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My Uber pulled up to a hulking gray factory building with a towering chimney. "This is a museum?" my driver asked wryly, articulating my own unspoken curiosity. The choice of the Power Station of Art, China's first state-run contemporary art museum, for Shanghai's eleventh Biennale—with 92 international artists, 26 of Chinese origin—seemed fitting, though. The converted plant, which opened five years ago in a spot on the Huangpu River that had previously been kitted out for the 2010 World Expo, says a lot about the growing importance of art in China—and of Chinese art to the world.
On this rainy day last November, the museum was filled with smartly turned-out Chinese and foreigners, many of them in snaking lines for one of the most talked-about installations, The Great Chain of Being—Planet Trilogy. Visitors enter through a fuselage of an abandoned space shuttle and walk through a series of moonscape-like chambers that narrate a story about extraterrestrial discovery. One might say that this elaborate space odyssey, devised by theater director MouSen and inspired by the Chinese sci-fi writer Liu Cixin's cult classic The Three-Body Problem, is all about the new freedoms in artistic exploration. But dwelling too long on the metaphor would distract from an experience so wildly transporting that a young boy visiting with his mother actually asked whether we had landed on a new planet.
In a way, though, we had. I flashed back to my own landing in a very different Shanghai, in 1992, when my mother and I stepped off the boat from our sleepy inland city of Chongqing after receiving visas to emigrate to the United States. At seven I was familiar with the city's contours thanks to the popular TV drama series The Bund, after Shanghai's most iconic landmark—a river promenade lined with European banks and trading houses built in a vivid parade of neoclassical, Baroque, and Gothic styles. To walk along the Bund is to experience the most glamorous city in China the way European merchants and the Chinese upper crust must have done in generations prior. It is to glimpse the Paris of the East, as the city was known, the way Noël Coward did in 1929 as he penned Private Lives in his suite at the Cathay Hotel, or Charlie Chaplin as he peered into its horizon while waltzing past the velvet curtains in the Astor House Hotel. Such was the allure of Shanghai and my perception of its yang qi, a Chinese term that means "Western-ness" but is inflected with a complicated sense of Euro-American superiority.
To see Shanghai today, however, is to witness a swift evolution in urban identity. Two decades ago, caught in a frenetic bout of industrialization and urbanization that left resources for little else, the city had few museums and no art market to speak of. But China's meteoric economic rise, along with the major optics of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics and the 2010 Expo, signaled a new phase in the country's renewed quest for cultural prominence. Shanghai—the city of assimilation and innovation, in contrast to Beijing, which is constrained by political conservatism—is a logical place for this to be playing out. Because China is still nominally a Socialist state, it has been particularly generous with land subsidies for cultural enterprises.
As a result, the West Bund, a strip of land along the Huangpu River that half a century earlier was an industrial wasteland of processing factories and aircraft manufacturing, has become a new cultural corridor, like Manhattan's Museum Mile. The three-year-old Long Museum West Bund, which houses part of China's largest private art collection, sits amid a repurposed coal silo and was co-founded by cabbie turned billionaire Liu Yiqian, who made global headlines in 2015 with his purchase of the world's priciest Modigliani (for a cool $170 million). A mile downriver, the Yuz Museum was also built in 2014 by the Indonesian-Chinese billionaire Budi Tek in an old airplane hangar and distinguishes itself as aggressively international, counting Alberto Giacometti and Warhol as subjects of some of its recent exhibitions.
Yet the art scene here is not just the province of mega-wealthy entrepreneurs. One evening I took a walk with Lorenz Helbling, the Swiss founder of ShanghART, one of China's oldest galleries. It has shown some of the country's best-known artists like expressionistic painter Zeng Fanzhi and Wang Guangyi, who's known for appropriating images of Mao-era propaganda to lampoon the Communist Party's stranglehold. Back in 1996, Helbling, who moved to China as a student, opened his gallery with just a chair, a table, and a phone. Last year, ShanghART relocated to a new building whose exterior resembles the rows of stacked shipping containers that once lined the river piers. Even if the symbolism harks back to China's past, the brisk pace of construction says something about China's effort to break new ground literally and figuratively, finding a creative identity distinctly its own.
After climbing some concrete, spiraling stairs, I emerged on the gallery's rooftop and gazed out at the glittering expanse of the Bund at dusk. The view brought to mind iconic old portraits of Shanghai as a fishing village on the muddy banks of the Huangpu, then as a strategic trading hub for European merchants from the 1850s through the Republican era, and, from the early 1980s, the Chinese epicenter of banking and financial power. On a previous trip, I'd visited Liu Heung Shing, one of the first photographers to capture post-Mao-era China on film and who runs the new Shanghai Center of Photography. "When you think about the earliest photos of Shanghai, and China, they were taken by Westerners using this very strange piece of imported technology called the camera," Liu said. "But the Chinese gradually acquired the technology and have used it to capture their vision of the world."
Kelly Ying, a stylish Chinese collector in her mid-thirties and a co-founder with her husband, David Chau, of the annual art fair ART021, is among those helping to facilitate the world's introduction to China's home-bred talent. Ying, who previously worked for Vogue China, has found the transition from fashion to contemporary art a seamless one: "Fifteen years ago, the rich flocked to luxury goods, especially designer brands, to announce themselves. Nowadays, the elite have art. If you are someone who's anyone, you are an art collector." ART021 cultivates and presents young Chinese artists like new media installationist Wang Xin and the Beijing-based painter Peng Wei, whose work has fetched nearly $250,000. This past year, both Wendi Deng (the ex–Mrs. Rupert Murdoch) and actor and art enthusiast Adrien Brody turned up. In Ying's words, "If you are looking to the future, you probably have your eyes on Chinese artists."
The intersection between art and consumerism has not escaped Adrian Cheng, the 37-year-old scion of a Hong Kong real estate empire and long-standing art patron. In 2013, Cheng founded the K11 Art Mall, which is located on the seven lowest floors of a skyscraper: The top floors are devoted to stores like Burberry and Max Mara; one basement level is a museum exhibiting contemporary Chinese art. "The point is to build a seamless ecosystem between art and retail," Cheng told me. "In China, where people love luxury commodities but there isn't yet a well-established history of museum-going, they can peruse art and their favorite brands in the same place."
After all, it was only 40 years ago that self-expression, however tenuous, was permitted again in the aftermath of Mao's Cultural Revolution. At that time, Chinese artists began to incorporate Western influences and conduct their own creative inquiry. Today, rich collectors like Liu and patrons like Cheng have fed a worldwide market explosion as a new generation of artists, reared in the post-revolutionary era of economic reform and globalization, are finding their place in the changed world order.
Xu Zhen, a 40-year-old Shanghai native and arguably the most prominent artist of his generation, co-curated Helbling's inaugural exhibition on the West Bund and runs his own gallery a few blocks from ShangART. Since 2009, Xu has subsumed his artistic identity under an "art-creation company" named MadeIn, which functions in a way like Warhol's Factory. As the CEO, Xu is similarly preoccupied with themes of consumerism, and brands everything with his name, as if he were a product of his own corporation.
"Is it a store? A gallery? You don't know, and that's the point," said one of Xu's fashionably attired staff as I entered the MadeIn Gallery, which, with its sleek minimalist decor, could be a Marni flagship decked out with art. Inside, everything resists easy categorization, starting with the half-dozen rainbow-colored statues of bodhisattvas lodged in a wall of black Styrofoam. English-language graffiti consumes an adjacent wall and reveals itself to be thought bubbles harvested from Western political cartoons. Not everything is meant to provoke discussion, though; at one end, racks of patterned silk pajamas and cotton sweatshirts imprinted with the Xu Zhen logo sell briskly for around $150 apiece.
