At 96th Street in Manhattan, I jumped on a downtown subway line. A duffle bag of clothes was slung from one shoulder, and I had a laptop bag on the other. There were plenty of places for me to go. But I didn't want to explain the clothes and the need for a bed or a couch or the floor. I didn't want to fake it.
For the time, my lady friend and I are heading our separate ways. But I don't want to go into that right now.
It didn't take long to conclude that there was only one place to go, my boss Nick's house. He owns the demolition company where I work. Not much "human anything" takes place around him.
Everyone calls him Nick, though he has a real fancy first name and an old money last name. He has a son in Brooklyn, who never comes to see him, and an ex-wife that I know nothing about.
Two tall blondes in the subway car caught my eye. A time nearly three years ago came to mind. It was just after I had started working for Nick. I remembered how a pretty Russian realtor in Manhattan Beach failed to spark the man to life. After we had gutted one of her homes, she showed up on-site to pay the bill in tight tan riding pants and high black boots. She had cash, too. Yet neither the cash, nor her handsome face or curvaceous figure managed to illuminate Nick's face.
But he's not dead inside—not completely.
Nick's like a summer home on the beach where a storm blew through, stripped it bare and left only the shell. Unfortunately, "this home" is beyond repair. He's like Nick Adams without Hemingway.
In Times Square, I hopped on an eastbound line that went across Manhattan and the East River, out to his house in Queens.
His house is one of the thousands of humble, semi-attached vinyl dwellings in that borough. For some reason, they stuck all these in Queens. Probably because Brooklyn didn't want them, Staten Island doesn't do humble, the Bronx is just plain too gritty for much vinyl, while Manhattan is all about the bedrock.
During the work-week, when I shoot by there to pick up tools, the door to the house and garage are always unlocked. Countless times I've told him someone might rob him. "Nothing to steal there," he had said once, the sentence in itself a marathon of words for the man.
When I opened the storm door to Nick's house, through the inside door, I saw him seated in front of the TV. I rang the bell instead of knocking or just letting myself in, thinking it would make him notice me a little more.
Surprisingly, he rose to open the door, though I guessed it would save him the human connection of waving me in.
Fully gray, in his late fifties, Nick is a powerful man, and it shows in his broad shoulders and equally wide frame. He has a small pot belly and arms that dangle like clubs at his sides from his height of over six feet. There is a hint of waddle in his walk as he leans forward in stride. Knowing first hand his brute strength, I sometimes think he's ready to break into a sprint and tackle someone.
From the elevated doorway, Nick looked over my head and held the door open. "Cats," he said, and stared into the street as I passed. By his tone, I figured he had a problem with them.
He was watching college football from an old cloth-covered recliner. I dropped a bag of chips on a cluttered table by his knees and set a can of Budweiser. He snapped open the beer and tore open the chips. I went and put the rest of the beers I bought in his refrigerator. The fridge, like the house, was cluttered with crap, but it was kinda clean. A wife of one of the guys at work cleans the place a few times a month. That was my doing.
Nick rarely lifted his eyes from the 35 inch CRT TV. Occasionally, he called his bookie. That call was unintelligible.
Jumping from channel to channel, the games did elicit slight facial changes from Nick. Already before him were a few empty cans of beer. Soon he retrieved a somewhat suspect can of Coke. He would alternately take a sip of the beer then the Coke. I figured he had "mother's milk" in the Coke can.
Well, I thought that was cute, trying to hide his alcohol. I didn't think he wasn't a drunk. He just likes to drink. Not like he is saving himself for anything or anyone.
Over the next few hours I relaxed somewhat. I had a few beers and a cup of Jack that I'd sip from.
I fell back and spread my arms over the couch. It was an old couch. Nick had probably fallen down on it face first, drunk and exhausted, hundreds of times over the years. Some of the men from work slept there, too. A few were transients.
After a time spent with muddled thoughts, a moment of clarity came over me, and I noticed the darkness in the living room. I was impressed by what seemed palpable layers of midnight blue haze. It seemed as if the light from the TV and an incandescent shining through the kitchen archway couldn't reach me.
The windows were shaded and had curtains pulled tight. The room had a tall ceiling, about nine feet. It looked dingy and didn't reflect the light very well. Stairs on one side of the room led directly up to the second floor.
My eyes returned a few times to the ceiling. I thought I might drift off to sleep. But I kept looking up and had no idea why, except that maybe I found the ceiling more interesting than the football, especially because Nick kept switching channels.
On the ceiling, I perceived a shadowy outline and cracked a smile. It was in the shape of a body. It clearly wasn't a living body, or even an apparition. It was just a shadow on a dirty ceiling. I smiled because it was in such an interesting position. The shape looked like that of a person who had fallen backward into the ceiling. Or one that was hurled into that position, arms and legs turned out.
I got another beer and some more Jack. When I next cared to look up, the shadowy figure was gone. I switched my position around and still saw nothing. I took a swig of Jack and watched the football games for a while.
My attention drifted to the right of Nick. From the corner of my eye, I saw another shadowy outline of a body on the wall. A cluttered dining table cut off my view to the body's lower half. I could just see how the face was angled perfectly toward Nick's head.
All at once, I became certain that the linear figure was an evil spirit. I reached for the silver cross around my neck that my lady friend had given me. I thought of a **house blessing I had heard her say. As I spoke, I could hear her voice echo mine.
The evil spirit's face turned to me. I saw it had big, black, watery eyes. They were like that of an anime character. It struck me as the face of a young girl.
Nick looked over at me with a dull look, though the light of curiosity came to him. It was strange, because I knew "words" were gathering in his head.
I began to think of another house blessing.
"Waaa you doing?" Nick said.
"I'm aaaa," I started, not knowing how to explain the blessing, or if he knew or believed in that type of stuff–evil spirits included. I didn't know anything about Nick other than he liked Bud, Jack, and college football.
His eyes opened wide and he perked up in his chair. "No house blessings," he said.
"It's a good thing," I managed to say, wondering what had just taken place with him . . .
"Stop it," he said, looking me square in the face.
All I could think was that the evil spirit had spoken to him. There was no way he read my thoughts. Not Nick. It was her. She had told him what I was doing.
I looked around and thought about how I had also just been under the spell of a demon.
"And don't do what you're doing with the cross," Nick said motioning with one of his big hands.
"She's evil," I said, my thumb behind the cross, which I held out to the evil spirit.
"Are you gonna stop?" Nick asked.
It was then, in this lowest of low whispers, I heard someone pleadingly whisper: "Nathaniel." It was Nick's Christian name.
Nick planted his hands on the armrests of the chair and lifted himself a few inches. His brow furrowed with deep concern.
"Nick?" I said and let the cross fall back inside my shirt.
"You best be goin'," he said.
I was slow to my feet.
Nick stood tall with a firm stance. I put on my jacket and hefted both my bags.
"Lock the door on your way out," Nick said.
Update: The above is a traditional house blessing, and not necessarily a ditty that will rid your house of ghosts. It's a little more involved. See Google for more.


