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The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
Review by Laura M Gibson
New York: Knopf, 2015. pp. 384 (Hardcover), ISBN 9780385352871. $25.95
For those of us who live out West, water security is a constant source of anxiety. Drought is in our blood here, is evident in our landscape and our lexicon, in the cadence of our recreation and in our daily habits. In summer we hope the heat will come but not last too long, that we'll be able to grow gardens we can water until harvest time from wells and irrigation ditches. We hope we'll be able to contain the fires and, when they come, to still breathe and safeguard lives and wilderness. In winter, we hope our mountain ranges will accumulate enough snow pack to begin to turn back years of ravaging drought.
Depending upon what sort of citizen you ask, there's too much hope for precipitation and not enough action. Soon, some say, we'll get caught short and wish we'd consumed less and conserved more, and by then it'll be too late. Look at California, they say. It's coming for the rest of us, too.
Into this anxious climate Paolo Bacigalupi's latest novel The Water Knife casts a look at one terrifying possible future of an America without water security.
Bacigalupi's thriller plants us into a futuristic Wild West, where "water knives" like the protagonist Angel spy on, assassinate the leaders of, and ultimately cut water from communities who disobey the Southern Nevada Water Authority, lorded over by Angel's boss, Catherine Case. Case's Las Vegas is the new, thriving capital of a ruined American Southwest. Perpetual dust storms sweep the land, where the average temperature holds steady at around 125 degrees. Those with means or clout, then, have moved indoors into arcologies, and these resemble pieces of what we know about the current Vegas: They are vast complexes, self-contained indoor cities where citizens live and work, and where water pulled from the Colorado River is filtrated, recycled, plentiful. Arcologies have fountains and wall-hung farms that provide abundant food. With such water security, arcology dwellers need never go outside, and in this way their luxury insulates them from real climate, and from the way Catherine Case is systematically shutting down communities, especially those that defy her, by taking away their water.
Outside arcologies, in the land of the water scarce, the world resembles the vast desolation of Mad Max. Survivors live in makeshift housing close to water pumps. Suburbs are ghost towns. Going outside into the relentless gritty wind means wearing goggles and masks.
Inside arcologies and out, Las Vegas is a hungry beast of a town, and it needs more water to secure its prominence. Catherine Case wants more power than leaders in California and Arizona, and to get it, she needs more water.
On Case's command, water knife Angel leaves Vegas bound for Phoenix, where something fishy's going on with a new, mysterious water right. Worth more than gold, water rights are a thing to kill for and a thing to steal in this world, and the chase for a new water source is the heart of the novel's quest. This source is a senior right, over a hundred years old, old enough that it's still on paper in a world where paper products are ancient history.
Angel's quest, once he meets Lucy, the conscience of the novel, is complicated by his desire for this small, fierce woman obsessed with saving Phoenix from dying. A "blood rag journo," Lucy photographs and writes about abuses against the Phoenix downtrodden, who are mostly refugees from Texas. Her work has made her a target because she's dangerous, an instigator, and she's willing to die trying to save the town she loves from water knives like Angel. When her friend Jamie, who's confessed to Lucy he knows of a secret water source, dies violently, Lucy joins Angel in his mission to find the lost water right that means death for anyone with information about it.
Their adventures are punctuated by flight: from exploding cars, buildings engulfed in flames, and helicopters firing missiles at them; by chase scenes where Angel's mysterious doppelganger, a similarly rough and tattooed fellow, keeps showing up, trying to kill them.
The body count's high – between Lucy's beat to record brutal killings and Angel's zeal for dispatching anyone in his way, the two hunt and are hunted. Their fragile, lusty, on-the-run alliance is an old action adventure trick. You know the shtick: two determined people who couldn't be more different fall for each other, don't entirely trust each other, and can't help themselves. Between stints of running for their lives, Angel and Lucy engage in campy, barbed dialogue and half-dressed intimacy, despite wounds that would send most of us to intensive care.
The third voice of Texan Maria represents the disenfranchised. Scrappy and resilient in the way so many immigrants are, Maria tries to sell water she's figured out how to pump from her local pumping station for less than it's worth. But abuse and extortion occur on every level in this world, and so Maria's earnings are taken from her, exacted as a tax on her safety. Thus begins her quest to survive, to head north to where the rain still falls from the sky, and ultimately, to escape Phoenix which, as the novel careens on, is beset by violence and fires.
As they must, the lives of the three characters intersect on the shores of the Colorado River, this gun-wielding vortex driven by the ancient water right that determines the fate of each. I won't tell you how it ends, though I will say the final scene is both a surprise and inevitable in the way it leaves all three characters holding the bag of their convictions. There's a smoking gun of a resolution, to be sure. But it's only sketchily hopeful, and this seems right. After all, the whole of The Water Knife is built upon what happens when human folly and power-mongering meet a diminishing natural resource.
Bacigalupi's story is fiction, but it's close enough to a potential future to be downright scary.
About the Author
PAOLO BACIGALUPI is the author of The Windup Girl, as well as the YA novels Ship Breaker and The Drowned Cities. A National Book Award Finalist, and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, John W. Campbell Award, and a three-time winner of the Locus Award, he lives in Colorado with his wife and son.
About the Reviewer
Laura M Gibson is a reader for Kudzu House Quarterly and works as an editor, writer, and college admissions counselor in Idaho. She lives in a log cabin on a tiny farm with her family and wrangles a garden larger than the house. Her fiction and essays have appeared in Flyway, Carve, and The Sun, among other places. She blogs about stories, mostly, atwww.lauramgibson.com
Paolo Bacigalupi's Author Website
Interview with Bacigalupi about writing The Water Knife, after the success of The Windup Girl
Interview with Bacigalupi at Wired
Jason Heller's NPR Review of The Water Knife


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Can you believe it's pretty much already March? I can't. Right now at school, were in the midst of FCAT preparation. Which means, Power Hour tutoring after school and pull out tutoring groups and getting the Media Center ready for the computer based test. So much to do! And on top of that I'm moving the textbook room to make extra testing space (Oh joy!).
So, anyway…that previous paragraph was not that interesting, sorry about that! So, let's get down to business. The reason we're all here: March New Releases!
There are always tons of new YA and MG books being released each month, but March 2013 is one I've really been excited for! Seriously. You guys. Clockwork Princess AND Scarlet?! I don't know if I'll be able to handle it. So, let's see these new releases!
1. Requiem (Delirium #3) by Lauren Oliver (March 5)
2. The Nightmare Affair by Mindee Arnett (March 5)
3. Legacy of the Clockwork Key by Kristin Bailey (March 5)
4. The Center of Everything by Linda Urban (March 5)
5. Strands of Bronze and Gold by Jane Nickerson (March 12)
6. Panic by Sharon Draper (March 12)
7. Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices #3) by Cassandra Clare (March 19)
8. 17 & Gone by Nova Ren Suma (March 21)
9. The Art of Wishing by Lindsay Ribar (March 21)
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11. The Madness Underneath by Maureen Johnson
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This Spring's Weekly Meetings are on Tuesdays from 7-8 p.m. in 304 Natural Sciences
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Internship Information Sessions:
Thursday, Jan 14 and Monday — Thursday, Jan 18–21st 2010
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Kick-Off Meeting
Wednesday, January 27 2010
7:00 p.m. in Berkey Hall 100
Coal Ash National Day of Action–Photo Petition Drive
Thursday, January 28 2010
11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. in the International Center and the Union
Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=278140191974&index=1
Career Fair
Thursday, February 11 2010
4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. in Spartan Stadium
Coal Free Valentines
Friday, February 12 2010
11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in Brody Hall Cafeteria
Come make a coal free valentine that we'll send to your special someone! ❤
Public Hearing Training
Wednesday, February 24 2010
7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. in Berkey 102
Come learn how to give a testimony at the public hearing and make wind turbines for the rally!
