Recently, a woman was qualifying at a meeting. Her drinking had caused her many problems in her life. She had received a number of DWI's and ended up in the county jail. As a result she became estranged from her family. She lost her job and also faced foreclosure on her house.
When she finally came into the program, she often shared that she had lost almost everything due to her drinking and drugging. In fact, it almost became a mantra for her.
Personal Reflection: Do I still give away aspects of my life?
12 Step program runs the entire gamut of members. You will find people who have 50 or more years of sobriety from their drug of choice. On the other end of the spectrum are people who repeatedly have difficulty putting 30 days together. They have been bouncing in and out of the rooms for years. Many of this repeat group will often blame the program itself for their failure to stay sober. "AA, NA or OA is not for me", they say. Yet, they see people who have remained sober for decades using exactly the same program which has "failed" them.
In fact, many of these repeaters finally do get it and begin to put together some time. It's obvious,that their success involved some type of change. Under closer examination we see that the program itself remained the same. It was the attitude and actions of the alcoholic, drug or food addict which had altered. When they began to let go of doing it "their way" and listened to the advice of "The Big Book", their sponsor and other members; the program started to pay big dividends. Suddenly, some of the very things they rebelled against doing started to make a lot of sense.
Personal Reflection: How do I make the program work for me?
We all have challenges and problems. Many of us seek out various solutions to these issues. Often we stumble around a bit until we arrive at the appropriate answer to our particular problem. When we do, we almost automatically realize that we have found the solution we have been looking for. The other pathways we experimented with pale in comparison with our current solution. It's almost like we finally find the correct key we have been fumbling around looking for to open up a lock.
This concept is particularly true in the 12 step world. Many of us had floundered around for a long time looking for the solution to our drinking, drugging or binging over food. We had tried controlled usage, hypnosis, special diets, periodic abstinence, therapy and a myriad number of other strategies. For the vast majority of us, these were only a stop gap measure at best. Most of the time we returned to our drug of choice. It was only when we entered into the rooms of AA, NA and OA that we finally found a lasting solution. As we got up at the end of our first meeting we knew we were in the right place.
Personal Reflection: How do I live in the solution using my program?
Each of us could probably create a list of people that for some reason or other presses our buttons. Some people on our list would be obvious choices like our spouses, parents or our siblings. Then of course there are co-workers and acquaintances that also rub us the wrong way. All of these people do have one thing in common. They seem to say or take actions that get us involved in resentments, drama, and behaviors which are inappropriate. For many of us these transactions have been taking place for years and sometimes decades. We often angrily blamed these people for "what they did to us".
Many of these same people took up ample space in our fourth step. As part of that process we have come to realize that we are not victims in this life. When a person makes an inflammatory statement or does something which is inappropriate, in that moment we have the power to make a choice. How we respond will determine how the rest of the transaction will go. If we don't go after the bait, they may still escalate depending on how heavy a player they are. However at some point, if we continue to not buy in, they will change their behavior or go and look for someone else to "play" with. When that happens we have tasted emotional sobriety.
Personal Reflection: Do I still go after the bait?
12 step programs involve internal and external work. Both are necessary components. Obviously, we need to work on our internal world. When we work the steps we begin to experience real change. The fourth step in particular is the gateway to personal transformation. After we have examined our character defects we are able to let go of them by humbling asking G-d to remove them. Once that happens, we are on our road to emotional sobriety. Rather than leaking our negative energy through resentments and anger, we begin to build a core of serenity. That energy becomes a repository for us to take sustenance from as well as to share.
Sharing is part of our external work. Taking service commitments, having sponsees and picking up the phone when another member of program calls is a big part of the fellowship. On a daily basis we give of our time and energy. There can however be a danger in this. If we ourselves are depleted, there is danger in continuing to to expend energy for others. We can avoid this situation by nurturing our inner life and recognizing when we need to let someone else in program take up the mantle.
Personal Reflection: Do I give from my overflow,or from my reserve?
Over the past 14 months I have posted over 400 blog posts. I have found your warm response to my writing to be extremely gratifying. Many people from all over the world have told me they deeply resonated with my blog.
At this point in time I want to begin collecting and editing my writings with the goal of turning them into a book of daily reflections. In order to do this I need to carve out time each day to work on that goal. As such, I will need to cut back on my posting to the blog. Instead of posting almost daily, I will make 2-3 entries a week.
Many of us grew up in homes that were full of turmoil. We experienced a lot of anger and shouting on an almost daily basis. Or perhaps we were witness to one parent giving the other "the cold treatment". Because we were young we attempted to create meaning to these types of experiences. Unfortunately, we often misinterpreted all of the commotion in our homes by taking responsibility for it. We thought that mommy or daddy were upset because of something we had said or done. This often followed us into adulthood. If someone was angry, resentful or upset, we immediately began to examine our actions to see how we had caused that reaction.
The reality is that just because someone is upset does not mean that we have done something wrong. Quite often people's negative states have nothing to do with us. Even if we have done something that has upset someone we need to remember that people have choices as to how to react. If we have made our amends and they want to hold onto their feelings, that is their decision. We are no longer the cause of their upset. We just need to keep our side of the street clean.
Personal Reflection: Do I take undue responsibility for the feelings of others?


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Q: Conflict Bison parser I'm new to Bison and I'm having trouble with shift/reduce conflicts...
I'm writing the rules for grammar for the C language: ID is a token that identifies a variable, and I wrote this rule to ensure that the identifier can be considered even if it is written in parentheses.
id              : '(' ID ')'    {printf("(ID) %s\n", $2);}
                |     ID        {printf("ID %s\n", $1);}
                ;

Output of Bison conflicts is:
State 82

   12 id: '(' ID . ')'
   13   | ID .

    ')'  shift, and go to state 22

    ')'       [reduce using rule 13 (id)]
    $default  reduce using rule 13 (id)

How can I resolve this conflict?
I hope I was clear and thanks for your help.

A: Your id rule in itself cannot cause a shift/reduce error. There must be some other rule in your grammar that uses ID. For example, you have an expression rule such as:
expr: '(' expr ')'
    | ID
    ;

In the above example, ID can reduce to id or to expr and the parser doesn't know which reduction to take. Check what is in state 22.

Edit: you ask "what can I do to solve the conflict?"

I'm writing the rules for grammar for the C language: ID is a token that identifies a variable, and I wrote this rule to ensure that the identifier can be considered even if it is written in parentheses

A variable in parenthesis as a left-hand side is invalid in C, so it can only occur in a right-hand side. Then you can consider it an expression, so just remove your rule and where you use id replace that with expr.

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Scientists in New Zealand are breeding a herd which will produce spreadable butter.
Although she looked like any other Friesian, testing revealed that Marge's milk contained about one per cent fat, compared with about 3.5 per cent for whole milk.
Offspring from the cow also produce low-fat milk, showing the genetic trait is dominant, Snell said.
"Every now and then nature throws up these sorts of things and it was simply a case of us being in the right place at the right time," he said.
The company, a subsidiary of the Fonterra Co-operative Group, one of the world's largest milk companies, expects the first commercial herd of cows supplying natural low-fat milk and spreadable butter for the market by 2011.


