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Getting Ahead Over Summer BreakGoing into your senior year can be stressful, but it becomes a whole lot easier if you're prepared for the road ahead. Preparing will make your senior year much more enjoyable and decrease the work you'll need to do in addition to your schoolwork, stopping you from getting overwhelmed. Utilize the summer between your junior and senior year in high school ...Published 5 days ago |
SAT Essay Becoming Optional, Among Other ChangesThe College Board will overhaul the SAT, making drastic changes. These changes will likely be embraced by high school students everywhere as they include making the essay portion optional, the elimination of ambiguous wording throughout the exam and the termination of point deductions for incorrect answers. The changes will take effect in 2016 – a year that many students will undoubtedly ...Published about 1 month ago |
How to Help Your Student Minimize Exam StressIt can be difficult for a parent to stand by and watch their student go through the rigors of exams, whether in high school or college. Exams are tough on students – many of whom don't take care of their bodies with late (or all-night) night cram sessions, unhealthy eating habits, over-doses of caffeine, not to mention extremely high levels of ...Published about 1 month ago |
Scores and Scholarships: Why the PSAT MattersWhy should you prepare for the PSAT? The primary reasons are simple – to potentially gain scholarships and to definitely gain practice. One of the single most compelling reasons to take the PSAT is the National Merit Scholarship. If you meet or exceed a certain score threshold, which varies from state to state, you will become eligible for National Merit Program ...Published about 1 month ago |
3 Reasons Not to Fear the SATS. A. T. In the United States, these three common letters, when combined to form the well-known acronym of "SAT," inspire anxiety and dread in even the bravest of test-takers. Do you wake in the night from dark dreams of standardized exams? Does the test preparation aisle at your neighborhood bookstore give you the chills? Here are three reasons why you ...Published about 1 month ago |
Against the ClockPacing yourself during standardized tests can be a difficult task. Your adrenaline is at an all-time high, not to mention your nerves. So how do you keep your cool during this difficult task to show what you really know and complete such lengthy exams? Here are some helpful timing tips to help guide you along during the process of standardized test-taking: ...Published about 1 month ago |
SAT Study TipsYou've got a lot of pressure to do well on the SAT - it's one of the biggest exams of your life. You know you need to prepare, you know you need to study, but you don't know exactly how to go about doing it. Don't stress, here are five easy ways you can approach the exam preparation process: 1. Practice ...Published about 1 month ago |
Find Your Perfect SAT/ACT Test Prep MatchNo matter what type of student you are, we've got suggestions for the best ways you should prepare for your standardized tests! That's right – the SATs and ACTs are nothing to ignore – it's time to prepare early or, if you've already taken them and aren't happy with your score, start prepping so you can improve it. It's not as ...Published 2 months ago |
Top Five Tasks for College-Bound Juniors: Staying Focused in FebruaryIt's understandable to get early-onset senioritis come February - after all, it is contagious, isn't it? But, in all seriousness, the holidays have passed and there's just one last semester standing between you and that glorious senior year of high school. And, while senior year of high school is likely going to be one of the best of your life, preparing ...Published 2 months ago |
Test Prep To Do ListWe won't beat around the bush: standardized tests are intimidating for students. But, the more you prepare, the more confident you'll feel. In order to ensure you've got all your ducks in a row, we thought a testing to-do list might be helpful and, hopefully, ease some of your worries about the exam. Here's a to-do list so you can prepare ...Published 3 months ago |
How to Fail an ExamIf you don't care about your college career or passing your exams, feel free to follow these steps, so you can develop poor test-taking habits and start to fail all of your quizzes, midterms and final exams. From there, you can be sure to fail pretty much all of your classes. We're not really sure why that would be your goal ...Published 5 months ago |
The Myth of Multiple-Choice MethodologyResearch Study: Benefits of Keeping to Instincts While Test Taking are Mythical There's a new study in town that says, when it comes to multiple-choice questions, don't go with your gut. It's been pounded into our brains that our first instinct on test answers is the way to go but, according to new research data, test takers actually increased their scores ...Published 10 months ago |
Updates to the GRE ProgramFor students looking into attending graduate or business school, updates have been made to the GRE® Program. Beginning July 1, 2013, students taking the GRE® revised General Test will be able to retake the exam as often as once every 21 days and up to five times within a continuous year. The GRE® revised General Test is available at nearly 700 ...Published 11 months ago |
Summertime SAT Preparation You Can Do at the BeachIt may be summer, but you know there's an SAT bubble sheet in your future. Whether it'll be your second attempt or first encounter with the SAT, summer is a great time to boost your test taking abilities. Here are some simple things you can do this summer that will serve you well on test day. Read Whether it's a book ...Published 11 months ago |
Everyday SAT PrepThere are many parts of a successful college application, the most important of which is high school grades. The second most important part is the SAT score. The SAT is typically taken in junior and senior years (it is typically taken twice). The key to getting a higher SAT score is working early, slowly, and consistently. No student should have to ...Published over 1 year ago |
