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The Prosecutor Who Challenged Devin Nunes Is Now Targeting Voter Suppression
Andrew Janz's next act: launching a super-PAC.
Bryan Schatz
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Last November, 34-year-old prosecutor Andrew Janz came within 6 points of unseating Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.)—the closest any Democrat has ever come to defeating the eight-term Republican and then-chair of the House intelligence committee. Along the way, he raised an impressive $10 million and gained a national profile. Now Janz has launched a super-PAC he hopes will raise several million dollars for "protecting voting rights for people all across the country."
"This is a major problem afflicting our democracy," Janz says. "I think we need to hit the ground running." He says his newly registered Voter Protection Project will take an approach that combines goals to "support candidates who want to expand voting rights and punish candidates who stand against voting rights," he says. The project will also help create and support ballot measures and laws that expand and protect voting laws in order to "lay the groundwork for 2020."
Fighting Republicans' voter suppression efforts is becoming an increasingly crowded field for Democrats. About a year after Jason Kander lost to Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt in 2016, he launched Let America Vote, a PAC that works against restrictive voting laws. Similarly, the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, formed in 2017 by former Attorney General Eric Holder, pours money into elections in an effort to counter Republican gerrymandering tactics. Janz, who will run his group while continuing as a prosecutor at the Fresno district attorney's office, says he hopes to collaborate with these and other groups with similar goals.
His first goal is to get involved in voter access efforts in North Carolina, "where there is this contested election," he notes, referring to the still-disputed race for the 9th Congressional District, where investigations into possible absentee ballot fraud have entered their third month. What role the Voter Protection Project might play there Janz won't yet say. From North Carolina, the project will move on "to target specifically battleground states—places like Florida, Missouri, and Wisconsin—where voting rights have been under attack by mostly Republicans over the course of the last decade or so."
Janz sees his home state of California as a model for how other states should approach voting rights. "We saw each of the seven [Democrat]-targeted districts flip from red to blue, in large part because of expansive voting acts we have here: same-day registration, being able to register to vote at the DMV, and being able to collect ballots at the door. We've seen how well these laws work. When more people vote, I think we have a better democracy." Due to California's exacting ballot-counting laws, it took 11 days to officially confirm that Democrats had flipped seven House districts, including every single seat in Orange County.
The PAC's money, Janz says, will come from the same collection of people who helped fund his campaign, which raised an eye-popping amount for a Democrat challenging an incumbent in a historically conservative district. "The fundraising model is going to be exactly the same as we had in the congressional race, with grassroots fundraising and small-dollar donations, people who want to make a difference." He hopes the group can raise $10 million.
While Janz prepares for his next act, he says he hasn't decided whether he'll run for office again, but he's not "ruling anything out." Unprompted, he adds, "We ran a very close race; we were within about 5 points in what was deemed to be one of the safest Republican seats in the country. I think he's now the most vulnerable Republican in the state of California. I don't think the fight to defeat Devin Nunes is over by any means."
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Irish Catholicism: Will it survive? Does it matter?
Priesting on the periphery has the advantage of protecting one from the dangerous allure of group think at the centre. There is an independent strand in west of Ireland catholicism where I find myself at home. It includes such people as Archbishop John MacHale of Tuam who opposed the doctrine of papal infallibility at the first Vatican Council, Fr Patrick Lavelle, the patriot priest of Partry and more recently Dr Enda Mc Donagh, the renowned Mayo theologian, who, for many of us, has been a light in the stygian gloom of much of Irish Catholic theology.


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Edwin Coe, the UK's first class action firm, welcomes decision of HMRC to abandon its claim for £1.6bn 'dry tax' in Eclipse film investment schemes
Press Release - 07/09/2021
Today HMRC published an offer to tax payers who invested in the Eclipse film investment schemes in which HMCTS will abandon its long running claim for tax on fictional returns on the purported investment.
Edwin Coe is acting for almost 400 of Eclipse investors in a claim against HSBC for fraud in the selling of the Eclipse schemes.
David Greene, Senior Partner said "The offer being made by HMCTS effectively to abandon its claim for tax on declared income that we now discover was fictional is welcome news for so many. The amount of tax for individuals, some £1.6 bn in total, was an existential threat to assets and livelihoods.
This is the right answer from the Revenue in the face of our appeal for one of the partnerships and on behalf of investors. The Revenue recognise that the whole mechanism constructed by HSBC and others was false and, having examined all the contractual documents, concluded that the income that was declared by partnerships was, in fact, fictional. It now just remains for HSBC to make good the substantial actual losses of investors deriving from the cash invested."
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Planet Ice is a chain of ice rinks in the United Kingdom (UK). The company has historically had a working relationship with the English Ice Hockey Association (EIHA) and several Planet Ice facilities have served as home ice to EIHA teams.

Arenas
There are currently fourteen Planet Ice Arenas in operation in the UK:

Planet Ice Altrincham in Altrincham, Greater Manchester
Planet Ice Silverdome Arena in Basingstoke, Hampshire
Blackburn Arena in Blackburn, Lancashire
Planet Ice Bristol at Cribbs Causeway in Bristol
Planet Ice Cannock in Cannock, Staffordshire
Planet Ice Coventry in Coventry, West Midlands
Planet Ice Gillingham in Gillingham, Kent
Planet Ice Gosport in Gosport, Hampshire
Planet Ice Hemel Hempstead in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
 Planet Ice Leeds in Leeds, West Yorkshire
 Planet Ice Arena Milton Keynes in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
Planet Ice Peterborough in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Planet Ice Solihull in Solihull, West Midlands
Planet Ice Uttoxeter in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire
 Planet Ice Widnes in Widnes, Cheshire

Former Arenas
Planet Ice Birmingham in Birmingham, West Midlands, closed in 2003 following a fire. The building was reopened in late 2009 by a subsidiary company of Arena Group under the name of The Leisurebox. This venture was unsuccessful and the rink closed again in May 2014.

Planet Ice operated Ryde Arena as "Planet Ice Isle of Wight" in Ryde, Isle of Wight from February 2001 to March 2015.

Future

Heath Rhodes, the Chief Operations Officer, advised on 8 May 2019, that Planet Ice would be reviewing its future relationship with all EIHL teams operating from its buildings because the Milton Keynes consortium licence was rejected for the 2019–20 EIHL season.

