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The Last Of The American Flatware
Posted May 18 2018 in Flatware Flatware Reviews Gifts Lifestyle Traditions Wedding
Tagged:flatware, Liberty Tabletop, made in america, Sherrill Manufacturing
Liberty Tabletop Profile
Sherrill Manufacturing, known for Liberty Tabletop products, has an admirable and increasingly unique claim to fame: it is the only remaining flatware manufacturer in the U.S.
Even the quality stainless steel it uses is made right here in America. Sherrill tests for lead and other toxic trace elements. There are no shortcuts in the making of safe, durable products. Not only that, but high-grade stainless steel retains its appealing luster and resists staining for generations.
Sherrill Manufacturing has been at this for more than 100 years and is frequently lauded by the media. The New York Times, ABC, and NBC are just a few outlets that have featured the company. Since other American industries are disappearing in droves — according to The Times, there's only one whistle maker, one barber pole manufacturer and a handful of sneaker factories left — Sherrill's longevity is impressive.
There were some close calls. Sherrill was initially an exclusive manufacturer for Oneida. Like many companies, Oneida found it impossible to compete with brands that were using inferior materials and outsourcing labor to keep costs down. It went bankrupt in 2006 before merging with other brands. Meanwhile, Sherrill had to come up with solutions.
Production shut down for two years as the company reorganized. Before it did, however, the forward-thinking owners used all the steel they had left to create their own patterns. Those designs became the Liberty Tabletop collection. They built a website that generated $23,000 in sales in the first year. By 2015, sales were close to $1 million. The customer base expanded largely through word of mouth. The U.S. military, which orders Liberty Tabletop utensils for bases around the globe, has helped sustain Sherrill through the years.
Even in tough times, Sherrill won't compromise. They're looking for customers who don't mind paying a little more for domestically made goods. Sherrill's steel comes from Ohio. Polishing compounds hail from Detroit and Pittsburgh. A family-run paper company in Earlville, New York manufactures all of Sherrill's boxes. The paper outfit has been in business since 1926.
Liberty Tabletop Patterns
We carry a number of Liberty Tabletop designs for a wide range of tastes. Whether you're leaning toward something sleek or ornate, you have plenty of choices.
You'll notice that many of the pattern names reflect the American history that the company works so hard to honor:
Liberty Tabletop – Betsy Ross
Betsy Ross – This has a simple, unadorned teardrop shape and a mirror-finished handle and bowl. The excellent heft and
balance were created with users' comfort in mind.
Kensington – The graceful scroll design and slightly larger sizing make these pieces distinctive.
Martha Washington – The fiddleback shape and understated floral detail are charming. Martha Washington is an updated version of the silverware that the first lady might have set her table with at Mount Vernon.
Modern America – The Modern America hollow-handled knives are designed for superior cutting performance and durability. The plain design, with slightly rounded edges and a highly polished finish, makes the pattern suitable for any decor.
Liberty Tabletop – Pearls
Pearls – A rounded handle and delicate beading make Pearls a perennial favorite.
Prestige – The subtle scrollwork and feathering on the squared handle lend timeless elegance. Prestige can be dressed up or down according to the occasion.
Satin Richmond – The silhouette is classic colonial. Satin Richmond is destined to become a treasured family heirloom.
Dedication to Social Responsibility
Liberty Tabletop not only does its part to grow the U.S. economy (while simultaneously creating stunning silver tributes to American culture), but it also helps people find meaningful careers. The company is known for valuing its employees and treating them exceptionally well.
The owners are most passionate about preserving a craft practiced by illustrious figures in American history. Separatist Edward Winslow, who arrived on the Mayflower in 1620, and American Revolutionary War hero Paul Revere were among many talented silversmiths. Liberty Tabletop sticks to time-honored methods, and customers are overwhelmingly satisfied with the exceptional quality, durability, pleasing appearance and affordable price of their flatware.
Finally, by choosing Liberty Tabletop flatware, you'll be joining forces with the manufacturers in their fight against child labor, abuse of workers and unsafe workplaces.


