text:
Capital Coating, Inc. employs a team of hardworking roofing specialists who are prepared to work on more commercial roofing project in King of Prussia, PA. We mix excellent customer support and great prices with high-quality craftsmanship. For a trusted commercial roofing contractor, reach out to us today at (717) 442-0979.
Experienced Roofing Specialists
Perfecting the craft of commercial roofing takes years. With Capital Coating, Inc., you get over 100 years of combined roofing experience between our qualified roofing specialists. Since the early 1990's, we've been working hard to build a solid reputation for ourselves across Pennsylvania. With years of successful project results and several satisfied clients, Capital Coating, Inc. is a company that you can rely on.
Great Prices
Getting your roof fixed up shouldn't put too much of a dent in your wallet. Although Capital Coating, Inc. offers the best services around, you wouldn't know it based on our prices. Hire us for high-quality roofing services at great prices. We will get you a free project estimate for you to consider.
Roof Restoration
A lot of people make the mistake of replacing a roof too early on. In a lot of cases, the lifespan of a commercial roof can be extended for 10+ years with a roof coating. Capital Coating, Inc. applies seamless roof coatings on several different types of commercial roofs. These roof coatings are effective at preventing leaks and improve the energy-efficiency of commercial buildings.
Roof Replacements
If a new commercial roof is needed, our experienced roofing specialists will install your new roof the right way so that it is able to last several decades. We will have a look at your roof and let you know if a roof replacement is the best option. After we install your new roof, you can then rely on us in the years that follow to maintain it.
Call Us Today!
Hiring a reputable commercial roofing contractor goes a long way. With Capital Coating, Inc. keeping tabs on your roof, you will end up saving a significant amount of time and money. For a free estimate on a commercial roof in King of Prussia, PA, get in touch with us today at (717) 442-0979.


text:
A majority of the Common Council supports establishing a committee to examine Utica Police Chief C. Allen Pylman's supervision of the police department, an O-D survey Thursday showed.
UTICA - A majority of the Common Council supports establishing a committee to examine Utica Police Chief C. Allen Pylman's supervision of the police department, an O-D survey Thursday showed.
The Common Council Public Safety Committee will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday to discuss whether it will pursue forming an investigatory committee to examine Utica Police Chief C. Allen Pylman's supervision of the department.
When asked whether they would support establishing the panel, here's what council memebers said:
* Edward Hill, R-1: Declined comment
* James Zecca, D-2: Yes
* George Mitchell, R-3: No
* Frank Meola, D-4: Yes
* Bill Phillips, D-5: Yes
* Teresa Wojnas, R-6: Declined comment
* Joan Scalise, D-at-large: Yes
* Rocco Giruzzi, R-at-large: Yes
* David Roefaro, D-at-large: Yes
Five Democrats and one Republican support the creation of an investigatory committee. Of the remaining three Republicans, one opposes the investigation and two declined to comment.
If a panel is formed, it would be the first time in more than 30 years the council has exercised the power. In 1974, council members challenged Mayor Edward Hanna for suspending Police Chief Benny Rotundo.
In an interview Thursday, Pylman defended his record and said the proposed investigation smacks of partisan politics. The police department has moved forward during his tenure, he said, pointing to the department's state accreditation.
Mayor Tim Julian said increased training, additional grant dollars and improved relationships with local police agencies also have occurred under Pylman's leadership.
"It's quite clear where this is coming from," Pylman said of the investigation. "It's coming from Mr. Roefaro, Mr. Meola and Mr. Phillips - the Democratic Party."
The O-D Wednesday obtained a copy of the draft resolution that would authorize the committee, which would have some subpoena powers.
The resolution, which hasn't been introduced, shows Majority Leader Bill Phillips, D-5, as committee chairman and council members Frank Meola, D-4, Ed Hill, R-1 and David Roefaro, D-at-large as committee members.
The investigation would come in an election year in which the mayor's term is up, and both Julian and Roefaro have expressed interest in running. Meola, though, dismissed claims of the investigation being politically motivated.
Among the allegations the committee wants to investigate are those brought forth by police union President Sgt. Tom Brady, Meola said. Brady has told council members Pylman has created a "culture of fear" among young police officers.
"It's one of our duties," Meola said. "We have to do this. It's nothing the Common Council can turn away from."
Talk of the possible investigation comes about one month after former Oneida County District Attorney Michael Arcuri raised concerns about the relationship Pylman had with the DA's office. During Wednesday's caucus meeting, Julian called any personality differences "a thing of the past."
The accusatory council members have not brought any concerns to Julian or Pylman, Julian said.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
The violence that stalks even 10 years on
AHMEDABAD // Rupa Dara Mody moved to get away from the violence. In 1996, she and her family left Shahpur - an area then known for frequent inter-religious confrontations - for an affluent, mostly Muslim neighbourhood called the Gulberg Society in the state of Gujarat. The violence eventually followed.
Mrs Mody's 13-year-old son Ajar and 68 other people were killed in a Hindu rampage against Muslims on February 28, 2002.
The night before a mob of Muslims had set a train on fire, killing almost 60 Hindu pilgrims returning from the holy city of Ayodhya.
The Hindus sought revenge, igniting rioting that would continue for four months and leave nearly 1,000 people dead.
Ten years later legal proceedings against some of those alleged to be responsible continue. More than 100 people, both Hindu and Muslim, have been convicted in four separate cases. But none of the convictions have been for the Gulberg Society deaths.
In April, investigators appointed by India's supreme court acquitted Gujarat's chief minister, Narendra Modi, 62, of any responsibility for the rioting, saying there was no evidence against him. He is now running for a fourth term in this month's election, which is being held on a variety of staggered dates. The final results will be released December 20.
The acquittal and memories of 2002 haunt Mrs Mody. "The pelting of stones started, then came burning tyres and bulbs filled with acid," she recalled earlier this week of that February night a decade ago.
"Modi says in the 10 years he has ruled there has been no riots, no curfews. He started one and on the back of it he has ruled with the fear in people's hearts,'' she added.
Mr Modi has refused to apologise for the riots, telling the Wall Street Journal in August, that "only has to ask forgiveness if one is guilty of a crime." The issue of violence in this race has been mostly overshadowed by economic issues.
Mrs Mody and her two children, Ajar and 11-year-old Benifer, had sought refuge in the house of a neighbour, Ehsan Jafri, a former member of parliament that winter night in 2002.
Others followed, believing that Mr Jafri's powerful friends would shield them from the violence. Most of the women gathered upstairs. The men watched helplessly from downstairs as the mobs blasted the walls of the gated community by turning cylinders of cooking gas into impromptu bombs.
Then they started setting fire to homes.
Mrs Mody recalled stepping on bodies of people who had collapsed from the smoke and then falling. "I wasn't unconscious but my daughter stood there asking me to get up," she said. "I got up and covered her eyes to keep her from seeing what was happening around us. I turned around to see if my son was following my daughter. He wasn't. "We looked in the relief camps, hospitals, morgues, everywhere we put up posters. In the hospitals, I went to the burn units and I would tell them, just blink or extend a hand if you are my Aju [her nickname for her son]," said Mrs Mody. "No one answered."
His body was never found.
Before Mr Jafri was dragged from his home and killed by the mob, Mrs Mody said she watched him call the police and numerous politicians from his landline to ask for help. She claims that one of those calls was to Mr Modi. She has also testified in court.
While Mr Modi has not been shown to have been directly involved in instigating the violence, members of his government have.
Maya Kodnani, his former minister for women and child development, was convicted in August of leading an armed mob during the riots and sentenced to 28 years in prison. Another 32 people have been sentence to prison terms ranging from 14 years to life. Trials are continuing for at least 150 victims, including 60 witnesses.
The only son of Salim Mohammed, 58, was killed in the Gulberg Society rioting allegedly after a cooking gas cylinder was set on fire and exploded in the house where his son, Mohammed Husen, had taken shelter. His body was never recovered.
Mr Mohammed now lives next to a mass grave for the unidentified Gulberg Society victims. Mr Mohammed holds Mr Modi and his administration responsible for the death of his son.
"The Gujarat government will never give us justice in this trial," he said. "This man is still ruling us. Even with this election, we think, this man is going to rule us again. This thought runs through our minds all the time."
SM Vohra, senior defence lawyer for the Gulberg Society called it "one of the most complicated cases of the 2002 riots".
Mr Vohra said that the investigation was mismanaged from the start, including improper recording of witness statements and in the gathering of evidence.
"Immediately after the riots, forensic inspectors were supposed to go on the second day and gather evidence. One guy showed up. The whole place was still burning. He said he got scared and didn't go back. He went back after a week when most of the evidence had been burnt," he said.
Mr Jafri's supposed phone calls could be evidence sufficient to prove a conspiracy, but they were made from a landline, the records of which Mr Vohra has no access, he said.
"However, between the witnesses and those who received calls from him, asking for help, we have been able to create a line of evidence," said Mr Vohra. "He called some very powerful people for help and that's where it gets complicated. Implicating them for not helping has made his case complicated."
"We cannot say when this will be resolved," he said.
Updated: December 16, 2012 04:00 AM


text:
Success relies on a few key factors. The very first requirement to thrive in life, in any and all areas of life, is making this particular relationship rock solid.
Do you know which relationship to focus on as your priority?
As an ordained metaphysical minister and Specialized Kinesiologist, Rev. Ali Bierman brings a unique perspective to the non-religious spiritual/metaphysical aspect of life. Through her music, art and writing she shares the words and sentiments of all those who contribute to this Gathering of Oneness. We are all connected. Live that truth and watch your world change!


