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(Tunisia)
Management systems/ management plan
Dam construction resulting in changes in the hydrological regime, vegetation and disappearance of bird populations.
Total amount approved : 140,000 USD
2002 Elaboration d'un plan d'urgence pour la sauvegarde du ... (Approved) 50,000 USD
1991 Consultancy, equipment, design and construction costs ... (Approved) 40,000 USD
1989 Financial contribution to the preparation of exhibits ... (Approved) 20,000 USD
1981 Study on Ichkeul National Park (Approved) 30,000 USD
UNESCO/IUCN/Ramsar mission in 1999, IUCN/Ramsar mission in 2000, IUCN mission in 2002.
2003 Atelier sur la gestion du bassin versant de l'Ichkeul. Rapport de mission, 28 - 29 janvier 2003
2002 IUCN/Station Biologique de la Tour du Valat mission to Tunisia, 17 - 23 June 2002
1999 Report on the World Heritage Expert Mission to Ichkeul National Park, 20-26 February 1999, Tunisia
1997 Ramsar Mission Report, Ichkeul National Park, January 1997
An annual scientific monitoring report prepared by the management authority, "Agence nationale de protection de l'environnement (ANPE)", was submitted by the State Party in March 2005. The report provides a detailed description of the current state of conservation of the property and describes progress in the implementation of the scientific monitoring programme which was set up to assist in the rehabilitation of the park following the decision by the Committee at its 27th session (UNESCO, 2003).
Following the favourable climatic conditions in winter 2002-2003 and the resulting positive impacts on the property, as reported to the 28th session of the Committee (Suzhou, 2004), another winter of ample rain and water supply in 2003-2004 helped continue the rehabilitation of the ecosystem.
The State Party notes that:
a) 120 million cubic metres of water was released from the dams in 2003 - 2004, that is the annual amount recommended for the rehabilitation of the property, which helped prolong the benefits of the extremely wet season the previous year;
b) The level of water was subsequently maintained at an appropriate level for at least half of the year, resulting in very low levels of salinity (6 g/l during the 4 winter months) representing normal winter levels.
c) Nearly the entire surface of the marshes was flooded at the end of January 2004, with persistent flooding over all the lower areas of the marshes for at least 6 months.
The maintenance of these favourable ecological conditions has been followed by the continued regeneration of some of the vegetation. The lower salinity has created the necessary conditions for the germination of the pondweeds (Potamogeton pectinatus) for the second year in a row, reaching the same coverage as in 1993. Wintering and breeding aquatic birds are also reported to return, although far from reaching the numbers before the dams were constructed. The report also confirmed the reappearance of eels.
The State Party also notes that the preliminary results of the winter 2004-2005 are encouraging with approximately 120 million cubic meters of water being released from the dams by the end of January 2005, the level of water already reaching 2 m and the level of salinity already as low as 4 to 5 g/l.
Since the 28th session (Suzhou, 2004), the State Party was able to complete the work to install automatic sluice gates at Tinja, as recommended by the 2000 mission, to better manage the water flow to the lake. ANPE has developed an inter-annual management programme for sluice gates, in order to balance the different ecological requirements (guaranteeing low but variable salinity levels and appropriate water level for water birds and fish migration).
The report of the State Party does not provide information on the progress achieved in the preparation of the participatory management plan and the establishment of an autonomous and permanent management structure for the property, as requested by the Committee at its 28th session (Suzhou, 2004). The State Party did not either provide a clear commitment on the status of Ichkeul National park as a "net consumer of water" and on an average annual release of 80 to 120 million cubic metres of water into the lake as requested by the Committee at its 27th and 28th sessions.
The ongoing efforts of the State Party to rehabilitate this World Heritage property and the second consecutive year of favourable climatic conditions have allowed this ecosystem to begin recovery. The monitoring and research work carried out by ANPE is important and should be continued in order to ensure the full rehabilitation of the property.
A significant factor in the rehabilitation efforts so far has been the confluence of dam releases, favourable climatic conditions and the reparation to the sluice. IUCN reiterates that in order to ensure that regeneration is maintained, a guarantee is required from the State Party that in the case of a year of low rainfall, the recommended amount of water will still be released from the dams. Focus now also needs to shift towards month to month management of the sluice and of the human activities within the park, especially grazing. These are issues that should be addressed in the management plan for the park. Bird populations, while increasing, remain significantly lower than values at property declaration, and the range of species present is also less diverse. This can be expected to improve as the marshes and lake regenerate and such a lag time is normal in rehabilitation processes.
29 COM 7A.8
Ichkeul National Park (Tunisia)
1. Having examined Document WHC-05/29COM 7A,
2. Recalling its Decisions 28 COM 15A.9 and 27 COM 7(a) 8 respectively adopted at its 28th session (Suzhou, 2004) and its 27th session (UNESCO, Paris, 2003),
3. Takes note of the progress achieved in the ecological restoration of the property, as detailed in the scientific monitoring report submitted by the State Party;
4. Notes that the last two hydrological years (2002-2003 and 2003-2004) have provided very favourable climatic conditions for the rehabilitation of the park, allowing an adequate release of fresh water from the dams and resulting in the beginnings of the recovery of the ecosystem;
5. Commends the State Party of Tunisia for its commitment to the rehabilitation of the property;
6. Urges the State Party to report on the status of the management plan for the park and on the process of development of an autonomous and permanent management structure which would ensure an efficient implementation of this plan for the park;
7. Reiterates its request to the State Party to confirm officially its commitment to an average annual release of 80 to 120 million cubic metres of freshwater into the Ichkeul National Park, in view of consideration by the Committee, based on the outcomes of a monitoring mission, of the possible removal of the property from the List of World Heritage in Danger;
8. Requests the State Party to report on progress made on the state of conservation of the property by 1 February 2006, for examination by the Committee at its 30th session (Vilnius, 2006);
9. Decides to retain Ichkeul National Park (Tunisia) on the List of World Heritage in Danger.
29 COM 8C.2
New World Heritage List in Danger
1. Having examined the of state of conservation reports of properties on the List of World Heritage in Danger (WHC-05/29.COM/7A and WHC-05/29.COM/7A.Add),
2. Decides to maintain the following properties on the List of World Heritage in Danger:
Minaret and Archaeological Remains of Jam (Afghanistan)(Decision 29 COM 7A.20)
Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of the Bamiyan Valley (Afghanistan)(Decision 29 COM 7A.21)
Tipasa (Algeria) (Decision 29 COM 7A.16)
Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's Palace and Maiden Tower (Azerbaijan) (Decision 29 COM 7A.28)
Royal Palaces of Abomey (Benin) (Decision 29 COM 7A.13)
Manovo-Gounda St Floris National Park (Central African Republic)(Decision 29 COM 7A.1)
Comoé National Park (Côte d'Ivoire) (Decision 29 COM 7A.2)
Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve (Côte d'Ivoire/Guinea) (Decision 29 COM 7A.3)
Okapi Wildlife Reserve (Democratic Rep. of the Congo) (Decision 29 COM 7A.5)
Kahuzi-Biega National Park (Democratic Rep. of the Congo) (Decision 29 COM 7A.5)
Virunga National Park (Democratic Rep. of the Congo) (Decision 29 COM 7A.5)
Garamba National Park (Democratic Rep. of the Congo) (Decision 29 COM 7A.5)
Salonga National Park (Democratic Rep. of the Congo) (Decision 29 COM 7A.5)
Abu Mena (Egypt) (Decision 29 COM 7A.17)
Simien National Park (Ethiopia) (Decision 29 COM 7A.4)
Cologne Cathedral (Germany) (Decision 28 COM 7A.29)
Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve (Honduras) (Decision 29 COM 7A.12)
Group of Monuments at Hampi (India) (Decision 29 COM 7A.22)
Manas Wildlife Sanctuary (India) (Decision 29 COM 7A.9)
Bam and its Cultural Landscape (Islamic Republic of Iran) (Decision 29 COM 7A.23)
Ashur (Qal'at Sherqat) (Iraq) (Decision 29 COM 7A.18)
Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls (Jerusalem) (Decision 29 COM 7A.31)
Kathmandu Valley (Nepal ) (Decision 29 COM 7A.24)
Air and Ténéré Natural Reserves (Niger) (Decision 29 COM 7A.6)
Fort and Shalamar Gardens in Lahore (Pakistan) (Decision 29 COM 7A.25)
Chan Chan Archaeological Zone (Peru) (Decision 29 COM 7A.30)
Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras (Philippines) (Decision 29 COM 7A.26)
Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary (Senegal) (Decision 29 COM 7A.7)
Ichkeul National Park (Tunisia) (Decision 29 COM 7A.8)
Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Ruins of Songo Mnara (United Republic of Tanzania) (Decision 28 COM 7A.15)
Everglades National Park (United States of America) (Decision 29 COM 7A.10)
Historic Town of Zabid (Yemen) (Decision 29 COM 7A.19)
Draft Decision: 29 COM 7A.8
2. Recalling its Decisions 28 COM 15A.9 and 27 COM 7(a)8 respectively adopted at its 28th session (Suzhou, China) and its 27th session (Paris),
5. Commends the State Party for its commitment for the recovery of the property;
8. Requeststhe State Party to report on the progress made on the conservation status of the property by 1 February 2006, for examination by the Committee at its 30th session in 2006
9. Decides to retain Ichkeul National Park on the List of World Heritage in Danger.
Nomination records (Year): 1978
Category: Natural
Criteria: (x)
WHC-05/29.COM/7A

