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Ontario is weighing a ban on single-use plastics, which include bags, water bottles and straws.
Nearly a tonne of waste per person in Ontario is generated each year, and the rate at which that waste is diverted away from landfills — through recycling and composting, for example — has stalled around 30 per cent for the past 15 years.
The government recently released a discussion paper on reducing litter and waste, and is asking the public and stakeholders for input on how to best address the problem. One question it asks is if a ban on single-use plastics would be effective in reducing plastic waste.
Environment Minister Rod Phillips said it's an area in which the government is very open.
"We are essentially saying, 'How would those work and how have they worked in other jurisdictions effectively?"' Phillips said in an interview. "Plastics is a priority from our government's point of view, particularly as we talk about plastics in our waterways."
It is estimated that almost 10,000 tonnes of plastic debris enter the Great Lakes each year, the discussion paper says. Ontario's Blue Box recycling program recovers only about 28 per cent of all plastic packaging in the province.
Ontario is also mulling a deposit return system for plastic bottles and other containers, as is used in some other provinces.
Keith Brooks, programs director at Environmental Defence, said a lot of single-use plastics are unnecessary, pointing to straws and cutlery.
"I think that a ban on some single-use plastics makes a lot of sense," he said. "I think it's a good conversation to have."
But by asking such a broad question, the answer may be no, Brooks cautioned, saying he didn't think any jurisdiction has banned all single-use plastics.
"There's some single-use plastics that are probably going to continue to be used...for food safety reasons and things like that," he said, though he would push for them to be standardized and recyclable.
The Canadian Plastics Industry Association did not respond to requests for comment.
Many of the ideas in the discussion paper are similar or the same as what the previous Liberal government had proposed in its waste diversion plan, such as banning food waste from landfills and making producers responsible for waste instead of municipalities.
"We're looking to the experience of other jurisdictions, including British Columbia, but outside of just Canada, where the fact that producers of the waste need to be conscious of the fact that they're going to have accountability for it throughout its life," Phillips said.
"What we believe is that causes them to take a more responsible look at the nature of packaging."
Shifting the Blue Box recycling program to full producer responsibility is estimated to save municipalities over $125 million annually, the discussion paper says.
The province is also looking at harmonizing what is accepted in Blue Boxes, as different municipalities accept different materials. Ontario may also allow more items to be collected through Blue Box programs, including small and large appliances, power tools, rechargeable batteries, fluorescent bulbs and clothing.
Comments are being accepted until April 20.


