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No Sea in Segovia, Spain
The absence of the sea in inland Spain doesn't make its people abstain from a maritime vocabulary. In Segovia, they compare their home city to a ship, plowing through waves of green hillsides that merge with a blue sky or a preceding strip of dark mountains.
All the many daytrippers, caused by a trifle of 90 km from Madrid, may not see this likeness, as they are too busy studying components: a Roman aqueduct, ancient city walls, a cathedral touching the sky and a fairytale castle. These components, combined with their location atop a shapely rock, are exactly what create the maritime associations: walls acting as ship's sides, steeples for masts, a castle to strengthen the bow, an artistic gangway the shape of an aqueduct.
World Heritage status and the monuments justifying it, among them the largest collection of Romanesque churches in Europe, can be fatiguing. You'd like to rest awhile by enjoying Segovia from a distance, convinced that a luxury ship will then materialize before your eyes. A suitable transportation appears early one morning: two gaily colored hot air balloons, what could be better for an overall view. They seem to aim at the arches of the Aqueduct, cleverly avoid it though, gain height and slowly drift off without you.
While spurting swallows again take over the arches, your attention is caught by a bronze wolf, patiently nursing two human babies atop a plinth that depicts they are a gift from Rome to Segovia to celebrate the 2000th anniversary of the Aqueduct. This inspires you to follow Avenida Via Roma, the road toward Valladolid, until you reach the vantage point of Mirador del Terminillo; an anticlimax. Suddenly, the two balloons reappear, well above and behind Segovia, their crews surely relishing the ship's shape to the fullest.
Two Rivers Meet
Morning traffic, to and from Valladolid, accompanies you back to town. Valladolid is the regional capital of Castilla y León, to which Segovia also belongs. With a population of 55.000, Segovia is the smaller sister. Considering the altitude, 1000 m, it is a bit farfetched to be looking for a ship in this region. Segovia is, however, partly surrounded by water already; the rivers of Eresma and Clamores running on either side of it and merging in front of Alcázar. Comfortable pathways make it easy to follow the rivers and the adjacent walls.
Your starting point is Plaza del Azoguejo at the bottom of the Aqueduct; the central square where roads converge and the attractions of the city are reflected in the size of the local tourist office. A legend says the Devil built the Aqueduct, doing it so well that no maintenance seems necessary. It's not in use, though, and climbing it is forbidden. After covering 15 km, this is where the Aqueduct culminates with a height of 28 m and two levels of arches, 166 in total, formed by 120 granite pillars.
El Paseo al Valle del Rio Eresma says it all; you're on your way down to the river, among red poppies and blossoming chestnut trees under towering poplars. An old stone bridge carries you across the plentiful water of Eresma to a municipal park, Alameda, stretching between the convents of San Vicente and El Parral. The valley was in the past a favorite site for new monasteries and churches, also for factories relying on water power, like flour and paper mills and processors of wool.
Even hard cash was produced in the valley, at the first mint in Spain, Casa de la Moneda, now under restoration. Segovia was, in the later centuries of the Middle Ages, an international trading center dealing in livestock and locally produced textiles, creating a wealth generously transformed into palaces and religious institutions. The textile industry, the base of Segovia's prosperity, suffered a serious collapse in the 17th century.
Thrilled by the surroundings, you almost forget what you came for – the overall view of the Segovian ship. An ascent to the 12-sided church of Vera Cruz confirms that the city walls are more or less covered by vegetation on this side. A helpful elderly man recommends Iglesia del Carmen, but they have no church tower view to offer. You turn to the rivers instead, this is where they meet to form a deep moat below Alcázar, its likeness to a prow quite amazing down here.
On Board Again
Rio Clamores, the southern river, soon disappears under the ground, which is laid out as a narrow park, pleasantly shady. Taking the road to get a broader view, you're rewarded with high bare city walls, their top treasures very near: Alcázar and the Cathedral. You recognize the hotel you're in, Sirenas, where your back side room offers such splendid views of the slopes opposite, forested with pines and cypress. Refreshed by the exterior of Segovia, you are eager to get on board again for close-ups.
Calle Real is a collective name for the streets that make up one long pedestrianized zone from Plaza del Azoguejo up to the main square, Plaza Mayor, the heart of the old town, originally reserved for noble families and the clergy. Ascending the first part, Calle Cervantes, you come across a mansion studded with tiny stone pyramids, the famous Casa de los Picos. Behind you, the Aqueduct has been reduced to a piece of scenery between the rows of houses.
Calle Juan Bravo takes over, soon widening into two squares joined by stairs: Plaza de San Martin and Medina del Campo, a favorite spot among those who appreciate coziness and architectural details. Grander are the dimensions of Plaza Mayor, Segovia's nerve center, its buildings in strict harmony, among them the City Hall and a theater. Every want is met: a music pavilion for shouting children to play in, an old-fashioned kiosk, bars and cafes, one is reserved for writers tormented by a blank sheet, La Oja Blanca, while a sweet tooth gets treatment at Limon y Menta, una pastelería.
People can't help casting a glance now and then toward the open side of the square, to enjoy the Gothic beauty of the immense Cathedral, whether bathing in the morning sun, or hosting elegant storks on its many steeples in the evening, its cloistered courtyard a daytime oasis of trees, light and sculptural perfection. Less perfect are the water pipes in a neighboring street; they have exploded into cascades of sparkling water. A technician arrives, all he can do is call for reinforcements.
Alcázar receives you with tulips in the shade of pines and chestnut. The castle, once a royal residence and state prison, has been destroyed by fire several times, just to rise again in a yet stronger version. Today's castle is only from 1862, its moat and draw bridge easy to pass if you arm yourself with a ticket, giving access also to the Throne Hall and the royal bedroom. However, you're impatient to climb a particular tower, the 80 m high Torre de Juan II, so spacious that you can move about freely up there until the views make you delirious, for this is where the ship comparison falls into place.
Looking over the rail, you see the countryside as waves undulating the horizon's blue sky. An impressive bow is prepared to follow those waves, a spectacle you will need a hot air balloon to fully appreciate. Thus sailing through the air, you would realize what is Segovia's foremost monument – it's the complete city, stranded on a rock like a ship westward bound.
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Pandas are beautiful creatures that live in China, along side bamboo! Although they have the digestive systems of carnivores, pandas eat up to 38 kilograms of bamboo each day! Only 1 per cent of their diet consists of small rodents or other plants. The experts say that since they have carnivorous appetites, but love bamboo, they need to eat more of it to keep their energy levels adequate – not that they do much except eat, sleep and play!
Unfortunately, the panda is also an endangered species and, to make the problem worse, they're not the best breeders in the animal kingdom, being very shy in personality.
So is it a problem that us humans are now using the panda's food source of bamboo to make fabric fibers? Not at all!
For starters, there are about 1000 bamboo species and pandas eat about 30 of the different varieties of bamboo. The bamboo we use to make fabrics is not the type that pandas eat.
Not only that, but bamboo is the fastest growing plant out there, and can grow back to fullness within 7 years, without having to replant. If you've ever planted a bamboo stalk, you'll know how easily it spreads and begins to pop up everywhere! That's why bamboo forests are a much better option for manufacturing things that we use as humans, such as furniture, paper, building supplies and even fabric!
The Chinese government and its Ministry of Forestry is very active in preserving the panda and tries very hard to help the animals escape their endangered status. Recently, in addition to the 40 panda reserves in China, a fifth breeding center for pandas was announced. It will help teach the pandas how to breed, since they're not that good at it when left on their own. A panda mother takes two years to raise a cub before sending if off on it's own so she can bear another. Research has also been in done in cooperation with the World Wildlife Fund (also known as the World Wide Fund For Nature, or WWF), which sent researchers to China to help develop a forest management plan that would limit the cutting down of non-reserve forests where pandas live.
According to an article published by Pennsylvania State University Research, the main threat to pandas is due to illegal logging and poaching in what the government has classified as natural reserves. In these reserves, no one is allowed to harm the wildlife, although some do anyway, despite the high risk to their liberty. The Chinese government has even sentenced first-time poachers to life in prison and even to death for killing a panda. However, the huge money (thousands of dollars) involved in the trade of panda pelts in other Asian countries and the difficulty of controlling hunters in thick forest makes poaching still a problem.
If you would like to help preserve the panda, visit the WWF site's 'How you can Help' page where you can see a list of ways to donate, take action, and spread the word.
Facts about pandas:
Pandas need 4.9 square kilometers for their habitats, and often habitats of pandas overlap. They don't like to go far from their home.
It is very rare to see a panda in the wild. They are very shy and live like hermits. Scientists aren't sure how many pandas there are in the wild, but they estimate it to be somewhere between 1500 and 3000. Pandas can, however, be seen in zoos and breeding reserves where humans work with them.
In time, there has been confusion about whether or not the panda is a bear or a raccoon, because it shares characteristics of both. However, scientists believe it is in fact a bear.
In the 1970s, pandas as loans were used by the Chinese to form relationships with outside countries, namely America and Japan. Today, pandas are given on 10-year "rentals" to American zoos for a yearly fee (sometimes $1 million) and half of that fee goes into conservation efforts in China.
The panda cub is only 1/900 of its mother's weight, ranging between 90 to 130 grams and is about the size of a stick of butter!
A baby panda can start eating bamboo after 6 months.
A female panda can only mate once a year, but takes one and half years to raise a cub, and can only raise one cub at a time.
In 2009 the first baby panda was born after being conceived by artificial insemination. Overall, scientists believe that the conservation efforts on pandas is working, but do not have enough conclusive information to remove the 'endangered' label. Still, the efforts have increased wild pandas by 40 per cent since the 1980s.
A panda weighs between 100 to 150 kilograms and can grow up to 150 centimeters.
Pandas have lived as their own species (apart from other types of bears) in China for over 3 million years. For that reason they are sometimes called the "living fossil."
Pandas live for up to 20 years in the wild and 30 years in captivity.