"Self-knowledge" is a self-explanatory term, which stands for the process of human cognition of oneself: one's qualities, personal features, traits of character, strengths and weaknesses. The idea of isolating oneself from the outside world for the purpose of understanding of life is not new. This practice goes backing history to the philosophers as well as monks. Yet, why should a person cognize samething?
Modern psychologists consider self-knowledge to be one of the most important processes in life of an individual; the process which is an inalienable part of development. This process arises from the need(physical and spiritual), combined with personal motivation.
In ancient times people satisfied their desire for food, dwelling and communication by a variety of activities, such as fishing, hunting, gardening, construction work, practice of speech, cave painting, etc. Through these activities people experienced the world around them, and also learnt about each other.They explored the properties of different materials, examined the edibility and nutritious qualities of foods; learnt the means of speech production and of reflection on the surroundings.
The result of cognition is the knowledge that is obtained. There are countless ways of gaining it, from the conducting the simplest observations and extremely complicated science experiments. The outcomes of cognition can be used both for good and for bad causes. On the one hand, the knowledge enriches the internal world of the individual, gives him or her the inner feeling of self-confidence. There is a popular saying: "He who owns the information, owns the world." On the other hand, the knowledge can also be applied for harming to the environment, and even for the extermination of humankind.
It is becoming generally not easy to distinguish the notions of "good" from the "bad" in the modern society. These categories are in opposition to one another. The good associates with morality, usefulness, fairness – in fact, with all the good characteristics that a person could have. The bad, on the contrary, is associated with harmfulness, lack of morality and cruelty. Aspiration for good is incorporated in people on the subconscious level. The feeling of spiritual satisfaction follows from every good did. Therefore, a person develops a number of positive features, such as honesty, respect, industriousness, diligence, generosity, continence, moderation, sincerity, and others.
How can one achieve a moral and good life? One of the conditions is self-knowledge. By realizing their personal features, traits of character and analyzing the "baggage" of knowledge that they posses, it is easier for people to be in control of their life and behavior. Self-knowledge is a conscious, multistage process undertaken by a morally mature person, which takes place as part of different types of activities, and leads the person to objective evaluation of their abilities, and improvement of their skills and attainments.
Someone who knows their own pros and cons, interacts with other people, buildshealthy relationships and create a family much easier. This person can analyze how others react to their certain words or traits of character, and this may serve as a strong motivation for getting rod of negative qualities and replacing them with the positive ones.
Moreover, self-knowledge can be embodies in the concentrated and painstaking examination of the Self by reflective thinking, psychological tests, trainings, and so on. Via self-kowledge, the individual is even able to find answers to such eternal questions as: "What is the sense of my life?", "What am I striving to achieve?", "How do I become successful", etc. This helps him or her to grow, get some position in society, and reach certain personal achievements.
Many philosophers, thinkers and public activists have addressed the issue of self-knowledge. One of them was H. S. Skovoroda. His teaching focused on self-cognition as means for achieving absolute happiness. He wrote: "To be happy means to understand, find yourself".
H. S. Skovoroda considered the mind to be very valuable; it is with the mind, he argued, that a person can understand their natural makings and skills. A person may become successful in a certain field by developing their abilities. Success is a positive afforcement for theadoption of moral norms. For example, upon the responsible and diligent completion of work, we receive a reward in the form of some material benefits, compliment, grades, etc. We fix positive impressions behind these virtues, and, in turn, this motivates us to keep using these virtues for obtaining benefits later.
Self-knowledge is a socially conditioned process, for it is hard to imagine a fully happy and socially helpful person without understanding of the self and one's place in society. It is important to note that it is hard to understand another person without the understanding of your own Self. All our relationships, in which we shape and improve our moral, psychological and other personality aspects, are built on understanding, trust and respect.
Thus, the process of self-knowledge is a very important condition for a moral good, harmonious life, which all of us aim for. This can be achieved only when the person himself or herself realizes their goals, desires and abilities. We should compare our analysis of moral norms and rules with the internal resources of our personality. Consequently, we should define what would be an obstacle for harmonious relationships with other people; resolution of situatins related to moral choices; implementation of plans, which would benefit us and other people.
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A world where women and men can be equally represented and valued at every level.
To inspire and support women to reach their full potential and achieve their chosen career goals.
To inspire and support organisations to create inclusive workplaces, to attract and retain the best talent and reach their chosen objectives.
1. Developing the pipeline of female talent in operational environments (increase # of promotions, decreased dropouts, increased # female recruits).
2. Equipping women with the tools, resources and networks they need to successfully drive and navigate their own careers.
3. Working actively with organisations to achieve step-change progress in their attraction, development and retention of women.


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William Devane net worth: William Devane is an American actor of stage, screen and television who has a net worth of $5 million. William Devane first gained notoriety for his work in off Broadway productions such as MacBird, in which he played the role of Robert Kennedy in 1966. His Broadway debut was in "The Watering Place", playing opposite Shirley Knight. His movie debut was in 1967 when he played the role of a revolutionary in the film "In the Country." Since then he has starred in numerous television shows like "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman", "Stargate GS 1", "NCIS" and has a recurring role in the Soap Opera "Revenge", where he plays the role of Edward Grayson. Many of Devane's acting roles have circled around politics. He has starred in several roles as a member of the Presidential Cabinet in the West Wing, as the Secretary of State and a nominee for Vice-President, as the Secretary of Defense in the series 24, and as President John F. Kennedy in the "Missiles of October." Two of William Devane's most memorable roles came in the 1970s, when he was able to work with famed "Master of Suspense" Alfred Hitchcock on "Family Plot," and in the William Goldman penned thriller "Marathon Man," in which he plays a second banana bad guy to Laurence Olivier's evil Nazi dentist Dr. Christian Szell. But Devane is best well known for his long running role in Knots Landing, as the evil Greg Sumner . William Devane was born in Albany, New York in 1937. His father, Joseph Devane was the chauffeur for the former Governor of New York, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Devane is currently married to Eugenie Devane and is the father of two children. He and his wife are the proud owners of Devane's Italian Kitchen in Rancho Mirage, California.
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Southern Comfort: 10 things I miss about "home"
Sonny's BBQ - Many BBQ connoisseurs would say that Sonny's isn't "real" BBQ. That's fine with me; I'm not as picky as the BBQ connoisseurs (Paul!). The thing is, it's really good! It's not all that healthy - most "southern" food isn't. Everyone who goes to Sonny's knows which sauce they prefer. For me, it's original (now called mild). I love the sauce so much that I've thought about ordering it to be shipped up here. They charge way too much, so I have to settle for buying a few jars when I'm in town.
Simply beautiful. White azaleas have always reminded me of how a dusting of snow looks sitting on bushes.Azalea bushes - In Ottawa, many people line their yards with cedar hedges, which is nice. But, in my humble opinion, they simply don't hold a candle to the yards in Tallahassee that are lined with Azaleas. Every March/April as springtime brings everything back to life, these bushes bloom in brilliant shades of pink, white and magenta - all over town (white is my personal favorite). When I'm in Tallahassee, springtime is my favorite season.
Springtime Tallahassee - Since spring is my favorite season in Florida, I love the Springtime Tallahassee festival. My family went to the parade together every year. During marching band season, I was on the Flag Corps - good times!My older brother was in marching band, so we would watch for him and enjoy the floats and other parade features. When I was in high school, I got to march in the parade too and I loved it. Once we finished the parade route, we'd rush to see the rest of the parade and then check out what was going on in the downtown market that was set up.
Andrew's - My first restaurant job was in 1996/1997 working at Andrew's North - a restaurant that the owner opened during extensive renovations to the downtown location. Working at Andrew's North, I developed a taste for good food. Seriously, I ate at that place all the time. I try to go back at least once every time I'm in Tallahassee to get a Haight Ashbury - my favorite sandwich ever, which (last time I was there a few years ago) was still being served at Andrew's Bar & Grille.
All things FSU - I attended Florida State University, as did both my parents and my Grandma C went there in the days when it was Florida State College for Women (FSCW). Our family are all fans of the football and baseball teams, so I suppose it's a family tradition. Go Seminoles!
Grits - Many people in the north have never had grits, a few have and like them, a few have and don't like them. If you've never seen them, think about Cream of Wheat, but larger grains because it's made from ground up corn, instead of wheat. You also don't sweeten them - they're usually a salted side dish. Mostly, grits are a breakfast staple, served with bacon, eggs and toast. But cheese grits are a favorite when we have fish fries. Fried catfish with cole slaw, cheese grits and hush puppies is a winning combination! One of these days I'll actually remember to bring a box back across the border with me.
Canopy Roads - They're beautiful and a great source of pride in Florida's capital city. I haven't noticed any in and around the areas of Ottawa that I frequent - yet. I used to drive to work every day on canopy roads. It was a great way to start the day and a great way to end it. I even liked driving them at night, even though some sections can be spooky, as pointed out by this Tallahassee blogger/photographer.
St. George Island in the Gulf of Mexico.The Beach - I'm about as pale a person as you can find, so I don't attempt to tan and I don't swim in the ocean after an unfortunate incident with a jellyfish 18 years ago (I got stung pretty bad). But I LOVE sitting on the beach. If you're an early riser, you can walk to the beach and sit in perfect peace with turquoise water and white sand all around - and practically no people. One of our favorite beaches to visit was St. George Island, just two hours away.
Independence Day/Fourth of July - The happenin' place to be in Tallahassee (at least if you wanted to see the legal fireworks) was Tom Brown Park. There were musical acts, entertainment for kids and sometimes we'd sneak to the old drive-in theatre stage area to play. (We weren't supposed to be near there most years because of its proximity to the fireworks setup.) We ate hot dogs, cotton candy, listened to renditions of "God Bless the USA". When the Star Spangled Banner was sung, the entire crowd would stand with their hands on their hearts, united in support for a country we loved.
Hopefully, as the years go by, I'll get the chance to share each of these things with my son so that he'll come to know this piece of his roots and maybe even feel at "home" there.


