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On a cold Qubec morning, my sister started her Maxima 2000. The engine ran roughly for a few minutes, and then, ran smoothly from that point on. The ®Service Engine SoonÆ light came on.
She drove to a dealership for a diagnostic. They pulled codes P1320 and P1211 (I have not found the meaning of this latter code). Apparently there was no P030x code to point to the offending cylinder.
The service attendant told her that one of the ignition coil was defective, and others could follow. The ECU COULD EVEN BE DAMAGED BY THE FAILURE of an ignition coil!...
Depending on her car to go to work, she heeded the service attendant advice (is it an advice or a high-pressure sales tactic?)! $$$!!
By googling this newsgroup, I became aware that ignition coil failures occur relatively frequently in 5th generation Maximas. Apparently Nissan did not make any recall. The customer has to pay...
Some think that, when it occurs, all six coils should be replaced. Others think that only the defective coil should be replaced.
I know it is difficult to design circuitry involving magnetic components but if the ECU COULD EVEN BE DAMAGED BY THE FAILURE of an ignition coil, that is very BAD ENGINEERING.
Personnally, I think that such a Maxima with a defective ignition coil can be driven at low speed without causing a causing a catastrophic engine failure. What is your opinion?
Thank in advance.
You said it: ..."highpressure sales tactic?)! $$$!!"
Lets not burn our fuses: - Greed is not local, but GlobAll. - Greenpees expand greed to GlobAll War-M-UP-ppet$how, we pay that in taxes (here 90%)
Buy one coil from the net, DIY swap. ECU will eventually fry anyway during next 100yrs. Dont worry about what mean men say :)
At our dealership we leave it up to the customer if they want to do all 6 or just the 1 coil. Usually a few months later another cylinder code will show up and we replace another coil. I have yet to see an ECM damaged by a bad coil so I don't think your ECM is damaged.
Mark I http://nissanhelp.cjb.net
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How Switzerland made history with green economy vote
This weekend, Switzerland made world history, even though not as much as we would have liked.
Switzerland was the first country to vote on whether to implement a green economy. The green economy ballot initiative encouraged resource efficiency and implementation of a circular economy. On top of that, it set a specific goal – to reduce Switzerland's resource consumption to a level that could be replicated worldwide. Currently we would need three Earths if everybody lived like the Swiss. The goal in the ballot initiative was to get to one Earth by 2050.
The Swiss constitution already recognizes the need to live within the means of nature. Article 73 states that the "Confederation and the Cantons shall endeavour to achieve a balanced and sustainable relationship between nature and its capacity to renew itself and the demands placed on it by the population." But it does not set a deadline to achieve this goal.
The initiative created debate, some of which is documented on our new website (mostly German), www.achtung-schweiz.org (watch out, Switzerland). However, the biggest confusion in the debate was the following: is it in the self-interest of Switzerland to act aggressively?
A positive starting point was that most parties recognized the need to manage our resources carefully and that we have to live, ultimately, within the means of the planet – particularly if the "we" is humanity. Proponents claimed that to reach the 2-degrees Celsius goal adopted in the Paris climate agreement, Footprint reductions were required. They also argued that most innovations are spurred by ambitious goals, and that Switzerland's environmental achievements in clean water and air were accelerated by aggressive political targets.
The green economy campaign was careful to not push fear, but to make it a positive, friendly, fun proposition. The opponents played the fear card, calling the initiative "expensive green coercion." They said it would lead to cold showers (www.gruener-zwang.ch) and an import stop for cocoa. Opponents argued that 2050 is too soon, and that the transformation would be too harsh for the Swiss economy.
Interestingly enough, economic actors were divided. Some vigorously opposed while others, such as IKEA, favored a one-planet economy.
How did the vote turn out?
Early on, polling showed substantial positive interest, but as voters got closer to casting their ballot, the fear of change eroded the early advantage. Still, 36% of voters cast a "yes" for living within the means of one planet. Geneva was the only canton in Switzerland with a majority in favor of the initiative.
The fact that a country would hold such a vote, and that so many recognize the need for a significant shift in the way we use resources is a global historical precedent. We regret how little this significant debate was covered in world news. It is these topics we need to discuss when exploring how to build a future that works for all within the means of our one and only planet (until Elon Musk brings us to Mars…).
Carbon Footprint, Ecological Limits, Footprint for Government
Big Ideas: Footprint calculator sparks provocative discussions at universities worldwide
Kirsten Balding at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, is a huge advocate of using Global Footprint Network's Ecological Footprint calculator to teach students about sustainability. "It is a really engaging way for students to measure their consumption of resources," says Balding. "It's a very clear and simple way of communicating a complex concept—that also presents solutions too!"
And she doesn't just refer to the calculator in a single class session of her sustainability course, but refers to the results over the entirety of the course.
From Australia to the United States, university students and teachers across the world have contacted Global Footprint Network over the years to praise and offer ideas for improving the Ecological Footprint calculator.
It's not only in environmental science courses that the Footprint calculator is proving a thought-provoking instructional tool. Jessica Piekielek, who teaches sociology and anthropology at Southern Oregon University, has taken advantage of the calculator in her Introduction to Cultural Anthropology class to talk about global population growth, development, and social inequality. "I especially appreciate that students can experiment with calculating Footprints based in other countries, so that we can compare results and discuss," she notes.
Balding from RMIT University echoes that sentiment. The calculator, she says, "helps students understand the relevance of sustainability and global ecological overshoot to their own lives and careers, making them realize that sustainability and climate change is their problem too—and not something to leave to 'someone else'."
Guénola Nonet, who is a professor in Management and Public Administration at Nova Southeastern University in the United States, uses the Footprint calculator to teach graduate students about sustainability. "The Footprint calculator is fun, insightful and students love using it. We use it to look not only at the mean of the entire class's Footprint but also students' individual Footprints. Their comments are astonishing," Nonet says. "I'm always happy to see the awareness it helps create and often receive comments like 'I thought I was doing well… Now I see my true impact.'"
University students have been as enthusiastic as instructors about the calculator. Currently available in 11 languages for 16 countries, the calculator is used by both undergraduate and graduate level students for research and other school work.
Students at the Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL) in Ecuador research their personal Ecological Footprint. Heydi Fuentes, a student at ESPOL, prefers Global Footprint Network's Footprint calculator because it includes several lifestyle choices and leads to more precise Footprint results.
Elfe Marschall, a student at the School of Visual Arts in New York, wrote, "I find [the calculator] very fascinating and have told my friends and family to check it out!"
Amanda M. Onley-Willette, a student at Midlands Technical College, highlighted the comprehensiveness of the calculator, "especially at the end when the program gives you different suggestions on how you can improve your Footprint." She added, "Maybe if we got together and collaborated among our different communities, we could come up with more ways to reduce our Footprint as a whole along with ways to improve one's personal impact."
Indeed, in a future update of the calculator, Global Footprint Network aims to show the effects of scaling individual action to a larger national or even global level. We also hope to create a new version of the calculator that works on mobile devices.
Please share your experience using the calculator with us at email@example.com or consider supporting the calculator by making a donation at www.footprintnetwork.org/donate.
Carbon Footprint, Ecological Limits, Personal Footprint
One-planet living: Switzerland's next commitment?
On September 25, Swiss voters will head to the polls to decide on a bold initiative to put Switzerland on the path of a green economy. Initiated by members of the Green Party and the Social Democrats, this ballot initiative builds on the Ecological Footprint: If passed, it will incorporate the sustainable use of natural resources into the country's constitution, and becoming the first country in the world to commit to one-planet living by 2050.
