced by Natural Resources Minister Margaret Miller on Aug. 30 should be seized upon as an 11th-hour opportunity to wrest control of our Crown lands from the grip of industrial forestry. …The commitment was intended to provide political cover in response to growing criticism and controversy around forestry practices and the dominant influence of industry over Crown land management. Hot-button issues continue to be clearcutting and the proposed lease of Nova Scotia's western Crown lands to a consortium of forestry companies. …The end game must focus on the stewardship and sustainability of Crown lands and forests as highly valued natural capital assets that will be relied upon to serve Nova Scotia over the coming years, decades and centuries. It is inconceivable that the paradigm shift of the order of magnitude needed can be led by DNR in its current incarnation.
Current forest management not working
By Therese MacGregor & Claudette Moore – Concerned Citizens of Jackson and Josephine County
Mail Tribune
Therese MacGregor & Claudette Moore
In response to the Mail Tribune editorial posted Nov. 12 regarding the forest thinning bill, here are some facts that we would like to share: First, according to the U.S. Forest Service's Fuels Treatment Effectiveness Database, 90 percent of fuels reduction projects — whether carried out through logging, thinning or prescribed fire — were effective in reducing wildfire severity. Salvaging burned timber after a fire allows federal land agencies to recover the economic value of dead and dying trees. Post-fire salvage also protects public safety by removing hazard trees along highways, forest roads and hiking trails that might otherwise fall on people. …Congressman Greg Walden and others understand that such a one-size-fits-all approach to federal forest management is not working. The Resilient Federal Forests Act does not mandate logging and it doesn't impose any specific forestry prescription across all federal land.
Tree harvesting methods protect water quality in Coast Range study
KTVZ.COM
Tree harvesting methods designed to protect streams from soil erosion and sedimentation can be effective in maintaining water quality, scientists have shown in a study in the Oregon Coast Range. By following rules enshrined in the Oregon Forest Practices Act, research in the Alsea River watershed showed that a stream draining clear-cut slopes carried no more sediment after harvest than before. In fact, the clear-cut watershed had lower sediment concentrations than streams in two nearby uncut watersheds. While the study shows what can theoretically be achieved, researchers are cautious about applying their results to actual harvesting activities elsewhere. The practices in this study may not represent the variety of conditions faced in forest management across the state, they said. For example, no new roads were constructed in the process of carrying out the study.
Wildfire fighting funds for Montana need a collaborative solution from Congress
By Tom Puchlerz, biologist and Paul Roos, fishing guide
Great Falls Tribune
After months of smoke filled skies, the blanket of winter has returned to the northern Rockies. Our stunning vistas are once again visible. 2017 was a record breaking fire season here in Montana, as 141 wildfires burned across our state – affecting over a million acres. Montanans were evacuated, homes were lost, businesses were hurt, and federal and state budgets were severely impacted. …We traveled to Washington, D.C. a couple weeks ago and were surprised to see Congress proposing new laws to reform forest management faster than one can assign them a bill number. While we appreciate the effort, this reactive frenzy of bill drafting is not in the best interest of our forests or Montanans. Most of the current bills lack bipartisan support and are likely to hurt – not help – our forests and communities.
Harrowing Northwest Wildfire Season Ends, But Forest Management Debate Burns On
By Jeff Mapes
Northwest Public Radio
Autumn rains have washed away the smoke of the summer wildfires. But Congress remains embroiled in a high-stakes environmental debate over how to reduce the growing threat of catastrophic blazes in Western forests and rangelands. Lawmakers are under more pressure to act after a wildfire season that was particularly harrowing. Nearly 9 million acres – an area about the size of New Jersey and Connecticut combined – burned. …And here's what's making the problem worse: The U.S. Forest Service now spends more than half its budget fighting fires, up from just 16 percent in 1995. That means it is running out of money to work on fire prevention, particularly in the wildfire-prone communities where some 120 million Americans now live. …Randi Spivak, public lands director for of the Center for Biological Diversity, is fighting the Westerman bill. She said past commercial logging has already contributed to the growing wildfire risk.
Indiana Dept. of Natural Recources seeks to preserve and promote state's forests
By Cameron Clark, IDNR Director
The Herald-Tribune
A forest is more than trees for timber. If you followed media coverage of the sale at Yellowwood State Forest, you might be surprised to read that statement. The veteran foresters of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources planned and carried out the recent sale to harvest select trees from 299 acres of that forest's back country. The truth is both the well-meaning people who opposed the sale and the IDNR love our state forests, but we differ on how to care for them. Their approach for the back country is hands off, letting nature take its course. Ours is to scientifically manage an ecosystem that – when land was acquired by the state in the 1950s – barely existed until the foresters planted it. …Our goal is the health of the forests – not profit.
Windsor sawmill 'quite a jigsaw puzzle'
By Keith Edwards
Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel
WINDSOR — One donated piece of lumber at a time, volunteers this summer put together the Windsor Historical Society's new post-and-beam sawmill building — the jigsaw puzzle of Bob Brann's dreams. Now they've got another puzzle to put together: the late 19th-century working sawmill. Donated by an Albion man and disassembled for the move to Windsor, the sawmill will occupy the 96-by-24-foot building, which is the latest addition to the historical society's prominent spot on the Windsor Fairgrounds. Brann and others involved helped take the old sawmill apart, but putting it back together, he concedes, "could be quite a jigsaw puzzle."
Arkansas Wildfires Burn 1805 Acres During Holiday Weekend
By Karen Ricketts
Arkansas Matters
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The Arkansas Agriculture Department's Forestry Commission (AFC) suppressed 103 wildfires that burned 1,805 acres on Sunday Nov. 26. Current drought conditions and weather forecasts for low humidity and gusty winds create elevated wildfire danger across Arkansas through this week. 59 Arkansas counties are now under high wildfire danger. Governor Asa Hutchinson joins State Forester Joe Fox in strongly encouraging residents to avoid outdoor burning until the wildfire danger conditions subside.
Forestry Quiz Bowl Team Reaches Final Four At National Society of American Foresters Competition
The Pine Bluff Commercial
Members of the Forestry Club and student chapter of the Society of American Foresters (SAF) at the University of Arkansas at Monticello reached the final four in the National SAF Quiz Bowl competition held recently in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Quiz Bowl was part of the national meeting of the Society of American Foresters and featured 32 forestry and natural resources teams from across the nation. UAM defeated Oregon State, Green River College and LSU before falling to Mississippi State in the semifinals. UAM and Humboldt State finished tied for third.
Change needed in the forestry industry
By Debbie Gregory
Gisborne Herald
A major step change must occur to take mechanisation to a whole new level to help improve forestry safety, a forestry safety seminar has heard. Forest Enterprises' Dan Fraser, who has been involved in the forestry industry here for close to two decades said it was time to lift the bar. Forestry in Europe has been using remote controlled equipment — yarders, skidders and forwarders for more than 25 years. …Mr Fraser said future training demands should move away from basic chainsaw skills and incorporate sophisticated machine-operator training and teleoperation. "That is the future of this industry. We need to lift the bar so we are attracting more great people into this industry.
Trees pledge requires new vision
By Ewan McGregor
The Gisborne Herald
Given this country's need for more trees, whether natives or exotics, the new Government's pledge to supercharge tree cultivation is commendable. A billion by the end of a decade! Credible, or fanciful? OK, it's a notional figure, and no one's going to keep count, but a worthy cause will be discredited if seen as unrealistic. Surely, though, we want this to work. Ninety percent of our forestry estate is of the productive radiata pine and it seems that the dominant species for this programme is radiata — new Forestry Minister Shane Jones has a symbolic potted pine seedling in his office. But little has been said as to the range of species, and their management. A 100,000 hectares is targeted for planting annually, with much of it private land. How will landowners be induced to plant these trees?
'Grain for green': How China is swapping farmland for forest
By Suzanna Dayne
Center for International Forestry Research
Since 1999, China has restored forest landscapes across more than 28 million hectares of farmland and land classified as barren or degraded. As global efforts turn to restoration as a way to mitigate climate change – led by the Bonn Challenge, with the goal of restoring 150 million hectares of deforested and degraded land by 2020, and 350 million hectares by 2030 – researchers are looking to China for lessons on how to achieve this. A major driver of China's success has been the 'Conversion of Cropland to Forest Program' (CCFP), also known as 'Grain for Green'. The program pays farmers to plant trees on their land and provides degraded land to rural families to restore. CCFP has so far cost more than USD 40 billion, including direct payments to more than 32 million rural households.
Britain's most unlikely day out? A trip to the power station with its own nature reserve
By Sophie Campbell
It looks like a pony nut; a tiny, shiny-sided cylinder of compressed fibre. This is a biomass pellet, made of leftovers from the American sawn-timber industry and shipped over here in bulk to fire three of the six units at Britain's biggest "half and half" power station at Drax, near Selby in Yorkshire. You can pick up a handful from a tub in its newly-refurbished visitor centre, where you can also power a virtual city using an exercise bike, build a turbine using Faraday's principles (which are on the national curriculum) and fulfil the energy requirements of the National Grid, shown in huge digits, by frantically winding handles labelled "nuclear", "hydro", "gas", "solar", "wind" and "biomass". Who would have thought the power station once vilified as the UK's biggest carbon emitter could be so much fun?
Conserving Forests Could Cut Carbon Emissions As Much As Getting Rid Of Every Car On Earth
By Susan Minnemeyer
New analysis from The Nature Conservancy, WRI and others estimates that stopping deforestation, restoring forests and improving forestry practices could cost-effectively remove 7 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide annually, or as much as eliminating 1.5 billion cars—more than all of the cars in the world today! In fact, forests are key to at least six of the study's 20 "natural climate solutions," which could collectively reduce 11.3 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year. That's as much as halting global oil consumption, and would get us one-third of the way toward limiting global warming to 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F) above pre-industrial levels — the threshold for avoiding catastrophic effects of climate change — by 2030. Avoided deforestation could deliver more than 40 percent of total emissions reductions offered by low-cost solutions.


