pred_label
stringclasses 2
values | pred_label_prob
float64 0.5
1
| wiki_prob
float64 0.25
1
| text
stringlengths 110
1.02M
| source
stringlengths 39
45
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
__label__wiki
| 0.738037
| 0.738037
|
One Community Scotland
People really do make Glasgow. We’re a city that prides ourselves on our warm welcome. At One Community Scotland we’re helping families and young people who are new to the city to settle in. We have recruited ‘champions’ from the city’s Horn of Africa community to help us do this. The ladies have all created happy and successful lives in the city and are now offering a helping hand to others.
Whether it’s getting to know the city, improving language skills or applying for jobs the ladies are there to help. Our champions have been given a range of training so they can ensure people get the right support from people and services in the city to overcome any challenges.
Community Champion Samira said: “We want people to know they are not alone, we are there to help whenever they need it. Whatever the problem we will do our best to get them the support they need.”
One Community Scotland is led by prominent campaigner Khadija Coll who has spent more than 25 years working in Scotland and Africa. Khadija explained: “The champions are dedicated women who understand the challenges that young people can face building a future here. Scotland is a friendly country that has great opportunities, we want to make sure everyone can make the most of those opportunities and contribute to the success of the country.”
Chief Inspector Alastair Muir of the SVRU said: “Building a life in a new country can be tough at times. It’s crucial that if issues do come up help is there to keep young people on the right track and making positive choices. Safe cities are created by engaged communities. ”
Launching the project in June 2018 the then Justice Secretary Michael Matheson said: "This project will have a crucial role in working with BME communities across Glasgow helping them to overcome barriers in access to education and encouraging positive life choices."
You can follow One Community Scotland on Facebook @OneCommunityScotland and on Twitter @1CommunityScot
Street & Arrow
Street & Arrow dishes up tasty modern street food. However this social enterprise does more than just good grub, it’s also serving up second chances for its employees.
Street & Arrow hires people with convictions for twelve month blocks. During that...
RESILIENT SCOTLAND
Negative events in childhood can affect a person’s whole life. Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) increase the risk of everything from depression, alcohol abuse and incarceration through to conditions like heart disease and even cancer. It's estimated* up to half of...
People really do make Glasgow. We’re a city that prides ourselves on our warm welcome. At One Community Scotland we’re helping families and young people who are new to the city to settle in. We have recruited ‘champions’ from the...
Working in emergency departments in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Ayrshire Navigator aims to help stop the revolving door of violent injury in our hospitals.
Mentors in Violence Prevention
Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) is Scotland’s largest anti-violence schools programme...
Medics Against Violence
Medics against Violence (MAV) were set up in 2008 by 3 surgeons who dealt every day with the awful consequences of violence. They wanted to prevent young people in particular being killed or becoming the victims of serious life changing...
ASC (Ask Support Care) is a training programme which aims to give everyone from vets and hairdressers to firefighters the skills to reach out to those who have become victims of domestic abuse and offer help and support.
#BackingSecondChances
Do you believe in second chances? At the SVRU we believe in supporting people who are putting in the graft to change their lives. One of the most powerful ways to help a person help themselves is to open the...
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line2
|
__label__cc
| 0.55054
| 0.44946
|
Up Cranberry Grade
In July of 2008 my brother in law was visiting with his family and looking at the progress of my layout thus far when he made some comment to the effect that "I wonder why all the layouts that I see have no turns in them?" Now I don't know what layouts he was talking about since most layouts have too many turns. But I took it as a thinly veiled reference to my layout; yet I still managed to hold my tongue.
However, the incident spurred me to start the first section of the three tracks up Cranberry grade with a projected completion date of before Christmas. Cranberry grade is along the right wall as seen in the track plan. This section would involve building four new benchwork sections and laying out two 90 degree curves and two S-curves.
The radii of the curves on Cranberry are 64", 68.5" and 73". They were originally intended to be 64", 68" and 72" , but when I adopted Atlas switches in the M&K Junction area, I had to adopt their 4.5" center-to-center track spacing. These curves will handle big B&O steam like the EM-1 2-8-8-4 and the S1 2-10-2.
The curves were laid out using a homemade beam compass. At one end of the beam that I made for the beam compass are holes to hold a pencil to draw: the center line of the track; the limit of the roadbed on both sides of the center line; and the limit of the sub roadbed cutout on both sides of the center line. On the other end of the compass beam, and measured from the pencil hole representing the center line of the track, I have holes at 64", 68.5" and 73" that accept the pivot nail on the center column of the beam compass. Using this beam I could draw the five lines representing he 64" radius curve, move the pivot nail to the 68.5" hole and draw those five lines and finally lay out the 73" radius curves in a similar manner. By using a red pencil for the center line, green for the edge of the roadbed and blue for the 'cut-to' line at the edge of the sub roadbed the lines drawn on the plywood sub roadbed do not get too confusing. The picture that follows shows the guidelines laid out for two parallel curved tracks.
The beam compass was aligned square to the tangent (straight) track at the point where the curve was to begin (the Point of Tangency (PT)) then the pivot point of the compass was offset about 3/4 to 1 inch towards the inside of the curve to provide for an offset for an easement. Once positioned to my satisfaction, the pivot point of the beam compass was not moved until all curves in that location were laid out. This kept all curves concentric. I lay out my curves while the plywood sub roadbed is still flat.
All of my curves are eased. I initially tried to lay out easements using a cardboard template actually calculated using the cubic spiral formula. However, even in O scale the offsets calculated using the cubic spiral formula were so small that I worried that the effect on trains would be minimal. So I reverted to using a batten (a thin, narrow strip of wood) to lay out the easements.
Once all of the curves and easements are laid out, I take the plywood sub roadbed outside and cut to the blue lines, which represent the edge of the sub roadbed. Doing the cutting outside eliminates sawdust in the basement. Once the plywood is back on the benchwork, I begin adjusting the risers to the grade, if any.
Here is the track at the start of Cranberry grade.
These tracks are on a 1/2 percent grade which will increase to 2 percent to the left of this scene.
After this first 90 degree curve in the corner of the basement, I had to begin the back-to-back 'S' curves along the short wall of the basement (right hand side in the trackplan). Why such a complicated track arrangement? Because photographs, track diagrams and personal on-the-ground inspection show that there is little straight track on Cranberry Grade, and S-curves are common. A secondary, but very important, reason is to have a scenic attraction at this spot on the layout.
Now S-curves are supposed to be one of the toughest things to do on a model railroad; therefore I proceeded very deliberately. I used the guidelines in John Armstrong's "Track Planning for Realistic Operation" and laid out generous easements into and out of the 'S'. Armstrong reccommends that every S-curve have a section of straight at its center at least as long as the maximum truck center spacing of your longest rolling stock; in my case 85' passenger cars.
But generous easements and long straightaways left little of the sinuous 'S' curvature that would be a scenic attraction. So I minimized the central straightaway as much as I believed that I could get away with. To make sure it would work with the minimal straight sectgion I laid the flextrack on the plywood first and tested each S-curve on all three tracks with a passenger car coupled to a 30' hopper to accentuate the offsets of the couplers (per John Armstrong) to avoid a mistake that would be difficult to correct later.
Well, to make a long story short, by attending to detail it seems to have worked OK. My test trains seem to traverse this section of track quite well. Although I cannot run a through train yet, I run trains forward and reverse along these S curves with no derailments. Here’s a video of such a run (the train appears about 25 seconds into the video)
The train is moving up a 2% grade and rises about 10 inches moving along this section of track.
Labels: 2 rail, 3 rail, benchwork, layout, model railroading, O Scale
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line4
|
__label__wiki
| 0.535733
| 0.535733
|
Andy May – “Café Americana”
Liner Notes – PDF
Andy May dishes up comfort food for the soul with his 2005 release, Café Americana. Containing 14 new original songs, Café Americana continues Andy’s tradition of CDs packed with enjoyable songs that have depth, heart, and (often) a sense of humor, and are presented with excellent musicianship and beautiful, clean production. Solidly Americana, this CD lays out a smorgasbord of country, bluegrass, and folk-flavored acoustic treats cooked up and served by a seasoned performer and his five-star band.
Snowy Winds of January…
Song of the Month!
Snowy Winds of January – Andy May – Maysongs
The “Andy May and Atlantic Express” Years
Ride with Me, which contained mostly original material, was getting good reviews, and I was determined that my future performances would feature a lot more of the material I was writing. I’d had a band sound in mind for that record and had produced it primarily as a band record. So now, with the prospect of booking actual concert dates, I put a band together of some of my favorite players in my area, and “Atlantic Express” was born. We worked well together, made good music, and had fun on stage – and people loved our sound. By 1987, I was becoming a sort of poster child for new Indie musician movement in the northeast.
Raise My Voice – Andy May & Atlantic Express, 1984
Back in the 80’s, Andy had a band called Andy May and Atlantic Express: Tim Griffin on drums, Jimmy Heffernan on pedal steel and dobro, Rudi Weeks on bass, Rick King on electric guitar, and Andy on acoustic guitar and vocals. They played all over the Northeast. The photos in this video are from a 1984 festival they played in…
Andy May – “MaySongs”
The first Swift River Music CD release of Andy May, MaySongs contains 15 original Andy May songs– several co-written with his wife, Lauren. The CD has a contemporary acoustic feel, with shades of rock, country, folk and bluegrass.
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line10
|
__label__cc
| 0.601515
| 0.398485
|
www.AllenOmega.com Web
Autry Family
Hayes Family
Powell Family
Wright Family
Anson County Relatives Family
Slave Information
Cemetery Information
View/Sign the Guestbook
AllenOmega.com
The African American Autry Families of Southeast North Carolina
Autry Family Home · Costan Autry · Daniel Autry · Frank Autry · Sam Autry · William Autry
In 1850 and 1860, George W. Autry was the only slave owner with the surname of Autry that lived in the Southern District of Sampson County, North Carolina. In 1859 George owned eleven slaves. According to the North Carolina State Archives, the slaves were named Pharoah, Chasey, Saul, Ned, Juda, Eliza, Sam, Harry, Chainy, Frank, and Chasey Jr. If George's slaves were siblings, it is more than probable that the descendants of Chasey & Sam (Autrys in and around present day Pender County), Frank Autry (Autrys in and around present day Clinton, NC), and Ned Autry (Autrys in and around Bladen and Cumberland County) are all blood relatives.
The first US Census was conducted in 1790. This census contained information on seven white individuals that were using the surname of Autry. Six of these individuals resided in Sampson County in southeast North Carolina at the time .
The six individuals were Cornelius Autry and his sons. Cornelius has come to be regarded by many as the original progenitor of the Autry surname among Anglo Americans in the United States.
According to the 1790 census, Cornelius and his sons did not own slaves.
By1840, the US Census was reporting that there were 35 families that were using the Autry surname. Of the 35, 20 resided in southeast North Carolina.
After Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and the conclusion of the civil war, all slaves were freed. The freed slaves were included in the 1870 US Census. African American Autrys first appeared in this census. This census reported that there were six African American Autry families that resided in Southeast North Carolina.
The following were the six families:
Costan Autry (1851) - Clinton Township, Sampson County
Daniel Autry (1830) - Cedar Creek Township, Cumberland County
Frank Autry (1848) - Little Coharie Township, Sampson County
Sam Autry (1830) – Taylor’s Bridge Township, Sampson County
William H Autry (1850) - Dismal Township, Sampson County
Ned Edward Autry (1826) - Dismal Township, Sampson County
These six are more than likely the progenitors of the Autry surname among all African American Autry that claim ancestry from North Carolina. It is also very likely that they were blood relatives or slaves owned by the same slave owner.
The 1920 US census reported that the total number of Autry households (white and black) had increased to 563. The largest percentage was still found in North Carolina. Of the 563 households, 140 (25%) resided in North Carolina, 77 (14%) in Texas, 74 (13%) in Georgia, 43 (8 %) in Alabama, 28 (5%) in Tennessee and 8 (1%) in South Carolina.
In addition to the African American Autry’s from Southeast North Carolina listed above, the 1870 census listed another African American Autry family living in Union County, North Carolina. The head of this family was Ralph Autry (1833). He moved to Union County from South Carolina. Union County was once part of Anson and Mecklenburg counties. Anson County was once part of Bladen County. Union County is located in south central North Carolina near Charlotte. It borders South Carolina.
Today the number of Autry households has drastically increased. Unconfirmed estimates indicate that 1 out of every 1000 households in North Carolina and Georgia is an Autry household.
Click to join African American Autry Families of America
Anson County Relatives
The information on this site changes almost daily so be sure and make regular visits back.
These pages are not to be reproduced or copied without the express written consent of Allen Omega.
These pages are not to be used for commercial use in any way, shape or form.
Copyright © 2004, 2005, 2006 Allen Omega.
www.AllenOmega.com
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line12
|
__label__wiki
| 0.630426
| 0.630426
|
Are We Headed For An All-Out Nuclear War With Russia? Marching Toward World War III While Russia Boosts Nuclear Arsenal And The US Stockpiles Degrade
By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine
Are we barreling ahead toward a nuclear World War III with Russia?
Recent headlines show us that tensions are increasing between Russia and the West almost daily and while Americans are focused on the economy, the strange unprecedented military movements throughout the country, disease, bird flu, the 2016 presidential candidates and a whole host of other issues, moves are being made by the U.S., NATO and Russia that should also be highlighted because any war between Russia and the West is guaranteed to become nuclear and wipe out a significant portion of the population.
NATO is encroaching on Russian borders, with Russian President Vladimir Putin responding bluntly that he will respond "accordingly."
“If someone threatens our territories, it means that we will have to aim our armed forces accordingly at the territories from where the threat is coming. How else could it be? It is NATO that approaching our borders, it’s not like we are moving anywhere,” Putin said speaking at a joint media conference with Finland’s President Sauli Niinisto in Moscow on Tuesday.
Via RT:
The comments come after The New York Times ran a piece Saturday, which said the Pentagon could store “battle tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and other heavy weapons for as many as 5,000 American troops in several Baltic and Eastern European countries.”
Day later, Poland and Lithuania revealed on-going talks with Washington to host US military equipment warehouses. This prompted a harsh reaction from Moscow; Russia warned that it has no binding obligations limiting its armed forces in its Western region.
We also see that Russia is boosting their nuclear capabilities with 40 new Intercontinental missiles this year, while we see other recent reports indicating that America's nuclear arsenal has been reduced, what we have is outdated and our "450 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) are stored in decaying 60-year-old nuclear silos in Montana, North Dakota, and Wyoming that look like a poorly maintained Cold War museum."
Via The Week back in January:
The average age of a U.S. nuclear warhead is 27 years. Many of the buildings where the nuclear missiles and bombs are stored date back to the 1950s — and it shows. Blast doors on the country's nuclear missile silos are too rusty to seal shut. The roof of a security complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn., that houses most of the U.S. supply of enriched uranium collapsed in March. For years, the three ICBM complexes had just one working wrench available to tighten the bolts on the missiles' warheads. When the wrench was needed, the workers would FedEx it from base to base. Today, the principal information technology used to operate and launch the ICBMs is an 8-inch floppy disk from the 1960s.
Sound bad? It is, as was reported in November 2014 by Mother Jones:
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is ordering a massive overhaul of America's nuclear weapons program after finding that "we've taken our eye off the ball," he said at a press conference on Friday morning. The Pentagon released a review of the nuclear forces that found outdated equipment, weak leadership, and abysmal morale among the men and women responsible for maintaining and launching some of the most destructive weapons on the planet. It found, for example, that the Air Force had only one wrench to attach and remove nuclear warheads on 450 ICBMs at three different bases. Maintenance officers would FedEx it among the bases.
The wrench fiasco, since remedied, "is reflective and indicative of a system that has been allowed to slowly back downhill," Hagel said. "We must change the culture of the nuclear force, especially in the Air Force."
Now let us take a look at the actual numbers, in the Arms Control Association's latest update in April 2015:
Russia: According to the March 2015 New START numbers, Russia has 1,582 strategic warheads deployed on 515 ICBMs, SLBMs, and strategic bombers. The Federation of American Scientists estimates Russia has several thousand nondeployed strategic warheads and approximately 2,000 tactical nuclear warheads. An additional 3,700 are awaiting dismantlement.
United States: According to the March 2015 New START declaration, the United States has 1,597 strategic nuclear warheads deployed on 785 ICBMs, SLBMs, and strategic bombers. The Federation of American Scientists estimates that the United States' nondeployed strategic arsenal is approximately 2,800 warheads and the U.S. tactical nuclear arsenal numbers 500 warheads. In total, the U.S. has about 4,800 nuclear warheads , including tactical, strategic, and nondeployed weapons. Additional warheads are retired and await dismantlement.
General Yury Yakubov, a senior Defense Ministry official, was quoted as saying by Interfax "If America’s heavy arms, be it tanks, artillery systems or other heavy military hardware are deployed to Eastern Europe and the Baltic States, it will be the Pentagon’s and NATO’s most aggressive step since the end of the Cold War a quarter of a century ago." (Source- ‘Most aggressive since Cold War’: Russia may beef up border if US arms stationed in E. Europe)
That article also reminds readers that "Russia formally announced a “complete” halt to its participation in the CFE Treaty on March 10, 2015, citing NATO’s expansion as the reason."
Deployment of American military hardware would contravene the Russia-NATO act. This stipulates the alliance must not deploy substantial troop numbers on new NATO member states’ territory, Aleksey Fenenko, an expert at the Institute of International Security Problems, told RIA Novosti.
Fenenko believes Russia will be unable to give a proper diplomatic answer to this step, so counter-measures will most probably be of a military nature.
“Russia will simply aim short-range attack missiles on [NATO] installations in Poland,” he said.
Perhaps the most concerning statement comes from Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov when he said "A few days ago, reports started to turn up about certain [American] missiles put in a certain location and about certain ammunition depots in Eastern European countries and the Baltic. It looks like our colleagues from NATO member states are pushing us into an arms race."
It won't be an "arms race" it will be a slaughter with Russia boosting their nuclear arsenal and the US allowing ours to degrade to the point where we don't even know what works and what doesn't.
While it is important to keep our eyes on all the latest current news, disease, borders, politics, etc.... none of it will mean a thing if the US, via NATO, continues to march us all into World War III.... because a nuclear war will have no winners, just millions upon million of dead bodies.
Video below: The international military-technical forum ‘ARMY-2015’ begins in the Russian town of Kubinka in the region of Moscow on June 16 and will continue until June 19.
* Proof MSM Is The Enemy Of The People - CNN's 'Dumbest Man On Television,' Don Lemon, Joins NeverTrumper In Mocking Half Of Americans As Stupid Hicks
* Radical Bernie Internet Troll Army As Bad In 2020 As They Were In 2016 As More Staffers Promote 'Extreme Action' - Spam Attacks The New Harassment Method Of Choice?
* 'Chilling': TDS Infected Liberals Publicly Panic And Whine As Majority Of Democrat Voters Ignore Impeachment Spectacle
* US Scientist Warned Apocalyptic Virus Could Escape Lab At Epicenter Of Coronavirus Outbreak 2 Years Ago - With Coronavirus Now In America, Prepping For A Pandemic Scenario
* Bernie Sanders Inspired: Guillotines For The Rich, Armed Revolution, Conservative Gulags, And Dissolving The Republic In Favor Of A Bernie Dictatorship
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line13
|
__label__wiki
| 0.690005
| 0.690005
|
Follow @LaurenGoode
Recent Posts by Lauren Goode
This Year at SXSW, the Next Killer App … Maybe Isn’t
March 8, 2013 at 4:34 am PT
In recent years, the annual SXSW Interactive festival in Austin, Texas, has become a hive for new platforms, with early tech adopters buzzing about the latest and greatest apps, sending some of them into flight.
But this year, the next big app is … well, it isn’t clear. After asking nearly a dozen of the hippest, smartest, earliest-adopting people I know in tech, media and digital advertising, the consensus is:
What — no new killer app?
Of course, SXSW will still go on and will probably even be fun, even if there isn’t a new app that “wins” the event. And here’s why:
SXSW Interactive was never really a launchpad for apps. With the exception of Foursquare — which the social location company hustled to finish in the few weeks leading up to the 2009 conference — most noteworthy apps haven’t actually launched during the conference.
