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Luxembourg, the Hague and Amsterdam comprised the latter part of our trip. Luxembourg was a super quick excursion. Enough time only to sleep in a beautiful hotel and tour the impressive European Court of Justice. This was a real highlight of the trip for me. I would work at the EUCJ in a heartbeat …if I had any of the credentials they are looking for. The EUCJ is newly built and very modern in design. The courtrooms were both beautiful and functional. We had a very knowledgeable tour guide who allowed us to attend a hearing that arose out of Spain. In this particular hearing, five or six judges sat at the front of the courtroom and listened to the opposing parties give their oral arguments in front of them. Proceedings are always in the language where the case arose, so in this instance, the case was in Spanish. There were translators sitting in glass boxes around the perimeter of the room translating the case in real time for the judges and observers who did not understand Spanish, like me. Knowing the importance of preciseness of language in the legal profession, I realized just how crucial each translators job was as I sat watching the judges press their headpieces to their ears, straining to hear every word. The following day we visited the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice. Both of which were short but interesting and informative visits.
Amsterdam was the final leg of the trip, and the most surprising for me. I really didn't know what to expect because frankly, all I knew about the city was their liberal views towards the recreational use of marijuana. Perhaps that fact had subconsciously given me the feeling that the city would be very modern in appearance, but it is really quite classic and almost vintage looking. The timeless architecture and countless canals, juxtaposed by the infamous Red Light District and Waterlooplein flea market makes Amsterdam one of the most interesting cities I've ever visited. I enjoyed some of the best Dutch cheese and fresh herring while out shopping in my free time. We also took a canal tour, which is the absolute best way to get an entire view of the city, and saw the Van Gogh Museum and the Rijksmuseum. During class time we were able to see the former house of Anne Frank and I was surprised by how emotional it was being in her home. I was glad to find that cameras were not allowed to capture the experience. It's a must-see for anyone visiting, in my opinion. Our final dinner in Amsterdam was at restaurant crowded with locals (always a good sign). The food was fantastic and it was an all-around enjoyable afscheid meal. I had such a great time in Europe that I really wasn't ready to return to the U.S. just yet. The only part of me that was ready to come home was my feet, and they could have been convinced otherwise with a day or two of rest.


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Pierre Dubeau, Carleton Geography and Environmental Studies MSc student, uses high tech remote sensing imagery and community-based field work to examine the environmental and socio-economic importance of wetlands for Ethiopian's rural society
Pierre Dubeau is conducting his Masters research on the role and importance of key wetlands in the Ethiopian Highlands, which are part of the Nile Basin. In this project, he is engaging with wetland ecologists at Addis Ababa University, the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and local community members to map wetland vegetation and seasonal dynamics in relation to the agricultural land use needs of the local communities.
Wetlands play a vital role in maintaining access to water and pastoral lands for the large rural population in Ethiopia. Portions of the wetlands support vast areas of grasslands, which are extensively grazed during the dry season. However, there is very little geo-spatial information describing their size, distribution, and seasonal dynamics. Pierre's MSc research will use remote sensing technologies to provide up-to-date spatial and temporal information about the wetlands and their catchment basins, which can aid local wetland land use management practices and broader water resources management of the Nile Basin.
His project is supervised by Doug King, co-director of Carleton's Geomatics and Landscape Ecology, and supported by the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) through IWMI. Radar and visible-near infrared satellite images of the wetlands were acquired using this support under the Wetland Theme of the JAXA's Advanced Land Observing System (ALOS) Kyoto Carbon Initiative.
Since 2009, Pierre has returned to Ethiopia every year to carry out field research to gain an understanding of the wetland ecology and the socio-economic importance of the wetlands. The field work engages local community members and includes field mapping for validation of the wetland maps derived from the remotely sensed imagery. Pierre believes that engagement with the community, dissemination of his up-to-date wetland maps, and demonstration that this information can be produced in the future at low cost by local government agencies will help improve the conservation and management of wetlands that are under extreme pressure from human development.

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Coming Home to the Catholic Faith
Reconnecting With Your Catholic Faith
This small group calls all Catholics to faithfully embrace the sacramental life of the Church, especially through weekly Mass and the sacrament of penance. Anyone who seeks answers to questions about the faith are encouraged to do so and humble support is offered espcially to those who have been away for a long time. Meets the week after Easter, additional meetings if necessary, but available anytime. New facilitators are welcome. For more information about meeting times and dates, please call Tom at 689-7448 or Carol at 741-8490 or email firstname.lastname@example.com
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I have already discussed the two introductions we have to David in 1 Samuel 16 and 17. You can look back to learn more about the balance needed in Men's ministry between spiritual life and practical accomplishment.
In the following chapters we can continue to learn something about men's ministry from a careful study of David's life. While David at this point knew he had been anointed by Samuel to be king, he may not have understood that moving through some serious difficulties and blessings was also necessary preparation for being a leader of men.