ACT Reports Only 1 in 4 High School Students Ready for CollegeThe ACT does more than just provide students with a standardized test score to use in the admissions process. Each year, it's looking for key indications of college readiness on the whole. Last week, the ACT unveiled the results from last year's testing. Once again, the results showed that only one in four students are meeting all college readiness benchmarks in ...Published over 1 year ago |
Smarten Up Over Holiday BreakWe get it—you're strapped for time during the regular semester and you just want to enjoy your holiday time off. But there's something to be said for making the most of your time off – intellectually. And it doesn't necessarily have to be a drag. Plus, dedicating some time during the holidays could lighten your load for the upcoming semester. Here, ...Published over 3 years ago |
How to Handle the Final LoadIt's like the professors and university are torturing you. December means holiday celebrations, a break from school and time at home with your family. But December also means two of the most grueling weeks at school. You can handle finals season though with these helpful tips: Sleep. It may seem counterproductive to cramming, especially when all of your classmates are pulling ...Published over 3 years ago |
Know Your Grad School ExamsMost students who pursue graduate school must first take one of the following tests: LSAT, MCAT, GMAT or GRE. The required test depends on the type of grad school students plan to attend. Consult your prospective school to find out which test you should take. Learn more about each of the tests: LSAT (Law School Admissions Test) Required for: Law school ...Published almost 4 years ago |
Are test-preparation courses worth the cost?Test preparation services like Kaplan and Princeton Review can achieve significant improvements in test scores, partly by teaching test-taking skills, partly by reviewing the material covered by the tests and partly through practice drills. Improvements of about 50-100 points on the SAT are typical. According to College Board data, students who take the PSAT have SAT scores that are 25 to ...Published over 4 years ago |


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The Neon Peon wrote:You need to start thinking about army circles. These impact the graphics a lot, and you might need to move one or two territory names to fit one in nicely. You will be fine on most territories but I doubt that something like Karlsruhe will do well with one the way it is now.
Nice work on it so far.
DiM wrote:i see everyone is yelling quench so i hate to be the party pooper but i think the borders need to be redrawn. i mean they're to damn wobbly and from what i've seen on other maps they shouldn't be.
check this out:
the borders are much more fluid much more cursive.
other than that i'd love to see the background flags be a bit more visible but that may impair the legibility of the map.
anyway i think there will be sorious problems with the army numbers on the small map in regions like Osnabruck or Munster.
btw does the rule with the small being 33% smaller than large still exist? cause that would make the small map on this one really frickin tiny. it would be something like 460*400
iancanton wrote:i'd maybe like the water to be a bit more blue and a bit less purple and the emblem of baden-wurttemberg to be slightly more obvious on the small version but, even if u change nothing, it's a great-looking map!
ga7 wrote:Sorry if this has been discussed already but just an idea... Why not make the emblems way more proeminent on the bonus map and remove them from the play map? It seems still barely visible and making them more apparent might impair playability, showing them well but only on the bonus map would make more sense IMO.
natty_dread wrote:I was wrong
Optimus Prime wrote:I'm not sure what everyone else thinks, but you might think of making the contrast between the two yellow continents a little more apparent. They blend together pretty easy at the moment.
laci_mae wrote:Optimus Prime wrote:I'm not sure what everyone else thinks, but you might think of making the contrast between the two yellow continents a little more apparent. They blend together pretty easy at the moment.
I agree that the yellows have the least contrast, and could do with some more.
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I was looking at the proc coefficients in the guide thread, and while it stats 1.02, I'm assuming it's still mostly accurate.
This tells me that cyclones and backlashes don't proc any LoH at all, and so I'm thinking it's possible that leech is better. My main is wd, and nearly all of our LoH aside from acid cloud was nerfed, so I've been used to using leech instead for a while.
I've searched around a little and haven't seen much of an in-depth guide for a backlash build, but I think the skillset is pretty straightforward:
While my main question is whether or not it's best to focus on leech instead of LoH with a backlash build, I'm open to any gearing or skill suggestions as well. take note I just got this monk to 60 and have spent less than 100k on gear, so don't judge me based on that
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Backlash build - Leech better than LoH?
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Re: Backlash build - Leech better than LoH?
Pretty much what I run except I use blinding flash.
From what my use has told me, I still need both LoH and leech. I use only 1 weapon, so my leech may not be good enough to work with it, but leech is definitely more effective with Backlash than even Overawe. Backlash also helps more vs Electrified, Fire Chains, Arcane, Illusion...can't recall if I was able to dodge the floor effects...
Point is, it's every bit as good at leeching as SW. With at least 2 APS, you have 65+ weapon damage per burst. With better attack speed (especially frenzy shrine), it's over 80% damage per. I find that significant.
With skills like FoTs dodge rune, a spammable dodge (Cyclone here, I was thinking Dashing Strike), and dodge passives, you can hit 75+ dodge very easily. With a semi mainstream SW build, I'm sitting on about 55-60, depending on if I'm using fleet footed or not.
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Re: Backlash build - Leech better than LoH?
Having both Loh and Life steal is what i would recommend. Later when you get higher dps you can focus more on Life steal. But keeping a little Loh is not a bad idea.