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Mafia games have themes and scenarios related to classic Sicilian criminal organizations. However, some games in the Mafia category may be related to other organized criminal groups.
The Capo is getting old and about to retire. You think. Maybe it's time for you to make your moves from behind the scenes, to put the gangsters into play that support your goals. Will you gain the most respect?


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Skrbčići () falu Horvátországban Tengermellék-Hegyvidék megyében. Közigazgatásilag Krkhez tartozik.

Fekvése
A Krk-sziget Šotoventonak nevezett nyugati részén Krk városától 8 km-re északnyugatra, a tengerparttól a Sveta Fuska és a Torkol-öböltől mintegy 2 km-re fekszik. Közvetlen szomszédságában a 104-es főút túloldalán található Pinezići falu. Közelében 2 km-re található a valbiskai kompkikötő, ahonnan a közeli Cres-szigetre indulnak a kompjáratok.

Története
Területe a 15. század közepéig csak gyéren lakott volt, főként néhány módosabb vegliai család használta mezőgazdasági célokra. A Frangepánok, hogy fokozzák az adóból származó bevételeiket a 15. században velebiti vlachokat telepítettek ide, akik egy sajátos nyelvet az úgynevezett krki románt (krčkorumunjski) beszélték. A Linardići és Pinezići közötti területet ma is "Kambunnak" nevezik, mely szintén a krki románból származik és eredetileg mezőt jelentett. Kambun valamikor szintén falu volt, valószínűleg megfelel a mai Žgaljićinak. A Frangepánok krki uralma 1480-ig tartott, amikor Velence tartva attól, hogy a Mátyás magyar király elfoglalja Frangepán VII. Jánost a sziget átadására bírta. Ezt követően Krk szigetét a Velence által kinevezett kormányzók, velencei nemesek igazgatták, akik viszonylagos önállóságot élveztek. A falut Krk első velencei kormányzója Antonio Vinciguerra 1489-ben említi először "Ordinationes" című munkájában. Ez a forrás eléggé megbízhatónak tűnik, mert az 1565-ös egyházlátogatás a települést sokkal korábbinak mondja. A 16. század elején a török veszély miatt a kontinens területeiről számos menekült érkezett ide. 1797-ben a napóleoni háborúk egyik következménye a Velencei Köztársaság megszűnése volt. Napóleon bukása után 1813-ban Krk osztrák kézre került. Ausztria 1822-ben a Kvarner szigeteivel együtt elválasztotta Dalmáciától és Isztriával kapcsolta össze, mely közvetlenül Bécs irányítása alá tartozott. 1867 és 1918 között az Osztrák–Magyar Monarchia része volt. 1857-ben 81, 1910-ben 122 lakosa volt. Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia bukását rövid olasz uralom követte, majd a település a Szerb-Horvát-Szlovén Királyság része lett. A második világháború idején előbb olasz, majd német csapatok szállták meg. A háborút követően újra Jugoszlávia, majd az önálló horvát állam része lett. 2011-ben 152 lakosa volt. Skrbčići mezőgazdasági jellegű település, lakói főként földművelésből, állattartásból, olajbogyó termesztésből és halászatból éltek. Néhány iparos is él a településen. A turizmus a kis szálláshely kapacitás miatt itt nem fejlődött jelentősen.

Lakosság

Nevezetességei
Assisi Szent Ferenc tiszteletére szentelt temploma a 16. század végén, vagy a 17. század elején épült. Eredetileg magántemplomnak épült az építtető fiának Lovre Škrbának az emlékére. Idővel elhagyatottá vált, de Josip Brusić plébános a családdal egyetértésben megújíttatta és ezután a megegyezés szerint az ő tulajdonába ment át. Örököse unokaöccse Antun Bogović lett, aki fiával Itáliába távozott. A 20. század közepén ismét megújították és 1957. október 4-én újraszentelték. Azóta a település és a szomszédos Pinezići falu híveit szolgálja. A két falu közös temetője a tengerparthoz közel a régi plébániatemplom mellett található.
Szent Miklós tiszteletére szentelt kápolnáját 1565-ben az egyházlátogatáskor említik. 1609-ben már egészen romos volt, mára nyoma sem maradt. A helyi hagyomány szerint a krki Cetinić (Zuttinis) család építtette.
Szent Sixtus kápolnája Skrbčići és Linardići között, Žgaljići falu alatt található. A kápolnát már 1277-ben említik. A Linardići Szent Antal templom felépültéig volt csak használatban, azután elhagyták. A Szent Miklós kápolnától eltérően még ma is áll, falai és apszisa megmaradt. Hossza 6 méter, szélessége 3 méter.

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Q: How to keep all folders collapsed when opening VS Code? When I open my workspace in VS Code, I see all my folders as expanded and I have to collapse them manually. I want VS Code to keep all the folders in my workspace as collapsed when I open it, so that I don't have to do that manually.

