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EugeneO saidThat's not good. Maybe one uses bootstrap for all their themes, maybe another uses skeleton, limiting the authors to certain plugins is like limiting clients from modifying the themes they buy
Moving towards a plugin centric is a good idea however for it to work I think we will also need some standardized plugins for the common theme features. Otherwise, we are going to end up with 1000 different shortcode plugins, 1000 different portfolio plugins, etc which is going to make things just as complicated. I know this was something that was suggested a while back but I don't know how far the idea progressed.
+1 i'm with you for that , really should envato team see that.
nagaemas saidIt should be since it only affects shortcodes you define and does not mess with filters.
OriginalEXE saidYes I know about this, but I thought this is no longer allowed after this change? Correct me if I'm wrong
@nagaemas did you check this: https://gist.github.com/bitfade/4555047
OriginalEXE said
Regarding column shortocde, I really don't understand why it needs to mess with filters for it's functionality?
Like I said in one of my replies just before this one, the issue isn't necessarily the column shortcode directly. Although sometimes it is. It depends on how the column functionality is implemented.
In some situations the column shortcode itself isn't the issue, it's the fact that auto-formatting that WordPress does on content placed within a column shortcode causes issues with the display of the columns and the content on the front end.
Because of that it is typically paired with another shortcode such as RAW or NOFORMAT so that the content placed within the column is encapsulated in a shortcode that does not apply the WordPress auto-formatting. Because the WordPress auto-formatting can cause issues with the content within the columns lining up properly, etc.
Obviously there are ways to get around this if you really put your mind to it. The problem is most people aren't doing that. They are re-using existing code, etc. without realizing the consequences. People are copy-n-pasting code to accomplish something and that code is doing it in a destructive way. Which is how the RAW/NOFORMAT shortcode spread to so many themes both on ThemeForest and elsewhere.
nagaemas said
@carlhancock Let's not talk about the restrictions of shortcodes on ThemeForest, but is there anyway to fix the broken shortcodes caused by wpautop that you can think of without modifying wpautop and without using filters? Because the native shortcode_unautop is not very useful before they patch it
Like I mentioned to another commenter, I don't have a solution to this particular issue. But the one on github pointed out by @OriginalEXE might possibly be an option, although i've never used it and I can't say if it is or isn't allowed under Envato guidelines.
I just know that the RAW/NOFORMAT method that lots of theme developers have been using is very destructive and should be avoided.
I completely understand the issue it's trying to solve. It's a real issue that can be a pain in the butt to deal with. Unfortunately this particular solution causes far bigger problems in the process of fixing a single problem. It's a destructive solution.
Like Carl, I do not know of a solution that actually fixes the formatting caused by wpautop, but I can say that the issues caused by messing with the default content filters are much more drastic than the inability to easily use column short codes.
The entire idea of a column short code is against what short codes are supposed to be anyway, but that's a whole other debate
mordauk said
Like Carl, I do not know of a solution that actually fixes the formatting caused by wpautop, but I can say that the issues caused by messing with the default content filters are much more drastic than the inability to easily use column short codes.
The only real solution would be something in the core, for example wptexturize has the
no_texturize_shortcodes filter there needs to be one similar shortcodes as well but thats a discussion for another thread
At this juncture, I'd like to ask everyone, politely of course, to stick to the topic at hand. You're more than welcome to open a separate thread with your tangential questions. Thanks for listening!
With that, I'm out for the week end as well. I've made a list of specific posts, and the questions they raise, so the team can further discuss things and tweak a few things. Topics like page builders and bespoke, super specialized themes are definitely on the list.
Rest assured that, as the famous Dr. Crane says, I'm listening.
Have a great week end everyone!
really some points good , but others need more discussions about that.
my ask now :
are all this Requirements for our old themes , or just new themes .. ?
i mean , should update old themes to be okay with all this Requirements ..? or not ?
Jozoor said
really some points good , but others need more discussions about that.
my ask now :thanks.
are all this Requirements for our old themes , or just new themes .. ?
i mean , should update old themes to be okay with all this Requirements ..? or not ?
Yes you should but as they said, you will have much more time (undefined, but in months) to standarize the old themes.
Hello everyone,
I'm personally really happy with these guidelines, maybe because my most recent themes already comply with them!
However, I strongly disagree with the
CDATA requirement:
What older browsers? Browsers others than the ones officially supported by the Theme?
According to the W3C (see http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#h-4.8 ), wrapping inline JavaScript code with
CDATA markers will prevent "<" and "&" to be treated as the start of markup by the XML processor.
The above is true for XML document (including XHTML), but not for HTML documents (including HTML5). Therefore, whether we should use
CDATA markers or not depends on both the doctype declaration and the inline javascript content. Please see Should I use CDATA in HTML5?.
For any HTML documents, not only CDATA is useless, but it is cumbersome as it requires to be commented out as they are not valid HTML syntax (i.e.
//--><!]]>...), while for XHTML or any other XML document (like SVG or MathML) the simpler basic syntax is to be used (i.e.
I believe that the "errors in older browsers" mentioned in the Submission Requirements, refers in fact to the errors caused by the use of
CDATA wrapper itself in HTML documents (which should not be used in such documents)! Those errors are solved by commenting out the
CDATA wrapper with an appropriate syntax – or should I say a "complex" commenting syntax – and the older the browser you want to fix this misuse for, the more complex the syntax gets (see Joel Purra's answer on this).
Requiring to add
CDATA markers in all cases for all Themes is irrelevant and totally cumbersome. The reason why WordPress adds
CDATA markers to the XML outputs (i.e. RSS) is because those are… XML documents. And regarding the wp_localize_script() method, it isn't aware of the doctype being used, nor if the inline javascript outputted will contain any of the problematic characters (i.e. "<" and "&"), and it does so with special commenting syntax to not break HTML documents (for which the
CDATA marker is not compatible with).
I believe you should definitely review this requirement for better code quality. You could simply rewrite it like so:
- Inline JavaScript should be wrapped with
CDATAmarkers if the Theme uses an
- Inline JavaScript should not be wrapped with
CDATAmarkers if the Theme uses an
CDATAwrappers, if used, should be commented if the Theme uses mixed
CDATAwrappers, if used, should be escaped using special syntax if the Theme uses mixed
HTMLDoctypes, and if the Theme supports pre-IE6 browsers, "to prevent errors in older browsers"
I sincerely hope that my thoughts clear things up a little so the Submission Requirements can be improved in order to avoid useless degradation of the global code quality on ThemeForest Best, Jonathan


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Annual Forum Highlights
More than 200 people from 80 member libraries of the Urban Libraries Council (ULC) gathered in Chicago in late June for the 2013 Annual Forum, an event focused on libraries at the center of learning. "Libraries lead learning," ULC CEO and President Susan Benton said as she opened the forum. "We are the center of learning in our community. People rely on us at every age and every stage." Executive Board Chair Joan M. Prince reinforced the theme, pointing out that those who visit the library expect more than books. They're also looking for new technology, information on jobs and space to convene and create.
Keynote Presentation: Diana Rhoten
In her keynote address, Diana Rhoten, chief strategy officer of Amplify, hammered home this theme. She urged leaders to move away from the traditional thinking about the library as a quiet place to acquire books and instead embrace a "Youth(full) Library." The dimensions of that approach include:
- Reimagine space to allow teens to hang out, move around, even lie down.
- Revise the types of experiences at the libraries, including contests, quests and costume parties featuring characters from books. She urged librarians to allow teens to lead activities or teach each other. And she cautioned that there will be noise.
- Provide experts and mentors, such as performance artists and education students, who can teach kids new skills.
- Rethink content and resources with an eye toward the type of genres that 21st century libraries should offer. The content shift should also include providing games, given the research that shows a connection between game playing and improvements in reading and writing.
Rhoten was particularly emphatic about providing games, saying that schools rarely have the time or capacity to allow students to learn this way. "I think the opportunity for libraries to do something is tremendous," she said.
After Rhoten's speech, participants broke into small groups to discuss what their libraries are doing to engage youth.
