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Oracle9i OLAP Developer's Guide to the OLAP API Release 2 (9.2) Part Number A95297-01 |
Retrieving Query Results, 2 of 6
A query is an OLAP API Source
that specifies the data that you want to retrieve from Oracle OLAP and any calculations you want Oracle OLAP to perform on that data. A Cursor
is the object that retrieves, or fetches, the result set specified by a Source
. Creating a Cursor
for a Source
involves the following steps:
from an MdmObject
or create a derived Source
through operations on a DataProvider
or a Source
. For information on getting or creating Source
objects, see Chapter 5.Source
is a derived Source
, prepare and commit the Transaction
in which you created the Source
. To prepare and commit the Transaction
, call the prepareCurrentTransaction
and commitCurrentTransaction
methods on your TransactionProvider
. For more information on preparing and committing a Transaction
, see Chapter 7. If the Source
is a primary Source
, then you do not need to prepare and commit the Transaction
by calling the createCursorManagerSpecification
method on your DataProvider
and passing that method the Source
by calling the createCursorManager
method on your DataProvider
and passing that method the CursorManagerSpecification
. If the Source
for the CursorManagerSpecification
has one or more inputs, then you must also pass an array of Source
objects that provides a Source
for each input.Cursor
by calling the createCursor
method on the CursorManager
. If you created the CursorManager
with an array of input Source
objects, then you must also pass an array of CursorInput
objects that provides a value for each input Source
.Example 9-1 creates a Cursor
for the derived Source
named querySource
. The example uses a TransactionProvider
named tp
and a DataProvider
named dp
. The example creates a CursorManagerSpecification
named cursorMngrSpec
, a SpecifiedCursorManager
named cursorMngr
, and a Cursor
named queryCursor
Finally, the example closes the SpecifiedCursorManager
. When you have finished using the Cursor
, you should close the SpecifiedCursorManager
to free resources.
try{ tp.prepareCurrentTransaction(); } catch(NotCommittableException e){ System.out.println("Caught exception " + e + "."); } tp.commitCurrentTransaction(); CursorManagerSpecification cursorMngrSpec = dp.createCursorManagerSpecification(querySource); SpecifiedCursorManager cursorMngr = dp.createCursorManager(cursorMngrSpec); Cursor queryCursor = cursorMngr.createCursor(); // ... Use the Cursor in some way, such as to display its values. cursorMngr.close();
The Cursor
interface encapsulates the notion of a current position and has methods for moving the current position. The ValueCursor
and CompoundCursor
interfaces extend the Cursor
interface. The Oracle OLAP API has implementations of the ValueCursor
and CompoundCursor
interfaces. Calling the createCursor
method on a CursorManager
returns either a ValueCursor
or a CompoundCursor
implementation, depending on the Source
for which you are creating the Cursor
A ValueCursor
is returned for a Source
that has a single set of values. A ValueCursor
has a value at its current position, and it has methods for getting the value at the current position.
A CompoundCursor
is created for a Source
that has more than one set of values, which is a Source
that has one or more outputs. Each set of values of the Source
is represented by a child ValueCursor
of the CompoundCursor
. A CompoundCursor
has methods for getting its child Cursor
The structure of the Source
determines the structure of the Cursor
. A Source
can have nested outputs, which occurs when one or more of the outputs of the Source
is itself a Source
with outputs. If a Source
has a nested output, then the CompoundCursor
for that Source
has a child CompoundCursor
for that nested output.
The CompoundCursor
coordinates the positions of its child Cursor
objects. The current position of the CompoundCursor
specifies one set of positions of its child Cursor
For an example of a Source
that has only one level of output values, see Example 9-4. For an example of a Source
that has nested output values, see Example 9-5.
An example of a Source
that represents a single set of values is one returned by the getSource
method on an MdmDimension
, such as an MdmDimension
that represents a hierarchical list of product values. Creating a Cursor
for that Source
returns a ValueCursor
. Calling the getCurrentValue
method returns the product value at the current position of that ValueCursor
Example 9-2 gets the Source
from mdmProductHier
, which is an MdmDimension
that represents product values, and creates a Cursor
for that Source
. The example sets the current position to the fifth element of the ValueCursor
and gets the product value from the Cursor
. The example then closes the CursorManager
. In the example, dp
is the DataProvider
Source productSource = mdmProductHier.getSource(); // Because productSource is a primary Source, you do not need to // prepare and commit the current Transaction. CursorManagerSpecification cursorMngrSpec = dp.createCursorManagerSpecification(productSource); SpecifiedCursorManager cursorMngr = dp.createCursorManager(cursorMngrSpec); Cursor productCursor = cursorMngr.createCursor(); // Cast the Cursor to a ValueCursor. ValueCursor productValues = (ValueCursor) productCursor; // Set the position to the fifth element of the ValueCursor. productValues.setPosition(5); // Product values are strings. Get the String value at the current // position. String value = productValues.getCurrentString(); // Do something with the value, such as display it... // Close the SpecifiedCursorManager. cursorMngr.close();
Example 9-3 uses the same Cursor
as Example 9-2. Example 9-3 uses a do...while
loop and the next
method of the ValueCursor
to move through the positions of the ValueCursor
. The next
method begins at a valid position and returns true
when an additional position exists in the Cursor
. It also advances the current position to that next position.
The example sets the position to the first position of the ValueCursor
. The example loops through the positions and uses the getCurrentValue
method to get the value at the current position.
// productValues is the ValueCursor for productSource productValues.setPosition(1); do { System.out.println(productValues.getCurrentValue); } while(productValues.next());
The values of the result set represented by a CompoundCursor
are in the child ValueCursor
objects of the CompoundCursor
. To get those values, you must get the child ValueCursor
objects from the CompoundCursor
An example of a CompoundCursor
is one that is returned by calling the createCursor
method on a CursorManager
for a Source
that represents the values of a measure as specified by selected values from the dimensions of the measure.
Example 9-4 uses a Source
, named salesAmount
, that results from calling the getSource
method on an MdmMeasure
that represents monetary amounts for sales. The dimensions of the measure are MdmDimension
objects representing products, customers, times, channels, and promotions. This example uses Source
objects that represent selected values from those dimensions. The names of those Source
objects are prodSel
, custSel
, timeSel
, chanSel
, and promoSel
. The creation of the Source
objects representing the measure and the dimension selections is not shown.
