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Florence and Muscle Shoals Alabama
Interior view of the Rosenbaum house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
Live music at the annual Billy Reid Shindig at Blackberry Farm
The W.C. Handy Home, Museum & Library
Touching the ivories at FAME Recording Studios in Muscle Shoals
Touring the site of the former Forks of Cypress plantation
Dinner at the 360 Grille with spectacular views of the city
The historic Pope's Tavern Museum, a former stagecoach stop, inn and tavern
Viewing record album covers inside Muscle Shoals Sound Studio
Years of music history and tributes inside the Alabama Music Hall of Fame
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Discovering legendary music towns on the Tennessee River
If you've ever heard of the Rolling Stones, Paul Simon or Aretha Franklin, you've heard of Florence and Muscle Shoals, Alabama – or at least, you know what they sound like. In this unassuming corner of northwest Alabama lies a small town that has turned out some of the most recognizable songs and voices in music. It's the birthplace of the "Father of the Blues," W.C. Handy, and the origin of the Muscle Shoals Sound, a mix of Gospel, Blues and Soul with Rock and Country tones. Music is the biggest hit in Florence, but visitors can also tune into unique historical sites, eclectic shopping and mouthwatering comfort food.
Music Roots, from Classic to Contemporary
Start at the W.C. Handy Birthplace, Museum & Library. It's in this tiny log cabin that the Father of the Blues was born and composed defining songs like "St. Louis Blues," "Beale Street Blues" and "Memphis Blues." If you visit in July, plan to attend the 10-day W.C. Handy Music Festival. Tour the legendary FAME Recording Studios, where musicians like Etta James, Aretha Franklin and the Drive-By Truckers have recorded. In 1969, musicians from FAME Studios broke away to form Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, subsequently turning out chart-toppers by Willie Nelson, Paul Simon, Rod Stewart and hundreds more. The full scope of Alabama's musical influence is on display at the Alabama Music Hall of Fame, packed with awards and memorabilia from more than 1,200 artists, writers and managers.
American History Exploration
Climb the 2,000-year-old Florence Indian Mound and visit the Indian Mound Museum to see relics dating as far back as the Ice Age. Drive along the Natchez Trace Parkway, which follows a 715-kilometer path created and used heavily by traders and Native American tribes. One must-see stop is Tom's Wall, recognized as the largest un-mortared rock wall in the USA. Tom Hendrix built the tiered wall in honor of his great-great grandmother, a member of the Yuchi tribe who was forced to leave her home and walk the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma, but perilously found her way back to Alabama.
Continue your history tour at Pope's Tavern and Museum – a former stagecoach shop, tavern and inn turned command post during the American Civil War – where you can view relics and hear stories from the past. Find Helen Keller's birthplace in nearby Tuscumbia, with tours available Monday through Saturday. Attend the Helen Keller Festival in June or see "The Miracle Worker," a play dedicated to her life that runs weekends in June and July. Frank Lloyd Wright's Rosenbaum House is a must-see for any architecture fan; this single-family home has been called the perfect example of a Usonian work, Wright's vision for modern, affordable architecture. Schedule a walking tour of the University of North Alabama campus, home to several Civil War-era buildings and the school's two live lion mascots.
Where to Eat, Drink and Stay
Visit downtown Florence for locally owned shops, restaurants and live music. Find men's fine fashions at Billy Reid or Jar & Company, funky women's items at aptly named The Eclectic, vintage vinyl records at Underground Art & Sound and made-in-the-USA jewelry and gifts at Perennial Supply Co. Hungry yet? Order a beer at Singin' River Brewery followed by the lunch special from Odette or a slaw dog from Bunyan's Bar-B-Q. The 360 Grille, a rotating restaurant overlooking the Tennessee River, is an exceptional option for fine dining with a view. Get off the beaten path for dinner and live music at the Rattlesnake Saloon, a festive venue tucked into a cave-like setting under a massive rock.
The University of North Alabama mascots, two live lions, live on the university campus.
The cover photo for Cher's 3614 Jackson Highway album was taken in front of Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, where she recorded the songs.
The Rosenbaum House is the only Frank Lloyd Wright-designed structure in Alabama.
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Muscle Shoals, Alabama: the small town that's given the world some of its biggest hits
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Adventures in the Great Outdoors
Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama: Mission Control for Otherworldly Adventures
A Weekend in Tupelo
Fall for Waterfalls in Tennessee
5 Flowers You'll Only Find in the USA
Remembering the Historic South in Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee
Bite Into Barbecue at One of These 7 Great Festivals
Neversink Pit
Columbus: Culture, Cuisine and Southern Charm
Dinner, Drinks and Music in Birmingham, Alabama: A Day-to-Night Guide to Fun
Alabama's Historic Sights and Southern Charm
Birmingham, Alabama: 3 Reasons Everyone is Noticing the Culinary Scene
Birmingham, Alabama: A City Steeped in History and Filled with Culture
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The Great Smoky Mountains: A Natural Trip From Nashville
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Country Music Festival Guide
Nashville, Tennessee: Fabulous Music, Nightlife and Unique Attractions in the Music City
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Home › BaviPower Viking Blog › Did the Viking Berserkers Use Drugs To Go Berserk?
Did the Viking Berserkers Use Drugs To Go Berserk?
Posted by Ms Elly on June 20, 2019
Viking berserker was one of the most elite Viking warriors. Legend had it that Viking berserkers would join the battle without wearing any armour or only wearing bearskin. But they entered a kind of trance state that knew nothing but wielding their axe.
The scholars always attempt to explain how these Viking berserkers went on to fight like that. Was it a kind of possession or any use of drugs or exaggeration of literal text?
However, the most widely accepted theory was the Viking warriors consumed a kind of drugs of their age.
Some remaining Viking sagas helped the historians believe that these warriors consumed a kind of hallucination mushroom that brought them to that kind of state.
Viking berserker would know nothing but wielding their axe to behead someone (Cre: Vikings TV Series)
The most famous kind of drugs in the Viking Age could have been the Amanita muscaria, a kind of hallucination mushroom. This kind of mushroom was known as the fly agaric which originally grew in the Northern Hemisphere and later spread.
Some archaeological evidence also cemented the point that the Viking warriors once used drugs.
In the grave of an alleged seeress in the Viking Age, the archaeologists found out a number of Henbane seeds. This woman got an extremely stunning grave which presented her social rank and she was accompanied by a wand. In Viking Age, a seeress was known as a volva and the word "volva" meant "the carrier of the wand". This type of seeds was also known as "crazy seed" or "crazy plant".
The seeds were crushed into powder and the Vikings could have rubbed it on their skin.
Viking berserkers
In the Oseberg burial mound in Norway, the archaeologists also found a leather slack of cannabis. However, some scholars debunked the theory that the Vikings used cannabis. Rather, they claimed that the old woman buried inside the Oseberg ship was hurt and she wanted to relieve herself from this pain by using cannabis.
Tags: Viking age, Viking Legend, Viking Tradition

