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New committee reaches out to city's communities
Brighton & Hove City Council’s newest committee aims to ensure everyone can get involved in the city’s big initiatives and attractions.
Chaired by Councillor Alan Robins, the new TECC committee brings together communities and equalities and the third sector, with planning policy, regeneration, culture and tourism.
The Tourism, Equalities, Communities and Culture Committee includes 10 cross party councillors, along with representatives from Sussex Police, the Clinical Commissioning Group and Community Works who will attend all meetings in an advisory capacity.
Committee members can also invite representatives from Local Action Teams, community groups and others to attend and speak, but not vote.
Residents at the heart of decision making
Councillor Robins, who has chaired the former Tourism committee for the past four years said: “We want to make sure that residents remain at the heart of our decision making, and that we fully understand the potential impact of our proposals on communities across the city.
“This new committee will help build on successful partnership working, such as our recent work with disability groups to improve beach accessibility which was invaluable in developing our understanding of both the issues faced and the potential solutions.
“By embedding this approach, we can ensure that tourism benefits residents as well as visitors, participation in culture is widened, and that local people have a say in creating new planning policies.”
Items on the first committee agenda on Thursday 26 September, include:
- Inclusive Cities – councillors are being asked to agree joining a national network
- RPM Trust update – ensuring collections and activities are open to all communities and more opportunities are created
- Shoreham Harbour Joint Area Action Plan – follows 10 years of consultation with communities
- Update on the new Community Infrastructure Levy - a new fund to benefit communities.


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|Marc Leishman||9.53pm||Rory McIlroy, Thorbjorn Olesen|
|Cameron Smith||11.59pm||Ian Poulter, Brooks Koepka|
|Adam Scott||10.15pm||Zach Johnson, Brendan Steele|
|Ryan Fox||12.32am||Jason Dufner, Keegan Bradley|
|Cameron Davis||8.36pm||Brandt Snedeker, Sam Locke|
|Lucas Herbert||11.37pm||Min Chel Choi, Jason Kokrak|
|Michael Hendry||9.20pm||Kelly Kraft, Lee Westwood|
|Matt Jones||1.16am||Curtis Thomas, Bronson Burgoon|
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The 2018 Open Championship will be the 147th Open Championship, held 19–22 July, 2018 at Carnoustie Golf Links Championship Course, Angus, Scotland. It will be the 8th Open Championship played at Carnoustie Golf Links.
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Three players who finish in the top ten and ties at the Emirates Australian Open who are not already exempt will earn places in The 146th Open at Royal Birkdale, 16-23 July 2017.
The road to The 146th Open at Royal Birkdale will begin at the Emirates Australian Open, the first of 15 events in ten countries that will make up The Open Qualifying Series for 2017.
There was no surprise World Number 1 Jason Day claimed top Australian honours at the 145th Open Championship at Royal Troon but in the medium term Matt Jones' result might have been more important.
Jason Day continued to be the standout Australian on moving day at The Open, as Henrik Stenson and Phil Mickelson set up a showdown for the final round at Royal Troon.
Six Aussies have made it through to the weekend action at the 154th Open Championship.
Matt Jones and Adam Scott lead the Aussie contingent at The Open but on a day where Phil Mickelson was working his magic they are left back of the pace.
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An analysis of Kentucky's recovery from the 2008-2009 recession shows several regions surpassing the national average in job growth, while average pay per job continues to be a statewide economic development challenge.
The report from the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce is based on the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' quarterly census of employment and wages.
Paul Coomer, the chamber's senior economic adviser, used commuting patterns and television market areas to identify nine economic regions of the state, then used county-level data from the labor census to examine economic growth.
"The intention is to think of the state as nine regional economies, instead of one state total," Coomer said. "It gives a lot of insight into why different parts of the state are performing differently."
Most of the regions have a major city. The nine are Paducah-Purchase, Bowling Green-Hopkinsville, Cumberland, Owensboro-Henderson, Louisville, Lexington, Northern Kentucky, Ashland and Mountain.
According to the report, Lexington, Louisville and Bowling Green-Hopkinsville had the highest growth in total jobs. The Mountain area, the farthest east, continues to lose jobs. Louisville posted twice the growth rate in manufacturing jobs as any other region. The report notes the Paducah-Purchase region has fewer manufacturing jobs than five years ago.
However, in terms of wages and salaries, six of the regions, including Paducah-Purchase (18.8 percent), grew by over 17 percent. All nine regions posted slower growth than the U.S. average (19.1 percent) in pay per job. Northern Kentucky had the strongest growth in average pay, at 17.7 percent, followed by Paducah-Purchase at 17 percent.
"The reason the chamber reached out to Dr. Coomer was to drill down to the regional level and really attempt to understand what economic trends affect people's lives, incomes, and careers," said Dave Adkisson, state chamber president. "We have to look at Kentucky in a more realistic way than simply lumping everything together in a kind of arbitrary line around the state."
The fastest-growing industry sector in Kentucky is temporary agencies, Coomer said, an indication that some growth is in lower-paying, lower-skilled positions. States with larger metropolitan areas tend to attract more high-end, high-paying office jobs, he added.
Manufacturing in the U.S. has been going through changes for the past 30-40 years, according to Coomer.
"Output goes up and employment goes down, it's the same as in agriculture, mining, etc., and that's because of the ability to automate," Coomer said. "Each worker produces a lot more stuff and output keeps going up, but employment keeps going down. Every recession wrings out more jobs."
Still, manufacturing will continue to play an important role in Kentucky's economic growth, according to Adkisson.
"One of the assets Kentucky has for job creation is its central location ... I think everyone agrees with that," Adkisson said. "One way to take advantage of our central location is to make things here that need to be shipped out to the U.S. population."
Because of that central location, manufacturing will continue to play a very important role in jobs, economic output and relatively higher wages, Adkisson said.
"There's a reason Toyotas are made here and shipped all over the United States."
Contact David Zoeller, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8676.
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TOKYO -- Sumitomo Corp. has joined geothermal power projects in Indonesia designed to eventually generate 400 megawatts worth of electricity, a small step toward the trading house's long-range goal of deriving 30% of its total power output capacity from renewable sources.
If the projects go well, Sumitomo intends to use them as steppingstones into the geothermal power generation business in the Philippines and the U.S.
But taking the geothermal route is risky, and companies have been reluctant to participate in projects that harness the planet's thermal energy because of the large investments needed.
As the first of two joint projects in the nation, Sumitomo and its partners this month have begun operating the Muara Laboh geothermal power plant in the central part of Sumatra. The facility was built at a cost of 70 billion yen ($640 million). The 85 MW plant is capable of supplying electricity to 420,000 households.
It is Sumitomo's first concession in geothermal power generation.
Sumitomo and Engie of France each own 35% of the plant, with Supreme Energy of Indonesia holding a 30% stake. Power will be supplied to PLN, the Indonesian state-owned electricity utility, at a fixed price for 30 years.
In 2023, Sumitomo will join Engie and other partners in building a geothermal plant capable of generating up to 220 MW in Rajabasa, at the southern tip of Sumatra. Plans are for the plant to begin operating in 2025.
With other plans calling for the Muara Laboh facility to be expanded, Sumitomo's interest in geothermal power generation could reach around 400 MW.
Coal is the main fuel for power generation in Indonesia, but the country is the world's second largest geothermal power producer after the U.S. It plans to increase the generation of geothermal power from 2,000 MW at present to 6,000 MW by 2028 to cover 10% of domestic electricity consumption.
The Indonesian government has been luring foreign capital to its geothermal sources by offering tax breaks for developers and purchasing electricity from them at fixed prices on long-term bases.
Itochu, another Japanese trading house, has 330 MW of geothermal power generation facilities in Indonesia, having lifted the total in stages since 2017.
For geothermal power generation, trading houses have mainly built facilities on behalf of electricity generators. But they have increasingly begun operating plants to raise the ratio of the renewable energy sources to power generation facilities they own.
One thing geothermal has going for it is that it is more stable than wind power and sunlight.
Sumitomo plans to raise the ratio of renewable energy sources to its total power output capacity to 30% by 2035 from the current 20%.