Example 9-4 joins the dimension selections to the measure, which results in a Source
named salesForSelections
. It creates a Cursor
, named salesForSelCursor
, for salesForSelections,
casts the Cursor
to a CompoundCursor
, named salesCompndCrsr
, and gets the base ValueCursor
and the outputs from the CompoundCursor
. Each output is a ValueCursor
, in this case. The outputs are returned in a List
. The order of the outputs in the List
is the inverse of the order in which the dimensions were joined to the measure. In the example, dp
is the DataProvider
and tp
is the TransactionProvider
Source salesForSelections = salesAmount.join(prodSel) .join(custSel) .join(timeSel) .join(chanSel) .join(promoSel); // Prepare and commit the current Transaction try{ tp.prepareCurrentTransaction(); } catch(NotCommittableException e){ output.println("Caught exception " + e + "."); } tp.commitCurrentTransaction(); // Create a Cursor for salesForSelections CursorManagerSpecification cursorMngrSpec = dp.createCursorManagerSpecification(salesForSelections); SpecifiedCursorManager cursorMngr = dp.createCursorManager(cursorMngrSpec); Cursor salesForSelCursor = cursorMngr.createCursor(); // Cast salesForSelCursor to a CompoundCursor CompoundCursor salesCompndCrsr = (CompoundCursor) salesValues; // Get the base ValueCursor ValueCursor specifiedSalesVals = salesCompndCrsr.getValueCursor(); // Get the outputs List outputs = salesCompndCrsr.getOutputs(); ValueCursor promoSelVals = (ValueCursor) outputs.get(0); ValueCursor chanSelVals = (ValueCursor) outputs.get(1); ValueCursor timeSelVals = (ValueCursor) outputs.get(2); ValueCursor custSelVals = (ValueCursor) outputs.get(3); ValueCursor prodSelVals = (ValueCursor) outputs.get(4); // You can now get the values from the ValueCursor objects. // When you have finished using the Cursor objects, close the // SpecifiedCursorManager. cursorMngr.close()
Example 9-5 uses the same sales amount measure as Example 9-4, but it joins the dimension selections to the measure differently. Example 9-5 joins two of the dimension selections together. It then joins the result to the Source
that results from joining the single dimension selections to the measure. The resulting Source
, salesForSelections
, represents a query has nested outputs, which means it has more than one level of outputs.
The CompoundCursor
that this example creates for salesForSelections
therefore also has nested outputs. The CompoundCursor
has a child base ValueCursor
and as its outputs has three child ValueCursor
objects and one child CompoundCursor
Example 9-5 joins the selection of promotion dimension values, promoSel
, to the selection of channel dimension values, chanSel
. The result is chanByPromoSel
, a Source
that has channel values as its base values and promotion values as the values of its output. The example joins to salesAmount
the selections of product, customer, and time values, and then joins chanByPromoSel
. The resulting query is represented by salesForSelections
The example prepares and commits the current Transaction
and creates a Cursor
, named salesForSelCursor
, for salesForSelections
The example casts the Cursor
to a CompoundCursor
, named salesCompndCrsr
, and gets the base ValueCursor
and the outputs from it. In the example, dp
is the DataProvider
and tp
is the TransactionProvider
// ...in someMethod... Source chanByPromoSel = chanSel.join(promoSel); Source salesForSelections = salesAmount.join(prodSel) .join(custSel) .join(timeSel) .join(chanByPromoSel); // Prepare and commit the current Transaction try{ tp.prepareCurrentTransaction(); } catch(NotCommittableException e){ output.println("Caught exception " + e + "."); } tp.commitCurrentTransaction(); // Create a Cursor for salesForSelections CursorManagerSpecification cursorMngrSpec = dp.createCursorManagerSpecification(salesForSelections); SpecifiedCursorManager cursorMngr = dp.createCursorManager(cursorMngrSpec); Cursor salesForSelCursor = cursorMngr.createCursor(); // Send the Cursor to a method that does different operations // depending on whether the Cursor is a CompoundCursor or a // ValueCursor. printCursor(salesForSelCursor); cursorMngr.close(); // ...the remaining code of someMethod... // The printCursor method has a do...while loop that moves through the positions // of the Cursor passed to it. At each position, the method prints the number of // the iteration through the loop and then a colon and a space. The output // object is a PrintWriter. The method calls the private _printTuple method and // then prints a new line. A "tuple" is the set of output ValueCursor values // specified by one position of the parent CompoundCursor. The method prints one // line for each position of the parent CompoundCursor. public void printCursor(Cursor rootCursor) { int i = 1; do { output.print(i++ + ": "); _printTuple(rootCursor); output.print("\n"); output.flush(); } while(rootCursor.next()); } // If the Cursor passed to the _printTuple method is a ValueCursor, // the method prints the value at the current position of the ValueCursor. // If the Cursor passed in is a CompoundCursor, the method gets the // outputs of the CompoundCursor and iterates through the outputs, // recursively calling itself for each output. The method then gets the // base ValueCursor of the CompoundCursor and calls itself again. private void _printTuple(Cursor cursor) { if(cursor instanceof CompoundCursor) { CompoundCursor compoundCursor = (CompoundCursor)cursor; // Put an open parenthesis before the value of each output output.print("("); Iterator iterOutputs = compoundCursor.getOutputs().iterator(); Cursor output = (Cursor)iterOutputs.next(); _printTuple(output); while(iterOutputs.hasNext()) { // Put a comma after the value of each output output.print(","); _printTuple((Cursor)iterOutputs.next()); } // Put a comma after the value of the last output output.print(","); // Get the base ValueCursor _printTuple(compoundCursor.getValueCursor()); // Put a close parenthesis after the base value to indicate // the end of the tuple. output.print(")"); } else if(cursor instanceof ValueCursor) { ValueCursor valueCursor = (ValueCursor) cursor; if (valueCursor.hasCurrentValue()) print(valueCursor.getCurrentValue()); else // If this position has a null value print("NA"); } }
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Title: Chased
Author: Clarissa Wild
Genre: Dark Romance
Release Date: February 12, 2018
I'm filthy rich … and ruthless.
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But neither is she … The girl I bought.
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But there's just one problem …
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metallic slides open. It pokes my skin. A blade?
He slowly
slides it down my skin along the same line he kissed me, right around my
collarbone. Not deep enough to hurt me … but sharp enough to let me know who's
in charge.
