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OTTAWA _ Prime Minister Stephen Harper is warning that Europe is running out of time to fix its debt problems, but his government has prepared ``contingency plans'' just in case Canada is forced to contend with a second global recession.
The frank assessment came in an interview Harper gave CBC's The National while attending the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations Tuesday in London.
At one point during the interview, the prime minister admitted that not only is he worried about Europe's financial future, he has been for some time.
``I am concerned,'' he said. ``Even since mid-'08, I have been constantly worried.''
At times, he strikes an almost exasperated tone as he discusses the failure of European leaders to deal once and for all with their on-again, off-again financial crisis.
The Bank of Canada said Tuesday that those problems have worsened in the past few weeks _ so much so that they have prompted a ``sharp deterioration'' in global financial conditions. The latest crisis concerns the solvency of European banks, particularly those in Spain, but a Greek exit from the eurozone following mid-June elections also looms as a potential shock.
``We are four years in,'' Harper said of the duration of Europe's problems.
``I don't want to sound too alarmist, but we are kind of running out of runway here ... I am told already by my counterparts around the world that it has already been affecting most other economies.
``We just can't say, 'Let's wait until the Greek election.' We cannot have a Greek election determining the future of the global economy, that's not fair to anybody.''
North America has been relatively immune from the fallout of Europe until this point, ``but if it gets much deeper it will affect us all,'' he added.
Harper described the economic recovery, even in Canada, as fragile and said he is worried that short term solutions of the kind Europe has tried so far are not going to be sufficient.
Throughout the interview, Harper repeatedly referred to what occurred in 2008, after New York investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed, exposing an inter-connected global financial system that had bet heavily on overpriced housing, bad debt and credit hedges few could cover.
``We do have contingencies in place to minimize the impact on us as we did in 08-09,'' Harper said.
He was not specific, but suggested the measures would be similar to ones deployed during the recent recession, when Ottawa and the provinces spent billions to pump up the economy and the Bank of Canada slashed rates and injected liquidity to ensure banks continued to lend.
``If we found ourselves in catastrophic situations as we did in '08-'09, (there) would be additional things we would have to do,'' he said.
Earlier this week, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty also suggested the government would return to stimulus if a recession occurred. He pointed out that unlike many advanced countries, Canada's finances are in sufficiently good shape to afford new spending.
Economists say the most immediate impact of European contagion would be through a reduction in global demand for Canadian exports, including oil, and a fall in commodity prices. An accompanying stock market plunge would sap wealth from Canadian households and a credit squeeze would also slow economic activity.
Harper offered some advice for Canadian investors: ``Don't cut and run.''
He noted with some chagrin that during the 2008 election campaign, in the aftermath of the collapse of equity markets, he famously advised Canadians to take advantage of low prices and invest in stocks.
While he might have expressed himself badly, he said, he remains of the same opinion.
``Have a mid- to long-term game plan and stick with it,'' he said. ``Things will go up and down in (the) short term ... (but) there will always be solid businesses, and solid markets will always experience growth over time.''
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WACO, Texas (AP) - An explosion at a fertilizer plant near Waco caused numerous injuries and sent flames shooting high into the night sky on Wednesday.
Department of Public Safety troopers were using their squad cars to transport those injured by the blast and fire at the plant in West, a community north of Waco, Gayle Scarbrough, a spokeswoman for the department's Waco office, told television station KWTX. She said six helicopters were also en route to help out.
The explosion at West Fertilizer was reported shortly before 8 p.m. in a frantic call from the scene, KWTX reported.
A West Fire Department dispatcher told The Associated Press that any casualties would be transported to hospitals in Waco, which is about 90 miles north of Austin.
The explosion knocked out power to many area customers and could be heard and felt for miles around.
Brad Smith, who lives 45 miles north of West in Waxahachie, told the station that he and his wife heard what sounded like a thunderclap.
Lydia Zimmerman, told KWTX that she, her husband and daughter were in their garden in Bynum, 13 miles from West, when they heard multiple blasts.
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I have multiple, static-key OpenVPN client/server configurations, labeled "client1", "client2", and "client3" with server/client IPs 10.10.1.1/10.10.1.2, 10.10.2.1/10.10.2.2, and 10.10.3.1/10.10.3.2, respectively, hosted on one Linux server and one Linux client (with three openvpn processes each, each with a different tunX interface). I have three users on my Linux client machine, user "client1", "client2" and "client3". I have my server setup to do NAT so that incoming traffic from client1 on 10.10.1.2 goes out to the Internet (via -j SNAT in iptables) from one IP, client2 on 10.10.2.2 out another IP, etc.
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What I don't have is a way for the client Linux machine to properly route traffic from each user to the proper OpenVPN server IP over it's OpenVPN tunnel. Essentially, I am wanting all Internet-destined traffic from client1 to go out one internet-facing IP on the OpenVPN server, traffic from client2 to go out another, and so on and so forth for as many users as I'd like to add. But this must all be done from ONE machine hosting all the different client users. I am aware of an iptables functionality involving marking packets by user ID and then setting up IP routing based on these marks, but I don't know how to actually achieve it.
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Yes, Public Radio Shows Can Do Cool CwF+RtB Experiments Too
from the keep-it-up deptOne of my favorite radio programs/podcasts is Radiolab. They do absolutely amazing storytelling on really interesting things. I don't think I've ever listened to a Radiolab program and then not gone off to talk to someone about it. Their most recent full episode (they also do "shorts") is a really fascinating exploration of color. The final section, on why Homer (of Iliad & Odyssey fame, not the Simpsons character) never mentioned the color blue is simply brilliant.
That said, it's also been interesting in the last month or so to watch the Radiolab crew start to embrace some of the ideas that we've been exploring for some time, concerning CwF+RtB (Connecting with Fans and giving them a Reason to Buy). I first noticed this about a month ago, when Radiolab announced its Lab Partners premium offering. Just as we've seen with artists who offer up content for free, but give people "subscription" style offering for premium features (sorta like our own Crystal Ball offering), Radiolab is giving people a ton of extras if they subscribe.
Some will argue, of course, that this is nothing more than a modern update to the traditional patronage model of public radio -- wherein they beg for pledges every so often and you might get a tote bag if you spend enough. And, clearly, the ideas come from the same general place. But there are some key differences -- mainly that the premium features aren't worthless tote bags, but are actually related to the show, and include things like access. So, for example, you can join an editorial chat with the Radiolab team, or, my favorite:
Toss Your Name in the Hat: Enter your first name to a pool of names that we'll draw from whenever we need to use a made-up character name in a story.Like many of these kinds of offerings, Radiolabs has a couple tiers to let fans self-select. My one quibble is that I think there aren't enough tiers -- and there isn't a really low entry-level tier. In watching these kinds of experiments, at least having a very low level of support as an option can really help get more people involved and build up the buzz for a program. But, either way, it's neat.
Of course, that's not all Radiolab is doing. They really are doing a lot on the "CwF" side of things too. They've done a number of touring live shows (where they often bring along great musicians, like Zoe Keating). But they've also just launched a remix contest for the show. Remix contests are nothing new in the music world, but I've never heard of one for a radio show/podcast before. But they're doing the same basic thing -- releasing the stems, allowing you to re-score the music, etc.
If you've never listened to a Radiolab production, you might not understand why it would ever make sense to remix a radio show. But, the level of production that goes into every Radiolab episode is astounding. And they do a great job with how they reveal stories and plots. I'm honestly not sure that anyone could actually do a better job editing together an episode of Radiolab than host Jad Abumrad, but I'm actually really curious to hear what other fans can come up with.
