We self-published our first book, Restaurant Owners Uncorked: Twenty Owners Share their Recipes for Success, two years ago. We put it on Amazon, and we had no idea what to expect. Would we sell 100 copies (which is the average number of copies self-published books sell)? Or 1,000? Or perhaps 10,000?
I mean we literally had no clue what would happen, so we're excited as heck that it has consistently sold between one and three hundred copies every month, and we've now sold over 5,000 total copies if you count sales of the actual book and Kindle sales. It was also really cool to see that Amazon recently changed the price of our book from $12 (our list price) to $10.80. It's displayed as a discount, letting you know that you are getting a good deal if you buy on Amazon. They only do that once a book has sold a bunch of copies. I guess when we have sold a bunch more, they'll reduce the price again, but I don't know. (The Kindle version is still at $5, which is our list price. Maybe they'll reduce that price next?) I'm not sure what their formula is. I think Amazon does what Amazon wants to do, and I'm totally cool with that, especially given that they do an awesome job of recommending our book to people who are about to purchase books of a similar subject matter. We're still learning about this stuff, and it really doesn't matter anyway. All we care about is that every day a few people buy a copy, and, based on the feedback and reviews we've received so far, they tend to enjoy it a lot, learn something, and draw inspiration from it.
Something else I've found interesting is that our reviews are all really positive (nothing below 4-stars out of 5), and I honestly believe this is the case because we never inserted our opinion into the book. It doesn't take a stand. Rather, it is merely a collection of interviews with twenty owners, with no underlying point. Meanwhile, it seems like most of the time when a book gets a 1-star or 2-star rating, it's because the reader completely disagrees with the author's premise. The author says tomato, the reader says tomahto. In our case, unless you disagree with the advice and philosophies of twenty different people, it would be hard to rank the book poorly. This isn't something we predicted or thought of in advance, but I'm pretty sure it has helped us avoid bad reviews.
But of course the main reason we get great reviews is that we interviewed twenty incredible people who own restaurants and have done well in the business and who were kind enough to share their time with us, and offer their candid and honest opinions on everything we asked them about. We couldn't be more proud of the book or of the incredible video series that is it's by-product. It's such an honor to be able to serve tons of people that we admire – people who've taken risks and worked hard and built successful restaurant businesses – with our software. So when some of those people agree to be in a book or be filmed for our video series, it's just icing on the cake for us!
I'm working on our next book now. It'll be the same format as the first – a collection of interviews – but I think we'll keep it to ten owners this time, and perhaps do a new book of ten every couple of years. In the mean time, if you know anybody who might enjoy the book, we'd be so thankful if you told them about it. And I'll occasionally drop in here to provide an update on the next book and (hopefully) on the continued success of the first.


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Students Hayley Stone and Rachel Knies had the experience of a lifetime last semester exploring, learning and studying in Jordan.
Knies, a senior majoring in political science, said her time in the Middle East confirmed her path for the future.
Her interest in studying in the Middle East was sparked by her professor, Dr. Michael Frank.
Stone, a junior majoring in international relations with a minor in peace and transformation, was first interested in the Uganda Studies Program.
"I knew I needed to study abroad for my major, and I was actually planning on going to Uganda, which is through the same organization that I went to the Middle East with," Stone said. "I looked at other places, and I thought maybe I wanted to travel someplace else.
Before they left, the students had to prepare themselves mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually for the upcoming adventure to Jordan.
Stone and Knies left the first week of January and arrived back in the U.S. mid-April.
During that time, they had had very different experiences.
Knies also got to snorkel in the Red Sea, visit Dome Rock and see the Pyramids in Egypt.
Stone spent time doing missions work for the Syrian refugees. Her team, made up of fellow students and a missionary couple, interacted with refugees and their families, as well as helped deliver donations and supplies to the refugees.
Aside from her missions work, Stone recalled a night in the Wadi Rum desert—the location for the filming of the Oscar-nominated movie "The Martian"—where she and her peers decided to stay overnight as an end-of-trip celebration.
Neither Stone nor Knies set expectations on the culture of Jordan, but there were some things that stood out to them during their time in the Middle East.
For Stone, it was how the women were treated in the Middle East.


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Cardiff bus may charge a fee for responding to a subject access request. If that is the case, we will advise you that a fee is payable before responding substantively in writing to the postal or electronic request you provided.
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Oh I'm super into these!! What a delicious and unique breakfast, Izzy! I really like tofu, and it sounds like you elevated it to a whole new level <3 pinned!
Thanks so much, Melissa! Tofu is so delicious and fun to try in different variations. I'd love to know what you think if you give it a try!
Wow! Sounds tasty and photos look great!
I just made this and it's delicioussssss! Never could make a good scramble – till this recipe! Thank you so much!! I used coconut milk instead of soy as that's what I had! Super creamy and yum!
Aww that makes me so happy to hear! So glad you gave it a try :) It sounds like it would be delicious with coconut milk too! I have to try that.
I feel the same way! I am just not a sweets in the morning person. This looks delicious, I'll need to try sometime!
These tofu tacos are so flavorful that I don't even think you would realize that you were actually eating tofu!
Yummy! Making tacos is plain fun. One can fill them up with whatever appeals to the taste buds.


The food we give to our chicken is those we get from our farm. We gave them natural foods and avoid artificial feeds to produce healthy and nutritious eggs.
Marigolds are one of their favorite. This flowers not only ward off insects in your garden, it is also a rich source of beta-carotene and other nutrients. A good antioxidant to promote the growth of new skin tissue of our precious chickens. Eating this flowers also makes their egg yolks darker yellow/orange.
Azolla (Water fern) said to be a nutritious but cheap organic feeds substitute to our chickens. Aside from this, it has also lots of nutrients that helps improve their weights and increasing their egg production.
To grow an Azolla, you should need an artificial water body and the pit should be covered by a plastic gunnies to prevent the growth of roots of a nearby trees. When harvesting Azolla you should need plastic tray having holes of 1 square meter mesh size.


LG has been betting heavily on IPS monitors in the last few years. This is a most welcome move, as IPS panels offer better contrast and a much better viewing angles than TN models. IPS and related high-end technology has also improved a great deal on their old weakness: poor (long) response times. Unfortunately, compared to TN panels, the price on IPS monitors is much higher. This problem has more or less been solved with the new generation e-IPS panels, which let more light through than traditional IPS panels and therefore need less powerful backlighting, keeping the costs down. LG has used one of these new e-IPS panel in the IPS236V, something that is also apparent in store prices. It offers less tuning options but also costs considerably less than monitors like the NEC PA271W.
For the money you get a good monitor with high brightness, contrast and also fairly good color rendering. It is not the most accurate monitor, but unlike the NEC it is not aimed at professionals only. THe IPS236V still retains most of the advantages of using an IPS panel, such as better-than-average color rendering and excellent viewing angle stability. Unfortunately, the IPS236V is not particularly suitable for gamers, though, owing to a comparatively high response time of 8ms.
The LG IPS236V display brings In-Plane Switching technology to the desktop at a reasonable price. This 23-inch monitor offers rich colors and excellent viewing angles, but you don't get a lot of features.
The LG IPS236V-PN makes for one of the most useful and affordable monitor companions we've seen. Its stylish design, slender dimensions and LED as well as HD technology makes it a very attractive offer. And when one learns that the IPS236V-PN retails for only R1999 it makes the deal that much sweeter.
Remarkably good image quality, stylish design and delightful ergonomics make LG's IPS236V an excellent choice for anyone who edits photos or video – or perhaps just wants everything to look really, really good.


