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Hwangeunbi (46 hwangeunbi stories)
Time flies. The fleeting summer has left, and Eunbi wonders what good has she seen this season. Yuna knows life isn’t a bed of roses, but she tries to show Eunbi the reality where blessings and misfortunes can coexist, where life is still beautiful despite its exasperating mysteriousness.
Yuna gets detention. Eunbi, not wanting to be alone, joins her. a/n: i got this prompt from https://prompts.neocities.org/! in a spur of excitement for fluffy sinju
오늘은 어제의 꿈; 오늘도 내일의 후회 “Today is yesterday’s dream; today is, too, tomorrow’s regret.” Hwang Eunbi holds dear to her heart a certain precious figure from her middle school days. a/n: i started this last week when the idea came, and it’ll be a shortfic! i really just wanted to write a middle-school themed fic bc i real
Hi! This will be a collection of Yuju x Sinb (SinJu) fanfics. I am converting my old fanfics and remake them into this pair. So if you felt familiar while reading, dont be alarmed, that is certainly my story. Not sure when will I start update this, but you can expect within 2 weeks.
Hwang Eunbi, going by the name Sinb, is the CEO and fashion designer of a famous fashion company called GA, short for Guardian Angel. One day she meets one of the most beautiful girls she's ever seen in her whole life, and receiving the task to find a new face for a soon-to-be-launched new fashion line, she immediately thinks of this person. Now, her job is to get that person to sign the contract agreeing that she'll work for her company, but that's easier said than done. Will SinB su
“Its a the last day of summer when Sinb met a stranger, A stranger who captured her attention and a stranger who never left her mind but destiny do exist when the both of them see each other again but what will happend next?”
"I know you're no good for me, but what good is 'good for me' if with you is where I want to be?"
Just a random SOWONxSINB angst because why not^^
Two different lives collide upon meeting in a private academy, where one changed the perspective of her life forever while the other fell in love. Kim Yewon, daughter of the owners of Cuisine De La Kim (a well-known restaurant that has hundreds of branches in South Korea, which will also be going international in a few weeks), is sent to a private academy to learn about the ways of fine dining and exquisite cuisine. Hwa
Three flower boys V, Suga and Jhope were best of friends. They are rich guys who gets what they want. Suga and Jhope were the jolly type and doesn't care how the girls look while V is just waiting for the right one. When he was still in highschool his father sent him abroad. SinB, a simple girl who was living happily but after her father remarried to another woman her life becomes a hell. She is naturally beautiful. Her bestfriends include Jennie and Wendy. They alwa
Description: Hi! This is Hwang Eun Bi, I am currently 16 years old studying at Jineunghyeong High School… I am part of the famous dance group here in school name “Luv☆” it’s compose of 5 girls, & we usually do dance cover. I don’t believe in love or such thing, I mean in this world, how could I believe it?
In which Yerin and Eunbi count down to Christmas with a little surprise each day.


FLOTUS Michelle Obama has been a media darling in the last few weeks, hitting the talk show circuit to promote the Let’s Move! campaign and do tons of push-ups like a boss. And while her appearances on Ellen and with Jimmy Fallon have been inspiring, it’s not just publicity and fluff–this campaign has actually changed the country for the healthier. According to the New York Times, when Michelle Obama says “move,” America listens.
It’s not hard to remember how critical some people were when Obama first announced that childhood obesity would be her personal First Lady cause. I recall one popular Tweet that was repeated with so much smugness, it’s hard to forget: “Nancy Reagan said ‘Say No to Drugs,’ Laura Bush said ‘Say No to Illiteracy,’ Michelle Obama says ‘Say no to hamburgers.” But, in a country where obesity-related health care costs run around $147 billion dollars each year, saying no to hamburgers was a message that needed to be stated, loud and clear.
According to the Times article, just by speaking up about childhood obesity, obesity-related illness, and how truly easy it is to curb obesity if everyone takes responsibility, Michelle Obama has changed the way the country, on the whole, thinks about our big, fat problem. For example, 80% of Americans now believe that childhood obesity is a serious problem. And we’re even getting a little less fat–a Gallup poll last year showed that there were more Americans at a “normal” weight than there were who were “overweight” for the first time in years.
Additionally, Obama’s strong, clear voice and comprehensive strategy for healthier kids has lead to real policy changes, both by lawmakers and corporations, including limitations on fat and sugar by the country’s leading providers of food for cafeterias, and both Walmart and Walgreen’s shift toward offering more fresh product and healthier snack options. She’s also had a hand in filling in some of the country’s food deserts, and making restaurant offerings more nutritious and healthy.
What Michelle Obama has done with the Let’s Move! campaign is important because, before her, there was no actual, national vocal champion for health and fitness, in kids or adults. There was no one who Middle America was familiar with who was offering pragmatic, real advice to families.
And not scary, government-in-your-kitchen advice, either. Not the kind people tuned out, because damnit, they can eat whatever they want. Advice that made sense, like “exercise more” and “eat more vegetables because you’ll feel better and be healthier.” Somehow, there was no one saying that–which meant that there was no one prompting restaurants, grocery chains, and school cafeterias to stop looking at the bottom line, and start looking at the waist line. There was also no one speaking frankly to children about what a healthy body can mean for them.
Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! campaign may have been questioned at first, but in the long run, the sustainable, tangible changes being made by America’s restaurants, schools, corporations, and, as a result, families, will save every tax payer money…and probably quite a few lives. See? All those push-ups are paying off.
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A goal of pastoral counseling is to guide individuals towards greater wholeness within themselves and in their relationships with others.
Six dimensions of this growth have been described:
- enlivening the mind
- revitalizing the body
- renewing and enriching intimate relationships
- deepening one’s relationship with nature and the biosphere
- growth in relation to significant institutions
- deepening and vitalizing one’s relationship with God.
Pastoral counselors represent a valuable resource for psychiatric referrals as they are uniquely qualified to address certain mental health issues—including bereavement and coping with terminal illness. Pastoral counselors trained in behavioral sciences can help assess and treat patients who prefer psychotherapy that reflects their spiritual beliefs.
Patients experiencing loss or dealing with bereavement are often struggling with theological questions and can benefit from therapy from a pastoral counselor. Chronic or terminal illness likewise can bring up existential questions, and pastoral counselors can explore with the patient the meaning of suffering, providing spiritual healing when medicine offers no cure.

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One Word - Layers
Picked this word randomly from something I was reading. Thought it would make a good choice - and chose it I did. Soon thereafter I had a general plan in my head. I purchased a new dress back in the Spring. It's a lovely dress but not one that I would have many occasions to wear. Didn't matter though - because I loved it. Definitely an impulse buy and it came with no regret. When I looked at the dress hanging from a light stand I concentrated on its layers. There planted that small seed of inspiration and creativity. Once those little seeds get planted they tend to sprout in their own time. Well, this one sprouted quickly. I had done some work earlier this spring and wanted to continue the thread from a book I had read. Of course work, summer and life in general sidelined my personal project time a bit. Happy to say my little grey dress and spark of inspiration drove me back into gear. These personal projects help me grow, accept, learn and fail. They inspire and push me in a direction that is uniquely mine.
The second half of my "plan" was the story telling piece which I pulled from that continuing thread. Lives that were forever changed under the circumstances during that place and time. Every "body" has a story. Their own unique story. A story that is not always understood, pleasant or otherwise noted as a happy one. Stories that hold faceted layers... so many, many stories.
As I blended my thoughts and colors in a conceptually photographic way I came to understand my own unique story. From a beginning - to a middle - and following through to an end.
It's not just another story - rather my unique one.

