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The Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice
(a) Endorses the draft guidelines for incorporating biodiversity-related issues into environmental impact assessment legislation and/or processes and in strategic environmental assessment on the basis of the draft contained in the annex to the present recommendation and identify ways and means for their further development or adjustment;
(b) Urges Parties, other Governments and organizations to apply the guidelines as appropriate in the context of their implementation of paragraph 1 of Article 14 of the Convention and share their experience, inter alia, through the clearing-house mechanism and national reporting;
(c) Considers requesting the Executive Secretary to prepare for consideration by The Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice prior to the seventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties, a programme of work in collaboration with the International Association for Impact Assessment and other relevant organizations including regional /international initiatives such as the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context, the European Union directives on habitats, birds, environmental impact assessment, and the assessment of the effects of certain plans and programmes on the environment, the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, and in doing so, take into account capacity building and experiences gained in the context of thematic programmes of work and cross-cutting issues under the Convention on Biological Diversity;
(d) Notes that emphasis should be given in the work programme to, inter alia, the development of targets, criteria and indicators needed to screen projects, plans, programmes or policies, and ways and means, including public participation;
(e) Requests the Executive Secretary to compile and disseminate, through the clearing-house mechanism and other means of communication, current experiences in environmental impact assessment and strategic environmental assessment procedures that incorporate biodiversity-related issues, as well as experiences of Parties in applying the guidelines; in light of this information, to prepare proposals for further development and refinement of the guidelines, particularly to incorporate all stages of the environmental impact assessment and strategic environmental assessment processes taking into account the ecosystem approach (particularly principles 4, 7 and 8) and to provide a report of this work to the Subsidiary Body prior to the eight meeting of the Conference of the Parties;
(a) Environmental impact assessment is a process of evaluating the likely environmental impacts of a proposed project or development, taking into account inter-related socio-economic, cultural and human-health impacts, both beneficial and adverse. Although legislation and practice vary around the world, the fundamental components of an environmental impact assessment would necessarily involve the following stages
(i) Screening to determine which projects or developments require a full or partial impact assessment study;
(ii) Scoping to identify which potential impacts are relevant to assess, and to derive terms of reference for the impact assessment;
(iii) Impact assessment to predict and identify the likely environmental impacts of a proposed project or development taking into account inter-related consequences of the project proposal, and the socio-economic impacts;
(iv) Identifying mitigation measures (including not proceeding with the development, finding alternative designs or sites which avoid the impacts, incorporating safeguards in the design of the project, or providing compensation for adverse impacts);
(v) Deciding whether to approve the project or not; and
(vi) Monitoring and evaluating the development activities, predicted impacts and proposed mitigation measures to ensure that unpredicted impacts or failed mitigation measures are identified and addressed in a timely fashion;
(b) Strategic environmental assessment is the formalized, systematic and comprehensive process of identifying and evaluating the environmental consequences of proposed policies, plans or programmes to ensure that they are fully included and appropriately addressed at the earliest possible stage of decision-making on a par with economic and social considerations. Strategic environmental assessment, by its nature, covers a wider range of activities or a wider area and often over a longer time span than the environmental impact assessment of projects. Strategic environmental assessment might be applied to an entire sector (such as a national policy on energy for example) or to a geographical area, (for example, in the context of a regional development scheme). The basic steps of strategic environmental assessment are similar to the steps in environmental impact assessment procedures, but the scope differs. Strategic environmental assessment does not replace or reduce the need for project-level environmental impact assessment, but it can help to streamline the incorporation of environmental concerns (including biodiversity) into the decision-making process, often making project-level environmental impact assessment a more effective process.
1. Purpose and approach
2. Biodiversity issues at different stages of environmental impact assessment
(a) Screening
(a) Positive lists identifying projects requiring environmental impact assessment. A few countries use (or have used) negative lists, identifying those projects not subject to environmental impact assessment. These lists should be reassessed to evaluate their inclusion of biodiversity aspects;
(b) Expert judgement (with or without a limited study, sometimes referred to as "initial environmental examination" or "preliminary environmental assessment"); and
(c) A combination of a positive list and expert judgement; for a number of activities an environmental impact assessment is more appropriate, for others an expert judgement may be desirable to determine the need for an environmental impact assessment.
(a) An environmental impact assessment is required,
(c) The project does not require an environmental impact assessment.