Testify at MDNRE Public Hearing
Thursday, February 25 2010
9:00 a.m. training, 10:00 a.m. public hearing
MDNRE (5th Floor) 525 W Allegan St, Lansing MI
Clean Energy Campus: Press Conference and Rally
Thursday, February 25 2010
2:30 p.m. — 3:00 p.m. in front of the Administration Building
Hear from students and community members who testified!
Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=323166191402
Clean Energy Campus: Call-In Day
Thursday, February 25 2010
3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. in Wells Hall
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Alumni Relations PUSH Day
Wednesday, March 3 2010
ALL DAY from your computer
5 Easy Actions you can take in less than 5 Minutes on FACEBOOK:
1. RSVP to http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=331523004984&ref=ts
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3. Set your facebook status: "MSU ALUMNI: Sign the Beyond Coal Petition http://action.sierraclub.org/site/PageNavigator/campuses_beyond_coal_alumni_petition"
4. Thank all your friends that RSVP and remind them to invite their friends too! Remind everyone who RSVPs "maybe" or "no" that this is not a real event, just an online petition.
5. Send an email to any MSU alumni friends you have encouraging them to sign the petition
Clean Air Olympics
Tuesday, March 16 2010
12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. in Field outside of Wells Hall and the International Center
Come out and play outdoor "Clean Air Olympics" games as we call on the EPA to enact strong standards on ozone here at MSU. Blow 'smoke' bubbles, jump rope, hula-hoop and play other fun outdoor kids games and make a statement to the EPA that we want clean air standards around ozone!
Can't make the event? You can still make a comment by March 22nd:
MSU Beyond Coal March Madness
Thursday, March 25 2010
12 p.m. – 3 p.m. @ the Rock!
Shoot some basketball for a clean energy future!
Fossil Fools Day of Action
Thursday, April 1 2010
Kick Off Meeting Fall 2010
Thursday, September 30 2010
7:30 p.m., Berkey Hall room 114
Wednesday, October 6 2010
11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. in the area between the International Center and Wells Hall
Homecoming Event
Thursday, October 14 2010
National Day of Action: Clean Energy Rally
Wednesday, November 17 2010
2 p.m. behind Wells Hall
Activist Training- Tools For Change Workshop
Thursday, December 2 2010
7 p.m. in 114 Berkey Hall
Spring 2011 Information Sessions!
Monday-Friday January 10, 2011 through Tuesday January 25, 2011
2:30 and 5:30 p.m. in the Cyber Cafe in the main library (look for the yellow Beyond Coal shirts!)
Movie Screening: On Coal River
Tuesday, March 1 2011
6:30 p.m. room 228 Erickson Hall
For more information, click here
Clean Energy Forum hosted by the MSU Sierra Student Coalition's Beyond Coal Campaign and MSU Greenpeace
Thursday, March 31 2011
6:30 p.m. room 105 South Kedzie Hall
For more information click here
MSU Beyond Coal will be participating in this Fall's Sparticipation! Come stop by our table to sign a petition, learn more about our organization, and find out how you can help volunteer or get an internship for MSU credit! We hope to see you there!
- WHERE: Munn Field (Outside of Munn Ice Arena).
- WHEN: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 from 5:00-8:00 p.m.
Fall 2011 Info Sessions
Monday, September 5-Tuesday, September 27 2011
10 a.m., 2:30 p.m., 5 p.m., the main lounge of the Union
Greater Lansing Moving Planet
Saturday, September 24 2011
5 p.m., Hannah Administration Building plaza, 6 p.m., Lansing Capitol Building
Kick-Off Meeting
Tuesday, September 27 2011
7:00 p.m., 105 South Kedzie Hall
Chalking Beyond Coal
Thursday, September 29 2011
12-4 p.m. at the West Shaw Parking Lot
MSU Dirty Dancing for Clean Energy Flash Mob
Wednesday, Oct 19 2011
4 p.m. in front of the Hannah Administration Building
MidWest Power Shift
Friday, October 21- Sunday October 23 2011
Cleveland, Ohio
11/11/11 Wish for a Coal Free Campus
Friday, November 11 2011
11 a.m.-1 p.m. in front of the Hannah Administration Building, The International Building, and the Rock
Dirty. Hate.
Thursday, November 29 2011
6-8 p.m., 109 S. Kedzie
Information Sessions Spring 2012
Monday, January 9 – Tuesday January 24
2:30 and 5 p.m. in the main lounge of the Union
Spring 2012 Kick Off Meeting
Tuesday, January 24 2012
7-9 p.m. 128 Natural Sciences
Carbon Nation Movie Screening
Tuesday, February 14 2012
7-9 p.m. 128 Natural Sciences
Beyond Kryptonite
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Strictly an FYI for those wondering whatz going on this year. Not meant as an open invitation to express your pro/con opinion, yet again! We all know where everyone stands, many times over!
Got this notice from NYCC when cking my eMail late Wed evening. Most interesting provision, if I'm reading correctly, is to allow the DEC to implement Xbow useage, seasons, a legal implement, etc. The bad news is these bills were refereed to each house's Enviro Cons sub-committee. With only ~13 working days left before summer recess, it'd be some unheard of "swift actions" by our NYS legislators to get these bills thru the approval process & on Czar Andy's desk. I'm still unclear about the reference to a "special archery season", WTH is it!?! Anyways, here's the cut/paste body of the announcement, with membership & leg contact pleas omitted...
New Crossbow Bills Introduced Last week Assemblywoman Carrie Woerner and Senator Jen Metzger introduced crossbow bills. These bills are not full inclusion but they offer significant movement toward it. A7627 (Woerner)/S5818 (Metzger) What do these bills do? Changes crossbow to the bowhunting privilege from the muzzleloader privilege Replaces the special longbow season with a special archery season and adds crossbow Allows 12 - 15 year olds to hunt with a crossbow (removes the prior prohibition on 12 and 13 year old's) Authorizes those 55 years old or older to use a crossbow in a special archery season Authorizes those physical unable to draw a longbow as determined by a physician to use a crossbow in a special archery season Allows youth to hunt wild small game and wild upland birds with a crossbow Changes the term bolt to arrow Removes the 200 lb maximum draw weight and the minimum 17" width restriction Repeals the prohibition on the use of mechanical devise with a bow and authorization (permit) for disabled hunters to use crossbows which may be discharged only using one's breath Authorizes DEC to adopt regulations authorizing the taking of wildlife using a crossbow and to include a summary of such regulations in the hunting syllabus Reduces the setback to discharge a crossbow to 150 feet consistent with a long bow
By jimmyfromjersey
I am selling a Ten Point Crossbow Blazer HP package. Excellent bow, ready to shoot. Comes with 3X scope, sling, ACUdraw, 4 bolts and 3 broadheads. I live in NJ but hunt in the Catskills. I will be traveling to Margaretville Friday morning and can bring the bow up the NYS Thruway thru Kingston and Route 28 West to Arkville if anyone is interested.
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By tonyc26
Going upstate (from nyc) for Spring Gobbler this weekend
I've never hunted for spring gobbler, nor in NY, we usually go to PA during deer season
Just got all my tags and permits, and were going to be heading up to Dutchess County on Friday
As of now we intended on going to the Taconic-Herford Multiple use area, also considering the Baxtertown Woods WMA and Taconic State park
Are these good spots to hunt?
Does anyone know of any Public land out in / around Dutchess County with a healthy gobbler population ( not asking for your hotspot, just a vague location or park to go to that allows crossbow / bow hunting)
Also any advice? I have a mouth call that I've actually (I think) gotten pretty good with (been practicing).. Wondering things like
how far should we walk in from the road?
how long do you sit before moving on to a new spot?
Do you walk around and call and then post up, or post then call.. I've heard of both not sure which is better!
It's not too late in the season right?.. I hear New York Gobblers move up until late june
Also what time is the best to go.. We intended on going at sundown.
Sorry if i sound un-experienced, I am, just got into hunting last year.
Any Advice is Greatly appreciated.. Mostly need a good location to hunt, but any advice will be more then helpful!!