Connected Learning: Libraries and Communities
Connie Yowell, director of education at the MacArthur Foundation, led the next discussion on Connected Learning: Libraries and Communities. Yowell described how the foundation had shifted its focus from traditional school reform to institutions that can adapt more quickly and provide students what they need. "Libraries are one of the most adaptive, responsive partners in connected learning for kids," Yowell said. She suggested that more federal money should flow to libraries for the work they do with youth.
Key to the connected learning approach is making sure that learning is relevant to students. That requires finding out what their interests are and providing the space for them to explore these interests. "We need to create spaces for kids to be with peers and let them hang out and mess around together as peers. Libraries are fundamentally wonderful hangout spaces." They can also be sites of production and participation, as well as helping students cultivate online networks of information.
She urged libraries to provide:
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- Badges to mark the progress they've made.
- Pathways to improving skills and an understanding of how this progress can have a real payoff in higher education or career settings.
Yowell's comments were followed by a discussion among three public library officials: Cleveland's Buffy Hamilton, St. Paul's Kit Hadley and Chicago's Andrea Saenz.
Saenz described how the Learning Lab in the Chicago Public Library provides a great entry point for many youth who come to the library. Its maker space will include laser cutters and 3D printers. Hamilton told how the Cleveland Public Library is capturing the energy and optimism of the city.
Hadley described a robust partnership with the city's recreation centers, which includes sharing data to see the impact and opportunities. "We're trying to take steps to take a scattered, ad-hoc world for youth and make it more systematic,"
Hadly said.
Shifting the Culture: Owning Learning in New Ways
After lunch, the conversation expanded beyond the world of libraries to explore approaches to learning in different organizations. Jane Werner, executive director of the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, described how her institution has created a maker space and joined with other community institutions to provide a continuum of experiences for young people. Her museum works with researchers from a local university to develop information on what sort of learning is happening. Martha Lavey, artistic director of the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, told how the theatre's youth program helps mentor kids and develop their interests.
Pam Sandlian Smith, director of Anythink Libraries in the Rangeview Library District in Colorado, talked about "inventing experiences for learning." In one instance, the facilities manager brought in some eggs, allowing patrons to watch chicks hatching. As many as 4,000 people showed up to see chicks, and gain new information.
Keynote Presentation: Milton Chen
The afternoon's keynote speaker, Milton Chen, senior fellow and executive director emeritus of the George Lucas Educational Foundation, continued the theme of learning outside traditional venues.
Chen, who got his start working with Sesame Street, told how kids once watched four hours a day of television. That hasn't changed much, but they spend another three hours a day in front of computer or mobile screens. "Our job is to cutback on the total screen time and devote more of it to learning," Chen said.
He quoted William Butler Yeats as saying, "Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire," and asked the audience "What does it take to light the fire for every student?"
Libraries, he said, offer opportunities for "free choice learning," a chance to explore their interests. They also provide a venue for students to learn from each other and work together. "In the past, that used to be called cheating." He asked if libraries could become learning exchanges, where one person could teach a particular skill and learn one from someone else. "Let's just realize we're living in the age of the greatest expansion of the world's knowledge," he said.
Membership Breakfast
Day 2 of the Annual Forum began with a State of ULC overview provided by Chair Joan Prince that included information on ULC programs, its strong membership and finances and a preview of the upcoming Partners Conference. The members then elected a new executive board, including the new chair, Melanie Huggins.
Melanie Huggins then announced the 2013 Top Innovators, adding that, "There's not a library in this room that is not an innovative, ongoing learning library."
The winners include:
- Learning: Howard County Library System (MD) HiTech: The Road to a STEM Career
- Civic and Community Engagement: Los Angeles Public Library (CA) Your Path to Citizenship Starts at the Los Angeles Public Library
- Collections: Nashville Public Library (TN) Limitless Libraries
- Customer Experience: Calgary Public Library (AB) Grow a Reader Early Literacy App
- Economic and Workforce Development: Saint Paul Public Library (MN) NorthStar Digital Literacy Project
- Health, Wellness and Safety: Pima County Public Library (AZ) Library Nurses Program
- Operations: New York and Brooklyn Public Libraries (NY) BookOps: Shared Library Technical Services
- Organizational Change and Strategic Management: San Francisco Public Library (CA) Community Impact through Renewed Engagement
- Positioning the Library: Free Library of Philadelphia (PA) Flying High: Library of Philadelphia Touches Down in the International Airport
- Sustainability: Sacramento Public Library (CA) Read and Feed: Partnerships for Building Healthy Communities
A new category, Serving Communities in Crisis, had three winners:
- Johnson County Library (KS) A Conversation about Sandy Hook
- Queens Library (NY) Queens Library Responds to Hurricane Sandy
- Poudre River Public Library District (CO) Libraries as First Responders
Read about the 2013 Top Innovators >>
In addition, ULC presented the Urban Player Award to Susan Adkins, board member of The Seattle Public Library Foundation (WA) and the Joey Rodger Leadership Award to Corinne Hill, executive director of Chattanooga Public Library (TN).
It Takes a Village: Community Approaches to Learning
The membership meeting was followed by a lively discussion about how libraries can work across the community to enhance learning, particularly in the early years and the summer months.
Susan Hildreth, director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), discussed the organization's partnership with the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading (GLR), which is working in 134 communities across the country to increase the number of low-income children who read proficiently by the end of third grade. IMLS released a report last month, Growing Young Minds, which highlights strategies and promising practices to improve early literacy.
Ralph Smith, managing director of the GLR Campaign, acknowledged the role that libraries play in this work. "Schools are not going to be able to do it alone, and the rest of us have to get off the sidelines and into the game and help kids,." he said. "This is the work that libraries have been doing for a very long time. The question is if we can do it more intentionally and more strategically."
He urged libraries to take advantage of the "uncontested space" summer affords for working with children and to rebrand summer, "not as vacation, but as an opportunity for nutrition, fitness, learning and service."
Gary Huggins, CEO of the National Summer Learning Association, stressed that low-income children lose two to three months of reading skills over the summer and said libraries can help stop that summer slide.
As the panel discussion ended, Hildreth shared the news that IMLS was entering two partnerships with other federal agencies:
- An agreement with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will support the role libraries play in helping immigrants gain citizenship.
- An agreement with the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services will ensure that libraries are provided the information needed to secure health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
The members then broke into smaller discussion groups, prior to adjourning the Annual Forum.

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Speaking to Univision and Telemundo, Obama said: "I think this is something we should be able to get done certainly this year, and I'd like to see if we could get it done sooner, in the first half of the year if possible."
Obama also added that "it's a matter of Republicans and Democrats coming together and finding a meeting of the minds," but failed to mention the bipartisan coalition of senators attempting to do just that.
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How much industry assistance - or, if you prefer, "business welfare" - does the Federal Government provide in these days of globalisation and deregulated markets?
More than you may think.
One of the Productivity Commission's jobs is to conduct an annual review of assistance to industry. It produced its report for 2002-03 recently and it makes interesting reading.
The PC found that the value of all the main forms of industry assistance totalled almost $11 billion a year, with the lion's share of that still coming from tariff protection.
When governments slap tariffs (import duties) on certain imported goods, they benefit the local producers of those goods by permitting them to charge higher prices than they would otherwise be able to.
The value of tariff assistance provided to Australian industries - almost exclusively manufacturing industries - is very much less than it used to be because of the extensive reductions initiated by the former Labor Government during the late 1980s and the '90s.
Even so, the PC estimates tariff assistance is still worth $6.8 billion a year.
Rates of duty are now 5 per cent or less for all parts of manufacturing bar two. Since 2000, the duty on motor vehicles and parts has been 15 per cent. It's intended to fall to 10 per cent in January 2005 and then to 5 per cent in January 2010.
The other remaining island of protection is the textiles, clothing and footwear (TCF) sector. Its duty rates since 2000 have been 25, 15 or 10 per cent. These are scheduled to fall to 17.5, 10 or 7.5 per cent in January 2005 and then to 10, 5 or 5 per cent in January 2010.
