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America better wake up to what the usurper-in-chief and his minions, along with a complicit Congress, are allowing into America's borders. A good lesson could be learned from the folks down under in Australia, who recently offended Muslims for having them sing the country's national anthem.
The Australian reports:
Requiring schoolchildren to sing the national anthem, and the citizenship pledge supporting democratic values, are part of an oppressive campaign by Australian authorities of "forced assimilation" of the Muslim community, a conference heard this morning.
The conference held by Islamist activist group Hizb ut-Tahrir entitled "Innocent Until Proven Muslim" is taking place at Bankstown in Sydney's west, attended by about 800 people.
Hizb ut-Tahrir spokesman Uthman Badar told the conference the Australian government "claims to afford freedom, but seeks to impose values and beliefs" on Muslims.
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UPDATE: It's not true, claims Harvey's lawyer Bert Fields.
EARLIER: Last week, the Weinstein Company became
the latest studio to play the game of movie-release musical
chairs sweeping Hollywood. It shifted five films originally
slated for 2008 into 2009: Crossing Over,
Killshot, Fanboys, Shanghai and
The Road (releasing a depressing post-apocalyptic film
in the midst of a depressing financial apocalypse: not a good
idea). By doing so,
Nikki Finke reports, the studio was forced to take a $50
million write-down on Goldman Sachs' financing.
This isn't great news for The Weinstein Company, or Goldman Sachs, but the studio might get a nice box-office windfall with Zack and Miri this weekend. And we think Goldman can handle a $50 million loss.
See Also: Kevin Smith: I'm Going To Save The Weinstein Company
Get the latest Goldman Sachs stock price here.

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Water Women Reveal Need for Expansion of Our Social Mission
Each time we go to visit the Camu Camu collectors who partner with us on the Rio Curaray in the Amazon River Basin, we learn more about who they are and what they need. On this most recent trip, a new area of need was brought to our attention. First, though, we are very happy to say that when we met with the Water Women who received water filters and training last March, we discovered that the water filter project is going very well. Each filter serves four families, which is about 20 people. With 14 Water Women, most of the people in the two communities of Santa Maria and Nuevo Yarina now have access to clean water. We even had requests from other women to receive the training and filters. It was wonderful to see the families and their…
Puerto Rico Water Filter Project
Dear Beloved Whole World Botanicals Community, We have all seen the aftermath of destruction caused by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico on every news channel across America. The storm pushed the island's 3.4 million American citizens into a desperate humanitarian crisis. Nearly every home across the island at one point was without power, clean water, food, medicine or fuel. So many of us are very troubled by the fact that two months after this hurricane struck Puerto Rico, thousands of people on the island are still without access to clean drinking water! As you may know, Whole World Botanicals has a formal commitment to help preserve the Amazon Rainforest which is being destroyed at an alarming rate. As human beings, we also have a social commitment to the collectors and growers of our botanicals. Because of this unprecedented emergency in…
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Peru is having torrential rains and widespread flooding this year. People have died from avalanche or drowning, 115,000+ homes have been destroyed, and many families are living in tent cities. According to the United Nations, 3 million Peruvians are at risk for diseases—especially children—due to dirty, contaminated water. As part of our social mission to give back to Peru, the home country of our botanicals, Whole World Botanicals has partnered with Water With Blessings and the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, to help empower Peruvian women to provide clean water to their hard-hit communities, and prevent disease and deaths from waterborne illnesses. Please watch our 2-minute video above for the whole story. Will you please help us and our partners? Every donation helps bring more clean water to the Peruvians who need it most right now? www.waterwithblessings.org/donate.html
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If passed, a new bill will only escalate the assault on our health, and the health of Planet Earth. by Katherine Paul, Director of Communications for the Organic Consumers Association / AlterNet July 14, 2015 With no debate and only a voice vote, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture today (July 14, 2015) passed out of committee H.R. 1599, a bill to preempt states' rights to label GMOs. Within hours, it was announced that the bill will go straight to the House floor, as early as next week, with no vote in the Energy and Commerce Committee. If we don't stop it in the House next week, the fight to stop this "Mother of All Monsanto Protection Acts" will take place next in the U.S. Senate, before summer's end. In his opening statement this morning, Committee Chairman Rep.…
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Minneapolis, MN—The USDA has verified its first non-GMO claim through its Process Verified Program(PVP). Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack noted that while the PVP itself is not new, this is the first claim of its kind to be verified through it. He added that other companies have taken interest in having their claims verified through the program. PVP being used for non-GMO verification does not mean that the USDA has set its own non-GMO standards. Instead, the program has the USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) act as a third party in verifying marketing claims, according to a statement from Sam Jones-Ellard, a spokesperson for the AMS. Jones-Ellard also noted that while the USDA's organic certification process is also done through the AMS, the two programs will remain separate, meaning that even if a company is certified organic, they will have to…
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Earlier this month, Detroit filed for bankruptcy, knocking Stockton from its perch as the most populous city to have ever gone broke. Suffering from $18 billion in debt, bankruptcy was pretty much inevitable. Since the news broke, the media has been unable to resist the comparisons between Mo Town and Stock Town. However, while the two cities share a common bond in bankruptcy, they face two very different paths forward. No, Detroit is not like Stockton, for better or worse. Here are the big differences a lot of people are overlooking, and why they are important.
Detroit's population is falling, Stockton's keeps climbing
Detroit has been in decline for several years by a number of metrics, but probably the most telling is the massive population loss incurred since the 1950s. At its peak, Detroit proper was home to nearly two million people. Today, that number hovers around 700 thousand. This staggering loss of people presents two major issues for Detroit moving forward: dwindling revenues and a stockpile of abandoned houses and buildings.
As residents fled Detroit in droves over the past 60 years, the city's tax base went with them. Contrast that with Stockton, which has never seen a population loss and in fact continues to grow despite the city's challenges. Even during the recession, Stockton's population grew. Moreover, net migration, after suffering for a couple of years, is back into positive territory. This is a positive sign for Stockton as the tax base will continue to grow, whereas Detroit struggles to keep people in the city.
Detroit was once home to two million people, and while over half of those residents are gone, their housing remains. Large swaths of Detroit are ghost towns as the city suffers from an epidemic of abandoned housing, creating blight and crime, wasting city resources. In Stockton, this situation is not nearly as bad. While many lost their homes to foreclosure, most homes were picked up by investors and are at least occupied by renters. While investor-dominated neighborhoods are by no means a good thing, Stockton does not have Detroit's problem with abandoned housing, at least not on the same scale.
Both sprawl, but Detroit is worse
One glaring similarity between Stockton and Detroit is that they are both victims of their chosen growth patterns. Some incorrectly believe that Detroit is compact and dense (such as my pal John Beckman), but actually, Detroit grew out, not in. In fact, Smart Growth America lists Detroit as the 15th most sprawling city out of the most populous 83 metro areas in the country (Stockton is not included in the rankings). In both cases, extreme outward growth sapped the life out of older areas, but the consequences appear to have been worse for Detroit, where once stately residences are now overtaken by foliage and entire neighborhoods have been abandoned.
The big difference between Detroit and Stockton with respect to sprawl is that our suburban developments are still part of Stockton. In Detroit, most people fled to other towns entirely. For example, someone who is longing for a move further away from Stockton's ills might move further north into a Spanos development, or west into a Grupe community. They may have left older areas, but their families and their tax dollars stayed in Stockton. In Detroit, families left the city entirely. If someone moves to Auburn Hills, Michigan, their tax dollars are long gone. Even the Pistons, Detroit's storied basketball team, left the city for the suburbs.
Detroit is Michigan's most important city
The city of Detroit is vital to the state of Michigan as the region's top economic engine. If Detroit fails, the state suffers. Because of its importance, the state has been intimately involved in the city's budgetary process, hoping to stave off bankruptcy. Top officials, including current Governor Rick Snyder and former Governor Jennifer Granholm have appeared on national media outlets discussing different ways to keep Detroit afloat. While there are varying views about the way in which to save Detroit, there is a common theme: Detroit is important and its success is vital.
Stockton, on the other hand, is not in the top 10 most populous cities in California. Jerry Brown doesn't even consider the Central Valley part of the state and could care less if Stockton ceased to exist. Even though Stockton is just an hour's drive to the south, Sacramento has been ambivalent to the city's struggles. Contrast that with Michigan's capitol, Lansing, which devotes entire sessions on how to deal with Detroit.
Detroit's downtown is in the early stages of a renaissance.
You'd never guess it based on the media attention, but young professionals and employers are flocking to Detroit's downtown. Tens of thousands have moved into the city's core, creating a building boom in Downtown and Midtown Detroit. Businesses like Quicken Loans and Blue Cross Blue Shield are leading the charge, moving their offices back into the city. Quicken CEO Bill Emerson notes that Detroit has created the environment for businesses to tap in to a growing talent pool of young professionals that want to be in an urban environment.
"There is an opportunity cost of not being in an urban environment," Emerson told Fortune Magazine in 2011. "The youth of America, when they graduate, they're looking to go to an urban environment (to live, work, and meet others). An asphalt parking lot is not necessarily the best way to do that."
Many in the urban policy realm believe that the city's bankruptcy will have little to no effect on this boom. Richard Florida wrote that despite recent events "The seeds of rebirth" have already been planted in large part thanks to the influx of creative class into the center of the city.
In Stockton, downtown is certainly improving, but much work remains to truly leverage the city's core to create the kind of economic catalyst we see in Downtown Detroit. Stockton does have a great potential to reel in tech employers and millennials, especially thanks to its proximity to the Bay Area and the presence of anchor institutions near downtown, such as the University of the Pacific. Downtown Stockton has the bones to become a vibrant, attractive community, but much work remains.