(a) Countries with a positive list identifying projects requiring environmental impact assessment should use, as appropriate, appendices I and II below for guidance on reconsidering their existing positive list with respect to biological diversity considerations. By assessing the possible impacts of categories of activities on biological diversity the existing list can be adjusted, if required;
(b) In countries where screening is based on expert judgement, experience has shown that professionals make screening decisions, often using "mini environmental impact assessment" to come to this decision. These guidelines, its appendices and other guidelines such as the information document submitted by the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) help provide these professionals with the means to come to a motivated, transparent and consistent screening decision. Furthermore, the expert teams should include professionals with biodiversity expertise;
(c) In countries where screening is based on a combination of a positive list and expert judgement, country-specific thematic or sector guidelines, often including quantitative norms or thresholds, facilitate the responsible people to make a well-founded and defendable decision. For biodiversity, thematic guidelines could be developed, sector guidelines need to be reviewed on biodiversity considerations.
The screening criteria
(a) Categories of activities that may affect biological diversity and the direct and indirect biophysical changes likely to result from these activities, taking into account characteristics like: type or nature of activity, magnitude, extent/location, timing, duration, reversibility/irreversibility, likelihood, and significance; possibility of interaction with other activities or impacts;
(b) Area of influence. Knowing the biophysical changes that result from an activity, the expected area of influence of these changes can be modelled or predicted, including the probability of off-site effects;
(c) Biodiversity maps indicating ecosystems and/or land-use types and their use and non-use values (showing the use and non-use values of biodiversity).
Pertinent questions for screening
(a) Does the intended activity affect the physical environment in such a manner or cause such biological losses that it influences the chance of extinction of cultivars, varieties, populations of species, or the chance of loss of habitats or ecosystems?
(b) Does the intended activity surpass the maximal sustainable yield, the carrying capacity of a habitat/ecosystem or the maximum and minimum allowable disturbance level of a resource, population, or ecosystem?
(c) Does the intended activity result in changes to the access to and rights over biological resources?
(b) Scoping
(a) To guide study teams on significant issues and alternatives to be assessed, clarify how they should be examined (methods of prediction and analysis, depth of analysis), and according to which guidelines and criteria;
(b) To provide an opportunity for stakeholders to have their interests taken into account in the environmental impact assessment;
(c) To ensure that the resulting environmental impact statement is useful to the decision maker and is understandable to the public.
(a) Describe the type of project, its nature, magnitude, location, timing, duration and frequency;
(b) Describe the expected biophysical changes in soil, water, air, flora and fauna;
(c) Describe biophysical changes that result from social change processes as a result of the proposed project;
(d) Determine the spatial and temporal scale of influence of each biophysical change;
(e) Describe ecosystems and land-use types potentially influenced by the biophysical changes identified;
(f) Determine for each ecosystem or land-use type if the biophysical changes affect one of the following components of biological diversity: the composition (what is there), the temporal/spatial structure (how are biodiversity components organised in time and space), or key processes (how is biodiversity created and/or maintained);
(g) Identify in consultation with stakeholders the current and potential use-functions, non-use functions and other longer-term less tangible benefits of biological diversity provided by the ecosystems or land-use types and determine the values these functions represent for society (see appendix 3 for an indicative list of functions);
(h) Determine which of these functions will be significantly affected by the proposed project, taking into account mitigation measures;
(i) For each alternative, define mitigation and/or compensation measures to avoid, minimize or compensate the expected impacts;
(j) With the help of the biodiversity checklist on scoping (see appendix 4 below), determine which issues will provide information relevant to decision making and can realistically be studied;
(k) Provide information on the severity of impacts, i.e. apply weights to the expected impacts for the alternatives considered. Weigh expected impacts to a reference situation (baseline), which may be the existing situation, a historical situation, or an external reference situation.
(l) Identify necessary surveys to gather comprehensive information about the biological diversity in the affected area where appropriate.
(c) Impact analysis and assessment
(a) Refinement of the understanding of the nature of the potential impacts identified during screening and scoping and described in the terms of reference. This includes the identification of indirect and cumulative impacts, and of the likely causes of the impacts (impact analysis and assessment). Identification and description of relevant criteria for decision-making can be an essential element of this period;
(b) Review and redesign of alternatives; consideration of mitigation measures; planning of impact management; evaluation of impacts; and comparison of the alternatives; and
(c) Reporting of study results in a environmental impact statement.