In his office, Xu explained that he is interested in investigating clichéd stereotypes the West harbors about the East. "When we utilize Western economic structures, do we necessarily become Westernized in all other aspects? Art and culture are not like KFCs and McDonald's," Xu said. "They can't be universalized and standardized. There's a special energy in China as we explore new possibilities and find our orientation that isn't a neat carbon copy of Europe and America."
A few days later, I grabbed a shaved ice with Qiu Anxiong, a Sichuanese video artist and painter in his forties whose work has been shown at New York's . Like most artists of his post-'70s generation, he has a thoroughly international outlook but is also keenly aware of the Chinese aesthetic tradition. In a 2006 video animation called New Classic of Mountains and Seas I, Qiu riffed on the Shan Hai Jing, an ancient Chinese compendium of mythic geography, which he drew as a skyscraper-strewn landscape full of nightmarish creatures, using a style that echoes Chinese ink paintings. "I wanted to see modern China through the eyes of our ancient forebears," Qiu said, "how weird modernization must strike them, and in some respects, how frighteningly beastly."
I mentioned my tour of the Biennale to Leo Xu, a Shanghai native and gallerist. We met at the newly opened Miss Ali café in the former French Concession, a neighborhood of Tudor-facade villas once inhabited by foreign nationals that has recently morphed, with its underground rave spots, specialty coffee shops, and butchers, into the city's trendiest turf. Over cumin-covered lamb kebabs reminiscent of northern Chinese cooking, I asked about his birthplace. "It's where the yang from yang qi started," Xu told me with a smile, using the same word my seven-year-old self had so admiringly associated with the city. "But over the years, Shanghai has also assimilated so much of what has been poured into it from all over the world. In that sense, it's growing confidence and independence. It doesn't aspire to emulate the West anymore. It doesn't want to be Paris or New York. It wants to be Shanghai."
I tried to walk off my meal by going on foot to Xintiandi, a former residential district of alleys and redbrick lane houses within the French Concession, which has been redeveloped into a maze of chic shops, cafés, and galleries; the area bustles with families of international and Chinese tourists, who amble along pedestrian corridors snapping selfies and sipping Starbucks lattes. While wandering down one of its smaller passageways, I saw a barrel-chested Australian examine an intricately carved shikumen, a town house with a private courtyard, a feature introduced by Western inhabitants in the 1850s.
Xintiandi is sleek, imperfect, vexed as a space of overzealous gentrification and commercialized imagination. Ninety-six years ago, it was the site of the First National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party and where wealthy merchants lived. Then in 1949, after the Communist takeover, the shikumen dwellings were allocated to the working class, and dozens of families jostled together in a single house. Today, Xintiandi is a prime tourist destination and has the priciest real estate in the country.
As I reflected on the city's new contours, my eyes seized on something else. Displayed in a clear case of a bakery were rows of glass milk jars that I hadn't seen since I was a child. "Sour milk," the beverage was called, cinched with manila paper that fanned out like a tiny skirt. When I was small, these full-fat yogurts were the kind of treats a child saved up pocket change to buy, at one yuan per jar. I paid 15 yuan for the self-billed "old-timey" indulgence, and the sales associate told me, smiling, to "savor the past." It occurred to me that Shanghai, which in 1935 Fortune called "the megalopolis of continental Asia, inheritor of ancient Baghdad, of pre-war Constantinople, of nineteenth-century London, of twentieth-century Manhattan," has long been a palimpsest of its many pasts. Its willingness to embrace and assimilate change has defined it. It has also rendered the city itself a marvelous work of art.
A strategy for navigating Shanghai's art scene, by Zandie Brockett.
Museums and galleries are spread around the city in art districts to the south (West Bund) and to the north (Moganshan 50, or M50). Other art venues are clustered in the Bund and in the former French Concession. You can easily get to all sites by taxi or Didi Chuxing (the Chinese Uber), but you can also use the excellent subway system. To avoid art fatigue, give yourself at least three days to make the rounds.
Work your way along the waterfront, Shanghai's newest art strip. Start at the Power Station of Art, China's first state-run museum for contemporary art and home to the Shanghai Biennale. Farther down the river is the Long Museum West Bund, opened by husband-and-wife collecting duo Liu Yiqian and Wang Wei. While it's held exhibitions for major artists like Olafur Eliasson, the museum has an impressive collection of art from the Cultural Revolution, including comics by Yang Yongqing depicting the model Revolutionary citizen.
A 20-minute walk over the bridge and down the boardwalk lands you at the new Edouard Malingue Gallery, Shanghai, the Hong Kong dealer's first Mainland space. In the same complex, the MadeIn Gallery and concept store was founded by a key Shanghai art scene player, artist Xu Zhen. Next door is the Yuz Museum, a private gallery opened by Indonesian-Chinese collector Budi Tek and home to works by Western masters like Fred Sandback and Maurizio Cattelan as well as major Chinese names like Huang Yong Ping, a Paris-based installation artist who co-founded the Xiamen Dada group in 1986. (Its café serves excellent Indonesian home-style cooking.) Down the road is the West Bund Art Center, which hosts West Bund Art & Design (usually in November), run by Zhou Tiehai, an early contemporary painter known for his satirical portraits of Joe Camel superimposed on Da Vinci and Goya paintings. Nearby, you'll also find ShanghART—whose Swiss owner, Lorenz Helbling, represents notable contemporary Chinese artists Zhou Tiehai and video art pioneer Zhu Jia—and Aike-Dellarco, run by longtime local denizen Roberto Ceresia. The Shanghai Center of Photography is the country's first such museum-quality venue, and finally there's Qiao Space, with eclectic exhibits from wealthy karaoke club impresario Qiao Zhibing.
Once the British- and American-occupied International Settlement, the area approaching the Bund is filled with large stone and brick buildings in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century architectural styles. In one of them is the Rockbund Art Museum, a cornerstone of Shanghai's art scene. The curatorial team has worked with major Chinese artists like Zhang Huan and the estate of the late Chen Zhen, whose artworks responded to the cultural whiplash of living between Paris and Shanghai. Before or after, stop for dim sum at Hakkasan Shanghai or for lunch at the Fairmont Peace Hotel's historic Cathay Room. In central Shanghai, near Xintiandi, a shopping district with renovated shikumens (stone lane houses), Adrian Cheng's K11 Art Mall is a one-stop shop for lines like Chloé and Dolce & Gabbana as well as contemporary art exhibitions.
One of China's first "creative industry clusters," M50 opened in a former cotton mill after artists started working in the spaces circa 2000. Chronus Art Center is China's first nonprofit dedicated to media art and is overseen by curator Zhang Ga. Simon Wang's Antenna Space buoys the M50 scene with politically charged exhibits. The airy second-floor gallery represents some of China's most subversive young artists, like Guan Xiao, whose sculptural installations and video works nod to a techno-futuristic world. Cc Foundation is a newish space run by David Chau, a co-founder of Shanghai's ART021 Contemporary Art Fair. On your way to the FFC, refuel with fusion tapas at Commune Social.
The former French Concession is filled with quaint tree-lined streets and myriad shops, bars, and cafés retrofitted into mid-nineteenth- century French homes. Start on Wuyuan Lu at Meta Project Space, a small but innovative independent art space and reading room run by Yajing Yuan. One street over is Bank, where owner and New York transplant Mathieu Borysevicz works with artists like the provocative Chen Tianzhuo, whose use of subculture imagery and sound evokes tribal ritual. Across the street from Bank, Enrico Polato recently opened Capsule in a renovated garden house with an inaugural group show of Chinese and Western artists.
Started six years ago by the Shanghai native curator and dealer, Leo Xu Projects is great for playful exhibitions including solos by Taiwanese artist Michael Lin and Chinese photographer Chen Wei.
The elegant , in Jing'an District, is a quick taxi ride from M50 and puts you within walking distance of the FFC galleries. To be closer to the Bund, and a short cab ride from the West Bund and Xintiandi, stay at , with its Art Deco–style facade and interiors (sundowner cocktails at the rooftop bar, Sir Elly's Terrace, are a must for the skyline view), or the , a Deco landmark and backdrop to 46 films since its opening in 1929.
