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Frederick Augustus Abel (Londres, 17 de juliol de 1826 – 6 de setembre de 1902) va ser un químic anglès, expert en la matèria dels explosius.

Va ser professor de química de la Reial Acadèmia Militar des de 1851 fins a 1855 i perit governamental del Departament de Guerra del Regne Unit entre 1854 i 1888.

Entre els seus assoliments es troben la millora en la fabricació del nitrat de cel·lulosa; la invenció al costat de James Dewar de la cordita; un estudi, en col·laboració d'Andrew Noble, sobre el comportament de la pólvora quan és cremada i l'invent d'un instrument usat en la prova d'Abel (nomenada així per ell mateix), per determinar el punt d'inflamabilitat del petroli.

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 Handbook of Chemistry (amb C. L. Bloxam)
 Modern History of Gunpowder (1866)
 Gun-cotton (1866)
 On Explosive Agents (1872)
 Researches in Explosives (1875)
 Electricity applied to Explosive Purposes (1898)
També va escriure diversos articles importants en la novena edició de la Encyclopædia Britannica.

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Doctors honoris causa per la Universitat de Cambridge
Companys de l'orde del Bany
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The pyramids of Meroe (Sudan)falki2017-03-19T10:06:31+02:00
The Pyramids of Meroe
Shendi, Sudan
The ancient pyramids of Meroe exert a magical attraction. About forty kings and queens found here a home for eternity. In the middle of the desert, visible from afar, the gigantic monuments rise. Architecture and geometry, light and shadow, symbol and power, man and God determine the tension of the necropolis.
The black Pharaohs Necropolis
Two hundred kilometers northeast of the Sudanese capital Khartoum the preserved burial places and pyramids of Meroe can be found. Pianchi (Pije) was the first Nubian ruler, strongly influenced by the Egyptian faith and fascinated by the eternal life after death, who was buried in a pyramid in El Kurru. With the expansion of the empire, the center of power shifted. Around 300 BC the Nubian rulers started building their burial places close to the new residence of Meroe.
The legendary Ergamenes was the first to establish a pyramid here. Osiris, Isis and Anubis are keeping watch ever since over the pyramids of Meroe and care for their inhabitants. Some hieroglyphics look as new as on the day of their creation. To this very day the traveler can feel the power of the Gods and legendary rulers of the empire of Kusch. A magic field surrounds the pyramids of Meroe. The strength place shines still even today and forms an energetic bridge between this world and the other world.
Heaven and earth are connected
Those who stand before the "seat of the eye", Osiris' court of the dead, receive eternal life. It was like that in Egypt and it was like that in the land of Kush. The ancient pyramids of Meroe point towards the sky in an acute-angle. That way the ruler's soul gets up and down with the help of the suns or star rays. The funerary goods and sacrificial foods are accessible to the Pharaoh. There is no more separation between heaven and earth for him. He becomes a God himself.
The setup of the ancient pyramid corresponds to its function: Beneath the about thirty meter high structures are the grave chambers, before the ancient pyramids there are the richly decorated, telling the story of the deceased his earthly and next life death temple. The sacrificial gifts in the temple are used for communication with the deified deceased. The pyramids of Meroe are a center of once living, ritualistic actions preserved by the desert sand and constitute a strength place, whose effect is felt even today.
Death, magic and rebirth
The pyramids of Meroe demonstrate the high medical, architectural and spiritual knowledge of the Nubians. The connection between law, physical integrity and rebirth to eternal life with gradual idolization can be found in the triad of Osiris, Anubis and Isis adopted from the Egyptians. A gradual break with the Egyptian model becomes clear: The representations become more African, Hellenistic elements are introduced. The ancient pyramids are clearly smaller and build in a steeper side angle. At the same time there is a cultic progression. The African Arensnuphis is absorbed by Osiris. The faith conceptions merge and are visibly reconciled in the actual one, which is still noticeable today.
Death is not limited worldly, but lifted after a divine examination. The dog-headed Anubis stand guard over the body and its state of health during eternity. Isis, the goddess of rebirth and magic, guides the soul after death and introduces it to the afterlife. The Necropolis is a place of the dead and the living, who in this way find a way of communicating with the other world. One cannot withdraw oneself from the suggestive effect of the pyramids of Meroe. An enchantment emanates from the gigantic structures and turns the Necropolis into a strength place whose energies effectively envelop someone.


What do you plan to do on the Queen's Birthday long weekend? You might have a big plan or you might not have a plan at all, but all of us have to eat, so it follows that you need to go to the shops. And without work or school, you might want something to entertain the family too; if the entertainment is happening the whole long weekend and free of charge, all the better.
Is there a place that can provide all the above? The answer is yes, at Coventry Village (243-253 Walter Road, Morley). For three days from Saturday to Monday, 28-30 September 2013 (10am-4pm), this friendly market is holding a Mardi Gras event.
Personally I thought the title is a bit incorrect time-wise. Wearing my nerdy hat, I could tell you that Mardi Gras is French for Fat Tuesday, and it's traditionally meant to be the last day before Lent starts (Lent being the period of forty days preceding Easter). However this event is neither near Lent nor on a Tuesday.
But perhaps I shouldn't take it so literally. Mardi Gras has always been associated with carnival or celebration, such as the ones in Rio, Sydney, or Fremantle, and that's the spirit that the organiser is offering us here.
So taking my nerdy hat off, I'm happy to note that quite a few carnival-like entertainments are indeed being offered. There will be flame performances, jazz music, drummers, snake shows, magician acts, clowns, stilt walkers, and more.
And as I mentioned in the beginning, we can kill two birds with one stone, so to speak, by doing our shopping at the same place. It's a good idea to remember to bring an ice box to avoid all your groceries going bad in the car while you're happily entertained inside. Moreover, if the wet weather persists into late September, I'll certainly be happy to have somewhere indoor to go where the family could have fun without getting rained on. So this one is definitely going on my calendar.


YES. ITS ONE OF THE "JURISDICTIONS" IN FAYETTE COUNTY..
A SYMBOL GREETS YOU, AMONG OTHERS, ON THE SIGN WHEN YOU EXIT ROUTE 21 AND COME TO A STOP.
I DID LONG AGO.... AND MUCH OF MY LIFE DOUBT ..
PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS AND IS TRYING TO TELL YOU THAT DON'T "SEE"
IT'S A RIGGED GAME. AND IF YOUR NOT INVITED TO "THE BIG CLUB" AS GEORGE CARLIN SAID JUST BEFORE HE "DIED"
AND YOU ARE "NOT IN THE BIG CLUB"


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Rapleaf, a company that gathers personal information about you and sells your profile to companies who want to advertise to you, got caught also selling your name and other identifying information to the marketers too. It's pretty scary how much information can be amassed as a result of a person's online interactions. Check out the info graphic. It's very informative. See the original article at: Rapleaf – The Wall Street Journal Online – Interactive Graphics.
This does beg the question, however, if this much information can be gathered unbeknown to individuals, just how much can be gathered for a profile with the persons explicit help?
Why would someone want to help an organization build a profile for them? Well, online universities have a vested interest in helping their students complete a degree and land a job, it is good for the university's reputation and it is money in the bank. Those students also have a vested interest in completing the degree and landing a job. It means a better lifestyle for them in the long run. If this is the goal for both school and student, they should be able to work together in order to create a profile of the student that will help the school know how best to aid the student in academic and job placement success.
What would a school do with all that information? It would integrate background information and correlate it with online behavior profiles created from the student's interactions on the university's website in order to know when and how to intervene academically and socially on the student's behalf. The school would use target coaching to focus in on students who are most at-risk of not performing well and or not finishing the program. Learning Analytics can provide real-time dashboards to the schools to help administrators, teachers, councilors, and students manage and make sense of the aggregate information. If marketers like Rapleaf, the true Halloween ghouls, are using the information for their benefit, why not use the information for the benefit of the individuals themselves?


