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package org.apache.solr.handler.extraction;

import org.apache.solr.common.SolrException;
import org.apache.solr.common.SolrException.ErrorCode;
import org.apache.solr.common.util.DateUtil;
import org.apache.solr.common.util.NamedList;
import org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore;
import org.apache.solr.request.SolrQueryRequest;
import org.apache.solr.update.processor.UpdateRequestProcessor;
import org.apache.solr.util.plugin.SolrCoreAware;
import org.apache.solr.handler.ContentStreamHandlerBase;
import org.apache.solr.handler.loader.ContentStreamLoader;
import org.apache.tika.config.TikaConfig;
import org.apache.tika.mime.MimeTypeException;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Map;

/**
 * Handler for rich documents like PDF or Word or any other file format that Tika handles that need the text to be extracted
 * first from the document.
 * <p/>
 */
public class ExtractingRequestHandler extends ContentStreamHandlerBase implements SolrCoreAware {

  private transient static Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ExtractingRequestHandler.class);

  public static final String CONFIG_LOCATION = "tika.config";
  public static final String DATE_FORMATS = "date.formats";

  protected TikaConfig config;

  protected Collection<String> dateFormats = DateUtil.DEFAULT_DATE_FORMATS;
  protected SolrContentHandlerFactory factory;

  @Override
  public void init(NamedList args) {
    super.init(args);
  }

  @Override
  public void inform(SolrCore core) {
    if (initArgs != null) {
      //if relative,then relative to config dir, otherwise, absolute path
      String tikaConfigLoc = (String) initArgs.get(CONFIG_LOCATION);
      if (tikaConfigLoc != null) {
        File configFile = new File(tikaConfigLoc);
        if (configFile.isAbsolute() == false) {
          configFile = new File(core.getResourceLoader().getConfigDir(), configFile.getPath());
        }
        try {
          config = new TikaConfig(configFile);
        } catch (Exception e) {
          throw new SolrException(ErrorCode.SERVER_ERROR, e);
        }
      }
      NamedList configDateFormats = (NamedList) initArgs.get(DATE_FORMATS);
      if (configDateFormats != null && configDateFormats.size() > 0) {
        dateFormats = new HashSet<String>();
        Iterator<Map.Entry> it = configDateFormats.iterator();
        while (it.hasNext()) {
          String format = (String) it.next().getValue();
          log.info("Adding Date Format: " + format);
          dateFormats.add(format);
        }
      }
    }
    if (config == null) {
      try {
        config = getDefaultConfig(core.getResourceLoader().getClassLoader());
      } catch (MimeTypeException e) {
        throw new SolrException(ErrorCode.SERVER_ERROR, e);
      } catch (IOException e) {
        throw new SolrException(ErrorCode.SERVER_ERROR, e);
      }
    }
    factory = createFactory();
  }

  private TikaConfig getDefaultConfig(ClassLoader classLoader) throws MimeTypeException, IOException {
    return new TikaConfig(classLoader);
  }

  protected SolrContentHandlerFactory createFactory() {
    return new SolrContentHandlerFactory(dateFormats);
  }

  @Override
  protected ContentStreamLoader newLoader(SolrQueryRequest req, UpdateRequestProcessor processor) {
    return new ExtractingDocumentLoader(req, processor, config, factory);
  }

  // ////////////////////// SolrInfoMBeans methods //////////////////////
  @Override
  public String getDescription() {
    return "Add/Update Rich document";
  }

  @Override
  public String getSource() {
    return "$URL: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/dev/branches/lucene_solr_4_7/solr/contrib/extraction/src/java/org/apache/solr/handler/extraction/ExtractingRequestHandler.java $";
  }
}

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The weather's sh*t but the clothes are fantastic!
Manchester would be perfect if it was just a little closer to the equator. The second part of my tour of the Northern Quarter looks at the wonders hidden between the boutiques and the bars.
The light in Manchester can be really stubborn. This picture was unusable until I started experimenting. It's amazing how much information can be extracted from the pictures we delete. This one went through iPhoto and Photoshop and I was surprised at what came out. These metal birds are just round the corner from my apartment. Everywhere you look in the Northern Quarter there are tiles or sculptures, murals and installations. The streets are paved with poetry! You can read Lemn Sissay as you walk up Tib Street.
We even had a Banksy which was lovingly painted over by the City Council.
This mural was right outside my lounge window for years, and it was only when I took this picture that I noticed how rich it is, detailing the history of the neighbourhood.
These terracotta parrots, loyal to Manchester, can be seen roosting above the flickering neon of Matt & Phred's jazz bar.
Read A Tour of the Northern Quarter – Part 1 here.


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package org.apache.camel.component.cxf.spring;

import org.apache.camel.component.cxf.CXFTestSupport;
import org.apache.camel.component.cxf.NullFaultListener;
import org.apache.camel.component.cxf.jaxrs.testbean.CustomerService;
import org.apache.cxf.logging.FaultListener;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNotNull;
import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;

public class CxfRsClientFactoryBeanTest extends AbstractSpringBeanTestSupport {
    static int port = CXFTestSupport.getPort1();

    @Override
    protected String[] getApplicationContextFiles() {
        return new String[] { "org/apache/camel/component/cxf/spring/CxfRsClientFactoryBeans.xml" };
    }

    @Test
    public void testCxfRsClientFactoryBean() {
        SpringJAXRSClientFactoryBean cfb = ctx.getBean("rsClient1", SpringJAXRSClientFactoryBean.class);
        assertEquals(cfb.getAddress(), "http://localhost:" + port + "/CxfRsClientFactoryBeanTest/router",
                "Get a wrong address");
        assertEquals("rsClient1", cfb.getBeanId(), "Get a wrong beanId");
        assertEquals("passwd", cfb.getPassword(), "Get a wrong password");
        assertEquals("username", cfb.getUsername(), "Get a wrong user name");
        CustomerService customerService = cfb.create(CustomerService.class);
        assertNotNull(customerService, "The customer service should not be null");
        assertEquals(1, cfb.getSchemaLocations().size(), "Got the wrong schemalocations size");
        assertEquals("classpath:wsdl/Message.xsd", cfb.getSchemaLocations().get(0), "Got the wrong schemalocation");
        assertEquals(true, cfb.isLoggingFeatureEnabled(), "Got the wrong loggingFeatureEnabled");
        assertEquals(200, cfb.getLoggingSizeLimit(), "Got the wrong loggingSizeLimit");
        Object listener = cfb.getProperties().get(FaultListener.class.getName());
        assertTrue(listener instanceof NullFaultListener, "NullFaultListener was not added to the properties");
    }