If you take the net value of the assistance provided to an industry and express it as a proportion of the value added by that industry (which is the value of its output less the value of inputs coming from other industries) you get its "effective rate of assistance" (ERA).
And whereas the ERAs for other parts of manufacturing are less than 5 per cent, for textiles, clothing and footwear it's 25 per cent. In other words, for every $4 the sector generates under its own steam, the Government obliges the rest of us to give it another $1.
For motor vehicles and parts, the effective rate of assistance is 11 per cent.
But tariff protection is only one form of government assistance to industry. Another $4 billion a year comes direct from the federal budget, divided about equally between government spending and special tax breaks ("tax expenditures" as they're called).
Actual budget spending goes on such things as funding the CSIRO, Austrade and the Australian Tourist Commission, and direct grants to the pharmaceuticals industry and the TCF sector. The main tax concessions are for the motor vehicle industry, research and development spending and income-tax averaging for farmers.
If you divide the total budgetary assistance up by industry, almost half goes to manufacturing, a quarter goes to farmers, a fifth to the services sector and a 20th to mining.
Historically, most assistance to farmers has been in the form of statutory marketing arrangements intended to keep the prices they receive higher than otherwise. But most of these schemes have been dismantled over recent decades.
By now, the only significant federal pricing and regulatory assistance is going to dairy farmers ($170 million, down from $450 million in 1999-2000), sugar growers ($30 million) and rice growers ($5 million).
OK, that's a quick update on how much tariff protection and other industry assistance is still being provided. But what of it? Why denigrate it with talk such as "welfare for businesses"?
All the industries receiving assistance are creating jobs for Australian workers and all would assure us that, were their assistance to be reduced or removed, they'd be obliged to sack lots of people.
And it's true, they would - though probably to a much lesser extent than they'd claim if their assistance were under threat. (They never admit it, but a fair bit of the assistance props up their profit, not their payroll.)
So why be down on business welfare? Because, when it comes to industry assistance, the old saying is right: there's no such thing as a free feed. As the PC explains in its report, "although assistance generally benefits the firms or industries that receive it, it comes at a cost to other sectors of the economy".
Take protection. The tariff that allows a local industry to charge a higher price for its product (and thus employ more people than otherwise) raises the costs of other local industries that use the product as an input to their own production.
It also means higher prices for consumers, who then have less money left to spend on other locally made goods and services.
Or, take budgetary assistance. The particular firms or industries obviously benefit when governments give them money or tax concessions or provide them with free services.
But to fund those subsidies, governments must increase taxes and charges, cut back on other spending, or borrow additional funds.
Make a note of this: the great catch to protection and other industry assistance is that you can only protect jobs in industry A at the expense of jobs in industries B to Z.
The PC has done some figuring to demonstrate that dismal truth. It estimates that the total $6.8 billion in tariff assistance provided mainly to manufacturing industries in 2002-03 also raised the cost of the inputs used by farmers by $80 million and those used by miners by $180 million.
It raised the cost of the inputs used by industries in the services sector (the sector that's our most labour-intensive) by $2.5 billion. But get this: it raised the cost of inputs used by manufacturing industries by an amazing $2.3 billion.
So the gross tariff assistance provided to manufacturers of $6.7 billion was immediately reduced to $4.4 billion, simply because a third of the burden of protecting employment in manufacturing was actually borne by manufacturers themselves.
And that's not counting the indirect effect of all the sales the manufacturers didn't make because consumers were paying more than they could have been for all the services they buy.
Protection is a three-card trick. That's why we've cut it back so much and still need to keep a close eye on how much business welfare our pollies are doling out to their industry mates.
Ross Gittins is the Herald's Economics Editor.
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On March 13, 2009, Starbucks opened the gorgeous beacon Starbucks at the corner of First and Pike* Street, at the entrance to the Pike Place Market. I still remember walking in that first day when it was brand new and taking it all in. This Starbucks was the first in the new "heritage" design style, and one of the company's first stores to be LEED Certified, and it was the first Starbucks to get two Clover brewers.
The store's address is as follows:
Starbucks store #14870
102 Pike Street
Seattle, WA 98101
(206) 903 8010
This morning I got up early and walked down the hill to the First and Pike Starbucks. It was roughly about 6:45 a.m. when I arrived, and the store was still stunningly quiet. The store was so quiet at that hour that I immediately began to take photos of the near empty store. In fact, I had wanted to drop by and take a close look at the lighting fixtures because it relates to a future blog post that I am working on. I used my phone to take the pics, and not my camera because I wasn't initially planning a blog article. (My apologies if they look low quality).
This was the first photo that I snapped. I love the sight of the Public Market sign in the background behind the outdoor seating of the First and Pike Starbucks:
Once inside the store, there are small, round, signet-style plaques describing attributes and features of the store that helped lead to its LEED certification. The lights inside the store are about the same shape, and similar style as those found in the first Starbucks (located a few blocks away at 1912 Pike Place). I have heard that these lights are meant to echo the original store's lighting, and be reminiscent of that store; however there are a couple of huge differences. The lighting used at First and Pike is energy efficient, whereas the first store uses its historic lighting fixtures, which consumes more electricity than this store. Notice that there is a plastic covering piece that says "Starbucks Fresh Roasted Coffee" on it. I wasn't sure how to get a photo of the lights and get the words to show up. This was the best one I took, after randomly pressing a ton of buttons on my phone's camera.
The two photos below are NOT from First and Pike, but rather from 1912 Pike Place. I walked down to 1912 Pike Place and tried to take a couple of photos that featured the store's lighting fixtures:
Here's a photo of the lighting fixtures at First and Pike:
As I was wildly pressing buttons and clicking things on my phone, I inadvertently discovered that this store (First and Pike Starbucks) looks really kind of cool in "negative":
More than two years after its opening, the store is still an extremely photogenic store. By the way, in the photos below you may notice that this store has some merchandise that is very unique, and otherwise is only available at the first Starbucks. A few of the mugs are available only at this store as well as 1912 Pike Place, and this store offers the Pike Place Special Reserve coffee, available only at this store and 1912 Pike Place.
The store's first manager was Leah Regan. She is a wonderful person, and I still really enjoy visiting with her when I see her at Starbucks events. I miss her and wish that she were still the store's manager. She radiates talent and intelligence, and stays upbeat all the time. Unfortunately for this store (but good for the corporation) she was promoted into a position at the headquarters. Thankfully, Starbucks found a great partner to take over the store. The current store manager is "Josh." (Well, there was a brief interlude between Josh and Leah with a different store manager, who, mysteriously, was only in this store a few months.)
The store is so photogenic that it still pops up now and then in Starbucks-produced content. Those readers who are familiar with MyStarbucksIdea.com are probably used to seeing this image of this store:
I realize that I didn't get a great photo of the store's large community table. I wish I had taken a photo of that table the day the store opened. Etched in the community table is artwork describing the life cycle of a coffee bean. One of the store's walls is decorated with burlap coffee sacks from the Kent Roasting Plant. Throughout the store the beams, woodwork, and many fixtures are from fallen trees and repurposed materials. On one of the walls are historic photos of the first Starbucks.
So without delay, here are a few more pictures from my visit to this Starbucks today:
I featured some photos of this store in a March 8, 2011 blog article called "Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz rings the NASDAQ bell kicking off 40th anniversary festivities." That's still a fun post to look at and highly recommended.
I hope you enjoyed a tour of this unique Starbucks! Feel free to comment below.
*Pike Street and Pike Place are two different streets in Seattle. Pike Place runs north-south, and is a small old, brick road inside the Market. Pike Street is a larger, busy street, and it runs east-west.


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The Guards are special soldiers who are really loyal to Saddam Hussein.
Loud explosions have also been heard in the centre of the city. BBC reporters there reckon it's some of the heaviest bombardment yet and much bigger bombs are being used.
Earlier, a Tomahawk cruise missile was fired at Iraq's Information Ministry in Baghdad.
Lots of journalists work there and much of their equipment was destroyed.
Market explosion
The attacks come just a day after a massive explosion at a busy marketplace in the Shula district.