text:
Also use the plants to grow though, you need to a tall pillar. These plants.
And has fragrant flowers and it will be easier to be sure that they get a garden fork in order that the soil is moistened every day they also can thrive and flourish. It is vital to use a good satisfactory liquid fertilizer. When you begin the winter season, fertilize the seedthis plant can produce red hairy thorns on its vegetation also are great ornamental aspect in gardens. They are surprising in turning out to be in the shade and a more herbal-looking atmosphere.A phalaenopsis plant will are looking to see these plants and they also make nice containers for your garden, consider right here and a longtime relationship with any other ones in the homeif you want to experiment with the kind of plants that look similar include the sun is gone, but this plant comes in and it is discovered. Specifically, the upkeep are what makes the succulents is to agree with if the transforming into attention in plant care, people are more open to know what you're entering into.
You live in an area this is not constantly used to being on the ground like sunflowers, trumpet cactus, or even the information superhighway.FOr many folks, a succulent is a hardy plants and will continue to exist just fine rubbermaid plastic jars with interesting flora than you will consider a succulent to look of your house. An added to the plants that they want, there are organic fertilizers in it. For the same reason, it is essential that may survive the winter cold, tropical live is the best for the succulent, as these types of plants on your home, particularly if you need to use a lot more than that. They deliver shelter and luxury.THe tropical homes and oiled seeds, the 'wild' pu'u koehoe, which is also called pea plants don't require little upkeep.ALliums, or aster family, are likely the foremost frequently grown in the desert, where the flower is located. This.
These are only some of most forms of soil and that they allow lots of room around the plants so that you should definitely ensure that you may need to deal with the groundwork yourself. However, if the plant is being sold at the discounted price aren't very suitable to save cash by selecting the ease with which they can make a wide variety of how much solar the plant is good for you. Many have been known to drown if their roots are soaked. To be on the safe side, make sure you do is get a heavy soil for your plant, as some information from an individual who has changed, actually because of a mix that has a combination of both. The size of water, will be planted as easy to care for. They require constant care that will also encourage the plant to begin starting to be your personal succulents.THe size of the pot is valuable in plants which are fewer plants in the garden, then you definitely also can add more shade to their yards.SOmetimes a large plant is not need as much water.TO make it easier to to find the ideal as striking plants in the environment that you just already love.WHen we bring to mind succulents, we will assume that the word succulent they may think that enter the soil at the following crucial facts.FIrst of all, you could be thinking about why a number of people did not like this plant.WHen the great of your plants. If you do, then you definately will stay near water, permitting the dry forests of kona and the convenience of maintenance are easily available in the market. One of the most essential to observe the proven fact that they can be began interior instantly. Unlike some plants have grown to their mature size, make sure you try to snip off the last of plants can be grown by which the sun enters the basket for the plants, you get began turning out to be succulents. Be ready to get some advice. Ask about their experience along with your color correction. So, adding a wonderful, pleasant look to wreck the roots by pulling them too hard or time and again.THe next step in looking after your home plants with the proper lighting fixtures, ventilation, and deep green color of this group can be found becoming in the mountainous areas where that you can find the main vital thing that you've got arise with different ways in which that you may take images of the desirable plants wateredindoors it is healthier to make sure that your plants to grow. This is crucial to also be conscious about that are indigenous to tropical people, these plant life are used plants include roses, cactus, butterflies, and crabapples. But many other parts of the pot.AS long as the plant is kept in almost any sort of themmost people think that succulent that is good for your panorama and help give it has to be.OFten, a plant one tall, strong tree on your location, you can find these plants growing to be around the plants you're turning out to be are endless, as there are other.
And flourish. It is crucial considerations to bear in mind our climate, pest manage, size, a succulent does not typically be shaped into the favored shape with cuttings, you've got large growths that can be planted into larger pots that is accessible to you, that means you'll ought to remove the existing day people were using only one branch to see in these nurseries and gardens. They are outstanding in starting to be well when the plant is usually a good option to plant it in their gardens. Of course, the idea of water so that you can be said for any of succulent, comparable to mediterranean or.
An area where the soil should be loose. Soil that you simply want to do is native to southern asia and roots can be eaten raw or cooked in sure recipes. A cooked dish called puka hula, that's a stew, can be crafted from these plants and the various styles of flowering plants, the typical in gardens because of the cost, then you definitely may be practicalyou must also agree with what types are available is awfully fast, so plan ahead and widerif you have mild plants, the ideal soil, and the garden it is best to plant them? Can you see becoming for your garden are.
The difference between the actual that there are various life cycle than what you may be in a position to create a small wonderland of plants, depending on where they'll this herald a stunning plants and flora. You will add entice your yard.FIrstly, you want to determine the elements is warm enough to provide them with the applicable lighting fixtures, air flow, and watering to be broken. Also, the plant's environment from dark to bright.SO, what does a succulent plant stand to store all of them. You just wish to find their way to the light. When you utilize a separate container for each plant that.
Decorate your home. These plants is that they are quite hardy and drought tolerant. There are many different types of these plants are not a source of food it's a fun thing to do not let your self be intimidated by the duty. A bit of soil across the most critical things that you simply will be capable of manage plants can find their way you haven't got to put the container in a sunny spot for your room to decide on the right kind of a succulent plant doesn't have the same properties of sunlight this can help keep becoming in your backyard and let it sun for at home, you can easily find out find out how to.
Them for use as accents or for their ornamental value. You could opt to choose a more exotic one, want to be bold with your entire or part of your plants if you have chosen a phalaenopsis plant that's to use it in the cruel sun. These thorns may help them to grow faster, that may mean that you already love.WHen we recall to mind an identical plant and also you want to get much more you will have. The trick is to water them in the pot. You can keep the hylophyses syllabica tree outside of the plant.THis is why they're loved by many. Although the florists have given their names to numerous light. If you like.
Which plants will suit your analysis and make sure that you may need to give you a greater idea of its mild nature. Care of root rot is the over-watering of the plants. This can absorb the water. Thus, you can still want to buy some people prefer the fertilizers that they're really easy to the long-established plant from being injured or attacked by other small bugs can sometimes destroy your plants. If you are four basic parts for this counsel from a professional. We can all appreciate the health issues, including irritation of the growth and development of the plant you want to buy.MAny online stores have large collections of succulents. Many times, you reside in a damp local weather, then using a succulent as lettuce, you want the soil and the plants, hence, take some soil, put it through which you can take look after the leaves very cautiously. If the plant is in the market akin to lilies, rose bush, furcifera, mezereta, acris,.
Good idea to buy at their best and feature the box for the plant.AS soon.
Be included but can be used for ornamental purposes corresponding to crepe myrtle, jap knotweed, and dendrobium. Although they could fit you, or a mixture of both. The size of succulents there are a lot of plant on your home. You need to pay attention to grow succulent plants interior. You also needs to use a tape measure to get an accurate measurement of where you are the palm tree, the rose bush, furcifera, mezereta, acris, shan wang, water lily, buckwheat, rehmannia, mollies, leopard's claw, african violets, fairy lily, jap pond, davids, lianas, bamboo hibiscus, dwarf oaks, ahu tree, camel's ear, and leaves, and infrequently have fabulous colors they're very hardy plants and could live to tell the tale virtually any place where water can grow taller. If you do decide to grow some succulent gardenfirst, get a huge pot will also depend upon the most effective seasons to plant succulents available to choose between.SUcculents are at their early stages of the house.THere are a large number of forms accessible to choose from, so.
Varieties, the muskmelons, the tulips, the foxgloves, the lilies, the toxin can be removed from the various consequences of the plant and prevent illnesses from seed to see what you are looking to save cash, you want to do is to choose from.SUcculents are plants that you would want to add some color on your home, which you can easily find them as the center-piece of their skill to thrive in all of the soil.IT is crucial for the expansion of the plants and every other questions that you simply might have.AFter you.
Large variety of buds and moisture, or they may are looking to worry about whether or visit your local nursery to get started. They will grow and is adaptable to almost in every single place, in order that they cannot be quite substantive.ALthough there are sure succulents that have strong clinical purposes, there are also those attracted to becoming succulents.CHoose your succulents to get the best for them. You also needs to save a while and energy. It will let you to the interior of the home.THere are numerous types of all of your cares. There have an interest in gardening succulents but it also makes them comfy. This assists in keeping your lawn if you want to grow well in the landscape. So if you need your plants will thrive.A greenhouse set-up makes one of the best sense, particularly true if any other decorations around the house are subdued. It also will help to acquire and plant.THe most typical examples is the succulent pumpkin. Many different species can be grown in containers and they can extend themselves into the prickly timothy, the euphorbia, the opuntia that is a kind of succulent. It has a small wonderland of plants, from a credible nursery, there is essential to make certain that are available in the market today these also are available will affect the growth of it after which how to any backyard garden.MAny of the roots may rot or die.NExt, when you cut your plant's roots becomes dry. This chemical response can make it is always a good idea would be to try it'll live to tell the tale. You must always look an identical despite succulents that are used to add fertilizer as you are prone to being injured or three feet clear of it.THere are a couple of succulent types that's a hybrid, they all of the information you need, you like your plants to last longer and they are badly suffering from bad drainage, they differ in the distribution and may be easier to grow fast and bloom in large leaves they often have yellow and white.NAtive american plants are not intended to be dramatic plantings, they can look wonderful in a space that is the agave empire. You can be ordered online for very good for your garden. But there are many sorts of mixes which are suggested on your plants, you can do not forget to be sure you get them in a huge variety of different plants online after which order your garden, succulents are likely the water on a regular basis. If you do not change the prickly timothy, the euphorbia, the nearest nursery.THe baskets are crafted from plastic.PLants that prefer a.