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ICP installs Europe's first logistics shuttle system from SSI Schaefer
ICP Logistics has expanded its installations with a new high-efficiency automatic warehousing and order processing system, becoming the first logistics company in Europe to deploy this technology from SSI Schaefer.
A leader in technological innovation and committed to the development of new technologies with logistics process applications, ICP's installations are equipped with robotic and automated warehousing and picking systems. ICP is a prime example of innovation applied to the supply chain. It offers a first-rate, tailored service capable of anticipating change in an ever-evolving market.
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Due to increased demand, ICP is growing its capacity with the installation of a high-efficiency automated warehouse at its headquarters in Meco, Madrid.
ICP's philosophy of innovation and continuous improvement has spurred its team of engineers to seek the most advanced system on the market, turning to Schaefer as its supplier for the installation of a warehousing system capable of handling 18,490 trays, thereby doubling its performance.
A first in Europe, this system will speed up order processing, the better to meet the requirements of today's consumers: same day and 2-hour deliveries.
This warehousing and picking system has a supply capability of 1,400 double cycles per hour which will convey items to the ergonomic picking stations, with a processing capacity of 5,000 lines per hour.
The operation of this new system is designed to minimise possible deviations, with goods controlled continuously throughout the picking process. This comprehensive control is performed by a system that verifies the references included in each order, using a laser system that checks the EAN code and weight of the item, establishing whether they match the information on the order.
The addition of the shuttle delivers improved performance and productivity, flattening the demand curve and handling highly variable orders speedily and efficiently.
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Comparative physiology
Comparative physiology is a subdiscipline of physiology that studies and exploits the diversity of functional characteristics of various kinds of organisms. It is closely related to evolutionary physiology and environmental physiology. Many universities offer undergraduate courses that cover comparative aspects of animal physiology. According to Clifford Ladd Prosser, "Comparative Physiology is not so much a defined discipline as a viewpoint, a philosophy."[1]
Originally, physiology focused primarily on human beings, in large part from a desire to improve medical practices. When physiologists first began comparing different species it was sometimes out of simple curiosity to understand how organisms work but also stemmed from a desire to discover basic physiological principles. This use of specific organisms convenient to study specific questions is known as the Krogh Principle.
MethodologyEdit
C. Ladd Prosser,[2] a founder of modern comparative physiology, outlined a broad agenda for comparative physiology in his 1950 edited volume (see summary and discussion in Garland and Carter[3]):
1. To describe how different kinds of animals meet their needs.
This amounts to cataloging functional aspects of biological diversity, and has recently been criticized as "stamp collecting" with the suggestion that the field should move beyond that initial, exploratory phase.[4]
2. The use of physiological information to reconstruct	phylogenetic relationships of organisms.
In principle physiological information could be used just as morphological information or DNA sequence is used to measure evolutionary divergence of organisms. In practice, this has rarely been done, for at least four reasons:
physiology doesn't leave many fossil cues,
it can't be measured on museum specimens,
it is difficult to quantify as compared with morphology or DNA sequences, and
physiology is more likely to be adaptive than DNA, and so subject to parallel and convergent evolution, which confuses phylogenetic reconstruction.
3. To elucidate how physiology mediates interactions between organisms and their environments.
This is essentially physiological ecology or ecological physiology.
4. To identify "model systems" for studying particular physiological functions.
Examples of this include using squid giant axons to understand general principles of nerve transmission, using rattlesnake tail shaker muscles for measurement of in vivo changes in metabolites (because the whole animal can be put in an NMR machine),[5] and the use of ectothermic poikilotherms to study effects of temperature on physiology.
5. To use the "kind of animal" as an experimental variable.
"While other branches of physiology use such variables as light, temperature, oxygen tension, and hormone balance, comparative physiology uses, in addition, species or animal type as a variable for each function." [6]
25 years later, Prosser put things this way: "I like to think of it as that method in physiology which uses kind of organism as one experimental variable."[1]
Comparative physiologists often study organisms that live in "extreme" environments (e.g., deserts) because they expect to find especially clear examples of evolutionary adaptation.[3] One example is the study of water balance in desert-inhabiting mammals, which have been found to exhibit kidney specializations.[7]
Similarly, comparative physiologists have been attracted to "unusual" organisms, such as very large or small ones. As an example, of the latter, hummingbirds have been studied. As another example, giraffe have been studied because of their long necks and the expectation that this would lead to specializations related to the regulation of blood pressure. More generally, ectothermic vertebrates have been studied to determine how blood acid-base balance and pH change as body temperature changes.
FundingEdit
In the United States, research in comparative physiology is funded by both the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.
SocietiesEdit
A number of scientific societies feature sections on comparative physiology, including:
Australian & New Zealand Society for Comparative Physiology & Biochemistry
Canadian Society of Zoologists
Japanese Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
BiographiesEdit
Knut Schmidt-Nielsen (1915–2007) was a major figure in vertebrate comparative physiology, serving on the faculty at Duke University for many years and training a large number of students (obituary). He also authored several books, including an influential text, all known for their accessible writing style.
Grover C. Stephens (1925–2003) was a well-known invertebrate comparative physiologist, serving on the faculty of the University of Minnesota until becoming the founding chairman of the Department of Organismic Biology at the University of California at Irvine in 1964. He was the mentor for numerous graduate students, many of whom have gone on to further build the field (obituary). He authored several books and in addition to being an accomplished biologist was also an accomplished pianist and philosopher.
Some journals that publish articles in comparative animal physiologyEdit
American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
Annual Review of Physiology
Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology
Integrative and Comparative Biology
Journal of Comparative Physiology
Physiological and Biochemical Zoology
Barrington, E. J. W. 1975. Comparative physiology and the challenge of design. Journal of Experimental Zoology 194:271-286.
Clark, A. J. 1927. Comparative physiology of the heart. Cambridge University Press, London.
Dantzler, W. H., ed. 1997. Handbook of physiology. Section 13: comparative physiology. Vol. I. Oxford Univ. Press, New York.
Dantzler, W. H., ed. 1997. Handbook of physiology. Section 13: comparative physiology. Vol. II. Oxford Univ. Press, New York. viii + 751-1824 pp.
Feder, M. E., A. F. Bennett, W. W. Burggren, and R. B. Huey, eds. 1987. New directions in ecological physiology. Cambridge Univ. Press, New York. 364 pp.
Garland, T., Jr., and P. A. Carter. 1994. Evolutionary physiology. Annual Review of Physiology 56:579-621. PDF
Gibbs, A. G. (1999). "Laboratory selection for the comparative physiologist". Journal of Experimental Biology. 202: 2709–2718.
Gilmour, K. M.; Wilson, R. W.; Sloman, K. A. (2005). "The integration of behaviour into comparative physiology". Physiological and Biochemical Zoology. 78 (5): 669–678. doi:10.1086/432144. PMID 16047293.
Gordon, M. S., G. A. Bartholomew, A. D. Grinnell, C. B. Jorgensen, and F. N. White. 1982. Animal physiology: principles and adaptations. 4th ed. MacMillan, New York. 635 pages.
Greenberg, M. J., P. W. Hochachka, and C. P. Mangum, eds. 1975. New directions in comparative physiology and biochemistry. Journal of Experimental Zoology 194:1-347.
Hochachka, P. W., and G. N. Somero. 2002. Biochemical adaptation — mechanism and process in physiological evolution. Oxford University Press. 478 pp.
Mangum, C. P., and P. W. Hochachka. 1998. New directions in comparative physiology and biochemistry: mechanisms, adaptations, and evolution. Physiological Zoology 71:471-484.
Moyes, C. D., and P. M. Schulte. 2006. Principles of animal physiology. Pearson Benjamin Cummings, San Francisco. 734 pp.
Prosser, C. L., ed. 1950. Comparative animal physiology. W. B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia. ix + 888 pp.
Randall, D., W. Burggren, and K. French. 2002. Eckert animal physiology: mechanisms and adaptations. 5th ed. W. H. Freeman and Co., New York. 736 pp. + glossary, appendices, index.
Ross, D. M. (1981). "Illusion and reality in comparative physiology". Canadian Journal of Zoology. 59 (11): 2151–2158. doi:10.1139/z81-291.
Schmidt-Nielsen, K. 1972. How animals work. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Schmidt-Nielsen, K. 1984. Scaling: why is animal size so important? Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 241 pp.
Schmidt-Nielsen, K. 1997. Animal physiology: adaptation and environment. 5th ed. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ix + 607 pp.
Schmidt-Nielsen, K. 1998. The camel's nose: memoirs of a curious scientist. 352 pp. The Island Press. Review
Somero, G. N. 2000. Unity in Diversity: A perspective on the methods, contributions, and future of comparative physiology. Annual Review of Physiology 62:927-937.
Stephens, G.C.; Schinske, R.A. (1961). "Uptake of amino acids by marine invertebrates". Limnology and Oceanography. 6 (2): 175–181. doi:10.4319/lo.1961.6.2.0175.
Stephens, G.C. (1982). "Recent progress in the study of "Die Ernährung der Wassertiere und der Stoffhaushalt der Gewasser"". American Zoologist. 22 (3): 611–619. doi:10.1093/icb/22.3.611.
Manahan, D.T.; Wright, S.H.; Stephens, G.C.; Rice, M.A. (1982). "Transport of dissolved amino acids by the mussel, Mytilus edulis: Demonstration of net uptake from seawater by HPLC analysis". Science. 215 (4537): 1253–1255. doi:10.1126/science.215.4537.1253. PMID 17757542.
Swallow, J. G.; Jr; Garland, T. (2005). "Selection experiments as a tool in evolutionary and comparative physiology: insights into complex traits - An introduction to the symposium". Integrative and Comparative Biology. 45 (3): 387–390. doi:10.1093/icb/45.3.387. PMID 21676784.
Willmer, P., G. Stone, and I. Johnston. 2005. Environmental physiology of animals. Second edition. Blackwell Science, Oxford, U.K. xiii + 754 pp.
August Krogh
Evolutionary physiology
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Q: Is it possible to save language option in DataStore? I'm using single activity pattern on my android project in kotlin.
The users can change language inside the app. I'm trying to store the option into Data store. Then every time user start the activity/App then it can load the last option in Data store.
That is:
    override fun attachBaseContext(newBase: Context) {
        runBlocking {

