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That started breaking down a few years ago as cities like New York and London began assessing the impact that an unstable climate would have on them. Just before Christmas, that culminated in the release of planning guides in both the US and Canada to help cities identify vulnerability and plan was to adapt to new conditions. But while the American guide was released by ICLEI with some fanfare and press attention, the updated guide produced by Natural Resources Canada didn't make a ripple in the media landscape.
The impact that climate change is going to have on our cities is one of the big conversations that Canadians are waiting to have. Marsden's piece focuses on Montreal, but it provides a good overview of the risks faced by Canadian cities. He goes into what can be done to address them and how we are entering into an era where low-carbon, climate adapted cities will have a clear edge when it comes to attracting both residents and investment. The piece also bring together some interesting quotes from World Bank officials and city councilors.
We have got a big issue here. One that cities haven't done nearly enough yet to address, and they are being let down by a federal government which itself hasn't produced a coherent national climate change strategy. Here's hoping that the Canadian media will help us keep our eye on how it develops. [Some excerpts after the below]
"Natural Resources Canada reports that cities in British Columbia's interior have to adapt to the increased risk of wildfires because of a drier climate; Vancouver has to improve its storm sewer systems because of increased rains and violent storms; Edmonton has lost 30,000 trees to drought and pest infestations; Regina is running out of water; the increased intensity of rainfall is causing more flooding in London, Ont.; Toronto has the country's worst heat island effects; Montreal and Quebec City experience more intense snow storms, wind storms, heat waves and torrential rain than ever before; and east coast cities like Halifax and Annapolis Royal face problems relating to sea level rise, storm surges and increased extreme weather events such as hurricanes."
"Quebec law now requires the cities establish a perimeter beyond which the city cannot expand. DeSousa said the idea is to develop around transportation hubs so that as many people as possible can be within walking distance of a metro or commuter train station.
In the United States, it's called Transit Orientated Development (TOD). The rationale is simple: Denser cities use less energy. The problem in Quebec, however, is that the politics around restricting development is fertile ground for corruption as developers and landowners vie to have their land included within the development area."
"If we are going to make a dent and if we are going to be able to supply a coherent series of reasons to the population, we need the federal government on side," Montreal city councillor Alan DeSousa said.
"You can imagine how much simpler our lives would be if you have a coherent, cohesive message being sent by all levels of government to the population. Not only would people better understand the impact of climate change on their daily lives but there would also be a series of integrated measures across the board that are coherent. That definitely handicaps our efforts, particularly at jurisdictions at senior levels of government where we don't have any particular role, for example in industrial emissions."
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Spectators shouted "police brutality!" last night as Allentown policemen arrested one of two brothers who reportedly became abusive and violent during an investigation of a disturbance in the Hanover Acres section of the city's East Side.
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To celebrate the fact that yesterday's close encounter with an asteroid didn't kill us all, Steam are dropping their usual price by 33% today for the apocalyptic shooter RAGE. This means potential buyers can save themselves almost £3 in comparison to the next best deal at Cool Shop, as well as rejoice over the fact we're all still alive.
Sure, RAGE tried to do too much when it should have focused on just its brilliant and satisfying shooting mechanics, but it's still an entertaining romp, and if you want to give it a go this is by far the best deal around for PC gamers.


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If you were asked which company you thought was the biggest online thought-leader in the appliance space, you'd probably assume that it was one of the major manufacturers; names like General Electric, Whirlpool, Kenmore, or Frigidaire, might come to mind.
As major manufacturers worth upwards of hundreds of millions of dollars each, you would probably think it a safe bet to expect at least one of these companies to be controlling the online conversation about home appliances.
However, you might be surprised to learn that not only is the online leader for producing content in the appliance space not one of the leading manufacturers, they're not a manufacturer at all. Rather, the company that is making a killing online by providing educational articles, videos, buyer's guides, and e-books that are answering people's questions about appliances is a regional retail store located in Boston, MA.


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O'Malley Wants to Modernize and Reduce Nuclear Weapons
"I have a question about wasteful nuclear weapons spending," John from Global Zero asked Martin O'Malley. "I know in the past you've said on this issue we should pay more attention to our military experts than our politicians and I agree. I want to point out that a four-star military general Colin Powell said that nuclear weapons are useless. And I guess as President my question for you would be how would you build on the legacy started by Reagan, endorsed by many military experts and continued by President Obama to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons?"
O'Malley responded, "It's going to require constant work and constant dialing up our diplomatic efforts. It's going to require presidential commitment and it's going to require us oftentimes leading with action rather than waiting until the perfect confluence of goodwill exists in the hearts of all our opponents and other nations of this world. So I believe we can modernize our force and also reduce nuclear weapons. I believe we have an urgent responsibility to take actions to make sure nuclear weapons don't fall into the hands of non-state actors and both of those interests point to the United States taking the lead in reducing the size of this world's nuclear warheads and that's what I intend to do."
Lilly, another Global Zero activist, was able to ask a follow-up question later in the meeting. "Governor O'Malley, thank you for your time today," she began. "Always a pleasure seeing you. I also want to thank you on your leadership on seeking a world without nuclear weapons and your commitment to reducing global nuclear stockpiles. I just have a quick follow up question. I totally agree with you that we need to address the crumbling infrastructure surrounding our nuclear forces here in the United States but I feel a little bit confused when you talk about modernizing and overhauling the US nuclear arsenal. Not only is in incredibly expensive, but it's planned and estimated to cost over $1 trillion over the next 30 years. But I strongly believe that it sends the wrong message to the rest of the world that the United States is not serious about multilateral or global nuclear arms reduction when we're investing such a significant amount of money in overhauling and modernizing our own. So I just wanted to hear a little bit more about why you support modernizing our nuclear arsenal."
O'Malley responded, "I support modernizing our nuclear arsenal in an effort to not only strengthen the triad deterrence but also to protect it from possible cyber incursions and those types of attacks as well. And I think at the end of the day if we can reduce the number of nuclear warheads, that does send a strong signal rather than a counter signal. I think to modernize to reduce should be the goal, and that's what I believe."
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It is official for the liars — Aria, Hanna, Emily and Spencer — that Rosewood is destined to give them the worst memories of their lives in Pretty Little Liars season 6. The popular Freeform series is returning with another exciting episode titled Where Somebody Waits For Me. After the death of A, the liars are now being haunted by the Uber A, a faceless antagonist who vows to make their lives worse.
The upcoming episode will reveal more personal secrets of the liars as they continue to investigate Charlotte's death. As shown in the promo, Emily tells Alison about the murder weapon but Ali denies that Charlotte was murdered with a gulf club. Apart from solving their personal issues and investigating A's murder, the girls will try to track their latest stalker.
The official synopsis of episode 16 reads:
While new discoveries are made in the investigation of Charlotte's murder, the truth begins to emerge about the Liars' personal lives. Spencer is concerned to learn her mother is keeping a secret of her own. Aria confesses to Liam how deeply she's involved with Ezra's book. Ali admits that she and Elliott are more than just friends. Mona reveals where her true allegiances lie. Caleb, Spencer and Hanna deal with the complications of new relationships.
Meanwhile, Emily and Hanna each receive shocking threats that elevate the seriousness of the situation.
Pretty Little Liars season 6 episode 16 will air on 16 February on Freeform. Click here to watch the show live on Freeform (only in the US).