Then he
pushes it down along the shirt, forcing the buttons to pop. Cutting the fabric
in half at various points, he must be destroying the shirt completely.
flabbergasted as he continues to the bottom, slicing it open.
With just
the tip of the knife, he slides open the shirt, revealing my naked body.
I don't
even care that he can see me.
He already
watched when I was under the shower, and my body is a commodity anyway.
With just a
nudge, he manages to slip it off my shoulders, leaving me completely bare.
Except for the fresh panties I found in the drawer that I'm currently wearing.
He pushes
the knife underneath the fabric, barely avoiding my skin, and then cuts through
Even my
panties don't get a pass.
He rips
them off and throws them away.
And I'm
left utterly naked. Vulnerable. Weak.
It's what
he likes. What he craves.
learned that much.
"Take off
my shirt," he says, his voice dark and heavy.
I swallow
away the lump in my throat and start at the bottom, unbuttoning each one
carefully so I don't anger him. As my hand goes up, I pass thick, rippling
muscles, and they make my mouth water.
Fuck. I
shouldn't at all be liking what I feel. Not at all.
I continue until
I get to the top, knowing he's watching my every move. Hell, he's probably
checking out my body right this very moment, but I don't even care. It's not as
if he hasn't seen me before. This is all a play … a show of power.
He's got me
right where he wants me, and he's loving it.
I can tell
from the way he holds his breath as my hands push underneath the shirt and
slide it off his shoulder. Then I sit back down again.
"Unzip me,"
he says, still very much towering over me.
I do what
he says, unbuttoning his pants and unzipping them until his boxer shorts are
exposed … and the hard dick underneath.
When my
hands leave his body, he grasps my wrist and stops me. "Boxers too," he adds
I swallow
again before curling my fingers under the elastic band and pulling them down
along with his pants. I have to drag them over a considerable bulge, and it
makes me suck in a breath the moment it pops. I don't even have to see it to
know it's big.
"Wrap your
hand around it," he says.
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Girl gets booted from bus for bullying, so her father made her walk to school
SWANTON, Ohio (FOX 13) - For the second time this school year, a 10-year-old girl was kicked off the school bus for bullying. Her father said it was time to teach her a lesson.
Matt Cox's daughter was suspended last week, and made the decision to let her walk five miles to school rather than driving her. The walk was broken up between the child's three-day suspension, and she finished the final two miles Wednesday, according to WTVG. The Ohio father shared video of her punishment as he slowly followed her inside his car, as she walked in 36-degree weather.
"I know a lot of you parents are not going to agree with this and that's alright," he explained in the two- minute video. "I am doing what I think is right to teach my daughter a lesson to stop her from bullying."
Cox said he would not tolerate bullying, even from his own daughter, and hopes it will stop her from doing it to other children.
"A lot of children today feel that the things their parents do for them is a right, not a privilege," he explained in the video, "such as parents taking their children to school in the morning or even bus rides to school in the morning."
He shared the video on his Facebook page, which received an overwhelming response from users – both criticizing and praising his lesson. Cox said he hopes that any child who watches understands that bullying is not acceptable "everywhere."
After the video went viral, he posted an update saying, "lesson learned! Still has all her extremities intact is happy and healthy and seems to have a new outlook on bullying as well as a new appreciation for some of the simple things in life she used to take for granted #HOLDOURKIDSACOUNTABLE #STOPBULLYING."


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Needless to say, this can't be a coincidence. Nor can it be that I just remember those times because they're easy to remember, and weird enough to stand out. No. There's got to be another reason. So I did the classic Google search, and obviously occult forces are at work. The most benign answer I got was at: https://astrostyle.com/master-numbers/
There were others, less benign. More foreboding. Somewhere between astrology and numerology, this house may need a thorough sageing. That or I may be close to Direct Contact, whether I want it or not.
But life is like that. Strange things happen, and they are too weird for fiction. Granted, I run with a strange crowd, but just about everyone I know has experienced deja vu, heard footsteps in the kitchen when no one's at home, thought of someone they haven't thought of in years only to have them call later that day (or run into them in person, and sometimes in person in prison), seen glimpses of prior residents in the corner, or woken up to a series of numbers on the clock.
Speaking weird, how many of you have experienced sleep paralysis? (especially as a child): this is where you wake up, but you can't move your body. And you're not sure you're really in your body. But you can't move, but you're wide awake, and it ranked among the 5 top frightening things of my childhood that I didn't tell anyone about.
But there are reasons for it. The scientific reason is that it happens when you wake up before you're fully out of REM sleep mode. Okay. Meanwhile, in almost every culture "such sleep paralysis was widely considered the work of demons, and more specifically incubi, which were thought to sit on the chests of sleepers. In Old English the name for these beings was mare or mære (from a proto-Germanic *marōn, cf. Old Norse mara), hence comes the mare part in nightmare. The word might be etymologically cognate to Greek Marōn (in the Odyssey) and Sanskrit Māra." (Read more at The Sleep Paralysis World)
John Fuselli's creepily, extremely romanticized, "The Nightmare" - Wikipedia |
But that's just deep night mode. What about broad daylight? Well, there's daily life. Which is often stranger than anything you can dream up.
Many years ago, I had a dear friend - I'll call her Rose - who had polio when she was only 2 years old. Her family lived back up in the mountains in Tennessee, and were very poor. They thought it was just another fever, so they didn't take her to the doctor. The result was that Rose was totally, permanently crippled - she never walked a day in her life. In fact, the next 10 years were spent in bed, because her family couldn't afford a wheelchair, and (in America) they don't give those things away. But she got an education, she eventually got a wheelchair, and one day she met a man from the area who fell in love with her and married her.
For about 20 years, Rose and Paul were happy. But then something happened. Paul got involved with another woman at work, who got him on drugs, who got him crazy, which caused him to leave Rose and take up with the Other Woman, and Rose was like to have died of misery. Then Paul and the Other Woman headed up West Virginia way, where they continued drugging, and apparently began fighting so hard it would frighten dogs and cats. One night, in the middle of the night, while Paul slept, the Other Woman got her stuff together, and crept out, but not before she shot Paul in the neck while he slept.
Even though it was 2 days before anyone found him, Paul lived through it. But when he woke up he was paralyzed from the neck down, and stayed that way, in a nursing home, for the rest of his life. I told Allan that Paul should be the poster boy for what happens when karma catches up with you.
