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Updated COVID Procedures for All MUC Sites
Please see below for a summary of COVID procedures for each of our MUC locations, updated as of September 28, 2020.
Main Headquarters: 1081 Broadway
Our main headquarters has revised COVID-19 procedures that can be viewed HERE. Please reference this document before entering our facility. See below for more specifics regarding individual program updates:
Housing & Community Development – Our housing department continues to serve residents with all programs, however, all walk-in clients and in-person appointments are on hold until further notice. Residents applying for home repair can continue through the application process via phone, email and mail. We also continue to accept wait list applications for our apartment buildings and serve receivership tenants via phone and email. Tenants may still drop off rent payments at the dropbox in the lobby at 1081 Broadway the Main Headquarter procedures referenced above. Please call x231 for more information.
Senior Services – Our Senior Services staff continue to provide case management via phone. We will see clients for in-person service at 1081 Broadway by appointment only. Please call our senior services department at x207 for more information.
Weatherization – Our Weatherization staff are returning to work at properties in the community under safe procedures. New and existing clients seeking information or completing an application can do so via phone with our program director by calling x218.
Hope House Shelter: 586 Genesee Street
Our Hope House shelter is still accepting referrals, but our capacity is currently at 50% to maintain a safe distance between residents. We will accept referrals as families depart through the Department of Social Services and 2-1-1. All questions regarding the shelter can be directed to our Shelter Supervisor at (716) 893-7222 x327.
Matt Urban Hope Center: 385 Paderewski Drive
Our Hope Center has partially re-opened for food pantry and Urban Diner services only. Our food pantry is open on Tuesdays from 12:00-4:00 p.m. Our Urban Diner is open Monday through Friday from 2:00-5:00 p.m. for grab-and-go meals only. Both pantry and Urban Diner clients will be served at the front entrance of 385 Paderewski Drive. A mask is required for service. Please call x310 with questions.
Hope Services 2 – Permanent Supportive Housing: Housing First, Hope Gardens – 58 Oberlin Avenue, HELP Buffalo – I 368 Broadway & II 384 Broadway
Upon entry at Hope Gardens and HELP Buffalo I&II, all staff, service providers and any and all visitors are required to wear a mask, thoroughly sanitize their hands, and have their temperature taken and recorded in a daily log. At this time, both locations are not allowing unauthorized visitors. We have designated areas for deliveries.
The staff at HELP Buffalo I&II and Hope Gardens are currently providing case management with face-to-face visits in our larger open spaces, like conference rooms, where they can ensure 6 ft. distance from one another. Clients and staff are required to wear masks and carefully disinfect the entire area between these visits. Additionally, for Hope Gardens, all common areas remain closed until further notice and our door-to-door, take out style breakfast and dinner service will continue.
Our Housing First Program (scattered site) Case Managers are conducting socially distanced outdoor visits for clients with desperate needs, emergency situations, health concerns, landlord issues, and overall amplified behavioral difficulties.
Lastly, all of the Permanent Supportive Housing Programs are prepared and are hoping to accept new referrals in the fall. Please call (716)893-7222 x530 or x536 for further information on Permanent Supportive Housing programs.
Youth & Community Services: 129 Lewis Street & 385 Paderewski Drive
These buildings are closed to the public at this time. Our Community Hub will be opened to registered students in grades K-8, between the hours of 7:00 am and 6:00 p.m. on weekdays. Parents will NOT be allowed in the building.
The food pantry at the T.J. Dulski Center (129 Lewis Street) will continue to serve clients in the rear of the building. Clients are still able to have client's choice during pantry. The food pantry is held every Wednesday from 10:30am-2:30pm
Please keep an eye on our website for any updates to our agency's procedures.
Our 2019 Annual Report
We're excited to release our 2019 Annual Report to the Community!
Our agency closed out 2019 having served over 19,000 residents of the City of Buffalo's East Side and surrounding towns through a variety of human service programs – whether they were homeless clients or homeowners in our neighborhoods, students in local schools or senior citizens. That number alone speaks to the tremendous impact of our agency's diverse programs and the tireless dedication of the staff who report to work here every day. We strive every day, and every year, to fulfill the simple mission of serving individuals and families in need.
Here are just SOME of our programs' 2019 accomplishments:
62 Homes Weatherized – Saving residents money on their utility bills by making their homes energy efficient
30 Homes Repaired – Helping homeowners in Fillmore and Lovejoy Districts make health safety repairs to their homes
111 Homeless Clients Housed by Street Outreach – Connecting individuals living on the street with safe housing and resources to improve their quality of life
834 Children Served – Supporting youth development through after-school, summer, and teen workforce programming
120 Permanent Supportive Housing Placements – Helping homeless clients secure safe, long-term housing through MUC sites and our local landlord partners
995 Senior Citizens Supported – Providing elderly clients with resources to help them stay in their homes and out of assisted living
619 People Given Shelter – Providing homeless women and children a safe place to stay in our Hope House emergency shelter
10,344 Meals Served – Offering daily hot meals at our Urban Diner in partnership with Friends of Night People
Click here to see the full report.
COVID-19 PROGRAM UPDATES
As a result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, our agency has had to make some temporary changes to our programs and procedures. Please see below for updates from each of our sites and programs on how they will be functioning in the interim. We will continue to send updates as things change.
MUC Headquarters, 1081 Broadway
Our main headquarters is open, but we are not accepting any walk-in clients. The building is open to staff and deliveries only. Tenants may drop off rent payments at the dropbox in the lobby at 1081 Broadway if they are unable to mail them. All inquiries should be made via phone at (716) 893-7222.
ESL/GED Program
Our ESL and GED classes are suspended until April 20, per the Buffalo Public Schools mandate. Please keep an eye on our website for updates on this timeline.
SNAP Program
Our SNAP workforce development program is suspended until further notice.
Senior Services Program
Our senior services staff are no longer doing home visits at this time. Our senior services program is still working with clients via phone and can be reached at (716) 893-7222 x207 Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Housing & Community Development Programs
All City of Buffalo housing assistance program inquiries – including the Emergency Repair program, HomeGrown program, and Down Payment & Closing Cost Assistance program – are being referred to call the Old First Ward Community Association at 716-856-8613 x103.
Housing staff are still supporting our receivership tenants over the phone at (716) 893-7222 x214. All tenants should be paying rent via mail to the Matt Urban Center, 1081 Broadway, Buffalo NY 14212 if possible, or at the dropbox in the lobby at 1081 Broadway if they are unable to mail them. Tenants at our apartment buildings can continue to pay rent via the dropbox at their respective buildings.
Weatherization Program
Our weatherization staff are still working Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. We ask that all new applicants request information by phone at (716) 893-7222 x218 or via email at jparylo@urbanctr.org or by mail to the Matt Urban Center, 1081 Broadway, Buffalo NY 14212.
Matt Urban Hope Center, 385 Paderewski Drive
The Matt Urban Hope Center is currently closed and all services are suspended until further notice.
Hope House Shelter, 586 Genesee Street
Our Hope House shelter is still accepting referrals, but our capacity is currently at 50% to maintain a safe distance between residents. We are only accepting 25 women and children at this time. We will accept referrals as families depart through the Department of Social Services and 2-1-1. All questions regarding the shelter can be directed to our Hope Services director at (917) 717-1400.
T.J. Dulski Community Center, 129 Lewis Street
The T.J. Dulski Center is currently closed to the public. I n light of the local school closures, all youth program operations have ceased until further notice.
Our food pantry at T.J. Dulski will be open every other week on Wednesdays from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The next date the pantry will be open is Wednesday, April 1.
Permanent Supportive Housing Programs
Our permanent supportive housing programs are suspending all home visits and will continue to support our clients over the phone. Our staff can be reached at (716) 893-7222, x530.
HELP Buffalo I & II, 368 & 384 Broadway
No visitors are permitted at our HELP Buffalo apartments at this time. Tenants can continue to work with their case managers via phone.
Hope Gardens, 58 Oberlin Avenue
No visitors are permitted at our Hope Gardens apartments at this time. All group activities and congregate dining have been suspended. Food will be delivered to tenants' apartments. Tenants can continue to work with their case managers on site and via phone.
Questions? Reach out to us at (716) 893-7222 or via email at info@urbanctr.org.
We hope all of our clients, partners, supporters and community members stay safe and healthy during this time!
Our Impact: By the Numbers
We're proud to share what our programs and staff have accomplished in the past year. Thanks to our funders, community partners and supporters for helping us do this work!


