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Q: Writing in ExcelSheet using UTL_FILE package in Oracle I have no problem in writing data in excel sheet which is stored in some predefined directory.
Now I have 10 sets of data and for each set I have to create 10 seperate excel sheet.
But what I want is to create Workbook conating sheet1,sheet2,. Sheet10. Which will have all 10 sets of record. If my question is not clear let me know.
I'm using PL/SQL Oracle 9i
My Code which will write to excel for one set of data. What if I have more set of data and I don't want to have multiple excel sheet instead I want one workbook with diff sheet.
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE SP_ORACLE_EXCEL(I_FILE_NAME    IN VARCHAR2) AS

  FILENAME  UTL_FILE.FILE_TYPE;
  FILENAME1 VARCHAR2(1000);
  CURSOR C1 IS
    SELECT * FROM MY_TABLE;
  VARC1 C1%ROWTYPE;
BEGIN

  FILENAME1   := 'TEST_' || I_FILE_NAME || '_' || SYSDATE || '.CSV';

  FILENAME    := UTL_FILE.FOPEN('TEMP_DIR', FILENAME1, 'W');

  /* THIS WILL CREATE THE HEADING IN EXCEL SHEET */
    UTL_FILE.PUT_LINE(FILENAME,
                   'HEADER1' || ',' || 'HEADER2' || ',' || 'HEADER3' || ',' ||
                    'HEADER4' || ',' || 'HEADER5');
  OPEN C1;
  LOOP
    FETCH C1
       INTO VARC1;
    EXIT WHEN C1%NOTFOUND;
     /*  THIS WILL PRINT THE RECORDS IN EXCEL SHEET AS PER THE QUERY IN CURSOR */
    UTL_FILE.PUT_LINE(FILENAME,
                      '"' || VARC1.COL1 || '"' || ' ,' || '"' ||
                      VARC1.COL2 || '"' || ' ,' || '"' ||
                      VARC1.COL3 || '"' || ' ,' || '"' ||
                      VARC1.COL4 || '"' || ' ,' || '"' ||
                      VARC1.COL5|| '"');

  END LOOP;

  UTL_FILE.FCLOSE(FILENAME);

END SP_ORACLE_EXCEL;

A: There's no ready-to-use implementation that I'm aware of.
Excel files (.xslx) since '07 are actually zip archives containing separate xml files for each worksheet.
The XML schema they're using is pretty straight forward. You'd have to use Java to create the folders and do the zip compression in order to write such files.

A: You can do this with the open source PL/SQL ExcelDocumentType.  (Although I haven't tried it on 9i.)

A: I was able to find a solution to this problem recently posted here on SO (Create an Excel File (.xlsx) using PL/SQL).
i used a package called as_xlsx created by Anton Scheffer, Create an Excel-file with PL/SQL and did a few modifications to the package
so it creates multiple sheets inside a single Excel Workbook by putting it through a Loop.
Hope this helps!