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Less than a month after the 20th annual Transgender Day Of Remembrance, more murders
November 20th was the 20th annual Transgender Day Of Remembrance (TDOR), when we remembered the at least 25 trans people murdered in this country since TDOR 2017, and the hundreds more murdered elsewhere in our world. And yet since that Day, at least two more of my trans siblings have been taken by murder here in the US, and we've become more aware of an October murder. And the great majority of those stolen continue to be Black, women, and young.
On October 7th, Regina Denise Brown, a Black trans woman, was killed in Orangeburg, South Carolina. On November 26th, Tydi Dansbury, also Black trans woman, was killed in Baltimore, an hour from here (Gaithersburg). And on Friday December 7th, Keanna Mattel, also a Black trans woman, was killed in Detroit.
Between TDOR 2017 and the end of last year, three trans women were murdered -- Brooklyn BreYanna Stevenson (Oklahoma City), Brandi Seals (Houston), and Rhiannon Layendecker (Englewood, Florida). In 2018, they have been joined by Christa Steele Knudslien (North Adams, Massachusetts -- we were colleagues there in my home state and Friends here), Viccky Gutierrez (Los Angeles), Celine Walker (Jacksonville), Tonya Harvey (Buffalo), Zakaria Fry (Albuquerque), Phylicia Mitchell (Cleveland), Amia Tyrae Berryman (Baton Rouge), Sasha Wall (Chesterfield County, South Carolina), Karla Patricia Flores-Pavón (Dallas), Nino Fortson (Atlanta), Gigi Pierce (Portland, Oregon), Roxsana Hernandez (Albuquerque), Antasha English (Jacksonville), Diamond Stephens (Meridian, Mississippi), Cathalina Christina James (Jacksonville), Keisha Wells (Cleveland), Sasha Garden (Orlando), Vontashia Bell (Shreveport, Louisiana), Dejanay Stanton (Chicago), Shantee Tucker (Philadelphia), Londonn Moore (North Port, Florida), Nikki Enriquez (Laredo, Texas), and Ciara Minaj Carter Frazier (Chicago).
It's important to know that there have been multiple murders in some places, that Roxana died in ICE custody with significant evidence showing she was abused there, and that Nikki was one of four women victims of an intel supervisor for US Border Patrol. And that more than 360 trans people have been murdered elsewhere in our world in the past year, and the great majority are Latinx -- mostly trans women and transfeminine people.
I also remember Nicole Hall, a Black trans woman found dead in Dallas in May. And my siblings lost to suicide, as the attempt rate in our community is over 40%. And every year there are unreported deaths, and reported ones where the victim is not identified as trans.
May all of my trans sisters, brothers and other siblings' memories be a blessing, as we say in Judaism -- and one that calls us to act, especially at trans justice's intersection with racial, immigration and economic justice. May we continue schlepping towards tikkun olam, world repair, at the intersection of LGBTQI+, climate, racial, immigration, spiritual, fat, disability, and all other stripes of the rainbow of justice. May we never forget that white supremacy has always been inseparable from misogyny, cis supremacy and transphobia. Amen!
#TDOR #TDOR2018 #TransDayOfRemembrance #WontBeErased#FridayMotivation
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Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire (Boston) -- 76th anniversary (1942 - 2018)
Tonight is the 76th anniversary of the fire in Boston's Cocoanut Grove nightclub, and thus also the 76th yarzeit of my paternal grandparents Adelaide "Addie" (Levin) Wasserman and Theodore "Ted" Wasserman (pictured, probably on their honeymoon in Bermuda), and my paternal great-aunt Sarah "Sadie" (Levin) Levin* (her husband, my great-uncle Benjamin "Ben" Levin, was with her at the Grove but survived). My father and his two brothers were orphaned, and two of their cousins lost their mother; my father was two, and his brothers were in infancy and seven. On the night of Saturday November 28th 1942 -- havdalah of Thanksgiving weekend -- corruption and other issues led to the deaths of almost 500 people (and injured more than 160 others). May their memories be a blessing, and blessed be the True Judge, as we say in Judaism.
(*Yes, Sadie was a Levin who married a Levin!)
When my father's parents and aunt were killed, they were much younger than even their youngest grandchild my brother is now (and my brother Ted was named after this grandfather). The Wassermans had recently moved from Portland Maine to Brookline Massachusetts (a suburb of Boston where my father and my brother and I spent part of our childhoods).
Another of Adelaide's sisters, Lillian "Libby" (Levin) Finn, and her husband Irving Finn, were part of the family party that night, but as usual Libby and Irving opted to go to a performance at Boston's Symphony Hall instead. They began to find out about the fire after they left the Hall and saw all of the emergency vehicles. Libby wrote a letter about the night not long afterwards, which I hope to read someday. Libby and Irving adopted their three orphaned nephews.
Two months after the fire, on January 31st of 1943, Adelaide and Sadie's eldest brother, Major Clarence "Clarry" Levin, was killed by a German landmine in North Africa (during his service in World War II). Their brothers Harold and Dr. Sydney Levin survived for many years.
Apparently there are at most eight Grove survivors left now.
And I do believe that this is a social in/justice story -- though I also believe that all stories are – especially as the fire was largely the result of corruption within and between the club management and the City, and the deaths and injuries largely due to the club's furnishings releasing extremely toxic gas when overheated. And this is the primary reason why there has been so much silence around the Grove. And as far too often, even though many positive changes resulted from the fire, the corruption and silence has led to the forgetting and thus repetition of history -- for instance, the Station nightclub fire in Rhode Island's West Warwick in 2003. And of course, as I write this some of the incredibly deadly and otherwise destructive wildfires in California are still burning.
However, the 70th anniversary of the Grove fire in 2012 inspired more acknowledgement and even some action, including the formation of the Cocoanut Grove Coalition -- though I'm not sure how active they've had the time and energy to be.
And in 2013, the 71st anniversary, there was an official ceremony at the site followed by a reception at a nearby hotel, and I attended both with my father; this included survivors and their families as well as the unveiling of a street sign saying "Cocoanut Grove Lane", which joined a plaque in the sidewalk that had taken many years to install and had long been the only marker.
In January 2014, I moved to Gaithersburg Maryland (Montgomery County, bordering DC) after a lifetime in the Boston area, to begin living with my spouse Julia (who has always lived in this area, and needed to remain here). I have missed my usual annual visit(s) to the Grove site, where I would leave flowers and/or other small gifts. My father continued to visit, but then moved out of state to join my brother -- who is a firefighter and EMT. My father and I have been visited Boston a few times since we moved, but we haven't been back to the site yet.
These other two photos are by my father, Bill Wasserman, a professional photographer (who doesn't have a website).
I have been angered and saddened to learn that since I moved, luxury condos have been built on the Grove site -- and how much more so that their management, some tenants and others have added insult to injury by complaining about having to remember the Grove fire, and have managed to have the commemorative plaque removed and moved down the street. But, I am glad to hear that this mishigas prompted the mayor to announce that he supports the installation of a full-on memorial. Too, an old friend of our family called the mayor's office to complain about the plaque's move, and the person who took the call said that they have been receiving a lot of calls about it and most if not all were also complaints.
A great thing that happened in this past year or so was that I connected online with Jessica Pollard Lantos, Research and Outreach Coordinator at Documenting Maine Jewry, because she found this blog post through Googling about the Grove (I'm not sure if her comment or the other will still appear here, after this update). Her grandparents and parents were friends and neighbors of my grandparents, in Massachusetts and Maine -- indeed, her grandfather was called from Portland to Boston to identify my grandfather's body. Jessica has her father's World War II journal and photographs, and has posted them on Facebook, and two entries mention my family (one when he hears about the fire, and the other when he hears about the death of his fellow soldier Great Uncle Clarry). She has written an article about the fire for DMJ's newsletter, and I look forward to reading and sharing it. As she says, while the Grove was never a Jewish place or filled with Jewish people, the loss of Jewish and other lives there was a particular loss for the Jewish communities in Auburn and Portland Maine.
There has been a great deal of other material published for last year's anniversary, because it was the 75th, and I am going through it as I have time and energy. I saw that there was another official memorial event in Boston last November, and that it included the premiere of a new 30-minute documentary about the Grove fire -- Zachary Graves-Miller's Six Locked Doors : The Legacy Of Cocoanut Grove, which has been at a few events since then, including a Boston Public Library one. And not too surprisingly, "Six" is not the only movie about the Grove in process.
There is also a newish play about the Grove fire -- James Hansen Prince's "Inferno : Fire At The Cocoanut Grove 1942" (Prince, who wrote and directed, had a relative at the Grove that night); I have heard some good things, and hope to at least read it soon. And I intend to read the old and new books about the fire -- especially now that eBook technology is making them much more accessible (though it turns out that a photo labeled as having Sadie in the background and Adelaide and Ted in the fore is incorrect about at least the latter). Over the years, I have also been to presentations about the Grove at the Brighton and Boston Public Libraries.
I will continue to work on this blog post, as well as a fuller piece about this part of our family's story -- though I think a truly full version may need to wait until after more people pass away. And I don't know how much information I will ever have. Sad to say, the trauma of the fire intensified the existing issues in our family, and I'm sure in many others. Which is a large part of why I feel so strongly about something that happened many years before I was born, and about family members and others who I never met. It is also fascinating and challenging to me -- as a transgender person and advocate -- that the Grove anniversary is a week after the international Transgender Day Of Remembrance (TDOR, November 20th, and this year was the 20th annual); too, all of November is Trans Month. And November is also Native Month -- and Thanksgiving Day is also the Day Of Mourning for many Native / Indigenous people.
ברוך אתה ה' א‑לוהינו מלך העולם, דין האמת.
Barukh atah Adonai Eloheinu melekh ha'olam, dayan ha-emet.
Blessed are You, Lord, our God, King of the universe, the Judge of Truth, the Just Judge.
Baruch Dayan HaEmet, Blessed is the True Judge.
MY ARTWORK!! Or, How I Put the Arts in MasadArts
