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Carbon dioxide price surge could see cost of UK groceries could go up by £1.7 billion
The price of a tonne of liquid CO2 is up to 3000% higher than a year ago
By Hiyah Zaidi
4th Oct 2022, 11:00am
The surging cost of carbon dioxide could add £1.7 billion to the cost of British groceries, new analysis shows.
Research by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) suggests the UK's food and drink sector could end up footing the extra large bill for liquid CO2 if gas prices remain high.
The surging cost of carbon dioxide could add £1.7 billion to the cost of British groceries, according to new analysis.
Why is there a carbon dioxide price surge?
UK commercial energy prices have soared over the past year, accelerated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The move created heavy ramifications for industries reliant on carbon dioxide, with production also disrupted due to rampant inflation.
The price of a tonne of liquid CO2 is up to 3000% higher than a year ago - currently as much as £3000 per tonne - compared to just £100 per tonne one year ago, the ECIU said.
Rocketing prices resulted in CF Fertilisers proposing to halt production at its ammonia site, where CO2 is created as a by-product, in August.
Carbon dioxide is used in a variety of sectors but particularly in food and drink, including in the slaughter of pigs and chickens, adding fizz to beer and soft drinks, and packaging foods safely.
There are new fears that gas prices could rise further, or even that supplies will be cut off, leading to further increases in the price of liquid CO2 or a repeat of last year's shortage.
Businesses in the food and drink sector are already paying significantly more for energy than even a few months ago. In the first quarter of 2022, businesses like pubs, farms, and supermarkets paid 71% more for gas than in the first three months of 2021.
Asda is offering customers money off their shopping if they book a flu jab
Morrisons is offering 5p off every litre of fuel until next week to help customer save money
Morrisons plans to open 'thousands' of smaller Daily stores across the UK
Fay Jones, MP for Brecon and Radnorshire and chair of the Farming APPG, said: "The price of gas is adding thousands of pounds to families' energy bills.
"Now, like last autumn, it could affect supplies of CO2 and of fertilisers, and drive up the price of everything from beer to bacon."
Matt Williams, climate and land programme lead at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU), added: "The UK's reliance on fossil fuels affects more than just families' energy bills. It could bring the food and drink system to its knees.
"Rising energy costs are creating an extra cost of hundreds of millions of pounds in the food and drink industry that customers may struggle to avoid.
"If high gas prices or even blackouts, force factories to close it could create real problems for farmers and the food and drink industry."
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Shortlist for £1.1m care contract revealed
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough clinical commissioning group (CCG) has announced the four organisations shortlisted to provide older people's healthcare and adult community services.
Previously, the Labour party had described the contract as the "most audacious sell-off" of NHS services yet.
The companies shortlisted to win the £1.1 million contract are:
– Accord Health (Interserve with Provide,formerly Central Essex Community Services, and North Essex Partnership Foundation Trust as Mental Health Lead)
– Care for Life (Care UK with Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust, and Norfolk Community Health & Care NHS Trust)
– Uniting Care Partnership (Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust with Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)
– Virgin Care Ltd.
The next stage of the Integrated Older People's Pathway and Adult Community Services procurement process will see the organisations develop and refine the initial proposals they submitted in January 2014.
The organisation winning organisation will be announced in September 2014, with the contract starting in January 2015.
Clinical lead for CCG's Older People's Programme Dr Arnold Fertig said: "We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the bidders who submitted proposals in January for working so constructively with the CCG.
"All organisations demonstrated their commitment to our aim of improving care for older people. We very much look forward to working with shortlisted bidders in the next stage.
Dr Neil Modha, chief clinical officer said: "It is important to stress that whoever is awarded this NHS contract to deliver Integrated Older People's Pathway and Adult Community Services across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, care will remain NHS-funded, provided under an NHS contract and free at the point of delivery."
The CCG will hold a public consultation asking for residents views on initial proposals put forward by the shortlisted bidders.
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG is one of the biggest in the country with 108 GP practices as members and 824 GPs.
There's a federation of eight local commissioning groups (LCGs) covering all GP practices in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, as well as three practices in North Hertfordshire and two in Northamptonshire.
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG has a patient population of 891,298, which has a diverse, ageing population with significant inequalities. It has has budget of £854 million.
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Q: Why does numpy.power return 0 for small exponents while math.pow returns the correct answer? In [25]: np.power(10,-100)
Out[25]: 0

In [26]: math.pow(10,-100)
Out[26]: 1e-100

I would expect both the commands to return 1e-100. This is not a precision issue either, since the issue persists even after increasing precision to 500. Is there some setting which I can change to get the correct answer?

A: Oh, it's much "worse" than that:
In [2]: numpy.power(10,-1)
Out[2]: 0

But this is a hint to what's going on: 10 is an integer, and numpy.power doesn't coerce the numbers to floats. But this works:
In [3]: numpy.power(10.,-1)
Out[3]: 0.10000000000000001

In [4]: numpy.power(10.,-100)
Out[4]: 1e-100

Note, however, that the power operator, **, does convert to float:
In [5]: 10**-1
Out[5]: 0.1

A: numpy method assumes you want integer returned since you supplied an integer.
np.power(10.0,-100)

works as you would expect.

A: (Just a footnote to the two other answers on this page.)
Given input two input values, you can check the datatype of the object that np.power will return by inspecting the types attribute:
>>> np.power.types
['bb->b', 'BB->B', 'hh->h', 'HH->H', 'ii->i', 'II->I', 'll->l', 'LL->L', 'qq->q',
 'QQ->Q', 'ee->e', 'ff->f', 'dd->d', 'gg->g', 'FF->F', 'DD->D', 'GG->G', 'OO->O']

Python-compatible integer types are denoted by l, compatible-compatible Python floats by d (documents).
np.power effectively decides what to return by checking the types of the arguments passed and using the first matching signature from this list.
So given 10 and -100, np.power matches the integer integer -> integer signature and returns the integer 0.
On the other hand, if one of the arguments is a float then the integer argument will also be cast to a float, and the float float -> float signature is used (and the correct float value is returned).

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McKinley Elementary School is a former school building located at 640 Plum Street in Wyandotte, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.

History
The first school building in what is now Wyandotte was constructed in 1837. A new school as constructed in 1856, and a Central Union high school was built in 1869. The first school on the site of the present McKinley Elementary School was constructed in 1872, and was known as the Third Ward school. This school was demolished in 1901, and replaced with a new building designed by Malcomson and Higginbotham, and named McKinley Elementary School. By 1937, this was the oldest elementary school in the district, and the school board began considering replacing it. After exploring funding sources, the board finally approved construction of a new building in late 1938.

