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The field of Positive Psychology is of great interest to coaches. Yet there are few books written about how to apply the field in a coaching practice. It is always welcome to hear of new books about strengths-focused coaching, especially when they are written by coaches for coaches. It's even better when they cover the subject so broadly, beyond the confines of Positive Psychology.
Power Up!: The Guide to Leadership Coaching with Strengths is written by an executive coach, Gene Knott. Dr Knott is a psychologist, executive coach and Emeritus Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Rhode Island. He has over 40 years of experience, including teaching, administration, systems consulting, group facilitation, training design and delivery. His primary interest is in organizational settings therefore this book will be of interest to readers who coach in any kind of organization.
This book is "a comprehensive description of a strengths-oriented, positive professional coaching approach that re-focuses the tenor of transactions for both leader/client and coach, thereby yielding substantially better outcomes." The book does not teach coaching. Instead it helps coaches to enhance their current coaching practices by applying a strengths-focus. The book does not preach. It leaves readers with a sense that they need to take what works, test it, be discriminating, and most of all be situational. The book is informative, practical, and will give all readers a wealth of ideas, approaches, thoughts, and techniques which they can try if they like, or not.
Because Dr. Knott has vast experience in working with organizations, he weaves in many frameworks, theories, and techniques which have long been around, but which you would not typically find in a book that is informed just by Positive Psychology. I found it refreshing to learn how various organizational theories and tools can be applied with a strengths lens.
If I were to suggest the one take-away from this book, it would be that coaches need to apply the strengths-focus to themselves first. It's about the coach's mindset, frame of mind, way of seeing the world, and way of being with clients. Although the book has a wealth of tools and techniques, these are inadequate without coaches first living and breathing a strengths mindset in their own lives. This book is about the WHO of strengths coaching, with useful information about the HOW of strengths-based approaches.
Throughout, Dr Knott reminds the reader that it is how coaches view their clients that defines the quality of the work. He learned that a shift from problems-focus to a strengths-focus changed him and therefore how he worked with clients. Not only did it improve the quality of his work, but he was more satisfied which in turn impacted the quality of his client relationships.
The fields which inform a strengths-approach e.g. Appreciative Inquiry, Positive Psychology, Coaching, Change Management, Inquiry, Social Constructionism, Narrative.
References to researchers, academics, and practitioners. These are wide and extensive and cover far more than the usual suspects you'd find in a positive psychology book. For example, there are experts in coaching, leadership, dialog, organizational systems, and change management.
Numerous (over 40) frameworks, tools and models suitably described to be used flexibly and contextually in a coaching conversation. Nothing is right or wrong, all are offered as possibilities for the coach to use, but to use with thought, consideration and discernment. By stressing that the coaching supports continuous learning by all clients we learn that it is not for the coach to impose 'interventions' on clients.
The history of the strengths focus. We learn that it has been around for decades. This book is also an excellent summary of the history of Positive Psychology and other related fields.
The benefits of a strengths-focused approach for both clients and their workplace.
Short summaries of key theories to whet our appetite for new knowledge, along with indexed references so we can learn more thoroughly by pursuing our own study.
Values, mindsets, worldviews, and competencies that can help coaches enhance their practices.
It is clear through his writing style and via the information shared in the book that Dr Knott has a deep experience with the strengths-based approach. This is not just knowing about. It's about knowing and doing, weaving together many related fields to deepen the coaching practice. This is a reminder to all coaches that a strengths-based approach is not simply about bolting on a few positive psychology interventions.
Read in conjunction with other positive psychology and strengths-based coaching books, some mentioned in the references, this is a very useful addition to the bookshelf.


Greg, Russell, Ron, Davis… this is for you men!
Amy the tiger (not having any luck embedding this, so click on the link above to go to the video at utube) Every time I watch this I laugh. Like a proper laugh. I think its the way Stella's little body goes rigid with anticipation of the fright! Too cute.
This one is for YOU Russell!
Something that made me laugh out loud yesterday, in fact I am going to watch it again right now for another giggle. A little shout out to my Welsh heritage and for all you leak lovers out there! Genius!
Time for some video. Amy tells an "Amy story"
At bedtime I tell Amy an "Amy story" where I recount things we have done that day or talk about people who love Amy to keep them fresh in her mind. Now she has memorised the format and likes to tell me "Amy stories" about her imaginary friends and adventures.
Some fun for Friday, I can't do a real blog post with a grumpy baby on my lap! Love this ad, love, love, love. For those of you not in Australia, a lot of the shots include real life personalities, the premier of NSW, a football legend, a legend in the music business, great cameos.
Lucy, Ana, Amanda, this one's for you! The funniest thing I have seen in a LONG, LONG time!
Behold the divineness that is my eldest daughter singing to my youngest daughter!
That pregnancy post is coming, but right now I need to relocate to the couch with a packet of chocolate digestives. I will leave you with Amy talking to my bump.


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Dr Sarah Sheridan and Dr Brian Ward, curatorial residents at the IAF, have invited International experts on Mahony Griffin from the United States and Australia to speak about her life and work. The symposium will be a fascinating revelation about an architect who has been unknown to the public. There is a lot we can learn from Marion Mahony Griffin in how we design, plan and think about the built environment.
Shiben Banerji, Assistant Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago uncovers the global provenance of American urbanism, follows the Chicago architects Marion Mahony and Walter Burley Griffin across the mid-Western United States, Australia, and India between 1895 and 1949 to uncover theories of the city as a non-nationalist alternative to empire. Anna Rubbo, Adjunct Senior Scholar, Centre for Sustainable Urban Development, Earth Institute, Colombia University, she has written extensively on design education, most recently a chapter in Rethinking Architectural Production (forthcoming Routledge 2019) and in 2016 she developed the exhibition "Marion Mahony Griffin: In Her Own Right" for Elmhurst Historical Museum in Chicago. Christopher Vernon, Associate Professor, University of Western Australia, teaches design and the history and theory of landscape architecture at the University of Western Australia. He is a leading authority on the lives and works of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin, widely lecturing and publishing on the subject.
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Shiben Banerji's research uncovers the global provenance of American urbanism, analyzing the imbrication of urban design in the critique of political and economic liberalism. He is currently pursuing this theme through two book projects. The first, titled Lineages of the Global City, follows the Chicago architects Marion Mahony and Walter Burley Griffin across the mid-Western United States, Australia, and India between 1895 and 1949 to uncover theories of the city as a non-nationalist alternative to empire. The second project, tentatively titled In the Shadow of Sovereignty, examines the formative influence that experiments in communitarian living had on legal reasoning in the United States. Shiben is also actively engaged in inter-disciplinary conversations on formations of globality. For over a decade, Shiben has been actively involved in formulating new ways for government agencies and NGOs to respond to contending demands for justice within Indian cities, first in his role as the Associate Director of the Urban Design Research Institute in Mumbai and more recently as a Research Fellow in the MIT Urbanization Laboratory.
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Anna Rubbo , Senior Scholar at the Center for Sustainable Urban Development in the Earth Institute at Columbia University since 2012, formerly Associate Professor in the School of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney. A member of the UN Millennium Project Task Force on Improving the Lives of Slum Dwellers from 2002– 04, she went on to lead the Global Studio (2005– 12), curate the traveling exhibition People Building Better Cities (2013-15) and is currently working on the project , Accelerating the SDGs (2018-20). A founding editor of Architectural Theory Review (1996– 2010), Anna is co- author of Esclavitud y Libertad en el Valle del Rio Cauca (2011). She has published widely on design education, development challenges and architect Marion Mahony Griffin. In 2016 she developed an exhibition on Griffin for the Elmhurst History Museum. In her own right: Marion Mahony Griffin was shown in three venues in the US 2016-18. With Anne Watson and Caroline Pidcock, she proposed an exhibition to commemorate Marion's 150thbirthday and the centenary of Castlecrag. Marion Mahony Griffin : the Castlecrag Experiment is scheduled to open at the Museum of Sydney in November 2020.
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Christopher Vernon teaches design and the history and theory of landscape architecture at the University of Western Australia. He is a leading authority on the lives and works of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin, widely lecturing and publishing on the subject. More broadly, his research focusses upon architecture and landscape as collective expressions of identity, especially within the context of designed national capitals such as Canberra, New Delhi and Brasilia.
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Шато Понте-Кане (, первоначально называлось Кане ()) — винодельческое хозяйство в апелласьоне Медок, в области Бордо. Château Pontet-Canet является также названием красного вина, производимого этим хозяйством. Вино, произведенное здесь, входит в состав одного из восемнадцати пятых крю () в Официальной классификации вин Бордо 1855 года.

