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Dealing with diversity: Racial/ethnic context and social policy change
Caroline J. Tolbert, Rodney Hero
We propose and provide an explanation of voting behavior that argues it is a convergence of a social context (high racial/ethnic diversity) and institutional context (frequent, use of direct democracy) that is associated with the adoption of public policies targeted at minority groups. We examine this argument in the state of California, the most racially diverse state in the nation, and one that has historically high usage of ballot initiatives. We analyze white voting for four social policy ballot initiatives that directly targeted minority groups over a twelve-year period. Using King's method of ecological inference (1997), the study demonstrates that white support for the initiatives varied systematically by racial and ethnic environments across policy issues and over time. The white votes was consistently higher in "bifurcated" environments, as might be expected given Key's (1949) research on a racial threat; but is was also notably higher in "homogeneous" contexts, even after accounting for economic conditions and partisanship. Social heterogeneity, particularly white ethnic diversity, is associated with lower support for the ballot propositions. The research expands the social diversity interpretation (Hero 1998) by taking into consideration institutional context, contributes to our understanding of minorities and direct democracy, and raises broader questions about procedural democracy and the appropriate scope of conflict for direct democracy elections in the U.S.
Political Research Quarterly
voting behavior
Tolbert, C. J., & Hero, R. (2001). Dealing with diversity: Racial/ethnic context and social policy change. Political Research Quarterly, 54(3), 571-604. https://doi.org/10.1177/106591290105400305
Dealing with diversity : Racial/ethnic context and social policy change. / Tolbert, Caroline J.; Hero, Rodney.
In: Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 54, No. 3, 01.01.2001, p. 571-604.
Tolbert, CJ & Hero, R 2001, 'Dealing with diversity: Racial/ethnic context and social policy change', Political Research Quarterly, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 571-604. https://doi.org/10.1177/106591290105400305
Tolbert CJ, Hero R. Dealing with diversity: Racial/ethnic context and social policy change. Political Research Quarterly. 2001 Jan 1;54(3):571-604. https://doi.org/10.1177/106591290105400305
Tolbert, Caroline J. ; Hero, Rodney. / Dealing with diversity : Racial/ethnic context and social policy change. In: Political Research Quarterly. 2001 ; Vol. 54, No. 3. pp. 571-604.
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The Trail-based club is welcoming any Rossland swimmers who would like to be introduced to competitive swimming.
May. 21, 2013 1:00 p.m.
That's why summer swimming is a great choice for today's kids and their families, providing a rich swim club experience that's manageable for busy families, including those with kids who play other sports.
If you're looking for a swim option that's fun, well coached and compatible with other activities, then you want to join the Stingrays. The Trail-based club is welcoming any swimmers who would like to be introduced to competitive swimming and learn new skills.
June 3-26: Mon/Wed 6-7 p.m.
July 8-18: Mon/Thur 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Registration will be held June 3 from 5:30-6 p.m. Please bring proof of participant's age (birth certificate or care card). Registrants must be able to swim 25 metres unassisted.


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Mantidactylus ambreensis es una especie de anfibios de la familia Mantellidae.
Es endémica de Madagascar.
Su hábitat natural incluye bosques bajos y secos, montanos tropicales o subtropicales secos y ríos.
Está amenazada de extinción por la pérdida de su hábitat natural.

Referencias
 Raxworthy, C. & Glaw, F. 2004. Mantidactylus ambreensis.   2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Consultado el 23 de julio de 2007.

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ambreensis
Anfibios de Madagascar

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Povl Ahm CBE FICE FREng (* 26. September 1926 in Aarhus; † 15. Mai 2005) war ein bedeutender Tragwerksplaner und ehemaliger Vorstand von Ove Arup & Partners.

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Ahm studierte an der Polyteknisk Læreanstalt in Kopenhagen, wo er 1949 seinen Abschluss machte.

1952 begann er bei Ove Arup and Partners in London, wo er mit Basil Spence und Ove Arup an der Coventry Cathedral arbeitete.

Ahm war auch beteiligt an frühen Entwürfen für das Sydney Opera House und arbeitete auch an anderen prestigeträchtigen Projekten wie der denkmalgeschützten Geflügelmarkthalle in Smithfield (London) oder dem Centre Pompidou. 1957 wurde Ahm Teilhaber der Arup Group Limited, 1965 Partner und 1977 einer der Direktoren; von 1989 bis 1992 Vorsitzender der Firma. Von 1992 bis 1996 war er Vorsitzender der Association of Consulting Engineers.

Als der Entwurf von Arup 1965 den Wettbewerb für das Gateshead Viaduct gewann, begann Ahm den neuen Verkehrs-Bereich der Firma, spezialisiert auf Brücken.

1981 wurde Ahm Fellow der Royal Academy of Engineering. Als erster erhielt Ahm 1993 die Goldmedaille der Institution of Civil Engineers; im selben Jahr erhielt er den Orden CBE.

Die University of Warwick verlieh ihm 1994 eine Ehrendoktorwürde.

Er starb 2005 an Krebs.

Weblinks
 Twentieth Century Society: Gebäude des Monats Juni 2003: Smithfield Poultry Market, London EC1

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Bauingenieur
Commander des Order of the British Empire
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The self service style car wash bay, also referred to as a coin or token operated method, is pretty straight forward. This bay will have sufficient space for a car to pull into and for driver to move around the car throughout the washing procedure. The self service bay is run on a timer system. The consumer places coins or dollars into the timer system which will then permit them to use the bays water and chemicals for a set period of time.
The typical self service vehicle wash bay will have a pressurized wand that dispenses soapy water, clean rinse water and frequently other choices like a spray on polish or wax, or an engine cleaning solution. This allows the consumer to spray their vehicle with a cleaning solution, rinse off that cleaning answer with clean water and also spray a protective coat of wax over their newly cleaned car. Once the time expires the consumer simply replaces the wand on the rack and drives off.
In addition to the pressure wand numerous self service car wash systems will have a Foaming Brush. This will be hooked up to the method and will dispense soapy water from inside the head of the scrubbing brush. This is a helpful function for these clients with cars that require a much more through cleaning that the stress wand can provide while at the same time can save water for the vehicle wash.
Additionally other services can be offered. From a easy thing like floor mat holders permitting clients to spray and clean their floor mats, vending machines selling other vehicle cleaning products, soft drinks or candy and much more all can add to the profitability of a car wash location.
A self service vehicle wash can be a strong business depending on your area, the demographics of the population and the common layout of it. These are frequently used in conjunction with automatic car wash bays in the same facility offering customers a choice in filling their needs, attracting these with differing budgets and time constraints.
This style of car wash can be popular due to relative low price to your customer and ease of use. The downside is that this type of carwash can deteriorate much more rapidly than a complete service vehicle wash. At occasions this style of business is not staffed throughout normal business hours and can consequently turn out to be abused, dirty and topic to theft. No business runs itself so be sure to adequately employees even a self service vehicle wash!


Matt Kilroy threw a 7-inning no-hitter that ended in a scoreless tie, 128 years ago today.
Kilroy, pitching for the American Association's Baltimore Orioles, got the start at Oriole Park on Jluy 29, 1889, for the second game of a doubleheader against the St. Louis Browns.
Umpire Fred Goldsmith called the game due to darkness after 7 innings and an hour and 40 minutes of play with a 0-0 score. The contest was delayed in the third inning after police had to calm the crowd after Goldsmith ruled that Kilroy missed third base while scoring, negating an Orioles run.


