The Dale is a very aesthetic fitting which would look great either over a Breakfast bar or Dining room table. Can be hung as singular or in multiples. Finished in Bronze/Black with a Black Twisted cable. Would suit any vintage/antique style lamp. **Please note lamp not included**.


During 2019 I will keep an updated monthly blog. Places I've photographed, photography events I have attended and a few Highland weather reports !
You can access my BLOG from the menu.
I will be showcasing some of my ICELAND images for the next month or so.


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If you haven't been to First Covenant, please come on a Sunday morning and take a look around. Our doors open early for coffee and our service begins at 10:00 AM. We believe that you will find this to be a meaningful place to worship a great God. If you have any questions, or need a ride, please contact one of our pastors here.
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When importing a 2D curved beam from DCAD (for extrusion), the lines are not all imported into the same plane. The curved lines are in one plane and the other lines are in a parallel plane. I've double-checked that all lines are connected before exporting. Also, the lines import rotated 90 degrees (vertical rather than horizontal). How do I get this to import correctly?
Could you please give us the DCAD drawing?
In which modul do you import the DXF file?
Here is the DCAD drawing. I'm trying to import into DCAM v 9.04.
I currently have no version 9.04 available. So I had to test it with version 10 and it worked without problem. With some tricks I saved the position of version 10 in a way that you can open it with version 9.
Thanks. I can work with this. I wish I could make the import work with the version I have now. Maybe I have to wait for v10?
I was able to make this work in my version 9.04.
Thanks for the offer, Jim.
I found if I import into a new, blank project, it works fine. Then I can bring it in to the project via the library or save section/insert.


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Granada Hills Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Charge
U.S. Courthouse in Los Angeles
Andrew Harrison Kramer of Granada Hills pleaded guilty this week to one count of conspiracy to distribute at least 1,000 kilograms of marijuana—a federal offense. Kramer was sentenced to 16 years in prison.
Kramer, a former operator of a medical marijuana dispensary in West Hollywood, was accused of shipping marijuana to persons in other states in exchange for large quantities of money. It is believed that Kramer acted with approximately four other persons in carrying out this illegal enterprise.
At his sentencing hearing in the federal court in Los Angeles, Kramer was given the opportunity to speak and he apologized to the court for his actions and pledged to live a law-abiding life in the future.
Federal criminal cases are serious matters that require the assistance of an experienced lawyer who has handled federal cases before.
If you or someone you know is being investigated or has been charged with a crime, it is critical to speak with a criminal defense lawyer as soon as possible.
Attorney Ronald G. Brower is an experienced criminal defense lawyer in Southern California. His extensive defense practice includes representing individuals charged with federal crimes.
Contact the Law Office of Ronald G. Brower today at 714-997-4400.
Labels: conspiracy, Criminal Defense, Federal Crimes, Marijuana, Ronald Brower Law
Arraignment on Winnetka Murder Charges Delayed
The individual accused of killing his former girlfriend and another man last weekend was scheduled to be arraigned on murder charges yesterday, an important event that has been postponed until February 26.
Brian Anthony Gonzales, a/k/a Brian Hammond, 24, is suspected of killing Emily Fox, 22, and Jerrad Scott, 24, last Sunday at Fox's apartment in Winnetka. Fox is from Winnetka and Scott is from La Mesa.
Authorities responded to calls Sunday afternoon, including one from Fox herself, about Gonzales. On arrival, police discovered Fox's and Scott's bodies in Fox's home. Gonzales was later apprehended on a bus.
Gonzales is currently being held without bail as he waits for his arraignment next month.
Being charged with a crime can be and often is a life-altering event. The potential consequences, depending on the crime, can have major implications on one's current and future liberty. In the case of murder, the punishment in California can sometimes be death.
For that reason, it is critical if you or someone you know has been charged with a crime to speak with a criminal defense attorney.
The Law Office of Ronald G. Brower has represented individuals charged with crimes for over three decades. Attorney Brower has provided legal representation to people charged with a range of crimes, including murder.
Labels: arraignment, Brian Anthony Gonzales, Brian Hammond, Criminal Charges, Criminal Defense, Emily Fox, Jerrad Scott, Murder, Ronald Brower Law
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Yeh Pleads No Contest to Sexual Offenses
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Michelle Yeh, a former science teacher at San Pedro High School, was sentenced in Long Beach Superior Court to state prison after pleading no contest to multiple counts of sexual offenses.
Yeh, 29, was accused of engaging in unlawful sexual acts with some of her male students at the school. Yeh was hired as a substitute teacher in February and evidence reportedly indicated that she began to court four students shortly thereafter.
The government contended that Yeh enticed the young boys in her class with promises, gifts, trips, meals, and outings to the movies and Disneyland in exchange for inappropriate romantic or sexual favors.
Yeh was arrested in July 2015 and a preliminary hearing to determine if there was probable cause to charge Yeh was held in November.
If Yeh had not reached an agreement with the prosecutor's office and instead elected to have a trial, Yeh could have faced up to 9 years in prison if convicted of charges for statutory rape, lewd acts on a child, annoying a child, and violating a court order.
Instead, Yeh pleaded no contest to the charges and was sentenced for 3 years and 8 months in state prison. However, Yeh will have to register as a sex offender for life.
Deciding whether to enter into a plea agreement or pursue a trial is a significant decision and requires the guidance and expertise of an experienced criminal defense attorney.
Ronald G. Brower is a criminal defense attorney in Orange County, California. His practice focuses on defending individuals charged with a range of criminal charges, including rape and other sexual offenses.
If you are being investigated, have been arrested or are charged with a crime, contact a criminal defense attorney to protect your constitutional rights.
The Law Office of Ronald G. Brower can be reached at 714-997-4400.
Labels: Child_Molestation, Criminal Defense, criminal law, Long Beach California, Michelle Yeh, no contest, plead, Ronald Brower Law, San Pedro High School, Sexual_Offenses
Prosecutor Declines To Prosecute Cosby
Prosecutors in Los Angeles announced their decision today to not file criminal charges against Bill Cosby.
Cosby has been accused of various rape and sexual assault offenses in different jurisdictions across the country. Last week, prosecutors in Pennsylvania filed the first formal charges against Cosby.
According to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, a combination of reasons led them to decline to prosecute Cosby.
Some of the accusations, the D.A.'s office stated, were barred by the applicable statute of limitations. In other instances, there was simply not enough evidence for the prosecutors to meet their legal requirement and ethical obligation to file charges only when there is probable cause and no reasonable doubt for each offense.
The accusations against Cosby were based on events that allegedly occurred as long ago as 1965 and more recently in 2008. Despite the L.A. District Attorney's Office decision to criminally prosecute Cosby, Cosby is still subject to liability in a civil lawsuit.
Prosecutors hold a position of extraordinary power in our criminal justice system and wield tremendous discretion in deciding whether to charge someone with a crime and what to charge them with.
It is important to have a knowledgeable criminal defense lawyer who can negotiate with prosecutors if you know you are being investigated and have not been charged with a crime. If you have already been charged with a crime, it is imperative that you have an attorney who can protect your rights.
Ronald G. Brower is a criminal defense attorney in Orange County, California with over three decades of experience. Attorney Brower has handled criminal cases from murder and rape to trespass.
Contact the Law Office of Ronald G. Brower to speak with a criminal defense lawyer today.
Labels: Bill Cosby, Criminal Charges, Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, Prosecutor, prosecutorial discretion, Rape, Ronald Brower Law, Sexual_Assault, Sexual_Offenses

