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My friend shared gratitude for the professor who hurt her feelings and helped her to the cross. I am equally grateful for the people who were unwilling to play my silly games and were and are honest with me- seeking His words for me not their opinions or my approval.
There's a word I use to describe something I see around me. It's "pansification". It means the turning into a passive pansy. Now this is not nice but nonetheless it is what many who claim Christ would have believers believe sanctification is. This may or may not be in in response to hypocritical, aggressive behavior witnessed in rigid, church culture. Nonetheless, swinging the pendulum the other way is not the answer.
Jesus did not die a passive, nice death. He was beautifully assertive and submitted to the Father- fulfilling the purpose for which He came. Jesus said this of Himself, " I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep." John 10:11
… John (the Baptist) saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! John 1:29
He is our answer.
Sanctification is becoming more aware of our utter dependence on Him and needing Him for all of life…. Loving Him knowing we are the worst of sinners, like Paul, and being willing, at His mercy, to speak His truth at His leading with His love because we know our own depravity and are all wrapped up in Him.
And it can only be done at His pace.
Sanctification, for the born again, is His way alone. God does not take away the difficult. He rather shows us He is the God of the impossible despite our difficulties.
He is the God of Resurrection Life. Before Christ, we sow and reap death… only because He rains on and reigns over the righteous and the unrighteous do we experience any of His goodness before salvation. He is that good.
It is ONLY by His Life- The Word Made Flesh- that we, or anyone can LIVE- sowing and reaping life.
That's why we call it a relationship. A shelter – Us, up under His hand… submitting to His time table, repenting when we wander, doubt, and fear… needing Him like the air we breathe. Knowing that an arsenal of arrows may fly at us, our desires may betray us, we may tremble, question, wonder if deliverance is coming… but we can get out His Word and read it— knowing all else may seem real, but HE IS THE REALITY OUR SPIRIT CRAVES.
Out of that fulfillment, He shows us:
He has a purpose for our lives: to bear fruit,
We Can't Bear That Fruit in Self Will With Our Words Trying To Share His Glory.
This breaking down of self will, this taking our broken parts and filling them up with God alone- His healing, His life, His hope, His peace, forgiveness, grace, and truth…
This is sanctification.
This requires a relationship.
A dependence.
And out of this place- is where we bear fruit.
The Great Gardener… plows us… works the soil of our hearts… plants seed… and calls us to wait. to be. with Him.
Dear Reader, this is where you and I can be bold and it be right. Be kind and our motive be pure. Be and shine our lights… free… broken… weak and relying on His strength. We can be humble to receive direction, loving enough to confront, bold to say His words when they sound mean and might hurt someone for the greater purpose that He has. Be gentle when we want to yell, pray at all times and repent when we haven't. Know we are safe in our Father's hand and that any correction from Him is rooted in deep love. See Proverbs 3:12 and Hebrews 12:6
O Dear Reader, don't trade this good stuff, real deal walking with Him for performance and the approval of man, this firm gripped religion of trying to hold onto Him as if you really could or would… the safe bottom lands… when He says, "It's time to climb, and don't worry. I HAVE YOU… In My Hand. You can settle in dear. This is how you war with me, my love."
Go, climb with Him.
The times are too dangerous to not.
There is coming a time when your sources will be tested… The church will be shaken and many will fall away… exposing what was really going on all along.
Now is the time to go… with all that we are… to His Word and enabled by His Spirit… closer to the Heart of Our Father God.
Bless you with Jesus: the great Revealer and and Redeemer of hearts!
In Christ Alone,
Diana Corman
If you are interested in a Bible reading plan check out IvaMay.blogspot.com
She provides a brief blog on each Bible reading for the day and questions to help the reader see the patterns of Scripture from beginning to end. This a chronological approach which helps us see the Scripture as one continuous story, which is what it is!
Books you may enjoy:
The Bronze Bow
- The Bronze Bow is a book by Elizabeth George Speare that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1962. This book is set in first-century Judaea. The main character, a young man named Daniel Bar Jamin, lives at the same time as Jesus of Nazareth.
- en.wikipedia.org
- My thoughts: This book gives the reader an excellent view of Jesus! He comes on the scene in complicated times… much like ours today. I found it very encouraging and a reminder to keep the main thing the main thing: Jesus!
Hinds' Feet on High Places
- Hinds' Feet on High Places is an allegorical novel by English author Hannah Hurnard. Hinds' Feet was written in 1955 and has become a very successful work of Christian fiction, seeing new editions published as recently as July, 2005.
- en.wikipedia.org
- My addition: This book is based on Psalm 18:33 "He makes my feet like hinds' feet, And sets me upon my high places." One of my all time favorites.
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Gordon in the morning: Fashion notes and bidding wars
Has Gordon ever met a woman? One who wears clothes?
Apparently not:
Cheryl's Rip-Off Dress
GORGEOUS CHERYL COLE smoulders in a frock held together by one long ZIP.
How many zips does Gordon think most dresses have?
Cole was punting "her" first solo tour - or, rather, a series of dates while people arrive to see the Black Eyed Peas.
Any other observations on the outfit, Gordon? You haven't mentioned the colour.
Cheryl may be dressed in silver, but she's solid gold to us.
You wonder how long that line took. Is there a pad in Wapping with variations crossed out?
Elsewhere, Gordon is busily pushing JLS again, with an American 'bidding war':
Jive would mean going on the same books as BRITNEY SPEARS, JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE, BACKSTREET BOYS and USHER.
That's true. It's also the label that brings you Mullage and K. Michelle.
Epic is home to the late MICHAEL JACKSON.
Could JLS fit in on a label which is best known for a moldering corpse?
Still, it's all very exciting, isn't it, Gordon?
JLS are at the centre of a bidding war between two of the world's biggest pop labels, setting them up for US glory.
Yes, a bidding war. Between two very, very different companies.
That they're both owned by Sony doesn't in any way undermine the idea that these two labels are involved in an intense public auction to sign the band, not does it mean the two are involved in a meaningless PR puff to try and make the half-witted believe there's an insatiable demand for JLS in the Mid West.


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Green Microscopic Algae Problem
I have a problem with the water in my tank turning green with floating microscopic algae. I've tested the water and the phosphate level is low. I have a good working filter and live plants.
Reaching for my pot of algae control liquid, I see that it says it shouldn't be used where there are live plants. I can reduce the feed levels and maybe increase the frequency of water changes but are there any other ways of ridding the tank of its green water?
