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Energy Department Awards Project in Power Plant Improvement Initiative
Technology Focuses on Nation's 500 Small Coal-Burning Energy Producers |
WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Department of Energy today awarded a contract to CONSOL Energy Inc., a major coal producer, as part of an effort under DOE's Power Plant Improvement Initiative to reduce the ever-increasing demands on U.S. electricity supplies.
"This award represents yet another step forward in advancing clean coal technologies for the future," said Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy Jeffrey Jarrett. "With more than half of America's electricity coming from coal, this resource is vital to our nation's energy security. The success of this project will translate into improved environmental performance and reduced energy costs for nearly 500 small coal-fired plants throughout the United States." Triggered by the brownouts and blackouts of 1999 and 2000, Congress directed DOE to seek proposals through the cost-shared $95 million initiative to demonstrate technologies to improve the efficiency, reliability, and environmental performance of the nation's coal-fired power plants. The CONSOL project was one of eight selected by DOE in the initiative. Following a series of required environmental assessments and other project issues, CONSOL Energy Inc., of South Park, Pa., received a contract to demonstrate a cost-effective multipollutant control technology applicable to approximately 500 of the nation's smaller power plants, ranging in size from 50 to 600 megawatts. DOE's share of the $33 million project is about $14.5 million; AES Greenidge, LLC, the host site and one of CONSOL's partners in the project, will contribute the remainder. CONSOL, along with partners AES Greenidge and Babcock Power Environmental Inc., will install a combination of technologies at the AES Greenidge Unit 4 near Dresden, N.Y. The technologies include a hybrid system to reduce emissions of NOx and an advanced flue gas scrubber to reduce emissions of SO2, mercury, and acid gases. Specifically, the control system will use selective non-catalytic reduction/in-duct selective catalytic reduction for NOx control and a circulating fluidized-bed dry scrubber system with activated carbon injection and recycled baghouse ash to control SO2, mercury, and acid gas emissions. The goal of this multipollutant approach is to demonstrate significant improvements in the control of mercury, acidic gases, and fine particulates, and substantial reductions in the cost of NOx and SO2 control, when compared to conventional technologies. The project will also demonstrate the performance of the multipollutant control system during periods when the plant co-fires biomass with coal. The Greenidge unit is representative of the small coal-fired plants that collectively total about one fourth of the nation's coal-fired generating capacity. These smaller units have become increasingly vulnerable to retirement or fuel switching as a result of more stringent state and federal regulations. The conditions that make conventional selective catalytic reduction and wet scrubbers viable for large plants are not applicable to smaller coal-fired units. Also, these smaller units are usually constrained by space, which restricts the installation of typically larger selective catalytic reduction and wet scrubber systems. CONSOL Energy's project will demonstrate the commercial readiness of an emissions control system that is well-suited to meeting regulations at these smaller plants. DOE's National Energy Technology Laboratory manages the CONSOL project, as well as the Power Plant Improvement Initiative projects. |
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Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY- Timothy Groseclose, professor of American Politics at the University of California Los Angeles and author of Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind, will deliver this year's Donald J. Sutherland Lecture - a talk entitled "Leaning to the Left"- on Thursday, March 15, 2012, 2:20-3:45 p.m. at Student Center Theater in the Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center.
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XML appliances are only able to enforce policies placed in the request path, reminds enterprise architect Todd Biske, so it's important to ensure systems can't go around the gateway.
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The reason there is such a lack of good people around is that investment in training in online has been practically nil from most companies in the UK. I can't imagine Barcelona is any better. All the experienced people are self-taught which makes judging them before they start a job quite hard with no qualifications to set a yardstick. Only recently have I started see more candidates with things like e-commerce degrees and IDM Digital diplomas. They're really scarce, and very expensive people to hire.