One of the toughest aspects of leadership is who do you work with and trust? Current leadership may need to be replaced. Friendships can be the greatest catalyst to strengthen a ministry, but perhaps just as often they lead to its greatest challenges. A leader must be ready to train up other leaders, and most likely will be accused of favoring their friends in the process.
So what happened next to David? First he is favored by Saul and given every advantage and opportunity. Then when he is successful Saul becomes jealous and contentious toward him. Apparently Saul was not the right person to trust.
Saul even offered to marry his eldest daughter, Merab to David as a reward for his accomplishment. But in the middle of these accolades, Saul also tried to kill David with a spear while he played his harp to comfort the king.
Another daughter was successfully offered to David, Michal. This arrangement did nothing to reconcile David and Saul, and Michal in many ways was a hindrance to him instead of a blessing.
However, on the positive side David did find a helpful friendship with Jonathan, Saul's son. Perhaps it was natural these two men had a strong friendship because they were both valiant warriors who had led Israel to miraculous victories. Jonathan, more than Saul, should have seen David as a competitor for the future throne. But instead of fighting him he proved his loyalty over and over again.
So what do we learn from men's ministry in these episodes of David's life?
- Expect some conflict when starting a ministry. If not right at the start, then when things begin to happen. Even successes can give rise to surprisingly hostile attacks from people you thought were on your side.
- Men's ministry will always include bumping up against the ego of men. Although an angry man's ego may want to start a fire, a leader who models humbleness will act as a fire extinguisher.
- Look for the quality of character in people more than their ability, position, or accolades. When you find the person with the right heart train them in leadership. The right ministry team will make all the difference in the world.
So when forming a men's ministry you will need to endure some conflict. It is in the nature of men for these conflicts to arise, and they can be surprisingly severe. But if you are serious about reaching men do not back down, but press ahead calmly and humbly.


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Compressed Counting Meets Compressed Sensing
Compressed sensing (sparse signal recovery) has been a popular and important research topic in recent years. By observing that natural signals (e.g., images or network data) are often nonnegative, we propose a framework for nonnegative signal recovery using \em Compressed Counting (CC). CC is a technique built on \em maximally-skewed α-stable random projections originally developed for data stream computations (e.g., entropy estimations). Our recovery procedure is computationally efficient in that it requires only one linear scan of the coordinates. In our settings, the signal \mathbfx∈\mathbbR^N is assumed to be nonnegative, i.e., x_i≥0, ∀i. We prove that, when α∈(0, 0.5], it suffices to use M=(C_α+o(1)) ε^-α \left(\sum_i=1^N x_i^α\right)\log N/δmeasurements so that, with probability 1-δ, all coordinates will be recovered within εadditive precision, in one scan of the coordinates. The constant C_α=1 when α\rightarrow0 and C_α=\pi/2 when α=0.5. In particular, when α\rightarrow0, the required number of measurements is essentially M=K\log N/δ, where K = \sum_i=1^N 1{x_i≠0} is the number of nonzero coordinates of the signal.
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Pip, an orphan who is about seven years old, encounters an escaped convict in the village churchyard, while visiting the graves of his parents and siblings.
The convict scares Pip into stealing food and a file.
Early on Christmas morning Pip returns with the file, a pie and brandy.
Joe relays a message from Miss Havisham that Estella will be at Satis House for a visit.
Pip returns there to meet Estella and is encouraged by Miss Havisham, but he avoids visiting Joe.
He tells Pip how Miss Havisham was jilted by her fiancé.


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Australian Indoor Hockey Festival returns to Goulburn in 2019
Hockey Australia says Goulburn will host the national Indoor Hockey Festival in 2019.
The news comes after Goulburn successfully hosted the Australian Indoor Hockey Festival in January this year.
The Festival will run from Friday January 4 to Saturday January 26 in 2019, across Under 13, Under 15, Under 18, Under 21 and Open divisions.
This year will see the introduction of a Masters' division to be held from Friday December 14 to Sunday December 16, which will provide a selection opportunity for the inaugural Indoor Masters World Cup in early 2019.
HA has partnered with Destination NSW and the Goulburn Mulwaree Council for the Festival, which will be played at Veolia Arena, with more than 100 teams expected to compete this year across the six divisions.
Hockey Australia CEO Matt Favier said: "We're thrilled to have Goulburn host the 2019 Australian Indoor Hockey Festival once again, having done an outstanding job in 2018.
"We also thank Destination NSW for their support as we move into the fourth year of our five-year agreement to play the Festival in the state.
"The Festival has grown with the addition of the Masters and we're expecting an increase in competing teams, which is extremely pleasing as the Indoor Hockey community comes together nationally.
"Australia's Indoor Hockey teams competed incredibly well at the World Cup in Berlin earlier this year, recording best-ever finishes, which shows the growth of our game is in a healthy state."
Goulburn Mulwaree Council mayor Bob Kirk said he is looking forward to welcoming the Australian Indoor Hockey Festival to the region again in 2019.
"Goulburn Mulwaree and the surrounding region has a proud history with the sport of Hockey, being strongly represented at the representative level right up to the Kookaburra and Hockeyroo level," Cr Kirk said.
