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QCooling Appoints US Sales Director
Innovative Data Center Cooling specialist QCooling has made a key appointment to its sales team, strengthening its position in the US market.
Texas-based QCooling uses award-winning British technology to provide bespoke, game-changing cooling systems in the US and to international clients.
Paul Surdykowski has joined the engineering company as Director of Sales US after more than 17 years in the mechanical and electrical Data Center Cooling industry. He will be responsible for creating new partnerships for the distribution of QCooling's patented leak-free cooling systems, as well as finding new business opportunities and looking after overall sales in the US.
Simon Davis, QCooling Co-Founder and Director, said: "Paul has a proven track record for running sales teams within our industry so we are delighted to welcome him to our team. A combination of his expertise in this market place and our innovative data center cooling system gives us a clear advantage as we look to grow our sales in the US."
In the past, Paul has worked for companies including Rittal, Opticool, Vycon Energy, and Eaton, supporting projects of sizable new builds and Data Center retrofits.
He said: "QCooling offers customers a Data Center Cooling system like no other. I'm excited to be heading up the US sales team for market-leading product. During the coming months I'll be building on our connections with Data Center providers across the country and offering clients the very best cooling solution around."
QCooling provides the world's highest liquid cooling rack-based solution, which is ideal both for new builds and retrofits, as well as for hot spot removal. The system can be tailored to fit any rack and completely bespoke versions are available.
Central to its product offering is the unique and patented Leak Prevention System (LPS), which was awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise (Innovation) in the UK in 2015. The LPS provides a 100 per cent Leak-Free operation guarantee.
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Officially, autumn began last Tuesday (thank you Google Doodle for the reminder). In my world, autumn starts tonight when the 12th series of Strictly Come Dancing kicks off with the live dances.
SCD is the glittering light that brightens up the cold bitter British evenings for millions of viewers. It's unashamed, old fashioned entertainment that is on a par with watching an old Gene Kelly film on a Sunday afternoon in the feelgood stakes.

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Visit the Energy Systems Laboratory Homepage.
Web-Based Services for Building Energy Management - WEBE
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Nowadays, internet can be accessed anywhere, and www-based applications are widespread. Utilizing internet also for energy management and commissioning purposes will be a future trend. A web-based service for building energy management, called WebE, was developed at VTT. It is a modular and integrated service including several energy-related modules. This paper describes the main features of the WebE service modules. Also the system structure is briefly discussed.
Paiho, S.; Pietilainen, J.; Ala-Juusela, M. (2004). Web-Based Services for Building Energy Management - WEBE. Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu); Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu). Available electronically from http : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /5054.


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"It's 10:40am but the HandyDart is nowhere to be seen. I hurried into the Karen Magnussen Community Centre to find my colleague, Michael, waiting patiently on the bench just outside the indoor pool where the elderly held their water aerobics lessons every morning. Susan sticks her head out the door, dripping wet, with a disappointed look on her face and asks, "No show?" We shrug in synchronicity and just as we're about to cancel the session for Scott, the bright yellow shuttle bus with pearly white accents pulls up outside the rec center and starts backing up into the driveway."
Scott is a brain injury survivor. Now, with help, he's also a fighter. For the past several weeks, Scott has been taking one-on-one lessons with Susan, his instructor, to help regain strength in his leg muscles following the brain injury a few years back. Michael and I help him Monday and Wednesday mornings at 10am sharp to take him into the pool for rehabilitation with an instructor at the community centre. He's transported from his room at Evergreen House to the pool via HandyDart and wheelchairs. When he tried to rejoin the rehab class after a long absence, Susan was unable to let him jump straight into group lessons. Two years of mostly lying despondent in bed allowed his legs to atrophy. As a result, Vancouver Brain Injury Association paid for one-on-one instruction for Scott to prepare him to rejoin the class. VBIA's social work program provides whatever is missing. Scott deserves a chance to walk again.
It's been four weeks now. After twelve sessions, Susan decided that he had regained enough of his strength to join the group classes on Monday and Fridays. In the beginning we used a callable hoist that lifts him out of his wheelchair. Scott uses another wheelchair to enter the water. He then walks on his own using foam noodles that keep him afloat. Now, he's built up enough strength in his legs to be able to stand with our help to hop out of one wheelchair and into another.
Despite our efforts, this will not be enough. At the hospital Scott was denied participation in a physical rehab program. Scott was despondent because someone determined that he was a "poor candidate" for rehabilitation. Someone decided Scott would never walk again. VBIA's outreach worker thought differently.
But all this progress could be curtailed. Someone has to pay for the recovery.
Brain injury is by far is the leading cause of death and the leading cause of permanent disability in Western countries. People recovering from brain injury, like Scott, typically require the attention of social workers, physical therapists, and physiatrists in order to recover fully and perhaps be independent again.


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The devil was cast from heaven, and landed on the African continent.
This novel is getting a reboot, an update, a new edit. Same premise, different POV. New cover and title. I love change! Look for it late 2020
When night falls on South Africa, the anti-Christ rises as the seductive, beautiful, wealthy Eva van Hollinsworth, who resides in a living, breathing home. She is immortalized through reincarnation with the elusiveness of a ghost, hunger of a vampire, heart of a monster, but the reputation of a respectable author and parapsychologist. She is seeking Samiel—Satan—awaiting his final order while she ripens the world for conquest.