In the previous episode, Spencer and Aria sneaked into Sara Harvey's room at the Radley's and were shocked to discover a secret room behind the walls of her hotel room. Sara had somehow managed to tear the wall and find Charlotte's former room in the mental institution. This prompted fans to jump into the conclusion that the former Black Widow may have something to do with the killing of Charlotte.
During the midseason premiere, the girls returned to Rosewood after five long years to speak in favour of their tormentor A aka Charlotte but things took an ugly turn after she was murdered and they became the prime suspects in the case. If that wasn't enough, they also started receiving a series of anonymous messages on their phones threatening to "reveal their deep secrets".


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Washington, DC - Today, responding to a direction from President Obama, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) published an interim final regulation that immediately extends eligibility for health insurance coverage under the Federal Employee Health Benefits (FEHB) program to temporary firefighters and fire protection personnel working on wildland fires across the country. This announcement ensures that federal firefighters and their families have access to the same health insurance afforded to full time federal employees.
"Issuing this interim final regulation meets President Obama's direction to ensure that the brave men and women who compose our nation's federal firefighter ranks, and who are currently fighting dangerous wildfires in states across the country, are eligible for the same health insurance available to other federal employees, retirees and their families," said OPM Director John Berry.
OPM worked closely with the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of the Interior (DOI) - the two agencies that employ our nation's wildland federal firefighting force - to provide thousands of temporary federal firefighters and their families with a simple, expedited process to gain access to the coverage they deserve. Many federal firefighters are temporary employees because of the seasonal nature of their work. Under previous regulations, they were not eligible for health insurance coverage under the FEHB program, which provides insurance to other federal employees, retirees, and their families. Under the rule change, the FEHB program will officially be extended to federal firefighters and fire protection personnel temporarily employed to respond to the wildland fires. As a result, the men and women of the wildland firefighting force will have the option to purchase FEHB coverage for themselves and their families - providing health care coverage while they fight fires, with the option to continue their coverage at their own expense when they return home.
"Ever since I served as mayor of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, I've had a deep respect for our firefighters - and I know that when a federal firefighter is heading out to the line to defend Americans' lives and property from dangerous, destructive wildfire, it doesn't matter whether they're a "temporary" firefighter or not. Today's announcement means that every one of our federal firefighters will have the health coverage he or she deserves - and that's something we can be proud of," said U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack.
"The men and women who join the battle against devastating wildfires across the nation each summer take on the same risks as their full-time colleagues, and they deserve the same health benefits for their courageous work," said U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar. "The President asked us to work together to close this gap on behalf of federal firefighters and their families who make sacrifices to protect the lives and property of all Americans."
There is a 60 day comment period for the public to provide additional feedback on the new regulations. OPM plans to issue additional guidance on enrollment and administration of this regulation to agencies through the Chief Human Capital Officers Council and to agency Benefits Officers through a Benefits Administration Letter. OPM is also notifying FEHB insurance carriers about the change to expedite access to health care under their health plan enrollment. Each agency then is responsible for outreach, education, and enrollment processing of eligible employees.
The regulation can be found here: http://www.ofr.gov/OFRUpload/OFRData/2012-17623_PI.pdf
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Dream Classrooms
For many educators, the latest in-class technologies, such as laptops and whiteboards, would make any classroom dreamy. For others, connecting outside the classroom is the high-tech way to go. We asked a few K12 adminstrators across the nation—in small and large districts, rural and urban—to reveal their greatest classroom desires in celebration of DA's annual Top 100 New Products issue. Here's what they told us.
Director of Technology and Media Services Escondido (Calif.) Union School District (K8)
America's iPod generation would feel at home in Kathy Shirley's dream classroom. A few schools in her district are using iPods to improve students' reading comprehension skills. Students listen to audio and read text on the devices, and by connecting a microphone, English Language Learners can read aloud and record their voices, allowing them to listen to their pronunciations. "It's very tedious, very hard work if a child is a struggling reader to improve their reading ability," Shirley says. "So the device itself makes that hard work palatable for kids."
Director of Technology Lincoln (Neb.) Public Schools
Kirk Langer's dream classroom would have an interactive whiteboard and projector, allowing the teacher to display the contents of her computer screen. He also envisions "student response systems" as part of his dream classroom. Produced by manufacturers such as eInstruction, a student response system consists of handheld devices containing buttons that students press to give answers to teachers' questions. The responses then appear on the teacher's computer, allowing the teacher to monitor how well students are learning the material and to identify students having trouble. "It provides immediate feedback to the teacher," Langer says.
Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction Brownsville (Texas) Independent School District
A dream classroom would have laptops available for students to use in class and take home with them, according to Salvador Cavazos. He also envisions a dream classroom having several "multimedia" computer stations in which groups of students could work on projects with the help of Internet research tools and multimedia elements like movies and music. That kind of multimedia, project-based instruction engages students more than simple paper-and-pencil assignments. "It certainly allows for greater creativity," Cavazos says. "It's just a higher-end kind of product that kids put out rather than, 'Here's a few paragraphs.'" The computer station arrangement also would allow the teacher to provide more differentiated instruction, he says. The teacher could break up the students into groups by skill level, allowing her to tailor instruction to each group's academic needs as she monitors students.
Superintendent Bridgeport (Wash.) School District
For rural districts like Bridgeport in central Washington state, Gene Schmidt says that fiber-optic, high-capacity broadband would be essential for a dream classroom. "The biggest question is broadband speed," he says. Every classroom should have an Internetconnected interactive videoconferencing center allowing students to visit other sites or classrooms with video and audio capability, "so literally your class should be able to talk to a class in Australia," he says. Schmidt's dream classroom would also have document cameras, which he says are important because they allow teachers to face the students during a lesson rather than turn their backs to write on a chalkboard.
Manager of Instruction Technology and Student Information Systems Sunnyvale (Calif.) School District
The Sunnyvale district has seen even techphobic teachers use document cameras, which Bruce Selzler calls one of the most important education technology tools to come along in years and would be part of his dream classroom. The district primarily uses document cameras manufactured by ELMO USA. The document cameras connect to an LCD projector and laptop computer, allowing teachers to toggle between the computer image and whatever is being viewed by the camera. Objects and papers can be magnified under the camera, which can even be directed to look through a classroom microscope. Selzler says that the technology allows for colorful and multimedia-filled presentations that engage students. "The kids are transfixed by the whole thing," he adds.
Superintendent Chesapeake (Va.) Public Schools
One-to-one laptop computers for middle and high school students, SMART Boards and a sound amplification system to boost teachers' voices would be part of a dream classroom for W. Randolph Nichols. He adds that a less high-tech item would be useful in the dream classroom: light, mobile desks, tables, chairs and other furniture that can easily be moved around so teachers could form student groups, which allow for more differentiated instruction. Nichols, who cites furniture manufactured by VS International as examples, adds that larger classrooms are needed now than in the past to accommodate small groups and computer workstations inside the classroom, versus the computer-lab model that many schools use.
Executive Director of Curriculum and Instruction Yonkers (N.Y.) Public Schools
For Fern Eisgrub, a dream classroom would have iPods so that students could listen to and record text and examine visuals, and it would have laptops and SMART Boards too. Students would also use digital cameras and video cameras to create slideshows or movies, including sound. Such multimedia projects, which can be created with software such as Windows Movie Maker, engage students and lead to a deeper understanding of the content. Having and using digital cameras in a dream classroom would allow students to document "natural changes in the environment, as well as architecture from period to period through photography," she says.
