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The report from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) shows that total crude oil and petroleum products stocks gained +4.83 mmb to 1253.43 mmb in the week ended November 2. Crude oil inventory increased +5.78 mmb (consensus: +2.43 mmb) to 426 mmb. Inventories increased in 3 out of of 5 PADDs. Meanwhile, Cushing stock jumped +232 mmb to 34.3 mmb. Utilization rate gained +0.6% to 90% and crude production added +0.4M bpd to 11.6M bpd for the week.
Concerning refined oil product inventories, gasoline inventory added +1.85 mmb to 228.02 mmb as demand slipped -1.76% to 9.1M bpd. The market had anticipated a -2.28 decrease in stockpile. Production dropped -0.65% to 9.71M bpd while imports jumped +62.81% to 0.59M bpd during the week. Distillate inventory declined -3.47 mmb to 122.86 mmb as demand fell -2.44% to 4.32M bpd. The market had anticipated a -2.63 mmb drop in inventory. Production slipped -0.4% to 4.96M bpd while imports rose +17.73% to 0.17M bpd during the week.
Released after market close on Wednesday, the industry- sponsored API estimated that crude oil inventory jumped another significant amount of +7.83 mmb during the week. For refined oil products, gasoline stockpile dropped -1.2 mmb while distillate was down -3.64 mmb.


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What is an altered book? An altered book is a form of mixed media artwork that changes a book from its original form into a different form, altering its appearance and/or meaning. Altered books may be as simple as adding a drawing or text to a page, or as complex as creating an intricate book sculpture. Come to this free altered book workshop. Materials and discarded books provided. Just bring your ideas and creativity!
Summer SPARK brings amazing events, creative programming, and fantastic prizes to everyone! Get started at www.acpl.info/spark. Summer SPARK is generously funded by the Foellinger Foundation, Friends of the Allen County Public Library and the Allen County Public Library Foundation.
Space is limited: register in advance to reserve your spot and receive reminders. Registration will guarantee your seat until the event begins. Accessibility needs? Please contact email@example.com as soon as possible - we’d love to help.

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Hanging out in the French Quarter can mean Bourbon or Decatur Street at night, but by day, the place to be is one block closer to the river – Rue Royale, or Royal Street. Say “French Quarter” to visitors to New Orleans, and the first image is invariably either Jackson Square or Bourbon Street. The former is the “postcard image” of St. Louis Cathedral, the Cabildo, and the Presbytere, with General Jackson in the little park just in front. The latter evokes the “sinful” side of New Orleans, with food, drink, and music pouring out of the doors of the buildings and houses as one walks from Canal Street to Esplanade Avenue. In between the two is New Orleans’ first “business” street.
In 1720, Jean-Baptiste LeMoyne, sieur d’Bienville, convinced his brother, Pierre (sieur d’Iberville) that a crescent-shaped location along the Mississippi River would make a better capital for the French colony of Louisiana. Bienville appointed an engineer, Adrien de Pauger, to design a street plan for the city of Nouvelle Orleans. de Pauger laid out a simple grid system, starting at the river, and going back to a fortified rampart several blocks back. He named the first street along the river Rue Victorie, then Rue Chartres, Rue Royale, followed by Rue Bourbon and Rue Dauphine. Rue Victorie (later re-named by the Americans to honor Admiral Stephen Decatur) was the hub for waterfront commerce, and businesses related to shipping and the port sprang up there. Because it passed in front of St. Louis Cathedral and the main government building of the colonial period, the Cabildo, Rue Chartres is where many of the more influential and wealthy residents built homes. In the block behind the cathedral and government buildings, many businesses that didn’t need direct access to the waterfront set up operations, and the families who ran those businesses built their homes.
The fires of 1788 and 1794 devastated the Vieux Carre (“old square”). Since the Spanish were in control of the city at the time, the city was built in a Spanish style and following their building codes, which called for brick construction rather than wood. Many of those old homes were built around a central courtyard, with one or two rooms open to the street, then a passage which led to the courtyard and upstairs rooms. Since nobody wanted to live directly on the street, those front rooms were perfect for business offices and small shops.
Traffic flow along Rue Royale and Rue Bourbon played an important role in giving one street a daytime focus and the other ruling the night. Street railways began to link Canal Street with the French Quarter, Faubourg Marigny, and Faubourg St. John, in the 1860s. Since the streets of the Quarter were too narrow for two-track operation, the streetcars traveled inbound (toward Canal Street) on Rue Royale, and returned outbound (towards Esplanade Avenue) on Rue Bourbon. Royal Street became all about getting to work in the business district on the other side of Canal Street. Bourbon Street was the path back home, so it was the perfect place for restaurants and nightclubs to open up, enticing workers to hop off the streetcars for dinner (and perhaps more) in the Vieux Carre.
Even though city government moved to the American Sector (Faubourg Ste. Marie) in the 1840s and 1850s, the judiciary, most notably the Louisiana State Supreme Court, remained at the Cabildo for decades. When the courts outgrew the venerable Spanish colonial building, a new courthouse was constructed on Rue Royal, across the street from the house owned the Morphy family, one of whom, Paul Morphy, was a world-famous chess champion. In the 1940s, tavern and restaurant owner Owen Brennan acquired the Morphy home and moved his restaurant from around the corner on Bourbon Street. The luxurious courtyard, along with Brennan’s quality food, led to the tradition of “Breakfast at Brennan’s,” on Royal Street.
Royal Street Today
Mardi Gras in the French Quarter is a wonderful mix of bedlam, excitement, and partying. Crowds constantly ebb and flow through the streets. While the scene on Royal isn’t usually as raucous as on Bourbon, residents of Rue Royale take to their balconies, admiring the crowd below, and tossing beads and trinkets to the revelers.
The city experimented off-and-on with blocking off vehicular traffic during the day on Royal Street and in the evenings on Bourbon Street. This evolved into today’s pedestrian malls, which divert vehicles away from several blocks of Royal in the middle of the day, and Bourbon at night. Once the morning commute is over on Rue Royale, barricades go up at 10 a.m. Visitors and locals alike can explore coffee shops, historic courtyards and museums, as well as stop for lunch. Shoppers have a wide array of places to explore, ranging from antique stores to clothing boutiques to bookstores, to art galleries (such as “Blue Dog” creator George Rodrigue’s gallery, behind St. Louis Cathedral). Shopping is a great way to take refuge from the heat of a summer’s day in New Orleans, moving from store to courtyard to gallery, until the strains of jazz tunes reach out in the twilight. Some stay on Rue Royale, enjoying the cuisine of restaurants such as Mr. B’s Bistro, possibly turning into Exchange Alley for dinner, or maybe walking over to Rue Chartres, for Stella or K-Paul’s. When the sensory overload that is Rue Bourbon is too much at night walk back a block and window-shop on Rue Royal, as the street’s charms draw you in. Wind up your evening at the historic Monteleone Hotel on Royal near Canal–imagine yourself having a nightcap with Tennessee Williams!

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Many individuals entering the job force are finding it difficult to follow a career path that is truly beneficial to their quality of living. Low employment rates are plaguing many industries, but public health employment is still on the rise. This can be a great opportunity for graduates in nearly any specialty, as public health concerns extend beyond just medical practice.
The position of public health librarian is a great example of a career track that offers a good salary and a steady job position. This job also fulfills vital needs for community health and welfare. If you are interested in getting hired on in a job that will let you grow while you are helping others, then the position of public health librarian can be a great entry into public health employment.
What Is A Public Health Librarian?
Public health librarians help patrons and medical professionals to locate information in the archives. They also help to organize data and information and update the referencing systems to facilitate organization. As many documents are switching over to a digital format, public health librarians will also help to convert these to the proper format and catalogue the information accordingly.
Public health librarians would have the following expectations as a part of their tasks:
- Helping the public to access documents and records.
- Educate patrons and student about accessing information.
- Assist in researching texts and archived materials.
- Help to develop more comprehensive databases that are easier to navigate.
- Research new technologies that will make the public health library more efficient and productive.
These professional skills can also help public health librarians perform their job:
- Communication: You will need to be able to educate patrons and researchers on how to locate information and operate the databases.
- Interpersonal skills: You will be interacting with a number of people in the community. This will require that you adjust your approach to build good relationships with your patrons.
- Motivation: You will need to be able to manage your time and set goals. You will also need to be able to hold yourself accountable to these goals.
Nature Of The Work
Public health librarians may work in the library at the public health department, colleges, and even hospitals. This career is centered around the archives and there is little need to travel for this position. Electronic document transfers have made accessing materials from other facilities much easier, and you will just need to send out proper authorization for requests. Administrative work is often performed at the check in terminal and you may need to assist patrons with locating documents, either digitally or in the stacks.
Education And Training
Public health librarians will require a Master’s degree in library science in order to gain employment. Undergraduate studies should also include healthcare administration, medical sciences, and research technologies. The MLS takes between one to two years to complete and may require some practical training which is generally included in the course work.
All librarians, public health or otherwise, are required to be certified. Before obtaining work as a public health librarian you will need to pass the PRAXIS II Library Media Specialist exam. Your credentials are maintained by engaging in continuing education courses for credit hours.
Public health librarians can gain a solid income even at an entry level. Starting salaries are around $34,000, and the average for this occupation can be between $49,000 and $51,000, depending upon whether you are employed municipally or by the state. The higher end of this pay scale has some public health librarians making as much as $86,000 per year. This makes for an attractive career path that also offers many chances to move up.
Employment opportunities for public health librarians are steadily increasing, even with the prevalence of digital media. Many records and archiving systems are switching over to an electronic format, and public health librarians who are trained in and familiar with the new technology are in high demand. The growth rate for this field is higher than the national average with a projected 11% rise between 2012 and 2022. This makes the chances of getting a job as a public health librarian and moving up through the ranks quite accessible.


