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Narraguagus High School students (from left) seniors Mya Merritt and Josh Brooks and junior Nick Mathews, are focused on finding local solutions to the whale entanglement issue that threatens the state's lobster industry. PHOTO BY STEPHEN RAPPAPORT
Students share ideas to help boost fishing industry's future
March 13, 2018 by Stephen Rappaport on News, Waterfront
ROCKPORT — Like the invisible at the moment early signs of spring, students from the eight Hancock and Washington County high schools in the Eastern Maine Skippers program gathered at the recent Maine Fishermen's Forum to display the bright greenish edge of the state's rapidly graying fishing industry.
While many of the forum's panel discussions and workshops were laden with scientific expertise and practical experience on and around the water, the Eastern Maine Skippers posited the idea that members of local communities can work together to restore their local fisheries. Dozens of students displayed posters outlining their innovative approaches to the problem and the resolute commitment of the young people from those communities to get something done.
Jonesport-Beals High School students (from left) Bayleigh Alley, Kiley Alley and Skyla Libby, with a poster explaining their idea to establish a retail seafood market to help keep more of the spending on seafood in the local community.
PHOTO BY STEPHEN RAPPAPORT
The students came from as far Downeast as Jonesport, Beals Island and the communities served by Narraguagus High School in Harrington, from the remote offshore islands of Vinalhaven and North Haven — less remote to the Samoset Resort in Rockport, not far from the Rockland Harbor ferry terminal, than to most of Maine — and from Mount Desert Island, Ellsworth, the Blue Hill Peninsula and Deer Isle. All of them were brimming with ideas.
Students from Narraguagus High School in Harrington outlined local approaches to dealing with a problem that occupied a lot of attention at the forum: how to prevent, or at least reduce, interactions between endangered right whales and fishing gear.
A group of girls from Jonesport-Beals High School introduced the idea of bringing a retail fish market to Jonesport, a major fishing harbor that sends virtually everything that crosses the dock out of town as a wholesale product.
Skyla Libby, one of the students involved in the project, said she was absolutely certain there was a large enough population in the area, especially in summer, to sustain a retail market.
A crew from George Stevens Academy in Blue Hill recounted their exploration of how the changes in the region's ecology are affecting the region's alewife fishery — once a significant source of bait for the lobster industry and an important source of food and income to coastal residents.
Bait issues, in fact, occupied the attention of several groups.
Students from Mount Desert Island High School worked on a project tying changes in the herring population to the rising cost of lobster bait and exploring whether "alternative baits' might be an answer.
Seven Jonesport-Beals students, several of whom fish when they're not in school, also focused on ways to improve the availability of bait, a concern shared by a contingent from Ellsworth High School.
The various projects were prepared as parts of the Eastern Maine Skippers program focus on having students identify issues and opportunities in fisheries management or restoration, find a "solution pathway" to the problem they have identified and then work to implement that solution.
The Eastern Maine Skippers Program is a collaborative effort of the Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries based in Stonington and the Hancock county-based Rural Aspirations Project. According to its website, the program's focus is on providing students with the core knowledge and skills needed to participate in co-managed fisheries, working with scientists and regulators to sustain the fisheries they depend upon as well as to run successful and adaptable businesses.


