Shoulder blade pain is a very painful and really disabling issue. Patients will lose a lot more important things in their lives for instance spending time together with family and friends, sports, works and other things that make life worthwhile. The symptom is different for everyone but the most obvious symptom is pain, pain in shoulder blade may be dull, cramping, throbbing, sharp, burning, or a variety of other adjectives. The area can be swollen, weak, oddly colored, or numb.
There are lots of typical daily activities we take part in that may have an impact on our shoulder blade pain. The pain might be sourced from inflammation of the tissues or tendons surrounding the scapula or the shoulder blade. Muscles may become strained from doing everything from moving your whole body incorrectly throughout the day to be hunched over a laptop computer all day. The same case could also apply as regards the tendons and ligaments in the scapula region. The way in which your body is positioned when you are asleep will be the next possibility. Constantly remember waking up and feeling like a person hit your shoulder with a hammer? That may have been from bad alignment during sleep. This subsequent reason for the pain is one we can all relate to. Being tense and stressed, can really wrench your entire body up tight.
Mild pain in shoulder blade could also be simple illness from the flu or perhaps a severe cold. This is usually because of body aches and pains caused by inflammation connected with illnesses and viruses. This pain typically disappear shortly after the illness itself does, but to help alleviate them more quickly, try using hot compresses or a cooling and heating gel.
Shoulder blade pain while breathing, is often connected with some lung problems, like infections etc. Thus, smokers and people who suffer from lung collapse tend to experience this discomfort .
This condition should not be ignored because it can make you feel hard to concentrate on daily tasks.
The most frequent causes of pain under left shoulder blade are damage to the muscles and joints of the shoulder or neck vertebrae. However, in rare cases, it may signal a warning that the pain is not in the shoulder itself, but can be related to a pain from one of the organs in the body. The shoulder where the pain occurs can give the clue which of the organs are affected and causing the radiating pain into the shoulder. It can be a signal that there is a problem with the stomach or in the chest. So if this is continuing you should get it checked.
Acute pain – A dislocated shoulder may radiate to the shoulder blade. Tendinitis affecting a tendon area scapular (scapular area is the area of The body including the shoulder, shoulder blade and neck) in exceptional cases a heart problem or internal bleeding can be signaled by pain level of the scapula. Sudden pain, acute traumatic cause and without identifiable (a fall, sudden movement) should lead you to consult a doctor urgently.
Chronic Pain – Arthritis: inflammation of the shoulder joint and shoulder area will radiate to the shoulder blade and cause chronic pain which can become intense in the later stages of the disease.
Heart Conditions – The pain can often be a sign of an impending heart attack; especially if the pain is also located in the area of the chest and also radiates into the back. The pericardium is the thin lining that encases the heart. Pericarditis is denoted by an inflammation of the pericardium lining. The symptoms of pericarditis often include pain under the left shoulder blade.
The Lungs – Many varieties of lung problems can cause this type of pain, including disorders of the airways such as asthma or bronchitis, infection of the lungs (pneumonia), and inflammation of the lining of the lungs (pleuritis, or pleurisy). Severe chest pains that radiate to the shoulder blades can be caused by this condition.
The doctors will first ask you to make typical movements that will allow it to assess the degree of mobility of the shoulder and to estimate with greater precision the affected area. It can then be prescribed to you, in some cases, medical imaging examinations such as MRI of the thorax a radio that will permit a definitive diagnosis.
It is essential to remove the possibility of a grave and urgent reason. In case of persistent pain, it is imperative to consult a doctor.
Pain under the right shoulder blade may be caused by many conditions. The shoulder blade is a mobile, triangular bone that's protected by a complex surrounding muscles system. It may causes pain by itself, or other tissues or structures that send pain to that particular area. The pain can be mild, moderate or severe.
Sometimes you need a number of diagnostic tests to assess the damage to the shoulder. X-rays can display fractures, breaks along with other abnormalities of the shoulder bones .Doctors can see the soft tissues of the shoulder joint, along with the bones through MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) or CT (computerized tomography) scan .Electromyogram (EMG) can test nerve damage . Sometimes, right shoulder pain is the result of referred pain. Doctors will take a look at other body systems as well.
Both you and your healthcare professional can discuss the appropriate treatments after you have found the reason for your shoulder pain . Pain that involved the shoulder itself is going to be addressed directly. Most often you can choose non-invasive treatment options. Non-surgical treatment includes rest from exasperating activities or utilization of a sling to sustain the shoulder; easy exercise or physiotherapy to improve muscle strength and flexibility; medications such as ibuprofen or acetaminophen, to alleviate inflammation and pain; or perhaps a corticosteroid injection in to the painful region to reduce inflammation.
Some conditions that manifest themselves through shoulder pain may need surgery. Arthroscopy surgery is a popular procedure. This type of surgery uses very small incisions and tiny instruments to identify issues that might not be acquired through routine testing. There are other situations in which conventional open surgery may be required to end shoulder pain.
Tendonitis – The tendons in the shoulder become inflamed. Since they join the muscle to the bone, they cause the upper back pain that you experience with tendonitis.
Wrong Posture – After years of sleeping in the wrong position or sitting the wrong way, you can find yourself in a lot of pain. It isn't easy to change a bad habit like that.
Heart Disease – Having pain in your shoulder or upper back is one of the signs of having a heart attack. Having chest pain can easily lead to pain in your shoulder blades.
Excessive Stress – Whether it is physical or more psychological, living a stressful life will increase your chance of feeling pain in that area. A lot of people who are depressed also complain about having a bad backache.
Arthritis and Osteoporosis – A lot of these occur when people hit an older age. It is something to be on the look for as you are growing older.
If you are experiencing this type of pain, the best thing to do is talk to your doctor. They will be able to let you know what you can do about it. If it isn't too serious, they might recommend different exercising to have you try.
In other cases they will prescribe pain medication. Sometimes you will just have to take it when you feel the pain coming on. Other times you will have to take it 24/7. It depends on your pain level and what your doctor recommends.
It is important to try to figure out why you have the pain that you do. Once you know why then you can figure out how to change your lifestyle to avoid it in the future. For example, if stress is the reason then you need to figure out how to live a less stressful life.
Back pain can be very limiting. With help you can get back to your normal life. You do not have to live with the pain forever.
First of all, you should pause for some time when you are suffering from this pain and consider your everyday activities and sitting posture. From this you can find whether there's something that should be changed in your day-to-day activities.
When you've got experienced an external injury and there's a sign of inflammation, then you can put an icepack on the shoulder blade about 3 times a day, this may help you feel comfortable.
Additionally keeps a check on your diet plan. Additional a diet rich in proteins and carbohydrates is helpful for building up the muscles in your body. It will also be useful in repairing damaged tissues .
Recently, the use of magnetic energy, in conjunction with low vibration therapy, indicates to be highly effective in addressing the problem of such pain in addition to chronic pain associated with a range of neuromuscular issues. These remedies are completely safe and have no unwanted effects – so they are well worth investigating if you are seeking healthier options to pharmaceutical chemicals.