It's a 60L tank with a humble community of Leopard Danios, Neon Tetras and an algae eater. I've recently had the sad demise of two good-sized (10cm) Clown Loaches, both within a week of each other. They were about 6 years old.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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You may be overstocked, definitely were with the clown loaches, who by the way were small for six years old and haven't lived long as the tank is way too small for them They grow to about 30cm long and should live 20+ years in the right size tank. How many danios and tetras have you and what species is the algae-eater? How often do yo change any water and how much each time? The other thing that makes green water worse is if the tank gets a lot of daylight from a nearby window and/or tank lights are on for too long.
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Thanks for your post and comments. I didn't realize that Clown Loaches needed a lot of space so I'll find another species if I re-stock.
I've four Danios and four Neon Tetras. Sorry but I'm not sure what species the Algae Eater is. The fish is about 10-12 cm long and a very distinctive orange colour. The fish is quite active and is happy to move around the tank at most times of the day. That's all the information that I can give you, unfortunately.
Water changes happen every two weeks and I take out about 5L of the total 60L (With ornaments etc. the water volume is probably about 55L) so it's about a 9 or 10% changeover.
The lights are on for about 8 hours a day. The tank is in the proximity of a window but it's north-facing so the tank does not catch much direct sunlight.
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Just looked at some images online and the closest resemblance is a Golden Chinese Algae Eater.
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If it is a Chinese algae eater, this species factsheet
https://www.fishkeeping.co.uk/modules/ ... sheet.php?caresheetID=126
shows its requirements and the minimum tank size required. A LFS or aquarist-classifieds.co.uk may be able to help with rehoming him/her if you aren't able to get a suitably-sized tank.
As you're doing very small water changes, and only fortnightly, I suspect your nitrate level is high - do you have a liquid-based test kit to test this (and the other crucial water quality tests of ammonia and nitrite)? Weekly water changes of 25% (or anything up to 50%) ought to help considerably.
[ Edited to add: 2 pieces of almost identical advice arriving in stereo from myself and Fishlady. Hope this is helpful. :) ]
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Do you have a test kit? If so test for ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate and post the results. I'd bet that the nitrate level is high and that is what is feeding the algae and allowing it to take over. The solution to that is more frequent, larger water changes. Most of us change at least 25% of the water every week to keep the nitrate level low. On the schedule you've mentioned, not enough of the nitrate (which is the end result of the cycle as ammonia from fish waste is converted first to nitrite and then nitrate) is being removed and is available as fertiliser to feed algae growth.
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Thanks for all the posts. I followed the link and my algae eater specimen doesn't look like the one shown, which appears to have markings. My algae eater is without markings and is an orange colour. A little more poking around on the internet suggests it could be a Gold (or Golden) Algae Eater (Gyrinocheilos aymonieri).
I do have a test kit and the results show pH 7.4; nitrate 0 ppm; nitrite 0 ppm; ammonia 0 ppm.
I can certainly step up the frequency and % of water replaced.
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About the author: "Sergey Kadinsky is an analyst at the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation and an adjunct professor of history at Touro College.
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If you're looking to use classroom management to change things up a bit but you don't have the funds, don't fret, there are ways that you can get the money without having to reach into your own pockets. Whether you want to purchase a class set of iPads or move your classroom management into the 21st century and purchase a standup table or desk, it is possible to get the classroom of your dreams. Here's how.
Your first stop should be to the school board. Make sure that before you go, you talk with your principal first and let him know your intentions. Maybe he will even go with you and help sell your plea to the board. Make sure that you go to the board prepared: This means that you are armed with information about what you are asking for, why you need it, how it will benefit your classroom, and how much it will cost. Most of the time, the school board is very approachable, so don't be afraid to go to their next meeting to present your case. They will be pleased to hear what you have to say, and most boards will do what it takes to help you out (as long as you have a good plea).
Your second stop should be to talk to the PTA (Parent-Teacher-Association). Oftentimes the PTA has separate funds that can help you get the supplies you are looking for. All you have to do is go to their next meeting with specific information about what you need (what the item is, why you need it, what it costs) and make a plea for why, and how it will benefit your students. Then you can discuss your intentions as a group, and hopefully they will offer you the funds so that you can get what you want for your classroom.
In this day and age, it's easy to get what you want with just a few online clicks. There are numerous sites like Donors Choose, Adopt a Classroom, and Go Fund Me, where you can post what you are asking for and solicit donations from strangers. While this may seem like an unlikely way to get what you want for you classroom makeover, it's actually is a very effective and efficient way to get the items that you need without even having to leave your chair. All you have to do is write a creative plea asking for what you need and why, and add some fantastic photos of your classroom and students, and you will start to see the donations roll in.
Teacher grants are an amazing way to find money for your classroom makeover. Whether you need money for alternative seating or want a few classroom computers, a teacher grant can help you. There are many places that you can look for a grant, from Lowe's Toolbox for Education where your school can receive up to $5000, to the Stand Up Kids organization, whose goal is to have every public school have a standup desk within the next 10 years. Organizations like these want to help teachers, so you might as well give them a try. Here are a few more great organizations where you can try for a teacher grant.
Your own local community can be your saving grace. Local banks and/or organizations love to help give back to their community and will welcome the idea of helping you fund your classroom makeover. Small businesses often want to get their name on the map, and giving a large donation to a school can not only benefit you, but will benefit them as well. Your local newspaper can do a writeup on how the new local store in town just gave funds to help a classroom in need of an update to benefit student learning. It's a win-win for all. Try posting on social media or spreading the word that you are need of a local donor. You never know who will be willing to help you.
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Do you have any tricks or tips on how to get funds for your classroom? Please share your expertise in the comment section below, we would love to hear how you get your supplies funded.
Janelle Cox is an education writer who uses her experience and knowledge to provide creative and original writing in the field of education. Janelle holds a Master's of Science in Education from the State University of New York College at Buffalo. She is also the Elementary Education Expert for About.com, as well as a contributing writer to TeachHUB.com and TeachHUB Magazine. You can follow her at Twitter @Empoweringk6ed, or on Facebook at Empowering K6 Educators.


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Guatemalan Maya women posed for photographer Tom Cogill in their village community center where the walls were painted with images and people's names from the civil war they had endured. Cogill, who lives in Charlottesville, says the legacy of the war was ongoing in their lives: although usually reticent, they wanted "to share their experience of suffering and endurance." His photos are on exhibit in the University of Virginia's Brooks Hall Commons, open Mon.-Fri., 8 a.m.- 5 p.m. Brooks Hall houses the College of Arts & Sciences' anthropology department.