Jim Maddison had been expecting the worst, so when the world is destroyed in a nuclear holocaust, he's made provisions for himself, his daughter Louise and their friend Rick. They have enough supplies to last until the radiation abates but Jim's plans go awry with the unexpected arrival of Tony Lamont and his girlfriend Ruby. Not only does it affect the supply situation but Tony is far too slick and a schemer to be trusted. As the weeks go by however, they soon realize that they also have to face a mutated creature living in the nearby woods.
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The terrifying story that COULD COME TRUE!
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Let's see what he's got.
There is a great deal of commentary, some of it hysterical, about a short memo authored by Republican staffers on the House Intelligence Committee under the direction of Chairman Devin Nunes (R., Calif.). The memo is said to be about Obama-era abuses of the executive branch's surveillance authorities under federal law — specifically, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The contents of the memo are not yet known to the public, so the commentary is the familiar game of shaping reaction to it.
The Republican script is that this was "Watergate on steroids." The Democratic counter is that the memo is a one-sided partisan summary that takes investigative actions out of context in order to make mountains out of molehills. Unless and until we can read the document, we cannot make a judgment about which of these assessments is true, or at least closer to the truth. We can, however, make some observations about the controversy.
The most common complaint is that the memo represents the Republican slant on a dispute that should be above politics. (Yeah, yeah, I know . . . but stop snickering.) Now, maybe the memo will read like sheer propaganda, but this seems highly doubtful. There are extremely good reasons for Nunes and his staff to create a summary, and very easy ways for Democrats to remedy anything that is arguably misleading, so the "one-sidedness" objection appears overblown.
‐Were associates of President Trump, members of his campaign, or even Trump himself, subjected to foreign-intelligence surveillance (i.e., do the FISA applications name them as either targets or persons whose communications and activities would likely be monitored)?
‐Was information from the Steele dossier used in FISA applications?
‐If Steele-dossier information was so used, was it so central that FISA warrants would not have been granted without it?
‐If Steele-dossier information was so used, was it corroborated by independent FBI investigation?
‐If the dossier's information was so used, was the source accurately conveyed to the court so that credibility and potential bias could be weighed (i.e., was the court told that the information came from an opposition-research project sponsored by the Clinton presidential campaign)?
‐The FBI has said that significant efforts were made to corroborate Steele's sensational claims, yet former director James Comey has acknowledged (in June 2017 Senate testimony) that the dossier was "unverified." If the dossier was used in FISA applications in 2016, has the Justice Department — consistent with its continuing duty of candor in dealings with the tribunal — alerted the court that it did not succeed in verifying Steele's hearsay reporting based on anonymous sources?
These are not questions that call for nuanced explanation. These things either happened or didn't. To provide simple answers to these straightforward questions would not be a one-sided partisan exercise, even if the person providing the answers happened to be a partisan.
FISA proceedings are classified, and applications for surveillance warrants from the FISA court typically include information from classified sources — informants who spy at great risk to themselves, intelligence techniques (e.g., covert surveillance), etc. Disclosing such applications and/or the underlying intelligence reporting on which they are based could thus jeopardize lives, national security, and other important American interests.
So, far from being unconventional, the preparation of a summary is a routine and sensible way of handling the complicated tension between the need for information and accountability, on the one hand, and the imperative of protecting intelligence, on the other.
As with any summary, there is always a danger of its being misleading. This, too, is a recurring problem in judicial proceedings, where the need to boil voluminous information down to its essence is obvious. The problem is solved by the so-called rule of completeness: If a party contends that his adversary is taking information out of context or otherwise omitting essential details necessary to an accurate understanding of a document, the party may propose that the necessary context or details be included. An example: Smith tells the police, "I was in the bank but I didn't rob it." At the trial, the prosecutor disingenuously suggests to the jury that Smith was implicitly admitting guilt when he told the police "I was in the bank" the day it was robbed. Smith would then be entitled to introduce his complete statement — the "but I didn't rob it" portion is necessary to the jury's understanding that, far from implicitly admitting guilt, Smith explicitly denied guilt.
Conforming to House rules, Chairman Nunes has taken pains to make his memo available to all members of Congress before proceeding with the steps necessary to seek its disclosure.
Conforming to House rules, Chairman Nunes has taken pains to make his memo available to all members of Congress before proceeding with the steps necessary to seek its disclosure. Thus, lawmakers have an opportunity to propose the inclusion of details that may be necessary to correct any misimpressions; or Democrats could prepare their own summary in an effort to demonstrate Nunes's partisan spin. Congressman Nunes is a smart guy, and he clearly knows he will look very foolish if he plays fast and loose with the facts. It is in his interest not to do that, and the careful way he has gone about complying with the rules — rather than leaking classified information, as Trump's opponents have been wont to do — suggests that his memo will prove to be a fair representation of the underlying information.
On that last point, it would be hard to imagine a more one-sided partisan screed than the Steele dossier. Democrats seem to have had no hesitation about using it as a summary of purported Trump collusion with Russia.
The Justice Department and the FBI are reportedly angry that, after they complied with the Intelligence Committee's demand that they make classified and investigative materials available for inspection, Nunes will not permit the FBI to inspect his memo summarizing that information before moving to disclose it. The irony here is rich.
These executive-branch agencies did not cooperatively comply with congressional investigators; they stonewalled for five months. To this day they are stonewalling: Just this weekend, they belatedly fessed up that the FBI had failed to preserve five months' worth of text messages — something they had to have known for months. An American who impeded a federal investigation the way federal investigators are impeding congressional investigations would swiftly find himself in legal jeopardy.