We've already picked up some excellent staff through close ties with the local universtity and other local business organisations. We have to put a lot more effort into training, but we get better staff as a result, and are able to recruit locally particularly for marketing and account management roles. Recruiting locally also means to we also don't have to pay a stack of london wages that go straight into the pockets of British Rail, so we're all better off.
Our latest member of staff cost us 10p in Yahoo advertising, she was looking for a local agency to get some experience with and cold called us.
Having been through the pain of trying to recruit and retain 'ready-made' staff, I'm not sure it's always worth the effort when you can train your own.
>And finally there is the ultimate deal-killer; cold hard cash. Most jobs I look at simply do not offer the rewards I expect; when I have a proven track record of getting sites to number one in Google for the keywords customers actually use and then delivering an ROI of three to four times what it costs to hire me, then I expect rewards comensurate with track record; you know?
I'd echo this. Whilst not blowing my own horn too much, I've got 10 years experience in managing sprawling websites, with both marketing and technical experience and business training. So I can talk to techies and comms people and I'm also a damn good manager of creatives.
Having just been Headhunted and offered a very good package, my current employer counter offered to match it. Both jobs are similar and the offers are pretty much at the top of what is on offer in the current market so to tempt me away an employer now has to offer me something better.
The jobs market is starting to feel like it did in the last dot com boom, so it's pay for quality (and lets face it that's been quite cheap since the crash - I know I've only just regained that salary level) or spend it on hiring in people you can train up.
No disrespect to agencies but it might also help if they read CV's before calling candidates. I am called 5-6 times a week for jobs either way below my level of experience or that are completely out of my field.
Emmanuel Marchand
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19 February 2007 08:41am
Hi James,
I know the offer you are advertising and the kind of person you are looking for ... and actually did come for an interview.
Yes online marketing recruitment is tough ... but I think oportunities -for recruiters- needs to be seized ... candidates are never too good, that's fair, but most have the potential.
The opportunity to grow is offered by the company to the employee, but ALSO (and mostly?) offered by the employee to the company ...Online marketing remains "new" and qualified people with relevant experience are not as common as we'd wish ...
Good luck!
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This might be my lucky day! I'm already based in Spain and have over five years experience in online marketing, for a very well-known publisher's online arm.
Please let me know if you're interested and we can talk.
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We are a multi-national e-commerce player who have just relocated our European marketing department from the USA, to Barcelona.
We have several UK positions open - managers for Marketing (overall site & revenue responsibility), Email marketing, Affiliate Marketing and Print media marketing (inserts, etc driving print response to short URLS.)
We have tested advertising our vacancies on E-consultancy plus all the usual avenues - Monster, recruitment agencies etc, with no great success.
We need quality people to come and perform within a world-class direct-response marketing department, in the sun, 4 blocks from the beach... How hard can that be?
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NORTHFIELD, Ill., Oct. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- New science in cancer and molecular diagnostics, as well as updated testing guidelines for patients will be featured topics when more than 1,100 pathologists gather at the Gaylord Palms in Orlando, Fla., October 13-16, 2013, for the annual scientific meeting of the College of American Pathologists (CAP).
"As the nation moves to value-based health care, the role of the pathologists becomes increasingly more important to ensure the delivery of high-quality, cost-effective laboratory testing and patient care," said CAP President Stanley J. Robboy, MD, FCAP. "We designed the CAP's annual meeting to provide the latest advancements in laboratory medicine delivered by the nations' leading experts to ensure pathologists are prepared to deliver new services and assume new roles on the patient care team, today as well as tomorrow."
CAP '13 – THE Pathologists' Meeting™ will highlight a special endocrine pathology track, including a scientific plenary on the metabolic syndrome. The disease is a cluster of conditions related to obesity-related health issues, such as diabetes and heart disease. With more than a third of US adults obese, this timely topic will address the pathologist's role in diagnosis and patient management.