Thanks in advance
By nyslowhand
Wanted to put this topic in the crossbow thread, but guess it's more PC to be here. PC within a political thread, sort of a double negative..! LOL
Feel bad for you Long Islanders he represented for years, but us crossbow enthusiasts are getting the last laugh. FYI - He was biggest legislative opponent to crossbows while the chair of the Enviro Cons sub-committee and chiefly responsible for its' current FUBAR status of implementation.
Sadly, this is only one in a long line of (reportedly?) corrupt NYS legislators.
By Stealthe3
When bow-hunting education became "mandatory" It was done so for many reasons. According to the DEC it was enacted, to promote ethical shots, to train hunters to blood trail, how an arrow actually harvests game and also to ensure the general public that "archers" were safe and ethical. It was NOT grandfathered to any archer, no matter how long they had hunted.
Fast forward thirty years and now we can shoot deer with arrows with no regard to ethical shot placement, blood trailing etc. Does it bother anyone else that some sort of "archery education" class is not Mandatory to hunt with a crossbow? I work at a major sporting goods store where I sell both conventional compound, and crossbows as well. While I am NOT anti crossbow, I am ANTI hunting deer with an arrow, when no education on how an arrow harvests animals is mandatory. I must listen to story after story of 40 and 50 yard shots at deer facing the hunters, shots taken at the neck, shoulders etc. I feel it is tragic that the NYS legislation does not mandate a course on how an arrow harvests game, and blood trailing (at a minimum) for anyone who wishes to hunt with a crossbow. Do we no longer care about how archers are perceived by the general public, or has the abundance of deer in NY clouded our views on what an ethical hunter should be regardless of the type of "bow" that delivers the arrow?
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(See California Labor Code, Sections 1191 and 1191.5.)
No employer shall make any deduction from the wage or require any reimbursement from an employee for any cash shortage, breakage, or loss of equipment, unless it can be shown that the shortage, breakage, or loss is caused by a dishonest or willful act, or by the gross negligence of the employee.
(C) Meals evaluated as part of the minimum wage must be bona fide meals consistent with the employee´s work shift. Deductions shall not be made for meals not received nor lodging not used.
(A) No employer shall employ any person for a work period of more than five (5) hours without a meal period of not less than thirty (30) minutes, except that when a work period of not more than six (6) hours will complete the day's work the meal period may be waived by mutual consent of employer and employee. Unless the employee is relieved of all duty during a thirty (30) minute meal period, the meal period shall be considered an "on duty" meal period and counted as time worked. An "on duty" meal period shall be permitted only when the nature of the work prevents an employee from being relieved of all duty and when by written agreement between the parties an on-the-job paid meal period is agreed to.
Every employer shall authorize and permit all employees to take rest periods, which insofar as practicable shall be in the middle of each work period. The authorized rest period time shall be based on the total hours worked daily at the rate of ten (10) minutes net rest time per four (4) hours or major fraction thereof.
However, a rest period need not be authorized for employees whose total daily work time is less than three and one-half (3 1/2) hours. Authorized rest period time shall be counted as hours worked for which there shall be no deduction from wages.
Adequate elevator, escalator or similar service consistent with industry-wide standards for the nature of the process and the work performed shall be provided when employees are employed four floors or more above or below ground level.
If, in the opinion of the Division after due investigation, it is found that the enforcement of any provision contained in Section 7, Records; Section 11, Meal Periods; Section 12, Rest Periods; Section 13, Change Rooms and Resting Facilities; Section 14, Seats; Section 15, Temperature; or Section 16, Elevators, would not materially affect the welfare or comfort of employees and would work an undue hardship on the employer, exemption may be made at the discretion of the Division. Such exemptions shall be in writing to be effective and may be revoked after reasonable notice is given in writing. Application for exemption shall be made by the employer or by the employee and/or the employee´s representative to the Division in writing. A copy of the application shall be posted at the place of employment at the time the application is filed with the Division.
(See California Labor Code, Section 1174(a))
(See California Labor Code, Section 1174)
(See California Labor Code, Section 1199)
If the application of any provision of this Order, or any section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase, word, or portion of this Order should be held invalid or unconstitutional or unauthorized or prohibited by statute, the remaining provisions thereof shall not be affected thereby, but shall continue to be given full force and effect as if the part so held invalid or unconstitutional had not been included herein.
Every employer shall keep a copy of this Order posted in an area frequented by employees where it may be easily read during the work day. Where the location of work or other conditions make this impractical, every employer shall keep a copy of this Order and make it available to every employee upon request.
Section 98.6. (a) No person shall discharge or in any manner discriminate against any employee because such employee has filed any bona fide complaint or claim or instituted or caused to be instituted any proceeding under or relating to his rights, which are under the jurisdiction of the Labor Commissioner, or has testified or is about to testify in any such proceeding or because of the exercise by such employee on behalf of himself or others of any rights afforded him.
(b) Any employee who is discharged, threatened with discharge, demoted, suspended, or in any other manner discriminated against in the terms and conditions of such employment because such employee has made a bona fide complaint or claim to the division pursuant to this part shall be entitled to reinstatement and reimbursement for lost wages and work benefits caused by such acts of the employer. Any employer who willfully refuses to hire, promote, or otherwise restore an employee or former employee who has been determined to be eligible for such rehiring or promotion by a grievance procedure, arbitration or hearing authorized by law, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Note: Nothing in this act shall be construed to entitle an employee to reinstatement or reimbursement for lost wages or work benefits if such employee willfully misrepresents any facts to support a complaint or claim filed with the Labor Commissioner.
Section 200. As used in this article: (a) "Wages" includes all amounts for labor performed by employees of every description, whether the amount is fixed or ascertained by the standard of time, task, piece, commission basis, or other method of calculation.
Section 201. If an employer discharges an employee, the wages earned and unpaid at the time of discharge are due and payable immediately.
Section 202. If an employee not having a written contract for a definite period quits his employment, his wages shall become due and payable not later than 72 hours thereafter, unless the employee has given 72 hours previous notice of his intention to quit, in which case the employee is entitled to his wages at the time of quitting.
Section 226. (a) Every employer shall semimonthly, or at the time of each payment of wages, furnish each of his or her employees either as a detachable part of the check, draft, or voucher paying the employee´s wages, or separately when wages are paid by personal check or cash, an itemized statement in writing showing: (1) gross wages earned; (2) total hours worked by each employee whose compensation is based on an hourly wage; (3) all deductions; provided, that all deductions made on written orders of the employee may be aggregated and shown as one item; (4) net wages earned; (5) the inclusive dates of the period for which the employee is paid; (6) the name of the employee and his or her social security number; and (7) the name and address of the legal entity which is the employer.
Section 1174. Every person employing labor in this state shall:
(a) Furnish to the commission, at its request, reports or information which the commission requires to carry out this chapter. Such reports and information shall be verified if required by the commission or any member thereof.
(b) Allow any member of the commission or the employees of the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement free access to the place of business or employment of the person to secure any information or make any investigation which they are authorized by this chapter to ascertain or make. The commission may inspect or make excerpts, relating to the employment of employees, from the books, reports, contracts, payrolls, documents, or papers of the person.
Section 1191. For any occupation in which a minimum wage has been established, the commission may issue to an employee who is mentally or physically handicapped, or both, a special license authorizing the employment of the licensee for a period not to exceed one year from date of issue, at a wage less than the legal minimum wage. The commission shall fix a special minimum wage for the licensee. Such license may be renewed on a yearly basis.
Section 1191.5. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 1191, the commission may issue a special license to a nonprofit organization such as a sheltered workshop or rehabilitation facility to permit the employment of employees who have been determined by the commission to meet the requirements in Section 1191 without requiring individual licenses of such employees. The commission shall fix a special minimum wage for such employees. The special license for the nonprofit corporation shall be renewed on a yearly basis, or more frequently as determined by the commission.
Section 1199. Every employer or other person acting either individually or as an officer, agent, or employee of another person is guilty of a misdemeanor and is punishable by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) or by imprisonment for not less than 30 days, or by both, who does any of the following:
(a) Requires or causes any employee to work for longer hours than those fixed, or under conditions of labor prohibited by an order of the commission.
