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Recycling - A Metamorphosis
The 23rd Annual Morris County Recycling Awards Dinner
Hanover Manor,East Hanover, NJ 07936
Mistress of Ceremonies Penny Jones
Morris County Recycling Education Specialist
Richard Plambeck, Chairman, Morris County Municipal Utilities Authority
Fashion Show and Commentary
Liz Sweedy, Morris County Recycling Specialist
Presentation of Awards
- Glenn Schweizer, Executive Director, MCMUA
- Kathleen Hourihan, District Recycling Coordinator, MCMUA
And the awards go to…
Brown, The New Green Award – Jeff Brown - "Some of the greatest teachers on Earth are the kids we teach. As we strive together to create a sustainable environment for tomorrow, I am more optimistic than ever. With our youth leading the journey, I know that our Earth will be a better place for future generations," said Jeff Brown, teacher of the gifted and talented at Thomas Jefferson School (T.J.) in the Morris School District.
Now some kudos for Jeff, the teacher who has played a major role in promoting sustainability at T.J. In 2007, a group of fifth grade talented and gifted students created an organization called Save The Earth…Save Our Future. Jeff has worked with those students, some of his colleagues and others to organize two environmental fairs and to produce a documentary focusing on sustainability in Morristown. The students met with filmmakers, researched, wrote scripts, revised and revised, and raised roughly 70% of the money to fund the $4,000.00 project.
Sealing The Lid On Waste Award – Bruce Gerritson, Hishi Plastics, Lincoln Park - "We've gone from 10 tons of garbage monthly to .77 tons a month. We're now recycling more than 90% of what we used to throw away. My hope at the end of the day is that each employee has learned from our example and makes the same effort at home," said Bruce Gerritson, plant manager at Hishi Plastics USA, Inc., in Lincoln Park.
On December 1, 2009, a load of garbage containing an excessive amount of corrugated cardboard was dumped onto the tipping floor at the Parsippany Transfer Station. That corrugated was from Hishi Plastics, a manufacturer of seamless heat-shrinkable polyvinyl chloride rolls, neckbands and multi-packs for food and medicine bottles.
Immediately after receiving a phone call from the MCMUA regarding the fact that corrugated is a mandated recyclable material, Bruce Gerritson, plant manager, not only straightened out the corrugated situation but also ordered containers for other mandated recyclables. Those containers are now located throughout the Hishi building.
Bruce has also requested that employers drink from reusable beverage mugs rather than disposable ones, and he's even purchased coreless rolls of toilet paper ─ just two more ways he's sealed the lid on waste!
Emerging From The Chrysalis Award — Kevin Mackey and Tom Piorkowski, Lincoln Park - "Lincoln Park has managed to turn blue and yellow into green. By providing residents with colorful blue and yellow recycling containers, Lincoln Park has managed to reduce its solid waste by almost 25%, "remarked Tom Piorkowski director of the Lincoln Park Department of Public Works.
As a result of a study conducted early in 2009 to determine how to lower Lincoln Park's tipping fees for garbage, both Tom Piorkowski, and Kevin Mackey, Lincoln Park recycling coordinator, made changes at the recycling center related to the wood dumpster, along with changes related to the collection of brush.
In addition, they oversaw the implementation and launching in October 2009 of a comprehensive curbside collection program for bottles, cans and paper (once upon a time, Lincoln Park collected newspapers at curbside). Residents were the lucky recipients of stickers to match their blue and yellow containers (the carrot). Fluorescent orange violation stickers with the following message were ordered, just in case: "Recycling is Mandatory, Violation. Your trash contains recyclables. This container will not be picked up until those items are removed…" (the stick).
"Tom and Kevin do all the nitty-gritty work ─ they're great at it," said Sean Canning, Lincoln Park administrator, about that bright blue and yellow butterfly that has indeed emerged from the chrysalis.
Making Recycling Everyone's Business Award — Greg Pavlic, Parsippany - "I believe the issue of recycling is straightforward. While we wonder why anyone could possibly throw mandated recyclables into the garbage, we take steps to prevent that from occurring. We discuss with businesses how recycling helps the environment, benefits Parsippany through recycling tonnage grants, and results in lower tipping fees. The most important thing we say, though, is that recycling is the law!" said Greg Pavlic, Parsippany recycling enforcement coordinator.
Greg has visited quite a few businesses that have received notifications about the need to recycle from the Parsippany Transfer Station, to assist them with getting on track. He completed recycling status reports for the 14 schools in the Parsippany Public School District and followed up with those schools when necessary. Also, after a load of bottles and cans that were generated at Smith Field showed up at the transfer station, Greg had new recycling containers and a dumpster delivered there, resulting in significant improvement.
Greg may be the number one dumpster diver in Morris County! In this photo, he's checking out the roll-off designated for corrugated cardboard at the Residence Inn in Parsippany.
Rags Into Riches Award — Harrison Richlin, Mount Olive High School - "When I went to find my lost sweatshirt, I saw the mound of unclaimed clothes and other items. I was shocked that no one cared to retrieve them! Then I got to thinking – there are so many people who are not only homeless and without food, but they are also often without clothing. I'm lucky – I can just go shopping when I need clothes. It hit me that these forgotten clothes could mean warmth and comfort for others. They don't just have to be discarded. I was excited to think that I could HELP put them into the hands of those who could really appreciate them. When I met some of the people who would benefit from the clothes – I felt wonderful for a moment, but I also knew that this was just the tip of the iceberg – there's so much more to be done on so many levels," said Harrison Richlin.
Harrison's journey began when he, an eighth grader searching through the lost and found bin at Mount Olive High School for his sweatshirt. He didn't find it but instead found a calling that involved his creating Harrison's Enterprise for Lost Paraphernalia (HELP). He contacted numerous area schools, offering to pick up the contents of lost and found containers. Several schools took him up on the offer (he collected from about 12 schools during the 2009-2010 school year). After collecting them, he took items home to his parents' garage, sorted them, bagged them and gave them to the Market Street Mission in Morristown where they were on their way to local homeless and needy folks who can use them.
In this Star-Ledger photo, Harrison Richlin is reclining on top of bags of items that were lost but now are found.
Recycling, Like Honey, Is Sweet Award — Dennis B. O'Brien School, Rockaway Township School District - "The Dennis B. O'Brien Elementary School worked together to accomplish a goal that was set at the beginning of last school year. The faculty and every student became so engaged and committed that the enthusiasm to 'bee' green turned into a passion for recycling and saving planet Earth," asserted Daryl Behm, art teacher.
The following are a few of the projects in which teachers and students participated during the 2009-2010 school year: wearing of "Be Green, Recycle buttons; constructing a ball from over 1,000 plastic shopping bags, the average number of such bags used by every American family each year; creating a roller coaster from "found" materials for the 2009 MCMUA Recycling Awards Dinner (done by several gifted and talented students); collecting and sending 1,399 used greeting cards to St. Jude's Hospital; delivering 10,288 juice pouches to TerraCycle in Trenton (done by members of Earth Kids, the environmental club); and hosting a Happy Birthday Earth Day program during which everyone sang an original song titled "Earth Day."
Turning Aluminum Into Bronze Award — Hanover Township Girl Scout Troop 419 - "The positive impact made by 15 fifth grade Girl Scouts at Salem Drive School in Hanover Township was amazing! Their success is recruiting more than 60 of their fellow fifth graders to collect aluminum can pull tabs was measured not only by the number of tabs collected but also by the energy created as the students worked collectively towards the common goal of using recycling to benefit others," stated Mary O'Connor, co-leader of Troop 419.
Under the leadership of both Ms. O'Connor and co-leader Diane Wachenfeld, the scouts organized the 5th Grade Aluminum Can Tab Contest to see which of the three fifth grade classes could collect the most tabs during March and April 2010. They created and hung up posters in the school hallways, decorated (and thereby transformed) 60 used tissue boxes into colorful, convenient tab collection receptacles, one of which was given to each student to take home.
They placed large plastic pretzel containers in each classroom, and transported the tabs in reusable shopping bags to Ronald McDonald House (RMH) in Long Branch. And they left the bags for RMH guest families to use. The scouts also made floral centerpieces and other decorations for a Mother's Day celebration held at RMH.
At the conclusion of the contest, each fifth grader received a voucher for free ice cream, and the winning class was awarded a pizza party.
As a result of completing this project, Troop 419 scouts earned the Girl Scout Bronze Award, the highest honor a Junior Girl Scout can achieve.
"Turning aluminum into bronze. How did these scouts achieve such alchemy?" asked Robin Dente, assistant to the Hanover Township administrator. "Through recycling, of course!"
The Girl Scouts gather for a photograph during their tour of the Hanover Township Recycling Center provided by Brian Foran, superintendent of the Department of Public Works. The tour was related to their aluminum can tab collection service project.
Welcome Home, Native Bird Species! Award - Morris County School of Technology, Denville - "This community outreach project provided our students with a great opportunity to see practical and measurable results from their labor. Many times our outreach projects produce usable goods, and that is great, but this time there was a real ecological connection that brought student learning to a new level," affirmed Bruce Feakins, building construction teacher at the Morris County School of Technology (MCST).
Bruce Feakins takes advantage of a "teachable moment" as he shows three students working on bird boxes how to use a compass to mark the access hole. (Bruce said in reality, use of the compass wasn't necessary because the students just used the correct size drill bit with the center marked.
A female Eastern bluebird standing on top of one of the bird boxes made by MCST students, holds in her beak a reed that will be used in the nest she is constructing. Her male companion, who will supervise the construction, (ahem…), is next to her. When Brian Jacobus, Morris County environmental specialist, wanted to have some bird boxes constructed for Emmerich and Stull fields (on Park Ave. and Righter Rd. in Randolph, respectively, both of which are located in the Alamatong Wellfield), he reached out to three area schools. MCST responded, expressing interest in making some boxes for secondary cavity-nesting birds (e.g., Eastern bluebirds and tree swallows), wood ducks and bats. The building construction students then went to work.
Early this past spring, eight bird boxes were erected at the two previously mentioned fields; shortly thereafter, the swallows inhabited six of them, Eastern bluebirds, two. The bird box project was undertaken as part of a restoration effort for the fields that included removing invasive plant species, sowing warm season native grasses and wildflowers, and planting native saplings. That effort resulted in a more attractive habitat for wildlife, as well as a better place to filter stormwater runoff and an overall enhancement of Morris County Open Space property and water quality. Note: The boxes for wood ducks and bats will be erected at a later date.
The Best Choice Award — Ag Choice, Andover - "We are so excited to be the first on-farm composting operation permitted by the New Jersey DEP to accept food waste and animal manure for composting. We are even more excited that our small-scale operation has responsibly transformed more than six million pounds of organics into our organic-approved compost and/or an alternative animal feed. Keeping these recyclables out of landfills helps reduce water pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, and preserves valuable landfill space," said Jill Fischer, co-owner of Ag Choice.
Jill and her husband, Jay, started Ag Choice in the summer of 2006 to compost horse manure. Currently, Ag Choice collects and composts the following organics: 1) agricultural waste, such as animal manure and bedding materials, spoiled hay and corn silage, 2) pre-consumer food waste, such as bakery byproducts, fruit and vegetable culls, and floral waste, 3) and manufacturing waste, such as certain plant-based manufacturing organics.
Ag Choice accepts pre-consumer fruit, vegetables, bakery goods and floral clippings from two Morris County supermarkets: the Wharton Costco and the Succasunna Shop Rite.
Bagged Ag Choice Humus Compost is available in the Byram and Newton Shop Rite stores. The Northeast Farming Association (NOFA) of New York and New Jersey has approved Ag Choice Humus Compost for use in organic production.
If It's Rechargeable, It's Recyclable Award — Rechargeable Battery Corporation - "New Jersey was one of the first states to tackle rechargeable battery recycling with Call2Recycle®, and our partnership with the Association of New Jersey Household Hazardous Waste Coordinators (ANJHHWC) has helped divert hundreds of pounds of batteries from reaching incinerators and landfills. We are proud to be a part of helping keep New Jersey communities cleaner, and we are happy that residents and retailers in this state are setting a wonderful example of how it can be done," said Todd Ellis, Northeast regional account manager, Call to Recycle®.
Call2Recycle®is a free collection program for rechargeable batteries and cell phones. Currently, Home Depot, Lowe's, Radio Shack and Verizon Wireless participate in Call2Recycle® (C2R) at their retail locations. C2R provides drop-off boxes with small plastic bags, allowing batteries to be individually bagged in accordance with the relatively new U.S. Department of Transportation regulations. The Rechargeable Battery Corporation pays all costs associated with providing drop-off boxes, including transportation and recycling. Any non-residential entity can sign up for C2R online at http://www.call2recycle.org. To find the closest public C2R drop-off, one may call 1-877-273-2925 or visit the Web site above.
Green To The Last Drop Award ─ Rockline Industries, Montville - "Rockline Industries is a global, world-class manufacturer of premium quality products, specializing in wet wipes and paper coffee filters that takes great pride in our green/sustainability initiatives. In an overall effort to achieve our corporate goals, a global steering committee with representatives of our four U.S. plants and England meets monthly to discuss opportunities for continuous improvement and to share best practices," said Steve Bende, production operations manager.
In the hoto to the right, Steve Bende stands in front of scrap coffee filter paper that is baled and tied (1,200 one-pound bales) and then shipped back to the paper mill to be recycled in the manufacturing process. The Montville Rockline plant recycles over six million pounds of coffee filter paper annually.
The follow-up from those monthly meetings has certainly resulted in success, for the Montville facility that solely produces paper coffee filters has a current recycling rate of 98.1%. Over the past three and a half years, Rockline has reduced the trips o its 40-cubic-yard dumpster to the transfer station from once a week to once every 12 weeks.
Rockline recycles laser jet cartridges, plastic film/stretch wrap, broken/damaged pallets, waste oil and discontinued raw materials in addition to bottles, cans and paper. In addition, the company sells the following directly to end markets: baled paper such as scrap coffee filters, corrugated cardboard, office paper and magazines, along with paper roll core on which raw materials are shipped, and scrap metal.
In addition, Rockline has installed large fans on the production floor to maximize heat created during the manufacturing process and to minimize HVAC energy consumption. They are also exploring ways to decrease the amount of wastewater generated at the facility.
"Even if you've never heard of Rockline, your mornings would be less fulfilling without their product," observed Adam Brewer, Montville recycling coordinator.
A Step Ahead Award ─ Town of Morristown - "Being given the honor to serve as the Mayor of Morristown, I have been entrusted with the responsibility to serve in the best interest of not only current residents and visitors but also the many generations that will follow. Approaching our municipal procedures, policies and planning through the principles of sustainability ensures that we make decisions based on what is best for our people, our planet and our community's prosperity. I consider recycling and being a waste-wise consumer as key actions and critical responsibilities to ensuring the health of our overall society and the planet we together call home," stated Timothy Dougherty.
"Step Ahead Morristown…was a Dodge-funded [Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation] initiative that started a town-wide conversation in 2007 about the kind of place that residents want Morristown to be. Expert planners visited Morristown and solicited ideas from people of all ages." ─ www.MorristownGreen.com home page.
So much has occurred since 2007. Step Ahead gave birth to Sustainable Morristown, a coalition begun by four collaborators: Town of Morristown, Morristown Partnership, Institute for Sustainable Enterprise at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and Inspired Futures Campaign of the U.S. Partnership. Critical partners are the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Design for Social Impact, and MorristownGreen.com Coalition members are Arts Council of the Morris Area, County College of Morris, Morristown Neighborhood House, and Homeless Solutions, Inc. What an impressive list!
As a result of the collaboration and assistance offered by these organizations, in 2009 Morristown received a $25,000 Sustainable Jersey Grant from the N.J. League of Municipalities to count types of trees and to plant trees Morristown is among 47 of New Jersey's 566 municipalities to have become "Sustainable Jersey Certified."
This past spring on the Morristown Green, Celebrate the Earth was held on April 22, the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, followed by Festival Earth! on May 22.
Of great interest to the MCMUA is the fact that Morristown recently paired up containers for bottles and cans with containers for trash in its business district, which has helped to make downtown a cleaner place. Also, both Charles Jones and Rick Wise, Morristown Department of Public Works employees, have been proactive enforcers of the town's mandatory source separation and recycling ordinance.
Special Recognition Presentation of the MCMUA Resolution Honoring Herman ("Hy") Nadel, A slide show featuring 18 Awards Dinner sheet cakes baked and decorated by Hy was shown. An announcement regarding the Hy Nadel Creativity Award was made and the first annual Hy Nadel Creativity Award was presented to the MCMUA's own Liz Sweedy. She was recognized for all the activities she has created for the MCMUA and especially as it relates to preparing and decorating the banquet hall, display unit and mannequin for the MCMUA's annual recycling awards dinner.
Thinking Outside The Box Award ─ Michael Albert, Artist - "I believe that I have a passion for what I create with post-consumer materials because I have a passion for creating art. It's one of my favorite ways of expressing myself and my thoughts, and also of connecting with the world.
Since the images I take from packages are all so recognizable, other people (total strangers) can immediately connect with the images by recalling where they've first appeared. They also know the subjects of my artworks, such as "To be or not to be," a Frosted Flakes cereal box, an American flag, or a map of the USA.
I am inspired by the idea of others looking for, caring about and finding all the hidden and secret messages I put into my creations.
And, in addition to the fact it's fun to be creative and play around with images of pop culture (which I love), I feel good about finding some practical use for materials that might otherwise end up in a landfill. Bringing awareness to the issues of pollution, the 'green' movement and recycling through my art gives me the hope that my work has some greater purpose beyond my own entertainment and livelihood," said Michael Albert,
Note: Michael, guest artist at this year's dinner, is the author of An Artist's America, which was published by Henry Holt and Co., LLC in 2008.
Freeholder Liaison Par Excellence Award ─
Jack J. Schrier - The name of the award says it all.
The fashion show
This year's fashion show features a bevy of models wearing apparel or carrying items that have some relationship to taking care of planet Earth. Some information related to the fashion show is found in "A list of some things…."
The mannequin
Miranda McMua, named in part for the character whom Cynthia Nixon portrayed on a HBO show about life in New York City, is once again thrilled to make an appearance at "Recycling: A Metamorphosis." In keeping with the dinner theme, Leeza Tea Coco Chanel, MCMUA designer in residence, has garbed Miranda in a stunning outfit resembling a monarch butterfly. Carson and Gebel Ribbon Co. in Rockaway donated the ribbon from which Leeza Tea made Miranda's black and orange ensemble.
The table favors – Grains for Good Bagel Crisps
The following description was provided by the Community Food Bank of New Jersey.
It is possible that a bag of bagel crisps can make a difference.
A concept that began with one woman distributing groceries out of the trunk of her car has since grown to a charity that has distributed close to 400 million pounds of food and groceries valued at nearly a billion dollars.
Grains For Good is a new, revenue generating venture of the Community FoodBank of New Jersey whereby donated bagels are turned into bagel crisps as part of our Food Service Training Academy curriculum. Culinary students prepare and package our bagel crisps for sale in farmers markets and specialty stores. 100% of the proceeds of each bag of Grains for Good are donated to CFBNJ, which distributes over 33 million pounds of food and other groceries in 18 New Jersey counties annually.
By believing in the possible rather than the impossible, the Community FoodBank of New Jersey has been delivering food and hope in equal measure to New Jersey communities for nearly 30 years.
Please visit www.njfoodbank.org/GrainsForGood for more information on how you can get involved in the CFBNJ's fight against hunger and poverty.
The musicians - For the 16th consecutive year, Shot of Redemption is providing live music. To book them for an event, call 845-255-3177.
A list of some things and ways to find them
Gently used designer handbags such as the blue Dooney & Bourke bag modeled this evening: Taylor's Consignment Shop, Morris Plains, 973-267-1919, www.taylorsconsignors.com.
Information about Runner's Laundry tie by Eric Holch For ©Alynn Neckwear, or about washing laundry in cold water and hanging it on a clothesline to dry: Project Laundry List at www.laundrylist.org
Aprons with large pockets for holding clothespins or one-of-a-kind handbags made from boots, costume jewelry and other "found" materials: Donna Bangiola, 973-292-3562.
Blue Q ("Experiencing Metamorphosis since 1988") tote bags made with 95% recycled woven plastic from used grain sacks: Whole Food stores or www.blueq.com.
Brightly colored door mats made from flip flop material: Bed Bath and Beyond, www.bedbathandbeyond.com or contact medici 888,1431 Baker Road, Virginia Beach, VA 23455.
Purina® Yesterday's News® brand cat litter made with recycled paper and sawdust (and supposedly it's more absorbent than clay, gentle on sensitive paws, generates low dust and low tracking, has effective odor control, and the empty bag can be recycled with mixed paper): Pet supplies section in supermarket, bodegas (for city dwellers) or wherever.
Vinylux products (the bowl into which Fritos might have been poured) created from vintage record albums: www.vinylux.net.
Books such as the green book, the EVERYDAY GUIDE to SAVING the PLANET ONE SIMPLE STEP at a TIME and The Audubon Society Guide to Attracting Birds, Creating Natural Habitats for Properties Large and Small (Mendham books donated a copy of the latter to be given as a door prize). Please support your local independent book store: one in our area is Mendham Books, Mendham Village Shopping Center, Mendham, 973-543-4949, www.mendhambooks.com.
Flings! pop-up recycling containers (each one holds over 60 bottles or cans – perfect for parties and picnics): 303-991-1863, www.flingsbin.com
Posters featuring Michael Albert's artwork: www.michaelalbert.com.
Handbags/tote bags handcrafted in Cambodia by disabled persons:
www.tenthousandvillages.com.
Information on green or sustainable living is delivered with a guilt-free, low-stress perspective, every Thursday night from7-8 p.m. on www.homegrownradio.com. You may also visit www.thegreendivas.com to acquire resources, recipes and updates on what lies ahead for the show. The Green Divas (Megan and Jenifer) hope everyone reading this dinner program will "Eat. Blog. Be merry!"