(d) Consideration of mitigation measures
(e) Reporting: the environmental impact statement (EIS)
(f) Review
(g) Decision-making
(h) Monitoring and environmental auditing
3. Incorporation of biodiversity considerations in strategic environmental assessments
4. Ways and means
(a) Capacity-building
(b) Legislative authority
(c) Participation
(d) Incentives
(e) Cooperation
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
This is a suggested outline of a set of screening criteria, to be elaborated on country level. It only deals with biodiversity criteria and thus is an add-on to already existing screening criteria.
Category A: Environmental impact assessment mandatory: Only in the case criteria can be based on formal legal backing, such as:
Indicative list of activities for which an environmental impact assessment could be mandatory:
(a) At the genetic level (relates to screening question I in appendix 1 above):
(b) At species level (relates to screening question II and III in appendix 1 above):
(c) At ecosystem level (screening questions IV and V in appendix 1 above):
Category B: The need for, or the level of environmental impact assessment, is to be determined
In cases where there is no legal basis to require an environmental impact assessment, but one can suspect that the proposed activity may have a significant impact on biological diversity, or that a limited study is needed to solve uncertainties or design limited mitigation measures. This category covers the frequently referred to but difficult to use concept of "sensitive areas". As long as so-called sensitive areas do not have any legal protected status it is difficult to use the concept in practice, so a more practical alternative is provided.
The following categories of criteria point towards possible impacts on biological diversity, and further attention is thus required:
(a) Activities in, or in the vicinity of, or with influence on areas with legal status having a probable link to biological diversity but not legally protecting biological diversity (relates to all five screening questions in appendix 1 above). For example: a Ramsar site has the official recognition of having internationally important wetland values, but this recognition does not automatically imply legal protection of biological diversity in these wetlands).
Other examples include areas allocated to local and indigenous communities, extractive reserves, landscape preservation areas, sites covered by international treaties or conventions for preservation of natural and/or cultural heritage such as the UNESCO biosphere reserves and World Heritage Sites;
(b) Impacts on biological diversity possible or likely, but the environmental impact assessment is not necessarily triggered by law:
(i) At the genetic level:
(ii) At the species level:
(iii) At the ecosystem level:
Category C: no environmental impact assessment required
Activities which are not covered by one of the categories A or B, or are designated as category C after initial environmental examination.
The generic nature of these guidelines does not allow for the positive identification of types of activities or areas where environmental impact assessment from a biodiversity perspective is not needed. At country level, however, it will be possible to indicate geographical areas where biological diversity considerations do not play a role of importance and, conversely, areas where they do play an important role (biodiversity-sensitive areas).
Appendix 3
Nature-based human production
Carrying functions
Processing and regulation functions
Land-based processing and regulation functions
Water related processing and regulation functions
Air-related processing and regulation functions
Biodiversity-related regulation functions
Signification functions
Cultural/religious/scientific/landscape functions
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Lucky learners?
7 comments:
- Marmoset said...
That isnt the way you spelz deside!
(The Victorians sent children to work. A couple of generations were lucky but now the sending them to work bit has started again from a slightly different angle but it's pretty much the same thing.)
And ''spelling'' is also pretty much uncountable unless you're talking about different spellings of the same word. So, that's a fail from me.
Mind you, there's a couple of posters stuck up in the High Street for our educatifification... ''Do you want to learn a train?'' You can even do a course billed as ''IT for IT user''. Ah well, we live and lurn...
- 17 October 2010 at 22:03
And is all this lurnin' being financed from the public purse, I wonder. Perhaps the cuts are right on target in this case. If communi'y edjucashun means mispellings on posters, I am voting for a local sign auditor to be appointed on £200k+ per annum and given subsidized office space on the high street to put these linguistic abusers in their proper place.....in an academy school perhaps?
anyone dare to agree?
- 17 October 2010 at 23:30
Big Deal!! Lucky Learners Maths and spelling is not being financed from the public purse.
My son and daughter attend the Lucky sessions at Lucky Learners and are doing well with the additional support in maths and spelling.
You guys get off your high horse and do something worthwhile rather than knit picking, since your so educated why dont you run a project and show us how its done rather than wasting time you think you have knocking those doing what you are incapable off.
- 3 January 2011 at 19:59
How it is funded is irrelevant - but surely someone who is teaching 'spellings' to children should be literate? This is a very basic mistake which does not inspire confidence in the teaching standards being set by this organisation.
- 3 January 2011 at 20:31
Knit picking? Doesn't that make your pullovers fray?
- 3 January 2011 at 22:29
Yawn.... Deptford Lame I mean Dame go and get your self a real job. Yawn :-0...