Iraqi officials claim a US cruise missile hit the market, killing 58 people.
But US officials say they are still trying to find out what happened.
Iraqi TV has been showing upsetting hospital pictures of people they claim were hurt in the blast. Iraqi officials say the Information Ministry was bombed by the coalition to stop pictures like this being shown.
If the figures are right, it will the biggest number of civilians killed in a single incident so far in the war.
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Grand Theft Auto IV
Review by T_Devil
"Looking past comparisons: My own opinion on GTA IV"
Haters hate this game for some reason. I don't know why. Some compare this to GTA San Andreas or even Vice City and make comparisons. I'm not comparing this to San Andreas or Vice City or even GTA III which were all great games in their own right. I'm seeing it as a new game on a new system.
I look at this title as it's own game. And to this, I base a review on it. I'm not going to try and talk you into buying it or talk you out of buying it. You have a brain, I assume you can think for yourself. This is just my experience with it.
First off, not a 10. There are a couple of glitchy flaws. They can be entertaining, or if they just happen in a key moment of a mission, can be infuriating. We've all been there though, and this game is not immune. For this, minus one point.
Everything else though, the story, the voice talent, the physics, the explosions, the guns, the splattering of blood everywhere, the sarcastic and often caustic sense of humor. Lots of fun. I mean, these are the reasons why we play these games. They provide another world to be immersed in for a few hours at a time and this game is very good at that.
There are plenty of interesting characters. Some of them you can befriend and their friendship has perks such as discounted weapons, and free cab rides. It's a good thing to make friends, but you have to maintain those friendships through activities like going out to eat, throwing darts, bowling, shooting billiards and even drinking. Drunk driving in this game is difficult! Yeah, controversial, but at least it's something interesting.
There aren't any big name actors in this outing. It's kind of a disappointment at first, but after you get into the story, you really get into the acting because it's really very good. Actually, it helps to keep you immersed into the story because you are not picturing the actor in that role, all you see are the characters and that makes for a better experience, in my opinion. Still though, it's always fun to play "name that actor" and I did miss that, but only a little.
The story is the tried and true formula of introduction to a new place, making friends, betrayal, making new friends, making money, confrontation, and lots of errands that include gunfights and stuff being blown up. The targeting system is good, but this is where we have one of my fore-mentioned glitch issues that are infuriating. You can lock onto a target and switch between targets, but you can't always aim at the guy you really want to be shooting at because someone else is firing on your position. In a big gunfight, that can be a whole lot of people at once!
The physics are AMAZING! It's a cross between rag-doll physics, but only with more "body". When you run someone over with a car, it looks painful! When you get blown up, it just looks cool and really, when you get blown up, it has to look cool, right? At any rate, Everything physical in this game reacts to everything else. Cars have actual mass and can't be pushed around by your characters or blow up when they flip over..
I know, I wasn't going to make any comparisons, but this was something I really did want to mention as this was something that always kind of annoyed me in past GTA games. If only we could push cars off to the side with super human strength.....
If only we could unload a barrage of rockets on bad drivers. The game is fantasy, but there are things you really have to pick your grievances at. Sometimes the little things are the most annoying.
When not on missions or running around Liberty City, there are plenty of other distractions. You can go out with friends, do odd jobs, steal police cars and go after criminals, or if you want, you can stay at your safe house and watch TV. I like this little in game time wasting device because there are some missions that are time based. Other times, you can have Niko sit and watch the tube while you down a bowl
of cereal.
Definitely adult themed. It's not something I'd be comfortable with letting any pre-teen kid playing (or any teenagers in general, in my opinion). If you are a parent and reading this, please, be responsible for your children. They're yours, not mine. I don't want to have to give up games this good because you don't know how to raise your offspring.
Kids, if you're reading this and you want this game, prove to your parents that you are sophisticated and mature enough to handle it..... but be ready to give up a big chunk of childhood though, responsibility is an adults world...... get used to it.
This game is going to garner a lot of controversy. It already has. Haters hate, that's what they do. The media makes this game the crux of all evil. They forget that it's not Video Games that make people bad, it's people that make people bad.
This is a good game. A very good game. A game with a lot of replay potential and even more to come as there is to be Downloadable content for XBox 360. I don't know what PS3 owners will be getting.
One more thing before I wrap this review up, and that is my total lack of saying anything about it's online play. I'm not a big online gamer. Why should I pay a monthly fee to be verbally accosted by some stupid kid who doesn't get the approval they desperately crave from their parents? So, if you're only buying the game for online play, You're really buying it for the wrong reason, which is only my opinion.
That is all.
Thanks for reading.
Reviewer's Rating: 4.5 - Outstanding
Originally Posted: 05/19/08
Game Release: Grand Theft Auto IV (US, 04/29/08)
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This game was classified by the community with the following category scores - Violence=0/3, Sex=0/3, Mature Content=0/3. I hope you are ready for a real math challenge. Space Math may seem like a simple space shooter at first, but once you start playing you won't be able to put it down. Solve the math problem and shoot the correct alien ship. This game includes exciting game play and a high score.
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 8.1052. Monday, 20 October 1997.
Date: Friday, 17 Oct 1997 09:50:49 -0700
Subject: Shakespeare Job Description
Shakespeare and Film/Performance Studies
Assistant Professor in Shakespeare and Film/Performance Studies,
tenure-track, for fall 1998. We seek an outstanding scholar-teacher
with expertise in both Shakespeare studies and film or performance
studies. Applicant must be able to teach undergraduate and graduate
courses in Shakespeare as well as courses in early modern drama, film
adaptation or history and theory of performance. Demonstrated
familiarity with emerging technologies in research and teaching (e.g.
Web-based presentation, multimedia approaches) is highly desirable. The
position offers an opportunity to pursue research interests in excellent
17th century research collection and as a fellow at the Center for
Twentieth Century Studies. Competitive salary and teaching load. The
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is an affirmative action/equal
opportunity employer. Names of applicants who do not request that their
identity be withheld and the names of finalists will be released on
Applications must be postmarked no later than December 31, 1997.
Send cover letter and curriculum vitae to:
James A. Sappenfield, Chair, Department of English
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
P.O. Box 413
Milwaukee, WI 53201.


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The day before Samhain, Diane Baker stood in her kitchen thinking about needing to plan a celebration for her family and wondered, "Why isn't there just a book I could open?" So she collaborated with Anne Hill and Starhawk to write the book she wanted to read, Circle Round: Raising Children in Goddess Traditions.Circle Round offers resources divided into four sections:*Part One: Welcome to the Circle introduces the book and the practice of Goddess traditions with children. *Part … [Read more...]
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Review: Circle Round
How to make birth art
Note: Were you inspired by Amy Swagman's birth mandalas yesterday? Read this short essay in which she describes how to start making birth art of your own.The state of mind you're in when you create artwork is the same state of mind you are in when you labor and birth. It is a fluid, intuitive, timeless space where you accept everything as the whole and have a harder time reasoning, rationalizing and compartmentalizing. By making lots of art during pregnancy you are practicing being in that … [Read more...]
Birth mandalas
Pagan Families reader Sarah wrote to recommend Amy Swagman's Birth Art Mandalas. I was stunned by them and immediately wrote Amy to ask if I could share them here. She said yes! Making birth art can be a beautiful spiritual practice. My partner and I made birth art when we took a Birthing From Within class to prepare for our daughter's birth and my God children got to paint all over my big round belly at our Blessing Way, but Amy takes birth art to a whole other level.Amy is a mo … [Read more...]
Frequently asked question: Why is it called Pagan Families?
As this site launches, it's been really gratifying to get lots of positive feedback. One reader commented on FaceBook:What a great page! I wish I had found found a page like this whilst I was pregnant! Pretty hard to find pages like this Blessings ♥That is exactly why Pagan Families was born!We've also been getting a lot of questions about the name and scope of the site. Why is it called Pagan Families if it's only about pregnancy and birth?First of all, I reject the idea that a baby is … [Read more...]
