Why do they hate Obama so much?
A few thoughts on the Marriage Equality referendum.
1. I'll be shocked if the No vote is less than 40%.
2. Don't discount the ability of Irish people to tell pollsters what they think they want to hear. I really hope there is an exit poll.
3. Nobody does mental reservation like we do. It's quite possible that the phrase "I'm not racist, I just hate blacks" was first uttered by an Irishman.
4. The vile and downright evil (not a word I use lightly) slur that there is a link between paedophilia and homosexuality is having a bigger effect than we like to admit.
5. Both sides have extremist wings. The No extremists want the same thing as the No moderates. The Yes extremists can't make up their mind whether they want a Yes vote more than a crack at humiliating David Quinn et al.
6. If you think that all the No side are extremists then you're part of the problem.
7. Some people involved in the campaign are not the gold-plated asset others think they are.
8. The social media campaign seems to be primarily made up of people agreeing with each other, or else having arguments with people who are actively opposed. It seems like there is little converting going on.
9. Yes campaigners who are out knocking on doors will play a disproportionate role in winning this.
10. A Yes pass with a low turnout will have its legitimacy questioned.
11. A No vote will not be a source of international humiliation. California voted No. California.
12. People are more likely to stay silent than admit they're voting No.
13. Finally, even a No vote will have a positive effect, as people in rural nominally conservative constituencies discover that thousands of their neighbours voted Yes. This is an idea whose time has come. It's no longer a question of if, but when.
Why does the average Ard Fheis look so awful to the public?
There are three purposes to the average Ard Fheis (that's national party conference to my non-Irish readers). The first, and this tends to apply to the smaller parties, is to be a democratic/administrative forum for the party. The larger parties pretend that it is, but it isn't. The whole thing is fiddled. The second purpose is as a social gathering for the party faithful, and an opportunity for the young bucks to contest a few show internal elections. This is by far the most interesting purpose, especially if you are into drinking (Fianna Fail), tugging the forelock at your betters (Fine Gael), rigidly obeying instructions from "the committee" (Sinn Fein) or feeling hard done by (Labour).
What's noticeable about nearly all of them is how bloody awful they look on telly. RTE give each party time, and they fill it with aspiring TDs struggling to deliver speeches that sounded clever in 1978. It's Awful Speech Bingo time, where they vomit out warmed up stuff about community and local services and our old friend the hard working family. You're just itching for a sniper to loose off a volley of rounds at the stage to break the tedium. Why are Irish politicians so shockingly amateurish at delivering speeches anyway? Is it to do with our inherent unwillingness to express our real opinions in public as a people? What's worse is that the standard is now so low that any speech that doesn't go badly, that is, the speaker doesn't mix up his or her words or accidentally say "fanny" is now regarded as well delivered. What's even worse is that a speech where someone says something serious about children or 1916 without f**king up is now regarded as "powerful". Please.
If the concept is so the councillor's granny can see him on the telly on Saturday morning, that's fair enough. But do you ever get the impression that each Ard Fheis is based on what they did the previous year. In fact, I'd lay money that you could give Micheal Martin Enda's pre-govt speech from 2011 and he could use 85% of it. Because This Is The Way We've Always Done Things.
You can't help thinking that no one has actually given much thought to what are the values or concepts they'd like communicated to the viewers watching.
An Occasional Guide to Irish Politics: The Internal Party Election.
There's a weirdness to internal party elections, caused by the fact that it is wannabe politicians canvassing other wannabe politicians. That and the odd mix between inoffensive "I have to write something on the canvass card" blandness mixed with surreal claims of worthiness.
The sheer terror of saying anything that might offend anyone who might not give you a 15th preference is palpable. If the canvass cards were scratch n' sniff (remember them) it would be the odour of pure sweaty fear. It's either stand by your cronies or your man is from the same county. Unless of course he's contesting the same ward as you. Then he's got "stories going around about him. You know. One of those fellas." For the women it's worse, trying to look attractive but not too attractive, putting up with the too-close talkers with porter on their breath and busy hands.
The younger candidates, desperately trying to look mature, turn up in suits and and constantly trying to get pictures of themselves with party luminaries to show they are moving in serious circles and are therefore serious themselves.
Unlike in other countries, where different factions fight it out based on their viewpoint of where they want society to go, this isn't about direction of the party. This is about winning elections because they're elections. The day after the election? Never you mind, that's none of your business.
Is it time for Tony Blair's immigration control zone?
Let's stop beating around the bush here: there are two massive forces at work with regard to Mediterranean immigration into the European Union. The first is that Europe offers a perceived better life than the poverty and chaos going on to our south and east. The second is that the average European does not want thousands of refugees becoming our problem, and is voting for parties advocating a hardline. Awkward? Yes. Racist? Possibly. But that's the reality facing Europe's leaders, and managing it means that we must confront that reality.
Europeans don't want refugees dying in their thousands off our coasts. Nor do we want our navies opening fire on them to discourage them, even if such a thing were legal. But what is the option? Where do we put them? We can't just let them drown. This is Europe, for Christ's sake.
Many years ago, Tony Blair suggested the idea of paying a North African country to act as our control zone, where refugees could be landed, provided for, and processed. It would at least provide a safe zone, ideally run directly by the EU, probably with European troops and support staff, for refugees to be sent and receive shelter and care. Secondly, it would allow Europe breathing space, to work out how to manage the inflow without just dumping thousands on the Italians, French and Spanish.
There'd be huge resistance to such an idea. It wouldn't be long before the phrase "concentration camp" or colony would be bandied about, and it would be a costly operation, and that assumes we can find a location.
There's also the reality that such a place would almost certainly not be a temporary location, but would become a society in its own right, with its own tensions and conflicts and our soldiers and police in the middle of it. But, if it were run well enough, with some integration into the European single market, many may choose to live there as a home, especially if entering the continental EU illegally will result in immediate deportation back to "the zone". As well as all that, there's no doubt that such a place will be come a magnet for immigrants in its own right.
It's not an ideal solution, but seeing the death rate in the Mediterranean, it must surely now be considered.
Nation rejoices, crowds dance in streets as 15th Seanad reform report unveiled.
The 1916 Commemoration Committee has confirmed that as part of the celebration next year Galway based arts group Macnas have been commissioned to create giant papier mache versions of each of the 15 Seanad reports for the parade. The committee has also confirmed that toy and card versions of the reports will be available, so that schoolchildren can collect their favourites or play swapsies. "I can't wait to get my hands on the O'Rourke report!" one excited ten year old said.
An Occasional Guide to Irish Politics: The Political Elitist.
Because of her political history, where she was once very active with one particular party, she wrongly gets called biased. It's not true. If anything, it's worse than that. She's no longer loyal to the party she was once a member of, but is, in fact, now a member of The Establishment Party, and a fiercely protective member of it.
She'll happily speak in defence of any member of the establishment parties. TD salaries? Hours worked? Expenses? She'll happily go on Prime Time and The Right Hook and Morning Ireland to defend TDs when they're terrified of their shite to do so themselves. She never has to put her hand in her handbag when she's in the Dail bar.
She'll oppose any real political reform which is unpopular with the parties, although will always be careful to publicly support the concept of reform once "consensus" can be found. She's popular across all establishment parties because she defends "politics", that is, the status quo where they get paid for doing stuff, going on RTE panels to defend politics as a noble pursuit to the solemn nod of actual officeholders. Summer schools? Sure it's practically the law that she either chairs or speaks on every panel.
What really irritates her are the outsiders. If you're not a newspaper columnist with a national newspaper, a pol corr, an elected official or a party officer you've no real right speaking about her political system? Blogger? Twitter? Who are these people?
The dream used to be a seat in cabinet, but she knows that's no longer on the agenda. But a seat on the RTE Authority? Or the Council of State? Or maybe the holy grail of a Taoiseach's nominee to the Seanad. She's a big fan of senators keeping the title after they leave office. Especially on their passports for holidays in the US later.
That's all still to play for, and the main party leaders know whose side she's on.
I STILL agree with Nick, and here's why.
When I was a member of the Young Progressive Democrats many, many moons ago, I used to attend conferences of our sister party the Liberal Democrats. I found them to be very camp (I was just coming out of my homophobic phrase) and also exceptionally left wing. Yet I still felt very comfortable with them, and knew that if I were British I would have been a Lib Dem.
Why? Because I felt that they had a streak of decency in them. But also because they were not an ideologically straitjacketed party. Whereas the Tories were hounding out Heathite liberals and Labour were still working their way through their leftwing Don Quixote moment, the Lib Dems were the middle party. The party of reason.
It is, of course, easier to be like that when you don't have to be in government. Contact with government for the Lib Dems was not much different from the Irish Greens entry into government: a form of political anaphylactic shock. The Libs Dems, like the Irish Greens a party built on being nice and pure and offering a berth to pretty much anyone with a grievance about the bigger parties, took a hammering. The reality of budgets and choices in office chased away almost all the purists and the fantasists. The grand promises of opposition, like tuition fees, suddenly turn from a banner into a lump hammer to be beaten with.
We now see the real Liberal Democrats, all 7-10% of them. We see a party that has been hardened by government, hopefully more cautious about what it promises, but above all a party that has had a positive impact.
Lower paid workers keep more of their pay-packets. Overseas aid was protected. ID cards were scrapped.
Yes, there have been compromises. Tuition fees. The Bedroom Tax. Political reform. But isn't that the reality of modern politics? Cameron gets it in the ear from his right about Lib Dem vetoes. Ed Miliband served under Blair, a man despised by the party's left. But you know what? If you support Proportional Representation then you have to recognise that politics is about compromise. Too many Lib Dems seems to think that PR will magically turn the whole country into nice happy liberals.
The politics of compromise is here to stay, and with Nick Clegg you get a centre party that speaks for the middle and simple liberal values. British politics without the Lib Dems is not better politics, but a politics of the Tories pandering to UKIP and Labour pandering to the SNP and the Greens. Britain needs a middle party, a party that admits that some solutions come from the right and some from the left. Britain needs the Lib Dems to survive.
Am I disappointed by Nick? Of course. But one party has to stand up, in particular, for Europe and the idea of Europe. I watched him debate Farage on the EU, and Farage clearly won, firing out one witty pub-friendly quip after another. Nick was all facts and boring statistics and the truth. It was boring and not funny. But it was the truth, and someone in British politics has got to stand up to The Daily Mail and The Daily Express and say yes, Europe is worth saving.
That's why I still agree with Nick.