Moreover, it is not like the Justice Department and FBI did Nunes a favor and are thus in a position to impose conditions; Congress is entitled to the information it has sought in its oversight capacity. There is no Justice Department or FBI in the Constitution; while these agencies are part of the executive branch, they are creatures of statute. Congress created them, they are dependent on Congress for funding, and Congress has a constitutional obligation to perform oversight to ensure that the mission they are carrying out — with taxpayer support and under statutory restrictions — is being carried out appropriately.
Republicans tend to be favorably disposed toward law enforcement's preferences. They would surely have preferred to have non-confrontational interactions with vital executive agencies led by Republican appointees of a Republican president. Indeed, most Republicans are puzzled by the lack of cooperation — by the failure of the White House to direct the president's subordinates to comply with congressional requests for information about potential abuses of power carried out under the prior, Democratic administration.
This is a reciprocal business. If the Justice Department and FBI want accommodations, they have to exhibit cooperation — do the little things, like maybe remember that congressional subpoenas are lawful demands, not suggestions or pleas. On the record thus far, the committee has every reason to believe that submitting the Nunes memo for review by the Justice Department and FBI will result in more delay and foot-dragging. Clearly, there is a strategy to slow-walk compliance in hopes that events — such as, say, a midterm-election victory that returns the House to Democratic control — will abort congressional investigations of the investigators.
Nunes is wise not to play into that strategy. As he knows, if the House ultimately moves to declassify and publicize information, the chamber's rules require giving the president five days' notice. (See Congressional Research Service, "The Protection of Classified Information: The Legal Framework" page 3 and note 23.) Thus, the Justice Department and FBI will have an opportunity to both review the memo and try to persuade the president to oppose disclosure. There's no reason to hold up the works at this point.
Finally, committee Democrats and other critics contend that Chairman Nunes is engaged in a stunt designed to discredit Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, or at least distract attention from its subject matter — Russia's interference in the 2016 election. These transparently political claims are ill-conceived.
The memo reportedly addresses an issue that is at least as significant as election meddling by Russia and suspected but unproven Trump-campaign collusion in it, namely: election meddling by the intelligence and law-enforcement arms of government and Clinton-campaign collusion in it. The latter issue involves conduct that predates Mueller's investigation by more than two years — Hillary Clinton's criminal conduct having been exposed in March 2015.
If the principal basis for the allegation that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia were shown to be the shoddy, unverified Steele dossier, this allegation would be discredited.
Let's assume for a moment, and for argument's sake, that there were irregularities in the Obama-era investigation of Trump associates (perhaps including Trump himself). This would discredit Mueller's investigation only to the extent it is established that the premise of that investigation is traceable to those irregularities. For example, if the principal basis for the allegation that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia were shown to be the shoddy, unverified Steele dossier, this allegation would be discredited — and deservedly so. To the contrary, if it turns out that there are other legitimate grounds for suspecting Trump-campaign collusion in Russian activity that violated American law, those would plainly merit investigation — although we ought to be told what they are.
Moreover, it would remain perfectly legitimate to investigate Russia's interference in the 2016 election — the counterintelligence purpose that the Justice Department told us was the principal reason for appointing a special counsel. Of course, as we've covered many times (see, e.g., here), there are independent reasons for discrediting Mueller's appointment on this score: (a) The appointment was unnecessary because counterintelligence investigations are not prosecutor work and ordinarily do not have a prosecutor assigned because the aim is not to develop a criminal prosecution; and (b) the appointment was improper because the Justice Department is supposed to specify a crime that has triggered the need for a special counsel, and that was never done here.
Still, my objections on these grounds notwithstanding, the stubborn facts remain that Mueller has been appointed and Russian interference in our election is a worthy subject for investigation.
To the extent Democrats and their media friends caterwaul that the Nunes memo "distracts" from concerns about Russia, this brings us to a longstanding complaint among national-security-minded conservatives: We were warning about Russian perfidy long before the Democrats jumped aboard that bandwagon for patently political reasons. It has always been partisan hackery to mark acceptance of the "Trump collusion" narrative as the price of admission for taking threats posed by Russia seriously.
The moment that the "collusion with Russia" narrative is no longer politically viable (and we may be nearing that point if the Steele dossier is its foundation), Democrats will return to their default appeasement mode and goofy "Reset" buttons. But in the meantime, investigating Russia's provocations will still be a worthy exercise. And even if there was no need to appoint a special counsel to lead such an investigation, Mueller has been working the issue and his conclusions should prove valuable. They will not rise or fall on the question of whether Obama-era executive agencies abused their powers.
There is no problem a priori with the fact that Nunes's memo is a summary prepared by Republican members of the Intelligence Committee's professional staff. There is no need to delay its release by permitting the FBI and Justice Department to vet it; they will have that opportunity in any event when the president is given five days to weigh in on whether the memo should be disclosed. And complaints that the memo is a distraction intended to discredit Mueller's investigation are meritless political talking points.
Republicans have made extravagant corruption claims in recent days; if the memo does not bear them out, many a face will be covered in egg.
Democrats contend that Chairman Nunes is engaged in a partisan stunt. The allegation that the Obama administration put the law-enforcement and intelligence arms of the federal government in the service of the Clinton campaign to undermine the Trump campaign is, they maintain, an overwrought conspiracy theory. If that is true, then Democrats — who have had the opportunity to review the memo — should be clamoring for it to be disclosed, not fighting its release. After all, Republicans have made extravagant corruption claims in recent days; if the memo does not bear them out, many a face will be covered in egg.
No one is more aware of this than Congressman Nunes. He is pressing ahead nonetheless. So . . . let's see what he's got.