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Q: Organizing Meteor with client and server directories I am starting out on Meteor, I've got everything running from one coffee file, but I would like to get organized and move some code to /public and /server. But, when I do this, my collection is undefined. I've moved around a lot of code, but the collection stays undefined. I've removed the autopublish and insecure packages. What am I doing wrong?
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A: You need a Trips to be accessible to the other files, Meteor 0.6.0 introduced variable scoping you have a Trips defined in your root directory so its not global & your client/trips.coffee cant see it. You could make it global with an @:
In your /main.coffee
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So this would be accessible to other files (both client and server).
When you split up your file further you should end up with 3 files:
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/client/trips.coffee
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Meteor.startup ->
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Phillies All-Time Lists
Phillies Greatest 50 All-Time
Top Rookie Seasons All-Time
Top Speedsters All-Time
All-Defensive Team by Position
Top Offensive Players All-Time
Top Power Hitters All-Time
Greatest To Wear Each Number
Top 5 Catchers All-Time
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Top Outfielders All-Time
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Detroit Wins, Phillies Happy That Game Was Not Played in Detroit
It is pretty hard not to feel bad for the residents of Detroit. With real problems like unemployment and the highest murder rate in the county coupled with sports problems like the recent Piston's fiasco, Miquel Carbrera and the state of the Detroit Lions, Detroit needs a win. Being the benevolent fanbase that we are, I am sure that we can give them a meaningless grapefruit league game.
With Cliff Lee making his first spring start in a Phillies uniform, Detroit seemed destined to be dealt another in a long series of crippling blows. Lee, however, was not as sharp as we have come to expect. After leading the league in WHIP and BB/9 last season, the left hander hit Will Rhymes to start the game and let him advance to second on a wild pitch. To put this in perspective this would account for 33% of his wild pitch total and equal how many people he hit during last season. Reports that Lee was using his right hand to pitch are unconfirmed.
The Tigers handed the ball to 23 year old lefty Andrew Oliver. In his three innings of work, he managed to keep Detroit in the lead surrendering only an RBI single to Jimmy Rollins.
I believe this was a split squad game for the Tigers, meaning that we were treated to more random players than usual during the course of the game. Move over Victor Martinez and Justin Verlander. Big name talent such as Andy Dirks and Clete Thomas were on full display during the 6-2 Tigers victory.
Positives from today's contest were Rollins driving in a run and a solid two inning performance from Kyle Kendrick ( I know! I did not expect it either!).
Negatives included former Tigers farmhand Eddie Bonine getting torched by his former employer, Cliff Lee's uncharacteristic wildness and the continued struggles of Domonic Brown. Brown is still 0-spring and struck out two times. I think that the rookie's struggles can be directly attributed to attempting to change his swing in the process of fighting for the right field spot. This guy is way too talented to not succeed at some point. Figure on him heating up at some point this spring.
Next up the Phillies and ace number three Roy Oswalt face the new look Baltimore Orioles.


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Museum of Mobile
History Museum of Mobile
Jennifer Fondren, Museum of Mobile
The History Museum of Mobile houses and interprets 300 years of Mobile history through numerous exhibits containing thousands of artifacts. The museum is housed in the Old City Hall building, a national historic landmark, and has roots that date back nearly 180 years. The museum also operates the Phoenix Fire Museum and oversees the historic Fort Condé, a replica of the original French fort that occupied the site during the Colonial Period.
The origins of the museum lie with Augustus Girard, a Swiss watchmaker who emigrated to Mobile in 1831. His interest in scientific and historical artifacts led to his organizing a Mobile chapter of the Franklin Society, named after Benjamin Franklin and having the motto "knowledge is power." The Franklin Society appears to have originated with a student secret society that existed at Brown University until 1834. In Mobile, it functioned as a literary society and at its headquarters housed a library and reading room filled with books and artifacts collected by members.
Fort Condé Re-enactors
The society persisted in several incarnations for 50 years and included members such as Confederate naval hero Raphael Semmes and Thomas A. Hamilton, uncle of Mobile historian and jurist Peter J. Hamilton. During that period, repeated fires damaged the society's collections and led the group to disband in 1882. Some of the books rescued from the fire were given to Addie C. Moses, founder of the first Mobile Public Library. This collection expanded over the years as historically minded Mobilians continued to donate family heirlooms, artifacts, and art acquired during travels to various parts of the world.
In 1905, Archibald C. Harte, secretary of the Mobile YMCA, local author and historian Peter J. Hamilton, and Erwin Craighead, editor of the Mobile Register, began campaigning for a museum. They displayed Mobile's historical collection in part of the YMCA. In 1930, much of the museum collection was moved to the new Mobile Public Library and opened to the public.
John Augustus Walker Mural
In 1935, a group of women began meeting at the Women's Club to discuss the preservation of Mobile's heritage, including the artifacts housed at the public library. The group formed the Historic Mobile Preservation Society, elected officers, and began planning a permanent museum. Over the years, the society tried to establish a museum at various locations in the city, including the old Custom House, the Kirkbride House, and the Oakleigh Mansion. None of these sites worked out as a permanent location for the museum, however.
By 1954, the space occupied by the collection at the library was needed for library activities. The items were packed up and stored in several locations around town. On November 9, 1954, the city's Board of Commissioners adopted a resolution creating a committee, overseen by the Historic Mobile Preservation Society, that was charged with cataloging the collection and assembling additional artifacts in anticipation of the establishment of a city museum. In 1962, the committee became the autonomous Museum Board and continued its efforts to unite artifacts relating to Mobile's history under one roof.
Phoenix Fire Museum
By 1964, the Museum Board had exhausted all possibilities of finding a single structure capable of holding the entire collection. Thus, boardmembers decided to divide the artifacts into three collections and instead worked to establish three separate museums. The board's efforts resulted in the creation of the Phoenix Fire Museum and the Museum of Mobile as well as a planned Mardi Gras Museum that never came to fruition. The fire department museum is located in the station house of the Phoenix Volunteer Fire Company. It was dedicated on October 9, 1964, by First Lady Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson. Between 1964 and 1967, the museum's collections were housed in the south wing of the City Hall building and the Phoenix Fire Museum.
In July 1972, the collections relating to general Mobile history found their first real home when the city of Mobile bought the historic Bernstein-Bush House and turned it over to the Museum Board. The facility opened as the official Museum of Mobile in 1976 and operated for 23 years.
In 1999, the Bush-Bernstein House (now home to the Mobile Carnival Museum) closed to the public so that the museum could relocate to a larger facility. The Old City Hall complex was chosen as the permanent home for the museum. This historic landmark building underwent $10 million in restoration, renovations, and retrofitting, and the museum opened to the public in September 2001. The Phoenix Fire Museum continues to be operated as a satellite facility.
The History Museum of Mobile at Old City Hall has approximately 20,000 square feet of exhibit space, a collection of more than 80,000 artifacts, a research library with a collection of some 5,000 books, a classroom, an auditorium, a fabrication shop, a collection storage area, a loading dock, design studios, meeting rooms, a museum store, and offices for the staff.
The museum has made a special effort to preserve and present the stories of historically underserved segments of Mobile's population. To that end, the museum has incorporated the history and contributions of African American Mobilians into its permanent exhibits. Current activities of the museum include: guided tours, summer day camps, special educational events and programs, outreach activities for local schools, teacher workshops and open houses, a changing exhibit schedule that presents both traveling and in house exhibits, conservation and preservation workshops, book signings, lectures, and presentations by the staff to schools and local civic groups.
Published: April 6, 2011 | &nbspLast updated: September 19, 2019