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John J. Zelenski is an award-winning author who has appeared on television, radio, and has been featured in numerous print articles as well as receiving high-profile reviews from the popular community.
Having been inspired, in part, to write his first novel Walker's Vale, by his own paranormal experiences as a child, John has developed a keen understanding of the supernatural.
His second novel and prequel to Walker's Vale - The Journal of Ezekiel Walker - continues with the saga of Walker's Vale, with a future third installment presently in the works.
Walker's Vale, the film will be released through Allegentsia Productions with filming scheduled to begin sometime in 2015.
John, along with his wife and two children, love to watch the seasons change in beautiful Northeast Pennsylvania.
What makes you proud to be a writer from the United States? I think the most obvious answer would be the freedom and liberty to express myself in the form of the written word.
What, or who, inspired you to become a writer? My high school English teacher was the first person who believed that I had the ability to express myself with words. My debut novel, Walker's Vale was in part inspired by supernatural experiences I had as a child.
When did you begin writing with the intention of being published? I have written for my own pleasure since high school, but only began to get serious about writing within the last five years.
Did your environment or upbringing play a major role in your writing and why? Yes, being raised in a strict Christian upbringing I was influenced a lot by the church I grew up in. Generally speaking, writers usually write about what they know; so for me the obvious tendencies to reflect the people and events I saw will make their way to the pages in some form.
Do you come up with your title before or after you write the manuscript? The title came to me before the manuscript was written, mainly through trial and error in the sense of what I thought sounded creepy or mysterious.
Why do you write in the genre(s) that you've chosen? I have always been fascinated by the paranormal or supernatural, most likely for the reasons I mentioned earlier. To combine them with Christian ideals was something that not a lot of people were or are doing right now.
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A Glossary of Islamic Terms – Part 2
Due to the confusion concerning Islam that abounds today, I think understanding Islamic terms will be very helpful. A lot of apologists are saying these terms mean something different from the official Islamic understanding.
It is our hope that understanding these words will help you better understand Islam, and the problems we face in dealing with the issues involved. It is also our hope that this understanding will help you in your efforts to reach the Muslims God brings across your path for Christ. As you know, reaching Muslims for Christ is one of the major goals of our ministry here at Fortress of Faith.
Brief Definition
da-wuh
Proselytizing – Evangelism
This is the Islamic missions program. In both houses, they work to convert unbelievers, but in the House of War they don't have power to kill those who don't convert.
Dhimmi
de-me
2nd Class – Sub Classed people. Technically, the "protected one"
This is where Islam allows a non-Muslim to live in subjection to Islam as long as they pay a protection tax. It is not quite slavery, but it is just a step away.
EID al Ftir
eed-a-fit-ur
Feast – Celebrating the end of Ramadan.
These next two are the most important holidays for Muslims.
eed-a-aduh
Feast – Celebrating Abraham's faith to sacrifice his son Ishmael
In the Bible, Abraham sacrificed Isaac. In the Qur'an it was Ishmael who was sacrificed. In the Kaaba, in Mecca, there is a black rock that is supposed to be the rock where Abraham made the sacrifice.
fot-wah
A legal binding opinion from an Islamic scholar
This is a legal and binding ruling from an Islamic scholar. Some of them are death sentences on unbelievers.
Legal Jurisprudence in Shariah law
This term refers to one who is considered a legal scholar.
ha-deeth
Traditions of Mohammad. Things his companions witnessed the prophet say or do.
This is a record of what Muhammad did. When a Muslim has a question about the interpretation of the Qur'an, he looks to the Hadith to see how Muhammad practiced it.
Ha-fez
Guardian of the recitings (Qur'an)
Qur'an means the recitings, and the Hafiz is one who has memorized and guards the Qur'an. There was a debate in early Islam as to whether or not the Qur'an should be written down. It was not written down until some 20 years after Muhammad's death. Uthman commanded that it be written down because, in one battle, 40 of the Hafiz were killed and he feared that the Qur'an would be lost.
hawj
Pillar of Islam – Pilgrimage to Mecca
One of the 5 pillars of Islam is that once in a lifetime each Muslim must make a pilgrimage to Mecca. While there they circumambulate the Kaaba, spend an evening in the wilderness in meditation, pick up 21 stones and cast them at the Devil, etc.
ha-lowl
Permitted or Approved (food)
This is Islamically approved food. It is similar to the Jewish kosher food. The difference is that halal food has been sacrificed to Allah according to Islamic rules. This is becoming an issue in our jails, in grocery outlets like Costco, and it some schools.
hh-rom
This is the opposite of halal.
hh-jab
Head covering like a scarf but does not veil the face.
This is not to be confused with the berqa, it is the head covering. There are different types depending on what part of the world they come from.
e-mom
Mosque leader (preacher / teacher)
The imam is similar to the Christian pastor.
in-jeel
The four Gospels
The Injil of the Qur'an is a corrupted form of the Gospels. .
e-sa
The Muslim Jesus
This is a corruption of the biblical Jesus.
jee-hod
Struggle against evil the Kufar (Legal definition is War to establish Islam)
The greater jihad is the personal struggle against evil. It is greater because everyone deals with it.
The lesser jihad is limited in time and space. It is actual warfare to advance Islam. It is called lesser because it is smaller in scope, it is not global all the time. It is defined as waring against the non-Muslim.
Spirit. Could be a demon or an angel.
The Qur'an teaches that Muhammad received his revelations from a jinn. Muslims believe it was the angel Gabriel, but it could also mean an evil spirit. It is from this word that we get our word "genie."
Our goal in teaching these terms is not to educate you in Islam, it is help you understand what is being said when these words our used. Islam is an ideology that masquerades as a religion, and understanding these terms will help you understand what we are dealing with. Our goal at Fortress of Faith is to reach Muslims for Christ, and these terms should also help you in your evangelistic efforts with Muslims.
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Gender & Sexual Identity (28)
New Girl in School
This story follows a girl who befriends the first African American to attend High Point Central High School, as a result of desegregation. What begins as an unintended and awkward experience in the cafeteria, becomes a strong and admirable friendship.
Carol Passmore
Race & Ethnicity Class Bullying & Bias
What Is a Sanctuary City Anyway?
Naomi Tsu, an attorney at the Southern Poverty Law Center, answers questions about sanctuary cities.
Naomi Tsu
Immigration Bullying & Bias Rights & Activism
In the City of Brotherly Love
"The Irish and the English share a long legacy of conflict." And this conflict extended across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World as a wave of Catholic immigrants arrived in the United States in the 1820s.
Jim Carnes
Religion Class Immigration Bullying & Bias Rights & Activism
Una Vida de Esperanza
In this interview, Luis Rodriguez describes how the systemic demoralization he faced in school and society at a young age drove him to join a street gang and how writing his book, Always Running, was an attempt to call his son and other young people in similar situations to change their lives.
Luis Rodriguez and Sara Bullard
Race & Ethnicity Class Immigration Bullying & Bias
In his 1941 State of the Union Address, President Franklin D. Roosevelt outlined four fundamental human freedoms—the freedom of speech, of worship, from want, and from fear—for the United States and the rest of the world.
Religion Class Bullying & Bias Rights & Activism
President Obama's Address on the 50th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday
Obama's 2015 speech on the Edmund Pettus Bridge honors the anniversary of "Bloody Sunday," when hundreds of voting-rights activists were brutally attacked by state troopers as they began a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. President Obama reminds us of the spirit and struggle associated with the marchers in Selma, or any group of people meeting injustice.
Race & Ethnicity Bullying & Bias Rights & Activism
Peace Begins With You
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Notice, Class, How Angela Circles…
I was once chased around my parents' kitchen by a friend of my father's. But I'll come back to that.
One of my favorite things to do when I was a kid was to leaf through a 25-year collection of New Yorker cartoons. Even at the time (the mid 1960s) many of them referred to a world that was vanishing or had vanished: references that must have been side-splitting at the time they were published, but were totally opaque to ten-year-old me. I still remember some of the cartoonists fondly–Chas. Addams, of course, but also James Thurber, Helen Hokinson of the deep-bosomed, slightly clueless club women, and Syd Hoff. But there was a class of cartoons–by guys like Peter Arno and Whitney Darrow, Jr.– that might loosely be termed a critique of modern relations between the sexes. And while they weren't opaque, even to me as a kid they were troubling.
A staple of these cartoons was the young, buxom woman being variously leered at, groped at, chased, etc., by an older, usually wealthier man. In some of these the woman is clearly playing along in hopes of–what, a diamond bracelet? A fur coat? As Cole Porter had it in Kiss Me Kate, "Mr. Harris, plutocrat, wants to give my cheek a pat: if a Harris pat means a Paris hat, Okay!" But in others, the woman looks uncomfortable and apprehensive. In the cartoon to the right, the head of a monorail company has a one track mind, all tracking on cleavage. His secretary does not look amused.
As for the men in these cartoons, a few of them look hapless, as if they've stumbled into a situation where a woman is forcing them to ogle etc. "Honest, officer, I was just sitting here at my desk in my loud checked suit when my secretary perched on my desk to take dictation. What could I possibly do?" Others appeared to at least pretend to be looking at something other than the cleavage–pearls, in the image below–but that was the joke, right? Because everyone, even a ten-year-old girl, knew that he was really ogling the woman's breasts. But mostly these men look like they're predators.
As a eight-, nine-, or ten-year old, what was I to make of all this? The takeaway appeared to be that all (powerful, elderly, white) men were letches. That working for such men inevitably meant some sort of harassment. That the wives of these men (who were all portly and dripping in the signifiers of their husbands' success–furs and diamonds etc.) could do nothing but occasionally fume and nag. That the women being ogled etc. deserved it because they had breasts, because they wore provocative outfits and should have known what would happen, because they had jobs that took them out of their homes and into contact with the aforementioned predators. Some of the cartoons also suggested that there were young women who made the attraction of older, wealthier men into their jobs. All those portly, powerful, older white men were their marks (in which case it must be reasonable that the men would treat the women as prey, because the women were treating them as prey and…).
So there I am in my parents' kitchen. I was 16 and home from school with a really horrendous cold of the streaming variety–my recollection is that I was a walking river of snot in a plush bathrobe. As I've said before, I grew up in a barn, and the living room windows overlooked a valley and a river and fields… very picturesque. One of my dad's friends was painting a landscape of that view. I heard the downstairs door open, went out to the landing, saw it was–let's call him Fritz–said hi, excused myself on accounta sick, and went back to bed. An hour or so later I went downstairs to the kitchen to make myself some tea and, being a well-raised child, I asked Fritz if he wanted a cup. He said sure, and I put the kettle on.
I'm not clear exactly how the subject of wouldn't I like to have an affair came up–I was standing there in my blue plush bathrobe with a handful of tissues, blotting my nose and waiting for the kettle to boil. I answered in the negative (this was all rendered more surreal by the fact that I had a crush on Fritz's son) and may have made some comment about Fritz being my parents' friend, and it would be weird, shading toward wrong. I was still trying to be polite, and perhaps he took that as an invitation to explain why it would be fine, don't worry about it. Note: our stove was on an island in the middle of the kitchen floor. Gradually, Fritz moved around the island toward me, and I moved around and away. I felt rotten, and this was the last straw, but I did not want to be rude to my father's friend. And all the time the image in my head was the one to the left: "Notice, class…"
The kettle boiled. I poured the water, told him where to find milk and sugar, should he want them, and decamped to my room. I think I may have locked the door, but in the event, Fritz didn't push the issue, and while I saw him a number of times after that, his invitation was never mentioned between the two of us.
When older people excuse men for predatory workplace behavior (or predatory behavior generally) by saying "they came up in a different time," well, yes, they may have done. But even in that "different time," the cartoonists who were depicting these "funny" chases got the look of dismay on the faces of the women, the look of "I need this job but…" The look of being trapped. Even when I was eight- or nine- or ten-years-old I couldn't see how that was funny.
Being a Woman, Feminism, Life, Memory
I Want(ed) to Believe
A Civil Society
No, it is never funny, but I also believe that at times the pendulum swings too far in the other direction. I don't think men who make passes at women should effectively have their lives ruined. As a victim of abuse, I certainly understand the power scenario, but men who respond to a polite refusal by stopping their behavior do not deserve a life sentence. I hope I see the pendulum come to rest in the center before my life is over. Women and men will never figure out reasonable and workable norms of behavior as long as we see one another as enemies that each must overpower in the only ways available to them. I think both men and women are responsible for civil behavior, and I am a die hard feminist.
I don't disagree. But I grew up with a world where there was no comment about any of this; being chased around the desk was considered part of life (if you were attractive, anyway, by someone's definition of attractive). Right now the responsibility is so often thrown to the girl (look at high school dress codes, where the baseline assumption is that boys cannot be civil, so girls have to be civil for both of them!). If someone makes/made a pass at me and was good natured stopped at "No, thanks," I consider them part of the solution, not the problem.