As a brief aside, last fall, another great radio/podcast story teller, Ira Glass, from This American Life, did a thorough writeup of why Radiolab is so amazing, and it goes into some amount of detail about how Jad and Robert put together an episode. I think anyone seeking to remix an episode of Radiolab might learn a bunch of useful things from reading it.
Either way, I always think it's great to see more and more people in various areas start embracing these basic concepts and doing really cool things with them. At this stage, it's really just a bunch of experiments, but that's how amazing new things happen.
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These fruity, nutty little numbers couldn't be much easier to put together. Feel free to swap the fruit and nuts around as you see fit, or according to what you have to hand. Pistachios, pecans, dried cranberries, apricots and sultanas would all be perfect substitutions. Annie Rigg
Makes: About 12 large clusters
100g blanched almonds
100g blanched hazelnuts
75g raisins
75g dried sour cherries
50g caster sugar
1 tablespoon dark rum
200g dark chocolate, chopped
Nut and raisin clusters will keep for 1–2 weeks in an airtight box between layers of baking parchment
1. Preheat the oven to 180°C/gas mark 4.
2. Roughly chop the almonds and hazelnuts and tip on to a baking tray. Lightly toast the nuts in the oven for about 4 minutes. Meanwhile, roughly chop the raisins and dried cherries.
3. Tip the caster sugar into a small pan and add 1 tablespoon of water. Set the pan over a medium heat to dissolve the sugar. Bring to the boil, simmer for 1 minute until syrupy, add the rum and bring back to the boil.
4. Add the dried fruit to the toasted nuts and mix well. Quickly pour over the hot syrup and mix to coat the fruit and nuts. Allow the mixture to cool for a moment and then, using your hands, shape the fruit and nuts into 12 evenly sized mounds. Arrange on non-stick baking parchment and leave to cool.
5. Melt the chocolate in a heatproof bowl over a pan of barely simmering water, making sure the bottom of the bowl doesn't touch the water. Remove from the heat and stir until smooth. Place one nut cluster at a time on the tines of a fork and dip into the melted chocolate to cover. Lift out of the chocolate, tapping the fork on the side to allow any excess chocolate to drip back into the bowl. Place on baking parchment and repeat until all of the clusters are coated in chocolate.
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If you've seen the show or read my other reviews by now, you know the drill for this series. The team goes someplace -- northern lower Michigan in this episode -- following a photo or video. They evaluate whether they think the video is real or fake (with Ranae, the skeptic, often the only one voting "fake"), then do some night investigations, hold a town hall meeting, talk to witnesses, and have a solo campout. So, I'll only be remarking on results or unusual evidence during this review. The inciting incident on this show is a moving truck supposedly being hit by by a bigfoot-thrown log (at night), with footprints as evidence. Ranae, remains skeptical, citing misidentification. Naturally, the footprints are no longer around to look at.
One woman in the town hall has an impressive recorded howl that might be a bigfoot, a sound she's heard on numerous nights in the last weeks (including the night previous). Matt camps out near there, but finds/hears nothing. For their final search, the team takes to horseback and tries to find places where deer would currently act as prey for sasquatch. (An idea they maybe should have hit on long ago.) At night, they hear knocks and howls. "Show yourselves, you hairy bastards. I want to see you," Ranae declares. She could not explain the wood knockings. Sadly, no prints and no video -- at least, though, they have some sounds on tape. And that's better than a lot of these investigations. Maybe they should stick around and spend more than a week in Michigan.


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I served as a part time assistant professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University Medical School for 28 years. My areas of specializations are Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), Bipolar Disorder, and Depression. My therapy practice is in Towson, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore, and Midtown Manhattan, New York.
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When the Beatles met at Twickenham Film Studios on January 2nd, 1969 to begin work on a new project called Get Back, it was viewed by some as an act of desperation. Though their double-album blockbuster The Beatles, informally known as "The White Album," was greeted with critical acclaim upon its release the previous November, the group found themselves in something of a quandary. They had ceased touring in the fall of 1966 and had devoted themselves exclusively to the technical intricacies of the recording studio environment, a self-indulgence that produced Sgt. Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour, as well as the songs that would appear in the animated feature Yellow Submarine.
After their manager Brian Epstein's death in August of 1967, Paul McCartney had become the driving force behind the group. Tensions during the recording of the White Album had run high, so much so that not only did their engineer, Geoff Emerick bail temporarily, but even Ringo apparently quit the band for several days. The fact that they had done 101 takes of "Not Guilty," a song by George Harrison which was not even included in the final release, indicates how caught-up they had become in the perfectionist allure of the multitrack studio environment. Paul McCartney's solution was to "get back" to what they used to do best: playing live without overdubs or edits.
The other three Beatles were not enthused about going back on the road, so a live television show was planned. The rehearsals were filmed at Twickenham for broadcast at some future time. But what the cameras captured was a group in turmoil. At one point George Harrison quit, returning after a few days. So the television show was dropped. The cameras still rolled, however, with the idea that they would capture the group recording their next album.
Get Back was supposed to show the group, according to their own press release, "as nature intended … as live as can be in this electronic age … [with] no electronic 'watchamacallit.'" In other words, every song would be recorded strictly live, without overdubs, without any technical effects whatsoever. In a sense this was more ambitious than the recording of their first album, Please Please Me, ten tracks of which were recorded in 585 minutes in a single day. I say more ambitious because even then they overdubbed vocals, handclaps, and a piano solo. Also, they basically recorded the stage act they performed nightly. When they started Get Back they hadn't performed live for three years.
One of the songs that Paul wrote for the project was called "Let It Be." As he later admitted, "I wrote it when all those business problems started to get me down. I really was passing through my 'hour of darkness' and writing the song was my way of exorcising the ghosts … I had a dream one night about my mother. She had died when I was fourteen, so I hadn't heard from her in quite a while and it was very good. It gave me some strength. In my darkest hour, mother Mary had come to me." No one thought when they recorded it in January of 1969 that it would be released as a single more than a year later as the band's final swan song. But let us not get ahead of ourselves.
Geoff Emerick, their engineer since Revolver, could not participate in Get Back because he wasn't in the filmmakers union. His position was filled by Glyn Johns. Alan Parsons, a teenager who would became a world-famous producer a few years hence, was their tape operator. It is unclear from the studio records just how much George Martin was involved. Suffice it to say that the Twickenham sessions, combined with the subsequent recordings they made at the newly created Apple Studios in London, were so problematic that neither the Beatles nor George Martin wanted to face the task of assembling an album from all the tapes. The chore fell to Glyn Johns, who assembled three versions of the album, all of which included conversations and between-take chatter, and none of which received approval from the group.
Meanwhile, the Beatles fooled everyone by moving on to another project entirely, an album that many feel was their best effort ever: Abbey Road. In spite of all the creative, business, and interpersonal problems rampant in the band, they somehow managed to come together for one unbelievably blazing finale which was released in September of 1969.
Though it was clear that the Beatles could no longer work together, EMI insisted that the Get Back project be resurrected and released. On the 3rd of January 1970, Paul, George, and Ringo went into the studio to record Harrison's "I Me Mine" for the album. The next day they returned with George Martin and Glyn Johns and recorded vocal and lead guitar overdubs, as well as Martin's hastily scored brass and cellos, for the song "Let It Be" which they hadn't touched since January of 1969. Though John Lennon was absent, this is considered the last Beatles recording session as a group.