(b) Pays or causes to be paid to any employee a wage less than the minimum fixed by an order of the commission.
(c) Violates or refuses or neglects to comply with any provision of this chapter or any order or ruling of the commission.
Section 1391.2. (a) Notwithstanding Sections 1391 and 1391.1, any minor under 18 years of age who has been graduated from a high school maintaining a four-year course above the eighth grade of the elementary schools, or who has had an equal amount of education in a private school or by private tuition, or who has been awarded a certificate of proficiency pursuant to Section 48412 of the Education Code, may be employed for the same hours as an adult may be employed in performing the same work.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of the orders of the Industrial Welfare Commission, no employer shall pay any minor described in this section in his employ at wage rates less than the rates paid to adult employees in the same establishment for the same quantity and quality of the same classification of work; provided, however, that nothing herein shall prohibit a variation of rates of pay for such minors and adult employees engaged in the same classification of work based upon a difference in seniority, length of service, ability, skill, difference in duties or services performed, whether regularly or occasionally, difference in the shift or time of day worked, hours of work, or other reasonable differentiation, when exercised in good faith.
Section 2800.An employer shall in all cases indemnify his employee for losses caused by the employer´s want of ordinary care.


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Ideally you want your bedding set to arrive made from the highest quality materials and made with attention to detail. Any items you purchase you want to last for a long time, there is no point buying now and then having to replace them in a few months' time. Check to see if the company offers a returns policy, should your new set fall apart within a short space of time.
For those seeking a good night's sleep, they may want to look into quality bedding sets. Investing in comfortable sheets, blankets, and comforters will help you be able to get the sleep you desire. Who doesn't enjoy waking up feeling refreshed and ready to start the day? Subpar bedding can leave you feeling tired and like you have to drag yourself out of bed in order to get started. Bedding can really have an effect on your sleep, so it is important that you choose the right sets.
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The New York Times has solved the mystery behind the identity of the man behind the hugely popular Twitter account @GSElevator. His unmasking has proved to be something of a shock.
A three-year parlour game has been taking place on Wall Street to identify the Goldman Sachs employee behind a Twitter account that purports to reveal the uncensored comments overheard in the firm's elevators.
The New York Times reports that the Twitter account, which has an audience of more than 600,000 followers, has been the subject of an internal inquiry at Goldman to find the rogue employee. The tweets, often laced with insider references to deals in the news, appeal to both Wall Street bankers and outsiders who mock the industry. Late last month, the writer sold a book about Wall Street culture based on the tweets for a six-figure sum.
13 Amusing Tweets From GS Elevator (SFW)
There is a good reason Goldman Sachs has been unable to uncover its Twitter-happy employee: He doesn't work at the firm. And he never did.
The author is a 34-year-old former bond executive who lives in Texas. His name is John Lefevre. He used to work for Citigroup.
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Florida Man Admits Stalking Connecticut Victim, Planting Bottle Bombs Containing Hydrochloric Acid
Deirdre M, Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that FRANK MENDOZA, 53, formerly of Jacksonville, Fla., pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to one count of interstate stalking.
"First, this defendant abused, threatened and stalked his victim, a woman who had attempted to end her relationship with the defendant," stated U.S. Attorney Daly. "The defendant then planted acid-filled bottle bombs in the victim's car and came dangerously close to permanently disfiguring her. Under the federal Violence Against Women Act, the Department of Justice is empowered with tools to prosecute domestic violence and stalking crimes. We commend the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Forces in Connecticut and Florida, and all of our partner investigative agencies who investigated this heinous crime in an effort to secure justice and provide safety for the victim."
"Civilized societies must have zero tolerance for criminals like Mendoza who terrorize not only their victims but the communities in which they reside," stated FBI Special Agent in Charge Ferrick. "The thorough multi-agency investigation into Mendoza's crimes is indicative of exceptional cooperation among investigators focused on protecting the victim from future harm and seeing to it that justice prevails."
According to court documents and statements made in court, MENDOZA began a romantic relationship with a woman in Jacksonville, Fla, in 2008. MENDOZA then became emotionally and psychologically abusive toward the victim. The victim also learned that MENDOZA had a serious prior criminal history and claimed to be affiliated with a gang. She also observed MENDOZA carrying a firearm. MENDOZA's abusive and threatening behavior caused the victim to attempt to end the relationship.
In approximately September 2010, as part of a ruse, the victim told MENDOZA that she was moving to Rhode Island for a work-related training program. The victim instead moved to Stamford, Conn. In October 2010, MENDOZA learned that the victim had moved to Connecticut and began to place numerous harassing and threatening phone calls to her, her friends and her work colleagues.
In early November 2010, MENDOZA traveled from Florida to Connecticut, visited the victim's residence and place of work, and then returned to Florida. On December 8, 2010, MENDOZA flew from Florida to New York City, rented a car, drove to the victim's Connecticut residence, and placed two, two-liter bottles in the victim's car. The bottles contained hydrochloric acid and an aluminum foil wick.
At approximately 11:00 p.m. on December 8, 2010, the victim approached her car and observed that the car's interior had been dampened by a liquid. She also observed a bottle on the driver's side floor. When she picked the bottle up, it began to smoke and fizz. She then gently placed the bottle down and ran from the car. The bottle then exploded.
The investigation revealed that the first bottle had exploded before the victim had reached the car.
MENDOZA has been detained since his arrest in Jacksonville on August 17, 2012.
The charge of interstate stalking carries a maximum term of imprisonment of 10 years and a fine of up to $250,000. If the binding plea agreement filed today is accepted by the court, MENDOZA will be sentenced to at least 84 months of imprisonment.
Judge Chatigny scheduled sentencing for September 3, 2014.
This matter has been investigated by the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Forces in New Haven and Jacksonville, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Connecticut State Police, the New Haven Police Department, the Stamford Police Department, the Stamford Bomb Squad, the Stamford Fire Department and the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Krishna Patel and Vanessa Richards.
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Frightening infection turns father of three into believer
Robert Jeffries did not have a good 2016. The St. Joseph father of three spent 36 days at Carle Foundation Hospital after a left leg infection turned into necrotizing fasciitis—or flesh-eating bacteria.
"My kids tell me it looks like a shark bit me," Jeffries said, adding doctors still aren't certain how his infection became so severe. "I had several surgeries and saw several specialists while I was in the hospital."
After that, he needed a primary care physician to coordinate his follow-up care.
"They suggested I try the Family Medicine Residency Clinic. So, I had Dr. Stephen Clark take care of me," Jeffries said. "He was a straight shooter, told me exactly what was going on, and I felt secure and confident with him."
Patients often can get in to see a resident more quickly than an established doctor who sees thousands of patients per year.
"Residents are doctors who have their degree and practice medicine in a hospital or clinic under direct supervision of an attending physician," said Robert Healy, MD, chief medical quality officer.
"It's an opportunity for them to practice medicine, yet have a veteran doctor monitoring their progress."
For Jeffries and others, seeing a resident is like a two-for-one.
"Patients who see a medical resident get high-quality care because two physicians are caring for them—the resident and the attending physician," Dr. Healy said.
The extra experts in the mix worked well for Jeffries.
"Dr. Clark knew all the specialists, and he did a great job communicating with them about me and what I needed. It was a smooth process," Jeffries said, about follow-up care, including ongoing physical therapy.
Now, almost a year after his life-threatening illness, Jeffries continues to rehab his left leg and is back at work at Health Alliance.
His only regret is Dr. Clark will finish his residency at Carle soon.