"We believe in the sport of Hockey and the benefits this event is able to bring to our region, with the Festival of Indoor Hockey this year bringing over $1m in economic benefits to our City and the wider region."
The Festival will include: the Under 13s division, January 4-7; Under 15s, January 8-12; Under 18s, January 13-17; Under 21s, January 18-22; and the Open division, January 23-26.
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How to Overcome Head andes on Epson R230 Printer
How to Overcome Head andes on Epson R230 Printer
Head stuck or writing does not come out when the print is a common problem faced by all users of the printer includes all of us. One of the printers are often having clogged head problem is Epson. And this time we will discuss about How to Overcome Head andes on Epson Printers. Let's go straight to the scene ...
Causes of Head andes on Epson Printer:
1. Epson printers are rarely in use.
2. Epson printers are rarely performed maintenance (eg cleaning the print head).
3. Frequently changed dressing types and brands of ink epson
4. Too late for refilling the ink, resulting in overheating / heat in the Epson printer head.
Tools for Addressing Head andes on Epson Printer:
1. Cleaning fluid head (head cleaner), the brand is up to you.
2. Injections are equipped with a hose nozzle head for Epson
3. tissue
Here's How to Cope Head andes on Epson Printer:
1. Prepare an injection containing 5ml head cleaning fluid and tissue that has been in the fold, then put the rubber on the injection nozzle.
2. Position the head unit into the printer with the software or manually, and then take the catridge and unplug the printer power cable.
3. Head to the edge of the slide, then put a tissue paper roll evenly in front of the printer.
4. Plug the hose nozzle on the pole that headnya clogged Epson printer, and then pull inject up to 10ml, injection press slowly until the liquid runs out.
5. If the frozen ink resulting in clogging the nozzle is clogged head out on a tissue, then the nozzle cleaning process has been successful.
6. Replace the cartridge epson ink already loaded, Perform print head cleaning and nozzle check pattern in software / manual. And the head stuck on the Epson is resolved.
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You can also watch all the activity and everything thats happening in the Main Square.
Several times a week there is Live music, with the well known Johnny Hooper on the Sax, between 11am-2pm,
Kick back and relax with a delicious meal, snack & drinks. Lovely comfortable air-conditioned restaurant inside. Full menu of traditional meals and International choices including steaks to seafood, home-made pizza & huge selection of delicious ice creams all at very reasonable prices. Family friendly, lots of space for groups!
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Smart Meters in Every UK Home by 2020
UK Government Reveals Ambitious Smart Meter Plans
The European Union has already made moves to mandate smart meters, but now the Guardian tells us that the UK Government has revealed that it will be ensuring that every UK home is fitted with a smart meter by the year 2020. So what's the big deal?
Here's more from The Guardian:
"The meters most of us have in our homes were designed for a different age, before climate change," said Ed Miliband, the energy and climate change secretary. "Now we need to get smarter with our energy ... so it's important we design a system that brings best value to everyone involved."
Energy companies welcomed the switch, which will reduce their running costs by making meter readers obsolete and eliminating the customer service time spent on dealing with estimated bills. Consumers and small business owners could benefit from savings achieved through increased awareness of their energy use. Previous studies have shown that smart meters encourage homeowners to cut their energy use by 3-15%, although experts warn that the technology requires consumer education and is not an "install and forget" energy-efficiency measure like loft insulation.
It's certainly true that instantaneous feedback on our energy consumption can encourage more efficient behavior - fellow TreeHugger John's experiments with a ScanGauge and a car full of teenagers testify to that fact - but in order to be successful, we'll need efforts to educate the public about how to get the most out of these meters. Perhaps some of the money utilities will save on visiting households to do meter readings could be redirected into education? Just thinking out loud here...


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When you set up your WordPress blog for affiliate marketing or any other purpose, there are various free WP plugins you should install, which are basically small pieces of software that act as an add-on to WordPress and improve functionality, and add features.
There are about 40,000 free WP plugins that add features to your wordpress and improve functionality of WordPress, including plugins for affiliate marketing, site security, improve site speed and so much more. While there are many web developers that offer premium paid WP plugins for anywhere from $10 -$50. In most cases you can find a free plugin that offers the same or nearly the same functionality.
Before you install plugins for affiliate marketing, you need to install security plugins to stop spam comments and prevent your wordpress from being hacked and affected with malicious code.
A WP site affected with spam or malicious code can quickly be rendered useless, and the time and effort to remove these nefarious bits of code can be expensive and very time consuming.
How to Install a Plugin?
You can automatically install a plugin from the WordPress Plugin Directory, by clicking "Plugins" on the list of features on the left side of the page.
Then click "Add New," which allows you to search for a plugin by name or functionality you wish to add.
When you find the plugin you wish to install, just click the "Install Now" button, which installs the plugin to your installation of WordPress.
If you have purchased a Premium plugin from a web developer, or found a free plugin not available in the WordPress Plugin Directory, just follow their instructions to upload the plugin to your installation of Word Press.