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I Campionati del mondo di triathlon del 1991 (III edizione) si sono tenuti a Gold Coast, Australia in data 13 ottobre 1991.

Tra gli uomini ha vinto l'australiano Miles Stewart, mentre la gara femminile è andata alla canadese Joanne Ritchie.

La gara junior ha visto trionfare il canadese Eric Myllimaki e per la seconda volta consecutiva la tedesca Sonja Krolik.

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Élite uomini

Élite donne

Junior uomini

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Q: Rails 3.1.2: Set association without saving I want to set an association on an activerecord object without having that association be persisted, so that what I've just set it to is returned when I invoke the association method. Is there a nice way of doing that?
Example:
class Bar < ActiveRecord::Base
   has_many :foos
end

class Foo < ActiveRecord::Base
   belongs_to :bar
end

this_bar = Bar.find(1)
this_foo = Foo.find(1)

this_bar.foos = [this_foo] # This performs a save, which I don't want
this_bar.foos #=> should return [this_foo]
# further computation #

(What I'm trying to achieve is allow the user to see a "preview" of what the object will look like after update, but still give the option to cancel out the update.)

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Biegel GM, Brown KW, Shapiro SL, Schubert CM. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for the treatment of adolescent psychiatric outpatients: A randomized clinical trial. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 2009;77:855–866.
Bohlmeijer, Ernst, Rilana Prenger, Erik Taal, and Pim Cuijpers. "The effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction therapy on mental health of adults with a chronic medical disease: a meta-analysis." Journal of psychosomatic research68, no. 6 (2010): 539-544.
Brown, Kirk Warren, and Richard M. Ryan. "The benefits of being present: mindfulness and its role in psychological well-being." Journal of personality and social psychology 84, no. 4 (2003): 822.
Burcusa SL, Iacano WG. Risk of recurrence in depression. Clinical Psychology Review. 2007;27:959-985.
Cavanagh K, Strauss C, Forder L, Jones F. Can mindfulness and acceptance be learnt by self-help?: A systematic review and meta-analysis of mindfulness and acceptance-based self-help interventions. Clinical Psychology Review. 2014;34:118–129.
Chiesa A, Serretti A. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for stress management in healthy people: A review and meta-analysis. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. 2009;15(5):593-600.
Crane, RS, Kuyken W. The implementation of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: Learning from the
UK Health Service experience. Mindfulness. 2012;4 246–254.
Grossman, Paul, Ludger Niemann, Stefan Schmidt, and Harald Walach. "Mindfulness-based stress reduction and health benefits: A meta-analysis."Journal of psychosomatic research 57, no. 1 (2004): 35-43.
Halliwell E. Mindfulness Report. Mental Health Foundation: 2010.
Hofmann, Stefan G., Alice T. Sawyer, Ashley A. Witt, and Diana Oh. "The effect of mindfulness-based therapy on anxiety and depression: A meta-analytic review." Journal of consulting and clinical psychology 78, no. 2 (2010): 169.
Ledesma, Dianne, and Hiroaki Kumano. "Mindfulness‐based stress reduction and cancer: a meta‐analysis." Psycho‐Oncology 18, no. 6 (2009): 571-579.
McCrone P, Dhanasiri S, Patel A, Knapp M, Lawton-Smith S. Paying the price: The cost of mental health care in England to 2026. London: King's Fund; 2008.
McManus F, Surawy C, Muse K, Vazquez-Montes M, & Williams JMG. A randomized clinical trial of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy versus unrestricted services for health anxiety (hypochondriasis). Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 2012; 80:817–28.
Piet J, Hougaard E. The effect of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for prevention of relapse in recurrent major depressive disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Clinical Psychology Review. 2011;31:1032–40.
Shapiro, Shauna L., Kirk Warren Brown, and Gina M. Biegel. "Teaching self-care to caregivers: effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction on the mental health of therapists in training." Training and Education in Professional Psychology 1, no. 2 (2007): 105.
Spek AA, van Ham N C, Nyklícek I. Mindfulness-based therapy in adults with an autism spectrum disorder: a randomized controlled trial. Research in Developmental Disabilities. 2013; 34:246–53.
Strauss C, Cavanagh K, Oliver A, Pettman D. Mindfulness-based interventions for people diagnosed with a current episode of an anxiety or depressive disorder: A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. 2014; PLoS One 9:e96110.
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MI Director Jamie Bristow was asked to comment by The Guardian newspaper on the success of mindfulness programme trials in the UK police force. These results are great news for service commissioners seeking to fund training for frontline public services.
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On June 24-26 2020, the Danish Center for Mindfulness, Aarhus University, will host the biennial International Conference on Mindfulness. Keynote speakers include Prof Rhonda McGee, Dr. Sarah Lazar, Prof Willem Kuyken and Jamie Bristow.
Briefing Paper on Mindfulness-Based Alternatives to Long-Term Prescription Drugs
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Launch of the Fieldbook for Mindfulness Innovators