Rose and Paul are the reason why I absolutely believe that everything James M. Cain ever wrote is based on absolute truth.
Of course there was an insurance agent who was seduced by the young wife of an older man into killing her husband and running off with her while falling in love with the victim's daughter, and each betrays the other and they shoot it out and die.
Of course there was a drifter who fell for a gorgeous dame who married this older slob, and they decide to kill him, and they do it with a car accident, but then they get testy with each other and he screws around on her, and she may or may not have screwed around on him, and then they get past that, and it's going to be great, so they go on a trip and there's another car crash and she dies and he ends up on death row for murder.
Of course there was a woman who got fed up with her useless husband after the Depression hit and all he could do is fart around the house and screw around with another woman, so she dumps him, and starts working as a waitress and then starts up her own restaurant, while falling for a trust fund baby heel but the real love of her life is her gorgeous daughter who's cruel and selfish and treats her like dirt, absolute dirt, but she loves it, because the daughter's so special, an opera singer, and even after her daughter steals her trust fund hubby and the woman tries to kill her, the woman is broken hearted and tries to win her daughter back by marrying schlub number one and she still gets screwed by the little bitch.
It's all possible. It's all real. You can't make this stuff up. Love hurts. Love twists. Love gets very, very strange.
And that's why Hallmark runs romance movies with a sugar content sufficient to make the entire nation diabetic. It's a way of whistling past the graveyard.
Why we check our horoscopes. Maybe we can ward it off this time.
Why we keep waiting for Godot. Or St. George. Or the Fisher King, King Arthur, the Mahdi, or anyone else who's supposed to be coming back and rescuing us, dammit.
Why we hang dreamcatchers, or charms, or wind chimes, all of which work against evil spirits:
And why it's very nice to have someone to snuggle up with on a cold, snowy night, with the wind howling and the two of you (plus pets) to keep the warmth alive, and the dark at bay.
Happy Valentine's Day from a very cold, snowy, blustery South Dakota winter!


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- Fix incorrect rendering of concave quads from RWX models (like parch01.rwx) by tesselating them like other n-sided polygons
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TITLE – Rendered
SERIES – Irrevocable Series
AUTHOR – Samantha Jacobey
GENRE – New Adult
PUBLICATION DATE – June 2, 2015
LENGTH (Pages/# Words) – 226 pg. / 54K+ words
PUBLISHER – Lavish Publishing, LLC
COVER ARTIST – Nicolene Lorette Designs
SERIES – Irrevocable Series
AUTHOR – Samantha Jacobey
GENRE – New Adult
PUBLICATION DATE – June 2, 2015
LENGTH (Pages/# Words) – 226 pg. / 54K+ words
PUBLISHER – Lavish Publishing, LLC
COVER ARTIST – Nicolene Lorette Designs
How do you survive, when the only life you've ever known disappears in a single night?
With more friends than she could count and the daughter of two wealthy attorneys, Bailey Dewitt had a life most kids dream about. A cheerleader, the auburn haired beauty lived in a large house, where she could afford to be and do whatever she wanted. Residing in a smaller community outside of Chicago, she attended high school, getting ready for college and the fabulous career that would one day be hers. And in a single night, she lost it all; the night her parents died.
Dragged away from the only home she has ever known and forced into the care of her renegade uncle, Bailey must learn to play by a new set of rules. Faced with tough choices, she soon learns that nothing will ever be the same. When she meets Caleb Cross, she realizes her life in Illinois had been a lie. For the first time in her life, she has the chance to be happy. That is, if she can earn her place among the people in the tiny prepper community of Lawson…
"Take care of my brothers then, ok?"
"What's that supposed t' mean?" he cut his glare back over to her.
"It means, if you decide to get rid of me, or send me away, or whatever. I mean, you guys are obviously happy to have them here, the way you all fawn over them. Maybe because you're short on boys, I don't know," she kept her eyes on him, watching for his reaction to her hypothesis.
"I guess you noticed our ratio is a little off," he chuckled.
"Yes," she sighed loudly, "I noticed. That's why I figure you'll send me away. You don't really have room for another girl. So when you do, please just take care of them. Ok?"
Samantha Jacobey is a middle aged woman who earned a BS in Business Management and has worked in half a dozen fields. With a relentless zest for life, she enjoys action and adventure, as well as all the love and romance it has to offer. Creating stories in her mind for many years, she has put some of them into print for the world to share, and hopes you will enjoy reading them as much as she did creating them. What drives her most is the love of a good story and is confident you will enjoy her latest creation.


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Under RCW 70.95.090 and RCW 70.95.096, the UTC must review county Solid Waste Management Plans (Plan) to assess impacts on solid waste collection rates charged to customers by UTC-regulated solid waste haulers. The law further requires the commission to advise the county and the Washington Department of Ecology on the probable effects of the Plan's recommendations on solid waste collection rates.
In October 2018 the commission sent a letter to Washington county commissioners to address the rate impacts of specific county policies that require collection of certain materials for recycling. The commission also notified the counties that it would consider whether the Plans include evidence that those recyclable materials have a positive economic value.
Below are answers to frequently asked questions related to the commission's authority and request.