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    $db = new mysqli($db_host,$db_user,$db_password,$db_database);
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    {
      exit(json_encode(array('status'=>'error')));
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Some say that we don't need to confess our sins for them to be forgiven.
God has given his testimony to the continued sin and sinfulness of the world, by providing a sufficient effectual sacrifice for sin, that will be needed in all ages, and to the continued sinfulness of believers themselves by requiring them continually to confess their sins, and apply themselves by faith to the blood of that sacrifice.
The perfect efficacy of the priesthood of Christ has delivered and will continue to perfectly deliver those that are brought over to Him, from all the guilt, power, and punishment of sin, putting them into the sure possession of perfect holiness, sanctification and justified sinlessness. This is what the Levitical priesthood could never do.....and, if we indeed are aiming at a perfect state, we must receive the Lord Jesus as the only high priest that can bring us to that state, personally and from the heart.
The last enemy, death, the result of the power of sin, is Christ's final victor, in which that enemy, held the righteous saints captive, backed by the Levitical priesthood of the Old Covenant, the Covenant of Death. Christ came here, in person, to fulfill what God had promised those that followed Him, searched Him, and kept His commandments.....loved Him.
Luke 4:21 This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.
Salvation from the power of death is precisely what salvation is.
Salvation is being saved from death, and given....life.
The ONLY possibility of having any kind of victory over Death is from Christ, and in Christ we must be, so that it's sting, is forever defeated.
God is faithful to His covenant and word, where he had promised forgiveness to believing confessors of Christ. He is just to Himself and His glory who has provided such a sacrifice, by which His righteousness is declared in the justification of sinners. He is just to His Son who has not only sent Him for such service, but promised to Him that those who come through Him shall be forgiven on His account.
From your heart, while you are awake, and not as the universalist condones.
Again, strawman ... Christian Universalism teaches what the scriptures teach, that in the fullness of times, all creation will confess unto God, and all will be forgiven.
Prove it Ironmaw, instead of imposing your thoughts onto what is evident.
It appears this Universalist, denies the scripture, and provides nothing.
Just thought I'd mention that there's a major difference between "forgiven" and "cleansed", or "purified". The work of righteousness is a transformation from one nature to Another.
That's where the fire comes in.
Just thought I'd mention that there's a major difference between "forgiven" and "cleansed", or "purified".
It is obvious that you hope most will not be saved. You have faith in the doctrine of the failure of Christ over most of Creation and the victory of sin over most of Creation. If you have faith in the doctrine of ET, you hope that it is true, plain and simple. So you cannot comprehend the truth of these things yet. One day you will just like everyone else.
For the record, anytime you rebut something, since we are talking of the faith, the contention should be welcomed by you, yet you angrily proceed...why?
Proves my point...confession is needed for the forgiveness of sins.
How does this prove yours?
Again - Israel - Isa 45 - Jew and Gentile - Rom 11 - the many....Isa 51.
You have done nothing here except prove that this confession is solely for those in the covenant, Israel, Jew and Gentile.
It is obvious that you hope most will not be saved.
How, by proclaiming that confession provides salvation? You seem to be having trouble again discerning themes, imposing your own with no ground whatsoever.
You have faith in the doctrine of the failure of Christ over most of Creation and the victory of sin over most of Creation.
You have faith that Christ will renege that offering.
Come down from your spaceship......Borg!
It appears you want to assimilate everyone...now we see the real agenda.
So you are a Hindu too?
Denial from the nature we are born with.
Im am not angry ... Not in the slightest. Why should ignorance concerning the truth of Gods plan and purpose for the ages anger me? If anything it saddens me.
Eventually everyone will be a part of the covenant, because everyone will confess.
Christ did not come for the righteous, he came for the sinners.
No i am not Hindu, but i have studied it and i like the concept behind the word.
You prove nothing, but your inability to discern just what this scripture is directed at. Already been proven that it deal only with Israel.
Isaiah did that, where Paul derived it from.
Salvation is provided upon confession.
And He came to fulfill the Law....not to destroy it.
This requires confession which leads to salvation.
Would you like a refresher on the law of confession?
Which kingdom in 1 Cor 15, is Christ delivering to God?


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*Procedures for obtaining agency input (See Agency Involvement) only apply to HHB students with additional exceptionalities. HHB only students would not necessarily require post-school service involvement. Input from medical providers would be important data to consider in any decisions made by the IEP team.
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Q: Why the `__get__` descriptor method has instcls in its signature I have a question on the signature of the __get__ method for descriptors.
In a descriptor, __get__ has the following signature
def __get__(self, inst, instcls) where
self is the descriptor instance, inst is the
instance of the class using this descriptor, and
instcls is the class itself using the descriptor.
My question is why instcls is part of the signature?
It is not in __set__ and it can be easily obtained
from inst.__class__. It looks like a legacy issue, but
I did not find any explanation on it.