When it comes to country music, few names resonate with as much power and influence as Toby Keith.
With a career spanning decades, Toby Keith has not only left an indelible mark on the genre but has also become a cultural icon in his own right.
From heartfelt ballads to patriotic anthems, his music has touched the hearts of millions around the world.
Join us on a journey through the legacy of Toby Keith and explore his enduring impact on country music.
1. The Early Years: Rising from Humble Beginnings
From his humble beginnings in Clinton, Oklahoma, Toby Keith embarked on a journey that would ultimately reshape the landscape of country music.
Raised in a tight-knit family, he was instilled with values of hard work, perseverance, and a deep love for music from an early age.
It was these values that would serve as the foundation for his remarkable career.
2. The Road to Stardom: Breaking Through the Barriers
Despite facing numerous challenges and setbacks along the way, Toby Keith never wavered in his pursuit of musical success.
With grit and determination, he honed his craft, performing in local venues and honky-tonks, tirelessly working to perfect his unique sound.
His breakthrough came with the release of his self-titled debut album in 1993, which featured the chart-topping hit “Should’ve Been a Cowboy.”
3. Chart-Topping Success: A Trail of Hits
Throughout his career, Toby Keith has delivered a string of chart-topping hits that have solidified his status as one of country music’s most beloved artists.
From heartfelt ballads like “Red Solo Cup” to patriotic anthems like “Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue (The Angry American),” his music has resonated with audiences of all ages, earning him countless awards and accolades along the way.
4. A Voice for the People: Patriotism and Pride
One of the defining characteristics of Toby Keith’s music is its unapologetic patriotism and pride.
Through songs like “American Soldier” and “Made in America,” he has become a voice for the people, championing the values of freedom, loyalty, and sacrifice.
His unwavering support for the men and women of the armed forces has earned him widespread admiration and respect.
5. Musical Evolution: Embracing Diversity
As an artist, Toby Keith has never been afraid to push the boundaries of traditional country music, embracing diverse influences and experimenting with new sounds.
From incorporating elements of rock and pop to collaborating with artists from different genres, he has kept his music fresh and relevant, appealing to a broad and diverse audience.
6. Beyond the Music: Entrepreneurial Ventures
In addition to his musical endeavors, Toby Keith has also found success as an entrepreneur, venturing into various business ventures ranging from restaurants to clothing lines.
His entrepreneurial spirit and business acumen have further solidified his status as a multifaceted talent and cultural icon.
7. Legacy and Influence: Inspiring Future Generations
As Toby Keith continues to captivate audiences with his timeless music and larger-than-life persona, his legacy only continues to grow.
His influence can be felt not only in the world of country music but also in popular culture at large, inspiring future generations of artists to follow in his footsteps and make their mark on the world.
In conclusion, Toby Keith’s impact on country music is nothing short of extraordinary.
From his humble beginnings to his meteoric rise to stardom, he has remained true to his roots while continually pushing the boundaries of the genre.
Through his music, he has touched the hearts and souls of millions, leaving behind a legacy that will endure for generations to come.
1. What are some of Toby Keith’s biggest hits?
Toby Keith has had numerous chart-topping hits throughout his career, including “Should’ve Been a Cowboy,” “Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue (The Angry American),” “American Soldier,” and “Red Solo Cup.”
2. Has Toby Keith won any awards for his music?
Yes, Toby Keith has won multiple awards, including ACM Awards, CMA Awards, and Billboard Music Awards, among others.
3. Does Toby Keith have any other talents besides singing?
In addition to his musical talents, Toby Keith is also an accomplished songwriter, actor, and entrepreneur.
4. What inspired Toby Keith to write patriotic songs?
Toby Keith’s deep-rooted patriotism and love for his country have served as the primary inspiration for many of his patriotic songs.
5. How can fans stay updated on Toby Keith’s latest projects and performances?
Fans can stay updated on Toby Keith’s latest projects and performances by following him on social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, as well as checking his official website for news and announcements.


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The Young Bucks are considered by some to be the greatest tag team in the world. They work well together as a team, but the two also make good opponents.
Being The Elite celebrated their 200th episode this week and they did so by pitting brother vs brother. The Young Bucks were unable to leave California due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, but they got a ring at the Being The Elite compound.
Last week’s Being The Elite featured 3 parts. Nick Jackson won a battle royal and got to pick his opponent for this week’s show. The only person he wanted to face was his brother Matt.
The Young Bucks tore each other apart as they fought all over the Being The Elite compound. Then they got in Nick Jackson’s golf cart and continued the fight as it moved up the driveway bringing them to the gym.
This was an inventive match as they fought around the property. There weren’t many soft surfaces to take bumps on either. They continued fighting in Nick Jackson’s backyard causing his wife closed the blinds on their kids while they were watching the match unfold in front of them.
They continued and Nick Jackson put Matt through a table with a high risk swanton bomb. This was followed by a Spanish Fly off a diving board into the swimming pool. The referee even got in the pool and made the two count.
As Matt was getting out of the swimming pool, they cut to a dream sequence where the two reenacted the Rockers’ famous breakup where Shawn Michaels threw Marty Jannetty through a barbershop window. Nick was HBK in this situation.
Matt Jackson snapped out of it, and they continued the fight. Matt ended up hitting Nick with a tombstone and then he put on a thumbtack covered shoe before hitting a Superkick on Matt. This was a reference to the famous thumbtack covered boot shot that Candice LeRae took at the hands of the Young Bucks in PWG. Matt then hit a dive through another table for the win.
Matt Jackson was the winner of this very unconventional match. You can check out the entire epic contest below.

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Although marriage traditions all over the world are various, one common thread is a desire to pass on love and happiness. Some of those practices might seem strange or offensive, but are meant to carry good luck to the newlyweds. Read more to master about a few of the more unusual marriage ceremony customs. Several examples:
In Japan, the bride dons white via head to bottom, a symbol of her maiden status. She is regularily clad in a hood to disguise her “horns of jealousy” towards her future mother-in-law. The same tradition are located in Lebanon, in which the ceremony begins with belly dancing, music, and yelling at equally homes. Additionally , easternhoneys login the bride and groom happen to be showered with flower padding as they leave the commemoration.
Some customs are when ancient when 5, 1000 years old. Inside the Philippines, lovers receive wedding party gifts of their families. A common ceremony in the Israel is the exchange of wedding rings. Many ethnicities also have their particular marriage customs. Nationwide, brides may possibly wear white-colored or yellow metal jewelry and exchange their wedding promises in the presence of relatives and buddies. A few of the most unique wedding traditions come from faraway locations.
In China, marriage rituals fluctuate. In Mongolia, for example , the bride is necessary to kill a child chicken and eat its liver to prove her worth. In China, the bride dons a toned, embroidered clothes. Later, the woman may turn into a Western-style attire for the reception. The ultimate change is usually a cocktail dress. This can be a tradition that dates back to the Warring States.
One other wedding tradition that has disperse throughout the world has on a white dress. Initially, white wedding dresses were not thought about a traditional color. The wedding apparel was generally the woman’s very best dress. Nevertheless , Queen Victoria changed almost everything in 1840 with a cotton satin gown, which usually changed how weddings were conducted for the next century. Her design was duplicated by other brides across England.
Besides traditional clothing, some ethnicities also include wonderful ceremonies. Some couples choose to exchange traditional items during the wedding service. Some lovers choose to hold a tea ceremony before their marriage ceremony, as it accolades their families. A lot of couples tend to have their ceremony privately, however, many prefer to have the ceremony in front of their friends. Regardless of the style of ceremony, a tea ceremony is a significant part of the marriage ceremony, and can be performed privately or at the reception.
In many countries, a pre-wedding party is presented by both the bride and groom’s people. These get-togethers often incorporate traditional music and cake. This kind of tradition originated in the Yoruba people of Nigeria and later get spread around to Sierra Leone. In China, the bride and groom can also share a special ritual to bind their own families. In this tradition, the woman serves tea to her spouse and children before her wedding, and the groom’s friends and family may put money onto her dress.

