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There is no doubt that there is a problem with people swimming at Rockaway Beach when there are no lifeguards on duty. Swimming off-hours has been a problem for many years, and it has proved
impossible to legislate against stupidity even though the Parks Department has tried mightily to do just that. Tom Wade called on Monday to say that there were incidents at Beach 105 Street on both Saturday and Sunday when non-swimmers were pulled from the water by him and his brothers – Mark and Paul, assisted by Susan Wade and Steve Gliboff. On Saturday evening, at about 6:30 p.m. (a half hour after the lifeguards left for the day) six men were pulled from the water by the brothers. Reportedly, at least two of the men were in danger of drowning. On Sunday night, at about the same time, three more people were pulled from the water a little earlier in the evening. We are not sure that anything can be done about the problem. If the Parks Department restricted the beach and put up a fence around it, then some people would climb the fence and go swimming. Added to the beach rule signs, however, should be a notice that "off-hour" swimming is "at your own risk," and then the city should fight any lawsuits arising from drowning situations after or before the lifeguards are on duty.
We were standing on the boardwalk at about 7:30 p.m. on July 4 and a number of people were asking what time the fireworks would start. They were uniformly disappointed when they were told that there were no fireworks in Rockaway, that they had to wait for the Night Out Against Crime for Rockaway fireworks. It is a shame that the business owners in Rockaway could not get together with the civic organizations to finance a half-hour of fireworks (about $10,000). There were fireworks at Coney Island, the Macy's fireworks, at Staten Island, in East Islip, at Jones Beach, and at 30 other small towns on Long Island and in Westchester. It is a shame that Rockaway could not get it going.
The new District 27 superintendent of schools will be Rita Geramita, an old hand in our local schools. She will sit at the district office with a staff of two (a parent advocate and a clerical worker). Geramita was an excellent school principal for many years, and she would be better used as a principal or as an instructional supervisor.
The rich people in East Hampton have proved that even Piping Plovers cannot stop them from doing what they think is expedient. Seems that there is a pond in that exclusive town that is drained a number of times each year to keep the water from flooding the multi-million dollar homes that surround the pond. This year, however, some Piping Plovers showed up and local conservationists refused to allow the pond to be drained despite the heavy rains. The little birds are a protected species, as Breezy Point residents well know). The basements in neighboring homes were soon flooded. Late one night last week, however, somebody drained the pond and ended the flooding. Environmentalists are screaming bloody murder, but homeowners such as Ron Perlman, Calvin Klein and Steven Spielberg all have dry basements and a smile on their collective faces.
Shades of Pearl Harbor. Papers in the estate of the man who led the British army in the New York City area during the Revolutionary War prove that the British commander knew in advance of Washington's attack on the Hessians at Trenton, New Jersey, one of the most important battles from the American point of view. Records show that the experts in Washington had clues to the Pearl Harbor attack in advance, but that the message was slow in getting out and the local commanders never acted on that information.
The rumors of Congressman Anthony Weiner planning to run for mayor against Mike Bloomberg next time around have led to a spate of conjecture as to whom the Democrats will run. There are the usual suspects such as Charles Baron (the ex-Black Panther who now serves in the City Council), Mark Green (doesn't he know when to quit), Fernando Ferrer (the former Bronx Borough President); Giff Miller (the man who lost us the commuter tax), William Thompson (ex-Board of Ed) and one newcomer, John Gatsmatidis (a supermarket owner who can't decide if he is Democrat or Republican). One Republican, John Ognibene, the former minority leader in the City Council, has put his foot in the water as well. Despite Bloomberg's lack of popularity, it would be hard for a traditional Democratic Liberal such as Green, Ferrer, Miller and Thompson to beat the left of center Republican mayor.
The city works very slowly. Last December, a "No Parking" sign was knocked down alongside the Park Nursing Home. It was not much of a problem for the home during the winter, which is on the boardwalk, but it has evolved into a problem during the summer, when beachgoers block ambulances and fire engines from gaining access to the building. Officials told us that they complained and were told that a work order for a new sign went out on June 7. They are still waiting, however, for the DOT to put up the much-needed sign.
It is past time for the city and the MTA to make a decision on the Green Bus Line and Jamaica Buses so that those residents who ride the buses each day will be able to breathe easily in the knowledge that they will have bus service when this is all over. There are rumors that the express service from Rockaway to Manhattan will end after a takeover and that the service will be rerouted to Nassau County. We understand that is only a rumor and probably a bad one at that, but Rockaway riders deserve to know.
The Wave was in error last week when it said that the "Everybody's Birthday Party" for vets to be sponsored by the local American Legion Post would be held at the veteran's hospital. In fact, the party will be held at the American Legion Post on Sunday, July 13.


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Bertha Wright, 91, of Sealy, peacefully passed away Friday, March 28, 2008. Funeral services were held Monday, March 31, 2008 at the First Baptist Church in Sealy
with Rev. Mike Habermehl officiating. Pallbearers were David Machala, Ryan Machala, Joey Schneider, Tim Means, Jerry Means, Larry Means and Steve Means. Interment
was at Field Store Cemetery in Waller County. Bertha Mae Wright was born in Waller County to parents, Jack and Ida (Braband) Means, she was raised in
Waller County and attended School there. On January 19, 1935 she was united in marriage to Alfred Wright.
Bertha and Alfred were blessed to have had each other for 67 years. They had one son, Lonnie. Bertha was a homemaker who loved to cook for her family. Granny, as
she was known to her grandchildren and great grandchildren, willing and eagerly volunteered to keep them as often as she could. She loved to play games, assemble
puzzles and watch television with them. She always had her camera ready to capture treasured pictures of them. She and Alfred also spent hours playing cards
with Bertha's family. Bertha was a long-time member of the First Baptist Church and Sealy Eastern Star.
Bertha is survived by son, Lonnie Wright and wife Jennifer, grandchildren, Wendy and David Machala, Robin and Joey Schneider, Melanie and Hudson Goyen, mother of
her grandchildren, Billie Wright, great-grandchildren, Ryan, Hope and Morgan Machala and Brooke Schneider and Taylor and Jacob Goyen, brothers, Pete Means and
wife Louise, Jack Means and wife Gisela, I.B. Means and wife Dixxie, sister, Dorothy Durdin, sisters-in-law, Annie Means, Irene Means and Marie Wright,
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Washington, Sept 27 : If one goes by a poll conducted minutes after Friday night's debate between Republican candidate John McCain and his Democrat opponent Barack Obama last night, the former is seen garnering more uncommitted voters than the latter.
46 percent of voters surveyed said their opinion of Obama got better tonight, while 32 percent said their opinion of McCain got better, reported cbsnews.com.
The poll was conducted on over 500 voters, who haven't yet decided who they would vote for and also those who have chosen a candidate but may still change their minds.
39 percent of uncommitted voters who watched the debate tonight thought Barack Obama was the winner, while only 24 percent thought John McCain won, and the rest 37 percent didn't favour either of the two.
66 percent of them think Obama would make the right decisions about the economy, while 42 percent think support McCain for better decisions. 48 percent of these voters think Obama would make the right decisions about Iraq, while 56 percent think McCain would.


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The Investec super rugby championship winning Chiefs start the pre-season in Taupo against the Highlanders tomorrow at 3pm at Owen Delany Park.
The fixture is an opportunity to view two of the top super rugby teams in action.
The Taupo District Council, King Country Rugby Union and Suncourt Hotel have provided great support to continue to bring top players to Taupo.
Chiefs coach Dave Rennie is expected to use the first hit-out as a trial and players will be working hard to secure a starting position for the first match against the Highlanders in Dunedin on February 22.
Families are encouraged to take picnics into the park but no alcohol or commercially branded take-away food will be allowed. Food and beverages available on site.
