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Scott Porter Talks The To Do List, Friday Night Lights, Superheroes, and the NFL's "Warrior Culture"
November 18, 2013 – 4:30 PM – 0 Comments
By Scott Neumyer Parade @scottneumyer
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Rusty Waters (Scott Porter) plays a tune in The To Do List (Courtesy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)
Scott Porter is capable of much more than just playing the dramatic roles, and he wants you to know that. Known for his heartfelt and inspirational performance as the paralyzed football star Jason Street on Friday Night Lights, Porter has gone on to comedic roles in shows like Hart of Dixie and, most recently, alongside Aubrey Plaza in The To Do List, in which he plays the hilarious sad-sack crooner Rusty Waters to perfection. On the eve of The To Do List's Blu-ray and DVD release November 19, Parade sat down with Porter to discuss his role in the film, a possible Friday Night Lights movie, how badly he wants to play The Flash, and the NFL's "warrior culture."
Rusty Waters is quite the character. I almost felt like you were channeling Matt Damon from the beginning of EuroTrip. What was your inspiration for Rusty, if you will?
Oh my God. [Laughs] First of all, I love the comparison. Anytime anyone wants to compare me to Matt Damon in any way, shape, or form, I will take it. Secondly, there's a little bit of Sean Penn from Fast Times at Ridgemont High, but it was really a take-off of a couple of guys that I knew in high school. They could play the guitar, but they could only do like three or four songs so if you ever requested anything, they could never do it. But those three or four songs got them a long way, as far as with the ladies and as far as popularity. After high school, those couple of guys just didn't seem to do much. There's that kind of feeling with Rusty. This kid peaked in high school and now he's trying to figure out his way. But there wasn't really an inspiration, character-wise, that you might have seen in a film before. I just tried to simplify him as much as I could from my past history and Rusty came out of there.
He's that guy that takes his guitar to every party and just plays those songs over and over.
Yeah, I like to think that "Pour Some Sugar on Me" is his go-to number. [Laughs]
I imagine the next tune on the list is something like "Every Rose Has Its Thorn."
[Laughs] Yeah, it's all the Def Leppard, Guns N' Roses, and Poison he could learn.
Did getting to sing in the movie bring you back to your college and Bandslam days?
My parents met in a rock band called Ruckus in the '80s, so I grew up around music my entire life and I really thought music was where I was going to hit it big as a performer. I tried for seven years of my life, with a couple of different bands that I had, to make it, and towards the end of my seven years, when I was around 25-years old, I finally realized that maybe I just wasn't cut out for it. The To Do List allowed me to be a rock star and shoot that rock video that I always wanted to. [Laughs]
Maybe you can hook up with Connie Britton again and do some singing on Nashville.
I would love to jump down there. The list of guys they have composing and writing their music is insane. The music on that show is great and I'd love to get down there, work on a couple of tracks, and maybe get to see Connie again for a little while.
You've been the voice of Scott Summers / Cyclops a few times and you're a big comic book fan. What superhero would you just kill to play?
It's been a blast playing Cyclops but I think I'd have to go over to DC. I really, really want a shot at The Flash. I would love to do that role. And it's been fun because, when I first started in television, everything was dramatic role after dramatic role. I've been able to show on Hart of Dixie and The To Do List that I do have a comedic side to me. I think The Flash definitely needs that. I tested for the role when George Miller was going to direct a version of it before the writer's strike hit so, hopefully, I'll get another stab at it at some point. I'd definitely go with The Flash. He'd be number one.
Would Jason Street be on board for the long-rumored Friday Night Lights movie if it happens?
It's tricky for me because Jason's story ended so well. At first, it was a kick in the gut to know that I'd be leaving the show in season three, but once I realized how they allowed Jason to leave the show, I understood. Out of every character on that show, you could almost fight to say that Jason won. He won at life and overcame so much. I think his future is pretty set in stone. That being said, of course if they did a film, I'd love to go back and inhabit that character once again. But I think there's a little bit of trepidation for all of us as to taking one more step because I feel like we all did such special and great work on the show that we just don't want to sully it. But if there's anybody that could take a book to a movie to a television show and back to the movies, it's Peter Berg and Jason Katims and all those people. If that core team is involved, then the sky is the limit.
You're a big football fan and you're also very anti-bullying, so you obviously know about the whole Richie Incognito / Jonathan Martin situation.
Yeah, it's tricky for me in this situation because there's a culture that has permeated for years in football, and in sports in general. I think that there are often times when things are taken too far, but when you pull everything out of context, as it has been in this particular situation, and you put it on display for the world to see, of course there's going to be a knee-jerk reaction. It's very difficult for me to speak on because I played football in high school, I played football in college, I've been the freshman twice, and I understand that there's not so much a hazing but a testing of each other's mettle. I think when it gets to the point of hate speech or physical altercations, I think that's a time to put a clamp down on it, but it's a tricky situation. I hope that we can find a middle ground. I think that trying to completely sterilize and destroy the locker-room culture is not the right way to go, because it's not going to work. There's a lot of aggression and a lot of trust that needs to be had, and sports is built in a much different way than the rest of our life is, so I think there's a way to police it without destroying it.
What would Jason Street have done in that locker room?
There are prime examples of what happens in that situation on Friday Night Lights. There is hazing and you see it on the show, but it's all in the spirit of creating brotherhood. Coaches turn a blind eye and team leaders sometimes allow things to happen that kind of quote-unquote "toughen somebody up." But, when it got to a racially divisive issue, the show handled it extremely well, I thought. That was an issue where everybody has to take a stand and that's what I was saying with hate speech. I think Jason, at that point, would have stepped up and said, "Hey, enough is enough." To go into some territories that are completely and totally wrong, I think he would have taken a stand. As we all should in that situation.
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2. Quit smoking. Now. Among the first, most pertinent information you should list on your CV is your age, nationality, visas, and whether or not you smoke. There's no point in stretching the truth; if you do, you either will get busted smelling like smoke or get stuck having to quit.
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6. Upload a digital copy onto the Internet. It doesn't have to be public, but just storing it on your hard drive isn't enough. When you have a sure-fire CV sorted out, e-mail it to yourself at an address you can always access online. That way, you can be in a position to e-mail to anyone at any time, no matter where you are. Take a backup along on a CD or USB drive as well. Make sure your file is something universally recognized-like Microsoft Word.


