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Announcing MARCH 02 + Call for Contributions
Imani Jacqueline Brown. Old Gods, 2021. Framed and reflected chart of permits for coastal development, including oil and gas wells, pipelines, and access canals in Quarantine Bay, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana (1920-2020), mapped against antebellum Public Land Survey System (PLSS) charts (1820s-1860s). The PLSS was the first US system to plat, or divide, territory into parcels of private property.
We are pleased to announce the next issue of MARCH will be edited by Imani Jacqueline Brown, an artist, activist, and researcher from New Orleans whose work investigates the continuum of Extractivism, from settler-colonial genocide and slavery to contemporary gentrification, fossil fuel production, and police and corporate impunity. In exposing the layers of violence and resistance that comprise the foundations of US society, she opens space to imagine a path to ecological reparations. Imani is currently a researcher with Forensic Architecture and a visiting research fellow at the Center for Research Architecture, where she received her MA with distinction in 2019.
Building from her MARCH 01 contribution, "Black Ecologies: an opening, an offering," (now available with audio online) this second edition will be a defining document toward the concept of Black Ecologies as a "resistance to extractive ecologies across the colonial-capitalist world." Additionally, we have partnered with Dark Matter University to co-publish a series of online articles circulating around the issue to be released this fall. Subscribe now to support these endeavors and receive copies of MARCH 01 now and MARCH 02 on its release.
Black Ecologies
How do we rupture the continuum of Extractivism,
which spans from colonial genocide and slavery to climate change?
We get radical.1 We get to the root.
Africa is humanity's root.
Through her Black diaspora, she seeds resistance to extractive ecologies
of plantations and penitentiaries.
We break down boundaries
of geopolitical borders and NIMBY delusions
that segregate humanity and hypoxify existence.
We open portals to ecological reparations.
What philosophies, forms, and practices of ecological co-existence and more-than-human kinship are carried from Africa through the circulatory web of the Black diaspora? Under what conditions—pressure and care—do they awaken from dormancy? Which practices encourage them to flourish and proliferate? How do they seed resistance to extractive systems that conquer, divide, and persist through the segregation of humanity from "nature" and Black human beings from humanity? What politics of repair and reintegration do they cultivate? In other words, what might it mean for Black people to fight for the "rights of nature" in tandem with the fight for our basic human rights?
Growing out of "Black Ecologies: an opening, an offering," guest editor Imani Jacqueline Brown issues an urgent call for writing and visioning, actions and plots, new propositions and re-reading of existing works within the contextual embrace of Black Ecologies.
2021 Call for Contributions
We invite proposals for new or unpublished essays of approximately 2,500 words to be considered for publishing. You are welcome to send us pitches and/or drafts (including experimental writing and adaptive new forms) at any time, but proposals to be considered for MARCH 02 on Black Ecologies will be due April 15.
This project is made possible with support from The Luminary and Nordisk Kulturfond.
Radical / rad-i-kuhl / adj. Of or going to the root or origin.
MARCH 02: Black Ecologies

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Mary Jane Ward shows off her granola and cookies.
Mary Jane Ward is receiving a very special present on her 55th birthday — a graduation certificate from Together We Bake (TWB), a nonprofit that teaches life and culinary skills to women who need a second chance. Once homeless and despondent over her future, Ward is excited to see where her new skills in baking, food safety and customer service, along with her ServSafe certification, will take her.
All 12 women who started the eight-week course completed it, and about 75 friends and family are expected to attend their graduation. As I set up the tables and food in the conference room of the Downtown Baptist Church in Alexandria, Va., I watch proud moms, spouses, kids and TWB alumnae arrive and sample the fabulous granola handmade by the new graduates.
The women are ecstatic. Eight weeks ago they were strangers, transitioning from homelessness, recovering from addiction, reintegrating after a prison term, or struggling as a new, overwhelmed immigrant. Now they are family.
As commencement begins and I become the official photographer, I witness the intimacy these women share. As each graduate's name is announced a TWB staff member (and alumna) takes the microphone, looks the new graduate in the eye and tells her what she loves about her. I hear stories of specialness, family, love and second chances. Hugs, kisses and tears flow freely.
"The hope you passed on to me I will pass on to someone else," new graduate Hannah Teklu promises the crowd.


While in this country only progressively more influential fashion bloggers, this is done more in other major cities. We last but not least we are interested in from this reason what so the fashion bloggers, in other cities and countries. For this reason, we have been bombarding them with our interview requests and present in this way from immediately interesting blogs from international fashion capitals.
What's your name, where do you live and what is the name of your blog?
Everything about Paris inspired me. Most however the story.
What is your Paris insider tip? Which shops, designer, or markets should visit the people in Paris?
The large department stores such as Galeries Lafayette, Bon Marché, the flea markets of Clignancourt, Les Halles and Le Marais for vintage and La Grande Épicerie de Paris for dinner.
What annoys you in your city?
Easy fashion Paris concentrated themselves mostly on street style and the Paris fashion week.
Do you have a favorite designer or label?
Do you have a fashion role models?
Audrey Hepburn and Faye Dunaway, Brigitte Bardot (in the 50s) and Catherine Deneuve & Françoise Dorleac (her sister) in the late 60s.
You're fashion President of your country. What would be your first act?
Black is prohibited as the color in the winter.
There are worse things, as good or worse style. If you ever have any style.
Crazy or funny and some of them are simply just crazy.
Thank you for the interview. We wish you continuing success for easy fashion Paris.
LaRiNNe: StreetStyle Szombat. / Ulyana Sergeenko.