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GREAT VIDEO: Meteor hurtles across Central Texas
by: Matthew Prendergast
Posted: Dec 5, 2019 / 08:49 AM CST / Updated: Dec 30, 2019 / 04:47 PM CST
AUSTIN (KXAN) — A fireball was seen hurtling across the Central Texas sky Thursday morning as commuters made their way to work.
One KXAN viewer captured the meteor's descent on his dashboard camera at 5:36 a.m. while driving down State Highway 71. The space rock hit the atmosphere illuminating into a bright blue light before finally disappearing from sight.
Another viewer's doorbell camera from a south Austin home captured the meteor.
The American Meteor Society, which reports and tracks meteoric phenomena across the world, received over 38 reports across the Lone Star State of the meteor. It's been spotted as far north as Oklahoma City and as far east as eastern Louisiana.
DID YOU KNOW: Before entering our atmosphere, a meteor is called a meteoroid. If it doesn't break apart and lands on Earth it is called a meteorite.
According to the American Meteor Society, fireballs like the one seen Thursday morning occur in the thermosphere, about 50 to 75 miles above the Earth. The typically enter the atmosphere at speeds of up to 160,000 miles per hour.
Meteor falling. (Photo courtesy Orlando Rodriguez)
For more on meteors check out the American Meteor Society's FAQ page here.
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Conversation with the Abbott
When you're hemmed in by rain for three days, camped in soggy forest at the junction of two rivers in South Westland (see "Back for the Gold" in the latest issue of New Zealand Geographic) there is plenty of time to talk. Snippets from an interview I recorded with Mick Abbott—head of the School of Landscape Architecture at Lincoln University, a member of the Canterbury Aoraki Conservation Board, and co-founder with his wife, Carli Richter, of Kiwi Ranger, a family environmental education programme—appear in the story. Here are some longer excerpts from our conversation, beginning with recollections of Abbott's epic solo traverse of the South Island, which he made in 1988/89. How did that journey come about, I asked him . . .
Written by Kennedy Warne
Kennedy Warne
MA: I was driving taxis in Sydney and doing bursts of rock climbing. But I was missing the South Island forests—probably romanticising them, the verdant expanse. I had the idea of walking the length of the South Island, so I plastered the walls of my flat with topo maps to work out a route, then I came back and set about doing it. I went into the forest of southern Fiordland and got thrashed. It absolutely poured. I was wringing out the sleeping bag three days in a row. On my own. Feeling very isolated. Mildly hypothermic. When I finally got to the Dusky Track, I walked what is normally a five-day track in two. I just wanted to get out. I got back to Dunedin and thought, stuff that, that was too hard.
KW: After that debilitating experience, what drew you back to have a second crack at it? Was there a shift in thinking?
MA: The big change was that I had a major mountaineering accident on Mt Douglas. My climbing companion and I got caught in a blizzard. We had no shelter, the snow was settling three feet in an hour, and we didn't have a shovel to build a snow cave. The fact that I ended up spending three weeks in hospital was because, yes, it was a horrendous storm—400 people were stranded at Mt Hutt by the same storm—but also we weren't properly prepared, in equipment and skills. On the other hand, it was a pivotal moment in my life. Out of dealing with that, I got a clarity about what I wanted to do and how I wanted to approach things. When you're on a mountain trying to stay alive—and it really was a fight to stay alive, there's no question about that—you can find that sort of clarity.
KW: Was it soon after that experience that you picked up the trip again?
MA: It was immediately after. I was sitting in hospital, and there are a lot of tears when you look at your frostbitten hands and realise you've really stuffed up your body. Really maimed it. At one point it looked like they were going to have to amputate a lot of fingers, but all they ended up amputating was the bone at the end of one. My fingers today look pretty gnarly, but I was lucky. And I thought, I really want to go back and do this trip. So I geared back up for it, told only half a dozen people—it was to be my own personal journey—and went back into the bush.
KW: A journey with what intent? Discovering a sense of belonging? Relationship with place?
MA: Immersion. A sense of being lost within this world. The motivation had nothing to do achieving anything. It was the walking. It was the place. And it was being really alone and happy in that. Those three things meeting together. Getting to know myself in the place through the process of walking. And getting to know walking in its essence, through being off tracks. A month without tracks in Fiordland is an amazing experience. I came out into the Eglinton Valley, and here's this open landscape the likes of which I hadn't seen in a month because I'd been walking in tight folds of land.
KW: You and I have talked a lot in recent years about relationship with place. And on this trip following Barrington we've been thinking about the question of how you sustain and intensify the wilderness experience, rather than assuming it will inevitably decline, reduced by the thousand cuts of economic exploitation. How do you intensify wilderness?
MA: There is a lot we can do to make these places more wild, through designing a more intense wilderness experience. For instance, we could trap the forest's pests each night we stay. We could eat its venison. We could use its natural fibres in some way—for shelter or for sleeping on. And we could travel slower, walking off tracks, even having a heavy pack to make things move slowly. Then there's cookers. Do we use a Saudi Arabian-fuelled cooker that is made in Vietnam and gives profits to a US company, or do we collect fuel from the forest? The other night when we built a fire you were saying, "We won't go for beech, which doesn't burn well, we'll spend more time looking for rata." That's a sign of getting to know a place. The opportunity is there for us to have an intimate relationship with our native ecosystems. Belonging in Aotearoa won't come from a life dependent on exotic ecosystems that were brought to this country, it will come from working with the native ecologies of the land.
We should be thinking that one day we might be able to eat Kentucky Fried Kereru. Imagine what the ecosystem would look like for that to be possible—a forest in which our birds are so abundant that we could hunt them rather than deer. Suppose a hunting community decided to exterminate all the pests in a large conservation bock—from deer down to mice. Might it then be possible to have a licensed season for kereru in that area? If that was on the table, that forest would be cleared of pests within a year, because people would like to eat kereru. And would not the forest be better for that? That could be a way to incentivise the eradication of pests. But we have this view that if it's native we must not use it.
KW: The good thing about something like "KFK" is it's additive, not just subtractive. It's not just that we would have succeeded in controlling or eliminating a lot of pests but that we'd be bringing back something special into our cuisine, into our culture and experience of being New Zealanders.
MA: I do come back to the fact that a third of this country is conservation land and we need to see it for its social and economic value, not just as something we spend our taxes on to preserve. We have this view that the only use for the wild is for tourism or biodiversity. We can't imagine an economy based on the relationships with nature that we've created. When DOC says "conservation for prosperity" I think the department's meaning is that somehow conservation land provides ecosystem services and tourism. What we need to understand is it can go much, much deeper than that.
KW: The wariness I have about that branding—"conservation for prosperity"—is that it sounds like a neoliberal framing. Capitalism encroaching on and subjugating the entire natural world, at the expense of relationship with place. Aren't we using the wrong language here? Using monetary language for a value that can't be measured by money.
MA: If you accept the idea of triple-bottom-line sustainability [economic, social and environmental], then economic prosperity comes out of social and environmental value. Our native ecosystems have immense environmental value. We need to unlock the social value in how we interact with those native ecosystems, and out of that can come economic prosperity.
DOC has had $3 billion on public money invested in it over the past 10 years. That's great. But what's the export potential of the products, services and systems that DOC has created on our behalf —whether that's track counters, trapping methodologies, how to develop conservation management strategies, how to organise volunteer teams, how to commercialise conservation partnerships. All these things can be embodied into intellectual property and sold to the thousands of managers working on conservation challenges around the world. It's something that could be one of most valuable exports this century.
KW: So, wilderness as an incubator, wilderness as a laboratory, a test bed for products, services and systems.
MA: Yes, and also our behaviours. Landscape is a powerful thing for people. It gives us a sense of belonging. Being part of something—whether that's to a place or community or a social group—is a far more powerful motivator to people than, say, abstract ideas of sustainability or a sense of being environmentally responsible. It goes back much more into our primal sense of what it means to be human.
KW: The question I keep circling back to is: how do we redefine the human place in nature. Given that that interaction has so often been negative, a net loss for our ecosystems, there's a certain logic to the approach of separating nature from human impact by enshrining it in protected areas. Drawing a line and having production on one side and protection on the other. But we both acknowledge that's a flawed approach. How do we redraw that line? Are there principles that can tell us when not to build a road or develop a mine, but still be welcoming to human activity, presence, participation within our remaining native ecosystems? How do we reintegrate the human into the nonhuman world in a way that isn't terminally destructive of that world?
MA: I think we have to ask if we are seeing nature solely as a quantum of biodiversity or also as something that makes us rich. I'm not talking about consuming it as a commodity, in the way that wilderness has always been consumed as economic frontiers expand. Rather it's about enjoying the value that can be created out of our relationship with nature. That, actually, biodiversity can be increased out of these relationships, not decreased. The fastest growing outdoor recreation in this country is conservation—planting, trapping, citizen science, drawing kids into the wild. Not those Ed Hillary achievements of last century. I think we should be focusing on the experiential value people gain from the conservation estate.
KW: An example would be night-time kiwi walks in Waipoua forest. Kiwi have always been there, but until recently no one thought to invite tourists to have that special experience of being in the forest at night and hearing their haunting call at first hand.
MA: Yes. The main thing for me is that you have to remain optimistic and ambitious about our relationship with nature in this country, rather than pessimistic and defensive and always seeing nature as being diminished and demeaned. We just have to look at the way nature is celebrated by increasing numbers of New Zealanders—it's wonderful. It is the taonga, the treasure, of this country. That's the personal legacy of the journey I took—the utter magic of the wild. And that's always with me. You can go out on the river flats down there and look around and realise how big it is. A great forested expanse. There are not enough lives to roam it all.
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If you follow me on instagram, you've probably already seen tons of photos! She is such a happy pup, and we're slowly working on getting her and the cats to be bff's (wishful thinking, I know). Rob and I have been so busy adjusting to having a dog that I haven't had time for a new project!
But no worries - we've gotten into a rhythm now, and I worked for a few hours yesterday planning out project ideas and shopping for materials so I'll have some great DIYs coming up for you soon!
And here are a few from our walk around Coot Lake at Tom Watson Park -- she is so adventurous, I can't wait until it warms up enough to take her on some beautiful hikes around the Flatirons!