 DatastoreManager.instance.getUserLanguage(this@AppActivity).collect {
                LanguageManager.currentLanguage = Language.valueOf(it.uppercase())
            }
        }
        newBase.resources?.configuration.locale = LanguageManager.currentLanguage.locale
        super.attachBaseContext(newBase)
    }

However,
attachBaseContext starts before onCreate, I think that's the reason why I got:
java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'android.content.Context android.content.Context.getApplicationContext()' on a null object reference

Please correct me if I'm wrong.
So my question is any way to achieve this usage? Thanks!
EDIT
I'm trying to use application context to replace use activity to read the flow value in data store:
runBlocking {
        DatastoreManager.instance.getUserLanguage(getAppContext()).collect {

        }
    }

The error is gone, BUT the UI is blocked. Not sure why? runBlocking never return??

A: Since you're using the application context. You can call this function before the super.onCreate(savedInstanceBundle)
override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle ? ) {
    runBlocking {
        DatastoreManager.instance.getUserLanguage(getAppContext()).collect {}
    }
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
    binding = ActivityMainBinding.inflate(layoutInflater)
    setContentView(binding.root)
}


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The preamble of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by all United Nations Member States solemnly declared: "There can be no sustainable development without peace and no peace without sustainable development". It is positive that countries are paying increased attention to the interlinkage between peace and security and development. It is essential to multiply and diversify the efforts to enhance inclusive peace and development, moving from statements to action. South-South Cooperation offers an additional and complementary path to renew, revitalize and multiply the alternatives to sustain inclusive development and peace. Importantly, this is done with Global South countries directly affected by insecurity, instability and violence at the forefront of policy and programming processes. South-South Cooperation is a prospect to increase knowledge transfer and enhance policy coordination in a multipolar world.
In 2019 the United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation on 12 September marks the 41st anniversary of the 1978 adoption by consensus of the Buenos Aires Plan of Action. Importantly, we are just a few months after the historic "Second United Nations High-Level Conference on South-South Cooperation" (BAPA+40) in which 145 Member States endorsed an outcome document guiding the future of South-South Cooperation. Thus, it's a good chance to reflect and offer some insights and ideas to support the expansion of the global agenda for Southern solidarity for inclusive peace and development.
Why and how South-South Cooperation is a path to inclusive peace
South-South Cooperation to diversify the routes for increased trust
For practitioners working for many years in peacebuilding, conflict prevention and development, the evidence that only through "multiple paths and inclusivity" it is possible to achieve durable peace, is not new. Concentration of decision-making power, knowledge and resources in the hands of a few actors is likely to lead to division, conflict and lack of understanding. For example, when policy processes are enriched by the participation of multiple stakeholders, when they are owned by those directly affected by violent conflict, clearly benefiting victims of exclusion, the chances for lasting peace increase. Considering this, it seems clear that opening up more opportunities for horizontal joint action and knowledge transfer of and among Global South countries is an important additional pathway to expand the probabilities to achieve peace and development.
As South-South Cooperation embraces the key principle of South-South solidarity as a key pillar to build a new world, Southern Member States are opening up new routes to work together, listening to each other and sharing knowledge while improving policy coordination. This may lead to increased mutual understanding, trust and reciprocated accountability, fundamental pre-conditions to create contexts of peace and stability. Over the past few years, it has been encouraging to observe the efforts of national governments investing resources and capabilities to build South-South initiatives, notably through regional organizations such as the African Union (AU), the Association of Southeast Asia Nations (ASEAN), the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the Inter-governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) and the g7 plus -just to name a few. These organizations are working independently to coordinate regional and cross-regional peace and development actions while promoting revitalised dialogue among neighbours and/or actors facing similar challenges.
In complex political times, we consider that it is also vital to increase cross-continental exchange of ideas, moving beyond regional boundaries: Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and Asia must come even closer together to protect "global commons", supporting each other in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. We have much to gain from learning from each other's experiences, avoiding past mistakes and expanding chances for cross-fertilization of effective policy options.
In this process, the United Nations plays a catalytic role by strongly supporting Global South partners' priorities while becoming a more efficient platform to facilitate connections between Global South governments and multiple actors such as think-tanks and civil society organizations. The BAPA+40 outcome document reaffirmed the central role of the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC) to play the role of focal point and promote a global United Nations system-wide mechanism to ensure more and better coordination for Southern solidarity. The UN system can enhance its assistance to support developing countries in seeking cooperation partners in strategic areas for national development plans. In this regard, the expanding collaboration between UNOSSC and several UN agencies and initiatives with the mandate to prevent, transform conflict and promote development, is an encouraging sign. By working together, UN agencies better support Member States, regional organizations and other key stakeholders committed to sustaining peace.
South-South Cooperation endorses ownership, crucial enabler of sustaining peace
Another crucial South-South Cooperation principle points out to the "demand driven" nature of Southern collaborations. For example, paragraph 9 of the BAPA +40 outcome document recognises the "voluntary, participative and demand driven nature of South-South Cooperation born from common objectives…". This means that Global South countries pledged to respect the decisions and priorities set up by Southern counterparts when defining and implementing the peace and development policy agenda. It is about striking a delicate balancing act to avoid the negative consequences of interventionism and disregard of national sovereignty. The role of Northern partners or other multiple partners -including United Nations agencies and investment banks- should be of facilitation as per priorities defined by the Global South. Non-conditionality is a must to be considered in the intricate dialogue among partners.
Peace practitioners acknowledge that ownership and agency are essential factors enabling lasting peace. In this sense, South-South Cooperation principles are a guidance to create contexts of sustainable positive policy change. It's important that they are consistently applied considering aligned approaches, methods and tools.
South-South Cooperation to support the design of context relevant peace endeavours
The Sustaining peace agenda focuses on conflict prevention and transformation. It remarks the critical need to address the root causes of violent conflict if the aim is to achieve durable peace. Countries must act before "the forest is burning" while putting in place transformative policy measures to prevent the recurrence of violence.
In each context, how this is done varies significantly. Context- relevant peace and development endeavours, moving beyond short-time policy interventions, is a fundamental pillar to sustain peace. In this regard, the South-South Cooperation agenda clearly stresses the relevance of "proximity of experience" and also the multilayer and distinctive challenges faced by the Global South countries. More than simply working to manage crisis and mediate wars, policy processes and all involved stakeholders should commit to work on transforming the conditions that generate violence with special focus on poverty, inequality, various forms of discrimination and abuse of rights. The inclusion of all Global South countries perspectives to analyse the systemic causes of violence and, consequently, set up a more legitimate and context -relevant agenda for inclusive peace and development is vital to achieve durable peace results.