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Art was not just about drawing and painting, but it was a way of life for Master Artist LeRoy Clarke, who with every stroke of his brush told the stories of love, struggle, triumph, at times war, and the rich cultural heritage of his African ancestry.
But yesterday at 6 am, the native of Gonzales, Belmont, left the canvas behind when he passed away at his Cascade home – The Legacy House.
While Clarke 82 had been ailing for a long time and close friends even disclosed he was battling dementia, his passing was still a difficult pill to swallow for the entire country.
Describing him as a true representation of the skill in Trinidad and Tobago, jeweller-artist Barbara Jardine, who has long been a fan of Clarke’s work, told Guardian Media, while Clarke will now sleep with his ancestors, his legacy will live on.
“He has left the most remarkable body of work for us to remember him by. He was one of the great kings of the art world,” she said.
Close friend and fellow artist, Makemba Kunle said Clarke was an artist who blazed his own trail and created his own opportunities.
“He strived to be the best he could be and he worked real hard at it. He never looked for a break…he made his own breaks and he took responsibility for his life and for his career,” Kunle recalled of his colleague.
He said he is only comforted knowing Clarke achieved his goal.
“Above all, he wanted to leave a legacy for arts and for culture for the people here and I think he did it.”
For his lifetime of work and contribution to art in Trinidad and Tobago, Clarke was the recipient of several awards and was also bestowed several titles. Among them, the National Living Treasure from Trinidad Hilton and Conference Center. He was also the first local artist to be vested with the title “Master Artist” by the National Museum of T&T, the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT) and in 2003 he was officially proclaimed by the Government of T&T, a ‘national icon.’
Planning and cultural heritage consultant, Jalaludin Khan, who as a designer, studied Clarke’s work for years, said the former lead vocalist of the 1950s to 1960’s group, The Beamers, was not only an accomplished independent artist, but his work was second to none.
“You can’t fight LeRoy Clarke. In the history of Caribbean art, as his technical skills… you know, that is what separates him from the rest,” said Khan.
Noting Clarke also called “Chief,” was a man he looked up to, Khan added, “His dialogue with his visual symbolism and messaging was one of the many powerful things about LeRoy Clarke.”
Khan’s assessment of Clarke’s gift was on point, as the former teacher, lecturer, and Orisha leader once said in an interview, “I don’t look at painting only from a visual standpoint. I think of it as psychological. We are talking about becoming persons in motion.”
As an anti-colonialist activist, Clarke who also began his professional writing in his early 20s was often described as the “controversial artist” because of his intricate yet blunt expressions on the canvas that often spoke to societal and cultural taboo subjects.
In the 1970’s he dedicated his life to producing a course of work famously known as The Poet—a compilation of his best in writing, drawing, and painting, all encapsulating his journey, growth, and development as an artist.
His last major exhibition in 2015, was captured by Guardian Media. At that exhibition, the artist extraordinaire showcased 105 pieces from the collection titled: Eye Hayti Cries Everywhere—an exhibition he dedicated to the people of Haiti.
In paying tribute to the creative genius Minister of Tourism, Culture and the Arts, Randall Mitchell, described Clarke’s passing as the loss of one of T&T’s finest artists—a man the country remains indebted to, for his contribution.
Opposition leader, Kamla Persad-Bissessar paid her respects to Clarke, saying via a statement that Clarke belonged to that rare group of gifted Trinidad and Tobago intellectuals who proved the greatest even in the genre of art could come out of the third world and be on par with artists from the world’s upper echelons.
“Mr Clarke may be gone but his revolution lives on. His masterful legacy will continue to inspire generations to come,” Persad-Bissessar said.


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--Scott Gordon, the chief executive officer of Mastery Charter Schools
This from the Hechinger Report:
A Philadelphia charter school CEO leads the way
as more schools question the get-tough school model
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Quaseem Foxwell, a linebacker on the football team, says several of his friends left the school because of the tough rules. Yet he defends the strictures. He says he improved his own behavior after a heart-to-heart with his teachers and administrators. “When I came here and got into a fight, they told me I could get kicked out, or I could talk to the teachers and some of the deans,” he says. “The strict rules are all for a reason.”
While he may be relatively invisible to the students, Mr. Gordon is hardly unknown outside the school: He has been one of the most revered and reviled figures in the bitter fights over public education in Philadelphia for the past decade, and now he’s starting to wield influence on the school-reform movement nationwide.
As the overseer of 21 charter schools in Philadelphia, he has carved out a reputation as a turnaround artist – someone willing to try to fix high schools that are failing, a task that many other reformers have shied away from in their quest to transform urban education. Indeed, even in the mission-driven charter school movement, reformers often only open high schools they can start from scratch, and then they may only admit students they’ve already indoctrinated with their approach in earlier grades.
Not Gordon. He frequently takes on the worst of the worst – and he’s had some success. As a result, he has become an increasingly important figure in the burgeoning charter school movement. People ranging from former Education Secretary Arne Duncan to Oprah Winfrey have praised what goes on in Mastery’s classrooms. One Mastery teacher calls Gordon an intensely passionate “quiet storm” who “doesn’t feel compelled to put on a big show.”
Yet not everyone is so charitable. Critics accuse him of being an outsider who is dismantling the city’s public schools in an attempt to create a private education empire.
Now Gordon faces his severest test yet. He is shifting his approach in running the schools away from a “no excuses” model that has defined much of the urban charter school movement to a more supportive approach that takes into account students’ backgrounds.
“A mistake that we made was the assumption that schools were not successful because they weren’t well run, or they weren’t well organized, or that teachers weren’t trained and supported,” he says in an interview at Mastery’s headquarters in a wing of a struggling middle school the charter chain took over in 2007. “That may … be true.” But, he adds, “our communities face lots of barriers and problems – kids in trauma – that need to be addressed if we’re going to be successful.”
The changes under way at Mastery could signal a wider shift in the culture of charter schools and possibly the end of the no-excuses model nationwide. This is especially true as more private operators venture into the difficult territory of school takeovers, driven in part by states such as Tennessee and Nevada that have passed laws encouraging charters to try to resurrect struggling institutions.
But whether Gordon’s latest experiment will catch on across the United States will depend in part on what happens in the hallways and classrooms of Simon Gratz...


