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Q: react-native: how to modify the format in which data is stored in AsyncStorage? AsyncStorage is storing data in {"chosenDate":"2018-12-10","text":"llibl"} format.
But I want it to store it in {'2012-05-22': [{text: 'item 1 - any js object'}] or '2012-05-25': [{text: 'item 3 - any js object'},{text: 'any js object'}] format
OR
Is it possible to change the stored format when I use componetDidMount() to getState() ?
Below is the code for my component:
So, I have a form with TextInput and DatePicker and a button and on click of the button, the form entries are stored using AsyncStorage.
class Reminder extends Component {
    constructor(props) {
        super(props);
        let formatDate = new Date();
        this.state = {
            chosenDate: formatDate.toISOString().split('T')[0],
            text: '',
        };

        this.handleChangeInput = this.handleChangeInput.bind(this);
        this.saveData = this.saveData.bind(this);
    }

    handleChangeInput = (input) =>  {
        this.setState({text:input});
    }

    //save the input
    saveData() {
        AsyncStorage.setItem("key", JSON.stringify(this.state));
    }
    render() {
        return (
            <View>
                <Form style={styles.formContainer}>
                    <View style={styles.formView}>

                            < TextInput
                            placeholder = "Set your reminder"
                            onChangeText={this.handleChangeInput}
                            value={this.state.text}
                            />

                        <DatePicker
                            defaultDate={new Date()}
                            minimumDate={new Date(2018, 1, 1)}
                            maximumDate={new Date(2019, 12, 31)}
                            locale={"en"}
                            timeZoneOffsetInMinutes={undefined}
                            modalTransparent={false}
                            animationType={"fade"}
                            androidMode={"default"}
                            placeHolderText="Select date"
                            textStyle={{ color: "green" }}
                            placeHolderTextStyle={{ color: "#d3d3d3" }}

                        />
                        <Text style={styles.datePicker}>
                            {this.state.chosenDate}
                        </Text>
                    </View>
                    <View style={styles.footer}>
                        <Button block success style={styles.saveBtn}
                        onPress={ () =>
                            {
                              this.saveData()
                              console.log('save data',this.state);
                              Alert.alert('Yay!!', 'Succefully saved.')
                            }
                        }
                           >
                            <Icon type='MaterialIcons' name='done' />
                        </Button>
                    </View>
                </Form>
            </View>
        );
    }
}

export default Reminder;

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// you can achieve this by formatting the state before you store to asyncStorage.

constructor(props) {
  super(props);
  this.state = {
    chosenDate: "2018-12-10",
    text: "library1",
    text1: "library2"
  };
}

async saveData() {
  let { chosenDate, ...restOfState } = this.state;
  let textArray = Object.entries(restOfState).map(([key, value]) => ({ [key]: value }));
  let formattedState = { [chosenDate]: textArray };
  await AsyncStorage.setItem("key", JSON.stringify(formattedState));
}

async getData() {
  let storedData = await AsyncStorage.getItem("key");
  return storedData ? JSON.parse(storedData) : {};
}

 render() {
  return (
    <View>
      <Button
        title="SaveData"
        onPress={() => {
          this.saveData().then(resp => {console.log("data saved")});
        }}
      />
      <Button
        style={{ margin: 20, padding: 20 }}
        title="getData"
        onPress={() => {
          this.getData().then(resp => {
            console.log("Stored Data", resp);
          });
        }}
      />
    </View>
  );
}

// Sample Code

let state = {"chosenDate":"2018-12-10","text":"llibl", text1:"llib2"};
let {chosenDate, ...restOfState} =  state;
console.log(`chosenDate: ${chosenDate}, restOfState: ${restOfState}`);

let textArray = Object.entries(restOfState).map(([key, value])=> ({[key]: value}))

let foramttedState = {[chosenDate]:textArray};

console.log('foramttedState :',foramttedState);


A chartered accountant and the Canadian Revenue Agency offer tips for students on how to tackle their taxes this season.
Tax season is upon us, and for many this is a stressful time of year. Students are finishing up classes for the semester and are getting ready to take exams. Unfortunately for students, tax season waits for no one. The deadline for individuals filing a tax return this year is April 30.
Many students don't file their own tax return, with some handing things over to their parents and others to the professionals. But for the eager and strong-hearted who want to tackle this alone, here are a few tips.
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) As a student filing a tax return, you will need to provide certain documents, such as a T4 slip. These slips show employment income and payroll deductions.
It is important to keep all documentation when filing for a tax return for at least six years. Your return may be selected for review, therefore you should keep an organized file of all of your documents.
You will need to have information on all of your income.
Casey says students need to claim their tuition and book expenses. In order to claim your tuition, education and textbook amounts, you need to receive your T2202A form. This is usually available online. If you have not received this you will need to contact your school.
For textbooks, full-time students can claim $65 a month and part-time students can claim $20 a month.
As stated by CRA, one important thing to remember is courses taken as academic upgrading in order to attend certain university or college programs, may not be claimed towards the tuition tax credit because they are not considered a part of post-secondary education.
Once you have calculated the amount you will need to reduce your own tax owing, if there is any remaining amount, you may choose to transfer it to a parent of grandparent. You can transfer an amount equal to $5,000 minus the amount you used to reduce your own tax payable. All the student needs to do is sign the tax certificate and provide a copy to the recipient.
Casey says you can earn up to about $10,000 tax free, but you should still file.
"The T4 income, such as wages, earns you the potential for a future RRSP deduction when you begin to work and earn the big bucks," he says.
Boutilier's mission is to raise funds to help talented students in pursuit of secondary education.
The warehouse is filled with furniture and household items, and every day there are people dropping off more. For Mel Boutilier, accepting donations is the easy part. The real challenge has been to re-register Metro Care and Share as an official charity.
Boutilier, head of the resurrected charity, says they've been working with the Canada Revenue Agency since August to try to get all of the paperwork sorted out.
"We have a great committee that is anxious to do big things and they have plans that depend a lot on when we get our charity number," said Boutilier.
Metro Care and Share includes a thrift store on Agricola Street in Halifax's north end. The store was opened to the public on Jan. 29, Boutilier's 87th birthday. The goal is to raise money for the Halifax Scholars Program and send talented students to post-secondary institutions who cannot afford it themselves.
The program will help cover tuition expenses and assign a mentor to help guide the students through all aspects of their educational experience. These mentors will be paired with students based on their interests or experience to make sure that they are a good fit for the student.
"The financial aid will cover tuition, books, everything. Not just funds for paying for school but also all the other necessities that go along with it. If you're going to throw them into it, you have to be able to support them," said Solitha Shortte, the program's marketing co-ordinator.
Boutilier and his team are anxious to get started on selecting students, but they still don't know how many students they will be able to help without first registering officially with the Canada Revenue Agency.
The charity status will allow Metro Care and Share to provide tax receipts for donations they receive, to reduce their property tax, and will make them eligible for government grants.
"Depending on how successful we are with fundraisers is how many (students) we'll be able to support. We'll make that determination once we get our tax number, but there is a lot of red tape when it comes to working with the government," said Shortte.
Until then, the planning continues and the thrift store is still accepting donations.
"It's exciting to see the interest that the community has and the way they've been donating items that we can re-sell to generate funds," said Boutilier.
Boutilier is optimistic. He says they'll announce a big fundraising plan once they get their tax number and will celebrate with a grand opening event for the public.
"Great things are happening," he said with a smile.