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Notes on the vocalizations of Bridled White-eye (Zosterops conspicillatus)
In the following we briefly analyze and compare voice of the two races of Bridled White-eye (Zosterops conspicillatus). We also try to quantify the extent of any vocal differences using the criteria proposed by Tobias et al. (2010), as a support for taxonomic review. We have made use of sound recordings available on-line from Xeno Canto (XC) and Macaulay Library (ML).
Vocabulary seems to be quite varied. An overview of vocalizations based on the available recordings (illustrated with multiple examples in the pdf version of this note):
saypani: medium-pitched chirps, low-pitched chirps, high-pitched notes, nasal notes and song-like high-pitched phrases
conspicillatus (Guam, n=4): There are few recordings available of nominate, and this is unlikely to change given that this taxon is presumably extinct. Buzzy notes and high-pitched notes (if those are of the White-eye ??)
It would thus seem that vocabulary is rather distinct, saypani lacking the buzzy notes which are seemingly typical for conspicillatus. For comparison, we also include recordings from Yap: H. hypolais : Sparrow-like downslurred chirps, rattles, plaintive, burry notes and sparrow-like upslurred chirps. Vocabulary of these three taxa is thus clearly distinct.
Vocal differences were already noted in HBW (van Balen 2016): Song of nominate race a lilting series of buzzy notes, "zeeip-zee-zee-zoo-zip", and calls a buzzy chirp "cheep" or "tszeeip", lacking high-pitched calls of saypani. Race saypani has higher-pitched, less buzzy calls, with chirps often rapidly uttered and organized into loose song; "confusion" chorus described. Calls of both races, especially in flight, sound like those of House Sparrow (Passer domesticus); in flocks a series of "chit-chit" notes, and whining vocalizations, which used also in agonistic interactions.
These differences can be confirmed to a large extent by the above sonogram examples. Quantifying differences is not straightforward given that it is not clear which are homologous calls. It is however clear that saypani has a more extensive vocabulary (2), including several high-pitched call notes unlike nominate (2) and lacking notes with a distinct buzzy sound quality (2). In absence of a clear set of homologous vocalizations, we estimate the total vocal score to be about 4.
This note was finalized on 28th June 2016, using sound recordings available on-line at that moment. We would like to thank in particular the sound recordists who placed their recordings for this species on XC and ML: James Bradley and (especially) Douglas Pratt.
van Balen, B. (2016). Bridled White-eye (Zosterops conspicillatus). In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. (retrieved from http://www.hbw.com/node/60166 on 28 June 2016).
More Information: on263_bridled_white-eye.pdf
Boesman, P. (2016). Notes on the vocalizations of Bridled White-eye (Zosterops conspicillatus). HBW Alive Ornithological Note 263. In: Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow-on.100263


Let me be absolutely clear right up front; I have zero interest in and no knowledge or understanding of football. In my opinion it's a violent, concussion-inducing game right up there with cage fighting. Any time I've tried to watch a game I'm bored to tears within four minutes watching overpaid fat guys run a few yards and fall down, or more often, get knocked down—then, get up, only to run and fall down again. I can think of four hundred things I'd rather be doing with my time than watching such masochism.
My husband has the polar opposite attitude toward football. He loves it and in an ideal world he would watch it on television non-stop all day every day. He's been known to get up in the middle of the night when he can't sleep and watch a prerecorded college game. He even prefers to watch the Super Bowl alone on his own TV with no distractions so he can concentrate and focus totally on the plays. So you see we're not on the same team when it comes to football. I have no objection to him watching football until his eyeballs fall out as long as he wears his headphones and doesn't try to involve me.
This year's Super Bowl on Sunday was a turning point however. He made a tactical error that I plan to capitalize on for the rest of his life. After the third quarter of the big multi-bazillion-dollar game between the Los Angeles Rams and the New England Patriots, he emerged from his man-cave and declared that it was the most boring football game he'd ever seen. "There was no offense; just defense and at the end of the third quarter the score is only 3/3." I guess there was no blood and guts, no questionable calls, no brilliant plays and in general, no excitement. He complained that even the much-anticipated commercials were boring. I'm sure the companies that invested $5.2 million for their 30-second slot would be thrilled to hear that. Things picked up only slightly at the end of the fourth quarter and as we all know the Patriots won—again! Yawn.
The only conclusion I can draw from this experience is that I was right all along. I was better off watching Masterpiece Theatre where the blood is fake and the suspense is guaranteed. It's my intention to milk this vindication of my attitude toward football until our ashes are resting side by side on a quiet hilltop far from big-screen televisions. I knew all along I was right; it just took the 2019 Super Bowl to prove it.
But is she Oscar worthy?
Totally with you girlfriend…. Went to a SB party and the best part was catching up with people I hadn't seen for awhile. At least now the season is over. .. Only wish I could say the same for hockey… . It goes into May/June….how stupid is that!


" From bright colors, unique borders, layering and creative ways with text, there are endless concepts we can draw from Frida Kahlo's artwork and personal diaries to use in our own journals.
Frida's pages would often have two layers of writing-one on top of the other, ( the paler one underneath was impossible to read, but the one in black ink , on the surface was usually legible). She liked to begin many of her pages by spilling a blob of paint into her book and closing it. This makes for a great intuitive exercise, and one you could try yourself. A few of Frida's pages bled through, but you could put a piece of cardboard behind the pages before spilling the paint to avoid this.
After opening the book, you'll have an abstract blob that you can play around with. Frida would use a crayon and trace around portions of the shape. You can transform the abstract images into self-portraits like she did, or just pick up whatever is on your worktable, like the bottoms of paint bottles or a coffee cup, set it in the paint and make a print of it on the page.
Using a small paintbrush and acrylic paint, write on the background. Don't try to get the letters even. Your handwriting is a reflection of you and says more on a page than a typed or hand-stamped phrase. Make mistakes and work loosely. Doodle around the edges.


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import org.teachingextensions.logo.Tortoise;
import org.teachingextensions.logo.utils.ColorUtils.ColorWheel;
import org.teachingextensions.logo.utils.ColorUtils.PenColors;

public class DoubleLoop
{
  public static void main(String[] args)
  {
    Tortoise.show();
    Tortoise.setX(225);
    Tortoise.setY(150);
    Tortoise.setSpeed(10);
    //
    ColorWheel.addColor(PenColors.Reds.Crimson);
    ColorWheel.addColor(PenColors.Reds.DarkRed);
    ColorWheel.addColor(PenColors.Reds.FireBrick);
    for (int i = 0; i < 6; i++)
    {
      Tortoise.setPenColor(ColorWheel.getNextColor());
      Tortoise.move(i * 4);
      Tortoise.turn(360 / -6);
      for (int j = 0; j < 15; j++)
      {
        Tortoise.setPenWidth(17);
        //              Move the tortoise 8 times the current line number you are drawing --#8.1
        Tortoise.move(j * 8);
        //              Turn the tortoise 1/5 of 360 degrees to the right --#6
        Tortoise.turn(360 / 5);
      }
      //    Hide the Tortoise --#10
      Tortoise.hide();
      Tortoise.getBackgroundWindow().setBackground(PenColors.Yellows.PeachPuff);
    }
    Tortoise.setX(300);
    Tortoise.setY(200);
    //    Do the following 5 times --#12.1
    for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
    {
      Tortoise.setPenColor(PenColors.Grays.Black);
      //        Move the Tortoise 25 pixels --#11
      Tortoise.move(25);
      //        Turn the tortoise 1/5 of 360 degrees to the right --#13
      Tortoise.turn(360 / 5);
    }
  }
}

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Can you clarify the difference between exceptional talent and exceptional promise?
All applicants will be reviewed under the same criteria whether they are endorsed for Exceptional Talent or Exceptional Promise. Exceptional Promise candidates will qualify under this route on the basis that they can demonstrate the potential to become world leader in digital technology but have not quite gotten there yet. Exceptional Promise candidates will still need to provide evidence to meet one mandatory and two qualifying criteria.
Is it possible to apply for both stages together?
How can rapidly scaling companies best prepare to bring in foreign talent in future when they can't always anticipate their hiring needs?
Companies should do their best to familiarise themselves with the immigration options in advance. They can seek legal advice about the best way to do this. Companies can apply for a sponsor licence and do some research into the Tech Nation Visa scheme ahead of time to see if the people they need to recruit can be brought in via these routes.
In terms of the endorsement letter, how is "tech expert/firm" defined?
Tech expert is defined a senior member of an organisation (eg. tech company, university, corporation) that has worked with or can vouch for the applicant. Agencies can qualify if the person in question is at a senior level and has enough of a relationship with the applicant to endorse them.
Is this open for "non tech" roles at tech innovation companies besides business executives?
Yes – this route is open to all roles within the tech space even besides executives. Applicants will however need to work in a role that is either directly or indirectly related to the digital technology sector and will need to meet the eligibility criteria for endorsement.
What if we apply for Tech North endorsement, will application be judged by Tech North or Tech City UK?
Tech North is a sister organisation of Tech City UK and we work very closely on this initiative. All applications must be sent to the Home Office which then sends these on to Tech City UK for review.
How many Tier 1 Exceptional Talent Visa are issued per year? How many via Tech Nation?
The Tier 1 (Exceptional Talent) route has 1,000 allocated endorsements between the five designated bodies. Tech City UK has 200 per year allocated endorsements.
Where do applicants tend to fall?
Applicants tend to not submit enough varied evidence to demonstrate they meet the criteria. Applications sometimes consist of only letters of recommendation which do not hold a lot of weight when not combined with other forms of documentation.
Is this a process that is better managed with the help of an immigration lawyer or reasonable enough that an applicant can do it themselves?
Applicants will not necessarily need an immigration lawyer for the application process itself. However, it may be helpful to seek legal advice if they are unsure what route is best for them and whether they can qualify under this visa route. If you need legal advice please refer to our legal partners on our website.