Tickets available from www.ticketdirect.co.nz, www.chiefs.co.nz or at the gate. Tickets $15 for adults on the embankment and $25 for a grandstand seat. Kids 14 and under are free on the embankment.
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At half-time it seemed English Premier League club Arsenal was destined to go down in the annals - as the vincibles. It trailed Leicester by a goal from Highbury old boy Paul Dickov in its final match of the season and was playing so lethargically it was hard to see it mounting the recovery needed to equal the 115-year-old unbeaten record of inaugural champion Preston.
But, "Professor" Arsene Wenger must have delivered a history lesson at half-time, for his men stirred themselves enough for Thierry Henry (penalty) and Patrick Vieira, with a reminder of what this team is about, to earn the club its 26th and final win, 2-1, of a memorable season.
It had not been easy to break down Micky Adams's relegated Leicester, which surrendered the midfield and kept 10 men (Dickov excepted) behind the ball. Two minutes after half-time Frank Sinclair brought down Ashley Cole and Henry stroked his 30th league goal of the campaign, which made him the first Arsenal player to reach that figure since Ronnie Rooke 56 years ago. Vieira's was beautifully made by Dennis Bergkamp and majestically taken by the captain.
Eighteen months ago, Arsenal talked about becoming the best team in the world and how its rivals laughed as Manchester United proved it rather less than the best team in England. But Arsenal has laughed longest, made its point and, from now, it will be impossible to rank the great champions without at least seriously considering Wenger's record-setter; for many fans, and not just those who support Arsenal, it is peerless.
There must be a subjective element in all this: when it comes to statistics, the Liverpool of 1978-79, with Alan Hansen and Mark Lawrenson at the back, Graeme Souness in midfield and Kenny Dalglish and Ian Rush up front, takes some beating; it scored 85 goals and conceded 16 and you have to be very, very good to be better than allcomers by a ratio of 5:1. The Anfield team of 1987-88, with John Barnes and Peter Beardsley, is also remembered with especial fondness; it scored 87 and let in 24 and lost only once.
Then there was Manchester United's inspired treble-winner of 1999 which many would consider more substantial than going through a premiership season unbeaten.
Perhaps the most under-praised of the great sides of recent times, though, was the 1991 Arsenal, which lost once and whose goal ratio was 4:1. Today, Arsenal has a ratio of 3:1. But the game has changed much in 13 years; George Graham hardly rotated his players, for example. Wenger seems this season to have found the perfect balance between continuity and freshness while developing an extraordinarily swift, slick unit.
This has been an extraordinary championship campaign and the top level now is of an unprecedented standard.
The season after Preston's Invincibles performed their clean sweep they took the title again, but with the loss of four matches. And in 1901 they were relegated. Ominous or what?
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October 13, 2009
The Bad: Domino's Lava Crunch Crap, Pt. II
The Good: Ode to JG's Molten Chocolate Cake, Pt. I
I should've known that the whole thing was a bad idea, but curiosity got the better of me yet again. I had been mesmerized by the omnipresent Domino's commercial touting its Chocolate Lava Crunch Cakes. Try as I might, I was losing the ability to ignore the siren call.
Possessing very little food-related willpower to begin with, I gave in and decided I had to try them. (Am I the only one that saw these ads everywhere? Or just the only one who contemplated an actual purchase? I fast forward through every show on my DVR and still managed to see that commercial at least 11 times. After that I lost count.)
I mean really, what kind of lover of warm chocolate cake would I BE!?! How could I call myself a true fan without tasting the one that was being sold in strip malls across the country!?!
I saddled up to a local Domino's. After assuring the man behind the counter that yes, I wanted just the cake (no pizza, no breadbowl pasta, no oven-baked sandwich, thank you) I watched as two* small tins of chocolate went into the mouth of the conveyor-belt oven. *There was no option to buy just one; but it's just $3.99 for two! It's no wonder America has an obesity problem!
I knew that what came out on the other side wasn't going to be the culinary achievement of the century, but somehow, I had convinced myself that if anything, it would at the very least be cracktastic; you know, like french fries from McDonald's or nachos from Taco Bell.
I was wrong. Very, very, wrong.
The menu describes them as, "Oven baked chocolate cakes, crunchy on the outside with molten chocolate on the inside." Oh, Domino's. How you have a way with words. "Molten chocolate" does sound much better than "grainy-and-chalky-warm-brownie-batter" and "crunch" more appetizing than "tough-burnt-cardboard-crust."
But was it really SO hard to make the cracktastic version? Even with an arsenal of chemicals and focus groups on your side?
Yup, I should've known it was a bad idea…
*Veronica lives and works in New York City where she enjoys thinking about food, reading about food, eating food and bike riding.


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George Bush has many enemies throughout the world, but he got an additional one when a federal judge ordered him to stop stalling on whether to designate the polar bear as a species endangered by global warming. If they are so designated, it would impact Bush policies on global warming since the federal government would have to avoid doing anything that would "jeopardize the continued existence" of polar bears. Judge Claludia Wilken told him to cease the stalling tactics that have been going on for months about this issue and make a decision by next week.
Polar bears depend on sea ice for hunting, mating and moving aroound, but the ice is rapidly melting. The Bush administration sold off prime areas where polar bears live to ol companies for about $2.6 billion.
It seems these days, George Bush is getting attacked from all sides and from all areas of the world. He couldn't even spend a pleasant weekend marrying off his daughter without some judge coming down hard on his incompetence. One can assume he looks forward fondly to being an ex-president so his turmoil can come to an end.


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■ Why is the physical and mental health of physicians important?
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What can I do when I know I'm not at my best? What is the best protection against physician impairment?
Reply: A short story, "Old Doc Rivers," by physician-poet William Carlos Williams, portrays the tension between a physician's dedication to patients and his inability to recognize and respond to his own health-related impairments. Doc Rivers would "go anywhere, anytime, for anybody," and his flashes of brilliance in diagnosis and therapy make him a local legend. Yet his punishing schedule exacts an immense toll, and he ends up ruined by alcohol and drugs.
Through the story, Williams confronts physicians with a vital question: Where is the appropriate balance point between caring for patients and caring for self?
Dedication to patients is necessary and appropriate, but not to such a degree that it prevents us from attending to our own needs. Good health plays an important role in enabling us to perform at our best, and poor health may undermine fitness to practice medicine.
Patients, communities and the profession of medicine have a legitimate interest in the health of those in whom they place their trust. And as physicians, we bear a duty to recognize our own health-related limitations and take appropriate steps to safeguard those who depend on us. No patient should be harmed because a physician is sleep-deprived, febrile, intoxicated or simply in too much distress to perform adequately. Depending on circumstances, ensuring our patients' safe, quality care may entail rescheduling a patient visit or arranging for a colleague to provide care. What might seem at first glance an admission of weakness turns out to offer powerful testimony to the strength of a physician's dedication to patients.
Physicians must be prepared to assume the role of recipients, not just providers of care. Some people prefer to view doctors as impervious to the injuries and ailments that beset them, regarding the white coat at times as a cloak of invulnerability. Yet physicians' lifetime mortality rate is no lower than that of patients. By recognizing that we are cut from the same mortal cloth as our patients, we lay the groundwork for a deeper patient-physician relationship, putting the welfare of patients above our own determination and pride.
How well do we succeed at recognizing our vulnerability? Are we sufficiently in touch with the connection between our own health needs and the interests of our patients to discern when the former jeopardizes the latter and take the necessary steps to ensure that patient needs are met? Equally important, are we mindful of signs of impairment in colleagues and willing to intervene as needed on patients' behalf? Medicine remains a profession only so long as it monitors its own ranks. Physicians have a duty to watch out for one another and to subordinate the understandable desire to avoid embarrassment or confrontation to the good of patients.