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Fallen officers remembered in Richmond County ceremony
Written by Staff Report
Rockingham Police Sgt. Marcus Ricks and Richmond County Deputy Dustin McQueen bow for prayer before lowering the flag to half staff at the annual Peace Officers Memorial Day Observance. Richmond County Sheriff's Office
ROCKINGHAM — Richmond County's law enforcement community met on the steps of the old courthouse Wednesday morning to remember their fallen brothers in blue.
The annual Peace Officers Memorial Day Observance is held each year during National Police Week.
This year's event comes just more than a week after an officer in Mooresville was shot and killed by a suspect during a traffic stop.
An honor guard detail lowered the flag to half staff, offered a rifle salute and played taps after Detective Lt. George Gillenwater of the Rockingham Police Department read the Police Officer's Prayer, which was printed on the backs of the event programs.
There were also remarks by Rockingham Police Chief Billy Kelly and 1st Sgt. Joel Williams of the N.C. Highway Patrol.
The names of nine North Carolina officers who died in 2018 were read aloud, including Officer Jason Barton Quick of the Lumberton Police Department who was struck by a vehicle and Scotland County Deputy Alexis "Thunder" Eagle Locklear who died in a crash. The list also included three troopers with the N.C. Highway Patrol.
A memorial wreath with hat and boots was moved inside the old courthouse, which also houses the Richmond County Sheriff's Office.
Richmond County has had several fallen officers over the years.
Hamlet Police Chief John B. Fallow was shot and killed May 5, 1942 attempting to arrest a man who had murdered his own wife, two sisters-in-law, and nephew, according to the Officer Down Memorial Page.
Richmond County Native Troy D. Carr, who was an Alcohol Law Enforcement Agent, was shot in killed in Fayetteville in 1994 at the age of 24.
Deputy Lee Taylor died on the job from medical issues in 2015.
New Hamlet Police Chief Tommy McMasters said he was both honored and reluctant that Sheriff James Clemmons had asked him to be the guest speaker.
"I was honored because I possess an innate proclivity to discuss law enforcement issues," he said, "reluctant for fear of standing before you emitting a series of macabre stories or chain of events that eventually become depressing and leave us all in a somber state at best."
According to McMasters, 18 law enforcement officers across the nation have been shot and killed in the line of duty so far this year — three of them being this month, including Jordan Sheldon, the Mooresville officer, on May 4 and officers in Mississippi and Georgia who were killed May 5 and 11, respectively.
"(That) equates to one officer being killed per week in the United States after being shot," McMasters said. "This number doesn't account for the officers that have lost their lives due to car crashes, heart attacks, other health issues and even worse, suicide."
McMasters added a personal note, mentioning two officers he worked with at the Winston-Salem Police Department who were both killed: Sgt. Howard Plouff in 2007 and Sgt. Mickey Hutchens in 2009.
McMasters said he played music with Hutchens and they had discussed starting a band when Hutchens retired.
"The loss of a law enforcement officer is something we never want to hear about, but unfortunately it is something that every officer knows is a possibility," he said.
The chief encouraged young officers to remembers the safety tacticts they were taught during basic law enforcement training:
Wear that vest;
Call in traffic stops;
Approach the vehicles properly and tactically;
Drive defensively;
Wear that seatbelt;
Wait for back up when feasible;
Try to make better food choices;
Exercise as much as possible;
Be aware of your surroundings at all times; and
When your "Spidey Senses" start tingling pay attention.
"When we fail to do either of these 10 items we are not only letting ourselves down, we make wives suffer, children suffer, grandchildren suffer, brothers and sisters suffer, parents suffer, friends and family suffer and your agency and law enforcement family suffer," he said. "The fact that an officer can lose his or her life is possible, but again please let's do our best not to make that possibility a probability."
(Note: This story has been corrected to change the rank of Detective George Gillenwater.)
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CartMan picks and sticks its way to glory in Amazon Robotics Challenge
By Scott Collie
CartMan picks and sticks its w...
The ACRV team with the winning CartMan robot
The Australian Centre for Robotic Vision (ACRV) has claimed first place in the 2017 Amazon Robotics Challenge with a low-cost Cartesian robot for unstructured environments. Built from the ground up for the competition, "CartMan" outshone its costlier rivals by picking and stowing more items in its allotted test time.
On the surface, picking an object and packing it in a box sounds relatively simple, but it involves the synergy of object recognition, pose recognition, grasp planning, compliant manipulation, motion planning, task execution and error detection and recovery. In other words, robots need to find the correct items, how to reach and grab the item, how to place it on the ground and, if things go wrong, fix the problem on the fly.
Why this specific skillset? Well, online retailers like Amazon are reliant on human-staffed fulfilment centers in which workers take items from the shelves and manually box them up for delivery. The online giant uses robots to shuffle products around these centers, but it hasn't managed to automate the picking and packaging process.
Having identified the correct item using a bespoke vision system and machine learning, CartMan automates the pick and stick process by moving on three axes (vertical, horizontal and forward/back) like a gantry crane. It has a rotating gripper on the end, which uses suction cups or a two-finger grip to grab the correct item.
The ACRV team headquartered at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) isn't new to the Amazon Robotics Challenge. It used a modified off-the-shelf robot last year, and managed to finish sixth. This year, the team poured more than 15,000 hours into developing CartMan from the ground up.
"We opted to build our own robot from scratch – a three-axis Cartesian robot that acts much like a gantry crane you see at ports," says Dr Juxi Leitner from QUT. "With six degrees of articulation and both a claw and suction gripper, CartMan gives us more flexibility to complete the tasks than most robots can offer. CartMan is robust and tackles the task in an innovative way and is also cost effective. We learnt from our experience last year when we used an off-the-shelf robot. I think we had the lowest cost robot at the event!"
The Amazon Robotics Challenge was held in Nagoya, Japan as part of the RoboCup and attracted a field of 16 teams from 10 countries. The Australian Centre for Robotic Vision team takes home US$80,000 for winning the event.
Source: ACRV, QUT
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Based in Melbourne, Australia, Scott grew up with a passion for cars and a love of writing. He now combines the two by covering all things automotive for New Atlas. When he's got a spare moment, you can usually find him freezing himself silly in search of fresh powder to ski.
Madlyb July 31, 2017 12:29 PM
This is Holy Grail of robotics. If solved, we will truly see an explosion of robotics in the workforce replacing Pick and Pack in every vertical.
Bob Flint July 31, 2017 01:32 PM
Picking and dropping objects into a box is complex, more than we take for granted. However the efficient packing as a 3 dimensional "Tetris" is what a good grocery packer already does should be do-able already.
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Q: How do I save and edit a .py file in Github I have a .py file saved on my desktop. How do I upload this on Github and also ensure that changes I make to this file on Spyder are saved on Github too?
Please can you answer step by step if possible?

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*Place or replace your file in directory witch you got from github.

*Open whole directory in VScode

*In terminal type:

*

*git add *

*git commit -m "YOUR COMMENT"

*git pull origin master

*git push origin master

PS. - Don't forget to download git.
PSS. - I also recommend use TortoiseGit because it is easier (just right click on file and commit)

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Morning commute was fun today. Could really do with a good set of winter tyres. Or Skis.
So, Blue Monday. Billed as the most depressing day of the year by some. Can't say I noticed in amongst all that white though. Not even convinced it's even a real day; if it was there'd be cards in the shops celebrating it. Maybe there is and we're all just feeling so miserable we can't be arsed making the effort. And if there isn't, I bagsy it, I had the idea first.
Happy Blue Monday folks. It gets better from here-on-in.


May 2016—C4 staff are presenting at the 2016 National Health Care for the Homeless Conference from May 31-June 3 in Portland, Oregon.
Jeff Olivet, CEO, and Marc Dones, Associate, Equity Initiatives & Diversity, present a workshop on "Homelessness is a Symptom of Racism, and We're Only Treating the Symptom" on Thursday, June 2 from 10:00-11:30 am.
May 2016—A C4 staff member is presenting at the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association 2016 Recovery Workforce Summit in Boston, MA.
May 2016—The Center for Social Innovation (C4), in collaboration with t3—our innovative training institute, joins the Center for Advancement in Critical Time Intervention (CACTI) to host a two-day Critical Time Intervention Train the Trainer event on July 18-19, 2016 (200 Reservoir Street, Suite 103, Needham, MA 02494).
May 2016—The Center for Social Innovation (C4), in collaboration with t3—our innovative training institute, released a series of podcasts about Recovery Housing.
C4's Jeff Olivet and Kristen Paquette join experts from the National Alliance for Recovery Residences (NARR) to discuss the role of recovery residences in a recovery-oriented system of care.
May 2016—A C4 staff member is presenting at the 2016 North Carolina Community Action Conference from May 10-13 in Sunset Beach, NC.
May 2016—C4 staff are presenting at the Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless HOME Conference on May 17 in Rockville, MD.
Jeff Olivet, C4 CEO, will deliver the keynote speech "Embracing Change" from 3:15-4:00pm. Olivet will also moderate a roundtable focused on ending chronic homelessness at 10:15am.
May 2016—The Center for Social Innovation (C4) is launching a Sox for Socks drive in partnership with Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program (BHCHP).
May 2016—C4 staff members published content in "At the Intersections," a new resource addressing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning (LGBTQ) youth homelessness.
Jeff Olivet, C4 CEO, and Marc Dones, Senior Health Policy Analyst, authored a chapter on "Intersectionality and Race," highlighting racism, homophobia, and transphobia as a link to homelessness.