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Changes in Coronary Plaque Composition in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction Treated With High-Intensity Statin Therapy (IBIS-4): A Serial Optical Coherence Tomography Study
Objectives This study assessed changes in optical coherence tomography (OCT)-defined plaque composition in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) receiving high-intensity statin treatment. Background OCT is a high-resolution modality capable of measuring plaque characteristics including fibrous cap thickness (FCT) and macrophage infiltration. There is limited in vivo evidence regarding the effects of statins on OCT-defined coronary atheroma composition and no evidence in the context of STEMI. Methods In the ...Read Full Article


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Tesla Model S
Electric vehicle enthusiasts with a preference for pure luxury are preparing for the mid-2012 release of the Tesla Model S.
Tesla Motors' first electric sedan will be available with three different battery packs. The base Model S, priced at $49,900 after the $7,500 federal tax credit, is equipped with a 160-mile range battery pack. For an additional $10,000, customers can upgrade to the 230-mile range option. The top of the line battery pack provides a 300-mile driving range for a $20,000 premium over the base model. Tesla plans to produce 5,000 units in 2012, and the automaker is currently accepting fully refundable reservations for the Model S sedan.


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Standups, aka your daily status update meetings in agile software development, drive teamwork and transparency. They foster knowledge transfer between devs and keep everyone on the same page. For a standup meeting to be really effective, however, certain constraints have to be met. These, among others, include strict timing.
Standups usually clock in at just 10 minutes, and not keeping tight reins on the time box can make the meetings tedious and ineffective. Since the amount of detail in status updates may get out of hand at times, the timing rule is particularly difficult (but not impossible!) to enforce.
How it should look
Ideally, a standup should take just 10 minutes (well, 15 at most). To keep it this short (and effective), make sure you stick just to three basic questions for every person:
The actual reason standups are so short is that it keeps people in maximum focus just before everyone disperses to their desks. This is also why people, rather than sitting down, meet standing up — this position naturally causes physical discomfort when the meeting stretches out for too long. Which is good.
Standups should be small, too. There is no specific recommendation for the number of people, though. Understandably, however, having 100 people speak one after another would never fit in a 15-minute time-frame. A standup is a time when all devs give their status reports on the tasks from the previous day and compare real-time against estimated hours. They also say which tasks they're going to do during the day.
What happens if standups take too long
Understandably, when a standup meeting spins out of control and takes a tad too long, people lose focus. And getting drained of energy is a really bad way to start off the day. We've all been there: our minds wander in long lectures or meetings, and there is not much we can do about it other than keeping the meetings short and concise.
Nothing kills your enthusiasm more than listening to colleagues droning about their stuff for too long. This may result in your peeps not liking standups all that much. They may consider them as taking up the precious time they might otherwise spend on actual day-to-day work. The result? Developers start to hate the project manager and ultimately, the morale of the team drops.
This means you are doing your standups wrong.
Why standups take too long
1. Lack of preparation
As the main culprit, there is a lack of preparation. People can't remember what they were doing the day before, and would rather plan current tasks ad-hoc. This is natural but only takes some practice to eliminate.
2. Distractors
When your team members bring computers and smartphones, you are certainly doing it wrong. This is distracting. Unless it's absolutely necessary, don't bring your devices.
3. Taking notes or recording
Bringing laptops is not just bad because it distracts people. Laptops in a standup meeting usually involve taking some notes. And people always involuntarily stop memorizing once they know they can read it later. This happens even when just one person takes the notes. Anyway, typing is much more time-consuming than just listening carefully. Remember: a standup is not a dictation session. This is no time for taking minutes, or worse, repeating stuff several times for the slow typers.
4. Discussing big problems
Don't bring up problems during the standup. Since the standup session should take just 15 minutes at most, discussing major challenges in detail is a bad idea and may result in people losing focus. This may also exclude a part of the team from the discussion, simply because the problem concerns just one developer and the PM.
Problems should be solved immediately and directly between respective team members, even if it means holding a separate meeting dedicated to it (after the standup).
What should the Project Manager do to make standups shorter
1. Cut off topics
But do it with all which are irrelevant or might consume way too much of your precious time. Issues which need special attention should be "taken offline" (outside the standup) for further discussion. Nominate people to deal with the issue, and move on to the next person.
2. Prioritize tasks
Make it a good practice in all your meetings. Teach others to do the same. To facilitate this, always come to the meeting with a prepared list of questions you want to ask your devs. Do not over-analyse problems. Follow the simple, standard standup template as much as you can. Encourage I've done this and I have a problem with that type of communication.
3. Hold your standups same place, and same time
Don't waste time on changing the time and location of your meeting, and informing all participants about it. Make sure the time and place suits everyone, but do not change it too often. Keep it simple: same time and place will foster coming on time and attendance. Do not wait for latecomers, to encourage punctuality.
4. Do not waste time on deciding who should speak first
To make it easier, you can choose a simple, consistent method of choosing the person who starts every meeting. The last arrival speaks the first rule is a good idea, but only one of many possible methods.
5. Signpost the end of your standup
Do not expect everyone to know when the meeting is over. Once the last person has spoken, cut in with an energizing phrase like Thanks, guys. Good luck! Treat it as an off-to-work hand-stack. Without proper signposting in place, the standup may end on an awkward, low-energy note. You don't want this to happen, right?
Easy, right?
The conclusion is simple: in standups, there is no time to waste the time. The tips above are not very difficult to implement but can make a huge difference to your daily team meetings.
So what other obstacles are impeding your progress? Off to work!