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This information was compiled by the Organization and Structure Committee which was formed by Rev. Wayne Shuttee in October, 1993.
The purpose is to educate the Congregation about the long and honored histories of the two individual Societies and gain a better understanding and appreciation of how and why the societies decided to consolidate.
Members of the committee were Rev. Wayne Shuttee, Dean Huggins, Joe Taylor, Arthur Wheelock, Pam Spencer, Julie Noonan and Tom Hunt.
1668—Town of Mendon, for more than 150 years, consisted of a few families living in the clearing surrounded by hostile Native Americans.
January 1668, the town meeting ordered selectmen to have a meeting house erected, "upon the cheapest terms they can for the good of the town."
The first 3 meeting houses were believed to have been built on "Founder's Park," a short distance from our present church at the intersection of Main Street and Milford Street. Joseph Emerson, who became the first minister of the town, received his ordination in the autumn of 1669. His salary was 20 pounds a year, but the people also erected a house for him, 40 acres of uncleared land, and 2 pounds of butter annually for every cow kept in place.
1675—the settlement of Mendon numbered about 25 families. Within a few years (1676) the settlement was destroyed by the Nipmuc tribe of Indians. Their dwellings and their meeting house were burned. Gradually the old settlers came back in considerable numbers around 1678. Rev. Emerson never returned; he died in Concord.
This meeting house probably stood on the location of the earlier one. It contained only rough seats.
Rev. Grindal Rawson was called to be their minister in 1684 at a salary of 20 pounds and board, with a horse to be kept for his use. He remained the minister of this church for 35 years until his death. The population increased rapidly after the re-establishment of the settlement. In 1690, the town had outgrown its meeting house, and voted to build a new one.
The Indians for the most part had been driven off and those that remained had become sufficiently civilized or demoralized to no longer constitute a menace. In 1709, the building was enlarged 10 feet in each direction.
The Rev. Joseph Dorr, the fourth minister, was settled in 1716 and remained here until his death in 1767—more than fifty years. It was a long, peaceful and prosperous ministry.
In 1728, talk of a fourth meeting house was begun. However it was not until 1737 that it was finally completed. There was a long controversy over its building, particularly its location. There were many town meetings and many votes and the controversy was bitter. At one meeting it was moved to build 2 meeting houses and let the minister preach in whichever one he wished. This vote was not carried.
Although the location had been determined after a long struggle, not everybody was satisfied. The dissatisfied element undertook to chop it down on the night after is was raised. Upon its completion pews were built and sold to individuals with "the elderly men who bore the greatest charge in the Town" having the first choice of space.
In 1820, the meeting house had become old-fashioned and unsuited to the people of a town like Mendon. It was out of repair. Its architecture was behind the times. It had no bell. It had no spire. Mendon was a community of exceedingly well-to-do citizens. They compared most favorable with those of any town in the county in refinement, intelligence, wealth and social standing.
The community had changed religiously too. The "learned Orthodox minister of good conversation" was becoming a Unitarian and in the latter part of 1819 they had definitely decided to build a new meeting house.
This was the 1st meeting house that was built by the parish as distinguished from the town. The money for the support of the minister and meeting house was raised by general taxation.
Two locations were considered. Elm Street, which runs by the church on the east had not been laid out. The lot had to be leveled, as we find in 1820, and bids were solicited for leveling the meeting house lot. The best bid that was received was $159. They voted to limit the sum to $130, so it is supposed that is what it cost. Undoubtedly the great elms now on the lot were set out at that time.
A building committee was immediately selected. Elias Carter, a renowned architect, was chosen to design the church. A very carefully drawn subscription paper was prepared and subscriptions solicited from the members of the Parish. The response was prompt and the amounts subscribed were generous.
There were 43 subscribers totaling $6,460. Foundations having been laid, the lumber drawn and made into the frame, they were ready for the raising in May. The work progressed to completion during the summer. Undoubtedly the interior is practically as it was 100 years ago.
On November 29, 1820, it was voted to accept the meeting house as completed. The entire cost, including the bell, was $7,619.16. The bills were all paid from the subscriptions with a surplus left of $51.09.
The committee of the Parish had charge of the selling the old meeting house according to an extensive written report of their doings, dated October 9, 1843. And so passed the fourth meeting house about 1845.
On the evening of May 18, 1936, the Unitarian Church of Mendon was struck by lightning, and only by a seeming miracle was saved from being entirely destroyed by fire. Fortunately, with the exception of the ceiling, the interior of the main church was not seriously damaged. It is estimated that restoration cost $12,000. Funds in the amount of $4,550 were received from insurance. The townspeople also donated much to the rebuilding fund, even though the church was no longer part of the town government.
The town of Uxbridge, originally part of Mendon, incorporated June 27, 1727. The 1st church was gathered by the Rev. Joseph Dorr, Pastor of the Church of Christ in Mendon on January 6, 1730. It was a town church and the ministry was engaged and paid for by local government. It was situated on the common between the present Unitarian Church and the Congregational Church. Its 1st settled minister was Rev. Nathan Webb (1731—1772). It incorporated June 23, 1979, as the First Congregational Society.
During Rev. Samuel Judson's pastorate (1792—1832) the religious controversies of the early Nineteenth Century came to a head. In 1832, during the Unitarian controversy which split New England Congregationalism into 2 denominations, the conservative faction lead by Rev. Judson withdrew and organized the Evangelical Congregational Church.
The liberal group retained the church organization and property and called their 1st Unitarian minister, the Rev. Samuel Clark (1833—1859). It became necessary to remove the old meeting house and build a new house for public worship. Modeled after Gothic architecture of the Unitarian Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the present edifice was erected in 1834 on the same site occupied by the town's 1st meeting house, which was erected in 1729.
The new church (our present church) was dedicated on January 13, 1835. Major renovations were made in 1926, 1942, 1990 and again in 1992. The original building had balconies on 3 sides and had no center isle or box pews. The side balconies were removed and pews arranged as they are now. The Hook-Hastings electric organ was installed in 1926, given by Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Root in memory of her father, the Hon. Charles A. Wheelock.
The Unitarian Church developed a diversified congregation of whom many were brought in by Rev. Roy Wintersteen between 1922-1946. Most of the mill owners and bankers belonged to the church and gave much support. The high points of church activity were in the 1930s, 40s and 50s. Membership grew up to 140 people and had large Sunday school enrollment. However, most of the mills had gone out of business by 1961 and families moved away, impacting the size of the Congregation.
The Uxbridge church maintained a parsonage on North Main Street until 1977, at which time it was sold.
The Hook and Hastings organ was donated. $1,200 was given for pulpit furnishing.
Treasurer reported a deficit of $1,000 and a list of members were divided among the members and "to approach the members of the church personally and to beg for money.
Installed church heating system which cost $11,276.12. Church paid $5,000 and the other was contributed by an anonymous donor.
Reported that there were 136 pledges.
Reported that within 6 years time, 25 families had left town, 46 members had died, 30 members were added and 90 pledges were received.
Fire alarm system was installed.
Church was appraised at $124,402 including organ, windows and carpet.
Reported 126 members and 85 pledges.
Renovation of vestry and kitchen at a cost of $104,000.
By the 1970s these congregations were typical in a particular way. Having shared ministers for over fifty years, the 2 churches were slowly declining in membership. Sustainability became a serious question in both churches. Yet within both congregations was a desire not only to survive, but to seek growth. It was at this point that they took an unusual step into the future.
In 1978, the churches appointed an interim minister, Peter Denny, to help sort out the complex issues facing them. By agreement, the 2 congregations began meeting a single service on Sunday morning. For the previous 50 years, the shared ministers had held 2 Sunday services, 1st in Uxbridge, then in Mendon. The new combined services with attendant coffee hours and the dynamic work of the interim minister proved to be the single most important impetus to reviving these small churches. By the time the churches settled a permanent minister, John Gibbons, in 1980, the 2 parishes were beginning to function as a single congregation.
Early in the ministry of John Gibbons, a committee was formed by the 2 parish governing bodies charged with the task of examining the possibility of forming a single congregation. After months of discussion and intense debate that committee presented its recommendations to a special meeting of the 2 congregations.
Those recommendations were that 1) a consolidated congregation be formed out of the two existing ones, 2) that a new set of by-laws be drawn establishing a single entity with a singles set of committees including a new governing board, and 3) that both church building and charters be retained under the old parish structure.
At a combined annual meeting of both congregations in 1985 a plan was submitted and accepted which formed the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Mendon and Uxbridge. A tripartite structure was established consisting of the Congregation and 2 Societies.
All money presently pledged to either society shall automatically be pledged to the consolidated church.
All money presently derived from fund raising by either society shall be assigned to the consolidated church.
In an effort to have each Society responsible for 50% of the consolidated budget, the Uxbridge Society shall contribute 75% of the net income of their invested funds, paid quarterly to the church treasurer.
Current church budgets voted at the annual meetings of both Societies for fiscal 1984-1985 and projected sources of income.
In addition, the Uxbridge church, having the larger endowment and numerically smaller congregation, agreed to provide a portion of its annual endowment income to support the annual budget of the newly formed Congregation.
These efforts over several years set the stage for the growth of the Mendon and Uxbridge congregation enjoyed over the past decade. They were no longer 2 small local parishes, but had reached out to the larger community of the Blackstone Valley. The Congregation was now drawing from all the surrounding communities: Milford, Hopedale, Upton, Sutton, Blackstone, Whitinsville/Northbridge and Woonsocket, RI.
As the Congregation increased in numbers, it became more active, both within itself and in the larger community. For the 1st rime, a minister (John Gibbons) was given sabbatical. More committees were formed. Among these was the Social Action Forum which as a product of their activities created the Adin Ballou Lectureship on Peace and Justice.
The Lectureship was an annual event in which a prominent person was invited to speak. The speakers have included Daniel Berrigan, Prof. Howard Zinn and Bernie Sanders. Members of our Congregation were among the 1st in the UUA to use the "Cakes for the Queen of Heaven" curriculum. Two members of this women's group participated in the national training to help others to use this material. Active musicians among us have held coffeehouse evenings in the Uxbridge vestry. Renovations have been undertaken in both church buildings, providing handicap access in Mendon and making the Uxbridge vestry a more usable modern space.
In addition to congregational activities, our buildings are used for community activities. Among these, some are notable: support group meetings such as ACOA, young peoples AA, unemployed people, lesbian support, AIDS outreach, feminist lecture series, antinuclear activities a food co-op, a movement and music series; a handicap discussion series. We have also held UU district meetings and UU youth group activities.
Thus, in recent years these 2 small churches have transformed themselves. What was once small and homogeneous is now growing and diverse.
And in this diversity that both marvel and encourage us as a Congregation. We have been willing to grow. We have been willing to accept many new members and friends who represent differences. Our willingness to accept diversity has become our greatest asset from our recent history for it waas ensured a future that will be complex and challenging.
In June of 1990, John Gibbons announced that he was leaving to pursue a ministry in Bedford, Massachusetts. This was a serious blow to the Congregation as John had come to represent comfort and stability to the Congregation. He was popular both with the elder members as well as the newer members.
An interim minister, Marilyn Magnussen, was brought in while a search committee began the task of finding a replacement for John.In September, 1991, Rev. Cynthia Chetwynd was hired as the new minister.
Rev. Wayne Shuttee was hired during the summer of 1993 and he began the task of rebuilding a congregation which had endured hardship during the previous years.
In May of 2013 the Uxbridge building was sold.