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Floor effects cannot be dodged. Resolve will be triggered with backlash as well.


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A recent four-part study on the changes in the RN work force by Douglas O. Staiger, PhD, David I. Auerbach, PhD(c) and Peter I. Buerhaus, PhD, RN, FAAN, points to troubling implications for the already-dwindling RN profession.
If you, or someone close to you, were experiencing the first warning signs of a heart attack, would you know what to do? Chances are, the average American would have difficulty answering "yes" to that question, according to a study published earlier this year by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
In New York City, an innovative community-based cancer prevention initiative that utilizes bilingual "patient navigators" to guide participants through the process of receiving a colonoscopy is achieving remarkable results in increasing rates of colon cancer screening and early detection among the city's minority populations.
One of the biggest benefits of attending minority nursing association conferences—in addition to all the networking opportunities, educational programming, CEUs and camaraderie, of course—is getting to visit exhibits filled with booth after booth offering free or low-cost minority health resources that you can take home and start using in your practice right away.
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During the serious nursing shortage of the 1960s and '70s, hundreds of nurses from the Philippines were brought to America to fill RN staffing gaps. Many of these immigrant nurses chose to stay permanently in the U.S. and went on to achieve successful careers as clinicians and nurse educators.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics, American Indian women are 3.5 times more likely to be victims of rape or sexual assault than U.S. women of other races.
Meet Ruby and Pearl, two lovable, grandmotherly African-American ladies who have recently learned that a combination of monthly breast self-exams, regular mammograms and an annual clinical exam can reduce their risk of suffering from breast cancer.
African-American women are three to nine times more likely to suffer from uterine fibroid tumors than Caucasian women.
Just how serious are the nation's drug and pharmaceutical companies about developing new medicines designed to close the gap of unequal health outcomes between African Americans and the white majority?
Influenza and pneumonia season is here again, and that means an estimated 18,000 to 36,000 Americans age 65 and older are at especially high risk of dying from these illnesses this winter.
Is routine bone density testing for women age 65 and older really an effective tool for preventing osteoporosis, the bone-weakening disease that is especially common in women of Asian descent?
The recent discovery of the major susceptibility gene for type 2 diabetes in Mexican Americans—10.6% of whom are inflicted with the disease—is being hailed as a major accomplishment. This finding, previously considered a genetic impossibility, will ultimately result in medical advancement for the treatment of type 2 diabetes.
Diabetes has reached epidemic proportions among Native Americans, according to the American Diabetes Association (ADA). Over 12% of all Indian populations in the United States suffer from type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes. The Pima Indians in Arizona have the highest rate of diabetes in the world—about half of adults between the ages of 30 and 64 are diagnosed with the disease.
On July 1, Susie Walking Bear Yellowtail, RN (1903-1981) became the first American Indian nurse to be inducted into the American Nursing Association's prestigious Hall of Fame.
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Mariek Schmidt '99, a geology major at Colby, is a postdoctoral fellow in the department of mineral sciences at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. After writing her dissertation on North Sister in the Three Sisters volcanic field in Oregon, she joined the mission working with the Mars rover Spirit. She spoke with Colby staff writer Laura Meader about rocks, water, and life on Mars.
How did you become a volcanologist?
Volcanology is just a sub-discipline of geology. One of the first upper-level geology classes you take at Colby is called mineralogy. Each mineral tells a story about how it formed. You look at a rock, it has a particular mineral in it, you could say something about how that rock formed. And you can start to put together a story of that rock or the plate that the rock was formed in.
Volcanology is following that to the next level—it's exciting and it's active. I got into volcanology because I was interested in the chemistry of rocks and the minerals in them.
You're working with the Spirit rover. Aren't there two rovers on Mars?
The Mars rover mission began at two different sites in 2004. They chose these sites thinking they were going to find sedimentary rocks. The Opportunity rover did find sedimentary rock. But the Spirit rover was at Gusev Crater and they thought they were going to find lakeshore deposits and instead they found basaltic lava. Fairly early on in the mission people were kind of disappointed with what Spirit had found, because there wasn't evidence for water. That was the whole goal of the mission, to find evidence of water at that particular crater.
You were brought on to the mission after they found the volcanic rock?
Basically they realized that there are very few people on the mission that could interpret volcanic rock. The other people on the mission who work with chemistry and mineralogy of rock are people who either work on meteorites—so they work on igneous rock but they're rocks that have no geologic context—or they think about things from orbit.
How does a volcano on Mars differ from one on Earth?
The largest volcano in the Solar System is found on Mars. It's called Olympus Mons. It absolutely enormous. It's equivalent in size to the state of Arizona. The reason why that volcano—and others on Mars—is so big is because on Mars there's no plate tectonics.
A volcano like Hawaii is a hot spot volcano. What happens at Hawaii is there's a stream of hot magma that's focused in one place. And we have plates that move over the top of that hot spot on the Earth. Because that plate is moving over the top of it, you have a line of volcanoes that are downstream of it. On Mars there's no plate tectonics. So everything that forms in that one hot spot is built up in one place.
