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loving it!!!! Bomb or no bomb!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 9, 2012 at 5:14 PM
I love the picture of Aubrielle after she hit Cason! Great job capturing the moments today!ReplyDelete
Brrr! We don't get snow this early in NC, last year we didn't get any at all. The kids were super bummed. It looks like you had a bunch of fun out there! Don't worry about your house, mine looks like a bomb hit it most days too and I have no idea how it happens so fast!!ReplyDelete
It's nice to see other people's houses have bomb blow up...but at least they are pretty cute bombs!ReplyDelete
That looks like soooo much fun! You have a beautiful family. I hope my little one gets to experience snow in the next few years.ReplyDelete
So adorable! And look at you girl . . . you look FANTASTIC!ReplyDelete
How fun. I love snow and hope we get some pretty snowfalls this winter. So far in Southwest Ohio things have stayed fairly warm. Enjoy!ReplyDelete
So cute!! Snow days are alway the best!ReplyDelete
Great pics...and such a gorgeous bunch of little sweeties. Also...you are looking lean! Way to go!!ReplyDelete
1. You look fantastic!ReplyDelete
2. Your girls are so beautiful.
3. Holy Snow for early November.
4. If it makes you feel any better, we do not have kids yet and our house repeatedly looks like a bomb went off just days after I clean it!
I love the one where your daughter threw the snowball and in the next picture, she is STOKED! haha! so cute! supposed to be in the 70s this weekend in NC!ReplyDelete
Jealous!!! I want snow! Looks like you all had fun!ReplyDelete
look at your skinny little self! you're an inspiration, for sure. enjoy your snowflakes!ReplyDelete
LOVE THE PHOTOS!ReplyDelete
Omg...what beautiful girls you have! This may sound crazy, but I'm kind of jealous that you got snow! We were supposed to get snow on the east coast, but it never stuck to the ground. We were looking forward to doing the same thing! Btw...you look amazing! Keep up the good work:-)ReplyDelete
WOW! Look at all that snow! My kids are dying for snow! You look amazing and your house is a house with happy kids and that is what is important. Off to clean up our happy messes!ReplyDelete
LOVE it! I can't wait for our first snow! Have a great weekend!ReplyDelete
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Y'all look like you're having so much fun! Send some of that snow to Texas!ReplyDelete
- Amber DeckerNovember 10, 2012 at 8:10 AM
Looks like so much fun! Wonderful family time.ReplyDelete
Cute photos of the girlies.:)ReplyDelete
Snow and box days...priceless...and I love the leopard coat...as for the house mess bombs I too have twins with two other children so my house would go thru the same "what happened makeover" Have a great weekend!ReplyDelete
<3 it!! Looks like so much fun!! I can't wait until we can take our boys to visit snow again!!ReplyDelete
Looks like fun! It's nice to see that your home actually gets messy sometimes.ReplyDelete
Thank you for posting the "bomb" pic! It is nice to know I am not the only one this happens to!ReplyDelete
Great pics! I am in denial about the snow. I keep thinking if I ignore it, the snow won't come. A girl can dream . . . can't she?ReplyDelete
You are a good mom- love the box fort!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 10, 2012 at 10:07 PM
Wow how much fun is playing in the snow?? I live in chandler,az and were still waiting for that snow day. lol..we actually did have one 22 years ago!! How sad I would remember that its just we have been hoping ever since.. Have a fun filled weekend...ReplyDelete
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look how skinny you are!!! congratulations on your hard work, lady.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 11, 2012 at 12:47 PM
You look awesome!ReplyDelete
You look marvelous :) Your girls are adorable, great pics.ReplyDelete
Aw, looks like so much fun! I LOVE snow. We're supposed to get some around 3am, so I hope it sticks and I wake up to some fresh flakes... we'll see.ReplyDelete
Great Pictures..lots of memories stored today! I love seeing kids playing in the snow but I've out grown any desire for snow..LOL..ReplyDelete
Love the box fort that sure brought back many memories for me...my kids loved box forts...
- AnonymousNovember 12, 2012 at 7:27 AM
That looks like so much fun! Your girls are beautiful!ReplyDelete
They look like their having a blast playing in the snow.ReplyDelete
LOVE your pictures. At least we can all know that even your amazing home gets dirty (just like ours). Of course, even with the bomb it's a gorgeous home. We got our first snow today.ReplyDelete
OMG-Your family is soooo photogenic. I love all the bright colors the girls are wearing. My four year old son is actually in love with those colors. I've tried to steer him to more "boy" colors, but he's not budging. How fun to have snow. We're having a warm winter so far in Seattle.ReplyDelete
I am loving the purple coats and the brown boots with the fur for ur little girls...can u PLEASE tell me where u got them from?? LOoking for a pair of those boots for my 7 yr old and the purple coat tooReplyDelete
thank u so much
How wonderful to have such great pictures! Who knew that you could have an impromtu Christmas Card photo op?!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 20, 2012 at 2:41 PM
Love your coat! Where did you get it?ReplyDelete
love your girls coats and yours too. can you share where you got them? and you look fabulous!!!ReplyDelete
Such a cute post!ReplyDelete
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Meeting called to order at 7:00 p.m. by Supervisor Acton.
Members present Acton, Buckley, Haley, Rood, and Hoyt.
Public Comment
Jim Gelios - Clare County Commissioner
Lori Martin - Clare County Clerk/Register of Deeds
Carissa McClure & Betsy Ulicki - Harrison Youth Soccer League
Terry Acton - Clare County Airport Committee
Motion Acton/Rood to approve Consent Agenda
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o April 18, 2017 (General)
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Rod Williams, Ordinance Enforcement and Zoning Officer
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Motion Hoyt/Acton to approve wording in the updated Gym/Exercise Membership agreement to become effective 7/1/17. All ayes, Motion carried
Motion Hoyt/Acton to approve new rates for gym/exercise room effective 7/1/17. All Ayes, Motion carried
Motion Acton/Haley to approve full day rental rate (gym) resident rate 350.00, non-resident rate 700.00 All Ayes, Motion carried
Motion Hoyt/Acton to approve purchase and installation of hard drive for CCTV system (with a one year warranty) from Northern Fire & Safety in the amount of 467.00 Ayes 4, Nays 1; Motion carried
Bid Opening for cemetery electric and well work will be held on Tuesday May 23 10:00 a.m.
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Appointment of Buckley and Haley to review Hayes Township Ordinances and report to the Board for discussion of changes
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Discussion on Champion Force Athletics
Motion Buckley/Haley to adjourn meeting. All Ayes. Meeting adjourned at 8:20 p.m.
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How does HIP work?, Installed, configured and nothing works - I'm lost..