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(Montalcino - SI, 19 November 2021). Brunello di Montalcino is the best-known wine among Italian consumers, with a notoriety of 67%, ahead of big names like Prosecco, Chianti and Chianti Classico and Montepulciano d'Abruzzo. This is the verdict expressed at Benvenuto Brunello (19-29 November) by the annual Wine Intelligence report, carried out on a representative sample of consumers in Italy. In the words of the President of the Consorzio del vino Brunello di Montalcino, Fabrizio Bindocci, "The outcome of the survey is by no means to be taken for granted, if we consider that our wine represents less than 0.2% of Italy's annual production and is the designation that expresses least volume among the top 20 in the classification. The result is an acknowledgement of the quality and strength of a collective brand which, up until now, we thought was stronger abroad than in Italy".
According to Wine Intelligence's analysis, the typical Brunello consumer is a woman, from Central Italy, aged between 35 and 54, with an average income of over 50 thousand euros, who tends to shop online and is passionate about wine. 15% of those who know the wine actually go on to buy it.
In relation to the level of notoriety (67%), Brunello wins over its competitors both among men (68%) and women (66%) and is already in the lead among consumers aged 35-54 (65%), while it dominates from 55 years up (73%). The geography of knowledge of Brunello rewards Central Italy (70%) and Northern Italy (69%), where it is, however, surpassed by Prosecco (71%).
Benvenuto Brunello, which began today with two days reserved for the national and international press, made its debut with a new format and in a new autumn spot for its 30th anniversary. Montalcino is hosting 11 days of tastings planned with 119 wineries to celebrate Brunello 2017, Brunello Riserva 2016 and Rosso di Montalcino 2020 together with wine lovers and members of the trade. An average of 9 million bottles of Brunello di Montalcino Docg are produced every year, 70% of which are destined for export.
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August 9th 2016 | Australia | Financial regulation
On August 5th the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA, the central bank) published its latest Statement on Monetary Policy. The RBA's forecasts for GDP growth and inflation were substantially the same as in the central bank's previous report in May.
The report, published days after the RBA lowered its policy interest rate, the cash rate, to a record low of 1.5%, indicates that the bank is maintaining a cautious inflation outlook. It expects that inflation will be between 1.5% and 2.5%, below the mid-point of its 2–3% target band, until the end of 2018. That is despite the latest cut in the cash rate, and even though the RBA's forecasts incorporate financial market pricing of a further rate reduction by mid-2017. The accompanying text was more pointed, saying that inflation is likely to remain below 2% over most of the RBA's forecast period.
This is a more downbeat message than we expected, and suggests that the RBA is open to further monetary easing. There are two potentially complicating factors. One is the housing market, which showed renewed signs of life in April–May after slowing in late 2015. However, the RBA is downplaying these signals, noting that strong price data published by CoreLogic, a property data provider, may have been affected by methodological changes. The RBA's view is that the market has lost momentum, and with new taxes on foreign investors being introduced at state level, that view is unlikely to be challenged in coming months.
The second complication is the fact that the RBA's next policy decision will be made by a new governor, Philip Lowe. There has been speculation that Mr Lowe would pay greater attention to asset prices than his predecessor, Glenn Stevens, or even take the opportunity to lower the central bank's inflation target. However, a radical departure seems unlikely: Mr Lowe is a seasoned RBA insider, having been deputy governor since 2012. Furthermore, the RBA's 2–3% inflation target has been in place since the early 1990s and has always been interpreted flexibly, so a major policy shift would risk affecting the RBA's credibility. On balance, we think that the RBA will take the cash rate lower—most likely at its November meeting, after which it will also release updated forecasts.
In the light of the RBA's ongoing easing bias, we will be amending our forecasts to incorporate one more cut in the cash rate this year, to 1.25%.
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When Amy contacted me about this opportunity, I was excited to share it with you and (full disclosure) by mentioning it here, my name is being entered into a drawing for one free registration, which I will, in turn, be giving away to one of you, if I were fortunate enough to win it.
p.s. Please keep the wonderful gardening advice coming. I'm soaking it up!