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The first "Award to Active Cities Contest" for the Region of the Americas
Primer "Concurso de Ciudades Activas" en la Región de las Américas
Andrea B. NeimanI, 1; Enrique R. JacobyII
IUnited States of America, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, World Health Organization's Collaborating Center for Physical Activity and Health Promotion, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
IIPan American Health Organization, Food and Nutrition Unit, Washington, D.C., United States of America
Key words: awards and prizes, city planning, urban health, health promotion, environmental health, Latin America.
Una vida sana, en la que se practica alguna actividad física con regularidad, se ha convertido en foco de atención política y en asunto de políticas, y ha dejado de ser solamente cuestión de voluntad personal. En la Región de las Américas esto cobra especial importancia en ambientes urbanos, donde viven más de dos terceras partes de la población. Los funcionarios públicos de las ciudades del continente americano están ejerciendo creciente influencia en ámbitos que guardan estrecha relación con una vida activa, tales como el transporte, el diseño urbano, el recreo y el control de la delincuencia. Para reconocer los esfuerzos de las autoridades municipales por crear y mantener espacios públicos conducentes a actividades de recreo en condiciones de seguridad y a una vida activa, los Centros para el Control y la prevención de Enfermedades de los Estados Unidos de América y la Organización Panamericana de la Salud copatrocinaron el primer "Concurso de Ciudades Activas" para la Región de las Américas como parte de la celebración del Día Mundial de la Salud 2002, cuyo lema fue "Muévete, América!" En el concurso participaron solamente las ciudades con un máximo de 1 000 000 habitantes. Se recibieron más de 140 solicitudes, de las cuales 95% provinieron de América Latina. Además de haber suscitado el interés y la participación de los gobiernos del nivel local, el concurso les dio a personas de distintas disciplinas, organizaciones, sectores y puntos de vista una oportunidad muy singular de comprender el alcance de sus iniciativas concertadas para promover la actividad física y ambientes urbanos sanos. El concurso también les brindó a las autoridades la posibilidad de convertir sus experiencias individuales en un aprendizaje colectivo, ayudándolas de esa manera a reparar en el hecho de que llevar una vida activa es el camino más fácil, y a lograr que todos los habitantes de la Región de las Américas gocen de buena salud en un futuro.
Physical activity is no longer seen as merely a recreational pastime but is recognized as a basic pillar of our present and future health. More and more, however, a healthy lifestyle that includes regular physical activity has become an issue of politics and policy and not solely individual volition (1, 2).
City officials throughout the Region of the Americas have increasing influence over areas critical to active living such as transportation, urban design, recreation, and crime control. Indeed, access to public spaces for safe recreation, alternative modes of transportation, and community design are all crucial factors that are consistently associated with promoting a physically active lifestyle (3, 4). Sustainable, pedestrian-friendly planning has gone on for many years in such cities as Curitiba, Brazil; Bogotá, Colombia; and Quito, Ecuador. These cities demonstrate the positive effects of thoughtful community design, having transformed public spaces into safer, better places for walking, social encounters, recreation, and other activities of daily living (57).
HONORING EFFORTS IN THE AMERICAS TO CREATE PUBLIC SPACES FOR RECREATION AND ACTIVE LIVING
To recognize the efforts of municipal leaders in creating and maintaining public spaces for safe recreation and active living, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the United States of America and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) cosponsored the first "Award to Active Cities Contest," which was part of the World Health Day 2002 "Move for Health" celebration. The contest, limited to cities in the Region of the Americas with no more than 1 000 000 inhabitants, drew over 140 completed applications, 95% of which were from Latin America.
For the competition a 25-item application form was developed and disseminated in both English and Spanish to all the PAHO country offices, to ministries of health, and to other organizations concerned with physical activity. The application form was also available on the Internet. The information from the completed application forms was entered into a computer database software program, with all the variables coded and assigned a numeric value. Based on their point scores, the applications underwent a preliminary quantitative and qualitative review. The final winners were chosen by an expert selection committee.
The applicants were considered in two regional categories: (1) Latin America and the Caribbean and (2) Canada and the United States. The winners were recognized in a special ceremony held at the Health Promotion Forum in the Americas in Santiago, Chile, in October 2002. From the applicants from Latin America and the Caribbean, the first-place award went to Loja, Ecuador; second place went to Santiago de Surco, Peru; and third place to Balcarce, Argentina. Only seven entries were received from cities in Canada or the United States, so only one award in that category was granted; it went to Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. In addition, there were four honorable mention awards granted: Eugene, Oregon, United States; La Habana Vieja, Havana, Cuba; Lo Barnechea, Santiago, Chile; and Manizales, Caldas, Colombia.
The enthusiastic response to this initiative and the encouraging progress seen in many cities throughout Latin America also brought to light some of the difficult challenges municipal leaders face as their cities rapidly grow, develop, and industrialize (7). Some types of built environments force residents to rely on motorized transportation in place of common means of conveyance such as walking and cycling. This increases traffic congestion and air pollution while reducing open, public green space available for safe recreation and social interaction (8). Further, such trends may be contributing to the rising levels of sedentary living in the Americas (9). It is estimated that about two of every three adults living in an urban area in the Region of the Americas lead a sedentary lifestyle, meaning that they are simply not active enough to accrue health benefits (10). This is cause for concern because, as recent epidemiologic evidence unequivocally shows, independent of other risk factors such as tobacco, alcohol, and poor diet, physical inactivity is associated with noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as stroke, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and osteoporosis as well as their risk factors such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and obesity (11) These NCDs were once thought to be only "diseases of affluence," but they are now the leading causes of morbidity and mortality throughout the Region of the Americas, accounting for some 70% of all-cause mortality and 66% of the burden of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) and afflicting persons of all ages and backgrounds.2 In economic terms, it has been estimated that in the United States of America US$ 24 billion to US$ 75 billion, or 2% to 7% of the total health care costs, are attributable to physical inactivity alone (12, 13). Indeed, the experience in the United States suggests that similar economic burdens can be expected in the future in all the countries of the Americas.
The impact of the built environment on levels of physical activity is of growing importance, particularly in Latin America, as cities are home to more than two thirds of the population and concentrate great economic and political power. Indeed, the health and quality of cities will determine the future health and quality of life for most persons in the Region of the Americas (7).
Fortunately, activities such as cycling and walking, which can be a part of everyday life, offer a promising means of improving population levels of physical activity and health. That is because those everyday activities are relatively easy for the vast majority of the population to perform, they are low in cost, and they offer relatively little risk of injury (14). Additionally, an active lifestyle that emphasizes moderate-intensity activities, such as walking and cycling on most days of the week, is as effective in providing health benefits as more intense, traditional, structured activities such as aerobics and sports (15, 16). Increased use of nonmotorized transportation, such as cycling and walking, in combination with access to public transportation, has been shown to positively affect a number of issues that continue to challenge many burgeoning and established cities throughout the Region. These issues include traffic congestion, air pollution, sustainable land-use development, social capital, and marginalization of lower-income residents (17).
INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS THAT PROMOTE HEALTHY LIVING
The strong response to the Award to Active Cities Contest demonstrates that city officials throughout Latin America recognize the essential link between the environment—including issues of safety, access to public areas for recreation, traffic congestion, and air quality—and healthy, active living. Loja, Ecuador, for example, introduced an important recycling initiative called the "Integrated Solid Waste Management Program," in which community members played a key role in establishing the city's first sanitary landfill. The city conducted an educational campaign and distributed colored recycle waste bins to households throughout the city. Now, homes representing nearly 90% of the city's population sort their recyclable wastes.
To expand and preserve the many green areas in the city of Santiago de Surco, Peru, water purified from the Surco River runs through a highly efficient irrigation system called the Yacumóvil. This portable irrigation system has reduced by 50% the amount of water used previously with cisterns, thereby creating a sustainable system for the future maintenance and development of parks, gardens, and other pedestrian-friendly areas for recreation and other activities.
Balcarce, Argentina, has promoted active living with numerous cycling and walking trails that are easily accessible throughout the city. These efforts have also resulted in the preservation of open, green spaces and a decreased reliance on private cars and motorcycles.
These three winning cities were far from the exception among the Contest applicants in demonstrating innovative approaches to fostering safe, social environments in which people live, work and engage in recreation. For example, almost 75% of the applicants regularly close to motor vehicles specific areas of their cities one or two days a week so that those areas can be used for recreation. Over 90% of the cities reported having a plan to improve public spaces, including the creation and maintenance of parks, bike trails, and walking paths.
In summary, we found the first Award to Active Cities Contest to be a true success. In addition to spurring strong interest and participation from local governments the Contest provided persons from a variety of disciplines, organizations, sectors, and perspectives a unique opportunity to understand the impact of their synergistic efforts in promoting physical activity and a healthy urban environment. City officials in the Americas are clearly in a position to positively influence the health and quality of life of millions of people. It is essential, therefore, that these leaders be recognized for and supported in their efforts to protect and improve individual and communal well-being. The Contest has provided leaders with the opportunity to convert individual experience into collective learning, thus helping to make the choice to be physically active the easiest choice and helping ensure a healthier future for all persons in the Region of the Americas.
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6. Evans G, Bohrer J. Urban parks & green space in the design and planning of cities. In: Benson JF, Roe MH, eds. Urban lifestyles: spaces, places, people. Rotterdam: A.T. Balkema: 2000. Pp. 147 154.
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1 Send correspondence to: Andrea Neiman, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4077 Buford Highway, Mailstop K-46, Atlanta, Georgia 30347, United States of America; telephone: 770-488-6051; fax: 770-488-5743; e-mail: aneiman@cdc.gov
2 Pratt M, Jacoby ER, Neiman AB. The challenges of promoting physical activity in the Americas. Working Paper to the WHO/PAHO Regional Consultation of Diet, Physical Activity and Health. San José, Costa Rica, April 2003.