- 24 January 2011 at 04:00
We withdrew our children from these classes and move them into another tuition class not far off. Am now much more satisfied and can see a marked difference in my children's maths
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There is shifting among the channels in the hotel booking landscape driven mostly by hoteliers fighting to regain control of distribution and sale of their inventory.
In September 2015, Sprint Metrics reported that 50% of business travellers and 33% of leisure travellers prefer booking through online travel agencies (OTA) to booking directly with a hotel[1]. Corporations started moving away from contracts. Instead, they were booking through OTAs which gave travel managers greater control over procurement protocols, greater flexibility and choices for travellers. This obviously did not sit well with hoteliers who started fighting to regain control over online bookings.
Evolution of online hotel bookings
In 2009, OTAs had a billboard effect for hotels. At the time, a study on Expedia and JMH hotels by Cornell University associate professor Chris Anderson, showed the presence of a hotel on the first page of results on Expedia coincided with a rise in reservations through the hotel's own website.
By 2014, that was no longer the case.
A study of 50,000 online travel shoppers in 2014 found that users who browsed hotel sites tended to completed their bookings via intermediaries, such as Expedia, Booking.com, and TripAdvisor. But those who browsed on OTAs and intermediary sites would complete their bookings through intermediaries[2].
By 2015, it was clear that intermediaries were having a detrimental effect on hotels.
The Balancing Act
Hoteliers are now caught in a balancing act. On one hand, OTAs undoubtedly make distribution of hotel inventory easy and keep rooms filled. However, the more rooms that are booked through the OTAs, the less profit a hotel makes.
Jean-Luc Chrétien, Co-CEO of FASTBOOKING says "The risk for a hotel is of losing control over its clients and then essentially becoming a room provider, amongst other issues of course. Consequently, the hotel will lose its brand equity, the risk of which increases exponentially as its dependency increases on OTAs."
Building a take-back strategy
FASTBOOKING is offering a crash course in 'taking back the power'. An e-commerce solutions company that helps hotels create direct sales strategies, the FASTBOOKING Digital Lab aims to educate hoteliers on how to use several vendors to affordably and effectively achieve direct bookings online.
"The interest in maximising direct bookings is growing among hotels in Asia," says Pierre Charles Grob, Managing Director – Asia, for FASTBOOKING.
Attracting Qualified Prospects to the Hotel Website
"Hoteliers have to protect their hotel brand on search engines. That can easily be done with search engine marketing techniques which is one of the services that FASTBOOKING offers."
Other tips for attracting qualified prospects include promoting visibility by utilising metasearch engines and to be easily located geographically.
"Geo-IP targeting campaigns, for example, is an excellent way to attract last minute bookings. It is surprising how many people head straight to a destination without booking a hotel in advance. They turn up, switch on their mobile to look at their closest options, then book. Geo-IP targeting means that the hotel appears on the radar of consumers like these," said Grob.
The importance of content
Website content not only attracts, but keeps visitors on your website.
Brice Bay, a co-founder and the CEO of EnVeritas Group said hotel websites should contain at least 50-100 photos.[3] Event-based information should be updated daily. Important also is current local knowledge and factual information that is free of marketing jargon.
Improving the user-experience on a hotel's website
"The best hotel websites are clean and simple to use," observes Jean-Baptiste Kechi, Website Studio Director for FASTBOOKING in Asia. His tips? Make the website efficient and mobile-friendly.
Building e-Reputation to earn conversions
"Reviews are critical to a hotel's reputation online," says Frederick Wong, Managing Director and Vice-President, APAC for TrustYou. "Travellers are 3.9 times more likely
to book a hotel with higher review scores within the same price range."
"The average e-commerce conversion rate is 2.6%, but a high-performer can exceed 4.5%" says Christine Tan, Vice President of Sales and Account Management, Asia Pacific, for FASTBOOKING. "The best things for a hotelier to do to convert sales on their website is to offer the best deal on their website, keep the last room available for their website, and make it very visible that the best rates are only available on their website."
Tan says sales tools on a website which offer reassurance to the prospect, such as multiple languages and currencies, live customer support on a chat platform, along with SSL certificates on the booking page.
How revenue management can impact conversion
"To set the best possible price to aid conversion, yet be profitable, hotels need to put several processes in place," says Rachel Grier, Managing Director, Asia Pacific, IDeaS Revenue Solutions.