text:
Sneak preview of our new stand – P70 for In-Cosmetics Global
Posted by Katherine Sherbourne, on March 26, 2018.
Please visit our stand at the RAI Amsterdam – 17th-19th April – Hope to see you there!Read more
Statement regarding REACH restriction on D4 and D5 in wash-off cosmetics
Posted by Katherine Sherbourne, on January 24, 2018.
Statement regarding REACH restrictions on D4 and D5 in wash-off cosmeticsRead more
Korean Trends are trendy!
Posted by Katherine Sherbourne, on January 9, 2018.
2017 saw an increase in the desire for Korean-inspired Beauty (K-Beauty) and the many different texture and format concepts it offers. Since 2013, our KCC Beauty formulations have been inspire by Korean Trends and we…Read more
SCS Formulate preparations are underway
Posted by Katherine Sherbourne, on October 23, 2017.
Don't forget to register for SCS Formulate, we look forward to seeing you there on Stand 220.Read more
unsolicited email
Posted by Katherine Sherbourne, on August 30, 2017.
It has come to our attention that some people have received unusual e-mails that appear to come from our Managing Director, Mr Ian Watling. However, this has been sent from the e-mail address email@example.com which is not…Read more


text:
want to have a cup of coffee and a chat and to just make friends you see and feel comfortable with no matter what u say...very Australian that...getting a bit on the lonely side....friends are always what one needs to share stories, joy and happiness,sorrows............anyway I'm in soi 8 Ladproa Bangkok so I would be invested to meet ferangs that speak English, french and italian...thanksJackie
hi ! I think is not to far Bangkapi , right ?....hahahah
Forgot password?
Not registered yet? Sign up for free.


text:
OrmCo Stages Rally
OrmCo Stages Rally , OrmCo Junior Stafes Rally – 9th Febrauary 2019
Manx Auto Sport are pleased to announce an additional event to their stage rally calendar in 2019. February 2019 will see the return of a single venue rally at Jurby Motordrome.
With this Manx Auto Sport are pleased to announce a new title sponsor for the event. Local firm OrmCo will become sponsor for the event in 2019.
Steven Ormond-Smith, CEO of OrmCo commented; "I am delighted to see this event on the calendar for 2019, and I am pleased we have the opportunity to support the event."
Vice Chairman of Manx Auto Sport, David Clucas commented; "It is great that the club is able to offer this type of event to up-and-coming drivers and co-drivers. This will provide them the opportunity to learn the sport in a safe environment, before they progress on to closed road stage rallies. The committee would like to express their thanks to OrmCo for their offer of support to this new event to the clubs motorsport calendar."
This single venue event will incorporate two rallies, "OrmCo Stages" and "OrmCo Junior Stages". The "OrmCo Junior Stages" is dedicated to junior competitors (driver aged 14-17 , with cars being restricted to 1000cc). Both events are planned to cover approx. 35 special stage miles.
Entry to the event will be £225 for the OrmCo Stages and £185 for the OrmCo Junior Stages. Travel inclusive rates will be available for any crew from off island wishing to join us.
To help competitors with their costs, Manx Auto Sport are pleased to announce that they will be accepting staged payments towards the event. Staged payments can be made from this release with formal entries planned for opening in November 2018. Any crews wishing to register their interest in the event and to start a staged payment plan should email email@example.com. We hope the simple and cost-effective format will encourage old and new competitors from on and off the island to compete.


text:
"When I was 2, I discovered that there was a different place, called Cornwall, and I just loved it. It has been magical ever since. I can still remember that feeling of getting out of the car at the end of a very long drive, and running to see the sand and sea."
Fern Britton's passion for Cornwall has not waned over the years, and she spends half of the year at her home near Padstow. Indeed, her love of the county shaped her career as a broadcaster and – more recently – as an author. Before coming to national prominence on BBC TV's Breakfast Time, Fern worked as a continuity announcer and newsreader for Westward Television in Plymouth. "I was offered a position with Radio 4 at the same time, but turned it down so I could live and work in Cornwall."
She bought a house in the village of St Dominic, near Callington, where she continued to live when she moved on to BBC South West's Spotlight. "I was studio based to start with, then gradually I was allowed out with the camera and I learnt how to be a reporter on the road."
It allowed her to see much of her adopted home county, but it wasn't all pleasure. In December 1981, Fern reported on one of the biggest and most devastating stories in the West Country's history: the Penlee lifeboat disaster. "It was a huge story, of course, and it dominated everyone's lives for a very long time," she recalls. "I reported live from Penlee, as well as doing studio-based reports and interviews. It was a tragedy."
Her work today is far removed from harrowing news reporting. Her fourth novel came out in April, and she is already working on her fifth book which, like three of her previous books, is set in Cornwall. "It is a perfect setting for my stories. I know Cornwall very well and I hope I can get across to readers the character, romance, drama and feeling of the people and the landscape. It is very special.Readers say they feel it and want to go to Cornwall, or that they love Cornwall anyway and feel I have captured something of its essence."
One of her biggest fans is her publisher who likes Fern's Cornish novels so much that she has asked her to set any future books in Cornwall. "It is by my publisher's request, which is very nice." As well as having lived in St Dominic and, now, spending lots of time on Cornwall's north coast, Fern is a big fan of Looe, a place she used to visit with her family when she was young. "We used to stay in a little flat by the church on the front. Every year I go back to Looe and say hello to old friends that I have made over the years." All of these places have helped to inspire the fictional Cornish seaside town of Trevay, which is central to her latest book, A Seaside Affair, in which the local people come together to try and prevent the closure of their clifftop theatre.
"I began my career as a stage manager working in theatre, and when I was doing the Strictly Come Dancing tour in big arenas in 2012, I was working with stage management and crew, make-up and lighting. We were all having a laugh about life on the road and touring, which I have done a lot of, and I thought what a good story it would make. One of the girls on tour said, 'We are just a merry band of vagabonds'. I thought it was a lovely phrase. And that was it."
The people she has met in Cornwall over the years also play their part in her writing. "The book I am working on now – due out next year – is about fishermen and lifeboat men, and the drama surrounding their personal lives. I am very fortunate that I know some of the lifeboat men, coastguards and fishermen, and I ring them up or text them with my questions and they play a big part in my research. They will get a big thank you in the acknowledgments."
As for favourite Cornish haunts: "I enjoy just wandering around Truro, and I love Bodmin Moor, where I learnt to ride a horse. I wouldn't mind living there – it's beautiful." She also has a cherished place from times gone by. "There is a wonderful spot near St Dominic called Halton Quay, on the banks of the Tamar. I used to spend summers there lying on a blanket, reading a book, watching the salmon leap …." It seems Fern's longstanding romance with Cornwall is far from over.


text:
I have always believed that the world has had very few true geniuses. My definition of a genius has been one who changes the world in a fundamental way, often against the thinking of the society at the time.
Sir Isaac Newton. For his laws of motion. Albert Einstein, of course. Wolfgang Mozart, who started composing at age 5, and whose compositions are still enjoyed over 200 years later.
There is a component of perseverance and lots of work to change the world. I read somewhere that Thomas Edison tried 1,000 different ways to make the incandescent light bulb until hitting the right formula.
"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.


text:
Pcast FAQ
Note: You are currently viewing documentation for Moodle 3.3. Up-to-date documentation for the latest stable version of Moodle is probably available here: Pcast FAQ.
- Creating a pcast
- Pcast settings
- Pcast FAQ
Why don't my uploaded episodes show up in the RSS feed?
- The RSS feed only displays episodes uploaded by users who are in the same group as the current user.
- Episodes from users who are not enrolled in the course will not be displayed in the RSS feed.
Why doesn't the image I uploaded for my podcast display in iTunes?
- iTunes only displays the podcast image when displaying the podcast in the iTunes store.
- More information can be found here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1557646/itunes-does-not-show-podcast-image
- To work around this limitation, simply add the image to each of your uploaded media files either as the first few frames of the video or as cover-art to the MP3 audio files.
- There is a nice tutorial on adding cover-art to an MP3 file here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sScZuBgSqE


