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I love the quality of the pressed pigments in all of the Re-Loaded palettes so much that I collected all of them,but this one is one of my least favorites in this collection because of the colorchoice..
Don´t get me wrong,espcially the matte shades come in awsome colors but I really miss a light skintoned shade to set my eyebase with and a light transitionshade and a highlighter shade for my browbones and inner corners..
Of course I can grab these shades from one of my other palettes,but I prefer to have all I need in one palette..
If they had skipped one of the two very simmillar dark reds and one of the simmillar browns and put a light transition shade and a highlighter shade instead I´d give this palette a 5/5,so I can only give it 4 stars..
This is a great palette for its mattes although 2 of the shades are exactly the same! I thought it was my mind playing tricks but when I swatched them they were identical (the centre shade and the bottom second shade). I wish there were at least two more lighter transition shades because most of the matte shades are quite dark (and quite similar!).
Otherwise not a bad palette. The shadows blended great but only stayed on my eyes for a couple of hours so better for a night look rather than the whole day.
I bought this because I wanted to try lighter colours on my eyes, I'm so stuck in my ways, I always wear blue shades. I was pleasantly surprised by the texture of the eyeshadows, they stay on for ages, the colours are so pretty.


A new breed of human is on its way. Transhumanists are a group who seek to accelerate the evolution of humanity through science and technology. Oliver Pickup investigates the movement, the implications for humankind and asks, is it morally wrong to augment humans?
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Don't you just love this pattern?
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The cookware is stunning too!
We may be obsessed with bowls as well now, Ree.
As I've stated before, I'm allowing myself to post ONE sneak peek per week. But I never said the sneak peek couldn't have more than one item in it! Ha. ? It'll be here in 17.99938366648 days! Not that I'm counting or anything. P.S. I love bowls.
These mugs would make a great gift!
I'm only allowing myself to post one sneak peek of my product line per week! But I might post another one here in about five minutes because patience is a virtue I evidently need to work on. ?
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Patience is not my strong suit…so here's a teeny peek at some of the fun things in my product line coming out this fall. I can't promise I won't be sharing more in the coming weeks…or days…or heck, hours. I'm darn excited and I can't wait to show you the whole line. Hurry, September! ?
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Eemaan in the punishment of the grave & in Munkar and Nakeer – Sharhu Sunnah | Dawud Burbank [Audio|En]
by AbdurRahman.org December 4, 2017 December 4, 2017
Sharhu Sunnah : Lesson 17 : Point 16
Shaykh Fawzan | Dawud Burbank [Audio|English]
The author Imam Barbahaaree rahimahullaah said,
And to have eemaan in the punishment of the grave and in Munkar and Nakeer.
Transcribed Audio:
Likewise from the `aqeedah (creed and belief) of the Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamaa`ah (the people of the Sunnah and the Jamaa`ah) is to have eemaan in the punishment of the grave (`athaabul-qabr) and in the bliss of the grave (na`eemul-qabr). So the deceased will either be punished in his grave or he will experience bliss until he is raised up on the Day of Resurrection.
And the grave is a station between this world and the Hereafter; and therefore it is called al-Barzakh, 'the barrier' or 'the interval'. Because barzakh means a barrier between two things. He, the Most High, said:
He (Allaah) has released the two seas (salt water and the fresh water) which meet side by side. Between them there is a barzakh (barrier) which neither of them transgress. (Sooratur-Rahmaan (55), aayahs 19-20)
The salt water does not transgress upon the fresh water and the fresh water does not transgress upon the salty, because Allaah has placed a separation between them. So this does not mix with this. So therefore al-barzakh means a separation between two things. Because the abodes where the people will live are three:
• daarud-dunyaa, the abode/of this world
• daarul-barzakh, the abode of the interval period
• daarul-qaraar, the abode of remaining (the Hereafter)
These are the abodes which the servants will pass through: daarud-dunyaa, the abode of this world, which is a place of action; and daarul-barzakh, the interval period, which is a place for waiting; and daarul-qaraar, the place of remaining forever, which will be the place of recompense. Because Allaah, the Majestic and Most High, says:
Until you enter and visit the graves (Sooratut-Takaathur (102), aayah 2)
So this shows that the graves are not a place of permanent residence. [05] Rather a person who is in them is just like a visitor. He visits and then he travels on. So he made the time spent in the graves a visit, because he remains in them and then he travels on.
However, during the time when he is within the grave, when he is first placed in the grave and the soil is levelled over him and the people depart from him, "he will certainly hear the striking of their shoes." [06] Then two angels will come to him in the grave and they will make him sit up, and his soul will be restored to his body. And he will be given life, a life of this interval period; and it is not like the life which is in this world. So they will ask him, "Who is your Lord?" and "What is your Religion?" and "Who is your Prophet?" So if he gives a correct answer to these questions, then he is saved and he will be blissful, and he will suffer no wretchedness after it. And his grave will be extended for as far as the eye can see for him and a door will be opened for him to Paradise. So its beautiful breeze and its fragrance will come to him and command will be given for him to be given bedding from Paradise. [07] So he will continue to be experiencing delight in his grave. And this is a matter of the ghayb (the hidden and the unseen). We do not know about it. So if we were to open up a grave, we would not find anything from that since it occurs in one world, and we are in a different world.
As for the hypocrite and the doubter then he will say if it is said to him "Who is your Lord?"
He will say "I do not know."
"Who is you Prophet?"
He will say, "I do not know."
"What is your Religion?"
He will say "I do not know." Even if, in this world, he was a learned person and he memorised texts and explanations and he memorised the language and he was a most eloquent speaker and a fine talker. But if he did not have eemaan (true faith), then he will stammer in the grave and he will be unable to answer. When he is asked about these matters he will stutter and say, "Hah, Hah, I do not know, I heard the people saying something, so therefore I said it." So a door will be opened to the Fire for him and his grave will be made tight upon him until his ribs intertwine (cross over). And its fierce wind and heat come upon him and bedding from the Fire will be laid out for him. [08]
So the punishment of the grave or its bliss is established in the Book and in the Sunnah. He sallAllaahu `alayhi wa sallam said,
"Seek refuge with Allaah from four things: from the punishment of Hell Fire and from the punishment of the grave and from the trials of life and death and from the trial of al-Maseehud-Dajjaal (the false Messiah). [09]
So he sallAllaahu `alayhi wa sallam used to seek refuge from the punishment of the grave.[10] And there are indications in the Qur'aan of the punishment of the grave. He, the Most High, said:
And We will make them taste of the lesser punishment before the greater punishment (Sooratus-Sajdah (32), aayah 21)
They (the people of tafseer) said: This is the punishment of the grave. Or it is said: It is the punishment of this world. And in His saying, He the Most High, with regard to the Pharaoh and his people:
They (the people of Fir`own) are exposed to the Fire morning and evening. And on the day when the Hour is established, it will be said, "Enter the people of Fir`own into the severest torment. (Soorah Ghaafir (40), aayah 46)
They are exposed to it morning and evening – this is in the grave. After they died they began being exposed to the Fire morning and evening. And when the Hour (the Resurrection) is established it will be said, "Enter the people of Fir`own into the severest torment." And He, the Most High, said:
And whoever turns away from remembrance of Me, then he will have a tight and restricted life. And We will raise him up on the Day of Resurrection blind. (Soorah Taa Haa (20), aayah 124)
They (the people of explanation of the Qur'aan) said: A tight and restricted life refers to in the grave. And Allaah's refuge is sought. [11] [12]
So the evidences proving the punishment of the grave are mutawaatirah (established by huge numbers of people at every level of transmission).
So whoever disbelieves in the punishment of the grave from the Mu`tazilah and those who adopt their way, then he is contradicting mutawaatir evidences, and he will have his belief damaged; and Allaah's refuge is sought. And he will be missing out on one of the fundamentals from the fundamentals of `aqeedah (creed and belief); and it is belief in the punishment of the grave. So if he is doing so wilfully/knowingly, knowing of the texts, that he just does so out of pride and haughtiness and he denies, then he is a kaafir ( a disbeliever). But as for if he is doing it using a wrong interpretation or doing it blind following someone or is ignorant, then this person is not declared to be a disbeliever. Rather he is declared to astray, but not to be a disbeliever. [13]
His saying, "and Munkar and Nakeer." Munkar and Nakeer are two names of angels who will come to him in a terrifying form. One of them is called al-Munkar and the other one is called an-Nakeer, as occurs in the ahaadeeth. [14]
[05] Translator's side point: Shaykh al-Albaanee used to criticize people when they said about someone who died, "He has gone on to his final resting place." And he used to say that this is a wrong statement and a wrong belief. After the grave there is either the Paradise or the Hell Fire, and that is the final place, not the grave.
[06] This hadeeth occurs in al-Bukhaaree (no.1273) and reported by Muslim (no.2870) as a hadeeth of Anas radiyAllaahu `anh.
[07] All this occurs in the hadeeth of al-Baraa· ibn `Aazib radiyAllaahu `anhumaa reported by at-Tayaalisee and Imaam Ahmad and Aboo Daawood and al-Haakim and others.
Translator's side point: This hadeeth was declared saheeh by Shaykh al-Albaanee in his checking of Aboo Daawood and al-Haakim and others in the long hadeeth.
[08] Part of the same hadeeth of al-Baraa· ibn `Aazib radiyAllaahu `anhumaa
[09] This hadeeth occurs in the Saheeh of al-Bukhaaree (no. 1311) and in Saheeh Muslim (no. 588) from a hadeeth of Aboo Hurayrah radiyAllaahu `anh.
[10] This hadeeth occurs in the Saheeh of al-Bukhaaree (no. 1002) and in Saheeh Muslim (no.584) as a hadeeth of `Aa·ishah radiyAllaahu `anhaa.
[11] Ibn Katheer said in his Tafseer that it is established that "a tight and restricted life" is explained to mean the punishment of the grave. This is established from Aboo Sa`eed al-Khudree and Aboo Hurayrah radiyAllaahu `anhumaa.
Translator's side point: Ibn Hibbaan in his Saheeh (no. 3109) brings a hadeeth from Aboo Hurayrah radiyAllaahu `anhu from the Prophet sallAllaahu `alayhi wa sallam that he himself explained this aayah, that, "there will be a tight and restricted life for him," the Prophet sallAllaahu `alayhi wa sallam said, "(it means) the punishment of the grave." Shaykh al-Albaanee said with regard to this report 'hasan' (good).
[13] Translator's side point: Shaykh Saalih as-Suhaymee hafizahullaah said in his explanation,
"The punishment of the grave is something which the people of the Sunnah are agreed upon, with consensus (ijmaa`). It is proven in the texts which are authentic, from the Book and the Sunnah. And the Mu`tazilah disagree about it. So they deny the punishment of the grave because they have a belief which is that Paradise and the Fire are not yet created."
Later on he said, "And it is something which no one from the people of the Sunnah denied."
[14] It is reported by at-Tirmithee in his Sunan, and Ibn Abee `Aasim in as-Sunnah and Ibn Hibaan and others, from a hadeeth of Aboo Hurayrah radiyAllaahu `anhu that, "When the deceased person is buried in his grave two angels come to him who are black and blue. One is called al-Munkar and the other is called an-Nakeer."
Translator's side point: This hadeeth was declared hasan (good) by Shaykh al-Albaanee.
Transcribed by Fawad Abu Zaid Al Afghaani.
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As part of our Goa package holiday we spent three nights and four days at Backwoods Camp, in the company of our main guide Pramod and, for part of our last full day at the camp, Leio. The camp is set in the hills, amongst sub-tropic deciduous rainforest, about two hours from the coast. Accommodation is in basic individual chalets and the regular, ample and appetising meals are served in the communal dining and general 'chill-out' area in the main house. The camp and kitchen staff couldn't have been more pleasant or helpful. In all, we added around forty five new species at Backwoods, many of which were scarce or 'difficult to get' birds. The whole package – accommodation, meals & drinks, guiding and transport, came to around £120 per person, providing excellent value and a welcome break to coastal birding. For anyone contemplating a birding package holiday to Goa, a trip up to Backwoods is a must – details are available on their website or visit their regular stand at the annual Rutland Water BirdFair.
and lastly, the iconic but hard to find, Indian Pitta – this bird roosted behind our chalet!
More photos to come in my Goa gallery.


