text: Home> The Emerald Experience > River and city guides > City Guide: The Best Things to See and Do in Salamanca Menu Amsterdam Antwerp Avignon Bamberg Basel Bratislava Berlin Bucharest Budapest Cologne Dubrovnik Hoorn Lisbon Lyon Passau Porto Prague Rudesheim Salamanca Split Trier Vienna The ancient city of Salamanca is recognised around the world for its famous university and historic UNESCO World Heritage Site Old City. Retaining a wonderful village vibe thanks to the relaxed pace of the locals and the careful infrastructure; Salamanca is growing increasingly popular with Spanish and overseas visitors looking to experience the city's unique way of life. Known as La Dorada (the golden city), the sandstone buildings of Salamanca seem to glow in the sunlight, creating a welcoming and mesmerising spectacle. Known as La Dorada (the golden city), the sandstone buildings of Salamanca seem to glow in the sunlight, creating a welcoming and mesmerising spectacle. Modern Salamanca is a medium-sized city whose significance and influence is far greater than its city limits, and the beautiful, ancient architecture creates a picture-perfect setting. In a country of outstanding cities, Salamanca is still regarded as one of the most beautiful in all of Spain; thanks to the largely-unspoiled charm of its old palaces, churches, alleys and squares. Skilled stonemasons have shaped almost every inch of Salamanca, creating a wonderfully old-world feel about the city. Salamanca can trace its history back more than 2,300 years when it was first settled by a Celtic tribe. But it wasn't until the Romans took control of Helmantica (as Salamanca was then known), that the city began to grow in importance and influence. Thanks to its favourable position, Salamanca was visited by an important Roman road, helping to spread import and export opportunities for the city. The Roman bridge of the city, built in the 1st century, still stands to this day and was a part of this important Roman road. Perhaps the most significant moment in Salamanca's history occurred in 1218, when the University of Salamanca was handed a royal charter, making it one of the most prestigious academic centres in Europe. To this day, the university remains an integral part of life in Salamanca, and an important part of the city's identity. The academics of the city can be found enjoying Salamanca's vibrant café and bar culture, enjoying a drink or two over sparkling conversation and heated debate. Positioned just an hour away from the Portuguese border and close to the River Douro, Salamanca is a popular destination during a river cruise on the beautiful waterway. Significantly different to the villages and settlements which line the Douro, Salamanca is a unique experience for those cruising on the river. With a rich history and a welcoming presence, Salamanca is a spectacular stop on a river cruise atop the Douro. Must-See Sights Explore Salamanca's 2,000 plus years of history by taking in the city's must-see sights. We have picked our top five places no Salamanca visitor should miss. Old Cathedral – Whilst the city's New Cathedral may be significantly larger, the beautiful charm of the Old Cathedral means we'd suggest a visit to the elder of the two. Built in the 12th century and possessing a Romanesque charm, the cathedral is a site of extreme beauty, inside and out. Detailed, centuries-old murals bless the interior of the cathedral. And if you do fancy having a look around the New Cathedral (roughly 500 years old), the two are actually joined, so it's easy to visit both together. La Plaza Mayor – The beautiful old public square, La Plaza Mayor, is still the centre and heart of the city. Surrounded by the beautiful Spanish baroque town hall and a series of charming restaurants, ice cream parlours and jewellery stores; locals and visitors love to congregate in this laid-back square. Completed in the middle of the 18th century, La Plaza Mayor has witnessed much of the city's history and is part of the Old City's World Heritage Site. The University – With such a high percentage of the city's population engaged in academia, the university is central to the spirit and personality of Salamanca. A visit to the beautiful university buildings surrounding the Patio de Escuelas square will leave you spellbound and envious of the local scholars. The delightful old academic buildings boast wonderfully traditional Spanish-style architecture which would impress even Oxbridge alumni. Casa de las Conchas – With a name translating to House of the Shells, you shouldn't be surprised to find the façade of this late Gothic, 16th-century building covered in more than 300 shells. Now home to a public library, the welcoming entrance to Casa de las Conchas is complete with statues of dolphins, the Renaissance symbol of love. Casa Lis – Proving that Salamanca is not stuck entirely in the past, Casa Lis is the city's museum dedicated to Art Nouveau and Art Deco. A huge selection of exhibits featuring sculptures, jewellery and glasswork are dotted throughout this delightful, small museum. A short walk around the museum should be completed with a visit to the café, which pairs a charming food and drink selection with exquisite views over Salamanca's 1st-century Roman bridge. Fast Facts Salamanca provides interest and intrigue around every corner; here are just a few of our favourite facts about this unique city. The people of Salamanca are called Salmantinos Salamanca's 16th-century cathedral features a stone cosmonaut amongst its gargoyles 20% of the city's population either study or work at the university The university is the third oldest in Europe Salamanca was the 2002 European Capital of Culture The frog is a symbol of Salamanca and is said to bring good luck Salamanca is one of Spain's major centres for the teaching of the Spanish language If you're interested in experiencing the historic splendour of Salamanca as part of an Emerald Waterways river cruise, take a look at our Secrets of the Douro itinerary or call our friendly sales team on 0808 301 4705. Contact us Call us > Email us > Request a brochure > Subscribe for updates >


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FAIRFIELD, CA --Fire officials say four children have been killed and two adults injured in an apartment building fire in Fairfield. Fairfield Assistant Fire Marshal Jerry Clark says when fire crews reached the single-story fourplex around 9:10 p.m. Wednesday they found three of the children dead at the scene. The fourth child was rushed to a hospital but died there from injuries.
Clark says two adult females were burned in the fire. One suffered burns to her hands. He did not know the extent of the injuries to the second adult.
Fire officials say they don't yet know the ages of the dead and injured or if they were related.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.

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Danielle Staub Analyzes 'Real Housewives Of New Jersey' Season 3 Episode 5
Disclaimer: Danielle Staub did not actually write this post. But, as avid fans of the show, we figured we might have a little insight into her own take on the show. The views expressed here are not those of Crushable, but rather are simply an imagining of what Danielle might have to say.
This week's episode of Real Housewives of New Jersey was all about the kids. From Ashley getting a new car to Gia's gymnastics meet, we got to see how the real Jersey kids lived. Personally, I found a new hero in Joey Wakile, who broke it to his parents that he might have the occasionally drink on the weekends when he gets to high school. If only all kids were that honest. Of course, you know Danielle Staub has her own take on the episode. Check out what she had to say.
Disclaimer: Okay, so Danielle didn't really write this post. But it doesn't it totally sound like she did?


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Conservation Projects
Rhino De-horning
The Reserve faced a difficult decision, and due to the growing pressure of poaching we made the bold step to de-horn our entire Rhino populaton.... Read more
Black Rhino Expansion Project
The ZRR was chosen as the second release site for the Black rhino expansion project, and in 2005 a founder population of black rhino were released into their new home.... Read more
Leopard tortoise re-introduction
The release of eleven leoaprd tortoises into the Manyoni Private Game Reserve. ... Read more
Red billed oxpecker release
50 red billed oxpeckers are released into the reserve to help promote breeding and grow the population. ... Read more
Rhino management
The reserve notches each rhino to enable us to identify each individual in the wild, get a chance to participate in this unique experience. ... Read more
Painted Wolves released in the Manyoni
On the 1st May 2015 we introduced 6 African Wild dogs into the reserve... Read more
Rhino Orphans
To date the reserve has dealt with 4 rhino orphans due to poaching and the devastating drought. Read the story of our orphans and celebrate with us in their successful rehabilitation ... Read more
Wildlife Act monitor endangered species on the Manyoni Private Game Reserve with the help of volunteers which provide us with invaluable data for our conservation management ... Read more


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Eggplant in Garlic Sauce
- Prep: 15 min
- Cook Time: 15 min
- Total: 30 min
- Serving: Serves 6 people
Served as a side dish, Eggplant in Garlic Sauce is a perfect pairing for beef, pork or fish.
- 2 medium eggplants
- 6 garlic cloves, minced
- 2-3 tablespoons of chili paste with garlic
- 4 tablespoons of dark soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons of black vinegar (you can substitute balsamic vinegar)
- 2 tablespoons of sugar
- 1/2 cup of peanut oil
- 1-1/2 cups of diced scallions
- Cut eggplant into 3x3/4-inch strips (do not peel). Combine minced garlic with the chili paste.
- In a separate bowl, mix the soy sauce, vinegar and sugar. Heat a wok over medium heat and add 1/3 of the oil. When the oil gets hot, add half the eggplant and stir fry until it begins to brown. Once browned, remove an place on a serving platter.
- Repeat the stir fry process with the remaining eggplant.
- Add three tablespoons oil to the wok, and when its hot, add the garlic and chili paste mixture. Stir for about 10 seconds. Re-add the eggplant and mix well.
- Add the scallions and stir for another minute. Add the soy sauce mixture and stir fry for another minute. Serve immediately.
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Barrel & Beef Family restaurant is the place you can count on for couples or family night out when you are in Clarens.They offer a full menu to choose from including desserts and specialty drinks. Daily lunch and dinner specials are a bonus for your loyalty.
Bellissimo Cheese house is the home and reliable supplier of Appetisers, Cheese, Dessert, Pasta, Poultry and Vegetables.This is the brand you can trust for quality and fair pricing.
Caledon Gardens can best be described as a small country retreat situated in the unspoilt Caledon Valley in the Free State province.This place provides you the ideal setting to relax and enjoy the fresh mountain air and the tranquility of this part of the country overlooking Lesotho.
This four star establishment provides excellent accommodation and the outdoors has a wide variety of bird-life in the gardens which is a true pleasure for bird watching.