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Originally from Malaysian Borneo, Yau-Man Chan attended All Saints Secondary School in Kota Kinabalu. He moved to the U.S. where he received a Bachelor of Science degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He went on to receive his Master of Science degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Yau-Man Chan is the Chief Technology Officer for the College of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. In this position, he manages and runs the information systems infrastructure for administrative, research and teaching units of the college. This includes setting up networks, computers and managing business database systems. He previously worked designing electronic circuits for scientific instruments to collect data. He's also been a housepainter, cook and dishwasher.
Chan enjoys playing table tennis, bicycling, woodworking and reading. He is a member of the USA Table Tennis Association. He describes himself as intellectual and contemplative. He considers himself a natural leader, a good organizer, very skilled with his hands, very resourceful and feels he possesses a keen intellect.
Chan currently resides in Martinez, California with his wife of 24 years, Jennifer. They have two children, Penelope and Ione. They also have a dog, Tucker, and two rabbits, Ruby and Cupid. His birth date is August 26, 1952.
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Announcing their first show of 2014 to mark 50 years since they first met, the legendary Chas and Dave will be celebrating in style at the prestigious Royal Albert Hall in London on April 25th. They are also releasing a brand new album on October 28th entitled 'That's What Happens' – their first new studio album in 27 years.
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Human trafficking and the U.S. Church
By Katey HearthNovember 26, 2015
Legalized or tolerated prostitution is a magnet for sex trafficking.
(Photo, caption credit: Kay Chernush for the U.S. State Department)
USA (MNN) — Colombian police busted three major human trafficking rings this week, two of which were sending women to China.
Yesterday, Indonesian police arrested two men involved in local prostitution who also had international ties. Human trafficking isn't just an overseas problem, though.
Amy Richey of EFCA ReachGlobal says it's a challenge for the U.S. to grapple with, too.
"There's no quick 'Band-Aid'; there is no way to just walk in and say, 'Here's the 5-step program to end human trafficking,'" she states.
"However, we need to break it down so we can understand and grapple with it. It's like planning for a big Thanksgiving dinner – if you don't buy the turkey, you can never have the meal."
The face of human trafficking
Exact statistics are difficult to pin down. However, the National Human Trafficking Resource Center reports over 24,000 alerts of suspicious cases were submitted to them last year. In addition, the NHTRC received a 26-percent increase in calls directly from survivors of modern-day slavery.
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Those survivors might not be who you have in mind.
"There are some typical groups [of people who are vulnerable to human trafficking]," Richey explains. "Disenfranchised youth, teenage runaways, immigrants, battered and bruised women, exploited children; the list goes on."
Typically, these people groups become vulnerable to human trafficking when life gets "messy."
Broken and abusive families fill the foster care system. Shattered foster children fill local and county jails. Abused and/or desperate women sell themselves on street corners.
Challenges like these aren't easy to overcome, and usually require Christ-followers to journey with individuals through hardship. As in the Good Samaritan parable, it requires risk, as well as the willingness to move outside cultural and personal "comfort zones."
But, Richey observes, "If we can find points of intervention, and get involved in the messiness of people's lives, we can help prevent this atrocity from ever happening."
How the Church can stop human trafficking
As Richey explains here, prevention is the easiest way to end human trafficking. Stopping the cycle before it starts is more effective long-term than rescue efforts.
Once entangled in the underworld of sex trafficking, it's very difficult for victims to break free.
When explaining the complexity of human trafficking to individuals and church groups, Richey uses the visual aid pictured here. (MNN photo)
The cost – Sex slaves are an extremely valuable source of income for traffickers and pimps. According to the International Labor Organization, each victim brings their pimp approximately $21,800 USD per year.
The logistics – Traffickers and pimps keep a tight leash on the women and girls they control, and employ a wide range of tactics. Even when victims want to escape, they're literally unable to break free.
The motivation – Sex slavery doesn't just damage women and girls physically; it wreaks havoc on their minds, emotion and will. In the same way an animal is "broken" to stay within set physical boundaries, people are conditioned to stay within certain parameters.
When explaining this concept to individuals and church groups, Richey uses the visual aid pictured above.
"It helps people understand the context and the complexity of the issue," she explains, identifying different-colored strings that represent the people ensnared by human trafficking and factors that keep them there.
The complexity and enormity of human trafficking can make it seem like a hurdle that's impossible to overcome. However, there are a few places you and your church can start that often get overlooked.
According to the latest data, the U.S. foster care program is "home" to nearly 400,000 children.
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A third of the children who are eligible for adoption will wait more than three years for a "forever family."
"Oftentimes, they end up as runaways or in the juvenile justice system," Richey says. The Polaris Project reports one of six runaways in 2014 were likely child sex trafficking victims.
Buddy-up with foster kids, Richey suggests, or become a mentor. If there are foster parents in your church, form support groups to help them navigate the rough waters of fostering. Help them be a Christ-like example for the kids in their care.
The pornography industry amasses an estimated $13 million annually, and every 39 minutes a new porn film is created in the United States.
"It's naïve of us to think this is not impacting our churches, and we need to have open and honest conversations. We need to hold people accountable, and we need to make sure that church youth groups are talking about difficult topics like pornography."
Human trafficking isn't limited to sexual exploitation. The definition of human trafficking also includes forced labor. As families consume everyday products and services, Richey explains, they need to be aware of the business practices behind it.
With the gift-giving season fast approaching, take time to research the practices of companies on your family's "wish list."
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"Chocolate is an industry that's just notorious for using children in different parts of the world, and then not even paying the children that are working [for them]," says Richey.
It's a cultural shift that will take years to unfold, she adds, but it's still one that desperately needs to be started. Learn more about EFCA ReachGlobal's efforts to end human trafficking here.
Loving the "least of these" is part of being a Christ-follower. "Jesus told us to live our life in a way that other people would see His Light, and that we would be the flavor, we would be the salt, to our world."
Please pray the U.S. Church becomes more aware of, and involved in, the issues on its doorstep.
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Hi everyone! I'm a 19 year old freshman in college living in Nebraska. I've learned so much about the environment, recycling, and waste management in a couple of my classes, which has motivated me to do my own research. I've done a lot of research about the zero waste lifestyle and I'm ready to begin the shift towards zero waste. As a college kid, I'm finding it very frustrating. I don't always have enough money to buy ingredients to make my own products, such as toothpaste. Also, I don't have a kitchen to prepare concoctions or make snacks to avoid packaging. I'm also on the go a lot so I find myself eating snacks from packaging and buying food from Subway or Jimmy Johns.
In short, I'm getting frustrated because I have all the motivation to start now, but my budget and living situation are saying differently. Anyone got some encouraging words to share?
My advice would be lift where you stand. If your budget is a major factor, than make more free or cheap changes first. Refuse is the first step and major difference between the zero-waste waste lifestyle and other eco-friendly changes, so start there.
If you're more adventurous, try trash picking for household items or even food.
After those kinds of changes, then you can make your own makeup or tooth powder, etc. in an upcycled container with cheap ingredients like baking soda, vinegar, (for cleaning and tooth powder) cocoa powder, cinnamon, arrowroot powder, etc. Eco-friendly doesn't have to mean spend a fortune.
Best of luck and enjoy the bounty of the community around you!
Congratulations for thinking about this!
Instead of packaged "snacks" buy apples, whatever fruit you can get at a store, or grab some at your college's cafeteria. Also, obviously eating at your campus' cafeteria is cheaper, more zero waste. I used to stash a bag of apples, tangerines in my dorm room -worked great.
If you *have* to go to a prepared food place, use your own container, refuse what's unnecessary. Read about what's actually in that food, too; It'll ruin your appetite.
Also, I'd be surprised if there wasn't the option to recycle compostables, paper, etc. on campus. If there is no recycling it's a worthy issue to pursue (in your "spare time").
Use a canteen/thermos instead of bottled water.
Carry a scarf or napkin for multiple uses: for carrying (fruits, prepped food), wiping your [clean] hands in the lavatory, as well as more traditional uses.
You don't need a kitchen to make tooth powder. Also, you can buy -through Etsy, etc- bar shampoos, ZW lotions, lip balm, etc. Cardboard is more eco friendly than plastic so go for laundry soap, whatever, packaged in paper rather than plastic. You can always transfer manageable amounts to a smaller durable container….
Bet you're doing some of these already because ZW makes economical sense as well as environmental sense.
I am a college student preparing to transfer to a large university this fall. I literally just learned about zero waste a few weeks ago and my lifestyle has already changed drastically. I feel the same frustration over affording some food items. At the new university my diet will be restricted by price, but I know I can at least favor foods in less/recyclable packaging. Read through the blog posts and use the advice there. Don't be too disheartened if some of your experiments fail. Recently I just discovered that my homemade tooth powder is too irritating to my gums and teeth so I have to experiment with adding more coconut oil. Also, haunt the thrift stores. I found an old cotton sheet at goodwill that I am turning into a set of cloth napkins. Remember that every bit of waste reduction counts. Try not to stress too much and good luck! I'm sure we both can implement zero waste changes for the rest of our lives.
How did April turn out? When I first discovered Bea Johnson's book I made a list of what I wanted to do by area (toiletries, cooking, shopping, homecare, etc.) and as I made durable replacements or entirely dropped something's I crossed them off my list. Where I implemented new things I added those then monitored to see how they worked. None of my tracking cost money and likely saved some. It also helped me focus my progress on what I wanted to do. Check back here with your wins and fails! This forum can be a helpful resource.
One thing we have where I live is TrashNothing.com. Look for similar where you live aka freecycle. Get free things before they go to reuse center or goodwill. For Free. Ours has option to post description of what you are looking for, too.
As for the lack of kitchen, here's an idea that might help... First, make friends with someone (with a kitchen) who wants to meal prep, locate containers, buy supplies and cook together in their kitchen. YouTube has many videos walking you through process. You will need a dorm room fridge for most, though.
Don't be discouraged keep on keeping on . You are making an effort and that is more than most.
* Buy GMO produce and don't support organic farming or organic products like clothes, organic is a marketing gimmick and nothing more.
* Don't drive a car or drive as little as possible.
* Stop eating animal products.
* Work towards socialist revolution and against capitalism and imperialism whenever you can.
Those four things alone will have a larger impact than anything else you do so don't get caught up in the minutiae of anything else.