The school district hired architect Carl R. Jensen of Detroit to design the building, and the O.W. Burke Company to construct it. The school opened in March 1940. The school continued in use until 2009, when declining enrollment led the school board to close it. As of 2017, the building is being rehabilitated for housing. Coachlight Properties LLC and Jonesboro Investment Corp. will redevelop the building into 60 market-rate senior apartments.

Description
McKinley Elementary School is a two-story Art deco-style building faced with multi-tone orange brick. the front facade has a raised foundation clad with limestone. It is divided into three main sections: an auditorium in the center and the east and west wings. The central auditorium section is six bays wide, and projects forward from the wings. Six limestone-framed openings in the central section extend two stories above the foundation. Each side wing is eight bays wide, and has a one-story-tall projecting limestone porch entrance abutting the auditorium. The porches shelter a recessed entrance. Above each entrance are three narrow window openings separated by square brick piers topped with limestone. The next four bays of the wings are separated by brick piers and have a set of four windows at the first and second floors. Each bay has a limestone cornice running across the top. The three end bays project slightly, and contain two-story openings framed with limestone, containing windows.

The interior of the building has corridors with terrazzo floors and glazed tile wainscoting with plaster walls above. Inset in the floors on the first story are four medallions designed by Fred Frostic, superintendent of Wyandotte Public Schools at the time the school was built, and his daughter Gwen Frostic. The staircases to the upper floor are metal with terrazzo treads and metal balustrades. Classrooms generally have vinyl tile floors, plaster walls with wood trim, and bulletin and marker boards framed with wood. The kindergarten room has a fireplace surrounded with decorative tile featuring nursery rhyme characters and animals. The school also has an auditorium and gymnasium.

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School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Michigan
Art Deco architecture in Michigan
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Following Ironman Mallorca I had planned to race at Challenge Mallorca three weeks later followed by challenge Sardinia the week after that. I decided pretty quickly after the ironman that I would only do one of those races and I choose Sardinia. I don't usually plan races very far in advance but Challenge Sardinia was one that was on my calendar since May.
When recovering from the ironman in Mallorca I spent a week just swimming easy in the sea and doing some really easy biking. I really didn't feel like running at all so I didn't even try to. In the second week I introduced some short easy runs but I wasn't really enjoying them which is strange for me as I usually love running but by the end of the second week I was almost back to normal and was able to get a good 10 days of consistent training done. Somewhere in that time my run legs started to come back which was a relief.
I hadn't been to Sardinia before so didn't really know what to expect but when we arrived there the experience from start to finish was amazing. The race is based at Forte Village Resort which is a 5 star luxury resort and like nowhere I've ever stayed before. I had a relaxing couple of days at the resort leading in to the race and by race day I was ready to go. The swim was average for me, there was a relatively large female pro field and our start was separate from the men which is always better. I didn't have a great start but when the pace settled I found that I was at the front of what seemed to be a fairly large group. I let the group come around me and sat near the back of the pack till the end of the swim.
In to transition I started thinking that we might have a good group of girls on the bike. I was one of the first of my swim pack on to the bike but I decided not to wait to see who would come with me and I just went off at my own pace. I had ridden the main climb of the course a couple of days before so I pushed on to it and climbed and descended fairly well. When the course flattened out I was starting to feel the efforts from the beginning of the bike. Soon after that I realised that the last part of the bike course, which I hadn't seen was a lot more challenging that I had thought. There were some nasty little steep climbs that I hadn't really expected but I do love hilly courses so I got to work and made up some places in the last 30k to get to transition 2 in 3rd.
I knew Nicole Hofer who was returning from a long injury would be one to watch and she was in the lead off the bike as I expected. I also knew that Susie Hignett and Michi Herlbauer would be up there as they are both strong all round and great runners. As I started running I felt pretty good so I got in to a good rhythm and got to work on making up ground. I was honestly surprised when I got near the first turn point and saw that the two leaders Nicole and Susie weren't that far in front. I just kept moving along and soon I was in second then at around 7 or 8 k I was in the lead. Sometimes when I get in to the lead I just can't wait for the race to be over but this felt a little different. I was comfortable and able to really enjoy the run. I kept running strongly and was super happy to win at such an amazing race and it was great to have Michi and Susie complete the podium. It was also great to see quiet a lot of Irish athletes at the race and there were super strong performances from Jen Duffy, Eimear Fitzmaurice and Kevin Thornton.
At the time I thought that my season was over and I planned to put my feet up after a successful year. I headed home to Ireland and before I touched down in Dublin I had more than one message informing me that I was entered in Saturday's X Country race for my local club, Springwell. Before last year I hadn't done many x country races but I've found a love for it so I was happy to race. After the x country I headed off to Dublin for the Triathlon Ireland awards dinner that evening. I've never been able to attend before so I was happy to be able to make it this time. I've been nominated for the Athlete of the Year award a few times but have never won it so it was a great honour to win the award this year and it really topped off a great season for me.
Two days later I was on a flight to Cozumel Mexico with Ritchie to where Brett Sutton is training with his squad. Ritchie is training in Cozumel with Brett in preparation for Challenge Bahrain and although I am not coached by Brett he kindly lets me swim with is group which is a great help for me as swimming alone can be quite difficult. It meant a lot to me when he told me he was proud of how I raced this season.
Knowing that I would be in Cozumel at the time of the ironman I decided to enter the race just in case I wanted to do it (or part of it). I came out to Cozumel not knowing if I was on an end of season break or leading in to another race but when I arrived I kept ticking over doing a few bikes and runs along with the swims with the group. It's now a few days out from the race and I've decided that since I'm here I will at least start the race and I'm planning to do the swim and bike for the race experience. Who knows if I put some shoes in transition I might just end up running too!


Heston Blumenthal making the announcement at Crown Towers.
The London chef's first international restaurant, an incarnation of the legendary three-Michelin-star establishment, will open at Melbourne's Crown Towers.
Hours ago, at a packed press conference in the lobby of Melbourne's Crown Towers, celebrity UK chef Heston Blumenthal OBE announced that three-Michelin-starred The Fat Duck will be migrating to Melbourne.
Making the important distinction that The Fat Duck in Melbourne would not be a pop-up restaurant, nor a guest chef's short-term residency in someone else's restaurant, Blumenthal stressed that The Fat Duck (and some of its fit-out features) would be picked up, flown over and incorporated into a space at Crown.
Thrilling to the prospect that he and his coterie won't have to suffer another English winter, Blumenthal added that he will run The Fat Duck in Melbourne for six months, starting February 2015, after which time he and his staff will pack it up for return to the UK, leaving behind a permanent restaurant in its wake, Dinner by Heston Blumental.


