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Making Food Safe and Sustainable
16 December 2021 • Text: Louisa Gairn, Photos: Veikko Somerpuro
Food safety scientist Professor Marina Heinonen talks about her Fulbright experience, new food sources and sustainability, and why scientists have a duty to communicate their work to industry, consumers, and policy makers.
A well-known expert on chemical food safety, Marina Heinonen leads the University of Helsinki's Department of Food and Nutrition, works as an expert advisor for the European Food Safety Authority, and is frequently interviewed in the Finnish media about food additives and food safety issues. Among her many achievements, she has recently been recognised for her work in science communication, receiving a Sokrates award for scientific communication in 2019, and listed as one of the top 25 business influencers in 2020 by Finnish business newspaper Kauppalehti.
Marina had her first taste of the potential impact of her research on people's lives as a masters student at the University of Helsinki, where she contributed towards a large study of carotenoids in foods. "We were building up a food composition databank which was used in big lung cancer survey, focusing on beta-carotene, one of the main carotenoids. That was the point that I got really interested in research, and I thought I would like to continue to PhD."
In 1987, she travelled to the U.S. to begin an ASLA-Fulbright Graduate grant term at the University of Rhode Island, Kingston, working with Professor Kenneth L. Simpson, a pioneer in carotenoid research who Marina describes as a "guru" in the field. At that time, she explains, it was difficult to gain access to research publications on carotenoids. "We didn't have internet or Google, so they had to be ordered from the library. But in Rhode Island I just walked into my professor's office, and he had everything."
"That Fulbright year made a great impact on my scientific career, but it also broadened my understanding of the scientific network and left me with a very good understanding of life in American universities. It was my very first time in the U.S. – I had only been in some of the Nordic countries before that. My husband and I went there with big trunks – we took half of our household with us! It was really an adventure, but we made it! Ten years later, I returned to the U.S. as a postdoc, this time to the University of California, Davis, with my husband and daughter."
That Fulbright year made a great impact on my scientific career, but it also broadened my understanding of the scientific network and left me with a very good understanding of life in American universities.
From the Lab to the Supermarket
"In my research group, we study the chemical reactions in foods, such as oxidation, or the formation of harmful components due to food processing. We are also working on isolating proteins from different food materials, such as plants, dairy, or insects, and we evaluate how useful these different proteins are in different food matrices. This brings us to the question of sustainability, which is a major focus of our work, in collaboration with others."
Marina says that although there is no magic ingredient, there are a number of possibilities for more sustainable food production, for example, the use of waste products from agriculture, known as agri-food side streams, as non-animal sources of protein. "We should take advantage of all sorts of different ingredients. For example, with a crop like corn, you only use a fraction of the plant. Why not the leaves? The same is true for root vegetables like potatoes or carrots. Could we also exploit the green part and make that into proteins? And how should we do it? It may be possible to isolate proteins using hot water or fermentation techniques, for example. The green parts of carrots may not be so digestible for humans, but they are for other animals, such as snails and microbes, and we can learn from them in developing new food sources."
In addition to her academic research and teaching, Marina has for the past 20 years worked as an expert with the European Food Safety Authority. "I've worked with them almost since the authority has existed, working on evaluating the safety of so-called novel foods. If you look at the ingredient list of many products in the supermarket, there's a lot of different ingredients that you might not recognise. Many new ingredients are being developed based on plants, insects, algae, and fungi. Since humans have not been regularly eating these new foods, they all need to be assessed for safety. This involves chemistry, technology, nutrition, and toxicology. It's really eye-opening, not only understanding different aspects of food safety but also food development."
Conveying the Message
"I think I've always been interested in work where you can really have an influence. In my work there are a lot of areas where I can be of service to the community. I often get to participate at national level, with the ministries, our food authority, different working groups, and also at European level."
Does she have any advice for younger researchers today wishing to communicate their research to a wider audience? "My advice would be to please be available, and to dare to express your opinion based on the latest science. Very often scientists tend to be a little bit hesitant, but you shouldn't be. People usually want exact answers, and we can give them, based on scientific findings."
However, Marina notes that public and media engagement also sometimes requires a thick skin, especially in the age of social media, where negative comments, misunderstandings, and false statements can pose a challenge. "Young researchers need to be educated about this. Not to be scared, but to be prepared about what may happen and what to do."
Marina had her first experience of being interviewed by the media at her PhD thesis defence in 1990. "Dissertations don't usually attract that much attention, but at my thesis defence there were more than two hundred people and a lot of media."
Marina's research found that the levels of vitamin A in liver products available to consumers were excessively high, posing a risk to certain population groups. "Pregnant women were particularly at risk, and because of that finding even now the recommendations are for pregnant women to avoid eating liver products. The meat industry changed the recipes for the liver-based foods, to reduce the level of vitamin A in their products, and even now when I talk to people from that sector they recognize my name because of this."
I believe it's very important to comment in public to convey truthful scientific information, especially in my area of food safety, because there is a lot of misunderstanding.
Although the public attention was a little daunting at first, Marina says the experience was positive, and laid the groundwork for her later science communication activities. "It was good because I ended up being part of national expert groups where we discussed the issue and how to mitigate this risk for certain population groups."
"I believe it's very important to comment in public to convey truthful scientific information, especially in my area of food safety, because there is a lot of misunderstanding. Of course, I have the advantage of educating our students, who will mostly go to work for the food industry. But I've always believed that conveying the message outside of the university is also part of our work. It's not only to inform consumers, but also to influence the decision makers."
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Anyone irritated by artisanal, twee, nouveau Brooklyn may not find Kindling Quarterly to his or her taste. Its subjects, when they are not busy being dads, are a food blogger ("On a mission to provide locally-sourced food for his daughters and partner Kim, he began gardening, hunting, fishing, foraging and bartering"); a composer (inspired by lullabies); a "handcrafted"-furniture maker; the creative director of a comedy Web site; and a wallpaper designer. No one, in other words, who is operating heavy machinery.
Perez grew up in Dallas, the son of a lawyer and a paralegal; he majored in Gender and Sexuality Studies and has worked as a freelance writer and as a manager of philanthropic projects. (His current employment seems a little vague.) Heffner is from St. Louis and is a design director at J. Crew. Present along with Perez and Heffner were their respective wives—Molly, who works at what can only be called a hip restaurant in Williamsburg, and Willow, who is a freelance film editor—and sons, Amon, ten months, and Phoenix, sixteen months.
A hipster inventory yielded the following: for Perez, only a tattoo of the words "make believe," written in script on his wrist and, possibly, his bright-yellow shoelaces. Heffner wore hemmed jeans, no socks, and highly polished penny loafers; his glasses had the regulation Brooklyn thick black frames; but most notable was his long, scraggly red beard, which, with his high forehead, made him look like a German theologian of the nineteenth century. Amon and Phoenix were both in overalls; they had no visible tattoos or piercings.
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Yet another thoughtfull, well-written post from the Maestro. Thank you kind Sir!
And thank you for the kind words, my friend.
Scary! Steve personally I do similar to you I have time machine on my Mac For local (wich also keeps versions so you probaly could have gon there as well. For offisite I have Carbonite which encrypts files localy be fore sending to the cloud backup.
I am actually a Carbonite partner and therefore recommend and sell Carbonite to my smaller clients. For my larger clients I use Storage Crafts Shadow Protect which backs up the entire server a d or virtual server and saves localy as an encrypted backup as well as a replicated copy offsite. Either copy can be instantly booted as a virtual machine at either the on premise location or at our data center providing business continuity.
We also have partnered with Box.com which is similar to dropbox and provides many nice business features. Thanks for posting a backup reminder it is so important!
Great extension to the conversation, Brian. My challenge with Time Machine right now is that I have it backing up Macs at both ends of the house over wireless. I have but to open a virtual machine and a three-day back ensues. The next time Costco has Seagate 4TB drives on special I plan to invest in a pair and hook them up directly to usb hubs at each end of the house. My Chronos backups of the same data take twenty minutes. Thanks for checking in.