A: you can make use of these shortcut keys if you want the same,
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Q: Issues running J2SE Rule Client on Tomcat We are trying to run a Pojo ruleclient to execute rules defined in ODM, within a Tomcat Java instance. We are utilizing a stateless session of RES server to execute the rules. When running on Localhost, its running fine, the rules are getting executed. But when the same code is ported to Cloud based Tomcat server on Unix, we are getting the following exception.
Tomcat version : 7.0.62 ODM RES version : 8.5.1.1
Test_NGTesting_RuleApp.RulesetExecutionException:Test_NGTesting_RulesAn error occurred while the rule session was created:\nilog.rules.res.xu.persistence.IlrPersistenceException: It was not possible to retrieve ruleset information: /Test_NGTesting_RuleApp/1.0/Test_NGTesting_Rules/1.0.\nilog.rules.res.persistence.IlrDAOException: Cannot retrieve the ruleset archive for the ruleset "/Test_NGTesting_RuleApp/1.0/Test_NGTesting_Rules/1.0".\nilog.rules.archive.IlrRulesetArchive$RulesetArchiveException: Problem occurred during archive extraction of entry :\ninvalid code lengths set\n,exc.chain=7b2184c9,exc.stack=Test_NGTesting_RuleApp.RulesetExecutionException: Test_NGTesting_Rules
We have not made any changes to the generated code. The location at which "res_data" is mentioned in "ra.xml", ruleset.jar is present. Again the same code with ruleset.jar present in a local file system location on my pc works fine; in localhost. We are able to see that the session is also successfully getting created. But only when Session.execute() is called within the generated code, the exception is thrown.
Any pointers where to look are highly appreciated.
Thanks a lot in advance.

A: From the question, it not clear whether you are deploying on RES?
1) RES and XU Configuration on cloud and compare this with localhost - run test ruleset on RES Console. Run diagnostics
2) Check in the database
3) Enable trace on server - see if you some useful info.


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FILM FUN: Is there a snowy World Championships ahead?
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by Editor Konrad Manning January 5th, 2015
How will Van Aert decide his World Champs dilemna... His decision is made
World under-23 champion Wout Van Aert is currently the rider to beat in the world of cyclocross and pretty soon he has to decide which title he will tilt for in Tabor. If he's tempted to emulate seven-time World champion Erik De Vlaeminck then perhaps he'll be stepping up to the elite race on February 1st - his crucial, decision-making advice may well come from a certain Niels Albert. Editor Konrad Manning profiles Van Aert and rounds-up the varying opinions before his decision was announced on January 16th.
Update Friday January 16th: VAN AERT WILL RACE ELITE WORLDS: Wout van Aert has decided not to defend his Under-23 title in Tabor and instead will race in the senior elite race (Mathieu van der Poel announced that he would also race elite earlier in the week). Here's how we looked at Van Aert's dilemna before his bronze medal in last Sunday's Belgian Championships...
WOUT van Aert is a reigning World champion, but it's not yet clear whether the twenty-year-old will defend his Under-23 title or take on the senior elite race at this season's World Championships in Tabor in the Czech Republic.
Van Aert intention at the start of the season was to race Under-23, but because of the considerable success he's had against the seniors it's now a much more difficult choice. Van Aert says he will decide in co-operation with his team after Sunday's Belgian Championship where he does start in the elite professional championship race for the first time.
Van Aert goes into the Belgian National as favourite
Team: Vastgoedservice-Golden Palace.
Date of birth: 15th September, 1994.
Home: Lille, Belgium.
Height/weight: 1m 86cm/69kg.
UCI World ranking: 3 (30.12.14)
Major achievements:
World Under-23 champion (Hoogerheide, 2014).
bpost Bank Trofee series winner (2014-15).
European Under-23 champion (Lorsch, 2014).
On the back of his performances this season, and particularly during the Christmas period, Van Aert goes into the Belgian National as favourite and perhaps only Kevin Pauwels or Tom Meeusen can beat the youngster in Erpe-Mere. Defending champion Sven Nys is reduced to an outsider, hoping to get on the podium. Erpe-Mere is a flattish course with some boggy woodland sections, but photos taken there today (January 5th) confirmed that it's going to be very 'heavy' with several sections of muddy running.
False start
Strangely enough Van Aert is yet to win a Belgian national title in any age group. Twelve months ago he was expected to win the Under-23 race in Waregem but was controversially disqualified for a 'false start' – future team mate Jens Adams took the title. Van Aert made amends in the Worlds in Hoogerheide (top photo) three weeks later by beating Michael Vanthourenhout and Mathieu van der Poel to take his first World title (race highlights below).
This season Van Aert has been able to pick and choose his opposition to a great degree. In the Superprestige series and World Cups (when there was the option) he raced Under-23 whilst deciding that the bpost Bank Trofee would be the series that he'd contest with the elite. He won the elite Trofee series in Baal on New Year's Day (above) with one round in hand.
Applying for dispensation
An Under-23 rider has to request 'dispensation' from the UCI (via his team and national federation) to race with the seniors at the Worlds and it's understood that Van Aert (and Mathieu van der Poel for that matter) has until mid-January to make that request. Van der Poel is only four months younger than Van Aert and perhaps a little less likely to want to move up. After Van der Poel's win in Leuven on January 4th however, the Dutchman was unsure.
"May be we should think about it (racing elite). The course in Tabor suits me and there is no guarantee of a win in the Under-23s," said Van der Poel after his win.
Van Aert outsprints Van der Poel to win the Flandriencross in Hamme.
Dutch champion Lars van der Haar skipped his final season as an Under-23 rider to move up to elite and once a request to change is granted there is no opportunity to go back to Under-23 racing. The final decision will rest with the UCI though and in Van der Haar's case - he applied at the very beginning of the season.
Van Aert's coach Marc Lamberts is reported to prefer that he races Under-23 in Tabor so that he will still have a future target to motivate him. Belgian football international Timmy Simons, part of the Vastgoedservice-Golden Palace team management, also wants Van Aert to race Under-23.
Belgium's national team manager Rudy De Bie will leave Van Aert to make his own decision and recognises that opinion will be divided. De Bie told Sporza that "At Under-23 he can lose the title and with the pros he can only win."
A devalued World title?
There has also been the suggestion in the Belgian press though, that an elite World title race without Van Aert (and Van der Poel) is devalued. If Van Aert and Van der Poel both race the Under-23 championship, one Belgian newspaper pondered, would the race programme be altered so that their race got top-billing and the 'prime-time' viewing slot.
Three-time World champion Erwin Vervecken, who grew up in Van Aert's hometown of Lille, believes Van Aert should race the elite World Championship.
"Wout is able to win anywhere, especially the heavy crosses," says Vervecken, "and I cannot see who can beat him to the Belgian title. In his situation I would also race elite at the Worlds."
Former Fidea rider Vervecken told VRT this week, "In my first year as a pro (1996) I won the Belgian title and I thought it would be the first of many. It turned out to be my only title. Wout is riding extremely well and if I was him, I would not miss the elite Worlds."
The man who Van Aert will perhaps listen to most closely... is double elite World champion Niels Albert
Albert the mentor
The man who Van Aert will perhaps listen to most closely, however, is double elite World champion Niels Albert who also won World titles as a junior and an Under-23 rider. Like Vervecken, Albert was destined to win only one Belgian elite title (2011) before his career was cut short.
After retiring prematurely, with a heart condition, in May 2014, Albert joined Van Aert's Vastgoedservice-Golden Palace team management and has been an ideal mentor for the young Belgian. Given Albert's recent life experience, perhaps his advice to Van Aert will be to 'make hay whilst the sun shines' and go for a potentially history making title.
History making?
If Van Aert does decide to race for the elite World title, in Tabor on February 1st, and then go on and win it, he would become the youngest-ever winner (as would Mathieu van der Poel). Van Aert would be some 49 days younger than Erik De Vlaeminck was when he won his first title in 1966.
De Vlaeminck won the World title a record seven times between 1966 and 1973 and is regarded by many as the greatest-ever cyclocross rider. The pressure, and urge, to follow in De Vlaeminck's wheel tracks may prove irresistible for the young rider from Lille.
2014 World Under-23 Championship race, Hoogerheide
Van Aert's record in recent Championships:
2014 Europeans, Lorsch; 1st Under-23.
2014 Worlds, Hoogerheide: 1st Under-23.
2014 Nationals, Waregem: DSQ Under-23.
2013 Europeans, Mlada Boleslav: 4th Under-23.
2013 Worlds, Louisville: 3rd Under-23.
2013 Nationals, Mol: 3rd Under-23.
2012 Europeans, Ipswich: 5th Under-23.
2012 Worlds, Koksijde: 2nd Junior.
2012 Nationals, Hooglede-Gits: 2nd Junior.
2011 Europeans, Lucca: 4th Junior.
Elite Klassements:
2014-15 bpost Bank Trofee series winner.
Elite pro wins (2014-15):
October 25th: Kruibeke.
November 1st: Koppenbergcross (Trofee).
November 22nd: Koksijde (World Cup).
November 30th: Hamme (Trofee).
December 14th: Mol.
December 20th: Essen (Trofee).
December 27th: Bredene.
December 30th: Loenhout (Trofee).
January 1st: Baal (Trofee).
In addition to these eight wins Van Aert has also won six Under-23 races this season.
2012-13 Telenet-Fidea.
From March 1st, 2014: Vastgoedservice-Golden Palace.
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Vegetarians can eat well on even a limited budget.
2 What Is a Quasi-Vegetarian?
The benefits of being a vegetarian are abundant. Vegetarianism is an empowering choice that can improve health, increase the quality of your life, save hundreds of animals each year, and help prevent environmental destruction. Vegetarians abstain from consuming any red meat, seafood, or poultry. Many vegetarians are also vegan and choose to abstain from dairy, eggs, and other animal by-products such as gelatin and animal-derived rennet. The bad news is that it can seem like an expensive lifestyle at first glance, but it really is doable on any budget.
It's important to live well and treat yourself to the tastes you most enjoy on a regular basis. Contrary to the myth that vegetarianism means giving up a lot, it actually helps expose your palate. Try a different meal at least once per week as a vegetarian so you may discover new flavors. If you plan your food purchases for a couple of weeks in advance, it becomes easy to budget new vegetarian meals.
Some pre-packaged vegetarian foods can be on the pricey side, but making your own meals is almost always cheaper when they're vegetarian. Beans, rice, tofu, chickpeas, vegetables, and whole grains are staple foods that can be cooked and combined in different ways for a wide variety of meals. Become more familiar with herbs and spices, which will add lots of flavor to your dishes.
Buy a membership to a local box store that offers you the chance to buy groceries in bulk. Shelf-stable foods, such as canned beans and bagged rice, will keep for a long time, and this can save you a lot of money. Also save both time and money by cooking a lot more than you need and saving the rest in individually portioned containers.
Because there is less demand for vegetarian microwaveable meals and convenience foods, they can be a bit pricier than the alternatives. Even vegan candy bars and marshmallows are more expensive than the non vegan varieties. You may still enjoy the vegetarian versions even when you have limited funds. Just budget for indulgences and buy them in moderation.
Hundreds of vegetarian cookbooks are currently in print. Special order them or peruse titles for free at your local library. You may also find them on discount shelves at bookstores or you may borrow them from friends. Look over the thousands of vegetarian-themed websites that offer suggestions for recipes and other ideas on how to live well as a vegetarian.
Raven, Robin. "How to Become a Vegetarian on a Low Budget." Healthy Eating | SF Gate, http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/become-vegetarian-low-budget-6531.html. Accessed 21 April 2019.