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For now, Silvan lies asleep as usual, threaded with tubes and wires and the medical tape that holds it all in place. He is five days old, and nothing has changed. We have a plan, but Dr. A still wants us to wait, as if we ourselves might change. Silvan has not opened his eyes since his first night of life; a fat tube in the mouth helps him breathe; thin tubes give him fluids and medicine. To help us hold him, nurses transfer him with all his equipment onto a pillow, and then pass the pillow to us. For all of this, Silvan seems sweetly asleep. He has the flushed cheeks and lips of a baby who has just finished nursing. He keeps his two little fists curled up, one on either side of his face, the way I do sometimes in bed because I find it comforting. I watch him lying calmly on a pillow in my brother Kim's lap.
Now at last when we have made our decision, there is time just to mother Silvan.
At the next bed, a mother and grandmother of a baby who is ready to go home sit silent as always, taking turns feeding and burping their baby. They seem self-conscious about speaking to him in the silly way that people usually speak to babies. The only words they speak are to each other. Perhaps they will be less self-conscious once they get him home alone but I doubt it. Although they were told weeks before that he was ready, the mother is afraid. Afraid that he will choke on his food at home and die. Perhaps he is brain damaged too. I smile at them and turn to my baby who will never go home.
With Silvan on Kim's lap, I find I can reach his little face through his equipment more easily than I can when he's on my own. I bend to kiss his forehead, then his nose, then the space by his ear that is free of medical tape. And then I cannot stop. I kiss the front of his neck below the breathing tube, those warm wrinkles, and the side of his neck, so smooth, so smooth, and his shoulder, and the creases at the edge of his armpit and across his naked sternum and down towards his belly button, all the while making smacking noises, eating him up.
When I raise my head I am renewed as if, after hours on the trail, I have found water. But Kim is inscrutable. A distant smile on his face. I think of the kisses I gave him, kisses just like these, when he was a baby newly arrived from Korea. I think of his birth mother, too, wondering if she kissed him like this, the newborn she was about to let go. If so, I feel linked to her pain.
The mother and grandmother at the next crib stare in surprise.
"That was quite a kiss," the grandmother says.
"Well, once I started I couldn't stop," I say.
My time is limited. This is a mother's love distilled.


Today I am featuring my birthday page inspired by the layout at CSI. I just loved the great colors and I found the perfect kit in my stash to get me started on the challenge .
Happy Birthday to my son. And after eating cake its time for presents and Dad to put together toys. Its all about the train at that age – Thomas the Train that is!!! Let the Party begin.
Base page printed with a great birthday image. Birthday son on the border.
Torn printed paper on the left side.
Birthday banner and word stickers from the kit.
My title – Happy Birthday!
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First Milk on the road to recovery, says boss
First Milk's chairman and interim CEO Bill Mustoe has insisted the company is "in the recovery pattern" and is well placed for a stable and successful future.
In his first major interview since joining the company in October, Mustoe told The Grocer that a number of steps had been taken to improve the fortunes of the farmer-owned co-op, which posted a £10m pre-tax loss and a 3% fall in turnover to £582m in its most recent results, for the year to 31 March 2009.
Mustoe said he had implemented a series of 30, 60 and 90-day plans to address cost, sales and distribution issues. First Milk also cashed in £18.8m of shares in Robert Wiseman Dairies last month, earmarking the money for the loss-making cheese division.
"We are doing an awful lot to improve our trading position," said Mustoe. "We must improve the quality and sustainability of our earnings. Normally you get one or two years to do this, but we must run faster."
He revealed he had already met 700 of the co-op's 2,500 farmers since joining and described their mood as "angry" at First Milk's 4.25ppl farmgate milk price cut over the past year.
"With normal shareholders, if the dividend goes down it's not life-changing, but if the milk price goes down it plays with members' lives," he said. "They were concerned not enough was being done to improve the business. We were off the pace as far as they were concerned and there are some very raw nerves around."
Extra scrutiny was being put on the co-operative production model since the collapse of Dairy Farmers of Britain, Mustoe conceded. But First Milk's balance sheet was strong, he said, with £60m of net assets and a £35m stake still retained in Wiseman.
Although he did not rule out a resurrection of merger talks with Milk Link, which collapsed in early 2008, Mustoe said other issues were more pressing. "We have a lot of work to do internally to get ourselves in a stronger position before we think about things like that."
First Milk bullish after unveiling first-half turnaround
First Milk turned a 9m loss in the first half of last year into a 3.2m profit for the equivalent period this term.
Wiseman denies link to profit warning as Tesco joins milk war
One of Tesco s biggest milk suppliers has insisted that a profits warning issued on Thursday was unrelated to Tesco s decision this week to go head to head with Asda on retail milk prices for the first time.
Cost-cutting tactics help First Milk return to profit
First Milk has turned the corner having converted last year's 9.9m loss into a profit in its latest results.