In Cogill's description of the exhibit, which he previously showed at Piedmont Virginia Community College, he writes:
During many trips to Guatemala between 2001 and 2011 it had become obvious to me that the war was still an enduring force in people's lives. Although a treaty had been ratified in 1996, the legacy of the war was ongoing in grief, anger and distrust.
Communities of Popular Resistance (CPRs) were indigenous Maya communities presumed by the military to have close ties with guerrilla forces. As such, these communities were singled out for persecution and even extermination. Those that survived were driven into exil in remote regions of the Petén, Ixcàn and Chiapas. They lived in semi-permanent camps, always under threat of pursuit, and suffered hunger, exposure and disease. During this time they also learned to rely on one another, and formed strong communal structures for food production, child-rearing and self-government.
One such CPR, a community of 80 families returned from exile in the Ixcàn in 2002 and resettled in a former coffee plantation called Union Victoria. Their desire for self-reliance had led them to reach out to Central American Solar Energy Project to learn and use solar ovens for cooking.
Bill Lankford, who founded the Central American Solar Energy Project, colleague Laura Brown and Cogill arrived in Union Victoria in 2010 to talk with a group of women about the benefits of solar ovens and to answer their questions about how CASEP operated."
Cogill recently elaborated on the trip, saying the first time the project went there, men of the village were taught how to build the ovens, but when they proudly presented them to their wives, the women said, "What's wrong with the way we're cooking now? You don't like our cooking?"
Lankford and his team quickly realized they should have involved the women who would actually use the equipment, and so they taught them how to build the ovens – and why. The project has become an empowering activity for women, Cogill said.
The photographer had a different learning experience among the Maya.
"While they discussed it among themselves, I wandered around the village and into their community center. A combination of school, meeting place and performance hall, its walls were painted with depictions of the war and with lists of the heroes and martyrs from the community. It was a moving memorial. When the women had finished their discussions, I asked them if I could photograph them in the room. They readily agreed. I gave them no direction except to choose a part of the room that had a special significance for them. These pictures were the result of that visit and another, longer, stay the following year.
"The quiet eloquence of the Guatemalan Maya has never resonated with me more powerfully than during those days in that room. They want to share their experience of suffering and endurance; they want to record it for their grandchildren to know. I have been photographing people professionally for the past 35 years, and on the occasion of these pictures I had to brace the camera against a chair to keep my heartbeat from shaking the camera."
Environmental portraiture – Tom Cogill photographs people in ways and places that express what they feel, what they do in the world and who they are. "The way is rapport," he says, "and the places include laboratories and landscapes, offices and operating rooms, classrooms and coal mines, Guatemalan villages and Kenyan health clinics." It is used in magazine stories, advertising, education and fundraising.


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ED BETTERIDGE enjoyed a memorable session with the family in Northamptonshire and in 48 hours caught commons over of 30 lb, 32 lb 6 oz, 35 lb 8 oz (pictured) and 36 lb 8 oz. These included three of the six biggest fish in the lake. The media manager for Greys and Chub, from Derbyshire, cast into weed with Mainline Hybrid boilies.
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Ever tried drinking from a fresh coconut? I don't mean a ripe one with the husk, I mean a young Green one to get the coconut 'water'/juice. You may have tried it in a tropical country and there's nothing like it when it comes to imports. You can easily pay upto £4 per litre in the UK depending on the brand but when usually they had additives like refined sugar or the 'pure' ones aren't sweet enough and have an 'acquired taste'. That's not a problem when it's fresh, it's pure, sweet, thirst quenching and so good for you. (You can also eat the flesh.)
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Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2012/056
A New Pseudorandom Generator from Collision-Resistant Hash Functions
Alexandra Boldyreva and Virendra Kumar
We present a new hash-function-based pseudorandom generator (PRG). Our PRG is reminiscent of the classical constructions iterating a function on a random seed and extracting Goldreich-Levin hardcore bits at each iteration step. The latest PRG of this type that relies on reasonable assumptions (regularity and one-wayness) is due to Haitner et al. In addition to a regular one-way function, each iteration in their ``randomized iterate'' scheme uses a new pairwise-independent function, whose descriptions are part of the seed of the PRG. Our construction does not use pairwise-independent functions and is thus more efficient, requiring less computation and a significantly shorter seed. Our scheme's security relies on the standard notions of collision-resistance and regularity of the underlying hash function, where the collision-resistance is required to be {\em exponential}. In particular, any polynomial-time adversary should have less than $2^{-n/2}$ probability of finding collisions, where $n$ is the output size of the hash function. We later show how to relax the regularity assumption by introducing a new notion that we call {\em worst-case regularity}, which lower bounds the size of primages of different elements from the range (while the common regularity assumption requires all such sets to be of equal size). Unlike previous results, we provide a concrete security statement.
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foundations / Pseudorandom generator, hash function, collision-resistance, provable security.
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Proceedings of the 2012 Cryptographers' Track of the RSA Conference (CT-RSA '12)
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Business Insider has gathered a list of 100 companies from all around the world (these lists are always skewed a little and it's almost impossible to make them globally valid). The list is naturally ranked with lots of US based startups, but quite a few Nordic ones are on the list as well. Company valuation is used to organise the companies.
At 15th position we have Rovio, just below Airbnb and above Mozilla, with a proposed valuation of $1.2 billion. At 17 is Spotify from Sweden, just above Kayak. Number 27 is Trulia, a US-based company co-founded by Sami Inkinen, a Finn.
There is one Russian company that caught my eye as well – Ozon.ru at position 45. Sulake, the creators of Habbo Hotel is ranked at 50. At 91 is Eucalyptus Systems, run by Mårten Mickos the former MySQL CEO.
Missing from the list are two obvious candidates from China: Tencent and Alibaba. These two companies are some of the largest digital companies in the world. Tencent, the creators of the hugely popular QQ in China are valued at about 27 billion euros on the Hong Kong Stock exchange while Alibaba is valued at around 470 million euros (at the time of writing).
Then again – I'll let you in on a secret from a media point of view. Lists are great for a few reasons; they fuel the self confidence of the startups on the list and also drive traffic to any site with them as people try to get an overall view of the situation. Lists are very rarely complete and thus actually don't do a great job in what they set out to do.
But why does everything have to be so serious? It doesn't and in this view, lists are kind of fun – as long as you understand they're not the absolute truth.