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A round-up of this month's engineering news from around the world with a regional focus on Germany.
8 February
A cross-party amendment to the UK government's Energy Bill has been tabled that would require it to set a target for decarbonisation of the electricity sector by 2014. As it stands the government has said it will set a decarbonisation target for 2030 by 2016, but if passed the amendment would force it to set a target by 1 April next year.
11 February
Technology giants Apple, Microsoft and Adobe Systems have been ordered to appear before Australia's parliament over pricing. Apple executives were formally summonsed to front a parliamentary committee in Canberra on 22 March to explain why local consumers pay so much for their products, despite the strong Australian dollar.
12 February
Mobile phone use has exploded in the Arab world according to a report by the mobile operators association GSMA. Based on research from Deloitte, the GSMA Arab States Mobile Observatory reported a 32 per cent average annual growth in mobile connections over the past 10 years, soaring from 19 million connections in 2002 to 391 million in 2012.
19 February
A secretive Chinese military unit has been accused of being behind a series of hacking attacks. US cyber security company Mandiant identified the Shanghai-based Unit 61398 as the most likely driving force behind the hacking, prompting a strong denial by China and accusations that it was in fact the victim of US hacking.
21 February
India will launch its first mission to Mars this year in a bid to play catch-up in the international space race, according to President Pranab Mukherjeesaid. The country will send a satellite in October to orbit the Red Planet using an unmanned spacecraft, blasting off from the south-eastern coast in a mission expected to cost about $83m. http://bit.ly/XPSQwQ
21 February
Estonia has become the first country in the world to install a nationwide system of fast chargers for electrical vehicles as part of European efforts to reduce carbon emissions. The 165 chargers were produced and installed by engineering group ABB, and construction was financed from the government's sale of 10 million surplus CO2 emission permits to Japan's Mitsubishi Corporation.
26 February
The long-awaited trial over legal culpability for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 has begun in New Orleans. The disaster, which killed 11 rig workers and spilled four million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, was the biggest ever US offshore oil spill. Well owner BP, rig owner Transocean Ltd and cement services provider Halliburton Co are co-defendants.
4 March
Royal Dutch Shell announced it may be forced to shut down its 150,000 barrel per day Nembe Creek oil pipeline in Nigeria due to persistent thefts. The trunkline is one of the most important production routes for Africa's top crude oil exporter, feeding the benchmark Bonny Light export terminal. Criminal gangs have been tapping into exposed pipelines in the winding creeks and waterways in the Niger Delta.
4 March
Areva planned its first nuclear fuel shipment to Japan since the Fukushima disaster. The shipment of mixed oxide fuel (MOX) by the French energy company hinted at possible restarts of idled Japanese reactors, which is likely to attract public opposition after the disaster. Areva said it believed there could be half a dozen reactors in Japan which would restart at the end of the year.
6 March
The Venezuelan oil industry called for calm after the death of President Hugo Chavez. PDVSA, the state oil company, said all its installations – including the Paraguana Refining Center, the second-largest in the world – were operating normally and domestic fuel supplies were guaranteed. Key projects are expected to stay on track if Chavez's preferred successor wins elections due to be called in the next 30 days.