}


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National Poetry Month | diVERSE voices
Thursday April 4, 2019: 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Downtown Library: 4th Floor Meeting Room
A diverse nation deserves diverse poetry, Celebrate National Poetry Month with leading poets of color from Ann Arbor's vibrant poetry scene as they explore pressing themes of identity, heritage, culture, race, resistance, and more. This event will be curated by local writer Frances Kai-Hwa Wang.
Jasmine An comes from the Midwest. Her chapbook, Naming the No-Name Woman, won the 2015 Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in HEArt, Stirring: A Literary Collection, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Nat. Brut and Waxwing, among others. Currently, she is pursuing a PhD in English and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan.
Aldo Leopoldo Pando Girard is the current Youth Poet Laureate of Ann Arbor. Aldo believes firmly in bringing people together and making people feel seen through poetry and hopes to do so in his own poetry. He is a recent graduate of Pioneer high school, former Ann Arbor Youth Slam Team member, and a freshman at the University of Michigan, studying Vocal Performance and Engineering.
Marlin M. Jenkins was born and raised in Detroit. He teaches in the English Department Writing Program at the University of Michigan and in the Literary Arts Program at the Neutral Zone.
Leslie McGraw is the creative inspiration behind the Bookbound Open Mic & Share Poetry Series and the Life By Poetry online community. Her debut poetry collection, Emergencies of the Heart, was published in 2014; and her essay, "Roses Come in Black, Too," was published in the As/Us Women of the World Journal. You can follow her on Twitter @LifebyPoetry.
Saleem Peeradina is the internationally esteemed author of several books of poetry, memoir, and essays. He is the editor of Contemporary Indian Poetry in English, one of the earliest and most widely used texts in South Asian literature courses. He has served as writer-in-residence from Chelsea District Library to the American College in Madurai, India and is Professor Emeritus at Siena Heights University.
Cozine A. Welch, Jr. is a formerly incarcerated published poet and writer. A staff member of the University of Michigan's Prisoner Creative Arts Project (PCAP), he now teaches at the University and is managing editor of the Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing literary journal.
Hasna Ghalib is a poet, activist and peer-to-peer educator. She attends Pioneer High School and is a Neutral Zone youth leader, working to address racism, Islamophobia, and xenophobia. She was born in Baghdad, Iraq, and moved to the United States as a refugee in 2008. She made the 2018 Louder than a Bomb Ann Arbor poetry team, represented Ann Arbor at the Write To The City national youth poetry institute, and opened for poet Mojha Khaf at UM.
Chien-An Yuan is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work has been featured in The New Yorker, Salon, ArtSlant, Huffington Post, and WNYC. Past exhibitons include The Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Gene Siskel Film Center, Museum of Chinese in America NYC, Syrup Loft, Zhou B Arts Center, Asian American Cultural Center of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Hyde Park Art Center, and Gallery 312.
Frances Kai-Hwa Wang is a journalist, essayist, speaker, educator, and poet focused on issues of diversity, race, culture, and the arts. Her poetry has appeared in Cha Asian Literary Journal, Kartika Review, and the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. She teaches Asian/Pacific Islander American studies at the University of Michigan.
This event will be recorded
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2012 Bennett Farm fire in Holland.
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2004 – Herb Evans house fire on Warner Hill Rd., total distroyed the house.
Car fire on BlaKeley Rd / Centerline Rd.


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In my experience and opinion…..there's nothing like a deed done in secret that only your Creator, heavenly Father, Lord and Savior sees…..in my 37 years of having a relationship with God…..nothing has brought me closer than a secret.
Seldom taught insight into God…..check it out!! You are immensely loved by God!!!!
Could I have faulty knowledge and not even know it? You might be surprised!
"How To Receive The Baptism In The Holy Spirit" Simple, easy to understand Biblical teaching.
It's time to surrender all and return to our first love, beloved remnant of God. It's time to fast and pray and get so close to Jesus that He once again becomes our all in all as He was in the beginning.
It's a painful journey, if you are like me. I thought I was fine! Then the Lord said to me "You have an idol". I was floored! "What!! I love you Lord…how could I have an idol?" He quickly said…."You have your children as an idol in your heart." As soon as He said it, I knew. I had been mourning a tragedy that happened to my daughter. It occupied my thoughts night and day! And I was truly unaware of how much of my thought life was about that. I quickly surrendered it to the Lord and began a journey to find out what else I was blind to! And He graciously has taken my hand and is leading me into a place back to my first love and works and preparing me for beyond.
If you have had a calling on your life or suspect you do. Do not give up hope just because the country is falling apart and the hour is late. Dust off your hopes that God is great enough to complete that which He began in you long ago….or maybe recently for some.
I will leave you with this poem. Blessings! Have a wonderful day!


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There are different types of arthritis but generally it's important to know that in Ayurveda we believe that arthritis develops from the colon. Our aim in treating arthritis is to remove ama or toxins from the joint back to the colon where we then need to eliminate it.
It is therefore important to clean the colon and the number one treatment for this is to take 1 tsp of Triphala at night with ½ cup warm water. Triphala is a mix of three berries very high in Vitamin C.
Drink Ajwain (carom seed) water. To make ajwain water take 2 tsp of ajwain and soak it into one glass of water overnight. Mix it and strain the water in the morning. Add a tsp of honey to the mixture and drink it. Continue it daily for 15-20 days to get the benefits.
Add turmeric to your meals.
Attempt to have at least 50g of fibre per day.
Eat warm foods. Avoid nightshade family foods such as tomato, potato, eggplant.
Apply Mahanarayan oil to affected joint. Then soak your joint in very warm water with a cheesecloth or handkerchief with 2 tbsp. brown mustard seeds in the water.
Pitta arthritis is usually associated with pain. Eat cool foods and avoid all spicy foods, tomatoes, spinach, gherkins. I had one client who stopped tomatoes in her diet and noticed a huge improvement in her hand arthritis.
Externally, apply cool castor oil or coconut oil to your affected area.
Avoid all dairy foods. Avoid all cold drinks. A ginger paste is recommended externally. Mix 1 tsp ginger powder with a little water and rub over your affected area. Perform a quick skin test first before you spread all over your joint as ginger can be hot in nature.
1 tsp tukmaria seeds (or chia seeds). Tukmektia seeds are much yummier than chia IMHO, they are basil seeds.
Wait 5 minutes then either sieve out seeds or drink with them in.
Approximately one third of your body's toxins are eliminated through the skin. Dry skin brushing helps to unclog your pores and stimulate your circulation to release those toxins more efficiently.
Get a natural bristle skin brush or glove.
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Then jump in the shower/bath.
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Your body will thank you after just a few dry brushing sessions. Take note of the difference between your skin now and your skin in about a month.