How does HIP work?, Installed, configured and nothing works - I'm lost..
Nov 23 2010, 04:56 AM
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Tried to install HIP today as i would like my receiver to be controlled from my MCE remote (RC6 / v2).
I installed HIP+MCE plugin, completed the wizard selecting MCE remote as input+output, loaded the MCE v2 command file and updated driver for remote. I'm running W7 btw.
Now, I'm not quite sure how this program should work. Do i need to start ehshell.exe through HIP for the program to function properly? Tried both, neither works.
When I'm trying to learn a new command from my receiver remote, HIP fails. About half a second after i press the "any" key a message pops up telling me that i was either too slow or an error has happened. My bet is on the latter as the timeout is set to 4000msecs. And yes, I've tried to "block" the ir-receiver with the same result. This is the first clue that makes me think that HIP doesn't really have contact with the ir-receiver.
The seconds clue comes from the fact that when I installed the HIP drivers, the remote stopped working. The red diode in the ir-receiver shows that it reads the transmission but the pc doesn't react. If i revert back to the std W7 drivers everything is back to normal function-wise. HIP still ignores everything..
Now, what have I done wrong during the process of installing/setting up HIP? Or what can I do to debug this?
Thx in advance
Nov 24 2010, 05:12 AM
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I had to do some special stuff to get my receiver to work.
This page is a pain to find but it might help: http://www.byremote.com.au/Hip/mce_remote_faq.htm
Nov 25 2010, 03:39 AM
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I've read that page and think I've done everything it said, still nothing works. The only time i got a response from HIP was with the regular driver and input method set to keyboard.. I never managed to get HIP to read/accept input from the remote. The TestHID program worked perfectly tho...
I tried the IR Server Suite and used the attached program Translator. The thing worked right out of the box, all i had to do was to learn one command from either remote and now everything works like a charm
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Mythologist of Our Age
Why Ray Bradbury's stories have seeped into the culture.
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Posted Monday, May 10, 2010, at 9:59 AM ET
Ray Bradbury is one of the most prolific writers of our time—and our parents' time, and our grandparents' time. As he approaches his 90th birthday, he continues to publish, his pace slowed only slightly by a stroke that requires him to write by dictation. (His daughter is his amanuensis; he calls her on the telephone and she faxes him back the typed pages.) Thanks to Fahrenheit 451, now required reading for every American middle-schooler, Bradbury is generally thought of as a writer of novels, but his talents—particularly his mastery of the diabolical premise and the brain-exploding revelation—are best suited to the short form. Two of his better-known novels, The Martian Chronicles and Dandelion Wine, are story collections in disguise, and even Fahrenheit 451 began as "The Fireman," a short story. So while the Everyman's Library edition of The Stories of Ray Bradbury—which includes only 100 stories and runs a mere 1,059 closely printed pages—represents just a microscopic fraction of Bradbury's work, it's not a bad place to start.
The best stories have a strange familiarity about them. They're like long-forgotten acquaintances—you know you've met them somewhere before. There is, for instance, the tale of the time traveler who goes back into time and accidentally steps on a butterfly, thereby changing irrevocably the course of history ("A Sound of Thunder"). There's the one about the man who buys a robotic husband to live with his wife so that he can be free to travel and pursue adventure—that's "Marionettes, Inc." (Not to be confused with "I Sing the Body Electric!" about the man who buys a robotic grandmother to comfort his children after his wife dies.) Or "The Playground," about the father who changes places with his son so that he can spare his boy the cruelty of childhood—forgetting exactly how cruel childhood can be. The stories are familiar because they've been adapted, and plundered from, by countless other writers—in books, television shows, and films. To the extent that there is a mythology of our age, Bradbury is one of its creators.
Science fiction dates as quickly as any genre, and Bradbury is not entirely immune to this. The futuristic rocket ships he wrote about in 1950 look a lot like the first-generation NASA rockets; the music of the future is Rachmaninoff and Duke Ellington; and in the terrifying "Mars is Heaven," the planet bears an eerie resemblance to Green Bluff, Ill., right down to Victorian houses "covered with scrolls and rococo." But the reason Bradbury's stories still sing on the page is that, despite all his humanoid robots, automated houses, and rocket men, his interest is not in future technologies but in people as they live now—and how the proliferation of convenient technology alters the way we think and the way we treat each other.
This is especially vivid in "The Murderer," in which a man is locked in an insane asylum for destroying "machines that yak-yak-yak." "If you're wondering why it's so quiet here," the madman tells his psychiatrist, "I just kicked the radio to death." The story, as might be expected, reveals the patient to be the only sane person in a world indentured to electronic stimuli. But Bradbury's skill is in evoking exactly how soul-annihilating that world is. After the psychiatrist leaves the madman's cell, he returns to his office to busy himself with his work. The terminology might be antiquated, but the mania is not:
Three phones rang. A duplicate wrist radio in his desk drawer buzzed like a wounded grasshopper. The intercom flashed a pink light and click-clicked. Three phones rang. The drawer buzzed. … The psychiatrist, humming quietly, fitted the new wrist radio to his wrist, flipped the intercom, talked a moment, picked up one telephone, talked, picked up another telephone, talked, picked up the third telephone, talked, touched the wrist-radio button, talked calmly and quietly, his face cool and serene, in the middle of the music and the lights flashing, the phones ringing again …
Bradbury is no ideologue, however, and he is certainly not a Luddite. The collection's most poignant speech, after all, is spoken by a robot. In "I Sing the Body Electric!" the mechanical grandmother stands before her skeptical, adopted family, and tries to win them over. "You ask what I am?" she says. "Why, a machine. But even in that answer we know, don't we, more than a machine. I am all the people who thought of me and planned me and built me and set me running. So I am people. I am all the things they wanted to be and perhaps could not be, so they built a great child, a wondrous toy to represent those things." It soon becomes clear that the clockwork grandmother is not trying to make this family, crippled by the death of their matriarch, love her. She is trying to make them love each other again. Deep down in their metallic hearts, Bradbury's machines are as human as their inventors. They yearn to feel, to love. The tragedies occur when human beings start acting like machines.
The exuberance of Bradbury's prose is at times almost childlike in its purity. You don't need to look further than the exclamatory titles he gives to so many of his stories ("Gotcha!" or "Have I Got a Chocolate Bar for You!" or "Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar!"). But his vision is vast enough that he knows what lurks on the other side: disillusionment, disorder, cynicism. For Bradbury doesn't only do science fiction; he also, in equal proportion, does horror. ("Without Ray Bradbury, there would be no Stephen King," King once wrote.) And as these stories remind us again and again, nothing is more frightening than when the chaos of the real world intrudes on the blissful cocoon of youthful innocence. The irony in many of his stories is that the innocents are the adults, while the children are devious little homicidal maniacs.