Pictured is one of my sushi stationery sets -- little kits for creating offline mail that look like boxes of takeaway sushi!
Happy Cyber Monday, and welcome to the MasadArts art department.
While I wouldn't say I'm well-prepared for this day or season, I have updated my artwork portfolio, and it's in three albums:
Stationery (greeting cards in several formats, gift tags / ornaments, keepsake books, sushi stationery sets…)
Jewelry (earrings, pendants, friendship pins…)
Miscellaneous (wrapped pomegranates and candles, juice bottle cap tea-light holders, eyeglass cases…)
My work is mostly handmade, and made mostly of vintage / recycled / found / thrifted / gifted etc. materials. And I do take commissions, personalize, customize and so on.
I invite you to enjoy, Like, comment, share, shop, etc.
Also, my Aunt Pat in Boston is also an artist, and offers lessons, paintings, photography, greeting cards, hand-painted eggs and more.
Shalom, on this Thanksgiving Day / Day Of Mourning
Shalom. Rest, cessation, peace, harmony, wholeness, completeness, prosperity, welfare and tranquility. On this Thanksgiving Day.
I am thankful to be spending today at home with my wonderful spouse, our dogter, and my mother-in-sin and law. I am mindful of my privilege that makes this possible. I am also struggling today, for a variety of reasons, and thinking of those who struggle in ways like and unlike mine.
Native people, many of whom are observing the 49th annual Day Of Mourning -- including those in Plymouth in my home state of Massachusetts, where today's high will be 23 degrees and the low 14.
Trans people, like myself, who are transitioning from observing the 20th annual Transgender Day Of Remembrance (TDOR) just two days ago.
Fat people, like my spouse, most of whom will experience an intense increase in fatphobia today, even in some of the most radical spaces.
People who are in two or more of these communities, including Two Spirit people. People who struggle with this Day for other reasons. People who struggle every day.
May we all have a meaningful fast and feast, however we define those things.
May we be comforted by the Addams family credo. Sic Gorgiamus Allos Subjectatos Nunc -- We Gladly Feast on Those Who Would Subdue Us. "Not just pretty words."
May this day next year find us in a better place and a better world -- and may we each do our part in creating it.
Today is the 20th annual Transgender Day Of Remembrance (TDOR)
Today, Tuesday, November 20th, 2018, is the 20th annual Transgender Day Of Remembrance (TDOR).
In 1998, the murder of Rita Hester, a Black trans woman, in my hometown of Boston, led to the creation of this Day. The other known trans people murdered in my home state of Massachusetts are Denise Pugliesi, Georgette Hart, Diane Carter, Monique Rogers, Debra Forte (the aunt of a trans colleague), Chanelle Pickett, Monique Thomas, and Lisa Daniels. I also remember CJ Garber, the trans son of two colleagues (one of whom has since passed away), who died of an overdose.
At that time, I was 22, and living in Boston, as I always had; born there in 1976, I had been out and about for several years as a trans person and advocate.
In 2018, at least 22 of my trans siblings have been murdered in this country, and the great majority are Black trans women. Christa Steele Knudslien (in my home state of Massachusetts -- a colleague there and a Friend here), Viccky Gutierrez, Celine Walker, Tonya Harvey, Phylicia Mitchell, Zakaria Fry, Amia Tyrae Berryman, Sasha Wall, Carla Patricia Flores-Pavón, Nino Fortson, Gigi Pierce, Antasha English, Cathalina Christina James, Keisha Wells, Diamond Stephens, Sasha Garden, Shantee Tucker, Vontashia Bell, and Dejanay Stanton, Londonn Moore, Nikki Enriquez, and Ciara Minaj Carter Frazier.
Also this year, Roxsana Hernandez, a Latina trans woman, died in ICE custody; Nicole Hall, a Black trans woman, was found dead in Dallas; SJ Brooks, a trans person of color, was killed by a mountain lion in North Bend, Washington (and was the partner of a colleague).
And well over 300 trans people have been murdered elsewhere in our world, and the great majority are Latinx trans women.
Too, many of my trans siblings have been lost to suicide, and the attempt rate in our community is over 40%.
And there have been trans deaths that haven't been reported, and reported ones where the victim has not been identified as trans.
At this time, I am 42, and living in Gaithersburg, Maryland (Montgomery County, next to Washington, DC), where I moved in 2014 to begin living with my spouse Julia, who is gender nonconforming. I still hope, pray and work for tikkun olam, world repair. But on days like today, the world feels especially broken, and so do I. At the same time, I am mindful of my white and other privilege, even as a Jewish trans person who is nonbinary and queer.
November is Trans Month and also Native Month -- and this Thursday, "Thanksgiving" Day, is the 49th annual Day Of Mourning -- and we must remember the Two Spirit people who have been taken, including Jamie Lee Wounded Arrow last year.
May all of my trans sisters, brothers and other siblings' memories be a blessing, as we say in Judaism -- and one that calls us to act, especially at trans justice's intersection with racial, immigration and economic justice. May we continue schlepping towards tikkun olam, world repair, at the intersection of LGBTQI+, climate, racial, immigration, spiritual, fat, disability, and all other stripes of the rainbow of justice. May we never forget that white supremacy has always included cis supremacy and transphobia. Amen!
(The photo is mine -- I set it up and took it at my home a few years ago.)
#TDOR #TDOR2018 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransWeek#TransMonth #WontBeErased #TuesdayThoughts #TuesdayMotivation
TODAH RABAH to everyone who worked on Yes On 3 for Massachusetts' trans rights law!
On this seventh anniversary of the first #TransLawMA's passage, in this Trans Week in Trans Month, I want to more formally say todah rabah, many thanks, to everyone who worked on the second Trans Law MA -- and the #YesOn3 campaign that kept it law! Thank you to Freedom for All Massachusetts, Mass Trans Political Coalition (MTPC), and the many other trans and allied groups and individuals!
On this day in 2011, Massachusetts passed a trans rights law that included gender identity and expression in its anti-discrimination laws around housing, employment, education and credit. In October 2016, they passed another, that added public accommodations. Opponents of the second law gathered enough signatures to put it on this November's ballot, as Question 3, and tried to convince enough voters to vote No and repeal the law, but thankfully failed.
I'm an Election Judge for our county (Montgomery County, Maryland), so on Election Day I was working from 6 a.m. to after 11 p.m., and most of us aren't allowed to use our phones or the internet while we're serving, talk about politics with anyone, or leave the polling place. It was very difficult to wait and pray, hoping that I and everyone else had done all we could, and that the Massachusetts voters would do as they should. I really didn't know what would happen, and it was so hard to be alone with that for so long. It was so good to get on Facebook late that night, see that it was indeed Yes On 3, and text my spouse Julia who had already seen that.
I was born in the Boston area in 1976 and lived there until 2014 when I moved here to Gaithersburg -- to begin living with my Julia, who has always lived around here. I came out as queer and trans in high school, began by working to pass Massachusetts' LGBTQ student rights law, and continued my work through the trans rights laws -- primarily by co-leading the faith campaigns for them, as co-chair of the Interfaith Coalition for Transgender Equality. (And I have lots of stories...but many of them start with "back in my day" and end with "get off my lawn", so we'll save those for later.) I moved to Maryland in what turned out to be the last few months of their trans right law's campaign, and I worked on that -- the Fairness For All Marylanders Act passed in October 2014. Its opponents tried to gather enough signatures to put it on the ballot in hopes of repealing it, but failed, largely thanks to Equality Maryland (since merged with FreeState Legal into FreeState Justice) and the Maryland Coalition for Trans Equality.
I've been thinking about my history, and the history. Back through the trans organizing I was part of, and before. Back through the history of Massachusetts and Maryland. Back through the thousands of Native people who lived on those lands for ten thousand years before colonists arrived. Back through all the trans people who were among them, as we have been among all peoples, always. Back through all the secular and spiritual histories and mysteries of my people to the first person, the first human, created both/neither/other than male/female, man/woman.
I'm remembering and mourning those who died waiting for this day -- especially as the twentieth annual Transgender Day Of Remembrance is next Tuesday November 20th. In many ways the #TDOR journey began with the Massachusetts trans community's response to the murder of Rita Hester, a Black trans woman, in Allston/Brighton in November 1998 -- and her murderer has yet to be brought to justice, which is still not at all unusual. So many trans people have been taken by murder and lost to suicide, before and since Rita. At least twenty-two trans people have been murdered in 2018 in this country alone, and the great majority are Black women. May their memories be a blessing, and blessed be the True Judge, as we say in Judaism.
And I've been thinking about the future. How will we heal from witnessing many of our fellow Massh...erm, Massachusettsians struggle with voting Yes, or voting No? How will we recover from the loss of resources -- the millions of minutes and dollars? How will we help the two-thirds of Yes voters continue to progress, and reach the third who voted No? How will we continue to work with the faith community, who is mostly exempt from these laws? How will we move beyond the limits of laws to liberation? And how will we be more intersectional? November is also Native Month, including the Day Of Mourning next Thursday November 22nd (Thanksgiving Day) -- how will we be better partners with Two Spirit people?
We still have so much work to do, for trans justice and all justice -- how much more so liberation -- in Maryland, Massachusetts, the rest of the country and the world. May we continue schlepping towards tikkun olam, world repair, at the intersection of LGBTQI+, climate, racial, immigration, spiritual, fat, disability, and all other stripes of the rainbow of justice. Never forgetting that white supremacy has always included cis supremacy and transphobia. Amen!
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#WontBeErased #TransMonth #TransWeek #TDOR2018#TransDayOfRemembrance #TransformTheVote #FridayFeeling#FridayMotivation #Friyay #FridayReads #FlashbackFriday
80th anniversary of Kristallnacht
Shabbat shalom. On this Erev Shabbat that is the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, Crystal Night, Night Of Broken Glass, November Pogrom, a Day Of Fate. Hundreds were killed and injured, thousands taken to prisons and concentration camps, and dozens took their own lives; thousands of synagogues, cemeteries, schools, homes and businesses were damaged and destroyed, in Germany, Austria and the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia. May their memories be a blessing, and blessed be the True Judge, as we say in Judaism.
My family wasn't directly affected -- in that by 1938, they had been in this country for at least two decades, the Jewish side having left Ukraine due to the pogroms there.