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Inspira IMPACT’s School Based Youth Services Program works to improve the health and wellbeing of Cumberland County teens.Read More
Community Health Needs Assessment
At Inspira, we take the health and wellbeing of our local residents very seriously. By analyzing data from across our patient populations, we can design services that address key issues facing our communities.
Our Approach to the Community Health Needs Assessment
Every three years, Inspira participates in a Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) as required by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). This report contains data from the community and a range of professionals with public health expertise, and it reflects issues affecting our region, including but not limited to:
To improve health outcomes and overall wellbeing, Inspira implements strategies consistent with the CHNA results to address the community’s perceived health needs. Inspira Medical Center Vineland (Cumberland County, NJ), Inspira Medical Center Elmer (Salem County, NJ) and Inspira Health Center Woodbury (Gloucester County, NJ) conduct a Community Health Needs Assessment in each of their respective counties.

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Best Modern Logo Fonts
13 best modern logo design examples for your business (from placeit online) looking for the best simple logo inspiration and ideas that capture the biggest trends of 2021?.
Best modern logo fonts. There are plenty of free professional modern fonts to choose from! The 61 best logo fonts and how to pick the right one. You will also get a web font!
This font features a letter design that’s simply perfect for modern logo designs. We have assembled 30 of the best free logo font choices currently available. Plus with a creative twist or dash of detail they have a cool, contemporary vibe.
Here are the best fonts for logos that can help you amplify the impact of your logo design. Those two fonts help me a lot. December 5, 2016 at 2:26 pm axis free font & reckoner font are really great for me.
Creative logo ideas you can find here. Stand out with stag, a modern logo font that boldly states your message. Modern fonts in logo design if you want to design a modern logo for your brand, the font you choose can make a big difference.
The unique design of the characters will make this font fit in well with both digital and print designs. For creating a perfect logo design you have to pick the right colors and find the perfect logo font to match the branding. One one side, we’ll see the modern sans serif fonts that have dominated the digital space continue to flourish, and on the other, colorful and expressive ‘character’ fonts will become more popular with brands and designers alike.
In this article, you will get acquainted with the fundamentals of font styles, how to choose the right font for your logo and will find the best logo fonts with real. There’s a bittersweet nature to just how limitless the options are when it comes to logo and font pairings. You scroll the list of the available fonts, try the ones that look good and then keep the one that you like the most.
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Food was ok, service was pretty good, margaritas were great, cost reasonable. Not a bad place to eat all in all.
The food is good. The menu is very large and has what you would expect from a Mexican restaurant. You may have trouble getting your drinks refilled. The wait staff are tough to catch sometimes. Also, their English is sufficient for them to do their jobs, but that's about it. My husband and I have never gotten sick from eating... 更多
Food was really good...waitress was nice..only draw back was the price of some of the food ..it is more expensive than other places...i get the same thing at every mexican resturant...other than yes i would come back..very friendly staff..
Our waiter did not speak English very well. The service was slow. The staff stood around talking to each other rather than checking on guests The food was bland relative to what we are used to eating in Texas.
My wife and I had a great meal at La Fiesta. I had a the chimichangas and my wife had the shrimp tacos. The food was great and the margaritas were excellent. A lot of great food for the price.
Traveling through this part of KS on a Sunday night (8:30 pm) was making it hard to find a place that was still open for dinner. We found it through our navigator and it is right off the ramp of the interstate as was directed, but it was a little tricky to find. It's tucked between the gas station and... 更多
The food was pretty good but not very spicy. The taco really could have used a little pep up. Service was good and the staff is friendly.

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Fans of Five will have to wait a few weeks for their next fix: Chef Anthony Devoti's restaurant is moving from Forest Park Southeast's Grove neighborhood to the former Pizzeria della Piazza space, 5100 Daggett Avenue, on the Hill.
I spoke with Devoti last Thursday, a couple of days prior to Five's final dinner at its original location. He told me the end of the restaurant's current lease was the impetus for the move: "We wanted to buy our own building. [Our landlord] wasn't able to sell us this building. But we went and found [the new] building on the Hill."
Devoti says he's "pumped" about the new location. "It's a gut rehab job. We ripped everything out. The idea is to be the same restaurant as the original Five. We're keeping the same color scheme. We'll be bringing all of our paintings over. We have beautiful new lights."
In addition, the new restaurant will have a patio and artwork from artist Josephine Romo. Five will celebrate its grand reopening beginning Thursday, June 11.
Brian Hardesty has taken over as head chef at Terrene. Hardesty has worked in the kitchens of such well-known St. Louis restaurants as Monarch and Harvest. Most recently, Hardesty was at the general store-slash-café Winslow's Home. (For more on Winslow's, see this week's review.)
The first St. Louis location of El Pollo Loco opened this Monday at 4103 Lemay Ferry Road. Since 1975 El Pollo Loco has grown from a roadside stand in Guasave, Mexico, to a California-based chain with 418 restaurants in fourteen states. El Pollo Loco is best known for its citrus-marinated and grilled chicken. The Lemay Ferry Road location (the first in Missouri) is one of six planned for St. Louis County. El Pollo Loco is open 10 a.m.-midnight Sun.-Thu. and 10 a.m.-2 a.m. Fri.-Sat.
The downtown location of 10th Street Italian (504 North Tenth Street) is once again open for dinner. The restaurant's current hours are 10:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Tue.-Thu. Hours on Mon. and Fri. remain 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. RFT has always been big fans of 10th Street Italian. My predecessor, Rose Martelli, raved about the restaurant ("Meatball Hero," February 16, 2005), and our annual Best Of issue named it Best Italian Restaurant (Cheap) in 2005 and again last year.
Are you opening a new restaurant? Know of a place that has closed? Something else for Ian to chew on? E-mail [email protected]. And check out this column's virtual doppelganger at http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/gutcheck.


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Breaking: CBN gives out old Naira notes to bank for Nigerian to circulate
According to report, commercial banks have been instructed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to give out old Naira notes and accept same-value deposits from customers.
Deposit codes are generated by tellers at commercial banks, and there is no cap on the number of times an individual or business can deposit money.
The instruction was given at a Bankers’ Committee meeting on Sunday by CBN Governor Godwin Emefiele.
Emefiele “personally confirmed the above to me during a phone conversation on Sunday night,” according to the governor of Anambra State.
The governor urged Anambra State residents to freely accept and conduct business using both the new notes and the older ones (N200, N500, and N1,000).
Any bank that won’t accept deposits of the old notes should be reported by the locals. In addition to reporting such a bank to the CBN, the Anambra State Government will also immediately close the defaulting branch, said Governor Soludo in his statement.

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The map below shows that some of the population of Mumbai is also counterurbanising, with a decline in population over a 20 year period within the original heart of the city in Mumbai district. Also at risk are the local shops and markets and the community spirit which has taken generations to develop. The waiting list for these properties was huge. People live in very small dwellings e. Breeze blocks and other materials pipes for plumbing etc were given as long as people updated their homes. As the National Slum Dwellers Federation has repeatedly proven, housing the poor works best, costs less and is better for the environment, when the poor themselves have a say in what is being built.
At the edge of the tip the rag dealers sort their haul before selling it on to dealers. View Mumbai Location Map in a larger map. These standpipes are shared between many people. It should be noted that the original urbanisation phase of Mumbai focussed upon the southern tip of Salsette Island, and outside of this the city suburbanised in a Northern direction. This could lead to Dengue fever, cholera and hepatitis. However, it is humans who work to sift the rubbish in the tips where children and women sift through the rubbish for valuable waste.
There are a million people crammed into one square mile in Dharavi. Family life dominates, and there can be as many as 5 people per room. Dharavi slum is based around this water pipe built on an old rubbish tip.
In the wet monsoon season these people have huge problems living on this low lying marginal land. Family life dominates, and there can be as many as 5 people per room.
However, toilets are open holes above a river — hardly hygienic. An ancient fishing village is also threatened. As the National Slum Dwellers Federation has repeatedly proven, housing the poor works best, costs less and is better for the environment, when the poor themselves have a say in what is being built.
Current redevelopment projects are densely populated and house lots of people. dharavj
This makes it a prime target for redevelopment. The plan to improve Dharavi is called Vision Mumbai. The following notes are based upon Kevin McCloud’s “Slumming it. Within the Favelas the government has assisted people in improving ggcse homes. The locals would prefer small improvements to the existing slum such as improvements in drainage.
Recycling and waste in Dharavi Kevin McCloud found that people seemed genuinely happy in the slum. As with many major global ports area around the port became industrialised — processing goods for export and handling imports.
Within the Favelas the government has assisted people in improving their homes. There are 15, one room factories in Dharavi which there are feeding most of Mumbai.
Many residents favour local, smaller-scale improvements. The Dharavii of Dharavi Slum There are positives; informal shopping areas exist where it is possible to buy anything you might need. People gcss economically stratified into those that can afford better housing and those that cannot, rather than historical caste, religious or linguistic stratifications 2.
The alternative accommodation is very small. Xase slum dwellers face 14 story apartments as accommodation as proposed by the cities Slum Rehabilitation Authority. It is home to Bollywood and the film “Slumdog Millionaire” was based there. People are economically stratified into those that can afford better housing and those that cannot, rather than historical caste, religious or linguistic stratifications.
These areas have strong safe neighbourhoods that have low crime and communal areas. There are a million people crammed into one square mile in Dharavi. These standpipes are shared between many people.
geography aqa : dharavi case study
Plastics in India are continuously recycled. The site of the fishing village soon became a port region as the site favoured development.
Many are second-generation families. Only people who have lived in the slum since will be relocated.
geography aqa : dharavi case study – Mindmap in GCSE Geography
This involves replacing squatter settlement housing with high quality high-rise tower blocks of flats. New shanty dwellings on the street Other shanties are located on waste tips. Many daily chores are done in social spheres because people live close to one another.

