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i am having trouble with my sandwich elisa with streptavidin hrp, 1 step tmb substrate.
6/10 plates i have run have presented the same issue and I have been observed by a collegue who confirmed its not my trchnique causing the odd results.
So, my plate develops perfect except for rows A,B, and C down the entire plate including std curve (500ng). its not a plate washer issue as we rotate our plates 180 and perform a second wash each step to overcome washer variability. all my incubations are at 37 for one hour. originally i thought the issue was stemming from stacked plates but I stopped that habit and results were the same.
so again, everything to the right of row B/C develops perfect but everything to the left doesnt develop at all. any ideas?
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The Climate Group hosted city governments from around the world last month in California for its first ever 'LED Safari' – part of its global LightSavers initiative. Centered around the 29th annual Street and Area Lighting Conference in Huntington Beach, near Los Angeles, the study tour featured a week of events, presentations and site visits showcasing the ambitions of US governments and businesses to tap into the LED revolution.
By sharing policy information, demonstrating global best practice and offering opportunities for major early adopter cities to share experiences, the Safari aimed to help city governments accelerate the deployment of energy saving LEDs, as part of The Climate Group's LightSavers Programme.
Key Activities during the week included:
City Tours
LightSavers partners from India, Australia, Europe, Hong Kong and North America were invited by the City of Los Angeles to visit the largest installation of LED lights in the world – currently at almost 27,000 of a planned 140,000 roll out. In a separate tour, the City of San Jose, a leader in the trial of smart controls for LED lighting, demonstrated its remote controlled dimming systems for LightSavers' guests, who were impressed by the quality and level of light produced even at 10 per cent of potential output. One of the benefits of LED lighting is the eye's ability to see well at lower levels of illumination, compared with traditional sodium lamps.
Representatives of both Los Angeles and San Jose joined a Climate Group panel discussing the Economics of LED lighting. Of particular interest were the pioneering relationships they are developing with their utilities to finance roll-outs and promote energy and maintenance savings through new tariffs. The cities emphasized that less tangible benefits delivered by the superior quality of LED light, such as reduced crime and improved aesthetics, were also important factors in making the business case to councils.
Speed Dating
The Climate Group invited 20 major LED lighting manufacturers to pitch to cities, in a unique speed-dating event that helped raise awareness on both sides about supply and demand in a nascent market. Manufacturers of LED chips, Lumileds, invited guests on a tour of their Silicon Valley manufacturing facility, demonstrating the speed of development and high-tech wizardry in an industry that is leading the third revolution in lighting.
Department of Energy Consortium
Perhaps the most impressive development of the week was the first US Department of Energy Municipal Solid-State Street Lighting Consortium meeting. In a nation-wide effort to pave the way for the benefits of LED lighting, various working groups were formed to address barriers in lighting standards, adaptive controls, and tariff development. In an area with a complex network of stakeholders, this inclusive approach has huge potential to help councils with slashed budgets and high climate aspirations to take important steps down a low-carbon path.
Phil Jessup, Director of LightSavers, said "LED safari offered the opportunity for The Climate Group to do what it does best, facilitate effective, productive relationships between leaders who have a handle on the future markets for low carbon technologies."

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|The Department of Mathematics at Duke University in Durham, NC invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant or Associate Professor level to begin July 1, 2018 or later.
Candidates must have exceptional research achievements and evidence of high-quality teaching. Excellent applications from all fields of mathematics, both pure and applied, will be considered.
Duke University seeks to build a diverse faculty: women and underrepresented minorities are encouraged to apply.
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Reality Check: Burger King Japan's Apple-topped Ringo Burger
Reviews of fast food burgers and a look at how the real life version compares to the advertised beauty shot.
Editor's note: Please welcome Carl Nordell to AHT! After he emailed us about In-N-Out's pop-up in Tokyo, we invited him to cover more of Tokyo's fast food landscape. Here's his first review of Burger King's apple-topped burger.
Japan is a country known for trying out flavor combinations that few others would—tomato-flavored white chocolate, anyone?—so it's no surprise Burger King in Japan released the BK Ringo: a burger with lettuce, honey mustard, mayo, and a slice of apple (ringo in Japanese). The Whopper Jr.-sized burger has been available since March and can be yours for ¥240 (about $3).
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Unfortunately, the burger was a sad sight, far away from the pretty advertised version. The apple had a tired, limp look, and the honey mustard sauce and mayo had gotten all over the bun. Lifting bun to inspect the burger further revealed a sea of sauce, way too much for a burger this size.
Upon first bite, the dominant flavors were the sweetness of the apple and honey-mustard The mayo didn't do too much flavor-wise; it mostly contributed to the excess of sauce that drowned out the beef. But most surprising was the cinnamon: It tasted as if someone put the filling of a McDonald's apple pie on the burger. So far, not so good.
But after trying to eliminate the thought of apple pie from my head, the second bite wasn't that bad. I could see what they were thinking: Apples are a traditional pairing with meat. In a way, the combination of apple and beef tastes comforting. Although it's not great, as an interesting novelty burger, the Ringo is worth a try.
With barbecue season coming up, I definitely want to try making my own Ringo burger using better apple, fresh meat, a nice bun, and perhaps some bacon. If you want to try making an apple burger at home, I suggest you match the apple with a sweet dressing that brings the whole burger together; slopping on some acidic Heinz or Frank's and leaving it at that would most likely be horrible. Even if the Ringo had way too much honey mustard sauce on it, I doubt it would've worked without it.
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Director David Lynch crafted this hallucinogenic mystery-thriller that probes beneath the cheerful surface of suburban America to discover sadomasochistic violence, corruption, drug abuse, crime and perversion. Kyle Maclachlan stars as Jeffrey Beaumont, a square-jawed young man who returns to his picture-perfect small town when his father suffers a stroke. Walking through a field near his home, Jeff discovers a severed human ear, which he immediately brings to the police. Their disinterest sparks Jeff's curiosity, and he is soon drawn into a dangerous drama that's being played out by a lounge singer, Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini) and the ether-addicted Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper). The sociopathic Booth has kidnapped Dorothy's young son and is using the child as a bargaining chip to repeatedly beat, humiliate and rape Dorothy. Though he's drawn to the virginal, wholesome Sandy Williams (Laura Dern), Jeff is also aroused by Dorothy and in trying to aid her, he discovers his dark side. As the film nears its conclusion, our hero learns that many more indivduals are tacitly involved with Frank, including a suave, lip-synching singer, Ben (Dean Stockwell), who is minding the kidnapped boy. Director Lynch explored many similar themes of the "disease" lying just under the surface of the small town, all-American façade in his later television series Twin Peaks (1990-91). ~ Karl Williams, Rovi
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Taft produces unique handmade clothing, footwear, and accessories. Their initial launch struck a chord with men and women across the globe when they launched a successful Kickstarter campaign selling no-show socks.
Since then, Taft has experienced exponential growth through social media marketing, growth hacking, and more.
In this customer spotlight, we caught up with Kory of Taft to take a look into this family run business to see how they got to where they are today, and how they earned over $40,000 in one day after being featured on Reddit.
Can you give us a bit of background on Taft?
My wife and I both graduated from University in April of 2013 and almost immediately after, took off for a five week trip to Europe. I had a couple job offers but none that I felt really excited about. I studied linguistics and minored in business management, but at the end of the day nothing felt really right.
