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We all live on the same planet, but we experience different worlds.
Some farmers might understand climate change as short-term weather change, while others perceive shifting rainfall and temperature patterns across decades. Some climate modeling scientists see climate change as interlocking cause-and-effect chains. Others understand that beyond computer models, culture also influences climate change. One point that seems increasingly certain, nonetheless: These differences do not emerge from just differing levels of climate knowledge, they emerge from different worldviews.
By understanding that people with different worldviews actually construct different mental images of how climate change and the world work, climate change communicators can better craft their messages. And climate change activists, by meeting people "where they are," can better help them build climate solutions.
That people understand different worlds is not a new idea. When psychologist Jean Piaget noticed that younger children systematically made mistakes that older children did not, he suspected that children actually operate at different cognitive levels as they mature. Piaget, for example, concluded that before seven years of age, children tend to believe that if they feel hunger, so too does everyone feel hunger. After age seven, however, they realize that others have their own points of view. Through such observations Piaget defined four stages of cognitive development. Other researchers have since mapped additional developmental stages for emotions, morality, ego, sexuality, spirituality, and more.
Although most people recognize that humans stop growing physically around age 20, they often do not realize that people can continue to grow cognitively, passing through later stages, possibly for the rest of their lives. People at different stages then may have different, even conflicting, understandings of climate change and the world.
STAGES and worldviews
University of Oslo Ph.D. student Gail Hochachka has been investigating the role of developmental psychology on climate change understanding. For her dissertation work, she applied the STAGES Matrix of ego development to show that as people mature, they view reality – climate change in particular – very differently.
She teamed up with psychologist Terri O'Fallon, who developed STAGES based on earlier cognitive development models. O'Fallon's work defines 12 stages across three tiers – called concrete, subtle, and metaware, each consisting of several stages. People at earlier stages think in concrete terms. At the subtle stages they add abstract thinking, and at the later stages people can think about awareness itself. O'Fallon is one of numerous researchers who have studied this developmental unfolding of worldviews, and her stages map accordingly onto worldviews more commonly called traditional, modern, postmodern, and integral (see table).
Summary of the Four Principal Worldviews and How They See Climate Change
|How Climate Change Works
|Possible Themes
|Perspective: Second person (other)
Objects: Concrete
Thought: Bits and pieces locally relevant
Time: Now and recent past
|Seen as local weather causing personal effects ("my well is dry," "I can't plant beans on time") caused by forces beyond control, such as fate or God
|Change local behaviors for example to improve drainage so increased rains don't destroy crops. Prefer what makes their lives better.
|God has sent these drastic weather changes to test our faith and responsibility in caring for and responsibly stewarding His glorious creation.
|Perspective: Third person (objective)
Object: Concrete and abstract
Thought: Cause and effect chains, logical, scientific, abstract thoughts
Time: Generations past and future
|The result of interlocking cause-and-effect chains such as pollution, poorly applied technologies (fossil fuels, internal combustion engines, intensive agriculture), inept government policies, and market failures.
|New technologies (renewable energies, sustainable forestry, LEED-certified buildings) and ways of operating institutionally (federal incentive programs, EPA) and individually (retraining). Prefer quantitative evidence of problems and solutions.
|Climate change is a logical consequence of rapid human socio-technological advancement since the Industrial Revolution, and it can be solved through technical innovation, ingenuity, and geoengineering.
|Perspective: Fourth person (early)
Objects: Awareness itself
Thought: Systems, contextually sensitive, non-hierarchical models
Time: Distant past and distant future, evolutionary time
|Caused by inappropriate human values (i.e., Modernist) driving place-based poor decisions that add up to global systemic problems. Problem also tied to environmental and social injustices which must be addressed for an equitable solution.
|Redefine humanity's relationship to nature and change systems and ways people think in a complex economic, environmental, social system; includes earlier solutions as part of the integrated package. Prefer qualitative changes of heart and wellbeing.
|Human-induced climate change reflects the imbalance between those privileged few and the rest of humanity and nature seen as provoked by capitalism, greed, injustice, and environmental disregard.
|Perspective: Fourth person (late)
Objects: Own and others' awareness
Thoughts: Abstract plus how we create reality through cultural and development lenses, reflect on own projections
Time: All time, infinity, timelessness
|Climate change is a social invention fed by different worldviews. It combines biophysical, social, economic, and psychological elements.
|All previous solutions plus helping people progress in their consciousness seeking tipping points in global awareness and participation. Prefer to see new and improved developmental processes evolve.
|Anthropogenic climate change includes and transcends physical dimensions, demanding humanity's collective action, cultural evolution, and spiritual ascension.
Hochachka applied STAGES to climate change understanding in rural communities in El Salvador using a technique called photo voice. For this method she asked community members to take pictures that answered the following questions: "What is climate change to me? What are the impacts of climate change for me and my community? How am I adapting?"
They chose their most significant photos and then interpreted them in individual one-hour recorded interviews. The group then conducted a pattern-finding exercise with the photos and grouped them into 27 photos that best reflected the communities' shared response to the questions.
The STAGES methodology normally uses a statistically robust sentence completion test. The interviewer provides a partial sentence, which the participant completes. Researchers score responses across three criteria that indicate the stage the participant's response best represents:
Complexity of thought. At the traditional worldview (concrete), people think in bits and pieces of ideas that do not form coherent systems. Instead of climate change, people notice local weather change, that the well ran dry, or that forests burn. At the modern worldview (concrete and abstract), they visualize linear cause-and-effect relationships in systems. At the postmodern stage, their climate change understanding is more contextual, place-based, multigenerational, and cultural. At the integral worldview, thinkers understand that we create reality with our thoughts.
Scope of time. Traditionalists think in the present moment and recent past. Modernists think about the distant past and future. At later postmodern and integral worldviews, people think across generations, understand evolutionary time all the way back to the Big Bang, and even timelessness itself.
Object awareness. Traditionalists are aware of physical objects such as rain and storms while modernist thinkers may consider abstract ideas such as rainfall patterns and the destabilization of the polar jet stream. Later, postmodernists and integralists are aware of the effects of culture, worldviews, and eventually awareness itself. As object awareness increases, people "see" more of climate change.
Together these criteria locate a person's responses along the STAGES matrix. For the El Salvador project, Hochachka used a modified version of the methodology to analyze responses without needing partial sentences. Hochachka found that even in small seemingly homogenous towns in rural El Salvador, responses ranged almost evenly across the first three worldviews described above. She reflects on the diversity or plasticity of community climate change views that she found: "The main finding from this analysis is that a developmental approach can help to make sense of why there is such plasticity of meanings about climate change." Global Environmental Change published her results in 2019.
Importance of developmental psychology for climate change communication
Researchers often apply social psychology to climate change, most notably to classify people's related beliefs and attitudes. The leading example: The Yale Program on Climate Change Communication's Six Americas model,* for example, groups Americans into six different concern levels. Beyond answering the what/how/why of people's beliefs about climate change, the Yale group's additional research addresses issues ranging from cognitive processing, affect and emotion to social norms, political identity and ideology, values and worldviews, and impacts of media coverage.
Fallon says that developmental psychology also can contribute to that greater understanding of what people believe, how they construct meaning, and why they do so at different levels. Referring to Hochachka's work with STAGES in which she constructed an inventory of participant beliefs, O'Fallon observes, "When you collect the viewpoints of many different participants who take this inventory you can begin to see the patterns of perspectives and thinking people have at each developmental level. This includes many people at each developmental stage which can indicate the 'social psychology' (collective perspectives at each stage) that drives social behavior."
Understanding these stage-based beliefs can help climate communicators translate different messages into meanings consistent with how different groups think: It's a step up from simply dismissing their beliefs, editing them, patching one kind of knowledge on top of another, or, worse yet, labeling them as climate illiterate.
"What if someone were to translate their meaning-making?" Hochachka asks on the Daily Evolver podcast, referring to the process by which people understand something. "How would they build that out into an adaptation strategy," she continues, "but not from climate science, but from within their own meaning-making?"
For climate change communicators and activists, according to Hochachka, the implication is that allowing people to create climate change meaning through their worldview – what she calls "meaning-making sovereignty" – rather than imposing meaning from another worldview such as when climate scientists try to "educate" traditionalists with their scientific-modern perspective, empowers people to muster increased enthusiasm, involvement, and sustained commitment to take constructive climate action.