It will affect more than 1.4 million and will lead to expenditure of £2.9 billion a year, but what will the impact of the transfer of social security powers from Westminster to Holyrood mean for claimants? This is just one of the issues the Scottish Parliament's Social Security Committee will explore as it scrutinises the Social Security (Scotland) Bill.
The Bill represents one of the biggest transfers of power since devolution. It contains provision for the devolution of 11 benefits including Disability Living Allowance, Winter Fuel Payment and Carer's Allowance.
Also contained within the Bill are seven principles on which the Scottish social security system will be based. The Committee has today launched a call for evidence asking if these are the right principles and for views on the benefits contained within the Bill.
"This Bill will have a huge effect on the daily lives of millions of people across Scotland. It will impact on some of the most vulnerable in our society and so it is vital that our Committee make sure any Bill works and delivers for ordinary Scots.
"It is clear from the principles within the Bill that the Scottish Government want people to be at the heart of the new system. But our Committee want to know what impact these principles will have and what these will mean for claimants who will have to live with the effects of this Bill.
As part of the Committee's scrutiny it will hold a workshop with a group of witnesses who have direct experience of social security in a 'Your Say' session with some of the group giving formal evidence on 7 September 2017.
The Social Security (Scotland) Bill was introduced as a result of measures contained in the Scotland Act 2016. These measures give the Scottish Parliament legislative competence over disability, industrial injuries and carer's benefits, benefits for maternity, funeral and heating expenses, and Discretionary Housing Payments.


