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[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 95 (Thursday, May 17, 2007)]
[Pages 27837-27838]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-9483]
Fish and Wildlife Service
Holla Bend National Wildlife Refuge in Pope and Yell Counties, AR
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service.
ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare a comprehensive conservation plan
and environmental assessment; request for comments.
SUMMARY: We, the Fish and Wildlife Service, intend to gather
information necessary to prepare a comprehensive conservation plan and
associated environmental documents for Holla Bend National Wildlife
Refuge. We furnish this notice in compliance with our comprehensive
conservation planning policy to advise other agencies and the public of
our intentions, and to obtain suggestions and information on the scope
of issues to be considered during the planning process.
DATES: To ensure consideration, we must receive your written comments
by June 18, 2007.
ADDRESSES: Send your comments or requests for more information to: Ben
Mense, Refuge Manager, Holla Bend National Wildlife Refuge, 10448 Holla
Bend Road, Dardanelle, AR 72834; Telephone: 479/229-4300; or
electronically to: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: With this notice, we initiate the process
for developing a comprehensive conservation plan for Holla Bend
National Wildlife Refuge in Dardanelle, AR.
The National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act of 1966, as
amended by the National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act of 1997
(16 U.S.C. Sec. 668dd-668ee), requires the Service to develop a
comprehensive conservation plan for each national wildlife refuge. The
purpose in developing a comprehensive conservation plan is to provide
refuge managers with a 15-year strategy for achieving refuge purposes
and contributing to the mission of the National Wildlife Refuge System,
consistent with sound principles of fish and wildlife management,
conservation, legal mandates, and Service policies. In addition to
outlining broad management direction on conserving wildlife and their
habitats, plans identify wildlife-dependent recreational opportunities
available to the public, including opportunities for hunting, fishing,
wildlife observation, wildlife photography, and environmental education
and interpretation.
We establish each unit of the National Wildlife Refuge System with
specific purposes. We use these purposes to develop and prioritize
management goals and objectives within the National Wildlife Refuge
System mission, and to guide which public uses will occur on these
refuges. The planning process is a way for us and the public to
evaluate management goals and objectives for the best possible
conservation efforts of these important wildlife habitats, while
providing for wildlife-dependent recreation opportunities that are
compatible with the refuge's establishing purpose and the mission of
the National Wildlife Refuge System.
We will conduct a comprehensive conservation planning process that
will provide opportunity for Tribal, State, and local governments;
agencies; organizations; and the public to participate in issue scoping
and public comment. We request input for issues, concerns, ideas, and
suggestions for management of the Holla Bend National Wildlife Refuge.
We invite anyone interested to respond to the following two questions:
1. What problems or issues do you want to see addressed in the
comprehensive conservation plan?
2. What improvements would you recommend for the Holla Bend
National Wildlife Refuge?
We have provided the above questions for your optional use; you are
not required to provide information to us. Our Planning Team developed
these questions to gather information about individual issues and ideas
concerning this refuge. Our Planning Team will use comments it receives
as part of the planning process; however, we will not reference
individual comments in our reports or directly respond to them.
We will conduct the environmental review of this project in
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with the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969,
as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.); NEPA Regulations (40 CFR parts
1500-1508); other appropriate Federal laws and regulations; and our
policies and procedures for compliance with those regulations. All
comments we receive on our environmental assessment become part of the
official public record. We will handle requests for such comments in
accordance with the Freedom of Information Act, NEPA [40 CFR
1506.6(f)], and other Departmental and Service policies and procedures.
When we receive a request, we generally will provide comment letters
with the names and addresses of the individuals who wrote the comments.
Holla Bend National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1957, under
the Transfer of Real Property Act, as a result of a U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers navigation and flood control project. This 6,616-acre refuge
is six miles south of Dardanelle, Arkansas, just off of State Highway
155. The refuge lies along the Arkansas River and is bounded by an old
oxbow that was created when the Corps of Engineers cut a channel
through the bend in the river to promote navigation and flood control.
The primary objectives of the refuge are to: (1) Provide habitat for
migratory waterfowl; (2) provide habitat for endangered species; (3)
provide habitat for resident wildlife; and (4) provide interpretation
and recreation to the public.
Authority: This notice is published under the authority of the
National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act of 1997, Public Law
Dated: March 29, 2007.
Cynthia K. Dohner,
Acting Regional Director.
[FR Doc. E7-9483 Filed 5-16-07; 8:45 am]


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By LARRY VAUGHT
Southern Mississippi's Nick Mullens could be the best quarterback that Kentucky will face this season. He's one of the nation's most productive returning quarterbacks and certainly will test the UK defense Saturday night.
"I think along with having a very accurate arm, he makes very good decisions. He manages the game well. He knows the situations," Kentucky defensive coordinator D.J. Eliot said. "He knows what to do with the ball, and so he's not only an excellent passer. He's also an excellent decision maker."
Eliot said he can't remember facing another quarterback quite like Mullens.
"He's still effective in the run game, too. He's pulled it a few times and gotten some good yards. He's effective running the ball and scrambles well at times, too. And on top of that, he's an excellent passer that makes good decisions. I can't think of anybody offhand who he reminds me of," Eliot said
The Eagles also have a proven running back in Ito Smith.
"He's more a slasher type. He finds a hole and hits it. He's a guy that he's not going to dance. He's going to make his decision and hit it hard," Eliot said.
"He was very effective last year along with the senior they graduated. He's a veteran player. He's been there before. He's got a lot of confidence, he's had success, so he's a guy that we're going to have to corral and get a lot of hats on. Make sure that he doesn't get going."

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The renovation continued into the master bath. The goal was to create a warm, contemporary space that complemented the newly renovated kitchen. The modern faucet and vanity is warmed by the rich dark wood and warm paint color.
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August 2011
A group of optometry students are set to complete a World Sight Day Challenge fundraising first by cycling from Glasgow to Cardiff. The Optoms Cycling for Sight sponsored bike ride will link UK optometry departments across 10 days, starting at Glasgow Caledonian University on 13th September before making stops at Bradford, Manchester, Aston, Anglia, City and finishing at Cardiff University on 23rd September. The initiative has being initiated by Bradford University students Jessica MacIsaac, Fares Hatoum and Abubakr Patel. Jessica, Optometry Today Student Representative, comments: Optoms Cycling for Sight aims to get all optometry students as a united force behind the World Sight Day Challenge, as we can play a critical role in helping to provide access to eye care in the developing world. Jessica Explains Hopefully the success of this will lead to annual event where we can continue to make a difference to the 670 million people who are blind or vision impaired simply because they do not have access to an eye examination and a pair of spectacles. The World Sight Day Challenge is a global fundraising campaign coordinated by Optometry Giving Sight and jointly implemented with Vision Aid Overseas in the UK. It is designed to raise funds for projects that provide vision care, local training and infrastructure support for people who are blind or vision impaired due to uncorrected refractive error simply the need for an eye exam and a pair of glasses. There are so far three confirmed cyclists who will be riding between all 7 mainland UK Optometry Departments and others who will join them along the way. The event is not exclusive to optometry students, and keen cyclists and novices alike are being encouraged to take part and help raise sponsorship. Each universitys student optics society will be hosting a World Sight Day Challenge event on the day cyclists are scheduled to arrive at the respective campus, and Jessica, Fares and Abubakr are encouraging all optometry students to get involved with fundraising. They are hoping to secure industry sponsors, and already have support from Louis Stone Optical and Yorkshire Optical.To sponsor the 10-day Challenge visit www.justgiving.com/Optoms-Cycling-for-SightFor more information, visit the event's Facebook page on: http://www.facebook.com/groups/191760277540302


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Lawmakers and environmentalists say they are taking steps to stop the Coast Guard's plan to put more barges in the Hudson River.
State and local leaders held a news conference today revealing the steps they will take to stop the barges.
The U.S. Coast Guard's proposal centers on plans to create 10 new anchor barges and 43 additional anchorage berths on the Hudson River, from Yonkers to Kingston. The Coast Guard says it would allow increased movement in the transport of crude oil up and down the river.
Opponents say the anchorages threaten everything from the beauty of the river to its recreational uses, and there are environmental and public safety concerns as well. Lawmakers say they are backing new federal legislation, that if passed, would stop the plan. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney says he's backing the Hudson River Protection Act to prevent an unfortunate history from repeating itself.
The lawmakers and environmentalists against the plan say it isn't about trashing the Coast Guard, but about protecting the environment and lessening the possibility of oil spills and other accidents on the river.


