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Cofgodas: Glossy New Penates for the 21st Century
The Classical School of Interpretation
In the 21st century, a new orthopraxy has emerged in the pagan movement, self-identifying as "Hearth Cults", In the Germanic sphere, this practice is commonly centered around the German Kobold, said to be closely akin, if not identical to the Anglo-Saxon cofgodas, defined as "gods of the room." This new understanding dominates pagan thinking in regard to the kobold and cofgodas, in the first quarter of the 21st century, having arisen from scholarly theory to cult status within the last two decades.
The idea that cofgodas were Anglo-Saxon house-spirits synonymous with German kobolds, "a race many people have come to love" as one blogger expresses it, dominates discussions of these words today in pagan circles. Alaric Albertsson, for example, in Travels through Middle Earth: The Path of the Saxon Pagan (2009) writes, "one type of spirit that a Saxon Pagan always tries to develop a good relationship with is the house elf. These elves were also known to the Anglo- Saxons as cofgodas, or 'chamber gods.'" Theresa Bane, author of Encyclopedia of Spirits and Ghosts in World Mythology (2016), concurs, "originally a household god in ancient Anglo-Saxon beliefs, ... he became a species of household spirit similar to the Lares and Penates from ancient Roman folklore." (p. 40). In How Religion Evolved (2017), author Brian McVeigh also agrees, stating "we might note that Penates were similar in function to the Anglo-Saxon cofgodas ("household deities"; more literally, "room gods"), German kobolds, Prussian coltky (who live in the hidden parts of the house), the English hobs, and the Scottish brownies." Other works also connect these cofgodas with the dead, such as Yvonne Aburrow's Dark Mirror: The Inner Work of Witchcraft (2018), which states: "several cultures have domestic spirits, often associated with ancestors, such as the Cofgodas (cove-gods) of Anglo-Saxon paganism." While Daniel Conway, the author of Demonology and Devil-Lore, Volume 1 (2018), sums up this new understanding in this way,
"Here, then, in the recesses of the household, among the least enlightened of its members— the menials, who still often neutralize the rational people to dispel the delusions of their children — the discredited deities and demons of the past found refuge, and through a little baptismal change of names are familiars of millions unto this day."
This relatively recent redefinition and attempted "reconstruction" of the Germanic Hearth-Cult can be directly traced to mainstream scholarship, published primarily after the turn of the century, and can be linked to two specific academics: the Classicist Ken Dowden and French scholar Claude Lecouteux, a former professor of medieval studies who has authored numerous books and articles on pagan belief, who promulgated Dowden's theory, reinforced by sources presented by and observations made by Jacob Grimm in the first half of the 19th century. Grimm's evidence and more nuanced conclusion doesn't support this new understanding, which has elevated the kobold of medieval German legend from its historical status as a "house-spirit" (haus-geist) to that of a "house-god", by association with an unrelated Anglo-Saxon gloss. The German kobolds are not the Roman Penates, and Grimm does not equate them, as Lecouteux has done. The latter is pan-European syncretism based on superficial similarities between two disparate cultures and misrepresents the true nature and purpose of these post-Christian figures, reduced by demonization.
In his popular paperback Ancestral Lore and Practices (2013), former French professor and prolific author, Claude Lecouteux states that "in the twelfth century, we begin seeing kobold, which means 'the one who rules over the room,' a creature who in the Old English glosses appears in the plural form Cofgodas, 'the gods of the room' with 'room' referring to all parts of the house (cellar, mainroom, and so forth)." In his Encyclopedia of Norse and Germanic Folklore, Mythology, and Magic (2016), Lecouteux, states his premise that "In folk beliefs and mythology every dwelling is supposed to be under the protection of a spirit. This could be a land spirit whose good will was earned by inviting it to take up residence, or a dead ancestor since the good dead were once buried inside the house", then concludes, "we thus find among the Germanic peoples a notion similar to that of the Roman manes, pentates and lares. These household spirits are called cofgodas in Old English, which means 'gods of the house'. The available evidence, however, does not support that sentiment. Similarities and notions do not establish identity cross-culturally between these religious concepts.
While is true that the Roman Pentates and Lares are rendered as cofgodas in an Old English gloss, we don't find any Old English text that glosses German kobold(s) as Cofgod or Cofgodas; thus Lecouteux's statement that "in the twelfth century, we begin seeing kobold, which means 'the one who rules over the room,' a creature who in the Old English glosses appears in the plural form Cofgodas" is factually incorrect. We cannot assume these names are synonymous; nor are these words related etymologically. In fact, we do not find any sort of Germanic household spirits called cofgodas in Old English literature at all; instead, the term cofgodas is used exclusively as a transliteration or 'gloss' for the Latin Penates or "gods of the cupboard" found in Roman sources. As in other instances where an Old English term merely glosses a Latin word, but does not otherwise appear in Old English literature, it's probable that the term cof-godas was coined to represent the foreign concept it glosses. As it stands, the unique term cofgodas only appears as a replacement for the Latin "Di Penates" and only in the plural form, Cofgodas, never Cofgod. That said, the current header on the Wikipedia article which declares "Cofgod, plural Cofgodas ("cove-gods") was an Old English term for a household god in Anglo-Saxon paganism," citing Joseph Boswell's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (1838) as its source, is also factually incorrect. Boswell simply defines Cofgodas as "household gods" without discussing its meaning or source. Without question, Cofgodas (plural) is exclusively an Old English term for the Latin Penates, household gods in Roman paganism. The term does not appear in the singular and has no foundation in Anglo-Saxon paganism whatsoever. It is merely a post-Christian gloss for a Roman concept, as academic scholars readily acknowledge. There is no additional information or lore concerning Cofgodas.
According to Joseph Boswell's Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language (1838), the prefix cof- in cofgodas refers to "a cove, cave, repository, inner room, a cubile" rather than the whole house, even though he renders cofgodas more ambiguously as "household-gods". The meaning of the name indicates their domain, the inner storerooms and repositories, the so-called 'secret places of the house.' Thus, according to the etymology of the word, cofgodas are "pantry-gods." This distinction is important to understand the origin and function of the term. The Roman Penates were specifically gods of the kitchen pantries, the provision rooms, rather than general gods of the house. Sarah Iles Johnston in Religions of the Ancient World: A Guide (2004), remarks,
"There may be more substance in the view that Penates are the gods of the inner house (connected with the Latin penus [household provisions or store cupboard]). This is usually thought of in modern times as the larder, but may imply no more than something hidden deep in the fabric of the house, to judge by Old English cofgodas (room gods) or Prussian coltky (who live in the hidden parts of the house.) Penates, like goblins, are an indiscriminate class of beings and lack a theology of their own. They do not have names unless the goddess Vesta (Hearth) is to be counted as one." (p. 435).