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Griffiths), or a binding pact (for Elvira Griffiths), religion gives meaning to otherwise meaningless and chaotic lives. For Clyde, religion provides a sense of unity and wholeness, and helps him realize that he is wrong and ask for forgiveness. Uncle Griffiths's religion is a set of moral guidelines which all humans should follow — love and justice. (E.g. Despite his qualms, Uncle Griffiths does not pay for Clyde's retrial, because he knows Clyde is guilty. While his policies are sound, Uncle Griffiths fails. As he said, "mixing business and family is folly;" he trusted Clyde, and Clyde ruined him. Elvira is seemingly the most content, both with her failures and her successes, because she bound a pact with God. She finds solace in the Bible; no matter what may go
wrong, she will always have help and understanding. When the novel ends, every main character but her is dead or a failure. She, however, changes peoples' lives — even Clyde's and the skeptical DA Mason's. While she may be na?ve, whenever others fall to temptation, Elvira follows her morals. Despite her son's electrocution and her daughter's illegitimate child, Elvira is not ruined by the American Dream, and all because of religion. A novel's mode is its style (E.g. satirical, romantic, psychological, naturalistic, science fiction, mystery, adventure). While An American Tragedy contains many psychological insights, its dominant mode is naturalistic. A naturalistic novel is "realistic fiction taken one step further, in which the author pessimistically portrays
squalor, violence, sordidness, and characters who have little control over their own destinies" (1). Naturalist writers Crane, Morris, London, and Dresser all even believed that man is "a helpless pawn of his heredity and his environment, a creature caught in a web of causation and chance" (Bucco 7). Despite their occasional successes, all characters in An American Tragedy are failures; they live fragile, futile lives, and never become successful. For example, Sondra is the American Dream, but wealth, good looks, and a high social status do not guarantee her success or happiness — her lover is electrocuted, and she is forced to move away. Hortense, Roberta, Ratter, and Rita are doomed from birth — their poverty will prevent their success. Clyde, however, is the peak of
naturalism. He spends a lifetime searching for happiness. On occasion, he feels whole, but he quickly feels empty again. His stupidity and weak morals, however, guarantee his failure. At the end of An American Tragedy, Clyde discovers that life would have been better had he followed his parents' moral and religious guidelines. However, he realizes that religion will not save his earthly life, nor will his death change the outcome of anyone else's miserable life; people ignore Clyde's failure and suffering, and continue chasing the American Dream. Destiny and social status, he reasons, will bar nearly everyone from living the Dream. An American Tragedy is a classic — its moral is timeless. Works Cited"Crime of the Century." The Chester Gillette case. Online. Internet.
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New York: Doubleday and Company, 1971. Dreiser, Theodore. An American Tragedy. Cambridge, Massachussetts: Robert Bentley, 1953. James D. Hart, ed. Oxford Companion to American Literature. 4th edition. New York City: Oxford University Press, 1978. Lundquist, James. Theodore Dreiser. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co, 1974. Magill, Frank N., ed. Magill's Survey of American Literature. Volume 2. North Bellmore, NY: Marshall Cavendish, 1991. Magill, Frank N., ed. Masterplots: Digests of World Literature. Volume 1. New York: Curtis Books, 1949. Magill, Frank N., ed. Masterplots: Digests of World Literature. Volume 1, Revised Category Edition. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Salem Press, 1985. Master the Modes. New York City: Scholastic Magazines, Inc., 1975. Parker, Peter, ed. A


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Nigeria's external reserves drops by $286 million
Nigeria's external reserves dropped by $286 million (0.8 per cent) to $35.899 billion as at July 28, 2020, compared to the $36.185 billion it was at the end of June, 2020, data obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) website yesterday has shown.
The development has been attributed to the disruptive impact of the Covid-19 which slowed down foreign portfolio inflows into the country, as well as subdued oil prices.
The benchmark Brent crude closed at $43 per barrel yesterday.
The CBN recently adjusted the official exchange rate from N360 to a dollar to N380 to a dollar.
CBN Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, recently stressed that at its current position, Nigeria's external reserves remains strong.
"I still need to underscore the fact that Nigeria's reserves still stand at around $36 billion which is strong. Indeed, Nigeria has not even touched the $3.4 billion loan it took from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which is a sign of prudence and being cautious to say 'let's be prudent in spending our money'. I can say that the market is stable," he explained after the latest Monetary Policy Committee meeting.
Meanwhile, the Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index in the month of July stood at 44.9 index points, indicating contraction in the manufacturing sector for the third consecutive month.
According to the latest PMI report posted on the CBN's website, of the 14 surveyed sub-sectors, transportation equipment sub-sector reported growth (above 50% threshold) in the review month while non-metallic mineral products sector reported no change.
However, the remaining 12 sub-sectors reported contraction in the following order: printing and related support activities; primary metals; fabricated metal products; paper products; food, beverage and tobacco products; chemical and pharmaceutical products; furniture and related products; electrical equipment; plastics and rubber products; petroleum and coal products; textile, apparel, leather and footwear and cement.
Furthermore, the report showed that at 44.7 points, the production level index for the manufacturing sector declined in July 2020 for the third consecutive month.
One sub-sector recorded increased production level, four remained unchanged, while nine subsectors recorded declines in production in July 2020.
"At 43.1 points, the new orders index show contraction for the third consecutive month in new orders index in July 2020. It however grew by 6.7 points above the level recorded in June 2020.
"Two sub-sectors reported expansion, three remained unchanged while nine sub-sectors recorded contraction in the review month. The manufacturing supplier delivery time index stood at 56.4 points in July 2020, indicating faster supplier delivery time for the third consecutive month.
"Ten of the 14 sub-sectors recorded improved suppliers' delivery time, two sub-sectors reported no change while the remaining two recorded slower delivery time in July 2020," the CBN report added.
Tags: $286 million, CBN, CBN Governor Godwin Emefiele, drop, external reserve, Nigerial


We have commented before on what seems to us as many more FCPX tutorials appearing on videos sharing sites. Is that a good dipstick of the growing popularity?
This tutorial is slightly different and is hosted on the Skillshare website.
In just 25 minutes, Benjamin Halsall takes the viewer through importing, editing and publishing to YouTube, all using FCPX. He dives straight in as well, no menu, just gets on with the teaching and doesn't hang around.
We have bookmarked this video as one to show anybody who wants to get to grips with the basics of FCPX fast.
If you like the tutorial, Ben has more tutorials available on FCPX. (And how to carve a pumpkin!) The premium membership of Skillshare is $8 per month, but we have noticed an offer of 3 months at $0.99 pcm on the site.


