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1 Middle Pleistocene geology of the Bassa Campagna Romana D. De Rita 1, F. Zarlenga 2 1 Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche, Università degli Studi di Roma Tre, Roma, Italia - 2 Divisione ambiente e Caratterizzazione territoriale, ENEA-Cr-Casaccia, Roma, Italia - SUMMARY: This paper describes the main geological characters of the Bassa Campagna Romana during the Middle Pleistocene. In this period the Bassa Campagna Romana, comprised between the city of Rome and the Tyrrhenian sea, has been interested by complex geological processes including extensional tectonism related to the development of the Tyrrhenian basin back arc, volcanism, and the glacio-eustatic variations of the sea level related to global climatic changes. The Tiber river is one of the most important geological element present in the area; most of the deposits outcropping in the area are, in fact, alluvial sediments of the Tiber and its tributaries, often interbedded with volcanic deposits from the Colli Albani and the Sabatini volcanic districts. The successions, which sometimes contain Palaeolithic industry, has been subdivided, by the presence of unconformities, in several orders or cycles of alluvial fills interbedded with volcanic deposits. 1. STRATIGRAPHY OF THE AREA* During the Middle Pleistocene to the recent, Central Italy has been interested by complex geological processes including: - general uplifting of the area due to hysosthatic re-equilibration, after the Apennine orogeny, and to extensional tectonism of the Tyrrhenian margin related to the development of the Tyrrhenian back arc basin; - extensive alkali-potassic volcanism from mainly explosive volcanoes forming a NWtrending elongated belt, parallel to the Tyrrhenian sea coast; - glacio-eustatic variations of the sea level. The interplay among these processes are responsible for the morphological setting of Central Italy and, in particular, of the Bassa Campagna Romana. The geometry and the facies characteristics of the volcanoclastic succession of the Tiber valley indicate that its morphology was modified many times during the Middle Pleistocene, both for the effects of local tectonics, the emplacement of large-volume ignimbrites and oscillations of the sea level. In this paper we present a synthesis of the geological studies that have been made in the last ten years on this area, with emphasis to a new interpretation that has been possible by the data collected during the recent field survey for the new 1: geological map of Italy. Most of the Middle Pleistocene deposits outcropping in the Bassa Campagna Romana are alluvial sediments of the Tiber river and of its tributaries, which represent several orders or 38 * The new data reported in this section were obtained during the survey of the Roma and the Albano geological maps (originally at the 1:10000 scale) of which the field operators have been Alessandra Esposito and Marina Fabbri. Guido Giordano has been the field research Director and Renato Funiciello and Donatella de Rita have been the Chief Supervisors. Francesco Zarlenga has been the Responsible for the survey of sedimentary Quaternary units.
2 Middle Pleistocene Geology of the Bassa Campagna Romana cycles of alluvial fills. In some cases and at the top of the sequence, they show brackish and marine facies as at the Torre del Pagliaccetto, San Cosimato and Vitinia sections (Conato et al. 1980). This succession of sediments, interbedded with volcanic deposits from the Colli Albani (also known as Alban Hills), almost 20 km south-east of Roma, and the Sabatini volcanic Districts, more than 30 km north of Roma, lie unconformably on Lower Middle Pleistocene (P. Galeria Formation) and older pre-volcanic sediments. The Sabatini volcanic district is a large volcanic area with many craters and calderas located around a central collapsed area at the present infilled by the Bracciano lake. Volcanic activity started around 600 ka ago from craters located in the eastern sector. Here, the Sacrofano volcano, the most active of the sector, had mainly explosive activity erupting fall scoriae and pumices and huge pyroclastic flows. The fall levels and some of the pyroclastic flow units reached the Bassa Campagna Romana: the Tufo giallo della Via Tiberina (549 ka), the Prima Porta unit (514 ka) and the Tufo giallo di Sacrofano (333 ka). Volcanism was contemporaneously active in the central sector of the volcanic district where fracture systems erupting lava flows and explosive craters developed around the central volcano-tectonic depression of the Bracciano lake. From the Vigna di Valle crater, south of the Bracciano lake, was erupted the Tufo rosso a scorie nere ignimbrite (430 ka). The Colli Albani volcanic district is a central volcano whose activity can be subdivided in three main Epoch (sensu Fisher & Schmincke 1984). During the first Epoch, from 600 ka to 300 ka, the central Tuscolano-Artemisio volcano was active, which erupted several pyroclastic flow units, largely reaching the Bassa Campagna Romana. After the collapse of the edifice and the setting of the Tuscolano- Artemisio caldera, volcanic activity was located within the smaller Le Faete central edifice, grew inside the collapsed area. Final hydromagmatic explosions from eccentric craters ended the volcanism less than 30 ka ago. The base of the volcanoclastic succession of the "Bassa Campagna Romana" is the Ponte Galeria Formation. It is made of interbedded conglomerates, sands and clays interpreted as the deposits of the ancient Tiber river and its delta in the medium-higher part, named Paleotiber. The geometry, the facies characteristics and the thickness of the Ponte Galeria formation indicate that, before the beginning of the alkali potassic volcanism, about 600 ka ago, the Paleotiber was in an easternmost position with respect to the present and its delta was in the area of Ponte Galeria. Ponte Galeria formation has been studied by many Authors and several interpretations of its sequence have been proposed (Conato et al. 1980; Malatesta & Zarlenga 1986; Milli 1992, 1997; Marra & Rosa 1995; Marra et al. 1994). On top of this sequence, the Tor de Cenci unit is present. The Tor de Cenci unit is the deposit of pyroclastic flows erupted from the central Tuscolano-Artemisio volcano in the Colli Albani volcanic district. The Tor de Cenci unit has been dated by Karner et al. (1994) 561 ka. It is one of the four ignimbrites, separated by paleosoils, recognized during the recent field research as belonging to the deposits generally known as Tufi pisolitici. Almost contemporaneously to the Tor de Cenci unit, interbedded with synvolcanic sediments, is another ignimbrite unit erupted by the Sacrofano volcano in the Sabatini volcanic District. This ignimbrite, named the Tufo giallo della Via Tiberina was erupted 549 ka ago. These eruptions had a strong impact on the sedimentary environment of the Roman area. Many minor river valleys were completly infilled and the Tiber, North of Rome, had its course moved westward. Enormous volumes of sediments were rapidly transported by mass flow and high sediments-concentration flow processes. Thick volcanoclastic deposits, both interbedded and on top of the ignimbrites are the products of this sineruption phase. The volcanic and volcanoclastic sediments are cut by an important erosion surface that we consider as due to the oscillation of the sea level related to the OIS