In order to relieve this pain, obese people must lose some weight. If the pain is due to a particular underlying cause, like gallbladder disease, then it should be treated properly and the painful symptom will appear reduced by itself.


Next: Evidence for Rubble Pile Up: Are Asteroids Rubble Piles? Previous: Are Asteroids Rubble Piles?
Asteroids (and comets) are remnants of the original building blocks which formed the planets. As such, they are recorders of the conditions which existed in the solar nebula approximately 4.6 billion ago. Since that time, however, these minor planets have been pummeled by a continuous rain of impacting asteroids and comets, which produces craters and, occasionally, catastrophic disruption events. These collisions are responsible for the creation of most of the sub-100 km bodies now observed in the main asteroid belt. Therefore, to understand how asteroids have evolved over time, we need to understand the physics of hyper-velocity collisions and how these events have modified the shapes and internal structures of the surviving bodies.
Our knowledge of asteroids has grown substantially over the last decade. For example, meteorite samples and spectroscopic techniques tell us that asteroids are composed of non-volatile rocky and metallic materials. Detailed information on the composition and orbital distribution of asteroids is given by the paper by J. Remo (this issue). Unfortunately, no observational measurement can probe an asteroid's interior, making it impossible to say whether small asteroids are (i) solid fragments from homogenous parent bodies, (ii) a solid fragments from differentiated parent bodies, or (iii) piles of rubble produced by collisions. Despite this problem, models (i) and (ii) have been favored by planetary scientists for many years, probably because they match our preconceived notions about what ``rocks in space'' should be like and they explain many asteroidal surface features observed by ground-based spectroscopy. As I will present in the next section, however, model (iii), the ``rubble pile'' model, appears to provide a better match than (i) or (ii) to observational constraints and new results from numerical impact simulations.


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AccuPower Solutions was the official provider of force plate measurement technology for the 2017 NHL Draft Combine, held May 28-June 3rd in Buffalo, NY. AccuPower Solutions administered vertical jump testing to the 100+ invited draft prospects and provided all teams with a full video analysis and detailed reports immediately following the event.
The event allowed for the unveiling of AccuPower 3.0, the 5th generation of AccuPower Software. AccuPower 3.0 is arguably our biggest software development effort and includes many exciting new features, including some designed specifically for NHL Combine. As was the case with AccuPower 2.0, the new software release is designed to accommodate large-scale athlete testing and certainly did not disappoint at the Combine.
AccuPower Solutions introduced a dual-platform AccuPower (AMTI, Waterford, MA) configuration for use at the Combine. This event marked the first time that a dual force plate system has been used at the combine. A dual plate analysis allows for a robust analysis of the athlete's ability to generate force and power, and more specifically Right/Left Leg Symmetry in force and power output.
AccuPower 3.0 introduced real-time high-speed video and force display during the Combine. The on board video system in AccuPower 3.0 displays forces and a force vector overlay in real time during data collection. Immediately following data collection, instant replay allowed the attendees to immediately review key data points within a full HD video at 120 frames per second. Two cameras were used at the combine, providing a front and profile view of each athletes testing.
Along with the normal vertical jump analysis, AccuPower 3.0 provided several "NHL combine specific" measures. AccuPower Solutions worked with NHL Strength Coaches to refine and validate these combine specific measures, and in the process enhanced the reliability of those measures. AccuPower 3.0 was used to rerun force plate data from previous years and incorporated the historical data into percentile rank calculations for this year's data.
A full release of AccuPower 3.0 is planned for later this summer. Contact AccuPower Solutions for more information.


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As last week ended, tension between the U.S. and some of its greatest allies was on the rise. Trade remained a hot-button topic ahead of the G-7 meeting in Canada, but investors seemed largely unfazed by the drama. In fact, all 3 domestic indexes posted strong results: The S&P 500 added 1.62% and the NASDAQ gained 1.21%, with both indexes notching their 3rd week of gains in a row.


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Recently I've been in a place where I've had to just trust God. As I've been struggling to give up control and allow God to be in charge, I've been thinking about this whole thing of trusting.
In my case, trusting God means trusting that He is in control, and that whatever happens is ultimately best for my life (even if things turn out differently then I'd like).
The craziest thing about trusting God right now, is that ultimately I have no other choice. I'm essentially stuck in a waiting game, I've done all that I can do. There is no other option, & yet for some reason it's still so hard to trust that God is in control.
Perhaps our Western culture has ruined us from a life of allowing God to have total control. We've been taught and trained to look out for ourselves. We all work to be self-sufficient, needing no help or hand outs. The problem I find is that no matter how hard I try to control everything all by myself, ultimately I'm not capable.
And so, here I am, once again quoting Philippians 4:6-7 (MSG), because I know that my being anxious and worrying does nothing at this point, I just need to trust.


Sometimes celebrities let their egos get out of control and they no longer have time for the fans. But sometimes, it's just the opposite.
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I don't know many of these, maybe they want to get more famous.!


"Early childhood educational television programming has been the hallmark of public television since its inception.
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"Public television provides the only free, over-the-air national television service for children -- offering more than 20 shows that support kids' learning -- and now reaches more than 95 percent of U.S. television households all day every day, reaching the 54 percent of America's children who don't receive any formal preschool education.
"Public television's educational programming is not only broadcast over-the-air and through cable and satellite delivery but also streamed across a multitude of digital platforms, delivering 4 billion videos a year to more than 11 million unique users of our children's educational content.
"And PBS LearningMedia, a K-12 classroom service with more than two million registered users reaching 40 million students, has adapted more than 100,000 curriculum-aligned, interactive, digital learning objects from the best of public television programming and other authoritative sources including the Library of Congress, National Archives, NASA, the National Science Foundation and more.
"Underlying all of this work in education are America's 350 local public television stations, which provide the secret ingredient -- real, live people -- to take full advantage of public television's national and local educational programming.
"Partnering with schools, Head Start centers, Boys and Girls Clubs, community libraries, mobile learning labs and other institutions, we offer hands-on teaching and professional development to accompany our broadcast and broadband program offerings.
"We could do more -- more original programming, more adaptation for classroom use, more educational staff and curriculum aids to enhance the instructional process, more delivery systems made possible by new technology -- with more financial resources, whether from governments, foundations, corporations, individuals, or fellow broadcasters, as envisioned by the Children's Television Act itself.


Here's something to know about us: If it has a tail...we love it. If it barks, meows, oinks, moos, brays, howls, whineys, caw-caws or crows...we love it. If it's a bulldog, we especially love it. Send us all your cute animal videos please...as well as your cute animal projects!
"First of all, I want to say that I am so in love with the branding you guys have created for us. I literally want everything!"
Seriously, we're in love with our work for WAGSociety, a division of Hello Society - one of our favorite clients. They came to us with an amazing project: create a line of Pet inspired branding that would work in harmony with the existing creative work we did for Hello Society.
We couldn't hide our squeals of excitement but, as professionals, we composed ourselves for a moment and laid out our ground-rules: Creating the designs, we knew we needed to have balance in the work. We knew the designs needed to be cute but not too cute as they would need to sync well with WAGSociety's existing partners. We also knew that we had to be flexible - this couldn't just be for cats and dogs.