Vesta, Goddess of hearth and home, the divine representative of sacred fire, was among the Dii Consentes (also Dii Complices), the twelve most honored gods of the Roman pantheon according to an epigram by the poet Ennius about the 3rd Century, BC. Vesta was Saturn and Ops daughter, as well as sister of Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto, Juno and Ceres. She is equivalent to the Greek Hestia. In the ancient Roman religion, Di Penates or Penates were among several of the dii familiares, or household deities, invoked most often in domestic rituals. When the family had a meal, they threw a bit of it into the fire on the hearth for the Penates. [Servius, note to Aeneid 1.730, as cited by Robert Schilling, "The Penates," in Roman and European Mythologies (1981, reprinted 1992), p. 138.] An etymological interpretation of Penates further identifies them, in origin, as deities of the storeroom, Latin penus, the innermost part of the house, where they guarded the household's food, wine, oil, and other supplies. [Celia Schutz, Women's Religious Activity in the Roman Republic (2007), p. 123; Sarah Iles Johnston, Religions of the Ancient World (2004), p. 435 ]
In origin, Penates are specifically gods of the kitchen cupboards, the pantries where food is kept. They were always worshipped in close connection with other domestic deities, such as Vesta and the Lares, with whom their names were sometimes interchanged. Penates thus describes a specific group of domestic deities, and, on occasion, the whole lot, but their number and individual identities were a mystery even to the ancients. Unlike kobolds, these 'cofgodas' never appeared individually or had distinctions made among them. The German kobolds, like the Roman Penates and Lars are simply different kinds of supernatural beings that may operate in domestic spaces. The Roman Lares, in particular, were considered to be spirits of the dead who guarded homes, crossroads, and the city. They too were distinguished as individuals. Every Roman family had its own guardian known as the Lar familiaris, which the household prayed and made offerings to daily at the family shrine to protect the household and ensure that the family line would go on. In contrast, the main function of the Penates was to ensure the family's welfare and prosperity. Outside the home, Penates publici or Public Penates, served as guardians of the state and the object of Roman patriotism. According to legend, they were once the household gods of Aeneas, the mythical founder of the Roman Empire. Kobolds, in comparison, never performed this wider, communal function.
Jacob Grimm, one half of the Brothers Grimm, famous for their collections of fairytales (hausmärchen), appears to have been the first to have drawn a conceptual connection between the lowly German kobold, a spirit most often associated with domestic mischief and mining activity, and the more dignified Roman Penates. Within the larger context of a discussion on "Wights and Elves" (Teutonic Mythology, Vol. II, Chapter XVII), covering over 70 printed pages, including much source material for Germanic belief in elves, dwarves, pilwiz, bilwiz, boogie-men, corm-mammies, schrat, wood-folk, nixies, water-sprites, home-sprites and a host of other lessor kindred spirits, Grimm devotes 2 pages to the kobold, one of many wights (wiche) he comments upon in the expansive chapter. Establishing a point of reference for his readers to introduce the subchapter on hausgeistes, literally "house-spirits" [rendered as "home-sprites" in the English translation of James Stalleybrass], Grimm draws a general comparison between the Roman Penates and the Germanic domestic-spirits he catalogues, but does not equate them as recent authors have done without foundation in the sources. Before discussing any attested "house-spirits", Grimm begins his discussion with a number of German gloss words for the Roman Penates and Lars, found in Notker Labeo's commentary on the Latin author Martianus Capella (c 410-420 AD)'s De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii. Grimm writes:
"In Notker's Capella 51, what the Romans called lar, (120) lar familiaris (see the prologue to Plautus's Aulularia) and penas, is named in our older speech hûsing or stetigot (genius loci); conf. 'hûsinga (penates)'. In Cap. 142 N. renders lares by 'ingoumen (hiusero alde burgo)'; the literal meaning of ingoumo would be guard of the interior. In Cap. 50 he uses ingesîde for penates, i.e., our ingesind, inmates, domestics."
Once again, these are merely glosses for Latin concepts, not the names of beings found in any source of Germanic folk belief. Claude Lecouteux in his Encyclopedia of Norse and Germanic Folklore, Mythology, and Magic (2016), plainly states that "tenth century glosses in Old High German have given us the names ingoumo and ingsind as translations of the Latin penates and lares." And in The Tradition of Household Spirits (2013), he also openly acknowledges that "these are not so much names as circumlocutions intended to convey the idea of a numinous power (numimosum)", adding: "collections of glosses prior to the year 1000 translate genius with 'place god' (stetigot) or 'domestic god' (húsgot) and even 'habitant' (husing)." Nevertheless, that doesn't prevent Lecouteux from mitigating this lack of evidence with the misleading statement that "in the folk beliefs to which Notker refers people refrain from uttering the name of the supernatural beings for fear of causing it to appear" Notker, as a commentator on the works of Latin author Martianus Capella, of course is commenting on Roman folk belief in Penates and Lares, and not "Germanic house-gods." Lecouteux then piles on with the statement that "starting in the twelfth century, we begin seeing kobold, which means 'the one who rules over the room', a creature who in Old English glosses appears in the plural form cofgodas". However, as shown above Lecouteux's statement here is incorrect. Cofgodas is only used as a gloss for Penates, not kobold.
So in agreement with his own premise that "every dwelling is supposed to be under the protection of a spirit", Lecouteux has effectively erased any distinctions between specific domestic spirits whether they be Roman or Germanic, glosses of foreign concepts or actual references. This marks the fundamental differences between historic scholarship and more recent scholarship on this topic. Grimm, like all scholars of the 19th century, was educated in the Roman Classics due to the cultural dominance of the Christian Church in educational institutions at the time. Therefore, Grimm framed his discussion of Germanic household spirits in terms familiar to his contemporary audience— leading with a discussion of the Roman Pentates and Lares for comparison. He did not conflate the cross-cultural concepts. Instead, Grimm provides the oldest and best sources for a host of Germanic domestic spirits, including kobolds, within a greater discussion of Germanic Elves and Wights. None of the sources Grimm cites actually identify kobolds as "gods of the home" in the manner Lecouteux suggests. Lecouteux, in contrast seems to consider, all house-spirits, no matter their origin, one great syncretic conglomeration of nameless "house-gods"; e pluribus unum.