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Imagine it's past your bed time, it's any day but Monday and you need good food and liquor. Smith Street Collingwood has an offering for you that is surprisingly unpretentious and non-conceptual. That is, unless their concept is to cater for locals with a whopping beer garden and nothing on the food menu over $11. There's a few different rooms to park your bum but what's common to them all is the street art all over the walls, which goes hand in hand with the street food inspired menu. If you're not into burgers: A)why are you reading this?, and B) there's souvlaki and tacos that can accompany your drink of choice. Whoever Mr Scruff it's clear he wants visitors to have a boogie, burger and a beer all for a seriously good price; just check out some of their cocktail and jug specials! We went for their burger, normally $9 and added an extra beef patty – it came with Cheese, lettuce, Mr Scruff's Special Sauce, pickles and onion on a seeded brioche-style bun.


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Drinking Water Before Meals
Drinking Water before Meals – A glass of water or half of it, drunk half an hour before meals, is of great benefit to our health. Even half a glass of water will be enough, because too much liquid (for example, 500 ml.), Drunk before meals, on the contrary, makes digestion difficult. Therefore, it is best to drink water in small sips, but regularly. This habit allows us to maintain in normal all the processes of life of our body.
Another important aspect concerns whether it is useful to drink water while eating.
It would be wrong to see only the radical sides of this issue, saying only whether such a habit is harmful or useful. It is more correct to say that it is more or less recommended.
Taking a large amount of liquid during lunch or dinner can disrupt the composition of the gastric juice. In this case, it becomes more difficult for him to decompose the food and destroy the bacteria that get into her stomach together. In other words, gastric juice loses its effectiveness.
On the other hand, a glass of wine drunk at dinner will not do any harm.
It should be noted that to improve digestion, and with it, and our overall well-being, it is recommended to drink a glass of water half an hour before meals.
Now we will tell you in detail about the benefits of this habit.
Why is it useful to drink a glass of water half an hour before a meal
It depends on you whether to follow this recommendation or not, because only you can know if your health improves one or other advice. The organism of each of us has its own individual characteristics.
That is why it is so important to be able to listen to your body and your sensations. This will help you understand what changes improve your well-being, and what habits should be left in the past.
On our part, we recommend that you follow this simple advice and start drinking one glass of water half an hour before meals. Look closely, what will happen to your body. We are confident that this will be a change for the better.
We assure you, you will not regret. Try to follow this advice for 15 days . You will not lose anything from this.
You will feel a rush of energy
Taking a glass of water half an hour before meals helps maintain an adequate balance of fluid and protects us from dehydration.
This simple habit has a beneficial effect on the vital functions of cells and fills our body with enough energy to properly digest food and absorb all the trace elements that come with it. From how these processes are carried out, our well-being depends on the whole day.
It is worth remembering that our brain and muscles are 75% water, and our liver and kidneys are almost 70%.
That is why it is so important to maintain an adequate balance of fluid in our body, regularly replenishing the loss of water. This does not mean that, as we said above, you need to drink two glasses of water in a row.
The ideal option is to drink water throughout the day in small sips, not allowing thirst. It is very important to drink water and half an hour before eating.
You will find it easier to lose weight
Each of us had to hear that one glass of water, drunk just before meals, helps to lose weight. It is believed that this habit reduces appetite, because a water-filled stomach contains less food.
Be careful with these ideas. Do not try to deceive the hunger, filling the stomach with water before eating, it can be very dangerous.
It is recommended to drink only one glass of water or even half.
Only in this case it will benefit you and stimulate weight loss. Why? The fact is that this habit allows:
- Normalize digestion
- It is better to absorb and remove from the body fats
- Cope with constipation
- Keep the body clean
In doing so, we recommend that you add a small amount of lemon juice to the water. You'll see how your well-being will improve.
Improve skin condition
Water not only allows us to take care of the health of our internal organs, but also our beauty. Of course, the latter depends on the state of our skin.
The use of clean water without precipitation allows us to properly cleanse our body.
The oxygen in it helps to keep the skin supple, smooth and taut.
Thus, a glass of water drunk half an hour before a meal not only facilitates digestion, but also improves the absorption of vitamins, minerals and oxygen.
This stimulates the regeneration of the cells of our epidermis.
Other times of the day in which it is recommended to drink water
Drinking water is recommended not only before eating, but also at other times, for example:
- Immediately after awakening it is useful to drink a glass of warm water.
- A small amount of water, drunk before going to the shower, lowers blood pressure.
- It is advisable to drink some useful drink before going to bed. This will avoid overnight dehydration.
You'll see how this simple habit will allow you to take better care of your health.


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Of course, the president will ride an elephant and so will the prime minister. For the fun of it, imagine our president, prime minister and other dignitaries riding on a fully decorated hauda: a seat fastened on the back of an elephant.
By Usha Pokharel
The other day, as I was walking past Lagankhel, I saw a number of vehicles waiting in queue for petrol and diesel in front of a gas station. There were motorbikes, cars and jeeps, huge trucks, tippers and buses waiting for their turn. The line stretching from Nepal Army's petrol station was so long that it had almost reached the end of Satdobato junction. This long queue inspired some introspection. First I thought about the motorbikes which outnumbered all the other vehicles in the line. "What if we never received petroleum for transportation and electricity was a thing of the past? What would life be like?" I asked myself.
Motorbikes will go out of sight. Motorbike does not have a long history in Nepali roads. Motor scooters had become popular only in the 1960s. So bikers will, most likely, go back to using regular bikes—without engine. "What about the people who use cars?" One may ask. Well, Victoria coaches drawn by horses will become a new status symbol, one more time. After all they were very popular during the 1700s.
Coaches were used for long-distance travel in those days. It would take more than 5 days to reach Pokhara, so what? They would stop at places, passengers would get on or off, and teams of horses would be replaced to give a break to the tired beasts and to maintain the speed at an average of about 11 kilometers per hour. Special coaches would even make twenty-five kilometers per day.
They would make for a "good day´s travel." Let us not forget elephant ride. Elephant riding will become very prestigious as only the only rich will be able to keep elephants. Of course, the president will ride an elephant and so will the prime minister. For the fun of it, imagine our president, prime minister and other dignitaries riding on a fully decorated hauda: a seat fastened on the back of an elephant. The onlookers will grace horse-drawn buggies with wonder. With all such changes, public transportation system will get a completely different look.
As regards buses, they will be horse-driven too. I am not kidding. In the 17th century (1662 to be precise) Blaise Pascal invented the first public bus (horse-drawn), regular route, schedule and fare system. It will be much easier for us because we already have all those in place. Horses will be greater in demand, as each household will want to have a horse just like having a car at home now. Cheap horse-drawn carriages and rickshaws will once again become the talk of the town. And they will replace the tempos and mini buses. Elephants will be used as heavy transport vehicles; they will replace the tippers and trucks. Or they could pull tippers and trucks.
Our municipality will have to take extra measures to keep the city clean and the government will have found a new method to solve manure shortage. Apart from horses, the donkeys will find their places, as people who cannot afford horses will have carriages drawn by donkeys to get their children to schools. Mini-horse-drawn carriages will replace Nano. Taxis will be replaced by horses-on-rent with clock driven meters. As for the fare, it will depend on how long it takes you to get from one place to another. Distance will matter little. The petrol pumps will be replaced by horse-feeding centers. With horse as new transport, marriage will become even more colorful as the horses and palanquins will be more colorfully decorated.
The janti will come on horseback and the bride will be taken to her in-law's home in palanquins lifted by kahars, palanquin carriers. Being a kahar will be as good a profession as that of modern day driver. Kahars will be paid better for they will work as security persons too. A person will then need a martial art certificate to get the job of a kahar. Those who cannot afford a palanquin will use a cheaper means: Chariots. Chariots will be used in to taking away brides to their in-laws' homes. This will not be a new thing though. Thousands of years ago the people in Egypt and Greece would ride chariots.
Let us imagine Nepal in this new setting. There will be floods of tourists coming in to see a nation going backwards in time when the whole world is moving forward. Nepal will make headlines in the world newspapers: "Nepal- a nation going backwards in time." Nepal will become a number one tourist destination. Hotels will run out of rooms and bed and breakfast will be a common name for every household in the valley.