After discussing and drafting a few potential approaches, our artists landed on using a "one-line" drawing to create a feeling of uniqueness and continuity. Working in this way, the pen never leaves the page and creates a constant and ever changing shape from one singular hand movement.
As in many designs, the simplicity of the image betrays the difficulty and skill it takes to create it. This technique really allowed us to create brand images that are both sophisticated and elevated while also being playful, grounded and consistent.
"I LOVE YOU GUYS!!! This brand is the best thing ever, I can't get enough of it. You guys did such an amazing job. Every time I look at it I just feel so HAPPY!! Get ready for some sWAG coming your way!!"
We made bags and tattoos and pillows and mugs and doggie bags and so much crazy merchandising that just made us feel so HAPPY. We made happy pigs, and dogs and cats and turtles and foxes and so many different pieces that we'll embarrass ourselves if we keep gushing. To say that this project is a favorite, as you can tell, is an understatement.


On occasion, two variegated winter daphnes (Daphne odora 'Aureomarginata', below) flower late in January, though more typically in early March, and a time or two not at all when a severe winter kills the flowering branch tips of this marginally cold hardy shrub. This year, two degrees below zero (Fahrenheit) was enough to damage leaves, but not so harsh that flowers were lost. Still, rather than flowering early in the month, blooms have begun opening at the tail end of March.
Foliage of two variegated Winter daphnes was slightly damaged by two degrees below zero, but one is in full bloom. The second in deeper shade is possibly two weeks behind.
The midwinter flowering time is preferred, of course, at the time when there are many fewer blooms, but also because flowering coincides with a mild winter. Despite the moans and groans of gardeners, and the general populace I suppose, the winter that is thankfully just past was very average, though inconvenient timing pushed many flowers weeks later than usual.
Not unusually, buds of long flowering, hybrid daphnes (Daphne x transatlantica) showed signs of blooming in February, lacking only a single week of mild temperatures to show color that came the second week of March. With a few scattered flowers by mid March, 'Summer Ice' (above), 'Eternal Fragrance', and the similar 'Jim's Pride' (below) will remain in some state of bloom until November.
Gardeners concerned by the reputation for fickleness of daphnes are advised that these are the easiest of the lot, more hardy for colder zones, and a bit more accepting of varied conditions. Admittedly, the precise formula for daphne happiness remains a secret, but ones that thrive in this garden do so in well drained soil in partial sun. One area of the garden has proven to be a success, so as many daphnes as will fit are crammed into this space, with more to come as lesser plants are excised.
'Carol Mackie', a splendid variegated leaf daphne that flowers in April in this garden, is off and on difficult, with one substantial shrub slowly diminishing in size in recent years, and another questionably taking hold in the shade of a redbud. Both defoliated completely this winter, but they are beginning growth with flower buds evident.
A daphne relative, paperbush (Edgeworthia chrysantha, above) is cold hardy to zero degrees (Fahrenheit), but flower buds are often injured below five degrees. Following a drop this winter to two below, some damage to flowering is seen, but enough flowers remain to satisfy. A word of warning is necessary for the gardener who gives paperbush a try. References state its mature size as four to six feet wide and tall, but the three largest in this garden are a bit more that six feet tall, with a spread of more than ten feet (one to fifteen).
Certainly, I have no complaint, and even after if was necessary to prune damaged branches back to three feet five or six years ago, the shrubs quickly rebounded, regaining their full size in two years. Though I am challenged to enjoy any of the garden's scents, daphnes and paperbushes are among the treasures of this garden.
I'll need more than a few daphne flowers before I can smell them, and a still, sunny day. more flowers and sunny days are on the way.
Hey, I just planted a few of those! (Daphne odora 'Aureomarginata') I grew it back in the 1990s, and never really liked growing it much. Ours always looked bad, but were bought up before we could make them available. Landscapers would come in an buy them before they were ready to sell. Just as with the hellebores, they assured me that they would do much better once they were in the ground at their respective new landscapes. Well, I am about to find out. I just planted one of our old ones and three newer ones that were grown by someone else. They are really floppy as if grown in a greenhouse. I am not impressed so far, but if they do well, they will be ideal for the particular spot, where fragrance would be very nice.


Do You Need A Simple Or Complicated Time And Attendance Solution?
In the first period of a recent game between the Miami Heat and the Boston Celtics, two of the NBA's marquee teams, the Celtics were being pummeled. During a time out, coach Doc Rivers, kept saying to his players, "keep the game simple". This is a phrase that's often used in sports by coaches to remind players to stick to the fundamentals of the game. The phrase, "keep it simple" is also used in the world of business and other areas of life.
So, what does "keep it simple" have to do with a time management system? In the context of this discussion quite a lot. If your company has been using a paper based time sheet or an antiquated punch clock system and you are thinking about implementing a time management solution, try migrating at a slow pace.
Now, we are not suggesting that you go out and purchase the cheapest solution you can get your hands on. As we all know, you cannot put a price on quality. At the same time, we are not suggesting you get the most expensive. Instead, what we are saying is that for companies who are thinking about deploying a time & attendance system for the first time, the "keep it simple" approach should apply. You can always add modules to a scalable workforce time and attendance system as your need increases. Apex Time Solutions provides an open and integrated employee time management solution representing a variety of sizes and industries.
The ATS Workforce Management Software tracks employee time and attendance, employee time clock software, employee scheduling software and payroll software all in a single package.
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Can a Time and Attendance System Make a Difference?
Surveys by leading organizations have consistently revealed that a large majority of organizations do not use any form of time and attendance to track employee hours. When you consider that labour is the largest expense for most organizations, this statistic leaves one to wonder why?
How many employees complain if they get overpaid? If even a small number of employees keep their overpayments, it is costing plenty. And when employees get underpaid and complain, issuing a new pay cheque or adjustment is costly.
Without accurate information, you lose the ability to perform useful decision support. Pay is the biggest controllable expense in most organizations. You should have accurate information about hours worked, departments worked in, etc. for your decision support.
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Home » Parliamentary Activity » Corrections Amendment (Prisoner Remission) Bill 2018
Corrections Amendment (Prisoner Remission) Bill 2018
Rosalie Woodruff MP - Tuesday, 18 September 2018
Tags: Justice, Custodial Inspector
Dr WOODRUFF (Franklin) - Mr Deputy Speaker, this bill that comes back into our place was roundly rejected by the Greens last time. The bill is in exactly the same form as it was. Despite the fact that there was more opportunity to consult than with the initial 2017 amendment bill, it seems the minister has failed to listen to the concerns raised in a number of the submissions, albeit very hastily prepared submissions because the consultation process for the last amendment bill 2017 was very poor. It was rushed and did not allow stakeholders to have the time required to do their submissions justice. When I say that, I am not reflecting on the quality of the submissions made; just that it did not provide all potential stakeholders the time they would need to write the submissions that they might have.
Given there has been time now for the minister to reflect on those submissions, it is very poor that the Government is continuing to rehash this commitment essentially by the Liberals to further provide more combustible situations in the prison in Tasmania. What we are seeing is a decision to park money into locking people up instead of rehabilitative justice.