text: This is a family favourite for years and years very simple to remember and very simple to make. The kids love stealing the marshmallows and getting their hands sticky, and love eating the final result as well as licking spoons and the bowl of course Place biscuits in a food bag, and allow your little one to bash them up to a crumb with a rolling bin (lots of noise!)Cut marshmallows into pieces or use twice as many min marshmallows (you may need extra as little ones may eat some!Cut Glace cherries in half or quarters depends on what size you likeMix biscuit crumbs, marshmallows and cherries together in a bowl with the weetened condensed milk.Place a sheet of baking parchment on work top and cover with a good layer of the desicated coconut.Place biscuit marshallow mixture on top of coconut and use hands to form a sausage shape. Roll up in parchment paper tightly and ensure coconut is well distributed around edges of mixtureChill in fridge for about 2 hours or as long as you can resist. Slice approx 2 cm thick pieces and place on bun casesEat and enjoy! Please note: this recipe has been created and uploaded by a member of the Tesco Real Food online community. Tesco does not test customer recipes so cannot accept responsibility for the content, validate the results or answer queries regarding them.


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How to plan a wedding in 3 months
When we told people we were getting married in May after becoming engaged in January, the range of reactions went something like this:
- "You're insane. Literally insane."
- "May 2016, yeah?"
- "You are jeopardising your relationship doing this, you might not actually get married"
- "Surely not on a SATURDAY?!"
- "You'll have to compromise on everything"
Or the rarer but most welcome variation of:
"Amazing, you can do it."
We only went and did it!
It wouldn't be fair to put this post up without a big caveat. I know most people spend a year or more planning a wedding because it is really swear word expensive. Our wedding, despite being DIY'd to the hill, was still really expensive but we're doing ok and could afford to do it, with well-practiced, spend no money on anything techniques – perfected in 2 years of renovation and 2 previous years of saving for a deposit. We're masters of living without spending. So first up, if you want to get married in 3 months and you want a nice dress, suit, cool band, free bar, you'll probs need to be a bit skint. See previous post here on stuff we gave up in 2013 to fund the renovation.
Here's a rough guide to how we cobbled together our wedding in 3 months. I'll write some more detailed posts on some of the DIYs and once our incredible photographer Anna has our official (read non-gurning) photos ready, I'll get some of those up too.
- Venue
You have 3 months. You can't have the trendy druid temple (it's booked until 2024), the incredible glass box in a field or the quirky hotel with skulls hanging everywhere. The cool wedding locations are completely booked up and unless you're lucky enough to get a cancellation, you need to let that go. So look for non-wedding venues. We started our hunt by trying to find an enormous industrial greenhouse. We found one 5 minutes from our house, it was perfect but the business who owned it really needed to grow actual flowers in it in May even though they really wanted to make our Greenhouse wedding work. They were lovely and really excited about the prospect but it just wasn't to be because of the time of year. Get married in June and you'll be fine. Seriously do it, imagine the photos!
Other good places to search: airbnb, sykes cottages, canopy and stars – tons of big country houses, wooden shacks, barns, glampgrounds. For the more adventurous, just hop in the car, drive around, find a barn/old garage/factory/any kind of structure that looks empty but workable and knock on their door.
On our travels over the years in Yorkshire, we've visited many a farm shop, loads of which have huge cafés which we thought would be perfect for a wedding. In furiously googling farm shops, we somehow stumbled across Lineham Farm. A not-for-profit Children's charity, giving kids the chance to go on residential and have a brilliant time. Lineham jumped out at us as we wanted to find somewhere that our family and friends who'd travelled from afar could stay (it has 24 bedrooms) but also had the option to become a wedding venue. We went to Lineham just a week after we'd got engaged and fell in love with the place and what they do to help kids in our hometown. They've had just a couple of staff weddings there before, so it was fortuitously available as wedding territory is very new to the (AMAZING) team. The location is incredible and we just said balls to it and decided on a very outdoorsy wedding using 2 Yurts despite the threat of rain in May. We lucked out massively as the day before was practically a monsoon.
2. Don't Compromise*
You actually don't really have to if you're working with a tight timeframe. We had 1 date – 9th May. There was no other date we wanted – one of my bridesmaids was over from Vietnam for the first time in 2 years, it was the best time to fly over Paul's sister from Australia and my parents were at another wedding the previous weekend, which would have been our only other option. My best friend was 6 months pregnant, Paul's best woman was 5 months pregnant and we just didn't want to have our wedding too much beyond that to make it easy for them.
So we tried to work around everyone else and everyone tells you that's a ridiculous idea. Well, we love other people and we really wanted our nearest and dearest to be around us. As with almost any wedding, some of your nearest and dearest have other things they have to do that day and can't join the fun. That really sucks and we were gutted some of our friends couldn't make it, but we know it'd be the same if we'd left it a year – other people get married in summer too.
We had the lovliest photographer in Anna Hardy, all the food we wanted – 4 amazing and different street food vendors (Manjit's Kitchen, The Mussel Pot, American Burgers, Ginger's Comfort Emporium and in the evening, The Pizza Guy), the best wedding band known to man – The Mini Big Band, a Morris Minor that Paul drove to get us from the Church to the Farm, Yurts with wooden floors (not carpets), accommodation so that we could fall out of the yurts and into bed, and the church was available too.
Having a church wedding wasn't critical to us, but it's on our doorstep (I walked to Church – was NOT prepared to compromise on that, even if it had been chucking it down!), we hear the beautiful bellringing once a week and I just love church music after having been in a choir for most of my childhood. Also, it's a relatively inexpensive and beautiful venue and isn't always booked up until 2024 like reception venues can be.
*My only compromise, I have to admit, was with the chairs. If I'd had a year or so, I'd have scoured the car boot sales and charity shops to find and paint 75 chairs instead of having standard-fare wedding chairs. But there's only so much time….
3. You have time to DIY
As long as you're prepared to have no life. People were confused at how we could spend literally all of our free time, evenings, weekends, mornings, making things for the wedding. Dunno why they were confused, we've done exactly the same with the house. My advice? Renovate a house for 2 years, then get married. You'll piss it. The spreadsheets with action lists, deadlines, items to buy, items to make were my multi-tabbed heaven.
I had 2 spreadsheets: Budget and Planner. I may regret sharing the joy of these spreadsheets with you, but here goes (soz if this ends up being the longest blog post you ever read IN YOUR LIFE)
- Payment Schedule: has dates across the top, categories and sub categories down the first column, labelled by cash or credit, with outgoings vs incoming
- Deadlines: Supplier, cost, date due, paid/outstanding
- Budget vs. Actual Tracker: linked to the finance schedule to highlight using conditional formatting if we were under or over budget on every line item.
- Post wedding finances plan: exactly how long it'll take to pay off the credit card (don't worry, it's only a couple of months)
- Guestlist – obvs
- Table Layout
- Action list – this is a to-do list rather than a to-buy list. So for example: go to the woods and collect logs is an action on there. Each action is part of a category and subcategory e.g. Venue and Decoration, description, date due and priority.
- To-buy: all the individual components we needed to buy, ties back to the Budget spreadsheet payment schedule but is as detailed as teabags, salt and pepper etc. which falls under the category of refreshments in the overall payment schedule
- Music: collated playlist uploaded to Spotify
- Lighting and electricity plan: we had to power everything from a generator which means extension cables galore to power fairy lights galore
- Yurt layout plan
- Schedule of the day: timings when everything is happening as a gant chart. (n.b. you don't want your wedding to feel overly structured, but you need structure if you want to have a first dance, or you want people to eat at a certain time – have the structure, just don't let it show J)
- Set-Up planner: had jobs for individual people on the Thursday, Friday and Saturday morning before the wedding
- Wedding coordinator plan: ok we're not in America but we had a fantastic and really organised friend who was given a load of jobs to do – lighting candles, meeting food vendors, meeting the band and a zillion other things that as the bridal party, you just don't really want to do. Most traditional wedding venues have someone who does this stuffs, ours didn't – so it's one to think about if you're having a DIY wedding.
- Cards & Gifts – to be filled in when you're opening the most generous gifts and to ensure you don't forget who bought you what when you're sending thank you's out.
We made almost all the decorations for the wedding, the stand-out two being the H&P marquee letters that Paul made from the pallets our flooring was delivered on, and the 1,000 paper cranes that me, my sister and mostly my Mum made in the last 2 weeks when we were twiddling our thumbs.
I won't lie, there were a couple of wobbles, especially the night before the wedding through sheer exhaustion but all in all, turning our day around in 3 months was such a good call for us and our post-wedding blues aren't too bad either, because we're onto the next project…
The Extension. Coming Soon!