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The How to Train Your Dragon books are brilliant for 8-to-10-year-olds to read on their own or to read aloud to kids aged from about 6 up.
They're set in Scotland and were written by English author, Cressida Cowell.
I hadn't heard of these books until recently when my six-year-old nephew showed them to me. His dad is reading them to him at night (they're up to book 8) and he loves them.
The books are aimed at 9-10-year-olds and are imaginative, exciting and loads of fun, with a bit of Viking history thrown in for good measure.
The first How to Train Your Dragon book came out in 2003 and there are now ten in the series. A computer-animated film of the first book was released in 2010.
About the 'How to Train Your Dragon' Books
How to Train Your Dragon is about the adventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, the ten-year-old, red-haired son of a Viking chief. Hiccup, like all young people of the Holligan tribe, must capture a dragon as a rite of passage. If they can't capture and train a dragon, they will be exiled from the tribe.
In a very good way, How to Train Your Dragon felt to me a bit like a cross between the Captain Underpants books and the Harry Potter books. There's the adventure, danger, mythical creatures and fantasy world aspects of Harry Potter, alongside the grossness and silliness of the Captain Underpants stories (Hiccup's friend is called Dogsbreath the Duhbrain and his cousin is Snotface Snotlout).
Both boys and girls seem to love How to Train Your Dragon and its sequels and they're great for reading aloud. Try reading them aloud to 5-7 year olds while 8-10 year olds will probably love reading them on their own.

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I think it would be worth the $13k.
I didn't mean to offend you by my post.
BTW I have a 94 LT 40 hd that I would not take $13k for.
I just sold my 93 LT40HD for 16,000 Canadian, which wold put it around the 12,000 American giver or take.
I am in total agreement the price sounds very reasonable for the mill as described. I tried to get two of my old buddies down in Escambia County (Next county north) to rush down and buy it but one is the VP of a local bank and the other works for the county road maintenance so you know neither of them are going to work hard enough to run a mill. Sorry, I'll keep working on them but they are a long shot.
Thanks everyone. I have a guy coming up from Central Florida tomorrow to look at it. Since he's having his friend drive up in some heavy duty van I'm pretty sure they are taking it back I'll post the results.
It has been sold. I sawed a nice cypress demoing it. Beautiful grain. I'll miss the mill.


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A picturesque town between Positano and Conca dei Marini, whose name derives from the Greek Pelagianum, or "open sea", Praiano is the country of the most romantic sunsets of the Amalfi Coast, a place that has been able to maintain its character intact without being overwhelmed by mass tourism. Once praianesians were famous as corallaries and used to wear a left lobe earring according to Saracen tradition.
Due to its serene and suggestive beauty Praiano became the summer residence of the Doges, when it was part of the area of influence of the Republic of Amalfi.
The structure of the village resumes the typical scheme of the Coast, and develops at the base of Monte Tre Pizzi extending to Marina di Praia, the suggestive beach situated at the end of the Praia valley and nestled between high rocky cliffs. This natural landing place, used since the times of the ancient Plagianum, is dominated by a medieval tower belonging to the network of sightings and signalling the arrival of Saracen pirates. One of the typical characteristics of the town are the staircases, which reach several really suggestive points of the municipal territory. Capo Sottile divides Praiano from its hamlet of Vettica Maggiore, where there is the Gavitella cove, a beach with a very special exposure that allows it to be illuminated by the sun from dawn to dusk, unlike the other beaches of the Coast. This beach has a wonderful view of Positano and the island of Capri, a watchtower built in the Spanish period and a natural reservoir located inside a cave called "Fontana dell' Altare".
Among the places to visit are the Church of San Luca Evangelista, with a splendid majolica floor, the Church of San Gennaro and the Church of Santa Maria a Castro, near the convent of San Domenico, located in an elevated place in the Campo Valley, from which you can enjoy one of the most beautiful views of the area. By sea you can reach the beach of La Praie, perfect for those seeking a romantic loneliness. The Furore Fjord is one of the most fascinating places on the Amalfi Coast. Furore, a strong name for what is called "the village that's not there", since in reality it doesn't have the shape of an inhabited village but rather of scattered houses clinging to the rock. From the road that winds between Amalfi and Positano, here suddenly appears the cascade of olive trees and vineyards that seems to want to dive into the blue of the Fjord. In the past it was a small stronghold with very few inhabitants under the influence of Amalfi, always impregnable because of its geographical position. On the beach at the foot of the cliff there are some "monazzeni", ancient fishermen's houses restored in recent years that in the past gave shelter to characters such as Ruggieri di Agerola, a bandit also remembered by Boccaccio in Decameron, the heretic "Fra' Diavolo" and the founder of the sect of Sacconi. Near the "monazzeni" there is also an old paper mill and a mill.
Official website of the city
For general information visit the site:
www.comune.praiano.sa.it
www.praiano.org
www.praiano.it
www.praianonline.com
Ufficio Informazioni Turistiche di Praiano
Via G. Capriglione 116b – Praiano
info@praiano.org
Luminaria di San Domenico
Carabinieri 112
Fire Department 115
Healthcare Emergency 118
Travel Informed (CCISS) 1518
Roadside Assistance 803116
Praiano enjoys a typically Mediterranean climate, with mild and rainy winters and moderately warm and sunny summers. The average temperature of the coldest month (January) is +10.7 °C, the warmest month (August) is +26.8 °C. The best time to visit it is definitely from April to June, when spring explodes in a multitude of scents and colors, the sun is warm and you can already enjoy the first dip in the sea. September and October offer cool evenings and spectacular sunsets.
Positano Km.5,8
Amalfi Km. 9,8
Minori Km. 14
Maiori Km. 15
Ravello Km. 16
Sorrento Km. 21
Salerno Km. 34