Tonight, tomorrow, always and in all ways, may we find, create and share more shalom -- rest, cessation, peace, harmony, wholeness, completeness, prosperity, welfare and tranquility. Schlepping towards tikkun olam, world repair, at the intersection of climate, racial, immigration, spiritual, LGBTQI+, fat, disability, and all other stripes of the rainbow of justice. Never forgetting that anti-Semitism has always been an inseparable part of white supremacy.
Shooting at the Tree Of Life * Or L'Simcha Congregation last Shabbat
Shabbat shalom -- on this #ShowUpForShabbat, this first Shabbat after the mass shooting at the Tree Of Life * Or L'Simcha Congregation last Shabbat. May their memories be a blessing, and blessed be the True Judge, as we say in Judaism. And refuah shlemah, full recovery, to those who were wounded and survived, in all senses.
Last Shabbat I was Election Judging at Early Voting here in Gaithersburg -- my spouse Julia's hometown, symbolized by the Forest Oak, which passed away in a storm in 1997 when they were 295. And I was wearing the pendant on the left -- one of my engagement gifts from my Julia, who gave it to me in April when she proposed. And as always, I was wearing it partly because that makes me feel safer -- safety being a feeling and fact that continues to be challenging for me, even with my privilege and location, especially as a visibly trans and queer person. As havdalah approached, a voter commented that it was especially appropriate that I was wearing a Tree Of Life on that particular day. Half-expecting what I would hear, I asked her why she sounded sad when she said that, and that's how I found out about the shooting. Election Judges here are generally not allowed access to the internet while serving, and our workdays are usually at least twelve hours. For most of the rest of my service as an election judge, I wore the pendant on the right, as well as Tree Of Life earrings.
I've only been to Pittsburgh once, many years ago, but I did stay in Squirrel Hill, and my visit was part of a Jewish journey (not that the rest of my last forty-two years haven't been). Here on Facebook and elsewhere, I've been learning about my other connections to Pittsburgh's Jewish community. And about the racist shooting in Jeffersontown, Kentucky, that almost included a Black church. And of course the hateful attempted mail bombings, and oh so much more.
Tonight, tomorrow and always, may we find, create and share more shalom -- rest, cessation, peace, harmony, wholeness, completeness, prosperity, welfare and tranquility. Schlepping towards tikkun olam, world repair, at the intersection of climate, racial, immigration, spiritual, LGBTQI+, fat, disability, and all other stripes of the rainbow of justice. Never forgetting that anti-Semitism has always been an inseparable part of white supremacy. ✡🌳🔯
My acrostic poem about #WontBeErased
Nu, I wrote an acrostic about #WontBeErased (a trans community response to the latest Trump transphobic terribleness).
We won't be erased
Our lives matter
Transgender people are vital to tikkun olam, world repair
B'tzelem Elohim, in God's image, we are made
Each of us fully human and fully Divine
Each of us struggling towards justice, trans justice
Racial, immigration, climate, spiritual, disability, fat, queer justice
At these intersections and others we exist, persist, resist
Sisters, brothers, siblings, men, women, both, neither, others
Existed we always have, and always will
Dor v'dor, generation to generation, we generate and regenerate
#LGBTQHistoryMonth #YesOn3 #TransformTheVote #acrostic #poem#poetry #acrosticpoem #acrosticpoetry #TuesdayThoughts #TuesdayMotivation
SHANA TOVA 5779!!!
Shana Tova 5779!!! From my Julia and I and our dogter Ursula. Our celebration includes getting married today; may your Mondays be meaningful too.
#ShanaTova #ShanaTova5779 #RoshHashanah #RoshHashanah2018 #RoshHashanah5779 #HappyNewYear #Happy5779
MY PARTNER & I GOT (MORE FORMALLY) ENGAGED!
MY PARTNER JULIA & I GOT (MORE FORMALLY) ENGAGED last weekend, and here is our public announcement, which started life as three Facebook posts this weekend:
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I said yes, she said yes, we said yes!!!
We've been partnered for almost nine years, and since early on have known and shared that we want to
be partners for life, and hopefully afterlife, which for us includes engagement and marriage.
But we've also had long-distance, health and other challenges.
On Peaster/Eastover weekend we vacationed on Chincoteague Island for the second time -- and Julia
presented me with lovely presents (photos soon) and proposed that we finally get formally engaged!
We have little love for the legal marriage system, and would prefer to only have a (inter)faith-based
wedding and exchange rings.
But the system seems like one we need to take advantage of, especially now that Julia has a job with
great benefits that I could share in, and we caretake her mother; and we can now legally marry anywhere
in the country (we are both legally "female").
And we are not logistically ready to schedule a wedding.
Nu, we plan to legally marry this Fall, and begin wearing rings -- unfortunately, marriage licenses are
temporary without at least the court's ceremony, so we will do that too.
And our dogter seems to be supportive -- if only because the happier we are, the more spoiled she is.
Todah rabah, thank you, to everyone who has supported our partnership!
My engagement presents from my Julia!
Flowers in a ceramic pitcher (Four Seasons Florist, LLC), Earth and Moon marbles in a jewel box
(Shasta Visions and our Goodwill of Greater Washington), and a pendant (Ashley's Elegance)!!!
There was also a card, but if I tell you about that I will cry on my keyboard, and I really need this
Chromebook! She surprised me with all of this while we were vacationing on Chincoteague Island
last weekend, and proposed that we finally formally get engaged. (And I would have said yes anyway,
but these incredible gifts definitely didn't hurt!) I am researching engagement rings, starting with
those already in my family.
Nu, last weekend on Chincoteague Island, when we decided to finally get more formally engaged, we
wanted to go out for a fancy dinner to celebrate but didn't get around to it. So last night we went out for
a fancy engagement-announcement-day dinner. Julia chose the Old Angler's Inn, which neither of us had
been to, and didn't tell me where we were going, which made it even more enjoyable. Though it turned
out our table was on the second floor, via a tiny spiral staircase, and we thought we were going to have a
Winnie The Pooh moment! But no; and on our way out, a waiter tipped us off to a door from the second
floor to the outdoors. In the attached photo from their website, our table is in the far left corner.
And here's what we had for dinner and dessert --
> Shirley Temples (our traditional celebratory drink -- w/ ginger ale, not Sprite)
> Classic Caesar Salad (Romaine Hearts, Parmesan, Croutons, House Made Dressing)
> Spring Rolls (Cucumber, Carrots, Ginger, Cilantro and Spinach With a Soy Mirin Dipping Sauce)
> Penne Mushroom Pasta (Pan Sautéed Mushrooms, Shallots, Garlic, Kale, Grated Parmesan Cheese)
> Pan Seared Filet (Seasoned Beef Tenderloin, Fingerling Potatoes, Crispy Brussel Sprouts, Red Wine Sauce)
> A chocolate & peanut butter dessert that I'm not finding on their website
> Florida Key Lime Custard (Graham Cracker, Seasonal Berries)
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UCLA Gymnastics Defeats #15 Arkansas and Ties Season High Score
UCLA Gymnastics finishes the season on a high note with a 0.825 win over #15 Arkansas
By freesia39 Mar 18, 2013, 12:00pm PDT
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Vanessa Zamarripa leads the Bruins again
Thanks to 805Bruin
On Senior Day, UCLA Gymnastics closed the regular season with a beautiful performance, tying a season high with 197.425 and defeating the Arkansas Razorbacks by 0.825 points. Vanessa Zamarripa won the all-around again, tying her season high with a 39.675 and a perfect 10 on the vault. UCLA swept all four events as a team and individually, and they should be confident heading into the Pac-12 Championship next week in Corvallis.
UCLA also honored their seniors, thanking Zamarripa, Kaelie Baer, Monique de la Torre, Lichelle Wong and and Alyssa Pritchett. You can view the tribute video that aired after the meet here. The Senior Day tribute was touching and I was crying (I'm a sap, but I love this stuff) as the parents of each gymnast came down to be honored with their daughters. It was beautiful. (Ok I will admit 40%...ish... was me sad that we are coming to the end of Zamarripa's career. She is such a beautiful gymnast. I don't know if she'll make a run back at the elite level, but I wish her and all the seniors the best.)
For full meet scores, click here.
As customary for home meets, UCLA started with the Olympic rotation on vault, and the Bruins made sure Arkansas knew they were visitors in Pauley with a season high team score of 49.50. In addition to Zamarripa's 10, Olivia Courtney contributed a 9.950 and Kaelie Baer scored 9.90. All the vaults were beautiful, and UCLA wanted every landing, working hard to stick the landings. Arkansas started the meet on bars, led Shelby Salmon's and Erin Freier's 9.80. After one rotation, the Bruins were up 49.50 to 49.10.
UCLA moved to uneven bars next, and Monique de la Torre took Mattie Larson's place in the rotation, scoring a 9.775. The Bruins were once again led by Zamarripa, who was determined to make her final regular season meet at Pauley her best yet, and was practically perfect again (maybe slightly past vertical at one point on a handstand) with a 9.950. Courtney contributed a 9.825, for a team score of 49.125. Arkansas moved to the vault, and cut into the UCLA lead a bit with a 49.225. Katherine Grable led the Razorbacks with a 9.90, and the Bruins led at the halfway point 98.625-98.325.
In the third rotation, the Bruins moved to the beam. The freshmen stole the show for the Bruins on the beam. Sophina DeJesus tied her career high with a 9.875 but Danusia Francis was spectacular, with a 9.950. If you watched the meet, Francis's beam routine was absolutely beautiful and perfect, and DeJesus even moonwalked on the beam, drawing cheers. Overall, the team scored 49.250. Arkansas was on the floor, led by Grable and Amy Borsellino, both scoring a 9.90. After three rotations, the Bruins led 147.875-147.600.
In the final rotation, UCLA seized control of the meet, while Arkansas had a few bobbles on the beam. Borsellino for Arkansas fell, but fortunately that score was dropped. Grable led the way for the Razorbacks again, scoring a 9.850 but the scores would not be enough to take on UCLA, who was closing on the floor. It started in the worst possible way for the Bruins, when Dana McDonald fell on her first tumbling pass (she was short on the second to last element, and didn't have enough power to get her back in the air to finish the pass), but the rest of her team picked her up, scoring a phenomenal 49.550 as a team, tying their season high. Alyssa Pritchett followed up her 9.95 from last week with another 9.950. Courtney managed to control the power in her tumbling passes, which had been plaguing her all season, forcing her to tumble out of bounds, and scored a 9.950. Sydney Sawa, competing for the first time since January, stepped up in a huge way with a 9.850, and DeJesus and Zamarripa both scored a 9.90. Zamarripa is also having the same problem Courtney was having - too much power on a tumbling pass is causing her to take an extra step, but it has improved from last week.
The Bruins end the season at 10-4, and are now looking ahead to the Pac-12 Championships in Corvallis.