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Q: How to call JavaScript function from PHP file I have a JavaScript file on my server that contains a function. I would like to develop a REST Api to connect to this server, run the JavaScript function and send back the output.
Is it possible to call a JavaScript function from a php file?
I read this but it doesn't answer my question, because my js file is hosted on the same server as the php file.
Is the V8Js extensions what I am looking for?
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The js function looks like this:
function (line, userWeight, weightunit){

    //logic is here

    var computed = {
                userLengthFtin: userLengthFtin,
                userLevel: userLevel,
                proId: line['id'],
                proLengthFeetin: proLengthFeetin,
                proThick: proThickFtin,
                weightunit: weightunit
            };

            return computed;
        }

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Is it possible to call a javascript function from a php file ?

You would need to hand things over to some other software which can execute JS. This might be through shelling out or it might be though a library such as Selenium or the V8js library you found.
Whatever you choose, it would need to be able to handle the particular needs of the JS (e.g. if the JS expects to be embedded in a webpage with access to a DOM and all the APIs provided by a web browser, then you couldn't simply run it with Node.js).
It would probably be simpler to rewrite the function in PHP.

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If your advertisement does not bring traffic, then it's useless and eventually you will end up spending your money on advertisements with no sales and conversions.
I have actually checked out the web in search of the tool which can actually track my campaigns and ads. Tracking will tell you a lot about what is not performing and will ultimately give you a possibility to improve your campaign.
ClickMagick is a web based app that will help you to track and your marketing efforts. At a basic level, it enables you to create tracking links and ClickMagick will show you who clicked on your links and (if setup correctly), which clicks resulted in sales.
Something you might want to remember is that organic traffic originating from protected websites (https) can not be identified – because safe and secure websites are not allowed to pass referrer info. For example YouTube – all organic traffic from YouTube will be reported anonymously under "none".
a. Sequential mode:when a user clicks the link, they will be directed to the first URL (URL-A in this example), and when they click the exact same link again for the second time, they will be directed to URL-B. So this mode will send traffic to each URL in the rotator one after another, as repeat users hit the link multiple times. And when it reaches the bottom, it will simply begin over once again at the top.
It doesn't take a couple of minutes to develop a timer. There are 4 different styles and two types (evergreen/cookie based or date-based|date-based or evergreen/cookie based). All you need to do is to copy and paste the code to anywhere – your webpage, within a MagickPopup or MagickBar.
Given this isn't always better than all those tech companies with 24/7 live chat assistance, but it still should have appreciation.
If you want the whole community element of utilizing a tool like this, where you can trade advice and potentially seek assistance from other users…this one is for you.


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Leonard Digges (1515–1559) est un mathématicien et géomètre britannique. On lui attribue l'invention de la lunette astronomique et du théodolite. Il est le père de Thomas Digges.

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Mathématicien britannique
Naissance en 1515
Décès en 1559
Mathématicien du XVIe siècle

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IMMACULATE FAMILY HOME & TRANQUIL VIEWS!
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More than 400 people attended the inaugural Get Building SDA National Conference. The conference showcased what the Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) market has achieved to date, with expert presenters detailing what it takes to achieve great SDA outcomes. SDA developers, tenants, investors and policy makers all shared their experiences.
You can access many of the presentations, videos, resources and other information from the conference in the program below.
PANEL – WHO IS THE TARGET MARKET FOR SDA?
PLENARY PANEL – WHAT NEXT FOR SDA?
The Hon Paul Fletcher, Minister for Families and Social Services, and Robert de Luca, CEO, National Disability Insurance Agency, joined an impressive line-up of expert presenters and storytellers.
Paul Fletcher entered Parliament in December 2009 as the Member for Bradfield, was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Communications in September 2013, Minister for Major Projects, Territories and Local Government in September 2015, Minister for Urban Infrastructure in July 2016, Minister for Urban Infrastructure and Cities in December 2017, and was appointed to his present role in August 2018.
Before entering Parliament, Paul was Director, Corporate and Regulatory Affairs, at Optus; established a consulting firm serving the communications sector; and in 2009 his book about broadband, Wired Brown Land, was published by UNSW Press.
Robert De Luca joined the NDIA as CEO on 28 August 2017. Since joining the NDIA, Mr De Luca has been focused on delivering a quality experience and outcomes for participants and implementing a values-based culture at the NDIA.
Mr De Luca has an extensive background in financial services, change management, and a strong and ongoing focus on a people-centered experience and equality in all his roles. He is married with three children, and is defined by his family, values and passion to make a difference.
The Get Building SDA National Conference was presented by the Summer Foundation and Youngcare.


In order to provide a world-wide high quality chemistry education program, this libre website has been established. The resource material is freely given so that all may benefit.
The chemistry material is for high school students and includes notes, labs, assignments, and review packages.
There is information and material for the chemistry classes that I teach at Colonel By Secondary School.
I am a High School Chemistry teacher at Colonel By Secondary School in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
I have been instrumental in establishing the International Baccalaureate Chemistry Program, (Higher Level), at Colonel By and putting the two year program in place. I have designed the delivery of this program and aligned it with the Ontario Curriculum, further implementing the IB chemistry program to comply with the four year high school program in Ontario.
I also teach chemistry to the enriched 3UE (equivalent to Grade 11, or the 'GCSE' program in England); and the OAC/4UE, (equivalent to the Grade 12 program, or the 'A' Level in England), at Colonel By.
I have trained students for the Avogadro, CHEM13, CIC, CCO, First Chemistry National in Ottawa Contest, and for the MCAT.
I am an active member of the Chemical Institute of Canada - Ottawa section, participating in the promotion of chemistry in the region and providing an opportunity for networking. I have been involved in a number of projects, such as a Speaker at the Careers Night for Students at Ottawa and Carleton University, a Judge for the Regional Science Fair, and the organization of the First National Chemistry Olympics for CIC.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is an excellent source for all chemical data.


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Schengen-samarbejdet bygger på Schengen-traktaten, der blev indgået mellem 1985 og 1990 og som havde til formål at nedlægge europæiske grænseposter og fjerne grænsekontrollen inden for Schengenområdet samt harmonisere eksterne grænsekontroller.

Traktaten blev oprindeligt indgået af fem EF-lande (Belgien, Frankrig, Holland, Luxembourg og Vesttyskland) i juni 1985 på skibet Prinsesse Marie-Astrid på Mosel-floden nær landsbyen Schengen i Luxembourg ved den franske og tyske grænse.

Den 19. juni 1990 undertegnede de samme lande en aftale mere, Schengen-konventionen. Danmark har siden 25. marts 2001 deltaget i samarbejdet, og besluttede den 11. maj 2011 at genindføre en permanent toldkontrol af de danske grænser, idet det sker indenfor rammerne af samarbejdet. Denne aftale blev dog ikke realiseret efter regeringskiftet i 2011.

Flere lande har sluttet sig til traktaten i løbet af de seneste år. For tiden er der 26 Schengen-lande, alle i Europa.

Der er ingen ordinær paskontrol mellem medlemslandene, dog er visse områder undtaget af samarbejdet. Det gælder Svalbard i Norge, Hollands Aruba og De Nederlandske Antiller, den græske halvø Athos samt Grønland og Færøerne i Danmark.

Schengen-landene
Følgende lande er i dag medlemmer af Schengen-samarbejdet: Belgien, Danmark, Estland, Finland, Frankrig, Grækenland, Island, Italien,Kroatien (pr. 1. Januar 2023) , Letland, Liechtenstein, Litauen, Luxembourg, Malta, Nederlandene, Norge, Polen, Portugal, Schweiz, Slovakiet, Slovenien, Spanien, Sverige, Tjekkiet, Tyskland, Ungarn, Østrig.

Desuden er Cypern, Bulgarien, Liechtenstein og Rumænien pålagt at indgå i Schengen-samarbejdet, men har ikke opfyldt kravene for at blive optaget.

Krav til identitetspapirer
Når man rejser til andre Schengen-lande, så skal man kunne bevise sit statsborgerskab hvis man bliver udtaget til en stikprøve.
Det eneste danske dokument som kan bevise statsborgerskabet er passet, så det er stadig et krav at passet medtages ved rejser indenfor Schengen, såvel som det er et krav at være i besiddelse af pas ved ind- og udrejse af Danmark.
Nogle lande, så som Tyskland, har et nationalt identitetskort som kan bruges i stedet for pas.