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Foreign Minister Hayashi announces the Government of Japan's plan to provide emergency grant of US$ 7 million as flood response
Home/Current Affairs, Diplomatic Affairs/Foreign Minister Hayashi announces the Government of Japan's plan to provide emergency grant of US$ 7 million as flood response
On September 6, Mr. HAYASHI Yoshimasa, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan, announced the Government of Japan's plan to provide emergency assistance of USD 7 million to Pakistan, in response to the devastating flooding nationwide. The epochal levels of rain and flooding have wiped away over a thousand of precious lives, destroying critical infrastructure and disrupting the primary social institutions and livelihoods. Millions of people are left without homes and their hopes and dreams are shattered.
H.E. Mr. WADA Mitsuhiro, Ambassador of Japan to Pakistan, reaffirmed his commitment to support Pakistan; "I would like to assure that the Government of Japan stands ready to support the people of Pakistan. Given the rapidly rising scale of needs, we consider it critical to extend our best support and stand available to the affected. As part of the "2022 Floods Response Plan", we will extend our assistance, ensuring collective and coordinated actions to respond to the national emergency". In close partnership with the UN agencies, support will be provided for emergency needs, including health, food and nutrition, water and sanitation, and shelters.
The Government of Japan has already provided tents and plastic sheets as emergency relief goods through JICA, and these items are now being distributed to the people in need.
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There are so many books out there about the faith. Some are excellent, and others…well, not so much. In this video I detail six book (There are many others) that every catholic should check out. Two of them are mandatory. Enjoy!


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require "spec_helper"

describe Cobrato::Entities::Base do

  class DummyEntity < Cobrato::Entities::Base
    attribute :property_1, String
    attribute :property_2, String
  end

  let(:links) do
    [
      { "rel" => "self", "method" => "GET", "href" => "http://test.local/api/v1/dummies/1" },
      { "rel" => "update", "method" => "PUT", "href" => "http://test.local/api/v1/dummies/1" },
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  subject { DummyEntity.new(hash) }

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  describe "#attributes" do
    it "returns a hash from object attributes" do
      expect(subject.to_hash).to eq(hash)
    end
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  describe "#url" do
    context "self" do
      it { expect(subject.url("self")).to eq("http://test.local/api/v1/dummies/1") }
    end

    context "update" do
      it { expect(subject.url("update")).to eq("http://test.local/api/v1/dummies/1") }
    end

    context "destroy" do
      it { expect(subject.url("destroy")).to eq("http://test.local/api/v1/dummies/1") }
    end

    context "non existent" do
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    end

    context "_links attribute is not present" do
      subject { DummyEntity.new({}) }

      it { expect(subject.url("self")).to eq("") }
    end
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end

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The Embassy of India Antananarivo organized a musical concert with renowned Indian violinist Dr. L. Subramaniam and singer Kavita Krishnamurti on the eve of the 62nd Independence Day of Madagascar on 25 June 2022 at Radisson Blu, Antananarivo .
The event was attended by the Foreign Minister of Madagascar H.E. Richard Randriamandrato, members of local government, Ambassadors, Heads of International Organisations, and members of Indian Diaspora in Madagascar.
Addressing the audience at the concert, the Ambassador of India to Madagascar Abhay Kumar said - "Today, I feel, is the day which will be forever remembered in the bilateral cultural ties between India and Madagascar as for the first time, we have these artists perform in Madagascar. It will further strengthen the cultural links between our two countries and generate interest about Indian music among the people of Madagascar. This is even more special because this year, India and Madagascar are celebrating 62 years of diplomatic relations. "
Emphasizing on the number of events Embassy has organized to celebrate 75 years of Indian Independence, Ambassador Abhay Kumar said: "The Government of India has launched an initiative: Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav to celebrate and commemorate 75 years of progressive India and the glorious history of its people, culture and achievements. The Mission organized a number of events to celebrate this special occasion including celebration of the idea of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam, inauguration of Mahatma Gandhi Green Triangle at Tsarlalana among others. Today's event is a crucial addition to these celebrations."
Addressing the audience at the concert, the Foreign Minister of Madagascar Richard Randriamandrato said: "We are a family gathered here today. I was in India and met the Prime Minister of India Mr. Narendra Modi and we managed to exchange some of our thoughts on how to strengthen relationship between India and Madagascar."
The concert saw beautiful performances on famous Hindi songs by Kavita Krishnamurti, Bindu and Mahati Subramaniam. It was followed by a soulful performance on violin by Dr. L. Subramaniam accompanied by Parupalli Phalgun on Mridangam, that left the audience mesmerised.
A day earlier on 24 June 2022 the artists performed at Cine Plaza, Ampefiloha in Antananarivo, Madagascar. The event was attended by members of local government, diplomatic corps, Heads of International Organisations, members of Indian Diaspora in Madagascar and a large number of Malagasy citizens.


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The simplest method to ensure the efficient use of energy resources is to apply Whole Systems thinking to every energy use situation. This alone could reduce energy consumption Nationwide by 50%, with no negative impact at all. Here's how it works. Whole Systems thinking looks at every aspect of a situation and determines how each part of a whole system interacts with all of the other parts. Then decisions are made that choose the parts that work together best to form an efficient Whole System.
Let's say the situation is "lighting my house." Everyone has this situation and everyone solves it slightly differently. Currently, houses are designed for their external appearance and structure. Windows are placed so they look good from the outside in the overall appearance of the home. Light fixtures are placed in rooms to adequately light them after the fact. Internal halls, closets and bathrooms need artificial light sources whenever they are used. Due to these design features, lighting the average home costs much more than it needs to.
A home is a Whole System that has to be thought through, beginning at the design stage. We know that the rooms will need to be lit to be useful, and that light will be required both day and night. If we choose to implement our "Conserve and use Natural Energy First" philosophy, then lighting will be one of the integrated ideas of the Whole Home System.
Free light, of course, is available during daylight hours. So, Whole Systems thinking designs the house to take best advantage of this free light whenever it is available. Proper use of windows and glass for exterior rooms, with the installation of sky lights and light pipes for interior halls and rooms, allows the home to be totally lit for free during daylight hours. During evening and nighttime hours, artificial light sources must be used. Rooms with dark green, blue or brown walls, ceilings and floors are much more difficult to light than rooms with white, beige, or pastel yellow surfaces. Lighting work surfaces takes less energy than lighting whole rooms. Using the new LED light bulbs uses less electricity than using incandescent light bulbs for the same amount of light. Each of these one-time decisions about how the house is designed determines the fixed pattern for on-going energy usage with relationship to lighting. After all, the purpose is to light my house, not to use as much electricity as a bad design requires for the rest of my life! So, even if you live in a home that doesn't currently take advantage of these ideas, installing a skylight, repainting a room a lighter color, installing a lighter colored carpet, or changing out some light bulbs to a more efficient type, are always available options to consider now.
Most people say they don't want to spend the money to make these kinds of changes, and that the cost of "wasting" a little electricity costs less. But Whole Systems thinking says that if everyone conserved the amount of electricity that these lighting changes provide, the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere from electric power plants could drop by 10%. (This number assumes that electric lighting accounts for 25% of home electric use and these conservation methods can average a 40% reduction and savings.) So, this is one example.
Let's look at another situation, like "heating and cooling my house." No matter where you live, insulation is the key. The more you can restrict the passage of heat in and out of your house, the better you can control the indoor temperature. But heat is different than light in one very important way. The heat you have today can keep you warm for weeks, IF you don't let it escape.
Have you ever wondered why a thermos bottle can keep your coffee hot all day? The answer is that the thermos bottle has an insulation jacket above R-100. Heat just can't get out, so the coffee stays hot for a very long time. If your kitchen refrigerator had an R-100 insulation jacket you could keep your food cool for an average power consumption of about 10 watt-hours a day! The same is true of your whole house.
For the last 30 years, R-19 insulation has been the building standard for home construction. Some of the more progressive builders are now starting to install walls with R-40 insulation. This is better, but still not high enough. R-60 should be the minimum for new construction, with R-70 and higher even better. A building with R-60 insulation costs 1/3rd as much to heat and cool as a building with R-20 insulation. It's as simple as that.
Add to this, heat reflective roof coatings to keep the attic cool, heat reflective paints on interior surfaces to keep heat in in the winter and heat reflective paints on exterior surfaces to keep heat out in the summer. In hot climates, the new second generation evaporative chillers or solar powered air-conditioners can further cut cooling costs dramatically. In moderate and colder climates, geothermal heat pump systems can cost as little as 1/3rd as much as other heating systems are to run. The bottom line is, with more insulation and modern heating and cooling technologies installed, the cost of heating and cooling your home can drop 88% from what you pay today!
It is estimated that 40% of home energy costs are associated with heating and cooling. If this figure can be reduced by 88%, that is a real 35% reduction in total energy costs for the average home. Add this to the 10% real savings from better lighting methods and you have just reduced your home energy usage by 45% in real terms. You still have light whenever you need it and your home is always the temperature you want, but it costs you 45% less, month after month to enjoy these benefits. Energy you can use, day after day at no cost. That's what I call Free Energy!
These are just two examples of what a "Conserve and use Natural Energy First" plan can do to lower your energy costs while providing all of your energy needs. But this is just the beginning. Whole Systems thinking can be applied to transportation, industrial processes, power generation, food production, materials recycling, and just about everything else. The next generation of eco-friendly engineers will develop systems that minimize energy waste and maximize energy benefits in all of these fields.
But you can start thinking this way right now. You can look for products that are already available that let you implement this energy philosophy in your daily purchases. Government is dithering, but industry is quietly responding to this changing climate of ideas. The propaganda that changing to a low-carbon future is too expensive and will take decades to implement is non-sense. Many of the new low energy use alternatives actually cost less to implement in the first place, and are available right now!
When Whole Systems thinking is taken to its maximum extension, each and every product is evaluated for its cost and benefit from the beginning of its useful life to its ultimate recycling back to the raw materials it was made from. This is the new paradigm for engineering products, not from "cradle to grave" but from "cradle to cradle". To learn more about this, read the new book Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough.