References

External links
Planet Ice official website

Sports venues in the United Kingdom

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How will a multi-sensory reading program benefit my child?
Scientific evidence reveals that reading is the combination of five critical components: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Teaching students to read requires instruction in all of these components. Multi-sensory reading programs are effective with students through their explicit and systematic instruction. This approach teaches students phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension through multi-sensory instruction. This multi-sensory approach includes visual, auditory, and kinesthetic-tactile learning styles. Students benefit from Orton-Gilingham based programs because students internalize these critical components that increase their decoding skills, word attack, fluency, and comprehension skills to become fluent readers.
Research supports that a literacy program should include instruction in phonemic awareness. This multi-sensory approach to phonemic awareness instruction is based on research that maximizes growth in phonemic awareness skills. Research from the National Reading Panel Report has found that the use of letter/sound manipulation is beneficial for all students rather than receiving no instruction in letters. Furthermore, Shaywitz found that the use of letters with reference to sound help students in the skill of reading. Multi-sensory programs teach letters with sounds to help students learn how to manipulate and segment sounds.
Phonemic awareness is taught using blending, segmentation, and manipulation of individual sounds, and is integrated into phonics and spelling instruction. Students use a finger tapping procedure to aid in segmenting and blending words. As students progress through the programs, instruction shifts from emphasizing phoneme segmentation to emphasizing syllable segmentation/division, and applying that skill to the structure of the words being studied.
Phonics instruction in multi-sensory reading programs is explicit and systematic. Students are directly taught the letter–sound correspondence in the written form of the English language. This literacy approach aligns with recent research demonstrating that students in the primary grades make stronger gains when provided with direct phonics instruction. The students with reading deficits from these primary grades most definitely need phonics instruction. The research studies demonstrates that interventions that emphasize both phonics instruction and provided opportunities to apply phonics skills when reading connected text have the most impact on students with reading disabilities and struggling readers.
The research constantly mentions fluency being the greatest predictor of reading comprehension. Orton-Gillingham based programs have adopted fluency instruction strategies to increase the text reading fluency of students. Poor readers may have difficulty in silent reading because they may not be able to group phrases which then compromise meaning to support comprehension of the passage. Also, many students lack syntactic awareness which enables students to phrase appropriately. Prosody helps readers chunk text into syntactically appropriate units that assist them in constructing meaning. In multi-sensory reading programs, students have opportunities to work on this skill with a passage that is controlled to have words they should be able to decode. Students are directly taught a penciling technique to chunk text into meaningful phrases, and practice fluently reading connected texts with accuracy, automaticity, and prosody.
Additionally, the research states that struggling readers have difficulties in comprehension when needing to learn new vocabulary. Multi-sensory reading programs incorporate many opportunities for students to build vocabulary and comprehension. Vocabulary is taught directly and with distributed practice. First, students are taught the meaning of select words. The selection of these words is based on Beck, et al.'s research on vocabulary instruction. Next, students have ample opportunities to practice reading and use vocabulary words across different contexts, which helps foster a deeper understanding of words' meanings and students' memory of them.
The ultimate goal of reading is comprehension. Comprehension strategies are taught explicitly. Comprehension instruction within multi-sensory reading programs is based on research that describes the behaviors of good and poor readers. This instruction impacts one's ability to comprehend. These strategies address both reading and listening comprehension instruction, and incorporate instruction in visualization strategies, guided close reading, and oral language instruction.
Language to Literacy specializes in multi-sensory reading programs. In addition to one-on-one and small group in person multi-sensory reading instruction, Language to Literacy also delivers multi-sensory reading instruction virtually. Language to Literacy utilizes a website called Whizzimo and the on-line video conferencing platform, Zoom. Contact Language to Literacy at info@languagetolit.com to voice your literacy concerns and schedule your first session. We are here to improve your child's reading!


Sports are a great activity for kids. Sports improve not only physical coordination, but also mental concentration and focus. We want our kids to do well and have fun, too. Sometimes negativity creeps in. Maybe the team doesn't win many games, or maybe there are kids that get too competitive. There are many ways that you can help keep your child positive.


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Q: How to generate alert when entered qty is more than available stock I have created one IMS System. In that my stock is going in negative and I have to stop it so my main intention is to generate the alert when the entered product is more than available stock(Ex. if a user is entering 12 qty and in stock only available is 10 qty than alert message should generate like entered quantity is more than available stock so you can't generate order).Below is my code
public function create()
    {
        $user_id = $this->session->userdata('id');
        $query = $this->db->query("SELECT bill_no FROM orders ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1");
        $result = $query->row()->bill_no;
        $result++;
        //echo $result;
        //end();
        //$curYear = date('Y');
        $invoice_no = $result;
        //$invoice['invoice_no'] = $invoice_no;
        $data = array(
            'po_no' => $this->input->post('po_no'),
            'po_date' => $this->input->post('po_date'),
            'challan_no' => $this->input->post('challan_no'),
            'challan_date' => $this->input->post('challan_date'),
            'bill_no' => $invoice_no,
            'bill_date' => $this->input->post('bill_date'),
            'terms' => $this->input->post('terms'),
            'dispatch' => $this->input->post('dispatch'),
            'party_id' => $this->input->post('id'),
            'name' => $this->input->post('name_value'),
            'address' => $this->input->post('address_value'),
            'gstin' => $this->input->post('gstin_value'),
            'mobile' => $this->input->post('mobile_value'),
            'date_time' => strtotime(date('Y-m-d h:i:s a')),
            'qty' => $this->input->post('qty_value'),
            'gross_amount' => $this->input->post('gross_amount_value'),
            'central_amount' => $this->input->post('central_amount_value'),
            'net_amount' => $this->input->post('net_amount_value'),
            'round_amount' =>$this->input->post('round_amount_value'),
            'round_amount_words' => $this->input->post('round_amount_words'),
            'paid_status' => 2,
            'user_id' => $user_id
        );
        $insert = $this->db->insert('orders', $data);
        $order_id = $this->db->insert_id();

        $this->load->model('model_products');

        $count_product = count($this->input->post('product'));
        for($x = 0; $x < $count_product; $x++) {
            $items = array(
                'order_id' => $order_id,
                'product_id' => $this->input->post('product')[$x],
                'hsn' => $this->input->post('hsn_value')[$x],
                'rate' => $this->input->post('rate')[$x],
                'qty' => $this->input->post('qty')[$x],
                'unit' => $this->input->post('unit_value')[$x],
                'amount' => $this->input->post('amount_value')[$x],
                'gst' => $this->input->post('gst_value')[$x],
                'gst_amount' => $this->input->post('gst_amount_value')[$x],
                'last_amount' => $this->input->post('last_amount_value')[$x],
            );

            $this->db->insert('orders_item', $items);

            // now decrease the stock from the product
            $product_data = $this->model_products->getProductData($this->input->post('product')[$x]);
            $qty = (int) $product_data['qty'] - (int) $this->input->post('qty')[$x];

            $update_product = array('qty' => $qty);

            $this->model_products->update($update_product, $this->input->post('product')[$x]);
        }

        return ($order_id) ? $order_id : false;
    }

A: In your product_model, you could add a method to return the product count.
class Products_model extends CI_Model
{
  ...
  /**
   * Returns product quantity in db
   * @param string $product_id
   * @return integer
   */
  public function productQty($product_id)
  {
    $qty = $this->db->query("SELECT `qty` FROM `products`"
            . " WHERE product_id = `$product_id` ...")->result_array();
    return (int) $qty[0]['qty'];
  }
  ...
}

Then in your create() above, you can just check if ordered quantity is less than existing quantity.
...
for($x = 0; $x < $count_product; $x++) {
  $qtyOrdered = (int) $this->input->post('qty')[$x];
  if ($this->model_products->productQuantity(
    $this->input->post('product')[$x]
  ) < $qtyOrdered) {
    // Quantity is less. Do something like alert concerned people
  } else {
    // Continue
  }
}
...

