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Q: Getting SQLException: Driver:org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver returned null for URL in tomee when Resource is defined with system properties I try to define a DataSource resource through system properties (in contrast to putting it into tomee.xml) and get the very same result as in Getting SQLException: Driver:org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver returned null for URL in tomee.
What's different is, that I provide a value for the property jdbcDriver and that I define my DataSource through system properties:
JAVA_OPTS="${JAVA_OPTS} -DmyDS='new://Resource?type=javax.sql.DataSource'"
JAVA_OPTS="${JAVA_OPTS} -DmyDS.jdbcDriver='com.mysql.jdbc.Driver'"
JAVA_OPTS="${JAVA_OPTS} -DmyDS.jdbcUrl='jdbc:mysql://ahost/adb'"
JAVA_OPTS="${JAVA_OPTS} -DmyDS.userName='auser'"
JAVA_OPTS="${JAVA_OPTS} -DmyDS.password='apass'"
JAVA_OPTS="${JAVA_OPTS} -DmyDS.maxActive=5"
JAVA_OPTS="${JAVA_OPTS} -DmyDS.maxIdle=5"
JAVA_OPTS="${JAVA_OPTS} -DmyDS.minIdle=1"
JAVA_OPTS="${JAVA_OPTS} -DmyDS.initialSize=1"

Since the stacktrace also contains the value of jdbcUrl I am pretty sure the values are processed by TomEE properly, just the wrong driver (HSQL) seems to be selected
The mysql-connector JAR is in $TOMEE_BASE/lib. Putting the datasource definition into tomee.xml works.

A: Not sure of your shell but I'd remove the simple quotes. Also even if less important tomee tends to prefer to use attributes starting with an uppercase even if not case sensitive for most of them.

A: As it turns out the reason was a class loader conflict. The MySQL connector was both in the WAR (by accident) and in TomEE. After removing the driver from the WAR things start to work.
Still very strange that it falls back to HSQLDB without further notice about some driver issues.