Jon Kohl, a freelance writer based in Costa Rica, is executive director of the non-profit PUP Global Heritage Consortium.
*Editor's note: The Yale Program on Climate Change Communication is the publisher of Yale Climate Connections.


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Highlighted Skill Areas – Comprehension and Writing
-Approaching books with writing in mind
-Author study, review of varied writing styles and techniques, group discussion
-Finding favorite stories and poems as mentor texts
-Practice writing for different audiences and purposes
-Utilizing imagination for colorful writing and structure for greater technical proficiency
-Activities and presentations connected with reading and grade-level standards
-Reader's theater for fun and practice (They'll want to write home about it!)
-Personalized, individual and small group instruction
-Respectful staff with high expectations and effective technique
-At least two hours of direct reading, writing and spelling instruction daily
-Introduction to age- and developmentally-appropriate text
-Opportunities to earn incentive rewards, including new books, for effort and progress
-Morning and afternoon snack provided daily AND a camp t-shirt for each camp attended
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Great News! noah2733, from Freeman K-12, has been selected as a finalist for this week's "Artist of the Week" award for the 10th-12th age group. The finalist who receives the most online votes between now and Saturday November 14 will be selected as our "Artist of the Week."
To view the finalists and cast your vote, simply click on the link below. Voting is limited to one vote per computer per day for each age group!
The "Artist of the Week" will be featured on the Artsonia homepage and will receive a commemorative plaque from Artsonia. In addition, Blick Art Materials has generously donated $100 gift certificates to the winning schools and $50 to the winning artists.


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I'm not actually sure if I'm allowed to release this cover into the world yet, but isn't it amazing?!?
How do they put a picture of the cover onto the cover? And then inside the cover on the cover, there's another cover. It gives me a headache if I try to think about it for too long.


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Mysterious space rock Oumuamua 'same size as London's Gherkin skyscraper'
The interstellar asteroid known as "Oumuamua" has been protected from the sun by a half-metre thick crust, scientists say.
Monday 18 December 2017 16:05, UK
A mysterious interstellar asteroid is the same size and shape as London's famous Gherkin skyscraper, astronomers have said.
The gigantic space rock, known as "Oumuamua", is the first from outside the solar system to ever be observed by scientists.
Previously described as "cigar-shaped", astronomers at Queen's University, Belfast, and elsewhere have studied the asteroid and now estimate it to be the same size and shape as London's Gherkin skyscraper - which is about 180m (591ft) tall.
The latest research also suggests the rock, which withstood incredibly high temperatures when it swung through our solar system, has been protected from the sun's heat by a mysterious insulating crust.
Researchers, including scientists from the US, Canada, Taiwan and Chile, believe they have made "key observations" about what its half-metre thick crust is made of.
Dr Michele Bannister, whose research is published in Astrophysical Journal Letters, said the rock "looks so much like a tiny world from our own home system".
She said: "This object went past the sun and it was only heated like a good oven cooking a cake. It wasn't actually particularly hot.
"The surface composition is consistent of a layer of insulating material, so something along the lines of dust and grit, maybe organic compounds.
"We don't know that the interior does contain ice but if it did contain ice it would have been insulated by the layer on the surface."
The rock was scanned for radio signals after its unique shape - highly unusual for an asteroid - sparked speculation it could be an alien ship.
However, the scans found "no evidence of artificial signals emanating from the object" and it is not believed to be an alien vessel.
Oumuamua, which is Haiwaiian for scout or messenger, is the first object found in the solar system that is believed to be from another part of the galaxy.
It was spotted by University of Hawaii astronomers in October after it passed the Earth at roughly 85 times the distance of the moon.
Professor Alan Fitzsimmons, who is also based at Queen's and whose separate research paper is published in Nature Astronomy, said the "half-metre thick coating of organic-rich material could have protected a water-ice-rich comet-like interior from vaporising when the object was heated by the sun, even though it was heated to over 300 degrees centigrade".
Dr Bannister said: "The nice thing about driftwood is that it tells you that there's trees that grow on distant shores, so this is a little tangible piece of evidence that the way planets formed and grew in our own solar system, it's happening the same way in other solar systems far away."
She added: "None of the astronomers have ever talked about it being anything alien, except that it comes from outside the solar system."


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Park Se Wan And Song Geon Hee Confirmed For New Drama By "Melo Is My Nature" Creator
Director Lee Byung Hun will be working with Park Se Wan and Song Geon Hee for a new drama!
On January 10, a source from the OTT (over-the-top) platform WATCHA announced, "'Ultimate Weapon Alice' (literal title) has finalized its title and revealed its casting lineup."
"Ultimate Weapon Alice" is a youth action romance about the bloody high school lives of mysterious transfer student and killer Gyeo Ul and traumatized high school student Yeo Reum as they meet and get chased down by a criminal organization.
The drama will be helmed by director Lee Byung Hun, who set unprecedented records with "Extreme Job" and captivated viewers with his relatable drama "Melo Is My Nature." Director Seo Sung Won of the short film "I Go Through the Summer" will also be working with him on the new project. The script will be co-written by the two directors, and the drama will be produced by Plus Media Entertainment of "Unstoppable."
Park Se Wan and Song Geon Hee will be playing the two leads, and talented actors Kim Sung Oh, Kim Tae Hoon, Jung Seung Gil, Cha Joo Young, and more will be joining the cast.
WATCHA's CEO Park Tae Hoon stated, "I believe that [viewers] will be able to see the bold attempts and novel charms unique to WATCHA originals through 'Ultimate Weapon Alice.' We will continue to showcase well-made content that will satisfy viewers in the future, so please look forward to it a lot."
"Ultimate Weapon Alice" will premiere via WATCHA in the first half of 2022.
In the meantime, watch Park Se Wan in "Never Twice":
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Z-Wave is the international wireless protocol for communication in the Smart Home. This device is suited for use in the region mentioned in the Quickstart section.
Z-Wave ensures a reliable communication by reconfirming every message (two-way communication) and every mains powered node can act as a repeater for other nodes (meshed network) in case the receiver is not in direct wireless range of the transmitter.
This device and every other certified Z-Wave device can be used together with any other certified Z-Wave device regardless of brand and origin as long as both are suited for the same frequency range.
If a device supports secure communication it will communicate with other devices secure as long as this device provides the same or a higher level of security. Otherwise it will automatically turn into a lower level of security to maintain backward compatibility.
For more information about Z-Wave technology, devices, white papers etc. please refer to www.z-wave.info.
Sensors, switches, thermostats, cameras and many devices more will make you home intelligent. But all these components need a central controller.
The second-generation POPP HUB is a slim and compact IP smart home gateway, equipped with Z-Wave wireless technology. Therewith you can control your whole home automation network via remote switches, smartphone, desktop and tablet pc. Inside one network the POPP HUB controls up to 230 Z-Wave components manufacturer-independently and allows management of direct connections (associations) between the devices. These associations can be used also without a central gateway.
The latest POPP HUB hardware generation is still more flexible. Beside already installed WiFi and Z-Wave technologies the HUB can integrate further technologies such as EnOcean via internal and external USB ports. The POPP HUB enables you to control your home centralized and flexible ? and without any wiring effort.
The HUB works with Z-Way, the fist Z-Wave Plus certified Z-Wave controller software, which also connects devices with different technologies with each other.
The POPP HUB is focused on easy operation and reliable security architecture. Therewith it is one of the most secure smart home gateways generally. Thanks to the integrated device database and step-by-step instructions any new smart home device can be connected quick and easy. The POPP HUB?s big advantage is its capability to integrate all certified Z-Wave devices with all of theirs functions. Other gateways block some device functions by itself.
By using so-called apps from the continuously growing app store, you can setup a lot of automation scenes in no time. So, you can switch your sockets time scheduled, dim lights depending on current brightness or heat up your home to your comfortable temperature by only one push of a button.
With the free POPP HUB smartphone and tablet app, you can control your home also from outside.
Detailed instructions on the gateway can be found under the following link: Manual
Please read the user manual before installing the product.
In order to include (add) a Z-Wave device to a network it must be in factory default state. Please make sure to reset the device into factory default. You can do this by performing an Exclusion operation as described below in the manual. Every Z-Wave controller is able to perform this operation however it is recommended to use the primary controller of the previous network to make sure the very device is excluded properly from this network.