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Missouri Independent Send an email April 29, 2021Last Updated: April 29, 2021
The Missouri Senate voted against funding Medicaid expansion, after a debate Wednesday night that will not be the final word on whether 275,000 Missourians become eligible for coverage on July 1.
By a 14-20 vote, with four Republicans breaking ranks with the rest of their party, the Senate rejected an amendment to the Department of Mental Health budget offered by Senate Minority Leader John Rizzo, D-Independence. Soon after, an amendment to the medical services provided through the Department of Social Services was defeated by a similar vote.
The Senate completed work on its $35.1 billion spending plan for the year that begins July 1 after midnight after roughly eight hours of debate. It must be reconciled with the House version, which plans the spending of $32 billion, by May 7.
With the action, the Senate aligned its version of the Medicaid budget with the House plan adopted in March on the biggest spending issue of the year. The next move is up to Gov. Mike Parson's administration, which is directed by the state constitution to provide coverage starting July 1.
Missouri Senate Minority Leader John Rizzo, D-Independence
Parson's office did not respond immediately to an email sent after the vote asking whether it would accept applications and provide coverage absent specific appropriations to implement the section added to the constitution in August.
The debate compressed a decade-long argument into two hours, and every element familiar to long-time observers — moral, economic and social — was aired. But little changed in the familiar alignment, with badly outnumbered Democrats solidly in favor joined by a small group of Republicans, and the majority of GOP lawmakers opposed.
"You will see hospitals come back to rural Missouri," Rizzo said. "You will see more nurses. You will see more doctors."
Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Dan Hegeman, R-Cosby, said that the cost of the current Medicaid program had increased rapidly in recent years and that new obligations would add to the burden.
He acknowledged that Missouri was in good financial shape now, with a historic general revenue surplus.
"Nearly everyone in this room is familiar with a time when the state's financial situation is not what it is today," Hegeman said. "My fear about passing expansion is not about what it would do to the state's budget this year, but what implementation of expansion might do in years to come."
The most personal moment came when Sen. Barbara Washington, D-Kansas City, talked about the death of her brother nine days earlier. He returned to the United States from Qatar, where he had insurance, ill with colon cancer, to be at the high school graduation of his twin children.
He was hospitalized a day after his return, she said. He was eligible for Medicare and was waiting to be approved. He was given emergency Medicaid, she said.
"If not for Medicaid my brother would have died on the street," Washington said.
Prior to the August 2020 vote, accepting the deal offered by the Affordable Care Act for the federal treasury to pay 90 percent of the cost to cover working-age adults was a policy choice.
Now it is a constitutional directive, and at a rally on Tuesday, Democrats vowed they would use the courts to order Parson's administration to provide coverage.
The likelihood the courts would do so was enough for Senate Majority Leader Caleb Rowden, R-Columbia. He said he expects the courts to tell the state to provide coverage like it does for every other eligibility category.
Rowden voted for Rizzo's amendment.
"I believe the court can do that," he said. "I believe the court will do that. And when they do, folks in the expansion threshold will be allowed to apply and we will be presented with a very, very large supplemental budget in October, or November, or December."
And some Republicans opposed to expansion made it clear that they relish the chance to test the legislature's power over appropriations in court.
Sen. Bob Onder, R-Lake St. Louis, cited the constitution's ban on initiatives that appropriate revenue without providing a source of money.
He said he would not "let my decision, my vote, be governed by my fear…about what some black-robed tyrant might decide."
The basics of the new eligibility would be coverage for working-age adults who earn up to 138 percent of the federal poverty guideline, or $17,774 a year for a single person. That is equal to working about 33 hours a week at the state minimum wage of $10.30 per hour. For a household of four, the limit is $36,570, the income of one person working full at $17.58 an hour or two people working a combined 68 hours a week at minimum wage.
During the debate, Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chairman Lincoln Hough, R-Springfield, laid out the economic argument. The state can afford the additional expense because it has a historic general revenue surplus and has banked $500 million from supplemental federal Medicaid support for the COVID-19 pandemic.
In addition, he said Missouri should act to get the $1.2 billion in additional support for its traditional Medicaid program only available if it expands Medicaid eligibility.
"I believe in my heart," Hough said, "it is the right thing to do."
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This award conducted by Exame magazine recognizes the companies with best performance on Environment, Social and Corporate Governance initiatives
Regarded as a global electric and electronic equipment reference, with a focus on electric motors and drives, energy generators and transformers, products and systems for electrification, automation and digitalization, WEG was ranked among Exame Magazine's ESG Best Award, which recognizes companies for their best environmental, social and corporate governance initiatives in 17 different economy sectors.
Created in 2000, with the name EXAME Guide for Convenient Corporate Governance, the ESG´s Best is the main guide on conscious, more humanistic and inclusive capitalism, towards a circular and collaborative economy. To take part of the award, all companies went through a rigorous evaluation process developed by ABC Associates in conjunction of a team of journalists from EXAME. The ESG Best Award considered the main environmental, social and corporate governance practices, in addition to the companies' commitment to stakeholder capitalism in Brazil.
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Orders of the Day — Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill (5 Jul 2005)
Ed Miliband: I am listening carefully to the right hon. Gentleman's speech and I feel that he is tilting at a straw man—the straw man of completely open borders. I do not think that either side of the House advocates the extreme position that he is taking in his argument.
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Ed Miliband: I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way again. The question is whether we set an arbitrary limit, which is the idea of a quota, or whether we have an approach, such as the set of policies that the Government propose, so as to shape the number of people who come into the country—something that can be reconsidered and revised. I do not see an inconsistency in our position.
Ed Miliband: I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way, but not for the manner in which he did it. I want to make a comparison with the late 1980s and early 1990s, when we saw a tightening labour market, leading to inflation taking off—I genuinely say this in a non-partisan way—and all the consequent problems that we saw in our economy. Does he not think that the continued buoyancy of...
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Ed Miliband: We all acknowledge the problems of housing, education and health that the right hon. Gentleman mentions, but it is a grotesque caricature to suggest that they are the result of asylum and immigration. The asylum budget consumes 0.3 per cent. of public expenditure. If the right hon. Gentleman wants to lead the major Opposition party in this House, he must put his claims in context.
Ed Miliband: I was not actually bowing to the right hon. Gentleman but to you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I take what the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden (David Davis) says about a limit, but I disagree with him about imposing an annual limit and I shall briefly tell him why. Setting an annual limit is a dirigiste system where the state decides on the number of people to be let in each year. What...
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European Union (30 Jun 2005)
Ed Miliband: Does my right hon. Friend agree that during our presidency our message should be that where we seek economic flexibility we do so not at the price of fairness but as a route and accompaniment to it, and that we in the UK are building our own version of a social model, drawing on good practice in Europe and elsewhere? Finally, I should like to tell my right hon. Friend that Doncaster will...
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Ed Miliband: I thank my hon. and learned Friend for his attention in the past few days to the case of John Barrett, who was given a life sentence for the manslaughter of Denis Finnegan, who lived in my constituency. Does he agree that the criminal justice system owes a massive apology to the Finnegan family for a systemic failure that meant that they were not told for two months about the halving of Mr....
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GM survey: James Harden forces most adjustments of any NBA player
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All-Star guard and perennial MVP finalist James Harden forces the most adjustments by opposing coaches of any NBA player, according to NBA.com's 2020-21 "GM Survey" of the league's general managers.
Harden has led the NBA in scoring for the last three years, and he's more than 35 points per game over the last two seasons, combined. Yet, on top of his gifts and unique style as a scorer, Harden is also an able and willing passer, as evidenced by his 7.5 assists per game over that time.
Harden came in first in "forces the most adjustments" with 32 percent of the vote from GMs, edging out No. 2 finisher LeBron James (29 percent).
Which player forces opposing coaches to make the most adjustments?
1. James Harden, Houston – 32% https://t.co/SPHHnL1aem
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Harden also came in first among GMs in the "best shooting guard" category, with 68 percent of the vote. One reason that Harden didn't have an even higher percentage is because he also received votes in the "best point guard" category, with some GMs viewing him as a point guard, first.
Veteran teammate PJ Tucker came in second in the "toughest NBA player" question, trailing only rugged center Steven Adams of the New Orleans Pelicans. Elsewhere, John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins each received votes as "most underrated player acquisition" from the 2020 offseason.
The complete NBA.com survey can be read here.
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UFC 34: High Voltage è stato un evento di arti marziali miste tenuto dalla Ultimate Fighting Championship il 2 novembre 2001 all'MGM Grand Garden Arena di Las Vegas, Stati Uniti.