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2018 New Radicals: Michael Sheen introduces this year's winners
New radicals 2018
The 2018 Observer/Nesta awards celebrate the innovators making a difference to real lives in the UK. The actor, one of the judges, introduces our winners
New Radicals 2018: more of Britain's best social enterprises
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Left to right: Rachael Wallach of Disrupt Disability, Kieran Ball and Alex Redston of Prison Voicemail, and Naima Khan of Raise Your Gaze. Photograph: Suki Dhanda, Antonio Olmos and Sophia Evans/Observer
The world is full of radicals. Some of them dominate our news headlines for all the wrong reasons, whether we like it or not. But what makes a good radical? I meet so many people across the UK I would describe as radical. Some because they have incredible energy and – despite the barriers – are bringing their fantastic ideas to life. Others, like previous award winner Sue Malson from Trac2, a community outreach charity in Pontypool, because they have little option but to fight for change for themselves and their community. Their motivations may be different, but they all have one thing in common. You rarely hear about them in the media.
So you can imagine how happy I am to introduce 50 New Radicals bringing us positive social change at a time of continued political upheaval at home and abroad. To shine a spotlight on those delivering programmes, services and campaigns that put people and the planet first. Each deserves their own headline. As a reader, I hope you'll go and find out more about the winners, how you can support them, even if it's simply to share their good news and recognise their hard work.
In 2016 I was awarded the honour of being a New Radical, alongside the incredible people at Llamau and the End Youth Homelessness Cymru coalition. It was for the campaign we ran in ensuring homeless 16- and 17-year-olds weren't placed in inappropriate B&B accommodation. Was it radical? Maybe; maybe it was just necessary. So much of that campaign has gone on to help shape the way I work now, the way I collaborate, take on the complex issues and focus my efforts on building movements that create opportunities for all to get involved.
But how do you pick 50, from all the entrants across the UK? As judges we debated extensively about the weight to give one nominee over another. How do you pick a campaign versus a social enterprise or a great idea versus already proven social impact? The answer, it seems, is to focus on those that bring hope for a better future.
Michael Sheen. Photograph: Teri Pengilley/The Guardian
Judging is made all the more fun, challenging and rewarding when done with others who are all radicals themselves. Ruth Ibegbuna is the founder and former CEO of Reclaim, an organisation based in Manchester supporting young, working-class people to be seen, be heard and lead change in their communities. Reclaim recently worked with a group of 25 young girls in my home town of Port Talbot. Josh Babarinde created jobs for ex-offenders and other young people at risk by founding Cracked It, a social enterprise that repairs smartphones.
It was important to find winners across the UK and to recognise that what might be radical in one community, may be less so in another. As judges it was important to debate the context of the idea, the innovation, the people behind it. I'm proud to see some great people from Wales in the list of 50 radicals, though there weren't nearly as many as I would like to see. In this year's list we include Creating Enterprise CIC, showing how an employment and property services organisation can put social impact first and still deliver an award-winning service in North Wales. Closer to my home is the Common Wealth Theatre and their community-based performance of We're Still Here, a production that explored the experiences of the Port Talbot steelworkers.
Previous winners have presented strong themes of digital innovation, but if there is one thing that sums up this year for me it's the sense of community. Whether it be the way the Impact Hub in Birmingham has challenged the way things are done, bringing hope to a community that was worn out by years of doing things the way they've always been done, or in Grenfell United, where the residents, the families and wider community have worked tirelessly to keep the focus on the fight for justice and now developing into a movement that will no doubt deliver change in housing policy, regulation and practice. Where institutions have failed, others are stepping in and building new movements, new ideas, new communities.
From an old radical, congratulations to the new radicals. I hope we get to see more headlines about your incredible efforts to make the world a better place.
Michael Sheen is a previous winner of a New Radicals Award and founder of the End High Cost Credit Alliance
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Ernie Johnson Gives Powerful Message to UA Football Team
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"It costs nothing to be kind."
"Everyone is going through their own battle."
These are just a few of the inspirational messages seen throughout social media in trying times. For the Crimson Tide football team, however, a new message to follow presented itself.
Ernie Johnson, a broadcaster for Turner Sports, visited Tuscaloosa on Wednesday to come and talk to the Crimson Tide football team. Johnson is the second guest speaker to visit the Crimson Tide ahead of the college football season, joining Major League Baseball legend Alex Rodriguez, who made the trip to Tuscaloosa late last week.
The speech starts off discussing his family's adoption of a child from Romania. While making the trip to officially adopt him, the Johnson's received a startling comment from the child's caretakers.
"When the nurse handed him to me, she said 'Don't take this boy, he is no good," said Johnson. Shortly after being adopted, the child, named Michael, was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy, a rare disorder that attacks and weakens a human's muscles.
Johnson continued by sharing the story of how a high school basketball coach met Michael and placed him on the team to "show the guys maximum effort and to teach them to have a heart for others."
However, the moral of the speech persisted: be a better human.
"When you step away from your agenda, and notice there are moments that could make somebody's life better, that's all I try to teach," said Johnson in his speech. "When you wake up in the morning and say 'how can I make somebody's life better today?'"
Sports are powerful. The saying "It's more than a game," not only continues to hold true, but also impacts others in multiple ways.
Athletes, especially in college football, have a huge platform, and whether the players know it or not, they are inspiring the younger generation by their on field talent, and off-the-field leadership.
Johnson's speech on how one person can impact a team is a story that can motivate and empower others. It only takes one person to create a wave of change, and value that it brings is limitless.
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No End in Sight: An Egyptian Man's Ordeal in ICE Custody and the Plight of Indefinite Immigration Detention
Mohammed Abdalla-Omran's efforts to make a new life for himself in the United States were abruptly disrupted in August 2012,…
Mohammed Abdalla-Omran's efforts to make a new life for himself in the United States were abruptly disrupted in August 2012, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents showed up at his workplace in New Hampshire. An Egyptian citizen, Abdalla-Omran was arrested on an outstanding warrant for overstaying a tourist visa. His arrest triggered a legal odyssey in which his resistance to the agency's attempts to deport him would keep him stuck in the indefinite limbo of immigration detention for years.
Mohammed Abdalla-Omran.
Photo: Courtesy of Mohammed Abdalla-Omran
Abdalla-Omran's case is unusual in that it involves claims that the FBI attempted to recruit him as an informant; a tip alleging his laptop contained instructions for building weapons of mass destruction, which never resulted in any charges; charges that he falsely claimed U.S. citizenship, which were later dismissed; and numerous lawsuits in which he accused the government of mistreatment.
In 2015, he was convicted on federal charges of failure to depart after resisting two attempts by ICE to deport him via commercial flights out of Louisiana's Alexandria International Airport. On both occasions, Abdalla-Omran said, he refused to board the plane. After serving a six-month sentence, he was transferred back to a privately run ICE detention facility in Louisiana.
While it's unclear how many people remain in ICE custody after resisting deportation, Abdalla-Omran's case points to the much broader issue of immigration detention with no end in sight — he is among a hidden population of detainees who are effectively forever prisoners of the agency. ICE declined to provide current data about the number of people held in prolonged detention, but in fiscal year 2015 — during which ICE detained more than 355,000 people — some 3,166 of them had been held for more than a year, including 169 for more than three years, 32 for more than five years, and five for more than eight years.
That data, obtained through public records requests by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse and analyzed as part of a forthcoming article in the Southern California Law Review, also reveals that those detained in for-profit detention centers were held the longest. Among those detained longer than five years as of 2015, 10 were eventually deported, nine remained in custody at the end of the year, four were released on bond, and one died.
Ahilan Arulanantham, legal director at the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, said that using the word "detention" in the immigration context is deceiving. "Detention usually has a very short-term connotation to it, like after-school detention or even in the criminal context, detention is prior to arrest," he told The Intercept. But in practice, Arulanantham argued, immigration detention is incarceration without a criminal process.
"It's just a parallel system of imprisonment without trial that we have operating in the country," Arulanantham said. "And it's huge."
Under ICE's own legal mandate, the agency can only detain individuals "during the pendency of removal hearings or to effectuate their removal." ICE must release anyone it has held longer than six months after a final removal order is issued unless the person is deemed a threat to public safety or there is "significant likelihood of removal in the foreseeable future." But that doesn't apply to individuals like Abdalla-Omran, whose failed deportation is "due to their own actions," an ICE spokesperson told The Intercept.
According to the agency, "Mr. Abdalla has failed to comply with multiple attempts to execute his removal order, and he was criminally convicted in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana in February 2015 of obstructing two attempts to remove him from the United States." The spokesperson said the agency couldn't provide further detail but that obstructing removal implied "physical resistance."
LaSalle detention center in Jena, La., where Mohammed Abdalla-Omran was detained.
Image: Google Maps; Screenshot: The Intercept
Most people held in prolonged immigration detention are there because they are fighting their cases, and the U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that these individuals do not have the right to periodic bond hearings while their cases move through a chronically slow court system.
"Our immigration courts are really backlogged; until their cases come up and come to a conclusion, they have to stay in detention for that period of time," said Emily Ryo, an associate professor at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law and co-author of the forthcoming study. "If they are removed, that can happen pretty quickly. You can be removed because you don't have any form of relief available or just because you don't want to be detained and you know that if you try to fight, there's a long way ahead."
"In some ways, detention serves as a deterrent for people who are seeking relief who might actually have legal relief available to them."
But there are also many detainees with final removal orders whom the U.S. government is unable to deport, usually because they come from countries with which the U.S. has no repatriation agreements, or countries at war with no functioning government.
Because immigration proceedings are civil, not criminal, those held in immigration detention have no right to court-appointed attorneys — and many end up voluntarily delaying their cases, and thus extending their time in detention, while they try to come up with funds to hire private representation.