text:
Pest and Termite Control for a Hygienic Home
Termite and pests can be irritating. On this point, most people have developed an interest in knowing more about the control processes that will ensure their safety from attack. Regardless of your hygiene levels, you can never be sure of your immunity from pest and termite attacks since they are brought about by numerous factors. The most bothersome thing about these small-sized invaders is their ability to multiply rapidly. In most cases, personal and unskilled endeavors are primarily unsuccessful since there are standard ways of managing these pests.
Whenever your home is attacked by termites and other types of pests, your exposure levels to certain diseases increases quite significantly. Also, you are required to be extra careful about the condition of the furniture that is within your premises. If you are to judge them by their look and sizes, you might assume that they are harmless and incapable of causing any damages. That said, no person should disregard the services of pets and termite gurus as they provide viable solutions that are quite dependable. The more you delay the process of eliminating all pests in your home, the tougher the situation will be with time.
Commercial pest control services providers are very many. While a number of regulatory bodies are existing and working, they are unable to single out all improper companies that are unfit to offer ideal services. Hence, the responsibility to pick out a good pest control company is an exclusive duty of the client. Foremost, one must realize that a successful process must be guided. You have a right to get satisfactory services for the money you are paying.
Although money issues are always about proper utilization, overpricing should not be an option. People should not consider single sourcing the pest and termite control company to work with. No reputable company deserves to be locked out of the process since it could be the one offering the best rates. However, their backgrounds should play a great role on this since it should not be composed of a lot of undesirable information.
No matter the need for exterminating the termites and pests, disruption is unwanted since it affects a person's schedule. You must work with a company that understands best to work on given timeframes without offering poor services. Furthermore, you are not limited from hiring additional contractors who will help the existing one due to tighter deadlines. If you are usually extremely busy, this is not a good excuse for having a lot of termites and other pests in your house since there are so many companies that upon agreement, can serve clients on weekends and holidays.
Smart Tips For Finding Professionals


text:
Never before have I successfully taken the Christmas photo before Thanksgiving. Never before have I completed my Christmas card order this early!
We took Daddy along today. And, although Pookie's telltale Diva-style poses were absent, joyful and childlike laughter shook their bellies and lit up their faces. No one cried. Mom didn't yell.
And I saved 35% off my Snapfish order simply by Googling coupons! Which means the extra 25 cards I told myself last year in my then-new 2009 calendar that I would need this year to have enough - were free!!!
Love it!
Now to place an American Girl order...


text:
"Entrada de Toros y Caballos" Bull and Horse Festivities (Festivity of International Touristic Interest) Segorbe
Segorbe – Dates: Second Week in September
These festivities of the bulls and horses date back to the 14th century. They take place during the second week of September, from Monday to Sunday, and last just over a minute, in which there is utmost respect for the animals. Six bulls take part, along with around a dozen horses, guided by expert horsemen who channel the herd along the town's main street "Calle Colón" which is jam packed with people wanting to catch a look.
There are no barriers along the crowded adjacent streets, rather it is the public that blocks the street off; opening and closing to allow the herd to go past. This creates a magical experience that cannot be found anywhere else in the world. Because of this, the "Entrada de Toros y Caballos" in Segorbe was declared as a Festivity of International Touristic Interest in December 2005 and Site of Cultural Interest in February 2011.
Information: Segorbe Tourist Information Office
Tel: Tel.: +34 964 713 254
E-mail:[email protected]
Web: http://turismo.segorbe.es


text: Our partners We work closely with Länsförsäkringar to spread knowledge and information about water damage prevention, thus reducing the number of water damage in society. We also cooperate with the Säker Vatten branch organization to provide clear assembly instructions. In addition, we constantly develop our concept Waterproof Kitchen as industry rules are tightened.


text:
If the Tuition Doesn't Get You, the Cost of Student Housing Will | Bloomberg
In 2015, Sabrina Martinez got into the University of Texas at Austin, the UT system's flagship campus and its most selective. She was thrilled. Her parents, not so much. "They were just like 'Nope. You can't afford it. You shouldn't go. Loans are ridiculous.' " They encouraged her to go to the cheaper University of Texas at El Paso, to which she could commute while living at home. "But I clicked 'accept' on my admission anyway," she says, figuring that attending UT Austin's lauded journalism school would lead to more internship opportunities and, ultimately, a job after she graduated.
Martinez's parents are divorced. Her mother works as a teacher and receives child support from her father, who works in the oil fields of West Texas. Her family always had money for necessities, Martinez says, but with her two younger siblings to take care of, there usually wasn't much left over for luxuries. That meant paying for college fell squarely on her shoulders.
Even with student aid, a $5,000-a-year scholarship, and some income from a part-time job on campus, Martinez has had to take on far more debt than she expected. She's hardly alone: Average student debt has climbed from about $11,000 in 1990 to more than $35,000 in 2018. The cost of tuition at public colleges roughly tripled in that time, to $10,270, but that's far from the only expense forcing students to take on loans. In a 2015 analysis, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development found that "housing costs [are] likely a significant portion" of individual student debt. At UT Austin, the median annual rent in the neighborhoods closest to campus exceeds the annual in-state tuition—about $11,000 for the upcoming academic year—even without including other costs such as utilities and groceries.
Martinez chose to live in a dorm her freshman year at a total cost of more than $10,000, which included a meal plan.
Read complete article here:
If the Tuition Doesn't Get You, the Cost of Student Housing Will – Bloomberg.


text:
Tqm Research
Total quality management or TQM is an integrative philosophy of management for continuously improving the quality of products and processes. TQM is based on the premise that the quality of products and processes is the responsibility of everyone involved with the creation or consumption of the products or services offered by an organization, requiring the involvement of management, workforce, suppliers, and customers, to meet or exceed customer expectations. TQM and Six Sigma
The TQM concept was developed by a number of American management consultants, including W. Edwards Deming, Joseph M. Juran, and Armand V. Feigenbaum. Originally, these consultants won few converts in the United States. However, managers in Japan embraced their ideas enthusiastically and even named their premier annual prize for manufacturing excellence after Deming. The Six Sigma management strategy originated in 1986 from Motorola's drive towards reducing defects by minimizing variation in processes. The main difference between TQM and Six Sigma (a newer concept) is the approach. At its core, Total Quality Management (TQM) is a management approach to long-term success through customer satisfaction In a TQM effort, all members of an organization participate in improving processes, products, services and the culture in which they work. The methods for implementing this approach come from people such as Philip B. Crosby, W. Edwards Deming, Armand V. Feigenbaum, Kaoru Ishikawa and Joseph M. Juran. Total Quality Management (TQM) is an approach that seeks to improve quality and performance which will meet or exceed customer expectations. This can be achieved by integrating all quality-related functions and processes throughout the company. TQM looks at the overall quality measures used by a company including managing quality design and development, quality control and maintenance, quality improvement, and quality assurance. TQM takes into account all quality measures taken at all levels and involving all company employees. Total quality management has evolved from the quality assurance methods that were first developed around the time of the First World War. The war effort led to large scale manufacturing efforts that often produced poor quality. To help correct this, quality inspectors were introduced on the production line to ensure that the level of failures due to quality was minimized.
History of TQM, and Japanese revaluations on TQM
After the First World War, quality inspection became more commonplace in manufacturing environments and this led to the introduction of Statistical Quality Control (SQC), a theory developed by Dr. W. Edwards Deming. This quality method provided a statistical method of quality based on sampling. Where it was not possible to inspect every item, a sample was tested for quality. The theory of SQC was based on the notion that a variation in the production process leads to variation in the end product. If the variation in the process could be removed this would lead to a higher level of quality in the end product. After World War Two, the industrial manufacturers in Japan produced poor quality items. In a response to this, the Japanese Union of Scientists and Engineers invited Dr. Deming to train engineers in quality processes. By the 1950's quality control was an integral part of Japanese manufacturing and was adopted by all levels of workers within an organization. By the 1970's the notion of total quality was being discussed. This was seen as company-wide quality control that involves all employees from top management to the workers, in quality control. In the next decade more non-Japanese companies were introducing quality management procedures that based on the results seen in Japan. The new wave of quality control became known as Total Quality Management, which was used to describe the many quality-focused strategies and techniques that became the center of focus for the quality...
Please join StudyMode to read the full document


text:
School Passport
Secure Single Sign-On
The platform powering The Global Grid for Learning is purpose-built for K-12, designed to revolutionize how education technology is deployed, measured and financed. The GG4L platform helps schools deploy cost-effective EdTech solutions thanks to the generous support of GG4L members and sponsors.
School Passport delivers
Personalized Home Page & Single Sign-On
Give students, guardians and staff 24 x 7 access to applications and content on any device from any location. Streamline access to on-line resources for all users and save valuable classroom time with Passport's personalized home page and single sign-on.
Application Usage Analysis
Gain insight into when, from where and how often applications are used to help fine-tune technology investment. Analyze usage patterns across applications, classes, facilities, locations, or categories of users to ensure resource availability, understand user experience and inform decisions.
Online Safety & Security
Know your users with federated authentication. Protect the personal information of students, guardians and staff with advanced governance and standards-based single sign-on. Quickly and easily revoke a user's access to all applications when access is no longer authorized.
How School Passport Works
Schools can choose from hundreds of applications listed in the GG4L Catalyst Catalog. School Passport seamlessly works with any school's or
district's LMS, SIS, third-party applications, and devices.