Your last step is to Activate the plugin. You may have to click "Plugins" on the left side of the screen, then click "Installed Plugins" to see your new plugin. Simply click "Activate" and you are done!
As the site administrator, you have the capability to install or uninstall plugins from the admin area.
You can uninstall a plugin that you are no longer using, especially if the developer no longer supports it.
If the plugin is no longer supported, you will want to remove it as soon as possible, or find another supported plugin that meets your needs. An unsupported plugin can create a vulnerability, which allows hackers to upload spam or viruses into your WP.
What WordPress Plugins Do You Need?
The first plugins you will want to install into WordPress are security plugins to protect your site against unwanted Spam comments, potential malware and bruteforce attacks from spambots; which is malicious code hackers use that looks for vulnerabilities in your WP installation.
Spambots search the blogosphere in search of unprotected blogs to infect your WP site with spam, viruses and other problematic and damaging code that can force your web hosting company to ban and quarantine your blog, for fear spammy comments and viruses can infect the computers of people who visit your site, or other hosted WP installations.
Plugins to Prevent Comment Spam
Comment spam is one of the most annoying blog maintenance issues a blog owner or webmaster will go through.
Real comments from your readers are a valuable asset. They validate you are providing interesting and useful content, and Google's algorithm will identify your blog as being important.
Comment spam are worthless comments from other webmasters or spambots that leave fake comments to get a link back to their blog, or to infect your blog with spam or a potentially dangerous virus or other malware.
You only need to add one of these Comment Spam plugins, and not all of them
Akismet helps to filter out spam comments on your blog. The plugin automatically checks comments against the Akismet Web service and prevents them from being uploaded.
You have the ability to accept comments you believe are not spam.
Akismet used to be free, but now is free for the first 30 days.
WP-Spamshield is a free WordPress anti-spam plugin that eliminates comment spam, contact form spam, registration spam, trackback spam, pingback spam, and every other type of WordPress spam.
This type of spam is not useful, annoying and if malicious can potentially infect your blog with a virus.
Plugins to Improve Site Load Time
Site speed is very important for webmasters and blog owners. Your blog should load within 2-3 seconds. A slow loading blog will risk people clicking away and never to return.
Google measured site speed, and any blog that loads too slowly risks risks being ranked lower, due to not providing readers a positive user experience.
In addition to reducing the number of images or flash graphics to increase site speed, the best way to increase site speed is installing a caching plugin.
When someone visits one of your blog pages, a lot is happening behind the scenes to load that page. When they Click a link on a search engine or even on your blog, this send a request to retrieve your content from the WordPress database, related images, Javascript, and CSS. All of this contributes to your total page loading time.
Caching plugins address this page loading time issue by creating a static version of your content and delivering it to visitors. This can reduce your page loading time significantly. You could see an improvement in overall website performance of around ten times.
WordPress Cache Plugins
W3 Total Cache
W3 Total Cache improves the user experience of your site by reducing blog and page load times, increasing website performance, improving SEO, and reducing download times via features like content delivery network (CDN) integration.
WP Super Cache
WP Super Cache is a security plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog that your readers see, which significantly speeds up the page load time.
After an html file is generated, your webserver will serve the static file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and time consuming WordPress PHP scripts.
Optimize Database Size
Every time you update and save a page or post on your blog, this does not only save a new revision of the content, it also creates a new revision of your database.
If your WordPress is hosted on a shared server, you are allocated specific amount of GBs of data, and saving too many revisions of each of your blog posts can eventually max out the available GB's for your hosting plan.
The best way to fix this issue, is to reduce the number of blog revisions and saved databases.
Benefits of reducing the number of saved blog post revisions:
- Deletes redundant revisions of posts and pages (you optionally can keep an 'x'-number of the most recent revisions). Recommended is 1-2 revisions.
- Deletes trashed posts, pages and comments (optional).
- Deletes spammed comments (optional).
- Deletes unused tags (optional).
- Deletes 'pingbacks' and 'trackbacks' (optional).
- Optimizes the database tables (optionally you can exclude certain tables, or even specific posts/pages, from optimization).
- Creates a log file of the optimizations (optional).
- Optimization can be scheduled to automatically run once hourly, twice daily, once daily or once weekly at a specific time to keep your WP running quickly.
WordPress Plugin to Prevent Bruteforce Attacks
Brute force attacks, also known as brute force cracking, is a trial and error method used by hackers and nefarious programs to decode encrypted data, such as passwords or Data Encryption Standard (DES) keys, to beak into your blog and upload spam or malicious code into your blog.
There are several popular brute force plugins
Wordfence Creates a Firewall against hackers and spambots trying to break your WP passwords:
- Web Application Firewall stops you from getting hacked by identifying malicious traffic, blocking attackers before they can access your website.
- Automatically updates firewall rules that protect you from the latest threats. Premium members receive the real-time version.
- Blocks common WordPress security threats like fake Googlebots, malicious scans from hackers and botnets.
Jetpack by WordPress
Jetpack by WordPress is a robust free WP security plugin.
Security and Backup Services
Jetpack provides the following security features:
- Brute force attack protection.