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Buying Guide Volkswagen Karmann Ghia Type 14 1955-1974
Jack SSD Grover
VW KARMANN GHIA YOUR GUIDE TO BUYING THE MOST STYLISH VOLKSWAGEN EVER
The Karmann Ghia has often been dismissed as all style and no substance. The first part is certainly right – few cars have been so explicitly and entirely about looking pretty and the result is one of the most distinctive and attractive classic cars there is. But no substance?
That's a charge made in error by people expecting the Karmann to back up its sleek, jet-age looks with similar performance. All the Karmann Ghia ever had to do was be a very handsome variant on the Beetle, and it does that superbly – in teaming the stylistic masterstroke of one of the great Italian design houses with the high build quality of a German coachbuilder, VW cooked up a recipe for an enduring and very appealing car that was a classic from the moment it was launched.
The genesis of the Karmann Ghia came in the early 1950s when economic strength and rising living standards across Europe made Volkswagen consider broadening their product's appeal away from mere economy and reliability – something you bought because you had to – and into something with a bit more flair and aspiration. Wilhelm Karmann's coach-building operation (something of a misnomer for a firm that had pioneered specialist assembly of all-metal and monocoque cars and could turn out complete vehicles in large volumes) was already building the convertible versions of the Beetle. A chance meeting with Luigi Segre of Ghia in early 1953 led to the stylist and the coachbuilder working up a prototype.
Taking cues from contemporary American cars but on a smaller, more pleasing scale, the result was presented to Volkswagen CEO Nordhoff later that year, and the project approved. Production began in 1955, with Karmann building the bodyshells on a slightly widened version of the Beetle floorpan and inheriting all the Beetle's mechanical parts.
Originally offered only as a coupé, the Karmann Ghia featured virtually no straight lines and hardly any discernible body seams. The body wasn't stamped and machine welded, but cut and formed by hand, with panels welded end-to-end so there were no visible joins and then the whole thing was lead-loaded to produce the unmistakable smooth, flowing shape. And yet Karmann was able to produce cars with this craftsmanship to the tune of over 33,000 examples in peak years. A convertible model (cabriolet) was added in 1957.
Originally with 30bhp and never more than 50bhp even with a 1600 engine, plus that weighty lead-loaded body, the car was never about performance, but offered the style of a low two-seater and the quality of a hand-crafted machine yet with the compact size, thrifty running costs and reliability of an air-cooled Volkswagen. That was an attractive package, and it still makes a huge amount of sense over five decades later.
Even more so than for other classic cars, the viability of a Karmann Ghia comes down to how little (or how much!) rust is in the body. With their coachbuilt, hand-crafted body made from complex shapes, overlapping panels and lead-loaded finish, any repairs or restoration can be hugely expensive. It really can't be underestimated how thoroughly any prospective Type 14 purchase should be checked over, and if you don't have the necessary expertise, be sure to join the KGOC and tap into theirs prior to purchase rather than afterwards.
At the risk of sounding dramatic, the entire car, from headlamps to tail lamps and from sills to roof panel, needs careful examination. Start by looking at the doors and panel gaps to the sills and both wings, and ensure that the sill recess is visible where it fits behind both wings.
Then examine the sills, both inside and outside as well as underneath where the welded bottom edge should overlap the edge of the floorpan and around the jacking point. Between the outer sill and the inner/heater channel the cabriolet has additional reinforcement. Complete inner/ outer sill replacement will cost over £300 in parts alone.
Check around the headlamp bowls, both inside and outside the wing. The nose panel is prone to damage from front end collisions, whilst rust can be found inside the nose grills where the fresh air ducts are located and in the air ducts all along the inner wing. Check all four wheelarches, the inner rear wings from the wheel box right back to the tail lamp surround. Check too the condition of the door bottoms, both externally and by running a hand along the lower edge of the door where it sits against the seal.
Any corrosion in these parts can be sorted without sliding into the realms of a full rebuild – the panels and parts are available, albeit for a price, and the work involved won't cost more than the added value of the car.
However, also check the floorpan from both sides, especially around the front footwells and then going forward to the area where the front axle mounts to the framehead structure.
Convertibles usually suffer more from rust in the floor due to leaky hoods and seals or being caught in rain with the hood down. Lift the 'bonnet' (or luggage compartment lid – the one at the front!) and the 'boot' (engine compartment) lids and check the condition of the inner wings front and rear and the bumper attachment points at both ends. Also examine the condition of the boot and engine compartment floors, as these often rust out from perished or missing lid seals. The rear left inner wing often rusts around the battery tray. Anything but the lightest corrosion in any of the areas mentioned in this paragraph should be a warning sign, and if it's bad enough to need replacement then a full body-off rebuild is on the cards.
Karmann Ghias were assembled and built to rigorous standards when new, so panel gaps should be both tight and even and doors should latch easily with little force. Wonky panels and dragging doors point to poor-quality restorations, accident repairs or a rust-weakened body. The car's famous smooth, sculpted shape encourages slapdash applications of filler to hastily welded-in repair panels, so look and feel for suspiciously plastic-seeming areas of bodywork – a magnet is a useful tool.
All Karmann-Ghias originally had a dual chrome trim strip along the styling crease leading forward from the leading edge of the rear wing. While there is a fashion for a nude, pared-back look, many cars will lack this piece of trim because the body is too full of filler to support it or because it was seen as a non-essential item in a tight-budget restoration. If you're after a project, an honestly rusty car is invariably easier (and cheaper) to put right than a poor-quality 'restoration' held together by filler and good intentions.
If a Karmann Ghia's body is decent, then you're pretty much home and dry. The mechanical parts are all shared with the Beetle, so they are simple, sturdy and widely available, (there are thousands of Karmann Ghia parts listed on www.californianclassics.co.uk for example, or call the Hull company on 01424 752217), but there's no point making life difficult for yourself!
The Ghia came with the familiar Volkswagen air-cooled flat-four in 1192, 1285, 1493 and 1584cc forms and followed the mechanical development of the Beetle. The engines can last for very high mileages if properly maintained, but consider the average life to be in the 70,000-100,000-mile region, especially for the hard-worked smaller capacity units.
The big killer of VW engines is overheating, often caused by things as simple as a slipping fan belt, malfunctioning thermostat or blocked oil cooler. The latter is hard to inspect, but look at the condition, tightness and alignment of the belt and for any signs that it's been slipping. Check that the thermostat located under the push rod tubes expands when the engine is warm and contracts when cold – this opens and closes the cooling flaps located in the fan housing. The engines usually keep their cool in the UK climate, but it's important to keep the airflow separate between the upper and lower halves of the engine compartment with all tinware and seals in place to prevent hot air from the cylinders being drawn in by the fan.
Chrome-plated rocker covers and fan shrouds may be a popular accessory, but they also make the engine run hotter than intended. Carburettors with worn throttle spindles, leaky manifold seals (especially twin port engines with rubber connecting sleeves) or being badly set up will make the engine run hot and lean, as will tight valves or incorrect timing.
A compression test is the best way of gauging the overall health of the engine if the vendor will allow you to perform one – you want to see even readings of at least 100psi on all cylinders, with 120psi being the sign of a really good motor. Engines should not leak oil, so be wary of units with signs of oil leakage from the oil cooler, the pushrod tubes and the flywheel crank seal. Try and lever the crank pulley back and forth to check for noticeable end play which signifies worn main bearings (also inspect it with the engine running and an assistant operating the clutch) – ideally you want to see no movement at all.
Engines with worn or scored cylinder barrels or seized rings from overheating will blow blue smoke under acceleration. Worn valve guides will result in a puff of oily smoke on start-up. Engines will make the distinctive air-cooled churning sound at idle, but listen for knocks or tapping sounds, usually indicative of worn main or small end bearing knock. Ghias lacked an oil pressure gauge as standard, but check that the warning light goes off quickly after the engine starts and that The cabriolet version of the Karmann Ghia was introduced in 1957 as a 2+2. Approximately 80,000 were built between then and 1974. it doesn't light up or flicker at a hot idle. Many Karmann Ghias will have had later engine/ transmission units fitted, or had upgrades such as twinport cylinder heads, uprated carburettors (or twin-carb kits) and sports intake/exhaust kits. The points to check on any of these remain the same.
The gearbox and clutch aren't the slickest or most pleasant examples in the world of classic cars, but they are robust and functional. The biggest issue is worn synchromesh caused by sheer age or mileage, leading to crunchy down-changes and grinding when selecting first/ second gear, although that may be simply an out-of-adjustment clutch linkage. Check for wear by coming off and on the throttle a few times in second and third gear and seeing if the box jumps out of engagement. This will also reveal any worn IRS driveshaft couplings.
From 1968 a three-speed semi auto was available. It uses the top three gears of the manual box with a torque converter and vacuum operated clutch operated by a microswitch in the gear lever. Problems to check for are with electrics, switches and vacuum controls. On all boxes, worn bearings and chipped teeth usually show up by chattering or rattling sounds in neutral with the clutch up. The remote gearchange isn't the most precise one ever devised, but if it feels loose or the gears hard to find, then the rear coupling, gearlever lockout plate or nylon bush may be worn, which are easy to replace. A complete rebuilt transmission unit (gearbox and final drive) costs about £1000 plus fitting.
SUSPENSION, STEERING & BRAKES
Like a Beetle, the Karmann Ghia has simple torsion bar suspension, so it is easy to maintain as long as the mounting points and axle beam themselves are rust free. The front torsion beam has four grease nipples, so look to see that these show signs of being used recently and aren't under a cake of dirt and paint. Earlier cars up to 1966 have link/king pins instead of balljoints for the front wheels, each with upper and lower grease points. There should be no discernible freeplay with wheels unloaded. Dry torsion leaves can give a stiff or jerky ride. Check for uneven tyre wear, which often indicates that the geometry is being thrown off by worn or seized suspension parts.
From 1969 the Karmann Ghia gained a proper independent rear suspension system with CV joints at both ends of each driveshaft, rather than the older swing axle system. Other than an extra pair of joints and gaiters to check, there is no difference in the durability, but the later system provides superior road holding. Earlier cars may be fitted with the later IRS-type shafts, which is good so long as the work is properly carried out.
The steering is by a box which, while producing rather numb and wooden-feeling steering, should be accurate and with hardly any slack other than around the centre point. Check the relative motion of the input and output shafts for internal wear, although this can be adjusted at the box up to a point. Modern balljoints were fitted from 1966 on – check both these and track rod ends for wear or torn gaiters.
Before 1967 Karmann Ghias had single circuit hydraulic drum brakes all-round, superseded by a dual circuit, front disc system thereafter. The disc system is better, but there's little wrong with the all-drum set-up so long as it's in good condition and the car in question hasn't had power or performance upgrades.
The original reservoir for the master cylinder is mounted on the upper part of the bulkhead, with long flexible hoses to the cylinder behind the pedal on the floor. These long hoses can be a source of leaks, and some cars will have had replacement cylinders with an integral reservoir but this can be difficult to access. Beyond this the brake system is conventional, so check the cleanliness of the fluid and for any sponginess or 'pumping' action in the pedal, leaks from the wheel cylinders, sounds and sensations of warped discs or drums and make sure the car pulls up straight.
It has become quite popular to lower the stance of a Karmann Ghia and fit different wheels, so check this work has been done competently and you appreciate the differences to a standard car. Extensive changes may also mean the car is no longer exempt from needing an MoT.
INTERIOR & ELECTRICS
The interior of a Karmann Ghia is fairly straightforward and generally the materials are durable so long as they haven't been exposed to harsh UV light for a long period – this is more of a problem for cars in hotter, sunnier places than the UK! In terms of soft furnishings like floor carpets, seat covers, door cards and roof lining, it's all available new from a variety of sources and there's nothing that a competent trim specialist won't be able to restore. A carpet set is about £160, a complete seat cover set is £200-£300 depending on the type of seats and the material, cabin side trim sets are about £300 and headlining is about £100, all of which will be subject to the additional fitting cost if you can't do the work yourself. Even things like steering wheels, mirrors and door handles are available, though they are pricey. In short, the interior is not a big worry so long as the rest of the car is in good condition and defects in the interior make a good haggling point.
On cabriolets, check the hood for damaged mechanisms, rotted wooden hood bows, shrinkage, splits and tears (especially in the PVC rear window for pre-1969 cars; after '1969 these were replaced with a heated fold down glass window) but, again, new ones in a variety of materials and specifications, ranging from straightforward replacements to luxurious colour-coded mohair ones with heated glass, are available in the £400-£600 range. It's more important that a tatty hood hasn't let water in to rust out the floor!
The electrics are simple. Pre-1968 cars had six-volt electrics, but many have been converted to 12-volt systems by now. Most problems are caused by bad earths due to corroded fittings or rust in the body, or by degraded wiring with flaking insulation. Check behind the dashboard to see the condition of the wiring loom – it shouldn't look or feel like a bird's nest. However this is one of those areas where you can compromise a little if the car is structurally and mechanically decent – sorting out wiring is much easier and cheaper than rebuilding a rotten bodyshell.
WHAT TO PAY?
Whilst Karmann Ghia values have picked up over the past few years as the spotlight has shifted from the ever-desirable but increasingly expensive campers and buses, they have yet to reach their full potential. Condition is everything and if you want an original car, make certain you know what you are looking at! Generally the earlier the car, the more you will need to pay, so very good 'low light' coupés (only officially made in LHD from 1956-1959) can be £25,000-£30,000. Excellent 1960-1965 cars can fetch up to £24,000, with 1966-1969 cars 10-15% less.
The 1972-on 'big bumper' cars in top condition struggle to better £14,000, whilst 1970-1971 cars with larger indicators/ rear lights fall in between. Cabriolets are typically worth up to £5000-£6000 more for good examples than equivalent coupés. Project cars can be had for £2000 upwards depending on age and degree of decay.
Most cars in the UK have been imported from the USA (with a few from South Africa) and there is still demand to import good, usable, rust free examples at a significant saving. There is now little practical difference in prices between LHD and RHD cars as they are both equally sought after in the UK, and the European market is strong for the best cars.
Our grateful thanks to Mark Poulton and the Karmann Ghia Owners Club GB for invaluable help with this feature. For further advice and help, check out their website at www.kgoc.org.uk
Luggage space – up front of course – is limited. RHD was only offered from August 1959, but some earlier cars have been converted.
The Coupé lasted nearly 20 years, from 1955 to 1974. In that time well over 350,000 were built.
Engines used in the Karmann Ghia mirrored the evolution of those used in contemporary Beetles.
The cabriolet version of the Karmann Ghia was introduced in 1957 as a 2+2. Approximately 80,000 were built between then and 1974.
The Ghia was crafted by Karmann for Volkswagen. When production finished in June 1974, the factory retooled to build VW Sciroccos.
Barely a seam in sight – rebuilding a Karmann Ghia body properly is a skilled job and so expensive.
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Life experience often serves to sharpen a songwriter's edge and provide them with a more colorful palette to draw from when creating images with their music. Though she's young, Lauren Daigle has lived a lot of life and those experiences—some challenging and others exhilarating—enrich her perspective and create her heartfelt worship music.
Blessed with a voice that is both smoky and sweet, Daigle has forged a unique sound that combines the soulful, heart-in-throat vulnerability of Adele, with the passionate fire to serve God that Daigle admires in Brooke Fraser.
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Once she was well, Daigle attended a charter school and completed a year and a half of class work in six months and actually graduated early. She took a year off from school, traveling to Brazil to do mission work, before enrolling at Louisiana State University to pursue a degree in Child and Family Studies, but music was always on her agenda. She led worship at her church, became an American Idol contender and sang on an EP a local band was recording. It was that gig that led to an invitation from Centricity Music to attend a retreat in Washington State. When the lead singer of the band had an emergency appendectomy, Daigle stepped in and immediately impressed label execs that encouraged her to come to Nashville.
"After the first week of being in Music City I thought, 'Ok, I'm moving to Nashville!'" Daigle says of her current home. She began collaborating with local songwriters, sang background vocals on Jason Gray's hit "Nothing Is Wasted" and landed her own deal with Centricity Music. She made her debut with the beautiful Christmas anthem "Light of the World," which served as an appetizer that left fans anxiously awaiting her first project.
Produced by Paul Mabury (Brooke Fraser, Hillsong, One Sonic Society), Daigle's How Can It Be is a compelling collection of songs that celebrate God's faithfulness with a sense of wonder and awe. In the title track/first single, Daigle gives voice to the grateful heart inside every believer as she sings: You plead my cause. You right my wrongs. You break my chains. You overcome. You gave Your life To give me mine. You say that I am free. How can it be?
Each song carries the listener on a worthy emotional journey. All Sons & Daughters joins Daigle on the impressive "Power to Redeem," while "Salt & Light" is one of Daigle's favorites. "I wrote the song in my old apartment and thought, 'Ok Lord, I just have so much joy in my heart that I want to make sure that my life brings a beautiful song to you. I want my life to sing to you," she says. The album closes out with a bonus track, "Light of the World," the inspiring Christmas anthem that has become a fan favorite.
In a short time, Lauren Daigle has made an impressive mark on the Christian music scene. She appeared on Jason Gray's Christmas tour and opened for Aaron Shust on the Morning Rises trek. She sang with Hillsong at a mega church in Birmingham, an experience she'll always treasure, and leads worship three or four Sundays a month at Atlanta's North Point Community Church, pastored by Andy Stanley. She has a heart for victims of human trafficking, a cause she has given her time and energy to since her college days.