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By holding out, progressives still won
"Black contractors better get in on the game."
A number of Republican elected public officials now seem willing to subvert their oath of allegiance to the American democracy in order to restrict the impact of the growing power of Black citizens. In order to combat this defiance of constitutional rights, Blacks have to become more sophisticated about politics. It is no longer enough to show up at the polls on Election Day. For example, the difficulty involved in passing the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill provides some idea of the emerging complexities.
In order for a bill to become a federal law, it must be approved by a qualifying vote in the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives before it is signed into law by the president. Since there was considerable interest in repairing roads, bridges, airports and other deteriorating facilities across the country, there was support for the infrastructure bill in the 100-member Senate that at present is equally divided functionally between Democrats and Republicans.
However, progressives, who were a wing of the Democrats in the House, refused to vote for the infrastructure bill unless they were assured that the Senate would also approve President Biden's "Build Back Better" proposal that provides $3.5 trillion for climate change as well as funds for childcare, education, additional Medicare benefits and other programs to benefit impoverished or working-class Americans. This provision was being held up by two Democratic senators, Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona.
There was considerable open debate between the progressive Democrats and the two objecting senators that created the popular impression that Congress never gets anything done and the Democrats are a political party at war with itself. In fact, contrary to the public opinion generated by press accounts, heated public discussion on political issues is democracy at its best.
Nancy Pelosi is the speaker of the 435 member House, with 220 Democrats and 215 Republicans. Despite opposition from the progressives, Pelosi called the vote to end the negative criticism of the Democratic Party. She won 228 to 206. She knew she would lose six votes from the progressives, but she picked up 13 Republican votes.
With an inflation scare rising, the size of the "Build Back Better" bill will probably be reduced, or it may not be seriously considered at all. The 55-member Congressional Black Caucus supported Pelosi's decision, even though some of its members are also part of the progressives, and "Build Back Better" proposals may not survive.
Biden, Build Back Better, editorial, Infrastructure bill

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Climate Shifts
Life in a rapidly changing climate
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
The Australian's war on science continues.
Posted on July 26, 2011 by ovehblog
From Deltoid, July 22, 2011
Phil Watson, Team Leader of the Coastal Unit in the NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water was probably pleased when The Australian's Stuart Rintoul asked to interview him about his work. Watson was the man who organised A snapshot of future sea levels: photographing the king tide. The photographs of the king tide in 12 January 2009 are intended to help prepare NSW to adapt to a possible 90cm of sea level rise this century. So I'm guessing he wasn't too pleased when Rintoul's front page story about his work claimed that "Watson has written a report stating that global warming is not affecting sea levels" and that this report showed that sea level would only rise about 15 cm this century. You can imagine that Rintoul's story might make it a bit harder for Watson to get folks to prepare for a 90cm rise.
His department wrote to The Australian:
I refer to today's article titled, Sea-level rises slowing: tidal records. Your article has misrepresented our Mr Phil Watson's research paper by saying that "global warming is not affecting sea levels". This is untrue and misleading and it is not what Mr Watson told your journalist. Mr Watson's research looked only at measurements of historical data. It specifically did not consider predicted linkages between sea level rise and global warming predicted by climate models. Our organisation is committed to open scientific investigation. This important research will help us understand the different contributions of the El Nino-La Nina Southern Oscillation and of climate change to sea level change. The research and underlying data is entirely consistent with the rate of global average sea level rise for the 20th century advised by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was of the order of 17 +/- 5 cm.
There is strong national and international evidence that sea levels will increase substantially in this century. The world is warming and this includes the ocean. When water warms, it expands and sea level rises. Sea level rise is a slow process but it has serious medium and long term impacts. The projections are for a rise of 40 cm by 2050 and 90 cm by 2100 in NSW, and this data is reflected in NSW policies. Our scientists are working with others to increase understanding of what and where the impacts may be, so that we can better plan for and help local communities adapt. If we are prudent now, we can substantially reduce future costs.
Do you think that The Australian printed this letter?
Instead they repeated the misrepresentation in an editorial
In February last year we published a front-page story quoting then climate change minister Penny Wong's warning that rising oceans could see some of our most famous beaches destroyed or eroded back "hundreds of metres" over the coming century. We quoted scientific opinion suggesting that claim was exaggerated and we also went to Bondi Beach to seek the views of locals. Patrick Doab, who had been swimming there for more than three decades without noticing significant changes said: "I think it's just too drastic to say that the beach is going to change and (my grandchildren) won't be able to go to a beach like this."
That was episode 45 in The Australian's unending War on Science
A couple of days later on ABC TV's Insiders program, Fairfax journalist and left-wing commentator David Marr said: "This week The Australian had a nice bloke at Bondi, he'd been swimming at Bondi for years, and they led the paper with this story, they had his picture on the page saying, you know, 'I've been swimming at Bondi for 30 years and I haven't noticed the ocean come up' . . . complete nonsense." Fellow guest, ABC presenter Fran Kelly, chimed in, "Yeah, nonsense." They returned to their discussion about how this newspaper was deliberately overstating the problems confronting then prime minister Kevin Rudd.
Well, we don't need to inform them that when it came to holding back the tide of voter disenchantment, Mr Rudd proved to be no King Canute. And now, no doubt to the astonishment of Marr and Kelly, the ocean tides don't seem to be behaving according to their preferred script either. As we reported yesterday, NSW's principal coastal specialist, Phil Watson, has produced peer-reviewed analysis of ocean-level measurements, concluding increases are far below previous climate science predictions. (So he measured what Mr Doab had observed). His work has been endorsed by Macquarie University climate researcher Howard Brady. "In all cases, it is clear that sea-level rise, although occurring, has been decelerating for at least the last half of the 20th century," says Dr Brady.
In fact, Watson's paper found that sea level rise had accelerated at the end of the 20th century. The deceleration only appeared when you calculated a quadratic trend since 1920 (Corrected see here). But look at the data:
The quadratic trend has sea level not increasing at all at the end of the 20th century even though that's when sea level is increasing most steeply. The problem is that a quadratic trend isn't adequate to describe what happened to sea level over the century. Stefan Rahmstorf has more details on problems with a similar paper using US data.
And what of "Macquarie University climate researcher Howard Brady"? If you read Rintoul's story carefully, you will note that Brady's role is crucial. Rintoul could not get Watson to say the things he wanted, so he needed Brady in the story to make the statement Rintoul wanted. (That sea levels would only rise 15cm).
So who is Howard Brady? Well, he's not a climate researcher at Macquarie University — you can check the list. He is just an Honorary Associate in Biological Sciences there.
In 2002 The Australian described him like this:
Sometime Catholic priest, schoolteacher, Antarctic chaplain, honorary US Navy Lieutenant-Commander, geologist, stockbroking analyst, business consultant, academic author and researcher.
With such a CV, 61-year-old Howard Brady seems an unlikely boss of an oil company.
But as managing director of Mosaic Oil, which is producing and exploring in Queensland's Surat Basin, Dr Brady has brought his undoubted skills to the intellectual problem of producing gas from Permian rocks, a geological strata usually disregarded in Australian oil and gas exploration.
Brady retired from Mosaic in 2005 and his only publication in climate science are a couple of letters to the editor in Sydney Morning Herald where he was just as dismissive of sea level change as his now.
Thanks to Andrew, Jimmy, Mike and Hank in email and comments.
Update Tamino does a much better analysis of the data:
But now we come to one of the very big problems: instead of just using the smoothed (20yr moving average) values to gain insight from the graph, he actually treats them as data and subjects them to analysis. …
In fact the first and last 20 years of data get less than a full "vote" in the time evolution of the signal, and the closer to the beginning or end the less vote they get. This downplaying of the earliest and latest values — especially the latest — undermines our ability to determine the most recent behavior and whether or not the time series has recently shown acceleration.
When fitting a quadratic curve to estimate the acceleration, excluding the late data can actually change the sign of the result. Consider the Fremantle data from 1940 to the present (one of the data sets used by Watson). … But when I use the actual data in the same analysis (with the annual cycle removed), the estimated acceleration is positive, 0.013 mm/yr/yr. By suppressing the influence of the most recent data, an estimate of acceleration has been changed to one of deceleration.
Update 2: The Conversation does what Rintoul somehow could not do and talks to someone from the CSIRO.
The printed story contains a graphic contrasting the 89cm sea level rise by 2100 predicted by the IPCC with the 15cm sea level rise "as predicted by the NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change".
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«Тени забытых предков» () — повесть украинского писателя Михаила Коцюбинского, написанная в 1911 году под впечатлением от его пребывания на Гуцульщине. В произведении описана любовь Ивана и Марички, двух гуцулов из враждующих семей, которая для обоих заканчивается трагически. Он посвящён аспектам жизни гуцулов и включает в себя элементы фольклора.