- Downtime and uptime monitoring.
- Secured logins and two-factor authentication.
- Malware scanning, code scanning, and threat resolution.
- Site backups, restores, and migrations.
WP Cerber
This WordPress Bruteforce plugin defends WordPress against brute force attacks by limiting the number of login attempts through the login form, XML-RPC / REST API requests or using auth cookies.
WP Security Features you will love
- Limit login attempts when logging in by IP address or entire subnet.
- Monitors logins made by login forms, XML-RPC requests or auth cookies.
- Permit or restrict logins by White IP Access list and Black IP Access List with single IP, range or subnet.
- Log all activities related to the logging in/out process.
- Cool notifications with powerful filters.
- Hide wp-login.php, wp-signup.php and wp-register.php from possible attacks and return 404 HTTP Error.
- Hide wp-admin (dashboard) and return 404 HTTP Error when a user isn't logged in.
- And many more security features
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NDC must come out of constituency polls stronger — Mawutor Agbavitor
A leading member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Volta Region, Mawutor Agbavitor, has wished all candidates contesting for various constituency positions of the party across the country the best of luck.
"It is my hope and conviction that the outcomes of the constituency elections today will bring us together, stronger and prepared with one core agenda of capturing power come 2020", Agbavitor stated.
Elected constituency executives will serve a four-year mandate.
The NDC will today go to the polls to elect constituency executives in all but 16 constituencies across the country.
This is because the 16 constituencies have filed various petitions against the electoral process.
The party's General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, said the Anlo constituency, which was among the constituencies where the polls would not be held, had to request for the postponement of its election due to the funeral of a local chief.
An earlier statement by the NDC said the election would also be suspended in areas where constituency executives failed to transfer to the national headquarters all dues paid by members.
Constituencies that had their elections suspended pending the resolutions of petitions include Ningo-Prampram, La-Dade Kotopon, Amasaman and Ayawaso West Wuogon, all in the Greater Accra Region.
In the Eastern Region, elections will not be held at Afram Plains South, Akropong, Abuakwa North and Fanteakwa North constituencies.
The elections will also not come off at Manhyia North and Subin constituencies in the Ashanti Region, while Amenfi East Constituency in the Western Region will also not hold its election this weekend.
and Bolga Central constituencies in the Upper West and Upper East regions, respectively, will also not hold their elections this weekend, while elections at Kpandai and Savelugu in the Northern Region have been put on hold until their petitions are resolved.
Ho West in the Volta Region will also not hold the election this weekend.
Meanwhile, the election in the Anlo Constituency is scheduled to be held on Saturday, June 30, 2018.
Peaceful polls
Agbavitor called for a peaceful, free and fair polls whose outcome would be accepted by the broad membership of the party.
He said he was optimistic about the NDC's chances of winning the 2020 election and, therefore, called for unity of purpose to make that a reality.


text: Ever been to Pangkor Laut Island? Yeah I didn't think so! This place is the perfect private holiday getaway because the island is only accessible to the guests of the Resort and Estates. Pangkor Laut is a privately owned island located three miles off the West Coast of Malaysia in the Straits of Malacca and also houses the Pangkor Laut Resort. The 300 acres island is mainly made up of unspoiled, two million year old rainforest, except for the Pangkor Laut Resort's 148 Malaysian-style luxury villas and eight magnificent Estates in a nearby secluded cove. The newest addition to Pangkor Laut Resort, the luxurious Spa Village features eight treatment pavilions, a deluxe Belian Treatment Pavilion, "Healing Huts," which include Chinese herbal, Ayurvedic and Malay Huts, a "Wrap House", where the menu changes daily with Ayurvedic Herbal, Seaweed and Chinese Herbal Wraps, 2 Bath Houses, 3 Thai Pavilions, 3 Nap Gazebos, a Herbal Garden, a 50 metre lap pool, Fisherman's Cove Restaurant, Jamu Bar, Library and Spa Boutique. Getting there is a little comlicated but, if you truthfully want to relax and "get away" check this place out. List of seasonal rates. Look at the image libary.


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We develop applications and technological solutions for the capture, processing, management and analysis of information related to land management.
Since our beginning, we have been committed to incorporating innovative solutions that improve our workflow.
These days, we are also able to help our clients move in this same direction: incorporating mobile applications for the dissemination and management of public use; designing tools for the capture of field data transmitted in real time; automated processing of millions of data points from satellites or LiDAR sensors.
We develop personalised solutions based on GIS, mobile applications, internet data transmission via the internet and CLOUD technology. All this is based on the philosophy of open software so that the solutions are easier to install.


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We place great emphasis on developing the confidence of each child by providing a caring and supportive family oriented environment. All new prep children are set up with a buddy who stays with them and supports them through the first few weeks of school. We have a strong focus on literacy and numeracy that ensures outstanding preparation for secondary years.
You are warmly welcomed to participate in the life of Morang South and to enjoy the progress of your children through their primary education. If you have not already done so please visit us to experience Morang South during school hours. Simply call me to arrange a mutually convenient time.