The tourists will be curious to know how we made it possible, how we could manage to preserve the old culture without going forward so far as transportation is concerned. Of course no one will ever remember the reality of the situation that brought the country to this state. So watch out, this might be the right time to remember that nice, sturdy horse that your grandparents had sold. It is just possible that the person who bought it still has its offspring. May be you should hurry and make a booking. Who knows when you might need it! The indications are already there: The government is widening the roads.
Soon enough we will have roads to accommodate horses. That will be the start of moving backwards in time. So next time, there is subsidy in budget announcement, go ahead and buy a horse for yourself because you will be using it quite soon. Otherwise you might find yourself singing: Hatti, ghodapalki, jai kanhaiyalalki (elephants, horses and palanquins, praise be to Lord Krishna).
[The same article was published in Republica, the English daily, in Kathmandu.]
The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Nepali Samaj UK's editorial policy.
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The Calibration Laboratory has several custom-built, task-specific systems for performing calibrations and characterization measurements of solar UV monitoring instruments. Each year, over 100 instruments are calibrated in the laboratory. Additionally, many instruments are calibrated in the field using the portable field calibrator developed by CUCF. The Calibration Laboratory's systems include:
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I am about to possibly rock your world — or the organizations around you.
Welcome back to yet another week at www.implementingscrum.com. I appreciate all the comments from the last posting and comic strip, and it feels good for me to get back into posting the comics and new thoughts.
It seems like you enjoy them too (thank you).
If you ARE in this situation, start the difficult conversations today about how to fix it… and SHARE this posting within your organization.
If you are NOT in this situation, well… count yourself lucky and SHARE this posting with your friends who might be in the following situation!
Is your organization struggling to come up with an "Enterprise Plan" for rolling out Agile [and Scrum in particular]?
I am working with clients today that have a similar problem. I have worked with many many many large [and small] enterprises over the years and have seen many patterns that work. I have also been personally involved with ideas that have failed (and yeah, some were even my ideas).
Here is the number one reason I have seen that "Enterprise Rollouts" of Agile and Scrum FAIL
They try to implement it too fast and furious.
Does this sound familiar?
Here is some great advice (and I know most people will ignore it AND possibly even disagree with me) for successfully rolling out Agile and Scrum projects:
Start with ONE project.
That's it. Sound too easy? Hmm… Remember that the easiest and obvious answer may be that way for a reason!
"But Mike," people say to me.
"WE are different."
"WE need to get our entire portfolio up and running using Agile and Scrum across the worldwide distributed enterprise so that we can get metrics and tools in place to increase our time to market, lower costs, and make everyone feel like it is a party coming to work every day."
OK… so the "party" part in that last statement was made up by me (smile). Just making sure you are with me.
The idea that, "We are different" and "we need to do bla bla bla bla" ALL RIGHT NOW will kill your Agile and Scrum implementation.
Don't believe me?
OK… try it and get back to me. Or… continue down this thread with me….
If you are jumping on the Agile Bandwagon and using Scrum to transform your entire enterprise because "everyone else is now doing it" (yeah… Agile and Scrum have hit mainstream!) here is another word of advice.
Right now.
Remember it took your organization years (and maybe decades) to paint yourself into the corner you are in today. Your organization has probably spent years coming up with incredibly complicated frameworks, processes, or methodologies to get things done. People have been promoted and rewarded for building empires and silos of expertise.
You also know that if you keep doing this, you are screwed.
Because your competitors are now all "Agile" and a lot are using this thing called "Scrum."
There is still a major failure rate out there using Scrum (and the other Agile techniques).
Why is this?
Organizations — made up of really smart people (usually) — are making one of the greatest and most common mistakes in history… trying to inject too much change at one time.
Remember what happens when you try to do this (on a regular basis even)?
The organization will always always always go back to the way it was.
Comfortable, but Dysfunctional.
AND… just as screwed as before you wanted to start this Enterprise Rollout of Agile and Scrum.
If you are just getting started (or have already been down the path to where now "Scrum" or "Agile" is a bad and forbidden word in your organization) with a Scrum and Agile change management process….
Start with ONE Scrum project.
Get Executive Sponsorship as high up into the organization as possible (they need to take the fire cover for you and will be burning political favors).
Worry about scaling it later.
Otherwise, you'll be just as comfortably dysfunctional and screwed at the end of the day.
Don't believe me?
That's OK.
Your competitors do.
Let me know your thoughts.
I am listening!


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|Lorna at the top of Aonach Mor by the weather station.
|Lots of big cornices over the back corries, which weren't open for skiing sadly.
|Ben Nevis and the CMD Arete looked fully loaded with snow which hopefully will last for a few weeks yet.
|View from the Quad chair, Nevis Range.
|Good, but limited skiing with very few queues.
Different shot with the Drift HD cam.


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L'intégralité de l'oeuvre de notre Frère Mozart disponible sur Internetvendredi, 05 juin 2009
L'intégralité de l'oeuvre de notre Frère Mozart disponible sur Internet sur un site géré par le Mozarteum de Salzburg. [ Lien ]
The Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum (ISM) and The Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) have agreed to establish a comprehensive digital edition of the music of Mozart, with the goal of making all of Mozart's music in the form of digital scores and parts freely available to the broadest public, online and in other electronic formats, for study and performance. The intention is that there will not be any charge to the public for online access - including downloading for local printing, study and performance - and only a minimal handling charge for the data on CD ROM or similar media.
The new digital edition will serve several audiences, including editors, researchers and performers (both professional and amateur). It will not be identical in text and design with the printed volumes of the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe (NMA) of the ISM, but the contents of the new digital edition will be based on, and closely coordinated with, the authoritative NMA. The inheritant flexibility of the digital format will make it possible to incorporate alternate versions or interpretations, and to keep the edition up to date.
A new Mozart Institute of the ISM will be established in Salzburg with primary responsibility for the contents of this electronic edition. This will provide continuity with the existing NMA editorial function.
Within agreed guidelines, the digital edition will be controlled by a committee with representation from the ISM and PHI. [ Link ]


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European Council Cultural Itinerary p.g. XXIII
"The time of pilgrimage is the present age, in which we are like pilgrims in battle": This is what (in the XII century) Jacopo da Varazze expressed revealing the medieval Christian concept of life as a trip toward salvation, studded with snares, difficulty and clashes.
The medieval man therefore always felt like a "pilgrim" on this earth, but he often became a real pilgrim travelling toward the principle places of Christian faith: Jerusalem, Rome, St.Jacopo of Compostella.
Medieval Europe was therefore crossed by a network of roads dotted with sanctuaries, chapels, hospitals and shelters, where the pilgrim could make stops during his long and difficult trip. The Francigena road (or road originating in France) a pilgrim's road among the most important that linked Northern Europe to Rome, it passed through the Valico of the CISA and, after having touched Pontremoli and Aulla, reached our province in the inhabited places of Santo Stefano, Sarzana and Luni, then advancing into Tuscany.
From the XI century on the Francigena road was also called the Romea road or "strata qui dicitur Romea" referring to one of the principle destinations of medieval pilgrims: Rome.
The Lower Magra Valley crossed by this great artery, constituted in the Middle Ages an important road junction: from the Francigena in fact numerous secondary roads branched off that reached the Vara Valley and the coastal inland, up to Genoa. In the Gulf there were non-secondary landings in Portovenere and Lerici, besides the fluvial port of St.Maurizio.
For the celebration of the Jubilee, the APT wanted to travel over that ancient Francigena road and its branches in the provincial territory again, and it has been done with a pilgrim's eye, pausing to draw attention on its structures, churches, monuments more or less notable, that characterized the route towards the salvation of our ancestors.