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Origins, History, and Vision
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About Us
In May of 2001 people diagnosed with severe mental illness -- such as schizophrenia, bipolar (manic depression), and obsessive-compulsive disorder - came together in the Pioneer Valley to form the Freedom Center. Defying stereotypes of helplessness, breaking the silence around psychiatric abuse, exposing the propaganda of pharmaceutical companies and challenging people to stand up against a system that fails to meet people's true needs, we became the the area's first advocacy and support group run by and for mental health consumers ourselves.
In the years since then we have established weekly support groups, where as many as 15-20 people gather to share stories of frustration and hope, recommend resources and recovery strategies, and plan our educational and advocacy campaigns for change. Our groups are entirely peer run, and allow people to speak openly about their experiences and share rage and pain in ways impossible in groups run by mental health professionals. We've also offered the area's only completely free weekly yoga class every monday for more than a year, serving as a real example of the kinds of alternatives that need to be made available to all.
More and more people contact us for support and advocacy help, and our activist campaigns are making an impact. We help people avoid being hospitalized - at a cost of thousands of dollars and risk of further abuse. We've matched clients with peer advocates to meet with doctors and push for improvements and true choice in their medication; encouraged clients to press human rights complaints and stand up for their rights, helped connect clients facing violations with lawyers and resources. We're alerting the community to forced drugging with debilitating psych meds, including widespread media coverage. We intervened at a run-down local mental health residency where clients received substandard treatment in violation of MA law. We intitiated a reform campaign against upper management policies at ServiceNet, a huge local mental health service provider, pushing for changes after we heard repeated stories of abuse and mistreatment. Residents there report significant improvements since we began to protest.
We brought author Robert Whitaker to a local event with more than 80 people, and the following year brought Dr. Loren Mosher to an event with 150+ people -- including two rush-hour interviews on local NPR affiliate radio station WFCR reaching thousands. We co-sponsored a weekly film series at Mt. Holyoke college with rare documentaries on mental health and the survivors' movement. Our regular Speak-Outs on Psychiatric Abuse break the silence and prompt audience members to join in and tell their own stories of mistreatment. We've spoken at college and high school classes, to the press and at information tables on the street. Our work has received awards from the Smith College Social Work school graduating class of 2003 and the psychology students association at Mt. Holyoke College, as well as receiving multiple grants from public and private sources.
Our successes show that the time is right for our movement to advance. To live with the label of 'severe mental illness' in America is to be condemned to a second class citizenship of life at the margins and the shadows. Our rights are routinely violated by doctors and helping professionals who inflict emotional abuse and physical violence on us in the name of 'treatment.' Despite the courageous reform efforts begun by mental patients and their supporters in the early 1970s, today people labeled 'mentally ill' still face widespread mistreatment, discrimination, and dehumanization. Service agencies routinely treat people in severe emotional distress as if we were criminals or misbehaving children; everyone in the Freedom Center has a story to tell of physical and verbal abuse, coercion, and disrespect.
Instead of effective holistic alternatives and social supports, we are pushed - often against our will and rarely with truly informed consent - to take toxic medications based on dubious science and with questionable efficacy. The severely debilitating and even brain-damaging side effects often turn 'recovery' into an impossibility. As Pulitzer-nominated Boston Globe journalist Robert Whitaker wrote in Mad in America,
"…we have made antipsychotic drugs the cornerstone of our care for the past 50 years, and the long-term results have been dismal…. Harvard Medical School researchers announced in 1994 that outcomes for US schizophrenia patients had worsened during the past 20 years and were now no better than they were at the start of the 20th century."
Most people in the Freedom Center were told that we could not recover from our 'illness,' which was genetic and inescapable - despite the fact that large numbers of people are diagnosed with severe mental illness and in fact go on to lead lives completely free of any symptoms. We were told our problems are caused by 'chemical imbalances' in our brains that are genetic in origin (that we are, in effect, inferior sub-humans), and that we have to take medication to "correct" these imbalances "like a diabetic needs to take insulin." Despite the widespread belief in this "biomedical model" of the causes of mental illness (and the huge profit it earns for pharmaceutical companies), it remains an unproven theory. The causes of 'mental illness' and its extreme suffering in fact remain mysterious -- and, above all, unique to every individual. There is growing evidence that recovery rates are higher for people who avoid psychiatric medication altogether, and many people discover relief through exercise, nutrition, alternative and holistic healthcare that treats the whole mind and body. Everyone is different and can, with support, find a healthy path to recovery. And of course, the best way to avoid psychiatric abuse may be to avoid the psychiatric system itself.
Is the Freedom Center against medications?No. Many of our members take some kind of psychiatric medication. We believe in personal choice and empowerment as opposed to paternalism and control. We believe individuals should, with support and true informed consent, find out what works best for them. We believe that the existing 'informed consent' of the psychiatric system is basically a sham. For informed consent to be authentic, everyone should have access to accurate information about 'mental illness' and the real nature and toxicity of psychiatric drugs; that real alternatives to drugs should be funded and available; and that people should be actively helped to reduce and or go off psych drugs if that is what they want. As Mad In America details, psych drugs do not 'correct chemical imbalances' -- they disable brain functioning and can lead to worsened psychiatric symptoms. The science behind psych meds is corrupted by drug company money, and studies show placebos (sugar pills), counseling, social supports and alternatives are more effective and safer. Medical doctors and pharmaceutical companies must stop spreading misleading and fraudulent propaganda about psych meds and start telling the truth about how dangerous, ineffective, and often counterproductive they can be. Doctors should stop pushing meds -- even putting people on six, seven, or eight different drugs at once. This is abuse.
Do you believe that mental illness is a 'myth'?Not necessarily. Suffering is real, and people do need help if they want it. However, as Mad In America details, it is a (highly lucrative) myth to assert that mental illness has proven biological causes in the brain just like Alzheimer's disease. The claim that psychiatric medications "correct chemical imbalances" is also falsehood -- medications are general tranquilizers or stimulants that will affect anyone who takes them, not specific correctives for brain diseases (veterinarians use neuroleptics to tranquilize animals). A careful look at the medical literature itself clearly shows this. For example, as the recent Fast for Freedom pointed out, Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General (1999) says:
p. 51: "All too frequently a biological change in the brain (a lesion) is purported to be the 'cause' of a mental disorder … [but] The fact is that any simple association - or correlation - cannot and does not, by itself, mean causation."
p. 102: "Few lesions or physiologic abnormalities define the mental disorders, and for the most part their causes remain unknown."
The Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry (Third Edition, 1999) also states:
p. 43: "Although reliable criteria have been constructed for many psychiatric disorders, validation of the diagnostic categories as specific entities has not been established."
p. 51: Most of these [genetic studies] examine candidate genes in the serotonergic pathways, and have not found convincing evidence of an association."
Andreasen and Black's Introductory Textbook of Psychiatry (2001), states:
p. 23. "In the areas of pathophysiology and etiology, psychiatry has more uncharted territory than the rest of medicine...Much of the current investigative research in psychiatry is directed toward the goal of identifying the pathophysiology and etiology of major mental illnesses, but this goal has been achieved for only a few disorders (Alzheimer's disease, multi-infarct dementia, Huntington's disease, and substance-induced syndromes such as amphetamine-related psychosis or Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome)."
p. 231: "In the absence of visible lesions and known pathogens, investigators have turned to the exploration of models that could explain the diversity of symptoms through a single cognitive mechanism."
p. 450: "Many candidate regions [of the brain] have been explored [for schizophrenia] but none have been confirmed."
We are a diverse group with many stories and paths of recovery. We believe in respecting self-determination and honoring uniqueness. We encourage everyone to discover what works for them. Each of us is seeking a personal understanding of our inner suffering -- such as the injuries of child abuse and trauma; isolation and need for social support; shamanic transformation; political oppression; unsupported creativity; and holistic health (acupuncture, ayurveda, yoga, herbalism, and homeopathy use the body's own natural abilities to recover balance and wholeness). A very high percentage of the people we know labeled 'mentally ill' are survivors of some kind of physical, sexual, and or emotional abuse in childhood. Many people called 'mentally ill' believe there is nothing wrong with them at all -- except being labeled and hassled by the mental health system. Most of us have recieved a label without our consent, a label that degrades and disempowers us.
Once you are labelled, you lose rights that most Americans take for granted. We've seen local people lose their freedom for months just because they annoyed a neighbor or became a nuisance to mental health staff. The police routinely haul people off to Cooley Dickinson by force just because they have a psychiatric label and are acting weird in public. If someone tells the police you are "off your meds," it is likely to stir up fears of violence and justify forced detainment without due process for behaviors tolerated in people not mentally labeled. This maddening injustice makes many ex-patients seethe with rage at a society that doesn't understand what it is doing to people --> Are you a radical group? Psychiatry and the mental health system have become deeply entrenched socially and economically. To speak the truth and challenge basic assumptions means being treated like you are too radical. Many of us are very angry about how the system has treated us. Many of us are deeply frustrated at the widespread hypocrisy of a helping profession, including psychotherapy, that rarely utters a word about the violence of involuntary treatment, restraints, medication side effects, electroshock therapy, and degrading labels. Too often we are met with words of understanding and pity -- and inaction. Too often we are told that we are angry because we are "crazy" or "unreasonable." People must learn to validate, respect, and listen to our experiences -- including our anger. We won't be quiet anymore.
The movement for human rights in mental health is growing internationally. As activists we are strongly commited to nonviolence. We recognize that psychiatrists, nurses, and mental health staff are often trapped in ignorance or bureaucracies, and we reach out to the people on the "other side" with compassion and an attempt to get them to understand and join us. Respect for our opponents -- who are often also suffering -- is essential. We welcome the growing number of mental health professionals, counselors, staff and system employees who are becoming allies and working with us towards common goals -- people in the system are often oppressed as well. We believe in directly challenging abuse and advocating against institutional power, as well as educating the public, as means for change.
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Given that the Google flagship Galaxy Nexus smartphone–a phone that's geared towards the Android purist as no additional UIs or skins have been overlaid on top of the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS–launched on Canadian carrier Telus just at the beginning of the year, it's surprising to hear that the phone has now been discontinued by the carrier less than half a year later. Telus has thus far not given any reason why it's no longer carrying the Google's Galaxy Nexus, which is made by Samsung, but there is speculation that Telus' decision may be due to the fact that the carrier is expecting to stock Samsung's flagship Galaxy S III smartphone.
The move may make sense as Samsung's Nexus phones have led to slightly improved, but heavily skinned Galaxy flagships. The Nexus S paved way for the Galaxy S II and it would make sense that the Galaxy S III will be Samsung's improved product from the Galaxy Nexus smartphone, and one that would bear its signature with custom software and the company's TouchWiz UX.
At least in the U.S., Google has had a hard time gaining mainstream adoption of its Nexus product. The Nexus One by HTC was sold direct through Google and found limited adoption on carriers AT&T and T-Mobile USA. When the Nexus S by Samsung came around, wireless carrier Sprint was added to the mix. And then the Galaxy Nexus debuted initially on Verizon and then was brought over to Sprint. For GSM carriers AT&T and T-Mobile USA, Google is offering a 16 GB version of the phone direct to consumers for $400.
Also on the list of discontinued devices that was obtained by Mobile Syrup are Apple's iPhone 4 in 16 GB capacity as well as the magenta color of the Nokia Lumia 800.