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Q: java.lang.NullPointerException: 'void org.opencv.android.BaseLoaderCallback.onManagerConnected(int)' on a null object reference I making an app to detect potholes this the main function camera fragment where I have to use opencv to get the desired result
while using opencv in android java I am facing this issue please help me :
java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'void org.opencv.android.BaseLoaderCallback.onManagerConnected(int)' on a null object reference
package com.example.dpgra.defectdetect;
/*import android.support.annotation.NonNull;
import android.support.annotation.Nullable;
import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;*/
//import model.CameraBridgeViewBase;

import android.annotation.SuppressLint;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.res.AssetManager;
import android.location.Location;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.view.WindowManager;
import android.widget.SeekBar;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.Toast;

import androidx.annotation.NonNull;
import androidx.annotation.Nullable;
import androidx.fragment.app.Fragment;

import org.opencv.android.BaseLoaderCallback;
import org.opencv.android.CameraBridgeViewBase;
import org.opencv.android.OpenCVLoader;
import org.opencv.core.Core;
import org.opencv.core.Mat;
import org.opencv.core.Point;
import org.opencv.core.Scalar;
import org.opencv.core.Size;
import org.opencv.imgproc.Imgproc;

import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;

import model.Darknet;
import model.Pothole;
import model.PotholeList;

public class CameraFragment extends Fragment implements CameraBridgeViewBase.CvCameraViewListener2, View.OnClickListener, SeekBar.OnSeekBarChangeListener {

    private View rootView;
    private CameraBridgeViewBase mOpenCvCameraView;
    private Darknet net;
    private static CameraFragment cameraFragment;
    private PotholeList potholeList;
    private Integer OrientationIsValid;
    private double confidenceThresh;
    BaseLoaderCallback mLoaderCallback ;
    Mat imageMat;
   // JavaCameraView javaCamera2View;

    private static String TAG ="CameraFragment";
    static
    {

        if (OpenCVLoader.initDebug())
        {
            Log.d(TAG,"OpenCV Installed Successfully");
        }
        else
        {
            Log.d(TAG,"OpenCV Failed");
        }
    }

    @SuppressLint("ValidFragment")
    private CameraFragment() {
        super();
        potholeList = PotholeList.getInstance();
        OrientationIsValid = 0;
        confidenceThresh = .6;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the one instance of the camera fragment.
     *
     * @return the camera fragment
     */
    public static CameraFragment getInstance() {
        if (cameraFragment == null) {
            cameraFragment = new CameraFragment();
        }
        return cameraFragment;
    }

    @Override
    public void onStart() {
        super.onStart();

        mOpenCvCameraView.setVisibility(CameraBridgeViewBase.VISIBLE);
    }
    @Override
    public void onCreate(@Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {

        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        if (getActivity() != null) {
            getActivity().getWindow().addFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_KEEP_SCREEN_ON);
        }

    }

    @Nullable
    @Override
    public View onCreateView(@NonNull LayoutInflater inflater, @Nullable ViewGroup container, @Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        View rootView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.camera_fragment, container, false);
        this.rootView = rootView;
//        javaCamera2View= (JavaCameraView) rootView.findViewById(R.id.CameraView);
        mOpenCvCameraView = (CameraBridgeViewBase) rootView.findViewById(R.id.CameraView);
        //Check if the device is not an emulator
        String myDeviceModel = android.os.Build.MODEL;

        if (!myDeviceModel.toLowerCase().contains("sdk")) {
            //Rotate the camera view 90 degrees clockwise
            mOpenCvCameraView.setAngle(90);
//            javaCamera2View.setAngle(90);
        }
        rootView.findViewById(R.id.floatingActionButton2).setOnClickListener(this);
        mOpenCvCameraView.setCvCameraViewListener(this);
//        javaCamera2View.setCvCameraViewListener(this);
        SeekBar seekBar = rootView.findViewById(R.id.seekBar);
        seekBar.setOnSeekBarChangeListener(this);

        /**
         * Makes sure opencv can load successfully.
         */

        BaseLoaderCallback mLoaderCallback = new BaseLoaderCallback(this.getActivity()) {
            @SuppressLint("LongLogTag")
            @Override
            public void onManagerConnected(int status) {

                switch (status) {
                    case BaseLoaderCallback.SUCCESS: {
                        //Log.i(TAG, "OpenCV loaded successfully");
                        mOpenCvCameraView.enableView();
//                       javaCamera2View.enableView();
                        imageMat = new Mat();
                        break;

                    }
                    default: {
                        super.onManagerConnected(status);
                        break;
                    }
                }
            }
        };

        return rootView;
    }

    /**
     * This method is invoked when camera preview has started. After this method is invoked
     * the frames will start to be delivered to client via the onCameraFrame() callback.
     *
     * @param width  -  the width of the frames that will be delivered
     * @param height - the height of the frames that will be delivered
     */
    @Override
    public void onCameraViewStarted(int width, int height) {

        /*
        if(OrientationIsValid == 2) {
            new AlertDialog.Builder(this.getContext())
                    .setTitle("Alert")
                    .setMessage("Do you want to keep this orientation?")
                    .setPositiveButton("Yes",
                            new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                                @Override
                                public void onClick(DialogInterface dialogInterface, int i) {
                                    OrientationIsValid = 0;
                                }
                            }).setNegativeButton("No", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onClick(DialogInterface dialogInterface, int i) {
                    OrientationIsValid = 1;
                }
            }).show();
        }
        */
        String cfgFile = getPath(".cfg", this.getActivity());
        String weightsFile = getPath(".weights", this.getActivity());

        if (cfgFile != null && weightsFile != null) {
            net = new Darknet(cfgFile, weightsFile);
        }
        //mOpenCvCameraView.setVisibility(CameraBridgeViewBase.VISIBLE);
    }

    /**
     * This method is invoked when camera preview has been stopped for some reason.
     * No frames will be delivered via onCameraFrame() callback after this method is called.
     */
    @Override
    public void onCameraViewStopped() {