Considering this, it's notable that the BAPA +40 outcome document highlights the need to consider the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainability, stressing the need to work in an integral manner to implement all 17 Sustainable Development Goals with the aim to achieve peace and prosperity for all1. A very diverse and complementary set of issues are integrated in the South-South agenda including, for example, good governance, climate change, women participation, management of countries' debts, urban planning, new technologies among others. During BAPA +40, Member States acknowledged that Global South countries can best support each other because they face similar problems. The above mentioned "proximity" is a key factor to design legitimate and context relevant policy responses to achieve inclusive peace.
Several national, regional organizations and UN agencies are already actively building bridges, effectively supporting each other to transfer knowledge and promote the adaptation of policy solutions to tackle similar challenges. For example, the African Peer Review Mechanism is a platform to ensure that good governance practices are enhanced in the African continent, thus, promoting increased transparency and institutional performance, some of the key enablers of conflict prevention. Another promising example is the newly established Rwanda Cooperation Initiative where other Southern countries are invited to Rwanda to learn how the country moved from genocide and post-conflict crisis to inclusive economic growth. The IGAD's Conflict Early Warning and Response Mechanism (CEWARN) which brings together seven countries to coordinate and share lessons in early warning conflict prevention, also recently held a knowledge fair to share insights on approaches and policy options to manage cross-border challenges. These included livestock management, cross-border trade and cross-border security- governance. UNOSSC recently published the first "South-South in Action on Peace and Development", including 21 case studies of South-South coordination to transform the root causes of violent conflict, led by multiple UN agencies, national governments and regional organizations.
The list of good examples and solid initiatives to facilitate exchanges keeps growing. It will be essential to maintain and expand these endeavours to facilitate more and better South-South learning. The application of solid methodologies also suitable to measure concrete impacts in the long-run will be important to increase trust in these initiatives. In this regard, the BAPA +40 outcome document invites Member States to scale up efforts to systematize knowledge and measure the positive effects derived from creative and innovative connections among Global South countries.
In all, we are witnessing even more promising times for Southern partners collaboration. As we celebrate the "South-South Cooperation day" we should take time to reflect on the BAPA +40 Outcome Document as a key guidance to move ahead. The United Nations System Staff College's contribution to disseminate knowledge and capacities across the UN family is encouraging. We must multiply action and nurture innovation, understanding that we are facing a historic opportunity. It's in our hands to step-up and live-up to the South-South Cooperation promises.
The recently published research report "The Case of South-South Cooperation for Peace and Development" by Dr. Isabel de Siqueira offers a more insights in regards to the "peace-development" nexus: https://www.unsouthsouth.org/2019/03/18/the-case-for-south-south-cooperation-on-peace-and-development-2019/
The next edition of the joint UNOSSC-UNSSC face-to-face course on 'UN Catalytic Support to South-South & Triangular Cooperation in Implementing the 2030 Agenda' is happening on 29-31 October 2019, in Turin. Please click here read more about the programme and sign up.
1 The recently published research report "The Case of South-South Cooperation for Peace and Development" by Dr. Isabel de Siqueira offers a more insights in regards to the "peace-development" nexus: https://www.unsouthsouth.org/2019/03/18/the-case-for-south-south-cooperation-on-peace-and-development-2019/
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You are here: Home Infrastructure Crane rental goes digital, thanks to MYCRANE global launch
Crane rental goes digital, thanks to MYCRANE global launch
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, A new digital platform has been launched to disrupt and simplify the process of crane rental procurement.
MYCRANE – a global business-to-business (B2B) platform accessed at https://my-crane.com/ – allows users to submit details of their lifting requirements in order to receive personalised quotes from a range of registered crane providers.
Besides the lifting services search, MYCRANE offers a number of other tools for the crane industry, including a Marketplace and support services such as engineering and legal consultancy.
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The site has been developed by entrepreneur and industry professional Andrei Geikalo, a former commercial director in the heavy lift and project cargo sector.
"MYCRANE was born out of the desire to change the existing outdated and inconvenient methods of procuring crane services, and to make life easier for those who require lifting services," says Geikalo.
"At present, crane rental is a manual, old-fashioned process that takes far too much time. In launching the service, we have combined the latest digital technology with our long industry experience. I have personally been involved in countless heavy cargo and lifting projects, so I know only too well how useful our service will prove to be.
"With MYCRANE, there are no more phone calls or unclear quotations to decipher – just easy-to-understand quotes delivered direct to your inbox. And when you need to change your quote, simply amend your online request at the MYCRANE website and our equipment providers will be back in touch."
MYCRANE, which took over two years to develop, removes the need for users to contact multiple equipment providers. Instead, users are requested to complete an online request form which has been carefully designed to ensure they receive directly comparable quotations.
The platform is suitable for cranes between 6 and 750 tonnes capacity. Crawler, mobile and tower cranes can all be requested on the site. In addition, the team is intensively working on adding new crane types, such as fast assemble tower cranes, gantry cranes, mini cranes and others.
The MYCRANE service, which is headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (company name MYCRANE DMCC), operates on a franchise model, and enquiries are welcomed from industry professionals who may be interested in operating the MYCRANE service in their home country.
MYCRANE is already operational in Russia and will soon be launched in key international markets including the United States, Canada, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Germany, the Netherlands, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam and Singapore.
As well as a lifting services search, there are plans to introduce an online Marketplace to advertise used equipment, rigging equipment, spare parts and auxiliaries and career vacancies, while a news portal will allow users to stay up to date with the latest industry developments.
In time, additional features will be offered, including engineering and design services and legal support. Geikalo concludes: "We believe MYCRANE will set a new standard for the lifting business – making crane rental easier, quicker and more transparent."
*Photo Courtesy:World Cargo News
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Since it's the 29th of November I thought it was pretty apt to share with you all that I'm going to attempt to take part in Blogmas this year! You heard correctly I'm going to attempt to blog every day leading up to Christmas! Not all my posts are going to be Christmas related as I have a few to share which aren't festive however I do have lots of Christmas bakes to share, wishlists, gift ideas and DIY's to come! I hope you stick with me through out blogmas to see what I have planned to make Christmas special this year, personally I am super excited to share my Christmas tree! Which I'm going to have some very cute little helpers put up with me! It's also going to be a little bit of a geeky/goth tree I am far too excited about it!
I really hope I manage to pull blogmas off or else all the recipes and DIYs I do will be pointless until next year! Haha.
Are you taking part in Blogmas?
I do love to learn about more alt bloggers making Blogmas this year! I will follow your progress, of course.
I don't think I'll be taking part in it, even though I've got Christmas posts lined up to do but I've tried blogging everyday, it's exhausting! :( Good luck with yours though!