Jeffrey Thurmont, a lonely, young solicitor, teeters on the edge of total loss. Jeffrey attends a party to rub elbows with an influential client, named Eva. He becomes aware of sinister forces—her servants, guests, and even her living, breathing house—seducing him, inviting him to become an integral part of the final conquest.
Some secrets are meant to be shared; this magik book is one of them, and it will haunt you for the rest of your life.
Mason Barry is an American reporter who has risked his life writing and whistle-blowing. His last venture ended with his friend and photographer murdered, and a bounty on his head. Regardless, he dives into the deep web, searching for his next great story.
He catches a blurb about the anti-Christ, a woman alive and well, living in South Africa. Supposedly, she has written a magic book. Readers claimed the author's words not only opened doors to the supernatural, but also compelled them to murder and suicide.
Mason heads to Llandudno, a wealthy suburb of Cape Town, to find the book, meet the author, and expose whatever truths he might find. He meets more than a few sketchy characters along the way, and becomes lost in a world he never knew existed.
The story continues...
This one's set in New York. William McPhee has made his way back to the States, and he brought something home with him to his family. He's a different man, changed by what he saw and did while living in South Africa. And his daughter Emily knows what it is.
5 chapters by 5 different authors.
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CSS { In Real Life } | Building a dependency-free site in 2019
I think we're often guilty of assuming that because our tools are great solutions for some things, they're automatically the solution for everything.
I think we're often guilty of assuming that because our tools are great solutions for some things, they're automatically the solution for everything.
I think Cathy might've buried the lede:
The knock on effect of this was removing media queries. As I moved towards some of the more modern features of CSS the need to target specific screen sizes with unique code was removed.
But on the topic of Sass, layout is now taken care of with CSS grid, variables are taken care of with CSS custom properties, and mixins for typography are taken care of with
Personally, I've always found the most useful feature of Sass to simply be that you can have lots of separate Sass files that get combined into one CSS file—very handy for component libraries.
The fascinating results of Brad's survey.
Personally, I'm not a fan of nesting. I feel it obfuscates more than helps. And it makes searching for a specific selector tricky.
That said, Danielle feels quite strongly that nesting is the way to go, so on Clearleft projects, that's how we write Sass + BEM.
A lightweight style guide generator. This one uses SassDoc to parse out the documentation for colours, type, etc.
Rob walks us through the typographic choices for his recent redesign:
Most of what I design that incorporates type has a typographic scale as its foundation, which informs the typeface choices and layout proportions. The process of creating that scale begins by asking what the type needs to do, and what role contrasting sizes will play in that.
Time for another video from Patterns Day. Here's Sareh Heidari walking us through Grandstand, the CSS framework at the BBC.
Dan describes his approach to maintainable CSS. It's a nice balance between semantic naming and reusable styles.
Warning: the analogies used here might make you very, very hungry.
Tom wrote a post on Ev's blog a while back called JavaScript Frameworks: Distribution Channels for Good Ideas (I've been hoping he'd publish it on his own site so I'd have a more permanent URL to point to, but so far, no joy). It's well worth a read.
I don't really have much of an opinion on his central point that browser makers should work more closely with framework makers. I'm not so sure I agree with the central premise that frameworks are going to be around for the long haul. I think good frameworks—like jQuery—should aim to make themselves redundant.
But anyway, along the way, Tom makes this observation:
Google has an institutional tendency to go it alone.
JavaScript not good enough? Let's create Dart to replace it. HTML not good enough? Let's create AMP to replace it. I'm just waiting for them to announce Google Style Sheets.
I don't really mind these inventions. We're not forced to adopt them, and generally, we don't. Tom again:
They poured enormous time and money into Dart, even building an entire IDE, without much to show for it. Contrast Dart's adoption with the adoption of TypeScript and Flow, which layer improvements on top of JavaScript instead of trying to replace it.
See, that's a really, really good point. It's so much easier to get people to adjust their behaviour than to change it completely.
Sass is a really good example of this. You can take any
.css file, save it as a
.scss file, and now you're using Sass. Then you can start using features (or not) as needed. Very smart.
Incidentally, I'm very curious to know how many people use the scss syntax (which is the same as CSS) compared to how many people use the sass indented syntax (the one with significant whitespace). In his brilliant Sass for Web Designers book, I don't think Dan even mentioned the indented syntax.
Or compare the adoption of Sass to the adoption of HAML. Now, admittedly, the disparity there might be because Sass adds new features, whereas HAML is a purely stylistic choice. But I think the more fundamental difference is that Sass—with its scss syntax—only requires you to slightly adjust your behaviour, whereas something like HAML requires you to go all in right from the start.
This is something that has been on my mind a lately while I've been preparing my new talk on evaluating technology (the talk went down very well at An Event Apart San Francisco, by the way—that's a relief). In the talk, I made a reference to one of Grace Hopper's famous quotes:
Humans are allergic to change.
Now, Grace Hopper subsequently says:
I try to fight that.