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So sorry it's been so long. Where does the time go? I've no excuse survive to say life gets in the way.
I belong to the WI and as ostrich of you know it is 100 year old this year. I am so lucky to have been part of this with celebrations to attend and organize.
anyway back to crafting I've had the's bits of bees cut out for ages and have at last got round to assembling them.So here are one or two pictures.


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Toddlers (approximately 14 to 24 months) have a more routine schedule than the infants. There are specific times of the day for specific activities. Toddlers eat meals together at tables and nap starting at the same time-the length of nap may vary for each child. Toddlers eat table food (no baby food) at tables, drink from cups (no bottles) and use utensils. Toddlers sleep on cots set up in the room at nap time. Individualized planning is used, but children participate in activities they choose. Toddlers engage in sensory play, gross and fine motor play, art, cognitive and language activities. Children are encouraged to try the activities but are never forced to participate. Activities tend to be messy so play clothes are strongly recommended. Reports are prepared for parents to provide information about a child's day. The parent board and monthly newsletter also provide information. The group size is 8 with 2 teachers.


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Fashion is created all over the world and the new trends and fashion statements get together from a number of fashion states around the world. Just like you, we would love to visit these places and see the latest fashion trends brewing up. So, where does this fashion originate from? Here we describe the top 4 fashion churning cities of the world that are a must see for all the fashion crazy ladies out there. You may have heard a lot about them, but never realized how much they have contributed to the fashion world. So, if you are looking to visit any of the fashion producers out there, be sure to pay these places a detailed visit! Trust us, you won't regret it!
The city of style, known for its elite taste in the fashion industry, is one of the most exotic fashion states in the world. The annual fashion week held in this city has inspired fashionistas and style icons from all over the world. The Avenue des Champs-Elysees is full of an assortment of the world's greatest designers from Louis Vuitton to Christian Dior. If that wasn't enough, dine in some of the chicest restaurants in the world and satisfy your taste for luxury to the extreme.
New York
The rollercoaster of style, New York is the hub of fashion. Wherever you look, the city is bursting with new trends and fashion statements. Whether it's the empire state building or some of the best shopping districts that the city has to offer, you can't go wrong in New York. 5th avenue is the epicenter of fabulous designers. Versace, channel Dior and a number of other fashion names can be found in the area that makes it a fashion buzz to visit.
If the classics are your favorite, pay a trip to Milan and be mesmerized by the vintage beauty that the city offers. A number of the iconic fashion designers have their headquarters in this city of fashion. From Armani to valentine, Gucci and Versace, the entire city is bejeweled with notable brand names of the industry. If you want to live the fashion life in this city, pay a visit to the quadrilatero Della moda and be inspired by the exotic trends and beautiful fashion statements being conjured.
We can't just round up the fashion cities without mentioning the queen of street wear, London. The city is simply the most amazing point to look at the world's funkiest fashion trends. Harrods at Brampton road and Camden Market are fashionista's favorite spots to look at the new fashion of tomorrow. It really is a magical place where everything is in full flow, conjuring up the latest fashion trends by the minute.
All these places are perfect examples of great cities in the world that you can visit to revel in the latest fashion crazes. We are mesmerized by the exotic beauty trends that each individual place has to offer. Certainly, it can be a one of a kind experience to visit all these different fashion destinations. We would love to travel to these locations and satisfy our desire for fashion, won't you?


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Give problem skin the care it needs with Weleda Aknedoron Cleansing Lotion. This gentle cleanser removes impurities without stripping away the natural oils that the skin needs to maintain its barrier function.
Enriched with chamomile and calandula, it has anti-inflammatory properties which banish spot-casuing bacteria and calm redness, for a more balanced and even complexion.
Directions of Use:
- To care for and regulate difficult skin, follow with Weleda Aknedoron Purifying Lotion
- Apply with cotton wool or a tissue, then wipe off
- Use twice daily, shaking the bottle before use


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I'm a movie buff. Not in the sense that I know endless trivia. I just enjoy a well-told story, in black and white or color, with action or adventure or romance or comedy.
Thanks (or maybe no thanks) to DVDs, I find myself viewing more flicks from my couch these days than from the seats of a theater with a bag of tasty buttered popcorn in hand. (That's probably for the best, too.)
With a young boy at home, though, I have to say there have been few Disney or Pixar-type movies that we haven't seen opening weekend over the past several years. They come out just often enough to ease my guilt over that buttered popcorn!
This year, however, has been an unusual one. Now that my "baby" is in double digits, we are graduating to the non-animated films — like Iron Man and Indiana Jones — filled with just enough action and adventure for a 10-year-old. They are also coupled with some education. Seriously.
For example, after Indiana Jones especially, there was a bit of Q&A on the way home about all the historical references in the movie. If a child is curious enough to ask — and most are — we can be teaching them about history and antiques and their role to preserve them. What a great opportunity to mold that next generation of collectors!
I had to chuckle this morning when I saw a review for the new Pixar movie WALL-E, which opens Friday. In a nutshell, the story, set in 2775, follows the efforts of one robot to clean up "mankind's mistakes." Humans jumped ship, well literally jumped onto a space ship, to escape all the garbage on Earth.
In this one review, it sheds some light on the main character, WALL-E — Waste Allocation Load Lifter-Earth-class — who is apparently the last robot of his kind still in operation. And, like Ariel in The Little Mermaid, he's accumulated a splendid collection of earthly antiques, ranging from Christmas tree lights to a Rubik's Cube to an ancient VHS recording of the 1969 film version of Hello, Dolly!
Isn't that interesting to think our collections of "stuff" today are tomorrow's antiques? Are we saving the right things? Do we care? I say, enjoy your collections today and, if they bring pleasure to someone (or perhaps a robot) 700 years down the road, that's just a bonus.
Are you collecting something today that you think will be a treasure in the future? We'd love to hear about it! Leave a comment here or email me at email@example.com.
Have fun collecting! Maybe we'll see you at the movies!


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A digitally immersive 3D puzzle-solving challenge!
Use your logic skills and good sense of 3D space to save the Data Cube from total corruption! Can you isolate all the corrupt data blocks before it's too late?
To win, you must pop open all the clean blocks in the cube and flag all the corrupt ones. Be careful not to pop any corrupt blocks, or you will lose. For each clean block that you pop, you will be given a number. This number tells you how many corrupt blocks are next to it (diagonals are not included). Use this information wisely!
"[Data Cube] impels you to deploy your strategic talents". -Fueled
"From stellar graphics, to easy gameplay and intuitive controls, DataCube for iOS is a winner for anyone stuck in line at the supermarket." - Tech Anarchy
- One finger drag to rotate around the cube
- Two finger pinch to zoom
- Two finger twist to rotate the camera
- Three finger drag to move sideways
- Simple minesweeper-like solving strategy
- Cool electronic look and feel
- Randomly generated puzzles
- Three difficulty levels: Easy, Medium and Hard
- Game Center support