Switzerland currently consumes four times what Swiss ecosystems can regenerate. And if everyone in the world lived like the Swiss, we would need 3.3 planets.
To reach one-planet living by 2050, the Swiss would have to reduce their average per-person Ecological Footprint by more than two thirds, to at most 1.7 global hectares. This is the current capacity of the world's renewable resources on a per-person basis. (The target would actually fall even further if populations globally continue to rise.)
The Swiss initiative also calls for a "circular economy strategy," including measures to adopt new product regulations, encourage recycling, and promote research and innovation.
"Our initiative does not want to slow down growth. We aim for an economic system capable of producing goods with a long life and with as little waste as possible to give just one example," stated Regula Rytz, parliamentarian and president of the Green party.
The initiative's proponents have made clear they envision Switzerland becoming a sustainability pioneer and promoting a groundbreaking economic model, including a tax policy tied to the use of natural resources.
The initiative is hotly contested. The Federal Council (central government) and the Parliament have officially voiced their opposition. They argue that 2050 is too soon to achieve one-planet living without risking jeopardizing the Swiss economy in the process. Their argument can be found here.
On the other hand, if the world, and Switzerland live up to the 2°C climate goal set by the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, the world would have exit fossil fuels before 2050. If the rest of the Ecological Footprint would not change, cutting the carbon Footprint to zero would reduce the Ecological Footprint by nearly 75% and meet the Swiss Initiative's target. ETZ Zurich Professor Anton Gunzinger shows that this is possible, and even economically beneficial. (www.kraftwerkschweiz.ch)
Recent polls indicate that some 60% of voters support the initiative. With one month before the vote, the public debate in Switzerland is expected to be a heated one between now and then.
One of the biggest questions remains, whether such a transition is too costly (as argued by the opponents) or whether such a transition is an economic necessity for Switzerland's long term viability (as viewed by the proponents). Global Footprint Network will explore these questions in an event in Bern on September 19 (18:00-20:00). If you are interested in participating, contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
Carbon Footprint, Ecological Limits, Footprint for Government
How do we measure sustainable development? Two new indexes, two very different views
It's been a busy day for launching new country rankings. Today (July 20), the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) released a 427-page report ranking countries by 77 indicators tied to the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals approved last year. The SDG index averages countries' performance on those goals. Each goal is assessed by a mélange of indicators, including poverty and obesity rate, traffic deaths, literacy rate, seats held by women in national parliament, access to water and electricity, unemployment, mobile broadband subscriptions, wastewater treatment, and carbon emissions.
How does compliance with the UN Sustainable Development Goals SDGs square with achieving development that can be sustained within the means of our planet? Ultimately, to be sustainable, development need to fit within our planet's resource budget. Therefore sustainable development can be mapped as development achievement, on the on hand, and resource demand, on the other.
The graph below summarizes the results. It shows the position of the top and bottom 10 countries on the SDG index in terms of their Human Development Index scores and their Ecological Footprints.
The United Nations Human Development Index (HDI) measures a country's average achievements in the areas of health, knowledge, and standard of living. An HDI higher than 0.8 is considered "very high human development." The Ecological Footprint tells us how much of the earth's bioproductive areas are needed to provide for that development. An Ecological Footprint less than 1.7 global hectares per person makes a country's resource demands globally replicable.
What this graph shows is that fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals is no guarantee for sustainability. The top-ranked nations on the SDG index all have high Ecological Footprints. If everyone in the world lived like them, we would need more than three planets. In fact, it seems that there may be a tension as material development achievements are far more prominent in the SDGs than the need to preserve the underlying natural capital.
This leads us to the second sustainability index that came out today: the Happy Planet Index from the New Economics Foundation. This index has far fewer ingredients than the SDSN index: The HPI is based on a ratio of a country's wellbeing measurements (such as life expectancy, equality and satisfaction) divided by its Ecological Footprint. It measures who gets the best lives per unit of renewable natural resource.
The Happy Planet Index results differ markedly from the SDSN index: The top country is Costa Rica, home to amazing biodiversity and residents who have higher well-being than the residents of many higher-income countries, including the US and the UK. Residents in Costa Rica also live longer than Americans. All this is achieved with an Ecological Footprint per person that is one third of the American Ecological Footprint and a GDP per capita that is less than a quarter of that of many Western European and North American countries.
Perhaps the adage money doesn't buy happiness holds true after all. Or does the SDSN index suggest otherwise?
Ecological Limits, Footprint for Government, Human Development, Our Partners' Work
Global Footprint Network's Footprint Calculator Scores High Marks in High Schools
Reports card's out! High schools around the world are starting to integrate the Footprint calculators into their curriculums. Governments and organizations, including the United Nations and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, are also catching on to the importance of environmental education in meeting long-term sustainability goals.
So how did today's students do on the quiz? Teachers found that students were often times surprised at how large their Footprint was compared to others, leaving even the most eco-conscious students wondering what more they can do to protect Earth. By putting into perspective their own footprints, students can understand their personal impact on the world's resources and begin to make choices that will collectively change the course of our future.
Educators have also praised the calculator for its animated components, echoing the sentiment that being able to communicate information visually helped teach sustainability to students in a digestible way. The calculator uses Global Footprint Network's methodology to determine how many planets it takes to sustain each user's lifestyle.
"Instead of giving just the pounds of carbon, the number of planets helped them understand what their number actually translated to in real life," noted Robin Dick (pictured at right), a teacher at Sunny Hills High School in Fullerton, California. "After they saw how much transportation of food had an effect on their planet number, [students] realized the importance of locally grown produce," Dick added.
With its animated simulations, the quiz is essentially an interactive computer game that is much more appealing to students than a worksheet crowded with numbers and facts, making it an effective and engaging tool for educators in the classroom.
"I used the calculator for my AP environmental science class. I really liked it and so did my students. They loved building their avatars," Karen Jackson, a teacher at Hobbs High School in Hobbs, New Mexico, told us via email.
Two million people took the online Ecological Footprint quiz last year. We hope this is a sign of the emergence of a global ecological worldview and we are excited for the integration of sustainability into more education initiatives. Going forward, we are looking to update the current calculator to work on mobile phones.
Carbon Footprint, Ecological Limits, Personal Footprint
Can China transform into an ecological civilization?
Creating an economy that operates in harmony with nature is the centerpiece of China President Xi Jinpig's vision of transforming the country into an ecological civilization.
Can China become such a civilization?
To find out, we engaged with the Province of Guizhou. We are launching the results of our close collaboration with the province on Wednesday, July 6, at the EcoForum Global conference with a report titled "The Guizhou Footprint Report: Metrics for an Ecological Civilization."
Without a doubt, China is facing steep challenges: growing resource demand far beyond its own ecological resources and services; heavy dependence on fossil fuels; and growing expectations among citizens, with many people, particularly in rural areas, still needing to be lifted out of harsh economic conditions.
The Guizhou Footprint Report was created with financial support from the Swiss government. With mountainous ecosystems, rich biodiversity, and diverse people, Guizhou Province is a unique region of China that shares geographic similarities with Switzerland. So the report also includes a comparison of the two countries, China and Switzerland.