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Joani Blank
Joani Blank, who died Saturday, was so important to Babeland. The store she started, Good Vibrations, inspired us to create a similar safe, sex positive space in Seattle. When I reached out to her to see if she would talk to Claire and me about the project, she was incredibly generous and supportive. She invited Claire to come down to San Francisco and intern at GV. She cheered us on as we put together a plan and started working through myriad details. She was generous in all ways and I don't know where, or if, Babeland would be without her.
She was a visionary who believed in spreading sex information, positivity and encouragement. She founded a publishing company focused on sex books, and wrote and edited a number of sex books herself, from A Kids First Book About Sex to Still Doing it, Men and Women Write About Sex Over Sixty. My favorite of her books is Femalia, which is a picture book of beautiful full color close up shots of many people's vulvas. At the time it came out (& perhaps still) that book was fascinating to many people who had never seen other people's vulvas before. Radical. Through Good Vibes, the spawn of Good Vibes, all the sex educators who are part of her legacy, all the former workers who carry that into their lives in so many ways even if they are out of the sex fields, the many books, videos and talks that she gave, she had a profound and liberating impact on many individuals and the culture at large.
Joani was an idealist. She left Good Vibes after selling it to the workers as a worker owned co-op. Then she went on to become a huge advocate for co-housing. She also was an advocate for prison reform and economic justice.
She was diagnosed with cancer less than two months ago, and is already gone. I last saw Joani a month ago and she was facing her death with dignity and humor (some of which was quite ribald!) Sex positive to the end. She was one of a kind, and I'm so grateful to have known her.


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Enrollment is now open for Shore Kids Camp, a four-day camp experience for children (ages 8-13) with diabetes that takes place July 17-21, 2017 at MEBA Engineering School on Route 33 (the Oxford Road) in Easton.
Provided by University of Maryland Shore Regional Health, Shore Kids Camp helps children with diabetes learn more about their disease and how to manage it in a safe and healthy environment while enjoying many activities, including bowling, boat rides, and visits to organic farms and area museums. The camp is managed by pediatric nurses with experience in diabetes who are assisted by high school and college students as volunteers. It also receives support from varied community groups, including local Lions Clubs, Rotary Clubs, and the Talbot County Public Schools field hockey teams.
"There is no other activity like this on the Eastern Shore," says Wynne Aroom, patient education specialist, UM Shore Regional Health. "The diabetes camps across the Bay Bridge are overnight camps — many parents are reluctant to send their young children that far away while others find the cost of 'sleep-away' camp prohibitive.
The educational aspect of the camp experience includes guest speakers from the hospital and community such as dietitians, other diabetes educators, nurses with diabetes, podiatrists, dental hygienists and ophthalmologists. The children also play various learning games. Says Aroom, "These activities help boost the children's confidence that they can survive without their parents. In many cases, they are the only child in their school class with diabetes, which is very challenging for them. At Shore Kids Camp, there is a lot of sharing and learning from each other, so they feel less alone in the challenges they face daily," she adds.
Aroom also notes that Shore Kids Camp helps parents by providing needed respite from round-the-clock vigilance and the confidence that their child is having fun in a safe environment, as well as the opportunity to meet and talk with other families coping with Type 2 diabetes.
The camp fee is $75 per child and the registration deadline is July 7, 2017. For further details, contact Wynne Aroom, 410-822-1000, ext. 5286, or firstname.lastname@example.com.
As part of the University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS), University of Maryland Shore Regional Health is the principal provider of comprehensive health care services for more than 170,000 residents of Caroline, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne's and Talbot counties on Maryland's Eastern Shore. UM Shore Regional Health's team of more than 2,500 employees, medical staff, board members, and volunteers works with various community partners to fulfill the organization's mission of Creating Healthier Communities Together.


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Gallery: The Tai Hang Fire Dragon Dance
A smoking dragon snakes its up around the Tai Hang neighborhood supported by muscular, sweating men
The Tai Hang Fire Dragon Dance has been an annual event since 1880 when a villager had a dream that parading a mock serpent covered in incense sticks would rid the neighborhood of plague. Today the event brings together residents in gentrifying Tai Hang with clangs of Chinese percussive music and cheers for the hard-working dancers.
Tonight is the last leg of the three-night event, beginning 7:30pm until late.


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For a little over a year now we have, from time to time, lifted a British Council stone, and each time something unexpected has crawled out. We asked for example in early January 2005 for the British Council's contract for the "Education UK" website, and discovered that they had contracted a brand new £100 company called "Education Websites Ltd". On January 17th 2005 we asked the British Council whether there had since been any variations or amendments to the contract, to which on February 11th we received the unequivocal answer from their Freedom of Information division: "There were in fact no variations to this contract".
That was hardly the whole truth. The fact is that the British Council had already signed a new contract with "Sheffield Data Services Ltd" to run from 22nd September 2004 (for two years, so expiry is just 6 months away) 5 months before my enquiry. That company is half owned by Hotcourses Ltd and half by UCAS Enterprises Ltd (Sheffield Universities Enterprises Ltd having sold their share in May 2004), and so this was, and is, the replacement vehicle for "Education UK" publishing. As already reported, the previous £100 vehicle Education Websites Ltd was discovered last summer with its name swapped with another company and, with a new name, having made an application to be struck from the register, while a different, newer, company (Remone Ltd) kept the original name alive. Confused? Surely that was not their intention.
Anyway, to return to our stones, last Monday The Independent newspaper listed companies which had received a dividend from the war in Iraq, and that list included the British Council in the amount of £3.1 million (see Item 15). That item prompted us to look at the DFID procurement pages, where this is confirmed. We also noticed that there are plenty of other juicy British Council contracts, including one in March last year for £6,915,555 for an "Access to Justice" project in Sierra Leone. Justice does not, as we know, come cheaply. I confess to knowing little about Sierra Leone, except of course that Britain is positively engaged in rebuilding work in that country following the end of the civil war. But I have done jury service and do know a little about justice, the preconditions for which include the truth, proper representation and an independent and impartial judiciary.
If, dear reader, you should ever have the misfortune to find yourself at odds with the British Council, you may find justice, and those preconditions, elusive. The organisation is comfortable with its anomalous "arm's length" status and its consequent lack of accountability. The trustees naturally enough do not want to be involved in contentious matters, the FCO does not appear to accept responsibility for the organisation, and the organisation's own methodology in respect of such cases may be characterised by Versailles-like dismissal of outsiders and, with regard to their own actions, indulgent use of the blind eye. It does not have an Ombudsman or any mechanism for review of a third party grievance. In summary, when it comes to "Access to Justice", in the case of the British Council the notion should be treated as circumspectly as the organisation's stated commitments to, for example, transparency or privacy. The organisation's access to the public purse, however, continues to be a strong suit.