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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Two anonymous gunmen launched a hit-and-run attack on an Islamic State radio station inside Mosul, the group's stronghold, a Kurdish official said Saturday.
Saeed Mamuzini, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) spokesman for Mosul, told Rudaw that ISIS immediately after the attack set up a series of checkpoints inside the city to hunt the two assailants.
"The attack didn't cause any casualties, and none of the assailants were injured," Mamuzini said.
Al-Bayan radio network airs a news/talk format and broadcasts in Arabic, Kurdish, English, French and Russian. The ISIS radio station has been framed as "highly professional" and compared to NPR and the BBC for tone and quality.
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Accurate Reporting Of Pupil Progress Is Important In The UK Education System
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Accurate testing and reporting of pupil progress is an important part of the UK education system, however it hit the news for the wrong reasons last week as a testing scandal emerged that led to an official government trial being curtailed.
The test was of national spelling tests for 7 year olds, which is currently in the process of being rolled out across the country. But Progress has hit a speed bump after an embarrassing faux pas in the official trial.
Last week it emerged that during the trial many pupils were able to predict what questions were coming next. The children had not learnt to predict the future, but rather had seen the test paper before as it was the same as some of the practice papers they had been given access to.
Charlotte Smiles, a teacher spotted the error and said:
"One of the children who was sitting the spelling test that we were giving them kept saying, 'I know this one, and this one'. He appeared to know what was coming next.
I went and checked on the DfE website and I found this exact test published as a sample paper."
Knowing the answers to a test in advance is the stuff of slapstick movies, this is quite a serious error for a new process and one that has left many scratching their heads at how such a mistake could happen.
Head teachers leader Russell Hobby stated that
"We have no way of knowing how extensively it has been used by schools. This is a serious error that undermines confidence in the administration of primary tests and also means that we can have little faith in any standard setting exercise that may emerge from the pre-test trials.
The full Key Stage 1 tests are due to start later in the year but this error has given the tests a rocky start. We will be keeping an eye and monitoring how the rollout continues after this setback.
Sugar Tax To Fund Breakfasts & Extended School Days
The recent budget by George Osborne contained a number of initiatives that will impact on schools and the millions of children that attend them every day.
Although announced this week they are a continuation of policies that have previously being trialled or enacted at various levels of the education system.
We have recently blogged about the biggest change unveiled during the budget, which was the conversion of all UK schools to academies by 2022. However, there were also announcements around the length of the school day, after school activities and the so called "sugar tax" that have also dominated the post budget discussions.
Although the sugar tax is not strictly an education issue, it is an important one. The tax is expected to raise £1.2bn in the first two years after it is enacted. The mechanics of which are not only designed to help tackle childhood obesity, but also raise revenue that will be used for education initiatives.
These include £285m per year to spend on the extended day program for secondary schools; £320m to double the primary school PE premium and £10m to provide 1,600 schools with breakfast clubs.
Extended School Days
The extended school days' program will be used to fund extracurricular activities focused around sports and the arts. These sessions will extend the school day for many students by more than an hour and is based on research that such activities improve student achievement.
The proposal has been met with enthusiasm by Russell Hobby, the general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, he said:
"Any expansion of hours must be properly funded, as school budgets are extremely tight. As long as this remains at the discretion of schools to meet the needs of their pupils, then it seems positive."
"The idea that most schools shut at 3.30pm is itself pretty outdated, but we have no problem with extra money to help them in the activities they offer."
How Would Your School Handle A Digital Detox
Digital technology has taken over our lives in recent years.
The invention of smart phones and the mobile internet and Wi-Fi infrastructure that has grown to support them means that we can be online virtually anywhere.
One generation that the digital revolution has affected the most are school age children.
There are now generations of children growing up that are digitally native, they have never lived in a world where information and communication was not at their fingertips 24/7. Children are drawn to technology from an early age and it seems to come naturally to them.
Teens in the UK, like most everywhere else in the world, are incredibly digitally literate. Smartphone adoption is sky high and by 2013, 8 out of 10 UK teens had a smart phone, using it for browsing the web, playing games and using social media.
Young people are estimated to be only for 27 hours a week and there is concern that is too much and children are becoming dependent on being connected.
Last week the BBC put together an interesting experiment to see how high school students would cope with a weeklong digital detox.
"Digital detox refers to a period of time during which a person refrains from using electronic connecting devices such as smartphones and computers. It is regarded as an opportunity to reduce stress or focus on social interaction in the physical world."
It was insightful to see how the students use the technology and how different their experience of the world is to their parents.
All quite endearing it shows just how important digital has become in the behaviours of the next generation. This will affect how they respond to how they find and absorb information and how they communicate with each other.
School Reporting Standards
The UK education system and the way that students progress is assessed tracked and reported is one of the most politically sensitive topics in education.
This is because the way in which students are tracked and measured affects the way that students are taught and how the success of the education system and schools themselves is evaluated.
The last decade has seen renewed focus on the way in which pupil progress is assessed and reported. School tables may have been axed but within the education system teachers have had to adapt to a constantly evolving landscape.
What Fuels Changes In Assessment and Reporting Systems?
Change can be triggered by internal factors such as union or teacher feedback or external triggers such as changes in the political make up of the country or governmental education department.
One of the most recent changes to be announced was the introduction of baseline assessments for primary school children. The aim being to measure where a child is when they enter education and how that compares to progress made by the time they leave.
This change has not been universally popular and has recently been criticised by the media, by MPs and teachers groups. However, regardless of what the current system is, it is important to have the right mechanisms in place to assess, track and report student progress.
The Importance Of Flexibility
One of the advantages that users of the School Reporting Suite have found is that our proprietary software has the ability to adapt to changes in legislation and the national curriculum as well as the bespoke faith curriculums that our software can easily accommodate.
If you would like to know more about how our systems can make the compliance to current reporting standards within your school easier then contact the School Reporting System team for an informal discussion.
The History Of Assessments In UK Education
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The Languages of British Schools
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The UK school system is huge, with more than 8 million school pupils across 24,000 schools.
These schools cut across all different elements of society, and incorporates the diverse cultural backgrounds from which these children come. It is this diversity that means that there are more than a million children in UK schools that speak 311 different languages and dialects.
This creates a language challenge within the education system. Depending on the demographics of different areas, this can be either a small challenge or a huge one.
In some schools English may not be the first language of a majority of pupils. This fact means that the education system has to be adaptive to the needs of schools in different areas.
Official statistics reveal there are classrooms in which the majority language is not English, but is Polish, Bengali, Somali, Gujarati, Arabic, Tamil and the Afghan language Pashto.
Overcoming this challenge is one that requires identifying the right needs and assigning the right resources quickly and efficiently to where they are needed.
Teaching In Languages Other Than English
Another language factor can be when the administration or reporting of the school is carried out in more than one language. This can be a factor for faith schools, where the core language used in the religion is not English.
These languages can be in different alphabets, and formatted in a different way to English. This creates a challenge to administration; tracking and reporting may be required in multiple languages, particularly if parents do not speak English as a first language.
This is something we have experience in facilitating through our School Reporting System. We have designed our system with language and curriculum needs of different school systems in mind.
This allows our software to be produced in a number of different languages; this flexibility has proven hugely beneficial when working with faith schools.
Government Analysis Of The Teacher Workload Challenge
In 2014 the government commissioned a "Teacher Workload Survey" to identify the workload challenges being faced by teachers.
The Workload Challenge consultation ran between 22 October and 21 November 2014. It was an online survey that was advertised on the Times Educational Supplement (TES) website, and also disseminated via the Department for Education and union websites, newsletters, and social media.
The scope of the survey was for teachers to provide their feedback on what they perceived to be the 'unnecessary and unproductive' tasks that they were required to carry out."
The survey was centred on three open ended questions relating to:
Unnecessary and unproductive tasks and where they come from
Solutions and strategies within schools for tackling workload and what works well
What the government could do to tackle unnecessary workload.
The survey got more than 40,000 responses, and it provides interesting insights into the challenges faced by teachers.
It uncovered that as well as tasks that were unnecessary or unproductive, among those that were necessary the level of detail, duplication or bureaucracy could have a negative impact on teacher workload.
Although not every response was fully reported due to the number of responses and the style of the survey, a number of different factors affecting workload were identified amongst the results analysed:
The volume of work compared to the time available (particularly for marking)
Unrealistic deadlines
Long or irrelevant meetings
Too many sources of information to manage/monitor
Lack of ICT training or equipment
Lack of clarity
The most frequently mentioned tasks contributing to unnecessary and unproductive workload fitted within the category of lesson planning and policies, assessment and reporting administration (82% of respondents mentioned tasks which fitted into this category).
This shows that any steps made to make these processes more efficient can have a positive impact upon teacher workloads.
Reducing Teacher Workloads Using Technology
In the modern education environment formal assessments, paperwork, and marking are an increasingly large part of the teaching workload.
The government has identified three of the biggest areas that lead to unnecessary workload:
In 2014 the UK government launched the "workload challenge", designed to ask teachers on their views on how to reduce unnecessary workload. It found that:
excessive levels of recording detail made tasks burdensome
Duplication adds to the workload burden
Bureaucracy was a challenge
With teachers already working long hours and having to adapt to a continuously changing education landscape, any ways of reducing this burden can have a significant impact on morale and results, by giving teachers more time to focus on teaching.
Providing the right tools are used, and that they are implemented with the right strategy, technology can have a significant part to play in reducing the administrative load involved with teaching.
With a need for more visibility and accurate information in real time, schools are looking at how technology can help minimise unnecessary workload.
Technology & The Teacher Workload Challenge
IT software can help overcome this obstacle. Workloads can be reduced by making pupil data easier to record, analyse, and report.
Tellingly, the most frequently mentioned tasks contributing to unnecessary and unproductive workload in the teacher workload challenge survey fitted within the category of lesson planning and policies, assessment and reporting administration (82% of respondents mentioned tasks which fitted into this category).
Implementing simple to use systems can tackle two of the three biggest areas of unnecessary workload. Simpler ways of recording pupil assessments save time in marking. Whilst real time, accurate and tailored reporting mean that data can be managed and reported to senior management and parents in a professional and efficient way.
This challenge was the reason that we developed the School Reporting Suite, pupil assessment; tracking and reporting is essential to give teachers, senior management and parents visibility over pupil progress.