Yet we should be careful, lest we forget the limits of health as a medical priority. Reasonable patients would never choose a physician solely on the basis of his or her health status. We cannot infer a high degree of medical knowledge, skill or dedication from a slim waistline, a low blood pressure or an ideal serum lipid profile. In fact, an excessive preoccupation with personal health might prevent physicians from devoting sufficient time and attention to the needs of patients. From the patient's point of view, there is comfort in knowing that a physician is prepared to skip meals and sacrifice sleep or a workout at the gym to attend at the bedside.
Attention to our health has other limits. A system that does a good job of protecting patients from physicians' impairments may not fare so well at promoting excellence in medicine. Like a driver education program that focuses on preventing traffic infractions, it may draw attention from equally important questions: What is our destination? How are we getting there? How fulfilling is the journey? No driver would choose to get a traffic ticket or injure other people, but there is more to a successful journey than arriving safely. Physicians would never select as their epitaph, "He took great care of himself," or "She was never impaired."
Excelling in medicine
The most worthy aim of a life in medicine is not to satisfy minimal standards of safety and competence, but to excel. Focusing too much attention on impairment and its remediation may distract us from performing at our best. We should not ignore our health, but we need to attend to it in a way that recognizes the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of impairment as a byproduct of a higher pursuit.
The best protection against impairment is not an infallible system of detection and enforcement, but an approach to the practice of medicine that promotes genuine fulfillment, enabling physicians to do to the best of our abilities those things that are most worth doing.
We do better work when we have good work to do. Such work is characterized much less by extrinsic rewards, such as power, fame and money, than by the intrinsic rewards of the work itself. Are we growing and developing through our labors? Are we practicing medicine in a way that accords with the ideals that drew us to a career in medicine in the first place and have animated this venerable profession throughout its history? And, most importantly, do we sincerely believe that we are making a significant difference in the lives of the patients, families and communities we serve? If the answer is yes, then impairment is much less likely to become an issue.
In my experience, physicians who derive genuine fulfillment from the pursuit of medicine's highest aspirations are less likely to become discouraged, suffer burnout and neglect themselves. Far from finding their work a burden, they cherish it as a privilege. They need not flog themselves from day to day to keep going, because they are drawing from one of the most invigorating wellsprings of inspiration available to human beings: the sense that they are achieving their full potential and enriching the lives of others. We may make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
The word "health" derives from an Old English word that means whole. To become and remain whole, we need to approach health like a symphonist. Merely getting each piece in perfect working order is not enough. We need to be virtuoso musicians who know how to play their parts well, in ways that harmonize with every other performer. We may get the cells and organs in good working order, but if the body is not aligned with the mind and the soul, the result will be cacophony.
The greatest threat facing medicine today is not a deficit of sleep, nutrition or longevity. Nor is it a deficiency in health care payment or even the erosion of professional autonomy. The greatest threat facing medicine today is a deficit of inspiration, what we might call "inspiration deficit disorder." To recapture, sustain and augment inspiration, we need to see our lives as part of a larger story of healing. It is our privilege, for a time, to breathe new life into healing's timeless aspirations in our daily work.
The vitality of physicians and the wholeness of the profession itself depend more than anything else on our ability to reconnect with the inherently inspiring aspects of the practice of medicine. If we can position ourselves on the appropriate trajectory toward this higher end, the lesser goals, including the health of physicians, will find their proper orientation.
Richard Gunderman, MD, PhD, professor, Indiana University School of Medicine


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Current Law Students / Re: A Letter to my classmates« on: February 16, 2010, 09:40:56 PM »
Thanks for the warning. I was just kidding about being sure about ranking high. But it is fun to me to read casebooks and hornbooks. People say - do not read them before 1L, you will wear yourself out - it is my favorite hobby now, I actually stopped playing World of Warcraft because I enjoy reading casebooks more, it is like a restful hobby for me. So I consider it possible that I just might have more success than students who scored 170 on LSAT and for which directing conversation to what textbooks are better means a head cracking boredom.


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Distinguished Student of the year: Rachel Loftin
POCATELLO, Idaho - From the hills of Mink Creek to the big city of Boise, this year's United Dairymen of Idaho Distinguished Student Award winner really knows how to make a big leap.
Rachel Loftin not only helped to bring the Century Diamondbacks girls' tennis team to win the title of state champions, but she sailed through high school with a 3.9 GPA.
"She was really excited, so she couldn't really hide it or anything. She couldn't really be serious about it, she was like, 'You won the yearly Distinguished Student award,'" Loftin said about how her mom delivered the news.
Loftin said she was really surprised.
"I didn't really know really what it was at first, I was like, 'What? I just won that already,'" she said, laughing.
The Century alum has a lot to celebrate. Aside from her athletic and academic accomplishments, she just got back from orientation at Boise State University, where she'll be attending this fall. She's going into the nursing program.
"It'll be a whole different experience, so I don't really know what to expect. But it'll be really fun, I'm really excited," she said.
With her face featured on billboards across Idaho, Loftin said she's still figuring out how to deal with her new-found fame.
"Because everyone will be like, 'I saw your billboard, I saw your billboard,' and so it's really funny, but, so, it's really weird," Loftin said.
Because of Loftin's accomplishments, Century High School has received $5,000. The tennis team will be getting $3,500 of that and Loftin is receiving $250 of the total. Loftin's tennis coach Sean Kane, who nominated her for the award, said he'll really be able to help the team with that money.
But no matter what she wins, Loftin will be taking a piece of Pocatello with her as she moves into the future.
"I'll take everything my mom taught me, all the good things," she said.


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Celebrity chef Martin Bosley is taking people on a journey from rustic market to elegant table.
He will be returning to Hawke's Bay for a Winter FAWC! event, Market to Retreat, which will see dedicated foodies in seventh heaven.
The adventure begins at Hastings Farmers Market, followed by a light platter lunch at Black Barn and tasting with chief winemaker Dave McKee, on Sunday June 15.
"I am really excited, they are going to have to pry me out of there - I won't want to leave," Mr Bosley said. "Hawke's Bay has the most incredible produce, I own a Farmers Market in Wellington so that whole idea is very close to my heart, I think the Hastings market is truly special."
Guests then travel to the luxurious Black Barn Retreats where Bosley will use only local ingredients for an intimate afternoon cooking school and casual supper.
"It's going to be a hands-on demonstration, people can see a lot of chefs on TV, they can get the MasterChef experience at home.
"If I say 'mix until sticky', people want to know what that feels like, I want to get them talking and interacting."
He felt many New Zealanders had lost confidence in the kitchen - buying into the perception that they were too time-poor to make interesting meals.
"I want to help bring that confidence back, to get them in touch with their food."
Mr Bosley had not planned the menu as he aimed to structure everything around the latest and greatest produce available.
"A couple of years ago I was in Hawke's Bay and I bought everything locally, I brought nothing with me from Wellington. I made dinner for about 10 people and all of them commented, 'we wish we could get such wonderful produce here' I told them, 'you can'."
Places were limited for the exclusive Market to Retreat event, with ticket price including all food, wine, meals, transport to and from Black Barn Vineyard, as well as a goodie bag.
Mr Bosley had been involved with FAWC! since the beginning and was 100 per cent behind the local initiative.
"I'm genuinely excited to be coming back, it's one of those highlights on my calendar, that I look forward to every year."
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Buru-Navi, from NTT (Japan) is a system that uses vibration to "guide" the device holder in the correct direction or as a feedback tool for gaming. The vision? Implementation in cell phones. I wonder if this will increase engagement with the environment rather than will the tiny map on the screen. It seems there's a military version in development, too! (New Scientist)
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The GPS-enabled enhaler may be available for purchase next year. Wisconsin's Asthmapolis plans to put it on the market.
