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The wheels of the South African Jewish community...
The wheels of the South African Jewish community go 'round and 'round…
by: Yehuda Raff | Nov 17, 2015
Yehuda Raff is the Founder of Open Door Agency in Cape Town, South Africa and an ROI Community member. Yehuda is interested in systems of things, how magic happens when the right connections are made and how businesses grow from ideas into manifest value-adding operations through human insight, inspiration and hard work. Yehuda's background in urban planning and years of entrepreneurial activity synthesise to focus on the big picture and getting it done. Yehuda wants to build businesses that have relevance to the markets they serve and to the ecosystem in which they operate.
Yehuda reflects on his experiences at The Change Charter, a Schusterman Connection Point "in motion" to foster stimulating dialogue between the for-profit and nonprofit worlds to drive sustainable change in Africa. For the event, Yehuda traveled with 75 of his fellow attendees across South Africa on a moving train for three days of learning, discussion and collaboration.
South Africa is a remarkable place full of stories that intertwine, between cultures and peoples and time. It is not obvious what you would find here if you came looking for something, but many people have found 'it' here and made this place home.
This is a land of many moving people, populated by an array of migrant and indigenous communities that grow in clumps of more and less integrated, connected and disconnected, moneyed and impoverished, panels of a quilt that drape this diverse landscape. The Jews in South Africa, a statistical rounding error of the population, have contributed disproportionately in many deep and meaningful ways to this tapestry that is our complex and changing rainbow nation. Mostly in ways of which we are very proud.
But something is happening in our beautiful land of diverse fauna and flora and people and cultures. The storm clouds are brewing as we realise and slowly acknowledge to one another that we are living in the time of the cauldron at the end of the rainbow. It is a cauldron that is filled with our unresolved but fast disappearing past, a present that must ride a track made of the ever-widening dual economies that are wedged apart by multiple (mostly failing) education systems, which together conspire to scatter peoples' fates on the way to a future that looks bleaker and bleaker for the average South African.
On this land, under which sleeps every kind of valuable mineral in abundance, lives a globalising emerging market cauldron overflowing with a frothing mix of inefficient and corrupt government, massive youth unemployment and one of the highest Gini-Coefficients in the world; juxtaposed to pockets of world class health and learning facilities, incredible infrastructure, world-class banking and accounting standards; and cars, planes, and shopping that makes Johannesburg the Dubai of Africa.
It is from and in this place that our local Connection Point master conductors chose to craft an experience that would travel us out of the world of the probable and serve us, with silver service, an opportunity to dream, plan and activate solutions for our various communities that would be meaningful and achievable. Powered by the Schusterman Family Foundation, Guy Lieberman and Ryan Canin gifted each of the delegates on the Change Charter an opportunity to re-evaluate the role we wish to play in our country and at what level; to work out how we might contribute the most, most effectively and efficiently; and ultimately how we would make these contributions to our world as Jews.
The Blue Train has been the envy of generations. My father almost platzed when I mentioned that I would be spending two nights on this most vaunted prize in the bouquet of the extra-ordinary (oh, and of course my father never really platzes, it was kind of a subtle thing, you had to know to look for it).
This five-star railway hotel bucket-list experience winds itself from the 5000-meter-high plateau on which gold was found and Johannesburg founded, through the quiet, slowly transforming deserts of the Karoo down to the lush Mediterranean winelands at Cape Town's gorgeous mountain and sea level. This is where we found ourselves, passengers clippity-clopping amongst 60 other young Jewish change agents, asking the one most important question—how can I help and how can we contribute?
You see, the Schusterman Foundation has this way of sprinkling on a programme and its participants the same fairy dust that transformed Cinderella's evening, only with Schusterman you'd best upgrade your parking facilities because you're not getting the pumpkin back.
We had a posse of truly unbelievable mentors from across business, social impact, education and design who worked with the delegates over three days to understand the various skillsets on the train and hone ideas in groups that could be pitched, funded and brought to life in the world.
There were a series of incredible projects proposed, some of which will be funded and which will change the world that we left when we boarded the train. But as with any still-unfolding story, the true impact is yet unknown. The Change Charter changed the way a significant set of young Jewish leaders think about what it means to be Jewish, what it means to contribute and what it means to collaborate with peers—Jewish peers who are also driven to bring their best game and leave the world a better place.
For me personally, the slow 3-day train ride across the country, which I cover by air in 2 hours a couple of times a month, left me with many more questions than answers. What is my social impact ratio? How much am I doing for my community? How useful is the work I do? Are there ways I can divert some of my time, skills or resources to social projects? Who would I collaborate with? I had forgotten about the world in my pursuit to conquer it.
The Change Charter was an attention to detail train ride reminder. It was a moment in a life, like the silent walk in the desert we stopped the train to take. It was a restock and a take stock, a look around at the incredible depth and talent we have amongst ourselves. It was an inspiration to be reminded about the possible just through spending time with this motley bunch of remarkables.
We live in 'interesting times', globally and certainly in South Africa; a matter that has daunted many before us but which charges the modern innovator and change agent to look around and contribute. We were a group of (mostly) South African Jews who left time and reality behind and travelled together in the spirit of contributing to the change we want to see. What we created on this train ride to the extra-ordinary were the initial sparks that it takes to get the fire started.
South Africa lives on a precipice. I think it always has. I think that maybe this is its place. What this means is that every one of us are tipping points. Maybe that's why contributing to the positive in this country feels so meaningful. It is like every action, good or bad, swings the balance and outcome. Tikkun-Olam means fix yourself, get your world in order and through that make this a better place. The Change Charter was a Merkaba to get us there, a carriage to another way of perceiving. It was a knock on an interior door. It was an unbelievable excursion to living with more meaning.


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package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"io/ioutil"
	"net/http"
	"os"
)

type Review struct {
	ID   int64 `json:"id"`
	User struct {
		Login string `json:"login"`
	} `json:"user"`
	Body string `json:"body"`

	// State: APPROVED, COMMENTED, REQUESTED_CHANGED
	State string `json:"state"`
}

func (gh GitHubAPI) GetReviewsWithPullRequest(pull PullRequest) ([]Review, error) {
	var reviews []Review

	// Prepare HTTP Request
	url := fmt.Sprintf("%s/pulls/%d/reviews", gh.BaseURL(), pull.Number)
	req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	// Headers
	req.Header.Add("Accept", "application/vnd.github.black-cat-preview+json")
	req.Header.Add("Authorization", fmt.Sprintf("token %s", gh.AccessToken))

	// Fetch Request
	client := &http.Client{}
	res, err := client.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, "GitHubAPI - Reviews: <error> fetch reviews:", err)
		return reviews, err
	}

	// Read Response Body
	resBody, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)

	// Decode JSON
	if err := json.Unmarshal(resBody, &reviews); err != nil {
		fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, "GitHubAPI - Reviews: <error> json unmarshal:", err)
		return reviews, err
	}

	return reviews, nil
}

func (review Review) IsApproved() bool {
	return review.State == "APPROVED"
}

func (review Review) IsChangesRequested() bool {
	return review.State == "CHANGES_REQUESTED"
}