3 40 On this surface, fluvial sediments interbedded with several volcanic units are present. The fluvial sediments are conglomerates, sands and clays rich in volcanic component and locally interested by travertine deposits. The volcanoclastic deposits are also known as Valle Giulia unit as defined in the Roman urban area (Marra & Rosa 1994). The volcanic units come from both the Sabatini and the Colli Albani volcanic Districts. They are the Palatino unit dated 533 ka and the Casale del Cavaliere unit from the Tuscolano-Artemisio volcano, the Prima Porta unit, dated 514 ka years and fall deposits from the Sacrofano volcano in the Sabatini volcanic district. This complex sedimentary cycle is closed by a strong uplift of m, started during the first volcanic eruptions and by a contemporaneous low stand of the sea level, due to the glacio eustatism, which produced an erosion surface, that we relate to the isotope stage 12, which cut all older sediments. After this phase a new chapter in the geology of Bassa Campagna Romana begins, in fact erosion and sedimentation in the palaeovalleys have been strongly affected by the eustatic cycles, during the low standing of the sea level large regional erosion surfaces and during high stand of the sea level the sedimentation in the palaeovalley were produced; these sedimentary cycles represent fourth order depositional sequences (De Rita et al. 1993). This first surface is filled by complex volcanics or by sediments. The volcanic unit are lava flows, Pozzolane rosse and Pozzolane nere units from the Colli Albani volcano that are interbedded with syneruption pebble-sandy fluvial sediments. The sediments related to the oxygen isotope stage 11 are characterised by the absence of black scoriae coming from the Tufo rosso a scorie nere. They constitute the S. Cosimato Formation (Conato et al. 1980; Malatesta & Zarlenga 1986) and, from a palaeontological point of view, they could be correlated to the Fontana Ranuccio Faunistic Units (FU) (Caloi & Palombo 1995). Probably at the end of this cycle, or during the higher part the Tufo rosso a scorie nere ignimbrite, dated 430 ka, from the Vigna di Valle crater and fall deposits from Sacrofano volcano both in the Sabatini volcanic districts were put in place. The volcanoclastic sediments are known in the literature as San Paolo formation, Conglomerato giallo unit. An erosion surface that we relate to isotope stage 10 cuts these sediments. The volcanoclastic and volcanic sequence on it is constituted by fluvial and lagoon sediments interbedded with the Villa Senni eruption deposits which include the deposits of two ignimbrites, the Tufo lionato and the Tufo di Villa Senni ignimbrites, dated at 336 ka, the Tufo giallo di Sacrofano from the Sacrofano volcano dated at 333 ka. Toward the top the Capo di Bove lava flow has been recognized. This important lava flow was erupted from the Le Faete edifice, the youngest central volcano of the Colli Albani volcanic District, which grew up inside the collapsed area of the Tuscolano-Artemisio. The alluvial sediments related to isotope stage 9 are well known as Aurelia Formation (Caloi et al. 1998; Conato et al. 1980; Malatesta 1978; Malatesta & Zarlenga 1988) and, from a palaeontological point of view, are related to the Torre in Pietra Faunistic Units (F.U.) (Caloi & Palombo 1995), defined in the type section of Torre in Pietra. Also this succession is closed by an erosion surface related to isotope stage 8 and the following alluvial infill, related to isotope stage 7, is named Vitinia Formation (Conato et al. 1980; Caloi et al. 1998), which, from a palaeontological point of view, are related to the Vitinia Faunistic Units (FU) (Caloi & Palombo 1995), defined in the type section of Vitinia. Also this sedimentary cycle is closed by an erosion surface due to the uplift and to the lowering of sea level, on which marine sediments (Tyrrhenian s.s related to the 5e isotope stage, Hearty & Dai Pra 1986; Milli & Zarlenga 1991) are embanked. After the Tyrrhenian cycle, an unnamed alluvial formation was deposited the Bassa Campagna Romana (with an age corresponding to 0,09 and/or 0,08 and/or 0,05 Ma; Arnoldus- Huyzendveld et al. 1993) and lastly the present
4 Middle Pleistocene Geology of the Bassa Campagna Romana alluvial bottom valleys, correlated to the Versilian transgression, were formed. All the volcanoclastic succession, following the Ponte Galeria Formation (l.s.), shows a geometry of overlapping alluvial fills, sensu Leopold et al. (1964), that have been interpreted as due to the lack of uplift phase until the Tyrrhenian stage. The sediments of the Tyrrhenian, instead, are embanked at m a.s.l. to the older. The rate of this uplift has been calculated to be 10-15m. A second uplift phase of 30 m occurred after the Tyrrhenian, the sediments of the unnamed unit lie at m a.s.l. The third and the last uplift phase occurred after the deposition of this and it has been calculated to be of 10 m. This is the cause of the presence of only three main Middle Pleistocene terraces in the "Bassa Campagna Romana". 2. INDUSTRY AND STRATIGRAPHY During the last thirty years of research the relationships between stratigraphy and human industry has been clarified: In fact we can find Bifacial Acheulean industry in the sediments of the Aurelia Formation, Mousterian in the Vitinia Formation and in the Tyrrhenian or probably younger formations (Saccopastore). This presence, with Mammal fauna and volcanic layers, allow us to define a very good stratigraphy in an area where the outcrops are not so particularly abundant. Lastly it is very important to underline that the sediments which constitute the alluvial fills, represent only a little part of an interglacial stage; in fact, if we observe the present alluvial bottom valleys, we can understand that they were formed during the last arising of the sea level, starting from 12 ka and concluded 8 ka ago c.a. 3. CONCLUSIONS Several sedimentary cycles were recognized in the Bassa Campagna Romana whose age is comprised between oxygen isotope stages 11 and 1. Volcanic deposits from the Tuscolano- Artemisio volcano in the Colli Albani volcanic District and from craters located in the Sabatini volcanic District are interbedded, allowing a correlation between volcanism and sedimentation along the coast. The lack of uplift until the Tyrrhenian stage caused the absence of alluvial terraces and the deposits are instead, alluvial fills insides. 