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American singer-songwriter from Monsey. Grew up in NY. His music combines American folk traditions with Jewish soul, with some MBD and contempo Reform influences (a la Jeff Klepper) thrown in. He has many press reviews on the website, which is graphics rich and takes a while to load if you don't have a fast connection. The website itself, looks good and sound quality was good on the clips.
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Voice of the Turtle is a Boston-based group specializing in the music of the Jews of Spain. The group "learns most of its repertoire from field recordings housed in Jerusalem at the Jewish Music Research Center, at Hebrew University and at the radio station Kol Yisrael. These versions were collected by radio-journalists, scholars, and ethnomusicologists from Sephardi communities in Israel,documenting many versions of the songs which have been preserved by oral tradition." Their website includes information on the performers, their instruments, and the group through FAQs. Artistic Director, Judith Wachs.
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Eliana Gilad uses voice and rhythm as a natural healer. She has several CDs of healing and calming music and also CDs with lullabies for babies. She conducts workshops in Israel, other countries in the Middle East, Europe and the US. She claims her music "has been found to lower blood pressure, increase focus and quality of sleep." Her website also has a travel and event calendar, sound clips and contact information.
Adrian Stoet, violin and Tjako Van Schie, piano have been playing together since 1984. On one CD, he plays Jewish music from the camps and ghettos of WWII. Their CD is "Shtil, die nacht iz Oysgesternt: Yiddish Music from the Ghettos and Concentration Camps. It has selections such as 'Peat Bog Soldier', 'Es Brent', 'Yisrolik' and other Yiddish and European songs from WWII and the Holocaust. Van Schie teaches at the Amsterdam Conservatory and concertizes in NL and elsewhere in Europe. He is a specialist in Bach.
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Canadian Singer-songwriter, centered in Toronto. Involved primarily in the popular and folk music field, Soberman produced an album as tribute to his father, Cantor Morris Soberman, reproducing melodies particular to his families' tradition. He also completed an entire CD which encompasses Jewish prayers, entitled "Searching for My Voice".
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Genie Sea awarded me the "I Love Your Art Blog" award in this post. Genie does her painting digitally for now, and produces inspiring images of great freedom. I'm looking forward to her first efforts with a brush in hand, and enjoying her digital art and inspiring words. She shares from her heart on her blog. I've got more creative blogs to explore as a result of Genie's post.
The Pagan Sphinx gave me the "Creative Blogger Award" in this post. The Pagan Sphinx presides over a blog world of photographs, art, issues of justice and equality. I particularly like the Friday Evening Nudes series and her posts on the controversial art topics, which get some friendly debate going. I'm looking forward to checking out the other winners of this award.
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On February 21, 2010, 11 bicycles were loaded into a container at Wellspring United Methodist Church to go directly to Haiti with a full load of food, clothing, and blankets. Initially, it was thought there would not be enough room for any bikes in this shipment. When room was found, the dash was on to get them to the container.
Within the same week, we connected with Magical Charters in Odessa. Magical Charters runs bus tours and was collecting supplies to go to Haiti. They work with Agape Ministries in Venice, FL, affiliated with the Agape Ministry in Haiti.Bicycles on Magical Charters In order to facilitate shipment of donated materials, it is essential to have a source on the ground to take responsibility for the items shipped over there.
Kassie Newman from Magical Charters reported that aid workers were dancing in the streets when they heard they were getting these bicycles because transport is very limited. Agape Ministries has asked for 26 more bicycles. In that same month, the Bicycle Ministry refurbished 21 adult bikes and sent them on to Haiti.
Bicycle ministry helps repair lives in Haiti, at home.
Before the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the Rev. Guerry Lefranc called 56 orphaned children "my kids." Now, he says, he could easily be father to 200 if he had the resources to care for them.


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Q: For a SQL table indexed by time, add rows to fill in missing time indexes Currently I have a list of transactions with 3 main dimensions: Keys, Time_Index and Cumulative_Amount.
Keys      Time_Index     Cumulative_Amount
100          1          103
100          3          222
101          2          101

I'm trying to "populate all the Time_Index". In this case, although nothing happened for key 100 at time 2, I'd like to populate it. The result should be as below (Max time index = 3):
Keys      Time_Index     Cumulative_Amount
100          1          103
100          2          103
100          3          222
101          2          101
101          3          101

Note that I'm not populating time 1 for key 101 because the earliest time for which key 101 existed is time 2. I'm populating each key from it's earliest existence until max_time_index = 3.

A: I would first generate a list of all possible combinations of Keys and Time_Index, followed by a usual RIGHT / LEFT OUTER JOIN where you can do a condition for NULL. Something like this:
with t as
(
    select distinct x = a.number, y = b.number
    from master..[spt_values] a
    cross join
    master..[spt_values] b
    where a.number between 1 and 4
    and b.number between 100 and 103
)
select
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from dbo.myTable x
right join t on t.Keys = x.Keys

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These photos show a dramatic change in the appearance of Ring Arch in Courthouse Wash in Arches National Park. Sometime between April 29 and October 7, 2014, a significant portion of the arch collapsed, leaving the arch very much thinner and looking quite delicate.
Ring Arch Spring 2014. From left to right: Sandra Scott, Susan McDowell, Gus Scott, and John Slivka. Photo by Larry Beck taken during NABS Spring Arch Rally.
Ring Arch Fall 2014. Photo by Susan McDowell taken during NABS Fall Arch Rally.
As the photos show, the left abutment remains intact, but shortly beyond, a large amount of rock including a portion of the right abutment has fallen. The arc of rock that remains shows no fractures in the photos, but it showed no fractures in the earlier photos either. Standing under the arch, it appears as though much of the lower right front of the span has fallen.
Ring Arch may be seen almost directly west from the park road from a long pullout on the west side of the road (NABSQNO 12S-621729-4278463) about 0.15 miles southwest of the center of the Courthouse Wash Bridge. Binoculars will help, as the arch is about 1.3 miles from the road and the arch location is not obvious.
There is no established trail to Ring Arch. Walking directly to it from the park road view is not recommended since it is difficult to avoid disturbing sensitive desert soils. It's also unpleasant to deal with the stickers in dense patches of Russian thistle and several tumbleweed-filled drainages. A better route starts on a use trail at the parking area on the northwest side of Courthouse Wash (12-622006- 4278791).
Ring Arch is tucked in a northeastward facing alcove and has morning sun. Courthouse Wash can have standing water, serious mud, and voracious seasonal biting insects. Walks taken after a dry spell and when insect populations are low are recommended. If you are good at finding use trails and return the way you came, your round-trip walk will be about 4.0 miles. This is a wonderfully pristine area, so stay in drainages when possible and do your best to insure there is only one narrow footpath leading to the arch.
Ring Arch is a very old pothole type natural arch, which has formed in the Slick Rock Member of Entrada Sandstone. The Slick Rock Member was deposited in tidal mudflats, beaches, and sand dunes during the Middle Jurassic period between 180 and 140 million years ago.
Sources agree that Harry Reed, a Moab photographer and custodian of what was then Arches National Monument, first reported Ring Arch in 1940. Slim Mabery, a former district ranger at the monument, named the arch in 1961. The name comes from the shape of the arch. According to the World Arch Database, Ring Arch's span is 45' with a height of 39'. After the recent rockfall, the arch may be marginally taller.