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Teens from Rochester to Hilton feel outraged so they're rallying against injustice
Teen activism is on the rise across the area with students who are organizing and demonstrating for social justice at a rate not seen in decades.
Justin Murphy and Adria R. Walker, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Published 9:33 am UTC Oct. 19, 2020 Updated 5:29 pm UTC Nov. 9, 2020
Gregory Tucker didn't need extra motivation to become an activist. At age 16, his own experience was enough.
"Simply being Black made me want to be an activist," said Gregory of East High School. "We've been facing injustice for 400 years, and it's too long."
Outraged by high-profile deaths at police hands and primed by increasing racial justice education at school, Gregory is among teens in the Rochester area who are organizing, demonstrating and agitating for social justice this year at a rate not seen since, perhaps, the Civil Rights era.
Teen Activism: I'm Too Colored For You'
Teen activists Laila McFadden and Sarah Adams, both of Rochester, recite their anti-racism poem, 'I'm Too Colored For You.'
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Their activities and protests have differed in scope, purpose and geography. Some are sponsored by schools or community organizations while others are entirely student-led. But all show a surging push for change:
Roc 2 Change: This school-sponsored series of summits on racism, launched five years ago, attracts more than 500 students from every local school district to its events.
The Center for Teen Empowerment: The longstanding group has supplemented its youth-organizing work with a youth-history ambassador program to tie modern-day activism to the past.
The Teen Activism Project: This effort, sponsored by the New York Civil Liberties Union, is training young people to become leaders in the Black Lives Matter movement.
The Avenue Blackbox Theatre: Located on Joseph Avenue, this arts group has a paid youth-fellowship program that encourages young people to become artists and activists.
Independent events: Students have organized their own events and also written open letters in districts across Monroe County, including Brighton, Pittsford and Rochester.
Their short-term goal is engagement and discussion. Their long-term aspirations reflect the ambition of youth.
"Every generation has its big issue to fight for," said Sonia Harney, a Roc 2 Change organizer at Hilton High School. "For our generation, a big thing is getting rid of systemic racism. ... This is just the beginning of the war we're in for racial equality. And we can't lose hope."
Rallying moments
While these groups arose independently, nearly all the young people involved attributed their increased activism to the broader background of the Black Lives Matter movement.
The recent deaths of George Floyd and Daniel Prude in particular, and the subsequent protests in downtown Rochester, served as important rallying moments.
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"You see protests on TV or in the movies, but to actually have to go to protest for your equal rights was really real," said Tashiana Williams, 15, a youth history ambassador with the Center for Teen Empowerment.
In interviews with dozens of engaged teenagers, a few common objectives emerged. The most common one is to engage their peers in discussions about racism and other structural inequalities, and to push their schools and communities to talk about the problems more and then to address them with actual policy changes.
"It's been a topic all through school," said Anielys Garcia, 17, a Roc 2 Change organizer at East High School. "We've talked about it a lot, and now it's time for action."
'I've realized my worth'
In December 2019, RCSD laid off more than 100 teachers in the middle of the school year, a consequence of its staggering and unexpected budget deficit.
The move drew fierce opposition from teachers, parents and students, including several young people who previously had not paid much attention to district politics. A group of them organized a student-led walkout and then a multi-school march to protest the layoffs.
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"We needed to advocate for something, so I got out here," said Laila McFadden, now 17, a student at School Without Walls. "It made me realize that this is not OK, and us as a Black community and with our allies, we need to speak up."
The opposition failed to prevent the budget cuts, but it did lead to the creation of the Teen Activist Project, a vehicle for some of the most involved students to continue advocating for things like school funding and anti-racist curriculums.
"I feel like we were angry at the board, but then we started to take even more leadership when we realized that the real root issue was the fact that (New York Gov. Andrew) Cuomo hasn't been giving us our foundation aid," 14-year-old Sarah Adams said.
Sarah Adams, one of the organizers with Free the People Roc, leads the crowd in a chant as they march south on N. Clinton Ave. heading to the Clinton Section police station Sept. 26, 2020. Tina MacIntyre-Yee/ Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Iyanna Cooke, 18, said she first became interested after her cousin was killed by police.
Others came into activism through relatively formal channels.
Leci Scott joined Mayor Lovely Warren's Youth Advisory Council when she was 14; Amarah Anderson began as a youth organizer with Teen Empowerment.
"It gave me some new ways of thinking, so I took what they taught me and ran with it," Anderson said. "I've realized my worth, how powerful my voice is, and how needed it is in the community."
How teens learned to become activists
In interviews, some of the young activists showed a surprising depth of knowledge about the history and theoretical underpinnings of structural racism; others said they're motivated more by emotion.
Several said that social media has been an important source of community and information. This summer they have seen news accounts and reactions to protests around the country, informing their own positions.
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"Social media has definitely helped me," said Joy Liow, who last year co-wrote a lengthy, widely read open letter regarding racism at Brighton High School. "It's important to fact-check it, but it's generally pretty accurate."
They have leaned on community leaders as well, whether at their schools or beyond.
Jaylen Wims, a student at Pittsford Sutherland High School, said the advisor to the school's diversity club brought in speakers and showed videos that helped educate him.
Ranita Williams qualifies as the old guard: she graduated from Penfield High School in 2016 after participating in the first Roc 2 Change summits and is now a student teacher in West Irondequoit and a member of the Roc 2 Change advisory committee.
Avenue Fellows, who are learning about activism in a program at The Avenue BlackBox Theatre, held an event, Action on the Avenue, that had music, free food, speakers, performances and tables where people could register to vote and take the Census. Seated, left to right, Treasure Smith and Laila McFadden have a laugh with (standing) Shawn Tucker, Leci Scott and Dread Prout during a lull in activities. The event, organized by Leci Scott, was held at The Avenue on Joseph Ave. in Rochester on Sept. 25, 2020. Tina MacIntyre-Yee/ Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
At that early stage, she said, "talking about these things wasn't something we did in school. ... Roc 2 Change was the place where people of color really got to release everything, and where white people as allies could hear about it."
Tashiana Williams, one of the Teen Empowerment Youth History Ambassadors, said she learned a great deal from the community elders she met while making a documentary on the Clarissa Street neighborhood.
"They told us about July 1964, and to see it all happen now was crazy," she said, referring to the racial unrest in Rochester in 1964 and again this summer. "They always tell us we are the future. And they put faith in us to make a change."
What do protestors want?
Broadly speaking, the teenagers said they're working toward a progressive agenda of racial and economic equality. Their thoughts on how to accomplish that varied greatly.
The young women in the Teen Activism Project listed goals befitting an Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez campaign advertisement: justice and public investment in education, housing, health care and the economy, with the most attention paid to those with the greatest need.
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"You can't separate any of those things," Tali Beckwith-Cohen said. "Our community is hurting and it all fits together. You can't fight for education and not fight for racial justice."
In the short term, several of the young activists said their most important goal is to educate their peers, particularly in suburban districts.
"Most people (in Hilton) think racism doesn't exist because they don't feel it's something they personally do," Hilton High School 11th-grader Mark Simmons said. "Just getting some people on board with it is a start."
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They listed laudatory career aspirations as well: public defender, educator, immigration attorney, spirituality-based counselor.
Nadia Adams, who co-wrote the Brighton open letter with Liuw, said she has been involved with liberal causes through the First Unitarian Church of Rochester since she was young. She is studying psychology and law at American University.
"I want to be either helping reform the situation within the system or helping people in the system make better choices," she said.
When asked what gives them hope for the future, the teenagers pointed at one another.
"I'm just seeing a lot more people become involved," Jaylen Wims said. "I'm seeing people in my friend group taking extra steps, and that inspires me to keep going as well."
They saw cause for pessimism as well. Briana Williams recalled watching news coverage of protests and arrests in downtown Rochester on May 30 and seeing people on the internet use racial epithets to describe people who looked like her.
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She also recounted with disbelief one of her white teachers logging on for the first day of the school year and merrily asking whether the students had a good summer.
"I was like, are you living under a rock or something?" Williams said.
Still, they recounted the victories they and their peers have won: steps toward police reform, promises of more teachers of color in their schools, increased organizing and participation.
"It's incredible to see people come together and protest for changes that should have been enacted years ago," Liuw said. "There's still a lot of hatred, bias and racism that is just ingrained in our society. ... But with the steps we're taking and the path we're on now, I hope we can kind of get to the root of it."
Avenue Fellow Dread Prout, performs a song they wrote at The Avenue BlackBox Theatre on Joseph Ave. in Rochester, NY Sept. 25, 2020. Avenue Fellows, who are learning about activism in a program at The Avenue BlackBox Theatre, held an event, Action on the Avenue, that had music, free food, speakers, performances and tables where people could register to vote and take the Census. Tina MacIntyre-Yee/ Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Dread Prout, a 17-year-old fellow at the Avenue Blackbox Theatre, said they have lived through various secure and non-secure placements and have struggled not to become "institutionalized" (Prout uses the pronouns they/them). The creative atmosphere at the theater, under the direction of longtime educator Reenah Golden, has helped them learn to "tie the gift of our being to our artistry," as Prout put it.
Having that outlet, they said, prevents their voice from being stifled and provides a path toward change.
"There's no way all this corruption can take place without justice; there's no way these systems can continue," Prout said. "I'm hopeful because I know justice is real."
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Today I'm proud to announce the release of two new open source projects: Appcaster and OpenFeedback. I've been working on them off and on for over nine months, so I'm very excited to finally see them out the door.
Appcaster, which I've written about before, is a web-based dashboard for indie Mac developers. It's designed to manage payment and order processing and generate license files for your users. It even handles your product's revision history in Amazon S3 and can produce reports from your users' demographic info. It also serves as a central location to collect user feedback, bug reports, and support questions.
OpenFeedback is a Cocoa framework written in Objective-C that collects feedback from your users directly within your application. Instead of sending your users to a website or asking them to write an email, OpenFeedback gives them a simple window where they can ask support questions, file bug reports, or suggest new features. Their data is automatically sent to Appcaster for you to review. They never have to leave your application.
Collectively, I'm calling the two projects Appcaster since they're designed to work closely with one another (and since I wanted them to be part of the same Google Code project). However, OpenFeedback can send data to any server-side script that accepts HTTP POST requests — you can easily integrate it into your existing bug tracker or reporting system.
When I first built Appcaster last year, I wrote a detailed overview of the application here. Aside from cleaning up a few bugs and upgrading it to use the latest version of the Simple PHP Framework, the only major additions have been adding support for OpenFeedback and graphing user demographic data using the Google Charts API.
Google's Chart API is such a slick, clever way of doing things that I couldn't pass by the opportunity to use it in a project. After aggregating your data, you simply craft it into a special URL and use that as the source of an <img> tag. Google parses your data out of the URL and returns a PNG formatted chart.
It took all of half an hour to create some basic stats from the Sparkle update data Appcaster collects. It would be trivial for other developers to add their own custom reports in the future.
The idea for OpenFeedback came from Cultured Code's task management application Things. Clicking on the Support menu item in their Help menu brings up a dialog where you can submit questions and feedback from inside the app — no need to visit a website or open an email.
Adding OpenFeedback to your application is trivial. Like Sparkle, there's no code required. You simply link your app against the framework and hook-up the appropriate actions in Interface Builder. In under five minutes you can have an elegant way to encourage users to provide feedback.
My long term goal is to see the Mac developer community standardize around OpenFeedback much like they have around Sparkle. Not only would it save time for developers, but it would provide users with a consistent interface for submitting feedback. That should help improve the dialogue between developers and our users — improving Mac software all around.
Your feedback is always welcome. This is my first open source Cocoa project, so I'm very much flying by the seat of my pants. Suggestions, improvements, bug reports — they're all welcome. You can send them directly to me or file an issue in our bug tracker.