Later that month, Phil Spector, famous for such "wall of sound" recordings as the Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost that Lovin' Feelin'," produced a single called "Instant Karma!" by John Lennon's new group, the Plastic Ono Band. George Harrison played lead guitar on the song, and together they suggested that Spector take over the wobbling Get Back project. He did so starting in March, when the official title became Let It Be.
According to George Martin, "It wasn't until after Abbey Road had been out for some time that I heard John was working on Let It Be again, although we'd previously mastered it. I was surprised because it was John who originally wanted it honest, with no extra musicians, no voices overdubbed, just like a performance. Paul was also surprised because he didn't know either. And I know he was particularly upset with 'Let It Be' and 'The Long and Winding Road,' with all the strings and choirs."
Paul cited the Spectorized version of "The Long and Winding Road" in his High Court action to dissolve the Beatles' partnership, using it as an example of how the other Beatles were trying to ruin his musical reputation. Spector had taken his simple piano ballad and turned it into an opera. This not only further split John Lennon and Paul McCartney, but has confused Beatles fans ever since. In fairness to Spector, he did precisely what he had been hired to do. He took a bunch of inferior recordings recorded live on borrowed equipment by a band that was falling apart at the seams and turned them into a sellable album. It was released on May 8th, 1970. The movie it accompanied, by the way, salvaged from all those hours of painful rehearsals, received an Oscar for Best Song Score. Go figure.
Now, all these years later, Sir Paul is getting his wish. According to a recent press release from Apple Records: "At last as nature intended: The Beatles' Let It Be … Naked … is the no-frills, back-to-basics album that the Beatles first set out to make back in 1969, but which was never released as they intended … de-mixed and re-mixed, un-dubbed of orchestration, choirs, and effects … to reveal the Beatles simply as what they were very best at being—just a great band."
"If we'd had today's technology back then, it would sound like this because this is the noise we made in the studio," says Sir Paul. "When I first heard it," says Ringo, "it was really uplifting. It took you back again to the times when we were this band, the Beatle band."
Beatles fans may be surprised in several ways at what they're going to hear. For one thing, "Dig It" and "Maggie Mae" have been deleted from the album (one wonders why, since the compact disc format allows for longer album length), and "Don't Let Me Down" has been added (very good choice). The new lineup is as follows:
Get Back
Dig a Pony
For You Blue
The Long and Winding Road
Two of Us
I've Got a Feeling
One After 909
Don't Let Me Down
I Me Mine
Across the Universe
Let It Be
Sonically, these refurbished tracks have a full texture that makes the Spectorized version sound thin and compressed. Gone are the lavish orchestrations in "Let It Be," "Across the Universe," and "The Long and Winding Road." Gone, too, are the Lizzie Bravo and Gayleen Pease, the teenage girls who were fetched from the street to sing on "Across the Universe." With the overproduction banished, the acoustic guitars in "Two of Us," "For You Blue," and "Across the Universe" blossom nicely, and the electric guitars on "Get Back" and "I've Got a Feeling" are crisp and clear. Without the choir et al we finally get to hear Paul's subtle and tasteful piano work on "The Long and Winding Road." My personal favorite is the clarified version of "Let It Be," which literally brought a tear to my eye.
Scrutinizers will note "I Me Mine," which was originally extended via tape editing from its original 1:34 to 2:26, is still thus extended. The guitar solo on "Let It Be" was already an overdub (one of two, in fact) when Spector got his hands on it. These things sound like "watchamacallits" to me.
Some Beatlemaniacs no doubt assumed, when Apple announced the release of this de-Spectorized version, that they would be treated to one of Glyn Johns' compilations. Not so. Gone, too (some fans will add "however"), are the count-offs, the side comments, the background chatter, and the between-take banter, which gave the album a slightly informal feel. Instead, each song begins and ends as a polished production, much like the Beatles' early works such as Please Please Me and Rubber Soul. The song "Get Back" has been stripped of the coda that had been edited onto the single version, and without applause and comments (it was one of the songs recorded on the roof at Apple) it does end rather abruptly.
The between-song chatter has been relegated to a second disc entitled Fly on the Wall. Some of it, like John's "all the Angels come" is familiar, but most will be new to Beatles fans.
Now, to the bottom line. As John Lennon once said, "In spite of all things, the Beatles could really play music together." It is remarkable that absolutely none of the stress and confusion that was rumbling around in the background pokes out between the notes. Love is certainly there, as is introspection, doubt, humor, musical horseplay, finesse, and perhaps most of all, camaraderie. These tracks truly represent the best of the Beatles, their considerable songwriting talents, their prowess on their instruments, and the expressiveness of their voices. Here is proof that they did not need gimmicks and special effects, and that whatever interpersonal problems were eating at them, they could put all that aside for the sake of creativity. Each and every song is different in some way from the original release, and this makes the whole experience new and exciting. I'd not want them to pare down Sgt. Pepper in the same way, but this album proves that the Beatles were first and foremost great musicians, and it's incredibly good to hear them at it again.


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A few weeks back I had the privilege of attending Work & Turn's Crafting Type; a 5 day intensive workshop all about typeface design. As soon as I heard about the program, I jumped at the chance to attend. For years I have been waiting for an opportunity to attend a type design workshop. I would longingly read reviews about the Type@cooper program in NYC, knowing full-well that I would never be able to afford the time away from work or family to attend such a self-indulgent nerdfest. Then out of the blue, a type design workshop pops up in Edmonton (EDMONTON?) of all places. My old stomping grounds! I could even crash at my parents' place, borrow my dad's car (Update: sorry about that photo radar ticket, Dad!), if I was lucky, maybe Mom would pack me a lunch (and she did). Sure, it wasn't the rigorous 5-week intensive condensed program in typeface design at the Cooper Union, but Crafting Type was no slouch. Kyle and Jeff (Work & Turn) brought in type heavyweights to do it right, three graduates of the MA Typeface design at the University of Reading; Dave Crossland (UK), Eben Sorkin (USA), and Octavio Pardo (Spain). Three guys that love all things letters, fantastic instructors that complemented each other well, and they each brought a distinct and well-balanced approach to type design.
The 37 participants started off by drawing individual letters (curse you letter "o") and learning the proper technique for sketching letterforms. We also gained insight into understanding how and why letters are formed the way they are, and how type is related to, yet different from handwriting. At the end of the day I was amazed at how much I had learned, and it was only day 1.
After a full day of pencil drawing (my poor clawed hand), Dave introduced us to FontForge; an open source type design program, which happens to be free. At first I was skeptical, but after working with Fontforge for 5 days, I'm a convert. I will be utilizing FontForge for the majority of production on my next typeface project.
The remainder of the week focused on massaging glyphs in order to get them to relate to each other, mixed with lectures about letter spacing and kerning, multiple weights, italics, diacritics, ligatures, open type functions, and hinting. After day 5 most of us had only completed a handful of letterforms, but we were well on our way to developing new industry standard fonts. It was tough work and a whirlwind of knowledge, but there was plenty of lively discussion about fonts, tote bags filled with typography books and typographic freebies, coffee & cupcakes, and a great after-party to wrap the whole week up.
At the end of it all Crafting Type was 12 hour days fully immersed in drawing letters and focusing on creating a system of glyphs that work as a cohesive unit. I loved every moment.


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The old Ocean City Elementary School property is on the market.
FORT WALTON BEACH � The old Ocean City Elementary School property is on the market.
The Okaloosa County School Board decided Monday to start accepting bids for the 10.72-acre property and 65,152-square-foot building at 720 Essex Road.