¯ SINCLAIRVILLE — Ryan D. Baker, 26, of Sinclairville was charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and criminally possessing a hypodermic instrument. Deputies performed a warrant check Saturday at a Sinclairville residence. Baker was found inside and taken into custody on warrants from the Lakewood-Busti Police Department. He was transported to Chautauqua County Jail for centralized arraignment and remanded. Baker is scheduled to appear back in court at a later date to answer the charges.
¯ HANOVER — William D. Morris, 32, of Collins was charged with driving while ability impaired by drugs and crossing hazard markings. Deputies stopped a vehicle Saturday at 9:07 p.m. on Route 5 and 20 for driving over the hazard marking. Morris was charged following an investigation. He was taken to jail on pre-arraignment bail and is scheduled to appear in Hanover Town Court at a later date to answer the charges.
¯ Bryan Ramos, 25, of Dunkirk was charged with second-degree burglary, fourth-degree grand larceny and fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property. Ramos was taken into custody following an investigation into a burglary at a Dunkirk residence July 30, 2018. Arrest warrants were obtained in late August and was served Friday. He was taken to Chautauqua County Jail and is scheduled to appear in Dunkirk City Court later.


BEDFORD COUNTY, Pa. — The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released its preliminary report Monday on the August 2 train derailment in Hyndman Borough.
An investigation into the cause of the derailment continues but we do know what transpired leading up to it.
The report says that two crews were involved in the movement of the train before the accident.
According to the NTSB, the train stopped on a descending grade after crews noticed air brake problems. While inspecting and recharging the system, the crew applied 58 hand brakes. An air leak was found, a mechanical employee was called and the issue was resolved. But because the crew did not have enough duty time to finish the trip, a new train crew had to take over.
The 58 hand brakes remained in place as the second crew thought the train was still encountering air brake problems — they then tried to pull the train down the hill. From that point until the train derailed, the conductor released a number of hand brakes and switched from locomotive power to dynamic braking three times, the report says.
As the train was going around a curve, the 35th railcar — out of 178 total — derailed one set of its wheels. It then moved further off the track once it reached a highway-railroad grade cross, resulting in the derailment.
A total of 33 railcars were derailed — 15 of which were transporting hazardous materials at the time. Three contained propane, eight contained molten sulfur, two contained asphalt and two more contained phosphoric acid residue. Three tanks released propane, sulfur and asphalt — the propane and sulfur caught fire.
Several railcar wheels had flat spots and built-up tread from the hand brakes not allowing the wheels to rotate, according to the report.
No injuries or fatalities occurred but 1,000 residents within a 1-mile radius were evacuated — the evacuation was lifted on August 5.


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A Native American blood test can determine if a person is descended from Native Americans, as the Association on American Indian Affairs explains. This DNA tests looks for markers that are characteristic of Native Americans, but it doesn't indicate a person's percentage of Native heritage or the tribe of descent.
Because Native American blood tests don't indicate percentage of Native blood, they're not acceptable to prove Native American heritage for the purposes of many college scholarships available to Native Americans, according to the Association on American Indian Affairs. The Bureau of Indian Affairs issues Certificates of Indian Blood to people who can prove their Native descent by producing birth certificates or by finding ancestors on Native American census rolls taken in the early 1900s.
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This really looks delicious! I love that it can be eaten as a main meatless dish or even as a side!
I've got to show this to my husband. He's a fan of squash recipes. Last Thanksgiving, he stuffed squash with rice & sausage.
Black Quinoa with Brown-Butter Sage Butternut Squash and Pepitas looks so easy to do! I'll try making this later at home.
What a wonderful healthy option! i havent tried black quiona before but would love to and your photos are just absolutely stunning!
Such delicious fall flavors! Looks so yummy!
Such a fantastic dish! I bet it tastes amaaazing!!
Oh, what perfect timing! I just bought black quinoa last week and still deciding what recipe I'll use. This is definitely what I'm making next!
I was looking for a quinoa recipe! This one seems to be perfect for me!
I love anything cooked in a brown butter sage sauce. I've never had black quinoa so this sounds interesting to try! Thanks for the recipe.
I have never been a big quinoa fan, but this was amazing. I used some pre-packaged cut up butternut squash I got at costco. Very tasty!
This dish has so much flavor and so healthy!
I guess I've never tried black quinoa but I did hear there is more than one flavor. I do usually stick to one recipe and as you can imagine I don't make it often. This seems like something I can add to my menu. Good call!
I really need to try brown sage butter. I've heard so many people talk about it and it sounds amazing! I'm going to have to try this dish.
YUM! This sounds so perfect for fall. I'm totally adding this to my saves!
Fall is my favorite season, largely because of the flavors. This recipe sounds delightful. Quinoa is a favorite of ours too. So filling, without all of the guilt.


It has been confirmed. Kassy and Nick have been engaged for the past two weeks. Nick has been signed to a French rugby team so they have relocated to the South of France. Congratulations!
The Daily Telegraph are reporting today that Nick Youngquest has asked Kassy Lee (SYTYCD finalist) for her hand in marriage. The couple are heading over to France as Nick is seeking opportunities to play rugby over there. The next time we see Kassy she could be an engaged girl. Congrats if this is true Kassy!
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Q: Does `model.predict(x,batch_size=n)` use multiple cores? When running model.predict(features,batch_size=n) with a batch_size>1, are those predictions made in parallel - aka across multiple cores at once?

https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/eb7bf384017fd4eabdf500687bec552971cbd41c/tensorflow/python/keras/engine/training_arrays_v1.py

I need to permute millions of columns, so I was hoping to infer many predictions simultaneously using multiprocessing. However, there are major challenges with this: Keras + Tensorflow and Multiprocessing in Python
One of my friends suggested stacking the data for use with batch_size as a workaround to increase performance, but I am wondering what the potential gains would be as it would be a big rewrite.

A: It depends on how you parametrize the function call of tf.keras.model.predict()
In the documentation you can find the parameters of predict, which has a use_multiprocessing parameter:
predict(
    x, batch_size=None, verbose=0, steps=None, callbacks=None, max_queue_size=10,
    workers=1, use_multiprocessing=False
)

Besides multiprocessing, predicting on batches instead of single samples benefits from vectorization, which additionally speeds up the prediction.