Why are there no plate tectonics on Mars?
It's actually because of the size—it's a smaller planet. Mars is two-thirds the size of the Earth. So basically it's cooled to a point where there's nothing that's driving flow within the mantle anymore.
What was it like studying Mars after working with Earth rocks?
It's been an interesting transition coming from a terrestrial background where I'm used to being able to handle rocks and walk around the field. Now I'm in a field where it's a mission, so there's a lot of people involved. There's engineers, there's planetary geologists, there's meteorists, there's people who develop the instruments. … So I went from a situation where I was a single researcher and then became part of this bigger thing. But I bring to it a different perspective because I had the terrestrial background.
Do you have to vie for attention?
Yeah, we do actually. Let's say the rover is driving someplace and I see a rock that I think is really interesting. In order for that rover to actually go over and examine that rock, I have to come up with a workable plan for that to occur. And not only do I have to come up with a workable plan, I have to come up with a hypothesis for why we would study it.
For example, the Spirit rover has been in a place called Home Plate for almost three years. Home Plate is a platform of bedrock. It's only 80 meters across. And one side of the structure has one kind of mineralogy and the other side of the structure has another kind. So there's what we call a mineralogical gradient across it. I suggested that we do a series of observations using the chemical equipment to analyze the structure along a traverse to track how that mineralogy changes.
There's such a mystique about Mars. What's it like working with Martian rocks?
It's definitely different from working on Earth. On Earth we have so much data—we have existing theories we can work with and, basically, most things we learn on Earth we fit it into our preexisting understanding of the planet. Whereas on Mars we only know information about a handful of sites. We have the orbital view, which is really great right now, but we've only landed successfully in a handful of places.
When you're studying the raw data, is there much difference between data from Earth and Mars?
It's different because the instruments we use are very different. For example on Earth, when I look at terrestrial rocks, a lot of times I'll look at a thin section under a microscope, where you see the mineralogy very, very well and you can see the texture very, very well. But on Mars we can't do that sort of thing. We're basically left with what's visible as the outer surface of the rock.
Do you have a favorite image of Mars or a favorite area?
I'm attached to Home Plate—I've done most of my work on it. My favorite image was one that we took—it was actually taken in black and white—but it was taken at a low sun angle, so it was taken pretty late in the day. Usually when the sun goes down we shut off the rover in order to conserve power, so it's rare to get these kinds of pictures. But what you can see in it are these beautiful shadows across the plate. It's just a stunning image.
Beyond the search for water, are you looking for something specific?
Now we've found water at both sites. At Opportunity rover we found water and it looks like it was a sedimentary system. At the Spirit site we found evidence for water as well and it turns out to be these hydrothermal deposits, which are basically rocks that have been altered by water and volcanic gases. Now we're interested in what the nature of that water is or the nature of those volcanic acids and whether or not they could sustain an environment that could possibly have life. We're getting more of an understanding of environment as opposed to just "is there water?"
Do you think there was once life on Mars?
We haven't found it. I think it's possible.
In what form?
I don't think there's going to be dinosaurs walking around. I'm imagining something more in the lines of scum. Microbes, things that might digest rocks or that might use hydrothermal fluids to get energy. Things like that.
If you had the chance, would you travel to Mars?
(Long pause.) It depends on whether or not I could come back. There's always the possibility that you wouldn't return, and I don't think that my husband would be that happy about that.


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There isn't really a campus life at Ameritech. We are just there to go to school.
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This school is only for certain medical careers. There isn't any of these kinds of facilities here.
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There are no computer labs. They require us to have our own computers. Also the wireless works great sometimes and not so great other times.
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Ameritech has great career placement. I am super excited to see where it takes me in the future.
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The nursing program is really tough, however that's what you can expect from a short termed program with this much information that needs to be learned.
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Celebrity moms unite in support of clean air rules
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Actress Jessica Capshaw (best known for her starring turn on ABC drama "Grey's Anatomy") is the latest celebrity parent to join Moms Clean Air Force, an organization committed to clean air initiatives. The group's current priority: The long sought-after Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for power plants recently published in the Federal Register, which limit the amounts of mercury and other toxins the plants can release into the atmosphere. As reported by Fuel Fix, these new standards have come under attack, most notably by Republican Sen. James Inhofe. He's filed a ruling that seeks to nullify the EPA ruling, which made the standards official last month.
"I've joined Moms Clean Air Force to send a powerful message to Washington that there's only one way to keep poisons out of the air we breathe--and that's to create strong protections," Capshaw said in a press release. "It's time for moms to get the attention of political representatives and remind them that they bear a moral responsibility for cleaning poisons out of our air."


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Okinawa, Japan
The 8th International Workshop on Security, IWSEC2013, will be held at Okinawa, Japan, between 18-20 November, 2013. The proceedings were published as the Springer LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) volume entitled "Advances in Information and Computer Security".