Project Manager, National Inventors Hall of Fame Center for Science, Teaching and Mathematics Akron (Ohio) Public Schools
Maryann Wolowiec, who is developing a new science and technology high school in Akron, says her dream classroom would have video cameras, digital cameras, laptops for every student, and student response systems to provide teachers immediate feedback. Classrooms would also be able to access a portable videoconferencing center, which could consist of a rolling cart hosting a computer screen, microphone and camera, so that students could go on virtual field trips or take part in distance learning.
Superintendent Plano (Texas) Independent School District
Doug Otto says that a dream classroom would harness the power of cell phones, which are becoming ubiquitous among youths. A teacher could send assignments or other information to students' Internet-connected cell phones. "Their use of cell phones is a great communication tool between teacher and student," he says. The cell phones also can be used by students to search the Web and to connect to any Web-based application. Ideally, like the district, students would have wireless mice or keyboards at their desks, Otto explains. When the teacher has projected a computer presentation, students could alter what is on the projection screen by using the mice or keyboards on their desks.
Supervisor of Educational Technology/Library Media Salt Lake City (Utah) School District
Wireless access, document cameras, student response systems, and interactive whiteboards would be part of Julie Atwood's dream classroom. Ideally, there would be a two-to-one ratio of laptops to each elementary student, while each secondary student would have one. She envisions digital cameras, video cameras and even a Nintendo Wii video game system. The video game system would be helpful to use in physical education classes, especially when weather interfered with outdoor activities. "It has often motivated students to get that P.E. in, to get that movement in," she says.
Chief Information Officer Albuquerque (N.M.) Public Schools
For Tom Ryan, a dream classroom wouldn't just end with what's literally inside the classroom. He would harness the power of the expansive Internet to encourage and coordinate learning outside of class. In addition to having assignments, grades and research resources posted online, Ryan would have district administrators use content management systems and learning management systems—such as those produced by Blackboard—to allow students to work on group projects outside of class and to help each other with homework questions, a process teachers could observe.
Deputy Superintendent, Education Support Services Colorado Springs (Colo.) School District 11
Mike Poore would want computers to function as tools to empower collaboration in his dream classroom. Students engaging in project-based assignments could work on and edit the same document using Google Docs and could use services like the Web site PBWiki, which allows students to collaborate on projects using text, video and audio. The dream classroom also would have students using everyday technologies like iPods and cell phones in academic activities, especially in group projects. Text messaging could be a tool to coordinate work with groups of students at different schools, as well as a tool to disseminate information, such as exit poll data in real-time during the presidential election, Poore says. Cell phones could also be used as Internet research devices, allowing students to look up calorie levels of food at their favorite restaurant in health class, for example. Their camera and photo-swapping functions would allow journalism students to take pictures for news stories for the student newspaper, he says.
Superintendent Williamson County Schools, Franklin, Tenn.
Rebecca Sharber's dream classroom would have wireless capability and laptops when age-appropriate. The teacher's computer workstation would allow his laptop to be connected wirelessly to a ceiling-mounted projector in a classroom so that all students could see what's on the computer screen. "I think the [computer] graphics that you can use are much better," she says. "They are more engaging to students. I think students can actually read better what's written by viewing a computer [projection] sometimes than what's written on a blackboard." Sharber also likes document cameras, which allow objects, books or student work to be instantly projected onto a screen without the need for time-consuming transparencies or copying.
Kevin Butler is a contributing writer for DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION.


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After days of being rumored for the role, Oscar nominee Jennifer Lawrence is reportedly set to play heroine Katniss Everdeen in Lionsgate's feature film adaptation of The Hunger Games, based on Suzanne Collins' best-selling lit series.
"Details of the deal were unavailable Wednesday night, but the actress presumably has signed on to stick with the franchise," according to TheWrap.
Lawrence's breakthrough role was in the Oscar-nominated drama Winter's Bone, and she plays Mystique in this summer's X-Men: First Class.
In related news, E! Online reports that Weeds actor Hunter Parrish is in talks to co-star as Peeta Mellark in the adaptation written and directed by Seabiscuit's Gary Ross. "I've met the producers," said Parrish. "I'd be grateful to get the opportunity. Like, really grateful. It would be amazing."
In The Hunger Games, a dystopic Capitol requires its twelve subjugated districts to pay tribute in the form of a teenage boy and girl who are forced to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. When Katniss Everdeen's little sister is chosen in the lottery, Katniss volunteers to take her place. Although persevering through hardship is commonplace for Katniss, she must start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love in order to win the games and return home.


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New bridge over Regent's Canal for pedestrians and cyclists given the green light
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Design: an artist's impression of the new bridge
Plans for a new bridge in the heart of King's Cross, spanning the Regent's Canal, have been approved by Camden Council.
Railway lands developers Argent were given planning permission last week to build the new structure, which will be named Somers Town Bridge.
It will open in spring 2017 and will link Camley Street to what will be known as Gasholder Gardens, in the heart of the King's Cross development.
The new bridge, which will provide a crossing for both cyclists and pedestrians, will be the first to be built in the area for more than a century.


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This is the still life's Miss Three took. I think she's incredible, passionate, feisty, opinionated, free-spirited and intensely creative. I think she's got a great eye for the everyday and home life.
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The 4th annual Meals for Mental Health Event
Friday, October 19, 2018
11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Texas Roadhouse - 5901 S.W. Huntoon, Topeka
Rustle up your coworkers, friends and family - the whole posse! - and join us for FSGC's 4th annual Meals for Mental Health Event, graciously hosted by Texas Roadhouse.
Enjoy a delicious lunch of a 6-oz. sirloin or grilled pork chop with green beans, baked potato and a soft drink. Maybe you'd like the fresh grilled chicken salad and a soft drink instead. And don't forget: All meals come with Texas Roadhouse's legendary rolls and cinnamon butter!
No matter which you choose, you're helping thousands of northeast Kansas children living with ADHD, depression, anxiety and other mental health issues.
Individual tickets are $17 each. We're also pleased to offer ticket discounts for groups of 10 or more, when purchased in the same transaction. For groups of 10-15, tickets are $15 each. For groups of 16 people or more, tickets are $13 each. Just use the ticket order box to the right. Pick your meal time, enter the number of tickets you want and you're all set, partner!
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MetriGear Vector Measures Your Pedal Power
It's not too hard to track your performance on a bicycle. You can use a GPS unit or bicycle computer to track your speed, distance traveled and time out on the bike. However, what you don't get from these devices is a way of measuring the amount of force that you're putting on the pedals.
The MetriGear Vector provides just that data set. Designed to slide inside of the pedal spindle, the device uses 60 individual piezoresistive strain gauges, accelerometers and sensors. The device measures the amount of force that you put on the pedals during the upstrokes and downstrokes and provides a readout of how much power that each leg has put in on the bicycle. The Vector can also provide an estimate of calories burned.
In addition to power, the Vector serves as a cadence sensor. It is an Ant + device and can therefore be integrated easily with Ant + bike computers. It provides an overall accuracy of +/- 1.5% and is powered by a rechargeable battery pack that mounts to the crank.