Hey ya'll! My name is Katie. Well my real name is Katherine, but my parents wanted to make my life complicated and give me a nickname, Katie, and then never call me Katherine. That's a story for another time.
Anyways… I live in Castroville with my husband, Daniel, my two Mexican Vanilla munchkins, Kapri (2) and Ezra (3 months), our two rescue pits, Spartacus and Sura, and four baby chicks, Smokey, Duck, Arlo, and Rango on our little three acre misfit farm.
I was once a marketer, but now I am currently a first grade teacher. My husband is also in Education and coaches football and power-lifting. Daniel and I met way back when at the ripe age of 18 and 22. It's been a crazy, eventful, roller coaster of a ride. We have brought two perfect, God-given, blessings into this world. Being a mommy is THE most amazing thing. I thank God every day for this life he has given me, and trusting me to lead his children.
I'm so glad you are here. I'm new to this whole blog thing. This is just a little glimpse into my Mexican Vanilla life. Grab a spoon and enjoy yourself.
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Kupuna Caregiver: Arnold Alconcel
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Posted: Feb 19, 2018 / 08:30 PM HST / Updated: May 31, 2018 / 10:30 PM HST
Hawaii is home to 154,000 family caregivers people who make sacrifices in order to meet the needs of their loved ones.
KHON2's monthly "Kupuna Caregiver" feature is our way to say thank you to our unsung heroes.
For 22 years, Arnold Alconcel has proudly served as Castle High School's band director. It's a position that demands much of his time and energy.
Besides daily classes, there are parades and football games to attend. It truly is a labor of love.
"Every day is a challenge," said Alconcel.
But his true love is at home in his 92-year-old mother, Francisca.
"After I do a full-time job here at Castle, I'm going home basically to another full-time job," said Alconcel.
It's a role that comes with many challenges and demands.
"Getting more than two hours of sleep is like a treat to me. She'll call me to use the bathroom or whatever it is that she needs," said Alconcel. " If she's cold or she needs to be moved, turned over or whatever, I'm constantly on call."
Alconcel does it all with mom, from doctors' appointments to trips to the mall, and even trips to Las Vegas.
"It's still new to her, because of her memory," said Alconcel. "Unfortunately, because of some tragedies that I've had in our family, it's just me now. I'm all my mom's got."
Meeting her needs often means sacrificing his own needs.
"She's very appreciative, and she give me hugs and kisses and stuff like that, and tells me thank you, and to me, that's enough, you know?"
But he wouldn't have it any other way.
"Even at my age, it's still very comforting just to get a motherly hug from her, even just kisses, whatever," he said. "It's just comforting knowing that I'm still appreciated and she understands."
Do you know a kupuna caregiver who has sacrificed to make a difference in someone's life? Nominate them here!
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HONOLULU (KHON2) -- She is a ray of sunshine! For 40 years, Joyce Patrick has been spreading joy as a volunteer every Thursday at Adventist Health Castle.
"I think when you help out the patients and they're very grateful, especially the staff. When you see them in the morning and they say thank you for being here, that's rewarding," smiles Patrick.
Kupuna Caregiver: Daddy's Girl
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It's a passion of hers to help others, especially dad.
"So my father called me doctor from when I was small, so I guess he saw my path before me. I wanted to be an astronaut when I was in elementary," chuckles Dr. Poki'i Balaz.
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Sometimes it takes a group effort to care for our kupuna, including help from our family pets.
"You're going to lick me? Good girl," laughs Joan Takara, 15 Craigside resident.