Additional "hot topics" include the following education sessions:
Abstract Program Showcases Original Research from CAP Junior Members
As part of the CAP '13 Abstract Program, five CAP Junior Members will receive special recognition for outstanding original research. Editors from Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine (Archives) evaluated the submissions. This year's program features more than 630 abstract and case study poster presentations representing the largest number of posters ever presented at a CAP annual meeting. Topics range from the study of EGFR mutations/deletions in Hispanic patients with advanced lung cancer to the detection of high risk human papillomavirus (HPV) in women older than 40. The abstracts have been published in the October issue of Archives and are available online.
CAP Will Honor Orlando School Students for Excellence in Science
Additionally, the CAP is honoring six of the best and brightest high school science students from Orlando through its "Path to the Future in Medicine" program. As part of this program, the students are invited to display their winning projects at CAP '13. In addition, they will have the opportunity to tour the CAP '13 meeting and discuss possible careers in medicine and science, as well as general science issues, with leaders in pathology.
The students, who competed at the 2013 Dr. Nelson Ying Science Exposition in February, were judged for excellence in five areas: creativity, scientific thought, attention to detail, skill, and clarity.
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Pathologists are physicians who use laboratory medicine and technology to identify and diagnose disease. They work with primary care physicians and others on the patient care team to guide treatment plans. In fact, more than 70 percent of all decisions about diagnosis, treatment, hospital admission, and discharge rest on the pathologist's report.
About the College of American Pathologists
As the leading organization for board-certified pathologists, the College of American Pathologists (CAP) serves patients, pathologists, and the public by fostering and advocating excellence in the practice of pathology and laboratory medicine worldwide. With more than 18,000 physician members, the CAP has led laboratory accreditation for more than 50 years with more than 7,500 CAP-accredited laboratories in 50 countries. Find more information about the CAP at cap.org. Follow CAP on Twitter: @pathologists.
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Experts redraw insurance model to protect drought-stricken herders
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The development of the financial services sector, fast-tracked through international initiatives, is emerging as potentially transformatory for agriculture in East Africa, with up to 40,000 farmers in Kenya and Rwanda now set to gain from an entirely novel insurance scheme designed to protect regional farmer's from losses to crops and livestock caused by bad weather.
The insurance comes at a time when Kenya is still recovering from a prolonged drought in 2009 that claimed many herds of livestock especially in the north where pastoralism is widespread. The failure of short rains in many parts of the country and consecutive poor rains for the previous two years also placed over 10 million Kenyans on emergency relief aid, with the president announcing the drought as a national disaster.
The new insurance now being put in place to offer farmers protection against such catastrophes has been launched under the Global Index Insurance Facility (GIIF) of the private sector arm of the World Bank, The International Finance Corporation.
The local partners are Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture, UAP Insurance, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), and MicroEnsure in Rwanda. Farmers will access the insurance through UAP Insurance and ILRI regional offices. However, what they will be buying amounts to an entirely new insurance model.
With traditional insurance, a farmer insures crops for loss and if 20 per cent of the crop yield is damaged, the insurance company pays damages. The system is blamed for creating 'moral hazard', and requires that claims are individually checked for actual yield loss, leading to high transaction costs and the frequent need to subsidize premiums.
The poor results of this insurance for both the insured and the insurer and the complexities involved have provided little incentive to expand insurance provision into the emerging or frontier markets, where it is needed most.
But under the new index-based insurance scheme, losses resulting from weather and natural catastrophes will be valued using an index. For example, insurance will be paid out in the event of drought that is defined as less than an anticipated amount of rain, or of a wind storm of certain category, or an earthquake registering a certain Richter scale and within a fixed distance. Any of these kinds of events will qualify for pay-outs as soon as the statistical indexes are triggered, irrespective of the actual loss, and without having to wait for claims to be settled in the traditional way.
IFC is injecting a grant of up to $2.4m to Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture, which expects to insure 20,000 farmers in Kenya over the next three years; an additional $154,000 to ILRI, which expects to help insure 5,000 livestock herders in northern Kenya over the next two years; and $1.6m to MicroEnsure, which expects to insure 15,000 farmers in Rwanda over the next three years.