MetriGear is currently working on the testing and plans to get the Vector out sometime later this year, likely as an Interbike (September) launch. The system will be built into select pedals.


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I own over 50 domain names. The best one is for a Christmas-tree delivery business I haven't quite gotten around to starting: Treelivery.com! (Come on, that's a great name! Once you've heard it, you cannot un-hear it!)
I have them registered at GoDaddy. Sometimes, we need to communicate with GoDaddy by calling them on that old-fashioned device called a telephone.
We weren't just making a point, although that would be completely justified. Our web developer's name is Ximena. (OR MAYBE WE SHOULD JUST CHANGE IT TO TODD DEBEIKIS #30ROCKJOKE).
GoDaddy did take a report from Haley and said they would take care of it.
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I've just received two messages with the same question related to my previous article Create your first ISO image: "Is there a way to create an USB stick with it ?". Short answer is: "Yes, there's script to do it" but if you're still reading you may want more information. Here's what you might do if you want to create a bootable USB stick from your virtual slax build machine.
I'm still referring to my previous article: "Create a custom distro: Create your first ISO image", path and directories are still the same
Take a look at the source !
The creation of a bootable USB stick is not a mess, it's quite simple, if you take a closer look to "bootinst.sh" script located into the /boot directory you might understand what you can do with it but if you're lazy or you want to have more automation you may use the script listed below, I've created it for personal purposes but it's basically a wrapper of bootinst.sh.
Let's keep the same virtual machine, same paths and locations, just place a script in the same dir where you've placed the script for creating the ISO image for CDs (/root/target/).
#!/bin/bash # This script builds an ISO file from the image created BASEPATH=/mnt/sda1/target TARGET=/dev/sdb1 MOUNTPOINT=/mnt/sdb echo "Mounting and formatting the USB Stick" mkdir -p $MOUNTPOINT umount $TARGET 2>/dev/null mkfs.ext2 $TARGET -m 0 # Device not found or not mounted if [[ $? -ne 0 [[; then echo -e "TARGET USB DEVICE NOT FOUND, INSTALLATION FAILED !!" exit fi mount $TARGET $MOUNTPOINT echo -e "Generating `du -kLs image` size" echo "Copying contents into the USB Stick..." cp -Rd $BASEPATH/image/* $MOUNTPOINT/ $MOUNTPOINT/boot/liloinst.sh echo -e "Target disk size" df $TARGET umount $TARGET echo -e "Installation Completed"
This script is very simple but just to be clear here's what it does:
- Create the mount point for your usb stick
- Format the usb stick (ext2 is sufficient but you may use something else)
- Mount your usb drive
- Copy the contents with your new image in it
- Add lilo to make it bootable
In my virtual environment /dev/sda is my primary virtual hard disk, take a look at previous article for path usage, /dev/sdb is what VMWare uses when I connect an USB stick to the virtual machine. Before running this script make some checks in your current system, as you can see it's a batch script to format and wipe sdb internal contents, so you've been warned !
If you're inside my virtual environment you don't need to worry about it
liloinst.sh script is smart enough to understand where it resides and it applies lilo in the MBR of the mounted drive.
There's a lot of space for improvements so if you modify it or automate the script a little bit more just drop me few notes or send me your version and I'll modify and republish it for the community
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Strike 2 for Little Lord Paulson
He's out of Beaverton.
Now what? There's still time for a shared use of PGE Park with portbale bleachers, but that would make too much sense. How about a $100 million stadium in Molalla?
He's out of Beaverton.
Now what? There's still time for a shared use of PGE Park with portbale bleachers, but that would make too much sense. How about a $100 million stadium in Molalla?
Ah, yes -- the "Paris of the West" as one great former Oregon Supreme Court Justice called it.
South Carolina might be a good option.
Memorial Coliseum - Strike 1
Lents - Strike 2
Beaverton - Strike 3
If he's still at the plate, then one of those must have been called a "ball". Which wouldn't be a surprise, given the umping in the WS thus far...
Anywho, Clackamas is next, right? With no light rail, I'm assuming Vancouver's a non-starter...?
If they NOW go for shared use of PGE Park could we get an accounting of the costs to the City of Portland for having explored the other options? Would that cost be precisely the same if Mr. Paulson fell off the edge of Earth today?
Boy, didn't take long after the announcement that a majority of Beaverton council members supported letting the public have a crack at the plan to see the Barefoot Lord tippy toe towards the door. A lesson for everyone in that methinks . . .
Hold onto your shorts,Randy and Pedo Sam need a comeback. Oh! all the construction jobs to be had at the Colosseum/ Rosequarter. Here comes the real circus. Give it to the Tribes and Paul Allen. Let gambling pay for it.It beats propping up a bunch of rundown tavers and video poker shops. Go by streetcar
Next up to the plate, Clackamas County, then Clark, then Yamhill, then Marion...good luck! hahahaha
One lesson that will hopefully be learned from all of this is that PGE Park, due to its inherent design and space limitations, is only suitable for events drawing no more than 50% of its listed capacity. So, minor league baseball will continue to work there just fine, but MLS matches expected to draw crowds at or near capacity will never work, even with the renovations being planned. So, leave the Beavers in PGE Park, and build a brand new, soccer-specific stadium that can meet Major League Soccer standards for restrooms, seating, and food concession stands, at some other location, like Cascade Station.
Hillsboro, anyone? Trick or treat.
I agree with Peter:
Build a soccer-specific stadium at some other location like Cascade Station. Oh, and with PRIVATE money, not taxpayer money.
Poor LLP....looser-ville; population 1; Henry III.
What will he tell his papa?
Turns out the apple DOES fall FAR from the tree!
So, leave the Beavers in PGE Park, and build a brand new, soccer-specific stadium that can meet Major League Soccer standards for restrooms, seating, and food concession stands, at some other location, like Cascade Station.
Absolutely. But let Paulson pay for it. No taxpayer money.
Sell the Beavers....Its clear the market for them is weak at best. Open it up to the highest bidder.
He's "pursuing other options"? Is that like when an incompetent CEOs leave "to pursue other opportunities" in lieu of serious jail time?
He's just playing hard to get.
Boardman's looking better and better.
I'm a little worried that the only remotely attainable "other opportunity" for Merritt may be back in Portland.
Why can't Hillsboro Stadium, with additional seating, work for soccer matches? Might be a bit shy on parking, but could always run shuttles from the nearest Max station. Oh, wait - that might make sense, but not cents.
Is Don Mazziotti is out of a job, or was there some legitimate reason that Beaverton hired him other than to shepherd the stadium deal through?
Mayor Doyle will have to look for some other boongdoggle to play big shot developer with the public's money.
Memorial Coliseum - Strike 1
Lents - Strike 2
Beaverton - Strike 3
Beaverton is a foul tip.
So the little lord is pulling up stakes because Beaverton isn't moving fast enough. He can't seriously believe that ANY deal can be made and ANY stadium built or made ready for play by 2011.
It's ludicrous.
Three years ago this month:
"Ballpark plans strike out, but some hold hope
Financier Paulson says Petaluma still 'fabulous location' for baseball; city officials express hope for future team somewhere nearby...
"I feel as strongly today as I ever have that Petaluma is a fabulous location for minor league baseball," said Merritt Paulson..."
Merritt is going from one town to the next, reading the same script.