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$225,000 spent on PSU rebranding
Postedby Katie Kotsovos
The President's Task Force for Integrated Marketing has $25,000 left of the $250,000 it received in 2004 to revamp and rebrand Portland State. Part of the Office of University Development, the task force is made up of faculty from all departments in the university and was established in January 2005 to oversee the project of creating a cohesive identity for PSU.
The President's Task Force for Integrated Marketing has $25,000 left of the $250,000 it received in 2004 to revamp and rebrand Portland State.
Part of the Office of University Development, the task force is made up of faculty from all departments in the university and was established in January 2005 to oversee the project of creating a cohesive identity for PSU. They plan to meet in February to determine how to use the remaining funds, according to Cassie McVeety, vice president of university relations.
"We have a lot of needs to prioritize," McVeety said.
Out of the project budget, PSU made a contract of $120,000 in February 2006 for a new logo with Sockeye Creative Inc., a Portland-based firm that specializes in logo creation and branding. Sockeye Creative, who designed the new logo that raised controversy among some students who thought the cost of the logo was too expensive, was selected by a 14-member committee within the task force.
Another major expenditure was a photo shoot that cost $24,000 and yielded new, up-to-date images of the campus, according to Julie Smith, director of marketing at PSU.
Other costs, totaling over $100,000, include replacing signs on campus to bear the new logo, identity packets provided to staff and faculty at the beginning of the year (including decals, pins and a fact sheet on the new identity), and the redesigning of the PSU website.
The money allocated to the task force was intended solely for the development of the new PSU identity, Smith said. No funds were allotted for external promotion or advertising in the community.
The PSU Department of University Relations supplied some additional finances, but no exact number is known, according to McVeety. Their major contribution was employing the logo, she said.
"It's not like it's new money," McVeety said. "Partly it is using the resources that we already have smartly."
Rather than purchase advertisements, the task force has emphasized the use of the logo on campus, Boone said. Window decals and pins have been their nontraditional means of advertising, he said, to promote the identity of the university internally and externally.
McVeety said the remaining funds are "fluid," because not all invoices have yet been deducted from the budget. She said the task force is close to knowing exactly how much they have, but the total is no more than $25,000.
McVeety said there's not enough money left to do everything the task force wants to, and she said they would like to increase signage on campus and have more pictures taken of PSU.
There are still departments in the university using stationary, envelopes and other materials with the old PSU letterhead and logo. Faculty and staff members are encouraged to use the materials they have remaining, but they should implement the new logo on new materials, Boone said.
The university is now in a period of transition, Boone said. "Now it's just a matter of people working this into their literature."
Communication personnel in departments throughout the university will gather to determine a feasible time frame that new letterhead and logos can be incorporated into all PSU material, Smith said.
"Truly our goal is by the fall of next year we'll be completely integrated," Smith said.
The majority of Sockeye's work has been completed, such as designing the logo, but the company still has 26 hours of work to fulfill as part of their contract, according to Smith. She said the task force plans to use that time to learn from the company experts.
"We're going to ask them for consulting advice on some things," Smith said. The remaining hours that Sockeye owes the task force need to be used by spring 2007.
Overall, McVeety said the project has been successful because people are using the logo.
"Everyone has participated at a high level," McVeety said, adding that each time a staff member orders stationary with the new logo on it, it helps. "It's even on the new parking passes. This is so much more than a logo. It's a whole identity of PSU."
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Women's Golf Alumni
Tomassoni records top-10 finish at Spring Kickoff Intercollegiate
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. --- Tusculum senior Katie Tomassoni posted a two-day score of 73-77=150 to finish tied for ninth place at the 2019 Spring Kickoff Intercollegiate Tuesday at The Golf Club at South Hampton.
The Pioneers finished 10th in the team competition with a 36-hole total 641 including a final round 327 on Tuesday.
Lynn University led wire-to-wire as the Fighting Knights followed yesterday's 298 with a final round 296 to posted 594 and win by 20 strokes over Carson-Newman and Lincoln Memorial, who each shot 614 to finish runner-up. Newberry was fourth with 617, followed by Wingate (622), Coker (631), North Greenville (632), Belmont Abbey (633), Queens (633), Tusculum (641), Barton (652) and Southern Wesleyan (670).
Lynn's Helen Kreuzer captured the tournament medal by posting back-to-back rounds of 71 to shoot 142 (-2) and win by one stroke over runner-up Lise Malherbe of Lincoln Memorial (72-71=143).
Tomassoni accounted for her third top-10 finish of the season and 20th of her storied career. Tusculum freshman Olivia Cunningham tied for 12th place with her two-day score of 73-78=151. Julia Johansson finished 41st with 81-84=165, while Jacque Butler and Lauryn Munn tied for 55th place with two-round totals of 176.
The Pioneers return to action Feb. 25-26 as they compete at the Hilton Head Invitational.
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Katie Tomassoni
Olivia Cunningham
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Jacque Butler
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Tue, 10/08 | Women's Golf Patsy Rendleman Invitational 5th/16 (303-307=610) RC
Mon, 10/07 | Women's Golf Patsy Rendleman Invitational T6th/16 (303) RC
Tue, 10/01 | Women's Golf Myrtle Beach Intercollegiate 3rd/8 (311-311=622) RC
Mon, 09/30 | Women's Golf Myrtle Beach Intercollegiate 3rd/8 (311) RC
Tue, 09/24 | Women's Golf King Invitational 3rd/7 (337-318=655) RC | R | PH


