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27/12/2004 · Hairspray works a treat for getting rid of ink,i have a cream leather sofa and my darling son decided to try his art talents all over the 3 seater. The ink wouldn't shift and i was gutted,the next day someone suggested hairspray and it worked. For cleaning my sofas i use meguiars leather cleaner and conditioner,it is actually an automotive product. I got a bottle of it in a valeting kit i got... The top half is ok, but the bottom bit seems to be a little "tired" and engrained with grime. Mrs ging has tried cleaning it with baby oil, baby wipes and white wine vinegar to no avail.
The top half is ok, but the bottom bit seems to be a little "tired" and engrained with grime. Mrs ging has tried cleaning it with baby oil, baby wipes and white wine vinegar to no avail. |
The Block Brochure: Welcome to the Soil 5 è il ventunesimo album del rapper statunitense E-40. Pubblicato il 10 dicembre 2013 assieme a The Block Brochure: Welcome to the Soil 4 e The Block Brochure: Welcome to the Soil 6 sotto l'etichetta Heavy On The Grind Entertainment, vede la partecipazione di 2 Chainz, Gucci Mane, Big K.R.I.T., Schoolboy Q e B-Legit.
L'album entra nella Billboard 200 e nella chart dedicata agli album R&B/Hip-Hop.
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Camp Revolution is a week-long experience that you don't want to miss! This Monday-through-Friday camp takes place on the campus of John Brown University, located in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. JBU has new and updated dormitories and great rec fields. There's a recreation center with an indoor pool, basketball, racquetball, walleyball and more. Each day is packed with challenging Squad times, great worship, interactive Late Night events and loads of free time.
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Per the sign: "Please join us as we gather to show the Church & School & Community our support and solidarity in saving our beloved school."
Parents were especially upset with how the Archdiocese relayed the news. Said one St. Brigid parent: "Receiving a letter home in a kid's backpack, like it was a field trip permission slip, is unacceptable. It gave no concrete reasons but claims that they did their best to keep the school open. It is not 'your best' if you did not include the community most affected."
Parents have already created a Twitter account — @BrigidSave ... and a Facebook group.
I wish them luck in fighting back against Cardinal Dolan and his real-estate business.
What happened to the $8,000,000 endowment the school received from the anonymous donor who saved the church. That was reportedly part of the $20,000,000. |
VLAD DENIC RECEIVES EARLY CAREER LIFE SCIENTIST AWARD
The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) recently selected Vlad Denic, a Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, as the recipient of this year's Early Career Life Scientist Award. The award is presented to an outstanding scientist who earned his or her doctorate no more than 12 years prior and who has served as an independent investigator for no more than seven years. Denic will speak at the ASCB Annual Meeting and receive a monetary prize.
"I am extremely grateful for the intellectual support from my colleagues in the department and for the financial support from Harvard University that helped get my lab started 8 years ago," said Denic. "But most of all, this award is a testament to how bright and hard-working members of my lab have been during this time."
In their announcement, the ASCB award committee noted two significant contributions Denic has made to the fields of membrane protein biogenesis and autophagy—a vesicular transport process that captures unwanted intracellular structures and targets them to the cell's recycling compartment. Notably, he discerned the journey tail-anchored proteins make from the ribosome to insertion in the endoplasmic reticulum—which he and colleagues dubbed the guided entry of tail-anchored proteins (GET) pathway—and discovered that certain autophagy targets signal they are ready to be recycled by activating the enzyme responsible for initiating vesicle formation.
"I am very pleased that the ASCB shares the department's appreciation of Vlad's originality and creativity," said MCB Chair Alex Schier.
Denic is currently interested in how cells detect damaged organelles and toxic protein aggregates for autophagy to mark them for destruction while sparing innocent bystanders. "Many neurodegenerative diseases are caused by defects in this kind of quality control," he said. His lab is applying new gene editing and control technologies, such as CRISPR/Cas9, to model these disease processes.
Denic also studies the molecular mechanisms of age-related deterioration in budding yeast. "Young cells know how to make more chaperones to balance out excessive protein unfolding. Old cells seem to have lost this ability." he said. "We are using insights from transcription factors that sense protein unfolding to create synthetic transcriptional programs that have the potential to promote longevity by delaying protein unfolding in old cells." He hopes to uncover universal themes in cellular aging and eventually develop better pharmacological approaches for extending human lifespan.
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However, this onlyresults in a message that no commands were scheduled! What am I doing wrong?
Your syntax looks perfect. Make sure that the Task Scheduler service is running.
One more thing: Also make sure you have administrator privileges on the PDC. But if you didn't, the message you would get is Access Denied.
I am sorry but I forgot to mention that I had started task scheduler prior to using the AT command.
I did try this but to no avail. Thanks for the suggestion.
IT Worked!! Thanks a ton.
As already told pls make sure that schedule service is running. A common problem is that the example given in the online help: AT sometime CMD /C DIR > TEST.OUT.
Unfortunately, in NT 4.0, this does not work anymore. You must use AT sometime CMD /C \"DIR > TEST.OUT\" instead.
Note: You must now include an escaped quote before the command and after the file name you are redirecting the output to.
The execution of the command starts by default in %systemroot%\system32, as can be seen from the output of the above example. You should specify the complete path if the command is in a different directory, e.g. AT sometime C:\TEMP\TEST.BAT. A further problem is that the command is executed in the security context of the LOCAL SYSTEM account, not the caller. However, the SYSTEM account does not have access to network resources, so your program cannot reside or access files on mapped drives (even if they are mapped from the local machine!). Also, environment variables (e.g. PATH) may be set differently. You can test the environment interactively with AT sometime /INTERACTIVE CMD.
The AT command in NT runs under the SYSTEM account and therefore has no privileges to the network resources. (i.e. Can't write or read a file from the network). But if you go into Control Panel - Services - Scheduler and change the "Log On As" to a user that has the appropriate permissions (a user with access to the network), then an AT command that runs can actually use the network. This may be useful if you find submitted jobs are failing at certain network operations.
Using the quotes did not help. I am not sure about the /c in front of <path> or UNC, what does it do? And for some reason the "Log On As" is greyed out, I can't change it. I can tell you know more about script files than me but no help for me. Thanks for your attempt.
Microsoft has a pretty good article on their TechNet site about troubleshooting the AT command (article #Q142040).
I agree with another answer offered that checking to make sure the Schedule service is running, but also check to see if the TaskScheduler that is part of IE5 has been installed.
If so, I believe that AT is essentially disabled and you'll have to use Task Scheduler (not to worry - it's a much better program anyhow...). See article Q235536 for the scoop on Task Schedulerwiping out AT.
Or if you decide to abandon AT and go with Task Scheduler, it is installed when you install IE and choose the Offline Browsing Pack option. |
Bear Creek Road runs up from the Clinch River and the old Solway Bridge along the valley, out past Haw Ridge, where the plants are, eventually running into Highway 95 out east of Knoxville. A good road, though hardly a straight one, Bear Creek carries a lot of traffic. Deer frequent the road, far too often for their health or the drivers', especially in the early hours and the twilight ones when the shifts are changing and the volume of traffic is four or five times heavier than other times.
Bear Creek is the site of high-intensity work, fences and guards and places where your dad worked and couldn't tell you what he did. Places where they won The War.
On this page, you'll find projects that I consider high intensity, though they'll change from time to time.
I was about to move all this and start up something on Evolution and ID - but I'm putting that in Emory Valley instead. Check it out.
Now it's seventeen, the astronauts the US Space Program has lost. The total of those who've died from Earth to take us out of the cradle into the Universe is much higher. The Russians have lost ten cosmonauts of their own, plus over fifty ground personnel in accidents such as our program was fortunate to miss.
At this moment, we still have three people* in space: Expedition Six on the International Space Station—Commander Ken Bowersox, science officer Don Pettit and Russian Soyuz commander Nikolai Budarin, who replaced Expedition Five (Valery Korzun, Peggy Whitson, and Sergei Treschev). Men and women of several nations, of one planet, are still working to build our home in space, the best chance of immortality our species has.
The Columbia crew knew the risks. They thought it was worth it.
** Expedition Ten is up at the moment (January 1, 2005). They've just been resupplied by a Progress - got their Christmas and New Year's presents, too.
And the Chinese are going up now, as well. Here's a little bit about what Michael Foale (Expedition Eight's commander) thinks about that: "Welcome Aboard!"
For a more lyrical and philosphical answer to "why go?", check Ray Bradbury's view.
Feb. 4th, 2003: At the dawn of the space age some 40 years ago, we always knew who was orbiting Earth or flying to the Moon. Neil Armstrong, Yuri Gagarin, John Glenn. They were household names--everywhere.
Lately it's different. Space flight has become more "routine." Another flight of the shuttle. Another visit to the space station. Who's onboard this time? Unless you're a NASA employee or a serious space enthusiast, you might not know.
Now we know. Those are the names of the seven astronauts who were tragically lost on Saturday, Feb. 1st, when the space shuttle Columbia (STS-107) broke apart over Texas.
The Science@NASA team, as does all of NASA and the world, extends heartfelt sympathies to the family, friends and colleagues of the STS-107 crew. Please see the NASA Home Page (http://www.nasa.gov) for more information on the Columbia Investigation.
--Tony Phillips, Ron Koczor, Bryan Walls, Becky Bray, Patrick Meyer.
If you want to go through the mission, here's a link to Space.Com's STS107 Archive of stories, pictures, film, and interviews.
Here's my favorite story: "Columbia Astronauts Find Small Miracles of Life and Light"
Here's my page on Mir, our first home away from home.
Here's Expedition Twelve- Michael Lopez-Alegria, Mikhail Tyurin, Sunita Williams, Thomas Reiter - up there right now. Reiter (a German) stayed on from Expedition 13, just as Williams will be staying on for Expedition 15.
Here's Expedition Thirteen- Pavel Vinogradov, Jeffrey Williams, Thomas Reiter.
Here's Expedition Twelve- Bill McArthur and Valery Tokarev, up there now.
Here's Expedition Eleven - Sergei Krikalev and John Phillips, who came home in October. Krikalev, by the way, set a series of spaceflight records during Expedition 11, among them becoming the first Russian cosmonaut to fly six missions, the first astronaut to visit the ISS three times and – at the end of this flight – the all-time high for time spent in space (800 days) - in large part due to being the guy who was in orbit when the Soviet Union fell apart.
Here's Expedition Ten - Leroy Chiao and Salizhan Sharipov.
Here's Expedition Nine: Michael Fincke and Gennady Padalka.
Here's Expedition Eight: Alexander Kaleri and Michael Foale.
Here's Expedition Seven, the first two-man crew: Yuri Malenchenko and Edward Lu.
Here's Expedition Six, the crew who were up when Columbia died: Ken Bowersox, Don Pettit, and Nikolai Budarin, .
Here's Expedition Five, the crew who had just come home: Valery Korzun, Peggy Whitson, and Sergei Treschev.
Here's Expedition Four: Valery Korzun, Peggy Whitson, and Sergei Treschev.
Here's Expedition Three: Frank Culbertson, Vladimir Dezhurov, and Mikhail Turin.
Here's Expedition Two: Yuri Usachev, Susan Helms, and Jim Voss..
Here's Expedition One, the crew who was there first: Bill Shepherd, Sergei Krikalev, and Yuri Gidzenko. |
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<?php
namespace Symfony\Component\Process;
use Symfony\Component\Process\Exception\RuntimeException;
/**
* PhpProcess runs a PHP script in an independent process.
*
* $p = new PhpProcess('<?php echo "foo"; ?>');
* $p->run();
* print $p->getOutput()."\n";
*
* @author Fabien Potencier <[email protected]>
*
* @api
*/
class PhpProcess extends Process
{
/**
* Constructor.
*
* @param string $script The PHP script to run (as a string)
* @param string $cwd The working directory
* @param array $env The environment variables
* @param int $timeout The timeout in seconds
* @param array $options An array of options for proc_open
*
* @api
*/
public function __construct($script, $cwd = null, array $env = array(), $timeout = 60, array $options = array())
{
$executableFinder = new PhpExecutableFinder();
if (false === $php = $executableFinder->find()) {
$php = null;
}
parent::__construct($php, $cwd, $env, $script, $timeout, $options);
}
/**
* Sets the path to the PHP binary to use.
*
* @api
*/
public function setPhpBinary($php)
{
$this->setCommandLine($php);
}
/**
* {@inheritdoc}
*/
public function start($callback = null)
{
if (null === $this->getCommandLine()) {
throw new RuntimeException('Unable to find the PHP executable.');
}
parent::start($callback);
}
}
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Q: Running 2 Tomcat Servers using different ports with intern() will lock same id or no? In my Tomcat server Java Code I'am using the following code:
int port = 11111;
rmiConnectToMainServer(port);
id = request.getParameter("id").intern();
synchronized(id) {
//call SaleFunction();
}
and in another Tomcat Server Where the port in
int port = 22222;
The question is: Does the String.intern() call use another pool of strings?? or no??
lets say a clients that has id=1234 is buying from both Tomcat Server at the same time, will he be locked ??? or can buy without any lock ???
Please help me, my app is now online .. And I'm afraid If something is wrong.
Thank you in advance
A: One String pool per JVM, so as your Tomcat instances are running in different JVMs your "id" won't be shared.
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UK variant
BY: Harry Brent
RESIDENTS of Dundalk are reportedly split over whether to welcome former ISIS bride Lisa Smith back to her hometown in the event she's released from police custody.
Many people in the Co. Louth town are still afraid she may be a threat due to the fact she hasn't openly condemned the Islamic terror group she's been previously affiliated with.
Others however believe that if she's released by gardai then the Irish public as a whole should be willing to give her a second chance, particularly if detectives deem her safe enough to return to public life.
According to the Irish Mirror, while the town is split on Smith's return, nearly all of those questioned said they thought the government made the right decision in bringing her two-year-old daughter Rakaya back to the country.
One local resident, who knew Smith when she was a girl, described her then as a "lovely child", before saying that while she generally wouldn't feel safe around the former Defence Forces member, the community could take comfort in the fact that the government would be monitoring her closely.
Another resident suggested that Smith "wouldn't be welcome" back in Dundalk and that the government had made a mistake in bringing her home.
"She should not have been brought back into this country. The Government have a sin to answer for. There's homeless living on the streets," she told the Irish Mirror.
Another agreed, saying: "She made her bed she should lie in it. She shouldn't be allowed back here."
"They shouldn't have let her back. She knows a lot. She has to," said another Dundalk native, concerned about her years spent in Syria.
There were those however who said they'd have no problem with Smith returning.
One local said that he was more concerned with the government squandering the taxpayers' money.
"I live right beside her. I have no problem with her coming home. I'm more concerned about the waste of money. Just look what they spent on that printer," he said.
Another said: "I lived in the Middle East for 23 years. I think everyone has the right to come home. Look what happened in London. Anything can happen anywhere."
Smith is currently being questioned by gardai on suspicion of terror offences. She was detained as soon as her flight from Turkey touched down at Dublin Airport on Sunday.
She was due to be released today, however the Dublin District Court announced that her period of detention has been extended by 24 hours this morning.
She'll be returned to Kevin Street Garda Station where she'll be detained until tomorrow morning, where she will either be charged or released.
See More: Co. Louth, Dublin District Court, Dundalk, Gardai, ISIS Bride Lisa Smith, Lisa Smith
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Spinning Science: Overhyped Headlines Lead Readers Astray
Contradictory health messages can be confusing for the public, as can the overwhelming amount of health and science news, much of it overhyped. Courtesy of Robert Hood / Fred Hutch News Service
Tips and tools to help you better understand cancer risk, scientific research and clinical studies
April 8, 2020 • By Diane Mapes
Reading science headlines may cause cancer. Not really. But reading headlines alone — particularly misleading or mendacious ones that distort scientific findings — can cause real harm.
"There is definitely fallout from misunderstanding science," said Ruth Etzioni, PhD, a biostatistician with Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. "Policymakers who have to evaluate the evidence and find the truth in all of this noise may push for the wrong policies." And individuals, she said, may reject beneficial interventions and embrace those that are costly and potentially harmful.
Headlines are not the takeaway, Etzioni said.
"They should only be used to decide whether to read the article or not," she said. "They're written to grab eyeballs and they're often inflammatory and not scientific."
But headlines — often written to gain clicks, not convey information — have become the takeaway in our TLDR (too long, didn't read) society.
And it doesn't stop there.
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Faulty headlines, flawed stories and even puffy PR pieces from research institutions are often picked up and repackaged by news aggregators and health and lifestyle blogs, which results in even more overhyped headlines and misinformation crowding our social feeds and confusing the public. That misinformation then gets promoted via social media by the same organizations to grab eyeballs. And groups with a particular agenda will spread the already distorted information with their own, intentional distortions to support their ideas. It's like the game Telephone, except instead of making your friends giggle, you accidentally hurt them by passing along bad information.
A recent study on hair dye and chemical straighteners spun so far off course that the people most at risk — black women who use these products more than others — weren't even mentioned in most of the coverage. Instead, headlines warned that "Hair dyes could raise risk of breast cancer" or predicted new trends about fearful women "going gray" or took crazy liberties with the researchers' findings. Fast Company even provided a few creative descriptors, "A harrowing study of 46,000 women shows hair dyes are heavily associated with cancer." Associated, yes. Heavily — if that means strongly — not at all.
But it's not just that science headlines are overblown or inaccurate, it's that tiny studies with little statistical heft, or "power," will get huge media attention. Or extremely complicated research that requires nuance and context is reported with neither. Or the constant back and forth of conflicting studies confuses people so much they start to get all their health and medical advice from Dr. Dre.
It doesn't help that scientists are often unable to explain their research in a 10-second, lay-friendly sound byte. Instead, they talk about statistically positive linear trends, risk associations, multivariable Cox regression analyses, and relative and absolute risk. It's no surprise that earnest scientists and public servants of the National Institutes of Health fail to draw the same level of attention and glamor to their work when they're up against some goopy actress / lifestyle entrepreneur.
Epidemiological and clinical research, usually the studies that attract the most attention from the media, are complicated, and the average reader may not have the chops to cut through the jargon and comprehend the statistics-speak. See Susan Keown's story on understanding statistics, numeracy and risk models.
Health and science journalists can do this for us, turning scientific papers into understandable news stories for the lay reader. But general interest media outlets like newspapers and broadcast news have cut back on their science reporters and reporting. And while many science-focused content providers have sprouted up, they are competing for the same eyeballs and ad dollars as sports and lifestyle outlets — which can lead to shallower dives into the latest science.
Meanwhile, the volume of research papers is exploding, with something like 3 million papers published in 2018 alone.
How can the public tell whether good science has fallen victim to an overblown headline or questionable science has gone viral due to clickbait-y coverage?
"The first thing people should do is read the story, not just the headline," Etzioni said. "Then you should find the study and read that [editor's note: if you are able — many have paywalls]. Then you may want to go online and see if you can find studies that disagree with it. You may well see that there are just as many studies that find the opposite results. At that point, you might decide to throw up your hands, but don't. This is the process of science."
Etzioni said other important questions to ask include: How big is the study? How long do they follow the people for results? How do they measure the things they're seeking to measure? And, are there any conflicts of interest?
Readers, particularly patients trying to better understand medical research, can always rely on sites like NIH.gov or the National Cancer Institute's cancer.gov for good solid information. But readers should also consider the following questions when reading health and science stories (and the studies they're based on):
Are we talking mice or men? Scientists have cured mice of cancer hundreds of times. We're not mice. Don't get sucked in by breathless headlines about new cancer cures when the therapy hasn't even been tried on a single human being. Pro tip: "pre-clinical" is another way of saying "no human subjects." Also, "murine" means it involves mice.
What kind of study is this? Randomized clinical trials, or RCTs, are the gold standard of research and the type of study that you would look to for potential new cancer therapies. But that's only one type. There are also prospective cohort studies, observational studies, meta-analyses, case-control studies, systematic reviews and more. Each has its own place on the research continuum. Knowing the type of study can help you better understand the significance of the finding. Ditto for the various phases of clinical trials. Phase 1 is preliminary research. Phase 3 or 4 means it's available or nearly available for use in people. Sci-curious? Check out Kristen Woodward's explainer on types of scientific studies.
How big is your cohort? Size matters when it comes to many studies, particularly epidemiological ones that tell us what causes disease. Big cohorts give you a broad public health perspective. Small cohorts can be valuable as well, since they provide enticing clues that can be explored through additional research. Sometimes, though, small studies with preliminary findings or even single patient case studies will be given a disproportionate amount of media attention and hype, which usually only serves to raise false hope. Case in point: After Nature Medicine published findings from an "n of one" (single patient) immunotherapy trial, the story went viral, causing many cancer patients to clamor for the exact same treatment. See Jake Siegel's story on the importance of sample size in scientific studies.
Who are you again? Readers should always consider the source, both the place where the story appeared and the scientific journal itself. Did the story come from a reputable news outlet (think Wall Street Journal, ABC News, NPR, STAT or Kaiser Health News) or is it a lifestyle site designed to sell you $600 skin cream? Also where was the study was published? Most of us know we can rely more on The New York Times than, say, the Weekly World News. Scientific journals have their own hierarchy, too, with some considered more "impactful" than others. Was this a well-regarded scientific journal? Was the study peer-reviewed? See Sabin Russell's take on peer-reviewed journals and how they are being disrupted by open access science.
Is this fake science? Sometimes health stories will bubble up from the bowels of the internet and go viral when there's not a speck of science behind them. Such is the case with the myth of the cancer-causing bra, which stemmed from a book published 25 years ago. This fake science story was repeated so often and produced so much anxiety, scientists at Fred Hutch finally decided to research it. Their findings, based on interviews with more than 1,000 women: Yes, women wear bras. Yes, women get breast cancer. But no, bras do not cause breast cancer, just like ice cream sales do not cause homicides, even though they both increase during summer. Correlation and causation are a common source of confusion. Sabrina Richards' story helps clear it up.
This article was originally published on February 13, 2020, by Hutch News. It is republished with permission.
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Cradle to Cradle Congress takes place in Berlin for the first time
(Based on the Cradle to Cradle press release of 4 February 2020; photos by Max Arens)
Climate-friendly behaviour and economic success do not have to, and indeed must not, be mutually exclusive. That was the core message at the kick-off for the 6th International Cradle to Cradle (C2C) Congress on 31 January and 1 February in Berlin. "I am convinced that a solution for the environmental and climate problems will not weaken business", said Germany's Federal Environment Minister, Svenja Schulze, in her welcoming address, adding that it was "important that we talk about perspectives and opportunities." The Cradle to Cradle approach, she said, was "very optimistic, very visionary" and thus was a step in precisely the right direction.
C2C stands for comprehensive climate protection that goes well beyond the mere reduction of greenhouse gases. As a result, the organiser of the congress, the Cradle to Cradle NGO, is calling for more ambitious goals from policymakers and the economy. Already during the design phase of products, usage scenarios must be drawn up while, during production, suitable and healthy materials must be used. "C2C also stands for climate protection. But we must leave behind the idea of striving to be less bad and say goodbye to the concept of reduction as the sole approach," said Nora Sophie Griefahn, managing director of Cradle to Cradle.
NEW MEASURES EVERY YEAR
In her subsequent discussion with Griefahn, Sabine Nallinger (Chairwoman, Foundation 2° – German Businesses for Climate Protection) and Reinhard Schneider (CEO, Werner & Mertz GmbH), Environment Minister Schulze said it was unrealistic to consider the climate package adopted by the German government in 2019 a sufficient measure to set appropriate regulatory conditions. "We have to stay focused, keep going further every year and introduce new measures", she said.
German companies should also face up to their responsibility for climate and the environment, Nallinger said, not least for competitive reasons. "Climate-friendly technologies present an opportunity to perform better than others in international competition", she said. "We have to do a lot more when it comes to C2C product design, new sharing models and new organisational solutions."
OVERCOMING CONFLICTS OF OBJECTIVE
One example is the cleaning agent manufacturer Werner & Mertz. According to its CEO, Reinhard Schneider, the company is experiencing a societal change. "For 30 years, we have been working against the misconception that sustainability also means sacrifice", said Schneider. "Today, there are many more technologies that can help overcome this supposed conflict of goals." This was becoming more and more accepted in society, he added.
Tim Janßen, Executive Director of the Cradle to Cradle NGO, shares this assessment. "Fortunately, climate change and climate protection are topics that have moved up on society's priority list", he said at the event, which was attended by around 1,000 people on Friday.
AGRICULTURE AND SOIL
On Saturday the C2C Congress once more provided a forum discussions and debates with a wide variety of topics. An important theme was agriculture and soil management – soil, after all, is an important carbon sink. In one of the panels rounds, Professor Dr Hartmut Vogtmann said: "With our knowledge, we have put guilt upon ourselves." Vogtmann, one of the pioneering figures in the context of organic farming, explained that agriculture originally was synonymous with circular economy and biodiversity. However, he said society had left this path and, by focusing on linear growth, had entered a damaging downward spiral. Around 40 million tons of greenhouse gases, he added, were emitted in Germany every year due to the overuse of grasslands and fens.