View the zoning information for the property �
The board didn�t discuss the issue at Monday�s meeting, but did talk about the potential sale at a workshop last week.
The school district spent about $70,000 on utilities and routine maintenance at the property last year, and likely will spend between $55,000 and $70,000 this year, according to Rita Scallan, the school district�s chief financial officer.
The roof also needs to be replaced, which likely would cost another million dollars, according to Bill Smith, the district�s facilities director.
�It�s expensive just to own it,� Smith said of the school.
�Selling assets is probably a pretty poor solution to our budgetary problems now,� said Dewey Destin, the newest School Board member. �Is this an asset that we�re absolutely certain we�ll never use?�
Ocean City is one of nine elementary school facilities in the Fort Walton Beach area. It was built in the mid-1960s and was closed in the summer of 2008 because of declining enrollment.
�If you look at the demographics, I don�t see a time we�ll ever need that school,� board member Cindy Frakes said. � � We could probably close another school and still be OK.�
Read the resolution to sell the property �
Since it closed, the district has tried to rent out the building and succeeded only a couple times. The most recent tenant was BP just after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill three years ago.
Officials have tried to entice tenants more recently by offering the building rent-free if they paid for maintenance, but couldn�t find a taker, according to School Board Chairman Rodney Walker.
If the district sells the property, it will still have one other open facility � the old Combs-New Heights Elementary School on Lovejoy Road � and 40 acres of land north of Shalimar Elementary School to build another school if necessary, Smith said.
Officials aren�t looking to sell New Heights right now, he added. The building had a consistent tenant that kept up its maintenance until recently, and another group is leasing a portion of it now.
The school district likely will begin taking bids for the Ocean City property this week. As of Tuesday afternoon, the district planned to accept bids through June 28, but was still putting the finishing touches on the offer.
The assessed value of the land and structures was $2.5 million in 2012.
The property is zoned for institutional purposes, according to Okaloosa County�s Geographic Information Systems website.
If Superintendent of Schools Mary Beth Jackson selects one of the bids, it must go to the School Board for final approval.
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A winner was selected from 10 designs submitted by 8 freelance designers.
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|2004-02-21, 08:21
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Join Date: Feb 2004
after the Arlong arc Zoro only has 1 katana (the White one) but in Movie 2, Special 1 & The Dance Carnival, Zoro has his White katana and the 2 katana he brought from the store in Loguetown. a Red one & a Black one.
you can see them clearly in Movie 2 & The Dance Carnival, but in Special 1 its not so obvious. Zoro leaves his blades on the "Going Merry" when he & Luffy fall out (this is why Zoro doesn't even use the White katana) but at the end when "Going Merry" is sailing out of the navel Zoro is standing on the deck with his 3 katana. White, Black & Red.
you cant see the Red one very clearly but it has to be the Red katana since Zoro lost his other 2 katana before Sanji joined the group (during the Don Krieg arc) also thought Id point out that non of them can possibly be added after episode 54 either.
|2004-03-08, 21:35
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|2004-03-25, 14:47
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|2004-04-12, 12:03
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merely a ghost
2. The movie's doing pretty well, it's currently getting more audience than Ghost in the Shell: Innocence, or so it says the numbers. It's currently one of the top 5 movies in Japan. Even though, fans say this movie wasn't very good.
3. Hmm... very long? I'd say Luffy's probably entering the Middle of the Grand Line now. It's still a long way to Raftel. Measuring the Grand Line is impossible, since Oda never stated how long it was. Anyways, here's a pic taken from the manga which shows the seven magnetic fields in the Grand Line. In this pic, you can see all islands of the Grand Line:
4. Feel free to ask them
|2004-04-19, 20:04
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Oi Oi Luffy!
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: The End
Try mIRC. here . Here's a great faq here . Once you get that all figured out, go to #Kaizoku-Fansubs on irc.rizon.net . They are the best subbing group for One Piece, they've subbed episodes 1-92 (they're currently 189) and Movies 1 and 2, Special 1, and Dance Carnival. Their website is http://kaizoku-fansubs.com/ .You can also dry DC++ and of course good ol' Kazaa.
Question: How badass is Blackbeard????
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: 3rd Planet
Hiyo Vicious-san and other respectable geezers (dythim is included) of OP. I have a question. When will Vivi-chwan graciously take her exit from the Kaizoku gang (in manga wise). She is annoying the Vicious out of me.
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Contact information for all synagogues in Hungary [February 2009]
Synagogues Without Jews: photo. "The earliest Jews who came to Hungary trailed after the legions that were expanding the Roman Empire northward in the third century C.E. Hungarian Jews proceeded to found 38 communities in the medieval period, the most important being Buda and Sopron. Conditions were favorable for the Jews during Turkish rule (1526-1686), but worsened under the Hapsburgs as urban commercial conflict developed into an ingrained hatred. Impelled to move, the Jews were welcomed on the estates of Hungarian nobles such as Counts Esterhazy and Palffy, who protected them and benefited from their economic expertise.
By 1840, Jews numbered more than 300,000. The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 established a quasi-independent state within the renamed Austro-Hungarian Empire. The new Hungarian Parliament soon enacted Jewish emancipation, removing remaining judicial and economic restrictions, allowing Jews to engage in all professions and to settle in all localities. No longer limited to the towns and villages, the Jews-now counting more than 500,000 persons across the country-began to stream into the main cities. The Emancipation period (1867-1914) brought Hungarian Jewry to a crest in political, economic and cultural spheres. Their political position was strengthened in 1895 with the official recognition of Judaism as an equally accepted religion. By 1910 Jews were 5 percent of the population (numbering over 900,000), but comprised about half of the journalists, lawyers and doctors, and nearly 60 percent of the country's merchants.Political emancipation opened the door to higher secular education and adaptation to the outside world. Such radical options engaged Hungarian Jewry in a bitter culture conflict. The Neolog movement favored modifications of the religious ritual as well as cultural and political integration; the Orthodox opposed these adaptations. The conflict came to a head at the government-summoned General Jewish Congress of 1868 and precipitated a major ideological split that plagued the life of Hungarian Jewry until the Holocaust overtook all sides.
Integration and assimilation made deep inroads into the Jewish community. Hungarian Jewry became one of the most assimilated Jewish communities in Europe, with a growing tendency towards apostasy-especially among the upper classes. In contrast, Hasidism swelled in the northeast, in the Szatmar, Bereg (including Munkacs), and Marmaros districts.
Loyalty and patriotic participation by the Jews in the battles of World War I did not prevent overt anti-Semitic riots, known as the "White Terror," in the post-war years. This anti-Semitism was fully manifested in World War II: Nazi troops marched into Hungary in "Operation Margaret" on March 19, 1944. Ghettoization and deportation followed with demonic efficiency. Toiling relentlessly before the advancing Soviet troops, the Nazis managed to murder more than half a million Hungarian Jews by war's end.
Hungarian Jewry now comprises a renewed and active community, with some 80,000 Jews living in Budapest. Nearly 20,000 more live in the rest of the country, particularly in a few of the larger cities. Jewish cultural life has recovered to some extent, with Budapest as the center. The rabbinical seminary trains rabbis for central and east European communities. In addition to the grand Neolog synagogue on Dohany utca and the Orthodox Kazinczy Synagogue, 20 smaller synagogues function in Budapest. Not destroyed by the Germans for lack of time, nearly 100 synagogue buildings still stand in the country. Further, with supplementary municipal funds, former Hungarian Jews living abroad financed the recent restoration of some of the magnificent synagogues still in Jewish use: Szeged, Pecs, and the Dohany in Budapest. These buildings are open to the public as museums, and the large halls serve for prayer only on the Jewish high holidays." [February 2009]
[UPDATE] Tracing Jewish Heritage Along the Danube [March 2015]
[UPDATE] Graves Vandalized, Remains Scattered [March 2015]


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Tiny Stitches Quilt Shop
Special events at Tiny Stitches Quilt Shop create a fun, festive atmosphere, but customer satisfaction is always a top priority.