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Journalist Tries to Buy AR-15, but It's Not as Easy as He Thought
By Joshua Krause on June 22, 2016 in Alternative News
After every mass shooting, you'll find politicians and journalists who are woefully ignorant about firearms, calling for more gun control. Then you'll start hear a few stories in the news about journalist going out to buy "assault rifles" just to prove how easy it is to do in America. However, sometimes these timely anti-gun stories don't go as planned.
Neil Steinberg, a journalist with the Chicago-Sun Times, recently attempted to buy a Smith & Wesson M&P AR-15 for his anti-gun hit piece. Since this was in Illinois he had to attain a Firearm's Owners' Identification Card, then fill out paperwork for a background check, and then wait 24 hours to pick up the firearm.
Unfortunately for Steinberg, this attempt to prove that firearms are just too easy to buy in America was a failure. During the background check it was discovered that he had a criminal record. According to the gun store, "It was uncovered that Mr. Steinberg has an admitted history of alcohol abuse, and a charge for domestic battery involving his wife."
For some reason Steinberg went with the story anyway, despite the fact that it proves current laws are already restrictive for violent and irresponsible people, like himself. He played it off as if the gun store was out to get him because they knew he was a journalist doing a piece, and they didn't want the bad publicity. "Would-be terrorists can buy guns. Insane people can buy guns. But reporters . . . that's a different story."
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Q: Is there a Linux-compatible R/C simulator that works with real radios? My Dad flies radio-controlled (R/C) aircraft.  He used to run a simulator called "RealFlight" which allowed him to connect his actual radio to his computer and fly simulated craft.  He learned enough to fly actual planes, but he wants to move up from "trainer" aircraft to higher-performance craft.  After some crashes, he'd like to go back to the simulator for a while.  The catch: he's given up Windows and is now running Ubuntu.
Question: is there an R/C flight simulator that