AGRICULTURE AS A COMMON GOOD
"We need a new approach to agriculture and the role it plays in society. It's not just about food – agriculture must be understood as a common good", Vogtmann said. He calls for a decrease in harmful subsidies around the world, a reduction in land usage, a stop to the loss of species and a rewetting of soils, adding that this must include adjustments to land and mining regulations so that the distribution of land can be restructured.
Many other experts were invited to contribute their insights on this topic. Participants at the congress were also able to exchange their ideas about C2C in the contexts of construction, finance or plastics. Further information is available on the C2C Congress website.
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February 7, 2023: Women in Lead event in Berlin. In 2021, the "Women in Lead" network was founded out of the SPD Economic Forum to add female leaders to the dialogue on the key economic and social issues of the day. Now it will be expanded to include an "Expert Group."
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March 30, 2023: Participation in the real estate congress of the Federal Association of Free Real Estate and Housing Companies (BFW). Discussion in the panel "Departure into the circular economy." Click here for the program (in German).
April 20, 2023: Start of the four-day nature film festival Lüneburger Heide under the patronage of Monika Griefahn. You will find the program here shortly (in German).
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Planning group for the next Nature Film Festival Lueneburg Heath.
April 20-24, 2023: 2nd Nature Film Festival Lueneburg Heath with Monika Griefahn as patron. At four venues in the region of the Lüneburger Heide Nature Park, after 2021, it is once again: "Film off!" Visitors can expect fantastic nature films, stirring documentaries and, above all, great conversations with filmmakers and experts. From now on, check the status of the program planning at www.films4future.de (German).
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In May 2021, the climate committee was constituted in the climate forum at my place of residence in Buchholz in the Nordheide. I am pleased to be chairwoman of the advisory board! The city has set itself the goal of becoming climate neutral and there is still a lot to do to achieve this. The committee advises the municipal administration on fundamental questions of climate policy.
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Environmental, social, and energy conservation considerations are integral elements in transportation investments. Beyond the construction and maintenance of transportation projects IDOT is proactive in protecting and preserving the environment and maintaining or improving quality of life for Illinois residents. All transportation projects, involving the use of state and federal funds are required to follow formal procedures designed to protect the natural and social environment, this includes wetlands, plants, animals, air and water quality, archaeological and historic sites, agriculture, and communities.
IDOT strives to reduce or eliminate adverse environmental impacts and as appropriate to identify mitigation or remediation actions to achieve the best possible outcome during project development, design, and construction. Environmental regulations encompass air quality, traffic noise, community impacts such as relocations and access changes, natural resources including protected species and habitats, cultural resources such as pre-historic and historic sites, and land and water contamination issues.
In order to ensure the transportation projects are in compliance with state and federal environmental laws and regulations, IDOT uses special technical expertise to conduct surveys, review and/or prepare portions of environmental documents, and coordinate projects with state and federal resource agencies. IDOT also oversees and coordinates the activities of University of Illinois scientists and specialists located within the Illinois Natural History Survey, the Illinois State Archaeological Survey, and the Illinois State Geological Survey who conduct a variety of scientific surveys.
Please visit the Consultant Resources webpage (toward bottom of page) to view Environmental resources as the Environmental Survey Request (ESR) form, which initiates the Phase 1 review process.
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Air pollution is derived from numerous sources. These include: stationary sources such as power plants, large industrial sources, metals, and chemical processing as well as small businesses such as print shops, gas stations, and dry cleaning shops; mobile sources including cars, trucks, buses, planes, trains, as well as construction and lawn equipment; natural sources such as dust, volcanoes or fires including forest and wild fires, controlled burns such as prairies; and finally, other combustion sources including furnaces in our homes, plants, and fires from wood-burning fire places, etc. All these sources contribute to and release different pollutants and incomplete combustion emissions into the atmosphere. The chart below depicts the air pollutants by emission category.
Source: U.S. EPA, Our Nation's Air Status and Trends Through 2008, February 2010.
*(Particulate Matter (PM); Ammonia (NH 3); Sulfur Dioxide (SO 2); Nitrogen Oxides (NO x); Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC); Carbon Monoxide (CO))
Air emissions from these source categories are regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) and state and local air agencies. U.S. EPA has developed health-based air standards which are known as the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for six criteria pollutants. These include: carbon monoxide, lead, nitrogen dioxide, particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10), ozone, and sulfur oxide.
According to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), "Transportation contributes to four of the six criteria pollutants: ozone, carbon monoxide, particulate matter, and nitrogen dioxide." Currently in Illinois, two areas of the State do not achieve the NAAQS for the 8-Hour ozone standard and PM2.5 annual standard: the Chicago Metropolitan Area and the Metro East St. Louis area. The exhibits below depict Illinois' PM2.5 and ozone 8-hour non-attainment areas. The Illinois EPA Annual Air Quality Report includes additional information.
To fulfill specific air quality requirements under the Clean Air Act (CAA), IDOT partners and works closely with the U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. and Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPO), to deal with regional as well as micro-scale air quality issues. To help achieve transportation air quality planning goals and to attain the NAAQS, IDOT works through the inter-agency consultation process to ensure that the Long Range Plans and Transportation Improvement Programs, developed by MPOs, conform with air quality improvement plans.
IDOT also evaluates and documents various micro-scale air quality issues such as carbon monoxide and particulate matter hot-spot analyses, in our environmental documents to fulfill National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), CAA, and other air quality requirements. Chapters 24 to 26 of the Bureau of Design and Environment (BDE) Manual outlines various highway-related air quality issues that are documented in IDOT NEPA documents.
In addition, air quality emissions from construction-related activities are also addressed. To address potential dust concerns, Dust Control requirements are outlined in IDOT's Standard Specifications for Road and Bridge Construction.
IDOT has developed additional construction-related specifications and contract special provisions dealing with the use of cleaner diesel fuel, idling reduction requirements for construction equipment, and the installation of emission control devices on contractor vehicles. Construction air quality specifications (cleaner diesel fuel and idling reduction requirements) are contained in Article 107.41 of the Standard Specifications for Road and Bridge Construction.
IDOT has also included a special provision for the installation of emission control devices on contractor vehicles.
IDOT has also sponsored various Air Quality meetings and Peer Exchanges to discuss emerging air quality issues and state-of-the-art air quality practices. Representatives from state DOT's, FHWA, MPOs, U.S. and Illinois EPA have attended and participated in these meetings. Proceedings from these meetings are provided below:
Conference Proceedings: Midwest Transportation Air Quality Summit
Proceedings of the Particulate Matter Hot Spot Analysis Peer Exchange Meeting
Proceedings of the Mobile Source Air Toxics Peer Exchange Meeting
Air Quality Planning for Transportation Officials, FHWA
IDOT maintains approximately 60,000 bridges over streams and rivers. During the construction or rehabilitation of bridge structures, IDOT must comply with the Clean Water Act, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act, and other related laws and regulations. To comply with these regulations IDOT conducts environmental surveys. These field surveys range from the identification of federal and state listed endangered and threatened species to the characterization of the physical (substrate), biological (fish, mussels, aquatic macroinvertebrates), and chemical (concentrations of heavy metals, chloride, dissolved oxygen) components of streams. The results of these surveys are used to obtain permits (section 404 and 401 of the Clean Water Act) from the Corps of Engineers, Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) and/or to meet the requirements of NEPA.
IDOT looks at rivers on the National Wild and Scenic River System and the Nationwide Rivers Inventory and coordination may occur for work on these streams with the National Park Service. IDOT uses IEPA Illinois Integrated Water Quality Report and Section 303(d) List to determine streams or lakes water quality standards, the designated uses of these water bodies, and the IEPA assessment of these uses.
Highways may impact water quality through storm water runoff. IDOT is involved in activities to control and reduce contamination from highway runoff (see Storm Water Management Program on this website). Deicing materials used for snow and ice removal flow into area streams via roadside ditches and/or storm sewers. In addition, a portion of road salt that remains on the pavement may be dispersed into the air due to the motion of traffic. In order to analyze atmospheric dispersal of salt, IDOT, in conjunction with the Illinois State Tollway Authority and the Federal Highway Administration initiated studies that were performed by the Illinois Water Survey.
Atmospheric Dispersion Study of Deicing Salt Applied to Roads: First Progress Report
Atmospheric Dispersion Study of Deicing Salt Applied to Roads: Final Report
The 1987 Illinois Groundwater Protection Act was implemented to protect groundwater resources from degradation. The Act allows for the establishment of both regulated groundwater recharge areas and groundwater protection areas. For transportation projects groundwater is assessed in terms of recharge areas to identify the potential for proposed highway corridors to contaminate shallow aquifers. Groundwater studies using monitoring wells are often performed in areas that are considered sensitive because they support plant communities containing endangered or threatened species or land areas that have been designated as Natural Areas or Nature Preserves. Potential impacts to these resources can involve interruption and/or change in groundwater flow patterns. Areas featuring karst topography are especially subject to groundwater contamination because these areas do not contain the usual filtering layers provided by soil so that surface water contamination can flow directly into the groundwater.
An aquifer is an area containing saturated (with groundwater) soils and geologic materials that are sufficiently permeable to readily yield economically useful quantities of water to wells, springs, or streams under ordinary hydraulic gradients. A sole-source aquifer is one which supplies at least 50 percent of the drinking water consumed in the overlying area with no practicable alternative drinking water source. While Illinois has no designated sole-source aquifer at the present time, it has many shallow (sand and gravel) and deep (bedrock) aquifers. Public well water supplies are regulated through set back zones established by IEPA.
Every two years the IEPA issues an "Illinois Integrated Water Quality Report and Section 303(d) List". Information on groundwater standards and groundwater quality can be found in this report.
Floodplains are areas of land that could be inundated by floodwaters from any source. Floodplains usually occur adjacent to streams, rivers, and lakes. Transportation projects are assessed for the potential for impacts to floodplains, more specifically encroachments into the 100-year floodplain. The 100-year floodplain is defined as an area that has a 1 percent or 1 chance in 100 of experiencing a flood condition that exceeds any previous 1 year period. Coordination with the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers and the Department of Natural Resources Office of Water Resources (IDNR-OWR) is required to obtain the necessary permits for work within floodplains. A regulated floodway is the channel of the stream plus any adjacent floodplain areas. These areas must be kept free of encroachment so that the 1 percent chance annual flood can occur without substantial increases in flood heights. Depending upon the location of the regulated floodplain, the regulatory authority may be the community within which the floodway is located, FEMA or IDNR-OWR. Bridge structures located over major rivers such as the Mississippi must be coordinated with the U.S. Coast Guard to ensure that pier placement does not affect shipping channels.
IDOT assesses potential impacts to wildlife and their habitats while planning and designing transportation facilities. To comply with the National Environmental Protection Act and other state and federal environmental laws and regulations, special studies and assessments are conducted, and coordination with state and federal natural resource agencies is initiated. Project impacts to wildlife are identified and evaluated and consideration is given to implementing practical measures to avoid, minimize, and mitigate any adverse impact to these valuable resources. To accommodate wildlife connectivity and to increase safety to the motoring public, IDOT includes wildlife crossing structures such as underpasses, culvert extension, and fencing within project designs in environmentally sensitive locations that feature quality habitat. These measures not only reduce wildlife mortality and the number of vehicle-animal collisions but help to ensure that species populations remain viable. In addition, IDOT considers effects on area sensitive migratory birds during project development and evaluates the potential for habitat fragmentation.
IDOT is one of many state and local agencies, and environmental groups involved in the "Illinois Wildlife Action Plan." This initiative was developed to address the particular needs of wildlife species in an effort to stabilize and reverse trends in declining populations. The plan can be accessed here.
Other sources of information about this topic include:
The 2006 publication "Eco-Logical: An Ecosystem Approach to Developing Infrastructure Projects" is a guide for making infrastructure more sensitive to wildlife and ecosystems through greater interagency cooperation. More information on the "Eco-Logical" approach can be found here.
"The North American Breeding Bird Survey" is a major landscape-level survey of the birds of North America. It is an on-going cooperative program sponsored jointly by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Canadian Wildlife Service. The main purpose of this roadside survey is to estimate population trends of the many species of birds that nest in North America and migrate across international boundaries. More information can be found on the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service website or the North American Breeding Bird Survey page.
The Illinois Natural History Survey website contains extensive information regarding all aspects of vertebrate and invertebrate species in Illinois. The "Inventory of Resource Rich Areas," a watershed based land cover survey that identifies areas within the state that contain high quality habitat such as large tracts of woodlands and nearly one-half of the remaining wetlands can be found on the Illinois Natural History Survey Research webpage.
Information regarding wildlife – vehicle collisions can be found on the Deer Vehicle Crash Information Clearinghouse webpage. This national study details the causes and impacts to wildlife-vehicle collisions. The site is a deer crash information clearinghouse that contains accident data and suggested countermeasures and strategies to reduce the number of deer-vehicle accidents.
Threatened and Endangered Species
Under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 and the Illinois Endangered Species Act, IDOT is required to consult with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (U.S. FWS) and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) to insure that the department's projects are not likely to jeopardize the continued existence of any endangered and threatened species (listed species). IDOT Division of Highways, Bureau of Design and Environment (BDE) procedures for consulting with the U.S. FWS and IDNR on these two Acts are detailed in Chapters 26 (section 26-9) and 27 (section 27-1) of the BDE manual.
The department utilizes in-house expertise together with other sources of geographic information to screen project areas for the presence of habitats that may contain or be suitable for a listed species. In the event a listed species is present or there is suitable habitat within a project area, IDOT will conduct surveys through a statewide contract with the Illinois Natural History Survey (INHS) to determine the continued presence of the species and suitable habitat in the area which aids the department in avoiding impacts, minimizing impacts, and as a last case scenario mitigating impacts. More information can be found on the INHS website.
There are occasions where the department will request INHS through the statewide contract to conduct surveys throughout the state or a specific region to gather more data to further streamline consultation with the agencies. One example of that is the survey work performed in District 1 for the Indiana bat. More information can be found under the Indiana Bat (below).
Indiana Bat
IDOT's BDE, Illinois State Toll Highway Authority, and Chicago office of the U.S. FWS developed a plan in 2006 for a mist-netting survey in northeastern Illinois to determine if the federally endangered Indiana Bat (Myotis Sodalis) occurs in the region. The U.S. FWS staff produced a list of 20 survey areas, primarily in public ownership, in Cook, DuPage, Kane, Kankakee, Lake, McHenry, and Will counties that were deemed to provide high-quality summer habitat for the Indiana Bat. Most of these areas included multiple netting sites. INHS conducted the survey during the summers of 2006 and 2007. Mist netting was conducted for 87 nights at 43 sites. This represented a 176 net-nights of effort (1 net-night = 1 net checked for one night). Following this effort, no Indiana Bats were captured by the INHS. The Indiana Bat collected in Chicago in September 1928 remains the only record for the area. Results of the 2006-2007 survey suggest that the Indiana Bat is extinct from the northeast corner of the state. Survey results will be used by the U.S. FWS to clear a number of transportation projects over the next several years that involve impacts to suitable habitat for the Indiana Bat.
Below are the results for the 2006 and 2007 mist netting surveys:
2006 Survey Location Map
2006 Report Appendix
2007 Report Appendix 1
Illinois Endangered Species Act of 1971
Federal Endangered Species Act of 1973
Interagency Cooperation—Endangered Species Act of 1973, as Amended, Subpart B, Consultation Procedures (50 CFR Part 402)
Consultation Procedures for Assessing Impacts of Agency Actions on Endangered and Threatened Species and Natural Areas (17 Ill. Adm. Code Part 1075)
Incidental Taking of Endangered or Threatened Species (17 Ill. Adm. Code Part 1080)
Memorandum of Understanding between IDNR and IDOT
Bureau of Design and Environment Manual
IDOT complies with Section 404 of the Clean Water Act (CWA) and the Illinois Interagency Wetland Policy Act of 1989 (IWPA). Departmental procedures for ensuring compliance with the CWA and IWPA are detailed in the IDOT Wetlands Action Plan, Bureau of Design and Environment Manual, Chapter 26-8. Under the CWA and IWPA, IDOT must demonstrate that all measures were taken to first avoid and then minimize impacts to wetlands to the fullest extent practicable. Unavoidable impacts are mitigated by way of wetland compensation through either restoration or creation of wetlands.
IDOT. The INHS and Illinois State Geological Survey provide technical assistance to IDOT in locating, evaluating and monitoring compensatory wetlands. More information on the Wetlands Group can be found on INHS's Wetland Science Program webpage.
IDOT Wetland Compensation Sites
Route and FAP #
ISGS#
Alexander East Cape Girardeau IL 146, FAP 312 81 Active
Coles I-57/TR1000N Interchange TR1000N, TR41 N/A Active
Effingham Green Creek IL33, FAP 774 75 Active
Franklin Sugar Camp Creek IL 3, FAP 312 74 Inactive
Hancock Hancock County near Carthage US 136, FAP 315 & 10 42 Active
Henderson Gulfport US 34, FAP 313 29 Inactive
Henry Joslin IL 92, FAP 585 23 Inactive
Jackson Carbondale US 51, FAP 332 65 Inactive
Jackson De Soto US 51, FAP 332 68 Inactive
Jo Daviess Galena River Bridge, West Stagecoach Trail FAS 67 46 Inactive
Johnson Max Creek IL 147, FAS 932 80 Active
Lake North Chicago IL 47, FAP 326; IL 56, FAP 365 N/A Active
Macon Decatur US 51, FAP 322 27 Active
Madison Sand Road US 267, FAP 310 15 Inactive
Madison Former Luehmann Property, New River Crossing FAP 999 51 Inactive
Mercer Edwards River, Mercer County US 67, FAP 310 50 Inactive
Perry Pyatts Blacktop IL 13 & 127, FAP 42 67 Inactive
Perry Swan Road TR 222 86 Active
Pike Hannibal Bridge US 36, FAP 319 10 Inactive
Rock Island Milan Beltway, Airport Road FAU 5822 17 Active
Rock Island Milan Beltway, Phase 1 Green Rock FAU 5822 44 Active
Rock Island Milan Beltway, Phase 2 Green Rock FAU 5822 44 Inactive
Rock Island Milan Beltway, Rock Island Site FAU 5822 N/A* Active
Saline Harrisburg US 45, FAP 332 63 Active
Saline Harrisburg, Site 2 IL 14, FAP 857 N/A* Active
Saline Harrisburg Site 3 IL 13, FAP 331 N/A* Active
Saline Saline County IL 13, FAP 331 18 Active
Sangamon Veteran's Parkway, Springfield FAP 662 9 Inactive
Sangamon Springfield IL 29, FAP 658 54 Inactive
Sangamon Buckhart TR 478, FAS 1637 58 Inactive
Stephenson Orangeville IL 26, FAP 316 16 Inactive
Stephenson Jane Addams Trail US 20, FAP 301 72 Active
Stephenson Weber Property N/A 79 Active
Union Tamms IL 127, FAS 1907 71 Active
Will Grant Creek North I-55, FAI 55 N/A* Active
Winnebago Pecatonica River Forest Preserve Harrison Avenue Extension 73 Inactive
Wetland Mitigation Bank Sites
The link below will provide electronic copies of base-line studies, instruments and monitoring reports for IDOT bank sites and multi-use compensation sites.
IDOT Wetland Mitigation Bank Sites
Eckmann & Bischoff
Fairmont City
Sugar Camp Creek
Illinois Wetland Restoration and Creation Guide
Compensatory Mitigation for Losses of Aquatic Resources; Final Rule
2010 FHWA Exemplary Ecosystem Initiative – Nomination Submittal for North Chicago
IDOT Wetlands Action Plan April 15, 1998
Illinois Inter-agency Wetland Policy Act of 1989
1987 Corps of Engineers Wetlands Delineation Manual
Roadside Maintenance
Please navigate to Roadside Maintenance to view more information.
In 1956, the Illinois Department of Transportation established a policy for the preservation of cultural properties found in proposed highway rights-of-ways and currently partners with the Illinois State Archaeological Survey (ISAS) for specialized services, such as archaeological surveys and excavations, field work and reports and documentation to name a few.
Historic Bridges
IDOT partners with the Illinois State Archaeological Survey (ISAS) to maintain Historic Bridge Survey inventories to maintain an inventory of the State's Historic Bridges, which are at least fifty years old and of historical significance.
IDOT Guidance for Photographing Historic Structures
I-LAST: Illinois Livable and Sustainable Transportation Rating System and Guide
In the years since the National Environmental Policy Act was signed into law in 1970, the range of concerns about the relationship between the highway and its associated effects on the surrounding environment has expanded. The approach of sustainability and I-LAST is to incorporate a broader range of issues into the development and completion of state highway projects.
This document is titled Illinois Livable and Sustainable Transportation (I-LAST) Rating
System and Guide and is a sustainability performance metric system developed by the Joint
Sustainability Group of the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT), the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) and the Illinois Road and Transportation Builders Association (IRTBA). The intent is that this rating system and guide will be revised as the state of the art evolves – utilizing the input of industry users.
Community Impact Assessment
Community Impact Assessment (also referred to as Socio-economic Assessment) is a process used to evaluate the effects of transportation projects on community residents and their quality of life. Typically these effects may include changes in access, business and residential relocations, environmental justice issues, cohesion impacts, affects on public facilities and services, development and growth patterns, land use changes and other potential results associated with improvements in infrastructure. The assessment process is an integral part of project planning and development. Public involvement during the early stages of project development can ensure that the community residents are not only aware of the planned improvement but play an active role in achieving the greatest possible benefit for the most people. These processes are in place to facilitate beneficial results for the community.
IDOT's Community Impact Assessment Manual has been developed for use in the identification and assessment of socioeconomic impacts. This manual provides a description of the community impacts that may occur as a result of a transportation project, and specifies methods, techniques and data requirements for conducting a community study. Also included are procedures for presenting the results of the assessment in environmental documents and a description of mitigation measures that can be applied if adverse impacts are unavoidable.
Traffic Noise
It is the policy of the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) to assess traffic noise impacts on proposed transportation projects such as highways on new location or the addition of through travel lanes. Land uses evaluated for noise impacts include residential areas, schools, libraries, and parks or other recreational areas which may be affected by highway traffic noise. During the project development stage traffic noise studies are performed. The Federal Highway Administrations' (FHWA) Traffic Noise Model (TNM) is used to predict traffic noise impacts. If the predicted noise levels approach or exceed FHWA's noise abatement criteria, noise abatement measures are considered. Abatement measures such as noise walls or berms are effective in reducing traffic noise that will result from the transportation improvement. While landscaping can be used as an effective visual barrier, studies have shown that trees and shrubbery alone do not provide significant reduction in noise levels and are not approved as a noise abatement measure.
To aid in the understanding of the nature of noise in general, and traffic noise in particular, the IDOT Traffic Noise Tutorial was updated based on IDOT's new noise policy, approved in 2011. This information is presented in three parts, or modules, along with a section on frequently asked questions and a glossary of terms and acronyms. The first module explains what noise is, the way in which it is perceived and measured, variations within distances and how mobile sources affect noise. The second part of the tutorial presents information regarding the initiation of a noise analysis, federal regulations regarding traffic noise, a description of noise monitoring and the components or inputs used in the TNM. Part three describes various noise abatement measures and approaches and describes noise barrier evaluation and design.
IDOT's Highway Traffic Noise Assessment Manual describes techniques and procedures for analyzing and reporting traffic noise impacts. The Manual was updated in 2011 based on IDOT's new noise policy, and includes a discussion of abatement measures which can be incorporated into project designs to mitigate traffic noise impacts. Also included are references and examples to aid in the evaluation of traffic noise and abatement, as well as guidelines for the documentation of analyses in IDOT environmental documents. This guidance manual is issued in an effort to ensure that studies and reports on traffic noise prepared by or for IDOT are consistent with existing laws and regulations and are technically accurate and sufficient.
Noise Fundamentals
Noise Abatement
Noise Analysis
Noise 101
Measuring and Predicting Noise
Studying Traffic Noise Abatement
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IL 58 at Barrington Road - Village of Hoffman Estates, IL
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IL 132 Deep Lake Road to Munn Road (Dryland Bridge) – Villages of Lake Villa and Lindenhurst
IL Route 58 Drainage Improvements - City of Des Plaines, IL
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Established by Geoff Brown in 1988, as a corporate, industrial and mining photography studio in Johannesburg, South Africa, services include the meticulous planning and execution of all assignments.
Careful planning is the key to making any project proceed smoothly. From briefings, style and format decisions, through travel and security arrangements, we take the lead to make the project as effortless as possible for the client.
Whatever the end collateral may be, ad, brochure, annual reports or website, our goal is to deliver unique, dynamic and arresting images that make our client's company look great.
Services Include - Industrial, mining, corporate, construction and architectural photography.
Geoff Brown occupies a very fortunate niche - being able to combine a lifelong facination and passion for both photography and the industrialised world. This and years of experience is the backbone to creating compelling, unusual and exciting industrial, mining and corporate photographs.