"The best way to understand how people are managing their asthma is to record the time and place they're using their medications," Chief Technology Officer Greg Tracy told me. "Doctors can determine if patients have problems at night or during the day, at work or at home."
The real question I think: will it be covered by insurance?
Australians are using their own version of SeeClickFix called Snap Send Solve. It's from Melbourne tech developer Outware Mobile. It's Iphone only now, but an Android version is coming. While SCF has ArcGIS Server at the back end, it's not clear what powers SSS.
"World of Fourcraft" uses Foursquare and Google Maps APIs to turn New York City into a giant game of Risk. Users decide which team they are on by swearing allegiance to one of New York City's five boroughs. Checking into a neighborhood on Foursquare is the online game's equivalent to placing plastic man on a country in the board game. An algorithm decides who owns each neighborhood using the number of people who have checked into it on each team. There are currently about 100 players.
If I recall my Risk playing correctly, back in the day the square pieces were 1 army and the long ones 10 armies. I guess the writer played Risk after it changed over to plastic "men." Many geogeeks played the game in the 1970 and 80s as revealed on A Very Spatial Podcast this week in its discussion of "geoplay."
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Worship That Comes From the Heart
In His Presence: "God will provide for Himself the lamb for the burnt offering" (Genesis 22:8).
Usually, there will come a time when God will test the depth of your devotion to Him. In Genesis 22, He tested Abraham's faith beyond anything imaginable. The Lord instructed Abraham to take his only son, Isaac, and offer him as a sacrifice.
For a moment, draw this parallel in your mind: God sent His own Son to earth and willingly offered Him as a sacrifice for our sins. Was God's request of Abraham a foreshadowing of what would come? Perhaps. However, the one thing we want to focus on here is that Abraham was willing to obey God. He did not talk back, make excuses, or turn away from God. He just obeyed—knowing in his heart that the Lord would provide the right sacrifice.
When they had reached their destination, Abraham spoke with words of faith as he told his servants, "I and the lad will . . . worship and return to you" (v.5). When it came to the actual moment of sacrifice, God stopped him. "Abraham! . . . Do not stretch out your hand against the lad, and do nothing to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me" (vv. 11-12). God did not want Abraham to harm his son. He was just checking Abraham's devotion.
How often have you faced a difficult situation and thought, "Lord, You can have anything, but please, just don't take ______." You can fill in the blank for yourself. In this situation, Abraham would have written in the name of his son Isaac—the answer to the promise God had given him years earlier.
Is there something that you are withholding from God? Could it be a relationship, dream, idea, or pursuit? Worship begins in the heart. Therefore, always be willing to obey the Lord by letting go of anything you deem more valuable than your relationship with Him. When you do, His goodness and mercy will be poured out in abundance for you.
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God never sends a test our way just because He's in a testing mood. He has a specific purpose in mind. Usually, it is to draw us closer to Himself.
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I Keep Getting Logged Out!
Okay. I know that there was server maintenance today. That's a given. But I can log into my Playstation Network fine and even view and change my settings in my account. Hence, the maintenence must be over by now. So why is it that when I log in on DCUO does it log me out again? There was another post that mentioned something like this as well. I have changed my password so I know that's not it. I can log into DCUO and have seen other players, so that can't be it? Now unless someone tells me what the hell's going on, I'll just call it quits and say "**bleep**" PSN! Seriously this is **bleep**!
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Andaz Tokyo Toranomon Hills
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Welcome to Andaz Tokyo Toranomon Hills: Hyatt's Lifestyle Hotel in Tokyo, Japan, located near Tokyo station and Ginza area
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At the heart of the vast and ever-pulsating urban flux that is Tokyo, a striking new tower now steadily rises.
Literally meaning "Tiger's Gate," Toranomon was the name of the gate of Edo Castle. To protect this sacred land, temples and shrines built and still remain with enduring attractions. Tokyo Metropolis redevelop this area to be ready for the Tokyo Olympic in 2020, which means Toranomon become a bridge between Tokyo's fascinating past and dynamic future.
Andaz means "Personal Style" in Hindi, representing a new philosophy of service in a sophisticated yet unscripted style. Since its 2007 debut in London, Andaz has offered an environment free of barriers, where ideas are exchanged and encouraged.
The hotel offers 164 rooms, of which eight are specialty suites. Wi-Fi, local calls, snacks, and non-alcoholic beverages are complimentary for all registered guests. From the tower's apex on the 52nd floor, Andaz brings unprecedented rooftop flair to this city's dining and entertainment scene, with breathtaking views from Rooftop bar , the city highest stand-alone wedding chapel and flexible event and meeting spaces.
Next to Andaz Lounge on the 51st floor is the main dining venue, Andaz Tavern. The menu serves refined European provincial cuisine cooked with Japanese produce. Andaz Tokyo guests enjoy access to AO Spa & Club on the 37th floor with a unique 20-metre pool overlooking the Imperial Palace.
With easy access to Ginza shopping, the Marunouchi financial district, government buildings in Kasumigaseki, and the business and entertainment areas of Shinbashi, Akasaka, and Roppongi, Andaz Tokyo Toranomon Hills is ideally poised to accommodate business and leisure travellers alike.
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Threats to Sources of Drinking Water and Aquatic Ecosystem Health in Canada
- Executive Summary
- 1. Waterborne Pathogens
- 2. Algal Toxins and Taste and Odour
- 3. Pesticides
- 4. Persistent Organic Pollutants and Mercury
- 5. Endocrine Disrupting Substances
- 6. Nutrients—Nitrogen and Phosphorus
- 7. Aquatic Acidification
- 8. Ecosystem Effects of Genetically Modified Organisms
- 9. Municipal Wastewater Effluents
- 10. Industrial Point Source Discharges
- 11. Urban Runoff
- 12. Landfills and Waste Disposal
- 13. Agricultural and Forestry Land Use Impacts
- 14. Natural Sources of Trace Element Contaminants
- 15. Impacts of Dams/Diversions and Climate Change
12. Landfills and Waste Disposal
Allan S. Crowe,1 Carol J. Ptacek,1 David L. Rudolph2 and Rick McGregor3
1Environment Canada, National Water Research Institute, Burlington, ON
2University of Waterloo, Department of Earth Sciences, Waterloo, ON
3J.R. Scientific, Suite 302, 285 Erb Street W., Waterloo, ON
Current Status
Canada ranks among the highest producers of solid waste per capita in all of the industrialized world. Although Canada is viewed as a country of abundant fresh water resources, in reality we are facing a mounting threat as a result of improper waste management. Canadian citizens have been directly impacted by the consequences of improper waste disposal, and many of these have drawn widespread media attention. In the spring of 2000, seven people died and over 2000 took ill as a direct result of improper disposal of animal wastes in Walkerton, Ontario. Important drinking water sources at Elmira and Smithville, Ontario; Abottsford, B.C.; and Ville Mercier, Quebec, have been destroyed as a result of poor waste disposal practices. Hazardous waste from the Sydney tar ponds, Nova Scotia, have contaminated groundwater and surface water in highly populated areas, and has resulted in the release of pollutants to the ocean. Millions of litres of contaminated water flowing daily from the waste rock of Britannia Mine, near Squamish, B.C., have caused large areas downstream to become void of life. These incidences will become more frequent in the future, unless Canada immediately develops and implements a comprehensive waste management plan.
Wastes are a part of life. They are produced as by-products of agricultural, industrial, commercial and domestic activities. These wastes are recycled, incinerated or treated, or disposed. Disposal approaches range from the use of highly engineered facilities to simple landfilling and spreading operations to deep-well injection. Canada has a wide spectrum of approaches in managing wastes within primary waste streams. Canadians are one of the largest producers of waste in the world. 1988 statistics (Environment Canada 1991) show that Canada produced 30 million tonnes of solid waste annually, amounting to about 1.8 kg per day per person or twice as much produced per person in Sweden.