As the old saying goes, necessity really is the mother of invention. I found myself with a small dilemma (tiny in fact as dilemmas go) over the weekend. Approximately half of a pound of butter that had been left out of the fridge was rapidly turning into a too soft, squidgy mess on the counter top; the hazard of an Irish summer. One of these days some clever engineer will come up with a self regulating, temperature controlled butter dish and I will be first in the queue to buy one. Keeping real butter at just the right point of spreadable softness is very difficult in the summer months particularly. I could have put it back into the fridge but it had past that point where the taste would be left uncompromised if it hardened up again. I toyed with the idea of making clarified butter or ghee to use some other time, as much of the melting had been done already and then I wondered if I could use it up in a recipe. Dinner for that evening had yet to be settled upon and so I had a root around to see what else was in the kitchen. Oh yes, my very own attempt at a self imposed Ready, Steady, Cook; great fun for a Saturday morning.
I had a fresh leek, some carrots, celery and red onions. Fresh rosemary and basil permanently grow at my house and there was some fresh cut coriander lolling around in the fridge not earning its keep at all. I also had my squidgy butter and there was just over half a bottle of white wine in the fridge from the night before. I decided on some herb butter baked lamb shanks and they were fantastic.
Basically I put the soft butter into a bowl and just chopped up some rosemary, basil and coriander and mixed it through with a fork. Instead of stuffing the shanks with the butter or even piercing the flesh I just buttered the entire shank really generously. On a tinfoil sheet I put some chopped carrot, celery, red onion and leek and then popped the shank on top. I drew the sides of the tinfoil around the shank, poured in a good splash of wine and then closed my silver parcels and bunged them in the oven at 170° for just less than 3 hours. It couldn't have been easier and I served them with some leftover potato dauphanoise from the day before. It would have worked equally well with mash, baked or roast spuds for that matter. It's a new dish for me and I will definitely be trying it again. I love it when I discover something new by complete necessity or accident rather than design.
I also couldn't help noticing that the entire dish was Irish and mainly Tipperary and border county ingredients. In fact if the tinfoil had been made in Tipp we were almost totally home grown. I mention the Tipperary connection because next week (Wed 24th August) we will be doing it all again on a much grander scale as it is time again for the annual Long Table Dinner. This year we are taking to the hallowed halls of that great Tipperary educational institution, Rockwell College. Regular readers of this column will be familiar with the concept of the Long Table Dinner, but for the newbies let me explain.
The Tipperary Long Table Dinner is now in its fifth year. From humble beginnings in an orchard it has grown to a much anticipated annual food event. Basically it is a menu made entirely from Tipperary Food; a fun and exciting vehicle for bringing together all the excellent Tipperary producers and their artisan offerings. Sometimes it is hard to believe that all the food for this sumptuous banquet is sourced in Tipperary, but one need only take a look at the Tipperary Food Producers Network website to realise how much food is made here and some of the iconic brands involved. The Long Table Dinner is always a fantastic event with much 'oohing', 'aahing' and 'mmmming' as course after course teases and tantalises taste buds and the crowd leaves sated and totally in love with the local epicurean delights! That's the way it has gone for the last number of years anyway and we can only assume that this year will be similar. On top of the great food, which is always the star, we try to stage the event somewhere special. We have gambled with the weather and held it outdoors. The first time it was an orchard and the following year inside the ancient ramparts of Cahir Castle. We have eaten under canvass in the special surroundings of Kickham Barracks. Last year it was held simultaneously in four of Tipp's finest restaurants and this year we head to Rockwell College. If you have any interest in food it is a night not to be missed and there are always the 'added value' parts such as interesting speakers and after dinner entertainment, but mainly people come for the food. Tickets for this year's event cost €75 and are available at James Whelan Butchers, Oakville Shopping Centre, Clonmel on (052) 6182477 OR from any member of the Tipperary Food Producers network at www.tipperaryfoodproducers.com As I write there are only a few tickets left for this great event.
Even if you can't make it to Rockwell as there won't be space for everyone, there is nothing to stop you experimenting with the concept at home. You really can make a superb meal entirely from the environs of Tipperary. In fact I challenge you to try it for yourself and let me know how you get on.


Card Exchange with Members of the Chamber.Friends are also welcome.
Don't miss out this networking event.
Financial experts together with government representatives from the US and Spain will discuss financing programs and opportunities available for companies from Spain doing business in the United States. This seminar aims to provide attendees information regarding their needs for financing their projects and investments in the United States.