A US start-up is set to launch a turnkey mirroring service to enable users to "rebroadcast" their local Web sites internationally.
Adero plans to install its Sun Microsystem servers, which run Inktomi's Traffic Server and WebSpective's caching and tracking software in Colt Telecom Group's data centres in 19 countries, including the UK, Germany and France.
It will serve some content from this network of distributed servers and other content by way of optimised links from customers' original "master servers". Colt currently has data centres in 30 countries and claims it will be able to cover 97 per cent of the world's Internet users by January, 2000.
Joe Bai, Adero's chief technology officer, attested that users could activate the service immediately without needing to undergo complex configuration, hardware installation, capital expenditure or long lead times. "It can deliver custom tailored content and ads based on country, language, or regional criteria," he said.
He added that the service enabled companies to maintain complete control over what their visitors see and how they see it without losing critical log or registration information.
Ullas Naik, senior vice president of research at consultancy, First Albany, said: "What's different about Adero is that the firm is primarily focused on bringing its content closer to users overseas."
He added that, while Internet users in the US suffered from their fair share of bottlenecks, overseas it was typically even worse.
But Adero also faces competition from other players such as AT&T and Exodus, which plan to expand their international reach over the next couple of months.
Adero is based in Massachusetts and has received $8 million in funding since the company was founded in 1998.
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Last week, the city of Long Beach became one of the first cities in the US to implement a graywater pilot program. City Council passed a “Laundry to Landscape” pilot program I proposed that will further Long Beach’s reputation as one of the cities with the best conservation record in the nation. Efforts like this program can help us fundamentally change the way we look at water as something precious to be conserved and reused when possible, as opposed to something cheap that can be wasted or disposed of.
I want to thank the Water Board, my fellow Councilmembers, and City staff for putting together a program that will allow us to gather science on the most efficient use of graywater. I am confident that in the future, recycling household water from washing machines (and other sources) to water our backyard plants, instead of using fresh potable water, will seem as natural as recycling cans does today.
Additionally, on Monday, I agendized an item requesting the city manager to explore options for water-saving urinals. By installing water-saving technologies of this type we can save millions of gallons of water a year while also saving taxpayer dollars– a great example of how going green often means “saving green” as well. I will continue to explore ways to save taxpayer dollars while putting us at the forefront of green technology.
Finally, there are a couple of great events coming up this week I wanted to remind you about. On Friday, April 1, I continue the First Books at First Fridays series. Bring your kids to join City Manager Pat West and me as we read books at Dana Library at 5:30pm. We’ll also have magician Presto the Digitator performing and a free magic surprise for all kids in attendance. On Saturday, April 2, the Cal Heights Neighborhood Association and I will be hosting a clean-up of California Gardens, a potential future regional park near California and Willow (the parking entrance is at California and 27th). We’ll be meeting at 9am for a brief tour before we join Litter Free Long Beach to clean up trash on the site.
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Jesus: Crypto-Buddhist, Proto-Marxist, Radical Feminist, or What?
The relevance of Jesus in the modern world continues increasingly to include popular consciousness in an unprecedented variety across vast cultural horizons. From New Age Religion to Amazon.com, from the cover of Newsweek and Time magazines to the blossoming and poly-inseminating developments of contemporary Jesus Research, images of Jesus of Nazareth abound and multiply. A recent movie, Jesus of Montreal, the academy award winner for best foreign film of a few years back, portrays the charismatic contagion of a Jesus who is able to reach out from the dead texts of the first century to infect and engage an avant-garde artist and his acting troop. The actors encounter and incarnate him once again when they attempt to unpack and unleash the vitality of the Jesus movement in a church-sponsored passion play. The film thus unveils the dynamics of a Jesus who inspires and incarnates and must once again face the fate of inspiration versus institutionalism. Incarnation and the prophetic dynamic are thus seen to possess ongoing relevance down the ages. Jesus manifests again and again as the greatest folk hero of all time, or at least within the Western tradition. Despite his power as an overwhelming cultural icon a burning question still arises: Who was Jesus of Nazareth?
The search for the Jesus of history, though not without precedent in antiquity, is really a problem posed by the Enlightenment, and thus is a problem for modernity. The concern to establish rational authority as the criterion of reality, the aspiration to place judgments on all matters historical within the same empirical canons as the natural sciences, and a paradigm shift away from ecclesiastical authority and supernatural interventionists theologies all combined with and to produce new modes of historical and philosophical methodologies aimed at demythologizing and de-layering the legendary strata that supposedly glossed over the historical core. A summary and treatment of the major quests of the nineteenth century can be found in Albert Schweitzer's Quest of the Historical Jesus: From Reimarus to Wrede.
The substance of Schweitzer's book was a scathing analysis and critique of the previous major attempts to describe the Jesus of History and their contradictory conclusions. Jesus research was for Schweitzer like looking into a deep dark well from whence gradually came into focus a dim image which subsequently turned out to be the researcher's own image reflected back from the depths by the water's murky surface. Thus, Schweitzer concluded, the Jesus of History is irrevocably lost to us. All we have is the Christ of Faith, who comes to us as of old down by the water's edge and bids us, "Come follow." This inaugurates a period of New Testament scholarship now known as the No Quest. Ironically, however, after having demolished the attempts of the former researchers to say something historically valid about Jesus, Schweitzer does slip in his own indelible spin on the Jesus of History, namely that the only thing we could say of him is that he was irredeemably and mistakenly apocalyptic. It does seem a bit funny that Schweitzer should spend so much energy dissolving the assessments of everyone else, only in the end to slip in his own historical spin, one that managed to convince whole generations of scholarship.
During and characteristic of the post-schweitzer theology is a period known as the no quest. This period can be characterized by the scholarly abandonment of the Jesus of History. All that was left was the subjectively realized Christ of Faith. The period of the no quest was perhaps epitomized by Rudolf Bultmann whose task he felt it was to demythologize the world-view of the first century in order to make it existentially available within ours. Things like the three-tiered universe and demonic possession had to be unpacked or discarded to make sense within the modern mentality. Bultmann was a pastor/preacher who needed a message to proclaim. His quest for an authentic proclamation (greek: kerygma ) in the absence of any reliable information about the Jesus of History had the tendency to reduce the gospel message to an existential injunction not to despair, to have courage amidst the uncertainties of life, to strive for the faith of Jesus, and the resurrection mode of existence most clearly exhibited by the post-Easter faith and mission of the earliest disciples. An alternative suggestion for dealing with the no-quest period was in the neo-orthodoxy of Karl Barth, whose suggestion was that the written word was only ever intended to be an invitation to the experience of the living word. This means that we are not meant to experience the Bible as history, but as mystery; knowing that the object of all Bible study is as a springboard into the divine. The only point that we need to notice here is the subordination of the Jesus of History to the Christ of Faith who is experienced as living in a sacred dialectic between humanity and God. History may be the occasion of a Divine/human encounter, but, during the no-quest, history and historicality are not the issue. That, however, was soon to change.
In the 1960's some of Bultmann's own students, ironically enough, began to re-engage in a quest for the Historical Jesus. The publication of Gònther Bornkamm's Jesus of Nazareth can be considered a landmark event in what is now known as the New Quest for the Historical Jesus. New archeological discoveries such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Nag Hammadi Library, and the excavations at Sepphoris have been combined with new modes of textual analysis, the development of sophisticated methodologies, sociological and anthropological investigation, comparative linguistics, comparative religion, and cross-cultural studies to produce an impressive foray of attempts to recover something of the historical Jesus. Today the new quest for the Historical Jesus is in full-swing. Not least among the popularizers of this endeavor is the Jesus Seminar of the Westar Institute, a group of some seventy scholars who meet to discuss, debate, vote on, and publish their consensus on what were the actual words and deeds of the Jesus of History.
Currently there is an impressive and vastly published range of scholarship attempting to refine, focus, and assess the actuality, reality, reliability, accuracy, and methodologies pertaining to serious Jesus studies. I now turn to a sampling of some of those attempts to put the Jesus of History into academic perspective. I will start from left to right, left tending to represent the more "liberal" views, and right, the more conservative.
I begin with G.A. Wells because he is somewhat of a dinosaur in the way he harks back to a tone and assessment that was more characteristic of the Enlightenment approach to Jesus biography. Namely, he proposes in a recent book, The Jesus Legend, that the Jesus of the New Testament is all legend and no history. In other words, he never existed. The last person to seriously make that claim was John Allegro, who came up with the idea in the psychedelic sixties that Jesus was really a cipher or a symbol representing a psychedelic consciousness engendered by initiating disciples into the cult of the sacred mushroom. Although this idea was a big hit in Berkeley and among Grateful Dead fans, he has since stopped eating acid and had to eat his words out of the sheer historiographical implausibility of such a theory. For Jesus to be merely a legend leaves too many embarrassing facts to account for. Namely, legendary material generally surrounds figures who in their core being are actually "the stuff of which legends are made." Powerful legends can collect around powerful figures like halos on a saint. But if we have the luxury of merely spinning legends in the creation of heroes, we tend not to include the things we are otherwise forced to own up to. The death of Jesus, for example is extremely problematic. Why make your savior a Roman criminal and the recipient of the most scandalous form of ridicule and execution ever devised? Why present him as submitting to baptism under another master such as John the Baptist? Why display his family as inimical to his mission to such an extent that they try to straight-jacket him? These are just a few of the historiographical problems besetting G.A. Wells hypothesis. In addition, one is hard pressed to set aside the clearly early references to Jesus by the writings of Paul and a quite ample supply of both canonical and non-canonical sources. The writings of the Jewish historian Josephus and the traditional source material discerned to underlie the gospels also require some heavy-duty hypothesis, speculation, and theorizing to make evaporate.
To the right of G.A. Wells, and only slightly so, I would place Burton Mack. Although, Mack is certain of Jesus' historical existence he insists that Jesus was not very Jewish. For Mack, Jesus is a particular type of Hellenistic Sage, namely, a Cynic Philosopher. Likened to the Cynics, Mack sees Jesus as an itinerant wanderer/sage (see also Gerd Theissen) dispensing pithy one-liners and making fun of established authority and social status-quo.
To me a far more intriguing and articulate analysis is the type of cross-cultural and comparative peasant anthropology done by John Dominic Crossan. Crossan's Jesus is a radical egalitarian and advocate of a brokerless kingdom. The kingdom of God is thus seen as an all-ye-all-ye-oxen-free call to open commensality (open table fellowship) and celebration of freedom from the power brokerage of a patriarchical and power stratified culture. The kingdom of God empowers all in the power of the Spirit that is a non-mediated access to God regardless of neither social position, gender, temple relation, nor degree of racial, social, ritual, economic, or physical contamination (cf. Elizabeth Schòssler Fiorenza, especially on gender issues).
Marcus Borg unfolds his assessments of the historical Jesus within four basic types or characteristics found in a variety of comparative and cross-cultural contexts. Jesus is seen by Borg to be 1.) a spirit person--a charismatic figure who fully experiences, mediates, transmits, conveys, heals, and teaches with the authority of the Spirit. Thus he exhibits the qualities of widely known phenomena associated with Sacred Personality, from Prophets to Shamans to Gurus such as Sai Baba of India. 2.) a wisdom teacher who taught a subversive, alternative, and counter-cultural wisdom. 3.) a social prophet, someone deeply committed to political and social reform against the prevailing power structures. 4.) a movement founder who consciously attempted to organize a revitalization movement to embody his vision. Borg rejects the idea that Jesus espoused an imminent end-of-the-world eschatology (though he may have used some forms of apocalyptic language to evoke a sense of realized eschatology and its ethical demands).
Moving slightly further to the right are the Roman Catholic scholars John Meier and Raymond Brown. Both these men's work is characterized by careful and meticulous scholarship and a great command of virtually all the relevant literature, combined with an apparent willingness to question and rethink anew all traditional doctrines from the Virgin Birth to the Resurrection. For the most part they come to fairly conservative conclusions, but not always.
Among the most conservative yet competent Historical Jesus researchers are N.T. Wright, Marcus Bockmeuhl and Craig Blomberg who, somewhat in the tradition of F.F. Bruce, more often than not come to very traditional conclusions although it be through highly informed and rather non-conventional philosophical and methodological reasoning. Anything further to the right of them tends to cease to be historical/academic scholarship and tends to be apologetics, dogmatics, and/or fundamentalist polemics…