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Starman's Back, But Not Jack Knight
At the Baltimore Retailer Summit Monday night, DC Comics announced as expected that "Blackest Night" and all its tie-in titles would take a month-long hiatus in January. But keeping with its "Back from the Dead" theme, eight one-shots will ship in the first month of 2010, delivering new "final" issues of eight previously-canceled fan favorite series.
Each series will pick up on its original numbering and feature characters from their original runs as they deal with the events currently unfolding in the DC Universe.
DC has tagged an all-star cast of writers to pen the books, but arguably the most significant rise is "Starman" #81, written by series creator James Robinson.
The Eisner Award-winning series, believed by many observers as the quintessential superhero comic book of the 1990s, ended near-perfectly with #80 in August 2001.
Robinson revealed exclusively to CBR News late Monday that while the series is back for one issue, its star "Starman," Jack Knight, is not.
"It's very exciting to return to Opal City. And I'm trying to do a story that's satisfying for long-time fans of 'Starman' and also fans of the 'Blackest Night' series," said Robinson. "The only thing I will say now, probably to the disappointment of some fans, is that this is not the return of Jack Knight. This will feature cast members of 'Starman' and it will feature a Black Lantern Starman but it will not feature Jack Knight.
"Jack Knight is happily, much as I am, ensconced in San Francisco, happy to be alive and away from all the craziness."
The other one-shots and writers include the following:
- "The Atom and Hawkman" #46 by Geoff Johns
- "Catwoman" #83 by Fabian Nicieza
- "Phantom Stranger" #42 by Peter Tomasi
- "The Power of Shazam!" #48 by Eric Wallace
- "The Question" #37 by Greg Rucka
- "Suicide Squad" #67 by John Ostrander
- "Weird Western Tales" #71 by Dan DiDio
Artists for the one-shots were not announced.
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The Royal Winnipeg Ballet announced its 2013-2014 season and launching the season will be a new adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. It's a project that's been in the works for eight years, with New York's Lila York choreographing the dance to the music of James MacMillan.
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In a move that puzzles many, Samsung has made a $50 million investment in a smaller rival Pantech, which also happen to be the third largest smartphone maker in Korea (after Samsung and LG).
Pantech is known to make some fancy devices (Vega series) though most of them are not available outside of Korean peninsula. Perhaps Samsung could help Pantech reach new markets relying on its vast distribution network; perhaps it even ends up putting its own chips inside Pantech's future gear. The latter is highly unlikely since the other large corporate shareholder in Pantech is Qualcomm (which would love its own chips being used, instead).
Anyhow, we're looking forward to see Pantech-made devices hitting the Western hemisphere, providing more options to the consumers. Hopefully, that's what Samsung's investment is all about. We'll let you know when we hear something new on this…
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Krystti Kim, a student at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, always knew she wanted to go to college. But things definitely got more complicated when she found out she was pregnant, right after high school.
A program for welfare recipients called Bridge to Hope has helped her juggle her family, work and school responsibilities. And it is even having an impact on her 5-year-old daughter, Heizol.
"She sees me going to school, she sees me working, she feels that she can do the same," explains Kim. "She feels that she wants to become what I become because she sees me doing it every day."
The program helped Kim find work at the UH Mānoa Children's Center, which works perfectly with her plan of becoming an early childhood educator.
"I love kids. It just seems like I fit," says Kim of her job in child care. "They get along with me well and I just kind of grew a passion for it."
Bridge to Hope is helping her realize that passion, and she's not the only one. Across the 10 UH campuses, the program has helped over 500 students pursue their college dreams.
"Students participating in Bridge to Hope are low income, often single parents, most of them are women–97 percent of our participants are women–and they are driven and excited about pursuing education as a way for them to be able to support their families," explains Bridge to Hope UH Systemwide Coordinator Teresa Bill.
With Bill at the helm, Bridge to Hope was established in 2000 to help people like Kim and the UH Commission on the Status of Women played a key role. They joined forces with community organizers and went to lawmakers to demand higher education opportunities for welfare recipients.
The result is a brighter economic future for hundreds of families.
"Without Bridge to Hope I think I really would be trying to shuffle school and work and my daughter and, I would be lost," says Kim.
Visit Bridge to Hope online at hawaii.edu/bridgetohope.
I was under the impression that they cut funding for this program? At least that's what I heard over at UH Hilo about 2 weeks ago.
Hi Leah,
No, happily that is not the case! If you have any questions or concerns, you can contact Ginger Hamilton at UH Hilo with the phone number or email listed here http://www.hawaii.edu/bridgetohope/about_us/contact_us.htm


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Understanding Indexing – SF MySQL Meetup
At this week's SF MySQL Meetup, I will give a talk: "Understanding Indexing: Three rules on making indexes around queries to provide good performance." The meetup is 7 pm tomorrow (Wednesday, 6/22), and will be held at CBS Interactive (235 2nd St., San Francisco). Thanks to hosts Erin O'Neill and Mike Tougeron for the invitation and location.
Application performance often depends on how fast a query can respond and query performance almost always depends on good indexing. So one of the quickest and least expensive ways to increase application performance is to optimize the indexes. This talk presents three simple and effective rules on how to construct indexes around queries that result in good performance.
This is a general discussion applicable to all databases using indexes and is not specific to any particular MySQL storage engine (e.g., InnoDB, TokuDB, etc.). The rules are explained using a simple model that does NOT rely on understanding B-Trees, Fractal Tree™ indexing, or any other data structure used to store the data on disk.
The rules are derived from these simple properties:
- Point queries are slow
- Range queries are fast
I hope to see you there!
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Zardosht; I really enjoyed your talk last night at the SF MySQL Meetup. All though I am new to MySQL I was able to follow along because of your great knowledge of the subject and your ability to explain indexes. Thank you for your insights. Since I am new to MySQL is there any bits of wisdom that you could pass on to me? Are there any books or websites that you recommend that would help me to get up and running at a faster pace? Thank you once again.
Gerald Kruse
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Star Plus to extend weekday fiction to Saturday?
MUMBAI: There?s heaps of buzz going around leading Hindi General Entertainment Channel (GEC) Star Plus that, many say, is all set to offer an extra dose of fiction to its viewers. It has been learnt that once the curtains come down on its weekend dance reality show - Nach Baliye 6 ? the channel will extend its primetime weekday fiction band as its replacement on the weekend too.
Thus viewers will be in a position to watch episodes of its hugely successful shows which air between early prime (6:00 pm) to late prime time (11:30 pm) on Saturdays too.
This, sources say, is going to continue till the channel comes up with another weekend show. Last year, its rival Colors too had extended its weekday programmes (between 7:30 and 9:00 pm) to the weekend once its singing reality show Sur-Kshetra ended.
Sunday nights will, however, see the debut of standup comic Sunil Grover with his own hour-long show with a character called Chutki. Sunil?s character Gutthi on Colors? Comedy Nights with Kapil had become a phenomenon of sorts, and hence he decided to break away and produce his own show ? something which caused a lot of heartburn to Colors and Kapil. Chutki - which will see Sunil once again in drag - is being produced by Keylight Productions. Filming has begun in Trombay, close to the television production capital of Mumbai.
The shows that are being extended till Saturday include Iss Pyar Ko Kya Naam Doon, Ek Ghar Banaunga, Saath Nibhaana Saathiya, Saraswatichandra, Meri Bhabhi, Mahabharat, Diya Aur Bati Hum, Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai, Pyaar Ka Dard Hai Meetha Meetha Pyara Pyara, Veera and Ye Hai Mohabbatein.
While most Star India?s producers have agreed to churn out extra episodes, it is learnt from an industry source that those producing early prime time series, have yet to sign on the dotted line, for reasons best known to them.
Producers of popular shows ? Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai and epic series Mahabharat ? Rajan Shahi and Siddharth Tewary respectively confirm to indiantelevision.com that they now have to start producing one extra episode every week. They say that it is going to be hectic, but are geared up for it.
Star Plus business head Gaurav Banerjee was unavailable for comment, but industry experts say the move will help Star Plus add big bucks straight to its bottomline, as costs for fiction are a fraction of non-fiction reality shows. Hence the returns on its investment are quite likely to be big for Star Plus.
Media professionals are, however, divided on whether extending fiction to the weekend will give a boost to Star Plus' viewership as during the weekend the audience wants to break away from the monotony and experience something different. Lodestar UM vice president Deepak Netram remarks: ?The audience during the weekend is different from the week days. More male members and kids are among the viewers and they may not be open to the idea of watching the daily soaps. There are chances that the channel will lose out on its audience. But the regular audience of the daily soaps will continue watching their favourite programmes.?
However, another media planner and buyer looks at it differently. On condition of anonymity, he says: ?This should see Star Plus' TVTs going up on a weekly basis. Remember, fiction shows have the highest stickiness, even higher than non-fiction, which comes in as tent-pole properties to generate spikes in viewership. The fiction shows already have a loyal group of viewers who will undoubtedly tune in even on Saturdays as they will want to stay connected with what?s happening with the story lines. Therefore, it will be easy for Star Plus? sales team to rope in the existing advertisers on these shows over the weekend telecast too. I see it as a win-win situation for the channel.?


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Morton, the co-grounds manager and an instructor in the Environmental Sciences department at Dalhousie's agricultural campus in Bible Hill, hit on his brainstrom while searching for a particular bar in downtown Halifax.
He found his destination through the Stroll Halifax GPS app offered by Colibri Software in Wolfville and decided to investigate the company and the app's potential further.
"This is a living laboratory for our classes," Morton said as he looked over the campus's beautiful half-hectare rock garden.
And he wondered if the hundreds of species of trees and plants in the university's gardens could become accessible to students via their smartphones.
After eight months of work and the help of a $31,000 grant from the faculty of agriculture's innovation fund, the campus grounds staff and Colibri will launch a mobile app today for the agricultural campus to deliver content to students and visitors as they interact with the gardens.
Morton said he will be able to set up, change and manage content that will be available to students on mobile devices.
"You can be walking along and a tree or a plant will be tagged with a geo-location," said Morton, 54, who grew up near the campus. "It will have push notification, pushing you out to a website, text or video tagged with each location."
Morton teaches plant identification and he said the app will eventually allow students to get information about the different attributes of each plant, their origins and how they got to the campus.
"Students then can go out on their own and do their work."
He said the technology is very attractive to today's student.
"We said how can we game-ify this. The next step is to write a test at the tree."
Morton said the app will eventually provide a video of an instructor or professor giving a quick lesson about the tagged plant or tree.
Last winter, Morton said storms cancelled four consecutive classes in a 13-week, Wednesday-only course. Developing the app, the lectures could have been delivered electronically and one-third of the class time would not have been lost, he said.
"Blended learning will be the way of the future," Morton said.
The university offers a degree in applied landscape technology, a diploma in landscaping and has just been given the OK for a new landscape architecture program. This app will get students out of the classroom and working with actual landscaping, he said.
But Morton doesn't want to stop at the gates of the university. He hopes to make the app available to the public and to interested horticultural companies.
"My goal is to see how we can make public horticulture accessible."
He said many of the people who live in the Truro area probably aren't aware of the university gardens. Increasing public interest in the university's nine or 10 thematic gardens would lead to more donations and more students enrolling in the programs that the university has to offer.
A final goal would be a botanic gardens designation, Morton said. To arrive there, the university would have to spend the money on its outreach capacity and to create more public programming. Improved signage and curating all the trees and plants with small identification or nameplates will require money and manpower, he said.
The gardens have been added to the province's garden road trip list on novascotia.ca but there is more to the gardens than how they look, Morton said.
"Everybody looks at the beauty aspect of it," Morton said "But, it's the ecology aspect. Trees are important. They provide shade and they protect the water system. This is not a mow and go. We're selling something different for the future. It's the functionality of landscapes."


