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Support Massachusetts Senate Docket 1763/ House Docket 3538
"Consumer Access and The Right to Practice Complementary and Alternative Health Care"
Great news! Massachusetts has introduced SD 1763/HD 3538, a bill to protect access to complementary and alternative health care practitioners in Massachusetts! Please thank the bill sponsors, Senator Collins and Representative Lawn, and cosponsors and ask your own legislators to support it and help it get scheduled for a hearing by Clicking Here to send your message!
If passed, Massachusetts would join ten other states in protecting the thousands of wonderful complementary and alternative practitioners such as herbalists, homeopaths, traditional naturopaths, Ayurveda practitioners, energy healers, wellness consultants, and many others who are providing great services to health seekers in Massachusetts. Click Here and Enter Your Address to send a message to Sponsors and to your own legislators to support SD 1763/HD 3538.
SD 1763/HD 3538 is the perfect solution for Massachusetts's long-term desire to have a law that protects access to its thousands of complementary and alternative health care practitioners.
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The new law, already passed in ten other states, would provide a state exemption for those non-invasive complementary and alternative health care practitioners who avoid a specific list of prohibited conduct, such as puncturing the skin or administering prescription drugs, and who give out the disclosure information to their clients listed in the bill, before providing services, such as contact information, education and training, and the nature of the services to be rendered.
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Revived by rally, Trump turns back to governing
Updated: 2:56 AM EST Feb 19, 2017
By: CATHERINE LUCEY
One day after delighting in a massive campaign-style rally, President Donald Trump is turning back to the business of governing. Trump, who is spending the weekend at his private club in Florida, plans to spend Sunday interviewing at least four candidates to be his new national security adviser. The meetings come as he seeks to refocus his struggling administration after weeks of tumult. Speaking to reporters on Air Force One Saturday, Trump said he had "many, many that want the job." He also hinted he had a favorite. "I've been thinking about someone for the last three or four days, we'll see what happens," Trump said. "I'm meeting with that person. They're all good, they're all great people." Scheduled to discuss the job with the president at Mar-a-Lago were his acting adviser, retired Army Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg; John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations; Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster; and the superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Lt. Gen. Robert Caslen. White House spokesman Sean Spicer said there could be more meetings for the job, which is unexpectedly open after retired Gen. Michael Flynn's firing early this week. Also on Trump's schedule Sunday: phone conversations with several foreign leaders Sunday and a health care policy meeting. But for a moment on Saturday, Trump went back into campaign mode with a massive rally before thousands of supporters at an airplane hangar in Melbourne, Florida where he revived campaign promises to build a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, reduce regulations and create jobs — and continued his attacks on the media. Trump told the cheering crowd that he wanted "to speak to you without the filter of the fake news." Trump promised anew to build a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, reduce regulations and create jobs. He also pledged to "do something over the next couple of days" to address the immigration order that has been blocked in the courts. Said Trump: "We don't give up, we never give up." Insisting he was the victim of false reporting, Trump said his White House was running "so smoothly" and that he "inherited one big mess." The president has been trying turn the page after reports of disarray and dysfunction within his administration. The rally was put on by Trump's campaign, not the White House. Trump told reporters he was holding a campaign rally because "life is a campaign." Trump, who held a rally in the same spot in Florida in September, clearly relished being back in front of his supporters, welcoming the cheers and letting one supporter up on stage to offer praise for the president. He also enjoyed reliving his surprise victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton. And the president's supporters welcomed the opportunity to see him. Kenneth Wood, a 45-year-old electrical engineer from Daytona Beach, said this is his fourth or fifth Trump rally. "His bond with his supporters is really like nothing I've ever seen," said Wood. "They're fun and Trump's a hell of a showman." Asked about Trump's recent comments about the media, Wood said: "I can't say I completely disagree." The rally came during Trump's third straight weekend at his private south Florida club, Mar-a-Lago. Trump has lurched from crisis to crisis since the inauguration, including the botched rollout of his immigration order, struggles confirming his Cabinet picks and a near-constant stream of reports about strife within his administration. Flynn's departure was another blow. Flynn resigned at Trump's request Monday after revelations that he misled Vice President Mike Pence about discussing sanctions with Russia's ambassador to the U.S. during the transition. Trump said in a news conference Thursday that he was disappointed by how Flynn had treated Pence, but did not believe Flynn had done anything wrong by having the conversations. Trump's first choice to replace Flynn, retired Vice Adm. Robert Harward, turned down the offer. ___ Associated Press writer Tamara Lush contributed to this report from Melbourne, Fla.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. —
One day after delighting in a massive campaign-style rally, President Donald Trump is turning back to the business of governing.
Trump, who is spending the weekend at his private club in Florida, plans to spend Sunday interviewing at least four candidates to be his new national security adviser. The meetings come as he seeks to refocus his struggling administration after weeks of tumult.
Speaking to reporters on Air Force One Saturday, Trump said he had "many, many that want the job." He also hinted he had a favorite.
"I've been thinking about someone for the last three or four days, we'll see what happens," Trump said. "I'm meeting with that person. They're all good, they're all great people."
Scheduled to discuss the job with the president at Mar-a-Lago were his acting adviser, retired Army Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg; John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations; Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster; and the superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Lt. Gen. Robert Caslen.
White House spokesman Sean Spicer said there could be more meetings for the job, which is unexpectedly open after retired Gen. Michael Flynn's firing early this week.
Also on Trump's schedule Sunday: phone conversations with several foreign leaders Sunday and a health care policy meeting.
But for a moment on Saturday, Trump went back into campaign mode with a massive rally before thousands of supporters at an airplane hangar in Melbourne, Florida where he revived campaign promises to build a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, reduce regulations and create jobs — and continued his attacks on the media.
Trump told the cheering crowd that he wanted "to speak to you without the filter of the fake news."
Trump promised anew to build a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, reduce regulations and create jobs. He also pledged to "do something over the next couple of days" to address the immigration order that has been blocked in the courts. Said Trump: "We don't give up, we never give up."
Insisting he was the victim of false reporting, Trump said his White House was running "so smoothly" and that he "inherited one big mess." The president has been trying turn the page after reports of disarray and dysfunction within his administration.
The rally was put on by Trump's campaign, not the White House. Trump told reporters he was holding a campaign rally because "life is a campaign."
Trump, who held a rally in the same spot in Florida in September, clearly relished being back in front of his supporters, welcoming the cheers and letting one supporter up on stage to offer praise for the president. He also enjoyed reliving his surprise victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton.
And the president's supporters welcomed the opportunity to see him. Kenneth Wood, a 45-year-old electrical engineer from Daytona Beach, said this is his fourth or fifth Trump rally.
"His bond with his supporters is really like nothing I've ever seen," said Wood. "They're fun and Trump's a hell of a showman."
Asked about Trump's recent comments about the media, Wood said: "I can't say I completely disagree."
The rally came during Trump's third straight weekend at his private south Florida club, Mar-a-Lago.
Trump has lurched from crisis to crisis since the inauguration, including the botched rollout of his immigration order, struggles confirming his Cabinet picks and a near-constant stream of reports about strife within his administration.
Flynn's departure was another blow. Flynn resigned at Trump's request Monday after revelations that he misled Vice President Mike Pence about discussing sanctions with Russia's ambassador to the U.S. during the transition. Trump said in a news conference Thursday that he was disappointed by how Flynn had treated Pence, but did not believe Flynn had done anything wrong by having the conversations.
Trump's first choice to replace Flynn, retired Vice Adm. Robert Harward, turned down the offer.
Associated Press writer Tamara Lush contributed to this report from Melbourne, Fla.

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Q: Unicorn on Heroku throwing weird errors which causes H13 server errors. What's killing my unicorns? I have a Rails 4 app running on Heroku that has suddenly started to throw a lot of H13 errors. I've traced it through the logs and see a lot of errors with unicorn complaining about memoized object is not a string. The processes are then reaped by a SIGIOT. Here's the exact error:
unicorn_http.rl:295: write_value: Assertion `rb_type((VALUE)(f)) == RUBY_T_STRING && "memoized object is not a string"' failed.