I thought about going into management consulting, but my wife and I both thought the hours were just too much - we were expecting our first child and I wanted to be around.
During the last week of our trip, standing at the steps of Sacre Coeur in Paris, I had the idea to start making men's no-show socks. It was totally out of the blue, but I had seen so many people in Europe going sockless so it was just on my mind throughout the trip.
I knew it couldn't be comfortable to always be barefoot, and I knew it couldn't be good for their shoes. I also knew that there weren't any great no-show options for men out there - they were all too flimsy or slipped down off your heel after a few steps.
As soon as we got home I set to work on finding sock production in Asia, and almost immediately started prototyping. We had never done anything like this before but I was passionate about the idea and I just felt in my gut like we could really rock it.
I'll never forget sending Paint (yes, Microsoft Paint) renderings of sock designs out to my family and friends, asking for their input. These designs were absolutely horrible, and I'm sure my parents were concerned about my "after-college" plans.
It took months of prototyping (and learning how to use Illustrator) to get it right but after a while we finally had a product I was really stoked about. We did tons of wear-testing and started to prep a Kickstarter campaign. We launched the Kickstarter campaign in March of last year, and fulfilled all the orders late in the Summer.
We started Taft as a husband and wife and still operate the business out of our home, now with two little kids in tow.
How did you create, manufacture or source your product? What were some lessons you learned during this process?
When we started out with no-show socks, we found a product that we thought was a good starting point and then scoured Alibaba until we found that manufacturer. It took some time to get the communication rolling, but we requested samples from them right away. They started out by sending us what they had done in the past, and we tried to pinpoint which socks were the closest to what we'd envisioned.
We passed gave them changes we wanted them to make, and then moved on to the next step of giving them our designs.
I spent a lot of time designing everything in their requested format, and then even more time picking each of the colors. Something that was always a big hiccup was getting the colors just right. It took some time before our factory told us how they picked the colors they used and suggested we got a Pantone book.
In the meantime, it felt like every time we got samples, at least one of the pairs was a little off. After months of working together, our factory told us that in order to really move forward, all of our designs needed to consist of the same five colors.
We obviously weren't excited about that, and made the decision to start hunting down another factory. The trickiest thing about this process was that we had never produced anything before!
We didn't know if this was just how it worked. There was so much miscommunication and the process just felt so slow. We'd design something, wait a couple months to get it, only to realize it still wasn't right.
We had no standard to compare this factory to, so it wasn't until we found a really great factory that we realized how dysfunctional our relationship with the first factory had been.
What was previously taking months and many, many rounds of samples was now done in one or two rounds of samples. Making the decision to leave the first factory was key - our business wouldn't be what it is if we hadn't done that. Figuring out production and getting the product just right was what took the longest, by far.
We had the idea for Taft in May of 2013 and didn't launch officially until March of the next year.
It took a lot of patience to wait for the product to be just right. We ended up working with three factories total, the third being the one we currently produce with. It took some time to make sure that not only was the product solid, but our relationship with the manufacturer was as well.
When it comes to our shoes, we actually found our factory through their Instagram account. We had similar designs sampled in both China (working with our sock contacts to find a shoe factory) and in Spain so we could compare quality and pricing.
We got samples back and they were honestly pretty similar. We weren't thrilled with either of them initially.
A few weeks after getting samples we found out that the Chinese factory we had sampled with was a bit shady. The factory owner had run off with $40k from another business he was supposed to be producing for, and was nowhere to be found.
If there was ever any question where we should produce, we got a lot of clarity really quick.
We obviously decided to go the Spanish route, but I still didn't feel like the shoes were where they needed to be. The factory told me that, really, the best route was to fly out there and design the shoes in person.
My wife was due with our second baby any day but we felt it was best. We waited till our little girl arrived and booked my ticket to Spain from the hospital.
I left for about a week when she was two weeks old, and spent that time really getting to know the factory and designing the shoes. I designed every tiny detail and hand picked every sole and every type of leather. It was beyond valuable to be there in person - the process was just so much quicker. What would usually take months and thousands of emails took just a couple days.
If you have the luxury of time, sending product back and forth and back and forth will eventually get the job done. But we know now from our experience with shoes that it's much, much easier to go in person. There were no surprises and no wondering if it would turn out right. I was able to explain what I wanted done and see it happen first hand. I couldn't be more pleased with the quality of the shoes now. They're exactly how I envisioned them.
How did you promote your business initially and where did your first sales come from? Any major media mentions or PR wins since then?
Our very first sales came from Kickstarter about a year and a half ago! We were featured on Gear Hungry, Cool Hunting, and Super Compressor during the campaign and that really helped boost our pledges.
We raised about $47k through Kickstarter and as soon as we fulfilled those orders, we immediately got to work building an Instagram following.
Right from the start, we felt of the importance of producing great photos and posting beautiful content.
We started to build a pretty sizeable following as a result of our photography and have used that as our primary strategy to push sales ever since.
Note: Be sure to take a look at how to build a massive following on Instagram.
Because of our presence on social media we've really organically become friends with people who also have a lot of social media influence.
We're forever grateful to our blogger friends who continually post about our stuff and tag us in their photos. Our mentality has always been that if you create beautiful content and great products, people will want to share it.
How did your sales pick up?
Our sales have really picked up in spurts. We had our first spurt with the Kickstarter and another big sales pick up when our Instagram following starting growing exponentially.
Our biggest pickup in sales definitely came from our Reddit hug.
We had a kind customer post about a sale we were having on our no-show socks. We'd been planning for months to launch shoes and had the socks at a steep discount to make room for some incoming shipments.
We intentionally hadn't posted about the sale in hopes that people who wanted the socks would find them organically and it couldn't have worked out more perfectly.
We had over 2,500 orders in the space of 48 hours and have been doing everything we can to really keep that momentum going.
Beyond that, launching shoes has been a huge pick up in sales.
How do you handle fulfilment and organize the back-end of your business? Can you share some key lessons and tips on doing this successfully?
Right from the beginning we decided to work through a fulfillment center.
We had over 1,000 orders from the Kickstarter campaign, and knew that in order to get them out in a timely fashion – that was the best way to go for us.
You were recently featured on Reddit and saw significant traction from that. How did that happen?
The whole Reddit experience was pretty nuts. A couple weeks ago we listed our socks at a pretty steep discount - we were preparing to launch our new line of shoes and needed to free up some space at our warehouse.
We chose not to post about the sale on our Instagram and had hopes that we'd sell through the socks from organic traffic to our site. One of our customers took note of the sale, and shared it on the Frugal Male Fashion Advice subreddit and things really took off from there.
A lot of other users were excited about the sale and I did my best to respond to every question and comment. People were really responsive to that interaction, and we ended up on several other subreddits because of it.
Before we knew it we were completely sold out of socks.
We were planning on launching shoes later in the week, but decided to take advantage of all that traffic and launch right then and there. It was really valuable to get feedback on the shoes and we actually ended up launching a pair we weren't planning on starting out with because of all the feedback we got.
After being featured on Reddit, did you notice any other men's lifestyle blogs feature your product?
In our work with Taft we've really built a lot of great relationships with bloggers. Many of them have become friends and we interact regularly. But after our Reddit feature I definitely noticed a lot of our referring URLs were other blogs we hadn't previously worked with, which was really exciting.