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Interview With an Independent Writer: Ruth Ozeki
by Catherine Meeks, ASLE News Editor
Originally published in the Spring 2013 Edition of ASLE News
Ruth Ozeki is a writer and filmmaker. She is the best-selling author of three novels, My Year of Meats, All Over Creation, and A Tale for the Time Being, as well as the director of several independent films, including Halving the Bones. She is on the advisory editorial board of the Asian American Literary Review and a member of the Creative Advisory Council of Hedgebrook, a women's writing retreat center on Whidbey Island. She is affiliated with the Brooklyn Zen Center and the Everyday Zen Foundation, and lives in British Columbia and New York City.
Several of your novels incorporate current environmental issues as either a backdrop–like, in your most recent novel, A Tale for the Time Being, the Pacific garbage gyres–or driving force in the story. In your writing, how do you balance concern for the environment with your approach to serious literary fiction?
Hmm, interesting! Your question seems to presuppose an opposition between concern for the environment and serious literary fiction and to imply that a preponderance of one imperils the other. Do you think that's true? I may be wrong, but I don't see it that way.
I think there are several issues here. The first is that fiction written to serve an agenda–any agenda–has a hard time being seriously literary. Literature, the writing of it and the reading of it, seems to me to be about inquiry. Agenda-driven fiction is antithetical to inquiry. Agenda-driven fiction has its mind already made up.
My concern for the environment is part of who I am, and since I write about what I care about, naturally my environmental concerns find their way into my fiction. Writing is how I think, how I interrogate the world, and the novel is my medium for my interrogation. It's a thought experiment, which I initiate and then send out into the world as an invitation for readers to join.
I don't write books like My Year of Meats or All Over Creation in order to tell readers what I think about genetic engineering or factory farming or to convince them to agree. To do so would be to write screed or propaganda, and I'm not interested in that. I'm interested in exploring what I think and feel, or how I think and feel, or to what extent I can think and feel about these issues.
So it comes down to intent and chronology. Since I write in order to try to understand what I think, I usually start with a question, something I'm curious about, or something that worries or frightens me. What's all this about growth hormones in meat production? How does Terminator technology work? What are these Great Garbage Patches? Where–and how–can I begin to think about these issues? I'm not starting with a conclusion and trying to prove it or "teach" it by means of the novel. The novel is not a vector for an agenda. Rather, the novel is a means of exploring a question, and to the best of my ability, I approach it with an open mind.
This is really important, because readers, especially fiction readers, are very sensitive to didacticism and pedagogy. Nobody likes to be manipulated or told what to believe. Nobody likes to be tricked into caring for characters only to realize that the characters are sneaky little vectors for an author's opinions. The novel is not, and should not be, a Trojan horse.
However, having said all this, I know, too, that my mind is not free of bias. I have tons of opinions. I'm terribly concerned about the environment and I think everyone ought to be, too. We ought to be terrified! We ought to stop buying stuff and throwing stuff away and squandering fossil fuels and driving cars and flying in planes. We ought to stop subsidizing agribusiness and using so much energy and cutting down trees and scraping the bottoms of the oceans. I feel quite strongly about all of this, but I'm on a plane typing this on my computer as I fly across the country to promote a book that is printed on paper (FSC certified, but still…), so I have a lot of remorse about the myriad ways that I am contributing to the problem.
All my novels, to some extent, have been written from remorse. Remorse is a powerful impetus for writing. The good news, from a writerly perspective, is that I'll never run out of things to feel remorseful about. The bad news, from a timebeing-on-earth's perspective, is that I am not willing or able to eradicate all the many causes of my environmental remorse.
How does your spiritual life–and your role as a Zen Buddhist priest–intersect with and inform your writing life? For instance, have the two always been complementary, or has one tended to challenge the other?
This question is complicated and also very simple. Zen practice has changed the way I write and has helped me continue writing, but this happened slowly. I'd reached a point as a novelist where I felt I could no longer trust my voice in the world. I felt like my writer's voice had become wobbly, unreliable and untrustworthy. I suppose it was a sort of crisis of faith.
When I first started practicing Zen, I thought that I might not be able to continue to write novels, at least not in the way that I used to. I thought that Zen practice might wreck my writing, and indeed, for several years, I found it very difficult to write.
But then things shifted, and now I would say that Zen practice helps. It has provided me with a philosophical and ethical ground, a trustworthy foundation, for my writing practice. Or to put it another way, it helped me grow a backbone.
So now I would say that my Zen practice and my writing practice are complementary, but of course, in practical terms, the roles of writer and priest are very different. For one thing, I do not wear Zen robes when I write. I wear a black turtleneck sweater and a pair of overalls. And I sit at a desk in front of a computer, rather than on a cushion in front of a blank wall. And when thoughts arise, I write them down rather than letting them go.
My interest in Buddhist philosophy is overtly apparent in A Tale for the Time Being, but I can see the beginning of this inquiry in my first two novels, My Year of Meats and All Over Creation, which are very concerned with the interconnected nature of our lives and the world. In Buddhism, we call this dependent co-arising, or "interbeing," to use Thich Naht Hahn's term. Nothing exists independently of anything else. Novels, stories, are always about relationship, so they are a beautiful way to investigate and to talk about this quality of interbeing, the way we inter-are.
Which came first for you, the novel-writing or the film-making, and how has one influenced your approach to the other? Do you feel that novels and films share something in common that attracts you to both genres?
Well, the desire to be a novelist came first. That desire had been there ever since I was a very small child. I wrote short stories throughout grade school and high school and college, and I tried to write a novel or two before giving it up and going to grad school to study classical Japanese literature. My plan was to get a doctorate and teach Comp Lit.
Somewhere along the line, though, I kind of fell into filmmaking. I needed a job and a friend knew of a production company looking for a storyboard artist for a horror film. I had some rudimentary drawing skills, and so they hired me, and I ended up being the art director, too. The film was called Matt Riker, Mutant Hunt. The next one was Breeders. And after that Necropolis and then Robot Holocaust. Of course I was young at the time, but somehow the literature of the Heian period paled in comparison, and I never looked back.
Eventually I got tired of making exploding heads and severed hands for horror films and ended up directing and producing Japanese television, and it was in the editing room where I really started to learn the fundamentals of storytelling. I mentioned that I'd tried to write novels earlier on, but what had always stumped me was narrative chronology. Novels are time-based and need to move through time, but I didn't know how to accomplish this. I didn't know how to move a character across a room, never mind across months or years or a lifetime. Editing film and video teaches you how to do exactly this, and the techniques I learned in the editing room I was later able to apply to scenes in my novels. And I think, too, that working in film and video has taught me to "see" novels in cinematic terms. I think about things like frame size, and focal length, and I use filmic techniques like visual description, rhythm, and montage when I write.
As for what they have in common….well, they are both ways of seeing the world as story, and that is what I seem to be drawn to do in this lifetime. But the differences between the two genres interest me, too. Film is a more direct, concrete and sensual medium, relying on images and movement and sound. In that sense, it's a bit more like music and operates on the emotions directly. It doesn't handle abstract ideas well, however, so I would say that film is less "intellectual" than writing. The written word, however, allows for all sorts of discursive inquiry and conceptual play, which I admit I find exciting. I have to be careful, though, and not overindulge. It's a balance issue.
Can you place your work within a creative "lineage"? Or, who/what have been major creative influences for you?
Thankfully, this is not my job! Determining lineage is something that I will leave to scholars who are studying my work, should I be so lucky to have any, and any attempt I make to do this will only sound pretentious.
My influences have been myriad, too numerous to name, which is not to say that I've been at all successful in emulating them or paying them homage. It's embarrassing to name them, because I can see all the ways that my writing falls short. But having said that, I will try to name a few of the writers and books I love and why:
Kurt Vonnegut, for his deadpan humor, stubborn innocence, political sensibilities and his enormous broken heart;
Jorge Luis Borges, for his labyrinthine formality;
Annie Dillard, for her gorgeous pacing and her ability to weave disparate elements into a poetic montage;
David Mitchell, for the unbridled range of his imagination and what he dares to do with structure;
Milan Kundera, for his pacing and the audacity of his narrative voice;
Anything by Jane Austen, for her wit, opinions and ironic distance;
Kazuo Ishiguro's novels, especially Never Let Me Go, for the delicate sensibilities of his unreliable narrators;
Many of Haruki Murakami's novels, especially Kafka on the Shore, for their loose-limbed structures and fantastical worlds;
Margaret Atwood's nonfiction (although I love her fiction, too), especially Negotiating with the Dead, because she is so wise about writing;
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, for his serious magic;
Yann Martel's The Life of Pi, for its celebration of the power of storytelling;
Karen Joy Fowler for her subtle intelligence and heartbreaking sense of humor.
And of course I always go back to Shakespeare. Whenever I am stuck, I read Shakespeare, because the beauty of his poetry always inspires me to try again.
I'm working on two projects, or, rather, I'm thinking about two projects, but I'm not at the stage where I can talk about either of them yet. I'm not being coy. It's just that I find that in the nascent stages, when a book is still barely an idea, it isn't wise to talk too much about it. Secrets have a special kind of energy, and talking spends and dissipates that energy, and the story loses its urgency. Why write it if I can just talk about it? So much easier! So I don't. However I think it's probably safe to say that one of the stories seems to be set in a library, and the other seems to be set in a university, at least for the time being.


