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PARIS, Sept 6 (Reuters) – A majority of French people are against softening rules to access refugee status, a poll showed on Sunday even as thousands poured to the streets to show their solidarity with migrants seeking asylum in Europe.
Around 8,500 people marched in Paris on Saturday carrying banners such as "Refugees welcome". Other demonstrations took place in several cities across the country.
But a poll conducted by Odoxa for Le Parisien-Aujourd'hui en France daily showed 55 per cent of the 1,000 people surveyed were opposed to an easing of rules for migrants asking for refugee status, including Syrians fleeing civil war.
33 per cent thought France was less hospitable to war refugees than Germany, which opened its door to several hundred thousands of migrants in the last months, while 44 per cent thought they are on the same line.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition is expected to agree on a series of measures on Sunday, including cutting red tape to facilitate the construction of asylum shelters, increasing funds for federal states and towns, and speeding up asylum procedures.
The picture of three year-old Aylan Kurdi's body washed up in the Aegean resort of Bodrum spawned sympathy and outrage at the perceived inaction of developed nations in helping refugees. Prime Minister Manuel Valls said the images showed the need for urgent action by Europe to address the crisis.
France is now considering joining a coalition conducting air strikes on Islamic State in Syria, Le Monde said on its website on Saturday, quoting an unnamed "high level source".
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Advisors take heed: Investment firm UBS Wealth Management is announcing a reduction in its recommendation for equity weightings in portfolios from "neutral" to "moderate underweighting," with a corresponding increase in cash holdings.
Mike Ryan, chief investment strategist at UBS Wealth Management Research, writes, "We are concerned that the low growth momentum that developed economies are currently exhibiting leaves almost no room for any shock or policy error."
Meanwhile, he notes that the risk of such shocks occurring are significant. He cites "further financial stress in the Eurozone," which he says could continue for the next three months, as well as a mounting risk of recession in developed economies, including the U.S.
Within equities, Ryan and his team are recommending a reduced exposure to emerging markets.
Ryan says that the recent run-up in stocks is not a sign that equity markets have hit their bottom, but is simply a "temporary respite." He says both U.S. and European economies could "easily be tilted into recession," and warns that a Greek default is now "likely" within the coming six months. As evidence, he points to a convergence in the price of two-, five- and 10-year Greek securities, which he says means "the market is no longer focused on promised yields, but rather on expected recovery values" in the event of a default.
Should such a default occur, he says, "We struggle to see how this could happen without some collateral damage."
Adding to concerns about equities, Ryan said, is "political paralysis on both sides of the Atlantic during the summer," which he says has further eroded investor and consumer confidence and which could delay any economic rebound.
Ryan lists the chance of a new U.S. recession at one in three. He adds, "Although markets already appear priced for a fair amount of bad news, it's likely that risk assets will come under even further pressure amid softer economic data and a continued ratcheting up of political risks."
Adding to the gloom, Ryan said UBS expects the consensus forecasts for GDP growth in both Europe and the US to be revised downward in the coming months.
In terms of making a global economic forecast, UBS puts the probability of a strong recovery at just 5%, a moderate recovery at 55%, a recession at 30%, and a period of stagflation, with both rising prices and weak growth, at 10%.
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Interview with Anushka Sharma and Wendell Rodricks at Blenders Pride Fashion Tour 2011 New Delhi
Bollywood siren Anushka Sharma walked the ramp for Goa based fashion designer Wendell Rodricks on the final day of Blenders Pride Fashion Tour 2011, New Delhi. The Bollywood actress looked effortlessly gorgeous in a flowing red dress with ruffle details. Here are some encrypts from the post show press conference with Anushka Sharma and Wendell Rodricks.
Me (To Wendell Rodricks): What is the source of inspiration behind those rhythmic dresses flowing over your models?
Wendell Rodricks: I have taken inspiration from the pool side. Flow of the water, the cocktails, mixing drinks…. LIQUIDITY has been a major source of inspiration.
Me (To Wendell Rodricks): There was lots of colour blocking happening in the ramp. Can you talk about colour blocking as the trend for the season?
Wendell Rodricks: If you had been following my collection, you would have noticed that this is not the first time I have used colour blocking. I have been doing it right since 1992. Colour blocking is one of my all time favourite trend. It is probably getting noticed in my show now since colour blocking has become a big international fashion trend at the moment. It's nothing new to me. It is something I have always done and will continue to do.
Me (To Anushka Sharma): Anushka, can you talk about the dress Wendell has created for you?
Anushka Sharma: I feel amazing in this red satin dress he has designed for me. It's comfortable and is a gorgeous evening wear. He understands my body shape more than anyone else do. In fact, it was Wendell Rodricks who gave me the initial kick-start. I was a showstopper at his show when I was still nothing… Not even a famous model at that time. I was still a nobody then when he put faith in me and it's he who gave me the start. I will always remain thankful to him….
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Wendell Rodricks: Actually… Anushka's confidence is what amazed me. I am happy for where she is today. I am sure she will go on to become one among the biggest names in the industry. I wish her all success.
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[ Masterweb Reports: Isiaka Wakili reports ] - President Muhammadu Buhari's son, Yusuf, who underwent a surgery at an Abuja hospital following a bike crash, has been discharged.
Presidential spokesman Mr Femi Adesina, in a statement Friday, said Yusuf was discharged from Cedarcrest Hospital, Abuja, Friday, following what the Chief Medical Director described as his "extremely speedy response to treatment."
Adesina said Buhari, his wife, Aisha and the entire family thanked all men and women of goodwill, both within and outside the country, for their prayers and best wishes, which had now seen their son, Yusuf, being discharged from hospital.
According to him, the family appreciates the overwhelming show of love and solidarity, which had come their way since Yusuf was involved in a motorcycle crash on December 26, 2017.
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club2030 from The La Crosse Symphony Orchestra
club2030 is designed to reach out to those between the ages of 18 to 39 who may not regularly get an opportunity to attend a symphony concert. club2030 members are eligible to receive $10 best available seats to La Crosse Symphony Orchestra concerts located at the Viterbo Fine Arts Center. Club members also receive access to a number of exclusive pre-concert happy hours throughout the LSO season. Members of club2030 can purchase $10 best available tickets to 2015-2016 concerts starting September 30, 2015.
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This is my build for Gangplank, it's my first build and I hope you guys have fun playing him.
I see a lot of crit builds and I played crit plank a lot, but one day a friend suggested that I go ad. So I basically used the Pantheon item build ( DEWO you're awesome :) ) I play with.
Flash: I like to use flash for getting away or porting right to people's faces. This build is quite squishy so its a little of shoot, ignite and run. With all the rumours of being omitted, this can probably be replaced with ghost.
Ignite: Its a nice skill for first blood, or fighting, or that little bit of assurence for the kill. Plus stacking two dots is nice.
Becuase Gangplank is a physical champion and parley is now a physical ability, I like to use armour pen. You can just have and max out armour pen if you want, but I have some crit runes for later game.
The main skill for this build is parley, so I try to max it out ASAP. If you are being harrassed a lot, remove scurvy can be balanced with parley. Raise you can take raise morale at level 3 if you want, it increases attack for free and can help a little in team fights.
First item is long sword, for the extra attack. The potion you buy will depend on if: you lane with a healer, or if the opposing team is harrassment heavy. If you have the confidence, take the mana pot; if not health. After recalling you can buy according to confidence or situation. If you are getting some kills and think you can keep it up, sword of the occult. If you arent doing so great, brutulizer. If you are recalling prematurely, boots. As mid game approaches you can buy the vampiric scepter for life steal, its good to know parley when hit can restore your health. the next items will require money, so farm up or start killing. Just buy the bf swords, no need to upgrade yet. When you have the bf swords you can upgrade, i like to have blood thirsters and for last slot, get infinty's edge. in later game, the brutulizer can be sold for black cleaver.