"Integrating, centralising and organising your data will help you better understand the micro-details needed to establish a successful pricing strategy."
"Brand perception is also important. By using data to understand the perceived value of your brand, you can determine how impactful your pricing is and create guest experiences that differentiate your hotel from your competitors. Focusing efforts around increasing brand value helps hotels avoid racing to the bottom of the price ladder."
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Hoteliers are turning the tide with a fight for independence
Big hotel chains have started fighting back. Marriott started a social campaign, # itpaystobedirect; Hilton, Hyatt, IHG launched initiatives using their loyalty base to protect their web direct share. Accor aggregated its hotels, along with independent hotels into the Accor Marketplace.
Consequently OTAs will turn against independent hotels to continue to protect their margins and their growth. Expedia[4] recently came out with guns blazing in the shape of an infographic which describes, according to skift.com, "how hotel owners would be taking a revenue hit of around eight percent because of chains' decisions to publicly offer hotel loyalty program members lower rates on hotel websites than they give to Expedia."
Chrétien concludes, "Competition is stiff for hoteliers. They must keep their capacity to invest in their property while maintaining a direct relationship with their customers in order to thrive in the long term. Independent hotels no longer need the means of big hotel groups to keep and develop their direct web revenue. To ensure their survival they have to protect their own turf."
[1] TravelPulse – Why Are More Hotels Heavily Promoting Direct Booking Today?
[2] tnooz.com –The Billboard Effect is dead, says a study of hotels listed on OTAs 30 July 2015
[3] Hotelmarketing.com: How hotel images impact OTA bookings and revenue 10 May 2013
[4] skift.com: Exclusive: Expedia Argues That Hotel Owners Are Losers in Direct-Booking Push, 21 April 2016


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- BTC, Absu seek to check influx
The Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) and All Bodo Students Union (Absu) today called for sealing of borders to check entry of illegal migrants from Bangladesh into Bodoland Territorial Areas District (BTAD) through Dhubri district.
They said influx of illegal migrants from Bangladesh was the key reason for the ongoing unrest that has left 32 dead and over a lakh displaced.
BTC chief and Bodo People's Front (BPF) president Hagrama Mohilary told reporters here, "We have reports of people from Bangladesh crossing the Brahmaputra into Dhubri and then intruding into Kokrajhar. We have urged the sealing of the Kokrajhar and Dhubri border."
"The original Muslim people here are industrious and coexisting peacefully for many years. There was no disturbance before. But local Muslims have informed that people from outside, including those from the neighbouring country, are instigating the local people and creating trouble," he claimed.
While condemning the violence, Sultan Alam, the president of the All BTC Minority Students Union, told The Telegraph, "We are also against influx of Bangladeshis and will help the authorities check it. But if influx is on then what is the BSF doing? What is the government doing? We demand that those involved in the violence be taken to task and the case be handed over to the CBI to find out who exactly is involved in the rioting."
Absu president Pramode Boro said, "We fear illegal migrants from Bangladesh and thechar areas are entering Kokrajhar and Chirang districts to create a volatile situation."
He demanded sealing of the Dhubri-Kokrajhar and Chirang-Bongaigaon borders till normalcy returns.
Those following developments in the BTAD termed the demands as quite significant.
They said the unrest was to a large extent the result of identity assertion by suspected Bangladeshi migrants, who feel stripped of their economic and political aspirations within the BTAD while nursing strong feelings of being the dominant group in the political space outside BTAD.
The Absu also rued Dispur's failure to protect and rescue people hit by the violence.
Lakendra Brahma, 85, a retired PWD employee of Baukabangi village, who has taken shelter in a relief camp, recalled that there were just a few Muslim villages when he was young and how their numbers have grown in recent times. "There were hardly any Bangladeshi migrants when we were young but over the years the demography has changed. Today we are the minority with nowhere to go," he said.
Asked about the reason for the change, he said people have started selling land to new settlers and many have left the villages for greener pastures. "We Bodos, Rajbongshis and Nath Jugis are feeling threatened by this influx. Our identity and rights are threatened."


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Digital collections update
Home Economics and Nutrition Pamphlets
Fifty-nine items from the Home Economics Pamphlets Collection of the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives have been made available on the project website, with many more to follow in the coming year. These pamphlets present a rich visual and textual picture of everyday life in the American home from the turn of the Twentieth Century through the 1950s and were produced by a variety of government and commercial sources.