Another ICE spokesperson told The Intercept that "average length of stay depends on several factors," including duration of immigration proceedings and appeals, and whether an individual is in possession of the necessary identity and travel documents. "Ongoing case processing and appeals and effectuating difficult removals are the main reasons for longer detention stays," the spokesperson added. "However, some aliens do not comply with their removal orders in various ways, such as refusing to sign documents or board aircraft."
Up to 40,000 men, women, and children are held in immigration detention every day. ICE estimates the number of detained will jump to a daily average of more than 50,000 this year — and has asked Congress to boost its budget accordingly.
Keeping someone in immigration detention costs an average $ 126 a day, and critics have noted that it is no coincidence that, in a system in which some 70 percent of detainees on any given day are held in private facilities, both the number of the detained and the duration of detention are growing. "That incentive to make profit has really driven immigration detention in recent decades," Ryo told The Intercept. "It's not really in our best interest to hold people who don't need to be confined in this way, that can be released into the community while they're waiting for their cases."
Sylvester Owino, a Kenyan man who spent nearly a decade in ICE detention before finally being released on bond in 2015, wrote in a recent op-ed that "immigration detention is actually a civil form of prison."
"For those who haven't been detained and don't know anyone in detention, it's easy to think, 'OK, it's just detention; they hold you there, they process you, and then you're out,'" he wrote. "You aren't even told when you'll be released, or if you will be released."
"What this means is that people like me languish in this system, sometimes for months or even years," he added. "I can't get those years of my life back, or see my parents, who both died while I was detained by ICE."
Immigrants sit in a cell for incoming ICE detainees at the Adelanto detention center, which is run by the Geo Group, in Adelanto, Calif., on April 13, 2017.
Photo: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters
According to ICE, 98 percent of people held in immigration detention in fiscal year 2018 have been released or deported within 276 days. But the agency wouldn't say how many people have been detained longer than that, or how much longer.
In fact, detention stays are getting longer. Data provided by Human Rights Watch from 2011 through 2014 shows that the average length of time ICE detainees spent in immigration detention over that period was 36 days. In 2015, the average detention duration was 39 days, according to the forthcoming study, and so far in 2018, it has been 40.5 days, according to ICE.
But the averages conceal wide disparities in individual stints in detention.
"In a civil detention system where people are not being charged with crimes, ICE held tens of thousands of noncitizens for prolonged periods," Clara Long, a senior researcher on immigration and border policy at Human Rights Watch, said of the 2011-2014 period. "In the most egregious cases of prolonged detention, ICE held 437 people for three to four years, 71 people for five to 10 years, and another nine people for over 10 years."
The U.S. Supreme Court considered the fate of individuals held in immigration detention for prolonged periods in two landmark cases. In 2001, the court ruled that individuals whom the government was unable to deport could not be held indefinitely. The case, Zadvydas v. Davis, was brought by Kestutis Zadvydas, a man born of Lithuanian parents in Germany who was not a citizen of either country. When the U.S. ordered him deported, neither country would take him.
There are also a handful of countries to which the U.S. at times has had trouble deporting people, including Cuba, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Somalia, Iraq, and Afghanistan, according to the ACLU's Arulanantham. Other countries, like China, are often slow to verify the nationality of people the U.S. has sought to deport there.
But most of those facing extraordinarily long detention are stuck in ICE custody while fighting their deportations.
While some are able to do so while free on bond, the Supreme Court ruled in February that detained immigrants don't have a right to periodic bond hearings. That ruling — Jennings v. Rodriguez — will likely mean that more people will remain in detention longer, advocates warn. In the Central District of California, where Alejandro Rodriguez was the main plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit filed by the ACLU, of 3,000 people held in detention on average every day, up to 15 percent were held longer than six months, according to Arulanantham, one of the attorneys who brought the suit.
"If you want to make any kind of argument about why you shouldn't be deported, it takes months to litigate that," said Arulanantham, adding that if either side decides to appeal, "then you're talking about over a year, routinely, even multiple years."
Rodriguez was released after being detained for more than three years when the lawsuit was filed — but his actual immigration case, which he ultimately won, lasted seven years. Another client of Arulanantham's was detained for seven years before winning his case. And the legal cases of people who are fighting deportation but are not in detention "routinely take longer than that," said Arulanantham, adding that the longest case he knew of lasted more than two decades.
"A lot of litigation takes years," he added. "It's just that you don't expect that people will be locked up while that happens."
Immigrant detainees walk through the ICE detention facility in Florence, Ariz., on Feb. 28, 2013.
Photo: John Moore/Getty Images
Mohammed Abdalla-Omran's case is emblematic of some of the most confounding outcomes of ICE's dysfunctional immigration detention system. Abdalla-Omran arrived in the United States on a tourist visa in 1999. In 2003, he applied to change his status following his marriage to a U.S. citizen — an effort that failed after his marriage fell apart. According to ICE, Abdalla-Omran agreed to leave the country voluntarily in 2007 but failed to do so, and a judge issued him a final order of removal that year. In 2012, ICE officers arrested him at his workplace.
Abdalla-Omran claims he was subsequently interrogated by ICE and FBI agents who gave him two options: become an informant spying on Middle Eastern communities in the U.S. or face deportation back to Egypt.
Such an offer wouldn't be out of line with FBI tactics. Previous reporting by The Intercept shed light on the FBI's use of immigration status to pressure individuals from Muslim-majority countries to become informants, and the bureau has reportedly leveraged procedural delays and the threat of deportation to persuade people to cooperate.
Abdallah-Omran said he couldn't bring himself to accept the offer. "I said, I have no problem telling them about anything bad that is going to happen if I know of it," he recalled. "But I would not help them entrap people and then get them prosecuted and put in jail, only because I convinced them to plan a bad action."
The FBI declined to comment for this story. A spokesperson for ICE said Abdalla-Omran's allegation was "not something we would be able to confirm or deny."
Soon after his arrest, Abdalla-Omran was charged with falsely claiming citizenship in order to get a job. His case grew even more convoluted when an ICE agent claimed in a court filing that Abdalla-Omran's roommate had reported that he had PDF files on his laptop about how to build chemical and nuclear weapons. These allegations were especially provocative given that Abdalla-Omran had been employed at a turbine manufacturing company that worked on contract with several U.S. government agencies. Abdalla-Omran claims these allegations were an attempt to smear him after his refusal to become an informant. Contacted for comment by The Intercept, his former roommate declined to discuss his case or the allegations against him. Abdalla-Omran has never been charged or convicted of any crime related to national security. Several months after his arrest, the government dismissed the false claim of citizenship charges.
In February 2014, Abdalla-Omran was charged with two counts of failure to depart for resisting ICE's efforts to deport him on commercial flights in June and July 2013. He was convicted in February 2015 and served a six-month sentence before being returned to ICE custody. Throughout the years he has spent in detention, Abdalla-Omran says that he has never received a bond hearing.
"The fact that Mohammed was charged with a federal crime for 'failing to depart' is extremely disturbing because prior to this charge, he had no criminal record," said Christina Mansfield, a supporter of Abdalla-Omran's and co-executive director of the advocacy group Freedom for Immigrants. "Our broken immigration bureaucracy made Mohammed into a criminal to justify his indefinite imprisonment rather than using common sense and discretion in his complicated and unique case."
"If the government cannot remove him, they should release him immediately on humanitarian grounds," Mansfield added.
Ryo, the USC law professor, argued that prolonged detention and the labyrinthine immigration court system have undermined detained individuals' confidence in the legitimacy of the U.S. justice system. She said that among detainees she surveyed about their experiences in detention, even those who had previously served time in prison said that immigration detention was worse.
"A lot of people respond that immigration detention is harder precisely because they don't know the end point," she said. "Even for people who aren't detained four, five, six years, this form of confinement is extremely hard for them psychologically, emotionally, mentally, and physically. It's almost a form of torture."
The years he has spent behind bars have taken a psychological toll on Abdalla-Omran. In the summer of 2015, he received a call from his brother in Egypt informing him that his father, who he had last seen in 2008, had passed away. Over the course of his confinement, Abdalla-Omran says he has attempted suicide and gone on hunger strike twice to protest his detention, as well as the abusive treatment he says he has suffered in ICE custody. He has also filed a prolific number of lawsuits and written to members of the Senate pleading for attention to his case and what he describes as the "hate, bigotry, and discrimination" he has experienced since his arrest.
"I know I am not the only person whose rights they have violated in this way. Other people gave up easily, but I decided that no matter how long it takes, I will keep fighting the injustices they have done to me only because of my name and ethnicity," he told The Intercept. "It's frustrating that after all these years that I have been in detention without due process, nobody has been held accountable for my treatment."
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Ted Monachino, who has experience working with new coordinator Chuck Pagano, will be the Bears' new outside linebackers coach, the team said Monday.
Monachino, was also given the title of senior defensive assistant, replaces Brandon Staley, who followed Vic Fangio to the Broncos.
Monachino spent the last three weeks as the defensive coordinator at Kansas State, but was allowed to leave for an NFL job without financial penalty. He served as Pagano's defensive coordinator with the Colts from 2016-17 before acting as an analyst at Missouri, his alma mater, last year. He also worked with Pagano on the Ravens from 2011-12. After Pagano left to be the Colts' head coach, Monachino remained with the Ravens as their linebackers coach until 2015.
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Educators, policymakers, and funders want to know whether technology can really improve foundational numeracy skills. Rigorous evidence must continue to be collected, but our experience establishing the iiTablet Tshomiz program in South Africa's Eastern Cape gives us confidence that online learning can make a profound positive impact.
The current growth in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) sector, has paved the way for many things, most importantly, distance education. With increased computer power, availability of internet and faster data transfers rates, e-learning has been made easier and more accessible.
My love of reading helped make me who I am, and it energizes my work today seeking to improve literacy for children around the world. From 2015 to 2016, I helped lead a team at Results for Development (R4D), working with donors, multilateral organizations and other stakeholders, to tackle a key barrier to children's literacy: namely that books, particularly in mother tongue languages and at the right level, are not easily assessable to children in many countries.