I contrast that with the approach that Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau took with their World Wide Web project. The individual pieces were built on what people were already familiar with. URLs use slashes so they'd be feel similar to UNIX file paths. And the first fledging version of HTML took its vocabulary almost wholesale from a version of SGML already in use at CERN. In fact, you could pretty much take an existing CERN SGML file and open it as an HTML file in a web browser.
Oh, and that browser would ignore any tags it didn't understand—behaviour that, in my opinion, would prove crucial to the growth and success of HTML. Because of its familiarity, its simplicity, and its forgiving error handling, HTML turned to be more successful than Tim Berners-Lee expected, as he wrote in his book Weaving The Web:
I expected HTML to be the basic waft and weft of the Web but documents of all types: video, computer aided design, sound, animation and executable programs to be the colored threads that would contain much of the content. It would turn out that HTML would become amazingly popular for the content as well.
HTML and SGML; Sass and CSS; TypeScript and JavaScript. The new technology builds on top of the existing technology instead of wiping the slate clean and starting from scratch.
Humans are allergic to change. And that's okay.
A good overview of ideas and techniques for structuring CSS and naming classes.
There's a lot I disagree with here. I don't think this pattern library process is very elegant or scalable, and it certainly wouldn't work for me.
But I'm still linking to it. Why? Because I think it's absolutely wonderful that people share their processes like this. It doesn't matter one whit whether or not it would work for me.
Frontend development may have gotten a lot more complicated, but the simple premise of sharing what you've learned hasn't.
I couldn't agree more!
Linting CSS seems like a very good idea, especially if you're not the only one writing the CSS. This guide is going to come in very handy when I give it a try.
Advice for writing Sass. I don't necessarily agree with everything, but on the whole, this is a solid approach.
It's worth bearing Chris's advice in mind.
Mark Otto talks through the state of Github's CSS and the processes behind updating it. There's a nice mix of pragmatism and best practices, together with a recognition that there's always room for improvement.
Emil has been playing around with CSS variables (or "custom properties" as they should more correctly be known), which have started landing in some browsers. It's well worth a read. He does a great job of explaining the potential of this new CSS feature.
For now though, most of us will be using preprocessors like Sass to do our variabling for us. Sass was the subject of Chris's talk at An Event Apart in San Francisco last week—an excellent event as always.
At one point, Chris briefly mentioned that he's quite happy for variables (or constants, really) to remain in Sass and not to be part of the CSS spec. Alas, I didn't get a chance to chat with Chris about that some more, but I wonder if his thinking aligns with mine. Because I too believe that CSS variables should remain firmly in the realm of preprocessers rather than browsers.
Hear me out…
There are a lot of really powerful programmatic concepts that we could add to CSS, all of which would certainly make it a more powerful language. But I think that power would come at an expense.
Right now, CSS is a relatively-straightforward language:
CSS isn't voodoo, it's a simple and straightforward language where you declare an element has a style and it happens.
That's a somewhat-simplistic summation, and there's definitely some complexity to certain aspects of CSS—like specificity or margin collapsing—but on the whole, it has a straightforward declarative syntax:
selector {
property: value;
That's it. I think that this simplicity is quite beautiful and surprisingly powerful.
Over at my collection of design principles, I've got a section on Bert Bos's essay What is a good standard? In theory, it's about designing standards in general, but it matches very closely to CSS in particular. Some of the watchwords are maintainability, modularity, extensibility, simplicity, and learnability. A lot of those principles are clearly connected. I think CSS does a pretty good job of balancing all of those principles, while still providing authors with quite a bit of power.
Going back to that fundamental pattern of CSS, you'll notice that is completely modular:
selector {
property: value;
None of those pieces (selector, property, value) reference anything elsewhere in the style sheet. But as soon as you introduce variables, that modularity is snapped apart. Now you've got a value that refers to something defined elsewhere in the style sheet (or even in a completely different style sheet).
But variables aren't the first addition to CSS that sacrifices modularity. CSS animations already do that. If you want to invoke a keyframe animation, you have to define it. The declaration and the invocation happen in separate blocks:
selector {
animation-name: myanimation;
@keyframes myanimation {
from {
property: value;
to {
property: value;
I'm not sure that there's any better way to provide powerful animations in CSS, but this feature does sacrifice modularity …and I believe that has a knock-on effect for learnability and readability.
So CSS variables (or custom properties) aren't the first crack in the wall of the design principles behind CSS. To mix my metaphors, the slippery slope began with @keyframes (and maybe @font-face too).
But there's no denying that having variables/constants in CSS provide a lot of power. There's plenty of programming ideas (like loops and functions) that would provide lots of power to CSS. I still don't think it's a good idea to mix up the declarative and the programmatic. That way lies XSLT—a strange hybrid beast that's sort of a markup language and sort of a programming language.
I feel very strongly that HTML and CSS should remain learnable languages. I don't just mean for professionals. I believe it's really important that anybody should be able to write and style a web page.
Now does that mean that CSS must therefore remain hobbled? No, I don't think so. Thanks to preprocessors like Sass, we can have our cake and eat it too. As professionals, we can use tools like Sass to wield the power of variables, functions (mixins) and other powerful concepts from the programming world.
Preprocessors cut the Gordian knot that's formed from the tension in CSS between providing powerful features and remaining relatively easy to learn. That's why I'm quite happy for variables, mixins, nesting and the like to remain firmly in the realm of Sass.
