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December 2018
The Depravity of Climate-Change Denial
The Trump administration is, it goes without saying, deeply anti-science. In fact, it's anti-objective reality. But its control of the government remains limited; it didn't extend far enough to prevent the release of the latest National Climate Assessment, which details current and expected future impacts of global warming on the United States.
|The New York Times
The annual United Nations climate talks have to kick the Paris agreement up a gear. Delegates to the United Nations climate talks arrived in the old Polish coal-mining town of Katowice at the weekend to learn that the annual meeting faces an uncertain future. But it also acts as a reminder that political cooperation remains the only effective defence we have against the worst effects of climate change — which would mean a more hostile world for us all.
Emergent sustainability in open property regimes
Mark Moritz at al.
Current theoretical models of the commons assert that common-pool resources can only be managed sustainably with clearly defined boundaries around both communities and the resources that they use. In these theoretical models, open access inevitably leads to a tragedy of the commons. However, in many open-access systems, use of common-pool resources seems to be sustainable over the long term.
Put more carbon in soils to meet Paris climate pledges
Cornelia Rumpel et al.
Take these eight steps to make soils more resilient to drought, produce more food and store emissions. Soils are crucial to managing climate change. They contain two to three times more carbon than the atmosphere. Plants circulate carbon dioxide from the air to soils, and consume about one-third of the CO2 that humans produce. Of that, about 10–15% ends up in the earth.
Define the human right to science
Jessica M. Wyndham and Margaret Weigers Vitullo
The adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly will mark its 70th anniversary on 10 December. One right enshrined in the UDHR is the right of everyone to "share in scientific advancement and its benefits." Unlike most other human rights, however, the right to science has never been legally defined and is often ignored in practice by the governments bound to implement it. An essential first step toward giving life to the right to science is for the UN to legally define it.
Nations falling short of emissions cuts set by Paris climate pact, analysis finds
By Ines Kagubare, E&E
The world is now in a race against the clock, warns a new United Nations climate report. The U.N. Environment Programme report released yesterday found that Group of 20 nations will fall short of the Paris Agreement's goals unless they take drastic measures to get back on track
Limiting fossil fuel production as the next big step in climate policy
Peter Erickson, Michael Lazarus & Georgia Piggot
Despite the current ambivalence of the United States towards the Paris Agreement, national and local jurisdictions across the globe remain committed, and they are seeking ways to increase the ambition and effectiveness of their climate policies. One way forwards could be limiting the production — not just the consumption — of coal, gas and oil. Here we describe the rationale for, and CO2 emissions implications of, limiting oil production We find that by ceasing the issuance of permits for new oil wells, California could reduce global CO2 emissions substantially and also enhance environmental justice in the state.
|Nature Climate Change
Broad threat to humanity from cumulative climate hazards intensified by greenhouse gas emissions
Camilo Mora et al.
We found traceable evidence for 467 pathways by which human health, water, food, economy, infrastructure and security have been recently impacted by climate hazards such as warming, heatwaves, precipitation, drought, floods, fires, storms, sea-level rise and changes in natural land cover and ocean chemistry. By 2100, the world's population will be exposed concurrently to the equivalent of the largest magnitude in one of these hazards if emissions are aggressively reduced, or three if they are not.
|Nature Climate Change
Short-term impact of PM2.5 on contemporaneous asthma medication use: Behavior and the value of pollution reductions
Austin M. Williams, Daniel J. Phaneuf, Meredith A. Barrett, and Jason G. Su
Asthma ranks among the most costly of chronic diseases. At the same time, evidence has accumulated that fine particulate matter pollution can exacerbate asthma symptoms and generate substantial economic costs. To measure these costs, we use a unique nationwide panel dataset tracking asthmatic individuals' use of rescue medication and their exposure to PM2. concentration between 2012 and 2017.
To fulfill biofuels' promise, scientists boost plant oils with gene editing
by Cici Zhang
Increasing the fatty acids in crops' seeds, leaves, and stems could make biofuels more economically viable. Some studies suggest that the use of biofuels could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 60 to 94% relative to fossil fuels (Agriculture 2017, DOI: 10.3390/agriculture7040032). But some scientists doubt the sustainability of biofuels, pointing to the land, water, and other resources required to produce them.
The Environmental Cost of Inequality
James K. Boyce
IN THE FALL OF 2016 AN ENVIRONMENTAL STRUGGLE IN RURAL North Dakota made headlines worldwide. The local Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and climate activists were pitted against the corporate and government backers of the Dakota Access Pipeline, which was being built to carry oil from the state's Bakken shale fi elds to a terminal in Illinois. Private security guards unleashed attack dogs on protesters, and the police blasted them with water cannons in freezing weather.
Intensification for redesigned and sustainable agricultural systems
Jules Pretty
In the mid-20th century, food production from agriculture sharply increased worldwide; however, this was achieved through heavy use of agrochemicals. Extensive collateral damage from excessive use of pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers has occurred to the wider environment. This has led to biodiversity loss, pesticide resistance and the emergence of new pests, pollution and decline of freshwater supplies, and soil degradation and erosion, as well as direct harm to health.
Air quality co-benefits for human health and agriculture counterbalance costs to meet Paris Agreement pledges
Vandy Toon
Local air quality co-benefits can provide complementary support for ambitious climate action and can enable progress on related Sustainable Development Goals.
Twentieth-century contribution to sea-level rise from uncharted glaciers
David Parkes & Ben Marzeion
From 1901 to 2015, missing and disappeared glaciers produced a rise in sea level that may enable the historical budget for global-mean sea-level rise to be closed without recourse to an undiscovered physical process.
Change in future climate due to Antarctic meltwater
Ben Bronselaer et al.
The effects of meltwater from the ice sheets and ice shelves of Antarctica are not included in the widely used CMIP5 climate models. Here we assess a large ensemble simulation that accounts for RCP8.5-projected Antarctic Ice Sheet meltwater. We find that, accounting for meltwater delays the exceedance of the maximum global-mean atmospheric warming targets of 1.5 and 2 degrees Celsius by more than a decade, enhances drying of the Southern Hemisphere and reduces drying of the Northern Hemisphere, increases the formation of Antarctic sea ice (consistent with recent observations of increasing Antarctic sea-ice area) and warms the subsurface ocean around the Antarctic coast.
Creating a Road Map for a "Green New Deal"
By Osita Nwanevu
On Tuesday, the New York representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joined a protest at the office of Nancy Pelosi, the House Minority Leader, in Washington, demanding that Democratic leaders take steps to draft a "Green New Deal" that would fully transition the United States away from fossil-fuel energy within a few decades. That project, though daunting, is one that climate experts say governments must take on to avoid the most destabilizing and existentially threatening impacts of climate change.
|The New Yorker
Anthropogenic influences on major tropical cyclone events
Christina M. Patricola & Michael F. Wehner
There is no consensus on whether climate change has yet affected the statistics of tropical cyclones, owing to their large natural variability and the limited period of consistent observations. In addition, projections of future tropical cyclone activity are uncertain, because they often rely on coarse-resolution climate models that parameterize convection and hence have difficulty in directly representing tropical cyclones. Here we used convection-permitting regional climate model simulations to investigate whether and how recent destructive tropical cyclones would change if these events had occurred in pre-industrial and in future climates.
Urban growth and climate adaptation
Lei Zhao
Urban development induces local warming in addition to climate change. New research shows that urban growth, climate change and urban adaptation interact nonlinearly and diurnally.
|Nature Climate Chnage
Impacts and mitigation of excess diesel-related NOx emissions in 11 major vehicle markets
Anenberg, C., et al
Vehicle emissions contribute to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and tropospheric ozone air pollution, affecting human health1,2,3,4,5, crop yields5,6 and climate5,7 worldwide. On-road diesel vehicles produce approximately 20 per cent of global anthropogenic emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx), which are key PM2.5 and ozone precursors
Direct upstream integration of biogasoline production into current light straight run naphtha petrorefinery processes
Aron Deneyer et al.
There is an urgent need to address environmental problems caused by our transportation systems, which include the reduction of associated CO2 emissions. In the short term, renewable drop-in fuels are ideal, as they allow a direct integration into the existing infrastructure. However, preferably they would perform better than current alternatives (for example, bioethanol) and be synthesized in a more efficient way. Here we demonstrate the production of biogasoline with a direct upstream integration into processes in existing petrorefinery facilities that targets the 10% bio-based carbon in accordance with the current European Union directives (for 2020) for biofuels.
|Nature Energy
Vehicle criteria pollutant (PM, NOx, CO, HCs) emissions: how low should we go?