Best Paper Award
Shotaro Sano, Takuma Otsuka and Hiroshi G. Okuno, "Solving Google's Continuous Audio CAPTCHA with HMM-based Automatic Speech Recognition"
Best Student Paper Award
Yun-Ju Huang, Christophe Petit, Naoyuki Shinohara and Tsuyoshi Takagi, "Improvement of Faugère et al.'s method to solve ECDLP"
Best Poster Award
Shota Yamada, Nuttapong Attrapadung, Goichiro Hanaoka, and Noboru Kunihiro, "New Security Proof for a Variant of the BGW Broadcast Encryption Scheme"
Yuntao Wang, Hui Zhang, and Tsuyoshi Takagi, "Improving BKZ Algorithm with Reordering Technique"
What's New
Excursion page is released.
Workshop program w/ chairs
Workshop program is updated.
The proceedings were published as an LNCS volume entitled "Advances in Information and Computer Security" from Springer.
Extended the poster submission deadline
Extended the submission deadline to November 15, 23:59 UTC. See also the CFPo page.
List of posters
List of posters is released.
Hotel Accommodation
Hotel accommodation added to the venue page.
Workshop program
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Keynotes and SCIS/CSS Invited Sessions Released
See also the page about Keynotes and the page about SCIS/CSS Invited Talks.
Call for Posters Released
Call for Posters is released.
Accepted Paper List
Accepted Paper List is released.
Registration information
IWSEC2013 On-line Registration is available.
IWSEC Cup 2013
The page of IWSEC Cup 2013 is released.
Changed the date of notification of decision and the final version due.
New date of notification of decision: July 22, 2013
New final version due: August 17, 2013
Extended the submission deadline
Extended the submission deadline to May 27, 23:59 UTC.
Electronic Submission is started.
Conference topics
Original papers on the research and development of various security topics, as well as case studies and implementation experiences, are solicited for submission to IWSEC 2013. Topics of interest for IWSEC 2013 include but are not limited to:
- Anonymity
- Application Security
- Authentication, Authorization and Access Control
- Biometrics
- Block/Stream Ciphers
- Cloud Computing Security
- Cryptographic Implementations and their Analysis
- Cryptographic Protocols
- Cryptanalysis
- Data and System Integrity
- Database Security
- Digital Forensics
- Digital Signatures
- E-business/e-commerce/e-government Security
- Hash Functions
- Information Hiding
- Information Law and Ethics
- Intellectual Property Protection
- Intrusion Prevention and Detection
- Malware Prevention and Detection
- Mobile System Security
- Network Security
- Privacy Preserving Systems
- Public Key Cryptosystems
- Quantum Security
- Risk Analysis and Risk Management
- Security Architectures
- Security for Consumer Electronics
- Security for Critical Infrastructures
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- Secure Multiparty Computation
- Security for Ubiquitous/Pervasive Computing
- Smart Card and RFID Security
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Sharm El-Sheikh commitments for accelerating the achievement of water and sanitation goals in Africa. The Heads of State and Government of the African Union, meeting at the 11th Ordinary Session of the Assembly in Sharm El-Sheikh, Arab Republic of Egypt, from 30 June to 1 July 2008.
Guide pratique pour techniciens: Assainissement rural (in French)
Improving Sanitation Outcomes through Service Level Agreements: A Guidance Note
Report to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Castalia Limited
Castalia has prepared this Guidance Note to help city-level teams design and implement contractual solutions to improve the delivery of urban sanitation services. To ensure that the contracts provide lasting solutions that overcome the problems encountered in the past, they identify the economic characteristics that make sanitation service delivery particularly challenging. They also explain how contracts can be structured to reflect these characteristics, and how cities can manage the process of procuring and managing service providers.
Reinvent the Toilet Challenge, Delhi, India
Program and Technical Guides
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, USA
Featuring partners of key Government of India ministries, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the fair showcased innovative products and approaches that aim to bring safe, affordable, and sustainable sanitation to those who need it most. These include efforts to create toilets that are not connected to water, sewer, or electricity; to improve the collection, treatment, and disposal of human waste; to address behavior change; and to raise awareness of this critical issue for governments, stakeholders, and local communities. This year's fair in New Delhi was co-hosted by the Government of India's Department of Biotechnology and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, with the support of India's Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Ministry of Urban Development, and Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation. India is uniquely positioned to be a global leader in the development of new sanitation technologies and a range of other innovative approaches to achieve sustainable gains in sanitation in India and abroad. ++++++++++++++ The following projects are included in the Technical Guides with 2-page factsheets: 5 Aerosan 7 American Standard Brands 8 Arghyam 11 Asian Institute of Technology 13 Beijing SunnyBreeze Technology Inc. 15 Biofilcom 17 California Institute of Technology (Caltech) 19 Centre for Advocacy and Research (CFAR) 21 Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT) University 23 Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP) 25 Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi 27 Climate Foundation, Cornell University, Sanergy, Tide Technocrats, and the Prasino Group 29 Cranfield University 31 Defence Research Laboratory, DRDO, Indian Ministry of Defence 33 Delft University of Technology 35 Department of Industrial Design, SPA Delhi 37 Duke University 39 Duke University and the University of Missouri 41 Eawag (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology), Design by EOOS 43 Eram Scientific Solutions Pvt. Ltd. 45 FSOI Development Firms: AGI Engineering, Beaumont Design, DCI Automation, and Synapse Product Development 47 Fundación In Terris and Critical Practices LLC 49 Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur 51 Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR) and Quicksand Design Studio 53 IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre 55 Janicki Industries 57 Loowatt 59 Loughborough University 61 National University of Singapore (NUS) 63 North Carolina State University 65 Pollution Research Group, University of KwaZulu-Natal; eThekwini Water and Sanitation, eThekwini Municipality 67 Population Services International (PSI), Water For People, and PATH 69 RTI International 71 Sanergy 73 Santec 77 SCOPE 75 Sesame Workshop 79 Stone India Limited 81 Sulabh International Social Service Organisation (SISSO); Sulabh Sanitation & Social Reform Movement 83 UNICEF India 85 Unilever 87 University College London and ifak 89 University of Colorado Boulder 91 University of Toronto 93 University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol 95 WASH United and World Toilet Organization 97 World Bank Water and Sanitation Program, International Finance Corporation, and Kenyan Ministry of Health 99 3S – A Division of Saraplast Pvt. Ltd.