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Subject — Policy Area : Crime and Law Enforcement House Committee : Science, Space, and Technology
1. H.R.5069 — 108th Congress (2003-2004) Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Enhancement Act of 2004 Sponsor: Rep. Thornberry, Mac [R-TX-13] (Introduced 09/13/2004) Cosponsors: (14) Committees: House - Science, Homeland Security (Select) Latest Action: House - 09/17/2004 Referred to the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Science, and Research and Development. (All Actions) Tracker:
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3. H.R.4852 — 108th Congress (2003-2004) Department of Homeland Security Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005 Sponsor: Rep. Cox, Christopher [R-CA-48] (Introduced 07/19/2004) Cosponsors: (5) Committees: House - Homeland Security (Select), Science, Transportation and Infrastructure, Energy and Commerce, Judiciary, Government Reform, Agriculture, Intelligence (Permanent Select) Latest Action: House - 08/04/2004 Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. (All Actions) Tracker:

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The Abacos are a 120-mile chain of islands in the northern Bahamas. The main islands of Great and Little Abaco. The smaller offshore cays include Wood Cay, Elbow Cay, Lubbers Quarters Cay, Green Turtle Cay, Great Guana Cay, Castaway Cay, Man-o-War Cay, Stranger's Cay, Umbrella Cay, Great Stirrup Cay, Walker's Cay, Little Grand Cay, Moore's Island, and Sandy Point.
"The Island of Abaco is blessed with a good harbour, and is well secured by nature…(abounding) with timber."
– 1783 loyalist advertisement circulated in New York.
The first known settlers of Abaco were the Lucayans, a branch of the Taino culture of the Caribbean who arrived in the islands after 500 AD from Hispaniola and Cuba. European settlement began in 1783 when loyalists fleeing the American Revolution received land grants in the Bahamas, then a British colony.
The original loyalist settlement was founded near present-day Treasure Cay, but the inhabitants (both black and white) later moved south to a site which they named Marsh Harbour. From there they spread out in small villages along the east coast and onto the offshore cays, making a living by salvaging wrecks, building boats, fishing and farming.
In the early 20th century American logging firms cut the island's vast pine forests several times, building miles of dirt tracks that later became the island's modern road network. Logging ended on Abaco in the 1960s, just as tourism began to develop.
Black Sound Cay National Reserve - This mangrove patch on Green Turtle Cay is an important habitat for waterfowl and other birds which winter in the region. Migratory birds that have been recorded feeding in and around the cay include Painted buntings, Indigo buntings, American redstarts, Black and White warblers, and Magnolia warblers. Established: 1988 Location: Abaco Size: 2 Acres History […]
Tilloo Cay National Reserve - This 11-acre shoreline on Tilloo Cay, off the eastern side of Great Abaco south of Elbow Cay, is an area of outstanding beauty. Exposed to the Atlantic Ocean the shoreline is an important nesting site for Tropic Birds, Yellow-crowned night heron, several species of terns and also other seabirds. Established: 1990 Location: Abaco Size: 11 […]
Abaco National Park - This was a significant addition to the Bahamian national park system, which protected enough natural habitat to ensure the survival of the endangered Bahama parrot. The park is located on the southeastern portion of Abaco, between Hole-in-the-Wall and Crossing Rocks. It encompasses 5,000 acres of pine forest. Established: 1994 Location: Abaco Size: 20,500 Acres History […]
Pelican Cays Land and Sea Park - Located both of Cherokee Sound, this land and sea park encompasses four small cays and their surrounding waters – Channel Rock, Gaulding Cay and the southern portion of Sandy Cay. On the seaward side of Sandy Cay lies a popular snorkeling reef that is the park's main point of interest. Established: 1972 Location: Andros Size: […]
Fowl Cays National Park - This park covers a small but biologically rich stretch of coral reef, seagrass bed, rocky shore and sandy bottom habitat that historically has been used for recreation, diving, and non-commercial fishing. Established: 2012 Location: Abaco Protects: Coral Reefs Size: 2,335 Acres
Walker's Cay National Park - The northernmost island in the Bahamas, Walker's Cay is fringed by its own barrier reef, featuring stunning coral formations and a wide variety of marine life. Renowned for underwater cathedrals teeming with fish, this park is a mecca for divers. Established: 2002 Location: Abaco Size: 3,840 Acres
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10 tips for better Pull Requests by Mark Seemann
Making a good Pull Request involves more than writing good code.
The Pull Request model has turned out to be a great way to build software in teams - particularly for distributed teams; not only for open source development, but also in enterprises. Since some time around 2010, I've been reviewing Pull Requests both for my open source projects, but also as a team member for some of my customers, doing closed-source software, but still using the Pull Request work flow internally.
During all of that time, I've seen many great Pull Requests, and some that needed some work.
A good Pull Request involves more than just some code. In most cases, there's one or more reviewer(s) involved, who will have to review your Pull Request in order to evaluate whether it's a good fit for inclusion in the code base. Not only must you produce good code, but you must also cater to the person(s) doing the review.
Here's a list of tips to make your Pull Request better. It isn't exhaustive, but I think it addresses some of the more important aspects of creating a good Pull Request.
1. Make it small #
A small, focused Pull Request gives you the best chance of having it accepted.
The first thing I do when I get a notification about a Pull Request is that I look it over to get an idea about its size. It takes time to properly review a Pull Request, and in my experience, the time it takes is exponential to the size; the relationship certainly isn't linear.
If I get a big Pull Request for an open source project, I do realize that the submitter has most likely already put in substantial work in his or her spare time, so I do go to some lengths to review a big Pull Request, even if I think it's too big - particularly when it looks like it's a first-time contributor. Still, if the Pull Request is big, I'll need to schedule time to review it: I can't review a big chunk of code using five minutes here and five minutes there; I need contiguous time to do that. This already introduces a delay into the review process.
If I get a big Pull Request in a professional setting (i.e. where the submitter is being paid to write the code), I often reject the Pull Request simply because of the size of it.
How small is small enough? Obviously, it depends on what the Pull Request is about, but a Pull Request that touches less than a dozen files isn't too bad.
2. Do only one thing #
Just as the Single Responsibility Principle states that a class should have only one responsibility, so should a Pull Request address only a single concern.
Imagine, as a counter-example, that you submit a Pull Request that addresses three independent, separate concerns (let's call them A, B, and C). The reviewer may immediately agree with you that A and C are valid concerns, and that your solution is correct. However, the reviewer has issues with your B concern. Perhaps he or she thinks it's not a concern at all, or she disagrees with the way you've addressed it.
This becomes the start of a lengthy discussion about concern B, and how it's being addressed. This discussion can go on for days (particularly if you're in different time zones), while you attempt to come to agreement; perhaps you'll need to make changes to your Pull Request to address the reviewer's concerns. This all takes time.
It may, in fact, take so much time that other commits have been merged into master in the meantime, and your Pull Request has fallen so much behind that it no longer can be automatically merged. Welcome to Merge Hell.
All that time, your perfectly acceptable solutions to the A and C concerns are sitting idly in your Pull Request, adding absolutely no value to the overall code base.
Instead, submit three independent Pull Requests that address respectively A, B, and C. If you do that, the reviewer who agrees with A and C will immediately accept two of those three Pull Requests. In this way, your non-controversial contributions can immediately add value to the code base.
The more concerns you address in a single Pull Request, the bigger the risk that at least one of them will block acceptance of your contribution. Do only one thing per Pull Request. It also helps you make each Pull Request smaller.
3. Watch your line width #
The reviewer of your Pull Request will most likely be reviewing your contribution using a diff tool. Both GitHub and Stash provide browser-based diff views for reviewing. A reviewer can even configure the diff view to be side-by-side; it makes it much easier to understand what changes are included in the contribution, but it also means that the code must be readable on half a screen.