Winkler S., et al
Over the past 30–40 years, vehicle tailpipe emissions of particulate matter (PM), nitrogen oxides (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO), and hydrocarbons (HCs) have decreased significantly. Advanced emission after-treatment technologies have been developed for gasoline and diesel vehicles to meet increasingly stringent regulations, yielding absolute emission reductions from the fleet despite increased vehicle travel.
Encouraging report from UN on ozone restoration
By Seth Borenstein
Earth's protective ozone layer is finally healing from damage caused by aerosol sprays and coolants, according to a new report from the United Nations. At its worst in the late 1990s, about 10 percent of the upper ozone layer was depleted, said Newman. This year, the ozone hole over the South Pole peaked at nearly 9.6 million square miles. That's about 16 percent smaller than the biggest hole recorded — 11.4 million square miles in 2006.
|San Francisco Gate
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2006 Rx400H Navigation Ver. 10.1 Installation
Jim Nazium replied to cdfchief's topic in 04 - 09 Lexus RX330 / RX350 / RX400hI'm sorry, but I don't mean to come off sounding negative... but the Lexus Navi system is less than ideal! And, if only for the Nav Hack (prior to ver 6) it is somewhat decent. What is the point to a Navi system, if you cannot make changes or requests on the fly through the screen (since the Lexus Voice System recognizes only Cobalt Commands dictated through a mouth full of peanut butter and Jelly Sandwiches on warm and moist oven fresh bread) by updating to 10.1 you are virtually crippling the system. I use my cellphone as backup if for whatever reason my 6.1 Navi CD cannot find a new street. In all honesty, Lexus / Toyota errored and should never charge Microsoft Like Prices to a System that is INHERENTLY flawed. Pay money to render a Navi completely useless... pfft! Cheers, MadloR
Angel Eyes Mod
Jim Nazium posted a topic in 04 - 09 Lexus RX330 / RX350 / RX400hYou can search ebay for... "04 05 06 LEXUS RX330 RX350 CCFL ANGEL EYES WHITE d3" as an example. Has anybody had the initiative or have experience with such a mod? I mod'ed the Fog/Driving Lights with 50W (and 35W) ballasts to have HID output, and was extremely disappointed with the Asian quality (tried 3 various kits / manufacturers). Bulb and Ballasts failure within less than 3 months, and that is without much actually "running" them ON. One other point, is I would like to physically know how to rewire the Day time running lights... I would much prefer having the DRL run as part of either the "angel eyes" or if that "kit" is not possible, have the mini bulb found above the High Beam Bulb powered on in DRL mode. I have already replaced the filament bulb found above the high beam bulb with a high intensity LED bulb. It does not output much light, the reason for safety sakes, would perfer to add Angel Eyes. Cheers, MadloR
What Is Your Fuel Comsumption On 2006 Rx400H
Jim Nazium replied to volosong's topic in 04 - 09 Lexus RX330 / RX350 / RX400hThere are some tricks to attaining better gas mileage... 1) Do not let others drive your vehicle. Obviously, another family member will not have the Technic down pat. 2) In winter, if you can, choose to drive with your heated seats in place of the Heater (leave off, hence the engine is not required to transfer heat to the anti-freeze in order to send heat to the heater core) 3) Try to accelerate initially by Electric, then at about 15-20mph when the ICE kicks in, steadily and gingerly without too much hesitation, get up to Legal Speed limit less 5-10%. This is a Technic, you can't be to hesitant about this yet you can't plant your foot to the floor either. In order to ride the coast factor, you need to be somewhere between 35 - 45 mph in the city (depending on legal speed limits in your area). This is one of the hardest Technics to master. 5) Hey, it's no secret, if you drive at 65mph (i.e. of legal speed in many states) you will get much better mpg by actually driving 58mph or so... Yep, you will be in the right lane and most everyone will be passing you. But that 5-8% variable pays off over a tankful of gas. 4) If you have the choice of driving in the city or the highway to get to the same destination, choose city. Anything below 50mph allows for more Electric Power and less use of the ICE. It is what it is, so to attain mpg you need more Electric mojo. 5) Coast. By that, when you know you are approaching either a stop sign or light, back off on the throttle even though you are less inclined to do so. This is what p!sses off the people behind you the most, but this is where you gain the most electric use and hence less ICE. And this also requires anticipation, so don't wait for the stale green light to turn yellow-red, back off the throttle and coast. 6) Bump up your factory tire psi by approximately 3 - 5 psi. You will need to take note of tire wear, because if you tend to over due it you may cause abnormal tire wear as well as experience a rougher choppier ride. But, less rolling resistance means better mpg. You can use 65% by volume Carnuba Wax (Zymol private collectors edition, that requires you to rub the product in your hand to heat and warm on the wax, because it can only be applied by hand) and you will never get any kind of mileage improvement. Zip, Zero, Zilch! Your car will be super shiny and have a very lasting wax finish, but the resistance of the wind over a waxed or unwaxed car will be ZERO difference in wind resistance. Cheers, MadloR P.S. I used to get over 30mpg's (averaging between 31 - 34 mpg) but now my wife drives the 400H exclusively and she pays ZERO attention to driving and she averages 23mpg with Zero effort on her part. On my last excursion driving 65 - 75 mph, I managed with the AC on to get 25mpg LOL).
Well, the fact remains, that K&N air filters contain oil as part of there filtering properties. That "stain", looks an awful lot like oil to me, and the only way oil would appear after the air filter, along the air box and through to the way to the MAF... is from the K&N air filter. Period. Clean it out, with isopropyl alcohol (diluted, or less than 50% concentration) the air box and air housing. Pat down the air filter with Paper towels, and blow dry it with a hair dryer. Remove the K&N air filter sticker. And if the problem persists, put back the factory air filter and have the stealer look at it for you if you find it somehow is affecting the performance of your vehicle. Cheers, MadloR
Yokohama Advan S.t.
Jim Nazium replied to Jim Nazium's topic in 04 - 09 Lexus RX330 / RX350 / RX400hHey Emim, Absolutely not. These are Pure Summer only tires, classified as a high performance SUV tire for summer use. You would be looking for a four season tire, and if you search the forums, some members have chosen the Yokohama Prada. I have no experience with them, so I cannot comment on there attributes or aspects. I have heard of Bridgestone being very good in producing a four season tire as well. I will not comment either, on your choice, but will say that I prefer to invest in the most important piece of equipment on our vehicles (for that matter, any vehicle)... Tires. So I have full blown winter tires during the winter months, and the Advan S.T. for spring, summer and fall. Good Luck with your search, Cheers, MadloR
Yokohama Advan S.t.