A low flush latrine for public schools
Lessons from two school pilots
Pour flush and low flush sanitation systems bridge the gap between on-site dry sanitation and full waterborne sanitation sustainably. Using a small amount of tap water or grey water (1-2.5ℓ) to flush, a pour system can terminate in a simple soak away. This overcomes the problems involved with laying sewers to widely spaced rural homes or tightly spaced informal settlements, represents an large saving of water over regular waterborne sewage – a loss which is compounded if hardware begins to leak -- and provides a number of the benefits of a flush toilet. While pour flush technology is used widely in Asia, it had not been tested in South Africa, and trials with low flush systems had mixed success. The Water Research Commission has developed two new innovations in this regard: • The pour flush pedestal which uses a minimum 1L to flush • The low flush pedestal, based on the pour flush design which uses a 1.5L flush The pour flush system was tested successfully in the field at 20 private homes and at a crèche. However, in order to succeed in an institutional setting such as a school or public ablution facility, the technology would need to include a cistern so that users would not be required to fill buckets in order to flush. This prototype, called the low flush system, was developed, and tested by the WRC.
Sanitation Matters - The sanitation research fund for Africa
A magazine for Southern Africa - Issue No.5 - March 2014
Water Information Network, Gezina, South Africa
We look at the Sanitation Research Fund for Africa (SRFA) Project, a joint fund established by the Water Research Commission and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The purpose of the project is to provide impetus for scientific based knowledge and practical solutions to the many unintended technical and operational challenges of pit latrine technologies in peri-urban areas in sub-Saharan Africa. A total of 8 sub-Saharan countries have been selected for the fund with the first project workshop held from the 30th to 31st January 2014. Water research body the South African Water Research Commission (WRC) will host the first workshop of the $2.5-million Sanitation Research Fund for Africa (SRFA), from January 30 to 31, in Johannesburg, in an effort to stimulate competency and capacity in the area of sanitation on the continent and support the development and upscaling of sanitation solutions. In an effort to respond to the lack of dedicated sources of funding and support for sanitation research and innovation in Africa, the WRC and charity the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation last year launched the SRFA, which would be led and executed by the WRC.
L'infiltration des eaux usées épurées, Guide Pratique (in French)
Infiltration of treated wastewater, practical guide
Projet financé par la Région Wallonne, Direction Générale des Ressources Naturelles et de l'Environnement, Belgium
Guide technique pour les systèmes d'assainissement autonome, Rapport provisoire – version 07 (in French)
Technical guide for off-site sanitation systems, draft report
Royaume du Maroc Office National de l'Eau Potable (ONEP) et FAO
Workshops on Construction of UDDTs in Dayet Ifrah
Report for Programme AGIRE of GIZ, Morocco
This report presents the construction of double vault Urine Diverting Dehydration Toilets (UDDTs) in Morocco. After an introduction on the project and the morrocean context general information on UDDTs is provided in order to give finally detailed step-by-step instruction on the construction of UDDTs. Planning, design, execution and maintenance of the toilets will be described in detail by also considering excreta reuse. The approach to consider excreta and water flows as resources instead of waste is also reflected by including a chapter on greywater treatment from showers, sinks and beigewater from anal cleaning. The three missions to Morocco have been conducted in: 1st mission: December 2009 2nd mission: June 2010 3rd mission: July-Aug 2010 During the 3 missions four different models of UDDTs have been constructed: A: simple model: UDDT, urinal, sink, material: concrete bricks B: UDDT with shower, material: concrete bricks C: UDDT with shower : natural stones D: UDDT with shower: concrete bricks, constructed adjacent to existing house Local masons and dwellers of the project-village Dayet Ifrah were trained. They are now able to design and build UDDTs. During the 2nd mission a major workshop for different stakeholders like NGOs, Office National de l'Eau (ONEP) and other administrations and organisations including gizstaff has been held. The participants of the seminars have been given practical knowledge as well as theoretical background on the construction of UDDTs.