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Thank you for calling me to speak, Mr Deputy Speaker, and it is good to see you in your new position.
The Government's mantra is that this Budget is both unavoidable and fair, yet more and more evidence demonstrates that exactly the opposite is true. In reality, this Budget is neither unavoidable nor fair: instead, it is a massively failed opportunity to shift the economy into the greener, fairer direction that we need.
Devastating public spending cuts of the kind announced yesterday are not unavoidable. They are not some kind of economic inevitability, but an ideological choice. The reality is that there has been no public debate about the choice between tackling the deficit through cuts or through progressive and radical tax reform. Quite simply, that case has not been put.
That is hugely significant, because the fact that these cuts will have an enormous impact on generations to come means there needs to be a national consensus that they are the right way forward. There is not that national consensus; there is a growing sense of anger and disbelief about the scale of the cuts proposed, as well as a growing sense that the Government have been economical with the truth.
Let us be clear: we are not in the same position as Greece. Our cumulative national debt is not large by international standards. The structure of our debt is very long term-about 14 years. Much of this year's debt will be sold to British-domiciled individuals and companies, so the international sovereign debt crisis has much less impact on us. Those are the truths of the situation.
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“The only existential threat humanity faces even more frightening than nuclear war is global warming.”
— President Joe Biden speaking at a press conference in Hanoi, Vietnam.
“A healthy environment and a healthy, inclusive democracy go hand in hand, and the clock is ticking for both. For far too long, voter suppression and polluters’ money have drowned out the voices of the people directly experiencing the health impacts of pollution and the dangers of extreme weather.”
— Doug Lindner, LCV Senior Director of Judiciary & Democracy, speaking at a press conference held to mark the reintroduction of the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act in the House.
“Towns are dying around us and it needs to stop…The future of our children is at stake.”
— Carmen Hernandez, a community member from Gregory, Texas, who traveled to D.C. with a group of leaders from frontline communities to demand FERC stop permitting LNG projects that are polluting their air and water and making their families and neighbors sick.
CLIMATE ACTION NH, SENATOR HASSAN ON IRA BENEFITS: Climate Action New Hampshire teamed up with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and Senator Maggie Hassan for a round table event on the benefits of the IRA to New Hampshire communities.
CLIMATE ACTION NH TAKE: LCV’s New Hampshire State Director Rob Werner said, “As our municipalities and businesses transition to clean energy we are also creating jobs for our citizens, building resiliency for our communities, and protecting our environment. And Senator Hassan has helped lead the way in making these federal investments in clean energy possible. It is one more example of how she has been a leader in addressing the climate crisis while promoting a more prosperous future for New Hampshire.”
SENATOR HASSAN’S TAKE: Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) said, “I worked with my colleagues to pass into law the Inflation Reduction Act in order to lower costs, combat climate change, and reduce our reliance on Big Oil and energy sources from foreign countries – and now this law is delivering for our state. It was great to hear today from Mayor Donchess and business and community leaders about ways that they’re lowering energy costs through federal investments, and we will keep working together to ensure that NH families and businesses know about tax cuts and other incentives that they can utilize to get more clean energy.”
BIDEN ANNOUNCES AMERICAN CLIMATE CORPS: President Biden announced the creation of the American Climate Corps, a green jobs training and placement program that will mobilize 20,000 people, setting them up for good jobs in green industries.
OUR TAKE: LCV Vice President of Government Affairs Sara Chieffo said, “We are thrilled to see President Biden using his executive power to deliver on his commitment to establish the American Climate Corps, which will kick off with training tens of thousands of young people for high-quality jobs tackling the climate crisis. This program is a culmination of a years-long effort by activists and organizers to create a youth-led climate jobs corps and will focus on equity and environmental justice – prioritizing communities traditionally left behind. With this program, President Biden is once again proving that combating the climate crisis and creating good jobs go hand in hand.”
LCV, CLIMATE POWER, HOUSE MAJORITY TARGET REPUBLICANS IN NEW ADS: LCV, Climate Power, and House Majority Forward launched a six-figure ad campaign holding House Republicans accountable for supporting efforts to shut down the government and force draconian cuts to popular programs that people depend on. The representatives targeted by the new ads are Juan Ciscomani (AZ-06), Ken Calvert (CA-41), John James (MI-10), Mark Amodei (NV-02), Anthony D’Esposito (NY-04), Mike Lawler (NY-17), Marc Molinaro (NY-19), and Lori Chavez-DeRemer (OR-05), and the ads are set to run on national cable and in-district during college football games on Saturday. Watch the ads here and learn more about the campaign in this feature from NBC!
OUR TAKE: LCV Senior Vice President for Campaigns Pete Maysmith said, “House Republicans are again showing they are willing to throw the country into chaos, risk their own districts’ future and the entire country’s economy–all to score points for Big Oil and MAGA extremists. We aren’t going to stop making sure these communities hear about the real costs families could feel, including an end to newly created jobs and higher costs, if Republicans in Congress, including their own representative, force an unnecessary and damaging shutdown or even more rollbacks.”
HOUSE MAJORITY FORWARD TAKE: House Majority Forward Executive Director Abby Curran Horrell said, “Instead of working to grow the middle class, MAGA Republicans are threatening to shut down the government. Americans must make their voices loud and clear, and tell their representatives to stand against cuts to health care, clean energy jobs, and Social Security.”
CLIMATE POWER TAKE: Climate Power Executive Director Lori Lodes said, “MAGA Republicans are so dead set on killing our clean energy boom and catering to Big Oil that they’re willing to shut down the government to make it happen — causing chaos and preventing essential workers from getting paid. Their constituents deserve to know that their elected officials would rather go to bat for Big Oil than lower costs and create jobs in their communities.”
JOHN R. LEWIS VOTING RIGHTS ADVANCEMENT ACT REINTRODUCED IN THE HOUSE: Coinciding with National Voter Registration Day, Representative Terri Sewell and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries reintroduced the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act in the House on Tuesday. If passed, the legislation would offer revamped protections for groups historically excluded from voting and guard against modern voter suppression tactics.
OUR TAKE: LCV Democracy Program Director Justin Kwasa said, “This National Voter Registration Day, we applaud Representative Terri Sewell and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and their cosponsors for reintroducing the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. It is a vital response to a decade of U.S. Supreme Court attacks on the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and one that restores and modernizes the landmark protections that John Lewis, Martin Luther King, Jr., and so many other civil rights leaders bravely fought for. This critical bill offers protections for groups historically excluded from the democratic process and includes provisions to combat modern voter suppression tactics.
“We urge Congress to swiftly pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and other crucial voting rights legislation, including the Freedom to Vote Act and D.C. Statehood, in order to ensure the voices of all voters are counted in the upcoming election and beyond.”
LCV also led a coalition of environmental groups commending House leadership for their reintroduction of the bill.
TAKE 2: The following statement was signed by 15 climate and environmental groups: “We commend Representative Terri Sewell, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and their cosponsors for championing the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. It is a crucial bill to restore and modernize the bedrock protections of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that leaders like John Lewis and Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously marched and sacrificed for. A decade after the U.S. Supreme Court first weakened the Voting Rights Act, this legislation is long overdue.
“We are calling on Congress and President Biden to stand up to the extremists who are undermining our nation’s basic freedom to vote by swiftly passing the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. When everyone’s voices are heard, we can make real progress on addressing the climate crisis, protecting the environment, and advancing justice for all.”
BIDEN-HARRIS ADMINISTRATION REDESIGNATES TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS FOR VENEZUELANS: The Biden-Harris administration announced Thursday that they have extended temporary protected status to roughly half a million Venezuelan migrants. This designation allows migrants to live and work in the U.S. without fear of deportation immediately, instead of having to utilize traditional immigration pathways which can take anywhere from several months to years to complete.
OUR TAKE: LCV Senior Civic Engagement Director Hilda Nucete said, “We applaud the Biden-Harris administration on their decision to protect more communities facing devastating impacts of an authoritarian government and the climate crisis by redesignating Temporary Protected Status for Venezuela. This decision based on ‘humanitarian, security, political, and environmental conditions’ is a much needed response to the interconnected challenges of the climate crisis and threats to democracy. In the wake of the hottest summer on record and the continued impacts of extreme weather for migrants who have walked for months seeking asylum and pollution on communities carrying the greatest burdens from the climate crisis, we need these protections for families who cannot safely return home.”
CHISPA TAKE: Chispa National Director Estefany Carrasco-Gonzalez said, “Communities in Venezuela are facing disastrous circumstances as a direct result of the fossil fuel industry, the climate crisis, and authoritarian government. For too long, our comunidades from Venezuela who have had to flee their homes have not been granted the protections they need and deserve. We greatly appreciate the Biden-Harris administration for their decision to protect more communities through the redesignation of Temporary Protected Status.”
LCV CALLS FOR CLARENCE THOMAS RECUSAL: Earlier today, ProPublica issued a new report detailing Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ corruption and connections to the fossil fuel industry through his relationship with Charles Koch. Thomas and the Court will soon hear an upcoming case, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, in which Koch’s operation is backing the plaintiffs. LCV is calling for Justice Thomas to recuse himself from the case due to this glaring conflict of interest.
OUR TAKE: LCV Senior Director of Judiciary and Democracy Doug Lindner said, “The latest revelations about Clarence Thomas’ connections to oil billionaire and far-right megadonor Charles Koch reach beyond the many prior reports of his corruption. Justice Thomas has attended and spoken at multiple fundraisers for the Koch political operation and spent years vacationing with Koch, Harlan Crow, and other benefactors at the secretive Bohemian Grove retreat.
“These revelations renew the clarion call for the U.S. Supreme Court to be held to a binding code of ethics. Congress must now pass legislation including the Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act to ensure the highest court in the nation does not operate with the lowest ethical standards. Thomas’ corruption is so shocking and pervasive that we have previously called on him to resign. In the wake of these latest reports, Thomas must at least recuse himself from Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo.”
CORPORATE CLIMATE ACCOUNTABILITY IN CALIFORNIA: California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that he will sign two groundbreaking climate accountability bills into law. Last week, the California legislature passed the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act, requiring companies doing business in CA whose annual revenue exceeds $1 billion to disclose their direct and indirect climate emissions. The state also passed the Climate-Related Financial Risk Act mandating companies to report their climate-related financial risks and declare what risk mitigation measures they’re taking. California Environmental Voters worked closely with the sponsors of the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act and led advocacy efforts for over two years to secure this win.
ENVIROVOTERS TAKE: Mary Creasman, CEO of California Environmental Voters, said, “California is the 4th largest economy in the world, and this policy will have global impacts. We are excited for the Governor to join the Speaker and Senate President in advancing California’s climate leadership by signing SB 253 into law. Our fight to protect our future and build a healthier, cleaner California is not over.”
DEFENDING CLIMATE STANDARDS IN OREGON: The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) held a public hearing on the state’s Climate Protection Program (CPP) on Monday. The CPP sets a declining cap on greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation, residential, commercial and industrial sectors in Oregon. As the DEQ considers new CPP rules, polluters are attempting to undermine the program and weaken the state’s climate standards. Oregon LCV and partners turned out advocates to the hearing to testify against the proposed rollbacks and urge the DEQ to strengthen the CPP. Oregon LCV has already driven hundreds of public comments ahead of the October 13th deadline.
PARTISAN ELECTION POLITICS IN WISCONSIN: Wisconsin Republicans are attempting to remove Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe from office on baseless accusations of interference in the 2020 elections. The move to fire Wolfe is part of a concerning pattern shaping up in Wisconsin, where the Republican-led legislature is also attempting to overhaul the state’s electoral maps and threatening to impeach a newly elected state Supreme Court justice, who has yet to hear a case.
WCV TAKE: Wisconsin Conservation Voters Executive Director Kerry Shumann said, “Time and again, the Wisconsin Republicans in the State Legislature are peddling disinformation, conspiracy theories, and outright lies about the reality of Wisconsin elections. This time they have targeted WEC Administrator Meagan Wolfe with unfounded attacks.
“We support Administrator Wolfe and her work and recognize her reputation as one of our nation’s highly respected election officials. Administrator Meagan Wolfe has conducted herself in an exemplary manner and has provided a steady hand for clerks administering elections all across Wisconsin, even in the face of uncertainty and outright attacks.
“The move also denigrates the hard work of hundreds of local election workers. Those officials have managed under extreme pressure and some of the most egregious attacks on them – professionally and personally – to successfully administer elections in Wisconsin.
“The reality is simple. And it’s been proven again and again, Wisconsin elections are safe, secure, and accurate.”
CHISPA MARYLAND KICKS OFF LATINX HERITAGE MONTH: Chispa Maryland leaders celebrated the start of Latinx Heritage Month at a festival in Baltimore where promotores (“promoters”) helped raise awareness on Chispa Maryland’s issue areas and encouraged more communities to fight for climate action. Check out this post about the event!
CHISPA TEXAS LEADERS TAKE ON CAPITOL HILL: Chispa Texas community leaders traveled from Texas to D.C. to lobby Reps. Allred, Crockett and others on the harmful effects of LNG and what the Department of Energy could do to fully weigh its impacts. These community leaders have seen the harmful effects of LNG firsthand and are working to stop LNG export expansions in their communities. Check out some pictures of the meetings here!
ON THE BLOG: You’ve seen LCV’s Good Climate News on socials, now get ready for… Good Climate News on the Power Source Blog! This week, the popular social media series made its debut on the blog, where it will continue to be posted weekly, coinciding with posts on social media.
ON OUR SOCIALS: To celebrate people born in the mid-00’s first presidential election, LCV threw it back with some nostalgic 2000s memes on Instagram for National Voter Registration Day. And there were too many memes to be contained to just one platform, so we posted one to Twitter/X for good measure.
But we didn’t stop at memes; for Voter Registration Day, we also showcased voices from across the Conservation Voter Movement in an Instagram reel that asked members of our state affiliates to answer the question “Why do you vote?”
Last but not least, we spotlighted LCV’s new ad campaign, celebrated congressional champions, and showed our support President Biden’s creation of the American Climate Corps on Instagram and Twitter/X.
SEPTEMBER 23: National Public Lands Day
SEPTEMBER 28: Department of Transportation hearing on stronger fuel efficiency standards for cars
SEPTEMBER 30: Government funding expires