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J (disambiguation)
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|Look up J or j in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
J is the tenth letter of the Latin alphabet.
J may also refer to:
- Palatal approximant in the International Phonetic Alphabet
- J, Cyrillic letter Je
- J, a provisional designation prefix for some objects discovered between May 1 and 15 of a year
- J (programming language), successor to APL
- J# programming language for the Microsoft .NET Framework
- J operator, a programming construct
- J (operating system), an operating system for ICL's System 4 series of computers
Genetics and medicine[edit]
- Haplogroup J (mtDNA)
- Haplogroup J (Y-DNA)
- ATC code J Antiinfectives for systemic use, a section of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System
- J, symbol used to denote the Bessel function
- j, used as the symbol for the imaginary unit () in fields where i is used for a different purpose (such as electrical current)
- j and j2 (or ) are also used for the complex cube roots of unity
- j, a number with the property j 2 = +1, used in the definition of the split-complex numbers
- j, the second imaginary unit of a quaternion
- j, an index variable in a matrix
- The j-invariant, a modular function
- Joule, the SI unit of energy (represented by capital letter J, in upright (non-slanted) type)
- J, the SI-recommended dimension symbol for luminous intensity, conventionally rendered in a sans-serif typeface
- Current density
- Second moment of area
- J, name given by Samuel C. C. Ting for the J/ψ particle
- J-coupling, indirect dipole-dipole coupling between two nuclear spins
- J (Korean singer), a Korean pop singer
- J (musician), a Japanese rock musician
- J., nickname of American White Zombie guitarist Jay Yuenger
- J., stage name of German musician Jaye Muller
- J Mascis, American singer and guitarist of Dinosaur Jr.
- J Records, a record label
- "J", song by Reggie and the Full Effect from the album Last Stop: Crappy Town
- "J", song by Mindless Self Indulgence from the album Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy
Film and television[edit]
- Agent J, a character in the Men in Black films portrayed by Will Smith
- J, an antagonist in Bobobo
- Kamen Rider J, a Japanese movie
- J, the production code for the 1964 Doctor Who serial Planet of Giants
Other uses[edit]
- J, slang for joint (cannabis)
- J, slang for Air Jordan shoes
- J, slang for a jump shot in basketball
- J band (disambiguation)
- J (psychedelic), an entactogenic drug
- J (New York City Subway service)
- J Church, a light rail line in San Francisco
- Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway, a Chicago railway sometimes referred to as "The J"
- J, the international license plate code for Japan
- J, the Canadian postal code for the western and northern regions of Quebec
- J, German mint mark for the city of Hamburg
- J abbreviation for Jahwist, one of the major authors of the Torah
- J, an abbreviated title of a High Court judge (in Law Reports, etc.), e.g. Bloggs J
- J. The Jewish News of Northern California, a weekly newspaper serving the Jewish community in Northern California
- J, the narrator of Jerome K. Jerome's novel Three Men in a Boat
- J., Jezper Söderlund, the trance artist
- Lamborghini Aventador J, a 2012 Lamborghini supercar
- J (novel), a 2014 novel by Howard Jacobson
- ʲ, the symbol for Palatalization in the IPA
- Juliet, sometimes used as the unofficial military time zone code for local time
- "J" Is for Judgment, the tenth novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet mystery" series, published in 1993
- Guy Big J, range of trucks produced by Guy Motors of England between 1964 and 1978
See also[edit]
- J/22, J/24 and J/80 sailboat classes
- J Mays, Group Vice President of Design and Chief Creative Officer at Ford Motor Company
- J Dilla, a hip-hip performer and producer
- Jay-Z, a hip hop performer
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- Jay Jay, a 2003 film
- JJJ (disambiguation)
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First let me say "thank you" to you and the staff at Survival Blog for all that you do. I rarely miss your daily posts, and even then it is because occasionally I must work away from home.
Second, I wanted to respond to something said in today's (9/1) post from the pastor from eastern Washington. He commented about how frequent we seem to hear of people's concerns about our leadership and of the lack of hope, the concern, and despair that seems to be echoed in faces and voices of people around the country. During my work day, in a professional capacity, I am in people's homes all day. At a minimum this is a five county area, and occasionally I might be required to be in counties spotting an entire corner of the state. In fairness I feel that I should preface my comments to the state that I live in the central United States, and generally people are possibly more conservative here than in other areas of the country. That said, as of the last couple of years, I have seen a profound change in people. Honestly, I can not remember the last time that there was not a day (not one work day) that at least one, and often multiple persons, have brought up their concern about the direction our country seems to be headed and their fears for the future and also for their children's and grand children's future. They often will express a need to start "putting things away" and will spontaneously talk about preparations they are already making. Now, because of my professional capacity in their home, prepping is not a topic I can bring up. That individuals bring this up to a stranger almost daily is a significant change from only a couple of years ago. These are people that run the gamut from just very concerned individuals and families to more often prepping in some manner to full blown hard core peppers and survivalists. – RK


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Hello Bloggers!
The following blog discusses some feelings that tend to emerge in many birth parents when going through the adoption process. Although these feelings are not always the same for everyone, there are a few that are more common than others.
Each parent faces a very unique experience in giving their child up for adoption. It is nearly impossible to generalize all of these experiences and feelings, however research indicates the emergence of a few themes.
In response to the adoption placement it is common for the birth parent (s) to grieve the loss of the child. This may begin with the pregnancy, after the birth mother has committed to placing the child. As the birthparent(s) prepare to be separated from their child, they plan for a great sense of loss; however, in giving the child up for adoption, they hope that not only does the child have a better life, but they too have a better life.
When the child is born and physical separation takes place, the birth parents may have feelings of doubt, guilt, and regret. It is also common for the birth parents to feel numb, in shock, and/or in denial. Although these are similar emotional responses to death, it is different in that there is rarely a public acknowledgment, and friends and family of the birth parents may attempt to ignore the loss by pretending that nothing has happened. Because of this, finding support can sometimes be challenging, especially if family members or friends were not supportive of the decision in the first place.
Research suggests that, "When birth parents first deal with their loss, the grief may be expressed as denial. The denial serves as a buffer to shield them from the pain of the loss. This may be followed by sorrow or depression as the loss becomes more real. Anger and guilt may follow, with anger sometimes being directed at those who helped with the adoption placement. The final phases, those of acceptance and resolution, refer not to eliminating the grief permanently but to integrating the loss into ongoing life.
Placing a child for adoption may also cause other (secondary) losses, which may add to the grief that birth parents feel. No one fantasizes about having a baby and then giving it up, so expectant parents who are planning to place the child for adoption may grieve for the loss of their parenting roles. They may grieve for the person their child might have become as their son or daughter. These feelings of loss may re-emerge in later years, for instance, on the child's birthday, or when the child is old enough to start school or to reach other developmental milestones.
At first, there may be shame associated with the unplanned pregnancy itself and with admitting the situation to parents, friends, co-workers, and others. Shame about the pregnancy may lead to feelings of unworthiness or incompetence about becoming a parent. Once the child is born, the decision to place the child for adoption may prompt new feelings of guilt about 'rejecting' the child, no matter how thoughtful the decision or what the circumstances of the adoption."
This may all seem very overwhelming but knowing that other birthparents have gone through similar experiences may also be reassuring and comforting. It is important to remember that there are many ways to cope with these feelings and overcome those that bring you down.
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Getting Started with Hippo CMS
Hippo CMS is an open source Java-based CMS. If you have Java 8 and Maven 3+ you can get your own Hippo implementation project up and running in just a few steps.
Run the commands below to launch Hippo Community Edition in minutes!
Step 1: Create the 'myhippoproject' from the Hippo maven archetype using the command below.
mvn archetype:generate \ -DarchetypeGroupId=org.onehippo.cms7 \ -DarchetypeArtifactId=hippo-project-archetype \ -DarchetypeVersion=3.2.0 \ -DarchetypeRepository=http://maven.onehippo.com/maven2
Type 'n' at the prompt if you want to customize your project name or other parameters.
Step 2: Go to your project root folder 'myhippoproject'and build your new project.
cd myhippoproject mvn clean verify
Step 3: Launch Hippo CMS by running the following command in ' myhippoproject'
mvn -Pcargo.run -Drepo.path=storage
Hippo CMS is now running and you are ready to start implementing your Hippo-based website. The following applications are running:
Hippo CMS UI at http://localhost:8080/cms
Use admin/admin or editor/editor or author/author as username/password combination. These users have admin, editor and author roles respectively. Browse the End User Manual to learn about creating, editing and publishing content as well as user management.
Hippo CMS Console at http://localhost:8080/cms/console
The Hippo Console is a power tool for advanced repository operations for use by developers and administrators.
Setup Application at http://localhost:8080/essentials
The setup application provides a Feature Library from which features can be added to your project.
The first time you use the application it will show a setup screen. Read carefully and if needed, change the default parameters before clicking on Get Started.
Choose from a variety of features in the library to customize content, layout, integrations, SEO and much more. Click 'Install Feature' to add it to your project. Once installed they appear in the installed features tab where you can configure them.
Website at http://localhost:8080/site
The website will initially be empty. Once you have added some features from the library to the site it will render them using a default bootstrap theme.
You can now customize your newly added features or create your own. Check out our tutorial on creating a working website with Hippo or take a deeper dive with our Hello world example.
If you get stuck, check out the troubleshooting and documentation pages or reach out to us on our Community Forum.