This collection will also include materials both from the food and nutrition subject area of the University Libraries' Government Documents Collections. The latter group is being digitized as part of the ASERL Centers of Excellence Program and will be added to the digital collection later this summer.
American Publishers Trade Bindings, Phase V
The fifth phase of this project includes some four hundred bindings from the Special Collections General and Early Juvenile collections of the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives and demonstrate the artistic and technological aspects of binding and book arts through the early years of the Twentieth Century. These items have a tremendous visual interest and will be of great value both to researchers and casual lovers of books and graphic design.
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I found these boards very difficult to use. They would work very well with a lot of planning and would cut down on the need for jumper wires, but I was constantly cutting the wrong jumpers when I flipped the board over. It would be easier to use if the board was single sided.
Product PRT-10470 about 7 years ago
I have read that you can safely charge a LiPo at a maximum rate of 1C, so if you have a 1500 mAH battery, then you should not exceed 1.5A if charge current. The maximum charge voltage per cell, I have read, is 4.2V. As always, if the battery gets hot while charging, stop the charging process, as it means something is wrong.
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I use my audio jack breakout on a breadboard, and put a 10K resister from the RNG to TIP, therefore eliminating the need to include it on the picaxe download circuit. It saves a little space on my picaxe boards.
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Ve zvoleném jazyce nejsou k dispozici všechny obsahy. Chcete se podívat do světa Rhétské dráhy? Přejít na anglický.
Slope conditions: good powder. Your bank balance: healthy. Because you can head for winter sports by RhB free of charge. Your day pass for the Arosa Lenzerheide ski area is also your train or bus ticket* between Arosa, Chur, Lenzerheide and Tiefencastel.
Since January 2014, the Urden Cable Car has connected the two ski resorts of Arosa and Lenzerheide, creating the largest winter sports area in Graubünden – with 225 kilometres of slopes and 42 transport facilities on three valley sides. Snow sports enthusiasts can live life to the full here, carving wide arcs on broad slopes, stirring up some powder turns or trying out new tricks in the snow park.
By the way: in Arosa, group ski and snowboard courses are included in the price for visitors under 18 who stay for two nights or more.
*The bus/train ticket is valid on the following routes (2nd class):
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Bild: Ferienregion Lenzerheide
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Enjoy the heights of the Urden Cable Car from Arosa to Lenzerheide.
The Urden Cable Car connects the two ski resorts of Arosa and Lenzerheide. The brand new cabins float on the aerial cableway across the unspoilt beauty of the Urden Valley. The cables cover a distance of 1.7 kilometres without supporting masts – making the cable car a true queen of the air.
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Unlimited travel with the winter sports pass: a valid ski pass for Arosa-Lenzerheide is also your ticket for travel by public transport. You get to enjoy free return 2nd class travel between Chur and Arosa and by PostBus between Chur, Lenzerheide and Tiefencastel.
Endstation im Bahnhof Arosa. Bild: Andrea Badrutt
With a valid winter sports pass for Arosa Lenzerheide you can travel by public transport to the ski area and back for free. Your equipment simply has to show that you are a snowboarder, skier, sledger, snowshoe hiker or winter hiker. The offer is valid for 2nd class travel by RhB and PostBus between Chur – Arosa, Chur – Lenzerheide and Tiefencastel – Lenzerheide.
If you hold a multi-day winter sports pass but are not carrying your sports equipment with you by public transport as you travel back and forth to the ski area, you can ask at the cable car ticket desks in Arosa and Lenzerheide for confirmation that will nevertheless entitle you to travel on the specified routes for free.
|Prices* per person; 2nd class, return travel incl. Engadin/ St.Moritz ski day pass and local buses, in CHF
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*including a charge of CHF 5.00 for key card
Winter sports passes are available at Chur railway station, Arosa and Tiefencastel railway station and from the cable car operators in Arosa and Lenzerheide.


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In response to an advertised job opportunity, we have received many resumes for the open position of (Name of Position) at our company. Of course, some applicants stand apart from the rest. (Name of Applicant) is one such individual. The experiences and qualifications detailed on his resume suggest that he would expertly perform the requirements of the (Name of Position) position. However, in addition to considering the applicant's documented experiences and credentials, in the process of finalizing our decision, I am contacting all of the references listed on the his resume.
Since you are one of the applicant's primary professional references, I am writing today to request your personal insight into (Name of Applicant)'s abilities and qualifications. At a time convenient to you, I would appreciate the opportunity to speak with you about the applicant, either over the phone or in person. My personal contact information is listed above. I thank you in advance for your cooperation, and I look forward to hearing from you.