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The music community is speaking out through social media about the passing of Beastie Boys founder Adam Yauch in New York today.
Adam lost his two year battle with cancer May 4 at the age of 47.
Former Eurythmics singer Annie Lennox has written the following piece to acknowledge the passing of Adam Yauch of Beastie Boys.
At Facebook she posted,
"So sad to hear the news that Adam Yauch has passed away… I had no idea that he'd been suffering from cancer for the last three years. It's cruelly heartbreaking to know that such a vital spark had to undergo that kind of pain and suffering. I met Adam over a decade or so ago. He was a gentle soul, with a passion for Tibet and human rights., that possibly belied the sharper edge of his Beastie Boy persona. He was the one who actually reinvigorated a campaign for global awareness of the Tibetan situation..bringing attention to an entire generation of young Western people, who might otherwise have been oblivious. I wish that he would have lived a longer life….and I grieve for his family and friends that he's gone so soon…"
Twitter is full of tributes to the Beastie Boys co-founder.
Pauley Perrette
SO SAD about Adam Yauch of the @BeastieBoys I LOVE them all SO MUCH! I always wanted to be a Beastie Boy #RIPMCA
Edward Norton
can't do justice in 140 to the great spirit of Adam Yauch. As generous and cool as they come. Such an influence on so many Really sad day.
Rise Against
RIP Adam Yauch. It's a sad day indeed
The Strokes
our thoughts are with the family & friends of Adam Yauch. thanks for your inspiration both on the mic & off. #MCA
Tegan and Sara
RIP Adam Yauch. Our hearts go out to Adam's family and friends.
Chester Bennington
My heart and prayers go out to Adam Yauch (MCA) 's family and friends. Today we all lost a truly inspirational person and artist.
Perry Farrell
Adam Yauch was a guy who brought happiness and energy to so many. That is why the news of his passing- is so stifling. Bon Voyage Adam
We are so sorry to hear about the loss of the Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch (MCA) a true legend & inspirational to everyone in weezers generation
Billy Corgan
Sad news about Adam Yauch's passing,a man of dignity + spiritual conviction. I always had great respect for him in times we met and talked
Ben Stiller
So sad that Adam Yauch is gone. A truly great musician & filmmaker. He stood for integrity as an artist. What a loss. He was a very good man
Jimmy Fallon
So sad to hear of the passing of Adam Yauch. He was a great performer, director, father, humanitarian and New Yorker. #RIPMCA
Krist Novoselic
Adam Yauch #RIPMCA. Thank you for Sabotage bass riff and many other great grooves. Adam also worked for justice and peace consciousness.
MC Hammer
R.I.P. Adam Yauch Beastie Boys #RIPMCA
Milla Jovovich
we lost one of our greatest talents today. my prayers and thoughts go out to the family and friends of Adam Yauch. Beastie Boys for life.
I'm very very sad to hear of adam yauch's passing. He was a wonderful, generous, remarkable, and inspiring man and friend.
Justin Timberlake
Crushed to hear the news of Adam Yauch's passing. A true pioneer of art. My thoughts and prayers are with his family and loved ones.
Tom Morello
Rip dear Adam Yauch. Words can't express the sadness and loss. Ur humor, talent & gentle soul are just irreplacable. Be at peace brother.
Biz Markie
Ice T
TERRIBLE NEWS: MCA of the Beastie Boys has died at 47 http://tco/VfHqOJvz Another very sad day in Hip Hop. #MCARIP
Chemical Brothers
RIP Adam Yauch. thanks for the amazing music,continual inspiration
Rev Run
R I P Adam. I'm devastated. Praying for Adam Yauch's family from the legendary Beastie Boys. Youll be missed!
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Family confirms Joan Rivers is on life support
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On Aug. 28, Joan Rivers was admitted to New York's Mount Sinai Hospital after experiencing complications during surgery at a clinic. She is now on life support, her family said in a statement released Tuesday.
"On behalf of my mother and our family, we are extremely grateful for all the love and support we've received," Rivers' daughter Melissa said in the statement. "At this time she does remain on life support."
Though further details of Rivers' condition have not been made public, the Associated Press reported Rivers went into cardiac arrest while receiving throat surgery the morning of Aug. 28 and was rushed to the hospital soon after.


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Nights out
One of the things I enjoy about visiting my friends in Michigan is the unique night spots.
There are clubs around, but Sonny and I prefer the bar scene, which is still loud and a bit put-on, but actually a lot of fun with the right people.
There's a street in Grand Rapids, Michigan, called Ionia, which has several well-to-do pubs to spend $10-20 a drink on.
Sonny and I will head to one of these spots after chilling at the office all day — which is a pretty fun gig in itself, since it's in a very creative space and involves watching him edit film and mix music tracks.
Anyway, one of these places, called Bar Divani, has always fascinated me, since it is just so surreal compared to my normal soldiering routine.
It's just downstairs from the office. Once out in the evening, you hang a left, dodge the valet parking sign and push through the entrance.
The music is low — a welcome change. The light is soft, to the sides, behind couches that line the walls, and drifts out of warm, hushed, overhead lamps.
Bottles of wine abound, with cases upon cases of the stuff put around for show. Plastic cases displaying wine bottles are even a part of the floor, which are also lit.
All of it is to foster this sort of chill vibe, peppered with enough culture to attract the best and the brightest (i.e. rich/white) of the city.
And boy how they come! Men sip their this-could-be-worth-$10,000 drinks with their trophy wives/girlfriends. Everyone dots the air with those too-loud laughs. The kind that you hear at Shakespeare plays, showing a patron understands the cryptic humor; the sort that proves sophistication.
The girls are too cute. Damn hot, actually. That sort of old-money, I've had a personal trainer since four, kind of hot. And definitely the kind a soldier doesn't talk to. Partly because I wouldn't be able to afford to buy them anything, but mostly because the manicured boyfriends they keep sedated on the fringes of the conversation still use those personal trainers.
Sure, I can ruck march with a full pack, carry a squad automatic weapon, and tug along my camera case, but I don't have as chiseled a physique as these gents.
A few tries at visual flirting end with the blow-off eye roll and body-shift-away reaction.
No biggie, I'm there with Sonny, who is pretty well known among the primped and pretty, not because of his bank account, but more for his vision.
He's a film director and artist, which will still buy you a friendy regard and bout of small talk with just about anybody at a place like Bar Divani.