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I thought you might be interested in this Ashmolean object: Drawing of a Dog from the Ormesby Psalter , http://ruskin.ashmolean.org/object/WA.RS.RUD.041.b
Drawing of a Dog from the Ormesby Psalter John Ruskin
Curator's description:
The drawing shows a dog wearing a hood and walking on its hind legs with the aid of a stick. It is taken from the Ormesby Psalter, which has a complex history, having been written in the late thirteenth century in East Anglia, and illuminated at intervals, most notably c.1310, and again c.1320 and over the next decade. It was eventually acquired, still unfinished, by one Robert of Ormesby, by whom it was presented to the Benedictine Cathedral Priory of Norwich. This drawing is taken from a detail of the upper border of folio 89 recto, containing the beginning of Psalm 68, 'Salvum me fac, Deus'; it was probably executed c.1310. Combined with the hare copied in the accompanying drawing, it makes up a picture of a dog disguised in human clothes approaching a hare.
The date of the drawings is not certain, although they were most likely made between Ruskin's arrival in Oxford and their appearance in the 1872 catalogues of the Rudimentary Series.
There is some confusion over the entries relating to the drawings of the dog and hare, as Ruskin's entry for no. 39 in the Rudimentary Series includes 'Sketch of Dog and Hare (enlarged)', whilst no. 41 is 'Conversation between Dog and Hare (enlarged)'. Assuming, as Cook and Wedderburn did (XXI.178 n. 2) that these are actually the same works, their position in the present catalogue is based upon that recorded by Cook and Wedderburn, therefore reflecting their position in 1906. Whichever number Ruskin intended them to be placed under (the confusion occurs in all printed editions of the Rudimentary catalogues), they were placed in the second section of the second cabinet, devoted to heraldry. They do not seem to have been covered by Ruskin's rather vague entry for nos 27-41 in his 1878 revision of the series, which simply says 'To be used at Mr. Macdonald's pleasure': a later note added to the manuscript states that only 26-38 from the 1878 revision remained in place.
In his instructions for using the Rudimentary Series, Ruskin told his students to measure and draw these examples carefully. He went on to explain how different schools of manuscript illumination worked in a different order, the Anglo-Saxon and English manuscripts being drawn with the pen before being coloured. Work on these examples would give his students an understanding of the 'temper' of Gothic art, 'especially its humour and license of play in even its most precise drawing' (printed Rudimentary Series catalogues, pp. 43-44). Ruskin's copy of a falcon from another folio in the manuscript is now no. 167 in the Educational Series.
John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
after anonymous East Anglian
watercolour and bodycolour over graphite on off-white paper
Recto, bottom, left of centre, in graphite (recent): R. 41
along the top, in graphite: Wood, O.[?] 2 right
centre, the Ruskin School's stamp
WA.RS.RUD.041.b
dog (Canis familiaris)
Taylor, Gerald, 'John Ruskin: A Catalogue of Drawings by John Ruskin in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford', 7 fascicles, 1998, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, no. 211.i
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 41
Ruskin, John, The Ruskin Art Collection at Oxford: Catalogue of the Rudimentary Series, in the Arrangement of 1873, ed. Robert Hewison (London: Lion and Unicorn Press, 1984), cat. Rudimentary no. 41, RUD.041.b
Ruskin, John, Instructions in Practice of Elementary Drawing, Arranged with Reference to the First Series of Examples in the Drawings Schools of the University of Oxford (n.p., [1872]), cat. Rudimentary no. 41
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 41
Ruskin, John, 'The Ruskin Art Collection at Oxford: Catalogues, Notes and Instructions', Edward T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, eds, The Works of John Ruskin: Library Edition, 39 (London: George Allen, 1903-1912), 21, cat. Rudimentary no. 41
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R|41} Conversation between Dog and Hare (enlarged). MS. Bodl.M.

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Merryburn is a rural locality in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Merryburn had a population of 184 people.

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Localities in Queensland


We've been staying in Novotel hotels for many, many years. We always know what we are going to get, so it's a no brainer that we look to them often before looking elsewhere when travelling.
Our recent stay in Nha Trang was no different.
The hotel is in prime position right on the main strip, directly across from the white sandy beach and manicured gardens.
Reception staff are friendly and warming and call me by my first name – I love that!
The lobby is cozy and inviting. To the right is the colourful "Le Bar" with ample seating space for a morning coffee or evening cocktail.
The Novotel Nha Trang is located right on the beach!
We stayed on the 16th floor and had two connecting Superior Ocean View rooms – perfect for a family of 4.
The children's room was the mirror image of ours, but they had a single bed each.
The split level rooms are spacious and well laid out. Carpet underfoot in bedroom space, and timber floors on the lower level which leads out to the balcony.
Beds are oversized and very comfortable, and the block out blinds work a treat! We slept very well here.
Bathrooms are huge with a very impressive mosaic tiled shower. I was very pleased to see the fair trade toiletry product range in the bathroom – well done Novotel.
Each room has a television, work space and also a separate seating area for lounging. A fully stocked minibar- including sunscreen and snacks, and a private balcony with seating.
Did I mention the stunning sea views as far as the eye can see?!! So beautiful.
Buffet breakfast caters for everyone and can be found on level 1 at "The Square" restaurant.
With a huge selection on offer ranging from traditional Vietnamese to the Western delights we know and love. Juice and yoghurt bar, breads and pastries, fresh tropical fruits, bacon and eggs and much, much more.
The swimming pool is on level 3 and had a great view over the town. While it is not huge, it is perfect for cooling off if the beach isn't your thing. Also located on level 3 is the "In Balance" spa, as well as gym and sauna.
The laundry service is well worth it. Very professional and delivered back to the room within 24 hours.
Novotel pride themselves on being family friendly. Families with up to 2 children under the age of 16 receive an extra room at half price when booking online. How cool is that?!
The Accor group also have a fabulous loyalty program – Le Club Accor Hotels. Earn points each time you stay.
We thoroughly enjoyed our time at the Novotel Nha Trang. It was the perfect place to stay for our family.
A stones throw from a huge selection of restaurants and markets. Lovely staff and the beach at your doorstop.
Thank you so very much to the wonderful team at Novotel Nha Trang for welcoming us as guests of your beautiful Hotel.
This was a hosted stay, but as always, all words and opinions are my own.


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Natalie de Bogory (also known as Natalie Debogory or Natalie DeBogory-Mokriyevich) (1887–1939) is primarily known for her work in translating from the Russian language into the English language, and subsequently distributing and participating in having published the first or second American edition in the United States of the document known as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. There were two different editions printed in the United States in 1920. The earlier, entitled The Protocols and World Revolution, associated with Boris Brasol and published by Small, Maynard and Company. The later, entitled Praemonitus Praemunitus associated with Harris A. Houghton and published by the Beckwith Company.

Biography
She was the granddaughter of two servicemen of the tsar of Russia. One of her grandfathers resigned being a colonel-lieutenant, another one was a major. Her father Vladimir Karpovich Debogory-Mokriyevich (May 24, 1848 - Nov. 2, 1926) had been imprisoned under the tsarist government for revolutionary activities. He was a well-known Russian Revolutionary-Narodnik (Populist), who escaped from prison in Siberia and later married her mother Julie Gortynsky (1860 -1933?) in Switzerland.

Julie was from a noble family and educated at the Kiev Institute for noble girls. (The Gortynsky family produced many well educated women: Julie's cousin, Maria Gortynsky-Pavlova (1854 - 1938), was the first Russian female professor of Paleontology at the Academy of Sciences of the USSR; another cousin, Olga Gortynsky (1855 - 1903), was among the first Russian women licensed to practice as a Doctor of Medicine.) Upon graduation Julie studied in Paris and Geneva.

Natalie was born in Geneva on April 15, 1887 and was in Russia a few times until 1895 when her mother Julie was exiled Russia with no permission to return due to her unreliability and close ties with emigre Vladimir Debogory-Mokrievich. After Nicholas II's amnesty of 1905 Julie returned to Russia and Natalie never saw her mother again. Natalie married Albert Sonnichsen, a writer, had one child Eric in 1909, then divorced him in 1919. Eventually she moved to Paris after losing custody of her son in a very public legal fight, and she worked as Sol Hurok's publicity person in Europe. She eventually became a Paris based writer for the International Herald Tribune. She died in 1939 in Paris, and her ashes are interred in vault no. 4780 in the columbarium at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

She worked as the assistant of the physician and military intelligence officer in the service of the U.S. War Department, Harris Ayers Houghton, who paid for her services out of his own private funds. Houghton engaged her as his personal and investigative assistant for nine months, and subsequently claimed that no public funds were used for her services. She had obtained a Russian version of the Protocols of Zion from the notorious White Russian and extremely antisemitic tsarist officer Boris Brasol, and thereafter she requested, under her own initiative and received authorization to translate it into the English language. She did not work alone, but with close consultation with Brasol, and another former tsarist officer, General G. J. Sosnowsky.