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SEATTLE: Entire Football Team at Garfield High School Including Coaches Refuse to Stand for National Anthem
by Jim Hoft September 18, 2016
The entire Garfield High School football team including coaches refused to stand for the National Anthem on Friday night.
This anti-police movement is spreading.
Garfield High School (Seattle) student-athletes taking a knee during the National Anthem yesterday. #Seattle pic.twitter.com/o362ugXMd2
— HauteHoopla (@HauteHoopla) September 17, 2016
The head coach said it was to bring awareness to social injustice.
This is the type of crap their teaching kids in Seattle.
FOX 13 reported:
The entire Garfield High School football team, including the coaches, took a knee during the national anthem Friday night before their game against West Seattle High on Friday night to protest "social injustices."
After the game, which Garfield won, Garfield High School head football coach Joey Thomas said that "the players decided to do this" to bring attention to "social injustices," emphasizing that it was "a player-driven" move and that his players plan to continue the practice during the anthem before every game "until they tell us to stop."


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Best Dog Walkers in Elmwood of Buffalo, NY | Wag!
Elmwood Avenue, and in particular Elmwood Village, is an urban centerpiece of Buffalo, New York. Long considered the artistic and eclectic center of the city, Elmwood Avenue consists of a mixture of residential homes, apartments, restaurants, and local businesses. Despite its urban vibe, Elmwood Avenue provides green spaces and easy access to the city's park system, offering plenty of options for walking your dog.
Because Buffalo is situated on the shores of Lake Erie, neighborhoods in the city are often subject to constant and occasionally severe lake-effect snowstorms from December through March. Walking on sidewalks can be tricky due to icy surfaces so drive or walk with care during these times and be sure to wear appropriate winter weather gear. Spring, summer, and fall are alternately rainy and cool, hot and humid, and temperate and comfortable. As conditions may carry, check the weather forecast ahead of your walk and be prepared for whatever comes your way.
The primary walkable section of Elmwood Avenue stretches over a roughly five-mile section from the cross-streets of Forest Avenue to North Street. This entire portion of Elmwood is a mixture of housing, commercial districts, retail spaces, and green spaces. Elmwood is lined with large sidewalks and is the main hub of pedestrian traffic, especially during business hours. The green space and neighborhoods on and directly off of Elmwood are mostly lined with large, established trees which provide much-needed shade while walking a dog.
As it is a mixed-use district, this part of Elmwood Avenue is frequently busy. Be sure to keep your dog on a leash at all times and use crosswalks for crossing the road. Please note that there are many residential homes and businesses which encourage higher amounts of traffic pulling in and out of driveways and parking lots. Keep your eyes open at all times for the safety of you and your dog!
The main greenway feature on Elmwood Avenue is Bidwell Parkway. Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, this parkway lies between two streets lined by large, older mansions that are now used as businesses, schools, and apartment complexes. Large trees provide a beautiful canopy and the extensive grassy area is perfect for a walk or run with your dog or even a picnic! Bidwell Parkway is a great place to catch a quick bite as food trucks and farmers' markets are regularly in attendance. Your dog does need to be kept on a leash as you are guaranteed to meet other dogs and owners at this spot.
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The building hasn't been used in a couple years and some officials hope to utilize the property for riverfront development in an effort to spur economic growth.
The online auction for the AT&T building will open Monday, February 11 and last through Wednesday, February 13.
Beaumont City Council voted 6-1 in favor of bidding on the former AT&T building at 555 Main St. on January 15.
The building hasn't been used in a couple years and the city hopes to utilize the property for riverfront development in an effort to spur economic growth.
The vote authorized city manager Kyle Hayes to make a bid on the property during the auction.
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Julián Castro: "I'm confident that by the time people start voting that I'm going to do well"
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Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro listens as he is introduced at a gathering of Tri-City Young Democrats in Somersworth, New Hampshire on Jan. 15, 2019.
REUTERS/Brian Snyder
DALLAS — Just over two months into his bid for president, Julián Castro said Tuesday evening that he does "not at all" feel overshadowed by fellow Texan Beto O'Rourke amid the former El Paso congressman's splashy presidential campaign rollout.
It was Castro's first public event in his home state since O'Rourke entered the Democratic presidential primary last week, making a bigger dent in the national race than Castro managed when he officially kicked off his campaign in January.
While O'Rourke spoke to a huge cheering crowd in Keene, New Hampshire, Tuesday night, Castro addressed his own packed room in a much smaller venue — a downtown Dallas restaurant.
Castro said he's not afraid of the competition — more than a dozen Democrats are now vying to take on President Donald Trump — but he knows winning won't come easily.
"I don't start off as a frontrunner, I'm the underdog in this race. But you know what? Where I grew up, nobody grew up as a frontrunner," Castro told a crowded group of supporters packed into a downtown Dallas restaurant.
"There are a lot of people in America right now who don't feel like frontrunners. I'm going to go out and talk to them and make sure America serves them too."
Castro said that he was getting "good traction with folks" when he campaigns in Iowa and New Hampshire.
"I'm looking forward to working hard in this campaign in the 46 weeks we have left until the Iowa Caucus to make sure that at the right time I'm the frontrunner of this race," he said. "I'm confident that by the time people start voting that I'm going to do well."
A national Emerson poll released Tuesday showed Castro at one percent support compared to O'Rourke's 11 percent among Democratic primary voters.
Castro added that he didn't feel the attention surrounding O'Rourke had caused his own campaign to fall to the wayside, telling reporters that he believes "people are looking for someone with a strong track record of getting things done and with a strong vision for the future of the country."
O'Rourke — who rose to national prominence last year after his closer-than-expected loss to U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz — drew months of speculation over whether he would throw his hat in the ring. Though he had somewhat of a rocky entrance into the presidential field last week – stories broke detailing his past connections to Republican donors and his involvement with a major hacking group as a teen – O'Rourke silenced some of his critics on Monday, when he announced raising $6.1 million in the first 24 hours of his campaign, surpassing every other campaign in the race that had disclosed its first-day figures.
At Tuesday's meet and greet, Castro, who has not yet released any information about his campaign's fundraising, remained laser focused on his own policy proposals. Among his priorities: universal pre-K, tuition-free public universities and community colleges and "Medicare for everybody who wants it."
And what's working in Castro's favor, some of his supporters said, is his resume. Before announcing his presidential run, the former San Antonio Mayor served as former U.S. housing secretary under President Barack Obama.
"Julián is very enthusiastic and he knows what he's going to do. He already knows what he wants to do for the country as opposed to Beto," said Emma Harrell of Dallas, who said she's already decided to support Castro over O'Rourke. "[Julián] has … a lot of good experience, and I'm sure serving under President Obama taught him a few things."
Others at the event were interested in what the San Antonio Democrat could bring to the table but were not yet ready to commit.
"I'm still trying to decide who to support. I'm interested in all of the candidates and I don't want to jump on one early on," said Dan Nichols of Denton County. "We need somebody who's exciting and has some charisma. A lot of what my decision will come down to is personality."
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The 2nd National Sport Forum – Dynamics Towards Success
Alex Spiteri October 24, 2018
Various aspects rotating around local sports will be discussed during the second National Sport Forum hosted by SportMalta on the 26th and the 27th of October, 2018 at The Palace Hotel, Sliema. This year's theme will be "Dynamics towards success'. Over 150 sport administrators registered for this year's event.
The forum is a valuable platform for providing organisations with essential information, sharing ideas and discussing common issues. Different roles within sport will be discussed, namely the role of the coach, the role of the parent and the role of the media. In addition, it will also give information on various topics, primarily innovative ideas towards improvement, commercialisation of sport facilities, sport academies and dual career. During the Forum, parallel meetings amongst different stakeholders on future collaboration will be held.
The forum will be addressed by local and top foreign guest speakers who will surely give an added value to the discussion.
Top speaker for this year's event will be John Steele, a prominent figure in professional sport development in the UK. Steele has a unique blend of experience in creating and leading high performing teams, developed as a professional sports coach and as Chief Executive in the private, public, and not for profit sectors. He served on the England Rugby Board during the successful World Cup campaign of 2003 and appointed as CEO of the Rugby Football Union. The winning of the bid for the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics saw John take up post as CEO of UK Sport, the organisation tasked with delivering a world class high performance sport system and delivering medal success for Team GB. His tenure through the Beijing Games and lead into the London Games saw unprecedented results for Team GB.
Another valuable speaker will be Sheela Quinn, Coaching Children Development Manager from Sport Ireland Coaching. Quinn has been leading the development of the Sport Ireland Coaching Children and Physical Literacy programmes, since 2012. She has been instrumental in a number of national, international and ICCE coaching projects; she is one of the authors of the coach educational programme iCoachKids.
The National Sport Forum will also be addressed by Guy Taylor who has been the Director of the Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme (TASS) from its inception. For over 15 years, TASS has supported thousands of Dual Career athletes, with many achieving notable successes later in their sporting and professional careers. TASS-supported athletes have gone on to win numerous World Championships, over 180 Olympic/Paralympic medals and many hold significant positions of influence in sport and business. He also advises and supports several countries and organisations in the development of their own athlete Dual Career programmes, including the EU, IOC, FIBA, FIFAPro and the Japanese, Indian and Brazilian Governments.
Other local speaker include Dr Andrew Decelis, Pierre Cassar, Sandro Micallef, Dr Chris Bonett, Robert Portelli and Charlene Attard coordinated by Rose Marie Mercieca who led the core team of this event. There will also be interventions from University of Malta, MCAST and National Sports School. SportMalta CEO Mark Cutajar will moderate the sessions on both days.
The National Sport Forum will be officially opened on Friday at 5.00pm by the Honourable Clifton Grima – Parliamentary Secretary Youths, Sports and Voluntary Organisations. There will also be introductory interventions by Opposition Spokesperson for Sport Ryan Callus and SportMalta chairman Luciano Busuttil.
Friday's session will tackle the role of the coach and will also deal with parental involvement in sports. There wuill be two parallel session on the first day of the forum. One will focus on the commercialisation of sport facilities and another on the possibility of establishing more accademies by SportMalta in partnership with the Sport Organisations.
Saturday's ssession will commence at 9.30am and will elaborate on a way forward for sport organisations and the groundwork towards a sporting ccareer. The session will carry out a discussion on dual career followed by the role played by media in todays' sport.
A participation certificate will be presented to all participants at the end of the Forum. The forum will be transmitted live on Facebook page BeActive – SportMalta.
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Starting the year, members of the EIBN team travelled from Amsterdam to Rimini and from Bratislava to Lyon. EIBN promoted the Indonesian food and beverage industry, and visited related trade fairs in order to inform the EU participants about their opportunities in the Indonesia market.
During the events, the EIBN team has conducted several meeting with the EU participants to promote the upcoming EU Pavilion at Food & Hotel Indonesia in June 2019.
Horecava is a trade fair for catering professionals in the foodservice industry. It was the 63th edition of the show in 2019. The trade fair attracted 71,000 visitors and displayed 250 new products and services, including the vegan and food waste businesses.
The event is dedicated to professional operators in Artisan Gelato, Pastry, Bakery, Chocolate and Coffee, the trade show was already in its 40th year. More than 200,000 visitors attended the trade fair, and there were 1,250 exhibitors occupying 129,000 square metres of expo center.
Danubius Gastro trade fair focused on gastronomy and hotel industry. 394 exhibitors took part in the fair, exhibitors were from Slovakia, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, and other European countries. The show provided competitions, culinary shows, discussions, and representations of various chefs, bakers, confectioners, baristas, and winemakers.
Sirha Lyon trade fair attracted 207,930 visitors including chefs and professionals. It was participated by business operators in the sector of kitchen/dining/hotel equipment, agrofood, bakery/pastry/confectionery, food services etc. In total, there were 2,984 exhibitors took part in 12 sector categories of the exhibition.