For help assembling an art-focused itinerary and tickets to in-demand shows, contact the specialists at WildChina. Visit in April or May or from September through November to avoid Shanghai's oppressive humidity; in early November, when the Shanghai Art Fair is held, the weather is crisp. United flies direct from LAX and Newark Liberty to Pudong International Airport. Don't forget you'll need a visa—you can apply through Chinese consulates in U.S. cities.


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(WHNT) – The snow is melting by the minute in many counties – it's long since melted off the trees outside our windows in downtown Huntsville.
The roads are improving, too, but it's still slushy in many areas that got more snow – especially to the east. Some roads with shady areas that don't get as much sun are still impassable. Higher elevations in northeast Alabama got more than nine inches Wednesday night into Thursday morning.
In some areas, trees and power lines have fallen from the weight of the snow, blocking some roads.
Most school systems are closed today, and many large businesses and public offices are delayed, so hopefully you can stay off the roads until conditions improve.
Below are county-by-county updates – we'll update this throughout the day Thursday as new information comes in.
Do not go around barriers on roads! They are there for a reason. It means that road is dangerous. You can also be ticketed.
Huntsville/Madison County
10:51 a.m. – All roads are slick and slushy, but conditions are much improved.
-Highway 431/Governors Drive over Monte Sano is open.
-I-565, including elevated portions – OPEN
-Highway 72 over Chapman Mountain – OPEN
-Memorial Parkway – north and southbound lanes OPEN
-Cecil Ashburn Drive – CLOSED
-Green Mountain Road – CLOSED
-Carl T. Jones from Whitesburg southbound on to Bailey Cove – OPEN
-Bankhead Parkway from Gaslight to Fearn – STILL CLOSED – WHNT News 19 Meteorologist Ben Smith reports some areas of Bankhead are still very slushy and impassable because they are shaded – not much sunshine is getting through to melt off the snow and ice.
Colbert County
Colbert County EMA asks drivers to stay off rural roads due to hazardous driving conditions throughout the county.
DeKalb County
DeKalb County EMA declares all roads impassable.
Franklin County
No roads are closed, but people are being urged not to drive.
Jackson County
All roads in Scottsboro and Jackson County are considered impassable. Travel is discouraged unless it's an emergency. The Jackson County EMA said drivers were stranded earlier, but they've been take care of.
Highway 72 near Stevenson had a few accidents overnight.
Also, Highway 72 west of Scottsboro is very slick.
The Alabama Department of Transportation asks people not to drive until 12 p.m. Thursday – please let the snow and ice melt first.
Lauderdale County
EMA Director George Grabryan says the roads are slick and there is a lot of slush on them, including Highway 72. He is advising that people stay off the roads.
Lawrence County
Lawrence County EMA reports lots of slush and hazardous conditions. Jefferson Street is closed.
Viewers report roads in Moulton are very slick.
Lincoln County
We checked out road conditions just across the state line in Lincoln County and there are no travel problems as of 3:30 p.m. If you head east of there, the Tennessee Department of Transportation website shows there are some patches of snow and ice on some state highways in Franklin County around Winchester, Sewanee and Decherd.
Limestone County
Limestone County EMA says all roads are extremely dangerous to impassable. The public is asked to not drive unless necessary.
Slush is refreezing, forming sheets of ice.
Marshall County
As of 3 a.m. Thursday all roadways in Marshall County were extremely hazardous and impassable in many locations.
Anita McBurnett, EMA Director, asks people to travel only for emergencies until crews can remove the snow packed on the roadways and treat the surfaces appropriately.
Many of the county's secondary roads and city streets may take all day and possibly into Friday to return to safe driving conditions.
"This is a very serious and dangerous situation with the snow covered roadways and tree limbs that have fallen onto the roadways as a result of snow-laden branches," McBurnett said.
Morgan County
12:30 p.m. - There's a wreck on Brindlee Mountain with several cars involved in a pileup. The wreck is on the side headed in to Huntsville. WHNT News 19 has a crew headed to the scene and we're working to get more details on the situation.
Most roads in Morgan County are slushy. Please use caution if you must drive.
Alabama Highway 53 is slick and slushy. Please use extreme caution.

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Shia LaBeouf's TED Talk Is Predictably Insane
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If you ever find yourself holding back, doubting your skills or postponing your dreams, all you need to push ahead to the next step is this video of Shia LaBeouf screaming motivations in your face. He's a man of few words, but when he's losing his shit while sporting one epic rattail, it has more of an effect.
TED Talks is a series of conferences with the slogan "ideas worth spreading," and LaBeouf's idea is definitely worth spreading. Three words: Just. Do. It.
Last week, the always controversial actor tweeted out 30 minutes of footage showing him standing in front of a green screen. YouTube user Michael McNeff then took that, extracted a few key snippets, edited them together, applied some computer magic and created viral gold. This is the same guy who got kicked out of Cabaret for smoking in the theater, chased a homeless man on the street, wore a paper bag over his head to a red carpet event, and tripped on acid in preparation for a movie role. And this stands out against that lengthy resume.
Meanwhile, Leroy Prompakdee used bits of these same segments to make the final scene of Se7en more hilarious and less devastating. No wonder Morgan Freeman couldn't subdue Brad Pitt. LaBeouf was on the sidelines taunting him.


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I created this image for the cover of @loscambalache newer album "Constelación de Sonidos". I loved the image so much I had to make a print of it. Prints are signed by myself and Cesar Castro of the band. The young girl in the image is Cesar and his partner Xochi's daughter Sofia. I was inspired by the Cesar's lyrics where he talks about moving as a immigrant from Veracruz a little over 10 years ago and sometimes in the early hours of the morning when he hears the roosters cry, and he's still sleeping he wakes up thinking that he is in Veracruz with his family, right after he is over taken with the sadness of nostalgia and missing his family and life in Veracruz. Such a powerful song and im not sure if my image does it justice!


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Posts Tagged 'hangover tea'
Douglas Bradford Group @ Tea Lounge
This time with Dan Loomis on bass, Nick Anderson on drums, John Beaty on alto and Douglas with a new (Klein) guitar and some new tunes. New tunes on myspace too, i like it :D. I think some of the compositions are killing. And really cool how John Beaty on alto can take the music even further. Great passionate saxophone playing. Some people in the audience wanted to buy a CD. I would like one too, actually :D. Even though I think they could use a really simple ballad on it as well, in between all that elaborate stuff.
That night, Tea Lounge hangover tea was pretty good too, since I was still half dead from celebrating my birthday the day before.


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While exposure to radon is the second-most leading cause of lung cancer after smoking, even at relatively low exposure levels, Spain still lags behind in protecting the public against indoor exposure to radon. There is pressure on Spain to effectively address the maximum radon concentration in buildings which, according to the World Health Organization (WHO)[1], is responsible for 3 to 14 percent of cases of this lung cancer.
An Increasing Public Concern
The serious cancer cases allegedly caused by radon brought to light by the Spanish media over the last few months[2] have raised public awareness regarding the health risks posed by this radioactive gas. In addition, major outreach activities have been conducted by public institutions—such as the Spanish Nuclear Safety Council and the National Research Council; associations—including the Spanish Association against Cancer and the Geo-environmental Health Foundation and academia to help prevent unnecessary exposure[3].
As a result, what started as an unknown naturally occurring danger is gradually becoming a real concern among the Spanish population. Citizens are now increasingly interested in performing radon tests in dwellings and workplaces, especially in those located within 'high radon areas' featured in the Radon Potential Map[4] drawn up by the Spanish Nuclear Safety Council.
The Establishment of Binding Rules at EU Level
Following the recommendations of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) in 2013, in particular, those in ICRP Publication 103[5], the Council of the EU adopted a newly revised Basic Safety Standards Directive[6].