Here are some findings that highlight the challenges that Guizhou is facing:
- In 2012, With a per capita annual income of 18,700 yuan (2,852 US dollars) and Ecological Footprint of 1.72 global hectares (gha) per capita, Guizhou has the fifth lowest per capita income among China's provinces and the sixth lowest per capita Ecological Footprint. The Ecological Footprint averages 3.4 global hectares per person in China and 5.8 global hectares per person in Switzerland. The latest findings in this report, indicate the Ecological Footprint has grown to 1.98 gha per capita.
- In Guizhou, 51% of the Footprint comes from private and government sector investment in lasting assets while the remaining 49% of the Footprint comes from household consumption, which includes food, housing, mobility, and goods and services. In China, 47% of the Footprint comes from private and government sector investment while the remaining 53% comes from household consumption. By contrast, in Switzerland, 29% of the Footprint comes from private investment and 71% comes from household consumption.
- Guizhou's score on the U.N. Human Development Index (HDI), which measures human well-being, was calculated to be 0.62, which is below the goal of 0.7 for high development and below the average in China, at 0.73.
Our work in Guizhou builds on the China Ecological Footprint Reports published by WWF China in collaboration with Global Footprint Network. Together, Global Footprint Network and WWF China are approaching other provinces in China about incorporating the Ecological Footprint into their work. Our next meeting is with the province of Sichuan.
Global Footprint Network also has a close relationship with the China Academy of Sciences (IGSNRR). There already have been dozens (if not more) Ecological Footprint papers published in international scientific journals by Chinese academics. Global Footprint Network is seeking to accelerate the Chinese academic leadership in applying and furthering Ecological Footprint accounting.
For more information about our work in China, visit www.zujiwangluo.org or www.chinafootprint.org. Download the Guizhou Footprint Report in English here or in Chinese here. A two-page summary of the report is also available in Chinese here.
Carbon Footprint, Ecological Limits, Footprint for Business, Footprint for Government, Our Partners' Work
Can the UK survive on its own?
In the wake of the stunning Brexit vote results, we ask, what does it take to the support the UK's demand for natural resources? Consider this:
The UK's forest land only covers 3% of UK resident's demand for forest products and carbon emissions sequestration. Carbon emissions from fossil fuel use make up 63 percent of the UK's overall demand for nature, or its Ecological Footprint.
If the UK used all of its forests for forest products only (and nothing for carbon sequestration), they would meet only 27% of UK residents' demand for forest products, including timber for building and paper. This means that nearly three-quarter of the UK's demand for forest products is met by other countries.
The UK's grazing lands meet only 42% of UK residents' demand for grazing products – primarily meat and dairy. More than half of the demand is met by resources beyond its borders.
The UK covers 72% of its demand for crops with resources within its borders. In other words, it is relying on the resources of other countries to meet more than one quarter (28%) of its citizens demands for crops.
Overall, the UK requires 3.8 times more than what the UK's ecosystems can renew including the sequestration of carbon from fossil fuel use. If all fossil carbon was magically sequestered, the UK would still require 1.4 UKs to meet its citizens' remaining demand, leaving no space for wild species inhabiting the UK.
Even after the vote, the UK is far from independent. It seems that the Brits may be underestimating their reliance on the rest of the world to meet their demand for natural resources.
Carbon Footprint, Ecological Limits
Making conservation everybody's business through Verified Conservation Areas
To mark International Day for Biological Diversity, Global Footprint Network is proud to support its partner Earthmind's innovative program to boost ecosystems' restoration and biodiversity conservation around the world, mitigating the Ecological Footprint.
What if conserving biodiversity wasn't just the prerogative of national parks and protected areas? What if conserving biodiversity and restoring ecosystems could also be the responsibility of every local government, every business, every community and every individual with stewardship over a productive piece of land? And what if we could recognize and encourage communities, companies and others who conserve nature?
This vision is no pie in the sky. It has been guiding the Verified Conservation Areas (VCA) Approach launched two years ago by Francis Vorhies, the former CEO of Earthwatch Institute Europe and Chief Economist of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
"To protect our planet, we need to conserve through management, not just legislation. The VCA approach is about supporting and promoting the sustainable management of productive landscapes, including farms, forests, and even golf courses—not just national parks," explains Dr. Vorhies, a conservation veteran.
Global Footprint Network and Earthmind, the organization founded by Dr. Vorhies, are partnering in order to implement and promote the VCA approach as an inclusive measure for area-based conservation.
How the VCA idea works
The VCA approach is a voluntary program for recognizing area-based conservation. It offers transparency and accountability to area managers thoroughly listing VCAs on a public registry. Access to the VCA Registry is set out in the VCA Standard, which details what needs to be done to get and remain listed.
To register an area, a VCA-compliant conservation management plan and associated third-party audit are required. To remain listed, an annual conservation performance report and associated audit is required. VCA plans, reports and audits are all publicly available on the Registry to inform stakeholders, including funders of the area's conservation efforts and outcomes.
"It is very hard today to recognize sustainable land management efforts in the private sector or by local communities. Yet a recognition label can go a long way toward building up conservation as an asset," Dr. Vorhies explains.
In fact, the VCA Registry is designed to make it easier to "buy conservation." Environmentally minded consumers (individuals or organizations) can discover what suppliers of goods and services deserve their business because of their conservation efforts. Or they can identify VCA projects they wish to donate to or invest in.
"Our goal is to create a supply of conservation projects around the world that people anywhere can support," says Dr. Vorhies. "We hope to turn conservation into an area for beneficial transaction opportunities to mitigate ecological overshoot."
Vorhies is careful to stress that the definition of "conservation" used in the concept of a Verified Conservation Area is the one presented in the path-breaking 1980 IUCN World Conservation Strategy document. It includes not only restoration but also the "sustainable utilization" of land as a "positive" action "embracing preservation" for the sake of future generations.
As an example, a recent VCA project proposal was issued by the Dutch water company Vitens and five other landowners. The area is a narrow, 15-hectare strip of land called Lizards Lane in the Netherlands to be developed and managed as an ecological heathland corridor to enhance the viability of local populations of amphibians and reptiles. A detailed plan will have to be submitted within two years for the project to be listed as "registered."
Other registered VCAs include a marine area in Yemen (fish pictured at top), a 250,000 restored wilderness conservancy in Mozambique.
Seeking critical mass
Boosting conservation efforts on the global scale is nothing short of a pressing priority. Growing human population and increasing levels of prosperity keep intensifying the pressures on biodiversity. Current conservation efforts are insufficient to address the ever-increasing global Ecological Footprint.
On the bright side, the global community has committed to conserving 17 percent of terrestrial areas and to restoring 15 percent of degraded ecosystems by 2020 under the international Strategic Plan for Biodiversity. This commitment was reconfirmed in the Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the UN in September 2015.
Furthermore, the International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group that finances and provides advice for private sector ventures and projects in developing countries, has included eight environmental performance standards in its lending policy. Performance Standard 6 addresses biodiversity conservation and sustainable management of living natural resources.
"The current international policy framework is technically sufficient to allow for the acceleration of conservation efforts everywhere. What we mainly need at this stage is transparency, accountability and scaling up of best practice," points out Sebastian Winkler, Vice President Programme and Outreach at Global Footprint Network. He also helps with VCA development efforts.
The challenge ahead is as daunting as the opportunity. Since launching the VCA initiative about two years ago, Dr. Vohries and his team have attracted a dozen of projects on four continents to its registry. The initiative has been relying solely on the support of the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, and is seeking a wider funding base to grow its clout and expand its reach.