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This Industrial Style Side Table Would Be A Great Addition To Any Modern Or Contemporary Household. A Brilliant Display Unit And Therefore Both Practical & Visually Beautiful At The Same Time. A Real Talking Point With All Your Friends & Family.


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Q: Difference in calling method on object or passing object as function argument What is difference in calling method on object or passing object as function argument, and accordingly to that how do I pass argument in method call? Simply putting placeholder as argument didn't produced desired effect. Do I have to iterate trough all property names(not values) and then compare given argument (as property name) to real property name in object?
Here is heavily commented piece of code, because I'm curious what exactly is happening.
// create object constructor
function Foo(prop1, prop2) {
    this.prop1 = prop1;
    this.prop2 = prop2;
    // create object method PrintObjectPropertyM
    // and retreive property value
    // * there is M at the end of property to distinguish
    // method/function name

    // how can I add placeholder/argument in method and then
    // call method on object with provided argument (here prop1 or prop2)
    this.printObjectPropertyM = function() {
        console.log(this.prop1);
    };
}

// instantiate new object Bar of Foo type
var Bar = new Foo("prop1val", "prop2val");

// create function which print object property and take object as an argument
var printObjectProperty = function(object) {
    console.log(object.prop1);
};

// call printObjectProperty with Bar object as an argument
printObjectProperty(Bar); // logs prop1var in console

// call Bar method printObjectPropertyM
Bar.printObjectPropertyM(); // logs prop1val in console

Please be kind and correct me if is something wrong in my comments, code or pseudocode.

A: Solution
You should use [] notation to access the object's property by its name.
Create a method inside your constructor:
function Foo(prop1val, prop2val) {
   this.prop1 = prop1val;
   this.prop2 = prop2val;
   this.PrintProperty = function (name) {
      if (this.hasOwnProperty(name)) {
         console.log(this[name]);
      }
   }
}

Now call it:
var bar = new Foo("prop1val", "prop2val");
bar.PrintProperty("prop1");

Links

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*Property Accessors - JavaScript | MDN

*hasOwnProperty - JavaScript | MDN

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Morning training. A familiar sight year round on Lake Karapiro on the Waikato River 10km south east of the CBD. Rowing has been a constant on Karapiro Hydro Dam, one of eight on our river, since it was built and commissioned in the 1940s.


This miracle conditioner has been designed to be layered, acting as a traditional conditioner, a nourishing scalp cream, a leave-in conditioner and a high performance styling tool. Harnessing the restorative and structuring properties of oats, infused with our signature blend of hair oils to protect and create manageable, soft hair without any build-up.
- Infuses the hair with deep moisture in a way that is designed to be layered. - Restores and protects the hair, adding buoyancy and increased ability to smooth the hair. - Moisture infusion enhances hair colour and creates shine & lustre. - Topical application will soothe and calm an irritated scalp. - Reduces frizz and fly-away hair, whilst restoring long lasting moisture to the entire hair shaft. - Suitable for all hair types.
Really love this, softens and tames frizz without build up. No silicones and smells amazing.


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Body and Skin Detoxification - the natural occurring iodine in seaweed enhances the metabolic stimulation that happens after your body absorbs the nutrient from the seaweed. As the wrap is washed off, all the toxins and dead skin cells drawn to the surface by the wrap will be washed away as well.
Relaxation and Rejuvenation - you'll feel like a new person physically and mentally after having your seaweed wrap. Not only from the antioxidants in the seaweed, which work to rebuild the skin's proteins and elasticity, but the vitamin-A rich seaweed which boosts the whole body's health as well. You cannot overlook the fact you took time out of your day to slow down, relax... and treat yourself.


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namespace App\Controllers;

use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\JsonResponse;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;

class AppsController extends BaseController
{
    public function getDataFromRequest(Request $request)
    {
        return array(
            'name'     => $request->request->get('name'),
            'conf'     => $request->request->get('conf'),
            'username' => $this->getCurrentUser()
        );
    }

    public function connect($id, $instance_id)
    {
        $this->service->connect($id, $instance_id)
    }

    public function deploy($id, $instance_id)
    {

    }
}


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Q: Promise.all().then() - then() executes before all() completed In a gulp task I have the following code that creates an array of gitAction promises that get executed within a Promise.all() statement. Afterwards, I'm calling a further statement in a then(). But the then() is being called before the git pulls in the all() have terminated. Any clues please?
var git = require('gulp-git');
var gitActionPromise = function(repo, url) {
    console.log('git action '+repo);
    var pathToRepo = './repos/'+repo;

    if (fs.lstatSync(pathToRepo).isDirectory()) {
        return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
            git.pull('origin', 'master', {cwd: pathToRepo}, function (err) {
                console.log(repo + " pull done!");
                if (err) {
                    console.log('error');
                    reject(err);
                } else {
                    console.log('ok');
                    resolve();
                }
            })
        })
    } else {
        return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
            git.clone(url, {cwd: pathToRepo}, function (err) {
                console.log(repo + " clone done!");
                if (err) {
                    console.log('error');
                    reject(err);
                } else {
                    console.log('ok');
                    resolve();
                }
            })
        })
    }
};

var repos = package.repos || {};
var promises = Object.keys(repos).map(function(repo) {
    return gitActionPromise(repo, repos[repo]);
});

Promise.all(promises).then(
    console.log('something else')   <= this line was causing my issue
);                                     needed to be enclosed in function

A: You have to pass a function to then:
Promise.all(promises).then(function() {
    console.log('something else');
});

The code you have simply logs "something else" right away.


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Beginning the new school year with Hello ICE
News date: September 1, 2020
Today begins the new school year and children, longing for their peers, return to schools and kindergartens after almost a half-year break. For the Hello ICE programme, it's time for new tasks, a chance to meet students and pre-schoolers and, above all, road safety education for youngsters.
Budimex has also created an interactive map of dangerous spots around schools and kindergartens, the objective of which is, in cooperation with local authorities, to develop ways to eliminate them as soon as possible. Ready-to-use lesson plans focused on the subject of safety are published on the website of the programme. There are also quizzes, which can be solved by children together with their teachers.
In 2019, a Safety Day was organised in schools and kindergartens under the Hello ICE programme, which was attended by more than 800 children. As part of the programme, the company distributed 1,400 reflective elements and ICE (In Case of Emergency) contact cards. The map of dangerous spots was marked with nearly 400 critical locations near educational facilities.
"Hello ICE puts emphasis on road safety education from the earliest age. We believe that children learn more effectively through play, so the hero of our lessons and Safety Days is a tiger named Budi. Last year's edition clearly showed that both the goal and the selected tools proved successful. When the pandemic started, we didn't slow down the pace. We conducted our activities online and extended them to network security. In our activities we are supported by the ambassador of Hello ICE, Sebastian Mila, former Polish football representative," stresses Katarzyna Wójcik, Communication Expert in Budimex SA.
This school year, Budimex will be continuously adapting its activities to epidemiological requirements. Safety Days will be organised in the open air or in the form of webinars. Budimex also plans to paint a 3D zebra crossing in the vicinity of three schools indicated on the programme map in order to increase the safety of children on their way to and from school.
Schools and kindergartens can continue to apply for this year's Hello ICE edition in order to win a Safety Day in their school and meet with the hero of the action, Budi the tiger.
The Hello ICE programme received the patronage of the Ministry of National Education and the Ministry of Infrastructure.
Lesson plans, quizzes for children, and a map where you can mark a dangerous spot around a school or kindergarten can be found at www.helloice.pl.
We also invite you to visit our Facebook and Instagram profile.
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Fishing boat Andigee being towed back to Blyth harbour by Tynemouth RNLI yesterday after suffering a fouled propeller.
A Tynemouth RNLI lifeboat was called out to tow a Blyth fishing boat to safety yesterday.
The 10 metre boat Andigee, crewed by two people, had been fishing 12 miles east of the Blyth coast when it got snagged on something in the water.
When they tried to pull away, the nets they had become entangled in got stuck around the propellers, making it unable to return to shore.
As a result, the allweather lifeboat was launched from Tynemouth to free the boat and tow it back to Blyth harbour.