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Passaggio in Italia
An EARLY MUSIC DAY concert.
Helen Hancock (soprano), Yonit Kosovske (harpsichord) and Maura Ó Cróinín (recorder)
Travel with Galway Early Music back to 17th-century Italy and let the music of Barbara Strozzi, Girolama Frescobaldi and Biagio Marini bring some sun and warmth into your home.
Way ahead of her time, Strozzi was a pioneering woman of 17th century Venice: not only was she an outstanding soprano, she was one of the first women to publish compositions in her own name, while combining those roles with being a parent (and an unmarried one, by choice). As Helen points out “A female composer may not seem radical now, but women usually published under pseudonyms back then, as it was not considered possible for a women’s gifts to extend to composing. And bear in mind we still say “female composer” today. We no longer say “female doctor” or “female playwright”. Seeing female composers programmed in concerts needs to become the norm.” Helen looks forward to performing two wonderful cantatas, L’Amanto Segreto and Che si può fare, both of which speak of the torment of love.
The concert also includes a harpsichord solo piece by Girolamo Frescobaldi and recorder pieces by Frescobaldi and Biagio Marini, both contemporaries of Strozzi.
Galway Early Music is funded by The Arts Council and Galway City Council.


American wire gauge (AWG), also known as the Brown & Sharpe wire gauge, is a logarithmic stepped standardized wire gauge system used since 1857, predominantly in North America, for the diameters of round, solid, nonferrous, electrically conducting wire. Dimensions of the wires are given in ASTM standard B 258. The cross-sectional area of each gauge is an important factor for determining its current-carrying ampacity.
Increasing gauge numbers denote decreasing wire diameters, which is similar to many other non-metric gauging systems such as British Standard Wire Gauge (SWG), but unlike IEC 60228, the metric wire-size standard used in most parts of the world. This gauge system originated in the number of drawing operations used to produce a given gauge of wire. Very fine wire (for example, 30 gauge) required more passes through the drawing dies than 0 gauge wire did. Manufacturers of wire formerly had proprietary wire gauge systems; the development of standardized wire gauges rationalized selection of wire for a particular purpose.
The AWG tables are for a single, solid and round conductor. The AWG of a stranded wire is determined by the cross-sectional area of the equivalent solid conductor. Because there are also small gaps between the strands, a stranded wire will always have a slightly larger overall diameter than a solid wire with the same AWG.
By definition, No. 36 AWG is 0.005 inches in diameter, and No. 0000 is 0.46 inches in diameter. The ratio of these diameters is 1:92, and there are 40 gauge sizes from No. 36 to No. 0000, or 39 steps. Because each successive gauge number increases cross sectional area by a constant multiple, diameters vary geometrically. Any two successive gauges (e.g., A & B ) have diameters in the ratio (dia. B ÷ dia. A) of (approximately 1.12293), while for gauges two steps apart (e.g., A, B, & C), the ratio of the C to A is about 1.122932 = 1.26098. The diameter of a No. n AWG wire is determined, for gauges smaller than 00 (36 to 0), according to the following formula:
(see below for gauges larger than No. 0 (i.e., No. 00, No. 000, No. 0000 ).)
The gauge can be calculated from the diameter using
and the cross-section area is
The standard ASTM B258 - 02(2008) Standard Specification for Standard Nominal Diameters and Cross-Sectional Areas of AWG Sizes of Solid Round Wires Used as Electrical Conductors defines the ratio between successive sizes to be the 39th root of 92, or approximately 1.1229322. ASTM B 258-02 also dictates that wire diameters should be tabulated with no more than 4 significant figures, with a resolution of no more than 0.0001 inches (0.1 mils) for wires larger than No. 44 AWG, and 0.00001 inches (0.01 mils) for wires No. 45 AWG and smaller.
Sizes with multiple zeros are successively larger than No. 0 and can be denoted using "number of zeros/0", for example 4/0 for 0000. For an m/0 AWG wire, use in the above formulas. For instance, for No. 0000 or 4/0, use .
The sixth power of is very close to 2, which leads to the following rules of thumb:
The table below shows various data including both the resistance of the various wire gauges and the allowable current (ampacity) based on a copper conductor with plastic insulation. The diameter information in the table applies to solid wires. Stranded wires are calculated by calculating the equivalent cross sectional copper area. Fusing current (melting wire) is estimated based on 25 °C (77 °F) ambient temperature. The table below assumes DC, or AC frequencies equal to or less than 60 Hz, and does not take skin effect into account. "Turns of wire per unit length" is the reciprocal of the conductor diameter; it is therefore an upper limit for wire wound in the form of a helix (see solenoid), based on uninsulated wire.
|AWG||Diameter||Turns of wire, without insulation||Area||Copper wire|
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|(in)||(mm)||(per in)||(per cm)||(kcmil)||(mm2)||(m?/m[a])||(m?/ft[b])||(A)||~10 s||1 s||32 ms|
|0000 (4/0)||0.4600[c]||11.684[c]||2.17||0.856||212||107||0.1608||0.04901||195||230||260||3.2 kA||33 kA||182 kA|
|000 (3/0)||0.4096||10.405||2.44||0.961||168||85.0||0.2028||0.06180||165||200||225||2.7 kA||26 kA||144 kA|
|00 (2/0)||0.3648||9.266||2.74||1.08||133||67.4||0.2557||0.07793||145||175||195||2.3 kA||21 kA||115 kA|
|0 (1/0)||0.3249||8.251||3.08||1.21||106||53.5||0.3224||0.09827||125||150||170||1.9 kA||16 kA||91 kA|
|1||0.2893||7.348||3.46||1.36||83.7||42.4||0.4066||0.1239||110||130||145||1.6 kA||13 kA||72 kA|
|2||0.2576||6.544||3.88||1.53||66.4||33.6||0.5127||0.1563||95||115||130||1.3 kA||10.2 kA||57 kA|
|3||0.2294||5.827||4.36||1.72||52.6||26.7||0.6465||0.1970||85||100||115||1.1 kA||8.1 kA||45 kA|
|4||0.2043||5.189||4.89||1.93||41.7||21.2||0.8152||0.2485||70||85||95||946 A||6.4 kA||36 kA|
|5||0.1819||4.621||5.50||2.16||33.1||16.8||1.028||0.3133||795 A||5.1 kA||28 kA|
|6||0.1620||4.115||6.17||2.43||26.3||13.3||1.296||0.3951||55||65||75||668 A||4.0 kA||23 kA|
|7||0.1443||3.665||6.93||2.73||20.8||10.5||1.634||0.4982||561 A||3.2 kA||18 kA|
|8||0.1285||3.264||7.78||3.06||16.5||8.37||2.061||0.6282||40||50||55||472 A||2.5 kA||14 kA|
|9||0.1144||2.906||8.74||3.44||13.1||6.63||2.599||0.7921||396 A||2.0 kA||11 kA|
|10||0.1019||2.588||9.81||3.86||10.4||5.26||3.277||0.9989||30||35||40||333 A||1.6 kA||8.9 kA|
|11||0.0907||2.305||11.0||4.34||8.23||4.17||4.132||1.260||280 A||1.3 kA||7.1 kA|
|12||0.0808||2.053||12.4||4.87||6.53||3.31||5.211||1.588||20||25||30||235 A||1.0 kA||5.6 kA|
|13||0.0720||1.828||13.9||5.47||5.18||2.62||6.571||2.003||198 A||798 A||4.5 kA|
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In the North American electrical industry, conductors larger than 4/0 AWG are generally identified by the area in thousands of circular mils (kcmil), where 1 kcmil = 0.5067 mm2. The next wire size larger than 4/0 has a cross section of 250 kcmil. A circular mil is the area of a wire one mil in diameter. One million circular mils is the area of a circle with 1000 mil (1 inch) diameter. An older abbreviation for one thousand circular mils is MCM.
AWG gauges are also used to describe stranded wire. The AWG gauge of a stranded wire represents the sum of the cross-sectional areas of the individual strands; the gaps between strands are not counted. When made with circular strands, these gaps occupy about 25% of the wire area, thus requiring the overall bundle diameter to be about 13% larger than a solid wire of equal gauge.
Stranded wires are specified with three numbers, the overall AWG size, the number of strands, and the AWG size of a strand. The number of strands and the AWG of a strand are separated by a slash. For example, a 22 AWG 7/30 stranded wire is a 22 AWG wire made from seven strands of 30 AWG wire.
As indicated in the Formulas and Rules of Thumb sections above, differences in AWG translate directly into ratios of diameter or area. This property can be employed to easily find the AWG of a stranded bundle by measuring the diameter and count of its strands. (This only applies to bundles with circular strands of identical size.) To find the AWG of 7-strand wire with equal strands, subtract 8.4 from the AWG of a strand. Similarly, for 19-strand subtract 12.7, and for 37 subtract 15.6. See the Mathcad worksheet illustration of this straightforward application of the formula.
Measuring strand diameter is often easier and more accurate than attempting to measure bundle diameter and packing ratio. Such measurement can be done with a wire gauge go-no-go tool such as a Starrett 281 or Mitutoyo 950-202, or with a caliper or micrometer.
Alternative ways are commonly used in the electrical industry to specify wire sizes as AWG.
14/3 and 12/3 cables are also available, used mainly between three-way (two-location) switches, and to have separate wall controls for ceiling fans and their attached light fixtures, or to have one half of a duplex outlet switched and the other always on.
12/2 and 14/2 can also be used for the rare 240-volt-only 15- or 20-amp plug by clearly marking the white wire red or black, since there is no neutral wire. Two conductor cable is available with black and red conductors only for this purpose; the outer sheath is likewise red.
277/480-volt cable is identical to 120/240, except that neutral is grey and hot is yellow (plus an optional orange, used as the red is). The higher voltage, used only in large non-residential buildings, allows more than twice as much electrical power (in watts) to be drawn through the same gauge of wire.
UF-B cable is "underground feeder" cable, which regardless of wire gauge has a solid waterproof grey sheath completely surrounding and filling the space between the conductors, which still have their individual colors. Other types of armored or metallic cable (types AC and MC) have an aluminum casing that may be used as a ground conductor, for which it is not necessary to calculate an equivalent wire gauge.
All new cables are marked as being "with ground" or "w/gnd", since installation of ungrounded cables has been prohibited by electrical codes for decades. The ground wire is typically the same gauge as the others, despite not being intended to carry large amounts of current for more than a few seconds in the event of a short circuit.
AWG is colloquially referred to as gauge and the zeros in large wire sizes are referred to as aught . Wire sized 1 AWG is referred to as "one gauge" or "No. 1" wire; similarly, smaller diameters are pronounced "x gauge" or "No. X" wire, where x is the positive integer AWG number. Consecutive AWG wire sizes larger than No. 1 wire are designated by the number of zeros:
and so on.