This device also allows to be reset without any involvement of a Z-Wave controller. This procedure should only be used when the primary controller is inoperable.
1. Pressing down the WPS button
2. Press reset button
3. Keep WPS button further pressed until the white LED starts blinking fast (ca. 20 seconds)
4. Device will restart after around 2 minutes and is ready for use then
ATTENTION: only authorized technicians under consideration of the country-specific installation guidelines/norms may do works with mains power. Prior to the assembly of the product, the voltage network has to be switched off and ensured against re-switching.
On factory default the device does not belong to any Z-Wave network. The device needs to be added to an existing wireless network to communicate with the devices of this network. This process is called Inclusion.
Devices can also be removed from a network. This process is called Exclusion. Both processes are initiated by the primary controller of the Z-Wave network. This controller is turned into exclusion respective inclusion mode. Inclusion and Exclusion is then performed doing a special manual action right on the device.
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365 Lite Standard Surgical Gowns offer a lightweight, cooler and breathable gown, suitable for minimal fluid procedures whilst still providing a good bacterail barrier. Standard Lite Gowns are recommended for surgical procedures with low blood or fluid spillage, for example; day procedure units, some maxilliofacial treatments, opthalmic procedures, cath labs and patient examinations.
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Ludhiana, July 4, 2019 (Yes Punjab News)
The deputy commissioner Mr Pradeep Kumar Agrawal on thursday reached the civil hospital and donated the blood after he was informed about the shortage of blood in the blood bank of the hospital.
After donating the blood, Deputy Commissioner exhorted the youths to serve mankind with missionary zeal by donating blood. He said that the youth of the state had always excelled in every field and there was no reason that the youth of the state should lag behind in blood donation, which was a true service of humanity.
He said that youngsters to come forward in large number to donate blood, which was all the more important for creating a healthy blood bank.
The Deputy Commissioner said that every youth must realize that every blood donor was a hero due to which they should such regularly donate blood after every three months.
He also asked them to motivate their peers to become regular voluntary blood donors to ensure sufficient stocks of blood needed for routine and emergency treatment.
Mr Agrawal pointed out that every drop of blood donated by a person could save a life.


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Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Directed by Andy Serkis
Screenplay by Kelly Marcel
Story by Tom Hardy and Kelly Marcel, based on Marvel Comics
Starring Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Naomie Harris, Reid Scott, Stephen Graham, Woody Harrelson
Let it be said that the sequel to the wildly successful and exciting "Venom" will be full of carnage. If you'll note, I didn't capitalize that word about the film's antagonist, Carnage, aka Cletus Kasady.
There will, however, be spectacular feats of gravity mixed with copious amounts of banter between Tom Hardy's loose reporter Eddie Brock and his alter-ego symbiote, Venom. In this sequel, "Venom: Let There Be Carnage," Brock and Venom quarrel rather than banter. The story by Hardy and Kelly Marcel, screenplay by Marcel, sees the two squaring off like two college buddies who play off of each other's weaknesses to get what they want, almost like a Felix and Oscar routine, something that director Serkis confirmed. As we get deeper into these two characters, and their stakes are raised, the less the Felix/Oscar schtick works.
Be aware that Woody Harrelson is dangerously fun as Cletus Kasady, who manages to wreak havoc all over San Francisco, putting Venom on notice. Serkis begins the film with Kasady's journey, filling in some of the backstory for the character, which sets the present-day . . . carnage into motion. Naomie Harris offers a double threat to Venom as Shriek, alias Francis Barrison and a love interest to Kasady. Together, they make a formidable foe for Venom once Kasady assumes the Carnage symbiote. Harrelson is clever in his psychotic serial killer role. Although he stays true-to-form, the presence of both Shriek and Carnage doesn't amount to much; yes, they overpower Venom at one point, as Carnage is distracted both by the psychosis of Kasady and the love for Shriek. The film can't handle both antagonists. It has enough to do with the Felix/Oscar routine inhabited between Venom and Brock. The film does cleverly distinguish the yin and yang of the two different relationships.
The story backtracks before it moves forward to establish more about Kasady, his relationship with Francis, and another relation between Francis and Stephen Graham's Mulligan.
For a 97-minute movie, "Venom: Let There Be Carnage" felt like it spent too much time on the establishing backstory and not enough time to the action we're accustomed to seeing. It does leverage the antics between Brock and Venom, and both Hardy and Harrelson look like they were having fun interacting as each alter ego. At its emotional center, the story is about the relationships we form and the work it takes to keep the relationships healthy, except for when you survive on a diet of chocolate.
By keeping the film to a shorter-than-usual run time, the benefit is that we only have to endure so much of the antics between the characters. The risk is that the backstory trumps the protagonist's heroic moments. On the other hand, the film does give Michelle Williams' Anne Weying and Brock some time to try to resolve their differences before it gives way to . . .
Carnage. I don't know if Sony or Marvel intended this, but we're left with carnage from the mess of a story that this film is. Serkis had an idea of where he wanted to take the movie, and it ended up being anticlimactic; the risk doesn't pay off.
To be fair, "Venom: Let There Be Carnage" is fun when the action is on the screen; it is cloyingly endearing when Venom and Brock banter. There is an intimacy cinematographer Robert Richardson strikes in the City by the Bay that matches the tone of the character's relationships, which I hadn't expected. It narrows the field of battle, almost as if destiny were playing out.
"Venom: Let There Be Carnage" lets itself out this weekend in theaters. It has a limited window to attract audiences to the premium theatres before Bond takes over next weekend. It might be a mess; however, it leverages the relationships that made the first film enjoyable, yet it is still a fun mess.
Oh, and stay for the mid-credit sequence. It's a doozy!
97 minutes, PG-13, Columbia Pictures/Marvel Entertainment


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TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The Jacksonville District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) has received an application for a Department of the Army permit pursuant to Section 404 of the Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. §1344) as described below:
APPLICANT: 88 Daves Creek, LLC
Emerald Cove Subdivision
355 Brogden Road, Suite 211
Suwanee, Georgia 30024
WATERWAY AND LOCATION: The project would affect waters of the United States associated with West Bay. The project site is located on the west side of Wildwood Road approximately 1,000 feet north of the intersection of Wildwood Road and Highway 98 in Panama City Beach, in Bay County, Florida.
Directions to the site are as follows: From Panama City – West on US Highway 98 over the Hathaway Bridge to Panama City Beach, continue on US Highway 98 approximately 6 tenths of a mile then turn right (north) onto Wildwood Road. The project site is on the west side of Wildwood Road approximately 1,000 LF north of the US Highway 98 and Wildwood Road intersection.
APPROXIMATE CENTRAL COORDINATES: Latitude 30.193064°
Longitude -85.762946°
Basic: Residential development.
Overall: To construct a 113-lot single family residential subdivision within the vicinity of the proposed sports complex to fulfill a growing demand for new, affordable residential opportunities at the east end of Panama City Beach.
EXISTING CONDITIONS: The wetland system consists of a freshwater forested system that is tributary to West Bay. The onsite vegetation consists of Pinus elliottii, Cliftonia monophylla, Myrica cerifera, and Ilex coriacea. The existing area surrounding the project area consists of residential development and silviculture lands.
The wetland areas proposed to be impacted consist of wetlands that are moderate to low quality along the perimeter of an abandoned upland multi-family development that was previously proposed by an unrelated party. Hydric soil indicators observed include dark surface, mucky texture, and local soil survey data. Hydrology indicators observed include inundation / saturation, water marks, water-stained leaves, and a positive FAC-Neutral test.
Primary wetland functions are wildlife habitat / cover for small reptiles, insects, and amphibians; and water storage and attenuation.
PROPOSED WORK: The applicant seeks authorization to place fill material in 2.89 acres of jurisdictional wetlands in order to construct roadways and to create buildable residential lots within a 118-lot residential subdivision.
AVOIDANCE AND MINIMIZATION INFORMATION – The applicant has provided the following information in support of efforts to avoid and/or minimize impacts to the aquatic environment:
Jurisdictional wetland areas occupy approximately 14.91 acres, or 39% of the +/- 38-acre project site. Impacts cannot be avoided due the irregular pattern of wetlands.