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Two new doctors for New Denver
Hard work by locals pays off in attracting doctors to the community
John Boivin
Interior Health has announced that two new physicians are joining the local health care team at the Slocan Community Health Centre.
Dr. Svet Gueordjev and Dr. Sean Wachtel started seeing patients Tuesday. They join long-time New Denver physician Dr. Chuck Burkholder in providing local primary care services and coverage for the community's 24/7 emergency department.
"This is great news for people and families in communities that rely on services at the Slocan Community Health Centre," says Kootenay West MLA Katrine Conroy. "I would like to extend a warm welcome to the new physicians and applaud the ongoing efforts to ensure we are stabilizing health services in New Denver."
The three physicians have signed an 18-month contract that will allow Interior Health to maintain all current services and continue primary care planning discussions with the Kootenay Boundary Division of Family Practice physician group and other key stakeholders. IH's ongoing priority is to ensure long-term sustainable services that meet the needs of patients who access services at Slocan Community Health Centre, the health authority said in a prepared statement.
"Our local communities stepped up in a big way to help find new physicians to support local health care services," says New Denver Mayor Leonard Casley. "We look forward to building on this recent success to make sure people in New Denver and surrounding areas have access to the care they need at our health centre."
The physicians will work under a shared practice model, which means patients with booked appointments will see the physician who is working at the clinic at the time of their appointment. The process to book an appointment remains the same: patients call the health centre at 250-358-7211.
"Interior Health would like to acknowledge Dr. Burkholder, local elected officials and the broader community for their tremendous efforts in recruiting additional physicians for patients in the Slocan Valley," says an IH news release. "We would also like to thank the Ministry of Health and Kootenay Boundary Division of Family Practice for their work and support in the successful recruitment of new physicians."
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THE HUMAN BEAN IS NOW SERVING DRIVE-THRU TO COFFEE-LOVERS IN SOUTH CONCORD, NC
Published on July 20, 2022 | by Hannah Maynard | in What's New @ HB? | 3 Comments
Baristas at The Human Bean will begin pouring coffee and other specialty beverages at 3695 Concord Parkway in South Concord beginning this Wednesday, July 20th. Customers are invited to come get a first taste of the drive-thru's offerings, including specialty-grade coffee, real-fruit smoothies, whole-leaf teas, and hot breakfast items to-go.
Local owner of the new Human Bean location, Gary Davies, says the staff look forward to providing above-par products and exceptional customer service — all with a signature chocolate-covered espresso bean on top.
With a reputation for cheerful baristas and sustainably-sourced coffee, The Human Bean coffee company has grown from a single location in southern Oregon to a nationwide brand over the last 24 years. Drive-thru stands throughout the U.S. are primarily owned and operated by individual franchisees like Davies, who have a passion for bringing "coffee with a smile" to their communities.
Scott, Anderson, COO, says, "It's a pleasure to be able to give our customers something they look forward to. A special and memorable connection, and a beverage that helps them thrive."
Customers can join the feel-good vibes by participating in several fundraising events throughout the year, including the brand-wide Coffee for a Cure day in October and Mochas for Men in June. All of The Human Bean drive-thrus participate in the fundraisers each year, and collectively raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for women's and men's cancer prevention and treatment.
All of the money raised by the South Concord drive-thru location will stay in the community and be given to a local organization of the staff's choosing, says Davies.
Customers are invited to get a taste of what The Human Bean in South Concord has to offer from 5 am to 9 pm every day, and can prepare for their visit by finding The Human Bean drink menu and Rewards App online.
About The Human Bean
With a passion for creating happy 'Human Beans', the company's drive-thrus around the U.S. have established a reputation for friendly baristas, high-quality coffee, and innovative flavors. The Human Bean opened its first drive-thru espresso stand in Ashland, Oregon in 1998, and currently supports over 300 locations open or under development in 25 states.
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Shannon Hendrickson says
We work right across the road from your new location in Concord. I have a suggestion….close another week and retrain every single employee you have. Between myself and our coworkers we have gotten at least 6 orders and only 1 was even correct. These folks have no clue what they are doing. I sympathize as I spent 15 years in food service, but if they were not ready to open, then it should not have happened. Every time, our drinks are incorrect. Today my small, hot snowy mocha was iced and my husband's bagel was microwaved so long it was a rock. Last week my husband ordered a spicy biscuit and it was frozen. My son had an order with an Irish cream breve and ask for splenda and it was the most bitter disgusting drink ever, nothing Irish cream about it. The list goes on. I won't be coming back for a while and hopefully they can work out the bugs.
Hannah Maynard says
Thank you for your feedback. Do you mind reaching out to support@thehumanbean.com? We would like to hear more about your experience so we can avoid this happening again in the future!
Hannah Maynard
The Human Bean
Amelia Skelton Hubler says
Thank you for reaching out and sharing this feedback! We'll be in contact with our Concord location to make sure operations are running as intended. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have given you, and hope that you'll return in the future to give us another try.
Amelia Skelton Hubler
We expect additional growth through approved franchisees throughout the nation. Moving forward, the brand will stay true to the successful operations on which The Human Bean was founded. With exceptional products, attractive and efficient facilities and an exceptionally trained and qualified team, we have the tools needed to be the consumers' brand of choice.
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You've come to the right place. Whether it's sports, music, fundraisers, festivals, or the arts you're looking for—the Choose901 community has you covered with a plethora of Memphis events.
Adults Only Alumni Career Comedy Education Family Friendly Festival Film Food Free Fundraiser Health & Wellness Music Outdoor Pet Friendly Sale Sports The Arts
Events for January
Edible Memphis Mocktail Competition
Memphis Museum of Science & History (MoSH)
Rise Up: Stonewall and the LGBTQ+ Movement
South Main Sounds
Germantown Performing Arts Center
Laser Rock: Queen & the Grateful Dead
Frog Squad Live at the Lamplighter Lounge
The Lamplighter Lounge
School of Rock Memphis Season Shows
Memphis Music Room, 5770 Shelby Oaks Dr
Slow Your Roll | Saturday Morning Meditation
Lunar New Year Celebration at the Brooks
Brooks Museum
Globalpalooza (a concert to benefit Global Citizen Adventure Club)
Saturday Morning Rewind At Black Lodge
Black Lodge
MEET THE AUTHOR: BRAD TAYLOR WITH MARK GREANEY
Novel Memphis
Memphis Women's Basketball: 901Women Day
Winter Workshop Series: Decorative Mending
AI After Dark: A High-Tech Happy Hour featuring The Terminator 2D
Mystic Krewe of Pegasus: 20th Anniversary Mardi Gras Ball
Robert Burns Night
Celtic Crossing Irish Pub
TheatreWorks at the Square
Playhouse on the Square
Entrepreneur Panel Discussion Series
Buckman Arts Center
Stax Museum's Story Time With Valerie and Marcel
Stax Museum of American Soul Music
Memphis Music Listening Party with IMAKEMADBEATS
Benjamin L Hooks Central Library
Grind City Comedy Show
901 Poetry Open Mic Series
Hi-Tone
Trivia Tuesday at Aldo's Pizza Pies
Events for February
Teach901 Virtual Educator Job Fair
Trivia Night at Grind City Brewing
Grind City Brewing Company
TJ Mulligans Trivia Night
Be Mine Boutique
The Ginger's Bread & Co, 1613 Union Ave
Tennessee Whiskey Pairing Dinner
MARAUDA – Rage Room Tour at Growlers – Memphis, TN
Cirque Zuma Zuma
HEARTSOUL Memphis
Halloran Centre for Performing Arts & Education
Sweet Street- First Friday
Broad Avenue Arts District
Cinderella's Tom Keifer
Graceland Soundstage
Collage Dance Collective Presents "Rise"
Cannon Center for the Performing Arts
Block Print Valentines Cards at Arrow Creative
Celebrate Black Artists – Alma Woodsey Thomas
Literature is Liberating at Crosstown Concourse
1350 Concourse Ave, Suite 366
Bilingual Theater Classes Open House
Cazateatro Office
Honey Community Music Festival
Scheidt Family Performing Arts Center
Exhibition Opening Party – As It Is, As It Could Be
Cirque du CMOM in Wonderland
Children's Museum of Memphis
Shotgun Entertainment Fighting Championships at Landers Center
RISE Ballet at the Cannon Center
Germantown Performing Arts Center, The Grove at GPAC
Lady and the Tramp Cookie Decorating Party
Primas Bakery + Boutique
The Circuit Playhouse
Jake Blount presented by Folk All Y'all + Crosstown Arts
The Green Room at Crosstown Arts
is just what you need to make this Dry January a juicy one.
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In the latest explosive thriller from New York Times bestselling author and former special forces officer Brad Taylor, Pike Logan races to stop an insidious attack orchestrated by a man who knows America's most treasured secrets.
Conducting a routine cover development trip to Tajikistan, Pike and Jennifer learn that Afghanistan has fallen, and there's a man on the run. One that has done more for the United States in Afghanistan than anyone else. Pulled in to extract him, Pike collides headlong into a broader mystery: His covert company, along with every other entity in the Taskforce, has been hit with a ransomware attack, and there's some connection between the Taliban and the hack. Given the order to track down the perpetrators, he has no idea that the problem set is much, much larger and more dangerous than a simple attack on his organization. That hack was just a test-run, and the real one is coming soon, engendered by a former NSA specialist in the U.S. government.
A man who wants to return to the bipolar world of the Cold War, the turncoat has cloaked his attack behind hackers from Serbia and Russia, and if successful, his target will alter the balance of power on the global stage. So far, the specialist has remained one step ahead of the Taskforce, but he has just made one massive mistake: hitting Pike Logan.
Brad Taylor, Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.), is a twenty-one-year veteran of the U.S. Army Infantry and Special Forces, including eight years with Delta Force. Taylor retired in 2010 after serving more than two decades and participating in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. He has written fifteen New York Times bestsellers and is a security consultant on asymmetric threats for various agencies. He lives in Charleston, South Carolina, with his wife and two daughters.
ABOUT THE CONVERSATION PARTNER:
Mark Greaney's research for the Gray Man novels, including Sierra Six, Relentless, One Minute Out, Mission Critical, Agent in Place, Gunmetal Gray, Back Blast, Dead Eye, Ballistic, On Target, and The Gray Man, has taken him to more than thirty-five countries, and he has trained alongside military and law enforcement in the use of firearms, battlefield medicine, and close-range combative tactics. With Marine LtCol Rip Rawlings, he wrote the New York Times bestseller Red Metal. He is also the author of the New York Times bestsellers Tom Clancy Support and Defend, Tom Clancy Full Force and Effect, Tom Clancy Commander in Chief, and Tom Clancy True Faith and Allegiance. With Tom Clancy, he coauthored Locked On, Threat Vector, and Command Authority.
", "image": "https://choose901.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/BRAD-TAYLOR-Devils-Ransom-17-x-11-in.png", "name": "MEET THE AUTHOR: BRAD TAYLOR WITH MARK GREANEY", "url": "https://choose901.com/event/meet-the-author-brad-taylor-with-mark-greaney/" } is just what you need to make this Dry January a juicy one.
", "image": "https://choose901.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/ChampionSip_Mocktails23_LogoH.jpeg", "name": "Edible Memphis Mocktail Competition", "url": "https://choose901.com/event/edible-memphis-mocktail-competition/" }
More Info: Choose901's blog about 5 Things to Expect
", "image": "https://choose901.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/VIRTUAL-JOB-FAIR_FEATURED-BLOG.png", "name": "Teach901 Virtual Educator Job Fair", "url": "https://choose901.com/event/teach901-virtual-educator-job-fair/" }
", "image": "https://choose901.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/HEARTSOUL-Event-Flyer-Final-Version-1.png", "name": "HEARTSOUL Memphis", "url": "https://choose901.com/event/heartsoul-memphis/" }
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Artist: Tom Keifer
", "image": "https://choose901.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/1462969460.jpg", "name": "Cinderella's Tom Keifer", "url": "https://choose901.com/event/cinderellas-tom-keifer/" } . RISE also features Collage's professional company performing alongside its dance stars of tomorrow.
Location: Cannon Center for the Performing Arts
Dates: Sat Feb 4 at 7:30p and Sun Feb 5 at 2:30p
Tickets: Included with Season 13 Subscription | Tickets start at $10
", "image": "https://choose901.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/322407949_1200955704190920_7866625661106518741_n.jpg", "name": "Collage Dance Collective Presents "Rise"", "url": "https://choose901.com/event/collage-dance-collective-presents-rise/" }
", "image": "https://choose901.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/RISE_IGPost1_-FINAL.jpg", "name": "RISE Ballet at the Cannon Center", "url": "https://choose901.com/event/rise-ballet-at-the-cannon-center/" } . RISE also features Collage's professional company performing alongside its dance stars of tomorrow.
", "image": "https://choose901.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/RISE_IGPost1_-FINAL.jpg", "name": "RISE Ballet at the Cannon Center", "url": "https://choose901.com/event/rise-ballet-at-the-cannon-center/" }
Minimum ticket price is $20 but you can name-your-own price above that if you're feeling it. 100% of ticket revenue goes to our artists (you can see where any fees go in the check-out breakdown). Yep, all of it. Folk All Y'all is volunteer-run and subscriber-supported. Shows are presented in partnership with Crosstown Arts at The Green Room in Crosstown Concourse.
Vaccination, testing, and mask requirements may change but your purchase indicates acceptance of any necessary health policy.
About The Green Room: Operated by Crosstown Arts, The Green Room is committed to providing the best possible environment for the two most important components of a musical performance: the artists' work and the audience's listening experience.
About Folk All Y'all: Intimate, attentive performances by exceptional singer-songwriters, proudly presented in Memphis, Folk All Y'all is a public, nonprofit listening room series supported by our pledges from our community.
", "image": "https://choose901.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/meta-eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ-2.jpg", "name": "Jake Blount presented by Folk All Y'all + Crosstown Arts", "url": "https://choose901.com/event/jake-blount-presented-by-folk-all-yall-crosstown-arts/" }