Tailgating, or following the car in front of you too closely, is a risky driving practice that often results in a rear-end collision. When driving in the greater-Rockford area, on I-39, Illinois Route 251, or Illinois Route 2, you are responsible for following the vehicle in front of you at a safe distance, so that you can slow down or stop when it does—without causing a crash. But how can you tell if you are following at a safe distance?
Choose a stationary landmark, such as a building, pole, or sign, located in front of the vehicle you are following.
Count aloud to three slowly—one thousand-and-one, one thousand-and-two, one thousand-and-three—starting when the bumper of the car in front of you passes your landmark.
Check the front of your car—if it reaches the landmark as you finish counting, you are following at a safe distance.
If the front of your car reaches your landmark before you finish counting, you are following the lead car too closely. Slow down and check yourself again to make sure you are following at a safe distance.
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New location, new exhibits: Children's Museum will open November 6
Karin Connelly Rice | Tuesday, October 10, 2017
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More space, more outdoor areas, and more exhibits add up to an all-new wonderland for Cleveland's kiddos. After closing the doors to its University Circle location nearly two years ago, the Children's Museum of Cleveland will re-open on Monday, Nov. 6 in its new location.
The museum closed in January 2016 after learning its lease would not be renewed. However, benefactors Dick and Doreen Cahoon graciously purchased the Stager-Beckwith Mansion at 3813 Euclid Ave. for the museum's new home. The property had been vacant for five years prior, and the Cahoons were able to purchase it from the Cuyahoga Land Bank for $50,000.
"Our lease was not renewed, but we knew it wasn't going to be prior to that," says Maria Campanelli, the museum's executive director. "We'd been thinking for a very long time about the next step. We looked at 22 properties and Stager-Beckwith had all the amenities."
The historic mansion provides four times the space of the old location and three times the parking, according to Campanelli. The museum is using 40,000 square feet of the mansion for programs and exhibits, compared to 10,000 square feet at the old location.
"The look of the building has allure," Campanelli says. "It looks like a dollhouse on the outside, so we think it will pique a child's imagination. Plus, there's a grassy courtyard in front and a patio in back."
The museum embarked on a $10.3 million capital campaign to renovate the mansion. So far, Campanelli says they have raised about $9.5 million. "We're still seeking approximately another $1 million," she says. "We'll add exhibits once we raise the money."
The Children's Museum averages 100,000 visitors per year, and Campanelli says she was always confident that Cleveland residents would raise the money. "The first five years of a child's life is [when] the brain develops," she explains. "We know, at this age, we impact them for life. To me, it was unfathomable that Cleveland would not support the Children's Museum."
There are about 400 children's museums around the world, and Campanelli believes the Cleveland museum—which opened in 1981—is among the best. "What sets us apart is we really focus on development of the young child," she says.
The new museum will have four galleries, with the key exhibit Adventure City in the 4,000-square-foot ballroom with a town center and construction focus; Wonder Lab, a science experiment room with three water tables, a light table, and a magnetic gear wall; Arts & Parts to explore color and creativity; and Making Miniatures, a room full of dolls and dollhouses from around the world donated by Cathy Lincoln.
The museum has commissioned a dollhouse replica of the Stager-Beckwith mansion to go in the Making Miniatures exhibit.
Karen Katz, who designed the exhibits in the prior location, returned to the Children's Museum after a 15-year hiatus to design the new exhibits. Campanelli assures visitors that the grocery store will retain its beloved status. "We still have the grocery store, but now it's an open-air market," she says, adding that the market, the water tables, and the climber feature were the most popular attractions at the old location.
The teams that transformed the mansion include AODK Architects in Lakewood and Richardson Design for the interior design work and new logo. The Krill Company provided construction management.
The building had water damage when the museum took over, but it has since been repaired. One wall was removed "to create better flow," says Campanelli, and the inside required a "heavy-duty interior decorating job." The moldings around the windows are intact, and the exterior marble accents over the windows have been painted teal. Many special touches remain, such as the four chandeliers in the ballroom that dazzle the Adventure City exhibit.
"It's an old building, but it's a kids' museum," Campanelli says. "It's so filled with sunlight, and the rooms are actually quite spacious."
While the old location catered to children ages eight and younger, Campanelli says the new museum has been designed for kids up to 11 years old with open-ended play activities. "Kids, no matter what their ages, love to play," she says. "This beautiful, historic home not only respects childhood, but the parent and caregiver as the child's first teacher. Families can play together. Come together and learn."
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Jetta and her parents are a troupe of traveling shadow players wandering their country and putting on stunning performances with puppets that look like they have no strings or sticks to move them around. The truth? Jetta has a magical ability to see the souls of the dead and harness them to objects, like her shadow puppets. Because magic is forbidden, she and her family keep the truth hidden and are determined to secure passage across the sea towards safety and a potential cure. But their carefully laid out plans are all thrown into chaos when they cross paths with a young smuggler, gain the attention of the military and find themselves forced to make some difficult decisions.
I liked For a Muse of Fire alright. It had an interesting blend of Western and Eastern culture influencing the world's details, though it was very overwhelming to make sense of it all at the start. It also mixed formats — regular chapters, scenes from plays, letters - which was an interesting narrative direction to take. And I'll admit that, as I read, I was mildly curious to find out where the story would go. But even though I thought it was a solidly enjoyable book as I read it, it wasn't one that really stayed with me. I wasn't particularly invested in the characters and their journeys, nor do I find myself particularly desirous of picking up the next novel in the series. Still, I can see why other readers might enjoy this one — so if you're interested in this story, I'd say to at least give it a shot.
Favorite play? My favorite play that I've read is probably A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (though really, I just love Shakespeare plays in general). And my favorite that I've seen is a toss-up between Harry Potter and the Cursed Child or The Play That Goes Wrong, which are both extremely wonderful.
The Boneless Mercies centers around a troupe of Boneless Mercies - girls who are taught and hired to deal death efficiently and mercifully. Frey and her companions Ovie, Juniper and Runa have spent years as Mercies, but all are weary of being involved in the death trade. When they learn of a ruthless monster whose death would ensure their fortune and fame, Frey determines that this is the path that their group must take... no matter what other situations they find themselves in along the way.
Before I share any more thoughts, I must say that I'm not as familiar with the original source material - Beowulf - as I'd like to be. But even so, I really enjoyed The Boneless Mercies. It was fun to read a story where women comprise majority of the cast of characters. It was also the sort of fantasy novel that documents a journey the characters go on - not just internally, but also externally - with all sorts of obstacles and reprieves, and as I'm a particular sucker for that type of tale, I liked that part a lot. It was definitely an engaging story, and I found it hard to put it down once I started reading it! It's definitely a strong stand-alone fantasy offering! While I don't think I'd return for a reread, I'd say it was definitely worth checking out.
Love these reviews. I've just started Boneless Mercies and I can't wait to get further in. I love April Tucholke's writing and I'm excited to see her take on a fantasy! Glad to hear you enjoyed it!


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It was a hot early summer day in Chicago, and Tuffy went swimming in Lake Michigan at the doggie beach at the North Side's Belmont Harbor. At first little Tuffy was quite puzzled by some new construction at the doggie beach, but ended up having himself a swimmingly fun time!
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Simone67 wrote: ...I always love Rory`s voice !
I could listen to it all day and all night. I love his singing as well as his speaking voice. When he speaks,there is something very soothing in the voice,on top of the very interesting things he would talk about.-That is why I regularly listen to Rory interviews on the net,even repeatedly....,when I´m not listening to his music !
You're so right- I love his singing, but he had a very sweet, soothing (and incredibly sexy) speaking voice, if he hadn't been such an amazing musical artist he could have done radio or TV work. It's also interesting how his speaking accent is affected by the country he is in, and he probably isn't even aware of it, but when he is being interviewed in Ireland his accent is much heavier- This radio clip is listed as The Record Plant in Los Angeles, but it also says Sausalito, which is a few hundred miles north of L.A. and was broadcast on Halloween, 1975. He's not having to shout over a crowd in a stadium, so between songs he's speaking quietly into the microphone, directly to his listeners-
At 09:40 Rory introduces his band, at 20:20 he talks about his rewrite of Bo Carter's All Around Man ( the original lyrics aren't really so much about living on the farm, and if Rory hadn't re-written them I doubt anyone would have ever heard this one on the radio), at 27:50 he introduces Tatoo'd Lady, 32:52 Cradle Rock and Bought and Sold, and at 41:46 he says his goodbyes.