The errors can also look like this:
unicorn_http.rl:296: write_value: Assertion `(!!((!(((VALUE)(f) & RUBY_IMMEDIATE_MASK) || !!(((VALUE)(f) & ~((VALUE)RUBY_Qnil)) == 0)) && (int)(((struct RBasic*)(f))->flags & RUBY_T_MASK) != RUBY_T_NODE)?(((struct RBasic*)(f))->flags&((((VALUE)1)<<11))):((((int)(long)(f))&RUBY_FIXNUM_FLAG)||((((int)(long)(f))&RUBY_FLONUM_MASK) == RUBY_FLONUM_FLAG)))) && "unfrozen object"' failed.

It happens on many different routes and I can't seem to figure out what it going on. I run a very stock unicorn config:
worker_processes Integer(ENV["WEB_CONCURRENCY"] || 2)
timeout 29
preload_app true

before_fork do |server, worker|
  Signal.trap 'TERM' do
    puts 'Unicorn master intercepting TERM and sending myself QUIT instead'
    Process.kill 'QUIT', Process.pid
  end

  defined?(ActiveRecord::Base) and
    ActiveRecord::Base.connection.disconnect!
end

after_fork do |server, worker|
  Signal.trap 'TERM' do
    puts 'Unicorn worker intercepting TERM and doing nothing. Wait for master to send QUIT'
  end

  defined?(ActiveRecord::Base) and
    ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection
end

And here is snippet of Heroku logs with the error:
Sep 15 15:38:42 #{app} heroku/router:  at=error code=H13 desc="Connection closed without response" method=GET path="#{path}" host=host.org request_id=6af16b9e-02ff-494e-8c8c-11f060f3b8fe fwd="109.63.24.000" dyno=web.1 connect=1ms service=15ms status=503 bytes=1187
Sep 15 15:38:42 #{app} app/web.1:  unicorn worker[1] -p 4635 -c ./config/unicorn.rb: unicorn_http.rl:295: write_value: Assertion `rb_type((VALUE)(f)) == RUBY_T_STRING && "memoized object is not a string"' failed.
Sep 15 15:38:42 #{app} app/web.1:  I, [2014-09-15T22:38:41.878914 #675]  INFO -- : worker=1 ready
Sep 15 15:38:42 #{app} app/web.1:  E, [2014-09-15T22:38:41.835934 #2] ERROR -- : reaped #<Process::Status: pid 672 SIGIOT (signal 6)> worker=1

...

Sep 15 15:26:52 #{app} app/web.1:  unicorn worker[0] -p 4635 -c ./config/unicorn.rb: unicorn_http.rl:295: write_value: Assertion `rb_type((VALUE)(f)) == RUBY_T_STRING && "memoized object is not a string"' failed.
Sep 15 15:26:52 #{app} app/web.1:  E, [2014-09-15T22:26:52.483577 #2] ERROR -- : reaped #<Process::Status: pid 487 SIGIOT (signal 6)> worker=0
Sep 15 15:26:52 #{app} heroku/router:  at=error code=H13 desc="Connection closed without response" method=GET path="#{path}" host=host.org request_id=92fbf67f-56b1-4144-917a-c3d29171f631 fwd="76.234.45.000" dyno=web.1 connect=4ms service=18ms status=503 bytes=1208

Request queueing is normally <10ms on this app and this seems to just have started recently but I haven't changed the unicorn setup in ages. The app is a Heroku app running Rails 4.1.1 with Ruby 2.0.0 on Unicorn 4.8.2. It uses memecache with dalli to do some minimal caching. The requests fail with the H13 error immediately so I'm not hitting the 29 second timeout set in the unicorn.rb config.

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How does Tornado Cash actually work?
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When a person uses the Tornado Cash contracts to protect their privacy, they arguably are not even engaged in the kinds of activities that can be sanctioned.
Peter Van Valkenburgh
Today Coin Center published a detailed factual explanation of how Tornado Cash works. We worked with several world-class Solidity experts who generously donated their time to look directly at the smart contract code itself and offer an unbiased description of exactly how these contracts function and whether any of them are under the control of a person or entity. The results confirm a level of decentralization that was surprising, even to me.
None of the core contracts that provide privacy tools to users can be upgraded, changed, or altered. The privacy that users get from these contracts is guaranteed with math and software that is as immutable as the Ethereum blockchain itself.
To the extent that any of the OFAC-sanctioned addresses retain a human operator role, they are either mere donation addresses to support software development, ancillary services that never control user tokens, or defunct/never used addresses. Read the explainer, and check out the detailed appendix describing each address if you want more.
Additionally, our explainer describes exactly how Tornado Cash provides privacy for its users. The deposit and withdrawal contracts do not mix or commingle user tokens. Instead, each user puts in specific tokens from an address she controls and receives from the smart contract a specific note which, using zero knowledge proofs, allows that user to withdraw their specific tokens to another address without leaving a public record on-chain that could link the user's sending and receiving address. While colloquially referred to as a "mixer," the contract addresses are nothing of the sort. The better analogy is to a room full of safe deposit boxes. From the explainer:
Think of it like a bank's safe deposit box room. Anyone can go and store valuables in a locked box in that room, and, assuming the locks are good, only the person with the key can ever get those valuables back. Security aside, however, this may or may not be privacy enhancing. If only one person is ever seen going into and out of the room, then we know any valuables in that room are theirs. If, on the other hand, many people frequently go into and out of the room, then we have no way of knowing who controls which valuables in which boxes. By guaranteeing the property that users can only withdraw tokens they originally deposited, many users can simultaneously use these pools with the assurance that no-one else will receive their tokens.
This setup, rather than a mixing of funds, even allows (or allowed) for compliance with AML/CFT laws, and developers created software tools so that users wishing or obligated to comply with laws in their specific jurisdiction could obtain a proof that their funds originated from an identified and non-sanctioned source:
To this end, the developers of Tornado Cash created the Tornado Cash Compliance Tool. Users supply the tool with the original "deposit note" generated during the pool deposit process to create a PDF report that provides proof of the original source of the tokens. Although the public link between a user's deposit and withdrawal addresses was severed by the Tornado Cash pool contracts, the Compliance Tool allows users to selectively "undo" this severance to provide traceability to third parties.
This research is critical in laying the groundwork for a legal challenge that OFAC's designation of Tornado Cash's immutable contracts is inappropriate under the statutory authority granted by Congress in the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). As we explained last week, IEEPA empowers OFAC to sanction "property in which some foreign country or national has an interest" (50 U.S.C. §1702). Does the Tornado Cash listing fit within these powers, or is it statutory overreach? We believe it is clearly overreach.
First, the addresses themselves, and the software that they point to on the Ethereum blockchain, are not "property in which some foreign country or national has an interest." They are widely distributed tools, ideas fixed in a shared medium of expression (the Ethereum blockchain), copies of which exist on the personal computers of thousands of persons around the world. Additionally, the small minority of contracts listed by OFAC that retain some level of human updateability are not actually used to control, mix, or move user funds. They are either ancillary services, donation addresses for software development efforts, or defunct and now unused contracts on the Ethereum blockchain.
Second, to the extent anyone has property in those addresses, it is because they've sought the privacy provided by those software tools. That property is their own and no one else has any meaningful control or ownership rights to that property. Nor is that property mixing or commingling with anyone else's property. That property is, in effect, in a public room where very strong (indeed unbreakable) safe deposit boxes are available for anyone's usage. Unless these sanctions are merely narrowly targeted at some specific users of those contracts, the other funds that Americans and other law-abiding persons have in those contracts are not properly the target of sanctions. Those funds, again, are not "property in which some foreign country or national has an interest."
Third, when a person uses the Tornado Cash contracts to protect their privacy, they arguably are not even engaged in the kinds of activities that IEEPA empowers the President to block. Those activities listed in the statute are: "acquisition, holding, withholding, use, transfer, withdrawal, transportation, importation or exportation of, or dealing in, or exercising any right, power, or privilege with respect to, or transactions involving, any property in which any foreign country or a national thereof has any interest[.]" (Emphasis added.) While interactions with a smart contract are colloquially referred to as Ethereum "transactions," and while fees are indeed paid to miners to include those "transactions" in blocks, the individual choice to move one's tokens from a personal address to a Tornado Cash address is no more a "transaction" with another person than moving one's valuables from a drawer in one's home to a safe in one's home. At no point does any third party have any control or power during the movement; only the person to whom the valuables belong retains possession and control. That activity is certainly not similar to the commonly understood meanings of the various activities in IEEPA that the President is empowered to block.
Finally, to the extent that some Tornado Cash users are sanctioned persons, and they have some property at those smart contract addresses, then that property and that property alone is legitimately the target of sanctions. In that case the address of the smart contract itself is not an appropriate alias for that entity or property because, like the name John Smith, it wrongly subjects many more persons to sanctions scrutiny than sanctions laws intend or allow. This would be a problem if there was no way to discriminate between funds in the contract, but, as described above, there is already a compliance tool that allows law-abiding persons to prove that the source of their funds is not a sanctioned person. Given all that, the appropriate addresses to sanction are the addresses from which sanctioned persons are depositing to the Tornado Cash contracts and not the Tornado Cash contracts themselves.
We will continue to keep you updated as we work toward a legal challenge of the OFAC designation. If you are someone who has been injured by the designation, especially if you have funds stuck in a sanctioned smart contract or have been the unwilling recipient of funds from a sanctioned smart contract after the designation, we would like to talk to you. Please get in touch.
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The Next-Gen small group is for young single and married adults at Lake Cities. This group meets after church every 2nd and 4th Sunday to hang out, play games, get to know each other, pray, and study Scripture. The primary focus of this group is to build relationships and care for each other.
The Supper Club is an all ages small group that meets Sunday evenings at various peoples houses to share a home-cooked meal, have Bible study, and build relationships. If you're a parent of kids in high school or older, you might feel at home in this group, though anyone is welcome!
Our pairs and spares group is a diverse group of singles and empty nesters who meet after church on the 1st and 3rd Sundays of each month. This group loves to have fellowship activities, potlucks, pray for each other, and to discuss how the weekly sermon applies to our lives.