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Q: R: Using magick to display 4 png images in 1 panel I have many images (plots) saved as png from another script:

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*x1.png

*x2.png

*x3.png

*x4.png

*y1.png

*y2.png

etc. I am trying to make a gif of these, which I have done successfully in magick. However, this loops through 1 image per frame. I am trying to load 4 images at a time, and stitch them together on a panel, and create a gif of these panels.
I have successfully created a gif of these images.
However, I want to load 4 images at a time, and then form these into a gif.
y <- (list.files(path='foo/bar/', pattern = '*1.png', full.names = TRUE))
plot(y[1]) # does nothing

How can I load or display 4 pngs at a time in one panel?
I can do this usually by using:
par(mfrow=c(2,2))
plot(a)
plot(b)
plot(c)
plot(d)

however I am using magick to load pngs (of plots, but I obviously can't treat them as regular plots)
img1 <- magick::image_read("foo/bar/x1.png")
plot(img1) # does nothing
print(img1) # displays img 1 as a plot, and prints some details in the output window.

I'm sure I could rewrite my other code to display 4 plots, and save them as 1 png, but I am trying to write a small separate script to load these pre-existing images, and stitch the pngs together. Is this possible using par(mfrow=c(2,2))?
I'm sure I'm missing a great many simple things. Thank you all for your time.

A: You can do that in ImageMagick using montage. For example
montage lena.jpg mandril3.jpg zelda1.jpg peppers.jpg -tile 2x2 -geometry +0+0 montage.gif

A: To run ImageMagick commands (or any terminal code) in R, you just have to enclose it in quotes and pass that to the function system().
system("montage lena.jpg mandril3.jpg zelda1.jpg peppers.jpg -tile 2x2 -geometry +0+0 montage.gif")

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Bulawayo tourist arrivals increase
BULAWAYO registered a significant growth in its tourism industry this year riding on increased marketing by players in the sector and the Government.
In an interview last week, a representative of the tourism sector in Bulawayo, Mr Sikhawuliso Sibanda, who is also the director for Silwane Tours and Safaris said the local hospitality industry has recorded massive growth in tourist arrivals.
The Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA), Bulawayo City Council, local players in the hospitality industry as well as the Government have been driving massive marketing campaigns to promote destination Bulawayo and its surroundings.
Platforms such as Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions (MICE), familiarisation tours as well as Sanganai/Hlanganani World Tourism Fair, an annual event held in Bulawayo, have all paid dividends in marketing the city as a destination of choice.
In July this year, Silwane Tours and Safaris and BCC organised familiarisation tours in which different stakeholders within the local tourism industry participated with a view to enhancing collective marketing of the destination.
"Ever since July when we did the familiarisation tours, we have recorded quite a number of visitors who were normally locked in hotels.
"This time around the hoteliers are selling packages to tourists visiting their hotels to also visit places such as Khami Ruins, museums and Matobo among others, during their stay in the city," he said.
Mr Sibanda said under the "Zimbabwe is open for business' mantra, the tourism industry in Bulawayo was poised for massive growth on the back of aggressive marketing and synergies among the local tourism players.
"We have taken every opportunity as hospitality people to offer what we have in various forums and thus in every forum that we conduct, we get a chance to tell tourists to visit attraction sites in Bulawayo," he said.
Going into next year, Mr Sibanda said tourism players in Bulawayo would continue engaging each other with a view to collectively enhance the growth of the tourism industry.
"By working together as tourism players in the city, we are packaging Bulawayo as a tourism destination. For example, next year I will be attending international forums such as the ITB in Berlin selling Bulawayo.
"At the upcoming tourism indaba in Berlin, I have to talk about what our museums and parks are offering and thus all the local players will be represented by me," he said.
"And it's equally the same to those (local tourism players) who will be attending other forums where I'm not going." Government recognises the tourism industry as one of Zimbabwe's economic mainstays with a significant impact on the Gross Domestic Product.
In the 2019 national budget, Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube proposed to extend suspension of duty on 75 new buses of a carrying capacity of eight to 55 passengers, including the driver. The facility would be availed for a period of 12 months starting January 1, 2019.
Commenting on the tourism vehicle scheme, Mr Sibanda said: "Looking at that facility, it favours certain people (those who have already made it in the tourism sector) because those are the people who are able to buy new cars outside the country.
"About 90 percent of our tour operators are unable to buy new cars outside the country because purely they're up-and-coming and there was no direct funding from the Government in that regard."
Government has also shown its keen interest in supporting the tourism industry by setting up a $15 million tourism revolving fund that has been availed by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe. However, tourism industry players have expressed concern over the facility whose resources were being availed in bond notes making it difficult for them to import the required goods as they will have to source for foreign currency.
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Power cuts worsen Bulawayo water rationing
Sanitary wear firm sets up shop in Bulawayo
Bulawayo mayor vows to resuscitate industries
Bulawayo industries get $22m investment boost
Bulawayo targets forex earners
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Local folk singer Daniel Dye has grand plans for Mutual's old town hall
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MUTUAL — This could be the biggest thing to happen in Mutual since, well, uh, a little help here?
"It's hard for me to find much history on Mutual, Ohio," Daniel Dye said. "This is downtown right here."
Dye, a 33-year-old folk singer who grew up a mile up the road, has been working to turn Mutual's old town hall into a venue for Americana music in time for the inaugural Madden Road MusicFest on Saturday.
The daylong event will feature folk, bluegrass, gospel and even a little rock, with near-constant pickin' on the porch out front.
Standing upstairs in the two-story, 19th-century building — that's about as big as they come in Mutual — it's easy to share Dye's vision for the place.
"We just found something on the wall that says, 'I was here for the show, 1901,' " Dye said.
Some guy named Lewis Rodman of Mutual left his mark on the wall 110 years ago, and now Dye wants to bring the shows back and put his own mark on the building.
The downstairs has long been home to his mom's antiques store, one of just a couple of businesses in this Champaign County village.
"The upstairs? It's been a home for pigeons for years," Dye explained recently.
Dye and assorted family members are doing what they can — without much money — to reclaim the upstairs, which also unbelievably doubled as a gym at some point in the ancient past.
"It's like a really nice barn," Dye remarked.
But from the rear, a cornfield can be seen in the distance.
From the front, cars pass by on Ohio 29 in a hurry to get anywhere but here.
This is the exact kind of place that Dye's own music conjures up.
It's hard to listen to his self-produced debut album and not picture Mutual, Ohio, or somewhere like it.
He sings of losing a girl to a "city man with a $50 haircut and California tan," and of riding the rails in a desperate search to find a place free of "the devil's drink."
Not a single one of Mutual's 129 residents would presumably care to be identified with "Geraldine" — a grisly tune about a guy who only wishes he'd buried the body of his woman a little deeper in the sand — but the song still evokes Johnny Cash, anyway.
"I like the idea of songs that could've been sung 50 years ago," Dye said, "or could be sung 50 years from today."
Pete Seeger, who just happens to be another influence, would be mighty proud of a Dye original like "The Devil's Drink."
If you don't find yourself wanting to sing along — "Train, train, train come and take me away!" — then you're just too cool for school.
A graduate of a private Baptist high school in Urbana and Cedarville University who once sang in numerous churches with his family, the Dye Family Singers, Dye admittedly grew up in something of a bubble.
"I didn't even hear of U2 until college," he said. "It's a little embarrassing to say that now."
He took up guitar in college, teaching himself to play harmonica on the 45-minute drive each day from his parents' house to Cedarville.
"I'd play guitar while driving," he joked, "but that's a little more dangerous."
He still has faith, but he now has his doubts as well, he said.
Not everyone in his family gets this music of his, particularly a song like "Geraldine."
"They're tunes of being human. They're not explicitly Christian," said Dye, who teaches English as a second language at Ohio State University.
By his own admission, this first album is raw, but his 14 originals come through loud and clear, whether he's backing himself with just an acoustic and a harmonica or getting his Mennonite niece and nephews to help out on violin, cello and backing vocals.
WYSO, for one, agrees.
The Yellow Springs NPR affiliate has been featuring a few tracks from the album, which is available from iTunes and CDBaby.
Dye wasn't aware of just how big of a victory that was until he made his first visit to WYSO to perform on the air.
"I saw the stack of CDs there," he said. "There were hundreds, if not thousands."
You may have heard that you don't need a record label anymore to make music.
That much is true.
You can record all the music you want — getting it played on the radio or reviewed by even a decent blog is something entirely different.
"I haven't done it as successfully as I'd hoped," Dye confessed. "I don't even think the music industry is aware of my existence.
"I'd still like to get this album in the right hands."
Doing it using Mutual's town hall as a base of operations — a place with no water and no heat — would require something of a minor miracle.
But rural America is the place where Dye and his music seem to belong.
Funny enough, though, more than half of the songs on the album were actually written in 2007 during a 4½-month stay in one of the biggest cities in the world — Berlin.
His brother serves as the pastor of an international Baptist church there, and Dye met his wife, Yasmin, a native of Munich, among the congregants.
"For some reason," he said, "I can write Americana songs better overseas."
Living in Berlin, he found himself homesick for the country life.
"Going for weeks on end without seeing any trees or fields," he explained, "it hurts you psychologically."
Contact this reporter at amcginn@coxohio.com.
What: Madden Road MusicFest
When: Noon Saturday, with Daniel Dye closing the event from 7 to 9 p.m.
Where: Mutual town hall, 5854 E. Ohio 29
Cost: $6 for a half-day; $10 for the full day; proceeds benefit the hall's renovation. There also will be free picking on the hall's porch for anybody with an instrument.
More info: Visit maddenroadmusic.com or call (937) 244-6481.