Bradbury is an optimist at heart, but his head knows that hope may not be enough. He's seen the future, and it's not all grand pink-stoned chess cities on Mars and houses that tidy up after you. It's also knowing that the world is about to end and that there's nothing to do but lie under the covers and wait for oblivion to come. It's a room full of robots telling stories about the people who made them, long after the human race has vanished from the earth. It's a man in a space suit falling through the cosmos at 10,000 miles an hour, feeling his brain disintegrating, wondering what he can do "to make up for a terrible and empty life" in the final moments before he passes into nothingness. You read Bradbury with a growing sense of wonder and joy. It's only on reflection, after the stories take up residence in your head and crawl deep into the dark cracks and corners, that the wonder mutates into something closer to dread.
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Well it's been a few months since my last blog post, so here is an update and some photos.
The ground control trailer is going well. I have finished putting on the steel cladding, and insulated with 10mm foamboard. In my last blog post, I referred to a generator which I was thinking of including.....I have decided to leave it out of the build, as I have decided to use two car batteries, 100W solar panel, and the tow car's alternator as a last resort to run the 2KW inverter. Should be plenty of power. The generator would be very loud if I incorporated it into the build, though it would allow me to have air conditioning, which would be nice!
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Now the plane is taking shape too. See previous blog for the solidworks drawing. Basically it's an aluminium skeleton made from box section, and hot wire cut foam wings. The wings are 3m tip to tip. and there are two 16mm tubes joining the tail plane to the wings. The fuselage is a work in progress, but it will probably be made from water jet cut 3mm aluminium, then bent into a box.
The wings are cut from "medium density" insulation foam. The local insulation shop had offcuts of a suitable size, which they parted with for $30. Nice!
This is my first build of this size, so I really am not sure if it will be strong enough. Time will tell!
That's a two car garage, so the build is getting bigger and bigger!
That's a CRRCPro 50cc two stroke gas engine. It's a low cost Chinese engine. Reliability? Yet to be proven, but I can only find great reviews online, and only one unhappy review from someone that didn't like the BOX it came in?!?!?!
Landing gear, and motor mount fitted. Servo compartments cut...
Now for the fun part (NOT) ... fiberglassing!
I purchased some fiberglass cloth from ebay. It was the remains of some stock used for building wind turbines. So I thought it would be perfect...... Well, this stuff is strong, but it is VERRRRY heavy... The tail plane alone, after the fiberglass treatment, is 4KG! So the entire aeroplane will weigh around 20Kg before I add a payload, electronics and fuel. Too heavy? Again time will tell!
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if I may; I think that you're going to come up short on power with your current setup! two car batteries are around 120AH total, that's 120 Amps for 1 hour. assuming that they are in perfect health. I'd wager that it'd be much closer to 100Ah or less. best case 120A x 12v (again an optimistic assumption of battery voltage under load) is about 1440W for an hour. I would budget 1000W against one hour to be on the safe side, again optimistically 250W for 4 hours...
you might be much better off stocking your GS station with a couple of N70ZZ deep cycle batteries designed for mobile home's or 4WD'ing, giving yourself a true 200Ah supply.
to work it out more accurately, power your inverter and measure how much energy it draws just sitting idle, you might need to plug in something to make it run the inverter circuits & keep it out of standby mode. multiply it by the battery voltage and you've got roughly how many watts it costs to run your inverter (it changes slightly depending on load) be sure to add this value into your other calculations (eg; monitor(s), laptop/desktop, chargers, power tools @ estimated usage times) this should tell you how much power it will take to run your ground station, multiply this by the time you want to use it, with some overhead. then divide by battery voltage, and you should have a rough guide as to how many/big your batteries will need to be...
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@ Phil,
I think you are looking at wrong FG cloth. look at thisone from HK. I bought this with the same idea in mind that you are currently doing. I am sure my tail and whole fuse would not be this heavy. There r other choices 1 & 2 of weight of FG also from same outlet. Also good collection CF tubes r available, i bought 2 of each for R & D. Also the choice of resin makes the difference in finish and weight I was told. I haven't explored those yet.
I choose RCGF eng over yours. They were similarly priced but I had first hand view of RCGF before ordering and I like it. I have 15cc and 26cc of which 15 cc has done some airtime. Like Jasse said, IMO 50cc may be under powered for the TOW u mentioned
Good Luck
@ Jesse, I will be in a position to monitor the current drawn from the monitors and PC in about a week or so. I'm hoping it will be about 35W per monitor and about 200 to 300 watts for each PC, so 650W total. It only has to work for say two 30 minute flights, and remember I can just plug it in to the car's alternator. The monitors don't have to be all on if not required. I'd say it's enough, but will definitely go for deep cycle batts if its not.
@Morli, thanks for the link. I finished the second wing today, and yes, it feels very heavy. I won't paint anything and ill try to get this thing flying within 2 weeks or so... If it's too heavy, I'll remove the FG and get the thin stuff. Not looking forward to saying bye bye to all the hard work and $$ I put into the thicker FG and epoxy...
@Mikel-Ange Good to see I have inspired someone to do the same. I live in a small apartment, so the GCS trailer doubles as storage for the aeroplane. We have a baby, so the car is always filled up with baby seats and prams, so while it looks like it is over-the-top in many respects, it actually is quite practical and allows me to leave to an air field at a moments notice. No need to remember to pack the tools, or the PC or plane parts, as they are all in there already!
Good Luck Phil.
The aluminum tail tubes worries me. they will wobble. Better replace them with some bigger dia CF or FG tubes now than feel sorry later.
I started a similar build few years back and did not have access then to CF tubes from HK for dia of my choice. I found FG fishing rod in the junk room. Took two of the appropriate dia section of the telescopic fishing rod and used the build. It looks fine but the build is in back burner some were. Cheers
@Phil - I think you'll be pretty close on that. you'll probably get two half hour flights. With the car, most car alternators will supply 80A of power at full power (say 2500RPM/Highway speed) at idle they're usually flat out just powering the accessories in the car. if you are going to use the alternator in your car, get yourself a battery isolator just in case! and consider ways to set a fast idle.
it might also be worth while looking for a small 12v generator and tying that in to charge your batteries directly?
Interesting...I'm also building a drone 3.2meter wing span. I'm trying to keep mine as light as possible. 1hp nitro engine wanting to get 8 hours flight.


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Every internet user has developed a healthy dose of scepticism that keeps us from being duped by things that don't pass the smell test, but it's not enough to just think something might not be true. What if you think the statement might be true and you want to learn more? What if you want to respond to the assertion or engage in conversation but you don't know enough to do so?