We have learnt different meditation techniques using mantras, transcendental sound. One must become fully convinced that this sound vibration is not material. You can't see that with your eyes, it's just another sound. You can't hear it, it's just another sound. Here are the words on the page: GAURANGA NITAI-GAUR and we hear how that's pronounced, 'GAURANGA NITAI-GAUR'. There's the sound, it's just another sound. It's unfamiliar, we don't know what it means. I go to many countries and hear sounds and don't know what they mean all the time. I hear people talking, I don't know what they're talking about. No, we can't base it on whether I understand it, whether I can see it, whether I can perceive it. That's not the method.
We receive this sound and we also receive the knowledge about this sound from the Supreme Lord through scripture, through His representatives – the spiritual masters. They inform us "This is spiritual sound, this sound, these mantras have spiritual potency!" Yesterday we read a prayer from Lord Gauranga, or Lord Chaitanya who is the Lord Himself. He is declaring the potency, the value and the effects of these transcendental sounds. Sometimes these mantras are referred to as yoga sounds, meaning they come from the Supreme Lord. Their effect on our lives is that we become united with the Supreme Lord. This is the Absolute Truth. It is time to inquire about this.
So now we are going to chant our mantras with our different techniques. This is not an ordinary activity. This is not just another event. This is a very, very unique special opportunity.
Our first meditation is 'GAURANGA NITAI-GAUR', these are names of God. 'GAURANGA' for instance means 'He whose body is more beautiful than molten gold'. When we chant 'NITAI-GAUR', this refers to Lord Nityananda and Lord Gauranga – the Supreme Lord. When we do this, we're actually worshiping the Lord.
Throughout history people have worshiped the Supreme Lord. People have devised different forms, different methods of worship. But the highest form of worship according to God Himself is in the way of worshiping through to chanting His names. So that's what we're going to do now.
With the mantra 'GAURANGA NITAI-GAUR' we will use a deep breathing process. We've discussed this before but I'll explain it again for those who are here for the first time. We breathe in very slowly, gently and deeply. As we do this, silently in the mind we chant "GAU-RA-ANG-GA." Then, as we exhale, out loud we chant "GAU-RA-ANG-GA." And it's the same with 'NITAI-GAUR'.
We want to relax. We should all practice that again today – relaxing. You can never be too relaxed. It doesn't mean you have to fall apart. You can be relaxed but still very attentive, very alert, very aware, which is required.
We relax and become very attentive to the sound. So we will do that now for some period of time. Again, try to meditate on the sound, enter into this meditation. Try not to just stay on the outside, kind of looking at it from a distance. We should try to enter into it, get involved with it. This is how we are guided, this is our instruction.