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Late Friday, the state of Texas sued Intercontinental Terminals — the Houston-based company whose petrochemical storage facility in the suburb of Deer Park caught fire last weekend and burned for days, sending a dramatic plume of black smoke over the nation's fourth-largest city.
The lawsuit, filed in state district court on behalf of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, alleges that air pollution released during the fire is a violation of the Texas Clean Air Act.
Were you able to read that statement with a straight face? Then read this.
The TCEQ, the agency responsible for protecting the state's environment and public health, has been criticized for letting large corporate polluters off with a slap on the wrist. An analysis of its enforcement record by an environmental nonprofit found that the agency imposed penalties on violators in just 3 percent of cases. ITC appears to have benefitted from the lax enforcement. In 2016, for instance, the company released more than 1,500 pounds of benzene — a carcinogenic chemical — for over five days and failed to notify the state agency within the mandated 24-hour deadline. The fine: roughly $4,000.
I'm just saying. Maybe some day when there aren't new fires breaking out every time an old fire gets put out, we can get to the bottom of what happened here. And then sue these assholes out of existence. More broadly, maybe we can demand that our state take enforcement of environmental regulations seriously. If they had done so before, maybe we wouldn't be in this position now. The Chron has more.
The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center of The University of Texas at Austin has been selected by the Texas A&M Forest Service (TFS) to serve as the local grower of loblolly pines to restore wildfire-damaged Bastrop County.
The 2011 Bastrop County Complex fire destroyed 1,691 homes while burning 33,000 acres that gave the area its picturesque landscape. Already, the Wildflower Center has worked with a university graduate student to provide 35,000 loblolly pines that are being given this winter to county residents. The center will now expand its growing operation as one of three contractors with TFS to produce up to 6 million trees total by 2017 for the Lost Pines region.
The tree growers will use seeds the TFS collected from Lost Pines loblollies years ago, with future TFS contracts expected to continue the program through 2017. "The Lost Pines is such a unique area ecologically, and the trees there are more drought-tolerant than loblolly pines in East Texas, so we are thrilled to have this seed source to work with," said Dr. Waitt, who is also the center's senior botanist.
Sure is a good thing they saved those seeds, isn't it?
What would have been worse than the drought and the wildfires in Central Texas that wiped out millions of trees? Not having the wherewithal to properly reforest afterward. Thankfully, that didn't happen, but it was a closer call than you'd have thought.
The Texas A&M Forest Service was making plans to dump more than a half-ton of loblolly pine seeds into a landfill when the most destructive wildfire in state history began its deadly march through the Lost Pines in Bastrop County last year.
Now the seeds will be used in a massive, multiyear effort to restore the fabled forest, the westernmost stand of loblolly pines in the United States. The fire burned so hot that it claimed not only 50 square miles of pines but also their seeds, making it impossible for the trees to return without help.
To restore the Lost Pines, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and state forest service intend to plant more than 4 million trees on public and private land during the next five years. The Arbor Day Foundation is trying to raise $4 million, or $1 per tree, for the recovery effort.
The first seedlings, which come from the same genetic stock as the tall pines that carpeted the area before the fire, will arrive Tuesday at Bastrop State Park, about 35 miles east of Austin. Planting is scheduled to begin Saturday.
"If you are going to be successful in restoring the forest, you need the right seed source," said Tom Byram, a geneticist with the Texas A&M Forest Service.
Here's some background from the A&M Forest Service. Apparently, Byram had a large supply of such seeds sitting in a warehouse freezer for five years, where they sat while the forest service tried to find buyers for them. Loblollies aren't in great demand because they grow slowly, and Byram was beginning to feel guilty about them taking up space. Good thing he didn't act too quickly on that. See here for more on the Arbor Day Foundation, and go here if you want to make a donation or volunteer your time to help.
Replacing the trees lost in the Bastrop fires last summer is going to cost some money, but there's now a foundation working on raising that money.
Flanked by containers bristling with pine tree seedlings, state and local officials on Tuesday announced a campaign to pay for an ambitious five-year plan to restore the Lost Pines after last year's fires.
The Arbor Day Foundation has agreed to lead the fundraising effort and needs to raise about $4 million — or one dollar for every pine tree to be planted over the next five years.
The foundation said it has already received more than $600,000 in commitments from companies such as FedEx, Mary Kay and Nokia.
Nearly a year ago, the Labor Day fires burned more than 32,000 acres in Bastrop County and destroyed more than 1,700 homes and other structures, making it the most destructive fire in Texas history.
A hastily formed group of county, state and federal officials, dubbed the Lost Pines Recovery Team, immediately began working on a plan to restore the burned forest, but they hadn't made much of a dent in raising the $17 million they had determined was needed for tree planting, erosion control, reseeding native grasses and clearing dead brush and other fuels.
The public-private partnership announced Tuesday puts the Arbor Day Foundation in charge of raising money, while the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and Texas A&M Forest Service will handle planning, volunteers, tree selection and planting. Texas A&M University has pledged to send students to help plant this winter, Chancellor John Sharp said.
Go here to learn more about the Arbor Day Foundation, and go here to make a donation or volunteer your time to this effort. I wish them the best of luck with this project. The Arbor Day Foundation blog has more.
While one hopes that it won't be a problem this year, the Harris County Fire Marshall has come up with a plan to protect vulnerable areas from wildfires.
Four months ago, Harris County became the most populated county in the state to finalize a Community Wildfire Protection Plan. It identified areas facing the greatest wildfire risk, including Katy, Waller, Cypress Fairbanks, Spring and The Woodlands.
Each community is threatened, in part, because they rank "high" for intermixing homes and commercial structures with forests and other wildland vegetation that can become fuel for fires.
"More and more, we have bedroom communities moving into the woods and brush for the scenic beauty. They often abut large areas of woods," said Brad Smith, Texas Forest Service spokesman.
This urbanization of areas that were historically farm, ranch or woodlands is putting increasing numbers of homeowners at risk, the protection plan warned.
A key factor in fighting any fire is access to water. But the protection plan noted that a pressing problem for developments in once-rural areas can be limited water supplies.
"Most water lines into unincorporated housing areas in the county have insufficient capacity to effectively pressure water hydrants for fire suppression," the report said, noting it would also be cost prohibitive to upgrade those lines and hydrants.
The report recommends mapping all potential water sources – from stock ponds to creeks – as well as listing GPS coordinates for all hydrants that can supply water that could be trucked to a fire scene.
Here's the Fire Marshall's Community Wildfire Protection page, here's the Executive Summary of the Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP), and here's the full plan, which is on the CWPP page. Not surprisingly, the areas most at risk are in the farthest north and northwest parts of the county. The Fire Marshall used the Texas Forest Service's Wildfire Risk Assessment tool, which you can use as well if you want to know what your own personal risk is here. As I am firmly entrenched in the urban core mine is fairly low, but given the concerns last year about Memorial Park going up in flames, I'm not going to get too cocky about that. Take a look and see how you fare.
At laboratories throughout the United States—some large enough to contain a three-story house—researchers have been lighting rooms and houses on fire and analyzing the results with the kind of scientific scrutiny that has upended several deeply entrenched misconceptions about how fires behave. The upheaval is more than academic. For generations, arson inspectors have used outmoded theories to help indict and incarcerate many suspects. But as new science is brought to bear on old cases, it is becoming clear that over the past several decades, dozens, perhaps hundreds, of people have been convicted of arson based on scant research and misguided beliefs. Many of those people are still in jail, hoping that someone will take up their cause.
"A lot of bad science has been applied to arson investigation," says John Lentini, a renowned fire expert who has given exculpatory testimony in at least 40 arson cases since 2000. His most recent case, now under review, involves a Massachusetts man convicted of arson by Molotov cocktail, even though not a single glass fragment from the supposed bottle bomb was found at the scene.
The good news is that genuine science is starting to be used by fire investigators. The bad news is that it's a slow process, and there is still much resistance from the old guard and certain political quarters, as we have clearly seen in Texas, though perhaps the closing of the Willingham case, which included an agreement from the Fire Marshall to review old cases where bunk science might have played a role in getting a conviction, will help change that. They'll have their choice of cases to investigate, as the unfortunate consequence of all this is that there's a lot of people who have been convicted of deliberately starting what were surely accidental fires.
In Massachusetts, the percentage of building fires determined to be arson has dropped from more than 15 percent in the early 1990s to less than 2 percent in 2009. In Texas the proportion of fires labeled incendiary has declined by more than half in the last decade. Nationwide, according to the National Fire Prevention Association, the number of intentional structure fires declined by about 51 percent between 1990 and 2007, the most recent year for which statistics are available—from 111,900 incidents to 54,700.
There aren't fewer fires, there are fewer fires being incorrectly classified as crimes. Even these shrunken numbers are likely too high, and the trend is of no comfort to those wrongly rotting in jail. It's a real tragedy.
This will be grim work.
A multiagency environmental response task force will soon issue a report assessing the environmental and ecological damage of the wildfires.
"It's almost complete," said Roxanne Hernandez, administrator for the county's Lost Pines Habitat Conservation Plan , who expects the report to be finished by mid-November.
The task force is looking into issues of wildlife management, soil, erosion, water quality, reforestation and habitat, she said.
The early September wildfire's initial damage to 35,000 acres is obvious — the pines at Bastrop State Park, for instance, will take 50 years to fully return — but the full scope of the damage is a wait-and-see proposition.