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Zephyr, a buoyant, gum-chewing lass obsessed with airplanes, achieves a fantastical flight—and gets home in time for breakfast—in this enjoyable romp.
Grandma, Daddy and Mom are all too busy to play. Executing her "triple loop-de-loop spectacular" off the couch with her toy plane, she crashes into a cabinet full of bric-a-brac. Banished to her room, she sends a paper airplane behind her dresser. There, she discovers a small door leading into a "wondrous place" full of flying machines and propellers and with a desk full of books and maps. Climbing aboard the "FS Bessie" (Light's nod to pioneering flyer Bessie Coleman), Zephyr's off. "Her triple loop-de-loop spectacular was much more fun in the sky!" Ensuing spreads depict a harmless "BUMP" into a mountainous land where flying pigs dwell in trees. After the dexterous girl fashions paper wings for a flightless piglet, the porcine fliers help power her craft back into the sky. Light's fountain pens produce boldly inked contours and appealingly frenetic gestural line. Colored pencils and PanPastels in sienna, ochre and yellow effect a mood both sunny and old-timey. Observant readers will note images of Zephyr's aviator grandfather throughout—clearly, her zeal for flight is inherited. (Flying pigs are a favored collectible in her family, too.) Zipping from fanciful flight to a "triple-hug, triple-pancake spectacular," Zephyr's surely not earthbound for long.
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Monsoon Rains Render Thousands Homeless in Pakistan
Saturday Pakistani officials said heavy monsoon rains caused more than 4,000 homes across the country to collapse, trapping many and rendering thousands homeless. Photo/Video: AP
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Events at WPBO
WPBO hosts a number of programs, presentations, and bird tours. All proceeds from these events help fund research at the Observatory. Attending a WPBO event gives you unprecedented access to the excellent birding at the Point, educational programming by experts, and workshops to increase your skills.
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Conveniencer cycling shower jacket by UNO
Conveniencer by name, convenient by nature - this convenient little jacket folds up to virtually nothing and fits easily into the rear pocket of your jersey.
It's really basic (no pockets, no zip cover); the fabric is water-proof but the garment isn't; it's a great get-me-home-dry emergency jacket (not the one to take on a 4-hours-in-the-rain ride).
* high vis fluro, adds to the safety element
* high quality nylon, minimizes rips
* high neck
* full zip
* long tail, to keep your bum dry.
Available in XS-3XL.
Note, this great little fluro jacket is at a bargain price because some have a dye mark down the centre of the back (caused from dye from the zip during manufacturing) - hardly noticeable once you have it on, and of course, still fully functional.
SIZING: underarm-underarm laying flat: S=57cm, M=60, L=62, XL=65, 2XL=67, 3XL=69
As with most jackets, this is a larger fit than a jersey, so that it can fit comfortably over your other garments.


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No matter the camera you're using, your company's videos need to be crystal clear. Learn to quickly set the focus on video cameras, DSLRs, point-and-shoot cameras, and even smartphones.
Learn how to make a captivating video for your non-profit organization. This lesson guides you through directing, producing, shooting, and editing a video that could change the world.
If you really want to connect with your customers, skip the product demos and tell them a story, one that they can relate to.
You have a computer and a TV, but like lousy roommates they don't talk to each other. Read on to find out how to make the two become best friends, so that you can show off your creations on a bigger screen.
You've seen the results, but you may not have known what the gear was behind the look. Learn about ring lights, and all the gorgeous looks you can create with them.
Curved walls are the new straight walls. If you want a seamless background in your company's videos, you need to send those right angles packing and get yourself an Infinity Wall.
Give your videos an pro-looking animated title. All you need is Maxon Cinema 4D, Adobe After Effects, and the instructions in this simple lesson.


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Two MMA Fighters and a Bodybuilder Walk Onto a Cannabis Panel…
This year's speaker panel focus was about looking to the concerns for the region next year. Our normally advanced cannabis cultivation and regulatory panel topics were replaced with some of the pressing questions of next year. What IS the craft market? Who's USING cannabis products and what resonates with them. How do you mitigate testing issues and where should you focus your efforts?
We created a panel entitled, "Brain Injury and Cannabis — A World Class Athlete Perspective" to discuss head injuries and the use of cannabis as a therapy.
"Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) are usually caused by a violent blow to the head, which can happen when your job is to compete in the ring or dominate on the football field…on this panel you'll hear right from athletes who have seen the effects for themselves."
On this panel we have UFC 2016 Hall of Fame inductee, Pete Williams, for his roundhouse kick knockout win against Mark Coleman in their 1998 bout. A member of the famous Lion's Den fight team, founded by Ken Shamrock, Pete's reputation precedes him.
"The time I had on the feet, I was using that low kick to kind of soften him up and set up the high kick," Williams said. "After a few hard low kicks, I noticed he was trying to protect the leg, dropping his hands. I just kind of timed it.
"I threw a fake right hand and threw the kick instead, and it landed right on the money." – quote courtesy of MMAJunkie.com
What followed was pure elation. Williams had shocked the world.
Also on the panel is Pete's former team mate and professional UFC fighter Mikey Burnett from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Known as "The Eastside Assassin", Mikey Burnett was a member of The Lion's Den and had a 5-2 career from 1996-1999.
He won two of his three UFC bouts, besting Eugenio Tadeu and Townsend Saunders while falling to Hall of Famer Pat Miletich in a welterweight title fight. He retired following his last Octagon appearance but made a brief comeback at "The Ultimate Fighter 4," – quote courtesy of http://sherdog.com
Mikey's relationship with cannabis started when his doctor in Oklahoma suggested he try cannabis when he complained about the use of opiods. Since cannabis is illegal in his state, his relationship was started in hiding and guilt that he was breaking the law. A father of two, his hyper-awareness that society around him and his own kids were watching and judging it took years for Mikey to learn to embrace the benefits of cannabis and to now feel comfortable being an advocate for its use today.
To round out the panel, we have Emeric Delczeg, who was born in 1952 in Romania, and emigrated to USA legally in 1982. He was overall Romanian bodybuilding champion in 1981 and Middleweight Eastern European champion in the same year. Emeric represented Romania in 4 World amateur bodybuilding championship contest, and as IFBB pro from 1997 till 2001.
As a bodybuilder, the strain put on the body is intense and muscle and overall recovery is a constant consideration. Emeric credits cannabis as a tool and therapy providing a better quality of life.
It's no surprise that more athletes are voicing their thoughts on cannabis and advocating for its use professionally in sports. CBD use for injury recovery in sports is becoming an increasingly discussed topic but full spectrum cannabis has many targeted uses for specific treatment and therapies. We are excited to share these former, world class athletes perspectives and experiences with the cannabis plant.


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A fierce fire consumed all 44 floors of a skyscraper in Beijing today, shooting 30 foot flames into the air, but unlike the similarly-sized 47-story WTC 7, which suffered limited fires across just eight floors, the building in China did not collapse.
"The fire was burning from the ground floor to the top floor of the large building, the flames reflecting in the glass facade of the main CCTV tower next to the hotel and cultural center," reports the New York Times.
"The 241-room Mandarin Oriental hotel in the building was due to open this year. Flames were spotted around 7:45 p.m. and within 20 minutes the fire had spread throughout the building, dominating that part of the city."
"Hundreds of firefighting vehicles and police blocked off all approaches to the building - which was also set to house a luxury hotel due to be opened in 2009 - with flames appearing to leap 20 to 30 feet into the air," adds The London Times.
Compare images of WTC 7 with those of the skyscraper fire in Beijing. Note that the Beijing skyscraper appears to be leaning due to the unorthodox design of the building - it did not suffer any kind of collapse.
Although this Chinese building and WTC 7 differ they are both steel framed skyscrapers such that one could reasonably expect some sort of collapse in the former considering what we saw on 911.
What this story shows, which includes mention of the 2005 Madrid Fire, is that the likelihood of a TOTAL collapse of steel framed buildings due to fire is extremely unlikely. That any collapse should be symmetrical, without using explosives, would defy all good reason. A symmetrical collapse requires split second removal of all load bearing columns.
At the heart of the matter is the fact that steel framed skycrapers are designed to withstand severe fires and the fires in WTC 7 were weak. The core problem with the official NIST investigation into the WTC 7 collapse is that it was based only on a HYPOTHETICAL model that didn't even match the observed features of the fall. Absolutely no verifiable physical evidence or testing backed up the NIST claims.
On the other hand, the explosive demolition hypothesis fits the observed situation more accurately and it also gels with the physical evidence that was found at the 911 crime scene. Molten Steel and Thermate byproducts proved that the WTC 7 building was taken down using explosive incendiaries. 911 = Inside Job. Case closed.
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A Dental Exam Can Help You Maintain Optimal Oral Health
A routine dental exam can minimize your risk of developing conditions such as gum disease, tooth loss, and even oral cancer. Our oral health examinations at North Meridian Dental Excellence in Indianapolis, IN, are thorough and comprehensive. Dr. Ben Ahlbrecht places great importance on preventive dentistry and providing patients with the highest level of care and comfort. Visiting the dentist every six months can keep tooth decay at bay and help you maintain a beautiful, healthy smile for years to come.
What are the Dangers of Avoiding the Dentist?
Visiting the dentist is probably not at the top of your long list of things to do each year, much less every six months. We understand that busy schedules, lack of insurance, and simply just forgetting can keep you from maintaining a routine dental appointment. Unfortunately, not visiting the dentist can place you at high risk for developing a variety of oral and physical health issues, such as tooth decay and gum disease. Even if you practice diligent oral hygiene, at-home care cannot completely eliminate plaque buildup along your gum line and in between your teeth.
Putting off exams can place you at a higher risk for developing a variety of issues, such as tooth decay and gum disease.
Once gum disease develops, it is difficult to reverse the effects. Unaddressed decay and gum disease can lead to tooth loss, costly restorative procedures, dental pain, and even increase your risk of developing more serious health conditions. According to the American Dental Association, poor oral health and gum disease have been linked to an increased risk of heart disease and stroke.
What to Expect During Your Visit
During your examination, Dr. Ahlbrecht and one of his hygienists will perform a series of tests to evaluate the health of your mouth, including:
Dental Examination
We will carefully check each tooth with a small mirror and dental instrument, evaluating any existing restorations and your enamel strength. Oftentimes, as the hygienist is cleaning and checking your teeth, she can easily identify problem areas that may need treatment for a cavity or could benefit from fluoride or dental sealants.
Dental X-Rays
X-rays will be taken of your teeth and jawbone using state-of-the-art digital technology, which allows us to immediately upload images to a chairside computer. Dr. Ahlbrecht can closely examine these high-resolution images, detecting cavities and fractures at their earliest stages. These images also allow us to make you an active, informed participant in your care, and provide a point of reference for Dr. Ahlbrecht to use when comparing future x-rays.
Periodontal Exam
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that over half of American adults have some form of gum disease. During the examination, we will check for signs, such as redness, bleeding, swelling, and pockets of infection. When gum disease is detected, the doctor generally recommends a deeper cleaning that will involve scaling and root planing.
Oral Cancer Screening
Because oral cancer is virtually undetectable to the untrained eye in its earliest stages, it is important to visit the dentist for a routine oral cancer screening. Dr. Ahlbrecht will look for signs of abnormal tissue within the mouth. In addition to a visual screening, he will also examine your head and neck, carefully palpating beneath your chin and jaw to identify any lumps or abnormalities. Caught early, the disease generally has a good prognosis.
Benefits of Dental Exams
After the examination is complete, your hygienist will provide a professional cleaning to eliminate plaque and tartar buildup. If necessary, Dr. Ahlbrecht will place a dental filling, provide periodontal treatment, or discuss other necessary restorative treatments. Visiting the dentist biannually provides many benefits, including:
- Improves your long-term oral and physical health
- Minimizes risk of tooth decay and gum disease
- Catches oral health issues when they are more manageable
- Reduces your risk of tooth loss and oral cancer
- Prevents need for costly restorative treatments
Schedule Your Exam
If you or a member of your family are due for a check-up, we invite you to schedule a dental exam with Dr. Ahlbrecht today. You can reach our office online or by calling (317) 571-5000.
"North Meridian Dental Excellence is great! They've somehow cracked the code on making a trip to the dentist an enjoyable experience. Dr. Ahlbrecht and his team are all great to work with. Everyone is extremely friendly, nice and fun, while maintaining a professional, clean and private environment."Nick E.