Twitter didn’t, despite popular mythology, although its numbers did swell during the 2007 SXSW conference. And some articles that year ventured to say that SXSW was a “tipping point” for the newish microblogging site. But the first tweet? It came a year before that.
Also not new-kids-on-the-block were the messaging apps that were all the rage in 2011. GroupMe, now owned by Microsoft, launched the August before; Beluga had been around long enough to get acquired by Facebook just before SXSW that year.
The hype machine is broken. Last year’s pre-conference predictions were over the top. Remember Glancee, Highlight and Sonar? These were hot. They were changing the world! In theory, these apps were taking geolocation services to the next level. Some call this SoLoMo. Others call it MoLoSo. (I get these confused and it hurts my head.)
In any case, users quickly ran into battery issues with their smartphones, since these types of apps constantly track and ping users when other app-happy friends are nearby. And by the end of that week, AllThingsD writer Liz Gannes reported, a good SXSW icebreaker question was asking which apps people had deleted during the event, not downloaded.
Highlight creator Paul Davison said the company never sought out that kind of attention. “We had a lot of visibility after SXSW, which was great,” he says. “But after coming back, we said, ‘Okay, we really need to spend some time building out infrastructure and optimizing battery life. We need to make this a long-term product, not a festival product.'” Highlight has just released a new version of the app, hoping to take a second stab at success at SXSW this year.
There are too many apps. App fatigue isn’t a new theory, but it’s one I’ve heard mentioned a lot more in recent days. “I think it might be more difficult for newer companies to launch things there now,” says Tristan Walker, entrepreneur-in-residence at Andreessen Horowitz, who was part of the early days of Foursquare. “There are only so many new apps you want to download, and you’re not going to benefit from having 16 of them on your smartphone.”
Venture capitalist Bill Tai echoed this sentiment: “There are so many apps, the barrier is harder to break through.” But Tai, who has backed a brand-new app called Posse that he hopes will gain traction at SXSW, added, “I do think some app makers still see it as a good place to launch.”
Exciting hardware is stealing some attention away from apps. It’s hard to imagine SXSW becoming the next CES-like miasma of gizmos and gadgetry, but the New York Times’ Jenna Wortham highlights a hardware trend in her piece this week, with keynotes coming from Tesla’s Elon Musk and the founder and creator of the Ouya gaming console, as well as plenty of 3-D printing sessions to go around.
SXSW isn’t just about apps. It’s about the networking … at the parties. And the non-digital, real, live, human-to-human connections you’ll make … at the parties. And the interesting keynotes and panel sessions … followed by parties. So, if you’re looking to get value out of this year’s fest, you might want to consider this piece of advice, courtesy of Ad Age: Stop looking for the next big app.
Also: Get to a party.
(Feature image: Rondo Estrello / Flickr.)
How One Boring Company Pulled Off the Perfect SXSW Troll
Attention SXSW Hipsters: Watch This Video and Get Some Much-Needed Help
WordPress’s Matt Mullenweg Talks About Future of Blogging in a SXSW Pedicab
Google’s Smack-Talking Shoe of South by Southwest
Some More Inconvenient Truths (Including Spider Goats): Al Gore Talks About “The Future” at SXSW
Moon Shot: Earthbound Investor Milner Talks About Origins of the Universe at SXSW
People of South by Southwest — Please, Free Grumpy Cat
MakerBot Unveils Desktop Scanner Prototype for Amateur 3-D Printing
Ready, Set, Collaboratively Design a 3-D Printed Rocket
Artificial Intelligence, Al Gore, Modern Blogging and More: Where to Find ATD at SXSW
Tagged with: apps, Austin, Foursquare, Glancee, GroupMe, highlight, interactive, launch, Next Big Thing, smartphones, SXSW, SXSW 2013, Twitter
What You Need to Know About Online Gift-Card Exchanges
Kids Get New Tablets Over the Holidays? Here’s How to Lock ’Em Down.
Motorola’s Moto G Might Stand for “Great” Budget Phone
Sony Updates Lens-Style Camera to Include Photo Gallery, Better Connectivity
The NeatConnect Scanner Is a Cloud-Connected Guilty Pleasure
First the NSA came for, well, jeez pretty much everybody’s data at this point, and I said nothing because wait how does this joke work
— Parker Higgins via Twitter
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line15
|
__label__cc
| 0.560666
| 0.439334
|
Gargi College Customer Service Phone Number
Phone Number of Gargi College is 01126494544 .
Affiliated to Delhi University, Gargi College was established in the year 1967 and is amongst the top South Campus College of Delhi University. A college for women Gargi College offers courses in Arts and Humanities, Commerce, Science and Education. The college is located in South Campus of the University on the Siri Fort Road near the historic Siri Fort, which is seen from the college playground. Gargi College is named after a woman named Gargi, figuring in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishada of the Vedic Age. Gargi College is one of the two colleges in Delhi to have been honored with the prestigious College with a Potential for Excellence grant, by the UGC in the year 2004-2005. The award was given to Gargi College for its holistic approach towards teaching and its excellent track record in academic and other aspects of college functioning. Nine departments i.e. Botany, Chemistry, Commerce, Elementary Education, Microbiology, Physics, Psychology, Zoology and the Women’s Development Centre are at present engaged in improvement and experimentation in the UG programmes by using contemporary methods of learning and evaluation. Gargi College has an entirely computerized library that helps students reach the highest point of excellence in their particular field of study. The Library has a wide range of books to help the students. A variety of national and international journals and magazines are also subscribed to for references. Apart from the fiction section, books on general knowledge are in abundance in the library. An airy and relaxed reference section with sufficient seating is the delight of a student who would like to study, refer to, read or just flip through the pages of literature. The library has a staff that guides and answers all queries concerning books and the library facilities. The laboratories of Botany, Chemistry, Elementary Education, Microbiology, Physics. Psychology and Zoology are very well equipped and spacious. Gargi College offers medical facility to students during college hours. In addition, a Medical Room is in the college where a trained nurse is available for help or assistance to the students. Besides providing basic first aid, students may get their health check-up done. Regular medical and dental check-ups are also carried out in college by qualified medical professionals. The Students' Council of Gargi College instills the values of democracy among students. The General Body elects a new council every year which is for the students, by the students and of the students. The Students' Union Room is the 'Head Quarters' from where the decisions made by the Students’ Council are executed. It is not just a space for the council members; rather it is an open platform for all students where they can express their views and ideas. Gargi College offers UG and PG courses namely: 1) Bachelor of Arts in English, Hindi, Sanskrit, Political Science, history, and Philosophy 2) Bachelor of Commerce 3) Bachelor of Science in Life Science, Chemistry, Zoology, and Phy Sciences 4) Master of Arts in Political Science, and English 5) Master of Science in Chemistry. An active placement cell in Gargi College helps the students in the form of: career counseling sessions, information on avenues of higher/specialized education and campus interviews and placement. Every year MNCs, Banks, Insurance companies, Event Management companies etc. approach the college to recruit bright and talented employees.
Gargi College Address
The address of Gargi College is Siri Fort Road, New Delhi.
Gargi College Email Address
The email address of Gargi College is gargicollege@sify.com.
Gargi College Website
The Website of Gargi College is www.gargicollege.in.
Gargi College Customer Support Service Phone Number
The customer support phone number of Gargi College is 01126494544 (Click phone number to call).
The postal and official address, email address and phone number (helpline) of Gargi College Service Center and Gargi College customer service phone number is given below. The helpline of Gargi College customer service phone number may or may not be toll free.
Click Here To View Gargi College Customer Service Phone Numbers
What was the response after calling on specified numbers? To Write Click Here
If the contact information is incorrect, please let us know Here
View Contact Detail Like Phone Numbers
www.gargicollege.in
Your Complaint, Suggestion, Complication, Review To Gargi College
allcustomercarenumbers.net Advertisements
Tata Sky Jaipur Customer Care Number
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Customer Service Phone Number
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Customer Service Phone Number
Indian Institute of Technology Madras Customer Service Phone Number
Anna University Chennai Customer Service Phone Number
Indian Institute of Science Customer Service Phone Number
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Customer Service Phone Number
University of Hyderabad Customer Service Phone Number
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad Customer Service Phone Number
University of Pune Customer Service Phone Number
University of Madras Customer Service Phone Number
Visvesvaraya Technological University Customer Service Phone Number
University of Delhi South Campus Customer Service Phone Number
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee Customer Service Phone Number
Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata Customer Service Phone Number
Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Engineering College Customer Service Phone Number
GNA Institute of Management and Technology Customer Service Phone Number
Teri University Customer Service Phone Number
Bhim Rao Ambedkar College Customer Service Phone Number
Vivekananda College Customer Service Phone Number
College of Vocational Studies Customer Service Phone Number
Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology Customer Service Phone Number
Maharaja Agrasen College Customer Service Phone Number
Shivaji College Customer Service Phone Number
Sri Guru Gobind Singh College of Commerce Customer Service Phone Number
Sri Guru Nanak Dev Khalsa College Customer Service Phone Number
Dyal Singh College Customer Service Phone Number
Kamla Nehru College Customer Service Phone Number
Kirori Mal College Customer Service Phone Number
Miranda House University College for Women Customer Service Phone Number
Shaheed Bhagat Singh College Customer Service Phone Number
Swami Shraddhanand College Customer Service Phone Number
Ram Lal Anand College Customer Service Phone Number
Bhagini Nivedita College Customer Service Phone Number
Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College Customer Service Phone Number
Delhi College of Arts and Commerce Customer Service Phone Number
Deshbandhu College Customer Service Phone Number
Hans Raj College Customer Service Phone Number
Gargi College Customer Service Number Delineated Here With Complaints and Reviews
No complaints and reviews so far for Gargi College.To add review or complaint against Gargi College Click Here.
We advise you to express your problem or complaint against Gargi College. your phone number should be mentioned in your comment, so that Gargi College will communicate to you on your phone number mentioned in your comment.
Copyright © 2020 allcustomercarenumbers.net. All rights reserved.
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line17
|
__label__cc
| 0.696856
| 0.303144
|
Dolly Parton Is The Original Katy, Miley, Gaga, Taylor, Everybody
I was trapped in a Dolly Parton Youtube hole yesterday, and while watching an old Dollegend interview from the '70s with Barbara Walters I realized that Dolly is the original everybody.
West22 Comments
Beyonce Copies Narsha, Nicki, Ciara, and Victoria Beckham
After trying and failing to become the new Miley Cyrus with her soccer mama pixie cut, Beyonce has now turned her attention elsewhere in another one of her increasingly desperate attempts to remain relevant.
Shade32 Comments
“Get Like Me”: Nelly, Pharrell, and Nicki Get Together and Release a Real Bop
What's the deal with all these dusty pop flops from the early-to-mid 2000s suddenly becoming relevant again? Annie and Richard X are both back in business, Ciara's charting again, the original Sugababes have reunited, and Pharell Williams is producing No. 1 hits again. The nostalgia is crazy, y'all.
The latest blast from the past is Nelly, who's been back on the rise ever since releasing the radio-friendly crack known as "Hey Porsche" earlier this year. Now he's teamed up with Pharrell for his second single, "Get Like Me," which follows the same swaggy sparse production as Pharrell's Robin Thicke mega-hit, "Blurred Lines." It's also got booty bongos, too.
West8 Comments
Ciara Just Shat All Over You Basic Birdbrain Bitch Motherfuckers
In case you couldn't tell, I'm back on #TeamCiCi. I have been since "Body Party" took off and Cisus scored the cover of The Fader, therefore making her cool again after her dusty outdated ass spent the last couple years as the major of Pleasantville.
Follow RKD
Katy Perry prepares a new album of #MOMPOP for the masses - arcadey on Why I’ll never be a Katy Perry fan (and why she needs Jesus)
HyunA也放飞自我? 解约Cube后竟在镜头前掀起短裙露「橙色内裤」给人看！网轰: 好像露体狂！ on ‘Red’ Cements HyunA As Pop Music’s Sexiest Superstar
Photos: Kesha teams up with Zedd on new music on Ke$ha’s Director Tweets Photo Of Fans Revolting Against Dr. Luke
Kim Petras is making good pop music with Dr. Luke on Why I’ll never be a Katy Perry fan (and why she needs Jesus)
Rachel McGee on Brave Girls and EXID Are Finally Making Comebacks
A haphazard list of the best K-pop songs of the last decade
Selena Gomez releases two new singles (and one of them is good)
The embarrassing fake wokeness of Taylor Swift’s amazing Lover
Finally, a Fifth Harmony reject with some real star power
Katy Perry prepares a new album of #MOMPOP for the masses
Archive Select Month January 2020 (1) October 2019 (1) August 2019 (3) March 2018 (1) August 2017 (2) July 2017 (5) June 2017 (19) December 2016 (1) November 2016 (4) October 2016 (4) March 2016 (2) February 2016 (4) January 2016 (5) December 2015 (1) October 2015 (1) September 2015 (13) August 2015 (26) July 2015 (44) June 2015 (33) May 2015 (43) April 2015 (43) March 2015 (24) February 2015 (27) January 2015 (31) December 2014 (35) November 2014 (21) October 2014 (22) September 2014 (16) August 2014 (13) July 2014 (20) June 2014 (15) May 2014 (21) April 2014 (10) March 2014 (26) February 2014 (16) January 2014 (12) December 2013 (14) November 2013 (5) October 2013 (62) September 2013 (64) August 2013 (68) July 2013 (76) June 2013 (20)
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line19
|
__label__cc
| 0.581174
| 0.418826
|
HFC-43-10mee atmospheric abundances and global emission estimates
T. Arnold; D. J. Ivy; C. Harth; M. K. Vollmer; J. Mühle; P. K. Salameh; L. P. Steele; P. B. Krummel; R. H. J. Wang; D. Young; C. R. Lunder; O. Hermansen; T. S. Rhee; J. Kim; S. Reimann; S. J. O’Doherty; P. J. Fraser; P. G. Simmonds; R. G. Prinn; R. F. Weiss
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 41, Issue 6, p.2228 - 2235 (2014)
http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/2013GL059143
We report in situ atmospheric measurements of hydrofluorocarbon HFC-43-10mee (C5H2F10; 1,1,1,2,2,3,4,5,5,5-decafluoropentane) from seven observatories at various latitudes, together with measurements of archived air samples and recent Antarctic flask air samples. The global mean tropospheric abundance was 0.21 ± 0.05 ppt (parts per trillion, dry air mole fraction) in 2012, rising from 0.04 ± 0.03 ppt in 2000. We combine the measurements with a model and an inverse method to estimate rising global emissions—from 0.43 ± 0.34 Gg yr−1 in 2000 to 1.13 ± 0.31 Gg yr−1 in 2012 (~1.9 Tg CO2-eq yr−1 based on a 100 year global warming potential of 1660). HFC-43-10mee—a cleaning solvent used in the electronics industry—is currently a minor contributor to global radiative forcing relative to total HFCs; however, our calculated emissions highlight a significant difference from the available reported figures and projected estimates.
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line21
|
__label__wiki
| 0.631751
| 0.631751
|
Scores-06
Meet Schedule-06
Team Scrapbook-06
State Meet Results 05
4-A Div 1 Teams
Press 06
Individual Performances 06
Invitational Results 06
4-A Div-1 Girls Top 10 Lists
W.Valley Region-Top 10 List
4a Div1 State Meet Performance List
2006 Agua Fria Lady Owls Track and Field
2006 AGUA FRIA GIRLS TRACK AND FIELD ...................................... Front Row-(L-R) Desiree Johnson, Ariana Shannon, Brittany Williams, Cynthia Belzer, LaTorri Lindsay, Madeline Turner ................................. 2nd Row- Tiffany Perry, Irene Owusu-Ankomah, x,x,x, Gea Soto ......... 3rd Row- Michelle Stanback, Briana Greer, DaNey Teague, Candice Gray, Megan Shelton .. Top Row- Jasmine Easley, Kandi Sims.
2006 Season Highlights Dual Meet Record 14-1 (undefeated in region)-- 4 Invitational Titles- , 2nd Place West Valley Region 139 pts, 4th place 4a Div 1 State Meet 41 pts.
5/10/06-5/13/06 4a Div 1 State Meet- 4th place 41pts(40 pts in 05).. Under some very adverse conditions , the ladies had a strong state meet overall,considering a hamstring injury for Jasmine and a knee injury for Kandi; weren't able to do all the events to have a higher team finish, but were victorious in their specialties. Jasmine won the 100m in 12.20 after hobbling a 12.97 in the prelims, and grabbed 2nd in the 200 in 25.30. Kandi won the SP with a 38'5 PR (#2 all time AF), 3rd in Discus 104'6 P.R. Candice Gray took 6th in the Shot with a 31'6" effort, the girls 4x1 earned 5th place medals with a 50.48 mark. Other noteable marks were: Brittany Williams 10th in High Hurdles with a school record 16.87..DaNey Teague(15th) Freshman Record in HH 17.71.. Madeline Turner(13th) sophomore record in 800m 2:28.23.
5/2/06-5/4/06- West Valley Region Meet-2nd Place 139 pts( 139 in '05 also but 1st)..with just 12 girls..the ladies put up a huge number of points ..averaging over 10 a piece..started out on a bad note with Kandi twisting her knee in the L.J. and the ladies trailing by 33 pts after the 1st day..Everyone came up big on day 2 and were even by the 400 relay which we won in a seasons best 50.19. The judge that DQ'd Millennium then changed his call and the 400 break was too short by 15 min for Jasmine to run (otherwise the ladyowls win).. Not to take anything away from our ladies effort.. Great job by Brittany and DaNey (1-2) in the Hurdles..Kandi (36) and Candice(33) 1-3 in the shot. Kandi (1st)in the Tj 33'. Jasmine and Bre(1-3) in the 100/200. Megan 3rd in the 1600 and 2nd in th 3200m, Madeline 2nd in the 800m after her ankle injury.
4/15/06 Tempe Relays Small School Champion (under 2000 enrollment-Combined with Boys)..Huge Trophy! Top 9 teams-
Agua Fria 74
Moon Valley 44
Chaparral 39
McClintock 32
Greenway 31
Pinnacle 29
Paradise Valley-27
Higley 19
Jasmine ran 12.31, 25.17 and had a 56.6 anchor on the 4x4... Tiffany(62.4), DaNey(65) Madeline(63) ran a 4:08.67 # 1 in 4a Div 1 and .18 off the school record! Kandi got 3 medals and had 4 good events Tiffany hit 13.33 and Bre 27.30!
4/8/06 Estrella Foothills Invitational Champions- 108 pts..14 teams
Jasmine ran 7 races..prelims and finals in 100, 200, 400 & 4x1...won outstanding female runner plaque(30 pts) Kandi Sims won outstanding Female field performer plaque with a 1st (triple jump) 2nd (Shot Put )and a third(Discus)..24 pts before having to leave. Madeline Turner -PR in 1600 5:43 - and a 2nd in 800 2:31 and 63 split in the 4x4!.. Megan had a big PR 13:18 in the 3200! This was a first prelim/finals in the same day and the sprint team came up big ..scoring in 100/200 & 400m .
4/1/06 Covina Invitational- Starting in the cold rain and finishing under the dark of night the ladies performed well and set some P.R.s in this non-team scoring meet with 25 teams. They awarded Jasmine the top female runner award after she swept the 100 and 200 meters in 12.48 and 25.38.. The girls 4x4 improved 6 seconds to 4:16 which was good enough for 4th place.
3/25/06 Chandler Invitational - 77 teams competed at the 66th annual event. The Lady Owls earned 20 pts which was also 20th place.. 3rd in 4a....Jasmine qualified for the state meet with 12.49 and 59.78 clockings in the 100 and 400 meters. Kandi broke the school record and qualified for state with a 34' 11 1/2" Triple jump.. The 4x100 m relay turned in the fastest 4a time and got 5th in 50.68.
3/18/06 Phoenix Christian Invitational Champions- 102 pts -20 teams- A cool and windy day at Phoenix College turned golden for the Lady Owls as the scored in 13 of 17 events. Kandi Sims jumped 34'6" in the TJ ..2nd in LJ and SP 3rd in Discus.. Jasmine ran into a strong headwind but took 3 firsts.. The sprint corps was great scoring in 100, 200 and 400m and getting a win in their heat of th 4x4!