Fortunately, the tipping point may be at hand. Conversations with financial institutions including Credit Suisse are picking up momentum. Investment facility Althelia Ecosphere recently expressed interest in piloting VCA projects in its portfolio. And if the team's development efforts follow their due course, the two-year experiment may blossom as early as the end of this month into a full-fledged global initiative backed by governments and international agencies.
All eyes on the second session of the United Nations Environmental Assembly
Less than a month ago, Dr. Vorhies hosted a side event at the 20th meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA-20) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), an international body created in 1993 in the wake of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, Brazil. The 40 participants in attendance, who were comprised of government and international NGO representatives, showed keen interest in VCA's conservation solution.
Dr. Vorhies and his team are intent on capitalizing on that surge of interest quickly. Eight months after the Sustainable Development Goals were adopted in New York, the United Nations is reconvening this week in Nairobi (UNEA-2) to discuss budgets and priorities with regard especially to further sustainable production and consumption. The goal is to have VCA taken in consideration as an official UN-approved tool to protect biodiversity, with a view to have it introduced at the 13th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP13) to the CBD this December in Cancun, Mexico.
UNEA-2, we hope, will prove pivotal for VCA, thanks to the official endorsement by a non-European—yet to be announced—government, and the public launch of the VCA Coalition by a multi-stakeholder group.
Stay tuned.
UPDATE (May 28, 2016): The VCA Coalition was launched on May 27 in Nairobi at the signing ceremony of this Letter of Intent. All partners are committed to helping promote, further develop and secure the sustained and increase use of the VCA Approach as a contribution to sustainable land management in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Ecological Limits, Our Partners' Work, Personal Footprint
Celebrating Trees on Earth Day
Together with our partner Earth Day Network, we're happy to give trees a special nod today.
At Global Footprint Network, we have a soft spot for trees and forests. They are an essential pool of biodiversity. And they are one of our most important ecological assets: A whopping 70 percent of humanity's Ecological Footprint is comprised of demand for forest products (paper, timber, etc.) and carbon capture, an ecological service that forests provide.
In fact, even if the whole Earth were covered with forests, we still wouldn't have enough to meet our current demand for their products and services…Besides, we obviously need to leave some productive land available for crops to feed us.
Carbon Footprint, Ecological Limits, Our Partners' Work
Imagine happiness treading lightly on the Earth
How did you celebrate UN World Happiness Day last Sunday? All of us had plenty to chew on with the release of the World Happiness Report 2016—the fourth edition since 2012. Prepared by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, an international panel of economists, psychologists and public health experts convened by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, the happiness ranking of 156 countries was based on individual responses to a global poll conducted by Gallup.
The scholars found that three-quarters of the variation across countries could be explained by six variables: gross domestic product per capita (the rawest measure of a nation's wealth); healthy years of life expectancy; social support; trust (as measured by perceived absence of corruption in government and business); perceived freedom to make life choices; and generosity (as measured by donations).
The glaring omission on this list is the significance of resource consumption. Yet combining the Happiness Index and Ecological Footprint data on one graph reveals interesting patterns.
Ecological Limits, Human Development, Personal Footprint


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Regular season wraps up for wrestlers, regionals next
Hayden and Soroco both go to Grand Junction for their regional, while Steamboat heads to Montrose. Regional action gets underway late Friday afternoon and will conclude Saturday.
Steamboat football's move to 2A is official
Steamboat's league will look a lot different from recent years, but with some familiarity as well. Currently dubbed "Conference F," the Sailors will play in a league with Aspen, Basalt, Coal Ridge, Roaring Fork and Moffat County.
Hayden girls lapse at West Grand
It wasn't that it was bad, Hayden High School girls basketball coach Michelle Wilkie said Saturday. It was just that, in a road game at West Grand, her team didn't play as well as it had the night prior.
Hayden boys fall at West Grand
The Hayden High School boys basketball team continues to fall short in games, but coach Gerard Geis said his boys continue to impress him.
Hayden boys show improvement in loss
The Hayden High School boys basketball team lost Friday night, 44-28, at home against North Park.
Hayden girls close, just short in home game
It wasn't a win, not quite, but the way things have been going, Hayden High School girls coach Michelle Wilkie said she was happy to have it.
Hayden wrestlers defend home mats
Both the Hayden and Soroco high school wrestling teams have strong wrestlers, but the two teams' Thursday night clash in a triangular didn't yield much of a matchup. The two teams matched up at just a single weight class. Fortunately for the gathered fans, it was a good one.
High school sports weekend preview for Feb. 4 to 6
The weekend gets going Thursday when Hayden wrestling hosts Soroco and West Grand for a triangular. All six Routt County basketball teams also have home games either Friday or Saturday.
Saints too much for Hayden girls
The potential is there for the Hayden High School girls' basketball team, and according to coach Michelle Wilkie, reaching it is just a matter of the players putting it all together at the same time.
Hayden boys can't keep up with Saints
The Tigers lost 53-19, improving the Saints to 9-4 overall. Hayden, led by six points from Ethan Kern, fell to 0-10 with the loss.
Shorthanded Hayden girls snap skid in win over Dragons
Hayden High School junior Grace Wilkie is mature enough to know the verbal lashing the girls' basketball team received from her mother, coach Michelle Wilkie, after the first quarter of Friday's game against De Beque was more than fair.
Hayden boys fall to winless De Beque
Both teams entered the contest looking for the first victory of the season, and it was De Beque, now 1-12, that came away with the 52-35 win in Hayden.
High school sports weekend preview for Jan. 28 to 30
Action gets underway Thursday with the Soroco basketball teams hosting Vail Christian. The Steamboat Springs High School Alpine and wrestling teams also compete Thursday, on the road.
Hayden, Soroco wrestling compete in Paonia
The tournament included some of the top ranked teams in the state.
Hayden boys continue to see improvement in loss to Mustangs
There were moments, most coming in the first quarter of Friday's game against visiting West Grand, in which the Hayden High School boys' basketball team didn't look like itself.


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Has Spring arrived?
Gavin C
It may be early April but there is still a touch of winter lingering on. April showers consist of hail and snow which isn't much of a surprise given the temperatures, with the dam in full flow after a night of heavy rain. Despite the cold, signs of Spring have certainly arrived with frogs spawn...
8 Apr 2016
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Strange goings on
Gavin C
This week there has been a few odd goings on. They have not been particularly rare occurrences but unusually for one reason or another. Probably the strangest find was an unusual singing Willow Warbler along the Yellow Trail. Generally it was singing like a typical Willow Warbler , but occasionally it...
25 May 2015
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Gavin C
It has been quite a quiet week mainly due to the weather which has now become very wet as well as cold. The lake has certainly been topped up and is again overtopping the dam. However bank holiday Monday was a nice day and there was plenty to see around the reserve on my day off. A walk along the first...
9 May 2015
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Gone a bit cold!
Gavin C
This week has seen a significant drop in temperature with snow, hail and freezing overnight temperatures experienced. Having had a mostly warm April a lot of wildlife will have been prompted to start breeding, so this sudden cold snap could cause them problems. Eggs could get chilled, adults may struggle...
2 May 2015
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Migrant Arrivals
Gavin C
From late March the summer migrants start to arrive back at Lake Vyrnwy, often a little later than the surrounding area given its altitude. The first migrant to arrive was the Chiffchaff during the last week in March and can now be heard all around the lake and a Redstart was reported just off the reserve...