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Volume 1 1995 Volume 2 1996 Volume 3 1997 Volume 4 1998 Volume 5 1999 Volume 6 2000
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Volume 13 2008 Volume 14 2009
■ Volume 1 March 1995
INVITED PAPER: It is too late to achieve sustainable development, now let us strive for survivable development
D. L. Meadows .................................. 1
Summer concentrations of atmospheric pollutants in urban and rural areas of Siberia
S. Ohta, T. Fukasawa, N. Murao and V. N. Makarov ................................................ 15
Acidic deposition and its control countermeasures in China
K.-Q. Xu, W. Wang and R. Sudo .................................. 27
An estimation of climatic change effects on malaria
Y. Matsuoka and K. Kai .................................. 43
Comparison of carbon dioxide emission patterns due to consumers' expenditure in UK and Japan
T. Morioka and N. Yoshida .................................. 59
Economic development, energy, and environment in East Asia: A comparative study of Japan, South Korea, and China
H. Imura, T. Futawatari and R. Fujikura .................................. 79
Methodology for the assessment of vulnerability of South Pacific island countries to sea-level rise and climate change
K. Yamada, P. D. Nunn, N. Mimura, S. Machida and M. Yamamoto ................................. 101
Definition and measurement of a household's damage cost caused by an increase in storm surge frequency due to sea level rise
H. Morisugi, E. Ohno, K. Hoshi, A. Takagi and Y. Takahashi ..................................... 127
Climate change in south and south-east Asia: Some implications for coastal areas
R. J. Nicholls, N. Mimura and J. C. Topping ..................................137
■ Volume 2 May 1996
INVITED PAPER: Environmental issues and economic development in India: Challenges for civil engineers.
V. K. Sharma .................................. 1
An analysis on soil erosion factors at the global scale
T. Endo and R. Shibasaki .................................. 9
Estimation of the change in precipitation over Japan due to global climate change by the weather pattern analysis
A. Terakawa, A. Watanabe and M. Fujikane ..................................23
Study on the trade balance of embodied energy with special regard to the Asia-Pacific region
H. Imura, R. Fujikura, T. Mizuno and H. Shiratsuchi 39
Evaluation of global distribution of fallout Cs-137 by numerical simulation with compartment model
Y. Shimada, S. Morisawa and Y. Inoue ..................................... 51
Chemical and optical properties of lower tropospheric aerosols measured at Mt. Lemmon in Arizona
S. Ohta, M. Hori, N. Murao, S. Yamagata and K. Gast ..................................... 67
ETCapsule 2001 project: Ultralong-term preservation of environmental and biological specimens and data
T. Etoh, T.Shibata, M. Watanabe, K. Muraoka, T. Okada, O. Watanabe, C. Okazaki and A. Hanashima ..................................79
Estimation of carbon dioxide flux from tropical deforestation
Y. Matsuoka and H. Hamsawa .................. 97
Dynamic simulation of global energy macro economic model by introducing damage costs into account system
T. Masui and T. Morioka.................................. 113
■ Volume 3 June 1997
A monitoring of cold-weather damage to rice crop through satellite data
T. Tada and M. Sawamoto ........................ 1
Variation of atmospheric turbidity in the area around Japan
S. Ohta, N. Murao, S. Yamagata, T. Fakasawa, S. Hasegawa and K. Arao ......................... 9
Accuracy of trajectory calculations for large-scale air pollution in East Asia
N. Murao, N. Kaneyasu, M. Utiyama, H. Sasaki, S. Ohta, S. Yamagata, H. Kondo and H. Sato ..................................21
Marine contamination in the Arctic Ocean
A. Wada, Y. Kinehara and T. Takano ............ 37
Observation and analyses of fine grains in flood flows at the Abukuma River mouth
A. Mano, M. Sugiki and Y. Sato .................. 53
Organism adaptable concrete
M. Tamai, H. Mizuguchi and T. Okamoto ......... 65
Study on environmental loads of foodstuff production and their trade implications for Japan
H. Imura, T. Mizuno and T. Matsumoto .......... 77
Long-term perspective on population and food supply and demand in Asia based on empirical equations and BaU scenarios
S. Kaneko and H. Imura .................................. 99
Study on the sulfur dioxide pollution in the capital city of a developing country in winter
T. Kitada and A.K. Azad ................................... 121
Climate change impact on global crop production
K. Takahashi, H. Harasawa and Y. Matsuoka .................................. 145
Environmental problems and current management issues in the coastal zones of south and southeast Asia developing countries
A. Sato and N. Mimura ......................... 163
Effects of urbanization on ground surface temperature in the Kansai district, Japan
K. Nakatsuji, H. Minami, A. Sato, K. Muraoka and A. Yamaji .................................. 183
Modeling Study of the Loug Range Transport of Acidic Pollutants over East Asia and the West Pacific Ocean - Sensitivity of Acid Deposition to Scavenging Model Parameters and Emission Source Distribution-
T. Kitada and M. Nishizawa .................................. 1
The Relationships between Regional Industrial Structure and Environmental Loading in China
T. Futawatari and H. Imura...................................31
Real Scale Experiment of Sulfur Dioxide Dissolution into Cloud Droplets Generated in Artificial Cloud Experimental System (ACE)
S. Yamagata, S. Baba, N. Murao, S. Ohta, T. Fukuharn, M. Utiyama, T. Yamada, Y. Fujiyoshi, T. Harimaya and M. Inage ......................................53
Study on Optimal Pollutant Emission by Evaluating both Environmental and Economic Utility in Decision-making
T. Masui and T. Morioka .................................. 65
The Role of Oceanographic Modelling in Predicting the Impact on Coral Reefs from Global Change
E. Wolanski, K. Furukawa and S. Massel ...................................77
Impacts of Climate Change on Water Resources, Crop Production and Natural Ecosystem in the Asia and Pacific Region
K. Takahashi, Y. Matsuoka and H. Harasawa.................................. 91
Potential Impact of Global Warming in Japan - Impact Assessment of Warming on Human Health -
H. Harasawa, Y. Honda, I. Uchiyama and A. Sasaki ..................................105
Hydrogen Ion Concentration in the Precipitation and Snow-packs in Yakutia
V.N. Makarov and G.P. Levchenko ................119
Environmental Pollution and its Control in Dhaka, Bangladesh : Implications of Urbanization
A. K. Azad and T. Kitada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Foreign-affiliated Firms and Environmental Problems in China: Environmental Implications of Foreign Direct Investment
T. Matsumoto and H. Imura . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
■ Volume 5 Oct 1999
Impacts of Climate Change on Food Production -An Economic Assessment-
K. Takahashi, H. Harasawa and Y. Matsuoka....................1
Concentrations of Water Soluble Organic Aerosols at Mt. Lemmon in Arizona
M. Hori, S. Ohta, N. Murao and S. Yamagata.................... 11
Demonstration Test on Greening in the United Arab Emirates -Grass Growth by Moisture Absorbent Textile and Effect of Greening on Microclimate-
Y. Takano and T. Fukuhara..............................................27
An Empirical Analysis and Forecasting of Grain Production in China
H. Imura, T. Toyoda and J. Chen....................................... 37
A Feature of Carbon Dioxide Variation in a Deciduous Forest: An Example at Kawatabi
M. Sawamoto, H. Okada and T. Tada................................57
Evaluation of Japanese Automobile Industrial Metabolism
M. T. Magampon, N. Yoshida and T. Morioka.................... 73
Evaluation of Environmental Impact in Civil Infrastructure Systems with Respect to Sustainable Industrial Transformation
T. Morioka and N. Yoshida................................................ 87
An Environmentally Harmonious Organic Wastes Recycling System
Y. Yang, K. Tsumura and M. Naito ................................... 97
Estimation of Soil Erosion and Sediment Transport in the Mekong River Basin using Global Mapping Data
G. Kurata, K. Oketani, T. Kitada and Y. Hara.................111
Influence of Vegetation Distribution on the Mass Balance of Total Nitrogen in a Forested Mountain Watershed
S. Shinoda, K. Tsuduki, A. Yuasa, Y. Sato and K. Mano ........................................127
Study on the Water Demand and Supply in China Based on Business as Usual Scenarios
S. Kaneko, Y. Mieda and H. Imura..............................................139
■ Volume 6 Sep 2000
Linking Technology Transfer with Clean Development Mechanism (CDM): A developing Country Perspective
J.K. Parikh ....................... 1
Radiative Transfer Model for Satellite Remote sensing of Ocean Colors in Coastal Zones
H. Kobayashi, S. Ohta, N. Murao, H. Tachibana and S. Yamagata .......................................13
Perceived Environmental Problems by Nepalese Ecologically Different Areas
T. Futawatari, H. Kashiwazaki, T. Hamaii and M. P. Shrestha ......................................................33
Contribution of Bacterial Production to Sinking Carbon Flux in a Japanese Coastal Area: A Marine Mesocosm Study
S. Harada, H. Koshikawa, M. Watanabe, K. Kohata, T. Ioriya and J. Hiromi ................................. 51
Variation of Sliding Failure Probability of Breakwater Caisson Due to Global Warming
H. Kawai...........................................................65
Bridge Type Selection System Incorporating Environmental Impacts
Y. Itoh, L. Sunuwar, T. Hirano, A. Hammad and T. Nishido ..........................................................81
Life Cycle Estimation of C02 Emission from Urban Districts and its Application for Urban Environmental Management
T. Fujita, T. Morioka and A. Murano.............................103
Inter-annual Variability in Sulfur Deposition in Asia
G. Calori, G. R. Carmichael, D. Street, N. Thongboonchoo, S. K. Guttikunda ...................................1
Assessment of Water Resource Problems under Climate Change - Considering Inter-annual Variability of Climate Derived from GCM Calculations -
K. Takahashi, Y. Matsuoka, Y. Shimada, H. Harasawa. ...................17
Development of Climate Change Scenarios for Impact Assessment using Results of General Circulation Model Simulations
K. Takahashi, Y. Matsuoka, T. Okamura, H. Harasawa.. .................31
Sulfur Dioxide Emissions and County-level Distributions in China
H. Yang, Y. Matsuoka, T. Matsuo ......................................47
Historical Review of Health Risk Aspects with the Leaded Gasoline Regulation Policy in Japan
S. Morisawa, H. Hidaka, M. Yoneda .................................63
Numerical Simulation of the Transport of Biomass Burning Emissions in Southeast Asia - September and October, 1994 -
T. Kitada, M. Nishizawa, G. Kurata, Y. Kondo.................79
Numerical Analysis of Heat Island Phenomena for the Control of Cooling Energy in Cities
Y. Ashie, V. Thanh Ca, T. Asaeda ....................................101
A Study on Arsenic Contamination of Groundwater in Samta Village, Bangladesh
H. Yokota, K. Tanabe, M. Sezaki, Y. Yano, K. Hamabe, K. Yabuuchl, H. Tokunaga, ANN, RGAG, NIPSOM.......119
Evaluation of Inter-regional Ecological Rucksack in the two Basins in China by Means of Inter-industrial Analysis
T. Okadera, N. Yoshida, T. Morioka ................................131
Lifecycle Environmental Impact and Cost of Bridges
Y. Itoh, C. Liu, H. Nagata, L. Sunuwar, K. Nlshikawa ..................................151
Lifecycle Assessment Application for Bridge Technology Development
Y. Itoh, C. Liu, K. Umeda, K. Nishikawa........................169
■ Volume 8 Nov 2002
Measurements of Optical and Chemical Properties of Aerosols for Estimates of Atmospheric Turbidity over the East China Sea by Satellite Data
S Hasegawa, S. Ohta, N. Murao, S. Yamagata ..............1
Measurement of Optical and Chemical Properties of Atmospheric Aerosols over the Western Pacific Ocean
Y. Fujitani, S Ohta, T. Endoh, N. Murao, S. Yamagata..................................17
Characteristics of Nz0 distributions at Air-Sea Interface on the Equator Area in Pacific Ocean
M. Imamura, N. Mori, K. Shitashima, R. Yamamoto..................................35
Photosynthesis Regulation of Phytoplankton by Organic Complexation of Iron
H. Hasegawa, M. Shinoura, H. Mizumoto, K. Naito, Y. Sohrin, K. Ueda..........................................45
Alkali Soil Reclamation in China using Gypsum Produced in Flue Gas Desulfurization Process; A Case Study
Y. Sakai, S. Matsumoto, Y. Nitta, M. Sadakata................55
Estimation of Potential and Convertible Arable Land in China Determined by Natural Conditions
Q. Wang, K. Otsubo, T. Ichinose........................................67
Characteristics and Management of Municipal Solid Waste in China
J. Zuo, T. Matsumoto, H. Nakayama, H. Imura...............79
Analysis of the Policies for Promoting Electricity from Renewable Energy Sources using Computable General Equilibrium Model -In Case of Photovoltaic System-
A. Hayashi, T. Morioka ...................................................... 99
Evaluation of Eco-Industrial Park as Societal Demonstration Site in Japan
N. Yoshida, T. Morioka, H. Fujimura, M. Takebayashi..115
A Study on the Regeneration of Nature in the Kitakyushu and Emscher Industrial Area
B. Dewancker...................................................................129
Environmental Impact Assessment of Wastewater Treatment System by LCA Technique
Y. Ishibashi, T. Hayase, Y. Takao, K. Arizono, T. Takemasa .................................137
Eco-Efficiency Analysis of Plastics used in Electrical Equipment Materials Comparison of PBT and Phenolic resin in circuit breakers
Cecilia T. Makishi, Tohru Morioka .................................1
Regional Warming Related to Land Use Change during recent 135 years in Japan
Toshiaki Ichinose ...........................................................19
Temporal Structure of Land Use Change in Asia
Toshiaki Ichinose, Kuninori Otsubo ..............................41
Study on Capacity Building of Environmental Management in Asian Cities
Reiji Hitsumoto, Hidefumi Imura ................................ 53
Effect of CCN Number Density on Radius and Temperature of Cloud Droplet Grown up Competitively
Sadataka Shiba, Yushi Hirata, Shunsaku Yagi ...........65
The present condition of Soil contamination with heavy metals at praks in Honshu and Kyushu
Osamu Bannai, Tatsuya Tanikoshi, Minoru Yoneda, Shinsuke Morisawa ...................................75
Human-Air Pollution Exposure Map of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal Assessment Based on Chemical Transport Simulation
Ram P. Regmi, Toshihiro Kitada .................................. 89
■ Volume 10 Aug 2004
International Analysis and Projection of Domestic Water Use
Toshiya Aramaki, Manabu Suzuki, Keisuke Hanaki ....1
Aerosol Chemical Species and Volatile Organic Compounds at Barrow, Alaska
Naoto Murao, Sachio Ohta, Sadamu Yamagata, Tatsuya Fukasawa, Toshiaki Shitaba, Kazuyuki Takeuchi ......11
Evaluation of Advanced Loop-Closing System of Steel Recycling
Kiyotaka Tsunemi, Tohru Morioka ...............................27
Estimation of the Emission Ratio of Hydrocarbons from Biomass Burning by Using Backward Trajectory Analysis from Airborne Observation for East Asia
Gakuji Kurata, Toshihiro Kitada, Gregory R. Carmichael, Youhua Tang, Jung-Hun Woo ..................39
Study on the Impacts of Global Warming on River Flows throughout Japan
Hironori Nogami, Satoshi Machida, Ryouko Kumano, Hideo Harasawa .........................................53
Numerical Simulation of Air Pollutant Dispersion from Double-Decked Road: Effect of Width Ratio between Ground and Upper Deck Road
Takayuki Tokairin, Toshihiro Kitada ..........................65
Impact Evaluation of Sea Level Rise on Indonesian Coastal Cities -Micro Approach through Field Survey and Macro Approach through Satellite Image Analysis-
Hideyuki Kobayashi .....................................................77
An Urban Evaluation Method for the Realization of Sustainable Compact Cities
Yasuaki Hijioka, Hideo Harasawa, Shiro Kawai, Yusuke Mitsuoka, Rieko Nakao .................................93
GIS-Based Assessment of COz Emission Caused by Automobile Trips for Shopping, Case Study in Muko River Basin Region
El-Lithy Khaled, Tsuyoshi Fujita, Tohru Morioka ...113
Database of Local Meteorological Fields Simulated with Mesoscale Model MM5 and its Verification
Kazuhito Fukao, Teruo Ohsawa, Susumu Shimada, Takashi Yasuda .........................................129
Residential Energy Demand and CO2 Emission in the Asian Mega-Cities: Estimation of Future Trends and Policy Implications
Toru Matsumoto, Jian Zuo, Xindong Wei ............................137
A Life Cycle Assessment Approach for Examining the Feasibility of Transport Projects as a CDM Program
Kazuyuki Kuriyama, Kosuke Tanaka, Naoki Shibahara, Hirokazu Kato, Yoshitsugi Hayashi ............................157
Technical Note Report
Environmental Load Reduction and Environmental Impact Assessment of Railway Construction Projects
Mitsuo Yanagisawa ............................167
An Analytical Study of Citizens' Opinion Polls on the Evaluation of a Road Construction Project with Special Concerns for the Urban Environment (a Case Study of Hikawa Sando in Saitama City)
Aiji Tsuchiya ............................177
Proposal of Environmental Accounting Housekeeping (EAH) Books of Domestic Wastewater Based on Water Pollutant Loads per Capita: a Case Study of Sanbanze Tidal Coastal Zone, Tokyo Bay
Yoshiaki Tsuzuki ............................187
Mechanism of Establishing the Environmental Related Graduate Schools and Majors in Japanese National Universities -in the View fo Higher Education Policy-
Hiromi Uchiyama ............................197
Environmental Preservation in Large Scale Development Projects
Hiroshi Horikoshi, Toshiyuki Ishikura, Noboru Takayama, Yasutake Iwasaki ............................207
The Integrated Management System of ISO Standards
Masahiko Yano, Toru Morioka ............................215
Development of Environmental Education Activity by Introduction of Environment ISO
Takanori Kumekawa, Yoshitaka Aihara, Eiji Murakami, Masakatsu Takakuwa, Yoshiharu Okada ............................225
Investigation of Fuel Economy of Container Trailer
Akito Murano, Takeshi Suzuki ............................235
■ Volume 11 August 2006
Life Cycle Assessment of Port Projects -Preliminary modeling of elementary process-
Takeshi Suzuki ................................................................1
Implications for Top-Down Control of Phytoplankton Species Succession Within a Large Coastal Mesocosm
Shigeki Harada, Hiroshi Koshikawa, Masataka Watanabe, Teru Ioriya .............................17
Wave Attenuation and Sediment Deposition due to Coastal Vegetation
Toshiyuki Asano..........................................................29
Lifecycle Cost and COz Emission Comparison of Conventional and Rationalized Bridges
Yoshito Itoh, Saori Tsubouchi, In-Tae Kim, Chunlu Liu ...................................................................45
Transport Energy Intensity and Mobility Trends in The World from 1980 to 1995
Masayoshi Tanishita ....................................................59
■ Volume 12 March 2007
Carbon Cycle Coupling of Photosynthesis and Calcification in the Coccolithophore, Emiliania Huxleyi
Shigeki Harada, Masataka Watanabe ............................1
Integrated Model for Estimating Sediment Discharge to Coastal Area from River Basin - a Case Study of Sakawa River.
Joel Nobert, Tomoya Shibayama ..................................13
A Case Study on the Benefit to the Relatively Poor at ODA Water Supply Projects in Kenya
Akio Ito, Kiyoshi Yamada, Victor S. Muhandiki, Masanori Matsubara ................,.................33
Relationship between Oxidant-based AOT40 and Forest Environmental Conditions of Damaged Japanese Cedars in the Kanto Plains.
Takashi Ishii, Hideyuki Matsumura, Hiroshi Hayami, Yoshihisa Kohno ..........................................51
Difference of Sea Breeze in Jakarta between Dry and Wet Seasons: Implication in No2 and So2 Distributions in Jakarta
Asep Sofyan, Toshihiro Kitada, Gakuji Kurata ............63
Variation of Atmospheric Aerosol Carbon Concentration in Yakutia
Vladimir Makarov, Tatsuya Fukasawa, Sachio Ohta.....87
A report on the Follow-up Survey of Rainfall Infiltration Facilities at Akishima Tutsujigaoka Heights Housing Complex
Sukio Maezono, Hiroyasu Shimada, Yutaka Minegishi, Yoshikazu Shimada, Makoto Suganuma, Akito Kagawa .................................................................97
Life Cycle Assessment and Scenario Analysis of Municipal Solid Waste Disposal Systems: The Case of Beijing
Yonghai Xue, Toro Matsumoto, Jian Zuo ...................................1
Study on Comparison of Eco-industrial Parks in Japan, China and Korea.
Juan Liu, Toru Matsumoto, Jae-Yeon Won, Part. Zhang, Yijun Ji, Yu Qi, Kimeun Soo, Limeun Hyuok ...............................................................21
Time-Series MFCA for Assessing Recycling Policies for Regional Resource Circulation
Manabu Shibata, Toru Matsumoto ................................39
Study on the Efficiency of Agricultural Water Use in the Yellow River Basin
Akio Onishi, Masafumi Morisugi, Hidefumi Imura, Feng Shi, Tsugihiro Watanabe, Yoshihiro Fukushima .................51
Numerical Study of NOx and SOx Dynamics Under Land/Sea Breezes in Dry Season in Jakarta, Indonesia
Asep Sofyan, Toslaihiro Kitada, Gakuji Kurata ............,69
Global GIIG Emission Scenarios under GHG Concentration Stabilization Targets
Yasuaki Hijioka, Yuzuru Matsuoka, Hiromi Nishimoto, Toshihiko Masui, Mikiko Kainuma ...............................97
Impact of Migratory Waterfowl Flocks on Water Quality of a Lagoon
Guangwei Huang, Masahiko Isobe ...............................109
Water Quality and Pollutant Load in the Ambient Water and Domestic Wastewater Pollutant Discharges in the Developing Countries: Survey Results in Autumn and Winter in 2006
Yoshiaki Tsuzuki, Thammarat Koottatep, Faruque Ahmed, MD Mafizur Rahman .......................121
A Coupled Atmosphere and Multi-Layer Land Surface Model for Improving Heavy Rainfall Simulation
Mohammed HAGGAG, Takao YAMASHITA, Han Soo LEE, and Kyeongok KIM .......................... 1
Global Emissions and Mitigation of Greenhouse Gases in 2020
Tatsuya HANAOKA, Osamu AKASHI, Tomoko HASEGAWA, Go HIBINO, Kazuya FUJIWARA, Yuko KANAMORI, Yuzuru MATS UOKA and Mikiko KAINUMA ..............15
SWOT Analysis for discussion of Success Factors and Obstacles on Eco-Industrial Park Projects in Several Asian Countries
Juan LI U and Toru MATSUMOTO ...............................27
Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) Relationships between Pollutant Discharge per Capita (PDC) of Domestic Wastewater and Income Indicators
Yoshiaki TSUZUKI .......................................................37
Estimation of Greenhouse Gas Emitted from Municipal Solid Waste Treatment and Disposal: A Taiwan Case Study
Yu-Chi WENG, Takeshi FUJIWARA and Yuzuru MATSUOKA ..............................................47
On-Site Treatment Systems in the Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTPS) Service Areas in Thailand: Scenario Based Pollutant Loads Estimation
Yoshiaki TSUZUKI, Thammarat KOOTTATEP, Suraphong WATTANACHIRA, Yuttachai SARATHAI and Chira WONGBURANA ........................................... 57