A Limerick councillor is calling for Heavy Goods Vehicles that are travelling through Limerick to other destinations to be banned from the city centre.
Labour's Elena Secas says HGV's are driving through the city to avoid the cost of the Limerick Tunnel and it's adding to the existing traffic problems.
She wants a ban to be considered as part of the Limerick Shannon Metropolitan Area Transport Strategy.


Twitter was abuzz last week with pictures -- and complaints -- after a dog poo'd in the middle of a Philadelphia-bound flight, forcing an emergency landing.
According to passengers aboard the US Airways Flight 598 from Los Angeles to Philadelphia a large dog went to the bathroom in the plane's aisle as many as three times, making people nearby physically ill.
The second time the dog pooped, the flight staff ran out of paper towels and not having anything else to clean up the mess the pilot announced that they were going to have to emergency land.
The emergency landing wasn't the only headache for those travellers. Before takeoff, Flight 598 was delayed on the tarmac at LAX for two hours for fuel problems.
The dog's owner is reported to have asked for all the passengers' e-mail addresses so they could send them an 'I'm so sorry-Starbucks coupon'.


Siada and Isis are proven Mousers. Malik, at a very tender age, landed his first bat. Layla is trying hard, but seems to need some lessons from the rest of the clowder.
We live in a log cabin in the forest. The occasional mouse is a fact of life. I know there has been one poking around recently because Layla has been been spending extra time stalking through the kitchen, looking under the counters and behind boxes and cases of seltzer.
This weekend there was a long moment of dead silence (usually the first warning a Savannah owner gets when something is going very, very wrong), so I started to look around and count heads. Siada was on Papa, Malik was on the chair, and no Layla anywhere.
A glance in the kitchen let me know that she was sitting next to the cat food, staring intently at the underside of the cupboard.
At a mouse. Yes, sitting right there, looking back at her, a scant six inches from her nose.
Me: A Mouse. Layla Beans, get it!
Layla (looking at the mouse): IT STOLE MY CRUNCHIES!
Layla: ITS LOOKING AT ME!
Layla: WHAT DO I DO???
Layla: I SAW A MOUSIE, BEST DAY EVER!
This weekend I was sitting there and heard someone rattling that door. I looked over my shoulder and saw Malik battering ramming the door until it popped open (and now I understand why it is broken to begin with). He pops the door open and then widens the gap with his paw, but cannot manage to get through.
Malik: But I cant get through it.
Me: You are not supposed to be in there.
Malik (slamming harder at the door): Cant. Get. Through.
At this point, Malik wanders off, and, foolish me, I turn back to what I was working on.
A few minutes later, he and Layla parade past me and head towards the door. Malik proceeds to pop open the door, and Layla leap frogs over his back, through the gap, and into the damn hallway. After I recover from this brilliant display of teamwork, I go over, open the door and let Layla back into the kitchen. It was then that I discovered the reason this was so very important. One of the straws they play with had gotten pushed under the door. I returned it to the Butthead Brigade, closed the door again, and went back about my business.
Layla (racing around with the straw): BEST DAY EVER!
Siada slept through the whole thing, which is likely good because she is the smarted of the lot and would have come up with some mastermind of an engineering scheme to entirely remove the door!
Last night I went to the local pet store to pick up some food for the kittons. There were two young men in the cat food aisle, early to mid-20s, who looked as though they just got off work (work boots, carhart coats, etc.) They were staring at the wall of choices and trying to decide what food was best.
Did I mention they were stoned? Yeah, so they were looking at cat food and the more chatty one asked me, very politely, if I knew anything about cat food.
Me: Yes, I know a little bit.
Guy 1: Do you know what kind is best?
Guy 2: This is food for a very special cat.
Me: What kind of cat is that?
Guy 2 (full of awe about his very special feline): A tabby cat!
Guy 2: WITH WHITE FEET!
Guy 1 (to me): Thank you so much miss, this is important stuff.
Guy 1 (to his friend): See, I knew she looked like a cat person and would know, you just have to ask!
When I left the two of them were staring in awe, and with an armful of cat food, at the pretty shelter cats that were there waiting for holiday homes.
I am amused (and at least I know the very special cat with white feet will be eating a good dinner).
And this is take two for this post because I just lost every bit of the lengthy piece I already typed up. Needless to say, this will now be much shorter and far less eloquent.
Siada blew her knee out (the one that had surgery) Sunday night. Not even sure how she did it. She was in her stroller, jumped about something and then was all wonked out after that. We gave her time to sort it out (prior to surgery she could stretch her leg and reseat it), but come Monday it was no better so off to the ER we went.
There was a steady stream of critical cases right after us that had priority (which is fine as I know Nimar was that critical case more than once and others got bumped down the list in his favor). After several hours of waiting, Siada was sitting on her Papa and leapt off. She landed wrong, which ended up "fixing" her knee. She proudly paraded (with a slight limp) around the facility after that. I guess not many people are used to seeing a princess kitton on a leash, based on the stares she got. We opted to return home rather that continue to wait at that point.
The next morning Papa called the surgeon and they said that if she was walking and the kneecap was in its proper spot that we could just wait till our appointment Friday to take her in. Yes, the girl made it almost the whole 8 weeks with zero issues and had to blow it at the very last moment!
As it was, Friday was a very exciting day for all of the kittons as they got to go visit the dentist. Not their dentist, but ours. We have seen the same dentist since before Nimar, and he knew someone at one time who had a pet serval so was always asking about Nimar and then his successors. He wanted to meet them and even blocked off time on the schedule for the kittons to visit him and staff (and his wife who came over as well to meet them). They had a wonderful time climbing all over the waiting room, eating the Christmas decor and making new friends. It was a bit of a shock though, I think, to the elderly client who arrived just as we were about to leave. I don't think he was expecting to see a giant Malik sitting there!
After that we went to the appointment with Siada's surgeon. Her x-rays were great and her luxation is reduced from a Grade 4 to Grade 1 and that might further improve once she uses the leg more and regains strength.
She gets lots of free time now, but is still heavily watched and is not allowed to do anything drastic for the next month. I don't think she was listening to any of that part because she tried to lead the Savannah 500 Friday night at the cabin. I wanted to get really cute photos of them all playing together this weekend, but, alas, they were all too excited to sit still for it and all I got was the blurry one I used with this post.
Now for the less pleasant news. The old gals, Isis and Reeses, had their senior appointment this past Wednesday. For having Stage 3 kidney failure, Reeses is still doing pretty good. Her numbers are up a little and she had a UTI (which has since been treated) but for a 16 year old lady, she is doing alright. She still has a great appetite and can still jump on the counters with no issues.
Isis, on the other hand, has been losing weight. She also still eats really well, and is happy to see us come home from work, and joins the Savannah parade that follows me from room to room, but her white cell count is up and she clearly has digestive issues. We have some special food for her and now have an appointment with Nimar's specialist. I have been worried about this girl a lot, lately, and am reminded that old cats will break your heart at some point. I am hoping that this appointment will give us some good forward direction for her continued care. Please keep the beautiful lady in your thoughts.