The main threat to water quality due to the disposal of wastes focuses on the groundwater environment. Surface water contamination also occurs as a result of direct runoff from waste sites to streams, lakes and wetlands, and indirectly as contaminated groundwater discharges to surface waters. The contamination of groundwater has many factors which makes it very different from surface water contamination. Because we cannot observe groundwater, we typically discover that the groundwater is contaminated once a well or surface water body becomes contaminated. Surface water contamination occurs quickly and can be stopped at the source. However, groundwater contamination may commence years after the waste source is in place. The slow release rate causes it to take years to thousands of years to move through the groundwater flow regime, and groundwater can be difficult, if not impossible to remediate, and prohibitively costly to remediate. Ultimately all contaminated groundwater will discharge to surface water. Thus, should serious groundwater contamination occur, the destruction of drinking water supplies and aquatic ecosystems occurs for decades to hundreds of years.
Municipal/Hazardous/Industrial Solid Waste
Solid waste is predominantly composed of domestic waste, hazardous waste, industrial waste, contaminated soils and building debris. It is estimated that hundreds of landfill sites are located within Canada. This estimate is considered low as it does not account for small landfills, landfills not registered with the appropriate agency, or abandoned landfills. Disposal options for municipal wastes range from disposal in engineered facilities to disposal in open excavations, with regulations and guidelines varying across Canada. The siting, design and monitoring of solid waste facilities is relatively well understood. It is now accepted that all landfills will eventually release leachate to the surrounding environment and therefore all landfills will have some impact on the water quality of the local ecosystem. Traditionally, solid waste landfills are monitored for nutrients, heavy metals, major ions and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Many of these constituents have been observed in aquifers at distances up to several kilometres from the landfill source. As an example of the cost of containment failure, PCB waste which leaked to groundwater from a waste transfer facility at the town of Smithville, Ontario, between 1978 and 1985, forced the closure of the town's water supply wells. After spending over $55,000,000, the shallow contaminated soils have been removed, a new water supply system for the town of Smithville has been installed, and groundwater studies have been conducted. However, long-term threat from contaminated groundwater still exists and after 15 years of study we are just beginning to gain the knowledge necessary to understand how the waste is moving through the subsurface and what we can do to remove it (Novakowski et al. 1999).
Mining Waste
Mining waste is generated through the processing of base metal and gold-bearing ore, coal, potash and tar sands. The waste is disposed of in piles, geographic depressions, or constructed impoundments which can cover thousands of hectares. It is estimated that mining activities in Canada have produced at least 350 million tonnes of waste rock, 510 million tonnes of sulphide tailings and more than 55 million tonnes of other wastes. More recent disposal methods include subaqueous disposal and as mine backfill. If the waste contains sulphide minerals, such as pyrite, sulphide oxidation reactions occur, releasing acidity and heavy metals to the groundwater and surface water. Currently the design of mine disposal sites is determined by geotechnical factors rather than water quality issues. Recent advances by Canadian researchers have shown that the disposal of mining waste may have a long-term detrimental impact on the surrounding ecosystem (Bain et al. 2000). These effects have been projected to last decades to centuries to even millenia due to the slow rate of oxidation and transport of oxidation by-products (i.e., acid, heavy metals, arsenic, etc.) through the underlying geologic media. Concentrations of contaminants can exceed drinking water and aquatic limits by several orders of magnitude.
Agricultural Waste
On a national basis, the disposal of livestock waste associated with cattle, swine, and poultry farming, occurs over an extremely large area throughout Canada. The primary contaminants associated with manure include nitrate and ammonia, coliform bacteria, phosphorus, endocrine disrupters and other animal pharmaceuticals. Both the land use and waste management practices commonly employed on farms throughout Canada have impaired the quality of water resources on a regional basis (Rudolph et al. 1998). In a recent survey of farm drinking wells in Ontario, approximately one well in three was found to contain at least one contaminant commonly associated with agricultural activities, including nitrate or bacteria (Goss et al. 1998). Runoff of nutrients and microbes from manure have caused numerous incidents of serious contamination, for example, fish kills in PEI and Ontario, cases of eutrophication of surface water all across Canada, and the steady rise in nitrate levels in the tributaries of Great Lakes during the past 20 years. Environment Canada (1998) reported that eutrophication due to manure runoff was the principal cause of fish kills in Ontario. Current management practices throughout most of Canada involve the temporary storage of raw manure in open barnyards, earthen lagoons, or concrete tanks. Manure is subsequently spread on cultivated fields at different times of the year as a method of final disposal. Surface runoff from barnyards and storage facilities leads to direct release into surface water and groundwater. Once the contaminants have entered the groundwater system, they can be intercepted by local farm wells, municipal wells (as was the case at Walkerton, Ontario) and surface water courses.
Municipal Biosolids and Septic Systems
Urban sewage, consisting of a mixture of solid and liquid wastes, typically undergoes primary treatment in sewage treatment plants. The treatment plants are designed to remove biosolids and a fraction of dissolved components from the wastewater. The biosolids generated from the treatment process are typically disposed in landfills. However, huge quantities are still spread on agricultural land. It is estimated that 80% of Ontario's municipalities dispose of over 1.5 million tonnes of biosolid on 13,000 hectares of land each year by spreading it on agricultural land (Coote and Gregorich 2000). Biosolids contain elevated concentrations of nitrogen, phosphorus, metals, and other residues of often unknown composition. Depending on the degree of treatment, biosolids may also contain elevated concentrations of pathogens, including fecal coliform, E. coli, viruses and protozoa. There are a series of guidelines and regulations in Canada recommending best practices for land spreading of biosolids. These guidelines and regulations may not provide adequate protection to prevent exposure to humans, livestock, soil organisms, and crops to pathogens or undesirable uptake of metals and other constituents into food crops and other ecosystem impacts. When applied in tile-drained areas, pathogens may survive the downward transport to the drain (typically 40-50 cm below surface) and be discharged to adjacent streams or drainage ditches.
Sewage generated in non-urban settings is typically disposed using on-site treatment systems. Most commonly, the wastewater is released to septic tanks where anaerobic digestion processes take place, and the decant water is released to tile lines where infiltration to the subsurface is promoted. The solids slowly break down in the septic tank or are pumped out and spread on fields or treated in wastewater treatment plants. In Canada, there are a variety of alternative disposal practices followed which provide comparable or improved degrees of treatment to conventional practices. Most on-site wastewater disposal systems involving discharge to the subsurface result in the release of nutrients, metals, pathogens, surfactants, medications and other constituents to groundwater (Robertson et al. 1998). The resulting plumes can discharge to surface water bodies over time. Plumes of septic-system derived contaminants often contain concentrations of nitrate above drinking water guidelines, at times many hundreds of metres from the source (Ptacek 1998). On-site wastewater disposal represents the largest volume of wastewater discharged to the subsurface in Canada. As with agricultural waste, the short-term fate and transport of the traditional contaminants, such as nitrate and phosphate, are relatively well understood. However, the long-term impacts of these traditional contaminants are poorly understood as are the fate and transport of bacteria, viruses and other substances that have not been analyzed to date.