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Patricia Saputo Joins Vision Capital Advisory Board
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TORONTO, Oct. 10, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Vision Capital Corporation ("Vision") is pleased to announce the appointment of Ms. Patricia Saputo to its Advisory Board.
Ms. Saputo brings to Vision a wealth of experience in financial management, accounting and tax, corporate governance and investment management oversight. Since 1998 Ms. Saputo has served in various leadership capacities with Placements Italcan Inc., a privately-owned investment holding company and major shareholder of Saputo Inc. (a multi-national publicly traded corporation on the TSX: SAP) including as its Chief Financial Officer since 2015.
From 1991 to 1998, Ms. Saputo developed her expertise in accounting, taxation, financial planning and estate planning with Samson Belair/Deloitte & Touche, one of the world's largest chartered accounting, management consulting and tax services firm.
Ms. Saputo has earned numerous professional and governance accreditations including the Chartered Accountancy designation and Fellowship (FCA/FCPA), Institute of Corporate Directors designation (ICD.D), Trust and Estate Practitioner designation (TEP), and Institut Quebecoise de Planification Financiere - Financial Planner designation (FPl).
Ms. Saputo also brings extensive corporate governance experience to Vision, including as a past Director and Audit Committee member of Saputo Inc. Since 2005, Ms. Saputo has served in key leadership roles with Concordia University, including present roles with the Pension Plan for the Employees of Concordia University as the Chair of the pension plan and Chair of its sub-committee on review of investments and policy. In addition, as a member of the board of governors of Concordia University Foundation, Ms. Saputo is the Chair of the audit committee and an investment committee member. Since 2016, she has served as a member on the McGill University Health Care (MUHC) Foundation's board and is a member of the investment subcommittee and development subcommittee.
Ms. Saputo has also been passionate in serving many community, academic and charitable causes and has received numerous awards and recognitions for her contributions and dedication, including a Certificate of Appreciation from the Concordia University Governing Board and the Chai Lifetime Achievement Award from the Ben Weider Educational Center-Chabad Seminary of Canada.
Ms. Saputo is a graduate of Concordia University with a Bachelor of Commerce degree, and a Graduate of McGill University with a Diploma in Chartered Accountancy and a Diploma in Taxation (DTax).
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Department of Education and Knowledge sign MoU with Abu Dhabi Sports Council to support community school projects.
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The Department of Education and Knowledge signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Abu Dhabi Sports Council (ADSC), a partnership in which the two organisations will work together in developing community school projects.
The MoU was signed by Dr. Yousuf Al Shuraani, acting undersecretary of the Department of Education and Knowledge, and HE Arif Hamad Al Awani, general secretary of the ADSC on Sunday, March 4, 2018.
Present at the signing ceremony were HE Major General Mohammed Khalfan Al Rumaithi, chairman of the General Authority for Sport and Vice President of ADSC, and HE Dr. Mughir Khamis Al Khaili, chairman of the Department of Education and Knowledge.
HE Al Rumaithi speaking at the press conference that followed, emphasised the importance of the partnership as a "proud moment" and an "initiative" that will contribute to creating a healthy society through community programmes.
"We are proud of this important initiatives taken by the two organisations to work side-by-side with the government's strategies to develop community sports among the children and their families," he said.
"The key for this project is the wise leadership of our nation. They want to invest in the country's youth and we want to take that forward and encourage to make sports as a way of life."
He Al Rumaithi stressed the MoU is a pathway to create a movement to educate the community of the benefits of sports through community programmes like competitions, lectures and roadshows through the Department of Education and Knowledge.
The MoU also states they would invite sporting icons and celebrities occasionally to inspire the younger generation to pursue sporting careers as well as unearth talented youngsters in various sporting disciplines.
Dr Al Nuaimi, head of the Department of Education and Knowledge, pointed out that schools play a pivotal role in attracting students to participate in various sports.
"The importance of the project is not only to discover talented students but also to create a social movement that contributes to changing the behaviour, through studies and research," he said.
"Sporting activities in community schools help raise awareness of the importance of sports, raise the level of fitness and training for all members of society and improve public health."
Dr. Al Khaili, head of Community Development Department, was full of praise on the steps taken by the Department of Education and Knowledge to expand the community schools project.
"Community schools enhance community unity within a family framework," he said.
"They play a pivotal role in supporting and sustaining community development programmes by providing improved lifestyle of individuals."
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In the article dynamics of legal regulation of financial and economic relations in Russian Empire of the second half of the XIX century is researched. The role of state in the regulation of the financial and economic relations system development is shown. The main normative legal acts of the Russian Empire regulating state revenues, budgetary process, taxation, monetary circulation are analyzed. Author investigated features of the budgetary reform of 1862, showed specifics of standard and legal regulation of direct and indirect budget income and also regalia as exclusive rights of the state. Conclusions are drawn on the features of the financial and economic relations legal regulation in Russia. The role of state initiatives in the formation of new financial institutions in Russian Empire are presented. Interrelation of financial relations with financial policy of the state is researched, factors defining main directions of this policy in researched period of the Russian Empire are shown. It is noted that the state sought to use the private business potential in the separate branches of financial and economic life, first of all, in construction and operation of the railroads, and also in the mining industry. According to the author, normative legal acts of the researched in this article period affirmed a number of exclusive rights of the state in the sphere of economy which allowed the budget to receive steady, though not really high income.
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Directions for Trimming Cat Claws. The actual process for trimming nails is fairly straightforward. However, it does require practice to master this skill as well as some cooperation from your cat …... To cut their nails/claws, I'd place my cat on my lap while sitting, and hunch forward with my upper body to hold them in place. Gently squeezing in between their paws to reveal their nails.
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6/09/2009 · Fortunately cats/kittens have clear nails so there's less chance of cutting the nail too short. Fingernail clippers work well. I'd suggest getting the kitten used to having its paws touched with brief but daily touching of the top and bottom of the paws, followed by a treat or some playing.
24/05/2009 · Well, when he first got my cat we had to cut her nails so we wrapper her body in a towel and just took out her paws one by one. So then just gently push on the paw so the nails stick out.
You can clip a cat's nail as early 1 month old. So for your cat the age is not an issue. So for your cat the age is not an issue. If your cat is calm about this but your problem is not being able to get to the claw, try to press from to the upper part till its end, just like you do with a toothpaste, this will expand the claw out so you can see it.
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Data suggests on a national level, 90 percent of children in the US have an online history by the age of 2. At 5 years of age, 50 percent of children are regularly using electronic online devices and 95 percent of teens (12-17) are regularly online (Devon). This familiarity and access to the Internet and technology doesn't necessarily translate to the requisite knowledge and skills about how to use the Internet properly. Students typically spend far more time with gaming and social media than they do utilizing online tools that will help teach and expand academic knowledge. So for us, as parents and teachers to assume our students know more than we do about technology and online applications is naively delusional. They may know more about how to hook up with someone on Tinder or how to download music on Pirate Bay, but in turn, may know considerably less about how to protect their own privacy or to realize the importance of respect the rights of others online. The tenets of digital citizenship are ours to teach as adults and teachers.
Digital citizenship guru, IT Director and author, Mike Ribble, believes many teachers and students are lacking basic skills, not just in technology, but "basic human skills" like "respecting other people"(O'Connell). His book, Digital Citizenship in Schools, puts forth nine essential elements of digital citizenship that need to be incorporated into what our students are learning.
Do you try to make sure that all your students have access to their school netbooks? If so, that addresses digital access by providing full electronic participation to your students.
Do you instruct your students on the proper behavior and etiquette required in your classroom? Expand that a bit model and remind them of the proper digital etiquette they should be using online.
You can get the idea. Traditional learning and ethical skills are transferable to the digital for the most part. Sometimes you will need to expand and change the lexicon a bit, but the idea is the same. Ribble believes "technology isn't something different . . . literacy is ongoing" and should continue being taught in its digital context (O'Connell). Use programs and apps you're already using. If your school uses an LMS such as Edmodo or Canvas, utilize that system. You can upload, share and discuss all sorts of resources and case studies while tying them to your content. Model positive social interaction and instill a respect for other's work in your discussions on blogs and backchannels or while file sharing in Google Docs. Think about what upcoming activities you have planned in your lessons and use high yield learning strategies that engage your students while driving home Ribble's Nine Elements of Digital Citizenship.
Also, teachers don't have to create new content nor do they have to go it alone. There are plenty of resources available such as my two favorites: Commonsensemedia.org and Netsmartz.org. Commonsensemedia.org has literally everything: a complete curriculum, downloadable resources, a certification program, videos, and more. Netsmartz.org is sponsored by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and promotes protecting and educating all children regarding Internet safety. They provide presentations, lessons and great case study videos to share and have particularly good resources for teens/tweens.
Students need to be educated on how to be good citizens of their country and what their rights and responsibilities are as members of society. The same issues need to be addressed with regard to the emerging digital society, so that students can learn how to be responsible and productive members of that society.
The process of teaching these skills is ongoing and evolves with technology, but by sharing our resources, skills and ideas, we as educators can create a community of content that will ensure our students success in this digital world.
Ribble, M. (2011). Digital citizenship in schools. (2nd ed.). Eugene, Or.: International Society for Technology in Education.