3/4/06 Tolleson Invitational Champions- 112 points - 13 4A and 5A Teams.. 1st invitational of the year and first time the Lady Owls have won here. Jasmine won the 100 and 200m. Kandi won the TJ second in the shot put and won the Long Jump. The 4x1 was victorious in 51.60. Nice jumps by Ariana and Desiree. DaNey, Michelle in the 400 and Brittany in the HH medaled in a great team effort!
© 2006 Agua Fria High School > Track (Girls). All Rights Reserved.
Last updated: May 15 2006 01:04:52 pm Mountain
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line22
|
__label__wiki
| 0.700389
| 0.700389
|
Wednesday January 29, 2020; 10:10 am EST
Home » Features » All
Features (All)
Article - Fishing; 7/12/18
Folks in a fishing village on the Arabian Peninsula definitely had more reason than we did to complain about last week’s heat.
In the town of Quriyat in Oman, the mercury set a record, plunging to 108.7 degrees on the night of June 26, marking the hottest low temperature in recorded history. During the day, it was 121.6 degrees. Those recordings combined to give the town of 50,000 another record, the hottest 24-hour period ever.
The United States still holds the record for the highest temperature on record: 134.1 degrees, recorded on July 10, 1913, at Furnace Creek Ranch in Death Valley, Calif., according to the World Meteorological Association.
Article - Things; by Ellie Pesetsky - 7/12/18
The Michael D. Schrodel Golf Classic
Play to remember — and repay
After Michael Schrodel’s early death in 2001, his family and brothers of Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity of Frostburg State University hosted a golf tournament to celebrate his life and memory.
“He wanted to give back to organizations that helped him when he was sick,” says his daughter Carmen, a student at James Madison University. “My dad liked to golf, so we figured a golf tournament would be a good way to bring people together for such a great cause.”
In 15 years, the Michael D. Schrodel Golf Classic has raised more than $100,000. All proceeds from the Classic benefit Calvert Hospice and the Michael D. Schrodel Endowed Scholarship Fund at Frostburg, his alma mater.
As well as supporting causes dear to Schrodel, it is, his daughter says, “such a fun day, a reunion of new and old friends!”
Friday, July 20, at Compass Pointe Golf Course, Pasadena. Sign up to play or sponsor until July 15: https://birdeasepro.com/Event/Register/8885.
Article - Places; by Keri Luise - 7/12/18
Cooling off on the Dog Days of Summer
SPCA reprises its two-species Cruise on the Bay
Annapolis is one dog-friendly town, from water bowls and treats outside of Main Street stores to events made just for furry friends.
On July 19, Annapolis further appreciates its dogs when the Anne Arundel Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals partners with Watermark Cruises for its sixth dog Cruise on the Bay.
“A cruise,” says Watermark’s Katie Redmiles “because the dogs can get the breeze from the water and we don’t have to worry about problems with getting them into places.”
Dogs and their people board Watermark’s Harbor Queen boat at City Dock to cruise 6:00 to 7:30pm. Both decks are open air, so the dogs have a lot of room.
Half of the ticket price benefits AASPCA dogs in need.
Liz Herrick of Glen Burnie and her Chihuahua-Pomeranian mix Bodhi and Pomeranian Pippa will be aboard. “My favorite activities are those that contribute to causes that I care about, so this was a perfect choice for my two pups and me,” she said.
Karisa Josephson of Dunkirk is boarding for the first time to help the cause. She is, she says, looking forward to “spending time with my friend [her dog] and the many people who love doing things with their pets as I do.”
Doggie pools afloat with hot dogs add to the fun for pups who can cool off in the water and go bobbing for a snack.
“I bring my dog every year, and he really loves it,” Redmiles said. “Dogs, believe it or not, like to get out on the water, so I’d say it’s more for the dogs, and they happen to bring their people along.”
Humans will have fun, too, with light food donated by Graul’s Market, an open bar, raffles and silent auction items, the latter two going to the dogs.
Article - Creature Feature; by story and photos by Wayne Bierbaum - 7/12/18
Snapping Turtles Hatching
Watch for babies and respect elders
The common snapping turtle’s life history shows extreme longevity and perseverance.
They begin their life by cutting through an eggshell, digging through a half foot of dirt, then crawling up to a half mile to water. Many eggs are eaten by raccoons, and the tiny young are food for many animals, even other turtles. Living on a diet of insects, tadpoles and minnows, the young spend most of their time hiding in dense pond weeds.
The first two years of life are the hardest. Very few, maybe one percent, survive.
Snapping turtles grow slowly, taking 15 years to reach maturity. Their lifespan is unknown, but some tagged individuals have been over 100 years old and weigh close to 90 pounds. Locally, some have been up to 75 pounds. A large common snapping Turtle may well be older than you.
They are ambush predators, eating almost anything that comes along — and that list is quite long. They have been witnessed killing a raccoon, but generally they eat fish that swim too close to gaping mouths.
Through winter, snappers hibernate under water and frequently under mud.
In the warm seasons, they mate. The female can store live sperm for several years, waiting until the conditions are right for egg laying. Starting in the late spring, female common snapping turtles laden with up to 75 eggs haul themselves out of the safety of water to find an area suitable for laying eggs. The nesting area can be up to a half-mile from water and uphill.
On their journey, you might see them crossing roads, laying eggs in gardens, hissing at pets and blocking trails. As for human contact, for the most part they are shy, but when cornered they can be very aggressive. Their strong jaws can cause serious damage to hands and feet.
To rescue a large snapping turtle crossing a road, either use a shovel to lift it or toss a towel onto the head and back and pick it up by the sides of the shell. Picking it up by the tail can tear the artery going into the tail and cause the animal to perish. Some people are able to pick them up by the shell at the area where the back legs go in, but there is a risk of getting bitten or scratched. Move the turtle in the direction that the turtle was already going.
Mid to late summer is the time the turtles hatch from their underground nests. They are a little more than an inch long and look like a clump of dirt or a partially smashed acorn. The hatchlings are usually only noticed when they move or are discovered by a pet. If you find a baby turtle, move it to a nearby body of fresh or brackish water. Snappers cannot survive the salinity of the ocean.
Article - News; by Cassi Whitehead - 7/12/18
Riding Past Polio
Team Rotary RAAMs Polio raced across America with local support
The race to end polio has stretched farther than Race Across America’s 3,000 miles, all around the world. It has lasted longer, 39 years instead of a week. But this year’s race brings the killer closer to eradication. In its third year racing, Team Rotary Race Across America’s Polio raised an all-time high of $1 million to destroy the dread disease in its last strongholds, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Team Rotary RAAMs Polio reached new personal bests in both time and sponsorship. As well as raising more money for polio vaccinations, the four international RAAM racers reached Annapolis less than seven days after setting out from California.
Two racers from Austria, Ruth Brandstaetter and Markus Mayr, and one racer from Germany, Kurt Matzler, joined Tulsa’s Bob McKenzie in the United States for the race. McKenzie has ridden in Race Across America with Rotary for three years running. “I tell the team every year in Oceanside that we’ve already won because we have provided immunization for the kids against polio,” McKenzie says.
Rotary, an international organization, has been focused on eradicating polio since 1979, thanks to John L. Sever. In 1979, the year when the final case of polio was diagnosed in the United States, Sever was both a Rotarian and head of the National Institutes of Health’s infectious diseases branch. Awed by the conquest over smallpox, Rotary International president Clem Renouf challenged Sever to find Rotary an equal task. Sever suggested polio as the Rotary target.
The challenge succeeded. Incidences of polio around the world have decreased by 99.9 percent. As the vice chair of the Rotary International PolioPlus Committee, Sever is after the last of the germ. Low vaccination rates and unexpected occurrences still keep the disease alive. Ukraine, for example, was declared polio-free in 2002 — until two cases were reported there three years ago. Only 50 percent of that nation’s children had been vaccinated against polio. The disease won’t stay down if people are not vaccinated against it.
Local Rotary clubs have supported the campaign since its beginning. For this year’s Race Across America, the Rotary clubs of Parole, Annapolis and North Shore contributed, raising $4,000.
“The club tries to contribute $2,500 to the PolioPlus campaign each year,” said Bob Smith, president of the Parole Rotary Club. This year, the contribution went higher, thanks to the additional efforts of the Annapolis and North Shore Rotary clubs.
It cost $60,000 in equipment and maintenance for Team Rotary RAAMs Polio to compete. In their arduous race, they were able to raise enough money to deliver more than 1.6 million polio vaccines.
“It’s pretty spectacular when you think about it,” Smith says.
Article - Creature Feature; by Wayne Bierbaum - 6/28/18
Singing Like a Grasshopper
Maybe that's because it's what this sparrow eats?
Many animals are named by the sounds they make or the food that they eat. The grasshopper sparrow is named for both. These little birds live in grasslands from Canada to Florida, where they like to perch on any stick or fence and sing a song that sounds like a flying grasshopper. They also feed on grasshopper and other grasshopper-like insects.
In the summer, they make nests by clumping grass near the ground. Thus their nests are at risk during hay cutting. Some farmers purposefully put off cutting while the birds are nesting. With fewer open grass fields, more grass cutting and many other reasons, the population has dropped 75 percent since 1968. The Florida sub-species is almost extinct.
To help protect populations of grass-nesting birds and animals, most states have established large tracts of grasslands that are not cut until after nesting is finished. In Maryland, the largest tracts are at Fair Hill and Soldiers Delight, with a smaller grassland at Sands Road Park.
Article - News; 6/28/18
Join a July 4th Parade
Cape St. Claire Celebration
10am from the Fire Department to the Main Beach for fun from 11am-2pm: tug-of war, sand-castle building contest, water-balloon toss, spoon and egg races, watermelon-eating contest and the Cape’s BBQ ribs and patriotic dessert contest: 410-757-1223; www.cscia.org/cape-st-claire/cape-st-claires-annual-july-4th-celebration
Severna Park Parade
10am from St. Martin’s in-the-Field Church, to Severna Park High School, to Evergreen Road to B&A Blvd to Cypress Creek Park: 410-647-3900.
Shady Side Parade
10am from Cedarhurst to the Shady Side Community Center on Snug Harbor Road. Roads close to traffic at 9:45am. Eddy Boarman: 443-370-8720.
Galesville Parade
1pm down Main Street, which closes to traffic around 12:45pm. Parking $5/car on the athletic field at Anchors Way and Main St.: [email protected]; 703-328-6669.
Annapolis Parade
6:30pm down West Street from Amos Garrett Blvd., around Church Circle, down Main Street, then on Randall Street to Market House: www.annapolis.gov.
Under the Rockets’ Red Glare
Your guide to fireworks, parades and celebrations
Historic St. Mary’s Fireworks: Pyrotechnics follow Chesapeake Orchestra’s birthday concert in honor of Leonard Bernstein, with music of Sousa, Tchaikovsky and more. Bring lawn seating and a picnic or buy from food trucks. Arrive early at this thronged summer favorite. 7pm, Townhouse Green, St. Mary’s College, St. Mary’s City: www.chesapeakeorchestra.org.
Chesapeake Beach Fireworks go up from two barges anchored beyond the town jetties, visible from the water and from land along the Bayfront from as far south as Willow Beach to north of North Beach. Watch the 25-minute spectacular from North Beach Boardwalk; at Rod ‘N’ Reel, where Split 2nd performs 5-9pm; on water onboard the Miss Lizzy (8pm, Chesapeake Beach Resort, $35, rsvp: www.cbresortspa.ticketleap.com); or take in the view from Chesapeake Beach Water Park (www.chesapeakebeachwaterpark.com). Fireworks 9pm, Chesapeake Beach: www.chesapeake-beach.md.us.
St. Michael’s Fireworks: The Shades of Blue Orchestra plays at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (7-10pm) for Big Band Night and St. Michaels’ fireworks. The orchestra performs at the historic Tolchester Beach Bandstand with dancing under the tent, and fireworks beginning at dusk over the Miles River (rain date July 1). Bring chairs, picnic blankets, food and drinks, but leave non-service dogs at home. Food, ice cream and non-alcoholic beverages sold; sponsored by Eastern Shore Tents & Events: www.cbmm.org/bigband.
Tuesday July 3
Sherwood Forest Fireworks: See this private community show from the Severn River from your boat. Or book on the Harbor Queen, with light snacks and cash bar. 7:30-10:30pm from Annapolis City Docks, $50 w/discounts, rsvp: www.watermarkjourney.com.
Herrington Harbour Fireworks: Fireworks set off from a barge illuminate Herring Bay. Marina grounds are reserved for members. But the view is great from boats, private docks, lawns or beaches. About 9:15pm, Herrington Harbour South, Rose Haven: www.herringtonharbour.com.
Baysox Fireworks: With an extended finale follow the Bowie Baysox baseball game against the Harrisburg Senators; rsvp for barbecue picnic buffet ($40 w/discounts). Picnic 5:30pm, game 6:35pm, Prince George’s Stadium, game tickets $7-$17, rsvp: www.baysox.com.
Annapolis Fireworks rise from a barge anchored in Spa Creek, illuminating Annapolis Harbor. Spa Creek Bridge closes to traffic at 6pm and local garages may fill up early; $1 shuttles run from Navy-Marine Corps Stadium to Lawyers Mall 5pm-midnight. Town and water views including from the Harbor Queen (7:30-10:30pm, Annapolis City Dock, $55 w/discounts, rsvp: www.watermarkjourney.com) or Schooner Woodwind (6:30-10pm, Annapolis Waterfront Hotel dock, $89 w/discounts, rsvp: www.schoonerwoodwind.com ): 9pm over the Severn River: 410-293-2291.
Solomons Fireworks shoot from a barge anchored in the Patuxent River, giving the entire island — plus boaters — front row seats. Arrive early for the boat parade (noon); stay to stroll the Riverwalk and see the town. Rsvp by June 30 to watch aboard the Wm. B. Tennison on a Calvert Marine Museum cruise (8pm, $35: 410-326-2042, x41). 9pm, Solomons: 443-324-8235.
Greater Baltimore’s Fourth of July fireworks illuminate the Inner Harbor, where the fun starts with the Commodores U.S. Navy Jazz Ensemble playing at the amphitheater (7pm). Come early for a heightened view on land or water, watch from the Top of the World observation floor, World Trade Center ($50 w/discounts, rsvp: 410-837-8439) or from a Watermark yacht (8-11pm, $59 w/discounts, rsvp: www.watermarkjourney.com) or on the Spirit of Baltimore (7-10:30pm, Inner Harbor, $115-$200, rsvp: www.spiritcruises.com). Fireworks begin 9:30pm over Inner Harbor, Baltimore: www.promotionandarts.org.
Washington, D.C. Fireworks: Celebrate America with high drama, music and special effects as the United States Army Presidential Salute Battery blasts cannons as fireworks burst over the capital. Tens of thousands of celebrants gather early on the National Mall for the National Symphony Orchestra’s annual concert (8pm). The nation’s capital begins the day at 11:45am with the Independence Day parade down Constitution Ave. and 7th St., traveling toward the Lincoln Memorial. Prime views include the Capitol, Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson Memorial, FDR Memorial, Iwo Jima Memorial and the Ellipse: 9:09pm on the National Mall: www.nps.gov/foju.
Laurel Fireworks: Arrive early for parade (11am), then visit food and craft vendors, a classic car show, hot-dog eating contest and field events; Oracle plays music. Then settle in for fireworks set to music shot from the far side of Laurel Lakes. 9:15pm at Granville Gude Park (Laurel Lakes), 8300 Mulberry St., Laurel: www.laurel4th.org.
Article - Features; by Wayne Bierbaum - 6/14/18
The Piping Plover
Don’t crowd this little bird off the beach
“The birds are taking over the beach.”
I heard that complaint as parts of a beach were being roped off because of nesting birds.
The bird under protection is likely the tiny piping plover.
In the 1850s, piping plovers were very common along the East Coast and the shores of the Great Lakes. The population collapsed as they were hunted so their feathers could decorate women’s hats. The Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 stopped the hunting, and the population stabilized.
With human development along the coast, the population was again threatened. By 1986, just 790 breeding pairs survived on the Atlantic Coast. That is when they gained protection under the Endangered Species Act. Even with protection, the most recent surveys still place the Atlantic population at fewer than 2,000 pairs.
Piping plovers nest in small depressions in beach sand. They lay their speckled, sand-colored eggs in depressions about the size of a footprint. The eggs are very hard to see.
The eggs take 25 days to hatch, emerging at about the size and shape of a miniature marshmallow. The tiny chicks hide by freezing in place, as they cannot fly for another 30 days. Eggs and young are very vulnerable to predatory animals and to being stepped on or run over by motor vehicles and bikes.
Adults also have difficulty feeding the chicks when people are too close. After the chicks have learned to fly, they are no longer as vulnerable. By September, the plovers start their migration south along the Florida coastline to the Bahamas.
These little birds need space to survive as a species. Four thousand birds along the hundreds of miles of Atlantic coastline is not very many. Help them out by avoiding nesting areas, and keeping your pets out, too.
Article - Features; by Kathy Knotts - 6/14/18
Before you make any plans for the weekend, rsvp for limited seats at the Rise Above Exhibit. This mobile theater has been touring the country and makes a stop in Annapolis June 13 to 16. Inside the immersive panoramic movie theater, you’ll learn more about the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II, see memorabilia and soar with the Red Tail Squadron in an IMAX video about these war heroes who broke down color barriers. 9am-4:15pm, Rockwell Collins parking lot, Annapolis, free, rsvp: https://bit.ly/2M09Ejt.
Jefferson Patterson Park & Museum in St. Leonard joins with the Calvert chapter of the NAACP to celebrate our patchwork of cultures at the 23rd annual African-American Family Community Day. Watch living history presentations, see a talent show with performers of all ages, check your well-being at a mini health fair, tour Sukeeks Cabin and see exhibits on display in the museum and at the lab. Live music plays all day around the picnic area. Sat., June 16, 11am-5pm, Jefferson Patterson Park, St. Leonard, free: www.jefpat.org.
Bay Weekly Classifieds
Commercial fishing guide license for sale. $2,500. Call Bob: 301-855-7279 or cell 240-210-4484.
1977 40' Jersey Sportfish with twin re-powered 375 turbo cats. With Generator 400 hours, new enclosure & more. 59,900 OBO: 410-610-0077
2008 Nissan Altima 2.5SL. 4-door, 150K miles. New transmission & tires. Excellent condition, clean, smoke-free. Loaded options. Gray. $6,250. 732-266-1251.
FEDERAL EMPLOYEES: Need help with a Federal EEO Case? Can’t afford an attorney? Professional, affordable help is here. I am a Federally Certified EEO Counselor/ Employment Law Specialist. I have helped numerous current and former Federal Employees navigate the EEO system. Call Clark Browne, 301-982-0979 or 240-832-7544, [email protected]
2007 Protatch aluminum pontoon, 5x10 marine plywood deck, trailer, two Minnkota marine trolling motors, livewell, bench seat plus two regular seats, canopy. Capacity 900 lbs. $6,900 cash. 301-503-0577
Refrigerator, 18' Frigidaire upright with top freezer. Icemaker available (not included). Stays cold, freezer function excellent. Very good condition. New $599, sale $195. Call Lou: 301-423-4424 or email [email protected]
Rybovich Outriggers. 36-foot triple spreaders. Center rigger. Very good condition. Call 301-752-5523. $1,200 obo.
Coranado 25' Sloop – Excellent sail-away condition. 9.9 Johnson. New batteries, VHF, stereo, depth, all new cushions. $4,500 obo. 703-922-7076; 703-623-4294.
Chesapeake Beach, one-half-acre lot - $90,000. 6770 Old Bayside Rd. Day Break Properties (Realtor) 410-610-5776
Mercedes Benz & BMW specialist services Volkswagen, Audi, Lexus & Acura in Calvert County. Family Auto, factory-trained Master Technicians! 410-257-7009, [email protected]
- see all classifieds -
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line26
|
__label__wiki
| 0.617691
| 0.617691
|
Bellevue Beat | Amazon buys Bellevue Corporate Plaza in downtown Bellevue
Amazon puts down more roots in Bellevue with announcement of the purchase of The Bellevue Corporate Plaza as reported in PSBJ today.
The 10-story office building, located at 600 108th Ave and adjacent to the Bellevue Transit Center, features an updated lobby, 3-level above-ground parking garage, tenant lounge, deli, secured bicycle storage and shower/locker facilities.