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- Add avocado and cilantro. Toss with romaine lettuce or cooked pasta. Serve immediately.
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Getting Together – Feb. 6
Women's network
Bethel Park Women's Business Network will meet at 6 p.m. Feb. 7 at Al's Cafe. WBN provides personal and professional resources to advance the presence of aspiring and successful business women. For details, call Tamra McKenna at 412-885-5162.
Alpha Omega
Members of Alpha Omega Master chapter, Beta Sigma Phi, will meet Feb. 7 at the home of Carole Legleitner. Valentine's Day will be celebrated Feb. 11 with a brunch at the River's Casino.
Xi Zeta Tau
Members of Xi Zeta Tau will meet at 7 p.m. Feb. 7 at Hibachi Japan and at 7 p.m. Feb. 21 at the home of Brook Cashman for Hearts & Hands. For details, call 412-851-9654.
Valentine's dinner
Laureate Zeta Iota will hold its annual valentine's dinner Feb. 10 at Calabria's in Castle Shannon. Christmas and greeting cards will be collected at the regular meeting on Feb. 21 in the Cochran Hall clubroom, Green Tree.
Western Pennsylvania Lensshooters will meet at 7 p.m. Feb. 13 at Absolute Images, Washington. Andi Kubacki will offer a tour and show how film and digital images are processed into prints. For details, call 724-747-1300.
POWER retreat
POWER of Southpointe will hold a retreat at Nemacolin Woodlands April 12-14.
Professional Organization for Women's Executive Resources, POWER's mission is to provide a dynamic relationship building base for successful, professional women. POWER celebrates diversity and recognizes the importance of building strong, effective women leaders. Events focus on exchanging ideas, learning forums and connections that will advance personal and business goals. For details, visit www.powerofsouthpointe.org.
Hair Peace
Hair Peace Empowerment Group provides support for women with cancer. The group will meet at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 20 at the Community Life Center at Ingomar Methodist Church. Hair Peace Charities raises money to help women who are distressed from the aftermath of chemotherapy. Its main purpose is to buy wigs, but help is provided for women through prayer quilts, meals and cards. The 8th annual benefit, Recipe for Hope, is set for Feb. 23 at the Mayernik Center on Camp Horne Road.
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Bethel Park
• Preschool Storytime, 10 and 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Feb. 8. The program will focus on an alphabet letter each week.
• Shoe Re-Do, 6 p.m. Feb. 13. Bring a pair of shoes and make them look new.
• Honey Bee Mine storytime, 7 p.m. Feb. 14. Stories, songs, crafts, refreshments. Call 412-835-2207.
• Computer Basics, 6:30 p.m. Feb. 7.
• AARP Tax-Aide, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 8. Free tax help for taxpayers with low/moderate income, ages 60 and older.
• Cartooning with Karen Hartman, ages 6-12, 1 p.m. Feb. 9.
• Valentine's Day lecture with Bridgeville historian John Oyler, 7 p.m. Feb. 14.
Call 412-221-3737.
Castle Shannon
• Fitness Frenzy, ages 10-17, 4:30 p.m. through Feb. 27. Zumba, Yoga, Kickboxing, Dancing.
• Movie Days, 11 a.m. Feb. 19 and 7 p.m. Feb. 20. Drama starring Ben Affleck and Alan Arkin.
Call 412-563-4552.
• SAT Math Prep, 5:30 p.m. Feb. 14, 21, 28 and March 7. Fee is $10. Pay $7 before March 2.
• Toddler Wiggle and Dance, 11 a.m. Feb. 15.
• Kids movie, "Brave," 6 p.m. Feb. 15.
Call 724-745-4300.
Mt. Lebanon
• Organizing Paper Clutter with Jill Yesko, 7 p.m. Feb. 11.
• U.S. Army War College Panel, 7 p.m. Feb. 12. Discuss national security issues.
• International Women's Conversation Circles, 10 a.m. Feb. 13. Practice the English language.
Call 412-531-1912.
• Tea with American Girls and parents, 1 p.m. Feb. 9. Doll tea party, craft, stories.
• SAT Prep Workshop, 12:30 p.m. Sundays Feb. 10, 17, 24, March 3. Cost is $175.
• Girls Book Club, grades four-six, 6 p.m. Feb. 11. Read "Mother Daughter Book Club" by Heather Vogel Frederick.
• Tissue Paper Collage/Acrylic Paints, ages 6 1/2-13, 4 p.m. Feb. 12, 19, 26. Cost is $13.
Call 724-941-9430.
• Conversation Salon, 1 p.m. Feb. 11.
• Book Bingo, K-eighth grade, 7 p.m. Feb. 14.
• The Finishers, 5:30 p.m. Feb. 19. Work on sewing, knitting, crafts.
Call 412-429-5380.
South Park
• Knitting Group, 11 a.m. Feb. 16. All levels
• Red/White Tea, 2 p.m. Feb. 20. Bring your teacup. Free.
Call 412-833-5585.