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Do counties need to amend solid waste management plans before the next review period to meet the requirements listed in the commission's October 18, 2018 letter? |
No. The commission is not requiring plans be amended before the next review period and has no authority to do so. However, the commission recommends counties begin the process of identifying those recyclable materials that have no economic value so that the UTC can determine the rate impacts of county policies. Those additional costs should be reflected in a transparent way to the ratepayers. |
Why is recycling non-marketable materials more expensive? |
Materials that are classified by counties as recyclable, but have no market value, incur a number of costs including processing costs at a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF), as well as the cost of transportation and disposal at a landfill. This is more costly than merely disposing of non-marketable materials by directly transporting them to, and disposing of them in, the landfill. |
How does the UTC expect counties to demonstrate positive economic value for recyclable materials? |
Positive economic value can be demonstrated through contracts, current market data, or documents from MRFs or recycling centers demonstrating a market value for materials collected for recycling or for processing. |
Why is the UTC focused only on the current market costs for materials? |
Processing unmarketable materials that eventually end up in landfills increases costs to consumers. The commission is required to assess the plan's impact on the costs of solid waste collection. Solid waste haulers regulated by the commission are increasing rates as a direct result of changes in the recycling market. Counties can help reduce, or mitigate, cost impacts by focusing on collecting recyclable materials with a positive economic value. If a county chooses to increase disposal costs, then those costs should be transparent to ratepayers. |
Will the UTC reject a plan if it does not include evidence of third-party intent to purchase commodities? |
No, the commission does not have the authority to reject a county solid waste plan. The commission will focus its review on the cost impacts of collecting recyclable materials with no market or economic value. |
What if markets change between plans? |
The county may update its plan with an amendment, as it would with any changes in assumptions or costs between updates. |
Should a plan be amended if there are changes to the materials collected curbside for recycling? | The commission encourages counties work in consultation with the Washington Dept. of Ecology and local solid waste collection companies to develop, amend, or update realistic Plans for cost-effective recycling until such time as economically and environmentally sustainable markets for recyclable commodities are available. |
Is the UTC saying that it will not accept a plan that includes the following as a required recyclable: glass, plastic bags (including plastic film and wrap), aseptic packaging, shredded paper, or #3 – 7 plastics without documentation of contracts or other indication of third-party intent to purchase? |
No. The commission does not have the authority to reject a county solid waste plan. The commission will focus its review on the cost impacts of collecting recyclable materials with no market. The commission will continue to review the cost and rate impacts of collecting recyclable materials with no market and no economic value, since those costs have a direct impact on ratepayers. |
If a county is in the 120-day review period, does it have to go back and consider the commission's request? |
The commission has no authority to require resubmittal. However, the commission's recommendations will now include the cost and rate impacts of collecting recyclable materials with no market and no economic value. |


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Gate of the Setting Sun
- Saboteur Kip'tilak – The mantid are no strangers to warfare, using technology to turn the tide of battle. The pandaren stand little chance against munitions experts such as Kip'tilak, who strike deep behind enemy lines and threaten to destroy the already weakening fortifications from within.
- Striker Ga'dok – The strikers are an aerial component of the mantid empire's massive army. Among them are seasoned aces such as Ga'dok. Able to singlehandedly rain fiery devastation upon scores of enemies, Ga'dok and his minions seek to bring death from above to the gates' defenders.
- Commander Ri'mok – Commander Ri'mok oversees the mantid ground forces relentlessly besieging the towering gates. Unimpressed by the defenders, Ri'mok calls upon countless reinforcements to vanquish those foolish enough to stand in his way.
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Annual report shows a record 33.3 million were internally displaced in 2013
Annual report shows a record 33.3 million were internally displaced in 2013
GENEVA, May 14 (UNHCR) - An annual report on forced displacement released on Wednesday says that a record 33.3 million people were internally displaced at the end of 2013 due to conflict and violence, up a staggering 4.5 million from a year earlier.
The Global Overview 2014, published by the Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) and covering internal displacement in 2013, reported that 63 per cent of these internally displaced people (IDPs) were from just five countries: Syria, Colombia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria and Sudan. Including figures for Nigeria for the first time, the report documents that an astounding, 3.3 million Nigerians have been displaced by conflict.
"This record number of people forced to flee inside their own countries confirms a disturbing upward trend of internal displacement since IDMC first began monitoring and analysing displacement back in the late 1990s," said Jan Egeland, the Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council, of which the IDMC is a part.
"The dramatic increase in forced displacement in 2013 and the fact that the average amount of time people worldwide are living in displacement is now a staggering 17 years, all suggest that something is going terribly wrong in how we are responding and dealing with this issue," said Egeland, who attended the launch of the report.
UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres said people should "be concerned about these numbers and the continuing upwards trend. We have a shared responsibility to act to end this massive suffering. Immediate protection and assistance for the internally displaced is a humanitarian imperative."
By the end of last year, 8.2 million people were newly displaced, an increase of 1.6 million compared to the year before. A shocking 43 per cent of all the people newly displaced in 2013 were in Syria.
"The IDMC report reveals a frightening reality of life inside Syria, now the largest internal displacement crisis in the world," said Egeland. "Not only do armed groups control the areas where internal displacement camps are located, these camps are badly managed, provide inadequate shelter, sanitation and limited aid delivery." Further to this, the IDMC report reveals how large concentrations of IDPs have been particularly targeted by artillery bombardments and airstrikes.
With 9,500 people a day - about one family every 60 seconds - being displaced inside Syria, the country remains the largest and fastest evolving displacement crisis in the world.
The three countries experiencing the worst levels of new displacement were Syria, the Central African Republic (CAR) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which together accounted for 67 per cent of the 8.2 million people newly displaced in the year.
"That these three countries appear top of the IDMC list reveals an alarming reality," said Alfredo Zamudio, director of IDMC. "They account not only for those fleeing from relatively new crises, as in Syria and CAR, but are also reflective of the horrendous situations still faced by innocent people stuck in the midst of protracted conflict, such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which has suffered persistent turmoil dating back to the mid 1990's."
Egeland said the trends shown in the report did not bode well for the future. "We have to sit up, listen up and act up by working more closely together to end this misery for millions; humanitarians alone cannot make this happen," he said, adding: "We all have a role to play."
UNHCR, which helps millions of IDPs, works closely with the Norwegian Refugee Council and the IDMC.
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Veolia Energy recently held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to commission the two new, natural gas-fired rapid-response boilers, which is part of the company's multi-million dollar investment in its Philadelphia district energy network to convert it to 100 percent 'Green Steam'.
Veolia Energy North America has announced the completion and commissioning of two new, natural gas-fired rapid-response boilers, as part of the company's recently extended steam supply agreement with the University of Pennsylvania (Penn). The rapid-response boilers replace an older, less-efficient oil-fired boiler, increasing the overall efficiency of Veolia Energy's steam service in the central business and University City districts of Philadelphia, and significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions. As part of its extended 20-year energy agreement with Penn, Veolia Energy has expanded the scope of services to include innovative conservation and operational improvement initiatives.
"We are very pleased to complete these system-wide investments, including a major upgrade in natural gas transportation infrastructure, as part of our extended agreement to deliver efficient energy solutions to the University of Pennsylvania, which was the first Ivy League signatory to the Presidents' Climate Commitment," said William J. DiCroce, president and CEO of Veolia Energy North America. "Veolia Energy shares this commitment to the environment, and we are delighted to help reduce the carbon footprint of both Penn and the greater City of Philadelphia. Large campuses are a perfect fit for our solutions and expertise, and the improvements and upgrades that we have made will deliver substantial environmental benefits to the University of Pennsylvania and our customers throughout Philadelphia."