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Olympic Connection
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JTOC (Olympic Connection) Accessible
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Jefferson Transit Olympic Connection connects with Clallam Transit in Forks to Port Angeles and Grays Harbor Transit in Amanda Park to Aberdeen.
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Department of Science and Technology, Government of India has entrusted Science International Forum-Kuwait (SIF-Kuwait) to conduct the Kuwait level Children's Science Congress and hence select the projects from Kuwait for their participation in National level Children's Science Congress. This program in Kuwait will be named as NCSC-Young Scientists Program 2015.
It is for the first time the students at different Indian Schools in Kuwait also will get the unique opportunity to participate with their projects in the prestigious 'National Children's Science Congress' [NCSC] (the flag ship program of the National Council for Science & Technology Communication (NCSTC), Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India), along with selected participants from all the States/Union Territories of India and other ASEAN Countries.
Focal theme for the year 2015 is "Understanding Weather and Climate". Each Indian School in Kuwait can send a maximum of two projects – one from each age group
Lower Group: 10 years to less than 14 years
Upper Group: 14 years to less than 17 years
Age will be determined as on 31st December of the calendar year. A group of children not exceeding 5 (five), can do the project with the help of school teachers, coordinators of school science clubs, activists of science based voluntary organizations etc. The selected participant will attend the National Level Event in India.
The last date for confirmation about School's participation is 15th September 2015.
Registration of the teams is strictly through school. For further details and team registration please contact the Principal of respective schools.


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We provide residents with a weekly kerbside rubbish collection using grey lidded wheelie bins for the disposal of general non-recyclable household waste. Blocks of flats are usually served with larger bulk bins. In some areas where access is an issue we operate a black bag collection service.
You can use our Missed bin or collection issues form to report queries and issues relating to the collections for missed bins, household refuse collections, garden waste collections and kerbside recycling collections.
Please note that only one waste service collection issue can be reported at a time, e.g. if you have issues with more than one collection service you will need to complete two separate instances of this form.
If you have any problems with the new wheelie bin service you can tell us using the Household Waste Wheelie Bin Service form.
The Council will provide households in areas authorised as difficult access with the equivalent of one replacement plastic sack each week, delivered on a roll. If you use these up before the next delivery, you will have to supply your own black sacks until the new supply is delivered. Please ensure if using your own supply, the sacks are of a standard domestic sack size (approximate 80 litres) and strong enough to hold the waste.
If you wish to report an issue with your black sack, such as a missing black sack delivery or to request the extra sack service please use our online Black sack supply service form.
Please note that the household waste collection service excludes the collection of the following:
Small amounts of cat litter should be double bagged and included in household waste. Large amounts should be disposed of at Household Waste Recycling Centres. Heavy amounts will not be taken in normal household collections.
Please ensure that your household waste is securely contained in standard sized (approximate 80 litres) black bags. We will not take larger bags such as wheelie bin liners. We will only collect normal domestic household waste contained within the grey bin, additional waste placed at the side of the bin will not be collected. For residents in difficult to access areas we will collect up to 3 plastic sacks per week.
The scheduled weekday service normally operates between 6am and 2pm. As the refuse collection commences early in the morning your refuse should be made available by 6.15am on the morning of collection, or no earlier than 7.30pm the night before. Please ensure your waste is placed at the back of the public footpath.
If households place materials out for collection on the public highway and before the morning of their collection, we will write to the address to remind the householder that this is not acceptable.
If letters and education methods are unsuccessful, a householder may be liable to a fixed penalty notice or a much larger fine if convicted in a Magistrates Court.
For further information on fines please see:
If we are unable to identify which household is placing the waste out, we will usually write to all residents in the area as a reminder. If the practice continues we will investigate the contents of the bags in an effort to identify which property is responsible.
We will collect your household waste on the same day each week. We collect on the spring and summer bank holidays, we will advise customers of any changes due to Christmas and New Year or adverse weather disruptions.
We can provide an additional collection service or request to collect bulky waste including garden rubbish and larger items of rubbish (e.g. sofas, carpets and fridges) within eight working days of your request. There is a charge for this service, please click here for information on our fees and charges. Waste must be placed on your property as near as possible to the pavement.


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Imagine we could bring someone from 15th century Europe to see the holiday shops. She would wonder at electric lightbulbs, the shiny metallic rectangles called cell phones, and, of course, New Yorkers' fashion.
If I had to guess, though, she would be most surprised by Spice Professors (kiosk D6). Throughout the majority of human history, spices were the ultimate extravagance. The ancient Egyptians imported cinnamon and cassia from India to embalm their cherished dead, and in the Middle Ages, exotic spices were reserved for royalty. By the 16th century, the Portuguese, British and Dutch had all fought wars over control of the spice trade.
|Spice Professors sells a variety of pre-blended spice mixtures that will brighten your winter.
Fast forward to the present: Spice Professors offers countless teas and spices from throughout the world—all at very affordable prices. There is everything from staples like smoked paprika and black pepper to Ras El Hanout, a special combination of spices that serves as the foundation for much of North African cuisine. Then there are the mixes that only Spice Professors could dream up: my favorite is a blend called "Greek Salad".
|The spices are displayed loose, as if in a spice market. Being able to smell them is a huge boost when trying to pick out the perfect one!
Spice Professors also sells a variety of loose leaf tea. On cold days like today, I chose to enjoy a hot cup of my favorite black tea: Chai Masala. As tea aficionados know, loose leaf tea makes a difference and the Spice Professors' Chai is better than any tea bag Chai I've tasted. Drinking it back at my desk, it's a taste of true luxury.
|A simple cup of tea can transports me from my desk to a much more exotic locale.
Holiday Shops at Bank of America Winter Village
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ZAMSURECO-I's institutionalized CSR, the "Sinsilyo sa Lata" Feeding Program or "Coin for a Cause" reached the far-flung area of Barangay Inasagan, Aurora, Zamboanga del Sur last December 28, 2017.
ZAMSURECO-I workforce visited Barangay Inasagan Hall bringing Christmas food delivery to the kids. The collected "sinsilyo" from the member-consumers benefitted a total of 217 children who are in need of supplemental feeding.
The joy of the Christmas season was manifested in the priceless smiles of the children as they unpacked their Jollibee Chicken joy food items and participated in the activities set for the day's program.
The feeding program also gained the support of the barangay council and ZAMSURECO-I's Board of Directors.
The "Coin for A Cause" Program of ZAMSURECO-I is envisioned to be expanded to further reach far-flung and marginalized barangays and sectors within the Coop's franchise coverage in the year 2018.
The feeding program activity adds up to the pile of corporate social responsibility initiatives of the ZAMSURECO-I in realizing its vision to immerse and reach out communities.