What's in a Name?
by Kira NuitImagine one of your kid's friends at the door asking "can Floribunda come out to play?" Or, when young Floribunda gets into trouble, imagine how you might feel barking out, "Floribunda Oregano Sunbeam!" I've heard some names on the playground that I would not want to holler out my back door at suppertime.One of the first things confronting pregnant couples is what to name their baby. Throughout history we have bequeathed the names of our ancestors, named our children to honor … [Read more...]
Pagan names
Let's be honest. Pagan names are weird. They are the source of much mockery, from both within and without the pagan community. For some reason we feel the need to name ourselves BlazingRaven Night Hawk's Daughter or Moonray Celestina Wolf, or maybe just Thorson, which is like Madonna, but less obvious, right? But now some of us are having kids and they need names. What's a pagan to do?First off, all names have meaning. Do we pick Jim, because it was our favorite uncle's name? Do we pick Sarah a … [Read more...]
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Spiritual practice in pregnancy
Note: This essay by Suus is a slightly revised reprint from Heart of the Witch. Many of the practices described in this essay come from the Feri tradition.Recently one of my pagan friends complained on facebook that there is not a lot she could find around pagan pregnancy, so I guess it is about time I share my experiences, having gone through a pagan pregnancy myself.Is there any difference to a non-pagan pregnancy you might wonder? And I must say that I honestly don't know, because I ha … [Read more...]


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Would you like to save as your currency permanently or for this visit only?
I like reception service! Mrs. Valeriya the best Didin`t clean my room! Dirty!(((((
Didn't like at all. Found lots of bird shit on the balcony floor. furniture is old, bathroom is horrible, bed sheets size is not enough to cover the bed
Location, swimming pool, seaside, hotel staff old furniture, noisy room, ancient bathroom
poor services
Cleanness of the room, very close to the sea. location at heart of the city for our price 1900 rubles breakfast were not provided
Great location, big swimming pool with sea water Staff is not friendly, poor rooms, expensive bar in the lobby hall
The Hotel itself was very smart and well appointed,. The pool and spa area were lovely. Some of the staff were really nice and very helpful. The Hotel was very , very expensive and yet wasn't quite as slick in its execution as a top flight hotel should be. Some of the staff were a bit offhand and not really up to the standard of the hotel. There was a problem with the airconditioning that took two nights to sort out.
The location is fantastic. The adventures you experience here + the indoor wildlife facilities are fantastic. It seems like a good place, when you enter by daylight. Then you start wondering wtf is the jaguar doing behind the reception and what's the use of all these parrots. Then you get back from late-night dinner and all of a sudden the lobby is filled with prostitutes who offer you all kind of alternatives for a good night of rest. Apparently your neighbour couldn't resist their offer so the 1 mm walls between the rooms give you a Hollywood kind of experience - like you're really there with him and her yourself. At first you can laugh about it, then you resort to earplugs and sleeping pills and then you start banging your head to the wall, thinking about your coming days on the business trip.
Only breakfast everything
Location close to the sea (with some view) and city center The booking made on booking.com one day ahead was not in the hotel, as they seemed to have no Internet connection. On check it we've changed 2 rooms before we found an acceptable one - first was too smoked, second had no balcony.
The pool was excellent, the suite was large and very comfortable, the location was near Riveria park (10 min walk) and so all in all was good value for money (for a Russian Hotel in Sochi... ie overpriced). The breakfast was indeed excellent, but every other food/drink was very high priced. Well it was good ... for a Russian Hotel. So of course the staff dont know what service is. hardly speak any other language (but I speak some Russian) If you ask a question you will get a direct answer (yes,no), but not a helpful one. They will try and take money off you every chance they get. Airport transfer 1500 rbl (take a private taxi 600rbl). The really annoying thing is the lack of internet access as advertised. This costs so little, but we had to crouch in the lobby and ask for the lights to be raised to make facebook updates and check email. That was really annoying (if is only worked 5 meters away at the pool, I would come back).


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Woman Pretends She's Marrying Edward Cullen
Ladies, your man must really love you, if he is willing to give in and let you do a "Twilight"-inspired engagement photo sesh. That's at least my thinking behind the engagement photos of couple Lindsay and Ferdinand, which attempt to exactly replicate all the vampire angst of the movie series. More pics after the jump. [Every Last Detail Blog]


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Red Light Cameras Increase Total Crashes, Decrease Right Angle Crashes
Based on operational data collected by the City of Tallahassee, listed in the table below, the use of red light cameras has resulted in more crashes at red light camera intersections three years after the implementation than three years before.
Total crashes increased from 377 before implementation to 509 after implementation. More specifically, rear-end crashes increased.


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• Rapper Logic performs tonight at The Complex, 536 W. 100 South, Salt Lake City. Opening act: DJ Rhetorik. Show starts at 7 p.m. Tickets are $17, at Smith's Tix.
Country-rock singer-songwriter Jessica Lea Mayfield performs tonight at Kilby Court, 741 S. Kilby Court (330 West), Salt Lake City. Opening acts: Israel Nash, Charles Ellsworth. Show starts at 7 p.m. Tickets are $12, at 24Tix.
• Folk singer-songwriter Joe Purdy performs tonight at The State Room, 638 S. State St., Salt Lake City. Opening act: Brian Wright. Show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $24, at the venue's website.


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The NCSU Water Quality Group Newsletter
Number 81 January 1997 ISSN 1062-9149
Monitoring of both land treatment and water quality is necessary to document the effectiveness of nonpoint source pollution controls in restoring water quality. The Section 319 National Monitoring Program, administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is designed to support watershed projects throughout the country that meet a minimum set of project planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation requirements. The requirements are designed to lead to successful documentation of project effectiveness with respect to water quality protection or improvement. The National Monitoring Program projects comprise a small subset of nonpoint source control projects funded under Section 319 of the Clean Water Act Amendments of 1987. The following article continues a series describing these projects.
Carol Thompson
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
The Walnut Creek Watershed Restoration and Water Quality Monitoring Project began in 1995 as a nonpoint source pollution monitoring program in relation to the watershed habitat restoration and agricultural management changes implemented by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) at Walnut Creek National Wildlife Refuge and Prairie Learning Center in central Iowa. In 1996, the project was approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a Section 319 National Monitoring Program project. Agencies and organizations participating in the project include Iowa Department of Natural Resources , USFWS, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), University of Iowa Hygienic Laboratory, Farm Service Agency, and EPA.
Walnut Creek and Squaw Creek are warmwater streams. Their watersheds are primarily agricultural, dominated by row crop, mainly corn and soybeans. The Walnut Creek basin is 12,860 acres in size. The Squaw Creek basin covers 11,710 acres. Both creeks have been channelized in part; they are characterized by silty bottoms and high, often vertical, banks. Deposition of up to four feet of post-settlement alluvium is not uncommon.
The project is located in the Southern Iowa Drift Plain, an area characterized by steeply rolling hills and well-developed drainage. Dominant soils are silty clay loams, silt loams, or clay loams formed in loess and till. Average annual rainfall for the project area is approximately 32 inches.
There are two components to the land use changes being implemented by USFWS: 1) ecosystem resources restoration to tall-grass prairie with savanna components where applicable and 2) mandatory use of improved agricultural management practices on farmlands prior to conversion. In the riparian areas, 100-foot vegetative filter strips will be seeded along all of the streams in the Refuge whose riparian areas are not already in grass or timber. Riparian and upland wetlands will also be restored or allowed to revert to wetlands by elimination of tile lines.
Cropland management within the Refuge is controlled by the USFWS management team. Farming is done on a contractual, cash-rent basis, with management measures specified; some flexible, some more prescriptive. The measures include soil conservation practices; nutrient management through soil testing, yield goals, and nutrient credit records; and integrated pest management. Crop scouting for pest management is mandatory for all farms on Refuge lands, as are no-till production methods. Insecticide use is highly restricted and herbicide use is also controlled in order to minimize adverse impacts on non-target plants and animals.
The Section 319 project will employ a paired watershed approach as well as an upstream-downstream, before-and-after assessment to evaluate reductions in nutrients and pesticides resulting from decreased active row crop agriculture. The treatment watershed is Walnut Creek; the paired site is Squaw Creek. Both creeks and their tributaries will be monitored for biological and chemical parameters.