At least 5 million species of plants and animals share the planet earth (Vié, Hilton-Taylor & Stuart 2009) and, in 2011, the human population passed 7 billion, increasing the pressure on every other species. The requirements of wildlife populations for land and resources overlap with those of human populations, thereby leading to human/wildlife conflict (Lamarque et al. 2008). Indeed, advances in transport infrastructure, technology and agricultural practices have meant that remote areas supporting wildlife are increasingly affected by anthropogenic forces. Important habitats are being lost globally and this is the greatest threat to the world's mammals (Vié, Hilton-Taylor & Stuart 2009). Of the global land mass, 12.7% has been classified as protected areas (IUCN and UNEP-WCMC 2011), although this protection has a mixed effect in conserving biodiversity (Bruner et al. 2001; Craigie et al. 2010). The lack of buffer zones around protected areas and corridors between them result in hard boundaries between wildlife and human populations, which in turn leads to both conflict and habitat fragmentation (Ogutu et al. 2009; Metzger et al. 2010; Kaczensky et al. 2011).
In an effort to mitigate this conflict and conserve wildlife, fences are increasingly used to demarcate land use zones and separate wildlife and livestock (Hayward & Kerley 2009). Yet these fences have the potential to have both positive and negative effects, particularly for large, highly mobile animals which regularly range outside protected areas to meet their seasonal requirements (Homewood et al. 2001; Ferguson & Hanks 2010). Understanding how large migratory herbivores respond to resource heterogeneity and anthropogenic influences will help us to conserve functioning ecosystems and vital habitats whether or not they are inside protected areas (Thirgood et al. 2004; Harris et al. 2009).
Animals move at multiple spatial scales and understanding the causes, patterns, mechanisms and consequences of this movement is integral to managing and conserving ecosystems (Nathan et al. 2008). Migration is one of the most widely observed movement phenomena in nature (see Milner-Gulland, Fryxell & Sinclair 2011), occurring across a variety of invertebrate and vertebrate species (Dingle & Drake 2007) as an adaptive response to spatial and temporal heterogeneity in resources (Holt & Fryxell 2011). Even small levels of seasonality in resource availability can lead to migration (Fryxell 1991), while the act of migration can have significant ecological impacts through interactions with other species and resources (Holdo et al. 2011b). For instance, a loss of large herbivore migration in the Serengeti is predicted to lead to the collapse of the Serengeti ecosystem (Harris et al. 2009). Yet while we can describe the variation in migration patterns for a range of animals, very little is known about migration theoretically (Milner-Gulland, Fryxell & Sinclair 2011). The use of GPS technology (Tomkiewicz et al. 2010) makes it possible to focus more on the individual animals rather than the population so as to help understand the fitness consequences of migratory behaviour (Milner-Gulland, Fryxell & Sinclair 2011). This in turn contributes to the development of successful conservation and management strategies.