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Top 10 Filling Machine Manufacturers in 2023
I. 1. TetraPak
II. 2. Krones
III. 3. Tech-long
IV. 4. Newamstar
V. 5. Zhongya
VI. 6. Grandpak
VII. 7. Yongsun
VIII. 8. SIG
IX. 9. Ecolean
X. 10. Bestcrown
1. TetraPak
Founded:1951
Tetra Pak is a leading provider of food processing and packaging solutions.
The company cooperates closely with customers and suppliers to provide safe, innovative and environmentally friendly products, meeting the needs of hundreds of millions of people in more than 160 countries/regions around the world every day.
With more than 25000 employees worldwide, Tetra Pak pursues responsible industry leadership and sustainable business development.
Tetra Pak is a full system solution expert in the field of food processing, packaging and distribution.
Solutions are specially designed to save resources as much as possible.
Dairy products, beverages, ice cream, cheese, food and vegetables, pet food and other products can be processed or packaged in the company's processing and packaging production lines.
Tetra Pak is committed to minimizing the consumption of all raw materials and energy in the manufacturing process and distribution process.
In order to remain competitive, the company's customers need faster, better and more economical R&D results to reduce operating costs and improve performance.
In order to respond to the needs of customers, consumers and the market, continue to invest in the development of new technologies and products.
Tetra Pak has five R&D centers around the world to support many projects around the world.
2. Krones
Every day, millions of glass bottles, pop cans and PET bottles pass through Krones equipment.
As a system supplier, Krones provides equipment for breweries, beverage bottlers and food manufacturers all over the world – from a single machine to a complete production plant.
Krones designs and implements a complete production line covering every production process for food and beverage, from the preparation of products and containers to filling and packaging, to the material flow and container recycling.
About 10000 employees work in German factories in New Troplin, Netnow, Rosenheim, Freshing and Frensburg.
With their professional knowledge and sense of responsibility, they laid the foundation for providing high quality, which is expected by Krones customers.
Krones has more than 100 bases around the world, and has widely spread its network in the field of life cycle services.
In order to provide services for customers in the new machine business as soon as possible, Krones also expanded its production to international bases.
In addition to the group headquarters, the assembly and development center for filling, labeling, plastics and process technology is also located in Germany, but other production bases around the world can also take over the production of certain machines and equipment, such as packaging and palletizing technology.
3. Tech-long
Guangzhou Tech-long Packaging Machinery Co., Ltd. was established in Guangzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone in 1999.
From becoming a listed company with a national R&D center in China's beverage packaging machinery industry, to developing and applying robot technology to provide automation solutions for manufacturing enterprises, to applying new generation information technology to provide intelligent workshop and intelligent factory solutions for manufacturing enterprises, Tech-long always adheres to the concept of "turning for you" and moves forward with the times.
Over the years, Tech-long has accumulated a lot of experience in the process of serving customers, and is familiar with each industrial production process.
Based on this technology, combined with the company's continuous R&D investment, it can provide global customers with the whole line and single machine equipment for liquid product packaging, such as water treatment, beverage pretreatment system, PET bottle blowing series, filling series, barreled water series, blowing irrigation rotation series, labeling series, conveying series, secondary packaging equipment series, etc. and the top-level planning and design, software and hardware equipment, and product process improvement of automated production lines, intelligent workshops, and intelligent factories provide customers with solutions to meet the service needs of all links of the whole value chain of customer product research and development, procurement, manufacturing, packaging, warehousing, logistics, distribution, and consumption.
Today, Tech-long has nine wholly-owned subsidiaries: Tech-long North America Co., Ltd. (wholly-owned subsidiary: Tech-long Europe), Dongguan Tech-long Water Treatment Technology Co., Ltd., Dongguan Baolong Packaging Technology Development Co., Ltd., Xinjiang Baolong Packaging Technology Development Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Daylon Packaging Technology Co., Ltd., Zhuhai Baolong Bottle Embryo Co., Ltd., Tianjin Baolong Packaging Technology Development Co., Ltd Guangzhou Tech-long Packaging Machinery Industry Co., Ltd., Guangzhou Tech-long Industry Co., Ltd. and Guangzhou Yidai Financial Information Service Co., Ltd.
The service network of Tech-long covers more than 80 countries and regions in the world, and its product applications cover the entire manufacturing industry.
4. Newamstar
Newamstar is the R&D and manufacturing base of liquid (beverage) packaging machinery in China, focusing on the general integrated contracting service of providing integrated production and storage solutions for intelligent factories of liquid products, stock code 300509.
For a long time, Newamstar has always adhered to the concept of "innovation driven development and quality winning the market".
It has worked hard in five major fields of beverages, dairy products, alcohol, condiments and daily chemicals, and provided global users with complete sets of intelligent equipment and solutions such as water treatment, pre blending, bottle blowing, filling, secondary packaging, handling robots, and intelligent three-dimensional warehouses, realizing the dream of "China's equipment, equipment the world".
From the formula process support, the three-dimensional design of product bottle shape to the overall engineering layout of the user factory, from the R&D design of core equipment, the installation and commissioning of engineering projects to the multi-dimensional training of operators, Newamstar has so far served a number of domestic and foreign brands, with more than 2200 production lines in more than 80 countries and regions around the world.
Newamstar's aseptic cold filling technology, ozone free mineral water production technology, 80000 bottles/hour blow, irrigation and rotation all-in-one machine, 8-20L super large bottle blow, irrigation and rotation all-in-one machine, intelligent factory management system, intelligent warehouse and other technologies and products are renowned in the industry.
At the same time, Newamstar has improved the level of digitalization, networking and intelligence, provided a solid and stable guarantee for intelligent manufacturing, and achieved forward dark management and full life cycle management through big data analysis to improve the efficiency of industrial manufacturing and synchronize with the 4.0 era.
In the future, as we move towards Made in China 2025, Newamstar will continue to promote the transformation from Made in China to Creat in China, from China's speed to China's quality, and from Chinese products to Chinese brands, so that the company will become more refined and stronger, and strive to become a respected global excellent liquid packaging solution supplier.
5. Zhongya
Hangzhou Central Asia Machinery Co., Ltd., founded in 1992, is a listed enterprise on the main board of Shenzhen Stock Exchange (stock code: 300512), mainly focusing on the R&D, manufacturing and sales of intelligent packaging equipment and unmanned retail equipment.
At present, the enterprise has more than 1200 employees. It has a modern assembly workshop, precision parts manufacturing workshop, R&D, operation, training center, etc. totaling 200000 square meters, including Hangzhou headquarters with a building area of more than 80000 square meters, and Hangzhou Qingshanhu new base with an area of more than 120000 square meters.
It is one of the larger packaging equipment manufacturing bases in China.
By the end of 2019, the company had drafted or participated in the formulation of national standards and 6 industrial standards.
A total of 542 national patents were applied, including 520 authorized patents (185 invention patents, 133 utility model patents) and 5 international invention patents.
Quality is the basis for the survival of the enterprise. The company regards it as the core element of the long-term development of the enterprise.
Every detail of the product is the goal we pay attention to. Based on the comprehensive implementation of the three systems of ISO9001, ISO14000 and ISO12000, each equipment is designed, manufactured, assembled, tested, packaged, installed and debugged under strict control until it is delivered to the final customer.
At the same time, the company has advanced CNC processing and testing equipment.