Handwritten with white oil stick on the monumental window overlooking the white angular walls of the Royal Ontario Museum's Michael Lee-Chin Crystal, enigmatic words confront the gaze and puzzle the reader. They infiltrate the room, spilling from transparent acrylic sheets onto the walls and floors. A fragile house of cards seems to have crumbled, lured by an enticing beacon: a once glamorous chandelier, emerging from the wall opposite the window. On another wall, large gestural marks have been drawn with graphite and, subsequently, a perfect square has been erased into the dark mass.
Created by New York-based artist Joshua Neustein, Margins is a new installation commissioned in conjunction with the ROM's exhibition, Dead Sea Scrolls: Words that Changed the World. Shaping a dialogue with the Scrolls, Neustein's project engages in a poetic, visual reflection on writing, religion and archaeology, approaching these notions with mistrust for dogmas and an intellectual yearning for re-interpreting inherited assumptions.
Joshua Neustein, Margins (installation detail), 2009. Mixed media, variable dimensions. Photo: Isaac Applebaum.
To speak the language of others, but in the interrogative mode.
Positioning the Scrolls within a contemporary discussion about cultural traditions, Margins uses Egyptian Jewish poet Edmond Jabès (Cairo, 1912 – Paris, 1991) as a mediator, referencing his critical works concerned with the nature of writing, silence, God, and the Book. Neustein recognizes in Jabès's relationship to writing a parallel to his own artistic process. Living and creating between countries and languages, both artists articulate their work from a position of displacement. Instead of a sense of belonging to a land, they both trace their roots to a deeper connection to the word and to a tradition of reading and questioning the Book. In the installation, Jabès's mysterious meditations and the intimations of the revealed knowledge embodied by the historical texts converge with Neustein's own visual vocabulary to convey the passion and impossibility of writing.
Through drawing, sculptural and textual elements, Neustein's piece re-enacts the emergence of the word piercing the silence with luminous presence. The lavish ruin of the chandelier embedded into the gallery wall radiates as the core of the work — a strange archaeological relic excavated into visibility. Two of its numerous branches surfacing from the plaster are still lit, having survived the wreckage. The chandelier glistens only as a dim reminder of its once glorious presence.
Over the years, Neustein has developed a distinctive visual vocabulary of materials and motifs. Since 1991, when the piece entitled How History Became Geography was presented at the Barbican Arts Centre, the chandelier has played a central role in many of his installations, including Light on the Ashes (1996), Aschenbach (1997), and Domestic Tranquility (2000). Suggestive of great halls of learning and cultural sophistication, this elegant object becomes emblematic of enlightenment,4 alluding to a striving for discovery and interpretation. It usually offers an indispensable counterpart to the obliterating darkness of Neustein's other essential materials: soot and ash. However, in the process of illuminating, the sumptuous lighting fixture draws more attention to itself rather than anything else around it, revealing a self-centred nature. In Margins, under a faded guise, the chandelier takes on a dual sense of warning and hope.
Unraveling from the window sill towards the chandelier's brightness, transparent acrylic sheets lay collapsed on the floor, bearing shimmering texts printed in light-refracting vinyl. Drawn out by light, handwriting turns into typography, setting words into crystallized form. The texts shy away from the viewer, fading and re-appearing, shifting as light moves across their surface, making them difficult to read just as it claims to reveal them. The script escapes the page, crossing margins into the space where writing struggles to uncover what is not yet written.
Another element in the installation is the drawing on the side wall — a silent witness offering another key to the reading. Within an accumulation of thick graphite marks, Neustein erased a square. The residual erasure bits generated in the process are collected into a glassine envelope and pinned above the drawing on the wall. Preserved with ironic museological concern, nothing is wasted, nor forgotten. The artist's successive gestures of drawing and erasing on the bare wall vainly attempt to recover the blank slate. Instead, the marks are rendered even more indelible, the act of erasure revealing their resilient memory. The original potential of the empty surface remains elusive.
In the study of the Talmud — one of the central texts of Judaic tradition recording rabbinic discussions on law, ethics, customs, and history — the margins of the book's pages become an essential territory. While the centre holds the text fragment to be examined, the wide borders are the space of exploration and interpretation, continually expanding with each layer of commentary. Erasing the centre or rendering it transparent, Neustein underscores the margins' prolific grounds, contesting the authority of inherited discourses while acknowledging an enduring, albeit fragile, bond. The centre opens both to recollection and replacement.
With characteristically post-modern scepticism and a penchant for questioning rather than finding answers, both Neustein and Jabès approach the ideas of God and religion as culturally inherited notions that need to be addressed. The scorched desert of contemporary intellectual wondering, just like Qumran7, is a fertile expanse of nothingness that can yield the unknown, the invisible. Archaeology unearths dormant traces of history, while writing pushes at the edge of silence to bring forth the unsaid. Similarly, Margins explores apparent and concealed ideas of the Dead Sea Scrolls, exposing them to the light of our times.
1 Edmond Jabès, The Book of Resemblances, II. Intimations The Desert (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1990), p. 31. All quotes included in this essay appear in Margins.
3 Edmond Jabès, The Book of Resemblances, III. The Ineffaceable The Unperceived (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1990), p. 31.
4 For a more extensive analysis of the chandelier's symbolism see Arthur C. Danto's essay on Joshua Neustein in Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005), pp. 308-309.
5 Edmond Jabès, The Book of Resemblances, II. Intimations The Desert (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1990), p. 7.
6 Edmond Jabès, The Book of Margins (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993), p. 94.
7 Site in the Judean Desert by the Dead Sea, close to the caves where the Scrolls were discovered.
Joshua Neustein was born in Poland in 1940 and currently lives and works in New York. He is known primarily for his complex installations, as well as his Post-Minimalist paper works and large scale map paintings. After immigrating to Israel in 1964, Neustein made a significant impact and is considered one of the founding figures of Environmental and Conceptual Art in the local cultural scene. Neustein has exhibited in museums and galleries around the world including the Barbican Arts Centre (London, England), Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin, Germany), the Chelsea Art Museum (New York), The Jewish Museum (New York), Mary Boone Gallery (New York), SECCA (Winston-Salem, North Carolina), The Israel Museum (Jerusalem), Albright Knox Gallery (Buffalo, New York), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, California), MOCA (Los Angeles, California), MAK (Vienna, Austria), Museu D'Art Contemporani (Barcelona, Spain), Museum of Contemporary Art (Tokyo, Japan), The Rose Art Museum (Waltham, Massachusetts), Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Israel), and Zacheta National Gallery of Art (Warsaw, Poland).
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Imlay City forfeits to Cros-Lex
IMLAY CITY — The Imlay City varsity football team will be back in action this week after sitting things out last week.
"We had a lot of players who were sick (not COVID related) or injured," Imlay City Athletic Director Don Gauthier said. "That is why a decision was made to forfeit last Friday's game to Cros-Lex due to low numbers," he noted.
Imlay City is slated to entertain BWAC rival Algonac this Friday. The contest, Imlay City's homecoming, is slated to get underway at 7 p.m.
-Kevin Kissane


CBCT gives 3D data with no fixed or limited slice orientation. Original data covers the whole knee area as idividual cubes (voxels) with 0.2 mm dimension in any given direction. Reading of CBCT images is done either by calculating traditional slices out of this data, or as in following examples, with free angle of view. Small black images are included on right side to indicate slice orientation. Large images have inverted color scale making cartilage and menisci white and showing contrast media as black. In most of the examples slice thickness is a clinically relevant 0.8 mm representing an average value of 4 individual voxels at each point. XY-resolution is original 0.2 mm.
The same cartilage lesion seen in arthroscopy.
Cartilage lesion in lateral condyle of tibia.
CBCT data is a cloud of 3D pixels (voxels), which can be visualised in any direction. Turning the data to follow ACL graft and tunnels shows the whole graft and it's fixation. For more advanced recalculations, thicker slices and minimum or maximum intensity can be used. On the right hand side, a prominent plica is visualised inside the contrast media. Same protocol is good in detecting scars and arthrofibrosis in joints.
CBCT is based on X-rays. This enables measurement of subchondral bone plate and bone mineral density if external hydroxyapatite standards are included on imaging area. It has been shown that subchondral bone plate density correlates to ICRS OA classification.