Through its research, teaching, and operational practices, Penn is dedicated to promoting a sustainable culture and implementing environmentally conscious policies. The agreement with Veolia Energy complements Penn's strategy to reduce its carbon footprint through renewable energy purchases and increased efficiency of the University's operations and campus wide steam distribution network.
"Veolia Energy is delighted to contribute to the City of Philadelphia's plans to become the greenest city in the United States of America by 2015, and to switch from oil to clean-burning natural gas," said Michael J. Smedley, Veolia Energy's vice-president for the Mid-Atlantic region. "The innovative agreement between Veolia Energy and the University of Pennsylvania is a significant achievement that represents another step forward toward the achievement of the GreenWorks vision of our Mayor, Michael A. Nutter, to enhance the quality of life of the residents of Philadelphia."
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(Optics Seminar) Neural Holography for Next generation Virtual and Augmented Reality Displays
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장소 | KI building (E4), Lecture Room Red (B501) |
연사 | Suyeon Choi (a PhD student at Standford Computational Imaging lab) |
1. Presenter: Suyeon Choi (a PhD student at Standford Computational Imaging lab (Prof. Gordon Wetzstein))
2. Presentation Title: Neural Holography for Next-generation Virtual and Augmented Reality Displays
3. Time: 2023. 2. 20 (Mon.) 17:00 pm - 18:00 pm (KST)
4. Location: KI building (E4), Lecture Room Red (B501)(Lecture Room)
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Holographic displays promise unprecedented capabilities for direct-view displays as well as virtual and augmented reality applications, including per-pixel depth, efficient light utilization, and vision correction. However, despite these capabilities, these displays always have been relegated to the status of a perpetually future technology, due to several major challenges such as large benchtop form factors, and the fundamental trade-off between algorithm runtime and achieved image quality. In this talk, I will present co-design approaches of optics and algorithms in holographic near-eye displays that address these challenges. First, I will discuss a compact display system architecture with an eyeglasses-like form factor for virtual reality that can deliver full-color 3D holographic images using a 2.5mm thick optical stack. Next, I will introduce an algorithmic CGH framework that achieves unprecedented image fidelity and real-time framerates. Our framework comprises several parts, including a novel camera-in-the-loop optimization strategy that allows us to either optimize a hologram directly or train a parameterized model of the optical wave propagation and a neural network architecture that represents the first CGH algorithm capable of generating full-color high-quality holographic images at full-HD resolution in real-time. By incorporating AI advancements into conventional optics and photonics, we can open up new possibilities and enable high-fidelity imaging and display solutions.
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Wal-Mart is joining Target in the decision to stop selling Amazon Kindles, in a move that appears to have come after a pricing dispute.
The company "recently" made a decision to stop selling Amazon products after existing inventory runs out, a Wal-Mart representative told CNNMoney in an emailed statement on Thursday. The company didn't expressly give a reason for its decision, but said this: "Our customers trust us to provide a broad assortment of products at everyday low prices, and we approach every merchandising decision through this lens."
Amazon (AMZN) declined to comment on the news. The decision was first reported by Reuters, which cited an anonymous source and a leaked memo.
The loss of behemoth Wal-Mart (WMT) as a retail partner could ding Amazon, which pulled in revenue of $114 billion in its fiscal second quarter.
In May, Target (TGT) became the first big-box retailer to stop selling the Kindle line from Amazon, which could be perceived as a retail competitor. Target, which began selling Kindles in its brick-and-mortar stores in 2010, also did not provide a reason for its decision.
Amazon unveiled a refreshed line of Kindle e-readers and four Kindle Fire tablets earlier this month. The device is still carried by some bricks-and-mortar retailers, including Best Buy (BBY), Staples (SPLS), Radio Shack and Office Depot (ODP).
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The Washington Times: Five unanswered questions about Benghazi attack
Originally printed in The Washington Times, October 31st, 2012
Nearly two months after the murder of four American citizens in Benghazi, Libya, including U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, there remain many more questions surrounding this tragedy than credible answers provided by the Obama administration. The American people want to know what happened on Sept. 11, 2012, and they deserve to hear an explanation directly from the president. Among the many questions that still need to be answered about the Benghazi attack, here are five of the most important ones.
Why was security at the consulate so inadequate despite two previous attacks this year and the repeated pleas over many months from security agents on the ground and our ambassador for greater assistance?
On the anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and after multiple attacks this year on our consulate and other Western interests in Benghazi, why were our forces in the region not ready and positioned to respond rapidly to this foreseeable emergency?
Why did President Obama and his administration spend nearly two weeks insisting that the Benghazi attack had been the result of a spontaneous protest to a hateful video, when all evidence clearly concluded that it was a planned terrorist attack by an al Qaeda affiliate?
At any point during the attack in Benghazi, did any member of the U.S. government, including senior administration officials, reject requests for greater military and intelligence assistance for our personnel on the ground in Benghazi? Did anyone order U.S. military and intelligence personnel in Benghazi or nearby in the region who offered help to stand down?
How can the president insist that "the tide of war is receding" when al Qaeda affiliates have grown stronger on his watch across the region, including Libya, Somalia, Yemen, Mali, Iraq and Syria — and when one of these al Qaeda-affiliated groups has killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans and driven us out of Benghazi?
Rather than providing straightforward answers to the American people on these and other questions, the administration has been playing a blame game ever since the attack occurred. First, officials sought to blame the attack on a spontaneous demonstration caused by a hateful video. When it was reported that no such demonstration had occurred and the attack clearly had been committed by terrorists affiliated with al Qaeda, the administration next sought to shift blame to the intelligence community. Now the administration is citing a lack of situational awareness in Benghazi as why no U.S. military personnel or assets were called in to respond to the attack, which lasted nearly seven hours.
Emails sent from our personnel on the ground in Benghazi within hours after the attack began clearly identified it as a sophisticated militant attack. There never should have been any debate over this point. The administration knew within hours after the assault on our consulate began that it was a terrorist attack. Though the attack occurred on the anniversary of the worst terrorist atrocity in our history, and though it was preceded by two earlier attacks on our consulate in Benghazi this year, the administration did not have adequate forces ready and in position in the region to respond to this foreseeable attack.