История
В 1865 году, десять лет спустя после создания классификации 1855 года, поместье было куплено Херманом Крюзом, и после этого в течение длительного периода принадлежало его семье. Бордоский винный скандал о мошенничестве в 1973 году привёл к продаже поместья в 1975 году продавцу коньяка Гаю Тессерону, которому также принадлежало Шато Лафон-Роше (). Поместье остается под его контролем и сегодня.

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Из 120-гектар (300-акрового) поместья Понте-Кане, расположенного в северном конце коммуны Пойяка, через дорогу от первого Шато Мутон Ротшильд, только 80 га (200 акров) находятся под виноградной лозой. Состав почвы — главным образом, гравий, глина и известняк. Виноградное распределение — 60 % Cabernet Sauvignon, 33 % Merlot, 5 % Petit Verdot and 2 % Cabernet Franc. Возраст виноградных лоз в среднем 35 лет.

Pontet-Canet одно из самых больших производств классифицированного выращеного в Medoc с производством почти 20 000 бутылок вина. Брожение происходит а чанах из бетона и нержавеющей стали.

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Central York looking for 'collective effort' from seniors this season
The Panthers opened up league play with a 51-44 win over Dallastown
Central York looking for 'collective effort' from seniors this season The Panthers opened up league play with a 51-44 win over Dallastown Check out this story on ydr.com: https://www.ydr.com/story/sports/high-school/basketball-girls/2017/12/12/central-york-looking-collective-effort-seniors-season/946601001/
Matt Allibone, mallibone@ydr.com Published 10:09 p.m. ET Dec. 12, 2017 | Updated 3:10 p.m. ET Dec. 13, 2017
Central York girls' basketball players Nikki Valencik and Sarah Sepic and coach Scott Wisner discuss the team's goal of repeating as league champions despite graduating star Emma Saxton. Matt Allibone
The Central York High School girls' basketball team celebrates the Panthers' 51-44 victory over Dallastown on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017. (Photo: Jason Plotkin, York Daily Record)Buy Photo
At first glance, the Central York girls' basketball team doesn't look much different than last year.
After all, the Panthers bring back 11 players and four starters from a team that finished 25-5, won the YAIAA title and reached the second round of states. They only graduated one player.
The thing is, that one player was pretty good.
Central York is looking to fill the void left by current Bloomsburg guard Emma Saxton, who led the team in scoring and was named GameTimePA Player of the Year last season. So far, the Panthers are off to a 2-1 start after an impressive 51-44 road win over Dallastown on Tuesday.
So who's stepping up as the team's new leader now that Saxton has graduated?
Everyone.
"It's a really collective effort," Central York head coach Scott Wisner said. "(Senior point guard) Allison Wagner has taken her spot in the starting lineup, but we talked about it from the beginning that it's going to be hard for one person to replace her."
More: South Western fights through injuries, faces West York in title game
More: Youth, depth impressive as Northeastern opens season
It's not like the Panthers lack talent. Forwards Teirra Preston and Nikki Valencik both scored in double figures last season and guard Sarah Sepic could be one of the league's top sharpshooters. On Tuesday, Valencik led the team with 18 points while Preston scored 14 despite being in foul trouble and Sepic chipped in with nine.
The Panthers also got points from four other players, and think their bench production will go up as the season continues.
"We have such a strong bench, different players make up one whole Emma," Sepic said. "It's awesome."
Added Valencik: "Emma was our leading scorer, our leading everything pretty much. We did lose a big thing but I think our team is playing the same because we have Teirra in the post and we can still score."
Central York's Teirra Preston goes up for a shot during the Panthers' 51-44 victory over the Wildcats on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017. (Photo: Jason Plotkin, York Daily Record)
Central is also embracing being the favorite to repeat as Division I and YAIAA champions. Having reached the league title game in consecutive seasons, the Panthers are well aware of the expectations surrounding the program.
And they hope to surpass them. After losing in the District 3 Class 6A semifinal last season, the Panthes hope to add a new gold medal to the collection this year.
"Making it far in districts and making it to states is what we're expected to do so it's still a goal and Wisner sets it as a goal," Sepic said. "And we want to get even farther. Winning districts is a big goal of ours."
While the Panthers still have things to improve — Wisner said the team needs to work on finishing at the basket and shooting free throws — they're off to an encouraging 2-1 start after losing their opener to Lampeter Strasburg.
And though it's very early, the win over Dallastown is a big one. The Wildcats will likely be the Panthers top competition in Division I.
For Dallastown, Tuesday's game still offered some positives despite the outcome. While the Wildcats (1-2) couldn't sustain an early lead in what was a very physical game, they got an impressive 19-point performance from 6-foot-3 sophomore forward Aniya Matthews.
While Dallastown reached the YAIAA and District 3 playoffs last season, coach Jay Rexroth said the team isn't thinking about its high expectations.
"We haven't talked about that at all," Rexroth said. "We're worried about tomorrow's practice. We don't talk about counties or anything. All that stuff is on the outside for people to talk about."
Photos: Girls basketball -- Central York, 51, Dallastown, 44
The Central York High School girls' basketball team celebrates a point during the Panthers 51-44 victory over Dallastown on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017. Jason Plotkin, York Daily Record
Central York's Allison Wagner drives the lane during the Panthers' 51-44 victory over the Wildcats on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017. Jason Plotkin, York Daily Record
Central York's Sarah Sepic puts up a shot during the Panthers' 51-44 victory over the Wildcats on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017. Jason Plotkin, York Daily Record
Central York's Taylor Marley attempts to drive past Dallastown's Kaitlyn Rock during the Panthers' 51-44 victory over the Wildcats on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017. Jason Plotkin, York Daily Record
Dallstown's Aniya Matthews drives to the basket during Central York High School's 51-44 victory over the Wildcats on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017. Jason Plotkin, York Daily Record
Central York's Sarah Sepic and Dallastown's Lily Jamison go down fighting for a loose ball during the Panthers' 51-44 victory over the Wildcats on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017. Jason Plotkin, York Daily Record
Central York and Dallastown battle for a loose ball during the Panthers 51-44 victory over the Wildcats on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017. Jason Plotkin, York Daily Record
Central York's Sarah Sepic puts on the defensive pressure on Dallastown's Brielle Berry during the Panthers' 51-44 victory over the Wildcats on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017. Jason Plotkin, York Daily Record
Dallstown's Sam Miller looks to pass to the outside following a rebound during Central York High School's 51-44 victory over the Wildcats on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017. Jason Plotkin, York Daily Record
Dallstown's Sam Miller puts on the defensive pressure during Central York High School's 51-44 victory over the Wildcats on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017. Jason Plotkin, York Daily Record
Dallstown's Lily Jamison gets involved with a jump ball during a shot attempt during Central York High School's 51-44 victory over the Wildcats on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017. Jason Plotkin, York Daily Record
Central York's Nikson Valencik looks to pass through the pressure of the Dallastown defense during the Panthers 51-44 victory over the Wildcats on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017. Jason Plotkin, York Daily Record
Central York's Nikson Valencik celebrates a point during the Panthers 51-44 victory over the Wildcats on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017. Jason Plotkin, York Daily Record
Central York's Sarah Sepic passes through the pressure of the Dallastown defense during the Panthers 51-44 victory over the Wildcats on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017. 17. Jason Plotkin, York Daily Record
Dallstown's Julia Sutton is third in the YAIAA in scoring at just under 15 points per game. Jason Plotkin, York Daily Record
Dallstown's Sam Miller grabs a rebound during Central York High School's 51-44 victory over the Wildcats on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017. Jason Plotkin, York Daily Record
Dallstown's Aniya Matthews passes down court during Central York High School's 51-44 victory over the Wildcats on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017. Jason Plotkin, York Daily Record
Central York's Teirra Preston goes up for a shot during the Panthers' 51-44 victory over the Wildcats on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017. Jason Plotkin, York Daily Record
The Central York High School girls' basketball team celebrates the Panthers' 51-44 victory over Dallastown on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017. Jason Plotkin, York Daily Record
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The Absolute Hotel has a hidden gem known as Harry's on the River café, bar and restaurant. Great food with a fabulous river view of the Abbey River.
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Celebrating farmers and Fresh Frozen Custard go hand in hand at Culver's. This past year, we had a chance to be a part of the wedding of two dairy farmers with a unique spin on traditional wedding desserts.
Instead of a cake, this couple, Katy and Cory B., knew they wanted something a bit more unique, something that celebrated them. Since the couple loves Culver's, they offered up a Fresh Frozen Custard bar with lots of different mix-ins and toppings to choose from. Their guests loved it.
Having a frozen custard bar at their wedding was also a nod to our support of farmers and agriculture and their connection to it as dairy farmers at Sunburst Dairy in Belleville, Wisconsin.
Did you serve Culver's at your wedding? Let us know about it on Facebook or share a photo on Instagram and Twitter using #culvers.