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Hospira slowly ramps up production
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Hospira is slowly ramping up production at the manufacturing plants it has been upgrading to get critical drugs back to the market, CEO Michael Ball told analysts Wednesday. It, however, will not hesitate to cut that off if there is any sign that higher production is putting its extensive remediation efforts in jeopardy.
Hospira ($HSP) has undertaken improvements throughout its manufacturing system after the FDA last year found extensive problems, steps that have led to shortages of a number of commonly prescribed generic sterile injectable drugs. Ball said the work is taking longer and costing more than he has twice projected and will now top out at more than $375 million.
The company anticipates an FDA inspection in the first or second quarter of 2013 at its Rocky Mount, NC, plant, which could provide it with a clean bill of health and the confidence to crank up production to preremediation levels. He called that inspection a "seminal event" but acknowledged that production levels are in its own hands. "We can ramp the plant up as we believe we should and are able to, but that FDA inspection will be critical in terms of telling us the path forward," Ball said.
The executive ticked through the list of other plants, updating analysts on improvements at each, according to a transcript of the call on Seeking Alpha. While more costly than expected, Ball said having top-notch facilities will give Hospira a competitive advantage. Among the improvements are upgrades to its IT systems, from computer systems "to manage batch documentation release, to systems that track the training and qualifications of our employees." He said those upgrades should make Hospira's manufacturing more "robust" and result in "better first-pass quality, more stable production and eventually, lower waste and overall cost."
The call came after the company released its earnings, which showed it had swung to a small profit for the quarter, $1.2 million, or 1 cent a share, compared with the $88.9 million loss a year earlier. Revenue was up 1.8% to $994 million.
Ball also talked about growth, pointing out that the $200 million acquisition of the Orchid Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals API plant in India will allow Hospira to vertically integrate APIs into certain beta-lactam antibiotics and improve costs. "With all of the remediation activity, it's easy to lose sight of our powerful fundamentals and exciting prospects," Ball said. "Let me remind you, we currently supply more than 200 generic injectable drugs to the market. We have 1/3 of the market share in the U.S., giving us the leading market share position."
- here's the earnings report
- Seeking Alpha earnings call transcript


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Q: Padé approximation to a nonlinear first order complex ode I wish to approximate the following ode with Padé:
$$\dot \rho  +i\frac{{\hat \sigma }}{2}\rho  + i\alpha \rho \left[ { - {\gamma ^2} + \frac{{{\gamma ^3}}}{{\sqrt {{\gamma ^2} + 1} }}} \right] + i\frac{{\hat P}}{4}{\rho ^*} = 0$$
where $$\rho(t)$$ is a complex function of time and $$[~\gamma=\frac{1}{{\sqrt \beta  \left| \rho  \right|}}$$
$$\beta,$$$$\alpha,$$$$\hat \sigma,$$$$\hat P~]$$ are constants.
I developed Taylor's series about zero but I get a very inconvenient expression.
How one can transform the ode into a convenient from before expanding to Taylor's?