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Criminal Minds Recap 10/4/17: Season 13 Episode 2 "To a Better Place"
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Tonight on CBS their hit drama Criminal Minds returns with an all-new Wednesday, October 4, 2017, episode, called "To a Better Place," and we have your weekly Criminal Minds recap below. On tonight's Criminal Minds episode season 13 episode 2 as per the CBS synopsis, "The BAU team investigates three similar crimes in which victims' remains are discovered in old suitcases."
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The team was back together! They had all been forced to take at least six weeks off to rest and recuperate following their ordeal with Mr. Scratch. However, they were glad to be at work and of some use. They had had to see a therapist and talk about themselves though that wasn't what they did on a day to day basis. They better at profiling others and so they were glad that they had all been cleared to return to work – including Reid. Reid had gone through the most trauma what with his stint in Mexico and prison. So Reid was the only one returning to work with some restrictions.
Reid was told that for every hundred days he spends on the job, he had to take thirty days off. Though didn't seem like full reinstatement to him and so he had sat on that without talking to talk anyone even as they started to work a new case. The police had found two bodies down in Florida and it had across as the same Unsub. The Unsub had put the bodies into old suitcases and neither of them victims had seen the danger they were in. There was no defensive wounds and they both were murdered in the same way. They were strangled. So the team got on their plane to figure out what was going on and a third body was found while they were still up in the air.
The third victim had been Laura Westin. Laura like another victim had used dating apps to meet people yet there was no identification with one of the victims and so the team couldn't right off that pattern. But the third victim help provide the team with some clues about the Unsub's mentality. Laura had been stuffed in a suitcase wearing just lingerie and she had had traces of spermicide found on her fingertips. So Laura had been in an intimate setting with her killer when he turned on her and so that made the team think about Ted Bundy. Bundy lured his victims in by pretending to be injured and the Unsub could be internalizing his injuries.
The team figured he probably pretended like he had a broken heart and that it worked on a Florence Nightingale's type. The victims had all been pragmatic and they went out of their way to help people. So if the Unsub told them about his broken heart that would get the women to lower their defenses and allow him to charm them during a brief courtship. Yet, there was something in the Unsub that made him refuse their kindness. He was most likely abandoned as a child by a mother figure and that would explain the old suitcases as well as the lipstick found on the victims.
The Unsub had put an outdated lipstick called Midnight Surprise on all of them and so he turned his victims into surrogates. He killed them in order to vent out all his anger against the person he truly wanted to kill. However, the Unsub later went after a woman that didn't fit his profile. He targeted a woman that was married and older than his normal victims. So the team believed he killed his fourth because he was trying to stop himself from going after someone else. Someone he probably did fall in love with.
But as the BAU were doing their best to stay on target, they learned the identity of the first victim. She had been Pattie and Pattie didn't have family so that's why no one reported her missing though what made Pattie so interesting had been the fact she used to run her own catering business. She had unfortunately catered a funeral right before she died and so that led the team to finding out about Edith Lynch. Edith had raised her daughter Ruth alone after her husband walked out on her and then Ruth had gotten pregnant with William or Billy as he became known.
Billy had reportedly been abandoned by his mother when he was kid and so it was Edith that raised him. Though he was in and out of psychiatric care growing up. So his grandmother's death must have been a trigger for him because he didn't start to kill women or write the whole gender off as whores until her death yet oddly enough Billy would imagine his grandmother was still alive and that she was one demanding he kill his victims. And so something was obviously wrong with Billy when he decided to quit his job at the coffee shop and asked out his former coworker Helen.
Helen had lost her father when she was a kid and so she knew what loss was. Yet, Billy would still imagine his grandmother telling him that all women were whores and so she wasn't just a trigger. His grandmother had raised him in a toxic environment and so it didn't matter that he really liked Helen. Billy just took her over to his grandmother's place and had introduced her to thin air. So Helen tried to leave and that made Billy lash out. He thought she was trying to leave him like everyone else and so he tied her up.
Billy was actually going to kill her like all the others when Reid came in. Reid had talked to his team out on the field and he knew he had to tell Billy the truth. He told Billy that his mother hadn't abandoned him. She had been sending their stuff to her best friend and was going to take him with her when her mother attacked her. Edith had already been left one before and she couldn't take being abandoned a second time. So she killed her own daughter and pretended that Ruth had run away so that Billy would never leave her.
But knowing the truth, Billy still tried to attack Reid and Reid had been forced to take him down just to get Helen out of there. So Reid helped saved the day despite his therapist believing he still needed time off however he talked about it to Prentiss and Prentiss thought that the break would be good for Reid in the long run.
THE END!
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What can you expect from the Republican National Convention?
The Republican National Convention gets underway Monday, and unlike its political predecessor, it will not be entirely virtual.
The Republican National Convention gets underway Monday, and unlike its political predecessor, it will not be entirely remote.
While most of the next four nights will be virtual, the convention begins with some Republicans physically in Charlotte, North Carolina, where it was going to originally be held.
More than 300 delegates are expected to be at the Charlotte Convention Center on Monday morning for an in-person roll call.
President Donald Trump will be formally nominated at the convention center.
That is in contrast to the virtual roll call that was done for the Democratic National Convention last week, during which Democrats announced their votes from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. territories.
RNC organizers said that health protocols were established for carrying out convention business in Charlotte. They include pre-travel coronavirus testing of all the participants, temperature checks and wearing masks.
President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence plan to be in Charlotte on Monday.
The entire convention had been set for Charlotte — but then, the president decided to move it to Jacksonville, Florida, after a disagreement over the city's health requirements related to the pandemic.
Plans for Jacksonville were then scrapped after COVID-19 cases surged in Florida over the summer.
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After the initial in-person convention business and roll call, the evening programming, from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m., will rely much more on a virtual presentation. But organizers say there may be some surprises.
What is not a surprise is that the president, who once hosted his own reality television show, plans to be a part of each nightly convention program in one way or another.
The president plans to give his acceptance speech on the South Lawn of the White House on Thursday.
First lady Melania Trump plans to speak Tuesday evening, and Vice President Pence plans to speak in Baltimore, Maryland, at Fort McHenry on Wednesday.
A slate of prominent Republican political leaders will also speak, though not as many as the Democrats featured. Those expected to speak include House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst and South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott.
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley is also expected to speak.
Convention organizers plan to feature many "average Americans," including a couple who brandished guns at Black Lives Matter protesters outside their St. Louis home.
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Récompenses
 1999 : Prix Lulu de l'année pour Scary Godmother
 2000 : Prix Eisner de la meilleure publication humoristique pour Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror (avec Oscar Gonzalez Loyo, Steve Steere Jr., Scott Shaw!, Sergio Aragonés et Doug TenNapel)
 2001 : Prix Eisner de la meilleure publication pour enfant pour Scary Godmother
 2001 : Prix Eisner du meilleur peintre ou artiste multimédia pour Scary Godmother
 2004 : Prix Eisner du meilleur peintre ou artiste multimédia pour «  », dans The Dark Horse Book of Hauntings
 2005 : Prix Eisner de la meilleure histoire courte pour « Unfamiliar », dans  (avec Evan Dorkin)
 2007 : Prix Eisner du meilleur peintre ou artiste multimédia pour « A Dog and His Boy », dans The Dark Horse Book of Monsters, « Love Triangle », dans Sexy Chix et « Fair Division », dans Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall.
 2009 : Prix Eisner du meilleur peintre ou artiste multimédia pour Magic Trixie et Magic Trixie Sleeps Over
 2010 : Prix Eisner du meilleur peintre ou artiste multimédia pour Bêtes de somme et Magic Trixie and the Dragon
 2010 : Prix Eisner de la meilleure publication pour adolescent/préadolescents avec Beasts of Burden (avec Evan Dorkin)
 2011 : Prix Harvey du meilleur album non inédit pour Bêtes de somme : Mal de chiens (avec Evan Dorkin)
 2012 :  Prix Sproing de la meilleure bande dessinée étrangère pour Bêtes de somme (avec Evan Dorkin)
 2015 : Prix Eisner du meilleur one-shot pour Bêtes de somme : Hunters and Gatherers (avec Evan Dorkin)
 2015 : Prix Inkpot
 2017 : Prix Eisner du meilleur one-shot pour Bêtes de somme : What the Cat Dragged In (avec Evan Dorkin et Sarah Dyer) ; du meilleure album pour Wonder Woman : The True Amazon ; du meilleur peintre ou artiste multimédia ces deux titres.
 2020 : Incluse au temple de la renommée Harvey

Notes et références

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Bibliographie
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Naissance en novembre 1966
Auteur américain de bande dessinée
Auteur de comic book
Dessinatrice de comic book
Lauréat du prix Eisner du meilleur album
Lauréat du prix Eisner de la meilleure histoire courte
Lauréat du prix Eisner du meilleur numéro ou one-shot
Lauréat du prix Eisner du meilleur peintre ou artiste multimédia
Lauréat du prix Eisner de la meilleure publication humoristique
Lauréat du prix Eisner de la meilleure publication pour adolescents
Lauréat du prix Eisner de la meilleure publication pour enfants
Lauréat du prix Harvey du meilleur album non inédit
Lauréat du prix Inkpot
Lauréate du prix Lulu de l'année
Lauréat du prix Sproing de la meilleure bande dessinée étrangère