I don't really have a preference for laning, but its nice to lane with some sort of disabler so you can continue to deal damage. Gangplank can take mid lane, but you will have to be more defensive.
Solo: Harass with parrley and when the enemy is low enough, you can flash in their face, attack, parley and ignite combe for the kill. If they run or flash, you can push and gain an exp advantage. Remeber, do not commit to a kill too much and dive, if you auto attack and ignite, there are two dots in effect. If the opponent is really aggressive, raise morale the melee creeps and cannon every third wave to lower their exp.
Top or Bottom: Regarding the bushes, if you feel brave and have a good lane mate then go for it, if not; theres no shame with waiting at the turret. To pick who to shoot, I usually look at their armour, obviously attack the lower armour. In certain cases, you will probably have to attack the enemy with higher armour if one can heal. More or less the same stratagy, shoot with parrley until they are low then flash and ignite. When harrassing, don't put too much effort into it and always try to shoot them, shoot them if you can do it without taking any damage, if you do remove scurvy if neccesary.
By level six, if you have the mana, you can go for the kill or wait. Telling people you can ult for them is a nice thing to do, it helps the team and you can get easy assists. If you are getting a lot of kills, barrage is a nice ganking intiator. In late game, I will always try to use barrage for team fights. If you use it a lot for 1v1 you better be invincible and get the stacks for being a little more greedy. Buff wise both buffs are nice to have for GP, the cdr and mana regen are great and so is the slowing and extra attack.
During teamfights I will usually try to harrass as much as possible, when a fight breeaks out wait a little for emenies to start bunching up to hit all five of them. When fighting, most the time you will have to parley, hit a little, remove scurvy and gtfo with flash or run to avoid taking too much damage. If they leave you alone, then great you can attack people all you want.
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by Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
Two research projects funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation highlight the nation's lack of preparedness: the report Outbreaks: Protecting Americans from Infectious Diseases, by the Trust for America's Health (TFAH), and theNational Health Security Preparedness Index. Both determined that Southern states with high rates of poverty, particularly those along the Gulf Coast, scored poorly on measures for preventing, detecting, diagnosing, and responding to infectious disease outbreaks. These states are also the ones most likely to harbor mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus.
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The motion is 'This House believes the NHS needs privatisation'.
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Scoot and Nok Airways are taking one key step forward in their plans to set up NokScoot, a low-cost budget carrier based in Bangkok.
Singapore Airways said in a statement on Friday that the two partners have agreed on the final structure of the joint-partnership LLC carrier airline.
This follows the partnership of understanding with Nok Airways which was signed in November 2013. Scoot air is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore Airways. Scoot and Nok Airways will ultimately each hold a 48-per cent shareholding of the joint venture holdings.
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One whole year has passed since soot air took the skies and with-in this year the carrier has carried over 555,000 passengers and still counting. It is fair to say the airline is well on it's way to achieving targets and holding it's ground in the competitve travel market. Scoot Airways is with-in reach of achieving 1.6 million travellers with-in a shorter framework of time. The carrier has closed partnership deals with other airlines such as Tiger and it's own parent airline (SIA) to extend it's routes and destinations. Malindo airways is set to take on Scoot.
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It has indeed been a while since ive dropped new music!! So many things have changed in my life! For those that havent been following me on twitter or IG– I met a beautiful woman that I love very much and we have settled down and are now new parents!! Being a parent is the most awesome challenge Ive ever had. I also went back to school for audio mastering and that was a doozy too sheesh so much math and science, but overall it has made me a better music producer and Im stoked to share my services with those that need it.
I started this EP a little bit ago and have been sitting on it. My man Ryan down at Mills Record Company laced me with about 15-20 soul gospel records from the early 1970's– ABSOLUTE HEAT!! My goodness. Also while out in Oakland I visited Vamp Records and cop'd a few soul gospel records too. Before I knew it I had a full crate of these gospel records and finally got time to sit down to listen.
These albums were so anointed!! The songs were so soulful and positive– I decided that I would take more of a Donuts approach to the instrumentals and chop and loop vocal phrases to create mini mantras. I wanted more feel than bang– I also wanted this instrumental to be a quick reminder to you, a reminder that prayers (positive vibes) are important and God is listening.


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Help Alex reach the exit without breaking his neck. In some levels, you will need some key to open the doors. Press the action key to accelerate and perform some stunts. Enjoy!
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Futuramerlin Web Toolkit
The Futuramerlin Web Toolkit is a static site builder and theme featuring:
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- Python 2, runnable as
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sudoprivileges on your computer
- A writeable root partition
- If you have a version of the Futuramerlin Web Toolkit prior to version 2 installed, remove it.
- Substitute the name of your Web site in place of "
webSiteName" in the following command, and run the resulting command (note that output beginning with "
mv: cannot stat" can be safely ignored):
mv ~/.futuramerlin-web-toolkit.cfg ~/.futuramerlin-web-toolkit.bak; echo "webSiteName" > ~/.futuramerlin-web-toolkit.cfg
- Note that enabling the local CSS installation option will overwrite the file named
m.cssin your root directory. In addition, if you have a case-insensitive filesystem, it probably will overwrite any files with names that are
m.csswhen lowercased.
If you want to enable the local CSS installation option (copies the Web site's theme CSS so the site can be more accurately previewed locally), run the following command:
echo "enableLocalInstallation" >> ~/.futuramerlin-web-toolkit.cfg; set +H
Otherwise, run the following command:
echo "disableLocalInstallation" >> ~/.futuramerlin-web-toolkit.cfg; set +H
- Run the following command:
futuramerlinWebToolkitPreInstallPath=$(pwd); futuramerlinWebToolkitInstallationUUID=$(python2 -c 'import uuid; print str(uuid.uuid4())'); cd ~; mkdir "$futuramerlinWebToolkitInstallationUUID"; cd "$futuramerlinWebToolkitInstallationUUID"; git clone https://github.com/ethus3h/futuramerlin-web-toolkit.git; cp -f ./futuramerlin-web-toolkit/futuramerlin-web-toolkit-build ~/.futuramerlin-web-toolkit-build; chmod +x ~/.futuramerlin-web-toolkit-build; cp -f ./futuramerlin-web-toolkit/futuramerlin-web-toolkit-aliases ~/.futuramerlin-web-toolkit-aliases; chmod +x ~/.futuramerlin-web-toolkit-aliases; echo $(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S-%N)-$(xxd -pu <<< "$(date +%z)") >> ~/.futuramerlin-web-toolkit.cfg; echo "$futuramerlinWebToolkitInstallationUUID" >> ~/.futuramerlin-web-toolkit.cfg; echo "#"'!'"/bin/bash" >> ~/.bash_profile; echo ". ~/.futuramerlin-web-toolkit-aliases" >> ~/.bash_profile; echo "#"'!'"/bin/bash" >> ~/.bashrc; echo ". ~/.bash_profile" >> ~/.bashrc; chmod +x ~/.bash_profile; chmod +x ~/.bashrc; cd ..; rm -r ./"$futuramerlinWebToolkitInstallationUUID"; cd "$futuramerlinWebToolkitPreInstallPath"
- Log out and log in again, to update your shell aliases.