If you have wide lines, you force the reviewer to scroll horizontally.
There are many reasons to keep line width below 80 characters; making your code easy to review just adds another reason to that list.
4. Avoid re-formatting #
You may feel the urge to change the formatting of the existing code to fit 'your' style. Please abstain.
Every byte you change in the source code shows up in the diff views. Some diff viewers have options to ignore changes of white space, but even with this option on, there are limits to what those diff viewers can ignore. Particularly, they can't ignore if you move code around, so please don't do that.
If you really need to address white space issues, move code around within files, change formatting, or do other stylistic changes to the code, please do so in an isolated pull request that does only that, and state so in your Pull Request comment.
5. Make sure the code builds #
Before submitting a Pull Request, build it on your own machine. True, works on my machine isn't particularly useful, but it's a minimum bar. If it doesn't work on your machine, it's unlikely to work on other machines as well.
Watch out for compiler warnings. They may not prevent you from compiling, so you may not notice them if you don't explicitly look for them. However, if your Pull Request causes (more) compiler warnings, a reviewer may reject it; I do.
If the project has a build script, try to run that, and only submit your pull request if the build succeeds. In many of my open source projects, I have a build script that (among other things) treats warnings as errors. Such a build script may automate or implement various rules for that particular code base. Use it before submitting, because the reviewer most likely will use it before merging your branch.
6. Make sure all tests pass #
Assuming that the code base in question has automated tests, make sure all tests pass before submitting a Pull Request.
This should go without saying, but I regularly receive Pull Requests where one or more tests are failing.
7. Add tests #
Again, assuming that the code in question already has automated (unit) tests, do add tests for the code you submit.
It doesn't often happen that I receive a Pull Request without tests, but when I do, I often reject it.
This isn't a hard rule. There are various cases where you may need to add code without test coverage (e.g. when adding a Humble Object), but if it can be tested, it should be tested.
You'll need to follow the testing strategy already established for the code base in question.
8. Document your reasoning #
Self-documenting code rarely is.
Yes, code comments are apologies, and I definitely prefer well-named operations, types, and values over comments. Still, when writing code, you often have to make decisions that aren't self-evident (particularly when dealing with Business 'Logic').
Document why you wrote the code in the way you did; not what it does.
My preferred priority is this:
Self-documenting code: You can make some decisions about the code self-documenting. Clean Code is literally a book on how to do that.
Code comments: If you can't make the code sufficiently self-documenting, add a code comment. At least, the comment is co-located with the code, so even in the unlikely event that you decide to change version control system, the comment is still preserved. Here's an example where I found a comment more appropriate than attempting to design my way out of the problem.
Commit messages: Most version control systems give you the opportunity to write a commit message. Most people don't bother putting anything other than a bare minimum into these, but you can document your reasoning here as well. Sometimes, you'll need to explain why you're doing things in a certain order. This doesn't fit well in code comments, but is a good fit for a commit message. As long as you keep using the same version control system, you preserve these commit messages, but they're once removed from the actual source code, and you may loose the messages if you change to another source control system. Here's an example where I felt the need to write an extensive commit message, but I don't always do that.
Pull Request comments: Rarely, you may find yourself in a situation where none of the above options are appropriate. In Pull Request management systems such as GitHub or Stash, you can also add custom messages to the Pull Request itself. This message is twice removed from the actual source code, and will only persist as long as you keep using the same host. If you move from e.g. CodePlex to GitHub, you'll loose those Pull Request messages. Still, occasionally, I find that I need to explain myself to the reviewer, but the explanation involves something external to the source code anyway. Here's an example where I found that a reasonable approach.
You don't need to explain the obvious, but do consider erring on the side of caution. What's obvious to you today may not be obvious to anyone else, or to you in three months.
9. Write well #
Write good code, but also write good prose. This is partly subjective, but there are rules for both code and prose. Code has correctness rules: if you break them, it doesn't compile (or, for interpreted languages, it fails at run-time).
The same goes for the prose you may add: Code comments. Commit messages. Pull Request messages.
Please use correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation. If you don't, your prose is harder to understand, and your reviewer is a human being.
10. Avoid thrashing #
Sometimes, a reviewer will point out various issues with your Pull Request, and you'll agree to address them.
This may cause you to add more commits to your Pull Request branch. There's nothing wrong with that per se. However, this can lead to unwarranted thrashing.
As an example, your pull request may contain five commits: A, B, C, D, and E. The reviewer doesn't like what you did in commits B and C, so she asks you to remove that code. Most people do that by checking out their pull request branch and deleting the offending code, adding yet another commit (F) to the commit list: [A, B, C, D, E, F]
Why should we have to merge a series of commits that first adds unwanted code, and then removes it again? It's just thrashing; it doesn't add any value.
Instead, remove the offending commits, and force push your modified branch: [A, D, E]. While under review, you're the sole owner of that branch, so you can modify and force push it all you want.
Another example of thrashing that I see a lot is when a Pull Request is becoming old (often due to lengthy discussions): in these cases, the author regularly merges his or her branch with master to keep the Pull Request branch up to date.
Again: why do I have to look at all those merge commits? You are the sole owner of that branch. Just rebase your Pull Request branch and force push it. The resulting commit history will be cleaner.
One or more persons will review your Pull Request. Don't make your reviewer work.
The more you make your reviewer work, the greater the risk is that your Pull Request will be rejected.
Sam Frances
How do you balance the advice to write small, focused Pull Requests with the practical necessity of sometimes bundling refactoring in with features? Especially given the fact that most workplaces inevitably prioritise merging features.
Mark Seemann
Sam, thank you for writing. Even without refactoring, it's common that a feature is so large that you can't implement it as a single, focused pull request. The best way to address that issue is to hide the work in progress behind a feature flag. You can do the same with refactoring.
As Kent Beck puts it:
"for each desired change, make the change easy (warning: this may be hard), then make the easy change"
Kent Beck
You may need to first refactor to 'make room' for the new feature. I'd often put that in an isolated pull request and send that first. If anyone complains that I'm doing refactoring work instead of feature work, I'd truthfully respond that I'm doing the refactoring in order to be able to implement the feature.
I consider this to be part of being professional. It's how software should be developed, and I think that non-technical stakeholders should have little to say about how things are done. You don't have to tell them every little detail about how you write code. You shouldn't have to ask for permission to do this, and you shouldn't have to inform them that that's what you're doing.
My new book contains a realistic and practical example of a feature developed behind a feature flag.
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PonyIsland Adoptables - My demons are a character set of mine from my novel, Falling Towards Heaven. Gradually, I'm attempting to gather adoptables of them. Click on their images to take you to their pages.
Spider is one of my favorite and oldest demons.
Draco comes in close second for favorite. Garnet is his partner, not to be confused with Anthro FaeKind Garney.
Hellborn is the youngest of the brothers. Topaz is Garnet's "older sister"
Antony is Draco's elder brother. Ki is his companion.