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Riding on the back of the horrific act of hatred in which 50 people were killed in a mass shooting attack in the US, is yet again, another evil act of murder in which a UK MP was shot and stabbed to death.
The Vote Leave and Remain campaigns in the EU referendum have been suspended on both sides after the Labour MP for Batley and Spen, Jo Cox (41), died after being shot and stabbed in her constituency.
The deceased Jo Cox, 41, was a mother of two, and the first female sitting UK MP, ever, to be killed. She is also the first MP to be killed since 1990.
Her attacker, a 52 year old man, reportedly connected to a South African right wing organisation, is said to have shouted, twice “put Britain first”
Her attacker allegedly, is reported to have calmly reloaded his weapon between shots and kicked the MP as she lay helplessly on the ground bleeding to death, then walked off, reportedly after stabbing a 77-year-old man who attempted to help.
. The culprit who was identified in the community as ‘ Tommy Mair’, was arrested in Market Street, near Birstall Library where MP Jo Cox had been conducting a constituency surgery. By Sibusiso Ngwenya


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SunCoke Energy, Inc. (NYSE: SXC) today reported preliminary first quarter 2015 domestic coke production of 998 thousand tons. This is up an estimated 54 thousand tons and reflects favorable production and better coal-to-coke yields this winter as compared to the same prior year period. Domestic capacity utilization for first quarter 2015 is estimated to be 95 percent, as compared to 90 percent for the same prior year period. Production at our Indiana Harbor cokemaking facility improved year-over-year, but was below our first quarter 2015 targeted range. We now estimate full year 2015 coke production at Indiana Harbor will be approximately 1.1 million tons. Despite the quarter's operating challenges at this facility, our remaining domestic coke fleet continues to deliver solid operating performance and we expect to achieve our full year 2015 Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA guidance of $190 million to $210 million.
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It’s that time of year when Americans open their hearts with the hopes of making someone’s holiday season a little brighter.
Across America, there are nearly 2.5 million grandparents raising their grandchildren. Some of those families are right here in Sampson County and this holiday season, many of them are depending upon the generosity of the Family Caregiver Support Program, through the Sampson County Department of Aging, to make this Christmas a great one for their families.
According to Lesia Henderson, specialist for the Sampson County Department of Aging’s Family Caregiver Support Program, the program was designed to help grandparents and kinship relatives who are raising their grandchildren and other family members. Throughout the year, the program assists these relatives, but the help is of greater need around the holiday season. Henderson said many of these family members often question where they will get food to feed the family, and most especially question where they will get the funds to purchase Christmas presents. That, Henderson said, is where the program comes into play.
One of the huge fundraising events for the program is the Shaggin’ for Santa event held yearly to raise funds to help purchase clothes, school supplies, toys and send children to summer camp. This year’s Shaggin’ for Santa event will be a little different. Organizers are hosting a New Year’s Eve party, Dec. 31 at 8 p.m. at the Agri-Exposition Center. Admission will be charged, with all proceeds going to benefit the program. The event is being sponsored by Donnie Lamm of Nissan of Clinton.
“With funds received from Shaggin’ for Santa, we are able to assist grandparents with Christmas,” Henderson said. “This isn’t total support for the family, but it helps.”
Shaggin’ for Santa began nine years ago as a way to help the grandparents who were raising their grandchildren. Henderson said in the first year, $9,100 was raised. During the second year, $10,500 was raised. Last year’s event raised $4,567.
“These funds help grandparents who have been put in hardship situations,” Henderson stressed.
Many of the children who have been placed in the home of a grandparent are there, she pointed out, because the parent(s) may be on drugs, may be abusing the children, the parent(s) may be deceased or simply because the parent(s) no longer wants the children.
“Shaggin’ for Santa extends that hand of help and helps the grandparents with Christmas,” Henderson said. “It’s just something extra we do to help those grandparents who are in need.”
Henderson said funds that were raised last year helped 20 families, and a total of 42 children. Some of the families are adopted through local churches during the holiday season, but for those who aren’t adopted, many can’t provide Christmas for the grandchildren.
“Shaggin’ for Santa helps with those who haven’t been adopted,” Henderson explained.
Once the funds from Shaggin’ for Santa have been collected, grandparents provide a wish list to the department. Once the gifts are purchased, they are provided to the families. Any funds not used are put back into the program to help purchase school supplies and send the children to summer camp.
While the toys the children receive at Christmas are a huge benefit of the program, Marie Faircloth said it’s not all about the toys.
“Shaggin’ for Santa helps in so may other ways,” Faircloth asserted “It puts clothes on the children’s backs and puts other things into place. These resources are so valuable to the grandparents.”
Henderson said in addition to Lamm, the disc jockeys for the event, Robert Stroud and Joey Warren, have been instrumental in helping make this event a huge success.
The program, according to Henderson, provides community educational workshops, community advocacy, community outreach, care planning, caregiving counseling, caregiver training, support groups, respite, handy man work, yard work, household chore work, personal emergency response alarm systems and more.
“However the funds are limited,” Henderson acknowledged. “That is why the Shaggin’ for Santa fundraising is vital to the Family Caregiver Support Program’s Grandparents Raising Grandchildren. This fund-raiser furthers the assistance we give to those in this situation.”
The money raised during the annual Shaggin’ for Santa event is used to purchase items for the children who are a part of the support program. In addition to the items purchased at Christmas, such as toys, clothing and toiletries, any funds that remain at the end of the holiday season are used to help send the children to summer camp and purchase school supplies to deliver at the beginning of each school year.
“Shagging for Santa proceeds allow us to help those families that did not get adopted. Fundraising proceeds that are not used for Christmas are used to send grandchildren to summer camp, which provides the grandparents a time of respite.”
For more information about the Family Caregiver Support Program, contact Henderson at 910-592-4653 or firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Church and non-profit cafe closed following bogus vermin complaint
By Dolores Quintana
Metropolis Santa Monica is a mixed-use facility located at 603 Arizona Ave downtown, which includes a cafe called Metro Café. It is a non-profit organization and church that seeks to serve the community, especially those at risk or who may be forgotten. Their programs and services are intended to help the most vulnerable, low-income seniors and families, as well as homeless people.
Metro Café was closed for 11 months during the pandemic, which severely hampered its ability to fund its organization. Metropolis owes deferred rent to its landlord since the time during the COVID closings When the Café, their main source of income, had been closed.
Last December, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public Health) received a complaint that the cafe’s kitchen was infested with vermin shortly after Metropolis attempted to reopen the cafe. When public health showed up to investigate the establishment, they found that the allegation was completely false, however, the Department of Health found that the exemption of the Metropolis Café as a secondary use establishment should be upgraded to a full restaurant facility license. They have since been working with the city to be able to get the permit, but that involves new architectural plans and renovations that Metropolis has paid for.