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London's Heathrow Airport (LHR) is the major International airport for London, England. If you are arriving late or don't want the hassle of getting to Heathrow for an early-morning flight, consider staying at a cheap hotel nearby. Because of the amount of International traffic in and out of Heathrow, arrive at the airport with plenty of time to navigate the airport's extensive security screenings. Relax and avoid worrying about missing your flight by staying at a cheap hotel at Heathrow.
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Located inside Terminal Four at Heathrow Airport, the Yotel Heathrow offers a unique sleep experience. Instead of booking by the night, reserve a room in four-hour time periods. A perfect choice if you need to take a shower and a nap to freshen up before a day of sightseeing or to crash late before an early-morning flight. The hotel has a modern aura of a spaceship with capsule-shaped bunk beds, automated check-in terminals and funky purple lighting. Rooms are small but sleek, with minimal, modern furnishings, well-lit bathrooms, rain-fall showers, flat-screen TVs, satellite TV service, free Wi-Fi, and comfy white duvets and bedding. Twenty-four-hour room service also is available. The Yotel is the winner of the "Business Accommodation of the Year 2009" by "Business Travel Magazine." A valid boarding pass is required to stay at the Yotel since it is inside Heathrow Airport.
Located 2 miles from Heathrow airport, the Comfort Hotel Heathrow has 184 basic rooms, some with air-conditioning. If you are planning a day trip to London and need a secure room to store bags and freshen up, request a "day-let room." For environmentalists, the Comfort Hotel Heathrow received a bronze "Green Tourism for London" award for its commitment to recycling and reducing waste. To reach the airport, take the airport shuttle for a small fee.
Summers, Veronica. "Cheap Airport Hotels in London." Travel Tips - USA Today, https://traveltips.usatoday.com/cheap-airport-hotels-london-27534.html. Accessed 25 April 2019.


Not all romances start the same. Which I think adds to the spice of life! In the beginning Lorna and Dave didn't get on. They didn't really even like each other all too much. But, over time the more they worked together and on the return of Lorna going away travelling, something had changed. They started to get on. And like each other. A lot.
Which leads to the present day, where next month they will say I do!!
I met Dave and Lorna for their engagement session in the Northern Quarter in Manchester, their part of the world. I love going new places. I've been to Manchester a few times, but when some when takes you on a mini tour – it makes it so much better. As we walked around the city, I got to know them more and got to see more of them. From the way they make a city engagement session look so effortless, you would never know that there was any nerves. Lorna & Dave – thankyou! Thank you for taking me on a personal tour of your fab city! I can't wait to show you more of mine next month!
Happy Monday everyone, here are just a few of my favourites.
Lorna, Seriously?! You are gorgeous.


Hurricane Sandy blasted across the East Coast on Monday night, leaving devastation, flooding, and 33 people dead in its path. More than seven million people in the nation's eastern section are without power.
The storm socked the world's media capital—not to mention its PR epicenter—so most news outlets (particularly those east of the Mississippi) are focusing the bulk of their coverage on the storm, which means you should mostly avoid pitching the media this week (some exceptions to that rule here).
Twitter mentions of Sandy topped 4 million one day. Citing data from monitoring firm Radian6,USA Today reports that more than four million mentions about the hurricane appeared on Twitter in the last day. "Hurricane Sandy" was the top phrase on Facebook in the U.S., followed by several other storm-related words. Instagram was equally alight with images from the hurricane. Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom told USA Today that there are 10 pictures per second appearing on the photo-sharing site with the hashtag "Sandy." The Wall Street Journal highlighted several of the pictures, one of which was retweeted more than 5,000 times. Storify has been another busy place online for people and media outlets to tell stories via social media about the storm. Conversations about the storm will likely continue to dominate social media today and throughout the week.
Sandy took down some of the most heavily trafficked news websites. BuzzFeed, Gawker, The Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and Bloomberg News fell silent over night, as the storm knocked out power to the sites' data centers. (The Atlantic's newly launched business site Quartz has more on why the data centers went down, as does Poynter.) Most of the sites were available on the West Coast, and every site except for Gawker (as of 10:30 a.m. ET) had restored power to some extent. During the down time, the sites turned to social media—namely Twitter and Tumblr—to deliver updates on the storm as well as their own outages.
Employees of PR and ad firms are staying home today. PR agencies large and small along the Eastern Seaboard—from Washington, D.C., through New York and New Jersey, up to Boston—are telling their employees to stay safe and work remotely. Ad firms are doing the same, according toAdvertising Age.
Kudos to whomever wrote that statement, which minces no words.
American Apparel slammed for email promo referencing hurricane. The edgy retailer launched a 36-hour online sale for shoppers effected by Sandy, promoting it through an email blast that began: "In case you're bored during the storm …" The promo drew almost universal derision on Twitter—Mashable collected many of the negative tweets—but the company has yet to weigh in. It seems likely that American Apparel meant to be overly provocative. You needn't be. Careful what you tweet or blog in the wake of the storm.


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John Colson, né en 1680 et mort le  à Cambridge, était détenteur de la chaire lucasienne en mathématiques de l'université de Cambridge. John Colson est devenu membre de la Royal Society le .

Il a traduit en anglais :
 le De Methodis Serierum et Fluxionum d'Isaac Newton
 le Instituzioni analitiche ad uso della gioventu italiana de Maria Gaetana Agnesi

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Chaire de professeur lucasien de mathématiques de l'université de Cambridge

Liens externes
  John Colson sur le site de la Chaire lucasienne

Mathématicien anglais du XVIIIe siècle
Traducteur anglais du XVIIe siècle
Traducteur anglais du XVIIIe siècle
Écrivain anglais de langue latine
Traducteur depuis le latin vers l'anglais
Étudiant de Christ Church (Oxford)
Professeur à l'université de Cambridge
Professeur lucasien de mathématiques
Membre de la Royal Society
Naissance en 1680
Décès en janvier 1760
Décès à Cambridge

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Гео́ид (от  — Земля и  — вид, ) — эквипотенциальная поверхность земного поля тяжести (уровенная поверхность), приблизительно совпадающая со средним уровнем вод Мирового океана в невозмущённом состоянии и условно продолженная под материками. Отличие реального среднего уровня моря от геоида может достигать 1 м из-за различия температуры и солености, атмосферного давления и т. п. По определению эквипотенциальной поверхности, поверхность геоида везде перпендикулярна отвесной линии. Иными словами, геоид — это форма, которую поверхность океана могла бы принять под действием силы тяжести и вращения Земли, если бы отсутствовали другие воздействия, такие как ветры и приливы. Точная конфигурация геоида может быть установлена только путём расчётов, основанных на измерениях гравитационного поля Земли. Такие расчёты с высокой точностью были проведены только после возникновения космической геодезии в конце XX века.

Некоторые авторы обозначают вышеописанную поверхность не как «геоид», а термином «основная уровенная поверхность», в то время как сам «геоид» определяется как 3-мерное тело, ограниченное этой поверхностью.