Configuration file format
The configuration file is located at
~/.futuramerlin-web-toolkit.cfg. It contains configuration values separated by a line feed (0x0A), as follows:
- Name for the Web site
- "
disableLocalInstallation" to disable installing the CSS file for local browsing, or "
enableLocalInstallation" to enable it (any other value will be treated as "
- Installation time
- Installation UUID
Note that there is currently no facility for storing configuration values containing line feeds.
To learn about contributing to this project, visit the development page.


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Try doing a REGEN or REGENALL.
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I have many drawings where I try to zoom all the way into edit and it won't let me. I use the wheel to zoom. In the bottom left says "already zoomed in as far as possible". Is there a setting I can change or something I can do to be able to zoom it more? I am using AutoCAD Civil 3d 2014.
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Try doing a REGEN or REGENALL.
I've tried regen. Thanks.
I have a similar issue, except that I can't zoom all the way out sometimes. I will never understand why that is though. You could use zoom window to zoom in closer.
Never argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
I know that LIMITS sometimes messes with the Zoom-Out issue, but I can't see how it should affect the Zoom-In issue.
That said, I sometimes have this problem as well, a regen often works but not always, and I always have LImits off - so I have chalked it down to One Of Those Things.
Turning limits off will solve it? I wonder why that would be. Auto Desk please.
Never argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
I've turned limits off and tried every zoom command, it still won't let me zoom all the way in!
Is it possibly a matter of perception that you are not zoomed in far enough. On the display screen the lines don't get any thicker as you zoom in or out, even if you have "display lineweights" turned on. In fact they stay a constant thickness. I just zoomed in fully on the lower left corner of a 13" rectangle. Once the other three corners of the rectangle disappeared off screen, there were no visual cues to tell me how far I was zoomed in on the one corner. I took a DIST of how much of the lines I could still see. The result was 0.00008 vertical and 0.00011 horizontal. That is pretty zoomed in.
The S197 gen Ford Mustang, and the F-4 Phantom both prove the same theory. "With enough power applied, a school bus will fly."
Can you take a screen shot to show us how far you are able to zoom in?
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I don't think that's it. This is as close as I can get.


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NetScaler continually raises the bar in the application delivery controller market. The current MPX 5650 model is now five times faster, with an HTTP throughput rating of 5 Gbps, and an even lower price.
On February 20, Citrix revealed a fivefold increase in HTTP capacity for the NetScaler MPX 5650 platform. This model is generally aimed at the entry-level market.
Now, with this turbo boost, even when running all features simultaneously, smaller enterprises and Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop and XenMobile customers can run all NetScaler modules even faster. SSL processing rates have doubled and compression rates have tripled to 2 Gbps and 3 Gbps respectively. SSL transactions per second have increased 40 percent to 2,800.
The existing NetScaler MPX 5550 appliance remains at 500 Mbps, so Pay-As-You-Grow and Burst Pack upgrades now offer a 10-fold expansion!
The new performance licenses including cluster license upgrades are orderable and shippable today. Existing MPX 5650 accounts with a valid maintenance agreement may upgrade to the new performance levels with no charge.
List pricing for the MPX 5650 model has been slashed by $2,000 for each edition, resulting in a starting price of $18,000 for NetScaler Standard Edition. See the PND for more details. A new NetScaler datasheet is live on Citrix.com/netscaler.
Please reach out directly to John Gudmundson for further inquiries about NetScaler.
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Michael O'Connor is an industry leading furniture retailer that has evolved over 30 years into an iconic destination supplying designer furniture to those who want to make their house a home. We are one of the UK's premier online furniture retailers for designer brands with an unsurpassed range.
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Pursuit of Light is an action adventure game set in a mystery world. The world is in the dream of a little girl. She wants to find the light and get out of the endless dream. But there are traps and dangers hidden. The player controls the little girl and guide her by the spell of moon and star to avoid the dangers and jump to the end.
Pursuit of Light is a new game by Lemon Jam Studio.
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To tap the growing opportunities in the sports category, multi-brand sports and lifestyle speciality retail chain Planet Sports, a Pantaloon Retail (India) Ltd company, has recently opened its first large format 'Destination Superstore' in Delhi.
The outlet at Ambience Mall, Vasant Kunj houses an entire gamut of sports products – footwear, apparel, equipment and good experience.
"We wanted to offer the entire range of sports products. So, we decided upon this large format store to get the entire range under one roof. We call it the 'Planet Sports Destination Superstore'. It's all about involving sports enthusiasts and bringing out the importance of fitness," said Rakesh Biyani, CEO, Future Group (Retail).
The store, designed in partnership with Germany-based Blocher and Blocher, has 20,000 pairs of footwear on display and consumers can browse through 40,000-plus styles of apparels and more than 7,000 accessories, 5,000 equipment and 3,100 fitness-related accessories. It also offers an extensive range of international sports and lifestyle brands such as Converse, Skechers, Wilson, Speedo, Prince, Reebok, Nike, Adidas, Spalding, Fila, Lotto and Puma to name a few.
On the USP of Destination Superstore, Ravdeep Singh, CEO, Planet Sports, said, "All our staff are trained and have experience of the games section they are assisting. The assistant at the gym and fitness section is a professionally-trained physical trainer and can guide customers on [the right] exercise equipment and nutrition. The assistants at cricket, golf, boxing simulators and other sports experience zones have knowledge of their respective games."
On the future plans of the company, Biyani said, "By the end of 2011, we plan to open 10 more multi-brand destination stores with a minimum area of 15,000 sq.ft across tier I and II cities."
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TRYANO / Abu Dhabi
The TRYANO Speciality Store on Yas Island, Abu Dhabi, is Dubai based Chalhoub Group's' newest retailing concept. TRYANO is a truly unique destination focusing exclusively on three "category killer" anchors of Beauty, Bags and Childrenswear within a theatrical store environment. At 15,500sqm and spanning three floors, TRYANO is a fully immersive retail experience that embraces technology to encourage engagement and interaction in addition to traditional luxury cues. HMKM worked closely with Kin Design to create and deliver immersive digital touchpoints throughout the customer journey.
The HMKM retail interpretation of the brief also influenced other areas of design expression such as the TRYANO identity designed by Pentagram London.
TRYANO will fully launch (all phases complete) during March 2016. Images were taken following the 'soft launch' in October 2015.


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It was Phyllis Diller's 90th birthday. And that means that I missed the opportunity to commemorate a great lady who made my first week as a teevee producer, many decades ago, much more comfortable. Thanks, Ms. Diller, and Happy Birthday. I hope last week's back fracture is mending well. A lot of people don't know that Phyllis Diller is an artist. Not just a stand-up comedienne from last century, but a painter and concert pianist and author as well. And she was nice enough to donate this this piece for the Harry Chapin Food Bank.
On July 17, I pay tribute to women I've known and admired. You know who you are, and yes, I did raise one to you.
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Montcau Club offers our school parents the opportunity to celebrate birthday parties for their children in our facilities.
The goal is to have fun with the family and friends on a special moment for children such as their birthday, in addition to giving the parents the peace of mind to find everything organized.
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Chinese cuisine is the most diverse in the world. It varies from region to region, dating back thousands of years and evolving according to changes in both the environment and the local preferences over time. Its location in the world means that China's cuisine is influenced by the many cuisines of different cultures, and the ancient Silk Road helped to transport Chinese cuisine to the rest of the world.
While there are many different cooking styles in China, it is widely recognised that there are eight culinary traditions of China: these are classified due to a number of factors, including geography, history and influence. These eight culinary traditions are Anhui, Cantonese, Fujian, Hunan, Jiangsu, Shandong and Zhejiang.