*

*Runs on Ubuntu?

*Allows you to connect your radio and use it to control the simulator, preferably through a USB port?

A: FlightGear is an open source cross-platform flight simulator compatible with Ubuntu:

Flightgear is compatible with this R/C USB-Interface for flight simulators (which is compatible with Linux).

A: You can find CRRCsim by googling it and a link to download it from it's official site at sourceforge.  I use it every day.
It is also in standard repositories for Ubuntu/Debian.
It can be configured to use your radio through cp2102 USB chip
(in Ubuntu all you need it to select input device and configure channels in crrcsim menu).

A: I use Aerofly on Windows (http://www.aerofly.de). When You google for it You found that there is/was version for Linux. unfortunately I cant found it on official site.
This is how to for using real remote with Linux: http://www.sandbox.de/hacks/aerofly.html.

A: I was looking for the same thing and I found that :
http://www.heli-x.net/

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Grocery Store Ad Mailer Stirs Controversy
by: Susan El Khoury
A family-owned Christian grocery store with several locations in Southeast Arkansas is dealing with backlash as customers argue a weekly ad mailer included a controversial political message.
The ad book was sent to four of Mac's Cashsaver stores in Arkansas.
According to the store, the mailer typically includes a religious or political message.
The current mailer includes a message that references the U.S. / Mexico border wall controversy.
It reads, "Heaven has a wall, a gate, and a strict immigration policy. Hell has open borders. Let that sink in."
Those words aren't sitting well with some customers.
"It just doesn't make any sense," Tyler Reede, who saw the mailer while shopping at one of Camden stores, said. "Why would they put that on there?"
Other customers appreciated the message.
"I didn't have a problem with it, "Logan Reede said. "If they want to come here, they can come here legally."
Employees at the Camden Mac's Cashsaver, off Washington Street, said they've been approached by dozens of customers and received even more phone calls.
"They're just making a political spin out of it and getting the wrong idea of what it really means," explained Manager Jack Digby.
Digby said the store owner is responsible for the message.
He claimed this was intended to have a Christian meaning, nothing political.
"I am for the company and I am for God," Digby said. "There's nothing wrong with what that statement says."
The ad mailer was also sent to several locations in Louisiana.
The company said it stands by the messages and plans to keep including them in the weekly mailers.
by Megan Wilson / Jan 17, 2020
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Q: How to add an element containing fields to an array Using javascript, how can I add to an array an element which contains fields (pairs of field name and field value)?
The purpose of this is that each element will later be inserted as a row to a DB, using ajax.
Just to make sure - after the array is ready I should be able to access a field this way:
shopsArray[4].shopName

Edit:
It's working with Pointy's answer but I still have a problem:
shopsArray.push( { shopId: 1, shopAddress: $('#newAddress' + j).val() } );

The first value is inserted fine, but the second one has a problem.
If I alert $('#newAddress' + j).val() than I get the correct value which has been inserted in the field in the webpage.
But if I alert shopsArray[lastElementNumber].shopAddress than I get undefined.
Can you see what's the problem here?
Edit 2:
More elaborate code:
// save changes in main shop
shopsArray[0].shopName = $('#mainName').val();
shopsArray[0].shopAddress = $('#mainAddress').val();

// save secondary branches to array
for (var i=1; i<shopsArray.length; i++){
    shopsArray[i].shopName = $('#secondaryName' + i).val();
    shopsArray[i].shopAddress = $('#secondaryAddress' + i).val();
}

// save new branches to array
for (var j=1; j<=newshopsCounter; j++){

    var bName = $('#newName' + j).val();

    shopsArray.push({shopId: -1, userId: shopsArray[0].userId, shopName: bName, shopAddress: $('#newAddress' + j).val()});

    alert(bName);
    alert(shopArray[1].shopName);
    alert(shopsArray[1].shopId);
}

The first and third alerts give the correct values. The second one gives undefined.