Someone has finally said it.
I have not yet ventured into giving my books away for free, because I'm old-fashioned, and I expect to be paid for work I've done. I admit I've written a short story as a loss leader, which will be free as soon as this current 90 days in KDP select is finished and I can put it out on other outlets (free already if you sign up to my newsletter on the dedicated page on this site, hint, hint), but a full length novel?
Not for me. I will grit my teeth and use 99c/99p promotions to raise my Amazon ranking, but writing a book takes blood, sweat and tears (and money) to get it out there, so I really don't see why I should give it away for free.
I'm stubborn that way, and I've been paid for my writing all my life (magazine features, non-fiction books, and now website copy), and it is part of my business structure.
She's tight, you may say, but I'm used to working for myself, and at the end of the day I still have to pay the mortgage – this is not a hobby.
I know I'm guilty of filling my own kindle with free books, most of which I shall never read, but if I see a book I really fancy, I will still pay real money for it.
It's about time we started to reverse this trend, or pretty soon authors will be unable to earn a living wage.
Go read the original, and share if you agree.
Me too – it is a great topic, and so often avoided.
It sure is. While we're on the topic of sales, I'm quite confused with Amazon's pricing of UK books with VAT included. May I ask what price you put on a 2.99 US book in pounds?
I keep it simple and set it at £2.99 – that means it costs more in the UK, but not so much that it doesn't sell. I started it at £2.49 but that looks a bit odd, so I just upped it without any appreciable difference to sales.
You can equally well just let Amazon set it, but then you may end up with a rather odd looking figure according to exchange rates.
Ya, they're putting it at 1.99 ??
In that case I should untick the box that says do it automatically, and set your own price.


LEADING Racing Post Arkle Challenge Trophy hopeful Kalashnikov is set to warm up for his date at the Cheltenham Festival at Warwick on Saturday when he heads an entry of eight for the day's feature Agetur UK Kingmaker Chase, writes David Hucker.
Whilst not likely to match last month's Classic Chase Day, which was the biggest crowd for the mid-winter fixture in 25 years, there should be another good turnout on Saturday, as Warwick continues to buck the trend in racecourse attendances.
Whilst the Racecourse Association reported total attendances dipping for the third running with 5.77 million going racing in 2018 compared to 5.95m in 2017, Warwick set a modern day record of 45,000 last year, continuing to go from strength to strength since focusing on jump racing.
The Kingmaker has been won by some high-class horses in the past, including Flagship Uberalles in 1999, Long Run, who took the 2010 contest before going on to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup a year later, and another champion chaser in Finian's Rainbow in 2011.
Also on the roll of honour is Voy Por Ustedes, but his triumph in 2006 came at Wincanton when the race was switched after Warwick's scheduled meeting fell victim to frost.
Runner-up over hurdles at last year's Festival, Kalashnikov, who is very much the star of Amy Murphy's Newmarket stable, overcame a mistake at the first open ditch to make a winning start to his chasing career over the course in November.
He learnt from the experience, jumping flawlessly when following up at Plumpton, a victory that set him up to earn connections a £60,000 bonus if he goes on to land his Festival target.
However, Kalashnikov met defeat in his next race when, starting odds-on favourite, he was beaten one and a quarter lengths by another Arkle contender Dynamite Dollars at Kempton Park on Boxing Day, a disappointing run given that was receiving 5lb in weight.
But, the winner scored again at Doncaster two weeks ago to underline his credentials and Kalashnikov should bounce back to form on Saturday with Dan Skelton's Destrier looking the main danger.
Most valuable race of the afternoon is the £50,000 McCoy Contractors Warwick Castle Handicap Chase over two and a half miles.
With 33 entries, it is very much a guessing game as to which horses will line up on the day, but a couple to note are Scorpion Sid, a wide-margin winner of an eventful beginners' chase at Haydock Park for trainer Jamie Snowdon, and Rather Be, who takes a drop in class after finishing behind Magners Cheltenham Gold Cup hopeful Frodon on his most recent run.
Warwickshire trainer Skelton has nine entries in all across the card, including four in this race.
His best chance could come with Cobra De Mai, beaten one and three-quarter lengths at level weights by Bigmartre over the trip at Ayr in April, but now 5lb better off.
Twice a course winner over fences, Cobra De Mai has done most of his running on good ground, so he may not want too much rain ahead of the weekend.
Also on the card is the £25,000 OLBG.com Mares' Hurdle (Listed Race -registered as the Warwick Mares' Hurdle) over two miles and five furlongs and last year's runner-up Jester Jet could try to go one better this time.
Odds-on favourite when runner-up in a novices' chase here in December, Jester Jet reverted to hurdles at Ascot last month, but couldn't peg back Magic Of Light on the run-in.
Back in third place was If You Say Run, who holds an entry in the Grade One OLBG Mares' Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival, but needs to step up on what we have seen so far if she is to be a contender there.
Sensulano, a course winner last year, won well at Cheltenham in December before finding leading Champion Hurdle hope Laurina much too good at Sandown Park last time.
Irish trainer Gordon Elliott has entered the 143-rated Missy Tata, not seen out since completing a five-timer at Limerick in December 2016.
She also holds an entry at the Cheltenham Festival and, if making the trip, would be one for the shortlist.
Racing gets underway at 12.55pm with the David 'Digger' Aldred Memorial Novices' Hurdle and gates open two hours before.
There is ample free parking in the centre of the course.