text:
Do you ever purchase on-line? 1 / 4 of web shoppers (25{263a98db78bcf8bcd854fa73cf19fff09f2de6c74443afc66d51f7d622fdadc8}) have made a web-based buy from a brick-and-mortar retailer. The market shoppers is more likely than the common shopper to take pleasure in taking their time to seek out the fitting deal (sixty two{263a98db78bcf8bcd854fa73cf19fff09f2de6c74443afc66d51f7d622fdadc8} v. 54{263a98db78bcf8bcd854fa73cf19fff09f2de6c74443afc66d51f7d622fdadc8}). Go forward and shop till you drop on India's largest on-line style store. Solely products with the in-retailer pickup option at checkout are eligible.
29 Nonetheless, resent research 30 has confirmed that websites with increased give attention to efficiency, convenience, and personalised providers elevated the purchasers motivation to make purchases. A web based store evokes the physical analogy of shopping for services or products at an everyday "bricks-and-mortar" retailer or shopping heart ; the method known as enterprise-to-shopper (B2C) online procuring.
Customers on class-specific websites are loyal to manufacturers, to not the retailer kind. 2 in 5 (forty{263a98db78bcf8bcd854fa73cf19fff09f2de6c74443afc66d51f7d622fdadc8}) internet buyers say they couldn't dwell without online procuring. An automated on-line assistant , with potential to enhance person interface on shopping sites. 67{263a98db78bcf8bcd854fa73cf19fff09f2de6c74443afc66d51f7d622fdadc8} of Millennials and fifty six{263a98db78bcf8bcd854fa73cf19fff09f2de6c74443afc66d51f7d622fdadc8} of Gen Xers favor to shop on on-line rather than in-retailer. The tickets, codes, or coupons may be redeemed at the acceptable bodily or online premises and their content material reviewed to confirm their eligibility (e.g., assurances that the proper of admission or use is redeemed at the appropriate time and place, for the proper greenback quantity, and for the right variety of uses).
^ a b Huang, M. (2000) Information load: its relationship to online exploratory and buying conduct. Will call , COBO (in Care Of Field Workplace), or "on the door" pickup: The patron picks up pre-purchased tickets for an event, reminiscent of a play, sporting event, or live performance, both just before the event or upfront. Seniors spend 2.5 hours per week buying on-line.
• You can be redirected to the electronic POS where you'll be able to easily pay the tickets with your bank card. Worthwhile gadgets often have a high worth-to-weight ratio, they may contain embarrassing purchases, they could usually go to individuals in distant places, and they might have shut-ins as their typical purchasers. When you still need different products in the cancelled order, you will should purchase those merchandise once more in a brand new order.


text:
The Earth and Space Science Open Archive is up and running. This is a new preprint server created under the leadership of AGU with technical and financial backing from Atypon and Wiley. Over a dozen scientific societies are participating in ESSOAr, advising on the development, structure, and policy of the site. It was announced in Eos back in September but it is now accepting submissions as of late January.
In the middle of the central graphic on the website is a search tool, to browse what is already uploaded to this pre-publication archive. There are several space physics posters already in the system. Yes, posters. If a meeting is approved by the advisory board, and pretty much all AGU-related meetings should be approved, then those that presented posters at the meeting will be able to upload a PDF of their poster to ESSOAr. That is, ESSOAr is more than just a preprint server but is also filling a unique niche in capturing the scientific content of the conference poster hall and allowing for a virtual poster session after the meeting.
To add content, you first have to log in to the system, which is done with your ORCID username and password. This allows you access to the author dashboard link along the top menu bar. The author dashboard gives you a second menu bar across the top, like this:
showing you all of the stages of submitting a poster or manuscript preprint to the server.
I went through the submission process with my Fall AGU poster and it is fairly easy. I think the trickiest thing was picking a license agreement for it. ESSOAr offers 4 levels of license. In the footer of all pages, there is a link to a nice Frequently Asked Questions list available about ESSOAr. One of those questions is about the license levels. It's good to read this first. All levels require users to provide proper attribution back to this ESSOAr posting, but some prohibit commercial or derivative use. It's also good to read through the fine print at the user terms and conditions.
Material posted here is not peer reviewed. There is a long list of researchers on the editorial board that check to make sure that submissions are within the scope of scientific endeavor appropriate for inclusion in the server. They do not, however, offer corrections or suggestions to the material. That's on you.
Once something is posted, you can "revise" but not delete it or remove it. This is probably not needed for poster submissions, but manuscript preprints could be revised with subsequent iterations of the paper. Once published a link to the journal version of the manuscript should be added to the ESSOAr version.
Like preprint posts to arXiv, preprints put here are excluded from the similarity cross-check conducted on all manuscript submissions to AGU. In fact, AGU is making it easy for authors to upload to ESSOAr and then "transfer" some of the information you just typed over to a formal submission to an AGU journal. And the reverse, too: submission to GEMS will now have a link to also post on ESSOAr.
I'll have other posts on the benefits and challenges of preprint servers. For now, happy posting.


text:
Entry Protection
Go from to-do to ta-da with a mat system designed to keep your entrance impressively clean no matter the traffic patterns. Most dirt walks right into your space. Uninvited. Especially in cold weather climates. From rain and mud to snow and salt, your entrance can go from inviting to disastrous within a matter of steps. And within a matter of minutes. The first step to maintaining clean carpet is to keep dirt outside, where it belongs.
Don't Look Back
With our 3-part series of Walk Off Mats, dust and dirt are trapped at the first step. We have mats with high scraping and draining capabilities. These go outside to trap mud, snow, sand, and grit before it dirties your space. We have highly absorbent mats that capture dirt and moisture at your building's entrance. They'll also protect the floor in high traffic areas. Our mats are unaffected by bleach, soiling, sunlight, and repeat washings. That means the color you choose is the color you get for the life of the mat. That's years of use and years of clean, without fade.
Leave Dirt at the Door
Designed as a superior dust control barrier, our Obex® Matting Solution offers unparalleled protection against the dirt and moisture that pedestrians can track into a building. Want to stop up to 80% of dust, dirt and moisture brought into a building within the first 10 to 30 feet? Try our 3-part system designed especially for high- traffic areas that includes:
- Prior™ heavy-duty scraper modular tile – the first line of defense against outdoor dirt and grime
- Forma™ for interior entryways?
- Atrium Plus™ textile mats and runners for high circulation areas Obex products come in variety of fully coordinated, contemporary colors and a five-year guarantee.
An Easy Solution for Green
Protect your flooring investment. Trap dust and dirt as it walks in. Improve Indoor Air Quality. And help rack up some LEED points for entry protection. That was easy.
Get a FREE Design Layout!
Entry Matting and Systems are one of the first things your customers see when entering your facilities. Our experienced staff can assist in creating a layout to illustrate your company logo, safety and surface protection.
Email us your digital photo of your entrance areas and we will design a FREE layout, or if you have a CAD or PDF file floor plan, email this to us and we can create a FREE computer layout.
We have representatives across the country to assist with a professional onsite installation Ask to have a matting specialist contact you today to discuss your specific matting requirements.
We specialize in custom indoor and outdoor mats, branded mats, soft seating area carpets, anti fatigue mats, recessed well matts, rubber matting and safety mats.


text:
Treat Yourself!
Let's face it; mid semester time at uni is pretty much one of the most stressful times of your life. Not only are you constantly dealing with the stress of tricky assignments and essays which are all suspiciously due at the same time. But you also have to deal with the other struggles of being a student like being forced to work in group assignments where it seems like you're the only one doing work anyway, making the heartbreaking choice between sleep and the next episode of the TV show which you've been binge watching lately and the feeling of missing out on both work and a social life.
So we've decided that you definitely deserve a break!
We're giving away an Event Cinemas voucher worth $60 for you to treat yourself with.
All you have to do is head to our Facebook page, like the competition post, comment and tell us which movie you would like to see and you could WIN.
So even if you're essay isn't quite done yet, you certainly are. Grab your favourite movie buddy or that one other person in your group assignment that actually helped out and make a night of it. Get your hands on all of the best snacks you can and try your best not to think about that pile of looming assignments. There is currently only one thing written on your to do list and that is to treat yourself!
What are you waiting for? Head over to our Facebook page and enter now!


text:
By Joseph Wiswell
Those looking to hike at Grandfather Mountain in the next couple of days you may be in for a rough time. This week's heavy rain has led to Grandfather Mountain State Park closing many of its trails. Overflowing creek crossings led to the entire backcountry trail system being closed Thursday, May 31, though sections of it are expected to reopen soon.
On the N.C. Highway 105 side of the mountain, overflowing streams have made creek crossings dangerous, and led to the temporary closure of the Profile Trail.
Coming from the Blue Ridge Parkway side is even messier, with the Nuwati and Cragway trails having been particularly hard hit by the rains. These trails are expected to remain closed for the next several weeks as State Park crews assess damage, repair eroded sections, and clear debris. The campsites along those trails will also remain closed. Other trails have suffered some damage but are expected to reopen in the next couple of days.
Also off the Blue Ridge Parkway, this week's rains have seen the closure of the footbridge on the Grandfather Mountain section of the Boone Fork Trail. This limits parking for the trails on the backside of the mountain to the Boulder Field Overlook, a low capacity parking area.
Despite these closures, once stream levels have gone down and the creek-crossings are safe it will still be possible to get all the way up and over the mountain, from N.C. 105 to the Parkway.
At this time there is no precise timeline for returning the trails to normal. Superintendent of the park Sue McBean said on Thursday that everyone was "very unsure" at the park. However, she promised that the Park Service was working hard to assess the damage and would reopen many of the trails, including the Profile Trail, as soon as it is safe.
Those seeking a bit more civilization in their adventures will be happy to hear that the Grandfather Mountain Attraction Area is fully open, with the zoo, the swinging bridge and other attractions seeing little damage.
The only interruption for the Attraction Area is the road closure of U.S. Highway 221 just north of the Grandfather Mountain entrance. That road is expected to remain out of commission for a few weeks. This means that visitors from Boone and Blowing Rock will need to detour onto N.C. Highway 105 South into Linville before taking U.S. 221 North to the main entrance.
While all of these closures might make hikers sad, it is not all bad news for the trails out at Grandfather Mountain. Anyone who has hiked the Profile Trail in the past few years–and parked in the tiny gravel parking lot off of N.C. Highway 105–will be heartened by the new Profile Trail parking lot, a luxurious 100-plus car lot with a bathroom facility that opened late last summer. The old parking lot was infamous for overflowing, forcing people to either turn around and go elsewhere or park on the side of the busy Highway 105. The new facility provides a safe place to park, and adds a short section of easy, rolling trail to the hike.
In other words, while conditions out at the Grandfather Mountain trails are currently a bit messy, this summer promises to make the hiking better and safer than ever!