Retroscena
È l'evento che vide l'esordio di Frank Mir, futuro campione dei pesi massimi.

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Card preliminare
 Incontro categoria Pesi Massimi:  Frank Mir contro  Roberto Traven
Mir sconfisse Traven per sottomissione (armbar) a 1:02 del primo round.
 Incontro categoria Pesi Medi:  Matt Lindland contro  Phil Baroni
Lindland sconfisse Baroni per decisione di maggioranza.
 Incontro categoria Pesi Mediomassimi:  Evan Tanner contro  Homer Moore
Tanner sconfisse Moore per sottomissione (armbar) a 0:55 del secondo round.

Card principale
 Incontro categoria Pesi Massimi:  Josh Barnett contro  Bobby Hoffman
Barnett sconfisse Hoffman per sottomissione (pugni) a 4:25 del secondo round.
 Incontro categoria Pesi Leggeri:  B.J. Penn contro  Caol Uno
Penn sconfisse Uno per KO (pugni) a 0:11 del primo round.
 Incontro per il titolo dei Pesi Welter:  Carlos Newton (c) contro  Matt Hughes
Hughes sconfisse Newton per KO (body slam) a 1:23 del secondo round e divenne il nuovo campione dei pesi welter.
 Incontro categoria Pesi Massimi:  Ricco Rodriguez contro  Pete Williams
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 Incontro per il titolo dei Pesi Massimi:  Randy Couture (c) contro  Pedro Rizzo
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Aurivo is facing a storm of criticism following the announcement that the Co-operative is switching its butter packing operations from Achonry to Ornua, a new plant developed by the Irish Dairy Board in Cork.
The decision, which potentially is set to affect the jobs of some twenty workers at the existing south Sligo butter plant, has been attacked by both Fianna Fail and Fine Gael Oireachtas members, but most hotly of all by south Sligo-based Independent councillor, Margaret Gormley. Interviewed by Ocean FM Radio, Gormley condemned the move as one where, she claimed, local workers were once again suffering in the name of cost savings.
She said, "It appears that this is the norm for this organisation; move everything out of south Sligo and the area," where, she went on, the co-operative was originally established.
Questioning if this was reducing costs for the company, she said "to me, this is another example of staff taking the price for previous transactions.
Fianna Fail Senator, Marc MacSharry said he was "devastated" by the news. However, it looks that Party leader, Michael Martin, who visited locations throughout the county during the weekend, made no comment to media on the jobs at risk in Achonry, nor does he seem to have met directors, staff or shareholders during the visit.
From what we understand of it, however, the Aurivo Achonry operation is being subsumed in Ornua, an Irish Dairy Board sponsored state-of-the-art butter manufacturing facility erected at the Dairygold site in Mitchelstown. The chairman of the Ornua development is Aaron Forde, the current Chief Executive of Aurivo. Mayo-based John Comer, President of the Irish Creamery Suppliers Association, is a board director of Ornua.
Ms. Rodgers, when asked, said she didn't know when the decision to transfer the Achonry operation to Mitchelstown was made by the Directors of the Aurivo board. The board of Aurivo is made up of 16 members nominated by the co-operative's sixteen advisory committees. Advisory committees are bodies made up of a minimum of 12 and not more than 24 members elected to represent suppliers/shareholders. It is believed that directors are required to sign a confidentiality agreement on appointment. The company reputedly has upwards of 10,000 shareholders, 950 suppliers and employs more than 650 workers across all sectors.
Sligo News File understands that a meeting of the Achonry advisory committee was convened at 4 pm on last Friday following a notice circulated to members just that morning. Anger is said to have flared over the termination of the local butter packing operation, its removal to Mitchelstown and the future of the 20 workers involved. It doesn't appear that Achonry or any of the advisory committees were informed of the plans for the butter wrapping facility until after the decision to turn it over to Cork was made.
According to sources, Mr. Forde was among key Aurivo figures present at the meeting in Cawley's Hotel, Tubbercurry. Sources have indicated that the meeting heard Aurivo has invested €2.5million towards capital costs in the state sponsored Cork-based Ornua plant. Whether the Achonry packing plant is incurring losses isn't clear.
Under the new arrangement, cream from milk provided by farmers in Connaught, and churned in the Aurivo plant in Ballaghaderreen, will be transported to Mitchelstown for the making and packing of the Connacht Gold butter brand. In other words, Connacht Gold will be produced by a Munster-based plant. The Munster made product will then be transported back to south Sligo for storage and distribution in Achonry.
Meanwhile, says the company, Aurivo will maintain its butter making operations at Ballaghaderreen.
A campaign last year seeking to persuade Aurivo to retain its head office in Tubbercurry was rejected by the company. It is believed its vacated Tubbercurry premises have now been leased to the town's Chamber of Commerce for three years. The government is reportedly considering representations to fund the development of an enterprise at the building.
Achonry was established by local farmers more than a century ago, in 1897.


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O Centro Cultural Kirchner é o maior centro cultural da América Latina e o terceiro maior do mundo. Foi inaugurado em 21 de maio de 2015 pela presidente Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, e está instalado no antigo palácio sede do Correio Central de Buenos Aires. Recebe esse nome em homenagem ao ex-presidente argentino Néstor Kirchner.

O prédio, que teve seu projeto de construção aprovado em 1888 pelo presidente Miguel Juárez Celman, é classificado como um dos Monumentos Históricos Nacionais da Argentina pela sua arquitetura e obras de arte existentes no local. Teve como arquiteto o francês Norbert Maillart.

O espaço possui nove andares, e conta com uma sala de concertos; 5 auditórios para teatro e concertos; 18 salas para leituras de poesia, arte performática e outros eventos; 40 salas de galerias de arte e história, totalizando 15.000 metros quadrados em seis andares; 16 salas de ensaio; e dois terraços na cobertura.

É possível chegar ao local pelas linhas B e E do Metro de Buenos Aires, nas estações  Leandro N. Alem e Correo Central, respectivamente.

História
A necessidade de um novo prédio dos correios em Buenos Aires foi levantada pela primeira vez em 1888, pelo diretor do Correo Argentino na época, Ramón J. Cárcano. Nesse mesmo ano, um projeto de lei do Congresso que previa a sua construção foi assinado pelo presidente Miguel Juárez Celman. O Ministério das Obras Públicas designou um terreno de 12.500 m² na esquina das avenidas Leandro Além e Corrientes para a construção do prédio, e encomendou o arquiteto francês Norbert Maillart para a sua concepção.

O cenário grandioso do prédio levou o Presidente Juan Perón mover seus escritórios para este edifício durante os primeiros anos de seu mandato (1946-1955). O prédio serviu também como sede da Fundação Eva Perón. Durante o boom automobilístico da Argentina, a praça em frente à agência de correios foi transformada em um estacionamento. Em 1983, o estacionamento volta a ser uma praça. O edifício foi designado um Monumento Histórico Nacional em 1997. A maior parte de suas atividades postais foram transferidas para uma estrutura mais recente durante a administração de Perón, restando somente serviços de correio internacional; Em 2005, seu último departamento postal foi fechado.

Aproximando-se as comemorações do Bicentenário Revolução de Maio, o governo nacional decidiu instalar no edifício histórico o Centro Cultural Bicentenário e convocou, em 2006, um concurso internacional para decidir a elaboração do novo projeto. No concurso foram apresentadas mais de 340 empresas de arquitetura de mais de 20 países. O primeiro prêmio foi atribuído em novembro do mesmo ano, por decisão unânime do júri, aos escritórios de arquitetura B4FS e Becker-Ferrari. O trabalho de restauro começou no início de 2010 e sua abertura final foi realizada em 21 de maio de 2015 pela Presidente Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, como parte das celebrações da Revolução de Maio.