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Vodka has somewhat of an ambiguous history with scholars in disagreement over its origins. Both Poland and Russia claim that the distilled beverage originated in their country. With little written record available, the true beginnings of vodka will probably never be known. However, there are a few sources that suggest that the earliest production of vodka took place in Russia during the 9th century. Vodka, at the time, was significantly different than what it is today with a different taste and texture and was originally intended as medicine. The alcohol content was also far lower then and only estimated at about 14 percent as that was the maximum amount that can be obtained from natural fermentation. Regardless of the true origins of vodka, it is the Russians that have refined it over the years to produce a one-of-a-kind taste and flavor that cannot be replicated by brands claiming to be of Russian origin despite being distilled and bottled elsewhere. This is what sets Ruskova apart from other vodka labels. Ruskova is a true Russian vodka that is distilled in the region of Nizhniy Novgorod. Ruskova is a product manufactured under Anson Imports and is owned by Russian entrepreneur Oleg Lazanovitch. It was Lazanovitch's vision to bring to America a brand of vodka that is truly of Russian origin and not merely American vodka slapped with a Russian looking label. The story began in 2005 when Lazanovitch established Anson Imports with the goal of developing a true Russian vodka using his father's recipe, which has been passed down from generation to generation. During the developmental process, Lazanovitch ventured from one Russian distillery to another in hopes of producing the perfect vodka. It was on his trip to the 9th distillery, the one in Nizhniy Novgorod, that he came up with the end product that he was looking for. This is the vodka that would become Ruskova. Lazanovitch's next goal was to bring the Ruskova brand to America, the first shipment of Ruskova was imported to Florida and Georgia and sales quickly took off. Today, the brand is available in 36 states. Ruskova has won the Double gold medal awarded by San Francisco International Spirit competition. As well as winning many other prestigious awards. Lazanovitch has recently announced that Ruskova has gone through a complete label modification and repackaging. The brands new look is more in tune with the new modern Russia. However, buyers will continue to enjoy the same beverage and at the same competitive price.View all products by RuskovaCalifornia Residents: Click here for Proposition 65 WARNING


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The Founder and CEO of MetGlobal Group of Companies, Metin Altun was born in Bingol on September 14, 1974. Altun started his career in tourism industry working at a hotel in Antalya. After coming to Istanbul, he gained experience in hotel management in several hotels. During 1996-1997, he initiated the American hotel chain Best Western in Turkey and made its brand launch. This role gave him the opportunity to triple the revenue of the hotel and create a success story.
During 1994-1995 period, he was aware that there would be a big change and progress in tourism industry with the rise of internet usage in the world. His predictive, passionate, curious and courageous personality led him to establish his own business while he was only 24 years old. In 1998, when he established MetGlobal Group of Companies, the purpose of the company was selling Turkish tour packages online to the people who were coming from abroad.
In 2001-2002 period, he created an online B2C website and formed a closed-circuit B2B system, which is successfully working under "HotelsPro" brand name. Besides HotelsPro, one of the largest bed banks with over 500,000 instant bookable hotels at wholesale contract exclusively for travel professionals, MetGlobal Group of Companies has 2 other brands named Tatil.com and Otel.com.
Metin Altun manages MetGlobal Group of Companies with the experience of 18 years in tourism industry and a great know-how and domain knowledge. He defines the vision of the company as "creating products and services to assist Internet users make the right decisions"
While Metin Altun envisions the company moving forward to artificial intelligence with the investments in data strategy, Met Global positions itself as a solution finder to different problems of the tourism industry. On the supplier side, Metglobal group makes the right products reach the right customers at the right price.
An Internet entrepreneur who created one of the biggest internet ecosystems in Turkey, Metin Altun is married with 2 kids and lives in Istanbul.Linkedin Profile