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Look Down on Me
Published by K Kishmot at Smashwords
They Look Down on Me
some kind of weirdo,
foraging for some kind of release,
from a sense of deep failure city life embellishes
the inability to fit the identity to the psyche
Deep tenebrous failure and the darkness
repetition of failure moment
How I killed myself,
The Vacuum Cleaner and Other Lusts
& Other Stories
Nothing was pellucid anymore
about all our peripheral complicities
Ever the actor,
Ever the farceur,
ever the day to fudge resolutions
to do ablutions
to confront the problem of environmental pollutions
so much to write
so little time to be read
ever the everer,
too many evers can become never
Such things as madness are peripheral consequences
One person said
I left the scene
I was a misfit anyway
squares and circles:
to the juggler her juggling balls,
to the burglar his burglings,
to the musketeer muskets,
to the warrior wars
In a tragedy no one can behold themselves or others; no one can grasp the situation, they can not even see it in the faces of other peoples, nor can they see it in their own faces or listen to it in their own speech, or the speech of others coming from distant rooms. Only actions have the force of meaning in such hours; but meanings are subject to misinterpretation, and change.
I could no longer behold myself,
no one could behold me—
as a castle metaphor, I felt
After a while, when conquerors had practiced tunnelling under the city walls and appearing unexpectedly on the inside of the city, those who did not wish to be conquered learnt and insisted on building their fortresses on stone.
I was the lazy grasshopper who made fun of the ants who were working hard in the summer;
I was profligate with the fruits of the earth,
and also its herbs;
I was a castle dwarfed by sky-scrapers;
I was a troubadour
but I was never true, bad, or
I was a drum without a skin,
a cigarette without a smoker;
I was a repetition of my own histories.
I fitted in once
but even there,
that habitat, perhaps the airs
or the baths or the waters
or the languages
trapped me in a cartoon world of my own making.
It’s no shame to pun on the fact that I could be animated. It’s no shame to make light of things. But psychological warfare.
The labyrinth fills the human with fear: the human builds a maze, then he puts rats in it in order to observe them.
I get older as I get older. No one can ever be young except the young. That is the truth about life.
Money can make one excited enough to feel young because children always have lots of things to do but poverty can make one feel old since repetition is less of a choice for the poor
Everybody yearns for childhood but no one knows how to achieve it and it becomes more complex when real children enter the equation. No one knows how to bring children up. They are like uncultivated flowers growing in toxic soil, living near defunct nuclear power stations, being shot at and hunted in the streets of Rio, being allowed to starve in the plains and on the hilltops.
I am a castle that can provide no shelter.
A line in a song will go:
The dancefloor turned into a chess board.
The pawn is the equivalent of a page, a messenger, a footsoldier, a bit of a nobody. The king is the director; is the queen the lead actress?
I over-enthusiastically demeaned my metaphor. I stopped being a castle and I could not be a rock because that was already taken by St Peter and Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. And John Donne had said No man is an Island and may have inspired Daniel Defoe to write Robinson Crusoe. No man is an island but what many a human is forced to live by themself on an island.
The time has come for a story about a woman who lives by herself on an island.
Would she use make-up?
But humans like to observe and if they make the film it will be about a woman stranded on an island but secretly being watched.
But by whom?
It would turn into a chiller as she gradually becomes aware of being stalked.
She has to take steps to protect herself.
What does she do?
Is it facile to say that she builds a chessboard and puts cheese out? She builds a trap.
I am Tarzan
but where is Jane?
If Jane could make a pact that if she lost her hair Tarzan wouldn’t have to, would she do it?
How would Tarzan feel about it?
I am Tarzan, but where is Jane? The jungle is full of animals and strange hootings. There are also chimpanzees. Some are benevolent, but some of them gang up on me. But when I wrestle with an alligator and make out of it an handbag as a gift for Jane—if she ever turns up, they leave me in peace.
Tarzan is Adam and Jane is Eve. Tarzan is tempted to the big city and he learns computing.
Jane gives in to the promptings of Lucifer guised as one of Tarzan’s friends and she gets Adam in on the act. Adam loves the idea of being God, he looks up to Him, they’re buddies, they even have deep conversations in the Garden of Eden but what he hasn’t realised is that in his heart of hearts—a place I seldom look myself—Adam thinks that if he can be like God he can be better than God.
But hey what’s this? Evil…? Evil? What the hell is it? Evil came before hell.
What an intellectual prospect evil affords. It is true that it cannot operate in all realms but in the field of matter, truth can be necessarily subverted. It is some distant relation of the tree that falls in a wood without an observer. That is in the ultimate realms of the noumenal nothing can be hidden. Hell is a place of hiding more than a place of banishment. Hatred vomits at Love but can masquerade as Love for a higher Hate. Love can be disguised and is by all sorts of forces, some of which intend no evil.
Did Cain kill Able or did they cook up the story together?
It is true though that humans kill each other.
There are two extra pieces in any game of chess, the players.
Suddenly there are two Tarzans: Tarzan and Tarzin. They have been reared in different parts of the jungle by different clans of monkeys.
Tarzin and Tarzan swing through the trees until they meet each other one day. Then Jane turns up and she sings, “Sweet Tarz.” She doesn’t finish the ‘an’ or the ‘in’. She just sings: “Sweet Tarz.”
They both go ape over her—it is no shame to pun but I feel shame—they both go ape over her and plunder the resources of their eco-system to satisfy her every whim and desire.
They are able to pay her way through college. She returns with an electric guitar and a synthesiser and tells them that they have ruined the environment.
Tarzan blames Tarzin, Tarzin blames Tarzan. They go to war. Jane goes back to the city and joins the UN because she has intimate knowledge of the conflict.
When she left, a truce was called. When she came back war was rejoined. She despairs and they wonder why she hasn’t brought another female back from the city with her. There is a communication problem.
In another scenario Jane has been unable to decide which of them to take back with her. In the end neither goes because she has to be impartial. But Jane’s stories about the city have triggered such fantastical speculations on the part of the two jungle-mannered gentlemen that their thinking and language has become distorted. Jane, unable to broker peace, decides instead to film the whole conflict and make her name in TV.
I am no longer a castle but I am still under siege.
I am a castle then I am a Tarzan then I realise I am not these things.
I call people to the round table but they decline and show me their own round tables which are bigger than mine. Some even claim that their tables are rounder than mine.
THEY LOOK DOWN ON ME
but I do not look up to them.
Their noses are like slides
from the heights of which
They volley the snide looks
that accompany their asides.
THEY LOOK DOWN ON ME
Not as an ant-eater at its staple diet
But as humans in a class system
with weaponly glances
that work in the quiet.
THEY LOOK DOWN ON ME
And threaten to bring
Mirrors into the situation
To redouble their gazes
Like barristers and journalists
Who bring no depth of consolation for those who might slash their wrists.
They Look Down On Me
And this appeared as one of many twists.
They Look Down on Me:
It’s been years
But I do not look up to them
because I wouldn’t dare.
out of whoopee cushions
No one could see how like the Tower of Babel it looked. I was hoping they would lay siege. I was looking forward to the outcome.
But I was a fool not to’ve examined the past in the greater detail.
The human constantly laments;
‘if only…if only…’
and off he or she goes and votes ‘If’ their favourite poem.
Too obviously licked an arse its owner upsets. Arselicking that draws attention to itself is not just unwelcome. That kind of arselicker can find themselves in exile, with the shame of having actually been a licker.
The same lickees who enjoyed and benefited from the licking turn round and mock:
‘We would’ve respected you more if you hadn’t been such an arselicker.’
I cannot belabour the analysis of arselicking, brown-nosing, sycophancy. It is a limitless subject and there is much to be written about it.
There is much to write
but little time to write it in.
There is much to defend oneself against but so few defence mechanisms with which to do it.
The first thing Robinson Crusoe did was to set up his living abode with surrounding fortifications. He did not have whoopee cushions, he did not have a mobile phone.
The woman on the island is torn between making herself a radio to get help or a gun to defend herself. In the film, her stalker lives beneath the island with huge banks of electronic equipment.
You stepped into my World
but I did not step into yours,
I told her
They stepped into your world
but you did not step into theirs.
You were weak.
I was an innocent bystander
We’re all innocent bystanders,
I told her
It’s the TV age,
she told me
I loved her
but she didn’t love me
a variation on a theme deeply felt