IMPACT ON NATURAL RESOURCES: Coordination with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the National Marine Fisheries Services, and other Federal, State, and local agencies, environmental groups, and concerned within the subject property. The project has minimized direct wetland impacts by limiting impacts to those necessary to create contiguous lots along the proposed roadways. The applicant is proposing to impact 19% of the onsite wetlands. The remaining 81% of onsite wetlands will remain undisturbed.
concerned citizens generally yields pertinent environmental information that is instrumental in determining the impact the proposed action will have on the natural resources of the area.
EVALUATION: The decision whether to issue a permit will be based on an evaluation of the probable impact including cumulative impacts of the proposed activity on the public interest. That decision will reflect the national concern for both protection and utilization of important resources. The benefits, which reasonably may be expected to accrue from the proposal, must be balanced against its reasonably foreseeable detriments. All factors which may be relevant to the proposal will be considered including cumulative impacts thereof; among these are conservation, economics, esthetics, general environmental concerns, wetlands, historical properties, fish and wildlife values, flood hazards, floodplain values, land use, navigation, shoreline erosion and accretion, recreation, water supply and conservation, water quality, energy needs, safety, food, and fiber production, mineral needs, considerations of property ownership, and in general, the needs and welfare of the people. Evaluation of the impact of the activity on the public interest will also include application of the guidelines promulgated by the Administrator, EPA, under authority of Section 404(b) of the Clean Water Act or the criteria established under authority of Section 102(a) of the Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act of 1972. A permit will be granted unless its issuance is found to be contrary to the public interest.
The US Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) is soliciting comments from the public; Federal, State, and local agencies and officials; Indian Tribes; and other Interested parties in order to consider and evaluate the impacts of this proposed activity. Any comments received will be considered by the Corps to determine whether to issue, modify, condition, or deny a permit for this proposal. To make this determination, comments are used to assess impacts to endangered species, historic properties, water quality, general environmental effects, and the other public interest factors listed above. Comments are also used to determine the need for a public hearing and to determine the overall public interest of the proposed activity.
COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT CONSISTENCY: In Florida, the State approval constitutes compliance with the approved Coastal Zone Management Plan. In Puerto Rico, a Coastal Zone Management Consistency Concurrence is required from the Puerto Rico Planning Board. In the Virgin Islands, the Department of Planning and Natural Resources permit constitutes compliance with the Coastal Zone Management Plan.
REQUEST FOR PUBLIC HEARING: Any person may request a public hearing. The request must be submitted in writing to the District Engineer within the designated comment period of the notice and must state the specific reasons for requesting the public hearing.
To offset the 2.89 acres of wetland impacts, as well as, secondary impacts associated with the proposed project, the applicant is proposing to purchase 1.66 forested wetland credits from the Breakfast Point Mitigation Bank.
The Corps is not aware of any known historic properties within the permit area. By copy of this public notice, the Corps is providing information for review. Our final determination relative to historic resource impacts is subject to review by and coordination with the State Historic Preservation Officer and those federally recognized tribes with concerns in Florida and the Permit Area.
The Corps has determined the proposed project may affect, but is not likely to adversely affect the eastern indigo snake. The Corps will request U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) concurrence with this determination pursuant to Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act.
ESSENTIAL FISH HABITAT (EFH): This notice initiates consultation with the National Marine Fisheries Service on EFH as required by the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act 1996. Our initial determination is that the proposed action would not have a substantial adverse impact on EFH or Federally managed fisheries in West Bay. Our final determination relative to project impacts and the need for mitigation measures is subject to review by and coordination with the National Marine Fisheries Service.
NOTE: This public notice is being issued based on information furnished by the applicant. This information has not been verified or evaluated to ensure compliance with laws and regulation governing the regulatory program. The jurisdictional line has been verified by Corps personnel.
AUTHORIZATION FROM OTHER AGENCIES: Water Quality Certification may be required from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and/or one of the state Water Management Districts.
COMMENTS regarding the potential authorization of the work proposed should be submitted in writing to the attention of the District Engineer through the Panama City Permits Section, Attention: Tracey Wheeler 1002 West 23rd Street, Suite 350, Panama City, Florida 32405 within 21 days from the date of this notice.
The decision whether to issue or deny this permit application will be based on the information received from this public notice and the evaluation of the probable impact to the associated wetlands. This is based on an analysis of the applicant's avoidance and minimization efforts for the project, as well as the compensatory mitigation proposed.
QUESTIONS concerning this application should be directed to the project manager, Tracey Wheeler, in writing at the Panama City Permits Section, 1002 West 23rd Street, Panama City, Florida 32405; by electronic mail at email@example.com; by facsimile transmission at (850) 872-0231; or, by telephone at (850) 763-0717 ex 24.


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Maddison McGann
Maddison McGann is an English Ph.D. candidate who works on 19th-century British literature, environmental humanities, narrative theory, and the novel. Her other areas of interest include Victorian reviewing and print culture. In broadest terms, Maddison's dissertation, "Reading Ecologies: Narrative Forms and the Victorian Literary Imagination," extends recent scholarship in narrative theory and ecocriticism to illustrate how industrial and ecological forces shaped the narrative structures of Victorian fiction. Her work in this area granted her the Honorable Mention MVSA Walter L. Arnstein Dissertation Prize in Victorian Studies, as well as the CLAS Dissertation Writing Fellowship, the Frederick P.W. McDowell Scholarship, and the Freda Dixon Malone Dissertation Scholarship. Maddison's work has appeared in Victorian Periodicals Review and the Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies.
Before coming to the University of Iowa, Maddison earned an M.A. in the Humanities from the University of Chicago. She also holds an M.A. in English from the University of Iowa, and a B.A. in English from the University of South Florida. Maddison currently serves as an English instructor at the University of Iowa, where she designs and instructs courses related to media, technology, and Victorian fiction.
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OVERLANDING FOR BEGINNERS - Camping Gear
Thinking of getting into the camping and the overlanding lifestyle? Then this video series is for you! Having been overlanding / camping for over 20 years, I have put together a 13 part series on Overlanding for beginners. Sharing my experiences for the benefit of the wider community, especially those looking to get into this wonderful lifestyle.
Travelling overland by 4x4 truly presents the opportunity to enjoy the journey whilst the destination is only part of the bigger picture.
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Kotobukiya, the respected Japanese model and sculpture company announces their incredible reimagining of one of the key scenes in Frank Miller's masterpiece, The Dark Knight Returns: Batman – Hunt the Dark Knight! This four-issue miniseries released in 1986 tells the tale of a future world in which superheroes have retired. An older, angrier Bruce Wayne puts on the costume once again to save Gotham City and in the process encounters one of his most hated enemies, the Joker! Inspired by Miller's gritty style, the duo presents a dark, dynamic vision that'll look great on your shelf.
The bulky Dark Knight kneels over the prone Joker, holding him down with one hand on his collar while pulling the other back in preparation for the final strike! The painting too reflects Miller's artwork with stark colors and bold strokes.
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FORD RACING: Brendan Gaughan Q and A
Brendan Gaughan, driver of the No. 10 International MAXX Force Diesel by International Ford, has three top-10 finishes at the short track of O' Reilly Raceway Park. Gaughan talks about short track racing and the significance of winning in Indianapolis.
YOU HAD A FEW DAYS OFF, BUT YOU WENT RACING. HOW DID IT GO? "On Wednesday night, Kenny Schrader does his M&Ms Night of the Stars race at the track he owns in Pevely, Missouri. It's an annual event, this year he had Tony Stewart show up, and Dave Blaney is always there and Kenny raced, well, he owns the track, so you expect him to race. This was third year that I got invited to do it. I really appreciate him bringing me out. I've actually had the chance to race with the same race car every year. Dennis Young owns the car. He drives there locally, it's his dirt modified that he lets me run. We finished second. I led the most laps and had a straightaway on the field, but a late race caution, caused by Hornaday. He brought out a caution and Dave Blaney just schooled me on the restart. It's a dirt track. When I finish second to Blaney, I'm thinking that's a win for me."
CAN YOU CLAIM BRAGGING RIGHTS FOR THE SECOND PLACE FINISH? "You bet. And I'm bragging because I only lost to Dave Blaney."