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Q: Rails 3.1 and AJAX - how to implement it? I have a massive AJAX design problem with my Rails app. To understand the APP - you have a list of classes that you can sign up for. It used to be all HTML, but I want to rewrite it and put some AJAX into it. It looks pretty much like in the picture:

Main table is a list of classes. Blue button means "Sign up for class", red "Sign out", green is when AJAX request is being processed. In the left upper corner there is a search form. Apparently it works (I mean searches, I want it to work through AJAX -> refresh classes. Left list shows all classes you are signed in.
I have a big design problem. It seems I know how to implement all ajax actions separately, but when I'm trying to combine them all, everything messes up. There is no comprehensive tutorial of how to do it, isn't it? I try to work with jquery.
The controller is called wyklads, action wyklady
So here is what I have:
0. LAYOUT

            <%= render 'search'%> #search form

            <%= render 'usuwanie' %> #left list of my classes

       <%= render 'wyklady' %> #table of classes

1. SEARCH
 application.js
 $('div.wyszukiwarka form input.btn').submit(function() {
    $.get($this.action, $(this).serialize(), null, "script");
    return false;
 });

 the table with classes is refreshed because of wyklady.js.erb that loads automatically
 $('div.tab-przedmioty').html("<%= escape_javascript(render('wyklady')) %>");

2. CONTROLLER
 def wyklady
  if params[:search]
   @wyklads = Wyklad.where(:pozstudiow => poziom, :typo => 1).search(params[:search])
   @labs = Lab.where(:pozstudiow => poziom, :typo => 1).search(params[:search])
  else
   @wyklads = Wyklad.where(:pozstudiow => poziom, :typo => 1)
   @labs = Lab.where(:pozstudiow => poziom, :typo => 1)
  end
 end

3. BUTTONS for adding classes (I'm using twitter bootstrap)
 <%= button_to 'Dodaj do planu', {:controller => :plans, :action => :create, :przedmiot_id => wyklad.id, :typ => 0}, :method => :post, :remote => true, :class => 'btn btn-small btn-primary addprzedmiot-btn', :style => 'padding: 2px 5px; margin: 0; width: 90px;', :"data-toggle" => 'button', :"data-loading-text" => 'Dodano' %>

At first I tried to put in wyklady.js.erb conditional statemetns from jquery:
 $('.addprzedmiot-btn').click(function() {
   $('div.tab-przedmioty').html("<%= escape_javascript(render('wyklady')) %>");
 });

Then I was trying to execute js from Plans controller (when you sign up for a class you create a new Plan):
 in Plans controller

 def create
 ...
  if @plan.save
  respond_to do |format|
    format.js
  end
 end

 and plans/create.js.erb

 $('div.usuwanie').html("<%= escape_javascript(render('wyklads/usuwanie')) %>");

But it says that it doesn't render list on left saying in logs that it is missing some objects (nil class) from Wyklads controller.
The only working solution is that everything refreshes through ajax after every call which is quite uneffective. I want to avoid it because the table of classes is quite long and it takes a lot of time to populate it.
I want all this to behave like this:
1. The table of classes refreshes only when you submit search,
2. When you sign up for a class blue button changes into green (means button pressed which is handled by bootstrap very well), list on left refreshes but table on right doesn't populate it one more time. Green buttons changes into red after refreshing whole page.
So the question is a little bit broader. If someone would be so patient to explain the solution as well as explain some key concepts (or give some suggestions, tutorials) of mixing multiple ajax events and handling them I would be very grateful. Pure code is not as important as concept. After that I want to 'ajaxify' a little bit more, but first it is essential to understand basics.
Thank you very much.

A: may be problem in ajax call,
in application.js
 $('div.wyszukiwarka form input.btn').submit(function() {
    $.get($this.action, $(this).serialize(), null, "script"); // what is $this? $(this) is button instead of form
    return false;
 });

Try this
 $('div.wyszukiwarka form').submit(function() {
    $this = $(this)
    $.get($this.action, $this.serialize(), null, "script");
    return false;
 });


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Verneusses és un municipi francès situat al departament de l'Eure i a la regió de Normandia. L'any 2007 tenia 224 habitants.

Demografia

Població
El 2007 la població de fet de Verneusses era de 224 persones. Hi havia 88 famílies de les quals 20 eren unipersonals (4 homes vivint sols i 16 dones vivint soles), 32 parelles sense fills, 24 parelles amb fills i 12 famílies monoparentals amb fills.

La població ha evolucionat segons el següent gràfic:

Habitants censats

Habitatges
El 2007 hi havia 151 habitatges, 89 eren l'habitatge principal de la família, 51 eren segones residències i 11 estaven desocupats. Tots els 147 habitatges eren cases. Dels 89 habitatges principals, 59 estaven ocupats pels seus propietaris, 23 estaven llogats i ocupats pels llogaters i 7 estaven cedits a títol gratuït; 2 tenien una cambra, 4 en tenien dues, 13 en tenien tres, 21 en tenien quatre i 49 en tenien cinc o més. 71 habitatges disposaven pel capbaix d'una plaça de pàrquing. A 45 habitatges hi havia un automòbil i a 36 n'hi havia dos o més.

Piràmide de població
La piràmide de població per edats i sexe el 2009 era:

Economia
El 2007 la població en edat de treballar era de 125 persones, 94 eren actives i 31 eren inactives. De les 94 persones actives 77 estaven ocupades (47 homes i 30 dones) i 17 estaven aturades (10 homes i 7 dones). De les 31 persones inactives 13 estaven jubilades, 6 estaven estudiant i 12 estaven classificades com a «altres inactius».

Ingressos
El 2009 a Verneusses hi havia 90 unitats fiscals que integraven 210 persones, la mediana anual d'ingressos fiscals per persona era de 14.963 €.

Activitats econòmiques
Dels 6 establiments que hi havia el 2007, 2 eren d'empreses de construcció, 1 d'una empresa de comerç i reparació d'automòbils, 2 d'empreses d'informació i comunicació i 1 d'una empresa classificada com a «altres activitats de serveis».

Els 2 serveis als particulars que hi havia el 2009 eren fusteries.

L'any 2000 a Verneusses hi havia 22 explotacions agrícoles que ocupaven un total de 1.188 hectàrees.

Poblacions més properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.

Referències

 Résumé statistique Fitxa resum de dades estadístiques de Verneusses a l'INSEE.
 Évolution et structure de la population Fitxa amb el detall de dades de Verneusses a l'INSEE
 France par commune Dades detallades de tots els municipis de França accessibles a partir del mapa.