In order to unite its various sites and services around a strong image of the company, Clement CHAPATON, Chairman of Annonay Productions France, wished to give the company a new logo that reflected its reputation and status.
The result was a new graphical identity with pure lines, modern and dynamic, values perfectly in tune with the developments carried out by this specialist in liners and pool covers Made in France.
If the 3 colour codes defining APF's business segments - blue for Impermeability, red for Safety, and yellow for Equipment - have been retained to facilitate identification by the customer, APF Services has made its appearance in this new identity.
This division, distinguishable by its grey logo and a pictogram representing tools, is dedicated to customer support, from service to assistance, after-sales to training.
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There are many ways you can utilise VLANs in OpenWRT. This documents particularly how to configure a TP-Link WDR4300 running OpenWRT 12.09 to conform to an existing VLAN topology, where VLAN 1 is for data and VLAN 2 is for VOIP (voice) traffic.
Scroll down and click on Add - VLAN ID 3 should appear.
In Interface select VLAN Interface: "eth0.3".
Check that wan is set to VLAN Interface: "eth0.3"
Re-check the Switch settings are as per the previous section.
Click on System then Reboot.
It can take about a minute for services to return after this reboot.
Name the interface appropriately, I'll use Voice for this example.
Ensure the interface is set to Static address.
Set Cover the following interface to VLAN Interface: "eth0.2".
You will now be taken to the page titled Interfaces - Voice.
Here we set the basic IPv4 configuration for this interface (did I mention I'm assuming IPv4?).
Set the IPv4 address as appropriate.
De-select Disable DHCP for this interface.
That's it. Everything else is automatically determined by the IPv4 address you set in Common Configuration. I set the limit 100 as that is the dedicated DHCP range for VOIP handsets on that LAN. You could probably safely leave it at 150 (the default) or set it to the range appropriate for your network.
If you've not made any typos, it should all came back up and you'll have a working VLAN 2 for voice. If you can't access the box, you've made typo. Factory reset and try again. Happy VLAN-ing!