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Q: What steps does gcc(or g++) take in searching for the location of libaries? When using the -l flag in a c++ makefile, I couldn't find information on what steps gcc takes in searching for that library.
For clarity of what I'm asking, I'll make up an example answer (this is completely made up):

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*First searches the -L flag directory

*Next searches the /lib directory

*Something something etc

Some extra info:
The reason I'm stuck in this is because I currently have a program that uses libconfig in the makefile like so:
g++ $(CFLAGS) -o libvldsk_config.so $(SRCDIR)/config.cpp -Wall -shared -fPIC -I$(SRCDIR) -I$(COMMON_SRCDIR) -lconfig

but this was made assuming that libconfig is installed via a package manager. I installed via source because the linux version was too old to have it in a package manager. And so I'm trying to modify my program that uses libconfig to search for the libconfig .so file in the system's /lib directory, and if it doesn't exist search for it in the current project directory.

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What are the best written TV shows of all time? The Writers Guild of America (WGA) and TV Guide recently compiled its list of the 101 Best Written TV Shows ever, and the results left things wide open for debate. So, do you agree with the choices? Was there a show left off? Vote for the TV programs that you believe featured the strongest writing. Add any shows that you believe deserve votes, and of course, feel free to re-rank this list of TV series with the greatest writing in any order you choose.
Many of the television shows listed here are considered among the best TV shows of recent memory, and with good reason: They are wonderfully scripted, featuring diverse characters and compelling storylines that made us want to keep watching, week after week. They are excellent dramas, outstanding comedies and awesome science fiction TV shows. Some of the programs here are older, but they were considered by many to be groundbreaking.
What should be the number one best written TV show ever? Certainly outstanding shows like 'The Sopranos,' 'Mad Men' and 'Breaking Bad' could be considered. They are, after all, some of the greatest TV dramas of all time.
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There is an opinion that there is a lot more professional 32-bit icons for MAC OS than for Windows in the Web. However Mac graphics may be simply converted into the *.ico format and used for Windows. The detailed directions on how to do this are below.
Mac graphics in the Internet are often archived. Archives can be of two types: with the *.sit extension and with two extensions *.sit.hqx. Uncommon version is *.sit.sitx, they have to be processed in the similar way as *.sit.hqx. To unpack graphics from the archive you will need a special software. Consider that you need an application, which reads the MAC archives and works under Windows. The most common of such archiver is Stuffit. It can be downloaded here: www.stuffit.com. Standard Edition 8.0 or more recent is suggested. The installation file is quite large (8 Mb). Stuffit consists of the packer and extractor. The extractor can be used for free for unlimited time.
"Stuffit standard" is rather a demanding so be sure to do everything just how it is written below.
Drag and drop your *.sit file into Stuffit. Or, use the File-Open menu option to open the archive.
Now, find and choose just the icons themselves in the archive, if not the program will abort when packing. Choose all required items by pressing … or ….. After that, in the main menu choose Expand-Extract.
In the "Extract Dialog" window that will open, click Browse and select where the files will be extracted. Press OK. When you have done everything right, you will see the unpacked files in the specified folder.
If the unpacking process finished successfully, close Stuffit. The extraction is finished but there are things to do.
Now you require one of the listed applications: IconLover, ArtIcons Pro or IconXP. They can easily understand MAC icons and turn them into Windows® icons in no time.
You can process .icns and .rsrc files the similar way you process images of other formats: open them with the menu, drag and drop them to the program window, add to icon libraries.
Some Macintosh® icons contains only 128x128 size. In this case, you will need to do 16x16, 32x32 and 48x48 subicons. You can do it using ArtIcons, IconLover or IconXP and the Tools - New Image Format menu option.
Now, just delete unneeded formats (for example, monochrome) from the icons and save them as .ico files!
Open it. Then in the program toolbar press "Open" and select *.hqx in the "file types" menu. In the left window you will see the *.sit.hqx file and in the right field - just *.sit. Now simply drag the files using the coursor into any folder (for example, the desktop). After that, extract the *.sit archive as written above. The only fault of the program is that it is not very reliable.
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There are a number of types of bee hive design. If you are considering beginning beekeeping, you may like to read up about the honey bee hives available.
It's possible to build your own bee hive to a variety of designs.
You can build the hive from scratch, or kits are available for self- assembly. I believe we'll see a growth in the number of 'do-it-yourself' kits being offered in the future.
Certainly, through the ages, humans have found all manner of ways to keep bees and harvest honey, from traditional skeps to hollowed tree trunks. Indeed, one of the questions which perhaps needs to be addressed in bee hive design is that of the thickness of wood and materials used to build hives (in comparison with natural habitat of honey bees, such as a tree trunk), and whether the activity of honey bees in winter in a bee hive designed by humans, is really natural, or whether it is a response to the environment enforced upon them. Researcher, Derek Mitchell makes the point that in a natural bee cavity such as a tree trunk, insulation is provided by the surrounding mass of the tree. You can read more about this question here on my general page about overwintering bees.
An early Top Bar Bee Hive Design was the Warré bee hive (or People's Hive, which was pioneered by Abbé Émile Warré, but there are other types of top bar hive.
Plans for this model are available from a link on this page.
You can read more about this – see this brief History Of Beekeeping.
Top bar bee hive design can be vertical or horizontal. They are becoming increasingly popular with the growth of the Natural Beekeeping movement, with key authors such as Phil Chandler (one of his most recent books being Balanced Beekeeping II: Managing the Top Bar Hive).
One advantage of the Top bar bee hive design, is that it can be constructed at home as long as you have some basic carpentry skills. To learn more, go to Top Bar Hive Plans.
Below.. Corwen Bell has designed a number of hives, and offers plans and kits for self assembly.
This kit contains top bar hive plans for Corwen Bell's Golden Mean Ratio model and is available in the USA from Amazon.
Pictured above is the National Hive.
With generations of research from the likes of George Wheler, Johann Dzierzon to Langstroth, there have been many attempts to create designs that would house honey bees, maximise honey production, and help facilitate the exploitation of honey bees.
Many of the hive designs evolving from the work of these men and others, remain in wide spread use today (depending on the country in which you live).
You can read more about these by going to Honey Bee Hives.
If you are wanting a hive in the backyard, space may be a primary concern, and with urban beekeeping there may be other considerations, such as views of neighbours.
With all the different types of hive available, and the numerous pieces of equipment and attachments required, you may rightly be concerned about storage for all your beekeeping equipment (not merely the hive itself, but also the honey extractor equipment and so on). In this case it may be worth you considering a simple bee hive design, such as a top bar hive.
Top bar hives, in the words of author beekeeper, Paul Peacock, create honey "as it used to be", and many beekeepers who use top bar hives also eat the honey and honeycomb together. Top bar bee hives allow the bees to create their own combs.
Alternatively, you may have other considerations. It may be that you have recently become involved with a beekeeping association which favours a particular model of hive, and may even be able to access discounts.
Go from Bee Hive Design to How To Start Beekeeping for the main links to beekeeping resources on this site.
If you are thinking of purchasing second hand beekeeping equipment, find out how to properly disinfect it, in order to protect the bees from the risk of spreading diseases. Go to Used Beekeeping Equipment.
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Valparaiso will look for new team after dropping Crusaders
Associated PressFeb 11, 2021, 4:57 PM EST
VALAPARAISO, Ind. — Valparaiso University announced that is dropping the team name Crusaders, the school mascot and all logos associated with the term that it says has been embraced by hate groups.
The decision comes after a decades-long debate that had intensified recently because groups such as the Ku Klux Klan began using the symbols and words. The school's faculty and student senates each passed resolutions calling for the change and the university's alumni board of directors supported reassessing the appropriateness of the team name.
The Crusades were a series of bloody religious wars starting in the 11th century between Christians and Muslims. For years, Valpo's sports mascot has been a helmeted figure in faux armor.
"The negative connotation and violence associated with the Crusader imagery are not reflective of Valpo's mission and values, which promote a welcoming and inclusive community," Interim President Colette Irwin-Knott said. "This is the decision that best reflects our values and community."
President-elect Jose D. Padilla will oversee a committee that will consider adopting a new team name and mascot for the 3,100-student, Lutheran school located in northwest Indiana. Padilla is scheduled to take over as president March 1.
Student president Kaitlyn Steinhiser said the student senate believed the school mascot should represent the university's values and help create school spirit.
"The Crusader does not do that effectively," she said.
Irwin-Knott said Valparaiso is following the lead of other universities, which also have dropped Crusaders.
"Valpo is and always has been a faith-based institution, and we want to make sure our symbolism is in alignment with our beliefs and speaks to the core values of the Lutheran ethos," she said. "At Valpo, we strive to seek truth, serve generously and cultivate hope. We do not believe having the Crusader as our mascot portrays these values."