Bright and Bold
Bright batik fabrics set the stage for a vibrant vignette that features Bali Wedding Star by Judy Niemeyer (above), Saltwater Taffy by Amy Walsh Blue Underground Studios (on table, left), and Bejeweled Table Runner by Karen Montgomery (on table, right).
Meet the Staff
Seated, from left: Henry Elliot and Maetha Elliot (owner); second row: Sharon Ahmed, Mary Sullivan, Debbie Winstead, Charlotte McRanie, Barbara Dole, Stella Lang, Melinda Fulkerson; third row: Wanda Richardson, Joyce Woodall, Nancy Wilhoit, Beth Leonard, Cheryl Ashley Serafine, Carol Bellamy, Melinda O'Donnell, and Karen Williams; not pictured: Michele Bautsch and Cindy Lee.
Tiny Stitches Isn't Really Tiny
Tiny Stitches Quilt Shop isn't tiny at all—the shop fills 3,800 square feet and holds 7,000 fabric bolts.
Block of the Month Beauty
The Beautiful Baskets Throughout the Year Calendar Quilt by WillowBerry Lane is a block-of-the-month project offered at Tiny Stitches Quilt Shop.
Celebrate the Seasons
Tiny Stitches Quilt Shop owner Maetha Elliott loves to celebrate seasons and holidays. This vignette welcomes winter with appliquéd towels (left) and Straddling Snowboy (top) by The Wooden Bear and There's No Man Like a Snowman by Joined at the Hip.
Fall for Color
Shop manager Charlotte McRanie and staffer Joyce Woodall designed Fall for Color for Quilt Sampler Fall/Winter 2010 magazine.
Terry Powers machine-quilted a meandering leaf motif across the quilt top.
Fall for Color Color Option
Geometric prints from the Red Essentials and Essentials IV collections by Studio E Fabrics make Fall for Color black, white, and red all over. To create frames around the blocks, quilt tester Laura Boehnke used a contrasting light print for the sashing strips instead of matching the block backgrounds. The result is a subtle windowpane effect rather than the floating blocks of the original quilt.
Contact Tiny Stitches Quilt Shop to purchase a copy of the Fall/Winter 2010 issue of Quilt Sampler magazine. Issues are also available at your local quilt shop, on newsstands, and online.


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A Reformation of Style: Religion & Printmaking, 1500 - 1650Caitlin DiMartino '14, recently mined the depths of the College's Florence Foerderer Tonner Collection to select 23 prints and one book made by artists whose work spans the pre-and post-Reformation period in Europe.
Thursday, November 21, 2013 04:24 PM
The exhibit will be hosted in Muhlenberg's Martin Art Gallery from November 20 – December 13. The exhibit features a number of well-known artists, including Albrecht Dürer and Rembrandt van Rijn, as well as less prominent artists, such as Lucas Cranach the Elder, Hans Sebald Beham and Urs Graf.
As a focal point, the exhibit features works from artists during the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Counter Reformation. All of the works feature a religious subtext, and all of the selected pieces serve as a reflection of the contemporary religious climate that influenced the daily lives of the artists.
Caitlin was able to search through Muhlenberg College's permanent collection to select pieces for the exhibit. This was her first opportunity to curate a show for the Martin Art Gallery, and she hopes the opportunity to visit the exhibit will encourage gallery viewers to explore Muhlenberg's other collected artwork.
The Gallery is open to the public from Tuesday - Saturday from 12:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. The Galleria Lobby, an adjacent exhibition space, is accessible daily from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 p.m. For more information regarding Martin Art Gallery programming, please contact Kathryn Burke at 484-664-3467.


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Web Formula
I you want to use your old profiles with the new servers, we must retrieve data from the old servers. Therefore we must know your friend code. So simply follow the instructions of the web formula and add your friend code to our retrieving list:
* Web Formula
Verifying a friend code
I have rewritten the server site script to verify, if a friend code is inserted into the database.
* wiimmfi.de/nick/FRIEND_CODE
Replace the string "FRIEND_CODE" by your friend code or profile id.
* wiimmfi.de/nick/0432-5226-7951
* wiimmfi.de/nick/302594991
The answer is a machine readable text line and one of the flowing strings:
- "-" (minus sign) : friend code unknown
- "retrieved" : friend code was retrieved from the gamespy servers.
- "app" : friend code was delivered by the Wii application for MKW.
- "created" : A self created friend code.
If a real profile made (done during first login, and removed sometimes on database maintenance), the string ",active" is appended.
- Why shall I register my friend code?
If you want to use the custom server with your old profile, we need additional login info. It is possible to retrieve it from the original servers until they are discontinued.
- Why I must have a friend?
The only thing we can do is retrieving the login data of your registered friends. Once we have retrieved your friends, we also retrieve the data for their friends, and one of them is hopefully you.
- Why is May 18 the last day?
The Server shutdown was announced for May 20, but we don't know the exact time. The worst case may be 0:00 at Japan local time. Our deadline of May 18 23:59 (any timezone) gives us at least some hours to retrieve the data.
- When will you close the formula?
The formula and the retrieving process will run until the final server shutdown.
- Why can't I login with my old profile?
- Your login data is not retrieved yet.
- You have no registered friends.
- You registered friends have not registered you.
- The database update is only made twice per day.
- Your login data is not retrieved yet.
- Why can I login without registering?
- You have used the DNS redirect a month ago.
- Any other has you registered.
- You met me online playing MKWii, I dumped the traffic and the dump is part of my dump archive.
- Our retrieving process catched you as friend of a friend of a friend of a ...
- You have used the DNS redirect a month ago.
- My game is RMCP, but the formula shows RMCJ
That's correct. To meet online, all player have to use the same game id. And for the most games the Japanese game code is used. However, the game id is only for you. It's a chance to detect typos in your friend code. For the retrieving process we need only the friend code; all other data is replied by the server.
- What happens, if I haven't registered my friend code?
If the custom server doesn't know you, you can't login. In this case the only chance is, to create a new profile on the custom server. However, for Mario Kart Wii there exists a homebrew app, that can read the login data from your save game.
- I can't play at the custom server, why?
Have you patched your image?
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The developers spent very very much time into the project. And they are not private supporters. So they ignore such PM silently. If you have questions, read the FAQ and ask the forums.
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Fanatic AllWave PURE 8'9 SUP Board 2017
Wherever you decide to take it, the AllWave delivers easy surfing action with surprisingly radical performance attributes. Available in four sizes – from the snappy 8'9" to the floaty 9'8" – we guarantee unbeatable fun in all types of waves.
Design details
The 2017 AllWave range offers the easiest possible entry into the waves. The fast rocker line and stable stance offer straightforward wave catching characteristics and good speed, so you can focus 100 % on the wave. The four sizes increase in length – with minimal additional width – in order to guarantee a smooth flow all the way through the models for the heavier riders. Whether conditions are choppy, small and testing, or nice and clean overhead walls, the AllWave is the tool for pure enjoyment, ease and progression.