Сюжет книги
Иван встретил девушку из рода Гутенюков (с которым давно враждует его семья) и сначала стал её бить, но она повела себя мирно, поэтому они разговорились.

Когда Иван и Маричка подросли, между ними зародилась любовь. Но Иван должен был идти в горную наниматься, поэтому Иван прощается с Маричкой. Работая пастухом, парень часто вспоминает свою любимую. За лето с ним произошло много приключений, но наконец Иван возвращается домой. А Марички уже нет, за день до его возвращения она переходила Черемош и была снесена водой.

Долго искал парень свою любимую, не веря в её гибель но со временем все же нашел её тело. После этого Иван надолго исчез, ни кто не слышал о нём долгих шесть лет. Девушки уже составили песни о любви и смерти Ивана и Марички, потому что думали, что Иван погиб с горя. Наконец на седьмой год он появился усталый, но спокойный. Рассказывал, что сначала пастушил в разных местах, а потом женился.

Жена Ивана, Палагна, была из богатого рода, добрая хозяйка. Но она не была удовлетворена своим мечтательным мужем, который все больше любил пастушить, а не сидеть дома.

Палагна становится любовницей соседа Юры, про которого говорят, что он волшебник. Она не пряталась со своей любовью и о ней стало известно многим, Иван же опустел. Он бродил по горам, и ему казалось, что Маричка зовёт его. Однажды Иван побежал за голосом Марички и разбился. Палагна делает вид, что сожалеет за ним, но теперь она свободная женщина. А возле дома плачут трембиты.

История
В 1910 году Михаил Коцюбинский посетил карпатское село Криворовня. Кратковременного пребывания в этих краях было недостаточным для него, чтобы дать материал для написания целого романа, но живописная природа и первозданная жизнь жителей вызвали у него стойкое желание писать о гуцулах. Позже он снова посетил этот регион и остался изучать обычаи, быт и фольклор местных жителей. По словам Коцюбинского, гуцулы в ХХ веке оставались язычниками, и его впечатления от волшебного плена горцев легли в основу его рассказа.

Персонажи
 Иван Палийчук: главный герой романа, 19-й ребёнок в семье, хотя большинство его братьев и сестёр умерли молодыми. Он социальный изгой и часто убегает в лес.

 Маричка Гутенюк: любовница Ивана из конкурирующей семьи Гутенюков. Обладает поэтическим талантом, сочиняет и поёт песни. Когда Иван уходит, она погибает во время наводнения, а позже проявляется перед ним как мавка, ведущая его к смерти.
 Палагна: девушка из богатой семьи, на которой Иван женится после смерти Марички. Однако она обижена на Ивана и не понимает ни его, ни его песен. У неё появился роман с соседом, мольфаром по имени Юра, и она одобряет его колдовство.
 Юра: Мольфар, наделённый сверхъестественными способностями. У него есть возможность управлять погодой, спасать домашний скот и вредить людям. Он стремится причинить Ивану болезнь и смерть.

Адаптации романа
 В 1964 году по роману вышла экранизация Сергея Параджанова. Главные роли исполнили Иван Миколайчук (Иван), Лариса Кадочникова (Маричка), Татьяна Бестаева (Паланья), Спартак Багашвили (Юра).

 В 2014 году в Виннице прошёл литературно-художественный проект «Экскурсия одного произведения», посвящённый 150-летию со дня рождения Михаила Коцюбинского. Мероприятие включало в себя выставку кабинета писателя, театрализованное представление по мотивам «Теней забытых предков» и видеоинсталляцию. Театрализованное представление чередовалось между отрывками из романа и рассказами о процессе его создания.

 В 1960 году была создана балетная обработка Виталия Кирейко. Премьера состоялась во Львовском театре, а авторами либретто стали Наталия Скорульская и Флориан Коцюбинский. Балет снова был поставлен в Киевской опере, а в 1990 году по этому второму спектаклю был выпущен балетный фильм.

Примечания

Произведения Михаила Коцюбинского
Повести 1912 года
Литературные произведения на украинском языке

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Q: How to substract the two lists which one list contain the value from a resample method and another list is contain normal values in dataframe? my first dataframe (df1) looks like this
PL_resample
2018-01-01 00:00:00    282.533333
2018-01-01 00:15:00    295.400000
2018-01-01 00:30:00    162.933333
2018-01-01 00:45:00    141.200000
2018-01-01 01:00:00    186.066667
2018-01-01 01:15:00     61.600000
2018-01-01 01:30:00    104.933333
2018-01-01 01:45:00    316.733333
2018-01-01 02:00:00    294.733333
2018-01-01 02:15:00    207.533333
2018-01-01 02:30:00    256.600000
Freq: 15T, Name: PL, dtype: float64

And the second dataframe (df2) looks like this
    Ppv
0   128.34916494383114
1   126.58570002025442
2   123.44801805283744
3   117.44595663399937
4   107.43012022255779
5   88.72558810855682
6   71.47247359312877
7   106.02608144119506
8   105.98001538360776
9   106.19784959216611
10  106.29336647920698
11  106.38710980808393
12  106.51127019884727

With this programm code
rest_list = df2.Ppv.iloc[0:11] - df1.PL.iloc[0:11]

I got the this results below which is wrong.
2018-01-01 00:00:00   NaN
2018-01-01 00:15:00   NaN
2018-01-01 00:30:00   NaN
2018-01-01 00:45:00   NaN
2018-01-01 01:00:00   NaN
2018-01-01 01:15:00   NaN
2018-01-01 01:30:00   NaN
2018-01-01 01:45:00   NaN
2018-01-01 02:00:00   NaN
2018-01-01 02:15:00   NaN
2018-01-01 02:30:00   NaN
0                     NaN
1                     NaN
2                     NaN
3                     NaN
4                     NaN
5                     NaN
6                     NaN
7                     NaN
8                     NaN
9                     NaN
10                    NaN

How could I fix them?