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require 'json'
require 'net/http'
require 'net/https'
require 'uri'

module RedmineGitHosting::Utils
  module Http

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      def included(receiver)
        receiver.send(:extend, ClassMethods)
      end
    end

    module ClassMethods

      def http_post(url, opts = {})
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        data = serialize_data(data)
        http, request = build_post_request(url, data)
        send_http_request(http, request)
      end

      def http_get(url, opts = {})
        http, request = build_get_request(url)
        send_http_request(http, request)
      end

      def valid_url?(url)
        uri = URI.parse(url)
        uri.kind_of?(URI::HTTP)
      rescue URI::InvalidURIError
        false
      end

      private

        def serialize_data(data)
          return data if data.empty?
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          data.each do |k, v|
            serialized[k.to_s] = v.to_json
          end
          serialized
        end

        def build_post_request(url, data)
          uri, http = build_http_request(url)
          request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.request_uri)
          request.set_form_data(data)
          return http, request
        end

        def build_get_request(url)
          uri, http = build_http_request(url)
          request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)
          return http, request
        end

        def build_http_request(url)
          uri  = URI(url)
          http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
          if uri.scheme == 'https'
            http.use_ssl = true
            http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
          end
          return uri, http
        end

        def send_http_request(http, request)
          message = ''

          begin
            res = http.start {|openhttp| openhttp.request request}
            if !res.is_a?(Net::HTTPSuccess)
              message = "Return code : #{res.code} (#{res.message})."
              failed = true
            else
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            end
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            message = "Exception : #{e.message}"
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          end

          return failed, message
        end

    end

  end
end

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Columbia Care Inc. ("Columbia Care" or the "Company") (NEO: CCHW, OTCQX: CCHWF, FSE: 3LP), one of the largest fully-integrated operators in the global medical cannabis industry with licenses across the US and the EU, is pleased to announce that its Euro denominated shares are now listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange ("FSE") and are trading under the symbols FSE: 3LP and WKN: A2PL68.
"Columbia Care is now trading on three liquid, global markets including the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in Europe, the NEO Exchange in Canada and the OTCQX in the United States, offering broad access to the Company's shares for institutional and retail investors across the globe in their local currencies and markets," said Nicholas Vita, chief executive officer for Columbia Care. "Our FSE listing is an important step in the Company's growth and will allow European investors to invest in a Euro denominated share on a major European market. This will enable European investors and capital allocators to more easily participate in our success as we continue to expand Columbia Care's global leadership in the cannabis industry."
The FSE is one of the world's largest trading markets for equity securities and with share turnover of approximately 90%, is the largest of Germany's seven stock exchanges – making it one of the largest marketplaces for securities in the world. The FSE facilitates advanced electronic trading, settlement and information systems allowing it to meet the growing requirements of cross-border trading. For more information about the FSE, please visit https://deutsche-borse.com
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The Muppet Show has arrived at Chelsea – the sale of Nemanja Matic to Manchester United proved it
Date: Thursday 17th August 2017 at 3:33 pm
Written by: David Smith | Comments (1)
AS we commented earlier in the week – Chelsea were 'mad' to sell Nemanja Matic to Manchester United.
It's not as if the reigning champions are over-loaded with quality midfielders, so why sell your main man to a title rival? Doesn't make sense.
Matic has already proved his worth at Old Trafford, looks the real deal and fits into Jose Mourinho's football philosophy…
Stop the opposition before we play our own game.
Many Chelsea fans have expressed their disappointment at the departure of the Serbian international who has already impressed United fans.
One person not so impressed, however, is our latest correspondent – and resident ranter – Paul Zealey who is still struggling to come to terms with the sale of such a valued asset. He comments…
Which overpaid muppet at Chelsea agreed to sell Nemjaja Matic to Manchester United?
As a now worried Chelsea fan following the events of the last few weeks, I have to say Matic was sheer quality at the weekend against West Ham.
It's like we have just given Jose back the keys to his chastity belt.
The next thing I am expecting to hear is that we have made a bid for Jonjo Shelvey as a replacement and drafted in Tiger Woods' doctor as medical adviser.
No doubt we will attempt to buy back Matic next summer for more money after he is named player of the season at United. And what with Conte and Costa?
They are acting like children sending text messages. Perhaps the Child Support Agency should get involved to sort the mess out.
Couldn't do any worse than the muppet management. At least Conte should send a bunch of flowers via Brazil interflora to apologise for the misunderstanding caused by predictive text and promise undying love . Do they still have salt mines in Russia?
Paul Zealey <paul@paulzealey.co.uk>
One thought on "The Muppet Show has arrived at Chelsea – the sale of Nemanja Matic to Manchester United proved it"
Chelsea selling United Matic is the best bit of business by United and after the start he has made player of the season at United could be a possibility. At the moment Chelsea seem to be a joke with a constant Circus running. Costa's situation should have been sorted before the start of the season regardless of any text.


3 movies and series starring Gina Holden.
In this overview you will find all Netflix movies and series starring Gina Holden. Netflix's content is updated with many new movies and series every week. Therefore, you should check this list regularly to see if there are any new movies starring your favourite actor!
A world-weary detective is forced to team up with a 12-year-old who thinks she's a cop in order to solve a case that's baffled police.
Finding a letter mailed to Santa by a girl asking for a new wife for her daddy, twentysomething Crystal sets out to make the girl's wishes come true.


Inspector Thomas Lynley is a character featured in a series of mystery novels by American author Elizabeth George. Inspector Lynley is the 8th Earl of Asherton. Lynley and his partner Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers are with Scotland Yard. Several of the Inspector Lynley novels have been adapted for the BBC series The Inspector Lynley Mysteries.
When reading the Inspector Lynley series in chronological order, A Suitable Vengeance should be read prior to A Great Deliverance.


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Mushito is a flame point Siamese kitten. From the moment I saw his photo posted on the Internet, I said to myself, "he is mine!"
He was the companion of Whimpy, another Siamese cat, but Whimpy fell and broke his spinal cord so I had to let him go to a better life as not even an operation could have saved him.
Mushito loves to run and jump, and with Whimpy they were really good pals. They would sleep together, clean each other, and what one did the other would follow.
Mushito loves to play and destroys everything, especially bathroom paper. He is only six months old. Most flame points are males; his body type is slender although he eats very well from canned food.
Mushito was given to me with that name, I named Whimpy like that just because I liked the name.
Mushito cried so much missing Whimpy, so I adopted a little female Siamese kitten called Cassy to keep him company.
She was sweet, had bad moods whenever she didn't get what she wanted, and could also get mad and lash out against me and scratch me.
She loved to walk around the building where I live, when I couldn't find her I would shout "Moe, Moe" and she would run from wherever she was and say "Miau Miau!" and run off again.
There was also Piki, a lovely all-white cat with yellow eyes who died from diabetes.
And before that there was Piki's mom, Momo, who died from sadness. They were both about twelve. Here's Momo.
I will always remember them and they will permanently have a place in my heart.
So this is in honor of my angels, Momo, Piki, Moe and Whimpy and my present cats Mushito and Cassy.
Roberta, thank you so much for sharing your memories and stories of all your cats. Moe was beautiful and might even have had some Siamese in her, with her blue eyes.
It's so hard when the cats we've loved leave us, and it's lovely that you have Mushito, and now little Cassy to keep you and each other company.
I'm sure, being Siamese, that they keep you plenty busy!