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SPRING HILL — Tuesday was to be James Poindexter's first day on the job as basketball coach and mentor at the Spring Hill Boys and Girls Club.
After three months as a volunteer, he was excited to become a member of staff at the club's Fox Chapel Middle School site.
Instead, the club's executive director, Joshua Kelly, had to call in school district grief counselors to help the kids deal with what now looks like the drowning of their cherished teacher who went wading Monday in the water near the Clearwater Pass bridge to Sand Key.
The 27-year-old father of four, who lived in Spring Hill, could not swim, according to authorities. After a day of searching by emergency crews, the search was called off Tuesday.
"We don't want to believe it but we understand it," Kelly said of the discontinuation of the search.
Kelly said Poindexter volunteered throughout the summer seven or eight hours a day, Monday to Friday and was so excited when he got a full-time position with the club. Today was to be a big day for Poindexter and the 200 children he was to teach.
"He was a great guy, an amazing guy of great character and a great family man who truly cared," Kelly said.
Kelly said letters are going out to all club members and their families.
"Obviously, it is a sad day for us," Kelly said. "He's going to be a big loss to the organization."
Poindexter vanished 50 feet from shore at Bayside Park, a spit of beach on the south side of the Clearwater Pass bridge, across the street from Sand Key Park.
Poindexter was with a friend, wading in chest-deep water on a sand bar, when he plunged in, apparently thinking the sand bar would quickly re-emerge, and he could resume his wading, said Lt. David Yawn of Clearwater Fire & Rescue. But there was no continuation of the sand bar.
Clearwater firefighters arrived shortly after the 2 p.m. disappearance, but they got conflicting reports as to where Poindexter was last seen, so a search grid that should have been 25 feet by 25 feet became 100 by 100 feet before it was narrowed down, said Kent Watts, special operations chief for Clearwater's fire department.
"We had people in the water within three minutes of receiving the call," he said. Firefighters used Jet Skis and rescue boards, which resemble surf boards but are bigger. They brought in divers, including some off-duty. A tiny fleet soon formed, made up of the city fire department's boat, and boats operated by the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
The sheriff's office also flew overhead in its helicopter, as, in time, did the U.S. Coast Guard. Salvage boats also lent a hand.
But Poindexter didn't turn up.
Divers on Monday were hamstrung by a fast current created by the outgoing tide, where massive amounts of water in the waterway rush, as if through a funnel, through the pass and into the Gulf of Mexico. Sediment was thick, visibility almost non-existent.
"I couldn't see my hands," said Lt. Steve Coward, the dive team leader for Clearwater Fire & Rescue. "I could see maybe about two feet, maybe to my wrist."
Sonar equipment picked out bodies of mass similar to a human body, but when divers followed through, they found instead soft corral, tires, barrels, concrete blocks, and buried flotation devices, Watts said.
"At sunset we brought it to a close," Watts said of Monday's efforts.
"We never want to give up hope but after about two hours or three hours and no sighting of him and him not coming up we slowly switch to recovery mode, which is hard to do because everyone is giving one-hundred and ten percent."
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Integrating Data and Viewing
The goal of this lab is to bring together all of the elements--data, GUI, and viewing--into a single application that enables interactive visualization of data sets in the proper format. The result of this project should be an application that can read in a data set, enable the user to interactively view it in up to 5 user-selected dimensions (3 spatial, color, and size).
In the lab, your goal should be to get data onto the screen and moving around correctly.
- Give yourself a new working directory and copy your display, viewing, and data python files into it. It's best to start with copies and modify them from there. Integration often involves re-writing parts of your code to make the process cleaner. From project 2, you should be able to read one or more CSV data files in the proper format, and from project 1 you should know how to create a dialog box.
In your display class, create a method (e.g. handleOpen that
will use the tkFileDialog module to let the user select the
csv file they want to open.
- Use the file dialog to get a filename, e.g.
fn = tkFileDialog.askopenfilename( parent=self.root, title='Choose a data file', initialdir='.' )
- Bind your method to both a menu option (e.g. File/Open), and to Command-O (or Control-O).
- Make a Data object to read and hold the file's data. You will need to keep this around for plotting, so it needs to get into a field of your Display class. For now, your program needs to support having only one data file open at a time.
- Your handleOpen function should not plot data.
- Use the file dialog to get a filename, e.g.
- Create a button and/or menu item on your main window that begins the process of plotting data. The button should call a function (e.g. handlePlotData) that will enable the user to select which columns of data to plot on which axes and then builds the data.
Eventually, in this project you will need to design a dialog box that
lets the user select which columns of the data to plot, along with
other parameters. You may want to make that process a function, like
handleChooseAxes. For the lab, however, your handleChooseAxes
function should return the headers of the first three columns as the
x, y, and z axes (if they exist).
After determining which columns to plot, your handlePlotData function should pass those headers to the function buildPoints.
- Create a buildPoints function in your display class
that is analagous to your buildAxes function. The buildPoints should
take in a list of headers, delete any existing canvas objects
representing data, and then create a new set for the current plot.
You probably want to follow the steps below in your buildPoints method.
- Delete any existing canvas objects used for plotting data.
- Get the spatial columns specified by the argument headers to plot. If you are selecting only 2 columns to plot, add a column of 0's (z-value) and a column of 1's (homogeneous coordinate) to the data. If you are selecting 3 columns to plot, add a column of 1's (homogeneous coordinate). Each data point is now represented as a 4-column row in the spatial data matrix. Make sure this data is stored in a field of the display class. Do not change it until the user clicks on plotData again.
At this point you have to make a decision about how to normalize the
data. A simple approach is to use the max and min value of each data
column to normalize it to the range [0, 1], which you have already
implemented in your analysis class.
x' = float(x - xmin) / float(xmax - xmin)
- Calculate the VTM from the current view object.
Transform the data using the VTM (the following assumes the data is in rows).
pts = (vtm * data.T).T
- Create the canvas graphics objects, ovals/squares/crosses/points, for each data point using the X and Y (first two columns) of your transformed points. Be sure to save a reference to each data point object drawn on the screen (e.g. in self.objects). Letting the user specify the type of graphics object to use in the plot is a nice extension.
- Make sure your program can read in test data case 1 and display 3 spatial dimensions. Then try test data case 2, which has 5 dimensions, the first two of which are correlated.
When you are finished with the lab, go ahead and continue with the project.


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SAN DIEGO -- They became the first San Diego Sockers' opponent this season to go scoreless in a half. They also lost a lead in the fourth quarter and trailed by one goal with 40 seconds to play.
No problem. Led by Billy Ronson and Mike Stankovic, the Blast cleared those hurdles last night, beating the Sockers in overtime, 5-4, before 4,490 fans at the Sports Arena.
Baltimore (4-4) kept the Sockers (3-6) winless at home, a span of three games, and beat them for just the third time in the last 10 games.