The seller, Equity Commonwealth of Chicago, previously submitted a master development plan for the 3.5-acre property that included a 435-foot tall 41-story hotel tower and a slightly taller 34-story office tower with a retail podium. This would replace the above-ground parking garage adjacent to the Bellevue Transit Center.
In early April, Amazon officially announced that it will move several thousands Seattle operations jobs to Bellevue in the coming years. With up to four 600' office towers coming to downtown Bellevue in 2023 and 2024, it's very likely that Amazon will claim them for its growing Bellevue presence.
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line30
|
__label__wiki
| 0.694801
| 0.694801
|
And You Thought It Was…Safe(?)
Alphabetically Indexed
Editorials & Over-Analysis
Godzilla: The Series
Jor-El Was Right
Let’s Play Demon’s Souls
Movies, Reviews, Videos
July 18, 2014 David DeMoss 5 Comments
At long last, we present our review of the 2013 remake of Carrie. This concludes Carrie-athon 2013, which began with Brian De Palma’s original 1976 film, 1999’s little-remembered The Rage: Carrie 2 and 2002’s best-forgotten made-for-TV remake/backdoor pilot for a series that never aired. With any luck, we’ll have another thirty-seven years before we see another one of these. By then, the “necessary” “updates” to the material might actually be necessary, instead of superficial…
Alex RussellAnsel ElgortChloe Grace MoretzGabriella WildeJudy GreerJulianne MooreKimberly PeirceLawrence D. CohenPortia DoubledayRoberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Previous PostFrozen (2013)Next PostDawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
5 thoughts on “Carrie (2013)”
Ricardo Cantoral says:
When I saw the trailer, the first thing that struck me was the banal visuals.
David DeMoss says:
Ah lah! So much with the banal visuals. The last big-time horror movie our leading lady was in, the Let The Right One In remake, had the same problem.
I have not yet seen that film but I am interested.
As the resident snobbish critic who supposedly hates everything, I’m compelled to tell you to watch the original…or at least watch the original first. Watching both back-to-back is an interesting experience in itself…though not necessarily a happy one.
Charles Phipps says:
Oh DDM, I totally disagree with you this time.
Yes, there’s nothing wrong with the original Carrie (it’s a classic for a reason) but I think the two can/should be taken as separate entities. The reason Psycho’s remake is awful isn’t because it’s a remake of a classic, it’s awful because it’s awful. Psycho’s flaw is the garish lighting, awful acting by Vince Vaughn, and well–everything to be honest. Comparing Psycho to the original makes it look awful but it’s quite capable of being awful on its own merits.
Carrie (2013), though is good. Quite good, in fact. Not as good as the original but hell and beyond better than the others. I think all of the actors in this remake do an excellent job and you’ve put them in a no win situation. When they’re different from the original Carrie, you talk about how this is a change for the worst but if they were too similar, then there’s no reason to exist at all.
The dynamics of Carrie (2013) are different this time around because it’s set in the 21st century versus the 1970s. Things come SO MUCH closer to avoiding the inevitable school massacre and, had Professor Xavier been around (or hell, Magneto), then things might have worked out better. I liked the Lighter and Softer touch to the setting even if it is a horror film and we’re meant to buy Carrie snapping.
Which I do.
The thing is, I also buy THIS version of Carrie could have gone on to live a relatively normal life with her awesome telekinetic powers. She might have gone the way of her spiritual sister Tina Shepard and used her powers for good like slaying Jason Voorhees (or It since Derry is just a few miles down the road).
While this version of Carrie goes the same Left Handed Path as her other incarnations, the movie highlights there was a potential for Carrie to go Right.
We, the audience, always sympathetic to Carrie, even when we’re not supposed to be (SK has said repeatedly she’s a pretty horrible person–and she is), but this movie is more forgiving for that sin and I for one like that.
Maybe it’s because I was the bullied child myself and my school’s inhabitants would have been a greasy smear on the wall if I’d had Miss White’s powers. I survived, though, sanity intact because of loved ones. The original is a grand guginol of grotesques who all but guarantee the Hamletian massacre at the end. This version distinguishes itself by people trying to reach a troubled girl and failing–and that, for one makes it worth existing.
My review: http://unitedfederationofcharles.blogspot.com/2014/06/carrie-2013-review.html
Reviews with swear words and sociopolitical analysis from David DeMoss
CthulhuBob on Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Jonah Falcon on Open Your Eyes (1997)
C.T. Phipps on Constantine (2005)
David L Ingersoll on Constantine (2005)
David DeMoss on X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
David DeMoss on Hellboy (2004)
Jonathan Wolff on Sea Prince and the Fire Child (1981)
Archives Select Month December 2019 November 2019 October 2019 September 2019 July 2019 June 2019 April 2019 March 2019 January 2019 November 2018 October 2018 September 2018 August 2018 July 2018 June 2018 May 2018 April 2018 March 2018 February 2018 January 2018 December 2017 November 2017 October 2017 September 2017 August 2017 July 2017 May 2017 February 2017 January 2017 December 2016 November 2016 October 2016 September 2016 August 2016 July 2016 May 2016 April 2016 March 2016 January 2016 November 2015 October 2015 September 2015 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 May 2015 April 2015 March 2015 February 2015 January 2015 December 2014 November 2014 October 2014 September 2014 August 2014 July 2014 June 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013 May 2013 April 2013 March 2013 February 2013 January 2013 December 2012 November 2012 October 2012 September 2012 August 2012 July 2012 June 2012 May 2012 April 2012 March 2012 February 2012 January 2012 December 2011 November 2011 October 2011 September 2011 August 2011 July 2011 June 2011 May 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 January 2011 December 2010 November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 January 2010 October 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 February 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 July 2008 May 2008 April 2008 February 2008 November 2007 May 2007 April 2007 January 2007 September 2006 July 2006 June 2006 April 2006 October 2005 May 2005 March 2005 August 2004 July 2004 June 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 February 2004 January 2004 December 2003 October 2003 September 2003 August 2003 March 2002 November 2001 July 2001 June 2001 April 2001 March 2001 January 2001 December 2000 November 2000 October 2000 September 2000 August 2000 July 2000 June 2000 May 2000 April 2000 January 2000 December 1999 November 1999 October 1999 September 1999 August 1999 July 1999 June 1999 May 1999 February 1999 January 1999
After Movie Diner Podcast
Bad Movie Podcast Dot Com
Bad Movie Report, The
Chez Apocalypse
cinematically insane
Cultural Gutter
Freak and Nitro TV
Jabootu: The Bad Movie Dimension
Movies, Cigars and a Brew with Keith and Andrew
Overthinking It Dot Com
Psychoplasmics
Stomp Tokyo
Swedish Cinemasochist
Trash Culture
Trash Film Guru
Traumatic Cinematic
United Federation of Charles
Unknown Movies
[exploderbutton]
Tag, You’re It
Akihiko Hirata
Alien Invasions
Daikaiju
David S. Goyer
DC Universe(s)
Desmond Llewelyn
Eiji Tsuburaya
Haruo Nakajima
Ishiro Honda
Jun Tazaki
Lois Maxwell
Marvel Universe(s)
Mustapha Akkad
Richard Maibaum
Sci-Fi Dystopias
Slasher Movies
Tomoyuki Tanaka
Traumatic Cinematic Show
Fucking Ads
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line33
|
__label__cc
| 0.512383
| 0.487617
|
The difficulty remains equal rights for men and women essay to extract a sense from inhibit adapted to the occasion. Nam Ictis, id est sylvestris mustela free download essay in hindi language cum graviter exarserit, male olet." Erasmi Adagia . Schaarschmid, late an eminent physician at Berlin, mentions in his collection of equal rights for men and women essay observations and remarks equal rights for men and women essay on physic and surgery, who cut off his own mortified leg with a saw, very unfit for such an operation[4]. The defendant speaks out.
Equal rights for men and women essay
Men women equal rights and for essay. We believe the Bible to be the word of God only so far as it has been translated correctly. Just then he hears a voice calling— “‘Johnny Reed!’ “‘Hullo!’ says he, ‘who’s that wants me?’ “‘Johnny Reed,’ says the voice again. The testimony of Dr. The action of the fins can be reversed at pleasure, so that it equal rights for men and women essay is by no means an unusual thing to see the stickleback progressing tail first. [6] But equal rights for men and women essay a want of preparedness equal rights for men and women essay can change a blessing into a curse. Pag. Either England did not wish to terminate the Nootka affair justly or she had other objects, for which this was to furnish a stepping-stone. Fashion is usually the child of caprice and the being of a day; principles of propriety are founded in the very nature of things, and remain unmoved and unchanged, amidst all the fluctuations of human affairs and the revolutions of time. The cicuta is a medicine which was, at one time, in very high repute, and owed equal rights for men and women essay its reputation to the experimenting talent of Storck, who has written several libelli on this plant. Few, if any, after a careful examination of the positive evidences of Christianity, conclude them to be inadequate. For instance, we have seen persons eminent for equal rights for men and women essay their devotion, who believed they saw the Holy Virgin, St. Sustained by some deep sympathy between themselves and their correspondents.” “Authors can’t write letters,” says Lowell in description of a city at night essay dfr a letter to Miss Norton. But the receivers , we presume, reason upon this principle, that we never know the value of a blessing but by its loss. The Jewish remnant that mixt with the descendants of Lehi was headed by essay on cce system in hindi language Mulek, one of the sons of King Zedekiah, whom the Babylonian conqueror, Nebuchadnezzar, overthrew. Steevens conceived, the origin of quarry equal rights for men and women essay . Agh livrey shin veih olk. Xlvi. So, coming up close to him, valiant Jack, fetching a blow at his head with his sword of sharpness, and missing something of his arm, cut off the giant’s nose. He equal rights for men and women essay relates a fact which he heard from a Candiote caloyer, who had affirmed the thing to him on oath; his name was Sophronius, and he was well known and highly respected at Smyrna. Thus, the teeth are longer of appearing; the bones of equal rights for men and women essay the head are soft and yielding, and hence the head is large; the long bones bend and lose their shape, or their extremities swell, event reflection essay and, from being more vascular than their nature is fitted for, inflammation is very apt to be induced. Children pronounce u in the most natural manner; whereas the sound of iu requires a considerable effort, and that of oo , a forced position of the lips. His own vision was before him, beckoning him on; and Joseph Smith's prediction behind him, urging him forward and pointing out the way. He appears to take part a good deal in pageants in England; and recent photographs of him as Falstaff, or Tony Weller, Lego do your homework or Mr. "Apud Ægyptios, si quis servum sponte occiderat, eum morte damnari æque ac si liberum occidisset, jubebant leges &c." Diodorus Sic.] the organizational work structure [Footnote 018: The young woman replied— “I will reveal the whole story. [Illustration] As poetry has ever been numbered among the fine arts , and has employed the pens of the first geniuses in all nations, an investigation of the subject must be gratifying to readers of taste. They are absorbed, and replaced with more perfect and healthy granulations. Phlegonus, freed-man of the Emperor Adrian,[458] in the fragment of the book which he wrote on wonderful things, says that at old regime essay Tralla, in Asia, a certain man named Machates, an innkeeper, was connected with a girl named Philinium, the daughter of Demostrates and Chariton. Justin Martyr[325] thought that the demons were the fruit of this commerce of the angels with the daughters of men. He fell afterwards into a kind of furor or convulsion, and they were obliged to hold him, and have five or six persons to equal rights for men and women essay keep watch over him, for fear that he should throw himself out air force academy admissions essay of the windows, or break his head against the wall. The derivation of lozel cited from Verstegan is use of nature in the big sky arbitrary, and deduced from a mere resemblance of sound. If he be, [angry] he knows how to turn his girdle. But, even from this relapse, the patients may be cured by a second operation. And yet essay about friendship do real friends exist nowadays there are men who deem human powers and earthly mahiwaga ang buhay ng tao essay writing resources all-sufficient, and who declare, in the face of prophecy, that famine and war are obsolete and never again can be. So far as they are alike, we discern the reasons of both; so far master s thesis in computer science as they are different, we discern the reasons of the former, but not of the latter. Latter part, and v. Rhyme is no essential element of poetry. These phenomena are exhibited in the first use of tobacco, in essay on muslim unity in the world all its forms. We equal rights for men and women essay indeed ascribe to God a necessary existence, uncaused by any agent. mercerism analysis essay Shaw’s explanation fails to explain, and his estimate of Fielding’s talent for drama is too high. "How many changes a revolution makes: The curé, who was named Prémontré, of the abbey of Toussaints, came to the monastery on Tuesday the 12th of January, gay marriage opinion essay 1621, in order to take the opinion of the Superior on this singular affair; they let him have three monks to help him photo essay environmental issue with their counsels. To the list of imitations, &c. Hence the old word yeul or yule for Christmas; a word that is still used, or at least equal rights for men and women essay has been used till within a century in Scotland and the north of England. He likewise promised him that he should have a new suit of clothes and everything answerable from top to toe, besides he should eat of the best. For those women which are transported with these furious motions of Bacchus , runne immediately upon the ivie, and catching it in their hands, plucke it in pieces, or else chew it betweene their teeth; in so much as they speake not altogether absurdly, who say, that this ivie hath in it a certaine spirit that stirreth and mooveth to madnesse; turneth mens mindes to furie; driveth them essay on earthquakes in japan to extasies; troubleth and tormenteth them; and in one word maketh them drunke withoute wine, and doth great pleasure unto them, who are otherwise disposed and enclined of themselves to such fanaticall ravishments of their wit equal rights for men and women essay and understanding. Vincent, a martyr in Spain, in 304, and in the life of St. It treats of a man much as if he were a equal rights for men and women essay word, say, in the Century Dictionary. This principle was to be applied to the Nootka settlement also, when that should have been returned to Great Britain. Thus in Nu wa: a goddess in chinese mythology Lodge's an analysis of the edicts of nantes Wit's miserie , "Behold I see contempt marching forth, giving mee the fico with his thombe in his mouth ." In the present play, ancient Pistol, after spurting equal rights for men and women essay out his " figo for thy friendship," as if he were not satisfied with the measure of the contempt expressed, more emphatically adds, "the fig of Spain ." This undoubtedly alludes to the poisoned figs mentioned in Mr. The truth is, so far is our heroic verse from being confined to the Iambic measure, that it admits of eight feet, and in some lowering the voting age to essay instances of nine. Remedial agents ordinarily act on the system, by exciting the living power through the medium of the nerves; hence when these have long been deadened by the habitual use of any narcotic, common sense, aside from the lights of science and philosophy, would teach us the difficulty of making an impression on a system whose nerves had thus been previously paralyzed. How is Truth wounded to death in the house of her friends! Agrippa had a demon who waited upon him in the shape of a dog. That proceeds from descriptive grabber essay attention for about food her natural constitution;" then M.
So that the visible government, which God exercises over the world, is by the instrumentality and mediation of others. And again and again it is stronger than his other appetites. But I have heard of another defense against the bugs. Schopfflein. “What are you about?” “Why,” said the man, “what need is there to ask? It is in his "Second Letter on the Study of History." "I was disappointed in my expectations of instruction from this book (Gibbon's History) when I discerned that the author had adopted that entertaining but superficial manner of writing history, which was first introduced by the Abbe de Vertot, whose History of the Revolutions in the Government of the Roman Republic, is one of those agreeable and seducing models which never fail of producing a equal rights for men and women essay multitude of imitations. Isaiah and Jeremiah--The Babylonian Captivity--Returning to the Kingdom of Israel. This hope is confirmed by the necessary tendencies of virtue, which, though not of present effect, yet are at present discernible in nature; and so afford an instance of somewhat prejudice discrimination paper and research moral in the ad analysis essay powerpoint ethos logos pathos essential constitution of it. [76] "Quamquam cur Genium Romæ, mihi fingitis unum? She inscribes on the door, "I am an infant at the breast whose equal rights for men and women essay milk is wine," and returns home to prepare a feast. The very homeliness of his genius was its distinction. He could do almost everything but speak; and movers and shakers: dante you would declare sometimes that you could see a pathetic longing to do that in his intelligent face. equal rights for men and women essay 't was caviare to the general. Michael, who is considered as the chief of the people of God and the armies of Israel;[81] and the guardian angels equal rights for men and women essay deputed by God to guide us and guard us all the days of our life--so we may say that the Greeks and Romans, being Gentiles, believed that certain sorts of spirits, which they imagined were good and beneficent, protected their kingdoms, provinces, towns, and private houses. The time and trouble that would a memoir important in my life be saved in consulting them would be very considerable. The wing ( b ) is rolled on to the wind in the direction b a , its under concave or biting surface being crushed hard down with the effect of elevating the body to e . This way of speaking is, I think, just; and equal rights for men and women essay what persons who write in defence of religion naturally fall into. Speaking of plays, the American presentation of "Magic" came into the conversation. They will be found in inverted commas. Consider then, upon what ground it is we say, that the whole common course of nature is carried on according equal rights for men and women essay to general fore-ordained laws. And the town, the world equal rights for men and women essay sank into a soft blanket of white. This practice, which has had many advocates for its employment in schirrus, has been equally recommended in cases of cancerous ulcers; but here it is still less admissible; for the extent of diseased parts is generally greater; the neighbouring parts are affected to a greater distance; indurated and diseased lymphatics frequently equal rights for men and women essay extend from the breast to glands in the remebering babylon axilla. In order to reproduce flight by Vermont mfa creative writing the aid of artificial wings, I find it necessary to employ a power which varies in intensity at every stage of the down and essays on future plans up strokes. The theme in literature essay rhetorics give directions how to address a letter, to begin it, to close it, fat dead sick and essays nearly and where to put the mr keating dead poets society essay postage stamp; directions as to the date, the salutation, the signature, and cautions not to write “yours respectively” instead of “yours respectfully.” These are stock market essays useful, but beyond these the rhetoric books cannot go, save papers bipolar disorder essays in the way of general advice. There is, I admit, no great difficulty now, but there were apparently insuperable difficulties before the locomotive and Comparison essay between two cars steam-boat were invented. While we were engaged in these and other melancholy reflections, the whole body of slaves had entirely passed us. Meanwhile, our thinking men allowed, whether from timidity or contempt, certain demagogic fallacies to become axioms by dint of repetition, chief among which was the notion that a man was the better representative of the democratic principle who had contrived to push himself forward to popularity by whatever means, and who represented the average instead of the highest culture of the community, thus establishing an aristocracy of mediocrity, nay, even of vulgarity, in some less intelligent constituencies. In absolving them from the yoke of slavery, we must not forget the interests of the society. He arrived at Nootka late in August. Since these events are so important, a detailed account is given. "Separes ainsi du reste de l'univers, ces debris des anciens Celtes ont conservé leurs anciens usages, & parlent une langue qui n'a aucun rapport a celles des peuples qui les ont subjugués, & qui equal rights for men and women essay s'est partagée en trois dialectes, le Gallois, le Cornouaillien, & le Bas Breton; dialectes qui ont entr'eux le plus grand rapport, & qui sont incontestablement les precieux restes de l'ancienne langue des Celtes ou des Gaulois. WINTER'S TALE. equal rights for men and women essay Thus the disease having taken root in the place where the operation is performed, would of course be increased by the ligatures, which are indispensably necessary in this operation, unless we would suffer the equal rights for men and women essay patient to perish by an hemorrhage. This description of Cupid is borrowed from some lines in Sidney's Arcadia , B. "The immense influence of Elijah during his life is seen in the place he held in the memory of after generations in Israel. There is in both a fulness of handling, an explication of sentiments and characters. Strikes another place, handsomest of all; writes pretty well. He left behind him a firm road on which public confidence could follow; he took America with him where he went; what he gained he occupied, and his advanced posts became colonies. He joined to formal evaluation essay ideas them thousands of mutinous Egyptians, Ethiopians and Arabs. The wretched population that makes its hive there threw all its votes and more against him, and yet paid this instinctive tribute to the sweet humanity of his nature. I descended the hillside the making of a great designer towards the loveliest prospect that ever greeted mortal eyes. By equal rights for men and women essay which ceremonie, thus much she is given to understand, that will she nill she, there she must now tarrie, considering that it which brought her thither, is now gone quite and equal rights for men and women essay consumed. Two of them will sometimes wait nearly half a day while a comrade goes for a tool. A horizontal to-and-fro movement will elevate, and an up-and-down vertical movement propel, but an oblique forward motion is requisite for progressive flight. A postponement is asked. Sir, you mistake, my name is Pepper , not Piper : In witness whereof I Macbeth order and chaos essay have signed the present declaration, sealing it with the seal of my arms. But that conjecture is neither vague nor random, as it is guided by permanent principles, and directed by the known influence of steady affections on the human heart. And governor of the fortress of Ségedin. "There lith on--up myn hed. Religion presupposes this as much, and in the same sense, as speaking to a man presupposes he understands the language in which you speak; or as tom sawyer whitewashing the fence analysis essay warning a man of any danger presupposes topics for a research paper 2015 that he hath such a regard to himself, as that he will endeavor to avoid it. Women for rights and men essay equal.