Restorative justice and therapeutic interventions are the approach to managing crime that is used in countries that are successfully lowering their crime rate. It is those countries that are successfully making their societies safer places for their residents to live. That is what we want.
The Greens support policies that will make Tasmania a safer place to live. What this Liberal Government is doing with their increasingly punitive legislative agenda is to continue down the path of a populist 'tough on crime' approach that is not effective because it is not based on evidence.
The evidence is that we need to put the focus before people are sent to courts, in the pre-trial stage, and the focus should be put before people are charged in the drug diversion stage. We need to focus on people when they are in prison and in the therapeutic intervention opportunities they have at their disposal. We have to put focus on people when they leave prison, so they are supported to move into society, contribute to their community, find housing, employment, reconnect with their families, children and people they have not spent time with for months and sometimes years or tens of years. It is all that work that needs to be done to make sure people do not reoffend and to prevent people offending in the first place.
The view of the Greens is that this bill and what it contains will make sure the prison system, particularly Risdon Prison, will continue to have situations that will lead to discontent amongst prisoners and lead to potentially explosive events happening, as we have seen at Risdon Prison recently.
It is the clear cultural shift that occurred from the previous minister for corrections, Vanessa Goodwin, who managed to charter a course of justice in her very powerful and strong and evidence based management of the prison system, compared to Mr Guy Barnett, who took over and referred to life in the prison system in Tasmania as prisoners thinking they were in Club Med. That speaks volumes about the punitive, lock them up and throw away the key approach Mr Barnett brought to his portfolio. He was not a leader for rehabilitative justice and does not understand what we need to do toward therapeutic interventions, reconnecting with families, providing people with jobs and houses; as the known mechanisms in helping to people to not reoffend.
Unfortunately, we see the current minister continuing to work in the line of previous minister, Mr Barnett. Instead of setting the culture toward restorative justice and putting the money into those baskets, we have a Liberal Government that came to the election promising to waste $270 million on a northern prison. They are promising to waste $270 million in a way that we know, from experiences of other societies, is a disaster. Countries around the world are starting to move away from prisons altogether. They have sophisticated but simple approaches to disciplining and containing people to keep the community safe. They are so sophisticated that some countries have established effective hotels where prisoners live. They are in such low security settings because of the effectiveness of their interventions. It is a very long way from the Greens' corrections minister, Mr Nick McKim, in 2010 to 2014, who effectively brought down the recidivism rates in Tasmania. That trajectory is now increasing toward locking people up and increasingly looking for opportunities for punitive and ineffectual responses to problems with behaviour in prisons.
The Greens will not be supporting this bill. It is shabby legislation and it will lead to an increase in that pressure cooker situation at Risdon Prison we have seen a number of times, resulting in an explosion of violence that has threatened others prisoners and staff. A bill like this is not good enough for the safety of Tasmanians or the welfare of people in prison; the staff and the prisoners.
The remission mechanism is used as a method of maintaining order and discipline within the systems. This is not being used as a product of concern for the prisoners but it is used as a carrot and stick method by officers in order to control prisoners within the prison environment. It also provides an incentive for prisoners to practise good behaviour. The two parts to the remission system provide prison officers with leverage in a situation to help them to encourage appropriate conduct in a person's behaviour during their time within the prison system.
Currently, the Director of Prisons can reduce the sentence of a prisoner by one-third, up to a maximum of three months, as long as that does not reduce the sentence to less than three years. At the moment, a prisoner will be ineligible for remission if they have been convicted of an escape, attempted escape, or if the prisoner's sentence was three months or less. A record is kept of the misconduct of each prisoner and detainee and the contents of that record must be considered when computing the amount of previous remission that can be granted to an individual prisoner or detainee.
It is relevant to raise the comments the Women's Legal Service made in their submission for the 2017 amendment version of this bill. They noted that they believed there should be greater transparency around the reasons that remissions are granted. We support that view and, in saying that, we do not support the removal of remission this bill seeks to provide. That is not to say we do not think there cannot be an improvement in the processes and documentation of the current system.
We do think that is the case. The Women's Legal Service was of the view that information should be available to the courts in future as to the understanding of why a person has been rewarded a remission, what good behaviour they exhibited, and that information should be documented.
If a person is released from prison and he commits another crime, the court can look at the record of their time within the prison and know whether they have exhibited good behaviour or as poorly behaved inside the prison as they were outside, which has led them to commit another crime.
That is the sort of transparency that would be important in the remission board determining whether a remission should be granted and may be valuable for a court.
The Women's Legal Service also noted that women tend to serve shorter sentences than men and it may impact upon their ability to participate in rehabilitative or approved, purposeful activities and therefore may be less likely to be granted a remission. This relates to women who are currently in the prison who will continue to be eligible for remissions regardless of this legislation.
If this legislation was passed and proclaimed, remissions would not be available for anybody sentenced for a time in prison. The Women's Legal Service in its submission raised the point that with shorter sentences you are potentially going to put women at a disadvantage because they do not have the time to participate in rehabilitation programs or the opportunity to participate in other activities that might mean the Director of Prisons gives you an early day out on remission as a result of your good behaviour in the understanding that we want prisons to rehabilitate and make people better when they leave than when they came into the prison. That is an important point to understand. What is the purpose of putting people into prison? The purpose is twofold: to keep the community safe, and to ensure the people who are in prison for the period they have been sentenced will be provided every opportunity to rehabilitate, adjust their behaviour and change their responses so when they are released from prison they will not reoffend. That is the bottom line and that is what we want.
Unfortunately, without a proper investment in the right place in prisons and prison programs, we see that aim is essentially a dream. It is a dream in the eyes of the Greens, that we would be putting people into prison to keep the community safe and to rehabilitate the people who are there so they come out and do not reoffend, but the reality under the Liberals is that people go into prison and into a situation where, if this amendment bill is passed, one extra tool in the box of tools that officers and staff have to manage behaviour in the prison and to give encouragement for good behaviour will be removed from them.
Although this bill could seek to improve the remission system, it does not do that. Instead, it removes it entirely as an option without any replacement. In the view of the Greens that is inviting a disaster because it will be prison officers, other prisoners and ultimately the wider community that will be affected by taking this position. It will have an effect on the orderly functioning of the prisons and therefore on the safety of all prisoners and prison officers. It means prison officers will need to step up their response and resort to more reactive forms of punishment to maintain order.
That would have significant implications for the potential of rehabilitation and the safety of the prison. It is taxpayers who will foot the bill of this approach. We will need additional staff to maintain order and there will be increased payouts for workers compensation claims as prison officers are likely to be subjected to an increasingly unsafe workplace.
Last year when this remissions amendment bill was debated, we had had a situation where there was a period of substantial numbers of prison staff on sick leave who were making claims for workers compensation. I am not sure where that situation is up to. Perhaps the minister could inform us exactly what proportion of staff are on sick leave and whether there are claims for workers compensation.
Ms Archer - It has nothing to do with remission.