A: You mean something like
shopsArray.push({ shopName: "Fred", value: "Ethel" });

?
edit — now that I know that this is the sort of thing you want to do, I'll clarify.
JavaScript has an "object literal" syntax that allows objects to be created directly as values. The syntax involves a list of property names and values, with the names and values separated by a colon and each pair separated by commas.  Thus:
var anObject = { someProperty: "the value" };

creates an object with one property and assigns it to the variable "anObject". That's effectively the same as:
var temp = new Object();
temp["someProperty"] = "the value";
var anObject = temp;

The "value" part of a property in an object literal can be any expression, but the property name must be either a string constant or an identifier (and in either case, it's treated like a string constant).  Thus, you can create an object with a property whose value comes from calling some function:
var fancyObject = { "temperature": getTemperature() };

Object literal expressions are values, and can be used anywhere you can use an expression, including function call arguments.  Therefore, to add an object to an array, it's possible to call the array ".push()" function and use an object literal as the argument, as in the first example:
shopsArray.push({ shopName: "Cheese Shoppe", shopPhone: "111 222 3232" });

You can even include object literals inside another object literal, as the value of a property:
shopsArray.push({
  shopName: "Cheese Shoppe",
  shopAddress: {
    street1: "207 High Street",
    street2: "No. 5",
    city: "Austin",
    state: "TX"
  }
});

A: You would simply create a hash inside an array to achieve that:
var shopsArray = [
  {
    shopName: 'value1'
  }, {
    shopName: 'value2'
  }
];

If you have an existing array, use push:
shopsArray.push({ shopName: 'value' });

A: you can do something like this:
var arr = new Array();
arr['field_name'] = 'field_value';

//to access it on ajax

for (var i in arr){
    //field_name is in "i"
    //field_value is in arr[i]
}


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Woman Gone 'Wild': Cheryl Strayed Traveling Solo
Amanda	July 31, 2012
By Amanda Festa
In her memoir, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, Cheryl Strayed hikes 1,100 miles on the PCT, which runs all the way from Mexico to Canada. She occasionally stumbles upon fellow hikers, but for the most part she travels alone. Strayed was 26 years old at the time, with a backpack dubbed 'monster' as her only companion. However, as threatening as the name sounds, 'monster' would not have helped her had she been accosted on the PCT. One could ask, what would incite a young woman with very little hiking experience to embark on a five month long expedition equipped with neither cell phone, credit card or assault weapon of any kind? The answer to this question is one of the reasons Strayed's memoir is so affective. She is not a superhero. She is a woman full of grief over the loss of her mother to cancer. She is a woman whose marriage fell apart and, with divorce imminent, she does not sugarcoat her leading role in its demise. She is an everywoman of sorts. She never claims to be a heroine. Unless you remove the 'e,' that word never crosses her mind.
Before reading her story, one would assume that anyone attempting to backpack across a large portion of the west coast would have to be an avid hiker or crazy. Strayed was neither. She could be you. It is this fact that makes reading her memoir such an emotional experience. For the most part, we have all had moments in our lives when we face challenges that seem a little too trying, where the uphill battle we face seems a little too daunting. We have all experienced loss. And in our weakest most human of moments we search for something to give us meaning. Strayed's search for meaning took her someplace that most of us would never fathom, but after reading her inspirational tale, maybe now we will.
The fact that she did it alone makes this inspiration twofold. Before reading Wild, I felt my most powerful singing feminist power ballads in the shower. Strayed stood at the Bridge of the Gods in Oregon, after months of solo travel across terrain that ranged from desert to tundra-like conditions But as empowering as her story is, the question of safety is a lingering one. As much as I admire Strayed's accomplishment, I wouldn't make it 100 feet without assessing every possibility for my death and dismemberment a la The Hills Have Eyes or the evening news.
Fear is something that women travelers have been taught to pack in abundance, along with a few pair of warm socks and a canister of pepper spray. But this negative PR is giving solo travel a bad rap. Solo travel can also be a test of strength, an exploration of self and am incredibly worthwhile adventure. Websites such as JourneyWoman now offer advice to solo travelers, complete with personal accounts of women's experiences.
According to the Pacific Crest Trail Association website, approximately 300 people attempt to hike the entire PCT each year. At 2,650 miles this seems incredible. Strayed covered nearly half. While I am still daunted by the prospect of abandoning deodorant for any significant length of time, Strayed's story has given me a profound sense of what one can accomplish when the world knocks her down. Not only did Strayed get back up, but she did so with a sizeable 'monster' on her back.
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Just finished listening to the audiobook version of 'Wild' I found it , for the most part, pretty inspiring. Impressive to say the least. It was also interesting to see how much she changed along the journey. From being pretty dense, and a little foolish, she evolved into a much more confident and self assured adult. The story does NOT make me want to run out and get a backpack to start hiking the PCT. If anything, it worked in the reverse. She did not sugarcoat this adventure.


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Ankita Kodali
Intent on being involved, student emerges as a campus leader
Ankita Kodali began Rutgers Business School-New Brunswick as a shy student who sat in the back of the room and listened quietly when she joined a campus organization.
By the second half of her sophomore year, she had served in one or two leadership positions in small student groups and accepted the role of president for the Rutgers Business School Innovation Committee (RBSIC), which works closely with the Office of Career Management. By the end of her senior year, she would be president of two other student groups.
As Ankita was breaking out of her shell, as she calls it, by taking on different opportunities, she was quietly making her mark as a student leader. This spring, as she approached the end of her senior year, she was selected as the 2021 recipient of the dean's Distinguished Leadership Award, a recognition for the abilities she demonstrated during her time at Rutgers Business School.
Kodali said her shyness started slipping away after she pushed herself to attend a job fair. "A lot of people told me, oh, freshmen don't get internships. I said okay, but I'm still going to go see what it's like," Kodali said. A month later, she was offered an internship. "That experience started to break me out of my shell," she said.
Kodali, soft-spoken and extremely organized, ("I kind of pride myself on my Google calendar.") studied finance and accounting as she took on different positions of leadership. She also took on a minor in economics in order to have the 150 credits required to sit for the CPA exam.
"When the opportunities came up to lead, it felt like a natural next step to say I want this organization to succeed so if that means I have to be the leader, I will."
"Coming into college, I didn't even see myself on an executive board (of a student organization)," she said. "I just really wanted to be involved in something." Looking back, she finds it hard to believe she did so much.
In addition to being very active in RBSIC, she became a student worker in the Office of Career Management. She spent a week in the summer after freshman year working at the RBS Summer Business Camp. She also tutored students taking managerial accounting and cost accounting and was a teaching assistant in a financial management course.
After her sophomore year, she hopscotched across the country doing three-day leadership programs hosted by the Big Four accounting firms. (She ultimately decided to do an internship and then take a full-time job offer with Deloitte.) The same summer, she took on the daunting task of re-activating the dormant Rutgers University Business for Youth (RUBY) program.
"There had been a lot of talk about trying to restart it," she said. "Some people had tried."
When she approached RBS Senior Associate Dean Martin Markowitz about RUBY, he was ready to give up on the idea of re-igniting the program he had created years before to introduce underrepresented high school students to business school. "Something happened in that moment," Kodali said, "and I said, no, we can do this."
Kodali emailed every friend and classmate she knew with an interest in community service. As they began mobilizing, she said she began feeling more leader-like. Still, she resisted calling herself president for months. "Even though I did the groundwork of starting it, I felt we were all in it together," she said. "It couldn't have been done without all of the members there."
Markowitz described Kodali as a concerned, organized, person who can multitask. "Her caring nature was apparent when she approached me to resurrect the outreach Rutgers University Business for Youth," he said. "Ankita organized everything to restart the program in a true demonstration of her leadership abilities. This was a major undertaking she accomplished while being actively involved in other Business School organizations."
Under Kodali's leadership, the students did successfully relaunch RUBY. As the entirely student-run program moved into its second year, 65 of the original high school students continued their participation. Another 80 high school sophomores joined.
Kodali said she never planned to be a leader as much as she intended to be active and take advantage of what RBS had to offer her. "When the opportunities came up to lead," she said, "it felt like a natural next step to say, I want this organization to succeed so if that means I have to be the leader, I will."'
The Distinguished Leadership Award is given annually to a student from Rutgers Business School's undergraduate programs in Newark and New Brunswick. A third student is selected from the graduate program.
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Unfortunately, all my Colorado Springs buds where out of town this weekend while I was in town. That or they knew I was coming so they got the hell out of town for fear of my wrath. See it as you like.
The family was starving after 2 days of camp food. Kim and I started fighting on the drive into town. "Just go somewhere and feed us!", she yelled. I know a spot! Brownie's favorite.
Will I be able to join the Clean Plate Club this time?
Across the table, I started telling Sydney that you get a sticker if you finish and clean your plate. She was intrigued. So I kept eating. Picking up each piece of dropped lettuce and putting it down. I can do this. Sydney continues to stare at me with a huge pile of bacon left on her breakfast platter. "Want me to help you?", I asked. "No, I got it", she says. She was in it to win it too! I don't get too excited or proud on the usual kid milestones but when my kid finishes a race or is ready to battle for a Clean Plate Club sticker — that's when I get the chills!
Here we are with our stickers proudly displayed! I transferred mine to my truck for permanent placement.
Kim also cleaned her plate with some help from Sydney and I so she got a sticker too.
Reagan did not eat because she didn't want their food I guess. Off from camping but very picky anyway. But when they brought by the lunch pail with the sticker and candy for the clean platers to pick out, she started bawling. Quiet a show. The staff bent the rules and she was able to pick out a piece of candy as well. No sticker though. Rules are rules!