Master chart thesis
Contrast and compare notions of self identity
Sheba, known as the queen of the south
How to write a research thesis paper
Essay bravery demonstrating
Dissertation experts uk
Essay women and for rights men equal
Bicoko captain my captain essay nix
Equal men and women for essay rights
Rafael nadal essay
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line35
|
__label__wiki
| 0.79662
| 0.79662
|
Regional history/
4875 Sri Lanka (an4875)
Sri Lanka is a small island of 65,000 square kilometres in the Indian Ocean, not far from the southern tip of India. It was formerly called Ceylon.
Sri Lanka has a population of 18.5 million, a tropical climate, lush green forests and a rich history. In 1518 the Portuguese built a fort at Colombo, and a priest chaplain was placed there.
The Augustinians built a church in Colombo dedicated to Our Lady of Perpetual Help. Over seventy years later, in 1606 Augustinians from Portugal working in Goa accepted an invitation to take pastoral responsibility for the Four-Korales region. In this region they built churches at Betonta, Ramucana, Orna, Dugana, Aluga, Calilia, Mandemaravita, Atangale, Pitilgaldone, Ampe and Guileila. Mentioned in records in 1664 are thirteen Augustinian churches and the names of the Augustinian priests who attend to each of them. The Augustinian church at Attanagalla was dedicated to Our Lady of the Sinhalese, which is a significant fact of identification of Our Lady with the indigenous people.
When in 1658 the Dutch took over the colony from the Portuguese, all 120 priests in Ceylon were expelled. There were no priests for the next thirty years, and many churches were abandoned, especially in the country areas.
4802 Africa
4803 Asia-Pacific
4808 Benin
4810 Czech Republic
4814 Congo
4827 Hungary
4840 Iran
4848 Kenya
4851 Korea
4852 Latin America
4857 Macau
4858 Malta
4878 Middle East
4869 Poland
4876 Tanzania
4877 Wales & Scotland
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line36
|
__label__wiki
| 0.532082
| 0.532082
|
BIRTHDAY August 16, 1982
BORN PLACE United States
BIRTH SIGN Leo
Cam Gigandet Bio
EDIT/Suggest of Cam Gigandet
Who is Cam Gigandet
Cam Joslin Gigandet (born August 16, 1982) is an American actor. He is popular for his role in films Twilight, Pandorum, Never Back Down, Burlesque, Easy A, The Roommate and Priest.
Early Life (Childhood)
Gigandet was born in Tacoma, Washington. His sister Kelsie is a hair stylist. He recieved his education from Auburn Senior High School and Santa Monica College.
Gigandet has two tattoos,one on both arms that says "Godspeed". Has posses a black belt in the Israeli martial art of Krav Maga.
Gigandet married his fiancée, Dominique Geisendorff. They have two children named Everleigh Rae Gigandet. Rekker Radley Gigandet. They also announced that they are expecting their third child.
NETWORTH And ACHIEVEMENT
Gigandet has won MTV Movie Awards twice and has also won Teen Choice Awards and Young Hollywood Awards.
People Relating American Actor
Height of Cam Gigandet
Height in Inch
1.83 Meter
Height in Meter
Height in CentiMeter
6 Feet height inUnited States
6 Feet height ofActor
6 Feet height ofLeo
6 Feet height ofMale
People Born On 1982 People Born On January 16 More on Actor
Related Bio
Jason Spevack
Jason Spevack is a famous Canadian teen actor who gained fame for his performances in films like Fever Pitch, Ramona and Beezus, and Sunshine Cleaning. In 2011, he starred as Henry James Hermin in Jesus Henry Christ.
Jason Spevack Biography
Renowned and talented American actor who kissed the stardom after portraying a role in the movies likes Legally Blonde The Royal Tenenbaums, Blue Streak and Bongwater.
Luke Wilson Biography
Dale Godboldo
Dale Godboldo is also known by the name Geno. Actually he is an actor and has acted in the movies like Year of the Dog, Lakeview Terrace and so on.
Dale Godboldo Biography
Craig Sheffer
Craig Sheffer is a well known American actor. He is popular for playing the role of Norman Maclean in the 1992 movie, A River Runs Through It.
Craig Sheffer Biography
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line42
|
__label__cc
| 0.647007
| 0.352993
|
…but when UbL was finally killed, we all know who took the credit…
Posted on October 31, 2019 by Charlie
In the aftermath of the ISIS leader takedown…
“Making ‘Conan’ the Dog a National Hero Is Pure Donald Trump”
We all remember who the hero of the Usama bin-Laden takedown was, right?
(Hint: no photo-ops of 4-legged pups, or 2-legged SEALs were reported)
Hmm…those actually ON the call say nothing improper was said…?
At the Federalist: “NSC Official Tim Morrison To Schiff: ‘I Was Not Concerned That Anything Illegal Was Discussed’ In Trump-Ukraine Phone Call”
And THAT’S the difference between those with opinions about the Trump call with Ukraine’s leader, and those intimately involved: Morrison was on that call too.
Furthermore, as noted in this Fox interview with Rep. Meadows (R-NC) “The impeachment narrative built by House Democrats is beginning to collapse, as witnesses continue to contradict the quid pro quo claim being made against President Trump, said Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., on “Fox & Friends” Thursday. “All of a sudden what you’re starting to see is some contradictions between witnesses that we had yesterday [and] witnesses that we’re having today,” he said. “You’re starting to see a different side of the story. “And what we are finding and what your viewers need to understand is that each time that the witnesses are asked about holding up aid and [if] it was held up for improper purposes — the answer is no,” Meadows continued.” (emphasis added)
(And, NSC Morrison says Taylor testimony was riddled with ‘key’ inaccuracies.)
UPDATE: John Solomon destroys the Ukraine myths built around the Shampeachment efforts in a new article today, proving Democrats did everything they claim was done by President Trump, and points out Ukraine re-opened the corruption probe months before President Trump’s call to their leader…dismantling the basis of the Democrat case.
Looks like Democrats better gear up their next hoax…this one’s failing fast.
Lipstick on a Pig still leaves it a Pig
As reported at Breitbart.com: “House Democrats Pass Partisan Impeachment Process Resolution in Face of Bipartisan Opposition”
The pig (aka, impeachment ‘process’) has added the lipstick of ‘inquiry’ to its title.
Maybe it’s time to change the Democrat jackass mascot image?
But, it’ll take more than lipstick to make this Shampeachment leader look anything like legitimate: Adam Schiff is a proven leaker, a proven liar…and a material witness.
Now, with this latest ‘resolution’ he’s the man who decides its discretion and control?
As stated…it’s gonna take a lot more than lipstick.
Andy McCarthy breaks down the ‘resolution’ and the challenge faced by the Trump team in dealing with this situation, but its ludicrous proposition does beg a question:
He does a fair analysis, and toward the end notes that “…the president and his allies are going to need a substantive defense to the charge that, with a purpose to interfere in the 2020 election, he abused his foreign-relations power by encouraging a foreign government to investigate an American citizen for violating foreign law.”
But…isn’t that EXACTLY what Obama-&-co did in 2016?
It’s pretty bizarre, when the originators of a Russia-collusion hoax can get away with trying to impeach a duly-elected President for investigating and prosecuting hoaxsters.
‘Cuz that’s what’s going on here…
…their Shampeachment is meant to obstruct/discredit a real investigation…
…of a REAL crime.
And they will not stop.
Just curious though…don’t Democrats realize Republicans will want to put Joe Biden’s corruption with ‘foreign-relations’ on full display as good cause for an investigation?
Goodbye California…hello Medieval times?
If ever there was a poster-state for failed Democrat policy, California is it.
How else to describe, when a wildfire possibility can put you into the Dark Ages? We can’t clear-cut, manage undergrowth, or build new water-capture capabilities.
Between extreme environmentalists and Big Government Democrats, Green giddiness and Blue blundering have created Black conditions for California…and its populace.
“No longer is California the land of opportunity, it is a purgatory of high taxes, unaffordable housing, an outrageously steep cost of living, crumbling roads and bridges, soul-grinding traffic, and catastrophic homelessness.” Typhus, anyone?
This Issues-&-Insights article captures the irony: “Each of these is a man-made disaster created by public policy that limits and directs rather than frees and stimulates.”
California’s 2020 elections will be a choice of continuing to huddle in darkness…
…or be creative.
…and, folks, that’s called ‘witness tampering’…
“Nunes: Adam Schiff was coaching Alexander Vindman throughout his testimony”
And, when he wasn’t coaching, Schiff was telling him not to answer GOP questions.
Doesn’t get any more blatant than that.
Now, add this to the fact that Schiff, who is heading this Shampeachment proceeding, lied about he or his staff meeting with a whistleblower gossip-monger in advance.
Why would he feel the need to lie…unless aware it would be witness-tampering?
Federal agencies have protocols in place for whistle-blowers, and a complainant’s first contact over allegations would NOT be to partisan members of Congress; otherwise, such a contact made first is understandably considered unethical witness-grooming.
In other words…T.A.M.P.E.R.I.N.G.
This whole Shampeachment stinks…but not as badly as actions of the guy who runs it.
Race-baiter former first lady runs away from ‘her people’
Michelle Obama claims whites run away from blacks, but considering where she and The One have chosen to live nowadays, looks like it’s the pot calling the kettle…a pot.
Her new digs in DC and Martha’s Vineyard are in super-predominantly white areas.
Kalorama (Washington DC) is populated by 82.9% white, 3.8% black residents.
Martha’s Vineyard is populated by 94.4% white, 1.8% black residents.
If anyone’s running from ‘her people’…it’s Michelle O.
Typical Liberal…talk the talk, but NEVER walk the walk. (She could’a chosen Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Atlanta…funny, even she doesn’t want to make that choice.)
Why would she accuse whites of the very act SHE’S guilty of? With such overwhelming hypocrisy of hers on FULL DISPLAY, dare we suggest some pre-election race-baiting?
(At the risk of her accusing BlueCollar of ‘running away’ from a version of HER truth.)
On the one hand, we have a Trump economy making black employment great again…
…on the other hand, you have Michelle ‘Sharpton’ Obama…running away from Chicago.
Classic.
At the end of the day, they’re angry ‘cuz corruption IS being investigated
As the ‘quid-pro-quo’ saga continues, it’s sadly ironic to note how easily and openly the Democrats are willing to expose the fact that they are outraged over corruption probes.
And, tragic…that media is so deceitfully obscuring that naked truth.
Because, even IF the President suggested a quid-pro-quo to the Ukrainian leader, it would’ve been to conduct an investigation into corruption…not hide it to protect family.
Being fixed on the insignificant is exactly what Democrats want, because with everyone arguing about if a quid-pro-quo occurred, they’re NOT arguing about if corruption did.
Shouldn’t the real outrage be…
…that Democrats DON’T WANT CORRUPTION INVESTIGATED?
Now there’s a real campaign slogan, hiding in plain sight.
The only thing more outrageous, is the media’s duplicity in an effort to cover for them.
A fraud is being perpetrated on the public; first, begun before the 2016 election results and then – post-election – with a full-throated ‘collusion’ hoax…all to undo that election.
Can anyone spell ‘RICO indictments’…?
“The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, commonly referred to as the RICO Act or simply RICO, is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization” (hat-tip to Wikipedia)
Corrupt is just another word for ‘politics-as-usual’
As the Democrats put finishing touches on their strategy of dodging criminal prosecution by running for higher political office, we can’t help but ask if any of them are innocent?
Or a follow-up question: why not put forward candidates who AREN’T corrupt?
Since they opened the dance with an ‘election-meddling’ mantra, it’s heart-warming and gratifying to see them squirm as ACTUAL meddling evidence mounts…against them.
Democrats call pre-election investigation of their corruption as unacceptably political.
We call it serendipitous, and based on that mounting evidence…well deserved.
Can someone in Beijing help poor millionaire Lebron?
Evidently the communist apologist…err…NBA player is forced from his home by fires.
There are plenty of homes in China…won’t someone please help this poor millionaire?
If terrorism ‘isn’t about religion’ why worry how a terrorist is buried?
No sooner does President Trump announce ‘we got al-Baghdadi’ than the Left goes into meltdown over how he’s to be buried.
For 20 years, they’ve told us Islamists have nothing to do with Islam…okay, then why the angst over honoring an Islamic burial custom for one who’s DISHONORED Islam?
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line56
|
__label__wiki
| 0.809445
| 0.809445
|
WHM: Historic Hilda Aitken, First Female MP
[Part of Women’s History Month Series | Written by Robyn Bardgett]
As one of the first women to win a seat in the House of Parliament, Hilda Aitken [1891 - 1987] set a course to create a place for women in politics.
She won a seat in Smith’s during the 1948 election, along with her contemporary, Edna Watson, who won in Paget.
The mother of two had been heavily involved in the Women’s Suffrage Society, which had encouraged her to run – four years after they had won the fight to give female property owners the right to vote.
Hilda Aitken’s portrait now hangs in the House of Assembly, alongside other pioneering Bermudian women, including Edna Watson and Dame Lois Browne-Evans.
“These were phenomenal women,” Deputy Opposition Leader Leah Scott told Bernews. “Hilda Scott, in particular, was very outspoken and it was something that her contemporaries couldn’t get used to and I feel like I align with her.”
Ms Scott, who along with Opposition Leader Jeanne Atherden, are the first women to hold both an opposition leader and deputy opposition leader position, added, “Hilda Aitken was very moved by the Suffragette movement, and while its not so much the Suffragette movement for me getting into politics, its about wanting to see Bermuda maintain its integrity. Hilda Aitken was determined to do what she thought was right – and she didn’t care what people thought.”
Seventy years after that historic win by Hilda Aitken, women have made great strides throughout many industries, but most notably are the women who took on the challenge of creating more female representation in politics.
Those female champions include Dame Lois Browne-Evans, who was the first black woman in Parliament in 1963 and the first woman opposition leader in the British Commonwealth in 1968.
Dame Pamela Gordon, who was the first woman appointed Premier by her United Bermuda Party colleagues and Dame Jennifer Smith, who was the first female political party leader to lead her Progressive Labour Party to a general election victory and become Premier.
“Women are very interested in politics, and actually a large percentage of women work behind the scenes in politics,” Tinee Furbert, Junior Minister for Disability Affairs told Bernews. “Women are very supportive in politics.
“However, many women know about the possible risks involved with politics and the time commitments. They simply prefer not to be frontline. Women are also developing their careers and/or caregiving for their families and at times it may become difficult to balance.”
Ms Furbert, who is also part of the Women’s Caucus established by the Progressive Labour Party, said there are currently eight elected women in the House of Assembly out of 36 seats, and four women appointed to serve in the Senate.
“There is an increase of women in politics all over the world but not nearly to the representation of men. Currently, Rwanda leads the world with the most women in their legislature. President Paul Kagame of Rwanda assisted with the country’s constitution change, which was passed in 2003 that decreed 30 percent of parliamentary seats be reserved for women…It’s an example of gender inclusiveness.
“We must speak more about the woman’s role in governing, making laws and policy. Women also need support in politics, and mentoring is an important piece of the puzzle. Making pro-women decrees like what Rwanda has done is also helpful.”
In celebration of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, Bernews is featuring a series of profiles of exceptional Bermudian women throughout the month of March, you can click here to view the ones published so far, and look for additional features throughout the month.
WHM: Survives Crash, Becomes First Female MP
WHM: Norma Wade-Miller Breaking Legal Barriers
WHM: Jessica Lewis Sprinting To Success
WHM: World Champion Triathlete Flora Duffy
Private: WS Women Series – Dame Jennifer Smith
Photos: Bermuda Celebrates Women’s Day
#BermudaPolitics #GoodNews #RobynBardgettReports #WomensMonthSeries
Category: All, History, News, Politics
« Shipping Schedule: Week Starting March 17
Video: March 17th Bernews Morning Newsflash »
Robbery At Washington Mall In Hamilton
Shiona Turini Attends CDGA Awards In California
BHB ‘Ready To Respond Should Threat Increase’
Chamber Info Session On Pension Legislation
Comet Class Holds Annual Prize Giving
Flora Duffy Qualifies For World Championships
Dage Minors Wins 1000M At Terrier Classic
Football: Robin Hood & Rangers Play To A Draw
Squash: Dylan Muldoon & Bates College Win
Column: World Economic Impact Of Coronavirus
Photos: Parish Pride Project Held In Devonshire
Video: January 29th Bernews Morning Newsflash
Government Releases 2020/21 Pre-Budg… (13)
Photos & Video: Hamilton Medica… (10)
sandgrownan: It really is about all Curtis can do at this point. There's no new revenue of any significant quanti
Truthhertz: I always find it amusing how you guys go on about the debt added on by the previous administration,
bmac: Marlon and Sara-Lee were duped a few years ago when BLDC altered their lease and deleted their right
bluenose: Sadly, I feel you are absolutely correct.
bluenose: Taxi's Operators to pay $1,000 to $1,500 flat rate Payroll Tax per year! Am I understanding that cor
Oniongirl: I know Dr Soares personally and both governments have been trying to block this man for years. He wa
Hugh Jardon: Ferrel chicken.
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line63
|
__label__wiki
| 0.89278
| 0.89278
|
Lifestyle / Events
Food Impressions
Hotel/Restaurant deals
Gazette clicks
Colombo Gazette
Home News UPFA MP Ranjith de Soysa has died
UPFA MP Ranjith de Soysa has died
December 4, 2019 - 07:29
United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) Parliamentarian Ranjith de Soysa has passed away.
The Parliamentarian passed away while receiving treatment in Singapore.
He was 57 years-old at the time of his death.
The Ratnapura District Parliamentarian had served as the Chairman of the Rakwana Pradesheeya Sabha in 1997, Leader of the Opposition of the Rakwana Pradesheeya Sabha in 2002, Minister of Provincial Councils from 2004 – 2008.
The Colombo Gazette is a news website operating from Sri Lanka and accessed by Sri Lankans and others both in Sri Lanka and around the world. Colombo Gazette is part of the Colombo Gazette media group which also operates Leisure Plus Sri Lanka
Contact us: colombogazette@gmail.com
China in Sri Lanka
Society by Zarani
© All Rights Reserved @Colombo Gazette
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line65
|
__label__wiki
| 0.824014
| 0.824014
|
35 facts about the St. Louis campus
St. Louis was the first extended campus of Columbia College.
The current session has 939 enrollments (combined in-class and online classes)—largest enrollment ever!
The 2nd highest enrollment session was in 1999 with just under 900 (but they were all in-seat enrollments).
The St. Louis campus was founded on Oct. 31, 1973.
The first campus was on Goodfellow at TROSCOM (Army Troop Support Command) in Building 105 Annex.
The campus then moved to Jefferson Barracks.
The St. Louis campus was once at the Missouri Air National Guard Base at Lambert Field.
Buder Elementary School housed the St. Louis campus.
Hoech Middle School was a location for the St. Louis campus before moving to the current location.
The St. Louis campus finally settled at 4411 Woodson Road in 1997.
While at Buder Elementary School, a dietician at a nursing home provided cooked meals in the cafeteria for Columbia College–St. Louis students.
Columbia College–St. Louis initially shared the Woodson Road building with Bell Helicopter.
The campus has been served by eight directors—four women and four men.
Sabra Bingaman was the first director.
The eighth director is Debra Shrout.
Gary Massey, associate dean for Adult Higher Education and the Online Campus, was one of the eight St. Louis directors.
The longest serving current staff member is Assistant Director Jeff Long.
A current staff member who started in the evaluations office at the home campus is Tracey Ratermann, academic advisor.