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!!Installing MinGW
!Using the (possibly "Proposed"/"Candidate") Installer
If you are new to MinGW, the recommended way to begin is to download an installer executable from http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml and run it (e.g. MinGW-5.0.2.exe -- currently there is only a 'Proposed' Version). This package will install [mingw-runtime], [w32api], GCC, binutils and mingw32-make but it may not be the latest versions of the individual packages. Once you have all these packages (although mingw32-make is not necessary if you have MSYS or Cygwin), you may download updated individual packages like GCC and extract them into the MinGW directory.
- Warning:* For versions prior to MSYS-1.0.11; do not install MinGW into the same path as MSYS (but it can be a subdirectory as long as non-MSYS executables are not in the MSYS bin directory)
- Warning2:* When you install msys and mingw, and have /mingw mapped to your mingw directory (as is the default), if you install ports or install any programs, they must install to /mingw to be available for gcc to use (i.e. ./configure --prefix=/mingw).
!Manually (non one-click method)
Instead of using an installer you can as well get all required packets and unpack them manually into a subdirectory. In fact that's what this writer is doing himself.
- Download at least the following (or newer) packages from the [MinGW download page | http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435&package_id=82721] (the automated mingw installer I think includes all of these and sets up the right directory for you--what it's doing is downloading compilers and default header files, and putting them in one place on your system, so the future builds will use those compilers and directories for building):
* [binutils | http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/binutils-2.16.91-20060119-1.tar.gz?download] * [gcc-core | http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/gcc-core-3.4.5-20060117-1.tar.gz?download] * [gcc-g++ | http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/gcc-g++-3.4.5-20060117-1.tar.gz?download] * [mingw-runtime | http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/mingw-runtime-3.9.tar.gz?download] * [w32api | http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/w32api-3.6.tar.gz?download] You may want to add any of the following additional languages * [gcc-objc | http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/gcc-objc-3.4.5-20060117-1.tar.gz?download] * [gcc-g77 | http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/gcc-g77-3.4.5-20060117-1.tar.gz?download] * [gcc-java | http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/gcc-java-3.4.5-20060117-1.tar.gz?download] * [gcc-ada | http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/gcc-ada-3.4.5-20060117-1.tar.gz?download]
These files are gzipped tarballs, Linux users will probably be familiar with .tar.gz files, but they are not that common under Windows. Essentially they are compressed folders like zip files. In order to access the contents you will need to decompress them, this requires that you have gzip and tar installed on your machine. Linux comes with these as standard in every distribution, but under Windows you will need to install them manually. Windows versions can be found at: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gzip.htm and http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/tar.htm. Download the setup files and install the applications. Before you use them you need to tell Windows where to find them; specifically this means adding the install directory to your PATH. To do this carry out the following procedure (Warning - adding entries to the path is totally benign, however if you delete you messup your path string then you could seriously compromise the functioning of your computer, please be careful):
# Right-click on "My Computer" and select "Properties". # Click Advanced -> Environment Variables. # In the box entitled "System Variables" scroll down to the line that says "Path" and double-click the entry. # You will be presented with a dialog box with two text boxes, the bottom text box allows you to edit the Path variable. It is *very* important that you do not delete the existsing values in the path string, this will cause all sorts of problems for you! Scroll to the end of the string and at the end add ";<installation-directory>\bin", press OK -> OK -> OK and you are done. Here <installation-directory> is the full address of the installation directory; if you accepted the defaults when installing tar and gzip then it will (proably) be "C:\Program Files\GnuWin32". Don't forget the semicolon, this separates the entries in the path.
- Create a directory to install all the stuff into. This writer usually creates c:\MinGW and copies all of the above files in there. Now issue the following commands:

 cd /d c:\MinGW gzip -df binutils-2.16.91-20060119-1.tar.gz tar -xf binutils-2.16.91-20060119-1.tar cd info ren dir dir.binutils cd .. gzip -df gcc-core-3.4.5-20060117-1.tar.gz tar -xf gcc-core-3.4.5-20060117-1.tar cd info copy dir dir.gcc copy dir+dir.binutils cd .. gzip -df gcc-g++-3.4.5-20060117-1.tar.gz tar -xf gcc-g++-3.4.5-20060117-1.tar gzip -df mingw-runtime-3.9.tar.gz tar -xf mingw-runtime-3.9.tar cd info ren dir dir.gcc cd .. gzip -df w32api-3.6.tar.gz tar -xf w32api-3.6.tar

- The commands copying and concatenating the info-dir files are really a rather crude way of creating a combined dir file and could use some enhancement
- To add additional languages apply some or all of the follwoing commands:

 cd /d c:\MinGW tar xvzf gcc-ada-3.4.5-20060117-1.tar.gz tar xvzf gcc-g77-3.4.5-20060117-1.tar.gz tar xvzf gcc-java-3.4.5-20060117-1.tar.gz tar xvzf gcc-objc-3.4.5-20060117-1.tar.gz

- Last but not least you probably will want to install MSYS as well (details are hopefully described elsewhere)
See also: GettingStarted


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Delaware Valley sixth-grade students will return to the middle school building in the 2013-14 school year. For decades, grades 6-12 shared the middle school/high school building in Westfall Township.
Delaware Valley sixth-grade students will return to the middle school building in the 2013-14 school year.
For decades, grades 6-12 shared the middle school/high school building in Westfall Township. But during the Pike County building boom, the high school became crowded.
When the current senior class was in sixth grade in 2006, the district moved the students back to the Delaware Valley Elementary School building and that has been the configuration ever since.
Population estimates from U.S. Census Bureau show Pike has turned from being one of the fastest-growing counties in the state to the fourth-fastest shrinking county in the state.
High school enrollment is down from 1,950 in 2006-07 to 1,600 projected in 2013-14.
"We finally have the space to return sixth grade to their rightful home," Superintendent John Bell said in a letter to current fifth-grade parents.
Enrollment in grades 6 to 8 will be 600 next year, of those, sixth grade will have 150 students.
The move will allow sixth-grade students to have teachers for specific subject areas and take advanced courses in math and English and get involved in band, chorus, orchestra and drama programs.
The physical education program will include use of the swimming pool, middle school gym and outdoor stadium and more clubs and activities.
Bell, Peg Schaffer, director of elementary education, and Peter Ioppolo, Delaware Valley Middle School principal, will answer questions at Parent Teachers Association meetings at 7 p.m. Feb. 11 at the Shohola Elementary School cafeteria and at 7 p.m. Feb. 12 at the Delaware Valley Elementary School cafeteria.
Orientations for students and parents will be held at the middle school in May.
Due to budget trimming, field trips have been absent at Delaware Valley for a few years. But a field trip is in the works for all district fifth-grade students this year in Dingman Delaware, Delaware Valley Elementary and Shohola Elementary.
The trip, to Harrisburg to visit the state capitol and state museum, will be a culminating activity for elementary school and act as an ice-breaker for middle school.
Does this mean field trips are back? Maybe.
"We hope to add more trips in coming years," Bell said.


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Toys and gadgets become toxic junk, thanks to the circuit-bored.
Charlie, a trader hooked on the eBay auction site, is offering to sell a "Roboraptor, unwanted gift used once." He posts a heavily discounted asking price, about one-third the cost of this hit robotic toy during last December's pre-Christmas rush. Roboraptor's predecessors-Robosapien, Robosapien V2, and RoboPet, all released in 2003 and 2004-make up the rest of the over 100 items up for bid to second-hand robot enthusiasts.