From a personal point of view, being involved in industrial photography is like living on the Discovery channel, and each shoot is an opportunity to share that experience with the viewer.
From the operational side, being properly prepared and expecting the unexpected, which comes from years of experience, is the only way to make sure we are in the right place at the right time, for best light and subject interest, to create the best possible images.
Specialising in industrial photography - factory and plant, mining and construction, with corporate portraiture, architecture, aerial and product photography as associated services.
The Planet KB studio is located in Rivonia, north of Johannesburg on 2000 square meters of garden.
Our 200 square meter, purpose built studio is capable of handling large sets and vehicles and is fully air conditioned. It has a solid concrete infinity curve (cyclorama) across two sides of it's 13 metre width as well as an electrically driven, centre tilting and rotating, 10 x 5 metre bounce-board.
Over the last few years I've been commissioned to photograph the construction of a massive chemical project in the USA. My shoots have been planned and facilitated by my good buddy Randy, a safety specialist at the existing plant, and an all round great guy.
A few weeks ago Randy advised me of a package arriving for me care of a colleague who was flying to South Africa.
I've just picked up the package and to my great delight, it's a pair of - wait for it......... cowboy safety boots!
On my last shoot I had noticed a few of the construction workers wearing these outrageous cowboy style safety boots and decided I gotta get me some of them. They are fully compliant, steel toecapped, chemical and electrical resistant and all the rest. Unfortunately, being loaded down with masses of gear as always, I just couldn't buy a pair to bring home with me.
As an industrial photographer, one our most important pieces of equipment, after the cameras I guess, is a really comfortable pair of safety boots.
Well, I pulled these on as soon as I got back to the studio. Unlike most safety boots they are immediately comfortable and I am beyond delighted with them. Thanks Randy, what an amazing gift!
I haven't taken them off yet and have been thinking that if, as they say in the old Westerns, a man gotta die with his boots on, I guess I should die in these!
Actually, I'm going to test these out to see if they're comfortable enough for me to sleep with them on.
The dilemma now is that as they are such great boots, can I see my way clear to actually using them on site? You can see the state of my old boots and I'm worrying about how much it would hurt to mess up the new ones.
The flip side of that coin is that they would probably just get more awesome with some mileage, dirt and wear on them.
Life's full of tough decisions……….
Bryan Brown has, after much deliberation between continuing his studies in Psychology and Genetics and starting a career in the media industry, has decided to go for the latter.
So far he has obtained a drone pilots licence, organized and initiated all the considerable applications and requirements for their operation and spent much time training with me on stills photography and doing research and training in the many skills needed for motion picture work.
Over the last few years Bryan has been stepping in as assistant on various of my shoots, in between studies etc. and has been trying to decide whether to follow in my footsteps with photography and imaging as a career.
This is now an ongoing effort which is driving towards Planet KB adding video to it's services offered. So far we have acquired various equipment and, more importantly, knowledge and we are finding out that there is an enormous amount still to be learned. In reality the learning in this business, be it stills or video, is a process that never ends.
I have always been exclusively in the stills photography field and that will remain the main drive of the business, especially for me, but more and more these days we are being asked if we can produce video.
It's always been my strong conviction, and it still is, that the two disciplines shouldn't be mixed by one person on one shoot. The requirements are so very different that if the photographer does not put all of their energy into one or the other, the inevitable result will be a compromise in the stills, or the video. Or both.
With this in mind, we have decided that with Bryan joining us, there is a good opportunity for us to venture into video work without compromising our existing skills. In short, let's do this thing properly!
I have to say, it is giving me a lot of satisfaction to be able to pass on some of my many years of experience to my son. But make no mistake, Bryan is enthusiastically finding his own way through all the skills, and in the process I'm learning a lot from him too.
We sometimes go through quite a lot of energy drinks and my view on it is that it is a positive thing in terms of safety. Basically, when you're out on an industrial or mining photography assignment, it often involves working from before sunrise to well after sunset, with probably a hard day of surface or underground photography taking place in adverse conditions between the two. These can have factors like extreme heat and humidity combined with hand hauling heavy equipment over long distances as well as up and down many flights of stairs or ladders.
This is all great - it's free gym and keeps us fit without us having the choice of skipping it when we're tired. However, a little assistance from energy drinks helps to get us safely home after such a day. Often the danger is compounded by the fact that the mine or plant in question is most likely to be quite remote, leaving us driving through the dark on potholed "B" roads.
I'm not generally in favour of artificial stimulants, but if it's a choice between falling asleep at the wheel and getting home safely – better we grab the bull and get some wings.
We try and stay off the stuff as much as possible reasoning that you probably develop a tolerance of some sort to it and then , when you need it most, it may not be as effective.
I've found over the years than Monster (green's the favorite) is great for a mild pick-me-up but when the chips are down and your life may depend on staying sharp, I haven't found anything better than the original Red Bull.
The photography we do requires us to do a great deal of travel by road. Many locations are better accessed by road, especially with the large equipment load we need on mining and industrial photo shoots.
We often choose to drive even seven or eight hour trips rather than fly to save the hassle of transporting gear by air then transferring to hire cars. It's always nice to simply load up the truck with everything we think we may need rather than scrimping and cutting back on gear with flight restrictions in mind.
One of the things I love about this is that we get to see many places that we would otherwise never get to see. Needing to get to a remote destination often takes you through places that most people, especially tourists, would never dream of bothering to travel to. This all works out wonderfully in line with my travel preferences. Whenever I travel on vacation, I deliberately avoid all the tourist sights. It's a feeling that I don't want to see what's put on show, I rather want to see the places that most others never get to. A lot of our locations are in areas that are very far off the beaten track and don't have definite destinations that would cause anyone to go there unless they have business there, or at least a definite purpose.
I'm not saying everyone should visit these sort of places but I do think if gives a wonderful insight into how real people live their lives beyond the cities and the tourist traps.
There is also great beauty out there that never gets seen by others and in a selfish way I feel I get to claim these experiences as my own. |
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import static jp.vmi.indylisp.objects.Symbol.*;
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Q: Calling assembly function from c leads to segmentation fault This is my assembly program add.s
.globl add
add:
movl 4(%esp), %eax
movl 8(%esp), %ebx
addl %ebx, %eax
ret
This is my C program. I am trying to call the assembly program from the C program.
#include <stdio.h>
int add(int a, int b);
int main() {
int res = add(5,6);
printf("%d",res);
return 0;
}
But the above code gives me a segmentation fault. What is causing this error and how do I fix it?
A: Assuming the cdecl calling convention, you are using the ebx register which is supposed not to be clobbered: its value has to be saved and then restored by the callee if it is going to be modified.
The caller assumes that ebx is not going to change by calling a function. Therefore if the callee modifies ebx it has to save it first and then restore it to its original value before returning from the function.
The registers eax, ecx and edx can be used without having to save them first and then restored. Therefore, I would recommend replacing ebx with edx in your code:
add:
movl 4(%esp), %eax
movl 8(%esp), %edx
addl %edx, %eax
ret
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Our Double Decker series is our two storey line. Rather than go out we went up! We have incorporated a retractable top that gives you an entire second floor of space. This design is a must have for applications that require a minimal footprint, basically giving you two trailers that only take the space of one. We also offer this design with slide-outs for those who want to expand in all directions. This concept has many uses and can be built in a wide variety of configurations and lengths. |
It's Not Netanyahu. It's the Nation
Most Israelis, who have never spoken to a single Gazan, only know that the Gaza Strip is a nest of terrorists. That's why it's OK to shoot them. Shocking? Yes, but true
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Palestinian protester runs for cover during a protest at the border between Israel and Gaza on April 4, 2018.Khalil Hamra/AP
One can lash out at the prime minister as much as one wants to — he deserves it. But ultimately one should remember: It's not Benjamin Netanyahu. It's the nation. At least most of the nation. All the displays of evil in recent days and all the farce were designed to satisfy the meanest desires and darkest instincts harbored by Israelis. Israelis wanted blood in Gaza, as much as possible, and deportations from Tel Aviv, as much as possible. There is no way to embellish it; one mustn't blur the facts. Netanyahu – feeble, pathetic, evil or cynical – was propelled by one motive: to please Israelis and fulfill their desires. And what they wanted was blood and deportation.
If only the problem lay with Netanyahu and his government. Then, in one more election, or maybe two, the problem could be fixed. The good guys will take over, Gaza and the asylum seekers will be liberated, the fascist incitement will die out, the standing of the courts will be assured and Israel will again be a place to be proud of. That is a pipe dream. That's why the campaign against Netanyahu is important, but it's definitely not a fateful one. The real battle is much more desperate and its scope is much more widespread. This is a battle over the nation, sometimes even against it.
Even Netanyahu's critics admit that he knows how to identify the wishes of the people. He recognized that the majority wants ethnic cleansing in Tel Aviv, ultra-nationalism, racism and cruelty. Netanyahu, being not quite as bad as his supporters, tried another way for a moment — a more humane and rational way. But when he got burnt and realized that he'd disregarded the desire of the people, he recovered in record time and returned to himself. The base, the electorate, the majority want evil. This is what he provided, and this is something that no election will change. The true calamity is not Netanyahu — it's the fact that any display of humanity in Israel is political suicide.
A straight line of evil and racism runs from the Gaza border to Tel Aviv. In both cases Israelis don't see human beings in front of them. The Gazan and Eritrean are one and the same – subhuman. They have no dreams, no rights and their lives are worthless.
In Gaza, Israeli army snipers shot unarmed demonstrators as if they were on a shooting range, to a chorus of rejoicing by the media and the masses. In south Tel Aviv they are back to arrests and deportations — this, too, to the sound of cheers.
This is what the nation wants and this is what it will get. Even if soldiers kill hundreds of demonstrators in Gaza, Israel will not bat an eyelid. The reason: evil and hatred of Arabs. Gaza is never perceived as it really is, a place inhabited by people, an enormous and terrible prison, a huge site of human experimentation. Most Israelis, who — just like their prime minister — have never spoken to a single Gazan, only know that the Gaza Strip is a nest of terrorists. That's why it's OK to shoot them. Shocking? Yes, but true.
It's the same in south Tel Aviv. When one speaks of "the residents of south Tel Aviv" one means only the racist Jews among them. The blacks living there aren't considered residents any more than the mice living there. The degree of evil harbored toward them was apparent in the responses to the deal Netanyahu presented. Why deport them to Europe and Canada? Why not to Africa? Why not by force? It's a sentiment that's difficult to fathom. Netanyahu only rode the wave of these despicable sentiments. He didn't generate them. Obviously a leader of stature would have fought them but such a leader isn't even on the horizon in Israel. Replacing the nation is also not a feasible option for now.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians prepare for week two of protests at Gaza border
Palestinian man shot and killed by Israeli forces near Gaza border
Israeli anti-occupation group urges soldiers: Refuse orders to fire at unarmed Palestinians
Opposing all this evil there are, of course, other Israelis as well. There is no reason not to label them by the right name: better, more humane, compassionate, conscientious, moral leftists. They are not a negligible minority but the war waged against them by the majority and its government has paralyzed them. Radio anchor Kobi Meidan's apology for feeling shame indicates that this camp is defeated. If the massacre in Gaza and the deportation from south Tel Aviv doesn't bring them to the streets enraged, just like after the Sabra and Shatila massacre, they are a species on the verge of extinction.
We remain a nation of the majority. |
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const models = require('./index');
/**
* Frontend IP configuration of an application gateway.
*
* @extends models['SubResource']
*/
class ApplicationGatewayFrontendIPConfiguration extends models['SubResource'] {
/**
* Create a ApplicationGatewayFrontendIPConfiguration.
* @property {string} [privateIPAddress] PrivateIPAddress of the network
* interface IP Configuration.
* @property {string} [privateIPAllocationMethod] The private IP address
* allocation method. Possible values include: 'Static', 'Dynamic'
* @property {object} [subnet] Reference of the subnet resource.
* @property {string} [subnet.id] Resource ID.
* @property {object} [publicIPAddress] Reference of the PublicIP resource.
* @property {string} [publicIPAddress.id] Resource ID.
* @property {string} [provisioningState] Provisioning state of the public IP
* resource. Possible values are: 'Updating', 'Deleting', and 'Failed'.
* @property {string} [name] Name of the frontend IP configuration that is
* unique within an Application Gateway.
* @property {string} [etag] A unique read-only string that changes whenever
* the resource is updated.
* @property {string} [type] Type of the resource.
*/
constructor() {
super();
}
/**
* Defines the metadata of ApplicationGatewayFrontendIPConfiguration
*
* @returns {object} metadata of ApplicationGatewayFrontendIPConfiguration
*
*/
mapper() {
return {
required: false,
serializedName: 'ApplicationGatewayFrontendIPConfiguration',
type: {
name: 'Composite',
className: 'ApplicationGatewayFrontendIPConfiguration',
modelProperties: {
id: {
required: false,
serializedName: 'id',
type: {
name: 'String'
}
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privateIPAddress: {
required: false,
serializedName: 'properties.privateIPAddress',
type: {
name: 'String'
}
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privateIPAllocationMethod: {
required: false,
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type: {
name: 'String'
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name: 'Composite',
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serializedName: 'properties.publicIPAddress',
type: {
name: 'Composite',
className: 'SubResource'
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serializedName: 'properties.provisioningState',
type: {
name: 'String'
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},
name: {
required: false,
serializedName: 'name',
type: {
name: 'String'
}
},
etag: {
required: false,
serializedName: 'etag',
type: {
name: 'String'
}
},
type: {
required: false,
serializedName: 'type',
type: {
name: 'String'
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}
}
}
};
}
}
module.exports = ApplicationGatewayFrontendIPConfiguration;
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by kellyanncarroll | May 16, 2011 · 10:02 pm
Bridesmaids: Kristen Wiig's Answer to Christopher Hitchens
So, you think we're not funny?
We all know that Christopher Hitchens doesn't think women are funny. Either that or he wrote a Swiftonian-esque proposal in that January 2007 edition of Vanity Fair. Either way, his disdain was palpable.
Like any other 20-something female you may run into this week, I went and saw the movie Bridesmaids over the weekend. And after resurrecting Hitchens' opinion piece online today, I can't help but picture Kristen Wiig, four years ago, throwing this particular issue of VF across the room, sitting down at her laptop and ultimately penning what, by general consensus, has become the funniest "chick flick" of all time, because it seems to me that Wiig has taken every point that Hitchens tried to make and blew it right out of the water. And has done so in heels, no less.
If you read the article, you'll find that Hitchens would like us to think that, by nature, women cannot be funny. We just aren't built like that. He even goes as far as to quote a Stanford research study. Stanford. That's some heavy stuff. He also estimates that women, maybe with the potential for humor, simply can't afford it, because we have to give birth, and shit's about to get real, or something like that. And in another argument, Hitchens concludes that the only things that are actually funny are phallic humor and Jewish jokes. This…I can't even comment on this.
But what Hitchens fails to even touch upon is that humor is absolutely, 100 percent subjective. And what we've been considering humor for the past thousand or so years was classified as such because it was the only thing getting a laugh. But that doesn't mean it's the only thing that can get a laugh.
Since Hitchens' article in 2007, we've seen the rise of women comedians – the likes if Tina Fey, Amy Pohler, Kathy Griffin, Chelsea Handler, etc. While the majority of these ladies had solid careers prior to Hitchens' diatribe, I think it's safe to say that they've flourished since his opinion was met with criticism from their devoted fans. Griffin has won Emmys. 30 Rock and Parks and Recreation have been gaining steam for years. And Tina Fey has become, well, Tina Fey. Not to mention, Mindy Kaling has been kicking ass with The Office, and may, just may keep it alive post-Carell.
And now enters Wiig, who first came onto my radar in Judd Apatow's Knocked Up. For years on SNL, she has carried the female weight, even so much so that she recently retired two of her characters. And now she's co-written and starred in a film about a woman who's best friend is engaged and enlists her to be her maid of honor. Oh, what could be more female? But everyone is enjoying it! Tell me Mr. Hitchens: how the hell did that happen?
Of course, Wiig included the gross-out factor. There's vomit, and pooping in the street, and Jon Hamm and his sex jokes. But in my opinion, the funniest moments came in the subtle hatred between Wiig and Rose Byrne, in the unabashed persona of Melissa McCarthy's character, Maya Rudolph's imaginary drum solo, and, of course, who can forget the plane scene? "It's called civil rights. This is the 90s." It was funny in a way I've never experienced before, and I'm guessing funny in a way that's going to revolutionize how people think about humor. So maybe it's never been that women can't be funny. Maybe it's just that we weren't allowed to be.
So Mr. Hitchens, maybe you'll deny us humor, but you can't deny that we've taken your challenge and met it. Because we're women, and that's what we do. And, to add one more thought to your epistle, maybe it's taking guys so much work to get a giggle out of us because your dick jokes just aren't funny. If Meg Ryan can fake an orgasm in a deli, we can certainly fake a laugh.
And… cue Beyonce's Girls (Who Run the World).
Tagged as Awesomest, Blatant Drunkeness, Celebrities, God Is Laughing At Me, Humor, Movies
3 responses to "Bridesmaids: Kristen Wiig's Answer to Christopher Hitchens"
I burned my bra with the best of them Kelly, but you certainly far surpassed any women's attempt to get a message across to a certain sector of the male community…women ARE stronger, smarter and most definitely funnier. We have to be.
Nicole Johnston (Brosseau)
Favorive scene has to be with Wilson Philips.
Too funny for sure.
Great post Kelly.
Is that how my wedding party looked? "Krista, my dress says hot pink. I mean that's fine, I just wanted to make sure you knew…" |
Cost him a lot less than then others!
Anybody know who the trainer might be?
Frankel x More Joyous should be a f**king ripper.
Google: 'thoroughbred village subject' if you can't use the search function.
I don't think there will be any in-between with this one on the track. A superstar or a superflop.
How would you define 'success' for a horse like this?
I reckon stakes win would do in my book.
Is still worth a fortune even if she doesn't win a race.
ps wasn't it after one of More Joyous's races that Gai gave Singo that full-on hip and shoulder?
Nice enough first trial yesterday.
she looked to really come home strong the last 100 of that trial.
She's a good looker. Love the brand.
Plenty of classic winners in the family. I think she'll follow suit.
Curious as to where all the chestnut and bling came from........Any genetics majors in the building?
Tnoy Morris says the many chestnuts that Frankel has sired come from his female family.
Not sure exactly where though, he was not specific.
The chestnut gene is recessive, so who knows?
In terms of the female family alone, Joie Denise dropped three chestnut foals, only one being by a chestnut stallion whilst Sunday Joy had four chestnut foals, none of whom were by chestnut stallions.
Name has copped a bagging on twitter. I don't mind it. Others? |
Сью́зан Анбе́х (; род. 18 марта 1970 года, Оберхаузен, ФРГ) — немецкая киноактриса.
Биография
Сьюзан Анбех родилась 18 марта 1970 года в Оберхаузене (ФРГ) в семье иранского и французского происхождения.
Карьера
Сьюзан дебютировала в кино в 1993 году, исполнив роль Берил в фильме «Мужчина в доме». Спустя некоторое время Лоуренс Кэздан предложил ей сняться в комедийной мелодраме «Французский поцелуй». В 1996 году Анбех получила эпизодическую роль в кинофильме «Один прекрасный день». Всего же она сыграла в 57-ми фильмах и телесериалах.
Личная жизнь
До 2008 года Сьюзан состояла в фактическом браке с австрийским актёром Бернардом Шайром (род. 1963). У бывшей пары есть ребёнок (род. 2000).
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Are you familiar with the "50+1" rule? Do you know who Bert Trautmann was? We present six interesting and curious facts about football in Germany.
The man in goal? A titan!
Germany has probably produced more outstanding goalkeepers than any other country: from Toni Turek, who rescued the DFB team's World Cup victory over Hungary in 1954, and World Cup goalie Sepp Maier, to the "titan" Oliver Kahn and the DFB's current captain and World Cup winner Manuel Neuer. Goalkeepers are worshipped in Germany. All the same, one of the greatest German goalies of all time was hardly known at all in Germany during his active period as a footballer: during the Second World War, Bert Trautmann from Bremen ended up as a British prisoner-of-war. When released, he decided to stay on in England rather than returning to Germany. He played over 500 times for Manchester City, was named England's footballer of the year in 1956 – and became a legend: despite breaking his neck during the final of the British Football Association Challenge Cup that same year, he continued playing right to the end – ensuring that his team won the title.
Winning? It's all that counts!
England is the motherland of football. And yet the prevailing wisdom there appears to be that the Germans always win! This at least is what Gary Lineker claimed. After his team was defeated by Germany in the semi-final of the 1990 World Cup, the former England player and current TV pundit summed up resignedly: "Football is a simple game. 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win". At the time, the Germans would rarely play beautiful football, but they were often very successful. This view, accepted around the world, only began to change a few years ago when the German squad started adopting a more spectacular and offensive style.
Whether they happen to be in England, Spain or Italy – many clubs in the world's major leagues have long been owned by international corporations, Russian oligarchs or Arab sheikhs. This is not the case in Germany, where the so-called "50+1" rule applies in the Bundesliga: a club must hold at least 50 percent of its own voting rights in its professional division. This means that investors can never acquire full control of a club. However, some German clubs fear that this could put them at an economic disadvantage vis-à-vis the international competition. Others, such as Bayer Leverkusen and RB Leipzig, take advantage of exceptions or cleverly designed organizational structures to circumvent the regulation, which is virtually unique worldwide. Only in Austria is a comparable rule in place.
Only Germany's women footballers are more successful than their male counterparts. The DFB squad has already won the World Cup twice, despite there having only been seven championships for women so far. The DFB women have already won the European Championships eight times. They also won gold at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in 2016 – something the DFB men have never achieved. Incidentally, the only Olympic victory of a German men's team was also the greatest success in East German football: the GDR squad featuring the legendary Dresden playmaker Hans-Jürgen "Dixie" Dörner beat Poland in the final of the 1976 Montreal Olympics.
Germany? Two is better than one!
One goal will never be forgotten in Germany: the winning goal in the only showdown between the two Germanys. The German Democratic Republic (GDR) had qualified for the 1974 World Cup, which was being hosted by the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) of all nations. And to top it all, the draw saw the two teams allocated to the same preliminary round group. On 22 June 1974, the FRG and the GDR faced each other at Hamburg's Volksparkstadion – for the first and last time. In the 77th minute, the only goal of the match was scored by Jürgen Sparwasser, who was 26 years old at the time. The GDR won 1:0 – a salutary wake-up call for the FRG: despite its defeat by the GDR, the team captained by Franz Beckenbauer went on to win the World Cup. And Sparwasser's strip bearing the number 4 is now an exhibit at the Haus der Geschichte history museum in Bonn.
Germany's Bundesliga was only established in 1963 – later than any other professional league in a conventional footballing country. Despite being relatively young, however, it is extremely popular: last season, Germany's top division matches attracted average crowds of 44,657, making it the league with the highest average spectator numbers worldwide. For years, Borussia Dortmund has drawn the biggest crowds, averaging 79,496 fans per match in recent times. The Bundesliga also leads the field as compared with other sports – only the National Football League (NFL), the North American version with the egg-shaped ball, achieves higher stadium ticket sales.
Thomas Winkler writes about sport, films and music for the "taz" newspaper and other media. He is also a pop editor for Berlin city magazines "zitty" and "tip".
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Q: Should L'Hopital's Rule be used for this limit? Question
$$\lim_{x \to 0} \left(\dfrac{\sin x}{x}\right)^{\dfrac{1}{1 - \cos x}}$$
Attempt
This limit is equal to,
$$\lim_{x \to 0} \exp\left({\dfrac{1}{1 - \cos x}\ln \left(\dfrac{\sin x}{x}\right)}\right).$$
I hope to solve this by focusing on the limit,
$$\lim_{x \to 0} {\dfrac{1}{1 - \cos x}\ln \left(\dfrac{\sin x}{x}\right)}.$$
Which is indeterminate of the form "$\frac{0}{0}$". However, repeated application of L'Hopital's Rule seems to lead to an endless spiral of trigonometric terms, but wolfram Alpha says the limit I am focusing on exists.
Is there another way to solve this?
A: Sometimes there can be a lot of repetitions of l'Hopital needed.
And here we even have some "nested" l'Hopital because of $\frac{\sin x}x$.
A nice way to avoid getting lost in l'Hopital bookkeeping is to work with power series expansions. This leads to
$$\tag1\ln\left(\frac{\sin x}x\right)= -\frac16 x^2+O(x^4)$$
and
$$1-\cos x= \frac12 x^2+O(x^4),$$
hence the quotient is just $-\frac13+O(x^2)$ and has limit $-\frac13$.
How does this work before one learns about Taylor series or if one does not even want to worry about convergence?
Well, you may simply consider "$f(x)=a_0+a_1x+\ldots +a_{n-1}x^{n-1}+O(x^n)$" simply as a friendly encoding of "$f$ is at least $n-1$ times continuously differentiable at $x=0$ and $f^{(k)}(0)=k!a_k$ for $0\le k<n$". It follow sthat the most obvious rules apply for combining such results.