11 Apr 2015
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Lake Vyrnwy Recent Sightings 27th July- 2nd August 2014
Adam J
Hi, As we enter the month of August the majority of woodland birds have finished nesting and small passerines have started to form mixed feeding flocks. Catching up with a mixed flock along a hedgerow or in a woodland can be particularly rewarding with resident birds such as Goldcrest , Blue Tit and...
3 Aug 2014
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Lake Vyrnwy Recent Sightings 17th -23rd May 2014
Adam J
Hi, The dawn chorus is one of Britain's greatest natural wonders, this week we set our alarm clocks early and headed out with visitors to experience the Vyrnwy chorus. The group weren't left disappointed as hundreds of woodland birds filled the air with music on what turned out to be a...
24 May 2014
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Lake Vyrnwy Recent Sightings 26th April-2nd May 2014
Adam J
Hi, Spring has finally taken a firm grasp on the reserve with Bluebells and Greater Stitchwort flowering in the woodlands, Welsh Poppies around buildings and Garlic Mustard along the hedgerows. Robin , Mistle Thrush , Song Thrush and Blackbird are frantically probing the ground for juicy invertebrates...
3 May 2014
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Lake Vyrnwy Recent Sightings 19th-25th April 2014
Adam J
Hi, The first Cuckoo of the year was heard singing from the Yellow Trail (21 st ) with singing males also heard from the Purple and Red Trails during the week. The first and only Common Whitethroat was sighted on the Red Trail (25 th ) whilst Wood Warbler (first returning bird 22nd) tallied 3 males...
27 Apr 2014
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Lake Vyrnwy Recent Sightings 31st March- 11th April 2014
Adam J
Hi, After late March's large Chiffchaff arrival spring bird migration slowed through the first week of April and with fog and rain dominating this probably wasn't too big a surprise. The conservation team are a committed bunch however and whilst out and about on the reserve managed to...
12 Apr 2014
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Its all happening!!
Roger Whiteway
Been away at the Members Conference for the last few days - well worth going - lookout for details and book for next year! Well its all happening in my absence! An Osprey has been seen on and off for the past three weeks, and an Otter at the Lakeside hide, currently our "Date with Nature"...
21 Apr 2010
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Migrate with us!
Roger Whiteway
Monday 31st May, 8:00 am to 10:00 am, Migrant Discovery Walk - nothing to do with patrolling the nation's borders, just a Bank Holiday Monday saunter through the wood and up the hill to renew acquaintance with tiny travellers back from incredible journeyings. A little party of early breakfasters...
6 Jun 2010
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Ukraine crisis prompts security rethink in Europe
STOCKHOLM -- After the Cold War, Sweden refocused its national security strategy to give more weight to deployments in faraway conflict zones and even nonmilitary challenges like climate change. Critics who dwelled on a Russian threat were dismissed as dinosaurs.
They are now having an "I-told-you-so" moment.
"An obvious misjudgment," said former Swedish defense minister Mikael Odenberg, who resigned in 2007 to protest military spending cuts.
Russia's readiness to use military force in Ukraine has been a wake-up call for many European countries, which since the Iron Curtain crumbled have slashed military spending.
Some shifted their priorities toward international missions in Afghanistan and elsewhere rather than deterring potential aggression from the East.
Now, a serious recalibration is underway, particularly in countries with memories of Soviet tanks rumbling across their borders.
"If we don't do something quickly about it, some of our capabilities will be degraded to such an extent that they cease to exist," Czech armed forces chief Petr Pavel warned last week at a conference marking the 15th anniversary of his country's entry into NATO.


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Another new video has come our way for F.E.A.R. 3, and this one gives gamers a deeper look into the scoring system. Players can choose to work together while playing co-op to achieve the best group score or work separately, secretly stealing from and backstabbing each other for kills and points.
In Alma's family, competition is deadly! One way that gamers will be able to rack up the points is through the game's "challenge system", which rewards players for approaching the game with different gameplay styles.
Set to release on the Xbox 360, PS3, and Windows PC in June, F.E.A.R. 3 is a heart-pounding paranormal first-person shooter unleashing intense combat, compelling narrative, and co-op play that evolves the franchise. Alma returns in F.E.A.R. 3, but this time her sons, Point Man and Paxton Fettel, are characters available to play in divergent co-op, giving players distinctly different abilities affecting their own play as well as the experience of their co-op partner. Gamers participate in single player or co-op modes as Point Man or as Paxton Fettel, his conniving brother whose incredible telekinetic power has given him life beyond the grave.
To further ensure extreme terror in F.E.A.R. 3, legendary horror mastermind John Carpenter (Halloween) and critically acclaimed horror comic and script writer Steve Niles (30 Days of Night) provided consultation.
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The Future belongs to two groups of people, those pioneering the coming innovation shift and those that choose to be apart of it. The CAMP is one of the shift bringers and now here is another opportunity for you to be "apart" of that shift by being "in" the shift through Avatar PR.
Avatar PR is a cutting edge public relations and marketing company that uses avatar driven 3D social networks to expose real life goods and service providers to the qualified users in theses virtual worlds. With Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and others offering very limited text and 2D image interaction only, 3D social networks are growing by leaps and bounds due to actually being able to interact in virtual clubs, stadiums, malls, offices, and more. Any real life environments are re-created for reaching potential buyers with a related product or service allowing avatars to engage one another in ways and activities that stimulate impulse commerce.
Avatar PR is a service provided by the CAMP that turns you into an avatar version of yourself and plugs you into this virtual grid with millions of international consumers hungry for new entertainment, the arts, fashion, films and more. Imagine you, or your band, breaking real world international markets as labels, promoters, investors and fans in those markets watch you tour clubs, show your films, present your fashions etc, on our tour circuit in this virtual spring board to doing this for real in those same markets. Interested, you know what to do. email us for more info, join now, thank us later.
Agents Of The System
Considering ourselves as unique individuals that make our own choices is very important to our way of life as well as our state of mind. Discovering the idea that most of us are merely reactionary consumers programmed to conform to the will of others could depress us and make us much less productive. So the popular bumper sticker belief that we are all marching to the beat of our own drum, is kept popular for a very good reason. Yet that reason is better for the select few profiting from the blissfully misinformed masses than it is if we happen to be one of the mostly misinformed .
From the very beginning, there have been those among us that have felt like they were meant to organize or direct the rest of us based upon qualifications in their own mind that distinguishes the controller from the controlled. Now I am a firm believer that some are meant to guide while others volunteer to follow however that's quite different than believing in systems of control that coercively empower a select few while exploiting the masses. As a matter of fact all good teams start with a good coach so leadership plays an important role in how we roll as individuals and as a collective. Still there is a distinction between being lead and being controlled that really is what this sound off is all about.
Imagine if you will standing in clubs all across the country and suddenly being hit by how much what you see happening at that moment is identical to what you just saw happening in the last 10 clubs you were in. People making a huge effort to emulate or reduplicate the current trending idea of what comprises a hot club experience. The song selections, the way people are moving and even the pick up lines, all so the same you feel like you are watching a rerun of something you just watched last night on MTV or some movie. Independent expression from the accepted norms scripted out in music videos and television are few and far between if at all.
What's even more apparent is the uniformity of expression and action in radio as well as indie talent trying to get to radio or labels. Young hopefuls simply parroting what they see their idols doing in order to have what their idols have. Cookie cutter behavior is born from a cookie cutter program that has become people's reality. So when our thinking and our doing are both confined to a pre-existing authority or script for how something has to be, we become agents of whatever that particular system happens to be.