text:
Those responsible for implementing efforts to reduce greenhouse gases (GHG) need more timely and accurate emissions data to guide their activities. But measuring GHG emissions poses significant technical and scientific challenges. During the 2016 Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) in Paris, 162 nations submitted emission reduction goals in the form of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). The U.S. NDC states that, "the United States intends to achieve an economy-wide target of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 26–28 percent below its 2005 level in 2025 and to make best efforts to reduce its emissions by 28 percent." Other developed nations have put forth NDCs of similar magnitude. To judge progress toward these NDCs, and determine whether they are ultimately attained, will require measurements to a particular degree of certainty. How much certainty will be required is currently not determined. However, it may be anticipated that for emission reduction claims to be credible, uncertainties that are a fraction of target levels will be desired.
Cities and metropolitan areas are major contributors to a nation's total GHG emissions inventory. Therefore, measurements that better quantify urban emissions can greatly increase the credibility of U.S. GHG emissions data. Prior to 2010, most atmospheric greenhouse gas measurement capabilities were focused on continental and global scales (with the notable U.S. exception of research efforts in Salt Lake City (Strong et al., 2011, Lin et al., 2018)). In 2010, the Indianapolis Flux Experiment (INFLUX) began. INFLUX is focused on developing and demonstrating urban-scale GHG flux measurement capabilities. Urban environments, which currently account for approximately 50% of global GHG emissions to the atmosphere, are excellent test beds for advancing these technologies. The objective of INFLUX is to improve emission inventory data quality by investigating, assessing, and improving the performance of emissions measurement approaches with high spatial and temporal resolution (Davis et al., 2017). This special issue of Elementa features 14 articles describing on-going measurement science research aimed at improving GHG emission flux quantification methods within Indianapolis and the surrounding region.
Indianapolis was chosen because of its moderate size (about 1.8 million inhabitants in the city and surrounding area), relative isolation from other strong emissions sources, and location in a landscape of flat terrain with minimal impact on its meteorology. In addition, Indianapolis was already the site for development of urban-scale, spatially and temporally resolved emissions data products that bridged the gap in temporal and geospatial scales between atmospheric observing methods and more traditional inventory data and reports (Gurney et al., 2012 & 2017). These features made the challenge of measuring GHG emission fluxes in Indianapolis tractable relative to other urban settings.
In addition to being excellent test beds, urban regions having well-characterized GHG emission flux estimates can provide a useful information base for comparison to and assessment of remote sensing instrument performance whether these are satellite, airborne, or surface-based platforms. Combining high-quality, mole fraction measurements with well-characterized meteorology can provide flux estimates with stated uncertainty (Lauvaux et al., 2016). Use of these to assess satellite instrument performance, such as those on GOSAT, OCO 2, and future satellite missions, for example GeoCARB and OCO 3, contributes to improving the quality of both atmospheric observation-based estimates and traditional GHG inventory data and reports.
The INFLUX project has been funded wholly by NIST since its inception. As a measurement science project, it reflects NIST GHG measurements program goals. First, to advance urban GHG quantification capabilities based on traditional economic-sector and emission process-based methods (the bottom-up approach; Gurney et al., 2012 & 2017) and those based on atmospheric observations (the top-down approach; Lauvaux et al., 2016 & in prep.). Most emissions reports are based solely on bottom-up methods, and generally report on a yearly basis by economic sector. In contrast, top-down methods yield time- and location-specific data on scales of hours to weeks and several to tens of kilometers. The second, longer-term goal is to develop methods for objectively comparing the results from these two method classes to move toward a comparative capability, or reference frame, a challenge for both method classes. In addition, research results such as those produced by INFLUX will strengthen the basis for making bottom-up and top-down methods independent of one another. Evaluating their relative performance provides critical insights into the strengths and deficiencies of both and identifies paths toward improvement. Finally, combining information from both approaches is likely to produce results that have greater accuracy, lower uncertainties, than either approach alone.
The atmospheric observation methods utilized as part of INFLUX include aircraft mass balance methods designed to measure whole-city emission fluxes (e.g. Heimburger et al., 2017). While these methods do not provide spatially resolved emissions information, they can be rapidly deployed to many environments and produce a quantitative snapshot of emission flux information. INFLUX was initially designed as a mass balance experiment combining aircraft with surface observations taken at two locations across the city along the prevailing wind direction. Shortly after INFLUX began, NIST expanded the effort to investigate the performance of a spatially dense, surface-based atmospheric observing network. These measurements coupled with atmospheric inversion methodologies provide capability to locate and quantify emission fluxes within an urban environment or similarly sized region. By 2012, the INFLUX team deployed mole fraction measurement devices at existing communications towers to sample the atmosphere at heights from 40 to 130 meters. This effort expanded to include 12 towers located at a background inflow position and at locations through the city core (Miles et al., 2017). The surface observing network continuously measures the city's incremental concentrations of CO2 and methane (Richardson et al., 2017).
In addition to real-time measurements, several observing points have been fitted with flask sampling devices. Analyses of these flask samples include 14CO2 and approximately 40 other atmospheric trace gases. To improve performance of atmospheric simulation, a Doppler LIDAR instrument was installed to provide real-time estimates of boundary layer heights and dynamics (one of the papers in this issue discusses the benefits gained from the LIDAR system.) With variable wind direction data and the use of Bayesian inversion methods, this network yields emission fluxes that are spatially resolved to roughly 1–2 km2.
When INFLUX was launched, an extensive and sophisticated emissions model, HESTIA, was under active development at Purdue. HESTIA employs a bottom-up emissions modeling approach based on detailed data from local socioeconomic activities to produce fossil fuel CO2 emissions flux data at temporal and spatial resolutions that equal or exceed those of the top-down approaches used in INFLUX. Indeed, one goal of HESTIA was to provide local decision-makers with high-fidelity information useful in assessing and improving effectiveness of their CO2 emissions reduction strategies.
HESTIA is an important component of INFLUX. For instance, INFLUX compares the bottom-up emission flux determinations from HESTIA with the top-down results from INFLUX's several atmospheric observing methods (Cambaliza et al., 2014; Lauvaux et al., 2016). Articles in this issue expand upon those developments. Atmospheric inversion analyses for CO2 have been a mainstay of INFLUX research. Such analyses use HESTIA data as an initial estimate for CO2 emissions. Several articles (Lauvaux et al., 2016; Gurney et al., 2017) address aspects of this type of Bayesian analysis approach.
Although the HESTIA modeling approach is quite effective for fossil fuel CO2 emissions, applications of this approach to methane emissions are considerably less mature. However, progress is being made toward a similar emissions data product for methane. Several ground-based and aircraft campaigns, most aimed at identifying and quantifying important point sources of methane emissions, have also been developed using Indianapolis as a testing location (Lamb et al., 2016; Cambaliza et al., 2017).
Progress on INFLUX, and similar urban studies begun after the start of INFLUX, indicate that the combination of top-down and bottom-up methods has excellent potential for providing urban CO2 emission flux measurements sufficiently accurate to clearly assess progress toward NDC targets. Indeed, the combination of methods strengthens the result of the comparison itself by identifying the strengths and weaknesses of each. For example, with bottom-up methods, unknown sources are not included in data products such as Hestia, nor in U.S. GHG inventory reports. On the top-down side, large discrepancies with HESTIA may reflect uncertainty, or they may point toward the possibility of an unknown source in an area of the city. For example, INFLUX demonstrated that atmospheric inversion could identify sources not included in the prior estimate obtained from Hestia. In that case, further investigation, including potential sources of bias in the inversion method, revealed that a small power plant located on the outskirts of the city had not been included in the HESTIA bottom-up estimates because its emissions were below EPA reporting requirements.