4. REFERENCES Arnoldus-Huyzendveld, A., Gioia, P., Mussi, M., Toniutti, P., Zampetti, D. & Zarlenga, F Paleosuperficie esposta, concentrazione di industria litica e stratigrafia nella piana costiera di Maccarese (Roma). Il Quaternario, 6 (2): Caloi, L. & Palombo, M.R Biostratigrafia e Paleoecologia delle mammalofaune del Pleistocene medio dell Italia Centrale. Studi Geol. Camerti, B, Caloi, L., Palombo, M.R. & Zarlenga, F Late-Middle Pleistocene mammal faunas of Latium (Central Italy): Stratigraphy and environment. Quaternary International, 47/48: Conato, V., Esu, D., Malatesta, A. & Zarlenga, F New data on the Pleistocene of Rome. Quaternaria, 22: De Rita, D., Milli, S., Rosa, C., Zarlenga, F. & Cavinato, G.P Catastrophic eruptions and glacioeustatic episodes in Latium. Intern. Conf.: Large explosive eruptions. Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 25/5/93, Rome. Fisher, R.V. & Schmincke, H.U Pyroclastic rocks. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. Hearty, P.J. & Dai Pra, G Aminostratigraphy of Quaternary Marine deposits in the Lazio Region of Central Italy. Zeit.Geomrph.N.F., 62: Karner, D.B., Marra, F., Renne, P., Alvarez, W. & Ammerman, A.J Ar/ 39 Ar dating of complex coastal deposits in Italy : a radiometric calibration of Pleistocene climate cycles. Congr. Geol. Am. Soc., Oct., Seattle. Leopold, L.B., Wollman, M.G. and Miller, J.P Fluvial processes in geomorphology. San Francisco and London: Freeman W.H. 41
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Over the years, I've had the distinct priviledge of having an active drive to try out new business ideas. While not all of these turned out to be huge money makers (some were downright scams and lose me money), all of them were incredible learning opportunities.
I figured it would be beneficial to share my experiences and comment on several different types of home-based business opportunitites available today. This will be the main subject of today's post. However, I want to hear about you all's experiences as well.
So, feel free to post your thoughts in the comments section below.
Let's get started…
- Surveys
- Paid survey taking is one of the few legitimate work-at-home money making opportunities.
- However, the pay is generally not very much.
- David Bach, in his book titled, Fight For Your Money, recommends the following survey taking providers/websites.
- American Consumer Opinion
- National Family Opinion
- Survey Savvy
- My Experience
- I have tried taking surveys from each of the above websites.
- Generally, I have found that there is not much money at all to be made with these because 1) they don't send you enough survey opportunities and 2) they usually place high payout levels on the accounts, which makes it tough to ever reach the level where you can get paid.
- As a result of my experience, my verdict is as follows – Survey taking is not a scam, but I would not recommend it to make money from home.
- Envelope Stuffing
- This one is absolutely, 100%, a scam. Do not attempt it.
- My Experience
- Thankfully, I have never tried this one and have therefore, never been ripped off.
- ChaCha
- ChaCha is an interesting, legitimate home business/money making opportunity.
- ChaCha is a free text message question-answering service in which users text message questions to the ChaCha system, and then ChaCha Guides (as they are called) answer the question by looking it up on their home computer through Google.com. It is actually pretty fun!
- The pay rates usually range from about 5 cents to 25 cents per answer that you give.
- My Experience
- I signed up for and performed as a ChaCha guide for about 1 month last year.
- During my time, I made approximately $5.
- Overall, the work was not that hard (and was pretty fun), except that it tended to take a lot longer than I thought to accumulate enough earnings to reach the $100 payout level.
- As a result of my experience, I would not recommend ChaCha as a home-business opportunity.
- eBay Selling and Amazon Selling
- I have summarized the benefits and pitfalls of selling items on both eBay and Amazon in the link below.
- In my experience, no home-business opportunity has made me more money than selling items on eBay. I would highly recommend it.
- Blogging
- Blogging is a legitimate home-business opportunity.
- However, it takes a long time (> 1 year) to build up enough of a reader-base to make money through advertising on your site.
- However, the good thing is that with sites like Blogger.com (what I use for this blog) and WordPress.com, you can start a blog about anything you want for FREE.
- My Experience
- Personally, I really enjoy writing my personal finance blog. It is one of the joys of my life that I look forward to doing each day.
- However, you should not expect to make big money with it. If you are thinking of starting a blog, make sure to pick a topic that you enjoy and can use your blog to learn more about that topic.
- Pet Waste Removal Service
- Starting your own pet waste removal service (or a pay-for-fee service where people pay you to clean up the pet excrement from their yards) is an easy, low cost business to start up and run, provided that you can stomach the smell of a little fecal matter.
- This service is surprisingly in high demand, as yards have gotten smaller and smaller and people's time has become more limited.
- Fees for service can range from $15-$50 per week, depending on the size of the person's yard and number/size of dogs/cats.
- My Experience
- Back in 2006-2007, I started up one of these services, and became pretty successful at it, gathering a collection of clients that I serviced on a weekly basis.
- Earnings – In total, I probably made about $500 from this venture.
- I had to stop doing it my senior year of college because my time outside of school was so limited.
- Mystery Shopping
- Essentially, what mystery shopping involves is getting paid for providing an evaluation of your "customer experience" when you go in to a store and purchase items like normal.
- Big chain-stores pay large amounts of money to people in order to improve the experience that customers have.
- Personally, I have never tried mystery shopping, but David Bach (in Fight For Your Money) recommends the following websites/providers for mystery shopping. He also mentions that it is one of the few legitimate home business opportunities.