Under a gray sky, Rand Sinclair's sweeping glance took in his newly purchased Last Hope Ranch. The outbuildings, the barn…shoot, even the fences had a permanent lean like drunken sailors after a year at sea. He pulled up the collar of his coat against the biting January wind.
What had he been thinking? What did a former saloon owner know about ranching, anyway?
The only thing he could rightly claim to understand were the drunks he'd served whiskey to at the Lily of the West in Battle Creek, Texas, three miles away. A drunk wanted his whiskey straight from the bottle, his woman warm and willing, and a soft place to lay his head. Rand had no idea how to care for the cows he'd buy come spring. All the beasts seemed to do was eat, drink, and moo.
Come to think of it…maybe cows and drunks were more alike than he thought.
Yet despite his reservations, he wanted this ranch more than anything else in the world.
His chance to prove to himself that he could be the kind of man Isaac Daffern, the rancher who'd raised him and his brothers, had wanted him to be. He needed to prove that he measured up, not only in his brothers' eyes, but in his own.
If he failed, he would lose everything that mattered.
A door banged. He glanced down the ramshackle porch in the direction of the sound. Must be the wind. Every door on the place needed work, refusing to stay fastened. Tall weeds littered the yard, and the sucker rod of the old windmill groaned and complained with each rise and fall, the sound amplifying the stark emptiness around him. He was unprepared for the overwhelming loneliness of this new life he'd chosen.
Maybe diving into work would help. But not today. Making the ranch fit for living would have to wait for a warmer day.
He swung to go back inside by the fire when he caught a flash of blue disappearing into what must've been an old bunkhouse.
The tall grasses whispered in the stiff breeze and he heard the unmistakable sound of a door closing. The deliberate softness of that sound raised the hair on the back of his neck. Maybe he wasn't so alone out here after all. He reached for his Colt and stole forward. Between the building's slatted wood, he glimpsed movement.
Soft scurrying provided no clue.
Maybe he was mistaken and it was a small animal after all.
But no animals he ever knew wore blue.
A poacher? A thief? Most likely someone up to no good.
Cautious, he stepped inside. Thick gloom closed around him and the dank air clogged his throat. Spiderwebs hung from the ceiling like torn gossamer fabric from a dance-hall girl's dress.
And then he caught the faint whiff of some sort of scent. Flowers?
Three more steps, then four. As his eyes adjusted to the dimness, he saw two forms huddling in a far corner. When he got closer, a woman leaped to her feet, brandishing a stick that came within a hair of whacking his leg. Surprise rippled through him as he jumped back. He'd never expected a woman. She was shivering either from fear or the icy wind.
"Please, I don't mean you any harm, ma'am. My name's Rand Sinclair, and I'm the new owner here." His gaze flicked to the second person, a young boy.
"We don't need you," the slip of a boy flung at him.
That said it all. Clearly, she had trouble trailing her. He knew all too well what that was like.
"Ma'am, can we eat?" the boy asked, his teeth chattering. He seemed to be relaxing his guard too.
She took his measure with a hard stare. After several long seconds, she dropped the makeshift weapon and reached for her son's hand. Rand removed his coat and put it around her shoulders. He held the door, then led them toward the two-story frame house.
As they walked, he viewed their condition out of the corner of his eye. The woman's torn, dirty blue dress. The youngster's grimy face and clothes. Yet the mysterious trespasser carried herself straight and tall like someone who was accustomed to a better life and who took pride in herself.
"That's not important," the woman replied absently, taking off his coat. She stood looking around the room for several minutes, taking everything in.
With his attention split between trying to watch her and cracking eggs, Rand discovered some had missed the bowl entirely and landed on the counter. He scooped them in with the others, then fished out several pieces of broken shell that were swimming amid the whites and yolks.
When he glanced her way again, he found her running her fingers across the faded wallpaper.
"No one's saying you did, son. I can see you're not that kind. You have kin around here?" Rand asked the woman.
She didn't answer. She stood lost in thought, staring at two sets of horizontal marks beside the door. Her spine straightened and she sucked in a breath as she touched the penciled-in measurements.
Rand guessed she was remembering something that meant a lot to her. Unexpected memories could certainly jar a person. He wished he could say something to offer comfort, but nothing came to mind.
With a sudden swoosh, flames erupted in the skillet.
Before thinking, he grabbed the handle. The instant his hand came in contact with the heated metal, he pulled back with a yell. Searing pain radiated through his hand, every curse word he knew poised on his tongue, wanting to come out.
Only a day and a half and he was already burning down his house.
Quick as a flash, his mystery woman grabbed a flour sack as a mitt and carried the skillet of burning grease to the door, where she set it on the ground. Then she came and gently took his hand, dipping it into the pail of cold water he'd carried in that morning. The relief was welcome.
"Thank you. Like I said, I'm a stranger to this." He met her stare and saw compassion in its depth, a far cry from the brittle anger that had been there just minutes ago. She wasn't as hard as she wanted him to believe.
Her dark brown hair shot through with strands of scarlet was warm in the lamplight. But her soft amber eyes, the exact color of whiskey, revealed a deep-seated distrust and a whole lot of grit.
"You don't have to do that, but I appreciate your offer." He took a chair next to the boy, who had laid his head on his arms. The lad was clearly ill.
Before she went for the salve, she felt the boy's forehead. Her frown told Rand his suspicions were true.
Rand's gaze followed them to the parlor, which was visible through the doorway. Great love for her son shone in the way she tucked a quilt around him, then kissed his cheek. Rand was glad he'd persuaded them to come inside.
Returning, the mother found the ointment and carefully spread it across the red welt on Rand's palm. He'd never known such a soothing, tender touch. As the owner of a saloon, he'd been touched by lots of women, but this was different. It almost felt like the feathery caress of a whisper. He closed his eyes for a moment, savoring the sensation.
"You sit here. I'll fix it." She rose and took another skillet from a shelf under the counter.
He watched, amazed at her competence as she put a dollop of butter into the skillet, beat the eggs, cut thick slices of toast, and had it all ready before he knew what was happening. It astounded him how she seemed to know her way around the kitchen. Where he kept the skillets, the butter, the eggs. But he decided that most kitchens were pretty much laid out the same, and women instinctively knew where everything was.
"I believe I might've heard that somewhere. Sorry." His gaze drifted to the mound of scrambled eggs on their plates. They sure looked fluffy and light, just like the café in Battle Creek made them. His mouth began to water even though he'd already eaten.
It became more apparent that she had good breeding a few minutes later. She went to get the boy from the pile of quilts but wouldn't let him eat until they'd both bowed their heads and given thanks.
"You're welcome, son." Rand swallowed a hard lump in his throat. The scrappy child reminded him of himself and his two brothers seventeen years ago. They'd had nothing and no one except for each other, were on the run for their lives, forced to trust strangers for survival.
He couldn't let this woman and child risk it out there in the unforgiving Texas winter. His conscience would never forgive him. And he suspected he needed them as much as they needed him. This morning had already proved he might well starve if left on his own.
The boy coughed, the sound rattling from deep inside his thin chest. Concern darkened Callie's eyes. She tenderly smoothed back his hair.
"Winter is supposed to be a bad one," Rand pressed.
Why it meant so much to help them, Rand couldn't say. Maybe he simply wanted to pay forward Daffern's kindness to him. Yet when he and Callie struck the deal, it seemed to lift the dreariness of the gray gloom that had closed around him.
What had seemed overwhelming before now appeared manageable. He would succeed. He had a strong back and hands that itched to carve out something he could be proud for others to see, even if those "others" were just the pair of strays he'd found.
Though God only knew where he'd get the money. The thought of accepting help from the mother who'd recently come back into his life after twenty-some-odd years stuck in his craw. His relationship with her was…well, complicated. He didn't know yet if he could forgive her for leaving him in an orphanage.
Still, the simple fact was, except for putting some money by for repairs and to buy cattle in the spring, he'd thrown everything he'd gotten from the sale of the saloon into this piece of ground. That left his brothers. Cooper and Brett would give him anything he needed. They'd always been there for each other and always would be.
Whatever help he had to ask for, he'd make it crystal clear it was only temporary. A loan, not charity.
Her curt nod indicated the discussion was over. She rose, picked up their plates, and carried them to the wash pan.
Rand buttoned his coat and put on his hat and gloves. He intended to bring in some water so she wouldn't have to go out.
The north wind sent a chill through his bones when he stalked to the woodpile he'd cut only yesterday. He'd done that first thing, knowing how fast a person could die during a norther. After he carried in several armloads, he filled a couple of pails with water.
Once he had his new cook and her son taken care of, and her list in his pocket, he hitched his horses to the wagon. It would be a miserable ride into town, but he didn't have much choice. Callie and Toby would have a bed before nightfall.
He didn't know from what or whom they were running. Memories of a woman—a friend from town, Jenny Barclay, whose husband had beaten her to within an inch of her life a year ago—swept through his mind. He recalled her dark bruises and the injuries that had laid her up for weeks. He had vowed then that he'd never let that happen to any woman again.
The next bottom-feeder who thought he could thrash his wife and get away with it had better run, because Rand would kill him.
Was Callie married? Seemed likely, since she had a son.
Despite the absence of any visible sign of abuse, he didn't discount that often scars lay buried deep inside, where no one could see. He knew more than a little about scars, how they puckered and left welts long after the wound closed. He sighed, shoving the painful darkness of that particular part of his life back into its hole. With some effort, he corralled his thoughts, bringing them back to Callie.
For sure, something had happened to send her and Toby out into the cold. Though he'd promised not to ask any questions, he cursed his damnable need to know. She aroused a strong curiosity, and he probably wouldn't rest until he figured out her story.
Besides, he couldn't effectively protect her if he didn't have any idea what had caused her life to intersect with his on this cold, wintry morning.
No matter the secret Callie kept.
No matter the circumstances that led her to his door, he'd keep her safe.
He'd stake his life on keeping that promise.