Man kan rejse indenfor den nordiske pasunion (Danmark, Norge, Sverige, Finland og Island) uden pas, og for eksempel bruge kørekort som legitimation.

De britiske øers rejseområde
De Britiske Øer udgør et særligt rejseområde. Derfor er Storbritannien og Irland ikke medlemmer af Schengen-samarbejdet.

Referencer

Litteratur
 Poul Majgaard & Jesper Borup: Grænseløs nu – "få så det interview gjort færdigt" (1998)

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NY Jets: Game breakdown and prediction for Week 14 at Seattle Seahawks
By Sean Basile
NY Jets Mandatory Credit: Joe Nicholson-USA TODAY Sports
The NY Jets will travel to Seattle in search of their first victory in Week 14.
The winless NY Jets put their defeated streak on the line in Week 14 against Russell Wilson and the Seattle Seahawks.
Seattle forecasts are calling for rain, so we could be in for a sloppy, slow-paced, non-offensive game between the Jets and Seahawks that could very well play in the Jets' favor.
Funny how in the age of misinformation and distrust the weathermen are the ones who seem to be getting things right at a more rampant rate. Go figure.
13.5 points is a lot to cover and the fact that Seattle just got upset by the New York Giants last week is driving a lot of people to the Jets this week to at least get the cover.
It makes a lot of sense, don't get me wrong. Potential bad weather game mixed with two struggling offenses is a recipe for a low-scoring Seattle victory with the Jets keeping it close.
But I'm going against the grain this week and taking Seattle to win and cover. The over/under is a lot more intriguing to me, but I'll get to that in a bit.
Seattle is actually only 11-8 all-time versus the Jets, 3-5 in their last eight meetings, and 4-8 in their last 12. At home, Seattle is 3-3 in their last six against the Jets and 5-3 all-time. So, it's fair to say the Jets have had some good history against the Seahawks, especially in Seattle.
Sam Darnold is also a West Coast kid coming out of San Clemente, CA. Not to this point (unless I'm way off) has Darnold gotten himself a legit West Coast game yet in his career.
He would have gotten one if he had played in the Chargers game, but that was Joe Flacco who took the snaps in Sam's stead.
Coming into this season, I saw the road games against the Chargers, Seahawks, and Rams as potential upset spots for this team because of Darnold's West Coast roots.
The fact that Seattle looked as bad as it did on offense last week only furthers such a narrative. The Jets are also 4-2 in their last six games against the spread.
The NY Jets are in for a tough matchup against the Seahawks
However, here's where I drift away Dobie Gray style from the Jets getting anything at all out of this game. I actually think the over being hit would indicate the Jets covering 13.5.
The under would indicate the opposite for me as I can easily see Seattle and the Jets stumbling through the first half on offense and then Seattle catching fire late to pull out the last-minute cover.
If we look at the data for over/unders in this matchup, not only do we have to take the rainy weather into consideration, but we also have numbers on the side of the under in that 3-of-19 games between these two teams overall (16 percent) and 1-of-8 games between these two in Seattle (13 percent) have gone over 46.5 points.
Such low percentages for such a low total with bad weather and two struggling offenses mixed in there just don't do it for me to pick the over in this game.
The Jets are also 3-5 in their last eight with hitting overs in their games while Seattle is 3-6 in their last nine.
But wouldn't a low-scoring game just make the Jets all the more likely to cover 13.5 points?
Well, four of Seattle's 11 wins against the Jets have covered 13.5 points. That's 36 percent. When those wins come at home against the Jets, then 2-of-5 victories covered 13.5 points (40 percent).
I think we're going to have a situation in this game where both offenses come out sloppy in the bad weather and it won't be until the second half that the Seahawks pull away with it.
Regardless of where either offense is at this point in the season. Regardless of what the weather is going to be in dreary Seattle. The Jets are still a team that Russell Wilson demolishes.
He's 2-0 against the Jets and has completed 69 percent of his passes with nearly 500 yards passing and five touchdowns to zero interceptions.
On top of that, he has the second-best passer rating against his opponents with a 132.6. Only against one other team is he better in that department.
I think Wilson turns it on in the second half and the Seahawks are able to win and cover 13.5 points. Give me the Seahawks 24-7 and the under 46.5 to be hit.
NY Jets: 3 coaching candidates the team must stay away from. Next
Seattle has a bit of a pass rush nowadays and the Jet offensive line is beat to hell, so watch out Darnold. This game will be ugly for the most part, but I think Seattle will still manage to separate themselves.


Stuck with an expensive Blake Bortles contract, the underperforming Jaguars are staring at a murky offseason.
With the news that the Jaguars have officially benched quarterback Blake Bortles for backup Cody Kessler, conversation naturally returns to the the three-year contract Jacksonville handed to Bortles in February. The deal looks disastrous in hindsight.
The Jags gambled on Bortles as their starting quarterback of the future, locking him in for three years and an $18 million average salary. Jacksonville seemed aware of the risks at the time —it stacked guaranteed money at the front of the deal and opened the door for renegotiation after 2019, at which point Bortles will theoretically have had two years to prove himself. They bet on their much-maligned quarterback and trusted him as, basically, the confirmed 2019 starter.
Bortles' generous contract comes on the heels of last year's magic. General manager David Caldwell watched his Jaguars ride Leonard Fournette and a dominant defense to a 10-6 division crown and an appearance in the AFC Championship Game. Their success in a weak AFC and with a remarkably healthy defense motivated Caldwell to bank on Bortles.
Bortles had some good games late in the year and did just enough to not ruin the Jags' good vibes, so Caldwell neglected other signal-callers on the market and committed at least the next two years to the UCF product.
A 45-42 shootout win over the second-seed Pittsburgh Steelers in the Divisional round seemed to be a deciding factor. The win, which saw Bortles beat an anemic Steelers secondary to the tune of 214 yards on 14-of-26 passing and one touchdown (a quintessential Bortles statline), asserted his relative potential.
Never has Bortles truly risen above that divisional playoff game in Pittsburgh. Good Bortles and Bad Bortles is the stuff of legend at this point. Jacksonville decided mediocrity and the chance of Bortles surviving big contests as a game manager outweighed the uncertainty and difficulty of searching for a new quarterback.
The Jags' status as a talented contender edged them toward conservatism. They were so blinded by that magical 2017 run that they missed out on one of the most fruitful offseason quarterback markets in recent memory. In exchange for a now-destructive Bortles contract, they sat on the sidelines while other teams saw major change at the most important position.
They could have traded for Alex Smith, dumped millions on Kirk Cousins, or settled for a cheaper Case Keenum. They could have drafted Lamar Jackson, though that would have sacrificed short-term success for long-term security. Teddy Bridgewater and Colin Kaepernick were available. If they had Andy Reid's foresight, they could have been drafted and redshirted a Patrick Mahomes-type to eventually replace Bortles.
Rebuilding on the fly with a roster that carried a mediocre signal-caller within a drive of the Super Bowl is a tricky proposition, especially when determining the sustainability of the previous year's success. The Jags bet on themselves — that they could continue riding the ground game and the defense without having to move on from Bortles. They're now 3-8, and look to have lost that bet in ugly fashion.
Blaming Bortles completely for the Jaguars' issues is misguided; injuries and natural decline sunk the defense, and they've struggled on the ground without Fournette for large portions of the season. Bortles is merely the player tasked with solving those issues. He has proven incapable.
The defense has still been a top 10 unit. They're eighth in DVOA, faring well enough in pass defense and rush defense. The elite members of the secondary are still there. Jalen Ramsey, AJ Bouye, Tashaun Gipson and Barry Church remain defensive leaders, and of those four, only Bouye has missed time.
Injuries to Fournette, Austin Seferian-Jenkins and Marquise Lee hurt Bortles's skill position weapons. His sack rate is also the highest it's been since 2015.
But inconsistency at the quarterback position is bad enough to have forced Doug Marrone's hand in benching Bortles. The Jaguars are 26th in the league in net yards gained per pass attempt. Bortles' interception rate is roughly the same as his career average, but Jacksonville turns the ball over at the third-highest rate in the NFL. In a golden year for passing stats, they rank 29th in QB rating.
Cutting Bortles at any point before June 1 would cost Jacksonville unprecedented amounts of dead money on next year's salary cap.
Thus, the Jags have left themselves in an unenviable predicament. They'd sacrifice cap space in both scenarios: Rolling with him again or cutting bait.
With a $21 million hit in 2019, the Jaguars would save $4.5 million by cutting him while eating $16.5 million in dead money. However, a post June 1 designation splits that dead cap between 2019 and '20.
Bortles will not get much better than his current level, and given Jacksonville's sudden, steep decline this year, he's not solving its myriad problems anytime soon. For next season, it's a lose-lose.
They'll have to start considering replacements. The talent on this team could be enough to square its focus on maintaining contention. Either with their presumably early first-round pick (they'd draft sixth if the season ended today) or with a later selection, the Jaguars could take a chance on a rookie. Unfortunately for the Jags, the quarterback draft class will not be as strong at the top as it was last year, when five were legitimate first-rounders.
Recent trends indicate that starting rookie quarterbacks are advantageous. Whether they will feel that confident in Justin Herbert, Drew Lock or Dwayne Haskins remains to be seen. Given the few teams looking to grab franchise passers in round 1, the Jags might also wait to choose a Bortles replacement. West Virginia's Will Grier or N.C. State's Ryan Finlay could pop up in the second or third rounds.
The free-agent market will be scarce, adding fuel to the possibility of Jacksonville looking to the draft. Unless they decide Bridgewater is worth a shot, or that they want a 30-year-old Tyrod Taylor as a stopgap, they likely won't be scouring the market.
Jameis Winston, a possible offseason cut out of Tampa, could emerge as a free agent. He would be a hard sell to Jaguars fans that will certainly be familiar with Winston's Florida-based antics over the years.
Eli Manning could end up available, but given his performance in New York this season, he should only be signed as a holdover until a rookie is ready, regardless of the Tom Coughlin connection.
The most intriguing option is Derek Carr, who appears to have fallen out of favor with the Jon Gruden regime in Oakland. The Raiders would save cap room by cutting him this offseason, allowing Jacksonville to potentially snap him up. Carr has had a rough couple of seasons, but his MVP-caliber 2016 shouldn't be too far from memory.
Whatever they do to replace Bortles, they will remain saddled with cap hits originating from that ill-fated deal they gave him last offseason. Uncertainty surrounding the core of this team, and whether it can return to 2017 levels, will linger.
Tough questions are coming for the Jaguars.