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Patti Smith and Band Tickets
Patti Smith. Queen of Punk Rock. Musician. Artist. Activist. Poet.
In the 70s, Patti became highly influential on the New York punk scene. An artist for over four decades, people are deeply spell-bound by Patti's creativity and charisma, and Bath Festival is overjoyed to be inviting her with her band to perform at The Forum, Bath for the first time since 2012.
In 1975, Patti's first recording, Horses, was inducted into the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress in 2010. 13 albums, 4 Grammy nominations, and a Golden Globe nominee for the song Mercy Is from the film Noah; these are just a few of this astonishing woman's awards, nominations, honours and accolades.
Patti Smith continues to write, perform readings, work on artistic projects, and lends support for human rights issues.
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Hans Riess graduated from Duke University with a degree in mathematics and is working towards a PhD in electrical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He is interested in applying concepts from mathematics to theories of optimal political decision-making.
We ought to harness the unique features of bitcoin to serve us more completely than traditional currencies have done in the past.
In January, I had the privilege of attending the 2017 North American Bitcoin Conference in Miami. Among the many engaging speakers at the event was John McAfee, who was a 2016 Libertarian presidential contender and was the original founder of the well-known McAfee antivirus software. (Mr. McAfee is now the CEO of MGT Capital Investments).
Mr. McAfee provided a conflicting message at the conference: bitcoin is user-unfriendly, confusing, and to a certain degree, vulnerable to cyberattacks such as keystroke or screen-logging spyware that can be easily hidden on smartphones. But in order for bitcoin to be successful and become a mainstream currency of exchange, your mother has to be able to use it.
I commend Mr. McAfee for saying what so few bitcoiners have had the humility to say. Let's have a reality check. Outside the bubble of bitcoin aficionados, the currency is mysterious to the public at large. And when it comes to money, mystery is rarely tolerated. After all, you have probably heard very little about bitcoin: the pseudo-anonymous, international crypto-currency. If you have heard about it, you have probably have heard mostly the criticisms—that (1) Bitcoin is a deflationary currency, (2) it enables criminals and money launderers, (3) it cannot be used to buy practically anything you would normally buy on, say, Amazon.com, and (4) its price compared to the USD fluctuates daily.
The scariest thing is that all of these criticisms are true. However, I would argue that none of these criticisms doom the currency or detract significantly from its usefulness.
(1) After a certain number of bitcoins are created, no more can be created. Hence, as global economic growth presumably continues past this point, the value of each bitcoin will increase rapidly. This is not as drastic as it may seem because bitcoins (theoretically) can be divided in arbitrarily small fractions, but this is a real concern nonetheless.
(2) Yes, criminals love bitcoin. Only one speaker at the conference, Jeremy Gardner, had the fortitude to admit this. Indeed, the infamous Silk Road, a website in which you can buy practically anything, including narcotics and military-grade firearms, facilitated its transactions completely in bitcoin. But just because a gun can be used to commit evil acts does not mean that the gun itself is evil. I don't think bitcoin is any different. Unfortunately, bitcoin is inextricably linked with the criminal activity that it enables. However, we don't see ourselves dismissing the usefulness of wire cutters or plastic explosives for similar reasons.
(3) No, bitcoin, as of now, cannot, for the average person, be any practical means of buying groceries, consumer electronics, or a new automobile. But it could be in the future. And to me that is enough.
(4) Yes, the price of bitcoin can fluctuate to such an extent as to cause great inconvenience. For example, it is possible that the money you received from a transaction is worth noticeably less in the amount of time (around 10 minutes) for the transaction to be verified. The high volatility of bitcoin is due to a large amount of speculation by investors on the price of bitcoin compared to the U.S. dollar. If bitcoin becomes more mainstream, the price of bitcoin will stabilize. But for now, owning bitcoin may require a deal of vigilance in the market.
I am not denying that these concerns are very real. And perhaps the greatest concern is the ease by which a perfectly intelligent person can lose the entire content of his bitcoin wallet by transferring it with the incorrect key. These concerns, all of them, need to be seriously addressed before bitcoin can break away from tech circles and criminals.
But these concerns should not diminish the exciting positive good that bitcoin can do. So while I cannot teach your mother to use bitcoin yet, I can prepare you for the world in which she can.
Bitcoin technology could allow charities to send bitcoin directly and anonymously to individuals' smartphones (yes, while very few in developing nations have computers, smartphones are ubiquitous) in developing nations where corruption normally limits the effectiveness of sending money or food as aid. The individuals in need could then convert the bitcoin into the local currency with solar-powered, satellite, bitcoin ATMs (a technology not invented yet for the developing world) which would be owned by private individuals who would charge a nominal transaction fee.
Another example, which technology entrepreneur Flip Filipowski implied at the conference, is that bitcoin would be a very natural currency for artificially intelligent beings to exchange with one another as well as with humans. Although more sophisticated forms of artificial intelligence may be a long ways away, self-driving cars are coming in the immediate future. One possibility is that your car will drop you off at work and then find a robotic charging station; your car will pay the station the cost of the electricity in bitcoin plus a premium the station will charge for its services. It turns out that bitcoin is the most secure and convenient way for your car, for example, to make this transaction.
These are both very exciting applications. But here I will not focus on them, but dive into why bitcoin as a currency in general has great potential.
It is not always morally wrong to want to be "under the radar" when it comes to creating value and transferring that value with currency. After all, if privacy is a right, why does it end in your bedroom? Consider the question: does an individual have the right to compensate another individual without anyone else knowing? Although our current economic system may be based on the trust of financial institutions, human history tells us that trust can also exist among groups of individuals sharing a common purpose. Admittedly, however, this generally takes place best in interactions that take place more than once.
And even if there is indeed some risk in trusting an unknown person to pay you on the other side of the globe, the alternative is to trust the banks and governments that back them with an unnecessarily enormous control over your money. But with bitcoin you don't have to. If you own bitcoin stored in an electronic bitcoin wallet, you are your own bank. You can securely send or receive any amount of bitcoin from your wallet into another bitcoin wallet without the approval or knowledge of any banking institution, which is ultimately under the close watch of some government agency. The transaction is verified by a private third-party party called a "miner" who uses their computing power to verify the transaction using "blockchain," the world's most provably secure public verification technology.
The beauty of bitcoin is how miners are compensated for their computational labor: whichever miner, approximately every 10 minutes, or more likely, mining company (e.g. Genesis mining was one such company that I met at the conference) successfully "hashes" the correct "block" on the blockchain used to verify transactions, earns 12.5 BTC, which is roughly equivalent to $11,000 USD. As one could imagine, the competition is fierce to win every block, and in practice miners pool together their efforts and share in the profits. When miners are paid, these bitcoins are not taken from any wallet, but are created out of thin air. In technical terms, this means that bitcoin is equipped with self-regulating monetary easing.
But if you put value in individual freedom, choice, and privacy, a decentralized system such as bitcoin makes it difficult—and I would actually say impossible—for a government to lay its hands on it. In this, there is great power. With the election of nationalist Donald Trump, it seems that as a society we are shifting away from liberalism back to the nationalist, and even isolationist, paradigm. It is uncertain, given Trump's push for high barriers for trade and his practice of strong arming American companies, how much economic freedom individuals will have in the future. Bitcoin could be a way to push back.
I have no fear in saying that unconditional free trade is the only economically-informed policy on trade. Bitcoin is the epitome of free trade. Not only are the likes of President Trump unable to regulate international transactions made in bitcoin, but they cannot even know the parties in the transaction. They can know—as can anyone in the world—that the transaction did in fact take place, but little else. In this way, bitcoin could be a force of resistance in this new uncertain era of American protectionism. Although we may be far from the ideal articulated by economist Jeffrey Tucker that technologies like bitcoin may one day reduce the need for the more invasive aspects of government, in the meantime, we ought to harness the unique features of bitcoin to serve us more completely than traditional currencies have done in the past.
Mr. Riess graduated recently from Duke University with a degree in mathematics, and is currently pursuing a Master's at the University of Pennsylvania.


My gut feeling is telling me that Ueli again did a real great climb. For certain he has got the information that the internet has run hot since yesterday with breaking news about his solo ascent. If it was a hoax, he surely would have denied the reports by SMS. And in one respect Ueli fulfils the cliché of the slow Swiss: In contrast to his speed of climbing he is slowing down when he has to inform the public about his adventures. Even two years ago when Ueli climbed solo via the Shishapangma South Face he took up plenty of time before he published details of his spectacular climb.
Update 12.10.: Robert Boesch, photographer and mountaineer from Switzerland, says that he has spoken to Ueli Steck on satellite phone after his climbing of Annapurna. According to Robert Ueli has climbed solo on a new route through the South Wall directly to the summit. Steck needed 28 hours for ascent and descent, says Robert: "His climb opened a new dimension in high altitude mountaineering." You can take a first look on the route here.