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ST. LOUIS (KMOV) – Additional charges have been filed against a man accused in at least eight robberies in the St. Louis area.
Merrell Burch, 26, was charged Friday with five counts of first-degree robbery for allegedly robbing five different businesses from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6.
Burch has already been charged on Tuesday with two counts of first-degree robbery and one count of unlawful use of drug paraphernalia for two other alleged robberies.
The latest incident happened Monday night when Burch allegedly walked into the Subway in the 4600 block of Chippewa in south St. Louis.
Police said on Saturday, Burch robbed the Quick-Trip in the 6900 block of Gravois.
Before that Burch allegedly robbed the Walgreens in the 7300 block of Gravois on Dec. 24, the Walgreens in the 3800 block of S. Kingshighway on Dec. 26, the Walgreens in the 5500 block of S. Grand on Dec. 29, The Save A Lot in the 4300 block of Loughborough and the 7-11 in the 5600 block of Gravois on Jan. 6.
Police said in all robberies, Burch revealed a weapon, took an undisclosed amount of cash and fled the store.
Burch is also believed to be responsible for one other robbery, but charges in the incident have yet to be filed.
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Bob Lutz is a good man. A Swiss-born immigrant American success story.
He's held big gigs at BMW and Ford. He also worked way up the food chain at (now $85 billion bailed-out) Chrysler and General Motors (GM) – retiring as GM's Vice Chairman in 2010.
And he has recently written a piece:
Chevy Volt And The Wrong-Headed Right
…in vociferous defense of the Chevy Volt.
You know, the more-than-$200,000 in government-subsidies-per-unit-sold Volt.
The overproduced, unprofitable, unpopular, combustible Volt. (And January 2011's sales were no less disappointing.)
That Chevy Volt.
Are we on the Right wrong-headed? Let's take Mr. Lutz's piece piecemeal and see.
The recent media coverage of so-called "Chevrolet Volt fires," especially by the conservative talk shows and Fox News, has attracted my attention and ire.
Let's set out the facts (and feel free to check them yourself):
Don't mind if we do.
1) Not one Chevrolet Volt has ever caught fire in normal use or in accidents. Not a single one.
Fundamentally untrue, as we laid out in great detail after last week's House Oversight Volt hearing.
From our piece:
There were in fact three other, private-owner Volt fires. None of which involved Volts that were in crashes.
These three fires involved Volts that were simply garaged or recharging – i.e. "in normal use."
More from Mr. Lutz:
2) The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), even after the highly artificial crash test (placing the car on its back, even though it did not roll over in the test) nevertheless awarded the Volt NHTSA's highest crash-safety rating: 5 stars. Volt is supremely safe.
But there wasn't just one NHTSA fire – there were three.
More from us:
The one NHTSA Volt fire discussed at the hearing was not the only NHTSA Volt fire that occurred. In November, there were two others.
After conducting three different tests two weeks ago, the NHTSA found that the Volt's battery either caught fire or began to smoke in two out of the three.
So that's three Volt fires – all in the hands of the Obama Administration, all after crashes.
For a grand total of six Volt fires (about which we know).
And excuse us for being slightly suspect of the Government's Five Star rating of Government Motors.
Especially when NHTSA, the Barack Obama White House and GM all covered-up the Volt fire(s) for nearly six months.
Especially when President Barack Obama is campaigning for reelection on the $85 billion auto industry bailout "success," and showing up at car shows to do it. So bad news for the Volt and Government Motors is bad news for him and his reelect.
So, again, excuse our suspicion.
More from Mr. Lutz:
3) The crashed Volt, its battery shorted by coolant from the period unjustifiably spent "feet up," caught fire three weeks after said test. (I submit that this would provide adequate time for surviving passengers to exit the vehicle.)
Again, what about the other five fires? Three of which were just plugged in or garaged – "in normal use?"
Mr. Lutz:
4) On average, 278,000 cars with gasoline engines caught fire in the U.S. each year between 2003 and 2007, according to the National Fire Protection Association.
True – but gasoline engines are a long-known commodity. Lithium-ion battery cars are not.
And when the Obama Administration and GM have spent half the Volt's shelf life covering up Volt flameouts, it certainly warrants additional attention.
Mr. Lutz:
5) No factory-produced electric vehicle has ever caught fire, to the best of my knowledge.
As we've just demonstrated, Mr. Lutz needs to better his knowledge.
And Mr. Lutz is making a blanket assertion – applicable beyond just the Volt to all electric cars. Is he really comfortable going that far?
Mr. Lutz:
6) The Volt, the most technologically advanced car on the planet, was conceived by me and my team well before any federal bailout of GM.
Is the pride of creative authorship clouding Mr. Lutz's judgement?
I'm not sure the Volt is the "most technologically advanced car on the planet" – given that the 1891 electric Morrison had a better battery range than the Volt.
The Volt was in fact conceived by Mr. Lutz and his team, in 2007. But I notice, Mr. Lutz, that you didn't rush to mass-produce it, did you? It existed only as a visual aide for auto shows – not for actual for-sale production.
Only with the arrival of President Obama – and We the People's $50 billion – did Volts find their way to the mass-assembly line.
Mr. Lutz:
These are the bedrock facts.
Yours aren't. Ours are.
Mr. Lutz:
Now, how did the U.S. right-wing media choose to report this admittedly headline-tempting news?
A nationally syndicated editorial three-panel cartoon stated (I believe I remember the sequence): "Thomas Edison discovered electricity;" then, "Alexander Graham Bell discovered the telephone;" and, in the third panel, "But it took the US Government to discover fire!" (accompanied by a drawing of a burning Chevy Volt).
Come on, that cartoon is just FUNNY.
Mr. Lutz then goes into some detail about Rush Limbaugh and Lou Dobbs (appearing on Bill O'Reilly's Fox News Channel show) publicly decrying the Volt.
Then Mr. Lutz writes:
Much air time was spent on the $50 billion-plus (GM) bailout, which, the audience was left to assume, "funded" the Volt, doubtlessly at the whim of Obama's known army of evil enviro-Nazis, intent on forcing vehicle electrification on a good-ole'-boy, V8-lovin' populace.
Again, the Lutz-era GM created the Volt – but never mass-produced it. Obama and the bailout arrived – and suddenly Government Motors is (sort-of) selling Volts.
Clearly there is some electric vehicle forcing going on. GM in 2011 produced about 10,000 Volts – and sold only 7,671. And until very recently – when finally hounded into submission-to-sales-reality – Akerson and GM were planning on upping 2012 Volt production to 60,000.
Sounds forced to me.
Mr. Lutz:
To top it off, these two media pros lamented the fact that the same government that had forced GM to produce the Volt was now extending $7,500 tax credits towards its purchase, thus squandering even more of "our taxpayer" dollars on this failed Socialist-collectivist flop. Truth? The $7,500 tax credit was enacted under the Bush administration!
True. But again, you, Mr. Lutz, never produced the Volt for sale under the Bush Administration. Only after you left, under Obama – when General Motors became with our coin Government Motors – did the foolish tax credit apply to the foolish Volt.
And we Right-wingers have long acknowledged – and publicly decried and lamented – many terrible Bush Administration policies. The $7,500-per-foolish-car is but another.
Mr. Lutz:
But who the hell cares about facts when you're in O'Reilly's self-described "No Spin Zone?" (The fine print might as well read, "We said 'no spin,' not 'no deliberate misstatement of facts.' ")
Again, as we have thoroughly demonstrated, it is the esteemed Mr. Lutz that is misstating and omitting facts.
Mr. Lutz:
What on Earth is wrong with the conservative media movement that it feels it's OK to spread false information, OK to damage the reputation of perhaps the finest piece of mechanical technology our country has produced since the space shuttle, OK to hurt an iconic American company that is roaring back to global pre-eminence, OK to hurt American employment in Hamtramck, Mich., as long as it damages the Obama administration's reputation?
It is Obama that is staking his reputation – and his reelection effort – on the $50 billion GM bailout and the Volt.
If our pointing out egregious, inconvenient facts is harmful thereto, it is simply happy collateral damage.
Mr. Lutz concludes:
While as a conservative Republican I may well share the goal, I deplore the means employed to attain it. The conservative cause damages itself, destroys its credibility through the expedient spreading of untruths. The public will figure it out.
The right-wing "talking heads", O'Reilly and Limbaugh at the forefront, have managed to make me embarrassed to describe myself as a conservative.
Come on, you guys. Shape up! There's plenty of legitimate fodder out there. Let's leave the "invention of facts" to the left-wing climate-change alarmists.
Unfortunately for Mr. Lutz – and the Obama Administration – there are plenty of inconvenient truths about Government Motors, the Obama Administration bailout and the absurd Chevy Volt.
And we "wrong-headed" Right-wingers are the only ones delivering them.
Mr. Lutz is in need of but a minor recalibration. The Chevy Volt he's defending may be unrecoverable.