Will Powder Lead Milk Prices Higher?
The dairy markets are searching for information to indicate price direction in the near-term or long-term. Cow numbers have been declining according to the monthly milk production reports which could eventually cause milk output to run below year-earlier levels.
Unfortunately, the reduction of cow numbers has been at the expense of dairy farm operations as milk income below the cost of production for an extended period of time has either forced some farms to close the doors or decisions have been made to stop the bleeding and discontinue milking cows. The loss of dairy operations is very difficult to see, but it is a reality during times of low milk prices.
USDA estimated milk production to increase 2.8 billion pounds on the December World Agricultural Supply and Demand report despite continued low milk prices. USDA did not release estimated milk production this month due to the partial government shutdown. The current anticipation is that milk production growth is likely. However, some milk processors are becoming increasingly concerned over milk supply later this year.
Cow numbers may continue to decline which could tighten supply in and of itself. If there is a weather event in the form of a widespread drought or significant decrease of the availability of good quality alfalfa, milk production could swing to a deficit rather quickly which would support higher milk prices. We must realize this is a what-if scenario with many other factors involved if this were to take place. Good quality alfalfa hay is already becoming more difficult to find with prices increasing.
We have finished four years of low milk prices and 2019 does not look very promising according to the current futures market. That can change, but it may take some time. First milk production will need to decline or, better yet, demand needs to improve. Then, inventory will need to decline in order to tighten market supply. How much inventory will need to decline in order to have a significant impact is difficult to determine. The market will need to go through this phase before we can expect a long-term trend higher.
Some excitement has been generated recently due to the strong nonfat dry milk price. Grade A nonfat dry milk is at the highest price it has been in a year. Price for skim milk powder has been increasing on the last few Global Dairy Trade auctions indicating higher international demand. Higher nonfat dry milk prices do not have direct impact on Class III milk price, but it has a significant impact on Class IV. Weekly AMS prices have shown steady increases for both nonfat dry milk and dry whey prices. Nonfat dry milk price has increased greater than dry whey which has translated into better Class IV prices.
Could stronger nonfat dry milk prices spill over into higher Class III prices? Looking back historically, it may have had some impact as more milk was moved to dryers in order to meet demand. In 2016, nonfat dry milk price on the daily spot market increased from a low of 69 cents in March to reach a high of $1.05 in December. Class III price was $13.74 in March and reached $17.40 in December of that year. However, in 2015, spot nonfat dry milk price was 69 cents in August and moved to $1.10 in October. Class III milk price did not benefit from that increase as the Class III price was $16.27 in August and was $15.46 in October ending that year at $14.44.
This comparison is for the sake of looking at the market with caution and not becoming too excited about some who are anticipating a strong milk price as the year progresses due to the strength of nonfat dry milk price. It can have an effect on the overall market and product availability, but this is not something that is a proven market indicator. The greater impact was seen for Class IV.
We have a long way to go this year and we all now know that historical price cycles may be a thing of the past. Managing risk should be the focus for the future, if and when opportunities arise.


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Strong growth the result of powerful demand from online and multi-channel retailers for Collect+ returns and delivery services.
First Bristol, Somerset and Avon has joined forces with PayPoint to enable customers to buy bus tickets over the counter at around 600 outlets in the region.
Customers of the world's largest online bike shop, Chain Reaction Cycles, are able to return their purchases for free via the Collect+ network of 4,000 local corner shops.
PayPoint has added Spotify to its fast-growing range of digital vouchers for major entertainment brands.
Boss Revolution customers now able to purchase top-up vouchers through PayPoint.
PayPoint has strengthened its retail management team with the appointment of Andrew Goddard, who takes on the new role of Retail Director.
CollectPlus has chosen the Meadowhall Shopping Centre in Sheffield as a pioneering new location for its innovative parcel service.
Leading accounts receivable management firm BCW Group has announced a partnership with PayPoint to enable customers to repay outstanding debts more easily.
PayPoint.net is to sponsor PRiME, the new one day learning course, at the iGaming Super Show in Dublin this May.
PayPoint, which operates over 2,500 ATMs nationwide, has identified significant differences in the way customers in Scotland use an ATM.
Public sector bill payment collection specialist allpay Limited has extended its contract with PayPoint for a further five years.
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Constituent Peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Population density and ethnic distribution (2013 census data)
Ethnic map of Bosnia and Herzegovina according to 2013 census
More than 96% of population of Bosnia and Herzegovina belongs to one of its three autochthonous constituent peoples: Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats. The term constituent refers to the fact that these three ethnic groups are explicitly mentioned in the constitution, and that none of them can be considered a minority or immigrant. The most easily recognizable feature that distinguishes the three ethnic groups is their religion, with Bosniaks predominantly Muslim, Serbs predominantly Orthodox Christians, and Croats Catholic.
Bosniaks, Croats, and Serbs speak the Shtokavian dialect of a pluricentric language known in linguistics as Serbo-Croatian. The question of standard language is resolved in such a way that three constituent ethnic groups have their educational and cultural institutions in the standard varieties which are considered official languages at sub-state levels: Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian.
A Y chromosome haplogroups study published in 2005 found that "three main groups of Bosnia-Herzegovina, in spite of some quantitative differences, share a large fraction of the same ancient gene pool distinctive for the Balkan area". The study did however find that Serbs and Bosniaks are genetically closer to each other than either of them is to Croats.[1]
Decision of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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On 12 February 1998, Alija Izetbegovi?, at the time Chair of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, instituted proceedings before the Constitutional Court for an evaluation of the consistency of the Constitution of the Republika Srpska and the Constitution of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The request was supplemented on 30 March 1998 when the applicant specified which provisions of the Entities' Constitutions he considered to be unconstitutional.
The four partial decisions were made in 2000, by which many of articles of the constitutions of entities were found to be unconstitutional, which had a great impact on the politics of Bosnia and Herzegovina, because there was a need to adjust the current state in the country with the decision of the Court. A narrow majority (5-4) ruled in favour of the applicant. In its decision, among other things, the Court stated:
Elements of a democratic state and society as well as underlying assumptions - pluralism, just procedures, peaceful relations that arise out of the Constitution - must serve as a guideline for further elaboration of the issue of the structure of BiH as a multi-national state. Territorial division (of Entities) must not serve as an instrument of ethnic segregation - on the contrary - it must accommodate ethnic groups by preserving linguistic pluralism and peace in order to contribute to the integration of the state and society as such. Constitutional principle of collective equality of constituent peoples, arising out of designation of Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs as constituent peoples, prohibits any special privileges for one or two constituent peoples, any domination in governmental structures and any ethnic homogenisation by segregation based on territorial separation. Despite the territorial division of BiH by establishment of two Entities, this territorial division cannot serve as a constitutional legitimacy for ethnic domination, national homogenisation or the right to maintain results of ethnic cleansing. Designation of Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs as constituent peoples in the Preamble of the Constitution of BiH must be understood as an all-inclusive principle of the Constitution of BiH to which the Entities must fully adhere, pursuant to Article III.3 (b) of the Constitution of BiH.[2]
The formal name of this item is U-5/98, but it is widely known as the "Decision on the constituency of peoples" (Bosnian: Odluka o konstitutivnosti naroda), referring to the Court's interpretation of the significance of the phrase "constituent peoples" used in the Preamble of the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The decision was also the basis for other notable cases that came before the court.
Some[who?] argue that a Bosnian identity (in the non-religious sense) goes back centuries, the Serb and Croat for Christian Bosnians a century, and Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) even more recently.[3]
During the Ottoman Empire, the term Bo?nak was used to describe Bosnians (of the Bosnia Eyalet) in an ethnic or "tribal" sense. After the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878, the Austrian administration officially endorsed "Bosnianhood" as the basis of a multi-confessional Bosnian nation. The policy aspired to isolate Bosnia and Herzegovina from its irredentist neighbors (Orthodox Serbia, Catholic Croatia, and the Muslims of the Ottoman Empire) and to negate the concept of Croatian and Serbian nationhood which had already begun to take ground among Bosnia and Herzegovina's Catholic and Orthodox communities, respectively.[4]
In the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes were the constituent ("old") nations.[5] During the reign of King Aleksandar I, a modern single Yugoslav identity was unsuccessfully propagated to erase the particularistic identities.[6] With the formation of Socialist Yugoslavia, there were six republics and five constitutive nations, adding Macedonians and Montenegrins (whose identities were not earlier recognized); the Bosnian Muslims were recognized only in the late 1960s.[7]
For the 1961 census a new ethnic category was introduced-Muslims-with which 972,954 Bosnians identified.[8] In 1964, the Muslims were declared a narod ("people"), as the other five "peoples", but were not ascribed a national republic.[8] In 1968, the Bosnian Central Committee declared that "...Muslims are a distinct nation". For the 1971 census, accordingly, "Muslims, in the sense of a nation" was introduced.[8]
Inter-ethnic relations
Serbs tend to be Orthodox Christian, Croats tend to be Roman Catholic, and Bosniaks (or Bosnian Muslims) tend to be Sunni Muslims. Tensions between these were expressed in terms of religion. Fundamentalists existed on all sides; in propaganda the Bosnian War took on some features of a "religious war", supported by views of religious leaders. Historical stereotypes and prejudice were further established by experiences of war. The situation still impedes the development of relations post-war. Religious symbols are used for nationalist purposes.[9]
Demographic history
History of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Demographics of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Yugoslav wars
1953 population census in Bosnia and Herzegovina
^ Marjanovi?, D; Fornarino, S; Montagna, S; et al. (2005). "The peopling of modern Bosnia-Herzegovina: Y-chromosome haplogroups in the three main ethnic groups". Annals of Human Genetics. 69 (Pt 6): 757-63. doi:10.1111/j.1529-8817.2005.00190.x. PMID 16266413.
^ Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, U-5/98 (Partial Decision Part 3), p. 36, Sarajevo, 1 July 2000.
^ Donia & Fine 1994, p. 73
A Bosnian's identity as a Bosnian - even if it originally referred to his geographical homeland or state membership - has roots going back many centuries, whereas the classification of any Christian Bosnian as a Serb or a Croat goes back barely a century. The idea of being Bosnian Muslim in a "national" (as opposed to a religious) sense is even more recent.
^ See Donia & Fine 1994, pp. ?, Eller 1999, p. 262, Velikonja 2003, pp. 130-135
^ Jovi? 2009, p. 320.
^ Nielsen 2014.
^ Jovi? 2009, pp. 48, 57.
^ a b c Eller 1999, p. 282.
^ Fischer 2006, p. 21.
Donia, Robert J.; Fine, John Van Antwerp, Jr. (1994). Bosnia and Hercegovina: A Tradition Betrayed. London: C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. ISBN 978-1-85065-212-0.
Eller, Jack David (1999). "Bosnia". From Culture to Ethnicity to Conflict: An Anthropological Perspective on International Ethnic Conflict. University of Michigan Press. pp. 243-. ISBN 0-472-08538-7.
Fischer, Martina, ed. (2006). Peacebuilding and Civil Society in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Ten Years After Dayton. Berghof Forschungszentrum für Konstruktive Konfliktbearbeitung; LIT Verlag Münster. pp. 21-. ISBN 978-3-8258-8793-3.
Jovi?, Dejan (2009). Yugoslavia: A State that Withered Away. Purdue University Press. ISBN 978-1-55753-495-8.
Puhalo, S. (2003). "Etni?ka distanca gra?ana Republike Srpske i Federacije BiH prema narodima biv?e SFRJ". Psihologija. 36 (2): 141-156. doi:10.2298/PSI0302141P.
Danijela Majstorovic; Vladimir Turjacanin (1 January 2013). Youth Ethnic and National Identity in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Social Science Approaches. Palgrave Macmillan UK. ISBN 978-1-349-46717-4.
Nielsen, Christian Axboe (2014). Making Yugoslavs: Identity in King Aleksandar's Yugoslavia. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1-4426-2750-5.
Trbovich, Ana S. (2008). A Legal Geography of Yugoslavia's Disintegration. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-533343-5.
Velikonja, Mitja (2003). Religious Separation and Political Intolerance in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 978-1-60344-724-9.
Kofman, Daniel (2001). "Self-determination in a multiethnic state: Bosnians, Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs". Reconstructing multiethnic societies: the case of Bosnia-Herzegovina: 31-62.
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Violent murder for gain, involving complex issues in relation scientific forensic evidence.
Serious organised crime involving conspiracy to supply a sub automatic machine gun and ammunition. Judge persuaded to disapply a mandatory minimum sentence of imprisonment.
Planned murder [knife point stabbing] for gain, involving complex issues in relation to joint enterprise.
Significant and substantial conspiracy to defraud insurance companies [£250,000+].
Significant and sophisticated conspiracy to defraud HMRC [£500,000].
Serious organised crime group conspiracy to supply controlled drugs and significant and sophisticated money laundering operation [£2 million+].
Significant and sophisticated conspiracy to defraud financial institutions [£5 million+].
Modern slavery and kidnap that attracted national publicity.
Largest seizure of Class A controlled drugs [heroin] in South Wales Police history [£4 million+]. Serious organised crime conspiracy to supply Class A controlled drugs.
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Successful application to vacate plea in relation to a count of Inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent. Thereafter, successful negotiation resulting in no evidence being offered by the prosecution in relation to the same. In the result, sentence reduced from a starting point of 12 years imprisonment to a suspended sentence of imprisonment.