Municipis de l'Eure

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15 unexpected places you can see the Northern Lights this February
Jamie Carter,
Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon, Iceland
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The Northern Lights are among the most spectacular sights you can see in your lifetime and Scandinavia is loaded with places to see them in February.
Canada is also home to beautiful displays of the Aurora Borealis.
The best time to visit the Arctic Circle area is between the week before and after February 15.
If you want to see the Northern Lights this winter, head north to the Arctic Circle. It's up here, at around 66-69° North latitudes, where the Earth's magnetic field channels electrically charged particles ejected from the sun. Every night — or at least every other night — the aurora borealis is visible in parts of Scandinavia, Russia, Alaska and Northern Canada as slowly moving, pulsing green, brown and red curtains.
To see the Northern Lights you need clear skies, which isn't guaranteed in the Arctic Circle, so plan to stay at least a week. Don't worry too much about moonlight, but know that the new moon falls on February 15, 2018, so visiting between a week before and a week after will guarantee you skies dark enough to amplify any displays of aurora that come your way.
However, there are scores of other reasons that make February the perfect time to hit the Arctic Circle and wait for one of nature's greatest displays.
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Directly beneath the Auroral Oval at 68° N, the dramatic scenery of Norway's Lofoten Islands, south-west of Tromsø, will be lit by February's gradually rising sun. Staying in traditional waterfront fisherman cabins, the three-night 'Northern Lights in Lofoten'package includes two nights out hunting for the aurora.
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What do you do between hunts for the Northern Lights? A mixture of art, industry, environment, history, sports and culture is promised by the Winter Lights Festival, which is being held from February 1-4, 2018 in Iceland's capital at 64° N. Celebrating the return of daylight, Reykjavík's thermal pools and the Reykjavík Ski Resort will also take part in festivities. And if you're thinking a trip to see the Northern Lights isn't in your budget, check out WOW Air's sale with flights to Iceland starting at $69 one-way.
Harstad, Norway
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The return of significant daylight in February is a big occasion for Arctic Circle inhabitants. Over in Norway, February 1-4 sees the staging in the small Norwegian town of Harstad, at 68° N, of a new music festival called Ilios. It's named after the Greek sun god.
Torassieppi, Finland
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There are few better places to try your hand at Northern Lights photography than the Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park, whose fells and frozen lakes — Pallasjärvi and Jerisjärvi — provide the most photogenic backdrop possible. This trip, based at Torassieppi Reindeer Farm at 70° N with availability in February 2018, includes photographic instruction by day and night, as well as reindeer encounters, a husky safari, and snowshoe hikes.
Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway
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Get to 78° N and you're in another world, a world where Polaris, the North Pole Star, hovers just above the horizon. Here the Polar Night drags on into February, but from February 1-4 it will be enlightened by Polar Jazz, the world's northernmost jazz festival, which also takes place in the nearby Russian settlement of Barentsburg.
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Where there are Northern Lights, there is often dog sledding, and nowhere more so than in Fairbanks, Alaska at 64° N on February 3 when the annual Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race begins. While you wait for the aurora borealis, mingle with dog mushers about to embark on a 1,000-mile journey to Whitehorse in Yukon, Canada.
Iqaluit, Canada
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Caribou and Arctic foxes roam the tundra around Iqaluit, the capital of the remote Canadian territory of Nunavut. Your last chance to visit this Inuit settlement at 64° N on Baffin Island in Frobisher Bay comes this month when Great Canadian Travel conducts its final four-night trip to the region from Ottawa, departing February 15, 2018.
Inari, Finnish Lapland
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Between searches for the Northern Lights you'll find fascinating cultures everywhere in the Arctic Circle. You can help celebrate the annual Sámi National Day at the Sámi Cultural Centre Sajos at Lake Inari, Finnish Lapland. Expect a rarefied atmosphere and, at 68° N, a very good chance of Northern Lights.
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Cruising the spectacular calm waters of the Norwegian coastline is a tried-and-tested way of experiencing the Northern Lights. From February each year ferry operator Hurtigruten's fleet of 11 ships begin their 11-day Arctic Highlights program, sailing from Tromsø to Kirkenes at 69° N. Excursions include a visit to the Russian border just 6 miles away, snowmobiling, and a visit to a Snow Hotel.
Tromsø, Norway
One of northern Scandinavia's most famous Northern Lights destinations, Tromsø adds another string to its bow in the first week of February when it hosts its annual international music-centric Arctic Light Festival, which happens on January 27 through February 4. At 69° N, Tromsø is well into the Arctic Circle.
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There's no better time than February to be near Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon at 64° N, where you can watch huge icebergs drift out to sea — and stand on nearby Icy Beach surround by melting mini-bergs — and hope for a solar storm above.
Utsjoki, Finland
Northern Lights photographer Markus Killi is holding a five-day workshop from January 30 to February 3, 2018 in Utsjoki, Finland. Here at 70° N you'll learn the theory and practice of of Northern Lights photography, as well as landscape photography, timelapses, and post-processing techniques.
Kilpisjärvi, Finland
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The 24/7 Polar Night of January here at 69° N might sound tempting for Northern Lights-hunting, but Kilpisjärvi is one of Finland's coldest inhabited places. So it's best to wait until February or March to get to the northwesternmost point of Finland just yards from north Sweden and Norway.
Jokkmokk, Sweden
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Now in its 413th year, the Jokkmokk Winter Market (February 1-3) is the reason to visit this small town in Swedish Lapland at 66° N. With food stalls, live music, and handicrafts made by indigenous Sami people, it's the perfect occasion to add some culture to your Northern Lights hunt.
Jukkasjärvi, Sweden
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While spending a night on ice — and under reindeer skins — in one of Icehotel 365's 'cold rooms' in January is slightly scary, by February and March it begins to seem like a good idea. February is also when the Icehotel is at its quietest, though at 67° N it's Northern Lights displays could be worth shouting about.
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Q: What other washing alternatives are are part of window cleaning Harlington?
A: Besides providing industrious exterior window cleaning, the approved technicians can also conquer and wash any commercial multistorey building – a service named rope access window cleaning. Finally, the cleaning adepts can also take care of grime found on the interior surface of your panes, and will employ ladders and sponges to access distant corners.
Q: Why are there still water drops on my glass surfaces even after you've removed all dirty marks?
A: Our water has been distilled from all naturally occurring hard minerals. As a result, it will efficiently eliminate all blemishes on its path and will vaporise under the sun without leaving dregs of its own.
A: Yes, the Harlington window cleaners will appear with the latest cleaning gear to clean commercial buildings both short and elevated. The pros can also carry out additional cleaning tasks, for example patio washing and gutter cleaning.
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To vanquish mud perched atop your lofty property, we'll utilise the rope access washing approach. The skilled climbers will start by gathering all the data they need in terms of your buildings' size and location. They will then either rope down from your rooftop with sturdy ropes or reach the muddy areas with ladders and cherry pickers. The whole washing method is completely reliable and we can send you extensive COSHH reports as soon as you say the word.
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The law requires employees to pay income taxes via payroll deduction. The employee must complete a Form W-4, which lets the employer know how much federal tax to withhold from his paycheck. The employee should state his filing status and number of allowances on the W-4. Typically, the more dependents you claim, the less taxes you will pay, but you can also end up owing taxes as a result. There are a number of ways to know how many allowances to claim.
Use the wage bracket method outlined in the IRS Circular E (withholding tax tables). You will need your current pay frequency and your income amount. For instance, if your income for 2010 were $300 paid weekly, you would go to page 41 of the 2010 Circular E to know your federal tax withholding for up to 10 dependents. The wage bracket method has an income limit and you can only use this method if you are claiming 10 or fewer allowances.
Use the percentage method if you are exempt from the wage bracket method. The percentage method is effective if your income surpasses the wage bracket limit and if you are claiming than 10 allowances.
To arrive at your tax amount, use the IRS withholding allowance table (for example, see page 37 of the 2010 Circular E). Multiply the IRS amount for one payroll period by the number of allowances you are claiming. Subtract the result from your income and then use the withholding tax tables to determine the amount of tax that will be withheld.
Determine if you should submit a new W-4 using the IRS withholding calculator. The calculator helps you to determine if too little or too much tax is being withheld from your paycheck. You will need your most recent pay stub and income tax return.
Along with your filing status, you will need to state your number of dependents, total wages you expect to receive for the year, the amount of taxes withheld from your last paycheck, the amount withheld to date and your deductions. The calculator will indicate the number of allowances you should claim to appropriately adjust your taxes.
You can claim a qualified child or relative as a dependent. On your W-4, allot one allowance to each qualifying child or relative; a dependent can be claimed only once by one person.
You must be single to claim head of household and you must be financially responsible for more than half of the cost involved in caring for yourself and your dependents.
If you do not submit a W-4 to your employer, he can place you at single with no allowances–the highest tax bracket.
If you do not submit a W-4 to your employer, he can place you at single with no allowances--the highest tax bracket.