Which gives me a certain by-association free pass, and a head nod from the regulars when they're done showing Sonny they remember his name. Still, I don't push it. I sense the limits of my visa.
But Sonny has a genuine interest in how people are doing, and hearing about the waitress' own documentary film about a senior's retirement community's field trip bus driver is genuinely interesting. Moreover, $20-a-shot vodka tastes pretty damn good.
Again, surreal, fascinating.
Couldn't have said it better
My former soldier from Fort Knox, Ian Boudreau, wrote a very true view on clubs that sums up my thoughts exactly.
Slipping by
And there went a week.
I am now halfway through my time away from Fort Hood, trying to soak in the below-100-degree temperatures before heading to the steamy Texan summer, and then to the broiling Iraq wastes.
There were a couple things I wanted to knock out while up here. The first was to eat in those few favorite spots of mine, since my patronage will probably be a bit sparse over the next several months.
And second, I was hoping to hash out some of this whole, "Where should life go from here," problem.
I joined the Army on a bit of a whim, and have struggled to find where I should fit in while in service. I've mucked around for almost a year now on whether to pursue a commission as an Army or perhaps an Air Force officer.
Getting that brass bar would give a good boost to the ol' bank account, but now that I've seen how life is for officers, I'm shifting more and more toward remaining where I am. I think I'll just do my time and scat, if I'm not extended, that is.
As a journalist, I constantly have to operate in the butt-kissing realm, writing stories that will please the command rather than relevant news. Officers have to operate exclusively in that world, lest they be robbed of that next promotion.
Performance on the field of battle used to be measured in acts of valor, bravery, cunning, ingenuity, and tenacity in the face of a determined and ruthless enemy. But in this war, there is no uniformed enemy, no great nation to outmaneuver, no hills to climb, no flanks to assault.
That means it's hard for ambitious young leaders to snatch glory from the jaws of ferocious war, leaving them to court it instead through paperwork, memos, powerpoint presentations, and proposed cargo load plans.
Moreover, there is still the cult-worship of dead generals. I can't tell you how many copies of "The Art of War" or some commentary on Patton I see on desks of would-be four stars.
Not that this is new, but seems strangely placed when Sun Tzu's methods of cutting down foes with arrow and sword are applied to how a personnel clerk can cut down paperwork with copier and fax.
All that to say no one ever seems to be commanding, and only chase after shadows of old glory, all won in the past, through grisly means closed off to the information-age military.
So that leaves me with the resolve to remain in enlisted service for my allotted time. Now, I will have to choose a course of action for my time afterwards, assuming everything goes hunky-dory while in Iraq.
The Boys
Allow me to introduce my crew:
The Santino — Santino grew up in Madrid and is a documentary film maker, currently working for a company named Flannel, producing short spiritual vignettes called Noomas. Terribly talented, I try to stick with this kid…you know, for the whole popular-by-association thing. Santino Stoner, remember that one.
The Seth — Currently en route to join his compatriots at Flannel, Seth is a graphic designer and budding film maker who moved back to small-town Ohio to help out with his family for awhile. This guy is a rock, and constantly is on call for me whenever I have one of my freak-out-what-am-I-doing-with-my-life moments.
The Nikos — Our Greek cultural liaison, Nik is the senior planner for the Grand Rapids transit system. This kid is versed in all sorts of political movements and philosophies, and is a good coffee shop companion. Nik is one of those good-hearted guys that'll buy you a drink and have a chat whenever you happen by, which is always a pleasant perk.
The Billy — Baseball phenom, Nik and Sonny have known Billy longer than I have, but with his dad's military service, Bill and I sort of share a bond that makes us vibe pretty well. I enjoy talking with this guy a lot.
Rockin good chums. Of course my Army gig keeps me away from the gang for most of the year, I get to visit every once in a while.
And finally…
The Josh — Here is your humble blogger. I forgo style and panache for bluntness and boring clothing.
Travel day
Two hours after beginning a dream, the alarm rang. I was up again, like a shot, to the bathroom, putting toothpaste on my brush before my mind even registered sleep had stopped.
Normally I would sit and stare at myself for a few seconds, toothbrush in mouth, paste beginning to dribble into the sink, like some catatonic zombie as my synapse finally kicked in. I'd let out a sigh, mark a mental register as to how far along I was in my sentence, and continue on.
Although I was just two hours rested from the prior day, my excitement of traveling to see friends in Michigan helped wash away the normal morning ka-kas.
After two more hours, I was on a plane, zooming off on the first leg of my journey to Grand Rapids. First stop was Houston, where I'd connect with a flight to Detroit before the final push to GR.
I was carrying my luggage, having just packed a small bag for two weeks. I'd wear each shirt twice, and had enough underthings for a weeks time. With a dash of laundering at my visit's halfway point, I'd earn enough cleanliness to last out the month.
Unfortunately in Detroit I learned my final flight to GR was cancelled due to a "major mechanical problem."
These things happen, but I was faced with reconnecting flights through far-away parts of the country that would add hours and hours to my travel day. Detroit to Grand Rapids through Cleveland? Or Minneapolis? Arriving when? 10:30 tonight?
It was only just past noon. Ten more hours of connections didn't seem very fun at all.
Luckily some crafty customers in line hatched a plan to rent a car to drive to Grand Rapids, as it would take far less time than waiting on the airline to shuffle us to our destination.
Five of us piled into a small SUV and began our trek. We were quite a crew: myself, the Army guy, at the helm; navigating was Rachel, a pretty speech pathologist; holding down the rear was an older business executive, and a father with his eight-year-old daughter.
Rachel and I softly rocked out to some Verve while the gentlemen in the back hashed out all of life's problems. Anna piped in with random tidbits here and then, keeping herself in the conversation.
The business exec was from Tennessee, close enough to my Kentucky for me to be family. Rachel was good friends with my neighbors from my time living in the city and frequented a bar that Sonny and I knew well. Anna hounded me for polluting the environment by driving humvees in the Army, asked if I liked cats, and was insistent that German cars were far superior our SUV. Her dad felt a special bond with what the country was accomplishing in Iraq, thus earning me a certain status as a military man.
There were more laughs than pauses, a stop at Wendy's for some frosties, and a general appreciation for each other's company.
Anna grabbed my cell phone and snapped some pictures, which I kept to remind me of the trip.
By the time I arrived, I felt like I had already had a bit of a vacation.
Skipping town
I'm out, peeps, on leave to Grand Rapids for a few days. I'll be on to update things here and there.