What's really sad is that whatever the report recommends we do to mitigate the damage and hasten the recovery, I don't have any faith that the state will do. And if federal action is needed, I don't see Rick Perry generating any sympathy when he asks for it. I fear the damaged areas will just have to fix themselves.
The drought gets more expensive for the city of Houston.
The drought is about to claim yet more of Houston's green – this time $4.5 million in tax dollars to remove trees that have died of thirst.
Houston's driest year on record has prompted City Hall to mandate lawn-watering restrictions, hire extra crews to fix water main breaks, ban barbecuing and smoking in city parks and call for park visitors to bring rakes with them to help municipal employees scoop up pine needles and other dead vegetation.
The drought's length and intensity have become so acute the city has to throw unbudgeted money at it. City Council on Wednesday is scheduled to consider a request by the Parks and Recreation Department for $4.5 million to remove 15,000 dead trees from city parks and esplanades, an amount nearly 13 times what the city spends dragging away dead trees in an average year.
One presumes they have a lot more dead trees to drag away this year than they would in an average year. This is a lot of money, but then a wildfire in a city park would likely cost a whole lot more. I'll take the ounce of prevention for $4.5 million, thanks. Hair Balls, which also couldn't resist the Rush reference, has more.
The drought across Texas has lasted nearly 12 months, and it doesn't seem to be going away any time soon. In fact, La Niña, the intermittent Pacific Ocean phenomenon that caused the drought, is back and strengthening. According to the National Drought Mitigation Center, 88 percent of the state is considered to be in the worst drought stage.
School districts are dealing with the extreme weather by changing school procedures — and some have already had to take costly preventative measures or make expensive repairs. All of this happens as schools have already pared down their budgets, shed staff and streamlined operations to absorb the $4 billion in budget cuts enacted by lawmakers during this year's legislative session.
Recently, a grass fire came within two miles of Northside Independent School District's Langley Elementary School in San Antonio. Pascual Gonzalez, a spokesman for the school district, said Northside ISD has undertaken a major review of its crisis plan as a result of the fires.
"The most important issue for us is, how do we get kids out of schools that are immediately threatened?" Gonzalez said.
Houston ISD hasn't been immune to the extreme weather either. Over the past couple months, the district's Construction and Facility Services has received more than a dozen requests to evaluate school buildings for structural concerns, according to HISD spokesman Patrick Trahan. Some of the recommended repairs have been simple, such as cutting down nearby trees that absorb large amounts of moisture from the soil in order to reduce the chance of foundation movement.
It's all right. I'm sure that between bake sales and passing other costs on to parents, schools won't have any trouble paying for any of this. They can just follow Rick Perry's lead and learn how to do more with less.
It's going to take a long time to recover from the fires.
The fire burned through the heart of the Lost Pines area, a unique ecological island encompassing some 64,000 acres of loblolly pine, the westernmost stands of the great pine forest originally carpeting the southeastern United States.
Incinerated, too, was the largest single tract of remaining habitat of the Houston toad, an endangered amphibian whose survival is tied to the habitat beneath the pine canopy.
Much of that Houston toad habitat sat on 6,000-acre Bastrop State Park, one of the oldest, most popular and profitable Texas parks. All but about 100 acres of the tract was consumed by the fire.
The park, which opened in 1937, has been "a real diamond in our system," said Mike Cox, spokesman for Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. It attracts up to a quarter-million visitors a year, placing it in the top 10 most visited sites in the 95-unit state park system, and has been one of only a handful of state parks that generated more visitor revenue than it cost to run.
How, when and even if the three recover to anything like their pre-fire status remains uncertain.
"The amount of destruction, to humans and the land … I'm stunned and shocked at the scale of it," said Michael Forstner, a Texas State University biology professor and expert on the Houston toad who has spent time in the burned areas over the past week.
"It's an incredible loss to Texas on many levels. On a personal level, it's like losing an old friend," Claire Williams, distinguished scholar at the Forest History Society at Duke University and a former professor of forestry at Texas A&M University, said about the Lost Pines' forest.
Whatever way the forest regenerates – from intense plantings by humans or natural regeneration – it will be many years before the area resembles the Lost Pines that generations of Texans enjoyed and on which generations of Houston toads depended.
"It takes 10 to 15 years for a (pine) seedling to begin bearing," Williams said. It takes 30 years or more for a pine, which can live as long as 300 to 400 years, to reach the size of what most consider a modestly "mature" tree.
It's all very sad. You wish there was something you could do to help, but there isn't. Whatever healing there is will happen on its own, and on its own schedule.
Mayor Annise Parker today signed an executive order extending the City's temporary burn ban to include smoking in City parks. The smoking ban applies to lighted cigars, cigarettes, pipes or any other device used for the burning of tobacco or other plant material.
Mayor Parker last week banned the use of barbecue grills and all other outdoor burning in City parks during the ongoing drought. With the addition of the smoking ban, the City's policy is now consistent with Harris County's burn ban. Violations of the mayor's executive order carry fines of up to $2,000 per offense. The executive order will remain in effect until drought conditions improve.
You can see a copy of the executive order here. But look, it's real simple. Don't smoke in the parks, OK? I don't know why anyone needs to be told this, but here you go anyway. Don't smoke in the parks.
We just weren't willing to pay for it.
Long before this month's historic wildfires in Texas, the state's forest service came up with a $20.4 million plan to stop the flames from starting or tamp them out before small blazes grew deadly and destructive.
Three years later, the plan is still only half-funded — a result of the weak economy, a strained state budget and what one former lawmaker calls a "dereliction of duty" by legislators who almost always prefer to spend money only after a crisis has unfolded.
The Forest Service concedes that even the full fire-protection system would not have completely spared Texas from last week's catastrophic fires, which incinerated more than 1,700 homes, blackened tens of thousands of acres and killed four people.
"There's no way we'll ever be staffed to handle the worst-case, catastrophic events like you've seen recently," said Robbie DeWitt, chief financial officer of the Forest Service.
But the plan was designed to limit exactly those types of widespread losses — and at a fraction of the price of fighting full-blown fires.
The cost of the fires this year is currently estimated to be about $250 million. Good thing we were so fiscally responsible in the budget, right?
On a tangential note, if you're tired of reading about droughts and fires, here's a story about the floods of 1921 in Central Texas to take your mind off of them. It was sent to me by my friend and former history professor, Char Miller. We could use some good hard rains around here, but maybe not quite that much, at least not all at once.
Mayor Annise Parker said she is considering banning smoking in the city's 380 parks because of the fire dangers presented by discarded cigarettes.
Parker has already reacted to the record drought with other measures. Last month she restricted lawn watering. Last week she issued a ban on open flames in city parks, outlawing barbecuing on thousands of acres of public land.
Parker said a recent fire at Levy Park on Bellaire Boulevard was likely caused by a lit cigarette discarded on a mulch pile.
Not to mention that massive fire in George Bush Park, which was thankfully contained fairly quickly and didn't damage any county property. And of course the danger of an urban wildfire, too. The question is not whether we should do this, it's why we don't already ban smoking in the parks. Time for another update to the anti-smoking ordinance, methinks. Hair Balls has more.
Mayor Annise Parker, the Houston Parks and Recreation Department (HPARD) and the Houston Fire Department (HFD) announced People Protecting Our Parks, a new campaign that calls on Houstonians to proactively protect the City's parklands during the ongoing drought. The campaign has two main goals: fire prevention education and the protection of public parklands. The first step in this campaign is the issuance of a temporary ban on all barbeque pits in City of Houston Parks.
The temporary ban on barbeque pits will remain in effect until further notice. Signage notifying the public about the ban will be placed in the parks. To allow for a period of public education, warnings will be issued to violators until City Council adopts a permanent enforcement mechanism next week.
Portable barbecue pits, charcoal grills and other open-flame cooking devices outside of a building should not be operated on combustible balconies or located within 10 feet of combustible walls or roofs or other combustible materials.
When igniting the barbecue charcoal, use a charcoal lighter, not gasoline. Gasoline can flash violently in and around the pit causing serious injuries to anyone in the area of the flash. A fire extinguisher or charged garden hose should be handy while the fire is burning. Check the pit frequently to ensure that it is okay.
The City of Houston Fire Code prohibits all open-burning within the Houston city limits at all times. The burn ban in unincorporated areas of Harris County also prohibits any outdoor open-burning, including the burning of: a bonfire, rubbish fire, campfire, trench fire, or other fire in an outdoor location when not contained.
Park vehicles so that the exhaust system does not come in contact with dry grass, leaves, or weeds.
Adjust the safety chains on trailers to ensure they don't drag and create sparks that can cause roadside starts.
Keep lawn mowers and agricultural equipment in proper working condition and avoid rocks and other materials which might cause a spark.
Do not weld or cut without a spotter, a water source and a shovel.
Notify the electric power company when dead trees or overhanging limbs endanger the electric wires. The wires may touch each other or the ground, causing sparks that start fires.
Another cause of accidental fires is carelessly discarded cigarettes or other smoking materials. They can smolder for hours and should be completely doused with water before being discarded in a safe manner, rather than tossed out a window or on the ground.
Texas' arson law includes felony punishment for anyone whose cigarette recklessly sets fire to a building or injures anyone. Arson is a second-degree felony in Texas, punishable by up to 20 years in prison, but if a person is hurt or killed or if the fire involves a church, arson is a first-degree felony, carrying possible punishment of up to life in prison.
We really don't want there to be a hundred acre wildfire in Memorial Park, so let's all be careful out there. This drought is unfortunately going to be with us for awhile.
That's exactly what the Republicans did in the budget that came into effect last week.
Cash-strapped state lawmakers – led by Gov. Rick Perry's stand against raising taxes or dipping too deeply into the state rainy day fund – cut appropriations for the Texas Forest Service even as they had to dig for more money to meet its existing expenses.