A: You can try
df2.Ppv.iloc[:11] - df1.PL.iloc[:11].to_numpy()

for subtraction. Since indices do not match you get NaNs so we subtract when one of them is numpy array.
...or if you want to keep the other one's index at the end, to_numpy on that one:
df2.Ppv.iloc[:11].to_numpy() - df1.PL.iloc[:11]

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National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority
Under assessment
Approved projects and activities
Gem 3D Marine Seismic Survey
Seismic survey
SapuraOMV Upstream (Western Australia) Pty Ltd
RMS ID
Under assessment (with NOPSEMA)
Link to previously accepted EP
Email gem.australia@sapura-omv.com
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SapuraOMV Upstream (Western Australia) Pty Ltd (SapuraOMV) is titleholder for exploration permit AC/P61 in the Timor Sea and proposes to undertake a relatively small scale 3-dimensional (3D) marine seismic survey over an area encompassing the permit and adjacent areas, referred to as the Gem 3D Marine Seismic Survey.
The survey location lies entirely within Commonwealth waters approximately 250 km offshore of mainland Australia and 650 km from Darwin. Seismic data will be collected within an Acquisition Area which covers approximately 410 km2. The Acquisition Area falls outside (seaward) of the Perth Treaty line amendment to Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone and hence outside the area where Australian commercial fisheries are permitted to operate. The Acquisition Area is surrounded by a larger Operational Area (~4,760 km2) to allow for line turns, run-ins/run-outs, seismic testing and support activities.
The survey will involve a single, specialist seismic survey vessel towing a seismic source array and ten hydrophone streamers of up to 10 km in length at approximately 9-15 m below the sea surface (water depth dependent). The seismic source will use compressed air to emit regular pulses of sound that reflect off the seabed and underlying geological formations. The hydrophone streamers will be of 'solid' (no liquid buoyancy fluids) design and towed with separation distances of approximately 75 m.
While collecting data, the seismic survey vessel will travel at a speed of approximately 4-5 knots, discharging the seismic source (up to 2,820 cubic inches volume) approximately every 12.5 m as it moves along a series of adjacent and parallel lines spaced approximately 375 m apart. The seismic vessel will be accompanied by one or possibly two smaller vessel(s) that will provide operational support, including scouting for potential hazards and helping manage communications with other vessels in the area. Due to the short duration of the survey, there will be no requirement for at sea refueling or crew changes.
The survey is expected to take up to 27 days, inclusive of downtime, and scheduled to occur between January 2020 and Q3 2020 with precise timing subject to receipt of regulatory approvals, weather conditions, vessel availability and other operational considerations.
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Analog Integrated Circuits – Accurate multi-channel A/D converters
Posted on June 9, 2014 by Jim Harrison
Many applications for medical, military, instrumentation, or control systems require an accurate A/D converter with at least four independent units and a moderate sampling rate. The independent A/Ds allow simultaneous sampling — but some single converter modes use a sample/hold on each channel for essentially the same thing, which is, I guess, OK too. So, for this column we will look over a few available A/Ds that have four or more converters, at least 16-bit resolution (typ), and sample at least 200,000 times per second.
First we have the AD7656 from Analog Devices with six independent 16-bit 250-ksample/s converters in a 64-LQFP package. Integral nonlinearity for this device is ±3 LSB max for the −40° to +85°C version and ±4.5 LSB max for the −40° to +125°C version.
The device can perform independent simultaneous sampling of the three input pairs and has both high-speed parallel and serial interfaces. It also has a daisy-chain feature that allows multiple A/Ds to connect to a single serial interface.
The device can accommodate true bipolar input signals in the ±4 × VREF range and ±2 × VREF range and it has a 2.5-V reference with ±150-ppm long-term stability and 6-ppm/°C typ temperature coefficient. The IC takes only 140 mW at 250 ksamples/s with 5-V supplies. SNR is 84 dB min, and THD is -90 dB max. It starts at $12.45 ea/1,000.
Fig 1: The AD7656 six-channel simultaneous sampling bipolar 16-bit A/D converter.
From Maxim Integrated we have the MAX11047 quad 16-bit A/D with ±2-LSB integral nonlinearity. Each channel has a track-and-hold amp. Throughput is 250 ksamples/s for each channel, and conversion time is 3 µs.
This chips internal reference is 4.096 V ±0.39% with a temp coefficient of ±4 ppm/°C. The IC runs from 5 V over -40° to 85°C with 92-dB typ SINAD and takes about 46 mA. Shutdown current is 20 µA. It comes in a 8 x 8-mm 56-pin TQFN package, and you can also get six- and eight-channel versions.
Looking at Texas Instruments , you can find the ADS8363 dual, 16-bit, 1-Msample/s A/D with eight pseudo- or four fully differential input channels grouped into two pairs for simultaneous signal acquisition. Its claim to fame is a SNR of 93 dB and THD of -98 dB typ. INL is ±4 LSB (±1.5 typ), and CMRR is 92 dB. The device's internal 2.5-V reference is programmable and is stable to ±10 ppm/°C. The chip operates from -40° to 125°C and has a 16-mA supply current at 3.6 V. Power-down mode takes only 5 µA.
Fig. 2: The ADS8363 dual, 16-bit, 1-Msample/s A/D.
I'm going to let one outliner slip in. The Linear Technology LTC2321-16 is only a dual unit, without simultaneous sampling, but it has two excellent features. First, it takes only 31 mW per channel and offers nap and sleep modes down to 5 μW. Second, it has 2-Msample/s throughput, so it's fast and low power.
The device's INL is ±4 LSB typ, and it yields an 81 dB SNR and –90 dB THD typ at 500-kHz input. The IC also features guaranteed operation to 125°C and it uses a single 3.3- or 5-V supply. The chip's 2.048- or 4.096-V internal reference has 20ppm/°C max stability. It uses a CMOS or LVDS SPI-compatible serial I/O and comes in a small 4 × 5-mm QFN28 package. Pricing starts at $4.95 ea/1,000.
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The Detroit Publishing Company was one of the largest American publishers of postcards and photographic views during the early decades of the twentieth century. The images are a rich source of documentation for the study of North American landscape and cityscape, and include views of well-known streets, buildings, historic monuments, natural scenery, industry, transportation, and daily life.
The Detroit Photographic Company was launched as a photographic publishing firm in the late 1890s by Detroit businessman and publisher William A. Livingstone, Jr., and photographer and photo-publisher Edwin H. Husher. The company obtained the exclusive rights to use the Swiss "Photochrom" process, a photomechanical technique that used lithographic stones to convert black-and-white prints to color. The process allowed the company to mass-produce color postcards, prints and albums that were of unusually high quality.
In the fall of 1897, Livingstone persuaded the accomplished American landscape photographer William Henry Jackson to become a partner in the firm. This added the thousands of negatives produced by Jackson to the Detroit Publishing Company's inventory. Jackson's collection included city and town views, images of prominent buildings, scenes along railroad lines, views of hotels and resorts, and the like.
The nation's fervent interest in the 1898 Spanish American War and the expansion of U.S. naval power accounts for the firm's large inventory of photographs of Cuba and scenes related to the war and for the hundreds of images of warships. In the 1910s, the Detroit Publishing Company expanded its inventory to include photographic copies of works of art, which were popular educational tools as well as inexpensive home decor.
During its height, the Detroit Publishing Company sold millions of prints annually. The company maintained outlets in Detroit, New York, Los Angeles, London, and Zurich, and also sold their images at popular tourist spots and through the mail.
The firm was known as the Detroit Photographic Co. until 1905 when it became the Detroit Publishing Company. William Henry Jackson became the plant manager in 1903, leaving him with less time to travel and take photographs. With the declining sale of photographs and postcards during World War I, and the introduction of new and cheaper printing methods used by competing firms, the Detroit Publishing Company went into receivership in 1924. The company's assets were liquidated in 1932.
In 1939, Jackson gave the Detroit Publishing Company negatives and prints to the Edison Institute in Dearborn, Michigan. In 1949, the Edison Institute gave all of the negatives and many duplicate photographs to the Colorado Historical Society. The Colorado Historical Society transferred most of the negatives and prints for sites east of the Mississippi to the Library of Congress later that year.
The best known photographer for the Detroit Publishing Company was William Henry Jackson (1843-1942). He moved to Nebraska after the Civil War and was active in the West from about 1870 to about 1890. His photographs for the U.S. Geological and Geographic Survey of the Territories (not included in this collection) influenced the establishment of Yellowstone and other early national parks. In 1898 he became president of the Detroit Publishing Company, adding his stock of negatives to the company's files. He left the firm in 1924.
In addition to Jackson, photographers included Hans Behm, Joseph Byron, Clarence M. Darling, Lycurgus S. Glover, Edward Hart, Clarence S. Jackson, John S. Johnston, B.F. Mills, Henry Greenwood Peabody, George Prince, William H. Rau, E.L. Schreck, and Nathaniel Livermore Stebbins; as well as three photographers identified only by last name: Bowen, McCormick, and Taylor.
Do you have a Detroit Publishing Postcard Checklist you would like to share with your fellow collectors? We would like to include them on our site to help in the research and study of postcards, and to further the hobby of deltiology. Any and all checklists are welcome whether partial or complete. Email to david@playle.com as a Word or text file. We don't want to violate any copyrights, so make sure they are not copyrighted. If they are from a publication, get their permission for us to reprint it on our website. We will attribute the checklist to the original publication (if any) or to the author. If it is already on the Internet, send us link. Thanks!
These were packaged sets of postcards from selected locations around the U.S. The ones I have seen had 40 postcards. In 1912, a small postcard-size advertising booklet included listed 36 different Little Phostint Journeys. It is reproduced here, along with 3 original package covers (click on the thumbnails for a larger image).
Alden, John Doughty. The American Steel Navy: A Photographic History of the U.S. Navy from the Introduction of the Steel Hull in 1883 to the Cruise of the Great White Fleet, 1907-1909 . Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1972.
Burdick, Jefferson R. The Handbook of Detroit Publishing Co. Postcards . Essington, Pennsylvania: Hobby Publications, 1954.
Detroit Publishing Company. Little "Phostint" Journeys . Detroit: Detroit Publishing Company, 1912.
Detroit Publishing Co. "Thistle Publications": Office Catalogue of Works of Art Reproduced from Eleven Leading Galleries of the United States and Many Private Collections . Detroit: Detroit Publishing Co., 1912.
Gundy, Lloyd, ed. William Henry Jackson: An Intimate Portrait: The Elwood P. Bonney Journal . [Denver]: Colorado Historical Society, 2000.
Hales, Peter B. William Henry Jackson and the Transformation of the American Landscape . Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988.
Harrell, Thomas H. William Henry Jackson: an annotated bibliography . Nevada City, California: Carl Mautz Publishing, 1995.
Hughes, Jim. The Birth of a Century: Early Color Photographs of America . London; New York: Tauris Parke Books, 1994.
Jackson, William Henry. Time Exposure: The Autobiography of William Henry Jackson . New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons , 1940.
Lawlor, Laurie. Window on the West: The Frontier Photography of William Henry Jackson . New York: Holiday House, 1999.
Lesy, Michael. "A Whole World: Pictures from the Detroit Publishing Collection." Doubletake , vol. 1 (Summer 1995):126-128.
Lowe, James L. and Ben Papell. Detroit Publishing Company Collector's Guide . Newton Square, Pennsylvania: Deltiologists of America, 1975.
Read-Miller, Cynthia, ed. Main Street U.S.A., in Early Photographs: 113 Detroit Publishing Co. Views . New York: Published for Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Mich. by Dover Publications, 1988.
Stechschulte, Nancy Stickels. The Detroit Publishing Company Postcards: A Handbook for Collectors of the Detroit Publishing Company Postcards including checklists of the regular numbers, contracts, Harveys, miscellaneous art cards, the 50,000 series, sets, Little Phostint Journeys, mechanical postcards, the panoramas, and many others . Big Rapids, Michigan: N.S. Stechschulte.
Waitley, Douglas. William Henry Jackson: Framing the Frontier . Missoula, MT: Mountain Press Publishing Company, 1998.