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A University of Maine Marine Scientist is cautioning Atlantic Canadian groups hoping to get into the "tricky" business of sea urchin aquaculture.
University of Maine's Robert Steneck says farm-raising sea urchins is "tricky." (University of Maine)A University of Maine Marine Scientist is cautioning Atlantic Canadian groups hoping to get into the "tricky" business of sea urchin aquaculture.
Sea urchin farming research is underway in several countries including the US, Norway, Chile, and Canada.
It follows the collapse due to over fishing of wild stocks in many parts of the world.
A land-based sea urchin aquaculture operation by Quoddy Savour Seafood Ltd of Pennfield, New Brunswick has just received environmental approval.
"I certainly wish them luck," said Bob Steneck, of the University of Maine's School of Marine Sciences.
"They'll have to be very clever to figure out a way to do it and to be able to sustain the operation, especially a land-based operation. Those are always expensive."
Steneck served for a time as a scientific advisor on Maine's Sea Urchin Zone Council, a board overseeing the wild sea urchin fishery.
While there, he directly appealed to the state's Commissioner of Marine Resources to close the fishery, which has since collapsed from over fishing.
Steneck says while the technology exists to farm-raise sea urchins, it's hard to find a balance between the volumes required to make a profit and the need to give the animals the space they must have to stay healthy and keep oxygen levels in the tanks from falling.
Steneck says there have been five attempts to create sea urchin aquaculture industries in Maine and not one, so far, has been sustainable.
Quoddy Savour Director Bill Robertson says a lot of research has gone into the project over the past year.
The technology, he says, is becoming more common.
"There is a market and there's plenty of interest in the product," said Robertson, who is a former exective director of the Huntsman Marine Science Centre.
Green sea urchins are found in many areas of Atlantic Canada. In Maine stocks have collapsed from over-fishing. (Quoddy Savour Seafood Ltd.)Robertson says the plan is to grow wild-caught green sea urchins in a controlled environment.
"Purchase them, and then increase their value by putting them in the saltwater tanks and feeding them so we increase the weight, and then taking them and selling them that way."
Robertson says Quoddy Savour hopes to be in operation by this October when the wild sea urchin fishery in the Bay of Fundy opens.
He expects the operation will eventually employ 10 to 12 people full-time.
In a March interview with CBC, Ocean Scientist Patrick Gagnon of Memorial University of Newfoundland said he is optimistic such an approach can work.
He's been growing sea urchins by feeding them in tanks as part of a pilot project.
"They're improving the formula year after year," said Gagnon.
"In 12 weeks you can potentially bring the [roe index in the urchin] from something like 10 percent up to 20-25 percent."
Gagnon said increasing the temperature of the tank water by even a small amount above the wild environment has shown good results.


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Birkirkara have pulled off a major transfer coup as they acquired the services of former Sevilla and Spain international Diego Capel.
Capel, 31, has put pen to paper on a six-month contract with an option of extending his stay for a further year.
The winger who can feature on both right and left flanks was recently on the books of Spanish second-tier side Extremadura.
The Spaniard's arrival follows the signing of Italian midfielder Claudio Bonanni who was announced by the Premier League side last Sunday.
"I want to thank the club president for providing me with this opportunity," Capel told a news conference.
"I wanted to have this experience and I really hope to play my best football to make sure that the club reaches its objectives while making our fans happy."
Capel will be making his debut for Birkirkara as early as tomorrow when the Stripes take on Czech side Banik Ostrava in a friendly match.
The Spaniard was tipped as one of the country's most promising players as he made his debut in the La Liga with Sevilla in 2004-05 season.
His performances earned him a place in La Roja's U-19's selection that clinch the European Championship in 2006.
Five years later, Capel also won the U-21 European Championships when Spain defeated Switzerland in the final.
During his time at Sevilla, Capel also managed to win the UEFA Cup on two occasions, defeating Middlesbrough in the 2006 final before managing to successfully defend the crown the following year when having the better of fellow La Liga rivals Espanyol.
Nonetheless, it was not before the 2007-008 campaign that Capel established himself at Sevilla as he was part of the side that defeated Real Madrid over two legs in the Spanish Super Cup. That year, Capel made 31 league appearances and played all Champions League group stage matches, collecting 16 appearances.
With Sevilla, Capel went on to play 172 games scoring 11 goals and 19 assists before leaving Andalusia for Sporting Lisbon after losing his starting place to Diego Perotti.
In Portugal, Capel played 143 games which included a Europa League run halted in the final four in 2012 and a successful Portuguese Cup journey in 2015 when in the final Sporting defeated Braga 5-3 on penalties.
After leaving Portugal, Capel signed for Serie A side Genoa where he made a total of 21 appearances before joining Belgian side Anderlecht.
With the Belgians, the 31-year-old registered a couple of goals and four assists in 25 games.
Capel's international career lasted only two games – the debut game against Denmark in 2008 and a 73-minute appearance in a World Cup qualifier against Bosnia that year as well.
Meanwhile, club technical director Michael Valenzia confirmed that the Stripes are expected to run the rule on a player during tomorrow's friendly against Banik Ostrava while also hinting a couple of departures.
"As per the rest of the squad, I can confirm that two players are set to leave the club in the coming days. For sure, those who played against Mosta won't be leaving the club though," Valenzia said.
New sponsor
Valenzia rebuffed any speculations that the club will force players out of the club. In fact, he explained that actually the Stripes are looking to strengthen their team while keeping the core of the squad which started the 2019-20 campaign.
While not delving into the sponsor details, Valenzia explained that there are three important persons who will be giving a massive helping hand to the Premier League side after agreeing on a three-year deal with the new management.
Gianluigi Maruffa, a former Sampdoria player and Raffaelle Astuto, will be helping Valenzia in recruiting foreign players with their main interest being players from Italian and Scandinavian football.
In addition, Andrea Cosma, whose family has connections with teams in Italy and Romania, will be providing financial aid to the club as from next season.
"The idea of this collaboration is to have a long-term planning of player trading – using the Maltese league as a stepping stone for the new signings to showcase themselves before they embark on bigger leagues," Valenzia said.
Club president Frank Zarb also rejected any idea of stepping down from his role while confirming that Jeffrey Farrugia, the club's team manager, is currently suspended by the Birkirkara administration without giving further details.
Capel is expected to make his competitive debut for Birkirkara when they face neighbours Balzan on Monday.

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Q: Authority formating for MSAL - and GetAccountAsync returning no data I am trying to get a token from AzureB2C tenant, and can't get past the first stage, I suspect maybe my Authority is not formed correctly.
But all the resources I find say different things. I don't know what is supposed to be part of it and what is not.
string ClientId = "adde324e....8b";

        string Authority = "https://mytenant.b2clogin.com/tfp/a6f2ee42...7b4384a/v2.0";

        PublicClientApplication application = new PublicClientApplication(ClientId, Authority);

        IEnumerable<IAccount> accounts = await application.GetAccountsAsync();

        AuthenticationResult result = null;

        result = await application.AcquireTokenSilentAsync(new string[] { "user_impersonation" }, accounts.FirstOrDefault());

I am getting no accounts at all, and yes, I only run this code once I have logged in.
I tried using removing the tfp and the v2.0 as well as swapping the tenant id for "common". also tried using login.onmicrosoft.com instead the b2clogin.com. but nothing works. Still getting no data.

A: The authority should be in this format:
 public static string AzureADB2CHostname = "login.microsoftonline.com"; // or {Your-Tenant-Name}.b2clogin.com
 public static string PolicySignUpSignIn = "b2c_1_susi";
 public static string AuthorityBase = $"https://{AzureADB2CHostname}/tfp/{TenantId}/";
 public static string Authority = $"{AuthorityBase}{PolicySignUpSignIn}";

Here is documentation on using MSAL and B2C
Each B2C policy is its own OIDC endpoint, which means each policy will have it's own refresh token in the cache. Each time you target a new policy, you will want to include it as part of the authority.
For example:
public static string PolicyEditProfile = "b2c_1_edit_profile";
public static string PolicyResetPassword = "b2c_1_reset";

public static string AuthorityEditProfile = $"{AuthorityBase}{PolicyEditProfile}";
public static string AuthorityPasswordReset = $"{AuthorityBase}{PolicyResetPassword}";

Here's a B2C Desktop App as a example.