Whereas Claude Lecouteux (2016) matter of factly states: "In folk beliefs and mythology every dwelling is supposed to be under the protection of a spirit," Ken Dowden (2000) more circumspectively observes: "Though household worship rarely reaches the historical record, it probably occurs as standard in all paganisms." Drawing from knowledge in his own field, Classicist Ken Dowden begins with evidence from the ancient Roman and Greek traditions. Of these domestic-cults, he remarks "best known is the Roman cult of little figurines of Lares (minor gods of the property) and Penates ('cupboard' -gods, gods of the house and its supplies), especially from the excavation of real houses at Pompeii." But, remarkably, he finds very little in Greece; opining "Greek homes, too, had their worship of 'Zeus of the courtyard', (Zeus Herkeios), but for so well evidenced a culture, remarkably little is known of this more intimate form of worship." He then freely admits that "elsewhere we are largely dealing with hints, like the Anglo-Saxon cofgodas, 'room-gods', apparently the equivalent of the Roman Penates.
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DMV Beats: Deuce Ducartier Loves Creed, Lyriciss Doesn't Hate Baltimore
by Joe Warminsky, Marcus J. Moore and Ramon Ramirez February 8th, 2013 October 6th, 2020
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"I liked when [Creed] dropped 'With Arms Wide Open' and 'My Sacrifice,'" says Alexandria-born rapper Deuce Ducartier. "It was one of the most returned albums of all time but there's just something about the singer's voice."
It's a darkly cold Tuesday and Deuce is giving me an overview of his rock influences at the 14th and V Busboys and Poets. We're at the bar and he's just finished a chamomile tea. He asks if I've had chamomile tea before. I have. He's wearing skinny black jeans, a black military jacket, at least two necklaces, a grey infinity scarf, and a thousand-watt smile.
It comes as no surprise, but Deuce also likes Andre 3000.
He spent his formative years in D.C. rapping, grew disillusioned with the overflow of local haterade, and found love in Atlanta. Deuce's verses are polished and hungry. He can double-time bars like a seasoned rapidfire gunner—and even though he doesn't play guitar, he's struck upon a competent, fluid strain of rap-rock that's become his full-time job. Deuce's hybrid theories garnered national attention in November when the curmudgeonly New York City purists at Nah Right premiered his bicoastal, Fat Trel-assisted video for "Boy, I'm Groovy."
"I dreamed of what it would sound like if Alice in Chains and Biggie did a record together," Deuce says. "I bring that—I bring what I think the records would have sounded like. It's more than 'Hey, this is a rock beat and I'm rapping over it.' It's more of an infusion."
There was once this American Idol contestant who showed up dressed like a modern rock Jesus Christ. He knew the influences and textures, but he couldn't sing. This could've be Deuce, except that he's sharp enough to focus on what he's great at—rapping—and the rest is left up to guitar cohort Lee Hendrickson and his 340 Music team (the Atlanta producers that have worked with Ludacris and Gucci Mane).
I guess the difference between Deuce and the suburban Hot Topic mall rats that lifted the now-reviled rap-rock of the early 2000s is his audience can identify with the lyrical themes as well as the second-hand rock licks. "They can relate," Deuce says of his music, "That's what I do—I change that. I make the urban people relate."
Deuce will re-release his Life on Planet Rock EP later this spring, and has a series of D.C. concerts on deck in the next few months. DMV Beats will be there to tab out the chord changes.—Ramon Ramirez
Kingpen Slim in a Graveyard
Released in October, Kingpen Slim's Triple Beam Dreams was his most personal effort to date. On it, the Adams Morgan native revisited his sordid past with a stark, refreshing candor. In his new video for "Dead," Slim and guest vocalist Styles P trade vicious bars in a graveyard (of course), spitting about everything from good smoke to employing Jewish lawyers to New Jack City and Frito-Lay. "Dead" was a clear standout on Dreams; these visuals bring to mind the song's visceral impact. —Marcus J. Moore
DMV Beefs
Lyriciss was feeling some regional love the day after the Super Bowl.
Early on Monday morning, he waxed philosophical about the intra-DMV unity and how to act toward our northern neighbors. —Joe Warminksy
In case you missed DJ Heat's 10-minute interview with Fat Trel. Joe tweeted at Heat and commended her for maintaining eye contact in light of Trel's rampant shirtlessness.—RR
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Happy Birthday, Schubert!
Julia gawked in awe at the vaulted ceilings above her. She was both in a church and not in a church. The stairway before her wound around ancient sculptures stately in their arches, yet the room opened up into a very cozy space dominated by a nineteenth century grand piano. Julia was traveling with The Seattle Bach Choir, who had come up the stairs with her, but in this room she stood facing them all by herself. Her nerves were mounting. Julia felt her mouth dry out, her heart beat like a hummingbird. Usually choir performances felt very comfortable to her, but at this moment the performance would be all hers.
Herr Joseph Spaun, Schubert's friend in a portrait painted sometime after his marriage to Franziska Roner Edle von Ehrenwert. Schubert played at their wedding in April 1828, but died that November, so he never did get to see his friend rise up in social standing. His son became a baron.
In preparation for their tour of Prague, Salzburg, and Vienna the choir's director, Dr. Greg Vancil, had made a very special request of Julia. He had a friend near Salzburg and wanted the choir to visit, but there wasn't enough room in his summer house for the whole choir to sing in any organized way. Greg suggested that Julia sing a solo instead, but not just any solo, a Schubert song. This friend of Dr. Vancil's was none other than the descendant of Schubert's best friend, Joseph Spaun. The current day Spauns continue to take their legacy of support for young musicians quite seriously. It was in this capacity that Dr. Vancil had met them, so he wanted to give back in some way, even if only musically. He handed Julia several songs to choose from, some deceptively simple, some well known, some obscure. One in particular stood out to her. It was a mock serious aria summarized by the idea "Why don't you ever write to me anymore?" which Schubert had composed and sent to his friend in a fit of exuberant melancholy. The music was some of the most vocally complex Schubert ever wrote, serious music with a silly theme. As a soprano with her own operatic burlesque troupe this piece made perfect sense to Julia and she vowed to learn it, with hopes to strip to it on stage at some point in the future.
My "face in a hole board" for Erlkönig
Julia knew very little about Franz Schubert, only that she liked the few of his songs that she had heard, and that he had written a song to suit every mood no matter how one was feeling. A few years earlier Julia had sung Gretchen am Spinnrade to express her obsessive love for a friend of hers. For her burlesque troupe she had adopted Erlkönig to a "face in a hole board" with one hole for each character; Frühlingsglaube for a sexy chicken laying eggs; and Die Forelle for a stripping trout bouncing about in a too-tight fish tail skirt. However, despite the silly text, the looming performance felt quite serious to her.
The Spaun's summer home was a converted 15th century church, purchased by Schubert's friend shortly after his marriage. Julia thought everyone must be able to hear her heart pounding as the choir climbed the stairs toward the living room. She attempted a deep breath, and a strange feeling cut through her nerves, a very intense one of love and gratitude and nostalgia, strange because the feeling was not her own.