Dr WOODRUFF - I think this is very germane to the issue of remissions because it is about the culture of the prison and the working conditions for staff within it and their ability to manage a workplace where one of their tools of behaviour management and discipline would be removed from them.
We do not want to be involved in introducing legislation which will add to a situation that is already under so much pressure. We need to look at this bill in the broader context of what is going on in the prison. Last year's annual report shows that there has been a downward trajectory in the management of the Tasmanian prison system since the Liberals have been in Government and it reveals a situation of a prison and corrections system that is essentially in a crisis situation. It is a crisis where the 'tough on crime' policies of the Government have been turning one-time offenders into serial criminals, making the community less safe. I note that the Liberals' mismanagement of the justice system was identified in the Custodial Inspector's annual report late last year where the Custodial Inspector concluded that Tasmania's prison population increased 10 per cent in that report, which followed a 15 per cent increase the year before with no indication that the trend was going to slow down.
What we have seen under this Liberal Government so far is a year on year more than 10 per cent increase in the number of people going to prison. We know that for every person going to prison there is in the order of a 40 per cent to 50 per cent recidivism rate. That means 40 per cent to 50 per cent of people who are released will come back to prison. We have to take that seriously.
It is a matter of concern that in the last two years of information that we have there has been a 10 per cent and, before that, a 15 per cent increase in the number of people going to prison.
Almost every prison facility in the state was reported to be overcrowded in the Custodial Inspector's report and all the services were beyond stretched. The key findings were that there double and triple bunking of inmates in some cells, minimum security prisoners were being placed in medium and maximum security prisons and that there was not enough access to rehabilitation programs. That is no surprise. That has been a consistent story under the Liberals since they have been in government.
There is not enough access to health services in the prison and the Custodial Inspector also pointed out there is not enough access to post release care into the community. He also said there was unsatisfactory time outside cells for prisoners because of excessive lockdowns that were caused by staff shortages.
The Custodial Inspector made it very clear that the prison's infrastructure in Tasmania is not fit for its purpose. There are issues with plumbing, electrical systems, cell temperatures and lack of access for elderly and infirm prisoners to appropriate services. The Ron Barwick minimum security prison was only to be used in the short to medium term for minimum security prisoners after the Legislative Council select committee report in 1999, but 19 years later there is still no forward plan for its replacement.
The minister might like to say this happened under the previous government but that would be her Government now because that is what I have heard from -
Ms Archer - Are you putting words into my mouth now?
Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER - Order.
Dr WOODRUFF - correction ministers over the past nearly four and a half years. They are always pointing backwards. It is well past time for this Government to show where they are in the corrections system and unfortunately they are showing they are committed to going down a punitive 'tough on crime' approach which we know does not work. By all the measures that we should care about, which are community safety, effective rehabilitation of prisoners into the community and low recidivism rates - all the measures a reasonable person in the community would expect a measure of a successful corrections system to be - this Government is failing. They are especially failing by their election commitment to spend $270 million to build a northern prison. I note they are not now proposing to do that, but it was a great way of buying a populist election slogan. There is only a $45 million commitment to that, thank goodness. The Greens would support $270 million going into restorative justice. What an amazing corrections system we would have if we put $270 million into the poorest parts of Tasmania - into drug treatment, therapeutic interventions.
What an amazing state we could live in.
You would get a lot of community support from low income areas. What about the north-west coast? What about the north-east coast? What about the far south? What about all the places that miss out on those services? The focus on concrete, mortar, jobs and growth was to shore up votes in an electorate where it was needed, and they are not even going to honour the promise. It would have been awful for Tasmania if they had. I would like to hear the response from the minister to the Custodial Inspector's reports and the actions that have been taken. When people are double and triple bunking and minimum security prisoners being placed in medium and maximum security prisons then you are putting pressure on a system and there is going to be bad behaviour and explosive events.
The Government is setting itself up to leave a legacy of rising serious crime rates and a crumbling corrections system that will demand more from our budget and divert resources away from other areas, such as health. Spending $270 million in the health system would be a fantastic use of taxpayers' money.
The housing situation is critical. The other day I met a single mother with three children. Her landlord had just jacked up her rent $100 per week. She had to leave the house that she has with her three children near their school. I hear these stories all the time. There are so many critical issues we need to focus on. In terms of this bill, the most critical thing the minister could do would be to take that $45 million and direct it into restorative justice.
This is a retrograde bill. It is going to compound the pressure cooker in the prison system. It removes the capacity of staff to use a carrot and stick approach to behaviour management. The evidence is that it works elsewhere. It will reduce the ability of corrections officers to rehabilitate offenders. It will make the communities less safe. We do not support this bill.
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Implicated in David Ortiz case belongs to the Cartel del Golfo
Víctor Hugo Gómez Vásquez
PUNTA CANA. The Public Ministry and the National Police indicated that the Mexican Víctor Hugo Gómez Vásquez was the intellectual author of the attack against David Ortiz, a shot intended for his friend Sixto David Fernández, a fact that occurred on Sunday, May 9, in the Dial's bar Eastern zone.
Gómez Vásquez is a dangerous narco belonging to the Gulf cartel, which is responsible for taking drugs from Colombia to Houston, Texas. In the Dominican Republic, he was imprisoned in the Victoria prison with Carlos Rafael Álvarez (Carlos Nike), Alberto Miguel Rodríguez Mota and José Eduardo Ciprian, according to the results of the investigations carried out by the authorities.
David "Big Papi" Ortiz had nothing to do with the case at any time, according to the attorney. He told Jean Alain Rodríguez that he did not know the reasons why he was shot. The data was offered at a press conference by the authorities this Wednesday afternoon.
So, why did Gómez Vásquez send Sixto to kill David Fernández, a friend of Big Papi?
Before 2011, these two had a commercial link that broke. The day that Gómez Vasquez was imprisoned for drugs, he was admitted to the headquarters of the detained DNCD, he saw Sixto David leave the place, so he thought it was he who betrayed him to the authorities and set out to seek revenge. Everything ended in this outcome.
Data indicates that the attack had been planned in the United States.
The night of the attack, the Venezuelan Alberto Miguel Rodríguez Mota -profugal- was in the bar supervising the operation and when this happened was the only one that stayed in the place, which indicates that he knew what was going to happen.
After that, the capture of all involved began. So far, 11 people are now arrested, 10 of them have taken measures of coercion in different prisons in the country. Three others – with the mastermind – are fugitives. They are Víctor Hugo Gómez Vásquez, Alberto Miguel Rodríguez Mota and Luis Alberto Rivas Class (The Surgeon).


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Right to Farm opponents argue ballot language in court
COLUMBIA - The Missouri Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday from Right to Farm opponents who claim the ballot language of the amendment, narrowly passed last year, misled voters.
Tim Gibbons, of the Missouri Rural Crisis Center, a group which opposes Right to Farm, said the language voters saw on the ballot was "much different" than what went into the constitution.
"Voters didn't know that the ballot language did not represent what the language going into the constitution is, or may be," Gibbons said.
The ballot language referenced the right of "Missouri citizens" to farm, but Gibbons said "the language going into the constitution does not reference 'Missouri citizens'," instead saying "farmers and ranchers."