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Q: Django - operate on db or on data I'm using django with PostreSQL to retrieve some data via DRF and use this JSON in React.
The data that gets called is already filter with
models.objects.filter(owner=request.user, date=last_month)

All of the fields in the dataset are required, thus no further filtering is required and there is no overhead data.
Now I want to split the data of last_month into groups per days.
The question is should I:

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*Make different ORM calls for everyday

*Make ORM call as in the example above and iterate through it in
django with pandas

*Make an call as in the example above and iterate through
it in react

Which is the most efficient?

A: its better to use filter and query once by passing group by and then iterate through it, one call and all data is there in the cache

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With Bold Brushstrokes and Splashes of Color, Public Art Inspires Metro Atlanta Communities
Posted on: Jul 28, 2016
How can community art help inspire and change the Atlanta region?
That's the question that metro Atlanta leaders brought home with them from the Atlanta Regional Commission's (ARC) 2014 LINK trip to Philadelphia. During the city-to-city peer exchange trip, the Atlanta group heard community art advocate Jane Golden talk about the transformative effect of the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program.
The LINK delegation came home eager to start a public art program in the Atlanta region. In 2015, ARC, working with a group of metro Atlanta leaders, raised funds to create the Atlanta Regional Public Art Program. Last fall, the program awarded grants to help four metro Atlanta communities install public art.
A $15,000 grant from the program helped MARTA install a mural at the King Memorial rail station, just east of downtown Atlanta. "Rise Above," a towering, affirmative mural by Atlanta artist Fahamu Pecou that draws inspiration from the messages of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was completed in June.
"The mural at the King Memorial station is simply stunning, and shows how public art can be transformative for communities across the Atlanta region," said Greg Burbidge, a senior program specialist at ARC who coordinates the public art program.
"We can't wait to see the finished work at the three other projects that received funding," Burbidge added. "Public art can do much more than beautify a community. If done right, it can foster public conversations about key issues and help communities better define who they are."
The other communities that received funding from the Atlanta Regional Public Art Program expect to complete their projects by the end of 2016. These projects are:
City of Decatur – Mural on Marta Overpass, W. Trinity & Atlanta Ave. ($15,000)
City of Hapeville – Hapeville 125th Anniversary Sculpture Project ($15,000)
City of Woodstock – Downtown Woodstock Mural ($8,000)
Public art is a community effort – scenes from the creation of the King Memorial Station mural with artist Fahamu Pecou, community members, WonderRoot staff and volunteers.
"Rise Above" is the first of four murals that will be created by Pecou at Atlanta MARTA stations as part of En Route, a public art project coordinated by WonderRoot, an Atlanta-based community arts center. En Route is a partnership between MARTA, WonderRoot, Fulton County Arts & Culture and the TransFormation Alliance. Future public art projects are planned at the Oakland City, Hamilton E. Holmes and Vine City MARTA stations.
The project is funded by a $50,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, in partnership with Fulton County Arts and Culture, and additional funding from Wells Fargo, the Ford Foundation, Georgia Council for the Arts and the Atlanta Regional Public Art Program.
The goal of En Route is to create engaging, meaningful, high-quality public art that celebrates Atlanta's neighborhoods, improves the experience of transit riders and enlivens the environment of MARTA's transit stations. For that reason, engaging the community surrounding each MARTA station is a vital part of the development process for the En Route projects.
To develop the King Memorial project, WonderRoot held multiple community meetings. Pecou met with the neighborhood NPU, En Route stakeholders, an advisory committee, residents and business owners in the neighborhood to work out a concept that would resonate with the King Memorial neighborhood.
In addition, WonderRoot staff and volunteers went to the King Memorial MARTA station to survey transit riders, and Pecou held a community photo shoot to capture images of neighborhood residents as models for his art.
Through conversations and feedback, agreement was reached on an image that reflected both Pecou's focus on concerns around contemporary representations of black masculinity as well as the neighborhood's desire to highlight their historic connection to Martin Luther King, Jr.
The finished work is an arresting image of a young black man leaping into the air with the words Rise Above emblazoned across the MARTA station wall. The phrase is taken from a quote by King: "An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."
In speaking about his work in ArtsATL, Pecou said: "Art has always been transformative. It is not merely a reflection of our times and experiences; it also has the capacity to redirect us. As artists, it is imperative that we use our creativity to say the things that words do not easily convey….After all, in the future, historians will tell what happened, but artists will tell how it felt."
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Home Soccer Umtiti's big challenge: playing in Europe 435 days later
Umtiti's big challenge: playing in Europe 435 days later
It's been a year, two months and nine days since the last time the French central played in the Champions League. Bad decisions have led to ostracism.
September 18, 2018 was the last time Samuel Umtiti was seen in a Champions League match. That day Barcelona opened the European season playing against PSV at the Camp Nou. The central Blaugrana, who arrived full after winning the World Cup with France, jumped into the field making a match with Gerard Piqué. However, despite the comfortable victory, 4-0, the game ended up having a negative connotation for Umtiti when he was ejected by direct red in the 79th minute. Little could he imagine that it was going to be his last match in the Champions League until the day today.
A serious degeneration of the cartilage of his left knee, after forcing his participation in the World Cup in Russia, along with a series of bad decisions on his part, led him to a dead end in which he is still immersed.
Evidently now your situation has improved compared to a year ago. You can play and complete matches, although without the desired continuity. In fact, this season he has played two games - Eibar (0-3) and Valladolid (4-1) - out of a total of sixteen, although it is true that he scored both at a great level.
However, now comes the most important challenge for Umtiti since he was injured. On November 27 comes the decisive match against Borussia de Dortmund at the Camp Nou corresponding to the fifth day of the Champions League league. A triumph would guarantee to finish as the first of the group, while a draw would leave everything open to the last match against Inter in Milan and a defeat would leave the Blaugrana team on the verge of elimination.
Hence the game is clearly presented as the most important of the season so far. The problem is that Ernesto Valverde has to face this meeting without the presence of his pillar and most important man in defense, Gerard Piqué, sanctioned. It is not the only problem in defense of the technician - he will also have the starting sides, Nelson Semedo and Jordi Alba - but the most important one.
The technicians are fully confident in recovering Umtiti to cover Piqué's casualty and match the axis of defense with his compatriot, Clement Lenglet. Umtiti has taken advantage of this break to make a special treatment with stem cells in his left knee in order to reach this match in the best possible conditions. The friendly did not play against Cartagena to not force in any case and avoid risk situations. Right now 'Big Sam' is focused solely and exclusively on the Champions League. 435 days later he will hear the Champions anthem dressed short and on a pitch.
Umtiti's big challenge: playing in Europe 435 days later Reviewed by LALASPORT on 11/18/2019 08:01:00 PM Rating: 5
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With the increase in manufacturers creating steel hammock stands that are both portable and fairly compact, more and more people are able to have access to a hammock in the comfort of their own yard.
9 foot long steel hammock stand sets are becoming increasingly popular due to their space saving design, especially for use indoors during the colder months.
With many who sleep in hammocks on a regular basis raving about what a great night's sleep they get, some may wonder if there is any proof behind this phenomenon or if it is simply by luck that some claim to have had a good night slumbering in a hammock?
A study published in the Current Biology journal involving a group of 12 participants recently found that when laying on a slowly rocking bed, individuals tend to fall asleep quicker and showed brain activity that would suggest each participant was in a deeper level of sleep.
Conducted by the University of Geneva the study asked each volunteer to take a nap on a stationary bed for 45 minutes and a custom made rocking bed for 45 minutes while the activity in their brains was monitored.
For years many have believed that a gentle rocking motion is ideal for getting young children and babies off to sleep and it now appears that a gentle swaying motion could in fact help adults fall asleep faster also.
As the study by the Geneva University showed if you do have trouble when drifting off to sleep in a bed perhaps you could try using a hammock a couple of nights a week to see if it does make any difference.
Another notable event that the study found was that the test subjects showed brain activity that corresponds to a deeper level of sleep.
This may also be a contributing factor as to why those who sleep in a hammock, often feel quite refreshed and do not seem to have a bad word to say about it.
When you are in the deeper levels of sleep science suggests that this is the time your body is able to heal and repair itself more effectively.
A better quality sleep is also known to boost and strengthen your immune system.
One of the main things I like about sleeping in a hammock is the way the hammock can wrap you up in a cocoon like shape, the feeling of being securely enclosed is one that I find quite comforting.
One benefit to sleeping in a hammock that some may find is that due to the wrap around nature of the material, you are less likely to toss and turn throughout the night and this in turn may help you get a better nights rest.
However, you should not attempt to sleep in a hammock that has spreader bars, when people talk about sleeping in a hammock they will often be referring to using a Mayan or Brazilian hammock.
A spreader bar style hammock such as this Caribbean hammocks hammock will not wrap around you or keep you very secure, if you roll around a lot in your sleep you will probably wake up on the floor in the middle of the night.
Using a hammock such as this one from Prime Garden or this Vivere hammock and stand set (pictured) is by far a much safer option.
If you do find yourself staring at the ceiling when trying to get to sleep it would appear that setting up a hammock or a hammock and stand combo in your bedroom may be an excellent choice.
As mentioned earlier the 9 foot long hammock stands have been designed to be a space saving solution to laying horizontally on a hammock.
All you need to be aware of is the space you have in your home so be sure to check the constructed dimensions of the hammock stand you own or intend to buy before setting up the stand or making a purchase.
Whether you are looking for a hammock simply for relaxation purposes or as an alternative for your bed it would seem that using a hammock is maybe more beneficial to your overall well being than many may consider.
If you are looking for a space saving 9 ft hammock stand to put in your bedroom or use in your home we would highly recommend either the Prime Garden hammock and stand set or the Vivere hammock and stand that are linked above.
The Best Choice Products double hammock with stand is also a great choice and all 3 of our suggestions have a number of positive reviews that you can read before you decide on a purchase. Alternatively why not take a look at more 9 foot steel hammock stand sets that are available.


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A karvalakki () is a cylinder-shaped, furry forage cap-styled hat typically worn in parts of Finland and Russia. Finnish TV presenter Hannu Karpo often wore a karvalakki on his show, Karpolla on asiaa.

In Finnish, the expression karvalakkimalli ("furry cap model") means a bare-bones, no-frills model, meaning the cheapest and most basic model that just works and does nothing extra. The term can also be used to describe anything that is very basic.

See also
 Ushanka
 Papakhi

Finnish clothing
Hats

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Ломовка — деревня в Аткарском районе Саратовской области России. Входит в состав Барановского муниципального образования.

География
Деревня находится на северо-востоке центральной части района, в пределах Приволжской возвышенности, в степной зоне, к востоку от реки Медведицы, на расстоянии примерно 5 километров (по прямой) к востоку-северо-востоку (ENE) от города Аткарск. Абсолютная высота — 163 метра над уровнем моря.
 Климат
Климат характеризуется как умеренно континентальный с холодной малоснежной зимой и жарким сухим летом. Средняя многолетняя температура самого холодного месяца (января) составляет −12,3°С, температура самого тёплого (июля) 21,1°С. Среднегодовое количество атмосферных осадков — 400 мм.