ON RACING AT O'REILLY RACEWAY PARK. "I've actually had better finishes here than I'm given credit for, I think. I do like O'Reilly Raceway Park. Now with it being the Ford Power Stroke Diesel 200 and me being in the International MAXX Force Diesel truck - it's our sponsor. Rick and I actually have spots [pit stalls] side-by-side. I do know that these three sections of grandstands right here [turn four] are all International folks. I think they said they have something like 3,000 people coming. This is definitely a race that you want to look good at when it's your own sponsor. This team is ready to win. We have proved we can run up front. We just have to get out of everybody's mess. I think this team is going to do some great things the second half of this season. We just got to play on the good things, know what we did wrong the first half, know what we didn't do wrong that just cost us. We're playing on the fact that we have great engines, we have good engineering help, we have good trucks and we can go win races and do it."
THE CIRCLE BAR PIT STALLS ARE LOCATED AT PIT IN. HOW DOES THAT IMPACT YOUR RACE? OR DOES IT? "It really doesn't. This track is big enough that you don't have to worry about losing a lap trying to change four tires. What's nice is being back here, as you're driving out, you've got to pay attention to make sure nobody comes out and pinches you in the wall. But Rick and I can get our service done and not have to battle people on the way in. We think it should work out well for us. With any luck, we're just coming in on sequence and doing the standard adjustments, so you're not wasting a lot of time and see if we'll go win a race."
WILL THE FANS SEE THE STANDARD SHORT TRACK FRIDAY NIGHT RACING? "Yeah, we'll have typical Friday night short track racing as long as it doesn't rain too long. They say it's supposed to rain at some point today, but as long as we can get half the race in, that's a full race in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series."
WHAT WOULD IT MEAN TO YOU TO WIN HERE? "Just to get off the slide. We've had so many years now of struggles that have just kind of driven you mad. Me, Bryan Berry and all the guys at the No. 10 Circle Bar side, we've been great at race tracks but we just haven't had the great finishes. We've run up front, but we haven't finished there. We want to win a race really bad right now. And to be able to do when it's your own sponsor. To be able to do it for Ford, I have never won in a Ford truck, I'd love to be able to do it. And say, 'Hey, we're here. We're back,' and start that charge towards the top five in points."
DO YOU LIKE RACING HERE? "I do like it. I usually say I don't like short tracks, but this is a high-grooved race track and that means it works for me. I like the high groove."
THIS IS A BIG WEEKEND FOR THE RACE TEAM, YOUR SPONSORS AND RICK. "Yeah, Rick Crawford. I'm not going to say how old he is, I'll let someone else say how old he's turning this weekend. I believe Sunday is his birthday and I'm glad I'm around him. I've known him a long time and I'm honored to be his teammate. This is a very special birthday for him; it's a big deal. I'm glad to be here with him and share it with him. For his team or for him, either one of us, I know it would be a big celebration if we could get a win this weekend."
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Date(s) - March 15, 2019
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Bakerview MB Church
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You are invited to celebrate God's faithfulness in our CampsBC Society as we host our first ever celebration and fundraising dinner!
Throughout the evening, you will be inspired by stories of faithful people who encountered Jesus and committed to following Him, and from those who discovered their God-given passions and gifts as they served in leadership roles at camps this summer.
Would you consider joining us as we make much of God through song, food, and inspiring stories? Together we can partner for the future of camping ministry in our BCMB family.
Worship: Cody Jackson, Central Community Church
Guest Speaker: Sid Koop, Truth Matter Ministry/Canadian Youth Workers Conference.
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Tuesday, January 1, 2013
My TBR Mountain Today
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And I tought that my TBR-pile was bad. But, as it's only about 1/6 of yours + 48 on my Kindle, I guess I'm not doing too badly. My goal is to read at least 52 books + at least 52 short stories this year. I haven't joined any challenges, but I certainly plan to not let my TBR-pile get any bigger than it already is.ReplyDelete
Good luck with your reading. :-)
Whew! That is a big TBR pile. I'm at around 250ish books, myself. I'm hoping to cut that down this year, but we'll see what happens. Good luck!ReplyDelete
That is a big TBR pile. But man, that bookshelf looks amazing.ReplyDelete
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Game Review: Steredenn (Xbox One)
Steredenn, in the words of the developer, is a frenetic and chaotic space shooter, carved in big beautiful pixels with insane boss battles. Embark in your ship and engage the fight against dreadful space pirates in a never-ending combat for your survival. The game is fast, addictive, hard and action-packed.
Some of that rang true for me. It is quite beautiful and pretty fast but mostly, it is just hard. Frustratingly so.
Steredenn seemed like a strange name but a little research shows that it is actually a translation from the language Breton which is spoken in Brittany in France and loosely means Stars (though Steredenn is the singulative). The game is brought to us by Pixelnest Studio who are a French company based in Rennes. They have a little history on PC and Steam in the shoot-em up (shmup) arena though this is their first venture to current gen consoles.
Like many of the "indie" games that have arrived in recent times, the game is quite beautiful to look at. It seems the lack of funds available to these smaller guys forces them to look for alternative ways to make their game look good such as hand drawn, painted or, as in the case of Steredenn, an arty pixel style. It looks good though and is just pixelated enough to make it look retro without ever feeling retro while the backgrounds a big, bright and full of colour. The game loads quite quickly and you definitely get the feeling that they have gone for a very basic, uncluttered, less is more game here. There is a small menu with just a few options and the smallest of tutorials with very little back story. That back story is what you would expect – you are the pilot of a spaceship and are in training (the tutorial) when you come under attack and start the game. That is your lot but to be fair, there is little point in a story in a game like this especially as there are no really obvious breaks in levels to further that story. Training teaches you to move up, down left and right and how to fire your main weapon as well as switch to and fire your secondary weapon. That is it for the controls so it really is a simple game to pick up and play.
Steredenn works sort of like an endless runner game. There is no real end and no real levels and instead you work across this infinite loop which is broken up by boss battles. The levels are mostly randomly generated though after enough time playing, you will start to notice slight patterns in the generation. To try and add a bit more excitement to the game within each section and before you hit a boss there are certain types of enemy drop ships that, when destroyed, drop a new weapon. These drops are random and you can choose whether or not to pick it up as they are not always of benefit. The weapons are pretty cool. You start off with a standard blaster that shoots a stream of bullets directly out in front of you and can upgrade through many weird and wacky alternatives from the standard shotgun, rocket launcher, 3 way and 5 way blaster through to weapons that turn your ship into a giant saw, clamp or give you a huge laser. Generally the best weapon to have depends on the section of the game you are in and that makes it really difficult as the drops are random. You could be really struggling with your blaster, get a weapon drop, pray for a long range laser but get a saw.
As well as weapon power ups, you do also get the chance to upgrade your ship once you beat a boss. The fragments he leaves behind turn in to a set of power ups of which you get to choose just one. There are a fair few of them such as a couple extra health points, an increase in power, and an increase in laser energy or even in increase in the power of a weapon though make sure you actually have that weapon first. I remember choosing to have powerful rockets a couple of times before realising it doesn't give you rockets, you have to already have them to make it powerful.
Sounds like a great game right? Well, maybe not. Here is the problem I have. The game is hard but not hard to the point of being challenging. It is hard to the point of being extremely difficult for the casual market (maybe even for the non-casual market). As far as I can see there are around 10 bosses to face to complete a single loop of the game and start back at section 1 and so far, with hundreds of attempts, I have never beaten the 3rd boss. I have never even come close to beating him. I would say, if I have played this game 100 times then I have made it to the 3rd boss three times before being obliterated, beaten the second box maybe 10 times and beaten the first boss maybe 20 times. In fact, in the majority of games I have played of Steredenn I have died long before reaching the second boss. The game demands luck and demands perfection. There are no health pickups and no healing. To heal, you need to make it to a boss, survive him and then you start the next section with full health and repeat. When you die, there are no continues and no ways to upgrade your ship or weapons to make you stronger for the next run. You simply start all over again, fail again, start again, fail again etc….
Why there isn't an "easy" mode is beyond me. I can imagine how much I would have liked this game if each time I died, I levelled my ship up a little so I grew in strength and made it a little further but none of that exists. Instead I have played this game for hours and not made it through more than a fifth of it and unfortunately never will.
That is a huge disappointment to me as I find this game really appealing. It looks great, the music and effects are big, loud and rocky and the controls are as smooth as can be but it is just way too hard.