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News Archive
REDD+ Promotes Agroforestry in Selected Hotspots in Chitwan, Nepal28 Feb 2017
The REDD+ team from ICIMOD conducted a field visit to Chitwan district from 9-12 February 2017. The purpose of the visit was to provide further orientation of the District REDD+ Action Plan (DRAP), and to discuss the preparation of an agro-forestry plan with local cooperative members.READ MORE
Workshop on Climate Smart Mountain Livelihood Diversification Options Held in Islamabad22 Feb 2017
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), in partnership with WWF Gilgit-Baltistan, organized a three-day training of trainers (ToT) workshop in Islamabad as an activity under its Himalica programme.READ MORE
Brief Introduction of CNICIMOD22 Feb 2017
Chinese Committee on International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (CNICIMOD), officially established on 26 April, 2006 by Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) is considered as a national representative of ICIMOD's Chinese partners, with three offices in Chengdu, Kunming and Lhasa respectively.READ MORE
Facilitators Trained on District REDD+ Action Plan (DRAP)20 Feb 2017
A DRAP is a sub-national plan designed to help implement the national REDD strategy by addressing local drivers of deforestation and forest degradation in a given district, and finding opportunities for carbon enhancement at the local landscape level through a multi-stakeholder consultative process.READ MORE
Emissions Study in Lumbini Analyzes the Effects the Agricultural Crop Residue Burning15 Feb 2017
Open burning is common in the HKH and a convenient way for farmers to eliminate of large quantities of crop residue. This practice also serves to prepare fields for the next crop cycle – wheat in spring and rice in summer.READ MORE
Incentivizing Mountain Communities for Ecosystem Services in the Context of a Changing Climate06 Feb 2017
The International Conference on Biodiversity, Climate Change Assessment, and Impacts on Livelihood was organized in Kathmandu from 10-12 January 2017. The three-day event brought together 300 national and 100 international scientists, policy makers, and development workers to facilitate the integration of science, technology, policy, and action.READ MORE
ICIMOD Scientists Share Glacier Knowledge in Switzerland02 Feb 2017
Several scientists from ICIMOD recently traveled to Switzerland for a knowledge exchange study tour for climate change and glacier monitoring. The meeting, which moved between Zurich and Zermatt in October 2016, offered an opportunity for hydrologists, glaciologists, and cryosphere experts from the Alps and the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) to share their ideas and experience.READ MORE
Himalica Pilot Partners Meet to Review 2016 Progress and Plan for 201702 Feb 2017
At the regional review and planning workshop held in Kathmandu, Nepal, this January, Himalica pilot implementing partners from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, and Nepal met to review their progress in 2016. They used the workshop as a sounding board for developing their 2017 action plans.READ MORE
ICIMOD and KHDC Organize Training on Beekeeping in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh02 Feb 2017
A seven-day training of lead farmers on beekeeping was organized from 5 -11 January 2017 with the main objective of supporting locals in Baganbari, an AdaptHimal pilot site in Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts. The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) is supporting beekeeping as an enterprise for the enhancement of resilient livelihoods in Baganbari.READ MORE


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December 8, 2018, 8:00 AM - December 16, 2018, 8:00 PM
December 15, 2018, 10:30 AM - 1:30 PM @ Liberty Lake Library
Come visit with Santa at our annual event! Crafts and activities while you wait for your turn to see Santa. Everyone who arrives no later than 1:30 PM sharp will get to see Santa.
In order to prevent a large line forming out the door, we will be taking groups of 25 back to see Santa. When you arrive you will be handed a ticket with a Christmas character on it. When your character is called then you will line up in the Children's Room for your turn to see Santa. Tickets will be checked to prevent line cutting. Crafts and games will be provided while you are waiting for your ticket to be called.
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Graduate's band review hits the right note with Fred Perry
A former University of Wolverhampton student is hitting all the right notes with his indie band, Semantics – having been singled out recently in Fred Perry's Subculture review of "20 Birmingham bands you need to hear now".
Subculture is Fred Perry's new music initiative highlighting the brightest young talent on the music scene, alongside the cream of British music artists that have a long standing relationship with the brand.
Joshua Rochelle-Bates, currently a Graduate Intern in the Alumni department at the University, graduated in Business Management two years ago and plays bass guitar as well as managing and marketing the alternative, post punk. indie four piece band.
All based in the West Midlands, the band was formed in 2014 and is well-known for playing Birmingham's live circuit, having released their debut EP earlier this year.
The Fred Perry review said: "The stand out feature of this indie band is undoubtedly the quality of Rob Lilley's haunting voice, which is at once brutally minimal yet velvety smooth in its delivery."
Josh said: "We were rather surprised to have been mentioned in the Fred Perry Subculture Birmingham Sound piece, especially alongside other great artists.
"It's just nice to know that someone is actually listening to us! We've been rather humbled to have been played on BBC Introducing this year as well as getting airplay in the United States, Russia and Amsterdam, but this has just topped it off for us. We can't wait to get into the new year and record new material as well as play more shows in and out of Birmingham.''
Find out more about the band on Twitter@SemanticsUK, on Facebook and on Sound Cloud. Band members are Bridie Green, Josh Rochelle-Bates, Rob Lilley and Simon Lees.
For more information please contact the Media Relations Office on 01902 32 2736 or 01902 518647.
Date Issued: 13th December 2016
For more information please contact the Media Relations Office on 01902 32 2736 or 01902 518647.


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Crisp pickles add tangy crunch to a sandwich and make an enjoyable treat by themselves. If you have a bumper crop of cucumbers, jarring some for pickles is a good alternative to spoilage. Pickle lovers that prefer crispy cukes over dense soggy ones should put some up in jars. Jarring your own pickles allows you to tweak the pickling recipe to your own tastes and will give you loads of crunch all year round. Get crispy pickles by using a "low heat" method and the right kitchen equipment.
Wash four small pickles -- enough for one canning jar -- under cool water. Pat them dry with paper towels.
Place the pickles on a cutting board, slicing off the ends and cutting each into four long sections.
Place your canning jar in a deep pot. Cover the jar with water and bring the pot to the boiling point on a high heat. Add the lid and lid cap to the boiling water. Once the water boils, turn off the heat.
Pour the pickling mixture into a non-metal pan. Follow the instructions on the packet for the amount of water you'll need. If making your own pickling mixture, add vinegar, salt and dill to taste.
Heat the pickling mixture on medium. Remove the hot jar from the water using tongs. Place the pickle spears in the jar lengthwise. Pour the liquid over the pickle spears. Fill to 1/4-inch of the rim. Place the lids and the caps on the jars. Tighten them in place.
Place a canning pot or a large pot on the stove. Position the jar of pickles in the canner and cover it with 1 inch of water. Allow the submersed jar to boil for 30 minutes. Turn off the heat and carefully remove the jar with tongs. The jars are finished when the center of the lid does not pop.
- You can eat crispy pickles in just 24 hours after canning.
- Use caution when handling hot water as it may burn your skin.
- Keep hot pots out of the reach of children.
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Pew Research: What the Internet of Things will look like
The volume of talk around the Internet of Things (IoT) has been on the rise for at least the past year. It seems like every vendor is explaining it, touting it and advising channel partners to get onboard for the umpteen opportunities that are there for those who do.
Well, a recent survey offers some perspective on the IoT.
Last week, the Pew Research Center released a hefty report titled "The Internet of Things Will Thrive by 2025" — the latest research in an on-going effort in 2014 marking the 25th anniversary of the creation of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee.
This current report, and third report in the series of eight by Pew Research and Elon University, is an analysis of "experts' opinions" about the likely expansion of the IoT, defined as a catchall phrase for numerous devices, appliances, vehicles, wearable material and sensor-laden parts of the environment that are interconnected and feeding data back and forth, according to Pew Research.
Cisco estimated there were 13 billion Internet-connected devices in 2013, a figure that's expected to reach 50 billion by 2020.
The report focuses on six themes:
1. The IoT will progress significantly between now and 2025.
2. An IoT-laden world raises substantial concerns about privacy and people's abilities to control their own lives.
3. Information interfaces will advance but few expect brain-to-network connectivity by 2025.
4. The IoT will result in complicated and unintended consequences where many things will not work and nobody will know how to fix them.
5. Not everyone will want to be digitally connected, creating a digital divide between these who do and those who don't.
6. The IoT and individual and organizational responses to it will change the relationships that people have with each another and with groups.