    }

    /**
     * This method is invoked when delivery of the frame needs to be done.
     * The returned values - is a modified frame which needs to be displayed on the screen.
     * TODO: pass the parameters specifying the format of the frame (BPP, YUV or RGB and etc)
     *
     * @param inputFrame
     */
    @Override
    public Mat onCameraFrame(CameraBridgeViewBase.CvCameraViewFrame inputFrame) {
        Mat frame = inputFrame.rgba();
        Imgproc.cvtColor(frame, frame, Imgproc.COLOR_BGRA2RGB);
        Mat mRgbaT = frame;
/*        old_mRgbaT = frame.t();
        Core.flip(old_mRgbaT, old_mRgbaT, 1);
        Imgproc.resize(old_mRgbaT, mRgbaT, frame.size());
        old_mRgbaT.release();
        */
        Mat temp = null;
        for (int i = 0; i < OrientationIsValid; i++) {

            temp = frame.t();
            Core.flip(temp, temp, 1);
            Imgproc.resize(temp, mRgbaT, frame.size());
            temp.release();
        }

        int cols = mRgbaT.cols();
        int rows = mRgbaT.rows();
        Size cropSize;
        if ((float) cols / rows > 1) {
            cropSize = new Size(rows * 1, rows);
        } else {
            cropSize = new Size(cols, cols / 1);
        }
        int y1 = (int) (rows - cropSize.height) / 2;
        int y2 = (int) (y1 + cropSize.height);
        int x1 = (int) (cols - cropSize.width) / 2;
        int x2 = (int) (x1 + cropSize.width);
        Mat subFrame = mRgbaT.submat(y1, y2, x1, x2);
        cols = subFrame.cols();
        rows = subFrame.rows();
        int sevarity = 0;
        if (net != null) {
            double confidence, xCenter, yCenter, width, height = 0;
            Mat retMat = net.forwardLoadedNetwork(mRgbaT);
            for (int i = 0; i < retMat.rows(); i++) {
                confidence = retMat.get(i, 5)[0];
                if (confidence > confidenceThresh) {
                    printMat(retMat.row(i));
                    //System.out.println("YESSSSSS");
                    xCenter = retMat.get(i, 0)[0] * mRgbaT.cols();
                    yCenter = retMat.get(i, 1)[0] * mRgbaT.rows();
                    width = retMat.get(i, 2)[0] * mRgbaT.cols();
                    height = retMat.get(i, 3)[0] * mRgbaT.rows();
                    Imgproc.rectangle(mRgbaT, new Point((xCenter - width / 2), (yCenter - height / 2)), new Point(xCenter + width / 2
                            , yCenter + height / 2), new Scalar(255, 0, 0), 4);
                    Imgproc.putText(mRgbaT, String.format("%.4f", new Double(confidence * 100)) + "%", new Point((xCenter - width / 2), (yCenter - height / 2) - 5)
                            , 1, 1, new Scalar(255, 0, 0), 2);
                    sevarity++;
                }
            }
            retMat.release();
            subFrame.release();
            if (sevarity > 0) {
                createPothole(sevarity);
            }
        } else {
            //Log.i("System", "Problem forwarding network");
        }
        return mRgbaT;
    }

    private Pothole createPothole(int severity) {
        Pothole pothole = null;
        if (this.getActivity() != null) {
            Location location = ((MainActivity) this.getActivity()).getLocation();
            if (location != null) {
                pothole = new Pothole(location, createPotholeId(), severity);
                addToPotholeList(pothole);
            }
        }

        return pothole;
    }

    /**
     * Creates the id string for a pothole.
     *
     * @return the pothole id
     */
    public String createPotholeId() {
        PotholeList list = PotholeList.getInstance();
        int num = 0;
        if (!list.isEmpty()) {
            String lastId = list.get(list.size() - 1).getId();
            num = Integer.parseInt(lastId.substring(1));
        }
        String retId = "p" + (num + 1);
        return retId;
    }

    /**
     * Prints the returned matrix outputted from the network.
     *
     * @param mat the mat to print
     */
    private void printMat(Mat mat) {
        for (int i = 0; i < mat.rows(); i++) {
            //System.out.print("[ ");
            for (int n = 0; n < mat.cols(); n++) {
                try {
                    //System.out.printf( "%.2f ", mat.get(i, n)[0]);
                } catch (NullPointerException e) {
                    //System.out.print( " " );
                }

            }
            //System.out.println("]");
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onResume() {
        super.onResume();

        try {
            if (OpenCVLoader.initDebug()) {
                Log.d("Debug", "OpenCV library found inside package. Using it!");
                mLoaderCallback.onManagerConnected(BaseLoaderCallback .SUCCESS);

            }
            else {
                Log.d("Debug", "Internal OpenCV library not found. Using OpenCV Manager for initialization");
                OpenCVLoader.initAsync(OpenCVLoader.OPENCV_VERSION_3_0_0, this.getActivity(), mLoaderCallback);
            }
        }
        catch (NullPointerException e) {
            Log.d(TAG, String.valueOf(e));
            Toast.makeText(this.getActivity(), "OpenCV is required to run this feature. Please install OpenCV from the Google Play Store or download the APK from their official website.", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

        }
    }

    /**
     * Gets the path of a file and create it in the app memory.
     *
     * @param fileType the file to find
     * @param context  context
     * @return the pathname
     */
    @SuppressLint("LongLogTag")
    private static String getPath(String fileType, Context context) {
        AssetManager assetManager = context.getAssets();
        String[] pathNames = {};
        String fileName = "";
        System.out.println("-----------------------------------------------------------------------");
        try {
            pathNames = assetManager.list("yolo");
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        for (String filePath : pathNames) {
            System.out.println(filePath);
            if (filePath.endsWith(fileType)) {
                fileName = filePath;
                break;
            }
        }
        BufferedInputStream inputStream;
        try {
            // Read data from assets.
            inputStream = new BufferedInputStream(assetManager.open(fileName));
            byte[] data = new byte[inputStream.available()];
            inputStream.read(data);
            inputStream.close();

            // Create copy file in storage.
            File outFile = new File(context.getFilesDir(), fileName);
            FileOutputStream os = new FileOutputStream(outFile);
            os.write(data);
            os.close();
            // Return a path to file which may be read in common way.
            return outFile.getAbsolutePath();
        } catch (IOException ex) {
            //Log.i(TAG, "Failed to upload a file");
        }
        return "";
    }

    /**
     * Adds the pothole to the pothole list.
     *
     * @param pothole the pothole to add
     */
    public boolean addToPotholeList(Pothole pothole) {
        return potholeList.add(pothole);
    }

    @Override
    public void onClick(View view) {
        OrientationIsValid++;
        if (OrientationIsValid > 3) {
            OrientationIsValid = 0;
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onProgressChanged(SeekBar seekBar, int i, boolean b) {
        confidenceThresh = (double) i / 100;
        TextView textView = rootView.findViewById(R.id.confidence);
        textView.setText("Confidence Threshold: " + (confidenceThresh * 100) + "%");
    }

    @Override
    public void onStartTrackingTouch(SeekBar seekBar) {

    }

    @Override
    public void onStopTrackingTouch(SeekBar seekBar) {

    }
}

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Hyacinthe-Louis de Quélen (8. října 1778 v Paříži – 31. prosince 1839 tamtéž) byl francouzský římskokatolický kněz, v letech 1821–1839 arcibiskup pařížský a od roku 1824 člen Francouzské akademie.

Život
Hyacinthe-Louis de Quélen studoval na Collège de Navarre v Paříži. Dne 14. března 1807 byl vysvěcen na kněze a později byl generálním vikářem v Saint-Brieuc a sekretářem kardinála Josepha Fesche. Navrátil se do Paříže, kde působil v kněžském semináři Saint-Sulpice a ve vojenských nemocnicích.