The Directive, which seeks to protect individuals against the dangers that can arise from the occupational, medical or public exposure to ionizing radiation, applies to any planned, existing or emergency exposure situation involving a risk from exposure to ionizing radiation, such as:
- The manufacture, production, processing, handling, disposal, use, storage, holding, transport, import to and export from the EU of radioactive material
- The manufacture and operation of electrical equipment emitting ionizing radiation
- Human activities with natural radiation sources that could lead to a significant increase in the exposure of employees or the public—such as the exposure of a space crew—to cosmic radiation
- Domestic exposure to indoor radon gas and external exposure to gamma radiation from building materials
- Managing emergency exposure situations that require measures to protect the public and workers
There is little doubt that Spain must take swift action to get back on track regarding radon.
Pursuant to the revised Directive, which had to be transposed by all member states by February 6, 2018, Spain must ensure a system of regulatory control for exposure situations and review the national reference levels for indoor radon concentration at workplaces. In this regard, the reference level for the annual average activity concentration in air cannot be higher than 300 Becquerel (Bq) m –3[7]. Furthermore, Spain must prepare a National Action Plan:
- Identifying the types of workplaces, dwellings and buildings with public access where radon tests must be carried out on a regular basis
- Establishing radon reference levels for dwellings and workplaces
- Including strategies for reducing radon exposure in dwellings and for facilitating post-construction remedial action
However, up until now, Spain has only partially transposed the updated Directive through Order ETU/1185/2017. The Directive only regulates the declassification of waste materials generated in nuclear facilities in order to manage, dispose of and/or recycle them by conventional methods. This means that Spain has failed to implement most of its provisions, particularly the ones reducing the maximum exposure levels and requiring the adoption of a National Action Plan.
A poor and incomplete national legal framework on radon
In practice, the current rules applicable to occupational exposure to naturally-occurring radiation are located in regulations from an earlier date, namely Royal Decree 783/2001 establishing the Ionizing Radiation Health Protection Regulation (focusing on more general aspects related to ionizing radiation) and Instruction IS-33 of 2011 on the radiological criteria for the protection against exposure to natural radiation (dealing more specifically with radon).
In accordance with those legal acts, employers of workers exposed to radon are required, among other things, to:
- Submit a declaration of activity to the relevant Industry Authority of the Autonomous Community where the activity takes place, within three months from the start of the activity
- Perform the necessary studies to determine the exposure to radon of workers and members of the public
- Submit their assessment results to the aforementioned authority whenever average annual radon (Rn-222) concentration exceeds the maximum exposure levels, established at 600 Bq/m3
- Re-assess exposure levels every five years (or after introducing any changes to the activity that could significantly change exposure levels, for instance)
- Keep written records of the implementation of corrective measures and make them available to the Spanish Nuclear Safety Council upon its request
Unsurprisingly, the entry into force of the updated EU Directive rendered some of those provisions obsolete (such as the one related to the maximum exposure level, now set at 300 Bq/m3, as stated above), meaning that Spain must agree upon and implement the new rules without delay.
Europe's Laggard on Radon Prevention and Protection
On top of the aforementioned points, it seems that Spain still has a long way to go in the fight against this radioactive gas, if we compare it to its neighboring countries. This is particularly the case if we look at France, which adopted its third National Action Plan on Radon Risk Management for 2016-2019[8], or Ireland, which already established a radon measurement program in the early 1990s and has set a national reference level for radon in dwellings at 200 Bq/m3[9].
What's Next?
There is little doubt that Spain must take swift action to get back on track regarding radon. Although the Spanish Ministry of Health has not yet drawn up a National Action Plan, there are some efforts towards reform that should be noted. Such is the case with the proposal to amend Royal Decree 314/2006 approving the Technical Construction Code, which would require all buildings located in municipalities where a non-negligible risk of radon exposure has been detected to be equipped with the appropriate means to limit the foreseen risk.
To that end, an additional section specifically addressing the protection against radon (and thus setting a reference level of 300 bequerels (Bq) by m3 for indoor concentrations of radon) would be included in the ''DB HS Health'' document, which contains the basic health requirements that all buildings must comply with.
Although the proposal would meet the Directive's reference levels, many critical voices have already been raised[10], as the proposal would not satisfy the maximum threshold recommended by both the World Health Organization and the Spanish Nuclear Security Council, set at 100 Bq/m3. One thing is for sure though―the status quo is no longer an option.
[1] WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION, WHO Handbook on indoor radon. A public health perspective, France, 2009, p. 10. http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/44149/9789241547673_eng.pdf;jsessionid=EA6F3C102D0BF6815E19146536BD88DE?sequence=1
[2] LA VANGUARDIA, Radón, un peligro ignorado, Spain, 2018, https://www.lavanguardia.com/vida/20180927/452050689110/radon-gas-radiactivo-cancer-pulmon.html?facet=amp
[3] REVISTA DE SALUD AMBIENTAL, Avances en el Plan Nacional Contra el Radón, Spain, 2017, http://ojs.diffundit.com/index.php/rsa/article/view/858/819
[4] NUCLEAR SAFETY COUNCIL, Radon Potential Map, Spain, 2017, https://www.csn.es/mapa-del-potencial-de-radon-en-espana
[5] INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON RADIOLOGICAL PROTECTION, ICRP Publication 103, Norway, 2007, http://www.icrp.org/docs/ICRP_Publication_103-Annals_of_the_ICRP_37(2-4)-Free_extract.pdf
[6] COUNCIL OF THE EU, Council Directive 2013/59/EURATOM, of 5 December 2013, laying down basic safety standards for protection against the dangers arising from exposure to ionising radiation, and repealing Directives 89/618/Euratom, 90/641/Euratom, 96/29/Euratom, 97/43/Euratom and 2003/122/Euratom, Belgium, 2013 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32013L0059&from=EN
[7] According to the WHO, Radioactivity is measured in units called Becquerels (Bq). One Becquerel corresponds to the transformation (disintegration) of 1 atomic nucleus per second. Radon concentration in air is measured by the number of transformations per second in a cubic meter of air (Bq/m3).
[8] NUCLEAR SAFETY AUTHORITY, HEALTH MINISTRY, 3ème Plan National d'Action 2016-2019 pour la gestion du risqué lié au radon: une stratégice visant prioritatement l'information du public et des principaux acteurs, France, 2016, https://www.actu-environnement.com/media/pdf/news-28346-plan-action-radon-2016-2019.pdf
[9] ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, Radon results by County, Ireland, 2017,http://www.epa.ie/radiation/radon/awareness/results/
[10] See 'Europa Press' release: https://www.europapress.es/sociedad/medio-ambiente-00647/noticia-gobierno-propone-limite-exposicion-gas-cancerigeno-radon-tres-veces-menor-recomendado-oms-20180809172533.html and 'Vive sin Radón' article: https://vivesinradon.org/nuevo-cte-proteccion-frente-a-la-exposicion-al-radon-pero-poco/


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Welcome to Sha'ar
We are a network of small Jewish communities offering prayer, study, travel, youth programs, social action and lifecycle rituals. Rabbi Adina Lewittes is a leading teacher, speaker, writer, and creative voice in the reimagination and revitalization of Jewish life.
Sha'ar Communities creates multiple gates ("Sha'ar" = gate) through which people can enter Jewish life and establish Jewish connections. People experience Jewish life from a variety of perspectives. Sha'ar looks to offer multiple gateways through which seekers can pass to create connections to Judaism and to community. For some one gate will suffice. For others, several might beckon. For some Sha'ar Communities will be their primary Jewish home. For others, it will provide a secondary community. Each gate provides its own community, with its own membership or fee-for-service payment structure.
Read some of the recent articles about Sha'ar Communities in The Jewish Standard and L'Chaim Magazine.