Staff members Malaika Gaston (administrative assistant for financial aid) and Kristin Fisher (campus admissions manager) graduated from the St. Louis campus.
Jessica McKeown was responsible for 19 enrollments at Columbia College–St. Louis before she was hired at the St. Louis campus. (She worked for a local competitor but knew about the great value of Columbia College.)
Kenya Holloway, academic advisor, is related to 1978 Columbia College alumna Daisy Lomax.
Jerry Culberson, custodian, is the first person in the building each day.
LD Anderson, building monitor, is the last person out of the building each night.
Tikisha Davis, receptionist, is currently enrolled at the St. Louis campus.
The first evening receptionist at the St. Louis campus is Amanda Taylor.
The longest serving adjunct instructors are Jerry Timke and Steve Randoll (20 years).
The newest adjunct instructor is Courtney Barr, Spanish teacher.
The first graduation ceremony for the St. Louis campus was held in 2001.
Last year, $2,440 was contributed to the Kullmann Scholarship.
Online classes began in 2000.
52.5% of the St. Louis enrollment is women.
Most students are between 26 and 35 years of age.
85% of the students are pursuing a bachelor’s degree.
Military students comprise 5% of the current enrollments.
35% of the faculty has graduate work beyond a master’s degree.
Sunday, November 02, 2008 Chk out- 35 facts about the St. Louis campus
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line67
|
__label__wiki
| 0.70741
| 0.70741
|
Many of you know that our system was originally called COM.
But did you know it's been up and running since 1986?
Yes, our e-mail system was started back in 1986 in Almviks Gård, Sweden, by the former Harikesa Swami, whose purpose was to improve communications within the BBT and his zone. Prsnigarbha das had adapted existing Swedish BBS software and soon "COM", as it was called, was up and running on a DEC PDP 11/45, a big and ancient 16-bit computer with 192 KB of memory and a 14 inch 160 MB Winchester harddisk.
The telephone lines in Almviks Gård were lousy, and calling in from other countries was difficult. So, in 1987 COM moved to Korsnäs Gård, the headquarters of the NE-BBT, where it got a total of five login modems plus about fifteen direct (serial) lines connected to terminals in the BBT offices.
Soon the PDP computer was replaced by an Intel 386 PC with a 300 MB harddisk (which was a monster capacity in those days), running XENIX as operating system. Three Datapak lines (X.25 packet switching network) were added. At the end of 1989, COM got its own Internet domain (bbt.se), and the software got adapted so that messages could be sent to and received from outside e-mail addresses. COM would dial up the Internet provider a few times a day and exchanged mail using the UUPC protocol. In those days, very few devotees had Internet access. The worldwide Internet big bang would come only about two years later.
Throughout all those years, Prsnigarbha das worked steadily on improving the software according to the directions of former Harikesa Maharaja, who promoted COM intensely and encouraged many of his godbrothers and disciples, often preachers or managers, to get on COM. When also other Swamis (not to forget Jayapataka Maharaja) started to inspire everyone to get on COM, it quickly became a very important means of communication for ISKCON worldwide.
In the middle of 1992 Prsnigarbha das was made the manager of a construction project near Stockholm and his service as SysOp (System Operator) of COM was transferred to Dharmaraja das. He still continued developing the COM software in his spare time, though.
In September 1992, Ramakanta das from Zürich, Switzerland, joined the COM programmers team and started working on porting the COM software to the DOS platform (with DesqView as multitasking software), because XENIX, although a true multi-user / multi-tasking system, had many disadvantages. Three months later, in the beginning of December 1992, COM was effectively running under DOS, on an Intel 486 (33 Mhz) with 16 MB of RAM.
LINK, the BBS of ISKCON Communications (at that time still in San Diego), had been using Wildcat BBS software (also DOS) so far, but now Mukunda Maharaja decided to switch over to the COM software, and some limited conference networking was set up between COM and LINK. Devaprastha das (at that time Bhakta Dave) was the SysOp.
In October 1993, Dharmaraja das, who also functioned as department head of the NE-BBT Typesetting and secretary to the former Harikesa Swami, could not devote enough time to COM and handed over the SysOp service to Raktambara das. Murari das (at that time just Madhava) in the US joined the team of programmers. He did a great job by adding many new features to COM in a relatively short time.
Crisis Leads To Improvement
If you've been following attentively, you will remember that the COM BBS was now running on one 486 computer with 16 MB of RAM, hosting five modem lines, three Datapak lines, one Internet dial-up UUCP line, and about fifteen local terminal lines... As more and more users joined, both the hardware and DOS were loaded to the max. Moreover, the COM software had many bugs because the programmers involved could only work on it in their spare time, and nobody had had any time to go through the entire program code to eradicate all the bugs. Prsnigarbha das, who had been given other responsibilities, even resigned from the team of programmers altogether, as did Murari das. The situation became critical, the users got fried...
In June 1994 a major crash occurred that destroyed most of the text database (remember, it's a BBS), imploring Ramakanta das to take the systematic eradication of all COM bugs as his mission. At the same time, Raktambara das set up a coax ethernet LAN (Local Area Network) in the NE-BBT, which was also of great advantage to COM. The old COM computer was made into a Lantastic (Artisoft) server hosting the COM databases, and other client computers divided the various tasks: two 386'es answered the five modem lines, one 486 dealt with all the local terminal and Datapak lines, and another 386 did the Internet mail transfers.
With this new hardware setup and Ramakanta das gradually exterminating all the bugs, COM became faster and more reliable than it had ever been. Turbo login was added by starting the COM processes in advance and then having the users "drop into" the COM sessions. (Before that time, the login process alone took at least twelve seconds, which was a long time if you consider that most devotees were calling from abroad.)
In August 1994, features were added that allowed forwarding of COM mail to an external e-mail address on a regular basis, and for COM users to send in updumps (an updump contains mail to be sent, plus additional COM commands, e.g. commands to download files) through e-mail instead of having to call by modem. This relieved those COM users who did have Internet access from having to pay expensive phone bills.
In November 1994, Ista das started CIS COM in Moscow, the third COM node. It had one modem line.
Sometime in 1995, the Lantastic server software was replaced by Novell Netware software, which was a little faster.
WinCOM enters the story
Then suddenly, almost overnight, the Internet became widely and easily available to everyone. Murari das started a free World-Wide-Web version of COM, WWW-COM, with a very nice interface that attracted many devotees who simply wanted to read some conference mail here and there and occasionally write a letter. For devotees who had to cope with fairly big amounts of mail daily, however, it was too slow and thus impractical. These devotees remained with COM or LINK.
Since now COM allowed forwarding of mail to an external e-mail address, many devotees desired to join COM, and the number of COM users increased greatly in a short period of time. As every COM process keeps all user names in memory while running, DOS with its 640K program memory limitation quickly became unfit for hosting the COM software. A stable 32-bit operating system was required. The options back then were either OS/2 or Windows NT 3.5. Ramakanta das, a true kalpa-vrksa devotee, satisfied all SysOps by making COM versions for both OS/2 and NT 3.5 in an amazingly short time. COM chose for OS/2 and CIS for NT. Also, the COM hardware was upgraded (from 386'es and 486'es) to Pentium 75Mhz computers, and a 100Mhz Pentium database server, and COM became what was then considered blazing fast.
However, the users were still not completely satisfied. Especially the newcomers were complaining that the BBS command line interface to COM was old-fashioned and difficult to deal with, that one had to remember so many commands, etc. Murari das had already started working on an off-line reader program for DOS that would enable users to deal with their COM mail in a very convenient way, but he somehow lost inspiration and never finished it. Time was short, so Ramakanta das took over and started working on a Windows version, and soon WinCOM was born.
In October of 1996, LINK had a harddisk crash, and broken backups... They closed down forever, the two main reasons being that (1) LINK had had a hard time to survive economically, and (2) that LINK wasn't preferred any longer by American devotees, since COM did not charge subscription fees and they could get their COM mail forwarded to their local Internet provider.
In December of 1996, Raktambara and Ramakanta invented telnet login to COM, meaning that one could be on-line on COM (still a BBS) through one's local ISP (Internet Service Provider), instead of having to use modem or Datapak login. Because it was very costly and very hard to get a permanent connection to the Internet in the middle of the countryside (Grödinge, where the BBT is located), Raktambara das improvised a fixed connection over a normal phone line for the time being. This of course limited the total bandwith to a poor 28.8 kbps which had to be shared with all online users, but nevertheless telnet login quickly proved a great success.
The following months saw many versions of Ramakanta's WinCOM, the COM off-line reader, with an increasing number of features and the Address Book and Comfort add-on programmed by Raktambara das. In May of 1997, COM finally got a real Internet connection (128 kbps) for the e-mail transfers to and from the Internet as well as the Telnet logins. To soften the heavy investment a bit, the Datapak connections were canceled.
But... COM had always been a private system, with unwritten rules and regulations that differed considerably from the big Net out there. The massive gulf of new members from the US, often with ideas about COM being something like Usenet, had given rise to occasional clashes with the earlier, mostly European, members of COM. Several COM conferences died in such conflicts.
Due to the open structure of the Internet, the COM community and its SysOp now all of a sudden had to deal with things that never existed on COM before. Formerly, abusers were extremely rare and the filter file (yes, it has always been there) had only a handful of names in it for many years. Now, that filter file had become insufficient for dealing with the onslaught of unsolicited junk mail, hate mail and challenging propaganda pouring in from the Net.
Also, no address based filter file can cope with nowadays bulk e-mail software, which has stealth features and creates random sender addresses. In no time such a filter file would grow out to megabyte size, filled with non-existing addresses. Therefore a new type of filter was installed that scans incoming mail for foul language, bulk e-mail software signatures and typical get-rich-quick, MLM and snappy sales talk contents. Mail with such contents is either immediately discarded, or in case of doubt, ported to the SysOp for evaluation.
Late 1997, Raktambara das got fed up with the Novell server which was occasionally corrupting the COM database, and decided to run everything on one NT server. He got a new 200 MHz AMD with 128 MB RAM, NT Server 3.51, and fast SCSI harddisks (four harddisks giving a total capacity of 14 GB). This setup replaced the Novell server as well as the four 75Mhz Pentiums. As the database could now be accessed directly (instead of through a network), COM became considerably faster once more, but what was most important: one could finally call it a stable system.
In December 1997, Raktambara das started a second mail system called PRONTO. COM was no longer alone. PRONTO allowed devotees to deal with the outside world without any filtering. Membership was free, just as for COM. In February 1998, Ista das closed down CIS in Moscow due to financial strain. The NE-BBT agreed to adopt CIS. So, now there were three e-mail systems on one server, The Bhaktivedanta E-mail Systems. But they would not be called like that for very long...
A New Identitiy
In July 1998, Harikesa Swami, the founder and highest authority of COM for all these years, gave up his position as sannyasi as well as his responsibilities in ISKCON after a serious nervous breakdown. It was a difficult period for his disciples (and consequently for the NE-BBT) in all regards , but nevertheless COM continued to function without interruption.
Besides the above mentioned troubles, the BBT also became financially strained as the sankirtan scores in Europe dropped tremendously. It was hard to continue to sponsor an e-mail system that was actually mostly used by ISKCON members. Moreover, some GBC members showed great dissatisfaction with what was going on in certain COM conferences, and blamed it on the BBT. A BBT trustee noted: "I am not sure whether COM is working like a glue that helps hold the movement together, or like a solvent that helps melt it apart." A longwinded discussion entailed between BBT trustees, GBC members and the SysOps. Officially on February 1, 2000, an agreement was reached between the BBT and the SysOps where the BBT would sell the e-mail system to the SysOps.
We didn't want to keep spending the money. We didn't want the administrative hassle. We didn't want to get involved in social decision-making ("Should we allow X to be a user? Should we shut down conference Y?") We didn't want to set up and staff new bureaucracies. Nor, truth be told, did we want to be the sponsor for a huge traffic in aparadhas and prajalpa. In short, we wanted out.
To provide e-mail services for the preaching mission of ISKCON lies outside what Srila Prabhupada gave us as the "job description" for the BBT. In commercial language, we have divested ourselves of a complex, distracting, money-losing unit in order to focus on our core business.
So, COM was reborn as The Bhaktivedanta E-mail Services, with new private owners, a new Agreement, a new domain name PAMHO.NET, and yearly membership fees. But with the same mission of serving the e-mail and conferencing needs of sincere followers of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, be it in a more reconciling way.
(Not The End)
Copyright © 2000-2006 PAMHO.NET
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line83
|
__label__cc
| 0.567859
| 0.432141
|
Clacton on Sea Essex
The Essex Coast
B and B Clacton
Brook Retail Park
Clacton Shopping Village
Hotels and B and B
Go to ...Clacton on SeaThe Essex CoastB and B ClactonBrook Retail ParkClacton Shopping VillageHotels and B and B Go to ...
Clacton Air Show
Clacton Sport
Clacton On Youtube
Clacton Pier
Essex Events
Great Clacton
Harwich Dovercourt
Holland-on-Sea
Little Clacton
Mersea Island
What to do in Clacton-on-Sea
Beth Chatto Gardens
Harwich Illuminate Festival
Clacton on Sea Flower Gardens
Tornado Stream Train Walton
Frinton Festival
Frinton’s Crossing Cottage
Turner Painting to Engraving video
Clacton on Sea Unique views 100 years ago
Clacton Promenade East Then and Now
Clacton on Sea from the Pier Then and Now
Photos, Drawings, Paintings & Digital Art eBook by Douglas Carpenter
This 350 miles tour of the Essex Coast starts at the north boundary along the River Stour, glides past the historic town of Harwich at the mouth of the North Sea, heads south along the meandering coast, taking in the quaint seaside of Frinton-on-Sea, on to Walton and Clacton and finishes down past Southend-on-Sea on the River Thames estuary. There are many an old story to be told of smugglers, coast guards being murdered, the most haunted house in Essex and the most notorious tidal path in England.
There are great days out to be had at Maldon mud race, Burnham Regatta or Leigh on Sea art festival. Riversides to be walked with mysteries to discovered as you go. On your walk see some of Britain's rare wildlife and migrating birds frequently in dazzling, spectacular flocks.
There are Islands such as The Essex Archipelago like no other in Britain with secrets to be revealed. Illustrated with over 200 photographs, digital art, maps old and new, drawing and paintings of Essex by the author.
Clacton on Sea and North Essex
Clacton-on-Sea faces due south in a gently curving bay of beautiful sands. Within its boundaries are residential Holland-on-Sea to the east and Jaywick to the west. ln addition to its attractive location an extremely dry and sunny climate Clacton offers as a healthy and pleasure resort. lt merited the distinction of being Britain’s least rainfall holiday town for two consecutive summers. All Information on these pages has been compiled from information from third parties and which may be subject to change or cancellation. As we cannot be held responsible for any errors or inaccuracies you are advised to confirm details with the various organisers before attending. Site run by Doug Carpenter
Spring Plant Festival Weekend
Beth Chatto Gardens, Elmstead Market, nr Colchester
Saturday 12th May 2018 and Sunday 13th May 2018
“The Gardens will be open to ALL during this special plant festival weekend. Come and enjoy FREE talks on gardening, plants, the gardens, and special behind-the-scenes tours. Meet the gardeners who manage the beautiful gardens of one of the world’s most influential plantswomen, 10-time Chelsea Gold Medal winner, and author Beth Chatto.
Admission to the Garden will be free throughout the weekend. Talks and tours will be free, and ticketed on a first-come first-serve basis.”
Elmstead Market, Colchester, Essex, CO7 7DB.
Tel: 01206 822007 Fax: 01206 825933 E-mail: info@bethchatto.fsnet.co.uk
The Beth Chatto Gardens began in 1960. From an overgrown wasteland with poor gravel soil and boggy hollows it has been transformed into an informal garden harmonising with the surrounding countryside.
Complementing the gardens is a large retail nursery producing a wide range of plants, the majority of which can be seen growing in the gardens. Coaches are welcome and our newly refurbished tearoom is now open, offering light refreshments.
Beth Chatto was thrilled to be presented an Honorary Doctorate of Science from the Faculty of Science and Technology at Anglia Ruskin University on 11th November 2009. The award was in recognition of outstanding achievement in her field and to exemplify what is possible to achieve thanks to hard work, determination and talent. Mrs Chatto had the opportunity to speak at the award ceremony to the graduating students and found the whole day very enjoyable. This is the second time Mrs Chatto has received such an honour, the first being in 1987 when she received an honorary degree from the University of Essex, which can be seen on display in our Tea Room.
[AdSense-B]
Open Mon – Sat 9.00-4.00 Sundays 10.00-4.00
AUTUMN Mail Order
Plant Lists – Different Conditions
Coach Parties
The Beth Chatto Gardens began in 1960 when the site was an overgrown wasteland between two farms. Faced with all kinds of difficult conditions Beth and Andrew Chatto set out to find homes for many of the plants they wished to grow. With dry and damp soil in both sun and shade, they were able put into practice the underlying principles of what is now referred to as “Ecological gardening”.
Accompanied children under 14 free. No other concessions. No dogs. Light refreshments are available in our newly refurbished tearoom. Available are hot and cold drinks, locally made cakes and ice creams and a small selection of filled rolls.
Visitors are welcome to bring a picnic to be eaten on benches situated in the grassed car park. Toilet facilities are available (including disabled). Except for exceptionally wet periods the garden is accessible for wheelchairs (not provided)
Beth Chatto light and modern Tea Room, which overlooks the famous Gravel Garden was opened in 2006 and welcomes our visitors throughout the year. Our friendly staff are always on hand to offer light lunches and refreshments including home-made soup, filled rolls, mouth-watering cakes, teas and coffees. We try to source our produce locally as often as possible, from Tiptree Jams to James Whites Juices and award-winning ice cream from the Manor Farm Creamery in Bury St Edmunds. The Tea Room is an ideal finish to a walk around the Gardens and Nursery; it also hosts the Beth Chatto Gardens ever-growing list of workshops and events.
Copyright © 2020 Clacton on Sea Essex - Clacton-on-Sea the Sunshine Coast of Essex
Designed by Disney Cruises, thanks to: Der ArtifyWorld-Blog von Arno G. Richter, JDis.co and SJThemes.com
The cookie settings on this website are set to "allow cookies" to give you the best browsing experience possible. If you continue to use this website without changing your cookie settings or you click "Accept" below then you are consenting to this. Many websites use Google technologies to improve their content and keep it free. When you visit a website that uses our advertising products (like AdSense), social products (like the +1 button), your web browser automatically sends certain information to Google. This includes, for example, the web address of the page that you're visiting and your IP address. We may also set cookies on your browser, or read cookies that are already there.
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line84
|
__label__cc
| 0.615315
| 0.384685
|
Water Body Restoration
Mumbai Struggles to Clean Up Its Most Polluted Mithi River
Alarm Bells by clean-water
Mumbai booming population and rapidly expanding urban areas have exacted a huge toll on Mithi river, which is badly polluted and choked by development.
The Mithi River is also known as “‘Mahim River”‘. Over the decades, the river has been systematically ravaged by dumping of raw sewage, industrial waste, settlements along its banks, and governmental neglect.
Image: Scroll.in // Retaining walls along the river near its origin at Vihar lake.
What destroyed Mumbai’s Mithi River?
‘Mithi’ means sweet in Hindi, but the story surrounding the Mithi River has increasingly soured over the decades. The Mithi river flows 18 km before draining at Mahim Bay and into the Arabian Sea and is a critical stormwater drain for Mumbai.
One of the oldest rivers in Maharashtra, the Mithi is now nothing more than a sewage drain. The polluted river and the destruction of mangroves are cited as one of the primary reasons for 2005, the deluge in Mumbai.
The government has spent crores of rupees on the Mithi river revival program, but the river still carries the highest amount of fecal coliform (FC) content — a bacterium found in human and animal feces.
Image: Reuters // Mithi river has 16 times the permissible level of fecal content.
The fecal coliform content is almost 16 times the permissible levels for a river.
According to the data collected in the first three months of 2018, fecal coliform content in Mithi river near the bridge was as high as 1,600/100 ml. The permissible limit is 100/100 ml, as per the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).
A Fortress of Slums
The river flows through various slum clusters including Asia’s largest slum—Dharavi. Almost 70% of the river banks are occupied by lakhs of slum units from where domestic waste and even open defecation waste flows into the river.