Even the supplemental spending bill they passed this year won't be enough to cover the expense of fighting fires through Aug. 31, the end of the 2010-11 fiscal period.
The Texas Forest Service, the state's lead agency for fighting wildfires, anticipates it will need another $61 million just to cover those costs.
More money also will be needed to cover expenses in the 2012-13 budget period that began Sept. 1, said Senate Finance Committee Chairman Steve Ogden, R-Bryan.
The Texas Forest Service was appropriated $117.7 million for the 2010-2011 fiscal period, which ended Aug. 31. It was appropriated $83 million for 2012-13, according to the agency.
He and DeWitt said the service's operating budget was flat.
DeWitt said the Forest Service uses a "tiered approach" in fighting wildfires, relying on volunteer and paid fire departments as "the first line of defense." After that, the Forest Service and other state agencies assist, and then the state brings in federal resources.
Perry is of course already whining about federal resources not being fast enough to suit him. These fires are going to cost a ton to fight, and given how long the drought may last, we're probably going to be doing a lot more paying. Just because you don't adequately budget for something doesn't mean the need for it goes away. As for those volunteer fire fighters who are key to dousing these blazes, this wire story from May discusses how the reduction in grant money will affect them.
Chris Barron, executive director of the State Firemen's and Fire Marshals' Association, said volunteer fire departments rely heavily on grant funding. He said $135 million in requests are backlogged from volunteer fire departments.
"That alone should say that the departments out there greatly need the funding," he told Reuters.
"Stuff in the fire service is not cheap," Barron added.
He said many volunteer fire departments already have worn-down equipment and without funding for new equipment, response times will almost certainly increase.
I sure hope they have what they need to do this job, and the ones that will surely follow.
I have a hard time wrapping my mind around this story about the struggle of suburban fire departments to provide services for residents who don't want to pay for them. I just don't understand the mindset.
Montgomery County ESD No. 8, which operates Hudson's fire department, is considering asking voters to approve a 1-cent sales tax in May to help pay for its new station and to hire additional firefighters. It has applied for a federal grant that will pay the salaries of three new firefighters for two to three years. Once the grant dollars run out, the department will have to find a way to carry the cost. The salary for a full-time firefighter ranges from $30,000 to $43,000 in ESDs, about half the pay of a municipal firefighter, and part-time firefighters make between $10 and $21 an hour.
Many suburban fire departments are supported by emergency service districts, a taxing entity. The districts, however, are limited in how much property tax they can collect. They're capped at 10 cents per $100 per assessed value.
Fire departments that are entirely run by volunteers, and not under an emergency service district, rely on donations and a funding from the county. The Fresno Volunteer Fire Department in Fort Bend County, for example, receives about $80,000 a year from the county and the rest of its $100,000 budget is gathered through fundraisers and donations, said Fire Chief Paul Hamilton.
Last weekend, a Fresno homeowner lost his home because volunteer firefighters never responded to the early morning fire. The Missouri City Fire Department was eventually dispatched but firefighters arrived too late to save the home.
"We're talking about some changes to try to prevent this from happening, but until we have an ESD so we can have paid firefighters, we're at the mercy of volunteers," said Hamilton, who was out of the district when the fire broke out.
Persuading residents to approve establishing a taxing district would be difficult because they already feel they're overtaxed, he said.
I don't even know what to say to that. I guess this is one of many reasons why I prefer city life to unincorporated suburban life. I like knowing that if my house ever catches fire, it's somebody's job to come as quickly as possible to put it out.
It's going to be a lot harder for anyone to claim with a straight face that the state of Texas has never executed an innocent man.
Key testimony that sent a Corsicana auto mechanic to the execution chamber for setting a house fire that killed three young children was based on faulty investigations that ignored eyewitness reports and failed to follow accepted scientific procedures, an expert review of the case concludes.
While the 51-page report by nationally known fire scientist Craig Beyler stops short of charging that Cameron Willingham wrongfully was sent to his death, it dismisses as slipshod the investigations by Deputy State Fire Marshal Manuel Vasquez and Corsicana Assistant Fire Chief Douglas Fogg. Willingham maintained his innocence until his execution in 2004.
"The only statement I want to make is that I am an innocent man — convicted of a crime I did not commit," Willingham said from the death house gurney.
The men's investigations into the December 1991 blaze at Willingham's residence failed to meet current standards of the National Fire Prevention Association or even standards that were in place at the time of the fire, Beyler wrote.
Beyler performed the review for Baltimore-based Hughes Associates Inc., a global fire protection engineering firm commissioned last year by the Texas Forensic Science Commission. The commission was created by the Legislature in response to the Houston Crime Lab scandal and other irregularities at state forensic labs.
Commission Chairman Sam Bassett, an Austin lawyer, said the panel will interview Beyler at its Oct. 2 meeting in Irving. Bassett said the commission will seek a response from the state fire marshal's office. Vasquez died in 1994.
For more background on the Willingham case and other questionable arson cases in Texas, see here, here, and here. The Chicago Tribune, whose 2004 article on Willingham got the ball rolling on all this, has their own story, which contains this ending that may prove to be sadly prophetic.
Contacted Monday, one of Willingham's cousins said she was pleased with the report but was skeptical that state officials would acknowledge Willingham's innocence.
There is enough wiggle room to do that, if you've got a Sharon Keller/Antonin Scalia view of what "innocence" is. As encouraging as it was to see the state do the right thing in the Timothy Cole case, this is a step I'm not sure the powers that be are ready to take. I'll be happy to be proven wrong about that. Grits and The Contrarian have more.
It's hard out there on a fireworks vendor.
As July 4 approaches, Michael Girdley is praying for rain.
The president of Alamo Fireworks, based in China Grove, is worried a summer drought could lead to a fireworks ban in Harris County, one of Girdley's biggest markets.
"It's our worst nightmare. We used to be able to survive because you used to count on opening each year. Now you can't count on anything in Texas," he grumbled.
Girdley is part of a growing chorus of fireworks vendors in Texas complaining about what they call arbitrary restrictions on their business. A 2007 revision to state law allows counties to ban sales of certain fireworks if the Keetch-Byram Drought Index indicates drought conditions. Counties must adopt that order before June 15 to prohibit certain fireworks for the July 4 fireworks season.
While the drought index was supposed to simplify the decision, vendors complain that fireworks can ultimately be permitted in one county, but banned in the neighboring one. And, regardless of the drought index, county judges can prohibit firework sales outright at any time by issuing a disaster declaration.
Texas' patchwork system has left fireworks vendors in a wait-and-see stance as the calendar creeps closer to their most profitable holiday.
"If we can't sell our product then, we can't feed our families," said Chester Davis, president of the Texas Pyrotechnic Association.
I feel for you, I do. Times are tough all over. But having said that, I'm one of those crazy people who thinks that there should be restrictions on fireworks sales, and that some of what is sold to the public should really only be sold to professionals. So while I'm sympathetic to the vendors and the frustration they must feel at dealing with new regulations, I'm on the county officials' side. I agree with this.
Harris County Judge Ed Emmett imposed a ban on the sale and use of some fireworks this afternoon as vendors prepare to open sales for the July 4th holiday.
Emmett issued a county disaster, which allowed him to forbid the sale and use of stick rockets and missiles with fins within Harris County.
"Public safety is my top priority in this matter, and this declaration is absolutely necessary to ensure that Harris County residents remain as safe as possible in these weather conditions," Emmett said in a statement.
Responsible vendors should be willing to pull certain aerial fireworks off shelves if it gets hot and dry, but shouldn't be pushed around by authorities, said Paul Dewey Jones, who sells fireworks .
While Montgomery County will only restrict a few types of fireworks, he's worried that customers will assume everything is banned.
"I don't like the idea of government getting into our business unless there's a very good reason," he said.
Government officials point to statistics to make the case that fireworks should be carefully regulated: Between 2000 and 2007, there were 259 reported fireworks mishaps in Harris County, causing more than $2 million in damage.
That sounds like a very good reason to me. According to this version of the story, Montgomery County had 80 fireworks-related fires last year. And as with any industry, if all the vendors were responsible there would be no need for regulation, but they're not and so there is. We're just arguing about what the right amount is. What we've got now is fine by me.
The massive fire last week that destroyed the warehouse at Gallery Furniture's main location on the North Freeway was intentionally set, an official said today.
Rob Elder, assistant special agent in charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms office in Houston, said the agency determined the fire was arson because all possible accidental causes had been ruled out, including a faulty generator that was initially suspected.
"Someone out there knows what happened that night, and we're going to find them," Elder said in a news conference today. No one has been ruled out as a suspect, said Elder, who declined to reveal details as to how investigators think the blaze began.
I did not see that coming. I hope they figure it all out.
Like most people in Houston, I was shocked and saddened to hear about this.
As flames ripped through one of Houston's most notable retail icons Thursday night, Gallery Furniture founder Jim McIngvale vowed to rebuild.
But McIngvale, who earned fame with his colorful commercials and self-imposed moniker of Mattress Mack, acknowledged "millions and millions" in dollars of merchandise had been damaged in his flagship store's warehouse.
This morning he was at his other location at 2411 Post Oak Blvd., which opened earlier this year, preparing to start selling furniture again. True to form, shortly after dawn he was filming a commercial to remind customers of the new Galleria-area location.
McIngvale said it wasn't clear when he could get back into the original location, much less reopen it. In the meantime, he said the store is scouting locations for warehouse space to house several truckloads of furniture on its way.
Mack and Gallery Furniture are Houston icons, and if anyone can come back from this, they can. My best wishes to them as they rebuild.