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Royal HaskoningDHV celebrates success at NCE100 2018 Awards
Royal HaskoningDHV is celebrating after taking home the Excellence in Climate Resilience award at the NCE100 2018 Awards on 23 May for its work on the Moray Flood Alleviation project.
The Royal HaskoningDHV team with its Excellence in Climate Resilience award.
The accolade reinforces Royal HaskoningDHV's position as an industry leader in flood risk management. The judges were seeking firms that provide resilience, protect people and substantially decrease economic losses caused by disasters – across the globe and here in the UK.
The judges' comments stated that the Royal HaskoningDHV submission displayed a "…very clear ethos of future proof considerations in projects across the whole company, with particular focus on climate resilience. Clear evidence of cutting edge thinking and practice in the five projects presented, with the exemplary excellence in the Moray Flood Alleviation programme. Adding value to local communities was at the centre of their design and delivery, with infectious passion and enthusiasm during the presentation that made clear they are living and breathing what they are saying."
The Moray Flood alleviation scheme included five individual schemes which protected 40,000 people, 3,000 homes and 600 businesses across four communities. The entire project took 17 years to complete and provided a return on investment of 74 per cent for the client.
As part of the NCE100 Awards, Royal HaskoningDHV was also shortlisted for the Smart Operator award for its Aquasuite solution, which uses data-driven technology in water treatment. The company also retained its inclusion in the list of the top 100 civil engineering companies.
Craig Huntbatch, UK resident director for Royal HaskoningDHV commented: "We're thrilled to have won the Excellence in Climate Resilience award this year in the NCE100 Awards.
"The organisers describe the NCE100 as a Power List of the most influential, innovative firms that are doing the right things, in the right way, to deliver the outcomes that benefit society. And that's exactly how we want to be recognised.
"Our inclusion in the top 100 is a real tribute to the teamwork and ownership we see at Royal HaskoningDHV and how every person in the company can make a difference. Together, we're creating a future to be proud of!"
Barbara Hellett, project manager for the Moray Flood Alleviation scheme added: "I am truly delighted that we managed to convey just how brilliant the Moray Flood Alleviation schemes are to the NCE100 judges. To win the award we had to use one of our projects to showcase our abilities, and the Moray project certainly allowed us to do that. So many of us have enjoyed working on this project over the years – and getting public recognition for what we have achieved really feels good!"
Mark Hansford, editor of New Civil Engineer concluded: "Civil engineers have amazing stories to tell. And that's what the NCE100 is all about. Finding and telling stories. We were looking for the companies who, in 2018, had the most inspiring stories to tell. Stories of innovation, of changing our industry for the better, and of making the world a better place through their projects. We had 17 specific categories and for each we had a trio of expert judges, hand-picked for their knowledge and expertise. The view of these judges was simple: our winner in each category was incredible."


Communities>Mental Health Issues>Is this schizo?
I had a very close relative who has been experiencing thoughts of people conspiring against her,(she has been an extreme alcoholic for years now) she's hearing them speak about her in a matter where she thinks they are plotting against her or want to kill her. She's fine around people as long as they are directly speaking to her and not at a distance on the phone or talking to someone else in a different room. She's not hearing any other voices besides the ones that are the people talking at a distance and not directly at her. Also has thoughts of the government using satellites/all types of technology to spy on her and possibly having an implant in her body that tracks her location. I just want to have an inkling of what's going on and if someones loved one is experiencing a similar thing, since she refuses to seek medical care.
Offhand these symptoms of paranoia and constantly hearing voices sounds like a psychotic disorder. Whether or not is sz only a psychiatrist can tell. These symptoms can be part of hypermania and schizoaffective disorder too.


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Starflight - The Atari Times
A Journey Into Space
by Matthias Jaap
Arth, in the year 4619. Arth is the new home world of humankind since Earth was destroyed in an extensive war ages ago. Because of this catastrophe, the humans were thrown back in their technological development. Things changed quickly when scientists succeeded building spaceships powered by Endurium. These spaceships were able to fly faster than light speed and were therefore able to reach stars and galaxies far away. Some research ships were built in order to find new planets for colonisation and alien races to trade with.
Of course you control one of these ships together with six specialists. You fly through space and land on planets to explore the resources of the planet. Unfortunately, your ship is not limited very well. Before you can even think about provoking a space fight you will need better shields and weapons. Everything you find and carry on other planets can be sold on Arth. The money can be invested back into the ship which is necessary because you will surely meet aliens later.
The aliens obviously do not speak the same language as humans do. Your communication officer knows at least a couple of alien languages but he does not know them all. Communication problems are the cause for most fights but are not the solution for most problems in Starflight. If you talk with aliens you may get some important hints. There is something more about this game as just discovering new worlds... If a space fight is unavoidable and you win, you can take the remaining enemy.
Starflight was PC exclusive for more than three years and for these three years the only reason for gamers to buy a PC. In1990 Electronic Arts ported this game to Atari ST, Amiga and C64. Mouse support was added to the 16 bit version thus making them easier to use. The gameplay sounds like Elite but Starflight roots are in the role-playing genre.
The graphics of Starflight are clear, good and of course much better than the CGA ones of the PC versions. However, they do not take advantage of the full power of the ST. The sound is nearly non-existent and it is a good idea to put an audio CD into your CD player to have some quality music.
What is most fascinating about Starflight is the gameplay. Each planet is different and the alien races behave differently, too. There are planets with vegetation and some of them are unfriendly. While other role-playing games draw a clear line between enemies and friends, Starflight is in most cases different. If you have a highly equipped ship you can of course blast almost every other ship into space but you will surely miss important information.
In conclusion I would say that Starflight is one of the best role-playing games for the ST. Although not everyone who likes Elite will like Starflight, the game's complexity and story guarantee hours of fun.
Nice title sequence!
You start out in the docking port. You must buy your ship and find crew to man it.
The galactic map will help you figure out where to go.
Getting ready to leave orbit!
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Ant Financial, a fully-owned subsidiary of Jack Ma's Alibaba Group has denied reports linking it to the malicious attack on Equifax.
Equifax is a global personal credit rating company that was hit by a severe hack that stole virtually all the personal and financial data of its millions of customers.
Ant Financial responded to a report by the Wall Street Journal which linked the company to the hack on the allegation that it hired hired China-born Canadian David Zou from Equifax who perpetrated the theft of the information.
The medium claimed that Zou looked up employee information to gauge potential hires and squirreled away confidential documents via his personal email account.
Today, the Wall Street Journal published a story that contains false information about Ant Financial based on unsubstantiated allegations from anonymous sources. The story is full of innuendo based on disjointed facts and coincidence in timing. We want to set the record straight.
Ant Financial was never "asked" or directed by the Chinese government to develop our commercial credit scoring product, Zhima Credit, or "credit-scoring services." Zhima Credit was independently developed by Ant Financial purely as a commercial product.
We provided the Wall Street Journal with facts establishing the falsity of its reporting, including documents, on-the-record statements and an in-person interview with the employee at the center of the events.
We leave it to public opinion to judge if anyone should try to prosecute a case in the press when there is insufficient evidence under proper regulatory and legal framework. We also condemn any attempt by anyone to divert the attention on Equifax's responsibility in allowing the breach of personal data of over 140 million Americans by pointing fingers at someone else.
Integrity is at the core of Ant Financial's corporate values and cultural fabric. It is insulting to us and unfortunate that the Wall Street Journal ignored the facts, and instead printed a misleading story with false claims. The story not only promotes hostility against a specific company, but also paints an overall narrative that maligns Chinese companies as a whole, and further promotes culturally divisive perceptions of ethnic Chinese people in America.
We are committed to protecting the reputation of Ant Financial, which is trusted by 870 million users around the world.