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Q: Early stencil culling I'm trying to get early fragment culling to work, based on the stencil test.
My scenario is the following: I have a fragment shader that does a lot of work, but needs to be run only on very few fragments when I render my scene. These fragments can be located pretty much anywhere on the screen (I can't use a scissor to quickly filter out these fragments).
In rendering pass 1, I generate a stencil buffer with two possible values. Values will have the following meaning for pass 2:

*

*0: do not do anything

*1: ok to proceed, (eg. enter the fragment shader, and render)

Pass 2 renders the scene properly speaking. The stencil buffer is configured this way:
glStencilMask(1);
glStencilFunc(GL_EQUAL, 1, 1); // if the value is NOT 1, please early cull!
glStencilOp(GL_KEEP, GL_KEEP, GL_KEEP); // never write to stencil buffer

Now I run my app. The color of selected pixels is altered based on the stencil value, which means the stencil test works fine.
However, I should see a huge, spectacular performance boost with early stencil culling... but nothing happens. My guess is that the stencil test either happens after the depth test, or even after the fragment shader has been called. Why?
nVidia apparently has a patent on early stencil culling:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7184040.html
Is this the right away for having it enabled?
I'm using an nVidia GeForce GTS 450 graphics card.
Is early stencil culling supposed to work with this card?
Running Windows 7 with latest drivers.

A: Like early Z, early stencil is often done using hierarchical stencil buffering.
There are a number of factors that can prevent hierarchical tiling from working properly, including rendering into an FBO on older hardware. However, the biggest obstacle to getting early stencil testing working in your example is that you've left stencil writes enabled for 1/(8) bits in the second pass.
I would suggest using glStencilMask (0x00) at the beginning of the second pass to let the GPU know you are not going to write anything to the stencil buffer.
There is an interesting read on early fragment testing as it is implemented in current generation hardware here. That entire blog is well worth reading if you have the time.