The grants will fund advisory activities, including local capacity building, infrastructure development, product development, and the development of local insurance companies' capacity to provide index-based insurance products.
Already the Livestock Institute in collaboration with UAP insurance and Equity Bank has rolled out a pilot scheme in Marsabit with impressive results. ILRI spent four years on the project, through research to market survey, to achieve a commercially sustainable solution.
Based on the fact that livestock in the area relies entirely on foraged food, ILRI drew on data from satellites to create a Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), an indicator of vegetation levels.
When vegetation levels drop, as a consequence of drought or poor weather, farmers are given a payout. To insure a herd of 10 cows, the premium is Sh3500. ILRI argues that while this sounds high, paying out less than a third of the value of a single cow, in insurance for a herd of 10, would amount to a real protection.
However, the insurance has also had to be adjusted for the likelihood of drought, withherders in the more drought prone of Upper Marsabit paying higher than counterparts in Lower Marsabit. ""The percentage premium will depend on the area. Upper Marsabit is more drought prone and the premium will be 5.5% of the value of the livestock whereas in Lower Marsabit people will pay 3.25%,"said Brenda Wandera, the Project Development Manager.
Already, 1,979 insurance covers have been sold since the project was officially launched in the area in January this year.this has been despite the newness od the concept. "We are talking about people who have no prior knowledge of what insurance is, and here we are telling them to protect their animals through paying out money. It wasn't hard to convince them," says Ms Wandera.
However, the emotional attachment the herders have to livestock has seen the scheme taking hold. "They used to rely on fortune tellers for weather prediction, but due to global warming and unpredictable weather, even fortune tellers have failed, and the recent drought has shaken them and forced them to seek means to protect their livestock," says Ms Wandera. The 2009 drought left dead 300,000 goats and sheep in the area of a population of around two million in Turkana District.
In selling the benefits of the index insurance, ILRI has also run sessions playing insurance based games with herders highlighting the practical returns. If successful in Kenya, ILRI hopes to roll the same scheme out to herders in Ethiopia next year, and eventually to offer it across the whole region.
Say local experts such as Michael Ameripus, who works with Vets Without Borders in northern Kenya's Turkana district, and was cited by the BBC: "Insurance would offer people here a great boost, and encourage banks to give farmers loans and credits since they now have their insured livestock as collateral."
Said Jean Philippe Prosper, IFC Director for Eastern and Southern Africa, during the signing agreement ceremony: "These partnerships highlight IFC's commitment to expanding insurance and other financial products where they are needed most in Africa."
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Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) announces that the Wawa-1 exploration well in the Deepwater Tano licence offshore Ghana has intersected oil and gas-condensate in a Turonian turbidite channel system.
Wawa-1 encountered 20 metres of gas-condensate pay and 13 metres of oil pay in turbidite sands. Samples show the oil to be good quality between 38 and 44 degrees API. The well was drilled 10 kilometres north of the Enyenra-3A well, testing the previously undrilled, updip portion of the licence. Pressure data shows that it is a separate accumulation from the TEN fields.
The well will now be suspended for possible future use in appraisal and development operations.
The Atwood Hunter semi submersible rig drilled the Wawa-1 well to a final depth of 3,322 metres in water depths of 587 metres.
Tullow (49.95%) operates the Deepwater Tano licence and is partnered by Kosmos Energy (18.00%), Anadarko Petroleum (18.00%), Sabre (4.05%) and the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) (10% carried interest).
Commenting today, Angus McCoss, Exploration Director, said:
"Wawa-1 was the first of three important remaining exploration wells to be drilled in the second half of 2012, to close out the exploration phase of the Deepwater Tano Licence. It found light oil and gas condensate, trapped separately from TEN and demonstrates once again that liquid rich hydrocarbons are pervasive in this prospective licence. We look forward to the drilling of Okure and Sapele in the second half of 2012."