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1.2 1.2.1 Project Meeting Reports (3 reports: kick-off, progress, final) LP Organization of the kick-off and the final meeting, participation to all project meetings, participation in working meetings, preparation of reports, attendance of seminars for management.
1.3 1.3.1 Management Reports LP Administrative and financial management. Preparation of the management reports. Input to assessment report.
Project Coordination Board (PCB) as described in the Application form will be identical to the Management Team. The Board will comprise of the Project Manager, the Financial Manager (both from the LP) and the technical team leaders (of P2, P3 and P4) and will be responsible for the co-ordination, control and management of the project (preparation of meetings, preparation of periodic and final reports, administration of project resources, monitoring of the overall progress).
Self-assessment Team (SAT): Will be determined in the first project meeting and will be responsible for identifying the success criteria for each workpackage, comparing actual progress with the targets initially set and if necessary recommend to the PCB correcting actions.
Dissemination and Exploitation Committee: Will be formed in the first project meeting and will be responsible for preparing a dissemination and exploitation plan by the end of the third month of the project. The Committee will be responsible for monitoring the dissemination of the knowledge gained during the work, through demonstrations, publications, participations to conferences, etc.
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Travelers everywhere are showing an increased interest in sustainable tourism, whether taking local transportation or drinking from reusable water bottles. One of the largest impacts you can make on your journey will be determined by where you choose to stay.
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Before leaping into your search, take time to write out a list of your priorities. Is water conservation your passion? What about energy efficiency? Maybe low-flush toilets? A clear list will help guide your research and narrow down your available options for environmentally friendly travel.
There are a range of environmentally conscious, informational travel organizations throughout the globe. Some of these organizations will give you sustainable destinations in various countries and promote enhancing the visitor experience while still maintaining the cultural and environmental integrity of areas. Some also provide adventure travel events that still remain dedicated to sustainability.
Stay locally, if possible. Not only will you support the economy of the area you're exploring, but local, environmentally conscious rooms can be more environmentally friend than larger certified hotels.
Do you have your heart set on a warmer climate? Look for places that offer a metal roof. Traditional asphalt shingles can absorb more heat energy from the sun, creating hotter temperatures and a greater demand for air conditioning. Metal roofs can reflect the light and heat from the sun, reducing the amount of energy required for cooling. As an added bonus, the roofs are completely recyclable once their lifespan is up.
Are you staying close to home on your journey? Check with your hosts to see if they use ENERGY STAR appliances. The ENERGY STAR program, run by the U.S. EPA, verifies the energy efficiency of appliances.
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Be on the lookout for eco-"unfriendly" places. As the demand for more environmentally friendly options has increased, so have the number of organizations potentially making false claims.
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2022 Oracle | Red Bull Racing F1 Team
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Re: 2022 Oracle | Red Bull Racing F1 Team
Yep, almost fault free. Very impressive. I have been watching F1 with a passion for over a decade (in total) and I am still guessing at strategy and only after ingesting the race start to understand the choices made, still.
Controversy does not have a short memory.
Post Mon Dec 05, 2022 10:13 am
Snorked
Post Mon Dec 05, 2022 4:48 pm
Can you fit a handbrake to a F1 car?
Red Bull filming a promotional video for some touge action in Japan.
That Honda music
Who is Max and Checo's new Dutch teammate?
Rudy van Buren – known for being one of the fastest sim racers around – took on a new role in 2022 as
Red Bull's Simulator Test and Development Driver.
Rudy van Buren was confirmed as a Simulator Test and Development Driver for Red Bull during the summer,
though had been working with the team "unofficially" for some time, according to Max Verstappen.
"It has been a bit longer that I have been working there, only part of the contract was that it was not allowed to come out,"
the Dutchman explained.
"This year a new contract has come in, but my duties are car development and track support during race weekends.
"So after the season, that's testing new parts and philosophies. During the season, that's during race weekends, after free practice, trying different set-up changes to provide an extra tray of options for the track."
Van Buren admits that the highly advanced simulator at Red Bull's base in Milton Keynes cannot be compared to an at-home simulator.
"At Red Bull, it goes a step further. You can almost superimpose the data from real life and virtual in the sim," he said.
"It's always still a bit of fine-tuning with the grip levels, that always depends on the temperature and wind direction on the real circuit, but I'm sure: if I overlay the data on a printout, you can't tell what is real and what is the sim."
Horner says weight reductions coming for 2023
Horner also joked that it might just be better for the drivers if they don't have too many such dinners either. "They're a little bit like jockeys where they have to come in under a certain weight, and we saw that weight starting to creep up a little, through the steakhouses in Austin and the taquerias in Brazil. He'll be back on weight, I'm sure, by the time he gets back in the car in February next year."
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Post Fri Dec 09, 2022 6:12 pm
This morning outside the factory in Milton Keynes, before flying to Bologna:
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Max Verstappen was the most complete driver from head-to-toe in 2022. Join Jolyon Palmer and Bernadette Collins for a unique look at the physical make-up of our two-time World Champion, and what makes him so unbeatable.
Wouter wrote: ↑
What will they be doing in Bologna?
Tonight is the FIA Price Giving in Bologna.
This was from the PC an hour ago. Horner, Checo and Max.
Perez, Leclerc, Horner and Max get their trophy.
RBR were celebrating the WCC and WDC today in a cold Milton Keynes with several demonstrations during "The RBR Homerun".
ScottR267
ScottR267 wrote: ↑
Thanks @ScottR267 . Here is the announcement (I believe )
Translated from F1-Gate.com https://f1-gate.com/honda/f1_72481.html
Honda to post HONDA logo on Red Bull/AlphaTauri F1 machine in 2023
Honda announced that it will continue to post the HONDA logo on the F1 machines of Red Bull Racing and Scuderia Alpha Tauri even in the 2023 F1 World Championship.
Last year, Honda and the Red Bull Group announced that they would further strengthen their partnership with the aim of further developing motorsports. In addition to the HRC logo, the HONDA logo was newly posted on the machines of Red Bull Racing and Scuderia AlphaTauri in the F1 Japan GP and later races.
Honda announced the "2023 Honda Motor Sports Activity Plan" on Monday [see video above] , December 12th. In the 2023 F1 World Championship, it announced that it will supply F1 power units to Red Bull Racing and Scuderia AlphaTauri through HRC (Honda Racing) and will post the HONDA logo on the machines of both teams.
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Post Mon Dec 12, 2022 12:11 pm
Does that mean the Honda logo will be at the front nose too? Last year it was HRC after Japan too. Would love to see the H on the front nose


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Q: Ruby Variables Clarification I see that Ruby has the following variables:
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Occasionally I see the following in the rails source code:
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Also whats the advantage of using this kind of variables?

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Ink Art
11 Dec 2013 — 6 Apr 2014 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, United States
Yang Fudong, Chinese, born 1971, Still from Liu Lan, 2003. Single-channel video, 35mm black-and-white film transferred to DVD, with sound; 14 min. Lent by Marian Goodman Gallery, New York. Photo: courtesy the artist
The first major exhibition of Chinese contemporary art ever mounted by the Metropolitan, Ink Art explores how contemporary works from a non-Western culture may be displayed in an encyclopedic art museum. Presented in the Museum's permanent galleries for Chinese art, the exhibition features artworks that may best be understood as part of the continuum of China's traditional culture. These works may also be appreciated from the perspective of global art, but by examining them through the lens of Chinese historical artistic paradigms, layers of meaning and cultural significance that might otherwise go unnoticed are revealed. Ultimately, both points of view contribute to a more enriched understanding of these artists' creative processes.
For more than two millennia, ink has been the principal medium of painting and calligraphy in China. Since the early twentieth century, however, the primacy of the "ink art" tradition has increasingly been challenged by new media and practices introduced from the West. Ink Art examines the creative output of a selection of Chinese artists from the 1980s to the present who have fundamentally altered inherited Chinese tradition while maintaining an underlying identification with the expressive language of the culture's past.
Featuring some seventy works by thirty-five artists in various media-paintings, calligraphy, photographs, woodblock prints, video, and sculpture-created during the past three decades, the exhibition is organized thematically into four parts: The Written Word, New Landscapes, Abstraction, and Beyond the Brush. Although all of the artists have challenged, subverted, or otherwise transformed their sources through new modes of expression, Ink Art seeks to demonstrate that China's ancient pattern of seeking cultural renewal through the reinterpretation of past models remains a viable creative path.
Liu Dan, Chinese, born 1953, Dictionary, 1991, Ink and watercolor on paper, Image: 81 1/8 in. × 10 ft. (206 × 304.8 cm), Lent by Collection of Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang, Photo: courtesy of Sotheby's
Zhang Huan, Chinese, born 1965, Family Tree, 2001, Nine chromogenic prints, Sheet (each): 21 × 16 1/2 in. (53.3 × 41.9 cm), Lent by The Walther Collection, Photo: © Yale University Art Gallery
Xu Bing, Chinese, born 1955, Book from the Sky, Ca. 1987-1991. Installation featuring hand-printed scrolls and books; ink on paper, Each book, open: 18 1/8 × 20 in. (46 × 51 cm); three ceiling, scrolls, each: 38 in. × approx. 114 ft. 9 7/8 in. (96.5 × 3500 cm); each wall scroll: 9 ft. 2 1/4 in. × 39 3/8 in. (280 × 100 cm). Lent by the artist. Photo: courtesy the artist