Incidentally, at An Event Apart, Chris was making the case that Sass's power comes from the fact that it's an abstraction. I don't think that's necessarily true—I think the fact that it provides a layer of abstraction might be a red herring.
Chris made the case for abstractions being inherently A Good Thing. Certainly if you go far enough down the stack (to Assembly Language), that's true. But not all abstractions are good abstractions, and I'm not just talking about Spolky's law of leaky abstractions.
Let's take two different abstractions that share a common origin story:
If abstractions were inherently A Good Thing, then they would both provide value to some extent. But whereas Sass is a well-designed tool that allows CSS-savvy authors to write their CSS more easily, Haml is a steaming pile of poo.
Here's the crucial difference: Sass doesn't force you to write all your CSS in a completely new way. In fact, every .css file is automatically a valid .scss file. You are then free to use—or ignore—the features of Sass at your own pace.
Haml, on the other hand, forces you to use a completely new whitespace-significant syntax that maps on to HTML. There are no half-measures. It is an abstraction that is not only opinionated, it refuses to be reasoned with.
So I don't think that Sass is good because it's an abstraction; I think that Sass is good because it's a well-designed abstraction. Crucially, it's also easy to learn …just like CSS.
I can empathise with Scott's worries about fragmentation on the front-end with Saas, Styles, LESS, Compass, yada, yada, yada.
I want to share my code with everyone who writes CSS, not a subset of that group.
Jake demonstrates his technique for preprocessor-generated stylesheets for older versions of Internet Explorer (while other browsers get the same styles within media queries).
This is an excellent idea from Jake: use a preprocessor to automatically spit out a stylesheet for older versions of IE that includes desktop styles (garnered from the declarations within media queries).
If you're a dab hand with Ruby and you'd like to see this in SASS, you can help.
Jeff documents some of the techniques he's using to tackle responsive design, with some tips specifically for SASS.
If you use Sass, this could be a really handy technique for handling IE<9 support with mobile-first responsive designs.
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This time around was all 3 Pizza Ports! So much beer and NOT enough time.
Hamilton's Tavern in South Park, CA
Check Out the Tap List
(usually its a large chalkboard)
(usually its a large chalkboard)
Pouring the cask beers
The cask runneth empty
I would kill to have ready access to cask beer. I would.
So.... who do I need to kill?:)
Haha, you could start with the pint you have in your hand! Is there not any cask condition beers near you?
Hamilton's was really cool when I visited a while back. First time to the area for me and I was blown away by the great beer.
Good memories :-)


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Have you ever experienced a wet basement after a heavy rain? Or a leaky roof that's caused damage to your ceiling? If you have, you know how costly it can be to repair damage due to water in your home. Whether you've dealt with water issues in the past, or you've been fortunate enough to avoid them, it's important to keep up a maintenance routine that waterproofs your home and to consider tools that can help you detect water infiltration at its earliest stages.
There are several low-cost preventative measures you can take to protect your home against water damage this spring. Here are a few suggestions:
Depending on your needs and budget, there are a few different types of water detection systems available that can alert you to the presence of water in your home.
They range in price and quality so it's a good idea to do some research to identify what will work best in your home. With the OMA Insurance Program, you may qualify for a discount up to 10%, depending on the system you install.
It's important to have home insurance coverage that protects you against the potential high costs of water damage. Most home insurance policies will automatically include coverage for water damage due to leaks from electric household appliances (such as a dishwasher), and plumbing problems such as a burst pipe.
With the OMA Home and Auto Insurance Program, you could also qualify for optional water damage coverage, which protects you against water damage due to seepage of rain or snow through the roof or walls, or due to sewer back up.
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Lebanese military warns #Israel against oil exploration on borders - Xinhua | English.news.cn
The statement was released following a meeting between the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) Head of Mission and Force Commander Stefano Del Col and a senior delegation from the LAF.
It also came after Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri expressed his worry on Wednesday about Israel's intention to start oil exploration in July 2019 in the Karish field, which is very close to the Lebanese waters.
Berri also voiced concern over the intention of the French oil and gas giant Total S.A. to postpone its oil exploration in Lebanon's Block 9, which borders Israel's maritime zone and contains waters claimed by both sides.
Total was supposed to start operation in 2019 but has postponed it till the spring of 2020, said Lebanon 24, a local news agency.
"This is a very dangerous step," Berri was quoted as saying.
On December 14, 2017, the Lebanese Council of Ministers approved two exclusive licenses for oil exploration and production in blocks 4 and 9 for a consortium composed of Total S.A, Eni International BV and JSC Novatek.
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Intestinal infection caused by the protozoan parasite Giardia lamblia:
G. lamblia is also called Giardia duodenalis and Giardia intestinalis.
Infection results from ingestion of cysts,...
25–50% of infected persons are symptomatic.
Symptoms usually appear 1 to 2 weeks after exposure.
Persistent diarrhea, often >3 weeks (95%)
Abdominal cramps (70%)
Nausea (60%)
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RGMC Ensembles
The primary focus of RGMC is its ensembles. Depending on each student's instrument and musical level they will be assigned to one or more of the centre's ensembles.