A bright white color might be the first thing that comes to mind when we think of an attractive smile. That's part of the reason why teeth whitening has become such a popular service in New York State, including the Tarrytown area.
With the popularity of teeth whitening, your options for getting your teeth whitened have expanded, but if you really want to make sure you get the best results from your teeth whitening, work with a cosmetic dentist.
Teeth whitening gel is safe when properly used, but the strongest formulations–the most effective formulations–can be damaging if used improperly. They can cause irritation and even injury to soft tissues, including your gums, cheeks, and tongue. Gum irritation, receding gums, and soft tissue burns can all come from improperly used whitening compounds.
A dentist can also evaluate the state of your teeth to determine whether your teeth are healthy or whether there might be conditions that should be dealt with before whitening them. Some of these conditions, like tooth decay, might be responsible for the discoloration of your teeth, and it won't respond to teeth whitening..
In fact, there are many causes of discolored teeth that won't respond to teeth whitening. A dentist can let you know whether your teeth are discolored because of one of these other reasons, and offer a more successful alternative, like dental veneers, if your teeth won't respond to whitening.
There are many forms of at-home whitening that you might be tempted to try rather than go to a dentist or a salon. Unfortunately, there are also many problems with these at-home treatments. Many people want to try a teeth whitening at-home remedy like strawberries mixed with baking soda, apple cider vinegar, or activated charcoal. These home remedies don't really work, and may be damaging to your teeth and gums.
Over-the-counter teeth whitening products are safe when used properly, but many are disappointed with the results. Sometimes teeth don't get white enough. Other times, they may whiten unevenly, creating an unattractive result.
Some people try to get better results by ordering whitening supplies online. This is probably the most dangerous approach to teeth whitening, as you don't know the strength and purity of the supplies you get this way, and improper use can result in serious burns to your mouth and throat.
If you are looking for teeth whitening in Tarrytown, please call (914) 357-8112 for an appointment with a cosmetic dentist at Advanced Dentistry of Tarrytown today.


Kenya has joined Africa's top ten economies after its gross domestic product was estimated to be 25 percent bigger. This comes after the east African country's authorities changed the base calculation year to 2009 from 2001.
Economic output was calculated to be 4.76 trillion shillings ($53.4 billion) in 2013 after the rebasing, up from 3.8 trillion shillings ($42.6 billion), the minister for devolution and planning, Anne Waiguru, told a news conference on Tuesday.
That takes Kenya up to ninth in Africa's GDP rankings from 12th, above Ghana, Tunisia and Ethiopia but below oil-producing Sudan based on a World Bank table for 2013.
The rebasing exercise means debt levels fall as a proportion of GDP, a closely watched ratio, and could give the government some leeway for more borrowing to help finance its plans to build new transport links and repair creaking infrastructure.
But revising the estimated size of GDP does not change Kenya's ability to repay additional loans nor does it mean it has more income to spend on development in a nation where many people are poor, roads are potholed and power supply is scarce.
"This gives us a little bit of welcome breathing space … not an opportunity to open the cash register," said public policy and economic analyst Robert Shaw.
As with other rebasings in Africa, the move takes into account structural and other economic changes, such as new technology, and updates the base year for prices.


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What was the difference between Mesopotamia and Egypt landscape?
Egypt was built around a single river, so for much of its history was unified. It also had limited scope for expansion, though it did conquer into West Asia and further down the Nile. Mesopotamia was a landscape between two rivers, each of which shifted its course. Large states would expand well beyond Mesopotamia.
Why are the noses missing from Egyptian statues?
Was there slaves in ancient Egypt?
How are Mesopotamia and Egypt similar and different?
Is Egypt older than Sumeria?
Is Egyptian the oldest language?
What race does Egyptian fall under?
What is the oldest form of slavery?
Is Egypt Arab or African?
Why was Mesopotamia better than Egypt?
When did slavery end in Egypt?
They believed that the essence of a deity could inhabit an image of that deity, or, in the case of mere mortals, part of that deceased human being's soul could inhabit a statue inscribed for that particular person. Without a nose, the statue-spirit ceases to breathe, so that the vandal is effectively "killing" it.
The pyramids were not built by slaves. While the ancient Egyptians were certainly not averse to keeping slaves, they appear to have mostly used them as field hands and domestic servants.
Egypt developed around the Nile River, while Mesopotamia developed between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Politically, both Egypt and Mesopotamia had a government with one main ruler, but Egypt had a centralized government with a pharaoh, while Mesopotamia had a decentralized government with a king.
Originally Answered: Which came 1st ancient sumerian or ancient Egypt ? Egypt has the same but would come along later. Easy way to remember this – Akkad was the first empire because Akkad invaded Sumer. Egypt was an empire but not first, so Sumer had to come first.
The Egyptian language is the oldest known language in Egypt. This language belongs to the Afro-Asian linguistic family. it is 2600–2000 years old from Christ.
Afrocentric: the ancient Egyptians were black Africans, displaced by later movements of peoples, for example the Macedonian, Roman and Arab conquests. Eurocentric: the ancient Egyptians are ancestral to modern Europe.
Although Egypt sits in the north of the African continent it is considered by many to be a Middle Eastern country, partly because the main spoken language there is Egyptian Arabic, the main religion is Islam and it is a member of the Arab League.
In fact, Egypt's great farming system led them to have better conditions to farm than Mesopotamia because of flooding, the rivers and irrigation and the farming tools that they used. Economy, crops, flooding, and the weather varied between Mesopotamia and Egypt. Flooding influenced farming in Mesopotamia and Egypt.
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Q: Different post type as parent. URL 404 error I've created two different custom post types and used the link below to add a function to set post_parent. The parent is the custom post type shows and the child is the other custom post type seasons. The links to the show page works fine but we are constantly receiving 404 when trying to visit the links created for season pages.
The link structure we get for seasons is as following:
//domain/seasons/showname/season-nr/
But when disabling nice permalinks the link to the season page is only:
//domain/?seasons=season-nr/
How can we rewrite these links so that the parent name gets added as ?shows=showname and when using nice permalinks //domain/seasons/showname/season-nr/ should be possible to use.
http://janina.tumblr.com/post/3588081423/post-parent-different-type
Would really appreciate some help here, we're totally stuck at the moment!

A: i had the same problem and i solved adding a new rewrite rule just after registering the custom post type.
add_rewrite_rule('post-type/(.+?)/(.+?)(/[0-9]+)?/?$','index.php?post-type=$matches[2]&page=$matches[3]','top');

This matches the url /post-type/parent-post/actual-post


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Indoor modelling gains increased attention in the last decade. Several factors contribute to this interest. First of all, the cities are getting larger as a concurrence much more people spend their time indoor. According to last investigations 75 % of the population lives in cities and about 87% of the time is indoors. The building environments are getting more complex. The progress of architecture and construction research and developments has made possible a huge non-regular building complexes to be built, such as museums, airports, stadiums and shopping malls. Management, security and guidance in such environments cannot be completed with traditional 2d methods. Therefore a lot of research has been dedicated to indoor modelling but in isolation and dedicated to specific applications.
Indoor space differs from outdoor space in many aspects: spaces are smaller; there are many constraints as walls, doors, stairs, furniture. To be able to represent indoor spaces in a proper way many data acquisition concepts, data models, and standards should be redefined to meet the requirements of indoor spatial applications. The acquisition, modelling of and navigation in indoor and enclosed environments are research activities that have received great interest in recent years. These activities are by both 1) advancements of acquisition systems, photogrammetry and computer vision, modelling, mobile computing and augmented systems, an 2) demand by indoor application systems such as positioning and navigation or facility management to name a few.
This increased research activity has been matched by industry that has invested in commercial and open source applications. However the research is still very fragmented and application-specific.
To promote and advance indoor modelling and navigation research within the ISPRS community.
To examine and evaluate the state of the art in all aspects of indoor modelling and navigation.
To examine and evaluate the application of indoor models for navigation, crisis decision support systems, simulations, information systems, and augmented systems.
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Full papers will be double-blind reviewed by at least two member of the Scientific Committee. Upon acceptance they will be publish within the ISPRS annals. Such papers should report new techniques, algorithms, bench marks, technology developments, frameworks, and best practices, which are not published elsewhere. Authors are encouraged to submit full papers (max 6 pages) or short papers (max 6 pages) in ISPRS format. These papers will be evaluated on their originality, novelty, and impact.
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Q: How to show two list items result into one, for multiple results. Using java in selenium Webdriver Here need to print two list results in the particular format by combining two list data. For example: as show in image
Normal(5-7Days): Rs. 2,400.00
Fast(3-5Days): Rs. 3,000.00
Express(2-3Days): Rs. 3,600.00