Cartier would like to run a video ad campaign in Q2 2016 to precisely and effectively reach the target audience for its new men's watch The Cartier Drive on mobile while delivering a dazzling brand experience.
The brand also hoped to effectively outreach a larger size of target audience and maximize its touchpoints with them.
We identified the characteristics of Cartier's core target audience group for men's watches via their searching, browsing and social behaviors online using iClick Interactive's multidimensional data map. We then adopted the "look-alike" strategy to algorithmically expand target audience reach.
Using our MoTV native ad solution, Cartier's video ad was delivered programmatically via our platform to premium apps that best fit the brand's target audience's profile in an in-feeds format, significantly boosting the campaign's average CTR to 1.58%, which was 1.58 times higher than that of standard mobile display ad in the market.
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Threats of deportation prevent workers from speaking out against workplace conditions
By Luis Feliz Leon (PRISM Reports)
After a liquid nitrogen leak last month at a poultry processing plant in Gainesville, Georgia, killed six workers and injured a dozen others, representatives from the Foundation Food Group are grilling the survivors about their nationality and immigration status before allowing them to access medical care and worker's compensation. As investigators probe the cause of the tragedy, advocates say the sudden focus on their immigration status has left many workers too intimidated to speak out.
In response, advocates have organized legal clinics and taken to social media to post messages in Spanish informing poultry plant workers of their rights.
"When we hear of these forms of abuse and intimidation, we feel it's important to let workers know their rights. These questions are completely immaterial to whether or not they need medical care," said Paul Glaze, a spokesperson for Georgia Familias Unidas, a mutual aid organization, in a statement to Prism. Doug Rohan, of the Atlanta-based Rohan Law and a workers' compensation expert, added that since 1995 the court of appeals for the state of Georgia has prohibited insurance companies from factoring in immigration status when approving or denying benefits like workers' compensation.
The Foundation Food Group didn't respond to multiple requests for comment regarding the allegations that company representatives asked poultry plant workers about their nationality and immigration status in order for them to access workers' compensation.
With the largely immigrant workforce at the poultry plant terrified into silence, the situation unfolding in Gainesville highlights a dangerous intersection between immigration enforcement and workers' rights, where the threat of detention or deportation prevents workers from speaking out about workplace conditions that put their lives at risk.
While COVID-19 has drawn increased attention to the dangerous conditions workers can face in the meatpacking industry, many of the risks long predate the pandemic. The laws that would normally protect workers' health and safety have proven to be fickle against the brute force of the meatpacking industry, and so have the ones protecting other violations of workers' rights like wage theft and retaliation. The storied impunity of industry employers has been catalogued extensively for nearly 15 years in Human Rights Watch's Blood, Sweat, and Fear report, looking at the abusive business practices and violations of workers' rights. Officially, workers who speak out are supposed to be protected.
"All workers, regardless of documentation status, are protected by law against retaliation for complaining about workplace conditions or cooperating in an OSHA [Occupational Safety and Health Administration] inspection," said Michael Felsen, an Access to Justice Fellow with Justice at Work and a former Department of Labor regional solicitor. But the reality workers face on the ground paints a starkly different picture.
A climate of fear
The city of Gainesville, known as the "Poultry Capital of the World," is located in northeast Georgia, a short 50-mile drive from Atlanta, and has a population of more than 40,000, with Latinxs representing about 40% of its residents, and the largest concentration of undocumented immigrants in the country. This city of immigrants has been gripped by a fear of deportation so severe that a whole taxi industry has sprung up for workers to use taxis rather than risk driving, according to The New York Times.
In this context, setting workers up for deportation can be an especially potent means of retaliation. Workers say managers in the poultry industry are aware that a large segment of the workforce in Gainesville is undocumented, and use that knowledge to coerce and silence workers desperate for any employment they can get.
"They know," said Juan Sandoval in an interview with Prism. Sandoval is a 13-year veteran of the poultry processing industry, having worked at three different plants in Gainesville (but never at the Foundation plant). "There are very few companies here that really follow regulations and do not accept a social security that is not yours, or a fake green card, and it is not legal but the poultry plants do, the poultry plants do take it," he said. Sandoval knew all the Latinx workers who tragically died at the Foundation Food Group, even though he didn't work there himself.
He said the poultry plant system is a "very, very bad place for our Latino community, but unfortunately, there's no choice [but] to work there."
Once immigrant workers are hired, they have to contend with employers who wield their status as a tool of suppression, Sandoval explained. He's experienced it firsthand. Once, Sandoval learned that a particular manager had sexually harassed women in the plant. When he confronted the manager, the man questioned his immigration status and legal documents and reduced his work hours in an apparent bid to silence him.
But it isn't just individual supervisors. The entire apparatus of law enforcement and federal immigration agencies coalesce to create a climate of fear, especially in light of ICE raids at meatpacking facilities stretching from Ohio's Fresh Mark to Koch Foods in Mississippi, in which 680 undocumented immigrants were arrested in the single-largest raid ever carried out in the U.S. In August 2019, one week after the Mississippi raid, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that hundreds of Gainesville poultry workers left their jobs fearing an impending raid. In 2006, federal immigration authorities raided a chicken plant and nearby homes in Stillmore, Georgia, arresting more than 120 people.
"Raids by ICE have long had devastating consequences but the past four years were disastrous," said Marcy Goldstein-Gelb co-executive director of National COSH. "Knowing that the prior administration was fomenting anti-immigrant sentiment, ICE was used by employers to silence workers. Even worse, ICE itself helped silence workers in cases like the Hard Rock Hotel, when a worker witness to the deadly collapse was deported."
The harmful impact of raids goes far beyond the directly impacted families. ICE raids at workplaces, Felsen added, "are exceptionally harmful not only to the workers directly impacted, and their families, but to all workers too."
"Because the message delivered is: 'If you speak out, if you complain about your conditions, you're in danger. So don't speak out,'" Felsen continued. "And so, the government needs to send a different message, loudly and clearly, and back it with policy and action: We want you to speak up, and we will protect you."
Taking back power
In response to this climate of fear, advocates in Georgia and across the country are fighting back with solidarity, taking care of each through mutual aid, legal clinics, and sometimes just providing an empathetic ear to listen. They are demanding an end to the very conditions that make these exploitative conditions possible in the first place. In addition to the bare basics of food, shelter, and good health, advocates point to a new vocabulary of radical demands that have emerged and solidified into a set of concrete counterproposals defining possibilities for solidarity and militancy: end the deportation and detention system and stop the criminalization of immigrants.
To that end, on Feb. 1 at a virtual news conference, a coalition of over 50 immigrant rights, civic groups, and labor unions announced they had sent a letter to state and federal officials and the Foundation Food Group's legal counsel with three demands:
Foundation Food must not intimidate, harass, or retaliate against workers or their families.
The U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission must conduct a full and comprehensive investigation.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement must be prohibited from carrying out any enforcement activity during this investigation against any Foundation Food workers, their families, or the immigrant communities in the region.
Apart from the raids, the letter pointed to other instances where immigrants spoke out against injustice and later faced reprisals from immigration enforcement, from the deportation of witnesses to the abuse women suffered at Georgia's Irwin County Detention Center to the case of Rosa, a survivor and cooperating witness in the mass shooting at Walmart in El Paso, Texas in 2019, who was deported to Mexico last month after a traffic stop by the El Paso police.
"These Foundation Food workers, their families, and other immigrant communities in the region should not be targeted or subject to a similar fate," the letter continues.
The worry is particularly acute in Gainesville, where the city participates in the Secure Communities and 287(8) programs that permit ICE and local law enforcement to work together in reporting undocumented immigrants. Advocates for the poultry families, including Georgia Familias Unidas and their allies, are demanding an end to the cooperation between local law enforcement and the immigration system, which ensnares undocumented immigrants in deportation proceedings for minor infractions like a broken taillight.
As advocates seek to protect one set of vulnerable workers in one particular incident from deportation, the need to dismantle the whole deportation and detention apparatus has grown more urgent, and a once unthinkable demand for more mainstream advocates has emerged as the most viable option on the table: amnesty now!
"We believe this is a viable option if the Senate fails to act on comprehensive immigration reform," Domingo Garcia, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, told USA Today.
Maria Del Rosario Palacios, the founder of Georgia Familias Unidas, similarly agrees.
"A call for amnesty is as necessary as the essential labor we, and many others, provide to this country, " Palacios said.
By Luis Feliz Leon (PRISM Reports) | March 13, 2021
What I have learned spending more time in rural areas is that the connective tissues among people in smaller communities are more taut so any disruptions tend to be disproportionate and lasting.
The Climate Crisis Is Coming for Undocumented Farmworkers First
Facing deadly heat waves and few protections, undocumented agricultural workers are being pushed to their limit.
Meatpacking workers like my family deserve to be protected during and after the pandemic
PPE isn't enough. Mental health services, better wages, and a path to citizenship should all be on the table.