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Quest of the Magos Staff: part 2 by Roxana Stan
had been the adventure he had always wanted. He had made new friends and had encountered the enigmatic Aldoron. But the ending had not been what he had anticipated and now, months later, he was left guarding the staff that had once belonged to the most powerful of wizards, waiting for the day that he may have to use it.
That day was not far off. As the enchantress Hesperia discovers that the dwarf still possesses the staff she makes a renewed effort to take it for her own. As the forests are consumed by a dark force, Bryla flees for her life, while Alosryn's home is destroyed.
Soon the trio are reunited in a new quest to put an end to the malevolent destruction, travelling through shattered lands and empty towns left in disarray by the wicked hand of Hesperia. Their journey leads them to a town where they encounter Nissa, a fae who has knowledge of the whereabouts of the evil sorceress and together they decide to face her.
But Hesperia's fortress is strong and she is more powerful than they could ever have imagined. Do the friends and their new ally have the courage to defeat her and save a word from her dominion? Or is it already too late?
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Wouldn't it be wonderful to never sin again? But what if our idea of what sin really is is wrong? What if we have the wrong notion of what sin is in the first place? How can I stop doing what I don't understand?
BRETHREN, no one born of God commits sin; for God's nature abides in him, and he cannot sin because he is born of God. By this it may be seen who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not do right is not of God, nor he who does not love his brother. For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another, and not be like Cain who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous. Do not wonder, brethren, that the world hates you. We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love abides in death. Any one who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But if any one has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or speech but in deed and in truth. By this we shall know that we are of the truth, and reassure our hearts before him whenever our hearts condemn us; for God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God; and we receive from him whatever we ask.
St. John's provocative statement declaring that "no one" who is born of God commits sin" is shocking, especially since we know we do sin. So, does that mean we aren't born of God? But he doesn't stop there with the challenging comments. He then goes further and says that someone born of God "cannot" sin! Whoa!
Before you push the panic button, let's look at the rest of the passage to see what John is trying to communicate to us. John gives us three insights into the nature of sin and what overcomes this sad state in the human heart.
First, The Message of Love is "from the beginning." John immediately follows up his challenging comments with a reference to love being the timeless message of God to His creation. He uses the ancient story of Cain and Able to illustrate this message. Cain killed his brother, Abel, because Cain's deeds were evil. And his deeds revealed his heart. He didn't love his brother!
Next, The Message of Love is a matter of life and death. The key word here is "abide." In fact, this unlocks the whole passage. A lifestyle of love reveals a person is truly living in the divine nature. A lifestyle of a lack of love reveals just the opposite. Just as Christ laid down His life for us, so we, too, if we are His disciple, we lay down our lives for others.
Finally, The Message of Love is public. All know Who's side we are on as we allow love for others to be the paramount characteristic of our life. When everyone witnesses your love for others, this one consistent practice proves your freedom from condemnation. When your heart doesn't condemn you, no one else will either. And you can have confidence in your relationship with God.
Today, what does your lifestyle say about who you belong to in the first place? Your deeds reveal your heart. So, what do your deeds say to everyone around you? It is by an active, daily, and consistent willingness to keep getting up every time you stumble that will gradually transform your life to one that is loving and like Christ. It's the whole reason we are called to be Orthodox on Purpose!


snow face 1, a photo by Lily M-C on Flickr.
and it's snowed every day since monday.
secretly though? i love it. especially now that i have snow tires on my car… that makes a BIG difference in my sanity.
but just look at that face. and those ridiculous snowy whiskers. he's the best.
Stunning. Just. . . wow.


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Q: How should I approach developing a system for logging calls from a VoIP phones? I've just got a contract to develop a kind of billing application for internet cafe to monitor  calls on their VoIP phones. Here's the main idea how the app should work.
Say that I borrow someone a phone #2, and he makes 10 calls to different places, with possibly different call rates, e.g. calling to different country. After he gives me the phone back, I need to see how much money does he need to pay in total, based on all the rates of all the calls he made.
The problem is, that I've never worked with VoIP, so I'm unable to estimate how difficult it would be to develop a system like that. From my point of view, the one problematic part is somehow getting to the data about all the calls that were made. Once I know incoming/outgoing number, length and other stuff for each call, it should be relatively simple to process and display the data in correct format.
I guess that for developing such an application, I'm going to have to set up VoIP gateway (Asterisk?) to just be able to test the application.
One thing I'm afraid of are some kind of hidden problems, like for example if I was to create some kind of proxy for all the calls, there would be probably very high performance requirements, etc.
What kind of problems can I expect to come up while developing such a system? I'd prefer any Java related solutions or suggestions if possible.

A: What you are looking for is called CDRs, Call Data Records.
Each voip system has their own way of storing the records. Many systems can post them to a webserver (your own server).
You should also know that there are many open source billing systems too which has ready to use integrations whith asterisk.

A: I totally agree with jgauffin.
But if you cannot find an already existed implementation that match your specifications, you can write your own using the asterisk-java library.