Read the Jewish Standard article about Sha'ar's unique outdoor riverside celebration on the second day of Rosh Hashana.
Read an article in the Jewish Standard co-authored by Rabbi Adina Lewittes and Aaron Lewittes Tannenbaum about Sha'ar's trip to Atlanta, Montgomery, Selma and Birmingham to learn about the Civil Rights movement.
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1. NaNoWriMo (write a 50,000-word novel entirely within the month of November): I did it!! Well, at least, I wrote more than 50,000 words in November. In fact, if you count the blog posts, the fun, little short story / picture book draft and everything, I wrote WAY more than 50,000 words in November. But for my goal, I'm only counting the words I wrote for my actual NaNoWriMo project - a YA novel that I'm really excited about.
And even if you only count those words, I still wrote more than 50,000 words within the month of November. In fact, I wrote 50,250 words between November 1st and the evening of November 30th. So I won!!!
But according to the official NaNoWriMo website, I lost.
As you know, I write my rough drafts by hand. Now, there's no way I'm ever going to sit and count up my written words to get a word count on the handwritten pages... and NaNoWriMo doesn't let you declare yourself a winner unless you paste your document into the word count verifier anyway... So in order to get the official word count on the pages I write, I have to type it all up. And it took me until twenty-two minutes after midnight to finish typing the pages I wrote on Friday. So my official NaNoWriMo word count says that I'm 461 words shy of the 50,000 word goal.
I could be kicking myself for not typing faster or for any number of distractions that kept me from getting those last few pages typed up on time, but if I had it all to do over again, I would still choose to "lose" NaNoWriMo. Because instead of frantically typing on Friday night, my family and I took a plate of cookies to a friend who was having a really rough day and needed a reminder that she's awesome. And then I watched a movie with my kids for our regular family movie night. And by the time I got to start typing the pages at 10:30pm, my fingers weren't fast enough. The trade was worth it to me.
2. PiBoIdMo (Come up with 30 picture book ideas in 30 days): I won! By November 30th, I had not only 30 picture book ideas, but I've already written a (very) rough draft for one of them... AND I managed to come up with 2 1/2 new ideas for YA novels as well!!
And since I didn't have to type anything up or upload to a word verifier for this challenge, I'm a clear winner... no doubt about it. I can even display the awesome PiBoIdMo winner button here on my blog:
Unfortunately, I don't think this win actually "counts" either, because in order to be eligible for the prizes associated with the challenge, you had to comment on the registration post, declaring your intention to participate. And I was certain that I had done so. Positive, in fact. But I just scrolled through the list of comments on that registration post, and I don't see my comment anywhere.
Still, I wouldn't change a thing. I'm glad I participated in this challenge again this year. Actually, it wasn't even until I clicked on the post to declare my "win" that I even realized that there were prizes associated with the challenge. So I still got more than what I signed up for (or forgot to actually sign up for) - a notebook full of ideas for future manuscripts!! And that's worth it to me!
Update: I realized this morning that I had been searching the wrong post to verify my registration for PiBoIdMo. Turns out, I did sign up like I thought I did. So I'm not crazy. And this win totally counts!
3. Finish revising at least one of my two middle grade novels: I gave myself permission to move this goal to the new year. January will be a good month for revising and polishing, because December will be for finishing (my NaNoWriMo novel may be 50,000 words, but it isn't yet complete) and recuperating.
So this goal was all but forgotten in the chaos that filled my November. And usually, I'd be kicking myself over the fact that I didn't even attempt to work on it. (I didn't even OPEN either of the middle grade documents for the entire month of November!) But once again, if I'm being honest (and I wouldn't lie to you!!), I have to admit that, if I could go back and do it all over again, I wouldn't change a thing here either. Because as much as I like these middle grade manuscripts, I couldn't work myself up to excitement over either of them this past month, and I've learned from experience that when I try to work on the project that I don't want to work on, I generally end up making it worse, not better. But don't worry, I'm not casting these projects aside. I will be coming back to them soon!
4. Keep moving forward with querying my finished projects: I've entered my YA novel, KISSING FROGS into Pitch Wars, and I won't hear the results of the contest until December 12th, but I've decided to be optimistically delusional about my chances. And you know, the power of positive thinking is really working. I've decided it's best not to send out any more queries until I find out the results of this contest 10 days from now, because if I get picked by one of the awesome mentors and she suggests changes that make my amazing story into something phenomenal, I would want that version to be the one I send out. - And if I don't get to be one of the lucky ones in this contest, I've learned valuable "what to do when I'm waiting to hear back" skills in the process, so I'm still calling myself a winner.
5. Check in weekly with updates: Although I didn't manage to check in weekly, I did update my status on these goals fairly regularly, so (after this post) I'm checking this goal off as complete as well.
6. Maintain at least a small shred of sanity: I spent yesterday reading for fun, and then a friend and I took our children out to see the Christmas lights display at the botanical gardens... and I think I've restored my sanity fully! (At least, as fully as can be expected. I'm me, after all.)
7. Participate in the Spectral read-along: Finished!
8. Weekly Crock Pot Gourmet blog posts: My fourth recipe post was a little bit late this week. Instead of posting on Thursday, as originally planned, it didn't go live until today. Because on Thursday (and Friday), I didn't want to break from writing my NaNoWriMo manuscript to post the recipe. And on Saturday, I gave myself a mental health day, so that I could finish the week with goal #6 in the plus column. But I've had good response to the recipes so far, and so I think I'll continue this blog feature for now.
November was crazy, and I wouldn't want to do this to myself every month, but even if I had it all to do over again, I think I would. Because I learned a lot about myself in attempting to complete these challenges.
I discovered that I really write better when I'm not stressing and focusing on the elusive publishing contract that might be out there waiting for me. When I write the stories I want to write and focus on the ideas that excite me, not only is writing a pleasure, but my writing is oodles better than when I try to write for what's popular. If (when) I find the right agent to represent me... If (when) I find a publisher that wants to buy my book, it's much more likely to happen because I've been writing the stories that excite me. Because those are the stories that I can make come alive.
I discovered that my friends and family will cheer me on when I attempt crazy goals... and they'll pick me up and dust me off every time I stumble and fall on my way to the finish line. I'm not alone in my struggles, and I don't have to carry all of the weight on my own shoulders.
And I discovered that as good as it feels to check off long lists of items from my to do list, sometimes, the best choice is to throw the to do list away and spend a day with the people I love!


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Why should any construction company have a third party PreConstruction Documentation done?
I ask "Why shouldn't they?"
Once those 40,000 LB excavators arrive on site, the home owners in the area finally take a look at their driveways, retaining walls, foundations & entrance way sidewalks and stairs. Until they see those BIG machines all they cared about was how their grass looked.
Is it because most people don't see the cracks or is it because they don't acknowledge the cracks and imperfections about their land and homes?
I really can't answer that, but, YOU will be responsible for them if the PreConstruction is not done BEFORE the excavators arrive on site.
Why can't I just take photos myself? you might ask.
You can, but third party representation of what the site looked like PreConstruction goes a long way in front of a Judge. I have been doing PreConstruction Documentation for over 10 years and have never been to court. My video & photos have saved my clients thousands of dollars in lawsuits because the home owner never proceeds past the initial complaint after they see the PreConstruction Photos & Video done by an outside company.
How does Code-53 Video get such Great Detail? When you hire Code-53 Video you hire me, the owner of the company. I do the PreConstruction Documentation. When you become a customer of Code-53 Video, you become MY customer. It's personal to me because it's my company. I don't have any other photographers working for me. I walk the entire site and take Video & Photos of everything I can. This takes time and patients to do correctly. I have completed 100,000 LF water main installations and walked every street, Video & Photographed every home, driveway, retaining wall, foundation and all the other details of the site. It took 12 days and over 80 hours of video and over 3000 photos. No lawsuits came to be. There were complaints but they never went past the Photo & Video viewing in the office.