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NEW MUSIC: "Be Mine (Gyal)"-Jamaican Artist Genra
Artist Genra has dropped a new track entitled "Be Mine (Gyal)" for listeners!
On the mellow, dancehall track, Genra serenades a special lady, admitting that he wants her in his life. "Hips don't lie...you the truth I see," he croons. "Help me believe...loving you is all I need." Absolutely perfect for the summer!
Check out the track below!
Head over to iTunes now to purchase this great track! You can also check out more from Genra on his official website, as well as YouTube and SoundCloud. Definitely be sure to connect with him on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram!
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Material AspectsAppearance of caterpillar in the dream indicates that we are facing some sort of a major change. It is a warning that we must prepare ourselves for a complete destruction before we achieve the goal.Then there will be a period of transformation.Islamic interpretationCaterpillar in a dream indicates a thief wearing the cloak and being under the disguise of a pious person, who slowly and gently steals away people's wealth or motivates them for investing in loss making business ventures. Yet, no one suspects him of the wrong doing due to his appealing appearance.Emotional/psychological perspectiveCaterpillar dreams represent the need to be flexible in attitude towards change. Moreover, due to caterpillar's connection with creepy things, it may indicate difficult or evil.Ordinary meaningCaterpillar dream indicates hypocritical and low people that are bound to come in near future, and you will do good to keep them away from their deceitful appearance. You may end up suffering from a loss in business or love.Caterpillar dream denotes that you will be put in embarrassing situations, and that there can be an expectation of a small respect or gain.Spiritual potential or metamorphosis, that is unrecognized, is symbolized by a caterpillar that must transform to something very beautiful. We must change ourselves and be something different by changing and growing from what we currently are.
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A living faith is something that takes exploration. No matter if you are a child or an adult growing in faith requires an atmosphere where questions are welcome, where nurture and encouragement are offered. At First Congregational Church, 17 East Main Street in South Paris you'll find a welcoming faith community that encourages growth through openness. Meeting in the Christian tradition, First Congregational Church invites you to join them in pursuit of faithful living in a caring church community. A local and autonomous church we are in fellowship with the National Association of Congregational Churches and the Congregational Christian Council of Maine.
Reverend Don Mayberry has been serving as senior pastor at First Congregational Church since August of 2001. He and his wife Judy, an artist, live on Norway Lake. They have two adult daughters, Sarah and Susie who live and work in the Lewiston-Auburn area. Don was ordained in the American Baptist tradition in July 1997.
In addition to traditional pastoral duties that take place at the church, Don takes an active role in the community. He serves on local boards, volunteers as a chaplain at the hospital, conducts funerals for community members that have no church affiliation and simply strives to be available offering a pastoral presence in the larger community.
Prior to entering the ministry Don spent 20 years in the radio business and along with Judy played folk music for many years.
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Bowel Cancer Australia
There are more than 15,000 reasons to support Bowel Cancer Australia - one for each person whose life will be changed when they are diagnosed with bowel cancer, and that's just in one year.
Unlike many other cancers, bowel cancer is preventable, yet:
- it is the second biggest cancer killer of Australians, after lung cancer;
- 80 Australians - males and females, young and old - lose their lives to this cancer every week.
Bowel Cancer Australia has a vision to have an everlasting impact on our health future - one where no Australian dies from bowel cancer and all those diagnosed receive the support they need.
Founded in 2000, Bowel Cancer Australia is the only national charity that works across the entire bowel cancer spectrum.
The charity is driven by a small team of staff and volunteers and receives no government funding.
Please support Bowel Cancer Australia to help save lives and to improve the health and wellbeing of people living with bowel cancer at bowelcanceraustralia.org/donate
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Iranian state media say authorities have hanged 12 convicts in the southern city of Shiraz.
Media reports say seven of those executed were found guilty of drug trafficking.
Iran practices the Muslim Sharia law in which some serious crimes - including rape, armed robbery and kidnapping - are punishable by death.
Human rights groups charge that Iran is second only to China in numbers of people facing the death penalty. Iran dismisses criticism of its justice system.
Some information for this report was provided by AP and AFP.
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Earlier as I sat writing about my island adventures from the somewhat-random city of Lautoka, Fiji on a cool, drizzly August afternoon, accompanied by no one but a few friendly geckos darting across the ceiling, I couldn't help but ponder how, exactly, I ended up where I am right now.
Truthfully, I feel extremely fortunate to be in a place with geckos darting across the ceiling. How lucky am I!
While I'll admit sometimes precipitation does have a way of making me take a step back to observe my surroundings (maybe because I'm less inclined to go outdoors), it was a casual instagram post from the Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia that caught my eye and put me in a rather sentimental (albeit grateful) state of reflection. This particular post was simply a photo of the Greenbrier's stunning outdoor infinity swimming pool, with a caption something to the effect of "How would you caption this photo taken at our outdoor pool?"
This brought back a flood of memories. My family actually used to live at the Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia for several years, so needless to say it's an incredibly special place to me. I could think of a variety of suitable captions.
I'd spent days – weeks – months – lounging by that very pool. I'd read the majority of the Harry Potter book series from the sunbeds adjacent to that pool. I'd enjoyed many a tall glass of peach iced tea, copious raspberry smoothies, and other gourmet poolside treats from that gloriously scenic location.
Oh how I longed for that peach iced tea.
I'm not kidding when I said I was (and still am, really) a 'resort girl' through-and-through. The Greenbrier isn't like just any resort though – I like to think my tastes in clothing, fashion and interior decór derive from my years at the Greenbrier. Just ask anyone who's seen my extensive Lilly Pulitzer collection or witnessed my obsession for 'brazilliance' banana leaf print.
I'll also give the Greenbrier Resort partial credit for fueling my love for the travel lifestyle – I really do believe it is a lifestyle, and a 'frame of mind' if you will; I lived it unknowingly throughout my 'formative years'.
As nostalgic as those memories are, even despite the landslide of personal misfortunes and seemingly endless pangs of anguish resulting from those years, I don't believe I'd be where I am today without those experiences. I haven't been back in quite some time now, and am sure a lot has changed (their casino wasn't even built yet the last time I visited!), but regardless of how it's evolved, the Greenbrier Resort will forever and always hold a special place in my heart.
Perhaps I never have led a truly 'normal' life – why bother starting now?


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We're very excited to announce that we'll be joining Willie Nelson and the gang at Farm Aid 2017! This marks the fourth consecutive year that our network will air Farm Aid, and our second time airing it live. "For over three decades, Farm Aid has been one of the top music events in the country—not just for the impressive roster of talent it attracts, but for the American farm families it strengthens and supports," said Evan Haiman, AXS TV's Vice President of Programming and Production.
Performers include the mainstay of the event, Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews with Tim Reynolds, as well as Sheryl Crow, The Avett Brothers, and other notable artists!
We're also pleased to say that our viewers are invited to donate to Farm Aid and receive a signature T-shirt.
Tune in Saturday, September 16th, starting at 7/6c!
Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp organized the first Farm Aid concert in 1985 to raise awareness about the loss of family farms and to raise funds to keep farm families on the land during the 1980s Farm Crisis. Now in its 32ND year, Farm Aid has raised more than $50 million, becoming a food and farm festival that features HOMEGROWN food from family farmers and hands-on agrarian activities, and attracts some of the most influential artists in music, who donate their performances to support and honor family farmers. Nelson is joined on the organization's board by fellow music legends Young, Mellencamp, and Matthews.
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Vinyl and Why to Avoid It
When you think of vinyl, you may think fondly of your old vinyl LP records. But the truth about vinyl is less romantic. Though it's one of the most common synthetic materials, vinyl is the worst plastic from an environmental health perspective, posing great environmental and health hazards in its manufacture, product life, and disposal.
Known as the poison plastic, vinyl, also referred to as polyvinyl chloride (PVC), is a type of plastic polymer made from petroleum, and is linked to numerous rare cancers occurring in the factory workers in and in neighborhoods surrounding the production plants.
Approximately 75 percent of all PVC manufactured is used in construction materials. It creeps into all sorts of unlikely building products.
For more information on vinyl, check out the award-winning documentary Blue Vinyl, which provides an insightful and often funny look at vinyl.


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Jeremy leads PwC's VR/AR proposition, helping clients to understand how virtual reality and augmented reality technologies will affect their industry, the potential of these technologies, and how businesses can take advantage of them.
He believes VR & AR will play a significant role in how we live and work in the future and has given multiple talks on the subject globally from SXSW in Austin to the Battle of Ideas in London in an effort to spread the good word.
Technology has always been his passion and he's used it to - among other things - provide internet access to a remote village in Ghana, teach mathematics online, and mentor school students on building mobile and web applications.
Having come from a mixed British/Arab heritage, Jeremy was born in London but spent most of his life living in Dubai. He returned to the UK to study mathematics at the University of Southampton and met his Turkish wife while spending a semester abroad at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara.
He also happens to be a Chartered Accountant (but prefers not to advertise that too loudly!)