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Okotoks, AB: Okotoks Town Council and administration are pleased to announce that the Okotoks On-Demand Transit program has been awarded the prestigious Minister’s Award for Municipal Excellence in the Service Delivery Innovation category.
“Receiving this award reinforces and recognizes the hard work and commitment that went into creating an innovative initiative; the first curb-to-curb on-demand shared public transit service of its kind in Canada,” said Deputy Mayor Florence Christophers.
“On behalf of Okotoks Town Council and administration, I’d like to congratulate everyone involved in the Okotoks On-Demand Transit program on winning this significant award. I commend you on your efforts and am so thrilled for your success. I also offer congratulations to the other winning municipalities: the City of Medicine Hat, Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo and the Towns of Devon and Bruderheim,” said Christophers.
Since 2002, the Minister’s Awards for Municipal Excellence program has encouraged municipalities to share their successes by recognizing accomplishments in the provision of municipal services in Alberta. Each year, municipalities, whether individually or in partnership with other organizations, highlight promising initiatives, new and unique approaches to issues, streamlined processes for existing practices and creative community partnerships. To learn more about the awards and this year’s winners, visit https://www.alberta.ca/ministers-awards-for-municipal-excellence.aspx.
The Okotoks Transit service aligns with Council’s commitment to provide residents with sustainable, flexible transportation options, and increases the opportunity to reduce carbon emissions.
The service, which launched on December 2, 2019 and operates Monday through Saturday from 6am to 11:30pm, has significantly improved the everyday lives of residents Okotoks. The program provides a customer-first service, increasing the ability for residents to move more freely around town, including youth, seniors, those with differing abilities, as well as residents who prefer not to use personal vehicles. It is also more cost-effective for a smaller town than a traditional fixed-route system. To date, the service has completed over 52,000 passenger trips at a consistently high service rating of over 96 percent.
The Town is deeply committed to ensuring the transit program’s continued success. To accommodate demand, a fifth vehicle is expected later this year. Finally, our goal, as part of the Town’s Environmental Master Plan, is to grow local access to transit and increase transit trips by 25 percent by 2033. For more information about Okotoks Transit, visit www.okotokstransit.ca.