Especially, $\sin x=x-\frac16x^3+O(x^5)$ implies $\frac{\sin x}x=1-\frac16x^2+O(x^4)$. Together with $\ln(1+x)=x+O(x^2)$ this produces $(1)$ above. $(2)$ follows simply from $\cos x=1-\frac12x^2+O(x^4)$. Cancellation of $x^2$ and dropping the $O$ terms then is equivalent to applying l*Hopital to times.
A: You can try to expand
$$
\log \frac{\sin x}{x} = -\frac{x^2}{6}-\frac{x^4}{180}+O(x^6)
$$
and reduce to the limit of
$$
\frac{-\frac{x^2}{6}-\frac{x^4}{180}+O(x^6)}{1-\cos x} = \frac{-\frac{x^2}{6}-\frac{x^4}{180}+O(x^6)}{\frac{x^2}{2}-\frac{x^4}{24}+O(x^6)},
$$
which is now easy to solve.
A: It should be used. There may be some little mistakes in your computation.
$$\begin{align*}
\lim_{x\rightarrow0}\frac{1}{1-\cos x}\ln\frac{\sin x}{x}
&=\lim_{x\rightarrow0}\frac{\frac{\cos x}{\sin x}-\frac{1}{x}}{\sin x}\\
&=\lim_{x\rightarrow0}\frac{x\cos x-\sin x}{x\sin^{2}x}\\
&=\lim_{x\rightarrow0}\frac{-x\sin x}{\sin^{2}x+2x\sin x\cos x}\\
&=-\lim_{x\rightarrow0}\frac{1}{\frac{\sin x}{x}+2\cos x}\\
&=-\frac{1}{3}
\end{align*}$$
A: Use $\ln(\frac{\sin x}{x})=\ln(\sin x)-\ln x$
Then, $$\frac{d(\ln(\frac{\sin x}{x}))}{dx}=\cot x-\frac{1}{x}=\frac{x\cos x-\sin x}{x\sin x}$$
and $$\frac{d(1-\cos x)}{dx}=\sin x$$ which gives $$\lim_{x \to 0} {(\frac{1}{1 - \cos x})\ln (\frac{\sin x}{x})}=\lim_{x \to 0} \frac{(x\cos x-\sin x)}{x\sin^2 x}$$ which again applying L'Hopital's rule gives $$\lim_{x \to 0} \frac{(x\cos x-\sin x)}{x\sin^2 x}=\lim_{x \to 0} \frac{-x\sin x}{2x\sin x\cos x+\sin^2 x}=\lim_{x \to 0} \frac{-1}{2\cos x+\frac{\sin x}{x}}=-\frac{1}{3}$$ since $\lim_{x\to 0}\frac{\sin x}{x}=1$
A: One can also simplify as follows:
$\displaystyle \begin{aligned}L &= \lim_{x \to 0}\dfrac{1}{1 - \cos x}\log\left(\dfrac{\sin x}{x}\right)\\
&= \lim_{x \to 0}\dfrac{1}{1 - \cos x}\log\left(1 + \dfrac{\sin x}{x} - 1\right)\\
&= \lim_{x \to 0}\dfrac{1}{1 - \cos x}\left(\dfrac{\sin x}{x} - 1\right)\dfrac{\log\left(1 + \dfrac{\sin x}{x} - 1\right)}{\left(\dfrac{\sin x}{x} - 1\right)}\\
&= \lim_{x \to 0}\dfrac{1}{1 - \cos x}\left(\dfrac{\sin x}{x} - 1\right)\cdot 1\\
&= \lim_{x \to 0}\dfrac{x^{2}}{1 - \cos x}\cdot \dfrac{\sin x - x}{x^{3}}\\
&= \lim_{x \to 0}\dfrac{x^{2}}{1 - \cos x}\cdot\lim_{x \to 0}\dfrac{\sin x - x}{x^{3}}\\
&= \lim_{x \to 0}\dfrac{x^{2}}{1 - \cos x}\cdot\lim_{x \to 0}\dfrac{\cos x - 1}{3x^{2}}\text{ (by L'Hospital's Rule)}\\
&= \lim_{x \to 0}\dfrac{x^{2}}{1 - \cos x}\cdot\dfrac{\cos x - 1}{3x^{2}}\\
&= -\frac{1}{3}\end{aligned}$
This solves the problem with minimal use of L'Hospital Rule. We have made use of the standard limit $\lim_{y \to 0}\dfrac{\log (1 + y)}{y} = 1$ where $y = \dfrac{\sin x}{x} - 1$ which tends to $0$ as $x \to 0$.
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Can you give me a meal plan? If you're like most registered dietitians, you're asked to provide meal plans by your clients. Of course, it's friends and family, too!
This article features insight from RDs that use custom meal planning tools in their practice. They share why they chose the tool, how they monetize the meal plans, and what they've learned along the way.
The truth is that clients often seek out our expertise with the goal that we will tell them what to eat. At a minimum, they want ample suggestions for recipes and meals.
However, meal plans are time consuming to create. Not to mention, balancing food allergies, preferences and nutrient prescriptions makes creating custom meal plans difficult.
Meal planning tools for professionals offer a solution. They streamline the process of creating meal plans by providing access to a database of recipes and tools like grocery lists to share with clients.
Having easy access to generating custom meal plans can add value for your clients as well as your business.
However, navigating the options can be difficult. From the ability to customize plans based on lists of allergies and food preferences, to macronutrient prescriptions and available recipe nutrient analysis, it can feel dizzying when considering the options.
While a product demo and trial are valuable for making your decision, hearing insight from real users offers value you can't obtain from the product's website.
What About Teaching Meal Planning?
One common objection to providing meal plans is that clients don't learn skills needed to independently plan meals.
However, from the insight provided, you will see that meal plans are a teaching tool. Clients struggle with where and how to get started. A structured tool can help them on their journey.
Recipe ideas provide a tangible example of how to incorporate more vegetables, or create a satisfying meal without an allergen.
A meal plan can provide insight on portion sizes and frequency of consuming specific foods or groups of foods.
As nutrition experts it's easy to take our knowledge for granted. We forget how complex the task of choosing foods and planning meals can feel for clients.
Meal plans are a tool in our toolbox of resources to help our clients.
Amanda Sauceda, MS, RDN, CLT is a private practice owner specializing in food allergies/sensitivities and utilizes Living Plate Rx meal plans.
Natalia Stasenko, MS, RDN is virtual practice owner and online course creator specializing in feeding and pediatric nutrition. She uses Meal Garden for meal plans.
Basheerah Enahora, MBA, MS, RDN, LDN is a private practice owner specializing in mindful and holistic nutrition for women. She utilizes Living Plate Rx meal plans.
Sarah Marjoram, MS, RDN, LD leads a digital content creation agency consulting with brands and businesses in the nutrition industry. She utilizes Living Plate Rx meal plans.
Melissa Groves, RDN, LD is a virtual (and in-person) practice owner specializing in PCOS and fertility. She utilizes That Clean Life and Living Plate Rx meal plans.
Chloe Schweinshaut RD, LDN, CLT is a private practice owner specializing in family friendly nutrition with a whole food and holistic approach. She utilizes That Clean Life for meal plans.
Theresa Montmorency MS, RDN is a consultant for gym. She utilizes EatLove meal plans.
Jenna Gorham, RD, LN works with food and wellness brands and offers Living Plate Rx meal plans.
Leanne Ray, MS, RDN is a virtual practice owner specializing in practical nutrition for busy professionals and utilizes Living Plate Rx meal plans.
What meal planning tool do you currently use for your clients and how long have you been utilizing it? What (if any) other options did you consider?
Amanda Sauceda: I am currently using Living Plate Rx and have been using it in practice for over year. Living Plate stood out to me compared to other programs out there is the fact their meal plans are created by a dietitian and not computer generated. This was something unique. I also wanted something that was easy to use and visually appealing.
Natalia Stasenko: I have been using the Meal Garden planning tool for the last year as a bonus feature for my online class and occasionally for my private clients. I considered a few other resources but Meal Garden was running a special promotion for health providers so I decided to try it out.
Basheerah Enahora: I use Living Plate Rx and have been using it for about the past 6 months. Prior to Living Plate having its own platform, it was part of Gathered Table. I used that as well for about a year. The functionality was similar but not the same as the current platform.
I looked at EatLove or continuing to use Food Processor, which I have a current license for. EatLove wasn't robust enough, lacked flexibility and had a very limited database of recipes. I looked at EatLove when it was first launching over a year ago. I'm not sure if that has changed.
Sarah Marjoram: Living Plate Rx and I have only recently started using it (6 months). I also looked at EatLove.
Melissa Groves: I've been using That Clean Life for about a year, and I recently added Living Plate Rx to my practice. I played around with EatLove Pro and Living Plate, but neither of them fully met my needs, so I decided to go with That Clean Life for recipes plus Living Plate for clients who want something more structured.
Chloe Schweinshaut: I use That Clean Life and have been using it for almost a year. I didn't have an additional option that I was considering. I have a friend and fellow RD who had been using it (That Clean Life) and loved it and once she showed me all the features, I was sold.
Theresa Montmorency: I currently use EatLove and I have been an EatLove member for one year. I found that you can find meal plans online quite easily. However, my clients were expecting individualized plans that are unique to their lifestyle. At FNCE two years ago, I spoke with the EatLove team and was fascinated with what they had to offer to RDs.
Leanne Ray: I use Living Plate Rx and have been using it since May 2018 when I incorporated it into a 4-week cooking challenge that I hosted! I honestly didn't do much research into other options. I was connected to Living Plate by a mutual friend of the founder and everything just kind of fell into place! I loved that it was created by RDs, for RDs (only dietitians can distribute the plans). I found it to be really user-friendly and functional and they are constantly adding new features.
Jenna Gorham: I use Living Plate meal plans and have been using them for about 1 year. At the time, Living Plate was the only meal planning tool I knew of. I found it very user friendly and was instantly hooked. Since then, other meal planning companies have reached out to me asking me to try their meal plans. I haven't found any others that are as easy to use or have a layout that I like.
Amanda Sauceda: There were a couple aspects that I felt were most important. The first one being the team at Living Plate Rx. They're team is amazing and very responsive to suggestions and questions. Secondly the cost couldn't be beat. They are free to get started.
Natalia Stasenko: The database, ability to add my own recipes and compile family meals out of a few recipes. I mostly work with families and many are looking for meal ideas that can be served family style and have simple starch options for more selective kids. The Meal Garden seemed a perfect choice for me.
Basheerah Enahora: Ease of use, flexibility/functionality were most important for me in choosing a platform. I also wanted a platform that was supportive of its members and receptive of feedback for improvement. Living Plate still isn't quite where I'd like it to be, but Jeanne continues to make improvements to the platform and provides resources and tools to members. She's extremely responsive as well and I value that commitment to quality service.
Sarah Marjoram: I mainly chose Living Plate because of how it is structured. It offers RDNs white label meal plans that they can customize for their business. They provide marketing materials and tools that equip us to leverage them in our own businesses. And they can serve as a passive income source if our clients subscribe. It was also important to me that the meal plans are curated by dietitians – not by computers. I think that elevates the value of the product and is a selling point.
Melissa Groves: When it came down to it, I wanted a platform that had many recipes available for specific dietary considerations. I found with some of the other ones that once you removed dairy, gluten, or other allergens or intolerances, it didn't leave many recipe options.
Chloe Schweinshaut: For me, I primarily love the ease of implementation and the customization. I'm not a tech-savvy person and I find it incredibly user-friendly. The other thing that attracted me to this program were the foods that were offered. I consider myself a "real food RD" and I loved the menus that were created and the ingredients used.
Theresa Montmorency: The ease of sending complete meal plans to clients and the flexibility to make a meal plan that is specific to each client. The nutrition prescription technology helps to decrease the amount of time I have to spend crunching numbers and are validated by dietitian experts for each medical condition. The speed of making meal plans is amazing. After I upload my client's information in EatLove, it takes me less than 60 seconds to generate a perfect meal plan for them each week.
The quality and quantity of recipes was another highlight when choosing EatLove. Their culinary team is constantly adding new recipes to the database. They test each recipe in house and adapt recipes for different diseases, tastes, and diets to meet all needs, even the most esoteric!
Leanne Ray: The ease of use fits with my practice perfectly. My target market is busy professionals and because of this I strive to make everything as simple and convenient for the client as possible (i.e. e-forms, virtual sessions, communication via smartphone app, etc.). Living Plate has drag & drop capability and then you can easily print a shopping list based on your choices.
Jenna Gorham: Ease of use, quality of recipes, and the ability to customize it and search from a database of recipes were all important to me.
How do you utilize the meal planning tool in your practice? What monetization strategy do you use?
Amanda Sauceda: I incorporate the meal plans into my packages and offer them a la carte on my website. The best way to monetize them is to incorporate them into packages and offer them as an added on bonus to make their life easier and bring my recommendations to life. I also started offering a service where I give a quick session with me plus a meal plan to give them strategy on how to best use the meal plan for their health goals and concerns.
Natalia Stasenko: I do not monetize it at the moment but plan to at some point. Right now, I am offering a free meal plan for my online class participants and they have an option to join the paid version of the website in order to keep using it.
Basheerah Enahora: I include meal planning with my 12-session nutrition package. I technically eat the cost of the meal planning tool, but I'm also guaranteed that someone is going to work with me for 3 months, so it's a worthwhile investment for me. For my insurance clients or self-pay clients who don't sign up for my 12-session package, I still sign them up for a free trial and encourage them to use it for a few days to see how they like the platform. Most people like the platform and end up signing up.
Sarah Marjoram: I no longer see clients and now work as a nutrition communications and marketing consultant. Where possible, I leverage the meal plans as lead magnets for consulting projects. They are a powerful marketing tool and add value to my clients at no additional cost to me.
As a former private practice owner, I also love knowing that I can provide consumers with something that facilitates healthy eating habits. The meal plans allow me to have an impact on individuals even after I have shifted my business to a different model.
Melissa Groves: I use That Clean Life to provide recipes for my clients based on what we're working on. For example, if we're working on adding more protein at breakfast, I'll send them 20 high-protein breakfast ideas. It takes me 5 minutes and makes me look like a rockstar to my clients. They really appreciate the extra support and the recipes are mostly quick and easy and taste delicious.
I do not charge clients for this service; it's folded into the cost of my nutrition counseling packages. I find that most people are unwilling to follow a structured meal plan, but if I do have clients that want that guidance, I sign them up with Living Plate, which I am an affiliate for, meaning I get a small percentage from every client I refer.
I also recently made a lead magnet using a meal plan, which took me less than an hour, and grew my list by 200 people in just 6 days.
Chloe Schweinshaut: I find myself using this a lot with my food sensitivity clients. I am also a CLT, so it has been an invaluable tool for my clients that did the MRT® test and are on an elimination diet. With That Clean Life, I can filter out foods/ingredients not to be used and I get a database of recipes without them. I also offer a service where I will send a meal plan for a weekly fee.
Theresa Montmorency: I include personalized meal plans with my consultation packages. Sending custom meal plans increases the perceived and actual value for the client. Clients are thrilled with how personalized their plans are, the EatLove smart tools and their progress to their goals. Plus, they are willing to pay much more than what I was charging without EatLove.
Leanne Ray: I've found it to be most beneficial for clients who struggle with knowing where to start with meal planning, prepping, and cooking more. It's just overwhelming in the beginning! For example, I got a client started with the plans and she cooked exclusively from them in the beginning of our time together. As we moved along, she became more confident and gradually started incorporating some of her own recipes. Now she feels confident enough to do it completely on her own which is such a win for me! The plans also bring in some affiliate income, but I'm more excited about having a streamlined meal planning solution for clients that doesn't involve me spending hours creating them.
Jenna Gorham: I started by bundling them because everybody asks for recipes and I thought it was a great tool to allow them to access the database of healthy recipes. At one point I felt like not everyone was taking full advantage of the plans and not everyone wanted them so I started offering it as an add on tool – this method also worked well. I also had a few clients from other states find me because they were specifically looking for meal plans. I worked with these clients remotely and created a custom meal planning package. We did 1 nutrition assessment and then I customized the plans to meet their needs each week.
What is your primary reimbursement model (insurance vs cash pay) and type of practice (virtual or in person)?
Amanda Sauceda: I am cash-pay and am mostly in-person.
Natalia Stasenko: Cash pay, virtual private practice.
Basheerah Enahora: My business is about 60% insurance, 40% cash-pay, from packages, group programs or corporate wellness events. About 70% of my visits are virtual, 30% in person.
Sarah Marjoram: I work as a marketing and communications consultant with business clients.
Melissa Groves: I'm cash pay only and use a monthly billing structure. I see clients in person in Portsmouth, NH, 2 days a week and virtually the rest of the time.
Chloe Schweinshaut: I accept insurance, and although I have a physical office in Harvard Square, I see patients virtually as well.
Theresa Montmorency: Most of my clients come from my local gym. I work as a consultant for the gym and work closely with clients to meet their nutrition needs. I meet with the client at least twice. After that, our communication is mostly through email.
Leanne Ray: Because 1:1 coaching isn't my main revenue stream at this time, I decided not to go all in with an office space and billing. My practice is 100% virtual and I only accept cash pay clients.
Jenna Gorham: I was cash pay and both in person and virtual. I gained more virtual clients from having the meal plan option.
What is one thing you wish you had known before selecting the option you choose? Anything else you wish to share on this topic?
Amanda Sauceda: One thing I wish I knew was maybe best practices. I learned quickly the best way to sign up people for the meal plans is include it in their package. Living Plate Rx is more than just meal plans. They have also developed turnkey education programs that you can get custom branded. So much time saved! Plus they also have infographics and handouts that you can also purchase for your practice.
Natalia Stasenko: I am generally happy with my choice. I am using it only for a very specific audience and it works well for me. I think we need more meal planning tools for families. Simple meals, easily deconstructed, flexible, taking minutes to put together, minimal cleanup. Most recipes and meal plans are too difficult to follow for families where one or more kids are picky eaters or there is a baby starting solids.
Basheerah Enahora: I really wanted to develop my own platform, and had reached out to Gathered Table to see if I could license their technology. However, Jeanne beat me to it. Ha! I love supporting other RDs and I've learned a lot from seeing Jeanne's business grow. In hindsight, it would not have been smart to invest in building my own platform. I wasn't at the right stage of business at the time and needed to invest more in marketing and advertising to ensure business growth. Living Plate RX is a great tool for RDs to generate incremental income and most of my clients love the platform.
Sarah Marjoram: Meal plans are a powerful marketing tool for RDNs. There are several dietitians in private practice that are leveraging them beautifully – adding value to their business while providing a great service to their clients.
When I started practicing almost 20 years ago, I didn't incorporate meal plans into my business. I felt it was more important to educate clients on how to create them for themselves. Fast forward to today where so much has changed for consumers. In my opinion, advances in technology and consumers rising demand for personalized health services make offering meal plans almost a requirement. If consumers demand them, I'd love to see RDNs be the professional that provide them.
Melissa Groves: I wish I had known that the recipes are not designed by dietitians. I often have to review recipes for special diets (such as low-FODMAP) to make sure they're accurate before sending them to my clients. I also wish I knew how difficult it would be to add single foods or packaged foods to the plan – for example, if I wanted a client to have a RxBar for a snack, I'd have to manually add that information. Or if I wanted to add a side of roasted broccoli to dinner, I'd have to create a recipe for that before adding it. It's somewhat integrated with the USDA database, but it's difficult to find foods in there. Food tracking apps such as MyFitnessPal® and Fitbit® seem to have a much more updated database of packaged foods.
In my experience, everyone says they want a meal plan, but no one actually wants to follow one! I think we're not quite there yet in terms of a vast library of recipes and healthy meals created by dietitians and sort able by nutrition info, dietary considerations, etc.
Chloe Schweinshaut: This program isn't cheap, but it has absolutely paid for itself and I do really feel as though it has brought my practice to a higher level in that clients are very impressed with the software and menus.
Theresa Montmorency: I wish I would have known about the extensive support that EatLove provides. I would have signed up a lot sooner! Of course they were very helpful with answering questions about EatLove and the technology, but the business support that I received and continue to receive has been a blessing for my business.
I have spoken with the EatLove team through email, phone, and even FaceTime! Each time they answer my questions thoroughly and even talk me down when I feel overwhelmed with all the fun that comes with being an entrepreneur. The CEO actually helped me to focus and set up goals for where I want to be in the future. It is nice to know that I have a team in the business of healthy eating that I can bounce ideas off of and also give me constructive criticism. It really is a true partnership when you sign up for EatLove.
Leanne Ray: This isn't really something I wish I knew before, but something I like to share with anyone who is considering using a meal planning tool in their practice moving forward. They can be great for generating leads in addition to just offering them to existing clients. Living Plate offers a free 3-day trial and the RD gets notified when someone signs up. It's a great, natural opportunity to reach out and offer extra support without being salesy, so I would recommend taking full advantage of that and coming up with creative ways to promote it.
In full transparency, I do some social media contract work for Living Plate and wanted to disclose this.
Jenna Gorham: Nothing! I also really like that Living Plate offers plans for different types of diets – plant-based, and even Low-FODMAP and PCOS now!
The process of choosing a custom meal planning tool for your practice can feel complex. Considering your population, strategy for monetization and need for specific features will streamline the process.
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Weekly Recap #337: Boss Battles & Math Caves
Progress on the desert continues! We've now started implementing things in those desert ruins, where you'll face another boss battle. When I mentioned there was gonna be an Indiana Jones-y scene in here, some of you wondered of what kind… I think this GIF should answer that question for you:
WIP of course, this is but the first step of the iteration!
Speaking of iterations, we're also working on the boss! This Solem is a very dangerous guy who likes to use his laser in creative ways. Good thing he also slams his fists in the ground, causing giant rocks to fall from the ceiling that can block such beams for you:
(One everything is implemented, the rock will look to be part of the ruin, rather than a random Mt:Bloom-esque boulder!)
He has another fierce laser attack as well, featuring multiple beams that follow you for a little while:
Aside from these, he'll act like a regular, but amped-up Solem, chasing you around trying to hit you. He'll also have one attack where he slams his fists in the ground causing shockwaves to appear all around him, which you'll have to dodge.
Fred's continuing to work on his animations, too, of course so here's a more finalized version of what he'll look like as he blasts those laser beams at you:
There are more caves in the making, as well! Those math puzzle caves had to be designed, and to mix things up I decided to go for a slightly different color scheme compared to the rest of the caves in the desert:
It looks a little bare right now, so we'll probably add some more details, maybe in the form of statues of numbers, or perhaps even of the number wizard who made these challenges in the first time! For now though, here's the first iteration of the first math puzzle cave:
Can't have new bosses without new boss portraits, so here's an upgraded version of Marino's boss portrait, featuring his lovely shadow clones!
As you might remember, his last subtitle was The Ultimate Rival, however, as the story progresses some things change… Why an "ultimate friend" would fight you? I guess you'll just have to play through the story and see!
I've mentioned this before, but the relationships between the characters haven't been super fleshed out, a fact we are well aware of and will likely remedy slightly by adding more scenes to the story (once the rest of the game is done). This way we also hope to give an incentive to those of you who have played along chapter-by-chapter with every new update to play through the whole thing once more time, the way it's supposed to be experienced in the end. In the end, we plan for the finished product to feature slightly more story as well as new side quests for most (if not all) parts of the game.
As for this week's portrait, it features a pirate hanging out in the saloon! In fact, he'll be one of the card players (whom I actually made a portrait of before – but his sprite got changed afterwards, so that old portrait will probably become a different NPC at some point instead):
Finally, Marino's second boss battle has been finished and fully implemented, so now it's time to spice up the little are where you face him! Previously, we'd left it pretty open, as we weren't sure exactly how big his battle arena would be (we like to prototype the fight first and base the area on how much space we feel is needed).
Below you can see the old area, with the battle taking place inside the darkened frame:
In order to spice this up, I made a quick sketch of what it could look like instead, adding a level difference to act as the limitation downwards. Adding this, we had to increase the size of the map slightly downward as well, to make room for everything:
And then, it's time to make the actual graphic adjustments for these changes:
And here's the final version, featuring a much smaller battle area, and a slightly more interesting looking map overall:
Posted by Secrets of Grindea at 2018/08/27. Tags: boss, Enemies, environment, gif, Portraits, Weekly Recap. Comments: (2)
Weekly Recap #336: Desert Fixes & Desert NPCs
Okay! Who's ready for more desert fixes?! Seeing as we've named the desert Dragonbone Dunes, we wanted to add more dragon stuff to the area. First step is to make some dragon head statue pillars:
We also wanted to decorate those walls with some dragon wing plates:
But not all fixes on this map are of the dragon-decorative kind! There's also a puzzle, which, as it's now been properly designed, needs a more permanent background:
As part of the puzzle, we decided to add a bonus chest as well, so made a slight extension of one of the rocks to make room for that:
Behold the progress so far, almost done:
…actually, scratch that! Since the cave in the middle is a mushroom cacti cave, I thought it'd be fitting to put a bunch of them outside as well:
In the animation department, Fred has been hard at work with some cool environmental things that will appear in the desert! First up, we have the frozen cacti that will unlock a shortcut further into the desert, once you reach a certain season orb:
Second, a rope ladder! Since there's a place where we really want the player to be able to move up and down quickly (though only after getting there the first time), we decided to introduce a rope ladder that you'll be able to 'activate' after making your way to it.