One of the biggest benefits of our Reddit feature is just getting our name out there more and being featured on these other blogs is a great way for that to happen.
How are you managing pre-orders with your online store? What is the process like from pre-order to fulfillment?
The Reddit feature really forced our hand a bit earlier than we were expecting, so pre-orders is the only way to do it. We let pre-orders roll in for a couple days to see what kind of demand there would be.
After selling a couple hundred pairs of shoes in the first few days, I knew what quantities to produce the shoes at.
The shoes are currently in production and will be delivered around the end of December. We will ship our international orders from our warehouse in Spain and ship all US orders from our warehouse here in Utah. We will continue to take pre-orders on our site until the product gets here, and then get back to shipping same-day.
I am offering a special pre-order price on the shoes to help incentivize people to make the purchase now rather than wait until shoes are in stock. Pre-orders is a really amazing way to save money on inventory, warehousing, and production costs.
My goal is to be completely sold out of everything by the time the shoes are done being produced.
You mentioned you and your wife are running this business together. What has life been like since your recent explosive success?
Ever since our hit on Reddit it has been completely non-stop. I thought we were busy before but this is just a whole new level. I've been the "can't-eat-can't-sleep" kind of busy.
About three days into all the madness my wife and I realized we hadn't had a real conversation in days. It felt like I had just been out of town or something. On the third or fourth day we finally found some time to go out and as soon as I got outside my eyes started burning because it was so bright - I realized it was the first time I'd even left the house in days.
We've just been on that grind.
My wife has been corralling the kids so I can get everything done and helping me any chance she gets. It's tough but we just keep saying it's the best kind of busy to be. We're answering questions, communicating with our warehouse, placing orders, and working on re-stocking product all while continuing to create content for our Instagram account.
I'll never forget the weekend of our Reddit hit. It was just total madness.
It was just total madness. My wife and I were driving up to meet some family for dinner when we started seeing orders trickle in quicker and quicker. We got about 7 or so orders on the drive up and had 55 by the time we got our food. We noticed all the traffic was coming from Reddit and found the post. We were so excited but had no idea what was to come. When we got home we realized the orders weren't slowing down and, if anything, they were picking up.
We went to bed that night feeling very grateful.
I was frantically trying to keep up with all the questions we were getting on Reddit while expressing my gratitude over and over again for everyone who was buying socks.
At around midnight the orders were still coming in strong and my wife asked me if there was any way we'd sell out. Minimum order quantities are really high when it comes to socks so we had plenty. I assured my wife there was no way we could sell out overnight. She insisted I still put a cap on the number of orders we'd take so we could sleep without having to worry about it, which I did.
The next day was a Sunday, I woke up to hundreds and hundreds of order notifications but things seemed to be slowing down. I still felt confident there was no way we'd sell out, knowing just how many boxes of socks we had.
In one of our posts on Reddit I alluded to the fact that we needed to move all these socks to prep for our shoe launch. People started asking about the shoes, I started showing pictures, and before I knew it I was looking at my wife saying "I think I'm going to launch shoes right now!"
She told me to go with my gut, and I did. I had taken all the necessary product shots in the days before (we were planning to launch later in the week).
I wrote quick descriptions and listed the shoes for pre-order. Shoe sales immediately started trickling in around the same time I marked the women's socks as sold out.
Unexpected launch shoes? Why not? Crazier things have happened.
What are your top recommendations for new store owners?
Don't compare your beginning to someone else's middle. I do this all the time. I think "wow. they are so amazing and so successful, why am I not there?" And then I remember that they have been doing it for many years and have a whole team behind them.
Never compare yourself to brands/companies that are at a different stage. It is discouraging and not productive.
Work relentlessly to create a great product. If the product is great, then people will buy it and marketing becomes a lot easier.
Be willing to put in the work. I think one of the key characteristics entrepreneurs need is grit. Owning a business is gritty and messy and you just have to be willing to do that work.
But also.. keep perspective on what matters most. A thriving business means nothing to me if I'm failing at being a dad or husband.
I'm those things first and foremost and a business owner second. Sometimes the hardest part of owning a business is calling it a night, letting yourself be done for the day, knowing you can pick it all back up tomorrow.
Running a business is a marathon, not a sprint. So it's important to take care of yourself and make sure you're fit to be in it for the long-haul.
There's nothing worse than burning out.
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Did you guys know Baby Mama comes out today? I don't know how you could know, since we've only been yammering about it for the past four months. Anyway, the reviews are in, and they are a mixed bag. For those late to the party, Baby Mama tells the story of Kate (Tina Fey), a woman in her late 30s who is desperate for a child. When she finds out that she can't have one, she hires trashy Angie (Amy Poehler) to be her surrogate, and Angie ends up moving in with Kate. Then Odd-Couple style wackiness ensues. Whether or not reviewers liked the movie, L.A. Times film critic Carina Chocano makes an excellent point about Fey: "Fey has spent several years proving that she's very good at what she does, and she may spend the next few years having to prove that she deserves any success that comes her way. But hey, this is America — where the fact that a woman is running for president is still talked about with a kind of gee-whiz-look-how-far-we've-come disingenuousness, despite the many countries that have already seen one or more women presidents. If a Fey backlash happens, I hope Hillary buys her a drink." A reviewer round-up of Baby Mama after the jump.
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When the onscreen birthing scene in question involves certified Very Funny Lady and relatively new mother Tina Fey, you can expect honesty — and hilarity. Case in point: Baby Mama's climactic childbirth scene finds Fey running down the hospital corridor alongside a gurney-bound, flailing Amy Poehler. 'This is like shitting a knife!'
Fey's Kate, for all her trendy compulsiveness, is surprisingly likable, never succumbing to the tired stereotype of the sterile yuppie who has sacrificed her sexuality and her soul for success. Poehler's role gets the bigger laughs: she's a gifted rubber-faced comedienne, particularly winning when, caught red-handed in one gaucherie after another—like sticking her gum under the coffee table—she outright denies what she's done.
Baby Mama...is blithely unconcerned with gender-baiting. In fact, the movie hardly allows itself any sharp moments at all — it's much too sweet-natured to be cruel, and much too cheerful to be angry. It probably could have pushed a few more buttons, but 'Baby Mama' aims to please and succeeds.
This movie, which reunites the "Saturday Night Live" news anchors Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, turns surrogate motherhood into an "Odd Couple" sitcom with conflicts of class that resolve into sisterhood. It's clumsy, not cute, an amateur show that's eager to amuse by any means — a stroller with airbags, a birthing counselor with an Elmer Fudd accent ("As your pwegnancy pwogwesses..."). Yet the show is redeemed by its co-stars, up to a pwoint.
Baby Mama is a politely bland retread of women's-movie clichés a generation old: the driven businesswoman who puts off motherhood till the last minute, then pursues it with type-A zeal; the guy who flees a first date when babies are mentioned; the down-to-earth potential boyfriend (Greg Kinnear) who, by his very existence, reminds the overly ambitious heroine of what really matters in life. Look, I have fond enough memories of Diane Keaton and Sam Shepard in Baby Boom, but that was more than 20 years ago. Have our ideas about working, parenting, and the formation of alternative families really changed so little since 1987?