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Let's face it – the latest book by Andy Andrews may be small, but it has a big title. Andy answers the title question itself in less than 50 pages and the remainder of the book includes a conversation with the author, a reader's guide, resources, notes and bibliography section.
How Do You Kill 11 Million People?
When I first picked up this book to begin reading I was preparing myself to be annoyed - my context is that of a British woman living in the UK and part of me expected this to be a book written for an American only audience with no reference or context for the wider world.
My preconceptions, however, were misplaced and I'm more than glad that I finished the book and didn't stop at the introduction just because it had the words Republican and Democrat in it.
Andrews is a storyteller – if you've read his bestseller 'The Noticer' then you'll be aware of his ability to craft a modern day parable, but in 'How Do You Kill 11 Million People?' one of the things brought to our attention is the misuse of such ability. Andrews points out that the Nazi's didn't travel from place to place announcing to the Jews that they were about to be rounded up and exterminated – rather they wove an intricate web of lies that assuaged the fears of the Jewish people and allowed the German Nation to live in a state of denial. This little book reminds us that Hitler was well practiced at the craft of playing to his audience; using words to paint a picture and allowing them to elevate him to a position of power based on promises he never intended to fulfil.
'How Do You Kill 11 Million People?' Is a book about truth, our ability to convince ourselves that lies are ok in some contexts and our readiness to believe a lie when it means our everyday existence can go on unaffected if we just close our eyes and believe it.
Christian or non Christian this should be an inescapable call.
Don't be put off by the American references within this text – it is after all written by an American and released during a presidential race. This small book has a message that is much bigger than one nation or one time frame in history. One of my greatest endorsements for this book is that it is so succinct - the point Andrews makes could have been lost in a larger manuscript. The message contained between the covers of 'How Do You Kill 11 Million People?' shouldn't just be applied to the possibility of future mass extermination. What we say, and in turn what we blindly believe or accept about plausible deniability, should be a matter for everyone. Christian or non Christian this is an inescapable call.
Andy Andrews
So how do you kill 11 million people? Well as I don't want to steal Andy's thunder, I really do suggest you give this book some of your time. I'd recommend it to anyone ready to acknowledge their own place in the larger picture of what our governments, businesses or organisations decree to be acceptable, as it pushes us to demand accountability, transparency and truth from those we place in positions of power.
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Writer's Support Group
Date:Tuesday, October 31, 2017, 6:30 PM—8:00 PM
Location:Stonecrest Library
Event Type:Informational Programs
Age Group:Adult (18+)
Open to all writers of any literary form and genre. Bring your work, whether completed or in-progress, to read, discuss and receive group feedback.
The support group meets the last Tuesday of every month (i.e. Oct., Dec., Feb., Apr., Jun. , Aug.) except holidays.


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Racial Justice
An inclusive and welcoming state is one where all citizens can enjoy safe, happy, and productive lives, and where tourists from all over are eager to visit. As individuals and as a state, we must all work to humbly recognize our biases, understand how these biases inform our decision making, and use that knowledge to reduce, if not eliminate, the presence of negative bias in our decision making. To that end, my administration would pursue the following:
Use the Vermont State Police and Department of Tourism & Marketing as models for other government agencies. These agencies have been on the forefront of addressing implicit bias and strengthening inclusive and equitable institutional practices.
The Vermont State Police are a national leader in employing Fair and Impartial Policing. This includes robust training on implicit bias and ongoing professional development throughout the command structure of the agency. I commend them for their work.
Tourism & Marketing has widened their scope to include attracting historically overlooked visitors to Vermont. For example, the creation of the Vermont African American Heritage Trail has attracted visitors of color and those interested in cultural tourism, and the Inclusive Vermont initiative has attracted visitors with disabilities. These two great efforts brand Vermont as the most welcoming state, and not to mention has expanded our economic pie.
We need to build on these successes and encourage the application of inclusive and equitable business/institutional practices throughout state and municipal governments.
Help our schools and children succeed in a diverse world. Schools play a central role in preparing the next generation for success in an increasingly diverse world. Schools provide the meeting place for students, teachers and parents to learn about, respect, and ultimately celebrate our multicultural identities. To encourage and support our students, we should be providing training for teachers and administrators, introducing them to the latest, most effective strategies for creating inclusive classrooms while at the same time countering the negative implicit biases that lead to differential treatment of students based on race, national origin, developmental abilities, or socio-economic status. At the same time, standards-based curricula statewide must acknowledge our cultural diversity and strive to bring the world in its entirety to our students in the classroom.
Condemn hate symbols and hate speech. Symbols of hate are not welcome in our state. Quite simply, they are bad for our communities, our families, and for business. The state must do what it can to discourage hate symbols and hate speech, and reaffirm that all people should feel welcome and respected in Vermont. This includes better education about the actual meaning behind hate symbols, and working closely with organizations like the VT Human Relations Commission and the Vermont Partnership for Fairness and Diversity on strategies to combat hate symbols and hate speech in our state. And relatedly, we must ensure educational personnel understand and enforce the letter and the spirit of existing anti-bullying, anti-harassment, and anti-hazing laws to end hate in schools.
Improve enforcement of Vermont fair housing and anti-discrimination laws. The Federal Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of dwellings, and in other housing-related transactions, based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status, and disability. Only with enhanced, effective enforcement of this law can we begin to seriously address institutional racism in the housing sector. This involves auditing the current Fair Housing Act enforcement measures and soliciting feedback and input from those who have filed complaints and sought recourse in the past.


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Series: Woodhead Publishing Series in Energy Volume: 29
234 pages, b/w photos, b/w illustrations, tables
Increasing global consumerism and population has led to an increase in the levels of waste produced. Waste to energy (WTE) conversion technologies can be employed to convert residual wastes into clean energy, rather than sending these wastes directly to landfill. Waste to energy conversion technology explores the systems, technology and impacts of waste to energy conversion.
Part one provides an introduction to WTE conversion and reviews the waste hierarchy and WTE systems options along with the corresponding environmental, regulatory and techno-economic issues facing this technology. Part two goes on to explore further specific aspects of WTE systems, engineering and technology and includes chapters on municipal solid waste (MSW) combustion plants and WTE systems for district heating. Finally, part three highlights pollution control systems for waste to energy technologies. Waste to energy conversion technology is a standard reference book for plant managers, building engineers and consultants requiring an understanding of WTE technologies, and researchers, scientists and academics interested in the field.
- Part 1 Introduction to waste to energy conversion
- Waste to energy (WTE): An introduction
- Environmental and social impacts of waste to energy (WTE) conversion plants
- Life cycle assessment (LCA) and its application to sustainable waste management
- Feedstocks for waste to energy (WTE) systems: Types, properties and analysis
Part 2 Waste to energy systems, engineering and technology
- Pre-processing and treatment of municipal solid waste (MSW) prior to incineration
- Municipal solid waste (MSW) combustion plants
- Waste firing in large combustion plants
- Waste to energy (WTE) systems for district heating
- Gasification and pyrolysis of municipal solid waste (MSW)
Part 3 Pollution control systems for waste to energy technologies
- Transformation of waste combustion facilities from major polluters to pollution sinks
- Air quality equipment and systems for waste to energy (WTE) conversion plants
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Naomi B. Klinghoffer is currently a PhD student at Columbia University, USA under the direction of Professor Castaldi. Ms Klinghoffer has presented her work at national and international conferences on all aspects of waste valorization.
Professor Marco J. Castaldi is Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at City University of New York, City College (CCNY), USA. Professor Castaldi is active in the Materials and Energy Recovery Division of ASME and the Research and New Technology Council of AIChE; he has been involved in research and development in waste to energy and gasification technology for the last decade.