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- Ottawa Comiccon 2016
So Mai Sheri introduced me to Rat Queens back in 2013 at Costume-Con. Soon after I determined I wanted to make a version of Hannah, and Mai Sheri decided on Tizzie. And then Needle Panic did what Needle Panic does best and procrastinated.
Two years later, we made grand plans to do the battle uniforms for Tizzie and Hannah. And then we procratinated some more and ran out of time to get them done for Hallowe'en, which had been our goal. Shortly afterward, Mai Sheri decided to (and did!) make Tizzie's flashback outfit as a simple casual cosplay for a convention in January. Four months later, I started assembling Hannah and had her ready for May.
Hannah is one of my few closet cosplays: I already had the shirt, skirt, and boots as part of my regular wardrobe. The ears and wig are borrowed from other costumes, and the overshirt/cardigan was a lucky find at Value Village.
The wand was the only thing custom made for this costume and it wasn't even made by me. A co-worker at the time had just bought a lathe for making pens and graciously made me a simple wand. Unfortunately, it got lost somewhere after the photoshoot at YetiCon, so I'll have to make/commission a new one when I wear this costume again.
- Tizzie - Mai Sheri


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May 6, 2021: Her Excellency Ms. Angela P. Aggeler, Charge d’ Affaires of the United States to Pakistan called on the Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue, Mr. Shaukat Tarin, at the Finance Division yesterday. Secretary Finance Division was also present during the meeting.
While extending a warm welcome to H.E. Ms. Angela Aggeler, the Finance Minister stated that Pakistan and the US enjoy long-term, broad-based and multi-dimensional relationships. Bilateral relations between the two countries have further strengthened due to people-to-people ties, economic and business linkages as well as common interests in promoting peace and stability in the region, he added.
The Finance Minister further stated that Pakistan is looking forward to further deepen trade and investment ties with the US under the new administration. Coupled with a 220 million consumer market, growing middle class, and a young vibrant population, Pakistan offers immense opportunities for US enterprises to invest in sectors such as Information Technology, Agriculture, Energy and tourism. Strong bilateral relations would in turn, facilitate closer economic cooperation between the two countries, he added.
The Finance Minister reiterated the firm commitment of the Government in implementing vital economic reforms and achieving macro-economic stability to build a better future for the people of Pakistan.
Her Excellency Ms. Angela Aggeler congratulated the Finance Minister on assuming office and assured the Finance Minister of the full support of the US Government and its people to the Government of Pakistan during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. She appreciated the Prime Minister’s focus on geo-economics. Economic growth drives everything else, she stated and added that a number of US companies were looking for business and economic opportunities in Pakistan.

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Eamon Corley, Beef Plan chairman, shares his views on Budget 2022.
While we are grateful for some of the measures taken in the budget, by and large, we would consider it a very disappointing budget.
The measures the government has taken demonstrate a lack of knowledge of farming and an appreciation for farmers.
It demonstrates a huge lack of innovation on behalf of the government.
Also, it is very disheartening for farmers to learn that the government has demonstrated very little capacity to take farmers views and ideas on board.
With a national debt north of €200 billion and pressure on the government to implement changes to combat climate change, as well as an escalating energy crisis, we accept there is a lot of pressure to get it right.
Considering this, we surely would have expected that some serious thought would have gone into it. We might have expected some new thinking.
Some innovative thinking would facilitate all sectors to push on while at the same time addressing the climate change issues.
Not so, however, no innovative ideas. It gives the appearance of a budget put together after a glance at an outgoings and incomings spreadsheet, slapping on taxes with no thought going into incentives to bring in extra revenue.
The impact of this is it pours cold water on the different employment sectors, including agriculture. This gives no incentive to create extra revenue while at the same time doing nothing to address the problems the country faces.
The carrying over of funding for farm schemes, while welcoming to the farmers who receive it, is of no benefit to the tens of thousands of farmers who find themselves excluded from these schemes.
Without independent validation of the benefits of these schemes, many farmers have doubted the gross benefits. Others, because of scheme complexities, have found themselves excluded by the department.
With farmer department relations at an all-time low, it is hard to see widespread buy-in from the many farmers facing demands for the return of funds and threats of court action.
Flat rate VAT
The flat rate VAT for farmers has moved from 5.6 % to 5.5%. The flat rate refund compensates farmers for the VAT they pay on inputs.
Most farmers are flat-rate farmers. It leaves a bad taste in the mouth of farmers when there is a reduction in the VAT they receive and no reduction in the VAT they pay.
It appears that the government has effectively helped themselves to farmers’ money. This measure’s total take from farmers is expected to be in the region of €7 million.
Beef Plan on Budget 2022: Carbon tax
Despite fuel costs escalating by 50% in the last year, the government has ploughed on and added more carbon tax.
It demonstrates, once again, how tone-deaf the department is as regards the escalating cost of farm inputs.
Beef Plan is not in favour of a land tax and would see Capital Gains Tax reliefs offset against sustainable projects as a policy more likely to reach the required targets.
Zoned Land Tax
Regarding the proposed Zoned Land Tax, it will be very important that land owned and farmed by active farmers is excluded from this tax.
It will also be important that the tax should only apply to zoned residential land that has the full range of services provided.
It would be very unfair if landowners were getting taxed if planning departments were dragging their heels about facilitating the provision of services or the granting of planning permission.
Probably the most disappointing aspect of the budget is the side-lining of farmers regarding the solution to climate change. If climate change measures do not make sense, then farmers will not do them.
One example that does not make sense is stopping peat harvesting in Ireland and then importing hundreds of lorries loads of peat from eastern Europe for our horticultural sector.
One of the items in our budget submission was incentives for the building of digesters.
Digesters would seem to be a particularly good fit that would allow farmers to be part of the solution.
- Produce compost for the horticulture sector;
- Fertiliser for the agricultural sector;
- Renewable gas to replace imported fossil fuels;
- Renewable electricity for the national grid.
It is very disappointing that the government is doing so little if anything on this.
Another one of our suggestions was incentives to promote farm-to-fork initiatives. This would also help counteract climate change by resulting in more food been consumed locally. Again, there doesn’t seem to be any government’s response on this.
Beef Plan on Budget 2022: Quangos
It seems the government favours the development of quangos that only serve to squeeze the life out of our employment sectors, such as agriculture, rather than providing them with initiatives to incentivise them to assist in solving major problems facing the country.
Farmers are nervous about two new potential quangos that have emerged and have questions that remain to be answered.
Will the new land development agency formed recently, coupled with the zoned land tax introduced in this budget, do what they have been set up to do. Or, will they facilitate corruption that will see the proceeds of farmer assets unjustly diverted away from farmers?
Will the office of the Food Ombudsman sort out the injustices in the food industry? Will it be a talking shop that will facilitate the dominance of the retailers and factories over the primary producer?
If the office of the Food Ombudsman performs to the same level as its predecessor, the Beef Market Taskforce, then farmers are rightly concerned.
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I firmly believe that my life would look very different today had I never read To Kill a Mockingbird in high school. Harper Lee is responsible for why I studied literature in college, why I adore reading, and why I became a writer. This book is extremely special to me because it was one of the first books I read that made me feel something.
Technically, the first book that evoked emotion out of me was Of Mice and Men. I remember sitting on the floor of my bedroom reading the last chapter, tears streaming down my face, thinking, “where did this come from?”. It was the first time I felt a deep appreciation for literature. A spark was ignited. Since then, I have tried to live my life with the same empathy – I read the entire book carefully and explore what the author is saying before I decide whether or not I like the story. I believe you can still appreciate good literature even if you don’t necessarily like the plot. This was the case with me and Of Mice and Men. My emotional reaction was the hook. I wanted to experience that again, but this time, I hoped, it was a story I would like.
As a kid, I always enjoyed reading – The Berenstain Bears, Little Critter, the American Girl Doll books, and the Full House book series were my go-to’s. I loved going to the library the day before a big snow storm. The next day, I’d be curled up on the couch plowing through my stack of books as the snow fell and the fire crackled. Up until high school, books had only been for mere enjoyment – stories that entertained me but never made me think.
After Of Mice and Men, I liked the thinking that went along with this new kind of reading. I liked dissecting the story to find meaning and learning how to close read. I wanted more.
The next book we were assigned was To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. My life changed. Not only did I have an emotional reaction, I realized that I wanted to spend my life reading, writing about books, and learning. I immediately knew what I would study in college. My learning came full circle when I took a Literature and the Law seminar during my senior year of college; guess what we studied?
To Kill a Mockingbird was a pivotal moment in my life. It’s the kind of memory where you look back and realize that there is clear line of what life was like before and what it’s been like after. Since then, I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve re-read it. Yet every time is like the first; I have the same emotional reaction.
For Christmas, my parents gave me tickets to see To Kill a Mockingbird on Broadway. To say it blew me away is an understatement. Even the stage version made me feel like the first time I read it. The show was incredibly moving and beautiful. Everyone in the audience was completely tuned in to what was happening on stage. I had tears in my eyes by the end. The experience of seeing my beloved story portrayed on stage was this book lover’s dream come true. Reading will always be much more than a hobby to me because of this book; it’s my lifestyle – one that I adore with my whole heart.
So what do you pair with such a remarkable experience? Anything you want! I kept it simple and paired my experience with a beer – a Blue Moon at my favorite pre-show bar, The Mean Fiddler. Nothing like a good ole beer with an old favorite!
What book(s) changed your life?
*I was not compensated for my review. All thoughts and images are my own.*