Maybe LLP can try to swindle Salem or wait, if he's trying that Beavers connection, there's always Corvallis. Go South con man.
[Mayor Doyle said] I believe that we're poised to take the next steps in the effort to create a healthy, sustainable long-term economic base for our city."
There are two possible meanings for this tidbit:
(1) A baseball stadium is part of a healthy, sustainable, long-term economic base.
(2) A baseball stadium is not part of a healthy sustainable, long-term economic base.
Consider that for a moment.
If #1 is true, the Mayor might be even dumber than people imagine.
If #2 is true, then it means that a baseball stadium isn't healthy, or sustainable, or a long-term economic benefit--and so the deal the Mayor's been trying to make is nonsensical.


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MARYVILLE, Mo. - The Northwest Missouri State Clay Club will host its second annual Empty Bowls fundraiser from 6 to 9 p.m. Feb. 26 in The Station, located on the Northwest campus.
The annual event raises awareness for hunger in the Maryville community, and all proceeds are donated to the Ministry Center Food Pantry. Last year's event raised more than $1,800.
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In this lab you will be writing a dynamic storage allocator for C programs, i.e., your own version of the malloc, free, and realloc routines. You are encouraged to explore the design space creatively and implement an allocator that is correct, efficient and fast.
You may work in a group of up to two people. Any clarifications and revisions to the assignment will be posted to Blackboard.
Start by copying /u/cs252/labs14/lab6/malloclab-handout.tar to a protected directory in which you plan to do your work. (You can also download it here.) Then give the command:
tar xvf malloclab-handout.tarThis will cause a bunch of files to be unpacked into the directory. The only file you will be modifying and handing in is mm.c.
The mdriver.c program is a driver program that allows you to evaluate the performance of your solution. Use the command make to generate the driver code and run it with the command ./mdriver –V. (The –V flag displays helpful summary information.)
Looking at the file mm.c you'll notice a C structure team into which you should insert the requested identifying information about the one or two individuals comprising your programming team. Do this right away so you don't forget.
When you have completed the lab, you will hand in only one file (mm.c), which contains your solution.
WARNING: If you look, you can find solutions to this assignment on the web. So can we. Before you go looking, please review the (recently updated and clarified) course rules on academic honesty. If you would never think of cheating, please accept my apologies for including this note in the assignment. If you're temped, please note that copied code has a very good chance of being noticed, at which point you will find yourself before a hearing of the College Board on Academic Honesty. The typical penalty for a first infraction is a zero on the assignment plus an additional reduction in the end-of-semester grade. The typical penalty for a second infraction is academic suspension.
Your dynamic storage allocator will consist of the following four functions, which are declared in mm.h and defined in mm.c.
int mm_init(void);
void *mm_malloc(size_t size);
void mm_free(void *ptr);
void *mm_realloc(void *ptr, size_t size);
The mm.c file we have given you implements the simplest but still functionally correct malloc package that we could think of. Using this as a starting place, modify these functions (and possibly define other private static functions), so that they obey the following semantics:
We will compare your implementation to the version of malloc supplied in the standard C library (libc). Since the libc malloc always returns payload pointers that are aligned to an 8 byte boundary, your malloc implementation should do likewise.
The contents of the new block are the same as those of the old block, up to the minimum of the old and new sizes. Everything else is uninitialized. For example, if the old block is 8 bytes and the new block is 12 bytes, then the first 8 bytes of the new block are identical to the first 8 bytes of the old block and the last 4 bytes are uninitialized (garbage). Similarly, if the old block is 8 bytes and the new block is 4 bytes, then the contents of the new block are identical to the first 4 bytes of the old block.
Dynamic memory allocators are notoriously tricky beasts to program correctly and efficiently. They are difficult to program correctly because they involve a lot of untyped pointer manipulation. You will find it very helpful to write a heap checker that scans the heap and checks it for consistency.
Some examples of what a heap checker might check are:
Your heap checker will consist of the function int mm_check(void) in mm.c. It will check any invariants or consistency conditions you consider prudent. It returns a nonzero value if and only if your heap is consistent. You are not limited to the listed suggestions nor are you required to check all of them. You are encouraged to print out error messages when mm_check fails.
This consistency checker is for your own debugging during development. When you submit mm.c, make sure to remove any calls to mm_check as they will slow down your throughput. Style points will be given for your mm_check function. Make sure to put in comments and document what you are checking.
The memlib.c package simulates the OS portion of the memory system for your dynamic memory allocator. You can invoke the following functions in memlib.c:
-1 on an allocation
error, mem_sbrk returns
The driver program mdriver.c in the malloclab-handout.tar distribution tests your mm.c package for correctness, space utilization, and throughput. The driver program is controlled by a set of trace files. Some small traces are included in the malloclab-handout.tar distribution. The larger traces that we will test your file with are located at /u/cs252/labs14/malloctraces/. These larger traces are automatically run if you execute mdriver without a -f argument. Each trace file contains a sequence of allocate, reallocate, and free directions that instruct the driver to call your mm_malloc, mm_realloc, and mm_free routines in some sequence.
The driver mdriver.c accepts the following command line arguments:
The driver program summarizes the performance of your allocator by computing a performance index, P, which is a weighted sum of the space utilization and throughput
P = wU + (1−w) min (1, T / Tlibc)
where U is your space utilization, T is your throughput, and Tlibc is the estimated throughput of libc malloc on your system on the default traces. (The value for Tlibc is a constant in the driver (4000 Kops/s) that the TA established when he configured the release). The performance index favors space utilization over throughput, with a default of w = 0.6.
Observing that both memory and CPU cycles are expensive system resources, we adopt this formula to encourage balanced optimization of both memory utilization and throughput. Ideally, the performance index will reach P = w + (1−w) = 1 or 100%. Since each metric will contribute at most w and 1−w to the performance index, respectively, you should not go to extremes to optimize either the memory utilization or the throughput only. To receive a good score, you must achieve a balance between utilization and throughput.
You will be awarded 5 points for a good heap consistency checker and 5 points for good program structure and comments.
Before 11am on Thursday, April 17, send email to containing answers to the following questions (a single email per team is acceptable). Please use the subject
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[cs252] Assignment 7 Trivia - uname1, uname2
mdriver -V -f short2-bal.rep
The "trivia" assignment will be submitted via email. The main assignment will be submitted using the script /u/cs252/bin/TURN_IN.
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(AP) LONDON - Hardly dreamy, still dominant.
Kevin Durant scored 22 points, LeBron James added eight assists and the U.S. Olympic men's basketball team opened tournament play with a rough-and-ragged 98-71 win over France on Sunday.
Seeking a second straight gold medal to match the one they won in Beijing four years ago, the Americans expected a tough test from a French team featuring San Antonio guard Tony Parker and five other NBA players.
The U.S. was never in real trouble, and after overcoming some major foul issues and sloppy play, the superstar-laden squad finally put France away in the second half.
Kobe Bryant had said this team could beat the 1992 Dream Team that changed international hoops forever at the Barcelona Games. That matchup is mythical, but the London Games aren't and this U.S. team will have to play much better in upcoming games if it plans to maintain American dominance.
Parker didn't want to concede anything, but when asked if the Americans can be beat, he took a contemplative pause before responding.
"They're going to be very, very tough to beat," Parker said.