Andy shook his head and walked over, standing alongside Garen.
"Poor thing… There would be no reason to provoke anyone else, much less Goth. You okay, Garen?"
"I'm fine." Garen had already realised the oncoming presence of the two other people much earlier. Thus, he allowed the Hurricane squad members to do as they pleased. He never expected that it would turn out so well.
As for the three remaining Hurricane squad members, the moment they saw their leader collapse, a terrified look appeared on their faces at once, and they didn't know whether to advance or to escape.
"Go! We're leaving!" Casey yelled loudly, looking at Goth as if he were a monster, with his face all twisted like that.
"You dare think of leaving?!" Goth spat as he rubbed his hands together, rushing forward in a fit of rage.
"They stole the reward for the task we completed!" Garen quickly reminded him at this crucial moment. "They impersonated us!"
His words enraged Goth even more. Every one of his slaps that landed on Casey's face brought on rays of black light that caused a prickly sensation, making it seem as if countless sharp thorns had grown on his body.
These sharp thorns pierced through Casey's totem light easily. Furthermore, Goth's speed and strength had grown to the point where it was now terrifying to others.
Garen watched Goth's movements. The speed at which Goth rotated his arm and pushed it downwards always made Garen's heart jump slightly.
It seemed like this guy had already achieved the strength and speed he was only supposed to possess after his successfully using his Godlike Accomplishment skill.
Although he had known from the beginning that certain appraisal geniuses could get an increase in strength from their core totems, he never expected Goth's improvements to be of such great magnitude.
Moreover, Goth had only recently awakened his potential, and had not fully released it yet. Before his full release, there was no telling how more powerful he would be in his final stage.
"No wonder he was able to reach the level of single-handedly winning a fight." Garen was still in shock. He had practiced his Secret Technique just to achieve the Godlike Accomplishment skill, and had gone through many difficulties and hard times such as having to kill others in order to reach his goal.
Apart from his fighting skills, Goth's physical body and fitness levels were also vastly different from before as well.
In Garen's mind, everything seemed somewhat unbalanced.
Casey and the other three members of the Hurricane squad were beaten up and forced to the ground by Goth. He had easily thrown them against the wall as if they were merely objects. The scene frightened off the passersby on the street and they ran away quickly, worried that they might become casualties in this fight.
plan was foiled instantly. Goth would eventually destroy his totem, completely ruining his many years of hard work in the process. Without a Form 2 totem, he wouldn't be able to defend the Hurricane squad for long.
If his opponent possessed the ability to break through a totem user's totem light, judging from the current state of his totem's defenses, wrecking his totem would be a piece of cake.
In the end, Casey could only endure Goth's vicious attacks silently. He wrapped his arms around his head and crouched into a ball as he was too afraid to retaliate.
In the corner of the street, the both of them looked like a couple of gangsters. Goth single-handedly beat the three of them up without having to put up much of a fight, then forced Casey to return both of the White Dragonhawk rewards. He also made him pay compensation in the form of a mental loss fee, safety threat fee, loss of reputation fee as well as a series of other payments totalling to 820,000 silver rumbs.
Both parties signed a contract and stamped their fingerprints with a blood seal. Casey finally understood that this man, Goth, had truly possessed a strength that would be able to defeat Form 2 totem users. If someone provoked him again with the outskirts of the city currently in a state of chaos, so long as he found a desolate place to intercept them, his enemies could call on the whole world for help, but no one would be able to save them.
Once Casey and his group had left, Goth wiped his hands and hid the contract in his clothes carefully, and patted his pocket.
"Let's go. We'll find somewhere we can sit."
"Yes," nodded Andy. "According to what I've heard, we should leave this place quickly since we've already completed the task. We should also follow the rules while we're at it."
The three of them turned the street corner and came across a coffee shop where they found a table against the wall and sat there, before ordering a cup of milk coffee each.
The atmosphere inside the coffee shop was calm, as there were only five or six other customers, sitting around in different spots. Everyone spoke in hushed voices when they conversed.
There was a white piano in front, where a man dressed in white played the soothing melody of an unknown song.
On the left corner of the wall where the three men were seated, the latest edition of the calendar had been hung up, and all the dates which had passed were ticked off with a little red check mark. The last unmarked date was the 24th of the second month.
"We're entering spring already," said Garen before he lifted his coffee cup and drank from it. "This year's winter hardly seemed as cold as the years before."
Light and Blue Leaf, encountered great difficulties in completed their most recent task, and the Black Light squad even lost two of their members. They were Iron Tank City's strongest totem user employment squad! Both the captain and vice captain are Form 3 final stage totem users, yet they still lost 2 members. The current situation is really dire."
"When I went to the guild, I noticed that there were less people inside as well," said Garen quietly.
"My friend is in charge of preparing the statistic reports, and according to him, there are about eighty to a hundred lower rank squads like ours in the guild. But in the most recent month, a lot of the smaller squads left and never returned. Some of them were even middle range squads with one or two Form 2 totem users, and even they suffered serious injuries. Currently five guild points have become significantly quieter."
"Don't worry. You guys still have me, remember? I'll protect you," said Goth lazily, as he drank the remainder of his coffee in a few gulps.
Both of them shook their heads and flat-out ignored him.
Andy continued, saying: "The casualties sustained by the guild in the previous year is still higher, but the ratio would never be more than ten to one, meaning one death would occur in ten tasks on average. Meanwhile this year, the ratio had already risen to five to one. I assume that the higher ups in the guild would have taken the necessary measures already. Right now, I'd suggest that we nurse of our wounds for the time being. Once our bodies have healed properly, we can absorb this task's reward, and by then, the situation would be pretty much clearer. Whether or not we continue accept tasks after that will depend on how we feel in the future. How about that?"
Garen nodded quietly. He understood what Andy was thinking. They were only trying to earn a quick buck, and train themselves while they were at it. They weren't trying to place their lives on the line, so there was no need for them to accept tasks that were unnecessarily dangerous. Even if a totem user merely decided to join a security organization, their livelihoods would still be at least three times better than that of an average person. They would be able to lead a good and simple life. Those who undertook tasks from the guild were mostly thrill seekers that wanted to improve themselves at the same time.
"These are important national matters. As long as the higher ups are worried about it, it's none of our business," said Andy as he sighed in relief. He smiled and continued, saying: "No matter what, Goth, this time both Jessica and I owe you our lives. If you ever need any help in the future, just feel free to say it without holding back!" He patted Goth's shoulder as he said.
so that all the other bastards will not look down on me anymore. Then we could leave our homes just like we're doing now, and I could still lead a happy life. After that I'd want to have two sons, and name one of them Andy, and the other one Garen."
"Why you little!" Andy could not stop himself from punching him. "But my old man has already ordered me to never return to the guild again because of the scars on Jessica's face, which made my mother cry for two whole days. After this… After this, I don't think it's likely that I'd be able to accept tasks anymore," he said as his voice grew softer. "I've gained almost enough experience, and since I've gotten the proof of my mission from the guild, once I've applied for a position in the national institution, my well being will increase significantly. Who knows, I might even get a job as a junior officer."
His words were tinged with a sense of parting.
The three of them became quiet for a moment.
"Since you already have the qualifications from the last two tasks, what department are you thinking of joining? Just choose one, and I'll submit the application for you. Any department will do. There's a Mercenary's Guild in every part of the East Continent, and with your qualifications, you'd get a good position even if you were sent to the imperial family," said Andy with a smile. "Or if you'd prefer, you could go to a college or somewhere like that and work as a security officer, or even a specialized speaker. There are tons of beautiful girls in the school, you know."