Jim Nazium posted a topic in 04 - 09 Lexus RX330 / RX350 / RX400hI am offering my review of the following Tire, the Yokohama ADVAN S.T. Today, I have put on approximately 1250 miles on them since installing them a couple of weeks ago. I have some data to compare with my previous two tires, both manufactured by Good Year and with completely different viewpoints. The factory Good Year tires in the O.E.M. tire size were terrible in all aspects (tire noise, drive comfort, wet and dry handling). After the first oil Change, I swapped them out for Good Year Eagle Responsedge in a more appropriate tire size for our class of vehicle and weight, 255/55-R18. This tire exceeded my expectations in every department, they were super, super quiet. Excellent dry and very good wet weather traction. They were smooth throughout their entire tire life (which is usually pretty rare) and I put on approximately 33,000 miles on them (I use full blown winters, and do not drive much in winter) before they were replaced. I took the time to break in the tires (YOKOHAMA ADVAN S.T.) and scrubbed off the usual tire dimples and the anti adhesion silicon used to release a tire from there molds. I drove over various distances, but base my opinion mainly on one long trip along the eastern coast (from Montreal to Maine). I took both scenic routes, city roads, and highways. Experienced both hot, humid weather conditions, as well as cooler climates (mountains) and rain. I found the tires to perform well, and delivered what I was expecting from Yokohama. The comfort factor, driving over various road conditions were superior to the Respondege, probably due to the fact the Good Years used a very stiff Kevlar sidewall. But, I found the Respondedge to be a quieter tire. One big difference, was the Yokohama Advan S.T. is a fantastic tire if you happen to drive over roads where you tend to have tracking issues. By that I mean, grooves in the road or severe road wear where you see grooves that cause the tire to want to track like a train on a railroad track. The Yokohama Advan S.T. was FANTASTIC, literally ignoring any kind of road grooves, imperfections, and driving on exactly where you want to go, even when changing lanes!!! I did not experience any kind of tugging or tracking by the tire, whatsoever. If you happen to live in areas with high traffic wear (LA, NYC etc...), or roads with grating grooves that cause your vehicle to want to steer off direction, then I HIGHLY recommend this tire. I also found the Yokohama ADVAN S.T. to outperform the Responsedge in rain as well, marginally better (not a huge, huge difference, but in rain every little bit helps), even when the Responsedge were new. Now, if only the Yokohama Advan S.T. can improve somewhat in the next 1000 miles or so in terms of road noise, then they too can exceed my expectations. Cheers, MadloR
Actually, I believe your answer is in the Air Filter you are using... I noticed you are using a K&N air filter. Those filters require to be "oiled" as part of there air filtration characteristics. And, as a rule, more is not better. The filters when new come pre-oiled. When they are serviced, they are washed with the appropriate air filter cleaner, and then allowed to dry. Then, you are to re-oil the K&N air filter with the appropriate Oil. I believe the air filter was over oiled and therefore appears in the form of "oil sweating" through a seal or component (that being the mass air flow meter). I would suggest you open up the air filter box, and wipe everything down to remove any excess air filter oil. Cheers, MadloR
Well, yesterday (11/07/19) was the official day that the Good Year Eagle Responsedge tires came off the car and into retirement. I had the Yokohama Advan S.T. installed, mounted and balanced. I drove back from my US residency to Canada (my canadian residents) and will allow for a few tanks of gas so as to give the new tires a chance to break in. I will say, like any new tire coming onto a vehicle that previously had tires worn down to the thread minimum, you will immediately notice a difference in ride quality. The extra rubber whenever you swap from worn to new will immediately show a smoother more comfortable ride. Like any new tire, there needs to have a chance to scrub off the tire lubricant used to allow the tire to break away from the tire mold. As well, there needs the time for the tire to break into shape by wearing off the dimples and settle into a smooth wear. My first reactions were, like I mentioned above, smoother. The tires are road noisier than the worn Good Years, due to the dimples and brand new nature of the tire. I look forward to updating with a new thread about my initial impressions of the Yokohama Advan S.T. So far, they are a damn nice looking tire, and I hope to be equally impressed in terms of my criteria's when choosing a Summer Only tire. Cheers, MadloR
Zero Oil Consumption on my end, my RX has 44,000 pampered miles. Personally, an engine that burns oil is not necessarily a bad thing. Better Lubrication LOL. (FWIW: Most Alfa Romeo's that had sweet DOHC All Aluminum Engines like sucking back 3/4 - 1+ quart(s) of oil in between each oil change, and it was completely within factory specs.. 8 litre oil pans if I remember correctly.) Personally, I think the greater problem with the Hybrid Engine, is the constant cycling of the Gas Engine. Unless your oil CAN get hot enough, the oil gets contaminated with Fuel and as such, contaminates the oil quiet easily. Every time I change the engine oil, I find it smells like "Gas" much more than any other vehicle that I have owned. I find the upside down oil filter to be a poor design choice. I like the fact that the dealer service maintains proof, without any doubt, as per the fact that the vehicle was serviced according to Lexus. Yes, I know it's a 100 dollar oil change. What I do at home, is once I get the vehicle back, I drive with the dealer oil for about a week. I then drain the oil at night, while the engine is still hot and let it sit with the oil drain plug removed overnight. The next day, I drop in synthetic oil. I usually buy synthetic oil that is on sale and stock up when necessary. I like to use the 0W/20 stuff, if I can find it, during the Cooler Days from Autumn - Winter - and through to the cooler days of Spring. I have a lot of trouble finding 0W/20 (in 4.4 or 5 litre jugs), so the next best choice (and it says so on the oil filler cap) is 5W/30. But, during the hotter months, I will swap the oil out for 5W/40 or 5W/50, especially when I have the vehicle all loaded up and travelling about in stop and go city traffic. Cheers, MadloR
Rx400H "push Button Start" On Japan Models?
Jim Nazium replied to cduluk's topic in 04 - 09 Lexus RX330 / RX350 / RX400hYes, a remote engine start would work. The issue, is two fold. You have a vehicle with a slightly smaller carbon footprint, and then you install a car starter. If you leave the climate control on, with temp set to say 75 F, and start your vehicle (be it by remote starter or key) the engine will turn over. Heat is generated by the engine, and the hot coolant is sent to the heater core box so as to blow heat into the passenger compartment. The same occurs in the summer, the climate control is set to cool the passenger compartment. The AC compressor is electric, so the hybrid batteries are used to turn over the ac compressor. When the hybrid batteries are depleted, the engine will turn over and recharge the hybrid batteries while supply energy to the electric compressor. So, you CAN have an auto starter on a hybrid, but seems like an oxymoron thing to do LOL.
Some Photos of the Good Year's before they come off... You will notice the now smooth even wear. Absolutely no cupping, uneven tread wear of any kind. I also shined them up one last time with McGuire tire dressing lol...
Rx400H "push Button Start" On Japan Models?
Jim Nazium replied to cduluk's topic in 04 - 09 Lexus RX330 / RX350 / RX400hA Big oversight of this optional keyless system, is the automatic trunk opening and closing. Something that we can now perform with our key fob.
Rx400H "push Button Start" On Japan Models?
Jim Nazium replied to cduluk's topic in 04 - 09 Lexus RX330 / RX350 / RX400hAh, Uh... Advanced Keys Group Buy?!?!?!
Fuel Octane Levels
Jim Nazium replied to Arjuna's topic in 04 - 09 Lexus RX330 / RX350 / RX400hWelcome Arjuna... Not sure really what you are asking. If you are implying whether or not the cost of higher octane fuel offsets the cost of the fuel for greater fuel mileage, this isn't the case. I have found to achieve greater fuel mileage using regular grade octane. The only time I have found the higher octane to be of any benefit, is during the few weeks in the year where it gets super hot and muggy. On those occasions, I have found the higher octane to alleviate traces of pre-ignition (otherwise known as "pinging") while driving up moderate inclinations typically found on long stretches of highways. Our engines adapt well, but in the extremely humid and hot periods, find the engine mapping to be more friendly towards mileage than to avoiding pre-ignition. Alot of this is all due to the cvt imho, since it doesn't work exactly like a conventional geared transmission. Cheers, MadloR
Iphone 4 Integration
Jim Nazium replied to hwilke01's topic in 04 - 09 Lexus RX330 / RX350 / RX400hWith your happy disposition, I see you have invited many to respond to your request for help... ENJOY!!!!

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SYDNEY (AFP) - A desperate man threw spanners and spark plugs to fight off circling crocodiles after his friend drowned when one of the animals capsized their small boat, reports said on Wednesday (May 18).
The holidaymakers were pulling in crab pots Tuesday in Leaders Creek, 38km northeast of Darwin, when their boat was nudged by a saltwater croc, tipping it over.
The men tried to get back on board but it flipped again, trapping one of them underneath, drowning him, the Northern Territory News said.
The survivor, 72, told rescuers he tried to pull the boat to shore before getting stuck waist-deep in mud with three or four crocodiles circling him.
"He was using spanners and spark plugs to hold them at bay," said Ian Badham from CareFlight, an Australian aeromedical charity which flew him to a Darwin hospital.
He managed to make it into nearby mangroves and spent three hours there before some fellow crabbers heard his cries for help.
"The man has been left suffering from severe shock and dehydration and exposure," added Badham, who was speaking to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Crocodiles are common in Australia's tropical north and they kill an average of two people each year.
Crocodile numbers have increased since the introduction of protection laws in 1971, with estimates putting the Northern Territory's population in the wild at about 100,000.
Despite the dangers they pose for swimmers, boaters and fishermen, the Australian government in 2014 rejected the idea of crocodile safari hunts - saying there was a danger of "cruel and inhumane" behaviour.
Earlier this year, a 19-year-old on a family camping holiday in the Northern Territory had a lucky escape when he fought off a crocodile which bit into his foot as he slept.
In January, a crocodile crunched off a woman's arm in a "death roll" at a creek in a small town in neighbouring Western Australia state.


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Hysterical Pregnancy
Hysterical, emotional, false- whatever you want to call it. Have you ever had one?
I got my blood test results back yesterday. Negative blood pregnancy test, negative STI screening, negative for PCOS markers. Totally normal. That same day I got the blood test results, the 60th (and last) day of that cycle, I got my period.
What happened?
I'm having an ultrasound on Wednesday. Maybe something about a cyst. I just don't know.