This is just the model being used at United Way's All In For Youth schools in Edmonton, thanks to powerful partnerships between service delivery agencies, funders and school boards.
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Guest Post: Welcome Elizabeth Black!
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Happy Book Birthday to a fellow eXtasy Books author! In honor of her latest release, I'm hosting her on the blog today and sending sincere congratulations.
Be advised this is a mature book with adult themes, as are all eXtasy Books titles. Mostly, if you're under 18 and wanting to read this book, the answer is no. Them's the rules.
First, welcome to the blog, Elizabeth! I'm getting a strong ménage-á-trois vibe from this sexy paranormal cover. Or is it more of a reverse harem situation?
Thank you very much for hosting me here today. I'd like to introduce you to my GLBT paranormal shifter romance. It's not a typical ménage, no. But it's also not quite a harem . . . you know what, I'll just let the blurb speak for itself.
Sounds like a good idea. Take it away!
William Shakespeare said All the world's a stage, but he hadn't counted on shifters under a theater's hot lights. Lovers Sam Hightower and Grant Newsome live for the stage. Although they have enjoyed the wanderlust of traveling theater for many years, each has grown tired of the road and wants to settle down. They also have a secret. As shifters and no part of any pack, they are lone wolves in every sense of the word. The full moon brings out the beast in them.
Even though their work as gaffers—lighting techs—puts them in contact with a large variety of willing, sexy men and women to share their love, they prefer men. They find a dancer, Luke Pearce, who makes their blood run hot, but Luke has a secret of his own to test them. Add scenic artists and lovers Charlotte and Lina to the mix, and you have a wild and sexy fivesome.
To spoil their fun and to their surprise, Sam and Grant discover another shifter in their midst, but this young person is so inexperienced and terrified she could expose them to the human hunters and get them killed. How can Sam and Grant protect themselves as well as the people they love?
Fascinating! I haven't read a five-way in quite a while. Where should interested readers look to find this title?
Readers can find it at all the usual suspects: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, eXtasy Books website, KOBO, and even Google Play Books
I have a short excerpt for you, as well.
"After many decades, Grant had grown weary of running and hiding, and that evening drove his melancholia home harder than ever.
There he sat with Sam in the Portland forest, part human and part wolf, smoking and drinking, waiting for their meal to appear. Grant sat in front of Sam while Sam rubbed his shoulders.
So much had changed over time. Now, he relied on his iPhone to keep track of moon phases. Before his trip to Freiberg, he hadn't even noticed the moon in the sky at all. No matter where he lived or toured, he had taken to hiding out in the nearest forest on those couple of nights each month when the blood lust took over his mind and body. No one was safe when he transformed, and he did what he could to avoid harming people. A deer or stray dog quenched his blood lust while he hid from the world in the safety of the deepest area of the forest, waiting until the full moon decayed the five percent he needed to be out of trouble. He only transformed at night, and his gallon jug of monkshood rye alleviated his symptoms somewhat, but in the end, he knew he was a danger and needed to hide, not only to avoid killing people but to keep away from the local authorities.
He crouched on the forest floor, swatting the black flies that bit through his thick fur. He wished there were some way of reversing the curse thrust upon him. He wanted nothing more than to sit at home with Sam, drink some beer, and watch a porn flick while making love to Sam again. He cursed his bad timing and rotten luck. He could say "if only" until the tides reversed. Nothing would change the fact that he would go feral every full moon. While he accepted his fate, he did not like it at all. Each full moon he fell into a rage that often came with thoughts of suicide, but when he thought of Sam and his sweet nature and even sweeter body, he realized he had reason to stay alive.
Sam sat next to him, smoking a cigarette, and Grant handed him the jug. Why did Sam seem to take to the change better than he? Or did he really take to it better? What if Sam only pretended so that Grant wouldn't feel so bad? Misery loved company, but Sam, being a good-natured sort, didn't wallow in sorrow. He considered the moonlit change a monthly inconvenience, much like some women considered their menstrual cycles. An irritant. If only Grant felt the same way.
Sam gulped as he drank, making slurping noises that grated in Grant's ears. Sometimes Grant considered the potion the only control he had over his life.
"I feel miserable. I hate the full moon," Grant said. "Sometimes I just want to curl up and die."
"It will last only another day or two and then things will be back to normal."
"What kind of normal is this kind of life?" Grant let his chin rest on his chest as Sam rubbed the kinks out of his shoulders. "My entire body hurts. The monkshood rye helps, but I'm as sore as I know I'll be every month."
"I know what you mean. We need something strong for the pain, like morphine, but I don't know where to get it."
"I'd rather have cyanide."
"Don't talk like that. We can get through this."
Grant groaned in ecstasy as Sam's fingers rubbed down his spine. Even though his entire body ached and he wanted to do nothing more than sleep for the next two days, his cock reacted to Sam's amorous touch, growing larger and becoming sensitive to the slightest touch.
"Hey, I found a great movie for us to watch," Sam said. "The Brotherhood of the Wolf. I figured it was the perfect movie for our time of the month."
"Never heard of it."
Sam turned to Grant and gave him a look Grant was all too familiar with. It was the you've got to be shitting me look, since Sam enjoyed relishing in the ways of the world much more than Grant . . . "
Thanks, Elizabeth! Do you also want to tell us a little bit about yourself?
I do happen to have an author bio for you.
Elizabeth Black writes erotica, erotic romance, speculative fiction, fantasy, dark fiction, and horror. Her erotic fiction has been published by Xcite Books (U. K.), House Of Erotica (U. K.), Circlet Press, eXtasy Books, Ravenous Romance, Riverdale Avenue Books, Scarlet Magazine (U. K.), and other publishers. She also enjoys writing retellings of classic fairy tales, including her two self-published fairy tales "Trouble In Thigh High Boots" (Puss In Boots) and "Climbing Her Tower" (Rapunzel). An accomplished essayist, she was the sex columnist for the pop culture e-zine nuts4chic (U. K.). Her articles about sex, erotica, and relationships have appeared in Good Vibrations Magazine, Alternet, CarnalNation, the Ms. Magazine Blog, Novelspot, The Erotic Readers and Writers Association Blog, Sexis Magazine, On The Issues, Sexy Mama Magazine, and Circlet blog.
Find Elizabeth at her website where you can sign up for her newsletter, on Facebook, Twitter, or her Amazon author page
It was great having you on the blog today. Congratulations again, and best wishes with your new release, Full Moon Fever!
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Roof Vent Could Prevent Wind Damage
by Adam Olen | Apr 29, 2008 | Blog, Roof Vent, Uncategorized | 0 comments
A roofer, Virginia Tech faculty members from architecture and engineering, and a graduate student have devised an inexpensive vent that can reduce roof uplift on buildings during high winds, even a hurricane.
New foot-high plastic structures can be seen atop low-sloped roof buildings around Wytheville, Va., where Virginia Tech alumnus Chuck Johnson and his brother, Pat Johnson, operate a roofing business.
Chuck Johnson has also persuaded Travel Centers of America in South Carolina, the Gaston County government complex in North Carolina, a Nestlé's distribution center in Tel Aviv, and VTKnowledgeWorks in the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center to use the Venturi Vent Technology (V2T), designed for membrane roofing systems.
The V2T system could revolutionize the way roofing is done, Johnson said. "We are using physics instead of mechanical fasteners or adhesives. The harder the wind blows, the better it works."
The physics is the Venturi effect – wind forced through an opening speeds up. V2T splits the airflow, speeding up the wind that is forced through the vent (between an upper saucer and a lower dome), which drops the pressure and creates a vacuum. The saucer has a hole on the bottom and three tubes from the saucer to the dome and the underside of the roof membrane. Wind pressure draws air out of the saucer and from under the membrane, pulling the membrane tight against the substrate. "The pressure being created under the membrane is lower than the uplifting pressure of the wind over the roof. The result is a low-pressure condition that prevents the uplift and detachment of the roof membrane," said Jim Jones, associate professor of architecture at Virginia Tech.
The Johnsons took their idea to Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology, which referred them to Jones. "Their concept was a tube-shaped vent that would rotate to catch the wind," Jones said.
Jones saw that keeping up with changing wind direction could be a problem and decided to investigate whether the Venturi concept could be applied to an omni-directional design "so it wouldn't matter which way the wind came from."
Jones and graduate student Elizabeth Grant started exploring the geometry of a pyramidal base with an inverted pyramid on top. They presented that idea to Demetri Telionis, the Frank Maher Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, an aerodynamics expert, who suggested a similar but rounded shape – the dome and saucer. "Once we decided on the geometry, the fine tuning became Grant's thesis. She created a model with an adjustable distance between the dome and bowl and began wind-tunnel tests."
Grant was already an experienced architect and designer whose credentials included affiliation with the Roof Consultants Institute. She made the project her master's degree research with the other members of the design team as her thesis advisers.
The team designed and built several prototypes and tested them in Virginia Tech's stability wind tunnel, where winds can reach 150 miles an hour, and in the NASA full-scale wind tunnel at Langley Air Force Base. These tests demonstrated the ability of the vent to generate low pressure that could be used to counter the uplifting forces from high winds.
UL testing is scheduled for June. Meanwhile, hardware and software are being developed to provide real-time monitoring of the vent.
April 29, 2008 · by DesignIntelligence