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A clever woman who rose from obscurity to become a political force, playing nations against each other to protect her people.
When her husband was killed in WW2, she sold all their belongings, bought a tank, named it Fighting Girlfriend, and started killing Nazis.
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Viking princess who decided she'd rather be a pirate than get married.


WHEATON – Junior Ella Champagne of St. Francis High School in Glen Ellyn has a lot to do. She is the editor of the yearbook and the student newspaper. She is on the math team, works at Panera Bread, and sits on the board of Students Against Drunk Driving (SADD). On top of all that, Champagne volunteers — a lot — and she loves it, according to a school press release.
This spring, Champagne was recognized by the United Nations Association of the United States and InnerView at the fifth annual National Community Service Impact Awards. According to UNA-USA, champagne has had the most impact for the Sustainable Development Goals, which set out 17 goals for a better world by 2030. The highest level of recognition is 100 hours of service. Champagne completed 160 hours during the 2021-22 school year.
“Giving time to my community is really important,” Champagne said in the statement. “Besides, it’s fun for me.”
She divides her time between two organizations, the Glen Ellyn Children’s Resource Center and the Lombard Historical Society. At the Children’s Resource Center, Champagne teaches academically at-risk students twice a week in math and English and helps them with their summer program. At the historical society, she writes blog posts, scans newspapers, works in the gift shop and delivers books to housebound residents.
“I love working with children and I love history. It’s a good way to pass my time,” she said.
At the Children’s Resource Center, Champagne said she especially enjoys building relationships with the students.
“I work with the same student every day, so our relationship is very close,” she said. “It’s been really nice to watch him grow through the school year.”
She said people are often surprised to learn that she also enjoys spending time at the museum.
“If you look from an outside perspective, it seems boring to learn history and go through archives, but I like to know all about local history. It’s not something we learn to school,” she said.
So how does she handle it all?
“My teachers were great and really taught me about time management, and whenever I have free time, I try to get ahead,” she said, realizing that it is also important to rest and recharge.
In her senior year, she will also be an officer of the National Honor Society and looks forward to Kairos.
“I’m looking forward to all the traditions — the dances and the graduation,” she said. “After high school, I want to do journalism or political science.”
She hopes to stay somewhat near Glen Ellyn, where she lives with her brother and parents, Joe and Kathleen Holper Champagne, who also attended St. Francis High School in the class of 1989.


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General Information on Glafyra
Glafyra is also a Listed traditional settlement.
The postal code of Glafyra is 38500 and its telephone access code is +3024210.
Glafyra is at an altitude of 370 meters.
In 1991, Glafyra's population was 481, up from 420 in 1981.
Other Names of Glafyra include Glafyres (alternative).
On our Glafyra page you can see Glafyra Photos, explore Glafyra's Map and nearby Destinations, find Glafyra Hotels and check Glafyra's Weather by following the links below and to the left.
Current Weather in Glafyra
The weather conditions recorded for Glafyra on Thursday, June 4 at 8:26 pm are:
Few clouds with 20% clouds and the temperature is 22.0°.
The wind is blowing at a speed of 2 Bf (4.1 mph) from the East (70.0°) and the pressure is 1010 hPa.
Today's sunrise was at 06:02 and the sunset is at 20:51.
Weather Forecast for Glafyra
|Thu 04/06||21° - 22°||1 Bf SE|
|Fri 05/06||19° - 24°||1 Bf SE|
|Sat 06/06||19° - 24°||1 Bf SE|
|Sun 07/06||18° - 25°||0 Bf W|
|Mon 08/06||20° - 26°||0 Bf E|
|Tue 09/06||21° - 27°||0 Bf E|
|Wed 10/06||21° - 26°||0 Bf SE|
Restaurants Near Glafyra
Businesses Near Glafyra
Businesses near Glafyra include Anastasiou K. Charikleia (Pets), Pantazis P Michail (Tiles), Sarakatsianou Maria D. (Confectioneries), Pantazis P Michail (Glazing) and Ntailianis K Nikolaos (Aluminium Manufacturers).
Map of Glafyra

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Last month’s user question focused on QGIS documentation. More specifically, we asked how you learn how to use QGIS. And many of you answered our call. Indeed we collected 824 responses over a period of two weeks:
The answers to the first question show that the top three first sources of information on how to use QGIS features or solve problems are: 1. search engines, 2. Stack Exchange, and 3. the QGIS User Manual:
The answers to the second question show that most respondents look for information around 2-3 times a week:
The third question asked specifically about the official QGIS documentation and answers revealed that most users sometimes or often find answers there:
Overall respondents use the official documentation rather rarely:
Finally, there was an open ended question:
You can download the full responses if you’re interested in the details.
The results and lessons we can learn from the responses are currently being discussed on the community mailing list.