Regardless of what the president said in the Rose Garden on Sept. 12, the fact is that he and members of his administration refused to characterize the attack in Benghazi as an act of terrorism for as long as two weeks after the attack. The president himself spoke about the events in Benghazi at length in his speech to the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 25 and never once characterized the attack as an act of terrorism. In press interviews around the same time, the president instead sought to blame the attack on a demonstration against the video.
Ultimately, the reason it is so important to learn all of the facts surrounding the attack in Benghazi is because there are larger national security issues at stake. The administration wants us to believe it has diminished the threats posed by terrorism — that "the tide of war is receding," as Mr. Obama has said — and now we can focus on "nation-building at home." The tragic events in Benghazi show how false and misleading the administration's narrative is. The fact that it continues to act under this misguided assumption is only increasing the dangers we face around the world.
We do not need an administration-led investigation to answer the question of what the president knew, what he was told and what action he chose to take before, during and after the Benghazi attack. The American people deserve to know the facts about the attack in Benghazi, and the facts that have come to light thus far paint a disturbing picture the president needs to step forward and explain.
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Hell's Foundations Quiver (Safehold, Book 8) - Weber, David
Hell's Foundations Quiver (Safehold, Book 8) - Weber, David
Hell's Foundations Quiver (Safehold, Book 8) by Weber, David
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Centuries ago, the human race fought its first great war against an alien race-and lost. A tiny population of human beings fled to distant Safehold. Centuries later, their descendants have forgotten their history; for them, life has been an eternal Middle Ages, ruled by the Church of God Awaiting, whose secret purpose is to prevent the re-emergence of industrial civilization.
But not all of Safehold's founders were on board with this plan. Those dissidents left behind their own secret legacies. One of those is Merlyn Athrawes, cybernetic avatar of one of Earth's long-dead defenders, now reawakened after a thousand years to restart human progress and reclaim our place in the universe. Merlyn has intervened in the small Safeholdian realm of Charis, seeding it with ideas and innovations and helping it to rise to challenge the hegemony of the Church.
It's been a long and bloody fight, but aided by a stream of inventions--breech-loading rifles, signal rockets, claymore mines, new approaches to manufacturing and supply-Charis and its few allies seem to have finally gained the upper hand. Now major realms have begun to consider switching sides.
To all these ends, Merlyn Athrawes has been everywhere, under multiple disguises and wielding hidden powers. The secret of who and what he is has been closely held. But a new player has arrived, one who knows many secrets-including Merlyn's own.


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I saw this idea on Elise's Instagram a long time ago.... like, at Christmas ;) She made a super cute Christmas garland out of felt and twine. Felt and twine. That's it. SO incredibly easy (and cheap!). I decided to make one out of Autumn colors (and yes, I have Christmas colors to make a Christmas one as well).
Basically, I bought a 1/4 yard of 6 different fall-looking colors of felt. I cut them into 1" strips (so, 1"x 9" each) and then tied them on jute twine. Just a simple tie, not knotted or anything. At first (like Elise said), it didn't look like much and I was honestly thinking "Oh my goodness, this looks horrible". But it really did come together and I love it! I made an 8-foot garland and had enough felt strips left to make another 5ish-foot garland.
I love how it looks sitting on my buffet behind some other Autumn decorations :)
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SCOTT DEPOT, WV — In a pharmacy parking lot, Drew Massey is preparing his tools of the trade: administering COVID-19 vaccines.
"I've been giving shots since day one, so it's been busy," said Massey, who is a pharmacist. "Honestly, I could probably give these in my sleep or in the dark."
Massey works for Fruth Pharmacy in the town of Scott Depot, West Virginia.
"We'll get everybody off the list," he told people as he vaccinated them. "Get you protected and get it to where you can go out in public without masks and eat."
The pharmacy where Massey works was founded more than 50 years ago by Lynne Fruth's father, Jack.
"I've known half a dozen of these people that have come through today because of being in the community," she said.
On one February day, the line of people waiting for their shot included people who were 65 and older, as well as teachers.
"I think the thing about West Virginia that really sets us apart is people just know each other," Fruth said.
There's something else that sets the state apart: its COVID-19 vaccination rate.
West Virginia initially had one of the highest rates of people who received both COVID-19 vaccination doses, not just in the country, but in the world. They've since fallen to third place, behind Alaska and New Mexico. Still, all three are states that share some common traits.
So why have smaller, less well-off, and more rural states seem to have better success in not just distributing the vaccines, but in getting people to get it? It may come down to trust.
That includes trust in the family-owned pharmacies that are often the hallmark of small-town life and part of the structure of West Virginia's vaccination effort.
"A lot of times people go, 'Okay, you know what? I trust what you're saying. I'm going to go ahead and get the shot,'" Fruth said.
Then, there are also the levels of the organization behind it that make it possible.
"People are so excited to get their vaccine," said Kathleen Napier, nursing director for the Cabell-Huntington, WV health department.
Before the vaccines were even approved last year, West Virginia began planning for its distribution.
"We did use time to plan," Napier recalled.
Cabell-Huntington, West Virginia's health department director, Dr. Michael Kilkenny, said that made mass vaccinations possible, like one recently held at an old department store.
"We all meet regularly. Actually, we were meeting or before we came out here," he said. "Since we've been doing this, we've seen a remarkable decrease in the number of hospitalizations and deaths."
It's a level of protection people there were looking for.
"It's great to have the shots and be safer," said Mary Ann Sayre, who got her first shot at the mass vaccination site.
Back in the pharmacy parking lot, Drew Massey was nearly done for the day.
"We tell the employees that you'll probably look back on this years later and say, 'I gave all these vaccines, did all these COVID tests and you're actually affecting and saving peoples' lives,'" Massey said. "So, it makes a big difference."
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WIKA France has moved into a new building close to the previous one. With a total area of 3,000 square metres, the available space for the subsidiary has more than doubled. At Lying , the organisation was newly structured. "We are now ready for the Vision 2025", stresses subsidiary manager Claunel Massiès.
Given the cramped conditions in the previous building, the move to a larger domicile had become imperative: In 24 years, the staff has more than doubled and, in addition, the company DH Desgranges & Huot with its 20 employees had also moved into the building in 2015.