- Customer-Service Representative
- This is yet another home-business opportunity that I have not tried, but just found out about in David Bach's book.
- In his book, David relates the fact that approximately 700,000 Americans earn around $8 per hour as customer service reps, handling customer-service calls out of their own homes for resort, hotel, and other companies.
- Several of the agencies offering these legitimate opportunities are listed below:
- Multi Level Marketing
- At a high level, multi-level marketing opportunities offer you the ability to make money in two ways – 1) by selling products offered by the organization, and 2) selling the business opportunity that you are doing to others. Since these MLM (multi-level marketing) organizations involve selling products, they are creating value for others, and are therefore technically legal.
- However, it is very difficult to make any money with these opportunities. I would highly recommend avoiding them at all costs.
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Dear Parkland Community,
Welcome to the 2016-2017 school year.
Welcome back to school! As this newsletter goes to print, we are preparing for another school year in Parkland and making plans to welcome approximately 9,200 students into our K-12 classrooms.
It is with great pleasure that I share that Pennsylvania completed and balanced a 2016-17 state budget in July. Both the House and the Senate passed a revenue bill, a School Code bill and a Fiscal Code bill. As a result, the District will receive a 2016-17 Basic Education Funding increase in the amount of $537,446. This dollar amount is $337,446 more than Parkland had planned to receive when it created the final budget for adoption in June. Special Education Funding for Parkland is projected to be $46,880 more than what was budgeted. Therefore, the total increase in funding over what the District had planned for is estimated to be $384,326 and will offset the current year's expenditure plans.
I am happy to share some important information regarding capital improvement initiatives that the Parkland School District has implemented. The administration recommended and the Board subsequently approved a fourth year of a capital improvement plan that included the borrowing of approximately $10M. This has allowed Parkland to maintain high quality facilities that are safe and secure as well as mitigate financial challenges in the future that could surface if maintenance issues were ignored. This was an extremely challenging summer for our maintenance department as they needed to perform normal summer tasks as well as prepare our schools for the implementation of full-day kindergarten. This required the installation of toilet facilities in classrooms at Schnecksville and Ironton to accommodate full-day kindergarten. The District also added modular classrooms at Fogelsville and Jaindl to manage increasing enrollment in the southwest portion of the District. Parkway Manor received some roof work and concrete repairs were made at Fogelsville, Kernsville and Parkway Manor to maintain a safe environment for students and staff. Orefield and Springhouse received large roofing section replacements. Springhouse also had some outdoor site lighting replacement work along with work on the doors at the front entrance and the entrance adjacent to the cafeteria. PHS received new cooling towers, a resurfaced track and new trees and shrubs in the buffer zone behind the baseball field.
2016-17 School Year Theme
The Parkland School District holds a long-standing tradition of annual district themes that serve as a framework to guide the efforts of the entire school community. We decided to replicate the Parkland School District theme for the 2016-2017 school year by focusing our attention on "Academics, Arts & Athletics…..Educating the Whole Child." These areas cross connect and reinforce each other through a variety of programs, systems and activities. Within these developmental pillars of a comprehensive educational program, we have established requirements for completion and advancement.
We encourage you to peruse this back-to-school edition of the Parkland School District newsletter. Join us for the Annual Back-to-School Carnival on September 17, which Parkland High School Student Council organizes for all families in the Parkland School District to enjoy. On October 7, the Parkland High School Fall Play, "Boeing, Boeing" will take the stage, and on Election Day, November 8th, we hope you will dine at Outback Steakhouse to help us raise funds for the Parkland School District Education Foundation which has given $635,000 to Parkland Schools for innovative projects since its inception just five years ago. There is so much on our calendar for the young and old. I hope to see you at an upcoming event!
It is my wish that all Parkland residents will get the chance to visit a Parkland School to enjoy an academic, arts or athletic event this year. Our schools are thriving thanks to your support and we want you all to partake in the wonderful ways our youth are learning and growing.
Richard T. Sniscak, Superintendent of Schools
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Dirk, I see your point about helping to detect poor logic, but wouldn't it be better to just print out a warning log message stating that the connection was double-closed, perhaps with a stack trace? That way, the code which would be legal (according to the javadoc) will still operate. This was a problem for me when I was converting some legacy code to use DBCP, and the common programming pattern in place resulted in just about every connection being double-closed. So, as soon as I set up DBCP, exceptions are being thrown everywhere, and the program just wouldn't work until I went and fixed each individual case, which was a large bit of refactoring. If DBCP had just printed out a warning message instead, then I could have tracked them down at my leisure. I also think that it does contradict the interface to throw an exception in a situation that is expressly documented in the interface to be a no-op. Thanks, --Austin > Hi Austin, > > We know about the double close and the javadoc allows it but it also allows SQLExceptions to be > thrown. > > Personally I think the current behavior is useful because it helps detect the poor logic to close a > connection twice. > This has been the behavior since 1.0. > > > -- Dirk Austin Mills wrote: Hello all, I just started using DBCP and am pretty happy with it, but I've come across something that seems a bit strange to me. When a connection received from the DBCP pool has close() called upon it two times, on the second call, it will throw an SQL exception such as: java.sql.SQLException: Connection is closed. at org.apache.commons.dbcp.PoolingDataSource$PoolGuardConnectionWrapper.checkOpen(PoolingDataSource.java:174) at org.apache.commons.dbcp.PoolingDataSource$PoolGuardConnectionWrapper.close(PoolingDataSource.java:179) at... (my code from here on) After browsing the docs/archives, this seems to be intended as a feature (or at a fix to a previous bug, http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22079 ) and I can understand that, as it's generally indicative of poor logic to close a connection twice. This is, however, directly in contradiction of the interface java.sql.Connection, which states in the javadocs of the close() method: "Calling the method close on a Connection object that is already closed is a no-op." Functionally, what this means is that when a developer has an existing codebase where connections are double-closed (bad, yes, but legal within the interface definition), he can switch to the DBCP pooling system from another system and end up having exceptions thrown from double-closing Connections (as I did). My question is, is this a conscious decision on the part of the developers to break away from that point in the interface definition? Or is it just something that was overlooked in the interests of writing better code? My hunch is that I should write this up as a bug in Bugzilla, but I wanted to get the opinions of the developers. Thanks, Austin Mills Development SensorLogic | M2M made easy. 972-934-7375 x2107 972-934-7376 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.sensorlogic.com Join SensorLogic at Wireless Sensing Solutions 2004 and receive a 25% discount on the conference program when you register online at http://www.wssconference.com/live/40/ with SensorLogic priority code: B0104. Austin Mills Development SensorLogic | M2M made easy. 972-934-7375 x2107 972-934-7376 (fax) email@example.com www.sensorlogic.com Join SensorLogic at Wireless Sensing Solutions 2004 and receive a 25% discount on the conference program when you register online at http://www.wssconference.com/live/40/ with SensorLogic priority code: B0104. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: email@example.com
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Friday, June 28, 2013
Can anyone identify all these slides?