Su Cuisine – Suzhou, Jiangsu Province
Jiangsu cuisine is often simply referred to as Su or Su Cai cuisine, originating from the native cooking styles of the eastern coastal province of Jiangsu. While the province is the second smallest in China, it is one of the most densely inhabited with a population of 76 million.
With the Yangtze River passing through and a coast on the Yellow Sea, the region is abundant in freshwater fish and seafood. This is evident in the local ingredients used in many of the most famous and recognised dishes, such as the mandarin fish, deep-fried and intricately prepared, in the celebrated sweet and sour squirrel-shaped mandarin fish dish synonymous with the region.
Jiangsu cuisine is characterised by its emphasis on strict selection of exquisite ingredients according to the seasons, the matching colour and shape of each dish, and the use of meaty soups and bone broths to improve the dish's flavour. It is these qualities that meant Jiangsu cuisine was once the second largest cuisine among ancient China's royal cuisines, and it remains a major cuisine in the state banquets of China.
The cuisine in the Jiangsu Province consists of several different styles of cooking from different regions, namely Suzhou, Huaiyang, Yangzhou, Nanjing and Zhenjiang styles.
The city of Suzhou, located about 60 miles from Shanghai, is best known for the gardens and canals that once earned it the nickname 'the Venice of the east'.
Suzhou cuisine is typically prepared with a delicacy that complements the quality of the ingredients. Broadly speaking, Suzhou belongs to the Huaiyang culinary region in the east, distinguished by its mild climate, abundance of produce and rich culture. The food from this region is recognisable for its selection of ingredients and the way they are prepared, specifically how they are cut, and the impact this has on the final look and taste of a dish. The cuisine is also well-known for utilising its famous Chinkiang vinegar, produced in the Zhenjiang region.
Huaiyang cuisine is widely accepted in Chinese culinary circles as the most popular and prestigious style of Jiangsu cuisine. In fact, it is considered one of the Four Great Traditions (四大菜系) that dominate the culinary heritage of China, along with Guangdong cuisine, Shandong cuisine and Sichuan cuisine.
Lu Cuisine – Beijing, Shandong Province
Lu cuisine originates from the native cooking styles of East China's coastal province of Shandong. Its history dates back to the Qin Dynasty (221BC to 207BC), becoming one of China's eight culinary traditions during the Song Dynasty (960AD to 1234AD).
The cuisine consists of two predominant regional styles: Jiaodong, characterised by light seafood dishes; and Jinan, a style that features heavily the use of soup and broths. Although it is less available in the West, Shandong cuisine is often considered one of the most influential styles of cooking in Chinese culinary history.
There are over 30 cooking techniques applied in the cuisine, among which Bao and Pa techniques are the most frequently used. The Bao technique involves deep-frying food in extremely hot oil over a very high heat. Once the food is cooked through, the oil is discarded and seasonings are added to the wok. The Pa technique is to stew ingredients, thickening the sauce with cornstarch rather than reducing and thickening through simmering.
Lu cuisine is typically salty and sweet, tender and crispy. Stewing, roasting and boiling are the main methods of cooking, and an abundance of peanut crops mean that it is a common sight at mealtimes to be served large platters of plain or roasted peanuts in their shells. However, Shandong's greatest culinary contribution has been brewing vinegars, which are used to pickle and preserve ingredients while adding tartness and bite.
This cuisine is directly influenced by the cities of Beijing and Tianjin. In ancient times, Beijing was the gathering place of the literati, rich businessmen and officials. This persuaded the skilled chefs of the country to follow these esteemed people to the city, bringing with them different cuisines, in particular the cuisine from Shandong, greatly enriching the flavours and styles of the cuisine of Beijing.
The most well-known dish of Beijing is the Peking duck, but other celebrated dishes include mutton hotpots, cold braised carp, hot and sour soup, sticky and sweet Peking barbecue, and plain boiled pork shoulder.
Yue Cuisine – Guangdong Province
Yue cuisine is the culinary style of the Guangdong Province, the southernmost province in China. The province's capital city, Guangzhou, is also known as Canton. It is due to the number of Chinese emigrants from this city that moved to the United States and Europe during the 1800s that the dishes most associated with Chinese food in the West originate from this area, and this is why most Chinese food in the UK or USA is in reality Cantonese food.
The region is bordered by mountain ranges to the north and the South China Sea to the south, and used to be inhabited by the Baiyue tribes, a group of nomadic people who travelled around depending on the seasons. The dietetic culture of Guangdong has retained many of the Baiyue peoples eating habits and customs, including the ethos that everything that walks, crawls, flies or swims is edible. Yue cuisine incorporates almost all edible meats, including chicken feet, duck's tongue, snakes and snails. However, due to availability, lamb and goat are rarely eaten, unlike in the cuisines of northern or western China.
Due to Guangdong's proximity to the South China Sea, the people of the region have access to a plentiful supply of imported food and fresh seafood. As the climate in Guangdong is hot, Cantonese food doesn't include many spices; the cuisine tends to be fresh, crisp, tender and lightly seasoned.
The unique culinary tradition of dim sum originated in Guangdong, and is intrinsically linked to the Chinese custom of 'yum cha' or tea drinking. Teahouses were built to accommodate weary travellers journeying along the Silk Road route. Rural farmers, exhausted after long hours working in the fields, would also head to the local teahouse for an afternoon of tea and relaxing conversation. It took several centuries for dim sum to develop. At one time, it was considered inappropriate to combine tea with food as people believed it would lead to excessive weight gain. However, people later discovered that tea aids digestion and cleanses the palate, therefore teahouse owners began to offer a variety of small eats with the tea they served, and the tradition of dim sum was born. Historically, dim sum was traditionally served at breakfast or lunch, and dishes include barbecued char siu, sticky and burnt red in colour, and clear broths intensely flavoured with meat stock.
Min Cuisine – Fujian Province
Min cuisine dates back 5,000 years and consists of four styles: Fuzhou, which is light and often sweet and sour; Western Fujian, slightly spicy with mustard and pepper flavours; Southern Fujian, which is spicy and sweet; and Quanzhou, characterised by stronger tastes and flavours and an emphasis on visual presentation.
The cuisine originates from South China's Fujian Province. The region's abundant natural resources mean that cuisine is rich in high-quality ingredients. The food is influenced by its coastal position and mountainous terrain, and ingredients such as woodland mushrooms, bamboo shoots, fish, shellfish and turtles are used regularly.
The cuisine in this area is known to have particular emphasis on umami taste; the dishes are notoriously light and flavourful.
The cooking techniques from this region are wide and varied, including pan-frying, deep-frying, boiling, baking, stewing, sautéing with wine, simmering, stir-frying, smoking, braising and salting. Fujian cooks are adept at knife-skills: chefs can cut thin jellyfish into three pieces and very fine thread. However, Min cuisine is most notorious for its soups and an expertise in applying various kinds of seasonings.
One of the most famous dishes of the region is a soup known as 'Buddha Jumps over the Wall'. The name of the dish is owed to the Chinese legend of a travelling monk who was so overcome by the smells of the dish that he jumped over the wall of his wayside inn and abandoned his vegetarian diet just to taste this spectacular soup.
Xiang Cuisine – Hunan Province
Xiang cuisine consists of the cuisines of the Xiang River region, Dongting Lake and the western Hunan province of China, a region that has the reputation of being a "land of fish and rice".