We sat down with experts Dr Phil Plait, aka The Bad Astronomer, and David McRaney of You Are Not So Smart to figure out a working approach to discovering the truth of any statement, from obvious hoaxes (think Nigerian prince emails) to more difficult topics (think vaccine "controversies").
Learn To Avoid Confirmation Bias
Before we get into what you should do when confronted with a statement you're curious about, the first thing you have to strip yourself of is confirmation bias. Dr Plait says:
The biggest problem is one of confirmation bias: finding an answer you already believe. If someone has a question about a belief or opinion — say, that vaccines are dangerous — then when they look it up online they'll tend to be biased toward sites that have information they already agree with! This is a well-known effect, and is one reason some things, like anti-vaccination beliefs, are strong even in well-educated communities. The people are smart enough to look up and understand what they read, but perhaps not experienced enough in critical thinking to evaluate what they're reading without bias.
So how do you beat back confirmation bias? "Even with experience, it's incredibly tough to do," Dr Plait explained. First, be aware that confirmation bias exists, shake yourself of your natural tendency to draw a conclusion before you've researched a topic, and be open to information that falls on either side of a statement. Don't just demand someone else present studies that support their assertion — go looking for them yourself. This must-read by David McRaney tackles the topic of confirmation bias in detail, but in short: keep an open mind, seek evidence to the contrary for every opinion (especially ones you believe), and don't treat your research like a crusade. Photo by Yi Chen.
Your First Line Of Defence: Search Google, Snopes And Other Popular Websites
Your first instinct when confronted with a statement that seems controversial is probably to hit Google and start looking around for more information on it. That's good: it's the first thing that Phil Plait and David McRaney both suggest you do as well. In fact, you can prove and disprove many statements and research other contentious journal articles just by doing a little legwork and seeing what the web has to say.
"If you are sceptical of a claim or a factoid or a quote or whatever, try some Google-fu that includes the word "sceptic" or "hoax" or "bogus" or "rumour" or "urban legend" with your search term. If you are lucky, you might find existing discussions in the forums of sceptical societies or science groups," McRaney suggested. Dr Plait suggested the same, but noted: "This is becoming less useful, though, as people on the, um, wrong side of reality have taken up the mantle of 'sceptics.' That's irritating. And you can't always trust experts, since sometimes their credentials are inflated, or they're simply wrong (I can name several Nobel laureates who have said probably wrong things about their own beliefs)."
So if Google doesn't seal the deal, and you're still awash in more opinions than facts, what do you do? Here are a few good places to visit if you're on the hunt for good, unbiased information:
Snopes: Snopes.com has been the rumour debunker of the internet for years, and despite the occasional claim against its own impartiality, it's an excellent resource. "The first place I go when I'm in a hurry is Snopes," McRaney said. "I'm often surprised at how quickly they cover a topic that is bouncing around in the echo chamber." He also noted that Snopes lists its sources, so you can always jump off and do more reading if you want more data.
- Wikipedia: It's not perfect, but Wikipedia does have a wealth of information, and in most cases, that information is sourced. That means that it's sometimes less useful for its own articles, and more useful for the sourced links to any evidence you find. (Checking the sources is good basic Wikipedia practice; reading the talk page for an article can also uncover useful extras or areas to examine further.)
- Science Daily: While more news and less rumour-debunking, Science Daily has a huge database of articles to search, most of which link to the source journal articles and studies that may have started the rumour in the first place.
- Phys.Org: Again, Phys.Org is primarily a news site, but they've dedicated plenty of articles to debunking popular rumours or addressing trending topics in science and medicine. Plus, they also link to their sources if they can.
Finally, when you're reading news articles and sites, even if they link to their supporting studies, try to pry apart the article from the studies. Speaking as someone who's spent a lot of time in the scientific and media communities, both camps almost always mean well when trying to share news or studies with the public — it's just incredibly difficult to get those stories out in a digestible, commonly understood way without losing the science in the message. If you're sceptical, don't dismiss the story or the study — look deeper and draw your own conclusions.
The Big Guns: Search Public Journals And Contact Science Advocates
So you've done some Google searching, looked at a few sceptical sites, but you want more information. That's great! It's time to go to the source: peer-reviewed journals and people you can trust about science. One thing I like to do before I write about or share any news article that's based on a study of some kind is to see if I can get to the study itself. Is it mentioned in an article, or did someone say "a study said X?" Fire Google back up and include the journal name and publication date, if you can. "Include "research" or "evidence" or "study" in your search terms. With enough digging, you will often find several scientific papers related to your topic," McRaney suggests. Read the full-text if it's available, or at least the abstract. It will help you get a picture for what the study really concludes.
Of course, you'll probably run into many studies that are locked up behind paywalls. McRaney suggests using Google Scholar, a search engine just for peer-reviewed journals. "Just copy the full name of the paper you want and paste it into Google Scholar's search bar. Look for PDF versions, as they will most likely be the full paper." If you still can't find it, just email one of the study's authors and ask for a copy. It may sound crazy, but "they are usually more than happy to oblige, and you'll probably put a spring in their step for a full 24 hours", McRaney notes.
Finally, you can always ask the experts you look up to for their thoughts on a topic. Dr Plait explained: "I get questions often about topics I'm not all that familiar with. I actually have a long list of people I know who are experts in various topics, and whose opinions I trust, so I will sometimes email them and ask. Not everyone has a stable of experts in their contacts list though!" He went on to explain that there are some people you can trust: researchers, medical professionals, and so on. Seek them out, ask your questions — often they won't be able to resist weighing in on a hot topic, even if you're asking out of the blue. McRaney pointed out that the Ask Science subreddit at Reddit covers a lot of popular, contentious topics from multiple angles. See if your statement has been debated. If not, bring it up yourself.
Extra Credit: Visit Your Local Library And Consult Librarians And Reference Materials
You've done your homework, looked up some studies, read both sides of an argument, and you're still not sure what to believe, or if there's enough information to believe anything. That's great — you're still hungry for information, and there's one place left to get it: your local library. Photo by Manchester City Library.
If you catch yourself unable to download a specific study, or the study is so old (or too new!) that it's not available, or you just want help getting to the bottom of an issue, visit your library's reference desk. Often, larger public libraries — and especially university libraries — have free access to scholarly journals and their archives so you can download, print, and read full-text articles you wouldn't be able to get at home. Even many university libraries only require student ID if you're going to check something out, so they're a great resource for everyone.