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Ground water, water quality and hydrology
ASABE President's Citation, 2009
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BAE Outstanding Teaching Award, 2011
ASABE Certificate of Appreciation, 2012
BAE Outstanding Teacher Award, 2015
Water conservation potential of smart irrigation technologies in the Catawba-Wateree River Basin
Vick, R. L., Grabow, G. L., Miller, G. L., & Huffman, R. L. (2017), Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, 143(2). https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)ir.1943-4774.0001130
Residential irrigation water use in the Central Piedmont of North Carolina. I: Measured use and water requirements
Nautiyal, M., Grabow, G. L., Huffman, R. L., Miller, G. L., & Bowman, D. (2015), Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, 141(4). https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)ir.1943-4774.0000819
Residential irrigation water use in the Central Piedmont of North Carolina. II: Evaluation of smart irrigation technologies
Water application efficiency and adequacy of ET-based and soil moisture-based irrigation controllers for turfgrass irrigation
Grabow, G. L., Ghali, I. E., Huffman, R. L., Miller, G. L., Bowman, D., & Vasanth, A. (2013), Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, 139(2), 113–123. https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)ir.1943-4774.0000528
Factors affecting uniformity of irrigation-type manure application systems
Liu, Z., Grabow, G. L., Huffman, R. L., Osborne, J., & Evans, R. O. (2012), Applied Engineering in Agriculture, 28(1), 43–56. https://doi.org/10.13031/2013.41285
Using variability within digital images to improve tall fescue color characterization
Ghali, I. E., Miller, G. L., Grabow, G. L., & Huffman, R. L. (2012), Crop Science, 52(5), 2365–2374. https://doi.org/10.2135/cropsci2011.10.0553
Linking plant ecology and long-term hydrology to improve wetland restoration success
Caldwell, P. V., Vepraskas, M. J., Gregory, J. D., Skaggs, R. W., & Huffman, R. L. (2011), Transactions of the ASABE, 54(6), 2129–2137. https://doi.org/10.13031/2013.40662
Residential Irrigation and Water Conservation Potential of Smart Irrigation Technologies in the Catawba River Basin
Vick, Jr., R. L., Grabow, G. L., Huffman, R. L., & Miller, G. L. (2011), World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2011. Presented at the World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2011. https://doi.org/10.1061/41173(414)282
SDI dripline spacing effect on corn and soybean yield in a piedmont clay soil
Grabow, G. L., Huffman, R. L., & Evans, R. O. (2011), Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, 137(1), 27–36. https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)ir.1943-4774.0000277
Leaching of nutrients and trace elements from stockpiled turkey litter into soil
Shah, S. B., Hutchison, K. J., Hesterberg, D. L., Grabow, G. L., Huffman, R. L., Hardy, D. H., & Parsons, J. T. (2009), Journal of Environmental Quality, 38(3), 1053–1065. https://doi.org/10.2134/jeq2007.0639
Water Use Efficiency of Soil-Water-Sensor-Controlled Irrigation with a Subsurface Drip Irrigation System Contrasted with Center Pivot Irrigation in a Corn-Wheat-Soybean Crop Rotation
NC Soybean Producers Association, Inc.(3/01/11 - 11/30/14)
Sponsor: NC Soybean Producers Association, Inc.
Recurring drought in North Carolina has resulted in a need to increase water use efficiency in irrigated agriculture. The goals of the proposed research are to evaluate how well a commercially installed SDI system performs in a corn-winter wheat- soybean crop rotation, and to compare its relative performance to a center pivot system and a dryfarmed system. The objectives of the research to accomplish this goal are to: ?	Compare crop yields in the two irrigation systems (SDI and pivot) ?	Compare applied water and irrigation water use efficiencies of the two irrigation systems ?	Implement and evaluate sensor-controlled irrigation in an SDI system ?	Compare sensor-controlled scheduling to typical scheduling in terms of applied water and crop yield in an SDI irrigation system. ?	Measure soil-water distribution from SDI driplines in a sandy loam soil to infer potential alternative dripline spacings An SDI system will be installed this fall or winter in Robeson County, North Carolina, using funds received from a conservation innovation grant (CIG). The soils located in the fields proposed for research include Nahunta very fine sandy loam, Trebloc loam, Aycock very fine sandy loam, and Exum very fine sandy loam. The production system is no-till with a corn-winter wheat-soybean crop rotation. A center pivot irrigation system was recently installed on the farm and the SDI system will be installed on land immediately adjacent to the pivot-irrigated land. The SDI system will irrigate approximately 25 acres immediately adjacent to the existing center pivot irrigation system, and both SDI and center pivots fields will be planted to the same crop. Corn will be planted in spring 2011, followed by wheat planted behind corn in September and harvested in May 2012. Soybeans will be planted in June 2012 and harvested in December 2012, and corn planting would follow in spring 2013. Funds received for research proposed herein will be used to monitor and control the SDI system, monitor soil water in the SDI, pivot and unirrigated fields, and to compare all three systems (SDI, pivot, unirrigated) with respect to crop yield, irrigation water use, and water use efficiency. Two irrigation water management strategies will be compared in the SDI system. One zone will be scheduled to apply 0.20 inch of water daily, but will use feedback from soil-moisture sensors to override the scheduled irrigation if soil moisture is sufficient. The other SDI system zone will be scheduled to apply the gross long-term irrigation requirements by crop growth stage. The center pivot system will also be scheduled to apply the long-term irrigation requirement by crop growth stage and will differ in applied water from the similarly scheduled SDI zone only by the difference in irrigation system efficiency. Weekly applied water will be compared between both SDI zones (irrigation treatments) and the center pivot. Fertilizer will be injected in both the drip and pivot systems at rates according to realistic yield expectations for the particular crop irrigated and soil type. Soil-moisture sensors will be used not only to control irrigation in one SDI zone, but to monitor soil-moisture in the other SDI zone, on the pivot irrigated field, and in the unirrigated field. In the SDI field, sensors will be placed at various distances and depths from the drip line to characterize water distribution from an SDI dripline in a fine sandy loam soil.
Catawba River Basin Residential Irrigation Water Conservation Study
Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC (Duke Power)(2/10/09 - 3/31/12)
Sponsor: Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC (Duke Power)
NC State University is proposing to lead a water use study on Duke Energy lakes in the Catawba River Basin. The study will establish an estimate of water withdrawals by homeowners bordering the lake through installation of water meters at 36 properties during phase I of the study. Additional information about water use practices will be obtained through a survey instrument designed by NC State. Long-term estimates of irrigation water requirements will be generated using existing long-term data from local weather stations, and weather stations will be deployed at project lakes to estimate irrigation water requirements over the course of the study. During Phase II, two groups of cooperating homeowners will receive two types of ?smart? irrigation control technologies. One type of technology is weather based and the other is soil-moisture sensor based. A third group of homeowners will receive educational material and guidance on programming their existing irrigation controller and a fourth group will receives no intervention other than water use monitoring. Soil moisture will be recorded in all homes that receive the smart technologies. Weekly and seasonal water use of all groups will be compared between all four groups. Water use of the four groups will all be compared against irrigation requirements as estimated from the weather stations deployed at the Duke Energy lakes. Study results will be used to quantify the potential reduction of water withdrawals from the use of smart irrigation technologies, and an educational campaign aimed at property owners along Duke Energy lakes. Typical water withdrawal patterns (both current patterns and patterns associated with efficient irrigation management) will be used to evaluate the potential water savings.
Historic Irrigation Water Use and Evaluation of two SMART Irrigation Technologies in the Town of Cary, NC
Cary, NC(12/01/08 - 5/31/10)
Sponsor: Cary, NC
So-called ?Smart? Controllers and technologies hold promise for water conservation in urban settings. These technologies can be grouped into two basic categories; those that use weather data to estimate turf water use and replace that lost to evapotranspiration (ET) -generically called ET controllers - and those that use soil-moisture sensors to regulate irrigation. ET controllers have been tested in researched more than the sensor-based technologies, however most previous testing and research have not been done in the conditions of the southeastern United States nor have been done in typical operating conditions. The major objectives of this study are to -Quantify historic irrigation water use in Cary -Evaluate the performance of two types of smart controllers in a homeowner setting and contrast water use with a control group and against historical water usage Historical irrigation water use data from a sample of 120 homes will be collected to establish historic baseline water use rates. Estimated water requirements for the same period will be calculated used local weather data. This will help establish potential savings by "smart" controllers. Homeowner sites with in-ground irrigation systems will be selected to deploy two types of "smart" irrigation technologies (6 sites each); to receive educational information and guidance in programming existing controllers (6 sites); and finally 6 sites will be chosen as control sites (no intervention but having city required rain sensors). All selected sites would receive an irrigation audit to determine uniformity and system water application rate. All systems will be monitored for weekly water use and for turf health. Statistical analysis will be used to evaluate differences in average weekly water use for the different groups. Local weather data will be used to compare applied water to the estimated water requirements of turf.
Multi-scale Analysis of Mechanisms and Impact of Phosphorus Mobilization in Wetland Soils Created from Drained Agricultural Fields
The goal of this research is to determine the cause and extent of phosphorus dissolution from restored wetland soils, particularly organic soils, and to make a regional assessment of whether wetland restoration activities will actually impair water quality (through P release) rather than improve it. By studying a large restored site, we will determine: 1) the magnitude of P released to surface waters, 2) the mechanisms by which it is released, and 3) the areal extent of surface waters that may be impacted by P released from similar restored wetlands. Work will be conducted in a Carolina Bay wetland that was previously drained for agriculture, but has now been restored into a wetland. The interdisciplinary research team has studied the soils, hydrology, and plants at this wetland for 5 years prior to its restoration. This research will build on that done earlier to evaluate the impacts of the restoration. Knowledge of the chemical processes controlling P dissolution in soils will be applied toward developing a way to predict reductive dissolution of P from a given soil. This will increase the probability of success for other wetland restoration efforts throughout the southeastern U.S through judicious selection of land for wetland restoration.
Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) Riparian Buffer Monitoring
NC Dept. of Natural & Cultural Resources formerly NC Dept of Env. & Natural Resources (DENR)(1/01/08 - 8/31/11)
Sponsor: NC Dept. of Natural & Cultural Resources formerly NC Dept of Env. & Natural Resources (DENR)
High priority has been placed on protecting riparian buffers based on prior research that indicate that buffers are generally effective in reducing nutrient and sediment inputs to streams from upland sources, such as agriculture. Because of their effectiveness and sustainability, the N.C. Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) intended to provide landowner incentives to establish these buffers to improve water quality and habitat in four targeted watersheds (Chowan, Neuse, and Tar-Pamlico River Basins, and the Jordan Lake watershed). Much is currently known about treatment of pollutants through buffers, and for the most part, we understand how to implement them to achieve some level of water quality benefit. However, with the economic implications of removing lands from agricultural production or from development in the name of water quality protection, it is of utmost importance that we strive to implement these systems properly with an improved understanding of such elements as width, hydrology, and soils. Within the next three years, the objectives of our multi-disciplinary team are to: 1. Produce a multi-year (5-12 years depending on the site) assessment of the water quality benefits of four distinctive riparian buffers (three enrolled in CREP in the Tar-Pamlico watershed, 1 at CEFS located within the Neuse target watershed) 2. Enhance the field of riparian buffer research by contributing to the understanding of the complex factors (hydrology, geology, soils, topography, etc.) that determine how well these areas transform and remove pollutants (particularly nitrate-nitrogen) in groundwater before discharging into streams or canals. 3. Incorporate data collected from the sites on geology, soils, hydrology, groundwater and surface water chemistry, topography, and vegetation into existing models or models under development to make long term predictions of the effect of these buffers on water quality improvement 4. Conclude 2-yr analysis to determine how buffer size and shape (which is expressed by a perimeter to area ratio value) and landscape context affect bird occupancy of buffers and the productivity of five focal bird species nesting in the buffers. 5. Continue to assist CREP staff in determining appropriate water quality criteria to apply to future enrollments
A Rapid Assessment Tool For Determining Uniformity of Irrigation-Type Animal Waste Land Application Systems
NC Pork Council(7/01/07 - 9/30/09)
Sponsor: NC Pork Council
The objective of this proposal is to develop a rapid uniformity assessment tool for irrigation-type land application equipment used in land application of swine waste. In order to accomplish this, several easily obtainable hydraulic measurements will be correlated to application uniformity. These measurements will include sprinkler or big gun operating pressure, sprinkler wetted diameter and lane (or sprinkler) spacing. Information will be gathered from three sources: previously done work that evaluated application uniformity in traveling guns and solid set sprinkler systems, controlled field trials at the Lake Wheeler Land Application and Demonstration Facility, and field trials at cooperating animal facilities. Several combinations of the factors measured will be correlated against uniformity as measured by the traditional catch can method. The measurements will be taken on traveling gun systems and stationary systems. The North Carolina Swine industry will benefit from the development of this tool through savings of time and human resources associated with measuring system uniformity by the catch can method. The catch can method is currently required as part of the 1217 guidance document, and is to be performed once every three years. If an alternate method, such as the one proposed, proves to be a good predictor of uniformity there is a strong possibility that the guidance may be changed to allow the easier method. The proposed method will also help determine if a system is operating correctly or is in need of maintenance or operational changes. An easily performed measurement of application uniformity will ensure that crops receiving animal waste receive nutrients uniformly, and that the environment is protected.
Methodology to Assess Vegetation, Hydrologic, and Soil Parameters That Affect Wetland Restoration
NC Department of Transportation(8/01/07 - 6/30/09)
Sponsor: NC Department of Transportation
Wetland restoration is a multimillion-dollar industry in North Carolina that has developed in response to state and federal laws. The most common way wetlands are restored in NC is to plug ditches in a field that was drained for agriculture, then plant trees found in a target natural wetland nearby, and let nature take its course. Failures are common because the hydrology needed for the plant communities to grow is not known, and so restored areas are frequently either too dry or too wet (ponded) for the planted vegetation to survive. In addition, some restored wetlands may be releasing phosphorus to nearby surface waters, and thereby inadvertently causing algae blooms in some areas. Algae blooms have led to fish kills in some areas. This study will find out how well four kinds of trees grow in soils that are ponded with water for different periods of time. The plants and ponding regimes were selected based on a prior study that showed pond pine trees are found in soils that pond for 14 days or less each year, while bay trees as well as baldcypress trees grow well in soils ponded for over 100 days each year. In the greenhouse, pond pine, baldcypress, sweet bay, and swamp chestnut oak trees will be grown in pots that are kept under ponding regimes ranging from 110 days to no ponding. Tree height and diameter will be measured weekly to assess growth, and photosynthetic rates will be measured as well. The effect of ponding on root growth will also be examined. In the field, similar tree species will be grown in a restored wetland to assess growth rates and survivability in ponded soils. Trees will be grown both on flat ground and raised beds to determine if bedding will increase a tree?s chance of surviving long-term ponding. In addition, we will monitor the phosphorus levels in the ground waters in the wetland as well as in surrounding areas, and also monitor phosphorus concentrations in a stream near the site. Previous laboratory experiments suggested that some phosphorus will be leaving the site, particularly where the organic soils are found. This is in part due chemical reactions occurring in the restored wetland soils that dissolve the phosphorus that remains in the soils that were heavily fertilized when used for agriculture. We hope this study will determine which trees grow best in wetlands that will be ponded with water for long (100 days or more) each year. These results will be used by wetland ecologists to select trees for their wetland restoration projects. We will also determine how much phosphorus is leaving the restoration site. Should the amounts be significant, we will also propose remediation methods that can be used to protect downstream waters from algae blooms and fish kills.
Comparing Environmental Impacts and Agronomic Performance of a Subsurface Drip Irrigation System and a Traditional Spray System used for Land Application of Animal Waste
NCSU Animal and Poultry Waste Management Center(7/01/06 - 6/30/09)
Sponsor: NCSU Animal and Poultry Waste Management Center
Land application of animal manure (herein referred to as wastewater) is a common practice in North Carolina. Typical application methods include the use of hard hose traveling systems with big gun sprinklers, solid set sprinkler systems, and center pivot systems. Recently, hose drag systems have been increasingly used. Even with alternative treatment systems to the lagoon-sprayfield system, liquid waste streams will still need land application. New methods that reduce ammonia emissions and odor, and enhance agronomic value of treated wastewater need to be evaluated. One such method is application through a subsurface drip irrigation (SDI) system. The objectives of this study are 1) to evaluate the technical feasibility of applying animal (swine) wastewater through an SDI system, including operational requirements of an appropriate filtration system and comparison to traditional spray irrigation, and 2) to assess the beneficial environmental impact of an SDI system compared to the traditional method. In order to meet these objectives, a subsurface drip irrigation (SDI) system will be installed in North Carolina in a small field adjacent to a swine lagoon. Wastewater from the lagoon will be land applied through the SDI system. Wastewater will also be applied through a solid set sprinkler system (aluminum pipe with sprinklers on risers) to contrast with SDI impacts, and to contrast yields. Soil sampling will be performed prior to land application and at the end of the study period. Soil samples will be analyzed to infer movement of phosphorus (P). The analytes will be soluble P, Mehlich-3 P, and percent soil saturation with P. Soil water samplers will be installed and used to sample for total P and chloride. Ammonia volatilization will be characterized by surface sampling. Soil moisture sensors will be used to monitor wastewater movement from the drip lines.
Methodology to Assess Soil, Hydrologic, and Site Parameters that Affect Wet Restoration
Restored wetlands must perform the hydrologic, biogeochemical, and plant community functions that are found in natural wetlands. Limited assessment of those functions is normally conducted in accordance with Corps permits that specify monitoring of certain parameters of hydrology, hydric soil indicators, and plant community structure. While wetlands may perform many ecological functions, the likelihood of their occurrence can be estimated by monitoring key soil and hydrologic properties. In current wetland restoration practice, there is often a lack of detailed pre- and post-restoration monitoring and assessment that documents the progress of the recovery of wetland functions on restoration sites. This leads to conflicts between agencies creating wetlands and those regulating them, and delays issuance of permits until the regulatory agencies are certain the restoration efforts will be successful. Research Objectives 1. Document the variability in the properties of soils and sediments and the water table regime across Juniper Bay and the reference bay that will affect restoration success. 2. Determine current groundwater flow paths and water table regime both inside and outside Juniper Bay, and identify a strategy for hydrologic restoration. 3. Assess the recovery rate of key hydrologic, biogeochemical, and plant community functions that are necessary for a sustainable wetland ecosystem. 4. Assess the usefulness of reference ecosystems for defining required hydrologic and soils factors and target vegetation composition necessary for long-term restoration success. 5. Identify soil chemical and physical properties and hydrologic requirements for optimum growth of Carolina Bay vegetation. 6. Test different restoration methodologies for establishing tree species in the restored site.