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Bwindi Impenetrable National Park [BINP] is located in kanungu district south western Uganda. Bwindi national park which is part of the Bwindi impenetrable forest lies on the edge of the rift valley. The park is situated along the Democratic republic of Congo [DRC] and it is composed of 331sqm of montane and lowland forest .BINP that was established in 1991 is also a home of 120 species of mammals, 348 species of birds, 220 species of butterflies,27 species of frogs, chameleons and many others.
- Kampala through mbarara- 6 to 8 hours drive
- Through kabale to the south of bwindi-1 to 2 hours
- Through QENP -2 to 3 hours drive
- By air- book a flight from Entebbe airport to kisoro airstrip
- Chartered planes also go to kihihi and kayonza
The gorilla which is the largest of the great apes family also includes chimpanzee and can be divided in three subspecies which include;
- Western lowland gorilla [gorilla gorilla gorilla], about 50000 western gorilla are found in west central Africa
- Eastern lowland gorilla [gorilla gorilla graueri], about 25000 live in the wild of the eastern Congolese rainforest
- Mountain gorillas [gorilla gorilla beringei], about 720 remaining live in the afro montane forests in north west Rwanda, southwest Uganda, and eastern DRC
Mountain gorillas belong to mammalian class and they differ from other gorillas, they are larger, have longer and thicker hair, larger jaws and teeth with shorter arms. Its scientific name is gorilla beringei beringei
HABITUATED GORILLA FAMILIES IN BWINDI IMPENETRABLE NATIONAL PARK:
BINP accommodates the largest groups of gorilla families in Uganda about 13 habituated families of mountain gorillas the next home of gorillas being mgahinga national park that only accommodates the nyakagezi family however this group sometimes migrates across the borders of Rwanda and DRC which makes it less popular to the visitors as they prefer visiting the other families in BINP. There are regions of Rushaga, Ruhiija, Buhoma and Nkuringo in BINP where you can find specific groups of mountain gorillas. Mountain gorillas are undoubtedly the highlight of a trip to Uganda.
- Mishaya group; it has 12 members with 1 silver back, following dispute mishaya family split from the biggest Nshongi gorilla family but they still live in the same region.
- Nshongi group; this is the largest group of mountain gorillas in Uganda. It has 25 members under the leadership of 2 silver backs. Formerly mishaya and nshongi stayed together
- Bitukura group; being the most recent group tourists find it the most attractive group in the region. It has 13 members with four silver backs and this makes it unique from the rest of the groups. There is restricted lodging in this area with an exception of the few high class lodges that are a bit expensive.
- Nkuringo group; this is among the most challenging hikes in Uganda but the most pleasing that you would not want to miss. It comprises of 18 members with 2 silver backs. The accommodations around this area offer a breath taking experience.
- Rushegura family; it comprises of 20 members with 1 silverback. It is the biggest group around buhoma area that was habituated in 2000.
- Habinyanja group; this comprises of 20 members with 2 silver backs. It was habituated in 1997 and formerly it was a big group with the current Rushegura family however these two groups still coexist peacefully.
- Mubare group; commonly known as M-group was the very first group to be habituated in 1991. It is the smallest gorilla family in Bwindi with 6 members under the leadership of 1 silver back.
- Oruzogo family; it has 16 members under the leadership of 1 silver back Tibirikwita”. It is located in Ruhija-Buhoma area and it is among the most recent habituated groups for gorilla trekking.
OTHER ATTRACTIONS IN BWINDI:
- Bird watching; a walk in this rain forest, waterfall trail and around the mubwindi swamp where the park derives its name Bwindi will definitely give you a rare chance to watch over 350 species of birds including albertine endemic species of birds, a Uganda’s national bird- crested crane, northern collared, sunbird, the Shelly’s crimson wing, African green broad bill and many others are available to see while on your trip and this makes it Africa’s leading birding haven.
2. Water fall trail/ forest walk;
A walk in the forest covered with the morning mist while on munyaga river trail through buhoma makes the adventure a truly rewarding experience. The sights and sounds of beautiful flora and fauna, the blue monkeys, the orchids, white colobus monkeys will definitely beautify your adventure the more. Another water fall trail can be taken through Rushaga.
- The beauty of ankole long-horned cows;
You will not miss these treasured long- horned cows while on a road trip to any of the 4 gates to Bwindi. They are such a beauty to look at and the ankole pride.
- Spectacular views of virunga volcanoes;
The towering volcanoes of muhavura, Gahinga and sabyinyo dominate the beautiful landscape of kigezi region. They cannot be missed while on a trip to buhoma.
- A boat cruise on lake Bunyonyi;
Lake Bunyonyi has about 29 islands each with its unique features. This lava dammed lake shouldn’t miss on your itinerary while planning a trip to BINP.
- Cultural trail; This can be done with the forest walk, along the way you will meet the very warm and friendly local people who will help you experience their traditional ways of life for instance their farming activities and so much more, crafts shops are also found at all the gates of the park.
- Bwindi guest house
- Clouds hotel
- Gorilla friends lodge
- Sanctuary gorilla forest camp
- Buhoma community rest camp
PARK ENTRANCE RATES [Uganda Wildlife Authority]:
- Students- 3000UGX
- Foreign non residents- USD 40
- Foreign residents-USD 30
- Permits for gorilla trekking [Nationals] – 250,000UGX
- Permits for gorilla tracking[ Foreigners]- USD 600


The National Organizer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Sammi Awuku, has rubbished a letter he said had been written by elements of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) to create the impression that he is organizing people to cause mayhem in the 2020 general election.
The propaganda letter which is circulating mostly on NDC platforms has been designed such that Awuku is requesting the Minister of National Security, Albert Kan-Dapaah, to allow the training of party vigilantes to help provide security for the NPP in the 2020 election.
The letter, dated 12th May 2019, quotes Mr. Awuku requesting that such a task force would be useful in countering the main opposition NDC vigilantes after the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election incident.
Sammi Awuku issued a statement yesterday denying ever authoring the letter, saying “this circulation is a clear indication of miscalculated propaganda to sway the attention of discerning Ghanaians from the good works of the President Akufo-Addo-led administration and plunge dismay in the midst of the citizenry.”
“My attention has been drawn to a screenshot of a purported letter being circulated on social media platforms that I have addressed to the Minister of National Security for the training of a Special Task Force for Election 2020. I want to emphatically clarify that this letter is not from my desk.”
“I will not on any ground write a letter to the minister to make a request for such training. Besides, training of security operatives does not lie in my domain as National Organizer of the NPP as well as that of the National Executives of our great party,” adding “the signature in the letter is not mine.”
He said “the NPP is a peaceful and law-abiding party and will not engage and meddle in security issues regarding elections in this country whatsoever. The alleged letter is not referenced,” adding “suffice to say, my identity is Sammi Awuku and not Sammy Awuku as the letter suggested.”
“I kindly disassociate myself from this issue and also entreat all to disregard this letter as there is nothing of such kind,” he added.
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I would like some input on where to travel around December 11 to December 20. We have visited Paris around Thanksgiving, wonderful. Not too rainy just drizzly - that's fine. Turks and Caicos in December was fabulous. We are not high activity. We love to eat and sightsee. Have considered Italy and Spain and the Florida Keys. Asia is pretty much out at this point. It doesn't bother me that parts of Italy are closed, we love to travel off-season, but don't want rain most days. And prefer not too cold maybe around the 40s for low. We went to New York City around Christmas, too crowded, too cold. But great food. Is this enough information to help with suggestions? I know I'm posting in Europe, but as I mentioned, Florida Keys is also good. Don't know whether to repost this also under United States? Thanks in advance.
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Chinese smartphone makers Oppo and Xiaomi could face fines of up to INR 1,000 Cr after violating tax law by claiming expenses amounting to INR 5,500 Cr that the department deemed inappropriate, according to a press release by the authority.
Even though the press release itself doesn’t explicitly mention the two companies, many media outlets have confirmed the same. Last month, we had reported on the raids conducted by the department on the offices and other facilities of Oppo, Xiaomi and their distribution partners.
“Various premises in the states of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Assam, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Bihar, Rajasthan, Delhi & NCR have been covered in the action,” said the press release.
It further said, “The search action has revealed that two major companies have made remittance in the nature of royalty, to and on behalf of its group companies located abroad, which aggregates to more than INR 5,500 Cr. The claim of such expenses does not seem to be appropriate in light of the facts and evidence gathered during the search action.”
The department goes on to allege that these companies acted in contravention of the Income Tax Act, 1961 with how they purchased components to manufacture mobile handsets without making disclosures related to the transactions.
The I-T department had conducted similar raids on Chinese telecom manufacturing company ZTE in August this year. The department conducted raids at five premises, including the corporate office, residence of the foreign director, the residence of the company secretary, accounts manager and cash handler of the foreign subsidiary company in India.
Chinese-manufacture Xiaomi commands a majority market share of Indian smartphone sales with the company accounting for 23.4% of all smartphone sales in the country during Q3 2021, followed by South Korean Samsung (16.9%), Vivo (16.4%), realme (15.7%) and Oppo (10.7%). The last three are owned and operated by Chinese conglomerate BBK Electronics, giving it an effective 42.8% market share.
Correction Note: 3rd January 2021 | 17:20
The earlier version of the headline had an incorrect value of the fine, the same has been fixed to show the right value.