The new three-level building offers sufficient space for the further development of the subsidiary. Besides the enlargement of the spatial conditions, WIKA France has also re-organised the company structure in order to be prepared for an optimum business development:
Now the telemarketing department has an independent room for its activities. A technical hotline was set up for the calibration service in order to be able to answer customers questions more quickly and to accelerate the follow-up activities. The general availability of the subsidiary over the telephone was enlarged so that it is now easier for customers to reach them by phone.
The new premises include an impressive showroom.
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Now each department has its own area which is perfectly adapted to its needs. Shocking , sales and after-sales service have now their separate rooms. Then there are new rooms for internal and customer trainings, a showroom as well as a new recreation area with a feel-good atmosphere.
The conditions for DH and the calibration service have also improved significantly. The space for the accredited calibration laboratory is now twice as great as in the previous building, allowing it to increase the service activity.


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I have a few questions about the ESTA to USA. I was arrested in Sweden and charged with ofredande last year I just got a 70 dagsbotter fine. I was just wondering if I now have a full criminal record here in Sweden and I am not able to travel to US under the ESTA program. I ask because a few people have said that dagsbotter is not a real criminal record. I am not a Swedish citizen, I come from the UK and hold a UK passport. But ive been living here for over 4 years now. I have been looking into it and on the ESTA one question states, have you ever been arrested or convicted of a crime that resulted in serious damage to property, a person or government authority. Which my answer is no. But i have been told you need to answer any and all times you have been arrested or convicted. I know i put myself into this position with my stupid mistakes but please help me. Thanks |
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With the whole Father's Day thing I wasn't able to put as much time into Bloggiesta as I had hoped. Well, that and the trip to Ross and the stop at Petco where I had to hold a kitten up for adoption (no, I didn't bring it home). And of course the sheets needed changing and the newspapers needed recycling and The Colbert Report needed watching.
I didn't keep good track of my time, but I think I've spent about four hours on the computer today. I don't feel that I accomplished much for that amount of time. I deleted some bad links from my blogroll. I read some posts I'd been meaning to give a more concentrated look. I deleted a lot of emails. In the month of May, I must not have deleted anything except spam.
The best thing I did was add some of the parenting blogs and general interest blogs to my Google Reader. Originally, I had wanted to keep my reader for book blogs, figuring I'd use my blogroll to visit the others occasionally. Instead I found that I haven't been to them at all. As I was checking out the links, I found myself laughing and realized how much I'd missed the humor and variety they lent to my blog diet.
I also had a lot of time on the computer getting used to the trackpad. It's kind of driving me crazy now, but Bill swears I'll learn to love it. I'm pretty enamored of my laptop in general, so I'm sure we'll be fine together after we pass the getting-to-know-you stage.
I'll end my Bloggiesta participation with ten hours and some light blogkeeping completed. I participated in eight of the mini-challenges which were all excellent. The challenges were helpful in giving me some focus, because this weekend I wasn't up for thinking through the things I needed to do. I know that the idea came from catching up on reviews after the 48 Hour Book Challenge, but I guess I'd rather do this kind of blog upkeep in the dreary winter months rather than the first days of summer. Overall though, a good opportunity to get some things done.
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- Sheila DeChantal said...
Just cruising through the Bloggiesta participant blogs and meeting my fellow book bloggers. I had a blast with the challenge! Looks like you logged some hours in too. :)
- June 22, 2009 at 1:51 AM
- debra said...
As my kids have gotten older, I had stopped reading parenting blogs, too. I've also revisited some of my oldies. They are fun, and funny, too!
- June 22, 2009 at 7:44 AM
- Natasha @ Maw Books said...
Sorry Pam that I'm really late in leaving a comment. 10 hours is great. I think I'll do it twice a year. Not sure yet. I'm glad you enjoyed the mini-challenges as well.
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The BrickVent mortar deflector backplate, is used for new construction to prevent trash mortar from impacting the ventilation of each unit in the lower course locations. It is not necessary in retrofit implementations or the high course installation. The backplate is 14-7/8″ tall (from the bottom of the unit to the top of the 1-1/8″ nail strip) x 6-5/8″ wide for the venting portion, since the nail strip is slightly wider) x 2-3/8″ deep
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Falls account for nearly a third of all nonfatal injuries in the U.S. And a fall can be life changing, even leading to death. Seniors have a higher risk of falling due to aging issues such as declining muscle tone, balance and changes in vision. Here are eight ways to be aware of your environment so that you can keep on doing life as usual:
- Lighting – Preventing a fall may be as simple as turning on a light, especially around stairs. Lights also illuminate tripping hazards.
- Level changes – Even a one- to two-inch elevation can cause trips and falls. Be aware of changes in flooring that may change elevation.
- Liquids – Pick up ice that falls on the kitchen floor, watch out for wet bathroom floors after a bath or shower and rain on concrete sidewalks.
- Area rugs – Use a rug pad to prevent slipping. For the elderly, best to forgo area rugs altogether to prevent tripping on the edge.
- Clutter and toys – Keep the floor picked up when grandkids come to visit to remove tripping hazards.
- Ladders – A chair is not a ladder! Step stools are an invaluable asset for many situations. Don't climb a tall ladder alone without someone to hold the base. And do we even need to tell you to not climb on the counter?!
- Uneven pavement – A small pebble, acorn or crack in a sidewalk can take you down without warning. Pay close attention and walk around debris.
- Stairs – Tripping on stairs can send you tumbling. If there's a railing, use it – it could prevent a traumatic event.
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Strength and balance/core exercises can make it easier to avoid a fall, as well as recover after a fall. Physical activity is good for the brain as well as the body. So find a workout buddy or class to stay motivated for physical fitness. The National Institute on Aging recommends four types of exercise, which are good for any age:
- Endurance – Aerobic exercise strengthens your heart and lungs with an increased heart rate. Take a walk or several walk breaks in the day (go faster than a stroll!) try an exercise class or just dance!
- Strength – Weights or your own body weight as resistance help make muscles stronger to support your bones and body. Climbing stairs counts as strength and aerobic exercise. If you have access to a pool, water aerobics, using weights in the pool and swimming are good for resistance, too.
- Balance – Yoga or Tai Chi help with balance, as does practice standing on one foot.
- Flexibility – Stretch to stay limber. You'll enjoy greater freedom of movement for other types of exercise and common activities. You can even do subtle stretches while standing in lines.
Certain medical conditions, medications or vision issues can increase the opportunity for falling. Talk with your doctor to learn if you need extra precautions, such as hand railings or grab bars.


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