The salient features of Xiang cuisine are richness, creaminess and moistness. The food is fragrant, and the use of fresh vegetables that are cooked until they are al dente – that is, not much at all – is common. It is said that the cuisine from the Hunan Province has the saltiness of the dishes of North China and the sweetness of the dishes of South China, alongside the spice and tanginess of the dishes unique to the local area.
Xiang cuisine contains more than 4,000 dishes, and each uses many fresh, local and varied ingredients the region enjoys due to its high agricultural output. Common cooking techniques include stewing, frying, pot-roasting, braising and smoking. An important aspect of the cuisine is the art of cutting meats and vegetables, both for presentation purposes and to enhance the tenderness of the final dish.
Like Szechuan cuisine, Hunan food is renowned for being hot, sour and spicy, with garlic, chilli peppers and shallots used liberally throughout most dishes. However, unlike Szechuan cuisine, the food from Xiang is known for being purely hot, and consequently easier to eat, as opposed to the searing, numbing heat indicative of Szechuan cooking. However, Xiang cuisine is often spicier by pure chilli content than that of Szechuan cuisine.
The dishes of the region typically change with the seasons: during the heat of the summer, a meal will usually begin with cold dishes or cold meats with chillies. In winter, a popular dish is the hot pot, thought to heat the blood in colder months.
Hui Cuisine – Anhui Province
Hui cuisine is derived from the native cooking styles of the people located in the Huangshan Mountains region in China. These mountains are also known as the 'Yellow Mountains' and are a world-famous tourist attraction.
It consists of three styles: the Yangtze River region, Huai River region and southern Anhui region. Among them, it is the South Anhui style of cooking that is the most notable.
Anhui is a region notable for its uncultivated fields, mountains and forests, providing the area with high-quality local ingredients. The Yellow Mountains are abundant in raw ingredients suitable for cooking. Wild herbs are readily available and widely used, alongside ingredients yielded from the local area such as mushrooms, tea leaves, bamboo shoots and sweet dates.
The cuisine places a great deal of emphasis on natural foods and uses traditional methods of cooking. Most of the ingredients used in Hui dishes are also used for medicinal purposes.
Hui cuisine is particular about controlling cooking times and temperatures – high, medium or low heat is applied according to the quality and characteristics of the different ingredients and flavour requirements. The food requires skill in sautéing and stewing to achieve a delicate lightness in taste.
Zhe Cuisine – Zhejiang Province
Zhe cuisine derives from the traditional ways of cooking in the Zhejiang Province in China, south of Shanghai and around the former Chinese capital of Hangzhou.
It is recognised for being fresh and light with a mellow taste rather than greasy. It consists of at least four styles of cooking: Hangzhou, Shaoxing, Ningbo and Shanghai. Among these styles of cooking, it is the Hangzhou style that is the most notable: the food is delicate yet richly flavoured, with emphasis on freshness, tenderness and purity of taste. The dishes require an expertise in the cooking techniques of quick-frying, stir-frying, braising and deep-frying.
There are many beautiful folk stories about the famous dishes in Zhe cuisine, such as the story behind the dish Jiaohua ji or Hangzhou roast chicken, also commonly known as Beggar's chicken. The chicken is stuffed, wrapped in pork fat, lotus leaves and finally mud or clay, before roasting for a couple of hours. Legend has that one day a beggar was so weak that he couldn't stand up without fainting, so onlookers collected wood and built a fire to try and warm him up. One person took out the last remaining chicken and prepared to cook it for him, but without any conventional cooking tools they were worried they weren't going to be able to do so. Another beggar had the idea of wrapping the chicken up in mud before putting it on top of the fire to roast. Finally, they cracked open the mud coating and to everyone's surprise revealed a perfectly cooked chicken whose smell drifted through the entire neighbourhood, drawing people out of their homes to praise the beggars' cooking skills.
Dongpo pork is another traditional Hangzhou dish that is made by pan-frying and then red cooking (or Chinese stewing) pork belly. The folklore story that surrounds this particular dish involves Su Dangpo, a Chinese writer and artist, who was banished to Hangzhou for a life of poverty. He improved on the traditional pork dish by braising the pork, adding Chinese fermented wine and slowly stewing it on a low heat.
Chuan Cuisine – Szechuan Province
Chuan cuisine originates from the Szechuan Province in southwestern China, and it has four main styles of cooking including Chongqing, Chengdu, Zigong and Buddhist vegetarian.
Szechuan cuisine is renowned for its use of bold flavours; chilli, garlic and the aromatic Szechuan pepper, Hua Jiao (meaning 'flower pepper' from the prickly ash tree), are used liberally throughout the dishes. The pepper has a unique taste: it is intensely fragrant, citrusy and causes a numbing sensation in the mouth.
The cuisine receives universal praise for its pleasing, lingering spicy-hot taste, a flavour that is rare in other regional cuisines. This unique spiciness is achieved by a mixture of dry ingredients such as crushed black, white and red peppercorns and crushed dried chilli, as well as Szechuan pepper that is first dried and then crushed.
The Szechuan Province is known as the 'heavenly country' due to its abundance of food and natural resources. Although the region is not near the sea, the area farms freshwater fish and crayfish. The ingredients used are great in variety, from poultry, pork and beef to fish, vegetables and tofu. The methods of cooking vary according to the texture of the ingredients, and the techniques include baking, sautéing, steaming and fast frying.
Most Szechuan dishes are spicy, although a typical meal includes non-spicy dishes to cool the palate. The cuisine is divided into seven basic flavours: sour, pungent, hot, sweet, bitter, aromatic and salty. The food itself is divided into five different types: sumptuous banquet, ordinary banquet, popularised food, household-style food and food snacks.
Chuan cuisine enjoys a reputation as a cuisine that is "one dish with one flavour and one hundred dishes with one hundred flavours".


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In the last couple of years, more minorities than whites were hired to police Baton Rouge, reflecting both a growing pool of minority applicants and pointed efforts by the Police Department to diversify as mandated by a decades-old agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice.
"We've been trying to get out from under it," Police Chief Carl Dabadie Jr. said, referencing the consent decree.
Since the early 1980s, both the BRPD and the Baton Rouge Fire Department, along with scores of other civil service agencies across Louisiana, have been under an agreement requiring them to become more demographically similar to the communities they served. While most agencies have been released from the suit over the years — including Lake Charles' and Shreveport's police and fire departments — the Baton Rouge departments remain among the few still in the shadow of the decree.
Even as the city has become majority black, which it has been since 2000, the city's police force and firefighters remain overwhelmingly white.
According to the most recent numbers available from the Police Department, two-thirds of its "sworn personnel" are white.
Meanwhile, about two-fifths of the city is white, according to U.S. Census data.
Recently, though, for the Police Department, the academies of new recruits have been much more demographically similar to Baton Rouge than in years past.
"I think prior to last year the recruitment efforts were lackluster," said Metro Councilwoman Ronnie Edwards, whose district in north Baton Rouge consists predominantly of black residents. "And I think that bears out in the numbers."
At the beginning of the current academy, the 81st, which began in late April, 41 percent of the recruits were white, 48 percent were black and 11 percent were another race. In the 80th academy, which began last June, the recruits were about one-third white and two-thirds black, according to Police Department data.
Rewind several years, to the 78th academy, which began in 2012, and the makeup was 62 percent white, 35 percent black and 3 percent other. There was an even higher percentage of white recruits than minority recruits in the 79th academy, which began in February 2013 — weeks before Dabadie was sworn in as the department's provisional police chief.
Dabadie said the more representative recruitment is "a sign that we're building trust in the community." He noted that he has personally reached out to black leaders in the community in an effort to increase diversity at the department.