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"""These cron flows perform data compaction in various subsystems."""

import logging

from grr.lib import aff4
from grr.lib import config_lib
from grr.lib import flow
from grr.lib import rdfvalue
from grr.lib import registry
from grr.lib import stats

from grr.lib.aff4_objects import collects
from grr.lib.aff4_objects import cronjobs

class PackedVersionedCollectionCompactor(cronjobs.SystemCronFlow):
  """A Compactor which runs over all versioned collections."""

  frequency = rdfvalue.Duration("5m")
  lifetime = rdfvalue.Duration("40m")

  @flow.StateHandler()
  def Start(self):
    """Check all the dirty versioned collections, and compact them."""
    # Detect all changed collections:
    processed_count = 0
    errors_count = 0
    already_locked_count = 0

    freeze_timestamp = rdfvalue.RDFDatetime.Now()
    for urn in collects.PackedVersionedCollection.QueryNotifications(
        timestamp=freeze_timestamp, token=self.token):
      collects.PackedVersionedCollection.DeleteNotifications(
          [urn], end=urn.age, token=self.token)

      self.HeartBeat()
      try:
        if self.Compact(urn):
          processed_count += 1
        else:
          already_locked_count += 1
      except IOError:
        self.Log("Error while processing %s", urn)
        errors_count += 1

    self.Log("Total processed collections: %d, successful: %d, failed: %d, "
             "already locked: %d", processed_count + errors_count,
             processed_count, errors_count, already_locked_count)

  def Compact(self, urn):
    """Run a compaction cycle on a PackedVersionedCollection."""
    lease_time = config_lib.CONFIG["Worker.compaction_lease_time"]

    try:
      with aff4.FACTORY.OpenWithLock(
          urn,
          lease_time=lease_time,
          aff4_type=collects.PackedVersionedCollection,
          blocking=False,
          age=aff4.ALL_TIMES,
          token=self.token) as fd:
        num_compacted = fd.Compact(callback=self.HeartBeat)
        self.Log("Compacted %d items in %s", num_compacted, urn)

        return True
    except aff4.LockError:
      stats.STATS.IncrementCounter("compactor_locking_errors")
      logging.error("Trying to compact locked collection: %s", urn)

      return False

class CompactorsInitHook(registry.InitHook):

  def RunOnce(self):
    """Register compactors-related stats."""
    stats.STATS.RegisterCounterMetric("compactor_locking_errors")

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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ON THIS DAY: WINGS OVER AMERICA WAS RELEASED IN THE UK AND US.
By	Beatles Magazine Posted on Monday, December 10, 2018 In PAUL MCCARTNEY 0 PAUL MCCARTNEY	12
On this day in 1976, Wings Over America was released in the UK and US.
Wings over America is a triple live album by Wings, released in December 1976. The album was recorded during the American leg of the band's acclaimed 1975–76 Wings Over the World tour. It peaked at number 8 on the UK Albums Chart and reached number 1 on the US Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart.
In addition to including several of Paul's hits with Wings, the album features performances of five Beatles songs: "Yesterday", "Lady Madonna", "I've Just Seen a Face", "Blackbird" and "The Long and Winding Road". The album cover was designed by Hipgnosis – who were nominated in 1978, together with McCartney's production company MPL, for a Grammy Award for Best Album Package for this album – and depicts an airliner about to open its cabin door.Wings over America was remastered and reissued in May 2013.
Originally, Wings over America was to be a two-record set of highlight performances but this was rethought due to the success of a bootleg called Wings from the Wings, which was released as a triple record set on red, white, and blue vinyl, and contained the entire 23 June 1976 concert recorded at The Forum in Los Angeles.This caused McCartney to release the album as a three-record set, compiled from various shows from the band's North American tour during May–June 1976. McCartney's sound engineer listened to 800 hours of tape and selected the five best performances of each song from the 30-song set list. McCartney chose and mixed the final set of recordings, mostly taken from the 23 June show."Soily" was recorded on 7 June 1976 at McNichols Sports Arena in Denver. The live recordings then received studio overdubs during October–November 1976. According to Wings' drummer Joe English, "it took forever to get those 'Wings over America' tapes ready for the live album. We had to go into the studio and overdub most of the backing vocals."
Wings over America was issued six months after the end of the band's US tour. It was another commercial success for Wings, reaching number 1 in the US in early 1977 (the last in a five-album stretch of consecutive number 1 albums for the band) and number 8 in the UK. For the five Beatles songs included, McCartney elected to reverse the songwriting credit to McCartney–Lennon. Years later John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono complained about the same songwriting credit on McCartney's Back in the U.S. album but neither Lennon or Ono publicly voiced any disapproval about the change made in 1976.
Wings over America went on to sell 4 million copies in the US alone, according to Wings biographer Garry McGee. The album was the first triple set by a group to reach number 1, and was a critical success. "Maybe I'm Amazed" was released as a single on 4 February 1977, peaking at number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the US, and at number 28 on the UK chart.
Two related releases followed the album: the TV documentary Wings Over the World and a film titled Rockshow, purporting to contain a complete show from Seattle. Although publicity material presented Rockshow as a document of this Seattle concert, it contains only five songs that were filmed at Seattle's Kingdome; the remainder of the film's 30 songs come from the band's New York and Los Angeles shows. Limiting their relevance, however, these additional releases appeared three and four years, respectively, after the 1976 live album.
Wings over America was issued as a double-compact disc in 1984 on Columbia. The album was first released in the UK on compact disc on 26 May 1987 by Parlophone. Along with McCartney's Ram and Tug of War albums, Wings over America was reissued in the US on compact disc on 18 January 1988. The album was issued by EMI two more times on CD, in 1989 and on 19 February 1990. A 1999 reissue of the album by Toshiba-EMI in Japan reinstated the three-disc format from the original LP issue, and is the only edition of the album to do this. Up to this point, the Japanese CD edition was the only one that was remastered. On 14 April 2008, the album was released as a digital download on both iTunes and Amazon. It was removed for some time off of digital music sites in 2010 and 2011, but as of August 2011 it is available for sale on iTunes.
The album was reissued on 27 May 2013 as part of the Paul McCartney Archive Collection. The reissue was accompanied by the Record Store Day exclusive edition of "Maybe I'm Amazed" EP. Rockshow was also reissued, this time on DVD and Blu-ray, with its audio remixed into 5.1, on 10 June 2013.
All tracks written by Paul McCartney & Linda McCartney, except where noted.
1. "Venus and Mars/Rock Show/Jet"
2. "Let Me Roll It"
3. "Spirits of Ancient Egypt"
4. "Medicine Jar" (Jimmy McCulloch, Colin Allen)
5. "Maybe I'm Amazed" (Paul McCartney)
6. "Call Me Back Again"
7. "Lady Madonna" (McCartney–Lennon)
8. "The Long and Winding Road" (McCartney–Lennon)
Side three
1. "Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me)"
2. "Richard Cory" (Paul Simon)
4. "I've Just Seen a Face" (McCartney–Lennon)
5. "Blackbird" (McCartney–Lennon)
6. "Yesterday" (McCartney–Lennon)
Side four
7. "You Gave Me the Answer"
8. "Magneto and Titanium Man"
9. "Go Now" (Larry Banks, Milton Bennett)
10. "My Love"
11. "Listen to What the Man Said"
Side five
1. "Let 'Em In"
2. "Time to Hide" (Denny Laine)
3. "Silly Love Songs"
4. "Beware My Love"
Side six
No. Title Length
5. "Letting Go"
6. "Band on the Run"
7. "Hi, Hi, Hi"
8. "Soily"
ON THIS DAY: A COLLECTION OF BEATLES OLDIES (...but Goldies!) WAS RELEASED
PAUL REVEALS WHY HE NEARLY DIDN'T DO CARPOOL KARAOKE