Physis is a goddess who appears primarily in the Orphic tradition of Greek mythology. In the Orphic tradition, Physis is the goddess of nature, both the origin of nature, and the natural order of things.
The Orphic tradition differs greatly from the more famous Hesiod tradition of the genealogy of the gods, but in the Orphic tradition, Physis was a Protogenoi, a primordial goddess. Indeed, an alternative name for Physis is Protogeneia.
Thus Physis was seen to have come into existence at the very start of time, born to no parents. From her though, all of nature derived, and so Physis can be thought of similarly to Eros, Phanes and Thesis.
The English word Physics ultimately derives from Physis, for physics is the study of nature.


Geez, it's been one intense fall, hasn't it?! I decided to stay in the U.S. for Election Day during my recent road trip. Felt historic and I wanted to be around for it. Boy it was intense in the household I was staying at, with mostly Clinton supporters aghast as the results came in. This Canadian was just thankful that it wasn't mine to vote in.
Since I've been back, I (like a lot of people) have been wary about the state of our world and what may happen. I'm still sorting through the various issues that personally trigger me and figuring out how I want to get involved. By way of a little self-therapy, I'm writing today's article on a trio of things that I have taken solace in. That calm my nervous system down. With the hopes that they may be soothing for some of you too!
If you aren't aware of him, he's a non-dual (unity) teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area. Right after the election he posted a letter on his Facebook page which has received its fair share of praise and push back.
I like this post because its speaks to the polarities and emotional reactions going on. That there is a first impulse that most of us have to things that trigger us. That it helps to try to understand that first impulse before we act (and to understand where others are coming from). Doesn't mean we don't eventually act … as action is so important in times of cultural shifts. But the action stands a greater chance of coming from a more inspired place, therefore hopefully being more effective in the long run.
I was born in the late 1960s so didn't personally participate in that huge wave of social change although my GenX Generation was so shaped by it. One person who was right smack in the middle of many of the landmark civil cases of that era was lawyer Daniel P. Sheehan (Watergate, Karen Silkwood, 3 Mile Island, Iran/Contra to name a few).
Mr. Sheehan's 2016 'Rulers of the Realm' course from Romero Institute is fully available on Youtube. You can listen to him give a vast background on the larger political movements of the last century that led up to this fall's election.
It'll get you out of the Trump/Clinton polarities by looking at the larger structures that made these divisions possible. A whole other kettle of fish that is actually the bigger systemic problem. Interesting to watch his Facebook page for the current Indigenous Rights projects he supports.
Note. For Gaia TV viewers, see Sean Stone's recent Buzzsaw Interview with Danny Sheehan (its dynamite). If you aren't a Gaia subscriber, now is a good time to become one with the promotion they are running.
I know from my studies in Organizational Development, Change Management, Coaching and Energy Work, and being involved in all sorts of process work over the last two decades … that higher order is often preceded by periods of high discomfort, pain and chaos. That light AND dark make up the whole. That the dance between the two is what evolves us along in the bigger picture.
Cymatics is "the study of sound and vibration made visible". Upon seeing my first Cymatics video I feel in love with the visual beauty of frequency interacting with form and the promise it holds for seeming periods of chaos in my own life (and our collective life). The 'click' and restructuring that happens as the pressure reaches a crescendo.
Watch the video below for a brief explanation of Cymatics and to see many visual examples of seeming chaos leaping to elegant structure.
May it give you hope, like it does for me, that as the pressure turns up in our world, so does the potential for massive, important and beautiful shifts to occur to. That the two work hand-in-hand.
Even though I have my confused, scared and depressed moments (will we SHIFT-IT as a planet?) at my heart I'm an optimist. I believe in the ultimate goodness of human nature (of the higher heart over the reptilian). I may not see the complete fruition of all that I hope will occur on our planet during my lifetime but the vision of it keeps me motivated to keep working. I hope you will keep working too!