Hi, I'm Tara. I'm a designer / writer / creative marketing pro in Indianapolis, Indiana. I used to be a middle school teacher, but journalism was always my first love. Getting my master's in journalism opened a world of creative opportunities for me, from print & digital publication design to multimedia storytelling, narrative journalism, and marketing — so now I'm a gal who can do a little bit of everything! When I'm not working, I'm writing for my blog, hanging with my dog (Gretta), enjoying my cute little house, being obsessed with my nephews, trying to be funny on Twitter, or dancing by myself. Some organizations that are really close to my heart are Carmel Young Life, Mission to Ukraine, Wide Awake, and The Mom Bag.
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Interview with José García Liñares, Director of Aquapark Cerceda, Spain
This month we're collaborating with José García Liñares, the predecessor of Aquapark Cerceda, a municipally-owned waterpark.
During our talk, he spoke about interesting aspects of the park's management and its visitors.
"The waterpark was born in the year 2000, with an investment of around 3 million Euro. Its initial 3 hectares have not been expanded, but its attractions have been, taking advantage of the increase of visitors and the park's popularity.
We open almost 90 days a year and although temperatures aren't favourable at the beginning, in the months of July and August the park fills with people from Galicia, Asturias and even Leon. Our policy is to provide an aquatic leisure space that is accessible to all families, so we establish very competitive prices and we work hard to make them feel comfortable during their stay.
One of the park's lures is its 1.5 hectares of recreational use, located near to the river and with grassy areas; something that is valued by our visitors as it allows them to have a enjoyable time. We have several attractions and all of them have a large influx, but I would highlight the Kamikaze and the V. Additionally, as in any park, visitors can find kiosks and cafés.
Revisions and maintenance checks are carried out before the park opens, which guarantee the safety of the park and its attractions. We pay great attention to this area, as it is tremendously important to us that guests feel happy and relaxed in all aspects.
Waterparks are a fundamental tourist resource for children (our future), and for middle-aged people, so I believe they have a promising future. In our case, it's accentuated further as we're the only park in Galicia, located in an inland area, and therefore it is one of the most important tourist resources in Galicia and of course in our area.
You only have to take a look at the data. Cerceda is a town of 5,000 inhabitants, through which more than 200,000 people pass in the summer months, generating a large source of income for the entire area.
After 18 years of operation, there are some aspects which I would modify, such as the attractions having run outs and therefore reducing the cost of cleaning the pools, which in turn generate the greater need for lifeguards. But generally, looking back to the era in which it was built, I am still proud to have carried out its construction".
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Sue Lovegrove The shape of the wind No.483 2011; acrylic and gouache on linen; 90 x 130cm. Photos: Peter Whyte.
If you head for Pelverata on one of those great old roads, winding and unsealed, that still abound off Tassie's beaten track, if you travel this road away from the lush river flats of the Huon River and into the western foothills of the Snug Tiers, you will come to an unpainted house of simple design, steeply gabled. It sits in paddocks backed by dry sclerophyll forest with E. ovata dominant, rich habitat for eastern barred bandicoots, Tasmanian native hens, eastern quolls and healthy Tasmanian devils, as well as the obligatory abundance of wallabies and brushies. Here, on 20 acres of 'horrible clay', Sue Lovegrove lives and works. Her house, indeed, seems to be one large, expansive studio.
Sue grew up in Adelaide and roamed the country before washing up in these distant Tasmanian hills. She has had a long, ongoing love affair with Central Australia and the far north of the continent, and she has travelled extensively in Asia. She has been crucially shaped by her engagement with these geographies. Dealing with the nuances of inter-cultural aesthetics impressed complexity and subtlety upon her - as a basic condition of this richly configured world, and as a principle to guide and shape her art practice.
A decade ago Sue was applying the finishing touches to her PhD dissertation, an analysis of Emily Kngwarray's Big Yam Dreaming (1995). From Kngwarray's work Lovegrove took an interest in 'between' spaces, the space beyond the surface of the painting and pictorial devices that oscillate the viewer between the depths of pictorial space and back to the surface.1 With this interest, and the insights derived from the landscape engagements noted above, Lovegrove embarked, in the mid-1990s, on a period of intense productivity, a level of output that shows no sign of abatement.
But I wish to concentrate my remarks on Lovegrove's work since relocating to Tasmania.
She has become an island painter. I do not mean Tasmania – I mean instead smaller, outrigger islands where the wind weaves pattern and chaos – simultaneously – from light, water, reed and dune grass. Sue was an Antarctic Arts Fellow, and she stopped over at Macquarie Island. She was an artist-in-residence on cliff-walled Maatsuyker Island off Tasmania's wild south coast. She has taken her easel to Egg Island, an elongated, species-rich riverine island in the Huon River's tidal reach. And as I write, she is planning and packing for Tasman Island, itself sheer-walled, but standing beneath the commanding presence of Cape Pillar and the highest sea-cliffs – they do say – in the Southern Hemisphere. Sue has been here three times as a WildCare weeder, but this trip is 'all art'. Not that she failed to put her earlier visits to good creative purpose. At the time of writing her latest exhibition, Glimpse, is hanging in Gallerysmith in North Melbourne. This is the latest instalment in her The Shape of the Wind series, and it "explores the patterning and rhythms of the island through the complex linear structure of the island's grasses."2 It is a long way, geographically and artistically, from the Northern Territory to Antarctica, but, as this quotation reveals, a thematic consistency threads the works of the 1990s to the works of the 2000s.
An interest in white, the default colour of space, took Lovegrove to Antarctica, and it is a thread that remains within the weave of her work. White became its base colour, though you need to look deep within some of the paintings to realise this. White is the wind. It is there, in semi-transparent layers that let the image through, even in the later grass-dense paintings. Light and air and expansiveness predominate. Even as the gaze upon light and cloud came to be populated by cross-cut intersections of grass, the one echoed the other. The lines are to do with how you feel the air – how grass might brush across your face.
On Macquarie Island Sue encountered herbfields and meadows of grass – but no trees. It was as if the bones of the living island had been bared to the scrutiny of space. On elemental Maatsuker Island, where she lived "a monastic life", the artist "talked to the island as if it was a creature, not just a thing with a lighthouse on it." An advocate of what she calls 'cloud time' – the patience to sit, watch, listen – here she painted plein air 'cloud paintings'.
But this was also a transitional time. She moved seamlessly on from 'cloudwork' to painting "the belly of the island – the dark damp vegetation". It was, she says, a process of "leaving ice behind and finding grass", a process that seems to have begun with her encounter with those intricate and infinitely complex micro-worlds of the Macquarie Island herbfields and grasslands. Now she "travels looking at the grass. Some people look at the view – I look down to where the lichens are, and the little creatures that no-one sees." In these microworlds, worlds entire unto themselves, worlds of endless, distilled complexity, the shape of the wind finds delineation, its white dance taking on tints of delicate, mute colour, a play of warm and cool so subtle that you don't realise what you are seeing. And as it is, so she paints.
For this transition the artist sought a visual language of grass. She doesn't want 'grassiness' to be rendered literally, but she still wants to keep faith with place. She seeks a visual language that can convey dimensions deep beyond surfaces – abstraction, but not so abstract that the subject becomes a purely cerebral event.
There is tension, too, between the white depth of space and the detailing line – also white – that the grass supplies. She wants the eye to flicker from surface to inner deep to surface to inner deep. On first encountering Sue's work my eye tended to stop at the flat of the surface, seeing each canvas as alike to a photographic close-up. I soon came to realise the inadequacy of this, but it is true that the opacity of white makes it difficult to use, and it is a challenge to achieve a sense of depth. (White is also, in indigenous aesthetics, the signifier of ancestral power and energy.) Sue shows me the painting she deems her best – The Shape of the Wind No. 495 – and I see, or rather half see, the dynamism she achieves through the weave of lines and the hint of pattern within the random that lies at the heart of things – what the physicist, David Bohm, called 'implicate order'. It is an aesthetics of the glimpse – of things not gazed at, but held at the edge of perception, half seen, half intuited, but palpably there.
Sue Lovegrove seeks to convey the emergence of implicate pattern within the chaotic complexity of the life of her wind-shaped, unpeopled islands. She has devised a way of working to fit her intent. She paints on the floor of her home/studio, completely immersed, working the painting up in tiny, soft lines of gouache, using an extremely small brush. She strokes the canvas into life, the end product taking its rhythm from the rhythms of the process. If it's not to her liking "I take it down the paddock and hose it down with rain water. It doesn't all come off – it leaves a ghost. Lines sit over it. And the canvas itself acquires a story." The painting slowly emerges. And within the painting a pattern, ephemeral, glimpsed at the edge of the eye, also emerges, lurking within the chaotic complexity of crosscutting lines. It is a tension in the scheme of things – a tension between the pattern of self-organising systems that constitute living organisms and entire ecosystems, and the disorder, the pizzazz, in the chaos of its endlessly varying morphologies. Just now Lovegrove seeks to paint these tensions within the complexity of Tasman Island's wind-moulded grassland ecosystems. You take the landscape inside yourself, she says, "feel its pattern inside your body." Thus it is that you learn to paint the shape of the wind.
Pete Hay, Tasmanian born, bred and based, is a poet, essayist, social commentator and a scholar of place and place activism. His most recent publications are 'Main Currents in Western Environmental Thought', 'Vandiemonian Essays', and 'Silently on the Tide' (poetry).
1 Sue Lovegrove, Studio Report, unpublished Ph.D. report presented in part fulfilment of the requirements of the Doctor of Philosophy in Visual Arts, Australian National University: National Institute of the Arts, Canberra 2002 p14.
2 All quotes from this point are from a personal interview between Sue Lovegrove and the author on 5 Oct 2010.