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Keen-eyed fans will soon notice a new logo on the side of Daniel's F2 car – and a new look to this site, too, as he partners with motorsport web specialists Onlineability to rebuild it.
Onlineability, which already works with Mercedes Petronas F1 Team reserve Sam Bird and ART Grand Prix GT driver Duncan Tappy, will give the site a new look and take on responsibility for maintaining and updating it.
The company also ran the independent motorsport news site BritsOnPole.com, interviewing Daniel before the start of his his 2011 Formula Renault 3.5 campaign.
This year he is competing in the Formula Two championship, a single-seater series that visits some of Europe's top racing venues as well as offering its most successful drivers tests in Formula One and GP2 machinery.
His website currently contains an interesting and comprehensive archive of race reports and photo galleries, and he has commissioned Onlineability to refresh its appearance and design an architecture to make the information easier to access.
Daniel said: "A motorsport lifestyle is pretty busy and the media side of it is very important, so it's good to have confidence that the online and social media sides of my career are under control.
Onlineability director Andy Darley said: "Motorsport is particularly close to our hearts and we are very pleased to be working with Daniel and assisting him with race reports and his website during his 2012 Formula 2 season.
"Racing drivers operate as small businesses and it's essential they get the basics, such as publicity, communicating with fans and a consistent message to sponsors, sorted out as early in their careers as possible. This means that a well-run website is an essential.
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Surprise: Herberger's may be back
Posts on Bon-Ton websites hint at life after bankruptcy.
By Evan Ramstad and John Ewoldt Star Tribune staff writers
August 31, 2018 — 8:07pm
Herberger's and the other store chains that were part of Bon-Ton Stores Inc. may stick around after all.
The chains were just finishing closeout sales at the end of a bankruptcy liquidation process that began four months ago. Then, a surprise message appeared on Herbergers.com Friday: "We've got great news — Herberger's is coming back!"
The same message, in the same typeface and with the same photo, appeared on the homepages of other Bon-Ton chains, including Iowa-based Younkers, Carson's in Illinois and Wisconsin, and the Bon-Ton and Boston Store chains out on the East Coast.
Many of the Bon-Ton chains had roots in the Midwest. Herberger's got its start in Osakis, Minn., Younkers in Keokuk, Iowa, Carson's in Peru, Ill.
There have been no announcements from Bon-Ton or its creditors about the message on the websites.
Bon-Ton, which had headquarters in York, Pa., and Milwaukee, announced in mid-April that it would close its more than 200 stores with proceeds from their liquidation used to pay off creditors. The company for about a year had been trying to sell itself but without success.
In Minnesota, there were 14 Herberger's stores and two Younkers stores. The last Herberger's locations in the Twin Cities closed this past Sunday and Monday. Stores in other Bon-Ton chains also closed.
Evan Ramstad
How does the State Fair treat out-of-state vendors?
Three-quarters of the Minnesota State Fair's nonfood vendors and 70 percent of food/beverage vendors are residents of the state.
It begs the question: Do Minnesotans get preferential treatment?
No, said Jim Sinclair, the fair's deputy general manager.
"We do not make judgments of any kind about those who submit license registration requests and we have no interest in names, addresses or other affiliations," he said in an e-mail. "This exposition cannot and does not selectively discriminate for or against registrants on the basis of from where they come or base its license assignments on from where their product or service may originate."
So why does the fair accept one small business over another? It's all about the product mix at the fair.
It's unlikely that a food-vendor applicant wanting to sell hot dogs will get a green light due to the number hot dog and Pronto Pup vendors already operating. But if someone wants to sell adult and kids' fashion belts made from recycled seat belts, it's safe to say that few other fair vendors are already selling them.
Nonfood entrepreneurs who want to scout out the possibilities of being at next year's state fair may want to take a look to see how many other vendors are already selling something similar.
Even if another vendor or two are doing so, that's not grounds for refusal. Sinclair said that the fair encourages competition.
Few potential vendors ever request specific placement on the fairgrounds, but the most likely placement for a new nonfood vendor is in the Grandstand. It's the largest exhibit facility on the fairgrounds and houses the highest number of concessionaires.
"It will naturally experience the greatest level of exhibit turnover from year to year," Sinclair said.
John Ewoldt
Evan Ramstad is a team leader in business news, working with reporters who cover the food industry from field to fork. He also writes about technology, banking and the economy.
evan.ramstad@startribune.com 612-673-4241
John Ewoldt is a business reporter for the Star Tribune. He writes about small and large retailers including supermarkets, restaurants, consumer issues and trends, and personal finance.
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SCSG Bids Farewell to COL Don Jenkins: We Salute You!
COLUMBIA, SC: South Carolina State Guard (SCSG) Commander MG Thomas Mullikin presided over the retirement of COL Don Jenkins who stepped down as Commander of Special Operations Command at a ceremony held at the Olympia Armory in Columbia on August 4th. COL Jenkins was presented with a Saber by MG Mullikin recognizing his dedication and years of service to the State of South Carolina.
COL Jenkins is a 1971 Graduate of the United States Naval Academy and has served in the State Guard for 9-years in various capacities, including time with the Provost Marshal Detachment under then Special Operations Commander and current Deputy Commander BG Leon Lott.
COL Don Jenkins (center) is flanked by Provost Marshal, COL Charles Campbell (Left) and SCSG Commander BG Thomas Mullikin (Right) at his retirement ceremony in Columbia on August 4th.
COL Jenkins began his military career right out of Annapolis when he was selected for the submarine service. He served on the USS Ray (SSN 653), a Sturgeon-class attack submarine for 3-years and another 3-years as 3rd officer aboard the USS James K. Polk (SSBN 645), a Benjamin Franklin class fleet ballistic missile submarine. In 1978 COL Jenkins left active service and in 1986 began his 30-year stint guiding Naval Academy applicants through the admissions process as a Blue and Gold Officer for the State of South Carolina. He stepped down from that position in November 2017.
In his civilian career, COL Jenkins has worked for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, served as a factory automation consultant, and operated his own technical manufacturing company which he sold to a Fortune 500 company in 2001. In 2003, he formed Leaders Advantage, a boutique consultancy focused on developing future business and technical leaders around the world. For the past eight years, COL Jenkins has also found time to serve as a Reserve Deputy with the Richland County Sheriff's Department.
COL Jenkins has been married to Teresa Jenkins (née Perry), a former Cryptologic Technician for the Navy, since 1976. His wife of 42-years is both a military wife and sailor and according to COL Jenkins she has seen it all. The couple are the proud parents of a daughter who is attending college at Midland Tech, and a son who is a 2005 Naval Academy Graduate and combat Marine who served 7-years in Iraq, North Africa, and Cuba. He currently serves as a Special Agent with the FBI.
We Salute You COL Jenkins!


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Ministry of Defense: "Hulusi Akar will watch Azerbaijan-Turkiye joint exercises"
The Minister of National Defense of Turkiye, Army General Hulusi Akar is visiting Azerbaijan at the invitation of the Azerbaijani Defense Minister, Colonel-General Zakir Hasanov, SİA informs, citing the Spokesperson of the Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan, Lieutenant Colonel Anar Eyvazov.
"At the invitation of the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Colonel General Zakir Hasanov, the Minister of National Defense of the Republic of Türkiye, Mr. Hulusi Akar, and the leadership of the Turkish Armed Forces will arrive on a visit to Azerbaijan today to watch the joint exercises held in our country," Anar Eyvazov said.
Azerbaijani-Turkish joint exercises are being held in accordance with the agreement on cooperation in the military field signed between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Republic of Turkiye.
The exercises involving the military personnel of different types of troops, combat and special engineer-sapper equipment, as well as military aviation vehicles of the Azerbaijan Army and the Turkish Armed Forces are being held in Baku city, as well as the territories of Astara, Jabrayil and Imishli regions.
According to the scenario, units of the Land Forces, Air Force, Special Forces, Engineering Troops, and Rocket and Artillery Troops of the Azerbaijan Army are performing various exercises and combat tasks together with the servicemen of the Turkish Armed Forces.
In the exercises, using modern combat methods, applying artillery, aviation, and other types of troops in military operations, organizing their activities in interoperability, building pontoon bridges to open a passage over rivers, landing paratroopers into the depths of the imaginary enemy, various tasks are also being accomplished.


SBID supports its members in the promotion and protection of the global standing of British interior design.
The Code of Conduct of the European Council of Interior Architects and Designers was adopted by the Society of British and International Design in September 2009. The international code is now shared by 19 countries in Europe as is translated in six languages. For the purpose of this Code, the Interior Designer is he or she who is a member of the professional organisation SBID, and/or his or her firm, associates or employees, or the member who is an employee or collaborator in an organisation that is professionally involved with interior design or education, research, training or practice thereof. For the sake of readability the feminine form is omitted in the following articles.
1.1 Compliance to general ethics: The Interior Designer shall act in a way that contributes to the honour and dignity of the profession. He shall abide by the Codes of Ethics and Conduct and laws in force in the countries and jurisdictions where he provides professional services.
1.2 Competence: The Interior Designer shall strive to continually improve his professional knowledge and skill. He shall accept appointments only that are within his competence of performance.
1.3 Avoiding conflicts of interest: The Interior Designer shall only assume or accept a position in which his personal interests will not bring him in conflict with his professional duty.
2.1 The Interior Designer accepts a professional obligation to further the social, cultural and environmental standards of the community. He takes into account the consequences of his professional activity to the health, safety and wellbeing of all those who may reasonably be expected to use or enjoy the product of his work.
3.1 Commitment and loyalty: The interior designer shall act in his client's interests within the limits of his professional duties.
3.2 Scope of work, agreement and contract: The Interior Designer shall undertake professional work only if the scope of work, conditions, responsibilities, liabilities and limitations thereof, remuneration (fee) or method of calculation thereof and the duration of the contract are clearly agreed in writing.
3.3 Remuneration: The Interior Designer shall when undertaking a mission see that the compensation for the work is relevant to the scope and importance of the performed work, and he will only accept additional financial profits or any other profits from third parties that are agreed upon in advance by the client.
3.4 Transparency: The Interior Designer shall ensure that his practice has appropriate and effective internal procedures and administration as to enable him to function efficiently and he will keep the Client informed of the progress of work undertaken on the client's behalf and of any issues that may affect its quality or cost. Administration with regard to the project will be available for perusal by the client upon request.
3.5 Confidentiality: The Interior Designer shall respect at all times the confidence of those for whom he works and not without prior consent disclose those confidential matters.
4.1 Fellowship: The Interior Designer shall promote an open and professional debate on all aspects of the profession. He is not to criticise unfairly or attempt to discredit a colleague or his work in public.
4.2 Loyalty and competition: The Interior Designer investigates, before accepting a commission, if the same commission has not been granted to a colleague. If such is the case, the successor enters in consultation with the colleague. The Interior Designer, who is commissioned to alter an existing building or interior, enables fraternal consultation with the original designer, before starting his work. The original designer will not oppose the commission as such.
4.3 Collaboration and succession: The Interior Designer shall provide his associates and employees with a suitable working environment, compensate them fairly, and facilitate their professional development. He will see to it that they will keep up with these rules of Conduct.
4.4 Originality: The Interior Designer acknowledges the part colleagues or employees may have had in the design. He shall not accept instructions from his client which knowingly involve plagiarism, nor shall he consciously act in any manner involving plagiarism.
5.1 Fairness: The Interior Designer is free to communicate or promote his work and his expertise and experience. Any advertising or publicity material must contain only truthful factual statements. It shall be fair to clients and other designers, and in accordance with the dignity of the profession.
5.2 Originality: The Interior Designer shall only promote professional works or activities as designed by him and/or his collaborators. He shall not tolerate that his name is connected with the realisation of a design that has been changed in such a way that it is no longer essentially the original work of the Interior Architect.
5.3 Competition A member may only take part in or serve on the jury of competitions when these are held in compliance with national and international rules as approved by our professional organisations.
6.1 All matters concerning non-observance of this Code of Conduct and Professional Ethics shall be considered by the national organisation's Board and/or Committee of Ethics, who may issue a caution or a disciplinary comment or may bar the individual from membership. A complaint against an Interior Designer can be brought forward by a colleague, a client of the defendant, or by somebody who has another professional relationship with the defendant.