"My friend has done so well for himself!"
The words stood out in her mind with a feeling of joy that brought a lump to her throat and filled her eyes with tears. Running with the only idea that made sense to her, she silently asked the voice, "Schubert, is that you?"
"Nevermind…" the voice seemed to reply shyly, popping out of her head as quickly as it had appeared. Julia's nerves were back, and she quickly forgot that strange little interchange.
CGI Schubert, probably the most realistic rendering of him so far, by the amazing artist Hadi Karimi. See more of his work here
Julia took her place in the crook of the ornate grand piano, not one Schubert had played, but one that had been made in his time. Dr. Vancil's wife, Nancy, sat down to accompany. Julia took a deep breath and botched her entrance. Luckily Nancy, a doctor in her own right, was able to temper her tempo to keep Julia on track. The rest of the performance went by smooth as silk in spite of only one rehearsal. Julia's nerves kept the tone of the piece very serious, in perfect contradiction to the words, and there was great applause when they had finished. Julia's knees threatened to give way as she bowed, an issue that had always plagued her solos. She inhaled upon rising and turned to her left where she noticed an original Schubert manuscript framed on the wall beside her. Her jaw dropped as she took out her camera.
Not this, but I can't find my photo, which is really bumming me out!
At the moment this is how I'm beginning my novel, but it is a true story! For now I'm even keeping everyone's real names intact. While this little story doesn't represent the beginning of my Schubert obsession (that wouldn't arrive until almost ten years later) it does represent the beginning of a string of bizarre Schubertian coincidences culminating in a strangely intimate relationship with Schubert's spirit, one in which I seem to be able to feel his feelings quite independently of his music.
One of the windup heart puppets from Paper Puppet Opera's production of Winterreise
How does one feel feelings that aren't their own? I really wish I could describe it. Maybe it will never really make sense. Believe me, I struggle with putting this out there. I know it makes me sound crazy, or at least a bit dissociated from my own brain, but it is my truth, and I can't deny it because "talking with Franz" has improved my life in countless ways.
It's a long story, and I don't have the space to get into it here. That's why I'm writing a novel. Actually, I already wrote the novel, what I'm doing now is expanding it. You can read what I put out there three years ago. It's called Winter from Above: meditations on Winterreise with Franz Schubert, and it's a collection of meditations on each song in the cycle, which I found helpful not only in creating the Winterreise puppet show with Paper Puppet Opera, but in helping me cope with loss, rejection, and feelings of unworthiness. Like I said, I've gained a lot talking to Franz, and I want others to benefit from our conversations too.
A 1920s print of Schubert given to me by Ken Peterson. Now Franz hangs in my studio and I put words in his mouth. I said this for him at the beginning of the pandemic
Here and there I will be including some of those conversations on this blog. Today is Schubert's birthday, so I wanted to give you a little introduction to my particular brand of weirdness regarding this adorable curly-headed bespectacled composer. While I've always loved his music, now I love him for so many other reasons, and for none at all. Before I started reading about him he astounded me with his wisdom through our conversations, wisdom that is very much in keeping with what he wrote in his diary. Of course we talk about music too, and he has given me many an amazing insight into his compositions and his process. I plan to talk about these things in the future as well.
That's just your warning to run now if you can't handle it. If you are curious, you will be rewarded with Franz's revelations, regardless of where you think the information comes from. Happy birthday, Franz, wherever you are! And to all of you Franz says, "BOO!"


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The Project is located next to the Lisbon Valley oilfield located within the Paradox Basin, Utah which has shown historical brine content as high as 730 ppm lithium (Superior Oil 88-21P) and past production of oil exceeding 50 million barrels. The Company's cumulative Project land position comprises over 110,000 acres of oil and gas leases and 118,000 acres of largely overlying mineral claims, including 80,380 acres of unitized Federal, State and Private lands within the Blueberry Unit ("Blueberry") where MGX controls the overwhelming majority of mineral claims. This represents the first large scale integrated petroleum and lithium project ever developed in the United States.
NFLi-5 Rapid Lithium Extraction System
MGX and engineering partner PurLucid Treatment Systems ("PurLucid") are nearing completion of the first commercial scale rapid lithium extraction plant and are currently in flow and pressure testing. MGX expects delivery and deployment in January 2018 (see press release dated December 6, 2017). This system is capable of processing up to 750 barrels per day (120 cubic meters) and serves as the commercial platform for the first 7500 barrels per day (1200 cubic meters) now in fabrication. This technology has been extensively tested in pilot plant phase since July 2017 on all types of lithium bearing brine throughout the Company's extensive project portfolio including high hydrocarbon evaporator blowdown (EBD) wastewater from SAGD oilsands production, traditional oil and gas wastewater, traditional lithium brine, and high magnesium wastewater concentrate from mine tailings among other sources throughout North America. As MGX's Paradox Petrolithium project advances, systems will be deployed for hydrocarbon separation and mineral extraction. The Project relies heavily on MGX-PurLucid patented and patent-pending water handling and rapid lithium extraction technology capable of processing complex brines in conjunction with oil and gas development that produces a clean water by-product aimed at mitigating water handling and disposal cost and providing an innovative clean water solution to the oil and gas industry. It has been suggested that Paradox Basin unconventional oil and gas development has been hindered by high total dissolved solids and water handling challenges and costs.1
Integrated Petrolithium Engineering
Initial engineering studies have been completed by SigmaCubed of Denver, Colorado modelling of simultaneous (brine / oil and gas) production scenarios aimed at drawing brine and oil from a single well. Reservoir simulations were run for the different scenarios to determine the sensitivity of the results to the input assumptions. There are three main variables – lateral horizontal length (feet), net reservoir height (feet) and permeability (millidarcies). A base case was run for a vertical well. Production rates (BWPD) were then calculated for different combinations of these three variables. For the purposes of this study, a 1,500-psi pressure differential drawdown at the perforation interval was assumed. A pressure drawdown across perforations can be achieved by various different production methods (i.e. rod pump, gas lift, hydraulic pump, jet pump, etc.). The study found that it did not matter how the pressure differential is achieved, reservoir conditions will ultimately determine production volumes. Also, for the purposes of this study, the tubing size was limited to one case (2 7/8" O.D.) primarily because the 2 7/8" tubing x 5 1/2" production casing configuration is one of the most common wellbore configurations utilized by the petroleum industry. Upon reviewing the results of this study, it become increasingly apparent of the multitude of variable combinations resulting from the study of just one tubing size. The results of this study can be ratioed up or down to obtain relative production volumes for 2 3/8" or 3 1/2" tubing strings.