Today, we have a very special announcement for you. The release of a patch for our mod, Europa Barbarorum, for the Rome Total War engine: EB 1.2!
The mod has advanced a very long way from our first beta: EB 0.7.2, more than 2 years from now (here`s the announcement). In retrospective, we can say that we have advanced a very long way, always struggling to create a representation of the ancient world as accurate as it can be, considering the RTW engine's possibilities and limitations.
There are not many major changes in this version. Likewise, there are no new units. Work for EB 2 has already been going on for months, and also all of our modelers and skinners are focused on pumping out EB2 units. The entire team will now focus on our newer version for M2TW. Nevertheless, we will not stop supporting EB1, and there will in all likelihood be some other goodies in the near future too.
Rather, the scope of this version focuses primarily on bugfixes, among them the total redesign of the Client Ruler system. We also have a new punic voicemod, a new Epeiros intro by Stupac, and the previously released historical battles are also part of this release.
We thank our dedicated (and now almost professional!) betatesters: mcantu, Hax, Thaatu, Ice, Obelics. Their help was absolutely essential in clearing bugs with the Client Ruler system. Special thanks to I Am Here Now, who spotted an unsuspected quantity of spelling mistakes in our descriptions, most of which are now fixed.
We also want to give special thanks to Ken Eckman and Don Johnson, who helped decisively with the recording of our brand new punic voicemod . The Punic voicemod was developed by team effort between Kikosemmek and Shigawire. Shigawire provided the grammar and dictionary books, Kikosemmek did the translations and reconstructions. Abou provided the voice acting talent. Shigawire and Redmeth provided the technical implementation. Special thanks goes to Dr. Charles Krahmalkov for having written the books we used, and for some very informative emails.
We also thank to all the people that have pointed out various bugs and errors in our previous builds. Without their dedicated feedback, we wouldn't have come this far with our mod. A big thanks to you, and we wish you all a very happy play.
A complete list of mirrors can be found on our website's Download section. We strongly recommend people to use BitTorrent to download EB to conserve bandwidth, but also as torrent provides better transfer speeds once a couple of people have downloaded part of it. Please consider seeding EB after downloading unless you pay per amount of traffic. Don`t be a leech!
More mirrors will be added when they are available.
First make sure you have a clean RTW 1.5 installation on your computer where you have installed EB 1.1, with no submods. This is to make absolutely certain old files or directories won't cause problems for the EB installation. Any official fixes that you have installed does not count as submods.
You should already have a clean 1.5 RTW if you followed the installation guide for 1.1, so even if you have installed submods it should be a simple matter of installing EB 1.1 into a copy of that one. If you don't have this and need to install RTW 1.5 again, you should now make a copy of that clean 1.5 RTW so you have it available for easily making another installation in the future. Then you won't have to install RTW again, but only EB.
If you have Vista, make sure that you have the RTW installation where you add EB outside of Program Files. You may get problems either immediately, or when it's least convenient, if you still install EB under Program Files.
Double-click the EB installer file and follow the instructions on screen. Make sure that you select the RTW folder, IE the one where RomeTW.exe lies under. Also make sure that you remove the boilerplate text that comes after the folder that you choose.
Refer to the installation guide post for more specific instructions and special cases. Refer to the installation validation post if your EB doesn't work after installing.
As always, new versions of EB are not savegame compatible.
Once you have installed v1.2, install the game fixes, found here: 1.2 Fixes you should try before posting. These fixes are a must and may fix game ending bugs. Fixes are updated, so check back later if problems occur.
As you may know, the Client Ruler system had various sporadic bugs that included wrong trait assignment, killing of existing family members, clones popping up and more. Those problems couldn`t be fixed with the previous Client Ruler system, so the decision was made to construct an entirely new mechanic for the matter. Now recruitable generals can become either Allied Generals or Client Rulers, depending on whether they stay during their first turn in their city or are moved into the field after being created.
In the example, we are going to recruit a hellenistic client ruler, with a hellenistic bodyguard. There are also other bodyguards, and the type of bodyguards available depends of the culture of the settlement that`s recruiting the general.
We can leave him into the city, so that he becomes a client ruler... subject to our will!
But beware of moving him to a non-allied settlement. As before, by taking him out and making him governor of a Type I - II or III governed city, you risk making him into an impostor.
Also as before, remember not to enter allied settlements with your family members. This is meddling with domestic affairs, which will generate negative traits on the family members that poke their noses on allied poleis. In addition, it will cause unrest, as you make clear that the allied settlement is not really independent, and that the client ruler is a mere puppet of your basileos!
2º. Make him a non-family-member General. That`s done by moving him out of the city on the first turn after being recruited. Thus, Neoptolemos will end up commanding client armies rather than governing cities.
As with client rulers, allied generals will gain negative effects if they are instated as governors in non-allied provinces.
Our voicemod translators and actors have performed an enormous feat: to bring you the punic voicemod. An huge amount of work has been put into this feature, which combines the labour of translators, voice actors, coders etc.
* Addition of battle defeat theme.
* A multitude of corrections of Sweboz unit and building names.
* Correction of various proto Balto-Slavic names.
* Various corrections of Romanii trait names.
* Relocation of strategy map docks, to better correspond with historic locations of important ports.
* Fixed spamming of Sweboz reform markers.
* Removed duplicated medininkas mercenary archers.
* Saka can now build blacksmith, mines and receive benefits of high level ports.
* Nomads can now recruit diplomats from higher levels of core building.
* Adjustments of law bonus for nomad core buildings.
* Added many short descriptions for pontos.
* Fixed CTD when choosing fate of a newly conquered settlement (if Lusted's theory is correct).
* Corrected and refined unit placement.
* Fixed a bug in the cumulative wins/losses triggers, thanks Tollheit!
* Correction of the UI of the Lonchophoroi.
* Corrected Lusotannan animosity. Now they want to kick Carthaginean butts, instead of Pontic.
* Fixed celtic reform markers.
* Year In History text changes for 264 and 263 BC.
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No. Added a line about that, thanks.
Edit: There seems to be a problem with the Bittorrent tracker. Sumotracker is down. I'll make a new torrent right away.
Edit2: Now I've added Pirate bay to the trackers. Should work now. You may need to download the torrent file again though.
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Does that mean that my allied generals can look, for example, hellenistic even if I am Roman? It would be much better than the Generic "Manius" I get for all my allies.
Unfortunately, we cannot have different portraits from the regular ones of your faction. Also we cannot choose their names, so they will get names from the faction you control. The upside of this is that the campaign map will be a lot faster and we avoid all the instability connected to the client rulers.
Well, good enough. The new system seems to be far better and I hope that clone problem is solved, lost more than one campaign due to it.
The upside of this is that the campaign map will be a lot faster and we avoid all the instability connected to the client rulers.
Just saw this. Amazing job, as always guys Now I just can't wait until I EBII comes out!
Great!!!! It is the injection of fun I needed from my computer!!!!! Congratulations!!!!!
I've tried to use bittorrent to download EB before, but for some reason the average download speed is 3 kb/s. Could there be anything wrong with my computer that limits torrent speed?
Yes, the problem is that I'm the lone seeder, with a crappy connection that dies quite often. Two more team members are going to seed soon.
Sorry for being unclear. I meant to say that with previous releases I also achieved a download speed of 3 kb/s, even if I waited a day after release before trying to download it. The current version of Bittorrent also keeps saying there is a problem with the incoming connections.
but one thing concernes me: if you are able to train Allied generals with the Allied state gouvernment, what use will level 5 local MICs have outside of tracia(and the other few regions with lv 5 locals)?
I'll be the first to place it under ed2k when I download it. Anyone else to volunteer for it?
The current version of Bittorrent also keeps saying there is a problem with the incoming connections.
That doesn't have to mean much. My torrent client gives me the same message, but I still get decent speeds.
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Feel free, I'll put the link up when you post it.
does the client ruler script optimization count as a submod?
I have to download and start a Karthadast campaign ASAP!
No. All the files that that changes will be safely overwritten with the new 1.2 files.
Last edited by bovi; 11-21-2008 at 19:03.
Does 1.2 include by chance enhanced AI formations or Victory conditions file?
Are the changes significant enough to warrant a new campaign?
"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind...but there is one thing that science cannot accept - and that is a personal God who meddles in the affairs of his creation."
I >>heart<< EB team - thanks for creating the finest computer experience ever.
That's like asking: are the changes significant enough to warrant a full installer + ditto release post + download tracker set up + torrent file + ... ?
Wow, thank you EB team for this wonderful surprise, I must now finish my Arverni campaign up in order to enjoy the fruits of your labor.
If the changes are mostly cosmetic, I'll just finish my 1.1 campaign and start a 1.2 campaign with a new faction in the future.
hey this looks great! but is there something wrong with Torrent, I can't access it from here or the EB website??
LS is the best! LS is the best! Come on people sing along!!
You need a Bit Torrent client to download it. Usually Free Download Manager includes it, so you just click it and accept it to start.


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Marholmen är en ö i Stockholms norra skärgård i Uppland. Den har landförbindelse och på ön har Kommunalarbetarförbundet en semesterby med restaurang- och konferensverksamhet.

Historik
År 1900 köpte grosshandlaren Nils Vilhelm Berg Marholmen där han lät uppföra sommarvillor. I samband med storstrejken 1909 engagerade sig Nils Berg och hans hustru Hanna i arbetarrörelsen. De startade kursverksamhet på Marholmen och 1913 skänkte de större delen av ön till Landsorganisationen för att använda egendomen som ett vilohem för arbetarkvinnor.