"Most university librarians will happily provide you a copy of a paper if you or someone you know is enrolled in the university," McRaney adds. If you are going to chat up your local reference librarian, see what they think of the topic, and if they can do some digging on your behalf. Most often, they can do some research for you and present you with findings to read through, or they can at least help guide you to authoritative sources on the topic.
Don't Forget To Think Critically
All of the research in the world won't help educate you on a controversial issue or statement if you don't look at the evidence and try to draw your own conclusions from it. "What I can say is that if you want to know what's what, the best thing to do is approach the question honestly and openly," Dr Plait explains. "Read up on opinions for and against. Do the basic arguments make sense? Are the arguments simply ad hominems (attacks against the other side) or is there actual evidence backing up the claims? And what does the other side have to say about those claims?" Image by SMBC.
This isn't perfect though, and both McRaney and Dr Plait warned that here are a few things to watch out for when reading journals and articles that reference journal articles, or when you're talking to science advocates:
- Watch out for anecdotal evidence. The problem with anecdotal evidence is well documented, and when presented with it, you should make a concerted effort to ignore it, or at least take it into lesser account than rigorous research. It's difficult: our minds are wired to exaggerate the value of anecdotal experience, but if you're thinking and reading critically, it's important to discount them.
- Watch out for scientists who are anything but. Most scientists know their field well, but you still have to think critically about what you hear. Someone claiming to be knowledgeable may not be at all. "The problem there again is that there are people who claim to be in this group and aren't," Dr Plait warned. "Or worse, ones who actively promote conspiracy theories against scientists — and those are legion. You've no doubt seen these — people who say scientists are lying to us, or that Big Pharma is paying them, or whatever. I have no easy solution for things like that."
- Be careful which science advocates you trust. The best science advocates have backgrounds in science themselves, are passionate about science, and are willing to engage openly and non-defensively about a given topic. The worst tend to behave like conversations about research are political or religious ones, and roll out the ad hominem attacks at the first sign of dissention.
It may sound cliched, but Dr Plait and Dave McRaney agree: if most scientists fall on one side of an argument, it's a safe bet that's where the evidence lies. Controversy does not disprove fact, and ongoing research doesn't diminish the research already done. It may require unlearning things you already believe, but doing your own research is worth it. "There's a reason lots and lots of scientists agree on something: usually because it's right," Dr Plait says. "Sure, science can change its mind, but going with it is the way to bet, because there is usually vast research, evidence, and experience behind it. Go that way and you'll be right the vast majority of the time." Image by XKCD.
McRaney sums it up nicely:
We invented the scientific method because we are naturally terrible at explaining our own experiences. Without the scientific method, there is no way to know what causes simple, everyday things like thunder. Every explanation is as good as another, and if an explanation becomes culturally bound and passed down, that becomes the official explanation for millennia. Our natural tendency is to confirm our assumptions, but science tries to disconfirm our assumptions one by one until the outline of the truth begins to form. Once we realised that approach generates results, we went from horses and tobacco enemas to mapping DNA and walking on the moon in a few generations.
What do you think? How do you avoid confirmation bias when you're researching a new study or article? Which sources do you trust? Share your research tips in the comments below.
Phil Plait, PhD, is also known as The Bad Astronomer and writes the Bad Astronomy blog for Discover Magazine. You can follow him on Twitter at @badastronomer.
David McRaney is author of the blog You Are Not So Smart and has contributed to Lifehacker many many times.
Both offered their expertise for this post, and we thank them.


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Fed Study: Angeleños really did use houses as ATMs
In the latest installment of Formerly Middle Class People Deserved To Lose All Their Money, the Wall Street Journal informs us of a study from the Federal Reserve Board's Steven Laufer. Not too surprisingly, the paper says these longer-term FBs would have been fine if they hadn't kept taking equity out of their houses just because they could.
Study: How Using Homes as ATMs Fueled Foreclosures
By Nick Timiraos, The Wall Street Journal
May 28, 2013, 11:58 AM
The conventional wisdom of the housing crisis goes something like this: Too many people bought homes as the housing bubble inflated. Some were unlucky in their timing, while others overextended themselves by putting too little money down. All of these top-of-the-market purchases led to an explosion of foreclosures once home prices dropped sharply and the economy hit the skids.
Amid the current debate about whether a new bubble is forming in the housing market, it's worth looking at a paper published in March that challenges conventional wisdom by showing that a significant share of foreclosures came from people who bought their homes before 2004.
So why did so many people who bought their homes before the housing bubble fully inflated end up losing their homes anyway?
The paper concludes that if only California had laws like Texas (which forbids borrowing more than 80% of home equity), not only would fewer FBs gotten F'ed, but homeowners (as opposed to homedebtors) would have had more money to spend because houses wouldn't have cost so much.
Which is ridiculous, because why do you think these FBs borrowed all that equity in the first place? They sure as heck didn't invest it in infrastructure. Heck, no. They spent it. We're cheered to see Larry Roberts (OC Housing News) agrees with us.
Then again, that study also says people defaulted because (among other reasons) they assumed their home prices would keep going down. This shows why the study was in Los Angeles instead of the Real Bay Area. Everyone knows in the RBA, prices only go up.
There's also a very important reveal in the paper. Laufer's model shows that home prices would be 14% lower if all that equity extraction hadn't taken place. And as we know, the Real Estate industry will simply not allow that to happen. They might as well throw away tax-deductibility of mortgage interest too.


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Abstract: This article seeks to delineate a focus on water resource policy, its institutions and policy making processes rather than implementation or hydrology, irrigation, geography, fisheries management, implementation, the management of specific water projects or the purchase, ownership and conveyance of water law|water rights. Water resource management is the implementation of policy and is usually carried out over smaller political, spatial, and geographical domains than policy. Policy is a cause of management practices, but best management practices are identified, evaluated, modified and disseminated by policy making bodies. These policy issues may be subdivided by various means, but broadly concern either the identification, annexation, procurement, maintenance, protection, preservation, expansion of water supply and protection of its quantitative degradation through evaporative loss, water main breakage, waste or constraining qualitative degradation through direct pollution. "Supply isn't just about water production, it is also about distribution infrastructure" [1] Technical issues of the world's aging water infrastructure also includes origination and dissemination of best practices to deal with metering, control systems, and pressure management.Much of policy discussion involves management of competing interests in supply and polluting uses by and between different user classes, with some commentators projecting resource wars as demand exceeds supply throughout most of the globe. [2] User classes of interest to policy making institutions and policy advocates include domestic, industrial, mining and agricultural facilities.[3]
Water resource policy issues are receiving increasing attention. [4]It is widely believed that water policy is entering a period of more or less permanent crisis,[5] at least in some regions, and the chilling spectre of worldwide crisis at some point in the future.[6]Given the complexity of international law, national sovereignty and forecasted water shortages, attention is increasingly focused on various approaches to this complex subject matter.[7] Organizations such as the Global Water Policy Project have sprung up to promote awareness and prod government and NGO's into heightened awareness of the problems.[8] Various jurisdictions at all levels from international down to small water districts regulate water resources to protect drinkability and agricultural uses from water pollution. Advanced industrial countries typically develope stringent rules which are disseminated worldwide through aid agencies and international agencies such as various departments of the United Nations. Within the developed nations, some localities have more highly developed water regulatory policy analysis, making and implementation bodies in place, due either to general social and ideological concerns or familiarity with specific, often problematic water quality problems.