RGMC Big Band
Open to children in the senior programme the RGMC Big Band is one of the signature ensembles of the Royal Greenwich Music Centre. Built on a traditional big band set up the band rehearses for 40 minutes every Saturday as part of the wider RGMC curriculum. Members of the band are exposed to an extremely wide variety of musical styles. In the past the band has performed music from countries as different as South Africa and Brazil and from genres as varied as salsa and traditional Balkan folk music. Much of the music played by the band is written or arranged especially for it by a dedicated group of tutors each bringing their own musical specialism to the ensemble.
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Custom Canvas Tote Bag and customisation according to your preferred size, printing and material. Additional features such as magnet button opening, adjustable strap, compartment, metal zipper etc could be requested to enhance the quality of your personalised, customised canvas bag. Get your very own eco-friendly cotton/canvas bag printed today. MOQ applies.
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The canvas bag premium series selection is one that TREA is especially proud to offer as a corporate gift option. These custom canvas bag options include customising your desired bag dimensions, canvas material, canvas bag thickness, add on accessories and a wide range of fabric colours. This premium series allows you to go beyond the norm to fully personalise and customise your very own canvas bag. Feel premium with our canvas tote bags with high quality custom printing. Your corporate logo or artwork will get attention when it is being printed on the canvas bag. Let us run through some tote bag facts with you on how it can be a premium corporate gift option.
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STEM Project Plants Seeds of Inspiration in Local School
Like most middle school students, the 6th, 7th and 8th graders in Cassandra Hunt's environmental science class at Neptune Middle School often benefit from practical exercises.
For particularly challenging or complicated subjects, it helps to go beyond dry facts and show students how their lessons apply to the world around them, Hunt said.
"I often have students who come into my class saying that they hate science. But by the time they leave, they are saying, 'Wow. I actually love this,'" Hunt said. "It makes a big difference, providing those opportunities to engage."
Brookdale engineering student Rhiannon Long has long felt the same way. This summer, as part of a NASA-sponsored fellowship program, Long decided to show off the creativity and real-world impact of engineering by building an interactive aquaponic system for use in Hunt's class.
The system, essentially a 30 gallon fish tank connected to a three-foot-long "grow bed," uses fish waste to fertilize herbs, vegetables or other types of plants. The grow bed, in turn, acts as a filter for the fish tank, creating a sustainable, environmentally friendly system of farming fish and growing crops.
"You are getting a double crop – the fish and the plants – in a small space, using about 80 percent less water than you would typically use," Long said. "All you really need to do is check the PH balance and add fish food."
The classroom setup is a scaled-down version of the industrial aquaponic systems increasingly being used by fish producers and farmers across the globe. The goal, Long said, is to show students how engineering and scientific principles are used to solve large-scale problems and make the world a better place.
"You can see how the waste, instead of just running off into a stream, is being recycled and used to grow life," Long said. "But what I'm really hoping is that they ask, 'How can we make this system better? How can we tweak it?' At that point, they'll be thinking like an engineer."
Long worked with Hunt to assemble the system in her classroom on Aug. 5, and will return to add about five goldfish to the tank on Aug. 12. According to Hunt, the system and its fishy inhabitants will be a welcome instructional aid for her 400-plus students.
"They are going to love it," Hunt said. "They all love animals, and they have probably never seen anything like this. We're going to be talking a lot about nutrient cycling and the water cycles, and we are going to connect all that with the food chain. This will kind of tie everything together nicely."
Long's project is the first in a series of community outreach initiatives that will be rolled out this year as part of a $70,000 STEM grant program, awarded to Brookdale earlier this year by NASA and the New Jersey Space Grant Consortium.
The grant program is designed to encourage women, minorities and local middle school students to pursue careers in a wide range of STEM fields, which are expected to add a total of one million new jobs by 2022. As of 2013, more than half of all scientists and engineers in America were white males.
"These jobs pay well, and they allow you to make a difference in the world," Long said. "We need more females and minorities in these companies and these industries, bringing good new ideas to the table. And it starts at the lower levels. All it takes is a teacher or a professional to reach out to a young student and say, 'You can do this.'"
Learn more about STEM programs at Brookdale by visiting the STEM Institute webpage.
Check out more photos of the aquaponic system build here.


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Obtaining an Emergency Protective Order in Virginia
In order to qualify for an emergency protective order in Virginia, you must be the alleged victim of a criminal offense that resulted in serious bodily injury or allegedly be stalked. In these cases, either the victim or a law enforcement officer has the right to request an emergency protective order from the necessary court, like general district court, circuit court, juvenile and domestic relations district court, or the magistrate. If the courts are closed, the victim can go to the local magistrate's office. No matter whether you go to court or a magistrate, the hearing is conducted ex parte, which means the alleged abuser does not take part in the hearing.
There is no associated cost with an emergency protective order.
What the Victim Must Show
The person who is requesting the protective order must show several things in order to qualify:
- There is probable danger for additional family abuse against a household or family member of the alleged abuser.
- There are reasonable grounds to believe that the alleged abuser has already committed one or more acts of family abuse, and there is probable danger of additional offenses by this same person.
How Long are Emergency Protection Orders Valid For?