Během Restaurace Bourbonů se stal duchovním ředitelem arcibiskupské školy, generálním vikářem, pomocným biskupem a biskupem koadjutorem arcibiskupa kardinála Talleyrand-Périgorda, kterého v roce 1821 vystřídal v úřadě.

Dne 29. července 1824 byl zvolen členem Francouzské akademie.

Položil základní kámen Chapelle expiatoire, požadoval amnestii pro exulanty a v roce 1828 oponoval opětovnému vyhnání jezuitů.

Během Červencové monarchie arcibiskup nebyl zastáncem červencových ordonancí, čímž byl v očích Ludvíka Filipa nespolehlivý. Během červencové revoluce byl dvakrát donucen k opuštění svého arcibiskupského paláce. Při násilných nepokojích způsobených republikány po bohoslužbě při 11. výročí úmrtí vévody z Berry ve dnech 14. a 15. února 1831 byl zcela zničen arcibiskupský palác, který stál na jižní straně katedrály Notre-Dame a arcibiskup Quélen byl nucen se usadit v klášteře sester Nejsvětějšího srdce v Rue de Varenne.

V roce 1832 během epidemie cholery nechal přeměnit semináře na nemocnicce, osobně navštěvoval nemocné v Hôtel-Dieu a založil nadaci pro sirotky po epidemii.

Hyacinthe-Louis Quélen zemřel 31. prosince 1839 a byl pohřben v kapli sv. Marcela v katedrále Notre-Dame.

Biskupská genealogie
Následující tabulka obsahuje genealogický strom, který ukazuje vztah mezi svěcencem a světitelem – pro každého biskupa na seznamu je předchůdcem jeho světitel, zatímco následovníkem je biskup, kterého vysvětil. Hyacinthe-Louis de Quélen patří k linii kardinála d'Estouteville. Rekonstrukcím a vyhledáním původu v rodové linii ze zabývá historiografická disciplína biskupská genealogie.

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ASU to Freshmen: "Do Not Drink the Paint"
Isn't there some sort of joke about Arizona State University's seemingly generous acceptance rate?
It makes a warning to freshmen to avoid drinking paint seem fitting.
The university uploaded a video of the annual tradition of freshmen painting the "A" on "A" Mountain white, and sure enough, the spot where the freshmen pick up the paint gives them the warning to not drink it.
Sure, the paint's in little paper cups, and maybe the kids are itching for some water. That doesn't mean there's not some humor in telling supposedly college-ready youngsters to not drink paint.
#ASUfallwelcome I'm gonna drink the paint!!!


Jamaica had been seeking UNESCO recognition as an "intangible cultural heritage" element worthy of the agency's protection for some time. The country's government asked that UNESCO consider the status of reggae at its 2018 meeting at which 40 proposals were scheduled for review. The proposals included dances, food preparation practices, boat-building, games, festivals, and Mongolian camel coaxing rituals. A successful application is chiefly symbolic in nature but serves to raise awareness of the nation and the practice included on the list.
The Representative Life of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity differs from UNESCO's World Heritage List, which names sites that are considered to be of importance to humanity such as Egypt's pyramids and India's Taj Mahal. The Intangible Heritage list documents cultural heritage practices that need to be protected and that are in danger of disappearing.
Reggae music developed in the late 1960s in Jamaica, where it gave expression to oppressed people and provided them with messages of hope. It blended the country's ska, and rocksteady music genres with blues and jazz. Reggae songs often address sociopolitical issues, including inequality, police brutality and imprisonment. Many songs also extoll peace, unity and positivity, such as the Bob Marley song "One love" and Desmond Dekker's "Sing a little song." It rapidly became an international phenomenon through the songs of artists like Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, and producer Lee "Scratch" Perry. Reggae music frequently offers a celebration of Jah or God; ganja, or marijuana; and Ras Tafari, also known as Haile Selassie, the former emperor of Ethiopia who is revered by Rastafarians as the messiah.
According to Olivia Grange, Jamaica's Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, UNESCO's recognition represents a major achievement for the country. She noted that this music created by Jamaicans has penetrated all corners of the world.