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What are tigernuts?
Tigernuts are the small root nodules (tubers) that grow at the base of a sedge grass know as Cyperus esculentus. They are widely popular in Spain where they are commonly used to make a sweetened "milk" like beverage known locally as Horchata de Chufa. They are also hugely popular in Ghana & Nigeria, where they are eaten as a snack and like Spain, are used to make "tigernut milk", also referred to locally in Nigeria as Kunnu Aya.
Why are most of your product made with Tigernut extract?
Just fifteen plant crops provide ninety percent of the world's food energy intake, with rice, maize, and wheat comprising 2/3 of human food consumption. These three are the staples of about eighty percent of the world population, and rice feeds almost half of humanity. Its generally not a good idea for the world to be dependant on such a narrow range of crops, which is just one of the reasons why we are promoting the inclusion of the humble Tigernut into everyday products. The other reason of course is because of its unique flavour and nutritional profile.
Who manufactures your products?
We do. Unlike many brands today, we manufacture our own products in house at our own production facility in Valencia, Spain.
Where are your brand products sold?
At present, our products are sold at independent retailers across Spain. Please visit our brand websites for details on where you can buy our products.
I would like to stock your products, do you sell to other businesses ?
Most of our sales are business to business, and we welcome enquiries from new potential stockists. Feel free to get in touch via our contacts page or via email at: hello@tigerandbean.com
Do you have an environmental impact or social impact policy?
We have an environmental and social impact policy that covers our own operations and separate impact policy that we issue to our supplies that we encourage them to follow too. If you would like to receive a copy of our policy documents please contact us at: hello@tigerandbean.com


Amazon's 36-hour long "Prime Day" has been experiencing some rather unfortunate hiccups as the online shopping behemoth has been plagued with major site issues that have left users unable to browse deals, place orders or even log in to their accounts in some cases.
Still, the show must go on and despite a sometimes maddening shopping experience, deals are still coming down the pike and we've gathered a few more to share with you.
In case you missed it, the hottest Chromebook deal going is undoubtedly Google's Pixelbook that has a hefty $250 discount on all three models. Now I know, there are some pretty intriguing devices on the horizon but seriously, Google's flagship Chromebook is a work of art and this deal is pretty sweet.
If you're looking for a budget device that's as capable as it is beautiful, my long-time favorite Acer Chromebook 14 is $100 off retail for Prime Day. The 14″, Full HD Chromebook offers a sleek, all-aluminum design and is perfect as a light-duty daily driver.
Pick one up for only $199 and marvel as patrons of your local coffee house take a second glance to see if you're using a MacBook.
If you're looking for a compact Chromebook, the unique ASUS Flip C101 is finally at a price point that makes it worth the money. The successor of the original 10.1″ Flip C100 had a lot of potential at its release but seems to have fallen flat due to an inexplicable price tag of $300 for a minimal 16GB of storage.
On the "flip" side, the ASUS C101 offers a unique compact form-factor not found in any other Chromebook. As a second device or a portable travel companion, the 1.9 lbs convertible is really the only Chromebook in its class.
Right now, you can grab the Flip C101 at a very reasonable $229.99. We have always contended that $250 is the sweet-spot for this Chromebook so we definitely recommend it at this price.
We don't talk about wearables much here at Chrome Unboxed but I recently had the opportunity to review a couple of watches from Mobvoi. (reviews coming soon) With the addition of the Google Assistant, I am happy to say my first experience with Wear OS was a positive one and much of that was thanks to the quality of the Ticwatch from Mobvoi.
For Prime Day, the fitness-oriented Ticwatch E is on sale for 30% off of retail. That gets you a stylish smartwatch that's a great workout companion for just over $100. BTW, the battery life is exceptional on this watch.
Grab a single pack Google WIFI router for $99. That's $30 off retail and ten dollars less than you can get it from the Google Store.
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L'Association des Juifs nationaux allemands (en allemand : Verband nationaldeutscher Juden) est une organisation juive allemande de la République de Weimar et des premières années de l'Allemagne nazie qui manifeste son soutien à Adolf Hitler.