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
June bug
Nick of Time
Johnny Depp returns home from his ex-wife's funeral and is met by Mr Smith and Ms. Jones who kidnap his daughter and give him a loaded gun and the itinerary of California's governor and is informed that he must kill her within the hour or his daughter will die. This movie is super dumb. It's Johnny Depp running around writing notes to strangers that say "help! They've kidnapped my daughter" and then watching the various ways those strangers dispose of those notes unread. BLARGH.
A Kiss Before Dying
This is an old timey film noir type movie. It's actually still very creepy. I saw the Matt Dillon version. I liked it. Nice twist at the end.
Fast & Furious Six: Fasterererrerer with EXTREME FURIOUSITY
Loved it. Listen. LISTEN. Cars asplode. Vin Diesel. The Rock. That dude with the pretty eyes. I AM HERE FOR ALL OF IT! Halfway through the movie, I was all, maaaan, I hope they make enough Fasts and Furiouses so that you could spend a whole day just watching pretty cars get blown up by rocket launchers. THEY'RE HALFWAY THERE PEOPLE!!
Ironman 3
Loved it. Recently, I heard the word "abortion" used to refer to something other than a fetus termination, and this has become my turn of phrase du jour. For instance, after the Ironman 2 abortion of a movie, I wrote off the franchise and even almost boycotted Avengers. I waited so long to even go see Ironman 3, it was no longer available in 3D. Didn't care. But, I actually loved Ironman 3. It was funny, it made sense, I got to see bad things happen to Gwyneth Paltrow... stuff blows the hell up. I give it three iron thumbs up!
The Man with the Iron Fists
There was a dude with Iron Fists. He bashed things with them. All the women die. Or get left. I think it's supposed to be an homage to old Bruce Lee movies. But gorier. It's okay.
Warm Bodies
This was a cute mashup of a romantic comedy and zombie apocalypse movie. Girl meets corpse and whatnot. Did I say cute? It's cute.
Alex Cross
I wanted to see if I hated Tyler Perry or just movies written and directed by Tyler Perry. Turns out, it might be the latter. Though Alex Cross is not good, it's just shy of utterly awful, I could imagine a different kind of movie starring, but not written or directed by Tyler Perry, that didn't completely suck. Alex Cross is not that movie though. (Crazy assasin kills Tyler Perry's wife and his partner's girlfriend and they set out to avenge their women and murderize him.) This movie might have been huge in the 80s.
This movie should have been called "making Pyscho" as you don't *really* learn anything about the man himself. Like his life or death or anything. It's just about his struggle to make this movie and the strain it puts on his marriage. It mostly just makes you want to rent Pyscho. Speaking of, there's a funny scene where Hitchcock has to go to the motion picture censor guy for approval. Pyscho almost gets nixed for showing a flushing toilet. Which just begs the question, when did the censors just give the fuck up? I mean, how do you go from not allowing a toilet to be seen to showing two guys blowing off the head of a black kid and then scraping the brain bits out of the backseat with towels? Oh, America.
Playing for Keeps
This is a total Jennifer Aniston movie...except she's not in it. I think the casting people now think Jennifer Aniston is too old for Jennifer Aniston movies. Instead they hire Justin Timberlake's wife. She is terrible. This movie is terrible. The kid is okay. And I liked the car. The dad misses his kid's soccer game and makes it up to him by letting him drive the Ferrari home. The kid snitches and tells the mom. You know, what? The kid is also terrible.
Jack Reacher
Tom Cruise is a retired military investigator. He has a long reach, jack! He's Jack Reacher! Okay, I make fun, but if you just turn your brain off, you'll enjoy it. It's a harmless whodunit, conspiracy action movie where Tom Cruise beats people up and shoots bad guys.
Hotel Transylvania
I didn't even know this was an Adam Sandler movie till the credits. It's a cute cartoon about a single vampire dad's efforts to keep his daughter away from humans.
Parental Guidance
Billy...um... not Dee or Williams...oh CRYSTAL! It's Billy Crystal being Billy Crystal. "Oh, these kids today with their gizmos and their gazmos. In my day, we watched baseball! Blah blah!" And Bette Midler is in it. She sings and does that hip shaking thing she does in all her movies. It's fine.
The Expendables 2
This is THEEE single greatest movie ever made in the 21st century. The good guy bursts into the church where the bad guys are preparing and stabs the lead bad guy in the face on top of the altar and then he goes "I now pronounce you man and KNIFE!" Get it? Get it? Instead of wife...knife...cause he stabbed him??? WITH A KNIFE!!! DUDE! *slow clap*


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The resort complex is equipped with swimming pool, lifts, café-restaurant, shopping facilities, parking lot, 24 hrs security and maintenance, private access, green areas. The complex has been completed in June 2005.
Location:view the map
Golden Dreams is located in the very centre of Sunny Beach
Address: Sunny Beach 8240, Bulgaria, Sunny Beach
Distance to beach:
Distance to center: 1.5km
Distance to airport: 38 km to Airport Bourgas
Distance to bus station: 100m
Distance to cash machine: 5m
Distance to exchange office: 0km
Distance to restaurants: 10m
Distance to shops: 5m
hotel facilities:all facilities
Safe at the reception:
yes, on payment, 3eur per day
Wi-Fi internet in the hotel: yes, on payment
Reception: 24 hours
Elevator: yes
Rooms and Accommodation:rooms details
The resort complex offers 70 apartments (studio, 1-bedroom and 2-bedroom), the average size of a 1 - bedroom apartment is 75 square meters.