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The Snowtown wind farms are located on the Barunga and Hummocks ranges west of Snowtown in the Mid North of South Australia, around  north of the state capital, Adelaide. They were developed by Trustpower and owned by Tilt Renewables, which demerged from Trustpower in 2016. The first stage of 47 turbines was completed in 2008 and Stage 2 of 90 turbines became operational in 2014. Stage 2 was sold by Tilt Renewables to Palisade Investment Partners in December 2019.

History
Trustpower began investigating the site in 2002 and started construction of Stage 1 in 2006. Stage 1 was commissioned in 2008 with one additional turbine added in 2011. The first power generated by the wind turbines was received into the public grid in December 2007. The first stage of the wind farm, constructed by Suzlon Energy Australia, was substantially completed by October 2008 and was officially opened on 2 November 2008.

The second stage of 90 Siemens 3.0MW turbines was completed in June 2014 and officially opened in November 2014. It has a long-term power purchase contract with Origin Energy and was sold to Palisade Investment Partners in December 2019 for . Tilt retained ownership of Stage 1, which does not have a power purchase agreement.

Site
The location of the wind farm, the Barunga Range, is a north–south trending ridge of the northern Mount Lofty Ranges. It is generally treeless, rounded, and lies across the direction of the prevailing westerly winds.

The Snowtown Wind Farm operates as three separate connections to the National Electricity Market. Stage 1 is a single line of turbines on the western side of the combined farm. Stage 2 has a southern section which mostly extends the line to the south, and a northern part which is adjacent on the east side of Stage 1.

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The oldest association of its kind, the Harvard Law School Association (HLSA) has been a Harvard Law School tradition since its founding in 1886. Led by HLSA President Dan Eaton '89, the HLSA unites more than 40,000 HLS students and alumni by supporting and sponsoring programming and events in many locations across the globe.
These HLSA events and programs bring the HLS community together for networking, discussions on trending topics, thought leadership, and socializing, providing a vital link between Harvard Law School and its alumni.
If you're not yet a member of the Harvard Law School Association, search for your local club or a shared interest group below. We'd love to see you at an event near you!
The oldest association of its kind, the Harvard Law School Association now serves some 40,000 members worldwide by supporting and sponsoring programming and events and providing a vital link between Harvard Law School and its increasingly diverse alumni body.
The Harvard Law School Association Shared Interest Groups or SIGs, reflect the interests and makeup of Harvard Law School's diverse alumni volunteers. The growing community of HLSA Shared Interest Groups also provide the impetus for various initiatives, activities, and events.
Hosted by local chapters, HLSA events happen regularly around the world, from California to China. They include discussions on trending topics, presentations by fellow alumni and thought leaders, networking events, and other social activities, including happy hours, dinners, and more.