Emergency protective orders are valid until 11:59 p.m. on the third day after the order is granted, unless that day lands on a court holiday or other day the court is not open. In the event the person needing protection is physically or mentally incapable of starting the petition for a preliminary protective order, then a law enforcement officer can request an extension.
What Can Protective Orders Do
The idea behind emergency protective orders is to prohibit criminal offenses or acts of family abuse that will result in injuries to someone or their property. They prohibit the alleged abuser from contacting household or family members. It also gives the victim sole possession of the residence and premises occupied by all involved parties.
What Happens if You are the One the Emergency Protective Order is Issued Against?
If you are the one the emergency protective order is granted against, the other party will likely serve you as soon as possible once the order has been granted. As the respondent, you can challenge the emergency protective order at any time by filing a motion with the court so they can schedule a hearing.
What Happens after an Emergency Protective Order Expires
Once the emergency protective order expires, the victim can request a preliminary protective order that lasts up to 15 days in Virginia, or until a full hearing can be scheduled with a judge. These are similar to emergency protective orders by prohibiting acts of violence, threats, or force. Once a full hearing is scheduled, a judge will determine whether the victim needs a permanent protective order.
If you need assistance with protective orders, you need a skilled family law attorney in Virginia. Contact the knowledgeable team at Whitbeck, Cisneros McElroy PC to schedule a consultation today.


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Today, I learned that milkshake machines are pretty much the devil (my favorite Star Wars t-shirt agrees) and mopping with a Swiffer is a pain in the ass. Let me explain.
My day began with driving my husband to work. He bribed me with donuts and coffee at our favorite donut shop – Mighty-O. If you live in the Seattle area and you love donuts, you have to check this place out. All of their donuts are vegan (but you wouldn't know it by taste – they are amazing) and they hand make the chocolate sauce that they use for their mochas (and chocolate donuts) – also vegan.
After coffee and dropping my husband off at work, I drove over to my very first cleaning job – procured thanks to the job platform TaskRabbit (I'll blog more about this later). My first client was at work when I arrived. He had planned on letting me in through a lockbox but unfortunately, it was removed by management. He fought with them for awhile to try to get them to let me into the building. After 45 minutes of waiting, a kind tenant let me into the building. It was at this moment that I learned that the elevators were out, so I had to carry my cleaning supplies up 4 flights.
One of my tasks was to wash and dry all of the towels and linens. After collecting everything and throwing them into a heap onto the floor, I realized that there was no money to do the laundry. I contacted the client and he told me to just do them next time – so I hung all of the towels back up and put all of the linens back on the bed. I was thankful for not having to the laundry today, though – it turns out the laundry is in the basement of the building – 5 flights back down and no elevator! I did my cleaning and my mopping – by the way, Swiffer wet mops are a pain because they get dirty and dry out so quickly! I am officially recommending a steam mop like the one I use at home. It is efficient and is a no-waste product – you can wash the mopheads over and over!
After my cleaning job, I went home and showered – all of that sweat and stinky cleaning smells needed to be removed ASAP. After walking the dog, I went to the local burger joint for a bit of register training. Most of it was typical customer service (I've got that in spades) and some new knowledge of operating the registers. I wasn't, however, prepared for the evil that is milkshake machines. Operating them takes a certain finesse that my new boss says, "takes about 100 milkshakes" before you get it down. I'm looking forward to that day because until then, my t-shirts will be exposed to milkshake shrapnel over and over again.
After getting home, I discovered that I received a $5.10 tip from this morning's cleaning job! AWESOME!
And that concludes my first day. I have more work planned this week and this weekend I will be in Portland visiting family. Stay tuned for more adventures, helpful tips, and wardrobe casualties.


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Interview with Timothy Kiprop Kimutai
Where and when did the idea for The Water Spirits come from?
When I was a small child, a farm help told me that there was a huge snake that lived in the river nearby that carried the purest diamond in its mouth, and it would place it down before it drank the water. I immediately became fascinated with the river and imagined all these spectral beings inhabiting it. Later, he told me that he was a wizard and he could fulfill any wish I had, and I told him I wanted an extra room next to mine filled with digestive biscuits and chocolate. I grew out of that wishful thinking as I got older, but still maintained an avid interest in folklore and would delve not only to Kalenjin folklore (told to me by my parents) but to South African, West African, Germanic and Celtic folklore as well. Then one day I was visiting a neighbour who was struggling to keep chickens (they kept dying from disease) and opened the door to her chicken house, and something about its desolate emptiness made me think of a small girl languishing inside, and as the idea played itself in my mind, I thought of a water spirit (in almost all world cultures there are spectral/ humanoid creatures living around rivers), and the story just gave birth to itself.
Can you tell us a bit about place or places you wrote The Water Spirits from?
Mostly in my house, in the dead of the night, the lights switched off, with only the one-off sounds of people closing doors and windows. I love writing at night because there is no sensory stimulation. I get easily distracted. In addition, I wanted to extrapolate myself to another world - the spectral dimension of it, as well as the rustic background of my story. None of this was available in my immediate surrounding -I live in one of Nairobi's many suburbs. At times, the writing came out so forcefully that I felt I was possessed as I typed maniacally on the keyboard. At times I just did not know where to begin, and I would find myself making random trips to the kitchen instead or youtubing strange stuff, like Native American war chants.