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Plymouth, New Hampshire
Location: Plymouth, New Hampshire
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The School of business invites applications for a full time, 9-month, Tenure Track Faculty position in Marketing beginning Fall of 2022.   The Plymouth State University School of Business offers ACBSP-accredited undergraduate degrees in business administration, accounting, finance, management, marketing, and sports management, and a number of related undergraduate and minors and certificates. Plymouth State University graduate programs include a Master of Business Administration degree and a Master of Science in Accounting. Our business programs have a track record of providing relevant, experiential and applied learning experiences that challenge students and prepare each for career success  We seek a dynamic colleague committed to teaching excellence, student development, and service. Tenure-track Faculty positions are full time, with benefits, and the teaching load is 24 credits per year. The candidate will also be expected to advise undergraduate students and provide service to the university. Â
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Charlotte, 16, from Tile Hill in Coventry is a very passionate sports woman. Charlotte has been involved with Whizz-Kidz for several years, having received her first specialist sports wheelchair when she was six. Since then, Charlotte has gone from strength to strength, with achievements including: winning the London Mini-Marathon four times, playing international-level basketball and playing tennis at a high level –look out for her in Rio 2016!
When she's not busy playing sport, Charlotte attends the Coventry Ambassador Club and joined Whizz-Kidz Patron and Paralympic gold medallist Hannah Cockroft MBE to launch the Generation Inspired report into Paralympic Legacy at No.10 Downing Street.
'I have always loved sport and have been really lucky to be able to get involved with a variety of activities, partly thanks to the support Whizz-Kidz has given me.
'Whizz-Kidz provided me with the perfect sports wheelchair. My family and I knew exactly which one we wanted and Whizz-Kidz made it happen.
'Charlotte has won the Virgin London wheelchair mini marathon four times, raising over £2000 for Whizz-Kidz and other charities. After her last win, in 2013, Charlotte received her trophy from HRH Prince Harry, who even remembered her from her victory the previous year!
'I loved taking on the mini marathon each year, it was a personal challenge that was really great fun to be a part of. I am very proud of my title having won it four times. The streets are lined with people cheering you on and encouraging you to do your best, it's a great experience.
'My commitments to wheelchair basketball have now increased so I don't have much time to do wheelchair racing as I used to. I am part of the GB Women's wheelchair basketball team, the GB women's under-25 team, plus I play for my local team in the first division, the regional women's team, and junior team too! I really enjoy the training, the games and the travelling'.
'Charlotte played at the World Basketball Championships in Toronto last year. She helped the GB Women's team to their strongest finish so far. Charlotte hopes to be selected to play at the European Championships later this year, as well as the Paralympics in Rio next year!
'Charlotte did a talk at the Houses of Parliament last year before the Virgin London Marathon, and has also done talks at London City Hall.
'The Whizz-Kidz Ambassador Club in Coventry is amazing. It gives the opportunity for young wheelchair users to socialise, have a laugh, learn new skills and also get involved with some really great campaigns.
'At the beginning of 2013 Charlotte helped launch Whizz-Kidz's Generation Inspired report into the legacy of the London 2012 Paralympic Games, alongside fellow Ambassador Joel and Paralympic gold medallist, Hannah Cockcroft who also received a sports wheelchair from Whizz-Kidz.