Histoire, objectifs, résultat
L'Association des Juifs nationaux allemands est fondée en 1921 par Max Naumann, qui en est le président jusqu'en 1926, puis de 1933 à 1935, date à laquelle l'association est dissoute. L'association est proche du Parti populaire national allemand, national-conservateur et monarchiste, qui refuse cependant l'affiliation à l'Association.

Le but de l'Association est l'assimilation totale des Juifs dans la Volksgemeinschaft allemande, l'auto-éradication de l'identité juive et l'expulsion d'Allemagne des immigrants juifs d'Europe de l'Est. Naumann est particulièrement opposé aux sionistes et aux juifs d'Europe de l'Est : il considère les premiers comme une menace pour l'intégration juive et comme porteurs d'une idéologie  au service des objectifs impériaux britanniques, les seconds comme racialement et spirituellement inférieurs.

L'organe officiel de l'association est le mensuel Der nationaldeutsche Jude, édité par Max Naumann. Le magazine a un tirage de  en 1927.

Parmi les activités de l'Association figure la lutte contre le boycott juif des produits allemands. Elle publie également un manifeste déclarant que les Juifs sont traités équitablement.

En 1934, l'Association fait la déclaration suivante : Nous avons toujours placé le bien-être du peuple allemand et de la patrie, auxquels nous nous sentons inextricablement liés, au-dessus de notre propre bien-être. C'est pourquoi nous avons salué les résultats de janvier 1933, même s'ils nous ont apporté des difficultés personnelles.Une raison possible pour laquelle certains Juifs allemands soutiennent Hitler est peut-être qu'ils pensent que son antisémitisme est uniquement destiné à « exciter les masses ».

Le fait apparemment ironique qu'une association juive prône la loyauté au programme nazi donne lieu à une blague contemporaine sur Naumann et ses partisans selon laquelle ils mettent fin à leur réunion en saluant les nazis et en criant « À bas nous ! ».

Malgré le patriotisme extrême de Naumann et de ses collègues, le gouvernement allemand n'accepte pas leur objectif d'assimilation. L'Association des Juifs nationaux allemands est déclarée illégale et dissoute le 18 novembre 1935. Naumann est arrêté par la Gestapo le même jour et emprisonné au camp de concentration de Columbia. Il est libéré après quelques semaines et meurt d'un cancer en mai 1939.

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In this episode on Pulmonary Embolism we have the triumphant return of Dr. Anil Chopra, the Head of the Divisions of Emergency Medicine at University of Toronto, and Dr. John Foote the CCFP(EM) residency program director at the University of Toronto. We kick it off with Dr. Foote's approach to undifferentiated dyspnea and explanation of Medically Unexplained Dyspea ('MUD') and go on to discuss how best to develop a clinical pretest probability for the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism using risk factors, the value of the PERC rule, Well's criteria and how clinical gestalt plays into pre-test probability. Dr. Chopra tells about the appropriate use of D-dimer to improve our diagnostic accuracy without leading to over-investigation and unwarranted anticoagulation. We then discuss the value of V/Q scan in the workup of PE, and the pitfalls of CT angiography. A discussion of anticoagulation choices follows and the controversies around thrombolysis for submassive PE closes the podcast. Dr. Chopra & Dr. Foote answer such questions as: What are the most important under-recognized risk factors for pulmonary embolism, and how does the absence of risk factors change the pre-test probability of PE? Should we be using D-dimer in pregnant patients? How does the D-dimer value change with age and how can we incorporate this into our work-up? How does an experienced doctor's clinical gestalt compare to clinical desicion rules in working up PE? In what situations is V/Q scan preferred over CT angiogram for the diagnosis of PE? How should we manage patients with subsegmental PE found on CTA? What is the danger of aggressive fluid resuscitation in patients with massive PE? Which patients can be sent home from the ED with PE? Should we thrombolyse patients with submassive PE? What is Medically Unexplained Dyspnea (MUD) and how can we identify these patients and avoid lengthy work-ups?
A condition characterized by a sensation of a need to take a deep inspiration or the feeling of an 'oppressive' chest plus symptoms of anxiety, in the absence of wheeze, cough, or sputum, ECG, CXR, or peak flow abnormalities, and without cardiopulmonary explanations for their dyspnea. It has been called "the IBS of respiratory". Patients are often over-investigated without significant findings. A diagnosis of MUD should not be made on a single ED visit, but should be considered in patients who have had extensive previous work-up for the same symptoms in the past.
Chronic illnesses such as Lupus, CAD, CHF & COPD contribute to risk.
Note: 20% of Pulmonary Embolism patients will have no identifiable risk factors at presentation.
Suspect PE when you see RAPID onset of symptoms, dyspnea+/- tachypnea, and pleuritic chest pain. Always be alert to older patients who present atypically.
Overuse of the D-dimer can lead to over-investigation and anticoagulation, unless used wisely and in the correct clinical context.
Is D-dimer useful in pregnancy?
The American Thoracic Society Guidelines state D-dimer should not be used to rule out Pulmonary Embolism in pregnancy.
D-dimer rises in the 2nd and 3rd trimester, and stays high post-partum.
Guidelines for investigating for Pulmonary Embolism in pregnancy start with evaluation for signs & symptoms of DVT. If these are found, a leg doppler is done.
What about a patient on Warfarin?
Alternatively consider a rule-out criteria such as PERC (see below).
If the D-dimer is negative consider stopping the workup.
If the D-dimer is positive consider chest CTA.
If the patient is determined to be moderate risk (score 2-6 points, 16.2% incidence of PE), consider high sensitivity D-dimer testing or chest CTA.
If the D-dimer is negative consider stopping workup.If the D-dimer is positive consider chest CTA.
If the patient is determined to be high risk (score >6 points: 37.5% incidence of PE) consider chest CTA. D-dimer testing is not recommended.
The "Pulmonary Embolism Rule-Out Criteria" (PERC) is a step 2 decision support for excluding PE. If none of the eight PERC features are present in a patient that has been deemed low risk by Well's criteria or by clinical gestalt, then no further tests are indicated.
The PERC rule is only accurate when applied to LOW risk patients.
What are the Chest X-Ray Findings for Pulmonary Embolism?
Although the CXR may appear unremarkable, about 75% of patients with Pulmonary Embolism have findings resulting from the clot, such as an elevated hemi-diaphragm, a unilateral pleural effusion, enlarged pulmonary arteries, and even infiltrates.
In young patients with pleuritic chest pain, a pleural effusion increases the likelihood of PE.
Uncommon findings of Pulmonary Embolism (see below) have low sensitivity for detecting PE.
Do all patients with Pulmonary Embolism patients require admission?
Aujesky and colleagues reported outpatient management for PE was not inferior to management in hospital, for hemodynamically stable patients with no significant comorbidity, who could be safely anticoagulated, and closely followed as outpatients.
These NOACs have been shown in large studies to be effeictive for the initial (rivaroxaban, apixaban), acute (all agents) and extended (all agents) treatment of PE.
Note that 5 days of therapeutic LMWH should be administered prior to the initiation of Dabigatran when this anticoagulant is used for the treatment of PE.
Massive Pulmonary Embolism: acute PE with sustained hypotension (systolic blood pressure 15 minutes or requiring inotropic support, not due to another cause), pulselessness, or profound bradycardia.
Thrombolysis is indicated in massive PE.
Submassive Pulmonary Embolism: no sustained hypotension, but either RV dysfunction (based on echocardiography, CT, BNP, Tropinin or ECG evidence) and/or myocardial necrosis (based on troponin elevation).
Our experts do not recommend thrombolysis in submassive PE. However, some experts believe that lytics are indicated if there is evidence of present or developing circulatory or respiratory insufficiency; or moderate to severe RV injury.
Finally: Fluid resuscitation in Pulmonary Embolism with shock is indicated as first line support, but *resuscitate judiciously* as volume expansion may impair RV function.