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Jane Doe has listed you on her resume as her first business reference. I am considering Ms. Doe for a position in our aluminum window plant management team.
The successful candidate for this position must have experience in multilevel management and be able to regulate workloads in circumstances of fluctuating demand. If you could offer your candid evaluation of Jane Doe's abilities in these areas, I would be most grateful.
We are considering several candidates and want to fill the position by August 15. If it would be more convenient for you to telephone me, my office number is 555-5555.
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One of your former employees, Eric Doe, has applied for a senior accountant position with our firm and has listed you as a reference. Could you please send us a letter offering your frank appraisal of Mr. Doe's ability to fill this position?
Mr. Doe meets the education and certification requirements of the position, so we need information about his work habits, his ability to function as part of a team, and his ability to function under deadline pressures. Your assessment, which will be kept strictly confidential, is important to our hiring process.
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Our understanding is that John worked directly under your supervision during a summer internship with your firm. We would appreciate your candid and fully confidential appraisal of John's performance under your direction. Three specific considerations are essential to the position he is seeking. Could you please describe for us (1) how he related to his co-workers, (2) his ability to cope with pressure, and (3) his willingness to take on new or unfamiliar assignments on short notice?
Since our decision must be made by the end of the month, we would like to receive your response before April 25. If you are unable to send us a written recommendation in the envelope provided, we would be happy to receive a phone call from you any time during regular business hours at 555-5555. We know that your time is valuable and appreciate your assistance in this matter.
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Fantasy Magazine, September 2011
John Joseph Adams
|About the Book
Fantasy Magazine is an online magazine focusing exclusively on fantasy fiction. In its pages, you will find all types of fantasy—from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales…MoreFantasy Magazine is an online magazine focusing exclusively on fantasy fiction. In its pages, you will find all types of fantasy—from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales…and anything and everything in between. Fantasy Magazine is entertainment for the intelligent genre reader—we publish stories of the fantastic that make us think, and tell us what it is to be human. And in our September 2011 issue...Even when things are working just like clockwork, sometimes there is still room for error—and even love. Megan Arkenberg creates a magical realm thats ready to teach Lessons from a Clockwork Queen.Beneath the smog and grit, David Brothers looks at the steampunk genre and sees a cleaner, kinder sort of world. Find out why in his article Steampunk and the Architecture of Idealism.Ever get tired of all the annoying chit-chat going on around you? In Jonathan Lethems story, Using It and Losing It, one man discovers a permanent escape from the rigors of conversation.Most Americans only take foreign languages because their school makes them. But in the wide world of science fiction and fantasy, it pays to know more than just English! David Salo researches the role of created languages in genre fiction in his article The Language of Fantasy.In Carrie Vaughns The Nymphs Child, a mother wonders if she can discourage her daughters dreams of piracy and adventure—because she knows firsthand what heartbreak life on the high seas can lead to.Every wonder just why being a pirate is so great? In their article Ten Reasons To Be a Pirate, John Baur and Mark Summers, the creators of International Talk Like a Pirate Day, explain just why a pirates life is for just about everybody.Sometimes were condemned to repeat the same mistake over and over again. James Alan Gardner paints a genre-blurring image of temptation and regret in Three Damnations: A Fugue.In our feature interview, Leigh Butler talks with bestselling author Brandon Sanderson about finishing Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, what makes an epic epic, and Sandersons laws of magic.


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Mother's Day is almost here, and we gotta give up to moms everywhere: you gave us life, love, and so much more. At MERRY JANE, we have a resident mom columnist who doles out smoking advice on a weekly basis, but we wanted to take a look at some of our other favorite mothers who get down with weed.
While smoking with your parents can be a tricky and awkward affair, there's something special about living in an age where sharing a joint with mom or dad isn't that big of a taboo. That goes double for celebrity parents, whose actions are scrutinized by the public at every turn. So below, we're highlighting a few famous marijuana mamas who deserve some extra props (and definitely a nice ganja gift) this upcoming Sunday.
Related: Celebrities You Didn't Know Smoke Weed
Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi is not just one of our favorite moms, she's also one of our fav grandmothers and great-grandmothers who is down with cannabis! Yes! Whoopi is a great-grandmother if you can believe it. Maybe it's all the cannabis self-care? While Whoopi is certainly well-known for her illustrious acting career and 10-year stint as a co-host of ABC's The View, she's also a powerhouse when it comes to cannabis.