Goth lowered his head, and stopped speaking for a short while.
"I'll do it at my own pace…" he replied quietly. "What about you, Garen? Any plans?"
"I don't even have a home to return to, what plans could someone like me have?" said Garen as he shrugged. "I'm planning to wait and see. I don't even have any plans or arrangements on my mind at the moment."
"You're 21 years old already, right? You aren't young anymore, you should be making plans for your future by now. Why don't I introduce you to a girl, but definitely not someone who lives a promiscuous life on her own," said Andy earnestly. "Start your own household earlier, then you'll finally have someone to depend on in your heart. You'll also have a goal to fight for."
"We'll see," Garen shook his head. "I'm not thinking of that at the moment." He was certain that not long from now, the city would be filled with danger and trouble. Goth and the others would have no choice but to contribute by joining the movement to get rid of the surrounding dangerous creatures.
Almost all of the totem users would not be able to rest during that time.
Obscuro Society's major course of action was about to begin soon. This peaceful period of life would only last for a few more days.
He was unlike the two others because he wasn't a local in this world, he was merely a passerby. His goal was actually to find the secret that he had brought he had brought over with him. This whole time he had been trying to control his fate.
Life was hard and short, and after about a hundred and ten short years, in order to continue living, one would need to have something of value to pursue.
A vague idea began pounding at the back of Garen's mind. He no longer wanted to just go with the flow. In his personal experience, he had too many doubts that he wanted to understand.
"Don't think too much about that," said Andy as he patted his shoulder.
Before Garen, Andy, and Goth went their separate ways, they made sure to exchange contact information and addresses.
Garen left the coffee shop on his own, and walked down the lane for a distance, before stretching his arm out and hailing a passing horse carriage.
"To the trade area," he said as he got onto the carriage.
The coachman was a middle-aged man with a short beard.
"The trade area huh… That's quite a distance from here. We'll have to exit this area, sir. And distances further than ten kilometers require additional charges as well. Which part of the trade area are you heading towards?"
Garen nodded, showing the man that he knew the price. "To Wellington Street. Do you know where that is?"
"I need to go deeper into the area if it's Wellington. Are you perhaps going to the pet market, sir?" asked the coachman in an experienced voice.
"That's fine," answered Garen at once.
Once he had seated himself inside, he leaned against the right side of the carriage and felt as if the front of the carriage had fallen off. Moments later, it hobbled forward and off they went.
Outside the window, the roads rolled past continuously, and out of the rows of white living quarters, shops could occasionally be seen.
As the carriage galloped towards the trade area, the roads outside the carriage gradually became dirtier. They began to pass by an increasing number of horse carriages, including a beautifully built one at one point. Ox carts that sold fruits also passed them by on the lane, but were quickly overtaken by the carriage.
Calming his emotions, Garen began to look forward to the types of wild animals he would be able to purchase soon.
As long as there were no accidents, Goth would not need the White Dragonhawk. He was currently undergoing his power explosion stage, and would definitely be faced with an abundance of stronger totems in the future. However, the same did not apply to himself. He had already waited until the eleventh hour. He needed to decide on his core totem as soon as possible, and then evolve it quickly. If he failed in doing so, he would not be able to fight in the upcoming Great War.
Garen finally had a plan in his heart. His next step was to decide on which creature to evolve as his second totem. He also needed to increase his strength to the best of his abilities, so that he could hunt more totem users in the Great War, and attain more potential points.
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Why are we gathered here? • To raise awareness around issues related to intellectual assessment and IQ numbers; • "IQ numbers are bad until we need them"; • To share personal experiences working with families—what has been learned and why this topic needs to be addressed; • Provide the parent perspective on this topic; • Provide the perspective of the school psychologist whose job it is to provide information for program planning, transition planning, and as it relates to guardianship; • Help parents better understand the federal mandates for the need for IQ testing v. more informal information gathering such as Person Centered Planning, Portfolio Assessments, Reach for the Stars, etc.
Some background…. My job: I am a School Psychologist…. That said, let's talk about the. . . dun dunnnnn…. .
The triennial evaluation (pretty much the reason for my job) …Words that can strike fear into the hearts of the hardiest of parents. The triennial evaluation is a part of all special education student's lives. It is done for these reasons: • To see if the child is a "child with a disability, " as defined by IDEA • To gather information that will help determine the child's educational needs • To guide decision making about appropriate educational programming for the child. Formal testing is usually the goal of the triennial evaluation and done by your child's team (i. e. , OT, PT, SLP, Psych, Behavior, O+M): all the specialty services your child may get as part of his or her IEP. For our purposes here, we are talking specifically about the psychological evaluation part, done by the School Psychologist.
But wait…. . • We have tests, but these tests don't include your children! These tests, the ones used by pretty much everyone, everywhere do not include children with more than one disability. The tests do make considerations for vision impairment OR hearing impairment OR motor interference, but not for hearing, vision, balance, communication, fatigue, low muscle tone. Not to mention other interfering issues such as OCD, anxiety, physical limitations (missing limbs, digits, scoliosis) that can hinder access, and cognitive delays. • What's a school psychologist to do? ? Especially a school psychologist that has limited experience with our kinds of kids.
So, I. Q. : What is it and how do we find it? • I. Q. is an abbreviation for the term, Intelligence Quotient. Over the years, the meaning has changed and more recently the work of Howard Gardner from Harvard University introduced theory of multiple intelligences that sheds a broader lens on the idea of I. Q. Multiple intelligences are defined as: Spatial; Linguistic; Logical-mathematical; Bodily-kinesthetic; Musical; Interpersonal; Intrapersonal and Naturalistic. • But the I. Q. itself is a number…. a number that you may have as part of your child's assessment. The number is what we talk about; the number is what we worry about and often, what we disagree with. • In it's simplest form, an IQ is a number from 0 to 200+ that rates a person's cognitive ability in comparison to the general population.
• But those things---those numbers--- are not what you really want to hear about when your child's triennial assessment is reported on at the IEP (or a separate meeting). • You want to hear the things that make your child stand out and at the very least, you want to know that the evaluator KNOWS your child. • You want to make sure the evaluator knows how to BE WITH your child to get the very best results. You want to know that the results will form a good picture of your child and that recommendations will be helpful for continued educational planning. • You also want to know that things you know about your child are included and that his or her strengths, personality, interests, sense of humor, fears, joys are part of a complete package. You want someone to know that your child, while reading and math might not place him on an honor roll, his work ethic; his independence in his vocational training activities; his ability to make friends and be a friend; and his overall zest for life are shown and honored. • When your child is younger, the need for this information is for current educational planning to further one's goals and objectives as they move through curriculum and have access to learning THEIR way. • As your young adult (now) is approaching 18, you want and need all of this information to be included and you want others to know it in preparation for applying for guardianship and including adult service agencies (for group living, for work, for recreation and leisure options) if those are part of your family's goal for your child.
In addition to the numbers…. " factors other than IQ must also be a part of an individual assessment". An IQ number alone is not an appropriate way to evaluate, and thus, categorize an individual. Under IDEA, "it is inappropriate and unacceptable to base any eligibility decision upon the results of only one procedure".
Closing thoughts… • Testing will be inevitable, so your child's ENTIRE team should be working together to get the best overall picture for moving forward • IQ scores will be inevitable as special needs students head toward 18 years old, most especially if adult service agencies will be involved. • The IQ score can be our friend if we understand why it is being used and it will provide good outcomes for your children.