If you haven't noticed, there's a lot going on in Paisley.
It might well become the next tourism hotspot in Scotland. Who better to bring Paisley's rich heritage to life than qualified STGA tourist guides?
It was a true pleasure working with our committed new colleagues and with the team of STGA trainers and various experts. Let us present our new colleagues (from left to right) Betty Graham, Aileen McGruther, Catherine Hancy, Alexander Wilson and Les Fernie.


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How can I achieve this ?
thanks for any hints

A: Simply put your Grid in a Border element:
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A: Why not put a Border around the Grid:
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Surface Forces: June 29, 2002
China is moving to develop improved warships. The 31 frigates of the various Jianghu sub-classes have been supplemented by a dozen improved frigates of the Jiangwei-I and -II classes. It is now thought that production of Jiangwei's will end when the 12th is complete, and a new class of frigates will enter production. As for destroyers, China completed two Luhi-class 4,600-ton destroyers but never built the rest of the announced class of six. Instead, production moved to the Luhai class, which tips the scales at 6,000 tons. Only one of these was built before the design evolved into the new Modified Luhai, which is thought to comprise a similar hull but with a very different weapons fit based on the Russian destroyers China has purchased. Two of these improved ships are under construction. All three Luhais use CODOG (Combined Operations, Diesel Or Gas) propulsion. Under such a system, the ships use fuel-efficient diesels most of the time, as their top speed of about 20 knots isn't an issue outside of combat. But when the shooting starts and the ships have to dash into attack range or out of trouble, they use Ukrainian-built gas turbines to push the top speed toward 30 knots.--Stephen V Cole
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How Good Is Agritrade Resources Limited (HKG:1131) At Creating Shareholder Value?
HONG KONG, March 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Agritrade Resources Limited ("Agritrade Resources" or the "Company", stock code: 1131.HK, or together with its subsidiaries collectively referred to as the "Group") is pleased to announce the completion of the acquisition (the "Acquisition") in relation to SKS Power Generation (Chhattisgarh) Limited ("SKSPGL"). As an integrated energy solutions provider, the Group's Acquisition underpins a new growth phase. On the business front, successful completion of the Acquisition denotes the Group's diversification into the energy-related thermal power plant operation, while vertically integrate with its existing coal business. Geographically speaking, the move coins the Group's tapping to India market, which represents high growth and huge potential.
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HONG KONG, May 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Agritrade Resources Limited ("Agritrade Resources" or the "Company", stock code: 1131.HK, or together with its subsidiaries collectively referred to as the "Group") today is pleased to announce that Agritrade Mine Holdings Limited, a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, entered into an equipment supply contract to acquire (the "Acquisition") a complete set of longwall system from Zhengzhou Coal Mining Machinery (Group) Co., Ltd., a leading comprehensive coal mining and excavating equipment manufacturer in the People's Republic of China at a consideration of RMB139,400,000 for the Group's mining operation at the Merge Mine in Indonesia. The Company expects that the production capacity of the Merge Mine will be increased by approximately 2.5 million tonnes annually following the Acquisition, reaching a total annual production capacity of approximate 3.5 million tonnes.