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The annual awards are the most coveted in the water industry, rewarding excellence in initiatives for the water, wastewater and desalination sectors.
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First things first, open up chrome and login to the router.
Navigate to the Advanced tab and then the USB Sharing menu.
Open chromes page inspector tool by right clicking somewhere on the page and clicking "inspect".
Next click on the USB Storage Device menu item on the left there.
In the Inspector Tool click on the Network tab across the top and you should see a list of pages and CGI items listed.
See that one labeled CGI followed by a bunch of 5's ? Select that one and you should see the contents pop up in the right hand column. Now scroll down and there it is.
The SU (super user) username and right below it is the password. See my example image below if you're lost.
Now go break some stuff!


I always wished that Cordova would have come as default with a whole kitchen-sink full of plugins pre-installed as default, as it used to in the early days, when it was still called Phonegap. But alas, you have to install a plethora of basic functionality as plugins now. I guess it keeps app lean and small, and It's just the way it is.
Anyway, I normally start an app from the command line, and include every plugin I think I would need, then once I'm happy with a "Hello World", build the app, and then start working from XCode instead of the command line.
Changing the language of a Phonegap App.
All my iOS apps have app store descriptions in multiple languages, the download increase from this simple step alone is enormous. However, I did notice that the increase in downloads doesn't match the increase in actual app engagement, and it's pretty obvious why, a Russian user might be tempted to download your app from your description in Russian, but then once downloaded, can't use the app because he doesn't speak english.
This only works in the context of PhoneGap, and not in the normal web. But that didn't matter for me. The next trick, is to test this in a real device, not the simulator, since the emulator has a bug that prevents this from happening naturally (there's a work around via edit-scheme > options > language). But with a real iPhone to hand, it works perfectly.
Really happy with this. The only bug I found was that the element has to be present on-screen when changeLanguage is called, so in the next version, I'll ensure that this is called on every page load.
I'm not really used to fixing problems on Linux / Apache – but after a server crash, and a forced migration to a new server, I've had to get my hands dirty and try and get a new Linux server back up and running.
So, my problem was. I needed to install Perl, Python and Ruby on the server, I had existing scripts but nothing appeared to work, I just got the generic Http 500 Internal server error message. – Which isn't enough to work with.
The first step with troubleshooting is to get more information on the error, which means in my case anyway, looking at the file /var/log/httpd/error_log (I'm on centOS), and looking at the last error.
This was a ruby specific error I got, which was because I had an old version of Ruby installed (1.8.1), just replaced require_relative to require, and that went away.


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using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Management.Automation;

// ReSharper disable AssignNullToNotNullAttribute

namespace GrafGenerator.MultipleTransformableConfigs.NewTransformedConfigCommand
{
    [Cmdlet(VerbsCommon.New, "TransformedConfig", DefaultParameterSetName = "DefaultParameterSet")]
    public class NewTransformedConfigCommand : PSCmdlet
    {
        #region Parameters

        [Parameter(ParameterSetName = "DefaultParameterSet")]
        [Parameter(Position = 0, Mandatory = true)]
        [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty]
        public string ProjectFilePath { get; set; }

        [Parameter(ParameterSetName = "DefaultParameterSet")]
        [Parameter(Position = 1, Mandatory = true)]
        [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty]
        public string TargetConfigPath { get; set; }

        [Parameter(ParameterSetName = "DefaultParameterSet")]
        [Parameter(Position = 2, Mandatory = true)]
        [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty]
        public string TransformBaseFileName { get; set; }

        [Parameter(ParameterSetName = "DefaultParameterSet")]
        [Parameter(Mandatory = false)]
        public string[] Configurations { get; set; }

        [Parameter(ParameterSetName = "DefaultParameterSet")]
        [Parameter(Mandatory = false)]
        public SwitchParameter GenerateConfigFiles { get; set; }

        [Parameter(ParameterSetName = "DefaultParameterSet")]
        [Parameter(Mandatory = false)]
        public SwitchParameter GenerateProjectEntries { get; set; }

        [Parameter(ParameterSetName = "DefaultParameterSet")]
        [Parameter(Mandatory = false)]
        public SwitchParameter PreserveExistingFiles { get; set; }

        [Parameter(ParameterSetName = "DefaultParameterSet")]
        [Parameter(Mandatory = false)]
        public SwitchParameter PreserveExistingEntries { get; set; }

        [Parameter(ParameterSetName = "DefaultParameterSet")]
        [Parameter(Mandatory = false)]
        public string VsVersion { get; set; }

        #endregion

        #region Defaults

        private const string DefaultVsVersion = "11.0";
        private static readonly string[] DefaultConfigurations = {"Debug", "Release"};

        #endregion

        #region Presets

        private const string TransformFileNameTemplate = "{0}.{1}.{2}";

        private const string ConfigTemplate = @"<?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""utf-8""?>
<section>

</section>";

        private const string TransformTemplate = @"<?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""utf-8"" ?>
<section xmlns:xdt=""http://schemas.microsoft.com/XML-Document-Transform"">

</section>";

        #endregion

        #region Overrides

        protected override void BeginProcessing()
        {
            if (!File.Exists(ProjectFilePath))
            {
                ThrowTerminatingError(new ErrorRecord(new FileNotFoundException("Input project file not found.", ProjectFilePath),
                    "FileNotFound", ErrorCategory.InvalidArgument, ProjectFilePath));
            }

            if (Configurations == null || Configurations.Length == 0)
            {
                Configurations = DefaultConfigurations;
            }

            Configurations = Configurations.Distinct().ToArray();

            if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(VsVersion))
            {
                VsVersion = DefaultVsVersion;
            }
        }

        protected override void ProcessRecord()
        {
            var projectFileInfo = new FileInfo(ProjectFilePath);
            var targetConfigInfo = new FileInfo(Path.Combine(projectFileInfo.DirectoryName, TargetConfigPath));

            var configsFolder = targetConfigInfo.DirectoryName;
            var configsBaseInfo = new FileInfo(Path.Combine(configsFolder, TransformBaseFileName));

            var configFileName = configsBaseInfo.Name.Replace(configsBaseInfo.Extension, string.Empty);
            var configFileExtension = configsBaseInfo.Extension;

            var targetFileInfos = Configurations.Select(c => new FileInfo(Path.Combine(configsFolder,
                string.Format(TransformFileNameTemplate, configFileName, c, configFileExtension))));

            if (GenerateConfigFiles)
            {
                WriteConfigFiles(targetConfigInfo, configsBaseInfo, targetFileInfos);
            }
        }

        private void WriteConfigFiles(FileInfo targetConfigInfo, FileInfo configsBaseInfo, IEnumerable<FileInfo> targetFileInfosMap)
        {
            Directory.CreateDirectory(targetConfigInfo.DirectoryName);

            var files = new[]
                {
                    new {IsTransform = false, Info = targetConfigInfo},
                    new {IsTransform = false, Info = configsBaseInfo},
                }
                .Concat(targetFileInfosMap.Select(x => new {IsTransform = true, Info = x}));

            foreach (var file in files)
            {
                if (PreserveExistingFiles && file.Info.Exists)
                    continue;

                var content = file.IsTransform ? TransformTemplate : ConfigTemplate;