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New Japanese grant gives hope for sustained recovery in Lake UrmiaApr 10, 2017
There is now hope for the sustained restoration of Lake Urmia.
Water – albeit thinly spread – is now covering a significant amount of the lake's formerly dried-out surface. Much more than it was two years – or even one year – ago. And while the lake's biosphere is still in critical condition, there have been sustained and relentless improvements in recent months to re-fill the lake. As a result, the destiny of the world's once-second-largest saltwater body is much brighter than at any time in the past decade.
Situated in North West of Iran, Lake Urmia is part of a unique biodiversity rich ecosystem of also freshwater wetlands and rivers that are essential to the livelihoods of more than 5 million people living in the basin. This Ramsar Site – which is also a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and a National Park – had been shrinking at an alarming rate. Three years ago the lake contained only 0.5 billion cubic meters (bcm) of water – down from the massive 30 bcm it used to contain when full. In terms of surface area covered, the lake's 5000 square kilometer surface had dwindled to 500 km2 in 2013. Now it is back to 2,300 km2 - although much of this water is very thinly spread.
The reversal is due to the combined efforts of multiple actors at local, national and international level. The prospects for a restoration are now stronger than anytime since the lake started to be emptied – 20 years ago – as a result of intense dam construction and the diversion of water for agriculture.
The reasons for the replenishment are threefold: first the deliberate release of water from dams. Second, the canal drainage to un-silt the feeder rivers. Third, better water management among the farming communities nestled in the Lake Urmia basin. It is this latter effort which is likely to be the most impactful in the long run. And this is where the combination of local, national and international efforts has been concentrated.
The work is centred on a project undertaken by UNDP and funded by Japan which seeks to promote ecosystem management of the farming techniques and thereby save water. This project has just benefitted from another generously contribution of US$ 1 million from Japan. This brings the total funding from Japan to $4m in 4 years.
The signing ceremony for the 4th phase of the project took place on 9th April at the Department of Environment (DOE) in the presence of Vice-President and Head of DOE, Dr. Masoumeh Ebtekar, Deputy Ambassador of Japan to Iran, Mr. Hideo Suzuki and the UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Iran, Mr. Gary Lewis.
The contribution is implemented as a component of UNDP's ongoing Conservation of Iranian Wetlands Project – a project in which UNDP is partnering with Iran's Department of Environment.
The project has been active for many years, but engagement with communities to start the new farming practices started in earnest 4 years ago with the original Japanese grant.
Speaking at the ceremony. Mr. Lewis said: "I have been privileged to live in Iran for four years and during this period I have visited Lake Urmia multiple times and I have been able to witness the changing situation of the lake with my own eyes."
He added: "The first time I visited the lake I was shocked. I saw dry, empty, white salt-bed. I heard wind howling. I saw it blowing the salt all around and dumping on the agriculture lands beyond the lake, all around the edges. But six weeks a when I went back, I saw something different. Returning to the barren landscape after almost four years, I was able to see water. Not nearly enough, but much more than last time. The lake is reviving. And this revival is the result of an immensely successful collaborative effort involving many players – some Iranian, some foreign. Life has returned to the dying Salt Lake and the effort to restore what had been broken is succeeding."
Mr. Lewis then shared some data with the attendees and referred to the lake dimensions in the years 1997, 2013 and 2017 to illustrate the improving situation. Please see below table for facts and figures.
Mr. Suzuki also spoke at the event, stating: "Taking into consideration the critical situation of Lake Urmia and the importance of reviving the lake, in January 2017 the Government of Japan decided to renew its commitment to restoring Lake Urmia and support the efforts of the Government of Iran and UNDP."
Mr. Suzuki added: "The restoration of the lake will not happen overnight, however we can see that the condition of Lake Urmia is better today than it was three years ago. This is the result of the efforts of all those who joined forces to revive Lake Urmia. We hope that the contribution from the Government of Japan can enhance the living conditions of those residing around Lake Urmia basin."
"This new grant will enable the expansion of the project", Mr. Suzuki said. The chart below outlines the project's growth over the past 4 years. However, even with the expansion, it will still reach fewer than half of the basin's farming communities. Expansion is therefore needed.
In terms of impact, the water-saving techniques are often extremely simple – such as improved irrigation techniques (instead of totally flooding a field, the water is targeted to the specific trees or shrubs) and planting crops which require less water. The combined effect, in the farming communities piloting the project has been to save one-third of the water which can re-enter the lake. Paradoxically, they have also improved yields across the board by 40 per cent on average.
Originally the project was initiated in 41 villages around the basin of the lake. This new contribution will expand the area covered with these techniques to cover a total of 110 villages.
The Ministry of Agriculture will now take over extension services for the original 41 villages.
In her concluding remarks, Dr. Ebtekar said: "Join cooperation between the Government of Japan and the DOE show that international cooperation in the field of environment is really important and much needed. International organizations such as the UN play a key role in the protection of environment and exchange of knowledge and best practices among nations."
Dr. Ebtekar added: "What we have accomplished together through this trilateral cooperation can be used in other parts of the country as well."