My people were Pilgrim Holiness. The name is a descriptor. The holiness aspect has been emphasized alot in my posts. Today, 2 days after the national election, I feel the need to stress the pilgrim aspect a little.
Many of my friends and relatives are in a state of concern, mourning and dismay after the election returns placed a liberal Democrat in the White House. My people are by nature conservative. Some have a feeling of disappointment and others a sense of dread.
But I can't get very worked up about it all. I remember the dejection and fear that gripped the conservatives when Bill Clinton was elected. I remember the predictions of woe and doom. I bought in to the fear and sadness. But we survived that period.
I remember the joy and expectation when the Republican regained the White House and Congress. Again, I bought in to the euphoria. But the Republican-controlled White House and Congress turned out to be not so very different in spending and power-grabbing for the next 8 years. We survived that period.
I keep coming to a bedrock belief that Washington, D.C. is not the center of my universe. The places of power in this world are not my hope.
"My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness. I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but wholly lean on Jesus' name. On Christ the Solid Rock I stand. All other ground is sinking sand. All other ground is sinking sand."
Today, I want to affirm my Pilgrim roots. I am a dual citizen. I am an active citizen of the United States of America. I am thankful for the blessings I enjoy here. I support my country.
But I am a dual citizen. Heaven is my native land, through Jesus Christ. My country has a King, that is not subject to polls or the "will of the people." Because He is just and good and all-powerful, His governance goes on uninterupted in peace and stability.
The Roman Empire was falling to pieces. Internal corruption from the power-hungry and external invasions from barbarians tore at it. By this time the Church was the official religion and no longer an underground movement. The believers were losing hope as they saw their City being destroyed. Then Augustine called for a refocus of faith, not in the City of men (the body politic) but in the City of God (the body of Christ), the "eduring city" of Hebrews 13.14.
So today, brothers and sisters, both Democrates and Republican, Independents and Greens and Libertarians, work hard to bring righteousness, justice and peace to our land in the name of the Kingdom. Support, campaign and vote your conscience.
But look not to the City on the Potomac, look to the Coming City! Keep the anchor for your future hopes in the King who comes! Only on the New Earth will our pilgramage be over.
Great commentary as well. Thanks for holding the torch high!


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Standing outside Ourselves
The Mystical Whole
The Implicate Order
Our evolutionary inheritance
Transcending polarized fragmentation
A tantalizing puzzle
Practicing Self-Inquiry
Healing our sick society
The Cosmic Equation
Being Wholeness
Living in two worlds
Unifying Mysticism and Mathematics
Living at Peace at the end of time
Revealing the Hidden Harmony
Superhuman Operating System
Compassionate Cosmology
What is inner science?
Universal Method
Cocreating harmonious social order
Living as mystic and scientist
Living at evolution's Omega Point
God, Universe, humans, and machines
Awakening to Total Revolution
Our emerging species
The Grand Design of the Universe
Finding Inner Peace
On Wholeness
Bringing Universal Order to chaos
Viewing the Global Crisis with Self-reflective Intelligence
Demystifying the mystery of Being
Mapping the Cosmic Psyche
Healing my Fragmented Mind in Wholeness
My Liberating Work Ethic
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Our Human Story
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11th December 2020 12th December 2020 by Paul, posted in Reflections
In Wholeness and the Implicate Order, David Bohm presented this picture to illustrate how scientists could reconcile the incompatibilities between the theories of relativity and quantum mechanics, which he said should really be called quantum non-mechanics. For these two fundamental physical theories display opposite characteristics, the former having the properties of continuity, causality, and locality, with the latter being characterized by noncontinuity, noncausality, and nonlocality.
However, as Bohm told Danah Zohar in 1980, when she wrote a short article in a UK Sunday newspaper to announce the publication of this epoch-making book, he had not yet 'proved' this great synthesis mathematically. To do so, he would probably need to develop an algebra of algebras, as a non-deductive meta-algebra.
Such a universal algebra exists. But it is not obvious, lying, as it does, in the Implicate Order, deep in the Cosmic Psyche, the 99% of the Universe inaccessible to our physical senses. I call the algebra of algebras that Bohm sought Integral Relational Logic, the commonsensical system of thought and reason that we all implicitly use every day to form concepts and organize our ideas. In my case, the creative power of Life has explicated 'unfolded' this taxonomy of taxonomies in order to heal my fragmented mind in Wholeness.
As I describe in my post 'Our evolutionary inheritance', this has happened because the Logos has taken the powerful abstractions of modern algebra and the information systems modelling methods underlying the Internet to the utmost level of generality. This means that Integral Relational Logic, as a holographic universal algebra, is transcultural and transdisciplinary, not belonging to mathematics or any other academic discipline.
Rather, Integral Relational Logic provides the Cosmic Context, Gnostic Foundation, and framework or system of coordinates for Panosophy, the complete unification of all sciences and humanities, also transcultural and transdisciplinary. Thus, as a Panosopher, I transcend all the categories, following Jung's healing process of individuation, as an undivided being, a truly wonderful experience. For J. Krishnamurti wrote in Education and the Significance of Life, "Can any specialist experience life as a whole? Only when he ceases to be a specialist."
But what is the fish in the tank, living in the Implicate Order, to make of all this? Well, the Sufi poet Kabir wrote in the fifteenth century, "I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty." Kabir is using water as a metaphor for the Ocean of Consciousness, as an extension of Bohm's notion of the undivided holomovement, whose substance is never the same. As Bohm said, "On this stream, one may see an ever-changing pattern of vortices, ripples, waves, splashes, etc., which evidently have no independent existence as such. Rather, they are abstracted from the flowing movement, arising and vanishing in the total process of the flow."
But this is not how astrophysicists understand our Environment, or the Arena in which we live, leaving much to be understood. For instance, Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal in the UK, said in Our Final Century: Will the Human Race Survive the Twenty-first Century?, "In the twenty-first [century], the challenge will be to understand the arena itself, to probe the deepest nature of space and time," going on to say, "A fish may be barely aware of the medium in which it swims." For, as Kabir the weaver says in the fish poem, "You do not see that the Real is in your home, and you wander from forest to forest listlessly."
A principal reason why evolution is blind is that what scientists see in the explicate order today is delusionary, inhibiting us from revealing Reality, as it is, transcending the categories, even those that lie in the Implicate Order. A major step towards such an apocalyptic revelation is being taken at The Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research, which is 'Pioneering a Paradigm Shift'.
Its founder, the systems philosopher Ervin Laszlo, calls this great revolution in science the 'Akashic paradigm', using the word Akasha to refer to the Universal Quantum Field. He took the word from Vivekananda's Raja Yoga: "Everything that has form, everything that is the result of combination, is evolved out of this Akasha. … Just as Akasha is the infinite, omnipresent material of this universe, so is this Prana the infinite, omnipresent manifesting power of this universe."
The word Akasha derives from Sanskrit Ākāsha, corresponding to Greek aither 'pure, fresh air', in Latin æther, "the pure essence where the gods lived and which they breathed", which is quintessence, the fifth element, the others being fire, air, earth, and water, of course. But what is this quintessential æther and how can we know of its existence, never mind that it is Ultimate Reality? Well, in 1887, Albert Michelson and Edward Morley showed in a famous experiment that an 'æther wind' could not be physically detected as the Earth passed through the supposed æther. Although Albert Einstein did not specifically mention the Michelson–Morley experiment in his 1905 paper on the special theory of relativity, he did say that the notion of 'aether-drift' is 'superfluous' in his theory.
Even though we cannot access Ultimate Reality through our physical senses, throughout the ages, we humans have sensed an immanent, transcendent Presence, etymologically 'before being' or 'prior to existence', for Presence derives from Latin præsentia 'presence', participle of præesse 'to be before', from præ 'before' and esse 'to be'. The word Presence indicates that the Absolute is the Supreme Cause of Everything there is, which mystics through the ages have sought to reveal. For instance, in the fifth or sixth century, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, writing in Greek, wrote these beautiful words, which resonate deep within my being:
Again, as we climb higher we say this. It is not soul or mind, nor does it possess imagination, conviction, speech, or understanding. Nor is it speech per se, understanding per se. It cannot be spoken of and it cannot be grasped by understanding. It is not number or order, greatness or smallness, equality or inequality, similarity or dissimilarity. It is not immovable, moving, or at rest. It has no power, it is not power, nor is it light. It does not live nor is it life. It is not a substance, nor is it eternity or time. It cannot be grasped by the understanding since it is neither knowledge nor truth. It is not kingship. It is not wisdom. It is neither one nor oneness, divinity nor goodness. Nor is it a spirit, in the sense in which we understand that term. It is not sonship or fatherhood and it is nothing known to us or to any other being. It falls neither within the predicate of nonbeing nor of being. Existing beings do not know it as it actually is and it does not know them as they are. There is no speaking of it, nor name nor knowledge of it. Darkness and light, error and truth—it is none of these. It is beyond assertion and denial. We make assertions and denials of what is next to it, but never of it, for it is both beyond every assertion, being the perfect and unique cause of all things, and, by virtue of its preeminently simple and absolute nature, free of every limitation, beyond every limitation; it is also beyond every denial.
There is no need to say anything more. When we 'sense' the Ineffable deep in our hearts, we have completed our spiritual journey, as the ultimate purpose of life on Earth. As the Sufi poet Rumi beautifully put it, "Love is the sea of not-being and there intellect drowns." Similarly, John wrote in his first Epistle in the Bible, "God is Love; and he that dwelleth in Love dwelleth in God, and God in him." And returning to the words of a scientist, Guy McPherson, a leading authority on abrupt climate change, often ends his YouTube videos with the words "On the edge of extinction, only Love remains."
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The improved Tswana are large in body size, maintain the long horns of the Ngami predecessors, have cervico-thoracic hump that varies in size; coat colour varies between red, red pied, black or black pied. Tswana cattle are tolerant to heavy tick challenge, and may have some level of resistance to the endemic heartwater. A national breed improvement program exists (Felius, 1995).
Botswana is the epicentre of distribution of the Setswana cattle. Following the emergence of commercial ranching as a viable livestock industry in Botswana in recent decades, the Tswana breed has been developed as the most important beef breed, and in 1983 it constituted 75% of the national herd.
Sanga cattle were introduced into southern Africa when the Khoikhoi (Hottentots) first crossed the Zambezi river about 700AD with their sanga cattle. Several waves of the Bantu people with various strains of sanga cattle entered the region and settled. The Tswana people settled with their livestock in the Ngami region of Botswana early in the 19th century and their cattle eventually displaced all the original Ngami cattle. Despite the apparent differences between the western (Ngamiland) and eastern (Batawana) subgroups of cattle, all the sanga cattle in Botswana are known to belong to Tswana breed. Tribal migration and cattle raids continued until recently; consequently the different breeds of sanga today are related (Felius, 1995; Rege and Tawah, 1999).