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NPP Releases 'People's Document' For Meghalaya Polls
The "People's Document" highlights key aspects of governance in areas of economic planning and development, education, healthcare, infrastructure, public utilities delivery systems, agriculture, employment generation, youth welfare, women empowerment and environmental protection.
All India | Indo-Asian News Service | Updated: February 23, 2018 06:37 IST
The document was released at an election rally in Jowai
Jowai, Meghalaya: National People's Party President Conrad K. Sangma on Thursday released the "People's Document" for Meghlaya at an election rally here.
Senior NPP leaders Prestone Tynsong and Sniawbhalang Dhar, NPP candidates from Jaintia Hills and other party functionaries were also present at the rally.
"This is not just another election manifesto; rather, it is the foundation on which the contractual obligation between the party and the people of Meghalaya stands upon. It is not only our guiding light, but will also act as a constant reminder of our promise to the people of Meghalaya which we must honour at all costs," Mr Sangma said.
He said that the main thrust of the "People's Document" is to bring about much-needed change, which the people of Meghalaya are desperately longing for.
"This is a very important moment in the history of Meghalaya because the National People's Party, along with the people will rise to the challenge of re-imagining and re-creating not only the destiny of the state, but most importantly, the present reality of our people," he said
Mr Sangma said that the ruling Congress has been trying to communalise the election, as they were scared of NPP's growing popularity.
On the National Green Tribunal ban on coal mining, the NPP accused Chief Minister Mukul Sangma failed to take up the issue with the central government.
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New Handwerker exhibit shows handmade crafts
Parita Desai/The Ithacan
"Make Do" is the latest exhibit at the Handwerker Gallery, and was curated by Mara Baldwin and junior Vince Mata. The exhibit features a variety of works, such as paintings on the glass.
By Casey Murphy — Staff Writer
The Handwerker Gallery at Ithaca College will be showing the beauty in manual labor with its latest exhibition, "Make Do," which focuses on craftsmanship.
"Make Do" opened Nov. 12, and it features artwork from four different artists. The pieces included are unconventional, like Aram Han Sifuentes' "A Mend: A Collection of Scraps from Local Seamstresses and Tailors." The piece is a large, hanging tapestry made from the remnants of denim jeans. Other forms of artwork in the exhibition include pottery, weaving and woodwork.
This exhibition is curated by Mara Baldwin, the director of the Handwerker Gallery, and junior art history major Vincent Manta. Manta was awarded a Dana Student Internship grant from the college for Summer 2015, which allowed him to do extensive research over the summer that culminated in the production of this exhibition.
Manta said craftsmanship is not commonly considered to be a sophisticated art form, and focusing on the idea of labor as art is a different perspective.
"This show is really based around the relationships between work and home, the value in labor, art and craft, and aesthetics and forms," Manta said. "Each of these artists speak to one of those dichotomies a little, and they all kind of engage with them differently. It's really about recontextualizing craft and putting it in a lens that it's maybe not always thought to be in."
Manta said the collection of art in "Make Do" and the way it's arranged is uncommon, which is part of what makes the exhibition so special and entertaining. He said even though visitors can't physically touch the pieces, they can get close to them and view them from different angles, which provides different perspectives of the art's beauty.
"Visually, it's very interesting," Manta said. "It's something that you won't see in many other galleries. You won't see pottery next to baskets next to a giant tapestry or flower pressings on the wall, so it's something that's unique."
"Make Do" will be presented at the Handwerker Gallery until Dec. 13 and will host Artist Talks at 6 p.m. Nov. 19 and Dec. 3.
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The Wolf and the Moose: Natural Enemies That Need Each Other
Landmark project celebrates 50 years of tracking wolves and moose on a protected archipelago in Michigan's Lake Superior
By Adam Hadhazy on July 17, 2008
View the Isle Royale Wolf/Moose Study Slide Show
On a secluded island in Lake Superior, captive wolf packs and moose populations depend on one another for survival: The moose are the wolves' chief nutritional source, and the wolves, in turn, help keep the moose population in check. But when the wolves eat too many moose, the resulting food shortage pares down the former's number, controlling their population, as well.
And for the past five decades, scientists have watched this ecological dance in an effort to better understand the predator–prey relationship.
Teams of scientists from Michigan Technological University led by wildlife ecologist Rolf Peterson since 1975, and joined in 2000 by John Vucetich, assistant professor of forest resources and environmental science, have carefully monitored the waxing and waning of these animal populations. The link between hunter and hunted has revealed the species' interdependency, as well as their shared vulnerability to the isle's often-tough living conditions. The plant-eating moose must scrounge during the harsh winters to avoid starvation, living on pine needles and twigs. When food becomes too scarce and the moose populations decline, some of the wolves that rely on the moose also die out.
Scientists have found that there are currently four packs of wolves roaming the isle that continually battle for turf and food—and their rise and fall, as described by the researchers, can often stem from seemingly insignificant events.
For example, in January 2000 researchers watched as a lone female wolf entered the territory of one of the wolf bands they had dubbed the Middle Pack. She was attacked by the wolf pack and forced into the chilly water of Lake Superior. Though wounded, she swam back to shore and survived. A male split from the Middle Pack and came to her aid, staying with her and licking her wounds after she had been left for dead. The ostracized couple later mated, founding what became the Chippewa Harbor Pack, a group that has since conquered territory in the Middle Pack's dwindling empire.
Though the scientists don't know if such individual and pack behavior is a common occurrence, observations like these on Isle Royale provide insight into how animal societies function as well as the vicissitudes of the food chain cycle on Isle Royale, also helping to inform other models of the natural world.
Researchers have studied the predator–prey dynamics on Isle Royale since 1958, making the project the longest-running of its kind. The Lake Superior archipelago was declared a U.S. National Park in 1940, and this designation saved the remaining wilderness from further logging and mining. The dwindling animal populations rebounded as human industry receded, and the periodic fluctuation of wolf and moose numbers began anew, continuing to this day.
The Isle Royale Wolf/Moose Study celebrates its 50th anniversary in late July. Groups such as the National Park Service and the Earthwatch Institute, among others, help fund the research led by the Michigan Tech faculty.
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A year on from Tasmania reopening its borders, how do people feel after the COVID wall came down?
Home Politics A year on from Tasmania reopening its borders, how do people feel after the COVID wall came down?
One year ago today Tasmania opened back up to the rest of the country.
For nearly two-and-a-half-years the state had travel restrictions in place, separating Tasmanians from family members and friends, and cutting off tourists from an economy heavily reliant on them.
During that time, Tasmania became one of the few places on earth with little to no COVID-19 in the community.
But after December 15, 2021, "fortress Tasmania" was suddenly letting it back in.
On the eve of the borders opening in 2021, the ABC spoke to a number of everyday Tasmanians about how they were feeling.
Now, for the anniversary, we caught up with them again.
Li Joy says reopening Tasmania has "made a big difference to taxi drivers". (ABC News: Will Murray)
'Mine was the worst when the COVID came'
When the borders were shut, flights in and out of Hobart airport virtually dried up.
Taxi driver Li Joy's livelihood relied on airport traffic.
"Ninety per cent, it's a financial crisis," he told the ABC last December.
Since the border opened, and flights returned he's been able to recoup some of his losses.
"Tasmania is a tourist place, and without tourists our economy would be really bad," he said.
"[Opening up] has made a big difference to taxi drivers, who can take more jobs and see more money flow."
In the confines of a taxi, surrounded by travellers and revellers, he couldn't avoid being exposed to COVID-19.
"I had a terrible experience actually. Mine was the worst in my family when the COVID came."
Mr Joy is a trained engineer, and also runs a workshop, a food van, and is in the final stages of a nursing degree.
Working in hospitals, he appreciated the strain COVID has placed on Tasmania's healthcare system. But he's also seen the pain of closed borders.
"I've seen people really struggling … especially if you've got family members in a different state and they can't travel to see their parents or relatives.
"I hope that by opening the borders that problem is solved, and I think most families are happy about that."
Nursing graduate Persia Brooks says the mental health of healthcare workers is at the forefront of people's minds. (ABC News: Will Murray)
'It's quite stressful'
Nearly 200 Tasmanians have died with COVID-19 since the reopening, and thousands more have been hospitalised or have suffered long-term illnesses as a result of infection.
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Since last December, healthcare workers have been enduring immense workloads to keep the system running.
It's something new nursing graduate, Persia Brooks, could not ignore.
"You constantly see articles on the mental health of healthcare workers, and I think it's something that's quite prevalent," she said.
"It is quite stressful … but it's more about being aware of it, and acting on it, and supporting your fellow workers."
When we spoke to her on a beach in Swansea in December 2021, Ms Brooks said she'd come to embrace the "stillness" of Tasmania without tourists.
Even after the borders opened, her ability to see friends and family on the mainland has been restricted by study.
"I'm looking forward to making a few trips up to Torres Strait and Sydney to see my friends," she said.
"It's just nice to be able to go out without having to feel worried you're going to pass on COVID to someone."
Alondra Lisica says "it feels like a lot of kids at school don't really feel like COVID exists anymore". (ABC News: Will Murray)
'We had a giant birthday party'
For 10-year-old Alondra Lisica it has been a strange couple of years.
The talented dancer was unable to see her grandparents and other extended family members on the mainland while the borders were shut.
Since December 15, she's been making up for lost time.
"This year I saw both sets [of grandparents] twice, uncles, aunties, and heaps of my cousins," she said, beaming.
"We had a giant birthday party."
But opening up has meant dancing in front of limited crowds and trying to negotiate schooling and socialising with COVID running rampant.
"At musical theatre and singing lessons you'd have to stand so far away and sing with a mask on, and your voice would get all stuffy," she said.
"It's not a weird thing for me to wear a mask, but also I feel like a lot of kids at school don't really feel like COVID exists anymore."
Sarah Fielding said the Tasmanian government "made the decisions that they thought were best at the time". (ABC News: Rick Eaves)
'Hopefully we're through the worst of it'
When the ABC spoke to Ulverstone business owner Sarah Fielding last December, she was finding keeping her garden centre open difficult.
The lack of travellers from the mainland resulted in a significant loss of income, and the constant threat of snap lockdowns or increased restrictions were taking a toll.
Since the state opened back up she has seen not only an improvement in business, but also, in the community's mood.
"Now that they're able to reconnect with their families there's just a lot of happier people around than a year ago," she said.
But running a small business during waves of infections, coupled with a labour shortage, hasn't been easy.
"We've had some challenges in trying to cover shop hours while staff are off, or their children have it. We just ran on a skeleton staff so that we weren't overlapping each other, and to minimise the potential risk.
"It does impact you, but hopefully we're through the worst of it."
She isn't bitter about what happened to her and her shop, but hopes we've seen the last of shut-outs and lockdowns.
"The government made the decisions that they thought were best at the time, but I think going forward we should keep them open," she said.
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It has been way too long since I have last posted. Wow it has been a whirlwind of events lately in my life.
Well for starters I moved back to School and for those of you that don't know I was able to receive a housing scholarship. It has been such an amazing blessing in my life. The lord truly knew what I needed in my life. My roommates have been so amazing. They are so fun and I am so lucky to have them as roommates. Not to mention my house is soooo cute. It's so cozy and cute.
I am currently trying to find a job however, I do have an interview tomorrow so keep your fingers crossed.
I am so excited for this semester.! I have already gone to quite a few events and it has been so fun! I am loving this year so far it has been really good. I am thinking about staying here for summer next year so we will see what happens. I know that this year is definetly the year for me! I just have this undeniable feeling that so many amazing things are going to happen for me this school year!
However, because of that I am making a promise right now that i will keep all of you posted on the weekly. It may not be long but I will at least keep you posted on whats been going on in my life.
I also just want to thank my beautiful family for all of the many sacrifices that they have made on my behalf that has been able to get me to where I am today. I couldn't have done it without their support and love. I seriously lucked out when it comes to my family. I have the best siblings a girl could ask for and the most amazing parents in the world. I am so lucky!
I also seem to have a pretty good ward so far. It definitely isn't big at all but everyone seems to be super nice and way cute of people. Since we are on the topic of church. I had a really awesome experience the other day.
So I will definetly be the first to admit I am so terrible about reading my scriptures every day I love them but I just struggle to read out of them on the daily. However, at a devotional my stake president gave here recently he told us that if we could just find the time to read one chapter a day we would be better students, better spouses, better people, just overall better in any aspect of our lives that we needed help in. I knew without a doubt that I wanted to make a promise to my Heavenly Father and start reading in my scriptures every single day. So as I was waiting for class to start today I was playing on my phone and then a thought came into my mind.... "If I have the time right now to do something as dumb as play on my phone why can't I just take this time to read my scriptures instead."
So right then I opened my lds scriptures app and started reading. As soon as I got to about verse 5 in the chapter I recieved a text message stating that my dad had received a interview for a job I had applied for! Wow! isn't the lord so amazing!!! I know that this was no coincidence, if we take even just a fraction of our time every day and devote it to the lord he will provide ways for us to accomplish everything on that super long list of to-do's that are sitting beside you, he will provide the courage needed to introduce yourself to the new kids, he will provide a way for you to be a better mother,father,wife, husband, and child that you desire to be. I know that the lord is constantly watching over us and waiting to pour out those blessings and so many more if we just open that window once a day.
I love all of you and I am so excited that we live in such an amazing time. We have so many amazing blessings right at our fingertips. I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day and know that there are so many people thinking about you and what a great light you are to them.