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HomeHCF ReviewsTRANSCENDENCE [2014]: in cinemas now
TRANSCENDENCE [2014]: in cinemas now
April 28, 2014 Dr Lenera HCF Reviews, Sci-Fi 0
Transcendence (2014)
Directed by: Wally Pfister
Written by: Jack Paglen
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Johnny Depp, Paul Bettany, Rebecca Hall
IN CINEMAS NOW
RUNNING TIME: 117 min
REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic
Dr. Will Caster is an artificial intelligence researcher and part of a team of scientists striving to create a machine that possesses sentience and collective intelligence, an event which Will calls "Transcendence". Just after a presentation led by his wife Evelyn to attract potential sponsors, Will is shot by an anti-AI extremist, an event taking place simultaneously with terrorist attacks on every other AI research facility in the world. Will survives the initial attack, but the bullet is laced with radioactive material, which will eventually shut down Will's vital organs and kill him. Evelyn comes up with a plan to upload Will's consciousness, using the "quantum processors" of the AI program they were working on. This would allow him to survive in digital form, stay with her, and complete the project. His best friend Max Waters, also a researcher, questions the wisdom of this choice, saying an incomplete download of Will's consciousness would not be Will but something else that might be dangerous….
Transcendence is already a major flop, and there's been much discussion of things like why a first time director [former Christopher Nolan cinematographer Wally Pfister] was given a $100 budget, or how Johnny Depp has become something akin to box office poison unless it's Tim Burton or Jack Sparrow. I wonder if Nolan had actually been the director, and Depp dressed up in a superhero outfit, it may have been a success? Before Transcendence began, I had the odd feeling that I would rave about the movie and have yet another whinge about the moron masses and their increasingly refusal to flock to things that are interesting and different. The film seems to have been picked on by thecritics and ignored by the public. How I love the underdog and love making a case for it!. Well, Transcendence is no neglected masterpiece, and makes a large number of mistakes which prevent it from being as compelling as it should. It is, however, a very interesting science-fiction thriller that asks a lot of questions and has a lot to recommend it. It's certainly considerably better than you've been led to believe.
Of course most of its ideas are very old and have been a staple of the genre for ages, and I don't just mean the countless machines-go-wrong films that we've been given over the years. For much of the time Transcendence seems like yet another variation on Frankenstein, warning of the dangers of humans playing God, but it's also very timely in its examination of technology and our relation to it, sometimes seeming like a strange cousin to Her [there are even some very similar scenes such as somebody having conversations with a voice]. What makes Transcendence distinctive is that is it's more even-handed than usual and isn't just the typical fear-mongering. It asks questions such as how much is too much technology in a world which seems to be developing faster and faster with new innovative ways to live our lives and possibly improve them, and considers them intelligently. Many critics have called Transcendence confusing, and it has a tendency to transmit its ideas and tell its story in not the slickest of ways, but its chief final message, which is not the one you would expect, was loud and clear to me and should be to anybody with a brain. All in all, there is quite a lot to think about here, and we do seem to be going through a phase where not many audiences want to think [though of course there are anomalies like Inception, which I guess the studio was thinking of when they green-lit this project].
However one cannot ignore that the film does do some things wrong, such as its structure whereby it opens by showing us a future where there is obviously no longer any internet. Something has happened to destroy it, and we are presented with images like a laptop lying around with a smashed screen and a computer propping up a door in a world which has clearly come to something of a halt. Let alone the huge amount of people who virtually live their lives on their phone and can't go for more than five minutes without checking it, our world seems to be almost totally reliant on the web and the thought that it could be destroyed is a scary one. Some stories work when the main bulk is in flashback, but Transcendence would have worked better if it had cut the opening scene and brought in the possibility that the internet could be destroyed later on to terrifying effect. This is what the film ends up being like for much of its duration. The ideas are there, but not always presented in the best possible way. Jack Paglen's script had been on the Black List of best unpublished screenplays in Hollywood, and it's got some great stuff in it, but also needed a bit of work. Pfister seems to have made some considerable changes, and I don't think they were all for the better.
In a manner more reminiscent of many 70's science-fiction pictures rather than the 90's ones which it initially appears to take more inspiration from, Transcendence is very slow paced for much of its length, drifting along in a very laid-back, even relaxing manner. The story quickly brings in a variety of elements but never really speeds up until near the end, where, after not quite enough tension has been built up despite things really getting bad, it suddenly becomes an action movie for a while, but a rather half-hearted one. It seems that they felt obliged to throw in some shooting and explosions for the benefit of the audience, but it jars with what has come before, and, considering that the film doesn't now appear to be making much money anyway, it obviously didn't help. A gradual build-up to a thrilling climax is what this film should have had, not a sudden switch into action movie mode. At least there's a genuinely touching final scene between Will and Evelyn which had this critic satisfyingly moved, proof that the picture was working at that point. In fact, some of the best scenes throughout the film are those between the wife who wants to keep her husband alive no matter what, and the computer with some human consciousness. These scenes have a palpable sense of loss to them, though could have gone a bit further in some areas without turning into Demonseed. Is Will really alive in some way? Are we seeing a computer with human feelings or a computer pretending to have human feelings? I don't think it's a problem that we have to decide for ourselves.
The film's characters, be they Will, Evelyn, an FBI agent, some scientists, or some terrorists, do seem to be stupid and set themselves up for failure, though this may have been deliberate. More jarring is that near the beginning of the film we witness an explosion that kills some people in an office, then see somebody shoot another at point blank range before killing himself, events which we are told are being replicated throughout the world. This is soon revealed to be the work of anti-technology terrorists, folk who soon after we seem to be asked to sympathise with despite they being world-wide murderers. It's rather insulting and offensive, though some of the things in Transcendence which initially appear to be simplistic and even dumb are later turned on their heads in quite a clever manner. There are obvious borrowings from the likes of The Lawnmower Man and even Invasion Of The Body Snatchers [actually come to think of it it's more like It Came From Outer Space] but not too much to ruin the film. More irritating are also some terrible CGI effects towards the end which never looks like they're part of the main film.
Depp is strange here, and I don't mean typical Johnny Depp strange. Some of the time he seems totally committed to his role, and sometimes he just seems like he'd rather be somewhere else. In any case, it's Rebecca Hall who gives the stand-out performance, making her often foolhardy actions believable with her often intense acting. Pfister's direction doesn't exhibit much notable style and he should have really began his directorial career with something less ambitious, though Transcendence seems oddly constricted at times, despite the whole world eventually being in danger, often keeping to a few select locations even while really interesting stuff may be occurring off-screen [shouldn't we have seen, for example, more evidence of Will's presence on the internet and the effect it has?]. It's really quite good though, probably one of those films which you may not enjoy too much while you watch it but which may grow in estimation afterwards when you start to think about it. I have a feeling it may be better regarded in years to come, like many visionary science-fiction pictures.
Jack Paglen
New image of Johnny Depp & Eva Green in Tim Burton's 'Dark Shadows' see's a starring contest
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A new image has been released for Tim Burton's next, and highly anticipated film, Dark Shadows. The image features Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins and Eva Green as the Witch Angelique having a bit of […]
Captain Barbossa Invites You To Sail on Stranger Tides – Pirates of the Caribbean Featurette
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Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) invites you to sail on Stranger Tides in this behind the scenes video of the new Pirates of the Caribbean film, out in cinemas now!
New featurette released for Wally Pfister's Transcendence, starring Johnny Depp
March 29, 2014 Kirsty Wavish News 0
A new featurette has been released for Inception's award winning cinematographer' directorial debut, Transcendence. Check it out below. It mainly focuses explaining the very complex plot to those that might still be confused regarding the nature of Transcendence! […]


Singing pop/rock consistently and effectively requires a unique skill set. Vocal technique and communication are of course important, but even the best singer can sound like an amateur if they don't have the proper equipment. For many decades, audio enhancement has been used in the production of commercial recordings. The audio effects used to create the final product have changed the way the public experiences the singing voice. In order to produce results that meet audience expectations, voice teachers must now include audio technology in their lessons. This workshop will show participants how audio enhancement affects what we hear, how to put together an audio system for your studio, and how to use that equipment in a private lesson. Teachers will return to their studios with specific techniques that go beyond singing with feeling.


Babaji, Lahiri Mahasaya, Sri Yukteswar Giri, and Paramahansa Yogananda.
The store owner took delight that I was interested in these fellows. He explained that he himself was from that lineage, an exact thought I had once I began reading Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi.
Uncovering more about this Yogananda, I was lucky enough to see his film Awake: The Life of Yogananda. The film absolutely resonated with me, and I recommend it to anyone, yogi or not.
With a little internet surfing I began to see the lineage forming, who was who's guru, and what was special about each and every one of them.