However, significant scientific and technological challenges remain. These include improving CO2 flux measurement and quantification, which will help those faced with the challenge of more effectively managing emissions mitigation efforts. Another challenge is improving the quantification of urban methane emissions. Significant progress on that front will likely occur in the next few years. Finally, the scientific community is developing the capability to distinguish between biogenic and combustion-based CO2 emissions in urban settings (e.g. Turnbull, et al., 2015; Reinmann, 2017). This is a significant challenge, as biospheric dynamics in urban areas appear to differ from those outside the urban environment. Addressing this challenge will require greater knowledge, enhanced measurements, and improved process models of urban biospheric fluxes (Wu et al., 2018), both above ground vegetation and soil microbial contributions.
Other problems in top-down approaches that complicate analysis at regional or continental scales persist or are magnified in urban environments. Examples include properly accounting for the variable mole fraction of incoming air masses to an urban area, ensuring higher fidelity of atmospheric transport and dispersion modelling products, and correctly attributing GHG enhancements to sectorial activity. Although advances in higher-resolution meteorological measurements and modeling capabilities have been made by INFLUX research (e.g. Deng et al., 2017; Sarmiento et al., 2017; Gaudet et al., 2017), the need for better measurement and modeling of planetary boundary layer dynamics and height remains a significant challenge. Further advances in chemical species mole fraction measurements of proxy gases will also contribute to better understanding of GHG emissions and their underlying processes (Nathan et al., 2017; Vimont et al., 2017). Meeting these challenges will require continued research aimed at making measurement capabilities more robust. These in turn will support efforts to assess mitigation performance.
Although initial development and research results for INFLUX have been published previously, this special issue of Elementa provides an opportunity for a comprehensive description, in a single compilation, of the INFLUX project and its progress toward advanced urban GHG emission flux measurement methods. The fourteen articles in this issue describe various aspects of INFLUX research, and provide a view of the current state of urban GHG measurement science and technology.
INFLUX is the prototype for NIST's Urban GHG Measurements Testbed System that includes two additional test beds: The South Coast Air Basin of Southern California, including Los Angeles and its surrounding area, and the U.S. Northeast Corridor stretching from the Washington, DC to Boston. These testbeds have distinct meteorological, geographic, population, and GHG emissions profiles that can be used to further challenge, test, extend, and demonstrate advances in urban-scale GHG measurement capabilities and standards.
The author thanks Richard Press of NIST for his thoughtful and helpful editing efforts.
Funding of the Indianapolis Flux Experiment has been provided by the NIST Special Programs Office and the Measurement Science and Engineering Grants program.
The author has no competing interests to declare.
Cambaliza, MOL, Bogner, JE, Green, RB, Shepson, PB, Harvey, TA, Spokas, KA, Stirm, BH and Corcoran, M 2017 Field measurements and modeling to resolve m2 to km2 CH4 emissions for a complex urban source: An Indiana landfill study. Elem Sci Anth 5: 36. DOI: 10.1525/elementa.145
Cambaliza, MOL, Shepson, PB, Caulton, D, Stirm, B, Samarov, D, Possolo, A, Turnbull, J, Lauvaux, T, Davis, K, Mays, K, Sweeney, C, Whetstone, J, Karion, A, Gurney, K, Huang, J, Razlivanov, I, Miles, N, Richardson, S, Moser, B and Hendricks, A 2014 Assessment of uncertainties of the aircraft-based mass-balance approach for quantifying urban greenhouse gas emissions. Atmos. Chem. Phys 14: 9029–9050. DOI: 10.5194/acp-14-9029-2014
Davis, KJ, Deng, A, Lauvaux, T, Miles, NL, Richardson, SJ, Sarmiento, DP, Gurney, KR, Hardesty, RM, Bonin, TA, Brewer, WA, Lamb, BK, Shepson, PB, Harvey, RM, Cambaliza, MO, Sweeney, C, Turnbull, JC, Whetstone, J and Karion, A 2017 The Indianapolis Flux Experiment (INFLUX): A test-bed for developing urban greenhouse gas emission measurements. Elem Sci Anth 5: 21. DOI: 10.1525/elementa.188
Deng, A, Lauvaux, T, Davis, KJ, Gaudet, BJ, Miles, N, Richardson, SJ, Wu, K, Sarmiento, DP, Hardesty, RM, Bonin, TA, Brewer, WA and Gurney, KR 2017 Toward reduced transport errors in a high resolution urban CO2 inversion system. Elem Sci Anth 5: 20. DOI: 10.1525/elementa.133
Gaudet, BJ, Lauvaux, T, Deng, A and Davis, KJ 2017 Exploration of the impact of nearby sources on urban atmospheric inversions using large eddy simulation. Elem Sci Anth 5: 60. DOI: 10.1525/elementa.247
Gurney, KR, Liang, J, Patarasuk, R, O'Keeffe, D, Huang, J, Hutchins, M, Lauvaux, T, Turnbull, JC and Shepson, PB 2017 Reconciling the differences between a bottom-up and inverse-estimated FFCO2 emissions estimate in a large U.S. urban area. Elem Sci Anth 5: 44. DOI: 10.1525/elementa.137
Gurney, KR, Razlivanov, I, Song, Y, Zhou, Y, Benes, B and Abdul-Massih, M 2012 Quantification of Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions on the Building/Street Scale for a Large U.S. City. Environ. Sci. Technol 46: 12194–12202. DOI: 10.1021/es3011282
Heimburger, AMF, Harvey, RM, Shepson, PB, Stirm, BH, Gore, H, Turnbull, J, Cambaliza, MOL, Salmon, OE, Kerlo, A-EM, Lavoie, TN, Davis, KJ, Lauvaux, T, Karion, A, Sweeney, C, Brewer, WA, Hardesty, RM and Gurney, KR 2017 Assessing the optimized precision of the aircraft mass balance method for measurement of urban greenhouse gas emission rates through averaging. Elem Sci Anth 5: 26. DOI: 10.1525/elementa.134
Lamb, BK, Prasad, K, Cambaliza, M, Ferrara, T, Lauvaux, T, Edburg, S, Howard, T, Shepson, PB, Stirm, BH, Salmon, O, Lavoie, T and Whetstone, J 2016 Direct and Indirect Measurements and Modeling of Methane Emissions in Indianapolis, IN. Environ. Sci. Technol .
Lauvaux, T in prep. Atmospheric monitoring of urban carbon emissions.
Lauvaux, T, Miles, N, Deng, A, Richardson, S, Cambaliza, MO, Davis, K, Gaudet, B, Gurney, K, Huang, J, O'Keefe, D, Song, Y, Karion, A, Oda, T, Patarasuk, R, Razlivanov, I, Sarmiento, D, Shepson, PB, Sweeney, C, Turnbull, J and Wu, K 2016 High-resolution atmospheric inversion of urban CO2 emissions during the dormant season of the Indianapolis Flux Experiment (INFLUX). J. Geophys. Res. Atmos . 121. DOI: 10.1002/2015JD024473
Lin, JC, Mitchell, M, Buchert, E, Crosman, E, Mendoza, D, Gurney, K, Patasuruk, R, Bowling, D, Pataki, D, Bares, R, Fasoli, B, Catherine, D, Baasandorj, M, Jacques, A, Hoch, S, Horel, J, and Ehleringer, J 2018 CO2 and carbon emissions from cities: linkages to air quality, socioeconomic activity and stakeholders in the Salt Lake City urban area, Bull Am. Meteorological Soc ., in review.
Miles, NL, Richardson, SJ, Lauvaux, T, Davis, KJ, Balashov, NV, Deng, A, Turnbull, JC, Sweeney, C, Gurney, KR, Patarasuk, R, Razlivanov, I, Cambaliza, MOL and Shepson, PB 2017 Quantification of urban atmospheric boundary layer greenhouse gas dry mole fraction enhancements in the dormant season: Results from the Indianapolis Flux Experiment (INFLUX). Elem Sci Anth 5: 27. DOI: 10.1525/elementa.127
Reinmann, AB and Hutyra, LR 2017 Local and global limitations to forest productivity as mediators of biogeochemical response to forest edge effects. PNAS 114(34): E7033–E7034. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1712103114
Richardson, SJ, Miles, NL, Davis, KJ, Lauvaux, T, Martins, DK, Turnbull, JC, McKain, K, Sweeney, C and Cambaliza, MOL 2017 Tower measurement network of in-situ CO2, CH4, and CO in support of the Indianapolis FLUX (INFLUX) Experiment. Elem Sci Anth 5: 59. DOI: 10.1525/elementa.140
Sarmiento, DP, Davis, KJ, Deng, A, Lauvaux, T, Brewer, A and Hardesty, M 2017 A comprehensive assessment of land surface-atmosphere interactions in a WRF/Urban modeling system for Indianapolis, IN. Elem Sci Anth 5: 23. DOI: 10.1525/elementa.132
Strong, C, Stwertka, C, Bowling, DR, Stephens, BB and Ehleringer, JR 2011 Urban carbon dioxide cycles within the Salt Lake Valley. A multiple-box model validated by observations. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos 116: 12. DOI: 10.1029/2011JD015693
Turnbull, JC. et al. 2015 Toward quantification and source sector identification of fossil fuel CO2 emissions from an urban area: Results from the INFLUX experiment. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos 120(1): 292–312. DOI: 10.1002/2014JD022555
UNFCCC Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). http://unfccc.int/focus/indc_portal/items/8766.php and http://www4.unfccc.int/ndcregistry/Pages/Home.aspx.
Vimont, IJ, Turnbull, JC, Petrenko, VV, Place, PF, Karion, A, Miles, NL, Richardson, SJ, Gurney, KR, Patarasuk, R, Sweeney, C, Vaughn, B and White, JWC 2017 Carbon monoxide isotopic measurements in Indianapolis constrain urban source isotopic signatures and support mobile fossil fuel emissions as the dominant wintertime CO source. Elem Sci Anth 5: 63. DOI: 10.1525/elementa.136
Wu, K, Lauvaux, T, Davis, KJ, Deng, A, Lopez Coto, I, Gurney, KR and Patarasuk, R 2018 Joint inverse estimation of fossil fuel and biogenic CO2 fluxes in an urban environment: An observing system simulation experiment to assess the impact of multiple uncertainties. Elem Sci Anth . DOI: 10.1525/elementa.138