Unmanned flexible processing production lines, large gantry pentahedron machine tools, five axis linkage compound machine tools, turning milling compound machine tools, high-speed laser cutting machine tools, machining centers, CNC lathes, coordinate measuring instruments and spectral analyzers are all imported from Germany, Japan, the United States, Switzerland and other countries, which is another strong support for quality assurance.
Central Asia has more than 100 kinds of equipment in 11 categories, including bottle blowing machinery, filling machinery and rear intelligent packaging production lines, which are widely used in dairy, beverage, daily chemical, medical health, grease, food, condiments and other industries.
At the same time, the company also provides customers with overall solutions for production line planning, design, engineering installation, equipment life cycle maintenance, etc.
The products in Central Asia have covered 55 countries and regions, as well as 31 provinces and autonomous regions of China, including COFCO Group, CCFCO, Yili Group, Mengniu Dairy, Bright Dairy, Wahaha, Master Kong, Tongyi, Wangwang, Jiangzhong Pharmaceutical, Shuanghe Pharmaceutical, and other well-known domestic enterprises, as well as Nestle, Danone, Coca Cola, Pepsi, Unilever, Yihai Kerry, General Mills, New Zealand Fonterra, Netherlands Fislan Dairy, Japan Meiji and other famous multinational companies are corporate customers.
6. Grandpak
Nanjing Grandpak Machinery Co., Ltd. is a national high-tech enterprise in the field of light industrial equipment.
It focuses on the filling and secondary packaging production line of beverages and liquid foods packaged with PET bottles, pop cans and glass bottles, and extends to the core pre-treatment system unit, as well as the filling peripheral equipment.
Grandpak advocates quality and precision manufacturing. Its products are widely used in the field of beverage and liquid food production.
It provides manufacturers pursuing high-quality products with equipment and services from China with high cost performance.
7. Yongsun
Hangzhou Yongsun Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd. is located in Hangzhou West Lake Science and Technology Park, Zhejiang Province.
Since its establishment, the company has been focusing on the R&D, design, manufacturing, installation, debugging and technical services of packaging equipment and supporting packaging materials, and provides customers with packaging equipment solutions based on technology.
Hangzhou Yongsun Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd. is a national high-tech enterprise, a key high-tech enterprise of the National Torch Plan, and a secretariat unit of the National Packaging Machinery Standardization Technical Committee, Forming, Filling and Sealing Assembling Machinery Sub Technical Committee;
It is a patent demonstration enterprise in Zhejiang Province, a standard innovation enterprise in Zhejiang Province, and a green enterprise in Zhejiang Province;
The company's products have a high share in the domestic packaging machinery market.
8. SIG
SIG Kangmeibao is a leading supplier of sterile carton and filling system solutions.
The unique technology and outstanding innovation power endow SIG with the ability to provide customers with end-to-end solutions in three fields: differentiated products, intelligent factories and connected packaging, aiming to meet changing consumer needs.
Founded in 1853, SIG Kangmeibao is headquartered in Neuhausen, Switzerland. SIG undertakes the needs of millions of people every day.
From breakfast tables and meeting rooms to cafes and restaurants, we can provide consumers with convenient and reliable natural products at any time.
In the development of each carton, SIG has devoted the same attention and enthusiasm.
SIG works with customers to develop safe, sustainable and affordable products.
9. Ecolean
Ecolean is a private enterprise. Its main investor is Mr. Hans Rausing, the son of Mr. Ruben Rausing, the founder of Tetra Pak.
Ecolean's headquarters and research and development organization are located in Helsingborg, Sweden, where it also produces first-class packaging materials with sustainable development and supporting filling equipment.
Ecolean develops and produces packaging system packaging raw materials, packaging and filling equipment for liquid food industry.
The ecological idea and environmental protection concept are like a green line, running through everything to be completed.
Under the concept of building a resource saving society globally, light packaging came into being. By using less raw materials, a real light packaging is produced, reducing the impact on the environment.
Only the light weight of the package can save resources.
Dairy and beverage companies are typical customers of Ecolean, and retail networks are as important as consumers.
10. Bestcrown
Langfang Bestcrown Packaging Machinery Co., Ltd. (the former Langfang Packaging Equipment Manufacturing Corporation), as a professional beverage machinery manufacturing enterprise, has been committed to in-depth research on beverage technology, mastered the core technology of liquid beverage filling, successfully developed a series of medium and large filling units, and has met the conditions for industrialization, leading the industry.
The company combines advanced manufacturing technology at home and abroad and rich experience in the design of the whole plant.
From the operation of the project to the later implementation, a professional team can provide you with high-quality and fast services.
The company adheres to the business philosophy of "systematization, specialization, scale, standardization and internationalization", and with a keen sense of the market and a broad spirit of cooperation, provides you with high-quality products and strong technical support.
The company's products have been sold to more than 40 countries, including the United States, Britain, France, Japan, Malaysia and Russia, in addition to the provinces, cities and regions throughout the country.
The international market is very broad and the export volume is increasing year by year.
The company combines domestic and foreign manufacturing technology and rich experience in the whole plant design.
The company pays attention to the high starting point and high grade of product development.
On the basis of the introduction of foreign technology, digestion and absorption, combined with China's national conditions, the beverage technology was studied in depth.
Relying on many years of experience and technical foundation in R&D and manufacturing of packaging machinery, combined with strong manufacturing and production capacity, it has the ability to undertake a full set of engineering projects from preliminary plant design, process design, equipment development and manufacturing to installation and commissioning.
Up to now, Bestcrown's 81000B/H blowing, pouring and rotating production line, 36000B/H aseptic cold filling production line, 81000B/H bottled water filling line, 36000B/H aerated beverage filling line, 45000B/H hot filling, ultra clean filling production line, 48000C/H pop can filling line and other medium and large production lines have been introduced, and the packaging products cover water, fruit juice, tea drinks, milk drinks, granular drinks, carbonated drinks, protein drinks Functional drinks and many other fields.
From the split type to the combined type, the equipment has realized the leap of "three in one", "four in one" and "five in one", which not only concentrated the combination of equipment, but also greatly reduced the infection rate of packaging bottles and filling materials, and guaranteed the safety of products with high output from the technology and performance.
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Clam Gulch Lodge is located on over ten acres of bluff property overlooking Cook Inlet and is in the heart of the Kenai Peninsula?s outdoor recreational playground. Regardless of your favorite outdoor activities - river fishing, deep water fishing, clamming, hiking, canoeing/kayaking, photography, birding, bear watching, nature based tours, and snow machining - they can all be found within a short drive of the Lodge.
The Lodge has five rooms available for lodging and any group size between one and twenty can be accommodated. A hearty hot breakfast is included with each night of lodging. The property also has a six person fully furnished cabin available for rent. Our lodge, cabin, and property is the perfect location for family-orientated fun and adventure.
Our website, www.clamgulch.com, has more information about the lodge operations, photos of the Lodge and outdoor activities, and examples of some lodging/fishing packages.
We hope that this information provides you with a good starting point for your Alaskan travel plans. Please do not hesitate to contact Nicole Sweetland or Gary Katsion to provide personal assistance during your planning stage. We are looking forward to helping make your Alaskan adventure a very memorable one.
Milepost 119.6 Sterling Highway - about 25 miles south of Sodotna; 55 miles north of Homer; and 175 miles southwest of Anchorage.