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MY TV: A new tool to increase gospel outreach, promote peace in Ethiopia
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia/GENEVA
The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus leaders during the inauguration of MY TV in Addis Ababa; from left, Rev. Dr Kiros Lakew (Vice-President), Rev. Teshome Amenu (General Secretary), Rev. Yonas Yigezu (President) and Mr Girma Borishe (Commissioner, Development and Social Services Commission). Photo: EECMY/Ruth Osmundsen
Lutheran church inaugurates its first TV station
(LWI) – The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY) has officially launched its first national television station, seeking to expand its outreach in sharing the gospel, providing holistic education and serving people in need.
Mekane Yesus TV or MY TV currently broadcasts in the two widely spoken languages, Amharic and Afaan Oromo, with a long-term vision of including more languages in the future. [https://www.facebook.com/MekaneYesusTV]
EECMY President Rev. Yonas Yigezu described the 1 December inauguration as historic for a church that is committed to providing sound biblical teaching. "We see every member as a disciple, with a responsibility to share the gospel with others." The goal is to reach more than 30 million people over the next five years, with members providing the resources to run the station, he noted.
"In a country with people of different ethnic and linguistic backgrounds, we are going to use [MY TV] to promote peace and cohesion and take part in national development through educational activities," the EECMY president added.
In a country with people of different ethnic and linguistic backgrounds, we are going to use it [MY TV] for promoting peace and cohesion, and also taking part in national development through educational activities
— EECMY President Rev. Yonas Yigezu
The satellite channel has been on a trial run since September, and is part of EECMY's multi-media ministry, including radio and printing under the Yemiserach Dimts Communication Service (YDCS). The church's Radio Voice of the Gospel, initially a joint venture with The Lutheran World Federation (LWF), broadcasts in more than 20 languages in Ethiopia and beyond.
Hundreds of guests attended the inauguration in the capital Addis Ababa. As a majority of the 32 EECMY synods can pick up the TV signal, many more could follow the transmission live.
The LWF member church has more than 9 million members in over 9,000 congregations throughout the country.
Ruth Eva Osmundsen, EECMY Communication Officer, contributed to this story, edited by LWF Communications.
Rev. Yonas Yigezu, EECMY president


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There's so much to do before you move that the list seems almost endless. However, here is a list of items that can be completed well in advance of your moving date.
Fill out a change of address order form for the post office.
Prepare an inventory of everything you own. Divide this inventory into three separate categories: items to be handled by the mover, items to be handled by you, and items to be left behind.
Pack stock certificates, wills, and other one-of-a-kind items (jewelry, photos, and home videos) that will be difficult or impossible to replace. Plan to carry them with you instead of packing them.
Get rid of what you don't need either through a garage sale, give to friends or charity, or haul off to the dump.
Contact your insurance agent to transfer property, fire, auto, and medical insurance.
Organize dental and medical records. Include prescriptions, eyeglass specifications, and vaccination records.
Inquire about changes that you may incur in your auto licensing and insurance when moving.
Notify your childrens' school(s). Make arrangement for records to be forwarded to the new school district.
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Contact the Chamber of Commerce or Visitor's Bureau to request information on schools, parks and recreation, community calendars, and maps.
If you plan to do any part of the packing, start collecting suitable containers and packing materials.
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Obtain medical and dental records, x-rays, and prescription histories. Ask your doctor and dentist for referrals, and transfer prescriptions.
Check into the laws and requirements of your new city regarding home-based businesses, professional tests, business licenses, and any special laws that might be applicable to you.
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Review all details and paperwork with driver. Accompany the driver as he or she inspects and tags each piece of furniture with an identifying number. These numbers, along with a detailed description of your goods and their condition at the time of loading, will appear on the inventory.
Make sure all of your goods are loaded.
Perform a final inspection of the premises.
Renew your driver's license, auto registration, and tags.
Locate the hospitals, police stations, veterinarian, and fire stations near your home.
Be at the premises when the movers arrive. Remain on the premises while your belongings are being unloaded. If you cannot be there personally, be sure to authorize an adult to be your representative to accept delivery and pay the charges for you. Inform the destination agent of your chosen representative's name.
Have payment on hand for your moving charges. Unless other billing arrangements were made in advance, payment is required upon delivery in cash, traveler's checks, money order or cashier's check. Most of the time, personal checks are not accepted.
Review your floor plan so you can tell the movers where to place your furniture, appliances, beds, and boxes. Be available to direct them as they unload.
To prevent possible damage, televisions, stereos, computers, other electronic equipment, and major appliances should not be used for 24 hours after delivery, allowing them time to adjust to room temperature.
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The renewable energy narrative in Africa has been nothing short of interesting – especially for Sub-Saharan Africa. In the region, access to electricity is almost next to nothing, prompting the establishment of a variety of cleantech initiatives.
One recent proof that the industry is gaining momentum is a mega raise by one of the best-known solar energy firms in Nigeria. Yesterday, Rensource Energy proved itself to be a rainmaker for early-stage capital by raising USD 20 Mn in Series A. The funding round marks the largest investment ever made into a renewable energy firm in Nigeria.
Even with small and medium-scale enterprises at the focus of its initiative, Rensource is in the league of firms on the continent who need to triple down on a lot of fronts to make things work. Setting up, launching and scaling a renewable energy firm is tough stuff, and there are a lot of indications that make it so.
Technical assistance is currently lacking in the off-grid energy ecosystem of Africa. Firms operating in the space need tailored solutions to meet their ever-changing needs and to stay in the game. Inside the continent's energy space, capacity building is austere as the business is not just what everyone can afford.
Irfan Mirza, Founder and CEO of Trend Solar – a Tanzania-based renewable energy firm – admits that the high touch business model of solar firms make them very different to manage compared to conventional tech companies.
In an interview with WeeTracker, the cleantech entrepreneur explained that creating and scaling such businesses is Africa is not a game for the fainthearted.
"Conventional startups operating in Africa, like Uber, leverage on convenience. Fintechs, agritechs, edtechs and other tech companies too, are not selling a tangible product. Majority of them are selling a service or concept that they make more efficient.
PAYGO firms have to constantly ensure that our (physical) offerings on the go. The intensive nature of the model makes us want to ensure that our supply chain needs to be functional, and we have also have to finance all these," he said.
To build capacity, the high-touch business models of solar firms greatly need significant support, but there is a massive void in the sector at present. Irfan, who was in China at the time of the interview, said he has to travel to the country about every six months to ensure the supply chain of solar panels and batteries for Trend Solar is on track.
Irfan has traveled to most parts of the country, including Nigeria where he noticed the hunger for renewable energy is on a more substantial level. Though born in the U.K, he plies mostly East Africa and other international countries to make sure the cleantech business' inventory and mainstay continues to see the light of day.
To explain the comparison between tech startups and renewable energy firms, Irfan's allusion to Uber is apt. For the American big tech, it is a case of bringing what already exists together to create an impacting service. It is still the driver's car and the passenger's smartphone.
With the help of a mobile app, Uber is able to help people get to where they are going more conveniently and with professional chauffeur assistance. But solar firms afford something entirely different, as they are pushing tangible, buyable products.
More Serious Than Noticed
He reveals that there is scarcity in the number of entrepreneurs who know how to run a solar firm in the continent.
"A CFO or co-founder from a firm in Wall Street could not possibly know everything about running and building capacity for a firm like BBOXX in downtown Nairobi. In fact, things are much more serious to get used to in places like Lagos, Nigeria, where setting up a business is much harder".
Most solar firms have to deliver their products to areas that have not been served before. Hence, the term "last mile distribution". To put this into perspective, DHL – the most experienced logistics company in Africa – can penetrate certain areas, but do not go as far as solar companies do. Serving rural households is often at the core of these business models.
If you've read articles about power in Africa before now, chances are you do not want to see those numbers again. The millions have become quite familiar that people use them in every renewable energy read or panel discussion related to electrification.
Sometimes, because the statistic has been frequented, it could blow over the audience like some overused banality. But, for records, it's about 600 million people, most of which are residing in ruralities.
So, imagine serving all these people, reaching areas that may be able to count the amount of times they have seen a lightbulb on. No one thinks about last mile distribution in Africa as much as solar companies. The firms need to understand the barriers and the landscape on which the business is operating.
On why Tanzania was the choice of HQ for Solar Trend, Irfan lauded the efforts the administration of President John Magufuli has made to make the country a forgiving place for business. A former Minister of Works, he does not show relent in making huge policy changes to turn the economy round for the better.
"For policy regulation, Tanzania is favorable for us. The country may have to go through fire to emerge as gold on the other side. But good change hurts. Now, the East African nation is developing, corruption is cut down and the job creation has never looked so promising. To reach other East African countries, we partner with reliable last-mile distributors.
That's Why They Need So Much Money
By now, it is pretty much common knowledge that raising capital is onerous. But for solar firms, it is more like a full-time job. It is almost impossible for these companies to build capacity without external support. This could be another reason for the huge single rounds and funds dedicated to making the industry work.
Earlier in December, UK-registered charity platform, Shell Foundation, partnered with the Dutch entrepreneurial development bank to launch an Energy Entrepreneurs Growth Fund of USD 120 Mn. The initial close of USD 45 Mn is meant to provide "catalytic funding for early to growth stage companies in Sub-Saharan Africa operating in the energy space.
"To reach the UN Sustainable Development Goal 7 and deliver universal energy access, an additional 300+ companies will require funding of USD 10 Mn on average to become cashflow positive and grow to sufficient scale to deliver energy services to millions of consumers in sub-Saharan Africa," said Sam Parker, Director, Shell Foundation.
Building capacity here is not only about funding. Finance must go alongside business support to growing companies and a supportive market environment.
Work also needs to be done to improve margins so many solar firms can reach a profitability status. In a 2017 report by the Shell Foundation, it was opined that capital is needed to connect off-grid households in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The survey, titled Capital Needs to Connect Off-Grid Households in Sub-Saharan Africa, showed that there is a mismatch with the current available balance. It discussed the financing gap between early and late stage capital, which proves to be a critical blocker to the growth of the cleantech sector.
"For early state companies, we need more patient grant, repayable grant, convertibles, to build a pipeline for the 278 deployments. This capital is increasingly scarce and is likely to require some form of syndication between foundations, strategic corporates, commercial investors, impact investors and DFIs to reach the quantum required," the report said.
A survey carried out by GOGLA shows that 45 percent of solar companies agree that there is not enough funding for the further development of the off-grid solar sector. Nonetheless, the report which examined the top 5 trends in the off-grid solar energy industry, said 31 percent of the firms neither agreed nor disagreed.
The Right Capital
Shell Foundation is not the only platform to have launched considerable energy fund. Equally active in the space, SunFunder, in September 2019, closed a USD 85 Mn Solar Energy Transformation Fund.
The fund, which is in excess of USD 100 Mn so far, is meant to provide solar solutions to households in SSA and India. EletriFi too, in partnership with Dutch-but-S.A-based Solarworks!, signed to life a USD 4 Mn debt facility.
Another essential is that investors needs to have experience in the markets they are investing in. Shell Foundation, among others, is an example of an investor that knows the energy market well enough.
It is currently being chaired by Gail Klintworth, an avid supporter and expert of the renewable energy space. Trend Solar is currently in direct talks with the Shell Foundation in view of landing significant capital, Irfan discloses.
"Let's say a funder from Silicon Valley decides to back an African energy venture. Once the ink is dry and the money is deployed, is that it? We need to have a different mix in our investors to help up build the kind of capacity we are looking for. The source of capital needs to be the right one, else we will not get the kind of (patient) support that we need".
Trend does not just provide solar units, but also gives customer smartphones with data, which makes the service more funky. Unlike other players in the space – BBOXX, PEG Africa, Solarise Africa, the firm provides 5.0-inch 4G Android smartphones with inclusive data allowance every month. People can use the phone as a modem and connect to the internet.
In as much as there are a few differences in the business models of these firms, building capacity is austere and venture backing is resolute.


The Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) is expected to declare the results for the Intermediate Class XII Arts 2017 examination on Tuesday. Candidates can check their grades on the official results websites, jac.nic.in or jharresults.nic.
The Class XII Intermediate results will be declared at 1 pm on Tuesday, JAC chairperson Arvind Singh told Live Hindustan.


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Q: How to add items to a stringArray in arrayList from mainActivity programatically Android This is the array defined in strings.xml and called on MainActivity. Now I wanna add another city say city5 to this array but programmatically
<string-array name="city_array">
        <item> city1 </item>
        <item> city2 </item>
        <item> city3 </item>
        <item> city4 </item>
    </string-array>

I want to Add items Grammatically in it how? Hope anyone knows it better

A: You can not edit strings.xml programatically
You can get array defined in strings.xml this way:
String[] array = getResources().getStringArray(R.array.city_array);

then you can convert String array to ArrayList this way:
List<String> list = Arrays.asList(array);

then you can add extra data to your list.
list.add("city5");
list.add("city6");

I hope it helps!


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Jasienica Dolna – stacja kolejowa w Jasienicy Dolnej, w województwie opolskim, w powiecie nyskim, w gminie Łambinowice, w Polsce.

W roku 2017 stacja obsługiwała 50–99 pasażerów na dobę.

Przypisy

Stacje i przystanki kolejowe w powiecie nyskim
Stacja


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Krzeszyce (polaco: Gmina Krzeszyce) é uma gminy (comuna) na Polónia, na voivodia da Lubúsquia e no condado de Sulęciński. A sede do condado é a cidade de Krzeszyce.

De acordo com os censos de 2004, a comuna tem 4501 habitantes, com uma densidade 23,2 hab/km².

Área
Estende-se por uma área de 194,22 km², incluindo:
 área agricola: 42%
 área florestal: 50%

Demografia
Dados de 30 de Junho 2004:

De acordo com dados de 2002, o rendimento médio per capita ascendia a 1490,4 zł.

Comunas vizinhas
 Bogdaniec, Deszczno, Lubniewice, Słońsk, Sulęcin, Witnica

Ligações externas
 Sítio Oficial

Comunas da Polônia


Send your kids to Tumble Kids for a fun filled summer that will be sure to keep them active! Their day will begin with an open gym time while kids arrive and then move to opening warm ups. From there they will receive instruction on a variety of skills that will cater to each child's needs and abilities. Instruction will be broken up throughout the day with snack time, a trip to the playground, crafts, and lunch.
Click on the "Register On-line" tab above to register. After registering or signing in you can click on "Enroll in a class" and choose Summer Camp 2019. Options for full day, half day, and post care are listed in order by date.
Post care is offered from 3:30 - 5:00pm the weeks of June 24th, July 15th, July 29th, and August 12th. The cost is $55.00 per week, discounts do not apply.
Register Before April 15th to Receive Our Discounted Rate!
Sign up for 6 weeks or more and receive 10% Discount on all weeks.
If your child is unable to come to camp due to illness or unforeseen events that are out of your control we will allow your child to come to a different week of camp.
To register for camp: Click the "Register On-line" header above to register. You will be prompted to either sign in or create an account. You will then be able to click "enroll in a class" where you will then see "Summer Camp 2019" as an option. From there you can choose which weeks you want your child to participate. Full day, half day and post care are listed in that order.