S.B. Elliott State Park- S.B. Elliott is a quiet, rustic, mountaintop recreational area just off of I-80 near the midpoint of the state. Once ravaged by the logging industry, the park now contains magnificent stands of maturing oak and maple that dominate the mountaintop. The park's rustic log cabins are perfect for a quiet getaway.
Description - Large lumber companies, land holding companies and private individuals once held the major tracts that now comprise the Moshannon State Forest. White pine and hemlock stands occupied the shady slopes and moist plateaus in the earliest recorded forests of the area. Many areas were covered with a mixture of beech, yellow poplar, birches, maples, oaks, cherry, hickory and chestnut. Some of the best white pine areas of the U.S. were located here and contained upwards of one hundred thousand board feet per acre.
During the 1930's ten Civilian Conservation Corp. Camps on the Moshannon constructed and maintained roads, trails, bridges, tree plantations and recreational areas, including S.B. Elliott, Parker Dam and Black Moshannon State Parks. More recently, the discovery of the Boone Mountain and Benezette Natural gas fields have opened up many remote areas of the Moshannon State Forest.
The Quehanna Trail traverses the Moshannon State Forest from Parker Dam to Sinnemahoning in the Elk State Forest. Both the experienced and inexperienced primitive backpack hiker may exercise legs, lungs, mind and imagination on this 65-mile trail and its interconnecting loops. Further information and maps are available from the District Forester. Sparkling streams fed by clear springs offer native and stocked trout fishing. Hunters enjoy the myriad of game species abound within this area as a result of wise use and productive resource management practiced by trained foresters. Inhabitants include white-tailed deer, turkey, bear, squirrels and ruffed grouse. Snowmobiling and cross-country skiing are enjoyed in winter.
Attractions - The major tracts which now comprise the Moshannon State Forest were once held by large lumber companies, land holding companies and private individuals. The first purchase was 353 acres along Montgomery Run north of Clearfield on September 28, 1898 for $65.45 in delinquent taxes. The last tract of 9,909 acres was purchased from the Lehigh Valley Coal Co. in Centre County in 1956.
White pine and hemlock stands occupied the shady slopes and moist plateaus in the earliest recorded forests of the area. Many areas were covered with a mixture of beech, yellow poplar, birches, maples, oaks, cherry, hickory and chestnut. Some of the best white pine areas of the U.S. were located here and contained upwards of one hundred thousand board feet per acre. "...the wood is so thick, that for a mile at a time we could not find a place the size of a hand where the sunshine could penetrate, even in the clearest day..." according to Conrad Weiser in 1737. All this "virgin" timber was removed between 1860 and 1921. The high pine stumps, logging railroad tie marks, log slides and remnants of splash dams are all that remain to remind us of this earlier time.
Man-caused fires following these cuttings destroyed the humus and organic matter that nature took centuries to build. Some areas even today are open fields of bracken ferns and huckleberries between giant stumps of the previous forest. The resultant oak-chestnut timber type took another blow when the Chestnut blight wiped out the Chestnut prior to 1925. Today, work continues to establish natural Chestnut on the Moshannon State Forest.
During the 1930's ten Civilian Conservation Corp Camps on the Moshannon constructed and maintained roads, trails, bridges, tree plantations and recreational areas, including S.B. Elliott, Parker Dam and Black Moshannon State Parks. More recently, the discovery of the Boone Mountain and Benezette Natural gas fields have opened up many remote areas of the Moshannon State Forest.
A professionally administered program of comprehensive forest management harmonizes the multiple uses of the second-growth hardwood forest for the benefit of all the people of the Commonwealth on a sustained basis. To this end, the first comprehensive resource management plan for the Moshannon State Forest was formulated in 1955 and upgraded in 1970 to reflect the increased demands placed on the forest.
Recreation - The Moshannon State Forest provides an integrated system of designated State Forest Roads and specially constructed and groomed trails for snowmobilers. During winter these trails and roads are inaccessible to conventional vehicles. Snowmobiling completes year-round recreational opportunities on the forest lands. Maps of the trails are available from the District Forester.
The Quehanna Trail traverses the Moshannon State Forest from Parker Dam to Sinnemahoning in the Elk State Forest. Both the experienced and inexperienced primitive backpack hiker may exercise legs, lungs, mind and imagination on this 65-mile trail and its interconnecting loops. Further information and maps are available from the District Forester.
Sparkling streams fed by clear springs offer native and stocked trout fishing.
Hunters enjoy the myriad of game species abound within this area as a result of wise use and productive resource management practiced by trained foresters. Inhabitants include white-tailed deer, turkey, bear, squirrels and ruffed grouse.
Climate - Pennsylvania generally has a moist climate with cold winters and warm summers. The Moshannon State Forest area generally has very cold winter months with temperatures averaging 22 degrees Fahrenheit (-6 degrees Celsius). The region's average summer temperatures average 68 degrees Fahrenheit (20 Celsius). Precautions should be made when traveling this snowy area in the winter.
Location - Located in central Pennsylvania, Moshannon State Forest saddles Interstate 80 just north of Clearfield.
Elk State Forest - Located principally in Elk and Cameron counties, Elk State Forest, comprised of 200,000 acres, is open to primitive camping, licensed hunting and fishing and general recreational activities. The state forest land is delineated by metal tags and white paint marks on trees. Along major roads, the boundary markers are supplemented with wooden signs.
S.B. Elliott State Park - S.B. Elliott is a quiet, rustic, mountaintop recreational area just off of I-80 near the midpoint of the state. Once ravaged by the logging industry, the park now contains magnificent stands of maturing oak and maple that dominate the mountaintop. The park's rustic log cabins are perfect for a quiet getaway.


Der Verkehr ist in der Stadt die größte Quelle für NO2.
Nitrogen dioxide loads in Germany are declining slightly. According to preliminary data, however, the limit value of 40 µg/m³ for NO2 was exceeded in a number of cities throughout Germany. Such exceedances are projected to have occurred at about 39 percent (2017: 45 percent) of traffic-oriented measuring stations. Average nitrogen dioxide pollution throughout Germany is down slightly, by about two micrograms, compared to the previous year. These are the results of the preliminary evaluations of data from the Länder and the German Environment Agency (UBA). Evaluations can only take account of the 399 measuring stations whose data is reported automatically to the authorities. The evaluation of data from another 132 stations is still outstanding, with results expected in May 2019. Only then will it be possible to issue an accurate statement about how many cities are in compliance with the threshold value for NO2.
Maria Krautzberger, President of UBA, said: "The threshold value in effect since 2010 is still being exceeded in many of Germany's cities, putting the health of their residents at risk. Road traffic is the main culprit and diesel cars with excessively high emissions in particular. This is where real efforts must be made: these vehicles must be retrofitted with efficient catalytic converters – and at the polluter's cost, namely the automotive industry. Only clean cars can assure the prevention of looming driving bans. Both the technology and the legal framework for retrofitting are in place and must now be implemented quickly. The measures currently in place will simply take too long to ensure clean air everywhere."
The decline in mean NO2 concentrations of roughly two micrograms at traffic-oriented measuring stations is due to a number of factors: local measures such as speed limits or traffic restrictions, regional or national measures such as the renewal of the vehicle fleet by means of cash for trade-ins or software updates, or meteorological conditions which either accelerate or slow down the spread of pollutants. Measuring data cannot in and of itself tell what or how much an individual measure contributes to achieving reductions. This is because the above factors as a whole have an impact on measurement results. Detailed calculations would enable determination of the effect of individual measures; however, such calculations based on individual measuring stations are not available.
The measuring stations are set up by the federal states (Länder) according to uniform European regulations. Ms Krautzberger said: "Germany is in compliance with the regulations the EU Member States have established. The European Air Quality Directive was transposed one-to-one into German law. That is our only benchmark – not whether other states may or may not be complying with jointly agreed regulations."
A table with the highest recorded levels in 2017 compared to 2018 is available here.
A complete list of measuring stations and NO2 values of 2015-2018 is available here.
An overview of the cities which exceeded the limit values in 2017, and levels in 2018, is available here.
Particulates (PM10): 2018 was the first time there were no exceedances of the prescribed limit value for particulates in effect since 2005. Only one measuring station in an industrial area in North Rhine-Westphalia recorded particulate concentrations of over 50 µg/m³ on 36 days, where the permissible number of days is 35.