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User talk:Hyad
The grass is always greener on the other user page. --JWSchmidt 02:19, 6 Jul 2005 (UTC)
Seen in Recent Changes[edit]
N ! Sexual relations; 04:35 . . Hyad (Talk) (created paige) <-- caught my eye --JWSchmidt 05:10, 7 Jul 2005 (UTC)
- lol, I figured saying "created page" every time I make a new page is a little boring. I didn't think anyone would right a response that quickly though. 8^) -Hyad 23:48, 7 Jul 2005 (UTC)
Glad you like my Crazy Frog GIMPette. And I think we should keep most of the templates in the Template namespace (for sake of simplicity), in line with Wikipedia (Template:Subliminal is based on the original Wikipedia spoiler warning). Ettlz 09:18, 8 Jul 2005 (UTC)
- Yeah, I thought we should keep the word Template: instead of FakeTemplate:. I just wrote that on my main user page in case people took offense to my going to their user pages and "stealing" their fake templates and making them real templates. I see you use the GIMP from Pulp Fiction, I use the old version: see below. -Hyad 05:50, 9 Jul 2005 (UTC)
- Talking of that, I'm also into LaTeX, if you must know. Ettlz 21:19, 9 Jul 2005 (UTC)
- Hyad, about that image you linked to on the Crazy Frog article. My mother almost caught me inspecting it. Lucikly, I use Firefox and had "Best of Goatse" on the other tab, and so much embarrassment was thus avoided.
- Talking of that, I'm also into LaTeX, if you must know. Ettlz 21:19, 9 Jul 2005 (UTC)
Too Short[edit]
"I put the Template:Shortest page candidate (new version here) on the You have two cows page." Only 110450 bytes; slackers!
Double U or Wookie?[edit]
Well, if you think about it, he does sound like a wookie.And the "Double U" thing is pretty played out --Nytrospawn 13:37, 20 Jul 2005 (UTC)
If I told you, I'd have to kill you[edit]
So you know, Elvis and I are trying to keep the OW: page quiet until OW's birthday, when we plan to subtitute it for the main page. I hope you don't mind that I killed your link on OW's main page. While it's quite possible to sumble upon it, we'd like it to be somewhat surprizing to people. --Famine 13:42, 28 Jul 2005 (UTC)
- The Wikipedia:Oscar Wilde page says his birthday is October 16. You're willing to wait that long? -Hyad 02:09, 29 Jul 2005 (UTC)
- I've got elephant genes so we should be OK.--Elvis 12:54, 29 Jul 2005 (UTC)
Adding wikipedia to userpage links in Life and Death of a Template[edit]
It gets even geekier if you look carefully the signatures of the users that are also here actual link to there user page her (although perversly not yours as I didn't know you were the original author at the time).--Elvis 13:00, 29 Jul 2005 (UTC)
- P.S. Someone has recreated it.
Why the heck did you mark Wikipedia as {{stupid}}? - Guest 08:23, 18 Aug 2005 (UTC)
- The same reason, Encyclopædia Dramatica has it's Wikipedia page to be voted for deletion. Rather than copy the idea, I'd figure I'd give it a "stupid warning" so people will not to use the it's fictional information. Wikipedia is "dangerous parody of Uncyclopedia" - [insert the name of Oscar Wilde here]. If you find it to be unfunny - you are free to remove it to "conform to an understandable standard of humor". -Hyad 20:56, 21 Aug 2005 (UTC)
Hyad. I see that you have become interested in the Disneyland articles. Edit your User talk page. I have something to tell you. --KP CUN 09:02, 23 Aug 2005 (UTC)
OK, very clever making it commented out. I use Template:Subliminal when I want to write something hidden. Or perhaps something like Template:Confused - try reading that. But I don't notice an anomaly. World domination - yup, that seems alright. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough. Is it like one of those Magic Eye deals? - I could never get those to work. 8^) -Hyad 09:15, 23 Aug 2005 (UTC)


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Ectopic Ureter in Cats
An ectopic (displaced) ureter is a congenital abnormality in which one or both ureters open into the urethra or vagina. Bilateral ectopia affects both ureters, and unilateral ectopia affects one ureter. In cats affected with ectopic ureter, the ureter completely bypasses the bladder and enters the urethra from outside of the bladder walls (extramural type).
This condition is rare, and when it does occur it may be asymptomatic, with no apparent urination problems. When symptoms are apparent, they often present as occasional or continuous incontinence, and inflammation of the vagina (vaginitis) from urine scalding the vaginal tissue.
Ectopic ureter has an unknown mode of inheritance, but there does appear to be a component of breed predisposition.
Your veterinarian will use a diagnostic technique called urethrocystoscopy, which uses an insertable tube with an attached camera. In this way, your doctor will be able to examine the bladder internally, and visualization of the urethral opening into the urethra or vagina will be more apparent. Your veterinarian will also be looking to identify holes (perforations) in the structure of the urethra (urethral fenestrations), depressions, striping (or streaking), and tenting in the bladder. When this diagnostic method is performed skillfully, a more accurate diagnosis can be made than with external imaging techniques, such as radiography. Another technique, urethral pressure profilometry, measures surface variations to detect coexistent urethral muscle (sphincter) incompetence. There remains the possibility that a displaced ureter will confound the results of this test, however.


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Guest blog by Dale Hammond
This following describes how a California launch facility and a pair of accidents there spoke less about failure and more about the resilience and perseverance of human efforts in orbital space and beyond. Accidental failure occurred not once but twice in the same place within a span of just eight months. But rather than pointing to defeat, the recovery of that facility and the people who worked there led to new and innovative solutions: booster reusability by SLC 4's current occupant SpaceX and subsequent cost reduction in delivery of payloads to orbit, which is considered paramount to the colonization of Mars. It may also lead in some distant future to the SLC being known in planetary legend and lore as a place that would not go away, that was once and will always be "The Comeback Kid."
Space Launch Complex 4, or SLC 4, Vandenberg Air Force Base, began its career as a launch facility for Atlas and Titan rockets. In 1963 two platforms were constructed within the complex: PALC2-3 and PALC2-4. Later, those became what they are known today: SLC 4e and SLC 4w. That whole chapter lasted for 42 years, and then SLC 4 was deactivated. In 2011 it was reactivated, to be leased and refurbished/rebuilt by SLC 4's next chapter, SpaceX.
Overall, the PALC/SLC years were good and confidence was high. There were 161 launches at the complex, including the Titan family and the Atlas family of launch boosters. And if this graph from spacelaunchreport.com showing worldwide launches per year is any indication, the past performance of the PALC/SLC tracked, if not improved on, that launch history. Hence, one might assume, like the worldwide success rate, the overall success rate at SLC 4 through 2005 sat at least around 95%.
However, space presents a well-known slim margin of error. As Gary Payton, Deputy Under Secretary of the Air Force for Space Programs said, "Launch reliability is my top priority. Our constellations for any of our missions cannot tolerate a launch failure." Further, boosters are not a dime a dozen. Richard M. Rocket, co-founder and CEO of New Space Global, speaking in the wake of a 2015 launch failure said, "It's not like you can just jump to another launch vehicle." Each booster is one of a kind, designed for a single purpose and a specific payload. In such a world, failure is not an option: when failure comes, it's painful.
But failure, it should be said, is a necessary stepping stone to achieving dreams, whether they are orbital space, lunar exploration, or Mars exploration and colonization. Correspondingly, if there are any years in the American Space program that best embody that characterization, 1985-1986 could be called "model stepping stones." The most tragic and most publicized incident was the untimely demise of the Space Shuttle Challenger on January 28, 1986. It caused a suspension of the shuttle program for 32 months and formation of the Rogers Commission, appointed by President Ronald Reagan and assigned the task of discovering what exactly went wrong.
As for Vandenberg Air Force Base in the wake of the Challenger accident, it was dealt an indirect but personal blow as the Air Force elected to cancel use of Vandenberg's Space Launch Complex 6 (SLC 6) for classified Shuttle military launches. Less known of that period are the '85 and '86 launch accidents at SLC 6's Vandenberg neighbor, SLC 4.
By the middle of 1985 at SLC 4, no Titan had failed in 18 years. Then August 18, 1985, came along. At SLC 4e a Titan 34D-7 was poised on the launch pad carrying a KH-11 photo-reconnaissance satellite. The mighty Titan lifted off and had a good flight – but not for long. In rapid succession, an unplanned complete engine shutdown, a computer glitch and a premature stage separation led to the Titan tumbling disastrously toward land. At T+272 seconds the destruct command was given, and not long afterward, the Titan sank to its permanent residence, a Pacific grave. Its team, that group of dedicated scientists, engineers and technicians who gave life to the Titan, sought solace in what little was left.
But moving forward when all seems lost was in the nature of the SLC 4 crew. They went back to work and found what they believed to be the cause of failure. Corrections were made, and a little under eight months later SLC 4 was ready for another Titan launch.
It was clear on the morning of April 18, 1986: a good day for a launch. This time a Titan 34D-9 was ready to send up a KH-9 photo-reconnaissance satellite.
10:45AM. The Titan headed aloft. Then just above the SLC, the craft erupted into a ball of flame. Debris and toxic propellant showered down on both SLC 4e and SLC 4w. Fortunately, there were no lives lost. But the launch facility was in ruins.
As President Theodore Roosevelt once said, "The credit belongs to the man [or woman] who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself [or herself] in a worthy cause."
So strive they did. Just 14 months later, in October 1987, SLC 4e reopened. It went on to host the successful launch of two more Titan 34D's, as well as many other launches.
SLC 4e's career is far from over. SpaceX is its new, famous occupant, and if SpaceX CEO and CTO Elon Musk's goal of Mars colonization becomes reality, SLC 4e, "The Comeback Kid," and the people there who make it all happen will be on the job time and again, carrying on the tradition of resilience and perseverance for humanity's multi-planet future.
Dale Hammond is a space enthusiast, working at Vandenberg Air Force Base.
#1 Titan 34 d explosian, slc 4e, 4/18/86; airspacemag.com
#2 Titan 34d at slc 4e ; afspacemuseum.org
#3 SLC 4 in the Titan days: spaceflightnow.com
#4 SLC 4 today; wikimedia
#5 SLC 4e, Falcon Heavy, artists rendition; spaceflightnow.com