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How Jesus Affirms My Queerness
Kody Hersh lifts up the Jesus who stood with those on the margins of society.
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Kody Hersh lifts up the Jesus who stood with those on the margins of society.
How does Quaker Meeting compare to other Christian services? Quaker author and scholar Ben Pink Dandelion explores this question.
A.J. Mendoza found Quakers as a young adult. He describes the powerful mystical experience that had him crying in the Meetinghouse, and kept him coming back.
Why Quakers are called Quakers: the name "Quaker" was originally intended as an insult, until the Religious Society of Friends took it on and claimed it for themselves.
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ELKHART, Ind. (AP) — Authorities in Elkhart County say a suspected bank robber has died after being shot by police officers following a chase through city streets.
Elkhart County Prosecutor Vicki Becker says 30-year-old Corey Bailey of Elkhart was wounded multiple times in the Thursday afternoon shooting.
Becker said Friday that Bailey was fleeing from police when he pointed at handgun at a driver and opened the car's door. She says that's when two Elkhart police officers fired at Bailey, who was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Police say officers chased a car fleeing from a bank robbery. Bailey and two other men ran from that car after it drove over stop sticks.
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here is a super simple, egg based "cake" thing that I made. Things like this never last very long in my house. You can adjust the sweetness to your liking, but it's not meant to be super sweet, more like a pound cake or a banana bread. You could probably convert it to muffins, but I like using a pie pan or square glass pan.
Pre-Heat oven to 375. Mix the ingredients together, either in a blender, or with a hand mixer. Pour into a greased/lined baking pan of some sort. Sprinkle some coconut sugar on top of the mix once you have it in the pan. Bake in the oven for 20-40 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean. Cut into squares or wedges.


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By Artograffi: Emma-Jane, fashion designer
11 year old Emma-Jane Gregory designs her own fashion and makes clothes for her dolls.
She said: "You should never judge a person by what they wear. Sometimes people think what I wear is funky or crazy.
"Sometimes I like to wear all black, all pink or all different colours. The styles that I like to wear are things from Sublevel or the fashion label Material Girl by Madonna."
Emma-Jane said "People's styles can sometimes tell you what they like and what type of person they are'."
What inspires her?
Emma says she has wanted to do this since she was about 7. She was inspired by a character from a film called Monster High and by one of her favourite singers called Madonna. She is also influenced by her sister's designer friend and people's crazy styles.
What does fashion mean?
"Well, it means that you can express yourself through your clothes. You can have lots of styles like… Goth, geek-chic, emo, retro, boho, punk, nerdy, Pretty in Pink or cute as a kitten style, and labels such as Material Girl. " said Emma.
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Our client is a global operator within the promotional marketing industry and has decades of experience working with hundreds of clients and thousands of brands for some of the biggest and most recognised household names within the retail and FMCG sectors.
Although they might appear to be a Goliath in the industry with their own strong brand reputation, there is a sense of agility with this business and yet security. As they have a high employee retention rate and a clear message.
Although they are very established, this business is continually evolving and expanding their offering and presence in the marketplace with new technologies and approaches.
It's due to this ongoing success that we are now seeking an experienced Sales Director to come on board and work directly with the UK Managing Director to help develop, forge and implement the sales strategy.
You'll also have to have strong leadership skills as you'll have a sales team reporting to you consisting of Business Development Managers and Business Development Directors. All of which focus on their own markets.
You'll have an overall divisional annual target to reach and part of your responsibility will not only ensure that your team is delivering but also help mentor them as well as take on part of that sales target yourself. This target by the way is very achievable and usually something we'd expect one senior individual to achieve, let alone a team.
The HQ office is located in the Bedfordshire area with a satellite office in London. Although you'd be expected to run your team from HQ, you'll also be expected to be out of the office meeting existing clients as well as prospect clients. You will be the most senior sales person in the UK business unit. So it will be critical to have that chemistry fit with the Managing Director, which of course you won't be able to judge until you meet.
So to recap…. This opportunity as a Sales Director would most definitely suit someone with gravitas, leadership qualities, strong track record in surpassing sales targets and a strong background in promotional marketing within the FMCG and retail sectors. There is no compromise on this.
In return for your skills and experience as a Sales Director our client offices a competitive salary ranging between £70-75k plus car allowance, various commission and bonus structures that should see you comfortably reach the six figures region within your first year.
If you think you're the Sales Director we are seeking and have read through this ad in detail and understand the key requirements then please get in touch with me, Tom Howe, by clicking on the apply button below and submitting your CV with any key footnotes that you think might be relevant.
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Geo-engineering is the study and implementation of technical ways to change (and arguably improve) things like weather patterns, river paths, soils, climates and sea currents on Earth. Recently, geo-engineering has received special attention for efforts to combat global warming.
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Very good stuff, the closer we move towards methane release, the more geoengineering will become main stream. I thought large scale methane ignition couldn't work, but if it could, it could buy precious time to remove billions of tons of CO2 from the atmosphere.
Short term geoengineering to prevent the worst of the "methane gun" is important in the utmost, and it needs to be combined with long term CCS and Carbon scrubbers.
If the Methane can be ignited, captured, or changed into CO2, then that allows humanity another small window of time to capture the carbon.
Dr. Klaus Lauckner of Kilimanjaro energy has been working up to a prototype that can scrub 365-90,000 tons of C02 from the atmosphere per year.
To read more about it, check out this "mainstream" National Geographic article:
If the methane in the artic can be changed to CO2, and MASS CO2 capture can be implemented on an unprecedented global scale, then humanity has a chance at survival.
Here's the prototype website:


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Principal Program Planning and Scheduling Analyst 3_Clearance Required
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At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems in air and space that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our work preserves freedom and democracy, and advances human discovery and our understanding of the universe. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have a lot of fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work - and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.
Northrop Grumman Space Systems has an opening for a Principal Program Planning and Scheduling Analyst 3 for their Redondo Beach, CA location.
The successful candidate must be able to work independently on multiple concurrent programs and proposals.
Must have an active DoD Top Secret and/or SSBI with SCI Clearance and current Poly to start.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
• Prepares, develops and coordinates the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) to meet all program objectives.
• Ensures program schedules are horizontally and vertically integrated
• Implements scheduling best practices as prescribed by industry to include, but not limited to:
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• Provides weekly status and reporting
• Conducts Integrated Baseline Reviews (IBR) and Joint Surveillance Reviews (JSR) audits
The successful candidate will possess the following:
• Ability to perform detailed schedule, resource, work, and cost analysis and make recommendations to solve problems
• Ability to create presentation content and present to various levels of leadership
• Ability to effectively work with multiple functional teams, supplier teams, and the Program/Project Manager.
Basic Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree with 5 years of experience in Program Planning & Scheduling, Finance, Pricing, Program Management or Engineering; or a Master's degree with years of Experience in Program Planning & Scheduling, Finance, Pricing, Program Management or Engineering
Must have an active DoD Top Secret and/or SSBI with SCI Clearance and current Poly to start.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Master's degree in Business, Supply Chain, and/or STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) discipline.
• Experience with Microsoft Project Server 2010/2013
• Knowledge with Integrated Master Plan (IMP) and Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) development; Schedule Risk Assessment (SRA) approach and execution
• Excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and the ability to interface with all levels of employees, management, and executive leadership
Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit www.northropgrumman.com/EEO . U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.
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Wild Hogs run Rampant in New York
In Valley Falls, New York wildlife officials may have to ban captive boar hunts because they are trying to stop a growing feral hog population from getting out of control like it has in Southern states. In the Southern states there are herds that are running rampant and destroying wildlife habitat and crops with their wallowing, voracious foraging, and rooting. Last year they did a study and found that feral hogs are breeding in central New York in three different counties. Statewide the population is in the hundreds which are not very big compared with the feral hog population in Texas where there are approximately two million of them.