Here at Silicon Valley Data Science, we have a slight obsession with the Caltrain. Our interest stems from the fact that half of our employees rely on the Caltrain to get to work each day. We also want to give back to the community, and we love when we can do that with data. In addition to helping clients build robust data systems or use data to solve business challenges, we like to work on R&D projects to explore technologies and experiment with new algorithms, hypotheses, and ideas. We previously analyzed delays using Caltrain's real-time API to improve arrival predictions, and we have modeled the sounds of passing trains to tell them apart. In this post we'll start looking at the nuts and bolts of making our Caltrain work possible.
If you have ever ridden the train, you know that the delay estimates Caltrain provides can be a bit…off. Sometimes a train will remain "two minutes delayed" for ten minutes after the train was already supposed to have departed, or delays will be reported when the train is on time. The idea for Trainspotting came from our desire to integrate new data sources for delay prediction beyond scraping Caltrain's API . Since we had previously set up a Raspberry Pi to analyze train whistles, we thought it would be fun to validate the data coming from the Caltrain API by capturing real-time video and audio of trains passing by our office near the Mountain View station.
Sound alone is pretty good at answering the first question because trains are rather loud. To help answer the rest of the questions, we added a camera to our Raspberry Pi to capture video.
Let's quickly look at what these pieces will cover.
In her Image Processing in Python post, Data Scientist Chloe Mawer demonstrates how to use open-source Python libraries to process images and videos for detecting trains and their direction using OpenCV. You can also see her talk from PyCon 2016.
In Streaming Video Analysis with Python, Data Scientist Colin Higgins and Data Engineer Matt Rubashkin describe the steps to take the video analysis to the next level: implementing streaming, on-Pi video analysis with multithreading, and light/dark adaptation. The figure below gives a peek into some of the challenges in detecting trains in varied light conditions.
Before we even finished the development on our first device, we wanted to set up more of these devices to get ground truth at other points along the track. With this in mind, we realized that we couldn't always guarantee that we'd have a speedy internet connection, and we wanted to keep the devices themselves affordable. These requirements make the the Raspberry Pi a great choice. The Pi has enough horsepower to do on-device stream processing so that we could send smaller, processed data streams over internet connections, and the parts are cheap. The total cost of our hardware for this sensor is $130, and the code relies only on open source libraries.
If you want to learn more about Trainspotting and Data Science at SVDS, stay tuned for our future Trainspotting blog posts, and you can sign up for our newsletter here. Let us know which pieces of this series you're most interested in.
You can also find our "Caltrain Rider" in the Android and Apple app stores. Our app is built upon the Hadoop Ecosystem including HBase and Spark, and relies on Kafka and Spark Streaming for ingestion and processing of Twitter sentiment and Caltrain API data.