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THE SHOULDER PRACTICE
Mr CARLOS COBIELLA
Carlos Cobiella grew up in Spain and graduated from Medical School at the Universidad Autónoma in Madrid.
He completed his basic surgical training in London before entering the Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery training program at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. He became interested in Shoulder and Elbow Surgery and had further training in this area under the care of Messrs Bayley, Calvert and Lambert at the Shoulder and Elbow Unit at the RNOH and Professor Birch at the Peripheral Nerve Injury.
Having been appointed as Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Whittington Hospital in 2003, he set up the Shoulder and Elbow service. Two years later he moved to UCLH to pursue his career in a more academic environment and there had the opportunity to develop the Upper Limb Service. He now leads a team that includes three other Shoulder surgeons and three Hand and Wrist surgeons.
He is Head of the Upper Limb Section of the Institute of Sports, Exercise and Health at UCL, leading both clinical and academic activity (teaching and research) in this area. He enjoys all aspects of Shoulder and Elbow surgery, including the treatment of Sports injuries, arthritis and fractures. He has a keen interest in arthroscopic (keyhole) techniques.
He is regularly referred sportsmen from Premiership football and rugby clubs such as Arsenal, Fulham, Saracens and Harlequins, international level athletes from the English Institute of Sports, UK Athletics and the PGA. He is the NFL Upper Limb Surgeon in Europe and the shoulder surgeon for the London Underground. Well known musicians and artists, including Oscar winning actors and film makers, have trusted his professional ability.
He is a member of faculty in numerous courses in Arthroscopic and Sports Injury Surgery, both national and international. As well as training medical students and junior doctors, he directly supervises the training of the UCH Shoulder and Elbow Fellow. He continues to publish in his field and presents his results regularly at scientific meetings.


Ninja Gaiden was released for the Xbox in March 2004 after many years in development. Ryu Hayabusa of the Dragon Lineage must prevent the power of the evil Dark Dragon Blade from being used to take over the world. Excellent control coupled with a high degree of difficulty made Ninja Gaiden a critical and commercial success. Black, released in September 2005, is essentially a Director's Cut, with more difficulty settings and new skins for Ryu, his friends and his enemies.
Best Single-segment Time: 1:55:05 by Josh Mangini on 2006-10-25.
Best Segmented Time: 1:34:43 by 'JTB123' on 2016-12-22.
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Does anyone know what 3 elements must be present in a document to meet CMS's guidelines for using a document?
The question is so vague. It literally only says what 3 elements must be present. It doesn't even say specifically for an E/M service. Is there something else in CMS that states maybe items like site of service, medical necessity, etc? Maybe things like that?


Pastor Josh was appointed to serve as Kingsway Baptist Church's Senior Pastor in the summer of 2015. For two years before, he served as assistant pastor to Pastor Jim Fish, our founding pastor. Prior to that, he served as Senior Pastor of New Life Baptist Church in Hudson Falls, NY.
The attributes that best describe Pastor Josh as a pastor are strong preaching, a love of the Word, and a love for people. He has expressed a burning desire to lead a church like Kingsway Baptist Church where biblical views are embraced and encouraged, with members who care about the needs of those around them and who want to connect others to the body of Christ. In addition to preaching the regular services at Kingsway, he & his wife lead the Cross Training Adult Bible study class on Sundays at 9:30am.
He graduated from Pensacola Christian College in Pensacola, Florida in 1995 with a degree in Computer Science followed by a Master's of Pastoral Theology from Hyles-Anderson College in Crown Point, Indiana in 2001.
Pastor Josh has been happily married since 1996 to his wife, Teya Miller. They have four children, Alexis, Robert, Jack, & Luke.
Teacher of the Family Living Adult Bible study class on Sunday mornings at 10am.
Charlie has been married to Debbie Briggs since 1980 and have four adult children.
Jonathan & Lizzi oversee our youth department. Not only do they lead our teenagers in classes/activities, they model the gospel in their everyday lives. They teach, respectively, the KB Teen Boys class & the Agape Teen Girls class on Sundays at 9:30am. They also lead the youth group meeting on Wednesdays at 7pm.
In addition, Jonathan serves as our newest deacon.
Jonathan & Lizzi have been married since 2012 and are the parents of two precious girls - Scarlett & Adele.
Debbie Briggs has overseen our children's nursery for over thirty years. We take children and children's ministries seriously at our church. Thereby, the safety and well-being of every child is paramount! Debbie has a love for children and does her best to make sure our nursery is run with excellence in every area.
In addition, she has been the food coordinator for all things banquet/food at our church. Debbie does a superb job enlisting the help of many in our church family who want to serve in this area.
She has been married to Charlie Briggs since 1980 and they have four adult children.


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/* tslint:disable */
import { InjectionToken } from '@angular/core';

/**
* @ngdoc service
* @name Config
* @module ionic
* @description
* Config allows you to set the modes of your components
*/
import { Platform } from '../platform/platform';
import { isObject, isDefined, isFunction, isArray } from '../util/util';

export class Config {
  private _c: any = {};
  private _s: any = {};
  private _modes: any = {};
  private _trns: any = {};

  /**
   * @private
   */
  plt: Platform;

  /**
   * @private
   */
  init(config: any, plt: Platform) {
    this._s = config && isObject(config) && !isArray(config) ? config : {};
    this.plt = plt;
  }

  /**
   * @name get
   * @description
   * Returns a single config value, given a key.
   *
   * @param {string} [key] - the key for the config value
   * @param {any} [fallbackValue] - a fallback value to use when the config
   * value was not found, or is config value is `null`. Fallback value
   *  defaults to `null`.
   */
  get(key: string, fallbackValue: any = null): any {
    const platform = this.plt;

    if (!isDefined(this._c[key])) {
      if (!isDefined(key)) {
        throw Error('config key is not defined');
      }

      // if the value was already set this will all be skipped
      // if there was no user config then it'll check each of
      // the user config's platforms, which already contains
      // settings from default platform configs

      let userPlatformValue: any = undefined;
      const userDefaultValue: any = this._s[key];
      let userPlatformModeValue: any = undefined;
      let userDefaultModeValue: any = undefined;
      let platformValue: any = undefined;
      let platformModeValue: any = undefined;
      let configObj: any = null;

      if (platform) {
        // check the platform settings object for this value
        // loop though each of the active platforms

        // array of active platforms, which also knows the hierarchy,
        // with the last one the most important
        const activePlatformKeys = platform.platforms();

        // loop through all of the active platforms we're on
        for (let i = 0, ilen = activePlatformKeys.length; i < ilen; i++) {

          // get user defined platform values
          if (this._s.platforms) {
            configObj = this._s.platforms[activePlatformKeys[i]];
            if (configObj) {
              if (isDefined(configObj[key])) {
                userPlatformValue = configObj[key];
              }
              configObj = this.getModeConfig(configObj.mode);
              if (configObj && isDefined(configObj[key])) {
                userPlatformModeValue = configObj[key];
              }
            }
          }

          // get default platform's setting
          configObj = platform.getPlatformConfig(activePlatformKeys[i]);
          if (configObj && configObj.settings) {

            if (isDefined(configObj.settings[key])) {
              // found a setting for this platform
              platformValue = configObj.settings[key];
            }

            configObj = this.getModeConfig(configObj.settings.mode);
            if (configObj && isDefined(configObj[key])) {
              // found setting for this platform's mode
              platformModeValue = configObj[key];
            }

          }

        }

      }

      configObj = this.getModeConfig(this._s.mode);
      if (configObj && isDefined(configObj[key])) {
        userDefaultModeValue = configObj[key];
      }

      // cache the value
      this._c[key] = isDefined(userPlatformValue) ? userPlatformValue :
                     isDefined(userDefaultValue) ? userDefaultValue :
                     isDefined(userPlatformModeValue) ? userPlatformModeValue :
                     isDefined(userDefaultModeValue) ? userDefaultModeValue :
                     isDefined(platformValue) ? platformValue :
                     isDefined(platformModeValue) ? platformModeValue :
                     null;
    }

    // return key's value
    // either it came directly from the user config
    // or it was from the users platform configs
    // or it was from the default platform configs
    // in that order
    let rtnVal: any = this._c[key];
    if (isFunction(rtnVal)) {
      rtnVal = rtnVal(platform);
    }

    return (rtnVal !== null ? rtnVal : fallbackValue);
  }

  /**
   * @name getBoolean
   * @description
   * Same as `get()`, however always returns a boolean value. If the
   * value from `get()` is `null`, then it'll return the `fallbackValue`
   * which defaults to `false`. Otherwise, `getBoolean()` will return
   * if the config value is truthy or not. It also returns `true` if
   * the config value was the string value `"true"`.
   * @param {string} [key] - the key for the config value
   * @param {boolean} [fallbackValue] - a fallback value to use when the config
   * value was `null`. Fallback value defaults to `false`.
   */
  getBoolean(key: string, fallbackValue = false): boolean {
    const val = this.get(key);
    if (val === null) {
      return fallbackValue;
    }
    if (typeof val === 'string') {
      return val === 'true';
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PROCESS TRANSLATED — FOR SALESFORCE, WE MADE THESE PORTRAITS ON A WHITE SEAMLESS OVER A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT SHOOTS.
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These shoots are awesome. We set up a location "studio" with lights and seamless. Our subjects are busy and important. They generally don't have tons of time and often we're piggy backing on a video shoot. The shoot is all about our subjects. Quickly we photograph the personality and performance of each person. I adore meeting all the cool people I get to meet because of the work I do.