Produced water density, oil API gravity and water oil ratios were found to have negligible effects on total production volumes. The biggest effect these variables had would be in the fluctuation of the producing fluid level in the wellbore. For the purposes of this study, a full column of 100% petroleum brine water weighing 11.0 ppg was assumed.
Type of Wellbore Production Rate (BWPD) Ratio Increase
Vertical 1,064 –
1,500′ lateral 3,673 3.5
10 md permeability
55' net h
7,000' TVD
2 ⅞" tubing to 7,000' TVD MD
4 ½" liner in lateral 7,000' to TD
1,500 psig pressure differential
Drawdown across perforations
Additional engineering work will focus on the effect of large diameter casing and related costs on a per barrel basis starting with 7 ½" and consideration of techniques and scale currently utilized in geothermal brine wells.
Lisbon Valley and Paradox Basin Geology
The Lisbon Valley Field has approximately 140 wells. According to production statistics, as reported by the Utah Department of Natural Resources, Oil, Gas and Mining Division, cumulative lifetime production within the Lisbon Valley oilfield has totaled 51.4 million barrels of oil as of June 2017 ("Oil Production by Field, Utah Department of Natural Resources, Division of Oil, Gas and Mining"; June 2017; Click Here). The Paradox Basin has been noted by the USGS as having one of the largest undeveloped oil and gas fields in the United States ("Assessment of Oil and Gas Resources in the Paradox Basin Province…"; USGS; 2011; Click Here). MGX is currently earning a 75% working interest in the Project, with the remaining interest primarily controlled by a private Utah corporation (the "Paradox Partner"). The Paradox Partner has been engaged by MGX as subcontracted operator of the Project (see press release dated March 23, 2017).
The Project is host to National Instrument (N.I) 51-101 estimated prospective resources (the "Estimate") consisting of leasehold and royalty interests in San Juan County, Utah and Miguel County. Colorado. The estimate was prepared by the Ryder Scott Company, L.P. ("Ryder Scott"), an independent qualified reserves evaluator within the meaning of N.I. 51-101 – Standards of Disclosure for Oil and Gas Activities ("NI 51-101"), with an effective date of June 30, 2017. The Estimate was prepared in accordance with N.I. 51-101 and the Canadian Oil and Gas Evaluation Handbook.
Estimated Gross Volumes
Unrisked Prospective (Recoverable) Hydrocarbon Resources
Leasehold Interest in San Juan County, Utah and San Miguel County, Colorado of
As of June 30,2017
Formation ULTIMATE RECOVERY OIL – MMBO ULTIMATE RECOVERY GAS – BCF COC*
LOW BEST HIGH LOW BEST HIGH
Paradox Clastics
CB2 41.799 59.498 85.324 33.441 47.602 68.266 0.075
CB6 6.603 9.607 13.874 5.283 7.686 11.100 0.045
CB7 1.892 2.735 3.948 1.514 2.188 3.158 0.032
CB9 11.452 16.671 23.711 9.162 13.337 18.970 0.068
CB10 14.565 21.169 30.088 11.652 16.936 24.073 0.068
CB11 2.021 2.929 4.244 1.617 2.344 3.396 0.032
CB12 9.352 13.609 19.525 7.482 10.887 15.620 0.045
CB15 6.455 9.432 13.633 5.164 7.546 10.908 0.045
(Cane Creek) 35.336 51.338 73.971 28.272 41.073 59.177 0.097
CB22 5.635 8.261 11.957 4.508 6.609 9.566 0.045
Leadville 1.000 2.100 4.000 153.000 231.700 341.600 0.066
*COC – Chance of Commerciality = Chance of Discovery * Chance of Development
The technical portions of this press release were prepared and reviewed by Andris Kikauka (P. Geo.), Vice President of Exploration for MGX Minerals. Mr. Kikauka is a non-independent Qualified Person within the meaning of National Instrument (N.I.) 43-101 Standards.
MGX may decide to advance its petrolithium projects into production without first establishing mineral resources supported by an independent technical report or completing a feasibility study. A production decision without the benefit of a technical report independently establishing mineral resources or reserves and any feasibility study demonstrating economic and technical viability creates increased uncertainty and heightens economic and technical risks of failure. Historically, such projects have a much higher risk of economic or technical failure.
About MGX Minerals
MGX Minerals is a diversified Canadian resource company with interests in advanced material and energy assets throughout North America. Learn more at www.mgxminerals.com.
Neither the Canadian Securities Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the Canadian Securities Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
This press release contains forward-looking information or forward-looking statements (collectively "forward-looking information") within the meaning of applicable securities laws. Forward-looking information is typically identified by words such as: "believe", "expect", "anticipate", "intend", "estimate", "potentially" and similar expressions, or are those, which, by their nature, refer to future events. The Company cautions investors that any forward-looking information provided by the Company is not a guarantee of future results or performance, and that actual results may differ materially from those in forward-looking information as a result of various factors. The reader is referred to the Company's public filings for a more complete discussion of such risk factors and their potential effects which may be accessed through the Company's profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
1 Analysis of a Long Cane Creek Horizontal: New Insight into an Unconventional Tight Oil Resource Play,
Paradox Basin, Utah; Whiting Oil & Gas Corp; 2010
Web: www.mgxminerals.com
Tags: LithiumMGX MineralsMGXMFPetrolithiumseismic surveyXMG
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Devil in the Moonshine
Category: Hard Rock
Label: Nemesis Records/Vanity Music Group
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Beau Van lead vocals, guitars
Mike Back guitars, vocals
Travis slide guitar
Chris Van bass, vocals
Eric Piper drums, percussion
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From: rick kerch vzla Date: November 26, 2017 at 12:41
Extremely cool Hard Rocking album that has some kind of 80's feeling in it...fans of Skid Row,Warrant,Trixter,Firehouse,Danger Danger ect will love it 4 sure...great vocals by Mr Van ...tracks # 1,2,3,5,7 & 10 are completely mine .85/100
From: Doghouse Reilly Date: November 26, 2017 at 20:54
I have to disagree with my buddy Rick on this. This is most definitely NOT for fans of the smooth, sugary, lightweight stuff like Trixter or Danger Danger. Fans of Jackyl, Asphalt Ballet, or heavier bands like Texas Hippie Coalition or Black Stone Cherry might be well served, though. What we have here is something that bypasses "southern rock" completely, and is more a combination of hair-metal and modern country of the bro variety. Most songs except for two in the middle are slower-paced like arena-country, but loud like metal. GUitars are distorted, but not so much to obscure the twang. The singer is capable, but no more, and most choruses use big gang-harmonies to compensate. He spends most of his time reminding us how country he is, and what an outlaw, and how much he likes whiskey--basically trying way too hard for street (or dirt road) cred. "Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, you can kiss my country ass," is one example.