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Yuval Ben-Ami's new project is an anti-travelogue: an exploration of places unvisited. (Click here for more.)
I walked in beauty. I walked in fire. Early morning matured into fully boiling day just as the trail led me from shady forest into pastures. Above me soared rocks in outlandish angles that seemed carefully measured so as not to shield me from the sun. Each village spring was a life saver. One farmhouse advertised cheese. I knocked, craving the cool of their cellar far more than the cheese itself.
Somehow I persisted, climbing to the town of Grindelwald, then beyond it. The mountains grew greater, nearer. Over the cliffs appeared the glaciers that worried Theo. They truly were melting, and water gushed down to the valley. The child of a land of few waterfalls, I couldn't stop taking cellphone photos and posting them. Likes poured in by the hundreds.
Even at 1,500 meters I remained bare chested, cursing the straps of my backpack and guitar case. Oxygen was becoming scarcer and I rested more and more frequently, taking in the gradually expanding vistas of the valley below me. I had to push through. A lady at Grindelwald's tourist information office booked me a bed at a hikers's hut, directly above the tree line. I had to reach it before dark – and did. It was lost in a cloud, the first I had seen all week, and as I stepped in, rain began to pour outside.
The pleasant proprietors showed me to a room with fourteen vacant beds. I sat there with little to do but stare at the torrent. This would have been a great time to write about Lebanon, but I had no computer, nor even a writing pad, and in any case, I had nothing to write about Lebanon. I knew nothing of Lebanon. I have never been there.
Except once, in a sense.
Anna, a German journalist and a friend, smuggled me past the border fence in 2005. The IDF gave her permission to visit Ghajar, a village split between Israel and Lebanon, and to bring a translator along. My German and Arabic are both south of limited, but friendship gets you places.
Here's how Ghajar got to be this way: It expanded into Lebanon while Israel occupied the country's southern region, following the war of 1982. No Israeli citizens were allowed into the occupied land, Where the IDF and its allies were at constant war with Hezbollah, but Ghajar's townsfolk are Alawite Arabs and their town is in Golan territory, so no one paid much mind when they did go there, and built.
Then, in the year 2000, after nearly two decades of futile war, Israel backed out of Lebanon, and the border became a border once more. Rather being split down the middle, Ghajar became its own planet. The ultra-secured border fence was planted south of it, separating it from Israel. The townsfolk normally commuted south, to the Jewish town of Qiryat shemona. None of them worked in Lebanon and they were not on good terms with Hezbollah.
Undeserved to begin with, and dismissed as a magic portal for drug smugglers, the town got kicked out of its respective country. Hardly any outsider could obtain a permit to visit it, and even the one I did obtain was limited to the south side. I was told the border is a street, and that I am not to cross that street. The night before riding north with Anna, I dreamed that we did cross it, together. On the far side was a circus tent. That is all I recall.
She picked me up early with her rental car. We drove north past Tel Aviv's high-rise suburbs, past orange groves and dunes and patches of eucalyptus, all studded with too much trash, too much commerce. Within two hours, the density of the coast gave way to the serenity of the far north. It was winter, the green season, and the valley that separates the Golan Heights and the Mountains of Naftali is the land's greenest stretch. Its orchards and fields seem to extends hundreds of miles further north, and do, in fact, but not for us.
Soon we turned to a tiny road that wound through pastoral mine fields, then reached the fence. We had to curve around sixteen cubes of gray concrete to reach the checkpoint. A soldier took our IDs, called in with the authorities and then warned us: "Don't cross into Lebanon." He then let us drive on, across the fence.
We were on a pleasant street lined with miniature palm trees. Where was the border? Clearly to the north, but how far? A block? Two blocks? There was no parking to the south, the alleys were too slender and the fence of a school touched right down to the street. I looked north and saw a Hebrew sign: "Israeli Ministry of Health, clinic for mother and child." "That's Israel," I told Anna. "Let's park there."
We did, then walked back to the palm lined street, to visit town hall. In the lobby hung two large satellite images of the town. The border was marked on both: a dotted blue line. It ran directly along "Palm Street." Having properly driven on the right side of the road, we appear to have been in Lebanon ever since leaving the checkpoint. Our car was parked inside Lebanon. Town hall was in Lebanon.
The mayor was absent and we met with the town treasurer, who described life in his hometown as "impossible." "You have a heart attack here, the ambulance can't come in. It has to wait for you at the checkpoint. You could die three times on the way." He apologized for what he regarded as flawed hospitality. "I would like so much to host you in my home, but cannot. My home is in Lebanon."
We deducted that town hall was just near enough to Israel to count as neutral territory, but the streets north of the clinic were properly abroad. "No worries," Anna calmed the treasurer, "We really appreciate you seeing us. We'll just take a stroll around the old part of town and move on."
We stepped out just as the school's bell rang and children poured to Palm Street. Anna crouched and photographed them walking hand in hand across the dotted line that was also the blue dotted line. A few weeks earlier, Hezbollah and the IDF held a shoot-out over this precise stretch of asphalt. Four Hezbollah combatants were killed and the IDF's position inside the village was abandoned. The children were kept in the school. None were hurt, not physically.
We had a falafel, then walked over to gray, vacant Israeli watchtower, and took in its melancholy. The Hasbani river gushed directly below us. Along it — a disused gravel path meandered north, to meet with a paved road on which cars buzzed.
"We have to go a bit further," I told Anna.
"Of course."
"Damn. You're the best."
"But we can't have anyone see us from outside the town." she pointed north, "See the little hill? I think it's a position."
I could make out not only the mound she referred to, but a gun's barrel sticking out from it. "They would love to get hold of us," she said, "particularly you."
"Yes I know."
We ventured north, past the car, past the gym, strolling along the peripheral row of Ghajar's houses, in hope that it screened us. This neighborhood was indeed newer and more spacious. It was peaceful, pleasant, full of women in colorful headscarves who eyed us with suspicious kindness or kind suspicion.
At one point, along the town's northernmost rim, I stepped off the street to pick up a souvenir: a stone from the neighboring land. The one I picked was entirely black: basalt. Having chosen it, I raised my eyes and looked through the alley that separated two houses. The loving road was now so near I could almost read the license plates of the passing cars. On a hill beyond the road, the first boxy dwellings of Marjayoun, a proper sized town, scaled a cheerful wintery hill. Blocking part of the view was another mound, another bunker with another barrel. It was time to turn south.
As we did, we passed two men engaged in conversation. It paused as we passed by. One man waved for us to stop then asked, in Hebrew: "Who are you?"
"We're journalists," I answered.
"What?" he said, "and they just let you walk around here?"
"No no!" I quickly calmed him, "We got lost. We are making our way back to Israel. Worry not."
We waved him farewell and rushed to the clinic and the car, started the engine and zoomed out of town. It was only days later that I realized my ears had betrayed me. He was not reprimanding us. He did not ask us if "they just let you walk around here" sourly, but with hope. He was asking: Is my neighborhood a normal place again, where strangers may simply stroll by?
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We all know about the negative effects of cannabis/weed but not many of us take the time to actually look at the positives and the pros . So I have taken the time to write this article purely based on the positive effects that cannabis can have on the UK. This old age debate has been going on for several years but nothing really has come close until now it has just been talk.
Recently a huge number of people signed a petition to legalise cannabis the actual amount of people who signed were 200,000 strong.
Most of the numbers were made from an online poll and through links on Facebook.
The benefits of legalising cannabis are that crime would significantly decrease due to the number of cannabis related incidents and arrests for people selling and growing the plant. The police would have more time to focus their units on more important crimes like knife crime and Rape. And they would not be called out for drug related crimes and dealings of the drug this would save money and paperwork.
Tax revenue would be huge over another 900 million in revenue could be brought in each year making the country rich and wealthy.
It could be sold as medicine and nearly everyone could benefit from cannabis ,it has many health benefits and could also be used as good funding for healthcare. The country would have more funds to solve its current debts and even be in profit 3 times the debt.
Just take a step back and think ,even legalising Cannabis on a temporary basis could have positive effects for the United Kingdom. Other nations such as the US have already gone ahead with the deal and more wiser for it .Several states in the US including the Capital Washington DC have already legalised Marijuana.
Evetually after a time period people would just see it and recognise it as a common drug .
Many people do it already such as Celebrities and it is included in a lot of films ,talk shows ,singers ,media it is already very much apart of our lives . Homeless or youngsters may be seen using the drug or in much poorer areas of the UK people are already smoking it anyway. In Music festivals it is one of the most popular and common drugs used in the summer months.
80% of people have smoked Cannabis at least once in their life time. Next time you are out and about in the real world take time to look at how close cannabis is to your society and see that in fact the drug is already legal.