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Hi just wanted to say I'm sorry to hear you're going through this. I've never had this happen, but looking back at your tests I would have definitely thought they were faint positives. I've had chemical pregnancies where I had faint positives at home but by the time I got to the dr for bloodwork, my hcg was less than 5 and they acted like I was crazy. It's not a good feeling. My periods were delayed by a few days. Aside from PCOS, rapid weight loss or gain can screw with your cycle. Thyroid issues can too, so if they haven't checked your thyroid, ask about that. I hope you heal from this experience and get that BFP
8 months ago
Update- I think those faint positives were evaps, and I'm pretty sure I just didn't ovulate. I feel a lot better now that I've started a new cycle. If you're in this situation, I would go to the doctor and get some tests. If there's no known cause, a few doses of progesterone should kick your body back into gear.
8 months ago • Post starter
Early pregnancy symptoms by day past ovulation
What signs and symptoms are most common on each day past ovulation?
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Revere Bank Hosts BusinessKillers Seminar
Revere Bank and Obsidan Business Solutions hosted a BusinessKillers Seminar on Friday, January 26. The 90-minute educational workshop focused on helping business owners plan ahead and protect what they have worked so hard to build. The presentation highlighted six common mistakes to avoid that can cause businesses to fail and featured informative videos with commentary from expert speakers. The workshop was co-presented by Dave West of Revere Bank and Pat Carroll of Obsidan Business Solutions. If you're interested in attending the next BusinessKillers Seminar, contact Lindsay Bay at 240.459.1984 to be added to the invite list.


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A free solution from Centrify that enables personal devices to be managed in Active Directory has been launched.
According to the company, Centrify DirectControl for Mobile is a cloud-based service that allows enterprises to centrally secure and manage smartphones and tablets using existing Active Directory infrastructure, skills and processes. Also offered is Centrify Express for Mobile, a free mobile security offering with no limit on the number of devices that can be supported.
Centrify claimed that DirectControl for Mobile allows organisations to quickly and securely bring large populations of mobile devices under management using automated self-enrollment without requiring IT staff to deploy additional infrastructure, implement changes in firewall configurations, learn new skills or operate yet another management console.
Centrify CEO Tom Kemp said: "The issue is clear: seven years ago it was about Linux in the data centre, now it is Apple and Android replacing Windows and BlackBerry; what we are doing with mobile devices is to allow them to join the Active Directory domain. The value is in the device becoming an option for the user and to be managed by the company.
"A manager can also add it to a user group policy to enforce a passcode and security so they can manage devices and, in doing so, leverage infrastructure skill set processes. So you don't need more management, boxes or another pane of glass. You set the login once and issue a PKI certificate and have a managed device."
The Centrify Cloud Service allows the on-premise Active Directory environment to easily manage mobile devices over a trusted, over-the-air connection, whether or not a device is connected to the corporate network. It also simplifies the reporting of enrolled devices, installed applications and device update status across the organisation, with the ability to detect and block enrollment of jailbroken devices.


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It has been reported that the UK Government has advised the European Union (EU) negotiators that it is prepared to pay a Brexit divorce bill of €60bn and in response the EU negotiators have started drawing up the outlines of a future trade deal with Britain.
The European Union advised the UK Government they only needed to see a "single sentence" in writing to indicate Britain's acceptance of budget commitments known as reste à liquider (RAL) and the UK's share of the cost of MEP pensions and aid budgets.
Brussels negotiators have since reported that the UK Government have used officials to signal the necessary financial concessions.
A senior EU negotiator has said that if they [the UK government] are smart, they will use this to claim victory and say trade talks have finally started, adding that "internal preparatory work" on the trade deal was already under way and would accelerate ahead of the December summit.
May has already offered to pay €20bn during a two-year transition period. The EU, however, estimates the UK owes €32bn more in RAL and a further €10bn for other liabilities. This would bring the total to some €62bn. The final sum will not be thrashed out until the end of the talks.
A senior UK government source said the Brexit bill would be a small price to pay for a better trade deal. The value of getting a smoother process of transition and a smoother process of trade in the end game is worth quite a lot. These are sums that make any lubrication of the process look like small change.
It remains to be seen what the trade deal will cover but at a cost of €60bn and probably tying us into the European Union regulations and courts for years it is certainly not what the British people voted for.


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Balarama & Sita Priya
May 27, 2005 9:08 pm
Balarama and Sita Priya are Krishna devotees. They worship at the Krishna temple in Spanish Fork, Utah.
Produced and Directed by Nathan Armstrong
Cast Members: Brian Walter, Suzanne Walter, Rasa Lila Walter
Film Editor: Nathan Armstrong
Cinematographer: Armando Gutierrez
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Jesse Slocumb
Jesse Slocumb (* 1780 in Spring Bank, Wayne County, North Carolina, † December 20, 1820 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1817 and 1820 he represented the state of North Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Jesse Slocumb attended the schools of his home and worked afterwards in agriculture as a planter. He also held various local offices. Between 1802 and 1808, he was an official land register ( Register of Deeds ) in his home district. Politically, Slocumb member of the Federalist Party, founded by Alexander Hamilton.
In the congressional elections of 1816, he was elected in the fourth constituency of North Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of William J. Gaston on March 4, 1817. After a re-election, he could remain until his death on December 20, 1820 in Congress. He died of pleurisy, which he had contracted on a trip back to the capital.


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|Trial requirement
|Claw evolved to 5 stars and equipped with a certificate.
|Trial reward
Claw's Pearl x3, Panda Fragment x5, Melee Relics x5
|Pearl Cost
|Statue Cost
20 Eternal Gold
|Statue Bonus
| Attack+5, Power+1
In Sky and Space, Speed+5
There are three totems, and their effects last for 5 turns, followed by 3 turns of cooldown, reseting the totem 8 turns after activation. Their buffs will overwrite each other:
- No 1 (left and red) increases your Attack by 50 points.
- No 2 (center and purple) increases your Defense.
- No 3 (right and green) cleans all your debuffs and make you immune to any debuff.
Method 1Edit
Titles: Novice Warrior x1, Knight x3,
Cycle until energy for special skill reaches 50:
- Click No 1 to increase Attack, and then attack 5 times, untill buff runs out.
- Click No 3 to clean all the bleed stacks, then click No 2 to increase Defense, and attack boss 3 times (NOT 5), until the first totem leaves cooldown.
When energy reaches 50, transform:
- Click No 1, cast Ancient Roar and then cycle:
- Click No 1 whenever available and use Ground Fissure until the boss counter reaches 1.
- Click No 3 to become immune to boss skill (Ancient Roar) that reduces your attack, and attack once so it casts the skill without affecting you.
- Click No 2 to increase Defense and keep using Ground Fissure until the first totem leaves cooldown.
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There's something about creating healthier versions of comfort food that makes me giddy. We all have those comfort foods that we love – so what better way to enjoy them than with a guilt-free version?
Because then you can eat them all.day. E'RY day. Like, just get crazy with these mashed potatoes! Have them for breakfast, lunch, and dinner – because they're that good and THAT healthy.
And the thing is…they really aren't mashed potatoes at all. I don't think that cauliflower mashed potatoes really makes any sense logically, but we seem to call them that anyway, so let's roll with it.
So yea. Cauliflower mashed potatoes are gonna rock your WORLD. They are lightyears better than the mashed cauliflower I've made in the past – and they'd probably make for better pancakes, too. I've got some recipes to come that are SO good your mind will be totally blown. But first, we better start with something you absolutely need to have first.
That'd be a food processor. Please don't be angry with me…I know some of you don't have one. But I have to tell you, it is my all-time favorite kitchen appliance. And if you are going to make your own foods like hummus, peanut butter, snack bars, or this pureed cauliflower, the investment will be TOTALLY worth it! We got this food processor by Cuisinart as a wedding gift. It is pretty affordable ($100) and works great. I know they are a bit expensive up front, but if you're using it to make awesome recipes, you'll get your money's worth in no time.
Oh, and don't worry about any of that nonsense about food processors being hard to clean. They rinse right off and are top rack dishwasher safe!
So that being said, you could definitely try to make this recipe with a blender or magic bullet, but I'm not sure you will get the right consistency. When making this, you also have to be a tad bit patient, too. The first time I made them, I poured in too much almond milk, thinking that they needed it to blend up. But the end result was kinda watery. So the next time, I only added a bit of almond milk, then let it run and occasionally stirred it up when needed. It still only took about 5 minutes…that probably speaks volumes about my practice of patience when I'm hungry.
Feel free to serve this pureed cauliflower with meatballs, meatloaf, chicken, bacon like a loaded potato (hint of what's to come?)…or just about anything you want. You'll be pleased!
Ok, let's make some fake taters.