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Wooden Wayfarer sailboat mast restoration
This 23-foot long hollow Sitka Spruce mast belongs to a 1963 Wayfarer sailboat built in the U.K. It had been glued together in two halves, likely with Aerolite 306, a urea-formaldehyde adhesive developed for building wooden aircraft during WWII. Over the 55 years since it was built, the adhesive began to deteriorate in the luff groove, where it wasn't protected by varnish. Eventually, when the mast was wet, the glue joint and the luff groove would open up to the point where the luff rope would fall out.
At some point in the mast's life, the original Tufnol and bronze halyard sheaves had been removed and the mortices for them had been enlarged to take modern sheave inserts. Luckily, the original sheaves and axles had been kept. When the mast came in for repair, the owner asked for the sheaves to be put back as original.
Here's how it was repaired:
1. The mast was measured and a scale drawing produced. The scale drawing was used to lay out a set of supports for a jig that would be built to hold the mast in alignment during re-gluing.
2. Steam was directed at the glue joint using a 10-gallon steam boiler on a propane burner.
3. The glue slowly softened and released the two halves of the mast from each other. The released joint faces were as smooth and clean as the day they had been glued up. The builders' pencilled reference lines looked like they had just been drawn. No glue residue or squeeze-out was visible.
4. Damaged areas and previous repairs were made good. The mortices for the halyard sheaves were repaired to take their original sheaves.
5. The mating faces of the two halves were lightly skimmed with a sharp jointer plane to clean off any glue residue and ensure a good fit of the mating surfaces.
6. The gluing jig was set up using a laser level shot through multiple reference points. The extra width of the gluing supports provides a work surface to support the mast during gluing.
7. The mast halves were masked to save cleanup time. The mating surfaces were wet out with WEST 105 resin and slow hardener, then brushed with a thin coat of 105 resin thickened with microfibers.
8. The two halves were clamped together with zip ties and then slid into the jig to cure overnight. Light clamping pressure was applied with c-clamps.
9. New axles to replace the worn out sheave axles were turned from a silicon bronze bolt on a drill press.
10. After gluing, the mast was lightly planed and sanded and a sealer coat of spar varnish applied. Messenger lines for future halyards were fed through the mast with a vacuum cleaner prior to installing the original sheaves.
11. With the cleats re-installed, the mast is ready to be picked up by the owner who will complete the varnishing and re-rigging. Ready for another 55 years.
12. All complete! Here is the Wayfarer with the repaired mast sailing in Parry Sound

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At Horncastle Hobby House, we have had over ten years’ worth of experience supplying yarns for crochet, knitting, and needle felting. We pride ourselves on stocking a wide variety of traditional crafts products, including those for children.
Double knitting yarn is available from Woolcraft , Peter Pan, and King Cole , which is ideal for any double knitting pattern. Baby yarn is soft, gentle, washable, and therefore perfect for creations made for the little ones. It comes in neutral colours, as well as bright, fun ones. Katia Yarn Cakes are also very soft and light, with unique gradations of colour.
For a thicker yarn, you might opt for Aran weight yarn, or our range of chunky yarns. On the other end of the scale, we have sock yarn, which is 4 ply, as you would expect for making everyday socks with a wool/nylon content. We stock a large range of knitting and crochet patterns for all ages along with soft toy patterns and knitting needles, bags in fact anything you need to get started.
We also have cotton yarns especially for crochet, as well as supplies for needlecraft, for everyday sewing and embroidery.
Based in Lincolnshire, we are pleased to keep the tradition of these crafts alive in the modern age. We know the joy that can come from creating your own unique items for yourself, as well as friends and family.
To discover more about our yarn products, please get in touch with us by completing our web contact form, or by emailing us at email@example.com. You can also reach us directly by calling us on 01507 522659, or paying us a visit in person in Horncastle. A member of our team will be glad to help with any questions or advice.
Needlecraft is an umbrella term for all kinds of crafts, including knitting and crocheting. However Horncastle Hobbyhouse also sell a large range of embroidery cotton, tapestry wool, and patchwork and quilting tools and accessories.
The word embroidery comes from the French and means ‘to embellish’. Embroidery has existed for a long time and is used in all cultures in some form or other. As the hobby and past time has developed and become popular, embroidery threads have been created and labelled with numbers corresponding to the different colours available. This method allows for embroidery patterns and basic cross stitch patterns to have a colour code depending on the piece being made.
Horncastle Hobbyhouse can provide you with any of the colours you may need. By sending a list of number references in the additional information box at the checkout on the website, we can send out your choice of embroidery threads without delay. We also stock the cross stitch fabric Aida in a variety of counts and colours.
The term tapestry comes from the old French that was ‘to carpet’. Since most tapestry projects are created in order to decorate or furnish a property with a rug, carpet or wall handing, this word fits the popular hobby perfectly.
We stock a large supply of DMC tapestry yarn. As above, if you forward us any extra details regarding the exact colours you require for you craft project, we will get it mailed out to you as soon as possible. For any more details, don’t hesitate to contact or visit the shop in person.
The supplies needed when embarking on a quilting project are often so varied that it can be worth it to shop around, especially for varied selections of fat quarters. At Horncastle Hobbyhouse we have a small but beautiful collection of quilting and patchwork accessories available.


Energy Codes & Ordinances
Guidelines for Energy Efficiency New Construction, Renovation and Equipment Replacement
Article VI. Energy Conservation, Section 8, an ordinance of the City of Burlington requires that all construction and applicable new equipment be in compliance with the Guidelines for Energy Efficient Construction for the City of Burlington, Vermont (Guidelines). These Guidelines, adopted by the Burlington City Council on July 22, 1991, apply to all construction for which permit applications are submitted to the City of Burlington, Department of Planning and Zoning, Department of Public Works or any applicable City of Burlington office.
The City of Burlington has adopted the statewide energy codes for residential and commercial construction.
Commercial Energy Code
To get more information on Commercial Building Energy Standards, click here. Free hard copies of the updated Vermont Commercial Energy Codebook are available from BED (802-865-7342 or e-mail us) or the Public Service Board. Electricronic copies are available at the International Code Council website for purchase.
Residential Energy Code
The Vermont Residential Building Energy Standards (RBES) affect all new homes and additions over 500 square feet built after July 1, 1998.Click here to get more information about RBES and a PDF version of the current RBES handbook.
City of Burlington's Minimum Rental Housing Time of Sale Energy Efficiency Standards Ordinance
In March 1997 the Burlington City Council passed the Minimum Rental Housing Energy Efficiency Standards Ordinance to improve rental dwellings within the City that are substandard due to lack of adequate insulation and other thermal performance defects that cause the inefficient use of energy to heat the dwellings.
The purpose of the ordinance is to promote the wise and efficient use of energy through cost-effective minimum energy efficiency standards for rental dwellings where physically possible. The ordinance is applied upon transfer of a rental property at the time of sale. The seller and the buyer negotiate who is responsible for compliance. Through the program administrator, technical assistance and coordination with all available energy programs are available to help property owners meet the requirements. In addition, some buildings offer substantial energy savings if work is done beyond the minimum ordinance requirements. Optional technical assistance, project management incentives and financing packages are available to help property owners take advantage of these additional savings.
Read an introduction and more information about the Time of Sale Energy Ordinance (TOS).
Please click here to see a copy of the Minimum Rental Housing Energy Efficiency Standards Ordinance passed by the Burlington City Council in March 1997.


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The Realme C12 has triple rear cameras of a 13-megapixel primary sensor, a 2-megapixel monochrome sensor, and a 2-megapixel macro sensor. These cameras deliver good image quality in well-lit conditions with accurate colours and decent dynamic range. The camera app offers various modes, including HDR, Panorama, and Nightscape mode for low-light photography.
On the front, a 5-megapixel selfie camera is housed inside the waterdrop notch. It captures good selfies ideal for social media sharing or video calling.
In terms of design, the Realme C12 features an attractive and modern look. It sports an enormous 6.5-inch IPS LCD with HD+ resolution, which provides vibrant colours and decent viewing angles for an enjoyable visual experience.
The device has thin bezels on the sides and top but slightly thicker bezels at the bottom. The plastic back panel has a textured finish to enhance grip and minimize fingerprints. The rear camera module and an LED flash are vertically at the top left corner.
Overall, the Realme C12 has an ergonomic design that fits comfortably in hand and doesn’t feel too bulky despite its large battery capacity.
Other notable features of the Realme C12 include a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner for secure unlocking, 3GB of RAM for smooth multitasking, and 32GB of internal storage expandable.
The smartphone runs on Realme UI based on Android 10, offering a clean and user-friendly interface. It also includes various customization options and features like Dark Mode, App Cloner, and Digital Wellbeing.
Regarding connectivity, the Realme C12 supports dual SIM cards with 4G VoLTE capabilities, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.0, GPS, a micro USB port for charging and data transfer, and a standard headphone jack for audio output.
Overall, the Realme C12 is an affordable smartphone with impressive battery life, reliable camera performance within its price range, and an attractive design. It suits users who prioritize long-lasting battery life and basic photography needs without breaking the bank.