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This is the second post in the GDPR Fever series aimed at explaining whether and how DLP technologies could be used for achieving GDPR compliance.
Although the principle of "integrity and confidentiality" (further on referred to as "I&C principle") encompasses all information security protection goals (including confidentiality, integrity and availability), a simple analysis of its formulation and logical relations with other articles and definitions in the GDPR produces a straightforward interpretation of this principle with respect to the data leakage problem.
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The I&C principle requires "security of the personal data, including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction, or damage". What does the term "processing" means can be found in its definition in the regulation's glossary:
"Processing means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as . . . storage, . . . use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available."
As can be seen, "processing" denotes many types of operations including, among others, those underlined in the text – storage, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination, or otherwise making data available.
Indeed, the I&C principle remains fully applicable and valid not only for all types of processing operations, but also for any of their subsets. This means that the word "processing" in the principle definition can be substituted by any sublist of its processing operations, including those underlined, without breaking the principle's validity. By making this substitution, a fully consistent subordinate requirement is derived, which is basically the same I&C principle, but related only to these underlined operations. Here is how this derived I&C requirement looks like:
Personal data shall be protected against unauthorised or unlawful storage, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination, or otherwise making available and against accidental loss, destruction, or damage.
If we compare this derived requirement with the personal data breach definition from the regulation's glossary in Article 4, we can see that the italicized text in the above requirement actually denotes a personal data breach:
"Personal data breach means a breach of security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of, or access to, personal data transmitted, stored, or otherwise processed."
Hence, the words "data breach" can be validly used instead of the italicized text in the derived I&C requirement. Once this is done, the requirement turns into the most concise articulation of the GDPR's fundamental security goal: personal data shall be protected against data breaches.
To make the last step in the legal text analysis, the personal data breach definition from the GDPR's glossary has to be compared with the data leak definition that comes from the IT security industry:
Data leak – a security incident in which sensitive, confidential, or protected data are accidentally or deliberately released to an untrusted environment or unauthorized users outside or inside the organization.
From the comparison, it is clear that data leak is a specific type of data breach, the other types being data destruction, loss (e.g. due to a power outage), and alteration. Hence, insofar as personal data shall be protected against data breaches, they shall be protected against any of their type – including data leaks.
To summarize the analysis, although not in direct wording but logically the GDPR in its I&C principle, along with other protection goals, requires that personal data shall be protected against data leaks.
It is also important to note that in addition to the data protection principles in Article 5, the requirement of protecting personal data against data breaches and consequently data leaks is encoded in Article 32 "Security of processing" of the GDPR. Paragraph 1 of this article requires the implementation of "technical and organisational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk" for personal data resulting from its processing, while paragraph 2 specifically emphasizes that data breaches shall be considered as a serious risk to personal data security:
"In assessing the appropriate level of security account shall be taken in particular of the risks that are presented by processing, in particular from accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to personal data transmitted, stored or otherwise processed."
There Is No Privacy Without Security
Deciphering the "Integrity & Confidentiality" Principle
From Legal to Technical – Landing the GDPR at the IT Field
DLP Is Necessary for GDPR Compliance
Engineering Information Privacy
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Popcorn Festival pageant set for Aug. 25
(Local News ~ 07/31/07)
The second annual scholarship pageant for the Popcorn Festival of Clay County is approaching and the pageant committee is looking for Clay County girls between the ages of 17 and 22 to come join in the fun and excitement of being selected to not only reign over the activities of the festival, but also vie for scholarship monies to further their education...
HazMat training a success
(Local News ~ 07/31/07)
Firemen need to be able to quickly identify hazardous materials at the scene of an emergency. "It is a matter of saving lives," Fire Service Instructor Bryan Husband said. "Firemen need to be able to recognize hazardous materials quickly so we can keep everyone, from the response personnel to the local citizens, safe."...
Fire destroys Knightsville home
(Local News ~ 07/31/07)
KNIGHTSVILLE -- An early morning fire gutted the home of David and Susan Young at 800 Church St., Knightsville. At approximately 8:45 a.m., 911 dispatch received a call from a residence across the street that the house across the street was in flames...
Board of Works approves bid
(Local News ~ 07/31/07)
Mayor Ann Bradshaw is wasting no time in helping fix problem areas in town. During a recent meeting for the Board of Public Works and Safety, bids were accepted for sidewalk rehabilitation needed in several locations in Brazil. Three companies, Dennis Trucking and Excavating, Artistic Construction and M & D Excavating, submitted bids...
Officials investigate break-in at shelter
(Local News ~ 07/31/07)
The Clay County Sheriff's Department is investigating a break-in at the Clay County Humane Society that occurred sometime between 8 p.m. Sunday to 8 a.m. Monday. Although details are limited because of the ongoing investigation, Det. Sgt. Jeff Maynard confirmed to the Times that a back window was broken to gain access to the building located at 8280 N. C.R. 125 W...
No Mail to that House!
(Column ~ 07/31/07)
Ok the subject this week is not dogs, rather a particular wasp. This past week, a number of calls and questions have been directed my way about a wasp that dive bombs individuals. No one has reported being stung. So what is this pesky little bomber insect that has resulted in some households having the mailman refusing to deliver mail! It is the cicada killer wasp. No fear though, only the female can sting which only happens if one would hold a wasp in the hand or some other silly mishandling...
Marjorie Belle Chadwick Birt
(Obituary ~ 07/31/07)
Marjorie Belle Chadwick Birt, 85, Greencastle, formerly of Brazil, died Sunday, July 29, 2007. Born Sept. 11, 1921, in Putnam County, she was the daughter of Ira Clayton and Anna Belle Stanton Chadwick. She was a 1938 graduate of Brazil High School and had worked at Kidd Insurance Agency in Brazil...
Ernestine C. (Petit) Dragon
(Obituary ~ 07/31/07)
Ernestine C. (Petit) Dragon, 71, Terre Haute, died at 10:55 a.m., Saturday at Regional Hospital. Born Nov. 16, 1935, in Terre Haute, she was the daughter of George E. and A. Ruth Jones Petit. She was a member of the World Gospel Church and a volunteer for the Crisis Pregnancy Center of the Wabash Valley...
Larry E. Maurer
(Obituary ~ 07/31/07)
Larry E. Maurer, 65, Center Point, died July 30, 2007, at 3:50 a.m. at his residence. Born Feb. 3, 1942, in Clay County, he was the son of Cecil and Della Gertrude Mong Maurer. He attended Ashboro High School until it closed in 1959. He graduated from Brazil High School in 1960...
Samuel R. Phegley Sr.
(Obituary ~ 07/31/07)
Samuel R. Phegley Sr., 51, Brazil, died at 11 a.m., July 28, 2007, at his home surrounded by his loving family. He had battled cancer for the past year. Born Dec. 1, 1955, in Brazil, he was the son of Carl E. and Vera Lucille Cox Phegley. He served in the U.S. Army from 1975 through 1983...
Earl T. Reeves
(Obituary ~ 07/31/07)
Earl T. Reeves, 79, Pittsboro, formerly of Brazil, died July 30, 2007. He had worked in maintenance for Sun Oil for 27 years and then owned and operated D&E_Maintenance, retiring in 1991. He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II. Survivors include wife Patricia Cagle Reeves; daughter Diana Dunigan and husband Walter; son Dennis Reeves and wife Eloise; sisters Dora Alsip and Jean Evans and husband Jack; grandchildren Brittney Goodwin, Joanna Reeves and Richard Reeves...
Clay County Justice Center
(Other Record ~ 07/31/07)
Clay County Justice Center The following jail bookings occurred at the Clay County Justice Center during July 26-29: Gilbertson, George A., 53: WARRANT: Failure to appear 2. Criminal recklessness White, Jarred Scott, 29: WARRANT: Auto theft/Auto parts 2. Invasion of privacy...
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Archive for September, 2017
How To Get the Best Dog Training Collards
In the United States, people absolutely love to own and take care of pets. These pets normally only pertained to cats and dogs in the past, however, the types of pets people now own in America go above and beyond what was once considered normal. People now own pigs, bunnies, foxes, and even snakes and different types of insects.
This article is not for people that own reptiles and insects. Instead, this article is for people that own a dog and are looking to properly train their dog. Understand that dogs are so popular in America that a lot of people own them.
Right now in the United States, about 37 to 47% of all households in the United States have a dog. This means that 46,300,000 households in the United States own a dog or even possibly more than one dog. If you are one of these peop


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After his abysmal electoral performance in the 2008 general election, Dr. Nduom expects that his new found umbrella-the Progressive People's Party (PPP) would remove all bottlenecks that hampered his presidential ambition as then presidential candidate of the Convention People's Party (CPP).
His strong message of "incorruptible leadership and job creation", according to analysts, could sway a bulk of undecided voters into its fold. Can the PPP really rise up to its slogan of "awake"?Read More »


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Recycling Challenge
Submit your Recycling Report HERE!
Thank you to all for supporting the Be A Green Crusader Environmental Fair!
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Morrow County Recycles Newsletter
View our current MC Recycles Newsletter. Learn about Recycling updates and upcoming events in Morrow County!
The Delaware/Knox/Marion/Morrow (DKMM) Solid Waste District is a legal political subdivision of the State of Ohio and is funded by a $6.00 per ton contract fee on municipal solid waste generated within the District.
The District's Board of Directors consists of twelve county commissioners from its four county members. The Board is charged with implementing the District's Solid Waste Management Plan.
DKMM funds programs that provide education about and alternatives to disposal of generated wastes. These programs include: recycling, composting, education, solid waste enforcement, and monitoring, household hazardous waste, electronics, and tire collections. DKMM also provides grant funding to both private and public-sector entities to improve existing or implement new effective waste management programs.
2019 Recycling Bin Pickup Schedule (click here to download this month's copy)
Drop Off Locations - (available 24 hours)
Morrow County Residential Recycling Guide
Cardington Township Hall
4064 County Road 132
Cardington, OH 43315
Chesterville Ball Field
3675 State Route 314
Chesterville, OH 43317
Franklin Township Hall
5380 State Route 95, east
Mt. Gilead, OH 43338
Fulton Village Hall
120 W Main St
Fulton, OH 43321
Highland High School
1250 Township Rd. 16
Sparta, OH 43350
Washington Twp/Iberia Ball Park
8587 County Road 30
Iberia, OH 43325
Johnsville Ball Field
7478 County Road 30
Shauck, OH 43349
49 North Hickory Street
Marengo, OH 43334
Northmor High School
5353 County Road 29
Galion, OH 44833
Westfield Township Hall
848 County Road 21
Westfield, OH 44251
Peru Township
1031 County Road 24
Marengo, OH 43334
Cell Phones For Soldiers is a national nonprofit dedicated to servings troops and veterans with free communication services and emergency funding. Cell Phones For Soldiers:
• Provided more than 3 million calling cards.
• Mails approximately 1,500 calling cards a week.
• Prevented more than 11.7 million phones from ending up in landfills.
Bring your gently used cell phone to Morrow County Recycling at the Morrow County Health Department (619 W. Marion Rd., Mt. Gilead, OH 43338) from 7:15 am-5:00 pm Monday through Thursday, to benefit Cell Phones for Soldiers. Click here for more information.
Freon must be removed by a certified technician!
357 HPM Street
Marengo, OH 43334
Building Materials
The Habitat for Humanity ReStore encourages individuals, businesses, builders and remodelers to help prevent reusable building supplies from going to the landfill. Please Call your local ReStore to schedule a donation pickup or drop off. It is highly recommended that you call before bringing your donation to make sure that it is something that will be accepted. Donations must be in good enough quality that people will want to purchase them to install or use in their home or properties. Donations are tax deductible.
Click here to be redirected to the Habitat for Humanity ReStore Ohio Directory of Stores.
China, Crystal, Ceramic Bakeware and Glass (Pyrex) Bakeware
These items are not accepted through drop-off or curbside recycling programs. They may be placed in the trash.
If it is still in good condition, find someone who could use it or donate it.
Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs (CFL's)
Many hardware supply stores (Lowe's, Home Depot, Menards, ACE Hardware) and other retailers offer in-store recycling. Make sure you check directly with the store before you go; not all stores in regional or nationwide chains may be equipped to recycle.
Home Depot – customers can bring in any expired, unbroken CFL bulbs, place them in a plastic bag and deposit them both into a collection unit.
Menards – Menards also recycles CFL bulbs.
Lowe's also made it easier for customers to make a difference by installing recycling centers in more than 1,700 stores throughout the United States. The permanent recycling centers, located at the store entrance, offer a free, convenient and easy way for customers to recycle rechargeable batteries, cell phones, compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) and plastic shopping bags.
Battery Recycling
Recycle your spent batteries at the following locations in Morrow County:
Morrow County Recycling (80 N Walnut Street, Mt.Gilead, OH 43338)
Morrow County 911 Center (140 S Main St, Mt Gilead, OH 43338)
Morrow County Health Dept (619 W Marion St., Mt Gilead, OH 43338)
Your Local Fire Department
Insulation (tape over terminals) is not required for Alkaline (AA, AAA, C, D, 9V), NiCd, or NiMH batteries when marked with a rating of 9 volts and under. **This voltage rating should be noted on the battery wrapper or case. Review the How To Guide: Battery Terminal Protection