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Saddam's Hostage-Juggling Game
By Tom Kono Tom Kono is a former Japanese foreign service officer who served in Iraq during the Gulf war. He is currently a visiting scholar at Hagop Kavorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University.
IRAQ's decision to free hostages beginning on Christmas Day clearly reflects Saddam Hussein's fear of a possible American or United Nations-sanctioned air strike against Baghdad. To his adviser's best knowledge, it would constitute the most effective deterrence to an aerial attack. More important, it also serves as the best propaganda ploy to significantly weaken the United States-led international coalition. Iraq's condition for the release of foreign hostages is that nothing mar the present ``peaceful'' environment. Any American military action - or even increased threats - against Saddam could lead to a sudden reversal of his decision. Aware that the most likely period for an American-led offensive is the early months of next year, the Iraqi government has stretched the time span of the hostage-release to March.
In fact, the Iraqis captured more Western hostages on the day they announced their plan, which suggests they can and will continue to play this hostage game by replenishing their reserve of human shields.
Saddam has repeatedly expressed his intention to release all Western hostages in exchange for Washington's pledge to not attack Iraq. Most recently, the Iraqi government stated that a declared commitment by the permanent members of the UN Security Council to refrain from attacking Iraq would lead to the hostages' release. No nation seriously considered his sly offer, and the Iraqi leader is now pursuing his plan unilaterally in hopes of forestalling military action against Baghdad. The proposal to let all Soviets go is his latest gambit.
Saddam's foremost concern is an imminent American attack. For the past three and half months, the Iraqi leader has scrupulously averted anything that might lead to military confrontation. To a surprising degree, the Iraqi regime has carefully avoided provoking the US-led international coalition. In late August, the Baghdad government ordered Iraqi ships to obey the UN sanctions. The Iraqis were almost begging Paris to mend the badly damaged Iraqi-French relationship in September after their troops intruded on the French diplomatic premises in Kuwait.
Throughout the fall, Baghdad has sweated to show good will by releasing hundreds of hostages and inviting the families of hostages to visit their loved ones held in Iraq. Saddam sent mixed signals by reiterating his willingness to negotiate a settlement, while showing no sign of giving up Kuwait. Although his continuous propaganda campaigns have thus far failed to sway the US resolve to stand firm, they put tremendous pressure on the American alliance by keeping the Soviets interested in a peaceful settlement.
Obviously, Iraq's move to free foreign hostages is another tactic to postpone or prevent military action against occupied Kuwait and Iraq. This may prove a tough challenge for the Bush administration. Humanitarian considerations, prompted by popular desires to repatriate fellow countrymen, add more obstacles to Washington's effort to build support for military action.
As the buildup of the US military forces in Saudi Arabia progresses, opposition to military action mounts. That the momentum of public support will be lost at a time when the US military deployment is completed is a serious danger.
Saddam Hussein is counting on this scenario. He is exploiting the ``weaknesses'' of the Western world - the inefficiency of democracy and the respect for human life. In Saddam's calculations, the Arab world will eventually support him while the international and domestic support for President Bush will erode. He still remembers Washington's unsuccessful effort to persuade the UN to impose its will upon Iran. Indeed, the UN failed not only in ending the Gulf war but also in imposing an arms embargo against Tehran.
President Bush said in a recent CNN interview that he was ``dead serious.'' For Saddam, this is still just ``talk.'' By his standards, ``dead serious'' means a nuclear attack on Baghdad. He won't budge until he senses a real threat of destruction.
To thwart Saddam's strategy, the world should not give him room for manipulation. The more time passes, the more death and damages occur in Kuwait. World leaders should dismiss Saddam's inhumane ``good gesture'' and increase pressure on Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait unconditionally.
The lure of returning hostages is strong, but the world should stand firm against Baghdad's cruel ``human juggling.'' As Secretary Baker correctly said, this state-sponsored hostage-taking should not have happened in the first place.
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Microsoft Dynamics SharePoint is indeed a very exciting solution. It has many exciting features to offer and rewards end users with umpteen benefits. Primarily promoted and sold as a document management and storage system, the Microsoft SharePoint Solution is highly configurable and is a system whose usage varies depending on the size of the organization. It is implemented best by a Microsoft Dynamics Partner offering unconditional Microsoft Dynamics Support after the go live stage.
1. The infrastructure of Microsoft Dynamics SharePoint has been built so, considering what cloud has to offer. Microsoft SharePoint Solution 2016 offers tailor deployments ensuring one's business needs are fully met.
2. Organizations get to take faster decisions and be more effective. When customized to convenience by a Microsoft Dynamics Partner offering Microsoft Dynamics Support post go live, SharePoint helps access information even when one is on the go by accounting for touch based experiences across a variety of devices. SharePoint makes file storage and document collaboration people centric and offers improved access to content, people and applications.
3. The solution is totally people-centric in the sense that features and capabilities in it help keep sensitive information safe and also empower the organization using it to give access to this critical data to people who matter at the most appropriate time. It ensures that neither the data gets lost nor does the end user get overexposed to information, something which might have legal and compliance implications.
There is SharePoint online as well, which delivers powerful features without levying any burden on the end user in terms of infrastructure management. This helps you meet whatever compliance requirements arise. Besides, you also get access to Exchange, OneDrive for Business, Skype for Business, Web App and Office Clients.
These make SharePoint a truly great application to work on and companies already using it can be asked for feedback in order to decide confidently.
An enterprise resource planning solution with a proven record is always a safe choice to manage something as important as the General Ledger of a company. This is what the Microsoft Dynamics NAV is, a proven solution that companies into Finance trust with regards to helping centralize the company's accounting information, posting specifications and other core data efficiently.
3. Capitalize on one's existing knowledge of how business works. The premier ERP Software for Small Business enterprises helps do this by helping discover opportunities which are otherwise hard to identify.
As far as Inter company Postings are concerned, the enterprise resource planning solution helps create all necessary documents which include the likes of sales documents, purchase documents and general ledger entries to accommodate the entire workflow of inter company transactions between two companies within the same group, both controlled by the same legal entity.
All of this is possible if the concerned company consults a Microsoft Dynamics Nav Partner and has the General Ledger module customized to perfection.
The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Solutions have included Azure Machine Learning as a capability in its latest avatar. The latest upgrade also offers better transition across various apps such as emails, Excel and OneDrive for Business.
The nearest Microsoft CRM Partner can be contacted for a MS Dynamics Demo in order to understand the capability in detail. Just for the record, the concerned company's contracted partner will also be responsible for providing Microsoft Dynamics CRM Support post customization and go-live.
What can companies achieve by using Azure Machine Learning offered by the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Solutions?
1. Azure has been included to provide analytics-driven intelligence.
2. It will serve as a knowledge management system so that businesses can record and access data whenever they have to resolve issues.
3. The Machine Learning Technology connects effortlessly to the business process in order to retrieve data recorded during customer-employee interactions.
4. Machine Learning helps identify patterns so that employees get to learn from consistent problems and make improvements as time passes.
In case your business can benefit from any of these advantages provided by Machine Learning listed above, you should contact your nearest Microsoft CRM Partner for an immediate Microsoft Dynamics Demo of the software so that you can see it for yourself as to what holds in store. The good thing is, once the implementation is over you will also be entitled to Microsoft Dynamics CRM Support. This, is an added incentive.
Both Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016 Update 1 and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2016 Service Pack 1 have impressive Productivity features to offer. These truly make MS Dynamics CRM the most suitable CRM for Small Business enterprises and just for the record if companies suspect this information to be hot air, they can always schedule a Microsoft Dynamics Demo with a Microsoft Dynamics Partner Australia and see for themselves as to what is there in the offering.
What are these productivity features in the Microsoft CRM System version 2016 Update 1 and Service Pack 1 that have companies gushing?
1. Tailored In-App for CRM Online Users: Learning Path is a feature that helps go through every important task step-by-step and also provides eBooks, videos and relevant Help topics when needed most.
2. One of the finest as far as features are concerned in MS Dynamics CRM 2016 Service Pack 1 and Update 1 is, better collaboration with Office 365 Group Enhancements. Before these two releases, users would create new groups for every CRM record they wanted to collaborate on. From now on, they can simply set and connect an existing group to different records. All team members of a particular project automatically get added to that project's group and whenever a particular group gets deleted, end users get to know about the same immediately so that the record at once be connected to another group.
3. Microsoft CRM System 2016 Update 1 and Service Pack 1 allow end users to add email signatures to their web client email. This helps save time on email correspondence as well as add a professional touch through an email signature. Users can maintain a default signature for everyday replies as well as for new email messages besides maintaining totally distinct ones for special cases. A default signature can be assigned to a queue and once the 'From' field is changed from user to queue, the default signature too changes automatically.
4. The most popular CRM for Small Business enterprises version 2016 Update 1 and Service Pack 1 enables the display of multi-entity search results as a single list. End users get to search for records across multiple entities through Relevance Search and the results from this, are returned in a single list relevantly sorted.
5. Multi-Entity Quick Find is known as Categorized Search in 2016 Update 1 and Service Pack 1. This helps view results grouped by entity types like accounts, contacts and leads. End users interested in finding records of one record type only can use this feature from the entity list grid.
Companies skeptical about the efficacy of these features can schedule a Microsoft Dynamics Demo, as mentioned earlier, with a Microsoft Dynamics Partner Australia.


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Asbestos is still killing thousands of Americans every year
» Asbestos is still killing thousands of Americans every year
On behalf of Pourciau Law Firm | Jun 17, 2020 | asbestos
Scientists have known for decades that asbestos can cause deadly lung diseases, and the substance has been mostly banned in the United States since 1989. So, why are people still coming down with asbestosis, mesothelioma and other asbestos-related diseases?
There are a number of reasons. One is that asbestos was once commonly used in vinyl flooring, insulation and concrete, and is still present in many buildings. Over the years, as the buildings are damaged, altered or otherwise disturbed, asbestos fibers can break off, get into the air, and enter people's lungs, where they can cause a variety of terrible health problems. Another reason is that asbestos can still be used in some types of manufacturing in the United States, where workers are exposed to it. Asbestos is also still commonly used in parts of the developing world.
Whatever the reasons, asbestos continues to be a serious health risk decades after the United States started to crack down on the use of the substance. In fact, some studies show that deaths from asbestos-related diseases have been on the rise in recent years. Nearly 40,000 Americans died from asbestos-related occupational diseases in 2016, and some studies suggest the statistics have badly undercounted the real number.
Those who have become sick because of asbestos, or families who have lost a loved one because of it, are left with staggering medical costs, lost wages, pain and suffering and other damages. They may be able to recover compensation for their losses through a personal injury lawsuit based on the theory of product liability. Individuals and families who have suffered due to asbestos can learn more about their legal options by speaking with a personal injury attorney who has experience in asbestos-related litigation.