There are only 5 ingredients in this simple sausage and sauerkraut recipe that also uses apples and Dijon. And it's paleo, whole30!
To keep things simple, I only used 5 ingredients in this healthy slow cooker recipe but you can certainly 'jazz' this up with more ingredients depending on your dietary restriction. This is an essential slow cooker recipe in the sense that you literally throw everything in, stir and that's it. Since sauerkraut is sour, I wanted an apple that was on the sweeter side so I went with a gala apple. Use your preferred sweet apple. Since most sausages are pre-cooked, this is done very quickly in the slow cooker. You'll know it's done when the apple is soft.
Honey. If there could be a 6th ingredient that would be it. This is on the sour side so 1-2 tsp honey would add a nice balance. Again, this is not necessary, but more of an enhancement to the dish. Another addition you might want to include onion.
No salt or pepper? Add that to your individual bowls if needed.
Other 5-ingredient slow cooker recipes in this series: Pot Roast, Jerk Chicken, Italian Chicken, Coconut-Cilantro Curry Shrimp.
Yes but you will need a large slow cooker. I used a 6-quart and it was pretty full.
This looks so amazingly delicious. This reminds me so closely of slow-cooker kielbasa and kraut my grandpa used to make for our family when I was younger! Cannot wait to try this at home for the family and report back with how it turned out! Thanks so much for sharing!
Does the sauerkraut liquid go into the slow cooker or does it need draining first?
Liquid goes in as well. I'll update the recipe so that is more clear. Enjoy!
The liquid goes in as well. I'll update the recipe so that is more clear. Enjoy!
Bavarian Style Sauerkraut is not as sour as regular Sauerkraut or you can rinse it first to make it less sour.
This looks delicious! My husband throws a fit if there is fruit in his dinner and we are doing a Whole30 so added sweetener is out…is it essential? I could probably add a couple spoonfuls of applesauce without him noticing, but I don't want to make it sweet.
Thank you! You don't need the apple. Since you're doing whole30 (congrats, I just finished) I suggest substituting sweet potato or regular potato. Enjoy!


I've mentioned a few times that I intended to discuss all of the things I have been getting rid of more in-depth, and today is the beginning of those posts.
For as long as I can remember, I've had a lot of things. Not necessarily any things in particular, just stuff. A lot of it. As a kid, I collected anything I had two of. Bookmarks, bouncy balls, plastic dog toys, porcelain dalmatians, puppets, ribbons, Beanie Babies, you name it. I had one, so I might as well have them all. My small room felt even smaller, as every nook, cranny and wall space was covered in items. I was never able to keep the area clean, as there was just too much to fit in the space. There was nowhere for it to go but on the floor, under the dresser, under the bed, and on and under my desk and my bookshelf and shelves and everywhere else.
I'd like to note, I come from a family of "pack-rats", going back probably generations. (I'm sure some aspect of this carried over from The Great Depression, but that's besides the point.) I'm not the odd man out in this situation. This behavior comes out of habit; not spite. It certainly wasn't as though I were the only one in the house with a lot of stuff; but in this I can speak only for myself and my own experiences.
In high school, I found a book about clearing out clutter, and was able to remove 8 trash bags of stuff from my room. It was a huge relief. And this set me on a path that I've been going down for about the last 15 years, trying to get rid of excess and somehow find myself in a relaxing space, while managing my own shopping and spending habits somewhere in between.
I've read book after book after book. I watched tons of "Hoarders" on TV. And though I've never been that bad; never had that much stuff — I could absolutely relate to the person who knew where every single item came from, how they were feeling that day, and how much they'd paid for it. And to the feeling of having someone else come in and pull your things away from you. It's devastating. Since striking out on my own, I've never had so many things that my space was unlivable. But I can and will admit that my household has been in disarray often, and there are many items that I have had (and still have at this moment) that did not have homes.
And after picking up this book, I've finally found the technique. I don't need any more books. I don't need any more TV shows. Marie Kondo has shown me the light.
The KonMari method is based on keeping items that bring you joy. JOY. There is no other determination. You touch each item and decide based on how it makes you feel.
This is my first success story. There is no relapse after this; there is no more stuff to get rid of. For the first time, I've found the way to discard items without feeling like something was lost, or feeling disappointed, or anxious. The KonMari method puts me in total control and allows me to have the final say. I make the decision, not some arbitrary date of when an item was last touched or used. Some almighty author doesn't get to decide how much I care about my things, and how much time I spend sorting each subset of each item.
This is all new to me, but so far it's been amazing. Over the holidays when I was off work, at home, taking care of Honey, I finished the book, and started in the order she recommends. She suggests going through your clothing first, and today I'll discuss the first part of that process (I'll follow up with the rest later). Feeling that this was going to be a big shift, I decided to take photos and keep records. I began with my tops.
Marie Kondo suggests that all items of one category must come out at one time. They must all be sorted at once. This not only allows you to make informed decisions, but for me, it also really brought my attention to the sheer number of things that I'd accumulated.
I had 220 tops. I couldn't believe it. That's more than any one human needs at one time. This included tanks, sweaters, t-shirts, blouses — all of it. Still, 220. I looked at the pile and felt both determined and ashamed. I'm happy to say that after my tidying session I'm down to 82 tops. Each one of them brings me joy in its own way. And though I felt a little anxious after parting with them, this was the first time that I'd bagged up my clothing and not felt compelled to go back through the bags. I let them go. I thanked them for their time, their lessons, and released them.
I questioned myself through the process; "Which of these feelings is joy?" I made myself a "maybe" pile. But I could tell, then, when I looked at the items I'd picked out first, the must keeps, I knew which items brought me joy and which did not. The process got easier and easier, and I became lighter and freer as I went on.
I folded all the tops based on her recommendations as well, and I love it. I can see everything, and now I have an idea and a picture in my head of what I own. This helps me know what might fit if I buy something new. And the hanging tops in my closet, for the first time in my life, have space between the hangers. The clothes can breathe. And I can see them.
I don't know that I'll ever be able to get across what a huge deal it is to me to get rid of these things, and not only to get rid of them, to let them go and not look back. I don't miss any of the items, and with each purge I feel liberated; clearer and more focused on my goals. I'm not looking at anything that needs cleaning, or sorting, or wishing things were easier to put away or to organize. It's all there, it's done, and the cleaning effort that usually felt so daunting is now easy and smooth, and completely stress-free. I'm more excited and determined than ever to release the items I have here that hold no joy for me. And I can't wait to bring you with me on my KonMari journey.