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Women's History Month: Miss Mary A. Ripley, Harriet Townsend and Buffalo's Women's Union
Posted in West Side, tagged Buffalo, Buffalo Women's Union, Harriet Townsend, History, Mary A. Ripley, Miss Mary Ripley, Miss Ripley, New York, Ripley Place, State Normal School, Streets, Townsend Hall, University at Buffalo, Women's Educational and Industrial Union on March 12, 2015| 1 Comment »
Ripley Place is a short, one-block street on the west side of Buffalo, running between Vermont and Connecticut Streets, near Richmond Avenue.
Mary A. Ripley was a teacher at Central High School from the 1860s through the 1880s. She was born in Windham, Connecticut in 1831, but grew up in Alden, New York and attended local schools. She was known around town as one of the few woman who dared in the 1880s to wear her hair short.
Miss Ripley taught for seven years at School 7. In 1861, she became a member of the faculty at Central High School. She was determined to make over the school. At the time, the teachers often had to call in the police to stop the students' riots. Miss Ripley asked for the job of taking care of the boys' study hall, which was where many of the riots originated. The male teachers doubted she'd be able to handle the boys, but Miss Ripley kept order with little difficulty. She would tell people her goal was to develop young people's conduct and character.
In 1867, Miss Ripley published a volume of poems. She also wrote a textbook of Parsing Lessons for small school room use and a book titled Household Service. Many considered Miss Ripley a talented poet and writer; however, her heart was truly dedicated towards her students. She made long lasting impacts on her students.
Several of her poems were featured in magazines. The following comes from the Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review, Volume 6:
When the State Normal School opened in Albany, Miss Ripley was summoned there to become one of its first teachers. She went to Albany to teach for a few years, but missed her old school so she returned to Buffalo. She taught at Central until 1888.
Miss Ripley received many honors in her years teaching. During the Civil War, at a Washington's Birthday celebration, she was seated with former President Millard Fillmore. In 1886, for her 25th anniversary of teaching at Central, she was given a gold watch and roses. For her retirement, she was given a diamond ring from "Miss Ripley's Boys and Girls". They formed the Mary A. Ripley Association, which met for several years. Miss Ripley passed away in 1893.
Mary Ripley Library in the Union Hall. Source: WNY Heritage
The Mary A. Ripley Memorial Library was established in the Women's Educational and Industrial Union building. Miss Ripley was a member of the Board of Directors of the Union. The Ripley Memorial Library was furnished at a cost of $2,000 and contained 500 volumes when it first opened. The Ripley Memorial Library was established with the Public Libraries division of the University of the State of New York. The library was widely used as a place to read and study.
The Women's Educational and Industrial Union was established in 1884 by Harriet Townsend. We'll get to more about the Townsend men and Townsend Street on another day, but it's women's history month, so we'll talk about her today! Mrs. Townsend was made the CEO of the organization due to her intelligence, vision and management skills. She had no children, which allowed her to work full time for the advancement of women, advocating for women's rights all of her life. The Union building was located on Delaware Ave at Niagara Square (site of the City Court Building) in the former Babcock house, which was later demolished to build a larger building. During the dedication ceremony of the new building, Miss Ripley recited a poem she had written.
Membership into the Union was $1. Union reports stated "We no longer listen to the selfish moralist who cries 'Let the woman stay in her home, her only safe haven'", and that "it is not, an association of benevolent, well-to-do women, joined for the purpose of reaching down to help the poor and persecuted women, but a Union of all classes and conditions of women". The concept was unique at the time.
Union Building on Niagara Square c. 1890. Source: WNY Heritage
The Union building contained the first gymnasium for women in Buffalo, kitchen space for instruction in nutrition and cooking, and provided classes on various topics not provided in public schools. The Union gave scholarships to women to attend Bryant and Stratton and trained women for low wage jobs, such as cooks, domestics, and seamstresses. The Union taught members how to navigate the bureaucracy of government. The Union lobbied to establish equal guardianship rights for women in case of divorce. The Union successfully got a women appointed to the School Board and fought for rights for all women.
The Union dissolved in 1915, finding that its work was finished – most of its groundbreaking programs had been adopted by educational, governmental and civic organizations. These Women's Union began programs we take for granted today such as vocational education, physical education, night school, free kindergartens, probation officers, Legal Aid, etc. The building then became Townsend Hall, part of the University at Buffalo and was the college's first College of Arts and Sciences, named after Harriet Townsend. The building was razed in 1959 after it was destroyed by fire. The Townsend Hall name was transferred to a building on South Campus.
Learn about other streets in the Street Index.
"Ripley Place is Memorial To Beloved Central High Teacher" Courier Express Oct 5, 1941, sec 5 p 3
"Streets Have Historical Link" Buffalo Courier Express. Dec 7 1952 p 7-8
The Women's Educational and Industrial Union of Buffalo. Compiled by Mrs. Frederick J. Shepard.
"Harriet A. Townsend: The Women's Union." Susan Eck. Western New York Heritage Press.
The Magazine of Poetry, A Monthly Review. Charles Wells Moulton. Buffalo NY 1894.