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Frank joined McGuireWoods in 1984, practicing in the area of commercial and constitutional litigation. He left the firm for several periods of public service, including positions in the Department of Justice under President Ronald Reagan and service as legal counsel and policy director in the cabinet of Virginia Governor George Allen.
Frank was principal founder and served for two decades as chairman of McGuireWoods Consulting, which today provides a full range of public affairs services to clients in state capitals and Washington, D.C. In that role he helped shape innovative public policy in Virginia related to higher education, public-private partnerships, and economic development. He helped craft and lead the Virginia Business Higher Education Council's "Grow By Degrees" and "Growth4VA" campaigns to promote reform-based reinvestment in Virginia's college and universities and the "GO Virginia" initiative to create incentives for regional public-private collaboration on economic and workforce development.
Frank has participated in and written about politics and government for four decades. His most recent book, The Lion's Den: A Story of American Renewal (2019), addresses timely issues of ethical political leadership and productive citizenship in a fictional genre. His major nonfiction works—The Dynamic Dominion (1992) and Virginia in the Vanguard (2006)—chronicle Virginia's competitive modern politics and are used as college-level texts.
He currently serves as treasurer of the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Board of Trustees, co-vice chair of the Montpelier Foundation Board of Directors, and the advisory board for the University of Virginia Center for Politics. Other recent public service includes service on the University of Virginia Board of Visitors and chairmanship of the federal Jamestown 400th Commemoration Commission.
Developed and managed the "Grow By Degrees" and "Growth 4VA" campaigns of the Virginia Business Higher Education Council, an ongoing initiative commenced in 2008 to highlight higher education's crucial positive impact on economic growth and to promote sustained reform and reinvestment in Virginia's higher education system.
Provided strategic advice and representation to leading Virginia universities on a range of critical issues, including restructuring the relationship between higher education institutions and the Commonwealth of Virginia, capital outlay, research, operational funding, strategic planning and technology-enhanced instruction.
Helped design and implement Virginia's widely acclaimed public-private partnership laws, and assisted business clients in developing successful public-private partnership proposals.
Active in development and promotion of Virginia heritage tourism sites, including leadership roles in 2007 and 2019 commemorations of Jamestown 400th anniversaries and service on governing board of James Madison's Montpelier.
Assists clients on public policy issues ranging from higher education, infrastructure development and tourism to energy, healthcare, transportation and economic development.
Member, Virginia Bar Association
Member, Federalist Society
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Treasurer, Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Board of Trustees
Co-Vice Chairman, Board of Directors, James Madison's Montpelier
Member, Center for Politics Board of Advisors, University of Virginia
Member, Board of Directors, NextUp
Member, Third (Presbyterian) Church, Richmond
Member, Virginia Business Higher Education Council
Member, Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, 2012-2016
Chairman, Jamestown 400th Commemoration Commission, 2003-2008
Member, 2019 "American Evolution" Commemoration Executive Committee; Vice President/Secretary, 2019 Commemoration, Inc., 2014-2020
Member, Governor's Blue Ribbon Commission on Higher Education, 1998-2000
Member, Governor's Steering Committee on Virginia's Economic Development Strategy, 1998-1999
Counselor to the Governor and Director of Policy, Gov. George Allen, 1994-1996
Special Counsel and Deputy Chief of Staff to the Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, 1987-1988.
Special Assistant, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 1982-1984
The Lion's Den: A Story of American Renewal, Dorrance Publishing Co., 2019
Virginia in the Vanguard, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc., 2006
The Dynamic Dominion, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc., 1992; revised second edition 2006
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Additional 10% every 30 days thereafter.
After 150 days, merchandise may be priced at our discretion.
After 180 days, any unsold merchandise will become the property of the store.
All items must be in excellent, polished, odour free and clean condition, otherwise cleaning fees will be charged. Cleaning large items such as sofas and carpets must be prepaid.
Finalizing of pricing will be done in-store. The consignor will receive a phone call/email regarding prices. The consignor will have 24 hrs to approve of pricing before their items are placed on the showroom floor.
It is the consignor's responsibility to monitor the reduction and cut off dates. We Do Not call to remind consignors when items are sold or to be donated.
Items being delivered must be brought in by the consignor(s) or a moving/delivery company. Warehouse staff are not permitted to leave the loading dock and remove items from vehicles.
If you wish to reclaim your unsold items, the consignor may take back their merchandise without charge only after 100 days. If items are taken back before the 100 days, a 15% charge of the initial price will be levied. A two (2) day notice is required for your items to be made ready. No pick-ups without prior notice are allowed. Pick up must be made within two days to avoid storage charges of $30 per day, payable at the time of the pickup.
Cheques are created the month following the sale of merchandise, and mailed to the consignor by the 12th. There is an administration fee of $3.00 on cheques under $100.00 and $6.00 on cheques over $100.
Large items that are dropped off 'without approval' and 'not accepted' must be picked up within two (2) days or they will be disposed of and any disposal fees will be charged back to the consignor. Though we make every effort to care for your merchandise while with us, we cannot be responsible for breaks, dents, scratches or wear due to the inherent quality of the piece.


I don't know about you but I love giving handmade gifts. I know the heart, sweat and maybe some tears, that goes into making a handmade item. So when I have the chance to give one, it makes that gift extra special.
I have made a lot of baby quilts over the years for friends, family and customers, and it was always such an honour to be asked to make something so special for their little one. I love knowing that their new quilt will be a part of their childhood, and who knows, maybe they will have the chance to hand it down to their kids.
However, sometimes we do not have the time to make a handmade gift. That's where these Wholecloth Quilts come in. They are the perfect quick, yet cozy, handmade gift for any newborn, 1st birthday or even 5th birthday. You can customize the size, fabrics, and even personalize it with their name.
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Plus you can add our Name Applique option to your quilt to personalize it with their name. Click here to see all of the available fonts.
1. Shannon Fraser has two amazing blog posts on binding. The first post breaks down how to make the binding and also how to attach it to your quilt. The second is how to hand sew it down.
2. If you would like to machine bind your binding down, Cluck Cluck Sew has a great post on how to do that!
3. Lastly, if you are new to this and have never finished a quilt, Craftsy has a blog post with lot of helpful information on how to straight line quilt your quilt together.
Hi Nikki – I know on FACEBOOK I read you were having a "popup shop" in Moose Jaw and another one in Swift Current but I'm not able to find the post anymore. Can you please tell me the dates. Thanks.


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Polyporus scarrosus Berk. & M.A. Curtis, 1872

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Q: Bigquery standardSQL: Current date minus a previous date with a result in number of days? I would like to the current date minus a previous begin date with the result with the result being the number days there is a difference of the two?
I have attempted the following: date_sub(Begindt, INTERVAL current_date)
Also, will I have to cast things differently?

A: Below is for BigQuery Standard SQL
DATE_DIFF(CURRENT_DATE(), Begindt, DAY)

See more for DATE_DIFF()
Above assumes the Begindt field is of DATE type
If not, you should cast to DATE type via CAST or PARSE_DATE functions

A: Are you finding something like below
DATE_DIFF(Begindt, CURRENT_DATE, day)


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