Asked about the issues in Metropolis, a public health spokesperson posted this response via email: “A complaint regarding a cockroach infestation at the Metro Café located at 603 Arizona Ave., Santa Monica has been the subject of an investigation by our public health inspector on December 21, 2021. Although the visit did not validate the cockroach complaint, it did reveal that the restaurant was operating without a public health permit, which is required by law in the state. The restaurant was ordered to close and submit plans to public health. The business owner has received the necessary information to become compliant and to be able to apply for a public health permit. Also, our records indicate that this is a new kitchen and not a remodel.
When asked who was responsible for the bogus complaint, the spokesperson replied that the names of those filing complaints with Public Health are not public records.
On May 18, 2022, the Metropolis landlord gave them three days notice to pay or vacate the full rent of $44,000. Metropolis has set up a GoFundMe (https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-save-metropolis) to help raise $50,000 to pay deferred rent. Currently, donations total $17,531.
We asked Pastor Steven Snook for an update on Metropolis’ situation regarding the three-day notice to pay or leave and he replied via email, “We were able to accommodate some of the landlord’s requests. We have come to an agreement and are catching up on the deferred rent that is due. We are always here. The cafe isn’t open yet, but the ball is now in our court as far as the city is concerned.
Pastor Steve added: “I want to reiterate that I don’t want to talk about the owner. We owed the back rent, we just weren’t able to pay it in full and he wasn’t able to extend it any longer to meet us where we were.
The owner did not respond to inquiries before press time.
Metropolis is an organization made up of three distinct parts: Metro Church, Metro Co-lab and Metro Café. During the pandemic, Metropolis has incredibly been able to continue feeding the needy from its soup kitchen and pantry, despite the many problems it has faced.
Metro Café is Metropolis’ model donation café which is their main source of funding for their charity work and organization in general. Although the store is run on a donation model, it has proven to be an important source of revenue for the organization. Without the revenue generated by Metro Café, Metropolis cannot continue to exist in its current form. During the pandemic, the organization served 35,000 people and provided 15,000 meals, 63,000 grocery bags and 35,000 hygiene kits. They have also organized many different events.
Founder and pastor Steve Snook was also a chaplain with the Santa Monica Police Department for 19 years and a chaplain at UCLA Hospital. Pastor Steve said the organization first gained access to the Sixth and Arizona property in 2015. He said the church’s mission has become to show the community how up-to-date Metropolis is. community and meet community needs.
According to Pastor Steve, about four and a half years ago, the organization realized that residents of the 13-story tower next to the Metropolis facility needed regular grocery deliveries in order to survive. It became clear to Metropolis during the pandemic that these grocery bags were essential for the seniors who lived in the tower and Metropolis continued to donate these essentials to seniors through its Our Neighbor’s Pantry program which distributes the races to tenants on Thursday.
In addition to our neighbor’s food pantry, the church has the Sunday lunch program where volunteers prepare meals and hygiene kits to distribute to those in need.
Volunteer Tiffany Lam said, via email, “Santa Monica has a large number of homeless people as well as many older people who have no other means of community, and Metropolis has provided them with more than food. and hygiene, but someone to talk to and a place to congregate without fear of judgment Our fear is that if we lose our physical location overnight, older people and people with disabilities homelessness that we nurture will have no one to turn to.


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Holiday Craft Sale Nov 29, 10am - 4pm
The annual holiday art and craft sale will take place this year one day only on Saturday, November 29, from 10am - 4pm. We'll have an array of handmade items, such as malas, socks, small sutra books (Diamond Sutra this year), food and more! All proceeds benefit Eugene Zendo programs. Please contact Anyu firstname.lastname@example.org with questions.

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Chance the Rapper knows daddy duties come first.
Days after he and wife Kirsten celebrated the birth of their second daughter, Marli, the Chicago native announced the postponement of his tour in order to be present for his family. The musician, who is also father to the couple’s 4-year-old daughter Kensli, was set to star his global trek in San Francisco on Saturday (September 14) to promote his debut album, The Big Day.
“I thought it over for the past week and I’ve decided to push back my tour. This year has been one of the greatest of my life; Marriage, new baby, first album etc. But with it being so eventful it has also been very strenuous having to divide my time and energy between family and work,” Chance wrote via Instagram, along with a family photo with his daughters.
“When Kensli was born, I went on tour 2 weeks later and missed some of the most important milestones in her life, but more importantly I was absent when her mother needed me the most,” he recalled. “At this point as a husband and father of two, I realize that I can’t make that mistake again. I need to be as helpful and available as possible to my wife in these early months of raising Kensli and Marli. I apologize because I know how many people were counting on seeing me soon, but I hope you’ll understand and forgive me in time.”
Due to the delay, ticket buyers will be able to receive refunds on his website, where fans can keep up with dates for “The Big Day World Tour."
Chance is also billed to perform at this year's iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas in September alongside a lineup of superstar artists. Fans across the country can tune in and watch an exclusive live stream of the show via The CW App and CWTV.com. Then, on October 2nd and 3rd, relive all of the epic performances from the weekend during a televised special on The CW Network at 8pm ET/PT. And leading up to the official television special, The CW will also air an hour-long Best Of Special on Sunday, September 29th at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
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Documentary evidence points to the existence of a community of freedmen and freedwomen settling within current Hot Springs National Park boundaries in the late 1800s.
This talk will recount the summer’s digs and reveal what is now known about the site, Caddo saltmaking, Settler saltmaking, and the deep history of the region.
Counties are ranked by the highest percent of homes that were built before 1939 based on 2020 5-year estimates.
In this talk, Barker will explore ways to draw supportable inferences that help make sense of individual motifs from the ancient American midcontinent and, by understanding how these motifs are arranged in individual artworks or artifacts, lets us better understand the larger meanings these motifs and objects reference.
Dr. Paige Ford will present “Reconstructing and Building Relationships: Meeting the New Toltec Station Archeologist” at the next meeting of the Ouachita Chapter of the Arkansas Archeological Society. This talk will be held on Tuesday, April 5, at 7 p.m. in the board room at Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts, 200 Whittington Ave., Hot Springs. It is free and open to the public.
In her presentation, Trubitt will discuss two historic house sites in Arkadelphia – the J. E. M. Barkman House and Magnolia Manor – that have been investigated by archeologists from the Arkansas Archeological Survey’s Henderson State University Research Station.
Daniels is a 96-year-old former miner at several cinnabar mines in the Amity area.