The film never comes fully to term, as it were: the visual style is sitcom functional, and even the zippiest jokes fall flat because of poor timing. But, much like the prickly, talented Ms. Fey, it pulls you in with a provocative and, at least in current American movies, unusual mix of female intelligence, awkwardness and chilled-to-the-bone mean.
It's possible that Fey, like other television stars, is unused to being framed in full length, and, though in complete command of her delivery—dry, spiky, but unthreatening—she hasn't yet made up her mind how funny her body is meant to be. She isn't big enough to make a joke of her ripeness, like Bette Midler, but she's no Lily Tomlin, either. She could do worse than steal a trick from Lucille Ball—a lovely, elegant figure who taught herself to be graceless.
Uterine Chagrin [Premiere]
Baby Formula [Newsweek]
'Baby Mama' Is In Fertile Territory[Los Angeles Times]
Fey and Poehler Deliver Erratic 'Baby Mama' [WSJ]
Womb Service [Slate]
Baby Mama (2008) [NYT]
Switching Places [New Yorker]
Earlier: Tina Fey Keeps Perspective By Cleaning Up Baby Poop
Does The Female Buddy Movie Exist?
Tina Fey To Amy Poehler: I Wanna Put My Baby Inside You


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$100K in grants to go to Wis.-based Growing Power
Organization promotes sustainable farming
MILWAUKEE — The federal government is giving nearly $100,000 in grants to Milwaukee-based Growing Power.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore and U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the grants are to help increase local food access in eligible schools.
It's in connection to Farm to School, a USDA-supported program aimed at improving agricultural and nutritional education by providing locally sourced food in schools.
WITI-TV reports the grant will help Growing Power provide training on how to produce fresh locally grown foods.
Growing Power is a nonprofit organization that promotes sustainable farming methods. Its founder and chief executive officer is Will Allen, a former professional basketball player.


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Heritage Trades Roundtable
Traditional Brick and Brick Masonry
Join us for a free evening of learning and networking at our 2nd Heritage Trades Roundtable. Develop an appreciation of traditional building methods and materials. Meet some of the people who make possible the preservation and maintenance of the buildings and features we love – from chimneys to châteaus.
Historic brick production & industry in Alberta – Malcolm Sissons, president, I-XL Industries Ltd., a 4th generation family business founded in 1912 as the Redcliff Pressed Brick Co.
Current brick masonry trade, traditional methods – Neil Puype, principal of a heritage building consulting company and 5th generation brick and stone mason
Early brickyards & building with brick in Calgary – Marilyn Williams, Heritage Roundtables steering committee
There will be an opportunity for discussion, and time before and after the talks to enjoy refreshments and expand your heritage network.
Tuesday, January 28, 7-9:00 pm, doors open 6:30 pm
RIDEAU PARK historic brick school, GYMNASIUM
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Lenders look at other factors, not your credit score alone, before approving a condo loan.
Some lenders can make condo buyers with pristine credit feel like rejects. Blame it on the building.
Before making a loan to a would-be buyer, lenders comb through the building's financial statements to see if too many condos remain unsold, or if units are mostly rentals instead of owner-occupied. Lenders also look to see if the building's cash reserves, which help cover maintenance costs, are too low.
These factors — which have nothing to do with a potential buyer's finances — can put a chokehold on a loan.
A lot of condo buildings don't make the grade. At national lender EverBank, for instance, roughly 30% of condo mortgage applicants encounter a roadblock due to the building's finances. "A perfect borrower can't fix a bad project," says Tom Wind, executive vice president of residential and consumer lending at EverBank.
Shaky condos have been popping up more frequently over the past two to three years, even in luxury buildings, says Zeke Morris, president of the Chicago Association of Realtors. Real-estate agents say they're also prevalent in other markets, including Houston and Miami.
In general, lenders say they view condos as riskier purchases than other homes. Much of that stems from condo-association fees. If existing owners are behind on those payments or many units remain unsold, monthly fees are likely to rise to help cover costs.
At some point, lenders argue, those expenses could rise to a level where an owner can no longer afford to pay the fees and walks away from the property, leaving the lender with the outstanding mortgage. That's why, currently, it is almost impossible to get a mortgage — regardless of your wealth — if more than 15% of condos in a building are behind on dues, says Jeff Gennarelli, president of Bridgeview Bank Mortgage Co., based in Lombard, Ill.
But luxury buyers have alternatives besides paying all cash for the condo. One is private mortgages, loans that lenders hold on their books rather than sell to the government. They tend to be larger than traditional loans, require larger down payments and are often offered only as adjustable-rate mortgages. Rates are also generally higher than traditional mortgages.
Private loans are sometimes the only source of financing for condos sold in luxury hotels and in buildings where more than 20% or 25% of the units consist of commercial space, like restaurants and shopping malls. They're also common for a condo in a new building where a certain percentage of the units are still owned by the developer.
To find such a loan, borrowers should consider a community bank or other local lending institution where they have a lot of assets or where they have been banking for years, though an existing relationship isn't always required. Or they can ask mortgage brokers who may know a lender willing to fund such a loan.
The opportunity for profit is partly why these lenders take on the risk when others won't. Whatever leniency they offer on a building's finances they often make up for by imposing strict lending requirements, including high credit scores, says Eddie Hoskins, president of First Florida Financial Group, a Fort Myers, Fla.-based mortgage broker that arranges such loans.
Some points to consider when applying for a condo loan:
• Get an early start: Buyers should ask lenders for the list of criteria the building will need to meet; then real-estate agents can provide those answers when potential buyers shop for properties.
• The type of building: Some condo buildings have a greater risk of not being approved for financing. Jonathan Cherry, senior mortgage banker at Wyndham Capital Mortgage based in Charlotte, N.C., says buyers who want to avoid financing complications might want to stick to mid- to larger-size buildings that are mostly owner-occupied.
• Large down payments: With a private mortgage, borrowers often need to make at least a 20% to 30% down payment if it's a primary residence. If it's a second home, they could need to put down at least 40%. For investment purposes, cash is among the few options, since a mortgage may be impossible to get.
• Rising costs: With adjustable-rate mortgages, rates could be low now but rise in a few years, thereby increasing the monthly mortgage payment. And borrowers could still end up with rising condo dues if the other owners in the building hit hard times.
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The British knew how to turn their two offensive wars against the Afghans into geopolitical victories and so did the Soviets after being militarily stalemated against the Afghans in the 1980s: pick a side, withdraw, fund the side from a distance, and watch our side decimate all its opponents. This strategy worked well for the British and it was working well for the Communists in Afghanistan... until the funds ran out with the collapse of the Soviet Union.
In a perfect world the United States and the other Coalition Partners could just withdraw from Afghanistan while funding the Kabul-based government known as GIROA. GIROA would bribe many of the Taliban and other insurgents and use the remainder of the funds to crush the rejectionists. Most Afghans would see this more as a upper level Afghan civil war and much of the anger of the average insurgent would be soothed over by the lack of foreign troops in Afghanistan.
I say "in a perfect world" because this world unfortunately as what Afghans have described to me as the root of all evil: Pakistan. Pakistan desire to have a puppet state linking it to Central Asia, a proving ground for its proxies for war against India, and its absolute paranoid belief that anything less than an Islamist Afghanistan will automatically make Afghanistan an ally of India will cause Pakistan to fund the insurgency. Unless Pakistan collapses or the United States cuts off foreign aid to Pakistan (which forms much of Pakistan's budget) I do not see Pakistan stopping its funding of the Taliban and related groups.