This sort of transaction is completed countless times a year. Robotic toys are the latest trend in a huge toy market worth $31.8 billion in the United States alone in 2005, according to the research firm NPD Group. The toy generations breed and spread rapidly-and go "extinct" fast, too. About a million Roboraptors were produced last summer in Dongguang, China, marketed by Wowwee Toys in Hong Kong, and shipped all over the world by early fall. This year Roboreptile will be the new Wowwee wonder, and will surpass its unathletic ancestors by being able to hop, jump, roar, bite, and even snatch. Marketed at children and young males, the robot series is just one line in a huge electronic toy manufacturing sector that encompasses electronic games consoles, gadgets, and action figures. Tech-savvy children, in their tens or hundreds of millions, will quickly tire of them, but not of e-toys in general. And in a year or two they will move on to cellphones, iPods, desk- and laptop computers, personal digital assistants, and a variety of electronic novelties.
Once electronic items become outdated or their owners grow tired of their tricks (or lack of them), what happens to the horde of animatrons and gadgets?
A staggering quantity of them simply becomes junk. The volume of electronic products is vast and waste rates are increasing. The U.S. National Safety Council forecast in 1999 that 100 million computers and monitors would become obsolete by 2003, three times as many as in 1997. Three years ago, the International Association of Electronics Recyclers reported that approximately 20 million televisions become obsolete each year in the United States. In a 2001 memorandum on its Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive, the European Commission stated that "in 1998, 6 million tonnes of waste electrical and electronic equipment were generated (4 percent of the municipal waste stream). The volume of WEEE is expected to increase by at least 3-5 percent per annum. This means that in five years 16-28 percent more WEEE will be generated and in 12 years the amount will have doubled. The growth of WEEE is about three times higher than the growth of the average municipal waste."
Moreover, emerging markets are beginning to echo these patterns. K.S. Sudhakar of the Indian non-profit group Toxics Link says, "Consumption of electrical and electronic goods is growing exponentially in India. With the growing IT sector, increasing purchasing power of an average Indian citizen, the fall in electrical and electronic [item prices], government going in for computerization of its own set-ups, and penetration of electronics in rural markets, the consumption pattern is not set to plateau or fall in the near future." A survey carried out by IRG Systems South Asia estimated total e-waste in India at 146,180 metric tons a year based on selected tracer items, excluding WEEE imports. Mumbai currently tops the list of major cities with 11,017 tons of e-waste per year. This compares with an annual e-waste generation rate of 150,000 tons for London, according to the recycling firm London Remade.
The heart of most new electronic gadgets is a printed circuit board (PCB), which is ingenious but also toxic. This toxicity often spills out once the product is finished with. (Television and computer cathode ray tubes have also received considerable attention, but studies have shown that their contents do not leak as easily as the contents of PCBs.) The concern about WEEE is justified not only by the rate of its growth but also by the environmental burden created by its production, which greatly exceeds that of many other types of wastes.
Seth Heine, a cellphone expert, is particularly concerned about the addition to this polluted mountain that the booming cellphone industry creates. Old cellphones are typically stored (or abandoned) in people's desk drawers for a few years before being discarded. One of Heine's missions is to rescue them. It's a challenge: "Even if you make [recycling and re-use] free and easy, people don't respond," he says, pointing out that they see their old phones as a "valuable asset," having paid a lot for a small item with multiple functions, such as video recording or internet access.
But even though it is a very clever product, it ages quickly. Within a year or two of purchase, most cellphones are indeed essentially valueless. So Heine, who runs a cellphone recycling operation called CollectiveGood in Atlanta, Georgia, tries to capture those mobile phones before they can be thrown out. He reckons that around 130 million U.S. cellphones are "retired" each year and that 20 percent of these are trashed straightaway. Every month his organization collects 15,000 of them from all over the country and, unlike most mobile phone recycling companies, checks that they still work. He then ships 80 percent of them to Belgium, where they are re-exported to developing countries for reuse. The rest are stripped in CollectiveGood's reclamation plant.
Hand De-Crafted
On the other side of the world in Silampur, India, workers are tearing electronics apart with their bare hands, according to the activist group Basel Action Network (BAN), which monitors international traffic in hazardous wastes. The fate of great numbers of cellphones that leave U.S. ports without being checked for functionality is unknown. They may be falsely labeled as second-hand goods, and certainly many of them also fall into the hands of Indian scrap dealers. Excluded from the dedicated cellphone waste stream, they become mixed e-waste and are cannibalized for their precious metals and other content (much of it toxic), including antimony, arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, copper, lead, nickel, and zinc.
A complex skein of e-trade movements wraps the globe. Metals are shipped to firms in Asia that make components for electronics manufacturers, which export finished products to customers in the industrialized nations. A few years later, many of the products find their way back to Asia as junk. India, China, and Africa all receive large amounts of illegally imported computers, cellphones, and other castoff devices as mixed electronic waste, some of which is reused but most of which is dumped into a poisonous pile. "To put it in simple terms, it is smuggled," says K.S. Sudhakar. "We did trace such modes of imports happening under the name of 'metal scrap' and 'cable scrap,' which can be legally imported."
If not smuggled, it is imported as mixed electronic scrap, donations (which are exempt from duty), or as second-hand computers, which are permitted as imports if they are less than 10 years old. However, Sudhakar's organization counted around 1,620 metric tons of "surreptitiously" imported computer waste entering through the port of Chennai between July 2002 and January 2004. It also enters through Mumbai, Kandla, and Cochin. In China, several of the main ports receive waste arriving from Europe and the United States. In Hong Kong, 40, 28, and 2 shipments of waste TV cathode ray tubes were intercepted from North America, Asia/Oceania, and Europe respectively in 2004. India and China perform both as cradles for the electrical and electronics manufacturing industry (the Indian consumer electronics production sector grew by 10 percent between 2004 and 2005) and as graves for part of its waste.
Little is known about some continents' involvement. There have been few studies of imports of e-waste into South America, and in Africa most of the research has centered around imports into Nigeria and its port of Lagos, Africa's largest. There, 75 percent of waste electronics imported as second-hand products is found to be unworkable, according to BAN. In 2005, BAN witnessed 200 standard 12-meter shipping containers of e-waste arriving in Lagos each month. Most of the waste is dumped (where it can leach toxins into groundwater) or incinerated (which pollutes the air). In Nigeria, as in other countries handling dumped waste, cheap unprotected labor is used to do the dirty work.
Toxics Action
The chief problem of exporting electrical and electronic trash is the toxicity of components, which creates more environmental damage than the rubbish volumes, though they are unpleasant enough. Stopping the creation and spread of this toxicity requires breaking the link between consumption and export, and that is the aim of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, which entered into force in 1992. The treaty is supposed to reduce the transnational shipment of hazardous wastes, especially from developed to less developed countries. It is also meant to reduce the volume and toxicity of wastes and ensure that their management is both environmentally sound and carried out as near to the point of origin as possible. Although technically in effect, the Convention remains unratified by the United States, as does the later Basel Ban Amendment to prohibit (not simply reduce) exports of hazardous wastes from specific developed countries to developing ones. However, the European Union (EU) has adopted the Basel Ban in full.