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Ligações externas
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from flask_assistant.utils import get_assistant
from tests.helpers import build_payload, get_query_response

def test_hello_world_greeting(hello_world_assist):
    client = hello_world_assist.app.test_client()
    payload = build_payload("greeting")
    resp = get_query_response(client, payload)
    assert "male or female" in resp["fulfillmentText"]

def test_hello_world_give_gender(hello_world_assist):
    client = hello_world_assist.app.test_client()
    payload = build_payload("give-gender", params={"gender": "male"})
    resp = get_query_response(client, payload)
    assert "Sup bro" in resp["fulfillmentText"]
    assert "What is your favorite color?" in resp["fulfillmentText"]

def test_hello_world_give_color(hello_world_assist):
    client = hello_world_assist.app.test_client()
    payload = build_payload("give-color", params={"color": "blue"})
    resp = get_query_response(client, payload)

    assert "Ok, blue is an okay" in resp["fulfillmentText"]

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Агроте́хніка, сільськогосподарська технологія () — система прийомів вирощування сільськогосподарських культур. Рівень агротехніки визначається ступенем розвитку суспільства; кожній історичній епосі, кожному суспільному ладу властива своя агротехніка.

Історія
В епоху первісного суспільства агротехніка була основана на примітивних знаряддях ручної праці (мотика, серп). Це був період т. з. ручного, мотичного землеробства. За античних часів розвинутих рабовласницьких господарств виникли знаряддя, які приводилися в дію за допомогою тварин (соха, плуг). В цю епоху було розроблено ряд прийомів удобрення ґрунту і догляду за рослинами, застосовувалося штучне зрошення (наприклад, Сади Семіраміди, одне з семи чудес світу). Прийоми агротехніки, пов'язані з сучасною системою широкого застосування сільськогосподарських машин, засновані на використанні наукових досягнень природознавства й агрономічних наук, почали складатися в умовах капіталістичного землеробства. В результаті розвитку машинобудування землеробство одержало ряд удосконалених сільськогосподарських машин.

У XX столітті до сільського господарства залучено трактор і комбайн, ряд інших складних машин та знарядь, збільшилось використання мінеральних добрив. Все це сприяло удосконаленню агротехніки. Проте справжній розвиток агротехніки можливий лише за організації раціональної системи землеробства, подальшого застосування досягнень науки і технології.

В Україні
За часів Російської імперії засновниками раціональної агротехнології вирощування сільськогосподарських культур в XIX столітті були Василь Докучаєв і Павло Костичев. Вагомий внесок у розвиток зробили також Василь Вільямс (ґрунтознавство), Михайло Павлов, Дмитро Прянишников, Олександр Совєтов, Іван Стебут, Климент Тімірязєв та інші. Серед українських вчених були Анастасій Зайкевич (досліджував вплив добрив на рослини) та Олександр Ізмаїльський (розробляв агротехнічні методи боротьби з посухою). Вдосконаленням агротехнічних прийомів займалися відповідні навчальні заклади, зразкові господарства, дослідні станції (Полтавська, Харківська, Уманська).

Завдання
Завданням агротехніки є забезпечення умов одержання високих і сталих врожаїв, збереження і підвищення родючості ґрунту, систематичне підвищення продуктивності праці і зниження собівартості сільськогосподарської продукції. Для цього потрібен використання досягнень науки (генетики, біохімії, мікробіології, агрометеорології), досвіду передових агрогосподарств, широке застосування механізації, автоматизації, комп'ютеризації та роботизації у виробничих процесах. Великий внесок у розвиток агротехніки роблять новатори аграрного виробництва. Використовуючи досягнення сільськогосподарської науки і уважно вивчаючи місцеві господарські і природні умови, вони створюють прийоми вирощування сільськогосподарських рослин, які забезпечують високу і сталу врожайність кожної культури в кожному полі сівозміни.

Принципи
Агротехнічні прийоми диференціюють за сільськогосподарськими культурами і сортами. В Україні вони застосовуються з урахуванням районування, тобто пристосування до специфіки ґрунтово-кліматичних умов Степу, Лісостепу, Полісся, Передкарпаття і Закарпаття.

Сучасна система землеробства передбачає:
 створення захисних лісових смуг на вододілах, по схилах балок і ярів, по берегах річок і озер, навколо ставів і водойм, а також залісення і закріплення пісків;
 правильну організацію і раціональне використання земельних угідь з освоєнням польових, кормових, овочевих та ін. сівозмін;
 правильну систему обробітку ґрунту, догляд за посівами і, насамперед, широке застосування чорних, чистих та зайнятих парів, зябу і лущення стерні;
 правильну систему застосування органічних і мінеральних добрив;
 посів добірним насінням пристосованих до місцевих умов високоврожайних сортів;
 розвиток зрошення на базі використання вод місцевого стоку шляхом будівництва ставів і водойм.

До агротехніки також включають підготовку посівного і садивного матеріалу, сівбу і садіння, збирання врожаю, снігозатримання, мульчування, боротьбу з бур'янами, хворобами і шкідниками сільськогосподарських культур та ін.

Виробничий процес
Розробляючи технологію виробництва певної сільськогосподарської продукції, перш за все планують обсяги, визначають потреби в матеріалах, забезпеченість технікою та обладнанням, складають нормативи витрат (кормів, добрив, посівного матеріалу, палива, робочих годин тощо), агротехнічні та зоотехнологічні потреби (наприклад, ступінь подрібнення кормів, глибину закладки насіння, температуру і вологість ґрунтів, обладнання тваринницьких приміщень). Відповідно до цього складають технологічні карти.

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