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USB devices has always been an inevitable part of our daily life. If we take a look around our home or office quite a few USB cables and devices can be spotted. At present there are already seven types of USB connectors in use, they are: USB 2.0 A, B, mini B and micro B; and USB 3.0 A, B and micro B, and now Type-C is the newest addition to the lot.
Type-C is a petite new connector shape, its about one third the size of Type-A port. The single connection standard is what makes Type-C outstanding. The port measures 8.4mm by 2.6mm a bit wider and thicker than the current USB which stands at 6.8mm by 1.8mm.
Why USB Type-C is considered to be the next big thing in the Gizmo world:-
• Hassle free life - A single cable can connect you to a multiple devices. No more dilemma of having different shaped USB devices for all the various devices that one has to use. Thus no more ports to take huge spaces on your device thus making it appear much slimmer.
• Reversible - Less orientation struggle as there is no more fidgeting and fumbling around to plug in the device in the right way because both the connection ends are equal.
• Enormous power capacity - This Type-C port can deliver upto 100 Watts of power. This means less waiting around for charging the battery of these devices. Being bi-directional it can either send or receive power.
• Efficient data transfer - It can transfer data at a rate of 10Gbps which is double the transfer speed of USB 3.0(5Gbps) and making it equivalent to Thunderbolt connections.
• Backward compatible - It simply means you can use it with all the existing ports around you, but it is not possible to plug older USB versions into the tiny Type-C port nor connect a Type-C connector into an older and larger version of USB port, for that all you need is an adapter that allows you to connect the Type-C connector into a bigger USB port and vice-versa. Whether you want to connect your laptop to an external hard disk, or to a television or even charge your smartphone all of it is possible with the USB Type-C connector.
• Video source - The port can also serve as a video output source due to its higher data capacity.
Perhaps one can easily assume that USB Type-C is the next most happening feature in the upcoming devices. Even though it may take quite sometime for the Type-C port and connector to get popularized and get into the hands of millions of users it will for sure simplify the way we work, with just one cable for multiple devices.
Everything you need to know about the all new USB Type-C revolution.
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Wn70 Hamel-au-Pétre.
Grenadier-Regiment 726.
10. Infanteriekompanie.
(Command Post at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer)
2 x 7.5cm Field Kannon.
4 x Tobruk's.
2 x 50mm mortars.
1 x 2.0cm Flak gun.
1 x R612 (under construction).
7.5cm Field Kannon.
50mm Mortar.
2cm Flak.
Wn70 Hamel-au-Pétre.
Wn70 Hamel-au-Pétre.
Plan of Wn70 showing the trench system with the many machine guns covering the beach with 2 x 5cm mortars which could fire a large amount of mortar shells over the beach area and would have rained down on the landing craft and infantry in and around the water. Then there was either one or two (however you read the history) 7.5cm Field Kanons, one in an open emplacement and the other in a casemate that had almost been completed.
Wn70 Hamel-au-Pétre
This is the view from inland towards the sea and is the way to walk to the Wn, as its not very accessible from the beach road as most of the land is private.
How it may have looked on D-day.
Wn70 Hamel-au-Pétre up on the cliff (Bluff).
Between Wn68 Les Moulins and Wn70 Hamel-au-Pétre.
The view from Wn 70 east along the cliff, there was a trench system almost connecting Wn70 to Wn68 and a few machine guns were noted on the Bigot map. The Bigot map was a map drawn with all forms of intelligence gleaned from occupied France and if you were a trusted member of the allied side you were then called a 'Bigot' , meaning you were safe.
Part of a Bigot map.
This is how the trenches would have looked up on the Bluff after capture.
Wn70 Hamel-au-Pétre.
This is the eastern side of the Wn with a trench cutting under the new wire fence the casemate should have been about 60 to 100 meters beyond..
As it looked.
Wn70 Hamel-au-Pétre.
This position with its gun base and a trench running around the back.
Wn70 Hamel-au-Pétre.
There ares many works written about how many guns were here at Wn70, some say one 7.5cm Field Kannon and others say two? It is odd that there are two of these circular emplacements. So why would they not have been filled with their guns? or one was used for the 2cm Flak?
7.5cm Field Kannon in a field position like the one above.
2cm Flak.
Wn70 Hamel-au-Pétre.
The second open emplacement.
The R612 from above and showing that the roof was not finished and tree branches were used as camouflage.
After capture and looks as though the roof has not been completed and branches have been used to cover the roof as camouflage.
Another icture of the rear door and you can see damage done to its back wall.
R612 Plan.
The layout of the defence with a Tobruk covering the rear, two 5cm mortars, the 7.5cm kannon , the R612 casemate and a 2cm Flak.
Wn70 Hamel-au-Pétre.
A piece of concrete remaining??
Wn70 Hamel-au-Pétre. Villa Hardelay.
The view down onto the beach at high tide. The house below Villa Hardelay was the house of the Mayor of the village and was commandeered as company HQ of the local defence unit until its roof timbers were needed and used to build bunkers and trenches in and around the area. The tiles were stacked up and the Americans used them after D-day. (What for I have no idea) and a request to have them back some time after D-day and they were returned.
Follow up supplies landing.
One of the casemates of Wn70 on the bluff.
Dismantled houses along the beach front and follow up troops riving.
Photographed from below with Wn70 above on the bluff.
1940's photo.
Tank turret.
This looks like a Tobruk for a tank turret.
To the right of the house may have been a small command post, an air-raid shelter or just a small bunker of some type.
Wn70 Hamel-au-Pétre.
This is the view that several American infantry would have seen.
The Americans working their way forward at Easy Red Beach.
Dog Green Beach, Omaha Beach Saving Private Ryan.
Wn70 seems to have been used by the makers of Saving Private Ryan. If you see the machine gunner, he is too close to the landing troops and in the film there were many large concrete bunkers but as we have seen here, there was only one concrete bunker, the rest were all trenches.
The layout of this section of Omaha Beach.
The attack should have landed men almost equally along the coast but due to the tidal flow running West to East pushing the overloaded landing craft to the east, also bunching happened and craft tried to keep together. The main attack happened between Wn73 to Wn71 with devastating results. Under Wn70 again a very hard time, but due to burning hillside the Rangers came in between Wn70 and Wn68 and the smoke covered their landing, they managed with the infantry to advance through a mine field and up the cliff and came around the back to St Laurent. Wn70 was mopped up by follow on forces when they landed and would have attacked from east & west along the cliff top or the defenders gradually retreated as they ran out of ammunition and the loss of comrades as their ranks thinned.
How Wn70 may have looked after its capture.
Sailors playing the fool on a 7.5cm Field Kannon.
Visiting sailors wanted a snap to send home to their families.