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Complications of In-Dwelling Venous Access Devices: a Single Institution Experience
I. A. Burney ( Departments of Medicine, The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi. )
N. Khurshaidi ( Departments of Surgery, The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi. )
M. T. Akbar ( Departments of Medicine, The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi. )
F. N. Bhatti ( Departments of Medicine, The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi. )
T. Siddiqui ( Departments of Medicine, The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi. )
Z. Sophie ( Departments of Surgery, The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi. )
Objective: To determine the complications of venous access devices (VADs) in cancer patients.
Setting: Retrospective study in a tertiary referral center with specialist hematology and oncology services.
Subjects: First one hundred consecutive patients who were implanted a VAD. All patients had an underlying cancer and the devices were inserted by the same surgeon. The duration of use of VADs and causes of their premature removal were noted.
Results: One hundred VADs (55 port-a-caths and 45 Hickman's lines) were inserted in a total of 89 patients over a 7.5 year period. Majority of patients had acute myeloid leukemia (22) gastrointestinal malignancies (20) breast cancer (19) and genito-urinary cancers (15). The mean duration of use was 110 days; 157 days for the port-acath and 53 days for the Hickman's line. Nineteen devices (10 port-a-caths and 9 Hickman's lines) had to be removed prematurely. Two Hickman's lines got removed accidentally. The causes of premature removal included device failure (9), exit site infection (4), luminal infection (3) and tunnel infection (3).
Conclusion: The mean duration of use and the complication rates are comparable with studies reported in the literature (JPMA 51:434,2001).
Management of cancer has seen major advancements in the last few decades in the form of chemotherapeutics and supportive care. Modern chemotherapeutic management depends upon repeated and safe access to the venous system for the delivery of drugs, fluids and blood products and on the periodic monitoring of the effects of treatment1. Peripheral veins are rapidly destroyed by repeated venipuncture and by long term chemotherapy. In addition, thrombosis and sclerosis of peripheral veins enhances the risk of drug extravasation and tissue necrosis2.
A variety of methods have been used to provide long term venous access. Surgically constructed arteriovenous fistulas have been used in the past with variable success. Although such fistulas are ideal for hemodialysis they have not been found satisfactory for intermittent long-term chemotherapy. Recently indwelling silicone rubber catheters placed in the superior vena cava have enjoyed greater popularity. Their use has been ideal in avoiding multiple needle pricks and local thrombophlebitis due to the sclerosing effect of chemotherapeutic agents3,4. The long-term venous access devices (VADs) have also helped to overcome the need for repeated peripheral or central venous puncture. The Hickman line is an indwelling silicone catheter, a modification of Broviac's catheter3,4. The Port-acath is a totally implantable venous access device in which a conventional central venous catheter is attached to a subcutaneous injection port usually on the chest wall5. With both these devices, chemotherapy and supportive care requirements can be administered safely, easily and without the need for repeated venipuncture6,7. But despite the benefits of these devices there are certain risks. Lack of expertise in insertion, as well as the potential for thrombosis and catheter infections are hazards that must be anticipated8-10. The use of these devices is now beginning to gain widespread popularity in the developing countries. The purpose of this study was to report our initial experience with VADs, assess the nature and causes of complications and to see whether the complication rate was comparable to the western data.
The data were collected retrospectively. The clinical records were retrieved by the medical record section of the hospital. The section uses the International Classification of Diseases, Version 9.0 (lCD 9.0) data base. At the time of insertion of the VAD, the procedure is logged on to the face sheet by the attending surgeon. Data of patients presenting to the hematology and oncology service of the hospital between Jan 1988 and December 2000 and implanted with a VAD was retrieved. First 100 patients who received the device were the subjects of this study. The fate of the devices on 31st December 1996 was noted. The VADs were all inserted at this hospital by a vascular surgeon (ZS) under operating room conditions, either percutaneously or by employing the venous cut down technique. Insertion of the VAD was always followed by a chest x-ray to check the position of the tip of the catheter. Towards the later part of the study, VADs were inserted under fluoroscopic control. The tip of the catheter was aimed to be positioned at the level of the fourth thoracic vertebra. The total duration of use of the VAD as well as reasons for discontinuation of use were studied. The data were analyzed on Epinfo Version 6 and MS Dos FoxPro II.
Our hundred VADs were inserted in 89 cancer patients over a period of 7.5 years. Of the devices implanted, 55 were Port-a-caths while 45 were Hickman lines. These were used for administration of chemotherapeutic agents, blood products, parenteral nutrition, and for laboratory sampling. Among the patients there were 47 females and 42 males. The mean age of patients at the time of insertion of the VAD was 42.3 years. All patients had underlying malignant conditions, which were both hematological as well as non-hematological. Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) was the most common underlying diagnosis (22%), followed by gastrointestinal tract malignancies and breast cancer. The details of various underlying malignancies are shown in Table 1.
Laboratory investigations carried out at the time of insertion showed a mean hemoglobin of 9.3 ± 1.6 gm/dl, total leukocyte count 4.2 ± 4.4 x 109 /L and platelet count 222 ± 186 x 109 /L. The coagulation profile was available in 25 of the patients and was significantly deranged in 10 of them (40%). The most common site of insertion was the subclavian vein (69%), followed by the external jugular vein. The details are shown in Table 2.
The fate of VADs was also studied, and the data are shown in Table 3.
Most commonly the patient died with an intact functioning VAD (40%). This was followed by premature removal (19%). A total of 14 patients were either referred or were lost to follow up and the fate of their catheters was not known. Thirteen VADs were removed after completion of the chemotherapy program. Twelve catheters were still in use with a mean duration of use of 175 days. Two Hickman lines got pulled out accidentally 2 and 30 days after insertion.
A total of 19 patients (19%) had premature removal of their VAD's, out of which 10 were Port-a-caths and 9 were Hickman lines. Causes of premature removal included luminal infections, tunnel infections, exit site infections, and device failure. This is shown in Table 4.
The most common cause for premature removal was device failure (8/19), while 4 patients had multiple causes of premature removal.
The VADs remained in use for a total of 10964 catheter days. The mean duration of use of all VADs was 110 days, with a mean of 157 days for the Port-a-cath, and 53 days for the Hickman line. The mean duration for which the VADs remained implanted till they were removed was 224 days. A total of 6 Port-a-caths were removed at the end of use after a mean duration of 362 days, whereas 7 Hickman lines were removed after a mean duration of 106 days.
The mean duration of use when the VAD had to be removed prematurely, was 97 days (139 days for 10 Port-acaths and 51 days for 9 Hickman lines), while the mean duration of use in the patients who died with the VAD in place was 65 days (92 days for 19 Port-a-cath and 41 days for 21 Hickman lines).
Insertion of VADs is now being attempted on an outpatient basis. Reported success has been comparable to surgical insertion performed as an inpatient procedure11. Moreover devices have now been designed to function as implanted arm ports12.
The choice of catheter to be inserted is largely dependent upon individual preferences, however, sometimes the type of malignancy, life expectancy of the patient and financial issues make the decision. For example, Hickman lines were generally preferred if the catheter was being implanted to provide terminal supportive care or the underlying malignancy was acute myeloid leukemia requiring prolonged hospital stay for induction chemotherapy and supportive care during the neutropenic phase. In our country the cost of insertion of a Hickman line is about 35% less than the cost of insertion of a Port-a-cath and hence the Hickman lines were preferred where financial constraints were an issue on the part of the patient. Reports are emerging that despite its higher initial cost a Port-a-cath used for 4 months is in the long-term less expensive than a Hickman line which has to be flushed every other day with heparin saline for this period5. Long-term cost considerations may influence the ultimate choice of device in the future.
Catheter-related infections as well as device failure are significant problems seen with the use of these VADs, occurring in upto 20% of all patients 2. In our study 19% (n= 19) catheters were removed prematurely because of complications. This is consistent with several studies, which have shown rates of premature removal varying from 10% to 30.2%13,15. Catheter related infections were the most common cause of premature removal seen in our study, which occurred in 10% of VADs. This is also in conformity with other studies which have shown catheter-related infection as the cause of premature removal in 7.1% to 13.4% of cases13-15.
Although several studies have reported premature removal due to device failure to occur in 2.9 to 3.4% of VADs13-15, a much higher incidence was seen in our patients. Nine percent of the VADs inserted at our hospital had to be removed prematurely because of device failure. This could be attributed to the fact that earlier we did not use anticoagulant therapy in our patients during the time the device was in place, a practice we have now changed. There are some reports that the use of continuous prophylactic anticoagulant therapy reduces the incidence of VAD failure16-18. However, most reports that we have used for comparison with our data, do not indicate whether anticoagulant therapy was given to patients or not at that time.
In conclusion, our results are largely comparable to the published data. However, there is a need to reduce the catheter related complications. Overall, the use of VADs is safe in developing countries.
1.Reed WP, Newman KA, Jongh CD,et al. Prolonged venous access for chemotherapy by means of the Hickman catheter. Cancer, 1993;52: 185-92.
2.Neiderhuber JE, Ensminger W, Gyves JW, et al. Totally implanted venous and arterial access system to replace external catheters in cancer treatment. Surgery. 1982; 92: 706-12.
3.Broviac JW, Cole JJ, Scribner BH. A silicon rubber atrial catheter for prolonged parenteral alimentation. Surg. Gynecol. Obstet., 1973;136: 602.6.
4.Ivey MF, Adam SM, Hickman RO, Gibson DL. Right atrial indwelling catheter for patients requiring long-term intravenous therapy. Am. J. Hosp. Pharm,, 1978; 35: 1525-7.
5.Lambert ME, Chadwick GA, McMahon A, Scarife H. Experience with the portacath. Haematol Oncol 1988; 6: 57-63.
6.Lim GCC, Lakhwani MN, Yahya NA, et at. Experience with the use of chemoports in the Institute of Radiotherapy and Oncology, Hospital Kuala Lumpur. Med. J. Malaysia., 1996;5l: 380-2.
7.Reilly JJ, Steed DL, Ritter PS. Indwelling venous access catheters in patients with acute leukemia. Cancer, l984;53: 219.23.
8.Sariego 3, Bootorabi B, Matsumoto T, Kerstein M. Major long-term complications in 1422 pennanent venous access devices. Am. J. Surg., 1993; 165: 249-51.
9.Lemmers NWM, Gels ME, Sleijfer DT, et at. Complications of venous access ports in 132 patients with disseminated testicular cancer treated with polychemotherapy. J. Clin. Oncol., 1996;14: 2916-22.
10.BCSH Guidelines on the insertion and management of central venous lines. Brit. 3. Haem., 1997; 98: 104 1-7.
11.Damascelli B, Gianluigi P, Frigeno LF, et at. Placement of long term central venous catheters in outpatients: Study of 134 patients over 24,596 catheter days. Am. J. Roentgenoi.,1997;168: 1235-9,
12.Beheshti MV, Protzer WR, Tomlinson TL, et al. Long term results of radiological placement of a central vein access device, Am. J. Roentgenol.,1998;170: 731-4.
13.Ray S, Stacey R, Imrie M, Filshie J. A review of 560 Hickman catheter insertions. Anaesthesia, 1996; 51: 981-5.
14.Schwartz RE, Groeger JS, Coit DG. Subcutaneously implanted central venous access devices in cancer patients. Cancer. 1997;79:1635-40.
15.Schuman E, Ragsdale J. Peripheral ports are a new option for central venous access. J. Am. CoIl. Surg.,1995;180:456-60.
16.Weber DR. Is heparin really necessary in the lock and, if so, how much? DICP., 1991;25: 399-407.
17.Pucheu A, Dierhas M, Leduc B, et al. Fibrinolysis of deep venous thrombosis on implantable perfusion devices. Apropos of a consecutive series of 57 cases of thrombosis and 32 cases of fibrinolysis. Bull. Cancer. 1996; 83: 293-9.
18.Denny DF Jr. Placement and management of long term central venous access catheters and ports. Am. J. Roentgenol.,1993;161:385-93.
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Erased (Boku dake ga Inai Machi), TV Anime Series: Wiki
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Erased, known in Japan as Boku dake ga Inai Machi, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kei Sanbe.
Titles- Erased
Genres- Mystery, Science fiction, Thriller
Aired- Jan 8, 2016 to Mar 25, 2016
Rating- R – 17+ (violence & profanity)
Satoru Fujinuma is beset by his fear to express himself. However, he has a supernatural ability to be able to prevent deaths and casualties by being sent back in time before an incident occurs, repeating time until it is prevented.
The detached, 29-year-old manga artist has taken advantage of this powerful yet mysterious phenomenon, which he calls "Revival," to save many lives.
However, when he is wrongfully accused of murdering someone close to him, Satoru is sent back to the past once again, but this time to 1988, 18 years in the past. Soon, he realizes that the murder may be connected to the abduction and killing of one of his classmates, the solitary and mysterious Kayo Hinazuki, that took place when he was a child. This is his chance to make things right.
Watch and download Erased (Boku dake ga Inai Machi), an Anime series on Netflix, and Crunchyroll. This Movie is available in English as well as in the original language Japanese. It has 1 season currently airing containing 12 episodes in total. Erased (Boku dake ga Inai Machi) Anime series is available in the original Language Japanese as well as in English Dubbed.
A truly amazing show that is well-written with a sharp plot and sharper characters. Really amazing.
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Introduction: The name desert rain frogs (Breviceps macrops) does conjure up a bit of an oxymoron and it is comes as no surprise that their conservation status is classed as vulnerable. Their restricted distribution and loss of habitat can be attributed to diamond mining. They have a stout body with short legs. Their call is a long drawn out whistle.
Distribution: Coastal Sperrgebiet National Park.
Colouring: Pale white or yellowish upperparts, with chocolate-brown strands, heavier around the neck. The underside is smooth.
Breeding: Little is known of their breeding habits, which are presumed to be similar to other rain frogs.