See also
Harris A. Houghton
Sergei Nilus

References

Norman Cohn - Warrant for Genocide - (London: Serif, 1996)
Cesare G. De Michelis - The Non-exitent Manuscript - (Lincoln and London :The University of Nebraska Press, 2004)  (cloth)
Robert Singerman - "The American Career of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion" - American Jewish History, Vol. 71 (1981) pp. 48–78
https://www.academia.edu/34061458/Feminism_as_a_denial_of_parentship.doc

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20th-century American translators
American people of World War I
American conspiracy theorists
Writers from Geneva
Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Russian–English translators
20th-century American women writers


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The Obamas' Favorite Charities, Revealed
Last year, Barack and Michelle donated nearly $65,000.
By Caroline Hallemann Published: May 3, 2016
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According to the First Couple's tax returns, President Obama and the First Lady donated approximately $64,000 to charity in 2015, a number which amounts to almost 15 percent of their annual income.
As reported by Time magazine, the list includes 34 charities benefitting causes ranging from epilepsy, AIDS, diabetes, MS, and cancer research to poverty relief and women's and minority-focused issues.
The couple's largest donation, $9,066, went to Fisher House Foundation, an organization which provides lodging for families of veterans receiving care at military and VA medical centers.
Also notable are the First Family's donation of $5,000 to the Beau Biden Foundation—a 501c3 that honors Vice President Joe Biden's late son, and works to raise awareness of child abuse in America—and a donation of $5,000 to Sidwell Friends School, where Sasha and Malia are currently enrolled.
Find the full list of donations, below.
Fisher House: $9,066
Beau Biden Foundation: $5,000
Sidwell Friends School: $5,000
American Red Cross: $2,000
CARE: $2,000
International Rescue Committee: $2,000
Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: $2,000
Aids United: $1,500
Calvary Women's Services: $1,500
Central Illinois Food Bank: $1,500
Christopher House: $1,500
Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy: $1,500
Habitat for Humanity: $1,500
Illinois Head Start Association: $1,500
Illinois Reading Council: $1,500
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society: $1,500
National Coalition for Homeless Veterans: $1,500
National Congress of Black Women: $1,500
National MS Society: $1,500
National Ovarian Cancer Coalition: $1,500
Rochelle Lee Fund / Boundless Readers: $1,500
St. John's Church: $1,500
St. Jude's: $1,500
St. Leo's Campus for Veterans: $1,500
The Harmony Project: $1,500
United Negro College Fund: $1,500
Boys & Girls Club D.C.: $1,000
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation: $1,500
Life Pieces to Masterpieces: $1,000
Midtown Education Foundation: $1,000
Miriam's Kitchen: $1,000
Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit: $1,000
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University of Hawaii Foundation: $1,000
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Laura Chau: WhatsApp and the suppression of status
While services like WhatsApp and Messenger share the conversational elements above that make Slack a great social platform, these messaging apps really shine when it comes to utility. Sure, they foster community amidst your friend group, provide entertainment with Bitmojis and inside jokes galore, and offer a certain level of privacy and control with the limited size of a community (and the end-to-end encryption in the case of WhatsApp). Yet their primary purpose is to communicate information quickly and effectively. This is utility at its finest.
In fact, the utility of these messaging apps is perhaps so strong that it actually limits the ability of status to be a dominant pillar. There are few ways within WhatsApp to acquire more social capital than the others in your group. You may be the wittiest or share the most helpful information, but there is no mechanism to earn a badge or likes for such behavior. And while not ephemeral in the same concept as a snap or a story, your messages often go by so quickly such that the funny gif you sent this morning is long forgotten by lunch time. Thus, there is no manner in which to store an indicator of status within the app. Status is suppressed by the nature of the utility.
As a result, WhatsApp (or any pure messaging tool for that matter) is perhaps the most authentic of social apps. It is real time and the one most closely tied to your real person and life. In fact, the idea of a "persona," which is the foundation of many social platforms, doesn't really exist within WhatsApp. The person you present on WhatsApp is the same person you are in real life. You message largely the same way that you speak. Compare that to someone's Instagram feed or TikTok account, which is littered with expertly crafted styles and images. Oftentimes these styles even vary significantly across platform for the same person – a result of the fact that the crowds they are gathering status from differ on each platform and reward different styles or behaviors.
So what does this tell us about the merit of utility when it comes to social apps? First and foremost it is that apps with strong utility from the outset are less likely to hit the status media tipping point early in their lifecycle. However, this does not mean that apps that index high on utility are immune from this tipping point. Just look at the steps WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger have taken to add a stories feature to their platforms – each is now at over 500 million daily active users (DAUs.) Stories have added a new layer of social that prizes entertainment and status through the crafting of personas. The question now is when these platforms will tip to status media. We will likely hit a point where the messaging groups become too large, or a mechanism to track status (views, likes, hearts) becomes so strong, or the type of content that is "valued" becomes too prescribed, that the scales ultimately tip. And at that point, WhatsApp will tip into the land of status media, opening up opportunity for the next wave of social messaging players.
This is one of a series of excerpts from my chapter in Finding Genius: Venture Capital and the Future it Is Betting On. You can check out the entire excerpt series here. The book is available for purchase on Amazon.
Technology, Consumer, Finding Genius Excerpt Series, Laura Chau
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Back to Socio-economy
The Inner Niger Delta is a highly productive system with a very large fish production, although fluctuating from year to year. Welcome (1986) and Laë (1992, 1993) were the first to show that this variation is related to the annual variation in flooding. Zwarts & Mori (2005) repeated their analyses over a longer series of years. Here we give an update based on all data based on the annual reports of l'Opération Pêche de Mopti (OPM) and Direction Nationale de Pêche (DNP).
Fish and flooding of the Inner Niger Delta
Fish trade in the Inner Niger Delta have been registered by l'Opération Pêche de Mopti (OPM), now Direction Nationale de Pêche (DNP), since 1977. OPM also estimates the total annual catch, thus including fish eaten by fishermen and their families and other people in the Inner Niger Delta. This estimate is based on several untested assumptions, such as a fixed daily consumption by the fishermen themselves independent of the annual catch, and an overestimation of the annual increase of the number of fishermen (Zwarts & Diallo 2005). This chapter evaluates the raw data concerning the daily registered fish trade in Mopti, being either dry fish (smoked or dried) or fresh fish. The weight of dried fish is converted into fresh fish equivalents, so they can be taken together as fresh weight.
Most fish are captured, and brought to the market, during receding water when fish are easy to catch being concentrated in the last remaining water, being either creeks, the river bed or isolated lakes and depressions. This chapter describes the relation between the total annual fish trade and the flooding conditions some months before, thus in the previous year.
The bars in the graph below shows that the annual fish trade in Mopti since 1977 has varied between 5000 and 30 000 ton. The blue line in the same graph gives the variation in the maximal flood level such as measured in Akka. Obviously, the fish trade was very low in a series of dry years between 1983 and 1994 and high in wet years (1977-1980, 1995, 1996, 2004, 2009).
Annual fish trade in Mopti (ton fresh weight) since 1977 (data from the annual reports of OPM) shown as bars compared to the maximal flood level at Akka in the previous year (blue line).
The data from the graph above are plotted against each other in the next graph. The annual fish trade is a clear curvilinear function of the peak flood level in the year before. The blue line refers to the first 20 years, 1977-1996. Brown dots and yellow triangles show the fish trade in 1997-2006 and 2007-2016, respectively.
Theoretically, because the number of fishermen increased from 70 000 in 1967 (Gallais 1967) to 225 000 in 1987 (Morand et al. 1991) and to 268 000 in 2003 (Zwarts & Diallo 2005), the trade should have increased at the same rate. However, correcting for flood level, there was no increase in trade at all. When 270 000 fishermen are unable to bring more fish to the market than 70 000 fishermen, this strongly suggests that fish capture is constrained by an absolute ceiling in biological production. With as result for the individual fishermen: where the hogs are many, the wash is poor.
Annual fish trade (data of OPM) as a function of the peak flood level in the previous year, given separately for three periods: 1977-2006 (blue dots), 1997-2006 (brown dots) and 2007-2016 (yellow triangles). The regression line is calculated for 1977-1996. The relationship is the same for later years, although (for unknown reasons) the fit is less pronounced (i.e. the scatter around the drawn regression line is larger than in 1977-1996). Despite the increase of the number of fishermen during those 40 years, there is no increase of the fish trade independent of flood level.
The relation between annual fish trade and peak flood level may be described as an exponential function. Its exponent is 4.13. The flood level measures the flooding in one dimension (vertical), but the flood extent refers to two dimensions (width and length). Hence we may expect that the exponent would be lower when fish trade is related to the maximal flood extent. Indeed, the equation declines to 2.3 (see below).
Relation between annual fish trade (ton) and the maximal flood extent in the previous year; the exponential regression line refers to 1977-1996 (blue dots).
The total inflow of Bani and Niger may be a better measure for the flooding process since it gives the total water volume, and thus combines flood level and flood extent in the Inner Niger Delta. When the fish trade is plotted against the annual inflow during incoming water, the correlation is about the same as in the two graphs above. The function has an exponent of 1.69, thus (as expected) lower than for flood level and flood extent, but still higher than 1.
When the exponent would be 1, the total annual fish trade would be, on average, the same for all years when the fish trade is expressed as fish per km3 inflow. For instance, the graph shows that at a low inflow of 15 km3, the fish trade would be 5000 ton, being equivalent to 333 ton fish per km3 water. Assuming that this would be the same independent of the total inflow, one may expect an annual trade of 15000 ton fish at a high inflow of 45 km3. In fact, the annual trade is about twice as high. How to explain that the fish trade is so high in years with a large inflow?
Relation between annual fish trade (ton) and the total inflow of Niger and Bani during incoming water in the previous year; the exponential regression line refers to 1977-1996 (blue dots).