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Designer Front Doors
The word "Designer" is normally accompanied by the word "expensive" but not in this case, just style and quality at an affordable price.
Our large selection of "Designer Doors" leaves only one issue, what door to choose, we have shown a small selection within this category to make the choice a bit clearer, there are many doors throughout the site that could be deemed as designer, your choice ..... if you like a door, does it matter whether it's under a particular banner, we don't think so.
This range of doors is in some instances available as oak or mahogany and in lots of styles including door & frame sets or as a door that allows you to fit your own glass.


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30 hand picked films. A new one every day
Richard Clark has just left the well-known Wellington Academy to teach at Marion Barry High School. Now, he will try to inspire the D-average students into making good grades and try to woo a fellow teacher.
Funny for about 30 minutes.
The last good Zucker comedy.


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Several things on my mind at once. With my fops coming home and telling me that the flat we have in Olso might be ready earlier we might start that sooner than the 26th which is good and bad, I have set the next couple weeks to be a mixed combination of art and packing, one will suffer the other for a brief bit. Thankfully keeping tabs with my clients every Monday has been one of the best ideas yet, I like it too. I just wish I could be sending them all WIP updates etc at the same time but its just not possible.
Today the Takst office comes by and eyeballs the house then tells us what it is/isn't worth, quite possibly what we have to do to make it worth more. Apart from paint anything of a major renovation is kind of off, seeing that we can't afford much beyond what we presently have. So here is hoping, yesterday's Bank visit was quite pleasant, speaking english with a mother of three was... nice, she understood fully and was brought back to remembering the days where she was in my shoes, chasing the little ones, gathering them up never having that break to just slump in a chair and nap.
This weekend past was nice, I think my favorite things was being out of the house, meeting some new furs. First stop was Etath's Birthday bash where my experimental cheesecake was....looking more like a burnt cookie compaired to the cakes on either side of it. It was still effort placed I never got to try it but its all good, we were very short on time with shopping to be done, a visit to Kal, seeing the location of the flat in Oslo and all the cleaning/preparation in the house to be done in just one day. Etaths was so nice, the Dragon den so cozy and wow the beautiful sculptures! I'm impressed with everything, I was a bit.....reserved with those I didn't know I had no idea of their names, or who they were and no one seemed to really want to talk with me so I did what I do best when a place starts to get crowded with people I don't know, I made myself smaller. A short while later we were off with Nikka complaining that she wanted to go, and onward to the badgers den! Where I was promptly tackle hugged by a fursuited Skarpen! :D Way to feel like a lil kid all over again! followed close behind by Joon! Suited as well! gets the inner child squeeing and the girls estatic about it all. I'm forgetting Dax and his girlfriend back at Etaths, she was suited up and boy did Kelly adore her! So much that when she went to climb out of her suit she pouted and cried terribly! so we went from one suit to a flat with (thinks a second) 4? suits! some cake promptly placed in paws and hugs all around. Insta-melt but then with the "strays" (<3) I have most always been able to calm around and relax, its taken... 4 years? (I think) but I think we're all comfortable enough to say we trust each other and enjoy each others company greatly. Hiding in a corner all happy and content Furble! great sense of humor, friendly, and quite caring. I had to say I didn't feel like he was a new face at all but just another who's always been there. Lots and lots of laughs, bad jokes, terrible humor... for such a short short time.... but then its always too short.... we had to leave, not before I got to snuggle everyone to bits! and meet two more faces on the way out! Aikho, I swear I know you from somewhere somehow XD I can't explain it but it was so nice to meet you. Sarah, I never quite caught the name and I never ask people to repeat themselves more that twice, its an oddity of mine. Still it was nice to meet and greet so many, I wish I could have gotten to know the names to all the faces I saw at Etaths but I was utterly lost.
Current events -
Moving, house goes on market in a couple weeks (less than now), cars get ushered off to be sold,repaired or scrapped. and all loose ends get tied up as best as possible. So moving suddenly, well not planned not something we wanted to do but right now we're trying to keep our heads above the water and in pure survival mode.
Pond Hopping - Every time this subject comes up I can see sadness in eyes, I want to take everyone with me to be honest :( But just because there is a greater distance does not mean that it will be much different! I WILL SEE EVERYONE as often as I can! And look at it this way, you have a definite place to crash when you do hop the pond! But seriously this is the most scarey time, our focus is purely on what must be done. Right now we're looking at barely being able to afford much food on the table, Oslo thankfully will make this not so much a struggle as his company covers half the rental costs of the flat and will enable us perhaps a small chance to save some money before we leave which with any luck... its before winter this year. Its boiled down to not being able to survive, and its difficult for most to see, but a family of 4, its not easy, trust me. It would be different if it was just the two of us but its not. So its nothing against anyone honestly :( just bear with us lets make this all good memories! ^^ and look forward to making so many, many more!
Current events elsewhere - well I'm sure this crytic wording can be understood by those who need to know what this means - I'm so very utterly sorry everyone, I'm a passionate person, fire me up right and I will turn into something you've never saw and its horrific and down right rude and terrifying, I have admitted to this many times, I have apologized for it many times over. I'm just sorry that everyone is somehow caught up in all this, I've spent my life defending myself, I hit a point where I didn't care anymore, I just took the flak for whatever reason it has been fine, but my button pusher has always been attack my family and you'll get fangs first. It still is, but I'm doing best to stay as muzzled as possible, its not worth it, I just hope that this is seen as doing it to prevent any further crap hitting the fan and spraying over onto everyone and not as its been so crudely deemed by some as "fence sitting" As I have said so many times before I don't tell others what to do or think, I value individual opinion and respect it. I won't ever judge, I won't sugar-coat things either, I'm upfront and continue to be so. You can ask me anything I'll answer you straight forward, and if I'm out of line, you can always call me on it and I expect you to when it happens, not wait until its boiled over to something that is difficult to fix or cannot be fixed anymore. In the end all I can say is that I am truly sorry that the tides have swollen this far, I never thought this would happen had I known then I would have bitten my tongue for the sake of the rest. I love you guys, its taken us four years to really get to know each other to what degree we know and we're still learning! But that's what makes a great friendship all the better, you never get bored there's always something more to know and learn about each other and I love the family of friends I have.
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If you live near the beach – almost any beach, anywhere in the world – you're probably no stranger to surf culture. Even if you're not a surfer, it's hard not to see where the culture has seeped into daily life near the sand and the waves.
If you make a simple stop into a convenience store in a surf town, you'll find StickyBumps and Mr. Zogs near the checkout stands. You'll probably also see board shorts hanging from the rafters. And there's sunblock to be found everywhere. Out on the boardwalk, T-shirts are plastered with designs by Oakley, Hurley, Rip Curl, and Volcom. Listen close, and you'll hear people speak in a vernacular steeped in surf terms. Honestly, where else are you likely to hear the term "broceanography" uttered by anyone? Surf culture is at its thickest around surf towns. But, even though this comes as no surprise to someone who lives near the water, there are many among us who might be astonished to know that the surfing culture is common to many other regions around the country where there's almost zero access to water and waves. Surf culture is thriving and strong – especially here in the United States.
Surf culture began to permeate American culture right after WWII, when GIs came home from being stationed in Hawaii and brought with them a love of surfing. In the 40s, Marilyn Monroe was photographed learning to surf with British actor Peter Lawford. Given the immense status of the two film icons back in the day, you can bet that star-struck film fans across the country started thinking seriously about learning to surf.
In 1959, the movie Gidget, starring Sandra Dee, hit the silver screens. It was a wildly-popular film in its time and was shot on location at Leo Carrillo State Beach in Malibu. This was about the time that surfing culture exploded across America. Blue Hawaii, starring Elvis Presley came out in 1961, Beach Party hit the big screen in 1963, and Beach Blanket Bingo was released in 1965. It was also during this period when the Beach Boys released their songs Surfin' Safari, Surfin' USA, and Surfer Girl. Each was a massive hit on the airwaves and could be heard blaring on nearly every radio from Swami's in Encinitas, California to Good Harbor in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Surfing culture had taken hold in America.
Surf culture owes a lot to the Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, Dick Dale, The Ventures, and The Surfaris – all of whom had huge success with surf rock and pop on the radio. Hollywood took surf culture from the beach to theaters across the globe with a string of box office hits like The Endless Summer (1966) to Blue Crush (2002). On the small screen, there was a number of TV shows that featured surf culture and locations. Baywatch is one of the more famous. Blue Water High, from Australia, is one of the lesser-known but good nonetheless. And, of course, Dylan McKay, played by actor Luke Perry, was often seen surfing on Beverly Hills, 90210.
Modern day surf culture is as varied as it is vast. People of all walks have embraced surf culture. You can find surf shops in states across the nation – even those that are far away from the nearest actual beach. But, strange as it may seem to bump into somebody wearing a Maui Rippers rashguard in Ohio, it's still pretty cool to meet somebody who's part of the culture we all share.
We'll see you out on the water!
– WaveHuggers