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Hormones May "Program" Dieters' Weight Regain
September 10, 2010 / 10:54 AM / WebMD
Weight regain is the bane of many a dieter's existence. Often dieters who regain weight after losing it are viewed as failures and judged for their lack of willpower, but new research may put an end to this blame game.
Weight regain may not be solely a willpower issue. Some people may actually be programmed to gain weight back based on their levels of two key appetite hormones, leptin and ghrelin. The new study appears in an online version of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
"This knowledge could be used as a tool to personalize weight-loss programs that could guarantee success in keeping off the weight," says study author Ana Crujeiras, Ph.D., of Compejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago in Spain, in a news release.
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In the new study, 104 obese or overweight men and women ate a low-calorie diet for eight weeks and were followed up with six months later. Their body weight, ghrelin, leptin, and insulin levels were measured before, during, and after the diet.
Ghrelin is the "go" hormone that tells you when to eat, and leptin is the "stop" hormone that tells you when to stop eating.
On average, study participants dropped about 5% of their body weight while adhering to the low-calorie diet. Six months later, 55 people maintained their weight loss, while 49 regained 10% or more of the weight they had lost. Those individuals with higher leptin and lower ghrelin levels before dieting were more prone to regain weight, the study showed.
While this may seem counter-intuitive based on the actions of these hormones, the researchers suggest that it may be a matter of some people being resistant to the effects of these hormones.
Their brains may not be getting the fullness or satiety messages that these hormones are delivering. You may have a lot of leptin, but your brain is resistant to its effects; much like people with type 2 diabetes become resistant to the effects of the hormone insulin.
Going forward, "these hormone levels could be proposed as biomarkers for predicting obesity-treatment outcomes," the researchers conclude. "Our findings may provide endocrinology and nutrition professionals a tool to identify individuals in need of specialized weight-loss programs that first target appetite hormone levels before beginning conventional dietary treatment."
Fullness Resistance Syndrome
Louis Aronne, MD, founder and director of the Comprehensive Weight Control Program at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York, agrees. "There is something physical going on in people who regain weight," he says.
"Resistance to these hormones is a risk factor for weight regain," he says. Aronne dubs this condition "fullness resistance" and says that your brain is resistant to signals that come from your stomach and intestines telling you that you are full and to stop eating.
"With leptin resistance, you don't feel full and the more you eat, the hungrier you may get," he says.
"We need to stop blaming people and start recognizing the physical basis of weight regain and manage it so people do better," he says.
The new research likely applies to significant numbers of people who are finding the battle of the bulge to be an uphill one.
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Drugs aimed at leptin resistance -- and there are some in the pipeline -- may help, he says.
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"Ample evidence, now including this study, suggests that there are physiologic reasons for weight gain, difficulty at losing weight, and rapid weight regain after a diet," he says. "There is no question that certain people are preconditioned to gain weight more easily and more quickly regain weight after dieting, just as some people are predisposed to having their blood pressure spike after eating salt whereas others can eat all the salt they want without having problems with hypertension," Kahan says. "This study is another small step toward ultimately ... [devising] new strategies for weight management and disease prevention that work with our bodies' physiologic makeup, rather than against it."
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Courtesy of Joe Nickle A view of the Red River from the Margaritaville Resort Casino this past weekend. The river was due to crest at 37 feet on Monday, its highest point in approximately 70 years.
Red River crests, due to begin receding but will remain high for months
The bad news: the Red River has swollen and swallowed swaths of land in Bossier Parish, causing evacuations, road closures, and many other headaches and worries for local officials and residents. The good news: according to officials, the waters will begin to recede, although still remain high for several months.
The Red River was expected to crest at 37 feet on Monday. Last Thursday, the Red River reached the same level as the 1990 flood and now is at its highest level since 1945.
The water will remain high for several weeks and then slowly recede to about 27 or 28 feet, where it will remain through early August.
Gov. Bobby Jindal offered Bossier officials assistance during a briefing Friday afternoon at the Bossier Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (BOHSEP) in Bossier City.
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Jindal activated the Louisiana National Guard (LANG) that same day. The LANG has repositioned more than 255,000 sandbags from state warehouses to six parishes in order to support parish flood fighting preparations. In addition, they moved six sandbag filling machines in the area, which are capable of filling 400-500 sandbags per hour. By Friday afternoon, Guardsmen hauled 200,000 bottles of water to northwest Louisiana to back up the drinking water supply.
U.S. Senator David Vitter, R-La., is pushing for federal disaster support for flooded areas in Louisiana. Vitter led a call with local officials late last week to determine needs of the surrounding communities and has contacted the Army Corps of Engineers regarding lock and dam repair.
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Residents of River Bluff subdivision and Cash Point RV Park have fled their homes due to a recommended evacuation by parish officials after a foot of water was in the neighborhood roadways, flooding approximately a dozen homes in the subdivision; the park has an impassable road at the north end of the park and a loss of power to the sewage system.
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Residents in south Bossier Parish south of La. Highway 527 need to be prepared for backwater flooding that could occur this week. Water is already on some of the roadways in south Bossier Parish, including Atkins Clark Road and Levee Board Road.
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Officials anticipate backwater flooding to occur at Lake Bistineau, possibly rising another two feet, similar to that of 2009. The lake has now been closed to boat traffic, due to rising waters, according to Bossier and Webster officials. Camp owners along the lake are advised to closely monitor the situation as the water rise and take proper precautions.
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The American Red Cross' evacuation shelter at Elm Grove Elementary School has remained open for residents affected by the flooding. A sand bag distribution site was established Sunday at 3 p.m. at the Tooke Memorial Library in south Bossier Parish at 451 Fairview Point Road. Help with loading sandbags will be from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.; however, sand bags will be available 24 hours.
In addition to water damage, many residents are facing another hazard — wildlife. There have been several reports of alligators and snakes washing up on lawns facing the now sudden waterfront property.
"Alligators tend to move around in flooded ditches and canals. A lot of neighborhoods now days have water retention ponds. It's not uncommon to see nutria, beavers, snakes and alligators in those areas. Although they are present, most times they are not a nuisance," advised Ed Mouton, Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Biologist Program Manager.
If a local resident comes across an alligator, keep away and call the Minden office at 318-371-3049. There's an established program for alligators that places hunters around the state. Once a call is made, a hunter is dispatched to assess the situation. Depending on the size, they will capture and release it or catch it and kill it.
"Most problems occur when people get curious. They see an alligator crossing the road and stop to help it," said Mouton. "We don't recommend feeding them. There's no law against it, but we certainly don't recommend it. You can't judge what they will do and what their reaction will be."
Even for those not battling the rising waters, the flooding has heavily impacted travel as well, with the major concern being along the Arthur Ray Teague Parkway.
Both lanes are closed from the Shreveport Barksdale Bridge south to Reeves Marine Drive in order for the Bossier City Fire Department to pump water back to the Red River as a preventative measure to protect the South Bossier Water Treatment Facility. Both lanes of the ART Parkway are also closed from McDade Street to Shady Grove Blvd until the flood waters recede. Motorists are asked to use Barksdale Blvd (US Hwy. 71) for north/south travel until the parkway is reopened.
The Bossier City Police Department and the Louisiana Department of Transportation has also closed the off ramps of the Shreveport Barksdale Bridge that lead onto the parkway due to flooding concerns. The rising of the Red River is causing the east side of the parkway to flood and water has risen onto the on and off ramps of the Shreveport Barksdale Bridge where they adjoin the parkway.
The bridge will remain open as usual but no traffic will be allowed to exit onto the parkway in either direction.