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MnO stretch 851.9 Ar IR Zhou, Liang, et al., 1999
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Zhou, M.; Liang, B.; Andrews, L., Nonexponentialities in the Ultrafast Electron-Transfer Dynamics in the System Oxazine 1 in, J. Phys. Chem. A, 1999, 103, 16, 3013, https://doi.org/10.1021/jp9843712 . [all data]
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This is the third of the stories set in the Magic P1r4cy setting, where teens pirate magic online and run them as "spell programs" on computers and phones. It's fun to read these stories and see how they evolved as smartphones became a thing.
The clock on the radio of your rusting 1992 Toyota Tercel reads 9:06 AM, undeniable proof that you're late to school. The situation would normally elicit nothing more than a pfft, but not today; your dreams were full of dark premonitory images—of serpents coiling around bundles of ethernet cable, carpets of bugs swarming in unison and devouring everything in their path, and ending with an old-fashioned rave of all things. The halls of your school burst with students swaying to a deep, feel-it-in-your-chest beat. At the far end of the hall, a little blonde girl spun the turntables while she cried. Her face was so familiar, but you cannot place it, even this morning after waking.
You've had dreams like them since puberty, but you only started trusting them after becoming a net-mage. Your mentor in the Socialistas cabal had explained how ambient magic energies sometimes travel backward in time, and blah blah blah. All you took away from it was that net-mage dreams predicted the future sometimes. These were really bad, and the bad ones almost always came true.