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Church dispute breaks out over Prague Castle settlement
Chris Johnstone
17-07-2015 updated
A dispute has broken out in the Czech Catholic Church over the recent property settlement at Prague castle between President Miloš Zeman and Cardinal Dominik Duka. A memorandum concerning the return of two properties to the Catholic Church was signed on Thursday with a final deal due to be sealed by the end of the year. Duka's predecessor in the top post of the Czech church, Cardinal Miloslav Vlk, has slammed the initial agreement as illegal and in breach of democratic principles. In particular, he criticised the conditions attached to the return of the properties which include their repair and use for public purposes within five years. Cardinal Vlk said that the restitution agreement made no provision for such conditions to be laid down.
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ELEMENTAL NIGHTMARES-IV: CANOPY, HARASAI, KALL, OBITUS SEEN AND HEARD: PERDITION TEMPLE AND MYSTICUM
DREMENUART: "WEIGHTBEARER"
Album Reviews, SHORT BUT SWEET Add comments
When I started this site almost five years ago I picked the name "NO CLEAN SINGING" not so much to announce a rigid rule we intended to follow about the site's content but more as a protest against something that had happened to the music of one band I used to care a lot about — Bury Your Dead. Matt Bruso had left the band to teach school and he had been replaced by Myke Terry, who introduced clean singing into their music, and the music just seemed to lose some of its weight all the way around.
Even though my musical tastes have evolved in increasingly extreme directions and I've lost touch with a lot of what's happening in whatever scene is left of the one BYD inhabited, I still keep the early BYD albums in my car and I don't think I'll ever get tired of them.
So, when a Facebook friend recently posted a link to a brand new EP named Weightbearer by a Spanish band named Dremenuart and made comparisons to the"über-low-tuned hardcore metal" of bands like early BYD, that pushed the right button and I had to check it out. I'm so very glad I did.
Weightbearer is loaded with largely atonal, brutally percussive music. The guitar is tuned so low it sounds like a bass, the bass sounds like a giant pile-driving machine, and the drums explode like a heavy-artillery barrage. Altogether the band resembles some massive, piston-driven, industrial-strength apparatus whose mission is to dismantle the human skeleton, breaking it into pieces at the joints and then smashing the remnants into splinters.
The lead-guitar riffs operate mainly to ratchet the tension, needling and pulsating until the heavy start-stop pneumatics bring the payoff with a shitload of hulk smash. Every now and then, the band take a break from the methodical pile-driving and bolt into a romping rhythm or inject a burst of skittering electronic noise, but in the main this is all about the beatdown, with breakdowns that thankfully aren't telegraphed from a mile away. And the DIY production is spot-on for this kind of music: everything sounds powerful, completely in sync, and heavy as girders.
Of course, there is no clean singing, just a lot of very good, very pissed-off vocal ferocity, from scathing howls to hollow roars to ravenous growls. Just what the doctor ordered.
No molds were broken in the making of this EP, and I admit that nostalgia may have a lot to do with how much I like it, but if you're in the mood for a dose of concentrated, well-executed skull-fracturing, check this out.
The EP consists of seven tracks, with five featuring the band's new vocalist Enrique Rivas and two bonus tracks that were released in February as a single. Weightbearer is a "name your own price" download at Bandcamp, but it can also be downloaded for free via this Mediafire link.
http://dremenuartband.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Dremenuart
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Billionaire and Former Presidential Candidate Ross Perot Dead at 89
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Ross Perot died Tuesday (July 9) after a battle with leukemia.
According to a statement, the Billionaire transitioned at his home in Dallas "surrounded by his devoted family."
Perot was born in Texarkana, TX in 1930 and entered the U.S. Naval Academy in 1949.
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He is best known for running for president twice as a third-party candidate. He campaigned on cutting the national debt and protecting American workers from outsourcing.
In the 1992 run against George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton, he won 19.7 million votes, almost 20 percent of the popular vote. At that time, it was among the best showings by an independent presidential candidate in the 20th century.
Perot is survived by his wife, Margot, his children and countless other family members.
Ross Perot was 89.
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Tired Lion sell out Sydney, add second Lansdowne show
TIRED LION SELL OUT SYDNEY, ADD SECOND LANSDOWNE SHOW!
TIX SELLING FAST FOR 'WHERE WERE YOU?' TOUR
"Raw, visceral and loud." – The Music
"Tired Lion have steadily climbed the ranks as one of Australia's most talked-about bands." – Reverb.com
"They are, tbqh, just an excellent rock and roll band, and we're lucky to have 'em turning out huge choruses like it ain't no thang." – triple j
Sydney continues to be one of Perth rockers Tired Lion's favourite tour stops, with the band announcing today a second Sydney show at The Lansdowne on Thursday, June 7 after the first date of their 'Where Were You?' tour in the Harbour City on June 8, sold out this morning.
Mallrat, Arno Faraji, Demon Days & Denim on HYPER FEST 2020
Mon 13 Jan, 2020
Hyper will return in March 2020 as two events, including a curated line-up of the freshest local and national artists. The new Drug Aware On the House event is free entry and will be held on Friday, March 13, 2020, between 6 – 10pm. The inaugural event will feature Great Gable, Arno Faraji, Demon Days, Ghost Care and Muscle Club as well as silent disco DJs to be announced. Drug Aware Hyper will be back on Saturday, March 14, 2020,...
Planet announced as support for Liam Gallagher Aus Tour
Mon 02 Dec, 2019
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First Beige Unveil New EP 'Mirrors'
The highly anticipated 'Mirrors' EP from Brisbane's First Beige is out today. The 5-track release sees First Beige indulge their desire to get their listeners on their feet with a mix of genre-defying sonics, inspired by jazz and dance music. 'Mirrors' is a dance EP; I've become so fascinated by dance grooves and the technicality behind the music," reveals front man David Versace. "The EP came together pretty quickly, we had a bunch of ideas...
The Drop announce huge 2020 lineup ft. ALLDAY
Wed 27 Nov, 2019
Australia's favourite party wave is back for a third turn around the country, with an expanded run of dates and one helluva team of 2020 in tow! Travelling alongside the World Surf League Australian tour, The Drop 2020 will take an all-star lineup of Aussie legends to Noosa, Newcastle, Manly, Coolangatta, Torquay and Bussleton across February, March and April. Get ready to slap on your sunscreen and party with... THE PRESETS • BOY & BEAR • BALL PARK MUSIC •...
STELLIE and PARTY DOZEN announced on WOMADelaide 2020 Lineup
We are thrilled to announce that STELLIE and PARTY DOZEN have joined the already stellar WOMADelaide 2020 lineup, featuring alongside artists like Mavis Staples, Aldous Harding, Hiatus Koyote and The Cat Empire! For tickets and more information, visit: www.womadelaide.com.au="">
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Ukraine Aid Bill Passes House of Representatives: Does It Meet US Interests?
On September 21, the US House of Representatives approved overwhelmingly «Stability and Democracy for Ukraine Act» (H.R. 5094), which was earlier endorsed by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
The legislation, which goes to the US Senate for consideration, provides for sanctions and includes lethal weapons systems as part of national defense budget. It also strengthens the sanctions imposed on Moscow and reinforces the US refusal to recognize Crimea as part of the Russian Federation.
The bill directs the Secretary of State to develop and implement a strategy of waging an information war against Russia. According to the document, it meets the United States national security interests to increase the availability of insurance to support increased private investment in Ukraine.
The move puts added pressure on the White House, which is also considering delivering weapons. The pressure also comes from US top officials. For instance, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and NATO's top military commander General Philip Breedlove have openly supported the idea. To demonstrate US support for Ukraine, US Defence Secretary Ash Carter has recently appointed John Abizaid, a retired United States Army general and former U.S. Central Command commander, as a special adviser to Ukraine's defence minister.
Kiev has repeatedly requested from Washington more advanced weaponry, especially Javelin antitank missiles. So far, the administration has resisted, fearing it would escalate the fighting and further undermine the Minsk-2 accords. The US has limited its supplies to non-lethal equipment, things like flak jackets, night-vision goggles, and radar that helps locate where mortars are fired from.
Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko has stated that Ukraine would raise the issue of lethal weapons at the next negotiations with the West.
Europe has been reticent about the idea of supplying Ukraine with lethal weapons. For instance, Germany has openly opposed it.
The news about the bill approved by the House of Representatives actually slid the radar in other countries but in Ukraine officials and media did their best to overblow the story. The Ukrainian president thanked US lawmakers for the support.
Mr. Poroshenko exaggerates the extent of the support rendered by the United States. It's enough to read the text of the bill to see that the provision on lethal weapons is nothing more than just another symbolic gesture. First, it's not binding. This is a very important fact Ukrainian media outlets often omit. Second, the legislation still has to pass the Senate. Third, the bill can be vetoed by president. And finally – the sum is only $1 million over five years! It's zilch! The bill is a demonstration of support in words, but not deeds.
It's an open secret that real military assistance is channeled through expenditure items other than the defense budget. Besides, the US administration is growing weary of Ukraine's ineffectiveness and overwhelming corruption. Ukraine must make progress on promised economic and political reforms or the EU could backtrack on sanctions it imposed on Russia in 2014, US Vice President Joe Biden warned Ukraine on September 21.
True, it's hard to imagine the US lift the anti-Russia sanctions over Crimea, but their effect could be brought to nothing as a result of executive orders aimed at boosting the ties. After all, the US never recognized the Baltic States as part of the Soviet Union while making deals with Moscow.
There are at least a baker's dozen of good reasons for the bill to be sent into Congress at the time of election campaign with President Obama leaving the office soon. The STAND will place into statute the existing executive order sanctions imposed on Russia to prevent the improvement of the bilateral relations as Republican candidate Donald Trump is «going strong» in the presidential race. The GOP candidate has called for improvement of ties with Russia. Recently, he has left open the possibility of recognizing Crimea as Russian territory.
Signed into law, the legislation will tie President Trump's hands and prevent him from making steps to promote cooperation with Russia. A sitting president can cancel pre-existing executive orders at the moment he chooses, but repealing an existing legislation takes a lot of time and effort.
On the other hand, if Hillary Clinton wins the race, the Ukraine Act will help her implement plans to confront the Russian Federation. Hillary Clinton has recently been involved in one scandal after another. One of the stories is related to Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk, who was confirmed as the largest individual contributor to the Clinton Foundationat the time Hillary Clinton served as Secretary of State.
Among individual donors contributing to the Clinton Foundation in the period between 1999 and 2014, Ukrainian sponsors took first place in the list, providing the charity with almost $10 million.
The Viktor Pinchuk Foundation alone transferred at least $8.6 million to the Clinton charity between 2009 and 2013. During Clinton's term as State Secretary, Pinchuk was introduced to influential American lobbyists.
It explains a lot. There are other things to be taken into consideration. Does the legislation really meet American national interests? After all, Ukraine is a minor economic and security issue of marginal concern for the United States. The country faces economic crisis. Corruption is rampant and the economy is tanked. There is a slim chance the Ukraine's government will really try to reform and rebuild the country. From American point of view, Ukraine does not matter geographically. Ukraine is a European, not American, problem. Even if Ukraine becomes a NATO member, it'll be more of a headache than a useful ally for Washington.
New nations in the alliance don't enhance US security. Cooperation with Russia does. No major security problem in the world can be solved without Russia, be it arms control, non-proliferation or armed conflicts. An extended conflict with Moscow would continue to negatively affect the economies of America's European allies. Many European states already are lobbying to lift or moderate sanctions.
A diplomatic solution in Ukraine will benefit America much more than acting as a belligerent party. If signed into a law, the Act will spoil the Russia-US relations for a long time. The crisis in Ukraine will become history as time goes by. New burning issue of critical importance for the United States will hit the agenda. The STAND for Ukraine Act will hinder any efforts to cooperate. It's not too late to prevent the bill from becoming a law.
Ukraine United States
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Q: Spring Injected Bean property is null I'm pretty new to the whole idea of injecting beans, so speak slowly. :)
I've got a class that injects a bean, but when the property is accessed, the property is null and I get a null-pointer exception.
From /project-TRUNK/war-module/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring-config/spring-bean.xml
 <bean id="linkCheck"
  class="com.dogwatch.util.LinkCheck">
  <property name="linkDao" ref="jdbcLinkDao" />
 </bean>