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Father, husband, social media creator, and ultimate Philly sports fan Doug Orleski has created a distinctive voice for himself as Richmond’s resident illustrator during the past ten years. His art has run the gamut from humorous cartoons in the print version of Style Weekly to the custom-designed Ukrop’s rainbow cookie-themed finisher medal for the 2021 Ukrop’s Monument Avenue 10k.
When Daniel Riddick, director of marketing and communications for Ukrop’s, thinks of Doug’s art, three words come to mind: positivity, simplicity, and inclusion.
“Doug puts happiness into a world that really needs it,” Riddick says. “He has a very welcoming way of letting outsiders in on the inside joke. Most of his art takes a bit of local knowledge to understand, but he’s welcoming you to be part of the club, versus giving off a locals-only vibe.”
It was Doug’s interest in exploring and learning about new things in Richmond that launched him on his artful journey and inspired him to start the blog RVA Coffee Stain on Tumblr in 2012. He came up with that name after sketching with a cup of coffee on his drawing table, often resulting in a coffee ring somewhere on the paper.
“I had a couple of accidents and messed up some pieces,” he says, adding that even after RVA Coffee Stain became more recognizable in the area, some people still confused his brand for a coffee company.
Cartoons, Comic Books, and Love of Archie
Doug’s interest in art began as a child when he was growing up in Levittown, Pennsylvania.
“I loved to doodle. I actually got in trouble for drawing when I was in first grade,” he says. “I was never particularly good at it, but I loved doing it, so I did it a lot.”
A self-taught artist, he began experimenting with different media and taught himself Photoshop. Then, he began posting some of his work online. “I realized things were looking a little better,” he says about his art.
Doug, who has a marketing degree from Christopher Newport University, and his wife Johanna, a lawyer with degrees from James Madison University and William & Mary, moved to Richmond ten years ago. That’s when he began to explore Richmond, drawing anything that intrigued him on first sight. Doug’s walks became moments of inspiration for his art. He took lots of pictures and jotted down notes so he could remember everything once he got home.
These days, when ideas aren’t coming as easily, he combs through his notes and notebook for inspiration. “There are times when I have been busy and can’t get out,” he says. “And I do write everything down. You think you will just remember, but you won’t.”
When he first put his drawings on the Internet, people reached out to him with special requests – drawings of places in the area that evoked memories and helped celebrate special events in people’s lives.
“I started selling my artwork to people around town. It started grassroots. I feel lucky, but there was a lot of work leading up to it,” he says.
His style is not fine art, Doug is quick to point out, and his illustrations incorporate a unique quirkiness. It’s a product of his love of cartoons and comic books that dates back to his childhood and continues today.
“I watched a lot of cartoons, including Disney cartoons. Comic books were big for me when I was young,” he says, noting that when he was a teen he discovered a love for Archie comics in particular. “To this day, I read Archie comics. I have an extensive Archie comics collection.”
Doug attends different Comic-Con events, including the conventions in Baltimore and Richmond. “I like to meet the artists and pick their brains. I follow a lot of artists on social media. That has been really helpful, and it influences my work,” he says.
Health and Wellness Priority
Nearly four years ago, Doug, who was by then the father of two, began paying closer attention to his health. He was getting progressively bigger and “buying shirts larger than I ever thought I would, and even those were a little snug. Being in my late thirties, it felt like I needed to start moving the needle soon because it was only going to get harder for me. I was so out of shape, I think I pulled a muscle once putting on my seatbelt,” he says.
Keeping up with the kids, working full-time, and drawing as a side gig required a lot of energy. “I was pretty overweight,” he said. “I wasn’t feeling good. I felt blah, and I knew something had to change.”
That’s when he began a system of healthy eating. A few months after that, he began running to stay motivated. His diligence paid off.
“I ended up losing about sixty pounds in over a year,” he says. “I definitely felt a shift when I lost the weight. I felt more present with my kids. Feeling better physically trickled into other parts of my life. It helped me have more energy for the craziness of the day-to-day responsibilities of having kids.”
Thanks to the new lifestyle, Doug says he has created more than ever. “I’ve grown artistically and as a father over those years,” he says.
It was through the new running regimen that Doug connected with Sports Backers. They asked him to do the Dash for the Cash in conjunction with the 2020 10k. “If you beat the professional runners, you get $2,500,” he said. “I started running with the training group, and then COVID-19 hit, and I didn’t get to do Dash for the Cash.”
Doug did run the Ukrop’s Monument Avenue 10k the next year, in 2021, the same year his rainbow cookie illustration was used for the finisher medal.
“That is part of his personal fitness,” says Pete Woody of Sports Backers. “He got active and healthy, and that’s what Sports Backers is all about. I’m inspired by his work and his personal story.”
Today, the artist behind RVA Coffee Stain has found a happy middle ground when it comes to his running. “I’ve also found a healthy, sustainable weight,” he says, adding that since starting to exercise regularly, he has experienced a shift in his creativity that flipped a switch in his artwork. “I’m feeling better, and I’ve felt a shift in everything. Changing that part of my life really helped out.”
About the same time Doug was working to better his health, his wife Johanna was suddenly faced with a diagnosis of stage one breast cancer, just as the pandemic was starting.
“We were shocked,” says Doug, who adds that the couple was working from home with the kids and in a self-imposed lock-down at the time. “We were strictly quarantining like most, but there was the added pressure of trying to keep the kids’ lives normal, while also not keeping them in the dark.”
Before they told the kids about Johanna’s diagnosis, Doug remembers retreating to the bathroom and crying. “I could hear the kids just innocently playing in the living room,” he says. “It was this weird mix of pockets of sadness and then all of us putting on a brave face for the kids.”
The family started the journey in June 2020. “It kind of feels like a blur to look back on it. It was a shock to the system – being in the pandemic, too. Johanna responded well to chemotherapy, and she is post-cancer now.”
Johanna’s road to cancer survivor status included a double mastectomy after six rounds of chemo. She also went through immunotherapy and breast reconstruction surgery.
“She finished everything [treatment] in August 2021,” he says. “In some ways, it doesn’t even feel like it happened. In other ways, there is always the shadow of cancer because cancers can reoccur. Every time I hear someone say, ‘I’m great now,’ I want to shudder. I say a little prayer. It’s something you always live with.”
Johanna says she feels a profound gratitude, “which is really such a gift, of being able to appreciate small joys and moments, and to shed a lot of insecurities and frustrations, because you realize life really is just so precious,” she says. “Those frustrating stressful moments with my kids definitely don’t get to me like they used to, because I’m just so thankful to be here and be their mom. And the same goes for our marriage. I’ve always laughed with Doug, but I am so delighted and joyful to be his wife and be in this life with him, because every day is just a gift.”
Family Time in Coffee Stain Land
One of the couple’s main priorities is family time. Doug and Johanna enjoy taking their two elementary school-aged kids on family outings, which often includes the theatre.
“We grew up doing theatre,” says Doug, who met Johanna in 2006 while the two were doing musicals at Bucks County Playhouse in Pennsylvania. “We did summer shows there. We met doing a summer show, Urinetown.”
The family supports the arts in Richmond, which also gives Doug a chance to connect with the region he celebrates through his art. “We like to have the kids experience it and go to shows at Altria,” says Doug.
They’ve also taken the kids to Broadway shows. “We want them to experience it because it was such a big part of our lives growing up,” Doug says.
While Doug and Johanna would love for their kids to be into art and theatre, they also want them to do the things that interest them.
“We really want them to blossom into the people they were meant to be, not what we envisioned we would be,” says Johanna.
The couple, who moved from Northside to Southside about five years ago, encourages the kids to try different things to discover their interests. “For example, I love baseball, and we gave t-ball a try recently with the kids and it didn’t click,” says Doug. “We want them to at least try a thing before saying they don’t like it. The activities that seem to click with them so far have been the arts. We encourage that through classes and camps like SPARC.”
Other outings in Richmond include Maymont and VMFA. “It’s really open and has tons of different sections,” Doug says. “Our younger one likes to go to the furniture section, while our older child prefers looking at the Fabergé eggs.”
Hiking is another treasured family adventure. “We’ve also done a lot of local hikes along the James River and Forest Hill Park,” says Johanna. “We’ve done the Texas Beach trail off of the North Bank trail. We do a lot of river and woodland trails. During COVID, it was our refuge – a way to be safe.”
Doug and Johanna also help their kids experience Richmond’s diverse culinary scene. Near the top of the restaurant list is Lemon Cuisine of India. “We eat there more than I’d like to admit,” Doug says. “You can see the [restaurant] drawing behind their register.”
Some of the family’s favorite dining spots include Garnett’s, Chiocca’s, Perk!, Pepe’s, and Mellow Mushroom.
When Passion Transitions to Income
One of Doug’s earliest commissions was a cartoon for someone who had first met their special someone at work near a copy machine. “It was a copy machine spitting out paper with hearts on it,” he says.
Later he worked on a commission for the Graduate Hotel that was inspired by electric trolleys in Richmond. He has also done two commissions for Representative Abigail Spanberger that were gifts for her team, and commissions for Ukrop’s, including a Christmas card, as well as the 10k finisher medal art.
“I had done a drawing of the Ukrop’s rainbow cookies, and they saw it and sent me cookies,” he says. “The rainbow cookie print is sold by Ukrop’s and on my Etsy site. It’s one of my top-selling pieces of art.”
Riddick says he has been a fan of Doug’s work since he first saw him in Style Weekly. “I’ve always viewed him as a local celebrity of sorts. As director of marketing of Ukrop’s, I’m constantly looking to associate our brand with things that are classic Richmond, but also new, fun, and innovative.
“His work is lighthearted and family-friendly, so that’s a plus for Ukrop’s, as well. It was a perfect fit. Once I saw his rainbow cookie art – before I ever reached out to him – I knew I had to call him. We were about to open the Market Hall, and I thought that piece would be a perfect addition to our small rainbow cookie-themed merchandise section.”
His prints are a favorite on Etsy, where he showcases and sells the majority of his work. “It took me a while to gain traction on Etsy. After a year or two of lackluster sales, it started to pick up steam, and sales have doubled each year over the past few years,” he says. “I drive all my sales through my social media pages.”
He tries to keep his site fresh with new Richmond-related prints. “It’s just me doing all the order processing, packing, and shipping, so I have to be careful about the speed of the growth,” he says. “I have plans to add some new products along with the prints, like a calendar and
a sketchbook compilation later this year.”
Channeling Creativity into a Way of Life
A lot of times when he’s packing orders for Etsy clients, his kids will come in the home studio, which he calls the side room, and hang out. “I have one rule when we’re in the side room: There’s no criticizing each other’s artwork. Positive energy only. There’s a lot of ‘Whose drawing do you like better?’ when they’re out here drawing,” he says. “I want them to know it’s more important that you like the drawing you made.”
In addition to his work as RVA Coffee Stain, Doug also works part-time as a graphic designer for Precision Marketing Group. “I have my feet in both, and that helps me have a consistent paycheck,” he says.
Through a pandemic that impacted millions of families around the world and through his wife’s cancer diagnosis, Doug channeled his energy into his creative passion. His way of managing his emotions is to create artwork. “You can get yourself lost in something,” he says.
He says his art changed after becoming a father and he matured artistically. “In my early years of cartooning, I would tackle more controversial topics. It was good for social media interaction, but not always the interaction I wanted,” he says. “I found myself making something for the sake of it being part of a current hot topic. It’s not a fun artistic head space to be in because I found myself trying to create for ‘likes’ or social media interaction.”
As he has grown, he’s realized the less emphasis you put on getting likes and clicks on social media, the better you feel about your art, he says. “Create it for you and not for others. If I could give any advice to a young artist, I’d say put your art out there as much as you can, but don’t get consumed by the social media numbers. Easier said than done for a lot of us,” says Doug.
About the future of RVA Coffee Stain, Doug says he is up for staying on the art journey to see where it will lead. “I love being able to make Richmond art and celebrate Richmond. I like connecting with people,” he says. “Creating art as it comes to me is more authentic than having a rigid plan. I like letting my art evolve.”
Illustration/photography: Doug Orleski and Scott Schwartzkopf