Research by the Money Advice Trust, the charity that runs National Debtline and Business Debtline, shows that local authorities in England and Wales referred 2.3 million debts to bailiffs in 2016/17.
Click here to see the use of bailiffs in your local authority.
Or click here to read the full report.


3 How Soon After Irises Stop Blooming Can the Greenery Be Cut Back?
Bearded irises (Iris germanica) grow sword-like fans of tall green leaves and produce tall spikes of purple, red, yellow, white or pink blooms. Each drooping petal has a fuzzy spot, or beard, near its base. These low-maintenance plants thrive in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 3 through 9. Irises benefit from periodic cutting back, which can improve flowering while keeping the foliage healthy and attractive.
Irises either bloom once yearly, usually in late spring or early summer, or they grow as repeat bloomers that may produce a second flush of blooms in late summer. The flower stalks usually produce multiple blooms along their length. You can cut back the stalks to the ground after all the buds have opened and completed the bloom cycle. Removal of the flower stalks prevents seed formation, which encourages repeat-bloomers to attempt a second flowering cycle. Preventing seeds also keeps the plant stronger since it can use the energy and nutrients for root and foliage growth.
The foliage may remain green through winter in mild climates, but it usually begins to die back in mid- to late-fall. Cutting back the leaves to within 6 inches of the ground once they begin to yellow or look tattered allows the iris to use its energy for healthy root growth instead of trying to maintain the foliage through winter. You can cut back dead or damaged leaves at any time during the year, but only cut back the majority of the foliage in fall or early winter.
Division prevents iris beds from becoming overcrowded. Iris grows from a thick root called a rhizome, which continues to grow and expand each year. Irises generally require dividing every three to five years for best growth. Cut the foliage back to one-third its height before digging up the roots six weeks after the last flowering cycle. You can cut the rhizomes into 3- to 6-inch pieces that contain both leaves and roots, then replant them 10 inches apart so the top of the rhizome is just beneath the soil surface.
Iris plants require minimal care beyond occasional cutting back. The plants grow well in dry soil and only require watering when the top 2 to 4 inches of soil feels dry. They flower best in areas that receive full, all-day sunlight. Iris also has low fertilizer needs. Apply 1/2 cup of a 5-10-10 fertilizer and work it into the top 6 inches of soil before planting new rhizomes or replanting divided rhizomes to provide nutrients to the soil.
Harrington, Jenny. "When to Cut Back a Bearded Iris." Home Guides | SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/cut-back-bearded-iris-69748.html. 14 December 2018.