Resterande delen av ön skänkte paret till Birkagårdens folkhögskola 1924. Folkhögskolan hade grundats av Natanael Beskow som blev rektor på skolverksamhetens som byggdes upp på Marholmen. För ritningarna svarade arkitekten C. A. Danielsson-Bååk Skolan startade 1926 med sommarkurser för arbetarkvinnor. Därefter drevs kursverksamhet och facklig verksamhet på Marholmen under somrarna.

Kommunalarbetarförbundet köpte LO:s delar av Marholmen år 1983 för 600 000 kr, vilket motsvarade en krona per medlem. År 1988 invigdes Marholmens fritids- och konferenscenter med fyrtio semesterstugor och konferenssalar. Den kompletterades med Birkagårdens del av Marholmen år 2006 och drivs av Kommunals handelsbolag Lyran konferens. Sedan 2011 finns skärgårdskrogen Grosshandlargården i den gamla folkhögskolan och de verser som Elsa Beskow textat har återställts.

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Externa länkar
marholmen.se
Konferensanläggningar
Öar i Norrtälje kommuns skärgård

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Diamond in Detail
How does Diamond benefit the scientific community?
Diamond offers scientists access to facilities and expertise that enable them to carry out experiments which would be impossible in a normal lab, and the synchrotron provides technology which is highly specialised. Access to Diamond is free at the point of access for scientists funded by the UK Research Councils or the Wellcome Trust, providing results are published and freely accessible by the academic community, and beamtime is controlled by a peer review panel and allocated on scientific merit. Over the last 3 years we have had an average of approximately 500 peer reviewed papers each year.
For how long is the synchrotron operational during a year?
The number of hours of beamtime available will steadily increase until Diamond is offering 5,000 hours per year. Since Diamond is still in its early stages, the synchrotron is in shutdown approximately 140 days of the year to do essential machine works and to allow for the installation of new beamlines. The rest of the time, it is running 24 hours a day, six days a week.
How is the facility maintained, and how many people are involved in this maintenance?
Diamond has a large team of experts including scientists, engineers and technicians who all help to maintain the facility. The Technical Division's main responsibility is to maintain the facility and it currently consists of 165 members of staff.
How much does it cost to use Diamond?
For academic researchers funded by the UK research councils or charitable organisations such as the Wellcome Trust and Cancer Research UK, there is no cost to use Diamond, provided their results will be made public. Academic research proposals are reviewed by an external body of scientific advisors. The applications that represent the best science are then passed on to Diamond for further review on the grounds of technical feasibility and Health & Safety. Once proposals have been accepted, the users are allocated beamtime, for which there is no charge.
A small percentage (10%) of Diamond's beamtime is available for industry to make use of, and industrial users publishing in the private domain pay a fee for using the facility. The amount that industry users pay depends on the amount of set up and experimental time they need, and the amount of technical support required from the scientists at Diamond. For more information on industrial access, please see our Industry pages.
How do you apply to use a beamline? Who decides who can use the beamlines? What are the criteria?
Academics can submit their beamtime application online using the Diamond website. Diamond aims to facilitate the best science possible within the boundaries of technical feasibility and Health & Safety considerations. All applications are submitted to the external peer review panel for decision based on scientific merit; applications are then reviewed by the safety and technical panel. Review panel decisions are passed to the Diamond management team for final approval. Successful applicants are then allocated beamtime.
In addition, proposals from industry for beamtime, where the results will be published in the public domain, will be accepted for consideration by the standard peer review process that is in place for academics.
Companies wishing to apply for proprietary access (where projects and results are confidential and available only to the customer) will be charged a fee for beamtime used and services provided. More information is available on the Industry pages. All applications of interest should be directed to Elizabeth Shotton, Industrial Liaison Manager, industry@diamond.ac.uk.
Who owns the intellectual property on discoveries made at Diamond?
The intellectual property is typically retained by the institution or institutions that fund the researchers. Academic researchers who use Diamond must publish their research in the public domain. The IP on discoveries made by employees of Diamond Light Source is owned by Diamond. Industrial researchers may opt not to publicly release their results, but these researchers must pay to use Diamond.
Where do users prepare for experiments?
The users prepare for their experiments either at their own institutions and/or in the dedicated laboratories that have been constructed around the synchrotron building. These are helpfully located close to the relevant beamlines to aid speed and accuracy for experiments.
Where do users stay when they are visiting?
Diamond has onsite accommodation for users, providing a place to rest for those working overnight or for longer periods. Ridgeway House offers 180 comfortable rooms, within easy walking distance of the synchrotron building.
Is Diamond available to foreign researchers?
Yes. Diamond supports the best science regardless of where it's from and we accept research proposals from both UK and foreign researchers. All proposals are judged by an external scientific advisory panel on their scientific merit so that Diamond can facilitate the best science possible. Diamond is part of the I3 trans-national access programme which allows EU scientists to be fully supported when they are allocated time at Diamond. Please contact the User Office for more details.


This lovely small park is named for Elizabeth Trice Walton, a prominent and generous member of the Mineral community. Mrs. Walton was born about 1905, and was married to Senator Walton, a member of the Virginia General Assembly. She raised four children and though much of her early life was spent in Richmond, she developed a deep love and concern for Louisa County and the Town of Mineral where she raised her family.
Mrs. Walton was instrumental in improving the civic life of the Town of Mineral. She gave the land for the park that bears her name to the town in 1954. The Mineral Bluegrass Festival is held here each July. The Mineral Fire Department receives a portion of the proceeds.
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In 1959, the partial skeletal remains of an ancient woman estimated to be 10,000 years old were unearthed in Arlington Springs on Santa Rosa Island, one of the eight Channel Islands off the southern California coast. They were discovered by Phil C. Orr, curator of anthropology and natural history at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. The remains of the so-called Arlington Springs woman were recently reanalyzed by the latest radiocarbon dating techniques and were found to be approximately 13,000 years old. The new date makes her remains older than any other known human skeleton found so far in North America.
The discovery challenges the popular belief that the first colonists to North America arrived at the end of the last ice age about 11,500 years ago by crossing a Bering land bridge that connected Siberia to Alaska and northwestern Canada. The earlier date and the location of the woman's remains on the island adds weight to an alternative theory that some early settlers may have constructed boats and migrated from Asia by sailing down the Pacific coast.
The Arlington Springs woman lived during the end of the Pleistocene era when large herds of bison and woolly mammoths roamed the grassy plains and other extinct native American animals such as camels, horses, and saber-toothed cats were still around.
The remains of Pleistocene-era animals have been discovered on Santa Rosa Island where the Arlington Springs woman was found. In 1994, the world's most complete skeleton of a pygmy mammoth, a dwarf species, was also excavated here.