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I have strong opinions on bath oils; it's strange because I'm not hugely picky. Nevertheless, let me tell you how to buy bath oils for women.
1. Buy a single bottle or small set of the good stuff (more on the good stuff below).
Don't buy a gigantic set of products, eg this Soap and Glory set with everything you could need, plus mascara. Chances are, she won't use half the stuff and each individual item is not terribly expensive on its own. She can buy it herself. Unless she's asked for this! Then by all means, buy it for her. Why are you even reading this?
2. Buy your bath oil from a boutique or Space NK.
I think it's less fun to get something you see when you're out grocery shopping – makes it a bit everyday, don't you think? Ordering online is ok, but there is no reason to use Amazon. Wean yourself from it. They are pretty evil. You are clever, you can find somewhere else and this post has links. Don't sell out for a pound or two (or five or ten even).
3. Don't buy Space NK own brand.
Space NK's own brand is hit or miss. Sometimes the misses are wildly off. I haven't tried their new Beautannia range (hidden own brand) but just pick something else unless you're sure she'll like it.
Now for the fun part: here's what I have and love. I have received all of these repeatedly as presents and am happy each time I do.
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DES MOINES, Iowa — Here's a quick morning-after-Iowa quiz: Who won the Iowa Democratic caucuses in 1988 and what is he doing now?
Here's a clue: he never won the Democratic presidential nomination.
The answer: It's former House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, who is now a lobbyist and consultant for the Washington, D.C. firm DLA Piper.
Gephardt won Iowa in 1988, but in later primaries, he ultimately ran out of money and split the centrist Democratic vote with a young Tennessee senator named Al Gore. Massachusetts Gov. Mike Dukakis would go on to win the nomination.
Another question: who were the winners, both Republican and Democratic, in the Iowa caucuses in 2000?
Familiar names: Gore and George W. Bush.
The lesson: the Iowa outcome doesn't predict the ultimate winner of the parties' presidential nominations — except when it does.
And there's no way of knowing now, the morning after the caucuses, whether last night's Iowa outcome will or won't be a harbinger of who'll get each party's nomination.
The Iowa grim reaper
The contest in Iowa often weeds out the weak and underfunded. Gephardt, ran again in 2004 here in Iowa, placed fourth and had to quit the race.
Video: How much will Iowa hurt Clinton? Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware and Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut both invested much time and money in this state, but failed to win broad support and were forced to give up after their sad showings here.
That fact that so few voters in one state can have the power to kill off a candidacy of a senator who has served for 30 years is rather freakish and fickle.
Other political news of note
Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
- Budget deficits shrinking but set to grow after 2015
- Senate readies another volley on unemployment aid
- Obama faces Syria standstill
- Fluke files to run in California
- Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
But Iowans defend their caucus process as a high-minded exercise of democracy by ordinary citizens.
And if you went to one of the precinct caucuses last night in Iowa, you might agree with that.
"This is real democracy. I've never seen anything like this," said Philippe Remarque, an admiring correspondent from the Netherlands newspaper De Volkskrant, as he observed Democrats in West Des Moines precinct 115 last night.
A heated debate over Iraq
Remarque and I watched a heated debate between Barack Obama supporter Robert Parks and Nick Manna, a foot soldier for New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, as each tried to win over some Biden supporters.
The Biden-ites were up for grabs because Biden had not attained the party-mandated 15 percent "threshold" in that precinct.
Video: Edwards on the Iowa outcome "There are only two candidates who can end the war, Biden and Richardson," Manna told the Biden supporters, hoping to pull them over to Richardson.
"No, no, no, no! All of them can end the war, it's just a matter of when and how they do it and how well they do," insisted Parks.
Back and forth it went as 20 Biden backers listened, knowing they were in a position to help get Richardson a delegate from this precinct if they shifted to him (in the end, they scattered, some going to Obama, some to Hillary Clinton, and others to John Edwards).
Manna was about 40 years younger than Parks, who is a polished political pro and an elected city council member in West Des Moines. But Manna didn't back down an inch.
The Manna-Parks impromptu debate was far more genuine and more participatory than sitting in one's living room, watching a series of political ads on television.
It was a flesh-and-blood example of political brawling, as bracing and healthy as a Vermont town hall meeting called over the school bond issue.
'Just pay attention'
"I think is a very good process because it gives the opportunity for everyone to participate and it's easily understood if people just pay attention," said Parks as voters filed out of the auditorium at the Indian Hills Junior High School at the end of the caucus.
"It's not what I would call sound-bite material. It requires some thinking, it requires some attention, and people here in Iowa give it the attention that it needs and deserves."
The caucuses serve as a real focus group, allowing observers to hear complaints from Democratic voters about presidential contenders they don't like.
Edwards backer James Flanagan told the Biden-ites, "Hillary is owned by the defense contractors; she's a hawk."
It's not just right-wing columnists and pundits who have a deep animosity toward Clinton; it is a significant percentage of Democratic primary voters, too. What does that portend if she does end up winning the nomination?
(The Republican caucus process is different since it is simple straightforward straw vote measuring support for each candidate,)
While the caucus itself is healthy democracy, the losing candidates grouse about the process, and with good reason, especially on the Democratic side where party rules impose a 15 percent threshold in each precinct.
If 300 people showed up in a precinct and 40 of them were supporters of Richardson, you'd say Richardson had 13 percent support in that precinct, right? Wrong. Richardson would not have met the 15 threshold and would come away with nothing at all.
Multiply the outcome in that precinct by several hundred other precincts and you get a suppression of support for second-tier candidates, and an inflation of support for the front-runners, who can oftern appear stronger than they are.
If Iowa were a straight primary, Richardson, Biden, and Dodd would have shown better numbers.
Richardson complains
Speaking to Fox News Friday morning from New Hampshire, which holds its primary Tuesday, Richardson said, "Right now New Hampshire is going to be the key because we don't have the complicated caucus rules" in the Granite State.
"You know, actually I got close to 10 percent of the vote; (but only) two percent of the delegates," Richardson said, pointing to the quirkiness of Iowa's process.
But Richardson's complaint will be to no avail. No matter how odd the process, Obama won and that is the headline, not "Quirky process gives Obama the win."
What Richardson is up against is that because Iowa is the first contest after so many months of polling, with all of polling's uncertainties- pundits tend to binge on over-interpreting the results.
They give a couple of hundred thousand people here a significance that may seem absurd in comparison to the national electorate of 122 million.
Thus USA Today in its Friday edition called Obama's 37.6 percent of the vote a "stunning victory" over Clinton.
'Stunning' or to be expected?
Victory, yes.
"Stunning"? Only if you were asleep for the past few months and didn't see:
- The intense commitment of the Obama fans in Iowa
- How skilled his organizers were: for instance, tracking down out-of-state Iowans who come back to vote in the caucuses, calling them on their cell phones to recruit their support
- The polling data here that indicated last week that Obama was ahead
Also keep in mind that Obama's 37.6 percent is an estimate.
Here's the official Iowa Democratic Party explanation: "These are the State Convention Delegates a presidential candidate can expect to have at the 2008 State Convention based on the number of County Convention Delegates he or she earned in each county."
Got that?
Obama will get an estimated 38 percent of the delegates to the party's state convention.
The Democratic caucus process is arcane and that's why rational people might want to wait until there are a few real broad-based primaries.
Obama had proven months ago that he was competitive with Clinton – by raising $80 million, just $10 million less than she'd raised.
Iowa simply performed the function of validating with real voters that he had support.
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Since this app was developed under the iPhone 3.x operating system I didn't have a change to test it under OS 4.0 because it wasn't out yet. A current user using the new OD has discovered a bug where if you use "nearby" and then refresh the results it causes the application to crash. I will get a fix out for this issue as fast as possible. Sorry for any inconvenience.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Sterling fell to a 31-year low on Thursday on fears of a "hard" exit by Britain from the European Union and Prime Minister Theresa May's comments on the impact of loose monetary policy, which some saw as a thinly veiled attack on the Bank of England.
May, in a speech to Conservative Party delegates on Wednesday, raised the issue of the side effects of ultra-low interest rates and money-printing.
Although her spokesman later played down suggestions that she was signalling changes ahead in monetary policy, it led to speculation the government was against further interest rate cuts, given the adverse impact on savings and pensions.
As a result, gilts came under pressure, with the 10-year yield GB10YT=RR jumping to its highest since mid-Sept and trading above levels seen on Aug. 4, when the Bank of England (BoE) cut interest rates to record lows and announced an asset-purchase programme to boost growth.
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"If you threaten the independence of the BoE, that's a really big mistake," said ex-BoE policymaker David Blanchflower. "There are consequences and costs to threatening the independence of the Bank. There are costs to the country."
Asked whether May's comment were an attack on Carney and the Bank, he said: "Of course it was, what else could it be? If Carney says I've had enough, that would be a major negative shock to the markets."
Carney, whose five-year tenure runs to 2018, has been criticised by some political figures, who say he tried to frighten the electorate into voting to stay in the European Union in a referendum held on June 23.
British finance minister Philip Hammond tried to calm nerves, telling Bloomberg Television on Thursday that he would like Carney to serve a full eight-year term at the central bank, rather than leave in 2018 as he originally agreed.
SEB currency strategist Richard Falkenhall said May's comments should be seen in the light of recent criticism by politicians of ultra-easy policies by central banks. In the United States, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has accused the Federal Reserve of keeping interest rates low because of political pressure from the Obama administration.
"Central banks have been independent in most Western economies for a few decades now, but we are seeing a shift in politicians' views of late. We have to take May's comments in that perspective," Falkenhall said.
Sterling fell 1 percent to $1.2622 GBP=D4, with a Reuters poll released on Thursday predicting more losses are in store.[GBP/POLL] The currency has lost 2.5 percent this week, hurt by May's announcement on Sunday that the formal process to take Britain out of the EU will start by the end of March.
The euro hit a five-year high while sterling's trade-weighted index was stuck near lows last seen in early 2009.
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Economic activity has held up better than many had expected since the June vote to quit the EU, but many policymakers are anxious about the prospects for future investment. Subdued investments are likely to hit growth and lead to job losses.
A report on Tuesday commissioned by consultancy firm Oliver Wyman said Britain's financial industry could lose up to 38 billion pounds in revenue if the deal leaves it with restricted access to the EU single market.
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Dealing with problems while staying open to opportunities
So here's the scenario...you're doing a portfolio shoot for a model. You get lucky with a lovely sunny day and have organised a good time for the shoot so the light is spot on. You've chosen some pretty decent locations to take the shots, and you're getting on well with the model. One of those good vibe shoots.
It's a relatively fast moving shoot, and you don't have an assistant available to help you, so the lighting is simple - single light stand, 550EX and a shoot-thru brolly. This gives you the option of hard light with the brolly out the way, or softer light through the brolly, and still remains easily portable. The model has brought along a voice activated light-stand, although she mistakenly thinks he's her boyfriend. In this case, he is coming in useful as voice activated ballast to keep the brolly from acting like a sail and blowing the light stand over.
Here's an idea of the setup (taken during a previous shoot)...
It's a pretty reliable setup. Canon 550EX providing the grunt, fired by a pocket wizard. The two are connected via a hotshoe adapter which screws on to the light stand. Gives me freedom to shoot from pretty much anywhere, at any angle, without any misfires (speaking too soon...).
In my hand I have my 40D, pocket wizard on top, 70-200 lens on the front. Also got a 15-30 lens for shots such as the top one and a 580EX as backup if my 550EX dies. It's easier to swap a flash on the hotshoe than change batteries, if you want to keep the flow going.
So, back to the scenario, everything is working fine. You're shooting away, with no problems beyond the re-charge rate of the 550EX being slow with 1/1 power firing every shot. It's a bright day, and one 550EX is being maxed out. You decide to opt for a shot in out of the sun a touch, so pick up the light stand and walk with it.
Give the model some direction about where to stand, then fire a shot off. She's a silhouette against the background. First thought is batteries on the 550EX have given up. A quick check of the back shows the rear is showing ready to fire, and I do a quick test pop to see it definately is. I get a reassuring pop and decent re-charge sound. Pocket wizard batteries? Hit the test button and it shows a correct triggering via the red LED. Must be cables? Check them and everything is connected fine! Um...
So you've got a problem, you've done all the diagnostics you can right on a shoot, and it's coming up short. What do you do?
What would you have done in this situation, with the kit available? Have a think, and then scroll down to see what I did...
OK, here's what I did...
I had a relaxed laugh, and made a quick joke about my equipment in the least nervous sounding way possible. It shows I've not lost my cool, and I'm not worried...still keeping up the relationship with the model. It also shows confidence in myself as a photographer by making jokes when my equipment is failing, rather than breaking down and crying. And thirdly, it's giving me time to think "oh crap, what do I do now? *quiver*"
I had the obvious option of forgetting flash and shooting ambient only. I actually did take a couple of shots with ambient light to give me some thinking time. It kept everyone around me relaxed about the situation.
If you remember from above though, I also had a backup flash in the form of a 580EX, to use if the 550EX died on me. I therefore had a basic master/slave optical setup available to me. I could therefore stick the 580EX on in place of the pocket wizard and fire my 550EX. A perfectly adequate solution, but now I was losing my backup flash if the 550EX ran out of juice.
So I whipped the 550EX off the light stand and replaced it with the 580EX, and used the 550EX as master to control the 580EX in slave mode. Why? Well, I knew the 580EX had full batteries which would give the most shooting time with these heavy full power shots. Meanwhile, the 550EX which had already been worked quite hard, could take a relative retirement just firing triggering flashes. Apart from having to think about line-of-sight issues with optical triggering, I was back to full steam ahead.
So what was the down time on the shoot? About 30-40 secs spread either side about 1-2 mins shooting. I took about 10-15 secs when I had the problem trying to diagnose it. I then dismissed the setup as a no-go, and continued with the shoot opting for ambient light only shots. Having formed a plan, I then returned to the light stand, swapping the on-camera pocket wizard for my 550EX, and putting the 580EX on the light stand, slipping it in to slave mode as I tightened it on. I then slipped my 550EX into master mode, and disabled it from firing anything other than triggering flashes.
It's important to have backup options on a shoot. Many photographers use any old flash because they have radio triggers to fire them in manual mode, but if this happened to them, they'd be stuck with ambient only. It's important to have a second relatively bomb-proof way of working, and ideally one which doesn't require equipment which is only use as backup equipment, or else you'll end up carrying around so much more stuff.
One other thing that occurred to me on this shoot was trying to stay open to other ways of working. As I mentioned, it was a beautiful day, with great light. It's easy to get into the trap of only lighting shots, so it's good to stay open to the possibility of ambient light shots.
In the case of the following shot, I was working with flash off to the right of these steps, and I happened to notice some light reflected off a nearby glass building was giving a lovely line of light up the steps. I asked the model to move so she was sitting right in the light, and grabbed off a few shots, before moving back to the other setup. Ended up being one of the nicer shots, and with nothing but what nature provided. Remember to stay open to opportunities!
I'll let you out of your suspense...
The wire had obviously been pulled or shaken a bit too much on the hotshoe adapter, and one of the soldered connections had become lose. An easy fix afterwards at home with a multimeter and soldering iron, but far from obvious and easily fixed while doing a shoot!