Of course people are not openly admitting that what they are doing is not really their idea or their feeling because they are being told it is and they are telling themselves it is. Yet the reality is that we can become agenda peddlers of someone else's agenda. Desensitized soldiers carrying out orders that make life better for those at the type writing the orders than those carrying them out. Sleep walking our way through life in a comfort zone of less because having more requires so much more than being a drone.
Lastly, what's important to note is that once you break from a particular system, it can be difficult maintaining an in the system out of the system relationship. Also understand that living outside the system you are dealing with less resources to do what you want to do because the system tries to monopolize all the options to us so we are forced to stay within the system to advance at all. It's very easy eventually for true choice to look like a bad joke between those with power and those that want it bad enough to pretend they have it when they don't. Yet in the end whatever allows you to express yourself is worth looking for and hopefully can avoid becoming just an all new system that is replacing an old one.
Shift Happens
Throughout our history significant events have happened in pop culture that changed the way we see each other, do business and more. When these changes happen in the worlds, of politics, entertainment, business (or whatever segment of life they happen) these changes have come to be known as "paradigm shifts." Dictionary.com defines a paradigm shift as:
— n a radical change in underlying beliefs or theory
A few obvious shifts took place with the creation of file sharing, social networks and you tube. And, the impact of just one of these shifts is credited with the revolution and over throw of the established and long standing government of Egypt's Hosni Mubarack. So to say that a shift is a "radical change", is actually an understatement. Now it's important to note that innovative concepts birth the shift or accelerate and influence a shift already in motion
So whether something creates a shift or stimulates a process already in motion, that instrument of shift needs to be on our radar. Fully taking advantage of the opportunities shifts create comes through recognizing the shift stimulant before it become mainstream or common place and eventually is replaced by other shift catalyst at some point. For example, knowing what Facebook would be (at ground level) made billionaires out of some while others had no clue and are still upset over their missed opportunities. In like manner, seeing the CAMP Entertainment Network for what it really is now and what it is becoming, will be the success of many.
Imagine what entertainment, fashion and the arts will look like when anyone can make a living following their passion without needing record labels, radio stations, agencies or other hard to work with institutions. In a world where no artist is left behind, the feeling of making it will be for everyone instead of a very select few. The days of starving artists can be the exception instead of the rule and an Indie Nation Network aka The CAMP, can exists in chapters coast to coast and abroad. Sounds to good to be true I know but that's what a shift can do. It can make what was once only a dream come true. The shift is in motion with or without us so strap yourself in Dorthy cause Kansas is going bye bye.


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Non Profit Groups Attending UN Doha Meeting Warn Climate Is At 'Dangerous' Turning Point
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/ Nov 26, 2012 1:22PM EDT
Non-profit organizations attending the United Nations climate conference expressed grave concern on Monday (November 26) that this was the last chance for talks to yield a globally significant target on climate change. Speakers said both nations and non-government organizations were failing to do enough. "One of the big issues we are seeing now is an unwillingness from NGOs to ask for what is not politically unfeasible, because what's politically feasible is completely inadequate in terms of what we need to see," said Forest Expert Kate Dooley. International experts from the Climate Action Network (CAN) will present their position and detail what a Doha package must contain in order to proceed towards a fair and binding deal. "We are seeing right now with 0.8 degrees of observed warming the impacts that you've seen around the world, including in the United States in the last year, devastating impacts related to climate change," said Union of Concerned Scientists representative Alden Mayer. "If we don't get our act together to think that it is politically realistic to try to stay two and a half times that 1.8 degrees, than we have already experienced is crazy."
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Recognizing that Durango needed a place for luxury body care products and cosmetics, the Spaaah Shop retail boutique first came into being in 2004. Spurred by initial success thanks to huge local support, we expanded to offer a full menu of services in our day spa in 2006.
The day spa offers luxurious treatments for the whole body provided by highly trained staff in our tranquil atmosphere. We feature custom massages designed to fit your specific needs from the classic Swedish method to hot stones and wraps. Facials are also a delightful way to relax and rejuvinate your skin. We also offer manicures and pedicures using OPI products and Axxium gel overlays.
Our staff is dedicated to making your experience completely satisfying and we're proud to use only the finest products in all of our spa services.
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No body, no windshield, no headlamps or taillamps, and definitely no heater, air conditioner, or power windows. That was the point, after all: A support vehicle that could carry heavy loads over all terrain and leave tactical duty to the Jeeps and deuce-and-a-halfs. This 1966 Willys M274 Mule for s ... Read more
1946 Jeep CJ-2A. Photos courtesy FCA. Corporal Klinger, the Mud Hens, and Jeep. Even to Ohioans, there are no stronger associations with Toledo than these three, the latter due to the off-road vehicle brand's continued presence in the city for decades despite a succession of parent companies. ... Read more
Yes, we know, plenty of folks are itching to turn this 1940 Willys coupe for sale on Hemmings.com into a gasser, just add fiberglass body and go. But the cowl-forward condition it's in now – similar to how many cars were delivered to coachbuilders at one time – opens the door to m ... Read more
Thanks to longtime commenter and contributor Gene Herman, we recently got to see the work that brothers and model builders Cliff and Larry Read have been doing. Quite impressive. From Cliff: During the winter, my brother visits here to use my weather-proof paint booth. Larry has been working steadi ... Read more
No, you probably won't get invited to a Korean War re-enactment in this 1952 Willys M38 for sale on Hemmings.com, a military Jeep that's been modified here and there to the seller's wishes and needs. But if it weren't for those modifications, it's not likely this Willy ... Read more
All images courtesy the Milwaukee Art Museum. It was meant as a cost-saving measure: Kaiser-Willys had decided to bail on building inexpensive cars in the United States and instead try its luck in South America. Still, company executives felt the need to update the cars and so brought in designer B ... Read more
Here we thought all the Surreys left in the world had been perfectly restored by now, as impossible as that might seem, but that's not the case, as we see from this 1961 Willys DJ-3A Surrey for sale on Hemmings.com. It looks as though somebody had tried converting it to four-wheel-drive befor ... Read more
Normally, when somebody throws a mass accessories at a vintage vehicle, it ends up looking like they drove it right through a J.C. Whitney catalog, but this 1955 Willys Jeep CJ-3B for sale on Hemmings.com – though it sports plenty of aftermarket accessories and upgrades – appears to hav ... Read more
* What do we have here, another blockbuster "barn find of the century?" No, despite what you may have heard on social media, this photo simply depicts the inventory at Jeep Village, a French specialist in all things slotted grille. eWillys had the story on the place a couple years back. ... Read more
Most of the new gasser builds we see nowadays sacrifice some of the outright straight-line performance aspects of the gassers of old for some measure of streetability. This 1940 Willys gasser for sale on Hemmings.com – which, lacking any provenance in the description, appears to have been a r ... Read more


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The New Ulm City Council on Tuesday agreed to move forward with a proposal to sell the electronic Marktplatz Mall sign in the city hall parking lot. The sign has not been operational for over …17 Apr 13
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The New Ulm City Council on Tuesday agreed to move forward with a proposal to sell the electronic Marktplatz Mall sign in the city hall parking lot. The sign has not been operational for over …17 Apr 13
The New Ulm Human Rights Commission has announced the winners of this year´s poster and essay contests. The theme of this year´s Human Rights contest was "Bullying," with entries emphasizing the fact that bullying is …17 Apr 13
The Redwood Area Hospital will soon have a new CEO. The Redwood Falls City Council has appointed Bryan Lydick of Indian River, Michigan to the position, with an anticipated start-date of June 3rd. Lydick has …16 Apr 13
The New Ulm City Council will be discussing the future of the city's Marktplatz Mall sign during its meeting this (TUE) evening. The city took over ownership of the electronic sign in the City Hall …16 Apr 13
A Sibley East High School student is heading to the International Science Fair in Phoenix next month. Jonah Butler received a Gold Grand Award at the Minnesota State Science and Engineering Fair in Bloomington recently …16 Apr 13
Public Safety officials say that springtime is a good time for parents to talk to teens about safe driving habits. The Minnesota Office of Traffic Safety says spring is an exciting time for teens – …15 Apr 13
An Open House concerning the future of Highway 169 in St. Peter is being held this week. Businesses and residents are being asked to bring their ideas on ways to improve access to the highway …15 Apr 13
The American Red Cross is holding blood drives around the area this week. The Bloodmobile will be at the Nicollet American Legion from 1:30 to 7:30 today (MON). The Redwood Falls National Guard Armory is …15 Apr 13
Scot has been recognized for his 40 years of service as a volunteer for the Winthrop Ambulance. He is a charter member of the Winthrop Lions and was honored for his recruitment effort to grow …


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Part psychological thriller and part provocative character study, "A Teacher" explores the unraveling of a young high school teacher, Diana (Lindsay Burdge), after she begins an affair with one of her teenage students, Eric (Will Brittain). What starts as a seemingly innocent fling becomes increasingly complex and dangerous as the beautiful and confident Diana gets fully consumed by her emotions, crossing boundaries and acting out in progressively startling ways. Lindsay Burdge delivers a deeply compelling and seamlessly naturalistic performance that brings us into the mind of an adult driven to taboo against her better judgment.