Gibbons said this gives foreign corporations the right to farm in Missouri.
Rep. Bill Riebolt, R-Neosho, a supporter of right-to-farm legislation said opponents had plenty of time to challenge the ballot language before the election. He called the lawsuit "frivolous."
"It needs to be thrown out," said Riebolt. "We feel confident that the Supreme Court will do that."
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The eight members of the Class of 2015 – Jerome Bettis, Tim Brown, Charles Haley, Bill Polian, Junior Seau, Will Shields, Mick Tingelhoff, and Ron Wolf – will be at the center of the football world during the Enshrinement Weekend in Canton, Ohio on Aug. 6-9.
Joining the new class throughout the weekend celebration will be the individual selected by each enshrinee to serve as his presenter. The group of presenters for the Class of 2015 includes two brothers, a son, daughter, owner, coach, teammate, and longtime friend.
DeBartolo, Jr. will serve as a presenter for the fifth time when he presents defensive end/linebacker Charles Haley for enshrinement next month. DeBartolo presented coach Bill Walsh in 1993, quarterback Joe Montana in 2000, defensive end Fred Dean in 2008, and wide receiver Jerry Rice in 2010.
The first "official" duty of the presenters takes place at the Enshrinees' Gold Jacket Dinner on Thursday, Aug. 6 in Canton. The presenters, along with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and Hall of Fame President David Baker will be center stage to greet the Class of 2015 after they pass through a ceremonial gauntlet of the more than 100 Hall of Famers on hand for the weekend's activities. The presenters will then formally present the Hall of Fame Gold Jacket to their specific enshrinee. The gala event will be televised by NFL Network.
At the Enshrinement Ceremony on Saturday, Aug. 8 in Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium, the presenters will officially introduce the Class of 2015 through video presentations shown on large video screens and broadcast to the national television audience. Then, in dramatic fashion, the presenter joins his Hall of Fame Enshrinee to unveil his Bronzed Bust. The entire 2015 Enshrinement will be broadcast live on ESPN and NFL Network.
The Enshrinement Ceremony is nearly sold out. Remaining tickets can be purchased online or by calling 844-4HOFTIX (844-446-3849).


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Christ And The Church
U.S.A. and U.N. Visit in Retrospect
'Christ our Hope' Apostolic Visit: strengthening Catholics in faith, fostering brotherhood and calling Nations to unite in human rights.
On Wednesday, 30 April [2008], at the General Audience in St Peter's Square the Holy Father commented on his recent Apostolic Visit to the United States of America, from 15 to 21 April [2008], and the the United Nations Organization on 18 April. The following is a translation of the Pope's Catechesis, given in Italian.
Although several days have already passed since my return, I would like, nevertheless, to devote today's Catechesis, as usual, to the Apostolic Journey I made to the United Nations Organizations and to the United States of America from 15 to 21 April. I first of all renew the expression of my most heartfelt gratitude to the United States Bishops' Conference, and likewise to President Bush for having invited me, and for the warm welcome they gave me.
I would like, however, to extend my "thank you" to all those in Washington and in New York who came to greet me and to express their love for the Pope or who accompanied and sustained me with their prayers and the offering of their sacrifices.
As is well known, the occasion of the Visit was the 200th anniversary of the elevation of the Country's first Diocese — Baltimore — to a metropolitan Archdiocese and the establishment of the Sees of New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Louisville. On this characteristically ecclesial occasion, I therefore had the joy of going in person, for the first time as Successor of Peter, to visit the beloved People of the United States of America, to strengthen Catholics in the faith, to renew and to increase brotherhood among all Christians and to proclaim to all the Message of "Christ our Hope" which resounds as the motto of my Journey.
During the Meeting with the President at his residence, I was able to pay tribute to this great Country which was built from the outset on the foundations of a felicitous combination of religious, ethical and political principles which still constitute a valid example of healthy secularism where the religious dimension, with the diversity of its expressions, is not only tolerated but appreciated as the Nation's "soul" and a fundamental guarantee of human rights and duties.
In this context the Church can carry out her mission of evangelization and human promotion with freedom and commitment and also as a "critical conscience". She thus contributes to building a society worthy of the human person and, at the same time, encourages a Country such as the United States — to which everyone looks as to one of the principal actors on the international stage — toward global solidarity, ever more necessary and urgent, and the patient exercise of dialogue in international relations.
The mission and role of the ecclesial Community were naturally the focus of the Meeting with the Bishops, which was held at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington. In the liturgical context of Vespers, we praised the Lord for the progress made by the People of God in the United States for the zeal of its Pastors and the fervour and generosity of its faithful. This is expressed in the high and candid esteem in which faith is held and in countless charitable and humanitarian initiatives, at home and abroad.
At the same time, I supported my Brothers in the Episcopate in their far from easy task of sowing the Gospel in a society marked by many contradictions, which even threaten the coherence of Catholics and the clergy themselves.
Laity: leaven in the community
I encouraged them to make their voice heard on the current moral and social issues and to form the lay faithful to be good 'leaven" in the civil community, starting with the fundamental cell which is the family. In this regard I urged them to repropose the Sacrament of Matrimony as a gift and an indissoluble commitment between a man and a woman, the natural context for welcoming and raising children.
The Church and the family, together with school, especially schools of Christian inspiration — must cooperate in order to offer young people a sound moral education, but in this task those who work in communications and entertainment also have a great responsibility.
In thinking of the painful matter of the sexual abuse of minors committed by ordained ministers, I wanted to express my closeness to the Bishops, encouraging them in their endeavour to bind up the wounds and to strengthen relations with their priests.
In responding to some of the questions the Bishops asked, I took the opportunity to stress several important aspects: the intrinsic relationship between the Gospel and "natural law"; a healthy conception of freedom that is understood and realized in love; the ecclesial dimension of Christian experience; the need for a new way to proclaim "salvation" as fullness of life, especially to young people, and to teach prayer, from which generous responses to the Lord's call germinate.
In the great and festive Eucharistic Celebration at Nationals Park Stadium in Washington we invoked the Holy Spirit upon the whole Church in the United States of America so that, firmly rooted in the faith. transmitted by the Fathers and profoundly united and renewed, she may face present and future challenges with courage and hope, the hope that "does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit" (Rom 5:5).
One of these challenges is certainly that of education. I therefore met at the Catholic University of America the Rectors of Catholic universities and colleges, diocesan heads of teaching and representatives of teachers and students.
The duty to educate is an integral part of the Church's mission and the American ecclesial community is increasingly involved in it, at the same time rendering an important social and cultural service to the entire Country. It is important that this service continue, and it is likewise important to care for the quality of Catholic institutes so that in them people may truly be formed in accordance with "measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ" (cf. Eph 4:13), combining faith and reason, freedom and truth. Thus with joy I strengthened teachers in their precious task of intellectual charity.
In a Country with a multicultural vocation such as the United States of America the meetings with the representatives of other religions have acquired special importance: in Washington, at the John Paul II Cultural Center, with Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and Jains; in New York, the Visit to the Synagogue. these were very cordial moments, especially the latter, which confirmed the common commitment to dialogue, and to the promotion of peace of of spiritual and moral values.