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text: ABSTRACT: Echo Ridge proposes to prototype and evaluate GNSS processing algorithms designed to provide high accuracy and spoofing robustness (information assurance (IA)) by exploiting diversity in radio navigation signals (frequency, location, bandwidth, format) using new signal processing techniques. We will extend on-going work in the area of multi-satellite, multi-frequency GNSS signal processing with novel and original algorithms to improve navigation performance. In addition Echo Ridge will apply a unique and highly processing efficient vector tracking algorithm which will improve robustness against GPS outages and multipath effects. The developed algorithms will be evaluated using a hardware-in-the-loop RF environment emulator, capable of synthesizing arbitrary signals both at digital baseband and at RF. In addition a characterization of performance will be carried out in realistic emulated and field propagation environments which include fading, multipath, and interference. BENEFIT: Commercialization opportunities for the subject navigation technology are numerous in the commercial location sector, the public services, and the DoD sectors. In the public sector, emergency first responder personnel lack a robust location system which hampers search and rescue operations. There are also equally compelling needs in the commercial sector, where wireless mobiles equipped with GPS for E911 positioning suffer from very poor yield indoors and in dense urban areas, even with assisted-GPS augmentations. The last few years have witnessed explosive growth for revenue-bearing location-based navigation technology and applications, all of which suffer from poor performance for the same reasons and ultimately cost companies in lost potential revenue. One of the most promising developments that will aid in bringing the subject research technology to broad commercial use is the increase in portable computing devices that now contain built-in GNSS and subsystems such as GPS, in addition to accelerometers, gyroscopes, WiFi, and multi-band radio frequency transceivers. Hosting robust navigation technology on COTS hardware has never been more appealing and cost effective, which greatly increases the chances of transitioning this technology into a commercialization success.


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Crowdsourcing for Scientific Discovery: Mount Sinai Researchers Find Novel Ways to Analyze Data for Drug and Target Discovery
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASESeptember 26, 2016Contact: David SlotnickMount Sinai Press Office(212) 241‐email@example.com
Crowdsourcing for Scientific Discovery: Mount Sinai Researchers Find Novel Ways to Analyze Data for Drug and Target Discovery
Newswise — (New York – September 26, 2016) –– In a unique project, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have crowdsourced the annotation and analysis of a large number of gene expression profiles from the National Center for Biotechnology Information's (NCBI) Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO). More than 70 volunteers from 25 countries helped Mount Sinai researchers analyze the data, enabling the identification of new associations between genes, diseases, and drugs – something that a smaller number of unaided researchers, or an automated computer program, would not be able to achieve. An article published today in the journal Nature Communications describes the crowdsourcing project.
Omics repositories, which are virtual storehouses for raw gene expression data, contain thousands of studies. Such an abundance of data opens opportunities for integrative analyses that can uncover new knowledge that was missed or was not possible in the initial publication of the data. For example, while a dataset from a given study may have been used for a particular published article, that same dataset may contain evidence whose value can only become realized when combined with data from another study. Then, it might become apparent that a drug can be repurposed to treat a different disease. Several computerized search engines have been designed to comb through this data. However, for these tools to be effective they require heavy, time-consuming human curation to ensure accuracy.
That is where crowdsourcing can be useful. For this project, the 70 volunteers were recruited through a massive open online course (MOOC), which was being taught on the Coursera MOOC platform by Avi Ma'ayan, PhD, Professor of Pharmacological Sciences and Director of the Mount Sinai Center of Bioinformatics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The student volunteers were asked first to identify relevant studies in the NCBI GEO database – in this case, studies in which single-gene or single-drug perturbations were applied to mammalian cells, or in which normal versus diseased tissues were compared. Once the studies were selected, the volunteers extracted metadata from the studies, and then computed differential expression using a custom-designed Chrome browser extension developed by the Mount Sinai researchers.
This process extracted information about gene signatures – observations of groups of genes whose combined expression is associated with a particular condition or drug action – which were stored in a new database. Then, Dr. Ma'ayan and his team used the database to visualize and analyze the signatures on a web portal known as Crowd Extracted Expression of Differential Signatures, or CREEDS, which was developed by the Ma'ayan Lab at Mount Sinai. Over the course of the project, over 3,100 single-gene perturbations from more than 2,300 studies were submitted, as well as 1,238 single-drug perturbations from nearly 450 studies.
"There is an incredible amount of data stored in these databases, but much of it has not been fully explored," said Dr. Ma'ayan. "The profiling and extrication of gene expression signatures is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and cannot be completely automated. By utilizing volunteers, so called 'citizen-scientists,' we were able to bring a much greater scale of human curation and quality control than we could have performed alone. By combining that human touch with automated programs, we could process much more data than would have been otherwise possible."
Ultimately, the manually extracted signatures were used as a training set to help a program that uses machine learning to process all the data currently available in GEO for adding more drug, gene, and disease signatures to the CREEDS database. While researchers generally find that the quality of automatically generated signatures is subpar compared to those created by humans, such crowdsourced efforts can be integrated with machine learning to help refine the data. Instances that the computer programs find more difficult can be presented to the crowdsourced human curators with suggestions; this allows for higher quality data, while reducing effort required of the volunteer.
"We are grateful to the volunteers who helped demonstrate that citizen-scientists, working with researchers towards a common goal, can achieve remarkable results that have a real impact," said Dr. Ma'ayan. "Such collective efforts can help us discover new drugs, new causes of diseases, and new scientific knowledge."
While many new relationships between genes, drugs, and diseases were identified, further hypotheses can be formed through additional analysis of the data, which Dr. Ma'ayan and his team have made available to the public on the CREEDS portal. To interact with the portal, visit http://amp.pharm.mssm.edu/creeds.
About the Mount Sinai Health SystemThe Mount Sinai Health System is an integrated health system committed to providing distinguished care, conducting transformative research, and advancing biomedical education. Structured around seven hospital campuses and a single medical school, the Health System has an extensive ambulatory network and a range of inpatient and outpatient services—from community-based facilities to tertiary and quaternary care.
The System includes approximately 7,100 primary and specialty care physicians; 12 joint-venture ambulatory surgery centers; more than 140 ambulatory practices throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and 31 affiliated community health centers. Physicians are affiliated with the renowned Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, which is ranked among the highest in the nation in National Institutes of Health funding per investigator. The Mount Sinai Hospital is in the "Honor Roll" of best hospitals in America, ranked No. 15 nationally in the 2016-2017 "Best Hospitals" issue of U.S. News & World Report. The Mount Sinai Hospital is also ranked as one of the nation's top 20 hospitals in Geriatrics, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Nephrology, Neurology/Neurosurgery, and Ear, Nose & Throat, and is in the top 50 in four other specialties. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 10 nationally for Ophthalmology, while Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Mount Sinai St. Luke's, and Mount Sinai West are ranked regionally. Mount Sinai's Kravis Children's Hospital is ranked in seven out of ten pediatric specialties by U.S. News & World Report in "Best Children's Hospitals."
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There's a couple of interesting tours coming up in late November/early December that we really thought we should share with you. First up is a tour by the absolute legend Ronnie Spector with her "Ronnie Spector Sings the Fabulous Ronettes" tour, featuring the greatest Ronettes hits, including "Me My Baby", "Baby I Love You", "Do I Love You" and "Wallking in the Rain", plus Jeff Barry/Ellie Greenwich/Phil Spector originals that became hits as covers, such as "I Can Hear Music" (Beach Boys) and "Chapel of Love" (Dixie Cups). The tour follows the release earlier this month of "The Very Best of Ronnie Spector" on Sony Music.
As if that wasn't enough, Ronnie's also working on her new album "English Heart", a set of covers of songs by the sixties British invasion bands including The Beatles, The Stones, Gerry and the Pacemakers and The Animals which is scheduled for release in April 2016 on 429 Records. If you want to see the greatest hits tour, Ronnie's doing the following dates:
November 28 Philharmonic Hall Liverpool
November 29 Royal Concert Hall Glasgow
November 30 The Sage Gateshead
December 1 Town Hall Birmingham
December 3 The Barbican London
December 4 Colston Hall Bristol
In early December, the European leg of the Light of Day tour comes to the UK. The Light of Day Foundation is a charity raising funds for research into Parkinson's and related degenerative diseases, which originated in New Jersey in November 2000 and has been supported by many performers including Bruce Springsteen (whose song gave the Foundation its name), Michael J Fox, Southside Johnny, Darlene Love, Willie Nile, Jakob Dylan, Lucinda Williams, Badly Drawn Boy and Gary 'US' Bonds.