WASHINGTON — The White House is embarking on a major campaign to turn public opinion against the nation's largely family-based immigration system ahead of an all-out push next year to move toward a more merit-based structure.
The administration was beginning its campaign Thursday with a blog post stressing key numbers: Department of Homeland Security data that shows nearly 9.3 million of the roughly 13 million total immigrants to the U.S. from 2005 to 2016 were following family members already in the United States. And just one in 15 immigrants admitted in the last decade by green card entered the country because of their skills.


The surreal designs of architect Professor Neil Spiller go on show this week at Cornell University, in New York State, USA.
His work is shown alongside that of sculptor Kris Kuksi in a joint exhibition titled Extreme Dreams, an interdisciplinary art and architecture project that draws on both history and technology.
"The show is excessive, spiky, inky and layered", says Professor Spiller. "It explores the surreal, Baroque, Goth, fantastic."
Described as "visionary" by Architects' Journal, Professor Spiller has a distinguished record as an author and artist. He is the Hawksmoor Chair of Architecture & Landscape and Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor in the Faculty of Architecture, Computing & Humanities at the university.
Picture: Longhouse: Flutter Plan (2016), one of Neil Spiller's designs.


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Home News Economy Cultural Isolation Undercuts Iran's Foreign Outreach
Cultural Isolation Undercuts Iran's Foreign Outreach
In recent months, there have been accumulating worries about the possibility that foreign investor interest in Iran would undermine international support for economic sanctions against the Shiite theocracy and possible nuclear threshold state. But in light of current conditions, a Western diplomatic source told Reuters that Iran's courtship of European investment is mostly falling on deaf ears.
"Iran is looking a lot less interesting and desirable from the perspective of Western oil companies. There's too much oil on the market so the last thing they want is for Iran to come back on-line," he said.
But the Iranian oil ministry insists that the new contracts it has drafted in preparation for a diplomatic agreement with the P5+1 represent a lower initial cost and higher return on investment, compared to foreign investment opportunities in other oil-rich nations.
However, Reuters indicates that those new drafts make only modest changes in one key area: control. They provide prospective investors with a greater involvement in oil production than previous draft agreements. But it remains the case that the Islamic Republic bans outright any foreign ownership of petroleum resources. As Tehran continues to work to insulate the country against foreign influence, it weakens the confidence that foreign entities would be able to have for their investments, if they were interested in making them in the first place.
These contrary impulses – desire for foreign capital and aversion to foreign influence – reflect other, more general contradiction in Iran's foreign policy. For instance, although Iran is engaged in diplomatic negotiations with Western powers, it has never renounced its foreign terrorist activities and other efforts to oppose Western interests not only in the Middle East but also in the Western hemisphere. Furthermore, the persistent strength of Tehran's relationship with the terrorist groups like Hezbollah that participated in these missions, suggests that those efforts are still ongoing.
An article published in FrontPage Mag on Monday recalls attention to the case of Alberto Nisman, the Argentine prosecutor who was apparently killed before he was set to present evidence of Iranian involvement in a 1994 bombing in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people. Hezbollah has retained vested interests in the Argentinian drug trade since before that time, and Nisman was reportedly on the verge of exposing a cover-up related to trade agreements and the non-prosecution of Iranians involved in the bombing. FrontPage Mag suggests that these things all point to Iranian efforts to extend its influence into South America, where it can more directly challenge the US.
Of course, this only undercuts Iran's diplomatic and economic outreach to the West if the efforts are recognized in Western policy circles, and FrontPage Mag suggests that they may not be because South American is a "forgotten continent" in US foreign policy today. But the risk is there for Iran, and its ideological opposition to Western interests threatens to keep it locked into global pariah status, with strong international support for sanctions and other efforts to curtail Tehran's nuclear ambitions and invasive foreign policy.
But that pariah status is not related only to Iran's nuclear program and support for terrorism; for many critics of the regime it is also a function of the fundamental ideological differences between the Islamic Republic and various Western democracies. What's more, in a report on Tuesday, The Tower indicated that the regressive ideologies of the Islamic Republic may actually come more fully into force in situations like the current nuclear negotiations, when foreign relations are more open.
The article referred to comments by reformist Iranian MP Ali Motahari regarding recent crackdowns on free speech. He asserted that the strongest elements of the Iranian government tend to push back against perceived political openness, effectively compensating with an upsurge in conservatism and repression on the domestic level. Reflecting this tendency, The Tower points out that the Iranian judiciary has become more aggressive about closing down newspapers and has taken to circumventing the usual channels in order to do so.
This pushback can be seen also in other efforts to reaffirm conservatism and fundamentalist Islam and to drive out contrary influences, both foreign and domestic. This broader crackdown may explain the manufactured prosecution of American-Iranian Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian. It may also explain the arguably worsening situation for women in Iranian society, as well as legislation and other efforts to repress certain forms of music and forms of supposed Western influence including dog ownership.
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The temperature throughout the year will always vary no matter what climate you live in. For some climates that means hot summers that cool to freezing winters, and Ebensburg is no exception. What most people don't understand is that the temperature underground (regardless of climate or season) stays pretty consistent year round.
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During the heating cycle, a WaterFurnace geothermal heat pump uses the earth loop to draw heat from the ground. As the system draws heat from the loop it circulates it through a conventional duct system as warm air. The same heat energy can also be utilized for a radiant floor system or household hot water heating.
During the cooling mode, cold, refreshing air is distributed throughout the house by doing the exact opposite as the heating process. Heat is not extracted, instead it is propelled into the ground. The warm heat is pulled from your home and taken back into the earth loop. Your hot water heating can be fueled by this technique as well.
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This is a global call to support the CVF Summit which will take place on 22 November 2018. The CVF Summit aims to accelerate political action in the enhancing ambition on climate action to ensure we meet the goals under the Paris Agreement. The Republic of Marshall Islands President and incoming Chair of the Climate Vulnerable Forum Hilda Heine has announced the Climate Vulnerable Summit on the 22nd of November 2018. Stay tuned for more updates!
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I released Mad Woman early! I grow impatient waiting. It's not doing as well as I'd hoped but that's alright. I think I'd prefer slow and steady to a spike and then nothing. Plus, all of you are so awesome, I had so many signed preorders through my etsy shop. Don't worry! I have a lot of projects brewing. So many things to look forward to. I hope they are received as well as my first two books have been. You can find Mad Woman on Amazon.com here.


the question is hitting me again, why am i not in new york? but instead of answering it, i've fallen into an obsession. i've been working on my first video piece in (I am guessing) 28 years. i can't say for sure quite why this is happening now, but i can tell you how it happened. in my car. in the rain. i am just lucky that i was about to run out of gas because with a full tank, i would have at least 6 hours of footage. and the project would certainly outlive me, if it hasn't already.
but it is literally true, once again.
when confronted with loss and disappointment on many levels, my only recourse is to throw myself into making art. because it's the only thing i might be capable of doing, even doing it badly. it's there for me and it's all forgiving.
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