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COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Big Ten Conference, along with the Big Ten Network, FOX and ESPN, has released start times and television carriers for the first three weeks of the Big Ten season and also for some additional select games this year. Times and TV network for five Ohio State games were featured in the release and include the following:
• Sept. 1 vs. Oregon State: the season and home opener will be a noon start and televised on ABC;
• Sept. 8 vs. Rutgers: the Big Ten opener at Ohio Stadium will be carried on the Big Ten Network with kickoff set for 3:30 p.m.;
• Sept. 15 vs. TCU at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas: this game was previously announced as an 8 p.m. with ABC televising;
• Oct. 6 vs. Indiana: Homecoming at Ohio State will feature a 3:30 or 4 p.m. kick with the television network to be announced at a later date; and
• Nov. 24 vs. Michigan: FOX will televise for the second consecutive season this greatest of all rivalries. Kickoff is set for the traditional time of noon for this contest.
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2018 Ohio State Schedule
Sept. 1 – Oregon State – Noon on ABC (Scarlet & Gray Game)
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Oct. 13 – Minnesota (Buckeye Club)
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Oct. 27 – Off
Nov. 3 – Nebraska (Military Appreciation Day)
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Nov. 24 – Michigan – Noon on FOX (Senior Day)
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Connected Media is a New Zealand based charitable trust founded in 1993.
Our mission is to promote sustainability through media.
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The Someday Challenge is for anyone up to age 24 to make a sustainability-related film, any genre, any length up to 5 minutes.
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David Jacobs Director
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Working with the Sacred: a little muse and reflection
There are numerous names of gods, goddesses or deities available from the Celtic World, working singularly, in pairs, and even in a triplet form. They too pertain to either a specific group or tribal area where named deities are shared by several groups. These are not necessarily adjacent to each others territory, but span across large distances of regional separation. This is true in regards to the evidence available where altars and indeed iconographical images have survived. Such examples are Ogma, and Lugh which can be traced spasmodically across Europe towards Ireland or even visa versa, which ever the case might be. Likewise Epona is also widely venerated over a large area in various forms.
Such gods or entities given mental and abstract form, in the minds eye are often displayed in related images and symbols to the deity concerned. These in themselves, are not religious artifacts as such, but reflect the power attributed to the god/goddess depicted in their material form. They are, after all, created to deal with specific social and life problems or unanswered questions about the unknown. Often placed in a hierarchical order, where some relate to everybody within their social sphere, while others become specific to family or clan, even to a cultural society sub group. Additionally, they are there to explain the functions and formation of nature via natural philosophy. They too are often coupled with designated sacred places which are gender specific or open to the whole community; in those places specific rites to respective deities are performed and undertaken. These might be considered to be sacred or secular in its ritual performance. On the other hand, personal and individual dedications take on a different form of sacred. A sacred form might be considered to be a personal votive offering, where an exchange takes place with a verbal personal contract with the god/goddess. Alternatively confirmation of the sacred experience might be had, reinforcing individual confirmation of the deity consulted existence. However, these become secular if no personal experience of transformation is forthcoming.
What is being discussed here, are two different methods of working with the sacred, one is indeed considered sacred and the other is secular. The definition of sacred is taken as being holy; blessed; consecrated; hallowed; revered; sanctified and sacrosanct. On the other hand secular definition is taken as worldly; material; and lay. The two opposites of sacred and secular when joined together form a religion, which is bound with theological thought relating to, and overcoming existing social and life problems previously mentioned. This is often coupled with social moral behaviour guidelines of what is considered to be the accepted social norm by the community group majority, on how people should act. These are contained within customary, secular, cannon law codes or in the modern sense, legislative laws.
Taking the sacred separately and being determined psychologically as a personal and individual experience concentrated within the human senses. It will trigger off feelings and transformation of worldly perceptions while moving into a temporary ecstatic state of euphoria. In such a state of being, non premeditative thoughts or images arise. Even the sensation of being transported into a different time and space, could surface when the real world becomes a muffled reality. Either way sensations of euphoria erupt transforming the inner world, where the release of the "wild genius" traversing from one side to the other. Indeed such experience could bring feelings of meddling with the sacred forces associated to deity, to even meeting them on a personal level. Over all the euphoria creates a feeling of being connected, giving an inner relief, and a release from the mundane human world.
These experiences could be contributed to relating to a god or goddess of an individual choosing. When taking an early Celtic Cultural paradigm, rather than a natural working of the human mind, allowing the amygdala gland, the ability to consciously and subconsciously bridge, and connect with the universal impulsive of everything. Such experiences of the mind are often beyond all logic and reason. Yet the sacred is also integrative, labels are chosen with descriptive language to set the scene as it becomes shared or not shared, if one wishes to communicate the personal experience socially with other members of any community. In some way it is similar to the images and symbols of deity illustrating their associated power and attributes placed in another form. Shared experiences of this type could act and indeed encourage the listener to start out on there own quest to experience the sacred.