Checking the other menu options didn't help me much either. There is a "Daily Challenge" mode where you and every player get the same set up and try to survive and score the highest position on the leader board. This is a little more fun as at least you feel like everyone is probably dying a lot here though I doubt many would envy my leader board position. As you start this mode with random weapons, you can sometimes feel quite capable, for a few minutes at least.
Other than that, there is a mode where you get to fight/practice the bosses you have beaten – just for fun. This confuses me as surely it would have been better to allow me to practice fighting the boss who I can't beat not just the two that have already been beaten. As for the bosses, from what I have seen they are as lazy as can be. The same boss is used for every level end that I have reached but he just grows in size and has different weapons. You get a small one, then the same guy who is a little bigger and so on. Maybe they improve as you make it further but a few different boss designs would have been the way to go here and wouldn't have been too difficult.
Despite all of this, I do actually enjoy playing the first section of this game and most of my frustration is born from my desire to experience more. I am just so disappointed that I probably won't make it much further than I already have as I really want to.
I understand now that this game was not meant for me and I am lucky to have been given a copy for reviewing but, as the epitome of a casual gamer though perfectly capable, I am certain that a great many people of my skill level paid good money for a game here that is not meant for them. If you are an expert at games like this, I think you are probably in for a real treat as this will challenge you but plays really well but for anyone who feels they may not be an expert gamer, either prepare for a very small amount of gaming or just steer clear.
I actually feel pained having to score it this low as when I started playing this, it felt like it was going to be an 8 or 9 out of 10 but loads of attempts later with barely any progress have killed it for me. Well done to Pixelnest for making a great looking, responsive and challenging game but they must know that unless they cater for everyone, they are tapping in to a much smaller market. Steredenn looks like it is for everybody but it really isn't and that is a real shame as it could have been brilliant.
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SciTech Tuesday: This Day in History–Tubes were everywhere!
In World War II militaries learned to apply old technologies for new purposes. For example, the chemistry of combustion was used in engines and in rockets and bombs, but that technology went back hundreds of years. The science of electronics was newer, but 30 year-0ld inventions became the basis of one of the world's newest technologies–a powerful, code-breaking computer.
Lavoisier and combustion
Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier was born on this date in 1743. He was a great experimenter, and early chemist. He was born into a wealthy aristocratic family, and used his capital to purchase into a private company that the French government hired to collect taxes. This made Lavoisier even more wealthy, and he used that money to build and supply a large laboratory. In 1778 he conducted a set of experiments that showed air to be a mixture of two gases. Lavoisier named the gases oxygen and nitrogen. He then showed that oxygen was the gas involved in combustion, overturning the prevailing phlogiston theory. In his studies of combustion Lavoisier established the conservation of mass in chemical reactions. He also systematized the naming of chemical compounds. His wealth and aristocratic heritage helped Lavoisier to build his scientific career, but they and his role in tax collection also led to his death. He met his end at the guillotine in 1794.
Combustion is obviously very important in designing many of the weapons used in WWII. The internal combustion engine provided the power for all the tanks and armored vehicles in the war, and the vast majority of the aircraft. Later, rocketry developed but it also used combustion as the primary source of energy. Lavoisier was an empiricist, not overly interested in applications of the work he did. But his investigations helped develop chemistry into a systematic field of study, and his discoveries about conservation of matter and combustion are critical to the last century of technologies.
de Forest and vacuum tubes
Lee de Forest was born in 1873 in Iowa. He was one of the great American inventors in the early 20th century. He called himself the Father of Radio, and said, 'I discovered an Invisible Empire of the Air, intangible, yet solid as granite.' de Forest was only overstating his importance by a bit. Edison had invented the lightbulb, and the 'wireless' could use radio waves to send signals, but when de Forest developed the Audion vacuum tube in 1906 he provided a major advance in technology. The Audion, the first triode, allowed amplification of signals and thus the real broadcasting of radio. de Forest was a character in the mold of Tesla—bombastic and competitive. He argued in legal and public venues against Marconi and Edison, and competed for business advantage and reputation.
Behind all the bluster, de Forest's inventions were transformative.
A vacuum tube is a sealed container with electronics inside. The electronics inside include an open circuit across which electrons move because of heat or other energies provided.
The first vacuum tubes developed from incandescent bulbs. Edison discovered that a light bulb with a filament of metal in it would generate a current from the filament, but only if the bulb were on and hot. This release of electrons from a hot wire is called thermionic emission. Since the electrons were released into a vacuum they traveled across to the other wire, and created an electrical current. This ability to make a circuit work conditionally was critical for computing, and vacuum tubes were used for this until transistors were invented in the late 1940s.
Vacuum tubes can also be used to turn alternating current (AC) into direct current (DC). The Audion tube that de Forest invented was a another kind of tube. A simple triode (because it contained three electrodes) the Audion could be used to amplify signals of any frequency. de Forest didn't actually understand how it worked, but he certainly found ways to use it. Throughout the teens and 20s other folks worked out improvements to the Audion, and diodes in general. By adding more electrodes they developed complex tubes that could reliably provide all sorts of functions.
The two most prominent uses of tubes in WWII are in communications and computing.
Radar and radio both depended entirely on vacuum tubes. To generate, control and modulate radio impulses, these devices used all sorts of tubes, including triodes like the Audion. Without the technologies of radio and radar it is hard to imagine how the war might have gone, since the Allies clearly had superior abilities in this area.
In fact, all complex electronics in this era were built either with simple switches and relays, or with tubes. So all the planes and tanks and ships of the era were filled with tubes too.
The Colossus and the Colossus MK2 were built with tubes. They replaced earlier computers that were based on relays and switches. Because the tubes could simulate conditional logic they were able to form the basis of what was then the world's most powerful computer. Colussus, and its tubes, ran continuously, using 15 kW of power—mostly for the tube heaters. The British built a total of 10 of these computers, and as long as they were kept on, their tubes performed reliably. Colossus was able to break in hours codes that had taken weeks on the earlier relay and switch computers. Colossus began working at Bletchley Park in February 1944 and worked until it was upgraded to become Colossus MK2 on June 1 1944. The ability of the Allies to decode important captured Axis messages with the knowledge of the Axis was critical to winning the war in Europe.
Learn more about sciences during World War II in our upcoming lecture:
Ethnobotanist Dr. Mark Plotkin will be discussing the use of plant products like quinine and rubber, in WWII, at the Museum on Thursday, September 11th. For more information on this lecture, visit us here.
Check in next week to read about some plants that have been important for Home Front and war technologies, in honor of this event.
Posted by Rob Wallace, STEM Education Coordinator at The National WWII Museum.
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Panzer General: Allied Assault Board Game Petroglyph GamesWin World War II with the turn of a card! This officially licensed board game based off of the hit SSI computer game features solo and 2-player scenarios for the Western Front 1944-1945. Play either the Germans or Americans as you attack with Tigers, Panthers, Shermans, Stuarts, Priests, Howitzers, 105mm Guns, Paratroopers, Panzer Grenadiers, and more!
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•Designer(s): Chuck Kroegel
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Hora Vitrum is a Mozambican Metalcore Band, formed in 2015.
Their first official appearance was at Rockfest in November 2017.
After that, some members decided to part ways, leaving only the vocals as the founding members. Then Aldo & Skinner (The Vocals) decided to change the structure and dinamic of the band by bringing new members namely Rui the bass player, and well known in The Rock and Metal Scene Nuno Blink and Euclides Anatolly.
The last but not the least, New Guitarrist joined Hora Vitrum, and he is well known as Wolf (or Tozé) for some reason. And he premiered with the band as a permanent member in Metal United World Wide in Maputo-Mozambique.
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Spring Worries
Before anything else, odds are, your spring-flowering bulbs will be fine, despite what nasty
surprises Mother Nature decides to throw at them. You may experience a little anxiety over
the welfare of your beloved bulbs, but remind yourself that many of the daffodils have been
blooming reliably for years. Other bulbs, including hyacinths, muscari, scilla,
tulips and lilies are frost-resistant. That said, let's examine a few factors that may influence
the impact a late winter freeze may have on your garden!
When Does Spring Frost Damage Occur?
Frost generally occurs on clear and calm nights, where there are few to no clouds to
reflect warmth back to the ground and little to no wind to disperse warmer patches of
air. The cold air then settles down to the lowest point, while the hot air rises up and
away from the ground.