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Today's DVF post features a colorful twist on leopard print. As I've expanded my collection of wrap dresses, I have learned that the different names each dress is given indicates the style of the dress. The "Judy" wrap dress has a built in waistband similar to the original wrap dresses. I own two in this style, but I am a bigger fan of the New Jeanne wrap dress. That being said, the Judy style wrap dress is a close second.
I adore this fun print, especially because it has my favorite colors of green and blue. The blue is kind of subtle, so I wanted to bring it out with my heels (and because I love to match!) I've seen this same dress in a pink/red combo, which I love, but it might be crazy buying the same print in a different color. (Even though I have been known to do that.) The Kate Spade pen necklace makes another appearance, and I will admit sometimes I forget it is a pen. Today at a meeting I was freaking out internally that I wasn't prepared and didn't have a pen at least. Then I remembered my necklace and I loved it even more in that instant because it was fashionable and functional.
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The Vancouver Sun reports:
Vancouver patients needing neurosurgery, treatment for vascular diseases and other medically necessary procedures can expect to wait longer for care, NDP health critic Adrian Dix said Monday.
Dix said a Vancouver Coastal Health Authority document shows it is considering chopping more than 6,000 surgeries in an effort to make up for a dramatic budgetary shortfall that could reach $200 million.
Dr. Brian Brodie, president of the BC Medical Association, called the proposed surgical cuts "a nightmare."
"Why would you begin your cost-cutting measures on medically necessary surgery? I just can't think of a worse place," Brodie said.
According to the leaked document, Vancouver Coastal — which oversees the budget for Vancouver General and St. Paul's hospitals, among other health-care facilities — is looking to close nearly a quarter of its operating rooms starting in September and to cut 6,250 surgeries, including 24 per cent of cases scheduled from September to March and 10 per cent of all medically necessary elective procedures this fiscal year.
President Barack Obama says his health care plan will not lead to government rationing of health care, but government run health care systems around the world have had to control costs by doing just that. Conservatives in the House tried to pass amendments that would prevent the federal government from rationing health care under Obamacare, but they were all defeated. For example in the House Ways and Means Committee:
Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) offered an amendment that would eliminate the public plan if its enrollees experienced longer wait times than the average wait times for enrollees in private health plans. These people would then be able to enroll in private health plans offered on the Health Insurance Exchange. The Brady amendment failed on a straight party-line vote.


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With apologies to fans of déjà vu, this review has no intention of reprising the Duck Soup Scandal at length. Some readers will have read my account on the comment pages a fortnight ago, others with far too much time on their hands may do so via the website, and most of you couldn't be less interested. So let it simply be stated that a visiting chef "live tweeted" a commentary on what he saw and overheard while we ate; and that henceforth my role model from the Marx Brothers film after which this restaurant is named (the Groucho Club is next door) will be Harpo, the mute one.
Enough of that, and on to a newbie which lands an unlikely double. It is absolutely on trend, the trend in question being that for small, bustling, hyper-utilitarian joints serving tapas-y dishes of high quality (I refer the honourable reader to my review of nearby Polpetto some months ago). It is also a nostalgist's paradise, hinting variously at post-war-austerity-years Soho diner, eastern European jazz club during the Cold War, the flat of the coolest kids on a red-brick campus circa 1984, and a Notting Hill Trustafarian's notion of current squat chic.
"This place isn't only 1948. It's so 2011, it's 2015," said my friend as we took in an oppressively narrow space with faintly grubby white brick walls, scuffed flooring, bare lightbulbs hanging on a black cord from a curtain rail and a record player perched on a shelf by the door. Vinyl is enjoying a major retro revival, of course, and punters are invited to bring their ow n LPs without a penny's spinnage charged. Fittingly, UB40's "Red Red Wine" was playing as we settled, or tried to, at history's wobbliest and most ill-shaped table (I was obliged to sit side-saddle). A band named after an unemployment benefit form, several members of which recently went bankrupt, caught the back-to-the-future mix of the archaic and the futuristic pretty well.
A fierce draught added to the bleakness and gnawing sense of being 20 years too old for the place. I had the strongest urge to ask our slightly offhand waitress (she bridled visibly at the request for tap water) for a blanket to cover my knees, but stifled it. Well, you can hardly play the valetudinarian in boho Soho.
In such an uncomfortable room what you need is cracking comfort food, and this chef Julian Biggs provides. There is nothing clever or ambitious about his menu, girlishly handwritten on weeny bits of yellow paper (the 10-bottle wine list is felt-tipped on tiles by the bar).
The cuisine is eclectic-European, with Italian dominant, and the dishes impressive for their simplicity, quality of ingredients and big flavours.
We started with a trio of braised vegetables, all at a suitably austere £3.50, and liked two of them. Courgettes with chilli and mint were just the right side of squidgy, as were celery hearts in lemony, creamy broth, but an olive-oil-drizzled artichoke was minutely overcooked. Best of the "from the bar" starters was a trio of smoked sprats, full of fun and served with lightly pickled onion and tomato.
Literally and metaphorically, we were warming up now. So were the staff, the thawing of whose initial froideur coincided precisely with the unveiling of the notebook and the thrilling revelation of my presence on Twitter.
An almost friendly young chap delivered four hot dishes. Quail, not the easiest bird to cook well, came immaculately grilled to a deep brown, crispy-skinned finish and enlivened by sumac, a red powdered berry with a zesty, citric taste most often found in Persian cooking, but increasingly popular with our smartest young modern-British cooks. Smoked trout with lentils and culatello (a very fancy Italian ham) was fine, if forgettable. This came with a gentle mayonnaise on no account to be confused with garlicky aioli, which lent a bit of kick to a plate of roast chicken that didn't need the help. "Och, och, that's fabulous. It actually tastes like chicken, and the salty, crispy skin…!" Even better were four fat, properly deep-pink lamb chops, served alone on a plate in the Italian style, and adorned with salmoriglio, a zingy medley of lemon and herbs. "Astonishingly good," raved my friend before glancing accusingly at the paper dispenser on the table, "but I would really like a proper napkin."
Passing swiftly over a mixed pair of puddings – a great crème caramel and a horrid chocolate mousse – the question I'd like to pose vis-à-vis Duck Soup (phrased in honour of Winston Churchill's 137th birthday, which fell on Wednesday), is this. In return for such vibrant and delectable cooking, up with how much cramped and chilly discomfort are you prepared to put?
"Great food, and the ideal restaurant for a bedraggled civil servant with artistic pretensions in 1948," was my friend's closing judgment, "but I wouldn't come back." There he spoke for this ageing buffer as well. To those of you younger in age or spirit, or craving an outlet for those dusty vinyl LPs you couldn't bear to throw out when the turntable went into the skip, or merely keen for a semi-sanitised taste of life in a squat, I cannot recommend it warmly enough.