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Q: WiFi adhoc network creation in raspberry pi I am trying to create wifi Ad-hoc network/ Hotspot in pi but no success.
I tried from following links

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*novitiate.co.uk/?p=183

*lcdev.dk/2012/11/18/raspberry-pi-tutorial-connect-to-wifi-or-create-an-encrypted-dhcp-enabled-ad-hoc-network-as-fallback/

*sirlagz.net/2013/02/10/how-to-use-the-raspberry-pi-as-a-wireless-access-pointrouter-part-3b/
Error are as follows:
Starting advanced IEEE 802.11 management: hostapdSegmentation fault
Debug : When I googled for the above error , some forums suggested to hardcode the path of wifi adapter driver.
but when I hard-coded I am encountering the new error "Starting advanced IEEE 802.11 management: hostapdrmdir[ctrl_interface]: Operation not permitted
Segmentation fault
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Conclusion : I am not able to start the hostapd service .

A: The above links you followed are supposed to work. I followed this link and my Wifi Hotspot was up in few minutes.
I think your Wifi Adapter might not be supporting straight way
Suggestions to troubleshoot :-
1>Check  /var/log/messages  and /var/log/syslog
2>check the list of wifi adapters supported for RPi here
and make sure your configuration is correct as per the above tutorial.

A: I have a RTL8188CUS device, and installing the Jenssengers hostapd worked for me
https://jenssegers.com/43/Realtek-RTL8188-based-access-point-on-Raspberry-Pi
All credits to Jenssegers.
Remove old hostapd
sudo apt-get autoremove hostapd

Download the Jenssegers solution
wget https://github.com/jenssegers/RTL8188-hostapd/archive/v2.0.tar.gz
tar -zxvf v2.0.tar.gz
cd RTL8188-hostapd-2.0/hostapd

Make and install
sudo make
sudo make install
sudo service hostapd restart


As such, for the time being, each and every tidbit that comes our way from their general direction will trend across the Web; no matter how fundamentally uninteresting or lacking in insight that tidbit may actually be.
Today, Marvel tweeted out to their hungry masses, "Get your 1st look at Paul Rudd as Scott Lang in #Marvel's #AntMan, in theaters July 17, 2015!" with the picture below attached.
It seems to us that EVEN if you were OBSESSED with both Paul Rudd and Ant-Man, you'd only find a picture of a guy, standing by a van by the river, marginally interesting. But what the heck do we know?
Of course, Paul Rudd's PeekYou profile can be accessed by clicking here, and from there you can explore links aplenty, strewn far and wide across the digital landscape, relating to all sorts of aspects of the ageless funnyman's career.
Ant-Man was, for literally years, attached to director Edgar Wright; the man behind Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, and the TV series Spaced. It was only announced that he was leaving the project at the end of May, due to what were described as essentially creative differences. Director Peyton Reed (of 2008's Yes Man) was brought in as his seemingly 11th hour replacement.


The health condition of Bikash Tiwari, chairperson of Nepal Sadbhawana Party(Gajendrabadi) , who has been staging hunger-strike since 15 days demanding the reformation of Gajendra Narayan Zonal Hospital at Rajbiraj is deteriorating.
Tiwari is on hunger strike since November 7 within the hospital premises. He has repeatedly demanding the investigation of hospital's irregularities and formation of higher level investigation committee in presence of leaders from civil society.
Students from Rajbiraj College has demonstrated supporting Tiwari. They said that the demonstration is to pressurize government to address his demands.
Meanwhile, NHRC has released press statement on December 7 and urged government to sit for the dialogue and save his life.
The hospital was established in 1971 with 50 beds however the patients are referred to other hospitals in Dharan and Biratnagar due to the lack of doctors, nurses, staff and essential equipment.
The contracted cleaning staffs at Gajendra Narayan Hospital have continued their agitation from December 5.
They are in agitation against the hospital's administration for not listening to their demands. They are in agitation with five points demand. They have been demanding for permanent job, salary as per government scale, uniform, shelter and free medicine services.
Patients are facing difficulties as the hospital and its surrounding environment is getting polluted after the cleaning staffs are in agitation.


Deering Banjos Giving Back to Europe's Largest Festival Dedicated to Bluegrass – La Roche!
Mumford & Sons Signed Custom California Goodtime Banjo!
Deering Banjo Company is well chuffed to share the first Scottish Gentlemen of the Road Banjo Charity Auction!


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I also am honored to have played mandolin on the track "One Voice" produced by my friend Dean Falcone. It is from the soundtrack of the documentary "A Dog Named Gucci" and features the talents of a who's who of recording artists including Norah Jones, Aimee Mann, Neko Case, Susanna Hoffs, Brian May, among others. All proceeds are to be donated to several animal rights organizations.
I understand they planned to release a few different versions of the track, one featuring only the acoustic guitar and mandolin.
The official release on vinyl is Saturday, April 16 in celebration of Record Store Day. This link gets you to the Facebook Record Store Day page:
https://www.facebook.com/RecordStoreDay/
The track is also available for download at iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/…/al…/one-voice-single/id1077025931


Coffee cooperatives are organizations collectively owned by their members, mostly coffee producers and workers. Members share a common vested interest in the coop's success for the benefit of present and future generations. Each coop has a board of directors and other governing members that perform administrative tasks, manage resources, and promote safety, health, and education for all members.
The Central Piurana de Cafetaleros or CEPICAFE coop, founded in 1995, is headquartered in Piura, Peru. CEPICAFE represents thousands of coffee, sugar and fruit producers from more than 90 separate organizations from regions in Northwestern Peru. CEPICAFE is basically an umbrella organization for other producing organizations. CEPICAFE enjoys a reputation as a strong cooperative with solid objectives for growth, social improvements and environmentally focused practices.
Recently, Santiago Paz, co-manager of CEPICAFE and manager of Norandino cooperative in Piura, Peru, commented about the pros and cons of Fair Trade Certified trade practices. His perspective as a producer and member of the coop provides interesting insights into how Fair Trade certification impacts producers' lives on a personal level. It is also interesting to learn how international trade negotiations affect coffee producers' lives.
Coffee prices have been rising fast for months. This is happening worldwide as a result of weak economic conditions and growing competition in local markets. Fair Trade systems seek to improve economic and living conditions for coffee workers and producers; to get a fair price for coffee; to help establish gender equity, and to promote accountability and transparency. These goals are very worthwhile but can be difficult to achieve in tough economic times.
Fair Trade coffee coops have grown in Peru about 66% over the past 5 years but the export volume has increase by only 4%. The result has been increased competition among coop members and a loss to producers in Fair Trade Certified benefits.
Why? Producers have not been able to sell qualifying coffee at the expected higher prices. Coops have been unable, for the most part, to renegotiate higher prices with foreign importers when world prices rise dramatically because of contractual Fair Trade System terms and practices. What happens is that coops buy from farmer members at high current prices but sell to foreign importers at low, set contract prices later.
The result: when coops lose money or receive less in social premiums set by the Fair Labeling Organization (FLO), coffee producers can default on contracts, face suspension proceedings that can be costly in penalties, or remove leaders from their positions.
The FLO system has contract pre-financing requirements for producer coops which can be a great benefit but can turn out to be a negative depending upon the price locked during negotiations prior to harvest.
Traditionally, within the FLO system, only the producers get to decide when to lock in prices. The problem is that when prices rise, members choose to sell their coffee elsewhere at a higher price than what the coop pays. Unfortunately, the conflict arises when the coop locks in contracts at a lower price, before the harvest, for coffee they do not possess. This timing is a normal transaction but can have negative consequences.
In current weak and competitive market conditions, locking in contracts based on pre-financing is not a good deal. Renegotiating coffee prices, after the fact, is entirely between the coffee buyers and the sellers. Generally, this is not an easy thing to do or something coffee buyers, with pre-negotiated prices, will welcome doing. Instead, it is more likely they will force contracts as signed. New standards for coffee pricing and negotiations in progress at many levels should prevent some of these challenging pricing situations in the future.
Coffee coops have been positive for millions of people around the world and offer many tangible benefits that individuals, alone, cannot achieve.
Coops working on behalf of their members need to do a very good job for their members, but particularly from a financial transaction standpoint.Fair Trade is advocacy on behalf of small producers. The FLO needs to show strong support for the small producers. This will lend strength and greater credibility to the cooperatives to which millions of small coffee producers belong.
Keeping the small producer viable is extremely important in the coffee trade. Production in most coffee producing countries comes from small farms yielding the best coffees available.Well run coops with farmers and workers who get a fair wage and fair benefits for their coffee production efforts will ensure availability of great gourmet specialty coffee at affordable prices to consumers for many years to come.
I say, let's drink to that! What about drinking a cup of delicious shade grown, fairly trade Peruvian Organic Coffee?