If the problem of Pakistan can magically disappear then groups and/or factions like the Taliban, Haqqani network, and Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin will enter in complex agreements of becoming loyal to GIROA while being able to have significant sway in territory they control. Afghans will then probably be less of the highly centralized state it has been under the monarchy/Communists/republicans and more of the regionalist state tied by a central government which is was like before the British wars.
If the Pakistan problem cannot be solved then expect a long war ending in the favor of Pakistan and the Taliban. Maybe not a complete victory like it was becoming before 9/11 but certainly one that ends in their favor.


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N° 4–2007: Planck satellite to be presented to media
16 January 2007
By the end of February, integration of Planck, the ESA spacecraft due to study relic radiation from the Big Bang, will have been completed - and so too will a major step towards launch. ESA and Alcatel Alenia Space (AAS) are jointly inviting the media to a press conference to be held at the AAS facilities in Cannes, France, on 1 February to hear about the mission's technological achievements and scientific objectives and to view the spacecraft in all its splendour.
Planck will make the most accurate maps yet of the microwave background radiation that fills space. It will be sensitive to temperature variations of a few millionths of a degree and will map the full sky in nine wavelengths.
The immediate outcome of the Big Bang and the initial conditions for the evolution in the universe's structure are the primary target of this important mission. From the results, a great deal more will be learnt not only about the nature and amount of dark matter, the 'missing mass' of the universe, but also about the nature of dark energy and the expansion of the universe itself.
To address such challenging objectives, Planck will need to operate at very low, stable temperatures. Once in space, its detectors will have to be cooled to temperature levels close to absolute zero (-273.15ºC), ranging from -253ºC to only a few tenths of a degree above absolute zero. The Planck spacecraft thus has to be a marvel of cryotechnology.
After integration, Planck will start a series of tests that will continue into early-2008. It will be launched by end-July 2008 in a dual-launch configuration with Herschel, ESA's mission to study the formation of galaxies, stars and planetary systems in the infrared.
Interested media are invited to fill in the reply form below.
Note to editors
The Planck spacecraft was built by AAS Cannes, the prime contractor, leading a consortium of industrial partners with the AAS industry branch in Turin, Italy, responsible for the satellite's service module. ESA and the Danish National Space Centre (Copenhagen, Denmark) are responsible for the hardware provision of Planck's telescope mirrors, manufactured by EADS Astrium (Friedrichshafen, Germany).
AAS Cannes is also responsible for the payload module, the platform that hosts the telescope and the two onboard instruments, HFI and LFI. The instruments themselves are being supplied by a consortium of scientists and institutes led by the Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale at Orsay (France) in the case of HFI, and by the Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica (IASF) in Bologna (Italy) in that of LFI.
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Program offers addicted Tri-State moms help, hope
5-year-old program changing lives
Nobody thinks methadone is good for a baby, but it's better than heroin.
That's how Keean Lankford and Ronald Stokes started life: dependent on the opiate their mothers took to fight their addiction to heroin and prescription painkillers.
Their mothers are in Good Samaritan Hospital's HOPE program - Helping Opiate-addicted Pregnant women Evolve - which hospital officials started five years ago as a way to help drug-dependent mothers get clean.
"These babies pull at your heartstrings," said Dr. Kathy Wedig, the hospital's director of neonatal follow-up. "You care for them and you think, 'This is not right.'"
In the Faculty Medical Center at Good Samaritan Hospital, Priscilla Conley and Tosha Hill give hope to drug-addicted mothers-to-be who want a better life for their babies.
Doctors do check-ups, and then Conley and Hill direct women to drug treatment programs and connect the mothers to services such as counseling, housing and financial support.
It works because the help comes in a nonjudgmental setting, said Conley, substance abuse coordinator for Good Samaritan Hospital's perinatal programs.
"Heroin is definitely an epidemic, and it's going to take the whole community to improve the lives of these women," said Hill, HOPE's perinatal social worker. "Working together to help moms become sober will enhance the lives of our young children.
"We went from just knowing we had women who were using drugs to being able to help them," she added.
In fiscal 2008, HOPE was involved in 44 deliveries. Last fiscal year that jumped to 94 deliveries. The program is on pace to help more than 100 women this year.
Until now, outcomes weren't tracked, but a March of Dimes grant allowed the program to hire a community health worker in February who will follow up with the women for a year after delivery.
Pregnant women in the program are directed to methadone treatment centers to kill the craving for more dangerous drugs such as heroin and prescription painkillers, Wedig said. The babies, though, are born methadone dependent.
Some babies show relatively few symptoms and don't need treatment related to methadone, but others exhibit signs of addiction.
In those cases, the babies can spend three to four weeks in the intensive-care nursery while they're weaned off methadone with smaller and smaller doses of the drug.
"Methadone attaches to the same receptors (as heroin or opioid painkillers), but for a longer period of time, so it stops the craving for heroin and prevents withdrawal effects," Wedig said. "But it's still a drug with lots of bad side effects."
Patients don't get the same euphoria from it, so they can maintain a normal routine.
The babies also get what Wedig calls "environmental treatment" - cuddling, quiet surroundings and low light - to help ease withdrawal.
For some moms, the infant is a motivator to take back control of their lives, Wedig said. Others are so deep into their habit that their only purpose in life is to get the drugs, she said.
"The HOPE program is the one nonthreatening environment for pregnant women to get started in replacement therapy," Wedig said. "They have people who understand addiction is a medical issue, not just a social issue where everyone addicted is a bad person."
Ashley Wilson was on a collision course with death when she found HOPE.
Last April, the 25-year-old Trenton woman was in withdrawal, the prescription painkillers she bought on the street in short supply. Driving with her boyfriend, Donald Stokes, in the passenger seat, they fought over using the last of their cash to feed her addiction, Stokes said.
Wilson was so mad at Stokes' refusal she raced through a red light in Middletown, scaring Stokes.
Stokes, 46, took her to Fort Hamilton Hospital. Doctors there had a surprise for Wilson: She was four weeks pregnant.
She threatened to kill herself. That landed her an involuntary stay in the hospital's mental health ward.
"That made me realize I wanted to live, and I wanted to get clean," Wilson said.
It was time. She had been addicted to drugs since high school, had dabbled in heroin and been kicked out of her mother's home.
At 17, she had aborted a child. She lost another pregnancy in 2011. Fort Hamilton Hospital doctors directed her to Sojourner Recovery Services, a West Chester methadone clinic. There she learned about HOPE.
"I had to get in the program," Wilson said. "Otherwise the state was going to take my baby."
May 1, 2012, was her first clean day.
She credits Hill and Conley with helping her stay clean.
Wilson gave birth to Ronald on Dec. 26. She stayed in the hospital three days. Ronald stayed five days.
"To see the transformation was awesome," Hill said. "I watched her grow through the pregnancy. It shows the program makes a huge difference in the lives of the women we serve."
A rash marks Keean Lankford's chin because the 6-pound, 6-ounce baby repeatedly rubbed it against the pink and blue-edged blanket in which he's swaddled.
He occasionally trembles. A dribble of formula slips down his cheek, his suck weak, during a morning feeding.