Until then, peace.
Big blue
An apache zips along the sky toward the airfield on Fort Hood. Dozens of these things whirl around post everyday. Still, they're pretty rockin.


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One of the movies I recently watched came with subtitles in a separate *.srt file. The subtitles had 99% correct timing information, a pretty amazing feat. They had a minor glitch though. Many instances of lowercase 'el' had been replaced with uppercase 'i'.
I noticed this tiny glitch in the first few lines of text, and then discovered that it was a buglet that occured far too often. My OCD side started feeling bad about the movie, because all the bogus capital 'i' letters were distracting me from the "real" fun of watching the actual movie.
So I stopped watching, and I fired up GNU Emacs on the srt file.
After 1-2 minutes of work, and a lot of fun with
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This had quite a few false positives, but it did 95% of the work, so I manually fixed the 5-10 instances it didn't catch, and I was finally able to enjoy the movie.
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Types of Juvenile Delinquency Crimes
Youth crime has been going down for many years and only constitutes a small portion of the nation's crime today. Juvenile violent crime has also gone down and is at its lowest level since 1987. Just as with the adult system the juvenile system suffers from gender and ethnic disparity. Male minorities are more likely than female Caucasians to commit and be charged with crimes. African American juveniles are held at twice the rate of Hispanics and five times the rate of Caucasians. The disparity could be explained through economic status of the families these juveniles come from or their family history. There are other factors that play into why children commit crimes, however these are the top two reasons, why juveniles will turn to crime.
Juvenile Crimes
Different crimes have different offender types causing disparity within the system. Those offenders who commit violent crimes are not the same as those who commit property crimes or status offenses.
Knowing what types of juveniles commit what crimes can help with rehabilitation of those juveniles. Understanding what type of juvenile you are dealing with will help in providing programs to keep juveniles from partaking in these crimes in the first place.
Status Offenses: Are behaviors that are considered violations of the law because of age. When committed by a minor these violations are considered status offenses while remaining legal for the adult population. Violations include, but are not limited to truancy, running away, and under age drinking.
- Girls are more often arrested for status offenses, especially runaways
- Boys constitute the higher proportion for under age drinking
- Most cases under status offenses go to family crisis units, county attorneys, and social service agencies. Juvenile courts try to stay away from these offenses as they are considered minor offenses.
Property Crimes: Include burglary, larceny, theft, and arson.
- Over a quarter of juveniles arrested for property crimes where under the age of eighteen
- Boys make up over sixty percent of those juveniles arrested
- The rate of juveniles committing property crimes is down by half since 1985
Violent Crimes: Include murder, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault
- Nearly a quarter of all violent crimes where committed by someone under the age of eighteen
- Most violent crimes are committed between 3:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. which is right around the time school is getting out
- Boys represent over eighty percent of juvenile arrests for violent crime
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Juveniles in Adult Court
Nationwide, it is becoming easier and easier to try juveniles into adult criminal courts. With laws being passed lowering the minimum age in which a juvenile can be tried in adult court, the transfer of juveniles to adult courts is becoming more prevalent. Today, all fifty states allow for juvenile prosecution in criminal court. There are three ways in which a juvenile can be transferred to adult criminal court.
Judicial Waiver: This is the most popular method and is used by juvenile court judges to transfer juveniles to adult court in order to deny the protections of juvenile jurisdictions.
- All states except New York, Nebraska, and New Mexico provide judicial waivers
- Youngest a juvenile can be waived into adult court is 13-14
Statutory Exclusion: A juvenile accused of an excluded offense is treated as an adult from the beginning.
- Twenty-eight states have statues that remove certain offenses for age/offense/prior records from juvenile court's jurisdiction. That means states can refuse anyone fitting into one of these categories from being defined as a "child" for juvenile court purposes.
- Others only include the most serious offenses such as New Mexico, Mississippi, and Arizona.
Direct File: Gives discretion to the prosecutors as to where to file each case. Typically direct files give both juvenile and adult criminal courts the ability to hear cases involving certain offenses.
- Wide variation among states regarding criteria; some emphasize offense categories, age of offender, and still others use past history of the juvenile.
- Generally, the minimum level of offense seriousness is lower than those needed for statutory exclusions or mandatory waivers.
Factors that increase Juvenile Delinquency
Although juvenile arrest rates have declined in the last several decades there are still valuable aspects of the community, programs, and even protective factors that can decrease the likelihood of juvenile delinquency. In order to reduce the risks of juveniles turning to crime, it is important to understand and recognize the different risk factors and what can be done to prevent and eliminate these risks.
Individual Risk Factors:
- Early aggressive behavior towards others and animals
- Substance abuse
- Association with antisocial or delinquent peers
Family and Community Risk Factors:
- Childhood maltreatment
- Parental criminality
- Poverty
These are some of the top indicators that a juvenile is more prone to delinquent acts. Spotting these risk factors and providing intervention early on, can greatly help reduce the negative effects of these risk factors.
Which of the following if any risk factors have you or someone you know dealt with?
Factors to Help Protect Children From Risk of Delinquency
These are just a few factors that can help prevent children from turning to delinquent acts even if they show risk factors for delinquency. These factors work because they provide youth with a positive role model, community, and family outlook.
- Having good attachments to family, friends, and positive role models gives children a reason to do the right thing, so as not to disappoint those they are attached to.
- When our youth are committed to positive activities they are more likely to protect their school and activities from other delinquents. Commitments to extra curricular activities, school, or even church give children a positive outlet for all their energy and allows them to do something constructive with their time.
- Beliefs or values teach children in the way they should go. With positive role models and religious backgrounds children and young adults are better apt to react in a positive way to stress and hard to mange situations.
- Children and teens involved in their community and their schools are more apt to protect it from other delinquents. Those who have put their own time, energy, and are committed to their involvements are not going to want to see those activities and programs disappear because of delinquent peers.
Although juvenile crime is on the decline knowing the risk factors that lead to delinquency can help to continue this trend. Bringing troubled youth out of poverty stricken neighborhoods and into after school programs can greatly increase positive factors that will help fight against the negative risk factors that they live with everyday. Just because a child lives in a low socioeconomic neighborhood with violence, or comes from a poor family environment does not mean they should be forgotten. These children still have the opportunity to turn away from crime with the right preventative measures.
If you're interested in what you can do to help prevent delinquency check out my other article here.
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The benefits of Keystone Sanitary Landfill's proposed expansion outweigh known and potential harms of the project, the state Department of Environmental Protection concluded after an environmental assessment.