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Fighting COVID-19 Is A Struggle, Illinois' Public Health Director Says
Published October 28, 2020 at 4:19 AM MST
And we have the director of public health for the state of Illinois on the line with us this morning, Dr. Ngozi Ezike. Doctor, thanks for being here.
NGOZI EZIKE: A pleasure to be with you. Thank you for having me.
GREENE: Well, just listening to that story there, I wonder - I want to pose the question to you. I mean, how much harder is your job if you have local authorities, say, encouraging people to defy state orders?
EZIKE: No, it's quite a struggle. We want to focus our energy on educating the public and getting the right data to them. But instead, we're now dividing our efforts on two fronts, trying to combat people who are actively working against what will keep our community safe. It's a continuous struggle.
GREENE: I know you've been pleading with people to wear masks, which, of course, is a plea that we have heard from public health officials for months now. Are people listening to you?
EZIKE: People are definitely listening. I would say probably more than half the state is listening and implementing. But because of how the mask wearing works, you really need universal adoption. And so we need more and more people to hear and understand and buy into this really important mitigation measure, and we're not there yet. Unfortunately, the mixed messaging has not helped public health cause at all. And the desire by people to believe in things which are comforting but not true is incredibly strong right now.
GREENE: What are you talking about when you say people are believing things that are comforting but not necessarily true?
EZIKE: Well, people are happy to believe that you don't have to change anything that you're doing - you can go back to life as you were living it pre-COVID; you don't have to limit your gatherings; you don't have to wear a mask; you don't have to keep all this distance. That - you know, everybody would love to be in the pre-COVID world. We're not there, and so thinking that you can is really counter to the progress that we're trying to make.
GREENE: You have said that this is personal for you. I understand you've lost some relatives yourself to COVID.
EZIKE: You know, I can't imagine that there are many people who haven't been touched by this. I've been fortunate in my nuclear family not to have lost anyone. But definitely, if you extend out to the extended family, we have had sickness and death. But it's just - I feel for all the lives that are lost - you know, people who work in government, people who are relatives of co-workers. There's just been a lot of loss. And I think as a human, we feel all of that, even if it's not someone that I reside in my home with.
GREENE: You know, I watched the video of your press conference from a few days ago, and it looked like you had to take a pause. Someone brought you some Kleenex. I mean, you've been helping the state through this pandemic for months now, doing, you know, countless press conferences like that, I can imagine. What about this moment hit you?
EZIKE: You know, I still struggle to really articulate. I think it was a visceral reaction, probably a culmination of just all of the frustration. I daresay, you know, anger, you know, anxiety, the pandemic fatigue just coming up with some kind of, you know, cathartic release. I didn't - I wouldn't have ever chosen to have such a public display, but I felt it coming on, couldn't suppress it. And I was at a loss. But I've heard from just lots of supporting - supportive individuals that they feel the same. And so I guess I let something out for all of us because I think we're all feeling the exact same thing.
GREENE: Let me add my voice to that. I think we've all had those moments where we just get overtaken by all of it. So to see someone in your field go through that, it is somehow reassuring.
EZIKE: Happy to serve in that way (laughter). I'm willing to do whatever it takes. It's been difficult to get the message across to everyone, but I'm hoping that eventually, just with days, people will understand that tomorrow still needs to be written, and each of us gets to be an author and use our authorship to create a story not of continued doom but of actually turning this pandemic around.
GREENE: Dr. Ngozi Ezike is the top health official in the state of Illinois. We really appreciate your time this morning. Thanks so much.
EZIKE: Thank you so much for having me. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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JB Hi-Fi lifts full-year profit
Inside Retail
JB Hi-Fi has posted an 11.5 per cent increase in net profit to $152.2 million for the full year ending June 30, boosted by better sales on computers, visual, audio and accessories following the closure of Dick Smith stores.
Total sales growth for FY16 is 8.3 per cent to $3.95 billion with comparable sales up 5.4 per cent. Online sales saw a 35.8 per cent increase.
The retailer reported a 7.6 per cent increase for its 2017 sales target to $4.25 billion.
"We had a great finish to the financial year and we are proud to deliver both net profit and earnings per share up 11.5 per cent," said Richard Murray, JB Hi-Fi CEO.
"Particularly pleasing was how we cycled a strong June in the prior year, with good sales driven by tax time buying," Murray said.
The company completed an on-market buy-back in FY16 of 0.7 million ordinary shares (at a cost of $13.2 million), to offset the dilutionary impact of shaares expected to be issued to employees under the company's share option plans in FY16.
By June 30, 2016, the consumer electronics retailer has opened 194 stores in Australia and New Zealand, and is expecting to open seven new stores in FY17. The company also announced it is continuing to review opportunities for its store rollout beyond 214 locations across Australia and New Zealand.
Murray said the sales result in July 2016 was a very pleasing start to FY17. Visual sales were particularly strong on the back of dedicated promotional activity launched on July 1. Other key growths Murray mentioned included Communications, Accessories and Home Appliances.
"The closure of DSE during the second half of FY16 has contributed to an increase in our sales of computers, visual, audio and accessories," Murray said.
"We anticipate this will continue to drive sales growth in the first half of FY17; however, the impact will moderate as we cycle through their decline and eventual market exit."
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[ARCHIVED] PRESS RELEASE: Aggravated Vehicular Hijacking
Willowbrook, Illinois, July 15, 2021: — On July 15, 2021, at approximately 2:48pm, the Willowbrook Police responded to a report of an Aggravated Vehicular Hijacking that occurred at the Citgo Gas Station located at 6900 Route 83. At that time, two male blacks exited a black Dodge Durango, both offenders were armed with what appeared to be an AR-15 style rifle. The offenders approached the victims who were attempting to exit their BMW in the parking lot of the Citgo gas station (6900 Route 83). The offenders confronted the victims and demanded that they get out of the car. Both offenders subsequently took the victims BMW and fled south on Route 83 with the black Dodge Durango following.
During investigation, it was learned that the Black Dodge Durango was recently stolen out of Oak Lawn, Illinois. Willowbrook detectives working in conjunction with Chicago Police Department have located both the victims BMW and the Black Dodge Durango that offenders were using. These vehicles were recovered on the southeast side of Chicago.
Currently no offenders are in custody and the investigation is ongoing.
If you have any information, please contact Willowbrook Police Investigations Division at 630-325-2808.


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Good news, bad news for Korea in Russian World Cup
By John Duerden
The World Cup just got very real for South Korea on Friday in Moscow. Its opposition in Group F are Germany, Mexico and Sweden: the world champion, the best team in the CONCAFAF region and the team that eliminated four-time winner Italy on the road to Russia.
With just two teams of the four going through to the round of 16, there are few margins for error. It could have been a little more difficult but it could have been a lot easier too. Germany is not only the defending champion but one of the favorites to be lifting that golden trophy next July. It is likely _ though in soccer you never know _ that the other three teams will be fighting for second spot in the group.
There is some good news. Korea faces Germany last. Coach Shin Tae-yong will probably be hoping that the Europeans have already taken six points from their first two games and secured a spot in the next stage. Facing an already-qualified German team missing some of its big players will increase chances of getting a point or, who knows, even three.
Much work is needed before then. The opening game against Sweden on June 18 in the city of Nizhny Novogorod is crucial. Sweden is always well-organized, physically strong and tough to break down as it showed against Italy last month. It remains to be seen whether star striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, currently of Manchester United, decides to return to the international stage. After seeing some of Korea's defending in qualification, it may be for the best that he stays in England. Without him Sweden lacks star power but is incredibly hard-working.
Then comes Mexico in Rostov five days later. The Central Americans are always at the World Cup and usually do okay. A Korean team in form and full of confidence can perform well against El Tri, even one with more European experience than has often been the case in the past. The coach has been under pressure for some big defeats at the hands of Chile (7-1) in the 2016 Copa America and a 4-1 loss to Germany earlier this year.
Little needs to be said about Germany. Korea needs to have some points on the board before the final game.
The other three will not be too concerned with Korea and that may be no bad thing. There is little pressure on the Taeguk Warriors. Few at home will expect much. This may be the best chance of success in Russia.