Here is my code
 List<WebElement> ShippingLabel = driver.findElements(By.xpath(" //label[contains(@class,'radio__label')]"));
 List<WebElement> ShippingPrice = driver.findElements(By.xpath(" //label[contains(@class,'radio__label')]/following-sibling::span"));

 for (WebElement SLelement: ShippingLabel) {
       System.out.println("Testingl:"+SLelement.getText());
 }
 for (WebElement SPelement1: ShippingPrice) {
     System.out.println("Testinglp:"+SPelement1.getText());
    }

A: Why not this:
List<WebElement> ShippingLabel = driver.findElements(By.xpath(" //label[contains(@class,'radio__label')]"));
 List<WebElement> ShippingPrice = driver.findElements(By.xpath(" //label[contains(@class,'radio__label')]/following-sibling::span"));

 for (int i = 0; i < ShippingLabel.size(); i++) {
     WebElement ele1 = ShippingLabel.get(i);
     WebElement ele2 = ShippingPrice.get(i);

     System.out.println(ele1.getText() + ":" + ele2.getText());
 }


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Urban Land > Market Trends > Modeling Latin American Redevelopment after Miami's Success Story
Modeling Latin American Redevelopment after Miami's Success Story
By Brett Widness
This year's ULI Latin America conference was held at the JW Marriott Marquis in Miami, the first location opened under this brand.
The focus of most panelists at ULI's Latin America Conference, held in late October, was on the stronger markets, including Mexico, Colombia, Peru, and Chile. There also was optimism about a turnaround in Brazil with the upcoming Summer Olympic Games in 2016 and Argentina's most recent election. In November, the Wall Street Journal reported that investor George Soros had committed to investing $300 million in an expansion of an Argentine company's hotel properties.
The conference was held in Miami, jointly organized by ULI Mexico and ULI Southeast Florida and the Caribbean. A few of the topics discussed included the following:
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Latin America RevPAR performance year-to-date September 2015. (Courtesy of Clay B. Dickinson managing Director, datin America, JLL)
What is working. A strong U.S. dollar, coupled with a growing endemic demand for tourism for the region's growing middle class, has investors optimistic about hotel development. Particularly in Mexico, publicly traded structures like real estate investment trusts (REITs) known as FIBRAs are helping provide liquidity and boost demand for product types. Gutiérrez said, "Business hotels are doing well in secondary markets with a limited-service model, and REITs provide liquidity." Debt financing is largely unknown given the history of high interest rates. Gutiérrez noted that northern Mexico is producing 3.5 million cars per year. "Industrial is booming," said Gutierrez. "The working-age population in Mexico is increasing, but you didn't see apartments in Mexico until recently," said Gutiérrez. "Either you bought a house or you didn't have place to live." The focus on single-family homes has increased sprawl and gridlock, with José Shabot, director general of builder Quiero Casa, saying, "Opportunity remains for more density in places like Mexico City." Arturo López, chief investment officer of movie theater developer Cinnepolis, said, "There's a lot of opportunity in mixed use—transforming industrial areas that already have the infrastructure for transport and water."
Conference attendees tour Swire Property's Brickell City Centre, a $1.05 billion shopping and mixed-use project that will, when finished, span up to five blocks to the west of Brickell Avenue and to the south of the Miami River, in Miami.
Turning cities around. ULI senior fellow Tom Murphy, former mayor of Pittsburgh, and Manny Díaz, former mayor of Miami and a partner at law firm Lydecker Díaz, focused on how Miami has transformed just in the last 15 years, shedding its Miami Vice image. When Díaz was first elected in 2001, he said that unemployment was higher than the city ever experienced during the recent recession. One of the larger developers in southern Florida told Díaz he wouldn't build a duplex in Miami, but eventually 135 high-rise buildings would be built, tripling the tax base. Díaz also modified the building code to be form based rather than single use, encouraging wider sidewalks and ground-floor retail. Díaz recently came out against a proposal to build a soccer stadium along the Miami's coastline, saying he thought the land could be better used as open space. "I was brought up in poverty, but the cheapest thing we can all enjoy is nature," he said. "There has to be a public way." Citing the importance of public/private partnerships in turning around Pittsburgh after the steel industry collapsed, Murphy talked about the importance of the city itself taking on risk to make the partnership work. "We had thousands of acres of vacant, industrial land," said Murphy. "The public had to take some of the risk."
The global sharing economy. Airbnb and VRBO were mentioned by several speakers as being popular in cities like Lima, Peru, where hotels are still underbuilt. Ana Paula Blanco, director of communications for Uber Latin America, talked about how the ride-sharing service is going global, now in 330 cities in 61 countries. Blanco said that the use of credit cards via Uber's mobile applications reduces the threat of theft for both passengers and drivers. She also said that the generally unmarked cars are less likely to draw unwanted attention, citing a statistic that 60 percent of riders in Colombia are female, suggesting that there is at least a perception that Uber and other services like it are a safer option.
Sustainability and cost savings. For island nations, these topics can take on additional significance. Jim Glasgow Jr. of Five Mile Capital, an alternative-investment manager, said his company has put US$1 million into restoring mangrove swamps in the Cayman Islands, both to add an eco-tourism feature to a high-end Ritz-Carlton and to serve as a buffer against storm surges in an area vulnerable to hurricanes. But in other countries, Glasgow said that his company is not permitted to use solar panels in places like Aruba, where overuse might bankrupt the small local utility. Patrick Freeman, president of the Cisneros Group, said his firm discovered excessive pesticide use near a hotel site in the Dominican Republic as part of an environmental impact study, and has subsequently launched an education campaign to help the local farmers. Freeman also said that import taxes on things like lightbulbs make technologies like LEDs even more financially viable. So even though energy prices are relatively low for now, panelists said that it still makes financial sense to take a longer-term view on energy- and water-saving technologies.