Alongside notable edibles superstar Maya Elisabeth, Whoopi runs Whoopi & Maya, a medical cannabis line with products specifically engineered to help women during their menstrual cycle. Not only does Whoopi enjoy cannabis herself, she actively promotes the healing power of the plant to other moms and women. Her line includes infused salves, bath soaks, edibles, and tinctures.
Martha Stewart
The Queen of Crafts is no stranger to marijuana (and not just because she hangs out with Snoop!). In addition to co-hosting Martha and Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party on VH1 — where you just know she must regularly get a contact high — Martha has admitted to her A+ joint rolling skills. Would you expect anything less from a woman who pays such perfect attention to detail? And, if we know Martha, it's only a matter of time until she's growing her own organic, heirloom strains in her gorgeous garden!
Melissa Etheridge
Musician Melissa Etheridge has been open about about her marijuana use since her breast cancer diagnosis in 2004. A proponent of pot for medical and recreational use, Melissa hasn't shied away from talking about how much cannabis helped her manage her cancer and treatment symptoms, as well as stay healthy during remission. Recently, Etheridge made waves when she talked about smoking weed with her kids (who are in their late teens and twenties), and maintains it's a family bonding experience. Taking a cue from fellow marijuana moms like Whoopi, Melissa is currently working on her own line of cannabis products, and hopefully we'll be able to try them soon.
Frances McDormand
Actress Frances McDormand is a bona fide marijuana mama — and she isn't shy about it. The Oscar winner for Best Actress has admitted to smoking cannabis and openly talks about the medical and recreational benefits of the plant. In fact, she was on the cover of the May 2003 issue of High Times. Frances told the magazine, "I'm a recreational pot smoker. Because it's not a constant in my life, I don't say it should be made legal so it's more available. But from a medical point of view… why should [patients] have to look too hard for the thing that makes them better? So from that point of view, it's like, Please, what is the problem?"
Alanis Morissette
The Jagged Little Pill mastermind opened up about her cannabis habits to High Times in 2009. "I literally want to write a chart that says things like 'Marijuana soothes this particular thing' and 'Food soothes that.' We can serve a great purpose if we can get to what's going on underneath." Though she has two kids — son Ever and daughter Onyx — Alanis has said she didn't smoke during either of her pregnancies. And while she hasn't been as vocal about her cannabis use these days as she was in the past, it's clear that the plant definitely influenced her career. Who could forget her brief stint on Weeds?
Honorable Mention: Anne Hathaway
New mom and actress Anne Hathaway (her son Jonathan is just over a year old) recently came out of the cannabis closet on Bravo's Watch What Happens Live. Annie coyly shared her penchant for pot with host Andy Cohen, which was her first time publicly talking about using marijuana. Perhaps the first time of many? Anyway, a big happy Mother's Day to all these celebrity moms. You make Hollywood a greener and more fun place.


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Freshman Marissa Balleza earns her second Ivy League Rookie of the Week honor in 2013. (Photo courtesy of Gil Talbot)
Ivy League Release (IvyLeagueSports.com)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard field hockey forward Marissa Balleza has been honored as the Ivy League Rookie of the Week, the conference announced Tuesday afternoon. This marks the second time this season Balleza brings home League accolades after earning the same recognition on Oct. 29.
Balleza began the three-game week with the game-winning goal against crosstown adversary Northeastern in the Crimson's 1-0 victory to spoil the Huskies home finale. The goal came at an important time, with just four minutes remaining in a tight contest, to lift the Crimson to its sixth victory of the year.
On Saturday, the Severna Park, Md., native tallied another goal in Harvard's 4-2 loss to Dartmouth. The score tied things up at 2-2 heading into halftime, but the Crimson yielded two goals to the Big Green in the second half to drop the League game.
On Sunday, however, Balleza notched a pair of goals – the fourth game she has done so – to spark Harvard to its 4-0 win over Vermont on Senior Day. After her performance, Balleza sports an impressive nine-game point streak and leads the Crimson with 27 total points, coming off a team-best 12 goals and three assists.
As a freshman, Balleza also paces the Crimson with 59 total shots, 36 of which have come on target for a .610 shot on goal percentage. She has netted two game winners, including the one against Northeastern, and has connected on both of the squad's only two penalty strokes.
Balleza and the Crimson (7-9, 1-5 Ivy League) return to the field for the regular season finale against Columbia, slated for noon on Sunday in New York City.