Other Wastes
The petroleum industry can produce a variety of wastes. During the drilling of oil and gas wells, the sump pits typically contain brines with very high concentrations of salts and metals which leach to the underlying water table. There are hundreds of thousands of these sites located in Saskatchewan, Alberta and B.C. These have not emerged as a major threat because bentonite used in the drilling process will entrap the brine, and recent drilling techniques used above-ground tanks, from which the waste is disposed to landfills. Another by-product, sulphur, is extracted during the processing of natural gas and stored in large piles. Runoff which is not captured can cause elevated levels of sulphate in groundwater, however the groundwater near many of these sites typically has naturally high sulphate levels. Many wastes from the petrochemical industry are disposed through deep wells in Ontario and Alberta. Although this is generally a safe means of waste disposal, when improperly sited or constructed, extensive groundwater and surface water contamination occurs if the waste is able to migrate to the surface. Problems with corrosion of the well casing and seal in abandoned wells may produce a pathway for the upward migration of hazardous wastes and oilfield brines to shallow aquifers used as sources of drinking water. This was the case at Lambton County, Ontario, during the 1970s (Vandenberg et al. 1977). Processing plants also produce wastes at their flare pits. These wastes, which include produced water (brine), sludge, PAHs, metals, and oils, accumulate over time. Most of these pits have been found to leak and cause groundwater contamination.
Considerable waste sediment is generated during the dredging of harbours and channels. This sediment is generally used as fill along shorelines, but because some harbours are contaminated (e.g., Hamilton, Halifax, St. John's) special disposal facilities are required. Similarly, considerable fill is generated from the disposal of old buildings, roadways, and building excavations. If the material is uncontaminated it is used as shoreline fill or disposed in municipal landfills. If classified hazardous, it is disposed in hazardous landfills. The runoff of excess road salt has caused extensive contamination of surface and ground waters. Levels of road salt in the Waterloo Aquifer are rising and may eventually render the aquifer unfit as a source of drinking water. It is a common problem adjacent to just about every road in rural Canada. In urban areas storm sewers dramatically limit groundwater contamination, but discharge from the sewers causes extensive contamination of surface waters. High-level radioactive waste generated in nuclear reactors poses a very serious health risk and very long-term problem. Because of this, AECL is conducting an extensive program to manage and dispose of this type of waste.
The legacy of solid waste management in Canada has left a complex series of water quality problems, many of which we are just beginning to understand. The problems are not entirely due to poor management practices of the past, but are due to the evolving nature of the problem which causes us to look for new contaminants and institute new disposal practices. Many of the contaminants of the future currently exist, and perhaps have existed in water for years, we just have not begun to look for them yet (e.g., emerging POPs, pharmaceutical compounds). The contaminants which we currently know about, will also continue to cause major problems and numerous challenges. Predicting the significance of these contaminant releases on the long-term health of the aquatic environment, developing methods to minimize these future impacts, and formulating an effective regulatory framework that ensures effective management, represent the most immediate tasks at hand.
Municipal Solid Waste
As Canada's urban population grows, so does the amount of municipal waste produced. It was estimated that in 1995 Metropolitan Toronto, York, Durham and Peel regions disposed of 2.0 million tonnes of municipal waste, and another 0.95 million tonnes of private waste was exported from this area (Golder Assoc. Ltd. 1996). The lengths to which municipalities may have to go to dispose of their municipal waste was dramatically illustrated by the City of Toronto proposal last year to send its municipal garbage 600 km north to the abandoned Adams Mines near Kirkland Lake. The garbage would fill the mine's pen pits and rise another 35 m above ground surface, but the site would only have a life-span of 20 years (Golder Assoc. Ltd. 1996). Proposals to reduce wastes through recycling or at the source (e.g., less packaging) will only slightly reduce the rate of increase. Public pressure is causing the siting of landfills to become difficult. With the realization that all engineered facilities will likely fail, releasing leachate to the ecosystem, numerous issues have begun to emerge. Regulations (if any) on the siting, design and operation of facilities vary across the country thus creating a process that is vulnerable to political factors rather than a process that is based on technically sound criteria. Inevitably the leachate from the landfill will impact the water quality and thus require the installation of an expensive and often ineffective remedial system that requires long-term operation. The leachate may also change the conditions within the receiving aquifer or surface water body which may result in enhanced transport of contaminants. The potential influence of these changes on the mobility of these contaminants is not well understood. These factors along with the introduction of new chemicals and compounds will provide challenges for protecting water quality.
Agricultural Wastes
The number of feedlots in Canada increased dramatically between 1990 and 2000. As agricultural operations evolve, pressure to increase animal density on farms will lead to increasing volumes of manure wastes and the need for the development of appropriate management protocols to minimize future risks to water quality. Even if all sources are removed, the slow release and movement of associated contaminants from the existing mass in the subsurface will continue with increasing impacts on water quality over a very long time. As a result, significant degradation of regional water quality resulting from manure management practices may be anticipated regardless of the implementation of alternative management strategies. The occurrence of endocrine disrupting substances and animal pharmaceuticals in groundwater and surface waters in rural areas may be a significant issue. As yet, very little data exists to evaluate these risks. The increasing release of bacteria and viral species including pathogens may result in more frequent cases of microbial contamination, particularly in the groundwater environment. The development of alternative waste management practices, that will be both effective and inexpensive will be actively sought by the agricultural community. Both the development and implementation of these practices will require collaboration between government, researchers, and the private sector.
Mining Waste
Although the number of mines in Canada has remained essentially constant during the last decade, there is a trend towards larger mining operations which produce larger volumes of waste. The emerging issues associated with mining waste are the need to develop and implement improved disposal techniques to reduce the oxidation of sulphide minerals within the waste and to develop cost-effective treatment methods for existing sites. Other emerging issues include the potential release of heavy metals and oxyanions (i.e., arsenic) from subaqueous disposed mine waste as well as geochemical reactions occurring at the surface water-groundwater interface. Abandoned mine sites represent long-term liabilities to various jurisdictions and further study is needed to fully understand the impact on future generations.
Hazardous/Industrial Waste
Canada and Ontario continue to undertake actions to reduce the levels of hazardous waste disposed within the Great Lakes region (COA 1997). Emerging issues associated with hazardous/industrial wastes are the issue of harmonization of regulations and guidelines between jurisdictions as well as the importation of hazardous waste from other countries such as the United States. Between 1998 and 1999, importation of hazardous wastes from the United States has increased by 18% to 663,000 tonnes prompting Minister Anderson to call for stricter standards (Judd 2000). Factors affecting the importation of hazardous wastes include liability issues, exchange rates and less restrictive regulations associated with the number and type of wastes allowed to be disposed of within landfills. Other issues include the effectiveness of barrier systems over a prolonged period of time (>50 years) and the influence of new chemicals and compounds on barrier integrity. Issues on the transport of dissolved and free-phase chemicals and compounds within a variety of geological materials have also been raised. The contamination of groundwater in Lambton County, Ontario, and the St. Clair River by hazardous waste injected into disposal wells (Vandenberg et al. 1977) is an excellent example of the extent of water quality problems which can result from a lack of knowledge. Disposal wells were constructed and waste injected following the regulations and best knowledge at the time. However, it was not realized that waste fluids would migrate to the surface through abandoned oil and groundwater wells, causing a major problem that still exists today.
Municipal Biosolids and Septic Systems
As the population in Canada increases, the mass of solid and liquid wastes generated will increase, resulting in larger volumes of wastewater released to the subsurface and the generation of larger volumes of biosolids from treatment plants. The number of septic systems will continue to increase dramatically with population increases in rural residential areas, recreational areas, and lakefront properties, and conversion of seasonal cottages to year-round homes, which are served by individual septic systems. Most regulations rely on the use of setback distances to prevent the uptake of bacteria in drinking water supplies, or the release of bacteria and nutrients to surface waters. These setback distances provide adequate protection in many geological materials to prevent large-scale disease outbreaks. There are, however, a number of aquifer types where the transport of viruses over long distances has been documented, and where infection of humans has occurred. Coarse-grained sand, gravel, and fractured bedrock aquifers are particularly susceptible to widespread transport of viruses and other pathogenic organisms. A number of physical, chemical and other aquifer properties have been identified as factors controlling the transport of viruses in aquifers. Information gained through research programs conducted outside of Canada can likely be transferred directly to evaluate the potential threat of pathogen transport in aquifers in Canada, however there are a few issues unique to the Canadian environment such as the much lower temperatures which might sustain the viability of pathogenic organisms over longer transport distances. Other information gaps relate to the transport of constituents that are newly recognized as being potential threats to human and ecosystem health. These include the unknown fate of medications, surfactants, food additives and natural hormones in the subsurface, and the uptake of these constituents in wells, or release to surface waters.