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Wednesday, 28 December 2011
Solar panels on country mansions were part of the trust’s plans to halve its energy use over the next 10 years and save money at the same time.
Under the “feed-in tariff” scheme, the Government offers to pay for any surplus energy fed into the grid from solar panels. However, despite teh recent set-back in the courts, the government is still planning to reduce the payment to owners of panels to 20p per kwh of electricity, rather than 42p, making it a much poorer investment for households and businesses.
Their claims to be the "greenest government ever" now seem a remote and sadly hollow claim - remember that next time Lib Dem Environment Minister Chris Huhne starts to lecture us.


by Dr Natalija Riabko – Head of Commodities, Sinowei
Active Consumption Reduces Soybean Stocks in 2020/21
The final estimate for the 2020/21 US soybean crop is 4.135 billion bushels, 35 million less than the previous forecast. The decline is due to a drop in average US yields to 50.2 bushels per acre, compared with the previous forecast of 50.7 bushels. Given record first quarter demand, the USDA raised its 2020/21 refining forecast by 5 million bushels this month to a record 2.2 billion. Based on changes in harvest and consumption, USDA projects a sharp decline in end-of-season 2020/21 stocks from 525 million bushels in 2019/20 to a 7-year low of 140 million. The average US soybean price is expected to rise to $ 11.15 per bushel in 2020/21, the highest level since 2013/14.
According to Chinese Customs data, soybean imports to China jumped 13% in 2020 to an annual record as processors increased purchases amid rising margins and strong demand from the country’s rapidly recovering pig sector. China, the world’s largest soybean importer, purchased 100.33 million tons of soybeans in 2020, up from 88.51 million tons in 2019 (the General Administration of Customs). In December alone, imports amounted to 7.524 million tons, which is 27% less than 9.54 million tons a year earlier.
In 2020/21, reduced corn stocks decrease consumption and raise prices of US corn. The production in is reduced to 14.182 million bushels, primarily due to a decrease in the national average yield from 175.8 to 172.0 bushels per acre. Opening balances have also been reduced, resulting in a 400-million-bushel reduction in total projected stocks from the previous month. The projected average farm price has been raised from $ 4.00 to $ 4.20 per bushel due to more limited supply prospects. Domestic consumption and exports are also weakened due to reduced inventories and higher prices. Corn exports are projected to reach 2.550 million bushels in 2020/21, which will continue to be a record if sold, but it is 100 million bushels less than projected in December.
Brazil’s corn production forecast for 2020/21 has been cut to 102.313 million tons from 102.589 million tons in December, according to the latest report from Brazil’s national agricultural agency Conab. The downward revision of the production forecast is associated with a possible decrease in the yield of the first corn crop due to unfavourable weather conditions in the south of the country. Since December, Conab kept unchanged its forecast for corn exports and consumption for 2020/21. Brazil is the third largest corn exporter in the world.
In 2020, China kept the status of Ukraine’s largest trade partner
In 2020, China kept its status as Ukraine’s largest trading partner. Bilateral trade amounted to USD 15.42 billion, an increase of 20.8 % compared with the previous year (the State Customs Service of Ukraine data).
According to the State Customs Service, in January-December 2020, Ukraine shipped to China goods worth $ 7.11 billion. This is 97.7 % increase compared to 2019. The main export items were ore and slag, grain crops, ferrous metals, fats and oils of vegetable and animal origin.
At the same time, in 2020, imports from China decreased by 9.4 % – up to $ 8.31 billion. Ukraine mainly purchased electrical machines, equipment, vehicles, plastics, toys and sports equipment.
In 2020, the trade turnover of Ukraine amounted to USD 103.4 billion, having decreased by 6.4 percent. versus 2019. Exports fell by 1.7 % – to $ 49.2 billion, while imports fell by 10.3 %. – up to $ 54.2 billion.
According to the Ukrainian side, in 2019 the volume of trade in goods between Ukraine and China amounted to $ 12.76 billion, an increase of 30.4 % compared to 2018. This allowed China to become Ukraine’s largest trading partner.
Trade trends 2021
According to experts, in 2021, the impact of weather disasters could play the leading role in the markets. The 2019 spring floods in the United States have had the most direct impact on the global crop market for a number of years. In 2019, areas in India were also flooded on a significant scale, and in June 2020, floods affected many provinces in China. In 2020, floods affected 5 million hectares of arable land, with an estimated total economic cost of $ 20 billion.
Severe weather conditions have also been common in the United States in the past 2020. But now, not the weather, but trade contradictions with China and, of course, numerous financial measures to fight the COVID-19, had a significant impact on the market. The latest 2020 reports showed that the sales of multinationals are generally positive compared to 2019. Forecasts for 2021 will depend more on the outcome of the US presidential election, which was uncertain at the time of writing.
Supply and demand imbalance
The market will be influenced not only by general political and weather factors, but also by the problems that have become aggravated in 2020. One of them is the emerging imbalance between supply and demand.
The oversupply has been persisting for several years and has been aggravated by the measures introduced in the context of the pandemic. Supply chains are filled to the brim, and uncertainties around labor and logistics have spurred additional inventory around the world. As a result, there are fewer opportunities to buy and sell. Overloaded inventories, combined with an uncertain production shift to “home consumption,” could disrupt purchasing patterns in 2021.
The trade conflict between the US and China manifested itself in premiums on various chemical products, which further contributed to the accumulation of food stocks. Tensions on the border between China and India have impacted trade and logistics between the two leading manufacturing countries, exposing the fragility of the supply chain of raw materials to produce molecules.
There are already 32 current complaints under consideration by the WTO in relation to agricultural products. And the situation complained about could get worse as countries work to strengthen their national economies.
Obviously, restrictions on the plant protection products market will be tightened. First of all, in the markets of the EU countries, which was the largest pesticide market in the world until 2009. The European Commission (EC) has unveiled a new Farm to Fork Strategy (FFS), a flagship initiative under the new European Environment Agreement (EGD), which will allocate 100 billion euros from 2021 to 2027 for the EU’s transition to a more sustainable economic system. This initiative aims to reduce pesticide use by 50% by 2030 and reduce the use of mineral fertilizers by 20%. Currently, about 72 US-approved pesticides are already banned in Europe. Other countries are following this example. Brazil has banned 17 US chemicals and China has restricted 11. Organophosphates (horpyrifos), neonicotinoids, glyphosate, and paraquat are under various forms of restrictions in key agricultural markets around the world. Mexico currently bans the import of glyphosate and its precursors, while other countries (Thailand, Vietnam) have created the basis for phasing out the world’s most widely used pesticides.