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Ryerson Students' Union rejects pro-life group because it "justifies sexual assault"?
Marissa SemkiwArchive
Toronto's Ryerson University student union has double standards when approving clubs.
Many pro-choice groups have been approved, but this pro-life group was denied.
Marissa Semkiw talks with Carter Grant, the vice-president of Students for Life at Ryerson. He tells her the criteria under which his group was denied official recognition:
The Ryerson Students' Union officially "opposes … groups, meetings, or events that promote misogynist views towards woman and ideologies that promote gender inequity, challenges women's right to bodily autonomy, or justifies sexual assault."
Of course, sexual assault is a crime, while choosing not to abort -- or simply meeting to talk about that option -- is not.
Yet the Students' Union's policies seem to equate a peaceful pro-life group with some kind of imaginary, horrific (and unthinkable) "campus rape club."
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Brian Peckett commented 2015-03-02 23:31:09 -0500
Great interview Marissa! Unfortunately, this is not a Ryerson issue. Many (most?) Universities in Canada deny equal opportunities and access to resources, to any group that does not toe the pc line of anti Israel, pro abortion, pro gay marriage, and climate change extremism. When did the right to freedom of speech become I have the right to stop you from speaking?
Valerie Clark commented 2015-03-02 17:59:22 -0500
This man is never wrong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XPHIfgFwsY
Gordon Miller commented 2015-03-02 10:42:59 -0500
Donald Allen nailed it! They DON'T want "CHOICE". They want ABORTION and they wish to deny the woman concerned access to any other alternative.
Muta Ween commented 2015-03-02 07:52:08 -0500
The best way to win an argument (the left does this best) is to control the language. That is why they invented this phoney euphamism "pro-choice" . Now Pro-life means exactly what it says . Life, living ,period. The opposite of life is death , termination . So how many times have you heard an advocate ,primarily feminist or leftist say : I am for abortion" , or even more emphatically stated, " I am for terminating , killing or taking the life of the unborn"? Probably never. And this is how I always win the argument. When I force them to start using language which depicts the reality of what an abortion is , they usually cower. They cannot defend their position when the explicit language is used.
Try it sometime. YOU might lose a friend or two along the way , but do you really want to have a friend that doesn't value human life to the degree that you do?
Kevin Keswick commented 2015-03-01 22:26:20 -0500
"The Ryerson Students' Union officially "opposes … groups, meetings, or events that promote misogynist views towards woman and ideologies that promote gender inequity, challenges women's right to bodily autonomy, "
What about the Ryerson Muslim Student assoc.? Do they oppose the MSA? Women are subjugated in Islam. They are stoned to death for adultery. Has the Ryerson Student Union ever opposed the MSA? This would be a good follow-up story for the Rebel!
Kenneth Lawrence commented 2015-03-01 20:12:44 -0500
Oops! I meant another reason we need THEREBEL.MEDIA
So: another salvo in the left's war on Christians, Jews, and on the Judeo-Christian values that built Canada as a nation worth living in, which it won't be after the left gets through gutting it. The left doesn't care about fairness or freedom for everyone. They just want control and their own sick values system imposed on everyone. Yet another reason we need THEREBEL.COM
So good to see you on TheRebel.com Marissa. I really appreciated your perspective on issues at Sun News. It was very interesting to hear Carter Grant describe Ryerson's response to his activism. How refreshing to hear a well-spoken young activist who sticks to the facts—unlike those who oppose him (i.e. the name-calling and issue-evasive Leftists).
C Jones commented 2015-03-01 17:06:19 -0500
Ry High also rejected the application for a "Men's Issues" Group last year (with similar irony as this fellow representing a Pro-Life Group – an application made by 2 women) with equal bravado and absolutely no support/involvement from the administration. http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/02/04/barbara-kay-ryerson-drags-mens-issues-group-through-the-wringer/
Dale Warren commented 2015-03-01 16:06:11 -0500
Gore Vidal: "Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little". Vidal was of course a Leftist . . .
Leftism is fundamentally authoritarian. Whether by revolution or by legislation, Leftists aim to change what people can and must do. When in 2008 Obama said that he wanted to "fundamentally transform" America, he was not talking about America's geography or topography but rather about American people. He wanted them to stop doing things that they wanted to do and make them do things that they did not want to do. Can you get a better definition of authoritarianism than that?
Donald Craig commented 2015-03-01 15:20:18 -0500
ryerson is a joke and has been for quite sometime..i would would look long and hard before hiring a ryerson graduate
dale mcgonigal commented 2015-03-01 13:03:26 -0500
So Muslim student groups are not misogynistic and support gender equality that is why they are allowed
Cathy R commented 2015-03-01 13:01:45 -0500
Well, now we see the anti-christian trend in universities today (Trinity Christian university students are being banned from practising law). Why don't all the pro life Christian students and parents of these students get together and protest? People should put up huge signs around Ryerson university calling it an abortion university. Sound extreme? It's meant to be. The university's decision to ban a pro life group was extreme by only allowing the abortion group and needs to be brought down to it's knees. I wish that young man representing the pro life group much success.
Joan Abernethy commented 2015-03-01 12:50:12 -0500
Ryerson is not exactly known for a promotion of free debate. It is known for promoting mostly leftist agendas. So, its rejection of a pro-life advocacy group is no bis surprise.
Some pro-life organizations have been accused of terrorist activity. And in my community, several drivers wrote local press to protest a pro-life group that stood along a busy road holding up large posters of aborted foetuses. They said the enlarged photos shocked their children, distracted drivers, and posed a safety risk.
We need our universities to support respectful free debate. Science changes all the time so issues of life, what constitutes it and its rights are never settled. We also need pro-life resources to support women who do not wish to abort even when the child is the product of violent stranger rape. The pressure on such victims to abort is intense. I knew someone whom the nurses, doctors and social workers told that she should abort because no one would ever adopt the child of a violent rapist, that her child would grow up hated and disadvantaged in foster care if she did not abort. Her family was also not supportive of her keeping the child and threatened to take her to court to seek to take the child from her based on an allegation she must be mentally ill to love a child created by rape. She could have used some pro-life support.
Good luck to Carter Grant.
Eileen McRae commented 2015-03-01 12:36:15 -0500
Pro-Life advocates espouse views that are contrary to the leftist, socialist viewpoint, so, of course, they will not be welcome on university campuses. Today, it seems that the raison d'etre for most universities is to socially engineer the future generation along a specific path, and anything that may hinder that goal will not be tolerated. One only needs to look at the comments being made by our liberal and NDP leaders and loyal party supporters to reach that conclusion.
x x commented 2015-03-01 11:10:42 -0500
The people who make the decisions about what student groups will be allowed have already permitted a pro-choice group to form. It only stands to reason that these same people would not now allow a group to form that would espouse a dissenting position. That is how intolerant people operate when they achieve any kind of power.
It always seems to be intolerant people who are the ones most concerned with achieving said power. They might make fine Liberal politicians someday.
Milan Novakovic commented 2015-03-01 10:56:58 -0500
They do twist themselves into a pretzel on that topic. Thanks for your thoughts, Wanda – and I totally agree.
Wanda Orion commented 2015-03-01 10:48:36 -0500
Milan, don't get me started on that topic. I don't know what kind of mental gymnastics one has to do to reconcile the idea that women are equal to men as human beings but it's cool to kill female fetuses/baby girls if your culture values males children more than females. Sex selective abortions should be criminalized. Period. It's monstrous.
This is an example of how eventually the various hardcore "ists" start engaging in intellectual dishonesty to a point where they cut off their noses to spite their faces.
Another topic that the radical feminist movement trips over itself over is the issue of gender-specific abortions. They are 100% in favour of abortion on demand for any reason, yet they do not stand up for the basic right for a female baby to be born.
Your thoughts, Wanda? I am growing to respect your opinion daily.
Yes it's misogynistic on a couple of levels: For one they are denying pro-life women freedom of expression although they allow other groups on campus to express their own, sometimes controversial views, and secondly they are treating the women in the pro life group as though they are just poor misguided dupes who have been brainwashed into these misguided beliefs. In doing so they are denying that these women are capable of free thought and entitled to have their own opinions on this issue. There's a lot of hypocrisy floating around Ryerson.
Hmmm…..not allowing another option on campus is NOT misogynous in its own right? The same University that celebrates Israeli Apartheid Week……enough said.
I assume that the student union takes the position that anything that restricts a woman's right to choose is inherently misogynistic and so offends that part of their policy. So…what about the Ryerson Muslim Student Association? Do they support women's equality? Isn't Islam inherently misogynistic? Yet the MSA appears to have been given the student union's seal of approval. A while back, the MSA invited Abdur Raheem Green, a hate preacher from the Islamic Education and Research Academy to share his wisdom with Ryerson Students. Green bailed at the last minute for reasons that were not expained but it wasn't because of pressure from the student union.
Although I support women's right to reproductive freedom, I get the concerns of pro life advocates. I think there is a pressing need for an adult conversation about the these issues . I'm alarmed at the way they are being vilified. When one considers the range of speech that is tolerated on university campuses, it's bizarre that these groups are being outright banned.