In blender, puree eggs, cilantro, pepper, 1 cup each of the milk and flour, 2 Tbsp of the oil, and 1/4 tsp of the salt. Lightly coat 10" nonstick skillet with cooking spray and heat over medium heat. Pour 1/3 cup batter into pan evenly and cook until edges set, 1 minute. Flip and cook 30 seconds. Repeat for remaining crepes. Cover to keep warm.
Heat remaining 1 Tbsp oil in skillet over medium heat. Add onion and cook until soft, 5 minutes. Add chickpeas, apple, raisins, and curry powder. Cook 3 minutes. Stir in remaining 2 Tbsp flour and cook 30 seconds. Stir in remaining 1 1/2 cups milk. Cook until thick, 2 minutes. Add spinach and remaining 1/2 tsp salt. Cook until wilted, 2 minutes. Divide among crepes, fold each in half, and serve with lemon wedges.


Dr. Cambre | Los Angeles Plastic Surgeon - Dr. Athleo L. Cambre M.D.
Do you want people to think you have lost a lot of weight? You might want to consider a neck lift. Oftentimes, people wont even notice that your neck muscles, fat or skin has been surgically altered if you have a neck lift, Father Time is not always responsible for that appearance you would like to undo. If you have lost a lot of weight your neck may be taking its time to catch up. For others it's a matter of genetics. Whatever the reason, people young and old undergo neck lift procedures all the time.
Beverly Hills Plastic Surgeon Dr. Athleo Cambre can also preform neck liposuction, which removes excess fat. In some cases, botox injections may be the answer to your problems if you have fullness or "bands".
Typically, a neck lift will last two to three hours. Of course, if you are having a neck lift in conjunction with liposuction, facelift, browlift, or other surgeries the time will carry according. Your exact procedure will depend on your desired results and your own personal circumstances. In order to undergo a neck lift you must be in good general health, both physically and mentally.
What do you dislike about your neck? Be honest with yourself. If you are putting a lot of time and effort info researching the surgery make sure you get the results you want. You should also write down your thoughts on what you would like to correct and have that time of your consultation.
If you have weakened or loose neck muscles this may cause the turky wattle or appearance of neck "bands".
To correct this your surgeon may recommend platysmaplasty surgery. Dr. Athleo L. Cambre, M.D. or the plastic surgery specialist your choice would make incisions under your chin and or behind your ears to access the platysmaplasty and manipulate it accordingly. Sometimes that may even mean removing some muscle. Your surgeon may also use permanent sutures to hold the tissue in place.
There are new less invasive procedures where your surgeon may be able to make smaller incisions and use an endoscope small camera attached to a thin tube complete your surgery. Make sure you ask your surgeon for all your options during your consultation.
You and your surgeon will discuss what type of anesthesia to use your level of comfort. If you want to remain asleep during the procedure, you should request general anesthesia with sedation. It is up to you to make that determination.
During liposuction, your surgeon will make a small incision below the chin and remove the excess fat. If you are undergoing multiple procedures during your neck lift, it if very common for plastic surgeons Beverly Hills to begin with liposuction. If this is the only procedure you'll need you should plan to spend up to an hour undergoing the operation.
You will be able to determine this with your doctor during your consultation. Your incisions will be stitched and bandaged It's very important to follow your doctors instructions on properly caring for the stitches and bandage in the days following surgery.
During your consultation, your plastic surgeon specialist Beverly Hills, will instruct you on what medication to avoid prior to your neck lift. Certain medications and vitamins thin your blood and can cause increased bleeding.
If you are a smoker, you will need to quit at least two weeks before the surgery and two weeks after. You cannot just plan to cut down, you must not smoke for this time period to ensure proper healing.
Also, this is not time for a diet: make sure that you eat properly because this will help your body heal.
Make sure you wear loose comfortable clothing on the day of surgery. You should especially plan to wear a button down blouse or shirt that does not have to be pulled over your neck or head.
You should plan to take a least one week off from work to recover. However, your doctor can determine this based on your personal situation.
After a neck lift, recovery takes time and its important that your patient with the process. Most people can return to work in 10-14 days.
If you participate in other sports or are physically active, you will have to wait at least three weeks, if not longer to resume those activities. Don't rush! It's not worth it. You've put a lot of time and energy into making this happen, so make it worthwhile.
Beverly Hills cosmetic surgeon Athleo L. Cambre, M.D., a Los Angeles plastic surgery expert and lead surgeon in California. Los Angeles plastic surgeon Dr. Athleo Cambre, specializes in procedure for aesthetic and reconstructive purposes. Specializing in breast augmentation with the use of breast implants at his Beverly Hills practice, as well as offering breast lifts to patients throughout Los Angeles, Plastic surgeons in Los Angeles such as Dr. Athleo Cambre specializes in liposuction Los Angeles, Tummy Tuck Beverly Hills plastic surgery. Other procedures preformed by Beverly Hills and Los Angeles plastic surgeon Dr. Athleo L. Cambre, include face lift Beverly hills, rhinoplasty, brow lift, chin implant Los Angeles.


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Q: Reducing the Tsunami impact using Nuclear bombs I am a novice on this topic. However, I wonder if we use nuclear bombs against the tsunami, will it reduce the speed and impact of the tsunami. Is it possible to break the massive wall of waves using nuclear bombs? In other words, is it possible to create another opposite force which can neutralise/reduce the energy carried by Tsunami by creating an induced wave.

A: Also, the nuclear bombs would create a lot of radioactive waste, and the tsunami would create a highly effective way to disperse that waste.  Even if it would reduce the wind speeds, we probably don't want radioactive byproducts spread all over the place.

A: It's not likely to effect the tsunami very much.
On the open ocean (where you would want to use the bombs), the wave height is not very much, so the air blast from the bombs would blow over the wave. The bombs would also create their own waves which would pass through the tsunami wave.
Near to shore, the tsunami wave would increase in height. The bombs would have a greater effect, but would destroy what you are trying to protect. (ooops)

A: Not likely. The wind can not transfer enough energy directly into building a wave big enough to cancel a tsunami.  The detention would need to be underwater and create a displacement which would build a large wave, however this would be almost impossible to control to the precision required to cancel in incoming wave whose energy is usually only determined once it hits shore.
In addition there has been a detailed study that show explosion generated waves could not build a structured tsunami wave.  The wave resulting from an explosion (both shallow and deep water) would be similar to storm surge and just cause flooding.
Naturally people have thought of this before and have even tried to make it a weapon.  Tsunami Bomb:

The tests revealed that a single explosion would not produce a
  tsunami, but concluded that a line of 2,000,000 kg (4,400,000 lb) of
  explosives about 8 km (5.0 mi) off the coast could create a
  destructive wave.

The odds are far more likely you would create many more problems with the explosions than actually reducing the tsunami wave.