Legal efforts such as these have prompted some electronics manufacturers to explore ways to make their products without hazardous components. In the United Kingdom, for instance, components producer Crawford, Hansford, and Kimber began developing safer alternatives in 2001 by altering their circuit boards to use lead-free formulations such as tin-silver. The company is unusual in acting well in advance of the forthcoming Restriction on Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive, due to be implemented in the European Union on July 1, 2006. The directive will minimize the use of lead, cadmium, mercury, hexavalent chromium, and two types of brominated flame retardants in a wide range of electrical and electronic products from any geographic origin marketed after that date.
Among the developing nations, China plans to introduce its own version of an RoHS law, the first phase of which (to determine product marking requirements) will come into force in March 2007. Materials restrictions will follow later. South Korea is also planning an RoHS law.
Meanwhile, what about all those toxic products already in the pipeline? The introduction of "filters" at ports to pick out the hidden hazardous items in containers of mixed waste will help deal with products marketed before July 1. As noted, a great deal of non-functional rubbish is illegally exported as second-hand reusable goods. However, there are moves at the German environment ministry and other European institutions, mirroring similar pioneering steps in Australia, to empower customs inspectors to test functionality. These efforts are meant to remediate the loose and over-simplified definition of waste that bedevils much waste legislation. In Europe, the purpose is to ensure that the functionality test governs the distinction between waste and non-waste in waste shipment regulations. The lack of such a distinction at the moment hamstrings port inspectors. "Identifying which containers to check [for non-functioning products] is a big problem and nearly impossible," says Joachim Wuttke, an official with the German environment ministry. "Customs codes don't give an idea as to which containers include e-scrap in disguise. Officers have to use an intuitive feeling, based on experience." Currently, inspectors can only act if they happen to hit upon the right container and find smuggled rubbish rather than second-hand products. Wuttke has been pushing for action at both the European Union level and at the Basel Convention meetings to make this vision materialize and hopes that revised rules will be in force by the end of the year.
You Take That Back!
These problems could largely be avoided if eco-design considerations (building in energy efficiency, low- or no toxicity of components, easy dismantleability, etc.) were a regular feature of product planning. In Europe, several producers are campaigning intensively to stamp Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) into the heart of the WEEE Directive, which has passed through the EU parliamentary processes and is in various stages of implementation by national governments. EPR would ensure that producers took control over the destiny of their products and employed companies equipped to properly recycle the products at the end of their useful lives, thereby creating strong incentives for careful and eco-friendly design. However, EPR has been a difficult sell to date. Some observers blame that on individual governments, which often assign several departments to oversee WEEE legislation, as well as on differences between the European Commission and the national ministries. This struggle with the complexity of the law may delay a full EPR system by several years.
In Japan, recycling legislation is already enshrined in the 2001 Home Appliance Recycling Law, which applies to large kitchen appliances, televisions, and air conditioners. Its enactment has generated closed-feedback loops for individual brands. Japan also implemented a Computer Recycling Law in 2003; both laws are financed by customer fees. There is no e-waste takeback law embracing all electrical products, but a law promoting their recycling and ecodesign is in place. South Korea and Taiwan have e-waste EPR laws, and in Thailand the government produced a draft EPR law for electronics in late 2005. A draft WEEE law was drawn up in China in early 2005, but there has as yet been no further action.
In Europe as in the United States, Hewlett-Packard (HP) is one of the most vocal companies in favor of EPR, along with Electrolux, Samsung, Sony, LG Electronics, Nokia, and Motorola. They believe that eco-design would become a new ingredient in the competitiveness matrix if EPR were successfully introduced. (The nonprofit group Computer Takeback Campaign estimates that 315-600 million desktop and laptop computers in the United States alone will soon be obsolete.) HP has pledged to recycle 455 million kilograms of electronic products and supplies by 2007 and to introduce a substitution plan by the end of this year for hazardous components, which goes beyond current laws. It also operates a consumer and company takeback program for computers, peripherals, and print cartridges, available for any brand, at a cost to the customer of US$13-34 per item.
Closing this huge loop, which contains millions of tons of products, and preventing illegal e-waste exports will be a major challenge both for companies and legislators. "If you don't deal with environmental concerns and you don't pay for labor costs, you can extract a lot of value at the developing country end," explains Jim Puckett of BAN, referring to the commercial attractiveness of illegal waste export. He says that this is particularly true for the U.S. West Coast, because of the trade imbalance between the United States and China; a surplus of empty containers ends up in coastal ports, making shipment by sea much cheaper than recycling.
Computer Takeback Campaign, Basel Action Network, and the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition in California form a core of vocal players pressuring the U.S. federal government and the corporate sector to address the lack of recycling legislation in the United States, and monitoring the international waste trade and national pollution issues created by e-waste. Greenpeace is the most ubiquitous campaigner: it played an important role in pressing the European Union for legislation during the 1990s and has challenged multinational companies, with some success, to take EPR more seriously. The organization also liaises with local NGOs such as Toxics Link to create strategies in developing countries.
In the United States, pressure from these organizations and their peers has yielded recycling legislation in a handful of states. In March the governor of Washington state signed the most comprehensive producer responsibility bill enacted to date in the country. The bill requires electronics manufacturers to pay for the collection, transportation, and recycling of computers, monitors, and TVs from consumers, small business, schools, small governments, and charities in the state.
"This is a dramatic shift from what was previously a consumer and taxpayer financial burden," says Barbara Kyle of Computer Takeback Campaign. "The bottom line is that producers don't want to have to pay for the recycling." The only other states that have succeeded in imposing laws are California, Maine, and Maryland. E-waste bills are being debated in 19 other states as well as in New York City, but none of the bills passed so far includes recycling targets. At the federal level, no action is pending. "It's a mess in the U.S.A., but we're starting to make progress," remarks Jim Puckett. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in February awarded a $375,000 grant to the Portland, Oregon-based nonprofit Green Electronics Council to help corporate procurement officers find computers and peripherals meeting strict environmental criteria. Computer manufacturers register their products with the Council using the Electronic Products Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT), which grades equipment according to green criteria. Green procurement initiatives are growing elsewhere, too. In 2005, for instance, the Japanese Green Procurement Network, which has a strong electronics focus, took root in other countries and became an international organization, working with producers in emerging markets such as India.
Progress comes in fits and starts. Even in Europe, where legislation is now in place, it is feared that the WEEE Directive will simply push more waste overseas as some firms struggling to comply are tempted to employ unscrupulous subcontractors to dispose of end-of-life products in unapproved ways. In the meantime, the electronics sector continues to grow, as iPods supersede Walkmans, cellphones become more sophisticated, and the global consumer class expands. On the bright side, perhaps capture tools are getting better, too. Seth Heine, for example, reckons he can draw cellphones out of those desk drawers through an incentive system called RIPMobile, which allows owners to exchange old cellphones for certificates redeemable with a wide variety of retail partners. As for Charlie's robotic dinosaur, eBay itself not only can help it find a new home, it can inform Charlie about other options via its Rethink program, created in response to a BAN campaign.
Companies that advertised their sustainability efforts, even if only in pursuit of market share, could help educate a generation of young people into a clearer materials life-cycle consciousness-which would create support for legislative efforts to curb the destructive trade in e-waste. In the United States, where per capita consumption is the highest, a great deal of further action is needed to increase takeback participation and use of eco-design principles. Bill Sheehan of the Product Policy Institute, which develops product-focused environmental policies, says that "the change with the greatest potential for leveraging improvement in design and marketing of electronics will be the expansion of local government mandates (disposal bans) coupled with state government EPR requirements." That scenario, along with a real willingness on the part of global companies to embrace and communicate EPR, is still a long way off.
Elisabeth Jeffries is an environmental journalist and copywriter based in London, United Kingdom.


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