The headline band for the UK tour this year is Joe D'Urso, Vini 'Mad Dog' Lopez, Eric Bazilian, Ed Manion and Jake Clemons. If you want to see some incredible musicians and donate some cash to a very good cause, then you can catch the Light of Day tour on the following four UK dates:
December 4 Oran Mor Glasgow
December 5 TAPE Arts Centre Colwyn Bay
December 6 The Musician Leicester
December 8 The Half Moon, Putney London
You should catch both of these tours if you can, and maybe we'll see you at The Half Moon for the Light of Day gig.
And the next one please. Steve Jenner is Managing Director and weekday drivetime presenter on Ashbourne Radio in Derbyshire (one of a handful of genuinely independent commercial stations left in the UK). Steve has been a broadcaster for over 20 years and a DJ for much (much) longer and he knows a good tune when he hears one. He's also a bloody good bloke who doesn't mind getting his round in. As a man who knows about Phonographic Performance Licensing, he's helpfully added the label information for each of the albums; and he's ranked them 1 to 5 which none of the rest of us dared to do.
The Beach Boys – "That's Why God Made the Radio" (Capitol)
This is either one of two things. A cynical last go at topping up the retirement fund by a bunch of coffin dodgers who ought to know better, or a hauntingly nostalgic and melancholy – soaked slice of harmony magic. Ok I've put it as my number 1 of the year so it's pretty clear what I think and you can think what you like but if the title track doesn't have you referencing back to summers long past and cars long gone to the breaker's yard, you have no right to have been given ears. From the achingly beautiful opening sequence to the final track's ode to transience, it is enchanting.
Paul Carrack – "Good Feeling" (Carrack UK)
This is either one of two things. A perfunctory and never less than professional run through of a handful of songs of varying quality, or a varied, extremely well performed set of well written and well chosen songs performed with love for the material, respect for the intended audience and a sure – footedness and confidence which only comes from year upon year of recording and touring with the very best. Ok I've put it as my number 2 album so it's pretty clear what I think and you can think what you like but from the second the searingly optimistic title track folds into the live tour de force "Marmalade Moon" to the point when it finally puts you down, you're travelling alongside one of the best popular musicians this country has produced. And that's ever. It's an album that smiles at you – and means it.
Sandi Thom – "Flesh and Blood" (Guardian Angels)
This is either one of two things. An Americanised watering -- down of a once feisty and original Scottish songwriter and performer and her work, or a compelling and never less than sumptuous piece of work which has moments of incredible tenderness and beauty. Ok, I've put it as my number 3 album so it's pretty clear what I think and you can think what you like but if you come across a more moving and despairing rendition of a song than the towering "Big Ones Get Away" (Featuring Buffy Saint – Marie on spooky vocal enhancement) or the swaggering Rickenbacker of "Sun Comes Crashing Down", buy me a copy of whatever it is and I'll call you a Big Fat Fibber. Gorgeous.
This is either one of two things. A gauche attempt by a bunch of 90's burnt – outs to recapture the glory days and trying hard but not quite making which is worse than not bothering at all or an out – of – nowhere, died – in – the – wool, very pleasant surprise. Ok, I've put it as my number 4 album so it's pretty clear what I think and you can think what you like but if there was a better summer FM choon than the title track this year outside of the Beach Boys album I'm afraid it passed me right on by. "The Outsiders" is pretty damn tidy too. As is the first track….oh, just stick the whole thing on. It's real Deacon Blue. Says so on the tin.
This is either one of two things. Yet another of those awful rob – a -- genre albums artists who are struggling a bit due to reasons personal or professional insist on releasing (or their record company shamefully leans on them to do so) when they run out of ideas or it is a masterclass in how it should be done by an expert practitioner at the top of his game. Ok, I've put it as my number 5 album so it's pretty clear what I think and you can think what you like but if you hear a better version of "Wishing On A Star" – and I include Rose Royce in this – or the criminally underplayed Smokey and the Miracles "Ooh Baby Baby", (which isn't quite as good as the original but hey, we're tickling the toes of the angels here) I'll refuse to buy you a copy of the new Rod Stewart Christmas Album. You have to be an exceptional talent to carry this sort of thing off. Well done, Mr Seal.
Many thanks to Steve for that great selection. There's another selection coming tomorrow; I wonder who that could be?


text: In 1985, Sheriff Jerry Metz was in office at the Major County Sheriff's Office. As his area faced hardship during the oil boom drop, Sheriff Metz accepted donations for food and beverage from various businesses and provided meals to those in need for Christmas dinner. This tradition was then passed down from Sheriff to Sheriff in Major County. In 1999, the Methodist church of Fairview asked current Sheriff Steve Randolph [pictured above with Santa] if he could take over the Thanksgiving meal and the Major County Sheriff's Office has been doing so ever since. The year 2016 marked the 31st year for the Major County Sheriff's Office serving the Christmas dinner and was the biggest with 194 take-out meals. The Sheriff's Office delivers in Major County and has served close to 600 meals total.


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Posted: August 14, 2008
Updated: September 2, 2008
The League of Women Voters of Wisconsin, Common Cause in Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign today released the responses of state legislative hopefuls to six questions on democracy reform issues the three groups posed to all candidates.
Nearly two-thirds of state legislative candidates declined to take a public stand on the reform issues. Of the 25 candidates for state senate, only seven replied. Six answered the questions, while one replied that he was refusing to answer. Of the 243 candidates for state assembly, 95 replied to the survey. Of those, 89 answered the questions while six replied that they were refusing to answer.
Senate candidates in the 16 districts up for election and candidates in all 99 Assembly districts were mailed the survey July 10.
The questions dealt with specific reform proposals aimed at reforming campaign finance laws for judicial elections and other state races, requiring full disclosure of special interest electioneering, promoting a fair process for drawing legislative district lines following the next census, and tightening Wisconsin 's lobbying laws.
"The voters deserve to know where the candidates stand on these issues," said Andrea Kaminski, director of the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin Education Fund. "Close to 100 candidates answered our survey, and they should be applauded for doing so. Unfortunately, nearly twice as many failed to respond and are leaving citizens in the dark about their positions on political reform."
There is not a single state Senate district up for election in 2008 where voters will have the benefit of knowing the positions of both major party candidates on democracy reform issues, something Kaminski called "disgraceful." Pending the outcome of party primary elections in September, races in no more than nine of the 99 Assembly districts will feature both Republican and Democratic candidates in the November general election who answered the reform questionnaire. Assembly districts where the possibility exists of major party candidates who have both taken a public stand on reform issues squaring off in the general election include districts 24, 30, 47, 50, 53, 54, 55, 57 and 79.
Responses to the survey can be accessed through the link below.


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Click! is calling all photographers to exhibit in The Frontier Building in RTP for the month of October. This exhibition will coincide with the Click! Triangle Photography Festival. This call-for-art is open to all photographic processes and aesthetics.
For all the details and to register, go to the EventBrite page here.
Great News!!! While entries into the exhibit will be juried in, each photographer who submits an image will have their work included in an outdoor projection event on October 2nd during the First Friday events at the Visual Art Exchange Gallery in Raleigh!
The Pop-UP Exhibition's juror is Marshall N. Price. Dr. Price is currently the Nancy Hanks Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. He has organized dozens of exhibitions including most recently Jeffrey Gibson: Said the Pigeon to the Squirrel, Pat Steir: Blue River, John Cage: The Sight of Silence, and George Tooker: A Retrospective. Over the course of his career Dr. Price has lectured and written extensively on modern and contemporary art.
Don't miss out on a terrific opportunity to have your work seen by the movers and shakers of the art world, and take part in one the fastest growing festivals dedicated to photography in the southeast!
The Deadline for submission is September 21st. Don't delay enter today!