You may (or may not) have noticed that I failed to post in December, and in doing so failed with my resolution. The stated target of at least 1 post a month was actually less that my real intention and deliberately set so that I could not fail! However I did not fail by much, but there were also a few other times where I was cutting it fine at the end of the month. I have already stated my lack of trust in specifically 'new years' resolutions but just recently I have realized why they are doomed to failure, at least in the more wintry parts of the northern hemisphere.
The common resolutions are particularly difficult. Try the "start an exercise regime.' If you have a traditional full-time job then the only way you will find the time for this is to either get up earlier (when it is dark and cold) or go after work (again when it is dark and cold!) These are not exactly the best conditions for forming a new habit. The diet resolution fairs no better. We want to cut down on our carbohydrate/sugar/fat intake at just the time of year when our bodies crave them most for the energy to keep us warm and comfortable through the winter months. These would have a much better chance of success if we made them 3 months later when sunlight and vitamin D levels are on the increase, or before the winter gets started so the habit has time to form.
Time to bring it back round to the model railway. Here is my new toy – an airbrush, a Christmas present from my wife. The hope is that it will lift the quality of my model making by increasing the number and consistency of the painting and weathering effects I can achieve. It is a reasonably high quality dual action gravity feed type, and but I am not yet ready to make the significant financial investment in a compressor as well, so I am hoping to utilize readily available aerosol propellant. Already however there are problems. Although I have had a little time, I am yet to test it as I am unable to procure a suitable adapter to connect the hose to my propellant can. The hose I have that connects to my airbrush does fit properly to the aircan adapter. The available hose that does connect to the air can does not have the correct connection at the other end, and it is as expensive as the airbrush itself!
… and again I resolve to try harder and to spend more time both model making and updating my blog.
A very quick post this time, just to keep my resolution of at least one post per month. There is not much that is new to report, but I thought an overall view of progress would be worth while. You may remember that I after my original decision to reduce the upper level height without dismantling it, I did eventually dismantle it in order to paint the roads. I have eventually finished the road markings (at least under the bridge) and properly reinstated the upper level and rewired the trackwork. After many months of neglect the track needed a good clean (necessitating the purchase of a Peco track rubber), but now the small bit that there is works like a dream.
.. hopefully not what your experience is of reading this blog, but what I have been doing this month. I have been experimenting with brick colouring and painting techniques trying to reproduce the look and feel of a typical section of Berlin Stadtbahn. My prototype is the stretch along Dircksenstrasse between Alexander Platz and Hackescher Markt seen here courtesy of Google. This has been particularly difficult because of the relative colours of the bricks and mortar. Due to the weathering of the lime mortar it is mostly darker than the sandy coloured bricks. This has presented two problems; the first of which has been trying to get a good match for the exact brick colour. This has involved mixing paints, something I am reluctant to do for large areas of brickwork. It will be impossible to paint all the bricks in one hit, and it is because it is difficult to mix paint the exact same colour twice, the resulting effect can look patchy (look at the stripy effect on the town hall roof, as each strip has been weathered differently). The second problem is that the resultant mixture of yellow paint is always slightly translucent, and does not show up strongly enough when over-painting darker mortar. The solution is to paint the bricks first and the mortar afterwards. The mortar needs to be watered down quite a lot so that it does not modify the colour of the bricks, but will stain the unsealed mountboard underneath.
I have also started to layout the arches, a particularly laborious task given that the brick courses are header bond. Of course I have again been aided by AutoCAD to accurately and consistently draw the arches. My next dilemma is how to model the top. Various modifications over the years have seen the addition and expansion of a concrete deck to carrying the trains and the loss of the ornate brickwork cornice and turrets that run along the parapet. The whole look and feel of the Stadtbahn was substantially altered too when the Fernbahn (long-distance) tracks were electrified soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Due to lack of space on the train deck itself the signalling and catenary gantrys had to be mounted on the side of the stadtbahn again requiring additional structural concrete intervention. They are not visible on the above view as it from the side of the S-Bahn tracks which are powered by third rail. I do not have the luxury of space to be able to model 4 tracks, so my model will not have this distinction. As much as I would relish the challenge of modeling my own electrification, it is not something I have attempted before, and there is much more to do before it becomes a consideration on this layout. My main memories are from the divided Berlin where the Fernbahn tracks only carried the diesel hauled Korridor-Zuge, long before an ICE ever made it to Berlin.
There has been some progress on the Post Office, mostly drawing and painting more in the same vein as what I have published already … and just in the nick of time I have managed my monthly update (believe it or not I did start writing this at the beginning of the month, but there have been many distractions, and not much model making)!
Post holiday blues? … not a bit of it!
I have just returned from holiday in Poland, suitably inspired and ready to crack on with my model making. We only managed one trip by train (to Pszczyna or Pless in German, the home of the Polish Piast dynasty and their large 12th Century Castle/Home), but it afforded me a chance to soak in a little of the atmosphere of the residential tenements backing on the railway that I hope to eventually incorporate into my model railway. It also gave me a closer view of Katowice and Bytom's industrial decline, not so easily visible from the road. I do not completely intend to capture the feeling of decay evident in Poland, but the architectural style here is very similar to Berlin. Unfortunately due to an accident with a bottle of water damaging my camera, I was unable to take any of my own photos. Mind you had my camera been working, the kind of photography I would have liked to indulge in would still have been difficult with the rest of the family in tow.
I was dismayed to discover that as part Katowice railway station's redevelopment, its unique concrete hyperbolic paraboloid vaulted roof had been demolished. Admittedly although Wiki's photo shows it in its best light (the dark!), the station and its environs were in serious need of work. Most people probably thought is was an ugly building, and would not have realized the significance of the structural solution it employed, but it was a notoriously unsavory place to be particularly at night.
On my return to England I was passing my local charity shop and was pleasantly surprised to find these lorries in the window all for the princely sum of £9. Curiously although they are by German manufacturers (and HO scale rather than the more common British OO) the graphics are predominantly English, yet all but one of the models are still left-hand drive. It was a little indulgent of me to by all of them, particularly as Like most things, there is no shortage of them on my dad's layout. In keeping with my habit of finding new projects before I have finished the current one, I intend to eventually use these to experiment with weathering and possibly even re-branding with some of my own graphics.
A Simon and Garfunkel inspired title to my blog this time!
By now you may have noticed one or two patterns starting to emerge! The first being that I have plenty of other things to do that distract me from building my railway, and this month is no exception. Ania is currently in Poland with the children visiting her mother. In theory this would give me more time to devote to my model making, but as ever there is a list of jobs that need doing some of which are only really possible without the family in the way. I also have a recently renewed enthusiasm for riding my bike which is taking a lot of time and energy out of Sundays.
The second thing you may have realised is that even if I have no recent modeling endeavours to update you about, I always have a fall-back plan, in the form of the many models I have created for other layouts in the past. I was determined however this month not to rely on the plan B. I am also off to Poland later this month and I really wanted to have made some progress as there is a chance I may get to visit the original building again. So it is that I have been burning the midnight oil drawing and painting bricks, and this is what I have to show for it.
I never said this was going to be a quick, and so far the planning has been one of the lengthier parts of the process. Even on the prototype on a building like this every colour pattern and brick course would have been planned in detail before a brick was ever laid, and just like the original all the dimensions on my model are planned in multiples of brick sizes. Technology has been a great help, I have used AutoCAD to draw and print templates to facilitate the accurate multiple reproduction of the window arches. The brick courses are scored into the 1.5mm mountboard using an empty fine Bic Orange biro. The stretcher courses are marked o ut with the aid of a set-square, but the alternate header courses are filled out by hand. The whole area is then painted with a dirty white/cream colour to emulate the lime mortar, before the bricks are painted individually using a size 000 brush. Care has to be taken in the painting to avoid creating noticeable patterns. As the brush unloads the brick that is painted will get lighter. If bricks are painted randomly then the slightly dappled effect natural to brickwork can be achieved, but it is too easy to paint course by course and get a repetitive 'fade' effect. This is was not so much a problem with this piece where there are real patterns and the facade is also broken up with lots of windows, but I have worked on models in the past with much larger areas of flat colour.
The lower half of the board shows some aborted efforts and colour experimentation (including the original test piece from a few months ago) where I got some of my brick bonding patterns wrong. This is the first of about 3 or 4 sets of wall sections that this building will require. Obviously this is a very slow and laborious task, so expect to read about some of my other models in the meantime before you see any of the below assembled in three dimensions.
With the arrival of my second daughter Sarah, I have been able to take some time off work to help look after her and her mother (and my other children). Now in an ideal world this should have given me more time to work on my model railway also. In reality things have been a little different. There has been an increasingly long list of jobs that need doing around the house: things that need fixing; cupboards, drawers and piles of rubbish that need sorting out; all the sorts of things that get left either until they can absolutely no longer be ignored or you have your wife nagging you saying you are not going to waste these two weeks at home doing nothing. To be fair to her Ania has done a serious amount of work herself these last two weeks. The birth was quick and without complications, and both mother and daughter have been doing very well. Ania has been reveling in her new found freedom and would not be told to sit down and take a rest, and has been tackling in earnest all the jobs she was unable to do towards the end of the pregnancy due to lack of mobility.
So it is that I have had a productive couple of weeks. All the mundane but necessary administrative tasks relating to Sarah's arrival have been dealt with such as birth registrations, passport applications and tax credit applications. The car insurance renewal has been sorted and one of next years holidays booked. July is also a very busy time in my family for birthdays, and we have even managed to squeeze in a University reunion. To add to all this I now also have a tidy and organised toolbox (or 3), 4 clean bikes, a clean and vacuumed car, a very tidy and clean wardrobe and a large pile of rubbish waiting to be taken to the tip.