Pureed Cauliflower
Yield 4 servings
Total recipe cost: $3.35 Create 4 servings, $0.84 per serving
- 1 whole head of cauliflower, washed and chopped into florets – $2.98
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder – $0.02
- 1/4 teaspoon salt and pepper – $0.02
- 1 tablespoon unsweetened original almond milk – $0.02
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter – $0.33
- Place cauliflower in a pot with water over high heat. Bring to a boil, and boil for 5-7 minutes until cauliflower is tender.
- Drain cauliflower, and let cool slightly. This is important, you don't want it to be too steamy when you place in food processor.
- Add all ingredients to food processor. Process on low for a couple minutes, and scrape cauliflower off sides. Continue to process, alternating on low to high every minute or so for about 5 minutes until completely smooth.
- Serve immediately. They also reheat well!
Courses Sides
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 1/4 recipe
Amount Per Serving
Calories 105
% Daily Value
Total Fat 6 g
Saturated Fat 4 g
Unsaturated Fat 2 g
Cholesterol 15 mg
Sodium 67 mg
Total Carbohydrates 12 g
Dietary Fiber 5 g
Sugars 5 g
Protein 4 g
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Do you have a food processor? What are your favorite cauliflower recipes?
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Los Angeles' Community Plans
"Make no little plans" is something many of us have heard before, a motto coined by famed urban planner Daniel Burnham. In a place as big and diverse as Los Angeles, a challenge with planning the city's future is, in part, a matter of scale:
How do we craft a vision of Los Angeles that works for everyone?
While Angelenos should think big in terms of a broad, long-term vision, we also need to plan on a smaller scale, at the community level. In Los Angeles, this typically happens through Community Plans. In its most basic form, a Community Plan helps guide growth and development by stating what can and cannot be built in a specific area. It plays an important role in preserving the unique character of older and historic neighborhoods.
This page gives you an overview of Los Angeles' Community Plans program, including ways for you to get involved in updates in your neighborhood.
- Why does Los Angeles have Community Plans?
- What do Community Plans mean for historic buildings and neighborhoods?
- What is the status of the Community Plan updates?
Why does Los Angeles have Community Plans?
California state law requires all local jurisdictions to adopt a comprehensive Citywide General Plan, which serves as the principal planning document for directing future growth. The City of Los Angeles last updated its General Plan in 1996 and has committed to revisions in the coming years.
Given its size, the City has established thirty-five discrete Community Plans to implement the goals and policies of the General Plan at a local level. In this context, a "community" generally means an area of multiple neighborhoods, which can encompass a range of residential, commercial, transit, and industrial uses.
Though each Community Plan is distinct, they all aim to manage development in their given areas by setting goals and policies that balance growth with retention of the existing fabric. These long-range documents are designed to encourage sustainable development in neighborhoods that can accommodate new density while reinforcing the unique character of older and historic communities.
At this critical time in its growth, City of Los Angeles intends to update each of its thirty-five Community Plans.
With most of the Community Plans woefully out of date, Mayor Eric Garcetti and City Council pledged in the spring of 2016 to amend each of the plans within a decade. Several are currently underway, and more than twenty remain in the queue for future revision.
According to the City, the updated Community Plans will reflect the following objectives:
- Integrate land use, infrastructure, and transportation improvement;
- Direct growth to centers while preserving established residential neighborhoods;
- Create healthier, more livable neighborhoods and economically vital business districts that can provide more job and housing opportunities for city residents; and
- Facilitate improved design of new and renovated structures and public spaces.
What do Community Plans mean for historic buildings and neighborhoods?
The New Community Plans program represents a rare chance to establish clear goals and policy recommendations for historic preservation and neighborhood conservation.
By indicating where development can and can't take place, Community Plans offer a base level of predictability and can ease, as well as fuel, development pressures.
The City's Community Plans are designed to address a range of topics, from housing and mobility to open space and jobs. This breadth requires a delicate balance between incentivizing new development and conserving existing resources. As a result, the process of drafting new Plans opens the doors for thoughtful and creative new tools for managing historic resources and reinforcing neighborhood character.
The Community Plans are a valuable public blueprint for what our neighborhoods will look and feel like in the near future.
For example, the New Community Plans will benefit from unprecedented information about the City's historic properties due to the recent completion of SurveyLA, Los Angeles' first-ever comprehensive program to identify historic resources citywide. This documentation is readily accessible through the new Historic Places LA database, created in partnership with the Getty Conservation Institute.
Using findings from SurveyLA, the City can create policies and incentives in the Plans that:
- Direct new development away from neighborhoods with high concentrations of historic resources;
- Encourage adaptive reuse of existing buildings;
- Prioritize the creation of new Historic Preservation Overlay Zones (HPOZs) in eligible neighborhoods;
- Promote the designation of new Historic-Cultural Monuments (HCMs); and
- Require all projects affecting historic resouces to meet the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation.
The New Community Plans are the best vehicle for implementing many of the tools described in this microsite, including Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) programs and conservation districts. In the future, the updated Plans will also include the City's new form-based zoning code, which is currently in-progress through the re:code LA initiative.
What is the status of the Community Plan updates?
Los Angeles' City Council voted in February 2017 to establish a new schedule for revising the Community Plans every six years. The City has also allocated $1.5 million in new annual funding to expand its planning staff after years of budget cuts.
As of early 2017, the City is actively revising the following Community Plans:
The following New Community Plans have been adopted:
The Conservancy is closely following the New Community Plans program and will continue to work with the City to incorporate meaningful protections for historic resources and older neighborhoods. For more information about the our positions on the proposed plans, click on the links to our comment letters in the column to the left.
Get involved! Community planning is a group effort, and we encourage all to participate. This is a crucial opportunity to help shape the future of L.A. neighborhoods, which will only become more important over time, as L.A. continues to grow up, both figuratively and literally.
Though the process of updating the plans often spans several years, the final product benefits tremendously when residents get involved. By writing letters, attending public workshops, and commenting during hearings, you can ensure that your voice is represented in your community's new blueprint. Click on the links above to read the latest drafts of the plans and to learn more about upcoming events.


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The Coroner's Inquest: Ecuador's Default and Sovereign Bond Documentation
International Financial Law Review, 2009
12 Pages Posted: 10 Sep 2009 Last revised: 25 Dec 2014
Date Written: August 11, 2009
Conventional wisdom is that sovereigns will rarely, if ever, default on their external debts in circumstances where it is clear that they have the capacity to pay. The first line of defense against the errant sovereign is its concern about reputation. It may have to tap the external debt markets again in the future; and there is the fear that the markets will extract revenge. But reputational constraints do not always work because some governments heavily discount future costs in favor of current benefits. When reputational constraints fail, however, a second line of defense is supposed to come into play. That line of defense is comprised of contractual and legal remedies. Both lines of defense broke down in the case of Ecuador's default in late 2008. The breakdown of the second line of defense is significant because this was the first time that the modern theory of supermajority creditor control of sovereign debt problems was tested in practice. This Article begins the coroner's inquest into the reasons for this breakdown and how similar situations might be averted in the future.
Keywords: sovereign debt, Ecuador, sovereign bond default, international bonds
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Is it possible to draw results from other than shutterstock? It would be useful for me to see a broader range.I'd also love a search again function excluding the first set of results. The results I got for one search were way off the mark because of spammed images at shutterstock. Maybe a second set of results would be better?
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As part of the Oxford Traherne undergraduate summer studentship, I have been lucky enough to explore Brasenose's impressive collection of rare books. Liz Kay gave us a comprehensive tour of Brasenose's collections, presenting a snapshot of the broad range of rare books held at Brasenose, each with their own history and eccentricities. I was also struck by the variety of contexts in which the books are stored, from the traditional and atmospheric library at the top of Brasenose tower's seemingly endless spiral steps to the more modern air-conditioned rolling stacks of the basement, providing an illuminating insight into the challenges and complexity of looking after these rare books and ensuring their survival for the future.
I returned to Brasenose to look at some particular items and was very pleased to discover that Brasenose, Traherne's old college, still has some copies of works which he read and took notes from as an undergraduate. Though it is impossible to say whether these are the copies Traherne himself read, it was fascinating to examine these four-hundred year old books and the marks of earlier readers which they contain – it seems Oxford's seventeenth-century students were as prone to marginalia as the students of today.
I would like to thank Liz Kay for her fascinating tour and the insight she gave us into both Brasenose's historic collection and the challenges and responsibilities facing a 21st century library. She was extremely helpful and accommodating even in the midst of the renovation for the new library and contributed greatly to my research project and the studentship.
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Open source portal software
Hosted software, or open source?