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- Starring - Lindsay Burdge, Will Brittain
- Directed by - Hannah Fidell
- Distributed by - Oscilloscope Pictures
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Stereo has commented on the following diary entries
|OSM Analytic Difference Engine Docker image
|4 months ago
This looks very cool! I'll definitely try to get it running for Luxembourg.
The address part currently returns a 404, is it still being worked on, or is it a separate piece of code? We recently got open addresses a bit like Denmark, and I'd love to benefit from Denmark's existing experience.
|Mapping Thorneywood Mount
|5 months ago
British class politics aside, what has worked for me is carrying around flyers. Bright hi-vis jacket, loud friendly hellos, a bit of pontificating about open maps, and they'll be impatient for you to get on with it and leave within seconds :)
|Logainm Data Import #1
|7 months ago
Also, that analysis could be restricted by barony and CP.
|Logainm Data Import #1
|7 months ago
At the hack weekend, Dietmar and I played with similarity() in pg_trgrm. An interesting analysis would be, for the townlands with no match, to show the unmatched townlands on the other side with the most similar names. When's the next hackwochenende? :)
|Help map some sidewalks for cities in the U.S.
|7 months ago
Do any data consumers, renderers, or routing engines use the sidewalk=* tag?
|7 months ago
Interesting! How are you planning to make it render just on the left side in this case?
While we're talking about pavements, do you know of any routing engines that use that tagging for pedestrian routing?
|Easily map individual parking spaces using the terracer plugin in JOSM
|7 months ago
You can save the second line by using the extrude mode (X), then alt-dragging the first line down.
|Using custom Mapbox layers for mapping missing features in JOSM
|9 months ago
Have you looked into creating JOSM colour styles? It looks like that would be a more efficient way of doing it.
|Lets tone down mutually offensive and insulting statements with Harry Wood
|almost 1 year ago
Yes, you should at least try to be a pleasant person to map with. I'm not a native English speaker either, and manage to communicate with other mappers without insulting them.
|Address evolution in Belgium
|about 1 year ago
Do you have an idea how complete this is, compared to the counts of the official datasets? For example, in the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg, we have 18143 addresses on OSM, out of about 150k in the official, georeferenced address database that's not yet open data.
|OpenStreetMap Carto 2.34.0
|about 1 year ago
I found your diary entry interesting, and tried to tag a bridge. Any idea why http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/368210603 renders below the motorway?
|Won't Be on the Road for a While
|over 1 year ago
Sounds like your chain is stuck between your frame and your wheel, and you can just pop the wheel out and back in. Don't forget to fasten the quick release levers, and read up on how to adjust a derailleur if it happens again.
|The true "McDonald's" problem and the apostrophes ...
|over 1 year ago
There's also with a space, with no apostrophe at all...
|OSM Hackerspaces Map now updating
|over 1 year ago
It isn't working for me - 403 on http://www.technomancy.org/osm-hackerspaces/hackerspaces.geojson
|See who's adding townlands/baronies in Ireland!
|almost 2 years ago
I had no idea there were so few mappers mapping townlands.
What are you looking at, the last editor of all townland objects?
|I'm fed up with all this spam on the RSS feed, especially Chinese
|almost 2 years ago
No one has volunteered to contribute the code to allow reports to be made for spam, enable captchas, or that kind of stuff. If you know some rails, that would be very welcome.
|Supporting Women in FOSS and OSM
|almost 2 years ago
If you were successful in making OpenStreetMap US more welcoming to women, I hear the OSMF is having an election soon...
|Can we have sysnonyms?
|almost 2 years ago
Because if you do this without being careful, you'll expand Doctor to Drive, or expand things that aren't abbreviations. There are local QA tools, like the French Osmose, that encourage the users to correct abbreviations.
|Fixing common & possible Tagging Mistakes
|about 2 years ago
Is there a QA tool that integrates these? I know Osmose does something similar, but it works mostly in French-speaking countries.
|OpenStreetBugs Phase out: Done
|over 2 years ago
Well done. Out of the 34000 you closed, how many were done automatically? Could the same automatic cleanup tools now be used for notes?


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on October 27, 2000 - 12:01 AM
The Yankees ended the last century atop the baseball world. They've started the new one in the same place. The Subway Series made its final stop Thursday night as the Yankees pushed across two runs with two out in the top of the ninth to beat the Mets, 4-2, at Shea Stadium.
The Yankees won the series, four games to one, and became the game's first back-to-back-to-back champions since the Oakland A's did it from 1972-74. It was the Yankees' 26th world championship and their fourth in five years, an unprecedented run in the era of free agency.
"When you win the first one of these three (in a row), it's great because it takes so much to do it," said manager Joe Torre. "Then you win two in a row and it's a special thing. You never really fathom that you're going to be back there again. You figure there's going to be a rock in the road somewhere."
There were plenty of rocks during a season that culminated with Luis Sojo's RBI single off Mets starter Al Leiter that drove in Jorge Posada with the winning run. That's why, as the champagne flowed freely in the Yankees' clubhouse, this one had a little deeper meaning.
It was by far the toughest of the Yankees' recent titles. They won just 87 regular-season games, the second-lowest total in history for a champion (the '87 Twins won 85). They lost the opener of the division series to Oakland and had to win Game Five on the road. They were six outs away from falling in a 2-0 hole in the ALCS against Seattle before rallying to win that series.
"Every year is a different story but I'd be lying if I said this one wasn't more gratifying," said Series MVP Derek Jeter, who homered for the second straight game to forge a 2-2 tie in the sixth. "We struggled this year. We had tough times. Winning isn't easy. We've made it look easy. It's something that's very difficult to do."
As Commissioner Bud Selig presented George Steinbrenner with yet another championship trophy, tears were flowing down the face of the red-eyed Yankees owner. Same with Torre.