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Eighteen members of the General Aviation Caucus of the U.S. House of Representatives on May 25 sent a letter to congressional conferees trying to reconcile the House and Senate versions of the highway authorization bill, urging the conference committee members to reject an amendment that would take control of airspace over national parks away from the FAA and give it to the National Park Service.
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COLLEGE PARK, Md., November 1 /National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education -- A new article published in the Journal of the American Planning Association (JAPA) by Rebecca Lewis, Gerrit-Jan Knaap and Jungyul Sohn examines the development, implementation and effects of Priority Funding Areas in Maryland--the key policy instrument in Maryland's pioneering approach to smart growth. The article entitled 'Managing Growth With Priority Funding Areas: A Good Idea Whose Time Has Yet to Come' was published in volume 75, issue 4, of JAPA and is free to view online.
In 1997, the State of Maryland adopted a bold new approach to growth management based on a novel instrument: priority funding areas (PFAs). PFAs contain growth by directing state spending to areas designated by local governments and reviewed by the state government. Despite widespread acclaim and subsequent imitation, little is known about whether PFAs effectively contain urban growth. The JAPA article evaluates the adoption, implementation, and performance of PFAs in Maryland in order to provide planners and policymakers with insights into their efficacy as instruments for managing growth.
Co-author Gerrit-Jan Knaap of the University of Maryland commented "We think the research is important because the state of Maryland, and its incentive approach to managing urban growth, has been hailed as a model for the rest of the nation. Before other states and local governments adopt similar approaches it is important to know both the strengths and limitations of that approach."
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TOPEKA – State Board of Education members took time during their meeting Jan. 10 and 11 in Topeka to further discuss Gov. Sam Brownback's proposed school funding formula.
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TOPEKA – State Board of Education members took time during their meeting Jan. 10 and 11 in Topeka to further discuss Gov. Sam Brownback's proposed school funding formula. This is the third month the Board has reviewed and discussed the provisions of the proposal. Landon Fulmer, policy advisor for Gov. Brownback, was present to provide updates to the plan, and shared with Board members the Governor's plan for Career and Technical Education (CTE) that had been released earlier in the week. Fulmer said the CTE plan called for eliminating the .5 weighting for technical education courses, but putting the equivalent dollar amount into a separate fund to be managed by the Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE). KSDE will distribute the funding to schools based on enrollment in technical education programs. The Governor's CTE plan also calls for providing funding to the Kansas Board of Regents to cover the cost of educating high school students enrolled in a career or technical education course or program in a community college, technical college or university. Funding would be provided to cover school districts' cost for transporting high school students to the post-secondary institutions for those programs. In addition, high schools that graduate students with an industry-recognized certification in an area identified as a high-need area will receive a $1,000 award for each student achieving the certification. Board members expressed appreciation for the Governor's focus on CTE, which mirrors the Board's own strategic initiatives. The Board unanimously passed a motion expressing appreciation for the Governor's commitment to additional funding for CTE. Board members were unable to pass a similar motion to approve the Governor's efforts to craft a new school finance formula. Board member Ken Willard made the motion and said it was not intended to indicate support for the proposed funding formula itself, but simply to recognize the Governor's efforts to be collaborative and inclusive as he set about crafting a new school finance formula. However, some Board members indicated that even though they appreciated that the Governor involved the State Board and the education community in the process of developing the proposed formula, they were either not certain a new formula was called for and therefore could not vote for a motion that appeared to offer support for developing a new formula, or they feared the perception would be that the Board was endorsing the proposed funding formula. Board members also received an update on KSDE's work to complete an application for flexibility on No Child Left Behind (NCLB) requirements. The application must address four principles in its waiver application: 1. College- and career-ready expectations for all students 2. State developed differentiated recognition, accountability and support 3. Supporting effective instruction and leadership 4. Reducing duplication and unnecessary burden. Judi Miller, assistant director for Title Programs and Services at KSDE, told Board members that