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found a new home!
Plenty of my friends are looking
for one too. Find a pet to adopt.
I am already neutered, purebred, up to date with shots, good with kids, good with dogs, and not good with cats.
HENRY here and I'm a 2 1/2 year old Boxer boy. My family has had me since I was a puppy, but they can no longer take care of me.
I get along with other dogs, but I do not do well with cats.
As a young Boxer boy, I will have all of the Boxer traits. I will have a handsome square jaw and a general hunk with a great sense of humor and undying sweetness. Until we are 3, many of us Boxers are a bit silly as we love to play and joke around. Therefore, we are the dog breedd that has the longest time in what we think of as puppyhood.
I do well with kids...I really like them. I give lots of Boxer kisses. If you like kisses, I am your man.
I have been working on my leash training skills and I now walk super well on a leash. I am also learning SIT and DOWN.
I will be a great companion as long as you provide me with the exercise and mental stimulation that I need each day.
Please complete an application for HENRY and I will love you more than you will ever know.

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I think every family has a recipe they treasure and passed down through generations or children. We're no exception. We have our mango flavored meringue pie. Cooking and baking during holidays is a perfect time for the women and some men to get together and catch up on gossip. I have such wonderful memories of those times.
Mango Meringue pie calls for a good mixer to make those egg white really stiff. I remember taking my turn beating eggs with whisker. It can take a good half-hour to an hour to make them really stiff and ready. I don't remember having an electric mixer then. To buy one in the Philippines would have been really expensive. What sore arms I have afterwards. It's really worth it though because the pie is practically to die for. Shopping for a mixer is not so easy. I had spent some good money on a few mixer only to end up disappointed that my mixer did not perform to my expectations.
I'm sharing this recipe to my new generation, but with Eclectrics® Mixer. At Hamilton Beach®, they have extensive collection of Stand mixer. It comes in many colors, so it's sure to compliment your kitchen.
1 1/2 cups plain flour
4 tablespoons margarine
1/2 cup sugar
4 tablespoons mango nectar
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 cup sugar
7 tablespoons custard powder
3 mango slices
3 egg whites
3/4 cup sugar
Preheat over to 350F.
Mix flour and margarine and put in mixer at low medium speed. Roll into lightly floured surface and layer into a grease pie plate. Bake 10-15 minutes until lightly browned.
Beat egg whites at high speed until soft peaks form, add sugar making sure to keep the stiff peaks.
Mix all filling except the mango slices and boil stirring constantly until thick. Layer mango on bottom of pie plate, top with filling. Spoon meringue over it all. Bake 10-15 minutes until it's golden brown.
Hamilton Beach® mixers are work of art. They have Professional 2-way rotating head for thorough hands-free mixing, 2 piece pouring and splatter shield and many more wonderful features. Holidays are coming up and I know what I want for Christmas.


Jobless recovery for women, not men… USA to the Middle East
16.03.2011 § Leave a comment
So recent data coming out showing that burden of unemployment are heavily borne by women. In the article about the “Arab world”, the trend is explained as follows: “Experts attribute this to social barriers and lower education levels.” In the US, it seems the cause is the male breadwinner stereotype. Hm.
In the US, out of every 5 people who lost their government jobs this year in the US, 4 were women!!! Yow! that makes 202,000 in total. And of all (nonfarm) jobs added to the US economy between Jan 2010 and Jan 2011, more than 95 percent went to men!! DIZAMN! “Even in the service sector, where women are overrepresented, only 99,000 new jobs went to women in the past year, while nearly 800,000, or eight of every nine, went to men. Women have lost 59,000 retail jobs since last year, while men grabbed 147,000”
Interesting is thiat in this article, the only speculation as to WHY this is the case is the following:
“These companies would rather lay off a woman whose husband is working than a man who’s a sole provider,” Serdjuk said. “I always felt like I was perceived as having a working husband, and throughout my working career, I’ve heard that remark.”
The Nothing just read Assembling Women by Teri Caraway, who analyzes economically how women are pushed in and out of work much more easily than men, and specifically shows how this kind of thing is how women are pushed out of higher-paying, more secure jobs. If women are able to enter a well paying, secure industry, when things get rough all the women are just fired, and men stay.
In her explanation of why, we see Caraway getting hte most foucaultian-discourse-y, because she argues that it is the sexist belief structure around jobs and employment held by employers that really makes the difference. While some of us nothings prefer not to explain things with discourse, clearly there is something to be understood here…
And for article about Arab Women and unemployment, which gives unemployment stats for women vs. men in a series of countries, click here.


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The harmful effects of added sugars for various chronic diseases have been established, leading the food industries to use artificial sweeteners as alternatives in a wide range of foods and beverages. However, the safety of artificial sweeteners is debated and data remain divided as to their role in the development of various diseases. A recent publication had, for example, observed a link between the consumption of sweeteners and an increase in cancer risk  .
Based on the same methodology that involved a vast population study, the team wanted to examine the links between sweetener intake and the risk of cardiovascular diseases (coronary heart diseases  and cerebrovascular diseases  ). While several epidemiological studies had suggested an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases associated with the consumption of artificially sweetened beverages, none had until now gone beyond that category of products to look at total artificial sweetener intake. For example, artificial sweeteners are also found in some dairy products and a multitude of reduced-calorie foods.
The scientists used the data reported by 103,388 French adults participating in the NutriNet-Santé study (see box below). The volunteers reported, via specific questionnaires, their medical history, sociodemographic data and levels of physical activity, as well as information on their lifestyle and health. They also gave details of their food consumption by sending the scientists full records of what they had consumed over several 24-hour periods, including the names and brands of the products. This made it possible to accurately evaluate their exposure to additives, particularly sweeteners.
After collecting information on the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases over the follow-up period (2009-2021), the researchers conducted statistical analyses to study the links between the participants’ artificial sweetener intake and risk of cardiovascular diseases. They took into account many potentially confounding factors such as age, sex, physical activity, smoking, family cardiovascular disease history, as well as intakes of energy, alcohol, sodium, saturated fatty acids, polyunsaturated fatty acids, fiber, sugar, fruit and vegetables, and red and processed meat.
The scientists found that the total sweetener intake was associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases, and more specifically cerebrovascular diseases.Concerning the types of sweeteners, aspartame was more closely associated with the risk of cerebrovascular diseases and acesulfame K and sucralose with that of coronary heart diseases.
"In accordance with several other epidemiological studies on artificially sweetened drinks, this large-scale study suggests that artificial sweeteners, which are additives used in many foods and beverages, may represent an increased risk factor for cardiovascular diseases,” explains Charlotte Debras, PhD candidate and lead author of the study. Further research in other large-scale cohorts will be needed in order to replicate and confirm these findings.
"These findings, in agreement with the latest WHO report published this year, do not support the use of sweeteners as safe alternatives to sugar and provide new information in response to the scientific debates on their potential health effects. They also provide important data for their current re-evaluation by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and other public health agencies worldwide,” concludes Dr. Mathilde Touvier, Inserm research director and study coordinator.
is a public health study coordinated by the Nutritional epidemiology research team (Eren, Inserm/INRAE/Cnam/Université Sorbonne Paris Nord) which, thanks to the commitment and loyalty of over 170,000 participants (known as ), advances research into the links between nutrition (diet, physical activity, nutritional status) and health. Launched in 2009, the study has already given rise to over 250 international scientific publications. in order to continue to further research into the relationship between nutrition and health.
By devoting a few minutes per month to answering questionnaires on diet, physical activity and health through the secure online platform , participants in France contribute to furthering knowledge of the links between diet and health.
 Debras C, Chazelas E, Srour B, Druesne-Pecollo N, Esseddik Y, Szabo de Edelenyi F, et al. (2022) Artificial sweeteners and cancer risk: Results from the NutriNet-Santé population-based cohort study. PLoS Med 19(3): e1003950. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003950
 Diseases affecting the arteries that supply blood to the heart (coronary arteries).
 Cerebrovascular diseases are caused by brain lesions that occur following insufficient blood circulation or a brain hemorrhage.