Still, his nurse is pleased with the 3-day-old's progress this February day. Keean is doing well, considering he was born addicted to methadone.
His mother, Deanna Dougan, 25, of Colerain Township, takes 80 milligrams of methadone a day.
Dougan has been addicted to heroin since high school. Her friends dabbled in heroin, so she tried it, too. "When you agree to do it, you don't know what you're getting into," Dougan said.
At 18, Dougan got pregnant, managing to stay off the drug during the pregnancy. But her resolve didn't last.
When Dougan realized heroin was destroying her life, her daughter was 2.
"I didn't want to fall down in the hole like everyone else did," Dougan said. So Dougan started a daily dose of methadone. She is now clean of heroin.
That was four years ago; however, Dougan still takes methadone daily.
Her 15-month-old son, T.J., was born addicted to methadone. So was Keean.
She found HOPE while seeking prenatal treatment at Good Samaritan Hospital while pregnant with Keean. Hill and Conley showed Dougan where to get a car seat and where to find an affordable crib. They gave her encouragement. They listened, Dougan said.
Keean struggled. Illness twice landed him in the hospital.
Dougan is hoping to begin weaning herself off methadone in the coming weeks, a long process where she will decrease her dose in tiny increments.
"I want to live a normal life," Dougan said. "I never really had the chance to do that."


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(2008-02-28)Is there a cloud in your future? Applications of "cloud computing" to Web-scale problems Proposal for a "wildcard" session, iConference 2008 Organizer: Jimmy Lin (firstname.lastname@example.com) Assistant Professor College of ...
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Let's get Wild: Building a National Research and Service Agenda for Community Technologies and Networking (2008-02-28)Community technology programs often lack the funding and technical assistance needed to sustain successful programs, let alone improve and expand their services. In the United States, these programs are training low-income ...
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(2008-02-28)Undergraduate education is an important component of many i-Schools and of potential interest to many others. The nature of undergraduate education within the i-School movement will, no doubt, have a significant effect ...
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(2008-02-28)The publication of Sandra Braman's Change of State signals the importance of the topic of information policy to the field of information studies. It also illustrates both the power and necessity of the kind of inter-disciplinary ...
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(2008-02-28)In the information sciences, there is significant interest in the study of social network websites. Sites such as Myspace and Facebook have drawn hundreds of millions of users, shaping and contextualizing new forms of ...
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(2008-02-28)Social tagging has emerged as one of the most popular social software tools available online. Originating from Del.icio.us, social tagging capabilities can now be found on a number of major music, news, video, and commercial ...
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How Public Is the Internet? A Conversation on the Nature of Human Interactions On-line and the Implications for Research Methods (2008-02-28)In the past decade, "virtual" research—empirical investigations conducted via the Internet—has increased dramatically across a variety of disparate disciplines. Areas such as cybersecurity and encryption, digital government ...
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(2008-02-28)'New Information Systems' is an emerging field composed of social studies of science (STS), information sciences (IS), workplace studies and technological design, and new media forms such as cyberinfrastructure or eResearch. ...
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(2008-02-28)Engagement – sometimes called action research, contribution, or intervention – is the participation of the researcher in the object of study. It is a key contemporary feature in making iSchool research accessible and ...
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CHI, ICIS, SIGIR and Numerous Other Outlets That Won't Accept My Work: The Perils of Publishing Multidisciplinary Research? (2008-02-28)The motivation for this session comes directly from two series of comments made at the 2007 iConference. The first was uttered at a pre-conference workshop. In a discussion on where to publish, the recommendation was made ...
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GOP congressman uses slur to describe farm workers
- Republican U.S. Rep. Don Young of Alaska says he %22meant no disrespect%22
- The congressman says he has %22compassion and understanding%22 for migrant workers
- The congressman says%2C in his words%2C %22I know that this term is not used in the same way nowadays%22
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Don Young of Alaska says he "meant no disrespect" by a term he used to describe migrant workers during a wide-ranging interview.
In a statement Thursday, Young said that during an interview this week with KRBD Radio in Ketchikan, he used a term that was commonly used during his days growing up on a farm in Central California. The congressman says, in his words, "I know that this term is not used in the same way nowadays and I meant no disrespect."
Young used the term "wetbacks" to describe the workers who picked tomatoes on his father's ranch.
The congressman says he has "compassion and understanding" for migrant workers and "the hurdles they face in obtaining citizenship." He says they play an important role in America's workforce and the country must tackle the issue of immigration reform.


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I've taught my students this for years. The most important lesson the student learns, along with skills, is the understanding of the role of a preacher. I shall devote the next few weeks talking about the role. This installment deals with a most basic idea: the preacher is a shepherd. If the oldest to the youngest listener cannot understand you or get anything out of your sermons, you need to work harder to know your audience. It may sound simple, but it's a hard task. Do we know to whom we're preaching? The Bible often refers to the leader as a shepherd. By default, the shepherd knows his sheep, much like the pastor knows her congregation. In order to know the congregation, the pastor has to be in the life of the congregation. This may involve getting in touch through visitation, small groups, email, or other means. The problem may not be rhetorical. The problem may be pastoral. Or the problem may be a combination of both.
There're a few preachers out there who think that a few formulaic ideas can go a long way. Some think that repentance or commitment or some other topics like God's sovereignty can just about meet everyone's need. They're naïve! Try telling the mother who just had miscarriage God is sovereign. Try telling a rape victim to repent of "her" sin of bitterness against her attacker. Most are not this extreme, but can be guilty to a lesser degree. Many lack sensitivity cultivated through close contact with congregation members.
When we prepare our sermons, we need to have the divorced mother raising three kids by herself, the single who can't seem to find a life partner, the little kid who is ADD, the women and the man who's struggling with pornography and sexual addiction in mind. Is there a message in the text for them? I'm not saying that every text has a message for these cases, but surely, if the text has "no" message for "any" case, then the preacher has got a problem. If this problem persists, the pulpit will die a slow and painful death.


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Afternoon Delight is a more serious and darker film than you might expect, considering its cast loaded with recognizable (though not necessarily "name") comedians headed by Kathryn Hahn, who has stolen scenes in a dozen comedies, including Step Brothers, Wanderlust, and TV's Parks and Recreation. That is not to say that Afternoon Delight is a button-pushing exercise in anti-comedy, like Rick Alverson's ironically titled The Comedy from a couple years ago, but writer-director Jill Soloway's vision of middle-aged ennui in Los Angeles plays kind of like Pretty Woman as reimagined by Elaine May and John Cassavetes. The laughs are there, but boy, they come with an emotional cost.
In hopes of rejuvenating their stalled sex life, failed journalist and stay-at-home mom Rachel (Hahn) takes her husband Jeff (How I Met Your Mother's Josh Radnor) to a strip club. There, Rachel finds herself fascinated by McKenna (Juno Temple, Killer Joe), a young stripper who gives her a lapdance. Eventually, she contrives reasons to be in the neighborhood of the strip club, so she can find McKenna and see her again. Hahn and Soloway refuse to show all of Rachel's cards, leaving us to guess throughout the film whether she merely wants to investigate how the other half lives, or she wants a taste of a wilder life, or she's just infatuated with this young, sexy girl. Does she want a new girlfriend? Does she want a new girlfriend? Most likely, it's a mixture of all of that.