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|General Information
|Natural humanoid (Tel-quessir)
|Sometimes over 180 years; do not suffer infirmities with age
|Aglarond, the Dalelands, Luruar, Sembia, and Tethyr
|Common, Elven
|5'5" - 6'2"
|130 - 190 lbs
|Slightly pointed ears, sturdy and visually impressive
Half-elves, as usually defined, are humanoids born through the union of an elf and a human. Whether a half-elf is raised by their human parent or their elven parent, they feel isolated and alone.[1] Because they take around twenty years to reach adulthood,[2] they mature quickly when raised by elves (who think they look like humans), making them feel like an outsider in either place.[2]
Pairings of elves and other races exist, though they are rare. Zhai, for instance, is a half-elf, half-drow. However, by the common definition individuals such as she are thought of as mixed race more often than as half-elf, due to drow being eladrin. However, supremacists tend to view such people as being corrupted in comparison to the standard strains of elf which are commonly documented and acknowledged.
Physical characteristicsEdit
Half elves stand roughly around 5'5" to 6'2", making them only slightly shorter overall than humans and weigh in at 130 to 190 lbs, making them heavier than elves but still considerably lighter than humans. Like humans, half-elves have a wide variety of complexions,[3] some of which are inherited from the elven half of their heritage such as a tendency for metallic-hued skin and inhuman hair colors.[4] Unlike true Tel'Quessir, however, male half-elves are capable of growing facial hair, and often do so to to distinguish themselves in part from their elven parents. Half-elven ears are about the size of human ones, but like elves, they are pointed on the ends. Half-elves are also notably more durable and passionate than either elves or humans, a unique result of the two races' blending.[3]
Half-elves usually adopt the dress and hairstyles of the culture they were raised among. However, it is also fairly common for half-elves raised among humans to wear elven clothing in order to proudly display signs of their dual heritage.[3] Regardless of what they wear, half-elves stand out a crowd through the combination of physical distinctiveness and force of personality.[4]
Half-elves mature at a slower rate than humans, and can live for over 180 years.[2]
Half-elves gain an unusual blend of abilities from their two heritages. More durable and more innately charming than either humans or elves, half-elves lack the grace or wisdom of their elven parents, though they do have some of the versatility of their human ancestors. Half-elves have a natural ability to learn outside of their specialty, giving them a strength in adaptability. Half-elves, like their elven parents, work well with others and can lend some of their own skill to friends or allies.[5]
Half-elves, as a result of their unique heritage, exhibit a confidence and strength of personality uncommon amongst both humans and elves, a result of the blending between elven perceptiveness and human passion and drive. Half-elves are natural leaders and negotiators, and perhaps due to their reality of living in two worlds are unusually open-minded.[3] Some half-elves manifest this leadership through confidence and bravery, but others are cordial and polite, manifesting their force of personality in a subtler but no less effective manner.[6]
Half-elves generally like to be around others, the more diverse the better. Perhaps due to the circumstances of their birth, or to a simple drive towards diversity, half-elves are often found in large population centers where other races mingle freely. Half-elves naturally gather others around them, forming a large network of contacts that is both pleasing to their psyche, and practical for other purposes. In spite of this love for forming connections, or perhaps because of it, half-elves rarely settle down for any length of time and possess a genuine sense of wanderlust, moving from place to place in a way that makes them very natural adventurers. However, whenever a half-elf returns to a place they've already been, they hunt down old friends and renew relations.[3]
Though many half-elves are beloved by members of other races, not all half-elves are born to a loving human-elf couple. This troubling past can effect half-elves in many ways, sometimes causing them to become bitter or feel burdened by the past. This leads them into conflict with members of other races (who often expect half-elves to be friendly and joyful), in turn putting undue pressure on troubled members of the race.[6]
Ultimately, half-elves endure, both physically and socially. Admired and respected by others of all races, half-elves naturally inspire loyalty and return the fealty with deep friendship and a sense of responsibility. As such, half-elven leaders often lead from the front of a battle, preferring not to send friends or followers into danger they themselves would not face, and putting themselves at risk while inspiring even more devout loyalty.[3]
Half-elves have no culture to call their own, although the culture of Aglarond may be said to be "half-elven" given the large influence of half-elves on the nation. Generally speaking half-elves represent the culture they were born into, though many half-elves wander from their homes, becoming truly cosmopolitan individuals. As a result many half-elves lack a "true" accent or even a consistent cultural outlook and a common name for pidgins in Faerûn is "the tongue of a half-elf."[4]
Half-elves, being half-breeds, have no true homelands, though half-elves are common in some regions, such as in Aglarond, Gulthandor, the Dalelands, or Luruar. In the not-too-distant past, half-elves were also common in Cormyr and the High Forest, before their mass migration northwards following the Spellplague.[4] In these regions there are highly concentrated populations of half-elves,[7] particularly so in Aglarond, which is the only country where half-elves have become the majority.[4]
- ↑ Ed Greenwood, Sean K. Reynolds, Skip Williams, Rob Heinsoo (June 2001). Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting 3rd edition, p. 16. Wizards of the Coast. ISBN 0-7869-1836-5.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, Skip Williams (July 2003). Player's Handbook 3.5 edition, p. 18. Wizards of the Coast. ISBN 0-7869-2886-7.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Rob Heinsoo, Andy Collins, James Wyatt (June 2008). Player's Handbook 4th edition, p. 43. Wizards of the Coast. ISBN 0-7869-4867-1.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Rob Heinsoo, Logan Bonner, Robert J. Schwalb (September 2008). Forgotten Realms Player's Guide, p. 16. Wizards of the Coast. ISBN 978-0-7869-4929-8.
- ↑ Rob Heinsoo, Andy Collins, James Wyatt (June 2008). Player's Handbook 4th edition, p. 42. Wizards of the Coast. ISBN 0-7869-4867-1.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Rob Heinsoo, Logan Bonner, Robert J. Schwalb (September 2008). Forgotten Realms Player's Guide, p. 17. Wizards of the Coast. ISBN 978-0-7869-4929-8.
- ↑ Ed Greenwood, Sean K. Reynolds, Skip Williams, Rob Heinsoo (June 2001). Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting 3rd edition, p. 17. Wizards of the Coast. ISBN 0-7869-1836-5.
Calishites • Chondathan • Damaran • Illuskan • Mulan • Rashemi • Tethyrian
Minor Ethnic Groups
Arkaiun • Bedine • Chultan • Durpari • Ffolk • Frost folk • Gur • Halruaan • Imaskari • Itza • Lantanna • Maztican • Nar • Netherese • Raumviran • Shaaran • Shou • Sossrim • Talfir • Tashalan • Tuigan • Turami • Ulutiun • Vaasan • Zakharan
Aasimar (Deva) • Deep Imaskari • Genasi • Githyanki • Githzerai • Grimlock • Half-drow • Half-eladrin • Half-elf • Half-ogre • Half-orc • Shifter • Spirit folk • Tiefling
Baelnorn lich • Dark elf • Half-eladrin • Moon elf • Noble eladrin • Star elf • Sun elf
Half-elf • Poscadar • Wild elf • Wood elf
Related races
Aquatic elf • Avariel • Drow • Fey'ri • Half-drow • Lythari • Marel


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Associated Press news agency opens North Korea bureau
The Associated Press news agency has formally opened a news bureau in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang.
It is the first major Western news organisation to do so, although agencies such as China's Xinhua also have a presence there.
AP president Tom Curley said the bureau would operate under the same standards as other bureaux worldwide.
All media outlets in North Korea are state-run. Most citizens have no access to the internet or foreign media.
Visits by most foreign journalists are severely restricted and, if granted a visa, reporters are accompanied by government minders to carefully selected locations.
AP said that the bureau would have two permanent North Korean reporters and would be supervised by two Seoul-based US journalists who would make regular visits.
The news agency first established a presence in Pyongyang in 2006, when it opened a video bureau.
The US and North Korea do not have formal diplomatic ties. But the president of state-run KCNA news agency, Kim Pyong-ho, said the two sides had "been able to find a way to understand one another and to cooperate closely enough to open an AP bureau".
The move comes a month after the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. His third son, Kim Jong-un, has been installed as his successor.