April 1995 to September 1998
Both Walnut and Squaw creeks are affected by agricultural nonpoint source pollutants, including sediment, nutrients, pesticides, and animal waste. Water quality in these streams is typical of many of Iowa's small warmwater streams: water quality varies significantly with changes in discharge and runoff. Streambank erosion has contributed to significant sedimentation in the creeks.
Three pre-project water quality studies were completed. Data were collected by USFWS during the pre-implementation period (1991). The Tri-State Monitoring Project collected data in the Walnut Creek basin from 1992 to 1994. Two sets of storm event samples were collected in 1995.
In 1991, nitrate-nitrogen concentrations ranged from 14 to 19 mg/l with a mean of 16. Atrazine concentrations were from 0.24 to 1.2 ug/l. The Tri-State data were similar, with nitrogen from 5 to 44 mg/l, averaging 14.5 mg/l and atrazine from 0.1 to 2.7 ug/l. The event sampling in 1994 had fewer samples, but nitrogen ranged from 2.1 to 11.0 mg/l (avg. 6.1) in Walnut Creek and from 0.1 to 20 (avg. 10.0) in the tributaries. Atrazine in the main stem of Walnut Creek ranged from <<0.1 to 0.3 ug/l and was higher in the tributaries (up to 3.1 ug/l).
Primary biological productivity is low and the condition of the fish community is poor.
The best management practices for row crop production include specific erosion control measures along with nutrient and pesticide management. The primary land treatment activity, however, is to remove 5,000 acres of cropland from production by converting it to native tall grass prairie. Wetlands and riparian zones will also be restored. Limited nutrient and pesticide management is anticipated for the remainder of the Walnut Creek watershed.
Both paired watershed and upstream-downstream, before-and-after monitoring designs will be used. In the paired watershed study, the outlets of Walnut Creek (treatment) and Squaw Creek (control) watersheds will be monitored. Upstream-downstream, before-and-after monitoring will be conducted in both watersheds.
Biological variables being monitored include fecal coliform, macroinvertebrates, and fisheries. Chemical and physical variables include alkalinity, ammonia, bentazon, biochemical oxygen demand, bromide, calcium, chloride, common herbicides, dicamba, dissolved oxygen, fluoride, magnesium, nitrate, orthophosphate, pH, phosphate, potassium, sodium, specific conductivity, sulfate, suspended solids (SS), and turbidity. Covariates to be measured are precipitation and water discharge.
The outlets at Walnut and Squaw Creeks are gaged, as is an upstream station on the main stem of Walnut Creek. At these three stations, water discharge and SS will be monitored daily, and data compiled for storm event statistical evaluation.
Ten stations are being monitored biweekly to monthly during March through July and in September. Four stations are sampled once each in August, October, December, and February.
All USGS data will be reported in WATSTORE, the USGS national database. The project will use ARC/INFO to record and analyze land use changes. Statistical analyses of water quality data for trend detection will be completed as deemed necessary. Water quality variables and land use activities will be tracked using EPA's NonPoint Source Management System (NPSMS) software.
Data management and reporting are handled by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources Geological Survey Bureau, following the Nonpoint Source Monitoring and Reporting Requirements for Watershed Implementation Grants. All water quality data are entered into STORET.
The educational commitment and resources available through the Refuge will make possible educational and demonstration activities far beyond the scope of those that could typically be accomplished by a Section 319 National Monitoring Program project. Discussion of the relationship between land use changes and water quality improvements will constitute an integral part of these educational efforts. In addition, opportunities will be created for interested Refuge visitors to acquire, use, and interpret hydrologic and water quality data for the watershed. Both streamside and visitor center-based activities and educational stations are planned. Presentations on the watershed can be readily tailored to school, environmental, or agricultural interest groups. It is anticipated that visitors to the Refuge will number in the tens of thousands annually, facilitating exposure of large numbers of residents to information about the land use changes and monitoring activities in the watershed.
USFWS will utilize the Refuge as a demonstration area for landscape restoration projects. Information will be disseminated to visitors and invited groups, the public (through published reports), and the news media. The project is also serving as a demonstration site for riparian restoration and small wetland restoration.
During 1996, several tours were provided to teacher groups, natural history organizations, and surrounding landowners. A visitor center will open in the spring of 1997.
Administration and Water Quality Monitoring
Carol A. Thompson
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
Geological Survey Bureau
109 Trowbridge Hall
Iowa City, IA 52242
(319) 335-1581; Fax: (319) 335-2754
email: email@example.com
Land Treatment
Richard Birger
Walnut Creek National Wildlife Refuge and Prairie Learning Center
P.O. Box 399
Prairie City, IA 50228
(515) 994-2415; Fax: (515) 994-2104
Deanna L. Osmond, Jean Spooner, and Daniel E. Line
NCSU Water Quality Group
The first step in reducing agricultural nonpoint source pollution is to focus on the primary water quality problem within the watershed: the water quality use impairment must be identified and the type and source of pollutants must be defined. Once the problem has been clearly defined and documented, the critical area can be identified. The critical area is the area that contributes the majority of the pollutant to the water resource. Land treatment should then be implemented on the critical area.
Land treatment consists of the installation or utilization of best management practices (BMPs). Best management practices are used to control the generation or delivery of pollutants from agricultural activities to water resources and to prevent impacts to the physical and biological integrity of surface and ground water. BMPs can be either structural (for example, waste lagoons, terraces, sediment basins, or fencing) or they can be managerial (for instance, rotational grazing, fertilizer or pesticide management, or conservation tillage). Both types of BMPs require good management to be effective in reducing agricultural nonpoint source pollution.
The installation or use of one structural or management BMP is rarely sufficient to control the pollutant of concern. Combinations of BMPs that control the same pollutant are generally most effective. These combinations, or systems, of BMPs can be specifically tailored for particular agricultural and environmental conditions, as well as for a particular pollutant.
Systems of BMPs are required to effectively control pollutant sources in critical areas. A BMP system is any combination of BMPs used together to comprehensively control a pollutant from the same source and same cause. When a pollutant is coming from more than one source, or is caused by different processes, a separate BMP system should be designed to reduce pollutant loss from each source or cause.
Transport of agricultural pollutants to surface and ground water can be controlled by
An individual BMP can only control a pollutant at its source, during transport, or at the water's edge. Systems of BMPs are generally more effective in controlling the pollutant since they can be used at two or more points in the pollutant delivery system. For example, the objective of many agricultural nonpoint source pollution projects is to reduce the loss of soil from cropland. A system of BMPs can be designed to reduce soil detachment, thus reducing the potential for soil to erode, and also to retard off-site transport of eroded soil. Conservation tillage system (Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) code 329) can be used to reduce the amount of on-site soil loss. Field borders (NRCS code 386) can be used to reduce sediment transport and sediment retention basins (NRCS code 412) can be used to intercept the sediment.
Systems of BMPs can be separated into three categories:
Systems that combine individual BMPs to treat a pollutant at different points in the pollutant delivery system fit into the treatment redundancy category. The previous example of a BMP system comprised of conservation tillage, field borders, and sediment basins falls into the treatment redundancy BMP system category.
Sometimes one BMP cannot be used without an accompanying BMP. For example, if it is necessary to fence cows out of a stream and there are no alternative water sources, watering devices must be installed if the riparian area is fenced. This type of BMP system is an example of a necessary diversification BMP system.
In some cases, a BMP system represents both categories. An example of such a BMP system is an animal waste control system. Some components of an animal waste control system are utilized so that other components can function (for example, concrete linings or sub-surface drains). Other components, such as lagoons and waste utilization plans, are used to provide treatment redundancy for the pollutant.