Часовой пояс

Население

 Гендерный состав
По данным Всероссийской переписи населения 2010 года в гендерной структуре населения мужчины составляли 46,8 %, женщины — соответственно 53,2 %.

 Национальный состав
Согласно результатам переписи 2002 года, в национальной структуре населения русские составляли 98 % из 86 чел.

Улицы
Уличная сеть деревни состоит из одной улицы (ул. Центральная).

Примечания

Населённые пункты Аткарского района


Parkour Life is 6 different levels of parkour for Minecraft PE 0.17 where you will jump on the stone blocks. Once you make the first jump, the game will start. Jump carefully, because under your feet is a deadly lava, and you have only one chance to complete the level. After passing only the first stage you will see a a chest with things that may be needed in the future. At the end of each level is located a portal to the next level.
Do not change the game mode to creative.
If you die, you start all over again.
Lava Runner map for MCPE 0.11.1This is a map with parkour, designed to speed passage. You will have to test your skills on 9 different levels, each more difficult.
It didn't work for me??


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Harry Styles - Fine Line (2xLP Vinyl)
Second studio album by the British pop singer and former One Direction member, featuring the singles 'Lights Up' and 'Watermelon Sugar'.
So, the first album was soft at times, the occasional bombastic moment, but largely straddled the genre of singer/songwriter. This new album is quite different. Immediately I'll say I prefer this album, it has more immediate appeal. It's more colorful, it's more pop orientated and considering it is currently summer this album feels just right.
Musically it's mixed a lot better, the overall sound is a lot fuller, with the instrumentals being much more forwards. I prefer Harry's vocals on this album, they're a bit denser and less frail. Saying that, the occasional fragility in his vocals on the last album fit the mood, so that isn't a criticism of the first album, but on this album it wouldn't have worked as well. Lyrically and thematically songs are more interesting, not just being break up songs, there's observations of romance and themes of treating people with kindness (It's literally the title of a song). So there's more overall variety and depth which I'm a big fan of.
Moments such as Cherry are very twee but I'm a fan, I enjoyed it as a nice switch up from the (at times) over-produced tracks preceding it. A couple leading singles were before this, both were good, Lights Up and Watermelon Sugar the latter being insanely popular and I'd say with good reason. It's very feel good and summery.
Saying all that, moments do at times feel repetitive, especially lyrically, sometimes songs felt as if they were entirely compromised of choruses and after a few minutes that made the colour disappear a bit. I would have given this album a 4 had it not been for the last two tracks. Treat People With Kindness felt a bit too on the nose, I wasn't the biggest fan of that song, sickeningly sweet and kind. The closer and title track, Fine Line was fairly boring, again being a song which was a chorus, for about 4 minutes and then it closed very well, but a lot of the song was fairly boring unfortunately.
In conclusion this is good, I am a fan, it's an improvement on almost all fronts. Songs like She are absolutely outstanding, very pleasant sound, I'm a fan of the lyrics and man... the guitar solo here is unbelievable. This whole album is definitely worth a listen, I'd argue there isn't a bad moment here.
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A1 Golden
A2 Watermelon Sugar
A3 Adore You
A4 Lights Up
B1 Cherry
B2 Falling
B3 To Be So Lonely
B4 She
C1 Sunflower, Vol. 6
C2 Canyon Moon
C3 Treat People With Kindness
D1 Fine Line
First pressing, retail.
Pressed on black 180gm vinyl.
Housed in a glossy, full-colour gatefold jacket (sleeved in stickered shrink-wrap).
24" x 36" full-colour, double sided gloss-finish poster & 2 double-sided lyric sleeve/inserts included (splatter variants have paper sleeves inside the lyric inserts, black variants do not).


Michael Rogers and Richard Hirsch summon a haunting Recollection at the Pittsburgh Glass Center.
There is something both darkly haunting and obscurely sacred about the collaboration between glass artist Michael Rogers and ceramicist Richard Hirsch, both professors at the Rochester Institute of Technology's School for American Crafts. Twenty-five works, created during their simultaneous residency last year at the Pittsburgh Glass Center, appear at the Center's Hodge Gallery, under the title Recollection. The work gives the space an almost palpable sublimity that is occasionally disrupted by mesmerizing, if baleful, aesthetic undercurrents.
Rogers' arresting glass installation "Five Crows" is one example of Recollection's more disquieting forces. Its character and placement, as one of the first works to greet visitors, artfully unsettles the gallery's transcendent stillness. Suspended from nails hung at varying heights, five large birds, whose bodies have a leaden luster, hang nose-down against the white gallery wall. Their wings are bound by what looks to be honeycomb-patterned packing tape, but is actually a seamless part of each casting. Tiny, highly detailed flies sit on the birds with a disturbingly authentic pearlescence. On closer inspection, the birds' partial translucence becomes obvious: glimpses of grayish, almost glacial light pass through their bodies, making them glow from within. Both beautiful and eerie, the work makes an almost inauspicious symbolic statement.
Directly in front of the crows -- and lending an additional sense of unnerving hoodoo through its ritual associations -- is "Ceremonial Vessel #1," one of Richard Hirsch's many larger-than-life-sized ceramic works. An avid collector of Asian artifacts, ritual containers and stone tools, Hirsch has created ceramic sculptures that set the gallery's overall spiritual tenor. By increasing the size of his various subjects, he imbues them with a quasi-totemic significance. Hirsch's "Ceremonial Mortar and Pestle" series, which plays on a utilitarian object often associated with pharmacology (and sometimes culinary arts), suggests a cycle of pagan icons -- or perhaps Hinduism's linga and yoni, which signify a symbolic coitus that both gives and sustains life.
A gorgeous collaboration is "Locked In," located at the very center of the exhibition, along the axis created by two of Hirsch's ceremonial vessels. Like many of the collaborative pieces, it's confined to a bell jar that complements the elements inside. Here, a handle-shaped ceramic wand, recalling the pestles in so many of Hirsch's works, serves as the pedestal for a combination lock. From the gallery's entry point, the lock looks deceptively metallic. When it's viewed from the opposite side, the light passing through it reveals a series of bubbles suspended in the glass.
Rogers' use of found objects and glass castings of pieces from his own toy collection imparts a fascinating, if slightly sinister, Victorian flavor -- with results reminiscent of the stop-action-animated films of The Brothers Quay. His fascination with reproducing text is evident in works like "Portrait of Meitner," in which a tall, lidded glass cylinder is etched so that its contents -- a smoky glass bust of Austrian physicist Lise Meitner, her head topped with a pin cushion from which a profusion of hat pins radiate -- can be viewed only through the tight, poetic lace of repeated phrases. For the woman who discovered that atoms could be split -- ultimately leading to the development of nuclear weapons -- Rogers has created a beautifully disturbing, voodoo-worthy depiction.
In these collaborations and juxtapositions, the artists achieve an unparalleled sublimity with two sides: a disquieting Victorian-style Gothicism and a primordial spirituality that appeals to something deeply seated in the human consciousness. It is an impression that lingers long after the visitor has left the gallery.
Glass under glass: "Locked In," by Michael Rogers and Richard Hirsch. Photo courtesy of Samantha Laffey.


Hi !! The name is NILA TAYLOR. I am staying at Costa Mesa. My age is 23. I might take night schooling in The Instructive Prep School in Elk Grove. I am working as Radiologist. I like to do Horse Riding. My dad name is Karl and he is a Composer. My momy is a Translator.