                File.WriteAllText(file.Info.FullName, content);
            }
        }

        #endregion
    }
}

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UNILAG EFIWE / News / News / Gov Bagudu lauds Buhari's approval of N 13bn pests control intervention fund
Gov Bagudu lauds Buhari's approval of N 13bn pests control intervention fund
. June 12, 2020
Governor Abubakar Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for approving a N13 billion pests control intervention fund.
Bagudu made the commendation on Friday, in Birnin Kebbi, at the flag off of the 2020 Dry Season Control of Transboundary migratory pests for the twelve Frontline norrhern states.
The governor said," pests control is a very important element in agriculture, as such migratory birds annually wreak havoc in the country.
" The federal government has made agriculture a 24-hour business and always thinks farmers,thinks livestock,thinks fishing communities, small scale processors and investments in agriculture.
" We are also further convinced that, President Muhammadu Buhari will continue to carry all along in his agricultural agenda."
Bagudu also lauded the President for appointing the governors in various Committees to promote agriculture.
The governor commended the President for recognizing the role the governors can play in strategic patnernships to deliver good results.
Bagudu also acknowledged the spectacular responses of President Muhammadu Buhari to the COVID-19 pandemic,saying that, this has greatly limited it's impact.
" The president is also religilously committed to the Agricultural sector and he is committed to ensuring a Nigeria that works for all."
The Minister of State for Agriculture, Alhaji Muhammadu Sabo Nanono, lamented that, migratory birds like quelea birds, locusts and grasshoppers constitute serious threats to cereal crops like wheat, maize, milllet and sorghum, among others.
The Minister also extolled the continous support, collaborations and cooperation from the Frontline states, in the control of the migratory birds.
" This mitigates the destructive effects of these birds, with the attendant food security implications," he added.
Nanono also commended Bagudu and other governors of the frontline states for their invaluable support in the control of the birds as spearheaded by the Federal Government.
Earlier, the Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources in the State, Barrister Attahiru Maccido said the 2020 national flag off of Quelea birds control in front line states is a wonderful gesture by the federal government.
According to him, for three years running Kebbi state has enjoyed the privilege of hosting the Flagg off ceremony for the control of the migratory birds.
"" This is because of the strategic location that makes it a significant flash point for entry of migratory pests into the country"", he said.
He commended also the federal government for the gesture on behalf of people and the government of Kebbi State Government "" The government and people of Kebbi state are appreciative of this consideration and for a lot of support we receive from the Federal Ministry of Agriculture "".
Signed :
YAHAYA SARKI
Special Adviser (SA) Media to Kebbi State Governor
Governor Bagudu's Democracy Day Address to the People of Kebbi State
Niger State Infrastructure Committee Inspects Agwara LG Electrification Project


The furnace.auth vocabulary implements a pluggable authentication framework.
Usernames and passwords are verified using an authentication provider.
Users have capabilities assigned to them.
An authentication realm is a responder which manages access to protected resources.
Actions contained inside an authentication realm can be protected by wrapping them with a responder.
Actions contained inside an authentication realm can access the currently logged-in user profile.
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The revisions cover incremental changes between releases, and are especially important to read for pre-releases.
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AddressThe address for this sale in Canyon Lake, TX 78133 will no longer be shown since it has already ended.
We accept cash and credit, and we do charge sales tax. Buyers are responsible for moving their own purchases from the sale. I recommend bring a dolly and an extra set of hands with you. We are not responsible for injuries or accidents inside of the home.
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Michael Rummery, Account Director at Aquent Melbourne, has some great suggestions to help you land a dream UX role. With over 10 years of experience recruiting, he's got a lot of excellent advice to share!
In a recent post for the Firebrand Talent Ideas Ignition Blog, I talked in depth about how to get ahead in UX. I focused on a few pointers that will go a long way towards increasing your knowledge about UX and suggested a few tools to set you on the right path.
So now you have studied, read, learnt, and digested all you can. You can talk with authority about User Experience, but now comes the next hurdle!
How will you get in front of that UX Manager to demonstrate this knowledge, and how can you make the right impression when you finally meet?
With User Experience being such a white-hot market at the moment, you can guarantee any application made will be up against a large number of other candidates. You need to stand out from the crowd and the best way is through possessing an outstanding portfolio.
It sounds obvious, but if you spend time redesigning your folio to highlight your UX design thinking you stand a much better chance of being called for an interview.
Redesign your folio with the user in mind. Highlight what the UX elements were of projects you worked on and what your design process involves. Highlight your User Centred Design thinking.
A great way to demonstrate your design eye is by redesigning a website or app. Pick a website, analyse it, document a brief (you could even conduct user research on some friends), and create a new UI or wireframe for a website.
You could also align these projects with the company where you are hoping to land a role. A good example of this can be seen on Nathan Barry's Redesigning the United Flight Search Interface in Photoshop.
Also, this could also be useful if you are actually working on some UX projects but are stuck behind a NDA.
Trying to get ahead by pitching yourself as an expert who can solve all UX issues will be found out almost immediately. It's better to demonstrate where your knowledge and skills are now.
Take a look at this great compilation of portfolios done right, written by Chris Bank of UXPin.
Consider who you will be trying to communicate with and try to speak their language.
Also if you don't have your own website, I recommend setting up a folio on a personal publishing platform such as Behance or Cargo Collective. These are easy to review and hiring managers prefer to view a folio online, rather than a huge PDF.
For further research, Luke Chambers of UX Mastery suggests you a look have at this presentation by Lynn Teo called Portfolios Matter. There are some fantastic slides about why and how to create your UX folio.
All your work has paid off and you have secured an interview, however there are few things to do before you even leave your house.
IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY, CHECK YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENCE.
LinkedIn WILL be reviewed and you WILL be Googled so make sure your profiles are up to date and you know them well, as you more than likely will be quizzed on it.
Be able to talk with confidence about what they are doing at the moment — you may even have some suggestions.
LinkedIn should give you all the information you need however they may also be active in the UX community. As well as knowing the basics like what the company turnover is, or its history, try to research the team, what they might be doing now. What can be more impressive than showing up already knowing the team?
Interviews can be a minefield, you can never be sure what is going to be asked. However, I have been surveying UX Team Leads and there are some key points they look for when interviewing talent trying to get into the world of UX.
Your work has got you the meeting with the person who can give you your big break in UX, now they want to see if you can tell a story. You need to be able to articulate your design thinking and the correlation between your design and commercial results.
WHY ARE YOUR DESIGNS GREAT?
Talk about your understanding of User Centered Design and show your understanding that you're now designing for someone else, not for ego or design for design sake.
Following on from the last point, you have to demonstrate you can really scrutinise a problem and can produce some well thought out, well argued designs.
Your folio has piqued their interest, they have seen you have relevant skills and can grow into the role.
Now it's down to you to blow them away! Good luck!