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Academic journal article Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law
The American Civil Jury for Auslander (Foreigners)
By Vidmar, Neil
In an important essay on comparative analysis of civil law, Herbert Bernstein drew attention to the risks of an author misunderstanding procedural law when he or she lacked a fundamental, system-neutral conceptual framework of a country and lacked first-hand experience with the various laws of that country. (1) Herbert and I occasionally talked about this problem of misunderstanding regarding the American civil jury. In this special issue devoted to the memory of Professor Bernstein, Paul Carrington has placed the American civil jury into its political context. (2) This Article complements Professor Carrington's Article by addressing the empirical issues related to the actual performance of the American civil jury and the constraints that the legal system has developed to correct occasional errant decisions by lay adjudicators.
Legal practitioners and scholars whom I encounter in my travels outside the borders of the United States frequently challenge me to explain the "crazy," "outrageous" system by which we allow groups of untutored lay persons to decide civil disputes. (3) Invariably, they bring up the recent McDonald's case (4) in which a civil jury in New Mexico awarded a woman $160,000 in compensatory damages and $2.7 million in punitive damages just because she spilled coffee on herself. (5) My inquisitors are frequently surprised to learn that for years McDonald's had kept its coffee many degrees hotter than home-brewed coffee or the coffee of its competitors; that for over five years it had been aware of the problem of serious burns resulting from the coffee through over 700 complaints but had never consulted a burn specialist, reduced the temperature of its coffee, or warned consumers; and that the seventy-nine-year-old woman who was injured suffered second and third degree burns to her private parts. (6) They are also surprised to learn that the plaintiff had tried to settle the suit for a much more modest amount before trial, initially around $20,000 to cover her medical expenses, and that the jury's punitive damage award was equal to two days' worth of the McDonald's corporation's profits from selling coffee. (7) Finally, almost everyone is ignorant of the fact that the trial judge subsequently reduced the punitive damage award to $480,000 for a total award of $640,000, (8) and that the case was later settled for an undisclosed, presumably lesser, amount. (9)
One source of misunderstanding in the McDonald's case is incomplete media reporting about the details of the case. This problem is endemic with media coverage of jury awards. A number of studies have carefully documented the fact that mass media newspapers and television tend to report jury awards selectively, focusing on large awards, ignoring small awards and defendant verdicts, and not providing complete details about issues put to the juries or matters preceding trial or following the jury verdict. (10) In addition, industry groups generally opposed to the tort system frequently distort information about jury awards in order to further their political agendas. (11) Moreover, some legal commentators who have made claims about the legal system (12) may be less than informed about the empirical realities of jury behavior.
I do not suggest that the American civil jury is a perfect institution. Jury decisions are sometimes questionable, but systematic empirical research examining their performance according to various criteria and in the context of the judicial constraints and other dynamics of the legal system presents a picture quite different from public perceptions both within the United States and abroad.
This brief Article does not present a comprehensive survey of empirical research. Rather it highlights research that addresses some of the most misunderstood aspects of the American civil jury system. The Article first discusses research bearing on jury performance, followed by a discussion of the jury system as it is embedded in the broader context of procedural law and practice. …
Publication: Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law
Publication date: Summer 2003
Vidmar, Neil
Civil Procedure--Analysis
Juries--Research
Reform of Civil Procedure: Essays on 'Access to Justice' By A. A. S. Zuckerman; Ross Cranston Clarendon Press, 1995
Civil Justice in Crisis: Comparative Perspectives of Civil Procedure By Adrian A. S. Zuckerman; Sergio Chiarloni; Peter Gottwald Oxford University Press, 1999
Understanding Civil War: Evidence and Analysis - Vol. 2 By Paul Collier; Nicholas Sambanis World Bank, 2005
The Other Federal Rules of Civil Procedure By Walker, Laurens The Review of Litigation, Vol. 25, No. 1, Winter 2006
Civil Procedure - Class Actions - Fifth Circuit Holds That District Court Failed to Conduct Rigorous Class Certification Analysis in Light of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. V. Dukes By Harvard Law Review, Vol. 126, No. 4, February 2013
Preliminary Draft of the ALI Transnational Rules of Civil Procedure By Hazard, Geoffrey C., Jr. Texas International Law Journal, Vol. 33, No. 3, Summer 1998
Judging Science: Courts May Be Too Skeptical of Research Done with Juries in Mind By Raloff, Janet Science News, Vol. 173, No. 3, January 19, 2008
The Latest Releases in Legal CDs By Information Today, Vol. 10, No. 2, February 1993
Comprehensive Book on Employment Arbitration Tackles Class Actions and More By Dispute Resolution Journal, Vol. 62, No. 4, November-January 2007
Research Finds Talc Doesn't Cause Cancer ; Juries Disagree and Some Offer By Johnson, Linda A. Charleston Gazette Mail, September 27, 2016
Research Finds Talc Doesn't Cause Cancer; Juries Disagree By Johnson, Linda A St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO), September 27, 2016
Confusing Control and Security By Rahn, Richard W. The Washington Times (Washington, DC), March 28, 2005