Education in respect, non-violence
In what can be considered the homeland of religious freedom, I wanted to recall that the latter should always be defended with united efforts, to avoid any form of discrimination and prejudice. And I emphasized the great responsibility of religious leaders both in teaching respect and non-violence, as well as keeping alive the deepest questions of the human conscience.
The ecumenical celebration in Parish Church of St Joseph was also marked by great cordiality. Together we prayed the Lord to increase in Christians the ability to account, with ever greater unity, for the one great hope that is in them (cf. I Pt 3:15) through their common faith in Jesus Christ.
Another important objective of my journey was the Visit to the Headquarters of the UN, the fourth Visit of a Pope after Paul VI's in 1965 and the two Visits of John Paul II in 1979 and 1995.
On the 60th anniversary of the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" Providence gave me the opportunity to confirm the value of this Charter at the broadest and most authoritative supra-national Assembly. I referred to its universal foundations, that is, the dignity of the human person, created by God in his image and likeness so that he might cooperate in the world with God's great plan of life and peace.
Like peace, respect for human rights is also rooted in "justice", in other words, in a valid ethical order for all epochs and all peoples, which can be summarized in the famous maxim: "Do not do to others what you would not like them to do to you" or, expressed in a positive form in Jesus' words: "Treat others the way you would have them treat you" (Mt 7:12).
On this basis, which constitutes the Holy See's characteristic contribution to the United Nations Organization, I renewed and I renew again today the effective commitment of the Catholic Church to contribute to strengthening international relations marked by the principles of responsibility and solidarity.
The other moments of my stay in New York also remain deeply impressed on my heart. In St Patrick's Cathedral, in the heart of Manhattan — truly a "house of prayer for all peoples" I celebrated Holy Mass for priests and consecrated people who came from every part of the Country. I shall never forget the great warmth with which they congratulated me on the third anniversary of my election to the Chair of Peter. It was a moving moment in which I experienced in a tangible way all of the Church's support for my ministry.
I can say the same about the Meeting with Young People and Seminarians at the diocesan Seminary which was preceded by a very significant stop among disabled children and young people with their relatives.
To the youth, who by their nature thirst for truth and love, I proposed several outstanding men and women who bore an exemplary witness to the Gospel in American territory, the Gospel of truth which makes them free in love, in service and in a life spent for others.
By coming to grips with the problems that threaten young people today, they can find in the saints the light that dispels this darkness: the light of Christ, hope for every person!
This hope, stronger than sin and death, enlivened the moment charged with emotion that I spent in silence in the abyss of Ground Zero, where I lit a candle, praying for all the victims of that terrible tragedy. Lastly, my Visit culminated in the Eucharistic celebration in New York's Yankee Stadium: I still carry in my heart that celebration of faith and brotherhood with which we celebrated the 200th anniversary of the oldest dioceses in North America.
Enriched with faith and with the traditions of successive waves of immigrants, the little flock of the origins has developed enormously. To that Church, which now faces the challenges of the present time, I had the joy of proclaiming anew "Christ our Hope" yesterday, today, and for ever.
Dear brothers and sisters, I ask you to join me in thanksgiving for the comforting success of this Apostolic Visit and in asking God, through the intercession of the Virgin Mary, to make it bear a fruitful harvest for the Church in America and in every part of the world.
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The El Niño of 1997/98
Pictures of how the El Niño of 1997/98 evolved
These are pictures we've generated from observed data -- not from our prediction model -- of how the El Niño of 1997/98 is evolving.
Click on the thumbnail for a larger picture and more descriptive text.
In January of 1997, surface temperatures were still cold in the Eastern Pacific (off Peru), but warm waters at depth were hinting of the El Niño to come.
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By February of 1997, the warm water anomaly below the surface had spread almost to Peru, but temperatures at the surface were still near normal.
In April of 1997, something interesting happens. Interactions between the atmosphere and ocean -- the process that makes an El Niño grow -- generate a surface warm anomaly in the middle of the Pacific. It quickly connects with the warm anomaly below.
It's May of 1997, and hold on to your hats, folks! The warm water near the dateline has started to expand to the East, and the warm anomaly off the coast of Peru has reached the surface and is spreading to the West. It looks like it's going to be a big one.
By September of 1997, unusually warm waters stretch from the coast of Peru to the dateline -- that's a quarter of the way around the planet!
In January of 1998, the El Niño is fully underway. The cold anomaly in the subsurface western Pacific has also expanded towards the east; this may be an early sign of an upcoming cold-water event ("La Niña").
By March of 1998, the volume of unusually warm water has started to shrink noticably. The cold anomaly in the subsurface western Pacific continues to expand towards the east.
By May of 1998, the warm water has all but disappeared, and the El Nino of 1997/1998 is over. The region of unusually cold water, underneath the surface, continues to expand towards the east.
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(romfea.gr) Today, April 6, 2011 a three-member Court of Appeal of Thessaloniki, by unanimous decision, condemned fourteen leaders of the occupation of Holy Esphigmenou led by their leader, Methodius (Matthew Papalamprakopoulo).
During the hearing of the present occupiers have indicated stubbornly refusing to obey the decisions of the Greek court.
The Court particularly considering the negative effect of non-compliance in the decisions of the State Council, imposed six months imprisonment for "illegal occupation of the monastery", which proves once again that there remain a criminal offense.
In parallel with this decision and once again, validated the decision of the Holy Community of Mount Athos for the deportation and promoted strongly the obligation of the Greek state for immediate implementation.