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equipped kitchen, and a terrace overlooking the pool.
On the sweeping grounds there’s a pool surrounded by a loggia, a solarium and plenty of space for all guests. Hidden away, yet very close to all the top locations of Tuscany, this estate offers six bedrooms
decorated in elegant style with colour washed walls in pale coloured shades and trompe l’oeil, custom made fabrics and several bespoke furnishing by local Italian artisans.
The interior of the property measures 640 square meters and it can accommodate a total of 12 adults, 2 infants (from 0 to 24 months old). Best used for 12 people, total.
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The acid has been synthesized, as has also the inactive form of methylethylacetic acid; this modification is split into its optical antipodes by crystallization of its brucine salt.
It has been synthesized by E.
87, p. 325) synthesized it by acting with benzoyl chloride on zinc glycocollide.
Brown and Morris in 1892 advanced strong reasons for thinking that cane-sugar, Ci2H22O11, is the first carbohydrate synthesized, and that the hexoses found in the plant result from the decomposition of this.
Water and carbonic acid are synthesized, under the action of sunlight, to form sugar, starch or some other carboh y drate and this is then combined with simple nitrogenous salts to form proteid.
It appears to be synthesized in the plant tissues from carbon dioxide and water, formaldehyde being an intermediate product; or it may be a hydrolytic product of a glucoside or of a polysaccharose, such as cane sugar, starch, cellulose, &c. In the plant it is freely converted into more complex sugars, poly-saccharoses and also proteids.
1837) he synthesized glycerin, starting from propylene.
Also Marchlewski (in 1899) synthesized cane sugar from potassium fructosate and acetochloroglucose; and after Fischer discovered that acetochlorohexoses readily resulted from the interaction of the hexose penta-acetates and liquid hydrogen chloride, several others have been obtained.
In the preceding instances the carboxyl group has been synthesized or introduced into a molecule; we have now to consider syntheses from substances already containing carboxyl groups.
Ammonia can be synthesized by submitting a mixture of nitrogen and hydrogen to the action of the silent electric discharge, the combination, however, being very imperfect.
Can also be synthesized by heating catechol with phthalic anhydride and sulphuric acid at 150 C. ' 'C 6 H4>Cg>O+C 6 H4(OH)2[1.2] = H 2 0 -}-C6H4C6H2(OH)2.
It has been suggested that urea is formed by polymerization of ammonium carbonate, and formic aldehyde is synthesized from CO 2 and 011 2.
Apophyllenic acid, C8H7N04 H20, the methyl betaine of cinchomeronic acid, was synthesized by W.
It was the first alkaloid to be synthesized, a result due to A.
Methyl conine, C 9 H 19 N or C8H14 N(CH3), is synthesized from conine and an aqueous solution of potassium methyl sulphate at
Held synthesized the acid from ethyl chlor-acetoacetate (from chlorine and acetoacetic ester) by heating with potassium cyanide and saponifying the resulting nitrile.
Xanthene, C13H100, may be synthesized by condensing phenol with ortho-cresol in the presence of aluminium chloride.
Carbonic acid is taken from the water and synthesized (by the mediation of light energy) into carbohydrate.
Nitrogen is always being synthesized from the atmosphere (by plants, and by electrical discharges which combine nitrogen and oxygen), and this combined nitrogen is either utilized by land organisms or is washed down into the sea in the water of the rivers.
By further decomposition peptones yield peptides, a certain number of which have been synthesized by Emil Fischer and his collaborators.
Piperine, conine, atropine, belladonine, cocaine, hyoscyamine and nicotine have been already synthesized; the constitution of several others requires confirmation, while there remain many important alkaloids - quinine, morphine, strychnine, &c. - whose constitution remains unknown.
Cavendish determined its constitution and showed that it could be synthesized by passing a stream of electric sparks through moist air.
Lagodzinski (Berichte, 1895, 28, p. 1427) has synthesized alizarin by condensing hemipinic acid [(CH30)2C6H2(COOH)2] with benzene in the presence of aluminium chloride.
Freund, and P. Fritsch) and cotarnine to be III.; the latter has been synthesized by A.
It may be synthesized from toluene; more interesting is its production when acetone dicarboxylic ester is condensed with the aid of sodium.
Pechmann, Ber., 1895, 28, p. 1624), thus corresponding to the formulae The homologues of pyridine may be synthesized in various ways.
The a-acid was synthesized by C. N.
It was synthesized by W.
Tertiary alcohols may be synthesized by a method devised by A.
Berthelot, who, in conjunction with Bardy, afterwards synthesized it from a-ethyl naphthalene (Ann.
It has been synthesized by E.
It melts at 275° C. 4-Methyluracil, C5H602N2, has long been known, having first been synthesized by R.
Heating spirits of hartshorn, he was able to collect "alkaline air" (gaseous ammonia), again because he was using mercury in his pneumatic trough; then, trying what would happen if he passed electric sparks through the gas, he decomposed it into nitrogen and hydrogen, and "having a notion" that mixed with hydrochloric acid gas it would produce a "neutral air," perhaps much the same as common air, he synthesized sal ammoniac. Dephlogisticated air (oxygen) he prepared in August 1774 by heating red oxide of mercury with a burning-glass, and he found that in it a candle burnt with a remarkably vigorous flame and mice lived well.
It was synthesized by 0.
Pickering showed that the three synthesized colloids of Grimaux in the same way produced coagulation in pigmented animals, but failed to do so in albinoes.
Ital., 1887, 17, p. 126; 1888, 18, p. 457) synthesized the asparagines from the monomethyl ester of inactive aspartic acid by heating it with alcoholic ammonia.
Hitherto we have generally restricted ourselves to syntheses which result in the production of a true benzene ring; but there are many reactions by which reduced benzene rings are synthesized, and from the compounds so obtained true benzenoid compounds may be prepared.
It was synthesized by A.

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Interpretive Summary: The impact of porcine spray-dried plasma protein and dried egg protein on nursery pig performance
By: Anne Kamiya, MS
Postweaning stress causes a variety of health problems in nursery pigs. Infections of the gastrointestinal system are particularly common with devastating impacts on performance. Prophylactic antibiotics ameliorate these issues, however, due to the emergence of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms, alternatives to antibiotics need to be investigated. One such possibility is dietary supplementation with specialty proteins.
Spray-dried plasma protein (SDPP) is a specialty protein that increases feed intake and performance due to its immunoglobulin proteins. Immunoglobulins have strong anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory properties. Unfortunately, SDPP is expensive and not practical for widespread use on a commercial scale. In this recent Translational Animal Science study, researchers evaluated dried egg protein (DEP), which contains egg-yolk immunoglobulins (IgY), as a possible replacement for SDPP. Their aim was to evaluate and compare the growth performance and digestive health of commercial nursery pigs fed antibiotics, SDPP and DEP.
A total of 1230 nursery pigs were studied for 42 days. Diets included a control with no specialty protein additive, porcine SDPP, or DEP. Each of these three diets were formulated with and without antibiotics. Markers for gut health were unremarkable. Both average daily gain (ADG) and average daily feed intake (ADFI) were significantly increased in SDPP and DEP fed pigs who were not given antibiotics, compared to the control. There was no significant difference in the growth performance of pigs fed SDPP and DEP when antibiotics were also given.
The findings of this study suggest that the addition of SDPP and DEP had comparably positive impacts on the growth performance of post-weaning pigs, but only when antibiotics were not included in their feed. Dried egg protein is an affordable replacement for SDPP within this context. More studies looking at the benefits of IgY and other specialty proteins on the health and growth performance of post-weaning pigs is warranted.
The original article, The impact of porcine spray-dried plasma protein and dried egg protein harvested from hyper-immunized hens, provided in the presence or absence of subtherapeuticlevels of antibiotics in the feed, on growth and indicators of intestinal function and physiology of nursery pigs, can be found in Translational Animal Science.