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I liked the location and comparatively reasonable rates. Some of the staff were friendly, although most unresponsive to problems incurred. Waited for a long while to check in (check-in process took 35 minutes+), even after calling for reservations several weeks in advance. The front desk was understaffed, while knowing that it was a big booking day (Blue Angels Performance). When I got to my room, I found obvious urine on the seat of the bathroom stool. Went to the phone to call the front desk, and the phone didn't work. Had to walk down to the front desk to tell them of the problems, and had to wait in line another half hour simply to be told that "Sorry, we are very busy and will put your needs on the long list." And yet, I was a paying customer who spent 10 hours driving, and just wanted to use the bathroom in the room I had already paid for. Left for four hours, and upon my return these items were fixed. When I pulled down the bedspread to sleep, it appeared that the sheets had not been changed ( wrinkled in a bunch near the center of the bed). Fortunately, it was a double room, so I was able to sleep in the other bed which didn't look so bad. Then the neighbors with multiple children staying in their room started in. They were loud and inconsiderate. I walked back to the front desk and politely requested a room change, and was told they had none left. Once again the only real response I received was the typical " Sorry" which by this time began to sound like "Your tough luck". Went back into my room to take a long awaited shower. looked up to see black mold on the bathroom ceiling.Where I come from, this is considered quite detrimental to a person's health. But what could I do? They were fully booked as were all other hotels in the area because of the air show. So I grab a towel for the towel rack, and a big ole cockroach jumps out. I scream, throw the towel to the floor and kill the insect. This time, I tried calling the front desk to at least have the smashed insect removed, but no one answered the phone. So. I went down the next day to get more towels and report the incident. The front desk attendant went back to the back three times, bringing our washcloths, bath mats, and hand towels for me to use after a shower. I explained that I was in need of BATH towels and none of the items he was bringing out would work. He calls someone else who disappears into the laundry room for about 5 min. and finally brings out two bath towels. Another insincere "Sorry" followed. By this time I'm tired, aggravated, and just want a shower Went back to the room, showered, dried my hair, etc., then comes the front desk guy knocking on the door with the towels I had requested over an hour before. It didn't end there, either! The last night of my four night stay, the keys didn't work leaving me to carry the bags I had with me all the way to the front desk. I commented to the new front desk attendant that incidents were occurring every day, and this was supposed to be a leisurely vacation for me. She told me she would report this to a manager. Never heard from on.
Room was quite nice, had very comfy sheets and the shower was even better! Water temperature was everything and more, breakfast wasn't as bad what you would think either. Overall my stay was worth the money. The sink knob was broken when I came in. Other than that, good hotel and nice staff.
Good location and fair price. Very friendly staff
We loved the modern look of the rooms.
Convenient to the airport Friendly staff Good breakfast I reserved a king room but ended up with a double queen that was also a pet friendly room ,I was not traveling with pets. I turned down a queen room for a cheaper rate because I wanted a king bed.This room cost the same as the king ,I reserved thru hotels.com which was non refundable the manager did comp us a couple of drinks at the bar. I think I'll stay somewhere else next time
Easy check in Pleasant staff Clean comfortable room Breakfast buffet No one at the counter to check out early in the morning (6:00 am) Just had to drop the key cards on the desk and go didn't have time to wait . I can see a potential problem with that. Maybe put a secure box there if there won't be anyone at the desk at that time
The location is convenient, the beds were comfortable Booked 7 nights for vacation. 5 nights and 4 rooms later ... The first room was very damp and smelled like mildew. It had a broken down dehumidifier in the corner of the closet. On day 2 I moved to a nicer room, but the TV didn't work. The maintenance guy got it working (the maids apparently pull the wires and the electrical splitter ends up half unplugged). A 2nd visit from maintenance got the cable TV working (it too had wires that had been pulled out). Both rooms had bathroom doors that were physically larger than the door holes, so they could not. E closed. Don't expect any privacy when using the bathroom! After 3 nights in room #2 the hotel asked me to move again to avoid expected noise (the cable company was rewiring a portion of the hotel since the cable didn't work.) They forgot to save me a room, so when I came back at the end of the day they didn't have any more king beds available. The first room they gave me had a non-working desk lamp. They gave me the next room over, but its bedside lamp didn't work. (My whole vacation was beach and a safe comfortable place to read - so a working lamp didn't seem to much to ask for.) When I went back to the lobby I saw the Operations Manager, Matt, who oversaw several hotels for one owner. He tried switching light bulbs on the desk lamp in the first room but that didn't work. Then we tried replacing bulbs in the 2nd room. That worked. The tv didn't work - but I knew how to fix it based on the earlier room. After he left I realized that there was a puddle in the bathroom coming from a leak in the ceiling. I went back to the lobby to ask to be moved again the next day. On morning 5, Matt moved me to the America's Best Inn next door, which he manages and which had just been renovated. That room was nice until I found the bedbugs.... I didn't expect the Baymont Inn to be the Four Seasons, but I did expect a safe and comfortable place to stay. Shame on the owners and on Wyndham for such poor management.
Not too far from the beach Hotel needs an update
Staff very nice and accomadating . Beds very soft and comfortable, all your needs while a short stay. I would stay again and recommend if anyone is visiting Fort Myers.Loved the home style patio with rocking chairs made it feel more homier. Breakfast is average but standard for most free breakfast at hotels.need more fruit and meat?
I loved how friendly and helpful the staff was. the rooms were great. and we were just minutes from anything we wanted to do.
The rooms were basic, but clean for what they were. Thanks for the help! It was currently under renovation which made getting around a little rough. The only real complaint I have is about the breakfast. It was worth every bit of free that I paid.
Staffs were very friendly and professional. Always greeted you with a smile. The king size bed was comfortable. The ice maker by our room didn't work so we had to go to the other building. And the pillows were very old and not comfy at all.
Close to freeway, bathrooms and room clean, staff friendly. If staying more than one night, the beds are hard and not comfortable, unless you like hard beds. Also our room had a leak coming from second floor bath, so the carpet outside our bathroom was soaked everyday. Nothing we couldn't live with and hopefully getting fixed.
Clean, nice staff, nice breakfast, close from the place we were goin to!
The Blue Angel Inn looked like it was brand new. Everything was shiny and clean. The room was roomy enough for the 2 of us and the carpet looked like we were the first to walk on it. The bathroom was very nice if a tad small, but plenty of counter space for both of us. Bed and linens were very comfortable.
The beds were great and the breakfast bar was ok but the carpet and hotel as an overall needs updating real bad I think they stopped shampooing the carpet and vacuuming the hallways the wallpaper is coming down in some places of the hotel. For the ones saying nicely redone carpets you must work there One staff member that was rude and unprofessional that worked at night, all I can say is if the door is left open to get coffee where the breakfast bar is or even get a bowl of dried cereal "don't" she will call you out in front of other guests hollering which is totally unprofessional not to be in the breakfast bar area. The manager I talked to the next day assured me she would never do that again but as for me ever going back I would not. There staff member just lost them buisness along with 3 other couples I know when I told them about my experience there
Everything was wonderful. The staff was very kind. Bed was comfy. Breakfast was very tasty. That I couldn't have stayed longer in florida! Seriously though, there was nothing I disliked about my stay.
The staff was nice and responsive. Didn't have any issues. Only critique is that it's slightly out dated, worn down. It could use some touching up. Nice place though.