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Development and Commercialization of Wastewater Treatment Technologies in Korea - Eco-STAR Project by Ministry of Environment, Korea -
NamKung, Eun ;
Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers, volume 28, issue 10, 2006, Pages 983~986
Development of Integrated Operation & Management System and Retrofitting Technique for the High Efficiency and Compactness of STP
Gee, Jae-Sung ; Park, Jae-Ro ; Yoon, Young-Han ;
Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers, volume 28, issue 10, 2006, Pages 987~990
Development of
Advanced Sewage Treatment Systems for Recreational Water
Lee, Eui-Sin ; Yim, Seong-Keun ; Kim, Yong-Hak ;
Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers, volume 28, issue 10, 2006, Pages 991~1002
Application of Compact Advanced Treatment Technology for Concentrated Food Wastewaters
Kim, I-Tae ;
Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers, volume 28, issue 10, 2006, Pages 1003~1006
A Study on Electrodewatering Filter Press Technology for Improvement of Dewarterability of Waterworks Sludge
Lee, Jung-Eun ; Lee, Jae-Keun ;
Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers, volume 28, issue 10, 2006, Pages 1009~1015
The elcetrodewatering filter press(EDFP) which had anode and cathod plates to be set between filter plates was built for reducing the waterworks sludge and improving performance of dewatering equipment. Several tests to compare the dewaterability with conventional mechanical filter press dewatering(MDEP) and EDFP was conducted through this equipment. As test results, filtration amount discharged from EDFP measured 43.2 kg which increased against MDFP, and cake weight measured 4 kg which was two times against MDFP. The water content of dewatered cake from EDFP was 55wt% and dewatering velocity was 2.3
. This water content decrease 20% and dewatering velocity increased 30% with compare to the MDFP. That is to say, EDFP constructed from electrodewatering mechanism increase filtrate discharging amount, which make dewatering velocity increase and produce the low water content dewatered cake against MDFP. Energy consumption of EDFP is analysed to 400 kwh/DS ton. The results to analysis the economical aspect considering the power consumption and the handling cost decline as sludge volume reduction due to producing the low water content cake showed that expenses to handle sludge of 1 ton by dry solid base cut down on 20,000 won. If considering several test aspects, it was analysed that EDFP was excellent in the side of performance as well as economical suitability.
A Comparative Study on Thermal and Belt Press Dewatering for Waterworks Sludge Rduction
Lee, Jung-Eun ;
Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers, volume 28, issue 10, 2006, Pages 1016~1023
The water content of dewatered cake produced from belt press dewatering equipment was about 75 wt% which was some high to handle it, so the equipment contained a limit at the economical and environmental aspect. The thermal dewatering equipment built as an alternative to overcome several problems was set up at the sludge treatment field and estimated some feasibility as comparison with the dewatering performance of belt press. First, dewatering properties of waterworks sludge was analyzed by monthly. The sludge of a water shortage season contained a high organic content which led to be difficult to dewater the cake, the other side the sludge of rainwater season was ease to dewater because of low organic content. According to the results to analysis the water content of dewatered cake produced from two equipments on the base of the seasonal dewatering properties, the water content of dewatered cake produced from thermal dewatering for sludge of water shortage season was
wt% and
wt% from belt press. In the case of rainwater season, the water content of dewatered cake produced from thermal dewatering was
wt% and
wt% from belt press. It was understood that thereduction of water content of cake by thermal dewatering was larger than belt press. The economical aspect for two equipments was evaluated on considering the reduction of cake treatment amount as the decrease of water content of cake. When putting the cost index of thermal dewatering into 100, belt press was 121. This meant that thermal dewater was more economical than belt press by about 20% in the side of construction and operation. In conclusion, thermal dewatering equipment was estimated by producing the low water content dewatered cake as well as being operated with low coat.
A Study on the Distribution Characteristics of Nitrite Oxidizing Bacteria in Wastewater Nitrification Systems
Kim, Sun-Hee ; Kim, Dong-Jin ; Yoo, Ik-Keun ; Cha, Gi-Cheol ;
Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers, volume 28, issue 10, 2006, Pages 1024~1030
Genus Nitrospira and Nitrobacter species are the key nitrite-oxidizing bacteria(NOB) in nitrifying wastewater treatment plants. It has been hypothesized that genus Nitrospira are K-strategists(low
value) that can exploit low amounts of nitrite more efficiently than Nitrobacter. In contrast, Nitrobacter species are r-strategists(high
) that can grow faster than Nitrospira. It has also been known that the availability of organic compounds and dissolved oxygen as well as nitrite affects the distribution of NOB. In this study, we determined the distribution and competition of NOB in wastewater nitrification systems where nitrite, organic compounds, and dissolved oxygen concentrations were compositively varied. For the purpose, several compounds of the laboratory-scale nitrificaiion bioreactor and full-scale
wastewater treatment plant and their distribution of NOB were analyzed and compared. The analysis showed that Nitrobacter was the dominant NOB in nitrification bioreactor where average nitrite was maintained at 5 mg-N/L with very low organic concentration in aerobic condition, whereas Nitrospira was the dominant NOB in full-scale
plant where nitrite was maintained very low and organic compounds were maintained relatively high in alternating aerobic-anoxic condition. The result indicates that nitrite concentration is more critical factor than organics and dissolved oxygen which determines the dominant NOB in nitrification system and it is confirmed that Nitrospira and Nitrobacter showed the characteristics of r-strategist and K-strategist, respectively.
Effect of Wangsuk Stream on NOM and Chlorinated DBPFPs in Han River Water
Park, Hyeon ; Kim, Chang-Mo ; Chang, Hyun-Seong ; Kim, Hyun-Suk ; Park, Chang-Min ; Yu, Myong-Jin ;
Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers, volume 28, issue 10, 2006, Pages 1031~1037
The main purposes of this study were to compare the characteristics of fractionated natural organic matters(NOM) from Han River water and Wangsuk(W) stream water, and to investigate the relationships between NOM and the formation of disinfection by products(DBPs). Three types of resin such as XAD-4, XAD-7HP and IRC-50 were used to isolate the water samples into three organic fractions. The DOC concentrations of raw waters were relatively low(
mg/L) at all seasons. The hydrophilic was the major constituent, contributing
of the total NOM and hydrophobic
, transphilic
, respectively. The formation of trihalomethans(THMs) was highly influenced by particulated NOM especially in the rainy season, whereas haloaceticacid forming potentials(HAAFPs) depended more on the hydrophilic fraction of dissolved NOM which is known to be difficult to be removed through conventional processes. The NOM of W stream was characterized as 15% hydrophobic, 9% transphilic, and 76% hydrophilic. In the fractionation of NOM using resins,
of the NOM in W tributary water could not be clearly isolated, whereas, 85% of the NOM in the raw water was recovered. Although the DOC concentration of tributary water was higher than the raw waters from the Han River, the DBPFPs was approximately 40% of the raw waters. In DBPFPs aspect, W stream has less effect than Han River water itself. Bromide in tributary waters discharged from waste water treatment plants has been found to shift the distribution of THMs and HANs to the more brominated DBPs.
Comparative Assessment of INAA and ICP-MS for the Determination of Trace Elements in Airborne Particulate Matter
Lim, Jong-Myoung ; Lee, Jin-Hong ; Chung, Yong-Sam ;
Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers, volume 28, issue 10, 2006, Pages 1038~1045
A series of experiments was conducted to test the compatibilities of two different techniques to determine elemental concentrations by INAA and ICP-MS based on both the NIST SRM 2783(air particulate on filter media) and the field samples for PM10. For NIST SRM the results of INAA were more accurate and precise for all target elements than those of ICP-MS. The comparative data set for PM10 samples collected in an industrial complex area showed that mean of concentration ratio, derived for the two different methods such as C(INNA/ICP-MS), were distinguished from each other: (1) Ba, Cu, K Mg, Na, and Sb:
; (2) Al, Co, Fe, and Mn: $0.8{\sim}1.2$; and (3) Se, Ti, and Zn: >1.3. When the results obtained from both methods were evaluated in terms of regression analysis, paired t-test, and Wilcoxon signed-rank test, the results of many elements determined from PM10 samples(such as Al, Ba, Co, Cu, Fe, K, Mn, Nd, and Sb) exhibited a fairly good agreement between the two methods, despite a wide range of variation.
Effects of Membrane Size and Organic Matter on Membrane Fouling
Jung, Chul-Woo ; Son, Hee-Jong ;
Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers, volume 28, issue 10, 2006, Pages 1046~1054
The raw water DOC contained 39.3% of hydrophilics, 42.9% of hydriophobic, and 17.8% of transphilic. The hydrophobic fraction in this raw water was mostly fulvic acid. Fulvic acid comprised of 62% and the rest was humic acid(38%). There was more carboxylic acid functional group(64%) than phenolic group(36%). HPI-N and HPI-C comprised of 17% and 22% in the hydrophilic portion, respectively. The fouling mechanisms on the membrane surface and into its porous structure were analyzed in terms of several kinetic models. In order to analyze the fouling kinetics, the various kinetic models described in this paper were used to fit the experimental results. The kinetic models and kinetic constants obtained for each operation condition. The permeate flux was rapidly declined by simultaneous pore blocking and cake formation. Also, the permeate flux declined with decreasing internal pore size resulted from organic deposition into the membrane pore. The results of the membrane fouling test using UF membrane according to NOM fractions. HPI-N caused more fouling than HPI-C. Humic acid caused more fouling than fulvic acid probably due to higher adsorption capacity. Since humic acid has higher adsorption capacity than fulvic acid, it would be more adsorbed onto the membrane pores.
Analysis on the Microbial Community Structure of Red Granule in the Anaerobic Ammonium Oxidation Reactor
Bae, Hyo-Kwan ; Park, Kyung-Soon ; Chung, Yun-Chul ; Jung, Jin-Young ;
Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers, volume 28, issue 10, 2006, Pages 1055~1064
Extremely slow growing anammox(anaerobic ammonium oxidation) bacteria were cultivated using a combination of UASB(Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket) reactor seeded with anaerobic granular sludge and carbon-fiber cultivating reactor. After 180 days of continuous cultivation, average nitrogen removal rate showed 0.54 kg
when 0.6 kg
of nitrogen loading was applied. The black granule was changed to brown and red granule as continuous operation, and the red granule was highly dependant on the high anammox activity. Microbial community structure of red granule in the UASB reactor was analyzed by molecular methods such as gene cloning, phylogenetic tree analysis, and FISH(Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization) method. As a result of gene cloning and phylogenetic tree analysis, 5 kinds of phylum were found to be Planctomycetes, Proteobacteria, Acidobacteria, Chlorobi and Chloroflexi. 13 clones were matched to anammox bacteria among 51 clones in the red anammox granule. In-silico test which used cloning information and FISH probe of the AMX368 was conducted to detect the presence of anammox bacteria in the red anammox granule. As a result of in-silico test only one clone was exactly matched to AMX368 but 11 clones was mutated one base among 18 bases representing all 12 clones are anammox bacteria. A filamentous Chloroflexi might be related to the granulation of anammox bacteria. As a result of FISH analysis, anammox bacteria was abundant in the red anammox granule.
Characteristics of Carbonaceous Particles Derived from Coal-fired Power Plant and Their Reduction
Park, Ho-Young ; Kim, Young-Ju ; Yu, Geun-Sil ; Kim, Chun-Kun ; Kim, Dong-Hun ;
Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers, volume 28, issue 10, 2006, Pages 1065~1073
The unturned carbon in fly ash, recently occurred in the coal-fired Yong Hung power station, caused some problems in ash utilization and boiler efficiency. This paper describes the analysis of unburned carbon and six coals, some tests performed at Yong Hung Boiler, and the results of combustion modification for the reduction of unburned carbon in fly ash. From the physical and chemical analysis of unburned carbon in fly ash, most particles were turned out to be hollow cenosphere and agglomerated soot particles. The sooting potential from six coals used in the plant were investigated with CPD(Chemical Percolation Devolatilization) model. The results showed that the higher potential was presented to Peabody, Arthur, Shenhua coals rather than other coals. It was necessary to measure the coal flow rates at each coal feeding pipe for four burner levels since they affect the extent of mixing of soot with oxidant, in turn, the oxidation rate of soot particles. The unbalance in coal flow rate was found in several coal pipes. We successfully reduced unturned carbon in ash by increasing the excess air and changing the SOFA's yaw angle.
Simultaneous Removal of Nitrate and Trichloroethylene by Zero Valent Iron and Peat
Min, Jee-Eun ; Kim, Mee-Jeong ; Park, Jae-Woo ;
Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers, volume 28, issue 10, 2006, Pages 1074~1081
As common pollutants in surface and groundwater, nitrate nitrogen(
) and trichloroethylene(TCE) can be chemically and biologically reduced by zero valent iron(ZVI) and peat soil. In batch microcosm experiments, chemical reduction of TCE and nitrate was supported by hydrogen from ZVI. For biological degradation of TCE and denitrification peat soil was introduced. ZVI reduced TCE, while peat provided TCE sorption site and microbes performing biological degradation. Nitrate reduction was also achieved by hydrogen from ZVI. In addition, indirect evidence of denitrification was observed. More reduction of TCE and nitrate was achieved by ZVI+peat treatment however nitrated reduction was hindered in the presence of TCE in the system due to the competition for hydrogen. TCE reduction mechanism was more dependent on ZVI, while nitrate was peat-dependent. Hydrogen and methane concentration showed that peat had various anaerobic denitryfing and halorespiring bacteria.
Development of National Scale Environmental & Geographical Information System for Supporting Exposure Assessment
Kim, Jong-Ho ; Kim, Mi-Sug ; Kwak, Byeong-Kyu ; Yoo, Hong-Suk ; Shin, Chi-Bum ; Yi, Jong-Heop ;
Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers, volume 28, issue 10, 2006, Pages 1082~1089
This study describes a methodology to develop a environmental and geographical information system for managing a national scale which is supports the environmental fate modeling. This system was developed via the integration of environmental and geographical information database(DB) and the DB usage software. For the sound environmental management, the DB were constructed by extracting the geometrical figures-such as points, polylines, and/or polygons-based on the geographical information previously developed in Korea. Then it was connected with the environmental information. Based on the Visual Basic Complier, the software can be a useful tool for visualizing the DB, for searching the environmental & geographical information, and supporting the environmental fate modeling.
Bio-kinetic and Design Analysis for Box-mill Wastewater Treatment Using Anoxic Activated Sludge Process
Cho, Yong-Duck ; Lee, Sang-Wha ; Kim, Young-Il ;
Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers, volume 28, issue 10, 2006, Pages 1090~1097
The anoxic activated sludge process was applied to the treatment of industrial box-mill wastewater, which exhibited the high removal efficiencies of
Color. For the design of industrial anoxic activated sludge process, Monod bio-kinetic coefficients of box-mill wastewater were estimated as follows:
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in units, but exhibited the significant difference between theses two values. Therefore, it is considered that high safety factors are requested in the design of anoxic activated sludge process that is based on Monod bio-kinetics of microorganism.
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archaeology, Caring for Scotland's Buildings, Caring for Scotland's
Gardens, Rangers/Naturalist.
There are two centrally based archaeologists and seasonal staff employed
at St Kilda and the Mar Lodge Estate, and the Trust encourages high
quality research by UK universities.
Caring for Scotland's Buildings
On display inside the buildings is an extraordinary variety of
contents, including paintings, furniture, porcelain and silver, often
giving an insight to the families who lived there. More ordinary and
industrial objects of bygone days can be seen in cottages, folk museums
and mills.
Caring for Scotland's Gardens
Scotland is internationally renowned for its many fine gardens which
flourish in the country's varied climate: from the favoured Inverewe
Garden on the shores of Loch Ewe and the developing woodland garden at
Balmacara to the sheltered model 17th-century terraced garden at Culross,
Scotland's garden heritage is second to none.
Caring for Scotland's Countryside
(This is where I spent the most time) Second part of the countryside
conservation is the active restoration of lost or damaged communities of
plants and landscape features
How is this work achieved?
Our ranger/naturalists are largely responsible for the active management
on the ground, but they are dependent on the willing contribution of our
Conservation Volunteers. Practical work is underpinned by knowledge gained
through survey and monitoring - here, our rangers are helped by the
Trust's Nature Conservation Adviser and his contract staff.
Ranger and Naturalist Service
The first Trust rangers were appointed in 1969, with funding from the
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I shoot anything that catches my eye. Sometimes I get in some playtime, but most of my
While I do consider photography an art, I don't think of myself as an artist. I tend to be too analytical for that. Maybe an "Image Capture Engineer" ;) ? I rarely shoot for "feeling", but more often for something others might not see. Or just to capture a moment in time.
I have only been "into" digital photography for a few years now after many, many years (35+) shooting up lots of film. While photography is no longer how I make a living (being a Quality Engineer for a medical device company pays much better), I still like to shoot and share.
Most of my pics here are "as shot", meaning no, or little, cropping, and little electronic enhancement other than to click the "AutoBalance" button. Maybe just a little boost in contrast (OK, once in a while a big boost in contrast), or conversion to b&w. What I really want is for you to see what I shot, not something I created, although I do occasionally play around and throw some effects at a picture to see what I come up with. My "graphic" images all start off as photographs that I have shot over the years, and either didn't like, or just decided to play with. Apply a little digital magic and I get something cool out of an otherwise garbage shot.
A wise woman once told me "Find play value in all you do". That's a theme I try to carry into my photography; I don't take it too seriously. I do it because photography is my first true love. If I happen to make a few bucks now and then that's cool, but not why I'm doing it. And if I can make you stop and say "hmmm", even better. Let me know what you think, I love to hear from people who have looked at my work.
I like to shoot the objects you see everyday, but maybe from a slightly different angle. Or focus a little closer on something you might ordinarily overlook. Instead of the big picture, I might focus on the little things in that picture. Anybody can shoot a building; I want to shoot what is unique about that building.
Using photography, I want to make you think. I want people to pay attention to what's around them. Break out of their box. Look at the knotholes in a tree; look at a rain-soaked parking lot; look at the shapes and colors in something as simple as an awning. Stand by the railroad tracks when a freight train goes by and look at the grafitti on the railcars. Some of it is really pretty good.
Look at the shapes in the sand formed by wind and water, see the small stuff, the shells, the rocks, the washed up sea critters, the plant life. It's amazing what you will see when you look at things differently. Little kids are good at it, but we seem to lose that fascination as we grow up. I want people to get that back, even if it's only for a little while.
Get up-close and personal with the bark on a tree. In other words, see The Galaxy In A Knothole (one of my favorite pics). Above all, don't just look, but SEE. See what is really there in the details.
Rosie was featured on the RedBubble Homepage on March 1, 2010.
Got all nostalgic over the weekend and decided to write out my photo biography. If you're interested (and bored) you can find it here
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10-Year Community Services Industry Plan – Youth Sector Consultation (Warrn...
What is the future of the community services industry?
How are big-picture changes in policy, economics, society and technology affecting youth service delivery especially?
What insights do youth services have to contribute, to help shape the future of community services delivery?
Youth Affairs Council Victoria (YACVic) has been engaged to host a consultation for the youth services sector.
What you tell us will be passed on to inform a major piece of work being undertaken by the Human Services and Health Partnership Implementation Committee, co-chaired by the Victorian Council of Social Service and the Department of Health and Human Services. These stakeholders are supporting the industry to prepare for policy reform and social, economic and technological change.
The discussion paper which will guide this consultation is available here.
Be there at 12.45 for a light lunch. The session will start at 1pm.