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Mohamed Salah Bio, Wiki, Age, Height, Net Worth, Wife, Family
Mohamed Salah Ghaly born on 15th June 1992 is a professional Footballer who plays under the English club of Liverpool and in the international team of Egypt. His role on the football pitch is playing forward. He started his career in the Egyptian club El-Mokawloon for the Egyptian premier league in 2010 but played in the Egyptian league for a short period of time and then joined the basil club of Switzerland.
Due to his immense set of skills in playing football, he became the star of the club and also won the title for his team Salah has also won the SAFP Golden Player of the year Award.
Salah performance was deliberately great which gathered the attention of premier league selectors as they signed him into the Chelsea team for 11 Million pounds in 2014 however he was used sparingly in his debut match of the season and was allowed to play as a loan to Serie A clubs Fiorentina and Roma later the clubs signed him permanently for 15 Million euros. After that Salah moved to the new place in the premier league to sign for Liverpool making a club-record transfer fee worth 36.9 Million pounds.
During Salah's second experience in England, he made his game to become a natural winger to a complete forward and became an important part of the team.
Mohamed Salah moved on to break the Clubs record and became the first player to win three consecutive leagues he was awarded League player of the month in the same season. Further, he got five awards PFA Players' Player of the Year Award, PFA Fans' Player of the Year Award, Football Writers' Player of the Year Award, Premier League Player of the Season award and was the recipient of the Premier League Golden Boot Award after registering a blasting record of 32 goals in 36 league matches at international level.
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Salah represented the youngster team of Egypt and won a bronze medal in the Africa u-20 cup of nations and also took part in the 2011 FIFA under-20 world cup and 2012 summer Olympics. He was awarded CAF (most promising African talent) of the year in 2012 by his performance with the senior national team in 2011.
He and his fellows made the Egyptian team reach the Africa cup of nations that was held in 2017 and scored on the top-level during CAF qualifications so to perform as an important unite to help to qualify for the 2018 FIFA world cup. By his great performances, Salah earned the title "BBC African footballer of the year" and he was also selected in the CAF team of the year and the Africa cup of the nation's team of the year as well.
1 Mohamed Salah Biography & Wiki
7 Relationship
8 Official Social Media
9 Mohamed Salah Net Worth
10 Childhood Life & Education
11 Mohamed Salah Family & Personal Life
12 Football Career of Mohamed Salah
13 Amazing Facts About Mohamed Salah
Mohamed Salah Biography & Wiki
Real Name Mohamed Salah Ghaly
Nickname Mo Salah, The pharaoh, Egyptian King
Profession Professional Footballer
Date of Birth 15 June 1992
Birth Place Nagrig, Gharbia, Egypt
Nationality Egyptian
Religion Islam
Hobbies Biking
Hometown Nagrig
Race / Ethnicity Not Known
Height Feet inches – 5'9″
Measurements Chest – 36
Waist – 32
Biceps – 13
Eye Colour Brown
Tattoo None
Debut Club Debut
E1 Mokawloon against E1 Mansoura on 3 May 2010
International Debut
Egypt vs Sierra Leone on 3 September 2011
Achievements Most Goals in all competitions by a premier league player in a season (44 Goals)
Educational Qualification Not Known
Fathers Salah Ghaly
Mother Name not Known
Child Makka
Wife Magi Sadeq
Affairs/Girlfriends Not Known
Mohamed Salah Net Worth
Salary (approx.) Not Known
Net Worth (approx.) $80 Million Dollar
Childhood Life & Education
Mohamed Salah was born in the Egyptian city of EL- Gharbia. As a kid, Mohamed Salah was a very hard worker he grew up to look at Ronaldo and Messi as these players are his role model. By keeping the inspiration of his role models and insane work ethic he became a role model for his own country as many people call him ''The Shining Light of the Football''.
Salah belongs to a middle-class background he was not good at academics so his parents were worried about him. He tried his best to make education and football both his priority but could not perform well in academics despite excelled in football which was his passion from childhood.
He used to play football very much when he was not playing football then he was watching football on television. Arabic football players were among his early best players.
Mohamed Salah Pics
When Salah started playing football he was playing it just for fun and time pass, but later he took it seriously as a career opportunity and joined a local club of his country named El-Mokawloon based in Cairo. The club was too far from where he used to live as he used to go academy by taking a bus and he had to change five busses to reach the academy. He started to concentrate more on playing football rather than academics.
In May 2010 when Mohamed Salah reached the age of 18, he got selected in the senior team of his club.
He played as a regular forward of the team but around in the year 2012 the Egyptian Premier league faced a shutdown as many of its players became uncertain due to the underdevelopment of the league.
Salah was nicknamed the Egyptian Messi by the strong fans of football who saw him as a standing out player of the country as his playing tactics were simply wonderful that led the support of fans and his nick "The Egyptian Messi" became renowned in the Italian media and worldwide.
Mohamed Salah Family & Personal Life
Mohamed Salah's father's name is Salah Ghaly being the only son of his parents he is an Egyptian Nationalist and believes in the religion of Islam Salah got married on 17th December 2013 having a large wedding ceremony in his village Ngrig located in Egypt. At his wedding his bride did not change her dress due to the traditional value of his hometown his family invited all the villagers to the wedding as the people who attended the wedding party were among thousands, There were also some famous Egyptian singers who sang songs and created a rememberable ceremony.
Muhammad Salah's wife's name is Magi and they have a beautiful daughter as well named Makkah his daughter's name is after the Muslim holy city where the first revelation of the Quran was revealed the city is located in Saudi-Arabia.
Mohamed Salah loves his daughter very much and feels proud as a dad their daughter's name was kept by Salah's wife Magi.
Football Career of Mohamed Salah
Salah started his professional football career in a Swiss super league club named Basel.
After the incident of Port Said Stadium Disaster, the club organized a friendly match with the Egypt U-23 team this event took place on 16th March at the stadion Rabkhof (named in swiss) in Basel Salah played that match in the second half and scored two goals as the game was ended in the 4-3 win for the Egypt under-23 team.
Mohamed Salah Images
Later Basel invited Salah to remain live to them for a week's training and Salah accepted that proposal on 10th April 2012, after it was announced that Salah has signed the Basel contract for the limited year duration.
Salah scored his unofficial performance of that day on 23rd June 2012 against Steaua București making a 4-2 Defeat. He made his official Basel match into a UEFA Champions League that was done in the full preparation of a stage match against the Norwegian Club named Mold.
On the 8th of August Mohamed Salah made a blasting appearance in the 74th minute of the match by playing immensely and intensively in that match.
Salah also made his performance of the day in the league on 12th of August against than by playing a full match where he made two goals against Lausanne then he played in the quarter-final of the Europa League on 11th April 2013 as basil won the match and reached to semi-finals and then after penalties made the match a draw between them then Salah played another match against the Chelsea at Stamford Bridge and won the match by 2-5 goals.
Basel also comfortably won the Swiss Super League season 2012-13 Championship title.
Amazing Facts About Mohamed Salah
Since his childhood, he was interested in football and left his education.
He was born in Nagrig, Gharbia, Egypt.
He is very popular on social media and has 13.8 million followers on his Twitter account.
He has 41.3 million followers on his Instagram account.
He is 29 years (as of 2021).
Salah's net worth is around $80 Million dollars.
He was in the military for short time.
When Salah was awarded in the Swiss league a female host kissed him and that was heavily criticized in his country.
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By Barbara Pierce
I came into Jackie's life to help her die. Doctors determined that the 83-year-old widow had less than six months to live. I was a hospice volunteer who would provide companionship through her last months of life.
Jackie lived alone, with paid caregivers. As she could no longer leave home, she was socially isolated; friends no longer visited, and she was excruciating lonely and ready to die. If not for the hospice nurses and I, she would die alone.
Then her children placed her in assisted living. Each time I visited, I found her chatting with other residents or involved in an activity. She was happy as she told me about the friends she was making and all the things she was doing.
Soon, she was no longer terminal. Hospice took her off its list. Now I visit a friend, not a dying woman.
I had just moved to a new area where I knew no one. I was socially isolated and very lonely. I had a deep need to be around people. I ached for people in my life. Trips to the supermarket or the library helped fill my need to be around people. Being a hospice volunteer was one of many things I became involved in.
The connection between Jackie and I prolonged both of our lives.
That's a fact, confirmed by a groundbreaking study. The Harvard Study of Adult Development is one of the best lifelong studies of adult development in the world.
Beginning in 1938 with Harvard students and teenage boys from Boston's poorest neighborhoods, they traced nearly 1,000 men into their 90s. Spouses of original participants were later added.
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"The surprising finding is that our relationships and how happy we are in our relationships has a powerful influence on our health," said Robert Waldinger online. Waldinger is director of the study. "Taking care of your body is important, but tending to your relationships is a form of self-care too. That, I think, is the revelation."
"Those who kept warm relationships got to live longer and happier," he added. "Loneliness kills," he said. "It's as powerful as smoking or alcoholism." Loneliness is toxic; brain functioning decreases sooner, and lonely people die sooner.
It's not just the number of friends you have, it's the quality of the relationships you have, researchers found. Marriages with conflict and not much positive going on are worse than divorce.
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"That good relationships keep us happier and healthier is wisdom as old as the hills. Why don't we follow it?" asks Waldinger in his TED talk, "The Good Life." "We like a quick fix," he added. "Relationships are messy, complicated; they're not sexy or glamorous."
"What's one of the biggest mistakes we make when it comes to relationships? Not working hard enough to create new ones when the old ones fade away," he says. "People in our study who were the happiest after retirement were people who had actively worked to replace relationships that ended with new ones."
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— "Reach out to family members who you haven't spoken to because family feuds take a terrible toll on people."
— "Replace screen time with people time."
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Friday, 27 September 2019 21:28	Pastor Tom Wehrman
Fellow Ministers at St. John Lutheran Church,
Not long ago, I was listening to a TED Talk about a 1975 concert held in Cologne (Koln), Germany. Vera
Brandes, who was only 17, had convinced Keith Jarrett, a well-known jazz pianist, to perform in her hometown;
and she had convinced the Cologne Opera House to allow the performance to be held there. Just hours before
the performance, Brandes took Jarrett on to the stage for his rehearsal, and they found there the wrong piano.
it was a smaller baby grand rehearsal piano in poor condition. Keys were sticking; pedals did not work; and felt
was wom away making the upper registers sound tinny.
Now Keith Jarrett is famous for being a perfectionist. He is known to distribute lozenges and to lead his
audience in a group cough so he would not to be distracted during his performances. lt was a couple of hours
before the performance. 1,400 people were on their way to hear perfection. It was raining. There was not time
to bring in the better piano. Under such conditions, Jarrett said he that would not play, and he left.
Moments later, Brandes found Jarrett in the car ready to drive him away. She pied with him to stay and
perform. He saw her standing in the rain, considered her plight, and said to her, "Only for you."
Jarrett returned and when he took the stage and began to play, it could only be described as "magic." The
audience was "astounded as Jarrett gave what many judge to be his greatest performance. The album made
from that night, The Koln Concert, has come to be the best selling jazz piano album of all time. Keith Jarrett
took a ramshackle, undersized instrument and created something unforgettable.
This story reminds me of what God did for his redeemed on the Day of Pentecost. Here was a ramshackle
group of impoverished, unlearned folks, in a backwater of the Roman Empire, huddled together, uncertain of
what to do next. But then, the Spirit of God appeared in signs and wonders, with violent wind, tongues of fire.
and the powerful proclamation of God's good news in varied languages. And they were never the same. And
the world was never the same, either.
The story also reminds me of what the Spirit of Christ continues to do among God's people today. Throughout
the church, even in congregations that many may count as ramshackle, too small, and too insignificant, the
overwhelming grace of God is made known and God's people continue to reflect the loveof their Father
through acts of care and compassion, encouragement and empowerment.
Let us pray that the Spirit would continue to fill us, and St. John congregation, and all of Christ's church, that
we might live always as God's hands and heart for the world.
Peace be with you,
Pastor Tom Wehrman
Not long ago, I was listening to a TED Talk about a 1975 concert held in Cologne (Koln), Germany. Vera Brandes, who was only 17, had convinced Keith Jarrett, a well-known jazz pianist, to perform in her hometown; and she had convinced the Cologne Opera House to allow the performance to be held there. Just hours before the performance, Brandes took Jarrett on to the stage for his rehearsal, and they found there the wrong piano. It was a smaller baby grand rehearsal piano in poor condition. Keys were sticking; pedals did not work; and felt was wom away making the upper registers sound tinny.
Now Keith Jarrett is famous for being a perfectionist. He is known to distribute lozenges and to lead his audience in a group cough so he would not to be distracted during his performances. lt was a couple of hours before the performance. 1,400 people were on their way to hear perfection. It was raining. There was not time to bring in the better piano. Under such conditions, Jarrett said he that would not play, and he left.
Moments later, Brandes found Jarrett in the car ready to drive away. She pled with him to stay and perform. He saw her standing in the rain, considered her plight, and said to her, "Only for you."
Jarrett returned and when he took the stage and began to play, it could only be described as "magic." The audience was "astounded as Jarrett gave what many judge to be his greatest performance. The album made from that night, The Koln Concert, has come to be the best selling jazz piano album of all time. Keith Jarrett took a ramshackle, undersized instrument and created something unforgettable.
This story reminds me of what God did for his redeemed on the Day of Pentecost. Here was a ramshackle group of impoverished, unlearned folks, in a backwater of the Roman Empire, huddled together, uncertain of what to do next. But then, the Spirit of God appeared in signs and wonders, with violent wind, tongues of fire and the powerful proclamation of God's good news in varied languages. And they were never the same. And the world was never the same, either.
The story also reminds me of what the Spirit of Christ continues to do among God's people today. Throughout the church, even in congregations that many may count as ramshackle, too small, and too insignificant, the overwhelming grace of God is made known and God's people continue to reflect the love of their Father through acts of care and compassion, encouragement and empowerment.
Let us pray that the Spirit would continue to fill us, and St. John congregation, and all of Christ's church, that we might live always as God's hands and heart for the world.
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China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite Program
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Ziyuan
The China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite program (CBERS) is a technological cooperation program between Brazil and China which develops and operates Earth observation satellites.
The basis for the space cooperation between China and Brazil was established in May 1984, when both countries signed a complementary agreement to the cooperation framework agreement in science and technology. In July 1988, China and Brazil signed the protocol establishing the joint research and production of the China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellites (CBERS). Brazil, emerging from a long military regime, sought to abandon the Cold War logic and establish new international partnerships. China was dedicated to its great internal reform, but was also seeking international partnerships to develop advanced technologies. The agreement was advantageous for both countries. Brazil had the chance to develop medium-size satellites at a time when it was only capable of building small ones (100 kg size). China had an international partner that posed no military threats and that was receptive of foreigners.
Brazil and China negotiated the CBERS project during two years (1986-1988), exchanging important technical information and visiting each other's facilities, and they concluded that both sides had all the human, technical and material conditions to jointly develop an Earth resource observation satellite program. The Complementary Protocol on Cooperation on Space Technology was renewed in 1994 and again in 2004.
Responsible agencies
In Brazil, the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE or National Institute for Space Research) and the Brazilian Space Agency (Portuguese: Agência Espacial Brasileira; AEB) are involved with the program, as is the Brazilian industrial sector. In China, organizations involved include the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) (a sub-entity of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation) (CASC), the China National Space Administration (CNSA) and various other organizations.
Initially the program included development and deployment of two satellites, CBERS-1 and CBERS-2. A third satellite of the same type, which was named CBERS-2B, was later added to the program. Subsequently, agreement was reached to build and launch three additional satellites, CBERS-3, 4 and 4A.
CBERS-1 and CBERS-2
The first satellite of the series, CBERS-1, was successfully launched on 14 October 1999[2] on a Long March 4B. In China, it is sometimes also called ZY 1.[3] It remained functional until August 2003.[4]
The second satellite, CBERS-2, was successfully launched on October 21, 2003[5][6] by a Long March 4B rocket from China. It was retired from service in January 2009, after the launch of CBERS-2B.
CBERS-1 and 2 are almost identical satellites. They have three remote sensing multispectral cameras:[7]
Wide Field Imager Camera. This camera records images in two spectral bands: 0.63 - 0.69 ?m (red) and 0.77 - 0.89 ?m (infrared), with 260 m spatial resolution and 890 km of ground swath. About five days are necessary for a whole coverage of the Earth surface.
Medium Resolution Camera. This camera records images in five spectral bands: 0.51 - 0.73 ?m (panchromatic); 0.45 - 0.52 ?m (blue); 0.52 - 0.59 ?m (green); 0.63 - 0.69 ?m (red); 0.77 - 0.89 ?m (near infrared), with 20 m spatial resolution and 120 km of ground swath. It is possible to operate this camera both on nadir and off-nadir. This last capability allows the system to reduce the temporal resolution from 26 days (nadir operation mode) to three days (off-nadir operation mode).
Infrared Multispectral Scanner Camera. This camera records images in four spectral bands: 0.50 - 1.10 ?m (panchromatic); 1.55 - 1.75 ?m (infrared); 2.08 - 2.35 ?m (infrared) and 10.40 - 12.50 ?m (thermal infrared), with 80 m spatial resolution on the three infrared reflected bands and 120 m in the thermal infrared one. Ground swath is 120 km for all the bands of this camera and 26 days are required to obtain a full coverage of the Earth by this camera.
CBERS-2B
CBERS-2B was launched on 19 September 2007 by a Long-March 4B rocket from the Taiyuan base in China. The satellite operated until June 2010. Sample images from CBERS-2B were made available on January 10, 2007.[8]
CBERS-2B is similar to the two previous members of the series, but a new camera was added to this last satellite: High Resolution Panchromatic Camera (HRC). This camera records images in one single panchromatic band 0.50 - 0.80 ?m which comprises part of the visible and of the near infrared portion of electromagnetic spectrum. The images recorded by this camera are 27 km width and have 2.7 m spatial resolution. 130 days are required to obtain a full coverage of the Earth by this camera.
CBERS-3 was launched in December 2013,[9] but it was lost after the Chang Zheng 4B rocket carrying it malfunctioned. The identical CBERS-4 satellite was successfully launched in December 2014.[10] Both satellites carry four cameras:
Advanced Wide Field Imager Camera. This camera records images in four spectral bands: 0.45 - 0.52 ?m (blue); 0.52 - 0.59 ?m (green); 0.63 - 0.69 ?m (red); 0.77 - 0.89 ?m (near infrared), with 60 m spatial resolution and 720 km of ground swath. About five days are necessary for a whole coverage of the Earth surface.
Infrared Multispectral Scanner Camera. This camera records images in four spectral bands: 0.50 - 1.10 ?m (panchromatic); 1.55 - 1.75 ?m (infrared); 2.08 - 2.35 ?m (infrared) and 10.40 - 12.50 ?m (thermal infrared), with 40 m spatial resolution on the three infrared reflected bands and 80 m in the thermal infrared one. Ground swath is 120 km for all the bands of this camera and 26 days are required to obtain a full coverage of the Earth by this camera.
Panchromatic and Multispectral Camera. This camera records images in four spectral bands: 0.51 - 0.73 ?m (panchromatic); 0.45 - 0.52 ?m (blue); 0.52 - 0.59 ?m (green); 0.63 - 0.69 ?m (red); 0.77 - 0.89 ?m (near infrared), with 5 m spatial resolution for the panchromatic band and 10 m spatial resolution in the other bands. It has 60 km of ground swath. It is possible to operate this camera both on nadir and off-nadir.
CBERS-4A was launched 20 December 2019 on board a Long March 4B rocket from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center.
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^ "Frequently asked questions on CBERS program". INPE. Archived from the original on 6 February 2007.
^ "Display: CBERS 1 1999-057A". NASA. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^ "The Launch of CBERS-2B". INPE. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011.
^ "ZY". Encyclopedia Astronautica. Archived from the original on 3 January 2010.
^ "CBERS Satéllite Sino Brasileiro de Recursos Terrestres".
^ "CBERS-2B first images delivered". INPE. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 25 May 2013. Retrieved 2012. CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ Rui C. Barbosa (7 December 2014). "200th Long March rocket launches CBERS-4 for Brazil". NASASpaceflight.com.
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