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Someone asked me a long time ago how to do watermarking in Reporting Services and I meant to write a blog about it. Then I was asked again just yesterday. So, I figured it was worth a quick blog. In this quick blog, I will show you how to use an image that appears in the background of the report. An assumption is made that you already have an image that can be used as a watermark.
I fired up BIDS (Business Intelligence Development Studio for those of you that are new to BI) and added a new report from my template. I added a quick dataset to my report and threw a table with a few values. Did some slight formatting and then added the image that I planned to use as a watermark. Figure 1 below shows an example before I add the watermark.
Figure 1: Before Watermarking
Now here is where I need to set the watermark. I selected a white area of my report in the report design surface to ensure that I had the report body selected and hit F4 to show the properties. Then, I just set Source to "Embedded" and selected my newly added watermark image as the Value. Finally, I wanted the watermark to repeat, so I selected Repeat under the BackgroundRepeat property. My settings are shown below in Figure 2.
Figure 2: Body Background Image Settings
Instantly, I see the results of my actions in the Report Designer as shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3: Watermark
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Concentration and density changes at an electrode surface and the principle of unchanging total concentration
In this study, the principle of unchanging total concentration as described by Oldham and Feldberg [J. Phys. Chem. B, 103, 1699 (1999)] is invoked to analyze systems comprising a redox pair (X z1 1 and X z2 2) plus one or more non-electroactive species (X z3 3,X z4 4...X zjmax jmax) where X zj j is the j th species with charge z j and concentration; c j. The principle states that if the diffusion coefficients for all species are identical and mass transport is governed by the Nernst-Planck expression, the total concentration does not change during any electrochemical perturbation, i.e.: Σ jmax j=1[X zj j]=Σ jmax j=1 c j = S P With this principle we deduce the electrochemically induced difference between the surface and bulk concentrations for each species. Those concentration differences are translated into density differences which are a function of the density of the solvent and of the concentration differences, molecular masses and the standard partial molar volumes of all species. Those density differences in turn can induce convection that will ultimately modify the observed current. However, we did not attempt to quantify details of the natural convection and current modification produced by those density differences.
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- Report Number(s):
Journal ID: ISSN 0013-4651; R&D Project: 2016-BNL-EE630EECA-Budg; KP1701000
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- Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of the Electrochemical Society
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 163; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 0013-4651
- Publisher:
- The Electrochemical Society
- Research Org:
- Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER) (SC-23)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; electrode surfaces
- 1240714


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Crestron Introduces New Space Saving DIN-Rail Modules
Crestron DIN-Rail Modules Provide Cost- and Space-Efficient Installation for Lighting and Control
Crestron announces its new line of DIN-Rail lighting and control modules. DIN-Rail is the most popular installation standard worldwide, and it is gaining popularity in the United States. The DIN-Rail form factor is highly efficient, requiring only a fraction of the space of a traditional equipment rack. More cost-effective and compact, DIN-Rail modules are perfect for small spaces that cannot accommodate a full-size rack or smaller systems that do not need a full rack, such as a classroom, boardroom, home theater, and MDU. DIN-Rail modules are easily accessible from the front of the enclosure and connections are made simply using Phoenix-style connectors. DIN Rail systems are custom configurable and extremely easy to install. Modules simple snap onto the DIN-Rail in the cabinet - no tools are required. Crestron is introducing 10 new modules at InfoComm, including a power supply, 2-Series controller, distribution block, audio switcher and more. Standard DIN-Rail cabinets are available from a number of third party vendors and in several sizes.
New Crestron DIN-Rail Modules:
DIN-AP2 a 2-series control system with a PAC2M (66 MIPS processor)
DIN-1DIMU4 offers four channels of universal dimming from one feed with built-in OCP; a master air-gap relay with local front control of each dimming leg - supports incandescent, MLV, Electronic Low Voltage, 2-wire fluorescent dimming, NCC, and non-dim switching.
DIN-4DIMFLV4 accommodates four channels of 4-wire 0-10 volt fluorescent dimming, and each load handles up to 30 dimmable ballasts. It also supports switching up to 5 amps or ½ HP motors. Local front control of each dimming leg and local override input for emergency backup is included DIN-8SW8 offers eight channels of switching. Each channel supports up to 10 amps incandescent, 5 amps of fluorescent or ½ HP motors, with local front control of each switching leg and local override input for emergency backup. It supports switching for fluorescent, Incandescent, MLV, ELV,NCC, and motors
DIN-2MC2 supports two channels of 3-wire bi-directional motor control. Includes built-in logic for up/down open/close, local front control of each motor, local override input for emergency backup, and support of 3-wire motor switching for devices including shade and drapes, lifts, screens, and skylights
DIN-AO8 accommodates eight channels of analog output, with local front control of each output and local override input for emergency backup. It supports third party lighting and heating /cooling systems
DIN-IO8 has eight Versiports, digital or analog inputs, local front status of each I/O, and local override input for emergency backup. It supports contact closures, motion sensors, occupancy sensors, partition sensors, photo cells, temperature sensors, water level meters, and volume control potentiometers
DIN-PWS50 is a 50 Watt Cresnet power supply, to power DIN-AP2 and other Cresnet devices
DIN-BLOCK is a Cresnet block with 12 Cresnet connectors and Cresnet power distribution
DIN-HUB is a Cresnet HUB with three segments, and supports 32 Cresnet devices per segment. Each segment can be powered from the Cresnet or from an external power supply, and each segment has an LED power indicator light.
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December 13, 1988
To All Bond Counsel:
The following are a number of additional positions taken by the Public Finance Section and clarifications to previous positions, none of which have been formally disseminated to the bond community. Except where noted, these are in effect at this time. However, your comments on any matters mentioned herein are, as always, welcomed. (All references to statutes are to Texas Revised Civil Statutes Annotated, unless otherwise noted.)
Regarding comments of general import received on my previous letter to All Bond Counsel, dated November 2, 1987 (time certainly does fly) the following is my response.
As you are aware, substantial personnel changes - primarily an increase in the number of lawyers - have taken place in the Public Finance Section. Besides myself, Leroy Grawunder, Carol Polumbo, Teryl Whitfield and Sheela Rai, we have just added Jose Villarreal. while this is a substantial increase in staffing, several factors keep us busy well beyond what is sometimes thought of as a "standard state employee work week". Among these are our new authority, as of November 1 or last year, to review all conduit financings by on-behalf-of corporations. As many of you are aware, these take substantially more time to review. Also, we act as general counsel and issuer's counsel for the Public Finance Authority, and general counsel to the Bond Review Board. We have also recently spent significant time with litigation matters. Finally, we seem to be involved in a number of special projects and to have substantial discussions with many of you regarding problematic or innovative financings, including lease-purchase transactions.
We are pleased to work with the bond community to obtain needed financing for governmental entities in Texas, and try, consistent with the law, to be responsive to those needs. I am very pleased with the work of the attorneys of this Section who are now on board, and know Jose will continue the high standards we have attempted to set.
However, because of the increased workload and number of attorneys in the Section, I feel some restructuring is desirable. Thus, Leroy Grawunder has been appointed Assistant Chief of the Section. Leroy already has many responsibilities, including primary responsibility for representing the Public Finance Authority and for coordinating litigation. At this time I am also putting Leroy in charge of all matters relating to road districts, water districts and other utility districts. Please contact him directly should financings in those areas need discussion prior to submission. While Leroy will, of course, continue to discuss issues with me as he determines to be appropriate, he will have full authority to resolve all matters concerning these areas.
I would urge you to continue to use Leroy and Carol as your primary contacts in areas which you may have previously discussed with them or with which you know they have been involved. Likewise, please continue to visit directly with Terri and Sheela (and soon, with Jose) regarding issues you have discussed previously with them.
As a final note, while our attorney staffing has increased, our secretarial staffing has not. While Jean Hamil continues her substantial duties, Nancy Bullock has moved on to another position in the Attorney General's Office. Her position is being ably filled by Susan Colvin, and we additionally have a limited amount of clerical help from the division receptionist. We are able to manage with this staffing pattern, I believe, because the attorneys make substantial use of personal computers, drastically reducing the word processing burden on the secretaries.
To repeat, your comments on any of the matters contained in this letter, or any other matters, are welcome.
Jim Thomassen
Assistant Attorney General
Chief, Public Finance Section


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