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Intelligence and the War against Japan offers the first comprehensive scholarly history of the development of the British secret service and its relations with its American intelligence counterparts during the war against Japan. Richard J. Aldrich makes extensive use of recently declassified files in order to examine the politics of secret service during the war against Japan, analyzing the development of organizations such as the Special Operations Executive and the Office of Strategic Services in Asia. He argues that, from the Battle of Midway in June 1942, the Allies focused increasingly on each other's future ambitions, rather than the common enemy. Central to this theme are Churchill, Roosevelt and their rivalry over the future of the role of Asia. Richard J. Aldrich's cogent, fluent analysis of the role of intelligence in Far Eastern developments is the most thorough and penetrating account of this latterday "Great Game" yet produced. Richard J. Aldrich is Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics at the University of Nottingham. He has edited several books, as well as the journal Intelligence and National Security.
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Rough weather: Three of Paramount's five aircraft—one at Chennai and another at Goa—have been grounded by DGCA.
Paramount flights disrupted as regulator grounds planes
1 min read . Updated: 19 Mar 2010, 09:34 PM IST Tarun Shukla
New Delhi: India's civil aviation regulator on Friday grounded three of Paramount Airways Pvt. Ltd's five aircraft, after the Delhi high court refused to grant a stay in favour of the Coimbatore-based regional carrier.
The three aircraft of Paramount have been restrained from operation till further orders, said a Chennai-based official of the Airports Authority of India, who declined to be named because he was not authorized to speak with the media.
The de-registration order for the three Embraer jets was conveyed by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) at 5.45pm, he said. De-registered planes are not allowed to fly.
The lessor of the airplanes, GE Commercial Aviation Services (GECAS), an arm of General Electric Co., had asked DGCA to ground the planes as Paramount had defaulted on payments for them.
The regulator had readied the de-registration order on Thursday.
Paramount had moved court, requesting a stay on the de-registration. The high court on Friday declined to entertain its plea. It would again hear the matter on Monday.
Paramount said in a statement on Friday evening that it will wait for the Monday hearing and maintained that its flights were on schedule.
Another Paramount official said many flights of the airline stand cancelled over the weekend. He requested anonymity.
Two of the aircraft have been grounded at Chennai and one at Goa, said a DGCA official, who also declined to be named.
The aircraft could be taken over by GE Commercial only after Monday's hearing, he added.
Last year, GE Commercial confiscated three aircraft from Kingfisher Airlines Ltd, the country's second largest private airline by passengers carried, owing to non-payment of dues..
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History of Hydrocarbon Industry
History of Mining Industry
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MSG Suriname
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Overview of the economic developmentLou O'Brien2019-12-15T14:29:16-03:00
From 1667-1975 Suriname was off and on colonized by the Dutch. In 1954 Suriname became an autonomous country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands until it gained its independence on November 25, 1975, as the Republic of Suriname. At the time of independence, The Netherlands granted Suriname NLG 3 billion -Dutch Florins- aid (Nederlandse Hulp Allocatie aan Suriname/NHAS) for the development of Suriname, based on mutually approved project plans.
After independence, Suriname established a democratically elected Government until they were overthrown with a coupe d'état on February 25,1980. The military regime lasted until 1987 when democratically elected officials, once again took over and they became in charge of Suriname, though allowing for a brief come back made by the military from December 1990 to September 1991.
Historically from the 17th century to the 19th century, Suriname's economy was primarily focused on agriculture with the cultivation of cocoa, sugar and cotton on plantations located along the various Surinamese rivers.
During the colonization the triangular trade consisted of:
Trade of labor -People procured from Africa and shipped to South America, the Caribbean and North America to work as slaves on the plantations, while
Trade of commodities -sugar, coffee, cotton etc. were sailed back to The Netherlands /Europe and then
Trade of manufactured goods and textile in exchange for the trade for slaves.
Figure 3.5 The Triangular Trade in the 17th—19th century
After the abolition of slavery in 1863 and the arrival of East-Indian Immigrants -from India-, as contracted laborers, in 1873, rice as an export commodity was added to the list of agricultural products. In the 20th century bananas, citrus and seafood/fish were added to this list of export goods. During the early stages of the 20th century the export of extractive products, with a high focus on bauxite and aluminum, started. This was by far the largest source of income from the beginning of the 20th century until present.
Due to the plantation culture that Suriname has known from its colonial past, the coastal area has been developed and infrastructure has been constructed in this area. Partly because of its limited types of exports, insufficient local production due to the small population and labor force, the Surinamese economy, can be characterized as an import economy: it depends heavily on importing basic commodities such as food, healthcare products and medicine, textile manufactured goods, and also cars, building materials, industrial machinery/heavy equipment. In contrast to the triangular trade, export and import of goods as well as the export and import markets have changed significantly and expanded during the 20th and 21st century.
Overview of the 5 main streams of export and import goods, the export markets and import countries:
Export of products
Bauxite/aluminum (2015)/Gold* Switzerland
Precious metal scraps** Hong Kong
Wood (unprocessed) Belgium & Luxemburg
Diesel Hydrocarbon Guyana
Bananas United Arab Emirates
Import of products
Import markets
Refined petroleum USA
Heavy equipment The Netherlands
Industrial machinery China
Trucks Trinidad & Tobago
Cars Brazil
Table 3.2 a/3.2 b: OEC – Suriname (SUR) Export, Import, and Trade Partners / https://atlas.media.mit.edu/nl/profile/country/sur/
* (2015/ Gold) is added to this line, since 2015 bauxite mining has stopped.
** According to 'Algemeen Bureau voor de Statistiek'(ABS)/General Office for Statistic) the 2nd ranking export good is Refined petroleum.
Suriname's export, mostly based on raw materials and basic agricultural products, is dependent on developments on the international commodity markets and therefore volatile.
Local Currency
Up till December 31, 2003, the Surinaamse gulden (SRG/ Surinamese Guilders) was the official currency. The exchange rate of SRG-USD was stable until mid-1980/1981. Suriname's currency was linked to the USD. Previously, until 1994, there was a fixed exchange rate ratio between the USD and SRG of USD/SRG 1.77.
As a result of the unification of the exchange rates on July 1, 1994:
a floating exchange rate was established based on the supply and demand mechanism
so-called subsidized rates were eliminated
ban on foreign exchange trade on the 'parallel'/black market
The SRG as a currency was replaced on January 1, 2004, by a new currency called Surinamese dollar (SRD). At the time of the transfer, the nomination on banknotes expressed in SRG was divided by a factor of 1,000. On January 1, 2004 the exchange rate for the USD was set at USD/SRD 2.77.
From January 1, 2004 to November 19, 2015 the SRD was twice devaluated as a monetary necessity, i.e.:
on January 21, 2011, the exchange rate quotation became USD 1 = SRD 3.25
on November 19, 2015, the exchange rate quotation became USD 1 = SRD 3.96
From February 2016 on the SRD was disconnected from the USD for its daily quotation. On December 31, 2016 the exchange rate for the USD based on the quotation of CBoS was USD/SRD 7.354 and the average month exchange rate for 2016 was USD/SRD 6.173.
Commercial and reporting currencies
Although the trade currency in Suriname is the SRD, unlike in other South American countries, buying and selling goods and services in USD and Euro informally became a common practice. Since July 1,1994, it is legal to carry foreign currency and hold foreign currency accounts in the banks.
All the financial accounts reports and the budgets of the Government are stated in SRD. In accordance with Article 10 of the Government Accounts Act 1952 (Comptabiliteitswet) "taxes and other sources or benefits, must be recorded for the service of the year in which they are received".
The financial accounting (bookkeeping) of companies must take place in SRD unless the economic reality of the company is based on a different currency, i.e. its functional currency. According to article 36 paragraph 4 of the Income Tax Act 1922 a taxpayer can request to prepare its financial statement in accordance with the provisions of Article 42, third paragraph, in a currency designated for this purpose by the Minister.
The amounts mentioned in the Income tax law are converted to the aforementioned currency according to the unified exchange rate set by the CBoS. Though the request must be made to the Minister of Finance it must be submitted to the Inspector of Direct Tax. To obtain approval, the taxpayer must comply with the conditions as mentioned in the State decree of December 3, 1995.
The conditions for eligibility are as follows:
regular financial accounting i.e. bookkeeping is conducted with regular annual closures, which should also meet the requirements as set by the Inspector of Direct Taxes;
it concerns a foreign exchange-generating company; this is understood to mean a company that has demonstrably achieved its turnover, wholly or almost entirely, in the previous calendar- or financial year in a currency other than the local currency with a minimum of USD 250,000 or its equivalent in the designated currency, or the company can demonstrate that this will be the case in the current calendar- or financial year.
The large size mining companies, and the IOCs can conduct financial accounting and reporting in USD according to their agreement. Staatsolie has been granted permission by the Tax Authority to conduct financial accounting and reporting in USD from January 1, 1995, when it adopted the US-GAAP for Hydrocarbon and gas as accounting principles.
EITI & Suriname
The EITI Suriname
WHAT IS EITI IN SHORT?
The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), which Suriname wants to commit to, has established a standard to promote the open and accountable management of oil, gas and mineral resources.
In every implementing country, the EITI is supported by an M.S.G., Multi-stakeholders group, a coalition of government, companies and civil society, providing a platform to build trust and encourage multi-stakeholder dialogue.
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Electric Motorcycle Doubles As Residential Storage Battery
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They say there is nothing new under the sun, but the Jahammer J1 electric motorcycle comes about as close as you can get. Johann Hammerschmid, founder of Johammer E-mobility Inc, says of his oddly styled creation, "This is a natural return to the concept of the horse, before there was noise and pollution from engines." Some have compared its looks to a giant peanut or a horse used for jousting in the Middle Ages, but it also looks a lot like a cross between a Cushman motor scooter from the 1950's and a Quonset hut.
The bike features a 12 kWh battery that is good for up to 186 miles of range on the highway — less in hilly terrain or off road use. That makes it the longest range electric motorcycle on the market. Some 60 Johammer J1's have been sold in Europe since 2014. Hammerschmidt says he first started thinking about building the bike in 2017. His factory is located in eastern Austria near the Czech border.
Two striking features of the bike are the corrugated polypropylene bodywork and the center hub steering system. Hammershcmidt says it takes just a few miles aboard the J1 to get used to its handling characteristics. The J1 has no dashboard. Data displays are included in each rear view mirror instead. Rotating the throttle away from the rider engages regenerative braking. The more twist, the more the bike slows. There is also a reverse gear to assist in parking. Wheels, brake discs and tires are purchased from outside suppliers to make sure the bikes are road legal. Everything else is built and assembled in house.
But that's only half the story of the Johammer J1. With a battery only slightly smaller than the latest Tesla Powerwall, it can be plugged in when riding is done and serve as a storage battery for a home or small business. That makes it ideal for those who have a residential solar panel installation. "A motorcycle like this is weather-dependent, so no vehicle is better suited for a secondary role as storage," Hammerschmidt says.
He is proud of the fact that his invention does not quite fit any conventional description. Is it a storage battery on wheels or a motorcycle that is also a storage battery? "We're at the stage cars were at 100 years ago. The infrastructure was limited but it grew quickly," says Hammerschmid. "The same will happen with e-vehicles, and it won't just be gas stations used for recharging." Homes, workplaces, shopping malls, parking garages—all will become places to recharge. "The change of pace will be quicker than we currently imagine," he says.
The top of the line Johammer J1 is priced at around $27,000 and the company has begun a crowdfunding campaign to help pay for an expansion of production. Hammerschmidt says he is riding the early wave of multi-function green transport. "This trend is irreversible, we are seeing it in all sectors and especially those connected with mobility."
He may be correct, but his creation still looks weird from every angle. Perhaps that is the price of innovation.
Source: Bloomberg Pursuits
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If you re-read the post to which I replied, chromatic is implying if not saying right out that you spell it "PERL", you're at best sloppy and at worst incapable. That is the statement to which I am replying; nothing more, nothing less.
chromatic is implying if not saying right out that you spell it "PERL", you're at best sloppy and at worst incapable.
Correct, and that again doesn't disagree with what I said, and I agree with chromatic.
I think both he and I are distinguishing two things which you are collapsing together. Consider that what it takes to "be a good Perl programmer" (as in, understand the language from its definition) as separate from what it would mean to work for someone who demands paying attention to detail. It's about individual vs team. He and I seem to agree that spelling it PERL means you don't get to be part of our team, even though you may be a hot-shot Perl programmer.
Does that make it clearer? That's why I challenged your statement: "PERL" is a clue that you're not a team player, even though you may be a fine "Perl programmer".