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Q: Installation hangs Installation hangs at "Select Language"
Hardware Intel NUC NUC5CPYH MEMORY 8 GB, Storage 500 GB SSD
keyboard and mouse USB wireless
boot/install from USB drive.
version 15.10
Any one have a thought why it's hanging here and a work around?
Thanks

A: The typical reason it will hang is due to a faulty iso issue.
When you download the ISO and put it onto a medium,: Perform a checksum on it to verify that this was done properly:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM


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The Bourn Signing From All The Angles
CBA, Draft, Fantasy/Roto, Free Agents, Games, History, Hot Stove, Management, Media, MiLB, Players, Spring Training, Trade Rumors
For Michael Bourn
A 4-year, $48 million contract with an option for 2017 making it possibly worth $60 million over five years isn't what Bourn and agent Scott Boras had in mind when the asking price was around $15 million annually. Considering the market, the late date and that Bourn was costing a draft pick and the loss of money to spend in the draft, it's a good contract for him.
The Indians are a relatively low-pressure atmosphere in spite of the spending and Terry Francona is an easy manager to play for. Bourn shows up to work every day and does his job. He's durable, will steal 50 bases and play excellent defense in center field.
For the Indians
The concerns about Bourn's age (30) and that he's a "speed" player are overblown. For the life of the contract, he'll be able to play his game and can hit independent of his speed. The Indians are being aggressive in a way they haven't in years. Their rebuild had stagnated with the players they acquired in the CC Sabathia and Cliff Lee trades contributing very little. With Nick Swisher, Bourn and Mark Reynolds added to the lineup, they'll score more runs and be better defensively. Their starting pitching is the key. Unless Ubaldo Jimenez reverts to what he was in 2010 with the Rockies, Trevor Bauer develops quickly and they squeeze whatever remains in Scott Kazmir and/or Daisuke Matsuzaka, they're around a .500 team. Francona's not a miracle worker and short of the Indians turning around and hiring Dave Duncan, they can't manufacture pitchers out of nothing.
For Scott Boras
It's naïve to think that Boras, when asking for the $75 million for Bourn, hadn't calculated the factor of draft pick compensation and that the number of teams willing to spend that kind of money on Bourn was limited. Compared to what he publicly suggested as Bourn's asking price to what he got, it's a loss. But Boras is smart enough to know and to have conveyed to his client that the numbers might have to come down to get a long-term deal done and he'd have to sign with an unexpected entrant into the sweepstakes like the Indians.
For the Mets
If they'd gotten him, Bourn represented an upgrade in center field and signaled that the Mets weren't sitting on the sidelines and yessing their fans to death with no intention of sealing the deal. I wrote about the positives and negatives for the Mets with Bourn and risking the 11th pick in the upcoming draft to sign him. If Sandy Alderson and the Mets were telling Bourn to hold off on signing a contract to see if they could get the compensation pick waived, they're at best arrogant and at worst delusional. Had Bourn stalled the Indians, they might've told him to take a hike knowing that he was waiting out the Mets. Bourn took the deal in hand and was wise to do so.
The Mets weren't pulling any sleight of hand to trick their fans and the media to think they were serious when they really weren't, but it's easy to see how some can view it that way. In the end, it's Michael Bourn. He's a useful player who would've helped the Mets, but not someone to get into a frenzy over either way.
For Francona and other managers
Imagine what Manny Acta is thinking right as he watches this. In his first managerial job, he was saddled with the woeful Nationals, had the difficult personalities Lastings Milledge, Elijah Dukes and Scott Olsen in his clubhouse, and got fired from a team that wouldn't have won with Tony LaRussa, Joe Torre, Casey Stengel or any other managerial luminary overseeing it. In 2013, they've got the talent to win 100 games and have the veteran Davey Johnson at the helm.
Then Acta went to the Indians, overachieved in 2011 with limited talent and was fired when the team played up to their potential with 90+ losses in two of his three seasons.
Acta has no power to dictate terms. The above-mentioned names did. Francona does. None of those name managers would take that kind of job once they've established themselves as "winners" who can be sold as such to the fanbase. This has happened before. Lou Piniella was hired by the Devil Rays and promised that they were going to spend money. They didn't and all he did was lose. He left and was absolved of blame for what happened in Tampa due to his reputation and previous work with the Mariners, Reds and Yankees. Hired by the Cubs, they spent big on free agents and were in the playoffs in his first season.
That's how it works before the fact. Sometimes spending on a name manager and expensive players fails in practice as we saw with the 2012 Marlins and Ozzie Guillen. Guillen, a manager with a championship and successful run with the White Sox, will have trouble getting another job after that one disastrous year with the Marlins.
This is life for managers when they're trying to gain footing or replenish a reputation. Fleeting and subjective, a manager is judged on perception and results. Acta is a good tactical manager and the players like him, but he's been stuck with bad teams. Whether he gets another shot remains to be seen. He probably will and, as is customary, success hinges on the players the front office gives him.
Francona wasn't immune to it either. He too had to fend off the somewhat accurate belief that he got the Red Sox job because of Curt Schilling, and that he'd work cheap while taking orders from the front office. It's partially true. Francona won two World Series titles and he's able to dictate that he'll be paid handsomely and his team will spend money on "name" players. Francona did his time in the minors and managing a horrible Phillies team, now he's reaping the benefits of his work with the Red Sox as the Indians are giving him players that Acta never had. He, unlike Acta, will be expected to win. If he doesn't, he'll suffer the same fate as Acta, only it will be pricier in terms of money and the future with the bartered draft picks, not to mention Francona's reputation.
The Indians have put forth the image of "trying." Now, they have to "do."
February 12, 2013 Paul Lebowitz Tagged Boston Red Sox, Casey Stengel, CC Sabathia, Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians, Cliff Lee, Cubs, Curt Schilling, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Dave Duncan, Davey Johnson, Devil Rays, Elijah Dukes, Indians, Joe Torre, Lastings Milledge, Lou Piniella, Mark Reynolds, Marlins, Mets, Miami Marlins, Michael Bourn, Michael Bourn Indians, Nationals, New York Mets, Nick Swisher, Ozzie Guillen, Red Sox, Scott Boras, Scott Kazmir, Scott Olsen, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Terry Francona, Tony LaRussa, Trevor Bauer, Ubaldo Jimenez, Washington Nationals	Leave a comment
Josh Hamilton—Free Agency Profile
All Star Game, Award Winners, Ballparks, CBA, Draft, Fantasy/Roto, Free Agents, Games, History, Hot Stove, Management, Media, MiLB, MVP, PEDs, Players, Playoffs, Stats, Trade Rumors
Name: Josh Hamilton
Position: Outfielder
Vital Statistics: Age—31 (32 on May 21st); Height—6'4"; Weight—240 lbs.; Bats—Left; Throws—Left
Career Transactions: Drafted in the 1st round (1st overall) by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the 1999 amateur draft; drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the Rule 5 draft in December of 2006; purchased by the Cincinnati Reds in December of 2006; traded by the Cincinnati Reds to the Texas Rangers for RHP Edinson Volquez and LHP Danny Herrera.
Agent: Michael Moye
Might he return to the Rangers? Yes.
Teams that could use him, pay him, and might pursue him: Boston Red Sox; Baltimore Orioles; Chicago White Sox; Kansas City Royals; Texas Rangers; Seattle Mariners; Washington Nationals; Philadelphia Phillies; Atlanta Braves; Milwaukee Brewers; Chicago Cubs; San Francisco Giants; Los Angeles Dodgers.
Positives: Hamilton has the power to hit the ball out of any park at any time and is capable of hitting 10 home runs in a week. He is a former MVP, is a good defensive left fielder and can play a decent center field.
Negatives: He's injury-prone. His concentration lapses amid negativity leading to off-field questions as to how he'll cope with them. Hamilton's substance abuse problems and known incidences of drinking since supposedly getting clean raise massive red flags. At age 32, his body has been abused for extended periods making it reasonable to wonder when his physical decline will begin and if it's going to be earlier than it would be with other players.
What he wants: 7-years, $175 million
What he'll get: 4-years, $95 million
Teams that might give it to him: Red Sox, Orioles, Rangers, Mariners, Nationals, Phillies, Dodgers
The Red Sox were said to have serious interest in Hamilton, but that was later played down. Unless they're shut out on every other avenue, the Red Sox are not going to repeat the mistakes they made with players like Adrian Gonzalez, Carl Crawford, and John Lackey who were not emotionally equipped to handle Boston and the intense pressure and expectations that come along with being a big name free agent signee. That said, with the Blue Jays improvement and a very tough division, they might panic.
The Orioles have the money and a hole in the middle of their lineup. It was at Camden Yards that Hamilton hit 4 homers in one game earlier this year and is a career .370 hitter there. Baltimore is sufficiently less-pressurized than New York, Boston, and Los Angeles that the temptations Hamilton has to face will be limited.
The Rangers and Hamilton have set their winter positions with the Rangers saying they won't go past 3 years and Hamilton wanting 7. There's room for negotiation and if they aren't able to get a Justin Upton, a B.J. Upton, or to improve their offense in another manner, they and Hamilton might agree to re-up.
The Nationals have a ton of money and would be able to make room for Hamilton by moving Mike Morse to first base. The Phillies need an outfield bat desperately, but I would not put the sensitive Hamilton in Philadelphia. The Dodgers don't have room for Hamilton, but with the money they're spending and the willingness of GM Ned Colletti to do anything and everything, they can't be discounted.
Would I sign Hamilton? Yes and no. I would not go over 4 years. If he's so insistent on 5-7 years, I would give 4 guaranteed and want the option to nullify the contract immediately if he fails a drug test or is caught drinking.
The Players Association would never go for it and nor would Hamilton, so reality dictates that he would not sign with me.
Will the team that signs him regret it? If he signs a 3-4 year contract, no. If someone gives him 6-7 years at $150-175 million, they will absolutely regret it.
Prediction: Hamilton will either sign with the Orioles for 6-years or wind up back with the Rangers on a 4-year contract with a reachable incentive to get a 5th and 6th year and legal language giving the Rangers some recourse if he starts using/drinking again.
November 18, 2012 Paul Lebowitz Tagged Adrian Gonzalez, B.J. Upton, Braves, Brewers, Can Josh Hamilton return to the Rangers?, Carl Crawford, Cubs, Danny Herrera, Devil Rays, Dodgers, Edinson Volquez, Giants, How much does Josh Hamilton want?, How much will Josh Hamilton get?, John Lackey, Josh Hamilton, Josh Hamilton age, Josh Hamilton agent, Josh Hamilton alcohol, Josh Hamilton contract, Josh Hamilton draft, Josh Hamilton drugs, Josh Hamilton height, Josh Hamilton negatives, Josh Hamilton positives, Josh Hamilton substance abuse, Josh Hamilton transactions, Josh Hamilton weight, Justin Upton, mariners, Michael Moye, Mike Morse, Nationals, Nats, Orioles, Phillies, Prediction of where Josh Hamilton signs, Rangers, Red Sox, Reds, Royals, Texas Rangers, White Sox, Who will sign Josh Hamilton?	Leave a comment