There is no single "best" BMP system to control a particular pollutant. Rather the BMP system should be determined based on the type of pollutant; the source of the pollutant; the agricultural, climatic, and environmental conditions; the economic situation of the farm operator; the experience of the system designers; and the acceptability of alternative BMPs to the producer. For example, a similar water quality problem existed in nonpoint source pollution control projects conducted in Utah and Florida under the federally sponsored Rural Clean Water Program (RCWP) (see NWQEP NOTES issue #58). In both projects, excess phosphorus from dairy runoff was causing eutrophic conditions in the receiving water resource. Animal waste management BMP systems were installed in both projects. In the Florida project, seven individual BMPs were needed to control the animal manure in barnyard areas (see also NWQEP NOTES issue #51), whereas in Utah only five BMPs were needed. Some of the same BMP components were used in both projects, while other BMPs were different. The Utah project used the following individual animal waste management BMPs: waste management system (NRCS code 312), waste storage structure (NRCS code 313), diversion (NRCS code 362), waste storage pond (NRCS code 425), and waste utilization (NRCS code 633). The Florida project used all of the BMPs used by the Utah project, except waste utilization; in addition, the Florida project used dike (NRCS code 356), concrete lining (NRCS code 428), and pipeline (NRCS code 430).
In both cases, project personnel implemented the most appropriate set of BMPs for the environmental conditions. The regions in which the two projects were located have significantly different climatic, ecological, and soil characteristics, requiring different approaches to mitigate animal waste problems. In Florida, yearly rainfall is approximately 50 inches per year, whereas in Utah, annual precipitation is generally in the 16-inch range, and surface water flow is from snowmelt.
A system of BMPs designed to address a specific pollutant from a particular source must comprehensively address the pollution problem. In the Oregon RCWP project (see NWQEP NOTES issue #52), dairy farmers installed an animal waste management BMP system to reduce fecal coliform runoff into an important shellfish-producing estuary. Although 12 individual BMPs comprised the animal waste management system, these installations did not qualify as an effective BMP system because they only addressed manure storage and were not comprehensive in controlling both the pollutant source and delivery of the pollutant to the Tillamook Bay estuary. Complete and effective control of the bacterial and nutrient contamination reaching Tillamook Bay required that waste application management be employed: land application of manure had to be conducted at the appropriate season, time, and rate. It was also necessary to include waste utilization as part of the BMP system.
Systems of BMPs can be measured for effectiveness. In the Florida RCWP project, a greater than 50% reduction in total phosphorus concentrations was documented on the basis of water quality monitoring at the watershed outlet and in subwatersheds where BMP systems had been implemented. In contrast, water quality monitoring in subwatersheds where little land treatment had been implemented, and where cattle densities had increased, showed increases in total phosphorus concentrations. These results supported the conclusion that the system of BMPs implemented was effective in reducing phosphorus delivery to Lake Okeechobee, the water resource being affected by dairy farm runoff.
BMP systems are more effective at controlling agricultural nonpoint source pollution than are individual BMPs because BMP systems minimize the impact of a pollutant at the source, during the transport process, and through remediation or interception. However, systems of BMPs constitute only part of an effective land treatment strategy. In order for a land treatment strategy to be really effective, properly designed BMP systems must be placed in the correct locations in the watershed (critical areas) and the extent of land treatment must be sufficient to achieve water quality improvements.
Because financial resources are generally limited, BMP system implementation should be prioritized. Systems of BMPs should first be implemented at the locations in the critical area that contribute the largest proportion of the pollutant of concern. The remaining critical area locations can then be treated with BMP systems as feasible, based on availability of funds.
Gale, J.A., D.E. Line, D.L. Osmond, S.W. Coffey, J. Spooner, J.A. Arnold, T.J. Hoban, and R.C. Wimberley. 1993. Evaluation of the Experimental Rural Clean Water Program. National Water Quality Evaluation Project, NCSU Water Quality Group, Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, (published by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) EPA-841- R-93-005, 559p.
NRCS. 1994. National Handbook of Conservation Practices. Natural Resource Conservation Service (formerly Soil Conservation Service), U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC.
Coulter, K., R. Harrison, and U. Agena. 1995. Information and Education Guidebook for Iowa Water Quality Projects. Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Des Moines, IA. 150p.
Informing and educating targeted agricultural and urban audiences is a key aspect of any water quality project or initiative designed to improve local water quality. Recognizing that need, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources recently published the Information and Education Guidebook to Iowa Water Quality Projects to serve as a comprehensive information and education reference for water quality project coordinators. Although it was developed for Iowa, the guidebook provides information that can be applied in water quality projects throughout the country.
Developed through a Section 319 grant, the publication guides readers through all aspects of information and education (I&E) programs, from identifying target audiences to evaluating an I&E project. Specific I&E strategies are described and many examples of I&E efforts from Iowa's water quality projects are included.
The attractive loose-leaf notebook format, with sections separated by tabs, makes the information presented very accessible and provides the option for the reader to add new information as it is located.
Copies of the guidebook (cost $25) may be ordered by contacting Karen Meinders, Iowa Department of Natural Resources, 900 East Grand, Des Moines, IA 50319, Tel: 515-281-8395, Fax: 515-281-8895, email: firstname.lastname@example.com.
In 1991, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) implemented the National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program throughout the United States (see NWQEP NOTES issues #76 and #61). Many NAWQA study units have published useful fact sheets. Some of these are listed below (see also NWQEP NOTES #77 and the national NAWQA home page: http://wwwrvares.er.usgs.gov/nawqa/nawqa_home.html).
Fact sheets published by the South Platte NAWQA project are listed below. They are available in hard copy (South Platte NAWQA Coordinator, USGS, Water Resources Division, Box 25046, MS415, Lakewood, CO 80225, Tel: 303-236-4882 ext. 312, email: email@example.com) and are also accessible on the South Platte NAWQA home page: http://webserver.cr.usgs.gov/nawqa/splt/splt_home.html.
Nutrients in the South Platte River, 1993-95
In 1991, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) implemented the National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program throughout the United States (see NWQEP NOTES issues #76 and #61). Many NAWQA study units have published useful fact sheets. Some of these are listed below (see also NWQEP NOTES #77 and the national NAWQA home page: http://wwwrvares.er.usgs.gov/nawqa/nawqa_home.html).
Fact sheets published by the South Platte NAWQA project are listed below. They are available in hard copy (South Platte NAWQA Coordinator, USGS, Water Resources Division, Box 25046, MS415, Lakewood, CO 80225, Tel: 303-236-4882 ext. 312, email: firstname.lastname@example.com) and are also accessible on the South Platte NAWQA home page: http://webserver.cr.usgs.gov/nawqa/splt/splt_home.html.
Nutrients in the South Platte River, 1993-95(FS-105-95) (2p)
Review of Sediment Data in the South Platte River Basin, Colorado, 1980-92(FS-153-95) (2p)
Are Streams in Agricultural and Urban Areas Contaminated by Pesticides?
Some Bacteria Are Beneficial! (FS-102-95) (2p)
Denver's Urban Ground-Water Quality: Nutrients, Pesticides, and Volatile Organic Compounds (FS-106-95) (2p)
Fish Communities in the Plains Region of the South Platte River, August 1993 and 1994 (FS-154-95) (2p)
Central Columbia Plateau (CCPT) NAWQA fact sheets are available in hard copy (NAWQA Project Chief, USGS, 1201 Pacific Avenue, Suite 600, Tacoma, WA 98402, Tel: 206-593-6510, email: email@example.com). Items marked with an asterisk are presented on the web: http://wwwdwatcm.wr.usgs.gov/ccpt.nawqa.html.