Soon, McKenna ends up without a place to live, so Rachel offers her the spare room in her house. A more conventional film would use this as the set-up for a culture-clash comedy: after some time spent living together, Rachel would loosen up and McKenna would find that middle-class values aren't so bad. Or, alternatively, it could be an infidelity drama where Rachel and/or Jeff gives into temptation and the newly uncorked passion threatens to tear their precious home apart. Granted, Afternoon Delight borrows a few beats from the culture-clash comedy and a few from the infidelity drama, but thrillingly it subverts pretty much all of them. The film plays it pretty dry and awfully real, and piece by piece it lets Rachel's plan believably blow up in her face.
Rachel claims she is trying to help McKenna turn her life around, but when she learns that McKenna is not only a stripper but also a full-on prostitute, Rachel is left impotently wringing her hands. She drives McKenna to a john's house, like a twisted soccer mom, and later accompanies her on a visit where the client likes to have someone else watch. Not only is she not helping McKenna, but it's difficult to argue that Rachel is even helping herself.
Hahn and Temple are outstanding as the two lead women, never letting the characters turn into "types." They are fully realized and unsentimentally messy as people. At any given moment, we can see Rachel and McKenna as would-be lovers or would-be mother-and-daughter or even just would-be friends, but they never simply ease into one of those relationships.
The rest of the cast is also top-notch. Radnor plays Jeff as a good-natured beta male, not really getting to show off as an actor until the emotionally charged scenes near the film's end. Jane Lynch gives a brilliant low-key performance as Rachel's lesbian psychotherapist Lenore, who is always inappropriately sharing stories about her own perfect relationship. Frequent Comedy Bang Bang podcast guest Jessica St. Clair appears memorably as Rachel's best friend Stephanie, who is bemused but amused by Rachel's choice in houseguests. Other familiar faces include Wanderlust's Michaela Watkins, Key & Peele's Keegan-Michael Key, and the Oscar-nominated co-writer of Bridesmaids, Annie Mumolo.
It is an awful shame that Afternoon Delight failed to find even a niche audience during its theatrical run*. While the film shines as a brilliant piece of filmmaking, full of unguarded performances, uncomfortably real moments, and unexpected emotion, one can't help but wish for the ability to take it in with an audience... for the laughs. On video, the film has laughs, but the relative darkness of the story makes it easier to choke on them. In a crowded theater, I expect the film plays funnier, with scattered nervous laughs turning into bigger cathartic belly laughs. Maybe you'll just have to resort to the next best thing and gather together a large group of your most interesting friends for a home-theater screening. With or without them, though, Afternoon Delight is a hell of a memorable time at the movies.
*...unless Quentin Tarantino counts as a niche audience. The filmmaker notably included Afternoon Delight in his list of the top movies of 2013. (Yes, he did also include The Lone Ranger and The Conjuring on that list. Nobody's perfect.)
The Blu-rayAfternoon Delight comes in a dual-format combo pack, with both a Blu-ray and DVD. Both discs contain the same bonus features.
The Video: Cinematographer Jim Frohna gave Afternoon Delight a basically neutral palate. All uses of color are motivated by the locations so the exteriors tend to have the most touches of color, while the interiors often look gray-greenish or white, with the actors often flatly lit in front and backlit by the windows. It doesn't feel cold or sterile, necessarily, but the look is clearly letting the audience know: this movie is raw and serious, and stuff. The 1080p AVC-encoded 1.85:1 transfer mostly reproduces the look quite well, though there are some instances of noise, clipping, and banding in the highlights on some of those plain white backgrounds. The amount of fine detail is excellent, and certainly in line with what you expect from a brand-new movie.
The Audio:I feel like I end up repeating myself a lot in these audio sections, but I guess I watch a lot of talky indie movies. The DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio sounds crisp and clear, but the surround speakers are pretty much just put to use during the numerous indie-rock/indie-folk music cues. The disc has no alternate language options, but there are English SDH.
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Final Thoughts: Afternoon Delight is one of the best movies you didn't watch in 2013. While it would be nice if the making-of supplements weren't so short and trivial, the other bonuses are worth your time. Overall, the disc comes Highly Recommended.
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CATDAT #41 October 2, 2011 report is one of the most complete reports published so far on the Japan Tohoku earthquake and tsunami which occurred on March 11, 2011. CATDAT and Earthquake-Report.com have been reporting on this earthquake and cruel tsunami from moments after it happened until today.
Read also : Summary page of our earlier published articles
CATDAT Earthquake-Report.com Situation Report #41
Losses in the Japanese Earthquake/Tsunami of March 11th as of 30 September 2011.
The earthquake hit a highly populated area in terms of world standards (around 100-500 people per sq. km.), but a lowly populated area of Japan with the exception of the Sendai area. From FDMA, NPA and work of CATDAT, Earthquake-report.com and Daniell et al. (2011), the following summary has been put together.
Around 35% of buildings in the area were built pre-1980, around 55% from 1981-2000 and 10% post 2001. In terms of seismic code, this means that around 65% has been built under major Japanese seismic codes (1981, 1987 etc.) and that the other 35% has been influenced in the past by seismic codes and earthquakes pre-war (1926, 1938). Most of the buildings are wooden in the affected area, with some concrete and steel buildings making up the mix. The area contributes to between 7-9% of Japan's GDP when including the 4 prefectures most affected.
CATDAT GDP per capita (left); Age of building types (centre); Percentage of building typologies (right) (Daniell et al., 2011)
Building and Infrastructure Losses
As of September 30th, 2011, over 900000 buildings had been damaged by the tsunami and earthquake. When dividing these into coastal and non-coastal municipalities the following distribution results. It should be noted that coastal municipalities generally go much inland, and a much greater percentage was not impacted by the tsunami, than was.
Partially Destroyed
Partially Damaged
Coastal Municipalities
Non-Coastal Municipalities
In addition around 72000 additional buildings have been either flooded (with minimal damage) or are non-dwelling buildings damaged (with many still to count).
Over 1,000,000 buildings have been damaged in total from the earthquake, tsunami and associated aftershocks. Stay tuned to earthquake-report.com for the CATDAT Damaging Earthquake Database and Earthquake-Report.com 2011 Year in Review – coming soon! This will show all Damaging earthquake data for 2011.
The data from this earthquake can be gained by sending us a request with the contact form.
As of September 30th, 2011, 3559 roads have been reported to be damaged, 77 bridges, 45 dikes and 29 railway locations. In addition around 200 landslides have been reported. The data seems to be incomplete however from many locations, as Chiba has reported 2343 damaged roads, with other prefectures where much shaking occurred reporting much less damage.
Around 360 fires were extinguished by the fire department.
Using the intensity relationships created in the buildings from non-coastal municipalities (as nearly all damage in these municipalities inland must be earthquake related), then the following distribution results in tsunami and earthquake losses from Daniell et al. (2011).
Partially Destroyed
Partially Damaged
An additional 35466 buildings are in the towns and cities within the exclusion zone of the Fukushima I and II nuclear sites. The best estimate of damage to buildings from Daniell et al. (2011) coming from each of the three events is the earthquake (46%), tsunami (44%) and nuclear disaster (10%).