Knowledge and Program Needs
Considerable experience has been amassed over decades of waste management activity in Canada and elsewhere. The understanding of the complex array of issues associated with current management practices and historic activities has just begun to develop. This has been particularly true in Canada because of the enormous land and water resources available and the concept that these resources are essentially endless and not susceptible to environmental impacts of waste disposal as seen in the rest of the world. We can look back at many of our serious water contamination problems and identify poor disposal and management practices. However, many problems were not the result of bad management practices (in fact they followed existing regulations and engineering practices), but due to a lack of knowledge, which is now available. As such, several key areas require additional understanding and study.
Municipal Solid Waste
The major knowledge gaps in our understanding on municipal solid waste disposal include:
- Long-term integrity of liner, cover and leachate collection systems.
- Long-term aging reactions within the waste and receiving aquifer or surface water.
- Mobility and degradation of new chemicals and compounds, such as EDS, POPs, etc.
- Interaction between new chemicals and compounds.
- Methodological issues related to the detection and quantification of new chemicals.
- Effective implementation of aquifer remediation and leachate treatment systems.
- Role of changing geochemical environments on naturally occurring constituents.
Agricultural Waste
The major knowledge gaps in our understanding on agricultural waste disposal include:
- Fate and transport of pathogens, EDS, and pharmaceuticals.
- Monitoring and inventory of existing contaminant mass in the subsurface.
- Development of best management practices, especially at a watershed scale.
- Slow release to the surface water courses through seasonal fluctuations.
- Investigation of alternative waste disposal methods (as being implemented in other parts of the world).
Mining Waste
The major knowledge gaps in our understanding on mining waste disposal include:
- Release of contaminants from waste disposed of in underwater environments and as mine backfill.
- Attenuation and release mechanisms in aquifers impacted by mining waste.
- Long-term release of metals from waste-rock piles and tailings.
- Transport and fate of contaminants across the groundwater-surface interface.
- Effect of chemical additives on the mobility of heavy metals and other contaminants of concern.
- Long-term stability of engineered impoundments and piles.
Hazardous/Industrial Waste
The major knowledge gaps in our understanding on hazardous/industrial waste disposal include:
- Long-term integrity of liner/cover system.
- Co-disposal effects on transport and degradation processes.
- Degradation and transport properties of new chemicals and compounds.
- Availability of analytical chemistry methodology.
- Effects of waste types on barrier integrity.
- Influence of climate effects on disposal methods.
- Long-term integrity of steel casing and concrete plugs in abandoned disposal, oil and gas wells to maintain a seal which prevents upward migration of contaminants.
- Comprehensiveness of leachate treatment systems.
Municipal Biosolids and Septic Systems
The major knowledge gaps in our understanding on municipal biosolids and septic systems include:
- Long-term fate of accumulated nutrients and metal and release into drinking water supplies.
- Fate of pathogenic organisms in different soil types with particular attention to cold regions.
- Fate of pathogenic organisms applied to tile-drained fields.
- Transport and fate of EDS, pharmaceuticals and new chemicals as they are introduced.
- Development of alternative disposal methods to optimize removal of all undermined constituents.
- Research into long-term processes and reactions.
- Awareness of what to look for.
- Improved analytical and field methods.
- Close the gap between science and policy.
- New regulations, rather than guidelines.
- Harmonization of regulations and guidelines among all levels of government.
- Implementation of effective groundwater protection and watershed management practices.
- Improved monitoring procedures.
- Realistic bonding ($) to ensure funds available to deal with long-term problems and abandoned sites.
- Recognition of the extent of the problem.
- Need to deal with problems at the source rather than away from source.
- Focus on protection/prevention rather than remediation.
- Bain, J.G., D.W. Blowes, W.D. Robertson and E.O. Frind. 2000. Modelling of sulfide oxidation with reactive transport at a mine drainage site. J. Contaminant Hydrol. 41: 23-47.
- CCME. 1991. National guidelines for the landfilling of hazardous waste. 45 p.
- COA. 1997. Second report of progress under the Canada-Ontario Agreement respecting the Great Lakes basin ecosystem 1995-1997. Environment Canada, Great Lakes Information Centre, Burlington, Canada. 15 p.
- Coote, D.R. and L.J. Gregorich. 2000. The health of our water--towards sustainable agriculture in Canada. Research Planning and Coordination Directorate, Research Branch, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Canada. 173 p.
- Environment Canada. 1998. Manure: farming and healthy fish habitat. Brochure.
- Environment Canada. 1991. Solid waste: out of sight, out of mind, chapter 25, p. 25-1--25-19. In The state of Canada's environment. Environment Canada, Ottawa, Canada.
- Golder Assoc. Ltd. 1996. Environmental assessment--overview - Adams Mine environmental assessment. Report submitted to Notre Development Corporation by Golder Assoc. Ltd., Mississauga, Ontario.
- Judd, N. 2000. Canada becomes a pollution haven for U.S. hazwaste. Environment News Service, July 28, 2000.
- Goss, M.J., D.A.J. Barry and D.L. Rudolph. 1998. Contamination in Ontario farmstead domestic wells and its association with agriculture. 1. Results from drinking water wells. J. Contaminant Hydrol. 32: 267-293.
- McBean, E.A., F.A. Rovers and G.J. Farquhar. 1995. Solid waste landfill engineering and design. Prentice Hall, New Jersey. 521 p.
- Novakowski, K.S., P.A. Lapcevic, G. Bickerton, J. Voralek, L. Zanini and C. Talbot. 1999. The development of conceptual model for contaminant transport in the dolostone underlying Smithville, Ontario. Environment Canada, National Water Research Institute, Burlington/Saskatoon, NWRI Contribution No. 99-250. 245 p.
- Ptacek, C.J. 1998. Geochemistry of a septic-system plume in a coastal barrier bar, Point Pelee, Ontario, Canada. J. Contaminant Hydrol. 33: 293-312.
- Robertson, W.D., S.L. Schiff and C.J. Ptacek. 1998. Review of phosphate mobility and persistence in 10 septic system plumes. Ground Water 36: 1000-1010.
- Rudolph, D.L., D.A.J. Barry and M.J. Goss. 1998. Contamination in Ontario farmstead domestic wells and its association with agriculture: 2. Results from multilevel monitoring well installations. J. Contam. Hydrol. 32: 295-311.
- Vandenberg, A., D.W. Lawson, J.E. Charron and B. Novakovic. 1977. Subsurface waste disposal in Lambton County, Ontario--piezometric head in the disposal formation and groundwater chemistry of the shallow aquifer. Technical Bulletin No. 90. Inland Waters Directorate, Water Resources Branch, Environment Canada. 64 p.
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Valters and Kaža, sometimes spelt Walters and Kazha is a Latvian duo who represented their homeland in the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest. The slow ballad-like song, "The War Is Not Over", finished in 5th place despite having a considerably large lead at some point during the voting. Their full names are Valters Fridenbergs and Kārlis Būmeisters.
In the semi-final, which was held two days before the final, Valters and Kaža qualified as tenth. Unfortunately, Valters lost his voice at the after-party. This was so bad that at the dress rehearsal Valters did not sing during the entire song. Fortunately he was able to sing at the live final, although Valters and Kaža sang one of the final parts one octave lower than they should. One could clearly see that Valters was relieved that it worked out.