On these nights, frost can happen even if the temperature on your thermometer
does not read below freezing. As long as the air temperatures at ground level dip
below 32°F, ice crystals can still form on plants. This in turn disrupts the movement
of fluids within the plant, depriving its tissues of water and drying it out.
This is why leaves damaged by frost shrivel up and turn dark brown or black. If left in
freezing temperatures for long durations of time without much protection, plants can
easily die from desiccation.
1. Choose Cold-Hardy Plants
Some vegetables and flowers are hardy souls that thrive in spite of (or sometimes because of) the
cold. These kinds of plants are known as "hardy," because they can tolerate some amount of
short-term freezing. By contrast, plants that are killed or severely injured by freezing temperatures
are known as "tender."
Crocuses often push their way through snow to bloom, and a spring storm rarely gives narcissus,
tulips, grape hyacinths, or pansies pause. There are also a wide range of tasty edibles that are
resistant to frost, including
Experts at your local nursery are great sources of information about hardy plants
appropriate to your zone. Native plants, particularly native perennials, will most likely
be the best choices.
Don't strand plants. Smart placement near other plants, benches, or walls—especially
if these structures are south- or west-facing—will go a long way toward protecting
plants from being damaged by frost.
2. Place Plants in Frost-Resistant Spots
It's as true for plants as it is for real estate: location, location, location. Set out seedlings
and store-bought spring plants in areas that are less likely to experience damaging cold.
As cold air moves to lower ground, it will pass by plants located on high ground or slopes.
That's why it's best to place seedlings and other plants that are susceptible to frost in
these elevated locations.
Placing plants by benches, fences, and walls—particularly if they are south- or
west-facing — can provide additional protection, especially if the structures are dark in
color. During the day, the structures absorb heat. Throughout the night, they radiate
that heat, keeping plants warmer than they'd otherwise be. Nearby shrubbery also
provides protection from light frosts.
3. Avoid Frost Pockets
Before setting out seedlings, acclimatize them to the outdoors by gradually exposing them
to conditions outside. This process, called hardening off, will help you grow stronger
plants that are more likely to withstand the vicissitudes of early spring.
Check the ground temperature. Temperatures higher up may vary from those lower to
the ground. In other words, just because an elevated thermometer reads above 32°F
doesn't necessarily mean it isn't below that at ground level.
4. Harden Off Seedlings
Before setting out seedlings, acclimate them to the outdoors by gradually exposing
them to conditions outside. This process, called hardening off, will help you grow stronger
plants that are more likely to withstand the vicissitudes of early spring.
Begin the hardening off process about 14 days before transplanting. When the weather's
mild and above 45°F, place the seedlings outside during the day in a warm, shady spot
that's protected from the wind. At night, bring them indoors.
After 2 weeks, the seedlings will be stronger, sturdier plants, ready for transplanting.
5. Cover Plants Before Nightfall
If you're going to cover up your plants before a hard frost, do so before dusk. If you
wait until darkness falls, most of the stored heat in your garden will have dissipated.
No matter what type of cover you use, make sure that it extends down to the soil on
each side. Do not leave any openings for warmth to escape. If you can, it's also
advisable to use stakes to keep material, especially plastic, from touching the foliage.
Do not affix or gather your cover to the trunk, however, as this will prevent the heat
radiating up out of the soil from reaching the plant.
It's also important to remember that covers don't have to be elaborate or expensive in
order to work. A row of sticks with newspaper, cardboard, or sheets and towels tented
over them will do just fine. If you don't have sticks, lay the covers directly over your
plants. This too will prevent heat loss. Make sure to place your covers completely over
your plants and let them drape all the way to the ground—don't tie the cover to the trunk,
otherwise the heat radiating up out of the soil won't be able to warm up your plant.
6. Protect Plants with Cloches
Cloches are removable glass or plastic covers that protect plants from cold. Sometimes
called bells or bell jars, most fit over individual plants, but some are large enough to
cover a row. Like other covers, cloches should be placed over plants before the sun goes
down and removed in the morning after the frost has thawed.
Glass cloches are highly ornamental. When you're not using them outside for frost
protection, you can use them indoors over humidity-loving houseplants like violets.
You can also use plastic cloches, which are generally less expensive than glass ones.
But because they are lightweight, they must be staked into the ground to prevent them
from blowing away in high winds.
Note: Since cloches used for cold protection are temporary measures, you may
opt to create your own makeshift versions. Flower pots, Mason jars, baskets, and milk
jugs with the bottoms removed can all be placed over plants to shield them from freeze
and frost.
7. Warm Plants With Water Jugs
Fill plastic milk jugs with water and place them in the sun, allowing them to soak up heat
during the day. Before dusk, set the jugs around your plants and throw a cover over them.
The water in the jugs will lose heat more slowly than the soil and the air, and the warmth it
emits will help protect your plants from the cold.
8. Water Plants Before A Frost
It may sound crazy, but watering around plants the night before a spring frost can actually
protect them from freezing. During the night, the wet soil will release moisture into the air,
which will raise the temperature and keep plants warmer.
9. Wrap Fruit Trees
If you grow fruit trees, be sure to wrap the trunks in the fall with burlap strips or tree wrap.
Most fruit trees have thin barks that are susceptible to splitting when temperatures fluctuate
dramatically. Tree wrap will prevent this splitting, which is known as frost crack.
It's often a good idea to use multiple layers of cloth or weatherproof paper, while still keeping
the wrapping a bit loose. This provides more effective insulation. You should also extend
the wrapping all the way to the ground and at least as high up as the lower limbs or branches.
If necessary, this wrapping can be left on for the majority of the winter season.
10. Bring Potted Plants Indoors
When frost is predicted, bring planters and hanging baskets inside. The roots of potted
plants experience more severe temperature fluctuations than those planted in the ground.
They'll reach lower temperatures, too. That's why potted plants are especially susceptible
to root damage due to cold. It can cause their roots—particularly those near the edge of the
pot—to turn spongy and black. Although root damage may not kill the plant, it will stunt its
Just make sure when you bring potted plants inside that they don't have any insects or
pests on them and aren't currently suffering from any diseases. This will not only potentially
exacerbate the problem, but it could also infect your other plants.
11. Mulch Will Definitely Help
One of the best preventative measures you can employ, well in advance, is to mulch the beds
in late fall, after the ground is frozen. If you mulch while the ground is still warm, it may keep
the beds from freezing when the rest of the soil freezes, and encourage the bulbs to sprout
too early.
Mulching after the soil freezes helps maintain a constant soil temperature, and reduce frequent
freezing and thawing as temperatures fluctuate. This also has the added benefit of reducing
bulb "heaving," where the freezing and thawing cycles cause the bulb to come to the surface,
where they are not protected by the insulating soil, and it helps the soil to retain moisture,
which is critical for healthy bulb development in the spring.
You want to avoid mulches that form a thick, impervious mat, such as grass clippings, as they
won't allow water to penetrate to the soil, and may encourage the growth of fungal diseases.
If you did not mulch in the fall, and have tulips and other bulbs emerging and setting buds, it is
not too late to add some protection if an extreme freeze is predicted. A loose, light mulch, such
as straw, can be added around the tulip plants and buds, covering them by at least an inch, to
protect them from extreme temperatures and hard frosts.
This can be labor-intensive if you have extensive beds, as the mulch has to be removed once
temperatures warm up, but it can definitely preserve your blooms! Just be sure to use "clean"
straw without weeds or seeds, or your bulbs will be competing with grass and weeds for water and nutrients when the seeds sprout.


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Every now and then the MBTI makes its rounds on social media, and I'm surprised to see many of my friends identify as the "rarest" type, INFJ. But those same friends tend to be autistic, too. And very friendly. So I started to wonder if type indicators just don't know what to make of autistic extroverts. What if my huge cohort of INFJ friends is really a huge group of ENFJ autistics?
What makes us different from other extroverts?
Many of the characteristics of introverts are also common among autists. We need a lot of down time to recharge, we spurn shallow conversation, we like quiet, and we prefer smaller groups or being on stage to being in the midst of a crowd. But for autistics, the reasons tend to be due to sensory regulation and our built-in need for sincerity.
Autistic people love other people, and we're often interested in their lives, but in our own particular idiom. Here are some of the traits I've observed in autistic extroverts:
- No nonsense conversations. We might be good storytellers, but our sense of humor is based in truth rather than deception. We might seem to have a wry or dry style. We might say awkward things or state our ideas and opinions in very strong terms. If we talk to you, it's a matter of respect, and we don't want to waste the effort of coordinating ourselves to communicate by saying something we don't mean.