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Load shedding, temporary outages plague NP
LocalAugust 6, 2019August 6, 2019 at 3:47 am Royston Jones Jr.
Unsettled weather offers retrieve to heat amid persistent outages
NASSAU, BAHAMAS- Rampant load shedding across New Providence over the holiday weekend, left thousands of Bahamas Power and Light (BPL) customers powerless.
The strong winds and heavy downpour over the last few days brought some reprieve from the summer heat.
BPL initiated load shedding last Thursday around 8:30 p.m.
The exercise continued for much of Friday, Saturday and Sunday in a three-hour rotation.
In a statement around 9:30 a.m. Sunday, BPL also advised consumers in Blue Hill Road, Golden Gates #2, Solider Road and Garden Hills that due to a blown transformer power in those areas would be interrupted temporarily.
Minutes later, the company said power had been restored to Blue Hill Road and Goldens Gates #2.
Around 11 p.m., BPL said due to "technical difficulties" power to nearly a dozen communities in southern and southeastern New Providence was interrupted shortly after 10 p.m.
Meanwhile, the company continued load shedding up until nearly midnight.
Around noon yesterday, the power provider said areas surrounding Stew Fish Drive and Carmichael Road experienced a "temporary outage" due to a faulty transformer.
"Our teams are currently working to resolve this problem as quickly as possible," BPL wrote.
Some customers took to social media to bemoan the outages, while blasting BPL for issuing updates "way after the… current has been off for hours".
Steffons Evans, the outreach officer and project manager at the Bahamas National Trust, called on the government to intervene, labelling the challenges with the power supply, an "energy crisis".
"Dear BPL, it is not acceptable, cute or funny to be awoken by sweat and heat to frantically check that your loved one hasn't [succumbed] to a heat stroke as a result of load shedding exercises, power failures [and the ultimate] lack of electricity," said Shantelle Nicole.
Frustrated BPL customers have lamented the company's poor service and persistent outages in recent months, calling it unacceptable.
"People are officially sick and tired of [all of your] foolishness," said Sam Dar.
"You all have inconvenienced [us] regularly for weeks now and still cannot get it together.
"Please stop with the halfway, incomplete updates. [They] are absolutely useless to a large group of people affected. Your correspondence and communication are awful and insulting to paying customers. No one is asking for favors.
"As paying customers we are asking to be treated with respect."
Speaking to Eyewitness News Online last week, Bahamas Electrical Workers Union (BEWU) President Paul Maynard said while there has been some improvement recently, the power provider was still teetering on crisis.
He also said even after BPL benefits from the new 132-megawatt plant at Clifton Power, which is expected to be completed before the end of the year.
In March, the power company announced that Finnish technology group Wartsila will install the new $95 million plant to increase generation in New Providence.
In June, Moxey said sufficient rental generation would be installed before the end of the first week in July to provide some relief, however, he advised that load shedding could still be possible until the installation of the new plant is complete.
Nearly a month later, the full complement of rental units has yet to be installed.
When contacted yesterday, Moxey deferred questions about BPL's operations to BPL Director of Communications Quincy Parker.
In a correspondence last week, Parker said five megawatts of rental units was sent to Bimini to bolster power generation on that island; 14 megawatts have been installed in New Providence, and Aggreko — the world's largest temporary power generation company — was "working with BPL to bring the remainder (six megawatts) online as soon as possible".
However, Maynard accused Aggreko of "joking around" with the installation and said as a result, the company was partly responsible for BPL's inability to meet demand.
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Thank you for restoring Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller to your pages. I'm glad the BDN decided its erring creator was capable of expiation and rehabilitation. I was unable credibly to join the ranks of those writing in to threaten cancellation of their subscriptions over this cartoon's banishment. I'm all too aware of the dire condition of print journalism in our country and thus greatly cherish the BDN for gallantly soldiering on independently in such a challenging media environment.
Still, every morning when I opened to the comics section, I felt a new pang of surprise and loss at the absence of one of the few genuinely clever and funny strips therein. It is a relief to no longer experience this daily jolt of frustration.
We adamantly express our strong opposition to LD 820, a bill that would, in essence, mandate taxpayer funding for abortions. We do not want our tax "obligations" to support the pre-meditated murder of unborn human beings. With that said, we continue to hope and pray that those who are faced with unwanted or unplanned pregnancies will always do the right thing to keep their precious tiny ones alive.
Last month, I attended the public hearing for LD 820, a bill requiring insurance companies that cover prenatal care to cover abortion as well. I was awestruck by the honesty and bravery of the women who shared their experience with abortion during testimony in support of the bill. In story after story, we heard about how insurance denials — or just the complete lack of coverage — imposed an additional, painful burden on women in need of abortion care. For some, insurance discrimination meant that getting the care they needed cost many thousands of dollars out of pocket.
When insurance covers prenatal care but not abortion care, the insurer is leaning on the scale, inserting itself into a decision that belongs only to the person who is pregnant. Maine can do better.
It was inspiring to hear all the testimony in support of LD 820, and it's heartening to see that support for the bill is so widespread — and that so many of our legislators recognize that no matter what you decide about a pregnancy, you shouldn't face discrimination based on the type of insurance you have.
This letter is in response to the March 29 OpEd by Michael Howard, "Why income guarantees makes sense to reduce poverty." He notes the long-term harms of child poverty and I wanted to convey these lifelong consequences. Children who grow up in impoverished households fall behind their peers in reading and math before they begin kindergarten. They will obtain two fewer years of education, earn less than half as much over their lifetime, receive more in food stamps, are more likely to report poor overall health, and that is assuming they can manage to stay out prison, as boys who grow up in poverty are more likely to be arrested later in life. Childhood poverty costs the U.S. $500 billion annually in reduced incomes, increased crime and poor health.
By boosting household income, the positive effects will be seen in the life stages as early as prenatal and maternal care. Children will perform better in school, have increased college enrollment rates, increased earnings and a decrease in psychological problems. A basic income would allow children the proper child care and learning opportunities required to be successful throughout their lives and end the cycle of poverty.
Regarding some of the recent commentary, there are many legitimate reasons to express outrage these days, and a community theater show that you don't like isn't one of them. Taste is constructed through our limited cultural spheres and what we've been taught to perceive as good or bad, usually through a Eurocentric lens. I have opinions about what makes art good, but I don't have answers, and I'd never shame someone for earnestly trying to create something meaningful.
It takes so much courage to create something and put it into the world. Local theater makers are also actively contributing to their community. I want to make good art, but the reason I make it is that it helps me feel connected to people and it gives me meaning. Directors and creators who make community theatre are facilitating this process for countless others. Doing theater in this community allowed me to fall in love with the art in the first place and choose to devote my life to it. It's so important and I'm grateful to come from a town that, regardless of mean-spirited criticism, devotes so much heart to community theater.