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Zambian miners end strike at Barrick copper mine
(Mujahid Safodien, AFP)
Zimbabwe, Zambia to repair Kariba Dam
Zambia's new president names full cabinet
Shivambu congratulates Zambia's Lungu
Lusaka - Workers at Barrick Gold's Lumwana mine resumed work on Tuesday after staging a one-day strike over plans by the Canadian company to pull out of copper-rich Zambia, a union official said.
Mine Workers' Union of Zambia (MUZ) representative Leonard Phiri told AFP the decision to resume work follows reassurances by the government that no job loses would occur.
"Last night [Monday] government representatives and union officials held a meeting and later addressed the workers and assured all of us that our jobs are safe," he said.
"As things stand now, the situation has returned to normal. We are now working."
The strike came after Barrick Gold announced it would suspend operations at Lumwana after the Zambian government increased a mineral rights levy to 20% mineral rights from 6% despite global copper prices having fallen by around a fifth over the past year.
Nearly 4 000 people work at the mine.
But on Monday, President Edgar Lungu promised "not allow a single mining job to be lost" and directed the ministry of mines to ensure that the site remained operational.
Zambia is one of the world's largest producers of copper.
Lungu, who narrowly won last month's presidential election, said his government was working to "rapidly" address concerns over the new royalties.
Zambia's chamber of mines has warned the taxes could cost the country $7bn in lost output over the next five years, nearly a third of its GDP and lead to the loss of 12 000 direct jobs in the mining sector.
Despite copper contributing around 70% of foreign exchange earnings, Zambia is ranked among the world's poorest countries.
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Resolution 9 – On Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality, Some Suggestions
June 18, 2019 / Ronnie W Rogers
The 2019 SBC annual meeting met on June 11–12. The messengers adopted several resolutions, one of which was a resolution on Critical Race Theory (CR) and Intersectionality (IN).[1] While I appreciate the Resolutions Committee seeking to speak to current issues from a biblical perspective, I think this resolution lacked due consideration.
Before I suggest some nuances for the adopted resolution that I believe should have been incorporated before even considering such a resolution, I must say that I think the resolution as a whole was misdirected. To wit, if the Resolutions Committee were going to offer a resolution on CR/IN, their time and effort would have been better spent in precisely defining and delineating the origin and nature of CR/IN and why it is unnecessary and harmful to the gospel.
The resolution, as it stands, seems to make a seriously flawed assumption that the messengers were sufficiently familiar with the origin, nature, and transcendent qualities of these concepts, philosophies, and their potential consequences. Popular familiarity with terms should never be equated with an adequate understanding of them, particularly when voting on a resolution with such significant and far-reaching implications.
While the adopted resolution seeks to emphasize the superiority of Scripture, it does so to stress the usability and positives of CR/IN so they may be adopted and employed alongside Scripture, albeit subserviently. The resolution as adopted leaves ample room for those who either believe in these as worldviews or, at least, believe these ideological theories should be adopted as significantly useful, or even essential, tools for understanding and addressing human identity issues. Those of us who participated in the Conservative Resurgence have witnessed moderates undermine Scripture with better-worded documents than this resolution.
Critical Race Theory is "the view that race, instead of being biologically grounded and natural, is socially constructed and that race, as a socially constructed concept, functions as a means to maintain the interests of the white population that constructed it."[2]
Intersectionality is defined in the Oxford Dictionary as "the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage."[3] Consequently, minorities can suffer from varying degrees of discrimination.
IN is significantly related to identity politics. For example, a woman could suffer discrimination, but a black woman suffers two compounding levels of discrimination. If the black woman is a lesbian, then she suffers on three levels. Thus, a person's identity is wrapped up in the degree to which they are discriminated. The more layers of discrimination generally include how much authority we should grant their opinions. Of course, the white man suffers from no levels of discrimination. For a fuller understanding of CR/IN and other compatible theories see my article on Social Justice.
An example of the stronger and clearer wording that I think is missing from the resolution can be found in The Statement on Social Justice & The Gospel, of which I am a signer. The first affirmation and disaffirmation states:
WE AFFIRM that the Bible is God's Word, breathed out by him. It is inerrant, infallible, and the final authority for determining what is true (what we must believe) and what is right (how we must live). All truth claims and ethical standards must be tested by God's final Word, which is Scripture alone.
WE DENY that Christian belief, character, or conduct can be dictated by any other authority, and we deny that the postmodern ideologies derived from intersectionality, radical feminism, and critical race theory are consistent with biblical teaching. We further deny that competency to teach on any biblical issue comes from any qualification for spiritual people other than clear understanding and simple communication of what is revealed in Scripture.[4]
Below is the Resolution as adopted. I have inserted some suggestions that I think should have been incorporated before even considering the Resolution as worthy of debate. My suggestions strongly indicate that at least some of the authors of the Resolution granted more credibility to CR/IN than is necessary or even biblically prudent. My suggestions are in brackets and emboldened; my comments are not intended to reflect the grammatical changes necessary for proper wording but only the ideas. See also Tom Ascol's article on Resolution 9.
Resolution 9, as adopted, On Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality
WHEREAS, Concerns have been raised by some evangelicals over the use of frameworks such as critical race theory and intersectionality; and
WHEREAS, Critical race theory is a set of analytical tools [and philosophy] that [seeks to] explain how race has and continues to function in society, and intersectionality is the [replace "the" with "a"] study of how different personal characteristics overlap and [attempt to] inform one's experience; and
–WHEREAS, Critical race theory and intersectionality [originated as contradictory to the Christian faith and] have been appropriated by individuals with worldviews that are contrary to the Christian faith, resulting in ideologies and methods that contradict Scripture; and
–WHEREAS, Evangelical scholars [insert "Some" before Evangelical—note the favoritism of the drafters in that they used "some evangelicals" have concerns about using CR/IN in the first Whereas but left it out in this Whereas that speaks of employment of these concepts by evangelicals—subtle] who affirm the authority and sufficiency of Scripture [which is the precise designation that many moderates, who deny inerrancy, used prior to and during the Conservative Resurgence in the SBC, and therefore, is inadequate for this kind of Resolution; it omits words like "inerrancy" or "verbal plenary inspiration"] have employed selective insights from critical race theory and intersectionality to understand multifaceted social dynamics; and
WHEREAS, The Baptist Faith and Message states, "All Scripture is totally true and trustworthy. It reveals the principles by which God judges us, and therefore is, and will remain to the end of the world, the true center of Christian union, and the supreme standard by which all human conduct, creeds, and religious opinions should be tried" (Article I); and
WHEREAS, General revelation accounts for truthful insights found in human ideas that do not explicitly emerge from Scripture and reflects what some may term "common grace"; and
WHEREAS, Critical race theory and intersectionality alone are insufficient [replace "insufficient" with "incapable"] to diagnose and redress the root causes of the social ills that they [claim to] identify, which result from sin, yet these analytical [philosophical ideas and] tools can [replace "can" with "may"] aid in evaluating a variety of human experiences; and
WHEREAS, Scripture contains categories and principles by which to deal with racism, poverty, sexism, injustice, and abuse that are not rooted in secular ideologies; and
WHEREAS, Humanity is primarily identified in Scripture as image bearers of God, even as biblical authors address various audiences according to characteristics such as male and female, Jew and Gentile, slave and free; and
WHEREAS, The New Covenant further unites image bearers by creating a new humanity that will one day inhabit the new creation, and that the people of this new humanity, though descended from every nation, tribe, tongue, and people, are all one through the gospel of Jesus Christ (Ephesians 2:16; Revelation 21:1–4, 9–14); and
WHEREAS, Christian citizenship is not based on our differences but instead on our common salvation in Christ—the source of our truest and ultimate identity; and
WHEREAS, The Southern Baptist Convention is committed to racial reconciliation built upon biblical presuppositions and is committed to seeking biblical justice through biblical means; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That the messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention meeting in Birmingham, Alabama, June 11–12, 2019, affirm Scripture as the first, last, and sufficient authority with regard to how the Church seeks to redress social ills, and we reject any conduct, creeds, and religious opinions which contradict Scripture [or marginalizes or distracts from the cure for people's identity problems being found in Christ alone]; and be it further
RESOLVED, That critical race theory and intersectionality should only be employed as analytical tools [replace "tools" with "considerations"] subordinate to Scripture—not as transcendent ideological frameworks [as many secularists who use them believe]; and be it further
RESOLVED, That the gospel of Jesus Christ alone grants the power to change people and society because "he who started a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus" (Philippians 1:6); and be it further
RESOLVED, That Southern Baptists will carefully analyze how the information gleaned from these tools are employed to address social dynamics; and be it further
RESOLVED, That Southern Baptist churches and institutions repudiate the misuse [the preceding wording of the Resolution is imprecise enough to guarantee disagreement as to what constitutes "misuse"] of insights gained from critical race theory, intersectionality, and any unbiblical ideologies that can emerge from their use when absolutized as a worldview [or even used as an indispensably important analytical tool]; and be it further
RESOLVED, That we deny any philosophy or theology that fundamentally defines individuals using categories identified as sinful in Scripture rather than the transcendent reality shared by every image bearer and divinely affirmed distinctions; and be it further
RESOLVED, That while we denounce the misuse of critical race theory and intersectionality, we do not deny that ethnic, gender, and cultural distinctions exist and are a gift from God that will give Him absolute glory when all humanity gathers around His throne in worship because of the redemption accomplished by our resurrected Lord; and be it finally
RESOLVED, That Southern Baptist churches seek to exhibit this eschatological promise in our churches in the present by focusing on unity in Christ amid image bearers and rightly celebrate our differences as determined by God in the new creation.
[1] http://www.sbc.net/resolutions/2308/resolution-9–on-critical-race-theory-and-intersectionality.
[2] https://www.britannica.com/topic/critical-race-theory accessed 6/18/19.
[3] https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/intersectionality accessed 6/18/19.
[4] https://statementonsocialjustice.com/
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A complex of buildings in the heart of New York City, The Morgan Library & Museum began as the private library of financier Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913), one of the preeminent collectors and cultural benefactors in the United States. As early as 1890 Morgan had begun to assemble a collection of illuminated, literary, and historical manuscripts, early printed books, and old master drawings and prints.
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Sports World: Coutinho debuts as Barca reach semis
Jan 27, 2018, 5:00 am SGT
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Coutinho debuts as Barca reach semis
BARCELONA • Lionel Messi scored what proved to be the winner as Barcelona beat Espanyol 2-0 to reach the Spanish King's Cup semi-finals on Thursday in a game that saw Philippe Coutinho make his debut.
Luis Suarez scored an early opener in the quarter-final second leg before Messi's deflected effort gave Barcelona a 2-1 aggregate advantage as the holders overturned a 1-0 deficit from last week's first leg.
Substitute Coutinho, who signed for Barca for £142 million (S$263.6 million) from Liverpool earlier this month, was introduced midway through the second half in place of Andres Iniesta, entering the Nou Camp pitch to a huge roar from the home crowd.
Donaldson holds Dubai clubhouse lead
DUBAI • Jamie Donaldson, the first-round leader at the Dubai Desert Classic, followed up his 10-under 62 performance on Thursday with a 69 at Emirates Golf Club yesterday.
At press time, the Welshman held the clubhouse lead with a 13-under 131 total, with China's Li Haotong (66) a shot behind.
Henderson leads by one in the Bahamas
NASSAU (Bahamas) • Canadian Brooke Henderson had four birdies in a seven-hole stretch to charge one clear atop the leaderboard at the season-opening Pure Silk-Bahamas LPGA Classic before first-round play was halted due to darkness with 12 players still on course.
She carded a bogey-free five-under 68 on Thursday, with LPGA rookie Luna Sobron Galmes of Spain and Australian Sarah Jane Smith lurking one shot behind.
Centre-back Laporte on verge of City move
LONDON • Aymeric Laporte has decided to leave Athletic Bilbao for Manchester City in an effort to force his way into France's World Cup squad.
City are confident of completing a £56.7 million (S$105.3 million) deal for the the 23-year-old centre-back, who is yet to play for France, before the transfer window closes on Wednesday.
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Sprinter Roberts cleared of doping
NEW YORK • After American sprinter Gil Roberts tested positive for probenecid, he mounted one of the more novel defences in the history of sports doping.
The 28-year-old, part of the 4x400m relay team that won gold at the 2016 Olympics, said that he had kissed his girlfriend Alex Salazar passionately, and that her sinus medication had entered his body. On Thursday, an appeals court sided with the defence and he was exonerated.
NBA stars Lin and Williams to visit China
NEW YORK • Brooklyn Nets guard Jeremy Lin and former Miami Heat star Jason Williams will meet National Basketball Association (NBA) fans from China as part of the league's record-setting Chinese New Year celebration.
A record 12 NBA clubs will host in-arena celebrations while a record 93 NBA games will be telecast in the China region as part of the league's seventh consecutive holiday celebration, running from Feb 2-March 3.
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on January 27, 2018, with the headline 'Sports World: Coutinho debuts as Barca reach semis'. Print Edition | Subscribe