It is this last one (the pile of rubbish) that has got me thinking. As humans we have a natural tendency to hoard. Obviously this affects people to differing degrees. Some people cannot live with clutter and are better at throwing old useless stuff than others, while some of us think 'I will just hang on to that it might be useful someday.' It is when you find the box in the loft or the cupboard under the stairs that has not been opened for 10 years that is full of rusting, corroding, obsolete, and outdated odds and ends that you realise something needs to be done. 'Life laundry' I think is the modern buzz-word for this kind of activity. Ania is much better in this area than me, however a look in the basement of her parents house in Poland will show you that she is not completely immune to the accumulation of clutter, but I think I suffer worse than most. My dad is fellow subject of this condition which he thinks is a reaction to his austere upbringing during the war, but I think it is more fundamental than that. I think we are genetically programmed to want to hold on to as much stuff as we can. For much of human history the common person has not had much in the way of possessions or means to look after what he had, so anything he did have was precious. The Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries have seen an explosion of both global wealth and the relative wealth of the average person. Even relatively rich people for the most part do not feel secure and are always looking for more. This hoarding tendency is also reflected in our biology. We are naturally programmed to like fatty sugary food and store it in our bodies. for a long part of our evolution this food was rare and we learned how to make the most of it. Now this kind of food is a lot more freely available and we eat too much of it, this is why obesity is on the increase. The evolutionary mechanisms that govern these impulses, conscious or unconscious, physical or psychological, will take a long time to catch up with the technological advances that have shaped the world we live in today. The alternative view is that God made us this way intentionally, but also gave us the willpower to over come it should we want to, but to start this discussion would be opening up a whole different can of worms, one which is not on today's menu.
By now you will be asking what, apart from distracting me from it, has all this got to do with my model railway? Another natural human impulse is to collect, sort and categorize everything what we find the world around us; what I call the train-spotter instinct. This coupled with the the tendency to hoard and keep stuff 'just in case it might be useful' is an essential part of the make-up of a good model maker and rail enthusiast. Some people think our hobby strange and cannot understand what we find interesting. I think it is only a natural extension of our human nature. Nearly all interests and hobbies are based on the same thing, it is only the subject matter that changes.
Scratch building, the skill of making models without the aid of kits and instructions is seen as the epitome of model making. Very few people learn how to scratch build without going through an apprenticeship of kit building and then progressing onto something called kit-bashing before becoming a fully fledged scratch builder. It is this intermediate step of kit bashing that is the most interesting, This is where the real skills of model making are learned, and scratch builders never really leave it behind. To put it simply kit-bashing is where you start off with one kit and mix it with bits from another to make something new and different to what was originally intended by the kit manufacturer. It is at this point that bits from the original kit will be left over, so rather than throwing them away they are kept 'just in case' they become useful on another model. So any kit-basher will soon build up a whole supply of odds and ends of old kits. Somewhere along the line in a kit bashers career he will find he does not have a suitable bit for a particular model, and he then has to make it himself or incorporate something that is not from a kit! He has taken the next step in becoming a scratch builder. While there are many commercially available products to aid the scratch builder a good scratch builder will not limit himself; almost anything becomes a legitimate sources for model making materials. Anything from old paperclips to plastic tray inserts from chocolate boxes are kept and st ashed away to be used on a rainy day. Here is an example of one of my dad's kit-bashed buildings, a bus station, made from the leftovers of joining together two Vollmer 3 road roundhouses and a chocolate box insert masquerading as a space frame roof.
Through my model making experiences during my architecture degree I kind of skipped the true kit-bashing stage. I do however have a shoebox full of old bits and stuff that I have accumulated over the years that I hope will one day become useful, and I do not consider the recycling of old kits in my own models beneath me. The following photographs are of one of the first models I was truly proud of and one of the few examples of the reuse of other bits. The balustrades to the subway stairs where once openwork girders holding up the roof of the previous platform canopy. The platforms I built myself, tailored to the trackwork, and the canopies follow the Y-shape that I am sure is familiar to the users of many German railway stations, as should be the DB Era V colouring and signage. This model was built to try to capture what I had experienced on so many family holidays as I was surprised and disappointed that most of the ready made kit platforms followed rare or outdated prototypes.
In the background of this photograph you can see my mum and dad's wardrobe doors! I am not the first, and no doubt not the last person to ever build a model railway in their bedroom.
It is getting towards the end of the month again, and I have not posted! I did say at the end of my last post that I needed to do some model building if I was to have something to write about, well progress has been very slow. The essence of the building I am working on is the brickwork and the patterns in the string courses and the lintels. It has been proving quite tricky to work them all out satisfactorily and at times I am getting hamstrung by previous decisions.
In truth I was not really expecting to get very far, and not just because of the difficulty of what I am doing. I have been a little distracted (again). My wife is currently expecting our third child, and I have spent the last 3 weeks expecting to have to rush her to the hospital at a moments notice. I should really have done this earlier but I am now executing the fallback plan (which I had all along); writing about previously completed projects.
This is not the first time I have built a model based on the Berlin Stadtbahn, so here is a little evolutionary history. My dad had always built his layouts with trains on two levels, with the upper level running on stilts above the lower level, often with sidings for storing extra trains. While I always enjoyed the variety of operational possibilities these layouts offered, I was never entirely satisfied with the aesthetics. There have been a few previous attempts from my earlier teenage years of building a 'wall' to conceal the lower level. The first attempt was made from breakfast cereal boxes painted grey with stonework drawn on with a black felt tip. Fortunately there are no surviving pictures. It was hardly the pinnacle of my model making career. The sections were very short and the joins were not very good, and I quickly become lazy and the stonework was very inconsistent, let alone realistic. The second attempt aimed at more uniformity. This must have taken a while; even just collecting my raw materials was a drawn out process. I restricted my self to one brand of cereal boxes, the only one with a grey inside to eliminate the need for painting. I was then more meticulous with the drawing of the stones. While still not particularly realistic, it did give a more pleasing effect, but it was not without its problems. Joins still were not very good, although I did cut the boxes up differently to minimize their number. Durability was the second problem; the wall often needed taking down for track/turnout maintenance, to correct derailments or to rescue trains that were stuck on dirty track. The wall was only held in place by track pins, and these had a tendency to punch through the cardboard. The corners and intermediate fixing points soon became perforated by lots of holes. Architecturally it was very monotonous and did not really follow any realistic precedent.
It was after this that we started to visit Berlin regularly on holiday, and I eventually realized that I had a legitimate prototype on which to base my wall. We decided at one point to rebuild nearly the whole layout in order to address some of the operational issues, and the old grey wall was never reinstated.
Here is a picture of my first attempt at modeling the Berlin Stadtbahn, complete with a 1930's S-Bahn unit. This must have been from about 1991, after my first year at architecture school where I discovered the joys, of modeling with mounting board. My thinking had matured on many levels, and I was able to use architectural features to assist in solving previous problems. For example piers are used to conceal joins between sections, and intermediate turrets to hide extra fixing points. The thickness of mounting board add a lot more rigidity and durability to the design and also made creating relief details such as piers, flared bases and indentations much easier. At this stage I did not go to the extent of painting individual bricks, but I was keen to reproduce the overall effect of railway arches and associated paraphernalia. Similarly to in this country, the railway arches underneath the Berlin Stadtbahn are home to all manner of businesses, bill-boarding and graffiti. I did not go as far as reproducing the graffiti, but I did try a variety of ideas to infill the arches. Here are some examples of hand painted billboards. Some arches were left empty to act as road bridges through the Stadtbahn, and also acted as service points to the trains underneath without having to always dismantle the wall.
The buildings behind the stadtbahn are much later additions, and I hope show a development of my model making skills. They are also typical of Berlin apartment buildings, and represent another of my interests, I want to say early 20th century graphic design, but the Coke advert is of a particularly late 20th century vintage. These kinds of murals are often found in this context, and the guy holding the beer glass is doubly apt as this is the logo for Schultheiss, one of the local Berlin breweries, and was copied off a beer glass. I have always had a particular skill for facsimile, rather than original thought which is probably why I was never going to be as good I would have liked to be a successful architect. Here is a close up of the Maggi advert under construction. I have now taken the plunge and decided to start drawing individual bricks, and trying to create an authentic weathered finish.
While this incarnation was the most complete, including railings and a far side, it was not the final version of my 'Wall.' I do not have any pictures to hand of any completed parts insitu, but I did start and almost complete a second version of the Stadtbahn where I painstakingly painted all the bricks. Unfortunately the layout was dismantled before I could finish what was possibly a slightly too elaborate cornice detail, but parts have been used by my younger brother when he rebuilt the layout as a part of his rehabilitation after suffering for more than a year with ME. I will have to publish some photos of this layout as part of another blog.
While writing this entry and scanning the relevant photos, I have scanned quite a few more photos of the old layout that I have not included here, showing examples of some of my other models. So while progress may be slow on the current project, I do not have any excuses for not having anything to write about next time, and with any luck you may not have to wait so long for the next installment.
Just in case you were wondering I have deliberately avoided any music references in my blog title this time, and there were a few possibilities along the Pink Floyd/Roger Walters axis. For the very eagle-eyed, there is an allusion to a long defunct BBC2 music program. Unfortunately there are no prizes for spotting it.