It may seem like a daunting task to create a customer portal that allows users to check the status of support requests, track content, and review updates to knowledge bases and community contributions. It's particularly daunting when you have to build on open source code to do it. Your IT team could spend ages doing just that. Fortunately, Zendesk Guide provides a hosted customer portal that allows users to do all of that from a single location. You're welcome, IT teams.
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- Information gathering - give agents the context necessary to resolve requests by choosing which fields customers complete
- Transparency - supports shared organization to allow members to view one another's requests
- A fully customizable portal - providing a seamless experience between your website and help center
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Configuring sign-in's and end user access is nothing new here at Zendesk. Let us help you launch your customer portal. Find out more about how Zendesk Guide provides the platform for customer satisfaction and agent success. Sign up for a free trial of Guide today — there's no need to seek open source portal software.Proaktiv werden
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There's plenty of information about enterprise client portals and self-service options compared to open source portal software. Read these resources to learn more.
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Much to my regret, I didn't see Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's Emilia at Shakespeare's Globe. It opened after I had departed for the Edinburgh Fringe and closed the night I returned.
It's my loss, but it makes me wonder about the way the inequalities of theatre in gender and race are perpetuated. Not just by what is programmed but where a show is produced, in what space and – in this case – for how long.
I'm not the only one. On Twitter last week, actor and theatremaker Hannah Bristow asked: "Why do the big feminist plays of recent weeks, both Sylvia at London's Old Vic and Emilia at the Globe, have such criminally short runs?" She added: "Do they not know my mum hasn't seen them yet?"
Joking apart, it's worth exploring the way more inclusive work is programmed, because while handing over a theatre's main stage – as the Globe and Old Vic have done – to work by women and about women is to be applauded, limiting its reach is not.
It's the same with shows created by artists of colour. It's all very well for theatres to trumpet the diversity of their programming, but not if they are hedging their bets and limiting the perceived risk of programming a new play by a black or Asian writer – or by a woman – by giving it fewer performances. It's like giving with one hand and taking away with the other.
If productions have shorter runs, it often follows that they are less likely to be seen widely by audiences, as well as those working in the industry and critics. That means they often make less of a lasting impact. That's an issue not just for the writer and creatives concerned, but also in terms of the way those productions start to change the dominant landscape. We women know that it is not our individual successes that really count, nice though they can be, but that what we achieve might shift things for the women who come after us.
It's terrific to see that Natasha Gordon's Nine Night is going into the West End, but if it hadn't been such a success at the National, it may well have simply disappeared after a very short run in the Dorfman. As the 2014 British Theatre Repertoire report pointed out: plays written by female writers are far less likely to be revived. In that particular year, Agatha Christie represented 66% of the box office for all revivals by women. So what hope for plays written by female writers of colour?
That same report, published in 2016, also noted how much progress can be a 'two steps forward, one step back' process, as the gains are quickly lost. "In some respects, the picture for women writers is bleaker in 2014," wrote the authors. "Plays by women play smaller houses than those by men (382 to 616), for shorter runs (19 performances to 28), and people pay less for tickets to see them (£18.79 to £27.59). In each of these figures the situation has worsened since 2013."
Ah, you say, but 2014 was a long time ago and much has changed for the better since then. Well, it has in many ways, but maybe change is not quite as significant or enduring as it might seem, and while the numbers of plays produced by women across the country shows an upward incline, theatre space remains gendered.
Victoria Sadler's excellent annual Theatre in Review survey, concentrating on London's new-writing theatres, points out that the challenges for female playwrights continue into 2018, even when issues of gender and inclusivity are much higher on theatres' programming agendas than they were four years ago.
Hampstead Theatre, previously a prime offender in its failure to programme work by women, has (after widespread criticism) suddenly rocketed to top place in Sadler's survey for its significantly increased presentation of plays by women. But most of those written by UK-based female playwrights were in the studio space downstairs.
Of course, artistic director Edward Hall should be applauded for suddenly discovering that he did, after all, know some female playwrights. But when female work is predominantly staged in studio spaces, it perpetuates the idea that staging a play by a woman in a main space puts an extra risk and therefore an extra burden on a theatre.
It's the kind of thinking that led Nicholas Hytner (who has still never directed a play by a woman and whose NT predecessors were hardly better champions of living British playwrights) to comment in 2003 that those with the capability to write for big stages such as the Olivier were "by and large very senior writers, and they are either called David, Tom or Alan". With that attitude, no wonder it took until 2008 for a living female writer – Rebecca Lenkiewicz – to have a play (Her Naked Skin) on the Olivier stage.
Equality is not just demonstrated in the numbers of plays by women and writers of colour that venues stage, but also in the size of those stages and the length of runs.


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These designs for the Large Lioness are designed to be stitched on one piece of fabric. In addition to a picture, you could use the Large Lioness on a pillow, a vest or the back of a jacket. I can also see her on a great living room or den throw.
FINISHED SIZE OF EMBROIDERY MEDIUM: 10.3" x 9.3" LARGE: 12.4" x 11.1" JUMBO: 16.1" x 14.4" A Commercial size BFC1607commercial (10.3" x 9.3") of the entire Large Lioness will be included in all sets.
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All of our machine embroidery designs will come in any or all of the following hoop sizes: (You will receive links to download the size(s) you purchased and all formats available)Small for 4 x 4 inch hoop, Medium for 5 x 7 inch hoop, Large for 6 x 10 inch hoop, and Jumbo 8 x 12 inch hoop.Each design description above will state the sizes the set comes in: S, M, L, J standing for Small, Medium, Large and Jumbo. These will be written SML, meaning Small, Medium and Large, or perhaps MLJ, meaning Medium Large and Jumbo, or even SMLJ meaning the set comes in all four hoop sizesFormats Available: ART3, ART4, DST, EXP, HUS, JEF, PES, VIP, XXXIf your format is not listed email us.
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JLL, ezCater Launch CaterCares to Help Fight Childhood Hunger
New corporate catering initiative debuts in Boston, will expand nationwide
BOSTON, November 22, 2016
Nearly one in six kids across the United States is at risk of going hungry every day. To make a difference in the fight against childhood hunger, JLL and ezCater have partnered on a bold initiative called CaterCares to donate funds raised through corporate catering orders to local food banks throughout the country. The Greater Boston Food Bank is the first recipient of these funds.
CaterCares combines the power of JLL, which manages 167 million square feet of U.S. office space, with the reach of ezCater's online ordering platform, which connects businesspeople nationwide with more than 45,000 restaurants and caterers. Offered exclusively to tenants in JLL-managed properties, the formula is simple: tenants order meals for their offices or events through CaterCares, and in return they help to provide meals for children in need in their communities.
The program was born from both necessity and opportunity, according to JLL Senior Vice President of Research Lori Mabardi, creator of CaterCares. "My professional role as a researcher who analyzes the economy gives me insight into some of the financial imbalances that exist today," said Mabardi. "Seeing how often our children are affected by these imbalances merged with my personal desire to protect them and led to the idea for CaterCares," she added.
"Taking care of each other is the right thing to do. When JLL tenants order their corporate catering through CaterCares, those businesses can – automatically, and at no cost to them – also make a difference in their communities," said Stefania Mallett, Co-founder and CEO at ezCater. "JLL tenants get access to ezCater's great network of reliable local caterers, easy online ordering, and award-winning customer service – plus, they get the great feeling that comes from helping fight childhood hunger. How could you not do this?"
When participating tenants within JLL-managed properties order meals through CaterCares, they generate ezRewards points, which are immediately topped off with a match from JLL and ezCater. The ezRewards points are then donated, as equivalent cash, to local food banks. For The Greater Boston Food Bank, a typical $250 catering order placed through CaterCares provides a meal for 30 hungry children. Through a limited trial program, CaterCares has already generated funds to pay for more than 1,800 meals.
"Creative partnerships like CaterCares help raise awareness about hunger and bring much needed resources to help end hunger across eastern Massachusetts," said Catherine D'Amato, President and CEO of The Greater Boston Food Bank. "We are grateful to JLL and ezCater for their commitment to helping children and families in need."
JLL, with support from building owner Morgan Stanley, debuted the CaterCares program this fall in two of Boston's most prestigious properties: One Post Office Square and Rowes Wharf. The program is currently expanding throughout the Greater Boston region and will soon roll out to JLL-managed properties nationwide.
"We are committed to leveraging our scale, which includes 870 office buildings under management, to bring this program to many more cities and food banks across the country," said Dan Pufunt, JLL President of Property Management. "We look forward to bringing this deserving initiative to other cities and showing that property management goes beyond keeping the lights on to making life better for the people in our communities."