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(A) A person who sells livestock branded with a brand shall execute to the purchaser a written bill of sale bearing the signature and residence of the seller, the name and address of the purchaser, the total number of livestock sold, a description of each animal sold as to sex and kind, and identification of the brand and shall give a copy of the bill of sale to each hauler of livestock, other than railroads, to accompany the shipment of livestock while in transit. The bill of sale or a copy shall be shown by the possessor on demand to any law enforcement officer. The bill of sale is prima-facie evidence of the conveyance of title of the livestock described by the bill of sale.
(B) A person engaged in the business of transporting or hauling livestock in this state shall, upon receiving livestock for transportation, issue a waybill or bill of lading for all livestock transported or hauled. The waybill or bill of lading shall accompany the shipment of livestock and a copy shall be furnished to the person delivering livestock to the hauler. The waybill or bill of lading shall show the place of origin and destination of the shipment, the name of the owner of the livestock, the date and time of loading, the name of person or company hauling the livestock, the number of livestock and a general description thereof, and identification of the brands. The waybill or bill of lading shall be signed by the person delivering the livestock to the hauler certifying that the information contained therein is correct.
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Savills, a London-based real estate services firm, has acquired Granite Partners LLC, a New York-based real estate investment banking company in a deal reportedly worth $54 million.
Granite Partners is re-branded as Savills Granite LLC under the leadership of company co-founder John D. Lyons, who assumes the title of Savills chief executive of North America.
Among other substantial deals, Savills advised Beacon Capital Partners, LLC of Boston on its $1.32 billion acquisition of the 34-story, 707,301-square-foot CityPoint office building in London in April. Granite, meanwhile, represented Lightstone Group in its $889 million acquisition of Prime Group Realty Trust, among other deals.
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The Right Place To Obtain Relevant Information About Court Cases
In courts across the United States, various kinds of cases like civil, criminal, appeals anong other types are pursued. Procedures enacted for civil, criminal and appellate cases differ from each other. So you should try gaining more knowledge about them if you are forced to take the legal route when charged with a crime or you need to defend yourself in a civil case or if you are filing an appeal in an appellate court if a lower court's decision has gone against you.
In a civil court, a case involving two parties, a plaintiff files a complaint against the defendant stating the actions of the defendant are causing him harm and he wants the defendant to stop the activities which are affecting him. The plaintiff pays a certain fee to the court for initiating the case against the defendant. The plaintiff has to establish his claim by providing the necessary evidence and witnesses. If he manages to prove his claim, the court will ask the defendant to stop doing the activity which is bringing harm to the plaintiff. At times, the court may try to settle differences between the two parties to make them reach some kind of settlement.
In a criminal case, a police or criminal investigation officer would ask the court to file a case against a suspect charged for some criminal activity. The officer would come to know about a criminal activity through witnesses and he would himself investigate the matter to confirm whether it indeed was a criminal activity. If he confirms the same, he would press for charges to be filed against the suspected person. If the court agrees, it would file charges against the suspect. Government lawyers would try to establish suspect as criminal. The charged person would hire his own lawyers to defend himself. If unable to hire his own layers, the court would be providing government lawyers to him for defending him. If charges get proved against the suspect during a case, he would be sentenced and sent to prison for completing his sentence.
In the appellate courts, an appeal can be filed by a litigant who is not satisfied with a lower court's verdict as it was not in his favor. The law of United States allows filing of appeals in certain cases where the courts may have erred or if they have indulged in a misconduct. If an appellate court finds that the judgement given by the lower court is not right, it can change the judgement and decide in the favor of the appellant.
Court dockets consist of all materials filed by the court or by any party during a court case. Generally courts assign each newly filed action with a certain docket number. People can obtain copy of their court dockets through their docket number. Docket numbers can be found online on the designated authorities' website if the name of the court is known along with the last name of one party. People can also obtain the docket number by visiting the respective court clerk office or Sheriff's Office in-person. They will have to pay certain fees for taking a copy of the court dockets or for downloading them.
Similarly court records report, court case report and criminal records check can be accessed online or obtained by paying a visit to the court clerk's or other designated office. To take their copy certain fee has to be paid. While criminal records check is needed by people keen to work outside USA to prove their crime free background, court records report and court case report are important to know more information about the activities involved with a given case. Though government does offer such information for public viewing, not all information can be viewed as some of the cases are deemed sensitive. So government can withhold information for protecting confidentiality of people involved with such cases.