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Minimum Pressure 995 hPa 12:01 995 hPa 1034 hPa, 2019 984 hPa, 2014
Maximum Pressure 1008 hPa 23:45 1008 hPa 1041 hPa, 2019 1002 hPa, 2014
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Maximum 10-min Rain n/a 1.3, 2012
Maximum Rain Rate n/a 10, 2012
Minimum Dew Point 2.5 °C 23:44 2.5 °C 6.0 °C, 2012 -3.4 °C, 2010
Maximum Dew Point 5.6 °C 12:44 5.6 °C 11.2 °C, 2012 -0.9 °C, 2010
Mean Dew Point 3.6 °C 3.6 °C 9.5 °C, 2012 -2.4 °C, 2010
Measure Value Time Month cumul. Record High Record Low
Night Minimum (21-09) 5.4 °C 06:22 5.4 °C 11.4 °C, 2012 -1.2 °C, 2010
Day Maximum (09-21) 7.7 °C 13:17 7.7 °C 12.5 °C, 2012 2.4 °C, 2010
Max 10m Temp Rise 0.3 °C 10:41 0.3 °C 0.4 °C, 2016 0.2 °C, 2011
Max 1hr Temp Rise 0.9 °C 11:20 0.9 °C 1.7 °C, 2016 0.7 °C, 2012
Max 1hr Hum Rise 4% 14:53 4% 8%, 2014 3%, 2011
Max 10m Temp Fall 0.3 °C 13:41 0.3 °C 1.6 °C, 2017 0.1 °C, 2015
Max 1hr Temp Fall 0.8 °C 14:13 0.8 °C 3.8 °C, 2017 0.0 °C, 2015
Max 1hr Hum Fall 8% 13:45 8% 13%, 2019 2%, 2015
Max 10m Wind Speed 11.8 mph 20:53 11.8 mph 16.2 mph, 2014 4.5 mph, 2020
Minimum Feels-like 0.6 °C 05:53 0.6 °C 5.1 °C, 2012 -6.3 °C, 2010
Maximum Feels-like 7.4 °C 12:10 7.4 °C 14.2 °C, 2012 2.4 °C, 2010
Mean Feels-like 3.5 °C 3.5 °C 11.8 °C, 2012 -2.7 °C, 2010
Air-frost Hrs 0 hrs 0 hrs 12 hrs, 2010 0 hrs, 2011
Measure Value (anomaly) Month cumul. Record High Record Low
Temperature Range 2.3 °C (-2.1) 2.3 °C (-2.2) 7.5 °C (+3.1), 2016 2.3 °C (-2.1), 2018
Humidity Range 14% 14% 27%, 2013 7%, 2017
Pressure Range 13 hPa 13 hPa 19 hPa, 2013 1 hPa, 2009
Measure Value [% of max] Month cumul. Record High Record Low
Sun Hours 0.6 [8%] 0.6 hrs (43%) [8.5%] 7 [99%], 2010 0 [0%], 2009
Wet Hours 0 0 hrs (0%) [0%] 9, 2017 , 2009
Cloud Cover am: Overcast
pm: Overcast transitioned to Mostly Cloudy
Events None
Comments -
Extra Comments Nice moon rise 1645-17
Issues None known
Observer Absent? Yes - observations may be unreliable
Pond Temperature (Heath) 0.0 °C
Times of extremes are computed using the midpoint of the longest continuous period at that extreme value.
Cumulative anomalies are reported according to the expected value for the month-to-date rather than month-end.
Sun hrs, Wet hrs, Cloud cover and Events are based on manual equipment/observations (entered with a delay of 1-10 days); their reliablity is questionable and they are provided for interest only.
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The complementarity of two renewable energy sources, namely hydro and wind, is investigated. We consider the diversification effect of wind power to reduce the risk of water inflow shortages, an important energy security concern for hydropower-based economic zones (e.g. Québec and Norway). Our risk measure is based on the probability of a production deficit, in a manner akin to the value-at-risk, simulation analysis of financial portfolios. We examine whether the risk level of a mixed hydro-and-wind portfolio of generating assets improves on the risk of an all-hydro portfolio, by relaxing the dependence on water inflows and attenuating the impact of droughts. Copulas are used to model the dependence between the two sources of energy. The data considered, over the period 1958-2003, are for the province of Québec, which possesses large hydro and wind resources.
Our results indicate that for all scenarios considered, any proportion of wind up to 30% improves the production deficit risk profile of an all-hydro system. We can also estimate the value, in TWh, of any additional one percent of wind in the portfolio.


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History of Harrison
Gym Renovation
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Harrison developed from a squatters homestead to a thriving village in about twelve years. A branch of the O.R. & N. Railroad from Tekoa, Washinton, to Harrison was completed in 1890 and was a prime factor in the development of Harrison.
In 1891 Silas W. Crane settled on a timbered tract which joins the present city on the south and east. He built the first house in Harrison which remained in the Crane family until 1936. The building is now used as the Crane House Museum. The same year Fred Grant purchased the Fisher Brothers Sawmill in St. Maries and moved it to Harrison. Known as Grants Mill it had a capacity of 60 thousand feet per day.
In 1892 S.W. Crane opened a General Store. In 1893 the first Post Office was established, the name was chosen and W.E. Crane became the first postmaster. W.S. Bridgeman opened a Gen. Merc. in 1893, another General Store was opened in 1894 by W.A. Reiniger.
The first newspaper called the Signal was established in 1895, later it was known as the Mountain Messenger and in 1900 became known as The Searchlight. A paper with that name is still published annually by the Oldtime Picnic Committee.
In 1895 a Methodist Church was erected and School District #29 was formed. The first year of school was taught by Mr. Edelbute in the Methodist Church. The first school was erected in 1896 and by 1903 there were 59 students.
The original townsite was in the form of a triangle and covered approx. 23 acres. The Village of Harrison was Incorporated on July 21st, 1899. The first meeting of the Board of Trustees for the Village of Harrison was held July 24, 1899 George W. Thompson was elected as chairman of the Board of Trustees.
In August of 1901 a Spokane Company was granted a franchise to put in a water system with a pumping plant at a cost of $20,000. An electric light plant was also installed in 1901 by Kimmel Brothers at a cost of $8,000.
The following year came the telephone, connecting Harrison with points up the St. Joe and Coeur d'Alene rivers. Rocky Mountain Bell
purchased the property later that year and Harrison was connected to outside world.
The next few years saw the opening of the First National Bank of Harrison, the Opera House, various drug, grocery, hardware, furniture, clothing & jewelry stores along with tailoring, blacksmithing and shoemaker shops, and restaurants, hotels and a hospital. For a time around the turn of the century Harrison was the largest town in Kootenai County. In 1911 the City Directory reported a population of 1,250. Harrison's growth was a result of the development of 8 or more sawmills & box factories. With the mills and woods jobs, approx. 280 men were employed with a combined monthly payroll around $25,000. Millions of board feet of timber were stored in the lake at Harrison. Lake Coeur d'Alene and the St.Joe and Coeur d'Alene rivers were the major transportation routes for timber coming out of the areas forests.
In 1917 the Grant Lumber Company caught fire and the ensuing blaze consumed about half of the business district. Much of the town was never rebuilt. The easiest way to get to Harrison was by water. The OWR&N Company which absorbed the OR&N railroad, constructed a 600 passenger steamer called "The Harrison" for transportation. There were several other steamers such as the Georgie Oakes that carried passengers and freight making the depot a popular place for area children. Passenger service was discontinued in the early 1920's but they continued to haul freight until 1932 when the line was abandoned.
Many early day photo's are on display at the Crane Historical Society Museum along with a lot of information about Harrison. Community spirit continues today with the Old Time Picnic, which is always held the last weekend in July.
"The Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes" is a welcome addition to the Harrison area. The Trail is 72 miles of easy riding and runs from Plummer to Mullan. If you have time, bring your bike (or rent one) and see for yourself.
There have been changes in ownership of some businesses, some new businesses up & running , and more expected. Check it out.


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9/10/2011�� You can absolutely cook them in a pressure cooker!!! Normally you would boil them about 3 hours, so I would do anywhere from 1 hour- 1.5 hours in a pressure cooker. It's best to do less time first, you can always add more time if you need to. Good luck and let me know how they turned out!!! :)... Slow Cooker Turkey Breast Recipes. stuff that I can buy in order to COOK it in my pressure cooker, cause I seriously don't even care to cook in any other way.I've made BBQ Beef Ribs, BBQ Short Ribs, Turkey Cutlets.
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