work to achieve principle 1 was on track with the state's previous adoption of the Common Core Standards and the state's participation as part of the SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortia to develop assessments aligned to the Common Core Standards. In addition, the state is in the process of developing English language proficiency standards aligned to the Common Core Standards, as well as assessments aligned to those standards. A lot of work had been done with regard to principle 2, Miller said, particularly as it relates to accountability. Miller said the committee working to develop the waiver application had developed an accountability plan based on multiple measures consisting of achievement, growth and achievement gap reduction. Under the plan proposed in the waiver application, if a school met accountability targets on any of the three measures it will have made adequate yearly progress (AYP). Should the state's waiver be granted, this new measure of accountability would take effect in the 2012-2013 school year. In the 2011-2012 school year, accountability would be based on the percent of students meeting standards on state reading and math assessments, based on the state's 2011 AYP targets. With regard to principle 3, the U.S. Department of Education is not requiring that the teacher/principal evaluation system be in place at the time the waiver is requested or granted, but that the state have a plan for achieving implementation of such a system by the 2014-2015 school year. Miller said the committee working on this principle will have its initial meeting in February and will have guidelines for the evaluation model by June 2012. A draft of the state's waiver application is available for public comment on the KSDE website. Also in January, Board members reviewed the initial draft of the History/Government/Social Studies Standards Framework. Don Gifford, education program consultant for KSDE, shared with Board members that the initial draft does not include the grade and course level standard, which are still being worked on by the writing committee. The draft does establish a framework for the standards and establishes five core standards and the indicators under each standard. In response to questions from some Board members, Gifford explained that Black history was not separated out in the document as a separate standard because it is integrated throughout the document. He said that would become more apparent as the grade and course level content was added to the document. Last year, representatives from the Topeka Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People urged State Board members to develop Black history standards and include Black history as part of the social studies curriculum. The consensus of the Board was that changes to the existing standards as it relates to Black history would be made as part of the planned standards review. The timeline for developing the standards calls for them to be complete and presented to the State Board for adoption by December 2012. The initial framework draft is available on the KSDE website. In other business, Board members received a report on the High School Feedback reports, designed by KSDE to allow Kansas school districts and buildings to easily gain information that can help them determine how well prepared students graduating from their schools are for postsecondary opportunities. Authorized school and district personnel are able to view reports showing average ACT scores by building as well as disaggregated information for student subgroups and subject areas. Other information includes the percent of graduates by year that enrolled in postsecondary institutions and a list of which postsecondary institutions the school's graduates are attending, as well as postsecondary retention metrics and postsecondary remedial coursework. Each report provides at least three years of data. Board members also reviewed draft Social-Emotional Character Development Standards. Kent Reed, education program consultant with KSDE, told Board members Kansas is the first state to address the standards in this way. Many states have addressed social and emotional learning and others have addressed Character Development, but Kansas is the first to align the two, he said. Funding for the development of the standards came through the Character Education Grant from the U.S. Department of Education. Reed said work is still progressing on developing grade level indicators for the standards, but he anticipates having those to share when the standards are next brought before the Board. In other business in January, Board members received a report from the Special Education Advisory Council and a presentation from the Career Technical Student Organizations. In addition, Board members heard from Kansas Superintendent of the Year Mike Mathes, Seaman USD 345, and Kansas High School Principal of the Year Larry Thompson, Hesston High School USD 460, and received a report from Madeline Burkindine, superintendent of the Kansas State School for the Deaf and the Kansas State School for the Blind, on the literacy needs of students who are deaf, hard of hearing and/or blind, visually impaired. The next State Board of Education meeting is scheduled for Feb. 14 and 15 in Topeka.


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GNU Wget - Summary
This project is part of the GNU Project.