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Topics › Government Reform › Florida
To Help Finance New Infrastructure, Puerto Rico Needs to Be More Transparent
Puerto Rico is still working its way out of the largest ever US municipal bankruptcy and needs to improve government financial transparency and reporting.
With Puerto Rico still working its way out of the largest ever US municipal bankruptcy, issuing new bonds might seem both irrational and impossible. But in the not-too-distant future, Puerto Rico's governments are likely to want to borrow again in the municipal bond market. In order to borrow affordably, the commonwealth needs to adopt much more transparent financial practices.
First, while it is true that borrowing to cover operating costs is bad public policy, financing new infrastructure through bonds often makes sense. New infrastructure often costs more than a government can afford at construction time but provides benefits for decades after projects are finished. Borrowing allows governments to align costs and benefits across time. As a new building or bridge depreciates, the principal is paid down. If the bonds are paid off as fast or faster than the property depreciates, and if interest and other financing costs are reasonable, infrastructure borrowing makes sense in Puerto Rico or anywhere else.
But wouldn't a defaulting borrower like Puerto Rico be doomed to many years of unaffordable interest rates? Recent history suggests otherwise. Just five years after declaring bankruptcy, the city of Detroit, Michigan, returned to the municipal bond market, issuing $135 million of bonds at interest rates of 5 percent or less.
Also, while Puerto Rico has poor credit, some cities (known as municipios) may be able to tap the market, offering triple tax-exempt securities that may interest investors in high tax locations like New York City and California. Before World War II, several Puerto Rico cities issued municipal bonds. After the war, local financing was centralized under the Government Development Bank (GDB). But the GDB is being shut down in compliance with the 2016 Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act.
Abre Puerto Rico, a group promoting open government, recently reviewed audited financial statements filed by Puerto Rico municipios. The Abre researchers found several cities in good financial condition—at least as of June 30, 2017, shortly before Hurricane Maria hit the island.
Fajardo, the city that normally tops Abre's fiscal rankings, reported a general fund surplus. The city of Isabela had a general fund deficit but showed an improvement in its government-wide net position reported on an accrual basis. The city has made a strong recovery from Maria and is once again welcoming tourists.
If either these cities or the commonwealth itself wants long-term infrastructure financing, they will need to appeal to an investment community that has taken major losses on Puerto Rico debt. A good way to reassure investors is to provide a high level of transparency.
In this regard, most cities have a big jump on the commonwealth. In its latest survey, Abre found that 64 of Puerto Rico's 78 municipios had filed audited financial statements. By contrast, Puerto Rico is just now producing its 2016 audit. Fiscal 2017 statements are expected in September and fiscal 2018 statements are supposed to be published in March 2020. Since the fiscal year ends in June, the 2018 statements will appear 21 months after the fiscal year's conclusion —if the publication schedule is met. This compares poorly to the municipal market norm of six-to-nine months.
Not only are the commonwealth's statements late, but they are also replete with audit issues. The auditing firm KPMG's opinion of Puerto Rico's 2015 financials contained disclaimers, qualifications and bases for adverse findings. Many, but not all, of the problems were the result of Puerto Rico's Employee Retirement System failing to report pension debts in compliance with Governmental Accounting Standards Board Statement Number 68. This factor also affected Fajardo and Isabela's statements, which were otherwise clean.
It will be easier for Puerto Rico instrumentalities to borrow money for infrastructure if they produce timely financial statements with unqualified opinions—as Detroit is now doing. While Puerto Rico publishes periodic financial updates with recent numbers, these are no substitute for audited financial statements adhering to GASB standards. Such statements benefit from being comparable to reports of other US state and local governments, and from the blessing of an independent Certified Public Accounting (CPA) firm. CPAs are not perfect, but at least they provide an additional set of experienced eyes that have an incentive to manage the reputation risk arising from botched or fraudulent financial statements.
To further engage investors, Puerto Rico and its cities may want to go one step further, by joining the trend toward "machine-readable" financial statements. Last year, Florida passed a law to migrate its local governments toward this more modern financial reporting technology. Chapter 2018-102 of the Laws of Florida law, enacted with the passage of HB 1073 last year, requires cities to report their financial statements in XBRL, the same technology used by US corporations. Instead of lengthy PDFs, financial reporting will take the form of tagged text documents that can be readily processed and searched by analytical tools.
New borrowing to modernize Puerto Rico infrastructure may seem like a distant fantasy, but, as Detroit has shown, it is well within the realm of possibility. Now, however, is the time to improve government financial transparency if Puerto Rico hopes to return to the market in the near future.
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Gov. DeSantis' proposed budget would improve Florida's defined contribution retirement plan for teachers, workers
The Governor's proposal would raise the state's retirement contribution rate for employers by 3 percent - bolstering employees' retirement accounts.
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Though the rich sometimes forget, Darwin knew that nature frequently rolls the dice.
Chance is an uncomfortable thing. So Curtis Johnson argues in Darwin's Dice: The Idea of Chance in the Thought of Charles Darwin, and he makes a compelling case. The central controversy, and the central innovation, in Darwin's work is not the theory of natural selection itself, according to Johnson, but Darwin's more basic, and more innovative, turn to randomness as a way to explain natural phenomena. This application of randomness was so controversial, Johnson argues, that Darwin tried to cover it up, replacing words like "accident" and "chance" with terms like "spontaneous variation" in later editions of his work. Nonetheless, the terminological shift was cosmetic: Randomness remained, and still remains, the disturbing center of Darwin's theories.
Johnson, a political theorist at Lewis & Clark College, explains that there are two basic kinds of chance in Darwin's thought. The first—most familiar and least disconcerting—is chance as probability. According to the theory of natural selection, individuals with advantageous adaptations are most likely to survive. A giraffe with a longer neck has a better shot of reaching those lofty leaves and living to munch another day; a polar bear blessed with a warmer coat has a higher probability of surviving a frigid winter than one with less hair. The long-necked giraffe may not always win—it may, for example, be pulverized by a meteor before it can pass on its long-necked genes. But over time, the odds will go its way. There is randomness here, but it is controlled and predictable: It works in accordance with a rule. Natural selection makes sense.
Darwin can be used to tell the rich that they amassed their wealth by being the fittest, perhaps, but he can also be used to point out to the rich that they really could just as easily have been someone else. The person you're stepping on—it's only the roll of a dice that that person isn't you.
The second kind of chance in Darwin's work, though, is more mysterious. For natural selection to work, you need to have a range of traits to select among. That range is provided by individual variation, the fact that two different animals (whether giraffe or bear) are different from each other. Some giraffes have longer necks than others. Some bears have thicker fur than others. Why should this be? Darwin's answer was chance.
Sometimes, Johnson writes, Darwin would argue that "chance" stood in for unknown laws—consistent rules which were not yet known, but which, when discovered, would explain exactly why individuals, both within and across species, were different. But "in his more private and less guarded moments," Johnson explains, Darwin suggested that "the cause of at least some variations is unknowable, even in principle." And, in fact, as Johnson suggests, this second interpretation—that the cause of variation is unknowable—has only become more persuasive over time. "The mechanisms of variation are better understood than ever," Johnson writes, "but the ability to predict what variations will occur and what will not is not much better off than when Darwin wrote." As biologist and feminist theorist Julia Serano argues in her recent book Excluded, we can't currently predict whether someone will be homosexual or heterosexual, cis or trans, based on their genetic code, and there's no reason to think we ever will be able to do so.
Some creatures are born so ill-adapted that they do not really have any chance at all to survive or at least to propagate. That did not seem to Darwin to reflect intelligence.... How could a good God plan a world destined to be filled with so much senseless death and evidence misery?
Attributing variation to chance leads inevitably to a particularly sticky version of the theodicy problem. If God is all powerful, how can he roll the dice with each infant, doling out disadvantages and, at worst, crippling, painful, terminal birth defects? Darwin had no answer, which is why he appears to have lost his faith in God, and why he hid his commitment to chance from his theistic colleagues and the public. Eventually, Johnson suggests, Darwin quietly adopted a full-blown materialist determinism, in which natural forces governed all aspects of life. Since unknown laws of chance were responsible for individual character and appetites, Darwin thought, there was no space left for free will.
Johnson does not take the story of Darwin and chance beyond the naturalist's own lifetime. It seems clear, though, that even our more secular age is uncomfortable with this aspect of Darwin's thought. Natural selection became popularized through Social Darwinism and eugenics, and still resonates in discussions around meritocracy. The argument that those who succeed are the most fit to succeed has a reassuring teleology; CEOs, venture capitalists, politicians, or, for that matter, freelance writers, can look to Darwin to assure themselves they have succeeded not by chance, but by skill and/or virtue.
Similarly, pop evolutionary psychology retails stories in the same vein, about how men are from Mars and women are from the savannah. They explain social interactions in terms of an all-purpose predictive rubric, one which rationalizes everything—from attitudes toward short skirts to the Oscars—in terms of mating probabilities. Darwin himself recognized that not all variations were necessarily beneficial—that some traits or behaviors might have no grand effect on survival, or might even be harmful but not harmful enough to be selected against. But in pop culture, the shadow of meaninglessness is dispersed, and, in some way, Darwin's theories are used to make what could otherwise be seen as random seem predictable and meaningful.
Johnson's book challenges us, at least implicitly, to rethink these comforting Darwinisms. In particular, acknowledging chance seems like it could be a way to think about the arbitrariness of success and power. Meritocracy is false for a lot of reasons, but Johnson's Darwin points to a very basic flaw—namely, that individuals are not responsible for their own merits, whatever those merits may be. Whatever skills or talents or character traits you have, whatever self you were born with, is the product of random variation. Darwin can be used to tell the rich that they amassed their wealth by being the fittest, perhaps, but he can also be used to point out to the rich that they really could just as easily have been someone else. The person you're stepping on—it's only the roll of a dice that that person isn't you.
Beyond that, chance opens materialism to something, or somewhere, else. Darwin rejected miracles adamantly, but surely if the creation of each individual is radically unpredictable, then each individual is (as Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons argue in Watchmen) a miracle in him-, her-, or zir-self. Natural selection is often used to argue that the individual is defined by the struggle for survival. But random variation seems to suggest instead that people (and not just people) are too random to be predicted or defined. We can't predict why, or how, a new baby will vary from everyone before or since. Life after Darwin is still, and in some ways more than ever, a mystery. For Darwin, chance meant determinism, but it seems like it could just as easily mean possibility.
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The Government Is OK With a 75 Percent Chance of a Major Arctic Oil Spill. Are You?
The Department of the Interior says there's a 75 percent chance of a major oil spill in the Arctic—and it's willing to take that chance.