Mike McClanahan, president of the Baton Rouge chapter of the NAACP, is one of the leaders Dabadie has met with. Although McClanahan wasn't universally happy with BRPD, he said he's pleased with the recent emphasis placed on hiring minorities by the chief — a compliment doled out by Edwards, the councilwoman, too.
But McClanahan wasn't as complimentary about the Fire Department.
"The Police Department, they've been making some grounds, maybe not as much as we'd like," McClanahan said. "On the other hand, the Fire Department, they take one step forward and five steps back."
The percentage of white "fire suppression" personnel within the Fire Department has actually grown in recent years.
In 2012, such personnel were 67 percent white. Now, they're about 70 percent white, according to data provided by the department.
"Our first concern and top priority is to provide Class I service in a professional manner to all citizens of Baton Rouge," said Fire Chief Ed Smith, referring to the department's top firefighting rating, in a prepared statement. "Keeping this in mind, we continue to strive to adhere to the consent decree and achieve a more diverse workforce."
As with the Police Department, the Fire Department has seen increasingly diverse applicant pools in recent years, with more minorities sitting for the state Civil Service exam than whites.
In 2010, about 200 white people took the state Civil Service test in Baton Rouge to become a firefighter. Only 140 black people sat for the same test. In the early 2010s, fewer minorities also sat for the police officer test, according to statistics provided by the Office of State Examiner.
In February, though, 95 white people sat for the firefighter test in Baton Rouge compared to 116 black people. For the police test in October, it was 30 whites compared to 57 blacks.
The total drop in applicants could be a reflection of a healthier economy, in which "private sector jobs" are often more attractive, said Robert Lawrence, director of the Office of State Examiner, which administers the Civil Service tests throughout the state.
But throughout the application processes, beginning with the entry Civil Service exam, minorities as a whole generally fail or drop out at a higher percentage, according to statistics provided by the police and fire departments.
Even for the most recent police academy, lauded for its diversity, a lower percentage of black candidates — 58 percent — passed the oral examination than white candidates — 79 percent. During the next step, the psychological exam, only 16 percent of the white candidates failed. But 26 percent of the black candidates failed, Police Department data show.
In the Fire Department application process, the difference in results broken down by race is more striking.
During the January 2012 firefighter Civil Service test in Baton Rouge, for example, 86 percent of the white test takers passed compared to 53 percent of black applicants, according to the Office of State Examiner.
During the next two steps in the process — the Test of Adult Basic Education and the "physical ability test" — white candidates also passed more often than black applicants.
During the TABE administered in February 2013, which is only required for firefighters and serves as the second hurdle in the application process, 63 percent of white test takers passed compared to 39 percent of black applicants. In the physical ability test given the next month, 64 percent of white candidates passed while only 56 percent of black applicants did, according to Fire Department data.
By the time the academy rolled around, the data show, the breakdown was 60 percent white and 40 percent black.
McClanahan, the Baton Rouge NAACP president, said when he raised concerns in a meeting with Chief Smith about the lack of minorities in the department, Smith said it was challenging because more minorities failed the basic entry tests, which the statistics show.
McClanahan said that's no excuse.
"The good ole' boy system is still alive and well in the Fire Department," McClanahan said. "And it's shown in the way of discipline, and it's shown in the ranks of the department."
Looming over every application process for both departments in the past three decades has been the federal consent decree, an agreement between the Department of Justice and numerous Louisiana jurisdictions whose employee demographics were not consistent with the populations they served.
Through spokespeople, the DOJ refused to answer questions about whether the Baton Rouge agencies were making progress. The DOJ also refused to explain whether the agencies were under any sort of pressure to adhere to the agreement, or whether it's common for consent decrees to last decades without being resolved.
Randall Schmidt, a clinical professor of law at the University of Chicago School of Law's Employment Discrimination Project, said it's unusual for a federal consent decree to go on so many years without being dissolved.
But Baton Rouge isn't alone, as other cities or public agencies have remained under federal watch for even longer periods of time, Schmidt said, pointing to the city of Chicago as an example.
"Every consent decree is a little different," he said.
Richard Ugelow, who worked for decades as an attorney in the DOJ's Civil Rights division, said a number of challenges make enforcing decrees similar to the Baton Rouge agreement difficult.
"As a practical matter, there are a lack of federal resources to enforce the extant numerous consent decrees, like the one in Baton Rouge," said Ugelow, who now works as a professor of law at American University's Washington College of Law.
Ugelow also said courts generally will not set strict numerical requirements to enforce decrees like the one for Baton Rouge.
"Employment quotas are inherently suspect and almost certainly unconstitutional," Ugelow said. "In addition, employment quotas suggest hiring a less qualified over a more qualified individual because of their race, sex or national origin. The Department of Justice does not seek that result and, in any event, the courts would not sanction it."
In the end, Ugelow said, the solutions usually come down to recruitment.
Baton Rouge's fire and police chief said their respective agencies have worked hard in recent years to recruit minority candidates.
"The department has spent many hours and dollars to improve recruitment and retention so that we can reach our goal in reference to the consent decree by achieving a more diverse workforce," Smith, the city's fire chief, said in a statement.
Dabadie, the police chief, pointed to the demographic breakdown of recent academies as signs of progress.
"We've done a lot in the community trying to have our department represent the community we police," he said.
As for the consent decree, McClanahan, the NAACP representative, said he and others are working to have the matter brought back before a judge.
"Somebody needs to be held in contempt," he said.
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After the San Bernardino attacks, Muslims in the US are being demonized at levels we've never seen before – "not even after 9/11." Is it just Donald Trump and a fringe number of Americans who are spreading anti-Muslim rhetoric?
Unfortunately, maybe not. Watch this AJ+ video to find out just how bad it's gotten, why this rhetoric is actually leading us to ignore pressing threats like gun violence – and how all of this is alienating Muslims and playing right into ISIS' hands.
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Though the internet rarely unites for a common cause, the mystery of who had the gall to bite Beyoncé Knowles brought the sleuth out of everyone earlier this year.
In March, actress and comedian Tiffany Haddish shared with GQ that an unnamed actress bit Queen Bey during a party in 2017.
Fans speculated on Twitter, Chrissy Teigen claimed she knew who did it, and TMZ said their sources confirmed a suspect, actress Sanaa Lathan. At the time, the Love & Basketball star denied those rumors on Twitter.
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An Outstanding Family Lifestyle
Intelligently renovated to maximise space and natural light, this impressive double fronted period residence with a heated pool and off-street parking has been transformed into a superb four bedroom family home in a sought-after address. A formal living room with open fireplace accompanies a striking open plan living and dining room with a glassed outlook across the pool and a sliding cavity door for zoned living. State-of-the-art kitchen with a Genoa marble island bench, integrated refrigerator and freezer, Ilve stove, integrated Miele dishwasher and soft closing drawers with crystal handles. The relaxing and private garden is perfect for family life with a glass framed solar heated swimming pool with an integrated spa and a gas plumbed BBQ area. The four fitted bedrooms include a zoned main bedroom with a walk-in robe, built-in robes and a luxurious marble en suite. The oversized family bathroom highlights the home's generous proportions and features a deep bath and a rain shower. Comprehensive appointments include remote gates to off-street parking for two cars, ducted heating, refrigerated air conditioning, plantation shutters, polished floorboards and automatic watering system. The home is ideally located in Sandringham's historic gypsy village and is just metres to the beach, Sandringham Village and train station and is walking distance to a choice of schools.