История
Впервые фигуру геоида описал немецкий математик К. Ф. Гаусс, который определял её как «математическую фигуру Земли» — гладкую, но неправильную поверхность (), форма которой обусловлена неравномерным распределением масс внутри и на поверхности Земли.

Термин «геоид» был введён в геодезию 1873 году учеником Гаусса, немецким математиком и физиком Иоганном Бенедиктом Листингом для обозначения геометрической фигуры, более точно, чем эллипсоид вращения, отражающей уникальную форму планеты Земля.

Определение термина «геоид» в последующем неоднократно уточнялось. В настоящее время в РФ определение термина «геоид» регламентировано ГОСТ 22268-76, в котором оно сформулировано следующим образом: «фигура Земли, образованная уровенной поверхностью, совпадающей с поверхностью Мирового океана в состоянии полного покоя и равновесия и продолженной под материками».

Описание и применение
Геоид является поверхностью, относительно которой ведётся отсчёт высот над уровнем моря, в силу чего точное знание параметров геоида необходимо, в частности, в навигации — для определения высоты над уровнем моря на основе геодезической (эллипсоидальной) высоты, измеряемой GPS-приёмниками, а также в физической океанологии — для определения высот морской поверхности.

Поверхность геоида является , в отличие от эталонного эллипсоида (который является математическим идеализированным представлением формы Земли), но значительно более гладкая, чем реальная физическая поверхность Земли. Хотя реальная земная поверхность имеет отклонения высот от уровня моря от +8,848 м (гора Эверест) до −11,034 м (Марианская впадина), отклонение геоида от эллипсоида колеблется от +85 м (Исландия) до −106 м (южная Индия), в общей сложности менее 200 м.

Если бы Мировой океан имел постоянную плотность, не подвергался воздействию приливов, течений и других погодных условий, его поверхность была бы близка к геоиду. Постоянное отклонение между геоидом и уровнем моря называется высотой морской поверхности. Если бы толщи континентов были пересечены рядом туннелей или каналов, уровень моря в этих каналах также почти совпадал бы с геоидом. В действительности, геоид не имеет реального физического носителя под континентами, но геодезисты могут вывести высоты точек континента над этой воображаемой поверхностью, путём нивелирования.

Будучи эквипотенциальной поверхностью, геоид, по определению, является поверхностью, к каждой точке которой сила тяжести направлена перпендикулярно. Это означает, что при путешествии на корабле человек не замечает волнистости геоида; отвес (вертикальная линия) всегда перпендикулярен геоиду. Аналогично, уровень моря всегда будет параллелен геоиду.

Волнистость геоида
Волнистость геоида — характеристика, показывающая разность высот геоида и референц-эллипсоида. Волнистость не стандартизирована, так как разные страны используют в качестве эталона разные величины уровня моря — например, в России исходными считаются Кронштадтский футшток и Балтийская система высот. а в США текущий датум — NAVD88. Часто волнистость описывают применительно к геоиду модели .

Связь с системой GPS
На картах и в обычной практике высота над уровнем моря (например, ортометрическая высота) используется для указания высоты возвышенностей, в то время как высота в модели референц-эллипсоида определяется с помощью спутниковой навигационной системы GPS.

Разность  между геодезической (эллипсоидальной) высотой  и ортометрической высотой  можно рассчитать с помощью формулы
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Аналогично, разность  между эллипсоидальной высотой  и нормальной высотой  можно рассчитать с помощью формулы
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Современные GPS-приёмники имеют устройства геолокации, привязывающие их текущее местоположение к координатам эллипсоида WGS. Это позволяет перевести значение высоты над эллипсоидом WGS, например, в значение высоты над геоидом модели EGM96.

Аппроксимация с помощью сферических функций

Для аппроксимации формы геоида часто используются сферические функции. В настоящее время наилучшей подобной аппроксимацией является модель EGM96 (Earth Gravity Model 1996), разработанная в международном научном проекте под руководством Национального агентства геопространственной разведки (NGA) США. Математическое описание невращающейся части потенциальной функции в этой модели:

где  и  являются геоцентрическими (сферическими) широтой и долготой соответственно,  являются полностью нормализованными  степени  и порядка , и  и  являются числовыми коэффициентами модели, основанными на измеренных данных. Приведённое выше уравнение описывает гравитационный потенциал Земли , а не сам геоид в месте с координатами ; координата  — геоцентрический радиус, то есть расстояние от центра Земли. Градиент этого потенциала также даёт модель ускорения силы тяжести. Модель EGM96 содержит полный набор коэффициентов для степеней порядка 360 (то есть ), описывающих в геоиде детали размером до 55 км (или 110 км, в зависимости от выбранного разрешения). Количество коэффициентов  and  можно определить, сначала наблюдая в уравнении для V, что для конкретного значения n существует два коэффициента для каждого значения m, кроме m = 0. Существует единственный коэффициент при m = 0, так как . Таким образом, существует (2n + 1) коэффициентов для каждого значения n. Исходя из этого, по формуле  получаем, что общее число коэффициентов определяется при значении в модели EGM96 ,

 .

Во многих случаях использование полного набора коэффициентов представляется неоправданно сложным, поэтому геоид рассчитывается с использованием лишь нескольких десятков коэффициентов.

В настоящее время в стадии разработки находятся модели с ещё более высоким разрешением. Например, многие из разработчиков модели EGM96 работают над обновленной моделью, которая должна включать спутниковые измерения гравитационного потенциала (в частности, в рамах проекта GRACE) и поддерживать значение  (что означает более 4 миллионов коэффициентов).

NGA объявило о размещении для публичного доступа модели EGM2008, завершённой до степени n=2159, и содержащей дополнительные коэффициенты, распространяющиеся до степени 2190 и m=2159.

Квазигеоид

Фигура геоида зависит от распределения масс и плотностей в теле Земли. Поскольку она не имеет точного математического выражения и является практически неопределяемой модельно, в геодезических измерениях в России и некоторых других странах вместо геоида используется одна из его аппроксимаций — квазигеоид. Квазигеоид, в отличие от геоида, однозначно определяется по результатам измерений, совпадает с геоидом на территории Мирового океана и очень близок к геоиду на суше, отклоняясь лишь на несколько сантиметров на равнинной местности и не более чем на 2 метра в высоких горах.

Аномалии

Гравитационные аномалии, вызванные аномальным распределением плотности земного шара, приводят к изменениям высоты поверхности геоида. Таким образом, измерения геоида помогают понять внутреннюю структуру нашей планеты. Расчёты показывают, что геоидальная сигнатура утолщённой земной коры (например, в тектогенезе, вызванном столкновением материков) является положительной, в противоположность тому, что следует ожидать, если утолщение затрагивает всю литосферу.

Временные флуктуации
Ряд исследовательских проектов с использованием спутников, такие как GOCE и GRACE, позволили изучить временны́е флуктуации сигналов геоида. Первые продукты, основанные на спутниковых данных проекта GOCE, стали доступны онлайн в июне 2010 года с использованием сервисов для пользователей ЕКА. ЕКА запустило спутник в марте 2009 года с целью создать карту гравитационного потенциала Земли с не имевшей аналогов точностью и пространственным разрешением. 31 марта 2011 года новая модель геоида была представлена на Четвёртом международном семинаре для пользователей GOCE в Мюнхенском техническом университете. Исследования с использованием изменяющегося во времени геоида, рассчитанные по данным GRACE, позволили получить информацию о глобальных гидрологических циклах, балансах массы ледниковых щитов и гляциоизостазии. Данные экспериментов GRACE также могут использоваться для определения вязкости мантии Земли.