It's occasionally pleasing to the ear, but on the whole, I found it to be pretty amateurish and stupid. It seems mostly aimed and dumb, drunk people (and I admit to having been both in my life--just not as a career). To be an outlaw, apparently all one has to do is wear boots, drink whiskey, be loud and scream "Hell yeah!" for no particular reason. I'm just flummoxed by such overwhelming badassery. Atempting to ignore the lyrical idiocy (they aren't even clever like Jackyl still sometimes are), the songs are moderately catchy, but all start to blur together before not very long.
From: 123charpenay Date: November 27, 2017 at 13:54
i ve listen the samples on h h.so these samples catch me cause i m a big fan of this kind of southern rock.this band play the same kind of hard southern rock of the masters lynyrd skynyrd.i speak about the "new" lynyrd skynyrd with rickey medlocke.i m agree with doghouse, ok english is not my language but i ve understand that this band plays with all the cliches of the southern rebels.the redneck,the whiskey,the boots;the girls ,hell yeah (like molly hatchet or doc holliday),ect,ect.for me little frenchie the most important is the music.but i understand that american or english people don t like these lyrics a little stupid and very simple.
i ll wait one or two months for odering this cd.maybe it ll be out in japan import.
I've had this debate a few times with people who prefer current country music. "Well, you like hair-metal, and the lyrics are just as bad." My response is this: yes, that's true, but the difference is, in a lot of hard rock, especially '80's hair-metal, the words were not that important. They were just one ingredient, along with the way they're sung/yelled/screamed, and the surrounding music. With country, the music is pretty interchangeable, and the lyrics are sung to be understood, and are produced upfront in the mix so the words are hard to ignore. The same applies to Outlaws and Moonshine, who, for the record, sing about "country people" and "country ass" and name-check country legends more than they do about rock, which is pretty odd to me. For my ears, Blackberry Smoke are a better band. They've had issues with stupid lyrics, but they're much better songwriters than O&M.
From: 123charpenay Date: March 9, 2018 at 9:41
finally this record never see the light of day in japan ,so i ve order it in u s a.it s a great southern rock record.the voice of the singer is perfect for southern rock,the musicians are talented,the songs are great and the production is wet dream for all lovers of music.what sound ,very clear.i ve the feeling to be in the studio with the band.but...i think that this album is too wise.this record never take off.we have not the explosion of guitars and the fabulous guitars s duet of the masters doc holliday.this band is very great but they have not the spark of class of doc holliday (the absolute reference of southern rock).nevertheless i imagine that southern s rock fans will be very pleased with solid realise.
From: Doghouse Reilly Date: March 10, 2018 at 11:57
I agree, it seems like few songs ever really take off. It's like they're stuck in third gear. I've tried to listen to this a few more times, because I like the IDEA of the band, but I'm finding I just don't like the execution. The musicianship can't be faulted, and the production is great, but the album is held down by lumbering, below-average songs and a very contrived "outlaw" persona. I'm about done trying to like these guys.


We have a strange error with our Exchange 2013 Server (CU13).
When an external user sends mail to 2 recipients which have same domain (samedomain.fr for example), if an address is wrong, the sender receives an error (see below) says 2 address are unknows.
Make sure that your Exchange server is the one doing this. You might get some clues by turning up protocol logging on the appropriate receive connector and examining the logs at the time of a message bounce. Or you can telnet to the server's port 25 and compose a message by hand that matches this scenario to see what is actually happening.
Beside the suggestion above, I would ask the sender's exchange admin to check if there is any transport rule in his domain, which would cc/bcc the message to another wrong address.
I'd say it's more likely that the other server is generating a misleading non-delivery report.
We've the same issue here. I don't know if it's helpful, but I assume that this is kinda spam protection on the receiving Exchange server. If a mail is sent to different recipients within the same domain, and at least one recipient address is incorrect, the mail server rejects the mail to all of the recipients. As soon as the incorrect addres(ses) is/are removed, it works fine.
This behavior is probably controlled by RecipientValidationEnabled switch within RecipientFilterConfig but I did not dig in any further, because from my pov it's a nice anti spam feature.
Again, you should be able to verify this with message tracking and the SMTP protocol log.
2. Restart the transport service (Microsoft Exchange Frontend Transport) under Services.


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This class implements a mapper/reducer class that can be used to perform field selections in a manner similar to unix cut. The input data is treated as fields separated by a user specified separator (the default value is "\t"). The user can specify a list of fields that form the map output keys, and a list of fields that form the map output values. If the inputformat is TextInputFormat, the mapper will ignore the key to the map function. and the fields are from the value only. Otherwise, the fields are the union of those from the key and those from the value. The field separator is under attribute "mapreduce.fieldsel.data.field.separator" The map output field list spec is under attribute "mapreduce.fieldsel.map.output.key.value.fields.spec". The value is expected to be like "keyFieldsSpec:valueFieldsSpec" key/valueFieldsSpec are comma (,) separated field spec: fieldSpec,fieldSpec,fieldSpec ... Each field spec can be a simple number (e.g. 5) specifying a specific field, or a range (like 2-5) to specify a range of fields, or an open range (like 3-) specifying all the fields starting from field 3. The open range field spec applies value fields only. They have no effect on the key fields. Here is an example: "4,3,0,1:6,5,1-3,7-". It specifies to use fields 4,3,0 and 1 for keys, and use fields 6,5,1,2,3,7 and above for values. The reduce output field list spec is under attribute "mapreduce.fieldsel.reduce.output.key.value.fields.spec". The reducer extracts output key/value pairs in a similar manner, except that the key is never ignored.
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The Aurorian is an ethereal expansive mod that provides a magical dimension to Minecraft. This new world is known as the Aurorian. The emails have been spoofed to look as if they'd been sent by a gaming community known as VeltPvP. Free with an Nintendo Change On-line subscription, from $four a month, the NES and Super NES games that reside on the Swap are literally an awesome little repository of two-player gaming. It's sold 26 million copies, making it the second-greatest promoting Swap recreation of all time, outdoing franchise stalwarts like Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Super Smash Bros. Animal Crossing: New Horizons has grow to be an absolute phenomenon final 12 months, and for lots of people it's now the game to buy a Switch for. Along with the announcement of the second episode's premiere date, Telltale also revealed that the first season of Minecraft: Story Mode can be available on Nintendo Change starting August 22nd in North America and August twenty fifth in every single place else.