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Castaways on pig island
Paul Constant
Early in Bong Joon-Ho's excellent film Parasite, a poor family is given a "scholar stone" — a large and unwieldy rock that supposedly brings wealth to its owner. The teenage son of the family, Ki-woo, handles the heavy stone with awe, exclaiming breathlessly, "it's so metaphorical!"
With this very funny line of dialogue, Bong Joon-Ho is having it both ways. He is introducing what is, in fact, a potent metaphor into his movie. But he's also stepping back and laughing at the metaphor by pointing it out within the narrative. It's detached irony and aching sincerity, all in one minor aside by one of the film's major characters.
It is in my most Ki-woo voice, then, in which I inform you that Pigs, the newest novel by Walla Walla author (and LaSalle Storyteller Award recipient) Johanna Stoberock, is very metaphorical. It's a novel about children who live on an island in the middle of the ocean along with large and eternally hungry feral pigs. The whole world's garbage washes up on the shore of the island — pieces of plastic, appliances, paper products, iron — and the children feed the garbage to the pigs. Meanwhile, some clueless adults also live on the island in a state of deep delusion. This delicate balance is upturned and everything starts to go wildly wrong.
The premise of Pigs itself feels cobbled together from the remains of dozens of other abandoned fictional works. Lord of the Flies comes to mind immediately, of course, and there's some Lost in there, too, along with Gilligan's Island and pretty much every New Yorker one-panel gag strip about desert islands. It feels like the island in Pigs has lived in our subconscious since before you and I were born. It only shifts slightly in tone to reacclimate to the current moment.
As someone who lives in the current moment, you will probably not be surprised to hear that the current state of affairs on Castaway Island is pretty damn bleak. The children of Pigs are clever, but they are not plucky. They seem resigned to their fates, shoveling garbage at the pigs out of fear more than anything else. As bad as things are, they suspect that things can get even worse.
Part of the problem is that the water surrounding the island, which is often a metaphor for both alienation and the key to escaping alienation, is even more sinister than the always-starving pigs: "They were all afraid of the gray water, of the sea in a mood of despair," Stoberock writes. "It wrapped the island like a scarf made of grief. It made you choke with tears to touch it."
Still, in all the despair, the children find their purpose. One of the children, Mimi, exploits their plight as a bedtime story for a toddler named Natasha:
The world wouldn't know what to do without us. The world should be holding its breath hoping we don't find our way out of this place. It should be praying that we never grow up, that we just stay here forever cleaning up its trash. The world should be sending us giant fruit baskets to say thank you. But nobody likes to think about it. So instead of saying thank you, the world pretends we don't exist. And sends us its trash.
This isn't just about garbage. It's about inborn obsolescence, and our utter refusal to be happy:
Plastic bottles because no one trusted tap water. Fur coats that were splashed with paint. Television screens that simply weren't flat enough. Weight lost in weight loss competitions. Mothers' wedding dresses that daughters had no interest in wearing. Toothpaste samples from the dentist. Love poems written by boyfriends long ago.
It is just so metaphorical. Is Pigs about climate change? Yes. Is it about rampant capitalism? Yup. Is it about the way older generations have sabotaged the world for future generations? You bet! And it's also a meditation on everything we discard — not just our garbage but our half-formed ideas and our stubbed ambitions and our idiotic quest for perfection in a decidedly imperfect world.
While the children work themselves to blind submission, adults on the island seem eternally caught up in a cocktail party. They do their nails. They discuss etiquette. They dress up and talk about things that don't matter. One of the children wonders "where they got their clothes. She wanted to know how they kept their skin so smooth."
In the end, the child looks at the adults and wonders, "Why couldn't a book ever wash ashore that would teach her, step by step, how best to become an adult?" The obvious answer is that no such book exists, and that's kind of what Pigs is about, too.
Stoberock is a world-class builder of worlds. The island of Pigs is constructed so carefully that it feels as solid as the ground your feet is touching right now. The book's structure allows for our discovery of the island's rules and geography. Even though the story keeps to a confined space, Stoberock keeps attacking that space from different angles, making us reconsider the depth and the breadth of the island.
One wonders, though, if perhaps Pigs would feel more elemental, more like a fairy tale, if it were shorter. At 260 pages it never bores readers, but a decent trim might leave us enthralled and wanting more. And while the book thrums with potent symbolism that ably combines the modern with the mythic, one character having his eyes cut out as punishment feels like an overwrought cliche from a different time.
Still, Pigs is unlike anything else you've read this year. While some novels rely on plot to keep readers turning pages, and other novels lean on characterization above all else, Stoberock is building a world on top of ever-changing metaphors, and that construction is what keeps readers turning pages. It's a novel built out of the raw materials of imagination, and it couldn't be any more more written for this exact moment in time if it was carved into rock by lightning.
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Vietnam central bank attempts to address sluggish growth
The State Bank of Vietnam's latest move to reduce interest rates comes after other central banks around the globe have started easing to combat spreading weaknesses, but experts are warning that such decisions may not yield the desired effects.
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An interest rate cut by 25 basis points since 2017 by the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) was recently accompanied by a message that sets a higher bar for further easing later this year. The annual refinancing rate and rediscount rate will be lowered from 6.25 to 6 per cent, and from 4.25 to 4 per cent, respectively.
The annual overnight electronic interbank rate and rate of loans to offset capital shortage in clearance between the central bank and domestic banks will be also cut to 7 per cent. The interest rate of bids of valuable papers through open market operations will be reduced from 4.75 per cent to 4.5 per cent annually.
The cut is made in the context of a stable domestic macro-economy, the SBV wrote in a statement, emphasising that "Inflation in Vietnam remains under control, while monetary and foreign exchange markets are also stable."
At a press conference held last week, SBV Deputy Governor Dao Minh Tu said that the state bank had successfully kept the local currency relatively stable by reducing certain rates and applying the management policy based on the overall balance of the economy such as imports and exports, public debt, balance of payments, and current accounts.
Economist Nguyen Tri Hieu stated that the cuts would help spur Vietnam's growth and boost exports, especially in the background of escalating trade tensions between the United States and China.
Market watchers, on the other hand, believe that the SBV's decision comes after central banks of other countries lowered their key interest rates, showing eagerness to tackle slowing growth and economic uncertainty, particularly through the outlook for the US-China trade war.
For example, India's Monetary Policy Committee brought down the repo rate by 35 basis points to 5.4 per cent, its lowest level in nine years.
The Bank of Thailand, meanwhile, surprised experts with a cut on its benchmark rate for the first time in more than four years to boost the economy, and said it sees more room to ease as global risks surge.
In the US, the Federal Reserve also reduced rates by a quarter percentage point for the second time since July, as concerns grow about a potential global slowdown.
The European Central Bank is following suit by pushing interest rates further into negative territory in order to support the region's flagging economy.
The aim of these moves is to perk up a sluggish economy and subpar inflation rates. An economic slowdown has proved more protracted than expected, analysts at The Economist wrote.
"However, this may add upward pressure on inflation in Vietnam," Hieu said.
According to the latest data provided by the General Statistics Office, Vietnam's inflation cooled to 2.57 per cent in August, down from 3.52 per cent in August 2018, with the rate having the lowest rise for the past three years.
The exchange rate was also steady, with the US dollar listed at commercial banks to inch up by only some VND10 for buying and VND30 for selling since the end of 2018.
Although analysts have raised expectations of rates reducing for the past few months, many believed that the impact would not be as significant on Vietnam as on other countries, as the local monetary policy is different by directly affecting the money supply through credit growth. Even the interest rate cut in last July has had a very limited impact on the lending interest rate level in the market.
"The SBV's decision to lower rates is more for orienting the market, thus reinforcing the trend of reducing lending rates that some banks made in early August for a number of priority sectors," HSBC's head of global markets Ngo Dang Khoa told VIR.
A general director of a commercial bank also told VIR, "The actual inflows of cash to the financial market might be lower or not remarkable as expected. So we do not need to worry about distortions on the asset market or real estate bubble." VIR
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The central bank believes that for an open economy like Vietnam, the sharp devaluation of the local currency will not help boost exports, but will do more harm than good.
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Applauding the State Bank of Vietnam's move to cut the prime interest rate, experts said the 0.25 percentage point cut, however, is relatively modest.
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Swords into Plowshares: What WWI and Nagasaki Should Remind Us About Christmas
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Topics: Christmas Truce, peace, war, worldview
This guest post by Cody Cook. Cody Cook is a theology graduate student and the author of several books, including Fight the Powers: What the Bible Says About the Relationship Between Spiritual Forces and Human Governments and Unhitched: Why Jesus Can't Be Divorced from the Old Testament. He is also the host of the podcast Cantus Firmus. His work can be found at www.cantus-firmus.com
Comparing Nagasaki to the Christmas Truce of WWI
When the Jewish prophet Isaiah wrote of the coming Messiah, he presented a figure who would cause the nations to "hammer their swords into plowshares… Nation will not lift up sword against nation, and never again will they learn war… There will be no end to the increase of His government or of peace." (Isaiah 2:4, 9:7, NASB). In other words, Messiah was to be a king over all nations and make peace where there was once division between nations.
The Messiah taught us to turn our swords into plowshares
The New Testament tells us that Christ's birth meant that God has brought kings down from their thrones (Luke 1:52), that Jesus became our peace to demolish barriers between nations in reconciliation (Ephesians 2:14-15), and that followers of Jesus would not engage in violence but love their enemies (Matthew 5:38-48). Christmas commemorates His coming.
Not long after the New Testament books were written, church fathers like Justin Martyr and Irenaeus wrote that Isaiah's prophecy about swords being beaten into plowshares had been fulfilled by Christians who "proclaimed to every race of men that they were sent by Christ to teach to all the word of God; and we who formerly used to murder one another [now] refrain from making war upon our enemies" (Justin, 1 Apology, ch. 39) and "are now unaccustomed to fighting, but when smitten, offer also the other cheek" (Irenaeus, Against Heresies Book IV, ch. 34). The early church saw clearly that the message of peace is integral to the Christmas event.
Flashing forward more than a millennia, the Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier sailed to Japan in 1549 to plant a church. In the next century, this church met terrible and violent persecutions from the Japanese government, including crucifixion (Some of this persecution is presented in the fictionalized book Silence by Shūsaku Endō, also made into a film by Martin Scorsese.)
When the dust settled, it seemed that the Japanese church had been utterly destroyed. And yet, in the 19th century when Japan loosened its restrictive trade policies and stopped zealously guarding its ancient cultural values, Japanese Christians who had been worshipping secretly for 250 years emerged from the shadows. By 1917, a large and beautiful Cathedral had been built in Nagasaki as a testament to the staying power of Japanese Christianity, but not for long.