Другие небесные тела
Понятие геоида было распространено на другие планеты Солнечной системы, их спутники, а также астероиды. Так, аналогичная эквипотенциальная поверхность Луны называется селеноидом.

Геоид Марса был измерен с использованием автоматических межпланетных станций, в частности, Маринер-9 и «Викинг». Основные отклонения от идеального эллипсоида находятся в районе вулканического плато Тарсис, известного огромными размерами, и его антиподов.

См. также
 Датум
 Фигура Земли
 Земной эллипсоид
 Уровенная поверхность
 Квазигеоид

Примечания

Литература

Ссылки
 В. Л. Пантелеев. «Теория фигуры Земли» (курс лекций)
  3D-визуализация геоида
 Main NGA (was NIMA) page on Earth gravity models
 International Geoid Service (IGeS)
 EGM96 NASA GSFC Earth gravity model
 Earth Gravitational Model 2008 (EGM2008, Released in July 2008)
 NOAA Geoid webpage
 International Centre for Global Earth Models (ICGEM)
 GeographicLib provides a utility GeoidEval (with source code) to evaluate the geoid height for the EGM84, EGM96, and EGM2008 earth gravity models. Here is an online version of GeoidEval.
 Kiamehr's Geoid Home Page
 A free windows calculator which yields, among other calculation, the height difference between EGM96 geoid and mean sea level at every point on earth
 Geoid tutorial from Li and Gotze (964KB pdf file)
 Geoid tutorial at GRACE website
 Precise Geoid Determination Based on the Least-Squares Modification of Stokes' Formula(PhD Thesis PDF)
 View EGM2008, EGM96 and EGM84 on Google Maps

Форма Земли
Геометрические тела
Геодезия


Sometimes we make interesting outfit choices, do we not? In the case of what you see here, I'd say I made quite a unique one.
That is my prized Minnie Mouse bathing suit, which I've actually talked about previously here. Coincidentally, I wore it in another -- um -- interesting combination. But this time, I teamed it with a lavender Fair Isle sweater. Why? I'm not sure. My best guess is that it was fall but I wasn't done wearing my swimsuits yet, so I decided it was best to pair these two items lest I have to put my bathing suit away for the year.
Say what you will, but I've definitely always marched to the beat of my own fashion drum. Did you make any questionable outfit choices growing up? Let me know in the comments!
You were just the cutest kid, ever!
lol too cute! Love your throwback posts!
How utterly cute! My childhood questionable fashion choices involved a lot of frills and flounces. Think meringue meets Little Bo Peep.
I was a child of the Seventies. What do you think? lol I lived in my bathing suit when I was a kid. I'd even sleep in the thing. My mother would have to peel it off of me to get it in the wash and the moment it came out, it went right back on, again. What was the matter with me?
Awww cute!! I think all of us made a strange outfit choice or two as kids that we thought was so perfect that we laugh at now.


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SBI Chairman Dinesh Khara takes charge with employee safety on priority
Dinesh Khara, who took charge as a Chairman of SBI today, shared his priorities in the first media conference. He said that various options are available for SBI Yono to monetise and SBI is evaluating the New Umbrella Entity (NUE) guidelines. He affirmed that his top priority will be the safety of the people. Here are a few highlights from the press conference:
Updated: October 08, 2020, 13:07 IST
Dinesh Kumar Khara took charge as the Chairman of the State Bank of India.
In a media conference, Khara said the top priority for him at the moment of is the safety of employees and people.
He added, the bank has various options to monetise the digital banking stack 'YONO' (You Only Need One) and the bank is actively exploring the options and the bank will evaluate it.
On the hiring plans, the chairman said the bank is not going to change as of now and the annual hiring plan will continue with the same spirit. The bank will immensely focus on technology and analytics and explore how they can move around the static data and service customers better. They will focus on the candidates from the analytics background.
Khara added, all decision which will be taken in the next six months will be beneficial for the stakeholders and there is no major issue with the legacy accounts and have already enough support there.
He added, "The bank's current credit growth is around 6-7%. The bank's retail credit growth engine is doing well and many of the corporates haven't reached out for restructuring their loans."
On the setting-up of New Umbrella Entity (NEU), the public lender is seriously evaluating in setting up an NPCI rival and will soon take a decision on it. He added, "Mostly it will be a joint partnership."
Diner Kumar Khara took charge from Rajnish Kumar as SBI Chairman and has been appointed for a tenure of 3 years.
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COLOMBO (IDN) - During the 25-year war against the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Sri Lanka's traditional arms suppliers imposed restrictions. The government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) had to look elsewhere – and China was willing to help.
Following the defeat of the LTTE in May 2009, the former Mahinda Rajapaksa regime chose to focus on rapid economic revival and development of infrastructure. The U.S. reneged on its commitment to provide $500 million from the Millennium Development Account for road development.
The recently-released e-mails reveal that then-U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tried to block an International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan to GOSL and that the IMF did not like it.
Clinton was told that the IMF had, during the final stages of the war, lambasted her in a conversation with Timothy Geithner, the then U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, for ordering the IMF to suspend funding to Sri Lanka. In an email sent to Clinton by Burns Strider, a former senior advisor, Strider said people on the ground with the World Bank and the IMF believed the LTTE must be completely defeated.
During her previous campaign for the presidential Democratic Nomination, Sri Lankan Americans, who strongly supported her, were discouraged by the way her remarks on terrorism were manipulated by pro-LTTE outlets.
Clinton was forced to return campaign funding from the "Tamils for Clinton" after a heated conversation between the Sri Lankan Foreign Secretary and one of her chief advisors. She visited Tamil Nadu and met Chief Minister Jayaraman Jayalalithaa, a persistent critic of GOSL, on July 20, 2011 and proffered congratulations on her electoral victory. Clinton invited Jayalalithaa to visit U.S. to tell Americans about the great achievements of Tamil Nadu.
Clinton has supported regime change in Asia, Africa and South America. She supported the sanctions that did so much harm to Iraqi children. Clinton is supported by former Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, who said on TV that the death of half a million Iraqi children was "worth it".
The U.S. might have thought they had got the regime they wanted after Rajapaksa was ousted and the new government "co-sponsored" with the U.S. a resolution on human rights for the UN Human Rights Council. However, the UNHRC business seems to be moving slowly.
And the current Sri Lankan government has found that it cannot live without China after all. Perhaps the new President Clinton will have plans for a Sri Lankan spring and further regime change.


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Historically, Storyville, New Orleans was the red light district of the city in Louisiana.

Storyville may also refer to:

Companies
 Storyville Coffee

Music
 Storyville Records, a Danish record label
 Storyville Records (George Wein's), a 1950s American jazz record label founded by George Wein
 Storyville (album), a 1991 Robbie Robertson album
 Storyville (magazine), British jazz magazine that ran from 1965 to 2003
 Storyville (band), an American blues-rock band

Entertainment
 Storyville (nightclub), a nightclub in Boston, Massachusetts

Movies and TV
 Storyville (film), a 1992 American film
 Storyville (TV series), a BBC documentary series
 Storyville Films, a U.S. film production company founded by Oren Jacoby


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"The best thing of good vïbes is that the more they hit you, the better you feel."
Located in the heart of Porto Cristo directly facing the sea, Vïbes is the new project of the Oceantwins Group, recalling the old days when many of the Porto Cristo restaurants were on the first floor with stunning views of the sea and offering a different space and total disconnection.
In this peculiar restaurant we can find different fusion of cultures, but always respecting the beautiful island where we live and its incredible gastronomy.