When the population reaches thousands of feral hogs, this is when the damage becomes more noticeable as they stake out home territories. One of the reasons that there are so many of these feral hogs running loose may be because they have gotten away from private hunting ranches. These types of ranches have deer, elk, and now wild boards on their ranches where people can come in and hunt for them. At this time, the feral hogs are near these ranches, or preserves.
These feral hogs are Russian wild boars and are notorious for being escape artists and breed easily and readily in the wild. This type of pig is adaptable and will eat most anything, intelligent, is able to live in a range of habitats and dig up lawns and croplands looking for food.
Exactly what they are going to do to take care of this feral hog problem has not been decided yet but it may come down to a feral hog shot and kill.


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Last time we wrote about a similar dongle, it was for Belkin's offering, which had a bunch of shortcomings. For one, it simply added a second lightning port so you could charge and listen to headphones at the same time, but if your headphones were "old school", you would've needed an additional dongle for it to work. Well, with the iLDOCK, if you're planning on staying in the 3.5mm camp and don't want to double-dongle it, you can do what normal humans do and charge your phone while listening to music stress-free. Granted, you're still stuck having to carry a stupid dongle for this, but hey, it's $18 for 2 so even if you lose one, you have a backup.
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Armature's signature class - bodyweight strength training. Low choreography, high endurance means it's easy to follow. A great pre-req for more loaded strength training and more dynamic patterns. It usually involves, among other things, squat and lunge patterns, ankle, hip and thoracic mobility.
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I applied online. I interviewed at G2 Travel (Bucharest (Romania)) in February 2017.
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the whole interview was in english and also my second language was verbally only tested.
First interview was with the HR assistant, then I met the department manager and we had another interview.
The last step was a written test with mathematical questions.
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It is said that without History we would learn nothing. So where has Apple gone wrong? Have they not learnt that a company cannot control a market? Sooner or later the market will push the company aside. So why has Apple decided to attempt to control the eBook market delivered from its iTunes App?
Apple recently decided to charge 30% of sales price to anyone wanting to sell their eBooks via the Apple iTunes store. Understandably there has been a backlash from the likes of Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Kobo and others who have all removed Apple app purchasing of their eBooks.
So you can still buy the books. You just need to go to the company's websites and buy them directly rather than using the convenience of an app.
The book market has been tarred continually with 'middle men' trying to make an 'easy buck' out of author's hard work and this is just such another example.
Perhaps it is time for a truly 'open source' trading platform for eBooks, music and other content where it can be purchased and downloaded simply with just a 'token' charge to the seller to support the running and development costs of the platform.


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More than two years after a pit bull was starved, stuffed into a trash bag and tossed down a garbage chute in a Newark, N.J. apartment building, his abuser has pleaded guilty to animal cruelty.
Kisha Curtis, 29, was set to go on trial Wednesday. She was charged with animal cruelty in March 2011 after the dog was found near death.
The pup was nicknamed Patrick because he was rescued just before St. Patrick's Day, and he has since thrived in recovery, where his story gained nationwide attention.
He has been living with a foster family, who told NBC 4 New York last year that he was "doing wonderful."
"He's just a normal dog," said Patricia Smillie-Scavelli.
When Curtis is sentenced Aug. 29, a judge will determine Patrick's custody.
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February 19, 2003, VANCOUVER - Animals are also victims of the Internet's explosive growth with a number of websites dedicated to inflicting cruelty to animals according to The Humane Society of Canada (HSC). "Earlier this year, three people in Newfoundland were charged with trafficking in big game parts - moose and caribou antlers. The antlers were being sold through a popular Internet auction site," says Al Hickey, Western Regional Director for The Humane Society of Canada (HSC).
In another recent cyber cruelty case, a joint operation by American and Canadian wildlife officials led to the multimillion seizures of 368 bear galls in Ontario and Quebec. "This kind of cruelty puts a price on the head of every living bear," says HSC Executive Director Michael O'Sullivan. "And this is only the tip of the iceberg".
O'Sullivan says his charity has been tracking wildlife smugglers, websites selling illegal traps, companies offered penned hunting and big game hunts, and people promoting the cruel treatment of animals: "In one case, we alerted federal authorities in the United States, and we were able to shutdown the site. But the offender kept moving his website from server to server".
He says that following an Internet trail through cyberspace requires expertise and patience. The work is time consuming and often frustrating. "The Internet is the new frontier with a dominant culture that vigorously encourages freedom of expression and speech at all costs. Even if someone is promoting cruelty to animals, and even if the company hosting the website agrees that they don't like it, they will protect the person's right to express themselves".
However, this is an old story for O'Sullivan, and one that is simply being played out in a different arena: "I've been fighting this kind of cruelty to animals all of my life. Animal abusers have found a new way to inflict suffering on animals, and we need to go after them, one by one, and shut them down," he said.
The Humane Society of Canada will not give examples of any of the websites they are tracking because O'Sullivan says that would comprise their ongoing investigations and even worse provide animal abusers with publicity that would only drive more traffic to their sites. Angry hackers have also retaliated against The Humane Society of Canada trying repeatedly to break into their website and server. The charity set up special safeguards and so far has been able to resist the cyber attacks.
"We know that cruelty to animals is linked with violence against people. Animals are facing new threats and we are relying on the help and vigilance of a concerned and caring public now more than ever before," he said.
The Humane Society of Canada is asking anyone who sees something on the Internet involving animals that they feel is cruel or illegal to contact their local authorities or the Humane Society of Canada at 1-800-641-KIND (5463) or www.humanesociety.com.
CONTACT: Michael O'Sullivan by toll free 1-800-641-KIND or Michael on his cell phone (416) 876-9685 or at www.humanesociety.com via twitter at www.twitter.com/HSCanada and on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Humane-Society-of-Canada/211468055538280
[For more than 17 years, Al Hickey was the Chief Executive of the BC SPCA and before that headed up the Alberta and BC Chambers of Commerce, and was the Executive Director of the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Vancouver. He has been The HSC Western Regional Director for over 12 years. He has 4 children and 6 grandchildren. For his lifetime of achievement dedicated to helping people, animals and the environment, we have bestowed upon him our prestigious Heroes for Animals Award, shared by only a handful of people and organizations.
A father with two children, and a houseful of dogs and cats, Michael O'Sullivan has worked across Canada and in over 110 countries during the last 40 years helping people, animals and nature.]
The Humane Society of Canada (HSC) works to protect dogs, cats, horses, birds, rabbits and small animals, livestock, lab animals, wildlife and the environment. We carry out hands on programs to help animals and nature, mount rescue operations, expose cruelty through hard hitting undercover investigations, work to pass laws to protect animals, use a multidisciplinary approach, support animal shelters and wildlife rehabilitation centres, and spread the word about how to help animals and nature through humane education.
The only organization of its kind, seven days a week, The Humane Society of Canada (HSC) works across the street, across Canada and around the world helping people, animals and the environment.
The Humane Society of Canada (HSC) depends entirely on donations to support our programs to help animals and the environment. All donations are gratefully acknowledged with a receipt for income tax purposes. If you would like to support our educational campaigns that protect animals and the environment please make a donation here. Because when it comes to fighting cruelty and violence, we don't give up. Ever.


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"This is my eulogy," Hesperia High School's popular piano instructor Dr. Surajeet Chatterji said as the final performer of an hour-long pre-recital demonstration sat down to play "Breakers."
Through a flurry of rapid-fire arpeggios, Luis Devon Besso's performance spoke a veritable music score of deep thoughts, feelings, hopes and dreams. It was Besso who several years ago petitioned to have the India-born, Russian-trained teacher plant new roots at Hesperia High.
"That's why all of us are here today," Chatterji said about Besso's initial drive and determination that helped win him his teaching position.
Despite the melodic ebullience, a mist of melancholy hung over the 25 students.