All the apartments are luxuriously fitted with: Bathroom with luxury sanitary equipment, boiler-heater, air-conditioner in every apartment, terracotta flooring, latex painted walls, PVC window frames, cable TV and telephone outlets.
All the apartments are luxuriously fitted with: Bathroom with luxury sanitary equipment, boiler-heater, air-conditioner in every apartment, terracotta flooring, latex painted walls, PVC window frames, cable TV and telephone outlets.
+ Review by Farkas Lászlóné
04.08.2016 10:18
Type of traveller:
friends/company on a holiday
I would recommend to a friendGolden Dreams
We spent some holiday in this hotel, but the quality is deteriorating year after year.
There are lot of drunken young people who do not respect the house rules. The staff turn a blind eye.Otherwise the receptionists are nice and helpful. Cleanlines is ...
+ Review by Lászlóné Farkas
27.08.2015 09:19
Type of traveller:
friends/company on a holiday
I would recommend to a friendGolden Dreams
+ Review by Lászlóné Farkas
06.08.2015 09:09
Type of traveller:
friends/company on a holiday
I would recommend to a friendGolden Dreams
We have been here on holiday for three years. The house is clear and close to everything. The hospitality was excellent. Helpfull and very nice staff.
+ Review by gary ward
31.08.2013 12:21
Type of traveller:
I would recommend to a friendGolden Dreams
+ Review by Dotty
Golden Dreams
07.03.2010 02:33
Been to Golden Dreams for 3 years, we book private [website advert] apartment is superb, and great prices.
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-----Original Message----- From: Brian McCallister [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 2:27 PM To: email@example.com Subject: Re: Licenses for active mq ?? On Apr 18, 2007, at 12:40 PM, Suchitha Koneru ((sukoneru)) wrote: > Hello Active MQ Team , > Thank you so much for all your help , in > regard to development and usage of active mq. I have a question , if > we use active mq as a part of our product, do we need to buy any > licenses from the active mq development team ?? You do not need to buy any licenses. ActiveMQ is available under the Apache License, version 2.0. That license can be read at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 The short form is "don't claim you wrote ActiveMQ itself, don't sue us if it doesn't work, otherwise, have fun and do whatever you want." -Brian
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The 2019 running back class out West is looking like a strong one and Sean Dollars is a player who projects as a national recruit.
Dollars is a versatile back who is both a running and pass catching threat. He has excellent hands out of the backfield, flashes dynamic ability in space, can make you miss and has the speed to run away from a defense.
He's a decisive runner who gets up the field and doesn't show a lot of wasted movement or un-necessary wiggle. As he continues to fill out and add even more strength and top end speed, he will take his game to another level and has a very nice upside to him.
On the recruiting front, Dollars landed his first offer earlier in the day.
"I picked up and offer from Oregon and that's my dream school," Dollars said. "The receive my first offer from my dream school, the school I've wanted to go to ever since I was a kid is such a blessing. I can't even describe it, my thoughts are out of this world right now but it feels great that all my hard work is paying off.
"I know it's just the beginning and I have a lot more work to put in but to have this first offer out of the way is definitely a relief. I really had no idea it was coming. Coach (Keith ) Heyward (Duck DB coach) has been showing some love but I didn't know they were going to offer so it feels great."
Dollars is hoping to visit the Ducks later this month.
"I'm going to try and visit with Jeremiah Criddell (teammate) for the spring game April 28-29," Dollars said. "If I can't make it then, I'll visit another time. Right now, I'm just taking my time, enjoying the moment and not looking to make a quick decision. Later on I'll think about making some decisions but not right now.
"I want to visit a couple other schools with my parents but still planning it and trying to figure out where right now. I've met some of the coaches at UCLA and I'm hearing from San Diego State and Washington as well. Hopefully things will pick up after this first offer but I'm just excited and relieved about Oregon, a lot of stress has been taking off me right now."


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An accountant from the United States, Samuel, makes Mark feel jealous. Samuel is handsome and witty. He is American and unaware and uninterested in divisions. For Sofia, he represents a real temptation: Pietro is better and Mark still can't leave his job. Mark is still uncertain: he still hopes to find his daughter. Mark discovers what the girl's name was: Sarah. The girl might live in a small village outside Belfast. But the girl, who had indeed been living there, has left. They have moved to Belfast but no one knows where. Andrews fights, and looses, a memorable battle to equip Titanic more life boats. And while Pirrie and Churchill try to campaign for Home Rule in Belfast, the divide between the Catholic and Protestant communities has grown. Lord Pirrie, by now disillusioned with most of his liberal principles, falls ill.
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That producers opt to tell a different Titanic story is admirable in light of so many filmed versions of the story that already exist, including a four-hour miniseries that aired on ABC earlier this year. But the decision not to reveal the fates of the miniseries' fictional characters may feel like a cheat to anyone who invests 12 hours in this program.Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Full Review
Though it is flat and obvious at times, and some might call it ill-paced--I think of it as leisurely--it is only a little sanctimonious and not at all stuffed.Los Angeles Times Full Review
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'With Indian domestic steel prices starting to come down and a slowdown apparent in Indian demand, steel companies seem to be focussing on exporting more,' says Nomura Equity Research
Indian steel demand growth is estimated at 4% y-o-y (year-on-year) and it remained weak in August 2012 as per data released by Joint Plant Committee (JPC). With the moderation in the past two months, YTD (year-to-date) April-August 2012 demand growth has further narrowed to 6.9% y-o-y. The data has been made available to Moneylife by Nomura Equity Research.
According to Nomura Equity Research, net imports during August-2012 were down to just 199 KT (kilo tonnes) from a monthly run rate of 300 KT. However, both imports and exports remain elevated. Total imports have increased to 763KT, while exports also jumped to 564KT. YTD net imports are at 1.5 million tonnes (compared to 464 KT in Apr-Aug 2011) and total imports at 3.3 million tonnes (versus 2.4 million tonnes in Apr-Aug 2011). Total exports are down y-o-y to 1.86 million tonnes from 1.94 million tonnes last year.