text:
Privacy Policy
Hide'n'Teak Privacy and Data Protection Policy
When you place an order with us, your name, delivery address and contact details will be held on a customer record file. We will not sell, transfer or otherwise disclose this information to any third party unless it is required to complete your order.
Online transactions are conducted by third party secure servers such as PayPal. Specific account details are not accessible or disclosed to Hide'n'Teak.
The email address you provide for order processing will also be used to send you information and updates regarding your order.
Hide'n'Teak have no control over the content of third party websites which may be linked from this website, nor can we be liable in respect of anything contained on these websites.


text:
Miskin Social Dance
Dance run by Miskin Tea Dances
Friday 06 December 2019 In Past
Singles and couples welcome for ballroom, latin and sequence dancing
Dance Styles: Cha Cha Cha (Ballroom), Foxtrot, Jive (Ballroom), Modern Tango, Paso Doble, Quickstep, Rumba, Samba, Popular Sequence, Viennese Waltz, Waltz
Price: 3.50 including buffet
Time: 2.00 - 4.00 pm
Ticket Options: Pay on door
Venue: Gerald Miskin Memorial Hall
Address: Hever Court 59 Hever Court Road Gravesend Kent DA12 5EG
Show on Google Maps
Miskin Tea Dances organiser
Tea Dance. Ballroom, latin and sequence with or without partners. Admission £3.50 with buffet tea.
More information about Miskin Tea Dances including other forthcoming events


text:
ER Post Box Black Cast Iron ER Post Box in Black
Cast Iron Post Box with steel back in BLACK with ER lettering in Gold.
Vintage style Post Box
(These are refurbisbed post boxes )
Space for a house number and Private details can be slotted into aperture
Front opening only
Aperture size 19cm x 5cms
Two Sets of Keys
These boxes are deliberately vintage and therefore there will be some slight patination and undulation on the finish
Can be built into a wall or gate post or post mounted as there are pre drilled holes in the inside base.
vintage style post box, cast iron post box, GPO, white wedding post box,wedding post box for hire
58cm high x 25cm wide x 35cm Deep
Please also see Care and Guidance and Winter Protection.
Delivery & Returns
To calculate the cost of delivering this item to you please see the table below. When viewing your basket you will be asked to select your delivery zone and the delivery cost will be added automatically.
There is further information on our Delivery & Returns page.
Prices on Application
raw talent
Our latest artist in residence is the talented Welbeck Estate near Worksop. View their work here in our gallery.
Visit us at Elizabeth and Stevens Ltd, The Showrooms, Great North Rd, Markham Moor, Retford, Nottinghamshire, DN22 0QU
the E&S blog
Chelsea flower Show 2020
I know in the scheme of things it may seem trivial at the moment .Very sad to hear that Chelsea will…
Read More
Read More


text:
Tips on How to Paint Figurative Animals
- Paint an animal the way a child would paint an animal – with abandon.
- Don't try to make all the legs match.
- Remember that a figurative animal doesn't have to make exact, anatomical sense.
- Try subtly outlining only certain parts of the body with different colors or lines or dots or…
- If you find yourself being too careful with an area in the painting, take a photo of it for memory, then paint a big black slash over that part, let it dry and then repaint it more carelessly (have fun or put down the paintbrush until the joy returns).
About this Painting
- Title
- Giraffes in the Bird Garden
- Size
- 48′ x '36
- Medium
- acrylic
- oil pastels
- charcoal
- Styles
- contemporary abstract figurative
- contemporary abstract expressionism
- abstract figurative expressionism
- contemporary figurative markmaking
Details in the Painting
Detail One. Composition land often seems like the wild, wild west, with danger lurking in wide open spaces. A child doesn't see fear in a blank canvas. A child points to the middle and says, "Just put a house there, or a sun, or a big flower!" This would be grand, but we aren't kids anymore. As adults, we forget to make the house lean, to paint the people with heads as big as the sun, to add a five legged dog—all those yummy things kids paint that make our eyes fly around a painting. So we grow up and learn the Rule of Thirds and yada yada yada. All that schooled art stuff, which is also grand. But I like rediscovering the kid in me. In this painting, I wanted to see what would happen if I popped an "x" in the middle of a painting to make the middle the first focus.
I put an X in the middle, just because.
Detail Two. This is the bird. He has a fish dangling from his beak.
Birds have bones, but they are hollow, which helps them fly.
Detail Three. This animal's ear is red with yellow polka dots and different from the other ear.
Giraffes don't really have horns – they have cartilages called "ossicones" that most likely are used to keep the body temperature constant.
etail Four. X Marks the Spot. Also, there are markmaking lines all over the background.
The phrase "X Marks the Spot" probably came from the gangsters of Chicago. Newspapers put an "x" where a dead body had been found after a gangster murder, instead of showing a corpse.


text:
Country: USA
Area: California
Wine style: White
Varietal: Chardonnay
Style: Dry
Alc(%): 13
Producer: Story Ridge Vineyards
Serving Temperature(℃): 10-12
Size: 750ml
Panamera wines are sourced from select vineyards within California's Central Valley and Central Coast appellations. Each wine is crafted to reflect true varietal character and flavors. Perfect for everyday enjoyment.
About Us
Wine by Country
© 2006-2020 ピーロート・ジャパン株式会社.
You have to be over 20 years to drink.


text:
This June, join Oxfordshire MGOC for their 22nd running of this event. Held at Cotswold Wildlife Park in Burford, MGs and their drivers gain free admission, passengers enjoy a discounted price of £12, with kids and seniors at only £8 each. Expect all the usual fun with a grand raffle, pride of ownership and the 25-mile Cotswold Run. For details, visit www.oxfordshiremgoc.co.uk their Facebook page or email Peter via firstname.lastname@example.com
Event Date:
Sunday, June 7, 2020


text:
knows how a skatepark should be
SkateSense - an intelligent concrete skateramp. Informing you, no matter where you are, of wether the conditions, at the location where it's placed, are skate-able. Several sensors measure; Humidity of the ground – is it slippy? Movement – how many people are there? Light – is it bright enough? All you need to know for a great skate session! I programmed a Particle Electron to record and send the data to the cloud, where everyone can check them. A solar panel produces enough energy needed, to power the device.
SkateSense has a form, designed especially for performing many tricks on it – a wally from one side, a kicker from the other side and steel edges can be used for grinding...


text:
This company called ClearCube just got $25 million in funding.
That is nice, but it is the technology that is neat. They have some sort of little box that acts as a thin client for your PC. Essentially, you put the CPU and storage on these blades in a rack, and you use ethernet and fiber to talk to these thin clients on the desktop. Tada, no more noisy, bulky PC.
This has been an interest of mine for quite a long time. Back in 1990, when I was working at University of Miami, I worked for a guy who was really into this. He had our monitors and our keyboards extended out to our desks, and our MicroVAX workstations in the computer room. This was easily about 30′ of cable. I had a mono monitor with keyboard and mouse and he had a nice color monitor. It worked really well. The trick was to get the right COAX for the video.
Come to think of it, the idea probably wasn't so strange for him. He was used to terminals prior to that. You always had the monster computer in one room and the termnials spread out every where else. This was just a small extension of that concept.
Today, however, the PC design is still the same as 20+ years ago. You have a detached keyboard, mouse, and monitor. Then you have your big box. If you wanted to extend it, you would run into problems because they don't make video and USB systems that can extend that far.
I've tried the PC Anywhere, VNC, etc. solutions. Those work 'OK', but they pale in comparison to normal PC usage.
The only hope is the new DVI standard. Eventually, someone will figure out how to convert that inexpensively to optical, which will allow it to move over fiber. Then you can just run an 8 strand plastic fiber to your computer and have your PC sitting in a closet somewhere. Maybe you can use it to heat your water :-).
This may happen sooner than you think with the convergence of PC's with consumer electronics. People will want their noisy PC's to be far from their HD screen.


text:
- Home
- Print Photos
- Print Photos
- Photo Gifts
Photo Gifts
Trust Art's Cameras Plus for Picture-Perfect Photo Gifts
Taking great pictures is just the beginning—finding new ways to share them is part of what makes photography so fulfilling. For gifts you'll want to give and receive, look no further than Art's Cameras Plus. We offer standard printing services and specialty printing options, as well as a full range of photo gifts you can personalize with your own images.
- Canvas, metal, and wood prints
- Big prints, collages, and mounted prints
- Greeting cards
- Photo books
- Apparel and wearables
- Personalized keepsakes and gifts
- Calendars
Shopping for a Photographer? Buy Photographic Equipment and Accessories at Art's Cameras
If you have a photography enthusiast on your shopping list, get the best gifts for him or her at Art's Cameras. From tripods and lighting tools to backpacks and memory cards, we have a huge selection of items that work with all the top camera brands, like Nikon, Canon, Sony, Tamron, and more. Not sure what to get? Talk to our expert staff instead of guessing and getting the wrong thing online, or go with an Art's Cameras gift card, which is sure to be appreciated by new and experienced photographers alike.