Songgwangsa is one of the most important Seon Buddhist monasteries in Korea, and is considered one of the Three Jewel Temples of Korea.
It is located on Jogye Mountain in South Jeolla, South Korea. Founded by Jinul, this monastery is still very active today as a practice center.
The practices engaged in at this monastery have been reported on in Robert Buswell's The Zen Monastic Experience (1992).


GEM Co. Ltd (GEMChina) is a publicly listed urban mining, resource recycling and WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) recycling business founded in 2001 in Shenzhen.
In 2016, GEMChina processed a total of three million tonnes of waste, recycled 37 resource categories, avoided 7.5 million tonnes of carbon emissions, saving 14 million barrels of fossil fuel and 18 million acres of forests.
The Chinese government has set the target by 2020 to increase the number of electric vehicles (EVs) by five million.
The country is on its way to reaching this ambitious target. In 2015, Didi, the biggest Chinese ride-hailing platform, had 90,000 registered EVs. By 2020, it plans to expand its electric fleet by more than tenfold to one million.
Beijing is also set to invest CNY 9 billion (USD 1.5 billion) to replace its entire fleet of 70,000 taxis with EVs. Shenzhen has already reached its target to fully electrify its entire bus fleet and have expanded its ambitions to include all taxis by 2020. These huge planned shifts in urban mobility systems create urgency around the issue of used EV batteries.
In 2015, China's output of lithium-ion automotive batteries was 16.9 GWh, with demand projected to reach 125 GWh by 2020. Used batteries, if not properly managed, can pose huge problems to the environment as they can leach heavy metals and other toxic residues that could contaminate water and soil.
The government has been clamping down on private handlers who do not have stringent enough pollution control in place. At the same time companies that invest in technological innovation and centralised treatment are encouraged to take over, presenting an opportunity for remanufacturers and recyclers at scale.
GemChina has the highest used battery recycling capacity in China, processing more than 10% of the total waste battery or about 300,000 tonnes of waste battery per year. Their technology enables the recycling of scrapped lithium batteries from EVs, extracting the nickel, cobalt and other important resources, transforming them into materials used by battery producers like Samsung SDI and Ecopro Co Ltd.
China is the world's largest producer of consumer electronics and household appliances, accounting for almost 40% of global output. Meanwhile, China is also now one of the world's largest markets for these products, due to its growing affluence and urbanisation. The high turnover of electronic goods has unwelcome consequences. Every year, some six million tonnes of electronic products are discarded, representing a huge loss in economic value as well as a risk to the environment.
GemChina has invested CNY 2 billion (USD 300 million) to build eight treatment centres around China, with a combined annual processing capacity of 1.2 million tonnes of used household appliances (15% of China's total); 30,000 tonnes of circuit board (20% of China's total); and 10,000 tonnes of waste plastics.
Speciality disassembly lines are in place for televisions, washing machines, LCD screens, small appliances like telephones and circuit boards.
The government has set a target of two million annual electrical vehicle sales by 2020 and seven million by 2025. Such growth could put China in a dominant position not only in the global EV industry, but also in EV-related businesses like battery recycling. It has been estimated that the battery recycling market could be worth CNY 31 billion (USD 5 billion) by 2023.
GemChina has taken the leading position in the high-tech recycling market in China. However, while recycling is important as a way of capturing materials, a higher value-conserving strategy, would focus at the design stage of electronics products including batteries, so that old products can be easily disassembled into components that can be easily reused.
Recognising this, the Chinese Ministry of Industry has urged the sector to introduce standardised designs that could facilitate this approach. Companies like GemChina could certainly play a role in this future prospect by feeding in expertise and experiences in dealing with end-of-life products.