BERKELEY - This summer, people living in the Sierra Nevada and CoastRanges have reported seeing the leaves on California black oaks coveredwith brown spots, curling at the edges and even turning completely brownand falling off. In some cases, entire hillsides are blanketed with browntree crowns. While black oaks are deciduous - changing color and droppingtheir leaves in the fall - they are normally fully leafed out with dark-greenfoliage in early and mid-summer.
Many landowners, concerned their trees are dying, have contacted their University of California Cooperative Extension county office, the CaliforniaDepartment of Forestry and Fire Protection or local arborists and landscapersto find out what is causing the problem and whether their trees are in jeopardy.
While several organisms may be contributing to the symptoms observed,two fungi -- Septoria quercicola and Cylindrosporium kelloggii -- have beenidentifieed from leaf samples sent to the California Department of Foodand Agriculture, according to Doug McCreary, natural resources specialistwith UC's Integrated Hardwood Range Management Program. While these foliagediseases were present on black oaks last year, they are much more prevalentand widespread this year, he says. Last spring's extremely wet conditions are responsible, providing an ideal environment for the fungi to infectthe leaves.
According to Don Owen, pest specialist with the California Departmentof Forestry and Fire Protection, more damage is unlikely, since the rainshave ended. However, trees may continue to lose their leaves throughoutthe summer, he says. The level of leaf loss relates directly to the severityof infection: If leaf loss occurred early in the year, the trees will beable to refoliate. Tree vigor also helps determine the amount of refoliation,since trees with more energy reserves are better able to refoliate thanweakened trees. Trees with pre-existing stress, or infected trees that losetheir foliage relatively late in the season, may not refoliate as fully.They may also experience some dieback in the crown.
While there are fungicides available to prevent the infection, they mustbe applied in the spring when the leaves are susceptible to the fungi. Timingis critical; if conditions favor infection over an extended period of time,multiple treatments may be necessary.
The leaf loss resulting from these diseases can be harmful to the trees,since it reduces their ability to manufacture food through photosynthesis."Over time, repeated defoliations can seriously weaken trees,"McCreary says. "We would also expect reduced acorn production on treeswhere damage is severe, which in turn could adversely affect the many wildlifespecies dependent upon acorns as a food source."
While spotting and brown leaves on oaks in late spring and early summerare certainly a cause for concern, the vast majority of the affected treesshould recover and leaf out normally next year, McCreary says. However,in rare cases, severely weakened trees could be killed by the defoliation.For more information about oaks and oak management and the names of expertsworking with oaks by region, visit the home page of the Integrated HardwoodRange Management Program at http://danr.ucop.edu/ihrmp/.


This last weekend I had my two 'Introduction to Surface Design' groups in the studio for the 2nd session in their 'day a month for 10 months' program. I had introduced the groups to dyeing in the first session by having them dye an 18 part colour wheel using the 'dye in a bag method'. I learnt this way many, many years ago during a workshop with Helen Deighan and still use it today when I want to dye small pieces of fabric.
But in the 2nd session we got into the serious stuff. Each of my lovely ladies dyed 12 x 1/2m pieces using a high immersion bucket method in a dark, medium and light version of a single colour. These pieces will be over dyed with a different colour in the next session to create a colour family of coordinated 'nearly solid' fabrics. They then dyed 6 x 1/2m pieces in a gradation using a low immersion technique. And finally I let them loose using multiple colours with tray dyeing and layered dyeing techniques. My goodness but they worked hard! They each dyed over 11 square metres of fabric! And so far they are delighted with the results - it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling when they share photos!
Because I teach by 'doing' I dyed fabric using each method each day. So Monday and Tuesday were taken up rinsing, washing and ironing a mammoth 22+ metres of fabric. And I couldn't be happier. Not everyone likes this bit but I do …. its that sense of a slow reveal as you rinse away unused dye, as the washed fabric drys and finally as you iron it. Life is good.