The United States Merchant Marine refers to either United States civilian mariners or to a fleet of U.S. civilian and federally owned merchant vessels. These fleets are managed by either the government or private sector, and engage in commerce or transportation of goods and services in and out of the navigable waters of the United States. The Merchant Marine is responsible for transporting cargo and passengers during peacetime. In times of war, they can be an auxiliary to the United States Navy, and can be called upon to deliver military personnel and materiel for the military. Merchant Marine Officers may also be designated as Military Officers by the Department of Defense. This is commonly achieved by commissioning unlimited tonnage Merchant Marine Officers as Strategic Sealift Officers in the Naval Reserves.
As of 2006, the United States merchant fleet had 465 privately owned ships of 1,000 or more gross register tons. Nearly 800 American-owned ships are flagged in other nations.
The federal government maintains fleets of merchant ships via organizations such as Military Sealift Command and the National Defense Reserve Fleet, which is managed by the United States Maritime Administration. In 2004, the federal government employed approximately 5% of all American water transportation workers.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, various laws fundamentally changed the course of American merchant shipping. These laws put an end to common practices such as flogging and shanghaiing, and increased shipboard safety and living standards. The United States Merchant Marine is also governed by several international conventions to promote safety and prevent pollution.
P.L. 95–202, approved November 23, 1977, granted veteran status to Women Airforce Service Pilots and "any person in any other similarly situated group" with jurisdiction for determination given to the Secretary of Defense who delegated that determination to the Secretary of the Air Force. Although they suffered the greatest casualty rate of any service, merchant mariners who served in World War II were denied such recognition until 1988 when a federal court ordered it. The Court held that "the Secretary of the Air Force abused its discretion in denying active military service recognition to American merchant seamen who participated in World War II."