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Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely."
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Dine Newport Beach Launch Event: Newport Beach Showcases its Assets
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BY Kathy A. McDonald
Timed to include a sunset over the Newport Beach Harbor, the launch party for Newport Beach's new culinary marketing initiative Dine Newport Beach had a picture-perfect backdrop that only a California coastal city can provide. Set on the private lawn, overlooking the beach and mega-million yachts at the Balboa Bay Resort, the event welcomed media, local restaurant owners and chefs, as well as city officials and tourism executives to not only take in the view and ideal weather but to also sample small bites from the resort's three newly remodeled dining spots.
"Newport Beach and Company tells the story of Newport Beach's people and places all over the world," noted Gary Sherwin, president and CEO of Newport Beach & Company in opening remarks. Bolstering those efforts is Dine Newport Beach, the non-profit organization's newest marketing venture established in partnership with the Newport Beach Restaurant Association. The first of its kind in Orange County, and patterned after Los Angeles' successful and growing Dine LA initiative, Dine Newport Beach offers consumers a new and unified way to search and find news on the locale's diverse culinary community, which has more than 400 restaurants.
As Dine Newport Beach's Polly Peak explained the website features a user-friendly database, news, images, links to reservations and content that highlights the hottest restaurants to neighborhood gems as well as culinary trends. The site and initiative is no foodie flavor of the month. Promoting the city as a dining destination makes financial sense. Per statistics provided, Newport Beach's restaurants gross $500 million in sales annually and importantly provide $5 million in sales tax revenues to the waterfront city.
Executive Chef Vincent Lesage of the Balboa Bay Resort and his culinary events team were front and center, deliciously demonstrating the resort's new culinary direction. A progressive menu of small plates showcased the variety of dishes at the Balboa Bay Resort's three new eateries. First bites included an addictive bacon and caramel popcorn from A&O (Anchors & Oceans Kitchen + Bar) the hotel's newly remodeled bar and gastro-pub (formerly Duke's) while the dessert bar offered super portable and fanciful delights such as chocolate or vanilla mini-cones topped with mini-scoops of nitrogen-infused strawberry ice cream.
A whirling drone with GoPro camera above captured the action below adding to the event's buzz. Unlike many official meet-and-greets, guests remained at the Dine Newport Beach launch party until the very end, savoring the generous spread and the sunset's after-glow.
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As if Chicago doesn't already have enough of its own, the Windy City invited more than 300 artists from across the country to participate in the fourth annual One of a Kind Chicago event April 26-28. From pottery and paintings to clothing and jewelry, One of a Kind Chicago had an abundance of art for the viewing pleasure of art critics and window shoppers alike.
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The Program on Humanitarian Leadership (PHL) is designed and implemented by Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, together with Concern Worldwide and International Medical Corps for the second year in 2017. The meticulous selection criteria from 1400application filed for the training, selected 38 young leaders from local SCOs and iNGOs from all over the world, that have the opportunity to develop their leadership skills and learn from the best of the academia and humanitarian professionals. Aleksandra Davidovska from LEGIS is one of the selected participants in this training. She was also one of the 6 participants selected to take part in the PHL Field Placement Program offered by this course, which gives the opportunity to young leaders to learn and practice their leadership skills through a 3months internship with International Medical Corps and Concern Worldwide. All of the participants in the PHL will be assigned a professional mentor coming from one of these organizations, whose role is to support the professional development of the mentees and facilitate their learning process.
The first half of PHL has already been implemented – the online learning and assignments in March and April were complimented with intense in person one week training course in Nairobi, Kenya in May, designed to provide current humanitarian professionals with an introduction to leadership frameworks and styles and apply these directly to their own experiences. Beside the didactic curriculum during the in-person training that was focused on Adaptive Leadership, Contextual Analysis, Strategic Vision, Communication with all stakeholders and Understanding local populations' needs, dynamics and perception, the course gave the possibility for peer-to-peer learning, using the various backgrounds, experience and variety of contexts the participants operate in. It also gave the opportunity for networking and building relations between the participants, which will hopefully result to better communication and cooperation in the humanitarian sector.
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Scott Base established
New Zealand's permanent Antarctic research station, Scott Base, was declared open by Captain Harold Ruegg, the Administrator for the Ross Dependency, on 20 January. The base was named after British explorer Robert Falcon Scott. The New Zealand flag was raised on a flagstaff that had been used by Scott at Hut Point in 1903. The base was originally established to support the privately run Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (TAE). It was built to accommodate both the New Zealand party of the TAE and a group of New Zealand scientists who were attached to the expedition as part of the International Geophysical Year (IGY), a worldwide research programme in 1957–58.
NZ's last execution
On 18 February, 68-year-old Whanganui farmer Walter Bolton became the last person to be executed in New Zealand when he was hanged at Mount Eden prison. After a controversial trial, he had been convicted of murdering his wife, Beatrice. Bolton's execution raised the usual questions about the death penalty. Some people believed that capital punishment was legalised murder and that it was morally wrong to take another human life. Others opposed capital punishment on religious grounds or because mistakes could be made. Rumours that Bolton's execution had been 'botched', as well as lingering doubts as to his guilt, contributed to intense debate about capital punishment in New Zealand.
The death penalty for murder was abolished in 1961.
Age no barrier for Nash
The National Party had been in power since 1949. Shortly before the 1957 election Sid Holland stood down as Prime Minister due to ill health. His successor was Keith Holyoake. The Labour Party won a two-seat majority and Walter Nash – aged nearly 76 – became New Zealand's oldest-ever Prime Minister. A key figure in the first Labour government (1935–49), Nash had become Labour leader following the death of Peter Fraser in 1950. Despite defeat in the 1960 election, Nash remained leader of the party until 1963. He was still the MP for Hutt when he died at the age of 86 in 1968.
Owls do cry
Owls do cry, the first novel by Janet Frame, was published. It is regarded as one of the most significant pieces of New Zealand fiction in the post-war period.
Diagnosed with incipient schizophrenia in 1945, Frame was hospitalised at the Seacliff Mental Hospital near Dunedin on numerous occasions over the next decade. She wrote her first book, The lagoon and other stories, a collection of short stories, while at Seacliff. Shortly after her final discharge Frame met the writer Frank Sargeson, at whose Takapuna home she lived and worked for more than a year from April 1955. With his encouragement Frame rapidly wrote Owls do cry, which was published by Christchurch's Pegasus Press in April 1957.
The story is centred on the Withers family, who live in the drab South Island town of Waimaru (based on Ōamaru, where Frame had spent much of her childhood). Only Daphne Withers shines through the gloom. The sensitive Daphne is confined in an asylum and subjected to barbaric electric shock treatment, mirroring Frame's own experiences. While the book was widely acclaimed as 'the first great New Zealand novel', it was too close to the bone for many in Ōamaru, who thought it both too negative and too personal.
Sir Leslie Munro became the first New Zealander to be elected President of the General Assembly of the United Nations.
Ian Cross's novel The God boy was published. At the time it vied with Owls do cry for recognition as 'the first great New Zealand novel'.
Death of poet A.R.D. Fairburn.
New Zealand's Court of Appeal was established.
Barry Briggs became world (motorcycle) speedway champion.
William Hamilton's first commercial jet boats were produced.
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