For more news, videos and research resources on JLL, please visit the firm's U.S. media center Web page: http://bit.ly/18P2tkv
For more news on ezCater, visit: http://bit.ly/2fmEJNW
About JLL
JLL (NYSE: JLL) is a professional services and investment management firm offering specialized real estate services to clients seeking increased value by owning, occupying and investing in real estate. JLL is a Fortune 500 company with, as of December 31, 2015, revenue of $6.0 billion and fee revenue of $5.2 billion, more than 280 corporate offices, operations in over 80 countries and a global workforce of more than 60,000. On behalf of its clients, the company provides management and real estate outsourcing services for a property portfolio of 4.0 billion square feet, or 372 million square meters, and completed $138 billion in sales, acquisitions and finance transactions in 2015. As of September 30, 2016, its investment management business, LaSalle Investment Management, has $59.7 billion of real estate assets under management. JLL is the brand name, and a registered trademark, of Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated. For further information, visit www.jll.com.
About ezCater
ezCater is the only nationwide marketplace for business catering. ezCater's online ordering, on-time ratings and reviews, and award-winning, 5-star customer service connect businesspeople to reliable catering for any meeting, anywhere in the United States. For more information or to place an order, visit www.ezcater.com.
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Nevertheless: Sparkian Tales in Bulawayo – Book Launch
October 29, 2018 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pmFree
Join us for the book launch of Shane Strachan's short story collection, "Nevertheless: Sparkian Tales in Bulawayo".
From 6.30pm there will be time to explore the Buladeen exhibition and mingle. At 6.45pm, Shane will give a small talk about how he came to write the collection after working with Grampian Hospitals Art Trust on an arts-in-health project in Lady Rodwell Maternity Hospital in Bulawayo, where Muriel Spark gave birth to her son in 1938.
This will be followed by readings from the stories which have been funded as part of the Muriel Spark 100 programme in celebration of Spark's centenary in 2018, led by Creative Scotland and the National Library of Scotland.
From October, you can purchase a copy of "Nevertheless", published by Bulawayo-based 'amaBooks, in all e-book formats or order a print copy from www.africanbookscollective.com
All profit will go to Lady Rodwell Maternity Hospital (UBH), Bulawayo.


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Deck Builders Bainbridge Ohio
The Best Decks from Professional Deck Builders
When you return from a tiring day at work and you need a special place to recharge, you shouldn't need to go any further than your ownbackyard—picture a expertly designed and installed deck from the deck builders at Klassic Custom Decks. Your Bainbridge area yard will be changed into a luxurious outdoor living space. Let stress melt away by turning your yard into an outdoor extension of your home.
Klassic Custom Decks Creates Any Deck You Dream Of
Do you think about a traditional wood deck extension from your living room? Or do you imagine a multi-tiered deck made with maintenance free, eco-friendly composite decking? Whether you want the ease of vinyl or the elegance of redwood, the experienced deck builders at Klassic Custom Decks will create your project with class.
Our deck builders and designers have created many of unique outdoor retreats and specialize in make your deck a natural transition between the living areas inside your home and out. You can rely on our creative, innovative designs and excellent workmanship. Whether you're looking for a raised deck or a ground-level construction with a pool, our deck builders can create exactly what you want.
Make Outdoor Rooms with a New Deck
Klassic Custom Decks can turn your deck into more than just a spot to warm up in the sun or dry off after a swim in the pool. Your deck:
- Can include customized outdoor lighting to make your backyard aesthetically pleasing and more easily used at night.
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If you want the leading outdoor living construction experts and deck builders in the Bainbridge area, you need Klassic Custom Decks. Each project receives specialized care because we believe in treating your project as if we were creating it for a magazine project. We want to amaze you with our customer service and personalized attention.
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- 1 ea chicken leg & thigh
- 1 Bilbao chorizo sausage link, cut into coins.
- 3 ea head on U15 Tiger shrimp –peeled but only the body, leave the head on and tail.
- 4 oz salmon, skin off – cut into 2 oz cubes
- 5 mussels – soak in slated water for 30 minutes, then scrub them and pull their breads out
- 3 clams – soak in slated water for 30 minutes, then scrub them.
- 3 c chicken stock
- 1 c Spanish Bomba rice
- 1 c Vino Blanco
- 1⁄4 c olive oil
- 10 ea saffron threads
- 1⁄2 tsp cumin
- 1⁄4 tsp allspice
- 1 ea bay leaf
- 1 tsp smoked paprika
- 1⁄4 c ea small diced yellow, green, red bell peppers
- 1⁄4 c small diced onions
- 2 tbs minced garlic
- 1⁄2 tbs kosher or sea salt
- 2 ea sliced green onions – for garnish
- 1 lemon, cut in half and deseeded
1. Heat up a 12-inch pan over medium-high heat. Place the 2 lemons 1/2 in the pan and sear for about 2 minutes, then set aside for garnish. Add some olive oil to coat the bottom of the pan.
2. Season the chicken, shrimp and salmon with a little of the salt. Sear o your chicken, skin side down, until golden brown for about 5 – 8 minutes. Flip your chicken and add your salmon, only cook one side golden brown, then your shrimp get a quick sear on each side about a minute each. Once the chicken and the salmon are about half-way cooked, remove from the pan and set aside with the shrimp.
3. Add chorizo into the pan and sauté until you start getting some color. Add more oil to the pan. Sauté the peppers, onions, and garlic until soft – and season with the saffron, cumin, allspice, smoked paprika and bay leaf. Cook on low heat for about 5 minutes.
4. Add your wine and bring to a boil. Reduce it by 1⁄2 and add your chicken and your rice. Once it is dry, add your stock and bring to a boil with the clams and mussels.
5. Once it is about half way cooked, add the salmon and the shrimp and simmer for about 10 minutes, or until there is no more liquid. Turn up heat for about a minute to dry up your pan until a nice crust is formed on the bottom of your paella.
6. Garnish paella with sliced green onions, seared lemons and dots of jalapeño cream (see recipe on our website!) throughout your paella. Enjoy!
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As a prominent part of Northeast Ohio, the NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC) at Lewis Field and Plumbrook Station has been and still is instrumental in the development of state-of-the-art technologies for the benefit of all. Recently, NASA has announced several promising new programs to enable further exploration of the Earth and beyond. As such, Mrs. Therese Griebel, the Director of Aeronautics at NASA GRC, will present what Cleveland's own NASA GRC is doing in support of the Agency and national priorities in Aeronautics, Space Science, Space Technology Development, and Human Exploration. Additionally, Mrs. Griebel will highlight some of the historic accomplishments that the NASA GRC facilities are responsible for, which will also portray the facilities capabilities at both NASA GRC at Lewis Field and the satellite facility, Plumbrook Station.
Date & Time:
October 28, 2014
6:00 to 8:00 PM
Food and Drink will be provided
The Oak Barrel
5975 Canal Rd
Valley View, OH 44125
Cost & CPD Credit:
Free Event
1 CPD hour – bring flyer for credit
Speaker Bio:
Therese Griebel joined NASA GRC 1991 and is currently the Director of Aeronautics at GRC. In this position she serves as the focal point for aeronautics research at Glenn and provides project management, leadership, and oversight in support of the Agency's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD).
Throughout her career at GRC, she has managed numerous projects, such as development of the Upper Stage Simulator for Ares I-X, which launched in October 2009 as the first test flight for the Ares I vehicle. Griebel most recently served as the Chief of the Avionics and Electrical Systems Division at GRC, where she was responsible for the development of power, communications, software, and avionics systems for space flight applications on multiple development and flight projects. From 2007 through 2009, Griebel was the Chief of Glenn's Manufacturing Division, where she oversaw all manufacturing functions, supporting the Exploration, Aeronautics, Space Science, and Space Operations Directorates. Griebel is the recipient of several NASA Awards, including the Outstanding Leadership Medal.
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Keep 'em Short (Round 2): Revised Discussion Draft on BEPS Action 6 – Prevent Treaty AbuseBy Robert Robillard - 22 May 2015
This blogpost originally appeared on rbrt.ca.
From the OECD website a new public discussion draft; but we are told once again to "keep it as short as possible":
"Public comments are invited on a revised discussion draft which includes proposals on how to deal with the follow-up work on Action 6 (Prevent Treaty Abuse) of the Action Plan on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS).
On 21 November 2014, the OECD released a discussion draft that identified 20 different issues to be addressed as part of the follow-up work mandated by the September 2014 Report on Action 6. At its March 2015 meetings, Working Party 1 on Tax Conventions and Related Questions continued its work on these issues in the light of the comments received, agreed on how to address the majority of these issues and discussed new proposals related to some issues.