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HOME and CDBG
FY 2017 Final Funding Levels
HOME: $950 million
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FY 2018 Proposed Funding Levels
Both of these programs are widely used by our membership for a variety of rental and homeownership uses. For detailed information on HOME, as well as advocacy tools, please visit the HOME Coalition, of which NNA is an active member.
Click here for the latest HOME advocacy materials.
Click here for the letter to U.S. Senate Leadership, Budget and Appropriations Committee Members regarding FY2016 Senate THUD HOME proposed funding.
Click here for CDBG and HOME allocations by state.
Click the HOME Coalition letter urging Congress to Protect Home and restore funding to at least $1.2 billion in FY18.
Click here to see the names of House Reps who signed on to the HOME Coalition "Dear Colleague" letter asking the House THUD Appropriations Subcommittee to provide at least $1.2 billion in funding for HOME in FY 2018.
HUD Counseling and NFMC Program
FY 2017 Final Funding Levels
HUD Counseling: $55 million
FY 2018 Proposed Funding Levels
HUD Counseling: $47 million
NNA members' work includes mortgage counseling, pre- and post-purchasing counseling, and financial literacy programs. Our goal is to educate the low- and moderate-income homebuyer, many of whom are first-time homebuyers, and provide them with the tools to purchase a home, but more importantly to stay in their home. As the current crisis demonstrates, the need for counseling has never been more important.
Learn more about advocacy and data at the National Housing Resource Center.
Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) and New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) Programs
NNA members utilize the LIHTC and NMTC program to develop multi-family projects and other community enhancement assets. The Credits' availability and leverage have fluctuated over the past several years due to the economy. There are several key policy changes being proposed by members of Congress to enhance and extend the tax credit. For detailed information and advocacy tools on the LIHTC, please visit the ACTION Campaign (NNA is active member).
For the NMTC, visit the New Market Tax Credit Coalition's website for NMTC talking points and state fact sheets.
Rural Appropriations
Over one-third of NNA's membership serves rural communities. Our rural members rely on USDA funding sources as well as HUD funding. In the coming months, rural organizations will continue to work with Congressional leaders and others to ensure that low-income families in all rural communities remain eligible for USDA Rural Housing programs.
To find out more information about what you can do support this effort, please contact the National Rural Housing Coalition.
See the Administration's request for several key programs below:
FY 2017 Final Funding
Section 502 Direct Loan: $1 billion
Section 523 Self-Help: $30 million
Section 515 Rental Rural Housing: $35 million
SHOP Program: $10 million
FY 2018 Proposed Funding Levels
Section 502 Direct Loan: $0
Section 523 Self-Help: $0
Section 515 Rental Rural Housing: $0
SHOP Program: $0
Also visit the Housing Assistance Council website, and the National Rural Housing Coalition website for additional information and advocacy tools.
CDFI Fund
The CDFI Fund continues to receive a stable request and appropriation. Visit the Opportunity Finance Network for more information and advocacy tools.
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Merbearie on ART & SOUL
We just saw that Denise from Art & Soul included our Merbearie Yoka in their post. We couldn't go to the DesignerCon this year so we're really excited to be showcased there! Thank you Denise!
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What research needs to be done into digital technologies for mental health?
We all know that digital technology has the potential to transform mental healthcare by connecting patients, services and health data in new ways. We also know that substantial gaps exist in the evidence base underlying these technologies and further research and new methodologies are needed to address this (Hollis et al, 2015).
More research is needed, but resources for this are limited – funds can be hard to secure and time is needed to carry out robust research. We can't tackle all the unanswered questions in the short time scales demanded by the speed of digital. The recent webinar on mHealth for Mental Health hosted by the Evidence-based Mental Health argued for the need to prioritise research to progress the field. We would further argue that those who use digital products and services – people who access services and the clinicians who support them - should play a lead role in this prioritisation.
Therefore, MindTech proposes building a collaboration to undertake a James Lind Alliance (JLA) Priority Setting Partnership with a focus on prioritising unanswered research questions in digital technology for mental health. We want to focus on the uncertainties about the application of technologies in practice and their effects. For example, does digital increase access to services?; to what extent does digital promote independence and self-management?; does using wellbeing digital tools prevent longer term mental health problems?
Can you help us build this consortium?
We are looking for partners who can take on different roles within the consortium. We will need to raise around £30,000 to cover the major costs of the project. Possible options for interested partners are:
· Funding partners who would make a financial contribution to the PSP which would lead to a place on the project steering group where decisions about the direction and delivery of the project are made.
· Supporting partners will not be required to make a financial contribution, instead they will provide advice to the steering group, be listed in the all the project publicity, advocate for the project within their networks, and take part in the project surveys and workshops.
If you are interested in this project and want to find out more, please contact Lucy Simons at MindTech:
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Bathurst 12 Hour Form Guide
The Supercars and GT Racing world come together for the Bathurst 12 Hour this weekend. Here's your form guide for the contenders.
Teased Pink
Subaru are at it again with their Viziv Performance STI concept. Another awesome, stunning, inspiring concept car that will just be forgotten in a couple of months when the production version is, again, 15 feet of meh.
Many Happy Returns
2018 is upon us. Here are the things Holding93 is looking forward to in the coming year
Left of Senna
Most cars are named after the people who made them. Naming a car after a former employee is a new one.
SUV All the Things!
The Lamborghini Urus is a conundrum. Is it true to Lambo's heritage? Or is it just brand marketing?
I Want to…. but I Just Can't
I want to like it but the new Aston Martin Vantage has a face only its mother could love.
Every Underdog has his Day
Koenigsegg has been in the news this week for setting a new production car ultimate speed record. However it hasn't been easy for the small Swedish hypercar company to prove its credentials.
New(ish) World Order
The new engine regulation blueprint is here for F1. Here are the hits and misses.
I'm Totally OK With This
The motoring press is up in arms over the Mitsubishi e-Evolution. They just don't get it.
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Wichita school board members will consider a proposal Monday to sell the former Metro-Meridian Alternative High School to a Wichita couple for $275,000.
The high school, at Maple and Meridian, is one of five vacant buildings the district put up for sale last month.
According to a proposed contract, Erik and Bree Maybee plan to buy the school.
Bree Maybee, a commercial broker for J.P. Weigand & Sons, would not offer many details about the couple's plans for the school, but said they plan to redevelop it as a residential property.
"We're really excited about it. It's something that we've been conceptualizing. It's been in incubation in our heads for several years," she said Friday.
Erik Maybee owns Maybee Property Inspection in Wichita.
"We're truly hoping to bring something to the market that we don't have," Bree Maybee said. "We've been talking about it and … thought the school would be an awesome way to make this work."
Metro-Meridian, Wichita's last free-standing alternative high school, closed last year as a cost-cutting measure. Some students transferred to the Chester I. Lewis Academy in northeast Wichita.
The district last month voted to list five vacant school buildings as surplus property, as well as about 17 acres of land adjacent to Jackson Elementary School, at 29th North and Woodlawn.
Metro-Meridian, 301 S. Meridian, was built in 1927. It has 26,393 square feet on 2.1 acres.
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Equilibrium Characteristics of Sand Beachesby Peter S. Eagleson,
B. Glenne,
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Serial Information: Journal of the Hydraulics Division, 1963, Vol. 89, Issue 1, Pg. 35-57
Document Type: Journal Paper
Theoretical developments utilize the equation of wave-induced motion of a discrete bed particle to develop a criterion for classifying sand beaches according to their tendency to aggrade or degrade under a given incident wave. Laboratory experiments show this criterion to be more dependable than the conventional separation of summer and winter profiles solely according to deep water wave steepness. The experiments also show the theory to provide reasonable quantitative equilibrium profiles in the zone offshore of appreciable breaker influence and to predict, with considerable assurance, the offshore limit of profile modification. The extent of the agreement between experiment and a theory based solely on bed load considerations indicates the importance of bed load mechanics in the determination of equilibrium beach characteristics at least in the offshore zone of profile modification. Bed load movement probably plays a relatively small role in the net sediment transport causing the profile modification.