The Saga of Scott Kazmir
Drafted, disciplined, traded, lionized, traded, released, finished.
The saga of Scott Kazmir is summed up neatly with that order of words.
With the news in this Jayson Stark piece on ESPN that his fastball is puttering in at 84-85 mph, he might be better-suited to begin throwing sidearm and marketing himself as a lefty specialist.
Because he was such a high-profile player and representative of so many different things—a questioned draft pick and trade; a falling star; trading a name player sooner rather than later; an attitude problem—it's easily lost that Kazmir, with his draft status and subsequent salaries in mind, has been mostly a bust.
The Mets drafted Kazmir in 2002 and it wouldn't have been as noteworthy had the process not been detailed in Moneyball. The Mets were going to draft Nick Swisher if Kazmir wasn't available—and they didn't think he would be—but he was and they took him.
In the minors, Kazmir had a reputation for swaggering arrogance and off-field mishaps. It drew the ire of the Mets' influential veterans Al Leiter and John Franco when, in the team's weight room, Kazmir changed their radio station and they told him to change it back.
Mets' pitching czar Rick Peterson advocated the ill-fated trade the Mets made for Victor Zambrano in July of 2004 not because of disciplinary issues, but because of the cold, hard data that Peterson relies on in judging his charges. Zambrano would help immediately and Peterson felt that he could repair his mechanics and make him more effective; Kazmir was small, had a stressful motion and wouldn't be a durable rotation linchpin for at least another 2-3 years and only that for a short period of time.
The Devil Rays acquired him while still being run by Chuck LaMar and brought him to the big leagues later that season. Opposing hitters were impressed and writers eagerly used the array of power stuff displayed by Kazmir to hammer the Mets decisionmakers for trading him. It was that Mets regime's flashpoint and death knell. Zambrano went on the disabled list after three starts and the Mets came apart leading to the demotion of GM Jim Duquette in favor of Omar Minaya and the firing of manager Art Howe.
Peterson survived the purge.
Kazmir was impressive over parts of the next five seasons with his best and most durable year coming in 2007 with the rebuilding Rays. He struck out 239 hitters in 32 starts and made the All Star team. But there were warning signs. He had elbow and shoulder woes and, under the pretense of financial constraints and falling from playoff contention in August of 2009, the Rays made him available via trade.
The Angels came calling and dealt three prospects for Kazmir and the $20 million+ remaining on his contract.
In reality, the Rays saw that Kazmir was declining and an injury waiting to happen, so they dumped him and his salary and got some useful pieces in Sean Rodriguez and two minor leaguers in exchange.
Kazmir had a mysterious "back injury" in 2011 that was more likely a face-saving gesture from the Angels to let him try and straighten himself out while not enduring the embarrassment of a former All-Star being sent to the minors. While trying to come back, he got pounded in 5 minor league starts and the Angels released him.
After his release, teams considered Kazmir, but no one signed him.
As much as the Mets are rightfully criticized for that trade, it turned out that the mistake wasn't dealing him, but what they dealt him for. Following that season, there was every possibility that they could've centered Kazmir around a deal for Tim Hudson, Mark Mulder or inquired about Ben Sheets. Instead, they got Zambrano; Zambrano got hurt; and there was a regime change in Flushing.
Kazmir is about done now. The next step is either have a surgery that he may or may not need to "fix" a problem that doesn't exist and "prove" that he's on the comeback trail and will again have that velocity and movement that made him such a coveted prospect to begin with.
My advice to Kazmir is, as I said earlier, become a sidearming lefty specialist. He'll always have a job and might even be effective in that role.
But will his ego be able to handle it? Unless he's remarkably stupid and wasteful, he has enough money to live the rest of his life, so it comes down to whether or not he wants to continue playing baseball.
It won't be as an All-Star starter because that pitcher, along with the one who's immortalized in print and perception for the right and wrong reasons, is gone forever.
February 1, 2012 Paul Lebowitz Tagged Al Leiter, Angels, Art Howe, Ben Sheets, Devil Rays, Jim Duquette, John Franco, Leiter Franco Kazmir, Mark Mulder, Mets, Moneyball, Moneyball draft 2002, Nick Swisher, Omar Minaya, Rays, Rick Peterson, Scott Kazmir, Sean Rodriguez, Tim Hudson, Victor Zambrano	Leave a comment
Who Cares What the Red Sox Players Think?
All Star Game, Ballparks, Books, Cy Young Award, Draft, Fantasy/Roto, Free Agents, Games, Hall Of Fame, History, Hot Stove, Management, Media, MiLB, MLB Trade Deadline, MLB Waiver Trades, Movies, MVP, Paul Lebowitz's 2011 Baseball Guide, PEDs, Players, Playoffs, Politics, Prospects, Spring Training, Stats, Trade Rumors, Umpires, World Series
Terry Francona was the proper choice at the time in 2004 because he'd work cheap; he wasn't Grady Little; he'd do what he was told by the front office; and he was agreeable to Curt Schilling, whom they were trying to convince to accept a trade from the Diamondbacks to the Red Sox.
The "middle-manager" worked.
If you examine some of the big name, splashy hirings of established managers, their appropriateness is based on circumstances.
Lou Piniella was a failure for the Devil Rays because they didn't have any players. The last thing a rebuilding team needs is a cranky old man who wants to win immediately.
Buck Showalter is adept at building and teaching, making him a good fit for the Orioles.
The Marlins are intent on contending and drawing interest with big personalities—hence, Ozzie Guillen.
The Red Sox current roster dynamic is static so the only thing they could do was to bring in the opposite to Francona and keep the same group together. That means Valentine.
"Sources" saying that Red Sox players are sending each other text messages with complaints about Bobby Valentine sounds like something from a teenage girl's Facebook page complete with the frowny face.
It's a non-story for webhits and attention.
If it's true, who cares what Josh Beckett and the rest of them think?
They had a manager who was hands off and left them alone and they somehow found a way to blow a playoff spot and get the manager fired.
Now they have to deal with Valentine.
What are they going to do? Not play?
They made this mess and now they have to deal with the fallout.
And that fallout is Valentine.
December 1, 2011 Paul Lebowitz Tagged Baltimore Orioles, Bobby Valentine, Boston Red Sox, Buck Showalter, Curt Schilling, Devil Rays, Florida Marlins, Grady Little, Marlins, Middle manager, Orioles, Ozzie Guillen, Red Sox, Red Sox hire Valentine, Red Sox players not happy with Valentine, Rumors of Red Sox players complaining about Valentine, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Terry Francona	2 Comments
Executive Perception
Books, Media, Players
The nature of the job in being a baseball executive is such that it's no longer a "baseball guy" who can sit behind his desk, try to do his job and avoid the media until he has no other choice.
He has to be part salesman; eloquent spokesman; charmer; spin-doctor; in addition to smart baseball guy.
It's how we've gotten style over substance; perception over truth.
You have to sift through the muck to get to that reality, but once you do you're able to separate fact from fiction; truth from puffery.
Royals GM Dayton Moore is one such case where he's suddenly receiving accolades from opposing executives, media and fans for the great farm system he's developed.
The word "he" is the operative term.
How much influence Moore had in the drafting/acquisitions of said players is unknown, but I have a question: why is Moore given the credit for the players the Royals have accumulated and the likes of former Devil Rays GM Chuck LaMar, former Phillies (and current Astros) GM Ed Wade and Giants GM Brian Sabean are ridiculed because their work on the whole was considered poor or they don't talk a good game?
I find it laughable that the Phillies current crop of prospects are credited to former assistant Mike Arbuckle, but Wade is considered little more than an afterthought to the juggernaut that succeeded after Wade was long gone.
The Devil Rays became the Rays; the new front office became the stuff of legend and now the subject of a book—The Extra 2% by Jonah Keri; I just received a copy in the mail; a review will be forthcoming. But the foundation of draft picks—B.J. Upton; Jeff Niemann; James Shields; Carl Crawford—was already there when they arrived. He also traded for Scott Kazmir. Does LaMar get a footnote in the way the Rays have been built? Or is he simply considered a fool who took advantage of the annual top picks in the draft because the big league product was so rancid under his watch?
Sabean has made a habit of finding pitchers and developing them. Because he overspent for Aaron Rowand and Barry Zito and doesn't indulge in the numbers racket baseball has become in certain arenas, he's savaged as an old-school thinker who got lucky. Did he get lucky with Tim Lincecum? With Matt Cain? With Brian Wilson? With Madison Bumgarner? Was he an ancillary part along for the ride while others made the calls? Or should he receive similar congratulations as Moore is getting now?
I'm sorry, it doesn't work the way it's framed.
The totem for the all-powerful executive—Billy Beane—is seen as such because of Moneyball and his skills with the language. Recently Jerry Crasnick wrote this piece about Beane and the Athletics solid off-season.
Beane's a smart guy but he's also highly manipulative and cultivating of his reputation as that CEO. The "zero-sum game" line comes straight out of Wall Street; his twisting of language makes it sound as if he's saying something profound when he's speaking in circles as if every word warrants applause. Such verbal gymnastics like the A's are dictated to what they can't do sound nice—they make great snippets—but are more-or-less sprinkled trickery to tilt the heads of the listeners and intimidate them with his well-rounded approach—an approach whose objective reality has been poor in recent years by every metric other than his ability to talk and that there are those clinging to the myth out of selfish interests.
In an extreme example, Beane would get credit for the "genius" of Wilson's beard; Sabean would get blame for letting his players look so unkempt.
No executive is an island—they all have help from others in the front office—whether that's good or bad help is the key to their success, but if a club is successful or unsuccessful, it's not only the titular head who is responsible for the results.
There has to be the protagonist of any story, it's easy to take a Beane, Moore, Wade or whoever and make them the hero/villain; but it's not accurate. Nor is it fair.
March 3, 2011 Paul Lebowitz Tagged Aaron Rowand, Athletics, Barry Zito, Billy Beane, Brian Sabean, Carl Crawford, Chuck LaMar, Dayton Moore, Devil Rays, Ed Wade, ESPN, Giants, James Shields, Jeff Niemann, Jerry Crasnick, Jonathan Sanchez, Kansas City Royals, Madison Bumgarner, Matt Cain, Mike Arbuckle, Oakland A's, Oakland Athletics, Pat Gillick, Philadelphia Phillies, Rays, Royals, San Francisco Giants, Scott Kazmir, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Tampa Bay Rays, Tim Lincecum	1 Comment