In years with a high inflow, the flood reaches a higher level and a larger part of the Inner Niger Delta is flooded, but there is still another dimension independent of measures of the amount of water: the flood duration. The higher the flood, the longer the floodplains remain covered by water. In a dry year, most floodplains are dry again in mid-December, but in a wet year, the floodplains remained flooded until early May. The date at which the water level in Akka has declined to below 200 cm is closely related to the peak water level some months before; see graph below.
Date at which the water during receding water is below 200 cm at the gauge of Akka as a function of peak flood level during the same flooding cycle.
The data of the graph above are replotted in another graph showing the number of days during which the floodplains has been covered by water since 1 July. In dry and wet years, the flood duration varies between 170 and 300 days. The relationship between flood duration and maximal flood level would be the same, but at a higher level, if the selection criterium would have been 250 or 300 cm instead of 200 cm. For the same reason, the flood duration would be shorter when 100 or 150 cm would have been taken. However, 200 cm has been selected because at this level most of the floodplains in the central part of the Inner Niger Delta emerge about at this water level.
Same as the previous graph, but now given as the number of days since 1 July.
Flood duration is an extremely important factor because it determines the period during which the fish can grow. Fish more than one year old have become increasingly scarce in the Inner Delta (Laë 1995). The only way for a fish species to survive here is to reproduce as early in life as possible. Indeed, Bénech & Dansoko (1994) found that the fish species in the Inner Niger Delta have adapted to the extreme predation pressure by reducing their age of reproduction. Reproduction for most species is limited to the high water period (Bénech & Dansoko 1994). Therefore, the annual fish stock entirely depends on the spawn and fry produced by the few fish still alive at the end of their first year and by the very few fish over one year old. Hence the fish being captured in recent years are only some months old in a dry year, but the growing season is about twice as long in a wet year.
There is still another reason why so many fish are captured during receding water after a high flood. During flood recession, the water level in the river system of the Inner Niger Delta drops at 2-3 cm per day, but in lakes isolated from the river system only 1 cm evaporates daily. When the water level in Akka has receded from 300 to 100 cm, half of the floodplain get isolated from the river system after a high flood (such as in 1999), but the low flood level in 1984 was insufficient to reach many lakes and depressions that consequently were deprived of their seasonal water boost. Many of these lakes are liable to dry out completely if unreplenished over a number of years. In wet years, there are many depressions and lakes still filled with water (and thus with fish) when the water level in the river system has already declined to a low level. In contrast, the potential fishing grounds in a dry year are seriously limited during receding water because the flood level has not been high enough to temporary fill those depressions and lakes.
The seasonal catch data substantiate the conclusion given above that fish capture is constrained by an absolute ceiling in biological production. On average, the daily catch per fisherman decreases from 35 kg/day in early February to 7 kg/day at the end of June (Kodio et al. 2002). This decline is consistent with depletion of the available fish stocks; at the end of the fishing season, nearly all fish have been removed from the floodplains. When there would be plenty of fish during the entire flooding cycle, not a decline but an increase of the daily catch is to be expected due to the increase of the fish density in the last remaining water bodies.
One may doubt to what degree the relation between fish trade and several measures of flooding, given above for the years since 1977, is due to conditions which have nothing to do with flooding. It might be, for instance, that the fraction of fish sold on the market of Mopti has changed for some reason during the years, for instance, because fish trade beyond Mopti has increased or declined. Another question is whether the fish trade as fraction of the total capture has declined in the last 40 years because of the increase of the number of fishermen and/or had varied with the flood level (with less traded fish in a dry year). Hence to interpret the results given above, one needs to know how the total annual fish capture is related to the flooding of the Inner Niger Delta. This is unknown for the Inner Niger Delta as a whole, but it would be sufficient to know the capture for individual fishermen, not only during the course of the season, but also during different years with a different flood level. These data were collected by Béné et al. (2009) who found that in a dry year (1991/1992) fishermen in the Inner Niger Delta caught a meagre 9.2 kg fish per fishing trip, against 18.9 kg in two years with a moderate flooding (1996/7 and 1997/8) and 37.9 kg in three years with a higher flood (1994/5, 1995/6 and 1998/9). The graphs below plots these three figures against flood level, flood extent and flood volume (inflow).There is a perfect linear fit (R2 > 0.994), but the graphs show exponential relationships, to allow comparison with the graphs above. As the graphs show, the flooding conditions have a very large impact on the amount of fish captured by individual fishermen, even much larger than could be derived from the total annual fish trade.
The main conclusion of these analyses is that even small difference in the flooding of the Inner Niger Delta has a large impact of the amount of fish being captured. Consequently, infrastructures upstream of the Inner Niger Delta taking only a few percent of the river flow during incoming water, has a disproportionate, large negative impact on fish and fishermen in the Inner Niger Delta.
The amount of fish captured, on average, by individual fishermen during their fishing trip (ten per week, on average) as a function of the peak flood level (left), maximal flood extent (middle) and total flood volume as determined by the inflow of Niger and Bani during incoming water (right). Fish capture data from Béné et al. (2009).
Changes in the fisheries in the Inner Niger Delta
The fish population and also the exploitation techniques have changed in the Inner Niger Delta during the last dozen of years. The fish population depends now entirely on the young produced by the fish that managed to survive the previous year's intensive fishing campaign during receding waster. As a consequence, fish species restricted in their distribution to flooded areas have decreased, whereas species able to reproduce at one year old became more abundant (Laë 1995).
The introduction of nylon nets in the 1960s enabled the near-depletion of fish stocks in the Inner Niger Delta, thus changing the exploitation system significantly (Laë et al. 1994). Concomitant with the steady decline of the size of captured fish, the mesh size of nylon nets decreased: before 1975, most nets had a mesh width of 50 mm, but this declined to 41-50 mm between 1976 and 1983, and to 33-41 mm between 1984 and 1989 (Laë et al. 1994). This downtrend trend has continued: in 2007 many nets had a mesh size of only 10 mm.
There is also a shift where the fish are captured. In the past, nearly all fish were captured in the creeks and in the river bed after the fish have left the drying-up floodplains, or they were taken from depressions when the water has declined enough to make it worthwhile to capture them. As a consequence, fish were captured relatively late during the flooding cycle. This gives a maximal result, because the fish have grown during a longer period, while at the same time they are more easy to catch because they are more concentrated.
However, in recent years, fish are, on average, captured earlier in the season, because more and more fishermen attempt to take them before other fishermen can capture them. For instance, people dig small grooves in the levees along the creeks which allow them to catch fish easily with a small net and do that before fish will arrive in the creeks in a natural situation. However, what they do in fact is draining the floodplain and thus have a large negative impact on the growing conditions of all fish still present on the floodplains.
Fish can be captured still earlier, but then it is necessary to trap them on the floodplains themselves. That is what people do, using km's of plastic nets (mesh size of 10 mm) to enclose all fish in the still flooded bourgou fields. This allows fishermen to capture fish before other fishermen can do, but the strategy is very harmful, since only a part of the enclosed fish can be captured, whereas all fish captured within these nets cannot escape and thus die.
The overall trend is that during the last dozens of years, fish are captured in an earlier stage during their local migration within the Inner Niger Delta. The history of fish exploitation in the Inner Niger Delta is a classic example of overexploitation, but it is also a typical "tragedy of the Commons", where an individual takes a (small) benefit at the expense of the community as a whole. Annual catches have become more variable in volume as most fish are now less than one year old and the total fish population is determined by flood level. Meanwhile, the future prospects for fishermen have become precarious – they are with more, use more nets, but catch fewer and smaller fish, whereas at the same time flooding will be less in the future due to more irrigation and dams upstream of the Inner Niger Delta.
Béné C., Kodio A., Lemoalle J., Mills D., Morand P., Ovie S., Sinaba F. & Tafida A. 2009. Participatory diagnosis and adaptive management of small-scale fisheries in the Niger River Basin. CPWF project report 92. CGIAR Challenge Program on Water & Food. 83 pp.
Bénech, V. & D.F. Dansoko. 1994. Reproduction des espèces d'intérêt halieutique. In: J. Quensière (ed.). La Pêche dans le Delta Central du Niger, pp. 213-227. Karthala, Paris.
Gallais, J. 1967. Le Delta Intérieur du Niger. Etudes de géographie régionale. Paris: Larose.
Kodio A., Morand P., Dienepo K. & Laë R. 2002. La dynamique de la pêcherie du delta intérieur du Niger revisitée à la lumière des données récentes. Implications en termes de gestion. In Orange D., Arfi R., Kuper M., Morand P. and Poncet Y. (eds.) Gestion Intégrée des Ressources naturelles en Zone Inondable Tropicale. pp. 431-453. Editions IRD Colloques et Séminaires.
Laë R. 1992. Influence de l'hydrologie sur l'évolution des pêcheries du Delta central du Niger de 1966 à 1989. Aquatic Living Resources 5(2): 115-126.
Laë R. 1993. Impact des barrages sur les pêcheries artisanales du Delta Central du Niger. Agricultures 1: 256-263
Laë, R. 1995. Climatic and anthropogenic effects on fish diversity and fish yields in the Central Delta of the Niger River. Aquat. Living Resour. 8: 43-58.
Laë, R., M. Maïga, J. Raffray & J. Troubat. 1994. Évolution de la pêche. In: J. Quensière (ed.). La Pêche dans le Delta Central du Niger: 143-163. Paris: Karthala.
Morand, P., J. Quensière & C. Herry. 1991. Enquête pluridisciplinaire auprès des pêcheurs du delta Central du Niger: plan de sondage et estimateurs associés. Le Transfert d'Echelle, Séminfort 4: 195-211.
Welcomme R.L. 1986. The effects of the Sahelian drought on the fishery of the Central Delta of the Niger river. Aquatic Fisheries Management 17: 147-154.
Zwarts L. & Dialo M. 2005. Fisheries in the Inner Niger Delta. In: Zwarts, L., van Beukering P., Kone B. and Wymenga E. (eds.). The Niger, a lifeline. Effective water management in the Upper Niger Basin. RIZA, Lelystad / Wetlands International, Sévaré / Institute for Environmental studies (IVM), Amsterdam / A&W ecological consultants, Veenwouden. Mali / the Netherlands: 89-107. http://www.altwym.nl/uploads/file/361_1289481552.pdf (English) and http://www.altwym.nl/uploads/file/388_1294300622.pdf (French).