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Bùi Thành Nhơn (born 1958) is a Vietnamese businessman, billionaire and property developer. In 2016, he was listed as the 4th richest man in Vietnam, after Phạm Nhật Vượng, Trịnh Văn Quyết and Trần Đình Long.

He is currently the Chairman of Novaland Group.

Biography
Bùi Thành Nhơn was born in 1958 in Long Khánh A commune, Hồng Ngự district, Đồng Tháp.

He holds a bachelor's degree in veterinary medicine, and a bachelor's degree in advanced business administration (from HSB Tuck School of Business in Dartmouth, Hanover, Germany).

Career
From 1981 to 1983, Nhơn worked at the Agriculture Department of the People's Committee of Nhà Bè District, Ho Chi Minh City.

From 1983 to 1992, he worked at Level I Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Materials Company, Ho Chi Minh City.

In 1992, he founded Thành Nhơn Trading Company Limited. At that time, the company's main activities included selling veterinary drugs, pharmaceutical materials, and chemicals.

In 2007, Thành Nhơn Trading Company Limited was restructured into two units: Anova Joint Stock Company and No Va Real Estate Investment Group Joint Stock Company (Novaland). Novaland operates mainly in the real estate industry. Nhơn has been the Chairman of Novaland since then.

On December 28, 2016, Novaland was officially listed on Vietnam's stock market – with the stock code "NVL" on Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE). At that time, Novaland's equity was VND29,500 billion (about $1.3 billion), making it the 2nd largest real estate company, just behind Vingroup. That same year, Nhơn was recognized by Vietnamnet as the 4th richest person in Vietnam, after Phạm Nhật Vượng, Trịnh Văn Quyết and Trần Đình Long.

Personal life
Nhơn is married to Cao Thị Ngọc Sương.

The couple have two children, one of whom is Bùi Cao Nhật Quân.