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Sic Transit Philadelphia
thus passes the city of brotherly love
Tweets and Squawks
Amazon is one of the most urbanist employers in America
SEPTA's Regional Rail fare collection contortions are a symptom of a system that is strategically adrift
Philadelphia International Airport's future as a Transatlantic Gateway
I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things.
Should SEPTA add free Wi-Fi to the Regional Rail fleet?
Broad Street Subway
Chestnut Hill East Line
Chestnut Hill West Line
DART First State
Fare policy
Fox Chase Line
Lansdale/Doylestown Line
Legacy Infrastructure
Manayunk/Norristown Line
Market Frankford Subway-Elevated
Media and Sharon Hill Trolleys
Media/Elwyn Line
New York MTA
Norristown High Speed Line
Organization before Electronics before Concrete
Paoli/Thorndale Line
Subway-Surface Trolleys
Threats to Life and Safety
Trenton Line
Warminster Line
West Trenton Line
Wilmington/Newark Line
The Pennsauken Transit Center is open. Was it worth it?
Yesterday, at 5:39a, the first scheduled passenger service pulled into the new Pennsauken Transit Center, NJT's newest rail station connecting the River Line and the Atlantic City Line. Festivities, dedications and a general atmosphere of celebration have settled over South Jersey. But was this station really what South Jersey, and the Atlantic City Line in particular, needed? Well the answer to that is a definite maybe. Transit is political, and politics is the art of the possible, which in this case meant landing an ARRA grant to cover the station's relatively low $40 million pricetag. But if you got passed over in this round, and have a memory long enough to realize that this is the first expansion or serious capital improvement of South Jersey rail transit since the River Line opened in 2004, then you have definite cause to worry.
Consider for a moment the state of affairs up until this weekend. The River Line connects Trenton and Camden, not only serving those cities as employment centers in their own right, but also feeding other, higher-order transit lines connecting on to New York and Philadelphia. It's not super-speedy, but it runs on 15-30 minute headways and gets the job done. The Atlantic City Line connects AC to Philadelphia, but in practice few choose to stay on board west of Lindenwold, where PATCO offers a cheaper, more direct connecting service that is faster for much of Philadelphia. The AC Line runs less than hourly. At the point where the AC Line soars above the River Line as the former approaches the Delair Lift Bridge, neither line has a station. Passengers wishing to transfer must use PATCO, making two transfers at Walter Rand TC in Camden and at Lindenwold.
So, for everyone going down the shore from the Burlington County river towns, the lack of a direct connection is a 250 foot tall middle finger, lit up in bright flashing neon. The extra hassle and expense of the NJT-PATCO-NJT trip probably drove many to ditch the train as a bad idea, and either take a casino bus or drive. And who can blame them? The double-transfer route takes 2 hours and 21 minutes from Delanco, station-to-station; driving takes 1 hour and 23 minutes plus traffic, avoiding Bellmawr. But will the new connection lure actual travellers away? Since Google Transit is not yet updated and therefore no help, we have to pore through NJT's eye-bleedingly awful PDFs of their (better in practice) paper schedules, which shows that the direct connection Pennsauken TC is optimized for will allow a River Line passenger to save 30 minutes by taking the next light rail train to connect to to the same ACL east, for a total station-to-station time of 1 hour, 51 minutes. That's good enough for time parity with a connecting express bus from Camden, which is… something. $40 million of something? We'll see next year, when we see ridership numbers for a peak shore season.
I will say, as someone with professional ties to Atlantic City, that had Pennsylvania and Delaware not legalized table games three years ago (as well as other considerations), the Burlington County river towns would have just received a big boost as potential places to live. But that counterfactual is one Atlantic City is going to have to learn to live with. For casino workers juggling two part-time jobs, one in AC and the other at Parx, this is a huge lifeline.
But shouldn't this be as big a boon to Burlington-Philadelphia riders, or Camden-Cherry Hill riders? The answer to that is "not really". The elephant in the room is still PATCO, which runs at rapid transit headways between Philadelphia, Camden, and Lindenwold. For virtually anybody whose final destination is east of the Schuylkill, it's still going to be advantageous to stick to the River Line/PATCO connection at Walter Rand TC in Camden. In fact, for the traditional commuter, the Atlantic City Line runs exactly one train into Philadelphia during the morning rush, arriving at 30th Street at 8:18a. For those of you still wondering, the technical term for that is "worse than useless". The circuitous ACL route from Lindenwold to 30th Street via Delair is the final blow: a distance that is 12.8 miles, as the crow flies, takes 42 minutes to traverse. That's an average speed of 18 mph, with only two intermediate stops. Who would pay $2.00 more per trip for this? Camden-Cherry Hill riders are going to stick to the (faster and cheaper) 450 and 406, assuming that their destination is within walking distance of the Cherry Hill ACL Station, and save themselves the long uncertain detour through Pennsauken.
So where is the win here? It's an embarrassment, but the win comes from fare co-ordination. NJT has signalled for all the world to see that it can only accomplish fare co-ordination internally, so for anyone who is taking a trip that runs NJT-PATCO, NJT-PATCO-NJT, NJT-SEPTA-NJT, NJT-PATCO-SEPTA, etc., you're out of luck, because there's no help coming, apart from this. An NJT commuter rail pass is good on the River Line at all points at all times, so a $116 Pennsauken-Philadelphia monthly will get you to 30th Street all the way from Trenton, if you were disposed to hinge your life on that one lonely morning rush hour train; the same principle holds true for those going east towards Atlantic City.
PATCO, of course, had no incentive to forgo it's $1.40/$1.60 pound of flesh for transfers at Camden (west/east respectively). But neither did they have any incentive to allow NJT to price people off of the ACL and onto PATCO; PATCO trains, as a rule, run full across the Delaware, while NJT's do not. DRPA-funded price support to hold Philadelphia-Lindenwold fares equal across modes shouldn't even be a question for either agency. That particular incentive is independent of whether there is a transfer available at Pennsauken or not, but the fact that Pennsauken-Philadelphia fares have been set at $4.00 (in the shadow of the Betsy Ross Bridge, which is $5.00 round-trip) is an absurdity.
(If your browser does not display a map immediately above this line, it also lives here. Pennsauken TC is the red pin, SHORE is the blue diamond, North Philadelphia is the orange pin, ZOO is the green diamond, 30th Street is the green pin, and major PATCO points are yellow pins.)
And the Atlantic City Line still hardly meets its target market where it lives; going west, after plodding through SHORE interlocking onto the Northeast Corridor, it gets shoved onto whatever track Amtrak has available on its way into ZOO interlocking and 30th Street. It notably does not stop at North Philadelphia station, which would provide it with a direct connection to both the Broad Street Line, as well as the Trenton nd Chestnut Hill West Lines. For those riders at Trenton that NJT now expects to funnel down the River Line and through Pennsauken, the missed opportunity to utilize the already existing infrastructure on the west bank of the Delaware has to count as a loss. Greyhound has withdrawn from the direct North Philadelphia-Atlantic City market it previously served from near Olney Terminal for decades, leaving a hole in the market. And all three railroads running through North Philadelphia (Amtrak, SEPTA, and NJT) would have gotten a huge win if the $40 million had been spent on a flyover for westbound NJT ACL trains at SHORE, so they could avoid interfering with northbound Amtrak and SEPTA trains. In fact, if the bids for constructing that flyover had come in as high as $40 million, something would be dreadfully wrong with the RFP; it ought to be cheaper.
Looking east, the Atlantic City Line has far too much single-track, resulting in its terrible scheduling. Even if the NEC can't accommodate more NJT trains in rush hour, more and longer passing sidings ought to be built so that trains can run hourly or better east of Lindenwold, if not east of Pennsauken. Remember, the present service is worse than useless, and keep repeating that phrase to as many NJT executives and NJ elected officials as you can. Because it's embarassing, and it's true.
And the silent winner of Pennsauken Transit Center may be Conrail Shared Assets. Before construction began on Pennsauken TC, the Delair Bridge ran as two entirely segregated single-track operations, the north track for NJT and the south track for Conrail freight running to Pavonia Yard in Camden. This minimized the opportunities for either railroad to screw with the other in terms of dispatching and interference, but the truth is that the combined traffic of both passenger and freight is abysmally low enough that it ought to take the barest minimum of dispatching skill to keep both sides perfectly happy and moving. It's a testament to the frosty relations between freight and passenger operators, and the overall brain drain in the industry, that neither side was willing to put in the effort to clear that low bar. Now, as a result of passenger trains stopping on the bridge approach in Pennsauken, NJT and CSAO are going to have to learn to live with each other again, as the line shifts to a simple shared bidirectional setup. Again, it should not have taken $40 million in construction for this to happen.
So, while Pennsauken TC was sufficiently planned out to serve as a shovel-ready project in 2009, when the global economic sky was falling, it's unclear that we, as the residents and commuters of Greater Philadelphia, will realize as much benefit as the boosters are hoping for. At least this was a project that didn't require much in the way of earthmoving, which held the cost down, so the downside is contained. And it's spurring operational and fare co-ordination, which is good to see even if it ought to have happened years ago. But South Jersey deserves better than what it's gotten, and has low-hanging fruit that can improve the lives of travellers for minimal investment of capital dollars. NJT's current capital woes are self-inflicted, but funding for South Jersey projects is usually politically-motivated anyway; unfortunately for South Jerseyans, Governor Christie seems to be secure enough in his re-election to not be in a giving vein. Unless South Jersey wants to wait eight years for the next Governor to face re-election, it should be looking heavily into ways to finance its own projects. Conveniently, it already has an excellent means of raising funds to reduce car usage into Atlantic City along the Philadelphia-Atlantic City corridor: the (tolled) Atlantic City Expressway. Go ahead, ask the South Jersey Transportation Authority how much it would like to clear the effects of heavy bus traffic off of its maintenance schedule, and at the same time create better peak load management for the summer.
Posted on Tuesday 15th October, 2013 Author Michael NodaCategories Fare policy, New Jersey Transit, Organization before Electronics before Concrete, PATCO
3 thoughts on "The Pennsauken Transit Center is open. Was it worth it?"
tehgreengrass says:
Wednesday 30th October, 2013 at 3:34 pm
I hate, hate, hate that South Jersey is the bastard step-child of New Jersey in almost every way. The NJTransit efforts down here seem half-hearted at best, and I feel like we keep having to urge them, bug them, complain at them until we get something like the Riverline or maybe even the Camden-Glassboro line. In my mind, Trenton's signaled pretty clearly that it doesn't give much of a shit about South Jersey, why the hell aren't we just our own state already. Ug.
(Also attempting to go to the map you referenced, Chrome says "The webpage at https://mapsengine.google.com/map/u/0/viewer?mid=zZ4igmmZN4Lo.kL4UZbox2gUc has resulted in too many redirects.")
Harry Covert says:
Thursday 31st October, 2013 at 7:34 am
While I agree with you that more would be better, the population numbers make the services provided seem pretty reasonable. Defining Central Jersey as Hunterdon, Middlesex, Monmouth, Mercer, Ocean, and Somerset Counties and using population data from Wikipedia, South Jersey has a population of 1.8 million, Central Jersey a population of 2.8 million, and North Jersey a population of 4.1 million. Camden, Gloucester, and Burlington Counties combined are about 1.25 million; Bergen County alone is 900K, Middlesex is 800K, and Essex is 780K. Hudson, Essex, Union, Bergen, Passaic, and Middlesex Counties are denser than Camden County, which is the densest in South Jersey; the remaining South Jersey counties are all at the bottom of the density ladder with Hunterdon, Sussex, Warren, and Ocean counties. Also, PATCO is awesome, in that it provides high frequency service with a huge number of park and ride spaces. It does some serious heavy lifting.
GCL is a step in the right direction, but I'm not convinced it's going to generate tons of ridership. South Jersey's problem, like the PA suburbs, is that the residential and employment hubs are not very numerous, not very big, and not near transportation. If building new rail would get you something like a Bethesda somewhere in the greater Philly area, it'd be worth it, but there's not going to be anything like that near here anytime soon.
asdfasdffdafsfasd says:
Tuesday 28th February, 2017 at 5:20 pm
What you're missing in those population figures is that an effective rail route from Philly to South Jersey would open up that area as a plausible suburbia. If Hammonton, and towns west of it, were conveniently accessible by NJT, there would be a pretty big incentive for people to move to those places.
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Black Gold or black dirt in East Siberia? Arctic Extractive Industries PhD programme holds course in Neryungyi, Republic of Sakha Yakutia
On November 21, 2014 November 21, 2014 By fstammleIn Announcements, Extractive Industries, Fieldwork, Indigenous Peoples, Russian North, teaching
It was a fascinating week that the Extractive Industries Group spent in Neryungryi, Yakutia, one of the Soviet Union's youngest single industry towns, established in 1975.
The Uarctic Thematic Network "Arctic Extractive Industries" thank the North Eastern Federal University, Faculty of Law and department for Northern Studies, for organising of a great course in our pan Arctic Phd programme, which was held from November 9-15 in Neryungri, on the basis of a technical institute NEFU.
We were 6 professors/teachers and 9 PhD students in the team, joint in the course lectures by students from the Neryungryi technical institute, a branch of Russia's North Eastern Federal University (Yakutsk).
The course participants in Neryungryi technical institute of North Eastern Federal University, Russia
Within the first 15 years of its existence, the population of the town skyrocketed already up to 100 000 inhabitants, but once the construction of the town and the coal mines (in the Soviet Union all open pit) was finished, the Soviet Union was in the middle of perestroika, and as much as half of the population left again. We just experienced the celebrations for the 39th birthday of the city. How many of us come from such a young place? Now Neryungryi is a compact town of 50 000 people,
Neryungryi today
with mainly two companies working there in coal mining: Yakutugol, owned by its parent company Mechel Mining, running the main open pit in town, and recently started a giant new coal development in the taiga, the Elginski deposit, which will be producing with a few thousand fly-in fly-out workers four times more coal than all of Neryungryi did in the Soviet Union – with a town of a 100 000 people! The second company here is Kolmar, which belongs to a wealthy Russian enterpreneur called Gennadi Timchenko. At their Denisovski deposit, they produce coal from underground mining, at a price per tonne of 1800 roubles. Recently the coal price collapsed to 1400 roubles, making this development unprofitable. Nonetheless, Timchenko has enough financial cushion to just stop producing coal, and instead investing a lot of money into building new mines and processing plans, just for the future! The company has high hopes, especially for Chinese and Japanese prices to go up, and invested into hiring more permanent staff, currently a bit more than 900.
The open pit mine because of which Neryungryi was established
Interestingly, they decided not to organise fly-in / fly-out work force. All their employees live locally in Neryungryi, as the fly-in / fly-out model was not considered reliable for this kind of production. Instead, they hired recently 260 refugee coal miners from the Ukrainian Donbass mining area. Here they also feel the political changes in Russia's relations with the West, as the company has to change from importing western mining technology to chinese technology. According to the main engineer at Kolmar, Chinese equipment satisfies their needs too.
This kind of information we got as a group on our excursion to the industry sites. The visitor to South East Siberia gets a different view of regional development at the small village of Iengra, where Evenki herders herd some thousand reindeer in 10 herds of the local collective enterprise (still called sovkhoz by herders), and a number of private herding groups (obshiny).
Evenki reindeer herders from Iengra drove 3 hours from the forest to see us as a group and talk about land use
Interestingly, their nomadic life was not as much subject to Soviet modernisation policies as in other areas, even in North Yakutia. The Iengra Evenki seem to have continued nomadic migrations with families all the way through the Soviet Union, while their children still go to the boarding school – a system that was discontinued in other areas, such as in Chukotka or parts of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug.
Interestingly, the biggest problems that the Evenki have with industry is not with coal mining, but with gold mining. The latter is organised very differently from the coal mining – namely in smaller companies with less significant gold extraction licences. They get their claims allocated mostly from the district municipality, whereas the reindeer herders are registered with the village council. This means for them that on paper they do not even compete for land with the gold mining (artel, priiski). This industry – as Alexandra, a chairperson from the Iengra culture house says – does not really care what is going on around them. In other words, corporate social responsibility is not even properly known as a concept. On the other hand, both of these livelihoods – herding and mining – are so far spatially not too much overlapping, as the land around Neryungryi is rather sparsely populated.
A bit further away from Neryungryi, an hour's drive, there is a hot spring, which was a popular excursion trip among our PhD course group too. At a mild minus 35 degrees centigrade we all enjoyed a warm bath, with our hair getting frozen immediately.
Minus 35 outside, and plus 35 in the water was a real treat for all the participants
The programme organisers Aitalina Ivanova and Mikhail Prisyazhyi from Yakutsk (North Eastern Federal NEFU) University did a great job in dividing our days between sessions and excursions, so that the participants really felt how it made sense to have an extractive industries PhD school at a site where the industry is actually active in extractive practices. A warm thank you to both of them, and the whole team organising what was a remarkable course event within our phd programme on extractive industries.
More on the programme can be seen at our separate website, in Russian at the news service of NEFU,
http://s-vfu.ru/news/detail.php?SECTION_ID=17&ELEMENT_ID=30162
http://s-vfu.ru/news/detail.php?SECTION_ID=2268&ELEMENT_ID=30221
and of course – as always – Arthur Mason's visual ethnographic diary of the whole event.
Puzzling about sustainability: Coastal economies – sea water interaction
On November 11, 2014 November 17, 2014 By arcticcentreIn All, conferences
EU ACCESS project – Arctic Climate Change Economy and Society
November 11, 2014, Borealis, 10am. Organized by Arctic Centre, Dr. Anna Stammler-Gossmann
The sustainability framework has become a powerful concept in shaping national and international objectives. Nevertheless, the concept may face considerable challenges in putting together pieces of the sustainability puzzle. There are still several uncertainties over its underlying meaning as well as effectiveness in addressing emerging social and environmental problems.
What sustainable development actually means is one of the important issues for the Northern coastal economies and international political agenda of the last decade. During the workshop practitioners and researchers will discuss the sustainability concept as applied on the regional level in the fisheries and marine mammal hunting in Russian, Icelandic, Norwegian and Canadian context.
Everybody is warmly welcome
10:00 Anna Stammler-Gossmann, (Arctic Centre). Welcome and opening remark.
10:10 – 10:45 Dmitrii Klochkov (Marine Informatics, Murmansk). Sustainability and climate change issues in the Russian commercial fishery sector
10:45 – 11: 20 Halldór Þorsteinsson (Seafood Quality, Iceland). Sustainability in Icelandic: Mackerel war
11:20 – 11:55 Nikolas Sellheim (University of Lapland). Sustainability in a Canadian commercial seal hunting community
11:55 – 12:30 Nina Messhtyb (Arctic Centre). Fishing reindeer herders of Yamal peninsula
12: 30 – 13:00 Anna Stammler-Gossmann (Arctic Centre). Arctic fisheries and sustainability discourses
13:00 – 13:45 Discussion
More information: Anna Stammler-Gossmann