With first lady Michelle Obama on hand to cheer on the U.S., Durant, Carmelo Anthony and Tyson Chandler added nine rebounds apiece and Kevin Love finished with 14 points for the Americans. The U.S. will next play Tuesday against Tunisia, beaten 60-56 by Nigeria in the tournament opener.
As they left the floor, the U.S. players stopped to hug the first lady.
U.S. skeet shooter Kimberly Rhode wins gold
Royal Zara Phillips makes Olympic equestrian debut
Lochte wins 400 IM final for first U.S. gold
Olympics: U.S. women's basketball team tops Croatia
Parker, playing with goggles to protect a surgically repaired left eye, scored 10 points but France, which trailed by just one point after the first quarter, fell to 0-5 in Olympic competition against the USA. Ali Traore led the French with 12 points.
With the U.S. leading 52-36 at halftime, Durant opened the second half with a 3-pointer, Bryant dropped one from long range and after James dunked an alley-oop pass from Deron Williams, the Americans led 64-43.
Au revoir, France.
The U.S. team's lead ballooned to 78-51 after three quarters, allowing coach Mike Krzyzewski to rest Bryant, James and Durant for most of the fourth quarter. With the game well in hand, Krzyzewski even gave 19-year-old Anthony Davis, the top pick in June's NBA draft, his first taste of Olympic play.
Unlike his peers, Krzyzewski has the luxury of a deep bench and he was forced to go it early and often in the first half, when the Americans racked up fouls.


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- Wild MSS
- Colección
- 1842-mid 1840s
Two portfolios containing drawings and plans, and three illustrated notebooks.
Wild, James William
19 resultados con objetos digitales Muestra los resultados con objetos digitales
Two portfolios containing drawings and plans, and three illustrated notebooks.
Wild, James William
James Teackle Dennis Collection
Some 250 facsimile copies of graffiti and ostraca found by E. Naville at Deir el-Bahri, probably mostly in the Hathor-cow Chapel, in 1906-7.
Dennis, James Teackle
James Henry Breasted Nubian Photographs Collection
Photographs of Nubian Temples made during Breasted's expedition, 1905-6. Photostats of temple plans annotated with Chicago, Oriental Institute photograph numbers.
Breasted, James Henry
James Burton Photographs Collection
9 mounted photographs made from drawings of el-Kâb, Philae, and Amada.
Burton, James
Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards Collection
Notes, notebooks, photographs, negatives, proofs, transparencies, xeroxes, and correspondence.
Edwards, Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen
Hilda Mary Isabel Petrie Collection
Two albums. One labelled 'Scraps', which contains mainly photographs, only one of which shows Egypt (Pyramids and Great Sphinx at Gîza); the rest are British churches and historic buildings. The other album is labelled 'Post Card Al...
Petrie, (Lady) Hilda Mary Isabel
Heathcote Negatives Collection
Negatives of Egyptian antiquities, scenes of daily life, and landscapes.
Heathcote, Reginald St. Alban
Harry Burton Negatives Collection
Photographic records made during the excavation of the Tomb of Tutankhamun, consisting of approximately 1400 black and white glass negatives. 10 albums of original prints made from these negatives for Carter, and original prints made for and kept ...
Burton, Harry
Drawings (by Winifred M. Brunton), letters, and working notes for a publication on button seals.Negatives taken during the Matmar excavations in 1928-30.Card index created 1958.
Brunton, Guy
Griffith Institute Casts Collection
Plaster casts of objects in Edinburgh, Royal Museum of Scotland, 1956.144 (lower part of block statue of Pedehor, Late Period), and 1961.439 (stela of Anakht, New Kingdom); Reading, The Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology (copper mirror of Henuiti (wo...
Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
Two albums containing approximately 460 black and white photographs taken by various members of the IFAO team during excavations at Deir el-Medîna during the 1920s and 30s. Photographs interspersed with some notes and drawings.
Nagel, Georges
Visitor's book of the G. Foucart family, Cairo, for 1925 to 1948.
Foucart, Georges
1) Black and white photographs of objects in various Italian museums, including Bologna, Museo Civico Archeologico, Florence, Museo Archeologico (complete set), and Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale.2) Two black and white photographs of views o...
Fratelli Alinari
Notes and related correspondence concerning a prepared monograph on organic materials from the tomb of Tutankhamun. Two photographs showing F. F. Leek.
Leek, Frank Filce
107 postcards collected in Egypt between 1900-1906 by Miss E. Blyth (objects in Cairo Museum, sites, Cairo views, and Nile views) and 1 postcard of Bethlehem in Palestine.
Blyth, Evelyn
Eugène Victor Dévaud Collection
A card index for a Coptic etymological dictionary and notes on Coptic etymologies (apparently not published).
Dévaud, Eugène Victor
Elise Jenny Baumgartel Collection
1) Two typescripts with pages from the published edition, and handwritten notes and editing marks, together with a small box of glass negatives of plates marked 'Plates for Part 2'. Both entitled ''Egypt's Beginnings'...
Baumgartel, Elise Jenny
Notes on some objects in the Nicholson Museum, Sydney.
O'Connor, David B.
Chicago, Oriental Institute Photographs Collection
Black and white photographs of TT55, Qurna (Temple of Sethos I), Deir el-Shelwît (Temple of Isis), and Luxor Temple. Photographs taken by the University of Chicago, Oriental Institute Epigraphic Survey, Luxor, Egypt. See https://oi.uchicago.edu/re...
Chicago, Oriental Institute
Charles Gordon Jelf Collection
1 notebook containing notes on work in Theban tombs, financed by Sir Robert Mond, 1909-10.
Jelf, Charles Gordon
Charles Gabriel Gleyre Drawings Collection
34 black and white photographs of Gleyre's drawings.
Gleyre, (Marc) Charles Gabriel
Photographs of objects in museums and of sites, material collected for projected articles, notebooks, notes and articles on hieratic ostraca, and notes on Coptic grammar.
Grdseloff, Bernhard
Berlin Academy Photographs Collection
Photographs of Abû Simbel, Amâda, Bîga, Dâbôd, el-Dakka, Dendûr, Edfu, Gammai, Gebel Addala, Kalâbsha, Konosso, el-Maarraqa, "Meschek", Philae, Qar Ibrîm, Saqqâra, el-Sebua, and Tâfa (Gardiner MSS 9, 12, and 14). Photographs of foreigner...
Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin
Battiscombe George Gunn Collection
Notebooks, notes, articles (some unpublished), lecture notes, photographs, correspondence, squeezes, drawings, tracings, and casts.
Gunn, Battiscombe George
Arthur Cruttenden Mace Collection
(1) Excavation journals for 1899-1901 (working with W. M. F. Petrie) and 1901-2 (working with G. A. Reisner).(2) Mace's account of the opening of the burial chamber of Tutankhamun - typewritten version (TAA iv.1). Diary for 1922-3 (TAA iv.2)....
Mace, Arthur Cruttenden
Amice Mary Calverley Collection
Over one thousand colour slides, several hundred black and white photographs, and correspondence.
Calverley, Amice Mary
Notebook on 'Archaeology, Register of samples, and analyses. Tutankhamen and others.' (TAA i.2.11). Notebook on 'Examination of Materials: (a) Tutankhamen. (b) Various.' (TAA i.2.12).
Lucas, Alfred
Alexander Colvin Ainslie Collection
Album of drawings and watercolour sketches made in Italy, Greece, Egypt, Syria, and Palestine in 1853.