Economic Losses
The economic loss estimates from CATDAT were distributed on earthquake-report.com with the release of $100 billion to $500 billion estimate (total, with 70% coming from tsunami), created after 70 minutes. The uncertainties came about because of the great uncertainties in modelling losses given certain intensities and the uncertainties in damage ratios and industries affected. In later versions, the economic losses from the tsunami reduced to around 57% vs. the earthquake at 43%.
The following is a comparison of estimates of casualties and economic losses from various estimation models and from government and company modelling. All results represent only shaking losses from USGS-PAGER. Economic Losses and casualties from EQLIPSE-Q and R are as indicated. For further information, come to the Australian Earthquake Engineering conference in the Barossa Valley in November 2011.
Socio-economic loss estimates for the Tohoku Earthquake from various sources for the 2011 Tohoku EQ (Daniell et al., 2011)
Historically in such events, 20-30% of direct economic loss was residential based, with ranging estimates from 25-55% in other forms of industry, infrastructure and commercial losses. Around 70% of the capital stock is inland as compared to around 30% of the capital stock on the coast in the provinces of Miyagi, Iwate, Fukushima and Ibaraki according to the Japanese Cabinet Office. Extrapolating the damage in other prefectures, the Japanese Cabinet Office estimate should be about $231 billion once adding $23 billion loss in other prefectures.
Around 48% of the total losses are tsunami-based, 42% expected to be earthquake-based and around 10% to be due to the 70000 residents within the evacuation zones including the decommissioning of the Fukushima plant.
From historical quakes and looking at business interruption, for a $280 billion direct economic loss from this earthquake, around $110 billion (2-yr) to $220 billion (5-yr) in extra indirect losses could be expected. Further analysis will be needed over the coming years.
This is the highest economic loss from any earthquake historically, eclipsing the approximately $210 billion loss (2011-adjusted) from the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake.
Deaths and Injuries
Historic tsunami deaths in the CATDAT Damaging Earthquakes Database from Japan include the 1498 Tokaido EQ (31000), 1586 Tsubu EQ (8000) 1707 Hoei EQ (5000-32000), 1771 Yaeyama (11941), 1896 Meiji-Sanriku (22066), 1923 Great Kanto (2140), 1933 Sanriku EQ (3002). From the tsunami, around 18700 dead and missing are currently expected.
There were 46954 shaking-related deaths in the CATDAT Damaging Earthquakes Database from 1900-2010 before the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake. Of these, most occurred in the 1923 Great Kanto EQ (28560 shaking deaths), 1927 Tango EQ (3110), 1943 Tottori EQ (1325), 1945 Mikawa EQ (2306), 1948 Fukui EQ (4618) and 1995 Kobe EQ (4823). From this earthquake, the total shaking deaths are currently around 230.
It can be seen that many people missing have been found since the start of April 2011, meaning that we are now under 20000 dead and missing as a result of this earthquake and tsunami. Much lower than the 30000 expected in late March.
Ishinomaki City in Miyagi had the most fatalities with around 3890 currently expected (around 2.4% of the population). Otsuchi Town had the highest percentage of the population killed from any municipality (10.0%, 1382 deaths). The percentages on the right hand side show the killed population as a percentage of the total daytime population. The red shows the people confirmed dead, and the black shows the missing people (presumed dead).
It is interesting to see that Minamisanriku – where over 10000 people were reported to be killed as a result of the tsunami in the first 24 hours, has had less than 1000 dead and missing.
The highest proportion of dead and missing is of course in the coastal regions in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima. It would be useful to know what the cause of each death was and we expect this information will come at some point.
It is unknown how many victims have died directly due to the earthquake action. As we reported to you from NPA back in April on earthquake-report.com about the first 13135 victims, 92.5% were drowned (12143), 4.4% were crushed to death mainly in tsunami collapsed houses (578), 1.1% were burned to death in various fires (148), with others killed via hypothermia and other causes. It will never be known how many died due to the earthquake, as separated from the tsunami; however, the autopsies give us an indicator that we can expect that about 1.0% of the 4.4% crushed were probably in earthquake collapsed houses.
In addition, we can assume a proportion of the remaining 2% that were unknown were also earthquake-related (a high value of 10% could be assumed). This would leave about 1.2% or about 158. When extrapolating for the final 6000 deaths that were not stress or chronic disease related, then the total is around 230. This value corresponds quite well to the 137 non-tsunami impacted deaths that have been recorded in the non-coastal areas. Some of the non-coastal deaths, however, were due to heart attack, fire or landslide.
As of 30 September 2011, 15815 have been killed and 3966 are missing (19781 in total). Of the 19781, around 600 are assumed to have died from earthquake-related stress and chronic disease. Around 230 should be earthquake-collapse related. Around 250 could be related to other causes such as fire, landslides etc. Around 94% of deaths are tsunami related.
Age played a major role in the survival chances of people therefore escaping the tsunami, as people become older, they lose the ability and drive to escape in many cases. They will also move to save their families before themselves to a greater extent (usually!). The final predicted death percentages are as follows based on initial data from NPA. Over 90% of the stress and chronic disease deaths (of which around 600 are expected (570 were counted as of 24 July 2011)), have come from elderly people over the age of 65.
Around 6000 people have been reported to be injured as a result of this earthquake and tsunami, showing the large impact of the tsunami in killing people versus injuring people.
Shelter and Homeless
The peak number of homeless and people living in shelters is hard to calculate given incomplete data in the first few days. It was likely that a total of around 700000 people were living outside of their homes on the 12th March, however data is lacking. In Miyagi for instance, the total in shelters was counted at 45979 at 5.00am JST on the 12th March, but was then counted at 320885 at 16.00 JST on the 14th March. In Ibaraki prefecture, a peak of 72000 people in shelters was seen at 12/03/2011 at 8.00am when the shelters opened, and then reduced after that.
Around 400,000 people are expected to be homeless as a result of this earthquake (due to destroyed buildings or forced evacuation).
Many official shelters were only built in the days after the earthquake rather than directly on the 11th March. In addition there was incomplete counting during this period. During the tsunami danger period, locations like Hokkaido, also had many people in tsunami shelters for a few hours after the event. A combination of these factors, mean that it will be impossible to know exactly what happened in the first 2-3 days.
When looking at the total impact in Fukushima with the forced evacuations due to the nuclear plant, once all people were found and those who evacuated were counted, the total of the population who went to shelters and other prefectures was around 134000 people of which around 90000-110000 were evacuees of the Fukushima plant disaster and between 24000 and 44000 were probably earthquake and tsunami impacted. Other influences may have included the gas, water and power outages, landslides and torrential rain that were also present.
As of 30th September 2011, around 56,000 people are living outside the prefecture from Fukushima, and around 50,000 internally (of which at least 42,000 are from the nuclear affected towns).
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Jennifer Hawkins has proved to the world that there is a lot to achieve after winning the Miss Universe title.
The 30-year-old model, who has appeared on television, strutted Myer catwalks and launched a swimwear line since her 2004 pageant victory, has most recently been busy with her latest business adventure, her own self tanning range Jbronze.
Jennifer, who launched her premium products in August 2013, has ensured that she is very much a part of the development process, recently spending time away from the runway and instead in the laboratory.
In action: Jennifer gets involved in the development process by spending time in the labs with her team
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2621109/Jennifer-Hawkins-shows-just-takes-create-JBronze-tanning-range.html#ixzz318Kicmj9
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