Image: Scroll.in // Household waste entering Mithi in the slums of Bhim Nagar.
Moreover, several small-scale industries in these slum clusters pollute the river with their quite often toxic waste. The toxic chemical waste released by industries, along with the innumerable truckloads of debris being unloaded into the river, need to be severely dealt with.
Even before that, the slum dwellers around the river must be rehabilitated somewhere close to their source of livelihoods and yet away from the river.
The Mithi’s crowded banks point to the social challenges of these cleanup efforts, especially in a city where half the population lives in slums.
Says; Yale Environment 360
Changing Mindset
Cleaning is just one aspect of the plan. The Mithi River can be cleaned only by changing the mindset of the people who are working and living along with it.
Image: Getty Images // A woman and her son cross the Mithi River in Mumbai.
Afroz Shah, a Mumbai-based lawyer spearheaded the largest beach clean-up drive in the city. He Says, The bigger challenge is to instill a sense of belonging among residents. The lack of a garbage disposal system in the slums forces them to fling solid waste into the river.
‘We need to sensitise the locals living around these areas’, says Afroz.
“Having cleaned Versova beach for three years, we were also training people on how to handle garbage. We believe in circular economy, which stresses on garbage reduction philosophy and recycling. The boys we’ve trained have taken it up as a movement and now, teach others too. Cleaning is one, but without community development it is of no use,” he stresses.
Photo: AFP // Afroz Shah (in black) during a Versova beach clean-up in December 2017.
The Status Today
The deadlines for the Mithi rejuvenation programme are usually missed. The authorities have maintained that the river will be rejuvenated by 2020. Despite all the hype, there is much to be done.
The right use of technology, coupled with the political and administrative will, can certainly help achieve some of the targets, but this would still not solve the crux of the problem which makes the Mithi River’s ‘restoration’ is far more complex than it seems.
Read: Indore: The Under-Estimated Task of Kahn River Restoration
Help us Raise & Share these Alarm Bells and let’s make a world a little better every day.
Tagged India, Mithi River, Mumbai, river pollution, water management
How Floating Islands Improve Water Quality
Chennai water crisis: A story that should worry you
Indore Leading the way in Lake Restoration Initiatives
Amla Ruia : India’s ‘Water Mother’ Who Helped Provide Water to Over 300 villages in Arid Region
Creating a Healthier world for our future generation through the power of innovative water engineering solutions.
Email: Contact@clean-water.co.in
Phone: (India) +91 79994 54226
Address: “Clean-Water” 579, MG Road, Indore, India 452001
Copyright 2019 | Sustainable Water Technologies Pvt. Ltd. | All Rights Reserved
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line87
|
__label__wiki
| 0.676745
| 0.676745
|
Cleon's Corner
only search Cleon's Corner
Presented by Optimal Livestock Services, LLC
Breeding Soundness Examinations
Ovine Progressive Pneumonia
Lambing Checklist
Cleon's Corner is brought to you as a public service by:
With sponsorship support from:
Colorado Sheep & Wool Authority
Cleon sez for better flock health...
Visit sheepscan.com
Optimal Ag Consulting
Scrapie is slowly progressive disease of sheep and goats. It is a disease that causes a degeneration of the central nervous system. The disease was first described in sheep in Great Britain and Western Europe over 250 years ago. Scrapie was introduced into the United States in 1947 from Great Britain via Canada. Scrapie has had a significant impact and financial loss to the entire US sheep industry. Over 900 flocks have been diagnosed with scrapie since its introduction in 1947.
Scrapie belongs to a group of similar diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE). These diseases affect man and some animals. Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease (CJD) and the new variant (nv) CJD are the two most publicized TSE's of man. Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) affects wild deer and elk. Transmissible Mink Encephalopathy is a rare degenerative nerve condition in captive mink. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, a degenerative disease affecting the central nervous system of cattle, was first diagnosed in Britain in 1985. Commonly known as "mad cow disease" BSE was first found in the United States in 2003. A form of TSE has been identified in domestic and wild members of the cat family and in captive wild ruminants. To date, there is no scientific evidence that these diseases are transmissible between species.
Nature of the Transmissible Agent
Scientists report that the causal agent is very complex form of a prion protein that reacts with the normal prion protein of the host. Certain genes of the host react with the agent, which determines the resistance or incubation period. The current view is that clinical scrapie results from the interaction of one or more stains of the infectious agent with one or more host genetic factors. Testing for genetic resistance has been promoted.
Transmission/Incubation
Transmission appears to be primarily from dam to offspring early in life. It is thought to be spread most commonly from ewe to offspring and to other lambs through contact with the placenta and placental fluids. Signs of the disease usually do not appear until 2-5 years after the animal is infected. The ram does not seem to play a major role in transmission as the agent has not been found in the seminal fluids or sperm. Transmission from sheep to goats has been reported, therefore, lateral transmission is possible.
Scrapie is an insidious disease of sheep and goats without fever. The clinical course is usually one to six months The clinical signs start with a slight change in behavior. An animal may become nervous or aggressive, and separate itself from the rest of the flock. The animal may appear normal until startled or moved causing the animal to tremor and often go into convulsions. When forced to move there is a characteristic "bunny hop gait". Incoordination of the hind limbs is progressive as the disease continues. Extreme itching may cause the animal to rub the wool from its sides and rear quarters, bite and/or chew on themselves or others in the flock. The appetite remains normal but the animal continues to lose body condition. The clinical signs may vary. Some may not rub the wool while others may not show incoordination. Ovine progressive pneumonia, listeriosis, rabies, external parasite and toxins may have some of the same clinical signs.
Current diagnosis is based on a clinical history, histopathological changes in the brain and immunohistochemical detection. A live animal test is available utilizing a portion of the third eyelid.
Maintain a closed flock. Purchase animals from flocks that have been enrolled in the "Voluntary Scrapie Free Certification Program" for at least 3 or more years to reduce the risk of introducing the disease. Enroll in the "Voluntary Scrapie Free Certification Program."
Prepared by Cleon V. Kimberling, Gerilyn A. Parsons, Jay Parsons, and Wayne Cunningham
Optimal Livestock Services, LLC
Copyright © 2013 CleonsCorner.com All Rights Reserved
Home | About Us | Bruno | Archive | Presentations | Links | Tribute
Copyright © 2019 Optimal Ag Consulting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line88
|
__label__cc
| 0.550162
| 0.449838
|
Indicating the status of freshwater ecosystems under changing climatic conditions
Climate change and Freshwater ecosystems
Climate score
Contact & Legal notes
You are here: / wetlands / cold ecoregions /
Species affected by climate change
Proposed indicators for climate change impacts
Existing methodologies
Adaption and mitigation
Wetlands in cold ecoregions - overview
The pristine status
Wetlands are among the most abundant and biologically productive aquatic ecosystems in the Arctic, and occur most commonly as marshes, bogs, fens, peatlands, and shallow open waters. Wetlands in high latitudes and mountainous regions are predominantly ‘mires’, characterised by the accumulation of peat. These unique systems support highly adapted plants and animals, notably a wide range of carnivorous plant species. Arctic wetlands are highly productive and diverse systems, as they often are important transition zones between uplands and more permanent freshwater and marine water bodies. They are typically dominated by hydrophytic vegetation, with a few species of mosses and sedges, and in some instances terrestrial species such as lichens, shrubs, and trees. Many peatlands in high latitudes are important for breeding and migratory birds, fish, and mammals such as reindeer and rodents, which support predator populations. In Sweden, wet forests and bogs provide habitat for about 200 threatened species of plant and animal. Aside from habitat provision, river-flow attenuation, and a number of other ecological functions, wetlands also store and potentially release a notable amount of carbon, with potential positive feedbacks to climate change
Rain-fed rivers, wholly dependent on atmospheric inputs for their water and solute supplies, also develop in regions having adequate precipitation. Fen peats develop in sites fed by groundwater, which may be on slopes, in basins, or on river floodplains and lake margins. Some peatlands are extensively forested.
Peat-dominated wetlands have been altered by a wide range of impacts, including natural drying of the peat mass beyond its ability to retain a high water table, effects of acid rain and eutrophication, drainage for forestry and agriculture, and mining by the peat industry for energy and horticultural products.
Climate change impact
Click to enlarge Warmer climates will likely result in more precipitation in general and less precipitation falling as snow in high northern latitudes, altering the hydrology of streams and rivers. Rivers in the southern parts of the boreal zone with catchments lacking large alpine areas will experience significant decreases in the proportion of precipitation falling as snow. In these systems spring floods will have lower magnitudes or disappear, resulting in losses or reductions in the area of riparian forest communities, with subsequent losses in riparian species richness. In addition, water levels will vary less among seasons, with higher winter flows, resulting in upward displacements of low-elevation riparian zonation, amphibious and aquatic plant communities replacing forbs and graminoids. In boreal continental-climate regions, warming is expected to lead to more extreme summer humidity deficits, resulting in decreased summer flows and more drought stress, which may reduce riparian biomass production and alter competitive relations among species. Increases in the occurrence of extreme floods of long duration can cause extinctions of flood-sensitive species.
Ström L., Jansson R., Nilsson C., Johansson M.E. & Xiong S.J. (2011) Hydrologic effects on riparian vegetation in a boreal river: an experiment testing climate change predictions. Global Change Biology, 17, 254–267.
Ström et al., 2012. Projected changes in plant species richness and extent of riparian vegetation belts as a result of climate-driven hydrological change along the Vindel River in Sweden. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2427.2011.02694.x
Climate Change and Freshwater
Online: http://www.climate-and-freshwater.info/climate_change/wetlands/cold/
© 2020 University of Duisburg-Essen | Faculty of Biology, Aquatic Ecology, All rights reserved.
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line89
|
__label__wiki
| 0.650495
| 0.650495
|
Reconciliation of nanoscratch hardness with nanoindentation hardness including the effects of interface shear stress
Noureddine Tayebi, Thomas F. Conry, Andreas A. Polycarpou
Journal: Journal of Materials Research / Volume 19 / Issue 11 / November 2004
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 November 2004, pp. 3316-3323
The definitions of hardness from nanoscratch and nanoindentation analyses with a spherical indenter were compared and shown to be mathematically equivalent for the case of zero interface shear stress (surface traction). The definition of nanoindentation hardness was taken as the ratio of the resultant force to the area of contact projected on a plane normal to the line of action of the resultant force, whereas in the case of the nanoscratch technique, the hardness and interfacial shear stress were related to the measured normal and lateral forces in a nanoscratch experiment, as well as to the cross-sectional area of the groove. The two definitions of hardness were then applied to nanoscratch experimental data from material systems covering a wide range of hardness values. The calculated values of hardness from the two definitions were based on the contact area, determined from the scratch residual profile and the elastic recovery of the plastically deformed surface, and yielded the same values of hardness within experimental error. The contact angle, and thus the contact area, was shown experimentally to be sensitive to interface shear stress: a positive increase in interface shear stress led to a reduction in contact area as compared to the case of a frictionless contact. For a material with given hardness, normal indenter force, and contact area, a positive or negative interface shear stress is balanced by a positive or negative change, respectively, in the lateral force about the value needed to maintain a static balance for a frictionless nanoscratch contact. A comparison of these effects with experimental data indicates that very hard materials tend to have negative to zero interface shear stress, which correlates to a sink-in effect, whereas the soft materials tend to have positive interface shear stress, which correlates to a pileup effect.
Effects of substrate on determination of hardness of thin films by nanoscratch and nanoindentation techniques
Noureddine Tayebi, Andreas A. Polycarpou, Thomas F. Conry
Journal: Journal of Materials Research / Volume 19 / Issue 6 / June 2004
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 March 2011, pp. 1791-1802
Print publication: June 2004
A comparative study on the effects of the substrate on the determination of hardness of thin films by the use of the nanoscratch and nanoindentation techniques was conducted. Gold films deposited on fused quartz substrates and silicon dioxide films deposited on aluminum substrates with variant film thicknesses were investigated. These two systems correspond to a soft film on a hard substrate and a hard film on a soft substrate, respectively. The effect of substrate interaction on the measurement of hardness using the nanoscratch technique was found to be less pronounced compared to that of the nanoindentation technique due to: (i) the lower normal loads applied to achieve the penetration depths that occur at higher loads when using the nanoindentation method; (ii) the direct imaging of the residual deformation profile that is used in the nanoscratch technique, which allows for the effects of pileup or sink-in to be taken into account, whereas in the nanoindentation technique the contact area is estimated from the load-displacement data, which does not include such effects; and (iii) the account of elastic recovery of the plastically deformed surfaces from scratch tests. The film thickness did not appear to have any effect on the hardness of Au and SiO2 films obtained from nanoscratch data. This observation allowed, for the case of SiO2 films, the determination of the “free substrate effect region” and the derivation of an empirical relationship that relates the composite hardness of the film/substrate system to the contact-depth-to-film-thickness ratio, even when the indenter penetrates into the substrate. Such findings can allow for the determination of the intrinsic hardness of ultrathin hard films (∼1–5 nm thick), where the substrate effect is unavoidable.
Determination of hardness from nanoscratch experiments: Corrections for interfacial shear stress and elastic recovery
Journal: Journal of Materials Research / Volume 18 / Issue 9 / September 2003
A frequent application of the nanoscratch technique is to estimate hardness of ultrathin films when substrate effects are encountered with the nanoindentation technique. A model based on the work of Goddard and Wilman, which assumes a rigid-plastic behavior of the deformed surfaces, is commonly used for the determination of hardness from scratch tests, yet it overestimates the hardness of materials by as much as a factor of three at very shallow indentation depths on the order of 1–10 nm. The Goddard and Wilman model was extended in this paper to include the effects of the component of the shear stress tangential to the meridianal plane and the elastic recovery of the plastically deformed surfaces assuming elastic-perfectly-plastic material behavior. The proposed model was subsequently verified by performing nanoscratch experiments on fused quartz, which is homogeneous and isotropic with no known surface layers and with known hardness. The hardness was calculated using both the model based on the work of Goddard and Wilman and the extended model. The hardness calculated using the extended model was in very close agreement with the accepted value of bulk hardness of fused quartz over the range of scratch depths tested, showing the importance of the effects of elastic recovery and interfacial shear stress. The model was further verified for the case of a pure aluminum sample and the native thin film coating of alumina that forms on the surface upon air exposure.
Effects of the substrate on the determination of hardness of thin films by the nanoscratch and nanoindentation techniques: A comparative study for the cases of soft film on hard substrate and hard film on soft substrate.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2011, U7.5
Hardness values of Au/Fused Quartz and SiO2/Al systems, which correspond to the cases of soft film on hard substrate and hard film on soft substrate, were measured using both the nanoindentation and nanoscratch techniques. The effect of substrate interaction on the measurement of hardness using the nanoscratch technique is found to be much less pronounced compared to that of the nanoindentation technique. Such reduction in substrate effect is attributed to the features used in the nanoscratch analysis: (a) direct imaging of residual profile allows for the effect of pile-up/sink-in to be considered, (b) lower normal loads applied as compared to the nanoindentation, (c) effect of elastic recovery of the plastically deformed surfaces is included in the nanoscratch analysis, whereas the nanoindentation analysis is based solely on the load-displacement data. Moreover, experiments with residual scratch depths as shallow as 3 nm are used to estimate hardness of thin films; a promising indication for the use of such technique in the measurements of ultra-thin films.
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line97
|
__label__wiki
| 0.608723
| 0.608723
|
Improving the runner
So, I thought it might be fun to look back at some of the changes we've made to the runner, why, and what impact it's had on performance. Back when we started, the main complaint with Game Maker was that it was too slow, and that for more complex games, it just didn't cut it. This is clearly not the case any more, so what's really changed? Well, this only really effects the c++ runner, but lets take a look see what we did...
When we started on the PSP port, the 1st thing we did was to remove all the compression from the output. The game was in fact doubly compressed (which is nuts BTW - it's not like it's going to get magically smaller again!), and on the PSP this lead to loading times of around 40 seconds to a minute is even very simple games. So, we changed the whole output, altering it into an IFF based WAD file, and this meant it could be loaded incredibly quickly, and was ready to go as soon as it loaded. This was a huge change code wise, and touched every element of Game Maker. However, this change alone meant games would load either instantly, on in a few seconds.
Game Maker was originally split into 2 parts, scripting, and D&D (Drag and Drop), and believe it or not, there were to totally separate code paths for each. On top of this, everything was compiled on load, meaning there was another noticeable pause when games loaded. So, first thing that was done, was we changed the script engine to use a virtual machine, this meant we could optimise small paths of code rather than huge chunks - twice. This gave a modest boost - not as much as we hoped, but this was due to the way GameMaker dealt with it's variables, and how things were cast, and we were stuck with that. The next thing we did was to remove the D&D path, and then compile all D&D actions into script so they could then be compiled in the same manner. Lastly, we pre-compiled everything. This removed the script from the final game - and finally removing the worry of simple decompilation, but it also sped the loading of a game up yet again. It was not at the point, where a windows game would load and run almost instantly.
There's quite a number of changes here, so I'll break it down a little further. But basically, the old Delphi runner had some major CPU->GPU stalls, and so we had to look into fixing them.
Hardware T&L
This was introduced on GM8.1, and it's was the first real boost for performance. All later versions of Studio also use this "Hardware Transform and Lighting" mode. By using this, the GPU does all the transformations, and leaves the CPU free for running the game. Up until we switched it, after you submitted a sprite, DirectX then used the CPU to transform all the vertices into screen space before passing them onto the GPU - this places severe limits on how much you can push though the graphics pipeline, so it was changed on the first version of GM8.1 we released.
The first thing we did was to upgrade to DX9, this meant we were on a version which Microsoft still maintained properly, and gave us access to more interesting tools down the line - like better shaders. While doing this, we also introduced a proper fullscreen mode, and while this may not seem like much, when in fullscreen mode, things do render slightly quicker. Also...DX9 is just a little faster than DX8, and the upgrade is a pretty simple process (takes time, but its simple enough).
Texture pages
One of the biggest problems with Game Maker, was that every sprite, every background was given it's own texture page, and while this might seem like a good idea as it means you can easily load things in, and throw them away, it utterly destroys any real performance. So, we set about putting all images on texture pages (TPages), but this was more complex as Game Maker allows non-power of 2 images.
Standard methods involved sub-dividing images down, splitting them in 2 each time until you allocate the sprite, and fill up the whole sheet. This is very fast, and very efficient. However... we needed something more. So what we did was create a multi-stream, virtual rectangle system which would clip to everything as you added any sprite of any size. I came up with this years ago, and it was incredibly powerful, and very fast - but it was recursive, and complex. Still, having written it before, I did it again and we had a very nice texture packer for any size of image.
Next we noticed that current Game Maker developers were incredibly wasteful of images. They would have huge sprites with nothing but space in them, so they could be aligned easily with screen elements. A cool fix for this, was to crop out anything which had a 0 alpha value. You basically search the sprite for a bounding box that isn't 0 alpha, and then crop it, and remember the all the offsets to enable you to draw it again as normal. This is a cool trick, that helps us pack even more onto a page,which then helps with batching as well.
Speaking of batching.... Since the old version changed texture all the time, it could never hope to batch more than a couple of triangles at once, and this meant the CPU was forever getting in the way. Modern graphics hardware wants you to send as much as you can in one shot, then to go away and leave it alone!
So, the first thing we did was go through and change all the primitive types. The old way (TriFan) is unbatchable, and so you would always be stuck with 2 triangles per batch, and that's useless. So we changed them to the most batchable prim we could use, TriList. I wrote a new vertex manager that you could allocate vertices from, and it detected if there was any changes, or breaking in batches, so all the engine had to do, was draw, and the underlying API would auto-batch it for us.
Couple this with the new texture pages, and if you were just drawing sprites, you had a good chance of actually drawing multiple sprites in one render call. In fact, many games (like They Need to be Fed) can render virtually the whole game in one render call depending on the size of the texture page.
There are still some things which can break the batching (obviously), but with careful set up, rendering sprites is no longer the limiting factor of your game.
Blend States
Blend states are always tricky, and in the past I've tended to using a layering system - something that might appear in later versions of Studio or more likely GM: Next, as it helps manage state changes much better. However, we got a shock early in the year when we discovered how GM users actually manage state, and so we worked hard to hide the pain of management from our users.