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The CCleaner malware fiasco targeted at least 20 specific tech firms
Hundreds of thousands of computers getting penetrated by a corrupted version of an ultra-common piece of security software was never going to end well.
But now it's becoming clear exactly how bad the results of the recent CCleaner malware outbreak may be. Researchers now believe that the hackers behind it were bent not only on mass infections, but on targeted espionage that tried to gain access to the networks of at least 20 tech firms.
Earlier this week, security firms Morphisec and Cisco revealed that CCleaner, a piece of security software distributed by Czech company Avast, had been hijacked by hackers and loaded with a backdoor that evaded the company's security checks. It wound up installed on more than 700,000 computers. On Wednesday, researchers at Cisco's Talos security division revealed that they've now analyzed the hackers' "command-and-control" server to which those malicious versions of CCleaner connected.
On that server, they found evidence that the hackers had attempted to filter their collection of backdoored victim machines to find computers inside the networks of 20 tech firms, including Intel, Google, Microsoft, Akamai, Samsung, Sony, VMware, HTC, Linksys, D-Link and Cisco itself. In about half of those cases, says Talos research manager Craig Williams, the hackers successfully found a machine they'd compromised within the company's network, and used their backdoor to infect it with another piece of malware intended to serve as a deeper foothold, one that Cisco now believes was likely intended for industrial espionage.
"When we found this initially, we knew it had infected a lot of companies," says Williams. "Now we know this was being used as a dragnet to target these 20 companies worldwide...to get footholds in companies that have valuable things to steal, including Cisco unfortunately."
A Wide Net
Cisco says it obtained a digital copy of the hackers' command-and-control server from an unnamed source involved in the CCleaner investigation. The server contained a database of every backdoored computer that had "phoned home" to the hackers' machine between September 12 and 16. That included over 700,000 PCs, just as Avast has said in the days since it first revealed its CCleaner debacle. (Initially the company put the number much higher, at 2.27 million.) But the database also showed a list of specific domains onto which the hackers sought to install their secondary malware payload, as well as which ones received that second infection.
The secondary payload targeted 20 companies in all, but Williams notes that some companies had more than one computer compromised, and some had none. He declined to say which of the targets had in fact been breached, but Cisco says it's alerted all the affected companies to the attack.
Williams also notes the target list Cisco found likely isn't comprehensive; it appears to have been "trimmed," he says. It may have included evidence of other targets, successfully breached or not, that the hackers had sought to infect with their secondary payload earlier in the month-long period when the corrupted version of CCleaner was being distributed. "It's very likely they modified this through the monthlong campaign, and it's almost certain that they changed the list around as they progressed and probably targeted even more companies," says Williams.
That target list presents a new wrinkle in the unfolding analysis of the CCleaner attack, one that shifts it from what might have otherwise been a run-of-the-mill mass cybercrime scheme to a potentially state-sponsored spying operation that cast a wide net, and then filtered it for specific tech-industry victims. Cisco and security firm Kaspersky have both pointed out that the malware element in the tainted version of CCleaner shares some code with a sophisticated hacking group known as Group 72, or Axiom, which security firm Novetta named a Chinese government operation in 2015.
Cisco concedes that code reuse alone doesn't represent a definitive link between the CCleaner attack and Axiom, not to mention China. But it also notes that one configuration file on the attackers' server was set for China's time zone—while still acknowledging that's not enough for attribution.
Supply Chain Woes
For any company that may have had computers running the corrupted version of CCleaner on their network, Cisco warns that its findings mean merely deleting that application is no guarantee the CCleaner backdoor wasn't used to plant a secondary piece of malware on their network, one with its own, still-active command and control server. Instead, the researchers recommend that anyone affected fully restore their machines from backup versions prior to the installation of Avast's tainted security program. "If you didn't restore your system from backup, you're at high risk of not having cleaned this up," Williams says.
The exact dimensions of the CCleaner attack will likely continue to be redrawn, as analysis continues. But it already represents another serious example in the string of software supply-chain attacks that have recently rocked the internet. Two months earlier, hackers hijacked the update mechanism of the Ukrainian accounting software MeDoc to deliver a destructive piece of software known as NotPetya, causing massive damage to companies in Ukraine as well as in Europe and the United States. In that case, as in the CCleaner attack, victims installed seemingly legitimate software from a small but trusted company, only to find that it had been silently corrupted, deeply infecting their IT systems.
In the days following the NotPetya attack, many in the security research community shifted their assessment of the attack from a criminal ransomware outbreak to something more insidious, targeted, and created by nation-state hackers. Now, it seems that the mystery surrounding the CCleaner attack may be moving in that same, disturbing direction.
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It looks like a very lovely pen and would look great in my collection. Here's hoping I win.
It is a lovely pen Michele. Good luck!
what an intriguing pen! please enter me in the contest – thanks!
You bet teabird! Good luck!
I think so too Ratika! Good luck!
Fingers crossed. 😀 Thanks for the giveaway!
You're welcome zzdia! And good luck!
I would enjoy trying it out!
Thanks for commenting Priya! And good luck!
Would like to win! I have never written with a fancy pen of any kind before.
Good luck in the giveaway Mama Muse Me!
Wow, another giveaway so soon 🙂 It looks like a neat pen, I do actually prefer slim ink pens; I find them easier to write with.
Well then you will like this one Maemi! Good luck!
Looks pretty. Thanks for the chance to win.
You're welcome Sharon! And good luck!
Rita, you can call it anything you like! Thanks for commenting and good luck in the giveaway!
It's so pretty-I hope I win-thanks for the giveaway!
You are welcome Missy! Good luck!
Agreed Jonathan! Good luck in the giveaway!
Woah! I would love to win this pen!
Best of luck in the giveaway Roshan!
Ooh. I don't mind a slender section! Thanks for mentioning this draw in your entry for the 24th– I guess I didn't start following until after this went up, and it would be vexing to see the winner announced without having known there was a contest.
And since I haven't commented before, I'll also take a moment to admire the Parker you use in the headline. Ooh, again.
Dirck I'm so glad you saw the giveaway! Best of luck. Don't forget to comment on that post to enter. And thanks for the Ooh on the Parker – I agree!
For some reason I thought you were commenting on my Journal Writing Wednesday post instead of this one – oops! Best of luck in the giveaway.
You are welcome Ajhna, and good luck in the giveaway! Yes it is difficult to find the perfect planner inserts. Good luck with that too!
That is a beautiful pen- I love the silver!
Yes the silver is what attracted me to it too! Good luck!
It has beautiful lines. On the pen, not necessarily from the pen.