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London Buses route 15 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, England. Running between Blackwall station and Trafalgar Square, it is operated by Blue Triangle. Short workings of route 15 were provided by heritage route 15 with traditional AEC Routemaster buses between 2005 and 2019.

History

Route 15 was introduced in November 1908 between Shepherd's Bush and East Ham. On 16 December 1909, LGOC X-type buses were introduced to the route, running between Putney and Plaistow. In 1914 it was extended to Putney Common, with a Sunday extension eastwards to Plaistow. By 1921 route 15 had been cut back to Ladbroke Grove, extending in the east to Barking and North Woolwich on weekdays. A Sunday extension from Ladbroke Grove to Acton Vale was launched, and the North Woolwich journeys were diverted to Becontree Heath.

In May 1949, Leyland Titan RTWs were introduced on route 15. By November 1949, the route ran on from Ladbroke Grove to Poplar (Blackwall Tunnel), extending to East Ham during Monday to Friday peak hours and evenings, and all day on Saturdays and Sundays, with a further Sunday extension to Kew. From January 1967 journeys to Kensal Rise were introduced, and in October 1969 the route was suspended between Acton and Kew, being reinstated in 1970. In May 1975 the Sunday service was rerouted to Richmond bus station.
In May 1985, the route was diverted between to serve Cannon Street and the Tower of London. In June 1987 the Sunday service was converted to one-man operation.

On 15 March 1989 an express commuter service named The Beckton Express and numbered X15 began operating between Beckton and Aldwych using former London Country AEC Routemasters. This ceased on 22 November 1991.

On 18 July 1992, the Monday to Saturday service was withdrawn between Ladbroke Grove and Paddington, being replaced by new route 23. In May 1993 this section was withdrawn on Sundays, and in September 1999 route 15 was withdrawn between Poplar and Canning Town, with buses diverted to serve Blackwall station. In August 2003 the route was withdrawn between Blackwall and East Ham.

Alexander ALX400 bodied Dennis Trident 2 double deckers were introduced on 30 August 2003 to replace the AEC Routemasters when the route was converted to one person operation.

On 26 February 2006, it was announced that route 15 would be extended from Paddington to Paddington Basin over the reconstructed Bishop's Bridge; the previous bridge was not considered strong enough to take buses. Although the reconstructed bridge opened in June 2006, this extension was continuously deferred, with the extension eventually taking place on 13 October 2007, in order to free up stand space at Paddington for the newly introduced route 332.

Route 15 was transferred to West Ham garage on 27 June 2009. The route was withdrawn between Paddington Basin and Regent Street on 28 August 2010 as part of Transport for London's policy of reducing the number of buses using Oxford Street in order to ease congestion and pollution. Route 159 was extended along the withdrawn section of the route between Marble Arch and Paddington Basin. It was also further shortened to Trafalgar Square in May 2013.

Alexander Dennis Enviro400H double deckers were introduced in January 2012. New Routemasters were introduced on 28 February 2015. When next tendered, the route was awarded to Blue Triangle who commenced operations on 26 August 2017.

Heritage route
In November 2005, route 15 was selected as one of two routes to operate short workings of their normal route using AEC Routemasters with heritage route 15 initially operating daily between Trafalgar Square and Tower Hill before being scaled back in March 2019 to run on Summer weekends and public holidays only.

The service operated between November 2005 and September 2019. It did not run in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and was permanently withdrawn at the end of its contract in November of that year.

Current route
Route 15 operates via these primary locations:
 Blackwall station
 Poplar Chrisp Street Market
 Poplar All Saints DLR Station
 Limehouse station
 Stepney Arbour Square Shadwell Watney Market''
 Aldgate East station
 Aldgate station
 Tower Hill Underground station
 Tower of London
 Monument station
 Cannon Street station
 Mansion House station
 St Paul's Churchyard
 City Thameslink station
 Ludgate Circus
 Aldwych
 Charing Cross Station
 Trafalgar Square

References

External links

 Timetable

Bus routes in London
Transport in the City of London
Transport in the City of Westminster
Transport in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets


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Those small beauty product samples have many uses. This is a guide about using beauty samples.
I love the feeling I get from wearing a perfume that smells wonderful on me, but don't appreciate the expense and disappointment when a scent doesn't compliment my body chemistry just right.
I am a beauty product junkie. Since I am always trying new things, getting products from friends, and samples with my purchases, I find I have WAY too much! So instead of letting all these goodies gather dust, I add them all to my body lotion when it's about half full; Eye creams, night creams, moisturizers, anti-agers, skin firming creams, etc. I always include a day cream or two with an SPF for protection. Enjoy your beautiful skin!
I love skin care samples - and get them by signing up for sites on the internet - and using freebie sites - and picking them up at stores when they are handed out. I even got a whole bag of skin care samples at a thrift shop for $1 - which was worth much more. Most of the samples have more than one application - even the packets - which can be closed with a paper clip so it doesn't dry up and then re-used. It gives you a chance to use really good brands, like Clarins, which is really generous in its samples.
I save the samples that I get online for medicines and cosmetics. I place these in my cosmetics bag for when I go on a trip. The small size is perfect and saves me from carrying larger bottles.
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