This week marks Eating Disorder Awareness Week. This month marks 10 months since I beat my eating disorder.
I guess the first stage of overcoming it was actually coming to terms with having an eating disorder; admitting to myself that I was struggling to cope with the operations I'd had the year before and just missing out on my grades to get into uni. In many ways, starving myself was a coping mechanism as well as a method of maintaining control over my life through my body weight. So admitting to my parents and my psychotherapist that I had a problem was the first step on the road to recovery.
The second step was finding the courage to seek professional help; that in itself took the longest. My mum's friend is a therapist and recommended a few private professionals as the prospect of being put on a waiting list when my condition was getting so serious was impossible to accept. After flat out refusing to see/talk to anyone about my problems for well over a month, I realised I'd either have to pluck up the courage to talk through my anxiety and pain or spend the rest of my life miserable, isolated and starving myself until I was close to death/actually died.
My first session with the psychotherapist was incredibly daunting; naturally, every instinct in my body was telling me not to trust her because she was an outsider. My brain was screaming she won't understand. I think she, too, saw my apprehension and helped me work through it by sorting through my personal life piece by piece. She began compiling a timeline of every significant event in my life, from starting high school up until present day. Of all things, I didn't expect a chronology to be as helpful as it eventually proved to be, because once she'd organised key moments of my childhood and adolescence into categories on her timeline, it eventually unravelled what the cause of my anxiety was.
My anxiety had physically manifested itself into an eating disorder and the only way I could tackle the eating problems was to tackle the anxiety first. This was, and to some extent still is, incredibly difficult. Seeing a therapist every week was incomprehensibly effective as she helped me trawl through the trauma I'd experienced essentially since high school, and soon this slow but steady psychological improvement was reflected in my eating habits. The root of my eating problems was ultimately a lack of self esteem, originating from mistreatment and psychological trauma at my high school. Teachers and a few students made me feel worthless and I guess I spent 6 odd years growing up with the belief that I was nothing but a failure. Once my therapist helped me through this harrowing acceptance of my high school experience, I began to accept other aspects of my life, too. For example, my physical health deteriorated rapidly in 2013 and the trauma of relentless, disabling pain also took its toll. Over the course of a year, I managed to work through the psychological aspects of my life which were contributing to a lack of self esteem and my anxiety attacks.
The other fundamental factor of overcoming my eating disorder was accepting that my body was a thing to be loved, not loathed. I was so desperately trying to achieve an ideal body weight that I lost all sense of rationale. This ideal body weight soon became dangerously life-threatening which is when my parents confronted me about why I was so thin, and why my hipbones were sticking out through my jeans. I was incredibly careful to hide everything from them; from putting food wrappers in the bin despite eating none of the contents, to wearing baggy clothes. (thereby hiding my weight loss) I used to starve myself from morning until 5pm, binge on whatever junk food I could find, only for it all to come back up because my stomach was shrinking and couldn't tolerate a massive influx of food in one go. Due to my inability to keep food contents inside my body, I was rapidly losing weight but no one really noticed, so I kept pushing to lose more. Over the course of the year that I received help for the eating disorder, I learnt to love myself a lot more. Surrounding myself with good, positive influences and detaching myself from toxic, negative people is ultimately what saved me.
It's incredible how many people compliment me on my body now, three sizes up from what I was two years ago. It's also incredible how far I've come, emotionally and physically, since high school. Beating the eating disorder not only saved my life but it also helped me get over the trauma of my high school experience. It made me realise that I'm a survivor.
I cannot emphasise how important it is for people to show solidarity amongst understanding and compassion for those suffering from eating disorders. Sticking around for someone can make a world of difference. Whether it's a shoulder to cry on or a hand to hold when times get tough, just being there is what helped me through my darkest hours. Cowards walk away from people in desperate times of need. Don't be that person.
I'm so excited to start this post off with a positive! I'm 19 days into January and PAIN FREE! This is such a huge deal for me, I can't even process it.
Okay, so I'm not 100% pain free; more along the lines of 70% but it's still a dramatic improvement from 2015. Thankfully, it's less frequent and doesn't last very long either, meaning I'm not exactly disabled by the pain as I was last year. I'm still getting my head around saying last year. I actually survived 2015.
After well over a year of being seen by multiple private specialists in and around London, my parents and I lost hope in the private medical care system simply because nothing was being done. I'd had countless tests done, all coming back negative meaning the doctors had literally nothing to go on in order to make a concrete diagnosis other than my pain. Considering there was no visual evidence to support the pain, it was hard for them to figure out what was going on inside me and I think they pretty much gave up after increasing my daily pain relief and putting me on 3000 units of Creon a day.
During my hospitalisation in November last year, I was referred to a hepatologist at Royal Surrey County Hospital – a tertiary care centre. Because I wasn't getting anywhere privately, we agreed it was best to get another specialist opinion and I had the consultation last week. (Downside to the NHS: everything takes at least a month or two to happen!) I was seen by and am currently under the care of the hepatology surgical team who informed me that the Sphincter of Oddi Dysfunction (SOD) diagnosis has been confirmed. WAHEY.
After having a procedure in December, they discovered slight inflammation in the bile duct which suggests a possible latent gallstone (from my laparoscopic cholysysectomy) had recently passed through. This would explain the recurrent attacks of excruciating pain which landed me in a&e so many times last year as well as my intolerance to codeine and morphine. The slight issue with SOD is it's unpredictability; I have no way of knowing when another attack will take place or how destructive it will be. The surgeons have come up with a potential solution, one which has been brought up by a number of my surgeons and consultants: surgery. A cutting of the sphincter muscle will reduce it's overactivity which is the fundamental cause of pain everyday, however there are many risks associated with such a rare and risky operation. Most importantly, it carries the risk of internal bleeding and pancreatitis. Having had one attack of acute pancreatitis already, I'm not too keen to have another one as it left me in hospital for a week, attached to a IV opiate drip. It also carries the risk of severely damaging your pancreas, another obstacle I'd rather avoid.
The next step is to be seen by a hepatologist consultant who will discuss his opinion on the surgery and whether the pros outweigh the cons. He'll then liaise with the surgical team and they'll come to their professional conclusion before consulting with me. It sounds awfully similar to my last consultation with my private specialists, but this time round I'm definitely more positive as they're going to get to the root of the problem regardless of the methods they choose. Knowing what health condition I have and that something is going to be done about it has put my mind at ease already!
Clarity. That's all I needed. And now I'm much happier and more optimistic, too. The possibility of a pain free future is looking increasingly likely!
IT'S NEARLY CHRISTMAS. LET THE CARNAGE BEGIN.
Working for one of the biggest 'high end' fashion brands is pretty daunting and by the end of a full day's shift, I'm ready for bed. But the work isn't unenjoyable and that's the main thing (I say that now, but I guarantee that opinion will change drastically once the christmas week and shopping carnage begins.) I look forward to my shifts, despite some of them being 9 hours long. I consider myself awfully lucky to have this job as it's a stepping stone to progression in the industry!
The aim of taking this year off was to focus on my health and take time to recover from whatever is going on inside me. After undergoing a procedure and having ridiculous amounts of tests done, it's still inconclusive which is exactly what we weren't hoping for. Nevertheless, I'm looking at the lack of information on these tests as a positive sign, in the hope that I will recover in my own time. My condition(s), whatever they may be, are unpredictable and can be triggered by anything and everything – fatty food, taking medication to getting a cold! That's why it's imperative for me to not overwork myself but at the same time keep busy and preoccupied. For a long time, I felt incredibly low and disheartened by this illness but now I've realised that I'm one of the not so lucky ones – and that's okay.
I want to enjoy the next few weeks coming up to the big 25th!


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Court hearings on tap for Harrisburg fugitive
BY TRAVIS DENEAL tdeneal@dailyregister.com
updated: 7/7/2017 10:54 AM
HARRISBURG -- A Harrisburg man who police say may have been involved in the June 16 shooting death of Aaron Gregory has been extradited to Saline County from Kentucky and awaits his next court hearing.
Jared R. Crawford, 30, was transferred to the Saline County Jail on June 22, where he remains on an aggravated battery charge from March plus an additional aggravated battery charge from 2016.
Crawford has not been charged in the death of Gregory, who was shot to death in a home on South Granger Street early on June 16.
Also wanted for questioning in the killing is 19-year-old Harrisburg man Xzavier Gibbs, who remains at large.
Harrisburg Police Chief David Morris said police believe Gibbs is somewhere in the Saline County area.
Police in Henderson, Ky. arrested Crawford June 16 at the Henderson apartment where his girlfriend lives, according to Henderson Police Lt. John Nevels. Nevels said both Crawford and Gibbs have been known to frequent the Henderson area, and Illinois State Police issued a fugitive warrant.
According to Saline County courthouse records, Crawford is accused of hitting a man over the head with a beer bottle on April 3, 2016, at the now-defunct Los Amigos bar on Raymond Street in Harrisburg. He was charged with aggravated battery and bond was set at $20,000. He posted $2,000 and was released.
Then, on March 22, 2017, Crawford was accused of tackling a man in the parking lot of the Economy Inn and Suites, 411 E. Poplar St. According to court records, that violated the conditions of his bond from the 2016 charge and resulted in Crawford again being charged with aggravated battery. This time, bond was set at $10,000. He posted $1,000 and was released.
Crawford will have a pretrial hearing for the 2016 aggravated battery charge and a preliminary hearing for the March charge at 1 p.m. on July 13.
Gibbs, meanwhile, missed a court date last week related to a 2017 aggravated battery charge lodged against him, Morris said.
"Now he has another warrant out," Morris said Thursday.
Morris said Gibbs missed court last week, resulting in a warrant for failure to appear to be issued. The no-bond warrant for aggravated battery issued in May remains in force, Morris said.
Harrisburg Register


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So keep your eyes open and watch the road! Those common, disruptive potholes that life holds can be navigated around. You can make it through. God's got you covered. Enjoy the trip!


After a chance meeting with a genie in the park, young Karl travels to Farawayland where he learns that his true name is Mio, and that his real father is the king. There he receives the love that he craved, but never had, from his foster parents back in Stockholm. But an evil tyrant terrorizes the land, and Mio is the one who must save the kingdom.


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