Though most of the tomb stones aren't finished until now, the atmosphere is raising.
I simply love the progress bars… Sometimes I don't like to talk to much about what I'm doing right now, but the bars show the progress anyway. And today I suddenly realized how much I've already completed! I put the cemetery setting together as far as I've finished the single pieces and it looked like a real setting… Horray!
I had been to two film festivals as a visitor last week, to the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and to the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film. I had a great time there, saw countless numbers of (animated) short films, had the oppotunity to talk to animation artists like Bruce Bickford personally and yet I'm still inspired by all the artworks I've seen – some of them were just amazing!
I had a few new ideas for my film there, too, and after having a heavy cold for few days, I spent the last weekend completely in my studio to work on the settings. I made some props for the graveyard: a tree, a pieta-like sculpture of an angel, about twenty graves (which aren' finished yet) and two picture frames of Orpheus and Eurydice for their home.
The sculpture is about 20 cm in height, and it's one of my most favourite pieces so far. It's important for the graveyrd's atmosphere since I want it to be somewhat like Le Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in Paris which is perhaps the most beautiful cemetery I've ever been to. Again, everything is made of cardboard, paper and wire covered with a thin layer of acrylics, watercolours and/or pastels.
Little, little things: the picture on the left is approx. 3,5 cm high. I used pin needles as nails to hang the pictures onto the wall.
Sets for my Orpheus Film Project Completed!
very nice illustrations at the end of this blog too !
and 'oh – you met Mr.B… I guess there was the possibility to see his incredible pieces of art on a big screen; which must be an impressive experience.
m_) So glad you can keep up with those bars letting us know you are working hard.
m_) The atmosphere looks fantastic. I dig the trees for the most part, for some reason.
m_) Ah, BRUCE!! —I may go visit him at his studio down in Seattle next week, but it will all depends on him, and whether he will tolerate me haha!
m_) but this is amazing, Jessica, I can picture you being rejuvenated by the festivals, which makes me very happy. Big events where all artist meet certainly motivate.
m_) You are clear example, although your motivation may come independently.
I have to ge ahold of those?


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Arsenal apparently snookered by a Chinese conman
This is truly one of the stranger stories you'll ever see
By Travis King Jul 16, 2018, 11:55am EDT
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What in the hell?
How did Arsenal, a club that has long-needed to step up its commercial sponsorships, manage to somehow agree to a deal with Chinese car manufacture BYD, only to find out earlier today that, in fact, they were done in by a conman?
This is truly shambolic on so many levels.
To recap: Arsenal announced an agreement with BYD back in April of this year for them to become the club's official car and bus partner (whatever that means, but hey, more commercial deals!). To commemorate the two parties coming together, there was even a photo with Laurent Koscielny, Skhodran Mustafi, and Granit Xhaka holding up an Arsenal shirt with BYD on the back. And it was all, apparently, a complete ruse, the work of a con artist who did all of this work unbeknownst to BYD.
As Bloomberg reports today:
BYD Co., an electric-car maker backed by Warren Buffett, asked the police to investigate a person who it says damaged its reputation and harmed related parties. Arsenal, which announced a pact with BYD in April, says the carmaker informed the English Premier League club that the deal was among those potentially affected by a fraud.
The person isn't an employee and never has been, and BYD hasn't authorized the person to conduct business in its name, the Shenzhen-based company said in a statement to the Hong Kong stock exchange Monday. The carmaker also said it reported to the police a forged company seal, which may have been used to stamp contracts that the person awarded.
Goddammit, Arsenal. Of course this would be something that happens to you.
What's even more wild about this particular case of fraud is that Arsenal "quoted" BYD's brand and public relations director Sherry Li in its press release announcing the partnership. This is truly high-level fraud at its best.
Whatever, good job you dorks. We're already the butt of many jokes online, and now you get done in by a guy walking into multiple meetings wearing mustache glasses. Christ. Next time, do a bit more due diligence, you gullible morons.


Right on the eastern tip of Marbella municipality, the district of Las Chapas is a popular residential area with a healthy mix of nationalities, ages and property types sealing its continual and wide-ranging appeal.
With around 320 days of sunshine annually, the Costa del Sol encourages an outdoor lifestyle that has many health benefits. Residents here are rarely stuck indoors because of bad weather; indeed, a rainy day is something of a novelty to be enjoyed on occasion.
Casares is two places: it is a dramatic, mountainside 'pueblo blanco' village and it is a wider area that encompasses beachside and inland residential developments. It lies midway between Estepona and Sotogrande, providing access to all the amenities of both, as well as being within a 30-minute drive from Gibraltar's international airport.


People are clamoring for compact SUVS, and with so much competition, General Motors is changing its focus.
The Equinox has boasted reasonable sales, but has conventionally fallen behind frontrunners like the Honda CR-V and Toyota RAV4.
This year, Chevrolet decided to give the Equinox a better shot at cornering the market with a revamped model that's both smaller and lighter — allowing it to more closely align with the compact space.
Those efforts are already paying off; GM recently reported its best crossover sales ever.
We took the all-new Chevy Equinox on a nice road trip from New York City to Long Beach Island, New Jersey. The trip gave us a great feel for how the SUV performed on highways and in crowded beach neighborhoods.
We tested the 1.5-liter, four-cylinder turbo engine with a six-speed automatic transmission and all-wheel drive. It's supposed to get a combined 26 miles per gallon, which competes with the Nissan Rogue and Toyota RAV4, but still falls behind the best-selling Honda CR-V.
Chevy is also beginning to offer a 2.0-liter turbo engine with a nine-speed automatic transmission, and a diesel is on the way. You can also elect to just get forward-wheel drive.
The LT starts at $28,500, but add-ons increased the final price tag to $33,730. I consider the extra features necessary, so I would be prepared to spend over $30,000.
For those looking to cut costs even more, the base trim (the L) starts $24,525. The Premier, the most luxurious option, starts at $31,735.
GM offers two separate packages for the LT that are priced just under $2,000: the Confidence and Convenience Package and Sun and Infotainment Package. Both packages offer an array of driver-assistance features, like rear-cross traffic alert, that are standard on the Premier.
We had both packages, and the Sun and Infotainment package is definitely worth splurging on for the added features, but more on that later.
When it comes down to the essentials — price, mileage, and driving capabilities — the SUV has perfectly reasonable specs to run with the CR-V, RAV4, and Rogue. If anything, it slightly edges out most of the competition when it comes to mileage.
That takes us to our most important starting point: size. The 2018 Equinox is slightly smaller than its predecessor at 183.1 inches long, but still bigger than the CR-V (180.6 inches). It competes most closely with the RAV4 (182.5 inches) in size.
I had the same qualm driving the Equinox as I did with the RAV4. For a compact crossover SUV, the Equinox feels clunky and large. I didn't feel like I was getting the real benefit of buying a smaller crossover: enough space for cargo and kids, but with better zip and handling that a mid-size vehicle.
I found this somewhat surprising considering the Equinox is technically smaller than the Nissan Rogue (184.5 inches), but still not as pleasant to drive. While the Rogue and CR-V feel sporty and fun, the Equinox and RAV4 feel heavy.
That heaviness was more apparent on highways when I tried to change lanes or make quick maneuvers. The engine felt like it was struggling whenever I asked for faster performance and, generally speaking, the car felt sluggish. That seems like a problem considering how many affordable crossovers are on the market.
You can get better pep, however, if you spring for the diesel or 2.0-liter engine options. Chevy doesn't provide an acceleration time for the Equinox, but Car and Driver puts the 2.0 liter turbo at an impressive 6.7 seconds, which is notably faster than the CR-V and RAV4. The 1.5-liter comes in at more like 9 seconds.
All that being said, this car beats the CR-V and even the RAV4 when it comes to space. The rear is roomy enough to seat most adults without compromising on trunk space. Dual air conditioning in the back is a nice touch for anyone buying an SUV for road trips or transporting kids.
The seats, which got a fabric upgrade for the 2018 mode, are very cozy without being overly plush. The Nissan Rogue had slightly better back support, but the Equinox doesn't skimp when it comes to comfort. For a trip that spanned several hours, my back wasn't twisted or sore once I stepped out of the car.
For an almost $34,000 car, the Equinox doesn't feel cheap. This SUV was optioned with a leather-wrapped steering wheel, USB ports, and sunroof — all of which make the driving experience feel a little more luxe. But it still comes with the basic necessities you'd expect from an SUV, like cupholders in the front and back and dual-climate control to keep everyone happy.
Here's a close-up of the cupholders and USB slots. That little area near the ports lets you hook up an iPhone — even one as big as the 6S Plus — without worrying about it flying all over the place.
The Equinox has a clean dashboard with an 8-inch touchscreen that's refreshingly simple. It supports Apple CarPlay and Android Auto and also comes with Bluetooth support and Sirius XM Radio. A nice little perk is the 4G WiFi hotspot, which functioned without any connectivity hiccups.
You have to sign up for a data plan to use the 4G hotspot and purchase a Sirius XM subscription after the first three months. So if you want these features, it's worth making a mental note of those additions for your final budget.
Like most cars today, the Equinox comes standard with keyless entry.
It's so small, but the ability to open the door without rummaging for my keys is something I now expect in all cars.
Simply tap the button with the key fob on your person and you're good to go!
The SUV came optioned with safety features like side blind zone alert, rear-cross traffic alert, and rear park assist. All the features work perfectly fine, but it's a shame they aren't standard at this point. There's also no advanced cruise control, which is an option in competitors like the CR-V and RAV4.
Overall, the Equinox is an affordable and sturdy car for an everyday driver looking for a a solid amount of space. It has great mileage and is comfortable enough for a long haul. But it's lacking in some critical aspects (safety, handling) that make other compact crossovers more appealing.
Despite those drawbacks, it's worth keeping the Equinox in mind purely for its OnStar package with 4G connectivity. Those services give the Equinox a serious edge for drivers who take regular road trips or find themselves sitting idle in parking lots waiting for kids. If you're biggest pre-requisites are space and connectivity, this is the right crossover for the job.