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namespace Drupal\Tests\profile\Functional;

use Drupal\Core\Entity\Entity\EntityFormDisplay;
use Drupal\Core\Entity\Entity\EntityViewDisplay;
use Drupal\Core\Session\AccountInterface;
use Drupal\field\Entity\FieldConfig;
use Drupal\field\Entity\FieldStorageConfig;
use Drupal\profile\ProfileTestTrait;
use Drupal\Tests\BrowserTestBase;

/**
 * Tests profile access handling.
 */
abstract class ProfileTestBase extends BrowserTestBase {

  use ProfileTestTrait;

  public static $modules = ['profile', 'field_ui', 'text', 'block'];

  /**
   * Testing profile type entity.
   *
   * @var \Drupal\profile\Entity\ProfileType
   */
  protected $type;

  /**
   * Testing profile type entity view display.
   *
   * @var \Drupal\Core\Entity\Display\EntityViewDisplayInterface
   */
  protected $display;

  /**
   * Testing profile type entity form display.
   *
   * @var \Drupal\Core\Entity\Display\EntityFormDisplayInterface
   */
  protected $form;

  /**
   * Testing field on profile type.
   *
   * @var \Drupal\Core\Field\FieldConfigInterface
   */
  protected $field;

  /**
   * Testing admin user.
   *
   * @var \Drupal\user\Entity\User
   */
  protected $adminUser;

  /**
   * {@inheritdoc}
   */
  protected function setUp() {
    parent::setUp();

    $this->drupalPlaceBlock('local_tasks_block');
    $this->drupalPlaceBlock('local_actions_block');
    $this->drupalPlaceBlock('page_title_block');

    $this->type = $this->createProfileType('test', 'Test profile', TRUE);

    $id = $this->type->id();

    $field_storage = FieldStorageConfig::create([
      'field_name' => 'profile_fullname',
      'entity_type' => 'profile',
      'type' => 'text',
    ]);
    $field_storage->save();

    $this->field = FieldConfig::create([
      'field_storage' => $field_storage,
      'bundle' => $this->type->id(),
      'label' => 'Full name',
    ]);
    $this->field->save();

    // Configure the default display.
    $this->display = EntityViewDisplay::load("profile.{$this->type->id()}.default");
    if (!$this->display) {
      $this->display = EntityViewDisplay::create([
        'targetEntityType' => 'profile',
        'bundle' => $this->type->id(),
        'mode' => 'default',
        'status' => TRUE,
      ]);
      $this->display->save();
    }
    $this->display
      ->setComponent($this->field->getName(), ['type' => 'string'])
      ->save();

    // Configure the default form.
    $this->form = EntityFormDisplay::load("profile.{$this->type->id()}.default");
    if (!$this->form) {
      $this->form = EntityFormDisplay::create([
        'targetEntityType' => 'profile',
        'bundle' => $this->type->id(),
        'mode' => 'default',
        'status' => TRUE,
      ]);
      $this->form->save();
    }
    $this->form
      ->setComponent($this->field->getName(), [
        'type' => 'string_textfield',
      ])->save();

    $this->checkPermissions([
      'administer profile types',
      "create $id profile",
      "view own $id profile",
      "view any $id profile",
      "update own $id profile",
      "update any $id profile",
      "delete own $id profile",
      "delete any $id profile",
    ]);

    user_role_grant_permissions(AccountInterface::AUTHENTICATED_ROLE, ['access user profiles']);
    $this->adminUser = $this->drupalCreateUser([
      'administer profile types',
      'administer profile',
      "view any $id profile",
      "create $id profile",
      "update any $id profile",
      "delete any $id profile",
    ]);
  }

}


Customers dine inside at six tables and a counter or seven red-and-yellow picnic tables sitting outside under large shade trees. Many others grab takeout or have their events catered.
Rives hasn't needed the liquor license he originally intended to get, though it is still part of his plans.
Highly rated by several food websites, Old South has become known most for its wood-flavored chopped pork and its home-made sides, including hand-cut fries and tangy, pork-sprinkled barbecue beans.
Rives uses a dry run on all meat, allowing customers to choose their own special flavor from among his five sauces, including vinegar, mustard and traditional reds. The meat cooks overnight on a smoker fueled by wood and gas.
Charlotte-area diners might find the flavors familiar. One of Rives' former restaurants was the Kickin' Pig in Rock Hill. Rives said recipes are the same. Kickin' Pig general manager Tony "Duck" Drumm made the move to run Old South. While Rives usually can be found outside near the smoker, Drumm runs the inside operation.
The menu is simple. Chopped pork, baby back ribs and hot dogs and hamburgers, also from the smoker. No chicken plates, only wings and fingers. The sides are fresh and/or made from scratch, including corn on the cob, onion rings, hushpuppies, potato salad, cole slaw and barbecued slaw.
I had baby back ribs with fries and barbecue beans on my first visit. The ribs were thickly cut and tasty, intentionally cooked not to fall off the bone. I went with the spicy red sauce, which had good flavor and a nice kick to it.
The fresh-cut fries were fantastic, the barbecue beans exceptional. A large piece of sesame seed bread that comes with barbecue plates was an unexpected treat. All drinks except tea come in 20-ounce bottles.
On my next trip I tried the highly touted chopped pork and wasn't disappointed. The chopped method allows the pork to take on more of wood flavoring from the smoker. The vinegar sauce would be at home in barbecue-hotbed Lexington, N.C. The mustard sauce was spicy with a much stronger kick than others I've eaten.
Old South prices are lower across-the-board than at several area barbecue restaurants. Chopped pork plates with two generous sides sell for $7.99 and $8.99. Ribs with two sides are $12.99 for half a rack and $21.99 for a full rack. Service was quick and attentive inside and outside, taking less than 10 minutes either trip.
Starters include smoked chicken wings, as well as fried pickles and barbecue versions of quesadillas, nachos and spring rolls. Kids' meals with fries are $4.99. Ironically, desserts aren't offered at the former ice cream stand, which looks like a 1960s-era Dairy Queen.
Old South offers various to-go packages and also caters. The restaurant is open daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.