American Christians Succeeded in Persecution of Japanese Christians where Japan had failed
As Dean Taylor, author of A Change of Allegiance, tells us:
"Early in the morning of August 9, 1945, a few young American Christians from another part of the world, met with two chaplains—one Lutheran and the other Catholic—for a little prayer meeting before they started their day's work. After the prayer, these two American Christians climbed into their B-29 Super Fortress long-distance bomber and began heading for Nagasaki.
Tragically, history records that St. Mary's Cathedral was one of the very landmarks these American Christians had been told to look for as they flew into the target zone. Shortly after the pilot identified the cathedral, he ordered the atom bomb to be dropped."
Writing of this event, Gary Kohls reflects:
"At 11:02 am, Nagasaki Christianity was boiled, evaporated and carbonized in a scorching, radioactive fireball. The persecuted, vibrant, faithful, surviving center of Japanese Christianity had become ground zero.
"And what the Japanese Imperial government could not do in over 200 years of persecution, American Christians did in 9 seconds. The entire worshipping community of Nagasaki was wiped out."[1]
So what happened? How did the church go from beating its swords into plowshares and refusing to make war on its enemies to vaporizing their brothers and sisters in Christ? They did it by forgetting the meaning of Christmas. Christians neglected to integrate into their own stories the story of God becoming a man to reconcile all men to Himself and to one another. They forgot the command to beat swords into plowshares.
Christmas Eve, 1914, shows us to turn our swords into plowshares
But sometimes Christmas breaks in anyway. Once it did so right in the midst of war. On the first Christmas Eve of World War I, in 1914, the bright promise of Christmas parted the gloomy clouds of conflict when soldiers from both sides emerged from their trenches and celebrated Christmas together.
Germans began singing "Silent Night" only to be met with British soldiers singing "The First Noel." In another location, the Germans shouted Merry Christmas to Brits and were answered in kind. Combatants on both sides met in "no man's land" to share photos of their sweethearts, exchange drinks, and play soccer together. Soldiers could even bury their fallen comrades without fear of being shot at by their "enemies."
During this Christmas truce, soldiers from so-called Christian countries experienced Christmas in its fullness, but only for a little while. Soon after, it was back to the business of wholesale slaughter on behalf of men comfortably calling the shots many miles from danger. At the risk of sounding like a Christmas movie cliché, we need to keep the Christmas spirit of beating our swords into plowshares in our hearts all year long—not just long enough to exchange pleasantries, bury our dead, and go right back to killing one another.
[1] https://www.lewrockwell.com/2007/08/gary-g-kohls/the-atomic-murder-of-nagasaki/
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Songwriter management firm Nonstop launches
Los Angeles-based Nonstop Management, founded by Jaime Zeluck Hindlin, counts Andrew Wells, Michael Pollack and LunchMoney Lewis among its clients
By Jon Chapple on 10 Aug 2018
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Seasoned artist manager and A&R Jaime Zeluck Hindlin has announced the official launch of her new management company, Nonstop Management, which specialises in career development and management services for songwriters and producers.
LA-based Nonstop, which soft-launched earlier this year, already represents Andrew Wells (Meghan Trainor, Young The Giant, Bebe Rexha), LunchMoney Lewis (Nicki Minaj, One Direction, Jason Derulo), Nick Long (King Princess), Michael Pollack (Lauv, Charli XCX, Kelly Clarkson), Oren Yoel (Miley Cyrus, XXXTentacion), Sam Farrar (Maroon 5), Michael Matosic (Lauv) and Jake Torrey (Kiiara).
"We wanted to build a haven for songwriters and producers"
Zeluck Hindlin previously spent four years in A&R at publishing company Prescription Songs, where she signed and developed the careers of Lauv, JKash and LunchMoney Lewis. She previously served in an A&R/creative role at Sony/ATV Music Publishing and as a music assistant at CAA.
"With Nonstop, we wanted to build a haven for songwriters and producers that fosters creativity, risk-taking and organic growth," she comments. "Our goal is to work tirelessly for all of our clients and live up to the Nonstop name."
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Review: PianoTexas 2018: Faculty Chamber Music Concert | PianoTexas International Academy and Festival | PepsiCo Recital Hall
All Hands on Piano
Texas Christian University's PianoTexas Festival featured a terrific chamber music concert with TCU faculty.
by Gregory Sullivan Isaacs
published Friday, June 15, 2018
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Violinist Elisabeth Adkins
Fort Worth — Fort Worth is a piano town and the summer PianoTexas International Academy & Festival in Texas Christian University's PepsiCo Recital Hall is one of the highlights. This year there is a focus on Russian music and pianists. The festivities opened last Saturday with a recital by Vladimir Feltsman. It continues with some amazing performances by big name pianists as well as the students who also attend.
On Tuesday, June 12, something different was presented. Members of the faculty offered some chamber music.
Although the program opened with a piano trio by Tchaikovsky, the second half featured chamber music just for the piano. The first piece was Anton Arensky's Suite No. 1, Op. 15, for two pianos. That was followed by some music of Sergei Rachmaninoff for piano four hands (two pianists seated at one piano).
The Tchaikovsky A minor Trio, Op. 50 for violin, cello and piano, is an odd piece. First, it is long (45 minutes) but only has two movements. The first, marked Pezzo elegiac, is a more-or-less standard sonata allegro movement with a gorgeous melody. The second is a longish set of 11 variations on a less-than-distinguished theme with a coda that lets us revisit the beautiful theme from the Pezzo.
The overall feeling is dour as befits a work written "in memory of a great artist." This refered to the composer's close friend, Nikolai Rubinstein. It is known to be the composer's most difficult piano writing, and that incudes the concerti. However, even though they made some cuts, more trims in the variations movement would have been welcome.
The performance featured three superb artists. The violinist was Elisabeth Adkins, who is now on the TCU faculty after retiring from decades as the Associate Concertmaster of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. under Music Director Mstislav Rostropovich. The cellist was Christopher Adkins, principal cellist in the Dallas Symphony since 1987. He is on the faculty of the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University. The famously almost-impossible piano part was tossed off with élan by John Owings, the winner of many international competitions who is on the faculty of TCU, appointed in 1990.
At least from where I was sitting, Elisabeth Adkins' stunningly deep and richly resonant sound dominated the performance: not by dynamics, but by its sheer beauty. In comparison, Adkins' sound couldn't really compete, although she played with great beauty. Even Owings' masterful performance of Tchaikovsky's over-the-top pianoisms couldn't compete.
This is not a criticism of the performance, which was excellent, but merely an observation of the power of Adkins' sound. You probably couldn't ask for a better performance of Tchaikovsky's trio, his only effort in the form.
Anton Arensky's Suite No.1 for two pianos, Op. 15, is a delightful but slightly dated work that was a welcome change after the very serious Tchaikovsky. Both pianists were terrific and delivered a spirited performance. One was Tamás Ungár, who is on the faculty of TCU and also the artistic director of PianoTexas. The other pianist was Harold Martina, another TCU faculty member, who is equally well known as a soloist and collaborative pianist.
The performance was excellent, with good balance between the two pianos and impeccable ensemble. However, the two pianists couldn't have been more different. Martina was all serious business while Ungár was charming and engaging, with a twinkle in his eye. You could see every phrase in his expressions. This is not a great masterpiece nor was Arensky a great composer, but it was delightful and fun to hear.
What is a Russian piano concert without some Rachmaninoff? PianoTexas complied with two of Rachmaninoff's Six Morceaux for piano, 4 hands, Op. 11. They played No. 3, Russian Theme, and No. 4, Valse. They closed with Rachmaninoff's zippy Italian Polka for piano, 4 hands. Once again, the two opposite personalities of the pair of pianists were on display. It wasn't quite as obvious here because the two were seated at one piano and the sparkling Ungár was seated on the audience side.
Next up at PianoTexas is a pair of concerts this weekend. On Saturday, Vladimir Ovchinnikov will play an all-Rachmaninoff program with some rarely heard works. On Sunday, Anna Malikova will play some Prokofiev and Scriabin, but the treat will be her performance of the suite from Tchaikovsky's ballet Sleeping Beauty as arranged for solo piano by Mikhail Pletnev. Both concerts are at 7:30 in TCU's PepsiCo Recital Hall.
PianoTexas Festival Concert Schedule
Distinguished Artist Recital Series
7:30pm June 16: Vladimir Ovchinnikov
7:30pm June 17: Anna Malikova
7:30pm June 23: Dmitri Alexeev
7:30pm June 30: Olga Kern
Concerto Concert Series
7:30pm June 24: Young Artists Concdrto Concert
7:30pm June 26: Teachers & Amateurs Concerto Concert
7:30pm July 1: Young Arts Concerto Concert
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Gosh, I wanted to dig into my behind-the-scenes coverage for "Slasher" but didn't get beyond an amazing interview with Scott Hickey and Brian Price, the two men most responsible for the thrilling (and chilling) new tale by The Grist Mill.
As you'll here again and again in this show, it's available for a $3 download on CD Baby.
"Slasher" is just a startlingly awesome piece of audio, the best of the best out there. If my opinion's not enough to convince you, take a listen to the comments and snippets as part of this week's podcast.
I have listened to 7 of your podcasts so far, and I must say I'm very disappointed! They really just seem to be a big advertisement for people making these radio dramas! I was hoping it would be radio dramas themselves, that is what I Think people are interested in: listening to a radio drama, not listening to people talk about how great they are!
I would also like to add that the interviews I have listened to so far are frustrating in themselves, because the volume for one speaker is barely audible, and the next blasts the headphones off my head!
Thanks for your comments, though I'm sorry you feel that way. I'm not sure which episodes you've listened to but radio drama does indeed make of the bulk of the show, I would say interviews are less than 25%. And as of late I've been releasing more episodes which feature uninterrupted hour-long shows and releasing interviews as bonus tracks rather than replacing the regular weekly podcast. There are hundreds of hours of radio drama up archived on the site and I think with a bit of searching, you'll find something you like.
As far as the technical question, that's a bit more helpful as I do proof all audio and it sounds OK on my end — I wonder what kind of listening set up you have? (laptop speakers, home stereo, car, etc.) I obviously want the sound to be "normal" so you can listen to it in comfort!
Again, sorry about your frustrating experience so far but please give the show a chance — I think you'll find that there is a ton of material even if you've gotten off on the wrong foot.
The sound problem I had was on this particular podcast, but I have noticed that it is much the same with Episode #84.
I noticed that it occurs on my laptop speakers (not as obvious) but also on my ipod Nano (2007 version). It is much more obvious when I use headphones!
I have decided to download all of your podcasts and go through a more of them because the work that I do is insanely tedious. I just recently discovered what podcasts were and they have become my LIFELINE!!! I have been reduced to tears on occasions where my ipod has been left at home and I would not survive my job if it weren't for people like you, so I will definately be giving your podcasts another chance, and I'm looking forward to more radio dramas!
Wow. Well, if other career options aren't available, then I'm quite happy to fill your iPod with something good in the meantime! Do look into some of the commercial producers we occasionally mention on the show (Graphic Audio has an especially large collection) if you're looking for lots and lots of listening.
I'm betting the audio issue is related to the free conference call recording service I've been using (tends to right "hot" all the time). Hm. So much for that one then. I have a better method which I've been using lately which I think provides better results.
Thank you again for your interest and please let me know if you have any other feedback, positive or not-so-positive, about the show! All of it is much appreciated.
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Der Papyrus Leipzig 39 (Siglum 2013 nach Rahlfs) ist das Fragment einer Papyrusrolle aus dem 4. Jahrhundert.