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Mitchell Evans Architects are delighted to have been shortlisted for the CIAT Award for Excellence in Architectural Technology 2017 with their new build private residence, the winner will be announced and presented at an awards ceremony held in East London on 15th September.
We were appointed to design a contemporary new build house to be located on the site currently occupied by a dated bungalow.
The brief was to provide a dwelling with 2 bedroom suites, an open plan kitchen, dining/living area, study and utility room, the house was to take advantage of the open meadow to the rear and far reaching views of the North Downs.
The design gave the impression the clean crisp lines of the building were perched over a natural meadow and rough stone base.
Once planning approval was gained, Chartered Architectural Technologist, Colin Miller MCIAT, lead the project from the creation of the construction documentation, on site supervision to the client hand over.
Colin co-ordinated and liaised with all the consultants to produce highly detailed drawings, including plans, elevations, sections and large scale details, this ensured the contractor had a clear understanding of how to assemble the building, what labour and sub-contractors were required and how this was to be programmed, it also meant accurate costings could be produced for the client.
The project was undertaken by KM Grant under a JCT Prime Cost contract which allowed the client to keep a close watch on the budget and ensure the contractor was obtaining competitive costs for materials and labour.
Due to the high water table and ground conditions traditional foundations were ruled out with an Abbey Pynford ground slab /piling system being selected, this removed potential deep excavations and de-watering and proved to be both cost and time efficient.
The building's superstructure was designed by Finite Design Ltd with the ground floor formed in pre-cast concrete planks cantilevered over reinforced "stepoc" shuttering walls, back filled with top soil to create a sloping meadow with a small section clad in natural split stone.
The open plan accommodation and large glazed areas led to a steel frame superstructure being selected, with infills of insulated timber framing and insulated cavity blockwork. The timber frame is finished externally in zinc with standing seams continuing over timber rafters to form the roof. The blockwork section between the perpendicular wings is finished in through coloured render with a concealed flat roof having a GRP finish.
The client's brief included sustainable energy, high thermal insulation and an air tight house, this was also imposed on us via a planning condition (Code 4 –thermal / water usage), therefore careful detail design was undertaken to ensure all of the steel frame was within the insulation barrier and no cold bridging throughout the house occurred. Energy performance and heat loss calculations were carried out by Thermenergy.
The glazing elements were carefully looked at, and after much research we selected Burckhardt's Soreg Glide triple glazed frameless system giving a U-Value of 0.8W/m²K, this system features a GSK extruded material for the entire frame eliminating cold bridging and linear thermal movement, this was to be the UKs first installation of this system undertaken by Ecohaus Internorm.
The system featured integrated frameless glass balustrades and fly screens, in addition concealed automated roller blinds were installed to provide both privacy and solar shading. Secret gutters within the Zinc roof slope we designed along with recessed flat roof lanterns, all RWPs were run internally in highly insulated boxing, the RWPs were installed in one length from outlet to the bend within the underfloor void to minimise potential leaks.
We liaised with a Civil Engineer, Martin J. Harvey to deal with the high level water table and the dispersion of rainwater from both the building and the hard landscaping.
The solution was a water attenuation tank allowing the rainwater collected from the building to be discharged at a given rate into a drainage ditch adjacent to the rear boundary preventing the ditch breaching in heavy rainfall, stored water will be used to provide irrigation to the soft landscaping around the building. The driveway was finished in a locally sourced gravel to provide a permeable finish.
To provide an energy efficient house an airtight and highly insulated fabric was designed, reducing heat loss and the energy required to maintain a comfortable living environment
A mechanical ventilation and heat recovery system was installed, removing warm moist air from the en suites and utility room and suppling the living accommodation with pre-warmed fresh air via the heat exchanger in the plant room. This MVHR system was configured to provide air changes throughout the day with a boost function when the moisture levels rose in the en suites.
Our client wanted renewable energy to supply the hot water and heating, we therefore employed an energy consultant, Mesh Energy, to prepare costs and performance comparisons between the available technologies.
The solution selected was a ground source heat pump fed by 2No. 110m deep borehole collectors to provide 100% of the houses requirements, this system supplied the entire underfloor heating via a NIBE 8Kw heat pump and 300l pressurised HWC.
We also installed 8No. 270kWp PV panels giving a total of 2.16kWp output, this generated enough electricity to provide the day to day electrical demands, additional demands being topped up by mains electricity, conversely any excess electricity would be fed back to the mains grid.
The PV panels are located on the concealed flat roof and with careful positioning are not visible from ground level.
Internally our client worked closely with an interior designer to continue the house's theme, this included selecting the en suite's sanitaryware, tiling and bespoke fitted furniture, the internal joinery was also specified and included lacquered high gloss internal doors.
All the materials selected are traditional and by careful design detailing and innovative use have been able to utilise the contractors experience and skilled trades to deliver the project without relying on specialist sub-contractors, this will also provide ease of maintenance in the future.
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