A local creative couple wants to challenge the notion of a traditional art gallery in downtown, mixing east and west, high fashion and fitness.
Art of War, at 251B W. 7th Ave, is the newest addition to Eugene's collection of downtown art galleries; it opened Saturday, Jan. 16. But owners Jason and Alisha Georgianna want to do more than mixing mediums — they're uniting Jason's extensive knowledge of mixed martial arts (MMA) and Alisha's aptitude for design.
The husband and wife team transformed an old automotive repair shop into an art gallery and mixed martial arts school (a fusion of various martial arts techniques, mixed with hand-to-hand combat). The building is divided into two distinct parts. From the street, you enter into a long narrow space filled with white leather furniture, bamboo and a collection of urban art and classic black and white photographs, which then opens into a larger area for martial arts classes. The fitness area is complete with weights, multiple punching bags and changing rooms, and is nearly completely surrounded by a chain link fence. The old car garage doors with windows are still in place, giving the building an open, airy feel.
But Alisha knows that martial arts studios can often feel intimidating. By combining the martial arts with the art gallery, she hopes to create a more welcoming environment that will attract everyone, including children. Alisha has assumed the role of Art of War's curator. Her art background lies in costume design for theater, editorial fashion and film.
For the Art of War's grand opening, Alisha selected pieces from a combination of mostly Portland and Eugene artists, including the work of her sister, Melissa Rae Olsen. Alisha combined Olsen's lack and white photographs of women, a handful of colorful urban art paintings, photographs of local musician Justin King and a life-size soldier with a gas mask. With the division of space, Art of War's main concepts remain separate. But as the Georgiannas' art collection grows, they plan to unite the two by extending the art into the fitness area. Alisha says she wants to create a space that incorporates both urban and classic art — a "luxury loft" that is also fun and funky, that will appeal to the people working out. Because she has friends at Hoodz n Gearz gallery (another local spot featuring urban art and MMA), Alisha hopes to swap pieces back and forth between galleries.
In the near future, Art of War will have a Web site, artofwar-mma.com. But in the meantime, head downtown to see Eugene's newest art gallery and MMA school; take a class or simply enjoy the art.