Sie enthält Teile der Psalmen 30 bis 55 in griechischer Sprache. Die Psalmen 30 bis 34 sind nur in stark beschädigten Fragmenten erhalten. Der Text wurde wahrscheinlich im späten 4. Jahrhundert auf die Rückseite einer Papyrusrolle geschrieben, die auf der Vorderseite ein Dokument aus dem Jahr 338 enthielt. Sie ist mit dem Papyrus London 37 das einzige erhaltene Beispiel einer oberägyptischen Fassung der Psalmen in griechischer Sprache. Die Fragmente befinden sich heute in der Papyrussammlung der Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, Signatur P. Lips. Inv. 39. Sie wurden digitalisiert.

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 Gregor Emmenegger: Der Text des koptischen Psalters aus al-Mudil. Ein Beitrag zur Textgeschichte der Septuaginta und zur Textkritik koptischer Bibelhandschriften, mit der kritischen Neuausgabe des Papyrus 37 der British Library London (U) und des Papyrus 39 der Leipziger Universitätsbibliothek (2013) (= Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur. Band 159). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/New York 2007, S. 328–370, ISBN 978-3-11-019948-2.
 Die Leipziger Papyrusfragmente der Psalmen. Hrsg. und untersucht von C. F. Georg Heinrici. Dürr, Leipzig 1903. books.google.de

Literatur
 Alfred Rahlfs, Detlef Fraenkel: Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments. Band I,1: Die Überlieferung bis zum VIII. Jahrhundert (= Septuaginta. Vetus Testamentum Graecum. Supplementum). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, S. 193 f, ISBN 3-525-53447-7. (online).