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One of the airline passengers who bit into a sandwich containing a one-inch needle earlier this week has now been put on antiretroviral drugs used for the treatment of HIV, and says the FBI is investigating the incidents aboard four Delta Air Lines flights as a criminal case.
James Tonges said he was placed on the drug Truvada, which has recently been approved by the FDA, following the incident aboard a Delta flight from Amsterdam to Minneapolis-St. Paul. Half a dozen sewing needles have now been found in sandwiches on four separate Delta flights, and Tonges, who was sitting in his flight's business elite cabin, was unfortunate to have bitten into one of them.
"It was on the second bite into the sandwich, it actually poked the top of my mouth. It was about one inch long, straight needle," Tonges told "Good Morning America." "Since it punctured the top of my mouth, I had to be put on medication, and we're waiting to see if there's any type of substance on the needle. They're doing their examination right now."
Tonges and another passenger sustained minor injuries after biting into the sandwiches and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)officials found a third needle after confiscating the sandwiches, according to an official report. Dr. Jack A. Drogt, a passenger Tonges had coincidentally met aboard his flight over to Europe, also found a needle in his sandwich
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On Wednesday, March 30 from 6PM – 8PM, "Mixx" and mingle with Jenn Hobby and shop 'till you drop for a good cause at the ReMixx Boutique Grand Opening Event!
– Enjoy small bites and sinless margaritas, enter to win Mixx prizes, and experience the new Mixx spring/summer collection and grand opening deals!
– Experience the new MIxx of spring/summer fashion, accessories and home accents with special grand opening deals.
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A generous portion of the night's proceeds will benefit Jesse's House, a non-profit organization that provides emergency and long-term care to young women who have suffered abuse or delinquency.
When you donate any of these items to Jesse's House, you will be entered to win of the fabulous prizes! Items: Liquid Hand Soap, Dish Detergent, Febreze, Dryer Sheets, Post-Its, Hair Products and Cosmetics.
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Are you tired of bad tasting hard water? Call us at (208) 466-9447 and get industry leading water softener installation services for your Boise, ID home today! Save money on your services using our online sales and coupons.
What does it mean to call water hard? Hard water refers to water with large amounts of calcium, magnesium, and other minerals. Groundwater gets these metals through the surrounding rock and soil as well as the plumbing system itself. When your home is suffering from hard water you can find that the water is bad tasting and damaging to the various fixtures in your home.
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Water softeners can make a significant difference that can be felt and seen throughout your home. In the bathroom, people find that by using water softeners their hair and skin feel different after bathing. They will feel cleaner, and softer. Hair won't become as dry and soap scum and mineral deposits will not accumulate around showers, tubs and sinks.
Clothes will be noticeably softer, cleaner, and brighter after going through the wash. Laundry will often last longer. Dishes will clean easier by using water softeners and glasses won't get that gray film that comes from being etched with mineral filled water.
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The tanks work through the use of negatively charged beads within it. When the water flows past the beads in the tank, the sodium ions replace the magnesium and calcium ions, which have weaker positive charge. After several go rounds of this, the water is free and clear of many of the harmful minerals that create bad tasting and damaging water.
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The Public Health Reserve Corps is poised to help our community in a variety of settings during both medical emergencies and Disasters. , When every minute counts the PHRC will be there to:
Set up, and run a temporary field hospital, emergency shelter, or medication center Dispensing medications Administering vaccinations Providing information and support to the community Conducting health screening
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By Melissa Rossi, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Joining the debate against global deforestation, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, also known as IUCN, announced on Monday at Riocentro that different organizations from Brazil, the United States and Rwanda have agreed in restoring approximately 18 million hectares of degraded forests by 2020.
The challenge is part of an online campaign called "Plant Pledge" sponsored by IUCN to generate concrete action in forest restoration initiatives.
Following the green-print target set last year by the "Bonn Challenge on Forests, Climate Change and Biodiversity," which aims at recovering 150 million hectares of degraded forests worldwide, the IUCN hopes to gather widespread governmental support at the Rio+20.
The advantages lie not only in the environmental impact of reforestation and preservation of biodiversity but also in economic opportunities related to job creation.
Stewart Maginnis, Director of the Nature-Based Solutions Group of IUCN, explains on the IUCN website that the "IUCN's latest research now shows that in restoring 150 million hectares of degraded and deforested land by 2020 – which is only fifteen percent of the estimated area of degraded forests worldwide – we would see more than US$84 billion net injected annually into local and global economies and cut the climate change 'emissions reduction gap' by 11-17 percent."
Brazilian NGO's have pledged the reforestation of one million hectares of Mata Atlântica (Atlantic Forest). One of the most threatened environments in the country, the Atlantic Forest extents along Brazil's coast and harbors one of the country's most extraordinary biodiversities.
At present, many of its endemic species are threatened by extinction due to irregular human occupation and the lack of long-sighted policies that protect its fauna and flora.
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Now, I remember why we don't eat cereal. Did you know that one teeny tiny box of cookie crisp is over $4? Holy Moly! That's one bowl of cereal for each of my four kids. $4 for one non-nutritious meal that will leave them hungry again an hour later. But....it's a fun treat, especially for a birthday breakfast.
I have to admit, I seriously considered NOT fulfilling that birthday wish for my daughter. I think I probably stood in that cereal aisle for 20 minutes trying to decide whether I was going to go through with it or not. You see, the problem with frugality is that when you fully adopt it, it changes the way you think about purchases. You feel a little bit more of a responsibility with your money and it's really hard to intentionally make a purchase that you know is a splurge.
Do you find that happens to you too?
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Giant can of dill pickles $.99
Mozzarella cheese $1.71