See also
 Phạm Nhật Vượng

References

Vietnamese businesspeople
1958 births
Living people
Vietnamese billionaires
Vietnamese business executives
Vietnamese company founders
Real estate and property developers
People from Đồng Tháp Province

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Duration: Two hours
Presenters: Kelley Dodson, MD; Amanda Ortmann, PhD; Arti Pandya, MD MBA and Heidi L. Rehm, PhD
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Who Should Attend: Audiologists, especially pediatric audiologists, ENTs, other healthcare providers, students, and individuals interested in genetic and syndromic conditions
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Upon completion, each participant in the eAudiology Web seminar will be able to:
List the benefits and drawbacks of whole genome/exome testing compared to disease-targeting testing.
Describe how genetic and molecular testing can assist in the identification and management/referral process for the most common genetic causes of hearing loss.
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Identify the genetic basis of hearing loss, describe the most common genetic causes and the associated workup
List the audiometric configurations that are present with enlarged vestibular aqueducts (EVA)
List symptoms that are present with Pendred's syndrome
Define the "3rd window" hypothesis for improvement in bone conduction thresholds in EVA
In the first-ever eAudiology Grand Rounds on genetics and syndrome, four experts will present cases on the most common causes of genetic hearing loss, genetic testing, syndromes and syndromic features, as well as management for these conditions.
Dr. Kelley Dodson will provide familiarity to the "top 10" most common and/or interesting causes of congenital hearing loss. Topics covered will include deafness due to DFNB1 (connexin-26), Pendred syndrome, nonsyndromic mitochondrial deafness,Usher syndrome, Jervell Lange Nielsen syndrome, Waardenburg syndrome, 22q11 deletion syndrome, Treacher Collins syndrome, branchio-oto renal syndrome, among others. The clinical workup of children presenting with congenital hearing loss, the development of differential diagnosis, and important aspects of management of these conditions will be reviewed.
Dr. Amanda Ortmann will focus on a case of an individual with Pendred's Syndrome whose diagnosis went undetected until she was in her thirties. The effect of enlarged vestibular aqueducts on audiometric results as well hypotheses as to why EVA causes such results will be discussed.
Dr. Arti Pandya will translate current advances in the genetics of hearing loss to bedside clinical practice, highlighting the genetic basis of hearing loss and molecular testing, identifying features of syndromic hearing loss, making appropriate referrals, and educating families on rationale for etiologic diagnosis.
Dr. Heidi Rehm will review two cases that highlight different genetic approaches to identify the cause of hearing loss in patients and predict the onset of syndromic features. One case uses whole genome sequencing and another uses targeted next generation sequencing.
Kelley Dodson, MD completed her undergraduate studies at University of Virginia, followed by Medical School at George Washington University. After completing her five year Otolaryngology Residency at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Dr. Dodson joined the faculty of Department of Otolaryngology at VCU , where she currently an Associate Professor of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery and Residency Program Director. Her clinical and research interests include pediatric otolaryngology, congenital and hereditary hearing loss, vestibular disorders, tinnitus, and pediatric sinusitis. Dr. Dodson has published scientific reports and articles on pediatric and genetic hearing loss, risk factors associated with unilateral and bilateral hearing loss, and nonsyndromic mitochondrial deafness.
Amanda Ortmann PhD has served as an Audiologist in the Division of Adult Audiology at Washington University School of Medicine as well as a lecturer within the Program in Audiology and Communication Sciences at Washington University. Starting in October 1st, Dr. Ortmann will join University of Southern California, Program in Auditory Neuroscience as a post-doctoral fellow.
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Sociology of education: multi-shift schooling in Ulaanbaatar
Мунхбат М Оролмаа Doctor of Sociology Mongolian State Universityy, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia,
mailto: munkhbat@num.edu.mn
Бурэнжаргал Б Тэгшээ Doctor of Sociology Mongolian State Universityy, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia,
mailto: tburenjargal@gmail.com
Мунхтур М Дашзэвэг Mongolian State University, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia,
mailto: munkhturd5@gmail.com
Sociology of education: multi-shift schooling in Ulaanbaatar.
Vestnik instituta sotziologii. 2019. Vol. 10. No. 2. P. 107-124
DOI: 10.19181/vis.2019.29.2.579
Topic: Sociology of Education: social aspects of school study
М. . Оролмаа., Б. . Тэгшээ., М. . Дашзэвэг. Sociology of education: multi-shift schooling in Ulaanbaatar. Vestnik instituta sotziologii. 2019. Vol. 10. No. 2. P. 107-124
DOI: https://doi.org/10.19181/vis.2019.29.2.579
This article analyzes multi-shift schooling and its effect on the quality of education in the city of Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia. Highlighted are the features, advantages and shortcomings of multi-shift schooling, achievements of middle-school pupils, satisfaction of parents and pupils with the quality and accessibility of education. Also evaluated are opinions on multi-shift schooling. After the downfall of socialism and a transition towards a free market, multiple migratory flows from provinces to the country's capital city have led to a specific increase of the population, and as a result of government policy to admit all 6-year old children into schools, as well as an increased strain on account of transitioning from a 10-year education system to a new 12-year one, schools have encountered a lack of funds, as well as a shortage of teachers and equipment. In an attempt to solve these issues, some schools have increased the amount of pupils attending one class to 45 or more, while also instituting a third shift, which has become common practice among many of Ulaanbaatar's middle-schools. Within the framework of a 2016 research project, the Mongolian State University's department of sociology and social work has conducted research and evaluated the multi-shift schooling system, while utilizing various research methods (survey, interview, observation, content analysis). Under the guise of a study called "Multiple shifts in Ulaanbaatar's secondary schools and the quality of education", conducted in 2016-2017, scientific approaches were used such as structural functionalism, phenomenology and exchange theory in order to analyze qualitative and quantitative data. A multi-shift schooling system, especially one with three shifts, creates some serious problems. Based on our research, the main parties concerned (teachers, parents and pupils) for the most part see it as detrimental to the quality of education, and as a liability when it comes to pupils' opportunity to enroll into the highest tier universities, given that those who go to schools working three shifts receive 20% less learning hours compared to schools working two shifts. Three shifts were introduced mainly in schools attended by children from vulnerable social groups. Such a practice creates social discrimination and violates children's rights to an equal and quality education. 17.9% of respondents who took part in our study receive an income of less than 185,000 tugriks a month (which is less than 80 USD), while 5.4% have no income at all. A three shift system of schooling has a negative effect on health and safety in the school environment, with an increase in the disease rate among children and the number of absences.
multi-shift schooling, education quality, pupils, secondary school, three shift education
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Holy calling: Eidul Fitr prayer timings in K-P
Don't panic: QWP criticises decision to call army to capital
Eid deals and cheap knock-offs save shoppers from inflated prices in main markets
No matter the size of their wallets, people managed to somehow make do this season.
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As Peshawar gets a jump-start on Eid, its residents make a beeline to the markets to get last-minute alterations on their new clothes and pick those matching shoes. The city and its surrounding areas are on a shopping rampage.
The city looks deserted in the mornings as people stay up late, spending and making money. At night, Khyber Bazaar, Qissa Khwani, Meena Bazaar and the likes are left with no breathing room.
The district administration has banned the entry of men in Meena Bazaar, Kochi Bazaar and Shaheen Bazaar, located in congested areas in the city.
A district administration official told The Express Tribune men have been banned in markets which are considered "women specific". Adequate security arrangements have been made with police mobiles patrolling all busy shopping centres, he said. Three check points have been set up at the entry of Saddar to maintain security.
However, no arrangements have been made to accommodate the influx of shoppers from nearby areas. Without sufficient parking space, visitors were forced to park on the roads – a space already taken by stalls and shop extensions.
"There is a rush at every stall in every market, thanks to which shopkeepers have inflated all prices," said Ghulam Husain who was busy bargaining with shopkeepers in Saddar over a pair of shoes.
There is no mechanism to keep prices under control and prevent retailers from overcharging as police officials only focused on maintaining the security, he complained.
On the flip side, shoe retailer Sardar Mehmood said, "We have no time for ourselves; everybody's rushing to shop for the festive occasion."
A similar swarm could be seen outside food stores as people stocked up on sweets, and ingredients to make sweet vermicelli and sheer khorma.
Shrinking purchasing power
Meanwhile, some of the residents of Abbottabad have been on a mission in the run-up to Eid—to find cheap Eid deals. Those who could afford it can be seen at places like Cantonment Plaza but for many, small sale points set up on the roadside are a blessing.
There, shopkeepers, mostly Afghan citizens, sell cheap shoes, clothes and cosmetics—cheap but close to what's considered on-trend—to buyers who cannot afford inflated Eid prices.
These consumer goods are mostly from China, knock-offs of knock-offs. But customers know what they are getting. "I know the things I bought from the kiosk are poor quality […] but I am left with only two options—either buy my children nothing or celebrate Eid with new clothes and shoes," said Saman Bibi from Dhamtor. She has four children and her husband, an employee of a private security company, earns Rs12,000 a month. Shoppers suggested that if the government had kept a better eye on profiteering, there would have been less space for impromptu roadside set-ups selling poor quality products. They claimed even big shops sell the same wares but with fake stickers of known brands.
However, Naeem Awan, an office bearer of the Anjuman Tajiran Abbottabad, denied that the big shops were cheating consumers.
Nauroz, a government employee told The Express Tribune he bought three pairs of shoes for his children and spent only Rs1,500 at the stalls. Showing off his shopping, Nauroz said he knew it was substandard stuff but at the end of the day, it meant his children would have new shoes for Eid.
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