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Men in agreement must seek a new view
Construction News hosted the latest face-to-face event in its Inspire Me programme, which aims to help women in construction make career progress into the highest levels of management. Chairing the half-day conference in Birmingham, I was acutely aware that I fell outside the target demographic. But I am at least keen to be part of the solution rather than the problem.
Why 'men only' industries can no longer ignore the gender gap
As powerful investors begin to shun firms with workforce gender imbalances, putting pressure on chairman to demonstrate greater accountability, traditionally male-dominated industries are having to react to sweeping calls for change. Josie Cox explores what construction can learn from the cultural sea-change washing through other corporate sectors
Breaking the glass ceiling: How we get more women to the top
Following The first two Inspire Me workshops, Construction News has produced an in-depth report on the findings. With analysis on why there is a lack of women at the top, the work being done by firms to tackle the imbalance, and what more the industry needs to do, the report also examines the gender diversity of the boards of the top 20 contractors
Shatter the myths to bring women into construction
Our Women in Construction report surveyed more than 5,500 workers across the construction, property and engineering industries, and the results were reflective of a sector where just 12 per cent are women.
Inspired in Manchester
This morning CN took its Inspire Me campaign up to Manchester – the first event we've put on outside of London for nearly a decade (with many more planned).
Today was the second of four workshops we are putting on across the country this year to help women advance their careers and to get more females into senior leadership roles in the industry.
Rising stars: How we can tackle the skills gap
A panel of the industry's best new talent came together to offer a unique insight on why construction is struggling to attract young people – and how it can solve the problem.
Skills shortages are a problem that has hung over the construction industry longer than any other.
According to the CITB's Construction Skills Report, this industry will need to recruit an extra 158,000 workers over the next five years to meet projected workloads – and that's without taking into account any potential impact of Brexit.
We are not a failures club – so let's prove it
Construction': what are the public's first thoughts when they hear that word?
Initial perceptions are generally that of muddy, low-paid manual labour, without any ambitions or aspirations. More recently, this has contributed to create a picture of the industry as something of a 'failures club'.
But from what I can see as a female subcontractor, we are an important and unique sector, yet our talents are underrated and underappreciated. Nearly everything that surrounds the built environment depends on us, yet there is little appreciation for the individuals who power the industry.
Shocked, shaken, shut out: Women react to the gender pay gap
Construction has the largest gender pay gap of any UK industry. But behind the data, why is this issue business-critical and what do the experiences of women in the sector reveal about the challenges we must tackle? Lucy Alderson investigates.
Men make up around 87 per cent of the construction industry's workforce so if you're reading this, it's likely you're in the overwhelming majority.
Beast from the east fails to dampen first Inspire Me workshop
More than 80 attendees battled through atrocious 'beast from the east' weather conditions to attend CN's first Inspire Me workshop this week at London's Sofitel Hotel.
Delegates heard from industry luminaries on the obstacles facing women who seek leadership roles in the sector.
Calling all men: Do women have an ally in you?
London's Sofitel Hotel played host this morning to the first workshop for CN's Inspire Me campaign, which aims to encourage and support women into industry leadership roles.
It was fantastic to see such a strong turnout, particularly in the face of wretched weather conditions.
Inspire Me: CN campaign launches in London
Something very unusual happened yesterday evening at the launch party of Construction News' Inspire Me campaign.
It wasn't a typical construction event, where you would usually see a sea of suits and ties when scanning the room of guests. After all, men account for roughly 87 per cent of the industry.
Wilmott Dixon statement
We know our industry is facing up to a skills shortage. It is a crisis that has been relevant for the last five years.
But the impending prospect of Brexit, the improving economic fortunes of our European neighbours, the ageing profile of our skilled trades and the industry's lack of diversity are building up to a perfect storm.
Rebecca Owens had just started her final year at a top-rated UK university when she began seriously considering her career options. She was one of only a handful of women on her engineering course, and on track to graduate with a first-class degree.
Sarah Fenton Statement
The challenges facing the construction industry will be familiar to regular readers of Construction News; these include an ageing workforce, a shortage of trained and skilled workers, and potential migration restrictions.
CITB estimates that 168,500 new workers need to be employed over the next five years to meet growing demand.
John Boughton Statement
Our industry has come a long way since I first joined as a young building technician in 1993. Back then terms such as 'diversity' or 'gender balanced teams' did not figure much on construction sites or in management vocabulary.
How far we have come! Fast forward 26 years and it really does feel like a different world. Change is happening at a quick rate as we all recognise that achieving gender parity will make us a better, more sustainable industry for our people and customers.


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French firm acquires Turkey's Multinet for $90 million
Published in Turkey
Groupe Cheque Dejeuner has said it purchased Turkish meal ticket provider Multinet from businessman Hayyam Garipoğlu. The transaction, announced at a press conference in Istanbul, is worth $90 million. Cheque Dejeuner ranks among the top three meal card providers in the world, alongside Sodexho and Edenred. Multinet, which was seized by the Savings Deposit and Insurance Fund, or SDIF, in July last year, was handed back to original owner Garipoğlu in accordance with a protocol dated April 9 of this year, the Daily News has learned.
In its report for the last quarter of 2009, the SDIF said Multinet had a book value of 4.5 million Turkish Liras at the date of seizure, Dec. 16, 2009. The sales price is 30 times this amount.
Multinet ranks 201st among the top 500 Turkish companies, according to a list by the monthly Capital magazine.
Speaking to journalists Thursday, Yvon Legrand, the general manager of Groupe Cheque Dejeuner, said Turkey has an "extremely suitable" structure for growth and investment. "I believe we will be the market leader in a short time," Legrand said.
Şevket Basev, the chief executive of 3 Seas Capital Partners, who arranged the deal, said Turkey has "once again proved its institutional infrastructure and stability" with this acquisition. Source: Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review.
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CAPE TOWN – Controversial Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter Conor McGregor has announced his retirement from the sport.
"I wish all my old colleagues well going forward in competition. I now join my former partners on this venture, already in retirement. Proper Pina Coladas on me fellas!"
"I have decided to retire young. Thanks for the cheese. Catch ya's later."
Thirty year old McGregor, nicknamed "Notorious," is currently ranked 8th by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).
He retires with a 21-4-0 record, and UFC belts in two divisions.
Why is MMA so contagious?