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New Forest Retreat
The Perfect New Forest Winter Break
December, 2016
During the winter the New Forest is the best location to get away with your loved one for a relaxing break. All of our hotels are placed in the heart of the New Forest so you're surrounded by fresh country air and beautiful scenery – two essential elements for a peaceful retreat.
In the mornings enjoy some extra time nestled in bed with a mug of coffee whilst watching the sun rise over the beautiful New Forest landscapes – there really is no need to rush. When you're ready, join us in one of our restaurants for a breakfast to kick-start the day. Choose from body warming porridge served with jam, honey or cream, or opt for something a little more filling like our New Forest breakfast served with all the traditional English breakfast trimmings – Just the job on a cold winter's morning. If you're celebrating a special occasion or just fancy something extra special, then we have Heidsieck Champagne available by the bottle or glass for a sparkling breakfast.
After breakfast get cosy in our lounge and enjoy the pleasures of peace and quiet in front of our roaring fires with a good book and a nice hot cuppa. Simply sit back, relax and feel the stress fly away. All of our hotels have heated swimming pools open from 8am-10pm so take a relaxing dip and feel weightless.
Treat yourself to our delicious afternoon tea featuring a selection of traditional sandwiches and tasty tea fancies accompanied by a freshly home baked scone with clotted cream and sweet strawberry preserve. Choose one of our speciality teas or coffee to complement this indulgent afternoon delight. Or if you're joining us before Christmas then let us give your afternoon tea a festive twist and swap the traditional treats for some of your Christmas favourites.
Wrap up warm for the afternoon and have a wonder into one of our neighbouring villages where you can find gift shops, cafes and hidden treasures. If you can brave the cold a little longer, put on your wellies or walking boots and simply explore the open heathlands and ancient woodlands, where you'll spot New Forest ponies graze.
Head back to us, kick of those boots, sink back into the sofas and warm your cockles before joining us in our award-winning restaurants for dinner. Enjoy one of our new seasonal dishes, locally sourced with the best of ingredients and a glass of your favourite tipple.
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The process of quality steelmaking is a detailed process requiring skilled operators, as well as state-of-the-art equipment.
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Open die forging uses flat or slightly contoured dies to form shapes. The dies do not encompass the entire work piece thus providing unrestricted metal flow.
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Closed die forging shapes hot metal completely within the walls or cavities of two dies that come together to enclose the work piece on all sides.
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The Geometry of the Universe
The shape of our universe has been a matter of debate for a long-time. The main possibilities were the universe being spherical, flat or saddle shape.
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Cosmological Constant
In 1917, Einstein introduced the cosmological constant in order to explain how our universe is not falling into itself because of gravity. The repulsive force of cosmological constant supposedly counteracts the gravity forces of the bodies inside the universe. Therefore, it prevents the collapse and stabilizes the universe. According to its value, the constant would allow for an expanding, contracting or static universe. Since at the beginning of twentieth century universe was considered stationary, he chose a particular value for it, which would permit a static universe. The nature of this constant was not known or explained completely at the time.
When in 1929 Hubble's observation showed that universe is expanding and is not static, Einstein himself regarded the cosmological constant unnecessary. It was considered a non- contributory factor and everybody accepted a zero value for it.
Big Bang Theory and Expansion
The introduction of Big Bang Theory introduced a force, which is supposed to be responsible for expansion of universe despite the presence of the attracting gravity. This would be the residual force that is left from the Big Bang explosion. It was anticipated though, that gravity would slow down and ultimate stop the expansion sometime in the future. That would be when the density of matter in the universe exceeds the critical density.
Critical density is that density of overall matter and energy in the universe that if we exceed it, the gravity has the strength to contract the universe. At critical density, the shape of universe will be flat. Above critical density, the shape of it will be convex and spherical. If the density falls below critical density, the shape of the universe will be concave and it will expand forever. All of this happens if we take the cosmological constant as zero. Which means if there is no other factor at work to expand the universe?
In January 1998, Alex Pilippenko in Astrophysist Conference in Southern California announced that cosmological constant could no longer be taken as zero. Different cosmologists reached to this point after long-term observation of supernovae IA in longer red shifts (far distances more than 3 billion light years away).
The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) the probe launched by NASA in 2002 has determined, within the limits of instrument error, that the universe is almost flat. This is an explanation for the cosmologic constant effect released by NASA.
"The results of the WMAP mission and observations of distant supernova have suggested that the expansion of the universe is actually accelerating which implies the existence of a form of matter with a strong negative pressure, such as the cosmological constant. This strange form of matter is also sometimes referred to as the "dark energy". If dark energy in fact plays a significant role in the evolution of the universe, then in all likelihood the universe will continue to expand forever."[2]
Density of the Universe
Since the cosmological constant is slightly positive, we conclude that space is nearly concave. That means that Omega M (world density/critical density) has to be less than 1. Ω M <1
To have a concave universe the sum of Ω M plus the effect of cosmological constant in the expanding universe (Ω Lambda) has to be smaller than one.
Ω M + Ω Lambda <1
Both the average density of the universe and the critical density change with time. When the universe was very young, and very dense, these numbers changed very rapidly. If the average density of the universe were even slightly greater or smaller than the critical density in the instant following the Big Bang, Omega would have zoomed to infinity (a quick Big Chill) or crashed to zero (the Big Crunch). The fact that we are still around, approximately 15 billion years later, is evidence that the critical density must have been extremely close--equal within 1 part in 1015--to one after the Big Bang. [3]
Here we need to assume a factor at work, which provides the positive cosmological constant.
Dark Energy
By definition, dark energy is the source for a hypothetical force which exerts negative pressure and is acting against the gravity at large scales. This energy is not only acts against gravity and prevents Big Crunch. Supposedly, it is also responsible for accelerated expansion of the universe. In addition, in a discrete space-time model, this energy can also be responsible for creation of space-time blocks.
Dark energy compensates for more than %70 of the mass/energy density. In a closed universe one expects to find a negative energy substance which dominates the total mass energy density. We have not found any evidence for such a fundamental substance within the universe yet.
Dark Energy in this Model
Alternatively, we can postulate that dark energy originates from outside of the boundaries. Previously, I have claimed that the source of dark energy is inherent in this model. In Singularity chapter, I have postulated that Zero Point Energy is out of our space-time. An out of space-time ZPF can open our eye to new possibilities and scenarios.
If the big bang theory postulates that space-time originated from the singularity, it is not far fetched if we speculate that the additional space-time blocks responsible for expansion of the universe have the same origin. To open our scope to new realms we need to challenge the boundaries.
The presence of the dark energy gives us the good news that big crunch will not happen, because the universe is going to expand forever. Then there comes this feeling of emptiness and the chilling sensation that our descendants will stay lonely in an infinitely vast and cold universe. One may say that, our own galaxy or branch of galaxies, which remain together, has many new places to explore. Why do we have to be so ambitious and greedy to dream about intergalactic traveling? Is there an end to human race greed? Is there an end to evolution's ambition? Are we a dead end branch of evolution? Is there an alternative for cold and disperse universe scenario in the future?