No desert is complete without tumbleweed, so Fred has been experimenting with getting those up and running as well! Here's a bunch of his WIP ideas:
He's also making more NPCs, and here we have the progress sheet of the old scientist looking for ghosts! We've decided to name her Dr. Spengler as tribute to a special character in this sort of field. Who do you think that is?
As for something completely different: as I believe we have mentioned, once you complete Tai Ming, flashback orbs will activate throughout all of Grindea. While we haven't added any just yet, these flashback orbs are set to give you insights into events that happened before you were around; stories of your parents, Zhamla, and other important events that have occurred throughout the world.
As part of the desert update, at least before it gets released on stable, we'll include a set of these with more to be added in later updates.
The ones we'll include in this update features memories that give some insight into your mother's friendship with the fae, how your parents met, and how Zhamla found his first card! While they might not be vital to the story as a whole, we feel that each of these orbs will give some depth to the world and the people within it.
The dialogue for these have already been written, but we'll return to actually implement them once the rest of the desert is done; likely while you guys are all busy beta testing those new enemies and boss fights!
In the end, once the game is done, we want to add plenty of these orbs, to give you a glimpse of many different things of the past. Are there any events or characters in particular you'd like to see? Let us know and we'll see what we can do!
As or the portraits this week, the first one features the hat salesman of Port Monnaie, which we actually have decided to give quite a story. Because Helmut is a real life name that's simply too good to pass up on, we decided to name this guy just that. However, seeing as we have a helmet called Helmit, we didn't want to confuse people too much by having two characters with very similar names…. So we decided that Helmut and Helmit will be friends!
As such, you old acquaintance from Tai Ming will make a comeback in the desert town, where he'll be hanging out with this swell fellow:
And you can't have a beach town without tourists, so the second portrait this week will feature a guy shopping for souvenirs at the market place in Port Monnaie: currently, he's very interested in a t-shirt!
Weekly Recap #335: Boss Prototyping & Ruin Progress
Alright, so as you might know, one of the boss battles you'll be dealing with in the desert is the return of Marino, who wants a second shot at beating you up! This time around, he's leveled up and uses some crazy clone action to make this battle even harder.
As part of the prototyping process we've played around with a number of different patterns and types of attack. Here's an early version of one such attack:
We want to play around with Marino and his clones moving across the playfield quickly, meaning you have to mind where you stand, or even move around in order to avoid damage:
We have multiple patterns like this, which will become more and more difficult as the fight progresses. Of course, there's a lot of placeholder graphics here, but the overall idea is the same: there will be some sort of visual indicator for where Marino and his clones will move next, which fades away once they make that move.
Marino being Marino, he's also learned the noble art of taunting his opponent, but be careful to attack him blindly, or you might come to regret it:
Now, time to continue working on the second room in those desert ruins! As mentioned before, it's time to start working on the top part of this map, where some forgotten, ancient treasures will be….
In this final part we add more detail, but also that fancy mirror and the pedestal holding a very special crystal which might be directly linked to the boss battle in this ruin:
Our first portrait this week is a miner working in the desert! Like the other miners in our game, she wears the typical mining uniform, including the miner hat. The miner hat I use has already been made previously, so I only added it after the rest of the portrait was done:
The second portrait features one of the characters I forgot making a portrait for, which in this case is rather silly seeing as I made his shop stand and everything! This is the jewelry (accessory) salesman, selling items in the desert town's market area:
Posted by Secrets of Grindea at 2018/08/13. Tags: boss, Enemies, gif, Portraits, Weekly Recap. Comments: (2)
Weekly Recap #334: Ghost Ship Plans, Desert Fixes & NPCs
Warning! This blog contains spoilers for the upcoming parts of the game, if you wish to be surprised, stop reading here!
The ghost ship plans continue to unfold, and the next big things we've decided on is to take the player on a strange dream, caused by the ghostly presences on the ship. In this dream, you'll find yourself back in Startington (?!), but it's a quiet, somewhat "wrong" version of itself. Here you need to solve four different challenges in order to find your way back to the ghost ship and continue on your journey.
There will be things in this dream referencing events that have happened in the game this far, with each building in Startington holding its own challenge. In one, you'll need to battle a ton of slimes searching for that one card, in another you'll be pressured to show your skill with the shield. A third urges you to remember you friends, and a forth the dreams you had for the future.
Needless to say, this will be a slightly very surreal world, and we'll be hard pressed to make sure things have just the right amount of eeriness. We've had a ton of crazy, creepy ideas for this part, but our intention isn't to turn into a psychological horror game – we just want approximately 5% of that feeling!
Right now we're still undecided exactly how this place will look graphically – we've got ideas ranging from having it be just regular Startington (without the people – and probably without the song, making it a too quiet, too still version of itself) all the way to going full sepia-toned, dark, with shadows and mists lurking around the edges of the screen. We'll see where it all ends up, and here I think we'll need a lot of help from you guys as you test it out in Frontline.
After the Tai Ming storyline, things have taken a turn for the darker already, but as I said, we don't want it to go full horror. It'll be very interesting to get this right, but I think and hope we will!
Now, more places implemented means more places that need fixes! Here's a bunch of changes we've decided to make since the desert started getting into place.
First up, closing off one of the caves. Previously we wanted it to look open, but since there will be a map change between them, we felt it's more consistent to use the regular cave doors:
Second, we realized if you manage to get out of the cave exit to the right on this map, you'd be stuck on this plateau forever (there's a jump-down inside the cave, so you're unable to go back that way… oops):
Some detail changes to the wall here, making it more consistent with how it looks inside the city. Keep in mind most of the wall will be offscreen:
Same thing here, I've changed the texture of the wall and made it more consistent with the size inside town. Also edited the path to align better after you change screen:
We've also added a slight bit of decoration outside the number cave, which will have magical flames as well once Fred has used some of his animation magic:
Finally, as we were looking around the NPC folders while implementing the desert NPCs, we realized we made a collector's outfit for Sally a long, long time ago, but forgot to add it. We'll remedy this in time, and in preparation for that I made a recolored version of her sprite, featuring her Collector uniform:
And now it's time to start the second room of those Desert Ruins! There's been a lot of talk about the Ghost Ship so it's easy to forget we're still not done with the desert, haha. This place is where you'll battle the Solem Boss, and have an Indiana Jones-y cutscene! Let's take a look:
It's all pretty bare so far, but the video got long enough already. In the next part, we'll continue working on the upper part of this map, where a treasure lies waiting!
As Teddy has started implementing NPCs, both me and Fred were in for a surprise. Not only were there NPC sprites made by Fred that I forgot to make portraits for, there were portraits of NPCs that Fred forgot to make sprites for as well… Silly things happen when you work on multiple parts of the game at once!
In other words, it's time to start mashing out a couple more portraits, so for a while there will be two presented every week once more.
This guy here is someone selling souvenirs in the Desert Town, though by the looks of his outfit, I wouldn't be surprised if his real job was to be a Collector:
And finally, we have the ghost scientist I think I mentioned before – this person will appear in the lab in Evergrind City in the beginning of the game, where she's investigating the spirit world. Later on, she'll play a part in your ghost ship journey:
Posted by Vilya at 2018/08/06. Tags: environment, indoors, Portraits, Weekly Recap. Comments: (2) |
10 Things About College That High School Counselors Don't Know
By Lynn O'Shaughnessy on January 8, 2010 in Academics, Admissions, Financial aid, High school counselors, Money, Scholarships, Universities
Yesterday I wrote this provocative post: Why High School Counselors Don't Know Much About College. Today I wanted to follow up with 10 things that the typical high school counselors doesn't know. Here goes:
1. There are roughly 50 colleges and universities in the country that are no-loan schools, which means they meet a student's financial aid need with grants that don't have to be repaid.
2. Private scholarships are inferior to scholarships that college award themselves even the private scholarships are the ones that counselors often urge students to find.
3. College price tags are meaningless. The average tuition discount at private colleges is 33.5% and 15% at state universities.
4. They don't understand the differences between the FAFSA and the CSS/Financial Aid PROFILE.
5. Zinch and Cappex are helping to transform the way that colleges and teenagers find each other.
6. Graduation rates are abysmal at the vast majority of colleges and universities. Fewer than 60% of college students graduate in six years.
7. Because of low graduation rates at the typical public university, private colleges can be cheaper than public one for some students. Eighty percent of students attending private schools have received a college scholarship from their institutions.
8. Not all state universities are alike in educating students, but successful ones tend to share certain characteristics.
9. Minority students often don't have to be as talented to gain entry into the most elite colleges and universities, but Asian high school students are penalized.
10. Many out-of-state public universities will offer cheaper tuition to promising students through reciprocal agreements and other arrangements.
Lynn O'Shaughnessy is the author of The College Solution and she also blogs about college for CBSMoneyWatch.
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2 Responses to 10 Things About College That High School Counselors Don't Know
Amy April 29, 2019 at 1:10 pm #
I know this is an old post, but since it is still online, I'd love to see the info that was originally in all the hyper-links. It seems now, many of the hyper-links are dead.
Mark April 28, 2010 at 6:21 am #
You mentioned Zinch and Cappex but not Kaarme.com which is preferred by parents and counselors because it is the only site that protects students and does not sell their personal information to third parties when they are searching for colleges or scholarships. |
Иван Николаевич Шмыг (27.11.1923 — 19.08.1984) — командир отделения 990-го стрелкового полка, (230-й стрелковой дивизии, 9-го стрелкового корпуса, 5-й ударной армии, 1-й Белорусский фронт) младший сержант. Герой Советского Союза.
Биография
Родился 27 ноября 1923 года в селе Чернобай, ныне посёлок городского типа Чернобаевского района Черкасской области. Украинец. Член ВКП(б)/КПСС с 1949 года. Окончил семилетнюю школу в Чернобае, поступил учиться в школу фабрично-заводского ученичества при Новокраматорском машиностроительном заводе имени В. И. Ленина. Работал токарем.
В Красной Армии с декабря 1943 года. В действующей армии с октября 1944 года. Был ранен.
Первое боевое крещение Иван Шмыг получил под городом Гнезно. Рота, в которой служил младший сержант Шмыг, обойдя озеро, взяла в кольцо врага. За мужество, проявленное в этом бою, Шмыг был награждён орденом Красной Звезды.
Командир отделения 990-го стрелкового полка младший сержант Шмыг особо отличился в ходе Берлинской операции.
В конце апреля 1945 года он вместе с отделением переправился через реку Шпрее, бесшумно снял часового, охранявшего мост через реку, и ворвался во вражескую траншею. В рукопашном бою и гранатами был уничтожен расчёт противотанкового орудия. На ходу были оборваны провода к взрывчатке, расположенной на опорах моста. Противник предпринял попытку отбить утраченные позиции. Бой длился двенадцать часов. За это время через мост переправились основные силы дивизии. За мужество и отвагу, проявленные в этом бою, Иван Николаевич Шмыг был удостоен второго ордена Красной Звезды.
30 апреля 1945 года в уличном бою в Берлине на пересечении Альт-Якобштрассе и Орланиенштрассе противники построили дот. Всё пространство перед дотом на двадцать метров было совершенно гладким и простреливалось. Но Шмыг нашёл выход из положения. По его просьбе сапёры подорвали одну уцелевшую стену находившегося напротив разрушенного дома. Рухнувшая стена легла до самого дота. С наступление темноты младший сержант приблизился к доту и забросал его гранатами, уничтожив вражеский пулемёт с прислугой. Затем со своим отделением ворвался в здание имперской типографии, занятое гитлеровцами, и в рукопашном бою уничтожил четырёх солдат противника. Отделение блокировало двери в помещение первого этажа и в подвал и заняло оборону. По приказу младшего сержанта Шмыга был сделан пролом в полу. В подвале оказалось много противников. В ходе боя свыше пятидесяти противников были уничтожены гранатами, а тридцать солдат и офицеров сдались в плен. Отделение овладело опорным пунктом врага, дало возможность другим подразделения полка значительно продвинуться вперёд.
Указом Президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 15 мая 1946 года за мужество, отвагу и героизм, , младшему сержанту Шмыгу Ивану Николаевичу присвоено звание Героя Советского Союза с вручением ордена Ленина и медали «Золотая Звезда».
После войны старшина Шмыг демобилизован. Жил и работал в посёлке городского типа Чернобай. Умер 19 августа 1984 года.
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Они отстояли мир. - Днепропетровск: Промінь, 1985.
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Fitch Forecasts 72.8% Debt-To-GDP By Year End
Ken Ofori-Atta, Finance Minister
INTERNATIONAL RATING Agency Fitch has projected Ghana's debt to GDP at 72.8 per cent by the end of this year.
In its latest ratings report on Ghana, Fitch stated, "We forecast debt at 72.8% of GDP by end-2020, which includes the outstanding stock of GH¢7.6 billion (2.1% of GDP) in the Energy Sector Levy Act bonds. We expect debt to continue rising through 2022, although at a slower pace. However, the failure to execute planned reforms in energy sector would see a continued build-up of arrears and higher debt. The government's 2019 Energy Sector Recovery Programme indicated that sector arrears could reach as much as US$12.5 billion (18% of 2020 GDP) by 2023."
According to the agency, the previous National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration, "on average, borrowed GH¢1.3 billion (slightly more than 1% of GDP) from the BoG annually in 2011-2016, which allowed for greater fiscal deficits and contributed to higher inflation through the fiscal dominance of monetary policy.
It said Ghana's high debt-service burden weighed on its rating adding the country's "2020 debt/GDP ratio is slightly higher than our forecast 'B' median of 67.3%. However, we forecast that government debt will reach 530% of revenue, much higher than the 336% 'B' median."
It continued, "Furthermore, interest expense is set to reach 49% of government revenue in 2020, four times the 'B' median of 12%. Ghana's interest payments will rise in 2020 following greater reliance on the domestic debt market, where interest rates are higher than for foreign-currency debt."
It noted that though Ghana remained somewhat reliant on Eurobond flows and other international borrowing to bolster international reserves, external pressure had been less than it expected.
It averred that the Cedi, supported by limited BoG forward auctions, "has depreciated by 3% year-to-date, compared with an average depreciation rate of 12% in the 10 years to 2019," adding that "robust gold exports and some import compression have kept the trade balance in surplus."
Fitch forecasts the current account deficit to widen modestly to 3.9% of GDP from 2.8% in 2019. "We expect gross reserves to end 2020 at US$6.6 billion, broadly the same as in December 2019, as some foreign-exchange intervention by the BoG to support the currency is offset by new inflow from debt and 4Q cocoa receipts. The import compression will slightly improve reserve coverage to 2.8 months of current external payments, from 2.7 in 2019."
It indicated that Ghana's banks were now stronger following the BoG-led Financial Sector Clean Up and Recapitalization, which raised minimum capital requirements and forced sector consolidation. Capitalization and liquidity have improved, but economic headwinds will delay substantial improvement in asset quality.
NPLs
"Non-performing loans/total loans fell to 14% in 2019, from 22% two years prior, but the ratio will remain high as private-sector credit growth slows in 2020. We expect real private-sector credit growth to remain positive in 2020, but in the low single digits," it added.
BY Samuel Boadi
KAB-FAM Ghana Wins Outstanding Electronic Retail Company
Govt On Course Towards SDGs |
Technical Abstract: Subsurface tile drainage is a commonly used agricultural practice to enhance crop yield in poorly drained but highly productive soils in many other regions of the world. However, the presence of subsurface tile drainage systems also expedites the transport of nitrate-nitrogen (NO3-N) and other chemicals to surface waters. Hydrologic and water quality models such as the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) are widely used to simulate tile drainage systems at various spatial scales. The tile drain algorithms are constantly under modifications as SWAT model gets used and users provide feedback. The most recent (New) tile drain algorithm in SWAT is based on the Hooghoudt and Kirkham equations. Recent modifications to the new tile drain equations will be presented. The modified equations in SWAT are calibrated, validated, and applied in small plots in Waseca located in southern Minnesota to determine the impact of nitrogen (N) fertilizer application and tile drain configuration on nitrate leaching. Detailed results will be presented but overall long-term simulation results indicated that greatest reductions in NO3-N losses can be achieved with reduction in the N application rates. These results showed potential of the new tile drainage equations in SWAT to simulate the effects of tile drain configurations on drainage and associated NO3-N losses. |
BWise Joins Integrated Reporting Pilot Program
New York, NY and 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, September 20, 2011 – BWise, the global leader in Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) management software solutions, announced today that it has joined the Integrated Reporting Pilot Program, launched by the International Integrated Reporting Committee (IIRC) in September 2011. The two year pilot program is composed of a select group of companies who will work together with peers and the IIRC to develop a framework for Integrated Corporate Performance Reporting. BWise joined the pilot program to contribute to the development of integrated corporate performance reporting, including financial, risk management and sustainability information reporting.
Integrated reporting demonstrates the links between an organization's strategy, governance and financial performance and the social, environmental and economic context within which it operates. By reinforcing these connections, integrated reporting helps businesses make more sustainable decisions and enable investors and other stakeholders to understand how an organization is performing. BWise plans to use the IIRC reporting standard within its GRC suite, to deliver sustainable, actionable and manageable reporting.
"BWise is a strong supporter of integrated performance reporting and is at the forefront of this developing initiative. When working with global customers, we see financial data systematically collected, managed and reported as well as sustainability performance information and risk reporting that are essential in evaluating corporate performance. With our Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) suite, we want to help organizations to implement integrated reporting into their daily operations," said Robert Pijselman, CEO of BWise.
The IIRC is comprised of an international cross-section of leaders from the business, investment, accounting, securities, regulatory, academic and standard-setting sectors, as well as from civil society. The aim is to help with the development of comprehensive information about organizations, both prospective as well as retrospective, to support the transition to a sustainable, global economy. For more information on the IIRC pilot program please visit: http://www.theiirc.org/about/pilot-programme/
With the BWise integrated GRC suite, BWise enable an organization to track, measure and manage key organizational risk in one integrated system. By doing so, BWise helps customers to truly be in control by sustainably balancing their performance and risks. For more information: www.bwise.com
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Enjoy this season of festivities with songs that the whole family will enjoy. Crafts and activities will take place between 1 and 4pm where children can make holiday themed creations. For ages 3-10. Enjoy Menorah Madness with Joanie Leeds and the Nightlights, concert takes place at 2pm. Also, at 1:30 a family mini tour takes place.
Members pay $7 and bring up to 3 children for free. $5 each additional child.
Visitors to the Garden State Discovery Museum can participate in Hooray for Hanukkah. Hooray for Hanukkah features Hanukkah crafts and children can hear Hanukkah stories, see concerts and participate in interactive performances. Children visiting the museum must be accompanied by an adult 18 years or older.
Garden State Discovery Museum offers a Buy one Get one Free discount on One Day Admission Passes for active or retired military personnel, disabled veterans, military reservists, spouses and dependents when valid military ID and dependent ID is presented.
Visit your local Barnes and Noble for Story time and Activities featuring Honeyky Hanukah, a fun story celebrating Hanukah with an accompanying CD.
Check your local Barnes and Noble for event times. Click the link below and enter your zip code to find the store nearest you.
Looking for a different way to spend some family time at Chanukah this season? Chanukah on Ice is a combination of "sparkling ice and a dazzling menorah." Men, women and children are invited to skate to contemporary Jewish music and classic Chanukah songs. Also, make a take home Chanukah art project. Guests are also invited to watch the 5 foot tall, over 400 pound giant Chanukah Ice menorah being lit during the festivities.
Price includes skate rental, doughnuts and drinks.
Holiday Fun for moms and Kids of all ages. The Jewish Federation of Northern NJ will supply the cookies and you bring the creativity and great fun will happen at the Academies at Gerrard Berman Day School. Guests are encouraged to bring a friend or make a friend.
The Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County presents "Festival of Lights"-Songs for All Ages, performed by Sharim V'Sharot: People of Song. Under the direction of acclaimed Musical Director, Dr. Elayne Grossman, this musical celebration with a four part choir performs music from all eras in Hebrew, Yiddish, French, Italian and English. Guests are encouraged to donate a new or gently used children's book to a child in need for the holiday.
Tickets held at the museum and are non refundable. |
Lakewood continues long road to city-wide…
Lakewood continues long road to city-wide bicycle connectivity
This graphic displays a pavement pattern showing where a bicycle lane and an automobile lane must cross, alerting cyclists and motorists that they must weave across each other's lane. Patterns like this are widely used along Garrison Street in Lakewood.
Green paint marks a new bike lane at the intersection of Garrison St and Mississippi Ave in Lakewood on Feb. 12, 2016.
By Austin Briggs |
PUBLISHED: February 23, 2016 at 7:25 a.m. | UPDATED: December 1, 2016 at 11:35 a.m.
LAKEWOOD —In recent years, Lakewood has added sharrows, protected lanes, green lanes and other bike infrastructure improvements, earning the city a bronze rating by the League of American Bicyclists, a nationwide organization that promotes bike-friendly cities.
The city is adding even more bicycle infrastructure as it works with the community in developing a new Bicycle Master Plan that bike advocates hope can garner a silver rating.
"If you look at all the projects outlined in 2005, there was a $40 million price tag on it," said Gary Harty, founder of the Lakewood Bicycle Advisory Team. "There's been a number completed, but we still have significant connectivity gaps. Overall, I'm pleased with the attitude and commitment of the city but am concerned about having enough money to carry this vision to the fullest extent possible."
According to numbers provided by the city, $5.6 million has been spent in recent years on bicycle access improvements throughout Lakewood.
Construction crews are expected to break ground next year on a much anticipated $3 million project to improve bicycle and pedestrian mobility along the west side of Sheridan Boulevard from Sixth to 10th avenues.
Following that, plans call for a $2.4 million, 10-foot-wide multi-use path parallel to the West light-rail line from Wadsworth Boulevard to Zephyr Street and from Kipling to Oak streets on the north side of the tracks.
"It's really a high priority to connect people to the light rail," said city traffic manager John Padon.
These high-dollar projects are far from the norm and are usually funded in part with state and federal grants, Padon added.
Harty believes it'll be a long time — if ever — before that $40 million vision is fulfilled. He said a high-priority project would be a $20 million project connecting Routt and Quail streets across U.S. 6.
Instead, the bulk of city improvements to bicycle infrastructure comes in bits and pieces, oftentimes when the city repaves a road. Then, if the situation calls for it, the city will add bike lanes.
In the near future, city officials said they will be focusing on east-west roads for new bike lanes, with sections of Jewell and Yale avenues under consideration.
As the longest north-south bicycling street in the city and one of the rare streets on which pedestrians and cyclists can safely cross U.S. 6 and U.S. 285, Garrison Street has long had bike lanes, and the last few years has seen the addition of sharrows, green lanes, white chevrons and other markings.
"It's really been our test bed, and we've been getting a lot of feedback from the cycling community, car drivers and the police department," said Public Works director Jay Hutchison. "Overall it's been positive, although the sharrows have been a little split."
Padon said sharrows indicate the lane is to be shared equally with motorists and bicyclists and, as a rule of thumb, any green marking means you're in a potential conflict zone.
Lakewood traffic investigations detective Ty Countryman said there has not been an increase in traffic and bike collisions as cycling infrastructure has expanded, but noted he sees improper use of the road by bicyclists and motorists on an almost daily basis.
"Especially near intersections, everyone needs to work together," Countryman said. "You tend to see less accidents with the truly passionate bicycling demographic as opposed to those simply riding from Point A to Point B who may lack knowledge of the rules of the road."
Resident Jen Maddows said she bikes almost every day, and cars using bike lanes to pass are one of the bigger issues she sees, along with a general lack of knowledge on what the various symbols represent.
"I feel like the sharrows are kind a joke," Maddows said as she waited to board the W line at the Wadsworth Station. "Even bike lanes themselves are ignored, so share-the-road arrows are even less of an incentive for cars to pay attention to you."
Austin Briggs: 303-954-1729, [email protected] or @abriggs
Austin Briggs | Lakewood/Arvada |
I ordered the shade 'Moon Baby" which is described as a pale blue, but in reality is just a very light gray. It's still a nice neural shade, it's just not what I was expecting. It's also slightly gloopy like I've had it a long time, even though I just received it. I will probably try another shade though, since I like that these polishes are cruelty free and made without a lot harmful chemicals that are commonly in nail polish.
I love the colors and packaging for this product, but I found the formula very thick and seemed to get even more gloopy after just a couple uses.