- 1 Global water resource policy objectives (overview)
- 2 Institutional participants
- 3 Issues of concern to policy makers
- 4 Structural constraints on policy makers
- 5 Subject matter jurisdiction: water quality issues
- 6 References
- 7 External links
Global water resource policy objectives (overview)
Planning is viewed as a means to
- to address the raw need for water quantitatively
- to protect water supply quantity
- to regulate conflicts about water access and quality particularly to prevent possible political or military conflict.
- to protect vulnerable populations from threats such as flooding and mosquito vector activity.
- navigable water policy
- use of waters as dwelling space (houseboats)
- conversion of water resources into energy (hydro-electric)
- extraction of food from water resources (fishing, aquafarming)
- extraction of minerals including petroleum
Institutional participants
A few high points in multilateral initiatives are as follows:
The 1977 Mar del Plata United Nations Conference on Water was the first intergovernmental water conference, leading to the 1980 Declaration of the International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade by the UN General Assembly.[11]
The United Nations Environmental Program is a key institution housing water resource policy making agencies and disseminating best practices worldwide. This activity occurs at global, regional and national levels. This role has been enhanced by landmark policy directives:
- UN General Assembly Resolution 3436 (XXX) Agenda 21
- 1997 Nairobi Declaration on the Role and Mandate of UNEP and
- 2000 Malmö Ministerial Declaration adopted at the First Global Ministerial Environment Forum.
At Earth Summit 2002 governments established targets for 2015 to improve access to safe drinking water. [13]
Treaties between nations may enumerate rights and responsibilities. For instance, a treaty between Poland and Germany, "An Agreement to establish cooperation on water resources management" provides:
- supply of drinking water of good quality,
- protection of surface water,
- supply of water to agriculture,
- fight against water pollution. [14]
The Permanent Court of International Justice adjudicates disputes between nations including water rights litigation. [15]
Non-profit NGO policy advocacy organizations
Non governmental organizations may have consultative status at the UN. One such NGO is the World Water Council, an "international multi-stakeholder platform" established in 1996 to act "at all levels, including the highest decision-making level...[in] protection, development, planning, management and use of water in all its dimensions...for the benefit of all life on earth." It was an outgrowth of the 1992 at the UN's International Conference on Environment and Development in Dublin and at the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit. The Council itself is mow based in the City of Marseilles.[11] Their website explains its' multi-stakeholder basis as due to the fact that "authority for managing the world's fresh water resources is fragmented amongst the world's nations, hundreds of thousands of local governments, and countless non-governmental and private organizations, as well as a large number of international bodies." Subsequently, in 1994, the International Water Resources Association (IWRA) organized a special session on the topic in its Eighth World Water Congress held in Cairo in November 1994, leading to creation of the World Water Council. [16]
Business water resource policy initiatives
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development has engaged stakeholders in a process it refers to as in its H2OScenarios engaged in a scenario building. In June 2011 in Geneva, the Future of Water Virtual Conference, "hosted by" Dow Chemical, exchanged view on sustainable water issues. Notable presented included Peter Bell of Harvard's Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations and David Abraham, CEO of ClearWater Initiative. Other sponsorships included Scientific American and Fast Company (magazine)|Fast Company, a media firm. Issues raised included
- water infrastructure monitoring,[17] global water security, potential resource wars, [18] interaction between water, energy, food and economic activity, the "true value" of "distribution portions of available water" and a putative "investment gap" in water infrastructure. [19][20] It was asserted that climate change will impact scarcity of water but the water security presentation emphasized that a combined effect with population growth "could be devastating".[21] Identified corporate water related risks include physical supply, regulatory and product reputation. [22]
This forum indicated policy concerns with
- trade barriers
- price supports
- other subsidies
- treatement of water as a free good creates underpricing of 98% of water [23]
- need to intensify debate
- need to harmonize public/private sectors[24]
Issues of concern to policy makers
Surface water and sewage discharge
Such regulatory bodies as exist cover designated regions [25] and regulate piped waste water discharges to surface water which include riparian and ocean ecosystems. These systems of review bodies are charged with maintenance maintaining a healthy aquifer for purposes of wilderness ecology (wildlife habitat,drinking water, agricultural irrigation and fisheries. Another area of regulatory attention, which may or may not be housed within the same regulatory structure, includes storm water discharge which tend to carry fertilizer residue and bacterial contamination from domestic and wild animals. [26] They have the authority to make orders which are binding upon private actors such as international corporations [27] and do not hesitate to exercise the police powers of the state. Water agencies have statutory mandate which in many hurisdictions is resilient to pressure from constituents and lawmakers in which they on occasion stand their ground despite heated opposition from agricultural interests[28] On the other hand, the Boards enjoy strong support from environmental concerns such as Greenpeace,Heal the Ocean and Channelkeepers.[29]
Water supply
- Drinking water
- Agriculture. "Many rural people practice subsistence rain fed agriculture as a basic livelihood strategy, and as such are vulnerable to the impacts of drought or flood that can diminish or destroy a harvest. "[30]
Surface and groundwater
Surface water and groundwater have often been studied and managed as separate resources, although they are interrelated.[31] There are three recognized classifications of groundwater which jurisdictions may distinguish: subterranean streams, underflow of surface waters, and percolating groundwater.[32]
Policy maker's constituencies
Classification of sites of policy makers' concern include:
- residential
- construction,
- industrial,
- municipal activities,
- discharges from irrigated agriculture;
- dredge and fill activities;
- Consistency with national regulations
- and several other activities with practices that could degrade water quality.
- The main article for this category is Water resource policy.
Ballast water, fuel/oil leaks and trash originating from ships is a growing concern in terms of water pollution in addition to other concerns. Of special concern are:
- cruise ships
- tankers
- bulk cargo carriers
Ballast water may contain toxins, invasive plants, animals, viruses, and bacteria.
Programmatic subdivisions
The agencies categorize their work into the following programs or similar ones.