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Astoria Characters: The Energy Healer
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Nilcee is a reiki teacher.
Sometimes, in the middle of things, you just need to stop and take a break.
Nilcee Kitani Schneider walks to the courtyard of her apartment building and unfurls her bright-pink yoga mat on the concrete pathway.
Nilcee, who is wearing a diamond-shaped crystal around her neck, kicks off her sandals, takes a deep breath and settles into a cross-legged position.
She raises her eyes to the sky, then gently closes them, leaving the world behind.
Opening her arms to the heavens in welcome, she declares that the energy is very good in this space.
"I can feel it pulling, it's circling me, pushing back and forth like a wave," she says, a celestial smile on her face. "I'm vibrating, and I can feel my hands tingle."
Nilcee is Japanese.
It took Nilcee a long time — most of her life, in fact – to discover the power of positive energy and the value of thoughtful meditation.
"I follow the universe, and these coincidences kept happening to me that led me down this path," she says.
To understand how she came to live in the present moment, one must examine her past.
Like her Japanese parents, Nilcee is from Brazil. She was born in a small town and was raised in São Paulo.
She discovered reiki and meditation late in life.
When she graduated from high school, she didn't follow a conventional path. Instead of heading straight to college, she went to London.
"I wanted to become proficient in English," she says. "My plan was to spend six months there and then six months in France learning French."
After returning to Brazil for a visit, her next stop was New York City.
"I wanted an American accent," she says. "I watched a lot of American movies in Brazil, and that's what I wanted to sound like."
Kyllie and Nilcee.
(For the record, her American accent is, as the Brits would say, brilliant.)
She was only going to stay for a year, but the universe had other plans for her.
She got a job, the first of a series in the corporate world, and got married to the boyfriend who followed her from London.
Seven years later, she got divorced, and a couple of years later, she remarried.
Her first life-changing epiphany came after the birth of her twins, Josh (his Japanese name is Yoshi) and Kyllie (her Japanese name it Toshimi).
She was born and raised in Brazil.
The twins, who are 11, made their way into the world at seven instead of nine months, and for no determinate reason, were colicky and spent much of their first years on earth crying.
Nilcee was, to say the least, overwhelmed all the time, so much so that she gave up her career to become a full-time, stay-at-home mother.
"I can remember the day things changed," she says as Kyllie runs up to say hello. "They were two years old. I had them both on the floor, and they were crying. Up until this time, they always took turns crying, but this time they were crying together, and I couldn't get them to stop."
Nilcee was just about to give up when she looked up at the sky.
Nilcee held a series of corporate jobs before the twins were born.
"It was clear and blue, and I took a deep breath," she says. "I felt peace and calm surrounding my body. And I said, 'God, show me a sign.'"
At that precise moment, Nilcee heard an airplane.
"I had the windows closed and the air conditioning on, so it was as miracle I heard anything," she says. "I screamed 'Ahhhhh!' And then 'Shhhh! Hear the airplane.'"
Her words worked: Not only did Josh and Kyllie stop crying, but they also started laughing.
Feel the energy.
"My calm calmed me and helped me calm them," she says. "So I used this technique and others like it more and more."
Nilcee was familiar with reiki – her mother and sister are reiki practitioners – and meditation, but she never really thought about incorporating them into her daily life until a couple of years after the twins' twin crying marathon.
She was attending a workshop that featured Dr. Brian L. Weiss, author of the past-life therapy book, "Many Lives, Many Masters."
So moved was Nilcee by the doctor's presentation that when she lined up for an autograph, she told him that she needed to speak with him.
Nilcee gives private and group sessions.
She took his advice – "meditate, meditate, meditate" — to heart and soul.
By 2013, Nilcee decided that she wanted to become a healer who focused on reiki, eventually graduating from the New York International Reiki Center.
For the last couple of years, she's been holding meditation, reiki and wellness sessions for private clients. She recently began booking online appointments.
Nilcee says that's she a prime example of the benefits of reiki and meditation.
Prayer hands aimed at heaven.
"I have a lot of nervous energy," she says. "People who know me can't believe that I'm such a calm person now."
She smiles serenely.
"If I can do it, so can everyone else," she says.
Nancy A. Ruhling may be reached at Nruhling@gmail.com; @nancyruhling; nruhling on Instagram, nancyruhling.com, astoriacharacters.com.