Good: I got Glowstar - it's a minty very opaque light green. The color is interesting and different from other minty green nail polishes (it's my favorite color so I have a lot in that shade).
Perfect product! I loved the color and the feeling. Smooth fast drying nail color. Goes on easily and stays on for a long time, even through dishwashing.
This polish has a great pigment and thickness with out being tacky or heavy to wear. The polish also lasted a good week with out chipping or wearing out.
I would definitely buy more polish from Floss Gloss. It goes on very smooth and does not have a long dry time. Can't keep my roommates away from it either!
This was certainly not a color I would normally buy, but I tried it on my toes anyway. It seemed kind of thin and didn't cover as well as I'd like, although it looked fine once I had two coats on.
Floss Gloss Lacquer is inexpensive and stays on my nails. Easy touch ups! The glitter and creme polishes are great.
Maybe the other shades are good. I don't know. But this sample was very pale and did not cover in a consistent way. just a mess.
Small bottle...but who finishes those anyway!
I actually appreciate the size of the bottle..it's less wasteful. Glad its less toxic too. Fun to try a matte color, but if you have to use a top coat to prevent chipping...doesn't that defeat the purpose? Either way it came in my Birchbox and its always fun to try new products. It is a very unique shade which will be great for Summer. |
This gorgeous Stargazer fountain pen embodies fine art, design and craftsmanship and comes packaged in a wonderful presentation box, making it a great choice for a gift to respected colleagues and loved ones. It can be refilled to extend the life of your high-quality Pilot pen with an ink cartridge or Pilot CON-50 converter (each sold separately).
A perfect gift for respected colleagues, friends and loved ones.
The ink pen has a lustrous pearl lacquer finish with bold rhodium accents.
Complemented by a luxurious 14-karat gold, rhodium-plated nib.
Refillable with either a cartridge or the Pilot CON-50 converter.
Comes with an elegant presentation box and care-guide manual. |
Gyro Conference is a leading Norwegian PCO company with over 20 years of experience within a wide spectrum of congress, conference, and event organising.
Gyro Conference is a member of IAPCO – the International Association of Congress Organisers, an organization exclusively reserved for qualified, quality assured and recognized PCOs.
Throughout our history, Gyro Conference has been responsible for planning and staging of a long succession of successful events, congresses and conferences, large and small, for the public and private sectors as well as all types of member organisations. Our portfolio spans the range from large international events and congresses to of international governmental nature. Gyro Conference has a wide and coordinated expertise within all areas related to development and staging of events and conferences. Our services include working with clients in order to develop goals and strategies as well concepts and creative solutions. In addition, we supply quality assurance services, project management, websites / marketing activities, registration, abstracts, exhibition, budget and accounting management as well as the actual operative staging and contingency planning necessary for a successful event.
Gyro Conference is a company that has the size, competence, experience and capacity that is necessary to stage even the largest and most complex of event. The company possesses the resources to develop, stage and then close down (complete with financial reports, contract closure etc.) in a secure and quality-conscious way.
As one of the largest PCOs in the Norwegian market, Gyro Conference has a unique and flexible capacity. With a human resource pool that includes not only our company employees of 10 persons, but also those of the parent company Gyro, we have at our disposal the expertise and resources available to tackle all challenges related to both staffing numbers and competence necessary to successfully complete all PCO activities. |
Celebrities You Didn't Know Tied the Knot When They Were Just Teens
Jul 8, 2017 11:02 am·
By Virginia Van de Wall
Take a Tour of All the Houses (and Apartments) the Duggars Call Home
You know that Kim Kardashian is settled down with Kanye West and no one can forget her infamous her two-month marriage to Kris Humphries. But did you know that long before the Keeping Up with the Kardashians cameras started rolling Kim was married and still in her teens? And she's not the only star! Plenty of celebrities walked down the aisle before they were legally old enough to drink.
MORE: Jared Leto, Selena Gomez and More Celebrities Who Had Teen Parents
There was former wild child Drew Barrymore and her Kardashian-length first marriage. And Olivia Wilde, who got married many years before starting a family with Jason Sudeikis. We decided to throw things way back and see which celebrities couldn't wait to get hitched.
While most of these situations weren't exactly 'till-death-do-us-part, there are few happily-ever-afters in there. You won't believe which one of your favorite '90s boy banders is still with the wife he traded vows with at 19—and is a proud family man with five kids!
Check out the gallery to see 10 stars who got married before they turned 20.
The starlet married Jeremy Thomas when she was just 19-years-old. They broke things off two months later.
Before her infamous 72-day marriage to Kris Humphries, the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star married music producer Damon Thomas when she was 19-years-old. They got divorced four years later.
The singer married backup dancer Dean Sheremet when she was just 19-years-old. They stayed together for seven years, until she met her current husband Eddie Cibrian.
When the actor was 18 he married Rachel Miner — they got divorced two years later.
The "MMMBop" singer married Natalie Bryant, who was four-months pregnant at the time, when he was 19-years-old (she was just 18) . She gave birth to their son months later.
They're still married and now have five kids together.
The actress married Tao Ruspoli when she was just 19-years-old (he was 27 at the time). They got divorced eight years later.
The actress started dating Don Johnson when she was just 14-years-old (he was 22 at the time). When she turned 18 they got married, however it only lasted for six months.
Over a decade later, the two got married again —but ended up getting divorced seven years later.
Solange Knowles
Beyoncé's sister married her high school sweetheart Daniel Smith when she was 17-years-old, and gave birth to their son soon afterwards. They got divorced two years later.
When she was 16-years-old Courtney married actor Doug Hutchison, who was 50-years-old at the time. They're still together.
The actress was 18-years-old when she married rocker Freddy Moore. They got divorced four years later. |
There's a chatty little bird that chirps noisily as he hops around among the brush. He has a distinct, bright white eye stripe and a tail he holds aloft and flicks back and forth. His name is the Bewick's Wren and he's been a regular visitor over the last few months. Now I don't know if he's the same one or not, but I do think it could be; he is hopping along the same tree and the bushes every time I see him. I like to think its his established territory.
The first time we met, he was climbing up the mossy limb of a tall tree frequented by chickadees and the occasional hummingbird. It was one of those autumn Victoria days with spots of sunshine peeping out between intermittent clouds. His quick stop and go movements caught my eye, as well as his noisy song. He would move along quickly, stop and tap the tree, hunting for insects for a bit before moving along again.
He also hops along on the ground among the leaves and brush, hopping from cover to cover. I think he has a preferred little nook in between the low branches of a bush where he must stay warm and dry. I've seen him there a few times, and he always seems to hide there when other people walk by. Their footsteps crunching in the leaves and stones send him scurrying for cover. Looking at how tiny he is, fitting in his little alcove as small as a leaf, I wonder what it would be like to be that small. Would a blade of grass be like a tree and would a tree like a mountain?
Since I started birding, I remember seeing my first Bewick's Wren in my backyard. This little wren was once found widespread across North America; today, their refuge is the west coast and parts of the southwest. They can be found in shrubby and bushy areas, such as parks and gardens, as well as open woodlands like the garry oak meadows found on eastern Vancouver Island (Seattle Audubon; Cornell). These little birds are a joy to watch and I am always extra excited to see them in my own backyard.
I watch as he gracefully flits among the blades of grass, setting each one he lands on into a gentle sway.
great photos of this sweet little bird.. |
An analysis of the transition between strain dependent and independent softening in austenite
Cartmill, M., Barnett, Matthew, Zahiri, S. and Hodgson, Peter 2005, An analysis of the transition between strain dependent and independent softening in austenite, ISIJ international, vol. 45, no. 12, pp. 1903-1908, doi: 10.2355/isijinternational.45.1903.
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Zahiri, S.
Hodgson, Peter
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Iron and Steel Institute of Japan
static recrystallisation
metadynamic recrystallisation
dynamic recrystallisation
peak strain
The post-deformation softening behaviour of austenite has been studied for various compositions and deformation conditions. The strain at which the transition from strain dependent to strain independent post-deformation softening behaviour occurs (ε*) has been found to coincide closely with the strain to the peak stress (εp) under certain conditions but not under others. It has been proposed that the relationship between ε* and εp may be described geometrically using the initial grain size and the dynamically recrystallised grain size.
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These Airlines Allow You to Block the Seat Next to You
Give yourself room to breathe on your next flight by ensuring no one is in the seat next to you—for a discounted fee.
Choosing an airline seat can often feel like a game of chance. Even the most experienced travelers are just tossing the dice when they check a box on the seat map, with no control over who their onboard neighbors will be or whether they'll luck out and get a whole row to themselves. But now some airlines have a convenient new feature—the ability to block out the seat next to you.
Earlier this week, Australian airline Qantas announced the trial of its "Neighbour Free" seating option, allowing passengers the option to ensure the seat next to them will remain free for a fee. The company says that the program is currently being tested on six domestic routes within Australia, and is not guaranteed to stay empty until departure time.
The option is currently being offered on an invitation-only basis to eligible customers on those select routes, who will receive an email before their flight, with costs varying by route. The airline cautions that the extra seat is then meant to remain empty, and not to be used for infant seating or extra carry ons, including musical instruments. Qantas hopes to gauge customer feedback during this trial period, and if the idea sticks, they'll roll it out to more domestic routes later this year.
And they're not the only ones who have gotten into the business of promising some on-board elbow room, especially in the age of pandemic travel. Here are the airlines currently offering the opportunity to block out your adjacent seat at a discounted cost.
The current "Neighbour Free" trial for Qantas is available to economy passengers for $30 to $65 on six routes, chosen for their range of flight time between 90 minutes to four hours. Eligible passengers flying between the Gold Coast and Sydney, Adelaide and Sydney, Darwin and Melbourne, Darwin and Sydney, Perth and Brisbane, and Adelaide and Brisbane will receive an email 48 hours before their flight to invite them to opt in.
Even after purchase, the extra seat is not guaranteed until departure. If someone ends up buying that seat, the customer will receive a refund. Availability is limited, so interested passengers are advised to book early.
Fiji Airways says that it first introduced "My Bubble Seat" manually in 2021 and then opened it up to customers when the country's borders reopened in December. With the aim of offering social distancing, additional comfort, and more personal space, the option is available to purchase between 72 to four hours before departure time. Also offered based on availability upon check-in is "My Island," the opportunity to book a whole row on long-haul economy flights. With added amenities like a mattress topper, business class-sized pillow, extra blanket, and a seat belt extender, guests can then comfortably lay down across the row.
Passengers will have the option to select either one or two seats they'd like to block out on the seat map. For those choosing two seats, it must be an entire row, as seats across an aisle or in other rows can't be blocked out.
For more than three years, Dubai-based Emirates Airline has been allowing economy customers to buy up to three adjoining seats, but they can only be bought at the airport check-in counter before departure. The company confirms that they first introduced the program in March 2021 in response to passengers who prefer the economy class, but wanted more space. That includes couples who'd like a row alone, parents with infants traveling on their laps, or those who'd simply like to guarantee social distancing.
The cost for the upgrade is between $55 and $165 (or AED 200 to 600).
Air New Zealand also offers a SkyCouch product: three economy seats to yourself plus bedding.
One seat, twice the space. That's the mentality Air Zealand is heralding for its "Twin Seat" program for its economy cabin. Interested passengers should inquire about the option at the check-in counter, which is offered broadly across its network, but not available on every flight.
The extra seat can be purchased on flights to Auckland from Honolulu for $60; from Los Angeles and San Francisco for $75; and from Houston, Chicago, New York City, and Vancouver for $99, while it's $75 from Los Angeles to Rarotonga. Domestic routes within New Zealand range from NZD 29 to 99 (about $18 to $60 USD), while those from Australia to New Zealand are AUD 29 to 99 (about $20 to $67 USD).
The airline also cautions that the extra seat doesn't always mean being able to lie flat. "Not all armrests onboard our aircraft fully retract and therefore Twin Seat is not intended for, and may not allow you to sit across or lay across multiple seats," the site says.
For Abu Dhabi-based Etihad, "Economy Neighbour-Free" simply appears as one of the seating options, as it emphasizes a focus on "health and wellness" with the extra room.
Available 72 to four hours before flight time, the available options can be accessed by entering the booking reference number and name on the seat selection page. Passengers can select up to three neighboring seats.
Philippines Airlines
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Explorer of the Wilds of Papua New Guinea in the 1970s
This is an article based on interviews I conducted with Mr. Trevor Ellis, who also graciously shared some of his photos with me, scanned from his film originals. Please note all photos included here can be viewed larger by opening in a new tab (right-click).
Three men saw the enormous white bird land in a clearing, creating thunder and unearthly wind, and a white spirit fell out. The bird flew away and left the spirit — or was it a creature? — on the ground. The men ran down the hill as fast as they could to investigate but by the time they got there the bird was high in the sky and the white mystery had bolted into the jungle.
Long spears in hand, they searched through the jungle for some time but never found the white man who was lying flat on his stomach on the ground, still as a tree root.
"I could run pretty fast and I didn't have that much gear with me, not even my two-way radio." Usually Trevor tried to get his sediment samples via trekking on foot from his base camps, but some places he was supposed to sample would take so long to walk there, it made more sense to fly. Helicopters were the mode of transportation in the jungle. On this day, the helicopter dropped Trevor off in a clearing at about 11,000 feet, the highest the helicopter could fly, near a gravelly stream cascading down a mountainside. The helicopter hovered and Trevor jumped out; it would come back four hours later to pick him up.
As the sound of the helicopter faded away, he heard hoots and hollers. "About 100 yards away up the stream slope, natives were running down the hill toward me just wearing penis gourds, nothing else, and I was thinking, 'I don't know that these guys are friendly.' The way they were waving their spears around, I decided not to stick around to ask them, so I sprinted off into the forest."
When the natives gave up the search after about 20 minutes, Trevor got up from lying on his belly and continued on with his work, collecting the samples he was tasked to. Four hours later the pilot returned to the clearing but the men with spears were not seen again.
"They probably had never seen a helicopter or a white man before. In those days this area was incredibly isolated. I never saw a jet airplane fly overhead in my entire time [spanning two years] in Papua New Guinea."
Photos: Above men holding arrows and spears similar to the men he hid from; the spears have different tips on them depending on what animal they are intending to kill with it. Below a typical penis gourd worn by some tribal men.
I asked Trevor, "Did you or do you dream about these experiences? I'm wondering what kind of impact they had on your psyche."
"No. Actually I didn't find it all that disturbing. By this time I'd been through so many things that were sort of near death. Close shaves were very common in my work. I'm not sure I even told the other people I was with."
Of course not; what young geologist in 1973 would bother with such a mundane story as being chased by naked natives with spears while collecting sediment samples in the highlands of Papua New Guinea? Although to be sure, most of his camp mates might not have been impressed, as they were other natives hired for him as translators and porters. He seems to feel bad about it now – it would probably be considered a bit un-PC in this age – but he often paid his crew in tobacco for their work. The company he was working for provided him the tobacco. At that time currency was just starting to be used in PNG, and day labor could be paid for in tobacco or currency.
He mentions a few such "sort-of-near-death" things with his disposition toward understatement. One night a big rainstorm high in the mountains caused a flash flood that tore through their camp lower down in the middle of the night, bringing snakes and debris right through his tent. There wasn't much higher ground to climb to but they managed to get out of the way. The native crew were terrified as they didn't know how to swim. But Trevor says, "It was rather exciting."
Photos: Above typical base camp set-up for 10 days at a time; Trevor's tent and field supplies set upon a platform made of felled trees by the porters. Below a typical lean-to the porters built for themselves at base camps.
A more disturbing time was during one of his regular camp relocations, which were often conducted via helicopter —a far more expedient way to move than carrying everything through the extremely difficult terrain on foot — "the helicopter flew away with half my crew and didn't come back." It was supposed to return for the other half of the people and supplies. "But it turned out the engine on the helicopter went bad. We screwed up and uh, well, he also had our food. The remainder of us went for three days without food."
I asked, "Were you starting to get worried?"
He replied, "Well the real problem was we couldn't get communication either. So we didn't know what was going on for those three days. I could guess, though." He had mentioned earlier he had a voracious appetite during his time in the PNG highlands, so he must have been painfully starving, but it's hard to get a statement of alarm out of him.
"We ate beetle biscuits." I.e., little beetles they popped into their mouths live. "They were bland and crunchy." But not remotely filling. The remaining crew stranded with him, though natives, were agricultural people from a different part of the island who didn't know how to catch or select edible foods from the jungle.
I had been wondering after a few hours of interview if he ever faced these rather extreme situations with anything but equanimity or secret glee, when he mentioned a moment of "extreme fright." Climbing around rocks and cliffs they didn't have ropes or anything like that with them. One time he was on a ledge in a vertical cliff face near a waterfall, high above the river, and needed to jump over to where he could take a sample from the sediment in a small pool. As he jumped over a narrow channel, the rock on the side he landed on was slipperier than the one he left, and he slipped and landed on his belly on a rock ledge hundreds of feet up from the ground. He says it felt like ten seconds but was probably just one as he pushed himself back from the edge of the abyss that would have been his death.
But perhaps the most alarmed he felt in his work, I finally learned, was a time when he was working in remote northwest Australia, his home country. He was camped on a dried river bank next to a little lake. One afternoon swimming across the lake, "a pair of nostrils came up in front of me." A bit of laughter escapes him before he continues, "And then a pair of eyes a long way back from the nostrils. I just thought I was dead, I didn't think I had a chance."
A large salt-water crocodile was trapped inland for the season when the river dried up. About 20 yards away on shore, a co-worker happened to witness the scene, grabbed a hunk of wood and threw it at the croc, and hit it dead-on. "The croc rose up out of the water, all four feet in the air, water pouring off of him, while I swam by it. That was a really, really close shave."
"They just told me where I was going and dropped me off."
Trevor had been on his way to another job in Australia when he got a call that told him to go to PNG instead. On a dime he switched gears, got himself some vaccination shots, and he was over there in ten days from the call. U.S. Steel Corporation was trying to diversify into copper mining; Trevor was contracted through a middle-man company to explore the Western and Central Highlands region to the Indonesian border, taking sediment samples to test for the presence of copper.
"I had absolutely no idea what I was getting into. I'd been working in a pretty isolated place in Western Australia, but Papua New Guinea was taking it to another extreme."
At the time Trevor was working there, PNG was still a territory under Australian rule; it established its sovereignty in 1975, just after he left. PNG is one of the most culturally diverse nations on the planet, and most citizens still live in traditional communities. But given the diversity of tribes, the types of communities and living quarters can vary widely, just like "clothing" or lack thereof, body modifications, etc. There are over 800 known languages!
Even today, PNG is one of the least explored countries, mostly due to the extreme terrain. Still today, air transport is the primary means of getting around, there are few connecting roads, even to the major cities. The interior jungles likely contain numerous undiscovered species of animals and plants. I've read that some people theorize there remain "uncontacted" tribes therein. A big reason I was keen to interview Trevor on his experiences in the 1970s is because I was spellbound watching films, and reading articles, documenting Westerners' first contact with some tribes in PNG ... people living with stone age-caliber technology and frightened of the white people, fascinated with things like ballpoint pens. (I had the same interest in first-contact documentaries with tribes in the Amazon.) About 80% of the population continues to live in traditional, and often very isolated, communities with few or no modern "conveniences."
I knew PNG had been pretty infamous for the number of tribes engaging in headhunting and cannibalistic practices. Apparently by the 1980s, these practices had all but died out except in the more isolated areas, where it was still going on in the 1970s. Trevor encountered at least one village where the large huts had human skulls hanging all around the outside like decoration. In the photo below, you can see three of them hanging from the floor boards to the left of the man leaning against the hut.
As you, my readers, may know my interest in witchcraft culture through my friendship with Berrie Holtzhausen and the film I was involved with making about him, African Witchfinder, I will mention that witchcraft and witch killings are rampant in PNG. I watched a documentary with Ross Kemp that revealed the "witches" are also often horrifically tortured for hours and even days before being killed. Recently Berrie was involved with a Zoom meeting with people from PNG on the topic, perhaps combining knowledge and experience in combating the problem (I haven't actually gotten the low-down on the meeting yet).
So in light of how unexplored and unglobalized the country remains in context of today, imagine what a wild land it was in the 1970s.
"I had no idea what it was going to be like," says Trevor, "what the conditions were like, I didn't have a concept of how isolated it would be. I learned all this as I went along. And gradually I learned what happened to the fellow I replaced." The guy originally tasked to do this work had a nervous breakdown. The heat, the insects, the extreme isolation, the river crossings and continual hacking through a jungle that blotted out most sunlight — it wasn't particularly uncommon for foreigners in these situations to break down. That guy had to be flown home.
(The next job he took in Australia after PNG, Trevor again replaced a man who couldn't take the tough conditions.)
Like early polar explorers seemed to have superhuman abilities to tolerate cold, Trevor had the good fortune of being able to tolerate heat. Before coming to PNG, he spent some time working in the harsh desert sand dunes in northwest Australia. He drank 10 gallons of water a day and was coated in a white crusty layer of salt at the end of each day. He had to take salt tablets each day to replenish what was lost through his sweat — every fourth gallon of water had a tablet with it. He said one day he sat next to an Aboriginal man in a pub and his white-man skin was darker than the Aboriginal's.
He was able to handle mosquito and other insect bites without much trauma, even when he was coated in bees and had to run to the river like a cartoon character being chased by the angry stingers.
He learned to have exceptional balance, crossing rivers and gorges on skinny little trees that served as the natives' bridges, machete hacking his way through dense soggy jungle and slippery tree roots, walking through rivers on super slippery rocks. Never using ropes climbing rock faces. Below are some photos of river crossings and typical "bridges." The native men are his porters.
The man sitting on the rock below was Trevor's "head" porter for a time (he had different tribes as porters in different areas of the country). His only duty, though, in the actual "portering," was to carry Trevor's two-way radio. That was the single most important piece of equipment, the only contact he had with the outside world. He said that it only worked about half the time, but it presented the only possibility of communicating with the company headquarters on the island to request supplies or an evacuation or exchange any other important information.
"I was pretty darn good with a machete," he says, which I'm sorry, but you just would never imagine that meeting him today. Even though I'm a serious introvert, I do enjoy talking to people, especially older people for precisely this reason — the things you would never imagine about a person. The most ordinary person picking out an orange in the grocery store might have an epic background. Maybe they are a decorated war hero, maybe they invented something really important, maybe they escaped from the Khmer Rouge or China's Cultural Revolution, maybe they nearly starved to death one year. This is also one reason I love traveling the world — the stories behind peoples' lives in other countries are often even more astonishing than those in America because of the different conditions and histories of those countries. Anyway, I digress. Merely to say, don't ever judge a book by its cover.
He had teams of 10 natives with him at most locations to carry gear, and an assistant to help with the field work. He went through a lot of boots that rotted out from walking through the rivers. He eventually started to go round barefoot like the natives but he was warned about getting hookworm and decided to try going back to boots. Then there were the leeches, the rashes he would get, the mosquitos .....
He showed me a photo taken of himself standing the jungle with his shirt off, his hair and skin almost painfully pale (hard to envision him once looking like an Aboriginal!), and his back covered in beetles, the ones they ate as "beetle biscuits." I would have already run screaming from the jungle the moment my back became a porch for so many insects.
Amazingly, he never got sick or diarrhea drinking water straight out of the rivers in PNG, eating local food, munching on live beetles in the jungle. However, all his scrapes and cuts, inevitably accrued traipsing through dense jungle, would suddenly become infected at the same time. About every six weeks, he would fly out to recover for a couple weeks on antibiotics and then happily return.
It's as if his body was especially made for jungle exploration. It seemed to know its destiny way before Trevor's mind at the helm discovered it.
"At the time, I really liked the work [the remote assignments]. Being from a little country town, a coal mining town, youngest of three boys, it was great to get away and be totally independent and develop my own confidence. I was a really shy kid. In college I worked like a dog just to get passing grades."
When he managed by the skin of his teeth to get accepted into university, all freshmen had to undergo an intensive psychological examination. It was here he learned that all his questionnaire answers indicated he was on track to be the most average kind of person. Average number of kids, average income, average house on an average street, average humdrum career.
This – like a crocodile coming for him in the water – was alarming. He studied his brains out, so to speak, in order to graduate university, determined to thwart that prophecy. At that time the university system in Australia weeded out about three-quarters of the students — roughly a quarter of freshman made it through to graduation.
Straight after graduation, Trevor took a job and was sent off into a remote corner of Australia, his first taste of geological exploration, I guess you would call it. That type of isolated field of work attracted some "interesting" personalities. "For someone to be working out in those remote areas, they typically seemed to be running away from something. I mean really running away from something." Some personal demon or the law.
He found out one day that one of his coworkers was a murderer when the guy hopped in a truck and tore off and never came back. Trevor didn't know why until the police came through and revealed his coworker's crimes. If Trevor was running, I think it was simply away from his shy, average, unremarkable self into his real self, running toward his heart.