The players chanted "threepeat, threepeat" while the champagne corks popped. They also chanted "Who Let the Dogs Out? Woof. Woof," in mocking the song played regularly at Shea.
"I'm so proud to be part of this team, a team of winners," said outfielder Paul O'Neill, who hit a team-high .474 in the series. "You can put us in the same breath as other great teams. We've accomplished so much."
Thousands of Yankee fans rimmed the field-level seats for nearly an hour after the final out, screaming and chanting their favorite players' names as they emerged from the clubhouse to do interviews and celebrate.
The party was borne out of a ninth inning that looked like it was on the road to nowhere.< It took Leiter just nine pitches to strike out Tino Martinez and O'Neill. One more out and the Mets would go to the bottom of the ninth looking for the run to extend the series to Game Six Saturday in the Bronx.
Leiter never got the out.
Posada worked the count full, taking a close pitch on the inside corner for ball three, before drawing a walk. Then Scott Brosius pulled a 1-1 pitch to left for a single to put two on with two out.
Lefty John Franco was set in the bullpen. Leiter had thrown 141 pitches - an unheard-of number in the era of specialized relief pitching and five-man rotations - but he stayed in the game to face Sojo with pitcher Mike Stanton on deck.
"I wasn't going to bring in a right-handed pitcher to face (Luis) Polonia (who would have pinch-hit for Stanton) or for Sojo," Mets manager Bobby Valentine said solemnly. "It was either Al or Johnny and rather than Johnny going three days in a row, I decided to go with Al.
"I thought that striking out those first two guys, and the pitches he threw to Posada, made me think he had plenty. I was wrong. It was the wrong decision, obviously."
"I thought Bobby made the right choice," Torre said. "That's an emotional choice that nobody should second-guess. He put his blood and guts into that."
Leiter did the same with pitch No. 142, a cut fastball. It wasn't enough. Sojo grounded it up the middle past Leiter, who dived to his right. It was a ball with eyes: Shortstop Kurt Abbott dived headlong to his left and second baseman Edgardo Alfonzo moved to his right to no avail.
The ball bounded into center field and most of the Yankees bolted out of the third-base dugout urging Posada home.
"I was running, going all out," Posada said. "I don't think I even saw (third-base coach Willie Randolph). I went right through him."
Posada slid home with the go-ahead run and the throw from center fielder Jay Payton hit him in the leg and bounded into the Yankees dugout. That allowed Brosius to trot home with an insurance run as Sojo clenched his fists in glee at second base.
"I said to El Duque (Orlando Hernandez), "I want to hit with a man on base,' " Sojo said. "I saw (first-base coach) Lee Mazzilli and he told me to stay back, trust your hand and try to hit the ball up the middle. All my career, I don't hit Al Leiter good. He (Mazzilli) told me to hit the pitch down the middle and everything would work out good for us."
That's certainly the case when closer Mariano Rivera enters the game. After Stanton pitched a 1-2-3 eighth to earn his second win of the series, Rivera took over in the ninth and set a Series record with his seventh career save.
Rivera struck out pinch-hitter Darryl Hamilton but walked Benny Agbayani. Alfonzo flied out to right, bringing up Mets catcher Mike Piazza.
Piazza, who was 2 for 4, took a strike and then lofted a towering fly ball - but to the wrong part of the ballpark - dead center field.
"I just screamed, "No!' " Torre said.
"I wasn't that worried," Rivera said. "He got a good part of the ball but he had a good part of the field, too. When I saw the ball dying, I knew it wasn't going anywhere."
"It was a special moment, big-time special," Rivera said.Just like this group of Yankees.


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I've been planning on doing some new pics of Eva for awhile, around her birthday time (which is in a month), but was just going to wait for a perfect evening....and last night was, so we went to campus. I'd gotten her a new dress & headband just for pics and she has these new bejeweled sandals that I am in love with, so she wore those.
My most common focusing method is to focus on the subject and then recompose while holding focus;
**please tell me your preferred methods, because lately it seems I have some difficulty in that my camera seems to focus again after I recompose even though I am holding the button halfway after I focus on what I want. **
I just started going through these so I only have 2 so far. But these are 2 faves (mommy bias I am sure )
Please CC anything you notice. These were all with the 50mm f/1.8.
1. ISO 800 (was going in and out of shade at this point, changed ISO a lot), ss 1/1600, f/2.2
With that one here is what I did for editing: reduced red, slightly increased blue, increased midtones, slightly increased darks, removed a bruise, cropped, very slightly dodged eyes. Then resized & sharpened.
2. this was a bit underexposed in camera...ISO 400, ss 1/640, f/2.2
for that one I adjusted levels since it was a bit underexposed...then I only removed a tiny white thing off her mouth area, then resized & sharpened.


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The singing coach ..... other notes
By Mike White | Monday, May 17, 2010, 11:30 a.m.
A district basketball coach sings backup and plays guitar with a member of a well-known local band.
Who knew?
This musical side of Rich Irr is somewhat astonishing. Irr is a coach who has a state championship on his resume. He is Bishop Canevin's boys' coach, but he won a state championship a few years ago as Oakland Catholic's girls' coach. I found out about Irr's muscial talents by accident three days ago, and it just goes to show you that some coaches have hobbies far away from the sports arena
Here's the story: Friends decide to grab a bite to eat this past Friday at Highland Country Club (the restaurant is open to the public). They tell me to stop by. Performing at Highland that night was Greg Joseph, a songwriter, musician and singer with the well-known Pittsburgh area rock band "The Clarks." And who sang and played guitar part of the night with Joseph? Irr.
Irr and Joseph are friends - and now playing partners?
"It's just something I've been doing a little of lately," Rich Irr said with a laugh. "It's not that big of a deal." Check out the picture below from Friday. Irr is on the left and Joseph the right.
Irr, who makes his living as a financial planner, plans to do more of the singing and guitar-playing in the future. He has a gig June 5 in Robinson at The Bronze Hood Lounge with another friend, Joe Brucker. Irr and Brucker also played a few songs together Friday when Joseph took a break.
After I got over the initial laughs of seeing Irr pick a guitar and sing in front of an audience, he was actually very good with Joseph. Of course, I'm a fan of The Clarks, but they sang a variety of songs together.
Who knew?
Baseball postponed
All WPIAL baseball playoff games today and tomorrow have been postponed. The WPIAL is working on a new schedule that should be released later today.
One to watch
A young basketball player I like more and more is North Allegheny's Anthony Dallier. He's only a sophomore and was the leading scorer on a team that made the state semifinals this season. I've seen him a few more times in spring leagues and really like his game. No, he's not a future top 50 player in the country, but he certainly has a lot of potential with his versatility, long arms and 6-foot-5 frame. I'm ready to call him the Gordon Hayward of WPIAL basketball. Now hold on. Don't take that comment the wrong way. I'm not saying Dallier will be as good as Hayward, who led Butler University to the NCAA title game and will most likely be a first-round NBA draft pick.
I'm just saying Dallier has a style similar to Hayward, in that he's long, he's versatile, can shoot the 3, can use his size to score some inside, can handle the ball and plays pretty good defense.
Probably a lot of Dallier's college future will depend on how much more he grows and how much quicker and athletic he can become. I'm not sure yet what level he'll fit in college. But on the high school level, he's nice to watch.
Foreign influence
Good story on Maxpreps.com about how foreign-born players are having an effect on high school basketball in the United States.


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