The last time I saw Watershed drummer Dave Masica, he was hunched over a cane, shuffling like Willie Wonka at the factory gates. A botched back surgery or three will do that to you. Make it hurt like hell to brush your teeth, let alone play the drum kit. But on Friday, 9/10/10 at the Rumba Cafe, Dave bashed it out like Keith Moon at Leeds, and it was the best thing I've seen and heard in a long time.
For photographic evidence of the show, click HERE.
For in-the-flesh evidence of Dave Masica's rockingness, come to the L.C. on 11/24 for the Andyman-a-Thon Benefit.
Previous Lineup set for Andyman-a-Thon Benefit Show.


A large chip to a floor tile was caused by the installation of a new fridge. This caused a safety risk whilst also ruining the look of the customer's kitchen – replacing this would be costly and inconvenient. Surface Medic's expertise can recreate the finish, style and colour and can blend with the surrounding area.
This lovely fireplace was badly cracked. Surface Medic carried out an effective repair by filling with ceramic fillers and our expert technicians were able to match the colour and pattern for a fantastic finish.
This slate fireplace had suffered burns and stains due to natural wear and tear. Restoration breathed new life into the fireplace giving a clean and fresh look.
One of our technicians based in Colchester was contacted by a local letting agent, Fenn Wright, who needed our expert assistance in restoring a damaged steel and ceramic bath. Baths tend to be big, bulky items that aren't easy or cost-effective to replace but any damage on them is definitely going to be noticed by potential buyers.


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Wolfie makes a big impression and Dennis fires a nine-darter
Martin Adams had the fans howling with delight.
Martin 'Wolfie' Adams was a big hit at the Grand Slam of Darts in Wolverhampton last week.
Not only did the Deeping ace throw some great arrows to reach the last 16 stage but he also went down a bomb with the crowd at the Civic Hall in Wolverhampton. They loved him.
It was Adams' first venture into a 'mixed' event featuring the world's top players from both codes and the three-time Lakeside Champion proved he could mix it with the best the PDC has to offer.
Adams said after his exit at the hands of Belgium's Kim Huybrechts: "I've had an immense time and the crowd have been brilliant.
"I loved it out there and I love playing darts at the moment. I've enjoyed playing more in the last 12 months than I think I ever have done."
Wolfie revelled in the group stages of his first appearance at the cross-code event, winning three out of three, but he was unable to prevail in a dramatic clash with his Belgian opponent.
He led 2-0 after hitting a 12-darter which included two maximums and another pair of 180s in leg four saw him lead 3-1.
Huybrechts, though, took the next five legs without reply to move into a 6-3 lead to turn the game on its head.
But Adams, much to the delight of the crowd, came storming back to level at 7-7.
Finishes of 79 and 70 gave Huybrechts a two-leg advantage but again the BDO stalwart fought back, taking out double 19 and tops to send the game into a decider.
Huybrechts held his nerve as he finished on tops for a 13-darter to finally claim the 10-9 win and end Adams' challenge after one of the best games of the tournament.
Adams said: "Hats off to Kim, he played a great game there and it was a pleasure to play the young man."
Adams hit three ton-plus checkouts (133, 136 and 116) as he beat number eight seed Ian White 5-2 in his opening group match and the 59-year-old finished with an average of 104.82.
He then went on to beat Jelle Klaasen and Steve Beaton by 5-4 margins.
"I was very pleased to win three out of three because I played three great players," said Adams.
"There are no mugs in this competition. They can all do it. If it comes out on the day, any player can win anything."
Dutchman Michael Van Gerwen won the tournament and picked up a winner's cheque for £100,000 with a brilliant 16-13 triumph over Phil Taylor.
NINE-DARTER
Adams' Cambridgeshire team-mate Dennis Harbour, who will be joining Wolfie at the BDO World Championships in January, threw the first ever nine-darter in the Peterborough & District League on Monday night.
Playing for the Post Office, he hit 180, 180, 60, 57 and double 12 against Court's Martin Rowell. He won his other two legs in 15darts and finished with a 38.55 average.
POST OFFICE SINGLES
There are two open singles tournaments at the Post Office Club in Bourges Boulevard this weekend.
Tomorrow there's the usual fortnightly Friday night event (7.45pm) which offers a £50 prize while on Saturday (November 21) there is a charity competition in aid of Cancer Research with a guaranteed £100 prize.
Tomorrow it's the usual 7.45pm start while on Saturday registration is at 11am for a noon start.
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"Black panther" is the popular name for any big cat with melanism, the recessive genetic condition that causes a black coat.
After finding tracks, Pilford setup a Camtraptions Camera Trap for several nights until he captured a pair of eyes surrounded by inky darkness.
Burrard-Lucas, in an interview with The Washington Post, stressed that his photos - along with footage in the same area captured by San Diego Zoo researchers - did announce a breathtaking moment - just not quite the one that was rocketing around social media, fuelled by exaggerated media reports. With their cameras, they caught first photographic evidence of a black leopard in Africa since 1909. The creature is rarely photographed clearly in eastern Africa.
When he returned and scrolled through the images, he spotted a rabbit, a hyena, and finally, the glowing eyes in the darkness of the black leopard slinking through the grass at night.
Burrard-Lucas' images can now be found in the African Journal of Ecology. "The only place where we have black leopards is where this place in the Marvel Universe appears to exist".
Melanism is the opposite of albinism and although leopards affected by the genetic condition have been reported in and around Kenya for decades, a scientific confirmation of their existence has been almost impossible to confirm.
A photo of a rare "black panther" has gone viral and it's really incredible. For example, the researchers noted that a different subspecies of black leopard is much more common than lighter spotted ones in certain parts of Asia.
The Act, passed by Gordon Brown's administration in 2010, requires 21 sitting days before the ratification of any global treaty. It will allow normal transport services to continue for a limited time period to prevent a sudden disruption to services.
The label also is sold at retailers such as Macy's, Zappos and Amazon but the shoes in question are not now available on their websites .
The launch would be Apple's latest push to grow its services revenue with a goal of hitting $50 billion (R687 billion) by 2020. We've appreciated Apple's thoughtfulness and leadership on a number publisher concerns over the past year .
Samsung has also prioritized the security for the users as the Galaxy M10 comes with face recognition unlock feature. There'll either be a 230 mAh or 236 mAh battery and there's expected to be an LTE version of the Active, too.