Now a user can simply set state and reset state as they see fit, and aside from the GML call overhead, we handle all the blend state batching behind the scenes. For example, if you set a blend state, draw something, reset it, then set it again, draw something and then reset it, we recognise this, and both items will be drawn together in a single batch, making the rendering code much more efficient without the developer ever having to care.
It'll also handle more extreme cases, where you set blends several times, then set a different one, and then set more blends several times. The engine will also recognise this, and will only submit 3 batches - or however many blend state batches are actually needed. This is incredibly powerful, and a major playing in rendering performance.
In the past, whenever you created a D3D model, it didn't actually create anything, it just remembered the prims and commands you sent, then replayed them back dynamically. This meant 3D rendering was terrible, and you would struggle to get above a few thousand polys.
We actually introduce this new concept in GM8.1 although it was more of a pet project for me at the time. Now its a staple of how you should work. Studio will now let you build fully static models, meaning that when your finished creating them, you'll be left with a single vertex buffer (or multiple depending on lines and points), that will simply be submitted to the hardware when you want to draw something.
This is basically as fast as it's possible to draw on modern hardware, you create a buffer full of vertices and submit them but simply pointing to the buffer. This is what all modern games do, its what engines like Unity does. With this addition, you can quite literally draw models with hundreds of thousands of polys at hundreds of frames per second (depending on your graphics card of course!)
Although a recent addition, this is a powerful performance tool. Up until this point, special effects would be done on surfaces, then processed by the CPU, most of the time, painfully so! But with all the previous optimisations in place, shaders were finally able to get their place and show you what the GPU was really able to do.
From effects such as shadows, to environment mapping, to more 2D effects such as outlines, colour remapping or even full shader tilemaps all meant that the CPU got more time to work on the game, not spend time trying to make things look pretty, especially when there was a much better way of doing it sitting there doing nothing.
string_execute()
Yeah... this old one. Well, this was a popular command, mainly because it let you be really lazy in the way you coded, and yeah.... it's not a terrible thing, but it was one of the worse performance hogs, and folk using Game Maker had come to rely on it, meaning it was pulling performance down for everyone. So why was it so bad? Well, unlike code when you executed it it had to compile the string every time before running it, and this was incredibly bad. Lets have a quick look at what's involved when compiling.
Lexical Analysis. First it had to scan the string, break it down into tokens allocate memory for it and store a parse tree. Even a very simple string like "room_goto(MenuScreen)" means we had to parse the string, looking at each character, and breaking it into several tokens. room_goto command token, find and verify the syntax of the command, and evaluate the contents of the brackets - in this case; MenuScreen, which is also stored as a token. These are then stored as a parse tree, so that equations and evaluations are calculated correctly. So if you gave a calculation like "A = instance3.x+((instance.B*12)/instance2.C)", it would be evaluated correctly when executed.
Compilation. This then transforms the parse tree into byte code. Previously, it was transfered into a stream of tokens, and the engine just run these, but with the virtual machine, we now compile into byte code. This memory also has to be allocated.
Running. Now the new script can be run. First it sets up a code environment (again, more code allocation), complete with the current instance so it can store things correctly, then the VM takes over and runs the code.
Freeing. This is the real crime. Once all this work is done, and the script has been run.... it's all thrown away. All the different memory blocks are freed, and when you try and run it again, it has to do this all again.
Knowing this... it's no wonder this command was such a hog. And file_execute was even worse, as it had to load the thing first, before doing any of this - and disk access is ALWAYS slow. So this is why this command was removed. You should never need it if you code properly anyway. It can be great for tools, but when everyone just sees it as a command they can use....well, they just blame Game Maker for not being quick enough so it had to go.
Now, there are obviously countless other optimisations in the runner, from ds_grid get/set being made much quicker, to the total rewrite of the ds_map, allowing for huge, lightning fast dictionary lookups, or from the way variables are now handled so that the VM can access them much quicker, or how YYC now translates everything into C++ so it can be natively compiled and thereby lifting the what little lid there was left.
And don't forget, we're a multi-platform engine, and each platform gets the same kind of treatment as the windows one does. Each platform has it's own quirks, it's own set of performance enhancing toolset, like for example the total rewrite of the HTML5 WebGL engine, that does things in a totally different way just so it can push things a little better for that platform, or the windows RT platform, that has a custom DX11 engine design and optimised just for RT devices. Each platform is taken on its own merits, and enhanced to best fit that device.
But no matter how you look at it, GameMaker: Studio has move well beyond the mere learning tool it was once designed to be, it's no longer only use by beginners, or bedroom coders looking for some fun, it's now used by professional developers around the world because it delivers, fast, cross platform development, with a truly fast engine, that's always being improved.
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line108
|
__label__cc
| 0.734973
| 0.265027
|
Trump’s Government Never Sleeps…Ask ISIS
Last Friday, Chuck Schumer closed down the government and even though they weren’t getting paid, our American heroes bombed an ISIS headquarters and killed 150 of the enemy. That’s a major blow to the terrorist group that has been on the run since Day 1 of the Trump presidency. They have now lost 98% of the land they once controlled when Obama was president. Military leaders credit the president for changing the rules of engagement. During the Obama years, they had to wait for Obama’s blessing before they killed the enemy.
ISIS’s numbers are way down but they can still mount sizable terror attacks and that’s why Trump is keeping troops in Syria, to make sure they don’t make a comeback and at the same time we are training fighters, most of whom are Kurdish.
Maj. Gen. James Jarrad, commanding general of Special Operations Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve said:
“Our SDF partners are still making daily progress and sacrifices, and together we are still finding, targeting and killing ISIS terrorists intent on keeping their extremist hold on the region. We cannot take our focus off our mission, and we must not lose our momentum in taking these terrorists off the battlefield and preventing them from resurfacing somewhere else.”
From The Daily Caller
The strikes, launched Saturday amid a government shutdown in Washington, targeted an ISIS command and control center in As Shafah, one of the terror group’s last remaining enclaves in Syria’s Euphrates River Valley.
The ISIS camp contained a “heavy concentration” of fighters who appeared to be “massing for movement,” according to a statement from Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR), the U.S.-led coalition to defeat ISIS.
Syrian Democratic Forces, who are doing the bulk of the fighting against the hardcore remnants of the ISIS “caliphate” in Syria, assisted in target observation prior to the airstrikes, OIR said.
President Trump is bound and determined not to make the same mistake Obama did and leave a giant hole for ISIS to take control of. It’s just crazy enough that it might just work.
Related Items:150 dead, Barack Obama, Isis, President Trump
ISIS Fighters Sent Straight to HELL After Shooting At U.S. Military Chopper [VIDEO]
Donald Trump Calls Out Person He Believes Leaked Ford’s Letter
NYT: Rod Rosenstein Plotted to Remove Trump From Office
BODY COUNT RISES: Marine Who Exposed Hillary Clinton FOUND DEAD
Hillary Clinton has damaged our country in more ways than can be counted. Not...
Hillary FLEES United States After Trump’s DOJ Opens Investigation On Her, Here’s Where She’s Headed
The Department of Justice has reopened the Hillary Clinton email investigation, and coincidentally Hillary...
If You Spot a Rubber Band on Your Front Door Handle, CALL POLICE IMMEDIATELY! Here’s The SICK Thing It Means
Criminals have a new technique when it comes to singling out potential victims. A Woman...
HUGE NEWS: OBAMA FINALLY CAUGHT… HERE’S THE SMOKING GUN
(Gateway Pundit) – Fired Former FBI Director Andrew McCabe made the decision to put...
Giuliani Drops Bombshells Revealing HUGE Money Laundering Operation Involving Bidens
Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani taunted the Deep State-Democrat-media complex Sunday morning and said...
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line109
|
__label__wiki
| 0.748631
| 0.748631
|
Giant PHEV & EV News Roundup
Feb 25, 2011 (From the CalCars-News archive)
We long ago gave up making sure everything about plug-in hybrids and related issues showed up at CalCars-News, since people have so many other ways to get information -- and of course we have our hands full on advocacy and on driving our new plug-in cars. So here's a roundup of recent news items we've found most interesting -- we bet all of our readers have missed at least one or two! To make it easier to scan, we've divided the 17 topics and 32 links into categories: Auto Industry, Policy & Market Penetration, Energy Policy & Fossil Fuels, Media.
CHEVROLET VOLT DEBATES LEAVE OUT THAT WHOLE
"VISION THING": That's the opinion of former USA Today Detroit Bureau Chief David Kiley, writing at AutoblogGreen on the importance of the Chevy Volt for GM and the auto industry. http://green.autoblog.com/2010/12/18/opinion-chevrolet-volt-debates-leave-out-that-whole-vision-thi/ . His piece reminds us of comments we've heard frequently: back in 2008, if GM had not been able to point to the Volt as its future, its chances of receiving public investments to stay alive would have been near-zero. Mark Reuss, GM's President of North America, said as much in an interview http://green.autoblog.com/2011/01/19/in-deep-with-gms-mark-reuss-at-naias/ that's summarized and pointed to (along with logos for all the Volt's awards) at http://gm-volt.com/2011/01/20/gm-north-american-president-on-the-importance-of-the-chevy-volt/ . And as GM accelerates volume production plans, the Volt will be for sale in all 50 states by year-end.
BYD'S LOW-PRICED PHEV HEADING TOWARD THE U.S.
PlugInCars.com publisher/editor Brad Berman offers the first on-the-road review of the F3DM from China at http://www.plugincars.com/first-drive-byd-f3dm-chinese-plug-hybrid-106831.html and links to his articles in the Sunday New York Times. Feb. 18, 2011.
GM'S PROGRESS: After announcing on January 26 that it wouldn't tap $14B from the US Treasury under the 2007 Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program (a $25B fund from which Ford, Nissan, Tesla and Fisker have borrowed), GM announced on February 23 a profitable year for the first time since 2004. Its $4.7B net was the highest since 1999. Of course, this came after the company assigned pension obligations, laid off many workers and closed many dealerships as part of its bankruptcy and restructuring. GM gave its remaining hourly workers bonuses averaging $4,300. The company is still 1/3 owned by the U.S. Government, and the stock will have to appreciate significantly for the U.S. to break even.
AUTOMAKERS APPROACHING 4-WHEEL DRIVE PHEVS:
People we meet who live in or travel frequently to cold climates or mountains often say they won't buy another car until it has a plug -- but it has to be usable in deep snow. Progress is encouraging even though we don't yet see commitments for sales in North America:
Land Rover (now owned by Tata Motors of India) has announced the Range_e, a diesel-electric plug-in hybrid version of its Range Rover Sport.
Volvo (now owned by Geely of China) will unveil at the Geneva Auto Show in March the Diesel-Electric V60 wagon PHEV for sale in Europe in 2012.
Ford, GM, Toyota, and Subaru have announced plans for plug-in SUVs or crossover vehicles, but none are described as 4WD.
BILL FORD BULLISH ON PLUG-IN CARS: Ford's Executive Chairman at the Detroit Auto Show: "We don't know [about market acceptance], but one thing we do know is the technology is ready for prime time. These vehicles are fun to drive--you don't have to give up anything to drive them. That was always the tradeoff with prior green efforts... .So now finally we have the technology to deliver everything to customers and with things like plugins you don't have the range anxiety so that does kind of relieve most of the tradeoffs, certainly... . ultimately, our country has to decide is this where we really want to go... ." http://www.greencarcongress.com/2011/02/expert-panel-report-finds-achieving-1m-plug-in-vehicles-in-us-by-2015-would-require-concentrated-act.html
RAPID ELECTRIC VEHICLES DELIVERS CONVERTED
GAS-GUZZLER TO ARMY: Vancouver-based REV (a conversion company we highlight at http://www.calcars.org/ice-conversions.html ) has delivered the first of four Ford vehicles -- three Escape SUVs and one F-150 pickup truck -- to the U.S. military's leading advanced vehicle center, US Army Tank Automotive Research Center (TARDEC). The attraction of the vehicles goes beyond electrification to their use as Ancillary Power Vehicles with two-way charging capabilities. http://i.green.autoblog.com/2010/12/13/rapid-electric-vehicles-delivers-first-of-four-battery-powered-a/ Dec. 13, 2010 And while we're on the subject of conversions, wheel motors continue to develop -- once they're in mass-production and affordable, they will make conversion of smaller vehicles more practical. http://evworld.com/news.cfm?newsid=25224 Feb. 15, 2011
POLICY & MARKET PENETRATION
PROVOCATIVE PREDICTION: "The Future of Clean Energy Rests on Consumers and Electric Vehicles:" David Crane, CEO of Fortune 250 power company NRG Energy says, "if one of the new electric cars is just a little bit successful and starts selling hundreds of thousands of units a year, that would blow all other greentech product sales out of the water." http://gigaom.com/cleantech/the-future-of-clean-energy-rests-on-consumers-electric-vehicles/ Feb. 23, 2011
ADMINISTRATION EXPANDS SUPPORT FOR PLUG-INS: Vice Pres. Biden followed Pres. Obama's State of the Union address on Jan. 26 with steps to get a million plug-in vehicles on the road by 2015. DC proposes transforming the existing $7,500 tax credit into an automatic rebate at the time of purchase, ensuring that all buyers are eligible. The 200,000 vehicles/manufacturer credit ceiling could rise to 500,000. http://www.energy.gov/10034.htm . A Feb. 8 Energy Department analyses showed no production bottlenecks to reach a million. http://www.greencarcongress.com/2011/02/doe-20110208.html . Its table may already be out of date, since it doesn't include Toyota, Honda and BYD, and may have understated Nissan's initial volumes. (State-by-state models from The Center for Automotive Research and Pike Research project only about half a million plug-ins sold by 2015.) On Feb. 14, the proposed budget also includes an 88% increase in R&D for vehicle technologies, increases in ARPA-E and Energy Innovation Hub programs for batteries and transportation, and a $200M program to spur concentrated development of plug-in cars in 30 communities -- a version of what the Electrification Coalition has proposed. http://www.greencarcongress.com/2011/02/budget-20110214.html Feb. 14, 2011
INTERVIEW WITH VOLT'S MARKETING MANAGER: "Ears Wide Open, Chevy Volt Marketing Manager Collects Driver Feedback " How John Hughes and the company are tracking responses by drivers to the Volt. http://www.plugincars.com/ears-wide-open-chevy-volt-marketing-manager-collects-driver-feedback-106763.html (We think they have even great opportunities to track, analyze and benefit even more from drivers' views and experiences.) Feb. 3, 2011
PROFILE OF NORTH BAY NISSAN'S GREG DEXTER, TOP
LEAF DEALER: His story shows the impact of the grass-roots support for EVs and PHEVs on one dealer's vision and strategy to gain the confidence and the orders of plug-in car buyers. http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13746_7-20029344-48.html Jan. 28, 2011
ENERGY POLICIES & FOSSIL FUELS
THOMAS FRIEDMAN, ON GAS TAX, CHEERS ON THE VOLT:
In "If Not Now, When?," the New York Times columnist and author, says, "With one little gasoline tax, we can make ourselves more economically and strategically secure, help sell more Chevy Volts and free ourselves to openly push for democratic values in the Middle East without worrying anymore that it will harm our oil interests." http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/23/opinion/23friedman.html Feb. 23, 2011 In "The Big Leak," back in December he addressed the same idea: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/opinion/05friedman.html . And a related opinion piece by "Beyond Oil" conference organizer Steve Marshall and Plug In America chair Dan Davids, "Don't tax electric cars; stabilize tax revenues instead" http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20110213/OPINION04/702139995/-1/OPINION Feb. 13, 2011
OIL: International organizations and oil companies are acknowledging that conventional sources of oil are becoming depleted faster than easily accessible sources are found. Now "fracking," the controversial drilling technique that's been hailed as a miracle technology for natural gas, is now being extended to crude oil extraction. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110210/ap_on_re_us/us_shale_oil Feb 10, 2011 The arguments against "drill everywhere" forces can't rely on expectations of "peak oil" but have to focus on the unacknowledged external costs fossil fuels impose on all of society. And arguments for increasing domestic supply many years from now are not very convincing as the world continues to be held hostage to a globally priced fuel much of which comes from unstable petrodictatorships.
COAL: A new study of economic, health and environmental costs that are not included in the "cheap" price of coal could total 17.8 cents/kWh of electricity generated. http://climateprogress.org/2011/02/16/life-cycle-study-coal-harvard-epstein-health/ Feb. 16, 2011.
NATURAL GAS: The Environmental Protection Agency reconsiders assumptions that replacing gasoline with NG lowers greenhouse gases by 30-40%. Taking into account the full life-cycle of gas production, especially methane emissions in production and distribution, brings down the numbers. http://www.propublica.org/article/natural-gas-and-coal-pollution-gap-in-doubt Jan. 25, 2011.
"WORLD ON THE EDGE," LESTER BROWN'S NEW BOOK: We've been a fan of Brown for years (and he of CalCars: http://www.calcars.org/photos-people.html#LB. His "Plan B: Mobilizing to Save Civilization" volumes, versions 1-4, have now been succeeded by "World on the Edge, How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse." This up-to-date and very readable book describes the intersecting problems of food and water supplies, climate and climate refugees, and fossil fuel dependence that lead to global security issues. And it presents the solutions, notably including plug-in hybrids and renewable energy. See more about him and a link to his recent Washington Post story at http://climateprogress.org/2011/01/20/lester-brown-extreme-weather-climate-change-record-food-prices/ . Order the book at Earth Policy Institute http://www.earth-policy.org or at http://www.calcars.org/books.html
BUY "CHARGED UP & READY TO ROLL: THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO PLUG-IN ELECTRIC VEHICLES": The completely-revised 2011 edition of Plug In America's consumer resource guide. It's really "Everything You Want Everyone to Know" about Plug-Ins." It belongs in every auto dealership, every legislative office, and on every driver's bookshelf. Its 64 pages and 20 articles are comprehensive and comprehensible. See which six automakers have full-page ads, which two have half-pagers, and which didn't show up. And it even has a chapter, "Converting a Gas Guzzler," co-authored by Shannon Arvizu ("Miss Electric") and Felix Kramer. You get a digital copy automatically if you join http://www.pluginamerica.org . And you can order as many print copies ($5+$3 shipping) at https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2711/shop/item.jsp?storefront_KEY=553&t=&store_item_KEY=3484
BIG CHANGES AT GM-VOLT.COM: After four successful years, Lyle Dennis, publisher and editor of the highly successful GM-Volt, announced at "GM-Volt: a Turn in the Road" http://gm-volt.com/2011/02/15/gm-volt-a-turn-in-the-road/ his return to his full-time neurologist job and his family life. He sold the site to VerticalScope, a company with online forums including Autoguide. New management's first posting was at http://gm-volt.com/2011/02/18/gm-volt-charging-forward/ . One of the most entertaining posts before the transfer came from Volt Vehicle Line Director Tony Posawatz: "Lighting the Way and Passing the Torch" http://gm-volt.com/2011/02/10/lighting-the-way-and-passing-the-torch/ . Posawatz commemorates his fifth anniversary as GM Employee #1 on the Volt project. (gm-volt's partner site, http://www.nissan-leaf.net , has not attracted a large user base compared to http://www.mynissanleaf.com .)
ELECTRIC CARS GET CHARGED FOR BATTLE is a long Business Week cover story on the Chevy Volt and the Nissan Leaf. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_02/b4210048400234.htm Dec. 29, 2010
GENE AND THE MACHINE: THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT
THE ELECTRIC VOLT: We heard from many readers who couldn't stop laughing about this Washington Post Sunday Magazine cover story by resident humorist Gene Weingarten. He describes his expectations and discoveries as he drives the Chevy Volt. (Only Dan Neil's reviews in the Wall Street Journal of the Volt and the Leaf entertained people more.) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/21/AR2011012105347.html Jan. 30 2011
VOLUNTEER WANTED: We're looking for an experienced social networker, ideally but not necessarily in the SF Bay Area, who can help us promote and auction Felix's once-unique now historic (see http://www.calcars.org/photos.html and pages linked from there) white 2004 Prius converted to a PHEV. It now has a nearly-new Hymotion A123Systems battery pack and we're hoping a buyer will keep its signs! Please write to jobs at calcars.org
|
cc/2020-05/en_middle_0125.json.gz/line111
|
End of preview. Expand
in Data Studio
No dataset card yet
- Downloads last month
- 9