Family, Barberry. Sepals, 6, falling early. Petals, 6 to 9, roundish. Stamens, twice as many as petals. Fruit, a large berry, with many seeds filling the cavity. The large, solitary flower droops from a short peduncle between the leaves. Three green bractlets lie underneath, which soon fall. Besides the flowering stems, other stems arise from the rootstock bearing one roundish, 7 to 9-lobed leaf, with the stalk joined underneath to the middle. Leaves, 2 on forking, stout petioles rising above the flower. Large, variously 5 to 9-lobed, the stalk affixed underneath, a little distance from the edge. May.
The children call these umbrella leaves. The fruit, called in New Jersey May apple, is edible - that is, it is sweetish and not poisonous, as are all other parts of this singular plant. In New England, May apple is the name of a modi-lied bud which produces a singular pulpous body upon the azalea.
Mr. Gibson speaks of the mandrake berry as " a yellow, tomato-like affair," which, he adds, "has a selfish errand in life. It is filled with seeds, and is concerned only in its own posterity."


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Brickell mixed-use complex sells for $7.5M
By Alexander Britell
The property on South Miami Avenue
A combination of five retail stores and one office space on a lot on South Miami Avenue in Brickell have sold for $7.5 million to a New York-based company, according to broker Fabio Faerman, director of Miami-based Fortune's commercial division.
The buyer of the complex, whose name was not disclosed, plans to maintain the site as is, before eventually redeveloping it.
It has already signed tenants to fill the two empty retail spaces – Crepes & Waffles, a Colombian chain, and an unnamed organic Chinese restaurant, Faerman said.
The deal includes five retail spaces and one office space in a 6,000-square-foot building, as part of a 17,500-square-foot lot, according to LoopNet.
"They will stay with the property as is until they think is the best moment to begin construction," Faerman said. "That is a very, very good price in the Brickell market for this piece of land."
The properties are located at 1036 & 1040 South Miami Avenue and 21 SW 11th Street.
Retail tenants at the site include Grano Bakery and restaurant Rosinella.
The buyer is looking to negotiate short-term deals to retain the tenants currently at the property, said Faerman, who represented both sides in the transaction.
The deal took about a year to complete, he said. The property was originally listed for $8.5 million.
One idea being considered is to eventually build a boutique hotel of between 75 and 130 rooms at the site, according to Faerman.
The buyer owns another property in Brickell, which has seen its retail corridor along South Miami Avenue grow considerably in the last few years.
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[Australia mining] Brendon Grylls accuses BHP, Rio-backed mining lobby of 'wet lettuce' fight – by Julie-anne Sprague (Australian Financial Review – February 8, 2017)
February 9, 2017 in Australia/New Caledonia/Papua New Guinea Mining, BHP Billiton, International Media Resource Articles, Iron Ore, Rio Tinto
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WA Nationals leader Brendon Grylls has urged BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto to spend millions of dollars on a campaign against Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's reluctance to change the GST distribution system.
Mr Grylls accused mining lobby group Chamber of Minerals and Energy (CME) of a 'wet lettuce' fight with the Federal government during a live ABC radio debate in Perth on Wednesday.
CME chief executive Reg Howard-Smith said the lobby group had spent $2 million fighting Mr Grylls's proposal, which combined funds from BHP, Rio, the Minerals Council of Australia and the CME. Mr Howard-Smith agreed the GST distribution system was unfair and that the lobby group had publicly declared Western Australia needed a fairer deal.
"That's a wet lettuce fight you are having and you have decided to take on Western Australia over an unfair 25c [per tonne] levy," Mr Grylls said. "So why aren't you advertising against the commonwealth government for the unfair GST rather than against the people of Western Australia?" Mr Grylls said.
Late September Mr Turnbull said any changes to the system would be "some years away" after committing to introducing a floor that would cap losses when visiting WA in August.
For the rest of this article, click here: http://www.afr.com/news/politics/election/brendon-grylls-accuses-bhp-riobacked-mining-lobby-of-wet-lettuce-fight-20170208-gu86i3
China's secret Trump card: Could Beijing deprive our military of critical defense components? – by John Moody (Fox News – February 3, 2017)
[Strategic Minerals] We have a national security crisis: Let's do nothing – by John Moody (Fox News – February 8, 2017)


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Boston Legal is an American legal dramedy that ran on ABC from October 3, 2004, to December 8, 2008. The show follows the cases and personal lives of the lawyers of law firm Crane, Pool and Schmidt. The show has been nominated for a variety of awards, including 26 Primetime Emmy Awards, eleven Screen Actors Guild Awards, six Satellite Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, two Producers Guild of America Awards and a Peabody Award.

Most of these nominations are for acting, of the show's ensemble cast numerous actors have received nominations. James Spader has received the most award nominations, 15 in total, while winning 3. Spader is closely followed by William Shatner, who received a total of 14 nominations, winning 3 awards as well. The crew members with most award nominations are producer and director Bill D'Elia, with six nominations and zero wins, and show creator David E. Kelley, with five nominations and one win. In total Boston Legal has been nominated for 62 awards, and won 14.

Emmy Awards
The Primetime Emmy Awards are presented yearly by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, they are considered to be the television equivalent to the Academy Awards, and thus one of the highest honours for television shows. The awards are divided into regular Primetime Emmy Awards, which honour acting, directing and writing in television, and Creative Arts Primetime Emmy Awards, which honour behind-the-scenes technical work such as editing and sound mixing. Boston Legal has been nominated for a total of 26 Primetime Emmy Awards, winning five in total, four of which were for acting. The show was nominated for "Outstanding Drama Series" in 2007 and 2008 yet never won in that category.

Primetime Emmy Awards

Creative Arts Primetime Emmy Awards

Golden Globe Awards

Boston Legal has been nominated for four Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Golden Globe awards during its run, it has received one in 2005.

Satellite Awards
The Satellite awards, presented annually by the International Press Academy, honour excellence in film and television. Of its total of six nominations, Boston Legal has won one, which went to James Spader in 2006.

Screen Actors Guild Awards

The Screen Actors Guild Awards are presented annually by SAG-AFTRA. Boston Legal has received eleven nominations during its run, including three for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, but has never won any. James Spader has received most Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, four individual and three along with the rest of the cast.

Other Awards
Boston Legal has been nominated for various guild and society awards, including Producers Guild of America Awards, a Directors Guild of America Award, American Cinema Editors Eddie Awards and a People's Choice Award. Amongst the wins for the series are four Prism Awards and a GLAAD Media Award. In 2005, Boston Legal was awarded a Peabody Award "for fearing neither silliness nor social commentary and for adroitly combining the two".

References

External links
Awards and Nominations for Boston Legal at the Internet Movie Database

Boston Legal
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Q: Multi Value Paramerter SSRS I have a multi value parameter @products and the main dataset has to fetch data of particular ids depending on the value provided to @products.
I gave available values for @products as specific values ( a, b and c). the main query is something like
select version,date from table
where ( @products=a and id in('1','2','3')
or @products=b and id in ('4','5','6')
or @products=c and id in('7','8','9'))

This works fine when only 1 value of @products is selected but throws an error on selecting multiple values.
Can anyone please help me in fixing this.

A: If you are passing multiple values to @products you don't want to have a where clause in which you check if @products is equal to something, since there are multiple values in there. Perhaps could rewrite the query like this:
select version, date from table
where ( ('a' in (@products) and id in ('1','2','3'))
     or ('b' in (@products) and id in ('4','5','6')
     or ('c' in (@products) and id in ('7','8','9')))

I'm assuming the values you are passing to @products are strings/text.  I'm not sure why you have the IDs as text as I would guess they are integers, but I left them in the query as you had them before since I didn't have that info.

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