The department on Monday issued an environmental assessment review letter noting an array of benefits from the proposed expansion, which would allow the landfill in Dunmore and Throop to operate for another 40-plus years. Those benefits include tax revenue, continued employment of local workers, lucrative host agreements and recycling and clean-up programs.
Keystone also has proposed steps to limit potential harms, according to the review letter. Those include an enhanced monitoring program to address landfill odors, a property value protection plan for local residents and several projects to minimize the potential impact of landfill runoff, known as leachate, on ground water.
During the environmental assessment process, one step in the larger process that may see DEP approve Keystone's expansion, regulations require that benefits of the proposed expansion clearly outweigh the harms. DEP determined they do.
The department considered both harms and benefits individually and collectively — taking into account things like duration, intensity, frequency, whether a harm or benefit is known or potential, input from public comment and other agencies and the department's knowledge of Keystone's past performance, among other factors.
Harms and benefits
The assessment itself lists 15 harms, some environmental and other social and economic, as well as Keystone's proposed mitigation for each one and DEP's determination of remaining impacts.
In certain cases, DEP found that some potential for harm will remain despite Keystone's proposed mitigation.
Regarding odor, for example, DEP found Keystone's proposed mitigation is unlikely to completely eliminate odors at all times. There also remains a potential for negative groundwater impacts despite improvements the landfill has made to its leachate treatment plant and other completed or planned mitigation projects, according to DEP.
The assessment also lists eight benefits of Keystone's proposal, all of them social and economic.
For example, Keystone estimates it will purchase about $248.7 million in fuels, oils and lubricants, and about $557.6 million in machinery, equipment, services, rentals and maintenance, from local and regional vendors over the life of the expansion.
The assessment also lists the estimated values of host agreements with the landfill to be about $178.6 million for Throop and about $160.6 million for Dunmore over the life of the expansion, though DEP notes host fees are based on the tonnage of waste received at the landfill and there is no guaranteed minimum amount.
The assessment frustrated members of the anti-expansion group Friends of Lackawanna.
"DEP's analysis acknowledges that there have been, and still are, ongoing issues with the landfill such as groundwater degradation, air quality, visual impacts, leachate problems and more," Pat Clark, a founding member of Friends of Lackawanna, said in a written statement. "DEP then lists the benefits, all of which are financial, and determined they 'clearly' outweigh the harms. Sadly, it goes to show that you can throw enough money at a problem and get your way, even if it is at the expense of an entire region's future."
Jeff Belardi, an attorney for the landfill, and Keystone consultant Al Magnotta both said landfill officials are pleased by DEP's determination.
"We were cautiously anticipating this type of result, but you can never tell," Belardi said. "It's very rewarding and it probably means we're halfway through the permitting processes."
Magnotta called DEP's review extensive and the results gratifying, arguing it proves the expansion won't create serious environmental, public health or safety issues for residents.
Next step
Now that the environmental assessment is complete, DEP will conduct a technical review of Keystone's expansion application.
That step generally involves a review of the engineering behind the proposed design, DEP spokeswoman Colleen Connolly said, noting there is no timetable for the technical review.
As the process continues, Friends of Lackawanna founding member Michele Dempsey vowed that the organization will continue to fight the expansion while expressing disappointment in DEP's assessment.
"When your laws and regulations don't protect you from those who have influence, but instead protect them against you, that is the beginning of the end," Dempsey wrote in a statement. "We will fight to the end because it is the only hope for our community's future."
Those wishing to comment on the technical aspects of Keystone's application should mail written comments to Roger Bellas, Waste Management Program Manager, DEP Northeast Regional Office, 2 Public Square, Wilkes-Barre, 18701, or by emailing email@example.com.
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Centrale Montemartini from above
Machinery drawings at Centrale Montemartini
Condensation turbine direct fit and 2-cylinder queued drawing (above). This is a steam turbine whose operating cycle ends with the condensation of steam. These turbines are used to drive the generators at all large steam and atomic power plants, as the propulsion engines of ships and to drive the turbo blowers of blast furnaces.These condensing turbines often have several stages and a complete system for regenerative heating of feed water.
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Trompe-l'œil at Trinità dei Monti
This is an interesting false perspective at the back wall of the corridor of Trinita die Monti. It is an anachronism as the image is painted to give a sense of perspective, extension of the floor and side walls are drawn while the fragments of the frescoes on the wall are left as if hanging in the air with no wall support. In addition the shadow of the sculpture (probably St John carrying the Christ in his left hand while cross in his right hand) is casting a shadow that does not belong to the drawing. Because of this it is difficult to understand this fresco as it is since it plays on our perceptual and cultural field of vision and understanding. It could be seen as the work that (unintentionally) combines unusual times and media similar to some works of Robert Rauschenberg (combines).


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I have to say that President Mahama is making some very fascinating changes in his new government. The most controversial decision to come out of Jubilee House lately so far is one of the new ministerial nominees – Mrs. Nana Oye Lithur. She a human human rights activist and lawyer who is well-known and respected by the gay community for her LGBT work and once said "Not even the President of Ghana can deny anybody his or her human rights, irrespective of the person's sexual orientation, ethnic group, gender and what have you. These are guaranteed in our constitution and everybody in Ghana has an obligation to respect that constitution." This was after the previous President (Mills) had said he would never support any move aimed towards legalizing homosexuality. Not surprisingly there have been some criticisms of her nomination as the Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection. The most interesting (and dare I say disquieting) by far however, is a group calling themselves the Concerned Clergy Association which has said that she is 'morally' unfit for the position due to her gay rights work. They would have us believe that she would single-handedly change the law to accommodate LGBT rights – if only that were true! As interesting and possibly amusing as this group of clamoring clergymen is, I'm a bit worried because I know the power such religious men wield over their congregations and people can go above and beyond what is lawful, what is sensible just to prove that they are committed "warriors" of the church. Often times It seems that people throw good sense out of the window in a bid to follow what their pastor (not God) is saying judging by the uninformed, small-minded and frankly daft statements I have heard made by some to justify homophobia (in my personal experience anyway). The good thing is that no one seems to be taking them seriously and some have openly spoken out and asked the government and the general public to ignore these complaints. I'm not expecting her to start by advocating for sweeping changes and pushing for legalization of homosexuality, for all I know she would begin her tenure by toeing the party line once she's in office. At this point, I'm just glad there is a government interested in getting qualified people to do a job irrespective of their political affiliations or lack thereof. Whatever happens, this government is definitely going to be a dramatic one.
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