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WELCOME to SYHI's Coaching Resource Page
Welcome Coaches. Please take a few moments to familiarize yourself with the information presented here. We will try to make this a useful resource for coaches at all levels and will make regular additions. If you have something you would like to contribute, please let us know; our coaches are our most valuable resource for player development and satisfaction.
COACHING CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
All SYHI Coaches must be properly certified based on USA Hockey guidelines and credentialed by SYHI. This past year we had a number of coaches lose their certifications for the remainder of the year. FOR THE 2018-2019 SEASON, AGAIN NO RELIEF WILL BE GRANTED if you do not meet the requirements by the stated deadlines.
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Coaching Misson
SYHI depends on us. The future of the game depends on us. In our mission to grow the game by helping players foster a love for hockey, we must strive for excellence in what we do, what we bring to the rink in terms of good energy, good communication habits, preparedness, patience and a willingness to do what is necessary to effect positive change, for without it there can be no improvement. We have to take fun seriously. If we want our players to love hockey, we have to do our part or we risk draining their enthusiasm and losing them.
Coaches - Good Article on Early Specialization....
01/07/2014, 8:15pm EST
By Bob Tribley
Early Specialization and Year-Round Training is Destroying Youth Hockey
by Josh Devine, 7 November 2013
Today's hockey culture is damaging youth hockey players' futures and putting the integrity of our game at risk. Year-round training schedules for the youngest hockey players and the pressure to always do more is not only harming young skaters emotionally and academically, but also athletically. Yet, we are constantly told the opposite. Many have argued that early specialization in hockey is required to become elite. They couldn't be more wrong.
Early specialization is when a player, prior to puberty, decides to completely focus his or her efforts on one sport and engages in high amounts of repetitious, monotonous, deliberate training regimens designed to maximize skill development. The problem with early specialization in hockey and in many team sports, however, is that it is harmful at young ages, causing a host of problems and hindering athletic development.
The first major problem with specializing in hockey too early is that practice makes permanent, not perfect. For example, Mite skaters have short attention spans, and this limits the amount of time they can focus and perform repetitions correctly.
Year-round training schedules also cause fatigue as young athletes aren't given proper rest and recovery periods. As a result of the constant practice, many young players develop short, choppy and more upright strides. Some parents have even asked me how their player could possibly seem to be getting worse at skating when they are doing skating clinics, AAA programs and off-ice training regimens all at the same time!
Finally, despite all the hysteria and pressure to start early, specialize early and train as much as is physically possible, the reality is that young athletes prior to puberty cannot achieve significant muscular gains.
One common argument for early specialization is that in sports like gymnastics and figure skating, athletes specialize early and are elite or well on their way to elite status at young ages. This is an utter fallacy. In team sports like hockey, peak performance isn't reached until post puberty, whereas in gymnasts peak performance is always reached prior to puberty.
Hockey is a game with an infinite amount of possibilities, movements, and patterns. It requires an athleticism far different than gymnastics or figure skating; foresight, creativity, patience and quick decision making are needed. Athletic skills can't be compartmentalized – skating, shooting, reading and reacting occur at the same split second. Contrast this with a gymnast's routine where the exercises are planned and moves are routine. Hockey is the exact opposite.
Only playing hockey at a young age versus participating in multiple sports limits the variety of motor skills a young player should learn. Like a child that learns two languages and can more easily pick up a third, a young athlete that plays multiple sports and learns multiple movements will be better able to pick up new skills. In addition, playing multiple team sports introduces an athlete to varied game situations and helps improve an athlete's ability to read and react to the rest of the players in the game.
The most unfortunate consequences of early specialization include the epidemic of overuse injuries and the psychological burnout that many players experience. Today, overuse injuries in sports have hit a record high. Many doctors attribute this to the increasing intensity of organized youth sports. Often, young athletes are getting hurt before they have a chance to fully develop physically. Many others are becoming so burnt out that they quit altogether. However, the hidden cost of year-round hockey is the untold number of athletes still playing but without a passion for the game.
We don't have to accept this state of affairs. Although time is running out, we can still restore sanity and integrity to the game of hockey. This will require families to start resisting the enormous pressure to always do more. Community associations, coaches, collegiate and professional hockey players, and many others will need to step up in order to change the tide. It's time to save our game.
Josh Levine is a former Jefferson Jaguar, a Princeton University graduate, founder of The Fortis Academy, and author of "Save Our Game: What's wrong with hockey training today and how to fix it."
Understanding Talent...
10/04/2013, 12:30pm EDT
By Bruce Thomspon
Please take a look at this article & video about understanding talent. It is very well done and has a strong positive message....
http://thetalentcode.com/2013/10/04/a-2-minute-video-that-might-change-the-way-your-kid-thinks/
Dad, you love hockey ... I like hockey ... don't ruin it for me
03/13/2013, 4:45pm EDT
By Hal Tearse
Experience only teaches us what we are aware of...perception is reality
Please take a moment to read this short and timely article: http://www.letsplayhockey.com/online-edition/tearse/1489-dad-you-love-hockey-i-like-hockey-don-t-ruin-it-for-me.html
Encourage your kids to play different types of sports!!!
By Michael Curtis
https://www.michaelcurtispt.com/early-sport-specialization-drawbacks/
Coaching Mission
By SYHI Board
03/13/2013, 4:45pm EDT , By Hal Tearse
Evaluations Can Help
01/21/2013, 12:00am EST , By Tim Grande
Avoid extinction...
Optimizing Stretching
07/12/2012, 12:44pm EDT , By Tim Grande
Flexibility can be a stretch
Laura Stamm Weighs in On Age Appropriate Training
06/18/2012, 7:41am EDT , By Laura Stamm
From the premier skating expert in our sport...
What Makes a Nightmare Sports Parent--And What Makes a Great One
06/03/2012, 2:27pm EDT , By Steve Henson, Yahoo Sports
Coaching Up the Parents
Minnesota CIC Hal Terse Speaks Out
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# 232 Zhong Huijuan $9.05B
Random fact: Was a chemistry teacher in a middle school before starting business.
Zhong is the founder and chairlady of Hansoh Pharmaceutical Group, a Chinese maker of psychotropic drugs. The company, based in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, produces medicines to treat conditions including diabetes, infections, tumors and diseases of the nervous system. It had revenue of 9.9 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) in 2021.
Biggest asset 3692 HK Equity
Zhong Huijuan's net worth of $9.05B can buy ...
Zhong's fortune is derived from her majority stake in Hansoh Pharmaceutical Group Co. She holds a 66% stake in the Chinese drugmaker, according to the 2022 semi-annual report.
Zhong holds her stake through the Sunrise Trust, which was registered in the British Virgin Islands by her daughter in 2016, according to the prospectus. Zhong is credited with all of the stake to reflect her status as founder and chairwoman of the business. She collected about $750 million in dividends since Hansoh was set up in 1995, the prospectus showed.
Iris Luo, a spokesperson for the company, declined to comment on the billionaire's net worth.
Family: Married, 1 child
Born in 1961, Zhong obtained an undergraduate degree in chemistry from Jiangsu Normal University in Xuzhou at the age of 21. She became a chemistry teacher in a middle school in Lianyungang, China, after graduation. Zhong's husband, Sun Piaoyang, worked at a government-run pharmaceutical factory in Lianyungang at that time, which later became Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine.
Zhong quit her teaching job in 1995 and started her own medicine business, Jiangsu Hansoh Pharmaceutical. She began with just 10 employees, according to an interview in the Chinese media. The company started growing quickly in 1997 and reached 30 million yuan ($4.5 million) in sales in the same year.
The Liangyungang-based business reported revenue of 9.9 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) in 2021, according to its annual report. Its main therapeutic areas are diseases of the central nervous system, oncology, anti-infectives, diabetes, as well as gastrointestinal and cardiovascular treatments.
1995 Set up jiangsu Hansoh in China.
2000 Launched the first factory for oral formulations in Lianyungang.
2016 Hillhouse Capital became Hansoh's investor.
2018 Submitted IPO application in Hong Kong.


On the coaching resources page you will find resources and tools to help you understand coaching and how it can support workforce learning and development. Social service organisations across Scotland are increasingly using coaching as one means of supporting professional learning and development, particularly for leadership and management development.
Coaching is a time-limited process during which the coach supports clients to achieve greater self-awareness, improved self-management skills and increased self-efficacy, so that they develop their own goals and solutions.
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Hello, We have below requirement of dubbing from Hindi to Malaysian. It's an Malaysian film project. In this i will...It's an Malaysian film project. In this i will be having 100 films for dubbing. About roughly 2hrs . Altogether 14 to 15 artist. In that 4 to 5 lead and rest character artist. Kindly confirm your tentative charges for the same.
[fazer login para ver a URL] I need all marvel character funny illustrations like the video.
...expectations about the details and characters. I need an explaining animation where a character come into the website from the left site go to the right side to a building and other characters which are part of the explaining animation but it needs to be implemented into the website and cooperate/cowork with other functions and buttons of the website.


The Commanding Officer of HMAS Parramatta, Commander Troy Van Tienhoven, is greeted by the children of the 'Life is a Ball' foundation during a port visit to Chennai in India as part of Indo-Pacific Endeavour 2019.
"This year's iteration of AUSINDEX will see the largest deployment of Australian Defence Force elements in India."
Members of Success and Parramatta stand with the children of the 'Life is a Ball' foundation during a port visit to Chennai,India.


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Hadai G. Klára, született Geier (Lupény, 1938. augusztus 20. –) erdélyi magyar textilművész, grafikus, könyvillusztrátor.

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Hadai Jenő felesége. Petrozsényban érettségizett (1955), a Ion Andreescu Képzőművészeti Főiskola textil szakán államvizsgázott (1964). Előbb a bufteai filmstúdióban volt kosztümtervező, 1967-től a Jóbarát grafikusa, 1974-től a Viaţa Studenţească szerkesztőségében dolgozott. Grafikái, illusztrációi jelentek meg a Pionírban, a Jóbarátban, a Cutezătorii c. hetilapban és az Előre-naptárakban. Illusztrálta, illetve borítóval látta el Tóth Mária, Balogh Irma, Bokor Katalin, Ambrus Lajos, Constanţa Buzea köteteit, Szabó Magda Mondják meg Zsófikának című regényének román nyelvű kiadását (1974), valamint Máté Imre A nap kalapja (1980), Szemlér Ferenc Lim-lom (1986), Móra Ferenc Kincskereső kisködmön (1987), Móra Ferenc Rab ember fiai és más történetek (1992), Dorian Green Nagy horoszkópkönyv (1993), Lakatos Mihály Etimo apó csodálatos meséi (2002, 2012) című köteteit.