The commission was hearing a petition filed by Parampujya Solar Energy Pvt. Limited (PSEPL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Adani Green Energy Limited, and Wardha Solar (Maharashtra) Private Limited (WSPL), a wholly owned subsidiary of PSEPL.
The petitioners had requested the commission to declare the imposition of GST as an event under 'Change in Law', and direct the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) and Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI), which were the respondents in the case, to pay the petitioners the amount claimed under 'Change in Law'.
Quoting the PPA, the petitioners claimed that they meet the conditions prescribed in the Article 12 for claiming Change in Law, which says that a Change in Law results in any additional recurring/non-recurring expenditure by the developer or any income to the developer.
Moreover, they cited an earlier order of the CERC which held that if an event qualifies as a ''Change in Law',' then the due compensation must follow.
However, the respondents, in this case, have argued about the scope and applicability of Article 12 of the PPA and said that in the present PPA, there is no clause dealing with the specific relief under the construction period and therefore, the entire basis of 'Change in Law' provision does not arise.
Therefore, the scope for Change in Law is restricted to the taxes which are imposed for the 'supply of power' and other than that the conditions for relief are not admissible.
To this, the petitioners have submitted that the commission has allowed 'Change in Law' event under a similar PPA by holding the phrase "for the supply of power" which will include inputs required for such generation and supply of power to the DISCOMs.
The commission observed that it has already cleared that any tax levied through an Act of Parliament after the cut-off date which results in the additional expenditure by the petitioner is covered as 'Change in Law.' Previously, it also made it clear that any tax or application of the new tax on 'supply of power' covers the taxes on inputs required for such generation and supply of power to the DISCOMs.
The petitioners argued that after the introduction of GST, a tax slab of 5% to 28% had been introduced concerning goods and services required for the execution, construction, and operation of solar power projects. Previously, these were either exempted or fell under lower tax slabs. Therefore, new taxes have impacted the overall project costs.
For example, a service tax of 15% was being levied on operations and maintenance (O&M) expenses. However, after the GST, a rate of 18% is levied on O&M costs.
However, respondents have argued that it is the responsibility of the petitioners to account for the cost and risk for designing, constructing, erecting, commissioning, completing and testing the power project and mitigating the effect of change.
The commission noted that after the introduction of GST, a tax slab of 5% to 28% is levied under 'Goods and Services' for the execution, construction and operation of solar projects, which was previously exempted and categorized as Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) stage (Goods) and O&M stage (services).
Under the EPC stage, if the invoice for the goods or supply of services has been received before July 1, 2017, and the tax has already been paid under the earlier law, then the GST will not apply in such cases, irrespective of the supply been paid fully or partly.
The commission also noted the claims of petitioners saying that the construction cost of the project has escalated to the tune of a few million after the levy of GST.
However, to fully determine the impact of GST on the projects, any reference to component-wise details of the project and respective percentage share of each such component in the overall capital cost is not available. Therefore, the commission relied on its earlier order dated March 23, 2016, to determine the 'weightage of the components of capital cost' and the percentage impact on various components. For example, in case of input by a special purpose vehicle or high sea sale by EPC, the effective rate was 0% in the pre-GST regime, whereas after the enactment of GST, 5% will be applicable on intra-state procurement as well as import by any EPC or SPV.
The commission has asked the petitioners to make available all relevant documents exhibiting clear and one to one correlation between the projects and the supply of goods or services to the respondents (NTPC and SECI). The respondents should reconcile the claims for Change in Law on the receipt of the relevant documents and pay the amount claimed to the developers.
In case of O&M stage, the commission is of the view that outsourcing of the O&M services to a third party is not the requirement of the bidding documents. Therefore, the outsourcing of the O&M services is a commercial decision of the petitioners and any increase in cost on account of taxes cannot increase the liability for the respondents. Therefore, the claim of the petitioners on account of the additional tax burden on O&M expenses is not maintainable.
The amount determined by petitioner will be on 'back to back' basis and paid by DISCOMS to the petitioners under respective Power Sale Agreements. The claims should be paid within sixty days of the date of this order or from the date of submission of claims by the petitioners whichever is later, failing which late payment surcharge will be added.
This ruling is consistent with CERC's earlier ruling on the matter of GST introduction. In October 2018, the CERC had issued an order to compensate developers by giving them an upfront lump sum payment, which they would have incurred as an additional capital expenditure after the introduction of GST Law.
In December 2018, it ordered that the introduction of GST would constitute a 'Change in Law' event for the transmission service providers in India.
Recently, the CERC issued another similar order for relief under 'Change in Law' with regards to the effect of GST on solar projects which are still in the development phase.
Earlier, Mercom reported how conflicting state commission rulings on the GST rate had created confusion among the stakeholders. This was cleared after the GST Council gave its recommendations on solar power generating projects and other renewable energy projects in the last month of 2018.


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Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria. Found in the Sahara Desert, a vast mountain range is a spectacular natural wonder. Being a unique geological structure it is listed as a World Heritage Site and a National Park. The plateau is also a favorite tourist destination in the country, since it provides some of the most fascinating views in the area, that are often being compared to the lunar landscape.
During centuries erosion decomposed sandstone, creating various spectacular forms and hundreds of arches. Moreover, besides the geological significance, the region carries an important cultural heritage as well. Thousands of rock paintings, archeological remains and habitations were found here that date 10 000 BC. Tourists are allowed to visit on a guided tours only, to ensure the preservation of the site.
One of the most beautiful places in the country and North Africa. Tassili n'Ajjer is an important natural and historic site worth visiting at least once in your lifetime. It is also said to host the biggest amount of rock paintings in the entire world.
All year round, but make sure to have reservations, since only a certain number of tourists are allowed at a time. All visitors are accompanied by the guides.
The tours take off from the oasis city of Djanet. Get to Djanet by plane from Algiers.


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The H.A. Leeper Speech and Hearing Clinic is located in Elborn College, which is situated on the northwest corner of Western and Sarnia Roads. The driveway leading to Elborn College is located off of Western Road (to the west), just north of Sarnia Road.
The front doors to Elborn College are located on the east side of the building just beyond the end of the driveway. Proceed through the main entrance doors, turn left and proceed through another doorway. Take an immediate right (180 degrees) and proceed up the ramp. The Clinic is located at the top of ramp.


"Ottomans on the Move: Hassuna D'Ghies and the "New Ottomanism" of the 1830s" in Constantina Zanou & Maurizio Isabella (eds) Mediterranean Diaspora: Politics and Ideas in the Long 19th Century (Bloomsbury, 2016), 52-75.
"Barbary and Revolution: France and North Africa in the Revolutionary Era" in Patricia Lorcin & Todd Shepard (ed.) French Mediterraneans: Transnational and Imperial Histories (University of Nebraska Press, 2016), 97–116.
"The French Revolution and the Islamic World of the Middle East and North Africa" in Alan Forrest and Matthias Middell (eds) The Routledge Companion to the French Revolution in World History (Routledge, 2015), 117-134.
"The Republic of Marseille and the Making of Imperial France" in Philip Whalen and Patrick Young (eds) Place and Locality in Modern France (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014), 3-14.
"The Revolutionary Mediterranean" in Peter McPhee (ed.) A Companion to the French Revolution (Blackwell Wiley, 2013), 419-434.
"Egypt in the French Revolution" in Lynn Hunt, Suzanne Desan & William Nelson (eds) The French Revolution in Global Perspective (Cornell University Press, 2013) 115-131.


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World War II in Color, Part 2/5
Hail the F�hrer! Learn about German support for Adolf Hitler before and during World War II. Actual letters expressing the viewpoints of the time are read. This is part two of a five part series.
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Learning From World War II and Connecting It to the Present
Compare and contrast World War II to the modern Iraq war with this instructional activity. After watching a film, learners use supporting evidence to support their point of view of the conflicts. Using the internet, they create a...
8th - 12th English Language Arts
World War II in Photographs
A picture is worth a thousand words, and this activity is worth so much more! Learners closely analyze a series of photographs from World War II, matching them with their appropriate captions and sequencing them into a correct timeline.
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Reemergence of the "Vanishing Americans" ‐ Native Americans and World War II
Discover the many contributions and sacrifices of Native Americans during World War II. After gaining background information through a detailed PowerPoint presentation and guided notes, your young historians will participate in a jigsaw...
10th - 12th Social Studies & History
World War II - The Allied Response
Your class will benefit from this excellent presentation on World War II, and the Allied Response to Hitler's threat. The PowerPoint is packed with important information about battles, key figures in the war, and has an excellent...
World War II, A War for Resources: Crash Course World History #220
What was the role of food in World War II? Examine Japan and Germany's pursuit of autarky and the acquisition of resources with a Crash Course World History video, which also addresses the varying ways that countries fighting in World...
11 mins 9th - 12th Social Studies & History
What were the Allied and Axis countries doing just before the start of World War II? Take a peek into American, British, Spanish and German life (among others) on the eve of the most destructive war in world history. This is part one in...
9 mins 9th - 12th Social Studies & History
In six months, 600,000 Soviet prisoners of war died. As this number grew, the United States struggled to stay out of Europe's war. On December 7, 1941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the United States joined forces with the Allied...
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The Nazis destroyed French civilian life when they invaded France in March 1940. Watch the destruction of towns and the fleeing of worried, saddened people. This is part three of a five-part series.
World War II: A Visual History
Explore the enormity of World War II, including its causes, prominent battles, and historical figures, with an interactive map and timeline. Divided into each year from 1939 to 1945, as well as sections pre- and post-war, the resource...
How to Win a World War
High schoolers are have begun to learn the art of diplomacy with each other, but do they understand how diplomacy works at a global level? The second in a series of four lessons, guides scholars in evaluating primary sources. The why...