Good morning! Hope you guys are having a lovely Sunday so far. Today we're talking about skincare, because I find it so important to make sure we are doing the best to keep our skin healthy in every way possible. You guys know I love to try new products and stick to the ones that do well and incorporate them to my skin care routine. I seriously can't stress enough how much better our make up looks when our skin looks good underneath, and I have found so much more confidence since I started taking care of mine. I've been using anti-aging products for a few years now and I honestly see a difference.
So lately I have found this brand new line by the makers of StriVectin, that I absolutely love using! It's called Nia, which stands for "Not into aging" (literally my motto if you ask). It's made by millennials for millennials which is what actually caught my attention because we are so busy with our crazy lifestyles we sometimes forget to take care of our skin. The science behind this line is that every single product has this patented molecule called NIA-114 that protects the skin from every-day stressors such as technology effects and skin sins (raise your hand if you have slept with make up on). It basically fortifies our skin, reversing these every-day damages. I'm in love.
So lets get to the products. The line is comprised of six products that work together to fill our key skincare needs and to prevent early signs of aging. I really love that I don't have to think if I'm missing something to make my skin better.
Tech Neck: we also have to take care of our necks! This is a line smoother that does wonders.
I honestly love all of these but my favorites have to be the Sunday Detox and the Fully Charged Serum.
The Sunday Detox is a clay mask that I wear once a week, and not to be cliché but I literally do it mostly on Sundays hah. Why? Because it de-stresses my skin from a crazy weekend where my skin is not so happy because of sleepless nights and eating not so healthy. Its application is so cool though. It actually comes out as a velvet-y foamy whipped clay that you put on your face and let it rest for about 10-15 minutes until it fully dries as a clay peel-off. This will purify and lift away all dead skin cells and ultimately make my skin visibly smoother and more radiant.
Then my second favorite is the Fully Charged Serum because you guys know my skin is so dry I need to keep it moisturized 24/7. This serum is so soft for the skin and makes it brighter and glowy, perfect for a long-day hydration.
Anyways, I really wanted to share this brand because so far it has been amazing to my skin! You guys can find it at Ulta Beauty, on their online site or in-store so make sure you check it out and let me know how it worked for you!
Your skin looks so clear and healthy!
I like you so so much with less make up…I love your natural beauty !!
I love your gray crop sweater! Where did you get it??


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Kanna Kurihara was all smiles after competing in the Otters first meet of the swim season in Prince Rupert where she won all of her events on the weekend. (Submitted photo)
Kurihara sisters dominate Prince Rupert meet
It was the first meet of the year down in Prince Rupert and the Otters just had one thing to do- pick up where they had left off last season.
As usual, the team had a small group present but they showed their power. Kanna Kurihara, 12, sped to nine first place finishes that left everyone in her wake. Some of her swims went down as the fastest in the entire meet.
Kanna dominated her specialties, the 200 and 400 individual medley races. For good measure, she added the 100 butterfly, the 100 and 200 backstroke, the 200 breaststroke and the 400 freestyle. All seven swims became new club records with her performances.
Not to be outdone, her sister Kaede, 9, topped the field in all seven of her events. Swimming against athletes often a year older, she was able to take the 50 butterfly, 100 butterfly, backstroke and freestyle plus the 200 medley, backstroke and freestyle events.
For good measure, she combined with Milana Anokhina, 8, Sadie Durnin, 8, and Alina Kasum, 6, to win the 200 medley relay.
On the boy's side, illness and injury took some toll but there were some great results nonetheless. Jules Tersago led the crew with wins in the 50 butterfly and freestyle races and added seconds in the 100, 200 and 400 freestyles as well as the 100 backstroke and butterfly.
Kanna and Kaede were named the gold medal swimmers in their age groups while Tersago was a close second for silver in his.
Other top finishers for the girls included Anokhina winning the 50 freestyle and butterfly, the 100 breaststroke, and the 200 freestyle and seconds in the 100 butterfly and 200 freestyle. Erica Rooke was runner-up in the 200 and 400 freestyle, as well as third in the 50 butterfly and the 200 backstroke. In addition, Durnin took third in the 100 medley, 50 breaststroke and the 200 freestyle. Claire McAulay, 13, took third in the 200 freestyle.
For the boys, Liam Belanger,14, took the gruelling 400 medley, was second in the 200 backstroke and third in the 50 butterfly and the 100 backstroke.
Struck by a cold that has limited his training, Jean-Luc Belanger, 16, battled it out to a number of fourths and fifths which were very close to his top times.
Next meet for the Otters will be in Prince George later in November.
Pitcher Francis, goalie McLean among BC Sports Hall of Fame's 2020 inductees
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Influence: the ability to have an effect on the character, behavior, and development of another person.
Whether you know it or not, we all have influence. Yes, even you.
Now, some people have a massive amount of influence. Like Selena Gomez who gets paid $550,000 per post on Instagram #insane. While others of us have a much smaller amount of influence (and we don't get paid to post pictures of our new shoes).
Every single one of us has influence though, even if it's just with our mom, strange coworker, or bff.
But how are we using our influence? You see, as followers of Jesus, before anything else, our influence should be all about Him.
Instead of being about ourselves, or our platform, business, bank account, or whatever else—instead of just being about us—our influence should be about Jesus.
Instead of being about ourselves, or our platform, business, bank account, or whatever else—our influence should be about Jesus.
So how to do we influence others? I'm glad you asked!
If we truly want to influence someone for God, we first need to intentionally choose them.
Now, as followers of Jesus we're called to love and serve everyone, right? Yes, but as human beings we have a limited amount of time and a limited amount of bandwidth in our lives.
Just looking at Jesus, He loved and died for everyone, but He only had 12 disciples, and there were just three of them—Peter, James, and John—that He was super close with.
So again, we want to love and impact everyone, but when it comes to truly and fully influencing another person for God, we need to first intentionally choose a few certain people.
Maybe it's a coworker we sit next to, whose life we see God at work in.
Maybe there's someone in our small group that we connect with and have a heart for.
Are you passionate about kids? Decide to be a mentor.
The person could be younger than us—a single mom.
Or maybe they're older and it's our boss or your dad.
It could be anyone, but we need to intentionally decide to pour into this person's life, intentionally choose them to influence for God.
We need to use our words to teach someone about Jesus if we want to influence them.
Okay, so this is great, but you might be thinking, I'm a brand new Christian. How could I ever teach someone else?
Or, my life is so far from perfect. What could I possibly share with someone else?
Not to mention, I'm a mechanic, or a banker, or a college student, not a teacher or a pastor, so how could I teach someone?
My response? When you think about teaching don't picture a classroom. Instead just picture a conversation.
Do not think that you need to be an expert or a know-it-all when it comes to God or anything else. I've actually found that I struggle to learn from people who think they know everything about everything.
Picture a conversation at work with a coworker, at Starbucks over coffee, in your living room while watching a game.
And when it comes to what to teach, just share what you've learned about life, and more importantly, what you've learned about Jesus with the other person.
It's just about being intentional with our words. Each day, using our words to teach someone else what few things we know.
If we want to influence someone for God in a lasting way, we need to use our actions and show them.
Practically speaking, how do we do this? By intentionally living life with people. Giving a few people access to our lives and making them a priority.
Maybe it's praying for the person this week. Or even crazier, praying with them.
Maybe it's getting together once a week or once a month and just talking.
It could be showing them how to read the Bible. How? Just by reading through a book of the Bible with them.
Inviting them over for supper on a regular basis.
Inviting them to parties, to date nights.
So much of influence is simply about being intentional, intentionally showing other people a life that looks like Jesus.
Through our words and attitudes.
Using every ounce of the influence we have to show them God.
So I just want to ask, who are you influencing?
Who specifically are we pouring our lives into?
Who are two to four people that you're influencing for God?
And if we don't have this, we need to! I mean, as followers of Jesus we're commanded to make disciples.
And how do we make disciples?
Originally published on adamweber.com. Used with permission.
Adam Weber lives in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He likes typewriters, drives a Rambler, cheers for the Cincinnati Bengals, has 6 chickens, and a dog named Daisy. He's the Lead Pastor of Embrace, an 11-year-old church that has grown to 6 campuses in two states. He and his beautiful wife, Becky, have four kids. Fun fact: He once made worldwide news when a turkey vulture fell out of the sky and onto his back porch during an ice storm. Google it.