What part of Hyboria will it cowl (geographically, even a common area if you can't get specific)? We met up with the company to get a quick look at this system's beta. It is a good choice if you are searching for one thing to play in brief bursts, but it does have a hundred levels to get via and Taito will launch extra content for download, together with new phases and the character Baron von Blubba. This mod has also modified the way in which you may breed these animals, making the process extra lifelike with happiness affecting whether or not the animal will breed. Once you discover a server you love the subsequent thing you will have to do is to join it and begin enjoying. Builders made mods as an emblem of their love for the sport. Are Minecraft Mods Safe? Are all Minecraft mods free? Sure, Minecraft Mods are completely free. The overwhelming majority of Minecraft mods - including all those listed here - are constructed for Minecraft: Java Edition. Because of liberal assist from the official developer Mojang Studios that encourages Mods, there are tens of 1000's of Minecraft mods with tons of of latest ones added day-after-day. Anybody within the search for the marvels of expertise in Minecraft have found their match.
Now you may have it, in the type of Rats. You too can craft a hamster ball and hamster wheel for your hamsters to use, with the hamster wheel even appearing as a power source for many expertise-based mods. Not solely does this mod add over 115 new creatures to the game, with some appearing as bosses with more and more difficult levels, however the vary and variety of the mobs additionally create a new and interesting environment for the player to traverse. Traci and Dave Gagnon had their wedding in the metaverse over the labour day weekend, The brand new York Times reported. Like, over 12 instances bigger. Like regular chicken eggs, identified eggs might be thrown on the ground to hatch them, with the spawn likelihood listed as a proportion when hovering the cursor over an egg. I nonetheless want Mario Tennis over Mario Golf, however this party-oriented golf recreation provides some twists which are higher in groups.
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Rice earns STARS Silver rating for sustainability
Jennifer Evans
– January 16, 2015Posted in: Current News
Rice has received the highest score in Texas for its sustainability initiatives by the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Ratings System (STARS), administered by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.
In December, Rice earned a STARS rating of Silver with a 58.49 point overall score — the highest of any other STARS institution in Texas. Other STARS Silver-rated institutions in Texas are Texas A&M, the University of North Texas, the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Texas at Arlington.
Through STARS, institutions evaluate performance in four main categories: academics, engagement, operations, and planning and administration; the institutions can earn a range of ratings based on point totals: bronze, silver, gold and platinum.
Rice earned points in the academics category for, among other things, offering courses that use the campus as a laboratory for learning about sustainability. For example, Rice courses have engaged students in developing strategies for reducing the university's carbon footprint and energy usage, studying the potential for renewable energies on campus and identifying and implementing steps to reduce solid waste in the dining process (such as trayless dining). Rice also earned points for offering faculty incentives for developing sustainability courses.
Rice scored high for notable accomplishments during the past three years by faculty and staff engaged in sustainability research: Among other accomplishments, in November 2012 Rice scientists unveiled a revolutionary new technology that uses nanoparticles to convert solar energy directly into steam, and in June 2014 Rice scientists created an Earth-friendly way to separate carbon dioxide from natural gas at wellheads.
In the engagement category, Rice earned points for such things as the Green Dorm Initiative, a three-week program that encourages Rice undergraduates (through incentives and prizes) to adopt sustainable lifestyles in their dorm rooms; Recyclemania, an annual intercollegiate recycling competition in which Rice participates; and the popular FREE-cycling events in which Rice faculty and staff are encouraged to donate or swap unneeded or unused office supplies. Rice also was lauded for its student groups focused on sustainability, such as the Rice Environmental Club, the green and healthy dining-focused Real Food Revolution and the EcoRep Program, in which one student from each of Rice's residential colleges undertakes projects to encourage sustainable living in their respective colleges.
Also earning points for Rice were four innovative programs, projects and policies: the Rice University Farmers Market; the Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences, the first research center in the world specifically designed to sponsor research on the energy/environment nexus across the arts, humanities and social sciences; the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship, which promotes clean technology and sustainability through the Rice Alliance Energy and Clean Technology Venture Forum and Nanotechnology Forum and through the Rice Business Plan Competition; and Rice's participation in the Electricity Reliability Council of Texas' (ERCOT) Demand Response Program, in which end-use customers reduce their use of electricity in response to power-grid needs or economic signals from a competitive wholesale market to help ensure ERCOT grid reliability while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Johnson worked with undergraduates Julianne Crawford and Alex Nunez-Thompson to compile and submit a report of Rice's campus sustainability initiatives across many different topical areas. "There's no way I could have done this without them," Johnson said.
Crawford and Nunez-Thompson served as Johnson's interns from May to August, and they took the lead in contacting appropriate campus personnel, gathering the data and preparing the STARS submission.
"Together they made a great team," Johnson said. "Beyond the actual mechanics of the STARS submittal itself, they also helped to identify best practices at other universities and provided me with several ideas about how to improve our campus sustainability efforts at Rice. Both were hard-working, detail-oriented and delightful to work with."
Developed by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, an organization of colleges and universities committed to a sustainable future, STARS is a transparent, self-reporting framework for colleges and universities to measure their sustainability performance. It is the only program of its kind that involves publicly reporting comprehensive information related to a college or university's sustainability performance. For more information on the STARS program, visit stars.aashe.org. See Rice's STARS report at https://stars.aashe.org/institutions/rice-university-tx/report/2014-11-11/.
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How to Overcome the Difficulty of Interpreting Australia's Modern Awards
In recent years, many high profile cases involving the widespread underpayment of employee wages has soured the reputation of some of Australia's most beloved brands.
From 7-Eleven and Woolworths through to Coles, Grill'd, celebrity MasterChef judge George Calombaris, and Qantas, to name a few.
Each of these businesses' has admitted to underpaying staff in a variety of ways. Such as miscalculating penalty rates, failure to pay the correct overtime, technical errors with their electronic payroll system, and the underpayment of superannuation.
Yet, despite the myriad of ways these underpayments have occurred, a common sentiment shared by employers, payroll experts, and CEO's is this: Australia's award system is complex, hard to interpret, and needs to be simplified in order to avoid future payroll errors.
This begs the question: Why is the Australian award system so hard to interpret, and what can you do about it? Read on to find out.
Why the Australian award system leaves employers' scratching their heads
There are many reasons why the Australian award system is perceived as complex.
Below is a breakdown of some of the most common complaints raised by employers and commentators across Australia.
Complex language. Easy to misinterpret.
One of the most common complaints is the use of language. Many employers and commenters state, while the rates are correct and easy to understand, the language used to describe the terms and conditions of how those rates apply to certain employees is hard to understand.
Why is this the case? Because Modern Awards are primarily written by lawyers. So their use of language, although technically correct, makes it hard for everyday people to make sense of the award system in ways they can understand.