Terrified patrons who had gathered for the weekly Wednesday night line dancing and college night hurled barstools through windows to escape or threw their bodies protectively on top of friends as shots erupted. Twelve people were killed including Ventura County sheriff's Sgt. Ron Helus, a 29-year veteran nearing retirement who responded to reports of shots fired and was gunned down as he entered the bar.
Those killed in the shooting included a man who had survived last year's massacre in Las Vegas, Telemachus Orfanos, 22.


What are the Friends of Burgess Hill Green Circle Network?
The Green Circle is a ring of green sites around the edge of Burgess Hill. Some belong to Burgess Hill Town Council, others to Mid Sussex District Council.
KEY TO SITES: 1) Bedelands LNR. 2) Nightingale Lane Meadows. 3) Hammonds Ridge Meadows. 4) Henry Burt Wood.5) Malthouse Lane Meadows. 6) Pookebourne Stream & Balancing Pond. 7) Rugby Club. 8) Grassmere Meadow.9) Pangdean Lane Meadows. 10) Fairfield Recreation Ground (St. John's Common). 11) Sussex Way. 21) Batchelors Farm.22) West Park Nature Reserve. 25) Railway Fields. 41) Ancient Woodland W of Bedelands. 42) Roman Meadow.
The Green Circle Network is a series of footpaths, cycle tracks and bridleways linking the green sites to one another and to the town centre. These make it possible to travel without using cars or following roads. They also provide "green corridors" so that non-flying wildlife can move between the green sites instead of being stranded on one site and dying out completely. About half of this Green Circle is still in the planning stage.
The Friends of Burgess Hill Green Circle Network is a registered charity. We are all unpaid volunteers. We manage and improve these sites on behalf of the landowners for the benefit of wildlife and for the enjoyment and education of the whole community. We carry out conservation work and wildlife surveys, which are actually great fun, as well as organising open air events, guided walks and talks and our annual Children's Safari.
Recent projects include a length of dry stone wall for lizards, pond dredging and building a dipping platform on Bedelands, as well as sowing a wildflower meadow area on Batchelors Farm. Find more details of these under Recent Projects.
We want to encourage everyone to make use of these beautiful spaces, whether they are schools using them for occasional, open air lessons, young people pursuing Duke of Edinburgh Award courses, dog walkers and those who seek exercise or simply pure enjoyment. All we ask is that you don't spoil them for others by causing damage or leaving litter.
Our slide shows on this page will give you a taster of what can be found. You can also look up each site to discover more about it.
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As a resident of Priory village for some 15 years, and a regular user of Hammonds Meadows, I have come to notice that the wooded areas here are in desparate need of thinning out.
I have noticed that Bedelands has benefitted greatly in recent months from a comprehensive clearance of over populated wooded areas.
The wooded areas along Hammonds Meadows have seen a decrease in bird life in recent years and the ground biodiversity has virtually disapperared. Trees have been overcrowded for a number of years and as a result much of the wood floor is now just bare earth with a large covering of sticks.
I would be keen to hear of what and when planned management of the tree in this area is likely to take place, so that the wood floor flora is able to rejuvenate.
Thanks for your favourable comments about thinning of holly in the Bedelands woods. I do take your point about Hammonds Ridge meadows & the partially-completed Green Circle along the south of Burgess Hill. Unfortunately we don't have enough volunteers at the moment to do much work there. Bedelands is our largest & most diverse site, so takes-up most of our time. However, some volunteers from Tesco plan to do some work at Hammonds Ridge roughly every 4-6 weeks, which should produce some improvement. Maybe you & some friends might be able to help?
Oliver and i would like to thank you for an amazing adventure yesterday. The knowladge of species and the love to nature is outstanding. Oliver can't stop talking about all the creatures he seen and handled. you and Trixie made him feel special. Thank you again. We hoping to join you form more events soon.
Thanks for this glowing endorsement – I'm really glad the day was so enjoyable for you both.


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Q: Why does it take such a long time to build a new power grid transformer? From time to time, when people are discussing the consequences of power outages, like the ones from the Texas winter storm or a hypothetical catastrophic space weather event (Carrington event scale), someone invariably brings up the point that one of the most important goals during a power crisis is to ensure that the high voltage transformers do not get damaged, because even with our current technology, it easily takes well over a year, probably even over 2 years, to build just one.
Why would it take so long to build one of these? Are they that complex to assemble?

A: A geomagnetic storm of the magnitude seen during the carrington event would lead to massive induced currents in long distribution networks. The longer the network, the more induced current. As such the networks that are most at risk are the large international  networks, typically several hundred kV or more. These are custom built, at site, with literally truckloads of equipment.
While it is unlikely that it will be completely destroyed it will almost certainly be significantly damaged, and you can not simply ship a new one based on off-the-shelf equipment. It has to be build up from scratch.
Smaller stations will also be affected, but these are simple enough to rebuild. But: In a Carrington event there will be an immediate shortage of raw manterials and production capacity, that will be amplified by the fact that the locations building these parts could be without power themselves.
A powerful geomagnetic storm terrifies me. I have absolutely no faith in the current pro-forma testing and conceptual unverified protection mechanisms. Our modern society has never, ever, experienced a geomagnetic storm of those magnitudes. As seen during the current Corona crisis the experts can wave all the red flags they want, but in practice no proper action is taken.

A: IMHO there are a lot of reasons:

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*They are big, unwieldy and expensive (there is lot of material inside, special isolation and manual work) - on the other hand, when constructed, they last like nearly forever - so building them on shelf means put lots of resources to something, which would not sell soon - so nobody has built lot of them to shelves

*There is a constant improvement in science, so the probability, that after like 10 years there would be better/cheaper technology - as well as that there much larger power would be requested - is high, and so again it means less willingness to make them to sit for years on shelves, blocking lot of resources and space, and then be over expensive, obsolete and weak

*so with no transformers on shelves, when one is needed, it is ordered to current specification, when the place for it is planned - it does not matter so much, that it would take lot of time to do it, the construction of the place will also probably take long time to build

*The transformer is in theory simple, but in practice there must be first done the core, which is not simple or fast task, then the wiring, which needs lot of care and very good (and expensive) isolation (as there are really high voltages), which need also to "dry" for long time to get the right quality. Also it need extremely strong construction, as there are extremely strong electric and magnetic currents, which tend to periodically vibrate all those wires and core with extreme force.

And should some catastrophe hit, there would be big risk, that not one, but many transformers would be damaged and so would need replacement (It is easier and faster to a build new one, than repair one damaged).
As you mentioned Carrington event - it put telegraph lines to massive fail - now the electric lines are much longer and much more of them, so the consequences would be much stronger too.