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Ja: Ashcroft may open the doors to women refugees
IN THE March 11, 2004 edition of the New York Times, writer Rachel Swarns informed her readers that John Ashcroft, Attorney-General of the United States, has been given a 43-page legal brief. The brief will prepare him to make the decision on whether or not to grant political asylum to dozens of battered women who are now seeking refuge in the U.S.Just when you thought AG John Ashcroft was a devil, now comes this. What are liberals going to say if Ashcroft signs off on this? Same thing they're saying about the very woman-friendly GWB. Nothing good.
The majority of these victims of domestic violence and spousal abuse claim that the authorities in their countries "repeatedly ignored them when they tried to report and escape their abusive partners."
If the Attorney-General approves the rules that are in the brief presented to him the U.S. will allow political asylum to women from many cultures and open "the door to women fleeing countries that condone severe domestic abuse, genital mutilation and other forms of acute violence against women."
On a number of occasions I have been asked by immigration lawyers in both Britain and the U.S. to give 'expert opinion' on whether or not Jamaican women who have applied should be considered for political asylum on the basis of the gender-based violence that they claimed forced them to leave Jamaica. In all good conscience, I could not argue that the Jamaican state condones such violence. In fact, pieces of legislation such as the Domestic Violence Act and the establishment of Sexual Abuse Units in many police stations and the training of the rank and file in an understanding of the issues that are related to gender-based violence, are all indicators that the State is making great efforts to deal with the violence that is challenging the social stability of the society.
Let us face the issues squarely. If women such as Patsy Parkinson seek political asylum in the U.S., Britain or Australia, they should be supported in their bid because the Jamaican state is not able to provide the full range of services such as shelters, counselling, relocation and therapies that are needed to protect women who are victims of gender-based violence.
On another note. It's a given that many of these women will be from Arab and African countries cuz that is where genital mutilation and other similar aggressions against women occur. Many of these women will be Islamic, possibly. The question is, will these women then turn around and, in this country, enter the same Islamic culture that supports violence against them? If the answer is yes, AG Ashcroft might as well not sign this.


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If he will estimate at what level of national minimum wage the current departmental spending limits would be breached.
The level of the minimum wage has not yet, of course, been set. The hon. Gentleman will be aware that the National Minimum Wage Bill received its First Reading today. The level of the national minimum wage will not be decided until the Government have the benefit of advice from the Low Pay Commission, which has already started work.
I am grateful to the Chief Secretary for that answer. I am slightly surprised, however, that his officials have not been carrying out any studies of the impact of a minimum wage at different levels on the Government's spending targets. Will the right hon. Gentleman give a categorical assurance to the House that, if the level of a minimum wage, when it is set, has any impact on the wages bill of the national health service, patient care will not suffer and the Government will make up any shortfall?
It is a bit rich for Opposition Members to lecture us on patient care after their record for 18 years— [Interruption.]The hon. Gentleman does not like being reminded of what the Tories did to the NHS. The minimum wage will be set at a sensible level that is manageable, and we shall keep the promises to the health service that we made during the general election campaign. We are ready to be judged by that at the next election.
Are not the arguments against a minimum wage at a decent level, as put by Tories in business, exactly the same as the arguments advanced by the same people in the 1970s against equal pay for women, being based on the premise that a minimum wage will lose jobs? Just as equal pay for women did not lose jobs but did more to raise the living standards of working-class women than any other act of the Labour Government, will not the minimum wage have the same effect?
My hon. Friend is right. The Conservative party has always been against any economic or social progress. We were told that equal pay would spell the end of British industry, and the Tories say exactly the same about a national minimum wage. We believe that a national minimum wage is right in principle and that it will be good for the economy.
Is the Chief Secretary suggesting that it is possible that a minimum wage level, when set, will be at such a low level that it can have no impact on budgets or cash limits in the health service and other public services?
As I told the hon. Member for West Chelmsford (Mr. Burns), the Government will decide the level at which the national minimum wage will be set when they receive the benefit of the advice and evidence of the Low Pay Commission.
Is it not increasingly obvious that the public support the policy of a national minimum wage and oppose poverty pay, whether in the public or the private sector? They believe that the implementation of such a policy is long overdue. They obviously welcome the policy announced earlier this week by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and believe that it will prevent those who go into work from losing out as a result of the present conflict between benefits and tax. It is a good policy, and it is overwhelmingly welcomed by the people.
I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his support. He is right to say that it is the Government's strategy to ensure that as many people as possible are encouraged to go into work. To that end, we want to remove some of the barriers that face people coming off benefit and going into work. Our strategy is geared to achieve that. As for the minimum wage, many people will wonder why the previous Government put up with a situation in which some employers paid wages so low that their employees were being subsidised by decent employers and by the public purse. That is an intolerable situation and one that we are determined to end.

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The proximity of Portugal being situated next to the Atlantic Ocean makes sure that seafood is a stable of Portuguese cuisine, but there are many Mediterranean influences as well as influences from the former colonies of the Portuguese Empire that make up the cuisine of the country today.
For those who are vegan or vegetarians, don’t worry, Lisbon will look after you with many delights available for your taste-
Portugal is also famous for its wines, including Port from Porto. There are several varieties of wine grapes that are only situated in this country. Just perfect for a casual wine tour around the city of Lisbon.
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‘Free’ Appetisers Whatever you eat, you must pay for, whether or not you ordered it. It’s common practice for restaurants to bring bread, butter, cheese and other goodies to the table, but these are never free and will be added to your bill at the end. If you don’t want them, a polite ‘no thank you’ will see them returned to the kitchen.
The pastel de nata, or Portuguese custard tart, needs no introduction. Over the past few years, these delicious pastries have popped up in cafes and bakeries all over the world: from Berlin to Brisbane.
The most original recipe comes from Pastéis de Belém, a pastelaria that dates back to 1837. But, even though Pastéis de Belém are the oldest pastelaria, you’ll find these cakes in every single café in Portugal.
Over the past few years, several new bakeries have launched in Lisbon. Some people say that these bakeries are even better than Pastéis de Belém, while others say you can’t beat the original. There’s no consensus, and the only way to get an answer is to try them all yourself.
As well as Pastéis de Belém, three places to include on your ‘grubcrawl’ are Manteigaria, Aloma, and Cristal. Let us know what your consensus is.
Bacalhau is the national dish of Portugal, and you’ll find it on almost every restaurant menu across Portugal. The Portuguese love it so much, that it’s said that there are more than 365 different recipes for bacalhau: one for every day of the year.
Bacalhau is salt cod, although the dish itself is not necessarily salty. Prior to cooking, a chef will soak the bacalhau in cold water for at least 48 hours to remove the salt from the fish. If
Some of the most popular bacalhau recipes to look out for are ‘bacalhau com nata’, ‘bacalhau à bras’, and ‘bacalhau a lagareiro’.
The Francesinha gets a lot of attention for being unusual, but Portugal’s best sandwich is probably the bifana. This is a pork sandwich, that’s usually eaten with mustard. A great deal of preparation goes into the pork seasoning, and recipes usually include garlic, white wine, vinegar, and spices. Ironically, even though chefs spend a lot of time on the bifana recipe, it’s traditional to add squeezy mustard to the bifana once served.
Cozido a Portuguesa is a traditional Portuguese stew. It’s made of vegetables (usually beans, carrots, turnips, potatoes, and cabbage) and meat. The meat used varies, and could include sausage, chicken, pork, ribs, pork ear, or pork trotters. What you get is a bit of a lottery, much like traditional stews from many other European countries.
This is one of Portugal’s most traditional dishes and, as such, you’ll find it all over Portugal.
Frango assado is what most of us call Piri-
Grilled chicken and chips may seem simplistic, but it’s a dish that’s pretty much impossible to replicate to the same standards at home.
You’ll find frango assado on menus throughout Portugal, but the best Piri-
A cataplana is the name of a bronze cooking dish that’s shaped a little like a clam and used to create Portuguese stews. The most common cataplana dish is probably a seafood cataplana. This dish contains white fish and seafood as well as a sauce that’s made up of chopped tomatoes, parsley, garlic, white wine, and paprika. Other popular cataplana dishes to look out for are cataplana de polvo or cataplana Alentejana.
Cataplana dishes are most common in the Algarve, although it’s possible to find them on menus all over Portugal.
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