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WASHINGTON — Chicago's mayoral runoff isn't the only notable election tonight.
As we wrote about last week in the Meet the Press: First Read newsletter, Wisconsin today holds a statewide contest for state Supreme Court that's considered a warm-up race for 2020.
Wisconsin could very well be the state that decides the 2020 election, and the battleground gets a test run on Tuesday.
The statewide April 2 race for Supreme Court pits Dem-backed Lisa Neubauer versus GOP-backed Brian Hagedorn (the elections are officially nonpartisan).
And it's followed a familiar script: Neubauer and her allies have attacked Hagedorn for holding anti-LGBT views, while Hagedorn has accused his opponent of being beholden to liberal interests.
Neubauer had been outspending Hagedorn until the Republican State Leadership Committee dropped a seven-figure buy in the final week.
Worth noting: Democrats' decisive statewide Supreme Court victory in April 2018 helped foreshadow Tony Evers' 1-point gubernatorial victory over GOP Gov. Scott Walker seven months later, as well as Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin's 11-point win.
But, of course, Trump won the state in 2016, 47 percent to 46 percent.
Ditto Walker in 2010 and 2014.
So get ready for lots of talk about Wisconsin over the next 20 months — the Democratic convention in Milwaukee, the 2020 general election contest, and even Tuesday's state Supreme Court race.
And be sure not to sleep on another special election going on today for a state Senate seat in southwest Pennsylvania.