With Indian domestic steel prices starting to come down and a slowdown apparent in Indian demand, companies seem to be focussing on exporting more, observes Nomura. It further points out that India still remains a net importer of steel.
Indian domestic steel prices are now at a slight premium to Chinese export prices, according to Nomura. While Indian steel prices have come down by Rs1,000-1,500/tonne during the past month, a sharp fall in Chinese export prices means that Indian prices are now at a premium of 1%-2% to landed cost of imports.
Chinese export HR coil prices have now fallen to $510/tonne (from
$ 550/tonne last month) and domestic steel prices are at close to Rs38,500/tonne (including 12% excise). This means that Indian steel prices are at a premium to import parity, comments Nomura. There could be a further risk of Rs500-Rs1,000/tonne to Indian steel prices as per current global prices, Nomura points out.
While observing that freedom of speech and expression is not an absolute right under the Constitution, the apex court said journalists should understand the 'lakshman rekha' so that they do not cross the line of contempt
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday laid down a constitutional principle where aggrieved parties can seek from appropriate court the postponement of the publication of court hearings and a decision taken on a case-by-case basis, reports PTI.
The court, however, refrained from framing broad guidelines for reporting of sub-judice court matters, saying it cannot be done 'across the board'.
The bench observed that freedom of speech and expression is not an absolute right under the Constitution and the journalists should understand the 'lakshman rekha' so that they do not cross the line of contempt.
A five-judge bench headed by Chief Justice SH Kapadia said it was laying down the constitutional principle which will allow the aggrieved parties to seek from appropriate court the postponement of the publication of court hearings.
The bench said the concerned court will decide the question of postponement of reporting court proceedings on case-by-case basis.
"We are not framing guidelines but we have laid down constitutional principle and appropriate writ courts will decide when the postponement order has to be passed on case-by -case basis," the bench also comprising justices DK Jain, SS Nijjar, Ranjana Prakash Desai and JS Khehar said.
"Hence, guidelines on media reporting cannot be framed across the board," the bench said.
While propounding the doctrine of postponement of publication of court proceedings, the bench said it is a preventive measure and not a prohibitive and punitive measure.
It further said that temporary ban on publication of court proceedings is necessary to maintain balance between freedom of speech and fair trial for proper administration of justice.
The bench said the postponement of publication of court proceedings would be required where there is a substantial risk of prejudicing the trial and administration of justice.
Further the CJI, who read the judgement, said reasonable restrictions on reporting of court proceedings were needed for societal interest and this doctrine of postponement is one of "neutralising technique".
The apex court has undertaken the exercise of framing guidelines after receiving complaints of breach of confidentiality during the hearing of a dispute between Sahara Group and market regulator SEBI.
The issue of breach of confidentiality came up when certain documents regarding the dispute between Sahara and SEBI were leaked to the media.
However, once the hearing had started from 27th March, the Court had expanded its ambit and gave opportunity to others who in the recent past had felt aggrieved due to the publication and broadcast of sub-judice matters.
The constitution bench relied on a catena of judgements from foreign countries like United States of America, England, Canada, Germany, Australia and New Zealand along with the judgements of Indian courts to arrive at a conclusion that postponement of publication of court proceedings in certain cases was necessary to strengthen the balance between free speech and fair trial for proper administration of justice.
It clarified that the order on postponement of publication of court proceedings has to be passed by the writ court subject to the twin test of necessity and proportionality.
The postponement of publication has to be for short duration without disturbing the essence of the proceeding.
While observing that the postponement of publication cannot be viewed as punitive measure, the bench said such steps are necessary to protect the journalists from venturing into the contempt area.
The bench had reserved its judgement on 3rd May after 17 days of hearing.
During earlier hearings, the bench had permitted all parties to present their views and subsequently the Press Council of India, the Editors Guild of India, the National Broadcasters Association and some national dailies and individual reporters had argued in the case opposing any regulation on media reporting.
While majority of the parties were of the view that the apex court did not have inherent powers to lay guidelines on the issue which falls in the domain of legislature, some had favoured guidelines to protect the interest of the litigants.
The bench had said it wanted to have a proper balance between Article 21 (Right to Life and Liberty) and Article 19 (1)(a)(Freedom of Speech and Expression) of the Constitution.
It had observed that its intervention is required to safeguard administration of justice in the absence of any specific law to regulate legal reporting and had came out with the idea of temporary ban on sub-judice matters which was opposed by journalist groups.
The powerful Public Health Foundation of India or PHFI is packed with corporate luminaries and India's most powerful bureaucrats, international academics, Nobel prize winner Amartya Sen and global NGOs to enhance its credibility. But instead of being a shining example of smart policy making in the crucial healthcare segment, why does it appear dodgy about facts and economical with the truth?
Wrong facts, false information, changing descriptors (sometimes as an autonomous body, at others a public-private-partnership) in official communications—make for a rather dubious image for the powerful Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI). How and why is the government indulging in this obfuscation? Let's look at more ways in which PHFI seems to be pulling the wool over the public's eyes.
For starters, the government told Parliament and a parliamentary panel that PHFI would limit itself to public health education and, at the most, some research work that can be put to use in policy making. Specifically, it said, "…this experiment will be confined to the area of public (medical) education only". But very swiftly, PHFI was turned into a virtual government body. It has been allowed to participate directly and widely in policy formulation, win very lucrative public procurement contracts without any competitive bidding, and even receive aid as part of the health-related agreements that the Centre signs with the foreign governments.
For instance:
* PHFI acted as a secretariat for the High-Level Expert Group on Universal Health Coverage, chaired by its president Srinath Reddy at public cost. The report of this group is meant to be a blueprint for national health policy for many years to come.
* PHFI was chosen without any competitive bidding as technical partner in the National Initiative for Allied Health Services (NIAHS), an Rs1,100 crore project of the health ministry for expanding paramedical capacity. (The list of handsomely paid central and state projects that it has bagged is too long to be documented here.)