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My name is Ollie. I am 15 years old. I live in England. This is my GCSE ICT page. The course consists of mainly managing computer systems. I am into mountain biking, music and gaming. For my GCSE's I am taking ICT, Geography, PE and Spanish for my language. I am going to Iceland for a geography trip. And I am going on a ski trip with my school to Bulgaria.


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Coalville Town vs Matlock Town FC
Attendance: 362 Date: 03 November 2020
Coalville Town
Owen Street Sports Ground
GLADIATORS FIGHT BACK TO WIN ON PENALTIES
Matlock Town staged an excellent fightback on Tuesday night to come from two goals down at half time to knock out Coalville Town and qualify for the first round proper of the FA Trophy.
Goals from Reece Kendall, Spencer Harris and Declan Walker put the Gladiators 3-2 in front before Coalville found an instant equaliser late on to take the game to a dreaded penalty shoot-out. Shaun Rowley was the hero of the hour as he made two saves to send Matlock through.
The Ravens took the lead after only five minutes through the impressive Tim Berridge. A cross from the right wing found Berridge inside the area and after a good first touch, the in-form striker was able to slam the ball home from close range.
The Ravens doubled their lead in the 36th minute thanks to more inspired play from Berridge. The forward beat Adam Yates for pace and was able to slot the ball home comfortably past the oncoming Rowley.
The Gladiators did have chances in the first half but were not able to put any of their opportunities on target. Osebi Abadaki, Ryan Qualter and Callum Chippendale all had good chances that were flashed wide of the post when the target really should have been hit. Despite these chances, it looked like it was going to be a real mission for Matlock to get back onto level pegging. The Gladiators were playing without the suspended Liam Hughes and Kade Coppin plus the unavailable Joe Bunney and it looked like the lack of an out-and-out striker would cost Matlock a place in the first round proper of the FA Trophy.
The fightback began immediately though in the second half. After around only ninety seconds from the re-start, Kendall managed to bundle a header home from close range inside a crowded penalty area.
It looked like the Ravens had taken the eye off the ball and were now suddenly caught on the ropes. With a goal back, Matlock quickly ramped up the pressure and after only six minutes of the re-start Spencer Harris found himself completely free in the penalty area and was able to easily head home from twelve yards out following a lovely left-wing delivery from Alex Byrne.
With the match back on level terms so quickly after the re-start, the remainder of the second half was a frantic affair and was an excellent cup tie to watch with both teams going all out for the win.
Incredibly, the Gladiators almost scored another just two minutes after the equaliser when Abadaki saw his effort from the edge of the area smack the woodwork. Ten minutes later, it was Coalville's turn to hit the woodwork when Berridge came incredibly close to a hat-trick as his 18 yard effort hit the cross bar. Shortly afterwards, Alex Byrne had his hands on his head in anguish as his effort from twelve yards out narrowly went over the bar.
With fifteen minutes to go, it looked like the Gladiators had the game sewn up when Declan Walker's header following another excellent cross from Alex Byrne flew just under the bar and nestled into the back of the net. However, the Ravens found an instant equaliser to make it 3-3. The impressive Berridge ran into space towards the by-line on the right wing and his pass managed to find Luke Shaw at the back post and he smashed the ball home from only four yards out.
With no extra time in place, the tie went straight to a penalty shoot-out after the end of ninety minutes to decide who would go through.
It was the Gladiators who held their nerve as Walker, Byrne, Qualter and Chippendale all converted their penalties while Shaun Rowley made two saves to knock out Coalville after a thrilling cup tie.
Matlock Town's reward is an away trip to Coleshill Town for the first round proper of the FA Trophy but we still don't know yet as to when exactly this tie will take place due to the competition now having to be paused because of the incoming national lockdown.
This will be Matlock's final game for at least four weeks as this year continues in its unprecedented fashion and football from Step 3 and below must now take a back seat and wait for the go-ahead again to start where it left off in early December.
Matlock Town team: Rowley, Yates ©, King, Kendall, Qualter, Lees, Byrne, Harris (Walker 65), Chippendale, Abadaki (Dolan 90), Whitehead (Egerton 46). Unused subs: Phillips.
GLADIATOR OF THE MATCH: Alex Byrne
Paul Phillips Quotes
"I thought we were unbelievable. We've had fourteen lads self-isolating over the past two weeks. We've had one training session for an hour since then. We've not been able to do anything else. So to come here and put on a performance like they did…what a group, to give us that kind of effort. Coalville have been flying, don't think they've been beaten this season. To show that kind of character tonight against them, absolutely unbelievable. In the first half, I think we did things that were out of character but we put that right at half time – we put on the right people in the right areas"
"In the second half, we were outstanding. A lot of teams will come here this season and get rolled over. We got the goals back at the right time. I think everyone associated with the team: players, board, spectators – they can all be very proud with what the team did tonight."


pray for them that this spirit of pride in them, keeping them separated from the Truth, leaves them and brings them back to their senses; pray for them so that I may be able to say: "by their love, all men now will know that they are truly My disciples;" but today still, Satan and his demons keep them chained in their lack of love, for love is the distinctive sign of faith; how could they say to one another: "I have preached the Good News throughout the world; I have laboured to bring the Church into one and now all there is to come is the crown of righteousness which the Lord, my God, reserved for me from all eternity ..." when to this very day they are failing in their duty?
all priests should imitate Me in their life; I am not speaking of those who imitate Me and are like My Abel who was pleasing to Us, because of his sacrifices and his sincerity, but of those who are like Cain, and Essau and Juda and the Scribes and the Pharisees; of these I am speaking, for their conduct contradicts My Holy Rules; must I, for their sake, go on drinking from the cup of your division, this cup forced on Me by them?
2 Christ speaks to them.
4 I understood at the same time: "what have we to suffer before!" The "we" was meant for Pope John Paul II together with Jesus.