A 10-month-old girl was flown from a Yuma hospital to Phoenix Children's Hospital last week, as it was believed that the girl had been stung by a scorpion.
Turns out, there was no scorpion -- the little girl had eaten mom's meth and ecstasy.
According to Yuma police, a social worker from PCH called them about the young girl who had been flown all the way to Phoenix for a "scorpion sting" wasn't quite stung by a scorpion -- medical tests indicated the girl had amphetamines and ecstasy in her body.
Yuma police Corporal Leanne Worthen tells New Times that the girl's mother, 25-year-old Maria Robles, admitted to being a meth user, as well as leaving her drugs around within her daughter's reach.
Despite what you may have heard, Worthen says Robles did not give the drugs to her daughter.
The youngster stayed at PCH to be treated for the drug ingestion, and is now in the care of Child Protective Services.
Robles was arrested Monday, and got a trip to the Yuma County jail on charges of child abuse, endangerment, possession of dangerous drugs, and use of dangerous drugs.


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Sand Is Gold as Erosion Empties Bank
By LIZ DURKEE
Humans are not the boss of nature. Just ask the residents of western Massachusetts, Joplin, Missouri, or Japan. On the Vineyard we are at the constant mercy of wind, waves, storms and tides. Someone once said that when land and water wrestle, water always wins. That's why it was refreshing to hear talk, at an erosion control workshop on the Island last week, of erosion management as opposed to erosion control.
The Vineyard and Nantucket are ground zero when it comes to coastal erosion and sea level rise in the United States, according to environmental attorney Glenn Wood, a speaker at the June 7 workshop. This has to do with the impacts of global warming on the oceans and our specific location at the tail end of the Gulf Stream. The northeast coast, he said, may see a higher-than-average rate of sea level rise and erosion, a four to eight-foot rise in sea level as opposed to the average three-foot estimate. Erosion control is out of the question.
Coastal erosion is a natural process. Beaches, banks and dunes are meant to erode, sending sand down-drift to build up other beaches. But the process is corrupted when humans are thrown into the mix. We build houses .and roads on a moving shoreline and then try to protect them. We build concrete seawalls and stone revetments, structures that block sand from entering the system, wash away the beaches in front of them and erode the properties on either side.
When we build groins out into the water to trap sand in place, we starve the down-drift beaches. Largely built in the early to mid-20th century, groins have become a dirty word in the world of coastal resource protection. Defined as hard engineering structures, they are no longer allowed. (Groins and jetties are similar structures; jetties are built to stabilize navigational channels such as harbor and pond inlets, while groins are designed specifically to trap shifting sand.)
But climate change–the result of global warming–is stealing away our valuable shoreline and it's time to look at how we can use existing groins to our advantage. Coastal geologist Jim O'Connell zeroed in on this concept at the workshop with a couple of choice phrases. He said "groins and beach nourishment are the way to go," and "sand is gold."
Sand is the new gold because beach renourishment–the human placement of sand on eroding beaches–is our best chance for at least short-term erosion management. It not only enhances the recreational value of beaches but helps protect upland buildings and roads. Still, beach nourishment projects are, as the saying goes, designed to fail, because sooner or later the sand will erode away and more will be needed to replace it. Except for the sand dredged from our coastal ponds and plunked back onto the beaches, sand is a dwindling resource. Massachusetts does not allow the mining of sand from the ocean for use on beaches. How will we define ourselves as a community and sustain ourselves as a viable economic entity without beaches, especially public beaches?
Hence the need to tweak existing groins to suit the needs of a vastly changing shoreline. Unlike Mr. O'Connell the coastal geologist, state and federal regulators are slow to face the fact that the old, maligned groins have the potential to be our new best friends. They can help keep a precious supply of sand where we need it most. Mr. O'Connell is a fan of old, loose, semi-functional groins that trap some sand but also let some creep through the crevices and wander down-drift.
Oak Bluffs is in the process of permitting a shoreline protection project for its downtown beaches, from the Oak Bluffs harbor all the way down Sea View avenue to the southern end of Inkwell Beach. The plan, if approved by state and federal regulators, includes major beach nourishment that will widen the current beaches and recreate beaches where they no longer exist–just north and south of the Steamship Authority dock. It also includes changing the size of the groins at Pay and Inkwell Beaches. If the groin between the two beaches is shortened and the groin south of Inkwell extended, more sand will drift onto Inkwell and stay there a little longer. Let's hope the regulators see the logic. Oak Bluffs is one of a few towns that have, and have the opportunity to enhance, a vital downtown beach front.
Workshop participants learned that for the third winter in a row there has been a dramatic increase in coastal erosion on the Vineyard due largely to relative sea level rise and coastal armoring. It's time for coastal planners to change the way we approach coastal erosion–from reactive to proactive.
This won't be easy. Private property owners want to protect their waterfront investments from coastal erosion, sometimes at the expense of others. Mr. Wood reported that hundreds of millions of dollars of Massachusetts shoreline real estate is at risk due to coastal erosion and sea level rise, that owning waterfront property adds 28 per cent to the value of the real estate, and that it is a natural instinct for property owners to preserve their investments. Some of the means by which they hope to do so, he said, like armoring the shoreline, puts other public and private buildings, roads, beaches, banks and dunes at risk.
Mr. Wood works for both towns and private property owners. He calls the coastal protection field of litigation the "Wild West." Can one property owner sue another, or a town, because a groin cuts off sand supply and puts a house at risk of damage or loss? The implications affect every Island taxpayer.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports that "coastal tourism and recreation provides a substantial positive economic benefit in the United States in terms of jobs, income, and governmental revenue." On the Island and elsewhere, tourism and public recreation is as important to the economy as private property protection.
What are the options for coastal erosion management? Soft solutions, as opposed to hard structures, are the new standard–beach nourishment and beach, bank and dune restoration. Another approach discussed at the workshop is water attenuation devices, artificial reefs built offshore to slow and dissipate wave action before it reaches the shore and causes erosion. Mr. O'Connell believes public beaches on the Island are a good place to test these experimental submerged breakwaters.
He also pointed out that the Vineyard still has an enormous amount of unarmored shoreline and recommended coastal protection setback ordinances. When it comes to problems like constantly eroding beach parking lots he said "off-site mitigation is the way to go; on-site mitigation is a money pit." In other words, move things away from the eroding shore whenever possible. Another very real alternative is to abandon some eroding shorelines.
Other erosion management options presented at the workshop include the following:
• Identify vulnerable infrastructure and natural resources in order to anticipate shoreline changes;
• Develop a management plan to mitigate impacts of coastal erosion;
• Develop short and long-term plans to relocate roads and buildings;
• Organize public outreach to educate residents about coastal processes and shoreline vulnerability;
• Consider the costs of short and long-term erosion control management goals.
Island planners have their work cut out for them, but they can't do so in a vacuum. Community involvement and local insight is critical to successful planning. Coastal erosion management is going to be expensive, but the costs will dramatically increase over time. Active, engaged planning is what we need on this hot little microcosm of climate change disruption.
This series of 14 essays about climate change was published in the Vineyard Gazette over a period of seven months in 2011. It appears here with permission. Copyright Vineyard Gazette. All rights reserved.


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