- Accepting people as they are. We accept people as they are, not as they aspire to be or as they pretend to be. This can be disturbing to people who like to put up a front or who like to evade reality-based conversations. But for people who see this trait as the strength it is, this trait makes for very honest friendships.
- Lacking favoritism. We don't seek out friends based on their prestige or popularity, and we don't suck up to people in power. This can be perceived as insubordination or rudeness by people who prefer sycophants or who long to be acknowledged as better than someone else. But it's actually part of trait two, accepting people as they are: humans, with whom we might have goals and values in common, or not. We respect everyone as humans, but it takes demonstrable acts of justice or injustice to move up or down in an autistic person's regard. We don't like or dislike people just because someone tells us to.
- Using lots of analogies and pop cultural references in order to be understood. We have to find ways to bridge the gap between our visual or spatial thinking and speaking or writing for people who seem to need things spelled out for them differently. It's easier to use analogies and pop culture frames to make sure we have a common touchstone in our communicating.
- Working a lot harder to communicate. I can't speak for all autistic extroverts, but I know that my desire to make friends has often been waylaid by my needing to do so much math to predict what the other person does and doesn't know or is or isn't asking. When you have an autistic brain, sometimes it's hard to know which stimuli or information is the focus of the group's attention. For me and many others, apraxia (difficulty coordinating speech) adds to the challenge. I am fluently verbal–apparently–but have to expend a great deal of effort to plan my speaking to make it understandable to others. I love talking with people, though, so I make the effort when I can. I also have to plan ahead and take time to recover after I have big speaking events or social times.
- We don't like loud noises, including loud voices. Sometimes neurotypical extroverts are incredibly loud, but this is not so common among autistic extroverts. We will have a harder time talking with loud people in the room. This might make us seem reserved when we're actually just overwhelmed or unable to process our thoughts in the presence of louder voices.
- We love to share joy. I've met autistic extroverts from across the spectrum, some who use speech output devices, some who talk, some who do a bit of both, and sharing joy effusively is a common trait. It's unfiltered, sincere joy over anything or anyone we love.
What would you add? What does autistic extroversion look like to you?


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Widely used in high-rise building doors and windows, glass curtain walls, indoor partition glass, lighting ceilings, sightseeing elevator passages, furniture, glass guardrails, etc. Usually tempered glass can be used in the following industries:
⒈Architecture, building formwork, decoration industry (for example: doors and windows, curtain walls, stairs, balconies, platform corridors and atrium guardrails, inclined assembly windows, all kinds of ceilings (including skylights, skylights), ceilings, interior decoration, etc. )
⒉Furniture manufacturing industry (glass coffee table, furniture supporting inclined assembly windows, all kinds of ceilings (including skylights, skylights), suspended ceilings; etc.)
⒊Home appliance manufacturing industry (TVs, ovens, air conditioners, refrigerators and other products)
⒋Electronics, instrument industry (mobile phones, MP3, MP4, clocks and other digital products)
⒌Automotive manufacturing industry (automobile window glass, etc.)
⒍Daily products industry (glass cutting board, etc.)
⒎Special industry (military glass)
After the tempered glass is broken, the fragments will be broken into uniform small particles and there is no sharp corner of the common glass knife, so it is called safety glass and is widely used in automobiles, interior decoration, and high-rise windows that open to the outside.
Tempered glass is a kind of glass that is not broken by violent vibration or impact, and will not scatter and hurt people even if it is shattered. Tempered glass is actually a kind of prestressed glass. In order to improve the strength of the glass, chemical or physical methods are usually used to form compressive stress on the surface of the glass. When the glass is subjected to external force, it first offsets the surface stress, thereby improving the bearing capacity and enhancing the resistance of the glass itself. Wind pressure, cold and heat, impact, etc. Pay attention to distinguish it from glass fiber reinforced plastic.
Safety: When the glass is damaged by external force, the fragments will be broken into small particles with obtuse angles similar to honeycomb, which is not easy to cause serious harm to the human body.
High strength: The impact strength of tempered glass with the same thickness is 3 to 5 times that of ordinary glass, and the bending strength is 3 to 5 times that of ordinary glass.
Thermal stability: Tempered glass has good thermal stability, the temperature difference that can withstand is 3 times that of ordinary glass, and it can withstand a temperature difference of 300 °C.
Advantages: The first is that the strength is several times higher than that of ordinary glass, and it is resistant to bending.
Second, it is safe to use. The increased bearing capacity improves the fragile nature. Even if the tempered glass is damaged, it will be small fragments without acute angles, which greatly reduces the damage to the human body. Compared with ordinary glass, the resistance to rapid cooling and rapid heating of tempered glass is improved by 3 to 5 times. It is a type of safety glass. To ensure the safety of qualified materials for high-rise buildings.
Chongqing Yubo Technology Co., Ltd. is a company that produces special architectural glass, fireproof glass, energy-saving doors and windows, and engineering steel structures. On September 22, 2016, the company invested 9.87 million yuan to purchase 62.13 acres of land in Fengjie County Immigrant Ecological Industrial Park, invested 87.3 million yuan to build 1 million square meters of safety and energy-saving glass and 600,000 square meters of energy-saving doors and windows production base, build production, office Housing and auxiliary facilities, etc. Mainly used for professional production and processing of energy-saving glass, energy-saving doors and windows. The construction content includes the construction of a production plant of 30,000 square meters; the construction of one production line for safety and energy-saving glass such as tempered glass, laminated glass, and insulating glass; and one production line for energy-saving aluminum-plastic doors and windows.
The company is engaged in glass and glass manufacturing, wholesale and retail; building materials processing and sales, wholesale; engineering survey and design; glass curtain wall engineering design and construction; steel structure engineering design and construction; aluminum-plastic doors and windows manufacturing and installation; Construction; research and development of glass and glass products; research and development, manufacture and installation of aluminum-plastic doors and windows; research, manufacture and installation of photovoltaic power generation system equipment. The company's current production capacity: annual output of 1 million square meters of tempered glass, 600,000 square meters of laminated glass, 800,000 square meters of insulating glass, 800,000 square meters of additional process glass, 300,000 square meters of energy-saving doors and windows, 100,000 square meters of engineering steel structure welding Ton.
It has won the title of National High-tech Enterprise, National Excellent Quality and Integrity Enterprise, Chongqing Safety Production Standardization Second-level Enterprise, Chongqing Intellectual Property Pilot Unit, Fengjie County Excellent Private Enterprise, Consumer Satisfaction Co-construction Unit, National Quality Inspection Stable and Qualified Product, Chongqing City famous brand product, Chongqing high-tech product, Fengjie county entrepreneurial star and other titles.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (KRON) — San Jose Police officers recovered stolen firearms, tools, and equipment from an underground bunker at a homeless encampment in San Jose on Tuesday, according to a tweet from SJPD.
San Jose Police patrol officers continued to follow up on a commercial burglary that happened Monday. The investigation took police to a homeless encampment near Coyote Creek and Wool Creek Drive.
SJPD says six suspects have been arrested for a variety of charges in connection to the stolen goods. The stolen items will be returned to the victims, including the goods stolen from a local business.


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Tokenized security issuance platform Securitize has launched a new service that it says will make it possible for users to trade tokenized securities peer-to-peer.
The service, called Instant Access, is being pitched as a means for exchanging digital securities in a way that is both compliant with regulators and poses "no counterparty risk," according to the firm.
Specifically, the tool lets users "privately create an indication of interest to sell their digital securities with a simple web link," according to a press statement. The link can be shared via email, text message, or any other way you might share such a link.
As long as a potential buyer has KYC/AML approval and is registered with the entity that originally issued the security, they can purchase the token directly via the link.
Under the hood, Instant Access is powered by Airswap, a peer-to-peer trading network built on Ethereum. In November of 2018, Airswap and Securitize claimed to have demonstrated the first-ever trade of security tokens using what they called a "decentralized compliance protocol."
Securitize isn't the only startup looking to stake claim to the market for digital securities, which to date has seen much more hype than adoption. Overstock's tZero, for instance, recently announced a deal to turn $300 million worth of real-estate assets into digital tokens.