* PHFI received hefty funding from the Norwegian government as part of the Norway India Partnership Initiative (NIPI) for reduction of child mortality in five states.
Private body in public garb
The parliamentary panel was also given an exaggerated sense of government's ability and intent to influence decision-making at the PHFI. It transpires that the government has never had any significant power—or even the intention—to influence any decision at PHFI. In fact, it does not have direct power to even convene a meeting.
PHFI's rules limit the number of government representatives on the board and also give non-government members (read Big Business) the super-majority to decide who would be recognized as a "government representative". For instance, "MS Ahluwalia is a member of the PHFI board as MS Ahluwalia, not as deputy chairman of the Planning Commission," a counsel for PHFI informed the Central Information Commission (CIC) on 24th January at a hearing that this writer attended.
This is a new record of pushing powerful public servants into powerful bodies by inducting them in their "individual capacity". It opens the doors to lawlessness and corruption and creates a situation, which the CIC termed as "untenable".
"It is difficult to assume that senior public servants can be on the board of an organization like PHFI, which has numerous interactions with the government, in private capacity. In fact, this would necessarily imply a conflict of interest. The Commission can only assume that such public servants must necessarily be acting on behalf of the government, when they are required to take executive decisions as members of the board… Any other conclusion would be an improper slur on their integrity," the CIC wrote in its decision of 14 February. This "improper slur on their integrity" was, nevertheless, written into the rules of PHFI with the connivance of the "senior public servants" themselves.
Illegal origins
The government's covert and overt support to PHFI has been deliberately obfuscated from the very beginning. In February 2006, Srinath Reddy, then head of the cardiology department at AIIMS, and RA Mashelkar, then secretary-DSIR, were encouraged to team up with Rajat Gupta, his two McKinsey colleagues and two corporate lawyers to register PHFI as a society. The Central Civil Services (conduct) Rules, 1964, don't allow a government employee to form an organization that will replicate or resemble the work of his parent organization on a significant scale and explicitly prohibit him from soliciting funds.
Information obtained through RTI shows that Dr Reddy's 'deputation' from AIIMS to PHFI —effected by a ministerial fiat—was irregular and arbitrary. The AIIMS rules do not allow any such deputation, nor was the proposal was ever placed before AIIMS governing body. Dr Reddy is currently drawing a salary of Rs 60lakh a year and has been provided bungalow accommodation for this job of improving public health and public finances. In fact, 'deputations' of all government employees to PHFI can only be regarded as illegal because PHFI does not fit the description of any organization to which rules would allow public servants to be seconded.
Information released by DSIR pursuant to an RTI query shows that it hastily certified PHFI as a Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (SIRO) without any worthwhile record of research work or visiting its facilities. Similarly, PHFI's public health management courses have no recognition or accreditation from any statutory regulator in the country. This clearly raises several queries.
Whys and the wherefores
(a) Why would the government deceptively empower what is essentially a private club to make crucial decisions in the sensitive area of public health policy concerning a billion plus people?
(b) If the government really wanted a PPP to take care of India's public health policy and administration, why didn't it first create policy framework for its operation?
(c) Why did the government lavish vast public resources on an organization without demanding control, accountability and public audit?
(d) Why would the government parcel out the ability to influence public policy to chosen individuals based on their influence, connections, or ability to pay?
(e) Why would the government choose not to have the power to influence decision-making at PHFI (which is packed with big private business houses), when is contrary to notoriety acquired by our bureaucrats for never giving up power?
(f) How has the government addressed the possible conflict of Big Business on PHFI who have an incredible opportunity to further their interest?
g) A look at PHFI's super powerful board of director will explain why the lack of clarity and transparency is so worrying. The board comprises NR Narayana Murthy, Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Ashok Alexander from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Ms Mirai Chatterjee- SEWA, Dr Lincoln Chen-Global Equity Center, Harvard's Kennedy School, Dr James W Curran- Dean, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Dr Gary Darmstadt- Director, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Dr Timothy G Evans-Dean, James P Grant School of Public Health, Bangladesh, Dr Vishwa Mohan Katoch-Director General, Indian Council of Medical Research, Uday Nabha Khemka -Vice Chairman, Sun Group, Gautam Kumra -Director, McKinsey & Company, Dr David Lynn-Director, Strategic Planning & Policy Wellcome Trust, Ms Kiran Malhotra-chairperson, AKM Systems Pvt Ltd, Dr Raghunath A Mashelkar-CSIR Bhatnagar Fellow, National Chemical Laboratory, Mr Raj Mitta-Chairman, Essential Value Associates Pvt Ltd, Mr Shiv Nadar -Founder, HCL, TKA Nair-Advisor, Prime Minister's Office, Dr Ravi Narayan -community health advisor, SOCHARA, Dr Peter Piot-director, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, PK Pradhan -Secretary, Ministry of Health, Dr Jagdish Prasad -Director General of Health Services, Ministry of Health, JVR Prasada Rao, UNAIDS India, Prof K Srinath Reddy -President, Public Health Foundation of India, Dr Y Venugopal Reddy-Former Governor, Reserve Bank of India, Dr Anil Seal-Director, Cambridge Commonwealth Trust, Dr Amartya Sen-Professor of Economics & Philosophy, Department of Economics, Harvard University, Dr Jaime Sepulveda-Executive Director, Global Health Sciences, University of California, Dr AK Shiva Kumar -Advisor, UNICEF, Mr Michel Sidibé -Executive Director, UNAIDS, Mr Harpal Singh-chairman, Fortis Healthcare (India) Ltd
These questions need to be answered in public interest by PHFI's eminent board. The writer has written several letters of complaint to at least a dozen members of PHFI's governing body, including Nair, Ahluwalia, PK Pradhan (Secretary Health), Amartya Sen and Mirai Chatterjee, but has not yet received acknowledgement from any of them.
This is the concluding part of a two-part series.
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With PHFI, falsification is the truth -Part1
(The writer is a Delhi-based freelance journalist who has written about PHFI in the past. He will have much more to say on the topic in the coming days. He has since made his formal complaint about forgery, in the form of first RTI appeal to PHFI.)


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