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Sewage creates coastal 'cesspits'
SEWAGE overspills far in excess of the numbers permitted by environmental regulations are turning some of Wales' natural habitats into "cesspits", it was claimed yesterday.
Steffan RhysSenior Editor
Environment Agency Wales (EAW) had stipulated to Welsh Water that no more than 10 "storm" spills from each of three waste treatment works near an important West Wales environmental site are allowed annually.
Yet three plants within a few miles of each other at the Burry Inlet, between Llanelli and Swansea, recorded more than 100 spills each in the 12 months to December 2007. Campaigners claim a once thriving cockle habitat and a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) is being destroyed as a result.
The Llanelli and Gowerton waste water treatment works, and Northumberland Avenue sewage pumping station, all run by Welsh Water, recorded 111, 115 and 118 spills of storm sewage into the Burry Inlet in the past 12 months respectively.
Storm sewage is the result of the run-off of rain during wet weather, and is not required to be treated to the same extent as normal sewage.
Campaigners say excessive rainfall forces untreated raw sewage out into the estuary, which is a cockle harvesting area.
The Western Mail understands the treatment plants are capable of treating around 600 litres of sewage a second but campaigner and Carmarthenshire County councillor Bill Thomas claims amounts far in excess of that are being pumped there. "We believe they have so much effluent they are using the storm storage to deal with it. The overflow goes, without treatment, straight out to sea as raw sewage," he said, adding that its point of entry into the water, combined with tidal patterns, effectively created a "cesspit".
"The system is not fit for purpose. And it's not just a problem here, it's catching up with us all over the country."
He added, "Welsh Water and the Environment Agency have known for a long time that the estuary was suffering irreparable damage.
"The classification range is an SSSI, a Special Area of Conservation, a Special Protection Area and wetlands of international importance under the Ramsar Convention, so disposal of effluent should be treated very carefully.
"In 2005, 15,000 cockles died overnight. We believe it was due to water quality and oxygen starvation [due to bacteria from sewage] though this was denied by Welsh Water, EAW and South Wales Sea Fisheries, who said it was due to the density of cockles in the sand.
"But in 2006, 4,000 cockles died in Laugharne where there wasn't such a density – so what killed them?"
Plaid MEP Jill Evans met with campaigners earlier this year and yesterday called for an investigation.
"Whilst the threat at that time was to cockle beds what they seem to have uncovered is a wider pollution of the estuary as a whole, which is very serious," she said.
"The lack of capacity at treatment plants has been long understood though perhaps not to this extent."
Robert Griffiths, who has picked cockles in the area for 10 years, said, "We have never known the cockles to die like they have been. This has been put down to a number of things but not sewage.
"In the last year, we worked for six weeks, the year before that, eight. When I started, we were working 52 weeks of the year.
"As long as this continue to happen, cockles will die."
In an email sent from Welsh Water to the campaigners, the company says, "In order to achieve less than 10 spills we would have to build a total volume storage equivalent to 12 Olympic swimming pools.
"This is not considered feasible on operational, environmental or cost grounds.
"The scheme to reduce spills from Gowerton works was completed in early 2005. EAW policy required the spill frequency to be reduced to no more than 10 times per annum [this was later raised to 22, as the Agency can allow if analysis shows there will be no impact on shellfish quality].
"While the scheme initially reduced the spill frequency, it has since risen considerably. Welsh Water and EAW are working together to understand why flows arriving at Gowerton have increased so much over the last two years.
"By April 2008, we hope to have answers."
A spokesman added, "The scheme to reduce the number of spills at Llanelli works and Northumberland Avenue pumping station has not yet been implemented but again we are working closely with EAW."
A spokesman for EAW said there was no evidence that water quality was the cause of cockle mortality and a project led by Bangor University with the South Wales Sea Fisheries Committee has recently begun to establish possible causes.
The agency said considerable improvements to sewage treatment had been made at the plants, including biological treatment and ultraviolet light disinfection.
The spokesman said, "The problem of storm sewage has its origins in decisions made long before these plants were built.
"Most sewerage systems were built in the 19th or early 20th centuries as combined sewage systems.
"When it rains, the sewers fill up with huge quantities of mixed sewage and rain. This is more volume than the treatment plants can handle, but to keep the rain out of the sewers almost everybody's house would need to be modified and new clean water drains installed.
"We have been negotiating with Welsh Water a further improvement scheme that will prevent some clean water from entering the system, reduce the frequency of overflows and provide additional treatment for some storm flows.
"We have identified that the Gowerton works has had more storm overflows than it was designed to achieve. We are investigating this matter further and we have raised our concerns with Welsh Water, which they are investigating.
"We will be reviewing what further actions or improvements may be necessary to deal with this issue. Reducing spills of storm sewage is certainly a high priority."
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Sarah Sanders Slams April Ryan: She's 'Not Taken Seriously'
By Rusty Weiss | Featured Contributor | April 22, 2019 3:58PM
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders responded to April Ryan calling for her to have her 'head lopped off,' claiming the CNN reporter's comments show why she "is not taken seriously."
Ryan has embarked on an unhinged tirade ever since the Mueller report showed Sanders had made a "slip of the tongue … in the heat of the moment" when discussing rank-and-file agents expressing dismay at former director James Comey's leadership.
Sanders told reporters that "countless" agents had lost confidence in Comey, a claim she still holds to be true.
"Look, I acknowledged that I had a slip of the tongue when I used the word 'countless,' but it's not untrue," Sanders said on Fox News. "And certainly, you just echoed exactly the sentiment and the point I was making, [which] is that a number of both current and former FBI agents agreed with the president."
Ryan responded by declaring Sanders must be sacrificed for telling such an allegedly heinous lie.
No. Here's your statement you conveniently left out: "When there is a lack of credibility there, you have to start and start lopping the heads off." Every single day, @CNN is #fakenews. Contributor April Ryan adds to this. You're not a victim, April. https://t.co/09hFYbBsvu
— Radiance Foundation (@lifehaspurpose) April 22, 2019
"I have had reporters say a lot of things about me. They said I should be choked. I should deserve a lifetime of harassment. I certainly never had anybody say I should be decapitated," Sanders said in a 'Fox & Friends' interview. "A new low for liberal media."
"I think it just once again proves why this journalist is not taken seriously," she said, adding that journalists like Ryan are simply "looking for a couple more minutes on TV."
Sarah v. April
Sarah and April have a history of contentious exchanges, usually with Ryan ending up on the short end of the stick.
Following President Trump's first State of the Union address, Ryan attempted to debate Sanders over the Democrats' response. She wanted people to believe that this was part of the way things work in Washington, though nobody quite behaved in that manner for previous presidents.
Sanders leveled her with this response:
Sanders has also shut down Ryan when it comes to "ridiculous" questions about whether or not the President would resign, or why he allegedly didn't cooperate with investigators because his former lawyer had his office and home raided by the FBI.
April Ryan asks Sarah Sanders if President Donald Trump thought about resigning this week. pic.twitter.com/uUdcFjyoNv
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) April 10, 2018
Sanders also offered Ryan a lesson in how to wait your turn in previous exchanges.
Ryan Herself is a Liar
It's important to note that Ryan is infuriated over Sanders embellishing a statement to the media and believes it should cost her her job, but that the CNN reporter has been caught in several lies herself.
She has lied about the motivation behind Colin Kaepernick's National Anthem protests. She concocted a conspiracy theory that Sanders does not actually know how to bake pies.
And she was caught blatantly lying about her colleague Jim Acosta's life being in danger at a Trump rally.
Last August, Ryan claimed that the administration's characterization of her network as 'fake news' had out her life in danger and that she needed to hire bodyguards, adding Sanders should have to pay for them.
"They've put a target on my head … I've had death threats. I've had craziness," Ryan claimed. "All I'm going to say for my safety is: I have a team … I think she should have to pay for it, especially if she's stirring it up with her boss."
Jim Acosta Gets Reprimanded by Trump, Immediately Shuts Down
If Ryan thinks that calling her network 'fake news' results in death threats, what will saying Sanders should have her head 'lopped off' result in? Perhaps she should now be paying for Sanders' security.