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Waldenburg District is one of the five districts of the largely German-speaking canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland. The district lies to the south of Basel-Country, bordering the canton of Solothurn. Its capital is the town of Waldenburg. It has a population of  (as of ). In average 150 persons live in a square kilometre.

Geography
Waldenburg district has an area, , of .  Of this area,  or 48.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while  or 44.1% is forested.   Of the rest of the land,  or 7.3% is settled (buildings or roads),  or 0.2% is either rivers or lakes and  or 0.1% is unproductive land.

Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.5%.  Out of the forested land, 41.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.3% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees.  Of the agricultural land, 10.8% is used for growing crops and 27.5% is pastures, while 3.8% is used for orchards or vine crops and 6.3% is used for alpine pastures.  All the water in the municipality is flowing water.

Municipalities
Waldenburg contains a total of fifteen municipalities:

Demographics
Waldenburg district has a population () of .  , 13.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals.

Most of the population () speaks German (13,765 or 90.9%), with Italian language being second most common (357 or 2.4%) and Albanian being third (280 or 1.8%).  There are 100 people who speak French and 12 people who speak Romansh.

, the gender distribution of the population was 50.1% male and 49.9% female.  The population was made up of 13,352 Swiss citizens (85.4% of the population), and 2,287 non-Swiss residents (14.6%)  Of the population in the district 4,601 or about 30.4% were born in the district and lived there in 2000.  There were 4,100 or 27.1% who were born in the same canton, while 3,808 or 25.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 2,180 or 14.4% were born outside of Switzerland.

In  there were 114 live births to Swiss citizens and 32 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 129 deaths of Swiss citizens and 7 non-Swiss citizen deaths.  Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 15 while the foreign population increased by 25.  There were 8 Swiss men and 4 Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland.  At the same time, there were 47 non-Swiss men and 48 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland.  The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was a decrease of 49 and the non-Swiss population change was an increase of 33 people.  This represents a population growth rate of -0.1%.

The age distribution, , in the district is; 1,044 children or 6.7% of the population are between 0 and 6 years old and 2,581 teenagers or 16.5% are between 7 and 19.  Of the adult population, 1,738 people or 11.1% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old.  1,882 people or 12.0% are between 30 and 39, 2,638 people or 16.9% are between 40 and 49, and 3,268 people or 20.9% are between 50 and 64.  The senior population distribution is 1,822 people or 11.7% of the population are between 65 and 79 years old and there are 666 people or 4.3% who are over 80.