*Agricultural Pesticides Found in Ground Water of the Quincy and Pasco Basins (page 1) (page 2)(FS-240-95) (2p)
*Are Agricultural Pesticides in Surface Waters of the Central Columbia Plateau? (page 1) (page 4) (FS-241-95) (4p)
*Water Fact Sheet, NAWQA Program Mid-Columbia River Basin, WA and ID (Open-File #91-164) (2p)
Organochlorine pesticides and PCBs in aquatic ecosystems of the Central Columbia Plateau (FS-170-96) (4p) Pesticides Found in Ground Water Below Orchards in the Quincy and Pasco Basins (FS-171-96) (4p)
Pesticides and Volatile Organic Compounds in Ground and Surface Water of the Palouse Subunit, WA and ID (FS-204-96) (2p)
*Nitrate Concentrations in Ground Water of the Central Columbia Plateau (Open-File #95-445) (4p)
Pesticides in Public Supply Wells of the Central Columbia Plateau (FS-205-96) (4p)
*Pesticides in Public Supply Wells of Washington State (FS-122-96) (2p)
SE Sustainable Animal Waste Management Workshop: Feb 11-12, Tifton, GA. Rural Development Cntr, P.O. Box 1209, Tifton, GA 31793, Tel: 912-386-3416, Fax: 912-386-3822, email: firstname.lastname@example.com
3rd Annual Meeting - North Carolina Lake Management Society: Feb 14, Lake Royale, Bunn, NC. Bryn Tracy, NCLMS, P.O. Box 28348, Raleigh, NC 27611-8348, Tel: 919-733-6946 or 919-779-7575, email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Healthy Watersheds - Healthy People - EPA Region VII 5th Annual Nonpoint Source Pollution Management Workshop: Feb 24-27, Columbia, MO. Ruth Wallace, Dept of Natural Resources, Div of Environmental Quality, P.O. Box 176, Jefferson City, MO 65102-0176, Tel: 314-751-7428
28th Annual International Erosion Control Assoc. Conference: Feb 25-28, Nashville, TN. IECA, P.O. box 4904, Steamboat Springs, CO 80477-4904, Tel: 800-455-4322 or 970-879-3010, Fax: 970-879-8563, email: email@example.com
2nd Annual Region 6 Nonpoint Source Conference: Mar 3-5, Austin, TX. Suzanne Cardwell, TX Soil and Water Conservation Board, Tel: 817-773-2205
The Netherlands Farm Tour: Mar 3-9, The Netherlands. Emily K. Green, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, 1313 5th St. SE, Suite 303, Tel: 612-379-5980, fax: 612-379-5982, email: firstname.lastname@example.com
7th Annual West Coast Conference - Contaminated Soils and Groundwater: Mar 10-13, Mandalay Bay Resort, Oxnard, CA. Jennifer Howland, Association for Environmental Health of Soils, 150 Fearing St., Amherst, MA 01002, Tel: 413-549-5170, Fax: 413-549-0579
1997 Georgia Water Resources Conference: March 20-22, Athens, GA. Kathryn Hatcher, Institute of Ecology, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-2202, Fax: 706-542-6040, email: firstname.lastname@example.com
2nd International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems: Apr 28 - May 2, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. David Swayne, Dept. Computing and Information Science, Univ of Guelph, Ontario, CAN N1G 2W1, email: email@example.com
First American Wetlands Conference - Communities Working for Wetlands: May 7-9, Alexandria, VA. Stacey Satagaj, Terrene Institute, 4 Herbert St., Alexandria, VA 22305, Tel: 703-548-5473, Fax: 703-548-6299, email: firstname.lastname@example.com
4th International Conference on Computer Methods and Water Resources: June 16-18, Byblos, Lebanon. Sue Owen, Conference Secretariat, CMWR 97, Wessex Institute of Technology, Ashurst Lodge, Ashurst, Southampton SO40 7AA, Tel: +44 (01703) 293223, Fax: +44 (01703) 292853, email: email@example.com, web site: http://venus.ce.jhu.edu/cmwr/
4th International Conference - WATER POLLUTION 97- Modeling, Measuring, Prediction: June 18-20, Bled, Slovenia. Liz Kerr, Wessex Inst Technol, Ashurst Lodge, Ashurst, Southampton SO4O 7AA, UK, Fax: 44-1703-292-853, email: email@example.com
Water Resources, Education, Training, and Practice: AWRA 1997 Annual Symp: June 29-Jul 3, Keystone Resort, CO. AWRA, 950 Herndon Pkwy, Ste 300, Herndon, VA 22070-5528, Tel: 703-904-1225, Fax: 703-904-1228, email: email@example.com
Coastal Zone '97 - Charting the Future of Coastal Zone Management: Jul 20-26, Boston, MA. Jessica Cogan, Tel: 202-260-7154, Fax: 202-260-9960, email: email@example.com
American Soc Agric Eng International Annual Mtg: Aug 10-14, Minneapolis, MN. ASAE Society Services Group, 2950 Niles Road, St. Joseph, MI 49085-9659, Tel: 616-429-0300, Fax: 616-429-3852, email: firstname.lastname@example.com
WEFTEC '97 International Conference: Oct 18-22, Chicago, IL. Water Environment Federation, Tel: 800-666-0206
AWRA 33rd Annual Conference & Symposium: Oct 19-23, Long Beach, CA. AWRA, 950 Herndon Pkwy, Ste. 300, Herndon, VA 22070-5531, Tel: 703-904-1225, Fax: 703-904-1228, email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Karst-Water Environ Symposium & Workshop: Oct 30-31, Roanoke, VA. T.M. Younos, VA Water Resources Res Cntr, 10 Sandy Hall, VA Polytechnic & State Univ, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0444, Tel: 540-231-8039, Fax: 540-231-6673, email: firstname.lastname@example.com
There is a list of water-related calls for papers and meeting announcements on the World Wide Web at: http://www.inform.umd.edu:8080/EdRes/Topic/AgrEnv/Water/Water-Related_Events/ meetings.txt
NWQEP NOTES is issued bimonthly. Subscriptions are free (contact: Publications Coordinator at the address below or via email: firstname.lastname@example.com). A publications order form listing all publications on nonpoint source pollution distributed by the NCSU Water Quality Group is included in each hardcopy issue of the newsletter.
I welcome your views, findings, information, and suggestions for articles. Please feel free to contact me.
Judith A. Gale, Editor
Production of NWQEP NOTES is funded through U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) Grant No. X818397. Project Officer: Steven A. Dressing, Nonpoint Source Pollution Control Program, Office of Water, USEPA (4503F), 499 South Capitol St. SE, Washington, DC 20460, Tel: 202-260-7110, Fax: 202-260-1977, email: firstname.lastname@example.com, Web Site: http://www.epa.gov/OWOW/NPS
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Tel: 919-515-8244, Fax: 919-515-7448
email: email@example.com
There is a list of water-related calls for papers and meeting announcements on the World Wide Web at: http://www.inform.umd.edu:8080/EdRes/Topic/AgrEnv/Water/Water-Related_Events/ meetings.txt
NWQEP NOTES is issued bimonthly. Subscriptions are free (contact: Publications Coordinator at the address below or via email: firstname.lastname@example.com). A publications order form listing all publications on nonpoint source pollution distributed by the NCSU Water Quality Group is included in each hardcopy issue of the newsletter.
I welcome your views, findings, information, and suggestions for articles. Please feel free to contact me.
Judith A. Gale, Editor
Production of NWQEP NOTES is funded through U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) Grant No. X818397. Project Officer: Steven A. Dressing, Nonpoint Source Pollution Control Program, Office of Water, USEPA (4503F), 499 South Capitol St. SE, Washington, DC 20460, Tel: 202-260-7110, Fax: 202-260-1977, email: email@example.com, Web Site: http://www.epa.gov/OWOW/NPS


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If there was a prop bet on the number of bad ideas that organizers Radio City and House of Blues could lump into this halftime show, everyone in Vegas should've taken the over.
First, it was decided that the Blues Brothers should be revived to generate interest in a film -- 1998's Blues Brothers 2000 -- that not only wouldn't be released for another year, but would be released 16 years after original Blues Brother John Belushi's death. Secondly, it was decreed that Belushi would be replaced by not only musically disinclined John Goodman, but by Belushi's brother and According to Jim star James Belushi. In a final insult to the viewership, the schedule dictated that not only do the three actors do the majority of the singing during a halftime show that also featured James Brown -- who saved entire cities with his shows and could carry the Super Bowl's measly halftime on his own -- but that they'd only get a respite when ZZ Top played. ZZ Top, which in no way met the blues standard set by John Lee Hooker, the soul standard set by Aretha Franklin or the R&B bar cleared by Ray Charles in the original film.
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