From /project-TRUNK/war-module/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring-config/spring-dao.xml
 <bean id="jdbcLinkDao" class="com.dogwatch.util.jdbcLinkDao">
  <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
  <property name="linkJdbcDataTypesSupport" ref="linkJdbcDataTypesSupport"/>
 </bean>

The DAO bean is known to be good and works in several other classes.
package com.dogwatch.util;
public class LinkCheck {

 private LinkDAO linkDao;

 public LinkDAO getLinkDao() {
  return linkDao;
 }

 public void setLinkDao(LinkDAO linkDao) {
  this. linkDao = linkDao;
 }
}

I've been comparing it to other classes that use the same DAO bean and I can't find any differences.
I do see the bean getting defined in:

INFO [2010-01-15 01:10:05,838] [main]
  [XmlBeanDefinitionReader]
  [XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:323] -
  Loading XML bean definitions from URL
  [file:war-module/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring-config/spring-dao.xml]
  INFO [2010-01-15 01:10:05,858] [main]
  [XmlBeanDefinitionReader]
  [XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:323] -
  Loading XML bean definitions from URL
  [file:war-module/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring-config/spring-bean.xml]
  INFO [2010-01-15 01:10:06,597] [main]
  [DefaultListableBeanFactory]
  [DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:414]
  - Pre-instantiating singletons in org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory@3c01d5a0:
  defining beans [(snip) jdbcLinkDao,
  linkCheck(snip)businessLoggingAspect,org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer#1];
  root of factory hierarchy

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to go about troubleshooting bean injection?

A: I'm expanding my comment from the OP's question since it appears to have helped...
We're still missing some information, such as how does the code that uses the linkCheck bean get it? Is it also injected? Do you retrieve it from the Spring context? I'm assuming you're not doing new LinkCheck(), but since you're new to Spring, it's a sensible starting question.
Spring can only inject the beans if it controls the creation of the beans: if you do new MyClass() then the Spring container doesn't know about the object and can't do the injection.

A: There is a potential problem in that the type of 'jdbcLinkDao' is 'jdbcLinkDao' but the argument type of the setter is LinkDAO.  (If 'jdbcLinkDao' is a subtype of 'LinkDAO' that is probably OK ... but FIX THE CLASS NAME!)
If that's not the problem I suggest that you:

*

*set the log level to DEBUG,

*if that doesn't show anything, add a trace print to LinkCheck.setLinkDAO() to see what value is being set ... and when it is being set.

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Industry / Retail
Fred Meyer Looking to Open in Shopping Centers Rather Than Malls
July 1, 2016 by Rob Bates
None of the nine or 10 new stores opening this year will be in malls, its president says
Fred Meyer Jewelers is focusing its new store openings on shopping centers owned by parent company Kroger rather than malls, president Peter Engel tells JCK.
All the nine or 10 stores it is opening this year are in shopping centers, Engel says.
"Right now we have a stronger emphasis on the grocery marketplace," he explains. "Part of that is what's going on. There are less malls being built and less centers that are A-plus or A-rated centers. So there are fewer malls that we want to go in.
"There are just more opportunities with [shopping centers]. Kroger is building them all over the country, and there is a tremendous amount of synergy for us."
Still, he stresses that Fred Meyer Jewelers is "not moving out of the mall."
"We are maintaining stores in malls," he says. "If the right opportunity comes up in a new mall, then we would take a look at it. It's just that the mall opportunities aren't the same as what they were."