The Kitzini story began in the kitchen of our lovely houseboat. We love to cook and entertain at home; it's one of our favourite things to do. For us, nothing brings friends and family together quite like a delicious home cooked meal.
However, like everyone, we face the same challenges of modern life; the constant need to juggle work and family. So we needed to find easy ways of making fabulous food without spending hours slaving over a hot stove.
That's why we've designed a range of high quality, innovative kitchen utensils and accessories to make cooking simple, so you can spend more time enjoying cooking, and more time enjoying food with with your family and friends. Our goal is to help home cooks everywhere save time and create delicious meals easily. Our products are practical, easy to use, easy to clean and made to last. Trust us, they will quickly become your go–to kitchen essentials, helping to simplify everyday cooking tasks and transform meal time.
Modern life is busy. And rushed. So while we can't guarantee turning off the chaos in the rest of the home, rest assured your kitchen will run smoothly and cooking will be a breeze. And your family will love you for it. You'll wonder how you ever cooked without us.
Our families and friends all inspire us - sharing recipes, tips and their tricks for great home cooking. Not to mention our wonderful chef, Salvatore. Salvatore (or 'Sal' as his friends like to call him), has introduced us to the tools of his trade, his absolute must-have equipment in the kitchen.
We believe home cooks can benefit from these amazingly helpful and time saving tools too, so we took it upon ourselves to adapt these for your kitchen. Sal and the rest of the Kitzini Team have spent hours putting our products to the test so we - and more importantly, you - can be sure of their superior quality, functionality and durability.


The large part of what I do and here at Vine is finding driven, junior talent to enter the Recruitment industry. It's a familiar scene, go to a graduate fair or call up a candidate who hasn't considered the industry and as soon as the word 'sales' forms in your mouth, the candidate suddenly is only hear to see another stall or they are looking for a job, just not sales. Why is that?
Yes, I know there is still the stereotype sales person the majority of society have, evoking thoughts of an old school double-glazing salesman – giving it the big, aggressive sell, all smitten with how he used dirty tactics that made him the 'biggest deal in the history of their industry' and with all the clichés of how they could sell an 'i' trademark to Apple. No disrespect to reputable double-glazing salespeople by the way.
Recruitment is a professional job, you are recruiting on behalf of your client whether they be in Finance or IT to Property or PR/Communications/Media – your credibility will quickly dissolve. You need to be knowledgeable in your market, be able to advise your client and candidate and the rewards can be great in both commission and other incentives such as all-expenses paid holidays across the globe.
Now don't get me wrong, I know those of us who are looking for sales people who can hold a conversation and engage with the aim of earning them the commission for whatever their heart desires but here lies the problem, and I feel it's a big one, most candidates somehow have the feeling that letting known such motivations are a taboo. In a time where mainstream definition of success is pretty measured on your finances and status, rightly or wrongly and I want to keep the floodgates closed on that argument please, why keep that to yourself. I am willing to bet that the majority of the candidates that I mentioned earlier at graduate fairs have that drive we are looking for, I know recruitment won't be for everyone but why can't we admit our motivations to potential employers?
We speak with many applicants who will always speak about 'having the right skillset'. OK, in a sense you have marginally tried to sell yourself, but you're applying for a sales role, we want to see commercial awareness – why is this market attractive? What are you looking to get out of the role which is going to incentivise you to be a success?


Managed to get a couple more Silos anchored at the POS tonight. Sent Con Del to fetch a second Harvester to feed the silos. Reactor is online. OK then should have some production going soon… If I can figure out why the control systems are not actually letting me set up the links between the structures. This production stuff is a pain to a miner like me as it is without things going haywire on me. I could just mine the moon for raw materials but the value of such raw materials is too low to be profitable. So what does it hurt to set up some automated reactors to process the raw materials into something more profitable? It hurt my head because the machinery refuses to function. I am ready to send a subspace comm to the scam artist that sold me this defective junk.
After a bumpy ride through the wormholes managed to find a route from 5-0 to the low sec system of Eifer in the Hiemater region. The gate to Empire space was camped by an Amarrian Apoc battleship piloted by a capsuleer bent on smashing anything that invaded "his system". Thankfully I am an experienced cloaky pilot and was able to slip past him into Empire Space. 2 jumps later I was in Hek solar system where I was able to acquire some much needed skill packages to download into my implants. Most notably was the Clone Vat Operation skill set that will allow my to operate the Clone Vat installation I had installed in the Rorqual capital industrial ship back in 5-0. a mad dash back through the holes to home base in 5-0 and last minute checks of the Clone Vat assembly to make sure the techs at the station installed it correctly.
Soon I should be able to invite friends of mine to install a jump clone in the Rorqual so that when needed they can transfer their consciousnesses to one of my waiting Exhumer class Hulk mining barges. The additional skilled pilots in my fleet should prove quite profitable for both the pilots and myself.
This is a goal I have wanted to achieve for years.
So I finally made it to the broken wormhole system of Thera. Interesting place. Like the wild west. At the moment the Gallente militia seems to have the system under control. That is not too surprising since there is factional warfare occurring near the wormhole leading to Thera.
However if you think being a Gallente citizen will keep you safe, you have another thing coming. In the short time between when I found the wormhole leading to Thera and the time I finally safely docked at one of the 4 stations setup in Thera, I managed to get shot at quite a bit. Only the performance of my covert ops Helios and my experience in flying in null sec space kept me alive to do a little sight seeing.
I don't see being able to make a profitable existence in Thera unless I can be part of the current ruling group of capsuleers. However I expect that to change almost with the time zones. I will give it a few hours to do observations and additional sight seeing as well as getting some pics of the devastation left behind in Thera from the Sleeper experiments. i don't know what the Sleepers were working on but it did not go well.
For now I am heading to the gallery to get some rations and see how moral of the crew is doing during this very stress filled trip. They have been doing an excellent job of keeping the ship running smoothly. I may have to allow them to break out some stores of liquor as a reward once we can safely hide the ship.