- Biosolids
- Dredge/Fill Wetlands
- Irrigated Lands
- Land Disposal (landfills, waste piles, etc.)
- National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) (surface water)
- Recycled Water
- Sanitary Sewer Overflows (SSO)
- Storm water
- Timber Harvest
- Riparian and ocean going vessel pollution
Structural constraints on policy makers
Operational water management implements policy. These policies are implemented by organizational entities created by government exercise of the police power of the state. However, all such entities are subject to constraints upon their autonomy.[33] These constraints originate in the legitimacy demands of their constituents and also the conflicting constraints originating from global and regional international entities, national government and state or provincial policy instruments such as treaties, laws, regulations and contracts.[34] These factors affect ownership and control of water resources all the way down to the level of municipalities and special districts for flood control and allocation of water rights in accordance with local water law. In many localities, structural limitations on policy making and resulting implementation snarls lead to failed policies. [35]
Subject matter and geographic jurisdiction are distinguishable.[36] Jurisdiction may be conceptualized geographically (wilderness,agricultural, urban) or in terms of subject matter such as flood control, water supply and sanitation.
Overlapping jurisdictions
In typically water challenged province in a developed nation, the number of water regulatory agencies at the provincial level alone is substantial, not counting county, city and special districts:
- Environmental Protection Agency (State/EPA)
- Coastal Commission
- Coastal Conservancy
- Department of Fish & Game
- Department of Water Resources
- Environmental Resources Evaluation System (CERES)
- Ocean and Coastal Environmental Access Network (OCEAN)
- Resources Agency Wetlands Information System
- State Water Resources Control Board
[37] Additionally,
- Public Health Departments conduct water sampling for bacterial and viral contaminants
- Water districts control service to residential, commercial, industrial and institutional water consumers
Flood and contaminattion control
Water can become a natural disaster in the form of coastal or inland manifestions. These include tsunami, hurricane,cyclone, rogue wave and storm surge or floods originating from terrestrial water - bursting dams, rivers overflowing their banks. Planning and prevention of floods is a part of water resource policy which is separated from ordinary water resource management designed to allocate supply and provide for sanitation. One jurisdiction's projects may cause problems in other jurisdictions, causing untold grief to all concerned. For instance, Monterey County California controls a body of water which acts as a reservoir for San Luis Obispo County. Who pays for measures to restrict growth of Quaaga Mussels? The down stream jurisdiction will face expensive damage to their piping systems if things get out of control, but boaters in the upstream jurisdiction will infect the lake if they are not subject to education and enforcement programs, which cost money. Similar examples abount.
Subject matter jurisdiction: water quality issues
Water quality issues or sanitation concerns reuse or water recycling and pollution control which in turn breaks out into stormwater and wastewater.
Water treatment policy
Water treatment is usually a matter of implementation however it is subject to multiple overlapping jurisdictional constraints which limit the governmental autonomy [38]exercised by these bodies. For instance, levels of chloramines with their resulting toxic trihalomethane by product are subject to Federal guidelines even though water management implementing those policy constraints are carried out by local water boards. [39]
Stormwater runoff control policy
Surface runoff is water that flows when heavy rains do not soak (infiltrate) soil; excess water from rain, meltwater, or other sources flowing over the land. This is a major component of the water cycle.[40][41] Runoff that occurs on surfaces before reaching a Channel (geography)|channel is also called a Nonpoint source pollution|nonpoint source. Such sources often contain man-made contaminants, the runoff is called nonpoint source pollution. When runoff flows along the ground, it can pick up Soil contamination|soil contaminants including, but not limited to petroleum, pesticides, or fertilizers that become discharge (hydrology)|discharge or nonpoint source pollution.[42][43] At a policy level, political groups aggregate at such policy making entities as will hear their claims. Thus, in democratic jurisdictions with relatively open access to citizen participation, agricultural interests, developers, fish and wildlife groups, and environmentalists will compete for policy maker attention and for implementation of their preferred policy options. [44]
Wastewater is water which has been discharged from human use; "water that has been adversely affected" by anthropogenic influence. [45] The primary sources are discharge from the following sources:
- domestic residences,
- commercial properties,
- industry,
- agriculture
Potential contaminants exist in varying concentrations and new ones are found on an ongoing basis}. Sewage is technically wastewater contaminated with fecal and similar animal waste byproducts, but is frequently used as a synonym for waste water. Origination includes cesspool and sewage outfall pipes, some of which are unpermitted .
- ↑ TakaDu p. 9
- ↑ Halcrow p. 27 & etc
- ↑ http://www.ecolex.org/ecolex/ledge/view/RecordDetails;document_Law%20on%20Water%20Resources%20Development%20(Law%20No.%2011%20of%201974)..html?DIDPFDSIjsessionid=7DA28E1500FB24F295BD6F41E7070924?id=LEX-FAOC001336&index=documents
- ↑ name= Halcrow http://www.futurewecreate.com/includes/0614Global%20Water%20Security%20PSC%2019%20Oct%20rev1.pdf
- ↑ http://www.gwp.org/Global/The%20Challenge/Resource%20material/IWRM%20at%20a%20glance.pdf
- ↑ http://www.voanews.com/english/news/usa/arts/Fight-for-Water-Hits-Crisis-Levels-Worldwide-118423974.html
- ↑ http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/20023193561.html
- ↑ http://www.globalwaterpolicy.org
- ↑ In nations of all classes, conflict between urban and agricultural uses are expected to intensify, creating policy making challenges of increasing complexity.
- ↑ Dehydrating Conflict by Sandra L. Postel and Aaron T. Wolf, September 18, 2001. From Global Policy Forum
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 http://www.worldwatercouncil.org/index.php?id=92
- ↑ http://www.unep.org/law/
- ↑ http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/monitoring/globalassess/en/ Global Water Supply and Sanitation Assessment 2000 Report
- ↑ http://www.ecolex.org/ecolex/ledge/view/RecordDetails;document_Agreement%20between%20the%20Federal%20Republic%20of%20Germany%20and%20the%20Republic%20of%20Poland%20on%20cooperation%20on%20water%20resource%20management.html?DIDPFDSIjsessionid=7DA28E1500FB24F295BD6F41E7070924?id=TRE-151959&index=treaties
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- ↑ Ibid
- ↑ name= Takadu http://www.futurewecreate.com/includes/0615Water_Price_Innovation_Scarcity_TaKaDu.pdf
- ↑ http://www.futurewecreate.com/includes/0614Global%20Water%20Security%20PSC%2019%20Oct%20rev1.pdf
- ↑ name= Halcrow
- ↑ http://www.futurewecreate.com/
- ↑ Halcrow
- ↑ Halcrow p 23
- ↑ Takadu p.2
- ↑ Halcrow p 28
- ↑ http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/waterboards_map.shtml
- ↑ http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/ciwqs/who_is_regulated.shtml
- ↑ http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/ci_17612147
- ↑ http://www.montereyherald.com/local/ci_18314090?nclick_check=1
- ↑ http://www.facebook.com/notes/heal-the-ocean/hilary-spoke-to-regional-water-quality-control-board-today/10150089482817928
- ↑ 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change|2.7|Evaluation of the Use of Forecast Interpretations information|Diego H. Pedreros, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA; and A. Bonilla, P. Ramirez, C. Funk, G. Husak, J. Michaelsen, and L. Aguilar|Session 2, Climate Predictions on Seasonal and Interannual Time Scales: 1(parallel with Session 1) Monday, 10 January 2005, 1:30 PM-5:30 PM|http://ams.confex.com/ams/Annual2005/techprogram/paper_87610.htm
- ↑ United States Geological Survey (USGS). Denver, CO. "Ground Water and Surface Water: A Single Resource." USGS Circular 1139. 1998.