Dummy Scale Engines Made Easy.
How many times have you walked the flightline at a scale meet and drooled over the oh-so-real-looking dummy engines sitting in the noses of the competition models? Building such a scale dummy engine for yourself is not as difficult as you might think. Let's use the engine from my 1/5-scale Pfalz D.III as an example. It's a 6-cylinder, 160hp Mercedes in-line scale dummy engine and it really improves the model's overall scale appearance. I hope that once you learn how easy it really is, you will be inspired to use your own creativity and ingenuity to the make your own.
It's difficult to specify which materials you'll need; you simply want the result to look like the engine you're modeling. Use your creativity and whichever resources are available. I use leftover pieces from my workshop and find other materials at my local craft store and around the house. There are no rules; use your imagination. The fun part is that it feels as if you are doing an entirely different type of modeling, and the results can be achieved with minimum effort.
Start with a good drawing of the engine. If you are building a 160 or 180hp Mercedes, you are in luck; Air Age Media's book "Scale Aircraft Drawings, Vol. 1, World War I" is available at rcstore.com. It contains detailed William Wylam's 3- and 4-view drawings of several vintage engines. Copy and enlarge the engine drawings you need to the scale that matches your model, and then place these enlargements over your model's plan to check the new dummy engine's fit. You can also cut out the drawing components to use as templates to develop the various shapes of the wooden patterns to make built-up and vacuum-formed plastic parts.
At first, the project may seem a bit overwhelming because so many little pieces go into making a first-class replica engine. Just remember that not every detail has to be duplicated. For flying models, all you need are the basic visible outlines and a few other small, well-placed detailed parts that help "sell" the overall illusion.
Break the engine into its most basic and prominent components and shapes. The most outstanding elements of the Mercedes are its 6-cylinder water jackets, the camshaft/rocker casings, the intake manifolds, the rocker arms and valve springs and the exhaust. In the case of a multi-cylinder engine, you will have to make several duplicate components to assemble each of the cylinders and their associated parts. It is best to make each part once and then use it as a master or plug to duplicate the remaining identical pieces. I made wooden forms and then duplicated the parts using a homemade vacuum-former. Another way to duplicate parts is to press your material into clay and then cast copy pieces out of polyester or epoxy resin. This technique works equally well but produce a slightly heavier engine. With short-nose WW I models, additional nose weight isn't usually a bad thing. Use whichever process you prefer.
A lathe is a big help when making cylindrical parts; that's what I used to make my hardwood water-jacket mold masters. 1 used 1.125- inch-diameter dowels turned down to create the proper shape. I then cut the water jacket in half with a band saw and glued the halves to a piece of 1/4-inch plywood. I next drilled 0.031-inch-diameter holes around the perimeter of each part so that suction would pull the plastic tight around them.
I made the forms for the rocker casings out of a strip of hardwood. I shaped the strip along its top surface using a sanding block and then cut it into six short lengths to produce each rocker casing. I ended up with six nearly identical pieces, each with the same radius across the top. I then glued very short lengths of thin dowels to the four corners of each rocker casing to represent the bosses on the full-scale casings. I next glued the rocker casings onto a piece of 1/4-inch plywood for vacuum-forming. After the casings had been vacuum-formed, the natural radius formed in the plastic material around each of the bosses made the finished parts look as if they were one-piece castings. When you've assembled and glued all of your master parts onto a plywood base, you're ready to form the basic parts.
, the book "Do It Yourself Vacuum-Forming for the Hobbyist," available from MicroMark (item no. 80868, $14.95), is a big help. You can make your own vacuum-former by building a square box frame using two pieces of smooth hardboard for the top and bottom. Drill 1/16-inch holes in the top surface in a 1-inch-square grid pattern; then seal all the seams and borders with silicone sealant. In one side of the box, cut a hole to fit the attachment of your wet-and-dry vacuum hose, and you'll be good to go. I made my vacuum-former 12 inches square.
To support the plastic sheeting, I made a layer frame that was larger than the box (14×14 inches) and allowed room to use small C-clamps around its edges. I cut a 7inch-square window through the upper and lower frame pieces and applied thin foam tape to the perimeter of the box lid to allow the bottom frame plate to be sealed against it. I then sandwiched the plastic sheeting (0.040- to 0.060-inch-thick styrene) between the frame plates and clamped them tightly. Place the frame and plastic in an oven that has been heated to 350 degrees F. When the plastic starts to droop, turn on the vacuum, remove the plastic and frame from the oven and carefully lay the plastic over your master parts. With practice, you will be on your way to making your own Mercedes engine kit.
Cut and trim the formed-plastic water jackets to size, and glue the halves together using Pacer Plasti-Zap or Testors plastic cement. You can reinforce the seams on the inside using short strips of scrap plastic. Drill a hole in the center of each of the bosses on the rocker casings from underneath; then inset snugly fitting 2-56 screws. Thread on a 2-56 nut to each screw-stud where it protrudes through the casing, and secure the nuts with a dab of CA. The rocker casings can now be trimmed and assembled over a long styrene tube to represent the camshaft housing. All of the water jackets can be secured with tubes of a smaller diameter that represent the water-inlet tubes between the water jackets on the full-size engine. The idea here is to construct as many sub-assemblies as you can to form larger, easier to handle engine parts.
I made the intake manifolds out of balsa that I carved to shape and then wrapped with black, 1/4-inch-wide automotive pin-striping tape. After it has been carved and sanded to shape, coat the balsa with fiberglass resin to seal it; this gives the tape a smooth surface to stick to. On this particular engine, the exhaust tubes were simply straight pipes, so I used lengths of K&S aluminum tube to duplicate them.
To make the rocker arms on my model, I used ordinary wire-termination lugs right out of the toolbox. I secured the screws going through the terminal holes, and then I glued them to the rocker casings. To make the engine's valve springs, I found small-diameter springs (similar to those used in ballpoint pens) and cut them to length with a wire cutter. They aren't exactly scale, but from 5 feet away, they look pretty good. Unless you intend to compete at the FAI World Scale Championships, all you need to do is create the illusion of scale. If you don't have small items such as springs and lugs in your shop, you can find them for very little cost at a hardware store or through a specialty company such as McMaster-Carr (mcmaster.com).
Once you have the basic engine structure assembled, you may have to remove some portions of it so it can fit into your engine cowl and around your model's glow engine. You must also install some hard-points in the model to attach the engine securely in place. The attachment points will vary with each installation. On my Mercedes, I used a brass strap with two mounting holes drilled in it. I screwed and epoxied the strap to the rear of the engine and then used two screws to secure the strap to the airframe. I cut the front of the dummy engine so it rested neatly between the rocker-arm covers of my O.S. 1.20 FS engine. A few dabs of Zap-A-Dap-A-Goo hold the front of the dummy engine against the O.S. engine.
It is important that your dummy engine be easy to remove so you have easy access to your model's RC engine, fuel lines, etc. Once your dummy engine has been properly attached to the model, remove it again and paint it. I simplified things by painting mine all black, but you can use other colors on the various parts. I also painted the valve covers on my model engine, and this helps them to blend nicely into the dummy engine. A little dry brushing with silver paint and a stiff brush, or even simply rubbing it with some Craft Store "Rub-n-Buff" will do wonders in bringing out the details.
These are just a few of the basics needed to create a really splendid dummy engine. Keep your eyes and mind open, and you'll see that it's very easy to come up with various simple ways to make the many required detailed parts. Break the engine down into its sub-components, make the components individually, and then assemble them and paint. Even using the simplest forms—which may not be exactly scale—you'll be able to fill that empty space in your model's engine cowl!
This is a reprint from our archives of classic scale modeling articles.
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by Joe Flatley | 9 Jun | Logan PD News
Text, email or voice emergency notification system available to those who live and work in Gloucester County
(Clayton, NJ) — Gloucester County Freeholder Director Robert M. Damminger and Freeholder Joe Chila announced that notifications are available via Everbridge Notifications for those who live and work in Gloucester County.
Freeholder Director Damminger said, "The notification system people to receive emergency notifications and elected notifications such as weather events, road closures, and town events. The information can be received on multiple platforms including text alerts, emails, and voice delivered to your personal phones, work phones and home phones. You decide where you want the message to go."
Freeholder Deputy Director Chila said, "We have a commitment to ensure public safety, community awareness and emergency response. To uphold this, when critical information and public service announcements are available, we need to reach our residents as quickly and reliably as possible. The Everbridge emergency notification system allows Gloucester County to disseminate this information across all types of devices, ensuring residents have access to real-time public information when they need it the most." Chila is also the liaison to the Department of the Office of Emergency Management.
To sign up go to http://gloucesteralert.com/ and then go to Sign Up (even if you were in the old system sign up as a new user as the old system had limited information). The new system now has more ways to reach users and more subscriptions that one can sign up. The weather feature is now elective and has quiet periods that can be customized.
By signing up as a new user there will be multiple ways to reach a person during an emergency.
Additionally, sign up for elective and emergency alerts from your cell phone via text. Text GC Alerts to 888777 to sign up for Emergency Alerts throughout Gloucester County and/or text GC Events to 888777 to sign up for events that are happening throughout Gloucester County.