In its main base camp building in PNG, U.S. Steel had a big topographic map of the island on the wall, stretching from floor to ceiling. But in a large northern portion, it was just a blank white space, no lines or data. "That's where I was hired to go," testing for samples of copper in the silt on the land U.S. Steel had leased. He was directed to sample every stream valley.
Not even the Australian governing administration knew anything about what was in that area. Fifty miles x 100 miles of uncharted territory. There wasn't even aerial photography of the area because of the persistently cloudy skies. So Trevor had no idea what he would encounter in terms of the terrain he would be confronted with or the people he would meet. Three men that he decided not to meet were the ones who ran toward him brandishing their spears.
One thing he did have was aerial radar images at 4 inches-per-mile scale and his compass. He could make out the streams pretty easily in these images because they were breaks in the vegetation. On the ground, his compass was all the GPS he needed. One evening trekking back to camp from a ravine he was sampling, his porters had not paid attention and they found themselves in the wrong ravine to go home. As it was getting dark, there was some anxiety among the natives and it was Trevor with his trusty compass who led them back to their own camp ... they could hardly believe the white man knew the way better than them!
The company specified spots he was to reach and take samples. He would then fly around in a helicopter sketching out the terrain on a letter-size plastic sheet on his lap and then tell the pilot where to set him down, with the directive to come back in ten days and pick him up at the same spot.
"It could be very rough terrain and the managers didn't have any idea the reality of the conditions. They asked me once to traverse a certain area from one drainage system to another in five days. I estimated it would take at least two weeks, then came to find out two other parties had recently attempted the crossing and had to turn back, so I didn't attempt that one." Rather than argue with his superiors about it, he simply went somewhere different without consulting them, and that happened to be where he landed on his belly above the abyss in extreme fright.
I guess mostly on account of nature shows I've watched on television about PNG, I had thought living and working in the jungle would be a story full of slithering snakes and exotic colorful birds. But the reality for Trevor was that the jungle was so dense, mostly all he saw was flora — leaves, vines, roots, trunks, and more leaves, and mostly all he heard, rather than exotic bird calls, was insects, cicadas and the like. One time he saw a tree kangaroo, but unfortunately his native porters shot it with a bow and arrow and ate it.
There's a large family hut in the tree below if you can pick it out.
Corresponding to a wide variety of tribal customs and languages, types of dwellings also varied from region to region. Often they were erected in clearings, either natural or man-made, and typically many people sleep together in one big room and they often have a fire going, filling the hut with smoke. Perhaps as a form of insect control. One evening Trevor and his porters ran across an empty hut and decided rather than setting up a camp, why not use the building that was there. Once nighttime fell, Trevor lit his gas lantern and flying ants came out in droves ... picture Daphne DuMaurier's The Birds but with flying ants. Ewww. He quickly decided it was better to spend the night in darkness.
Below is a beautifully decorated community hut – it served as the main administrative and police building for the area. The guys sitting on the bench on the right are prisoners. Pretty sweet prison cell, eh?
The first building below is a post office (for whatever pittance of correspondence came to the administrative center), and then what is probably a ceremonial building (Trevor couldn't remember exactly) fronted by totems.
I asked about his cultural interactions, like what all he learned about different tribes — if it had been me, I would have asked all kinds of questions about their traditions and ways of life, and of course bride prices. But cultural learning wasn't really on his table for a couple reasons. One is he was mostly just focused on his work, at that time his interest was in dealing with the tough conditions and completing his assignments. But also, a significant inhibitor to chit-chatting was the language barrier. As mentioned earlier, there are over 800 different tribal languages and no lingua franca among the more isolated tribes.
Just asking "directions" could be challenging, as in "how long to reach the river" or "how far away is the next ravine." Like many folks living traditional lives in jungles and deserts and savannas, they have no need for and therefore no language for precise times. "A little ways away," "not long," etc., were the typical answers.
Often it would be a chain of three translators before words got from Trevor to the locals he was interacting with, and another chain to get the local's response. So asking complicated questions requiring lengthy answers would have been tedious. He had to scout for someone who could translate from the local tribal language to a tribal language that his porters spoke, and then his porters translated that into the pidgin English they spoke (which Trevor learned to understand). I listened to a course once on the evolution of language, and one of the modules was about the pidgin English in PNG, it's pretty interesting how pidgins start and evolve, and how quickly they can do so.
But he could actually tell me something about one of my biggest interests: bride prices. He said a cassowary bird like the one hanging out with him and a colleague at a headquarters camp, was extremely valuable and that "a man could get two brides" for one of these birds.
The language barrier was often unnerving, and just as unnerving for his porters as for himself, if not more so, as they were intimately familiar with how unfriendly and violent other tribes could be. Trevor knew this as a fact, but they surely knew it from experience.
One time a little tribe of about 30 natives followed Trevor and his porters for about a month, spying on them through the trees. Eyes in the jungle always watching them. The porters didn't know how to communicate with them and they were really spooked. But eventually their shadows decided to officially join up with them, I guess deciding the pale man was benign and interesting. This came in handy when Trevor unexpectedly needed to be evacuated by helicopter as quickly as possible.
He had been stabbed in the eyeball by a hard, sharp and pointy leaf on a tree — it slammed into his iris when the person in front of him brushed by it and it swung back into his eye. "I didn't worry about it for a couple days, but then my eye got infected. So I had to get hauled out of the jungle by helicopter to get it treated in Mt. Hagan."
But in the thick jungle, helicopters can't just land willy-nilly. It would typically take a crew of native porters several days chopping down trees to mark a flight path — an approach and take-off — and stacking them into a thick mat to make a helicopter landing pad. In this emergency situation, the shadow tribe gladly pitched in with their stone axes to help quickly clear a landing pad for the rescue. By "quickly," of course, I mean in PNG jungle time: two days.
See the little kids of the shadow tribe standing around wanting to help while the men cut down trees:
I said it sounds like that would have been a very painful experience. He said, "Oh I can tell you, that was really incredibly painful during those two days waiting to get out of there." But he wouldn't have mentioned the pain unless I had asked.
"It was tough conditions all the time, really tough," he said. So I asked, "What was the most uncomfortable aspect?"
"Well, it suited me quite well." Getting a complaint from him is as difficult as raising a sign of alarm. "I didn't mind it, I really liked the work, the solitude and independence it gave me, it gave me a lot of confidence in myself. Although those things got me fired from other jobs where I told it like it was instead of what the company wanted to hear. Working alone I had only myself to answer to. Why should I tell anyone else anything but the truth?"
Now sitting in his office full of bookshelves as we Zoom, his phone rings at regular intervals, rerouted after a few rings to voicemail. He sips on water, though not much more than I do. He even tolerated radiation for throat cancer in such a way that shocked his doctor, who had prescribed three months of therapy and recovery time after the radiation. Trevor had quit therapy and was back working after two weeks.
He often takes a minute to chuckle at a memory before relaying it. The stories he's most fond of are of the feats of others, rather than his own, namely the helicopter pilots. They sometimes landed and took off from places Trevor was convinced were impossible, even after having spent so much time landing and taking off as a passenger, regularly moving base camp and getting resupplied by helicopter every seven to ten days.
He recalls one rather thrilling ride when his favorite pilot, who was fresh out of Vietnam, executed a perfect take-off at a 45 degree angle, basically redlining both the motor and the rotors. The pilot was so excited, he explained to Trevor all the numbers and specifications about how everything worked perfectly, so Trevor suggested they go back to a site they'd passed up earlier because he (Trevor) thought it would be impossible to land.
The pilot knew so precisely what was needed to perform this, he told Trevor they had to get the fuel tank down to having only just enough to get back to camp, so they flew around for 20 minutes just using up fuel before descending through the canopy, where there was just enough room underneath the canopy for a helicopter. Not really descending, though, "He just drops the helicopter down through a hole in the trees" and then hovered beside the stream while Trevor jumped out.
While he was collecting his sediment samples, the pilot had fun doing laps back and forth beside the stream underneath the canopy. To leave, he revved up the motor and rotors again like a race car at the starting line, then "just flat-out acceleration and shoots the helicopter up vertically straight up through the trees."
Another time after a pilot picked him up from his sampling spot, they'd just barely gotten into the air when the pilot told him to get out, the copter was losing power. So Trevor jumped and then the pilot just disappeared. He waited there in confusion for awhile until the pilot came back. But instead of picking Trevor up, he pointed downstream and dropped a machete out of the helicopter. So Trevor had to spend about thirty minutes hacking his way along the river to where he finally saw the chopper was waiting for him on a little island. It had gotten caught in a downdraft which is why the pilot made Trevor bail, but Trevor didn't know why at the time as he was grudgingly muscling his way through the jungle.
His time in PNG was ended by a case of appendicitis, at which time he had to fly to a hospital in Australia for surgery. He had a subsequent assignment in remote Indonesia. The living and working conditions weren't as rough but he had more engaging cultural encounters, he says. There, a parasite entered his blood stream through his skin and shut down his kidneys. By a stroke of luck he got medical treatment at the British Embassy in Jakarta, where he was told he would have been dead in the next 24 hours if he hadn't gotten proper treatment. But this isn't what ended his days of high adventure in what were some of the wildest places on earth at that time.
It's a common end to even uncommon tales. The lives of many an explorer were becalmed and domesticated when their heart strayed into the territory of a woman and let itself be captured and drawn into a different realm of adventures in family life. After he was married he got offered many jobs to other exotic locales around the world. He would have been keen to take them but was quickly told by his beloved, "That wasn't going to work." So he never took any more.
Trevor met my dad after he was married and working a more civilized job. The two of them eventually worked on many consulting projects together in the synthetic and alternative fuels industry. That's how I came to know him, and many years after my dad passed away I looked him up to learn more about his early adventures I had heard him mention in passing.
I asked what kind of tools the natives used to cut down the trees – stone, wood, metal? He gets up from his office chair and disappears off screen for a few seconds and comes back holding a stone axe with a beautifully decorated wooden handle. In his living room he has two large bows hanging on the wall. Not souvenirs, they were ones his porters carried as they made their way through the jungle, similar to the one the man below is using.
To meet him today — an expert in computer database programs and a court witness for minerals evaluations, dressed in crisp professional attire, blonde hair, pale skin, slight frame — the last thought that would cross your mind is that those bows were from his job, like emptying out your cubicle when you leave a job and taking the office stapler with you as a memento. Those were a part of the world his personal day-to-day living experience took place in.
He says he plans to retire next year, and I hope he will. He'd like to travel around a bit, maybe go back to Indonesia, but not PNG. "The Australian government pulled out too soon," he says. "The country wasn't ready to run itself yet." And indeed it's now one of the most violent countries on the planet. Tribal warfare is endemic and now guns are being imported and so revenge killings are no longer you shoot one guy with an arrow, their tribe shoots one of your tribe with an arrow in return, and back and forth. Now Tribe A shoots 20 people of Tribe B in retribution, so then Tribe B ups the ante and mows down 30 from Tribe A, who has to up the ante by burning down an entire village, etc.
What I would call my "top list" of places/experiences I've most wanted to see since I started dreaming of seeing the world still has a couple un-checked boxes, and one of them is to see a traditional sing-sing in PNG at Mt. Hagan or Goroka. (Another, if you're interested, is to travel the Karakoram Highway.)
I could still have the opportunity to see these things, but the opportunity for me or anyone to explore places completely off the map, not having any idea what we might encounter, like the "golden age" explorers (my favorite reading genre, btw), is no longer available. So I really enjoyed speaking with someone who had that uncommon experience. I hope you enjoyed a little overview of our conversations and the interesting photos. Which aren't over yet ... below are photos of some of the native people he encountered. My favorite is this first one, if you look closely you can see that dangling from the ends of his headdress are bits of soda cans. A lot of Western materials were used as adornments when the native people first started encountering them. I remember seeing a photo of a man with a ballpoint pen through his septum, the way this man has a stick.
Above, a man surveys his banana fields. Below, a market day, where locals gathered to trade goods. Although clearly some of the people have had access to Western items (clothing, and I believe that's an umbrella in the background), this was in the region Trevor said the Australian administration had no real idea of what or who was here.
Although the photo of the man with the soda can bits is my favorite depiction of a tribal custom in the form of the headdress, I think this one below might be my favorite photo of the ones he shared with me. Beautiful women and girls he crossed paths with. The scanned film photo is really grainy, but it looks like the woman in green has facial tattoos.
Lastly, a picture of Trevor standing in a creek bathed in golden jungle light, isolated from the rest of the world — in his happy place. |
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Robert Sheehan Interview The Mortal Instruments City of Bones
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The Mortal Instruments City of Bones opens on 21st August, based on the bestselling fantasy book series by Cassandra Clare. Stars Lily Collins, Jamie Campbell Bower and Robert Sheehan joined director Harold Zwart in London for a press conference with fans. Check out what Misfits star Robert Sheehan in particular had to say about his role as Clary's Mundane best friend Simon.
Was Simon a fun character for you to play?
There's always comedy to be juiced from being the guy at the back of the group who isn't doing any of the slaying, who's doing all the cowering. Also tumbling into this world and being the normal eyes on this very very abnormal world. You get to frown and ask "What the hell is going on?" every five or ten minutes. The audience do in truth need someone like that. It's my character and it's also Lily's character Clary. We're very much the normal people tumbling into this crazy world. But yeah it was lovely fun. The good thing about Simon was Harold (the director) saying it's got to be real. My instinct tends to be towards performance (gives crazy jazz hands), towards gesticulating wildly in every other direction. You may have seen it in my other works… But it was the director reining me back saying it has got to be absolutely real. This guy is very normal, somewhat elitist and bookish. It was a new discovery for me; it was very fun and very enjoyable.
What kind of training did you have to do to get into shape for the film?
My training was very much sleep… just sleep in. Have a good sleep. The rest of them are going to go and do some stunt choreography for a bit. You just show up for the filming bit and put a t-shirt on, or take it off. Ladies that also happened!
What's it like being part of such a popular franchise that already has a big fanbase?
The others have been on more of a promotional tour than me, because I've been working on a small film. But I was at comic con and then the LA press, then Toronto. Even just that has turned me upside down, it's been fairly hysterical. There's been a feverish anticipation among the fans and whenever we show up for a premiere there's been hundreds of fans who have been waiting there for like 12 hours camped out. It absolutely bowls me over. I remember we were in Toronto and we'd done some stuff then the next day we did morning television and I promptly went back to bed afterwards. I got back up and having done a premiere the night before the thoughts of another one ahead was…just the thought of mustering the enthusiasm. But the thing was once I got there the fanaticism and the energy just coasted me along, it was infectious due to the fans. For me thankfully adrenaline has kicked in in the key moments. Like right now for example. It's been a an absolute eye opener.
Comic con was my first direct experience of the expectation. I'm not a very savvy social media person. I'm not on checking the traffic. I don't know how to use Twitter very well. So it was there that I first realised wow the anticipation is huge. Since then it's been building and building. When we show up to premieres it's almost like Beatlemanina. We get out of our cars and there's like hundreds of people there screaming. It's very hard to compute at times.
Rob what's the reaction been to your latest project Love Hate?
Well to be honest since Love Hate has come on English TV I've not been here I've been on the continent. I've been away working. So all the reaction I've been hearing about has been remote. But certainly as regards to the show being an honest depiction of the Irish gangster underworld, honestly even though I'm in the show I'm not an authority to ask on that subject. I didn't approach the role in any methodical way; I didn't spend any time with real members of the Irish criminal underworld. What is is.. it's fairly honest in the sense that a lot of the storylines that Love Hate has, have been taken somewhat form the Irish media about stories that have happened and modified slightly. They've changed and been dramatized but there is a basis of honesty for a lot of the crime the characters undergo. There's a lot of honesty in what they do because these things have actually happened and been reported in the media. The rest is just good writing by one man who straps himself to the beats and writes the whole thing. It's one man who's written all three series. But that's about as much evidence as I can give about that.
There's a lot of elaborate CGI and special effects in the film what was it like to work with that?
That was a luxury of being a mundane in this movie. I wasn't laboured down with any of the shadow hunter technology in this movie. Though if Harold ever writes a book there'll be a whole chapter on how to scare an actor, without using too much CGI.
If you could choose to draw a rune in real life what would it be?
I'd make the get up in the morning rune. To be completely awake! That's one thing I could really do with, to get my motor running in the morning without heavy amounts of caffeine. If I could draw that on myself every morning! Even after eight hours of sleep I'll wake up and for the first few hours I'll have one eye closed and nearly be hit by a bus. If I could be one of those morning people that would be a great rune to have.
What was your favourite costume to wear?
My Nike high tops! Grey, pink very cool and very vintage.
At the heart of this big fantasy adventure is quite a relatable love triangle. What was it like to work on that aspect of the story as Simon?
I think the thing with Simon is that even as he's tumbling into this crazy other world, in a way Clary is very much his focus. She's the hand that he's holding onto. It's funny that as he's experiencing this world the thing which irks him the most isn't the downworlders and the demonic forces, it's the fact that Clary is falling for this other guy. That's the thing for Simon, because he's probably I think an old romantic, the he's seeing this happen and that's the subtext for his journey, until he puts his hand to the fire and declares his love for her. So that was nice because that's his focus and that's his thread throughout this world.
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Harassment, intimidation or bullying: An intentional electronic, written, verbal, or physical act that:
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Background Managing multiple chronic and acute conditions in patients with multimorbidity requires setting medical priorities. How family practitioners (FPs) rank medical priorities between highly, moderately, or rarely prevalent chronic conditions (CCs) has never been described. The authors hypothesised that there was no relationship between the prevalence of CCs and their medical priority ranking in individual patients with multimorbidity.
Aim To describe FPs' medical priority ranking of conditions relative to their prevalence in patients with multimorbidity.
Design & setting This cross-sectional study of 100 FPs in Switzerland included patients with ≥3 CCs on a predefined list of 75 items from the International Classification of Primary Care 2 (ICPC-2); other conditions could be added. FPs ranked all conditions by their medical priority.
Method Priority ranking and distribution were calculated for each condition separately and for the top three priorities together.
Results The sample contained 888 patients aged 28–98 years (mean 73), of which 48.2% were male. Included patients had 3–19 conditions (median 7; interquantile range [IQR] 6–9). FPs used 74/75 CCs from the predefined list, of which 27 were highly prevalent (>5%). In total, 336 different conditions were recorded. Highly prevalent CCs were only the top medical priority in 66%, and the first three priorities in 33%, of cases. No correlation was found between prevalence and the ranking of medical priorities.
Conclusion FPs faced a great diversity of different conditions in their patients with multimorbidity, with nearly every condition being found at nearly every rank of medical priority, depending on the patient. Medical priority ranking was independent of the prevalence of CCs. |
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March 14, 2018 < 1 min read
Kraft Kennedy is proud to announce that, in recognition of his thought leadership in virtualization, Brian Spagna had been named a VMware vExpert.
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The honor highlights not only Brian's deep expertise in VMware technology, but also his influential role in shaping the industry conversation.
"I'm honored to be awarded VMware vExpert for the second year in a row," Brian said. "I look forward to passing along my knowledge to the VMware community in 2018. "
Brian is a Senior Consultant in Kraft Kennedy's Infrastructure and Enterprise Systems practice and is based in the firm's New York office. A trusted advisor to Kraft Kennedy's clients, he designs and maintains complex, cutting edge environments for legal and financial firms. Aside from virtualization, he also specializes in server infrastructure, storage, networking, and Microsoft technologies.
Brian has been generous in drawing on his expertise to help other VMware administrators. Highly active in the conversation on the VMware Technology Network Forum, he has been instrumental in providing technical advice and solutions to the community. It seems that there are few virtualization quandaries that Brian has not already considered and solved. He has also been blogging and Tweeting about virtualization, and has been awarded Internal Champion and VMTN Forum Champion badges by VMware.
Brian has achieved the following VMware certifications: VCAP6-DCV (Deploy), VCP6-DCV, VCP5-DCV. This is his second time attaining the prestigious title.
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Picking the right Wedding Photographer for you is an important decision. Once the wedding is over these photos will hold all those memories and key moments. There are thousands of photographers in the UK, so how do you go about choosing a photographer for your special day?
stitched together with one very simple goal, to tell the story of you and your day. My approach to each wedding is different, as no two weddings are the same. I try my best to tell each story in a unique way.
You should leave this page with a good idea of my style, how the booking process works and what to expect on the day!
My documentary approach ensures that all of your photographs will be captured in an unobtrusive and personal manner. This will remain consistent, right from the early preparation time spent with the bride and groom, throughout the day and right up until the first dance and evening reception. Explore my portfolio to get a feel for my style.
Choose someone whose work you love. Your wedding photographs will be with you forever. It's a bit of a cliche, but it's true – the photographs are the one thing left after your wedding. They will be there to remind you of one of the most important days in your life. I'd also recommend finding someone personable who is going to treat you well and put your interests first. As much as I love wedding photography I'm aware that it is your wedding, not my photo shoot.
An engagement shoot can actually help you in a few different ways. First, it helps you build a good rapport with your photographer. especially if you're hiring the same one to document your wedding day. You will feel more comfortable with your photographer and also get to know their shooting style. For me, it's also the time to get to know more about you as a couple.
After our consultation, I will send you a contract and an invoice for the deposit which is 20% of the package price. Once I have your deposit, your date will be secured. You can now relax knowing that you have an important aspect of your planning done. 6 weeks before your big day I will send you a questionnaire so I can gather the finer details of the day, and will finally request the remaining fee. |
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More organizations are utilizing third parties to achieve their strategic objectives, increasing efficiency and cost savings by shifting non-core or specialized functions to more experienced providers. As outsourcing grows in popularity and provider options rapidly increase, regulatory oversight is also expanding to monitor the sensitive data and processes that third parties are managing. What must be remembered is that while processes can be outsourced, their inherent risks cannot.
With resulting productivity and financial benefits, the use of third parties is projected to further increase in the future. Therefore, your third-party controls and monitoring strategies must evolve, not only to ensure that third parties are performing effectively and in compliance with your agreements, but also to secure proprietary information and protect your company from brand reputational damage or inadvertently violating laws.
Know your third-party relationships. A third-party relationship is any business arrangement between an organization and another entity, by contract or otherwise. You already recognize that companies with which you have contracts and business transactions such as vendors, suppliers, distributors and contractors are third parties. However, you may not realize that undocumented agreements that have been in place for long periods of time also qualify, including those with contract manufacturers, brokers, agents and resellers. To complicate matters, some third parties may themselves be utilizing a third party without your knowledge or consent, providing additional challenges in contract management and oversight. As part of your third-party relationship management, you should obtain an understanding of whether your third parties will be subcontracting any of their obligations and whether your agreement terms and conditions flow through to them.
Ensure adequate insurance coverage. Have your insurance coverage needs changed since the contract was signed with the third party? While the insurance coverage may have been adequate when the agreement was originally signed, any number of items such as technology, delivery locations or manufacturing locations may have changed over time, and thus your coverage may no longer be adequate. Normally, third-party relationships have a requirement for specified levels of insurance coverage. If a third party fails to maintain the proper coverages and an uncovered event or situation occurs, your organization may face additional risk and exposure which could have been prevented during the contracting phase. Are you confident that your third parties have sufficient coverage in the event of a disaster or data breach?
Review contracts to align with new laws. Have your contracts been updated to reflect the latest regulations for data security and privacy? With new laws regarding data security and privacy enacted over the past few years, some of your agreements likely need to be updated to clearly delineate responsibilities between the parties. For instance, do you have a clear segregation of responsibility regarding the protection of data and a plan in the event of a data breach? As companies expand internationally, compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) has received more attention due in part to concerns pertaining to foreign third parties' compliance measures. Additionally, several countries have passed anti-bribery laws that are equally, if not more, stringent; these laws create a somewhat complicated lattice of legal jurisdictional issues should a company be subject to an investigation.
Develop and implement a third-party risk management process. A key objective of a third-party risk management process is to determine your highest-risk third-party relationships and then put activities in place to mitigate these risks to a tolerable level. You should take a holistic approach to assess third-party relationships and utilize a framework that is flexible to the evolving needs of your organization. Developing and implementing a third-party risk assessment begins with utilizing a cross-functional team and defining roles and responsibilities in performing the assessment. Examples of individuals who may participate in this assessment include procurement, information technology (IT), finance and the business owners responsible for managing the relationship after execution of the agreement. You should internally define the risk assessment project plan and identify the population of your third-party relationships. Next, identify the risk categories to be assessed and deemed critical to your organization (e.g., strategic, reputational, operational, financial, compliance, security, fraud) and develop weighting criteria for each risk category to be applied to your third party. For each third party, the cross-functional team should then score the risks based on impact and likelihood so that the third parties can be categorized and prioritized in tiers. Tools such as third-party surveys may be utilized as part of this process. Once the third parties are scored and subsequently tiered, you can develop risk mitigation plans and allocate resources to focus on the higher-risk third parties. Some mitigating activities may include more focus on contract monitoring activities of that third party—including potentially conducting compliance audits.