Recently Dr. Chatterji was one of more than 50 teachers in the school district to receive a pink slip. The district's cuts come after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed cutting more than $5.6 billion from state education over the next year. That left newly named HUSD superintendent Mark McKinney facing an immensely tough decision almost as soon as his new name plaque was put on his desk. Making the choice to cut Chatterji's program even more challenging is that along with school board member Hardy Black and HHS Principal Larry Porras, McKinney has a child who has discovered impressive musical abilities through Chatterji's direction.
According to McKinney, Chatterji "is absolutely a phenomenal teacher, and I have my own son in the program."
However, he added, Chatterji's program is relatively expense when compared to teachers with larger numbers of students.
"He has 25 kids in the program, and that's it."
Chatterji embraces the Russian style of classical piano performance. Instead of clunking down the ivories in a boring, typewriter-like fashion, he instructs his students to pour their hearts and souls into every note and phrase. The result is striking.
"I tell them this is not a class of piano. It's a class of drama," he said.
All students seem to excel under Chatterji, with some more dramatically than others, however.
With her hair covering her face, Leah Oubre attacks a piano piece with the skill of a seasoned concert professional. Despite being a straight-A student, Oubre says that sometimes the class is all that gets her through the day.
"Man, do I have to go to school?" she said. "But the piano class is like a family."
Jonathan Schilling, another top performer who graduated from HHS last year, discovered that despite his high grades and drive - Schilling is currently a college pre-med student - something was missing.
"I didn't think I needed anything else," Schilling said. "I realized I was wrong, incredibly wrong. The musical, artistic part of me was dry."
When parent Glen Kraig heard his daughter Adriana's playing after beginning the class he said, "I was flabbergasted." In fact, when he sent a CD of her playing to family back east, they thought it was a professional pianist on the recording.
"School should be more than filling in bubbles on tests," he said. "The arts is one part of the total child. Closing something like this down would be really sad for Hesperia."
Parents say that Chatterji's class has more than just boosted their children's self-esteem, the transformative change has been life-affirming. Otherwise average students have discovered they can truly excel.
Tina Walker Simmons, a mother of one of the younger students, Daniel, says the piano class has completely changed her son, who has battled learning challenges.
"It has made an awesome difference," Simmons said. "Just the thought of the possibilities is amazing. He makes you feel like you can do just about anything."
Like he did several years ago, Besso once again is canvassing the community with a petition. This time, he's hoping his work - and that of other piano class members and program supporters - will convince the district to save Chatterji's class.
But if the cut is upheld Simmons believes the special time Chatterji has been in Hesperia has been more than worth it.
"It's a once in a lifetime thing," she said.
Chatterji agrees.
"I've never had such a splendid experience of life as I have teaching in Hesperia. I've never felt such a sense of mission than I've felt in Hesperia."


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When Calvin Coolidge wanted to marry Miss Grace Goodhue, her parents were not happy.
The Coolidge Proposal
Some time after Calvin Coolidge began seeing the pretty Miss Goodhue, he took her to meet his family. They liked her. Everybody did. His grandmother said, "She's a likely gal, Calvin, you should marry her." "Think I will," Coolidge replied.
Sometime afterwards, the prospective bridegroom told the prospective bride's father that he wanted to marry Grace.
Mr. Goodhue was astounded. "Does Grace know about this?" he asked. Coolidge said simply, "No. But she will."
She did.
The Goodhue Objection:
There was nothing bad about Calvin Coolidge himself-ish. He came from a good family. He had graduated from Amherst College. He was a practicing attorney. Perhaps not an Adonis, but then again… So far, so good.
The Goodhues' only child, a graduate of the University of Vermont and a teacher at the Clarke School for the Deaf, was a pretty, personable, outgoing woman with a wall-to-wall smile. She was always popular, and had her pick among all the young men in town. Why would she choose such a silent, pasty fellow? You couldn't get six words out of him!
The Goodhues dearly loved their daughter and wanted her to be happy, and they could not understand (and never would) how she could be happy with such a cold clam.
Nevertheless, Grace Goodhue and Calvin Coolidge became engaged to be married.
Mrs. Goodhue's Plan
Elviera Goodhue had a "solution." Grace knew very little about housewifery, and suggested that her daughter resign her teaching position, move back home for a year, and learn to cook and bake and become a proper New England housewife.
"Why, Mr. Coolidge," she said, "Grace doesn't even know how to bake bread." Coolidge was unmoved, and was said to have replied in his distinctive twang, "I can buy bread. I want Grace."
But Grace was an obedient young woman and daughter, and she duly moved back home. Her parents were hoping that with time and distance, she might change her mind – or perhaps attract a new beau.
Calvin Coolidge was not pleased. After all, he reasoned, he was thirty-two. Grace was twenty-six. Surely they were both old enough to know their own minds. He visited her regularly. She did not change her mind. Nor did he.
Keeping House Circa 1905
When the Coolidges married, Grace "retired" from teaching. Married women did not work. She was now a housewife, and would become mother of two sons in due time.
The newlyweds moved into half of a two-family house in Northampton, MA, and they would stay there even when they moved to the White House and beyond. They were never more than middle-class. Calvin was a mediocre attorney and public servant: mayor of his small town, moderate state legislator. His leadership was as modest as he was.
Grace Coolidge never had servants, even in a day when they were available and affordable. At most she had an occasional day-girl to help with the heavier work.
But Grace was a warm-hearted mother, neighbor, friend, happy to teach her boys to play baseball on the front lawn. She was equally happy to help at their church functions, and during World War I, like many other women in the country, she joined the Red Cross and became active.
But while she became an avid and competent needle-woman, try as she did, she never did master the kitchen.
Biscuits and Pies
The Goodhues could never understand their daughter's attraction to the "cold clam," but Grace would write years later, "He made me laugh."
It was their shared sense of humor that bound the couple together. His was dry, wry and all the funnier since it was delivered with a devastatingly deadpanned expression. Grace's humor was teasing and mimicking. It is said she could imitate Coolidge's New England twang to perfection.
Grace was contented as a New England housewife, but was never more than mediocre in its skills. Coolidge loved his pretty wife dearly, and would never criticize her – at least not overtly. But he could make his point.
Biscuits, of course, are supposed to be light and fluffy and melt-in-your-mouthable. Grace's left much to be desired. Coolidge made his point by "accidentally" letting one drop – and simultaneously stomped his foot on the floor. Grace was not insulted. It is said that the entire family howled.
Then there was her apple pie. It seems that she was never able to master the art of a light and flaky crust. Hers was definitely in the soggy and chewable department.
The family had had it for supper, but there was still a half-a-pie leftover. When a couple of Grace's lady-friends stopped in that evening, Coolidge surprised her and asked them if they might like to have some of her delicious apple pie and coffee. The women graciously accepted.
The story goes that it was Coolidge who made the coffee, laid the table and sliced the pie. Then, as the ladies were sampling "Grace's delicious", Coolidge twanged with a slight twinkle in his eye, "Don't you think the road commissioner would be willing to pay my wife something for her recipe for pie crust?"
Point made. No offense taken.
- Anthony, Carl Sferrazza –First Ladies 1789-1961, William Morrow,1990
- Boller, Paul F., Jr. – Presidential Anecdotes, Oxford University Press, 1981
- Wikander, Lawrence & Ferrell, Robert (eds) – Grace Coolidge, An Autobiography, 1992, High Plains


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That Lady Royall report into allegations of antisemitism at the Oxford University Labour Club in full.
- I do not believe that there is institutional antisemitism within Oxford University Labour Club
- However, in order to remove the possibility of any such claims being made in the future, OULC should take action to ensure there is a safe space, i.e. by disbanding immediately in case anyone's feelings get hurt again
- All further allegations of micro-aggressions should be reported immediately to The Telegraph, The Times, or John Mann MP in order to be used against Jeremy Corbyn
- Err...
- That's it
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