- ↑ http://www.blm.gov/nstc/WaterLaws/california.html
- ↑ Poulantzas, Nicos. Political Power and Social Classes. NLB, 1973 (orig. 1968).
- ↑ ^ Habermas, J. and Derrida, J. "February 15, Or What Binds Europeans Together: A Plea for a Common Foreign Policy, beginning in the Core of Europe" in ''The Derrida-Habermas Reader'' ed. Thomassen L. The University of Chicago Press: Chicago Ill. Pp. 270-277. P.302
- ↑ Collapse of an Industry: Nuclear Power and the Contradictions of U.S. Policy (Cornell Studies in Political Economy) John L. Campbell
- ↑ Black's Law Dictionary
- ↑ http://www.megalaw.com/ca/top/cawater.php
- ↑ Poulantzas, Nicos. Political Power and Social Classes. London:New Left Books>
- ↑ http://www.ccwa.com/chloramines.htm
- ↑ Robert E. Horton, The Horton Papers (1933)
- ↑ Keith Beven, Robert E. Horton's perceptual model of infiltration processes, Hydrological Processes, Wiley Intersciences DOI 10:1002 hyp 5740 (2004)
- ↑ L. Davis Mackenzie and Susan J. Masten, Principles of Environmental Engineering and Science ISBN 0-07-235053-9
- ↑ Adapted for this section, including citations herein, from open source CCL 2.0 main article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormwater
- ↑ http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/programs/instream_flows/docs/not_wdm070111.pdf
- ↑ Section adapted from main topic Wikipedia article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wastewater CCL 2.0 Originating editor TakuyaMurata
External links
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- U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Healthy Water - Water Quality - Information on water quality, water testing, and understanding consumer confidence reports on water contaminants
- U.S. National Water Quality Monitoring Council (NWQMC) - Partnership of federal and state agencies
- U.S. Geological Survey - National Water Quality Assessment Program
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Water Quality Monitoring
- U.S. National Agricultural Library
- American Water Resources Association
- Global Water Quality online database
- Beaches 911 - U.S. Beach Water Quality Monitoring
- New Trends in Water and Environmental Engineering for Safety and Life [2]
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The village of Felisio belongs to the municipality of Faenza, in the province of Ravenna, region Emilia-Romagna.
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For the province of Ravenna, to whom Felisio belongs, on 2020-04-06 are reported 728 cases. In the previos day there were 708 cases, thus having a variation of 20 cases, i.e. 2.82% with reference to the number of cases reported in the previous day.
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The village of Felisio is 6,31 kilometers far from the same town of Faenza to whom it belongs.
To the municipality of Faenza also belong the localities of Accarisi (9,95 km), Accarisi - La Rotta (12,68 km), Albereto (13,17 km), Albereto - Zannona (0,63 km), Basiago (8,18 km), Benedetta (2,78 km), Borgo Cavaliera (7,93 km), Borgo Liverani (0,73 km), Borgo Liverano (4,64 km), Borgo Moretti (11,22 km), Borgo Prati (10,81 km), Borgo Sant'Andrea (6,04 km), Canavera (4,54 km), Cascina (5,49 km), Cascinetto (4,69 km), Case Babini (12,54 km), Case Calzolaio - Palazzo (5,96 km), Case Graziola (0,63 km), Case San Martino (1,85 km), Case sparse (-- km), Casetti (4,77 km), Cassanigo (6,26 km), Castel Raniero (4,38 km), Celle (4,32 km), Celletta (3,52 km), Corleto (10,64 km), Cosina (9,37 km), Crociaro (13,63 km), Errano (6,20 km), Filippina (4,23 km), Formellino (4,99 km), Fornace di Sarna (3,10 km), Fossolo (15,12 km), Granarolo (10,15 km), Graziola (3,94 km), La Cerchia (2,47 km), La Palazza (4,58 km), Le Tombe (12,57 km), Mano (5,09 km), Mano - Laviana (8,03 km), Marzeno (7,10 km), Mezzeno (5,61 km), Modigliana (2,28 km), Modiglianese - Verità (0,63 km), Monte Brullo (6,98 km), Oriolo (8,38 km), Oriolo dei Fichi (7,17 km), Orto Fiori (5,35 km), Osteria Della Rosa (13,00 km), Pergola (8,10 km), Pettinara (3,66 km), Piazzetta (10,24 km), Pieve Cesato (10,46 km), Pieve Ponte (3,93 km), Pila Sant'Andrea (6,79 km), Pilastri - Osteria Buonamici (9,43 km), Ponte del Castello (4,82 km), Ponte della Castelina (8,07 km), Ponticello (7,80 km), Prada (16,67 km), Punta dei Prati - Casetti di Mezzeno (6,33 km), Quintina (14,31 km), Reda (10,77 km), Rivalta (5,62 km), Ronco (7,86 km), Saldino (9,11 km), San Barnaba (7,79 km), San Biagio (8,51 km), San Giorgio (15,95 km), San Giovannino (6,63 km), San Mamante (4,27 km), San Mamante - Case Lenzuola (7,23 km), San Mamante - Rio Ponticello (0,63 km), San Martino (3,05 km), San Pietro in Laguna (3,65 km), San Procolo al Ponte (5,75 km), San Prospero (3,33 km), San Silvestro (3,28 km), Sant'Orsola (3,22 km), Santa Lucia (6,23 km), Santa Lucia delle Spianate (4,76 km), Sarna (7,36 km), Scuole San Pier Laguna (4,15 km), Strocca di San Biagio (5,77 km), Tebano (10,28 km), Villa Mano (6,73 km).
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