, there were 6,223 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 7,489 married individuals, 796 widows or widowers and 635 individuals who are divorced.

There were 1,504 households that consist of only one person and 569 households with five or more people.  Out of a total of 5,892 households that answered this question, 25.5% were households made up of just one person and 47 were adults who lived with their parents.  Of the rest of the households,  there are 1,830 married couples without children, 2,057 married couples with children  There were 285 single parents with a child or children.  There were 60 households that were made up unrelated people and 109 households that were made some sort of institution or another collective housing.

 the average price to rent a two-room apartment was about 726.00 CHF (US$580, £330, €460), a three-room apartment was about 935.00 CHF (US$750, £420, €600) and a four-room apartment cost an average of 1183.00 CHF (US$950, £530, €760).

The historical population is given in the following chart:

Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 39.28% of the vote.  The next three most popular parties were the SP (20.27%), the FDP (14.58%) and the Green Party (13.65%).  In the federal election, a total of 5,408 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 50.0%.

Religion
From the , 2,714 or 17.9% were Roman Catholic, while 8,987 or 59.3% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.  Of the rest of the population, there were 174 members of an Orthodox church (or about 1.15% of the population), there were 52 individuals (or about 0.34% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church, and there were 501 individuals (or about 3.31% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church.  There were 7 individuals (or about 0.05% of the population) who were Jewish, and 754 (or about 4.98% of the population) who were Islamic.  There were 17 individuals who were Buddhist, 29 individuals who were Hindu and 14 individuals who belonged to another church.  1,419 (or about 9.37% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 475 individuals (or about 3.14% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education
In the district about 5,898 or (38.9%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 1,568 or (10.4%) have completed additional higher education (either University or a Fachhochschule).  Of the 1,568 who completed tertiary schooling, 67.7% were Swiss men, 22.3% were Swiss women, 6.9% were non-Swiss men and 3.1% were non-Swiss women.

References

Districts of Basel-Landschaft

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Psi hit and psi miss are terms used in discussion of parapsychological experimentation to describe the success or failure of the subject in achieving the desired result more often than could be expected through chance alone. Used only when the results are notably better than chance.

A psi miss is specifically used to refer to instances where the subject has failed to achieve the result through psi, rather than where they have a non-significant negative score gained through random guessing.

History
In 1942, Gertrude Schmeidler, a professor of psychology at City University of New York, used a questionnaire to discover the beliefs of test subjects concerning psi.  She called those who thought psi existed "sheep", and those who did not think psi existed (or did not believe it could influence the tests) she called "goats".  When she compared the results of the questionnaire to the results of the psi test, she found that the "sheep" scored significantly above chance, and the "goats" scored significantly below chance.  Schmeidler's results have since been confirmed by many other researchers.  In 1992, a meta-analysis of 73 experiments by 37 different researchers confirmed that subjects who believe psi is real average higher results than those who do not believe in it. A large-scale pre-registered replication in 2023 of "feeling the future" did not find any evidence for sheep-goats. According to Mario Varvoglis, PhD, President of the Parapsychological Association from 2001 to 2002:

See also
Parapsychology
Extra Sensory Perception
True-believer syndrome

References

Paranormal terminology


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Q: How can I refresh a PHP file with itself using Ajax? Alright guys I'm trying to make a filter system for posts using ajax and a select box. I am able to get the value from the select box no problem. But my issue is that when I try to include the selected value in my PHP file it doesn't do anything. I have a file called public_wall.php. This file contains PHP, Javascript, and HTML. How can I refresh this div whenever a user selects a different filter option? Basically I need the selected value to be passed onto my public_wall.php file and then I want to plug it into the PHP function that fetches the posts thats's in the same file and then I want to refresh that same file to display the filtered results. Here is my Javascript code.
$("#postRatings").on("click", function(e) {
selectedRatingFilter = $("#postRatings option:selected").val();
    var dataString = "timeFilter="+selectedRatingFilter;
    jQuery.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        url: site_url+"public_wall.php",
        data: dataString,
        dataType: "json",
        cache: false,
        success: function(response){
             hideSpinner();
             jQuery('#postsPagingDiv').remove();
             jQuery('#wsc_midbox').html(jQuery(response.htmls).fadeIn(400));
             setpost_ids(response.all_post_id);
             jQuery('#paging_in_process').val(0);
        }
    });
});

When the dataType is set to "json" nothing happens. But when it is set to html it prints some javascript code. Please help. The PHP file is too large to include here, but it basically contains PHP, HTML, and Javascript and some PHP functions that do sql queries. What is the best way to achieve a filter mechanism for my setup?
And on the public_wall.php file I want to get the value like so:
$ratingFilter = isset($_REQUEST['timeFilter']) ? intval($_REQUEST['timeFilter']) : 0;

And then plug it into the PHP function that fetches the posts which is in the public_wall.php file also so that I can filter the posts based on the selected value. And then finally I want to refresh the public_wall.php file with the new results. I hope that makes sense. Please help.
This is the output when I set my dataType to "html"
    <script>
        function refreshPosts() {/* only posts comments likes and count updated. */
            var posts = jQuery("#all_post_id").val();
            var arrays = posts.split(',');
            var dataString = "postids="+posts;

   jQuery.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        url: site_url+"includes/update_wall.php",
        data: dataString,
        dataType: "json",
        cache: false,
        success: function(response) {
            var x = response;
            //############ skip posts whose comments are being read by users
            var ExemptedPostsIDs = jQuery("#exemptedPostsID").val();

            var ExemptedArray    = ExemptedPostsIDs.split(',');
            ExemptedArray = ExemptedArray.sort();
            //////////////
            for (i=0; i<arrays.length; i++) {
                var val = 'row'+arrays[i];
                if(x[val]) {
                    if(!inArray(arrays[i], ExemptedArray))
                    jQuery("#ajax_wall_"+arrays[i]).html(x[val]);
                } else {
                    jQuery('#PostBoxID'+arrays[i]).parent().fadeOut(500);
                }
            }
        }
    });
}
function inArray(needle, haystack) {
    var length = haystack.length;
    for (var i = 0; i < length; i++) {
        if(haystack[i] == needle) return true;
    }
    return false;

}
function refreshWall() {/* loads new posts real time */
    var posts = jQuery("#all_post_id").val();
    var pageUsing = jQuery('#pageUsing').val();
    var dataString = "update_posts=1&postids="+posts+'&pagex='+pageUsing;
    jQuery.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        url: site_url+"public_wall.php",
        data: dataString,
        dataType: "json",
        cache: false,
                success: function(response) {
                    if(response.all_post_id) {
                        jQuery('#wsc_midbox').prepend(jQuery(response.htmls).fadeIn(400));
                        setpost_ids(response.all_post_id);
                    }
                }
            });
        }
    </script>

A: I suggest you keep the form with select element and any JavaScript on the outer frame.
Via ajax, only load the results to a seperate DIVision below that.
When you put an Ajax response to a div, any JavaScript inside it will not be executed.
For the best throughput with Ajax, you should consider loading a json response via Ajax and create HTML elements on the client side. That way it becomes much easier to pull additional variables to front-end JS from server side along with the same request/response.
But that becomes bit difficult when you have a template engine in the back-end. You can still send the HTML content in a json value, so you can easily pass the "all_post_id" as well..