Other road closures in Bossier Parish as of press time include:
n La. 537 in north Bossier Parish from Pittman Road to Log Ferry Road.
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n I-220 outside lane westbound from Benton Road to the Red River.
Officials encourage all residents who might be in jeopardy of flooding to ensure they have an emergency plan in place and take appropriate actions now. Officials are urging residents to understand the scope of the flooding, in which high waters will be in the area for the upcoming weeks.
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Santharian Development Forum Santharian World Development Miscellaneous (Moderators: Seeker, Valan Nonesuch) The Game of "Svaq and Kuatu"
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The Game of "Svaq and Kuatu"
« on: 03 November 2006, 05:40:21 »
Changes inspired by Artimidor
THE GAME OF "SVAQ AND KUATU"
"Svaq and Kuatu" or much longer "Kuatu forcing the Soobrache" are the names of this gnomish card game which is not very hard to learn but maybe because of it's need in equipment is slightly unloved by the people. Although, the innkeepers thought on how to rid this problem, they started selling decks in their inns.
Thought up by a Daran gnome in Manthria, this game has been played almost across all Santharia and there are even similar games on Nybelmar and Aeruillin. As people tell, a gnome who worked at Nolan's Farm thought up the game. They say that the gnome had to go home after a party and from unknown reason he peeked into the brewery for a moment. He said later that three Kuatu squirrels drank two flasks of Svaq and started to dance around him. He ran out of the brewery and told the story to the first gnome he encountered. Later on he got an inspiration to make a game about this funny story, so that's were the "Svaq and Kuatu" first began to exist. The people say the game was invented around 272. a.S.
Although this game can be played in most inns in Manthria it is quite expensive to buy a deck of cards from the innkeepers so people prefer to draw their own cards or to play with a deck from a friend. The foxy innkeepers also make tournaments and they are played at their inns. This kind of game is also the funnest and innkeepers earn a lot of money selling beverages and decks. The kissing and trading idea is probably just an add on made by veteran players to spice the game up.
The equipment needed for the "Svaq and Kuatu" is listed below:
1) A deck of 50 cards with five cards of each of ten different card types. The types are:
The Sword, which has a picture of a sword diagonally across the card, which is used to make another player discard a card. Discard this card.
Half-sip of Svaq, which shows a smiling Kuatu sitting next to a half-empty flask of Svaq. This card counts toward the necessary number of Svaq sips.
Sip of Svaq, with a picture of a Kuatu beside a tipped-over flask of Svaq. This card also counts toward the Svaq sips needed.
Happy Kuatu, with a picture of two Kuatu. If there are at least two other Kuatu cards in play, you can play this card as a Kuatu card for yourself.
Warrior Kuatu, showing three Kuatu holding miniature weapons. It lets the player look at the top three cards of the deck and take one of them. Discard this card.
Single Kuatu, with an image of a contented Kuatu holding a carrot between its paws. It counts toward the mandatory number of Kuatu.
Pirate Kuatu, which has a three-legged squirrel with an eyepatch. This card lets a player put any card in play into the discard pile. Discard this card.
The Table Cards, 5 each of the Basiloc, Black Oak bark, and Redberries, which are the necessary ingredients for Svaq. If you have one of each card in your hand, you can play them as a Sip of Svaq.
2) Money and other things to trade
The game is for two to six players. The player starts with five cards in his hand and after each turn he refills that number.
The goal of the game is to use the cards to acquire two whole sips of Svaq, and three Kuatu squirrels.
A player must play at least two cards per round. When the draw pile empties, the discard pile is reshuffled as a new deck, and play continues until a player gets two sips of Svaq and three Kuatu. Whenever a player gets a sip of Svaq, he must drink an actual sip of Svaq, and whenever he gets a Kuatu, he must announce that fact. If any person of the opposite sex asks within the next minute to kiss him, he cannot refuse, or else he has to discard the Kuatu. Play continues until someone gets the necessary combination of Svaq and Kuatu. Additionally, players are allowed to sell or trade their Svaq or Kuatu to each other, for whatever fee the player is willing to pay, including cards in the game. A player cannot have more than three Kuatu or two sips of Svaq at a time, and must discard extras, so sometimes it is beneficial to trade. Players can only offer to trade on their own turn.
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Re: The Game of "Svaq and Rabbits"
« Reply #1 on: 03 November 2006, 15:49:35 »
Ok, why has no one else commented on this? This is HILARIOUS! You need a good editor (looks round innocently) to fix some sentence structures, grammar errors, and so on - but the concept is great and the game itself sounds marvelously creative. I like the little touches such as the redberry cards and the kissing!
And you KNOW one of our artists is just going to have to draw a card from this deck to illustrate the game entry. Who could resist sketching a tipsy rabbit? Or even better, a Pirate Rabbit! (falls about laughing)
If Faugar's amazing talent doesn't beat me to it, I'll have to dust off my Wacom and have a go at the "Half-Sip" card....
I like making up cards and games. I'm glad you found it hilarious. And what about my dwaren story?
« Last Edit: 04 November 2006, 06:23:15 by Arceon » Logged
Re: The Game of "Svaq and Kuatu"
Changed the game to look more Santharian.
Indeed, this one sounds funny, though I always have difficulties with imagining how the game is played by reading a description only - one would need to see it in action...
But the concept is interesting and the ideas of pirate squirrels and innkeepers earning money with that kind of drinking game makes it a valuable addition to our games section Again there are some things popping up in my mind of what could be added here and there.
For example at the History section you could write it a bit funnier as it is quite unlikely that squirrels drink Svaq, so it could have sprung from the imagination of our gnome, who forgot to drink his Svaq.
Innkeepers could also make whole tournaments, because it is a good way to earn money if people have to drink when they progress in the game - and I assume drinking Svaq makes much more sense if you have drunk something alcoholic first, so profit is guaranteed.
Maybe you can add a few such things.
But again a nice and inventive entry, Arceon - great to see you being creative and trying your hands on all kinds of different stuff - that's very much appreciated
Alysse the Likely
This would be a fun game! Maybe we should try to get our various artists to draw the cards so we can put it together for the next Santhmoot! Can't provide Svaq, but it could just be the drink of one's choice.
Now THAT would be interesting...
Alysse
Funny "History" story added in yellow.
Ok, marked for integration - I'll see to add a thing here and there perhaps while putting it up
Ok, I've prepared the entry, expanding the history part even more, based on what you already had - hope you like this version as well
"As people tell, a gnome who worked at Nolan's Farm thought up the game. They say that the gnome had to go home after some sort of celebration (probably a colleague's birthday) and for an unknown reason he peeked into the brewery for a moment. Well, people are pretty firm on that reason however, claiming he just wanted to get a clear head by sipping a bit of soobrish. Our "hero" said later that when he had looked into the brewery he had seen three kuatu squirrels drinking two flasks of svaq and that they had started to dance around him! The gnome of course hadn't stayed in this bizarre place for long and had run out of the brewery, telling the story shakingly to the first one he had encountered. Later on someone else got an inspiration to make a game about this weird story, perhaps to make fun of the obviously drunken gnome, who feared drinking kuatus. He called the game "Svaq and Kuatu" and introduced it at Nolan's Farm, which proved to be exceptionally entertaining. The people say the game was invented around 272. a.S."
Even funnier now, thanks Artimidor!
Zellquor Astrain
So then... What were we talking about?
« Reply #10 on: 12 November 2006, 06:47:42 »
Love it. mabey we could have some "official" decks produced. Mabey I should try it!!
OH MY GOD!!! IT'S A RARE MONSTER!!!! IT'S GOING TO KILL ME!!!!! THIS IS SO GREAT!!!! THEY EXIST............. RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm glad you like it Zellquor!
Mabey you should spellcheck your posts?


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It is then taken east by rail and lifted onto ships before being transported to Wallasea Island in the Thames Estuary.
The project is not solely based on digging new tunnels.
As it snakes its way east under the Docklands, where the Thames widens and the London's shiny financial skyscrapers give way to evidence of its industrial past, the Crossrail route will return to use an old Victorian tunnel, the Connaught Tunnel, which was bombed in 1940 during World War Two.
London's docklands, once full of steamships bringing tobacco and meat from the Americas in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, were bombed heavily in the war.
So amongst those working for Crossrail are bomb-disposal specialists probing the area for unexploded devices which might have sunk into the soil in the 1940s.
In addition to the rail link proper, Crossrail will bequeath to future generations its own relics. At least two of the tunnelling machines will have working parts, oil and lubricants removed and their shells left alongside the tunnels, deep under London.