Use of audits to help manage risk expectations. Third-party agreements should have a right-to-audit clause—which allows you to assess if the third party is in compliance with the terms and conditions of the agreement. With the change in security and privacy concerns and with various financial regulatory laws, you may need to upgrade the wording of contract clauses or potentially create addendums to include an audit provision that addresses new risks that have arisen since the original signing of the agreement and not just the monetary provisions. Depending on the significance of the contract to your organization, you should perform periodic third-party audits to ensure the terms of the contract are being fulfilled. With a new agreement, you may want to conduct an audit to make sure the third party is aligned to your interpretation of the agreement and to induce future compliance. Conversely, if an agreement is coming to an end, a close-out audit may be beneficial to ensure the third party has performed in accordance with the conditions of the agreement. How do you determine which third party to audit and when? This information should be one of the outcomes from your third-party risk assessment.
Leveraging third parties can help your business gain significant efficiencies, but you must remember that the inherent risk still lies with your organization. Taking these five key points into consideration will enable you to implement a flexible third-party relationship risk framework that helps ensure third parties are performing effectively, and your organization remains in compliance with evolving laws and regulations. |
Stretch of very warm temperature's to continue in the high country as an Continental Upper high builds over 4 corners area again….Upper high is split with weak Col over Central CA….Widely scattered thunderstorms possible mid week….
Very heavy rains fell in Mammoth during the mid afternoon hours Tuesday. An estimated .5 to an inch fell in town, most of which occurred within 1/2 hours. Todays atmosphere is certainly more moist as compared to yesterday morning, however, we do not have the upper dynamics or focusing mechanism like yesterday.
So there is a chance of showers today and or thunderstorm, However, I do not expect a rain event like yesterday in Mammoth.
There is better focusing over the Owens Valley today and so there is a better chance of areas heavy rain within the shafts directly below any thunderstorms. Tomorrow will begin a drying process as weak troughing sets up over the pacific NW. It will be dry over the Owens Valley Thursday.
Your Fourth of July Weekend outlook including July Fourth Monday is for slightly cooler temperature's and drier conditions with the usual afternoon and early evening Zephyr winds 15 to 25 MPH. Highs in Mammoth will be in the low 80 with nighttime lows in the upper 40s and 50s.
The Dweebs can not remember a late Spring and Summer that has been so warm here in the Greater Eastern California area. It is been 9 days straight that the high temperature has hit at least 100 at the Bishop AP. Today's high was 106 tying the record set in 2015. Tuesday's record is 107 should Bishop tie it. The outlook increases the chance of some thunderstorms especially Wednesday, as an easterly wave moves out of AZ. Renewed weak troughing off the coast of the Pacific NW will flush moisture eastward again. The stretch of 100+ temperatures is expected to continue with little relief in sight for the Owens Valley.
A weak *Col will help to channel some high and mid level moisture into the Central Sierra Tuesday and Wednesday for a chance of thunderstorms over Mono County. There appears to be a weak disturbance coming out of AZ, helping to add instability to the mix. Best guess is that the Mono County convergence zone will set up where the Zephyr meets the southerly flow coming up the Owens Valley as well. Any rainfall accumulation will be light.
Toms Place and Sunny Slopes is best spot for Mono County Convergence Zone as well as the Glass Mts…Clouds will build over the Sierra then tend to shift east a bit as the Zephyr kicks in..
The area at the top of the grade is a naturel for Summertime Convergence thunderstorm's.
Going into the weekend, we will probably get some cooling as a weak Trof moves into the Pacific Northwest. SW flow should flush any remaining moisture out of Mono County so the weekend will be dry. High temps the next few day will be in the Mid 80s then cool to the upper 70s by Saturday. Lows in the 40s and 50s.
One concern worth mentioning…. The lower levels are very dry and so any thunderstorms that do develop are likely to be high based with Strong Gusty out flow winds and some lighting……Not a good set up but one we would expect here in the high county in the Summer.
* A Col is the point of relatively lowest pressure between two upper highs….. |
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Repeating units of stacked newborn nappies/diapers stretch open in a soft and absorbing monochromatic grid. Estimated to take over 500 years to breakdown in landfill, the 'disposable work' tests and exceeds art conservation conventions. The unused readymade units morph into the transactional beingmade which discretely absorbs, swells and recedes while padding substrates and walls, dampening noise and loading space with potential meaning. Questions of vulnerability, nakedness, and memory expand into wider issues of culture, conservation and universality. |
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Q: How to setup Typescript 2.0 with visual studio 2015? My questions are
*
*How did you setup typescript with visual studio 2015 in a nutshell?
*How do you make sure the @types are same version as npm package?**
Background Question 1
I have tried to update to typescript 2.0 but can't get intellisense and have errors when compiled.
I have package.json pointing to my types:
"dependencies": {
"@types/react-router": "^2.0.41",
"@types/react": "^2.0.41",
"react": "^0.14.0",
"react-dom": "^0.14.0",
"react-router": "^3.0.0"
}
I also tried to add this to my tsconfig(without comments of course):
//"typeRoots": [
// "node_modules/@types"
//]
I don't know if this is needed anymore. I would guess not?
Background Question 2:
The question about versioning is more general. I have had so many issues with my types from definitely typed. This is why I moved to 2.0 since I thought it would be more consistent. However I still get these errors:
ERROR in C:\Users\alexander\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\Projects_CleanDir\clean\react-hot\node_modules\@types\react-router\lib\history.d.ts
(9,23): error TS2694: Namespace '"C:/Users/alexander/Documents/Visual Studio 2015/Projects/Projects_CleanDir/clean/react-hot/node_modules/@types/react-router/lib/history"' has no exported member 'Location'.
ERROR in C:\Users\alexander\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\Projects_CleanDir\clean\react-hot\node_modules\@types\react-router\lib\history.d.ts
(9,103): error TS2694: Namespace '"C:/Users/alexander/Documents/Visual Studio 2015/Projects/Projects_CleanDir/clean/react-hot/node_modules/@types/react-router/lib/history"' has no exported member 'Location'.
ERROR in C:\Users\alexander\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\Projects_CleanDir\clean\react-hot\node_modules\@types\react-router\lib\history.d.ts
(10,26): error TS2694: Namespace '"C:/Users/alexander/Documents/Visual Studio 2015/Projects/Projects_CleanDir/clean/react-hot/node_modules/@types/react-router/lib/history"' has no exported member 'Pathname'.
ERROR in C:\Users\alexander\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\Projects_CleanDir\clean\react-hot\node_modules\@types\react-router\lib\history.d.ts
(10,46): error TS2694: Namespace '"C:/Users/alexander/Documents/Visual Studio 2015/Projects/Projects_CleanDir/clean/react-hot/node_modules/@types/react-router/lib/history"' has no exported member 'Query'.
Is this a version issue? Maybe something else.... Should it not just work...
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Ad Parnassum. A Journal on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Instrumental Music - Vol. 17 - No. 34 - October 2019
Publisher: Ut Orpheus
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Ad Parnassum. A Journal on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Instrumental Music is a twice-yearly Peer-Reviewed musicological Journal, one of the most prestigious international scholarly achievement and a reference point in the field of the musicological research.
Ad Parnassum deals exclusively with instrumental music of the 18th and 19th centuries. The journal, which appears each year in April and October, accepts contributions in Italian, English, French, Spanish and German.
Each issue includes articles of major scholarly interest (each article is provided with an English summary), a debate of musicological interest, reviews of books relevant to the journal's field of interest and news.
Ad Parnassum is also complemented by monographs.
More information available at: www.adparnassum.org
Pages: pp. 168
Size: 170x240 mm
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February 7, 2019 / 2:50 PM / 5 months ago
A legacy of war: U.N. clears thousands of explosives in Iraq
Tom Miles
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations cleared almost 17,000 bombs, suicide belts and other explosive hazards in Iraq last year and the dangerous work of sifting through the debris of war - 7.6 million tonnes in Mosul alone - will take many years, U.N. experts said on Thursday.
FILE PHOTO: Damaged buildings are seen in the Old City of Mosul, Iraq January 30, 2019. REUTERS/Ari Jalal/File Photo
There are 100,000 damaged buildings in the country that could harbor explosive hazards such as improvised explosive devices (IEDs) left by retreating Islamic State (ISIS) fighters, said Pehr Lodhammar, head of the U.N. Mine Action Service (UNMAS) in Iraq.
The bulk of the clearance work is likely to take a decade, and 2 million displaced people are keen to go home. UNMAS trained almost 500,000 people last year to help them recognize the risks.
Last year's haul of around 17,000 explosive hazards included a "staggering" 2,000 IEDs, Lodhammer told a news conference, noting these had pressure plate fuse triggers, trip wires, infrared devices, anti-lift devices, remote control devices, or a combination of those things.
That figure included 782 suicide belts, many of them actually fitted on dead ISIS fighters found in the debris, he said.
Islamic State held Mosul for three years, and UNMAS arrived when the fighting ended in 2017. Its experts are finding explosive hazards almost everywhere, Lodhammar said. It is also working in Fallujah, Tikrit and Kirkuk, and expanding to Sinjar.
Picking through the flattened wreckage of Western Mosul in temperatures close to 40 Celsius (105 Fahrenheit) is gruesome work and physically and psychologically demanding, UNMAS director Agnès Marcaillou said.
"You have decomposing body parts that are still attached to suicide belts. You are walking around in a stench and clouds of flies, and at any given time you can have a rat or a cat or dog actually detonating something that is buried under there," she said.
Lodhammar said the task was not traditional one-dimensional mine clearance.
"These are not mines any longer. An anti-personnel mine would have up to 230-250 grams (8.1-8.8 oz) of explosives in it. Now we're looking at 10-20 kilos (22-44 lb)."
Buildings up to nine storeys high needed to be searched and made safe, while many of the bombs and shells dropped on Mosul by Iraqi security forces and the U.S.-led coalition had failed to go off, he said.
There were 250-pound (113 kg) bombs and 500-pound bombs, some still buried 7-8 meters (23-26 ft) down.
Generally at least 10 percent of bombs are assumed not to explode, and if not cleared away they may turn up decades later, like the World War Two bombs that are still discovered in Germany, he said.
Reporting by Tom Miles; Editing by Frances Kerry |
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* {@link GridLocationMap}, the x value of this object is in layout space and not indexes
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5 Back To School Landing Pages | Arthur Brown Jr.
It's that time of the year, the year in which kids and parents are filled with anticipation. It's back to school time. After a long summer (or not long enough depending on whom you ask) of vacations and long hot days of fun in the sun, its time to go back to school. It is also that time of the year when stores begin to roll out their latest back to school savings both in store and online. Online sales totaled $202 billion in 2011 alone so we know that people are buying and this year is no exception with sales expected to increase. With that in mind here are five great landing pages from around the web. Below each image is a brief description of why this landing page made the list. Keep in mind this is not an endorsement of the stores but rather a look at how to these retailers use landing pages.
Bright and colorful with all of the pertinent information above the fold this landing page from Staples gets many things right when it comes to building an effective landing page. There are multiple calls to action which as this page is more set up more like an e-commerce page than a traditional landing page with few stronger calls to action.
Walmart is a retail giant for a reason, they know how to speak to their intended target market. In this case with bold picture of happy students on of varying ages on their way to school dressed for success. Its easy to see why this page would be so effective with its use of photography but Walmart goes further by utilizing a QR code allowing visitors to enter for a chance to win an Ultrabook.
Where Walmart's target is clearly the parents of children who are still in school, Apple's landing page is focusing on those set to go off to college. Apple makes effective use of the space here with a bold splash of color in an otherwise white and gray website. The offer for buying a $100 Back to School Gift card is positioned just above the shop now button. Very effective use of color and message.
As with Apple, Target has chosen to focus on the college student, with the bright red of their corporate colors highlighting all the important things you should be paying attention to on this page. Very effective use of layout and placement as in the first half of the page contains the most important information on the offers, mobile apps to help track your shopping and how to apply for a scholarship.
Bold bright colors highlight the various savings to be had for the different intended target markets. All while using a bold bright color scheme and even bolder fonts to spell out in no uncertain terms that Big Back 2 School Deals are available here. Each of the four quadrants that the upper half of this landing page contain the similar shop now button giving the visitor a clear message of what they should do.
Have you come across some great examples of landing pages for Back 2 School sales and deals, if so please feel free to a comment or two about them with links. |
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Bridge trends buoy industry
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) says that $53 billion is needed just to maintain the current state of our bridges, of which a great percentage is rated as being deficient. To improve on the situation, $72 billion in added investment is needed. A breakdown of the number of deficient and obsolete bridges in each state is provided in this issue (see New York's Tops List of States Whose Bridges are Most in Need of Repair, 11/96).
Aside from its funding foibles, there is cause for optimism and excitement in the bridge industry. New procedures, designs and materials are pushing the industry forward. In a recent conversation with Mike Abrahams, manager of complex steel structures and movable bridges for Parsons Brinckerhoff, he shared some thoughts on what he thought were some of the major trends in today's bridge market.
The design/build method of bridge design and construction was his No. 1 issue. "We are seeing this with increased frequency and popularity, particularly with large and complex structures," he said. "We see more and more requests for proposals coming out from agencies.
"It seems to solve a lot of the institutional and administrative issues that tend to bog a project down. If it's done properly, the energies spent on the project are spent on getting the design done and getting it built." There is discussion about what is the best procedural method for performing such projects and the method of payment to consultants who submit designs for such contracts.
No. 2 on Abrahams' list is the new load resistance factor design (LRFD) specification being issued by the American Association of State Highway & Transportation Officials (AASHTO). "It is starting to work its way into use," Abrahams said. "It seems to be on a slower time table than design/build." Most states are opting to continue to use the more familiar AASHTO standard spec rather than the LRFD. To familiarize the industry with the LRFD spec, firms, such as HDR Engineering and Parsons, are developing courses on the new spec.
Abrahams' No. 3 choice is metrication. The conversion to the metric system continues to be the subject of much discussion as the industry wrestles with the choice between hard and soft conversion (see Consulting Engineers Ponder Merit of Highway Industry Metrication, April 1995). "I think [metrication] took a step back recently because the rebar spec was changed back to a soft conversion [after initially having been hard converted]," said Abrahams.
According to Abrahams, cable-stayed design is the dominant design for larger bridges, and has been for some years. "Segmental-concrete or concrete-box girders also are a popular design," he said.
In the area of bridge coatings, moisture-cure urethanes (MCUs) are finding their way into use in many areas of the country. According to Bill Brinton Jr., specification specialist with Wasser High-Tech Coatings, Kent, Wash., his company's coatings have been applied to more than 1,500 bridges in more than 30 states since first developing it's MCU in conjunction with the Oregon DOT nearly nine years ago.
Image: Federal Transit Administration
Portal North Bridge project in New Jersey receives FTA grant
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced a $766.5 million Capital Investment Grant (CIG) agreement with New Jersey Transit (NJ TRANSIT) for…
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Largest pedestrian bridge in Utah to be unveiled this week
Officials in the state of Utah are set to unveil a new pedestrian bridge that will connect Utah Valley University (UVU) with the UTA FrontRunner Orem…
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Ground breaks on final Centennial Bowl phase in northwest Las Vegas
The Nevada DOT (NDOT) this week broke ground on the $155 million final phase of the Centennial Bowl interchange where U.S. Highway 95 meets the 215…
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MENHIR – Hildebrandslied
Origin: Germany
Label: Trollzorn - SMP Records
Can Thuringian pagan metal get better than this? I honestly believe not! But then again, I thought the same when "Ziuwari" was out in 2001. After 6 years of silence Menhir are back with their epitome of Thuringian pagan metal (melodic pagan black metal besed on stories about old gods and true episodes, mainly from the Merovingian time in the german land of Thuringia). Some label problems and the recording sessions' perfectionism (that made them record guitars twice) delayed them, but the CD was finally released by Trollzorn / SMP, a new label with many releases in this genre!
The first thing worthy of mentioning is the excellent package. It is an A5 digipak with a 20 pages booklet, full of beautiful photos and text about the album's concept. It is about the sad saga of "Hildebrand", a father who returns to his homeland after many years and there his army fights against his son's "Hadubrand" army, who thought him for an enemy. "Hildebrand" didn't want this fight, but his son didn't recognize him…
So the set for this album is epic and sad at the same time, something that reflects to the music. It is Menhir's more mature and melancholic work so far, and maybe that's why I like it the most. "Hildebrandslied" consists of 7 songs with duration of 42 minutes, offering us best quality pagan metal. With their unique ability of mixing extreme with acoustic parts and Heiko's characteristic epic clean vocals changing in to black ones when needed, they managed to create another masterpiece. All of the songs are dominated by beautiful melodies in the guitars that are like always sticking into your mind. The compositions are enriched by brilliant orchestration using violins and some traditional instruments. The sound is very epic and most of the time at mid-tempo with a great variety in rhythm and intensity. All of their lyrics are of course as always in German.
When I first listened to the album the song that stood out was the 9mins epic hymn "Das Hildebrandslied – Teil I". Later on, every song became a favourite; since there are some parts in each of them that cause extreme "musical pleasure". The production and mixing is perfect, suitable for the music quality of this album. For me the most outstanding factor of "Hildebrandslied" is the much improved and very expressive vocals of Heiko, full of strength and sorrow at the same time. Of course it's not only the "quality" of the vocals, but also the unbelievable melodies on them, that make Menhir the best at this genre. Let's really hope that their next album will come out sooner, 'cause 6 years is too long to wait, even though they worth it…
If you've never heard of Menhir, but you are into epic pagan metal you should try to get a copy of "Hildebrandsleid". You will adore it. There is also a new edition released in 2009 by Trollzorn in jewel case. It contains the album, as well as a second CD including the first demo of the band "Barditus" that was never released in CD before. For me, simply put, it's by far the best album I've listened to in 2007!! You can check them on the links to their official pages below.
http://www.ziuwari.de
Menhir @ Facebook
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The Czech Constitutional Court Strikes Down a Ban on Individual Adoption by Registered Partners
by Barbara Havelková | Jul 13, 2016
About Barbara Havelková
Barbara Havelková is the Shaw Foundation Fellow in Law at Lincoln College and Faculty of Law, Oxford. She is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law and Tutorial Fellow in Law at St Hilda's College. She previously held posts at University of Cambridge (Emmanuel College) and Oxford (Balliol, Lincoln). She worked for Clifford Chance Prague, trained at the Legal Service of the European Commission and in the Chambers of AG Poiares Maduro at the Court of Justice of the European Union. She was an academic visitor at several law schools, including Harvard University and University of Michigan as a Fulbright scholar and the Jean Monnet Center of NYU Law School as an Emile Noël Fellow. Between 2014 and 2017, Barbara acted as an Advisor to the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic on issues of gender and law.
Barbara Havelková "The Czech Constitutional Court Strikes Down a Ban on Individual Adoption by Registered Partners" (OxHRH Blog, 13 July 2016) <https://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/the-czech-constitutional-court-strikes-down-a-ban-on-individual-adoption-by-registered-partners/> [Date of Access]
Last week, the Czech Constitutional Court (CCC) invalidated a statutory provision prohibiting adoption by people living in a registered partnership (Pl. ÚS 7/15). The case was decided by a plenary of 14 judges, of whom 10 joined in the – quite brief – majority decision, three judges wrote concurring opinions, and one judge dissented. Although the decision can be seen as a victory for the original claimant, a man living in a same-sex registered partnership who wished to adopt a child, and a step in the right direction, it should be viewed with some caution. First, it has only limited impact on same-sex couples' adoption rights. Second, the majority made a number of unnecessary conservative – mostly obiter – statements regarding the nature of the family, which hint that the CCC might not be very receptive to LGBT human rights claims in the future.
Registered partnership in Czechia is available only to same-sex couples. Sec 13(2) of Czech Act on Registered Partnership (CARP) stipulated that registered partnership was an obstacle to adoption. The Civil Code, governing adoption rights more generally, provides for adoption by a married couple (joint adoption), by one married person (thus enabling successive adoption, also known as 'second parent' adoption), and 'exceptionally, another person' (individual adoption).
The legal regime was thus giving fewer rights to those living in a state-recognized and state-sanctioned union of registered partnership than it gave to 'other persons'. This inconsistency was criticised by the CCC. The majority was at a loss to understand what might have been the rational justification for such a regime, going as far as considering it 'illogical and irrational'. The majority also highlighted the fact that CARP, alongside banning the right to adoption, in another provision actually created care obligations incumbent on a registered partner vis-à-vis the other partner's child. The CCC described this choice by the legislator as 'incomprehensible'.
Following this systematic analysis of the legal provisions, the Court came to the conclusion that the regime was a violation of equality, human dignity and the right to private life. Most space was dedicated to the analysis of dignity, although it was closely woven together with questions of equality. For example, the Court mentioned that the ban 'excludes a particular group of people, namely registered partners, and makes them de facto into "second class" citizens and stigmatises them without any reason'.
What does the invalidation of the ban mean for adoption rights by same-sex couples? Out of the three types of adoption mentioned above, the decision clearly abolishes the obstacle to individual adoption. Whether it also enables second parent adoption is less clear. On the one hand, the Court points to the absurdity of the CARP obliging the non-parent partner to care for the other partner's child, without being able to adopt. On the other hand, the Court explicitly stated that it 'understands the term "family" primarily not as some kind of artificial social construct, but above all as a biological construct'. Since a second parent adoption would require the extinction of the other biological parent's rights, this statement could be interpreted as mitigating against it. The conclusion that second parent adoption remains inaccessible for registered partners is supported by a CCC decision from last year in relation to unmarried couples. In Pl. ÚS 10/15, the CCC upheld provisions of the Civil Code which facilitate second adoption only for a spouse of a biological parent. As for joint adoption, the Civil Code clearly reserves it for married couples.
This brings me to a final point: the decision, although progressive in its answer to the narrow legal question asked, troublingly contained many conservative statements about the nature of the family. Among others, the Court stated that 'it does not wish to erode traditional family'. This indicates that for further judicial developments on LGBT rights, and marriage equality in particular, including second and joint adoption, we might need to look to the Strasbourg Court rather than to the CCC. That said, the Czech legislator may take the first step here: a private member's bill to amend CARP, explicitly allowing second parent adoption, is currently before the Parliament, and the government is considering proposing a bill to that effect too.
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When she's not wearing her story-telling hat as Anne Armistead, historical romance author, she's Sandra Havriluk, middle school English teacher, children's writer, wife, mom of two grown daughters and a rescue mutt named Jackpot.
She earned her English literature degree from the University of Georgia and her MFA in Creative Writing from Spalding University and is a member of the Society of Children Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), Romance Writers of America (RWA) and the Georgia Writers of Romance (GRW), and the National and Georgia Sisters in Crime (SinC) organization.
Dangerous Conjurings is her debut historical romance. Under the title Treacherous Hearts, it was the winner of the 2014 YA Fab 5 Wisconsin Romance Contest. When she's not wearing her story-telling hat as Anne Armistead, historical romance author, she's Sandra Havriluk, middle school English teacher, children's writer, wife, mom of two grown daughters and a rescue mutt named Jackpot.
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Q: VBA ACCESS - SQL statement after Print In my DB i have a table called "PrintList" populated with a random number of records and a report called "ReportList", which is linked to "PrintList", that is used to print all the records of the table above.
EDIT: I would let the user to see a print preview in Access to check the list and then choose if print it or not, so i prefer to avoid using code to print.
Is it possible to handle the "ReportList" print event and delete all "PrintList" records after the report is printed? Right now I use a button to empty the list via SQL, but it will be more useful to empty it after printing it.
A: Report/section events like On Format or On Print are fired both for Print Preview and for actual printing. So the report doesn't know, and thus can't handle your requirement.
I'd use a form with buttons for Preview and Print, and delete the records when the form is closed (because you can't prevent the user from printing from the preview).
The whole requirement looks a bit strange, TBH.
A: Open your report in design mode.
If the properties pane on the right isnt visible, press F4 to make it visible.
In the properties pane, click on the Events tab.
Find the OnPrint event and click the little ellipses to the right of it to open a VBA window ready to accept your code for that event.
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Аз за себе си не съм сигурен, че ми допада това смесване.
Benny was among the most popular characters to appear in The LEGO Movie from 2014, as one might expect given his origins in Classic Space. This magnificent subtheme has remained iconic across four decades, inspiring great excitement following the announcement of 70841 Benny's Space Squad!
The set only contains 68 pieces but evokes the distinctive design of Classic Space vehicles and comes with four astronauts, one of whom is wearing brand new pink attire! Furthermore, this set costs just £8.99 or $9.99 so seems to offer good value and may be a highlight of the entire theme for The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part.
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WOW 2019. I'm actually emotional…this must be what having a great year feels like. 2018 was amazing, and I knew it would be because I said hello to it the right way; surrounded by my best friends. That's the secret, folks. Surround yourself with all the live there is in your life. There is much more than you might think. Everything I wanted to accomplish, I have, although some of my aspirations may have been poorly informed…that's how we learn.
I'm surrounded by New York City this time, but I love this city, so same deal. I hope you are surrounded by love or something you love. Remember why you love. Then, love with everything you've got.
Here's to a magical 2019 for all of us. |
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