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Magyar textilművészek
Magyar grafikusok
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2015 Holiday Gift Guide ~ Learn, Live, and Explore!
Once again, it's time to put your clever cap on and buy some gifts for friends and family. Here's my collection of ideas I've curated from things that have caught my eye recently. Perhaps one of them may suit your gift giving needs this month. Happy hunting and happy holiday season!
I am in love with these plates! They are a sweet presentation piece for the food you've worked so hard to prepare that will definitely be a conversation starter. Don't miss out on the open book shaped saucer for your teacup!
When I have the time, I like to check the cooking class calendar at my local Sur la Tables. Specifically, I like to find the classes that not only have a great menu but also, ideally, have a free giveaway. I have received a free skillet, a free chef's knife, and a free set of mini Le Creuset pots in the past. So those classes are kind of the gift that gives more!
For the beer fan in your family, how about a monthly case of American craft beer (4 styles, 3 bottles of each)?
I am obsessed with this show! But more interesting to me is the number of people I've discovered who are equally obsessed yet have not seen it live. If you have not heard of the Hamilton musical yet, it's the product of a music and lyrical genius, Lin-Manuel Miranda, who picked up a copy of an Alexander Hamilton biography for a vacation one year and came home with the book's adaption into a mixtape concept album that morphed into a musical-based staged drama. Check out this recent story from Charlie Rose and 60 Minutes on Miranda and the cast.
Do you remember a 2007 movie starring Keri Russell as a struggling waitress in an unhappy marriage whose pies and new baby girl allow her to find the strength to escape and make her life better? Well, even if you don't remember the movie, it is being adapted for the stage with a score by popular piano songstress, Sara Bareilles. I heard one song, and I was hooked. Check out "She Used to Be Mine" and be prepared to cry.
I'm slowly trying to move away from cable TV because the cost is getting out of control, and consumers have very little power to stop it. Fortunately, I don't watch a lot of sports or television news, so I have some flexibility to find something without having to find a replacement for live broadcast events. The first step was to figure out if entertainment providers like Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu would still give me my TV fix.
This game for adults is a consistent party pleaser. I have never laughed harder than when I've been playing this game. It's not for those who get offended easily, though.
If a Go-Pro is out of your reach price-wise, or if you want to see if it is something that will be used frequently enough to make it worth the investment, this looks like a good starter action cam.
I just bought this! It's a cover for a MacBook Pro that is also a Lego plate. Of course, this gift assumes you have extra Lego tiles around to decorate it. If not, then head over to Bricklink and pick up a variety.
Perfect for the chef with a sense of humor!
Take your fitness monitoring to the next level with this version of the popular Fitbit that also allows you to monitor your heart rate!
I travel a lot, and sometimes in a rush to pack things up I toss my cords into my bag only to have to sort through a tangled wad when I get to my destination because of the waxy coating on the cords. Enter this tangle-free cord!
This bag made consumer headlines over the summer as one of Kickstarter's more successful campaigns. Backed and co-designed by Trey Ratcliff, a popular landscape and travel photographer who posts at stuckincustoms.com, this bag is supposed to be one of the most well thought out camera bags. Mine will arrive soon, and I have high hopes because I'm still struggling to find my perfect gear bag.
A couple of people had this drone on my recent trip to Iceland. It is the only drone on the market with a decent camera, so that is why I chose it for a splurge gift. There are other features, as well, that make this drone superior to others on the market. Of course, you're going to pay for all of these features, plus the special designed travel suitcase and other accessories. Having said all that, before buying a drone you should make sure you or the person receiving the gift understands all flight restrictions, both domestic and internationally. The FAA will prosecute people for violations and they are banned in U.S. National Parks. Many ski resorts have also banned drones. So with the limited flight areas, it may not be a good investment. Also, having witnessed this in Iceland, the performance is less than ideal in cold weather.
No one actually NEEDS a typewriter shaped peripheral keyboard for their tablet, but it's in the splurge category and it's cute!
Skeeball is my go-to carnival game! I would be lying if did not at one point try to rationalize in my brain how this skeeball machine could fit in my house and my budget. It's not going to happen, but if anyone wants to buy me this, it will be welcomed with open arms! Sorry, in advance, for the noise neighbors!


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Domingo Fernández Navarrete
Dominican missionary and archbishop, born c. 1610 at Peñafiel in Old Castile ; died 1689 at Santo Domingo. He received the religious habit about 1630 and on completing his studies was offered the chair of Thomistic theology in several Spanish universities. He preferred, however, to devote his life to the conversion of the heathen, and in 1646 with twenty-seven of his brethren left his native land and proceeding by way of Mexico, arrived in the Phillipine Islands, 23 June, 1648. He taught theology in the Dominican University of St. Thomas, Manila. In 1657 with several of his brethren he went to China and, after learning the language, took up missionary labour chiefly in the province of Fo-kien. The persecution which broke out in 1665 brought disaster to the missions. Forbidden to preach, he occupied himself with writing, hoping by this means to spread and confirm the faith. Being hampered too much he went in 1673 as prefect of the Dominican mission to Rome to lay before the authorities there the question of Chinese Rites which had reached an acute stage between the Jesuits on one side and the Dominicans and Franciscans on the other (see CHINA). He was highly esteemed by Innocent XI, who wished to make him bishop of the Chinese missions. He refused the honour, but on his return to Spain in 1677 the pope, at the suggestion of Charles II, forced him to accepted the Archbishopric of Santo Domingo, where he laboured with zeal and fidelity till his death. While on the question of Chinese Rites he was opposed to the Jesuits, sometimes attacking them very severely; in his diocese he entertained the highest regard for them. In his letters to the viceroy and to the king, requesting them to permit the fathers of the Society to establish a college in his residential city, he pays them a glowing tribute.
Among his principal works may be mentioned "Tratados históricos, políticos, éticos y religiosos de la monarquia de China" (Madrid, 1676); "Catechismus, lingua sinica," 2 vols.; "Præceptor ethnicus ex optimis quibusque Sinensium libris extractus, et ex eorumdem sententiis concinnatus, lingua sinica."
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Source. We should identify and contact the designers.
Here is a general overview of what I could see happening in the approximate August 15 - September 1 period.
I think we can be happy if we construct and fine tune the simple 16-slat solar collector design. This would include the foundation, collector, receiver, followed by some data acquisition. I think that when we obtain steam production data, we could use those results to motivate some form of collaboration towards sourcing a steam engine.
By August 15, we should have the LifeTrac tractor, CEB Press, and footer auger ready for action. We are planning on building a CEB block foundation, 1x1 foot wide. The process for this involves augering a 2 foot diameter hole 3 feet deep, laying cement-stabilized CEB blocks as a post foundation, and laying gravel around these posts. The posts will stick up about 2 feet above the ground to make a comfortable working surface above the ground, but not so tall that the overall structure begins to suffer from wind loads. The 2 constraints for how low we can go to the ground are (1), splashing from the ground during rain, (2) comfortable height for array building and maintenance.
I foresee using 2x4 or 4x4 treated lumber as bond beams on top of the CEB block pillars.
Advantages: Low cost foundation, with the only material costs being gravel. CEB blocks are produced on-site from local soils.
Disadvantages: More labor intensive than treated lumber post-and-beam foundations, though not more labor intensive than the whole lifecycle of post-and-beam, if labor to produce and transport said lumber is considered.
At present, the least expensive, lasting option is glass, but we may consider aluminized mylar for a temporary solution - $55 for 400 sq ft. Mylar does not last long, but it would suffice to do the testing. Glass breaks easily in hailstorms - so we would want to consider a single or double layer of chicken wire across the whole array.
http://www.greenpowerscience.com/SHOPREFLECTIVEBUY.html mylar: mylar $55 for 400 sq ft.
This is a detail of each of the foundation pillars that support the reflector array. The entire array foundation is 3 by 11 pillars.
Collector consists of 6 tubes made of galvanized, 1" steel pipe. It should have selective reflection coating - $70/gallon from http://solec.com, and be insulated from the back. We should design the collector for testing collector performance with and without and standard glass cover.
Steam generation rate should be measured by condensing the steam into a container filled with a known volume of water.
Temperature and pressure measurements should be taken at both ends of the collector tube. Temperature of the steam should be taken by includin a tee in the steam outlet line. Temperature should also be measured in the liquid reservoir.
Work will occur at Factor e Farm.
Stewart - visiting from August 18 - September 3.
Elliot - visiting from August 13 to August 23.
It is extremely useful - in order to gain an appreciation of the power available from solar energy - to go through the basic calculations of power yields from our system, and to compare those yields to the energy obtainable from sustainably-harvested biomass energy. See these notes here.
We are documenting the building process and our practical learnings from Factor e Farm here.
As a result of the August convergence at Factor e Farm, here are our learnings. We conclude that we should go with mirrors. We still maintain that a 1-axis tracked linear array has the greatest potential for cost effectiveness- as opposed to 2-axis tracked dish systems or any other variations.


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Q: TeamCity cross-browser Webdriver multiple test failure information I have a suite of Webdriver tests in NUnit that I have running repeatedly on a TeamCity server. I'm getting the driver type from a config file that is altered between test runs; this was the most elegant way of doing cross-browser testing within NUnit that I could come up with. Fortunately, TeamCity combines the output of all the test runs quite neatly. Unfortunately, when a test fails more than once, only one failure and its accompanying stack trace is displayed, with an annotation of "2 failures in one build." Since these are actually different tests, being in different browsers, I would like to view the error outputs separately. Is there a way to do this?