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Q: How do I turn off the border around Unity launcher icons? Is there a way to turn off the boxes around the icons in Unity?
Clarification: I do not mean the backlight color -- there are plenty of questions about turning that off. I want the icons, and just the icons, to appear in the Unity bar, without any lights and shadows and borders. Can this be done?

A: It is possible, and rather simple.

*

*Install compizconfig-settings-manager:
sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager

*Then run about:config in the run dialogue in Unity: press Alt+F2 and enter about:config.

*CCSM will pop up with the Unity plug-in open. Navigate to the experimental tab:

*Now change the Backlight Mode to "Backlight Always Off".

*Problem solved.
In light of your comment, the box never 100% goes away (by design).
Small note from @ccpizza concerning 16.04.1.

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In ubuntu xenial 16.04.1 the Experimental tab is gone, and the setting
  is now under the Launcher tab and the dropdown is called Launcher Icon
  Backlight Mode.

A: I scripted the removal of the boxes around the applications and the one around the Ubuntu button (for 12.04):
cd /usr/share/unity/5
wget -O transparent54.png "https://i.stack.imgur.com/MiFpK.png"
wget -O transparent62.png "https://i.stack.imgur.com/0NvP0.png"

for name in squircle_shine squircle_edge squircle_base squircle_base_selected launcher_icon_back launcher_icon_edge launcher_icon_shine
do
    sudo mv ${name}_54.png ${name}_54.ori.png \
        && sudo ln -s transparent54.png ${name}_54.png
done

for name in squircle_shadow launcher_icon_glow launcher_icon_shadow
do
    sudo mv ${name}_62.png ${name}_62.ori.png \
        && sudo ln -s transparent62.png ${name}_62.png
done

Then to restart Unity, press Alt+F2 and run setsid unity. The result looks much cleaner to me.
Before:

After:

To switch back:
cd /usr/share/unity/5
for name in squircle_shine squircle_edge squircle_base squircle_base_selected launcher_icon_back launcher_icon_edge launcher_icon_shine
do
    sudo rm ${name}_54.png \
        && sudo mv ${name}_54.ori.png ${name}_54.png
done

for name in squircle_shadow launcher_icon_glow launcher_icon_shadow
do
    sudo rm ${name}_62.png \
        && sudo mv ${name}_62.ori.png ${name}_62.png
done

A: The launcher icon overlays such as borders and highlights can be removed quite easily by changing 4 icon overlays in Unity.

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*Make a backup of the following image files in the folder
/usr/share/unity/4/:
launcher_icon_back_54.png
launcher_icon_edge_54.png
launcher_icon_glow_62.png
launcher_icon_shine_54.png

*Either make your own transparent images of the same size or download the files at
wget -O transparent54.png "https://i.stack.imgur.com/MiFpK.png"
wget -O transparent62.png "https://i.stack.imgur.com/0NvP0.png"

*Replace those 4 files with the same 4 files downloaded from the above link.

*Restart unity by pressing Alt+F2 and typing setsid unity (or logging out and in again).

*If you don't like it then just replace the icons with the backed up icons and restart unity.
Example:

A: To do this locally, we don't have to modify the files in the folder /usr/share/unity/. Instead we can just copy these files in the gtk theme folder under a folder "unity" that you create. This will override the files in /usr/share/unity/ and also, this way, a system update will not remove the change.
But I have a different question. After removing the border, it looks like there is too much space between the icons and also between the icons and the border of the launcher. Is there a way to reduce the spacing inbetween?


Jim joined the predecessor to Laner Muchin in 1989 and has been a partner in the Firm since 1994. Jim focuses his practice on all aspects of employee benefits law including drafting defined benefit, defined contribution and welfare benefit plans. In addition, Jim serves as counsel to several multiemployer benefit funds and Associations.
Jim is also a frequent speaker and represents employers in withdrawal liability and delinquency issues for multiemployer plans. He also represents benefit plans in IRS and DOL audits and investigations. Jim also represents businesses in mergers and acquisitions.
His responsibilities include: drafting, amending and terminating qualified plans; IRS and DOL plan audits; analyzing the impact of new legislation; and advising clients on the tax consequences of qualified plans on the employer and plan participants. Upon graduation from law school, Jim became a staff attorney at an employee benefits consulting firm. Prior to joining the Firm, Jim was associated with a business law firm where he continued to specialize in employee benefits. He has authored articles on employee benefit issues and has lectured before professional groups.
Counseling on business mergers and acquisitions.
Counseling Trade Associations with respect to employment law and employee benefit funds.
IRS, DOL, PBGC audits and correction counseling.
Counseling employers with regard to withdrawal liability.
Advising Taft/Hartley Boards of Trustees on ERISA and IRS and other benefit-related matters.
Advising clients on health and welfare plan compliance.


LOS ANGELES, Calif. (December 7, 2016) – Major League Soccer's (MLS) Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC) and United Soccer League's (USL) Orange County Blues Football Club today announced a multi-year partnership that will expand player development and create a pipeline that will foster top-class players competing at both the MLS and USL levels.
With LAFC set to take the pitch in 2018, the partnership will provide LAFC the ability to loan players to Orange County as soon as 2017 and provide fans the opportunity to see some of LAFC's future MLS stars on display in Orange County. LAFC players on loan to Orange County will be provided with a unique opportunity to develop in US Soccer's fastest-growing and most dynamic professional league while Orange County soccer players will be provided with a clear pathway to reach the highest level of American soccer with LAFC.
"We are incredibly excited about this partnership, which will contribute significantly towards our goals of building a competitive roster in 2018 and growing the game here in Southern California. In the OC Blues, we have a fantastic partner with an owner and staff who closely align with our vision to bring world-class professional soccer to Southern California," said LAFC Executive VP of Soccer Operations John Thorrington.
The partnership with LAFC is just the first of many announcements that will be coming out of Orange County in the weeks to come. Since taking ownership of the club in August 2016, Orange County's new owner and team president, James Keston is taking dramatic steps to transform the club into a world-class professional soccer organization. Keston's first step towards accomplishing this goal is selecting a state-of-the-art venue for the club. The club is also undertaking a complete rebranding process that will see the team formerly known as the Blues take on a new identity built on significant fan input.
LAFC's Banc of California stadium continues to make strides in 2016 and after several weeks of excavation and digging on its construction site, LAFC closes out another landmark year with a foundational concrete pour happening later this week. Earlier this year LAFC scored several tremendous victories for the Club, its fans and the people of Los Angeles including complete demolition of the Sports Arena, kicking off a historic groundbreaking ceremony with Club owners and supporters, announcing the official stadium naming rights, securing unanimous approval from the Los Angeles City Council on its Final Environmental Impact Report and proudly unveiling the new crest and team colors.
To become an Orange County Founding Member click here.
To learn more about LAFC or to become an LAFC Original Member visit LAFC.com.
The Orange County Blues FC is Orange County's Professional Soccer Team. The club was one of 12 founding members of the new United Soccer League (USL) in its inaugural 2011 season. The Orange County Blues were the 2015 Western Conference Regular Season Champions and have reached the Western Conference semifinals of the USL Playoffs in back-to-back seasons. The club's brand-new owner, James Keston, is the Chief Investment Officer of LARO Properties, and will actively oversee all operations of the USL club in Orange County. Keston is dedicated to transforming the club into a world-class professional soccer organization that focuses on the fans, players and youth clubs of Orange County. Keston is currently working on a complete rebranding of the team with a new name, colors, and crest driven by significant fan input.
The Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC) is the newest MLS soccer club serving the greater Los Angeles area. Its ownership group is comprised of local leaders and innovators of industry with intellectual capital, financial prowess, operations expertise and success in the fields of entertainment, sports, technology, and media. The LAFC ownership group is dedicated to building a world-class soccer club that represents the diversity of Los Angeles and is committed to delivering an unrivaled experience for fans. The home of the Club will be the Banc of California Stadium, the first open-air stadium built in Los Angeles since 1962 and boasts a 22,000-seat capacity.


Staff and physicians at Mackenzie Health are demonstrating how exceptional we can be together. As generous donors, as volunteers on Mackenzie Health Foundation's board of directors and campaign cabinet, as advocates speaking to patients and donors, as ambassadors at events and as participants in our signature events and at community events, our staff and physicians are enthusiastically supporting the Exceptional Care Belongs Here campaign to help build and equip Mackenzie Vaughan Hospital and advance care at Mackenzie Richmond Hill Hospital.
Ties to Richmond Hill has inspired Dr. Kar Cheong Lee to take a leadership role at Mackenzie Health.
Professional Staff Association provide inspiration with leadership pledge.
Physicians in the pediatrics program make a gift to the $250-million campaign.
Many Mackenzie Health employees are supporting the Foundation by joining the bi-weekly Pay Day Payout 50/50 Staff Lottery.