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Boy of Eight and Girl Nine Years Old Die In Fire.
RIB LAKE, Wis., Feb. 1.---In a fire which destroyed the house of Isaac Webb in the town of Greenwood, the two oldest children, a boy and a girl, 8 and 9 years old respectively, were burned. Webb was seriously burned in trying to save them.
Three children who slept down stairs with the parents were saved.


This winter, the Village has a new PARKING DURING SNOW SEASON ordinance. Parking is prohibited on any Village Street during a snow emergency. A snow emergency is declared when two (2) inches of snow or more are predicted by the National Weather Service out of Flint or White Lake, whichever is higher.
After a snow emergency, parking will remain prohibited until 24 hours after the snowfall has ended.
The ordinance covering downtown parking during snow season has not changed.


The Government ordered a ''preventive evacuation'' today of about 30,000 residents in the Armero Valley, where 25,000 people were killed in November in a volcanic eruption that unleashed torrents of mud.
A presidential spokesman, Victor Ricardo, said the measure by the National Committee of Emergency came after the Nevado del Ruiz volcano began spewing ash at about 3 A.M.
Mr. Ricardo, president of the emergency committee, said in a radio announcement today that residents along the rivers in the Armero Valley should begin moving to higher ground.
The police said the evacuation began at 6 A.M. in the towns of Ambalema, Chinchina, Honda and Mariquita.
The combined population of the four towns is estimated at 30,000 to 40,000.
The Nevado del Ruiz erupted on Nov. 13, melting part of its snowcap and creating a 150-foot-high wave of mud that swept down the Lagunilla River. The mud and debris buried the town of Armero and partly destroyed 13 villages.
About 23,000 of Armero's 28,000 residents were killed. The Government has said 2,000 other people are dead or missing in Chinchina on the opposite side of the volcano.


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Q: For loop check if string only has 3 capital letters followed by 4 numbers I input a string that has to start with three capital letters and ending with four digits (like so: "SJL1036") the program is just supposed to check if my input follows that model.
if i were to input "Sjl1036" og "SJL103" it would output that it is a false statement.

A: Try this regular expression. 3 uppercase, 4 numbers.
^[A-Z]{3}[0-9]{4}$

For example:
var value = "FSK2526";
if (Regex.IsMatch(value, @"^[A-Z]{3}[0-9]{4}$")) {
   // it matches
}

A: If this is the requirement:

A string that has to start with three capital letters and ending with
  four digits

Probably the most efficient approach is using string methods:
bool valid = input.Length >= 7
    && input.Remove(3).All(Char.IsUpper) // or input.Substring(0, 3)
    && input.Substring(input.Length - 4).All(Char.IsDigit);

If the actual requirement is "3 capital letters followed by 4 numbers"(so 7 characters) you just need to change input.Length >= 7 to input.Length == 7.

A: Although you could do it with for loop, but you could simplify it further with regex like:
Regex regex = new Regex(@"^[A-Z]{3}.*[0-9]{4}$");
Match match = regex.Match("SJL1036");
if (match.Success)
{
    Console.WriteLine(match.Value);
}

A: A non-Regex option, You can use a bit of LINQ like:
string str = "SJL1036";
if (str.Length == 7 &&
    str.Take(3).All(char.IsUpper)
    && str.Skip(3).All(char.IsDigit))
{
    Console.WriteLine("valid");
}
else
{
    Console.WriteLine("invalid");
}


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