A: For cross browser testing you can consider using Grid 2 instead of changing the browser type from the configuration file.
In addition you'll be able to run in your tests in parallel on different browsers
and solve your multiple test failure information

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Project Runway: Catarman
Even before I flew to Catarman, having a photo-op in Catarman airport's runway was on my bucket list. Why not? It is probably the only airport in the Philippines where vehicles can cross a runway throughout the day after the lone scheduled flight in early morning. Apparently, it is a short-cut that connects the two parts of Catarman.
Eastern passageway.
Western Passageway
However, I do not have the guts to go there alone. I knew there has to be a permission of sorts before one can take pictures of the runway and have our photos taken there. Good thing our project partner's staff brought us there--thus the "Project Runway" was immediately conceptualized.
Office-mate Anna, who is a head-turner and who has a model-statuesque, was also hankering for it. A partner from Arrneo, who is a dead ringer for a newly-appointed Secretary (go figure) was quite hesitant but we were able to convince him for a photo op.
Riding in motorcycles, we dashed to the airport after work. When we finally reached the runway, we hopped off and began to take photos. But then, a Barangay Tanod saw us and proceeded to our location. He explained that we should have sought permission from them first before we could take photos. In Waray dialect, our partners explained that we were from Manila and we just wanted to have our photos were taken (a la turista!). The guard understood so he allowed us, but only in the present location where we got off. I think Anna's charms did not work this time. I was planning to have an instant model photo shoot for Anna. But then, it did not happen.
We tried to stretch the guard's patience and asked if we could go towards the end where the big white lines are (because it could easily serve as a proof that we have really been in a runway), but he declined. If he would allow us, it would become a precedent and every visitor/ tourist in Catarman would follow suit, which is not good for airport security. After all, the airport is open anytime for an emergency landing, and they would not want any untoward incident to happen. Fair enough, but still, we felt bad not having gone through the far end.
Be that as it may, I was able to have some of my photos taken by Anna, and hers by me, and some snapshots before we chased the pale sunset in the town of Bobon. You might be asking who Anna is, and that guy who is a dead ringer for the Secretary, my apologies that I cannot post their photos because I do not have their permission.
In the meantime, be content with my photos. [Smile!]
Some interesting points of conversation after the quick photo session:
The Catarman Airport will undergo a major renovation and expansion. It will eat up 150 meters on both sides of the runway perimeter, and it will be 300 meters longer, and the short-cut passage will be finally closed to vehicles. So if you are flying to Catarman, take note of the security personnel. It would not hurt asking their permission.
Our partners noticed that the guard was always glancing at the guy who is a dead-ringer for the Secretary. We joked that we could have told the guard that the Secretary was on a covert mission and was inspecting the place so he can allow us. LOL! But then, that was an after-thought and it is just a bad idea!
More photos after the JUMP!
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#TownExplorer | @edmaration said...
I remember also our Vigan Airport those times it was still a sleeping asset. I used to bike there every morning. But now that it is already operating, the road has been rerouted, doble and pasakit, ang layo, nakakagasta ng gas, LOL! No more biking :)
I love the view with the coconuts at the end of the runway sir!
Christian | LAKAD Pilipinas said...
uy kelan yan ding? kakagaling ko lang catarman kanina :)
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Thanks, Edmar! Yep the same will happen to Catarman after the expansion of the airport.
Christian, Last week pa ito. yep nakita ko nga sa post ni Doi. pupunta sana ako sa Biri for project monitoring pero maalon.
doi said...
ang cool ng runway ng catarman! kulet din ng pics mo Ding. lol
Yeah, Doi! Time for some fun time after the naunsyaming photoshoot!
Manila by nightfall from Antipolo
Traipsing the Hapao Rice Terraces
A quiet afternoon at UEP Catarman White Beach
Visiting Catarman's Cathedral


Хотя бы на английском описание бы дали. Что за вьюер, и список отличий от штатного.
Hi, can you please add the feature to make this the default new tab page?
Great extension! All it needs is the ability to remove individual bookmarks.
"Firefox ne sait pas ouvrir cette adresse car l'un des protocoles suivants (place) n'est associé à aucun programme ou n'est pas autorisé dans ce contexte."
Good start but need improvements.
Don't report the bookmarks in toolbar.
The alignment in the list is not good.
Much better cut long titles page for have a better alignment.
Desperately needing a new bookmarks start page as mybookmarks is broken (boxes to show are not staying checked) I was hopeful that this would replace it, but it simply does not work for me. I set my options but when I go to about:bkviewer all I see is an empty rectangular outline down the centre of my screen. I note that the most recent review was more than a year ago.
I really like this add-on. I signed up just to provide a review. I've been doing this by hand by exporting my bookmarks and then re-formatting them in a table. This saves a ton of work!
I have one request, if you have time. Currently, in the rounded box theme, the bookmarks display in the same order as in the bookmark folder, but horizontally, in rows. I'd like to have the option to have them display in order in columns (vertically).
1. In the rounded box theme, you can collapse the boxes, which cannot be done in the index theme.
Regardless of whether you can make the change, I really like the add-on and use it for my start page. Thanks!
What is difference your proposal and inbox theme? Thanks.
For large folders you really need to be able to sort bookmarks. It would be nice to be able to see Tags as well. Thanks, I will keep an eye out for developments.
thank you Yasuyuki KOZAKAI for an excellent customizable landing page.
thanks a lot, please keep this addon up to date through future versions of firefox!
recently moved back to Firefox from Chrome and have found replacements for all the extensions that I used with Chrome except one "Bookmark Buttons Startpage".
2. add an option to limit the length of the displayed title.
I like the Rounded Box theme but because most of my bookmarks have super long titles it only shows one column in each section with two of my more organized sections having up to six columns.
Sounds good. I will consider the best way to show them.
Makes the bookmarks easy to read.
I had no trouble using the color settings.
Three rectangles on the options panel give easy access to colors.
The order of the boxes might be misinterpreted. Click on the spectrum on top, click grayscale on bottom, and the color produced is in the center.
Perhaps putting the color selected/ created either at the top or bottom would help. Labeling them with 'click in box to select color' or something similar to that might let people know they aren't just decorations.
I didn't realize my bookmark collection was so large... nor how many of them I didn't need any more. It helped a lot in cleaning things up. That alone was worth installing the viewer.
Thank you for comments. I explored the better color picker and finally I've developped it (https://github.com/alprut/colorpicker). The next version will use it.
This extension is clearly in the early stages of development and will hopefully merit a higher rating as it fills out.
I like the intention for a simple appearance control which is better than either of this extension's predecessors but I found the colour controls confusing. In the end, I had to go into about:config and set the RGB levels there. Some informative/directive labels might help to make the sliders usable.
a) more control over width and number of columns and that those user preferences should be obeyed, not just taken into account.
b) choice of which folders are included in/excluded from the displays, including ability to select subfolders at any depth of nesting and even if the parent folders are not selected.
d) A facility, similar to the colour control UI, to control the thickness etc of box boundaries.
e) Perhaps even a means to select text font and style using something similar to the existing Windows font selection dialogue.


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Opening Minds through Art (OMA)
https://www.scrippsoma.org/
Scripps Gerontology Center
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
http://miamioh.edu/cas/academics/centers/scripps/
Opening Minds through Art (OMA) is an intergenerational art-making program designed for people with dementia. It was founded in 2007 at Scripps Gerontology Center at Miami University, an Ohio Center of Excellence in Cultural and Societal Transformation. OMA has become a central expression of the Scripps commitment to this transformation in aging policy and practices.
OMA is a bridge-building program that partners students, families, caregivers and volunteers with people who have dementia to provide them with innovative opportunities for artistic expression. OMA has developed over 100 visual art projects that enable people living with dementia to successfully generate artwork. The resulting artwork is comparable to modern art created by master artists. At conferences, OMA often shows its artwork next to images by master artists and asks the audience to guess which piece was created by an OMA participant. The audience usually has difficulty deciding.
OMA has been replicated at over 50 retirement communities throughout the US and Canada. At Miami University, OMA's home base, over 1,000 students have gone through the program. OMA recently received a grant from the state of Ohio to replicate the program in 100 additional retirement communities.
OMA has a strong research record with multiple academic publications, generates beautiful artwork, and has developed all the tools for successful replication. It provides an opportunity for volunteers, families and caregivers to engage around the strengths of the person with dementia.


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Diese Liste enthält die Geotope des niederbayerischen Landkreises Kelheim in Bayern.
Die Liste enthält die amtlichen Bezeichnungen für Namen und Nummern des Bayerischen Landesamtes für Umwelt (LfU) sowie deren geographische Lage. Diese Liste ist möglicherweise unvollständig. Im Geotopkataster Bayern sind etwa 3.400 Geotope (Stand März 2020) erfasst. Das LfU sieht einige Geotope nicht für die Veröffentlichung im Internet geeignet. Einige Objekte sind zum Beispiel nicht gefahrlos zugänglich oder dürfen aus anderen Gründen nur eingeschränkt betreten werden.

Siehe auch
 Liste der Naturschutzgebiete im Landkreis Kelheim
 Liste der Landschaftsschutzgebiete im Landkreis Kelheim
 Liste der FFH-Gebiete im Landkreis Kelheim

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Geotope in Kelheim


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