0.0.1 Creating interactive Bedroom Decoration Designs for your kids can help encourage creativity.
Creating interactive Bedroom Decoration Designs for your kids can help encourage creativity.
Usually when you set up a bedroom design, you arrange the furniture and decorate walls, and your job is done. If you prefer a more fluid, creative Bedroom Decoration Designs for your space, though, you might want to create an interactive bedroom where you can manipulate your surroundings to suit your needs and have a more active relationship with the furnishings and decor than simply sleeping in the bed or looking at the artwork. An interactive design is particularly effective in a child's bedroom because it engages the senses and promotes creativity. If you're unsure where to begin, focus on items or features that allow the user to really engage with the room.
Starting with a color palette often helps guide a room's design, and while muted, soothing shades are usually recommended for bedroom decoration designs, an interactive small bedroom space calls for brighter shades. Bold warm tones such as red, yellow and orange are energizing and help engage the senses so you feel more involved with the room. If you prefer cool tones such as blue, green and purple, opt for vivid shades such as cobalt, lime and royal purple to give the bedroom a more vibrant feel. The entire space doesn't have to be filled with bright colors, though — work in some neutral shades such as white, beige or tan to help tone down some of the boldness.
In interactive bedroom decoration designs, it often helps to divide the room into zones by activity, particularly in a space for children. The bed obviously commands its own zone, but you can divide the rest of the room into specific areas based on use. For example, create an active play area where you might install a swing or climbing rope. You can even incorporate a mini basketball court by installing an area of floating wood floor and mounting a hoop on the wall. In another area, you might create a craft zone with a table and supplies — you can decorate the wall with a mural of vinyl wall decals that your child can move around to build his own scene and get his creative juices flowing, too.
In interactive bedroom decoration designs, the furniture should allow you to manipulate the space based on your mood or needs and make you aware of your interaction with it. A convertible bed works well because it allows you to decide how you're going to use the room at any given moment. If you're short on space, a Murphy bed that folds into the wall is an ideal option — you can even find a style that features a desk on the side opposite the bed for extra convenience. Trundle beds and futons are other convertible bed options that allow you to change up your room to suit your mood. Nesting bedside tables also work well, particularly in a child's bedroom because he can spread them out to play and put them away at night. For the most striking look, opt for interactive bedroom furniture that actually responds to your touch by lighting up in a variety of bright colors. You can find benches, end tables and desks that are ideal for a bedroom setting.
Whether you're making Bedroom Decoration Designs for your children or yourself, the walls are an ideal spot to add interactive elements that give the room a whimsical feel. You can keep it simple by painting one of the walls with chalkboard paint — your child will enjoy drawing all over the walls with colored chalk, but in an adult bedroom, it can be a fun spot to keep track of appointments or jot down inspirational quotes. If you use magnetic paint, you can purchase inexpensive magnets and move them around on the wall to change its design whenever the mood strikes you. In a child's room, you can even add a section of rock-climbing wall so your kids can practice their climbing skills even when the weather doesn't cooperate.


As far as I know, there weren't any influential and public departmental rankings before the internet. Maybe some October Statement signers think there's a way to return to those days. I'm doubtful, because a rankings vacuum only seems possible in a pre-internet era. Back then, the only way to get everyone to see a set of departmental rankings was to send them physical copies of the rankings at considerable expense. For something to be distributed in this fashion, it had to be of very broad interest (like national election news or major league sports), or of interest to wealthy people who would pay for subscriptions (like an investment newsletter). Philosophy department rankings are neither.
Soon after the internet became a thing, rankings were on it. Distribution costs are now zero. Any philosopher can use the internet to promote an idiosyncratic agenda, and any website can spit its own rankings onto the internet and use them to sell ads. Heaven help you if your administration falls under the spell of rankings made by the media, perhaps because of the machinations of some consultant whose only graduate degree is an MBA. This will unleash influences on hiring and tenure decisions that no philosopher would find congenial.
October Statement signers may have some clever ideas about how to maintain a rankings vacuum, or systematically delegitimize all the rankings that will pop up. They should tell us! Many of them want a ranking-free informational database, which would in fact be very nice, but lots of rankings would spring up alongside it. I don't know how they could sustainably prevent bad rankings from influencing prospective graduate students and university administrators, who are interested in comparatively evaluating departments. The point of preventing the philosophical community from coming up with its own rankings would then be lost.
If the October Statement successfully prevented us from coming up with our own ranking system in the short term, philosophers might still build a centralized ranking system in the end. If QS or some other media-run set of rankings gained so much power that philosophers needed a defense against them, our professional associations might have to develop an officially approved ranking system that actually fit philosophers' needs, and make it rise above all the bad rankings with their stamp of approval. The time when philosophers were ruled by nonphilosophers' rankings would be remembered as a grim age. Instead of having such an age, we should build and support the best system of rankings we can now.
With editorship of the PGR turning over, we're in a moment of flexibility where new ideas could change how we rank departments. Brian Weatherson has some. Carolyn Jennings is trying to collect data on job placement, which is an end product of graduate education that we all care about. If you want to only have specialty area rankings, or more directly incorporate job placement data in the ranking process, or democratically elect evaluators, this is the time to speak up! Many people who signed the October Statement probably have smart things to say about what would make a ranking system better (hi Jenny Saul!). We'd benefit if they'd express them in our emerging discipline-wide conversation.
The only options are good rankings and bad rankings. No rankings isn't a live option, any more than having Spider-Man rank all the departments. So if you signed the October Statement because you think no rankings would be best, I hope you'll still talk to us about how to build good rankings.


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His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai has ordered an aid airlift to Sierra Leone to deliver core relief items to communities affected by a devastating landslide. Following the order, an Airbus A330 aircraft carrying around 50 metric tons of humanitarian aid departed from Dubai's Al Maktoum Airport for Sierra Leone.
More than 1,000 people were killed and 3,000 left homeless by a deadly mudslide, which swept away homes in and around Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, in mid-August 2017; three days of heavy rains had led to devastating floods and a massive landslide.
The aid supplies were sent from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) stocks at the International Humanitarian City in Dubai (IHC) to bring relief to 5,000 people. Among the relief items on board were blankets, hygiene and kitchen kits, mosquito nets, and tarpaulins.
Returning from a field mission to Sierra Leone, IFRC 's Under Secretary General for Programs and Operations, Jagan Chapagain, paid a courtesy visit to the IHC CEO, Giuoseppe Saba. Mr. Chapagain described the situation of many survivors as desperate. "They are struggling to rebuild their lives and critical humanitarian support is still needed," he said. He also underlined the significant role the Dubai Government is playing in the emergency humanitarian response on a global scale.
Chaired by HRH Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, wife of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, IHC coordinated the flight with the strong support of its Board of Directors.
Founded in 2003, IHC is the largest humanitarian hub in the world. It provides tremendous logistics support to all its members and boosts their capacities to respond to crises. Dubai's commitment, through the support extended by HH Sheikh Mohammed, facilitates emergency response, including aid airlifts to address humanitarian needs rapidly and efficiently.
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Stuttgart/Frankfurt. At this year's IAA International Motor Show in Frankfurt, Mercedes-Benz is presenting preproduction models of the new Mercedes-Benz GLC F‑CELL as the next milestone on the road to emission-free driving. Under the technology designation EQ Power, the latest electric model (destined for subsequent series production) from the Mercedes-Benz family is doubly electrifying, for, in a world first, it is set to combine innovative fuel-cell and battery technology in the form of a plug-in hybrid: in addition to hydrogen, the all-electric variant of the popular SUV will also run on electricity. Intelligent interplay between battery and fuel cell, along with short refuelling times, will in future make the GLC F‑CELL a vehicle of high everyday practicality and also suitable for long-distance motoring. With 4.4 kg of hydrogen on board, the preproduction model produces enough energy for a range of up to 437* km in the NEDC. F-CELL drivers will also benefit from a range of up to 49 km in the NEDC thanks to the large lithium-ion battery. An output of 147 kW guarantees both dynamic performance and locally zero emissions driving pleasure. In unveiling the preproduction vehicles of the Mercedes-Benz GLC F‑CELL, Daimler is taking another important step as part of its systematic "CASE" strategy.
It all began back in the 1980s, when Daimler researchers turned their attention to cold combustion. In 1994, Mercedes-Benz unveiled the first fuel-cell vehicle to the global public – the NECAR 1. Many further vehicles followed, including the A-Class F-CELL fleet. In 2011, special attention focused on the F-CELL World Drive, the first round-the-world journey in fuel-cell vehicles. In 2015, the F 015 Luxury in Motion concept car presented an F-CELL plug-in hybrid drive system, designed for 1,100 kilometres of zero emissions motoring. To date, fuel-cell vehicles from Mercedes-Benz, including the B-Class F-CELL and the Citaro FuelCELL Hybrid urban bus, have together covered over eighteen million kilometres, thereby demonstrating the maturity of the powertrain concept. The next technological advance is now imminent, the GLC F-CELL.