Another illustration of sharing the sacred is seen in the work of a shaman, a practice still evident in the northern circular Polar Regions. Sacred powers are induced moving the shaman into induced euphoria states and trances for the community benefit. This could be to heal a community member; finding a lost spirit or soul; locating the whereabouts of game for the hunters, too pacifying and communicate with the community gods/goddess in the other worldly realm are just a few examples. The knowledge returning with the shaman is then shared with the community.
Undertaking a shamanic experience is very different from the personal and individual one previously described. An abstract mind map of the material world relating to the conceptual realm where helpers, guides, gods and goddess can be contacted often takes the form of a vertical layered and three tiered world, interconnected by a central world mountain, a single world tree or even the axis mendi or world axis. Traversing the worlds through naturally mental induced ecstatic states, combined with acts of death and rebirth gives the shaman an edge and safe passage through a layered geocentric universe.
Reaching the shamanic realms by mental states is heightened through a combination of ritual, theatre and performance. Spiritual helpers in the form of inanimate objects of antlers; stones; wood; herbs or other specific plants become employed in the process. Items which are either burnt to play on the sense of smell; magical ritual objects etched with sacred symbols of power in a material form. Likewise musical objects such as drums and rattles which can produce a single monotonous rhythmic beat and sound. The use of costume, allows for a symbolic exchange and personification embodying and embracing any animal, or spirit/soul or material image of the deity. All or any of these combinations assist in kindling the mental cross over to the other worlds.
This combination adds to the outward display of the ritual theatre to the community, but hides the mental alchemical process; one which assists, in creating an altered state of consciousness allowing movement over the bridge into the realms. A controlled mystical experience allows the shaman to bring back the knowledge required by the community. It might be worth bearing in mind, the three tiered world is predominately a shamanic worldview. A concept recorded in the world literature, and even a human pre agrarian age memory, from the hunter gatherer period. That is prior to the natural environment becoming manipulated, as monuments appear in the landscape. Even when mythological stories, legends and folktales inform about the Celtic gods and goddess, and those from other cultures travelling within this layered world to the underworld, into the sky and universe. Indeed some are associated to the man built monuments in the landscape. Nonetheless it might be a straight forward process why such shaman's and the associated Celtic deity were or still hold status and value, even when feared or revered by the population they severed.
Another form of sharing the sacred and experiencing the gods/goddesses is available through the secular community ritual. Little is known today of the form of Druid ritual, although intellectual hypothesis from various disciplines have reconstructed strong possibilities. An example, from the "Archaeology of Theatre" is the ritual circle. The circle people create when they gather together becomes inclusive when one faces inwards to the centre. Their backs form the outer circle which excludes any community member not within it. The circle participants might be far removed from any sacred and monotonous shamanic preparations before hand. Some might be just waiting for some form of ritual entertainment. Irrespectively, the traditional ritual specialist, or its modern equivalent, has the capacity to create and induce the atmosphere, which leads from the secular to the sacred.
People within the circle participating within a secular community ritual, it can become profound, where something is happening in the centre creating an interest which holds the circle attention. However ritual participants when it's acted out as a theatre that embodies and personifies an aspect of a god or goddess, acting out a created part as they embody the spirit or soul of the deity. They too have access to the sacred shamanic element allowing emotions to rise moving into ecstatic euphoric states. Likewise attendees forming the circle also have the opportunity of enlightenment, transcendence, and access to the tiered worldview. This is when the profound becomes the secular which leads to the sacred personal experience.
Taking a modern world perspective of nuclear families and split communities. A minority group of unrelated people; with a shared interest that comes together as a single community with intent of undertaking a secular ritual. Human minds can easily wander when a group comes together for a short space of time. Access to the sacred via secular action is not always guaranteed yet it is available when the ritual specialist creates the atmosphere relevant to all attending. Indeed to actually move all participants over the threshold would certainly be something to behold.
Whatever the case might be, the successful sharing of the sacred through community secular ritual contributes towards a social integration creating "Quest ". This might be a quest similar to that taken by King Arthur revived in the early medieval period renaissance of the 9th century from monastic institutions of Europe, incorporating acts of Chivalry into moral behaviour. Indeed, add in a few symbols of compelling power like drawing the material/spiritual sword from the stone, or concentrating on a religious relic such as the "Grail". The quest can then begin, either one opens a doorway, where experiences of self transcendence become available, not just in its story form. Such a story could be considered marginal and outside the main stream at its time, it has the ability to institutionalise the pagans, sending them on a quest to be verified culturally and collectively. Indeed the integrative quest can also marginalise the collective experience.
It's an interesting facet within modern Druidry and probably Paganism when considered as a quest depending on the individual or group preference. It can either be considered a religion; a philosophy; a network; a protest group; a reconstructionist group, or a social community group. Indeed all are labels which assist in describing what Druidry is, or what it is not. It's more likely relates to a combination of all these labels, embraced in harmony with either a personal contract with deity, albeit a sacred, secular, or even a profound experience.
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First published in Aontacht, Volume 2 Issue 1 Summer-Winter Solstice 2009
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