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D.C. Del Walter Fauntroy plans to give up the chairmanship of the House District subcomittee that overseas the city's budget and home rule in favor of the chairmanship of the House Banking subcommittee on domestic monetary policy.
The move by Fauntroy, the city's only official link to Capitol Hill, comes at a time when the District is in serious financial trouble. Fauntroy would remain a member of both the House District Committee and its government affairs and budget subcommittee, but under House rules he cannot hold two subcommittee chairmanships.
Fauntroy's press secretary, Eldridge Spearman, said Fauntroy has "indicated and expressed an interest" in the Banking subcommittee. Spearman said the Banking subcommittee "is very important, considering the country's economic climate." He said that having Fauntroy as chairman would "help him influence financial decisions." Another Capital Hill aide, however, described the subcommittee as a "nothing committee."
"All the actions he takes in regard to Capitol Hill are in the best interest of the people of the District of Columbia," Spearman said. Fauntroy was out of town yesterday and unavailable for comment. Spearman said Fauntroy would explain to his constituents later why he wanted to relinquish the District subcommittee chairmanship and how he plans to represent their interests.
Fauntroy was once considered the most popular political figure in District politics but he has been said to be frustrated at not being closer to the power and prestige of the city's operations. The chairmanship of the Banking subcommittee could give Fauntroy greater national political exposure by providing an opportunity to oppose President-elect Reagan's economic policies in favor of full empolyment and other traditional, New Deal-style Democratic legislation, sources said.
Although Fauntroy worked with civil rights activists Jesse Jackson and Andrew Young in the early 1960s, he never attained their national and international status. Fauntroy's most recent attempt at international politics involved meetings in 1979 with Palestine Liberation Organization chief Yassar Arafat.
Spearman added later that as chairman of the banking subcommittee Fauntroy could help push through parts of Mayor Marion Barry's financial programs for the city. The House District subcommittee can hold hearings on the city's budget, but the budget must be approved by the House Appropriations Committee.
Not being chairman of the District subcommittee "doesn't negate his authority" on the subcommittee or full committee, Spearman said. "He is going to exercise influence on behalf of the District of Columbia, whether he's chairman of the District subcommittee or not, because of his seniority on that committee," Spearman continued.
The vote for the Banking subcommittee chairmanship is expected next week. Fauntroy's main challenger for the spot is Rep. Stephen L. Neal (D-N.C.). Congressional sources said yesterday they believed Fauntroy already had lined up enough support for the chairmanship.
"I would like to be chairman of that [subcommittee]," Neal said. The subcommitte is important because it overseas inflation rates and employment, he said. Because Fauntroy has more senority on the Banking committee, "he can exercise that claim" to the subcommittee chairmaship, Neal said. But, he added, "Maybe he would like to do something else."


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Divine destiny: Larimore's book celebrates unconditional love
A Wednesday night sermon at Triad Baptist inspired Susie Larimore to trade banks for books.
The result is “Caroline’s Destiny,” her first fiction novel — available online from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and WestBow Press and set in the fictional town of Moondale, North Carolina, outside Winston-Salem.
Published by WestBow, a division of Thomas Nelson and Zondervan, Larimore’s tale hits close to home in its focus on a child wanting but never getting love and acceptance from those she loves the most.
The product of a moment of passion, the book’s fictional “Caroline” rises above her mother’s spite and resentment to profoundly impact several lives through selfless love.
“I have carried this desire to tell the story for 18 years,” says Larimore, who began the book project after ending a 13-year career as a teller at the State Employees Credit Union in Kernersville. “My book is about unconditional love, and to choose to love the unlovable just as Jesus Christ did, and as we’re commanded to in scripture.
“Galatians 6:9 says to not grow weary in well doing for in due season we shall reap what we sow,” she says. “The book helped me heal from my own pain and has given me a voice to tell others we are not a mistake but have a purpose.
“ I pray God will work through me to bless others through ‘Caroline’s Destiny,’ ” she adds. “While I still struggle daily with the belief that I can be loved and not lose that love, I stay in the Bible and focus on the promises of God. When you chose to forgive and love others, it frees you since we all have a choice to be better or bitter, and Christ wants us to forgive.”
Inspired by a sermon message
Not a writer by training, and with no previous books to her credit, Larimore says it was a message by Triad Baptist Lead Pastor Robert Decker that set the book in motion.
“I came to Wednesday night services and Pastor Rob’s sermons were about growing and trusting God when the Spirit is asking you to do something else,” Larimore says. “He asked us one night: ‘Are you doing the same thing you were three years ago?’ I thought, ‘Yes, I’ve been doing the same thing for the last 34 years!’ That was my confirmation.
“It also came as my mother and her brother’s health was failing, and I was considering what I needed to do to help them. And I also believe the Holy Spirit was telling me that I needed to write this book. So I trusted Him and stepped out and wrote it. I plan on writing more if it is God’s will.”
To prepare, Larimore took writing classes from The Institute of Children’s Literature, joined the Writer’s Roundtable in Kernersville, and spent three years planning and researching the 1960s and 1970s, including popular trends of the times, and names used.
One of her book’s characters is named “Robbie” after Pastor Rob and grows up to become a pastor. As with many other characters in “Caroline’s Destiny,” he’s drawn from real people in her own life, in this case Pastor Rob and her son, Daniel, who is also a pastor.
At Triad, Susie and Randy are members of the Living Epistles Sunday School Class. She’s also a longtime choir and Finance Committee member and Bible Institute student and has volunteered with the Vacation Bible School of Kids Street Children’s Ministry since 2012.
Despite the caregiving duties that came with taking care of her mother and uncle, Larimore says the change also gave her more time to pray, read scripture, draw closer to God, and write so her book could become a reality.
“I wrote an outline of the book, and added what I needed to tell in each chapter,” Larimore says. “It took me a while to gather the courage to actually start writing. Once I had my thoughts together, it took nine months to complete.
“While it’s adult fiction as a genre, the story could be real, and wouldn’t it be wonderful if we all thought more like Caroline in the way she loves others? I hope the reader will be able to relate to at least one of the characters in the book. Caroline loved and respected each one of them, and chose to love and forgive.”


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Local people get expert advice on cross-border working ahead of Brexit
More than 100 employers and employees attended a breakfast tax seminar hosted by Derry's Chamber of Commerce yesterday.
The EURES Cross Border Tax Seminar event was staged to explain issues connected with cross-border employment and took place at the Bishop’s Gate Hotel in Derry city centre yesterday afternoon.
Issues covered at the seminar included how the two jurisdictions’ regulations on taxation, redundancy payments and pension lump sums affect cross-border employers and workers at the present time in each of the two jurisdictions.
Other areas covered included tax relief on pension contributions, social insurance benefits and pensions.
Information was also provided to employers that have staff members that work the north and south of Ireland.
EURES is the European Employment Services, which provides free advice and information to individuals who commute to work across the border on a weekly or daily basis.
The aim was to help individuals to overcome obstacles or barriers whilst living in one jurisdiction and working in another.
The seminar’s speaker yesterday was Rose Tierney, a chartered accountant and chartered tax adviser who is qualified to practice in both the UK and Ireland. Rose is the principal of Tierney Tax Consultancy, which operates as an independent tax adviser for professional accountancy and legal firms to support the services they provide to their clients.
She spoke in detail during the event about the current laws and rules surrounding employment, taxes, reliefs and pensions in relations to staff and their bosses at the present time in the Republic and in Northern Ireland.
Local employers and employees from various sectors asked questions on issues ranging from the expectations of employers with workers operating at various sites on both jurisdictions, residency and the potential impact of the UK leaving the EU.
George Fleming, President of Derry’s Chamber of Commerce, said: “We are delighted to have hosted an excellent practical event which is of evident benefit to our members. The proof of this was in the large attendance from local companies.
“The Chamber thanks EURES for its engagement with this very successful breakfast tax seminar.
“This is an example of the type of practical assistance that the Chamber provides to its members and which helps to build and sustain the local economy.”


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Dates for virtual World Biogas Summit 2021 announced
Covering all elements of methane, organic waste, recovery, and recycling, the event, hosted by the World Biogas Association (WBA), will explore the vast potential of biogas.
The summit will delve into how to efficiently capture the 105 billion tonnes of organic wastes produced annually around the world, recover the valuable gases and nutrients, and recycle them in the form of clean energy and natural fertilisers.
By managing all organic waste as important bioresources through anaerobic digestion and the generation of biogas, the WBA estimates global greenhouse gas emissions can be cut by 10% by 2030, starting now.
Keep an eye on our website for event updates including speaker announcements and programme details.