This new discussion draft reflects the conclusions and proposals that resulted from that meeting and on which the Committee on Fiscal affairs is now inviting comments. The discussion draft and the comments received on it will be discussed at the Working Party 1 meeting of 22-26 June 2015, when the Working Party will be asked to produce a final version of the Report on Action 6 that will take into account the conclusions of the follow-up work done on the issues identified in the November 2014 discussion draft.
Comments should be sent by 17 June 2015 at the latest (no extension will be granted) and should be sent by email to email@example.com in Word format (in order to facilitate their distribution to government officials). They should be addressed to Marlies de Ruiter, Head, Tax Treaties, Transfer Pricing and Financial Transactions Division, OECD/CTPA.
Comments should be kept as short as possible: this is the third discussion draft related to Action 6 and extensive comments have already been sent on the different proposals resulting from the work on that part of the BEPS Action Plan. For the same reason, no public consultation meeting will be held on the proposals included in this new discussion draft."
Robert Robillard, Ph.D., CPA, CGA, Adm.A., MBA, M.Sc. Econ., M.A.P.
Senior Partner, RBRT Inc.
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Wastewater Treatment Plants / Industrial Pretreatment Program
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) is responsible for protecting the public health and the environment by regulating discharges of wastewater to Michigan's surface waters. Anyone discharging wastewater into the surface waters of the state is required by law to obtain a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit. The NPDES program regulates municipalities and industries that discharge directly into lakes and streams by limiting pollutants and requiring other protections.
As a special effort under the NPDES program, the MDEQ launched the Industrial Pretreatment Program (IPP) Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Initiative in February 2018. This initiative aims to reduce and eliminate certain PFAS from industrial sources that may pass through municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) and enter our lakes and streams, potentially causing fish consumption advisories or polluting public drinking water supplies.
Learn more information about EGLE's PFAS sampling of lakes and streams.
Wastewater Discharged Directly into Lakes and Streams
EGLE's Water Resources Division (WRD) has added PFAS sampling into routine NPDES permit compliance sampling inspections to further understand the prevalence of PFAS in wastewaters of Michigan. In 2017 wastewater was sampled at six municipal WWTPs. In 2018, PFAS samples have been collected from over 25 permitted NPDES dischargers as of the end of August 2018.
Industrial Discharges to Wastewater Treatment Plants
Many industries discharge to municipal WWTPs rather than discharge directly to surface waters. Municipal WWTPs often regulate their industrial users through an IPP required by their NPDES permit. The IPPs provide the basis for WWTPs to regulate industries so industrial pollutants do not interfere with treatment processes or pass through to our lakes and streams. IPPs may require industries to pretreat wastewater or otherwise reduce or eliminate harmful pollutants. The IPP is a federally-mandated program and a core part of the federal Clean Water Act. For more information about IPP, see Michigan's Industrial Pretreatment Program web page.
Michigan has water quality standards (WQS or Michigan Rule 57 values) for two PFAS, perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA). PFOS has led to fish consumption advisories for some Michigan rivers because it bioaccumulates so readily in fish and has potential human health effects if eaten. The applicable WQS for PFOS is very low at 12 ppt (parts per trillion, equal to nanograms per liter) for streams that are not used for drinking water and 11 ppt for those that are used as a drinking water source. The applicable WQS for PFOA is much higher at 12,000 ppt for surface waters that are not used for drinking water and 420 ppt for those used as a drinking water source.
In February 2018 EGLE launched the IPP PFAS Initiative, requiring all municipal WWTPs with required IPPs (93 statewide) to find out whether they may be passing through PFOS and/or PFOA to surface waters and reduce and eliminate any sources if found. Additional actions may be required if WWTP wastewater exceeds WQS. Interim reports were due in June 2018 and summary reports are due in October 2018. Extensions to these deadlines were granted based on the size and complexity of WWTP collection systems and other factors. EGLE is working closely with municipal and industry groups to reduce and eliminate or control sources of PFOS and PFOA as they are found.
For municipal WWTPs, major sources of PFOS and PFOA are thought to include metal finishers, paper manufacturers, and fabric/leather treaters that have used PFAS-containing chemicals as well as those industrial users (such as landfills and centralized waste treaters --link here--) that may have accepted wastes from these sources. Although chemical manufacturers in the United States voluntarily stopped making PFOS and PFOA years ago, these chemicals may still be manufactured in other countries and imported. These persistent chemicals may also be found in factories years after they were used. Sites contaminated by firefighting foams or PFAS-contaminated industrial wastes may also be sources for WWTPs if they discharge to the sanitary sewer.
Unfortunately, conventional WWTP treatment does not effectively remove PFAS if it is discharged to the sewer system by industries or contaminated sites. Instead, PFAS may be passed through treatment to lakes, streams, and groundwater as well as interfere with management of solids from the treatment process referred to as sludge or biosolids.


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Case Study
William Annin Middle School
I am a HUGE fan of GameMaker. I think it is a phenomenal tool for teaching Game Design and Development. I have explored numerous tools and GameMaker is by far the best at teaching all elements of design while focusing on authentic programming concepts.
Case Study
Who are you, what is your role and what class(es) do you teach
Steven Isaccs, Teacher of 8th grade Video Game Design and Development.
What versions of GameMaker do you use?
Currently, GameMaker Studio. I've been teaching with GameMaker since version 4 :)
What made you choose GameMaker?
GameMaker provides a wonderful opportunity for students to create games in an easy to understand, concrete manner while still maintaining an authentic introduction to computer programming concepts. Students are truly programming every aspect of their game whether they use the Drag and Drop approach or coding with GML.
How many students do you teach at a time?
I teach 3 sections of the 8th grade elective. Each class has approximately 20 students, so I teach this course to 60 students per semester.
How long are you classes?
40 minutes
How long is your course? 5 weeks? 16 weeks?
20 weeks
Do the students work alone or in groups?
Both. There is a strong emphasis on design teams in terms of game development. I encourage students to find their niche whether it be graphic design, programming, sound engineering, etc.
What background/majors/emphasis do the students have?
It varies. Many students have no prior background, some have taken an introductory programming course or summer camp.
How are the students graded on their GameMaker projects?
I utilize a Quest-based learning management system for my course. Students complete and submit quests in an incremental manner. A number of the quests provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate their understanding and ability to accomplish certain tasks / skills in gamemaker. They're final games are evaluated as their game in progress and their completed game based on a rubric that looks at the aesthetics of the game, the storyline / game information, playability (and re-playability), increasing level of challenge, programming concepts incorporated, etc. Students evaluate each other's games and provide feedback throughout the process.
How would you rate the students' interest in game development before and after the class?
Their interest level is high prior to and after the class. The class experience definitely opens them up to a greater understanding of what is involved and what they can accomplish in terms of game development.
Do students continue working outside of class time?
Absolutely! Sometimes I receive 'complaints' from parents that their child has 'too much homework' for my class. Incidentally, I do not assign homework. Any work completed at home is by choice and based on motivation.
School Contact Details
William Annin Middle School
70 Quincy Rd
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DJI Childcare Study (KiBS) 2019 - 2020
The DJI has been researching the care of children in Germany up to the end of the primary school age on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women, and Youth (BMFSFJ) in annual representative large-scale surveys since 2016. Until 2017, children up to the lower secondary level were also included in the study.
The DJI Childcare Study (KiBS) intends to investigate the development of childcare expansion for children in three age groups: Children under three years of age (U3), children from three years to school enrolment (U6) and children in primary school age. From the parents' point of view, a needs-based care offer includes firstly that parents who demand institutional childcare can actually use it, has secondly the time scale that they need and thirdly corresponds to parents' expectations in qualitative perspective (Alt et al. 2018).
- Childcare situation and demand, including informal care arrangements comprising, e.g. grandparents or siblings
- Satisfaction with the offer used
- Expectations regarding daycare quality and the evaluation of its implementation
- Reasons for the nonuse of daycare
- Difficulties of family and work
- Difficulties to organise childcare
- Compatability of family and work
- Regional differences, e.g. with respect to the use of institutional childcare
We carry out annual, representative surveys of approx. 33,000 parents with children under the age of 12 years. Based on random samples from the residents' registration office, about 2,000 interviews are conducted in each federal state. This means the same number of interviews take place in each federal state regardless of its size. The youngest age cohort, children under one year of age, is drawn each year anew, while the older children continue the panel survey. As not all parents repeatedly participate in proximate years, so-called refresher cases supplement the sample.
The parent principally caring for the child is interviewed; in more than 90 per cent of the interviews, this is the child's mother. The duration of a telephone interview (CATI) is about 20 minutes per person.