Ainslie, (Revd) Alexander Colvin
1 folder containing unsorted notes.
Dakin, Alec Naylor
Alan Henderson Gardiner Collection
Notebooks, notes, card indexes of the Pyramid Texts and Late Egyptian, copies of inscriptions, corpus of transcribed hieratic ostraca and papyri, photographs, drawings, correspondence, copies of his own publications, and portraits.
Gardiner, (Sir) Alan Henderson


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Colorado Interstate Gas Company
First Revised Volume No. 1
Contents / Previous / Next / Main Tariff Index
Effective Date: 06/01/2010, Docket: RP10-689-000, Status: Effective
Twentieth Revised Sheet No. 240 Twentieth Revised Sheet No. 240
Superseding: Nineteenth Revised Sheet No. 240
1.118 "Withdrawal Period" refers to the period commencing on October 1 of
each year and ending on April 30 of the next year for CIG Mainline
Storage; the period commencing on November 1 of each year and ending
on May 31 of the next succeeding year for Young Storage; and the
period commencing on November 1 of each year and ending on May 31 of
the next succeeding year for Totem Storage.
1.119 "Withdrawal Quantity" is that quantity of Gas Delivered from storage
by Transporter for Shipper's account.
1.120 "Wyoming System" shall mean Transporter's facilities in Colorado,
Wyoming and Utah which are connected to Transporter's Cheyenne
Compressor Station from the west. The Cheyenne Compressor Station is
included in the Wyoming System.
1.120 "Young" or "Young Storage" shall mean the capacity acquired by
Transporter at the storage facilities located in Morgan County,
Colorado and operated by Young Gas Storage Company, Ltd.


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Blue Carbon: Linking Climate Change to Coastal Wetland Restoration and Conservation (Dr. Brian Needelman)
Professor Brian Needelman has been researching how coastal wetland restoration and conservation can be used to help reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Coastal wetlands- which include salt marsh, seagrass, mangroves and other tidal wetlands- are some of the most productive habitats in the world. In addition to providing critical fish habitat, improving water quality, and protecting the coastline from storms, coastal wetlands also remove large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through photosynthesis. This carbon- referred to as "blue carbon"- is then stored in wetland soils, where it can remain for centuries or more, as long as the habitat is not degraded or destroyed.
Using Plants to Monitor the Health of the Environment (Dr. Wendy Peer)
As the climate is changing with warmer winters, cooler summers, and
Green Infrastructure and Ecosystem Services in Cities (Dr. Mitch Pavao-Zuckerman)
Urban growth generates many environmental challenges on ecology, hydrology, and human health, including storm water runoff, water quality, flooding, urban heat island effects, increased air pollution, and habitat loss. These impacts occur against a broader backdrop of resource limitation, sustainability, and resilience challenges. The growth and health of cities thus requires a continuing investment in infrastructure and will ultimately require new holistic strategies technological, social, and political - to adapt growing cities to these environmental challenges. Dr. Mitch Pavao-Zuckerman has a green infrastructure research and outreach program that focuses on ecological processes, decision-making, design, and planning in cities
Green Infrastructure and Ecosystem Services in Cities (Dr. Patrick Kangas)
Water, the world's most precious resource, will soon get a breath of fresh life thanks to graduate student David Blersch's research into wastewater treatment methods. An ecological engineering graduate student in the Department of Environmental Science and Technology (ENST), David is designing a new computerbased system that will treat wastewater via an algal turf scrubber treatment. The fi rst system to operate autonomously without human interference, the algal turf scrubber, promises to cut operational expenses of water treatment - and strip pollutants and harmful nutrients from water.
Human Modification and Mosquito Invasions: Linking Ecosystem and Human Health (Dr. Paul Leisnham)
Professor Paul Leisnham, a native New Zealander or 'Kiwi', brings his latest research on mosquitoes and human health from 'down under' to Maryland. Human-induced environmental changes, such as land use modifi cation and climate change, have been linked to the reemergence of major diseases carried by mosquitoes, and offer classic examples of how disrupted ecosystems adversely affect human health.
Thermal, Hydrological, and Growth Properties of Green Wall Designs (Dr. David Tilley)
Covering building exteriors with vegetation has increased in popularity due in part to a desire to conserve energy and improve the environmental performance of buildings.
Low-cost Anaerobic Digesters (Dr. Stephanie Lansing)
Professor Stephanie Lansing researches lower-cost anaerobic digesters and co-digestion substrates to enhance the benefits of digestion technology, thereby, increasing the value of waste materials, such as domestic wastewater, manure, and food waste. Benefits of anaerobic digestion technology include renewable energy production, fertilizer creation, and sharp reductions in wastewater pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and noxious odors.
Urban White-tailed Deer and Ticks: Movements, Densities,
Dr. Jennifer L. Murrow, wildlife ecology lecturer and advisor, is a spatial ecologist that studies animal habitat use, preferences, and movements across landscapes. She has over 10 years' experience modeling ungulate and bear movements and habitat use in the eastern United States.
New Multi-Purpose Cover Crop to Enhance Environmental Quality (Dr. Ray Weil)
Professor Ray Weil and his team of graduate and undergraduate research assistants have been studying how an Asian vegetable used by no-till farmers in Brazil can help solve some of Maryland's most vexing environmental problems.
Bats and the City (Lecturer Shannon Pederson)
Bats in North America provide a valuable ecosystem service of limiting insect populations, which wreak havoc on agricultural crops and spread disease. Unfortunately, bats in the eastern and midwestern portion of the United States and Canada are threatened by disease. White Nose Syndrome (WNS), caused by the fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans, decimated populations in New York starting in 2006 and has radiated across the United States and Canada. An Associate Wildlife Biologist and Lecturer, Shannon Pederson is studying urbanization's impacts on bats in the White-Nose Syndrome Positive states of Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware.
Soil Judging - Perfected at the University of Maryland
Hapludult, redoximorphic feature, lithologic discontinuity – while these terms for soil sound foreign to most, a talented team of University of Maryland students know them well. In fact, the students, members of UM's Soil Judging Team, can describe, characterize, classify, and interpret a soil in 60 minutes.
Agricultural Nutrient Management Program (Trish Steinhilber)
The University of Maryland Extension's (UME) Agricultural Nutrient Management Program (ANMP), which is funded by the Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA), focuses on reducing pollution in the Chesapeake Bay from plant nutrients applied to cropland.
Environmental Fate and Effects of Pollutants (Dr. Daniel Fisher & Dr. Lance Yonkos)
Professors Daniel Fisher and Lance Yonkos have been studying the environmental fate and effects of reproductive steroids and antibiotics found in poultry litter and biosolids used as fertilizer for crops on the Delmarva Peninsula of Maryland. They have also been studying the effects of different tillage practices on surface runoff from these amended fields.
Ecosystem Services: Their Value, Markets and Payments (Dr. Bob Tjaden)
Have you ever considered that the cereal you eat is brought to you each morning by the wind, or that the glass of clear, cold, clean water drawn from your faucet may have been purified for you by a wetland or perhaps the root system of an entire forest? Trees in your front yard work to trap dust, dirt, and harmful gases from the air you breathe. Ecosystem services, the processes by which the environment produces resources, are little understood and too sophisticated to reproduce even with the most advanced technology. Extension Specialist Dr. Bob Tjaden has a research and educational interest in natural resource management and policy, with a special emphasis on forest and wildlife management, forest tax policy, environmental policy, and ecosystem services.