Valters made a solo effort to represent Latvia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009, but did not make it to the Latvian finals in the town of Ventspils in March.
Valters and Kaža both provided the Latvian commentary for the 2011 Contest. Also, Valters presented the voting results on behalf of Latvia at the 2012 Contest and 2010 contest.[1]
- ^ "Running order for the voting tonight". European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 26 May 2012. Due to an unknown reason as yet, Georgia did not reveal their votes, leaving only 41 countries voting in total.
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The Giants tried for the tie. Down 4-2 against the Seattle Mariners in the ninth, they got a single from Nick Noonan and a two-out run-scoring double by Cole Gillespie to put the tying run in scoring position. But Gary Brown flied out, ending the three-game run of ties.
"That's got to be a record, right?" Brandon Belt asked reporters, and yeah, it probably is of some sort.
Belt hit a homer and also scored after a single. But the rest of the Giants couldn't catch up against a hard-throwing group of Mariners relievers.
Matt Cain made the start, allowing three earned runs on four hits in three innings.
Cain said everything felt fine in his first start after a liner hit his knee, and he was relieved that -- after getting drilled during his first two mound sessions this spring -- he came away unscathed.
"Now we're only two out of three, which is pretty good if you're a hitter," he said. "We were starting to wonder if we were going to be able to put an L screen out there."
Also on the injury front, Joe Panik has been held out with some mild hamstring tightness.
"Belt looked better today," Bochy said. "He was swinging with more authority."
Bochy hasn't said when Belt will get a look in left field, but he did say that Buster Posey will play first base on Saturday. The coaching staff also will start to stretch out some of the backup starters, including Mike Kickham, Chris Heston, Justin Fitzgerald and Yusmeiro Petit. Bullpen candidate Chad Gaudin falls in that group, too.
Jeremy Affeldt pitched the fourth and got three groundouts to short. As reporters waited for Belt, Brandon Crawford walked out the clubhouse door and then stuck his head back in.
"I set a record today," he said.
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Dan Rhodes is an English writer who has written two other books: Anthropology and a Hundred Other Stories and Don't Tell Me the Truth about Love. In his biographical note from the recent Granta: Best of Young British Novelists he says that he plans not to write any more fiction. If he means it, and it's to be hoped he doesn't, then Timoleon Vieta Come Home is something of a sneering farewell kiss, a poisoned parting glass.
Cockroft lives in exile in a Tuscan villa, his only companion his mongrel dog, Timoleon Vieta. Once a minor figure in '60s high bohemia, composer of music for TV shows such as Bibbly and the Bobblies and Turk Is a Four-Letter Word, Cockroft's career ended in 1974 after he appeared on a chat show drunk and made a speech against immigration: "Since then he had felt awful almost all the time."
Washed up, lush with queeny self-pity and grieving exorbitantly over his best boy, the one with the silver shorts who disappeared in the middle of the night leaving only a note saying "SORRY!!", Cockroft is the perfect gay victim. In the form of the surly, handsome Bosnian who appears on his doorstep one morning, he finds the perfect vehicle for even greater abjection:
"He didn't bring out the best in Cockroft. And he liked girls. He had made that clear. 'I like the girls,' he said, in his foreign voice. But the old man was happy enough to have him around the house. He tried to remember what life had been like in the days immediately before the Bosnian had walked up the track. It was a blur. Two or three months earlier he had been abandoned by an average-looking Frenchman after an indifferent affair that had lasted only a few weeks, and the time in between had seemed like a single interminable day, interrupted by sleep from which he would often jolt awake, startled by his own mediocrity."
The Bosnian doesn't like Cockroft much, but is happy to live off him - his sexual demands are pretty light - but he really hates Timoleon Vieta. When he suggests to Cockroft that he will stick around if he gets rid of the dog, the old man is so desperate to keep him that he agrees. "I've been holding him back all these years," Cockroft says drunkenly as the Bosnian drives at breakneck speed to Rome, where they dump Timoleon Vieta at the Colosseum.
Rhodes gets a lot of deliciously queasy-making fun out of this heartless comedy: but halfway through the book he drops Cockroft and the Bosnian and goes in search of new prey, or at least that's how it seems at first. As Timoleon Vieta makes his way home from Rome to the Villa Cockroft, he brings his special doggy love into the lives of a succession of abandoned, alienated and inadequate characters. This must be the section that made the blurb writer describe Timoleon Vieta, incomprehensibly, as a work of "inspiring humanity".
There is the Welsh girl forsaken by the Italian cad who brought her to Italy and then, after some weeks, told her he was engaged; there is the Chinese girl who came to Italy when her mother married an elderly Italian professor, both now dead. Some of the juice, or bile, leaks out of the novel: some of the stories Timoleon Vieta wanders into are a bit scrappy and there is a parody of magical realism that is too long.
You realise, uneasily, that Rhodes wants to wring your heart, in the half-sadistic manner of Houellebecq or Spielberg in A.I.: Artificial Intelligence. It doesn't really work and the first part, where he is more robustly going to town on the dreadful Cockroft and his vile love, is much better done.
Rhodes comes towards you with a bunch of flowers in one hand and a stiletto in the other. In a situation like that it's best to keep your eye on the stiletto. The finale isn't Lassie Come Home, it's Lassie Get Stuffed, and if you are the kind of person who is sentimental about dogs, or boys, Timoleon Vieta Come Home will leave you inconsolable or cure you forever.
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Despedida- The farewell.
In general, Mexico is a place that has lots of celebrations. Saying that, I have seven farewell parties to go to. Everyone I go to gets a little bit harder.
Tomorrow is the first day of my last full week of work at La Buena Tierra. Exams are over, and now we're just learning "Hello Goodbye" by the Beatles (pronounced Beet-less in Mexico) for our final assembly. I won't say that my students are all speaking English fluently now, but they at least know that I truly care about them and they can say "Good morning". My kids are asking me if I'll be teaching English to them next year. It's not fun to say no.
I had to decide in May if I was going to continue to build relationships here for my last weeks, or if I would take a step back, which I'm so accustomed to doing, in order to not feel the sting of saying goodbye. I think I made the right decision when I told myself that I would keep on doing what I love the most- getting to know my fellows.
Sometimes you accomplish and learn things that weren't part of the plan at all. As of late, I've had quite a few conversations with people here who said that we were some of the first "Gringos" to take the time to spend and talk with them. Often time US citizens have a bad reputation for being rude tourists in Mexico, or worse, rude hosts in the US. At the very least there's a handful of Mexicans who don't have a negative stereotype of US citizens anymore.
I'm not gunna lie, sometimes I think "man, I'm gunna have a drier and BBQ sauce in just a few weeks", and that makes me happy. But, most of the time of think of the fact that we're leaving Cuernavaca. I can only hope that things keep getting better for everyone here.
Right now, I have to go pack my back pack full of books I need to organize at school tomorrow. It's my planning day, but I have nothing to plan. Next thing on my to do list is to print out photos for all of my friends and fellow teachers here so that I can leave a memory of this year. What a good year it's been.
What Comes Next?
I'll be appreciating these last 20 days in Mexico by spending time with the many friends I've made here including the other YAGM. I think this is my last blog from Mexico, though I might write something when I get back to Florida and settled.
I'll be seeing Miami Airport on July 12th. Then off to the Keys for a few days of relaxation aka fishing. The road doesn't stop there, as I'll be happily returning to my post at Grace Lutheran to go on a service trip with the youth to the Blueridge Mountains, North Carolina. And just to make my life a little more interesting, I decided to work at Sturge's Bike rally in South Dakota for two weeks in August with a fellow YAGM.
Well, here's my despedida to you all. Thank you to everyone for following me on my journey this year. I hope you might have learned a couple of the things I was able to.
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