What inspires you to write?
I write because I believe I have a story to tell. I am an avid reader, and I just feel there are some stories that are never told or told in a manner I would love to read, and I look at the people lining up to write those stories and I find it is only me who has shown up for the task. In addition, some characters in my stories, just wish to live beyond the confines of my faculties and intend to become a shared reality with other people. They keep pestering my mind and giving me sleepless nights, and increasing my trips to the kitchen (I always keep bottles of strawberry yoghurt, pink guava juice, Red Bull and Coca Cola - and drink it in that order) and at times these suffice to drown the deafening calls from the people living in my mind, but not always.
Tell us about 3 writers you admire and why?
This is a hard question because am quite promiscuous when it comes to reading, and it seems cruel to rank my favourites. So let me list my three favourite books (this is not set in stone however) and thank their authors for writing them. I honour Lloyd Jones for writing Mr. Pip, for him to be able to get into the psyche of a young girl living in Bouganville Island during the civil war, and tie the fate of her community to a character in Charles Dicken's Great Expectations, was just genius. I also am grateful to Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni for her books The Vine of Desire and Sister of My Heart highlighting the experiences of South Asian women immigrating to the United States. Then there is Abdulrazak Gurnah. I struggled to find his books for a while but finally I got myself a copy of By the Sea -and I had to take many minutes of deep silence after reading it. He is incisive and lyrical without being ornamental or showy. He is my personal legend.
How did you hear about the Kwani? Manuscript Project?
I have bookmarked Kwani's website - so I would always pass by it as I surfed, looking for free events I could attend and enliven a boring evening or weekend. Previously, I had tried out Kwani's Kenya I Live In competition, as well as the To Be A Man poetry contest, but I was unsuccessful. Then a friend called me one day and told me about the Manuscript Project. I was a bit hesitant and full of self-doubt at first, but later I decided why not and so far so good.
If you had to describe 'The Water Spirits' as a cross between two other novels, what would they be?
I would say Them by Joyce Carol Oates, thrown into the magically intoxicating landscape of The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka and tightened by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's Weep, Not Child.


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Six years after the "Arab Spring" began waves of both conflict and reform throughout the Arab world, results have ranged from significant economic and political reforms to brutally violent civil war. In the intervening years, even the successes of the Arab Spring have waned. Atlas Network partner MinbaralHurriyya.org, an Arabic-language website based in Morocco, regularly publishes new content that explains how the future prosperity of the Arab world depends on building a consensus of peace, tolerance, individual liberty, stable institutions, and a consistent rule of law.
In a new piece exploring the state of the Arab world in 2017, Kuwait University political science professor Nazim Shafiq Ghabra consideres the conflict between two schools of change, one ready for peaceful reform and popular democracy and the other built on armed struggle and violence. A book review from late December by researcher Abdullah Hdari explains why the liberal heritage of the Arab world can be the engine that drives a second renaissance. Also in December, researcher Nabil Ali Saleh explores the future of pluralism, acceptance, and a conscious humanitarian worldview within Arab countries.
In addition to its extensive online content, MinbaralHurriyya.org organizes events that bring the ideas of liberty to participants in a direct, interactive way. The organization held its 13th annual summer university in Hammamet, Tunisia, this past August, sponsored in partnership with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom. Titled "Five Years After the Arab Spring: Stakes and Challenges," the event brought more than 30 young activists together from Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Yemen, Jordan, Mauritania, Morocco, Bahrain, and Lebanon.
"The importance of this year's edition of the summer university stems from the fact that the Arab world is passing through some hard times, especially because the Arab Spring movements were seen to mandate staggering economic costs that critically influenced the development of Arab countries," said Dr. Nouh El Harmouzi, project coordinator for MinbaralHurriyya.org, who delivered the event's opening speech. "As also pointed out by Mr. Ralph Erbel, chief resident of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Tunisia and Libya, the Arab world today is going through a multi-front crisis that makes a serious intellectual debate and scientific analysis very much needed."
The speakers approached the conference theme from different perspectives. Professor Shafeeq Al Ghabra, from Kuwait, lectured on the effects of "counterrevolution" by the old guard during the Arab Spring, and on extremism and violence in Arab countries. Dr. Mohamed Ezzat and Dr. Khalid Aazeb, both from Egypt, focused on the threat that cultural and intellectual extremism poses to the future of the Arab world. Dr. Mazen Daerawan, from Syria, lectured on rebuilding Arab countries that suffered economically and socially from the Arab Spring, and on the future of freedom and democracy in Arab countries. Professor Mohamed Haddad, from Tunisia, presented an evaluative study of Arab Spring movements. Dr. Ikram Adnani, from Morocco, aimed to inspire the young participants to help shape a future of tolerance and coexistence for all for the Arab countries. Just as he had opened the summer university, El Harmouzi delivered the final lecture of the conference about the economic cost of the Arab Spring.
"The Arab world is still living in turmoil and our societies are going through times of divide and intolerance, in a reality of expanded marginalization, vulnerability and lack of genuine societal dialogue," El Harmouzi said. "A climate of growing extremism and violence has settled on the region. With many failed States and many countries in or on the verge of civil war, the Arab Spring seems to have failed on delivering on its promises for a better and brighter future for the region. In the face of what looks like a calamitous situation, the need today is urgent for the adoption of new strategies that should come from concertation of all stakeholders to restore peoples' faith and set the foundations for a prosperous future that includes freedom and dignity for all."