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California's Epic Drought: A Shortage of Water or a Longage of People? State has 39 million people … and counting … give or take a few
Published on June 2nd, 2015
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By Leon Kolankiewicz, CAPS Senior Writing Fellow
A SPECIAL STATE. California, as every Californian and indeed every American and many foreigners know, is in a class by itself. It is a state of superlatives and extremes. With 39 million residents, it is far and away the most populous—and overpopulated—state in the country; 12 percent of the U.S. population, or one in every eight Americans, live here. It is also the nation's most lucrative agricultural state in terms of the monetary value of its agricultural production—more than $30 billion annually—double that of its nearest rival, Texas.
To support its colossal population and its agricultural empire, California also consumes more water by far than any other state. In 2010, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, it accounted for approximately 11 percent of total U.S. water withdrawals and 10 percent of freshwater withdrawals, predominantly for irrigation. Once again, California's closest rival was Texas, which accounted for about 7 percent of total withdrawals.
California withdrew more freshwater from the ground than any other state, accounting for 16 percent of the national total. Crop irrigation accounted for 76 percent of California's total surface freshwater withdrawals in 2010. California produces more than 400 crops on nearly 82,000 farms, covering some 25 million acres. For some crops, California is the only state in which they are cultivated commercially in the entire country; almonds, artichokes, avocados, dates, figs, raisins, kiwifruit, olives, clingstone peaches, pistachios, dried plums, pomegranates, sweet rice and walnuts are grown in commercial quantities only in California.
Overall, California grows nearly half of the nation's fruits, vegetables and nuts. Its leading agricultural commodity is milk and cream, accounting annually for nearly $6 billion in cash receipts; the second leading commodity, grapes, accounts for $3.2 billion in cash receipts every year. California was second among the states (after Florida) in saline surface water withdrawals, primarily to cool coastal nuclear power plants at places like Diablo Canyon, San Onofre, Bodega Bay and Humboldt Bay.
A CALIFORNIA WATER PRIMER
The 2013 update of the Department of Water Resources' California Water Plan contains a wealth of information concerning water use in the state. In an average water year, prior to the current drought, California used to receive nearly 200 million acre-feet of water from precipitation and imports from Colorado, Oregon and Mexico.
About 50 to 60 percent of this total supply was used by native vegetation, evaporated back to the atmosphere, furnished some of the water for agricultural crops and artificial or managed wetlands (referred to as effective precipitation), or flowed to Oregon, Nevada, the Pacific Ocean and "salt sinks" like saline groundwater aquifers and the Salton Sea.
The remaining 40 to 50 percent, identified as dedicated or developed water supplies, was distributed among urban and agricultural uses for protecting and restoring the environment, or as storage in surface water and groundwater reservoirs for later use.
In any given year, some of the dedicated supply included water that was used many times (reused water) and water that was held in storage from previous years. Ultimately, about one-third of the dedicated supply flowed to the Pacific Ocean or to other salt sinks. In part this is to meet water requirements for designated Wild and Scenic Rivers and other "in-stream" environmental requirements and objectives.
In order to conserve and utilize its large but limited water resources, California has developed one of most sophisticated water capture, storage and distribution systems anywhere in the entire world to bring water from where nature puts it to where plants and people need it. It is, in essence, a vast and intricate array of "plumbing"— consisting of reservoirs, aqueducts, pipelines and even underground storage (in aquifers). Rainfall and snowmelt in the Sierra Nevada and other mountain ranges are captured and stored in reservoirs and then distributed elsewhere in the state to agricultural and urban areas.
Precipitation usually falls in California only during the winter and spring months, from October through May. The northern half of the state has higher precipitation than the southern half. Summers are dry throughout the entire state. Precipitation falling as snow in the Sierra and other mountain ranges melts throughout the summer and flows into the network of reservoirs and surface water canals, aqueducts and ditches that supply the rest of state.
More than 850 million acre-feet of groundwater, enough to cover California to a depth of eight feet, is stored in 450 known underground reservoirs or aquifers. Here, as in many places around the world, the large stock of water hidden out of sight deep beneath the ground surface has given rise to the myth that groundwater is a renewable resource which can be tapped without limit. But this is false. For one thing, not all groundwater is usable; over half is unavailable due to poor quality and the high cost of pumping it from deep underground.
Groundwater is a crucial component of California's water supply. During a normal year, about 30 percent of the state's water supply comes from underground aquifers. In times of intense or prolonged drought, such as the one now in its fourth year, groundwater consumption can increase to 60 percent or more of the state's total freshwater consumption.
While surface water is concentrated mostly in the northern part of the state, groundwater is more evenly distributed. The largest groundwater reserves are found in the Central Valley, the large, flat valley that dominates the geographic center of California. This great valley, ranging from 40 to 60 miles wide and approximately 450 miles long, is perhaps the single most important agricultural area of its size anywhere in the whole world.
Though California has laws governing surface water usage and quality, there are no statewide laws governing groundwater management. For all practical purposes, land ownership implicitly carries the right to essentially unlimited groundwater pumping, and this sense of entitlement contributes to overpumping or overdrafting. "If I don't use it, my neighbors will." It is classic "tragedy of the commons."
While the volume of groundwater in California is deceptively large, aquifers can readily be overdrafted when groundwater is pumped more rapidly than it is replenished. In 1999, it was estimated that the average, annual overdrafting was around 2.2 million acre-feet across the state, with 800,000 acre-feet in the Central Valley alone. Since then, overdrafting has worsened considerably.
Recent measurements by NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites found that in just the combined Sacramento and San Joaquin River basins alone, the northern and southern areas of the Central Valley, overdrafting between 2011 and 2014 was 12 million acre-feet of water per year. This accelerated pumping occurred in order to keep agricultural operations going in spite of the deepening drought, which is curtailing deliveries of surface water for irrigation. In the three satellite images shown from NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, colors progressing from green to orange to red signify accumulating water loss between June 2002 and June 2014.
California's groundwater is threatened not just by overdrafting and depletion, but contamination as well. In one recent egregious case, in the fall of 2014, it was reported that state officials had inadvertently allowed oil and gas companies to inject nearly 3 billion gallons of hydrofracking wastewater into aquifers that could have been used for drinking water or irrigation.
During fracking operations, drillers use huge amounts of water—up to 5 million gallons per well—to crack open fissures and force the release of crude oil and natural gas tightly bound in impermeable shale formations. This practice results in similarly large quantities of contaminated water, or wastewater, which must then be disposed of somehow. Usually, companies reinject the wastewater deep underground into the same formations from which the fossil fuels were extracted. However, sometimes reinjection takes place into shallower aquifers deemed "exempt" by the EPA, because their water was naturally not clean enough to be usable for irrigation or municipal purposes.
But in a September 2014 letter to the EPA, the State Water Resources Control Board admitted that as a result of permitting errors, in the case of at least nine injection wells, fracking wastewater was reinjected into "non-exempt" aquifers, that is, clean ones with usable, high-quality water. In one case near Bakersfield, as many as 40 water supply wells, including domestic drinking wells, were located within one mile of a single wastewater well that was injecting into non-exempt aquifers. Now local residents are afraid to drink from their water supply wells—in the middle of a ruthless drought—precisely when they are most needed.
PROLONGED DRY SPELL OR MEGA-DROUGHT?
California is currently in the clutches of the worst drought in its recorded meteorological history, which dates back more than a century. Indeed, according to a new study based on tree ring analysis published by researchers working with the American Geophysical Union, the drought now punishing the state is the worst in more than 1,200 years.