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Meeting to take place between Sligo County Council and Greenstar about setting up a hazardous waste centre in Sligo
A meeting is expected to take place in the coming weeks between Sligo County Council and the waste collection company Greenstar about setting up a hazardous waste centre in Sligo.
There is a hazardous waste drop-off centre in Tubbercurry in South Sligo.
But Sinn Feinn Councillor Thomas Healy says there's a need for such a centre for people in the north Sligo and Strandhill Areas.
He says it's a facility that's being sought for some time.
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The name MacCammount originated with the Anglo-Saxon tribes that once ruled Britain. It is derived from Hamon, an Old French personal name brought to England after the Norman Conquest in 1066.
The surname MacCammount was first found in Kent. The Roll of Battle Abbey reveals that two brothers, sons or grandsons of Hamon Dentatus accompanied the Conqueror in his Conquest. The first was Robert Fitz-Hamon, the renowned Conqueror of Glamorganshire and the second was Haimon, named in the Domesday Book as "Dapifer," for having received the office of Lord Steward for the King. The latter died issueless while the former had four daughters, three of which had conventual lives.
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our MacCammount research.
Another 136 words (10 lines of text) covering the years 1209, 1647, 1579, 1600, 1658, 1605, 1660, 1630, 1681, 1672, 1716, 1621, 1654, 1665 and are included under the topic Early MacCammount History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
One relatively recent invention that did much to standardize English spelling was the printing press. However, before its invention even the most literate people recorded their names according to sound rather than spelling. The spelling variations under which the name MacCammount has appeared include Hammond, Hammon, Hammons, Hamon, Hamond and others.
Another 67 words (5 lines of text) are included under the topic Early MacCammount Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Some of the MacCammount family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt.
At this time, the shores of the New World beckoned many English families that felt that the social climate in England was oppressive and lacked opportunity for change. Thousands left England at great expense in ships that were overcrowded and full of disease. A great portion of these settlers never survived the journey and even a greater number arrived sick, starving, and without a penny. The survivors, however, were often greeted with greater opportunity than they could have experienced back home. These English settlers made significant contributions to those colonies that would eventually become the United States and Canada. An examination of early immigration records and passenger ship lists revealed that people bearing the name MacCammount arrived in North America very early: Daniel Hammond settled in Bermuda in 1635; Elizabeth Hammond and her husband settled in Boston Massachusetts in 1630 with their four children; Henry Hammond arrived in Fort Cumberland Nova Scotia with his wife and three children in 1774.


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God is at the centre of day to day life within the school and this is expressed by the concern and respect for the efforts and achievements of each individual.
St Joseph's School welcomes applications from all families in the area with children aged between four and eleven.
For further details or to arrange a visit contact the Headteacher Mrs Juanita Dunlop on 01344 425246 or visit the school website here.
St Margaret Clitherow School provides an environment where all individuals are valued and where learning is personalised so that every aspect of teaching and support is designed around pupils needs.
The ethos of the school is built upon Gospel values and the belief that Christ is present in our midst, and where the teaching and practice of the Catholic faith plays a major role in providing a broad and balanced education for every child.
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News Tide going out on Pacific banking services
Tide going out on Pacific banking services
The tide is going out on international banking services for Pacific island nations, which could make trade, investment and sending money home more difficult and expensive.
Trade, foreign investment and remittance payments for Pacific nations all rely on correspondent banking relationships. These relationships enable cross-border payments and currency exchange.
These banking relationships are vital to the economic prosperity of Pacific nations, this Reserve Bank briefing shows.
However, correspondent banking relationships in the Pacific region are in decline. Some Australian and New Zealand banks are choosing to reduce or withdraw their services to some parts the Pacific region, which is at the forefront of an international trend of retreat.
From 2011 to 2019, the number of active cross-border correspondent banking relationships worldwide fell by 22 percent, but the fall was double that in Melanesia and Polynesia. More recent reports suggest the rate of retreat has continued or even speeded up in some parts of the Pacific.
The correspondent banking network is shrinking in part because of the rising risks and costs in relation to anti-money laundering and countering financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) requirements.
However, the consequences of an unchecked withdrawal of correspondent banking services could be significant for many small Pacific island nations.
The cost of accessing financial services in the Pacific is high. Many countries are heavily dependent on the international payments from tourism and remittances from Pacific people around the world sending money back to their home countries.
For many people, remittances help pay the bills in the islands. In Tonga, for example, remittance payments are estimated to have accounted for close to 38 percent of GDP in 2020 and almost 19 percent for Samoa.
If the already sparse correspondent banking network gets even smaller, it would concentrate payments services through a few fragile channels. It could also force payments to go through riskier networks, increasing financial system risk, making remittances more expensive, and potentially disrupting crucial ways of making payments.
The Reserve Bank urges banks to re-consider how they can continue to serve the needs of our Pacific neighbours.
"Now is the time for New Zealand banks to act with courage to keep providing banking services, including money remittances, to the Pacific Islands," Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr has previously said.
The Pacific Remittance Project
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand's Pacific Remittance Project was established in 2019 with the aim of enhancing access to, and reducing the costs of remittances to the Pacific. The project is currently exploring a range of initiatives including ongoing information gathering exercises, policy/legislative changes and the development of a regional electronic know-your-customer facility. This work will help address some of the underlying factors contributing to the withdrawal of correspondent banking relationships. However, there is a risk that our efforts could be undermined if Australian and New Zealand banks withdraw their services from the Pacific before the Pacific Remittance Project's work is completed.
Correspondent banking in the Pacific (PDF 496KB)
Keeping the bank door open for Pacific peoples
Reserve Bank supports global call to action on remittances
Call to Action: Remittances in Crisis: How to Keep them Flowing
Working with our Pacific partners - a focus on remittances
SendMoneyPacific.org - a Government-funded website with the latest rates and information on international money transfer to the Pacific
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In this recipe for Marinated Cheese, pecan oil provides a subtle backdrop to nutty Manchego and Parmesan, tart Champagne vinegar, and fragrant rosemary. Serve it as an elegant appetizer at your next gathering or add a pretty bow and give jars as gifts this holiday season.
In a medium saucepan, heat oil over medium-high heat until hot. Add 4 sprigs rosemary, and let cool completely. Discard rosemary.
In 2 (8-ounce) jars, divide cheese, pecans, pink peppercorns, and remaining 2 sprigs rosemary. Top each with 1 tablespoon vinegar. Divide oil between jars. Cover and refrigerate up to 1 week.
Serving suggestions would be very helpful.
Here you go: chop the cheese and add it to a salad; add marinated cooked shrimp with olives and serve over steamed asparagus; use in a cold pasta salad.
Serve with crusty bread, calamata olives, crisp sweet grapes or Bosc pear slices. Great appetizer.
Cover and refrigerate up to 1 week. Are you sayng this is only good for 1 week?
The texture of the cheese will become less appetizing after 1 week.