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Follow these 10 foundation rules for a beautiful complexion:
- Make sure your skin is adequately moisturised. Even a good quality foundation will look unnatural on skin that is dehydrated. This step begins the night before, with a good quality night cream. Don't use a stripping cleanser in the morning that will remove the natural oils from your skin – rather opt for a cream cleanser or a simple rinse if you've adequately cleansed the night before.
- Choose the right formula. Drier skin works best with liquid or cream formulas, whereas combination and oily skins can handle stick, compact or powder formulations.
- Choose the right shade. When choosing a shade, try three close matches on your jawline, and choose the one you can hardly see.
- Change shades and formulation if your skin changes with the seasons. You may want a lightweight formulation in summer, and if your skin is oilier then, you may even try a compact or powder formulation. In winter, you may opt for one shade lighter if your face tends to be paler in the winter months.
- Use primer. Don't skip this essential step if you tend to have larger pores. Foundation is much easier to apply and blend on primed skin.READ MORE: ARE YOU APPLYING MAKE-UP IN THE RIGHT ORDER?
- Don't skip concealer. Ideally, use a concealer compact with more than one shade. Use skin-toned shades to conceal broken veins, age spots or acne scars, and the peachier shades to counteract dark circles. You'll find you need to use less foundation if you have used concealer first. Don't blend the concealer. Save this until after you've applied foundation.
- Apply foundation correctly. When using liquid and creamy foundation, use a blending sponge to 'stipple' on the foundation, building on the colour in areas where you need it most. Use a small concealer brush to apply foundation in harder-to-reach areas, such as the corner of the eyes and the nose.
- Blend, blend, blend. Check your application in good natural light to make sure you've blended in concealer and foundation to a flawless, invisible finish.
- Finish with highlighter. Apply highlighter just underneath the brow line and down the centre of your nose, and blend well.
- Add bronzer and blush. Dust bronzer only where the sun would naturally hit your face – on the forehead, chin and top of your cheekbones. Apply sparingly, or you'll ruin all the hard work in steps 1-9. Smile to reveal your cheek bones, and apply blusher to the apples, blending up the sides of the cheeks into the hairline at your temples. Again, don't overdo this step.
Voila! A dusting of powder will set the look, and you're ready to apply make-up.


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Navajo President Begaye Calls on Tribes to Stand against Threats to Sovereignty
Published October 27, 2018
DENVER — At a Large Land Based Tribal Nations task force meeting held during the 75th annual convention of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), President Russell Begaye called upon large land-based tribes and the NCAI to stand on the strength of their treaties.
President Begaye said tribal nations need to reinforce their sovereignty by standing on their treaties, federal trust responsibilities and federal Indian law.
Citing a 2017 case in which the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the Navajo Nation against the Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM), President Begaye said the decision overwhelmingly supported tribal sovereignty. The result of the opinion was that outside entities like PNM must receive the approval of tribal governments when seeking right of way over tribally owned lands.
The Navajo Nation won this case in New Mexico district court but PNM appealed the decision all way up to the Supreme Court.
"Ultimately, this means we have the law on our side and the status of Indian nations supersedes federal law when used strategically," President Begaye said. "For sovereign nations, this win was phenomenal. It proved our treaties are stronger than statutory laws."
The most recent challenge to tribal sovereignty came when a Texas federal court ruled that the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) was unconstitutional.
On Oct. 4, a federal court in Texas struck down the ICWA law that aims to protect Native American children in welfare custody by placing them with Native families first.
President Begaye said the Navajo Nation has been denied the right to be a party to this case, although one of the children involved is half-Navajo.
"The fight is definitely here and people don't understand the treaty status of our nations," President Begaye told the task force. "These issues are a constant battle and as tribes, we need to unite for significant change on behalf of Indian Country."
The Large Land Based Tribal Nations Task Force was moderated by President Begaye, Fort Hall Shoshone Bannock Tribal Chairman Nathan Small and task force board representative Gay Kingman.
Kingman is one of the founders of the Coalition of Large Tribes (COLT), which President Begaye is the current chairman of.
The task force's purpose was to strengthen the ability of large land-based tribes to advocate on behalf of issues facing their tribal nations and communities.
Large land base tribes have tribal nations consisting of 100,000 acres or more. These tribes are unique in that they are full service tribes. They operate their own court systems, police forces, judicial systems and full health programs.
Kingman said COLT was founded in 2011 when large land based tribes found themselves outnumbered in fighting for their budgets against the majority of smaller tribes.
"We brought this to NCAI to have them give large land base tribes time. It's a constant battle for us to get funding for all of our tribal government," Kingman said. "Collectively we need to work together to get budgets for our departments and tribal governments."
Chairman Small encouraged all tribes to defend their sovereignty as it comes under attack by both state courts and the Supreme Court.
"Large land based tribes have intense issues. With President Trump, he's loosening the policies that we've fought to put in place," Chairman Small said. "Our nations have a lot of issues and it's a continuous fight."