Fortunately, the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) has taken steps to simplify the way Awards are described. However, based on the recent headlines surrounding large-scale staff underpayment, it's clear that even large organisations are still struggling to stay compliant and avoid such payroll errors.
Plus, if large businesses are struggling with award interpretation, then what chance do small business owners have?
Too many awards
Australia currently has 122 awards, which have already been reduced from over a thousand, and each one has their own minimum requirements in regards to base pay rate, penalties, tax, super contributions, leave entitlements, and more.
Worse still, these minimum requirements often differ based on the type of employment (i.e. full-time, part-time, and casual). Considering that many businesses often employ staff who fit under a range of employment types, it can become a real challenge for employers and payroll staff to make sense of each award, and apply the terms correctly for each and every employee.
On top of this, employee remuneration can also change based on the time of day an employee works. While most awards offer penalty rates for employees who work overnight, the amount at which the wage increases can vary.
When taking all this into account, it's clear to see why some employers feel there are too many awards.
Lack of support from FWO
Understandably, when employers do have trouble interpreting awards, they can contact the FWO directly for advice.
However, when asked about specific details, often the FWO will simply quote a clause, instead of actually taking the time to explain what a specific clause means and how it should be applied in key situations.
As a result, both small and large employers are left with no other avenues to help them make sense of the Australian award system. Thus, increasing their chances of making a serious yet unintentional payroll error.
Software from Overseas
Some larger organisations that have been caught out have admitted to sourcing their payroll software from overseas to cut costs but the issue is that they are not set up to interpret Australian awards.
How to interpret Australia's award system and protect your business from payroll errors
In an ideal world, the Australian award system would be thorough enough to cover the basic rights and entitlements of all relevant employees, yet clear and simple enough for the average employer to understand.
However, it remains to be seen when such a reform will occur, and what it'll take to protect all employers from accidental payroll errors.
It would be beneficial if our governing body took some responsibility and actually provided helpul advice to business owners to aid them in the complexities rather than simply quote a clause that 'is up for interpretation'.
E-Payoffice offers Payroll Software and Payroll Services and works with each client to get a set of interpretation rules that are in line with the Award or Agreement their employees are paid under.
Our Payroll software is designed to save you time and hassle when it comes to award interpretation. Our system is developed here in Australia for our complex legislation and all our staff work out of our Sydney office. How it works is simple. When you use our App or Clocks for time collection the online timesheets populate with shift start and finish times, the software then automatically calculates the correct hours, penalties, loadings, and overtime in accordance with the relevant Award or Agreement. As a result, your employees are always paid the correct wages and entitlements.
Let E-Payoffice take the stress out of award interpretation for you. Our reliable payroll software will make sure your employees are correctly paid in line with their Award or EBA, and that your business achieves full compliance.
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Q: Activiti use with CMIS Can any one give me a simple exemple of how to use activiti workflow engin  with CMIS (even a very small user task with activiti and how to use it in CMIS standard)
P.S :I'm working with alfresco

A: I'm not exactly sure what you are trying to do. The easiest way to use Activiti and CMIS together is to write a Java Delegate class that leverages Apache Chemistry OpenCMIS to work with Alfresco. You might do this if you want to have an Activiti business process that has one or more tasks that involve creating, accessing, or updating content in Alfresco (or any other CMIS repository).
Writing a Java Delegate class is really easy and using OpenCMIS is pretty easy too, so you should have no trouble putting them together.
Here is a video from Alfresco Summit that talks about Java Delegates:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phju1Lru7kI
Here is a link to the Java Delegate documentation:
https://www.activiti.org/javadocs/index.html
And here is a site that documents a variety of CMIS examples:
https://chemistry.apache.org/docs/cmis-samples/

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Thomas E. Linnenbrink received a BS in Electrical Engineering in 1967 from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a MS in Engineering Science with emphasis in automatic Control from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1971. He co-founded Q-DOT, Inc., in 1977 to develop signal generation, data acquisition, and signal processing equipment based on unique, custom integrated circuits. He is currently a Business Development Manager for Hittite Microwave which acquired Q-DOT in 2005. He has been active in the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society's Waveform Generation, Measurement, and Analysis Committee (TC-10) since its inception and has served as its chairman since 1997. TC-10 has developed standards for digitizing waveform recorders, ADCs, and pulses, and is developing standards for DACs and high-frequency instrumentation probes.


Every New Year's Eve, thousands of people in America decide their resolution will be to lose weight. Unfortunately, these people go into their crash diets with misconceptions of what a diet should be, and end up worse off than they were before.
When most people make the decision to lose weight, their first step is to cut back on the amount of food they eat.
Mistake Number One: You have no idea how many calories you are currently eating or how many calories you should be taking in to reach your weight loss goals.
Next, a dieter might decide to throw in some daily cardio exercise like biking or running, because that's what everyone else does.
Mistake Number Two: While exercise will help you burn fat, it's important to remember that the kind of exercise you do, such as cardio or resistance training, and the amount of time you do it, will affect how your body responds. The right combination of cardio and resistance training combined with the right diet will jumpstart the weight loss process.
After cutting back on their food intake and running every morning, our dieter loses a couple of pounds the first week. A couple of days go by without any weight loss, so the dieter cuts their food down even more. Their energy drops, and running is making them more tired than usual. They might lose a little more weight, but their food cravings are worse, and they're getting cranky.
As a last-ditch effort, they cut their food intake down again and increases their running distance. Now it seems like they're always tired and hungry. Their mood is terrible, and even though they've lost ten pounds, when they look in the mirror, they don't look any different. If fact, they probably look worse.
Finally disgusted, they quit their diet. They figure if they need to kill themselves for an ideal body, it probably isn't worth it.
The Number One Reason why diets fail is most people have unrealistic expectations of how long a true body-changing diet should take. Popular culture has fed this misconception by supplying a constant barrage of "Lose 10 Pounds in 10 Days" crash diets, which only dehydrate you and shed valuable muscle, not fat.
Here's an interesting fact: a pound of fat takes up five times as much space as a pound of muscle. Since crash diets shed muscle instead of fat, our dieter hasn't changed their overall shape!
In a healthy weight loss program, a dieter should expect to lose about two pounds of body fat every week (a woman would lose about one and a half pounds). Five pounds of fat takes up the same volume as a loaf of bread, so losing ten to twenty pounds of fat will make an enormous difference in your appearance, especially compared to losing the same amount of water and muscle weight.
It may be slower than a "Lose 10 Pounds in 10 Days" crash diet, but the harsh reality is a year of yo-yoing on fad diets will likely leave you heavier than when you started and making the same resolution next year. The same time spent on a healthy weight loss program could leave you 50-100 pounds lighter next year.