Upper St. Clair
• Valentine's Day Tea, 1 p.m. Feb. 14. Bring tea cups. Treats will be provided.
Call 412-835-5540.
Baldwin Community U.M. Church Preschool will begin registration on Feb. 20 for the 2013-14 term. Programs are available for ages 18 months to 5 years old. To schedule a tour, call 412-440-0509.
• Trinity Weekday School, early 3's, 3's and pre-K, Peters Twp., will hold an open house and registration on Feb. 9 from 9-10:30 a.m. Call 724-941-4771.
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St. Bernard School, Mt. Lebanon, is accepting registrations for preschool and kindergarten offering half and full days for 3 and 4 year olds and five day classes for 4 year olds. Call 412-341-5444 for details.
Volunteers needed
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Pittsburgh welcomes volunteers of all faiths to join hands on a Unity Build Sunday to help others in local communities. For details, call 412-351-0512 ext. 11.
'Far Away Places'
Washington Symphony Orchestra will present "Far Away Places" at 8 p.m. Feb. 9 at Trinity High School. Selections will include "Himalayan Adventure," "April in Paris," and "Hawaii Five-O." The Washington High School Steel Drum Band will also perform. Tickets will be available at the door or call 724-223-9796.
To join Team Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy at the 2013 Pittsburgh Marathon on May 5, visit www.pittsburghparks.org.
Red Velvet social
Pittsburgh Social Exchange will host its third Red Velvet social at 6 p.m. Feb. 20 at the new Hazlett Theater. Mingle and enjoy hors d'oeuvres. The River City Brass Band will entertain. To RSVP, call 412-265-2315.
Volunteer Day
Washington County Parks needs volunteers to help reconstruct part of the Hemlock Trail in Mingo Creek Park. Volunteer Day will take place at 11 a.m. Feb. 9 at the Hemlock Trail parking area. A limited number of tools are available. Volunteers may bring handsaws, pruners, loppers. To register, call 724-228-6867.
Bones for Life
Body and movement awareness are beneficial to keeping the mind and brain fit and flexible for life. The Bones for Life program will be held March 1-4 at the Andrew Carnegie Free Library in Carnegie. Hours are 4-8:30 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday and Monday. BFL is based on the Feldenkrais Method teaching the ease and ability for the brain and body to remain vital. For details, call 412-527-4841.
Community health
Children's Hospital will offer the following programs at UPMC South, Bethel Park:
• Babysitting 101, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Feb. 23, March 16, June 1, July 27. Boys/girls ages 11 and older will learn first aid basics, choking rescue techniques, child development and routine daily care. Cost is $35.
• Sibling Rivalry, 7 p.m. Feb. 28. Parents learn strategies to keep peace. Cost is $5.
To register, call 412-692-7105.
Pie baking
The Pie Place, Upper St. Clair, will offer a kids baking class at 10 a.m. Feb. 9. In celebration of Valentine's Day, ages 4+ will make six "cutie pies."
Cost is $20. To register, call 412-835-4410.
Egg decorating
Capt. Michael Yanchak of the Peters Township Police Department will lead an egg decorating class at noon March 9 in the community room. Yanchak will continue the tradition of psanky, the traditional Ukrainian art of adorning eggs. Cost is $15/resident and $23/nonresident. Register by Feb. 15 at the recreation center. For details, call 724-942-5000.
Teen classes
Pittsburgh Glass Center will offer high school glassblowing classes beginning the first week in February in its state-of-the-art studios. For details, call 412-365-2145.
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The project was covering a canvas with newspaper "flowers." It's insanely simple, and only takes a couple of newspapers, an old canvas (recycle a used one, if you want) and lots of glue. And I mean a lot.
I really like the idea of paying homage to my profession through art, but I didn't really feel like covering a canvas for my project. Instead, I had a boring pleated lampshade that really needed an update, so I just substituted that for a canvas.
To begin, I cut the cord out of the top of the shade, which gave it a cylindrical shape instead of its normal cone shape. Using a hot glue gun, I covered the inside and out with flat sheets of newsprint, folding it over the edges and gluing on the inside of the shade.
To make the flowers, I tore 2-inch strips down the length of the newspaper, twisted them loosely, then wound them into rosebud-like flowers around my index finger. The strips don't need to all be the same size — different widths of strips will make different size flowers, as will how tightly you twist the strips (looser for bigger flowers, tighter for smaller).
(Watch what you touch while you are doing this project, because your hands will get dirty.)
Once a flower was twisted up, I secured the loose end with a dab of glue. Then I glued the completed flower to the lampshade.
If I had it to do over again, I wouldn't cover the entire shade with flowers, because it limits the light a little too much. It took about 80 flowers to cover this lampshade; it would probably take the same amount to cover a small canvas.
I love how this ended up looking — a modern piece, with a little twist. OK, with a lot of twists! There are little bursts of color throughout the piece (from a Food Outlet ad, I believe). But the best thing is that this project cost me absolutely nothing — although I do have to replenish my supply of hot glue sticks.
Instead of tossing this Sunday paper in the recycling box — or the trash — take a little time and create some art.
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