Their research shows that the current drought is driven both by reduced though not unprecedented precipitation and record high temperatures. Because of low river flows, depleted reservoirs, reduced surface water deliveries and dropping aquifers, farmers and landowners are drilling more and deeper wells in a frantic effort to continue supplying water and keep their operations, jobs and livelihoods alive.
LAND SUBSIDENCE IN THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY (SOUTHERN CENTRAL VALLEY)
In response, groundwater tables are dropping at an unparalleled rate. Water levels in many of the state's key aquifers—those tapped by municipalities in coastal Southern California and by Central Valley farmers—fell 50 feet or more between spring 2013 and spring 2014. This widespread fall instigated farmers and landowners to drill ever-deeper holes in the ground to reach the receding water table. Central Valley wells that used to hit water at 500 feet below ground surface must now be drilled down to 1,000 feet or more, at a cost that can exceed $300,000 for a single well.
As aquifers are depleted in the Central Valley—and sediments and rock strata drained of the water that helped give them structure, volume and rigidity—the land surface begins to sink or subside.
Land subsidence occurs as a result of large quantities of groundwater being extracted from certain types of rocks, such as fine-grained sediments. The rock layers compact because the water is partly responsible for holding the ground up. When the water is withdrawn, the rock collapses on itself and shrinks.
A 2013 USGS study found that land subsidence in the San Joaquin Valley reached nearly one foot per year at one site. This subsidence in turn is reducing the gradient and flow capacity of the Delta-Mendota Canal and the California Aqueduct, two major sources of water for the Central Valley and Southern California.
Because canals are built with a small slope to help propel the water by gravity, differential land sinking can change that slope in random areas and thus impact flows. The USGS study reported that canals are not the only infrastructure at risk from subsidence. Railways, roads and pipelines—all linear structures that extend over a long distance—are also under threat.
As in many Western states, water and water rights are among California's most divisive political issues. With most of the state lacking rainfall in the dry season, water is limited in the most populous, and ever more overpopulated, U.S. state. An ongoing debate, at least prior to the current drought, was whether the state should increase the distribution of water to its large agricultural and urban sectors, or increase conservation and preserve the natural ecosystems of water sources.
With the prolongation of the most severe drought in California's recorded history, natural ecosystems and the species that reside in them are losing out to ever more anxious business, urban and agricultural interests. Now the debate has morphed into whether agriculture needs to forfeit its grip on most of the state's water and relinquish more of it to cities, so the cities can continue their addiction to growth. California's movers and shakers worship at the altar of perpetual growth; it is this secular state's de facto religion. And now the Central Valley's thirsty almond crop has become a popular scapegoat and punching bag of the growth-at-all-costs crowd.
Because of the threat to critical water supplies posed by California's drought, on January 17, 2014, Governor Jerry Brown declared a State of Emergency that suspended the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and state water quality plans with regard to actions to make water immediately available. According to the declaration, they were "suspended on the basis that strict compliance with them will prevent, hinder, or delay the mitigation of the effects of the emergency."
After still another winter of feeble precipitation in 2014-2015, the Sierra Nevada snowpack and the state's huge reservoirs are at historic lows. At the same time, scientists are warning of the possibility of an incipient "megadrought" that could last decades. In March 2015, Governor Brown declared statewide mandatory water restrictions for the first time in California's history, ordering towns and cities to reduce their water use by 25 percent. This will be an enormous challenge, but if the severity of the drought continues, it may not be enough to stave off truly dire consequences for the state.
Yet at the same time, California's governor and chief cheerleader is a gushing immigration enthusiast who eagerly welcomes any and all newcomers to his state, legal and illegal alike. Both in his earlier incarnation as a Zen master and "Governor Moonbeam" in the 1970s and his recent governorship, Brown enjoys prattling on about the imperative of embracing limits, except when it comes to population growth, about which apparently he countenances no limits.
But in the real world, as opposed to this dreamer's utopia, the fact that California already has 39 million residents, and continues to add millions more every decade, surely has some bearing on whether there is enough water to go around. For cornucopians of Brown's ilk, admitting that the predicament may be more a "longage" of people than a shortage of water (in Garrett Hardin's memorable turn of phrase) is apparently beyond the pale.
The severity and tenacity of the current drought has goaded many Californians to seriously consider or reconsider desalination as at least a partial solution to the state's water woes. A $1 billion desalination plant is on the verge of completion at Carlsbad in San Diego County; when ready it will deliver about 50 million gallons a day of potable water to residents of San Diego County at a cost about twice that of conventional water supplies.
The most commonly used desalination technology—reverse osmosis—entails forcing seawater through a membrane with tiny holes that allows the passage of water molecules, but impedes the flow of larger salt molecules. The pressure needed to accomplish this requires a large amount of electrical energy, although energy use has been reduced through technological improvements.
Still, if fossil fuel-derived electricity is used, desalination will emit carbon dioxide, exacerbating climate change. One future prospect is using wind or solar power to drive reverse osmosis, reducing or eliminating CO2 emissions. Two other environmental problems associated with desalination are adverse effects on marine life from the intake of seawater, which can kill fish eggs and larvae, and the disposal of extracted salt or brine from seawater back into the ocean.
WHITHER CALIFORNIA? WITHER CALIFORNIA?
California, with the largest population and the largest agricultural sector in the entire country—and now with its particularly pressing water conflicts and challenges—represents a laboratory of sorts for the rest of the country and the world. One certainty is that continued population growth in California will only aggravate and intensify the state's water shortages.
The drought is forcing at least some Californians to entertain the heretical notion that endless growth for the sake of growth may not be possible or desirable—the ideology of the cancer cell, as Southwest writer Edward Abbey famously put it. But this same drought is encouraging the state's Establishment, both Democratic and Republican—those who worship at the altar of perpetual growth—to double down in their shrill calls for sacrificing agriculture and the environment on that altar. It's reminiscent of a desperate balloonist jettisoning ever more ballast to keep a sinking hot air balloon aloft.
Former Hewlett-Packard executive and Republican politician Carly Fiorina blames liberal environmentalists who courageously fought still more dams on the state's rivers and had the audacity to defend a tiny fish (the Delta smelt) from extinction for California's "man-made" drought.
The irony is that, to the extent the drought is a byproduct of anthropogenic climate change, it is at least partially man-made, but not in the sense Fiorina intended.
When California is besieged with 80 million residents residing in one sprawling, blighted megalopolis without end; when the state has all but lost its farms, its charms, its rivers, hundreds of endangered species, and any semblance of that quintessential California quality of life, the growth zealots still will be looking for things to sacrifice to keep the growth gig going. The saying "enough is enough" isn't good enough for them.
In the early 1990s, I had the pleasure of meeting Marc Reisner, author of the environmental classic Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, at an environmental conference in Southern California, where he had spoken. I asked Reisner what he thought California's population boom meant for its limited water resources, and vice versa; I don't remember his specific response, but I do remember he agreed that overpopulation was a serious issue.
Sadly, Reisner died in 2001 of colon cancer at the age of just 51 at his home in San Anselmo, in the heart of picturesque Marin County, north of San Francisco. But he left behind an indelible legacy with his captivating and compelling history of the most precious natural resource in the West. One of the things that gave Cadillac Desert its enduring appeal was Reisner's long-term perspective:
"When archaeologists from some other planet sift through the bleached bones of our civilization, they may well conclude that our temples were dams. Imponderably massive, constructed with exquisite care, our dams will outlast anything else we have built…."
CAPS Senior Writing Fellow Leon Kolankiewicz is an environmental scientist and planner.
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