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Q: Passing method parameter (combobox text) using Task factory So I'm a little bit confused here. My code looks like this:
task1 = Task.Factory.StartNew(() => dataTabel_b1 = ConverteerRoutines.GetDataTableVanDatabase(Properties.Settings.Default.connectionString_b1, cbSqlTabel_b1.Text));

the second parameter (cbSqlTabel_b1) is a combobox on my GUI. When I run this code I get an invalidoperationexcepction. I'll get this message: It is not allowed to enter through different threads of a process: it was given access to the control cbSqlTabel_b1 from a different thread than the thread on which the element is created. When I'll do this, it works just fine:
String tableName = cbSqlTabel_b1.Text;
task1 = Task.Factory.StartNew(() => dataTabel_b1 = ConverteerRoutines.GetDataTableVanDatabase(Properties.Settings.Default.connectionString_b1, tableName));

So I tried the same thing with a textbox. That would look like the following:
task1 = Task.Factory.StartNew(() => dataTabel_b1 = ConverteerRoutines.GetDataTableVanDatabase(Properties.Settings.Default.connectionString_b1, textBox1.Text));

This just works fine as well. Does anybody know why I can't do the same with a comboBox? Thanks in advance!

A: The text box's Text property implementation automatically marshals to the UI thread to access the textbox.  The combo box's implementation doesn't do that for you, so you'll need to make sure that you access it from the UI thread yourself, rather than relying on the Text property to work from a non-UI thread.  The best way to do so is as you showed, to pull the value from the UI before starting the new task.

A: You need to use Control.Invoke when accessing UI elements and you're not on the UI thread. Since your Task you are creating runs on a separate thread, you will need to make use of Control.Invoke.
In your second example:
String tableName = cbSqlTabel_b1.Text;
task1 = Task.Factory.StartNew(() => dataTabel_b1 = ConverteerRoutines.GetDataTableVanDatabase(Properties.Settings.Default.connectionString_b1, tableName));

If that is running on the UI thread (for example it was fired from a UI event), it will work, because you're hitting cbSqlTabel_b1 from the UI thread.
I'm not sure why your third example with the text box is working, perhaps someone with more experience than me can answer that.
As you've found and Servy in the comments mentioned, you can fix it simply by getting the value while still in your UI thread before you create your task (which is more efficient since the stuff below means you are jumping threads all the time).
Regardless, to get it working within your task, I would recommend creating a separate method in your UI class/form to get the control's text which will let you forget about ever trying to do a ControlInvoke to access something again.
The pattern goes like this:
private string GetCbSqlTabel_B1Text()
{
  if(this.InvokeRequired)
  {
    return (string)this.Invoke(new Func<string>(() => GetCbSqlTabel_B1Text()));
  }
  else
  {
    return cbSqlTabel_B1.Text;
  }
}

InvokeRequired does what it says, it will tell you if you need to use Control.Invoke or not. When this method is called from some random thread, it will call itself from within the UI thread, at which point it knows it can directly access the control you need.
Once you've got that method you simply need to change your task to use it:
Task.Factory.StartNew(() =>
        {
          ConverteerRoutines.GetDataTableVanDatabase(Properties.Settings.Default.connectionString_b1, GetCbSqlTabel_B1Text()));
        });

The only downside I know of to this pattern is you might end up needing to create a lot of these methods, but they work really nicely. They're also nice to assign things to controls, for example:
private void SetCbSqlTabel_B1Text(string text)
{
  if(this.InvokeRequired)
  {
    this.Invoke(new Action(() => SetCbSqlTabel_B1Text(text)));
  }
  else
  {
    cbSqlTabel_B1.Text = text;
  }
}

This time we don't need to return anything so we just use an Action instead of a Func.


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9 Plays You Can Read Like Books
by Eliza Bayroff
Love drama? It's hard to get truly tired of a good novel, but those looking to switch up their reading experiences would be wise to add these plays to their reading lists. They are sad, they are naughty, they are thought-provoking, and they are a delight to behold. And you don't have to fork over your firstborn to experience them! It's a no-brainer.
'Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes' by Tony Kushner
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The AIDS crisis that swept America and the world in the 80's was a tragedy of epic magnitude—and Kushner responds to it with an epic of his own. Setting the scene in 1985 New York City, this two-part emotional rollercoaster follows gay men, dying prophets, depressed Mormons, witty nurses, crooked lawyers and guilty survivors as they attempt to survive a world that refuses to slow down and save them. It thrills, it devastates, and it might just make you believe in angels.
'A Doll's House' by Henrik Ibsen
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On the surface, Nora—the novel's housewife protagonist—appears to tolerate living the life her constricting society has mandated she live. But the charade cannot last, and Nora's ultimate decision electrified nineteenth century audiences. With Lucas Hnath's sequel recently winning the Tony Award Best New Play, there is no better time to check out this heartbreaking work from the master Norwegian dramatist.
'Topdog/Underdog' by Suzan-Lori Parks
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Parks won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for this deceptively simple tale of Lincoln and Booth, two African American brothers trying to play the world–and each other. Unlike many playwrights, Parks provides almost no stage directions, forcing readers to construct many of their interpretations of actions and characters. Parks is one of the greatest living commentators on American life, and this play remains one of her best.
'The Coast of Utopia' by Tom Stoppard
The Czech-born British playwright made his name with deep and witty romps like 'Arcadia' and 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead', but neither works approach the staggering scope of this three-part dive into the burgeoning philosophical movements of mid-nineteenth century Russia. While not for the scatterbrained or easily bored, Stoppard's refusal to condescend to his audience is admirable and deserving of praise.
'A Raisin in the Sun' by Lorraine Hansberry
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All the Younger family wants to do is get by and and build a better future for themselves—but when you're black and working-class in segregated Chicago, even these humble dreams are nigh impossible to fulfill. Gone too soon, Hansberry proved her mettle when she became first black female playwright to have her work grace a Broadway stage. An unequivocal classic.
'Our Town' by Thornton Wilder
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Lights up: A small New Hampshire town on an ordinary day. Parents scold, milk is delivered, young people fall in love and marry. You may not believe it now, but you'll probably be bawling the end. Wilder's decision to focus on the little things that make up a typical life make the eventual loss of that life uniquely beautiful and devastating.
'Amadeus' by Peter Shaffer
The 1985 film adaptation won 8 Oscars, but it all started with this 1981 psychological thriller. Salieri, our protagonist, is a pious man and decent composer who just happens to live at the same time as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a petulant boor who wastes his time on women and debauchery. He is also the greatest musical talent the world has ever seen. By playing fast and loose with the facts of history, Shaffer earns his artistic license to get to the black heart of artistic ambition and regret.
'God of Carnage' by Yasmina Reza
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Most parents will fight like hell for their children—but what happens when parents fight each other? From a seemingly straightforward altercation between two middle-schoolers, Reza ramps up the tension as two sets of parents confront the rottenness inherent in their counterparts and in themselves. Warning: there is vomit involved.
'Buried Child' by Sam Shepard
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Shepard, who died last Thursday, did it all with as an actor, director, and playwright. This Pulitzer winner launched his playwriting career with aplomb, using the dynamic of a rural Midwest family to confront thorny issues like the decay of the family unit and the futility of the American Dream. Thank you for everything, Mr. Shepard.
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