Tropical River Ecology & Sustainable Development (Dr. Patrick Kangas)
Research on tropical ecology and resource management has been conducted on a river in central Belize for nearly 20 years. An important focus for the work has been a travel-study course in which University of Maryland students visit Belize either over spring break or during the summer months. The course is taught by Dr. Patrick Kangas, an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Technology.
Composting is becoming the method of choice for converting organic waste into a marketable product. If horticultural industries and home gardeners are to accept commercial compost as they do fertilizers, processed animal manures, and peatmoss, it must be produced under controlled conditions employing methods deemed acceptable by the industry.
Professor William Bowerman has been working with bald eagles and other birds of prey, for over 27 years. He brings his experience with water quality monitoring and effects of climate change on wildlife from the Great Lakes to the Chesapeake Bay.


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I have created a 48-videos, 3+ hours online course called 'Learn To Love More' which you can do by yourself, in your own time. Already more than 2,400 students, recent reviews averaging 4.9 out of max. 5 stars.
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The purpose of New Living
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For many people, the easiest way to do this is to open their heart and show the love which is naturally there.
So, I invite you to view this video of a meditation which I wrote and narrated for The Love Foundation, a Florida, U.S.- based not-for-profit of which I'm a board member. The meditation says all we need to know, I feel.
And I invite you to look through the rest of the New Living website.
Interview on the 'Just LOVE' Radio Show
What's new at New Living
I created a Facebook page for New Living which you can see here.
I started a Blog to post my own articles and news of interest, and invite discussion.
I published the online video course 'Learn To Love More' (see above on this page) on July 10th 2015.
New Living videos are meditations and radio interviews in which I discussed what I believed really happened on December 21st 2012, the date which the press and media called "the end of the world" date. It is, to my mind, the marker date for the beginning of New Living in the Golden Age which I have been working to understand for all of us to understand and enjoy.


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Be First and Be Prepared to be Different: In the equine industry, those EasyCare Dealers who are always first with the newest and most advanced hoof protective technologies always make an impact and the best impression on their customers. This was particularly interesting to me during the release of our new EasyShoes.
I had dealers calling, leaving messages and calling back before I could get back to them to pre-order the new EasyShoes. However, I also had dealers that wanted to sit back and "wait to see" what happens. They, obviously, will have a lot less impact on their customers and could possibly lose sales for lack of stock.
But you're only going to make something of that great first impression if you're smart enough to understand the needs of your customers. To do this you need to do your research. EasyCare provides literature and videos to educate you and your staff. But, you also have to have a clear understanding of your own differentiators and the impact they can have on your customers. Even if your store is in a highly competitive area, there is always something that should differentiate your tack shop from others.
How can you differentiate yourself from the other tack shops, feed stores or on-line ordering? Yes, price is important, but it certainly isn't the only thing that will sway a customer to purchase. What else have you got to offer? How can you really help your customer? Are you offering the newest, most advanced products in hoof protection? Can you show them good, reliable customer service? Can you offer hoof boot fittings? Can you offer minor hoof boot repair? Can you offer EasyShoe or Glue-On clinics? Your added value is starting to emerge and this can differentiate your tack shop from your competitor.
Get to know your competition: To help refine your differentiators, it's useful to know what your competitor's differentiators are, too. Not only the other store in the next town over, but the on-line shopping sites as well. Get to know their strengths and weaknesses. The latter is important because you can define your differentiators accordingly and step up your game in these areas. I have dealers that are in the same vicinity that actually work together for the good of the customer. One dealer will only sell hoof boots, while the other specializes in E-Z Ride Stirrups, Stowaway Packs and HiTies.
Have integrity: No one trusts a business that bad-mouths the competition. Stay true to your business values. Selling is a tough business, but a business owner with integrity is a huge differentiator and that goes a long way in creating a good customer service experience.
Find out which differentiators matter to your customers: Your customers play an important role in helping you further refine your differentiators and focus on the ones that matter to them. Step outside your business and listen to your customers' needs and fine-tune your marketing messages. Focus on differentiators that really matter to your customers.
Roll your differentiators into your marketing message: To help ensure your differentiators are well-defined and ingrained across your entire sales and marketing operation (including your staff), it's important to develop a messaging platform and stick to it.
Most of all, make this about the Customer: A good sales person has the skill to let the customer do most of the talking. Have your sales people follow the 80/20 rule (80 percent listening, 20 percent talking). Instead of rushing through their pitch telling the customer which hoof boot is their (personal) favorite and trying to convince the customer accordingly, train your sales people to let your customer talk. They need to listen and understand the customer's needs and identify which hoof boot style can address that customer's needs and then outline the features and benefits. A very good salesperson will go the next step and look for needs that the customer hasn't even raised. The more you can get the customer to think about needs they hadn't previously recognized, the more likely you are to earn their trust and loyalty to your store. This will differentiate your staff of experienced sales people from the kids that are working at the other feed store in the next town or an on-line order.
EasyCare offers training for you and your staff, at your convenience. Training is done by phone and usually takes about 30 minutes of your time. Please call for an appointment.
Dee Reiter
Retail Account Rep
I am the Retail and New Dealer Account Rep for EasyCare. I will be happy to help you with ordering, selecting the most popular styles and sizes of EasyCare hoof boots to stock. Let me help you with suggestions on merchandising and provide training for you and your staff, at your convenience.


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Discussion in 'BlackHat Lounge' started by facebookdude, Jan 27, 2011.
yup, jailbait,
way too young bro.
they look 16, maybe
16 my ass, more like 14
op if your a teenager fine but if your not get a life!
I agree, look past the make up.
Dude, I think you have (or will have) a problem.
Okay, I know I'm the old fuck here but WHAT THE HELL???? How old is the op....12???
I'm sure their parents will be thrilled to see them on "Girls Gone Wild 2017"
19 - but still... :-|
reminds me of something bill maher said:
"Ladies we don't care if your tits are BIG. We mostly just care if they're YOUNG."
lol I'm 19 but dam. They are fine as helllll. I reckon they'd be 17
Sexualisation in this way is terrible. What has the world come to. Women just dream of being celebrity sluts.
This is why there are no real women left. They habor stupid slut dreams from their teenage years.
edit: check out the thumbed up comments. They are hilarious, as usual for Youtube
btw it says they are doing GCSE so this means 14-16 I think
Let us know how that works out for you when you tell that to the judge, m'kay
@OP, those girls aren't more than 14 yrs old.
LOL on her profile it says she is 20. The video was added in 2008. Therefore they were 17 when the video was made!
That's right, because everything you read on the internet is true (so, again, tell us how that flies with the judge). OK I'll come clean, I am one of the girls in the video. Actually, no, I am BOTH of the girls in the video. And I *am* 12. There you have it. You read it right here, so it must be true.
If the girl is saying she was 17 I think that would fly with the judge? It;s not someone else sayign she's 17 lol. Man you guys are taking this serious. Just chill
Old enough to bleed, old enough to be butchered.
Yo..with so much fine ass booty dancing in YT..
This is hot?
oh shit...more like funny..
I don't mind saggy tits; Just they got the same length...
But come on guys they too young on that video...
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