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We the Irrelevant
Formerly known as We the People
Dec. 8, 2015: We the Irrelevant
We the Irrelevant was born on Dec. 8, 2015. In the four years since, I have sent out 10 different open records requests to the Wisconsin state legislature. Each request has asked for citizen correspondence related to an issue either currently before the legislature or on which they had acted.
My purpose remains what it has always been: to find out whether citizens were asking for particular legislative actions and to publish what citizens were telling their legislators about those actions.
I am grateful to my volunteers who stepped forward in 2015/16. They thought my efforts were important and wanted to help. Their assistance was invaluable as I struggled to find ways to organize and disseminate an avalanche of data. Thanks to their generosity of time and energy, I was able to manage on my own by 2017.
As We the Irrelevant's fourth anniversary approached, I was moved to look back at what's been accomplished. Below is a spreadsheet that summarizes data on a range of controversial issues important to Wisconsin citizens. I owe a debt of gratitude to the hundreds of thousands of them whose dedication to democracy led them to contact their legislators. I honor those of you who have done so and urge those who have not to reconsider: such contacts are the essence of representative government.
I have tried to keep We the Irrelevant non-partisan. In this tribal atmosphere, that has not been easy, and I have not always succeeded. I will continue to try.
We the Irrelevant has had 196,228 page views in the past four years. I have no way to compare that number with others in its class, but I'll say this: that's a lot of clicks on pages I created, and I'm delighted! I've received an award from the Freedom of Information Council, enjoyed some good media coverage (with more to come), and been invited to speak to a variety of groups from the DPW Rural Caucus to the Eau Claire Grassroots Festival to Indivisible of Jefferson County and Drinking Liberally in New Glarus. I thank them all for wanting to hear what I've learned.
What began almost as a whim has evolved into what sometimes feels like a full-time career. It has introduced me to dedicated and creative activists around Wisconsin and beyond. It has made me so proud of my home state and those who battle every day to make it a better place to live. I will admit to occasional weariness, but I am not ready to quit.
My 81 years have taught me a lot. Most importantly, I've learned that one person can make a difference by keeping this mandate top of mind: leave your little corner of the world better than it was before you entered it.
I wish you well, and thank you.
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MARK YOUR CALENDAR!!! Our annual BWGL Youth Night will be Monday, April 22nd! Bellevue High JV and Varsity will host Bainbridge that night - JV plays at 6:00pm followed by Varsity at 8:00pm. We'll have pizza during the JV game as well as raffles and giveaways throughout the evening. This event will also be our fundraiser for the year - we'll have fun items available for a donation including stadium seats, slides, and blankets - see pics below.


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"The Principal" (1987, Rated R, 110 minutes) available from Columbia/TriStar Home Entertainment
Stars: James Belushi, Louis Gossett, Jr., Rae Dawn Chong, and Kelly Minter
Plot: The new principal (Belushi) along with the head of security (Gossett, Jr.) at Brandel High set out to radically clean up the school's image, a cesspool of gangs, drugs, crime, and other depravity.
Features: Presented only in Full Screen, and Theatrical Trailers.
Final Word: Director Christopher Cain (The Next Karate Kid and The Great Panda Adventure) has never been known as much of a talent behind the camera. But this (the following year's Young Guns, notwithstanding) is perhaps his most accomplished film, it's nothing to write home about, but it's an undeniable crowd-pleaser in the most obvious way. Belushi has fun in the title role, and Gossett, Jr. (light years away from the brilliance that was 1982's An Officer and A Gentleman) mines his role for whatever heft there is, succeeding for the most part.
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Juan Manuel Montalbán y Hernanz (Torrelaguna, 20 d'octubre de 1806 - Madrid, 3 de febrer de 1889) va ser un Jurista espanyol, rector d'universitat, diputat, senador i acadèmic de la Reial Acadèmia de la Història.

Biografia
Va estudiar Filosofia i Matemàtiques en el col·legi dels Pares Franciscans de Torrelaguna, i Dret en la Universitat d'Alcalá, llicenciant-se en 1830. Va ser nomenat Catedràtic de Alcalá el 27 de desembre de 1835. Allí va obstaculitzar amistat amb Pedro Gómez de la Serna y Tully amb qui va escriure un tractat de Dret civil per a l'ensenyament universitari de la matèria i, més tard, de Dret penal.

Es va doctorar en 1837 i va accedir a la Càtedra en la Universitat Central de Madrid en 1838. En 1840 fou escollit membre de la Diputació provincial de Madrid i en 1843 és escollitt Diputat al Congrés per la mateixa província sota el govern de Joaquín María López i en plena crisi per la successió del regent Espartero i la declaració de la majoria d'edat d'Isabel II.

Va abandonar momentàniament la càtedra per ser Director d'Instrucció Pública de 1855 a 1857, reintegrant-se a la Universitat. En 1858 va ingressar en la Reial Acadèmia de la Història, i fou nomenat rector de la Universitat Central de Madrid en 1862. Al març i abril de 1865 els fets de la Nit de Sant Daniel en els quals va defensar la llibertat de càtedra d'Emilio Castelar davant les ingerències del govern de Narváez li van portar a ser destituït del seu lloc el 7 de març. Mai va ser rehabilitat però el cessament no fou reconegut finalment i el 10 de març de 1866 es va jubilar del càrrec, a petició pròpia i per considerar que no podia exercir l'activitat en plena decadència i persecució del regnat d'Isabel II. Més tard va ser partidari de l'arribada de la Primera República si bé la seva activitat va ser molt limitada, encara que va obtenir escó per a senador a l'abril de 1872.

Obres
 Elementos de derecho civil y penal de España amb Pedro Gómez de la Serna (Madrid, 1840-1886)
 Febrero o Librería de jueces, abogados y escribanos, amb Florencio García Goyena i Joaquín Aguirre (Madrid, 1844-1852)
 Tratado de procedimientos en negocios eclesiásticos: suplemento al Febrero, amb Joaquín Aguirre (Madrid, 1846)
 Recopilación compendiada de las leyes de Indias aumentada con algunas notas que no se hallan en la edición de 1841 y con todas las disposiciones dictadas posteriormente para los dominios de Ultramar, amb Joaquín Aguirre (Madrid, 1846)
 Tratado académico-forense de procedimientos judiciales, amb Pedro Gómez de la Serna. (Madrid, 1848-1861)

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Diputats madrilenys al Congrés dels Diputats
Acadèmics de la Reial Acadèmia de la Història
Rectors de la Universitat Complutense de Madrid
Alumnes de la Universitat d'Alcalá
Morts a Madrid
Juristes madrilenys
Senadors madrilenys al Senat espanyol


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It's October. Up and down the country, thousands of cyclists are being struck with nausea, dizziness, shortness of breath, burning limbs and blurred vision. This is not some weirdly selective early winter virus – all these symptoms are self-inflicted. October is the month for hill climbs and suffering is what hill climbs are all about.
Cycling clubs in the UK traditionally end the racing season by holding hill climbs. A vertical time trial, these races involve groups of riders gathering at the bottom of a hill and then, at one minute intervals, riding up it as fast as they can to see who can set the quickest time. Some of the hills are legendary, with names like Monsal Head or the Rake, names that bring most cyclists out in a cold sweat. It's the absence of the long mountain passes prevalent in the Alps that has given British hill climbs their unique flavour. Short and brutal, they test riders like no other race.
"A good hill climb has to be no longer than two miles, and steep, very steep" says Simon Warren, author of 100 Greatest Cycling Climbs.
"It needs a corner, maybe some geographical drama for a backdrop and most importantly, it must attract a large crowd of spectators, there's no joy in suffering in silence."
Those crowds generally flock to the better known hills for "open" events. These races attract large fields of up to 150 riders to compete for cash prizes. For amateur riders, the special atmosphere of these events is perhaps their only chance to get a feel of what the professionals experience on the famous climbs of the Tour de France. Spectators line the road, sometimes up to three deep, screaming encouragement to all competitors.
The Cycling Time Trials website lists 70 open events in 2011, 49 of them in October. The National Hill Climb at the end of the month is the biggest draw, featuring the cream of British climbing talent.
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