GNU wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive command-line tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals without X Window System support, etc.
GNU wget has many features to make retrieving large files or mirroring entire web or FTP sites easy, including:
* Can resume aborted downloads, using REST and RANGE
* Can use filename wild cards and recursively mirror directories
* NLS-based message files for many different languages
* Optionally converts absolute links in downloaded documents to relative, so that downloaded documents may link to each other locally
* Runs on most UNIX-like operating systems as well as Microsoft Windows
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NOTE: we are not using the Savannah CVS for our source repositories. See http://wget.addictivecode.org/RepositoryAccess for information on how to get the latest development sources.
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Earth Day 2009Posted Wednesday, April 15, 2009, at 4:59 PM George Harrison wrote those words in the song Give Me Love in 1973 for his solo album Living in the Material World. With that in mind, Wednesday, April 22 is Earth Day and Friday, April 24 is Arbor Day. Revel in the beauty of our world by getting outside (weather permitting) and spend some time with our Mother Nature. Below is an Earth Day list of ideas. Planting Reuse those leftover egg cartons from Easter. Place some soil in each slot along with your seed of choice and add a little water. Some seeds that sprout quickly and grow easily are green beans and radishes. You could even use grass seed. Reuse Many items that would otherwise get tossed in a landfill can be reused. For example, taking old clothing, toys, shoes, etc. to the Lighthouse or Salvation Army is a good way for someone else to enjoy them and it eliminates waste. Reuse plastic bags at home for small trash cans, cat litter boxes, packing for items to be shipped, in place of tissue paper in gifts, or use as storage for seasonal/holiday items. Contact the Lighthouse, food pantry or any local church to see if they are in need of plastic bags. Wal-Mart has a recycle box for plastic bags. You can also reuse plastic bags in your crafts. Make a pillow and stuff with plastic bags. You can take old, cracked cds and dvds and create wind chimes. Use fishing string and glue or tape to connect the printed sides of the discs. Use fishing string to hang the discs and small bells. Reuse old tires as a tire swing, garden decor or take them to be shredded for use under play equipment in your yard. Recycle Many people may not know the whereabouts of the Recycling Center in Marshall. It does exist, I promise. The address is 765 W. North, located by the power plant. You can take your plastics, aluminum, paper, tin and even electronics. Compost A compost pile makes for great garden soil. Designate an area of your yard for your compost pile. Green leaves, coffee grounds, plant trimmings, fresh grass clippings, raw fruit and vegetable scraps, dried grasses, straw, woodchips, twigs, branches, sawdust, shredded newspaper, corncobs and cornstalks are great for your pile. Your compost should be turned every couple weeks to allow air for decomposition. If you have any Earth Day traditions with your friends and family, please do tell. Also, if you know of any other uses for items around your house or places in need of certain objects, please share. I hope to take lots of pictures of my Earth Day outing and will post a small slideshow. Love your Mother Earth and enjoy the day! Comments Showing comments in chronological order [Show most recent comments first] Thank you for reminding us that we (humans) are not the only living things on this earth! We exist on a living planet. I remember years ago when one of my children brought home what looked like a stick planted in old dirt in a tin coffee can. I am so glad that I took the time to walk him into the back yard to plant that "stick" because now it is a magnificent tree. I am sure he learned from it, I know I did! That beautiful tree provides shade, beauty, and a place to hide easter eggs. We should strive to put more good in this world then what we take from it. Then maybe we will have something to leave for the generations behind us instead of just debt! -- Posted by beneficiaryofcreativefolk on Fri, Apr 17, 2009, at 2:20 PM
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Get your jackhammer out on the highway and plant some trees! Seriously, people do this! -- Posted by yogagirl on Mon, Apr 20, 2009, at 10:43 PM
yogagirl, I've read a little about that. Crazy. Any plans for this beautiful day? -- Posted by Jessica Wise on Wed, Apr 22, 2009, at 8:17 AM
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